One of the biggest and most consistent sources of spam in the world is cn.net. So says SpamCop. So says SpamHaus. The spams may be for American and European sites, but it's a Chinese ISP that's providing the spamming services.
For resorting to spam in the first place and since their own laws are strict, they hire someone else to do the dirty work for them because the poor guy needs the money.
Sooo... spamming is okay if the spammer is poor enough?
and I'll be first to say that editorial control was never all that wonderful to begin with.
Perhaps, but it is still worse now than it was then. Then it was mostly just Taco and Hemos. Taco was the ranting Linux-and-scifi nut while Hemos was the serious business-and-tech news guy.
Now we have an entire mob of "editors," and they're all more like Taco than Hemos. Net result: the editorial bias of Slashdot as a whole keeps shifting further and further and further...
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I have to wonder if the only way to get anything posted to slashdot is to submit flaimbait.
Yes, it is. There have been many occasions when several different versions of a story are submitted, out of which only the most sensational is posted. Sensationalism draws readers. Readers provide click-thrus. Click-thrus equal money.
Mind you, Taco and his gang have never made any secret of the fact Slashdot is really just a glorified 'blog, with all of the ranting and advocacy that 'blogging entails.
However, the editorial control here is getting so bad as to sometimes border on slander. Methinks the success has gone to their heads.
(And if you think I don't know what I'm talking about, look at my user ID. I've been reading Slashdot for years.)
Everyone is talking about the lack of advertising or the flawed subscription model, and that's fine, but I don't think that's the WHOLE story.
I think a lot of people didn't buy into Shadowmarch simply because they were tired of Tad Williams' work. And when I say tired, I mean exhausted. Williams' is infamous for his 3000+ page epics that are chock full of characters and locales but very little actual plot. It happened with 'Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn' and it happened with 'Otherland', and there was every indication it was happening again with 'Shadowmarch'.
Some people may enjoy that style of writing, but after the first two series I'd had enough. That's why I didn't subscribe.
Believe it or not, in 5 years, you could see Mac/Linux people buying, and running natively, stuff like Office and Visual Basic.NET, thanks to Microsoft embracing the concept of the virtual machine.
I understand the point you're trying to make, but... I can already buy Office for Mac.
Check your math -- 0.5% of a billion is only 5 million.
I know for a fact than china is considered one of the most interesting market for mobile communications, not because any large percent could actually afford a cellphone, but because there are so many chinese that you still would have a lot of potential customers.
No, China is an "interesting" market because the rest of the industrialized nations (North America, EU, Japan, etc) are already glutted.
The US federal government is supposed to be merely a custodial bureacracy overseeing the day-to-day administration of national defense and infrastructure. That's why we have a constitution, to restrict the government's power to "plan" the lives of the people or the direction of the economy. That's why we have elections, to keep any single group or ideology from becoming entrenched. That's why we have a (mostly) free market, to give us the speed and flexibility to adapt to changing circumstances and technologies.
I don't think you'd like it very much if the government actually had the power you ascribe to it.
You have to send out promo copies to radio stations, DJs, reviewers, and stores. You have to invest in advertising and butter up radio station programmers.
That used to be true, but not any more. The vast majority of FM stations across the country have been bought out by a handful of mega-networks (e.g., Clear Channel) and switched over to a single, centrally controlled "Top 40" format.
Isn't the use of copyrighted works a matter of getting permission from the rights holder? Can't the rights holder insist on whatever royalty payment system he feels is appropriate?
You, my friend in tvland, are not a sucker. So stop letting yourself be treated like one. You are mad as hell, and you're not going to take it anymore.
It's your money, damn it. Use it to make yourself happy. Dump your cable subscription and never see another infomercial again. Do it.
I already plan to, in 2004. Why then? Because that's when a) my current lease ends and I'll probably buy a house, b) I'll be 30 years old and it seems a nicely grown-up thing to do, c) the digital switchover will be getting really obnoxious, and d) Farscape finishes its five-year run.
There's nothing wrong with paying for pretty graphics - if that's what you want. I was simply disputing the claim that what you're paying for is new content. Any creative and dedicated player can contribute new content if they're allowed to do so. MU*s allow them. MMOFPSs don't.
I've never found MUDs interesting, most of them are inhabited by role-playing purist pricks who say things like, "What ees thees strange theeng you call a 'level'?"
*gasp* Role-playing!? How dare they! You're right, you'd better stick to your nice safe MMOFPSs.
Graphical MUDs didn't just bring graphics, they also brought good GUIs
Read "pretty graphics."
and ease of installation and use
Most MU*s require nothing more than a telnet client.
to something that had once been horribly Byzantine.
If you just want to sit back and be entertained, fine, keep paying Verant $10 a month for what is basically Quake with spells.
And that's why they took off like a rocket, while MUDs languish in obscurity.
MMOFPSs attract a lot of people because they appeal to the lowest common denominator of twitch gamerz. MU*s are obscure because they appeal to very selective and meticulous role-players who are perfectly satisfied with a text interface and a little imagination.
Even better, since MU*s are as easy to set up and run as any Linux app, anyone can create their own game world. Let's see you do that with a MMOFPS.
What is interesting is that the TV industry will has a system allready in place that could be switched to an ad less system. All they would need to do is charge more for cable or satellite service, or something along those lines.
Wasn't that the original bloody point of cable - paying a monthly subscription for ad-free programming? They managed to do it just fine until the late 80s. How did they eventually convince us that it's perfectly normal to pay $40-50 a month for JUST the copper wire?
Right now I can think of a dozen different channels that show no original programming whatsoever, just infomercials and reruns. What the hell is all that ad revenue and subscription money paying for?
Your $10-15 per month covers not only the fees for the servers and bandwidth, but for monthly additions in the form of new items, new areas to explore, new monsters, etc.
MU*s still do all this for free. Servers and bandwidth are dirt cheap when the game is text-only, so the game's "owner" often pays for it out of his pocket, and all the additions are gladly contributed by the players themselves out of simple love for the game world.
Like the guy said, all Everquest and its ilk bring to the party is pretty graphics.
These aren't reissues of the original toys. These are cheap plastic copies of the original toys. The original toys were made with die-cast metal parts and heavy duty joints, in order to withstand frequent transformations and active play. These... things will not give you the feeling of solidity and value that made the originals so collectible.
Could this also be a preemptive response to the CBDTPA? IBM has indeed driven much of the innovation in hard drive technology, so maybe they figure they should get out now while the gettin' is good.
Anyone have more information? Please share with the class.
Webposition Gold is a fucking evil little piece of software used by marketing and advertising consultants to measure how Web sites are ranked on various search engines. It bombards the engines with automated queries in order to try to deduce -- and therefore defeat -- their ranking algoritithms.
Google hates that.
Someone on your block was probably using Webposition Gold, so your block got locked out.
Maybe I'm just overestimating the number of fans who were seeking the episodes out on the net rather than waiting for two months.
Yes, you are. I enjoy Farscape very much, but no television show is worth such contortions. Maybe when my television, my computer, and the 'Net are all one seamless "on demand" system (and we're getting there with TiVo), but not yet.
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One of the biggest and most consistent sources of spam in the world is cn.net. So says SpamCop. So says SpamHaus. The spams may be for American and European sites, but it's a Chinese ISP that's providing the spamming services.
Sooo... spamming is okay if the spammer is poor enough?
I bow to you, oh mighty Three-Digit User! (^_^)
Perhaps, but it is still worse now than it was then. Then it was mostly just Taco and Hemos. Taco was the ranting Linux-and-scifi nut while Hemos was the serious business-and-tech news guy.
Now we have an entire mob of "editors," and they're all more like Taco than Hemos. Net result: the editorial bias of Slashdot as a whole keeps shifting further and further and further...
Yes, it is. There have been many occasions when several different versions of a story are submitted, out of which only the most sensational is posted. Sensationalism draws readers. Readers provide click-thrus. Click-thrus equal money.
Mind you, Taco and his gang have never made any secret of the fact Slashdot is really just a glorified 'blog, with all of the ranting and advocacy that 'blogging entails.
However, the editorial control here is getting so bad as to sometimes border on slander. Methinks the success has gone to their heads.
(And if you think I don't know what I'm talking about, look at my user ID. I've been reading Slashdot for years.)
Howsabout a good old fashioned thieves knot?
Everyone is talking about the lack of advertising or the flawed subscription model, and that's fine, but I don't think that's the WHOLE story.
I think a lot of people didn't buy into Shadowmarch simply because they were tired of Tad Williams' work. And when I say tired, I mean exhausted. Williams' is infamous for his 3000+ page epics that are chock full of characters and locales but very little actual plot. It happened with 'Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn' and it happened with 'Otherland', and there was every indication it was happening again with 'Shadowmarch'.
Some people may enjoy that style of writing, but after the first two series I'd had enough. That's why I didn't subscribe.
I understand the point you're trying to make, but... I can already buy Office for Mac.
Check your math -- 0.5% of a billion is only 5 million.
No, China is an "interesting" market because the rest of the industrialized nations (North America, EU, Japan, etc) are already glutted.
Yes, he does.
The US federal government is supposed to be merely a custodial bureacracy overseeing the day-to-day administration of national defense and infrastructure. That's why we have a constitution, to restrict the government's power to "plan" the lives of the people or the direction of the economy. That's why we have elections, to keep any single group or ideology from becoming entrenched. That's why we have a (mostly) free market, to give us the speed and flexibility to adapt to changing circumstances and technologies.
I don't think you'd like it very much if the government actually had the power you ascribe to it.
That used to be true, but not any more. The vast majority of FM stations across the country have been bought out by a handful of mega-networks (e.g., Clear Channel) and switched over to a single, centrally controlled "Top 40" format.
17 USC 115. Scope of exclusive rights in nondramatic musical works: Compulsory license for making and distributing phonorecords
The question is, are you talking about Wired or about Slashdot...?
Since it is default OS on all Macs now shipping, OS X alone is at least 2 or 3 percent of the home computing market.
I already plan to, in 2004. Why then? Because that's when a) my current lease ends and I'll probably buy a house, b) I'll be 30 years old and it seems a nicely grown-up thing to do, c) the digital switchover will be getting really obnoxious, and d) Farscape finishes its five-year run.
Yes, really, I like Farscape that much.
There's nothing wrong with paying for pretty graphics - if that's what you want. I was simply disputing the claim that what you're paying for is new content. Any creative and dedicated player can contribute new content if they're allowed to do so. MU*s allow them. MMOFPSs don't.
*gasp* Role-playing!? How dare they! You're right, you'd better stick to your nice safe MMOFPSs.
Read "pretty graphics."
Most MU*s require nothing more than a telnet client.
If you just want to sit back and be entertained, fine, keep paying Verant $10 a month for what is basically Quake with spells.
MMOFPSs attract a lot of people because they appeal to the lowest common denominator of twitch gamerz. MU*s are obscure because they appeal to very selective and meticulous role-players who are perfectly satisfied with a text interface and a little imagination.
Even better, since MU*s are as easy to set up and run as any Linux app, anyone can create their own game world. Let's see you do that with a MMOFPS.
Wasn't that the original bloody point of cable - paying a monthly subscription for ad-free programming? They managed to do it just fine until the late 80s. How did they eventually convince us that it's perfectly normal to pay $40-50 a month for JUST the copper wire?
Right now I can think of a dozen different channels that show no original programming whatsoever, just infomercials and reruns. What the hell is all that ad revenue and subscription money paying for?
MU*s still do all this for free. Servers and bandwidth are dirt cheap when the game is text-only, so the game's "owner" often pays for it out of his pocket, and all the additions are gladly contributed by the players themselves out of simple love for the game world.
Like the guy said, all Everquest and its ilk bring to the party is pretty graphics.
These aren't reissues of the original toys. These are cheap plastic copies of the original toys. The original toys were made with die-cast metal parts and heavy duty joints, in order to withstand frequent transformations and active play. These... things will not give you the feeling of solidity and value that made the originals so collectible.
Could this also be a preemptive response to the CBDTPA? IBM has indeed driven much of the innovation in hard drive technology, so maybe they figure they should get out now while the gettin' is good.
Here is a direct link.
Would someone please mod this parent up? Mishra2002 has described Akira perfectly, but everyone is missing it.
It's a Reuters article. Reuters sucks.
Webposition Gold is a fucking evil little piece of software used by marketing and advertising consultants to measure how Web sites are ranked on various search engines. It bombards the engines with automated queries in order to try to deduce -- and therefore defeat -- their ranking algoritithms.
Google hates that.
Someone on your block was probably using Webposition Gold, so your block got locked out.
Yes, you are. I enjoy Farscape very much, but no television show is worth such contortions. Maybe when my television, my computer, and the 'Net are all one seamless "on demand" system (and we're getting there with TiVo), but not yet.
My only problem is that there are only 4 new episodes...
Season Four starts on June 7.