These games should be public domain already...
Patents and copyright are supposed to increase innovation, but they are doing the exact opposite. When a company can simply repackage and sell the same ol' stuff over and over again, why should they invest their money in new (potentially risky) endeavors?
Isn't this a bit moronic? Find things that make economies more efficient and help spread information and tax them? It's not like wireless costs the government anything to allow. Oh yeah, first post.
Is anyone thinking that it would just be cheaper to go to block buster every time you want to watch a moive, instead of buying DVDs? This way you won't have to buy the extended version, the super extended version and the director's ultra extended version as each comes out. As if that wasn't enough, they obsolete each format within seven or so years? Bah. I'm going back to renting!
Why didn't anyone ever think of that before? Oh wait, they did. It's called Morse Code.
I know that this is a a little different -- morse code can be used to make any word, not just 400 as is the case with the language mentioned in the article, but still... What's the big deal?
The maximum penalty seems rather meager. She can't exactly argue self-defense, lack of understanding, or accidental-negligence. This is a case of deliberate fraud, a case in which she obviously knew that what she was doing was both immoral and illegal. In my opinion, they should kill her. Really. It's people like her that really make this world suck more than it has to.
We all know lying is easy. In fact, lying is much easier than dealing with a problem, and as companies like SCO have shown, it's often more profitable to tell a lie than to tell the truth.
What needs to be done is to make lying less desirable from a corporate point of view. This should not be done by punishing the companies, but rather the individuals that make these ridiculous claims and often loot their own organizations.
Bill Clinton was impeached for lying about a fat chick, why shouldn't these people get in trouble for lying about the foundations of democracy?
I know, deep in my heart that John Ashcroft will do the right thing, and speak out against these companies, just as he will about the drug users ruining this great country.
Death of the PDA? Not quite.
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Death of the PDA?
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The article is really predicting the death of PDAs that aren't integrated with phones. This is quite different that the death of ALL PDAs.
All the article is saying is that PDAs will include another feature. PDAs are evolving. Very few things stay the way their were originally intended. Did computers die when we switched from punch cards to keyboards? Not quite. They're still computers, they just aren't exactly what they used to be.
Most people want a faster/quiter/cheaper home pc, yet no companies seem to be interested in this option
You can't make money on those, you only make money on high end systems -- putting an extra 200$ on the cost (for profit) is much easier on a 2k machine than one that costs 500 bucks. (at least, if you want it to sell)
As someone with a firm grounding in economics, I must admit that I just don't get it. ISPs and other groups have high fixed costs, and low variable costs
In English, that means that a lot of the infrastructure costs XXX million dollars, no matter how many customers they have and only a few things actually cost the company more as they add more customers. Because of this, I cannot understand why they would want to let people split service costs.
This article made me think of a joke I once heard... A man goes into a restaurant and sees a sign: "All you can eat 10 dollars, half of all you can eat: 5.50"
Advertisers will advertise on small sites because they have "targeted viewership"
Ok, anyone ever hear of economies of scale? Let's say I have a site that is super-duper specialized. It only has content relating to red staplers with blue logos on them. It's going to be really hard for companies like swingline to
Find my site
Negotiate a deal for ad space
Get the marketing department to cut me a check for 14 dollars each month
They'll go with the big stapler fan sites and avoid all the paperwork. You know it, I know it.
So what's wrong with passengers hunting for the best deal? I thought that's what the free-market and capitalism were all about.
Nope. Capitalism is all about letting businesses squeeze every penny out of consumers. Maximizing for the consumer would be socialism, you commie bastard.
I don't get it, I thought that we were supposed to buy RIAA DRM CDs and then return them as "defective" -- won't that hurt them a bit more than simply not buying the CDs?
Why don't we just create a system where we all only accept mail that has been PGP encrypted with our public keys? That way spammers will have to burn through a whole lot of clock cycles to get their crap out and as an added benefit, we will get a bit more privacy.
The Best Solution EVER
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Instead of making the sender solve some weird problem, make him encrypt the message with your PGP public key. Then the sender only accepts messages that are encrypted, and junks everything else. Not only will spam be cut down to almost nothing (PGP encryption takes a bit of time), but you will now have some privacy too!
Why do they need a NEW distrobution for this? Can't they just add their improvements to Debian? Now I need 10 distros based off Debian. One for installs, one for graphics, one for music, one for work, one for servers... I mean come on! Let's work together here!
The GPL can't be modified, yet it is stuck into just about every free package in Debian. If it could be changed, then the software's license could be altered. Bill Gates whould just have to "embrace and extend" the GPL to gain whatever control he wished. We NEED non-free pieces to protect the FREEness of the software. Ironic no?
Also the book "Steal this book" should be banned for false advertising.
It doesn't matter how great the software is... frankly it's too late for a new entry. Because of network effects, messaging software is only as good as the number of people who already use it.
Slashdot Mirror
I logged in for the first time in years to say this:
If you are dealing with confidential data, you should not be emailing it in plain text. EVER.
Even if your server isn't mining the data, someone on the other end (or someone in between) could too.
Would you feel comfortable having your social security number being sent over yahoo/hotmail/random university email?
These games should be public domain already... Patents and copyright are supposed to increase innovation, but they are doing the exact opposite. When a company can simply repackage and sell the same ol' stuff over and over again, why should they invest their money in new (potentially risky) endeavors?
Isn't this a bit moronic? Find things that make economies more efficient and help spread information and tax them? It's not like wireless costs the government anything to allow. Oh yeah, first post.
Is anyone thinking that it would just be cheaper to go to block buster every time you want to watch a moive, instead of buying DVDs? This way you won't have to buy the extended version, the super extended version and the director's ultra extended version as each comes out. As if that wasn't enough, they obsolete each format within seven or so years? Bah. I'm going back to renting!
Why didn't anyone ever think of that before? Oh wait, they did. It's called Morse Code.
I know that this is a a little different -- morse code can be used to make any word, not just 400 as is the case with the language mentioned in the article, but still... What's the big deal?
The maximum penalty seems rather meager. She can't exactly argue self-defense, lack of understanding, or accidental-negligence. This is a case of deliberate fraud, a case in which she obviously knew that what she was doing was both immoral and illegal. In my opinion, they should kill her. Really. It's people like her that really make this world suck more than it has to.
We all know lying is easy. In fact, lying is much easier than dealing with a problem, and as companies like SCO have shown, it's often more profitable to tell a lie than to tell the truth.
What needs to be done is to make lying less desirable from a corporate point of view. This should not be done by punishing the companies, but rather the individuals that make these ridiculous claims and often loot their own organizations.
Bill Clinton was impeached for lying about a fat chick, why shouldn't these people get in trouble for lying about the foundations of democracy?
I know, deep in my heart that John Ashcroft will do the right thing, and speak out against these companies, just as he will about the drug users ruining this great country.
The article is really predicting the death of PDAs that aren't integrated with phones. This is quite different that the death of ALL PDAs.
All the article is saying is that PDAs will include another feature. PDAs are evolving. Very few things stay the way their were originally intended. Did computers die when we switched from punch cards to keyboards? Not quite. They're still computers, they just aren't exactly what they used to be.
It takes all those PhDs to figure out that a really, really big number can hold lots of information.
Who wants to let me borrow his credit cards?
Most people want a faster/quiter/cheaper home pc, yet no companies seem to be interested in this option
You can't make money on those, you only make money on high end systems -- putting an extra 200$ on the cost (for profit) is much easier on a 2k machine than one that costs 500 bucks. (at least, if you want it to sell)
As someone with a firm grounding in economics, I must admit that I just don't get it. ISPs and other groups have high fixed costs, and low variable costs
In English, that means that a lot of the infrastructure costs XXX million dollars, no matter how many customers they have and only a few things actually cost the company more as they add more customers. Because of this, I cannot understand why they would want to let people split service costs.
This article made me think of a joke I once heard... A man goes into a restaurant and sees a sign: "All you can eat 10 dollars, half of all you can eat: 5.50"
- Big sites have generic content
- Small sites have specific content
- Advertisers will advertise on small sites because they have "targeted viewership"
Ok, anyone ever hear of economies of scale? Let's say I have a site that is super-duper specialized. It only has content relating to red staplers with blue logos on them. It's going to be really hard for companies like swingline to- Find my site
- Negotiate a deal for ad space
- Get the marketing department to cut me a check for 14 dollars each month
They'll go with the big stapler fan sites and avoid all the paperwork. You know it, I know it.So what's wrong with passengers hunting for the best deal? I thought that's what the free-market and capitalism were all about.
Nope. Capitalism is all about letting businesses squeeze every penny out of consumers. Maximizing for the consumer would be socialism, you commie bastard.
...But in terms of raw power, nothing can match a slashdoting. Can anyone else read the link?
I don't get it, I thought that we were supposed to buy RIAA DRM CDs and then return them as "defective" -- won't that hurt them a bit more than simply not buying the CDs?
No more annoying emails from Mom. Or from anyone else who won't learn how to use PGP.
Good. They suck.
Why don't we just create a system where we all only accept mail that has been PGP encrypted with our public keys? That way spammers will have to burn through a whole lot of clock cycles to get their crap out and as an added benefit, we will get a bit more privacy.
Instead of making the sender solve some weird problem, make him encrypt the message with your PGP public key. Then the sender only accepts messages that are encrypted, and junks everything else. Not only will spam be cut down to almost nothing (PGP encryption takes a bit of time), but you will now have some privacy too!
So you mean that the someone is going to invent a MUD? I can't wait!
Why do they need a NEW distrobution for this? Can't they just add their improvements to Debian? Now I need 10 distros based off Debian. One for installs, one for graphics, one for music, one for work, one for servers... I mean come on! Let's work together here!
what they need is new writers.
The GPL can't be modified, yet it is stuck into just about every free package in Debian. If it could be changed, then the software's license could be altered. Bill Gates whould just have to "embrace and extend" the GPL to gain whatever control he wished. We NEED non-free pieces to protect the FREEness of the software. Ironic no?
Also the book "Steal this book" should be banned for false advertising.
Let developers know what they are building BEFORE they start building it.
It doesn't matter how great the software is... frankly it's too late for a new entry. Because of network effects, messaging software is only as good as the number of people who already use it.