> Update: 04/04 11:03 AM by michael: A couple
> of people have pointed out that this
> write-up is inaccurate; I'm not going to
> try to correct it, but read the comments
> for more information.)
That's what I love about Slashdot journalism. No time is wasted correcting innacuracies. "We're on internet time -- we can't bother." The truth is, there is no immediate benefit from checking the facts before doing a writeup, so *why* bother? The hoardes of people will still come, and the advertisers will still shell out the bucks.
From now on, my news comes from moreover.com -- or (tongue-in-cheek) better yet, the slashdot story generator: http://bbspot.com/toys/slashtitle/
Well, I for one use it constantly at work. Most of the time it's easier to ask a colleague a quick question with an IM than call thier office/wait for an email response.
Probably because IRC 1) isn't advertised as much 2) requires you to log into these giant servers, which don't all talk among themselves 3) is usually harder to use / is associated with more technical expertise, which not everyone cares to get into (i.e. grandma)
The people who put on the "DARE" show think they're doing something good. In truth, they seem to be promoting ignorance and intolerance more than anything.
Look at it like sex education. The least healthy sex ed. programs have a message of "do not have
sex, sex causes problems"... end of story. The programs where more kids benefit are the ones that say, "Here's what sex is, here's how to be safe, and here are the problems you can run into when you aren't safe".
A lot of kids discover that some drugs are a little different than the war proponents make them out to be. Take pot. Johnny finds out that weed doesn't really turn you into an instant loser / sociopath. So he thinks everything D.A.R.E. told him about drugs being dangerous was exaggerated.
I think D.A.R.E. would do better to do more teaching and less preaching. Instead of painting an enemy, and saying "Take drugs and you'll be like that", try to build a little trust by being honest up-front.
Abuse is what hurts people, not use. Teach kids the difference.
To all those out there who think this is neccessarily a Bad Thing, think about this:
- bacteria is helpful in creating antibiotics
- in biotech, bacteria is used in creating
human insulin
- its used today to produce natural gas and
detergents
And who knows what other helpful things
can come of this?
That said, I hope they`re careful with the
samples:)
>> 3. Mojonation is built to scale. It won't choke
>> like Gnutella.
from http://www.mojonation.net/product_news.shtml:
> More than 10,000 new users overloaded our
> metatracker, the currently vital piece of the
> software that notes the network location of
> each user's Broker and the services each
> provides.
It would appear as if it's choking.
Hopefully they'll get this under control soon.
Uhm, is it just me, or does anyone else wonder what the deal is here? I am, (and many other readers, as evident from other posts), INCREDIBLY UNINTERESTED in this topic. If I want anime news, I'll go to anime.com or my local porn shop. Jesus.
I'd like to see the anime section replaced with something more relevant, like monster truck shows.
It is now easy for your fans, once they have acquired a copy of your music, to share it freely with friends. Regardless of Napster's fate, or the fate of other distributed sharing mechanisms available today, this fact will not change. Piracy will only become simpler.
It seems that the method by which artists get paid for thier music is going to have to change fundamentally because:
1 - Distribution cannot be controlled 2 - Only a small fraction of people are willing to pay for something which they KNOW they can get for free anyway.
Does Metallica have any alternative ideas on how artists can make money in such an environment?
This is just a different slant on the privacy issue. When I first read the article, I thought it was a joke... But security tools are not inherently evil. Rather than trying to rid the world of a technology, which has been proved time and time again to be impossible, work to understand it. Let it become part of your world-view.
It should be, "Based on my ideals, how can I use this to help achieve them?", not simply, "Based on my fears, how can this be used against me and how can I destroy it?"
> The architecture solves most, if not > all, of the problems that have inhibited > running applications in parallel on multiple > processors, such as irregular memory access > patterns, synchronization, and load balancing.
That's right, folks... no longer do you need to synchronize your functions or watch for threading collisions... Tera's revolutionary new MTA takes the thinking out of coding!
The Microsoft 'age' will not have ended until they are actually prevented from using scare tactics (and contractual bullying) to steer vendors from innovating.
Did you read the actual findings? The advantage here is not that Microsoft has been labeled as 'the bad guy', but more importantly, that they will probably now be prevented from pushing around the smaller companies (and larger hardware companies), who previously had little choice but to 'cooperate with MS'.
By not releasing Quicktime for Linux, Apple has (probably unintentionally) controlled the method by which people can access their product.
Along the lines of the earlier copyright article (and 'fair use' laws), I say we re-define what it means to be a product.
Today, a product or service is typically composed of:
1 - Something that is desired by the consumer 2 - Resrictions on how that 'something' may be used.
If we, as consumers, can't get companies to stop including #2 as part of the 'product', then we should at least be able to place restrictions on how the companies use our money (half tongue-in-cheek). Since customers usually don't know what the restrictions will be until they PURCHASE the product (a major problem, imho), we should likewise be able to place 'money usage' restrictions on the companies from which we buy products.
Imagine this scenario: - Bob buys an electronic book from Barnes & Noble, along with the restriction that he can only view it with certain software and cannot print it out and share it with his friends. - Bob enters his 'encoded' credit card information to pay for the book. Barnes & Noble will be allowed to use the money obtained ONLY in ways that Bob has specifically encoded into his credit card info.
Actually, refining this idea further could be very interesting...hmmmm...
A lot of the time, cutting edge science produces something totally off-the-wall that we hadn't thought about. I think that there's a lot of value in just taking one topic, any topic, and exploring the hell out of it. Patterns are everywhere. Mother nature loves to cross-reference.
How about this: Someone sets up the "Open Source The World" website, with lists of oh, say, the 200 most popular commercial apps, and people can come in and start projects to make better apps that are Open Source. I like the idea of getting maintainers for the old stuff, too. But I think the community is missing some kind of overall view of the 'market' (so to speak, don't cringe). Hmmm... I just checked and ostw.com is taken. Maybe "OSTU(niverse)" is more suitable anyways. I mean, there could be alien races out there with big, evil, monopolist corporations too.
> VMware Ready to Run is also an excellent > way to try Windows 2000. A user can keep > their current world completely intact and > also, with simply a file copy, have Windows > 2000.
I smell an implication here... 'try before you fry'?
Slashdot Mirror
Memex, Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think"... http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~dduchier/misc/vbush/aw mt.html
> Update: 04/04 11:03 AM by michael: A couple
> of people have pointed out that this
> write-up is inaccurate; I'm not going to
> try to correct it, but read the comments
> for more information.)
That's what I love about Slashdot journalism. No time is wasted correcting innacuracies. "We're on internet time -- we can't bother." The truth is, there is no immediate benefit from checking the facts before doing a writeup, so *why* bother? The hoardes of people will still come, and the advertisers will still shell out the bucks.
From now on, my news comes from moreover.com -- or (tongue-in-cheek) better yet, the slashdot story generator: http://bbspot.com/toys/slashtitle/
Well, I for one use it constantly at work. Most of the time it's easier to ask a colleague a quick question with an IM than call thier office/wait for an email response.
Probably because IRC 1) isn't advertised as much 2) requires you to log into these giant servers, which don't all talk among themselves 3) is usually harder to use / is associated with more technical expertise, which not everyone cares to get into (i.e. grandma)
The people who put on the "DARE" show think they're doing something good. In truth, they seem to be promoting ignorance and intolerance more than anything.
... end of story. The programs where more kids benefit are the ones that say, "Here's what sex is, here's how to be safe, and here are the problems you can run into when you aren't safe".
Look at it like sex education. The least healthy sex ed. programs have a message of "do not have
sex, sex causes problems"
A lot of kids discover that some drugs are a little different than the war proponents make them out to be. Take pot. Johnny finds out that weed doesn't really turn you into an instant loser / sociopath. So he thinks everything D.A.R.E. told him about drugs being dangerous was exaggerated.
I think D.A.R.E. would do better to do more teaching and less preaching. Instead of painting an enemy, and saying "Take drugs and you'll be like that", try to build a little trust by being honest up-front.
Abuse is what hurts people, not use. Teach kids the difference.
To all those out there who think this is neccessarily a Bad Thing, think about this:
:)
- bacteria is helpful in creating antibiotics
- in biotech, bacteria is used in creating
human insulin
- its used today to produce natural gas and
detergents
And who knows what other helpful things
can come of this?
That said, I hope they`re careful with the
samples
my experiences were similar too. though i don't agree with his assertion that "SOFTWARE", or "MP3" sharing is illegal.
the one time i tried to download something, i got this error message:
Error: reassembly failed: Rebuild failed: not enough blocks of this archive were available at this time (4 needed, 0 found)
>> 3. Mojonation is built to scale. It won't choke
>> like Gnutella.
from http://www.mojonation.net/product_news.shtml:
> More than 10,000 new users overloaded our
> metatracker, the currently vital piece of the
> software that notes the network location of
> each user's Broker and the services each
> provides.
It would appear as if it's choking.
Hopefully they'll get this under control soon.
Uhm, is it just me, or does anyone else wonder what the deal is here? I am, (and many other readers, as evident from other posts), INCREDIBLY UNINTERESTED in this topic. If I want anime news, I'll go to anime.com or my local porn shop. Jesus.
I'd like to see the anime section replaced with something more relevant, like monster truck shows.
It is now easy for your fans, once they have
acquired a copy of your music, to share it
freely with friends. Regardless of Napster's
fate, or the fate of other distributed
sharing mechanisms available today, this fact
will not change. Piracy will only become
simpler.
It seems that the method by which artists
get paid for thier music is going to have
to change fundamentally because:
1 - Distribution cannot be controlled
2 - Only a small fraction of people
are willing to pay for something
which they KNOW they can get for
free anyway.
Does Metallica have any alternative ideas
on how artists can make money in such an
environment?
Thanks,
Chris
How about:
1 - Using something like Mercury or WebLoad,
then posting the results.
2 - Upgrading the image/ad servers too!
- Chris
It should be, "Based on my ideals, how can I use this to help achieve them?", not simply, "Based on my fears, how can this be used against me and how can I destroy it?"
In your opinion, what are the most significant recent advances in AI research? Why would you consider them significant?
Starving Children Around the World Go On Hunger Strike
US Government Randomly Kills Citizens in Order To Protest Terrorism
Environmentalist Group Burns Forest, says one member, "We're sorry it had to come to this"
Department of Treasury Stops Printing Money in an Effort to Reduce National Debt.
Man Refuses to Clean Up Doggie Mess in Hall in Effort to "...teach Oscar what it's like to live in filth"
Housewife Stops Watering Plants, says, "Maybe This Way They'll Decide To Produce More Oxygen"
From Tera's site:
> The architecture solves most, if not
> all, of the problems that have inhibited
> running applications in parallel on multiple
> processors, such as irregular memory access
> patterns, synchronization, and load balancing.
That's right, folks... no longer do you need
to synchronize your functions or watch
for threading collisions... Tera's
revolutionary new MTA takes the thinking
out of coding!
The Microsoft 'age' will not have ended until
they are actually prevented from using scare tactics (and contractual bullying) to steer vendors from innovating.
Did you read the actual findings? The advantage here is not that Microsoft has been labeled as 'the bad guy', but more importantly, that they will probably now be prevented from pushing around the smaller companies (and larger hardware companies), who previously had little choice but to 'cooperate with MS'.
By not releasing Quicktime for Linux, Apple
has (probably unintentionally) controlled
the method by which people can access their
product.
Along the lines of the earlier copyright
article (and 'fair use' laws), I say we
re-define what it means to be a product.
Today, a product or service
is typically composed of:
1 - Something that is desired by the consumer
2 - Resrictions on how that 'something' may
be used.
If we, as consumers, can't get companies to
stop including #2 as part of the 'product',
then we should at least be able to
place restrictions on how the companies use
our money (half tongue-in-cheek). Since customers
usually don't know what the restrictions will
be until they PURCHASE the product (a major
problem, imho), we should likewise be
able to place 'money usage' restrictions on
the companies from which we buy products.
Imagine this scenario:
- Bob buys an electronic book from
Barnes & Noble, along with the restriction
that he can only view it with certain
software and cannot print it out and
share it with his friends.
- Bob enters his 'encoded' credit card
information to pay for the book.
Barnes & Noble will be allowed to use
the money obtained ONLY in ways that
Bob has specifically encoded into
his credit card info.
Actually, refining this idea further
could be very interesting...hmmmm...
A lot of the time, cutting edge science produces something totally off-the-wall that we hadn't thought about. I think that there's a lot of value in just taking one topic, any topic, and exploring the hell out of it. Patterns are everywhere. Mother nature loves to cross-reference.
How about this:
Someone sets up the "Open Source The World" website, with lists of oh, say, the 200 most popular commercial apps, and people can come in and start projects to make better apps that are Open Source.
I like the idea of getting maintainers for the old stuff, too. But I think the community is missing some kind of overall view of the 'market' (so to speak, don't cringe).
Hmmm... I just checked and ostw.com is taken. Maybe "OSTU(niverse)" is more suitable anyways. I mean, there could be alien races out there with big, evil, monopolist corporations too.
From the press release:
> VMware Ready to Run is also an excellent
> way to try Windows 2000. A user can keep
> their current world completely intact and
> also, with simply a file copy, have Windows
> 2000.
I smell an implication here... 'try before you fry'?
Dude, why didn't you post the web address?
You could have pointed out to your potential
buyers that it was posted on slashdot.
Everyone secretly wants thier site to be slashdotted.