Ps, projector resolution is sucks. Have a projector to throw a movie on a wall or display a slide show is all fine and well, but I need high resolution to cram as much data in as small of a space as possible, while still being readable. If I had to turn my head drastically to look at different areas, it wouldn't be as effective as the solution I currently work with.
Well, I guess some folks are saying that coding doesn't need that much space, but frankly I'm with you. I typically have my reference docs up on one screen and the code I'm working with on another. If I could get a third screen, I'd be more than happy to do it. I run at the highest resolution I can and could always use more room.
Having multiple screens, I always can just flick my eyes to where I need to be, either browser, documentation, email, code, etc. For those of you without multiple monitors, think of it like the difference between using Firefox tabs, since they are a pain to break out of the original browser window and google chrome. With chrome, if I'm reading something and I want to look something up, I pop up a new tab, pull in off the original into a new window and type in my request in the browser window. I'd never do that with firefox, at least not yet, the latency with each of those actions is too large and breaks me out of my thought process.
To me, it's steps like these that lead me more to a minority report or paycheck type of user interface. I'm not saying that I cannot work in a smaller space. But it's like the difference win working in one of those chairs with the swivel up little writing pad in comparison to a big desk where I can have a stack of books, 3 or 4 notepad tablets for writing notes, a couple of open books, maybe a lamp for extra light, a cup full of pencils, a calculator, etc, etc, etc.
Anything that saves me time so that I don't break my thought flow while waiting for the system to switch a page or redraw a page or pull up a new application is great. A fast refresh may not be essential, but it surely cannot hurt. Currently, I run a dual screen solution, with a viewing area of 3800 x 1200 using 2 Samsung SyncMaster 2443 flatscreens. One of the best thing about these screens is that I an also swivel them vertically to fit a page of text in pdf into a very readable whole screen view. The monitors run about 400 bucks a piece and I'm not really sure what the graphics card costs. It's a decent 3d card, ati I think, and it will play games fine I suppose, however, when I play games I generally just play on one screen and I doubt I would justify the costs just for a game machine. It's the screen area for opening multiple windows so that I can work with multiple applications, documents, etc at the same time that makes this setup pay for itself.
All that being said, if I had the ability to throw in a third or even a fourth monitor at the same cost per screen, I'd likely do so. When I built my current working system, I didn't see a way to reasonably afford more than two screens, but I'm all for gamers to push the envelope pushing hardware so that I can get the parts myself at a reasonable price.
This seems to be the best system that is currently available. Hopefully, within my lifetime they'll come up with a way to make digital ink on paper that is touch enabled and wireless. If they do that, I'll be happy to get rid of my extra monitors and just work with that.
If you can't work with others, then you will be fired. On occasion you make exceptions for an employee, but not to the point of having someone around that will not work with others. If your business is dependent on any one thing, whether customer, supplier or employee to make it work then you're in the wrong business.
The first thing I think about when I see this if free advertising for the accused lawyer. I mean if only 19 people have used the documents and 10x the number have paid for said documents at 20 bucks a pop. That's only around 4k of revenue. The article published on slashdot will likely generate far more income now. So the question is, are these documents real and effective or is this just an advertising campaign?
So, they are being charged with a total of 40 years jail time and $750K in fines for information worth 40 million?
The 40 years is definitely nasty, but looking at the 750K, I've gotta think.. that's like 3 dollars worth of mp3's if they had them online. Seems like GM would get a better deal by getting them charged with copyright infringement per page stolen.
Using misappropriated proprietary code means that you have to turn over all income from said product plus since you knew it was proprietary damages are tripled so you still owe more. Most people will forgive past violations with GPL as long as you come into compliance or stop distributing said item. How is it easier if they use proprietary code?
Copyright laws handle the use/copying of other people's code not patent law. Patent law keeps others from using ideas that have been thought of before. Case in point, one click shopping. A completely obvious idea. Don't say it's the exception to the rule of a good patent. The fact remains that it has been defended in a court of law and Amazon won.
I've been a part of two companies that have been sued over patent issues. In neither case were said companies found to be infringing on said patents; however, the court costs drove one company into the decision to stop producing software in the specific market and the other drove the company out of business. Even though the second company "won", the court cost after the patent suit, ie filing costs and such to reverse an earlier injunction were just too much and couldn't be afforded after having been effectively unable to sell their product for over 2 years.
I've also been a part of a company that had a patent, but lacked the resources to actually fight when another company used the idea that they had patented. Not to imply the other company had copied anything it was just the "obvious" way to do things. The other company was a division of a much larger company with the resources to actually develop the idea faster since they had more resources to throw at the development. In the end the primary company decided to sell out to the bigger company because the costs to fight for the patent enforcement were likely to cost more than could be afforded.
I've only worked for a few companies that were large enough to have significant patent portfolios and resources to fight patents both for an against. I have worked for a number of smaller companies and haven't seen any advantage for said small companies from patents.
So I have a variety of negative experience from patent issues and frankly haven't seen anything positive that patents have promoted.
Doubt you'll see large companies spring up, since exporting software would still require the software to respect laws in the the countries that the software was sold in.
That being said, for someone that likes to work on computers and write programs, retiring to somewhere that guarantees that you will not be living in fear of being sued for accidentally publishing something that someone has a patent on would be nice.
Heck, doesn't matter if you actually did step on someone's patent or not. As a retiree I don't see how I could afford to fight any patent infringement suit whether or not I was infringing. I have no desire to forfeit my retirement income which is needed to actually feed cloth and house me all because someone wants to control something I thought of.
Well, speaking as someone that at one point of time held a security clearance above secret. Being in debt and not having many friends didn't seem to impact my ability to get my clearance. Although, I assume drugs will instantly disqualify you if you are currently using, previous use in the past doesn't seem to disqualify you either.
As long as you're honest, getting a high level security clearance is fairly easy, just takes the FBI 6+ months to check up on you and give you the go ahead.
So a basic background check really shouldn't be that hard to pass, in my opinion.
Hmmm, one caveat I got my clearance 20 years ago or so, not sure if it's gotten worse since the creation of the DHS.
I'd have to call BS on this. I don't for a second believe that the artist gets 5% or frankly anywhere near that. I believe the another article on slashdot within the last few days indicated that artists get 23 dollars out of every 1000 and that is for traditional cd's. As I understand it from other articles I have read, artists usually make far less on digital media than on traditional media. So if your going to claim that artists are receiving 5% of the gross price of a track from itunes your going to have to list some references before I'll put much stock in what you're saying. Even if we discount the fact that your posting as an AC.
Ummm, gee it's simple enough to get someone's facebook account. I generally do it by saying, "What's your facebook account?" How is this a security flaw?
What does it matter if he was or wasn't a spy and was working at Microsoft? Do people actually believe that Microsoft software is in any way secure? It's rather easy to install a key logger remotely on a Windows machine, so easy in fact there is no reason to actually consider Microsoft is in any way secure.
Am I wrong or does the EULA basically say that nothing that Microsoft holds no responsibility for any actions that the operating system does. Furthermore, don't they basically advertise the fact that the system isn't secure in the first place and "suggest" you install third party software in order to try to prevent common worms and viruses?
So why in the world would someone more or less, no matter what their nationality, make me any more or less comfortable about the basic operating system in the first place?
I guess the key phrase for me here is "built using artificial intelligence developed by Lionhead studios." Frankly, after seeing the shift that Lionhead produced with Black & White, compared to all the hype of what the game was supposed to be, ie major breakthrough in AI, I've just come to dismiss anything coming from Lionhead as just a bunch of marketing BS.
Thanks for the link to the video, it's quick and points out obvious flaws. I suppose at least this time Microsoft wasn't under oath when they presented faked video.
Frankly, yes you can steal from the public domain. Every time congress has extended the copyright of materials that have already been produced, ie grandfathering old materials under new copyright law, they have been stealing from the public domain. As such, I don't give a damn about copyright other than as a form of attribution. I use GPL, so I am relying on the copyright laws, doesn't mean that I actually like them or respect them.
You might want to create a torrent of the data and stick it on a public tracker somewhere so that others could help you with the hosting costs. Maybe just post the torrent link in addition to the file.
Somewhat misleading when it compares downloading a track at 99 cents and the cost of an album at 9.99 and states 140 or so album sales versus 1200 track sales to get the same effect. Seems to me that they are roughly equivalent unless your just putting one decent song on an album, in which case you probably don't deserve to be making the money from the whole album.
Just seems a bit misleading to me, should be presented better.
Just a brief note on the fake ssn comment. While you may go to jail for fraud if you use a fake ssn, make sure that you randomly make up a ssn and don't use a social security number of someone you actually know of, ie identity theft. Otherwise you'll get a heavier sentence.
Growth industry for LifeLock. Now in addition to protecting your credit, they will bail you out of jail when someone uses your identity to buy a cell phone.
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Ps, projector resolution is sucks. Have a projector to throw a movie on a wall or display a slide show is all fine and well, but I need high resolution to cram as much data in as small of a space as possible, while still being readable. If I had to turn my head drastically to look at different areas, it wouldn't be as effective as the solution I currently work with.
Well, I guess some folks are saying that coding doesn't need that much space, but frankly I'm with you. I typically have my reference docs up on one screen and the code I'm working with on another. If I could get a third screen, I'd be more than happy to do it. I run at the highest resolution I can and could always use more room.
Having multiple screens, I always can just flick my eyes to where I need to be, either browser, documentation, email, code, etc. For those of you without multiple monitors, think of it like the difference between using Firefox tabs, since they are a pain to break out of the original browser window and google chrome. With chrome, if I'm reading something and I want to look something up, I pop up a new tab, pull in off the original into a new window and type in my request in the browser window. I'd never do that with firefox, at least not yet, the latency with each of those actions is too large and breaks me out of my thought process.
To me, it's steps like these that lead me more to a minority report or paycheck type of user interface. I'm not saying that I cannot work in a smaller space. But it's like the difference win working in one of those chairs with the swivel up little writing pad in comparison to a big desk where I can have a stack of books, 3 or 4 notepad tablets for writing notes, a couple of open books, maybe a lamp for extra light, a cup full of pencils, a calculator, etc, etc, etc.
Anything that saves me time so that I don't break my thought flow while waiting for the system to switch a page or redraw a page or pull up a new application is great. A fast refresh may not be essential, but it surely cannot hurt. Currently, I run a dual screen solution, with a viewing area of 3800 x 1200 using 2 Samsung SyncMaster 2443 flatscreens. One of the best thing about these screens is that I an also swivel them vertically to fit a page of text in pdf into a very readable whole screen view. The monitors run about 400 bucks a piece and I'm not really sure what the graphics card costs. It's a decent 3d card, ati I think, and it will play games fine I suppose, however, when I play games I generally just play on one screen and I doubt I would justify the costs just for a game machine. It's the screen area for opening multiple windows so that I can work with multiple applications, documents, etc at the same time that makes this setup pay for itself.
All that being said, if I had the ability to throw in a third or even a fourth monitor at the same cost per screen, I'd likely do so. When I built my current working system, I didn't see a way to reasonably afford more than two screens, but I'm all for gamers to push the envelope pushing hardware so that I can get the parts myself at a reasonable price.
This seems to be the best system that is currently available. Hopefully, within my lifetime they'll come up with a way to make digital ink on paper that is touch enabled and wireless. If they do that, I'll be happy to get rid of my extra monitors and just work with that.
Especially considering that FB is one of the most unethical companies out there.
If you can't work with others, then you will be fired. On occasion you make exceptions for an employee, but not to the point of having someone around that will not work with others. If your business is dependent on any one thing, whether customer, supplier or employee to make it work then you're in the wrong business.
Ah, very good. A reference that carries a bit of credibility. Thanks for the information.
The first thing I think about when I see this if free advertising for the accused lawyer. I mean if only 19 people have used the documents and 10x the number have paid for said documents at 20 bucks a pop. That's only around 4k of revenue. The article published on slashdot will likely generate far more income now. So the question is, are these documents real and effective or is this just an advertising campaign?
Heh, I agree. Hundreds of languages out there, what does it matter if there is a new language. Especially if it's proprietary.
So, they are being charged with a total of 40 years jail time and $750K in fines for information worth 40 million?
The 40 years is definitely nasty, but looking at the 750K, I've gotta think.. that's like 3 dollars worth of mp3's if they had them online. Seems like GM would get a better deal by getting them charged with copyright infringement per page stolen.
Heh, still took reading through it a couple of times to get your meaning. I'm a bit dense sometimes. Thanks for the correction.
Using misappropriated proprietary code means that you have to turn over all income from said product plus since you knew it was proprietary damages are tripled so you still owe more. Most people will forgive past violations with GPL as long as you come into compliance or stop distributing said item. How is it easier if they use proprietary code?
Gamestop used to, but not anymore.
Copyright laws handle the use/copying of other people's code not patent law. Patent law keeps others from using ideas that have been thought of before. Case in point, one click shopping. A completely obvious idea. Don't say it's the exception to the rule of a good patent. The fact remains that it has been defended in a court of law and Amazon won.
I've been a part of two companies that have been sued over patent issues. In neither case were said companies found to be infringing on said patents; however, the court costs drove one company into the decision to stop producing software in the specific market and the other drove the company out of business. Even though the second company "won", the court cost after the patent suit, ie filing costs and such to reverse an earlier injunction were just too much and couldn't be afforded after having been effectively unable to sell their product for over 2 years.
I've also been a part of a company that had a patent, but lacked the resources to actually fight when another company used the idea that they had patented. Not to imply the other company had copied anything it was just the "obvious" way to do things. The other company was a division of a much larger company with the resources to actually develop the idea faster since they had more resources to throw at the development. In the end the primary company decided to sell out to the bigger company because the costs to fight for the patent enforcement were likely to cost more than could be afforded.
I've only worked for a few companies that were large enough to have significant patent portfolios and resources to fight patents both for an against. I have worked for a number of smaller companies and haven't seen any advantage for said small companies from patents.
So I have a variety of negative experience from patent issues and frankly haven't seen anything positive that patents have promoted.
Doubt you'll see large companies spring up, since exporting software would still require the software to respect laws in the the countries that the software was sold in.
That being said, for someone that likes to work on computers and write programs, retiring to somewhere that guarantees that you will not be living in fear of being sued for accidentally publishing something that someone has a patent on would be nice.
Heck, doesn't matter if you actually did step on someone's patent or not. As a retiree I don't see how I could afford to fight any patent infringement suit whether or not I was infringing. I have no desire to forfeit my retirement income which is needed to actually feed cloth and house me all because someone wants to control something I thought of.
Anyone know what the immigration laws are for NZ? I'm real tired of having to worry about getting sued for the software I work on.
Any other issues with NZ law? They aren't trying to filter the internet or anything are they?
Well, speaking as someone that at one point of time held a security clearance above secret. Being in debt and not having many friends didn't seem to impact my ability to get my clearance. Although, I assume drugs will instantly disqualify you if you are currently using, previous use in the past doesn't seem to disqualify you either.
As long as you're honest, getting a high level security clearance is fairly easy, just takes the FBI 6+ months to check up on you and give you the go ahead.
So a basic background check really shouldn't be that hard to pass, in my opinion.
Hmmm, one caveat I got my clearance 20 years ago or so, not sure if it's gotten worse since the creation of the DHS.
I'd have to call BS on this. I don't for a second believe that the artist gets 5% or frankly anywhere near that. I believe the another article on slashdot within the last few days indicated that artists get 23 dollars out of every 1000 and that is for traditional cd's. As I understand it from other articles I have read, artists usually make far less on digital media than on traditional media. So if your going to claim that artists are receiving 5% of the gross price of a track from itunes your going to have to list some references before I'll put much stock in what you're saying. Even if we discount the fact that your posting as an AC.
Ummm, gee it's simple enough to get someone's facebook account. I generally do it by saying, "What's your facebook account?" How is this a security flaw?
What does it matter if he was or wasn't a spy and was working at Microsoft? Do people actually believe that Microsoft software is in any way secure? It's rather easy to install a key logger remotely on a Windows machine, so easy in fact there is no reason to actually consider Microsoft is in any way secure.
Am I wrong or does the EULA basically say that nothing that Microsoft holds no responsibility for any actions that the operating system does. Furthermore, don't they basically advertise the fact that the system isn't secure in the first place and "suggest" you install third party software in order to try to prevent common worms and viruses?
So why in the world would someone more or less, no matter what their nationality, make me any more or less comfortable about the basic operating system in the first place?
I guess the key phrase for me here is "built using artificial intelligence developed by Lionhead studios." Frankly, after seeing the shift that Lionhead produced with Black & White, compared to all the hype of what the game was supposed to be, ie major breakthrough in AI, I've just come to dismiss anything coming from Lionhead as just a bunch of marketing BS.
Thanks for the link to the video, it's quick and points out obvious flaws. I suppose at least this time Microsoft wasn't under oath when they presented faked video.
Frankly, yes you can steal from the public domain. Every time congress has extended the copyright of materials that have already been produced, ie grandfathering old materials under new copyright law, they have been stealing from the public domain. As such, I don't give a damn about copyright other than as a form of attribution. I use GPL, so I am relying on the copyright laws, doesn't mean that I actually like them or respect them.
You might want to create a torrent of the data and stick it on a public tracker somewhere so that others could help you with the hosting costs. Maybe just post the torrent link in addition to the file.
Just a suggestion.
Somewhat misleading when it compares downloading a track at 99 cents and the cost of an album at 9.99 and states 140 or so album sales versus 1200 track sales to get the same effect. Seems to me that they are roughly equivalent unless your just putting one decent song on an album, in which case you probably don't deserve to be making the money from the whole album.
Just seems a bit misleading to me, should be presented better.
4 million is what percent of 40 million? Seems more like 10% not 20%.
Just a brief note on the fake ssn comment. While you may go to jail for fraud if you use a fake ssn, make sure that you randomly make up a ssn and don't use a social security number of someone you actually know of, ie identity theft. Otherwise you'll get a heavier sentence.
http://techdirt.com/articles/20100520/0032159501.shtml
Growth industry for LifeLock. Now in addition to protecting your credit, they will bail you out of jail when someone uses your identity to buy a cell phone.