Maybe they should charge for the service and use the revenue to expand their server farm.
This is what I was thinking too. Treat the whole operation as a razors-blades model, charging and giving away the game in order to make money off of game hosting.
But why should it keep you from doing someting stupid and suffer yourself from it?
Because it's not about you being harmed, it's about someone harming you. Ponzi schemes are a confidence game and tricking people is an act of aggression.
Would you carry your logic so far as to say that laws against property crimes are illegitimate? I mean, if you were stupid enough to leave your car outdoors...
People without social lives don't use social networks.
One of the things that surprised me most when I started being contacted by old high school friends was that the most Facebook-active of them were stay-at-home moms, the underemployed, and people who hadn't moved far from our hometown. These are the people who want you to play some game app with them, send cocktails/skateboards, "20 questions," "five favorite 'X's," and to sign up for causes. This has provided a valuable lesson to me that has caused me to go from checking/updating every day to checking maybe once a week. I just don't want to be in the bucket of using FB as my main social outlet, like they appear to do. Then again, they probably just have more time to devote to social interactions whereas I have hobbies and work that I like to spend my time on. MafiaWars is a good use of time for some people, but not for me. Bully for them.
Try this already? What..with the billions of dollars given to them already...and monopolies given to them..the tax breaks...etc. This is just buying some CEO a new boat.
Not to mention that the changes they need to make are old news in pretty much every other industrialized country in the world.
More than a CEO's boat, this is just buying some bureaucrat time to get inside juice on the telcos so that they can lobby for them in two years. Many recommendations will be suggested and all will be ignored once the telcos say, "I don't feel like it" and the FCC says "OK."
Wasn't there a story a week or two ago, something along the lines of an Ask Slashdot, asking whether people have a right to online anonymity? Now we have this? I'd call it a dupe, but I think the idea is that kdawson is harping some ideology here, or perhaps crowdsourcing a book. I hope you all like volunteer work!
Strangely, around the time this story appeared originally, I removed all kdawson stories from my profile due to the unwavering lameness factor, but here I am again. How does this happen? Do I need to reset my RSS URL to reflect my new author preferences?
Yes, that is true as far as the legal system is concerned, but i would bet that to the school administrators, they were at the very least reminded of the previous incident. Humans connect things and their intentions probably came from a desire to prevent another overdose.
Thankfully, school administrators are still subject to "the legal system." As for their purported desire to prevent anything, the ends still don't justify the means.
Smart people think of ways to understand the world better, other smart people review it, find errors and discuss their finding with other scientists.
Absolutely. I'd be curious to know whether anything like this has ever happened in the world of Intelligent Design or any other theological science disciplines. "Regent University Senior find new method by which God created the universe!"
You may find it unintuitive, but I think that's more of a symptom of expecting GIMP to function like Photoshop
If by "function like Photoshop" you mean "always have a visible toolbox," then I'm right there with ya.
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There will always be a market for original work, if only to feed the mashup machine.
Where do you draw the line that delineates "original?" Going to the source material, a YouTube video of a guitar player describing "The Mother of all Funk Chords," is not based on originality when they are consciously invoking the historical significance and use of a specific chord.
The dragnet script will make mistakes. Often. Only the end users will be paying for those mistakes by trying to re-establish their (increasingly important) connection after being victim of said script.
Not to mention that there is no provision in the proposed law that would define, much less punish, abuse of this regime. The word "impunity" comes to mind.
I'd really like seeing them push the angle about their corporate attempts at controlling world art and culture, turning it into the bland, government approved, Pepsi and MTV generation and focus group designed, placid american/teen idol bands, and flooding us with that insipid product over controlled media.
Yeah, um...good luck with that one.
That's really what the RIAA's fight is about, controlling the media, itself, and thereby the content on it, which is used to market false images and idols rather than any real talent that could inspire, consol or rally.
Is that a bible-thump I hear, way in the background? False idols?
Here's another angle to consider: the companies that comprise the RIAA do not care about the content. They would just as soon sell you backwards recordings of Niels Bohr lectures as they would a solid hour of Robin Williams going "durrrr" if it made money. What the RIAA is concerned with is distribution and licensing of whatever it is that is being produced. That's it, the content is entirely secondary and merely a vehicle for acquiring dollars.
I mean, if you don't like a site deep-linking into your own, isn't it a trivial one-line change to the server setup to block referrers?
Think about it even more: was this even a real startup? Who is this kid? Could it possibly be a shill case to establish some kind of precedent so that Jones Day can start shaking down other small companies in an economic downturn?
Perish the thought. This is Jones Day we're talking about.
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no it doesn't. popular myth among the antigovernment types though.
I prefer to think of them as pseudo-capitalists.
Strange to have 'cults in tech' and no mention of gamers, console vs pc, mmorpgers in WoW etc.
Frankly, I'd like to see a "cults in finance" list.
but the idea of using exhaled alcohol content to calculate BAC has been proven to be very accurate and has been tested to death.
Nice one AC, then why have I been told time and time again to refuse the Breathalyzer and go straight to the blood test?
I like how the story reveals its commercial astroturfing purpose by having a spoiler in the title for an unreleased movie. Mark my words.
And what about the people who only want to play single-player or split-screen?
They don't wind up paying as much as someone who plays online.
No, the executive summary for this review reads like all the rest of Slashdot's book reviews:
Maybe they should charge for the service and use the revenue to expand their server farm.
This is what I was thinking too. Treat the whole operation as a razors-blades model, charging and giving away the game in order to make money off of game hosting.
But why should it keep you from doing someting stupid and suffer yourself from it?
Because it's not about you being harmed, it's about someone harming you. Ponzi schemes are a confidence game and tricking people is an act of aggression.
Would you carry your logic so far as to say that laws against property crimes are illegitimate? I mean, if you were stupid enough to leave your car outdoors...
People without social lives don't use social networks.
One of the things that surprised me most when I started being contacted by old high school friends was that the most Facebook-active of them were stay-at-home moms, the underemployed, and people who hadn't moved far from our hometown. These are the people who want you to play some game app with them, send cocktails/skateboards, "20 questions," "five favorite 'X's," and to sign up for causes. This has provided a valuable lesson to me that has caused me to go from checking/updating every day to checking maybe once a week. I just don't want to be in the bucket of using FB as my main social outlet, like they appear to do. Then again, they probably just have more time to devote to social interactions whereas I have hobbies and work that I like to spend my time on. MafiaWars is a good use of time for some people, but not for me. Bully for them.
Try this already? What..with the billions of dollars given to them already...and monopolies given to them..the tax breaks...etc. This is just buying some CEO a new boat.
Not to mention that the changes they need to make are old news in pretty much every other industrialized country in the world.
More than a CEO's boat, this is just buying some bureaucrat time to get inside juice on the telcos so that they can lobby for them in two years. Many recommendations will be suggested and all will be ignored once the telcos say, "I don't feel like it" and the FCC says "OK."
Wasn't there a story a week or two ago, something along the lines of an Ask Slashdot, asking whether people have a right to online anonymity? Now we have this? I'd call it a dupe, but I think the idea is that kdawson is harping some ideology here, or perhaps crowdsourcing a book. I hope you all like volunteer work!
Strangely, around the time this story appeared originally, I removed all kdawson stories from my profile due to the unwavering lameness factor, but here I am again. How does this happen? Do I need to reset my RSS URL to reflect my new author preferences?
Yes, that is true as far as the legal system is concerned, but i would bet that to the school administrators, they were at the very least reminded of the previous incident. Humans connect things and their intentions probably came from a desire to prevent another overdose.
Thankfully, school administrators are still subject to "the legal system." As for their purported desire to prevent anything, the ends still don't justify the means.
Smart people think of ways to understand the world better, other smart people review it, find errors and discuss their finding with other scientists.
Absolutely. I'd be curious to know whether anything like this has ever happened in the world of Intelligent Design or any other theological science disciplines. "Regent University Senior find new method by which God created the universe!"
with the new default window hints in 2.6 you can't get rid of it unless you press tab
Well, then they must have inexplicably removed it from my 2.6.2 copy.
>>The Linux desktop is Ballmer's real nightmare... and it is getting closer.
>Yes it is - I hear this might be the year of linux on the desktop!!
Netcraft confirms it!!
who's talking about "spokeo" (whatever that is), besides you?
You may find it unintuitive, but I think that's more of a symptom of expecting GIMP to function like Photoshop
If by "function like Photoshop" you mean "always have a visible toolbox," then I'm right there with ya.
There will always be a market for original work, if only to feed the mashup machine.
Where do you draw the line that delineates "original?" Going to the source material, a YouTube video of a guitar player describing "The Mother of all Funk Chords," is not based on originality when they are consciously invoking the historical significance and use of a specific chord.
A ha, but Nashi wasn't responsible. Some dude from Nashi was.
By that standard, Nashi can never be responsible for anything.
The dragnet script will make mistakes. Often. Only the end users will be paying for those mistakes by trying to re-establish their (increasingly important) connection after being victim of said script.
Not to mention that there is no provision in the proposed law that would define, much less punish, abuse of this regime. The word "impunity" comes to mind.
I'd really like seeing them push the angle about their corporate attempts at controlling world art and culture, turning it into the bland, government approved, Pepsi and MTV generation and focus group designed, placid american/teen idol bands, and flooding us with that insipid product over controlled media.
Yeah, um...good luck with that one.
That's really what the RIAA's fight is about, controlling the media, itself, and thereby the content on it, which is used to market false images and idols rather than any real talent that could inspire, consol or rally.
Is that a bible-thump I hear, way in the background? False idols?
Here's another angle to consider: the companies that comprise the RIAA do not care about the content. They would just as soon sell you backwards recordings of Niels Bohr lectures as they would a solid hour of Robin Williams going "durrrr" if it made money. What the RIAA is concerned with is distribution and licensing of whatever it is that is being produced. That's it, the content is entirely secondary and merely a vehicle for acquiring dollars.
I mean, if you don't like a site deep-linking into your own, isn't it a trivial one-line change to the server setup to block referrers?
Think about it even more: was this even a real startup? Who is this kid? Could it possibly be a shill case to establish some kind of precedent so that Jones Day can start shaking down other small companies in an economic downturn?
Perish the thought. This is Jones Day we're talking about.
Not long at all, provided a normalized database structure with proper indexes.
That's fine for textbooks, but denormalization is common in systems of Facebook's size. Google "flickr database architecture" to see for yourself.
The problem is, they CAN'T drop the case. This is a hearing for the Opposition's counter-suit.
This is an important point that nobody has distinguished (including me) so far. Thanks.
Another note would be that $3.50 per option in an acquisition is very high.