Great FUD. I'm a bit surprised that the statement was elevated to insightful as similar statements could be made concerning other car types:
It's only going to take one vehicle roll over before the public sours on SUVs.
It's only going to take one impact with a large vehicle before the public sours on compact cars.
The problem is not that an accident might occur that will sour the public impression. Problems like the one mentioned above have existed for decades and people are still buying the vehicles--case point spontaneous combustion due to parts generating too much heat. Automobile manufactures don't issue a recall until a problem becomes systemic which means that many instances of the problem have already occurred to individuals. Yet, others continue buying the cars and when the recall notice goes out, the problem gets fixed. Simply saying that a lithium battery will catch fire is nothing more than FUD.
What is wrong with an iPod that plays nothing but Steely Dan? I'd buy one if Apple made it.
All Steely Dan, All the Time
There's far worse iTunes/iPod problems to complain about. How about their choices with DRM, difficulties with moving your iPod from one computer (home) to another (work)? Add a third (laptop at home) and then what?
I listen to several different podcasts; if this pay-per-listen model becomes successful, it'll cost me more to listen to four shows then I'm paying for basic cable. Instead of paying for the show, I simply won't listen; or I'll wait for my friends to download them and ask if they wouldn't mind letting me listen while they listened (is that covered by the fair use model?).
That's an interesting theory. I have read and heard numerous other theories which suggest that a little alcohol goes a long way to keeping a person healthy (I've always believed that they mean it in the stress reduction sense, but maybe there's more to it). Of course, you'll always find your special interest, hardline religious groups who think otherwise. Can anyone say prohibition?
Can anyone also say, "Neo-prohibition is rediculous. Alcohol and drinking alcohol is not a sin."
And why is this moderated as "interesting?" There isn't anything interesting about it at all. Where are the useful details like signal level, transfer rate, packet loss, etc?
This post is nothing more than a lame "first post" that caused moderation to be adopted in the first place. The moderators should be ashamed of themselves. Let's get some worthy content moderated, not these noops.
"Those who would sacrifice essential liberties for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin
I believe that these words ring true today and should be considered before blindly giving up any freedom.
In the united states, we have witnessed the government take away our freedoms in the name of protecting us from terrorism. We've spent billions of dollars on securing ourselves; setting up organizations to protect us and rescue us from tragedy and evil doers. Yet, after spending all of this money and losing our personal liberties, we're at a point where we're no better off than we were before. In fact, we've gone further down the rabbit hole and are in a worse place than where we started. A case example is the ineffective response to a national tragedy (ie Katrina). What use was the tax payers' money put to?
It certainly didn't help us to help the people in NOLA within a reasonable time frame.
The first sentence in the post mentions 2003, but the link leads to the 2004 awards (the title of the article says 2004, too). Could an editor fix the mistake?
I've been using linux since 1.2.13 and I find the copy paste method to be 100% accurate to how I expect the behavior to occur. I find the opposite scenario to be frustrating -- logging into a windows or cyrus on windows machine and dealing with their draconian cut & patste one hand on the mouse, the other on the keyboard, carpal tunnel syndrome inducing method to be... lacking.
If any linux/unix developers are reading this, please don't change linux to match some assinine OS like windows.
Does anyone read these posts before putting them up on the web site? The sentences that were used to construct this story don't have any business being put next to each other. The pronouns are all mixed up.
I was looking through adult material on amazon one day when suddenly my "Page made for me" turned into a "Christian's Must Read" list. There were books about jesus, moral obligations of christians, etc everywhere I looked. It was an outrage.
I still haven't figured out which of the following options are the cause:
Christians buy a lot of masturbation material (and apparently christian books at the same time).
Some demented christian programmer works at Amazon and thinks that consumers of p0rn are sick and immoral and need to be set straight.
This story has got to be the stupidest story I've ever read. It matters not where the radio talent is. Even if that talent were a computer, talking about how "cold it was," I could care less where it was based.
Many people in this world telecommute. Why should this guy be any different? Why should some news paper spend more than a word commenting on it and interviewing some "ethics experts."
Why is this event considered news? Who cares what script kiddies are doing in their spare time. Does news of a denial of service attack have any implication on SCO's claims of ownership of the linux source code?
Moderation is difficult in any media format as we've all seen from majordomo lists, usenet and/. I've been running (with the help of many others) a few mailing lists for close to three years now-- Only non-member posts [from email addresses that are not directly subscribed] are moderated. We seem to be able to get along quite well with this clause (although we don't have 80 thousand users like/.). However, sometimes a post slips through that instigates a flame or two.
Deciding when it is the right time to step in and discontinue a thread is a highly controversial topic. On/. there's a great concern over not allowing ACs to post. We've all seen the trouble that ACs have caused in the past. Maybe the new change with/. is really just a bandaid for a greater problem. ACs sometimes ruin it for all of us.
I suggest AC status be a privaledge, not a right. If someone wants to post as an AC, they must prove themself by making valid, worth while and non-flamebait posts that the moderators pick up on. After increasing their score, they can obtain a rank, which in turn gives them a checkbox in the post form allowing their posts to appear as AC.
These people could also turn this feature on and off through out the life cycle of a post should they remain in good standing. This will give them the option of accepting direct responses to an opinion or denying them -- long before the messages arrive in their inbox.
I think this will provide us all with a kinder, gentler AC that we can live with as well as protect the rights of the ACs who aren't abusing their privaledge (and us).
That's what I said when I posted my message -- I asked about SVideo, not SVHS. Apparently, Malda thinks he knows more than we do about this subject and had some sort of calling that the true subject line should read SVHS and not SVideo.
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Great FUD. I'm a bit surprised that the statement was elevated to insightful as similar statements could be made concerning other car types:
It's only going to take one vehicle roll over before the public sours on SUVs.
It's only going to take one impact with a large vehicle before the public sours on compact cars.
The problem is not that an accident might occur that will sour the public impression. Problems like the one mentioned above have existed for decades and people are still buying the vehicles--case point spontaneous combustion due to parts generating too much heat. Automobile manufactures don't issue a recall until a problem becomes systemic which means that many instances of the problem have already occurred to individuals. Yet, others continue buying the cars and when the recall notice goes out, the problem gets fixed. Simply saying that a lithium battery will catch fire is nothing more than FUD.
What is wrong with an iPod that plays nothing but Steely Dan? I'd buy one if Apple made it.
All Steely Dan, All the Time
There's far worse iTunes/iPod problems to complain about. How about their choices with DRM, difficulties with moving your iPod from one computer (home) to another (work)? Add a third (laptop at home) and then what?
I listen to several different podcasts; if this pay-per-listen model becomes successful, it'll cost me more to listen to four shows then I'm paying for basic cable. Instead of paying for the show, I simply won't listen; or I'll wait for my friends to download them and ask if they wouldn't mind letting me listen while they listened (is that covered by the fair use model?).
That's an interesting theory. I have read and heard numerous other theories which suggest that a little alcohol goes a long way to keeping a person healthy (I've always believed that they mean it in the stress reduction sense, but maybe there's more to it). Of course, you'll always find your special interest, hardline religious groups who think otherwise. Can anyone say prohibition?
Can anyone also say, "Neo-prohibition is rediculous. Alcohol and drinking alcohol is not a sin."
People like you?
Where's the useful content on this thing?
And why is this moderated as "interesting?" There isn't anything interesting about it at all. Where are the useful details like signal level, transfer rate, packet loss, etc?
This post is nothing more than a lame "first post" that caused moderation to be adopted in the first place. The moderators should be ashamed of themselves. Let's get some worthy content moderated, not these noops.
-- Benjamin Franklin
I believe that these words ring true today and should be considered before blindly giving up any freedom.
In the united states, we have witnessed the government take away our freedoms in the name of protecting us from terrorism. We've spent billions of dollars on securing ourselves; setting up organizations to protect us and rescue us from tragedy and evil doers. Yet, after spending all of this money and losing our personal liberties, we're at a point where we're no better off than we were before. In fact, we've gone further down the rabbit hole and are in a worse place than where we started. A case example is the ineffective response to a national tragedy (ie Katrina). What use was the tax payers' money put to?
It certainly didn't help us to help the people in NOLA within a reasonable time frame.
The first sentence in the post mentions 2003, but the link leads to the 2004 awards (the title of the article says 2004, too). Could an editor fix the mistake?
I've been using linux since 1.2.13 and I find the copy paste method to be 100% accurate to how I expect the behavior to occur. I find the opposite scenario to be frustrating -- logging into a windows or cyrus on windows machine and dealing with their draconian cut & patste one hand on the mouse, the other on the keyboard, carpal tunnel syndrome inducing method to be ... lacking.
If any linux/unix developers are reading this, please don't change linux to match some assinine OS like windows.
Does anyone read these posts before putting them up on the web site? The sentences that were used to construct this story don't have any business being put next to each other. The pronouns are all mixed up.
Rediculous.
I had to work for Phil Hughes of Linux Journal.
This story has got to be the stupidest story I've ever read. It matters not where the radio talent is. Even if that talent were a computer, talking about how "cold it was," I could care less where it was based.
Many people in this world telecommute. Why should this guy be any different? Why should some news paper spend more than a word commenting on it and interviewing some "ethics experts."
It must be a slow news day in Boston.
Why is this event considered news? Who cares what script kiddies are doing in their spare time. Does news of a denial of service attack have any implication on SCO's claims of ownership of the linux source code?
Deciding when it is the right time to step in and discontinue a thread is a highly controversial topic. On /. there's a great concern over not allowing ACs to post. We've all seen the trouble that ACs have caused in the past. Maybe the new change with /. is really just a bandaid for a greater problem. ACs sometimes ruin it for all of us.
I suggest AC status be a privaledge, not a right. If someone wants to post as an AC, they must prove themself by making valid, worth while and non-flamebait posts that the moderators pick up on. After increasing their score, they can obtain a rank, which in turn gives them a checkbox in the post form allowing their posts to appear as AC.
These people could also turn this feature on and off through out the life cycle of a post should they remain in good standing. This will give them the option of accepting direct responses to an opinion or denying them -- long before the messages arrive in their inbox.
I think this will provide us all with a kinder, gentler AC that we can live with as well as protect the rights of the ACs who aren't abusing their privaledge (and us).
That's what I said when I posted my message -- I asked about SVideo, not SVHS. Apparently, Malda thinks he knows more than we do about this subject and had some sort of calling that the true subject line should read SVHS and not SVideo.