How can we talk about the statistics of people having accidents without talking about the statistics of people driving the car in the first place? How many young people buy a Toyota vs old people? Toyota has typically been cheap and easy to maintain and repair. This is something typically elder people value much more than young people who rather go for something looking good instead. The article also mention the statistics are more skewed against immigrants than Americans, however Toyota is not an American car, and there are other American cars. Immigrants are thus far more likely to using a foreign car than someone born in the country of Ford and GM. The statistics may just as well be representative of the demographics buying Toyota rather than saying anything meaningful about the accidents.
- Beware of statistics; it can easily be abused to fool people to believe in lies
That was exactly the problem that is being corrected here. kilo=1000 for everything. We don't need more bastardized standards like 1 mile = 1.609344 kilometers, 1 mile [nautical, International] = 1.852 kilometer. k=1000 no matter what we measure. It is is combined with anything like -gram, -meter, -joule or whatever. There is no need for k in computers meaning 1024. This is what now has been corrected. The unit 1024 had to be given another name, as it for certain it is not kilo.
First. In a democracy, do you think that the winning party be it republican or democrats AFTER being elected will ask the people what the majority think before doing what they believe in? Ubuntu in this case represent an elected distribution just like democrats or republicans, you are free to choose a different party if you don't believe in the decisions made by the one you currently use, and this works much better in this case as you have close to endless alternatives to choose from. And this is only about the layout. I would be surprised if no windows like theme(s) were included as alternative in the base system - choose it if you want.
And then - who votes in a democracy? As far as for most countries, it is not the people but their representatives - thus if people already voted Ubuntu to be the leading party, they are in power to vote on your behalf until you change party - is that not so? I for one cannot say I see many places where any true democracy exists, only the quasi forms created where representatives votes on our behalf.
Internet is a neutral technology; a tool that may be used for good and bad, it has done nothing in itself to improve peace or cause war. - Internet is used by people to obtain war technology causing proliferation - Internet is right now causing tension between US and China which are accusing each other of Internet warfare - Internet could potentially be used to to send commands for setting of weapons from across the world - It has been demonstrated Internet hackers could get access to power plants, cause it to malfunction, and cause minor and major "accidents"
How can anyone nominate a TOOL that may be used for good and bad for a peace price when the side of bad is just as big as that of good??? I completely fail to see how Internet in itself have done anything for peace.
I am skeptic about online applications, unless of course the application can be cached or the Google doc server application in fact is running on the netbook. I am however totally agreeing that Open Office is way to heavy for a Netbook. I do however myself usually use Abi-word and Gnumerics when finding OO too heavy. How does Google Docs compare to Abi-word?
Notice that there is a DUAL license of MySQL. Whatever EVERYBODY have contributed to MySQL are not squarely GPL but are also the full property of whoever owns the Commercial license. This mean that Oracle after buying MySQL can take EVERY technology incorporated into MySQL and mix it with Oracle, then leave the project either dead, or simply maintaining it is as bait. If you contribute to MySQL from that point on, you know you are giving away whatever you do to Oracle... In other words. MySQL is dead as soon as Oracle owns the MySQL. GPL only keeps the leftovers.
Then there may be no way to determine who and from where someone posted the content.
On the other side: oppressive regimes are likely to block sites like this to begin with, if they could access through for example Freenet, blocking the content from the citizens is likely much harder. This include content like in these cases where information is about supposed free countries.
-- 9/11 - Also known as the day US helped overthrow the Democracy in Chile inserting the dictator Pinochet as head of state.
By having one wikileaks in a place not covered by US laws and another covered by US laws. What is the law for placing subdomains with a separate hosting provider broad by the way? Lets say us.wikileaks.org was hosted in France and www.wikileaks.org was hosted in the USA?
Another option might be to place a wikileaks on Freenet, and simply place references to the content on the wikileaks website.
To mention Bing as a better alternative to Google in this case might not be an improvement at all - sure Bing might currently have a better privacy policy than Google, but certainly must follow the same governmental regulations as long as they are based in USA. What might be much smarter is to start looking for a search engine that is outside of reach for the Patriot Act, meaning looking for a search engine outside of US boarder.
I live in Canada where the Patriot Act does not exist, however, Google and Bing and the other big ones most likely still will hide themselves behind the Patriot Act for information gathering purposes. I would love to know good search engine alternatives existing in Canada or Europe that also got good privacy policies. Or maybe there are ok search engine(s) in Freenet???
I can just imagine how happy the criminal communities will be for such news. Imagine - every single guard with proper authentication can single out people for a "screening" which include all digital identity, including your pictures, digital records which most certainly contain some references to username/passwords to banks and other web-services, business documents such as contracts, contacts, proposals, and so on and so on. Every criminals dream! All in the disguise that they are there to ensure you don't have any indecent pictures or something. How long to we get the first scandal, or has that already happened?
I would not trust any one news source in particular over any other; they are all biased in their world view. I would assume each media to only provide the news in the best light for the group it is assumed to be for. I would thus read from sources on opposing sides of any particular news I am interested in. I will typically read a financial news paper to see the side of investors, a document form left wing and right wing political factions over the same topic, local news/view versus national/international news/concerns/interests. I believe no one source to be completely neutral, but would certainly weight the news according to their relevance for me: Local news would typically weight more if the topic concern my community, and so on...
For not to mention very biased. The European Union is doing its job here, unlike the US authorities who simply cut short the investigation and accepted the merger due to plunging profits in SUN. There is real issues here: Java is the most dominant development tool not only for Oracle but SAP and IBM and so on. Just because SUN is failing does not reduce this threat. This is the only time the government has a chance at setting requirements for preventing unfair competition.
Skype so far does not support anything but 32 bit Intel based linux distributions. This is one of those things again where you want a open source alternative.
Adobe flash have the same problem - I cannot run neither Skype or Adobe flash on my ppc based mac mini running Ubuntu 9.04. That said, flash work fine for Youtube using Gnash/Gstreamer or Swfdec. But these does not support the full Flash 9/10 functionality... Youtube works apparently flawlessly, but other sites may not work as well. Netbook providers will likely have a hard time to get Skype provide additional binaries for Skype. Flash they can deal with by supporting Gnash, Swfdec, or convince Adobe to provide additional binaries (good luck)...
For a few year ago it was a huge ethical question about growing human organs in pig for transplantation in case of accidents. The proponents focused upon the saving of lives in the moment The opposition focused upon the threats this could cause for the entire human race as viruses suddenly could pass the gap and flood us with waves of new diseases we have never known before.
Not that I know if this is due to growing human organs inside porks, but expect many new deadly deceases such as this as animal grown parts turn up inside humans.
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False - though you may not gain executive power, you still can win voices that can be heard and votes in the house and the senate.
-- How can you get rid of corruption if people rather vote for who they think will win rather than what they believe in?
Totally agree with parent. You cannot argue based on money at all - a university does not pay regular price for Microsoft's software at all. I have probabaly never heard of Microsoft Action Pack and the like... As a consultant I was introduced to this package... Essentially I get a full 5 user unlimited version of all software Microsoft currently have in the market for about $400 with the only objective that I will market/sell it to my clients. A school is in the same position - Microsoft will gladly virtually sponsor the software for free to the University on the pretext that YOU will buy it.
It is thus impossible to argue on price - the university does not pay, you do.
To get the Universities to drop Microsoft essentially must mean the University loose prestige, or students by sticking to Microsoft.
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I have now seen the video you linked to, and I can't noticed where he said Ruby lack direction. He said in fact that Ruby is great as it is, what he want to see however, is that new ideas for Ruby experimented on as forks rather than tried within the mainline Ruby. I think the video was quite good and worth seeing even though it last 47 minutes!
The parent I believe is incorrect in using that video to claim there is a lack of direction.
Copyright unfortunately means more for the big business, than the artists. I want to see a clear calculation as to how many people actually get to live long enough to loose their copyright under current system, and how much money we are talking about for these people. I would also like to know their living status at the time they reach the +50 years age from the time the work got copyrighted. I don't believe there are that many 5 year olds who copyrighted their works get any meaningful compensation here at age 55. The solution of course is Retirement planning which you have 50 years to prepare for from the day you did work and did do something. The other side of course is that an artist that would have had any meaningful income from copyright 50 years later should be considered a national hero and obtain an honor pension according to that - that only apply in the event other income does not exceed a certain level. Copyright is not meant for retirement planning.
I myself unfortunately bought a Intel Core2Quad a little over a year ago, and regret big time I did not wait for the AMD quad instead. The reason is that Intel only allow real Virtualization in crippled protected mode!!! That essentially destroyed my objective for buying a Quad core... For virtualization, AMD has a much better design that avoids these problems. If you intend to run separate systems such as Windows and Linux sharing resources such as the network card and so on without loosing power, you better choose AMD over Intel! I know - it is supposedly a solution in Linux kernel 2.6.27 to bypass some of the inherit problems with the Intel chips with virtualization, but that is yet not supported by many distributions such as CentOS, which still is my OS of choice...
Just a comment about the 48 disk setup; it is not always about getting the most space, but often about getting fastest response time. In this case the important factor is the amount of spindles. 11.5TB divided on 48 disks would be ~240GB a disk. Many companies would want 48 70GB disks as they are not in need of more space, only faster response times.
There are very convincing arguments indicating Microsoft may never have intended to buy Yahoo:
In it, it appears that Yahoo is a loss-loss acquisition for Microsoft. It further appear very unlikely that a Microsoft acquisition can be accepted by antitrust authorities.
In that article, Microsoft have so far obtained the first part of what they aimed for; changing the board to a Microsoft friendly board, now comes step two which is not buying yahoo but making a deal to get access to the '361 patent', which the now short term focused board likely will accept to salvage their investment - notice many of those who bought into Yahoo due to the Microsoft deal are closer to day traders than investors... They will sell out Yahoo for quick cash then abandon the company.
I think a large part of the reason for windows outselling Linux is not that people prefer windows but the combinations made with windows often being prefered over the combinations with Linux.
I have been looking for some sub-notebooks for some time, and must say that even though I am 100% for linux, mostly all the offerings I like come with Windows pre-installed. Further, most offerings with Linux preinstalled are systems you cannot really run Windows on at all; example; most of the Linux setups I see only come with SSD drives, no HD. Windows cannot really run well with SSD disks, so you loose options to switch later. I would myself have liked more hybrid options with Linux pre-installed.
I am not so sure this is the fault of Asus. I think it is highly likely the stores I see where I live that either have made 'bad' decisions, or found they can earn more money by selling the versions coming with Windows.
That I am inclined to buy a sub-notebook that comes with Windows installed is simply due to the choices available to me in my area. The machine I now run too came with Windows but has been running Linux since day one, I never even finished the windows setup.
Asus will do a major mistake if they start believing that sales of Windows with the machine indicate they are used with Windows rather than Linux - they are not. I am currently inclined to buy Asus version of the sub notebook due to the major advantage of not needing proprietary drivers with the machines under Linux.
Copyrights does indeed help promote science and arts, however only to a certain degree. Why should a company develop something new if everyone else can simply copy it and sell it as their own without the cost of the development process? The same is true for writing books - everyone could simply copy your work and sell it again without the writer getting anything.
The question to what extent it is a promoting development of science and arts. I will argue it should be obvious that too long copyright is worse than none of all. If you have an near infinite copyright you never need to actually place what you have the right for into an actual offering - it is better to simply make another work and wait for someone to use your idea and sue them for violation. With a 75 years copyright you don't even need to make any of your ideas ever get to market. Wait and sue - invent something more in the meantime.
So there are two questions. 1) What is a reasonable time frame for copyright to actually promote science and arts? 2) Should everything copyright-able, arts and science, have equal many years of copy right protection?
By signing this you are selling off something important to you to them. You must also realize that if they should fire you, then you have no more project, and you lost all your work in the project.
An exit clause in the case the company should lay you off is not necessarily enough neither, as they can sell the company / project to a 3rd part, etc. Not to mention the company starting to do something with your work you that goes against your moral, simply to make you leave, or not anymore want to be part of it?
What so ever you do in case of wanting such a contract, you got to talk to a lawyer to ensure all the terms are right, say what matter to you and make sure those terms are there. - There might be possible to add clauses for a fixed time you require to work together with the company before signing over the rights - Requirements as to what should happen in case of takeovers of project/company to another company - In case of layoffs/dismissals.
You really need to consider the short term / long term consequences for you to sell your work to them.
I thought the only reason for Blue Ray was the enormous additional storage capacity it had. If now the movie in fact require downloading content from servers, then I bet they don't really use the capacity the disc really have, and make me believe a lot of people will be dissatisfied with the disk as the server is taken off air sometime realizing that some of the content they accessed no longer is available from what they believed to be a disc...
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How can we talk about the statistics of people having accidents without talking about the statistics of people driving the car in the first place?
How many young people buy a Toyota vs old people? Toyota has typically been cheap and easy to maintain and repair. This is something typically elder people value much more than young people who rather go for something looking good instead. The article also mention the statistics are more skewed against immigrants than Americans, however Toyota is not an American car, and there are other American cars. Immigrants are thus far more likely to using a foreign car than someone born in the country of Ford and GM. The statistics may just as well be representative of the demographics buying Toyota rather than saying anything meaningful about the accidents.
- Beware of statistics; it can easily be abused to fool people to believe in lies
That was exactly the problem that is being corrected here. kilo=1000 for everything.
We don't need more bastardized standards like 1 mile = 1.609344 kilometers, 1 mile [nautical, International] = 1.852 kilometer.
k=1000 no matter what we measure. It is is combined with anything like -gram, -meter, -joule or whatever. There is no need for k in computers meaning 1024.
This is what now has been corrected. The unit 1024 had to be given another name, as it for certain it is not kilo.
First. In a democracy, do you think that the winning party be it republican or democrats AFTER being elected will ask the people what the majority think before doing what they believe in?
Ubuntu in this case represent an elected distribution just like democrats or republicans, you are free to choose a different party if you don't believe in the decisions made by the one you currently use, and this works much better in this case as you have close to endless alternatives to choose from.
And this is only about the layout. I would be surprised if no windows like theme(s) were included as alternative in the base system - choose it if you want.
And then - who votes in a democracy? As far as for most countries, it is not the people but their representatives - thus if people already voted Ubuntu to be the leading party, they are in power to vote on your behalf until you change party - is that not so? I for one cannot say I see many places where any true democracy exists, only the quasi forms created where representatives votes on our behalf.
Internet is a neutral technology; a tool that may be used for good and bad, it has done nothing in itself to improve peace or cause war.
- Internet is used by people to obtain war technology causing proliferation
- Internet is right now causing tension between US and China which are accusing each other of Internet warfare
- Internet could potentially be used to to send commands for setting of weapons from across the world
- It has been demonstrated Internet hackers could get access to power plants, cause it to malfunction, and cause minor and major "accidents"
How can anyone nominate a TOOL that may be used for good and bad for a peace price when the side of bad is just as big as that of good???
I completely fail to see how Internet in itself have done anything for peace.
I am skeptic about online applications, unless of course the application can be cached or the Google doc server application in fact is running on the netbook.
I am however totally agreeing that Open Office is way to heavy for a Netbook. I do however myself usually use Abi-word and Gnumerics when finding OO too heavy.
How does Google Docs compare to Abi-word?
Notice that there is a DUAL license of MySQL. Whatever EVERYBODY have contributed to MySQL are not squarely GPL but are also the full property of whoever owns the Commercial license.
This mean that Oracle after buying MySQL can take EVERY technology incorporated into MySQL and mix it with Oracle, then leave the project either dead, or simply maintaining it is as bait. If you contribute to MySQL from that point on, you know you are giving away whatever you do to Oracle... In other words. MySQL is dead as soon as Oracle owns the MySQL. GPL only keeps the leftovers.
Then there may be no way to determine who and from where someone posted the content.
On the other side: oppressive regimes are likely to block sites like this to begin with, if they could access through for example Freenet, blocking the content from the citizens is likely much harder. This include content like in these cases where information is about supposed free countries.
--
9/11 - Also known as the day US helped overthrow the Democracy in Chile inserting the dictator Pinochet as head of state.
By having one wikileaks in a place not covered by US laws and another covered by US laws. What is the law for placing subdomains with a separate hosting provider broad by the way? Lets say us.wikileaks.org was hosted in France and www.wikileaks.org was hosted in the USA?
Another option might be to place a wikileaks on Freenet, and simply place references to the content on the wikileaks website.
To mention Bing as a better alternative to Google in this case might not be an improvement at all - sure Bing might currently have a better privacy policy than Google, but certainly must follow the same governmental regulations as long as they are based in USA. What might be much smarter is to start looking for a search engine that is outside of reach for the Patriot Act, meaning looking for a search engine outside of US boarder.
I live in Canada where the Patriot Act does not exist, however, Google and Bing and the other big ones most likely still will hide themselves behind the Patriot Act for information gathering purposes. I would love to know good search engine alternatives existing in Canada or Europe that also got good privacy policies. Or maybe there are ok search engine(s) in Freenet???
I can just imagine how happy the criminal communities will be for such news. Imagine - every single guard with proper authentication can single out people for a "screening" which include all digital identity, including your pictures, digital records which most certainly contain some references to username/passwords to banks and other web-services, business documents such as contracts, contacts, proposals, and so on and so on. Every criminals dream! All in the disguise that they are there to ensure you don't have any indecent pictures or something. How long to we get the first scandal, or has that already happened?
I would not trust any one news source in particular over any other; they are all biased in their world view. I would assume each media to only provide the news in the best light for the group it is assumed to be for. I would thus read from sources on opposing sides of any particular news I am interested in. I will typically read a financial news paper to see the side of investors, a document form left wing and right wing political factions over the same topic, local news/view versus national/international news/concerns/interests. I believe no one source to be completely neutral, but would certainly weight the news according to their relevance for me: Local news would typically weight more if the topic concern my community, and so on...
For not to mention very biased. The European Union is doing its job here, unlike the US authorities who simply cut short the investigation and accepted the merger due to plunging profits in SUN. There is real issues here: Java is the most dominant development tool not only for Oracle but SAP and IBM and so on. Just because SUN is failing does not reduce this threat. This is the only time the government has a chance at setting requirements for preventing unfair competition.
Skype so far does not support anything but 32 bit Intel based linux distributions. This is one of those things again where you want a open source alternative.
Adobe flash have the same problem - I cannot run neither Skype or Adobe flash on my ppc based mac mini running Ubuntu 9.04. That said, flash work fine for Youtube using Gnash/Gstreamer or Swfdec. But these does not support the full Flash 9/10 functionality... Youtube works apparently flawlessly, but other sites may not work as well. Netbook providers will likely have a hard time to get Skype provide additional binaries for Skype. Flash they can deal with by supporting Gnash, Swfdec, or convince Adobe to provide additional binaries (good luck)...
For a few year ago it was a huge ethical question about growing human organs in pig for transplantation in case of accidents.
The proponents focused upon the saving of lives in the moment
The opposition focused upon the threats this could cause for the entire human race as viruses suddenly could pass the gap and flood us with waves of new diseases we have never known before.
Not that I know if this is due to growing human organs inside porks, but expect many new deadly deceases such as this as animal grown parts turn up inside humans.
False - though you may not gain executive power, you still can win voices that can be heard and votes in the house and the senate.
--
How can you get rid of corruption if people rather vote for who they think will win rather than what they believe in?
Totally agree with parent. You cannot argue based on money at all - a university does not pay regular price for Microsoft's software at all. I have probabaly never heard of Microsoft Action Pack and the like... As a consultant I was introduced to this package... Essentially I get a full 5 user unlimited version of all software Microsoft currently have in the market for about $400 with the only objective that I will market/sell it to my clients. A school is in the same position - Microsoft will gladly virtually sponsor the software for free to the University on the pretext that YOU will buy it.
It is thus impossible to argue on price - the university does not pay, you do.
To get the Universities to drop Microsoft essentially must mean the University loose prestige, or students by sticking to Microsoft.
I have now seen the video you linked to, and I can't noticed where he said Ruby lack direction. He said in fact that Ruby is great as it is, what he want to see however, is that new ideas for Ruby experimented on as forks rather than tried within the mainline Ruby. I think the video was quite good and worth seeing even though it last 47 minutes!
The parent I believe is incorrect in using that video to claim there is a lack of direction.
Copyright unfortunately means more for the big business, than the artists. I want to see a clear calculation as to how many people actually get to live long enough to loose their copyright under current system, and how much money we are talking about for these people. I would also like to know their living status at the time they reach the +50 years age from the time the work got copyrighted. I don't believe there are that many 5 year olds who copyrighted their works get any meaningful compensation here at age 55. The solution of course is Retirement planning which you have 50 years to prepare for from the day you did work and did do something.
The other side of course is that an artist that would have had any meaningful income from copyright 50 years later should be considered a national hero and obtain an honor pension according to that - that only apply in the event other income does not exceed a certain level. Copyright is not meant for retirement planning.
I myself unfortunately bought a Intel Core2Quad a little over a year ago, and regret big time I did not wait for the AMD quad instead. The reason is that Intel only allow real Virtualization in crippled protected mode!!! That essentially destroyed my objective for buying a Quad core... For virtualization, AMD has a much better design that avoids these problems. If you intend to run separate systems such as Windows and Linux sharing resources such as the network card and so on without loosing power, you better choose AMD over Intel! I know - it is supposedly a solution in Linux kernel 2.6.27 to bypass some of the inherit problems with the Intel chips with virtualization, but that is yet not supported by many distributions such as CentOS, which still is my OS of choice...
It appear many people have ran into similar problems when incorrectly believing Intel would be best:
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=3294.msg44574
I certainly trade a little speed for real virtualization any day!
Just a comment about the 48 disk setup; it is not always about getting the most space, but often about getting fastest response time. In this case the important factor is the amount of spindles. 11.5TB divided on 48 disks would be ~240GB a disk. Many companies would want 48 70GB disks as they are not in need of more space, only faster response times.
There are very convincing arguments indicating Microsoft may never have intended to buy Yahoo:
In it, it appears that Yahoo is a loss-loss acquisition for Microsoft. It further appear very unlikely that a Microsoft acquisition can be accepted by antitrust authorities.
In that article, Microsoft have so far obtained the first part of what they aimed for; changing the board to a Microsoft friendly board, now comes step two which is not buying yahoo but making a deal to get access to the '361 patent', which the now short term focused board likely will accept to salvage their investment - notice many of those who bought into Yahoo due to the Microsoft deal are closer to day traders than investors... They will sell out Yahoo for quick cash then abandon the company.
I think a large part of the reason for windows outselling Linux is not that people prefer windows but the combinations made with windows often being prefered over the combinations with Linux.
I have been looking for some sub-notebooks for some time, and must say that even though I am 100% for linux, mostly all the offerings I like come with Windows pre-installed. Further, most offerings with Linux preinstalled are systems you cannot really run Windows on at all; example; most of the Linux setups I see only come with SSD drives, no HD. Windows cannot really run well with SSD disks, so you loose options to switch later. I would myself have liked more hybrid options with Linux pre-installed.
I am not so sure this is the fault of Asus. I think it is highly likely the stores I see where I live that either have made 'bad' decisions, or found they can earn more money by selling the versions coming with Windows.
That I am inclined to buy a sub-notebook that comes with Windows installed is simply due to the choices available to me in my area. The machine I now run too came with Windows but has been running Linux since day one, I never even finished the windows setup.
Asus will do a major mistake if they start believing that sales of Windows with the machine indicate they are used with Windows rather than Linux - they are not. I am currently inclined to buy Asus version of the sub notebook due to the major advantage of not needing proprietary drivers with the machines under Linux.
Copyrights does indeed help promote science and arts, however only to a certain degree.
Why should a company develop something new if everyone else can simply copy it and sell it as their own without the cost of the development process?
The same is true for writing books - everyone could simply copy your work and sell it again without the writer getting anything.
The question to what extent it is a promoting development of science and arts. I will argue it should be obvious that too long copyright is worse than none of all.
If you have an near infinite copyright you never need to actually place what you have the right for into an actual offering - it is better to simply make another work and wait for someone to use your idea and sue them for violation. With a 75 years copyright you don't even need to make any of your ideas ever get to market. Wait and sue - invent something more in the meantime.
So there are two questions.
1) What is a reasonable time frame for copyright to actually promote science and arts?
2) Should everything copyright-able, arts and science, have equal many years of copy right protection?
By signing this you are selling off something important to you to them. You must also realize that if they should fire you, then you have no more project, and you lost all your work in the project.
An exit clause in the case the company should lay you off is not necessarily enough neither, as they can sell the company / project to a 3rd part, etc. Not to mention the company starting to do something with your work you that goes against your moral, simply to make you leave, or not anymore want to be part of it?
What so ever you do in case of wanting such a contract, you got to talk to a lawyer to ensure all the terms are right, say what matter to you and make sure those terms are there.
- There might be possible to add clauses for a fixed time you require to work together with the company before signing over the rights
- Requirements as to what should happen in case of takeovers of project/company to another company
- In case of layoffs/dismissals.
You really need to consider the short term / long term consequences for you to sell your work to them.
I thought the only reason for Blue Ray was the enormous additional storage capacity it had.
If now the movie in fact require downloading content from servers, then I bet they don't really use the capacity the disc really have, and make me believe a lot of people will be dissatisfied with the disk as the server is taken off air sometime realizing that some of the content they accessed no longer is available from what they believed to be a disc...