I used the "track changes" feature, but could not see anything that was deleted. This is also probably the third time I've used Word, so I may have missed something or done something wrong.
this is sort of haphazard science.. are they going to re-crunch the old workunits? just say "oh well"? I would think if they were interested in these new tests, they should have built them into the original client. Think of all those work units that will either (a) have to be re-processed or (b) not contribute to the analysis of the new data..
or maybe there is a (c) it will be very easy and not take much effort to get this data from the old units.. i don't know enough about the data to say.. i just crunch units. i'm in the top 10%:)
The answering machine is the big city where I live.. I get at least one call every day that is a hang up, and while I can't attribute all of those to this kind of marketing, I would venture to guess most of them are by the number of recorded solicitations that appear in my voicemail.
I recently bought an answering machine with 3 separate mailboxes.. You have to push *2 or *3 to leave a message in boxes 2 or 3, but if you don't press anything it defaults to box 1. My friends and family know to press the "secret code" so I can easily discern between messages I want to hear and messages I probably don't.
I toyed with the idea of charging for telephone solicitations, and even called a few companies back to get their mailing address so I could send them an invoice. Most of these were local businesses, horrified at the thought and instantly put me on their do-not-call list. I never followed through with the actual mailing of invoices, but no one called my bluff either.
of course, someone will post the obligatory link to junkbusters' telemarketing script, but that doesn't really help with these machine calls, so i won't bother.
As I said in my post, I would love to make a living from it. I am one of those folks who want to create for a living. There is nothing bad about it, nor did I say there was.
What I said was this: money is not the incentive to create. Whether I get paid or not, I will always create. I would just prefer to get paid for it.
The purpose of my original post was to refute the statement that "art will dry up without monetary incentive."
That is not true.
Now, paying artists for making art certainly allows them the freedom to spend more time creating art. I would not refute the claim that money allows for more art to be created because the artist does not have to worry about another source of income.
But I would bet that most artists, who are passionate about their art, will create whether they are paid or not. As I said before, in my case, I create because I am compelled to - not because I think I can make a buck. However, if you want to buy my art, allowing me the luxury of making a living from it, I would love that opportunity because it would allow me more time to create.
think about posts as you read them - it helps sometimes.
I have to speak personally here, as a musician - moreso as one that does not get paid. I do not create my art (music) for the hopes of getting paid for it. Money is not my "incentive" to create. I create because I am compelled to. I cannot not create. It is something metaphysical, something bigger than myself that drives my need to express myself. I don't do it for money.
That said, if I was getting paid for it, I could quit my day job and do a whole lot more of it. I would love to get paid for it. But that is not WHY I do it.
This article's treatment of linux and its license is horrid..
Linux, a rival to Microsoft's Windows that is free to use.
Linux, the brainchild of Linus Torvalds, a Finnish computer scientist, is non-commercial. It is free to use...
No mention of the GPL, or the philosophy behind it. No mention of RedHat, or S.u.S.E., or Caldera.. Yes, the kernel is non-commercial.. But the article is misleading. When will journalists get it right?
Should we not question the ethics of a site that accepts such an offer?
I'm not saying nVidia is right either, or that they have an ethical past.. What I am saying is that it looks like nVidia is proposing partnerships with review sites. Now for a review site to accept that offer, and then claim to be impartial.. now that is not ethical.
In the late '70s a great change happened to the telecom systems of the world - the separation of voice and signaling networks. No longer was signaling (call setup, etc.) done over the voice trunks. Old phreaks may remember when the blue boxes stopped working. This was because of "out of band signaling".. the call setup and takedown, etc. was taken out of the voice lines. Having a separate circuit-switched network for signaling also allowed us to do things like 800 numbers, 911, etc.
Now, the standards for Signal Points (SP) on today's SS7 network are very rigorous. The US uses ANSI while most foreign countries use ITU. Both standards are very very rigid. SPs (depending on their flavor) are allowed somewhere between 3 seconds and 3 minutes of downtime a year. That's for the system itself, not the network links, which fail more often for various reasons. The system has to be there to reroute traffic when the links go down.
Keep in mind this is very oversimplified.
Now, the latest revelation in telecom is the SoftSwitch - a "Software Switch" basically.. These don't run on Windows NT, or *BSD, or anything you might run on a personal computer or internet server. A successful SoftSwitch demands a fast, tight, realtime OS, that can be fitted snugly with the hardware.
I don't think the open source model will work with telecom becasue this is not the kind of thing you work on at home in your spare time. This is not the kind of thing you can release to the community in alpha, and wait for them to lend a hand. This is not the kind of product that would benefit from having the source shipped with it. The customer doesn't have time or know-how to hack on the code and recompile if there's a problem, or the equipment to test it properly before putting it on the network.
Sorry.. Nice idea, but until corporate America is seriously restructured, it won't happen.
Hrmm.. Maybe I'll see increased performance if I start using these. My hardware dates from the late 1970s and I'm always looking for ways to keep it up to date with the newer models.
Remember this story about MOSR and the cube rumors supposedly being removed at the request of Apple? We sure did alot of MOSR bashing. Whoa. Apple really did have a cube!:)
Interesting that Apple would use legal action threats to have the rumors removed a month before the product appears on the web site. It pretty much confirms the rumors. Of course, there was speculation that MOSR fabricated the Apple request to get more attention, and may still have, but things begin to look alot less dishonest when the cube is sitting on the website now.
so, if i understood this correctly, ebay claimed that it was tresspassing for bidman (or whoever) to make its living off ebay - because of the load it put on its servers. would it be possible to extend this to use it against slashdot? even though slashdot doesn't use a crawler or a spider, slashdot "makes its living" by linking to the content of other servers - generating a very significant load.
usually this would be a good thing - since slashdot links to the page, instead of quoting it, the site in question gets to serve its own advertising. but what about a smaller site, that collapsed under the slashdot load. could that site take action against slashdot?
Applause to Woz for pointing out this association (NYT & MS).. I don't trust the media anyway, after reading some of Chomsky's works, but it's always nice when a great figure like Woz points out the blatant bias in media.
Yeah, all analogies break down when you start to push them.:) And I agree with you completely about the difference between the wobbly jack and the stolen car. It's just my opinion that doing certain things out of ignorance is more "wobbly jack" than "stolen car."
For instance, if you have an e-mail program that the entire world knows has a gaping security flaw, it is your responsibility to remedy the situation. Now that doesn't mean you have to re-program the software, it means you need to find different, better software.
I agree completely with your assessment of certain software companies also, but remember that those companies' software is used by choice of each user.
To be blatant and to the point, and stretch that analogy a little more, running Microsoft Outlook is like leaving your car running, up on a wobbly jack, near a playground.
well, i read the first page before the server evidently got/.ed.. sounds like nothing new to me. ILOVEYOU cost, what, "billions of dollars?"
people need to quit blindly trusting their computers and the benevolance of other internet users. it's like driving.. you don't have to know how your car works under the hood, but you MUST know how to operate it.
Computers are the same way. You don't have to know what goes on inside the box, or how the kernel works, but you have to know how to operate your computer, and part of computer operation is security.
having a computer is a responsibility just like having a car. if you use your computer carelessly, and by doing so your system gets compromised and used to attack other systems, are YOU not responsible for that? Just as if you failed to pay attention at the wheel and killed someone with your car?
they don't do this because they have always zealously protected their trademarks. the corporate sponsors of the olympics (like mcdonalds) pay lots of money to use the trademarks. the olympics feels it has a responsibility to make sure that no one uses those trademarks who doesn't pay.
Think of all the special "olympic stuff" that you can get from places like mcdonalds, etc.. mcdonalds makes lots of money off that stuff.. and they give the olympics alot of money to use the logos..
it's money that's the issue.. not misrepresentation.
I understand about wanting to protect the rings.. That's definately OK.
<offtopic> Remeber those cigars that came out in 1996 called "Victory Spirit" that had used the ring logo without permission? Man, those were good. I know a store who bought the entire stock and still has some... </offtopic>
Anyway, yeah, i completely understand about the rings... But to hold a trademark on the word 'olympic'?? The article mentioned a previous lawsuit against a mom-and-pop pizza joint called "Olympic Pizza". In my opinion, this is too far. Olympic isn't some great new word like "Pentium" or "Athalon" or "PocketPC"... It's a very old word, that was around long before the IOC. It would be like me trying to trademark "Philosophy" or something..
sounds like IAM is whining to me. If they were unhappy with the service, they should have said so during their "evaluation period" of five days. As far as razorfish submitting late work.. who knows? both sides probably share the blame. But IAM had five days - under the razorfish contract - to refuse the site, and they didn't.. they paid for it anyway, and later changed their minds.. so now their sueing..
is it me, or does it seem like companies sue each other for the press these days..
the reason we still use gas is that the consumer does not care enough to make switching a reality.
the gas industry is like the music industry - old and set in its ways.. it does not want to change the way it makes its living. "An object at rest tends to stay at rest" to quote some newton.
The difference with the music industry is that a force is acting on it - the consumers are refusing to stick with the old ways, and the music industry is up in arms about it.
The same thing would have to happen for the gasoline industry to change. customers are going to have to take it into their own hands, and make a fuss about it.
of course, you can't make an infinite number of perfect copies of your gasoline, and distribute it on the internet. it'd be great if you could, though...
Slashdot Mirror
I used the "track changes" feature, but could not see anything that was deleted. This is also probably the third time I've used Word, so I may have missed something or done something wrong.
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I would have thought "War Games" and "Sneakers" maybe, but "Hackers" ?? Give me a break.
That's like mentioning a Honda Civic in a paper about exotic cars.
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this is sort of haphazard science.. are they going to re-crunch the old workunits? just say "oh well"? I would think if they were interested in these new tests, they should have built them into the original client. Think of all those work units that will either (a) have to be re-processed or (b) not contribute to the analysis of the new data..
:)
or maybe there is a (c) it will be very easy and not take much effort to get this data from the old units.. i don't know enough about the data to say.. i just crunch units. i'm in the top 10%
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Haha.. I make myself laugh.. Try this:
The answering machine is big in the city where I live..
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The answering machine is the big city where I live.. I get at least one call every day that is a hang up, and while I can't attribute all of those to this kind of marketing, I would venture to guess most of them are by the number of recorded solicitations that appear in my voicemail.
I recently bought an answering machine with 3 separate mailboxes.. You have to push *2 or *3 to leave a message in boxes 2 or 3, but if you don't press anything it defaults to box 1. My friends and family know to press the "secret code" so I can easily discern between messages I want to hear and messages I probably don't.
I toyed with the idea of charging for telephone solicitations, and even called a few companies back to get their mailing address so I could send them an invoice. Most of these were local businesses, horrified at the thought and instantly put me on their do-not-call list. I never followed through with the actual mailing of invoices, but no one called my bluff either.
of course, someone will post the obligatory link to junkbusters' telemarketing script, but that doesn't really help with these machine calls, so i won't bother.
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As I said in my post, I would love to make a living from it. I am one of those folks who want to create for a living. There is nothing bad about it, nor did I say there was.
What I said was this: money is not the incentive to create. Whether I get paid or not, I will always create. I would just prefer to get paid for it.
The purpose of my original post was to refute the statement that "art will dry up without monetary incentive."
That is not true.
Now, paying artists for making art certainly allows them the freedom to spend more time creating art. I would not refute the claim that money allows for more art to be created because the artist does not have to worry about another source of income.
But I would bet that most artists, who are passionate about their art, will create whether they are paid or not. As I said before, in my case, I create because I am compelled to - not because I think I can make a buck. However, if you want to buy my art, allowing me the luxury of making a living from it, I would love that opportunity because it would allow me more time to create.
think about posts as you read them - it helps sometimes.
wish
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I have to speak personally here, as a musician - moreso as one that does not get paid. I do not create my art (music) for the hopes of getting paid for it. Money is not my "incentive" to create. I create because I am compelled to. I cannot not create. It is something metaphysical, something bigger than myself that drives my need to express myself. I don't do it for money.
That said, if I was getting paid for it, I could quit my day job and do a whole lot more of it. I would love to get paid for it. But that is not WHY I do it.
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Linux, a rival to Microsoft's Windows that is free to use.
Linux, the brainchild of Linus Torvalds, a Finnish computer scientist, is non-commercial. It is free to use...
No mention of the GPL, or the philosophy behind it. No mention of RedHat, or S.u.S.E., or Caldera.. Yes, the kernel is non-commercial.. But the article is misleading. When will journalists get it right?
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Should we not question the ethics of a site that accepts such an offer?
I'm not saying nVidia is right either, or that they have an ethical past.. What I am saying is that it looks like nVidia is proposing partnerships with review sites. Now for a review site to accept that offer, and then claim to be impartial.. now that is not ethical.
wish
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A brief history of the telecom network:
In the late '70s a great change happened to the telecom systems of the world - the separation of voice and signaling networks. No longer was signaling (call setup, etc.) done over the voice trunks. Old phreaks may remember when the blue boxes stopped working. This was because of "out of band signaling".. the call setup and takedown, etc. was taken out of the voice lines. Having a separate circuit-switched network for signaling also allowed us to do things like 800 numbers, 911, etc.
Now, the standards for Signal Points (SP) on today's SS7 network are very rigorous. The US uses ANSI while most foreign countries use ITU. Both standards are very very rigid. SPs (depending on their flavor) are allowed somewhere between 3 seconds and 3 minutes of downtime a year. That's for the system itself, not the network links, which fail more often for various reasons. The system has to be there to reroute traffic when the links go down.
Keep in mind this is very oversimplified.
Now, the latest revelation in telecom is the SoftSwitch - a "Software Switch" basically.. These don't run on Windows NT, or *BSD, or anything you might run on a personal computer or internet server. A successful SoftSwitch demands a fast, tight, realtime OS, that can be fitted snugly with the hardware.
I don't think the open source model will work with telecom becasue this is not the kind of thing you work on at home in your spare time. This is not the kind of thing you can release to the community in alpha, and wait for them to lend a hand. This is not the kind of product that would benefit from having the source shipped with it. The customer doesn't have time or know-how to hack on the code and recompile if there's a problem, or the equipment to test it properly before putting it on the network.
Sorry.. Nice idea, but until corporate America is seriously restructured, it won't happen.
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...making bad business decisions to get vengeance... that's why apple is where they are today.
wanna know why microsoft is where they are today? they make good business decisions to get vengeance. (think of Gates and IBM).
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Hrmm.. Maybe I'll see increased performance if I start using these. My hardware dates from the late 1970s and I'm always looking for ways to keep it up to date with the newer models.
wish
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Interesting that Apple would use legal action threats to have the rumors removed a month before the product appears on the web site. It pretty much confirms the rumors. Of course, there was speculation that MOSR fabricated the Apple request to get more attention, and may still have, but things begin to look alot less dishonest when the cube is sitting on the website now.
It would look pretty cool sitting on my desk. ;>
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so, if i understood this correctly, ebay claimed that it was tresspassing for bidman (or whoever) to make its living off ebay - because of the load it put on its servers. would it be possible to extend this to use it against slashdot? even though slashdot doesn't use a crawler or a spider, slashdot "makes its living" by linking to the content of other servers - generating a very significant load.
usually this would be a good thing - since slashdot links to the page, instead of quoting it, the site in question gets to serve its own advertising. but what about a smaller site, that collapsed under the slashdot load. could that site take action against slashdot?
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For instance, if you have an e-mail program that the entire world knows has a gaping security flaw, it is your responsibility to remedy the situation. Now that doesn't mean you have to re-program the software, it means you need to find different, better software.
I agree completely with your assessment of certain software companies also, but remember that those companies' software is used by choice of each user.
To be blatant and to the point, and stretch that analogy a little more, running Microsoft Outlook is like leaving your car running, up on a wobbly jack, near a playground.
wish
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well, i read the first page before the server evidently got /.ed.. sounds like nothing new to me. ILOVEYOU cost, what, "billions of dollars?"
people need to quit blindly trusting their computers and the benevolance of other internet users. it's like driving.. you don't have to know how your car works under the hood, but you MUST know how to operate it.
Computers are the same way. You don't have to know what goes on inside the box, or how the kernel works, but you have to know how to operate your computer, and part of computer operation is security.
having a computer is a responsibility just like having a car. if you use your computer carelessly, and by doing so your system gets compromised and used to attack other systems, are YOU not responsible for that? Just as if you failed to pay attention at the wheel and killed someone with your car?
Ignorance is not an excuse for carelessness.
wish
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they don't do this because they have always zealously protected their trademarks. the corporate sponsors of the olympics (like mcdonalds) pay lots of money to use the trademarks. the olympics feels it has a responsibility to make sure that no one uses those trademarks who doesn't pay.
Think of all the special "olympic stuff" that you can get from places like mcdonalds, etc.. mcdonalds makes lots of money off that stuff.. and they give the olympics alot of money to use the logos..
it's money that's the issue.. not misrepresentation.
wish
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I understand about wanting to protect the rings.. That's definately OK.
<offtopic>
Remeber those cigars that came out in 1996 called "Victory Spirit" that had used the ring logo without permission? Man, those were good. I know a store who bought the entire stock and still has some...
</offtopic>
Anyway, yeah, i completely understand about the rings... But to hold a trademark on the word 'olympic'?? The article mentioned a previous lawsuit against a mom-and-pop pizza joint called "Olympic Pizza". In my opinion, this is too far.
Olympic isn't some great new word like "Pentium" or "Athalon" or "PocketPC"... It's a very old word, that was around long before the IOC. It would be like me trying to trademark "Philosophy" or something..
the IOC goes too far..
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IAM not IAS.
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sounds like IAM is whining to me. If they were unhappy with the service, they should have said so during their "evaluation period" of five days. As far as razorfish submitting late work.. who knows? both sides probably share the blame. But IAM had five days - under the razorfish contract - to refuse the site, and they didn't.. they paid for it anyway, and later changed their minds.. so now their sueing..
is it me, or does it seem like companies sue each other for the press these days..
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I want a car that runs on the GNU Public License!!!
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the reason we still use gas is that the consumer does not care enough to make switching a reality.
the gas industry is like the music industry - old and set in its ways.. it does not want to change the way it makes its living. "An object at rest tends to stay at rest" to quote some newton.
The difference with the music industry is that a force is acting on it - the consumers are refusing to stick with the old ways, and the music industry is up in arms about it.
The same thing would have to happen for the gasoline industry to change. customers are going to have to take it into their own hands, and make a fuss about it.
of course, you can't make an infinite number of perfect copies of your gasoline, and distribute it on the internet. it'd be great if you could, though...
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But do they have my best interest in mind? I doubt it...
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so when this guy wants to discourage drug use, is he going to start selling baggies of sugar and oragano?
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