Why won't they just do the "Lensmen" series by Doc Smith. That is the progenitor of almost all science fiction. He was the first with a majority of the good ideas for action Sci Fi. The entire Star Wars series is a terribly mangled version of the Lensmen series and Spielberg even says it was a major inspiration for him.
I guess the fact that real space marines and pirates don't have women and children aboard and that would limit the audience.
Is that the ENTIRE thing was completely unnecessary.
The EAGLES (you remember them don't you. They always conveniently appear when someone needs to be whisked out of danger) could have simply carried Frodo above Mount Crumpet, er, I mean Mount Doom, to drop the ring from 10,000 feet up.
The entire 'venture would have take 2 hours tops, with time for lunch.
Silly story, silly broken characters like a wizard who can't even fight another wizard, but can combat an ancient demon 100 times his mass and win.
I know this it terribly naive, but can someone shed some light on this.
Inside the liquid part of the earth's core, metals are all liquid. The denser metals would tend to accumulate toward the center. Or at that depth, gravity would be roughly equal in all directions so no gravitational separation of materials with differing densities would occur plus convection currents would keep it all well stirred.
However, if that is not true, and since the denser metals tend to be radioactive, could the heat at the earth's core just be a slowly fissioning atomic pile?
If Bill wants to stop open source, he should hire away the open source programmers who have proven their abilities.
I've always thought that setting out to design and code up a project from thin air is a big risk. Much better to find an open source project that is nearly what you want, and hire the team who produced it to turn it into the product you want.
A viable open source project already has most of the risk removed because you know it works and you know it's wanted.
This would solve the problem caused by the two opposing forces; companies like microsoft who want to charge for software, and programmers who have too much time on their hands, who write open source projects to add to their portfolio.
Face it, a lot of open source projects are started by programmers just looking to get some credibility and get a real job. Everyone has to have an incoming for food, shelter and whatever.
If the law only applies to movies and music, is a zip file of a song, music?
Or more generally, if one has to "transform" a file into something it wasn't originally, does the original file classify as the item being violated?
This whole copyright/computer arena is a big mess.
If this law is true, anyone going to a website is guilty of a crime (they make a copy of the webpages as they view them).
All italian websites now have the ability to become multi-billionaires. Just email the people coming to the website that you are going to report them for violating your coyright, and tell them send money or they are going to jail for 6 months.
Do they have cappuccino in Italian prisons?
Encryption is only useful to prevent third parties from eavesdropping on a file transfer or to prevent filtering and blocking at routers and firewalls. It doesn't protect you from a user of the network itself from finding out who you are. For that you need to disguise the source of the transfer.
MUTE and Freenet use the members' computers to essentially proxy file transfers so the real source is hidden. However, this means you might be proxying kiddy porn for someone else. It also means speeds suffer since the speed of any transfer is only as fast as the slowest hop.
Earthstation 5 uses several methods. Anonymous HTTP proxies are used to PUT files so the source is hidden, and/or one can use PXP which is a UDP file transfer protocol that uses spoofed UDP packets. Proxies can impact speed but less than users proxying themselves because the proxies used are set up on high speed links and only one hop is involved. PXP has no speed penalty.
As far as is known, no one using the above 3 networks has been sued yet.
Virtually all modern p2p apps get files from multiple sources so the "breaking a file up" is nothing new and is no protection since even sharing a PIECE of a copyrighted file is still an infringement.
I manage an outsource team in Russia and can tell you from my experience that 90% of the job they do for us is simply slapping together some open source.
Programmers who give away their code, especially high end professional stuff like apache, and samba are putting themselves and hundreds of thousands of other programmers out of work.
If they have your code, they don't need you.
I'm sorry but it is a simple truth. I'm not sure what these people are thinking. For example, the guy who wrote BitTorrent, if he'd made it closed source, would be set for LIFE, instead, he has to slave away at his old job still, subject to the whims of pin striped suited idiot managers and other predators who understand the simple rule, "If they have your code, they don't need you". It's pathetic. He even has his resume up there begging for scraps from corporate america. People are making millions from his work and he doesn't see A PENNY. NOT A FUCKING PENNY.
Wake up. Your simple minded idiocy and naivety is being taken advantage of. You are being used.
When I code, I put in NO comments. I don't give up my code unless forced. I make it as difficult as possible for people to understand and use my code. Why? Because my code really has value, people HAVE TO USE IT. I don't have to give it away free. And without me, the code is useless. Never work as a "maintenance programmer" unless you get paid triple what the original programmers make. Why? Because you are disposable. The original coder is much more difficult to get rid of IF he makes himself indepensable. It's time to dump all these silly idealistic rules like "make your code understandable by other programmers". Sure, it sounds nice, but it just makes predators and corporate scum able to get rid of you more easily. If you are working for an idiot technical middle manager who insists on doing himself out of a job by making the code easy to use, you need to disguise your intent obviously. How many of you followed all the rules of making your code understandable by others and are now out of a job? Hmmmm?
Your code is valuable to the degree that is helps people solve real world problems. If you give it away you are like an architect who gives away his plans for free, a musician who plays concerts for free, a doctor who works for free, a lawyer who works for free. All these people have knowledge and expertise that they sell, but programmers are in the unique position that their knowledge can be bottled and used without their presence. Don't let that happen. If they have your code, they don't need you, and believe me, no one feels any obligation to "donate" to you when they get your code for free.
If you write open source software that solves any significant problem, you are doing away with your own future. Don't complain if you end up working at McDonalds. You greatly contributed to your own downfall.
If they have your code, they don't need you. How hard is that to understand? You may rant and rave about what I just said, but in the end I will be proven right. The programmers who make thmselves indepensable will have the high paying jobs, and you others will be janitors and burger fippers.
1) Get an anonymous proxy manager like EarthStation5. Tell it to exclude proxies from the U.S, Britain, Australia and any other country that gives a shit about this kind of stuff.
2) Using said anonymous proxies, go to hotmail and get an email account.
3) Only browse using the anonymous proxies, and only use the web via proxies to get your email at hotmail.
You will be protected from this kind of bullshit. If you don't do this, don't whine and moan if you get harrassed. Technology is always many steps ahead of the MAN who wants to run your life but it cannot protect you if you don't use it.
Its design supports more networking addressing schemes than TCP/IP.
These Bittorrent files are just addresses one/two abstraction levels from raw ip addresses.
No big deal.
You all sound like a bunch of whiney old ladies. Death of DNS! News at 11!
The impact this will have on the DNS system you couldn't even measure with an electron microscope so just calm down.
Any sort of group that is coding JUST for money, is not going to do as good a job as those who are inspired.
Programming is one area where a small mistake near the beginning multiplies in consquence geometrically as time progresses. If you aren't committed to the job, if you are just committed to cranking up the programming hours to make more money, you aren't going to care about more code, more work, more bugs, more maintainance. THAT's WHAT YOU WANT!!!
One wrong design move means thousands of extra programming hours in most cases, MOST cases.
Part of avoiding bad design, and bad coding is peer inspection and brainstorming. Without a group spirit, without high speed exchange of ideas at the time they are ripe, you are going to get stale, tired and buggy code.
This is true wherever your code is "outsourced" away from its inspiration point. It doesn't matter what country is involved.
Have you ever heard of superior code coming out of a job shop?
Put the weapon on a 747 or C5 airplane, fly above the clouds and you have a potent missile deterent.
Hydrogen Peroxide poisonous? I know people who drink it.
And don't forget to register as a Muslim. If you do, you can have FIVE WIVES. (Don't bring your wife if you are already married. Should be no problem as most American women are squeamish and don't like smelly foreigners anyway).
Get some of those nubile, 13 year old wenches that the parents can't afford and build your own Harem!!!!
How sweet it is!
I forgot some even worse data.
Some of our code was leaked out and got into the public domain. My superiors didn't care.
However, there isn't much anyone can do legally to out-of-country producers. Here are some things that can happen.
1) Remote producer fails to produce but takes the money. Good luck chasing someone down in India. This happened to us in Russia.
2) Remote producer uses your code to create a product of their own. Some code produced overseas doesn't suffer this, like, the printer management programs that come with various printers. They are tied to the printer, the market is glutted with printer software so releasing their own version just isn't worth it.
3) Code gets released to public domain through untrustworthy or "socialistic" programmers working for overseas producer.
4) Overseas producer becomes indespensable because their code is so bad only the original programmers can decode it. Then they jack up their rates making the relationship less profitable than using local talent.
Part of the problem is that a lot of software isn't special or revolutionary. It is just like plastic, made-in-china trinkets. People who sell hardware always have to include a little app to go along with their hardware. That kind of stuff you don't worry about trade secrets getting out so it's ok to outsource it.
The Open Source promoters don't realize that, when they give away their code, they are giving away themselves. If people have your code, they don't need you.
Sorry, but its true.
Not only are you giving away your work directly, you are giving away the knowledge it took you months or years to acquire. People stydying your code are able to avoid the long learning curve you put in.
If you are working at a company, making your code friendly (good variable names, lots of comments) you are just making it easier for the company to get rid of you.
I know someone will say, "If I was your manager I'd fire you". and that's exactly the point. It's the managers who are outsourcing all this stuff. Sure they'd love to get rid of all the people who DEVELOPED this industry and turn it over to cheap grunts in 3rd world nations.
I am an American who has to manage a team of Russians in Russia (no choice my company ordered me to do it). The code is uniformly bad and most of it is simply downloading various pieces of open source and adpating it to our use. Half of the code needs to be rewritten not once, but several times. Suits like dollar values, they are certain. They don't know the price they are paying in missed deadlines and bad quality. Those items are not as quantifiable.People whine and complain about even the best software so it's hard to see whether quality really matters or not.
If you want to stop this glut of low paid grunts from taking your jobs, stop giving away your code as "open source" and stop making yourself EASY to get rid of.
It's simple.I guess people in the US and Northern Europe have had it easy for so long they have forgotten some simple lessons in basic survival.
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Why won't they just do the "Lensmen" series by Doc Smith. That is the progenitor of almost all science fiction. He was the first with a majority of the good ideas for action Sci Fi. The entire Star Wars series is a terribly mangled version of the Lensmen series and Spielberg even says it was a major inspiration for him. I guess the fact that real space marines and pirates don't have women and children aboard and that would limit the audience.
Is that the ENTIRE thing was completely unnecessary.
The EAGLES (you remember them don't you. They always conveniently appear when someone needs to be whisked out of danger) could have simply carried Frodo above Mount Crumpet, er, I mean Mount Doom, to drop the ring from 10,000 feet up.
The entire 'venture would have take 2 hours tops, with time for lunch.
Silly story, silly broken characters like a wizard who can't even fight another wizard, but can combat an ancient demon 100 times his mass and win.
I know this it terribly naive, but can someone shed some light on this. Inside the liquid part of the earth's core, metals are all liquid. The denser metals would tend to accumulate toward the center. Or at that depth, gravity would be roughly equal in all directions so no gravitational separation of materials with differing densities would occur plus convection currents would keep it all well stirred. However, if that is not true, and since the denser metals tend to be radioactive, could the heat at the earth's core just be a slowly fissioning atomic pile?
If Bill wants to stop open source, he should hire away the open source programmers who have proven their abilities.
I've always thought that setting out to design and code up a project from thin air is a big risk. Much better to find an open source project that is nearly what you want, and hire the team who produced it to turn it into the product you want.
A viable open source project already has most of the risk removed because you know it works and you know it's wanted.
This would solve the problem caused by the two opposing forces; companies like microsoft who want to charge for software, and programmers who have too much time on their hands, who write open source projects to add to their portfolio.
Face it, a lot of open source projects are started by programmers just looking to get some credibility and get a real job. Everyone has to have an incoming for food, shelter and whatever.
Oh no! Dio Mio! Che cazzo giorno scuro!
If the law only applies to movies and music, is a zip file of a song, music? Or more generally, if one has to "transform" a file into something it wasn't originally, does the original file classify as the item being violated? This whole copyright/computer arena is a big mess.
Cazzo, strunzo puzzolente e anche il boccinaro del RIAA.
If this law is true, anyone going to a website is guilty of a crime (they make a copy of the webpages as they view them). All italian websites now have the ability to become multi-billionaires. Just email the people coming to the website that you are going to report them for violating your coyright, and tell them send money or they are going to jail for 6 months. Do they have cappuccino in Italian prisons?
Encryption is only useful to prevent third parties from eavesdropping on a file transfer or to prevent filtering and blocking at routers and firewalls. It doesn't protect you from a user of the network itself from finding out who you are. For that you need to disguise the source of the transfer. MUTE and Freenet use the members' computers to essentially proxy file transfers so the real source is hidden. However, this means you might be proxying kiddy porn for someone else. It also means speeds suffer since the speed of any transfer is only as fast as the slowest hop. Earthstation 5 uses several methods. Anonymous HTTP proxies are used to PUT files so the source is hidden, and/or one can use PXP which is a UDP file transfer protocol that uses spoofed UDP packets. Proxies can impact speed but less than users proxying themselves because the proxies used are set up on high speed links and only one hop is involved. PXP has no speed penalty. As far as is known, no one using the above 3 networks has been sued yet. Virtually all modern p2p apps get files from multiple sources so the "breaking a file up" is nothing new and is no protection since even sharing a PIECE of a copyrighted file is still an infringement.
I manage an outsource team in Russia and can tell you from my experience that 90% of the job they do for us is simply slapping together some open source. Programmers who give away their code, especially high end professional stuff like apache, and samba are putting themselves and hundreds of thousands of other programmers out of work. If they have your code, they don't need you. I'm sorry but it is a simple truth. I'm not sure what these people are thinking. For example, the guy who wrote BitTorrent, if he'd made it closed source, would be set for LIFE, instead, he has to slave away at his old job still, subject to the whims of pin striped suited idiot managers and other predators who understand the simple rule, "If they have your code, they don't need you". It's pathetic. He even has his resume up there begging for scraps from corporate america. People are making millions from his work and he doesn't see A PENNY. NOT A FUCKING PENNY. Wake up. Your simple minded idiocy and naivety is being taken advantage of. You are being used. When I code, I put in NO comments. I don't give up my code unless forced. I make it as difficult as possible for people to understand and use my code. Why? Because my code really has value, people HAVE TO USE IT. I don't have to give it away free. And without me, the code is useless. Never work as a "maintenance programmer" unless you get paid triple what the original programmers make. Why? Because you are disposable. The original coder is much more difficult to get rid of IF he makes himself indepensable. It's time to dump all these silly idealistic rules like "make your code understandable by other programmers". Sure, it sounds nice, but it just makes predators and corporate scum able to get rid of you more easily. If you are working for an idiot technical middle manager who insists on doing himself out of a job by making the code easy to use, you need to disguise your intent obviously. How many of you followed all the rules of making your code understandable by others and are now out of a job? Hmmmm? Your code is valuable to the degree that is helps people solve real world problems. If you give it away you are like an architect who gives away his plans for free, a musician who plays concerts for free, a doctor who works for free, a lawyer who works for free. All these people have knowledge and expertise that they sell, but programmers are in the unique position that their knowledge can be bottled and used without their presence. Don't let that happen. If they have your code, they don't need you, and believe me, no one feels any obligation to "donate" to you when they get your code for free. If you write open source software that solves any significant problem, you are doing away with your own future. Don't complain if you end up working at McDonalds. You greatly contributed to your own downfall. If they have your code, they don't need you. How hard is that to understand? You may rant and rave about what I just said, but in the end I will be proven right. The programmers who make thmselves indepensable will have the high paying jobs, and you others will be janitors and burger fippers.
1) Get an anonymous proxy manager like EarthStation5. Tell it to exclude proxies from the U.S, Britain, Australia and any other country that gives a shit about this kind of stuff. 2) Using said anonymous proxies, go to hotmail and get an email account. 3) Only browse using the anonymous proxies, and only use the web via proxies to get your email at hotmail. You will be protected from this kind of bullshit. If you don't do this, don't whine and moan if you get harrassed. Technology is always many steps ahead of the MAN who wants to run your life but it cannot protect you if you don't use it.
Its design supports more networking addressing schemes than TCP/IP. These Bittorrent files are just addresses one/two abstraction levels from raw ip addresses. No big deal. You all sound like a bunch of whiney old ladies. Death of DNS! News at 11! The impact this will have on the DNS system you couldn't even measure with an electron microscope so just calm down.
Any sort of group that is coding JUST for money, is not going to do as good a job as those who are inspired. Programming is one area where a small mistake near the beginning multiplies in consquence geometrically as time progresses. If you aren't committed to the job, if you are just committed to cranking up the programming hours to make more money, you aren't going to care about more code, more work, more bugs, more maintainance. THAT's WHAT YOU WANT!!! One wrong design move means thousands of extra programming hours in most cases, MOST cases. Part of avoiding bad design, and bad coding is peer inspection and brainstorming. Without a group spirit, without high speed exchange of ideas at the time they are ripe, you are going to get stale, tired and buggy code. This is true wherever your code is "outsourced" away from its inspiration point. It doesn't matter what country is involved. Have you ever heard of superior code coming out of a job shop?
I agree. Airliners fully loaded with aviation fuel are much more surgical.
Put the weapon on a 747 or C5 airplane, fly above the clouds and you have a potent missile deterent. Hydrogen Peroxide poisonous? I know people who drink it.
Well, even if they did that wouldn't be a problem become Indian is a Native American Language :)
And don't forget to register as a Muslim. If you do, you can have FIVE WIVES. (Don't bring your wife if you are already married. Should be no problem as most American women are squeamish and don't like smelly foreigners anyway). Get some of those nubile, 13 year old wenches that the parents can't afford and build your own Harem!!!! How sweet it is!
I forgot some even worse data. Some of our code was leaked out and got into the public domain. My superiors didn't care. However, there isn't much anyone can do legally to out-of-country producers. Here are some things that can happen. 1) Remote producer fails to produce but takes the money. Good luck chasing someone down in India. This happened to us in Russia. 2) Remote producer uses your code to create a product of their own. Some code produced overseas doesn't suffer this, like, the printer management programs that come with various printers. They are tied to the printer, the market is glutted with printer software so releasing their own version just isn't worth it. 3) Code gets released to public domain through untrustworthy or "socialistic" programmers working for overseas producer. 4) Overseas producer becomes indespensable because their code is so bad only the original programmers can decode it. Then they jack up their rates making the relationship less profitable than using local talent. Part of the problem is that a lot of software isn't special or revolutionary. It is just like plastic, made-in-china trinkets. People who sell hardware always have to include a little app to go along with their hardware. That kind of stuff you don't worry about trade secrets getting out so it's ok to outsource it.
If, the wages were higher than my home country I'd LOVE to move to another country.
If this is true then there will be a shakeout coming. That shakeout being, those companies that outsourced will have failed products due to
1) Failed deadlines
2) Low quality
That will be the definitive test of outsourcing.
The Open Source promoters don't realize that, when they give away their code, they are giving away themselves. If people have your code, they don't need you. Sorry, but its true. Not only are you giving away your work directly, you are giving away the knowledge it took you months or years to acquire. People stydying your code are able to avoid the long learning curve you put in. If you are working at a company, making your code friendly (good variable names, lots of comments) you are just making it easier for the company to get rid of you. I know someone will say, "If I was your manager I'd fire you". and that's exactly the point. It's the managers who are outsourcing all this stuff. Sure they'd love to get rid of all the people who DEVELOPED this industry and turn it over to cheap grunts in 3rd world nations. I am an American who has to manage a team of Russians in Russia (no choice my company ordered me to do it). The code is uniformly bad and most of it is simply downloading various pieces of open source and adpating it to our use. Half of the code needs to be rewritten not once, but several times. Suits like dollar values, they are certain. They don't know the price they are paying in missed deadlines and bad quality. Those items are not as quantifiable.People whine and complain about even the best software so it's hard to see whether quality really matters or not. If you want to stop this glut of low paid grunts from taking your jobs, stop giving away your code as "open source" and stop making yourself EASY to get rid of. It's simple.I guess people in the US and Northern Europe have had it easy for so long they have forgotten some simple lessons in basic survival.
Already built. Earthstation 5.