And we are now seeing evidence that 10,000 years ago immigrants across the land-bridge from china took the land from earlier settlers... boycott casinos until indians return the land to those who have more dna from those historical ancestors.
Fact is people fought over land and resources.. and given this 200 years of stability is a blink... will fight over land again.
To say that a group of 10 people have the right to retain a huge body of land while 1,000 people are consigned to 100 sq.foot plots of land is unreasonable. And sooner or later that larger group is going to take the land of those 10 one way or another.
There is "maintaining legacy apps" and there is "this language is end of life- any patch we release from now on could break it".
This is a very real risk to my company-- we have 30 year old mainframe programs running as well as the day they were first written but our large visual basic system (1500 class x 40 lines os I guess about 60,000 lines?) now has 3 components at "end of life" and may randomly become non-functional without warning.
So we will have to replace it.
Will we use.net? Not very likely. The program works fine- the only reason it can't be kept is microsoft's policy that VB6 is dead (along with the version of SQL it was written in).
For a major corporation, 5 years is an eye blink-- but $5 to $10 million (plus new bugs/ lowered customer satisfaction) is not something they want to repeat every 5 years.
And yet, Microsoft says they plan to own developer mind space? Are they on drugs then? Because this is not the way to go about it.
More often the 32 billion dollar company buys the 20 million dollar company as soon as it attracts attention. Then it converts it to the dominant corporate culture.
Actually, It's not unethical. You are not forced by anyone to buy or sell from ebay. This will help competing auction sites (and there are some specialized ones) to grow.
Just like Divx, Once the validation system goes down, the next time you install the game it is dead. Vendors that put out this kind of validation should be required to post a bond that would keep the validation service up for at least as long as the current copyright period.
I do not agree. Microsoft has "end of lifed" those products and that means they are dead- period. Any patch could kill them entirely.
No one with any amount of money can get them working again. The source is not released. If there are wierd bugs, no one will ever understand them because only Microsoft has the source.
Opensource is *largely* commercially driven but you still see an enormous amount of unpaid programmers fixing/tweaking/etc. all the time. Further, I think some open source projects (say Openoffice) are impossible to end of life at this point (tho a version may become unrunnable in the future which is equivalent).
I know a hot little firecracker of a girl that is 4'6" tall and very girlish still at 30. You could easily take her for a girl of 12.
From what it sounds like pictures of her would be virtually indistinguishable from illegal pictures.
This is a serious issue- I can see real child abuse pictures doctored just to the edge of legality and computer generated images that can't be told from real ones not far around the corner.
What if they have green skin... pointed years.. blue skin (so when you put on a negative filter they look normal).
This is a wicked nasty grey area to get involved in.
The insurance is worse because a) The government requires it in many cases. b) the goverment doesn't set a rate c) the government doesn't make it universal (so insurance companies cherry pick).
If *everyone* has to have auto insurance by government fiat, then it should be a government program.
2 people who vote for things they can't pay for. 2 people who would at least THINK about national health care (but unfortunately not a rational plan)
1 person who has a tiny amount of fiscal restrait (not as much as Ron Paul... but some) 1 person who won't even consider national health care.
All three are in the pockets of corporations-- just a different set.
I'm tending towards McCain... sigh. I wish Obama had been a bit more rational. I don't mind him being left wing but his plans just put us deeper into debt. But I'm not all the way there yet. McCain's war plans put us deeper into debt too.
Both political parties are destroying this country long term because neither has a any patriotism or backbone and both have sold out to corporate interests.
The problem is trying to prevent anyone, anywhere from relating the joke short enough to fit on a T-Shirt.
The idea that you should be able to prevent someone from relating such a trivial idea (and we do now have sports leagues trying to do this) is absurd.
In a less obvious sense, many current forms of copyright are absurd and so people ignore them.
The laws around this are so corrupt that people don't respect them and the basic concept that creative types should get paid for their work is getting carried along for the rid.
And those actors actually bring something to the role beyond merely memorizing the script well and acting sincerely.
Bill Crystal, Robin Williams, Tim Allen, Eddie Murphy- given the same script and character would realize the character in different ways (all positive too!).
You can take a solid $60 million dollar movie and add those four and now you have a superlative $260 million movie (or $1 billion movie).
However!
Part of the issue is that price to begin with. The reason it is a billion dollar movie is outdated pricing structures for smaller markets. Pricing is currently out of line and the pool of Billy Crystals only gets bigger every day. As the supply grows, prices should start dropping at some point. And they are competing against a lot of other entertainment options too these days.
A couple of psychos ruined this for the rest of us. A motivated and negative IT employee can do (and have done) enormous amounts of damage corrupting data, stealing customer data, etc. A lot of times, a person feels okay, and then something sets them off-- the example in this thread of being told "you won't get your vacation time" is a good example. Someone gives normal notice, then the company screws them, THEN they get pissed.
So removing access protects the person from doing something that would damage the company, the person's career, lots of customers, etc.
If you give notice, and then do something bad, the company is exposed to large insurance increases and possible lawsuits. The contributions you can make in your remaining four weeks may not be worth those factors.
It would almost be better to leave, and then offer to do work on a contract basis after you leave successfully.
The lesson of Lando (and Chamberlain) is that when you are weaker- you use words to try to win. But the stronger side is free to do what they want. Talking may work (Ghandi) or it may fail (Chamberlain).
The problem with current American attitudes is that they are acting like they are still 10x as strong as the rest of the world when that hasn't been true for over 20 years. America is strong but it is squandering that strength rather than husbanding it. Rome threatened force a lot more than it actually used it. Once you use it, and the locals kick your ass, then the usefulness of that force drops.
And the U.S. is no where near as vindictive and through as the Romans were. We really don't fight to win very often. Fighting to win is extremely ugly stuff.
Bush has just about killed this country by profligate spending, using force when it wasn't necessary, and not using complete overwhelming force when it was necessary.
And Powell and the others who knew better let him do it.
Well... about 90% think material over 28 years old should be legal while companies and artists want it to be "forever + 1 day".
But you are talking about recent stuff.
Why... 1) It's over priced. 2) It's stupidly easy to download. 3) Most were unable to purchase them anyway (so they know morally that the artists lost nothing from them). 4) Many were going to skip the commercials (effectively "stealing" the TV shows) anyway. 5) In many cases, the legit version is harder to use/less user friendly than the pirated copy. 6) Entertainment executives and big artists are stupidly overpaid ($1 billion for Rowling!?!?) so people have no sense of injury or sympathy for them. 7) It's so corporate/cold that people feel no connection or empathy with the creators (and humans have always taken advantage of/ killed people not in their "monkey tribe". 8) It's hard to get it legally (you go to best buy.. you look at the racks, it's out of stock) while it's there on five torrent sites on line. You want to see it in the theatres or on TV but it won't be shown in your area until next year (Battlestar Galactica-- I torrented all of it before it came on SF in the USA).
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And we are now seeing evidence that 10,000 years ago immigrants across the land-bridge from china took the land from earlier settlers... boycott casinos until indians return the land to those who have more dna from those historical ancestors.
.. and given this 200 years of stability is a blink... will fight over land again.
Fact is people fought over land and resources
To say that a group of 10 people have the right to retain a huge body of land while 1,000 people are consigned to 100 sq.foot plots of land is unreasonable. And sooner or later that larger group is going to take the land of those 10 one way or another.
There is "maintaining legacy apps" and there is "this language is end of life- any patch we release from now on could break it".
.net? Not very likely. The program works fine- the only reason it can't be kept is microsoft's policy that VB6 is dead (along with the version of SQL it was written in).
This is a very real risk to my company-- we have 30 year old mainframe programs running as well as the day they were first written but our large visual basic system (1500 class x 40 lines os I guess about 60,000 lines?) now has 3 components at "end of life" and may randomly become non-functional without warning.
So we will have to replace it.
Will we use
For a major corporation, 5 years is an eye blink-- but $5 to $10 million (plus new bugs/ lowered customer satisfaction) is not something they want to repeat every 5 years.
And yet, Microsoft says they plan to own developer mind space? Are they on drugs then? Because this is not the way to go about it.
they say the want to keep developers but then they do something like VB6 end of life.
They are driving developers to other platforms.
Don't you mean ONE.... "MILLION".... DOLLARS!
(Since we can't hold our fingers up and make quote marks as we say it. heheheheh).
More often the 32 billion dollar company buys the 20 million dollar company as soon as it attracts attention.
Then it converts it to the dominant corporate culture.
I totally agree with you because I like your user name!
Actually,
It's not unethical. You are not forced by anyone to buy or sell from ebay.
This will help competing auction sites (and there are some specialized ones) to grow.
Having read elsewhere in this thread that Moore never credits work like this, I can't use that as an indicator any... moore.
Maybe it will be a good movie that isn't the Watchmen.
I respect Alan Moore's opinion personally.
I'm not sure if this could have been made into anything less than a hard "R" movie anyway. Very adult content.
Including the pirate comic subtext in the movie would be very hard.
It probably deserves a trilogy or mini-series to be done right any way.
Just like Divx,
Once the validation system goes down, the next time you install the game it is dead.
Vendors that put out this kind of validation should be required to post a bond that would keep the validation service up for at least as long as the current copyright period.
I do not agree. Microsoft has "end of lifed" those products and that means they are dead- period. Any patch could kill them entirely.
No one with any amount of money can get them working again. The source is not released. If there are wierd bugs, no one will ever understand them because only Microsoft has the source.
Opensource is *largely* commercially driven but you still see an enormous amount of unpaid programmers fixing/tweaking/etc. all the time. Further, I think some open source projects (say Openoffice) are impossible to end of life at this point (tho a version may become unrunnable in the future which is equivalent).
I know a hot little firecracker of a girl that is 4'6" tall and very girlish still at 30. You could easily take her for a girl of 12.
From what it sounds like pictures of her would be virtually indistinguishable from illegal pictures.
This is a serious issue- I can see real child abuse pictures doctored just to the edge of legality and computer generated images that can't be told from real ones not far around the corner.
What if they have green skin... pointed years.. blue skin (so when you put on a negative filter they look normal).
This is a wicked nasty grey area to get involved in.
Note quite.
Good functional commercial software is "end of lifed" all the time. (soon XP for example). Visual Basic 6 for another. SQL 2003 for another.
Open source can't be. If it is needed and used, the source is there.
Otherwise agree with your post.
No.
Insurance should cover what every one needs (the cheap stuff).
No insurance can reasonably cover the expensive stuff (so they cut you as fast as they can).
Random unexpected catastrophic health care- okay maybe. But chronic catastrophic health care is impossible.
Under private industry, those poeple just die.
Even under government plans, those people just die. But not before breaking the system.
The insurance is worse because
a) The government requires it in many cases.
b) the goverment doesn't set a rate
c) the government doesn't make it universal (so insurance companies cherry pick).
If *everyone* has to have auto insurance by government fiat, then it should be a government program.
Actually,
... sigh. I wish Obama had been a bit more rational. I don't mind him being left wing but his plans just put us deeper into debt. But I'm not all the way there yet. McCain's war plans put us deeper into debt too.
I see (in older and recent votes)
2 people who vote for things they can't pay for.
2 people who would at least THINK about national health care (but unfortunately not a rational plan)
1 person who has a tiny amount of fiscal restrait (not as much as Ron Paul... but some)
1 person who won't even consider national health care.
All three are in the pockets of corporations-- just a different set.
I'm tending towards McCain
Both political parties are destroying this country long term because neither has a any patriotism or backbone and both have sold out to corporate interests.
The problem is trying to prevent anyone, anywhere from relating the joke short enough to fit on a T-Shirt.
The idea that you should be able to prevent someone from relating such a trivial idea (and we do now have sports leagues trying to do this) is absurd.
In a less obvious sense, many current forms of copyright are absurd and so people ignore them.
The laws around this are so corrupt that people don't respect them and the basic concept that creative types should get paid for their work is getting carried along for the rid.
Wasn't bad read as I remember.
And those actors actually bring something to the role beyond merely memorizing the script well and acting sincerely.
Bill Crystal, Robin Williams, Tim Allen, Eddie Murphy- given the same script and character would realize the character in different ways (all positive too!).
You can take a solid $60 million dollar movie and add those four and now you have a superlative $260 million movie (or $1 billion movie).
However!
Part of the issue is that price to begin with. The reason it is a billion dollar movie is outdated pricing structures for smaller markets. Pricing is currently out of line and the pool of Billy Crystals only gets bigger every day. As the supply grows, prices should start dropping at some point. And they are competing against a lot of other entertainment options too these days.
A couple of psychos ruined this for the rest of us.
A motivated and negative IT employee can do (and have done) enormous amounts of damage corrupting data, stealing customer data, etc.
A lot of times, a person feels okay, and then something sets them off-- the example in this thread of being told "you won't get your vacation time" is a good example. Someone gives normal notice, then the company screws them, THEN they get pissed.
So removing access protects the person from doing something that would damage the company, the person's career, lots of customers, etc.
And then of course they pay you to do nothing.
If you give notice, and then do something bad, the company is exposed to large insurance increases and possible lawsuits. The contributions you can make in your remaining four weeks may not be worth those factors.
It would almost be better to leave, and then offer to do work on a contract basis after you leave successfully.
I love all the responses here...
The lesson of Lando (and Chamberlain) is that when you are weaker- you use words to try to win. But the stronger side is free to do what they want. Talking may work (Ghandi) or it may fail (Chamberlain).
The problem with current American attitudes is that they are acting like they are still 10x as strong as the rest of the world when that hasn't been true for over 20 years. America is strong but it is squandering that strength rather than husbanding it. Rome threatened force a lot more than it actually used it. Once you use it, and the locals kick your ass, then the usefulness of that force drops.
And the U.S. is no where near as vindictive and through as the Romans were. We really don't fight to win very often. Fighting to win is extremely ugly stuff.
Bush has just about killed this country by profligate spending, using force when it wasn't necessary, and not using complete overwhelming force when it was necessary.
And Powell and the others who knew better let him do it.
Well ... about 90% think material over 28 years old should be legal while companies and artists want it to be "forever + 1 day".
But you are talking about recent stuff.
Why...
1) It's over priced.
2) It's stupidly easy to download.
3) Most were unable to purchase them anyway (so they know morally that the artists lost nothing from them).
4) Many were going to skip the commercials (effectively "stealing" the TV shows) anyway.
5) In many cases, the legit version is harder to use/less user friendly than the pirated copy.
6) Entertainment executives and big artists are stupidly overpaid ($1 billion for Rowling!?!?) so people have no sense of injury or sympathy for them.
7) It's so corporate/cold that people feel no connection or empathy with the creators (and humans have always taken advantage of/ killed people not in their "monkey tribe".
8) It's hard to get it legally (you go to best buy.. you look at the racks, it's out of stock) while it's there on five torrent sites on line. You want to see it in the theatres or on TV but it won't be shown in your area until next year (Battlestar Galactica-- I torrented all of it before it came on SF in the USA).
Or perhaps he see's himself as more of a Lando... talking with the bad guys and making deals to protect his nation in the clouds.
Hmmm.
Star Wars program?
Who knows... perhaps it wouldn't have had the same impact as "High Earth Orbit Satellite Defense Program"
So perhaps... just maybe... Star Wars is partially responsible for the end of the cold war.