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Thi smay not be the first but
I prefer Purple.com
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Purple Pandora Second Life
Purple.com which is one of the rare ones that is what you'd expect, I believe I've even achieved the high score in the purple game, but it's hard to tell and that squirrel is quick.
Pandora has to be mentioned, I'm surprised nobody else has yet, but a service that plays music based upon what you enjoy, rather than popularity, artificial genres, names, etc.? If Pandora were a woman, I'd be a happily married man.
Second Life is truly unique. An online virtual world that is so unique, it's nearly impossible to define. It's not a game although games can be played there. It's not a social site, although you may socialize there. It's not a place to go make money although some earn livings there. You can waste tons of time there and feel you haven't spent enough.
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Go for lease, name your price
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Go for lease, name your price
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My combination is...
all purple.
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Re:Over all these years
Look at the source for http://www.purple.com/purple.html.
Notice the line: <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="86400; URL=index2.html">
In other words, if you leave the purple page open for 24 hours, you get a new page with actual content (sort of)!
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Re:Over all these years
Look at the source for http://www.purple.com/purple.html.
Notice the line: <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="86400; URL=index2.html">
In other words, if you leave the purple page open for 24 hours, you get a new page with actual content (sort of)!
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Re:Over all these years
The difference is that Zombo.com has only been since 1999, and therefore does not fall into the same category as the sites in TFA, whereas purple.com has been around since 1994.
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Re:Why portscanning must be legal.But you should be able to do that. You're simply examining a public interface. It's like walking downtown on a Sunday past various shops and things, and pulling on the doors to see if they're open. If they're open, you can assume that you can walk in and do business there. Of course, you still can't go into rooms that say "Staff Only.
Without portscanning, how do you find out what services a host provides to the public? A website is not the answer, because there's no obligation for a host to set up an HTTP server just because they want to offer IRC. See purple.com for an example of this.
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Commercialization *IS* Everything (Long)Without commercialization of the Internet, you would't have been able to post a ZDNet Talkback -- ZDNet wouldn't exist! Without commercialization of the Internet, Slashdot wouldn't exist in its present form -- Rob, Hemos, et. al. would have to do "honest work". In fact, without commercialization in general, the computer that you use to post with would be priced out of your reach!
The Internet is about exchanging information and ideas
The thing you don't get is that the "information and ideas" that 90% of the people want are various forms of entertainment! That's why download.com gets a few more hits than, say, iww.org. That's why sex.com is just a leetle more popular than aynrand.org. Taking away the entertainment, and what do you have? ARPANET.
Screw e-commerce. Let the moneygrubbers build their OWN e-commerce network.
They are. It's called the Internet. Without those "money-grubbers", how much infrastructure do you think we'd have? Who'd know or even care what the Internet was?
The Internet is an information resource and a "low barrier to entry" publishing medium that almost anybody can make use of
Including anyone who wants to make a buck or two, but doesn't have the $$$ to put up a store front, or even advertise in the local paper. A "Money-Grubber".
"Let them turn something else into a vast wasteland of advertising and product hawking like television has become."
On my cable package, there are three "home shopping" channels, and three "artsy" channels (PBS, local access, and one from the local Univ.). I don't have to watch Home Shopping. Again, do you think that without commercialization, local access cable would exist? Hell, let's go back the the first broadcast medium, radio. One of the first radio programs was "The Westinghouse Radio Hour". You see, Westinghouse made radios, but there was no programming. So they gave people something to listen to on their new Westinghouse radios. Without "moneygrubbers", radio wouldn't taken off. Without radio (and the vast radio audience), no TV. So, where's your PBS now?
What value does something have if it doesn't have value?
Answer: None, obviously.
What good is something if you can't get something from it?
Answer: See above.
"Value" is essentially "what this thing will get me". Nothing more. The Internet is obviously valuable, because many people have gotten many things from it. Some people get their message out. Some people show pictures of their dog. Some people get...something from it, even if nobody else gets it!Just because some people have gotten money from it, doesn't exclude you from getting what you want from it.
The Internet is an infinitely renewable resource. No one has to be exposed to advertising and commercialisim if they don't want to be. You can rant and rail against commercialisim and share some human knowledge on your own web site, and it won't bother me a bit.
Me, I'm gonna go to www.lickinlesbos.com.
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