Maybe because the Internet interpret censorship and routes around it, thus pretty much assuring that some non-American with access to the page would immediately mirror it on a webserver that didn't restrict American access. The original author is still the original author and thus must fear for his life if his code is out there.
Someone with extensive coding experience probably does not make that many typos.
Almost no programmers type code at anywhere near the rate that most people type messages. Typing is only a minute part of coding, while for most people it is about 30-50% of the effort of writing a message on slashdot. When slashdot comes with a built in grammar and spelling checker - the equivalent to "coding" in Ada then you might have a point.
So what do you think is "broad"?
Sounds like you are stuck in your niche if you really don't understand that there is a whole world of applications out side of the embedded world. I'll grant you that there is more work in ebedded systems than any other single field, at least in America. But that still leaves lots of other fields - the 2nd largest is databases which really covers a whole lot of sub-categories from point-of-sale systems and small office accounting all the way up to inventory control and amazon-scale e-commerce with plenty in-between. Then there are video games, modeling systems, expert-systems, animation systems, word processing systems, sound and movie editing system, etc. And, don't forget OS internals. Now, I'm perfectly aware that embedded systems touches on many of those, but the overlap is usually just a small fraction of field when it happens. For example, if you've been around for 20 years, chances are you've had to roll your own real-time OS. But, chances are you didn't have to implement a unified buffercache, or access control lists. The same difference of degree applies to most of the other categories
Most companies have lawyers and those lawyers are smart enough to specify that the consultant is creating a "work for hire."
See, that's where your embedded systems experience is too narrow. In the case the article is talking about, it is almost certain that client is a small shop, maybe even just a single owner with a couple of employees. It is only the big shops that have real lawyers to negotiate, or in your case, specifiy, contracts. The small-fry are a lot more fast and loose - they may get a lawyer but chances are it is the guy's family lawyer or someone with an accounting background that he used to incorporate. Those kinds of lawyers often don't know their head from a hole in the ground when it comes to IP. Even when the owner and or lawyer is knowledgable, he is going to be a lot easier to negotiate with than your average suit with a take-it-or-leave-it kow-tow-to-me as surrogate of the all-might megalocorp thought process.
Like I said - if you don't want people to view your website without viewing your ads, don't serve it to them until they have. You control your web server, it is entirely under your control who you serve pages to. You don't like what people do privately with the IP that you gave them a copy of, then you are living in the wrong country, at least for the next couple of years until the Senator from Disney get's his way.
My argument goes like this - if you don't want people to view your website without looking at the ads, then don't show it to them until you've verified that they've looked at your ads - it isn't that hard to do.
However, until you change your mind, if you watch any tv you are not allowed to use the bathroom or do anything else except sit mutely in front of the televeision screen during commercial breaks.
The part few, if any people, have figured out so far is that just because the client has competitors doesn't mean this software product will be of any immediate use to them. The point of contract software development is the customization. This software will be customized specifically for the client. It is very unlikely that the system will be so turnkey that a competitor could come along, plop it down on his own computer and start making equal or better use of it than the client is.
In all likelihood, the system will require some amount, perhaps a large amount, of customization for anyone else to reuse it en masse.
Now, maybe a competitor will fund someone to make the changes to make useful to the competitor but with the right kind of license it should be possible to require such changes be made public and any enhancements beyond simple customization will be fair game for anyone, including the original client, to make use of. Either way, no competitor gets to use it for free and perhaps the original client will gain extra functionality "for free," by allowing it to be used by others.
Spelling flames don't help your point and 20 years in embedded systems is not broad and probably explains why you assume that, "the client will already own the code." Unless otherwise specified in the contract as a "work for hire," the default ownership goes to the creator not the client.
Don't forget video conferencing. Being capped at 15KB/s limits you to some pretty ugly video quality. I want to use my cable modem to do video conferencing with family and friends around the country. Right now it is one step away from intolerable and usually not worth the effort.
Pay the extra dollars and get yourself an IP tunnel. Hook the other end up to a non-blackslisted network and voila, no more problems, except that your wallet is a lot lighter and the whole setup is more fragile. But, that's the point after all.
Not just a constitutional issue, but a constitual issue. Even if the spammers don't give a dime in campaign contributions, the esteemed members of congress know that the majority of the money they do get comes from corporations. If spamming were successfully regulated and that regulation passed judicial review, it would establish precedent for corporate speech not being considered worthy of protection under the first amendment. It is only a small step down the slippery slope to go from regulating spam, to regulating the bribe economy that state and federal governments run on.
For if corporate speech is not free, then all the campaign contributions that have corrupted the hell out of our legislative system are no longer considered a protected right of the American corporate citizen. Thus the status quo for the ruling elite would change dramatically (until a new loophole was found). Those ruling elite up in washington like things the way they are, it's a great gig if you can get it, as the saying goes and they don't want to lose it.
According to the article on the soviet's WIG program, mentioned in another posting here, their big boys were "flying" at 20 meters above the surface and at speeds exceeding 500 knotts. That sounds like it should be able to deal with some major seas with aplomb. No word on efficiency though.
No, there is an isty-bitsy, teeny-weeny, polkadot x86 cpu on the die of the Itanic. The chip switches modes to x86 mode for x86 instructions, so it is not emulated, it is directly executed.
PA-RISC is emulated in software, to a certain extent. the Itanic ISA has often been called PA-RISC 3.0 (PA-RISC 2.0 is the current crop of PA-8x00 chips). So it is not directly binary compatible, but the instruction set is extremely similar and thus software emulation of PA-RISC 2.0 binaries is a lot easier than software emulation of something like MIPS or Sparc would be. Which is why HP is the only one offering a binary emulation layer, all the other vendors that ship itanics (like SGI and what was COmpaq) don't do anything to aid binary backwards compatiblity.
It isn't clear how much he okayed it. The press releases at the time say that both boards unamiously agreed. But, the day after Walter went public, the HP board voted again and he did not vote for (it isn't clear if abstained or if he voted against). Either way, the 2nd vote, which was more of a publicity stunt, was not unanimous and yet you have an HP spokesdroid claiming it was unanimous:
A day after Hewlett voiced his opposition, HP's board voted once again in favor of the proposed $20 billion acquisition of Compaq, with the exception of Hewlett.
"The board thoroughly analyzed this transaction and unanimously concluded this is the very best way to deliver the value our shareowners expect," said Dick Hackborn, former chairman and executive vice president of HP.
(that quote shows up in more than one news article, this is just the first one in google).
So, I am willing to believe that his oppossition was from day one and he was repressed in one way or another. Considering Fiorina's subsquent character asassination attempts against Walter (aka "fightin' dirty") which he never stooped to in return, I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't a least some machinations involved with the original board vote.
All the Alpha engineeers were transfered to Intel last Summer to work on future Itanics. At least the ones that didn't quit out of digust (very few, according to usenet scuttlebut).
Yeah - start looking for a new job a month ago. Seriously, late pay is the largest sign of a company about to go under. They will go under and take all that backpay with them. Don't be a sucker. Don't feel like you need to work in interviews or job searching outside of work hours. They haven't paid you for two months of work and they aren't going to. Get your ass in gear and make your number one priority finding a new job. Until they've paid you for the backpay (which they will not do) you are morally justified in coming into work and then spending your time on finding a new job.
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Isn't the full name of Dreamworks "SKG Dreamworks" where S = Speilberg, K = Katzenberg (formerly of Disney) and G = Gates? So unless they kicked the goy out, this has got to be pretty embarrassing for Microsoft too.
From the description given, it sounded to me like the role the girl cop was playing was that of pissed-off girlfriend who didn't mind if the car was stolen because it was her boyfriend's car and she was mad at him. Now, any sensible thief would see that as a golden opportunity.
Or, in your words, she was being a bad victim, and thus, voila, entrapment because a good viction would not be encouraging people to steal her boyfriend's car because she was mad at her boyfriend.
Considering all the security holes in IE, how long do you think it will take for the warez community to come up with a bit of javascript that will hijaak the plugin and cause it send a big "Fuck You" to FAST instead of the actual URL and webpage contents? I'm thinking 24 hours and then a week or so for it to spread like a kiddie-script to all the warez websites.
The cards are well priced for home use, and CAT5E cabling is cheap too. The problem with gigabit ethernet is not the cards, it is the lack of switches or even plain hubs at an affordable price point. There are lots of switches out there with a single gigabit port, but even those are a couple of hundred dollars. If you want multiple gigabit ports, you are looking at more than $600 for the bottom rung products.
No, no, no. You don't understand. Copy-restriction technology is a VALUE-ADD all by itself. You should be happy to pay MORE for a disc with such an added feature, not less.
Robertson blew hundreds of millions of IPO dollars while at MP3.COM because of one simple, arrogant, mistake. He thought that by using a program to remotely verify your physical possession of a CD, that he could then make MP3's of the songs on that CD available to you online in a "virtual locker."
Indeed, this is a great idea and it was long overdue. But, that is not the way copyright law works in this country. Robertson was overconfident that the law would be no hindrence to his business plan, and thus ignored it -- at his peril. The copyright industry took MP3.COM to court over the service and won, they won bigtime. MP3.COM ended up blowing over half their IPO wad on just the pay-offs of the Big5 in the copyright industry. At $25,000 per song per copy maximum fines that $200M was actually a huge discount. But, come on man, a $200M mistake is a huge mistake nonetheless.
Fast foward to today. MP3.COM has sold out to Vivdeni-Universal and Robertson made out like a bandit on the sale. Now, here he is working on a very good idea, an idea whose time is longer overdue. But he is ignoring the law AGAIN because he doesn't think it should apply to his special case because what he is doing is so ground breaking.
Now, I am not saying that the GPL is equivalent of the RIAA bandits. But if Robertson weren't quite so gung-ho-with-blinders-on he might have made MP3.COM a true force for topling the copyright industry as was once his battle cry. Instead he sold out and the dream was killed. If he continues to follow true to form, he is going to end up adding little to nothing to the Libre Software community and may end up harming it in the process.
Grow up Mike, you should have learned your lesson the first time around. Ignore the rules at your own peril.
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Maybe because the Internet interpret censorship and routes around it, thus pretty much assuring that some non-American with access to the page would immediately mirror it on a webserver that didn't restrict American access. The original author is still the original author and thus must fear for his life if his code is out there.
Someone with extensive coding experience probably does not make that many typos.
Almost no programmers type code at anywhere near the rate that most people type messages. Typing is only a minute part of coding, while for most people it is about 30-50% of the effort of writing a message on slashdot. When slashdot comes with a built in grammar and spelling checker - the equivalent to "coding" in Ada then you might have a point.
So what do you think is "broad"?
Sounds like you are stuck in your niche if you really don't understand that there is a whole world of applications out side of the embedded world. I'll grant you that there is more work in ebedded systems than any other single field, at least in America. But that still leaves lots of other fields - the 2nd largest is databases which really covers a whole lot of sub-categories from point-of-sale systems and small office accounting all the way up to inventory control and amazon-scale e-commerce with plenty in-between. Then there are video games, modeling systems, expert-systems, animation systems, word processing systems, sound and movie editing system, etc. And, don't forget OS internals. Now, I'm perfectly aware that embedded systems touches on many of those, but the overlap is usually just a small fraction of field when it happens. For example, if you've been around for 20 years, chances are you've had to roll your own real-time OS. But, chances are you didn't have to implement a unified buffercache, or access control lists. The same difference of degree applies to most of the other categories
Most companies have lawyers and those lawyers are smart enough to specify that the consultant is creating a "work for hire."
See, that's where your embedded systems experience is too narrow. In the case the article is talking about, it is almost certain that client is a small shop, maybe even just a single owner with a couple of employees. It is only the big shops that have real lawyers to negotiate, or in your case, specifiy, contracts. The small-fry are a lot more fast and loose - they may get a lawyer but chances are it is the guy's family lawyer or someone with an accounting background that he used to incorporate. Those kinds of lawyers often don't know their head from a hole in the ground when it comes to IP. Even when the owner and or lawyer is knowledgable, he is going to be a lot easier to negotiate with than your average suit with a take-it-or-leave-it kow-tow-to-me as surrogate of the all-might megalocorp thought process.
Like I said - if you don't want people to view your website without viewing your ads, don't serve it to them until they have. You control your web server, it is entirely under your control who you serve pages to. You don't like what people do privately with the IP that you gave them a copy of, then you are living in the wrong country, at least for the next couple of years until the Senator from Disney get's his way.
My argument goes like this - if you don't want people to view your website without looking at the ads, then don't show it to them until you've verified that they've looked at your ads - it isn't that hard to do.
However, until you change your mind, if you watch any tv you are not allowed to use the bathroom or do anything else except sit mutely in front of the televeision screen during commercial breaks.
The part few, if any people, have figured out so far is that just because the client has competitors doesn't mean this software product will be of any immediate use to them. The point of contract software development is the customization. This software will be customized specifically for the client. It is very unlikely that the system will be so turnkey that a competitor could come along, plop it down on his own computer and start making equal or better use of it than the client is.
In all likelihood, the system will require some amount, perhaps a large amount, of customization for anyone else to reuse it en masse.
Now, maybe a competitor will fund someone to make the changes to make useful to the competitor but with the right kind of license it should be possible to require such changes be made public and any enhancements beyond simple customization will be fair game for anyone, including the original client, to make use of. Either way, no competitor gets to use it for free and perhaps the original client will gain extra functionality "for free," by allowing it to be used by others.
Spelling flames don't help your point and 20 years in embedded systems is not broad and probably explains why you assume that, "the client will already own the code." Unless otherwise specified in the contract as a "work for hire," the default ownership goes to the creator not the client.
Got a link to info about ATTBI's plans? I'm a customer and want to know if I ought to be looking at DSL alternatives.
PS - anyone else think the name ATTBI is just a little suggestive of a bit of kink?
Don't forget video conferencing. Being capped at 15KB/s limits you to some pretty ugly video quality. I want to use my cable modem to do video conferencing with family and friends around the country. Right now it is one step away from intolerable and usually not worth the effort.
Pay the extra dollars and get yourself an IP tunnel. Hook the other end up to a non-blackslisted network and voila, no more problems, except that your wallet is a lot lighter and the whole setup is more fragile. But, that's the point after all.
Not just a constitutional issue, but a constitual issue. Even if the spammers don't give a dime in campaign contributions, the esteemed members of congress know that the majority of the money they do get comes from corporations. If spamming were successfully regulated and that regulation passed judicial review, it would establish precedent for corporate speech not being considered worthy of protection under the first amendment. It is only a small step down the slippery slope to go from regulating spam, to regulating the bribe economy that state and federal governments run on.
For if corporate speech is not free, then all the campaign contributions that have corrupted the hell out of our legislative system are no longer considered a protected right of the American corporate citizen. Thus the status quo for the ruling elite would change dramatically (until a new loophole was found). Those ruling elite up in washington like things the way they are, it's a great gig if you can get it, as the saying goes and they don't want to lose it.
Nah, we'll just get even more WWF crap.
According to the article on the soviet's WIG program, mentioned in another posting here, their big boys were "flying" at 20 meters above the surface and at speeds exceeding 500 knotts. That sounds like it should be able to deal with some major seas with aplomb. No word on efficiency though.
Take it to comp.arch. Smart compilers often beat "smart" programmers and that is a common discussion over there.
No, there is an isty-bitsy, teeny-weeny, polkadot x86 cpu on the die of the Itanic. The chip switches modes to x86 mode for x86 instructions, so it is not emulated, it is directly executed.
PA-RISC is emulated in software, to a certain extent. the Itanic ISA has often been called PA-RISC 3.0 (PA-RISC 2.0 is the current crop of PA-8x00 chips). So it is not directly binary compatible, but the instruction set is extremely similar and thus software emulation of PA-RISC 2.0 binaries is a lot easier than software emulation of something like MIPS or Sparc would be. Which is why HP is the only one offering a binary emulation layer, all the other vendors that ship itanics (like SGI and what was COmpaq) don't do anything to aid binary backwards compatiblity.
It isn't clear how much he okayed it. The press releases at the time say that both boards unamiously agreed. But, the day after Walter went public, the HP board voted again and he did not vote for (it isn't clear if abstained or if he voted against). Either way, the 2nd vote, which was more of a publicity stunt, was not unanimous and yet you have an HP spokesdroid claiming it was unanimous:
8 70 3,00.asp
A day after Hewlett voiced his opposition, HP's board voted once again in favor of the proposed $20 billion acquisition of Compaq, with the exception of Hewlett.
"The board thoroughly analyzed this transaction and unanimously concluded this is the very best way to deliver the value our shareowners expect," said Dick Hackborn, former chairman and executive vice president of HP.
http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s=25238&a=1
(that quote shows up in more than one news article, this is just the first one in google).
So, I am willing to believe that his oppossition was from day one and he was repressed in one way or another. Considering Fiorina's subsquent character asassination attempts against Walter (aka "fightin' dirty") which he never stooped to in return, I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't a least some machinations involved with the original board vote.
All the Alpha engineeers were transfered to Intel last Summer to work on future Itanics. At least the ones that didn't quit out of digust (very few, according to usenet scuttlebut).
Yeah - start looking for a new job a month ago. Seriously, late pay is the largest sign of a company about to go under. They will go under and take all that backpay with them. Don't be a sucker. Don't feel like you need to work in interviews or job searching outside of work hours. They haven't paid you for two months of work and they aren't going to. Get your ass in gear and make your number one priority finding a new job. Until they've paid you for the backpay (which they will not do) you are morally justified in coming into work and then spending your time on finding a new job.
Two words - Winona Ryder
Isn't the full name of Dreamworks "SKG Dreamworks" where S = Speilberg, K = Katzenberg (formerly of Disney) and G = Gates? So unless they kicked the goy out, this has got to be pretty embarrassing for Microsoft too.
What the hell is an "inciteful comment?" Is that a comment that is meant to incite people to violence or something?
From the description given, it sounded to me like the role the girl cop was playing was that of pissed-off girlfriend who didn't mind if the car was stolen because it was her boyfriend's car and she was mad at him. Now, any sensible thief would see that as a golden opportunity.
Or, in your words, she was being a bad victim, and thus, voila, entrapment because a good viction would not be encouraging people to steal her boyfriend's car because she was mad at her boyfriend.
Considering all the security holes in IE, how long do you think it will take for the warez community to come up with a bit of javascript that will hijaak the plugin and cause it send a big "Fuck You" to FAST instead of the actual URL and webpage contents? I'm thinking 24 hours and then a week or so for it to spread like a kiddie-script to all the warez websites.
The cards are well priced for home use, and CAT5E cabling is cheap too. The problem with gigabit ethernet is not the cards, it is the lack of switches or even plain hubs at an affordable price point. There are lots of switches out there with a single gigabit port, but even those are a couple of hundred dollars. If you want multiple gigabit ports, you are looking at more than $600 for the bottom rung products.
No, no, no. You don't understand. Copy-restriction technology is a VALUE-ADD all by itself. You should be happy to pay MORE for a disc with such an added feature, not less.
Robertson blew hundreds of millions of IPO dollars while at MP3.COM because of one simple, arrogant, mistake. He thought that by using a program to remotely verify your physical possession of a CD, that he could then make MP3's of the songs on that CD available to you online in a "virtual locker."
Indeed, this is a great idea and it was long overdue. But, that is not the way copyright law works in this country. Robertson was overconfident that the law would be no hindrence to his business plan, and thus ignored it -- at his peril. The copyright industry took MP3.COM to court over the service and won, they won bigtime. MP3.COM ended up blowing over half their IPO wad on just the pay-offs of the Big5 in the copyright industry. At $25,000 per song per copy maximum fines that $200M was actually a huge discount. But, come on man, a $200M mistake is a huge mistake nonetheless.
Fast foward to today. MP3.COM has sold out to Vivdeni-Universal and Robertson made out like a bandit on the sale. Now, here he is working on a very good idea, an idea whose time is longer overdue. But he is ignoring the law AGAIN because he doesn't think it should apply to his special case because what he is doing is so ground breaking.
Now, I am not saying that the GPL is equivalent of the RIAA bandits. But if Robertson weren't quite so gung-ho-with-blinders-on he might have made MP3.COM a true force for topling the copyright industry as was once his battle cry. Instead he sold out and the dream was killed. If he continues to follow true to form, he is going to end up adding little to nothing to the Libre Software community and may end up harming it in the process.
Grow up Mike, you should have learned your lesson the first time around. Ignore the rules at your own peril.