Ok, I'll give you that. But Pixar was given the chance to make all those because of it's backing from Disney. Fox just let the animation company die after Titan came out. I can't even find what the name of the studio was, but I know it wasn't called the "Fox Animation Studio". Even though Titan had some issues, I was impressed by the animation. I was really hoping something else would come from it. But I guess not...
Which is what people have been pushed to by the RIAA.
Look, whether you like the implications or not; whether the implications are legal or moral; whether this will make life more hellish for everyone involved, from the consumers frustrated by continual harassments and being told they are criminals to the RIAA themselves, it doesn't matter. The RIAA brought this upon themselves. A program like this would have never been created, if the RIAA treated P2P sharing as a promotional tool instead of a "pirating" tool. Instead, we would have been left with the original killer app: Napster.
Can you tell your boss to sod off and never show up to work again? Yes.
Sure, if you don't mind not earning money.
Can you find a job at another company, sometimes even a competitor, and instantly go work there with little fear of backlash from your current employer? Yes.
Not if you sign a non-complete contract. Otherwise, they can, and probably will, sue your ass until there's nothing left.
If a company lets you go, are you entitled to unemployment compenstation of some sort? Yes.
Not always. If the company makes it look as if you are the cause of your unemployment status, as this guy was because "he let the company security slide, as was found by the vulerability assessment", then you have fewer chances of seeing anything more then the standard 2 weeks. But there's little chance that government U.I. would kick in. Could you survive 3 months with only 2 weeks pay?
Can a company legally tell another company that you don't bathe, you write shitty code and your mother-in-law calls you 17 times a day distracting you at work? No.
A company can legally tell another company of the reason that you were let go. And since this guy was accused of letting network security lapse, that's not going to sound good when another company calls up.
I wouldn't trust anything else coming from this company if I were him. I would try to minimize any contact with this company by future potential employers. He really is in as bad a position as he thinks. What's worse is that probably none of it is deserved. Good luck buddy, because you're going to need it...
So then you'll agree that a device like this could be done better with a different language? It's not like the code will be ported to anything else, unless that was their goal. Which I can see...create a low-powered wireless music player, write code in Java, sell device, release code for someone to port to some other low-powered device. Seems like a half decent goal, and looks like what they are doing with their "Developer's Edition" of the device.
On the other hand, I've read elsewhere in this story's posts that the JVM is getting to the point where speed is improving. It might be getting to the point that these types of projects are viable in Java. But who knows...that's why I asked if that could be backed up...
You know what...I'll take the karma hit and ask why this was modded down. This is a viable point of view, and instead of modding it down why not respond to it. I don't know how good Java works on such limited processing power, but seeing as it has been around for a while now and is being improved then it could be ready to take on such things. But from my own personal experience with writing Java programs, it doesn't have the same speed as a natively written app. Could someone prove or disprove this thought, with Java as it stands now?
Ah well...if they aren't, it doesn't matter. Someone will come out against this, and more then likely it will be Disney. They'll throw they're weight around, like they usually do, so they have a good chance of stopping this before it gets started. Lets just hope they do like I said, and realize this is in their best interest too.
Aren't they owned by a company that's owned by a company that's owned by Disney? I know it's confusing, but I'm pretty sure that's how it is. This will get squashed fairly quick, and the CEO probably won't be heard from again. Unless Disney comes to their senses and realize he's right, that is. Hopefully this is the case, because instead of trying to get file-sharers who make no money, they can cut off real pirates looking for profit. This could be a real boon to the video market, since I still believe people are willing to buy things legitimately if given the chance. Region codes only prevent honest people from buying what they want and giving the money to the right people.
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How will it look on your resume "Nov 2002 - April 2005: Played computer games." Doesn't really give the impression of a hard worker, does it?
This depends all on what kind of job you're going for. I'd love to be able to put "Professional Game Player" on my resume. That way, when I apply to EA Games or id Software for a game testing job, I'd have had a professionally documented position with a company known for sponsoring good game players. And I'd definately have an advantage over the MIT guy who's wasting his life on math and algorythms...
No...Miramax has the North American distribution rights. They don't own the film, and they can't sell it anywhere else other then North America. Or at least that's as far as I can tell. The only thing Miramax is protecting is the profits from when they decide to release their hacked-up version. And you can't do that when the real fans are finding better versions of it elsewhere...
That's sort of the first thing I thought of. Actually, my thought was "Great, Linux zealots with too much time on there hands and going to fsck it up by attacking SCO and giving some legitimacy to their claims." But I should have realised that SCO would lie about this like everything else they lie about to discredit anything to do with Linux and open-source. And they probably won't stop. If they were smart, they'd pay some script kiddies to attack their site to make it look real. If they were smart...
The problem with your analogy is that the napkin makers still get paid. McDonald's pays napkin makers so that a McDonald's customers can have free napkins. And more likely then compared to textiles and gasoline, napkins are probably made in America, which puts money back into Americans pockets.
The main issue with more and more industries going overseas for workers is that less money is being given to the American public, yet people are still in the constant-consuming mindset. And they are going into debt over it, so that they can have that nice car and the big projection TV and the cell phone. Just like all the commercials tell them they deserve.
Although the tech industry has really brought this upon themselves during the boom. I recently read an article (saw the link on Fark, too lazy to look it up) about a guy who started a consultant company. While looking for workers he decided to try something novel (to him and most tech workers it seems, but not to someone like me who's lived this). He decided to offer positions for the same wages that Indian programmers are offered: $45,000 a year. Being a Canadian who hasn't bothered with looking for work in the US, I was personally shocked by this. If the only reason US tech workers aren't finding jobs is because no one is willing to offer a good wage (not extraordinary, buy-me-a-Lexus-and-an-SUV kind of wages, but good enough to live modestly), then I feel no pity for companies at all. The guy who offered those wages was flooded with resumes. People are obviously willing to work, despite not having the huge paychecks. But they have to be given the chance. Companies have to realise the value of hiring locally at fair wages.
Now as for textiles...everyone but the main "Promotional" companies (i.e. Nike, etc) is getting screwed on that deal. People really should be upset over that entire industry...
I do seem to recall them making a profoundly dumb move once or twice, but the details are hazy at best.
I think the details went along the lines of "We'll buy Peoplesoft to corner the CRM market. Then we'll drive the company into the ground and leave all their customers with no choice but to buy Oracle software." Don't know if those are the exact words, but Oracle's CEO has come out to say things pretty close to that. Sorry, but evil is evil.
As for innovation only being done by big companies, I do believe Apple started out in a garage. And wasn't eBay started in a basement. Innovation is done by people with a need, or by people who see a need and want to fill it. It's not done by corporations with a desire for more money. Innovation costs money without a guarenteed return on investment. For a business, that's a risk too big for most to take.
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Funny...mine is "I really DO need 200 CDRs..." thinking that I'll actually want to keep the crap filling up my hard drive. Still have about 150 sitting at home. From a year and a half ago. After burning several for friends.
Maybe this is vigilante spam, using the scared straight theory.
Or maybe this isn't. What better way to make sure people don't get any sort of police agency or even their ISP involved in investigating spam then to send them kiddie pr0n and make it look like they asked for it? No one is going to incriminate themselves like that. If they did, they'd probably be locked up during the investigation of their involvement. And whether you did it on purpose or not doesn't matter. Once you're in jail, a whole new justice system takes over...
What? You don't think growing copious amounts of ganga in an old castle in the middle of Britain with two braindead potheads is good safe money-making opportunity?
people are still STUPID enough to open these things
Because, for some people, curiousity is just too strong to resist. They know it can't be true, but they'll click it anyways "just in case". Then they'll call me to ask why their computer is all of a sudden slow, at which point I clean their system and buy a new pair of boots because my old left boot is embedded in their ass...
Although present copyright law is not fair, it isn't an excuse to break the law.
How else do you propose we change the laws? The proper channels aren't working, because the proper channels are pretty much owned by the people we're fighting. So if we can't change the laws playing by their rules, we'll change them playing by our rules. Remember that line "By the people, for the people"? I think the people have spoken...
I will agree with you completely here. What I'd like to know is: If they are litigating for the good of their artists, and any money they get from the litigations are suppose to be for the artists (minus the usual *cough* legal fees), then where do we find out how much has been distributed to the artists? For that matter, how do we find out how much the RIAA and it's associates "earn" from music sales, and how much of that is given to the artist? I know a large portion of money paid to artists has to be given back to the label to pay off "loans" for making an album. Plus I know the usual middle men have to be paid before the artist even see a cent. Has someone, or is someone in the process, of figuring out these numbers. I'd like to see how much "protection" the artists are getting from the RIAA.
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Ok, I'll give you that. But Pixar was given the chance to make all those because of it's backing from Disney. Fox just let the animation company die after Titan came out. I can't even find what the name of the studio was, but I know it wasn't called the "Fox Animation Studio". Even though Titan had some issues, I was impressed by the animation. I was really hoping something else would come from it. But I guess not...
Really, I can't think of any other CG animation studio that has films of the caliber of Toy Story, Finding Nemo, A Bug's Life, etc.
Pretty sure the movie "Titan A.E." from the now-defunct studio who's name is forgotten would qualify...
Which is what people have been pushed to by the RIAA.
Look, whether you like the implications or not; whether the implications are legal or moral; whether this will make life more hellish for everyone involved, from the consumers frustrated by continual harassments and being told they are criminals to the RIAA themselves, it doesn't matter. The RIAA brought this upon themselves. A program like this would have never been created, if the RIAA treated P2P sharing as a promotional tool instead of a "pirating" tool. Instead, we would have been left with the original killer app: Napster.
Can you tell your boss to sod off and never show up to work again? Yes.
Sure, if you don't mind not earning money.
Can you find a job at another company, sometimes even a competitor, and instantly go work there with little fear of backlash from your current employer? Yes.
Not if you sign a non-complete contract. Otherwise, they can, and probably will, sue your ass until there's nothing left.
If a company lets you go, are you entitled to unemployment compenstation of some sort? Yes.
Not always. If the company makes it look as if you are the cause of your unemployment status, as this guy was because "he let the company security slide, as was found by the vulerability assessment", then you have fewer chances of seeing anything more then the standard 2 weeks. But there's little chance that government U.I. would kick in. Could you survive 3 months with only 2 weeks pay?
Can a company legally tell another company that you don't bathe, you write shitty code and your mother-in-law calls you 17 times a day distracting you at work? No.
A company can legally tell another company of the reason that you were let go. And since this guy was accused of letting network security lapse, that's not going to sound good when another company calls up.
I wouldn't trust anything else coming from this company if I were him. I would try to minimize any contact with this company by future potential employers. He really is in as bad a position as he thinks. What's worse is that probably none of it is deserved. Good luck buddy, because you're going to need it...
So then you'll agree that a device like this could be done better with a different language? It's not like the code will be ported to anything else, unless that was their goal. Which I can see...create a low-powered wireless music player, write code in Java, sell device, release code for someone to port to some other low-powered device. Seems like a half decent goal, and looks like what they are doing with their "Developer's Edition" of the device.
On the other hand, I've read elsewhere in this story's posts that the JVM is getting to the point where speed is improving. It might be getting to the point that these types of projects are viable in Java. But who knows...that's why I asked if that could be backed up...
You know what...I'll take the karma hit and ask why this was modded down. This is a viable point of view, and instead of modding it down why not respond to it. I don't know how good Java works on such limited processing power, but seeing as it has been around for a while now and is being improved then it could be ready to take on such things. But from my own personal experience with writing Java programs, it doesn't have the same speed as a natively written app. Could someone prove or disprove this thought, with Java as it stands now?
Actually, this was a pretty cool find. I guess you were right. Find out here who owns what...
Ah well...if they aren't, it doesn't matter. Someone will come out against this, and more then likely it will be Disney. They'll throw they're weight around, like they usually do, so they have a good chance of stopping this before it gets started. Lets just hope they do like I said, and realize this is in their best interest too.
Aren't they owned by a company that's owned by a company that's owned by Disney? I know it's confusing, but I'm pretty sure that's how it is. This will get squashed fairly quick, and the CEO probably won't be heard from again. Unless Disney comes to their senses and realize he's right, that is. Hopefully this is the case, because instead of trying to get file-sharers who make no money, they can cut off real pirates looking for profit. This could be a real boon to the video market, since I still believe people are willing to buy things legitimately if given the chance. Region codes only prevent honest people from buying what they want and giving the money to the right people.
How will it look on your resume "Nov 2002 - April 2005: Played computer games." Doesn't really give the impression of a hard worker, does it?
This depends all on what kind of job you're going for. I'd love to be able to put "Professional Game Player" on my resume. That way, when I apply to EA Games or id Software for a game testing job, I'd have had a professionally documented position with a company known for sponsoring good game players. And I'd definately have an advantage over the MIT guy who's wasting his life on math and algorythms...
Just because Miramax got the rights to the film
No...Miramax has the North American distribution rights. They don't own the film, and they can't sell it anywhere else other then North America. Or at least that's as far as I can tell. The only thing Miramax is protecting is the profits from when they decide to release their hacked-up version. And you can't do that when the real fans are finding better versions of it elsewhere...
That's sort of the first thing I thought of. Actually, my thought was "Great, Linux zealots with too much time on there hands and going to fsck it up by attacking SCO and giving some legitimacy to their claims." But I should have realised that SCO would lie about this like everything else they lie about to discredit anything to do with Linux and open-source. And they probably won't stop. If they were smart, they'd pay some script kiddies to attack their site to make it look real. If they were smart...
The napkin makers got over it. So should you.
The problem with your analogy is that the napkin makers still get paid. McDonald's pays napkin makers so that a McDonald's customers can have free napkins. And more likely then compared to textiles and gasoline, napkins are probably made in America, which puts money back into Americans pockets.
The main issue with more and more industries going overseas for workers is that less money is being given to the American public, yet people are still in the constant-consuming mindset. And they are going into debt over it, so that they can have that nice car and the big projection TV and the cell phone. Just like all the commercials tell them they deserve.
Although the tech industry has really brought this upon themselves during the boom. I recently read an article (saw the link on Fark, too lazy to look it up) about a guy who started a consultant company. While looking for workers he decided to try something novel (to him and most tech workers it seems, but not to someone like me who's lived this). He decided to offer positions for the same wages that Indian programmers are offered: $45,000 a year. Being a Canadian who hasn't bothered with looking for work in the US, I was personally shocked by this. If the only reason US tech workers aren't finding jobs is because no one is willing to offer a good wage (not extraordinary, buy-me-a-Lexus-and-an-SUV kind of wages, but good enough to live modestly), then I feel no pity for companies at all. The guy who offered those wages was flooded with resumes. People are obviously willing to work, despite not having the huge paychecks. But they have to be given the chance. Companies have to realise the value of hiring locally at fair wages.
Now as for textiles...everyone but the main "Promotional" companies (i.e. Nike, etc) is getting screwed on that deal. People really should be upset over that entire industry...
and the broadband service they offer is just a piece of seemingly annoying proprietary software.
If you didn't notice, AOL is the leading provider of seemingly annoying proprietary software, along with Microsoft and SCO...
Is Darl going to try and rebutt Linus' statement in the next letter, or is he going to go spread more FUD?
Uh, isn't that the same thing?
I do seem to recall them making a profoundly dumb move once or twice, but the details are hazy at best.
I think the details went along the lines of "We'll buy Peoplesoft to corner the CRM market. Then we'll drive the company into the ground and leave all their customers with no choice but to buy Oracle software." Don't know if those are the exact words, but Oracle's CEO has come out to say things pretty close to that. Sorry, but evil is evil.
As for innovation only being done by big companies, I do believe Apple started out in a garage. And wasn't eBay started in a basement. Innovation is done by people with a need, or by people who see a need and want to fill it. It's not done by corporations with a desire for more money. Innovation costs money without a guarenteed return on investment. For a business, that's a risk too big for most to take.
damn, i didn't think clearchannel had THAT much influence
Uh, it said intelligent beings from other galaxies...
the smarter employees will need out somehow.
I would have thought the smarter employees had gotten out a LOOOOOOOONG time ago...
Would you like to own your very own point in space? How about a nice lot on the moon? Well come on down to CraZy Larry's Space Realtor and check out what YOU could own tomorrow! That's right! You could be the proud owner of 30 acres, ON THE MOON! That's enough land to start your own Space Emu Farm. Or you could own your very own LaGrange point and start a Space Port! Have astronauts from around the solar system visiting your Space Port; buying from your many Space Shops; eating in your many Space Restaurants; floating in your many Space Bathrooms. And all at the low low price of $999,999.99 a month with financing! So come on down and check out the deals. You just might be blown away!
Disclaimer: For educational purposes only. Not to be used in conjuction with world domination. Not to be used in conjunction with attack on alien race. CraZy Larry is not responsible for radioactive debris or alien races currently occupying locations. Visa or Mastercard is accepted.
Funny...mine is "I really DO need 200 CDRs..." thinking that I'll actually want to keep the crap filling up my hard drive. Still have about 150 sitting at home. From a year and a half ago. After burning several for friends.
Maybe this is vigilante spam, using the scared straight theory.
Or maybe this isn't. What better way to make sure people don't get any sort of police agency or even their ISP involved in investigating spam then to send them kiddie pr0n and make it look like they asked for it? No one is going to incriminate themselves like that. If they did, they'd probably be locked up during the investigation of their involvement. And whether you did it on purpose or not doesn't matter. Once you're in jail, a whole new justice system takes over...
What? You don't think growing copious amounts of ganga in an old castle in the middle of Britain with two braindead potheads is good safe money-making opportunity?
people are still STUPID enough to open these things
Because, for some people, curiousity is just too strong to resist. They know it can't be true, but they'll click it anyways "just in case". Then they'll call me to ask why their computer is all of a sudden slow, at which point I clean their system and buy a new pair of boots because my old left boot is embedded in their ass...
Although present copyright law is not fair, it isn't an excuse to break the law.
How else do you propose we change the laws? The proper channels aren't working, because the proper channels are pretty much owned by the people we're fighting. So if we can't change the laws playing by their rules, we'll change them playing by our rules. Remember that line "By the people, for the people"? I think the people have spoken...
I will agree with you completely here. What I'd like to know is: If they are litigating for the good of their artists, and any money they get from the litigations are suppose to be for the artists (minus the usual *cough* legal fees), then where do we find out how much has been distributed to the artists? For that matter, how do we find out how much the RIAA and it's associates "earn" from music sales, and how much of that is given to the artist? I know a large portion of money paid to artists has to be given back to the label to pay off "loans" for making an album. Plus I know the usual middle men have to be paid before the artist even see a cent. Has someone, or is someone in the process, of figuring out these numbers. I'd like to see how much "protection" the artists are getting from the RIAA.