"Perhaps I'm old-fashioned, but I happen to think that majority stock holders should be able to decide what a company does and doesn't do. id is no exception, no matter how cool a new DOOM sounds like -- after all, we can't be sure what the other development alternatives are"
The majority of stock holders still do decide what a company does and doesn't do. If they want to follow their own path that's fine, but if someone like JC decides it doesn't suit his interests he's just as free to say bye and leave. Which in the case of a person like JC would be a major blow to ID, not just the lost of his skills, but the loss of his name. I'd never heard of the other two people before, but I had heard lots about JC before.
And pressuring people to take a path they're not willing to take exists everywhere in life, just not in companies, but also in creation of laws, in deciding what a group will do, heck even what a group of friends are going to do in a night. If slashdot wants to see a Doom3 there's no reason why they shouldn't try to pressure ID into creating it.
I wonder how small you can get a wireless card down to now. I've seen the chipset layout digram and its not that large. You figure if they can put ethernet on it, it wouldn't take that much more space for a wireless card. Then set up an access point nearby and you could have a webpage served from your colon:)
It reminds me of when Starcraft went gold, Blizzard put it up on their web page somewhere, and then sat watching news sites, and their posting boards, it took about 5 maybe 7 minutes for someone to notice and spread the word.
As I understand it "under penalty of perjury" just means that you are saying legally what you said is true, and if it is proved that what you said is false you can be convicted of perjury.
It does not mean the claims are false, or anyone is suing you.
Actually customized news would be a nice thing to have if it really can work. Sorta like building a profile of the type of news you like to read, and giving you more stories like that, plus showing you follow up stories on stories you had already read.
Or even a program which can crawl all the news sites and do this for me. Sorta like how slashdot links to all sorts of news sites. So during the day the program can continue to scan the net and return to me links to stories it finds that match my profile.
"Personally if I have something humourous or work related to send, I put it in my webspace and send people a link. This will force people to do things such as this."
The problem is all the users who send this type of thing out, don't have a clue on how to set up a webpage and send a link to it. But they know how to attach things by email.
I agree though javascript and vbscript shouldn't be allowed to run in an email. In a lot of ways HTML shouldn't be in there either. If you need to send me a web page attach it, but still keep javascript/vbscript disabled when opening the HTML page from the mail program.
What deterrance? Do you think the soviet union would have backed down just because the US could set off a nuke on the moon. As is said it was just a pissing contest that went on till the soviet union went broke and stopped trying to one up the US.
A lot depends on what non-discolusure agreement you may have signed. I've learned to be very careful reading them after some friends I had signed agreements that basically said the company owns any idea they think of while in employment of the company (in or outside of work).
But if someone was brought in to finish a job and never signed a NDA then I don't think the lawsuit has a chance to win.
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Actually people have to realise its not your music, its the muscians music. They're letting you listen to it.
As to your right to listen to it in any form you wish, that is what needs to be fought for.
I'm not sure how MP3.com got the mp3s, but I do know for a fact they are not made from your CD and sent to mp3.com to play back to you, which is the only legal way to do it. The mp3 I stream to play from my.mp3.com is not a mp3 I made myself.
"That is, if I uploaded Mozart and you uploaded Beethoven"
But the key thing is you're not uploading Mozart at all. MP3.com's software was just verifying you in fact had the Mozart CD and then allowing you access to a mp3 of the CD which they had created. It would be different if mp3.com was a repository for mp3s people made themselves and uploaded, basically a protected web site for just you as such (like a hotmail account).
Some users still get confused if the default username in the login box gets changed. We have a ways to go before they'll learn about e-mail attachments.
Actually if you are serious about this you should email both the author and the editor of the site informing them of this. If enough people write in saying that they used to read their site but because of "this" item I don't anymore they will take notice. Because for everyone who writes in there's probably at least another 10-20 who won't write in and just stop reading on their own. And hopefully then they will stop publishing crap like this just to get a quick splurg of hits.
"This article summarizes all the reasons why I get all my 'net news right here at/. - because of spin, media pressure, sensationalism, etc..."
All of which Slashdot has used before in their stories. In some stories much more so then in others, but things like spin exist in every story. Yes the ZDnet article was exceptionally bad, and was probably written knowing full well it was, it didn't even look like an editor properally looked it over. But Slashdot is no less guilty of using standard media tatics themselves.
Well they mentioned about a warrent being required for the police to actually listen to someone's email, so more then likely they will let the majority of it slip by without even looking at it. Or as someone else mentioned possibly scanning for certain keywords, but even that would be a huge amount of traffic.
It'd be interesting to know what type of research they are doing into data mining emails for "suspicious" content. I wonder how similar it is to just searching for content on the web.
"I think that free software authors have a certain responsiblity to the community of users they create."
I'm not sure that they have any real responsiblity to the community, what they are doing is for their enjoyment and done for free. It would be great if people could continue to support software they write but that doesn't always work out. In this case the author may just have had something happen to him personally that he doesn't want the whole world knowning about. I hate not knowing reasons as much as anyone, but sometimes we have to just accept it.
I have to agree. I had a teacher in high school once who was telling us about someone he knew who went to both our local university and then onto the more "prestigous" universities. The main difference he said was at the local university you read text books by the guys who taught at the prestigious universities. He didn't find anything else really better or worse.
And the larger universities don't even mean that they have the better profs even. At the University of Manitoba where I went, one of our profs is doing research into data mining and was beating MIT and other larger universities at many compitions, or at least being in the top rankings.
And I can just say I'm glad I didn't have to take SATs.
"Also this may be an excellent time to do a court test of the GPL - contact Abit - get them to agree to release their code but hold off until the issue has gone to court. Have them put up only a token defense and get a precendent for the GPL set."
Well if Abit puts up only a token defence this would easily be appealed and overturned by any future case, so no precendent would be set.
If the GPL is to be tested it should be against a properally done defense, because if it stands against that, then it should stand against future arguments.
Well aside from the whole argument on if this is a good thing legally to have in place, its an excellent example of expert system technology at work. It will be interesting to see, after a few months of use, how often it is determined to be right and wrong by the human judge.
I wonder how large it is as well, I had to do just a small expert system for an assignment once, and the number of rules needed was huge. Legal matters can have so many complications it must be a large undertaking to actually complete this.
Well since transfer of mp3s goes from person to person, and not through Napster eliminating easy log captures, it would be extremally hard to come up with grounds for a search to see if you did actually have the mp3s. If somehow a search warrent were obtained it would not be very hard to prove you had illegal mp3s, just look at your hard drive and ask you to produce the CD/tape/record that you could have created the mp3 off of. But I don't see how they could easily justify the search needed.
"If the GPL was in effect, this would require Real to publish the entire source, not just diffs, for the Real product. "
And if Mozilla was GPL Real would never have used it in their player. This is why we need alternatives to the GPL, I, and many others I'm sure, are quite happy if someone else uses/modifies our code, as long as changes made to the part we write are made public. Real's code is up to them to release if they wish to.
The fact they listed their alpha server only supporting 4 players worries me. With a massivly multiplayer game taking into account supporting hunderds and thousands of simeltaneous users has to be built in from the ground up. I don't think a game design liek Diablo, limited to 4 players, would scale well to a game like EQ and Asheron's Call without major changes.
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"Perhaps I'm old-fashioned, but I happen to think that majority stock holders should be able to decide what a company does and doesn't do. id is no exception, no matter how cool a new DOOM sounds like -- after all, we can't be sure what the other development alternatives are"
The majority of stock holders still do decide what a company does and doesn't do. If they want to follow their own path that's fine, but if someone like JC decides it doesn't suit his interests he's just as free to say bye and leave. Which in the case of a person like JC would be a major blow to ID, not just the lost of his skills, but the loss of his name. I'd never heard of the other two people before, but I had heard lots about JC before.
And pressuring people to take a path they're not willing to take exists everywhere in life, just not in companies, but also in creation of laws, in deciding what a group will do, heck even what a group of friends are going to do in a night. If slashdot wants to see a Doom3 there's no reason why they shouldn't try to pressure ID into creating it.
"This webpage served live from the colon..."
:)
I wonder how small you can get a wireless card down to now. I've seen the chipset layout digram and its not that large. You figure if they can put ethernet on it, it wouldn't take that much more space for a wireless card. Then set up an access point nearby and you could have a webpage served from your colon
It reminds me of when Starcraft went gold, Blizzard put it up on their web page somewhere, and then sat watching news sites, and their posting boards, it took about 5 maybe 7 minutes for someone to notice and spread the word.
And how were we supposed to read the story if Slashdot was basically down for normal use?
As I understand it "under penalty of perjury" just means that you are saying legally what you said is true, and if it is proved that what you said is false you can be convicted of perjury.
It does not mean the claims are false, or anyone is suing you.
Actually customized news would be a nice thing to have if it really can work. Sorta like building a profile of the type of news you like to read, and giving you more stories like that, plus showing you follow up stories on stories you had already read.
Or even a program which can crawl all the news sites and do this for me. Sorta like how slashdot links to all sorts of news sites. So during the day the program can continue to scan the net and return to me links to stories it finds that match my profile.
"Personally if I have something humourous or work related to send, I put it in my webspace and send people a link. This will force people to do things such as this."
The problem is all the users who send this type of thing out, don't have a clue on how to set up a webpage and send a link to it. But they know how to attach things by email.
I agree though javascript and vbscript shouldn't be allowed to run in an email. In a lot of ways HTML shouldn't be in there either. If you need to send me a web page attach it, but still keep javascript/vbscript disabled when opening the HTML page from the mail program.
What deterrance? Do you think the soviet union would have backed down just because the US could set off a nuke on the moon. As is said it was just a pissing contest that went on till the soviet union went broke and stopped trying to one up the US.
A lot depends on what non-discolusure agreement you may have signed. I've learned to be very careful reading them after some friends I had signed agreements that basically said the company owns any idea they think of while in employment of the company (in or outside of work).
But if someone was brought in to finish a job and never signed a NDA then I don't think the lawsuit has a chance to win.
Actually people have to realise its not your music, its the muscians music. They're letting you listen to it.
As to your right to listen to it in any form you wish, that is what needs to be fought for.
I'm not sure how MP3.com got the mp3s, but I do know for a fact they are not made from your CD and sent to mp3.com to play back to you, which is the only legal way to do it. The mp3 I stream to play from my.mp3.com is not a mp3 I made myself.
"That is, if I uploaded Mozart and you uploaded Beethoven"
But the key thing is you're not uploading Mozart at all. MP3.com's software was just verifying you in fact had the Mozart CD and then allowing you access to a mp3 of the CD which they had created. It would be different if mp3.com was a repository for mp3s people made themselves and uploaded, basically a protected web site for just you as such (like a hotmail account).
Some users still get confused if the default username in the login box gets changed. We have a ways to go before they'll learn about e-mail attachments.
Class action lawsuit for what? You're not paying to use Napster and its their service they can ban whatever IPs they feel like from it.
Actually if you are serious about this you should email both the author and the editor of the site informing them of this. If enough people write in saying that they used to read their site but because of "this" item I don't anymore they will take notice. Because for everyone who writes in there's probably at least another 10-20 who won't write in and just stop reading on their own. And hopefully then they will stop publishing crap like this just to get a quick splurg of hits.
"This article summarizes all the reasons why I get all my 'net news right here at /. - because of spin, media pressure, sensationalism, etc..."
All of which Slashdot has used before in their stories. In some stories much more so then in others, but things like spin exist in every story. Yes the ZDnet article was exceptionally bad, and was probably written knowing full well it was, it didn't even look like an editor properally looked it over. But Slashdot is no less guilty of using standard media tatics themselves.
Well they mentioned about a warrent being required for the police to actually listen to someone's email, so more then likely they will let the majority of it slip by without even looking at it. Or as someone else mentioned possibly scanning for certain keywords, but even that would be a huge amount of traffic.
It'd be interesting to know what type of research they are doing into data mining emails for "suspicious" content. I wonder how similar it is to just searching for content on the web.
"I think that free software authors have a certain responsiblity to the community of users they create."
I'm not sure that they have any real responsiblity to the community, what they are doing is for their enjoyment and done for free. It would be great if people could continue to support software they write but that doesn't always work out. In this case the author may just have had something happen to him personally that he doesn't want the whole world knowning about. I hate not knowing reasons as much as anyone, but sometimes we have to just accept it.
I have to agree. I had a teacher in high school once who was telling us about someone he knew who went to both our local university and then onto the more "prestigous" universities. The main difference he said was at the local university you read text books by the guys who taught at the prestigious universities. He didn't find anything else really better or worse.
And the larger universities don't even mean that they have the better profs even. At the University of Manitoba where I went, one of our profs is doing research into data mining and was beating MIT and other larger universities at many compitions, or at least being in the top rankings.
And I can just say I'm glad I didn't have to take SATs.
"Also this may be an excellent time to do a court test of the GPL - contact Abit - get them to agree to release their code but hold off until the issue has gone to court. Have them put up only a token defense and get a precendent for the GPL set."
Well if Abit puts up only a token defence this would easily be appealed and overturned by any future case, so no precendent would be set.
If the GPL is to be tested it should be against a properally done defense, because if it stands against that, then it should stand against future arguments.
Well aside from the whole argument on if this is a good thing legally to have in place, its an excellent example of expert system technology at work. It will be interesting to see, after a few months of use, how often it is determined to be right and wrong by the human judge.
I wonder how large it is as well, I had to do just a small expert system for an assignment once, and the number of rules needed was huge. Legal matters can have so many complications it must be a large undertaking to actually complete this.
Then you'll probably just get charged with obstructing justice...
Well since transfer of mp3s goes from person to person, and not through Napster eliminating easy log captures, it would be extremally hard to come up with grounds for a search to see if you did actually have the mp3s. If somehow a search warrent were obtained it would not be very hard to prove you had illegal mp3s, just look at your hard drive and ask you to produce the CD/tape/record that you could have created the mp3 off of. But I don't see how they could easily justify the search needed.
"If the GPL was in effect, this would require Real to publish the entire source, not just diffs, for the Real product. "
And if Mozilla was GPL Real would never have used it in their player. This is why we need alternatives to the GPL, I, and many others I'm sure, are quite happy if someone else uses/modifies our code, as long as changes made to the part we write are made public. Real's code is up to them to release if they wish to.
The fact they listed their alpha server only supporting 4 players worries me. With a massivly multiplayer game taking into account supporting hunderds and thousands of simeltaneous users has to be built in from the ground up. I don't think a game design liek Diablo, limited to 4 players, would scale well to a game like EQ and Asheron's Call without major changes.