If it were only an intellectual property issue. I could take my collection of albums, walk into a music store, hand over the old-media copies of the music and buy a new-media copy discounted by the "license" cost of the content.
Yeah, that'll happen...
But it's not an intellectual property issue. I've got 1 CD (Queen's "A night at the Opera" - showing my age) that I've bought 4 times - 8-track for the car, album for the house, cassette for the car, and now CD. And if I put an MP3 of it on my home desktop and then access it from my notebook I could be sued???
If I steal a car I've got it and the original owner doesn't. If I steal "Intellectual Property" I've got it, but so does the original owner. Moreover the production cost of intellectual property drops dramatically with digital copying. The margins increase with every copy. I'm not advocating theft, but it's awful hard to feel any sympathy for the RIAA's position.
Except the material in the stove coils is designed to maximize resistance and convert the electricity into infra-red light. The chip silicon, of course, is designed to have the minimal resistance needed to achieve its purpose.
OK, I understand you don't like government regulation. But since we HAVE regulation over commercials the petition is saying there shouldn't be an end run via product placement. If you're not going to eliminate the regulation of commercials then apply the rules across the board. The petition isn't saying to get rid of product placement, it's only saying the standards should apply to both.
i.e. everyone gets treated the same. No counting a commercial from Broward county without counting a product placement from Franklin
That's almost exactly my experience. We used Indians to code from specs with moderate success but had problems when the starting point was business requirements. For us the bigest problem was the time difference (US Eastern standard). We did get a sale in Indonesia that was boosted by having programmers available closer to Jakarta's time zone, though I doubt that cliched the deal.
In defence of Indian designers I'll also say I'm now subcontracting for a company founded by an Indian database specialist and one of those American COBOL old timers. The design is quite elegant.
But it seems that if you avoid the unequal treatment AND you focus on the line belonging to the call recipient you can say it is no different than a "no solicitor" sign next to the front door. I know, I know, the line belongs to the phone company. But by paying a fee for its exclusive use I am effectively renting it, and that's the equivalent of a "no solicitors" sign on an apartment door.
Sometimes the easiest way to win a fight is to avoid it.
IANAL but in this new ground we're breaking I'm not sure it would help to be one.
Since the phone line is paid for by the person receiving the call this is a problem of communication, not trade. If the FCC had this job from the get-go maybe the exemption for charities and political groups wouldn't have been considered. After all the FTC has no authority over those groups.
There is already a "wealth creation industry" (at least that's what they call themselves) - It's the nom-du-jour for insurance, banking, and brokerages. The complexities of the tax code have created loopholes that the financial service sector taps and manages with incredibly complex software. If that software were open source perhaps the small local banks could compete with the behemoths.
If you really want to bring back American jobs long-term than we should try to increase trade in high-tech. Most of the programming jobs being taken by Indian programmers are the maintenance jobs on those old COBOL systems that no slashdotter wants to work on anyway. This is terrible news because of the chill to free speech, but it's bad news for jobs too: If India falls behind in technology that's a 1 billion person market our emerging tech sector can't tap. The old-tech sector backed by COBOL programmers from India and Mexico will keep 'em running but overall the whole world economy loses.
And someone who swaps the factory issue for larger wheels will always be recorded with a slower speedometer reading than actual distance/time. I'd welcome the chance for the black box to (wrongly) put lie to the cops radar.
This is the first I've even heard of the box, but what's to keep someone from modding the input so ANY accident looks like they were sitting still? Heck, mod the box, pull up to the light in front of a guy you hate, slam into him in reverse, then use the box to sue his pants off.
The court shouldn't use a device like this without the appropriate wariness to it's vulnerabilities.
You said Dream "learns you must change or die". Delight changed to Delerium. I wondered when I first heard that quote if the personification of Dream was subject to that sort of fundamental change. Do you perceive a Morphing (pun intended)of 21st century imagination?
So is the US going to purchase Readers for every nation on Earth? And distribute them? And how does this make me more secure from the guy who comes into the country with a Saudi passport?
It probably DOES make it easier for France to keep out Rush, and there's no harm there.
Better yet why does anyone need a guitar with power? Electric guitars need power for the amp, not the guitar. I can play my Yamaha with a headphone amp that runs on a 9v battery.
Or is it a synth? The article didn't give a link...
I worked with Nico Mac at a big Hartford insurance company briefly in 1980; the guy was a genius. He was the tech lead on a joint project with AT&T & IBM to allow VM users to submit jobs to an array of MVS hosts scattered around central Connecticut. This was beyond leading edge in 1980. The guy always started his day playing Asteroids and smoking at a drug store across the street and that's how he spent his lunch hour too. We junior right-out-of-college COBOL programmers didn't have a clue about what he did, but we did know the people we worshipped all worshipped at his feet. When I realized WinZip was his I bought it in an instant, and I've never regretted it. Now that it's no longer Nico Mac Computing I wonder if it still has his purity.
How much energy should humanity spend remembering its past? I love history, but frankly I'd rather they fund more discoveries (i.e. NASA) than archive drivel like my slashdot musings.
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Not only too much IBM investment, there is too much IBM CUSTOMER investment. Now that the big financial institutions have implemented Java apps it will never die. Look at COBOL.
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I too use.name, and frankly I couldn't care less about people figuring out who I am. I only give my.name address to friends and associates and use a throw-away Hotmail account (or nothing) for more public spaces. If I want to post anonymously I deserve to be labelled "anonymous coward". If I have the guts of my convictions I should have the guts to put my name on it too. The print press has it right; if you want mass readership (letters to the editor) you've got to fess up to who you are.
Democracy demands it. Gov't of the anonymous, by the anonymous, and for the anonymous? How do you know 50,000 "Invade Iraq" posts to the Washingon Times aren't generated by Haliburton?
And I got the same comment from my high school math/Fortran teacher (in 1980) when I told him what I was offered for my first job.
But Good for Red Hat. Send out those little Linux trojans into the Winworld.
Now are they also going to teach PHP and MySQL?
I think the problem is in the nature of vertical apps. Software sold to horizontal markets (e.g. CivIII) may cost millions to develop and test for useability but you SELL tens of thousands of licenses and recoup the cost in short order. Every year you can refine the product. Vertical apps take millions to develop and then years to recover development cost. Each license is hundreds of thousands so the customer hesitates to buy anew. By the time there is a budget for another version everything that has langushed for years is shoved in and useability gets short shrift.
So what's the answer? Component technology. Make small, plug & play componenents and it won't be impossible to keep up. Teams developing components to a contractual API don't need to understand the whole system and can take on concepts like efficiency and useability.
BUT. What large, vertical software vendor is going to open up their software API's and allow the client list to go picking best-of-breed. They'd rather keep the client over a barrel, and complex training & conversion binds the customer ever tighter.
Microsoft drives me nuts too, but they've got nothing on the descendents of Prince Machiavelli that I see at vertical software vendors.
Most of the life insurance industry (my thang) is still running on COBOL or MVS Assembler. Non-disclosure prevents me from naming the company that bought us and shelved a Java/XML annuity system that threatened the 90 plus percent market share of an old COBOL system they owned. But hey, when you charge by the hour for customization Java is coffee, components are parts of a stereo, and API is Another Prohibited Idea.
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If it were only an intellectual property issue. I could take my collection of albums, walk into a music store, hand over the old-media copies of the music and buy a new-media copy discounted by the "license" cost of the content.
Yeah, that'll happen...
But it's not an intellectual property issue. I've got 1 CD (Queen's "A night at the Opera" - showing my age) that I've bought 4 times - 8-track for the car, album for the house, cassette for the car, and now CD. And if I put an MP3 of it on my home desktop and then access it from my notebook I could be sued???
If I steal a car I've got it and the original owner doesn't. If I steal "Intellectual Property" I've got it, but so does the original owner. Moreover the production cost of intellectual property drops dramatically with digital copying. The margins increase with every copy. I'm not advocating theft, but it's awful hard to feel any sympathy for the RIAA's position.
Except the material in the stove coils is designed to maximize resistance and convert the electricity into infra-red light. The chip silicon, of course, is designed to have the minimal resistance needed to achieve its purpose.
OK, I understand you don't like government regulation. But since we HAVE regulation over commercials the petition is saying there shouldn't be an end run via product placement. If you're not going to eliminate the regulation of commercials then apply the rules across the board. The petition isn't saying to get rid of product placement, it's only saying the standards should apply to both.
i.e. everyone gets treated the same. No counting a commercial from Broward county without counting a product placement from Franklin
That's almost exactly my experience. We used Indians to code from specs with moderate success but had problems when the starting point was business requirements. For us the bigest problem was the time difference (US Eastern standard). We did get a sale in Indonesia that was boosted by having programmers available closer to Jakarta's time zone, though I doubt that cliched the deal.
In defence of Indian designers I'll also say I'm now subcontracting for a company founded by an Indian database specialist and one of those American COBOL old timers. The design is quite elegant.
His legacy will outlive Arnold Schwarzenegger
But it seems that if you avoid the unequal treatment AND you focus on the line belonging to the call recipient you can say it is no different than a "no solicitor" sign next to the front door. I know, I know, the line belongs to the phone company. But by paying a fee for its exclusive use I am effectively renting it, and that's the equivalent of a "no solicitors" sign on an apartment door.
Sometimes the easiest way to win a fight is to avoid it.
IANAL but in this new ground we're breaking I'm not sure it would help to be one.
This is a good slashdot designer topic.
App requirements:
1) Prevent the phone from audibly ringing until the caller has identified themelves.
2) Keep the cost under (arbitrary) $20.
Since the phone line is paid for by the person receiving the call this is a problem of communication, not trade. If the FCC had this job from the get-go maybe the exemption for charities and political groups wouldn't have been considered. After all the FTC has no authority over those groups.
I'm no fan of W but this makes sense.
There is already a "wealth creation industry" (at least that's what they call themselves) - It's the nom-du-jour for insurance, banking, and brokerages. The complexities of the tax code have created loopholes that the financial service sector taps and manages with incredibly complex software. If that software were open source perhaps the small local banks could compete with the behemoths.
If you really want to bring back American jobs long-term than we should try to increase trade in high-tech. Most of the programming jobs being taken by Indian programmers are the maintenance jobs on those old COBOL systems that no slashdotter wants to work on anyway. This is terrible news because of the chill to free speech, but it's bad news for jobs too: If India falls behind in technology that's a 1 billion person market our emerging tech sector can't tap. The old-tech sector backed by COBOL programmers from India and Mexico will keep 'em running but overall the whole world economy loses.
And someone who swaps the factory issue for larger wheels will always be recorded with a slower speedometer reading than actual distance/time. I'd welcome the chance for the black box to (wrongly) put lie to the cops radar.
This is the first I've even heard of the box, but what's to keep someone from modding the input so ANY accident looks like they were sitting still? Heck, mod the box, pull up to the light in front of a guy you hate, slam into him in reverse, then use the box to sue his pants off.
The court shouldn't use a device like this without the appropriate wariness to it's vulnerabilities.
You said Dream "learns you must change or die". Delight changed to Delerium. I wondered when I first heard that quote if the personification of Dream was subject to that sort of fundamental change. Do you perceive a Morphing (pun intended)of 21st century imagination?
So is the US going to purchase Readers for every nation on Earth? And distribute them? And how does this make me more secure from the guy who comes into the country with a Saudi passport?
It probably DOES make it easier for France to keep out Rush, and there's no harm there.
Would it matter? What country would risk the wrath of Rumsfeld and dare imprison an American with an unexpired passport?
Please don't take that as a compliment to rummy...
Thx for the link... Now I want one.
Better yet why does anyone need a guitar with power? Electric guitars need power for the amp, not the guitar. I can play my Yamaha with a headphone amp that runs on a 9v battery.
Or is it a synth? The article didn't give a link...
I worked with Nico Mac at a big Hartford insurance company briefly in 1980; the guy was a genius. He was the tech lead on a joint project with AT&T & IBM to allow VM users to submit jobs to an array of MVS hosts scattered around central Connecticut. This was beyond leading edge in 1980. The guy always started his day playing Asteroids and smoking at a drug store across the street and that's how he spent his lunch hour too. We junior right-out-of-college COBOL programmers didn't have a clue about what he did, but we did know the people we worshipped all worshipped at his feet. When I realized WinZip was his I bought it in an instant, and I've never regretted it. Now that it's no longer Nico Mac Computing I wonder if it still has his purity.
Unemployed geeks with time to watch TV instead of surf slashdot or try to figure out how to mod the latest open-source GNU tool?
Could this be just the back-door excuse John Poindexter needs to get his infomration awareness office to mirror databases?
One Noid; not a pair.
How much energy should humanity spend remembering its past? I love history, but frankly I'd rather they fund more discoveries (i.e. NASA) than archive drivel like my slashdot musings.
Not only too much IBM investment, there is too much IBM CUSTOMER investment. Now that the big financial institutions have implemented Java apps it will never die. Look at COBOL.
I too use .name, and frankly I couldn't care less about people figuring out who I am. I only give my .name address to friends and associates and use a throw-away Hotmail account (or nothing) for more public spaces. If I want to post anonymously I deserve to be labelled "anonymous coward". If I have the guts of my convictions I should have the guts to put my name on it too. The print press has it right; if you want mass readership (letters to the editor) you've got to fess up to who you are.
Democracy demands it. Gov't of the anonymous, by the anonymous, and for the anonymous? How do you know 50,000 "Invade Iraq" posts to the Washingon Times aren't generated by Haliburton?
And I got the same comment from my high school math/Fortran teacher (in 1980) when I told him what I was offered for my first job.
But Good for Red Hat. Send out those little Linux trojans into the Winworld.
Now are they also going to teach PHP and MySQL?
I think the problem is in the nature of vertical apps. Software sold to horizontal markets (e.g. CivIII) may cost millions to develop and test for useability but you SELL tens of thousands of licenses and recoup the cost in short order. Every year you can refine the product. Vertical apps take millions to develop and then years to recover development cost. Each license is hundreds of thousands so the customer hesitates to buy anew. By the time there is a budget for another version everything that has langushed for years is shoved in and useability gets short shrift.
So what's the answer? Component technology. Make small, plug & play componenents and it won't be impossible to keep up. Teams developing components to a contractual API don't need to understand the whole system and can take on concepts like efficiency and useability.
BUT. What large, vertical software vendor is going to open up their software API's and allow the client list to go picking best-of-breed. They'd rather keep the client over a barrel, and complex training & conversion binds the customer ever tighter.
Microsoft drives me nuts too, but they've got nothing on the descendents of Prince Machiavelli that I see at vertical software vendors.
Most of the life insurance industry (my thang) is still running on COBOL or MVS Assembler. Non-disclosure prevents me from naming the company that bought us and shelved a Java/XML annuity system that threatened the 90 plus percent market share of an old COBOL system they owned. But hey, when you charge by the hour for customization Java is coffee, components are parts of a stereo, and API is Another Prohibited Idea.