Everytime anyone browses a geocities site, the server is copying (reproducing) your web site and sending it to the client. If you put up a web site there, don't you WANT them to be able to reproduce it?
Since they add banner ads, they are actually modifying your original work, thus creating a derivative. This is the quid pro quo of free web sites.
Some people say its a tool that just happens to also be a toy. I'll say the opposite.
I wanted one because it looked like a neat toy, and the desire for the latest toy is why I got it. But its value as a tool has surprised me. I didn't think it would be THIS useful.
Yes, I guess I *could* do stuff by hand. But I don't. I dunno why. Whenever I took paper & pen to a meeting, I would just doodle (I kinda miss that, actually). Now I can not only take notes, but I can keep them in electronic form, which means they can searched!
I can be anal retentive, and paper just couldn't do it for me. I'm probably closer to having a paperless office than anyone. I *love* having stuff electronically. I've saved every email I've sent since 1994. Disk space is cheap and glimpse is fast. I couldn't imagine what my office would look like if I kept that kind of stuff on paper, but it would be useless anyways. How would I ever find anything? Electronic documents can be indexed, cross referenced and searched effortlessly.
Day planners are great if you're the ONLY one who needs to know your schedule. Desktop calendars are great if you spend all your time at your desk (and if you do that, what are you putting on your calendar anyways). With a pilot and Ical, I can both share my schedule and take it with me. If I lose my pilot, at least I haven't lost my schedule forever.
Admittedly not work related, but I also find it useful when shopping. Sure I *could* take a pad and pencil with me everytime I go to the mall, but I don't. Nor would I remember to bring every note I ever took with me. With the Pilot, it (and every note) is ALWAYS with me. If I'm in the mall buying new pants and I stumble on a sale for something I've been shopping for, I actually have my notes (prices) from the last time I looked.
I use HandyShop for groceries. It lets me mark the aisle of a product. When I run out, I click out how many more I wanna buy and next time I'm at the store, I sort by aisle and do everything in one pass.
When my wife drags me to the fabric store, I don't mind anymore. In fact, it seems like the only time I really get to play PocketChess or Tank anymore. But before I get to the games, I usually spend my idle time reading web sites via the plucker. The plucker also has the entire Prime Time TV schedule, as well as the shows *I* want to watch, all thanks to The Gist.
At night, I've been reading myself to sleep with a good ole Sherlock Holmes novel. I don't even keep my wife awake with a light on thanks to the back light.
If SDMI proves to be too restrictive, it will leave a bunch of companies behind with their "betamax" style technology.
I think the new term is their "DivX" style technology. Perhaps even more accurate, since DivX failed because it was what the industry wanted, not what consumers wanted...
Gosh, is there real widespread hatred of CVS, or are these all from the same Anonymous Coward?
Anyways, the reason you see help questions on Usenet is because people will answer them. For free! That's what Usenet is all about. If you had trouble with SourceSafe, you'd call MicroSoft.
Sure, kids can be dumb... Sure, general programming would be better...
But aren't you gonna basically have to learn all that general programming anyways. Maybe this is a way to get immature kids to decide to go to college instead of chasing the short-run fortune of web designer. If they decide they don't wanna be a "game" programmer when they grow up, at least they will still have programming skills.
Last time I went to RadiosHack, they asked for my last name. Whatever. I tell him. No problem, rings up, gives me the receipt. I now have the address and phone number of someone with the same last name as mine...
If you've already given them an email address, install procmail and filter their junk...
If you haven't already given them an address, create a hotmail or yahoo or whatever address. They're free, and you can just abandon the account once you've got your product.
Someone around here was telling me about a local election in their hometown for city council. One candidate had only one plank on their platform: Child Safety. When the other candidate said he wanted to talk about something else, our hero would simply say "Don't you think Child Safety is important?"
The biggest problem with using the brain as a reliable memory system is, well, it's not very reliable. Here's a story from Dr. Dean about how easy it is to implant a false memory.
I guess I'm also a little concerned about having all MY data on some other companies servers. How different is this from "owning" a Silver Divx? If Netscape's portal goes down the tube, I'm screwed if I rely on them for all my email & calendars.
The only advantage I can see is that we most businesses and consumers could just run on thin clients. But servers get cheaper by the day. If hardware were still so expensive, I could imagine a huge demand for thin clients. But they're not. If everyone had DSL, why would they wanna connect their Palm Pilots to AOL rather than their OWN server?
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That's the fake-fan site that was registered suspicously close to Circuit City's HQ.
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I wish I'd bought one, only so I could now go down and punch the salesman in the mouth...
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But they gave you the option of "buying" the disk "forever" (or 2001, whichever comes first). Of course, even if you bought it "forever", it would only work on that single player. You couldn't take it to a friends house and watch it, unless you didn't mind paying again. Heaven help you if your player ever needed to be replaced.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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This is exactly the opposite reason they gave for killing Divx. They *said* the consumers loved it, but that the studios wouldn't support it.
I was happy to see "Open Source Code" at the TOP of the comparison chart. While not the most technically literate article I've seen, it shows signs that they're starting to "get it".
Names are definitely attached. The purpose, they claim, is so that bankers and such can more quickly verify loan applications and the like. That would be pretty useless if the data was all anonymous...
Oregon's legislature only meets every other year. A wonderful way to reduce the damage that the gov't can do.
Frankly, I like the idea proposed by Heinlein in, I believe, _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_. He (or rather, one of his characters, probably Laz. Long) proposed a bicameral legislature with one body to create laws (with a 2/3 majority) and the second body to repeal laws (with just a simple majority).
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny From: sehlat@uclink4.berkeley.edu (Geoffrey Kidd) Subject: "In a Galaxy Far, Far Away..." Date: Fri, 4 Jul 97 19:30:02 EDT
A Long time Ago, in a Galaxy far, far away...
Luke: "You used to program." Ben: "I was once a software engineer the same as your father." Luke: "My father wasn't a software engineer. He was a custodian at Lockheed-Martin." Ben: "That's what your Uncle told you. He didn't hold with your father's ideals. He thought he should go to work. Not gotten a degree." Luke: "I wish I had known him." Ben: "He was a cunning object-oriented analyst, and the best systems programmer in the galaxy. I understand you've become quite a good hacker yourself. And he was a good friend. For over ten years the systems programmers created user interfaces. Before the dark times. Before Microsoft." Luke: "How did my father die?" Ben: "A young systems programmer named Bill Gates, who was a student until his mommy kicked him out of her basement, founded Microsoft and helped destroy the intuitive user interface. He betrayed and murdered the Macintosh. Gates was seduced by the Dark Side of Money." Luke: "Money?" Ben: "Yes, Money is what gives a programmer his resources. It's an exchange system created by human beings. It surrounds us. Works for us. Binds the economy together. Which reminds me. Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your Uncle wouldn't allow it. He thought you'd follow old Obi-Wan on some damn idealistic crusade." Luke: "What is it?" Ben: "It's an object modeling tool. The weapon of a systems programmer. Not as random or clumsy as a lexical parser. An elegant compiler for a more civilized age."
[Note - originally appeared titled "Object-Oriented Jedi" on "Funny Town", a humor publication at http://www.funnytown.com. My thanks to them for granting reprint permission - ed.]
This looks like an old license. The page is dated July 1998 and doesn't look remotely "open-sourced". It talks about it being a "trial version" and limited functionality. I dunno how they can limit the functionality and release source code, which their main site claims they will be doing. I suspect a NEW license will be available when the download is ready.
And that's the current, bluebook value. Not the cost when it was new. You don't get to claim a loss on what has already been depreciated. And you can't claim that all research that has taken place since the invention of the wheel is part of the "value" of your car.
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Everytime anyone browses a geocities site, the server is copying (reproducing) your web site and sending it to the client. If you put up a web site there, don't you WANT them to be able to reproduce it?
Since they add banner ads, they are actually modifying your original work, thus creating a derivative. This is the quid pro quo of free web sites.
Some people say its a tool that just happens to also be a toy. I'll say the opposite.
I wanted one because it looked like a neat toy, and the desire for the latest toy is why I got it. But its value as a tool has surprised me. I didn't think it would be THIS useful.
Yes, I guess I *could* do stuff by hand. But I don't. I dunno why. Whenever I took paper & pen to a meeting, I would just doodle (I kinda miss that, actually). Now I can not only take notes, but I can keep them in electronic form, which means they can searched!
I can be anal retentive, and paper just couldn't do it for me. I'm probably closer to having a paperless office than anyone. I *love* having stuff electronically. I've saved every email I've sent since 1994. Disk space is cheap and glimpse is fast. I couldn't imagine what my office would look like if I kept that kind of stuff on paper, but it would be useless anyways. How would I ever find anything? Electronic documents can be indexed, cross referenced and searched effortlessly.
Day planners are great if you're the ONLY one who needs to know your schedule. Desktop calendars are great if you spend all your time at your desk (and if you do that, what are you putting on your calendar anyways). With a pilot and Ical, I can both share my schedule and take it with me. If I lose my pilot, at least I haven't lost my schedule forever.
Admittedly not work related, but I also find it useful when shopping. Sure I *could* take a pad and pencil with me everytime I go to the mall, but I don't. Nor would I remember to bring every note I ever took with me. With the Pilot, it (and every note) is ALWAYS with me. If I'm in the mall buying new pants and I stumble on a sale for something I've been shopping for, I actually have my notes (prices) from the last time I looked.
I use HandyShop for groceries. It lets me mark the aisle of a product. When I run out, I click out how many more I wanna buy and next time I'm at the store, I sort by aisle and do everything in one pass.
When my wife drags me to the fabric store, I don't mind anymore. In fact, it seems like the only time I really get to play PocketChess or Tank anymore. But before I get to the games, I usually spend my idle time reading web sites via the plucker. The plucker also has the entire Prime Time TV schedule, as well as the shows *I* want to watch, all thanks to The Gist.
At night, I've been reading myself to sleep with a good ole Sherlock Holmes novel. I don't even keep my wife awake with a light on thanks to the back light.
> a really crappy speller :),
[...]
> venemous hate mail they received from some members of the Linux community is an embarrasment.
venemous -> venomous
embarrasment -> embarrassment
I think the new term is their "DivX" style technology. Perhaps even more accurate, since DivX failed because it was what the industry wanted, not what consumers wanted...
Gosh, is there real widespread hatred of CVS, or are these all from the same Anonymous Coward?
Anyways, the reason you see help questions on Usenet is because people will answer them. For free! That's what Usenet is all about. If you had trouble with SourceSafe, you'd call MicroSoft.
So fix it. You've got the source...
Sure, kids can be dumb...
Sure, general programming would be better...
But aren't you gonna basically have to learn all that general programming anyways. Maybe this is a way to get immature kids to decide to go to college instead of chasing the short-run fortune of web designer. If they decide they don't wanna be a "game" programmer when they grow up, at least they will still have programming skills.
Yeah, you actually gotta PAY for a WSJ subscription, unlike NY Times, which just wants info about who is reading.
Last time I went to RadiosHack, they asked for my last name. Whatever. I tell him. No problem, rings up, gives me the receipt. I now have the address and phone number of someone with the same last name as mine...
If you've already given them an email address, install procmail and filter their junk...
If you haven't already given them an address, create a hotmail or yahoo or whatever address. They're free, and you can just abandon the account once you've got your product.
Someone around here was telling me about a local election in their hometown for city council. One candidate had only one plank on their platform: Child Safety. When the other candidate said he wanted to talk about something else, our hero would simply say "Don't you think Child Safety is important?"
The biggest problem with using the brain as a reliable memory system is, well, it's not very reliable. Here's a story from Dr. Dean about how easy it is to implant a false memory.
I guess I'm also a little concerned about having all MY data on some other companies servers. How different is this from "owning" a Silver Divx? If Netscape's portal goes down the tube, I'm screwed if I rely on them for all my email & calendars.
The only advantage I can see is that we most businesses and consumers could just run on thin clients. But servers get cheaper by the day. If hardware were still so expensive, I could imagine a huge demand for thin clients. But they're not. If everyone had DSL, why would they wanna connect their Palm Pilots to AOL rather than their OWN server?
That's the fake-fan site that was registered suspicously close to Circuit City's HQ.
I wish I'd bought one, only so I could now go down and punch the salesman in the mouth...
But they gave you the option of "buying" the disk "forever" (or 2001, whichever comes first). Of course, even if you bought it "forever", it would only work on that single player. You couldn't take it to a friends house and watch it, unless you didn't mind paying again. Heaven help you if your player ever needed to be replaced.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
This is exactly the opposite reason they gave for killing Divx. They *said* the consumers loved it, but that the studios wouldn't support it.
War is Peace...
I was happy to see "Open Source Code" at the TOP of the comparison chart. While not the most technically literate article I've seen, it shows signs that they're starting to "get it".
Names are definitely attached. The purpose, they claim, is so that bankers and such can more quickly verify loan applications and the like. That would be pretty useless if the data was all anonymous...
Oregon's legislature only meets every other year. A wonderful way to reduce the damage that the gov't can do.
Frankly, I like the idea proposed by Heinlein in, I believe, _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_. He (or rather, one of his characters, probably Laz. Long) proposed a bicameral legislature with one body to create laws (with a 2/3 majority) and the second body to repeal laws (with just a simple majority).
See on rec.humor.funny a long time ago...
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
From: sehlat@uclink4.berkeley.edu (Geoffrey Kidd)
Subject: "In a Galaxy Far, Far Away..."
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 97 19:30:02 EDT
A Long time Ago, in a Galaxy far, far away...
Luke: "You used to program."
Ben: "I was once a software engineer the same as your father."
Luke: "My father wasn't a software engineer. He was a custodian at
Lockheed-Martin."
Ben: "That's what your Uncle told you. He didn't hold with your
father's ideals. He thought he should go to work. Not gotten
a degree."
Luke: "I wish I had known him."
Ben: "He was a cunning object-oriented analyst, and the best systems
programmer in the galaxy. I understand you've become quite a
good hacker yourself. And he was a good friend. For over ten
years the systems programmers created user interfaces. Before
the dark times. Before Microsoft."
Luke: "How did my father die?"
Ben: "A young systems programmer named Bill Gates, who was a student
until his mommy kicked him out of her basement, founded
Microsoft and helped destroy the intuitive user interface. He
betrayed and murdered the Macintosh. Gates was seduced by the
Dark Side of Money."
Luke: "Money?"
Ben: "Yes, Money is what gives a programmer his resources. It's an
exchange system created by human beings. It surrounds us.
Works for us. Binds the economy together. Which reminds me. Your
father wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but
your Uncle wouldn't allow it. He thought you'd follow old Obi-Wan
on some damn idealistic crusade."
Luke: "What is it?"
Ben: "It's an object modeling tool. The weapon of a systems
programmer. Not as random or clumsy as a lexical parser. An elegant
compiler for a more civilized age."
[Note - originally appeared titled "Object-Oriented Jedi" on "Funny Town", a
humor publication at http://www.funnytown.com. My thanks to them
for granting reprint permission - ed.]
It's for *SMALL* businesses (UNDER 400 employees).
Don't worry about witnesses... just wear a Darth Vader mask.
This looks like an old license. The page is dated July 1998 and doesn't look remotely "open-sourced". It talks about it being a "trial version" and limited functionality. I dunno how they can limit the functionality and release source code, which their main site claims they will be doing. I suspect a NEW license will be available when the download is ready.
> you have a loss of the value of the car.
And that's the current, bluebook value. Not the cost when it was new. You don't get to claim a loss on what has already been depreciated. And you can't claim that all research that has taken place since the invention of the wheel is part of the "value" of your car.