Artists I know LOVE to show off their work, but are very possessive.
"giving away the rights to my work scares me" was a quote from someone who looked into selling to a card company.
I get this impression from artists that they feel they own what they create forever, and others best recognize.
Look at CC for example. Almost all CC I come across is with the NC clause. Artists just don't appear ready to truly give to the community, showing off not withstanding.
This may be because it is harder to make a living as an artist than a coder, or it could have something to do with artists' egos, but I find that somewhat doubtful, because tech is a minefield of ridiculous ego.
Perhaps it is just time. CC was founded in 2001, Open source software was already a top-notch server platform, and a compelling desktop.
It is easy to see the benefits of Open Source at this point (and has been for well over a decade), a few CC art projects that show what can be done when people share instead of grab could turn the art world around too.
More likely is that the site is not high enough profile and the CAPTCHA is unique enough that no software tries to do it.
The thing about CAPTCHAs is that they require some effort, and a significant amount of up front effort even. So if a site is not high profile, and it does not use a CAPTCHA that is like others, it will go un-noticed.
After-all there are plenty of other sites that take less effort. I would otherwise think that the CAPTCHA you describe is trivial for both computers and humans.
From what I can tell Smart tries too hard to be all things and fails.
They wanted to be cheap, so they used steel, they wanted to be safe, so they used lots of it, they wanted to be high mileage, but lots of steel kills that.
And somehow they aren't that cheap either.
Compare a Yaris-S 3-door to a Smart Passion Coupe.
Same price essentially, Smart gets 33/41 MPG to the Yaris's 29/35.
Unless you are in a situation where parking by driving towards the curb is a HUGE benefit, the Yaris is almost certainly a better deal.
Thar Smart needs to drop 3K from the price, or get it's mileage past 45 MPG. Especially if Diesel starts to take-off.
Except this could be used as an argument FOR net neutrality too.
Adding a fee is a zero sum game, the person paying gets less value, the person being payed gets more.
so, in the no transaction payment model:
perceived value - (overhead/large number) + (advertising revenue + marketing value) - (overhead/larger number + transactional cost) = transaction value added.
taking a fee out of the perceived value, and adding it to the revenue does not improve the transaction's value at all. And will decrease the number of transactions overall, since people will be less likely to get value out of any given transaction. Using this model it should be the goal to increase usage so that there are more value adding transactions, not decrease it so that some people make more money.
Firefox 3 does not run on OS X.3 (though this is probably due to Apple's conversion to Intel), or Windows Me, or NT4, why do you assume it will run on XP in 5 more years?
Firefox 2, End-of-lifed in 12/2008, supported OS X.2, ans Windows Me.
A good cloud service does 2 things: 1) it provides reliable off-site backup to protect from theft, fire, flooding or other things that destroy all copies in a single location
2) It helps protect against bit-rot. Having 2 live copies at home can help with this too, as if your appliance fails, you can get a new one and back up, of your desktop fails, the same. Though a random company with $11 million is probably more susceptible to company rot, than my USB hard drive is to bit rot.
I also will say this, I have a network appliance, and i only get 2MB/s off of it over the network. That means to fully backup the full TB of data will take me six days, of course this applies to the cloud too most likely.
I shut down my desktop because I use the Nvidia drivers, and they don't like to sleep/hibernate.
And I think my computer has an issue, because I have never gotten it to sleep properly (more accurately it never wakes up without rebooting, it does go to sleep).
Since I purchased a router with a USB port, I haven't been leaving my computer on at all.
I would pay for all solid state devices and no moving parts (or a case with one or two large fans).
I would get a solid state motherboard, a few solid state HDs, if I were using Linux I would software RAID 10 them as many copies of data as drives, this should allow for multiple failures, and no need to replace. I imagine Windows has something similar.
I would get a CPU that can cool without a fan (under-clock with heat sink, heat pipe if needed).
Get a solid state power supply that will be nowhere near it's peak usage.
This will probably double, triple, or even quadrupole your cost, but if you want 1994 system reliability, plan on spending the same amount a system in 1994 cost.
I think a term that has been in use with a meaning for over 400 years can be taken to have that other meaning too (using the same source you sited, following the first link in the page you linked to).
I suppose un-authorized radio stations shouldn't be called pirate radio either?
Keep all of your notes with dates, this can go to demonstrate you had the idea before the publication date (evidence, not proof obviously).
By keeping it a secret you are guaranteeing others may patent it, such as what happened when the British government kept RSA a secret.
Since patents are still theoretically to spread, not hid knowledge, the system does not recognize secret knowledge unless theft of ideas can be demonstrated. If there is no idea theft (piracy may be a more accurate word, as nothing is taken away), then the first to enlighten the world with the idea gets its rewards, not the first to think of it.
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It's true.
Look at anything Blizzard has done.
Artists I know LOVE to show off their work, but are very possessive.
"giving away the rights to my work scares me" was a quote from someone who looked into selling to a card company.
I get this impression from artists that they feel they own what they create forever, and others best recognize.
Look at CC for example. Almost all CC I come across is with the NC clause. Artists just don't appear ready to truly give to the community, showing off not withstanding.
This may be because it is harder to make a living as an artist than a coder, or it could have something to do with artists' egos, but I find that somewhat doubtful, because tech is a minefield of ridiculous ego.
Perhaps it is just time. CC was founded in 2001, Open source software was already a top-notch server platform, and a compelling desktop.
It is easy to see the benefits of Open Source at this point (and has been for well over a decade), a few CC art projects that show what can be done when people share instead of grab could turn the art world around too.
Also, 82,179 watt hours.
My last house was an older one with some iffy wiring (safe, but old). I had a few sockets that flickered fiercely with CFL.
I had a somewhat shortened life, but not too bad with a traditional bulb.
A few sockets would kill CFLs real fast too, but they worked fine.
Actually that would probably increase the success rate for me.
It would also increase the success rate for bots too, it would simply raise the cost of failure much more.
It sounds like a win all around. Good call.
The word your looking for is longer.
As in 3 times longer.
More likely is that the site is not high enough profile and the CAPTCHA is unique enough that no software tries to do it.
The thing about CAPTCHAs is that they require some effort, and a significant amount of up front effort even. So if a site is not high profile, and it does not use a CAPTCHA that is like others, it will go un-noticed.
After-all there are plenty of other sites that take less effort. I would otherwise think that the CAPTCHA you describe is trivial for both computers and humans.
I've failed 3 CAPTHAs in a row more than a few times.
I'm terrible at them though.
Funny, my other complaint is twice as slow.
The problem I see is 3 times slower doesn't multiply anything by 3, it divides it.
and intuitively slower of cheaper are not inverse, since we use statements like 5 dollars cheaper.
I actually don't think times cheaper makes any sense.
I hear it all the time, but it is meaningless.
3000 times cheaper than what? The current price?
If I am selling something that is now "twice as cheap" is that half the price?, double the discount?, twice as shoddily made?
I would actually expect things to be more politically biased.
I would think a lot of journalism would begin to look like pre-telegraph journalism, with open political agendas.
Politically neutral journalism is a product of the AP trying to sell to all political affiliations.
I am not trying to condemn non-neutral reporting though. Many sides with an open bias will likely make it easier to get truth, not harder.
/. would link to people who pay for the right to link.
Newspapers would get a smaller cut, since the /. link traffic revenue is shared between them and the one who pays them.
I know quite a few people that still use the NYT as their homepage.
Of course NYT is fairly cluefull, and has at least been trying something from very early on.
From what I can tell Smart tries too hard to be all things and fails.
They wanted to be cheap, so they used steel, they wanted to be safe, so they used lots of it, they wanted to be high mileage, but lots of steel kills that.
And somehow they aren't that cheap either.
Compare a Yaris-S 3-door to a Smart Passion Coupe.
Same price essentially, Smart gets 33/41 MPG to the Yaris's 29/35.
Unless you are in a situation where parking by driving towards the curb is a HUGE benefit, the Yaris is almost certainly a better deal.
Thar Smart needs to drop 3K from the price, or get it's mileage past 45 MPG. Especially if Diesel starts to take-off.
Hmm, I really like the print folder of photos option, the breadcrumbs, and the new sorting options added to XP/Vista (only photos to XP).
These are things that make working with files easier for me on a daily basis.
Except this could be used as an argument FOR net neutrality too.
Adding a fee is a zero sum game, the person paying gets less value, the person being payed gets more.
so, in the no transaction payment model:
perceived value - (overhead/large number) + (advertising revenue + marketing value) - (overhead/larger number + transactional cost) = transaction value added.
taking a fee out of the perceived value, and adding it to the revenue does not improve the transaction's value at all. And will decrease the number of transactions overall, since people will be less likely to get value out of any given transaction. Using this model it should be the goal to increase usage so that there are more value adding transactions, not decrease it so that some people make more money.
I think with every version MS makes some great strides in the File Browser.
And some huge back-steps in the network one.
I am still frustrated every time there is not a network neighbourhood as I am instead left picking a network place and going up a level to get there.
Firefox 3 does not run on OS X.3 (though this is probably due to Apple's conversion to Intel), or Windows Me, or NT4, why do you assume it will run on XP in 5 more years?
Firefox 2, End-of-lifed in 12/2008, supported OS X.2, ans Windows Me.
Correct, you need to anticipate it.
As a general user this is not always intuitive.
Of course, as a general user the pop-up may be about as much protection as running as administrator.
What will they charge for their trimmed down version?
10, 15, 20 percent of the retail price?
That has to hurt margins for the manufacturers.
I hope your house stays secure.
A good cloud service does 2 things:
1) it provides reliable off-site backup to protect from theft, fire, flooding or other things that destroy all copies in a single location
2) It helps protect against bit-rot. Having 2 live copies at home can help with this too, as if your appliance fails, you can get a new one and back up, of your desktop fails, the same. Though a random company with $11 million is probably more susceptible to company rot, than my USB hard drive is to bit rot.
I also will say this, I have a network appliance, and i only get 2MB/s off of it over the network. That means to fully backup the full TB of data will take me six days, of course this applies to the cloud too most likely.
I shut down my desktop because I use the Nvidia drivers, and they don't like to sleep/hibernate.
And I think my computer has an issue, because I have never gotten it to sleep properly (more accurately it never wakes up without rebooting, it does go to sleep).
Since I purchased a router with a USB port, I haven't been leaving my computer on at all.
I would pay for all solid state devices and no moving parts (or a case with one or two large fans).
I would get a solid state motherboard, a few solid state HDs, if I were using Linux I would software RAID 10 them as many copies of data as drives, this should allow for multiple failures, and no need to replace. I imagine Windows has something similar.
I would get a CPU that can cool without a fan (under-clock with heat sink, heat pipe if needed).
Get a solid state power supply that will be nowhere near it's peak usage.
This will probably double, triple, or even quadrupole your cost, but if you want 1994 system reliability, plan on spending the same amount a system in 1994 cost.
I think a term that has been in use with a meaning for over 400 years can be taken to have that other meaning too (using the same source you sited, following the first link in the page you linked to).
I suppose un-authorized radio stations shouldn't be called pirate radio either?
In the US we are a first to Publish country.
Make sure it is published, and easily findable.
Keep all of your notes with dates, this can go to demonstrate you had the idea before the publication date (evidence, not proof obviously).
By keeping it a secret you are guaranteeing others may patent it, such as what happened when the British government kept RSA a secret.
Since patents are still theoretically to spread, not hid knowledge, the system does not recognize secret knowledge unless theft of ideas can be demonstrated. If there is no idea theft (piracy may be a more accurate word, as nothing is taken away), then the first to enlighten the world with the idea gets its rewards, not the first to think of it.