Describing an intellectual property civil lawsuit against people with law degrees and years of experience like this may just be a little cavalier. Let's try a little substitution here and see how it sounds:
* No, I meant fix your transmission yourself. With a reasonable amount of study on basic automotive engineering, it shouldn't be that hard at all.
* No, I meant perform a root canal on yourself. With a reasonable amount of study ovn basic orthodontics, some local anesthesia and a mirror, it shouldn't be that hard at all.
To be fair, neither of these analogies are accurate.
1.With the proper tools and a good manual, any literate able bodied person can rebuild a tranny. Follow the instructions and it's no problem.
2.Performing a root canal on yourself presents several physical challanges not at all related to the root canal. If you changed this one to performing a root canal on someone else, it would be accurate. With the basic knowledge, you would know what to do, but with out the experience, practice, and muscle memory, it would be incredibly difficult to do well.
"How do you advertise the other ~90% of your catalog?"
You can, but at the expense of the other 10% that is currently generating 90% of your income. What successful company in their right mind would risk that kind of cash cow?
An interesting situation, I wonder what MS's liability would be in a anti-trust situation? Using their monopoly over.Net development to force consumers to buy Windows...
Mine is similar. Anything I on billable working hours, or on hardware/software licensed by the company is theirs. They offered to give me a copy of VS.Net for working at home and I said no. I have my own copy, my own license, and my own projects. So long as I'm not billing my company for the hours, anything I do at home on my PC with my licenses, is mine. Anything I do on the company supplied laptop how ever, even while not billing them, is theirs.
"I asked for specifics of how we know Microsoft isn't going to try to kill more-directly competing projects like Mono"
Mono doesn't 'compete' with a MS product. Mono allows.Net applications to run in Linux. The windows equivalent is the.Net Framework, which is a free download. If anything, MS has a motivation to improve Mono as having Mono perform as well on Linux as the.Net framework does on Windows will increase the penetration of.Net development tools in non-windows environments, thus increasing the market share of Visual Studio.Net, and other paid for development tools. Not only that, but more.Net developers in Linux means more developers to train, more seminars to hold, more control over the business sector software development area.
That's odd. A link to a story about a man set on fire, and there is nothing to see? I know, it's off topic, but the graphic imagery instilled by the summary title, with the nothing to see body... it's just ironic.
What if someone sat in the back of the parking lot of your local adult entertainment company and started tracking the regular customers? What if someone set up a camera in the parking lot of a planned parenthood facility?
My concern is (slightly) less about the government using this technology to identify cars for criminal investigation/prosicution (the sex offender's car in front of a school for example). But what about social groups that have strong opinions and motivation that do not directly corellate to local laws? Could these "socially deviant" databases of vehicle information be used for blackmail or harasment?
And what if someone set up shopw right infront of a police department, or a FBI complexe or other agency? They could quickly determine vehicle patterns and identify daily employees, visitors, and even monthly visitors. Let's say a person where to do something like this, and noticed that their dealer's buddy Jimmy stops by the ATF office twice a month for 2 hours? Does Jimmy just happen to have to stop by the ATF for assorted reasons, or is Jimmy a field agent? In either case, Jimmy's livelihood may have just taken a serious turn for the worse.
Anything that reduced the iR reflection of the plate would work. Even better than louvres or drit, which may be illegal, or atleast get you pulled over, a non-tinted polorized coating may work. Invisible to the naked eye, but obscures the characters for the camera.
Just another sample of our government spending millions for a tool that can be avoided for a $5 made in China piece of plastic.
Yeah, that was Pillars of creation. If all you want to know about is the core story, you can read the last 20 pages of that book and not miss out on anything. For anyone not familiar with the series who happens to read this, the entire story of that book is from the point of view of people who either oppose the primary character, or by people who have been duped by those that oppose the primary character.
I bumped into a guy at work one day and he was reading that book. I asked him how he liked the rest of the series and he said that PoC was the first Goodkind novel he read. It was pretty neat seeing this guy go from a story where Richard (the main character) was portrayed as the antagonist, back to the beginning of the series where he is the protagonist.
There was a concern that was raised back in June. Since then, the code has been updated and procedure has been modified. If the reason for the initial "pull" was not clear, how did the know what requirements to change the functionality for?
I haven't followed along with this project, but it doesn't sound that bad. There was a technical issue, they lost their cert. They fixed the technical issue and resubmitted. Screwiness ensues as their cert disappears, then reappears as suspended (which it already had been).
Could the certing authority be rejecting them after a payoff from big corps? Maybe. Could a summer intern have accidentally hit the wrong button and wiped out the cert, then later recovered from back up? Maybe. In the end, it's just speculation until the authority makes a statement clarifying the situation.
I have a couple hundred SP's in a few SQLServer databases on two servers (test/prod) along with entirely separate Sybase and OMD databases and servers with their own SP and (compile time)SQL. All of that work is taken care of in my DAL. I don't screw around with assembling SQL in code. If I want customer information, I create a customer object and I use objCustomer.Find(CustomerID) or objCustomer.FindByName(CustomerName), etc... I don't have to remember stored proc names, or even complex field names (like the Sybase database where all tables are 3 letter acronyms starting with the letter 'r', it's freaking insane.)
I don't think that's an acurate analogy. I think having MS, FF, OP developing standards would be more along the lines of having a coop of farmers guarding the hen house, as opposed to having an independat group of part time hobby farmers (W3C) trying to raise the chickens.
And Avid reader doesn't NEED to read everything, they just have to be enthusiastic about reading.
""Or a Linux network admin telling a Windows network admin that he's not a "real" admin." I actually agree with that one."
The funny thing is, for how rock stable most *nux systems I deal with are, it takes a far more skilled and intelligent person to maintain our Windows solutions. So put your fanboi zealotry away.
"It depresses me when someone says that they are passionate about reading and then cites Goodkind as their very first example."
It depresses me when someone as well read as you shows that despite their obvious intelligence they have chosen to be bigotish and close minded.
Frost and Elliot had some interesting stuff, but I'm not a huge poetry buff.
"You know, real reading? Goodkind and others have their place, but hardly qualifies one as an 'avid' reader. Otherwise why not say, "Yeah I'm an avid reader, I read TV Guide every week!"
That's got to be one of the most retarded things I've ever heard said by someone of intelligence. That's the equivalent of an auto mechanic telling a air frame mechanic that he is not a "real" mechanic. Or a Linux network admin telling a Windows network admin that he's not a "real" admin. Or a Christian telling a Muslim that they are not "really" religious.
The word "avid" only means that you are extremely interested in the subject. So yes, someone who read the TV Guide could be called an "Avid TV Guide reader". To be an avid reader, one doesn't have to read classic literature, they just need to be enthusiastic about reading.
As for Goodkind, I find his mix of character and inter-character development, military strategy, and action sequence writing to be quite entertaining. If I had more time I would re-read the whole series before picking up the new book, but it's my birthday later this week and I have a feeling my wife may have already ordered it;)
Actually, I'm an avid reader, Book 8 of the "Sword of Truth" series is coming out in a few days and I'm totally looking forward to enjoying it.
But at the same time, a person can still enjoy a story in other mediums. I enjoy stories, whether those stories come from books, movies, TV, video games, or RPGs, I enjoy it. There have been a few games with good stories that made up for so-so game play. Both of the Vampire: the Masquerade games had interesting and exciting story lines to help out the average TPS game play. Lately, I've been playing through BG2, and I find the story, and the inter-character development quite interesting.
Think of it like movies. If a movie has a crappy story, it's not likely worth watching. Unless it has some alternative perk...
If a game has mediocre game play (the vast majority of them do) then the story is what saves the game and makes it worth while. If a game has excellent game play, then the story is not as big of a deal.
It's like this movie I saw a while back, it was a collection of short skits. The acting was horrid, there was virtually no story, but each of the skits (Chimney Inspector, Pizza Delivery Man, and Wash Maids) had that little something extra that made up for the cheesy dialog ("eeeeewwww, what's up my flue?", or my personal favorite, "Toe cramp!!!!!")
Because it is fun and enjoyable? Because people enjoy the social aspect of MMOs? Becuase people enjoy the effect of Maslow's hierchy? Just because YOU don't like something, and other people tire of something, does not mean that that item was worthless or not fun. There is no level grind in the original Quake, but not many people still play Q1, does that mean it was a bad game? "Good" and "Fun" are highly subjective terms, and in the gaming world there is a huge range of different players. Some of those players want the grind, some of those players want no grind. So there are a variety of games for us each to play.
Imagine being an "IT Guy" for a non-tech company. You've been seeing some odd network behavior, so you fire up google and search your domain for malware. It quickly identifies that Jan in Accounting has a malwar port sniffer running trying to phone home. The combination of this system and using Google for internal searches could make Google a sudden major competitor in the anti-malwar campaign.
On the broaders scale, IHPs will be able to keep an eye on their customers to see if any servers are hosting malware. And users of this tool can contact the owners/opperators of those servers to warn them that there site may have been breached.
I always imagined Raistlan with a gritty voice. The whole 'living in constant pain' thing. Not high pitched and screechy, or super deep. But a solid, commanding, gritty voice, broken up by coughing fits.
"A complex software project doesn't compare well to a bridge. It's more like a city. Nobody goes and says "Let's build a city!", lays out plans, prototypes and discusses what business go where.
That's just stupid; nobody does a city like that."
Actually, yes they do. Some cities have very active city planning committees. A local town that was facing explosive growth (Verona, WI) a few years back gathered a group of professionals to assess the yields from local farm land, wild life, forests, traffic patters, land costs, etc... After they assembled a huge amount of information the city planners made decisions on what land to annex, what land to rezone, what land to apply protection on. And the result is a City years later that is really well laid out, doesn't have major traffic issues, and had a minimal impact on the local environment.
Slashdot Mirror
To be fair, neither of these analogies are accurate.
1.With the proper tools and a good manual, any literate able bodied person can rebuild a tranny. Follow the instructions and it's no problem.
2.Performing a root canal on yourself presents several physical challanges not at all related to the root canal. If you changed this one to performing a root canal on someone else, it would be accurate. With the basic knowledge, you would know what to do, but with out the experience, practice, and muscle memory, it would be incredibly difficult to do well.
-Rick
"How do you advertise the other ~90% of your catalog?"
You can, but at the expense of the other 10% that is currently generating 90% of your income. What successful company in their right mind would risk that kind of cash cow?
-Rick
An interesting situation, I wonder what MS's liability would be in a anti-trust situation? Using their monopoly over .Net development to force consumers to buy Windows...
-Rick
Mine is similar. Anything I on billable working hours, or on hardware/software licensed by the company is theirs. They offered to give me a copy of VS.Net for working at home and I said no. I have my own copy, my own license, and my own projects. So long as I'm not billing my company for the hours, anything I do at home on my PC with my licenses, is mine. Anything I do on the company supplied laptop how ever, even while not billing them, is theirs.
-Rick
"I asked for specifics of how we know Microsoft isn't going to try to kill more-directly competing projects like Mono"
.Net applications to run in Linux. The windows equivalent is the .Net Framework, which is a free download. If anything, MS has a motivation to improve Mono as having Mono perform as well on Linux as the .Net framework does on Windows will increase the penetration of .Net development tools in non-windows environments, thus increasing the market share of Visual Studio.Net, and other paid for development tools. Not only that, but more .Net developers in Linux means more developers to train, more seminars to hold, more control over the business sector software development area.
Mono doesn't 'compete' with a MS product. Mono allows
-Rick
"Nothing for you to see here. Please move along."
That's odd. A link to a story about a man set on fire, and there is nothing to see? I know, it's off topic, but the graphic imagery instilled by the summary title, with the nothing to see body... it's just ironic.
-Rick
Do you have a link for this Forge web site?
-Rick
What if someone sat in the back of the parking lot of your local adult entertainment company and started tracking the regular customers? What if someone set up a camera in the parking lot of a planned parenthood facility?
My concern is (slightly) less about the government using this technology to identify cars for criminal investigation/prosicution (the sex offender's car in front of a school for example). But what about social groups that have strong opinions and motivation that do not directly corellate to local laws? Could these "socially deviant" databases of vehicle information be used for blackmail or harasment?
And what if someone set up shopw right infront of a police department, or a FBI complexe or other agency? They could quickly determine vehicle patterns and identify daily employees, visitors, and even monthly visitors. Let's say a person where to do something like this, and noticed that their dealer's buddy Jimmy stops by the ATF office twice a month for 2 hours? Does Jimmy just happen to have to stop by the ATF for assorted reasons, or is Jimmy a field agent? In either case, Jimmy's livelihood may have just taken a serious turn for the worse.
-Rick
Anything that reduced the iR reflection of the plate would work. Even better than louvres or drit, which may be illegal, or atleast get you pulled over, a non-tinted polorized coating may work. Invisible to the naked eye, but obscures the characters for the camera.
Just another sample of our government spending millions for a tool that can be avoided for a $5 made in China piece of plastic.
-Rick
"Virtualization"
-Rick
Yeah, that was Pillars of creation. If all you want to know about is the core story, you can read the last 20 pages of that book and not miss out on anything. For anyone not familiar with the series who happens to read this, the entire story of that book is from the point of view of people who either oppose the primary character, or by people who have been duped by those that oppose the primary character.
I bumped into a guy at work one day and he was reading that book. I asked him how he liked the rest of the series and he said that PoC was the first Goodkind novel he read. It was pretty neat seeing this guy go from a story where Richard (the main character) was portrayed as the antagonist, back to the beginning of the series where he is the protagonist.
-Rick
There was a concern that was raised back in June. Since then, the code has been updated and procedure has been modified. If the reason for the initial "pull" was not clear, how did the know what requirements to change the functionality for?
I haven't followed along with this project, but it doesn't sound that bad. There was a technical issue, they lost their cert. They fixed the technical issue and resubmitted. Screwiness ensues as their cert disappears, then reappears as suspended (which it already had been).
Could the certing authority be rejecting them after a payoff from big corps? Maybe. Could a summer intern have accidentally hit the wrong button and wiped out the cert, then later recovered from back up? Maybe. In the end, it's just speculation until the authority makes a statement clarifying the situation.
-Rick
Data Abstraction Layer.
I have a couple hundred SP's in a few SQLServer databases on two servers (test/prod) along with entirely separate Sybase and OMD databases and servers with their own SP and (compile time)SQL. All of that work is taken care of in my DAL. I don't screw around with assembling SQL in code. If I want customer information, I create a customer object and I use objCustomer.Find(CustomerID) or objCustomer.FindByName(CustomerName), etc... I don't have to remember stored proc names, or even complex field names (like the Sybase database where all tables are 3 letter acronyms starting with the letter 'r', it's freaking insane.)
-Rick
While flash adds are annoying, the most backlash I see from flash is using it as a navigation system.
-Rick
I don't think that's an acurate analogy. I think having MS, FF, OP developing standards would be more along the lines of having a coop of farmers guarding the hen house, as opposed to having an independat group of part time hobby farmers (W3C) trying to raise the chickens.
-Rick
"Each to their own, I suppose."
Now there is a point of view that I can respect! I disagree with your opinion of Goodkind's novels, but you are fully entitled to your own opinion.
-Rick
Avid: Marked by keen interest and enthusiasm
And Avid reader doesn't NEED to read everything, they just have to be enthusiastic about reading.
""Or a Linux network admin telling a Windows network admin that he's not a "real" admin."
I actually agree with that one."
The funny thing is, for how rock stable most *nux systems I deal with are, it takes a far more skilled and intelligent person to maintain our Windows solutions. So put your fanboi zealotry away.
"It depresses me when someone says that they are passionate about reading and then cites Goodkind as their very first example."
It depresses me when someone as well read as you shows that despite their obvious intelligence they have chosen to be bigotish and close minded.
-Rick
Dickens and Fitzgerald bored the crap out of me.
;)
Frost and Elliot had some interesting stuff, but I'm not a huge poetry buff.
"You know, real reading? Goodkind and others have their place, but hardly qualifies one as an 'avid' reader. Otherwise why not say, "Yeah I'm an avid reader, I read TV Guide every week!"
That's got to be one of the most retarded things I've ever heard said by someone of intelligence. That's the equivalent of an auto mechanic telling a air frame mechanic that he is not a "real" mechanic. Or a Linux network admin telling a Windows network admin that he's not a "real" admin. Or a Christian telling a Muslim that they are not "really" religious.
The word "avid" only means that you are extremely interested in the subject. So yes, someone who read the TV Guide could be called an "Avid TV Guide reader". To be an avid reader, one doesn't have to read classic literature, they just need to be enthusiastic about reading.
As for Goodkind, I find his mix of character and inter-character development, military strategy, and action sequence writing to be quite entertaining. If I had more time I would re-read the whole series before picking up the new book, but it's my birthday later this week and I have a feeling my wife may have already ordered it
-Rick
Actually, I'm an avid reader, Book 8 of the "Sword of Truth" series is coming out in a few days and I'm totally looking forward to enjoying it.
But at the same time, a person can still enjoy a story in other mediums. I enjoy stories, whether those stories come from books, movies, TV, video games, or RPGs, I enjoy it. There have been a few games with good stories that made up for so-so game play. Both of the Vampire: the Masquerade games had interesting and exciting story lines to help out the average TPS game play. Lately, I've been playing through BG2, and I find the story, and the inter-character development quite interesting.
-Rick
Think of it like movies. If a movie has a crappy story, it's not likely worth watching. Unless it has some alternative perk...
If a game has mediocre game play (the vast majority of them do) then the story is what saves the game and makes it worth while. If a game has excellent game play, then the story is not as big of a deal.
It's like this movie I saw a while back, it was a collection of short skits. The acting was horrid, there was virtually no story, but each of the skits (Chimney Inspector, Pizza Delivery Man, and Wash Maids) had that little something extra that made up for the cheesy dialog ("eeeeewwww, what's up my flue?", or my personal favorite, "Toe cramp!!!!!")
-Rick
Because it is fun and enjoyable? Because people enjoy the social aspect of MMOs? Becuase people enjoy the effect of Maslow's hierchy? Just because YOU don't like something, and other people tire of something, does not mean that that item was worthless or not fun. There is no level grind in the original Quake, but not many people still play Q1, does that mean it was a bad game? "Good" and "Fun" are highly subjective terms, and in the gaming world there is a huge range of different players. Some of those players want the grind, some of those players want no grind. So there are a variety of games for us each to play.
-Rick
Imagine being an "IT Guy" for a non-tech company. You've been seeing some odd network behavior, so you fire up google and search your domain for malware. It quickly identifies that Jan in Accounting has a malwar port sniffer running trying to phone home. The combination of this system and using Google for internal searches could make Google a sudden major competitor in the anti-malwar campaign.
On the broaders scale, IHPs will be able to keep an eye on their customers to see if any servers are hosting malware. And users of this tool can contact the owners/opperators of those servers to warn them that there site may have been breached.
-Rick
Dihydrogen-Monoxide can help prevent those issues, but it is responsible for thousands of deaths every year!
http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
-Rick
I always imagined Raistlan with a gritty voice. The whole 'living in constant pain' thing. Not high pitched and screechy, or super deep. But a solid, commanding, gritty voice, broken up by coughing fits.
-Rick
"A complex software project doesn't compare well to a bridge. It's more like a city. Nobody goes and says "Let's build a city!", lays out plans, prototypes and discusses what business go where.
That's just stupid; nobody does a city like that."
Actually, yes they do. Some cities have very active city planning committees. A local town that was facing explosive growth (Verona, WI) a few years back gathered a group of professionals to assess the yields from local farm land, wild life, forests, traffic patters, land costs, etc... After they assembled a huge amount of information the city planners made decisions on what land to annex, what land to rezone, what land to apply protection on. And the result is a City years later that is really well laid out, doesn't have major traffic issues, and had a minimal impact on the local environment.
-Rick