Reread your post, and you'll realize that you prove my point for me. You're unable to come up with counterexamples without using "proprietary", "specialized" or examples of task specific situations such as Tivo, kiosks and ATMs where both the environment, usage, expansion, interconnections, and basically everything that interacts with that machine (including your silly example of the car) are far more controlled. The complexity of the PC does not necessarily arise from internal factors, there is a great deal of external pressure that a car and your other examples do not have to contend with.
Computers being more complex is not claptrap. Cars are not near as complex as a computer, no way no how. If you honestly believe otherwise, I'm not going to waste any more cycles arguing the point.
Also, the machine in question was not "brand new from the factory". He calls it a "creaky Sony Vaio PC".
He's very proud of the following"I'm a power user. And I have yet to suffer a single debilitating virus or worm or spyware or malware whatsoever. Not one problem in 15 years, ". Well that sentence describes me and I have been using *Windows*.
Now that I reread the article, my remedy would be to lay the blame on her DSL provider, who should have provided some basic information about how to protect the machine.
The municipalities have realized that high speed service really isn't *all that* expensive to provide, in the grand scheme of things. The telcos just don't want another player and they think they have a hold on the local government. The telcos want to spin "hurts our business" as "anti-competitive" which is just not true.
You are right and I am incorrect about the legal technicalities. However I still believe it is safer to assume that your client will consider it a work for hire, even if it is not technically such, and to prepare your contract accordingly.
His recommendation, regarding the building blocks is one born more out of reality then legality. If the building blocks are so basic that they cannot be recognized as to where they came from then in reality it would be nearly impossible for someone to claim ownership or for you to not easily defend it. But it is certainly a moral gray area, in what is otherwise a set of very moral recommendations.
If you use this as an 'I told you so', and you administer the box, then they should fire you. This problem only affects poorly administered mySQL installations.
We aren't funding the creation of completely polished weather reporting with taxpayers dollars, we are only funding the raw data collection. If we are asking them to do new things... it has to come at some cost.
That's actually a pretty funny twist of what I said. You're interpretation is not groundless, but it is incorrect.
Would it annoy you, even a little, if the next post said "It has just come to my attention, in a nefarious plot on our food supply, that corn will now be grown from the ground."?
Maybe the software dealers are actually looking to set some legal precedence such that they can protect what they see as a future desire to use P2P technology, like BitTorrent, to distribute and sell software.....
This is such a normal and acceptable process that it annoys me this is even posted here. People with products have to create buzz, and one way is with a silent salesman type thing like this. This is in no way similar to paying something to talk up your product.
Also, I am admittedly dinging you on a smaller point of the article, and a point that is somewhat of a departure from your main thrust... but hey... it's Slashdot
Your blog post seems to indicate this situation is by design or by desire. I am pretty sure it is not. They are *willing* to play within the regulations if they must, because they still see a good profit potential. Especially, with bundling. As a cable company you migh eat the margin on phone service just to get another bundled customer, they more they buy the less likey they are to leave. The price is also an indication of some very real advantages the Cable COmpanies VoIP product has:
1. Generally they have real phone style interfaces.
2. E911 Service. You can't use a PC based phone withoout power, but you can with many of the VoIP products offered by the Cable Comapnies because of their consumer side hardware.
Essentially, they feel they are competing on a service level with the phone company not with pure Internet based scenarios, which *do* have some hangups (though I am sure things like quality improve every day).
They would much rather compete on a service level but enjoy no regulatory encumberances. It would increase their margins while still allowing them to justify they higher price.
I worked for a Cable company doing a VoIP rollout and I can assure you they do not as he says in #3:
"Note that these players not only do not object, but they want regulatory parity with ILECs, because that is their competition."
We very cleary wanted parity or to have a regulatory advantage. With the regulatory advantage being much preferred.
Think of all the other things this opens up. If you run someone over with your car, Chevrolet is liable? You shoot someone, the gun manufacturers are liable?
This is obviously a bill brought up by the media interests without looking at the real outcome.
but look at the XML decorations in C# (for things like serialization), and look at Aspect Programming and you see ideas that are not "extensible" really, in so far as creating whole new functionality at the language level... but they do allow for a high degree of seperation of individual concerns of the code and the program itself.
don't screw up XML because people architect their applications poorly. i've worked on a few applications that use web services only because they *can* not because they should, then people complain about performance, even though we said "using web services will give you a 40% performance hit".
Put filters on your intake fans and make sure you have more air going *in* than out. This will maintain positive pressure in the case and keep all the other open places in the case from sucking in dust and such. With positive pressure in the case the only things getting in are through the intake fans, and then you just need to change your filters regularly.
A PC with minor mods should live fairly well in the environment you talk about, particularly if you use a shop vac on as many tools as possible.
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Reread your post, and you'll realize that you prove my point for me. You're unable to come up with counterexamples without using "proprietary", "specialized" or examples of task specific situations such as Tivo, kiosks and ATMs where both the environment, usage, expansion, interconnections, and basically everything that interacts with that machine (including your silly example of the car) are far more controlled. The complexity of the PC does not necessarily arise from internal factors, there is a great deal of external pressure that a car and your other examples do not have to contend with.
it's not quite as nefarious as you seem to think
Computers being more complex is not claptrap. Cars are not near as complex as a computer, no way no how. If you honestly believe otherwise, I'm not going to waste any more cycles arguing the point.
Also, the machine in question was not "brand new from the factory". He calls it a "creaky Sony Vaio PC".
He's very proud of the following"I'm a power user. And I have yet to suffer a single debilitating virus or worm or spyware or malware whatsoever. Not one problem in 15 years, ". Well that sentence describes me and I have been using *Windows*.
Now that I reread the article, my remedy would be to lay the blame on her DSL provider, who should have provided some basic information about how to protect the machine.
Since you left it so obviously vulnerable if it was truly that messed up in 4 minutes.
The municipalities have realized that high speed service really isn't *all that* expensive to provide, in the grand scheme of things. The telcos just don't want another player and they think they have a hold on the local government. The telcos want to spin "hurts our business" as "anti-competitive" which is just not true.
You are right and I am incorrect about the legal technicalities. However I still believe it is safer to assume that your client will consider it a work for hire, even if it is not technically such, and to prepare your contract accordingly.
His recommendation, regarding the building blocks is one born more out of reality then legality. If the building blocks are so basic that they cannot be recognized as to where they came from then in reality it would be nearly impossible for someone to claim ownership or for you to not easily defend it. But it is certainly a moral gray area, in what is otherwise a set of very moral recommendations.
In general, your work will be considered "work for hire" unless you explicitly define another type of license or agreement.
It has other meanings as well: excessively embellished in style or language
I was wondering myself why there were no ALL caps items in this particular crawl. But it appears that episode one had no all caps items either.
Ummm.... I think you may have missed the tongues squarely planted in 99% of these posters cheeks... think "humor" and reread the posts. :)
If you use this as an 'I told you so', and you administer the box, then they should fire you. This problem only affects poorly administered mySQL installations.
We aren't funding the creation of completely polished weather reporting with taxpayers dollars, we are only funding the raw data collection. If we are asking them to do new things... it has to come at some cost.
That's actually a pretty funny twist of what I said. You're interpretation is not groundless, but it is incorrect.
Would it annoy you, even a little, if the next post said "It has just come to my attention, in a nefarious plot on our food supply, that corn will now be grown from the ground."?
Maybe the software dealers are actually looking to set some legal precedence such that they can protect what they see as a future desire to use P2P technology, like BitTorrent, to distribute and sell software.....
This is such a normal and acceptable process that it annoys me this is even posted here. People with products have to create buzz, and one way is with a silent salesman type thing like this. This is in no way similar to paying something to talk up your product.
Also, I am admittedly dinging you on a smaller point of the article, and a point that is somewhat of a departure from your main thrust... but hey... it's Slashdot
Your blog post seems to indicate this situation is by design or by desire. I am pretty sure it is not. They are *willing* to play within the regulations if they must, because they still see a good profit potential. Especially, with bundling. As a cable company you migh eat the margin on phone service just to get another bundled customer, they more they buy the less likey they are to leave. The price is also an indication of some very real advantages the Cable COmpanies VoIP product has: 1. Generally they have real phone style interfaces. 2. E911 Service. You can't use a PC based phone withoout power, but you can with many of the VoIP products offered by the Cable Comapnies because of their consumer side hardware. Essentially, they feel they are competing on a service level with the phone company not with pure Internet based scenarios, which *do* have some hangups (though I am sure things like quality improve every day). They would much rather compete on a service level but enjoy no regulatory encumberances. It would increase their margins while still allowing them to justify they higher price.
I worked for a Cable company doing a VoIP rollout and I can assure you they do not as he says in #3: "Note that these players not only do not object, but they want regulatory parity with ILECs, because that is their competition." We very cleary wanted parity or to have a regulatory advantage. With the regulatory advantage being much preferred.
A9 doesn't have book searches as it's top feature. It turn search into more of a full featured tool than google. The search history is awesome.
Think of all the other things this opens up. If you run someone over with your car, Chevrolet is liable? You shoot someone, the gun manufacturers are liable? This is obviously a bill brought up by the media interests without looking at the real outcome.
but look at the XML decorations in C# (for things like serialization), and look at Aspect Programming and you see ideas that are not "extensible" really, in so far as creating whole new functionality at the language level... but they do allow for a high degree of seperation of individual concerns of the code and the program itself.
don't screw up XML because people architect their applications poorly. i've worked on a few applications that use web services only because they *can* not because they should, then people complain about performance, even though we said "using web services will give you a 40% performance hit".
Put filters on your intake fans and make sure you have more air going *in* than out. This will maintain positive pressure in the case and keep all the other open places in the case from sucking in dust and such. With positive pressure in the case the only things getting in are through the intake fans, and then you just need to change your filters regularly. A PC with minor mods should live fairly well in the environment you talk about, particularly if you use a shop vac on as many tools as possible.