Because it allows users to heavily modify their pages. Hell, there's a cottage industry built up of hacks and codes to change a users profile around.
Because it lets users put songs on their profiles to hear, so that they can feel like their profile is their own (neverminding the other 20,000 profiles with the same song)
User blogs are published to RSS... i don't know about bulletins or other functions, probably not, because then it'd have to store the user name and password somewhere in order to get it right...
So, go ahead, write a "better" myspace... and no one will come.
However, if you look at what users WANT and give them something better, they will... Myspace is nothing but the next generation after LiveJournal, Friendster, etc... There's going to be something new after myspace, and i'm betting there's at least 20 companies out there trying to figure out what it'll be...
Right now you could live decently, say, if you had it in a savings account yielding 5%.... but the moment interest rates drop, the picture wouldn't be so pretty... you'd go from 50,000/year income, down to 30,000 (assuming a series of rate cuts bringing interest rates down to 3%).
But then, if you dipped into your money to put down a payment on a house, that'd effectively lower your income, because you'd have less to make interest off of.
So you could put it into stocks... say you had 1MM in the market, and then another end of the bubble/9-11 combination hits, and you're sitting with 600,000 left in the bank... the government cuts interest rates to 1% to get spending up, and companies cut their average dividends to a 2% yield becauase they don't want to issue more stock at depreciated pri ces to rais funds... that 50,000 you were making on interest has now become $12,000 per year... to offset that, you need to withdraw capital (sell stocks), which lowers your income further, and then when the markets to rebount, you have less stock to reap the benefits from....
Even a "safe" investment, a 30 year treasury investment. Say you get 4.95%, you get 49,500 a year... But lets say inflation averages 2% a year. That 49,500 loses quite a bit of spending power by the end of the term.
No... 1MM is not enough for a 25-28 year old to think about retiring on... maybe if you were 50 and had a paid-off mortgage on your home, but even that might be pushing it, just because who knows what our life expectancies will be then by the time we all reach older ages...
Honestly, i'd be pretty psyched to have just the ipod/camera/pda-capabilities/2MP digital camera as just that... Means many less gadgets i have to carry with me throughout the day. I had a treo and while the idea of running lots of cool apps on it seemed cool, 99% of them were crap anyways, so after not too long I was basically back to running it as a stock treo anyways...
A couple points... If they did set up the account as a non-profit/charity account, that's not paypal's fault for allowing that to happen.
It takes simple paper work but a decent amount of time to become an established 501c(3) charitable organization. Often times a disaster or other circumstance will occur that necessitates setting up a non-profit to try to help raise the funds... These organizations want to raise money while the cause is still fresh in people minds, even if it means that they're not formally set up as such... So paypal let them set up the account on the expectation that this would occur.
Also, if the account was indeed set up as a charitable organization, paypal, having found out that it wasn't actually a charitable organization, may need time to figure out (consult with lawyers, etc) whether or not they have to contact all the donors to inform them that their contribution weren't to a tax-deductible cause. I don't know about you, but if i donated to something expecting it to be a charitable contribution and found out afterwards that it wasn't, I'd be peeved at Paypal for having allowed that to happen. They simply want to make sure that no ones going to make a big stink or sue.
I don't think that paypal just abritrarily froze this account, that wouldn't make a bit of sense. They've said they'll release the funds in 180 days, so i think that whoever set it up mistakenly or not thought that they should check the the "non-profit" checkbox.
And his headaches aren't over. Once paypal does release the funds, he'll owe taxes, PERSONALLY, on the monies he received... Lets save that outrage for another slashdot article, though!
Has verizon changed much in the last couple of years? I had a treo 600 up until a year or year and a half ago, and could install any palm application i wanted. Commercial app. Freeware. It didn't matter...
I bet that Cingular will be paying them on a monthly basis for the users that sign onto their service and use the premium features... If they sold unlocked phones, there'd be no way to attribute the feature use and then they'ed have to charge even more for the unit. That, or make separately branded versions for all the major carriers... And ever since surviving the days of having 20-30 products out there, with barely different model numbers, i'm sure Steve would have nixed any idea of building specifically branded phones for all the major carriers...
But maybe again, maybe they will in time. That way they can see: A- how many current cingular customers upgrade to the phoneB- how many new customers cingular acquires that get iphones C- after a year or year and a half, how many customers switch to cingular and get the phone D- how many people contact them and say they'd love to get one, but for one reason or anther can't or won't switch from their current carrier.
OF course.... they've got a 30 year investment in that product. Seems quite logical that they'ed want to make THAT product secure, rather than starting from scratch... backward compatibility with their own products has always been a selling point that either microsoft has used, or others have believed to be the case.
he had to take that in stride... it was, after all, the same phrase he'd used (i believe on the senate floor) when a democratic senator started asking about Halliburton
After all these years, Slashdot is STILL worked up about the RIAA... Aren't there bigger fish to fry, or are you just that stuborn about getting your music free? And by "you", i mean all the people that try to minimize the impact their "illegal" downloading has on artists)
You know, Linus put his software under the GPL because it was his right and his choice. He very well could have chosen a more restrictive license, and that'd have been his right. You could have either contributed to it anyways, used it anyways, or found something else with a license to your liking. And whenever there's even a WHISPER that Microsoft or someone else may have appropriated GPL'ed code, the masses here go berserk.
With that all said and done. Just as you demand respect as programmers, you too should respect the CHOICE that artists MAKE. The internet isn't this new fangled idea any more. If they wanted to put their music out for free or donations, they'ed have put it on their website or myspace or what not. And if they wanted to try to earn some money themselves, they'ed put their tracks on mp3.com, or they'ed contact diskmakers.com and do it themselves that way.
No, they DECIDED to use a label. And regardless of what you or I or anyone else thinks, that was their choice. It's fine if you don't respect that choice, there's PLENTY of trully "free" music to be had, and it's actually rather good. But to have the gall to try to analyze the business and dictate what the costs "should" be is simply inane.
Get over it. It's just music. Buy it if you'd like. Find free music if that suits you better. Make your own if you're that intent on it. Or just steal it. But when you steal it, at least have the guts to say that that's what you're doing, rather than creating excuses like "The RIAA makes too much money" or "the artist doesn't get much money" or whatever else you want to say.
I'm going to sleep now.
And, I CAN'T wait to see what becomes of this post.
Except that the members of the electoral college aren't necessarily bound to vote in the way that the constituents in their district voted. Which serves as a "buffer", i suppose, so that if everyone wanted to elect an ax-murderer who won the majority of votes, the electoral college could still nix it. So yes, the electoral college had a place due to lack of communications, but it also serves other rolls as well..
I wish it wasn't the case, but honestly... it's over and done with.
I wanted that too, even bought a prepaid charge card for that purpose, but wouldn't you know it, they wanted my SSN to activate the card for me, and of course they needed a mailing address to ship the card to me...
But let's see, even if i'd gotten the digits over the phone, I could then order something online through an online store that doubtlessly logs the IP address. If i ordered something for delivery, they have my home address as well, unless I have it delivered to a mailbox service, which in turn has asked for my photo ID and a utility bill, which again, ties back to my home address.
Even if i'm just funding the account to get access to a website, the card provider has my IP on account, the camera's at the store got my snapshot, and whichever site i use the card at also has my IP, which of course my ISP will happily provide upon request...
So yes.. I know what you're asking for, but quite simply, with all the stuff packed into the PATRIOT act and all the related junk that's gone through in the last couple of years, you're simply not going to get it...
So, verizon can choose to offer me up as another set of eyeballs to advertisers. Can I opt out of receiving this newfangled feature? Or do I have to bounce to a new carrier until they adopt that policy, and then to the next, so forth and so on?
Except, for some odd reason, these days our defense budget is higher than it ever was during the Cold War. Go figure on that one, where we for some reason need to spend more money defending ourselves from a few thousand terrorists than we did against a country aiming 16,000 nuclear missiles at us.
In the past, insofar as illegal activities have went through an ISP (ie, file sharing/copyright infringement), ISP's would say they had no control of the content going through their network. Since this one apparently is, who ever has material tha is being "infringed" by a user of the ISP should be able to sue. Afterall, they've opened themselves up for it. They can't plead no knowledge on one hand and on the other hand selectively filter websites based on content of politcal view.
Even users who are offended by things should complain to them.
Something like that needs to happen, just to show others that they can't start selectively doing stuff like this...
because it's your choice to buy it or not. It's not as if Apple is releasing an iPod video and saying "from now on you can no longer purchase AAC audio from us for 99 cents"
just because you don't like the idea doen't mean it;s a bad idea
it does seem really cool. I just can't think of a practical use for it for myself, though I'm sure that one day they, or technology inspired from them, will be very important in some sectors.
No... but when you're talking the scales that we're talking about with BillG, that amout is still a drop in the bucket. Say i'm worth 100,000 - i'll miss $40,000 much more than he misses his 24 billion. The whole "percentage" thing gets horribly skewed when at the top. It's just not a fair comparison.
I don't see why people complain about OS X being slow. Sure 9 was faster in some ways, but it didn't do as much. It certainly wasn't running Apache and PostgreSQL
Didn't you just answer it yourself then? People complain about X being slow, because it, being an upgrade to OS 9, runs many tasks slower than OS 9 did... And i'm doubting your the typical mac user, since most of them probably have zero desire to have Apache and Postgres running in the background, consuming CPU cycles...
Well, no one is innocent (Microsoft, etc), but Apple has advertised OS X as being for use with all Macintoshes that shipped with a G3 processor, with the exception of the original Powerbook G3.
Therefore, I would have hoped that their engineers would spend at least a little time making certain that their product is usable on such computers. yes, it installs. Yes, it runs. But performance is far from acceptable.
Yes, I could purchase a newer iMac, and am infact intending to, but I still feel that it is a perfect valid complaint to have a machine that is completely up to Apple's spec be unable to use the software effectively.
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The reason myspace became what it's become is:
Because it allows users to heavily modify their pages. Hell, there's a cottage industry built up of hacks and codes to change a users profile around.
Because it lets users put songs on their profiles to hear, so that they can feel like their profile is their own (neverminding the other 20,000 profiles with the same song)
User blogs are published to RSS... i don't know about bulletins or other functions, probably not, because then it'd have to store the user name and password somewhere in order to get it right...
So, go ahead, write a "better" myspace... and no one will come.
However, if you look at what users WANT and give them something better, they will... Myspace is nothing but the next generation after LiveJournal, Friendster, etc... There's going to be something new after myspace, and i'm betting there's at least 20 companies out there trying to figure out what it'll be...
Right now you could live decently, say, if you had it in a savings account yielding 5%.... but the moment interest rates drop, the picture wouldn't be so pretty... you'd go from 50,000/year income, down to 30,000 (assuming a series of rate cuts bringing interest rates down to 3%).
But then, if you dipped into your money to put down a payment on a house, that'd effectively lower your income, because you'd have less to make interest off of.
So you could put it into stocks... say you had 1MM in the market, and then another end of the bubble/9-11 combination hits, and you're sitting with 600,000 left in the bank... the government cuts interest rates to 1% to get spending up, and companies cut their average dividends to a 2% yield becauase they don't want to issue more stock at depreciated pri ces to rais funds... that 50,000 you were making on interest has now become $12,000 per year... to offset that, you need to withdraw capital (sell stocks), which lowers your income further, and then when the markets to rebount, you have less stock to reap the benefits from....
Even a "safe" investment, a 30 year treasury investment. Say you get 4.95%, you get 49,500 a year... But lets say inflation averages 2% a year. That 49,500 loses quite a bit of spending power by the end of the term.
No... 1MM is not enough for a 25-28 year old to think about retiring on... maybe if you were 50 and had a paid-off mortgage on your home, but even that might be pushing it, just because who knows what our life expectancies will be then by the time we all reach older ages...
Honestly, i'd be pretty psyched to have just the ipod/camera/pda-capabilities/2MP digital camera as just that... Means many less gadgets i have to carry with me throughout the day. I had a treo and while the idea of running lots of cool apps on it seemed cool, 99% of them were crap anyways, so after not too long I was basically back to running it as a stock treo anyways...
A couple points... If they did set up the account as a non-profit/charity account, that's not paypal's fault for allowing that to happen.
It takes simple paper work but a decent amount of time to become an established 501c(3) charitable organization. Often times a disaster or other circumstance will occur that necessitates setting up a non-profit to try to help raise the funds... These organizations want to raise money while the cause is still fresh in people minds, even if it means that they're not formally set up as such... So paypal let them set up the account on the expectation that this would occur.
Also, if the account was indeed set up as a charitable organization, paypal, having found out that it wasn't actually a charitable organization, may need time to figure out (consult with lawyers, etc) whether or not they have to contact all the donors to inform them that their contribution weren't to a tax-deductible cause. I don't know about you, but if i donated to something expecting it to be a charitable contribution and found out afterwards that it wasn't, I'd be peeved at Paypal for having allowed that to happen. They simply want to make sure that no ones going to make a big stink or sue.
I don't think that paypal just abritrarily froze this account, that wouldn't make a bit of sense. They've said they'll release the funds in 180 days, so i think that whoever set it up mistakenly or not thought that they should check the the "non-profit" checkbox.
And his headaches aren't over. Once paypal does release the funds, he'll owe taxes, PERSONALLY, on the monies he received... Lets save that outrage for another slashdot article, though!
Has verizon changed much in the last couple of years? I had a treo 600 up until a year or year and a half ago, and could install any palm application i wanted. Commercial app. Freeware. It didn't matter...
I bet that Cingular will be paying them on a monthly basis for the users that sign onto their service and use the premium features... If they sold unlocked phones, there'd be no way to attribute the feature use and then they'ed have to charge even more for the unit. That, or make separately branded versions for all the major carriers... And ever since surviving the days of having 20-30 products out there, with barely different model numbers, i'm sure Steve would have nixed any idea of building specifically branded phones for all the major carriers...
But maybe again, maybe they will in time. That way they can see:
A- how many current cingular customers upgrade to the phoneB- how many new customers cingular acquires that get iphones
C- after a year or year and a half, how many customers switch to cingular and get the phone
D- how many people contact them and say they'd love to get one, but for one reason or anther can't or won't switch from their current carrier.
OF course.... they've got a 30 year investment in that product. Seems quite logical that they'ed want to make THAT product secure, rather than starting from scratch... backward compatibility with their own products has always been a selling point that either microsoft has used, or others have believed to be the case.
See above notes:
A - there were no full planes used on 9/11... IN fact all the affected flights had all below half their capacity.
B - In every other instance pre-9/11, the best route for surviving a highjacking WAS to sit and do nothing...
You can't bash the passengers for not knowing what no one else knew...
he had to take that in stride... it was, after all, the same phrase he'd used (i believe on the senate floor) when a democratic senator started asking about Halliburton
After all these years, Slashdot is STILL worked up about the RIAA... Aren't there bigger fish to fry, or are you just that stuborn about getting your music free? And by "you", i mean all the people that try to minimize the impact their "illegal" downloading has on artists)
You know, Linus put his software under the GPL because it was his right and his choice. He very well could have chosen a more restrictive license, and that'd have been his right. You could have either contributed to it anyways, used it anyways, or found something else with a license to your liking. And whenever there's even a WHISPER that Microsoft or someone else may have appropriated GPL'ed code, the masses here go berserk.
With that all said and done. Just as you demand respect as programmers, you too should respect the CHOICE that artists MAKE. The internet isn't this new fangled idea any more. If they wanted to put their music out for free or donations, they'ed have put it on their website or myspace or what not. And if they wanted to try to earn some money themselves, they'ed put their tracks on mp3.com, or they'ed contact diskmakers.com and do it themselves that way.
No, they DECIDED to use a label. And regardless of what you or I or anyone else thinks, that was their choice. It's fine if you don't respect that choice, there's PLENTY of trully "free" music to be had, and it's actually rather good. But to have the gall to try to analyze the business and dictate what the costs "should" be is simply inane.
Get over it. It's just music. Buy it if you'd like. Find free music if that suits you better. Make your own if you're that intent on it. Or just steal it. But when you steal it, at least have the guts to say that that's what you're doing, rather than creating excuses like "The RIAA makes too much money" or "the artist doesn't get much money" or whatever else you want to say.
I'm going to sleep now.
And, I CAN'T wait to see what becomes of this post.
Seriously... What's the first A for? I tried reading their page but got hung up right there.
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Except that the members of the electoral college aren't necessarily bound to vote in the way that the constituents in their district voted. Which serves as a "buffer", i suppose, so that if everyone wanted to elect an ax-murderer who won the majority of votes, the electoral college could still nix it. So yes, the electoral college had a place due to lack of communications, but it also serves other rolls as well..
Anonymity's dead.
I wish it wasn't the case, but honestly... it's over and done with.
I wanted that too, even bought a prepaid charge card for that purpose, but wouldn't you know it, they wanted my SSN to activate the card for me, and of course they needed a mailing address to ship the card to me...
But let's see, even if i'd gotten the digits over the phone, I could then order something online through an online store that doubtlessly logs the IP address. If i ordered something for delivery, they have my home address as well, unless I have it delivered to a mailbox service, which in turn has asked for my photo ID and a utility bill, which again, ties back to my home address.
Even if i'm just funding the account to get access to a website, the card provider has my IP on account, the camera's at the store got my snapshot, and whichever site i use the card at also has my IP, which of course my ISP will happily provide upon request...
So yes.. I know what you're asking for, but quite simply, with all the stuff packed into the PATRIOT act and all the related junk that's gone through in the last couple of years, you're simply not going to get it...
So, verizon can choose to offer me up as another set of eyeballs to advertisers. Can I opt out of receiving this newfangled feature? Or do I have to bounce to a new carrier until they adopt that policy, and then to the next, so forth and so on?
if only symantec had done the transfer using offshore bank accounts linked to their paypal account... oh? the IRS is onto that as well?!? nevermind!
Except, for some odd reason, these days our defense budget is higher than it ever was during the Cold War. Go figure on that one, where we for some reason need to spend more money defending ourselves from a few thousand terrorists than we did against a country aiming 16,000 nuclear missiles at us.
The dual-core Yonah chip could very likely deliver performance greater than Apple's current G4-based PowerBooks.
I thought the thing was that single core Pentium M's are mopping the floor with G4's?
In the past, insofar as illegal activities have went through an ISP (ie, file sharing/copyright infringement), ISP's would say they had no control of the content going through their network. Since this one apparently is, who ever has material tha is being "infringed" by a user of the ISP should be able to sue. Afterall, they've opened themselves up for it. They can't plead no knowledge on one hand and on the other hand selectively filter websites based on content of politcal view.
Even users who are offended by things should complain to them.
Something like that needs to happen, just to show others that they can't start selectively doing stuff like this...
because it's your choice to buy it or not. It's not as if Apple is releasing an iPod video and saying "from now on you can no longer purchase AAC audio from us for 99 cents"
just because you don't like the idea doen't mean it;s a bad idea
so really, this is a $40,000 crystal ball
j/k
it does seem really cool. I just can't think of a practical use for it for myself, though I'm sure that one day they, or technology inspired from them, will be very important in some sectors.
No... but when you're talking the scales that we're talking about with BillG, that amout is still a drop in the bucket. Say i'm worth 100,000 - i'll miss $40,000 much more than he misses his 24 billion. The whole "percentage" thing gets horribly skewed when at the top. It's just not a fair comparison.
But yes, it is nice that he's done that...
What's the difference between this fancy solution and one server (file server or database server) providing read only access to another (web) server?
Just a question...
Just on the flip side of the coin.
You're not being forced to own a computer, hence you don't "need" to have the "soldiers" in your home unless you invite them in...
I don't see why people complain about OS X being slow. Sure 9 was faster in some ways, but it didn't do as much. It certainly wasn't running Apache and PostgreSQL
Didn't you just answer it yourself then? People complain about X being slow, because it, being an upgrade to OS 9, runs many tasks slower than OS 9 did... And i'm doubting your the typical mac user, since most of them probably have zero desire to have Apache and Postgres running in the background, consuming CPU cycles...
Well, no one is innocent (Microsoft, etc), but Apple has advertised OS X as being for use with all Macintoshes that shipped with a G3 processor, with the exception of the original Powerbook G3.
Therefore, I would have hoped that their engineers would spend at least a little time making certain that their product is usable on such computers. yes, it installs. Yes, it runs. But performance is far from acceptable.
Yes, I could purchase a newer iMac, and am infact intending to, but I still feel that it is a perfect valid complaint to have a machine that is completely up to Apple's spec be unable to use the software effectively.