Just because they're not implicitly saying it's quid pro quo doesn't make it NOT quid pro quo.
For instance, the Senator From Disney, Hollings, gets his $300k campaign contribution from Disney in 2000. A Disney guy says "great to support you, here are our concerns, blah blah..." - the implication of course being that if he doesn't bust ass to address those concerns, that maybe some other lucky Democrat gets the big payola next year.
Just because it's under the surface, doesn't mean it's not there. It's corruption, he's absolutely right.
Stop taking in all the MS Flamebait and read what Ballmer said that inspired this orgy of MS hate - to make it easy for you, I will put it down here:
The proposal as put forward by the nonsettling states would -- would not be a decree that I would know how to comply with. I actually think we would need to withdraw the Windows product from the marketplace. That -- that would be the only way I understand to comply with the proposal as put forward by the nonsettling states. The degree to which it requires documentation of internal interfaces, the degree to which it requires -- what do they call that stuff where, you know, you can't degrade the performance of anybody else at any time in any way on any interface, and all interfaces, all pieces of the system have to be infinitely replaceable. There -- there's no way to -- not only is there no way to do new effort, new product, new technology, there's simply no way to do that for the existing -- the existing product set. It -- it guarantees that the only way to comply effectively is to remove the product from the market.
The way I read that is quite simple - he's a guy who might actually understand a little bit about the SCOPE of Windows as an OS and knows what an incredibly monumental task it would be to go in and clean up all the little kludges and hacks and all the general design changes it would take to make Windows compliant.
He's not saying "Screw you, DOJ" he's saying "WTF, do you think we're gods?"
The states are being unreasonable and probably indeed bought by the companies he mentioned at least in part - don't you think that Oracle would love to see MS take a fall? I KNOW they would.
AOL? Same thing - I'm sure they would love to market an AOL Windows or their own crappy version anyway. They've talked about it in the past (their own OS) as has Netscape.
Bottom line - MS is not always the evil empire. Sometimes they're the ones getting fucked.
It's actually strictly about Canadian content.. Good ole CRTC strikes again. It's the reason why we don't get HBO on Canadian cable - they don't adhere to Canadian content, they don't get paid.
It's also why when you're watching cable, occasionally NBC turns into CTV.. It's the cable company forcing (pirating) US stations into being compliant with CanCon.
Well, sure, we don't have any right to critique their law. However, we also don't have any responsibility to conform to it. If I were the CEO of Yahoo I would fart in that judges general direction.
I don't think you read the article too closely. I am NOT a Freenet guru, but I think I can address this. True Freenet gurus, feel free to jump in and correct.
1 - There is no way to identify who asked for the document. All you should know is which of your neighboring nodes requested it. You should have no idea if it was that node, or one 30 hops away.
2 - Please elaborate. What makes you think that could mess up the system? In what way?
To deal with your third point, which is blatantly wrong: This is not Gnutella. There is no Gnutella style search - you have essentially a URL. You request it, and it gets passed hand over hand to the correct node, NOT to every node in the net. Then, it does it's cool little data caching thing wherein it may move the data closer to you if a lot of people in that "direction" are requesting it. I don't know the internals of the URL, but I KNOW it doesn't work like craptella.
Everything I have read about this system says that it is brilliantly designed. I am waiting anxiously for it to hit prime time.
Well, the idea is this: Most people won't be motivated. Most people are useless anyway. How many telephone sanitizers and lawyers do we need? And not to be harsh, wouldn't all the people in shit jobs on assembly lines be much happier drinking free beer and watching tv?
The elite will be the ones actually DOING things - creating the content to amuse the masses, doing the research, directing the engineering. They won't be elite because they have been elevated, they will be the elite because they are the few with the actual motivation to DO anything.
Yes, you are right - however, when @Home caps you (as they do here) to 15k/sec upload, you are screwed completely when someone starts to download at that speed on your cable modem.
After reading this message, I tracked down my old acquaintance in the Coco world, Dave Dies and convinced him to release all of his old Coco games (that still work) into the public domain. He will be putting them up on www.cosmic-infinity.com which is his company web site. I think anyone who cares should send him an email and thank him.
I do like his work (sue me) but I think he is screwing this one up for everyone. Not only is he buying into Big Publishings e-book pricing scheme ($13 US for an ebook? Are you nuts?!) He's also got hugely unrealistic expectations.
So we're basically screwed either way:
First outcome (most likely IMO): Experiment is an utter failure after, say, chapter 4. Big Publishing goes "Oh, look, I guess ebooks will never work."
Second outcome: Experiment is a success. Big Publishing goes "Oh, I guess we CAN charge $13 US for books that cost us next to nothing, and oh, look, we can even keep the same royalty rate!"
And the other thing that really po'ed me about his "comments" was where he basically trashes fair use.
It appears to us that some people are downloading two and even three times to different formats-to the Palm Pilot say, and also to whatever Microsoft uses. This may be based on a simple misperception. Let me put it this way: you couldn't go into a bookstore and say, "I want you to give me the paperback version and the audio version of this book free because I bought the hardcover." As simply as I can put it, you must pay for what you take every time you take it or this won't work.
I know that it's a book Mr King, but it's an E book now. That means there are no different editions.... dumbass. That customer you are talking to paid for it once. That means he can copy it (for his own use), and by extension he should even be able to download it from you again.
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Just because they're not implicitly saying it's quid pro quo doesn't make it NOT quid pro quo.
For instance, the Senator From Disney, Hollings, gets his $300k campaign contribution from Disney in 2000. A Disney guy says "great to support you, here are our concerns, blah blah..." - the implication of course being that if he doesn't bust ass to address those concerns, that maybe some other lucky Democrat gets the big payola next year.
Just because it's under the surface, doesn't mean it's not there. It's corruption, he's absolutely right.
Cheers,
Backov
Why the hell is this marked flamebait? This guy is not trolling, he has an extremely valid point.
Cheers,
Backov
The way I read that is quite simple - he's a guy who might actually understand a little bit about the SCOPE of Windows as an OS and knows what an incredibly monumental task it would be to go in and clean up all the little kludges and hacks and all the general design changes it would take to make Windows compliant.
He's not saying "Screw you, DOJ" he's saying "WTF, do you think we're gods?"
The states are being unreasonable and probably indeed bought by the companies he mentioned at least in part - don't you think that Oracle would love to see MS take a fall? I KNOW they would.
AOL? Same thing - I'm sure they would love to market an AOL Windows or their own crappy version anyway. They've talked about it in the past (their own OS) as has Netscape.
Bottom line - MS is not always the evil empire. Sometimes they're the ones getting fucked.
Cheers,
Backov
It's actually strictly about Canadian content.. Good ole CRTC strikes again. It's the reason why we don't get HBO on Canadian cable - they don't adhere to Canadian content, they don't get paid.
It's also why when you're watching cable, occasionally NBC turns into CTV.. It's the cable company forcing (pirating) US stations into being compliant with CanCon.
Fscking Nazi bastards.
Cheers,
Backov
Well, sure, we don't have any right to critique their law. However, we also don't have any responsibility to conform to it. If I were the CEO of Yahoo I would fart in that judges general direction.
Cheers,
Jason
I don't think you read the article too closely. I am NOT a Freenet guru, but I think I can address this. True Freenet gurus, feel free to jump in and correct.
1 - There is no way to identify who asked for the document. All you should know is which of your neighboring nodes requested it. You should have no idea if it was that node, or one 30 hops away.
2 - Please elaborate. What makes you think that could mess up the system? In what way?
To deal with your third point, which is blatantly wrong: This is not Gnutella. There is no Gnutella style search - you have essentially a URL. You request it, and it gets passed hand over hand to the correct node, NOT to every node in the net. Then, it does it's cool little data caching thing wherein it may move the data closer to you if a lot of people in that "direction" are requesting it. I don't know the internals of the URL, but I KNOW it doesn't work like craptella.
Everything I have read about this system says that it is brilliantly designed. I am waiting anxiously for it to hit prime time.
Cheers,
Jason
Well, the idea is this: Most people won't be motivated. Most people are useless anyway. How many telephone sanitizers and lawyers do we need? And not to be harsh, wouldn't all the people in shit jobs on assembly lines be much happier drinking free beer and watching tv?
The elite will be the ones actually DOING things - creating the content to amuse the masses, doing the research, directing the engineering. They won't be elite because they have been elevated, they will be the elite because they are the few with the actual motivation to DO anything.
I had a sig, but it was stolen by communists.
Yes, you are right - however, when @Home caps you (as they do here) to 15k/sec upload, you are screwed completely when someone starts to download at that speed on your cable modem.
Sorry buddy, it's not a myth.
After reading this message, I tracked down my old acquaintance in the Coco world, Dave Dies and convinced him to release all of his old Coco games (that still work) into the public domain. He will be putting them up on www.cosmic-infinity.com which is his company web site. I think anyone who cares should send him an email and thank him.
Cheers,
Jason
I do like his work (sue me) but I think he is screwing this one up for everyone. Not only is he buying into Big Publishings e-book pricing scheme ($13 US for an ebook? Are you nuts?!) He's also got hugely unrealistic expectations.
So we're basically screwed either way:
First outcome (most likely IMO): Experiment is an utter failure after, say, chapter 4. Big Publishing goes "Oh, look, I guess ebooks will never work."
Second outcome: Experiment is a success. Big Publishing goes "Oh, I guess we CAN charge $13 US for books that cost us next to nothing, and oh, look, we can even keep the same royalty rate!"
And the other thing that really po'ed me about his "comments" was where he basically trashes fair use.
It appears to us that some people are downloading two and even three times to different formats-to the Palm Pilot say, and also to whatever Microsoft uses. This may be based on a simple misperception. Let me put it this way: you couldn't go into a bookstore and say, "I want you to give me the paperback version and the audio version of this book free because I bought the hardcover." As simply as I can put it, you must pay for what you take every time you take it or this won't work.
I know that it's a book Mr King, but it's an E book now. That means there are no different editions.... dumbass. That customer you are talking to paid for it once. That means he can copy it (for his own use), and by extension he should even be able to download it from you again.
Argh. Ah well, had to vent.