When did small consumer switches start getting their own IP addresses? Yah, I know you can manage a cisco via a browser & all that, but we're talking a $50 switch here people!
it's a seperate topic. TURN THE TOPIC OFF IF YOU DON'T CARE. That's where Slashdot appears to differ from OS X--you can customize it and it won't fight you over it. But quit bitching about things that are your own fault.
Apparently there's no will to legislate a fair copyright system that would allow exactly what you describe either.
If the RIAA weren't so much more focussed on their bottom lines instead of the positive potential for the net as a medium, they might wake up and recognize that just because something isn't a 500% ROI doesn't mean it's not good. Then people might have choices to get just the songs they want, and be willing to pay reasonable prices for the priveledge.
Damn, if I could get every song I wanted from the massive libraries that are simply out of print, it'd make my current 1500 CD collection look small. But would I pay $.25 per song to do it? That's ridiculously prohibitive, especially if I'm paying only for the song, not for the physical things that come with it (artwork, case, etc).
You can't legislate ethics, but it sure is tempting to try to legislate common sense and force the RIAA into the 21st century: open up your entire catalog, and charge a reasonable rate, and you'll be even richer than you are today, kicking and screaming all the way.
Yep. Dig this ad run by the Libertarian Party parodying the ridiculous recent ads equating drug use with terrorism. It ran full page in the Washington Post & USA Today (!) today. Right to the point.
Those people need to be arrested themselves before changing their behavior.
That's not really true either, given the recidivism statistics for our "correctional" institutions. If no one obeys the law, then it's probably a bad law. It's certainly not an enforceable one. Try again to make your money in another way instead of relying on thugs to try and scare people into your coffers.
Thanks for taking time to respond. Just for the record, I never said it was a priori a bad thing. In case anyone reading this might get confused, the fact that it exists is not a bad thing at all; what gets reasonable slashdot readers upset about it is that it appears to have been abused here at slashdot on a wide scale on at least one occasion with no explanation and deafening silence (or occasional defensive posturing) from the site owners/maintainers regarding its use.
There's an easy fix: update the faq and quit pretending that moderation is purely "by the users for the users". Then everyone knows the "real" rules and we can get on with our lives and flaming John Katz.
For any hyper-defensive moderators who might feel like punishing me for stating my mind, it's worth noting that we are still discussing slash code and things relevant in the book reviewed up there at the top of the page, so this post is hardly offtopic. Of course, you can feel free to mod me down anyway, and prove the point that slashdot itself doesn't live up to "the rest of chapter 8".
Gee, good to see that a comment about slash code in a thread about a book that's about slash code is offtopic. Let's see if we can burn some more karma now, shall we?
I'm simply repeating the commonly claimed chestnuts about NPR's bias (I have coworkers who call it national pinko radio). As I pointed out, I hardly see them as Left[tm] myself.
Get real. Even NPR (one of the leftest of the left) routinely cites research from CATO and other libertarian/rightward leaning "think tanks". Many (most?) NPR affilliates run a daily business program from PRI, but I have yet to hear them run a labor show. FAIR has published a listing of details like this that shows the fallacy of the "Big Media Leftists". The fact that most of the media is left of YOU doesn't mean that they are Left[tm]. Truly Left media are not in the mainstream (things like Pacifica, and some of the other radio that comes out of Bezerkely come to mind), and you don't hear them on a daily basis.
The analysis of the media as mediocre middle of the road is one of the few things I've heard out of Katz's mouth that seems spot-on. Middle of the road != Left (and != Right either).
Sun's never had a Fab, period. Just because Intel has the power of brute force (maximal transisters per square unit) doesn't mean their tech is superior. It's the architecture of the processor that makes it superior, not the bells & whistles at the Fab.
When has SPARC ever been a commodity item? At least on the same level as the Intel processors? NEVER. When has that been necessary for SPARC to be a strong competitor in the marketplace? NEVER. Get over yourself. SPARC is not dead. It won't be dead until Sun itself is dead.
I don't see the basis for your assertion, and where you pulled 1B out of for cost I also don't know.
I dont' know either. If it were a valid cost though, it's worth nothing that according to the annual report, Sun has $18B in assets, and I'm willing to bet at least 1/18th of that is "in the bank" and available. SPARC is the foundation of the company, moreso even than Solaris, and it's hardly dead.
Whatever happened to the stuff my dad used to threaten me with, where he'd make a big deal about how HE was responsible for what I did, and if I screwed up bad enough it'd be his hide on the line? To hell with trying children as adults, try the parents!
However often times a parent doesn't really know what their kid is byuing.
This is the entire problem. If you as a parent have so little involvement in your kids life that:
You don't know what s/he does with her job money.
You don't know what s/he plays on the computer or console.
Then you have no goddamn business being a parent. Period.
Yeah, kids will sneak around and always manage to do something that you won't know about. But I would say that if your kid is sneaking around they probably won't have enough time playing to warp them very much. On the other hand, if your kid is playing so much that they're getting aggressive, the signs should be there and you should start looking for reasons.
The problem with violent kids is in a large part lazy parenting, not evil video games.
It's not the escape KEY, it's the concept of an escape SEQUENCE. I.E. a character or characters that modifies the meaning of the following characters so that they do something meaningful with the computer. In the "old days" (perhaps not the original old days, but 20+ years ago when I started programming) this was mostly used for cursor positioning on dumb terminals; esc[12;25 would put your cursor at line 12 column 25 or some such.
Today it's more abstract, http:// is an escape sequence indicating that the following characters are to be interpreted as a hostname followed by a path name, which make up a hyperlink aka URL.
Now cut out the pot before your short term memory is completely gone.
Nice to assume I wasn't talking about jaywalking, eh, idiot? Sorry to bust your precious little bubble, but pot is not one of my vices. Maybe if you had some brain cells instead of sucking all your opinions from the reactionary wing's tit, you'd understand the difference between considering and doing.
As would anyone else who loves to read. There is more to a book than simply the text it contains, and I can't imagine very many people not wanting a hardcopy to match the previous four.
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When did small consumer switches start getting their own IP addresses? Yah, I know you can manage a cisco via a browser & all that, but we're talking a $50 switch here people!
it's a seperate topic. TURN THE TOPIC OFF IF YOU DON'T CARE. That's where Slashdot appears to differ from OS X--you can customize it and it won't fight you over it. But quit bitching about things that are your own fault.
If the RIAA weren't so much more focussed on their bottom lines instead of the positive potential for the net as a medium, they might wake up and recognize that just because something isn't a 500% ROI doesn't mean it's not good. Then people might have choices to get just the songs they want, and be willing to pay reasonable prices for the priveledge.
Damn, if I could get every song I wanted from the massive libraries that are simply out of print, it'd make my current 1500 CD collection look small. But would I pay $.25 per song to do it? That's ridiculously prohibitive, especially if I'm paying only for the song, not for the physical things that come with it (artwork, case, etc).
You can't legislate ethics, but it sure is tempting to try to legislate common sense and force the RIAA into the 21st century: open up your entire catalog, and charge a reasonable rate, and you'll be even richer than you are today, kicking and screaming all the way.
Yep. Dig this ad run by the Libertarian Party parodying the ridiculous recent ads equating drug use with terrorism. It ran full page in the Washington Post & USA Today (!) today. Right to the point.
That's not really true either, given the recidivism statistics for our "correctional" institutions. If no one obeys the law, then it's probably a bad law. It's certainly not an enforceable one. Try again to make your money in another way instead of relying on thugs to try and scare people into your coffers.
Bing bing BING.
There's an easy fix: update the faq and quit pretending that moderation is purely "by the users for the users". Then everyone knows the "real" rules and we can get on with our lives and flaming John Katz.
For any hyper-defensive moderators who might feel like punishing me for stating my mind, it's worth noting that we are still discussing slash code and things relevant in the book reviewed up there at the top of the page, so this post is hardly offtopic. Of course, you can feel free to mod me down anyway, and prove the point that slashdot itself doesn't live up to "the rest of chapter 8".
Gee, good to see that a comment about slash code in a thread about a book that's about slash code is offtopic. Let's see if we can burn some more karma now, shall we?
I think the question on everyone's mind is whether or not it covers $rtbl banning of allegedly abusive users....
Last time I checked, Microwaved eggs tasted nasty thankyouverymuch. Blech.
sarcasm alert
"Sometimes insanity is the only alternative" -- button at a Science Fiction convention.
Just seems so appropriate.
You might note that I didn't say anything about "original purpose".
I'm simply repeating the commonly claimed chestnuts about NPR's bias (I have coworkers who call it national pinko radio). As I pointed out, I hardly see them as Left[tm] myself.
One of the major points of a corporation is to create the legal fiction that a group of people are "an individual" in the eyes of the law.
The analysis of the media as mediocre middle of the road is one of the few things I've heard out of Katz's mouth that seems spot-on. Middle of the road != Left (and != Right either).
Sun's never had a Fab, period. Just because Intel has the power of brute force (maximal transisters per square unit) doesn't mean their tech is superior. It's the architecture of the processor that makes it superior, not the bells & whistles at the Fab.
When has SPARC ever been a commodity item? At least on the same level as the Intel processors? NEVER. When has that been necessary for SPARC to be a strong competitor in the marketplace? NEVER. Get over yourself. SPARC is not dead. It won't be dead until Sun itself is dead.
I dont' know either. If it were a valid cost though, it's worth nothing that according to the annual report, Sun has $18B in assets, and I'm willing to bet at least 1/18th of that is "in the bank" and available. SPARC is the foundation of the company, moreso even than Solaris, and it's hardly dead.
I like the fact that Itanic rhymes with Titanic.
Whatever happened to the stuff my dad used to threaten me with, where he'd make a big deal about how HE was responsible for what I did, and if I screwed up bad enough it'd be his hide on the line? To hell with trying children as adults, try the parents!
This is the entire problem. If you as a parent have so little involvement in your kids life that:
- You don't know what s/he does with her job money.
- You don't know what s/he plays on the computer or console.
Then you have no goddamn business being a parent. Period.Yeah, kids will sneak around and always manage to do something that you won't know about. But I would say that if your kid is sneaking around they probably won't have enough time playing to warp them very much. On the other hand, if your kid is playing so much that they're getting aggressive, the signs should be there and you should start looking for reasons.
The problem with violent kids is in a large part lazy parenting, not evil video games.
Today it's more abstract, http:// is an escape sequence indicating that the following characters are to be interpreted as a hostname followed by a path name, which make up a hyperlink aka URL.
Nice to assume I wasn't talking about jaywalking, eh, idiot? Sorry to bust your precious little bubble, but pot is not one of my vices. Maybe if you had some brain cells instead of sucking all your opinions from the reactionary wing's tit, you'd understand the difference between considering and doing.
As would anyone else who loves to read. There is more to a book than simply the text it contains, and I can't imagine very many people not wanting a hardcopy to match the previous four.