The first time? No, I did not know that beforehand. Everyone has to learn once either by being told or going through it themselves, etc. Subsequent times I knew it and factored it in to my decision making. I was just trying to offer one person's experience (mine), with a similar situation. As far as having salaried parents, my parents seldom if ever discussed their contract negotiations and salries with me, but I did know that my father who was a teacher for 25+ years worked after school, after dinner, etc. So you're right, the information was there to be learned from. Some of us just need more than one lesson;)
What I've often been told (and I am a game programmer working on a major PS2 title) is that "the compensation for your overtime was built into your salary". Of course, they only tell you that after it becomes an issue, not when you are negotiating contracts. In the end, it's the video game industry, and as much as people would like to compare the video game industry with the movie industry, one thing they actually have in common is that they simply would not be possible without the dedication and passion the developers put into them. There is nothing particularly smart or revolutionary about the business end of those industries, it's all in the "little" people who actually do the work. Long story short, you have to want to do it, and it will be hell at times.
My 2004 Nissan 350Z claims 18/26 and I have been getting 21 to 23. My commute is 70% highway, 30% city. Probably just means I am not driving it "correctly", since I seldom bury the needle unless there is room to zoom.:) Rte 1 is a blast though...
I work at Stormfront Studios in San Rafael, CA and I'd also like to note here that our game based on the first and second movies comes out on October 22nd in North America. I only mention here because this is the first game for me and I am very proud of our team. It is published by EA and will be available for the PS2. We're all fiending to see the second movie as we've gotten to see only bits and pieces along the way and are dying to see the finished product! I've been a Slashdot lurker for quite a few years now and finally have something worth posting! Congrats to the whole team.
Data being available publicvally is good, as long as it is not abused. Corporations have a record of non-abuse, and are owned by the people. The government does not and is not. That is all we need to know.
Hmm, where is this record of non-abusing corporations? And since when are corporations owned by the people? If that's so, shouldn't I be raking in some dividends on all these corporations? The corporations have PRIVATE interests at heart. That is very very different from having PUBLIC interests at heart. If it weren't different, we wouldn't have corporations who pollute, pay off lawsuits instead of performing recalls, drive prices up, and generally make popular culture as stupid as it is. I'm no expert, but a few of your statements just caught my eye.
And then what... have a key for each movie I own? No thanks, I have enough trouble remembering PINs, passwords, and phone numbers. Or have one "movie decrypting key"? Also no good as someone would surely find a way to uncover it and distribute it. Unless there is some keyless RSA out there... (I am an encryption newbie, after all). On top of that, encryption doesn't prevent copying! It only prevents someone from utilizing the encrypted data without the key.
I think your idea of micropayment might be much different from my (their ?) idea of micropayment.:) I've always thought it was the concept of making payments at small intervals, not necessarily small payments. For instance, buying one song might be a micropayment, since you are paying at smaller intervals when you pay for every song on a CD instead of for the whole thing, even if the end cost is the same. Or maybe they'll charge per minute of music downloaded... who knows. All this pay-for-play stuff scares me. Corporations would rather have us rent, lease, or pay-to-play for everything rather than owning anything. shiver
Politicians don't care how 18 year olds view them, since 18 year olds barely bother to vote. So it's no surprise that these candidates would just concentrate on the older demographic, it's just good practice to go after the voters that actually vote!
Yeah, even the latest dead tree edition of Wired included this profound (yeah right) idea of Gnutella not being scalable as a small column in their peer to peer bonanza this month. Of course they labled the column "Gnutella: Unstoppable by Design", but I think they were thinking of unstoppable in terms of copyright enforcement and not utility to the user.
Do you really doubt the government couldn't decrypt his files? That's what I don't get.. the NSA has balls like watermelons when it comes to computing horsepower. So why haven't they brute forced it yet? How much money could it cost to do it? Haven't they already sunk a bunch of money into this by dragging it out? So many questions with this ongoing case, which is why it is so interesting to me.
The chances are very good that those systems are still around. Just not in the numbers they might once have been. But where they are still relatively prevalent is in large companies and corporations that take many many years to completely move on from legacy systems. But what I don't understand is.. is the government trying to indict him again based on this data they have never managed to read? I haven't followed closely so maybe that is what they are doing.
No, I suppose this is possible ala Tempest technology. But I would think (pure opinion here) that the Movie Industry will go after things it understands before it will go after emerging technology like Tempest. It may also be that there is no way to protect against things like copying via the pulses from a monitor/display.. I don't know it's not my field:) My point originally is that this response from the Movie Industry was to be expected, and is pretty consistent with their attitude all along.
The way _I_ interpret a response to this kind of thing (the publishing of source) is not that they don't want you to watch movies you own. I think they are more concerned about the people who don't plan on using this source to nicely bring the medium to Linux/FreeBSD/etc/etc, but those who plan on using it to copy DVDs illegally. While I don't agree with the "movie industry's" schemes for controlling import/export across their prorietary bounderies, based on their attitudes, I do understand their response to this situation. (Sick the lawyers on people and plug the flood as fast as possible)
I've always been one of those slashdotters that watched mostly and posted only on an extreme fiew occasions. Perhaps the reason the number of stories/posts seems so overwhelming (and it does to me too) is because slashdot in it's current format no longer is conducive to the ideas it was created with. As much as I hate overcomplication, maybe stories, posts, and the like need a new way of being sorted and presented. It's just my two cents, but nothing can stay the same forever and hope to survive. If there was a way for slashdotters to more easily get to the topics they are interested in, they might more easily learn about those topics. Simply having a list of topics and a pile of posts about those topics might not be the answer anymore. Now there is the ability to filter out certain topics and subjects, scores, and on and on.. but maybe there is a simpler way. I am not trying to take anything away from all those who make this sight possible, as I love to read it most everyday.. but I think we should have a discussion as a community as to where we want our (their?) site to go in the future. Thanks for listening....
I had heard similar details about the fabrication of the EE, so I was wondering how we could impose any kind of export laws over the chip. Would it simply result in the US "not being happy" with Japan? or does the US have some kind of cooperation from Japan about that kind of thing? I don't know....
Is it me or does this article basically say Microsoft would consider opening up their source to a select group of computer scientists and specialists who will work on extending the OS and it's technologies with no hope of receiving recognition or payment for any of the work or its derivatives in the future? Pretty sweet deal for MS if you ask me. They "allow" some people to extend their OS for them, and then sell that work as their own. I never knew Open Source could be so closed.
I never thought of this case in terms of the idiotic cases such as the McDonalds coffee incident, but I think you have a good point. I cringe every time I see a suit over something that someone should have known better than to do in the first place, but this is different. I think the bank security example is a really good one, and people should seriously consider how we hold corporations or groups that are involved in the worlds communications software responsible. Blindness or ignorance of the dangers presented by their own products is exactly what you labeled it: gross negligence!
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The first time? No, I did not know that beforehand. Everyone has to learn once either by being told or going through it themselves, etc. Subsequent times I knew it and factored it in to my decision making. I was just trying to offer one person's experience (mine), with a similar situation. As far as having salaried parents, my parents seldom if ever discussed their contract negotiations and salries with me, but I did know that my father who was a teacher for 25+ years worked after school, after dinner, etc. So you're right, the information was there to be learned from. Some of us just need more than one lesson ;)
What I've often been told (and I am a game programmer working on a major PS2 title) is that "the compensation for your overtime was built into your salary". Of course, they only tell you that after it becomes an issue, not when you are negotiating contracts. In the end, it's the video game industry, and as much as people would like to compare the video game industry with the movie industry, one thing they actually have in common is that they simply would not be possible without the dedication and passion the developers put into them. There is nothing particularly smart or revolutionary about the business end of those industries, it's all in the "little" people who actually do the work. Long story short, you have to want to do it, and it will be hell at times.
My 2004 Nissan 350Z claims 18/26 and I have been getting 21 to 23. My commute is 70% highway, 30% city. Probably just means I am not driving it "correctly", since I seldom bury the needle unless there is room to zoom. :) Rte 1 is a blast though...
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Stormfront.com Is where I work. Please don't flamebait like that. Details on the game can be found here.
I work at Stormfront Studios in San Rafael, CA and I'd also like to note here that our game based on the first and second movies comes out on October 22nd in North America. I only mention here because this is the first game for me and I am very proud of our team. It is published by EA and will be available for the PS2. We're all fiending to see the second movie as we've gotten to see only bits and pieces along the way and are dying to see the finished product! I've been a Slashdot lurker for quite a few years now and finally have something worth posting! Congrats to the whole team.
Data being available publicvally is good, as long as it is not abused. Corporations have a record of non-abuse, and are owned by the people. The government does not and is not. That is all we need to know.
Hmm, where is this record of non-abusing corporations? And since when are corporations owned by the people? If that's so, shouldn't I be raking in some dividends on all these corporations? The corporations have PRIVATE interests at heart. That is very very different from having PUBLIC interests at heart. If it weren't different, we wouldn't have corporations who pollute, pay off lawsuits instead of performing recalls, drive prices up, and generally make popular culture as stupid as it is. I'm no expert, but a few of your statements just caught my eye.
One could say that they work for these companies so that they have potatos to pass.. Times being what they are and all ;)
And then what... have a key for each movie I own? No thanks, I have enough trouble remembering PINs, passwords, and phone numbers. Or have one "movie decrypting key"? Also no good as someone would surely find a way to uncover it and distribute it. Unless there is some keyless RSA out there... (I am an encryption newbie, after all). On top of that, encryption doesn't prevent copying! It only prevents someone from utilizing the encrypted data without the key.
I think your idea of micropayment might be much different from my (their ?) idea of micropayment. :) I've always thought it was the concept of making payments at small intervals, not necessarily small payments. For instance, buying one song might be a micropayment, since you are paying at smaller intervals when you pay for every song on a CD instead of for the whole thing, even if the end cost is the same. Or maybe they'll charge per minute of music downloaded... who knows. All this pay-for-play stuff scares me. Corporations would rather have us rent, lease, or pay-to-play for everything rather than owning anything. shiver
Unfortunately, by the time the Libertatrians had enough influence to prevent this kind of thing, we won't even be allowed to vote anything but D or R.
Politicians don't care how 18 year olds view them, since 18 year olds barely bother to vote. So it's no surprise that these candidates would just concentrate on the older demographic, it's just good practice to go after the voters that actually vote!
Yeah, even the latest dead tree edition of Wired included this profound (yeah right) idea of Gnutella not being scalable as a small column in their peer to peer bonanza this month. Of course they labled the column "Gnutella: Unstoppable by Design", but I think they were thinking of unstoppable in terms of copyright enforcement and not utility to the user.
Do you really doubt the government couldn't decrypt his files? That's what I don't get.. the NSA has balls like watermelons when it comes to computing horsepower. So why haven't they brute forced it yet? How much money could it cost to do it? Haven't they already sunk a bunch of money into this by dragging it out? So many questions with this ongoing case, which is why it is so interesting to me.
The chances are very good that those systems are still around. Just not in the numbers they might once have been. But where they are still relatively prevalent is in large companies and corporations that take many many years to completely move on from legacy systems. But what I don't understand is.. is the government trying to indict him again based on this data they have never managed to read? I haven't followed closely so maybe that is what they are doing.
No, I suppose this is possible ala Tempest technology. But I would think (pure opinion here) that the Movie Industry will go after things it understands before it will go after emerging technology like Tempest. It may also be that there is no way to protect against things like copying via the pulses from a monitor/display.. I don't know it's not my field :) My point originally is that this response from the Movie Industry was to be expected, and is pretty consistent with their attitude all along.
The way _I_ interpret a response to this kind of thing (the publishing of source) is not that they don't want you to watch movies you own. I think they are more concerned about the people who don't plan on using this source to nicely bring the medium to Linux/FreeBSD/etc/etc, but those who plan on using it to copy DVDs illegally. While I don't agree with the "movie industry's" schemes for controlling import/export across their prorietary bounderies, based on their attitudes, I do understand their response to this situation. (Sick the lawyers on people and plug the flood as fast as possible)
I've always been one of those slashdotters that watched mostly and posted only on an extreme fiew occasions. Perhaps the reason the number of stories/posts seems so overwhelming (and it does to me too) is because slashdot in it's current format no longer is conducive to the ideas it was created with. As much as I hate overcomplication, maybe stories, posts, and the like need a new way of being sorted and presented. It's just my two cents, but nothing can stay the same forever and hope to survive. If there was a way for slashdotters to more easily get to the topics they are interested in, they might more easily learn about those topics. Simply having a list of topics and a pile of posts about those topics might not be the answer anymore. Now there is the ability to filter out certain topics and subjects, scores, and on and on.. but maybe there is a simpler way. I am not trying to take anything away from all those who make this sight possible, as I love to read it most everyday.. but I think we should have a discussion as a community as to where we want our (their?) site to go in the future. Thanks for listening....
I had heard similar details about the fabrication of the EE, so I was wondering how we could impose any kind of export laws over the chip. Would it simply result in the US "not being happy" with Japan? or does the US have some kind of cooperation from Japan about that kind of thing? I don't know....
Is it me or does this article basically say Microsoft would consider opening up their source to a select group of computer scientists and specialists who will work on extending the OS and it's technologies with no hope of receiving recognition or payment for any of the work or its derivatives in the future? Pretty sweet deal for MS if you ask me. They "allow" some people to extend their OS for them, and then sell that work as their own. I never knew Open Source could be so closed.
I never thought of this case in terms of the idiotic cases such as the McDonalds coffee incident, but I think you have a good point. I cringe every time I see a suit over something that someone should have known better than to do in the first place, but this is different. I think the bank security example is a really good one, and people should seriously consider how we hold corporations or groups that are involved in the worlds communications software responsible. Blindness or ignorance of the dangers presented by their own products is exactly what you labeled it: gross negligence!