How are people supposed to create copyrighted works in the first place?
Er... are you suggesting that for a copyright holder to make a copy of their own works, that they can self-infringe? That's as ridiculous as saying that for someone to drive their own car, they have committed grand theft auto (the crime, not the game).
Isn't it at all possible that more companies would invest in research and development if they could afford to do so, but they cannot because too much of the potential profits are seized by the government?
Surely you understand how taxes work to be making that kind of statement? Money spent on employees, R&D, office supplies, whatever... it's all a tax write-off. If you make $100 million a year in revenue and you spend $50 million in manufacturing, distribution, etc. costs, and spend another $50 million in R&D, you have $0 left which gets taxed. Typically the only money that gets taxed (as corporate income tax) from a corporation is that which is kept in the bank as profit.
"We keep asking, 'What's the rush?' It's not clear that everything has to be wrapped up in the summer of 2004."
Well given that Bush & Co. are going to be given the boot in Fall, I think we've discovered the real reason why all this needs to be wrapped up in Summer.
Holy shit... I did exactly the same thing and read it as $1000 pair of sneakers. When I scrolled down to read the replies, I had to re-check the original post. Sure enough, "speakers". I thought it was going to be a story about entering the decimal point correctly.
This has been around since the dawn of man. "Do X or else I'll do Y." X can be a request for money, goods, services, actions... you name it; Y is generally always something which will harm the intended victim, whether financially, personally, or emotionally. Extortion is certainly nothing new and, while it's often terrifying for the victim, it isn't necessarily a terrorist activity.
Heck, compare the following three extortion demands:
Mild: "If you don't stop playing Doom 3 so much, I'm leaving you." Medium: "Give me a raise or I'll alert the media about the company's fudged finances." Intense: "Clear out of Iraq or we execute these hostages."
I'm just anxious to see a real DoS attack. Any idea where I can find some code to see how it actually works?
I'm probably feeding a troll here, but what the hell. Why do you need to see code? It's little more than a massive surge in traffic which looks legitimate. Try this pseudocode on for size:
while(1)
- recursively get victim's entire website
Now spread that across 100,000 zombie machines, each capable of pulling in an average of maybe 20KB/s. Suddenly the victim's dealing with 2GB/s of traffic or, more likely, not dealing with it as the traffic would thoroughly saturate not only the victim's website but also the entire hosting provider's network.
A military brat friend of mine was born in Osaka, Japan. He is not Japanese. He has no right to Japanese citizenship. He is American.
I've heard that even if your parents have lived in Japan for decades and you are born in Japan, you will find it almost impossible to get a Japanese citizenship... it's just that tough.
I was expecting an article about real-life stories of how people are merging the two services to deliver custom electronics hardware to others. That would have been really great to read up on how entrepreneurs really are building viable businesses. Instead, it's just about how the writer tried out a couple of random parts, and that's it.
Now the cynic in me says that this is a rewritten duplicate article from a paid advertiser... not even the PC Magazine reference changed at all. Perhaps the story didn't do so well since it was posted on a Friday evening, so they try again during the middle of the week. Also, normally mentions of duplicates are modded up as informative but every single instance here has been modded down into oblivion. Sort of suspicious if you ask me. We'll see if this post gets mod-bombed down.
Because of thier desire for the IPO alot of financial info is now available.
Not exactly. Because Google has exceeded certain revenues and number of investors, they are required to file their financial information. Doing an IPO is merely a byproduct of the requirement to file. Since they're required to spill the beans, might as well raise some cash at the same time.
Come on, Microsoft. Attack with that shit, and we fight back with prior art. No contest. End of story.
Microsoft has a $50 billion war chest with which to fight patents in court. Who's going to pay for the lawyers who will be defending the open source projects?
I would suspect such buildings are not to code. Most fire regulations insist on having hard-wired and battery backed up fire and smoke detectors. Even if there aren't any such regulations, it's incredibly stupid to run a business and not have proper fire monitoring and suppression devices installed.
It would seem from what he wrote that DC stands for DreamCatcher, and that they imposed the non-disclosure requirement.
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They are giving the software away anyway, so why don't they go open source?
And invite all their competitors to come in and turn it into a price war, thereby inviting a ton of new competitors who undercut them because they didn't have to go through the expense of having such an application developed for them? Please explain why any company in their right mind would do this!
Can someone more familiar with machining comment on their samples prices? It seems a little expensive for the pieces they list. I can imagine something much more intricate would cost a small fortune. Granted, the prices go down with quantity but most hobbiests aren't going to order 100+ pieces of a part.
He did not say how many jobs would be going to India but it appeared that he would be treated well (rental cat provided, nice apartment, etc. while in Detroit).
Wow, you know you're living the high life when you get a rental cat as part of your compensation!
Silly me, I should have known that he actually had a functional "BS-O-Meter" device rather than it simply be something that, as a person, he judged internally.
Turn it around: Do you want copies of your grandparents' wedding photos?
When I was 19, I would have said "Hell no" but now that I'm older and more nostalgic, I would love to get fresh copies of my grantparents' wedding. As would my parents who are compiling the family tree and including pictures when they're available.
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How are people supposed to create copyrighted works in the first place?
Er... are you suggesting that for a copyright holder to make a copy of their own works, that they can self-infringe? That's as ridiculous as saying that for someone to drive their own car, they have committed grand theft auto (the crime, not the game).
Isn't it at all possible that more companies would invest in research and development if they could afford to do so, but they cannot because too much of the potential profits are seized by the government?
Surely you understand how taxes work to be making that kind of statement? Money spent on employees, R&D, office supplies, whatever... it's all a tax write-off. If you make $100 million a year in revenue and you spend $50 million in manufacturing, distribution, etc. costs, and spend another $50 million in R&D, you have $0 left which gets taxed. Typically the only money that gets taxed (as corporate income tax) from a corporation is that which is kept in the bank as profit.
From the article:
"We keep asking, 'What's the rush?' It's not clear that everything has to be wrapped up in the summer of 2004."
Well given that Bush & Co. are going to be given the boot in Fall, I think we've discovered the real reason why all this needs to be wrapped up in Summer.
Holy shit... I did exactly the same thing and read it as $1000 pair of sneakers. When I scrolled down to read the replies, I had to re-check the original post. Sure enough, "speakers". I thought it was going to be a story about entering the decimal point correctly.
And think we can link that from slashdot?
;-)
Why do you think it's called Slashback?
Is this a new form of terrorism?
This has been around since the dawn of man. "Do X or else I'll do Y." X can be a request for money, goods, services, actions... you name it; Y is generally always something which will harm the intended victim, whether financially, personally, or emotionally. Extortion is certainly nothing new and, while it's often terrifying for the victim, it isn't necessarily a terrorist activity.
Heck, compare the following three extortion demands:
Mild: "If you don't stop playing Doom 3 so much, I'm leaving you."
Medium: "Give me a raise or I'll alert the media about the company's fudged finances."
Intense: "Clear out of Iraq or we execute these hostages."
I'm just anxious to see a real DoS attack. Any idea where I can find some code to see how it actually works?
I'm probably feeding a troll here, but what the hell. Why do you need to see code? It's little more than a massive surge in traffic which looks legitimate. Try this pseudocode on for size:
while(1)
- recursively get victim's entire website
Now spread that across 100,000 zombie machines, each capable of pulling in an average of maybe 20KB/s. Suddenly the victim's dealing with 2GB/s of traffic or, more likely, not dealing with it as the traffic would thoroughly saturate not only the victim's website but also the entire hosting provider's network.
A military brat friend of mine was born in Osaka, Japan. He is not Japanese. He has no right to Japanese citizenship. He is American.
I've heard that even if your parents have lived in Japan for decades and you are born in Japan, you will find it almost impossible to get a Japanese citizenship... it's just that tough.
But that's completely orthoganal to your point.
I was expecting an article about real-life stories of how people are merging the two services to deliver custom electronics hardware to others. That would have been really great to read up on how entrepreneurs really are building viable businesses. Instead, it's just about how the writer tried out a couple of random parts, and that's it.
Now the cynic in me says that this is a rewritten duplicate article from a paid advertiser... not even the PC Magazine reference changed at all. Perhaps the story didn't do so well since it was posted on a Friday evening, so they try again during the middle of the week. Also, normally mentions of duplicates are modded up as informative but every single instance here has been modded down into oblivion. Sort of suspicious if you ask me. We'll see if this post gets mod-bombed down.
Because of thier desire for the IPO alot of financial info is now available.
Not exactly. Because Google has exceeded certain revenues and number of investors, they are required to file their financial information. Doing an IPO is merely a byproduct of the requirement to file. Since they're required to spill the beans, might as well raise some cash at the same time.
Come on, Microsoft. Attack with that shit, and we fight back with prior art. No contest. End of story.
Microsoft has a $50 billion war chest with which to fight patents in court. Who's going to pay for the lawyers who will be defending the open source projects?
I would suspect such buildings are not to code. Most fire regulations insist on having hard-wired and battery backed up fire and smoke detectors. Even if there aren't any such regulations, it's incredibly stupid to run a business and not have proper fire monitoring and suppression devices installed.
Fire in the cell tower?
And you're saying this blazing fire would somehow go completely unnoticed?
Not if you live full time in a class A motorhome, eh.
Then you're not really camping, are you? If I light a wood fire on the balcony of my apartment, is that camping too??
Thanks for the outstanding response. I have bookmarked it for future reference.
it's called having my uncle buy the car with the money I sent him, and then he gives it to me as a gift.
:)
And you and your uncle both claim these "gifts" of money and car on your tax returns, right?
If DC is district court, isn't he lying?
It would seem from what he wrote that DC stands for DreamCatcher, and that they imposed the non-disclosure requirement.
They are giving the software away anyway, so why don't they go open source?
And invite all their competitors to come in and turn it into a price war, thereby inviting a ton of new competitors who undercut them because they didn't have to go through the expense of having such an application developed for them? Please explain why any company in their right mind would do this!
While i admit i didnt read TOO far in depth.. i didnt see any obvious info for pricing @ the e-machine shop...
:)
I guess that big link on the left which says "Pricing" escaped your attention?
Can someone more familiar with machining comment on their samples prices? It seems a little expensive for the pieces they list. I can imagine something much more intricate would cost a small fortune. Granted, the prices go down with quantity but most hobbiests aren't going to order 100+ pieces of a part.
He did not say how many jobs would be going to India but it appeared that he would be treated well (rental cat provided, nice apartment, etc. while in Detroit).
Wow, you know you're living the high life when you get a rental cat as part of your compensation!
Now that is a heavy fine.
In Oxford, they call it the "Sisyphus Punishment".
Not too big, but cold enough in winter to give extra meaning to the phrase "vanishing black hole".
In a nod to Stewie, someone could pelt him with a snowball in the ass and he could turn around and say "Look! Don't it make my brown eye blue?"
Meters are "peaked". People are "piqued".
Silly me, I should have known that he actually had a functional "BS-O-Meter" device rather than it simply be something that, as a person, he judged internally.
Turn it around: Do you want copies of your grandparents' wedding photos?
When I was 19, I would have said "Hell no" but now that I'm older and more nostalgic, I would love to get fresh copies of my grantparents' wedding. As would my parents who are compiling the family tree and including pictures when they're available.