Let's see if I have this straight:
1. Make movie, collect money in tickets and DVD sales, sniff networks, collect money in lawsuits against pirates. or
2. Make really bad movie, lose money in tickets and DVD sales, sniff networks, collect money in lawsuits against pirates.
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One of my Graduate instructors who has had his doctorate for more years than I have been alive told us on many occasions about the passing fad known as Java. While languages come and go, so do the jobs. The people that read BW are also tend to be the ones that do not want to be left behind when it comes to new technology so they start new projects based on what their favorite magazine or buddies say.
Anecdotally after many, many Java classes for the Bachelors Degree and still more for the Masters, I was not able to get even an entry level position as a Java programmer. While Java may not be a 'fad', hiring people for a new Java project is.
Well, the university doesn't really need YOU, either.
I was just contemplating something related to this. Most universities allow the staff to get better parking than the students. The only business model I think of where the workers get better parking than the customers.
Maybe if University staff was not treated like royalty, then they could get heads back into their jobs.
I enjoyed the read and was slightly jealous it was not me writing that letter. How many people get to tell MS to "shove it" in more than one sense.
Was it odd? Sure it was, but OS is not always about following the rules or protocols.
"State Farm and Caterpillar had sat down with our CS people..."
This is a far cry from what our local business leaders told OUR school, "Your students do not know how to write". So instead of learing simple technological skills, I have to write 5-10 page thesis style papers for every class.
I will take any misdirected and shortsighted technological specific training over writing skill training any day.
Why not allow Google to scan book content, but embed advertising inside the scans. Sort of like product placement that movie companies use.
Works for Google, could work for publishing houses?
Cisco was a target of a recent article for enabling the Chinese government to filter content. Using an extension of EU's reasoning, they could be hammered for allowing content to pass through.
OSS is typically born out of one someone's particular need. Specifically it does not exist out of someone else's wants so I am unsure how these "someone else's" could rate someone's particular 'need'. The rating system would effectively be asking "Did someone WANT this software enough to fill MY needs?"
"I am not inclined to spend the money on upgrading. As of now, none of the new features seem very impressive"
The same or similar is said by existing users for each new release. In fact, they usually hold true to this. MS relies heavily on OEM's for market penetration and deployment. I've never known an existing Windows user to actually buy an OS upgrade. It has only taken the average lifespan of a desktop PC ( 5 years?) to virtually replace all existing previous versions of Windows with XP.
I think existing Windows users are far more likely to put Linux on a existing box than upgrade Windows. Otherwise, they will wait until they purchase a new/used system that has Vista already installed.
Years ago Tandy successfully sued Autoshack over a trademark infringement of the name "shack" suffixed on a name. Since then the very large auto parts has been known as Autozone.
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Let's see if I have this straight:
1. Make movie, collect money in tickets and DVD sales, sniff networks, collect money in lawsuits against pirates.
or
2. Make really bad movie, lose money in tickets and DVD sales, sniff networks, collect money in lawsuits against pirates.
One of my Graduate instructors who has had his doctorate for more years than I have been alive told us on many occasions about the passing fad known as Java. While languages come and go, so do the jobs. The people that read BW are also tend to be the ones that do not want to be left behind when it comes to new technology so they start new projects based on what their favorite magazine or buddies say.
Anecdotally after many, many Java classes for the Bachelors Degree and still more for the Masters, I was not able to get even an entry level position as a Java programmer. While Java may not be a 'fad', hiring people for a new Java project is.
"...yuck factor."
What, no wikipedia entry for this highly technical term?
As I sip from my Pinky and the Brain coffee cup.
it seems to me that these folks want some sort of private domain to boss around and feel elite
Sounds like Internet2.
I'd love to read it.
A news blurb is little substitute for "study" from a commecrial entity with a vested interest.
Removing the DMCA circumvention tape?
Well, the university doesn't really need YOU, either.
I was just contemplating something related to this. Most universities allow the staff to get better parking than the students. The only business model I think of where the workers get better parking than the customers.
Maybe if University staff was not treated like royalty, then they could get heads back into their jobs.
The scary thing about the BILD is that many people are actually relying on it for their daily news
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You mean not like
I enjoyed the read and was slightly jealous it was not me writing that letter. How many people get to tell MS to "shove it" in more than one sense. Was it odd? Sure it was, but OS is not always about following the rules or protocols.
Windows? Yes, but only under oppressive force by employers during the day.
I ride Linux at night.
"State Farm and Caterpillar had sat down with our CS people ..."
This is a far cry from what our local business leaders told OUR school, "Your students do not know how to write". So instead of learing simple technological skills, I have to write 5-10 page thesis style papers for every class.
I will take any misdirected and shortsighted technological specific training over writing skill training any day.
In a month 500 can be found at various local pawn shops. Or worse, ebay.
Why not allow Google to scan book content, but embed advertising inside the scans. Sort of like product placement that movie companies use. Works for Google, could work for publishing houses?
Cisco was a target of a recent article for enabling the Chinese government to filter content. Using an extension of EU's reasoning, they could be hammered for allowing content to pass through.
Does this set them up to be bought out?
OSS is typically born out of one someone's particular need. Specifically it does not exist out of someone else's wants so I am unsure how these "someone else's" could rate someone's particular 'need'. The rating system would effectively be asking "Did someone WANT this software enough to fill MY needs?"
"I am not inclined to spend the money on upgrading. As of now, none of the new features seem very impressive"
The same or similar is said by existing users for each new release. In fact, they usually hold true to this. MS relies heavily on OEM's for market penetration and deployment. I've never known an existing Windows user to actually buy an OS upgrade. It has only taken the average lifespan of a desktop PC ( 5 years?) to virtually replace all existing previous versions of Windows with XP.
I think existing Windows users are far more likely to put Linux on a existing box than upgrade Windows. Otherwise, they will wait until they purchase a new/used system that has Vista already installed.
Years ago Tandy successfully sued Autoshack over a trademark infringement of the name "shack" suffixed on a name. Since then the very large auto parts has been known as Autozone.