I am the creator and operator of the site mentioned by the poster, cizone.com. I've put hundreds of hours into the development and operation of this site. I did not use Slash nor any other prewritten weblog application, instead, I chose to write 100% of the code on my own.
While I enjoy reading Slashdot and believe that it is a highly-informative and intelligent (well, usually) source of news and information, I don't believe that it is fair to declare all other sites based on the weblog concept as "Slashdot wannabes".
Each and every time I post a new story to cizone.com, I make it a point to avoid reporting on the exact same stories as Slashdot and other major news sources. When this cannot be avoided due to the significance of the story, I at least try to throw some type of twist into the article that sets it aside from the others. The greatest strength of any weblog is not only its ability to provide news stories, but also its commentary and other forms of editorial opinion to create a "community" atmosphere.
Yes, I am currently the only full-time poster at cizone.com, but does that really matter? How would the site be any better for you, as a reader, if it were maintained by ten people who posted an equal amount of information as one person?
What about Pirates of Silicon Valley? In my opinion, that was the most accurate computer-related movie that has ever come out of Hollywood. It did contain a few minor glitches, but it still wasn't all that bad.
Triumph of the Nerds and Nerds 2.0.1 are also great, although they don't exactly fall into the category of high-profile Hollywood movies.
What Jeff Bezos would like you to do is associate Amazon.com with all of your shopping needs. He wants consumers to be able to go there and buy everything they need on one convenient site. Yes, this is similar to the K-Mart approach, but do consider that it takes advantage of a completely different medium.
For PR reasons, the big corporations like Microsoft would rather boast to investors and customers that they have a successful anti-piracy program rather than give in to piracy by lowering prices.
Also, assuming prices were cut in half, which would be a pretty drastic move for a large software co., they'd still end up making a smaller profit even if the entire 2/5 began buying legal copies.
After all of the media attention crackers have received under the name "hacker", there simply isn't a way to set the public straight.
Rather than coming up with some completely new word, it'd be best if we just started referring to ourselves as one of the many terms synonymous with "hacker". Personally, I think "geek" would work best -- although it too has received a bit of a negative connotation for some members of the less computer-savvy crowd.
If you ran a small business struggling to be profitable and were approached by a huge corporation willing to put millions in your pockets in exchange for ownership of the business, would you really care who the buyer is?
IMHO Nullsoft successfully made themselves very juicy corporate buy-out bait by being a leader in the rapidly-expanding MP3 industry. If AOL hadn't picked them up, MS eventually would have anyway.
It will be very interesting to see what AOL does with Nullsoft. Unless they decide to phase out the Nullsoft programmers and leave Winamp development to their in-house programming staff, nothing too bad should happen.
It takes a very bold ISP to ban the aol.com domain. I'm sure that a very large percentage of every ISP's users are forced to contact someone via their AOL e-mail address at some point in time.
While a test such as the one you described would probably be effective at eliminating 95% of the AOL me-tooers, I'm not sure I could ever see AOL implementing such a thing.
After all, why do most AOLers come to AOL to begin with? Because they're too stupid, lazy, or uninterested in learning basic Internet usage skills. AOL understands this and tries make to the AOLer's experience as fast and idiot-proof as possible. Anything requiring them to apprehend and understand information will deter newbies from using the service.
You must have priced the Dimension v333c quite a long time ago. The system currently starts at $999 and doesn't get much higher than $1200 after being beefed up.
I do, however, have to give Apple some credit for the interesting case design of the G3. The fold-out motherboard is an excellent idea.
Arguing that we shouldn't be charged for excessive usage simply because the telco's equipment has already been purchased is like saying that people should be given free admission to an empty movie theater simply because the movie will be playing regardless of attendance.
The economy simply doesn't work this way. Telephone companies are in business to make as much of a profit as they possibly can, not to break even every quarter. I see nothing wrong with charging more for someone who uses their phone line 20 hours a day than someone who uses it for 45 minutes a day. They are dedicating more of their assets to the high-use person and can collect additional fees as a result.
If corporations didn't care about an OS's image, and instead based their decisions solely on the quality of the OS, wouldn't every corporation be running Linux right now? Only the most tech-savvy companies have already embraced Linux. The fact is, most corporations are still running MS operating systems because its image is still very positive among the majority of consultants.
Events like these will only cause companies to continue to dismiss Linux as an OS maintained by a group of young, immature "hackers". As its image gets worse, they will only become less likely to take the time to evaluate Linux's quality.
If corporations didn't care about an OS's image, and instead based their decisions solely on the quality of the OS, wouldn't every corporation be running Linux right now? Only the most tech-savvy companies have already embraced Linux. The fact is, most corporations are still running MS operating systems because its image is still very positive among the majority of consultants.
Events like these will only cause companies to continue to dismiss Linux as an OS maintained by a group of young, immature "hackers". As its image gets worse, they will only become less likely to take the time to evaluate Linux's quality.
Although I'm quite sick of hearing about domain name disputes, I had to laugh at this one. A trademark simply can't be placed on a common first name. I'm sure the lawyers involved aren't planning on taking the case to court. Instead, they're simply trying to get an easy domain using scare tactics.
I think I'll settle for the old beige box
on
Cooler Cases
·
· Score: 1
Personally, I thought these cases looked a bit cheesy and not fit for their purpose. I have no problem with the old beige box. They're easily hidden if you don't like the appearance, and who sits there staring at their case while at their computer anyway?
Slashdot Mirror
While I enjoy reading Slashdot and believe that it is a highly-informative and intelligent (well, usually) source of news and information, I don't believe that it is fair to declare all other sites based on the weblog concept as "Slashdot wannabes".
Each and every time I post a new story to cizone.com, I make it a point to avoid reporting on the exact same stories as Slashdot and other major news sources. When this cannot be avoided due to the significance of the story, I at least try to throw some type of twist into the article that sets it aside from the others. The greatest strength of any weblog is not only its ability to provide news stories, but also its commentary and other forms of editorial opinion to create a "community" atmosphere.
Yes, I am currently the only full-time poster at cizone.com, but does that really matter? How would the site be any better for you, as a reader, if it were maintained by ten people who posted an equal amount of information as one person?
What about Pirates of Silicon Valley? In my opinion, that was the most accurate computer-related movie that has ever come out of Hollywood. It did contain a few minor glitches, but it still wasn't all that bad.
Triumph of the Nerds and Nerds 2.0.1 are also great, although they don't exactly fall into the category of high-profile Hollywood movies.
What Jeff Bezos would like you to do is associate Amazon.com with all of your shopping needs. He wants consumers to be able to go there and buy everything they need on one convenient site. Yes, this is similar to the K-Mart approach, but do consider that it takes advantage of a completely different medium.
For PR reasons, the big corporations like Microsoft would rather boast to investors and customers that they have a successful anti-piracy program rather than give in to piracy by lowering prices.
Also, assuming prices were cut in half, which would be a pretty drastic move for a large software co., they'd still end up making a smaller profit even if the entire 2/5 began buying legal copies.
After all of the media attention crackers have received under the name "hacker", there simply isn't a way to set the public straight.
Rather than coming up with some completely new word, it'd be best if we just started referring to ourselves as one of the many terms synonymous with "hacker". Personally, I think "geek" would work best -- although it too has received a bit of a negative connotation for some members of the less computer-savvy crowd.
If you ran a small business struggling to be profitable and were approached by a huge corporation willing to put millions in your pockets in exchange for ownership of the business, would you really care who the buyer is?
IMHO Nullsoft successfully made themselves very juicy corporate buy-out bait by being a leader in the rapidly-expanding MP3 industry. If AOL hadn't picked them up, MS eventually would have anyway.
It will be very interesting to see what AOL does with Nullsoft. Unless they decide to phase out the Nullsoft programmers and leave Winamp development to their in-house programming staff, nothing too bad should happen.
It takes a very bold ISP to ban the aol.com domain. I'm sure that a very large percentage of every ISP's users are forced to contact someone via their AOL e-mail address at some point in time.
While a test such as the one you described would probably be effective at eliminating 95% of the AOL me-tooers, I'm not sure I could ever see AOL implementing such a thing.
After all, why do most AOLers come to AOL to begin with? Because they're too stupid, lazy, or uninterested in learning basic Internet usage skills. AOL understands this and tries make to the AOLer's experience as fast and idiot-proof as possible. Anything requiring them to apprehend and understand information will deter newbies from using the service.
I do, however, have to give Apple some credit for the interesting case design of the G3. The fold-out motherboard is an excellent idea.
The economy simply doesn't work this way. Telephone companies are in business to make as much of a profit as they possibly can, not to break even every quarter. I see nothing wrong with charging more for someone who uses their phone line 20 hours a day than someone who uses it for 45 minutes a day. They are dedicating more of their assets to the high-use person and can collect additional fees as a result.
Events like these will only cause companies to continue to dismiss Linux as an OS maintained by a group of young, immature "hackers". As its image gets worse, they will only become less likely to take the time to evaluate Linux's quality.
Events like these will only cause companies to continue to dismiss Linux as an OS maintained by a group of young, immature "hackers". As its image gets worse, they will only become less likely to take the time to evaluate Linux's quality.
Although I'm quite sick of hearing about domain name disputes, I had to laugh at this one. A trademark simply can't be placed on a common first name. I'm sure the lawyers involved aren't planning on taking the case to court. Instead, they're simply trying to get an easy domain using scare tactics.
If you want art, buy art. Let cases be cases.