I've been trying to wrestle propaganda.com away from some knuckledragger with a garage band for a few years now...And the longer I wait, the more i'm beginning to think that no amount of TLD distinction will ultimately correct the problem.
Here's an example. Your company is called Triangle. How many companies in the world are also called Triangle, and what gives one the right to claim a singular "triangle.foo" domain above another? Fiddling with the nomenclature isnt going to fix anything, but rather it will prolong the problem.
All this foo reminds me of the old days of telephones..First you were given say a 5-digit number.. Then, as more people got telephones in their homes and businesses, the number needed to be increased to a 7 digit number...Then a 10 digit number, and now, im some places, its even more than that.... Ultimately, you'll have a fixed number of people who can be reached via a 1-2-3 prefix as you would with a ".com" suffix. Pointless.
The real solution can be found in non-partial search engines or some other central authority which kept a fairly sorted list of possibilities one could choose from. "Propaganda Desktop Enhancement Graphics" would simply be "Propaganda Desktop Enhancement Graphics", not propaganda.com, or propaganda.tilez.org, or propaganda.themes.org, or any other bizzare permutation of the address. A central directory is needed that doesnt have a vested interest in promoting one business over the other in any given category. Large scale problems demand large-scale cooperation, not a kindergarten "I got there first" pee-on heirarchy.
Check out Nerd God Doug Engelbart's OHS Project.. Thats the closest thing i've seen that could tackle the problem entirely instead of postponing the inevitable.
Until then, we'll just be bickering and bickering and bickering about who owns names until we're blue in the face. The land squabbles will get so bizzare 20-30 years down the road that you'll probably start seeing people claiming that they own the rights to the letter "S", and demand a licensing fee from anyone who happens to use an S in the name of their business. We're not that far off now. Anyone remember chunkymunky.com?
You must be clinically retarded if you think you need a goddamn Celeron 566 to do NFS serving. You could throw a 486/25 in a baby-AT case for $50, theo nly difference between the two systems is that the Celeron 566 would be spending 99.999% of its time sitting there idle. Get a clue.
You could aos get by on 16MB of RAM, which is so obsolete you cant even buy it new anymore. Bare DVD-ROM drives can be had for $50 these days OEM. More like you need to get your shit together before writing "offensive" notes, sir.
Hehehe..uhoh, a dissatisfied customer. What was the article about? I usually only reject news articles if theyre particularly short, or lame. Stuff like "I r0000l!!" doesn't make it worth reading to umpteen gazillion people.:) Bowie J. Poag
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Thanks for clarifying everything i've been saying, Chris. Nothing prevents VA from co-opting your work and leaving you in the dust if they think they can turn a profit off you.
Glad to see you're still following me around, by the way--I was beginning to miss you. It warms my heart to see you're still doing what VA pays you to do. Clean up their public image.
I agree. Let them go back and read. Education is a wonderful thing -- I consider myself an authority on how your company is capable of screwing people over, and any knowledge of why they should avoid the company you work for is a good thing in my eyes.
"that's the main function of the project -- to allow Linux developers to increase the quality of their work, and make ourselves an integral part of what it means to develop applications for Linux as a whole."
Thank you.:) Bout time somebody posted it..You have no idea how glad I am that I did that interview back in November '99. Its the only piece of proof left of the screw job that VA cant ignore or disavow knowledge of.
Hiya Wong.:) Theyre backgrounds, not foregrounds..And considering there are >800 of them, i'm puzzled that you can't find at least one you like. Thats more a reflection of your monitor's quality than it is a reflection of my work ethic.:) If an image appears "blurry", its probably time to look into getting a new display.
Anyway, I was referring to VA ripping off our work during System 12's run, not Propaganda. Its too late to do anything about S12 except learn from it. Like hell I would let them do the same thing to me twice.
Search for the word "royalties". Its embedded in legalese, but its right there in black and white, along with the clause that allows them to change the wording in the TOS at any time without notification.
After VA Linux Systems decided to rip us off and left us bleeding from the ass, (*cough*SOURCEFORGE*cough*) we opted to leave and do it on our own rather than stay and continue to take it. One of the first places to offer us a new home after we cut our ties with VA was MetaLab. They've been extremely helpful to us from the very beginning, going out of their way to make the transition as painless as possible. And, i'm quite happy to say that since April we've managed to regain our audience to the point where we are pulling in more people and more traffic now than at any point during our time with VA..
MetaLab is one of the last places i've ever seen that's willing to lend a hand and not really expect anything in return...So today, i've regained a little faith in Red Hat. Kudos to them for supporting an honest-to-God good thing. There needs to be an alternative to the VA resource monopoly, and SunSITE/MetaLab/iBiblio represents that ideal perfectly. Considering SourceForge's Terms Of Service agreement, you'de be insane to host your project there. Youre essentially giving up your right to own that what you've created. When you move your project to SourceForge, VA now owns your project..It says so clearly in their TOS Agreement. They can turn around and sell your work without giving you a cent, or co-opt your work like they did with us, and leave you holding the bag. They're opportunists. The guys at MetaLab just want to provide a home for developers..they have no vested interests in what goes on there.
Very old news. We ran the story two weeks ago on Propaganda. Looks like Malda's too busy posting stories about legos and gay Japanese porno-toons to notice whats going on anymore.
Thats correct, sitting by and doing nothing constitutes "not lifting a finger". If he were really all that interested in improving the signal-to-noise ratio here on Slashdot, this sort of crap would be a good place to start.
You've been duped by a troll, bud. Some dickweed is running around with nearly the same username as mine (Bowie J. "Paog" versus Poag) and trolling like mad.
Of course, Malda and the boys arent lifting a finger. Bowie J. Poag
If talk is cheap, do us all a favor and shut the fuck up. If I see you look a gift horse in the mouth, you're damn right i'm gonna call you on it. Take a hike. Bowie J. Poag
Anyone who has ever listened to an AM radio placed within 5 feet of their computer can tell you that no matter how fast you work, you are rarely if ever going to be maxxing out your machine's performance. Wether busy or idle, most computers spend the majority of their lives waiting for human interaction -- Not crunching numbers.
While the idea for large-area distributed computing is cool, of what practical purpose is it? Its not going to help me do the things I do any faster than I would normally. Its not going to help me browse the web any faster, read the daily news any faster, dial out any faster, sell CDs any faster.. The only sort of applications (it seems, perhaps i'm being short-sighted here) that could benefit from this sort of thing are 3D modelling/rendering applications, graphics apps, and scientific applications, all of which require tremendous amounts of computing effort.
To me, it would probably take more time for my machine to "distribute" a task and reap the result than it would be to perform the task singularly with my own box. Sure, if I had some enourmous image I was doing work on, it might be a good idea.. But for most things, the overhead incurred by distributing the workload over X number of remote machines via the net would be more time-consuming than just doing it locally on a single box with multiple CPUs.
Mind you, I have nothing against the idea. I think it rules. But i'm at a loss to find any particular mainstream usage for such a technology. Most of us are leaves on a tree, not branches. We're seated at the end of the line when it comes to the life of a particular piece of data.
By the way, the 1998-2000 PROPAGANDA Image Archive CD is now available. Just click the "Enjoy!" link below for more info. Bowie J. Poag
About a year ago I was on campus watching a lecture being given by one of the Profs from the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering department here at the U... (U of A is a big school for space-sorta stuff)..They were demonstrating a film prepared by the department about how the moon may have been formed. We've got big mongo array of Cray/SGI supers here on campus chugging on this sort of stuff around the clock, its kinda neet -- But anyway, the animation they prepared on these supercomputers shows a pretty big sized planitesimal smashing into the earth during its early years, and tearing a hunk of it off that eventually recollected and solidified, becoming our own moon. Everything in the simulation matched... They even got the moon resulting from the collision to have the same rotational period so one side is always facing the earth.
And now, why this is relevant:
There was some speculation that very early/primitive forms of life may have existed on Earth during the time this collision occured. The debris from the collision could very well have contaminated the rest of the solar system with life, including Mars. ALH84001 may just be the ancestor of a hunk of material that came off of earth, made it to mars, then got blown back here. Weird, eh?:)
By the way, 1998-2000 PROPAGANDA Image Archive CDs are now available. Click the "Enjoy!" link below...and enjoy.:)
I'm for it. I have PayPal/X.com handling my CD sales on Propaganda..Very quick, very easy. Best of all, its free..And no, I don't work for them. You can basically start doing e-commerce on your site within like 10 minutes, it's a cinch.
Its gonna be interesting in a few years once the psychiatric feild has to deal with a new problem -- Grown men who are only attracted to green-haired, poorly animated Japanese cartoon women with grotesquely oversized eyeballs.
Rob, get some help..please. Your "hobby" is becoming an embarassment to all of us. Bowie J. Poag
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Heh..Go get another cup of coffee, you completely missed my attempt at humor.
Bowie J. Poag
Shit.. URL is bad.. (See what I mean?)... Doug Engelbart's OHS site can be found here.
Sorry bout that,
Bowie J. Poag
I've been trying to wrestle propaganda.com away from some knuckledragger with a garage band for a few years now...And the longer I wait, the more i'm beginning to think that no amount of TLD distinction will ultimately correct the problem.
Here's an example. Your company is called Triangle. How many companies in the world are also called Triangle, and what gives one the right to claim a singular "triangle.foo" domain above another? Fiddling with the nomenclature isnt going to fix anything, but rather it will prolong the problem.
All this foo reminds me of the old days of telephones..First you were given say a 5-digit number.. Then, as more people got telephones in their homes and businesses, the number needed to be increased to a 7 digit number...Then a 10 digit number, and now, im some places, its even more than that.... Ultimately, you'll have a fixed number of people who can be reached via a 1-2-3 prefix as you would with a ".com" suffix. Pointless.
The real solution can be found in non-partial search engines or some other central authority which kept a fairly sorted list of possibilities one could choose from. "Propaganda Desktop Enhancement Graphics" would simply be "Propaganda Desktop Enhancement Graphics", not propaganda.com, or propaganda.tilez.org, or propaganda.themes.org, or any other bizzare permutation of the address. A central directory is needed that doesnt have a vested interest in promoting one business over the other in any given category. Large scale problems demand large-scale cooperation, not a kindergarten "I got there first" pee-on heirarchy.
Check out Nerd God Doug Engelbart's OHS Project.. Thats the closest thing i've seen that could tackle the problem entirely instead of postponing the inevitable.
Until then, we'll just be bickering and bickering and bickering about who owns names until we're blue in the face. The land squabbles will get so bizzare 20-30 years down the road that you'll probably start seeing people claiming that they own the rights to the letter "S", and demand a licensing fee from anyone who happens to use an S in the name of their business. We're not that far off now. Anyone remember chunkymunky.com?
Hugs and kisses,
Bowie J. Poag
The world needs more satire. I'm gunning for
Bowie J. Poag
You must be clinically retarded if you think you need a goddamn Celeron 566 to do NFS serving. You could throw a 486/25 in a baby-AT case for $50, theo nly difference between the two systems is that the Celeron 566 would be spending 99.999% of its time sitting there idle. Get a clue.
You could aos get by on 16MB of RAM, which is so obsolete you cant even buy it new anymore. Bare DVD-ROM drives can be had for $50 these days OEM. More like you need to get your shit together before writing "offensive" notes, sir.
Bowie J. Poag
Interesting! Mind if I run this on Propaganda?
Bowie J. Poag
Hehehe..uhoh, a dissatisfied customer. What was the article about? I usually only reject news articles if theyre particularly short, or lame. Stuff like "I r0000l!!" doesn't make it worth reading to umpteen gazillion people. :)
Bowie J. Poag
Thanks for pointing that out, by the way.
Bowie J. Poag
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Thanks for clarifying everything i've been saying, Chris. Nothing prevents VA from co-opting your work and leaving you in the dust if they think they can turn a profit off you.
Glad to see you're still following me around, by the way--I was beginning to miss you. It warms my heart to see you're still doing what VA pays you to do. Clean up their public image.
I agree. Let them go back and read. Education is a wonderful thing -- I consider myself an authority on how your company is capable of screwing people over, and any knowledge of why they should avoid the company you work for is a good thing in my eyes.
Have a swell day,
Bowie J. Poag
"that's the main function of the project -- to allow Linux developers to increase the quality of their work, and make ourselves an integral part of what it means to develop applications for Linux as a whole."
Thank you.
Cheers,
Bowie J. Poag
Hiya Wong. :) Theyre backgrounds, not foregrounds..And considering there are >800 of them, i'm puzzled that you can't find at least one you like. Thats more a reflection of your monitor's quality than it is a reflection of my work ethic. :) If an image appears "blurry", its probably time to look into getting a new display.
Anyway, I was referring to VA ripping off our work during System 12's run, not Propaganda. Its too late to do anything about S12 except learn from it. Like hell I would let them do the same thing to me twice.
Ciao,
Bowie J. Poag
Search for the word "royalties". Its embedded in legalese, but its right there in black and white, along with the clause that allows them to change the wording in the TOS at any time without notification.
Bowie J. Poag
After VA Linux Systems decided to rip us off and left us bleeding from the ass, (*cough*SOURCEFORGE*cough*) we opted to leave and do it on our own rather than stay and continue to take it. One of the first places to offer us a new home after we cut our ties with VA was MetaLab. They've been extremely helpful to us from the very beginning, going out of their way to make the transition as painless as possible. And, i'm quite happy to say that since April we've managed to regain our audience to the point where we are pulling in more people and more traffic now than at any point during our time with VA..
MetaLab is one of the last places i've ever seen that's willing to lend a hand and not really expect anything in return...So today, i've regained a little faith in Red Hat. Kudos to them for supporting an honest-to-God good thing. There needs to be an alternative to the VA resource monopoly, and SunSITE/MetaLab/iBiblio represents that ideal perfectly. Considering SourceForge's Terms Of Service agreement, you'de be insane to host your project there. Youre essentially giving up your right to own that what you've created. When you move your project to SourceForge, VA now owns your project..It says so clearly in their TOS Agreement. They can turn around and sell your work without giving you a cent, or co-opt your work like they did with us, and leave you holding the bag. They're opportunists. The guys at MetaLab just want to provide a home for developers..they have no vested interests in what goes on there.
Thanks, Bob.
My $0.02,
Bowie J. Poag
Bitch and moan all you want, kid.. The facts don't change.
Bowie J. Poag
Name one thing the government does well. Grand prize is a cookie.
Bowie J. Poag
Very old news. We ran the story two weeks ago on Propaganda. Looks like Malda's too busy posting stories about legos and gay Japanese porno-toons to notice whats going on anymore.
Bowie J. Poag
Thats correct, sitting by and doing nothing constitutes "not lifting a finger". If he were really all that interested in improving the signal-to-noise ratio here on Slashdot, this sort of crap would be a good place to start.
The only thing I see Malda doing is nothing.
Bowie J. Poag
You've been duped by a troll, bud. Some dickweed is running around with nearly the same username as mine (Bowie J. "Paog" versus Poag) and trolling like mad.
Of course, Malda and the boys arent lifting a finger.
Bowie J. Poag
If talk is cheap, do us all a favor and shut the fuck up. If I see you look a gift horse in the mouth, you're damn right i'm gonna call you on it. Take a hike.
Bowie J. Poag
Have a close look at that dickweed, folks.
Now you know why I no longer do anything for free.
Bowie J. Poag
Anyone who has ever listened to an AM radio placed within 5 feet of their computer can tell you that no matter how fast you work, you are rarely if ever going to be maxxing out your machine's performance. Wether busy or idle, most computers spend the majority of their lives waiting for human interaction -- Not crunching numbers.
While the idea for large-area distributed computing is cool, of what practical purpose is it? Its not going to help me do the things I do any faster than I would normally. Its not going to help me browse the web any faster, read the daily news any faster, dial out any faster, sell CDs any faster.. The only sort of applications (it seems, perhaps i'm being short-sighted here) that could benefit from this sort of thing are 3D modelling/rendering applications, graphics apps, and scientific applications, all of which require tremendous amounts of computing effort.
To me, it would probably take more time for my machine to "distribute" a task and reap the result than it would be to perform the task singularly with my own box. Sure, if I had some enourmous image I was doing work on, it might be a good idea.. But for most things, the overhead incurred by distributing the workload over X number of remote machines via the net would be more time-consuming than just doing it locally on a single box with multiple CPUs.
Mind you, I have nothing against the idea. I think it rules. But i'm at a loss to find any particular mainstream usage for such a technology. Most of us are leaves on a tree, not branches. We're seated at the end of the line when it comes to the life of a particular piece of data.
By the way, the 1998-2000 PROPAGANDA Image Archive CD is now available. Just click the "Enjoy!" link below for more info.
Bowie J. Poag
About a year ago I was on campus watching a lecture being given by one of the Profs from the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering department here at the U... (U of A is a big school for space-sorta stuff)
And now, why this is relevant:
There was some speculation that very early/primitive forms of life may have existed on Earth during the time this collision occured. The debris from the collision could very well have contaminated the rest of the solar system with life, including Mars. ALH84001 may just be the ancestor of a hunk of material that came off of earth, made it to mars, then got blown back here. Weird, eh?
By the way, 1998-2000 PROPAGANDA Image Archive CDs are now available. Click the "Enjoy!" link below...and enjoy.
Bowie J. Poag
I'm for it. I have PayPal/X.com handling my CD sales on Propaganda..Very quick, very easy. Best of all, its free..And no, I don't work for them. You can basically start doing e-commerce on your site within like 10 minutes, it's a cinch.
Bowie J. Poag
Its gonna be interesting in a few years once the psychiatric feild has to deal with a new problem -- Grown men who are only attracted to green-haired, poorly animated Japanese cartoon women with grotesquely oversized eyeballs.
Rob, get some help..please. Your "hobby" is becoming an embarassment to all of us.
Bowie J. Poag
You can fight me all you want, Penis Bird Guy. I still love the everlasting good within you.
Bowie J. Poag