Does this mean that if some troll posts a message with a copyright notice, and then demands that Taco take it down, and he doesn't, they'll be legally able to do automated crapflooding on a large scale?
Wow, lofty ambition what with all the competition out there.
There are a number of companies competing with him. Some are selling to the world via the web, others sell at conventions only and thus to a smaller audience.
Some of them make one lightsaber a month, not one hundred like Jeff, and thus can devote an awful lot of work into making them be of top quality.
So yes, that's a lofty ambition.
You're talking about a market that is large enough that it made this guy a millionaire; doesn't that clue you in?
He has to have sold tens of thousands of these in order to have made a million bucks of profit, and he's just one guy in the market.
Go to any big SF convention and check out the dealer room. You'll see a couple of vendors, and they'll probably be small regional vendors in just your area. Plus many SW fans who participate in weird convention costume behavior make their own, and some of those people do quite excellent work.
And on top of that, he's competing with the folks who make the officially-licensed ones, which are GORGEOUS.
It is indeed a lofty ambition, because the competition is one of quality, not quantity.
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I've just seen too many of these stories posted on Slashdot lately... where it looks like the poster has just wanted to sound cool by not bothering to explain to the 99% of the population that isn't familiar with their pet little hobby, WTF they are talking about.
If you want to power a spacecraft with lasers, you need to do pretty much the same thing. However, in space you cannot suck in cool air, so you need to carry some other sort of reaction mass to jet out the back of the rocket. The laser provides energy to accelerate the reaction mass.
He's probably thinking about a light pressure drive, where you basically use a big damn sheet of mirrored plastic and just shine a laser at it, using the miniscule pressure of the photons (but you make it up in volume! volume! volume!) to push the ship.
There is *NO* Fox run. It's syndicated. In some places that means it's on the Fox affiliate. In others, the WB or UPN affiliate. In others, one not affiliated with any network.
Hell, in some places it's probably on the NBC affiliate.
I thought you people got this concept during Deep Space Nine?
This will last right up until the school district's attorneys find out it's happening.
All it will take is a single jackass parent to turn this into a huge expense for the school, which means a huge expense for anybody paying taxes in that district.
Until the problems with America's courts get fixed, I wouldn't recommend this.
If he'd have written a network file system, their analysis would read:
"We have determined that it is incompatible with Sun's NFS, and that the license allows Bernstein to remove your ability to use the program merely by changing his web page."
Hopefully Sony will buy out NCSoft before City of Heroes comes out. Screw Star Wars, being PKed by half a jillion identical Dark Jedi named Darth HaX0r0048 doesn't appeal to me.
A large order of Justice with a scoop of Truth and The American Way on top, now, THAT'S a game.
I can walk on the street at night without fear of being shot by any maniac who bought a gun at the seven eleven, and my governmente is not breathing down my neck to protect Disney's encryption schemes.
Can you? Mexico's homicide rate is more than twice that of the US.
When's the last time you heard about people being shot in an armed rebellion in the US?
For years they have been touting Solaris and Sparc hardware to be the best solution for every business. Now, they have to go into meetings stating they were wrong and maybe Linux on Sparc hardware is best some of the time, and maybe Linux on other hardware is better some of the time. The credibility of their developers and executives does not hold up, and their stock prices and board reports show it.
That's incompetent marketing. Anybody with half a brain could present that in a light that doesn't hurt their credibility.
"The computer field is fast-moving. Thanks to the great skill and dedication of the UNIX community, which as you know is the backbone of how Solaris came to be, Linux has made great strides in recent years. It now makes sense to deploy Linux in some places where, even a couple of years ago, Solaris was the clear winner. But Sun retains our commitment to giving our users the most possible bang for their IT buck, and so we offer a Linux solution for the low end, based on our award-winning sparc processing architecture. When you're ready to scale up to the high end, we offer Linux application compatibility on our best-of-breed Solaris-based systems."
God, I feel so dirty for typing that. But anybody with a day of experience in marketing could turn that into gold. Golden bullshit, but gold nonetheless.
I read an estimate once that the moment a new antivirus file is released, it contains perhaps 80% of the currently-existing viruses.
Several more new ones are written every day.
Scanning your email but continuing to use an MUA with fundamental design flaws is 20% useless.
Meanwhile, the number of email viruses that have affected my system is still hovering at zero, and I don't even own an antivirus program. (Or "license" one).
No worries, the first time you have down time because your admins didn't install a patch a month before an exploit hit the wild (Code Red), you're no longer providing services to us.
It doesn't matter whether Robertson is on the level or not, we should leave him alone for now.
When Lindows comes out, either he'll release the source, or he won't.
If he does, then we win because we get the source, problem solved.
If he doesn't, then the FSF can sue after he's made some sales, when his pockets are deeper. We don't win as big that way, but at least we mitigate the damage.
You have just been diagnosed with cancer. Your doctor says you have a 97% chance of survival. Aren't you glad they gathered that demographic data to know that?
No, not really. In that case, I should be living my life like I'm gonna be in the 3%, not the 97%, so the information does me little good.
Especially since it doesn't take into account any of the factors that put me in one group or the other.
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Does this mean that if some troll posts a message with a copyright notice, and then demands that Taco take it down, and he doesn't, they'll be legally able to do automated crapflooding on a large scale?
Wow, lofty ambition what with all the competition out there.
There are a number of companies competing with him. Some are selling to the world via the web, others sell at conventions only and thus to a smaller audience.
Some of them make one lightsaber a month, not one hundred like Jeff, and thus can devote an awful lot of work into making them be of top quality.
So yes, that's a lofty ambition.
You're talking about a market that is large enough that it made this guy a millionaire; doesn't that clue you in?
He has to have sold tens of thousands of these in order to have made a million bucks of profit, and he's just one guy in the market.
Go to any big SF convention and check out the dealer room. You'll see a couple of vendors, and they'll probably be small regional vendors in just your area. Plus many SW fans who participate in weird convention costume behavior make their own, and some of those people do quite excellent work.
And on top of that, he's competing with the folks who make the officially-licensed ones, which are GORGEOUS.
It is indeed a lofty ambition, because the competition is one of quality, not quantity.
I've just seen too many of these stories posted on Slashdot lately ... where it looks like the poster has just wanted to sound cool by not bothering to explain to the 99% of the population that isn't familiar with their pet little hobby, WTF they are talking about.
Do you own homework, troll.
WTF moderated that up?
Someone should make a special program to detect and turn off Virus programs!
Like the one in the system tray on a default McAfee installation?
If you want to power a spacecraft with lasers, you need to do pretty much the same thing. However, in space you cannot suck in cool air, so you need to carry some other sort of reaction mass to jet out the back of the rocket. The laser provides energy to accelerate the reaction mass.
He's probably thinking about a light pressure drive, where you basically use a big damn sheet of mirrored plastic and just shine a laser at it, using the miniscule pressure of the photons (but you make it up in volume! volume! volume!) to push the ship.
They're not just considering Debian, they're considering RedHat, SuSE, and others; so why does this say GNU/Linux?
Maybe it should say "GNU/Linux vs. Microsoft/Microsoft".
I don't think things will get really weird until the communists come up with their own linux distribution.
:-)
What, Debian's been out for years...
One last misconception to clear up:
There is *NO* Fox run. It's syndicated. In some places that means it's on the Fox affiliate. In others, the WB or UPN affiliate. In others, one not affiliated with any network.
Hell, in some places it's probably on the NBC affiliate.
I thought you people got this concept during Deep Space Nine?
When I first saw the name, I figured it was a new Fortran from Microsoft...
This will last right up until the school district's attorneys find out it's happening.
All it will take is a single jackass parent to turn this into a huge expense for the school, which means a huge expense for anybody paying taxes in that district.
Until the problems with America's courts get fixed, I wouldn't recommend this.
If he'd have written a network file system, their analysis would read:
"We have determined that it is incompatible with Sun's NFS, and that the license allows Bernstein to remove your ability to use the program merely by changing his web page."
Hopefully Sony will buy out NCSoft before City of Heroes comes out. Screw Star Wars, being PKed by half a jillion identical Dark Jedi named Darth HaX0r0048 doesn't appeal to me.
A large order of Justice with a scoop of Truth and The American Way on top, now, THAT'S a game.
Does it really have to say "download the .EXE for your platform" before you understand it?
Platform? What's a platform?
Download? How do I do that?
You can only coddle those who know nothing so far. Better to use proper terminology, and then teach that terminology to the confused.
And no, command lines didn't start with DOS and they didn't go out with DOS. (chuckle).
A-fucking-men.
Isn't there some better way to learn about cool people like this guy before they're likely to die?
Yeah; the web, for instance. You had never heard of James Doohan before this story?
You see, there was this TV show in the 1960s...
I can walk on the street at night without fear of being shot by any maniac who bought a gun at the seven eleven, and my governmente is not breathing down my neck to protect Disney's encryption schemes.
Can you? Mexico's homicide rate is more than twice that of the US.
When's the last time you heard about people being shot in an armed rebellion in the US?
They could more than double crew survivability by just sending up three astronauts at a time instead of seven.
Michael Crichton already wrote this story. Get a more original idea if you want to do science fiction, NRC.
For years they have been touting Solaris and Sparc hardware to be the best solution for every business. Now, they have to go into meetings stating they were wrong and maybe Linux on Sparc hardware is best some of the time, and maybe Linux on other hardware is better some of the time. The credibility of their developers and executives does not hold up, and their stock prices and board reports show it.
That's incompetent marketing. Anybody with half a brain could present that in a light that doesn't hurt their credibility.
"The computer field is fast-moving. Thanks to the great skill and dedication of the UNIX community, which as you know is the backbone of how Solaris came to be, Linux has made great strides in recent years. It now makes sense to deploy Linux in some places where, even a couple of years ago, Solaris was the clear winner. But Sun retains our commitment to giving our users the most possible bang for their IT buck, and so we offer a Linux solution for the low end, based on our award-winning sparc processing architecture. When you're ready to scale up to the high end, we offer Linux application compatibility on our best-of-breed Solaris-based systems."
God, I feel so dirty for typing that. But anybody with a day of experience in marketing could turn that into gold. Golden bullshit, but gold nonetheless.
I read an estimate once that the moment a new antivirus file is released, it contains perhaps 80% of the currently-existing viruses.
Several more new ones are written every day.
Scanning your email but continuing to use an MUA with fundamental design flaws is 20% useless.
Meanwhile, the number of email viruses that have affected my system is still hovering at zero, and I don't even own an antivirus program. (Or "license" one).
At this point I'd prefer the solution of disband the entire corporation. Put the pieces on the aution block to pay for fines and restitution.
Great; then IBM or Oracle buys the piece with the Windows source code in it, and we're back in the same boat.
No worries, the first time you have down time because your admins didn't install a patch a month before an exploit hit the wild (Code Red), you're no longer providing services to us.
We're FedEx. Enjoy.
A few Code Red-infected servers brought the rest of our network to it's knees. Nimda also did so, mostly due to the same pack of idiot NT admins.
We pass those costs on to you when you use our services, rest assured.
It doesn't matter whether Robertson is on the level or not, we should leave him alone for now.
When Lindows comes out, either he'll release the source, or he won't.
If he does, then we win because we get the source, problem solved.
If he doesn't, then the FSF can sue after he's made some sales, when his pockets are deeper. We don't win as big that way, but at least we mitigate the damage.
This is the same company that charges $300 a month for a static IP.
That's right, JUST for the static IP.
You have just been diagnosed with cancer. Your doctor says you have a 97% chance of survival. Aren't you glad they gathered that demographic data to know that?
No, not really. In that case, I should be living my life like I'm gonna be in the 3%, not the 97%, so the information does me little good.
Especially since it doesn't take into account any of the factors that put me in one group or the other.