PS: Your posts have always been rather intelligent and at the very least interesting. My post was not a personal attack just a disagreement with your views. PPS: That said, microsoft sux:)
I can't sit here and read this crap without feeling pissed as hell. Who the fsck moderated this up? I don't blame the poster for his words because he admits to being young and not being at MSFT when this story broke...but to moderate it up is just obscene.
Moderators and all interested parties please read this article from a September 1993 issue of Doctor Dobb's Journal and decide for yourself if Caldera had a reason to sue for billion$ and if this was a frivolous lawsuit. Also remember that even though the offending code never shipped to consumers it was shipped to the trade press, who then would review Dr-DOS and in their reviews state that certain error messages popped up...(effectively killing Dr-DOS as a viable option for anyone who planned to buy it based on favorable reviews). Secondly, MSFT would not risk shipping the offending code to consumers less some enterprising hacker discover the truth about the error message, but they failed to account for enterprising hackers in the trade press. PS: DDJ is a first-class magazine. A bit over my head sometimes but first class nonetheless.
Wonder what our friends in Redmond feel about this...AOL is one of their main competitors for domination of the Internet. This must be a real spanner in the works.
PS:I would give anything for a view of the MSFT offices via webcam right now.
PPS: I wonder where this leaves Yahoo...I kinda like 'em and will be sorry to see them left behind. I guess old media/ new media marriages will consume every portal. Since Disney, NBC and USANetworks have all merged with or bought portals, Yahoo is looking more and more naked. Only time wll tell I guess.
Why is this a 5? I dunno ask the moderators...I'm at 2 now so I guess more people agreed with you. I'm kinda surprised at the total of 9 moderations I got.
Sounds more like a troll to me, I think this is a great idea and I'm planning on getting one I'm sorry I have to disagree with you here... this is not a great idea. It's probably not even a good idea. My objection to the device is that it pursues convergence for convergence's sake and does not add utility to the consumer experience (this is similar to why PalmOS is beating Windows CE in the handheld market). The watch is a "build it and they will come" device. It is a neat but rather impractical gadget, it is cumbersome to walk around with headphones sticking out of your watch and secondly the controls would be have to be small and thus difficult to manipulate. This seems to me like a bid by Casio to jump on the "internet-enabled" bandwagon without doing research to see if this is a needed or wanted device. Besides you aren't supposed to listen to it with speakers, you're supposed to use headphones. Yeah, I missed that when I read the article the first time. And why the hell are you listening to rap? 'cuz it's tha muthaf***ing sh*t dawg:)
I don't if that was meant to be funny or not but if it wasn't please read the 20th anniversary edition of Mythical Man Month and you'll realize that this man deserves all the writing awards we can give him. Mythical Man Month should be required reading for every software manager and developer because it points out the fallacies in our reasoning that we are too blind to see as coders and gives good ideas on how to manage real software projects.
PS: He didn't actually win a Nobel award. He won the Turing award which is unofficially regarded by most as the Nobel award for computing.
Cost: projected price US$1099 (excluding shipping) for 4Gb version.
This implies that not only is the player not available (actually it does seem to be available as beta, whatever that means) but it's going to cost more than 3 times the cost of an average MP3 player. The purpose of my post is that there should be more companies working on car MP3 players (Sony, Pioneer, Rio, etc.) instead of 1 company selling an overpriced buggy product. PS: Check out MP3Car.com if you're interested in finding out about playing MP3s in your car.
Just a few months ago a friend of mine was complaining about the deluge of useless technology that was being forced on consumers while good ideas fail to be implemented. this MP3 player watch seems like a case in point. Who's going to listen to music from their watch? I can't imagine which is sillier i) a watch with headphones or ii) the weak, tinny sound of rap music coming from a watch with speakers. Why didn't their focus groups ask users of MP3s what they want before making these useless toys. Why can't I find a decent car MP3 player that detaches and connects to my PC so i don't have to worry about playing MP3s in my car. When will a car MP3 player with an optional IP address make it's debut? Why is Casio wasting our time with this feeble attempt to remain relevant and cutting edge in an increasingly digital world...are sales from G-shock that bad?
I've been waiting for weeks now for a critical article on the LinuxOne IPO from a mainstream non-Linux friendly source and this is it. After reading articles like this one which actually may convince some silly investors that LinuxOne is a Linux underdog that may take off. Or even worse articles from other mainstream press that merely state that Open Source "enthusiasts" dislike LinuxOne for not being true to Open Source (they usually link to this), it is good to see a reputable mainstream site do a quality job of describing LinuxOne to the average clueless investor (when I say clueless i mean with regards to Linux). In a climate where Salon's stock rises 90% simply because they are going to provide content on RedHat's website, LinuxOne has potential to rise above and beyond their IPO price , fleecing unknowledgeable investors along the way. What's extremely interesting is that the CEO of LinuxOne hold shares of LinuxOne through a charity and thus may be able to cash out if given prior written consent by their underwriter(From ZDNet). All in all kudos to Motley Fool for showing the average investor exactly what kind of company LinuxOne is. I especially like the blurb at the end... I can't repeat this enough: DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK. It's a vicious market out there, buyer beware. Don't blindly trust a company's press releases, they're advertising. Don't trust what analysts say about it. Even the Fool has been small-f fooled before, right here in this portfolio. Our original paper money "Simpleton" portfolio included Oxford Health Plans (Nasdaq: OXHP), which one day lost 75% of its value due to "accounting irregularities." I know the stock market's booming like mad but DON'T go on margin, DON'T gamble away money you can't afford to lose, and DON'T put all your eggs in one basket. We don't always repeat that often enough here, so you'd better get in the habit of repeating it to yourself.
If only all individual investors followed this advice maybe the stock market wouldn't be the crazy place it is today.:)
1.) The death of cable huh? Too bad the writer didn't specify if he/she meant this in regards to the computer industry alone or for all of technology (e.g. consumer electronics). I don't believe wireless is coming anytime soon to consumer electronics (e.g . VCR wirelessly connected to TV, CDPlayer wirelessly connected to Casio piano etc.) but if this is strictly focused on the computer industry, maybe. Wireless internet will catch on when prices drop. Bluetooth still has a way to go before its a success such as the fact that the security model is untested or that it hasn't been proved if Bluetooth does not interfere with other wireless communications. Read this article for more info...note that Microsoft has officially come out for Bluetooth since that article was published.
2.) I assume that this is mostly due to the fact that ecommerce companies like ValueAmerica and Etoys are getting slaughtered in the stock market. Especially with ValueAmerica making pronouncements about shifting away from consumer ecommerce to B2B ecommerce. Sorry, but consumer ecommerce is here to stay, too many people like buying things online. Also there's no offline shopping experience that can beat buying a book from Amazon or comparison shoppping for CDs on CDNow & Amazon. Maybe the prediction should be that consumer ecommerce will be dominated by a few major players while a majority of e-retailers (is that a word?) will cease to exist or matter in their current form. Similar to the portal wars and how Yahoo, AOL and MSN are the major players while everyone else who came out with a portal last year is in dire need of a new business plan.
3.)MP3s will crush CDs only when a viable car MP3 player with an optional IP address is available. I admit that I haven't bought as many CDs as I would have in the past couple of months because I had the songs I wanted on MP3, but I still had to buy some of those CDs when I wanted to play the songs in my car (I am a heavy duty commuter). Of course I could bought a burner and burned the MP3s but that's way too much trouble and then I'd really feel like a pirate then. Being able to download an MP3 to my home PC then sending it to my car MP3 player would effectively kill the need for me to ever buy a CD ever again.
4.) Silly reporter...why should the fact that Linux vs. MSFT is occuring in the server market mean that the same should happen in the embedded market. The major failing of Windows CE (officially a dud of the millennium) is that instead of writing an OS from scratch for the embedded market, MSFT squeezed Windows into as tiny an OS as possible and renamed it "wince"... the results have been horific. On the other hand PalmOS which was written for the handheld market has captured over 80% of the market. In the same vein I expect that OS's written for specific devices or classes of devices will have more chance of dominating these markets than a pared down Linux (which is primarily a server OS). Of course I could be wrong, doubt it though.:)
5.) Yeah whatever.
6.) I'm glad the writer admitted that he/she predicted the same thing last year and was wrong. My only response to this is that the Internet, day traders and the current IPO mania has forever changed the face of the Internet. Yahoo selling at over 400 a share (why? How many banner ads could they possibly be selling) or Qualcomm at over 600 before the split (CDMA is no where near as good as what they have in Europe and yet...) are just signs of how crazy the market has become. Anyone who tells you they can predict what's going to happen in the near future is either feeding you a good line of BS or has a night job as a character from Lewis Carol's Alice Through The Looking Glass and is thus accustomed to madness and illogical unpredictability.
Second, did it ever occur to you to stop pointing fingers at the person, and instead listen to him as he explains the problem? Don't kill the messenger! The moderation system is horribly flawed. I think I proved that several times over. Hating me accomplishes nothing (and yes, you're obviously irate about my karma like about 50 other people on/.).
How do I indicate that I hate you or are irate about your Karma? The only benefit of high Karma is posting at a default of 2 which I already have. Since I don't know how much Karma you have, neither do you know how much I have, what would be the point of Karma envy? I merely used as an example to prove my point, which is that karma whoring (is this the term that makes you think I don't like you) makes it easy to reach 25 Karma. Given the current moderation system, people that post at a default of 2 are not necessarily the people who post insightful and interesting posts (e.g. slashdot-terminal) but instead could be people who whored their way to 25 Karma (which even you must admit isn't that hard) and now post drivel which is stamped with pseudo-legitimacy because is posted at a default of 2. Increasing the level of Karma needed for a default of 2 would reduce the number of karma whores/dogma spewers who make it to a default of 2. Of course the moderation system could also be overhauled to fix this problem.
PS: Still don't understand why you'd think I have Karma envy, it's not like slashdot Karma gets you laid, puts money in your pocket or makes one better at Quake. So why would I care what your Karma is? *shaking head in a puzzled manner*
PPS: Notice you don't use your default 2 posting priveleges...why is that?
The first one is related to a thread created by slashdot's worst troll ever. Even though I do not like the posters methods the question he raises is interesting...especially since I'm a CS geek. Here goes: 1.) Right now slashdot is rather inefficient in that we download the same comments over and over again when rereading an article searching for new comments. Is there anything in the works to deal with this inefficiency or will we be allowed to toy with this in the slashdot source (if it ever comes out) and submit these modifications? Will an NNTP slashdot be considered to deal with this?
My second question has to do with Karma... 2.) Is there a chance that the amount of Karma needed for a default posting of 2 be increased to at least twice the current value(25)?
I ask this because I already post at a default of 2, which implies I must be a knowledgeable member of the slashdot community which I do not believe I am. Especially considering the fact that it is relatively easy to spew dogma for a month or so and get 25 Karma then revert to one's true self (Signal 11 has proved the value of spewing dogma and karma whoring for triple digit Karma). I would feel more comfortable if the Karma needed for a default posting off 2 was higher so that there is more chance that the person posting is actually an intelligent member of the slashdot community who posts are interesting and insightful instead of a karma whore who has no true value to add to a discussion. Because of this I now read posts at a moderation of 3 or higher.
3a.)What is the slashdot official position on the phantom discussion groups e.g. Trolltalk or Moderation? I notice that some of the early posts to these discussions have disappeared (probably archived); 3b.)How do I get to read the old posts to the phantom groups since there's no assosciated story to do a search on?
And finally I have only moderated once and this was about a month after I got an account. Since then I have not moderated... 4a.)I would like to know if this is because of the rule that users who view slashdot excessively don't get to moderate? 4b.)And if so exactly how many page views per day/week/month is viewed as excessive by whatever algorithm does the selection?
Wouldn't it be easier to simply make auto-manufacturers build cars that do not exceed 120km/hr or have that as a cutoff speed when being sold in Britain (i.e. a configurable maximum speed)...as oppposed to this expensive sounding satellite crap that will probably be circumvented as quickly as it comes out.
PS: I am totally against the concept of an eye in the sky controlling my car, but still this is a collosal waste of taxpayer's money simply to satisfy some politicians infatuation with technology.
Interesting interpretations you have there, the problem I have with your interpretations of the domain rules is that you make it seem like the rules are either-or when in fact they are and-and. Let me explain... From the ICANN Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy , where NSI got their rules, it states that applicable disputes occur when
(i) your domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the complainant has rights;
and
(ii) you have no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the domain name;
and
(iii) your domain name has been registered and is being used in bad faith.
The points 1 thru 4 you mentioned in your post are paragraph 4b of ICANN's policy, this paragraph is described as definitions of what bad faith from point (iii) in my post are. Therefore not only should there be bad faith but also the complainant needs to also prove that the violator has no legitimate interest in the website as well as is in violation of a trademark. This is slightly more than just proving either of the 4 points you mentioned.
Secondly a clarification, you said you lose a domain to someone if... (2) you have it only to stop them from using it;
the ICANN rule is actually you have registered the domain name in order to prevent the owner of the trademark or service mark from reflecting the mark in a corresponding domain name, provided that you have engaged in a pattern of such conduct ;
PS: NSI's policy is identical to the one on the ICANN page.
Read the original eToy vs. eToys story on slashdot and you'll notice where it is mentioned that NSI would not implement ICANN's Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy until January.
Quote from slashdot story Those rules are ICANN's Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy. This policy ensures that the conditions under which a domain name can be disputed are strictly limited. For such a dispute even to proceed, a complainant must assert that each of three things is true:
your domain name infringes on a trademark;
you have "no rights or legitimate interests" to your domain;
and your domain name is being used "in bad faith."
As long as you're operating in good faith, or you have any legitimate interest in your domain, there is not even cause to bring up a dispute over a domain. Clearly this puts etoy.com on firm ground, because regardless of the trademark issue (which should be resolved once their mark registration is granted) they win on the other two points. This doesn't stop clueless judges from issuing injuctions, of course. But having these rules codified as official policy will give the legal system better guidelines to operate by. These rules went into effect for some domain name registries on Wednesday, but will not apply to the most popular registry, Network Solutions, until January.
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...what am I supposed to do with the 500 cans of baked beans and corned beef I bought to last me while food supply lines were down and to trade for firearms?
Then there's the 100 gallons of spring water and the 25 ten-packs of batteries and the all that alcohol and... *sigh*
I know these are fictional but these two from the movie Clerks always crack me up. I guess their funny because they seem like the kind of stories that are true but no one wants to fess up to.
The old guy who had a heart attack while masturbrating in the restroom of a convenience store with a borrowed porn mag.
The guy who broke his neck trying to give himself a blowjob.
Does it mean that Linux has moved from the geek community represented by Torvalds, to the corporate community represented by Young? Does it mean that Torvalds' working in Transmeta has undermined his position is Operating Systems and he is now an innovative hardware guy?
The answer to both questions is no primarily because Jesse Berst does not have a clue about what he is talking about. Elaboration The operating system is named after Linus; he controls the builds, owns the Linux trademark and decides what goes into the kernel...Bob Young runs a company that sells a pretty user friendly distro and has made a good name for themselves in the corporate world. Now you tell me who deserves to be the OS man of the millenium. hint: his initials aren't B.Y.
Your second question implies that you haven't been reading the trades or Slashdot and hearing Linus's name mentioned a hundred times with regards to Linux with an after-thought mention that he now works for the super secretive startup Transmeta. This implies to me that to everyone else except Jesse Berst, Linus is the OS guy who created the newest competitor to MSFT's Windows a couple of years ago because he couldn't afford a flavor of Unix.
PS: Jesse Berst is an idiot to say that simply because the startups he has talked to do not mention MSFT in conversations with him, the World's biggest and most valuable computer company is down and out. Microsoft has way too much market/mind share to ever be truly counted out. Plus they have the money to buy themselves into new markets, e.g. the AT&T broadband settop box deal.
IIRC today's court appearance is the result of the suit passed by the DVD-CCA against the 72 websites and 21 individuals who posted links to DeCSS. This case was destined to be thrown out for a variety of reasons.
Let's not forget that the lawsuit failed to name download.com as well as others that may have had the money to fight this suit and show up the DVD-CCA up to be the conniving bastards we all know them to be. This indicates that the lawsuit was targetted more at open source advocates, linux users and "hackers" in general for daring to go against the DVD-CCA's wishes...this makes it a candidate for
The restraining order was trying to make certain forms of linking illegal...yeah right. Sarcastic Courtroom Analogy:"Your Honor, that's like saying that it's illegal for TV reporters to use phrases like 'a murder was committed with a kitchen knife bought at WalMart'...that is the same as linking in a web context.
So I really don't see this as a big victory.What bothers me is what steps are the DVD-CCA going to take now; Lobby to ban reverse-engineering? Switch player formats and leave everyone with DVD players S.O.L.? Press on with more frivolous lawsuits targetted at developers who can't afford court battles? Allow linux players to develop on their own or develop a proprietary linux player? Change licenses so that we are no longer buying the actual DVDs but instead permission to watch the DVD, meaning we can't do whatever we want with them (of course they'll have to change it for VHS to)?
Another question I have is "What's up with a countersuit?", the DVD-CCA's entire case is based on the supposition that cracking the algorithm enables pirates to copy DVDs. We all know this is not true...firstly pirates can pirate DVDs with a bit for bit copy and not worry about the encryption, secondly the primary purpose of DeCSS was to play DVDs which is not illegal (that's why MP3 players, cassette players and CD burners are legal) and there's plenty of precedent on DeCSS's side. Does this mean DeCSS will now be available on the original site?
Anyone been following the eToys.com stock ticker (ETYS)? When this story broke on slashdot eToys.com had 6 billion dollars in market capitalization (at just under $60 a share), today the market value of etoys.com has dropped to 3 billion dollars and it's share price is around $26.
Now who said boycotts and sending out emails don't work? Now only if we had an anti-Amazon patent page like the anti-eToys lawsuit page I'd have a happy new year. I'd probably make it if I had webspace.:)
What you have just asked for is a law granting etoys.com the right to do what they did to etoy.com. Let me explain... There is very little difference between your gamefaqs.com/gamefaq.com example and the etoys.com/etoy.com example. Apart from the similarities in the domain names, when the lawsuit was initiated etoys.com sued etoy.com for misleading consumers even though they were involved in seperate businesses. gamefaqs.com is a video game site while gamefaq.com is a porn site, there is no relation. But I can see a judge closing gamefaq.com for some crap sentimental reasons like not wanting kids to view porn by accident (kinda like not wanting kids or parents to view the "profanity" on the etoy site)... and voila the etoys.com vs. etoy fiasco becomes a legitimate argument on etoys.com side. Secondly how long will it take before a law like that will be misused especially where the lines blur... I still don't see how the gamefaq.com domain being a porn site and gamefaqs.com being a porn site have anything to do with each other... before long any website with an s after it will be sued by or sue the domain of the same name without the s. Then it'll be a battle of who has better lawyers?
Also do you realize that following your reasoning if etoy.com was created after etoys.com they would have no legal leg to stand on even though their business has nothing to do with selling toys? Bad idea...
A better idea is to follow the existing ICANN Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy which sadly had not been implemented by NSI when this fiasco started. Under the policy the following must be true for a domain to be disputed:
the domain name infringes on a trademark
the owner has no rights to or legitimate interests in the domain
the domain name is being used in bad faith
. Those seem like better rules to me than what you suggest and there is less room for misuse or misinterpretation.
I attend one of the schools where there is active research into wearable computers. After overhearing a discussion on the possibility of eye damage due to the amount of time spent closely viewing a computer screen with one eye, I am now very skeptical about wearable computers. I would hate for them to become like cell phones (y'know they might cause brain tumors but we've already gotten so used to using them it's hard to stop), the killer app that might actually kill you. I am now interested in how much research is done to see if potential eye damage is expected and if so how it will be combatted.
I for one know that with the amount of time I already spend in front of a computer risking carpal tunnel syndrome, it would be a real b*tch to add possible eye damage to my list of occupational hazards.
Sorry to say this but I can't help it... Are you an idiot or just lazy?
The post you responded to not only has a URL to go to, but instructions on how to check the facts yourself. Maybe you need it to be hyperlinked to make it easier for you so you don't have to strain yourself with cutting and pasting the URL into your browser. Click here and type passport.com. It will show that there is a $35 fee due on the domain name. Twit.
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I like your new user bio...
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PS: Your posts have always been rather intelligent and at the very least interesting. My post was not a personal attack just a disagreement with your views.
PPS: That said, microsoft sux
I can't sit here and read this crap without feeling pissed as hell. Who the fsck moderated this up?
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I don't blame the poster for his words because he admits to being young and not being at MSFT when this story broke...but to moderate it up is just obscene.
Moderators and all interested parties please read this article from a September 1993 issue of Doctor Dobb's Journal and decide for yourself if Caldera had a reason to sue for billion$ and if this was a frivolous lawsuit. Also remember that even though the offending code never shipped to consumers it was shipped to the trade press, who then would review Dr-DOS and in their reviews state that certain error messages popped up...(effectively killing Dr-DOS as a viable option for anyone who planned to buy it based on favorable reviews). Secondly, MSFT would not risk shipping the offending code to consumers less some enterprising hacker discover the truth about the error message, but they failed to account for enterprising hackers in the trade press
PS: DDJ is a first-class magazine. A bit over my head sometimes but first class nonetheless.
Jack Nicholson as Wolverine
Rent a copy of Wolf(I know it sucked) and watch the feral side of Jack come alive.
Wonder what our friends in Redmond feel about this...AOL is one of their main competitors for domination of the Internet. This must be a real spanner in the works.
PS:I would give anything for a view of the MSFT offices via webcam right now.
PPS: I wonder where this leaves Yahoo...I kinda like 'em and will be sorry to see them left behind. I guess old media/ new media marriages will consume every portal. Since Disney, NBC and USANetworks have all merged with or bought portals, Yahoo is looking more and more naked. Only time wll tell I guess.
Why is this a 5?
:)
I dunno ask the moderators...I'm at 2 now so I guess more people agreed with you. I'm kinda surprised at the total of 9 moderations I got.
Sounds more like a troll to me, I think this is a great idea and I'm planning on getting one
I'm sorry I have to disagree with you here... this is not a great idea. It's probably not even a good idea. My objection to the device is that it pursues convergence for convergence's sake and does not add utility to the consumer experience (this is similar to why PalmOS is beating Windows CE in the handheld market). The watch is a "build it and they will come" device. It is a neat but rather impractical gadget, it is cumbersome to walk around with headphones sticking out of your watch and secondly the controls would be have to be small and thus difficult to manipulate.
This seems to me like a bid by Casio to jump on the "internet-enabled" bandwagon without doing research to see if this is a needed or wanted device.
Besides you aren't supposed to listen to it with speakers, you're supposed to use headphones.
Yeah, I missed that when I read the article the first time.
And why the hell are you listening to rap?
'cuz it's tha muthaf***ing sh*t dawg
I don't if that was meant to be funny or not but if it wasn't please read the 20th anniversary edition of Mythical Man Month and you'll realize that this man deserves all the writing awards we can give him.
Mythical Man Month should be required reading for every software manager and developer because it points out the fallacies in our reasoning that we are too blind to see as coders and gives good ideas on how to manage real software projects.
PS: He didn't actually win a Nobel award. He won the Turing award which is unofficially regarded by most as the Nobel award for computing.
From the Empeg website
Cost: projected price US$1099 (excluding shipping) for 4Gb version.
This implies that not only is the player not available (actually it does seem to be available as beta, whatever that means) but it's going to cost more than 3 times the cost of an average MP3 player. The purpose of my post is that there should be more companies working on car MP3 players (Sony, Pioneer, Rio, etc.) instead of 1 company selling an overpriced buggy product.
PS: Check out MP3Car.com if you're interested in finding out about playing MP3s in your car.
Just a few months ago a friend of mine was complaining about the deluge of useless technology that was being forced on consumers while good ideas fail to be implemented. this MP3 player watch seems like a case in point.
Who's going to listen to music from their watch? I can't imagine which is sillier i) a watch with headphones or ii) the weak, tinny sound of rap music coming from a watch with speakers.
Why didn't their focus groups ask users of MP3s what they want before making these useless toys. Why can't I find a decent car MP3 player that detaches and connects to my PC so i don't have to worry about playing MP3s in my car. When will a car MP3 player with an optional IP address make it's debut? Why is Casio wasting our time with this feeble attempt to remain relevant and cutting edge in an increasingly digital world...are sales from G-shock that bad?
This has nothing to do with Microsoft being a monopoly.
Please reread the article.
I've been waiting for weeks now for a critical article on the LinuxOne IPO from a mainstream non-Linux friendly source and this is it.
:)
After reading articles like this one which actually may convince some silly investors that LinuxOne is a Linux underdog that may take off. Or even worse articles from other mainstream press that merely state that Open Source "enthusiasts" dislike LinuxOne for not being true to Open Source (they usually link to this), it is good to see a reputable mainstream site do a quality job of describing LinuxOne to the average clueless investor (when I say clueless i mean with regards to Linux).
In a climate where Salon's stock rises 90% simply because they are going to provide content on RedHat's website, LinuxOne has potential to rise above and beyond their IPO price , fleecing unknowledgeable investors along the way. What's extremely interesting is that the CEO of LinuxOne hold shares of LinuxOne through a charity and thus may be able to cash out if given prior written consent by their underwriter(From ZDNet).
All in all kudos to Motley Fool for showing the average investor exactly what kind of company LinuxOne is. I especially like the blurb at the end...
I can't repeat this enough: DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK. It's a vicious market out there, buyer beware. Don't blindly trust a company's press releases, they're advertising. Don't trust what analysts say about it. Even the Fool has been small-f fooled before, right here in this portfolio. Our original paper money "Simpleton" portfolio included Oxford Health Plans (Nasdaq: OXHP), which one day lost 75% of its value due to "accounting irregularities." I know the stock market's booming like mad but DON'T go on margin, DON'T gamble away money you can't afford to lose, and DON'T put all your eggs in one basket. We don't always repeat that often enough here, so you'd better get in the habit of repeating it to yourself.
If only all individual investors followed this advice maybe the stock market wouldn't be the crazy place it is today.
1.) The death of cable huh? Too bad the writer didn't specify if he/she meant this in regards to the computer industry alone or for all of technology (e.g. consumer electronics). I don't believe wireless is coming anytime soon to consumer electronics (e.g . VCR wirelessly connected to TV, CDPlayer wirelessly connected to Casio piano etc.) but if this is strictly focused on the computer industry, maybe.
:)
Wireless internet will catch on when prices drop. Bluetooth still has a way to go before its a success such as the fact that the security model is untested or that it hasn't been proved if Bluetooth does not interfere with other wireless communications. Read this article for more info...note that Microsoft has officially come out for Bluetooth since that article was published.
2.) I assume that this is mostly due to the fact that ecommerce companies like ValueAmerica and Etoys are getting slaughtered in the stock market. Especially with ValueAmerica making pronouncements about shifting away from consumer ecommerce to B2B ecommerce. Sorry, but consumer ecommerce is here to stay, too many people like buying things online. Also there's no offline shopping experience that can beat buying a book from Amazon or comparison shoppping for CDs on CDNow & Amazon. Maybe the prediction should be that consumer ecommerce will be dominated by a few major players while a majority of e-retailers (is that a word?) will cease to exist or matter in their current form. Similar to the portal wars and how Yahoo, AOL and MSN are the major players while everyone else who came out with a portal last year is in dire need of a new business plan.
3.)MP3s will crush CDs only when a viable car MP3 player with an optional IP address is available. I admit that I haven't bought as many CDs as I would have in the past couple of months because I had the songs I wanted on MP3, but I still had to buy some of those CDs when I wanted to play the songs in my car (I am a heavy duty commuter). Of course I could bought a burner and burned the MP3s but that's way too much trouble and then I'd really feel like a pirate then. Being able to download an MP3 to my home PC then sending it to my car MP3 player would effectively kill the need for me to ever buy a CD ever again.
4.) Silly reporter...why should the fact that Linux vs. MSFT is occuring in the server market mean that the same should happen in the embedded market. The major failing of Windows CE (officially a dud of the millennium) is that instead of writing an OS from scratch for the embedded market, MSFT squeezed Windows into as tiny an OS as possible and renamed it "wince"... the results have been horific. On the other hand PalmOS which was written for the handheld market has captured over 80% of the market.
In the same vein I expect that OS's written for specific devices or classes of devices will have more chance of dominating these markets than a pared down Linux (which is primarily a server OS). Of course I could be wrong, doubt it though.
5.) Yeah whatever.
6.) I'm glad the writer admitted that he/she predicted the same thing last year and was wrong. My only response to this is that the Internet, day traders and the current IPO mania has forever changed the face of the Internet. Yahoo selling at over 400 a share (why? How many banner ads could they possibly be selling) or Qualcomm at over 600 before the split (CDMA is no where near as good as what they have in Europe and yet...) are just signs of how crazy the market has become. Anyone who tells you they can predict what's going to happen in the near future is either feeding you a good line of BS or has a night job as a character from Lewis Carol's Alice Through The Looking Glass and is thus accustomed to madness and illogical unpredictability.
Second, did it ever occur to you to stop pointing fingers at the person, and instead listen to him as he explains the problem? Don't kill the messenger! The moderation system is horribly flawed. I think I proved that several times over. Hating me accomplishes nothing (and yes, you're obviously irate about my karma like about 50 other people on /.).
How do I indicate that I hate you or are irate about your Karma?
The only benefit of high Karma is posting at a default of 2 which I already have. Since I don't know how much Karma you have, neither do you know how much I have, what would be the point of Karma envy?
I merely used as an example to prove my point, which is that karma whoring (is this the term that makes you think I don't like you) makes it easy to reach 25 Karma. Given the current moderation system, people that post at a default of 2 are not necessarily the people who post insightful and interesting posts (e.g. slashdot-terminal) but instead could be people who whored their way to 25 Karma (which even you must admit isn't that hard) and now post drivel which is stamped with pseudo-legitimacy because is posted at a default of 2. Increasing the level of Karma needed for a default of 2 would reduce the number of karma whores/dogma spewers who make it to a default of 2. Of course the moderation system could also be overhauled to fix this problem.
PS: Still don't understand why you'd think I have Karma envy, it's not like slashdot Karma gets you laid, puts money in your pocket or makes one better at Quake. So why would I care what your Karma is?
*shaking head in a puzzled manner*
PPS: Notice you don't use your default 2 posting priveleges...why is that?
The first one is related to a thread created by slashdot's worst troll ever. Even though I do not like the posters methods the question he raises is interesting...especially since I'm a CS geek. Here goes:
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1.) Right now slashdot is rather inefficient in that we download the same comments over and over again when rereading an article searching for new comments. Is there anything in the works to deal with this inefficiency or will we be allowed to toy with this in the slashdot source (if it ever comes out) and submit these modifications? Will an NNTP slashdot be considered to deal with this?
My second question has to do with Karma
2.) Is there a chance that the amount of Karma needed for a default posting of 2 be increased to at least twice the current value(25)?
I ask this because I already post at a default of 2, which implies I must be a knowledgeable member of the slashdot community which I do not believe I am. Especially considering the fact that it is relatively easy to spew dogma for a month or so and get 25 Karma then revert to one's true self (Signal 11 has proved the value of spewing dogma and karma whoring for triple digit Karma). I would feel more comfortable if the Karma needed for a default posting off 2 was higher so that there is more chance that the person posting is actually an intelligent member of the slashdot community who posts are interesting and insightful instead of a karma whore who has no true value to add to a discussion. Because of this I now read posts at a moderation of 3 or higher.
3a.)What is the slashdot official position on the phantom discussion groups e.g. Trolltalk or Moderation?
I notice that some of the early posts to these discussions have disappeared (probably archived);
3b.)How do I get to read the old posts to the phantom groups since there's no assosciated story to do a search on?
And finally I have only moderated once and this was about a month after I got an account. Since then I have not moderated...
4a.)I would like to know if this is because of the rule that users who view slashdot excessively don't get to moderate?
4b.)And if so exactly how many page views per day/week/month is viewed as excessive by whatever algorithm does the selection?
Wouldn't it be easier to simply make auto-manufacturers build cars that do not exceed 120km/hr or have that as a cutoff speed when being sold in Britain (i.e. a configurable maximum speed)...as oppposed to this expensive sounding satellite crap that will probably be circumvented as quickly as it comes out.
PS: I am totally against the concept of an eye in the sky controlling my car, but still this is a collosal waste of taxpayer's money simply to satisfy some politicians infatuation with technology.
Let me explain...
From the ICANN Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy , where NSI got their rules, it states that applicable disputes occur when
- (iii) your domain name has been registered and is being used in bad faith.
The points 1 thru 4 you mentioned in your post are paragraph 4b of ICANN's policy, this paragraph is described as definitions of what bad faith from point (iii) in my post are. Therefore not only should there be bad faith but also the complainant needs to also prove that the violator has no legitimate interest in the website as well as is in violation of a trademark. This is slightly more than just proving either of the 4 points you mentioned.Secondly a clarification, you said
you lose a domain to someone if...
(2) you have it only to stop them from using it;
the ICANN rule is actually you have registered the domain name in order to prevent the owner of the trademark or service mark from reflecting the mark in a corresponding domain name, provided that you have engaged in a pattern of such conduct ;
PS: NSI's policy is identical to the one on the ICANN page.
Quote from slashdot story
Those rules are ICANN's Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy. This policy ensures that the conditions under which a domain name can be disputed are strictly limited. For such a dispute even to proceed, a complainant must assert that each of three things is true:
- and your domain name is being used "in bad faith."
As long as you're operating in good faith, or you have any legitimate interest in your domain, there is not even cause to bring up a dispute over a domain. Clearly this puts etoy.com on firm ground, because regardless of the trademark issue (which should be resolved once their mark registration is granted) they win on the other two points. This doesn't stop clueless judges from issuing injuctions, of course. But having these rules codified as official policy will give the legal system better guidelines to operate by.These rules went into effect for some domain name registries on Wednesday, but will not apply to the most popular registry, Network Solutions, until January.
...what am I supposed to do with the 500 cans of baked beans and corned beef I bought to last me while food supply lines were down and to trade for firearms?
Then there's the 100 gallons of spring water and the 25 ten-packs of batteries and the all that alcohol and... *sigh*
Does it mean that Linux has moved from the geek community represented by Torvalds, to the corporate community represented by Young?
/mind share to ever be truly counted out. Plus they have the money to buy themselves into new markets, e.g. the AT&T broadband settop box deal.
Does it mean that Torvalds' working in Transmeta has undermined his position is Operating Systems and he is now an innovative hardware guy?
The answer to both questions is no primarily because Jesse Berst does not have a clue about what he is talking about.
Elaboration
The operating system is named after Linus; he controls the builds, owns the Linux trademark and decides what goes into the kernel...Bob Young runs a company that sells a pretty user friendly distro and has made a good name for themselves in the corporate world. Now you tell me who deserves to be the OS man of the millenium.
hint: his initials aren't B.Y.
Your second question implies that you haven't been reading the trades or Slashdot and hearing Linus's name mentioned a hundred times with regards to Linux with an after-thought mention that he now works for the super secretive startup Transmeta. This implies to me that to everyone else except Jesse Berst, Linus is the OS guy who created the newest competitor to MSFT's Windows a couple of years ago because he couldn't afford a flavor of Unix.
PS: Jesse Berst is an idiot to say that simply because the startups he has talked to do not mention MSFT in conversations with him, the World's biggest and most valuable computer company is down and out. Microsoft has way too much market
So I really don't see this as a big victory.What bothers me is what steps are the DVD-CCA going to take now; Lobby to ban reverse-engineering? Switch player formats and leave everyone with DVD players S.O.L.? Press on with more frivolous lawsuits targetted at developers who can't afford court battles? Allow linux players to develop on their own or develop a proprietary linux player? Change licenses so that we are no longer buying the actual DVDs but instead permission to watch the DVD, meaning we can't do whatever we want with them (of course they'll have to change it for VHS to)?
Another question I have is "What's up with a countersuit?", the DVD-CCA's entire case is based on the supposition that cracking the algorithm enables pirates to copy DVDs. We all know this is not true...firstly pirates can pirate DVDs with a bit for bit copy and not worry about the encryption, secondly the primary purpose of DeCSS was to play DVDs which is not illegal (that's why MP3 players, cassette players and CD burners are legal) and there's plenty of precedent on DeCSS's side. Does this mean DeCSS will now be available on the original site?
Anyone been following the eToys.com stock ticker (ETYS)? When this story broke on slashdot eToys.com had 6 billion dollars in market capitalization (at just under $60 a share), today the market value of etoys.com has dropped to 3 billion dollars and it's share price is around $26.
:)
Now who said boycotts and sending out emails don't work? Now only if we had an anti-Amazon patent page like the anti-eToys lawsuit page I'd have a happy new year. I'd probably make it if I had webspace.
There is very little difference between your gamefaqs.com/gamefaq.com example and the etoys.com/etoy.com example. Apart from the similarities in the domain names, when the lawsuit was initiated etoys.com sued etoy.com for misleading consumers even though they were involved in seperate businesses. gamefaqs.com is a video game site while gamefaq.com is a porn site, there is no relation. But I can see a judge closing gamefaq.com for some crap sentimental reasons like not wanting kids to view porn by accident (kinda like not wanting kids or parents to view the "profanity" on the etoy site)... and voila the etoys.com vs. etoy fiasco becomes a legitimate argument on etoys.com side.
Secondly how long will it take before a law like that will be misused especially where the lines blur... I still don't see how the gamefaq.com domain being a porn site and gamefaqs.com being a porn site have anything to do with each other... before long any website with an s after it will be sued by or sue the domain of the same name without the s. Then it'll be a battle of who has better lawyers?
Also do you realize that following your reasoning if etoy.com was created after etoys.com they would have no legal leg to stand on even though their business has nothing to do with selling toys? Bad idea...
A better idea is to follow the existing ICANN Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy which sadly had not been implemented by NSI when this fiasco started.
Under the policy the following must be true for a domain to be disputed:
- the domain name is being used in bad faith
.Those seem like better rules to me than what you suggest and there is less room for misuse or misinterpretation.
Try this article that suggests that Motorola is trying to suppress the results of these people studies.
I attend one of the schools where there is active research into wearable computers. After overhearing a discussion on the possibility of eye damage due to the amount of time spent closely viewing a computer screen with one eye, I am now very skeptical about wearable computers. I would hate for them to become like cell phones (y'know they might cause brain tumors but we've already gotten so used to using them it's hard to stop), the killer app that might actually kill you. I am now interested in how much research is done to see if potential eye damage is expected and if so how it will be combatted.
I for one know that with the amount of time I already spend in front of a computer risking carpal tunnel syndrome, it would be a real b*tch to add possible eye damage to my list of occupational hazards.
Sorry to say this but I can't help it... Are you an idiot or just lazy?
The post you responded to not only has a URL to go to, but instructions on how to check the facts yourself.
Maybe you need it to be hyperlinked to make it easier for you so you don't have to strain yourself with cutting and pasting the URL into your browser.
Click here and type passport.com. It will show that there is a $35 fee due on the domain name. Twit.