Well, your wrong. IP law is supposed to be about furthering the arts and sciences. You know. Like the Constitution says.
Secondly, "IP" law as it is implemented does not cover only "specific implementation" of an idea. If it did, you could create a brand new Star Trek show, and sell it. You can't though. Why? Because it is not specific implementations that are "protected".
Not to mention that you seem to be confused as to what an "idea" is. The only difference between "Lets write a book about orcs and dwarves", and "Lord of the Rings" is how far the idea was fleshed out.
For the most part you are correct. My problem comes in when you consider that these "content creators" have taken and used other peoples ideas, or "Intellectual Property" if you will, without consent to create their works. It's a little like the old joke, "You can't rob me! I stole this money fair and square!"
After 30 years of in depth study, I can confirm that video games do not cause violent behavior. I'd be willing to bet that I have more experience in the subject than Michael Messner.
This reminds me of the article posted at my kids pedeotricians office. The "Dr." that wrote it claimed as evidence, that when he brought video games into to house, he thought they were just fun for his 11 year old sone. But, over the next three years, his son became more withdrawn and argumentative. Obviously it was video games!
My experience has been that for every piece of every software product supplied by IBM, SOMEONE knows how it works. This means that if something doesn't work, you might have to jump through hoops to get to the right level, but someone can answer your question.
MS on the other hand, has a lot of code that no one knows is even there. If something doesn't work as expected, you may just be out of luck.
Besides, IBM just dropped support for OS/2 this year. Point me to one MS product that has recieved support for that long after new sales were stopped.
I'll tell you, 80%-90% of the clients I have worked for have had this same story. It is why most people that dislike Notes/Domino, feel the way they do. Imagine how much people would hate C, C++, or Java if all of their applications were written by secretaries.
That being said, a secretary and a real developer can make a fabulous development team. I do a lot of work for a steel mill, and their devleoper employee got the job because she was willing to do the work. No development background, and little interest. Because she knows here skill level, and works without ego, she saves her company huge amounts of money. Any work she does saves the company from having to pay me for that time, which really just means they have me work on harder stuff. Often this is stuff that I would rather not do anyways. While I will do these tasks, but if there is someone else who will do it, do it right, and do it cheaper... woohoo! Some of the tasks she does are:
*95% of all user contact
*Testing
*Moving code changes from Development to Test to Production
*Debugging - She may not know how to fix a bug, but if she can pinpoint exactly where it is, I can fix it in far less time
*Fixing of small bugs
*Design specifications
*Training
*Initial configurations
The trick is being realistic about peoples capabilities. Being a contract Notes/Domino developer has been very good to me. Primarily because most coders see it as beneath them, and most Notes/Domino developers are secretaries. This leaves plenty of room to be a hero.
While I can say that I have found a bug or two, crashes are very rare. Missing dic files means that something is screwed up at the os level. You can get missing files with any application if you start deleting stuff at the os level. Random unread docs is usually only a problem if the user is sometimes reading from the web interface, and sometimes reading from the client interface. Of course sometimes it is because the document HAS been updated, and the database is set to flag updates to unread.
I can tell you this about Replication Errors. They work flawlessly. If you are getting replication conflicts, it is because you have different data on different Replicas, and the data was changed on each replica since the last replication. Save/Replication conflicts are not a failure of Notes/Domino. They are the proper handling of conflicting data. Most other platforms just pick one copy and indiscriminatly over write the other. This is general done by date, and is a very poor way to handle things. Of course if you want your data handled poorly, you can set Notes/Domino to just overwrite the older data.
The biggest curse of Notes/Domino is that for years, the Designer was the same application as the Developer. Given how easy it is to produce robust applications on this platform, many companies assigned the first user to be the developer. Now, I'm not saying that a secratary cannot be a good developer, but being a secratery certainly doesn't mean that you ARE a good developer.
MS is counting on the fact that people will just 'pirate' software to run on one of these machines. That would certainly make the over all value this scheme seem plausable.
What is worse is that they could pigon hole Bluray as being the "PS3 Movie Format". If that happens, they can forget about wide spread adoption, as even Joe Sixpack knows that the PS3 will be replaced by something newer and better in a few years.
If you ever decide to work at a map company, let me know so that I can avoid it at all cost. In all seriosness though, there are many things that 'rich media' can help to improve. No matter how good you are at writting, some times an idea that can be easily and quickly expressed with one small image would take paragraphs of text to explain. Given that huge portions of the population get confused if more than two sentences are used to explain an idea, we must resort to pictures, colors, text format, and fonts.
And how does this new and amazing file download work when your sitting 40k feet up in an airplane. Some of us do get work done when we are not attached to the corporate intranet. Sometimes we even work when we are not attached to the internet.
Posts like yours always amaze me. You take a contradictory tone, then go on to explain why the parent was right, and even go so far as to give examples of how it can be done, and devices that have already done it.
In other words, your shade of gray is better than mine.... BS. You make noise all the time. You do things that other people would rather you not do. The difference is that because cell phones are reletively new, you and the other neo-luddites feel that you have some moral superior high ground, when in fact you are just arrogant. When you stop talking in public, then you will stop being a hypocrate.
Yeah, the asshats that want eigther to stupid to bring a $.30 pair of earplugs, or so arrogant that they think they should be able to control everybody elses behavior, so that they don't have to put in a $.30 pair of earplugs. After all, why should they have to modify THEIR behavior to get what they want, when they can demand that everybody else modify theirs to cator to them.
Why would you get that just for being too stupid to buy a $.30 pair of earplugs when you know that your going to be confined in a small room with a bunch of people from the genreal public who will be talking more than you want to hear.
Or for being so arrogant that you feel that everybody else should change their behavior to make you happy, when a $.30 pair of earplugs would let you have what you want while everybody else can have what they want.
That is a good point. As long as they can't get the religious/racial unity to start sweeping int Europe, it probably wouldn't be too bad for us in the US. Given their history, you are probably right that they would be too busy killing each other to worry about us.
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Well, your wrong. IP law is supposed to be about furthering the arts and sciences. You know. Like the Constitution says.
Secondly, "IP" law as it is implemented does not cover only "specific implementation" of an idea. If it did, you could create a brand new Star Trek show, and sell it. You can't though. Why? Because it is not specific implementations that are "protected".
Not to mention that you seem to be confused as to what an "idea" is. The only difference between "Lets write a book about orcs and dwarves", and "Lord of the Rings" is how far the idea was fleshed out.
For the most part you are correct. My problem comes in when you consider that these "content creators" have taken and used other peoples ideas, or "Intellectual Property" if you will, without consent to create their works. It's a little like the old joke, "You can't rob me! I stole this money fair and square!"
After 30 years of in depth study, I can confirm that video games do not cause violent behavior. I'd be willing to bet that I have more experience in the subject than Michael Messner.
This reminds me of the article posted at my kids pedeotricians office. The "Dr." that wrote it claimed as evidence, that when he brought video games into to house, he thought they were just fun for his 11 year old sone. But, over the next three years, his son became more withdrawn and argumentative. Obviously it was video games!
I have always thought that the cost of having a conductor on light rail systems was dumb. If you MUST hire someone, hire an extra security guard.
My experience has been that for every piece of every software product supplied by IBM, SOMEONE knows how it works. This means that if something doesn't work, you might have to jump through hoops to get to the right level, but someone can answer your question.
MS on the other hand, has a lot of code that no one knows is even there. If something doesn't work as expected, you may just be out of luck.
Besides, IBM just dropped support for OS/2 this year. Point me to one MS product that has recieved support for that long after new sales were stopped.
I'll tell you, 80%-90% of the clients I have worked for have had this same story. It is why most people that dislike Notes/Domino, feel the way they do. Imagine how much people would hate C, C++, or Java if all of their applications were written by secretaries.
That being said, a secretary and a real developer can make a fabulous development team. I do a lot of work for a steel mill, and their devleoper employee got the job because she was willing to do the work. No development background, and little interest. Because she knows here skill level, and works without ego, she saves her company huge amounts of money. Any work she does saves the company from having to pay me for that time, which really just means they have me work on harder stuff. Often this is stuff that I would rather not do anyways. While I will do these tasks, but if there is someone else who will do it, do it right, and do it cheaper... woohoo! Some of the tasks she does are:
*95% of all user contact
*Testing
*Moving code changes from Development to Test to Production
*Debugging - She may not know how to fix a bug, but if she can pinpoint exactly where it is, I can fix it in far less time
*Fixing of small bugs
*Design specifications
*Training
*Initial configurations
The trick is being realistic about peoples capabilities. Being a contract Notes/Domino developer has been very good to me. Primarily because most coders see it as beneath them, and most Notes/Domino developers are secretaries. This leaves plenty of room to be a hero.
While I can say that I have found a bug or two, crashes are very rare. Missing dic files means that something is screwed up at the os level. You can get missing files with any application if you start deleting stuff at the os level. Random unread docs is usually only a problem if the user is sometimes reading from the web interface, and sometimes reading from the client interface. Of course sometimes it is because the document HAS been updated, and the database is set to flag updates to unread.
I can tell you this about Replication Errors. They work flawlessly. If you are getting replication conflicts, it is because you have different data on different Replicas, and the data was changed on each replica since the last replication. Save/Replication conflicts are not a failure of Notes/Domino. They are the proper handling of conflicting data. Most other platforms just pick one copy and indiscriminatly over write the other. This is general done by date, and is a very poor way to handle things. Of course if you want your data handled poorly, you can set Notes/Domino to just overwrite the older data.
The biggest curse of Notes/Domino is that for years, the Designer was the same application as the Developer. Given how easy it is to produce robust applications on this platform, many companies assigned the first user to be the developer. Now, I'm not saying that a secratary cannot be a good developer, but being a secratery certainly doesn't mean that you ARE a good developer.
If you have to rename all your files, your computer is broken.
MS is counting on the fact that people will just 'pirate' software to run on one of these machines. That would certainly make the over all value this scheme seem plausable.
What is worse is that they could pigon hole Bluray as being the "PS3 Movie Format". If that happens, they can forget about wide spread adoption, as even Joe Sixpack knows that the PS3 will be replaced by something newer and better in a few years.
If you ever decide to work at a map company, let me know so that I can avoid it at all cost. In all seriosness though, there are many things that 'rich media' can help to improve. No matter how good you are at writting, some times an idea that can be easily and quickly expressed with one small image would take paragraphs of text to explain. Given that huge portions of the population get confused if more than two sentences are used to explain an idea, we must resort to pictures, colors, text format, and fonts.
And how does this new and amazing file download work when your sitting 40k feet up in an airplane. Some of us do get work done when we are not attached to the corporate intranet. Sometimes we even work when we are not attached to the internet.
I know, I know.... Blasphamy!
Same here. No problems with fax over Vonage.
Google did their part to stop "piracy" by searching out and presenting criminal activity. They should be thanked, not sued.
Yes, that is spin, but it is dramatically more accurate than "Google suggesting illegal software".
Posts like yours always amaze me. You take a contradictory tone, then go on to explain why the parent was right, and even go so far as to give examples of how it can be done, and devices that have already done it.
In other words, your shade of gray is better than mine.... BS. You make noise all the time. You do things that other people would rather you not do. The difference is that because cell phones are reletively new, you and the other neo-luddites feel that you have some moral superior high ground, when in fact you are just arrogant. When you stop talking in public, then you will stop being a hypocrate.
It's a conspiracy between IBM and the Firefox team in their eventual move to completely replace Firefox with the Notes client.
Yeah, the asshats that want eigther to stupid to bring a $.30 pair of earplugs, or so arrogant that they think they should be able to control everybody elses behavior, so that they don't have to put in a $.30 pair of earplugs. After all, why should they have to modify THEIR behavior to get what they want, when they can demand that everybody else modify theirs to cator to them.
Why would you get that just for being too stupid to buy a $.30 pair of earplugs when you know that your going to be confined in a small room with a bunch of people from the genreal public who will be talking more than you want to hear.
Or for being so arrogant that you feel that everybody else should change their behavior to make you happy, when a $.30 pair of earplugs would let you have what you want while everybody else can have what they want.
I think you have gotten the words "Everybody" and "Somebody" confused.
That is a good point. As long as they can't get the religious/racial unity to start sweeping int Europe, it probably wouldn't be too bad for us in the US. Given their history, you are probably right that they would be too busy killing each other to worry about us.
They subsidize farmers to NOT grow corn. My aunt and uncle recieve a yearly check from the government to NOT produce food on their Wisconsin farmland.
That's because you broke the 2 sentence rule.
"If an explination takes more than two sentences, 90% of the population won't understand it."