The whole point of a Set Top Box is price. For it to succeed, it needs to be cheap.
If I can easily buy new components and make a better one far cheaper myself, including time and energy spent building it, set top boxes are going to have trouble.
With all the hype, I have still yet to see a place where I can buy a Linux set top box. Coollogic had a press release last year regarding the immediate release of their box, I think Slashdot even picked up on it.
Well where is it? Coollogic's web site seems to have not been updated since October of last year. Where is their set top box?
People just don't see the possibilities in law enforcement.
If you catalogue everyone's DNA in a country and then compair that DNA to the people who commit crime, you can establish DNA sequences that cause criminals.
At birth every citizen is tested, if they have one of these criminal sequences thay are immediately jailed at birth.
Generally noncompetes are totally unenforcable, your right to seek gainful employement can not be signed away. Rarely a company holding the noncompete uses a noncompete as a basis to legally intimidate your new employer into letting you go. In that case get a lawyer.
One of the key important aspects of a noncompete is if you were specifically compensated for signing the noncompete. A/W you sign a 2 year noncompete in exchange for 2 years of compensation. If you were compensated for the contract, it might have some teeth, but still see a lawyer.
Punch card system works great if.....
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There is simple a reader available so the voter can decide to drop the ballet in the box or destory it and try again. At the very least have a reader to detect double punch errors.
If only this simple system was in place all these punch card problems would not have occured.
All the best programmers will suffer from massive burnout, depression, marital and health problems. But then why should the company care, they can just hire new young clueless programmers to slave for 70+ hours. It seems to the company the way to go, but it is all just an illusion and ultimately costs more in the end.
Last week I was shopping at a local retail store with a friend who had recently started in a new entry level programming job at 50K a year. He was very excited about the MONEY he was making, but I never saw him around much. He said he was pushing 70+ hours a week, but it was worth it.
I happened to be in a retail store that my wife used to work for and knew how much she started her people at. The 37.5 hour week worked out to 24K a year, plus commisions of 5K plus annually. That works out to be about 29K a year, take the 50K at 72 hours a week my friend was working and covert that to 37.5 hours and you get 26K a year.
He was starting a computer job for less money an hour than the girl who just tried to spray him with perfume.
1 hit per second is simply not possible, unless there is a serious problem with the apache configuration. Apache running on the most minimum hardware possible should easily do better than that.
If your boss understands logic at all. Once you prove that the test is flawed, no value can be given to any of the results. NEVER trust benchmarks, especially if they come from someone trying to sell you something.
People just don't get it... this is not about piracy. This is corporate slight of hand, plain and simple.
The piracy that hurts is done by organized counterfeiting, it exists now, it will still exist tomorrow regardless of any technology.
Provide the average person with content at a reasonable price and there is very little motivation for copying. It is just not worth the trouble. AW... Yes I can copy VHS tapes from my friends, but why, if I can rent a tape for less cost and effort. Home copying only becomes a problem when the price of content is artificially raised, such as CDs. If a CD was 5 dollars, or I could download a very cheap lower quality MP3, what modivation would there be for me to copy it other than for my own personal use.
So what is the motivation of these laws?
It is simply greed, big-money wants to be able to charge whatever price they want. They want to remove fair use and charge you when ever and however they want.
Terms of Service subject to change at any time with out notice.
What if I hold the position that blocking software does not really aid a parent in raising their kids?
If I feel that blocking software does not protect children from harmful content and gives those who use it a false sense of security at a huge price. I would be acting as a good neighbor and a good citizen if I opposed it.
If big-money prays on the good intentions of honest people to design laws which only advance the interests of big-money while slowing removing our rights, I will oppose it.
You are better off establishing a clear company policy and enforcing it when violated, this is how you protect your company from hostile workplace/sexual harassment suits. While recently reading many company handbooks, most clearly stated that email and web access was for company business only, not private use. Sexual harassment policy was also clearly stated as well.
Monitoring or blocking can actually be a bad thing, because then you may become liable for failure to detect offensive email or to properly block sites. If you are monitoring, an employee could claim that you had knowledge of the conditions but did not take immediate action to correct them as stated by your policy.
Take one Coollogic box, running Linux, add AOL, give away the box for free with the AOL service.
With control of internet entry and enough revenue from internet commerce and advertisement, heck give away the service for free too.
This could be applied to any misused devices
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So long as a programmer did not build something that can only be used for illegal purposes, I don't see how this can go anywhere.
If so, should we hold baseball bat manufactures, lead pipe manufactures, or gun manufactures responsible anytime their devices are used to commit a crime?
Let's say the RIAA wins... They should win, they wrote the laws. What's next for the RIAA?
Many have spoken of the free alternatives which are decentralized and impossible to stop.
Well maybe not so impossible...
Regardless of the alternative used, these applications transfer data from a one machine to another. The RIAA sets up several applications with numerous copyrighted songs on them and records all data transfer. Next track down the ip addresses which access this info. Many will be difficult to trace, but a few will be easy to trace. Next nail a few users legally, make examples out of them and publicize it.
End result is a chill through these free alternatives to napster.
I am 35 years old and have been coding professionally since I was 17. For more than 10 years I've been with the same company. I'm in a position of management now, but still code as much as I can.
Things I have noticed through the years...
We all remember the days of pulling long hours coding, however I maintain that the intensity has changed. In the late 80's, lots of time was spent waiting, idle time existed in every aspect of programming. This time would leave room for a quick walk to bug another programmer, play a game, etc... As machines and development tools improved, there is little idle time. Never have I seen people become so totally absorbed and stressed for so many continous hours.
In my company we have forced programmers to cut back hours. With the supply of good programmers so tight, it makes no sense to burn out your most valued resource. It is a proven fact that continous 60+ hour work weeks net you less than if a programmer works 40 hours. Sure you can have a push of maybe 5-10 days working these hours in a pinch and only once in a great while. Continously working long hours yields nothing but badly written code. In the end the bugs fixes far exceed any initial benefits from the long hours.
If a programmer wants a computer at home, the company buys it. However, with a condition. It can't be used to extend work hours, except in a rare emergency. The machine should be a play/learning tool, not another source of stress. Programmers often have a strange sense of play, playing quake XI can be less fun than an hour or 2 at freashmeat.net. I love it when a programmer tells me about some new goofy tool they found somewhere. We have solved many problems from ideas gleamed from this play like exploration.
Vacation is manditory, if the year is up and a programmer needs to roll over vacation, a dam good reason is needed. For one week a year all developers attend a meeting in a resort where the majority of the time is spent hanging out with each other. No programming is allowed.
FANTASYLAND (AFX) - Slashdot plans to exercise a historic patent on the letter "A", the letter when combined with other letters is used to form words.
CmdrTaco, chairman of all things, said that Slashdot claims to have patented the letter "A" in doing their work on time travel systems, which was used to travel back in time immediately before the letter "A" was first thought of.
He said the patent predates the English Language that currently exists.
"We are attempting to licence (the letter "A"), and inviting licences to be taken out by all people dumb enough to do so," CmdrTaco said.
Just when your sure you seen the dumbest thing ever... Look again.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually 512 Meg versions already exist and a 1 gig version is soon to be released.
See http://www.thumbdrive.com/
The whole point of a Set Top Box is price. For it to succeed, it needs to be cheap.
If I can easily buy new components and make a better one far cheaper myself, including time and energy spent building it, set top boxes are going to have trouble.
With all the hype, I have still yet to see a place where I can buy a Linux set top box. Coollogic had a press release last year regarding the immediate release of their box, I think Slashdot even picked up on it.
Well where is it? Coollogic's web site seems to have not been updated since October of last year. Where is their set top box?
People just don't see the possibilities in law enforcement.
If you catalogue everyone's DNA in a country and then compair that DNA to the people who commit crime, you can establish DNA sequences that cause criminals.
At birth every citizen is tested, if they have one of these criminal sequences thay are immediately jailed at birth.
Think of it! Near zero crime!
Generally noncompetes are totally unenforcable, your right to seek gainful employement can not be signed away. Rarely a company holding the noncompete uses a noncompete as a basis to legally intimidate your new employer into letting you go. In that case get a lawyer.
One of the key important aspects of a noncompete is if you were specifically compensated for signing the noncompete. A/W you sign a 2 year noncompete in exchange for 2 years of compensation. If you were compensated for the contract, it might have some teeth, but still see a lawyer.
47 days working.
250 reading slashdot.
There is simple a reader available so the voter can decide to drop the ballet in the box or destory it and try again. At the very least have a reader to detect double punch errors.
If only this simple system was in place all these punch card problems would not have occured.
What will happen...
All the best programmers will suffer from massive burnout, depression, marital and health problems. But then why should the company care, they can just hire new young clueless programmers to slave for 70+ hours. It seems to the company the way to go, but it is all just an illusion and ultimately costs more in the end.
That is a great point.
Last week I was shopping at a local retail store with a friend who had recently started in a new entry level programming job at 50K a year. He was very excited about the MONEY he was making, but I never saw him around much. He said he was pushing 70+ hours a week, but it was worth it.
I happened to be in a retail store that my wife used to work for and knew how much she started her people at. The 37.5 hour week worked out to 24K a year, plus commisions of 5K plus annually. That works out to be about 29K a year, take the 50K at 72 hours a week my friend was working and covert that to 37.5 hours and you get 26K a year.
He was starting a computer job for less money an hour than the girl who just tried to spray him with perfume.
Greg,
1 hit per second is simply not possible, unless there is a serious problem with the apache configuration. Apache running on the most minimum hardware possible should easily do better than that.
If your boss understands logic at all. Once you prove that the test is flawed, no value can be given to any of the results. NEVER trust benchmarks, especially if they come from someone trying to sell you something.
Benchmarks == BullShit
Here is a black hole simulation at MIT in JAVA even!
Did you read the article?
Quantum phase storage manipulates the phase of the electron field NOT the spin of the electron.
"Our wave packets enable us to engineer atoms by adjusting the amounts and quantum phases of an atom's electrons"
People just don't get it... this is not about piracy. This is corporate slight of hand, plain and simple.
The piracy that hurts is done by organized counterfeiting, it exists now, it will still exist tomorrow regardless of any technology.
Provide the average person with content at a reasonable price and there is very little motivation for copying. It is just not worth the trouble. AW... Yes I can copy VHS tapes from my friends, but why, if I can rent a tape for less cost and effort. Home copying only becomes a problem when the price of content is artificially raised, such as CDs. If a CD was 5 dollars, or I could download a very cheap lower quality MP3, what modivation would there be for me to copy it other than for my own personal use.
So what is the motivation of these laws?
It is simply greed, big-money wants to be able to charge whatever price they want. They want to remove fair use and charge you when ever and however they want.
Terms of Service subject to change at any time with out notice.
Very nice post!
What if I hold the position that blocking software does not really aid a parent in raising their kids?
If I feel that blocking software does not protect children from harmful content and gives those who use it a false sense of security at a huge price. I would be acting as a good neighbor and a good citizen if I opposed it.
If big-money prays on the good intentions of honest people to design laws which only advance the interests of big-money while slowing removing our rights, I will oppose it.
They are just called MUDs... They don't draw the mindless shoot-them-up types, but rather the puzzle solving, and of course the flapping types.
A very good MUD to visit is 3k.org.
Seems they may have done too good of a job teaching all those lawyers.
But what happens when your point of entry and all content is controlled by big media?
IANAL
You are better off establishing a clear company policy and enforcing it when violated, this is how you protect your company from hostile workplace/sexual harassment suits. While recently reading many company handbooks, most clearly stated that email and web access was for company business only, not private use. Sexual harassment policy was also clearly stated as well.
Monitoring or blocking can actually be a bad thing, because then you may become liable for failure to detect offensive email or to properly block sites. If you are monitoring, an employee could claim that you had knowledge of the conditions but did not take immediate action to correct them as stated by your policy.
deCss
Think about it...
Take one Coollogic box, running Linux, add AOL, give away the box for free with the AOL service.
With control of internet entry and enough revenue from internet commerce and advertisement, heck give away the service for free too.
So long as a programmer did not build something that can only be used for illegal purposes, I don't see how this can go anywhere.
If so, should we hold baseball bat manufactures, lead pipe manufactures, or gun manufactures responsible anytime their devices are used to commit a crime?
Let's say the RIAA wins... They should win, they wrote the laws. What's next for the RIAA?
Many have spoken of the free alternatives which are decentralized and impossible to stop.
Well maybe not so impossible...
Regardless of the alternative used, these applications transfer data from a one machine to another. The RIAA sets up several applications with numerous copyrighted songs on them and records all data transfer. Next track down the ip addresses which access this info. Many will be difficult to trace, but a few will be easy to trace. Next nail a few users legally, make examples out of them and publicize it.
End result is a chill through these free alternatives to napster.
I am 35 years old and have been coding professionally since I was 17. For more than 10 years I've been with the same company. I'm in a position of management now, but still code as much as I can.
Things I have noticed through the years...
We all remember the days of pulling long hours coding, however I maintain that the intensity has changed. In the late 80's, lots of time was spent waiting, idle time existed in every aspect of programming. This time would leave room for a quick walk to bug another programmer, play a game, etc... As machines and development tools improved, there is little idle time. Never have I seen people become so totally absorbed and stressed for so many continous hours.
In my company we have forced programmers to cut back hours. With the supply of good programmers so tight, it makes no sense to burn out your most valued resource. It is a proven fact that continous 60+ hour work weeks net you less than if a programmer works 40 hours. Sure you can have a push of maybe 5-10 days working these hours in a pinch and only once in a great while. Continously working long hours yields nothing but badly written code. In the end the bugs fixes far exceed any initial benefits from the long hours.
If a programmer wants a computer at home, the company buys it. However, with a condition. It can't be used to extend work hours, except in a rare emergency. The machine should be a play/learning tool, not another source of stress. Programmers often have a strange sense of play, playing quake XI can be less fun than an hour or 2 at freashmeat.net. I love it when a programmer tells me about some new goofy tool they found somewhere. We have solved many problems from ideas gleamed from this play like exploration.
Vacation is manditory, if the year is up and a programmer needs to roll over vacation, a dam good reason is needed. For one week a year all developers attend a meeting in a resort where the majority of the time is spent hanging out with each other. No programming is allowed.
How often does the newsletter come out?
It could tide me over with laughs between episodes of geeks in space.
FANTASYLAND (AFX) - Slashdot plans to exercise a historic patent on the letter "A", the letter when combined with other letters is used to form words.
CmdrTaco, chairman of all things, said that Slashdot claims to have patented the letter "A" in doing their work on time travel systems, which was used to travel back in time immediately before the letter "A" was first thought of.
He said the patent predates the English Language that currently exists.
"We are attempting to licence (the letter "A"), and inviting licences to be taken out by all people dumb enough to do so," CmdrTaco said.
Just when your sure you seen the dumbest thing ever... Look again.