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Capitalism isn't necessarily a bad thing. However, unrestrained and unchecked capitalism is... hence the formation of monopolies and companies who exist to profit off of _depriving_ people instead of providing something.
I have nothing against a company seeking to make money off of a good product or service. I have everything against a company who wishes to legislate extortion in able to make a profit. If your product can't cut it, well... the solution is not to pass law or use bad business practice to force a bad product and any "taxes" upon the people. Make a better product!
Also, I want to point out that I did not directly attack capitalism... but the garbage spawned from it. While the need for advertising may exist, I believe our society has gone WAY too far in letting our lives become commercialized. I do not listen to broadcast radio, nor do I subscribe to cable... because there are too many commercials. I just don't want the web to become the same way. It may already be too late.
And before you use the "so, you expect all this content and the resources it uses to be given to you for free" argument, see above. I would much rather give them my money than deal with horrible advertising for shit I do not want.
--Twilight1
Re:Ugh... more blatant captialist garbage.
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...and I would like to point out that I would gladly pay to see NO advertising... but only if that was truly no advertising. No blocky ads, no banner ads, no text ads. Of course, inadvertantly advertising something cool by posting a neat-o factor article about it would be fine.
And I will shoot CmdrTaco the first time I hear him doing the Paul Harvy ad/testamonial. Good day.
--Twilight1
Ugh... more blatant captialist garbage.
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VA strong arming OSDN yet again... turning it into a huge marketing machine and statistics generator for SourceForge.
It may be necessary, but god... it is ugly... and when those big ugly square ads come along, I'm finally going to make the jump to junkbuster.
Then when a few valid mirrors start popping up, none of them have any patches... only full source trees. What's the point in mirroring if you're only going to mirror the full tree?
C'mon... some of us (even those of us with lots of bandwidth) would rather patch up than download a whole new kernel tree.
Someone mirror the patch. Save the trees. Save the whales. Do it for the children. Do it because the voices in your head tell you to. Please?
Actually, if you check your Acceptable Usage Policy, you will probably find that you are not allowed to run servers on your connection. I have always avoided any ISP that prevented me from fully utilizing my connection.
I just think it's rather amusing to see a bunch of people complaining about a service blocking access to something that they weren't supposed to be doing in the first place. Did you read your AUP and Terms of Service before you signed up? No? Tsk tsk...
There was a time when a car alarm going off caused everyone to turn and look, but now they're so commonplace that nobody turns to look at a car when the alarm is going off.
Wrong. I always look. It helps me aim the rock, bottle, or whatever else may be close by before I throw it at the car that is yelling "I really deserve to be keyed right about now!!!"
No kidding! That's why I escaped to California! There are still a lot of idiots around, but at least people are allowed to think without being questioned.;)
I wish this article had a little more substance to it or maybe some links to somewhere that did. It's a bit thin on details and information.
Regardless, having a thin CRT solution to replace LCDs would be great. I mean, I love the things that LCD screens enable me to do (especially with mobile applications, laptops, etc.)... but the bad thing about LCDs is that they are extremely fragile.
A nice LCD screen compared to the same size/resolution is probably really nice to look at... for a while. Then that nasty thing happens... you get a bright yellow pixel stuck "on" in the middle of your screen, forever taunting you from the midst of dark colors.
When LCD pixels go out, it sucks... but usually not a big deal. When one of the pixel's colors gets stuck to "on" it's absolutely terrible.
Hopefully these thin CRTs will bring the advantages of LCDs and the reliability of big-tube CRTs together for a nice package.
Peer to peer is good for many things... but game playing is a definite no-no. One word: Cheaters.
Cheating happens. As it is, cheaters still exist in worlds where the server controls everything... and game companies have to deal with this. Turning over some of the server functions to a peer-to-peer or distributed fleet of clients is just asking for bigger and more widespread cheats.
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Uhh... yeah... BIG difference.
One model, you have to have a subscription to the software to keep *using* it. (i.e. the software expires if you do not continue the subscription)
On the other model, the subscription is merely to have the convenience of new versions sent to you periodically rather than downloading it off of the net for free.
No kidding. I have a Linuxcare linuxgruven bumper sticker on my VeeWee... but I am becoming ashamed to drive around with it because people may associate it with the LinuxGruven scam. Dammit.
Exactly! The new features may be nice (I haven't had time to explore them) but I find the front page horrible to attempt to read. The font is too big, too ugly, and the sections of each entry is only seperated by a blank line. Terrible!
First we change our name... and everyone rushes out to by new tees... then because everyone complains about the new name... we'll switch back to the old name and everyone will rush out and buy new tees and hail us for going back...
Whats worse is many spammers forge a return address to some innocent 3rd party's system. About a year ago, some spammer sent out a spam and put a return email address (and forged their from: header to match) within our domain.
While the account didn't exist, that didn't stop us from being hit with a lot of nasty stuff. Of course we got all the nasty letters to postmaster, root, abuse, etc... and a few crafty individuals looked up our domain contacts and hit us with some nasty letters.
But the worst part is some script kiddie started mail bombing us from uunet. The mailbomb was a 500k message containing a windoze virus. Every time we blocked a uunet relay, the messages would start coming in from another uunet relay. UUnet didn't seem to care; they completely ignored our help requests. After about two days of this, we finally blocked enough relays that it stopped. But in the meantime it was hell, as we had to watch our mail spools to prevent our system from filling up.
Oh, but that's too mild a punishment for such a horrible offense. They should be forced to print out every spam sent and have to eat it. Upon completing this task, they should be inflicted with a million paper cuts and soaked in a brine until pickled.
These spammers should be archived for future reference... so would-be-spammers might think twice before shoving their crap down our throats and making us pay for it every step of the way.
The people who work for the corporations are victims just the same as the consumers who have to put up with the corporations.
It's the people who own the corporations... and the upper few percent of the shareholders. Those are the evil people. They see one thing and one thing only. Greed. Money. Power.
Why should evil corporations be allowed to tax? I think it's you that is missing the point. If this money was being taxed by the government for the government and going to things that aid the people, so be it... that's one think. However, this money seems to be wisked away straight to these evil cartels who sit back and drink their fine wine, smoke their cigars, and laugh at how much "better" they are than the rest of us... a completely different issue altogether.
Well, the article doesn't mention anything about the rewritability of this type of device. From the description of this technology, it seems that it may be a write once type medium... or maybe limited to a few rewrites. But, it seems that the media would soon be incapable of holding futher writes. (Well, I guess one could erase it at a later date, but what would be the point?)
This would be useful, but only for backup type storage it seems... or a massive database where lots of data gets stored, but little change happens.
Anyone with any insight into this care to enlighten us as to whether this sort of technology could be used for massively rewritable storage?
People going to adult sites in which they have to pay are obviously not offended by the material they are paying for.
Second, these adult sites are not selling illegal materials. (Maybe in some places the content is considered illegal, but thats between the end user and the backwards community they are living in.)
Third, if people _really_ thought porn was so bad, it wouldn't be one of the most successful industries on the net.
Who in the heck moderated this AC crackead to insightful anyway? The only insight here is into the closed mind of an clueless in-duh-vidual.
Is it me, or are these new TLDs incredibly useless? What problems will these solve? What kind of crack was ICANN smoking when they decided to use these silly things instead of useful nominations?
I guess if you have enough dough, you can persuade the money monkeys of ICANN to do anything...
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Capitalism isn't necessarily a bad thing. However, unrestrained and unchecked capitalism is... hence the formation of monopolies and companies who exist to profit off of _depriving_ people instead of providing something.
I have nothing against a company seeking to make money off of a good product or service. I have everything against a company who wishes to legislate extortion in able to make a profit. If your product can't cut it, well... the solution is not to pass law or use bad business practice to force a bad product and any "taxes" upon the people. Make a better product!
Also, I want to point out that I did not directly attack capitalism... but the garbage spawned from it. While the need for advertising may exist, I believe our society has gone WAY too far in letting our lives become commercialized. I do not listen to broadcast radio, nor do I subscribe to cable... because there are too many commercials. I just don't want the web to become the same way. It may already be too late.
And before you use the "so, you expect all this content and the resources it uses to be given to you for free" argument, see above. I would much rather give them my money than deal with horrible advertising for shit I do not want.
--Twilight1
...and I would like to point out that I would gladly pay to see NO advertising... but only if that was truly no advertising. No blocky ads, no banner ads, no text ads. Of course, inadvertantly advertising something cool by posting a neat-o factor article about it would be fine.
And I will shoot CmdrTaco the first time I hear him doing the Paul Harvy ad/testamonial. Good day.
--Twilight1
VA strong arming OSDN yet again... turning it into a huge marketing machine and statistics generator for SourceForge.
It may be necessary, but god... it is ugly... and when those big ugly square ads come along, I'm finally going to make the jump to junkbuster.
--Twilight1
"Use mirrors" they whine...
But no one posts any mirrors.
Then when a few valid mirrors start popping up, none of them have any patches... only full source trees. What's the point in mirroring if you're only going to mirror the full tree?
C'mon... some of us (even those of us with lots of bandwidth) would rather patch up than download a whole new kernel tree.
Someone mirror the patch. Save the trees. Save the whales. Do it for the children. Do it because the voices in your head tell you to. Please?
-Twi
Actually, if you check your Acceptable Usage Policy, you will probably find that you are not allowed to run servers on your connection. I have always avoided any ISP that prevented me from fully utilizing my connection.
I just think it's rather amusing to see a bunch of people complaining about a service blocking access to something that they weren't supposed to be doing in the first place. Did you read your AUP and Terms of Service before you signed up? No? Tsk tsk...
-Twi
If you were stuck on a desert island, this is the best choice. Not only does it cover Sendmail, but it is large enough to be used as a deadly weapon!
There was a time when a car alarm going off caused everyone to turn and look, but now they're so commonplace that nobody turns to look at a car when the alarm is going off.
Wrong. I always look. It helps me aim the rock, bottle, or whatever else may be close by before I throw it at the car that is yelling "I really deserve to be keyed right about now!!!"
(arkansas sucks, by the way)
;)
No kidding! That's why I escaped to California! There are still a lot of idiots around, but at least people are allowed to think without being questioned.
--Twi
Ah, yes... that's much better. Thanks for the link!
I wish this article had a little more substance to it or maybe some links to somewhere that did. It's a bit thin on details and information.
Regardless, having a thin CRT solution to replace LCDs would be great. I mean, I love the things that LCD screens enable me to do (especially with mobile applications, laptops, etc.)... but the bad thing about LCDs is that they are extremely fragile.
A nice LCD screen compared to the same size/resolution is probably really nice to look at... for a while. Then that nasty thing happens... you get a bright yellow pixel stuck "on" in the middle of your screen, forever taunting you from the midst of dark colors.
When LCD pixels go out, it sucks... but usually not a big deal. When one of the pixel's colors gets stuck to "on" it's absolutely terrible.
Hopefully these thin CRTs will bring the advantages of LCDs and the reliability of big-tube CRTs together for a nice package.
Wheee!
but I am a CS major and computers are my life!
That is a frightening thought in of itself.
That green glowing stuff in the sewer is smarter than most people...
Peer to peer is good for many things... but game playing is a definite no-no. One word: Cheaters.
Cheating happens. As it is, cheaters still exist in worlds where the server controls everything... and game companies have to deal with this. Turning over some of the server functions to a peer-to-peer or distributed fleet of clients is just asking for bigger and more widespread cheats.
Uhh... yeah... BIG difference.
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One model, you have to have a subscription to the software to keep *using* it. (i.e. the software expires if you do not continue the subscription)
On the other model, the subscription is merely to have the convenience of new versions sent to you periodically rather than downloading it off of the net for free.
Now... which do you think is which?
Welcome to the good ol' USA...
We have the BEST JUSTICE SYSTEM MONEY CAN BUY!
No kidding. I have a Linuxcare linuxgruven bumper sticker on my VeeWee... but I am becoming ashamed to drive around with it because people may associate it with the LinuxGruven scam. Dammit.
Exactly! The new features may be nice (I haven't had time to explore them) but I find the front page horrible to attempt to read. The font is too big, too ugly, and the sections of each entry is only seperated by a blank line. Terrible!
Hey, sounds like a soda-pop marketing strategy...
First we change our name... and everyone rushes out to by new tees... then because everyone complains about the new name... we'll switch back to the old name and everyone will rush out and buy new tees and hail us for going back...
"Helix Classic"
Whats worse is many spammers forge a return address to some innocent 3rd party's system. About a year ago, some spammer sent out a spam and put a return email address (and forged their from: header to match) within our domain.
While the account didn't exist, that didn't stop us from being hit with a lot of nasty stuff. Of course we got all the nasty letters to postmaster, root, abuse, etc... and a few crafty individuals looked up our domain contacts and hit us with some nasty letters.
But the worst part is some script kiddie started mail bombing us from uunet. The mailbomb was a 500k message containing a windoze virus. Every time we blocked a uunet relay, the messages would start coming in from another uunet relay. UUnet didn't seem to care; they completely ignored our help requests. After about two days of this, we finally blocked enough relays that it stopped. But in the meantime it was hell, as we had to watch our mail spools to prevent our system from filling up.
Oh, but that's too mild a punishment for such a horrible offense. They should be forced to print out every spam sent and have to eat it. Upon completing this task, they should be inflicted with a million paper cuts and soaked in a brine until pickled.
These spammers should be archived for future reference... so would-be-spammers might think twice before shoving their crap down our throats and making us pay for it every step of the way.
The people who work for the corporations are victims just the same as the consumers who have to put up with the corporations.
It's the people who own the corporations... and the upper few percent of the shareholders. Those are the evil people. They see one thing and one thing only. Greed. Money. Power.
Why should evil corporations be allowed to tax? I think it's you that is missing the point. If this money was being taxed by the government for the government and going to things that aid the people, so be it... that's one think. However, this money seems to be wisked away straight to these evil cartels who sit back and drink their fine wine, smoke their cigars, and laugh at how much "better" they are than the rest of us... a completely different issue altogether.
Think about it. Really.
Well, the article doesn't mention anything about the rewritability of this type of device. From the description of this technology, it seems that it may be a write once type medium... or maybe limited to a few rewrites. But, it seems that the media would soon be incapable of holding futher writes. (Well, I guess one could erase it at a later date, but what would be the point?)
This would be useful, but only for backup type storage it seems... or a massive database where lots of data gets stored, but little change happens.
Anyone with any insight into this care to enlighten us as to whether this sort of technology could be used for massively rewritable storage?
What are you smoking, sir?
People going to adult sites in which they have to pay are obviously not offended by the material they are paying for.
Second, these adult sites are not selling illegal materials. (Maybe in some places the content is considered illegal, but thats between the end user and the backwards community they are living in.)
Third, if people _really_ thought porn was so bad, it wouldn't be one of the most successful industries on the net.
Who in the heck moderated this AC crackead to insightful anyway? The only insight here is into the closed mind of an clueless in-duh-vidual.
Thank you, please drive through.
Is it me, or are these new TLDs incredibly useless? What problems will these solve? What kind of crack was ICANN smoking when they decided to use these silly things instead of useful nominations?
I guess if you have enough dough, you can persuade the money monkeys of ICANN to do anything...