Ever hear the term "market driven"???? This word appears in the business plans of many many companies who would normally be in the position of releasing very cool stuff (including my own).
To them, it means "we do what the customer wants us to do". To me it means "we are scared shitless to do anything unless a customer tells us its OK".
Now, I'm not saying that we shouldn't listen to our customers, thats just stupid. But we should not be scared to try and release stuff that is unproven and pushing the envelope. Why???? Because we are the guys who think this stuff up!! The customer might think its really cool, but he really doesn't have a clue. I mean he could say, "it would be nice if I could take a dump and write an e-mail and watch the Matrix on a flat screen in my bathroom that doubles as a web appliance", but more often than not, its us, the nuts and bolts of research and development that are required to come up with a new product.
So kudos to those few companies that actually come up with new products that are not market proven. Not only do you give us our "cool shit" fix, it also provides more work for those of us who work in companies that wait until a customer says "jump".
If Napster is a greedy, corporate entity like RIAA says it is, I'm still going to root for them over the greedy, corporate entity of RIAA! Do you mean they are committing the unpardonable sin of wanting to make money?????? Heres a news flash for ya, Jack -- EVERYONE WANTS TO MAKE MONEY!!!!!!!!
Since when did it become taboo to want to get a couple of bucks in your pocket? At what point did earning a living become the wrong thing to do?
Are the artists payed obscene amounts of money? Of course they are. Do the record companies spend make billions of dollars on record sales a year? Sure thing. Are CDs overpriced? You betcha. But we're still buying them (as a society,I mean.. I am sure that you only listen to the sophomore kid's garage band down the street since you are so upright and moral), but everyone else is ponying up the dough. It might be a lot of money, but dammit, the record industry earned it.
I betcha if I offered you $200,000 dollars a year to write code... you would take it in an instant. I bet if I had to charge $500 dollars a copy just to pay your salary, you wouldn't have any issues with it. And if it was a run away success and people were willing to pay the price, we would all profit and be happy. And I promise that you would crack down on anyone who was pirating your software for free. Know why?? Because you are a greedy corporate entity.
So I am going to start a trend. I am going to be the first to stand up and say
I know that wazzhisname up there is trying to be sarcastic, but it isn't funny. Moderators have too much power these days, I guess.....
Don't get me wrong, I love first-person shooters. I have played much more Doom, Quake and Half-life than I would admit to any of my non-geek friends, but they are the gaming equivalent of a Jim Carrey movie - fun as hell, but take absolutely no brain cells to process.
Personally, I really like playing Myst like games. Anyone remember the Seventh Guest?? Pretty damn cool, if you ask me. Of course, I grew up playing Kings Quest, so what do you want???
I was logging in to say that very thing before I saw your post. Moderate this one up now!
Of course, you are exactly right. There will allways be illegal attacks. Nobody denies the fact that these guys are *damn* smart. They are motivated and they are pissed (for whatever reason). They will find a way. At least when we have someone looking out for us, we can be ready for them.
I for one support public disclosure of security holes. I encourage everyone to disclose any security holes that they find. The people I am really scared of are those who *DON'T* disclose them. Those are the people with the hidden agenda. Remember the old saying four eyes are better than two? That scales pretty well: 2 million eyes will fix more holes than 200 eyes.
Wait a second, maybe I have this whole OSI stack thing wrong...
-- flipping quickly through refrence books--
Lets see.... layers. Now why would some of the smartest brains in networking make a model based on layers? Thats a mystery....
Come on now. The entire point is that every single layer is independent of each other. Bluetooth is a layer 1 device. Thats a physical layer device for the networking deficent out there. They don't give a rats ass about the other six layers. Thats not their problem as long as they provide the appropriate API.
The hardware doesn't care what protocol is passed across. Maybe it does Ethernet, maybe it doesn't. Maybe it does IP, maybe it doesn't. Bluetooth doesn't care. They provide a way to transmit a bit from point A to point B, and then someone else has to figure out how this bits are arranged.
Bluetooth is a Godsend for the networking industry because *finally* someone has created an open standard for wireless. And it takes alot for me to say this since my company has succesfully marketed a propriatary wireless solution. If you want better content transfer, then write a better protocol.
I know guys that worship swords. I know guys that worship cars. I know tons of people who worship their horses (being from Wyoming and all.. please feel free to insert your favorite animal husbandry joke here), and I'll bet you that the old woodsmen worshiped their axes. If you feel truely passionate about something, you admire it, and, of course, you write about it.
People love to say that Unix is obsolete, becuase they hold on to the notion that their pet project in college is going to turn out to be the Next Big Thing. But the fact of the matter is that nobody, nowhere, under any circumstances have been able to produce an operating system that worked under so many different architectures and situations. End of story.
And sure, lots of people are making new OSes, and showing them off as "better than Unix", but I'll bet if you took the cover off, you would still see Unix like methods and alogrithms.
But thats ok, I worship Unix, so thats how I feel. Maybe you should ask Steve Jobs. He just based the entire future of his company on Unix. See if he thinks if it is obsolete....
I will never again bad mouth my Netscape 4.72 IMAP client.
-- pause whilst I hug my browser --
So all Microsoft bashing aside, how do things like this get out the door? To me, it almost seems that they are purposely not doing any sort of testing at all. I know about the jokes that say they get free testing by releasing their alphas, but seriously! So many people around the world depend on their software, you would think that they would put it through hell and back, but products continually come out of Redmond with serious, serious flaws.
I mean, how long did it take someone to find a hole in IE 5.5? Like 3 days??? Putting aside all the joke and the "evil empire" comments and everything that the/. community feels about Microsoft, don't you think that a company of that size (and with their software controlling so many critical sites around the globe> has a responsiblity to go overboard on quality assurance? We should be hearing horror stories from ex-employees about 48 hour testing binges and slave driver QA directors. That would make me much more comfortable than the consistant major flaws that keep appearing.
"Yeah, give me a fifth of Wild Turkey, a copy of Debbie does Dallas, a box of condoms, and... what the hell... throw in that copy of Quake III. To go please...:)"
But seriously, this is just another attempt to avoid having to actually talk to your kids about something other than their day at school. Sickening....
I believe that most stores still have an unoffical policy of "running out" price checkers. I have heard (but I have not seen) that some price checkers go complete James Bond with spy cameras and disguises and everything to avoid being ousted.
"The man with the golden price gun"?? "Live and let me have 10% off the competitors"? "For your sale prices only"? "In Sam Walton's secret service"?
(Ok, thats probably enough of that).
But anyway, that sounds like a damn cool job to me!!!
------------ And now, live from Utah, the capital for Olympic (TM) bullshit...
from the same award winning team that brought you bribery, illegal scholarships, collapsing buildings and corrupt Olympic (TM) officials, its "Get your damn hands off of my name" *clap*clap*clap* -----------------
But seriously folks, be glad you don't live here in Salt Lake City, we have to put up with this hipocracy daily. They lie cheat and steal to get the Olympics here, but now that they have it, they will be angry if anyone butts in.... I am truely, truely sorry that you all have to watch the 2002 winter olymipics in your own country be so throughly screwed up. I really am.
You know, I agree with their restriction against people using the 5 rings. Thats their defining symbol, they should be allowed to use it. But going after the world "olympic"???? Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't olympic mean more than "2 week long corporate sponsoring orgy?" I am pretty sure it also means "grandious" (as in the Olympia Mountains as someone has previously mentioned).
Seriously now... the USOC and the IOC and the SLOC (Salt Lake Olympic (TM) Committee) have f*cked up enough. Save your dignity and have some respect for what the Olympics are really about.
That very federal / state issue is being fought here in Utah right now.
Our fine governor, Mr. Mike Levitt is rabid about being able to charge taxes for items purchased out of state. Apparently on our state income tax forms (and others, I guess. I haven't cared enough to find out), we have to tally all the things we bought out of state, and pay taxes on them. That includes web purchases. So that means that everytime I go buy myself something on ThinkGeek, I gotta save the reciept and pay taxes on them at the end of the year. (And you can guess how many times I do that..:) ) He asked the feds for help, but they say that under the current laws, compelling some guy in Virginia to collect Utah tax just doesn't work. So our honorable gov keeps spewing fire, but apparently, Utahs power ends at Utahs borders (and for all of you out there that are not from Utah, thats probably a good thing).
So I wonder, how do we sort it all out? For me, I think the feds should handle it. That elimiates the pain and suffering of having 50 different laws and precedents and customs that need to be applied (which means that your average sysadmin would need to know the rules in all 50 states just in case something went down).
Of course, how the feds should handle it, and the legality of such a rule and all that other jazz is way beyond my post (so don't flame me for it, dammit...). Thats why I am sitting in this cube in Utah, and not Washington DC.
I agree 100%. And this is not a new problem. Way back when, I was a "teen moderator" on AOL, and we kept seeing the same assholes come back with different names all the time. We would boot them, they would return. That same thing is now possible on a much bigger scale.
I am sure the sys admins at eBay are pulling their hair out trying to keep these guys off. My feeling is that going to the government is a last resort. For me, thats A-OK. Lets stop this behavior before it becomes even more uncontrollable.
Uh, I'll probably be struck dead by a bolt of lightning for suggesting this, but is is possible that the Windows "concept" (actually, its the Xerox concept, isn't it??) is the most intuitive and effient user interface we have come up with so far?
I mean, voice recogonition is way off still, and I don't vote to have an electrode attached to my frontal lobe, so maybe the mouse and the icon are the best we've got (aside from the terminal screen, but thats another debate I don't want to get into).
I pose the question to you. Is there, somewhere, a better, easier and more efficent way to present images and information to the human brain?
If you don't like it, grab an alpha or a sparc !!!!!!!!!!!!!
The only reason for this chip is to give a little taste of heaven to those people who for whatever reasons use the x86 instruction set. AMD isn't going to set out to design a brand new chip, especially when Intel is still prowling around.
If you don't like the design, then you don't have to use it, but you should at least acknowlege that AMD is out there trying to make life better for X86ers...
History doesn't really bear that out. 99.9% of the people out there really like it when geeks say stuff like "64 bit". I mean, why else would something like N64 be so damn popular. ("Hey Beavis, this one has 64 bits, and that one has only 32 bits, so it must suck...") I think AMD was very timely in announcing this so close to the Pentium 4 announcement. It gives the world something to think about... Which will chip will win? Is it the same ol' same ol' in a new faster package, or is it something totally new and expanded but slower??? -- We will see soon. Jordo
"Fresh on the heals of the AMD announcment of a 64 bit processor, Microsoft announced that they would release a 64 bit version of Windows as soon as they could convince chief architect Bill Gates that "long long" wasn't his penis size."
I would love to have them return the names to the heap, and go on with their merry way, but thats not going to happen. Just like everyone else in this beautiful country, NSI is in business to make money. Part of the concept of "making money" means that they have to try really, really hard not to *lose* money. In other words, NSI has every right to recoop their losses. The auction idea is a great way to help to recoop some of the losses from all those deadbeats out there.
So now think about the auction. Say that NSI sez, "OK, we will take bids up to the account balance". As was mentioned before, this won't matter for "smithfamily.com" or something similar, but undoubtedly, at some point in time, there will come along a domain name that more than 1 person wants (free.com, etc, etc...). The first person to bid would bid the full $35, everyone else will be screwed, and/. would erupt in protest. Recognizing this, NSI has set no upper bound on the auction. Of course all the extra $$$ will end up in their pocket, but if someone is stupid enough to pay thousands of dollars for a domain name, thats their business.
And of course, the easy solution not to get hurt by this is simple: PAY YOUR DAMN BILLS Love and Kisses, Jordo
Thanks for jumping through the hoops that were needed to make that interview happen. The fact of the matter is that Lars is dead right. Remember, there are many parallels between what Metallica does and what we do as software programmers. We both put our heart and soul into developing software (or music). Some of it is promoted by big corporations, and some of it is "unsigned" and given to the world free of charge. Some companies get super pissed when you copy their software, and some of us live to put the GPL at the top of our source code. Some bands hate it when you copy their works, and other bands give it away. The problem is, that we geeks often have trouble understanding why someone would fight tooth and nail to protect something that others believe should be free, because in the 30 some years that *INX has been in vouge, thats what its always been about!!!! And we bring that to everything we do. We think software should be free, so we stick it to Redmond, and we develop a free UNIX like kernel. We think music should be distributed free, so we invent Napster. Whats more, we did it so damn fast, other industries were caught by surprise. There are no other industries on earth where the major driving force behind the technology believes that information and/or products should be free, so they never even thought that this would be a problem for them until it was too late. Now, we have dozens of services, and 30,000 pissed off Metalica fans. You can say all you want about the record companies, or the evil empires, or the assholes on the bands, but remember this: They all have their own dedicated rules and customs. When we were first developing the Internet, we were shunned... nobody wanted anything to do with us. So we did what we wanted and we made our own rules. We did it well enought that the rest of the planet has come knocking at the party. Now, how are we going to bring everyone together? I dunno, and its not my job to play refree. I guess I will keep writing free software, and paying for my music. Maybe that way I won't piss anyone off. Love and kisses: JordoCrouse
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Ever hear the term "market driven"???? This word appears in the business plans of many many companies who would normally be in the position of releasing very cool stuff (including my own).
To them, it means "we do what the customer wants us to do". To me it means "we are scared shitless to do anything unless a customer tells us its OK".
Now, I'm not saying that we shouldn't listen to our customers, thats just stupid. But we should not be scared to try and release stuff that is unproven and pushing the envelope. Why???? Because we are the guys who think this stuff up!! The customer might think its really cool, but he really doesn't have a clue. I mean he could say, "it would be nice if I could take a dump and write an e-mail and watch the Matrix on a flat screen in my bathroom that doubles as a web appliance", but more often than not, its us, the nuts and bolts of research and development that are required to come up with a new product.
So kudos to those few companies that actually come up with new products that are not market proven. Not only do you give us our "cool shit" fix, it also provides more work for those of us who work in companies that wait until a customer says "jump".
If Napster is a greedy, corporate entity like RIAA says it is, I'm still going to root for them over the greedy, corporate entity of RIAA! Do you mean they are committing the unpardonable sin of wanting to make money?????? Heres a news flash for ya, Jack -- EVERYONE WANTS TO MAKE MONEY!!!!!!!!
Since when did it become taboo to want to get a couple of bucks in your pocket? At what point did earning a living become the wrong thing to do?
Are the artists payed obscene amounts of money? Of course they are. Do the record companies spend make billions of dollars on record sales a year? Sure thing. Are CDs overpriced? You betcha. But we're still buying them (as a society,I mean.. I am sure that you only listen to the sophomore kid's garage band down the street since you are so upright and moral), but everyone else is ponying up the dough. It might be a lot of money, but dammit, the record industry earned it.
I betcha if I offered you $200,000 dollars a year to write code... you would take it in an instant. I bet if I had to charge $500 dollars a copy just to pay your salary, you wouldn't have any issues with it. And if it was a run away success and people were willing to pay the price, we would all profit and be happy. And I promise that you would crack down on anyone who was pirating your software for free. Know why?? Because you are a greedy corporate entity.
So I am going to start a trend. I am going to be the first to stand up and say
I LOVE TO MAKE MONEY. YEA CAPITALISM!!!
I know that wazzhisname up there is trying to be sarcastic, but it isn't funny. Moderators have too much power these days, I guess.....
Don't get me wrong, I love first-person shooters. I have played much more Doom, Quake and Half-life than I would admit to any of my non-geek friends, but they are the gaming equivalent of a Jim Carrey movie - fun as hell, but take absolutely no brain cells to process.
Personally, I really like playing Myst like games. Anyone remember the Seventh Guest?? Pretty damn cool, if you ask me. Of course, I grew up playing Kings Quest, so what do you want???
I was logging in to say that very thing before I saw your post. Moderate this one up now!
Of course, you are exactly right. There will allways be illegal attacks. Nobody denies the fact that these guys are *damn* smart. They are motivated and they are pissed (for whatever reason). They will find a way. At least when we have someone looking out for us, we can be ready for them.
I for one support public disclosure of security holes. I encourage everyone to disclose any security holes that they find. The people I am really scared of are those who *DON'T* disclose them. Those are the people with the hidden agenda. Remember the old saying four eyes are better than two? That scales pretty well: 2 million eyes will fix more holes than 200 eyes.
Wait a second, maybe I have this whole OSI stack thing wrong...
-- flipping quickly through refrence books--
Lets see.... layers. Now why would some of the smartest brains in networking make a model based on layers? Thats a mystery....
Come on now. The entire point is that every single layer is independent of each other. Bluetooth is a layer 1 device. Thats a physical layer device for the networking deficent out there. They don't give a rats ass about the other six layers. Thats not their problem as long as they provide the appropriate API.
The hardware doesn't care what protocol is passed across. Maybe it does Ethernet, maybe it doesn't. Maybe it does IP, maybe it doesn't. Bluetooth doesn't care. They provide a way to transmit a bit from point A to point B, and then someone else has to figure out how this bits are arranged.
Bluetooth is a Godsend for the networking industry because *finally* someone has created an open standard for wireless. And it takes alot for me to say this since my company has succesfully marketed a propriatary wireless solution. If you want better content transfer, then write a better protocol.
I know guys that worship swords. I know guys that worship cars. I know tons of people who worship their horses (being from Wyoming and all.. please feel free to insert your favorite animal husbandry joke here), and I'll bet you that the old woodsmen worshiped their axes. If you feel truely passionate about something, you admire it, and, of course, you write about it.
People love to say that Unix is obsolete, becuase they hold on to the notion that their pet project in college is going to turn out to be the Next Big Thing. But the fact of the matter is that nobody, nowhere, under any circumstances have been able to produce an operating system that worked under so many different architectures and situations. End of story.
And sure, lots of people are making new OSes, and showing them off as "better than Unix", but I'll bet if you took the cover off, you would still see Unix like methods and alogrithms.
But thats ok, I worship Unix, so thats how I feel. Maybe you should ask Steve Jobs. He just based the entire future of his company on Unix. See if he thinks if it is obsolete....
I will never again bad mouth my Netscape 4.72 IMAP client.
/. community feels about Microsoft, don't you think that a company of that size (and with their software controlling so many critical sites around the globe> has a responsiblity to go overboard on quality assurance? We should be hearing horror stories from ex-employees about 48 hour testing binges and slave driver QA directors. That would make me much more comfortable than the consistant major flaws that keep appearing.
-- pause whilst I hug my browser --
So all Microsoft bashing aside, how do things like this get out the door? To me, it almost seems that they are purposely not doing any sort of testing at all. I know about the jokes that say they get free testing by releasing their alphas, but seriously! So many people around the world depend on their software, you would think that they would put it through hell and back, but products continually come out of Redmond with serious, serious flaws.
I mean, how long did it take someone to find a hole in IE 5.5? Like 3 days???
Putting aside all the joke and the "evil empire" comments and everything that the
We might as well combine all the evils together:
:)"
"Yeah, give me a fifth of Wild Turkey, a copy of Debbie does Dallas, a box of condoms, and... what the hell... throw in that copy of Quake III. To go please...
But seriously, this is just another attempt to avoid having to actually talk to your kids about something other than their day at school. Sickening....
I believe that most stores still have an unoffical policy of "running out" price checkers. I have heard (but I have not seen) that some price checkers go complete James Bond with spy cameras and disguises and everything to avoid being ousted.
"The man with the golden price gun"??
"Live and let me have 10% off the competitors"?
"For your sale prices only"?
"In Sam Walton's secret service"?
(Ok, thats probably enough of that).
But anyway, that sounds like a damn cool job to me!!!
------------ ...
And now, live from Utah, the capital for Olympic (TM) bullshit
from the same award winning team that brought you bribery, illegal scholarships, collapsing buildings and corrupt Olympic (TM) officials, its "Get your damn hands off of my name"
*clap*clap*clap*
-----------------
But seriously folks, be glad you don't live here in Salt Lake City, we have to put up with this hipocracy daily. They lie cheat and steal to get the Olympics here, but now that they have it, they will be angry if anyone butts in.... I am truely, truely sorry that you all have to watch the 2002 winter olymipics in your own country be so throughly screwed up. I really am.
You know, I agree with their restriction against people using the 5 rings. Thats their defining symbol, they should be allowed to use it. But going after the world "olympic"???? Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't olympic mean more than "2 week long corporate sponsoring orgy?" I am pretty sure it also means "grandious" (as in the Olympia Mountains as someone has previously mentioned).
Seriously now... the USOC and the IOC and the SLOC (Salt Lake Olympic (TM) Committee) have f*cked up enough. Save your dignity and have some respect for what the Olympics are really about.
That very federal / state issue is being fought here in Utah right now.
:) ) He asked the feds for help, but they say that under the current laws, compelling some guy in Virginia to collect Utah tax just doesn't work. So our honorable gov keeps spewing fire, but apparently, Utahs power ends at Utahs borders (and for all of you out there that are not from Utah, thats probably a good thing).
Our fine governor, Mr. Mike Levitt is rabid about being able to charge taxes for items purchased out of state. Apparently on our state income tax forms (and others, I guess. I haven't cared enough to find out), we have to tally all the things we bought out of state, and pay taxes on them. That includes web purchases. So that means that everytime I go buy myself something on ThinkGeek, I gotta save the reciept and pay taxes on them at the end of the year. (And you can guess how many times I do that..
So I wonder, how do we sort it all out? For me, I think the feds should handle it. That elimiates the pain and suffering of having 50 different laws and precedents and customs that need to be applied (which means that your average sysadmin would need to know the rules in all 50 states just in case something went down).
Of course, how the feds should handle it, and the legality of such a rule and all that other jazz is way beyond my post (so don't flame me for it, dammit...). Thats why I am sitting in this cube in Utah, and not Washington DC.
Hey, sombody moderate this guy up. Thats the most elegant solution I have heard yet.
I expect to see an apache module on freshmeat before this weekend is out!
I agree 100%. And this is not a new problem. Way back when, I was a "teen moderator" on AOL, and we kept seeing the same assholes come back with different names all the time. We would boot them, they would return. That same thing is now possible on a much bigger scale.
I am sure the sys admins at eBay are pulling their hair out trying to keep these guys off. My feeling is that going to the government is a last resort. For me, thats A-OK. Lets stop this behavior before it becomes even more uncontrollable.
Uh, I'll probably be struck dead by a bolt of lightning for suggesting this, but is is possible that the Windows "concept" (actually, its the Xerox concept, isn't it??) is the most intuitive and effient user interface we have come up with so far?
I mean, voice recogonition is way off still, and I don't vote to have an electrode attached to my frontal lobe, so maybe the mouse and the icon are the best we've got (aside from the terminal screen, but thats another debate I don't want to get into).
I pose the question to you. Is there, somewhere, a better, easier and more efficent way to present images and information to the human brain?
Its nice to be idealistic, but its also nice to switch between editor sessions with the move of a mouse.
If you don't like it, grab an alpha or a sparc !!!!!!!!!!!!!
The only reason for this chip is to give a little taste of heaven to those people who for whatever reasons use the x86 instruction set. AMD isn't going to set out to design a brand new chip, especially when Intel is still prowling around.
If you don't like the design, then you don't have to use it, but you should at least acknowlege that AMD is out there trying to make life better for X86ers...
History doesn't really bear that out. 99.9% of the people out there really like it when geeks say stuff like "64 bit". I mean, why else would something like N64 be so damn popular. ("Hey Beavis, this one has 64 bits, and that one has only 32 bits, so it must suck...")
I think AMD was very timely in announcing this so close to the Pentium 4 announcement. It gives the world something to think about...
Which will chip will win? Is it the same ol' same ol' in a new faster package, or is it something totally new and expanded but slower??? -- We will see soon.
Jordo
"Fresh on the heals of the AMD announcment of a 64 bit processor, Microsoft announced that they would release a 64 bit version of Windows as soon as they could convince chief architect Bill Gates that "long long" wasn't his penis size."
-- Happy 4th From Jordo --
I have C comment blocks longer (and more informative) then that press release.
Now *THATS* damn funny!
I would love to have them return the names to the heap, and go on with their merry way, but thats not going to happen. Just like everyone else in this beautiful country, NSI is in business to make money. Part of the concept of "making money" means that they have to try really, really hard not to *lose* money. In other words, NSI has every right to recoop their losses. The auction idea is a great way to help to recoop some of the losses from all those deadbeats out there.
/. would erupt in protest.
So now think about the auction. Say that NSI sez, "OK, we will take bids up to the account balance". As was mentioned before, this won't matter for "smithfamily.com" or something similar, but undoubtedly, at some point in time, there will come along a domain name that more than 1 person wants (free.com, etc, etc...). The first person to bid would bid the full $35, everyone else will be screwed, and
Recognizing this, NSI has set no upper bound on the auction. Of course all the extra $$$ will end up in their pocket, but if someone is stupid enough to pay thousands of dollars for a domain name, thats their business.
And of course, the easy solution not to get hurt by this is simple:
PAY YOUR DAMN BILLS
Love and Kisses,
Jordo
Thanks for jumping through the hoops that were needed to make that interview happen. The fact of the matter is that Lars is dead right. Remember, there are many parallels between what Metallica does and what we do as software programmers. We both put our heart and soul into developing software (or music). Some of it is promoted by big corporations, and some of it is "unsigned" and given to the world free of charge. Some companies get super pissed when you copy their software, and some of us live to put the GPL at the top of our source code. Some bands hate it when you copy their works, and other bands give it away.
The problem is, that we geeks often have trouble understanding why someone would fight tooth and nail to protect something that others believe should be free, because in the 30 some years that *INX has been in vouge, thats what its always been about!!!! And we bring that to everything we do. We think software should be free, so we stick it to Redmond, and we develop a free UNIX like kernel. We think music should be distributed free, so we invent Napster.
Whats more, we did it so damn fast, other industries were caught by surprise. There are no other industries on earth where the major driving force behind the technology believes that information and/or products should be free, so they never even thought that this would be a problem for them until it was too late. Now, we have dozens of services, and 30,000 pissed off Metalica fans.
You can say all you want about the record companies, or the evil empires, or the assholes on the bands, but remember this: They all have their own dedicated rules and customs. When we were first developing the Internet, we were shunned... nobody wanted anything to do with us. So we did what we wanted and we made our own rules. We did it well enought that the rest of the planet has come knocking at the party. Now, how are we going to bring everyone together? I dunno, and its not my job to play refree. I guess I will keep writing free software, and paying for my music. Maybe that way I won't piss anyone off.
Love and kisses: JordoCrouse