Just share it anyway.. they aren't going to cancel a paying customer for doing it... All they can really do (or want to do) is cancel your account if you become a hell customer. Then they come back and say, "Hey, you're using a VPN. See ya," instead of supporting you.
Mine is there and I never gave them permission to sell it.
Okay, so does this mean schools are taking your papers and selling them for profit to contentgalore? Are there possabilities here to make the school discount your tuition fee for the money they make on your thesis? Probably not since the rich rule this country.
This all came about, the crash of startup stock confidence I mean, when companies started becoming scams. They would look viable and sell themselves like a lemon on a used car lot. Wonderful we have something to taint our industry. Reminds me of the law and medical fields where they have become ruthless amd much more concerned with their careers rather than their customers.
Besides that, the viable software companies have their own troubles. The startups have the ability to dynamically find an unused niche in the market to exploit. This is the proper way to go about it. Some are stubborn and like to stick to their guns, slinging mud like politicians in a desperate effort to capture the first seed in the market. The bigger companies are too big and have become a legacy model in themselves, unable to move or change beyond superficial changes like a name change, merge, re-org, new logo, false product announcement... What does this say about software companies? We have aged businessmen applying traditional business tactics to a completely ever-changing market, or we have scam artists who want to float an idea for cash. In the middle somewhere are 10% who have vital leadership and solid contributions to the industry.
This method they are trying to impliment is an old one, being that if you control what your community knows, you control how they act.
The new peredigm should probably be: People are clever. Try to control them and they know. Give them free reign on information and they will love you for it. They will trust you for trusting them.
I bet these kind of petty things will force companies to start naming products and themselves to sets of dictionary words. Same reason grocery stores have cameras in every isle, not to catch thieves, but to watch people pulling dog food bags on top of themselves to get a lawsuit. This is really horrid considering that all domains based on dictionary words have been bought by people waiting for companies to name themselves or their products after them. The simple solution then I guess would to start filing naming things numbers.
"Hi, welcome to 1349736. We provide simple solutions for getting your 298301 up and running in a 73947 environment."
I wish more people would be willing to do an honest day's work to earn a buck.
I have dreamed of something like this. Consider/assume that palm/wireless phone devices will be the future of computing. The concept is a thin OS kernal. Soon systems (to include client hardware) will have to be congruent to be trusted. Careful programming techniques to seperate non-related information from the kernal will be very importand and OS ROMs will be transperently updated. This will likely be called something like e-synetworkingX or something by marketing, and be called Hivemind OS by us geeks. Just my predictions.
In the future, do you expect that cryptography methods will be allowed international exportation without government interference? What is the general opinion of what would happen in that case? Would it raise or decrease the threat of other countries to each other? What is the opinion of the museum founders on the actions taken on Zimmerman for PGP? -Effendi
It's not winning the game that is attractive, it is being more clever in real life that is attractive. For some, just getting the cheat to work seems pretty clever to them... more clever that the schmucks who didn't get the cheat to work (obviously because they aren't using it), or that were not clever enough to find it to use it. The clever bit is becoming popular because it is hard to show off how strong or skilled you are over a network.
Now that I know that, I'll never visit the Home Depot site, nor do I visit porn sites (anymore). Banners are probably the least annoying forced information method, and even these have been proven nearly iniffective. Let me insert in here that I dispise the thinking process behind marketing people and think they probably go to the same place lawyers do when they die. -Effendi
I have thought about this for a long time, and the author is probaby right about the future. Hard to overcome habits though...
Ever try to imagine a new undescovered 'color'? Not one made by mixing existing colors together, because we *have* those. A new color, something that appears to be entirely different than colors you have seen before, kind of like imagining what Ultraviolet would look like if we could see it. Right now we can see colors outside of our spectrum by converting them to colors we *can* see.
Okay, now in place of an OS. How would you make an OS that is entirely unlike any OS you have seen before, and not a mix of existing systems and interfaces? A 3D interface somes to mind, or a transparent layered interface. Better display techniques will have to be developed before a natural 3D interface can be implimented or else we are just re-arranging space, not actually re-designing and compacting it to be more useful.
What would be some other "new colors"? What is a different way to interface?
It does, however, decide how we view the company. Do we all believe at this point that Amazon is a shining example of a company? I don't. Sony, on the other had, I have a profound respect for, bolstered by this new move they have made. Amazone may *have* been hip, but the flow of executive businessmen from "the old world" have reverted them to some older and less respected (in the electronic community) business tactics.
I'm not sure that is true anymore. Geeks *were* the fringe, but are not anymore. Now in the land of silicon and bandwidth,/.ers are the kings. Consider this:
For an internet startup, the number one way to get name recognition is to be mentioned in/.
For an established tech company, one of the best ways to earn a bad reputation with your customers is to get mentioned in/.
In case you haven't noticed the trend lately, copyright infringement suits are unpopular with the public. Companies that file them are thought of as "traditional" or "old fashioned" and the suits thus considered petty.
One thing I have always noticed about Sony is they are fairly "hip". They are up on modern business strategy as well as technology. I would expect this suit to disappear entirely.
I think all space robots should first have to win a gold medal in the Robot Wars (http://www.robotwars.com/)
-Effendi
This IS the future, have no doubt.
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Hard OSs are the future, in my opinion. I seem to remember a little thing called a Commadore 64 that had a hard OS. That was the past, hrmm..
Okay, forget the Commadore. If we have an OS like this, that is really just the kernal, there is a nice speed up in the boot, but also a nice jump in stability. Consider a console game system. Do they crash much? No. The developers know exactly what they are writing for. Microsoft has things like the registry, integrated software and upgrades from heck. How can we write for that? The idea of packages is nice. We all remember and loved the DOS model of being able to delete a directory to uninstall a program. That is smart, like taking the game out of your Nintendo. If we can pack as much static binary into a static media, we will be in good shape. Then to check your program's compatability, just find out what BIOS versions work from the software manufacturer.
Wouldn't it be nice to have your dual boot system be as simple as changing the BIOS card in the front of the case?
400-500 out of how many? I was referring to all Linux developers. I guess it's a pretty hard one to pin down though. We may not know until it comes out.
What about the "pre-approved credit card applications" I get in the mail? I have seen ones posing as "official documents", prize winnings, blank envelopes, urgent messages, time sensitive mail and such. I get two a day. I have a seperate trash can for snail spam, and it's almost full after one month. Who needs that much credit?
Should it be illegal for these companies to send these things to me every day, killing trees left and right even though I have not had a credit card in 3 years? I guess so. [shrug]
But, what about if we could carry liscenses around that allows us to shoot stupid people. Someone does something stupid like driving at 90mph with your kids in a minivan that has a "Baby on Board" bumper sitcker. You pull them over and ask to see their stupidity liscense.... Oh, sorry about that, you are too stupid, I'm going to have to kill you now. [blam] Then we could take care of all this spam going around...
Nothing as far as I can tell.. These two peices of microsoft are still collections of already seperate peices. A representative from Microsoft once told me, "Microsoft is a colloction of aquired and modified companies under one big bank account". So, that means we have made a superficial cut in the "big bank account". Will this cut still be able to overfund new projects with the revenue and lack of development of other projects? Yes, it's not like they are running on credit.
Question: Can the paradigm of breaking up a monopoly even be used properly any more? I believe we will have to think of better ways to increase competition besides smacking down a corporation. How about companies with a larger share of the market having to give a proportional amount of money to competing companies. That could get complicated, but so was this multi-million doller trial, eh?
Now we are plagued by very good Online RGSs and the major dellima wil be 'which one?' I am playing EverQuest and man that is a good game, but I want to play Diablo II. Eeergh.. will I betray my fellow EQ players or stick to my sword? I could see people jumping out of their bedroom windows over this.
Okay, so Kylix comes out, everyone with Linux is able to compile their code in it, and wondows people are able to compile their windows code (minus API) on Linux. We can all agree this is fantastic, and anyone who has used any of Borland's fourth generation evnironments should know how good they are.
Question: How many people will just kind of ignore it and continue plodding along with GCC and Make?
Okay, so aren't we all glad that we get to send out a "Cease and Desist" order every time we get an itch? This is how it will all go down:
In the near future a statistical report will come out claiming that throwing your fat belly all over the internet makes people like you less; something to the effect of "Every company that has issues a cease and decist has failed". Of course it will take two years like it took for the report about dot-coms being 80% sellable facades.
So ever since I was a little tyke, I have thought about this, it's obvious isn't it? We have seen no limits in the down size, why the up size? An atom has a center and some thingies spinning around it. A Planet has moons, a star has planets, a galexy has stars, a universe has galexies. As far as we know quarks probably have some middle part with thingies spinning around it, and the Universe probably has a very dence center part that all of these galexies are moving around. All of these nuclii seem to work around some sort of gravitational principal so it would make sense that a galexy would need a center bit. We have always seen big bright centers in galexies, and we know of the possabilities of black holes. So does it not make sense that all of those stars and all of that mass in the galexy would compress there in the middle? I want to see what is in the middle of the universe, then I want to see the other universes. Hmm... maybe I'm still dreaming and I haven't had coffee yet.
I noticed he talks about his business models. Many people, usually the Free Software guys, are a little put out by this by confusing Open Source with Free Software. There are three known ways to make money with an Open Source software project. This information is gathered from "The Open Source Revolution" by Tim O'Reilly.
1) Branding and Distribution Selling the package, documentation and support with an Open Source product. Also called "Support Selling" or "Redhatting".
2) Addition of Proprietary Value
Providing an Open Source project/product to the community and selling additional features to make the product better. Sendmail is a good example of this.
3) Make your Money on the Side
The Open Source project/product is used as a value addition or as a promotion for the company owning the project. In hopes of the project being more popular through Open Source, the creaters would gain credability and popularity. Netscape controlling Mozilla is an example of this.
Looks like model number 2 is being used by our friends at ReiserFS. Nice to see some people adopting another model besides Redhatting.
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Just share it anyway.. they aren't going to cancel a paying customer for doing it... All they can really do (or want to do) is cancel your account if you become a hell customer. Then they come back and say, "Hey, you're using a VPN. See ya," instead of supporting you.
-Effendi
Mine is there and I never gave them permission to sell it.
Okay, so does this mean schools are taking your papers and selling them for profit to contentgalore? Are there possabilities here to make the school discount your tuition fee for the money they make on your thesis? Probably not since the rich rule this country.
-Effendi
This all came about, the crash of startup stock confidence I mean, when companies started becoming scams. They would look viable and sell themselves like a lemon on a used car lot. Wonderful we have something to taint our industry. Reminds me of the law and medical fields where they have become ruthless amd much more concerned with their careers rather than their customers.
Besides that, the viable software companies have their own troubles. The startups have the ability to dynamically find an unused niche in the market to exploit. This is the proper way to go about it. Some are stubborn and like to stick to their guns, slinging mud like politicians in a desperate effort to capture the first seed in the market. The bigger companies are too big and have become a legacy model in themselves, unable to move or change beyond superficial changes like a name change, merge, re-org, new logo, false product announcement... What does this say about software companies? We have aged businessmen applying traditional business tactics to a completely ever-changing market, or we have scam artists who want to float an idea for cash. In the middle somewhere are 10% who have vital leadership and solid contributions to the industry.
-Effendi
This method they are trying to impliment is an old one, being that if you control what your community knows, you control how they act.
The new peredigm should probably be: People are clever. Try to control them and they know. Give them free reign on information and they will love you for it. They will trust you for trusting them.
-Effendi
I bet these kind of petty things will force companies to start naming products and themselves to sets of dictionary words. Same reason grocery stores have cameras in every isle, not to catch thieves, but to watch people pulling dog food bags on top of themselves to get a lawsuit. This is really horrid considering that all domains based on dictionary words have been bought by people waiting for companies to name themselves or their products after them. The simple solution then I guess would to start filing naming things numbers.
"Hi, welcome to 1349736. We provide simple solutions for getting your 298301 up and running in a 73947 environment."
I wish more people would be willing to do an honest day's work to earn a buck.
-Effendi
I have dreamed of something like this. Consider/assume that palm/wireless phone devices will be the future of computing. The concept is a thin OS kernal. Soon systems (to include client hardware) will have to be congruent to be trusted. Careful programming techniques to seperate non-related information from the kernal will be very importand and OS ROMs will be transperently updated. This will likely be called something like e-synetworkingX or something by marketing, and be called Hivemind OS by us geeks. Just my predictions.
Effendi
In the future, do you expect that cryptography methods will be allowed international exportation without government interference? What is the general opinion of what would happen in that case? Would it raise or decrease the threat of other countries to each other? What is the opinion of the museum founders on the actions taken on Zimmerman for PGP? -Effendi
It's not winning the game that is attractive, it is being more clever in real life that is attractive. For some, just getting the cheat to work seems pretty clever to them... more clever that the schmucks who didn't get the cheat to work (obviously because they aren't using it), or that were not clever enough to find it to use it. The clever bit is becoming popular because it is hard to show off how strong or skilled you are over a network.
How about a game where you thwart game designers with cheats. The challenge gets harder and harder as the companies get smarter. -Effendi
I've got a very bad feeling about this...
Now that I know that, I'll never visit the Home Depot site, nor do I visit porn sites (anymore). Banners are probably the least annoying forced information method, and even these have been proven nearly iniffective. Let me insert in here that I dispise the thinking process behind marketing people and think they probably go to the same place lawyers do when they die. -Effendi
I have thought about this for a long time, and the author is probaby right about the future. Hard to overcome habits though...
Ever try to imagine a new undescovered 'color'? Not one made by mixing existing colors together, because we *have* those. A new color, something that appears to be entirely different than colors you have seen before, kind of like imagining what Ultraviolet would look like if we could see it. Right now we can see colors outside of our spectrum by converting them to colors we *can* see.
Okay, now in place of an OS. How would you make an OS that is entirely unlike any OS you have seen before, and not a mix of existing systems and interfaces? A 3D interface somes to mind, or a transparent layered interface. Better display techniques will have to be developed before a natural 3D interface can be implimented or else we are just re-arranging space, not actually re-designing and compacting it to be more useful.
What would be some other "new colors"? What is a different way to interface?
-Effendi
It does, however, decide how we view the company. Do we all believe at this point that Amazon is a shining example of a company? I don't. Sony, on the other had, I have a profound respect for, bolstered by this new move they have made. Amazone may *have* been hip, but the flow of executive businessmen from "the old world" have reverted them to some older and less respected (in the electronic community) business tactics.
Just my take on it.
-Effendi
I'm not sure that is true anymore. Geeks *were* the fringe, but are not anymore. Now in the land of silicon and bandwidth, /.ers are the kings. Consider this:
/.
/.
For an internet startup, the number one way to get name recognition is to be mentioned in
For an established tech company, one of the best ways to earn a bad reputation with your customers is to get mentioned in
-Effendi
In case you haven't noticed the trend lately, copyright infringement suits are unpopular with the public. Companies that file them are thought of as "traditional" or "old fashioned" and the suits thus considered petty.
One thing I have always noticed about Sony is they are fairly "hip". They are up on modern business strategy as well as technology. I would expect this suit to disappear entirely.
-Effendi
Daaaaaaa.. Daaaaaaa DAAAAAAAA DEEE-Daaaa..... BOng, Bong, BOng, Bong, BOng, Bong, BOng, Bong....
I think all space robots should first have to win a gold medal in the Robot Wars (http://www.robotwars.com/)
-Effendi
Hard OSs are the future, in my opinion. I seem to remember a little thing called a Commadore 64 that had a hard OS. That was the past, hrmm..
Okay, forget the Commadore. If we have an OS like this, that is really just the kernal, there is a nice speed up in the boot, but also a nice jump in stability. Consider a console game system. Do they crash much? No. The developers know exactly what they are writing for. Microsoft has things like the registry, integrated software and upgrades from heck. How can we write for that? The idea of packages is nice. We all remember and loved the DOS model of being able to delete a directory to uninstall a program. That is smart, like taking the game out of your Nintendo. If we can pack as much static binary into a static media, we will be in good shape. Then to check your program's compatability, just find out what BIOS versions work from the software manufacturer.
Wouldn't it be nice to have your dual boot system be as simple as changing the BIOS card in the front of the case?
-Effendi
400-500 out of how many? I was referring to all Linux developers. I guess it's a pretty hard one to pin down though. We may not know until it comes out.
-Effendi
What about the "pre-approved credit card applications" I get in the mail? I have seen ones posing as "official documents", prize winnings, blank envelopes, urgent messages, time sensitive mail and such. I get two a day. I have a seperate trash can for snail spam, and it's almost full after one month. Who needs that much credit?
Should it be illegal for these companies to send these things to me every day, killing trees left and right even though I have not had a credit card in 3 years? I guess so. [shrug]
But, what about if we could carry liscenses around that allows us to shoot stupid people. Someone does something stupid like driving at 90mph with your kids in a minivan that has a "Baby on Board" bumper sitcker. You pull them over and ask to see their stupidity liscense.... Oh, sorry about that, you are too stupid, I'm going to have to kill you now. [blam] Then we could take care of all this spam going around...
-Effendi
Nothing as far as I can tell.. These two peices of microsoft are still collections of already seperate peices. A representative from Microsoft once told me, "Microsoft is a colloction of aquired and modified companies under one big bank account". So, that means we have made a superficial cut in the "big bank account". Will this cut still be able to overfund new projects with the revenue and lack of development of other projects? Yes, it's not like they are running on credit.
Question: Can the paradigm of breaking up a monopoly even be used properly any more? I believe we will have to think of better ways to increase competition besides smacking down a corporation. How about companies with a larger share of the market having to give a proportional amount of money to competing companies. That could get complicated, but so was this multi-million doller trial, eh?
-Effendi
Now we are plagued by very good Online RGSs and the major dellima wil be 'which one?' I am playing EverQuest and man that is a good game, but I want to play Diablo II. Eeergh.. will I betray my fellow EQ players or stick to my sword? I could see people jumping out of their bedroom windows over this.
-Effendi
Okay, so Kylix comes out, everyone with Linux is able to compile their code in it, and wondows people are able to compile their windows code (minus API) on Linux. We can all agree this is fantastic, and anyone who has used any of Borland's fourth generation evnironments should know how good they are.
Question: How many people will just kind of ignore it and continue plodding along with GCC and Make?
-Effendi
Okay, so aren't we all glad that we get to send out a "Cease and Desist" order every time we get an itch? This is how it will all go down:
In the near future a statistical report will come out claiming that throwing your fat belly all over the internet makes people like you less; something to the effect of "Every company that has issues a cease and decist has failed". Of course it will take two years like it took for the report about dot-coms being 80% sellable facades.
-Effendi
So ever since I was a little tyke, I have thought about this, it's obvious isn't it? We have seen no limits in the down size, why the up size? An atom has a center and some thingies spinning around it. A Planet has moons, a star has planets, a galexy has stars, a universe has galexies. As far as we know quarks probably have some middle part with thingies spinning around it, and the Universe probably has a very dence center part that all of these galexies are moving around. All of these nuclii seem to work around some sort of gravitational principal so it would make sense that a galexy would need a center bit. We have always seen big bright centers in galexies, and we know of the possabilities of black holes. So does it not make sense that all of those stars and all of that mass in the galexy would compress there in the middle? I want to see what is in the middle of the universe, then I want to see the other universes. Hmm... maybe I'm still dreaming and I haven't had coffee yet.
-Effendi
I noticed he talks about his business models. Many people, usually the Free Software guys, are a little put out by this by confusing Open Source with Free Software. There are three known ways to make money with an Open Source software project. This information is gathered from "The Open Source Revolution" by Tim O'Reilly.
1) Branding and Distribution Selling the package, documentation and support with an Open Source product. Also called "Support Selling" or "Redhatting".
2) Addition of Proprietary Value
Providing an Open Source project/product to the community and selling additional features to make the product better. Sendmail is a good example of this.
3) Make your Money on the Side
The Open Source project/product is used as a value addition or as a promotion for the company owning the project. In hopes of the project being more popular through Open Source, the creaters would gain credability and popularity. Netscape controlling Mozilla is an example of this.
Looks like model number 2 is being used by our friends at ReiserFS. Nice to see some people adopting another model besides Redhatting.