This keeps Linux "Free as in Beer" and "Free as in speech" at the same time
basically, there are only two revenue models in this world:
sell your product or service to end users
sell access to your end users to advertisers
all of the linux distros have been trying 1 for a while: charge for box sets, charge for enterprise support, charge for the added update stuff. a good plan, but redhat pretty much owns the enterprise market. and that's where the money is. so it was really only a matter of time until someone came along with model 2.
you should all remember that the reason for this switch is that plan 1 hasn't been working for mandrake. transaltion: you haven't been buynig box sets and tee shirts.
It seems totally mind boggling that apple computer did not know wtf they were doing.
sure they knew. the second system beep developed for the mac (after "sysbeep") was called "sosumi" - which is pronounced "so sue me". it was in direct reference to apple records and the whole "can't make music" clause.
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nobody likes spam, sure, but this whole scene is really about encouraging the government to regulate communication. i find it amazing that the slashdot crowd who are usually such virulent defenders of an unfettered internet are more than willing to give the government more control when it comes to penis-pill ads!
if you don't like spam, do something about it. filter, build a honeypot relay, whatever. but don't go whining to the feds demanding they regulate a free and open communications channel.
obviously this doesn't leave very much room for direct consumer input. if p2p offers the big-5 some direct data about what people want, they'll be happy for it!
the problem is that privacy invasions tend to act virally, espescially in the software biz. if your company is doing contract work or writing software for a company that believes in background checks, drug test &c. there's a good chance you will be subjected to these invasions in order to get/keep the contract. then if you go to subcontract some work, that company will probably have to submit to the requirements of the original client.
now, having said that, my company is very good about protecting my personal info. i'm not allowed in the united states (which means i get to miss all the inlaws' family reunions... thank you gw bush!) and would probably fail most security screenings - and yet, no one here really seems to care. well, aside from the gossip that is.
I mean if [high end fashion designer] sold t-shirts at $2 fruit-of-the-loom prices, they wouldnt be [high end fashion designer], would they?
well, you're working under the assumption that the hipster label shirt is the same as the fruit of the loom shirt. of course you are correct (as a side note, tommy hilfiger actually manufactures nothing. not a damn thing. they just license manufacturers to put the log on their shirts.).
given the features (storage, connectivity, price &c) the ipod is actually fairly reasonably price. you can find comprable players for maybe ten or twenty per cent less but that's a very thin margin compared to the fashion industry!
and what does the mpaa produce? not movies. the mpaa is just a trade group designed to give a few companies together the power of one monopoly. that's all.
well, canada is significantly ahead of the states in broadband penetration in general. source for that statement is here. other source here.
there are two reasons for this:
there's government programs. look at the canadian gov'ts "broadband for rural and northern areas" program: it's here. even saskatchewan, which has a reputation for being behind the curve has a program to get broadband across the province in three years. it's here. so, reason one: government money.
there's competition! in canada if you can get cable tv and phone service you probably have two choices for broadband. the tv and phone companies want to expand into rural areas to get the first-to-market jump on the other guy. so, reason two: competition.
so, gov't cash and competition means that the country with one of the lowest population densities in the world has one of the highest broadband penetration rates.
Mr Oppenheim also said the RIAA was immume from rules on unreasonable searches on the internet, because it did not have links with law enforcement agencies.
so, because i'm not linked to law enforcement does that mean i'm immune from rules on searching the internet... say for some rolling stones songs?
nor have I heard of any stores stocking merchandise equipped with them,
well... there's gilette mach iii razor blades (source is here). apparently that's been canned because of the outcry. but early adopters always have a tough time of it..
how do you determine when you are listening to somone's intellectual property and when you are listening to someone's free speech?
that free speech is free as in, uh, speech... not free as in beer. you can speak freely and charge for it. there is no mutual exclusivity.
that'll be two dollars, please.
Don't say no. Give estimates. Show your time table.
the best "no" is a qualified "yes". of course, for this to work - and to avoid the bad blood that a "sure, but it'll be ten weeks and $9000" will generate - you must get everything in writing!
i can't stress this enough. a lot of clients don't really understand what they are dealing with and thus forget what exactly it was they requested. for your benefit and theirs make sure you get it all in writing! take minutes. do as much via email as possible. get a written specification before you start. that way you can always remind the client of what they originally spec'd and the changes they have made and how it is affecting time and money.
could be issued a ticket directly from a "SPEED LIMIT 55" sign...for going 56
well, no, actually. your speedometer is not a perfectly accurate guage of your speed. this is already understood by law-enforcement which is why they only issue you tickets for going substantially over the speed limit. it is very easy to argue in court that your speedomoter was miscalibrated slightly...
in canada, your speedometer has to be accurate to within ten percent by law.
f they had done their job properly in the first place, they wouldn't have to fix anything at all.
does "doing their job properly" include preventing end-users from touching the keyboards? let's face it, the network that remains unused always stays in a stable, functioning state. put users on it and then things go wrong.
a good question. but at least microsoft doesn't have anything like this in it's license:
"without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. the entire risk as to the quality and performance of the program is with you. should the program prove defective, you assume the cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction."
if you run a nuclear plant, that little chunk of legalese is scarier than the blaster worm!
i get this depressing feeling that the "war on spam" is going to suffer from the same problems as the "war on drugs" - excessive concentration on the supply side.
i find it interesting that whenever something good happens economically, the "power of the market" (demand) gets all the credit, but when the government wants to stop something deemed bad, they blame the pushers or the spammers (supply side).
the war on drugs has been a flop - why would they (the government) try the same techniques in a war on spam?
on fuller's global energy grid:
Some countries are at war with each other or internally. What happens when a war causes damage to the grid, hurting an uninvolved country, or a whole region? Who is financially responsible? But the world faces such questions regularly anyway -- it is not a good reason not to build for the future. Ideally, the grid will have many transmission paths, and many entry and exit-points, and it will be virtually impossible to "cut the grid", just as, nowadays, it is nearly impossible to completely cut off phone service or the Internet, because there are many paths which can take the place of the ones that have been cut.
and he thought this stuff up in the 50's and 60's...
the key here is research. if you want more of a research position, a phd will go a looong way. if you are more into implementation, a masters might already be too much.
I don't want anything installed on my system without my permission too.
well, technically you give permission when
you agree to the eula
you don't activate the opt-out option
i agree that not knowing what's getting put on your machine is irksome, but this idea has sprung from two problems that everyone here is very aware of:
people don't do their patches! blaster is all over the news yet a casual poll of my non-geek friends (the windows ones at least) showed that only one had done the patch!
joe avg. user doesn't know what half this stuff is anyway? he can get an "agree?" box but he doesn't know what he's agreeing to anyway. the thinking is that the savvy will go for the opt out.
now, having said that, i hate the idea on principle... but i can understand why redmond thinks it's a good idea. they're taking a beating in the press over security and they've determined that the real problem (rightly or wrongly) is the end user - so now they have a "solution"
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basically, there are only two revenue models in this world:
all of the linux distros have been trying 1 for a while: charge for box sets, charge for enterprise support, charge for the added update stuff. a good plan, but redhat pretty much owns the enterprise market. and that's where the money is. so it was really only a matter of time until someone came along with model 2.
you should all remember that the reason for this switch is that plan 1 hasn't been working for mandrake. transaltion: you haven't been buynig box sets and tee shirts.
sure they knew. the second system beep developed for the mac (after "sysbeep") was called "sosumi" - which is pronounced "so sue me". it was in direct reference to apple records and the whole "can't make music" clause.
time to go back to analog i guess...
or really hate freedom.
nobody likes spam, sure, but this whole scene is really about encouraging the government to regulate communication. i find it amazing that the slashdot crowd who are usually such virulent defenders of an unfettered internet are more than willing to give the government more control when it comes to penis-pill ads!
if you don't like spam, do something about it. filter, build a honeypot relay, whatever. but don't go whining to the feds demanding they regulate a free and open communications channel.
currently:
- album sales are driven by radio play.
- radio playlists are determined by album sales
obviously this doesn't leave very much room for direct consumer input. if p2p offers the big-5 some direct data about what people want, they'll be happy for it!- csh
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that's a killer resume... with only five characters!now, having said that, my company is very good about protecting my personal info. i'm not allowed in the united states (which means i get to miss all the inlaws' family reunions... thank you gw bush!) and would probably fail most security screenings - and yet, no one here really seems to care. well, aside from the gossip that is.
well, you're working under the assumption that the hipster label shirt is the same as the fruit of the loom shirt. of course you are correct (as a side note, tommy hilfiger actually manufactures nothing. not a damn thing. they just license manufacturers to put the log on their shirts.).
given the features (storage, connectivity, price &c) the ipod is actually fairly reasonably price. you can find comprable players for maybe ten or twenty per cent less but that's a very thin margin compared to the fashion industry!
and what does the mpaa produce? not movies. the mpaa is just a trade group designed to give a few companies together the power of one monopoly. that's all.
well, canada is significantly ahead of the states in broadband penetration in general. source for that statement is here. other source here. there are two reasons for this:
- there's government programs. look at the canadian gov'ts "broadband for rural and northern areas" program: it's here. even saskatchewan, which has a reputation for being behind the curve has a program to get broadband across the province in three years. it's here. so, reason one: government money.
- there's competition! in canada if you can get cable tv and phone service you probably have two choices for broadband. the tv and phone companies want to expand into rural areas to get the first-to-market jump on the other guy. so, reason two: competition.
so, gov't cash and competition means that the country with one of the lowest population densities in the world has one of the highest broadband penetration rates.Mr Oppenheim also said the RIAA was immume from rules on unreasonable searches on the internet, because it did not have links with law enforcement agencies.
so, because i'm not linked to law enforcement does that mean i'm immune from rules on searching the internet... say for some rolling stones songs?
tell me about it... i'm being sued for downloading linux over kazaa.
damn.
well... there's gilette mach iii razor blades (source is here). apparently that's been canned because of the outcry. but early adopters always have a tough time of it..
great! i'll give you my commodore 64 for FREE. that will have the best $/MHz ratio possible. i'm sure you'll love it.
that free speech is free as in, uh, speech... not free as in beer. you can speak freely and charge for it. there is no mutual exclusivity. that'll be two dollars, please.
the best "no" is a qualified "yes". of course, for this to work - and to avoid the bad blood that a "sure, but it'll be ten weeks and $9000" will generate - you must get everything in writing!
i can't stress this enough. a lot of clients don't really understand what they are dealing with and thus forget what exactly it was they requested. for your benefit and theirs make sure you get it all in writing! take minutes. do as much via email as possible. get a written specification before you start. that way you can always remind the client of what they originally spec'd and the changes they have made and how it is affecting time and money.
of course. now how would you or anyone build a system that was more open? even the japanese "tan" system has failed...
the suits will always be there and they will always want "yes men".
well, no, actually. your speedometer is not a perfectly accurate guage of your speed. this is already understood by law-enforcement which is why they only issue you tickets for going substantially over the speed limit. it is very easy to argue in court that your speedomoter was miscalibrated slightly...
in canada, your speedometer has to be accurate to within ten percent by law.
does "doing their job properly" include preventing end-users from touching the keyboards? let's face it, the network that remains unused always stays in a stable, functioning state. put users on it and then things go wrong.
"without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. the entire risk as to the quality and performance of the program is with you. should the program prove defective, you assume the cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction ."
if you run a nuclear plant, that little chunk of legalese is scarier than the blaster worm!
i find it interesting that whenever something good happens economically, the "power of the market" (demand) gets all the credit, but when the government wants to stop something deemed bad, they blame the pushers or the spammers (supply side).
the war on drugs has been a flop - why would they (the government) try the same techniques in a war on spam?
then we should have mandatory tracking for all major ceos! the enron debacle came in at about $4 billion... that's a lot of food stamps.
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on fuller's global energy grid:
Some countries are at war with each other or internally. What happens when a war causes damage to the grid, hurting an uninvolved country, or a whole region? Who is financially responsible? But the world faces such questions regularly anyway -- it is not a good reason not to build for the future. Ideally, the grid will have many transmission paths, and many entry and exit-points, and it will be virtually impossible to "cut the grid", just as, nowadays, it is nearly impossible to completely cut off phone service or the Internet, because there are many paths which can take the place of the ones that have been cut.
and he thought this stuff up in the 50's and 60's...
the key here is research. if you want more of a research position, a phd will go a looong way. if you are more into implementation, a masters might already be too much.
well, technically you give permission when
i agree that not knowing what's getting put on your machine is irksome, but this idea has sprung from two problems that everyone here is very aware of:
now, having said that, i hate the idea on principle... but i can understand why redmond thinks it's a good idea. they're taking a beating in the press over security and they've determined that the real problem (rightly or wrongly) is the end user - so now they have a "solution"