It will just go into that MBR of your HD that no-one but M$ should have code in there anyway....
Lets see... LILO, or other bootloaders....
Or here's an even more fun one... I had to patch a system because of a bug in the BIOS (this was before Flash) that caused it to misbehave with SCO Xenix (not Unix, Xenix). In any case, to make the patch transparent, I patched the MBR.
Well, then could Jon Johannsen encrypt (rot-13 or whatever) DeCSS, and then 2600 could link to it, and MPAA couldn't download and de-rot13 it without violating DMCA?
i.e. to prove that 2600 was violating court order, they'd have to violate DMCA themselves.
More from the California Business & Professions Code 16600-16607.
16601. Any person who sells the goodwill of a business, or any
shareholder of a corporation selling or otherwise disposing of all
his shares in said corporation, or any shareholder of a corporation
which sells (a) all or substantially all of its operating assets
together with the goodwill of the corporation, (b) all or
substantially all of the operating assets of a division or a
subsidiary of the corporation together with the goodwill of such
division or subsidiary, or (c) all of the shares of any subsidiary,
may agree with the buyer to refrain from carrying on a similar
business within a specified county or counties, city or cities, or a
part thereof, in which the business so sold, or that of said
corporation, division, or subsidiary has been carried on, so long as
the buyer, or any person deriving title to the goodwill or shares
from him, carries on a like business therein. For the purposes of
this section, "subsidiary" shall mean any corporation, a majority of
whose voting shares are owned by the selling corporation.
Is there a lawyer out there? It looks to me like if you're in the stock plan, they can screw you, even in California.
It's not so much location for me as it is the hours...
I'm pushing 40, I've got a wife and kids. I've probably shot several interviews by asking if the employees are allowed to have a life.
I don't mind working the occasional 50/60 hour week. Everyone understands crunch time. But if it's a way of life, then there's something seriously wrong with the company.
Here is a letter that I sent to my congressman
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Here is a letter that I sent to my congressman - Brad Sherman (D - Sherman Oaks). I doubt that anything will happen from it, but at least I said something...
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Dear Congressman Sherman,
I had the pleasure of meeting you on the evening of 2/23/01, at Temple Judea. I was the man with the two young daughters who was sitting behind you.
If you may recall, I took the opportunity to discuss the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) and patent reform with you. I realize that time was short, and I was perhaps less than fully comprehensible, for which I apologize.
I am writing to express my dismay at the Department of Justice filing a brief in Universal City Studios, et al. vs. Eric Corley aka 2600 (See the link http://cryptome.org/mpaa-v-2600-usa.htm). This is a free speech matter wherein the government should be filing on behalf of the defendants, not the plaintiffs.
Essentially, Mr. Corley published a program called "DeCSS" on his website. The Motion Picture Association of America successfully sued under the DMCA to have it removed as a "Circumvention of Access Control". However, the MPAA often refers to the Content Scrambling System (CSS) on DVD movies as "copy protection", and an attempt to protect their copyright on movies.
I have no objection to copyright holders protecting their interests -- that's another debate for another time -- but in this situation, they are using a sledgehammer to swat a fly, and missing the mark (if you will excuse the confused metaphor).
Essentially, what CSS does is scramble the digital data on the DVD so that it cannot be read without descrambling it. The MPAA claims that this is to prevent copying. However, a DVD is nothing but a stream of ones and zeros, with the only meaning to those ones and zeroes that which we give it by interpretation.
Consider a book written in Swedish. I do not read Swedish, and cannot use the book without a Swedish-English dictionary. However, I can copy the book either mechanically or by hand without interpreting it. Similarly, I can copy a DVD without interpreting those ones and zeroes that make up the data on the disk.
DeCSS is a program that descrambles the CSS coded video stream on the disk. In the analogy given above, it functions as a Swedish-English dictionary. It allows me *FAIR USE* of the DVD which I have purchased, and under the doctrine of first sale, the MPAA has absolutely no rights to tell me what I may or may not do with said DVD.
Now back to the point. I am distressed and dismayed by the intervention of the DOJ in this case, as I believe that the lower court ruling was incorrect, and the attempted restraint on free speech is unconstitutional.
I ask you, as a voting constituent, to ask the Administration to remove itself from these proceedings.
Actually, many RTOS's don't use interrupts, but prefer to poll. Again, it's a matter of worst case latency and determinism. In a polled system, you know exactly how long it will take. In an interrupt driven system, it's possible for either (a) an interrupt to cause critical processing to take too long, or (b) critical processing to cause an interrupt to be ignored for too long.
Not quite. You need deterministic latency. You have to ensure that hard deadlines are met. If a process MUST complete before 50ms, and you don't meet that deadline, then you have a problem. That's what a hard Real-Time system is. Just changing the schedule won't cut it.
QNX is a real-time OS, based on a microkernel. It's useful in situations with hard RT requirements... where something like Linux or BSD currently would be inappropriate (Unix is not RealTime).
Hard RealTime systems are extremely difficult to write, there's probably no way in hell that QNX will be GPL'ed, there's a hell of a lot of investment there. This same point came up in "GPL 3.0 Concerns in Embedded World".
you know why it won't matter? michigan has high taxes. they have a state income tax, sales tax, and high gas taxes. along with bad weather. companies will move to states like texas (no stat income tax) or oregon (no sales tax)
Then why is Silicon Valley in California (state income tax, high sales tax and extremely high gas tax)?
A friend once showed me a procurement spec for a (foreign) military system that had a requirement to operate at -300C. We had a good laugh, and he confirmed it was a typo (the actual spec was for -30C).
Then, if Mr. Allchin really feels this way, what is needed is:
Don't teach compiler theory in schools. Someone might make an open source compiler.
Don't teach OS theory in schools. Someone might make an open source OS.
Only sell your compiler/development tools to a select few who agree not to develop open source products. After all, if you sell to anyone, who knows what they might do?
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Which registras SHOULD I use?
I need to register some names, and want to go with a good registrar. Should I go with Register.com, TUCOWS, or someone else?
I guess I just didn't read the OP as sarcasm, I thought he was serious. It makes more sense as sarcasm...
Never mind.
That was Borland's No Nonsense License Agreement.
Oooh, now you've given the 1337 5kr1P7 K1dd135 something useful to do!
It will just go into that MBR of your HD that no-one but M$ should have code in there anyway....
Lets see... LILO, or other bootloaders....
Or here's an even more fun one... I had to patch a system because of a bug in the BIOS (this was before Flash) that caused it to misbehave with SCO Xenix (not Unix, Xenix). In any case, to make the patch transparent, I patched the MBR.
Get an fscking clue, dude.
Well, then could Jon Johannsen encrypt (rot-13 or whatever) DeCSS, and then 2600 could link to it, and MPAA couldn't download and de-rot13 it without violating DMCA?
i.e. to prove that 2600 was violating court order, they'd have to violate DMCA themselves.
Is there a lawyer out there? It looks to me like if you're in the stock plan, they can screw you, even in California.
Didn't the Kings just send Rob Blake to Pluto?
I don't get cable channel X at home.
I go on game show Y, which is on cable channel X.
I ask somebody to record game show Y for me. He uses his CPRM Tivo.
How do I get the recording of my appearance on game show Y?
It's not the longest running series ever. It is, however, the longest running sitcom currently on in prime time.
Remember, some soaps have been going for 30-40 years. "The Tonight Show" is at least 40, etc...
It ain't just San Jose. Many moons ago (about 15 years), I pulled graveyard shifts in a 7-11 in L.A.
The ABC (Alcoholic Beverage Control Board) had set a statewide alcohol curfew from 2AM to 6AM.
AFAIK, that law is still in effect, so 1AM is getting near closing time.
It's not so much location for me as it is the hours...
I'm pushing 40, I've got a wife and kids. I've probably shot several interviews by asking if the employees are allowed to have a life.
I don't mind working the occasional 50/60 hour week. Everyone understands crunch time. But if it's a way of life, then there's something seriously wrong with the company.
Here is a letter that I sent to my congressman - Brad Sherman (D - Sherman Oaks). I doubt that anything will happen from it, but at least I said something...
-- cut here --
Dear Congressman Sherman,
I had the pleasure of meeting you on the evening of 2/23/01, at Temple Judea. I was the man with the two young daughters who was sitting behind you.
If you may recall, I took the opportunity to discuss the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) and patent reform with you. I realize that time was short, and I was perhaps less than fully comprehensible, for which I apologize.
I am writing to express my dismay at the Department of Justice filing a brief in Universal City Studios, et al. vs. Eric Corley aka 2600 (See the link http://cryptome.org/mpaa-v-2600-usa.htm). This is a free speech matter wherein the government should be filing on behalf of the defendants, not the plaintiffs.
Essentially, Mr. Corley published a program called "DeCSS" on his website. The Motion Picture Association of America successfully sued under the DMCA to have it removed as a "Circumvention of Access Control". However, the MPAA often refers to the Content Scrambling System (CSS) on DVD movies as "copy protection", and an attempt to protect their copyright on movies.
I have no objection to copyright holders protecting their interests -- that's another debate for another time -- but in this situation, they are using a sledgehammer to swat a fly, and missing the mark (if you will excuse the confused metaphor).
Essentially, what CSS does is scramble the digital data on the DVD so that it cannot be read without descrambling it. The MPAA claims that this is to prevent copying. However, a DVD is nothing but a stream of ones and zeros, with the only meaning to those ones and zeroes that which we give it by interpretation.
Consider a book written in Swedish. I do not read Swedish, and cannot use the book without a Swedish-English dictionary. However, I can copy the book either mechanically or by hand without interpreting it. Similarly, I can copy a DVD without interpreting those ones and zeroes that make up the data on the disk.
DeCSS is a program that descrambles the CSS coded video stream on the disk. In the analogy given above, it functions as a Swedish-English dictionary. It allows me *FAIR USE* of the DVD which I have purchased, and under the doctrine of first sale, the MPAA has absolutely no rights to tell me what I may or may not do with said DVD.
Now back to the point. I am distressed and dismayed by the intervention of the DOJ in this case, as I believe that the lower court ruling was incorrect, and the attempted restraint on free speech is unconstitutional.
I ask you, as a voting constituent, to ask the Administration to remove itself from these proceedings.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
tentacle monster that would pull you undernetath itself and then slide out a smoking, charred corpse
Oh god yes, that had me awake for several days. I saw the episode a couple of years ago and although you could see the 'dolly' it still 0wned me.
Ah, yes. According to some fansites I've seen, "Dragon's Domain" is widely considered one of the best eps of the series.
Actually, many RTOS's don't use interrupts, but prefer to poll. Again, it's a matter of worst case latency and determinism. In a polled system, you know exactly how long it will take. In an interrupt driven system, it's possible for either (a) an interrupt to cause critical processing to take too long, or (b) critical processing to cause an interrupt to be ignored for too long.
Not quite. You need deterministic latency. You have to ensure that hard deadlines are met. If a process MUST complete before 50ms, and you don't meet that deadline, then you have a problem. That's what a hard Real-Time system is. Just changing the schedule won't cut it.
Is it a Desktop OS?
A server OS?
Is anyone actually using QNX ?
What can it do, that Linux and Be can't?
No, it's not a Desktop OS.
No, it's not a server OS.
Yes, people use it, in an embedded environment.
It can do hard realtime processing.
QNX is a real-time OS, based on a microkernel. It's useful in situations with hard RT requirements... where something like Linux or BSD currently would be inappropriate (Unix is not RealTime).
Hard RealTime systems are extremely difficult to write, there's probably no way in hell that QNX will be GPL'ed, there's a hell of a lot of investment there. This same point came up in "GPL 3.0 Concerns in Embedded World".
Then why is Silicon Valley in California (state income tax, high sales tax and extremely high gas tax)?
<JOKE>Of course! It's the CHEESE!</JOKE>
There's always BSD.
That's the Declaration of Independence.
On the other hand, the Fourteenth Amendment specifically mentions the rights to "life, liberty, and property".
I could see Microsoft getting rather upset about this patent... Can you say "Windows Update"?
Whether you use Windoze or not, same thing...
A friend once showed me a procurement spec for a (foreign) military system that had a requirement to operate at -300C. We had a good laugh, and he confirmed it was a typo (the actual spec was for -30C).
Don't teach compiler theory in schools. Someone might make an open source compiler.
Don't teach OS theory in schools. Someone might make an open source OS.
Only sell your compiler/development tools to a select few who agree not to develop open source products. After all, if you sell to anyone, who knows what they might do?
Get a fscking clue, Mr. Allchin!
Not a laptop. Special box for the Air Force.
Oh, and those drops were onto concrete.