The solution is to have the cellphone owner be able to set a price at which incoming messages will be charged. If you want to get restaurant spam, you set the price at free, if you don't want to be bothered, you set it at ten dollars, I would accept a solicitation from a restaurant if they paid me ten dollars to receive it.
I meant that they were motivated by political goals not humanitarian, scientific ones, and what useful data was collected? I was under the impression that they were more a series of sadistic experiments, like let's see what happens when we pull the wings off a fly, than any attempt at real scientific research designed for anyone's benefit.
I plan on protesting the Bush enviromental policy by cutting down all the trees in my yard, that will teach Bush a lesson!
I will help beggars in the street by kicking them, that will teach Bush a lesson!
I plan on protesting the waste of our tax dollars by not paying my taxes, really it is not because I want to keep the money, it is because I stand on higher moral ground than everyone else.
By the way, his Shutterfly.com rocks!!! Did you know that now you can post photographs on the internet by converting them to what is called "digital" format? coooool. I've been waiting for a way to do this, thanks Jim!!!
Speaking as a MS Certified Posting Engineer, I think you will in fact find that my posting are of a higher qwality and have no mispellings, unlike others who have been posting things for years. Relying on "experience" does not substitute for a good credential that managers can understand and respect.
So what if an experienced hacker's comments are more insightful and relevant, my postings are certified.
My point was to compare the costs of building a 1950s-style house with the same thing in 2000. I assume, but don't know, that you could build a house like that for around $36,000, a cape-cod or levittown-style tract house. The cost of construction materials seems to drop everyday, or at least there are new subsititutes for previously used materials that are cheaper, e.g., cheap fiberboard for expensive sheets of wood, sheetrock for expensive (labor-wise) plaster,etc. --though not as "nice" as the old materials.
Everything else you posted, while interesting, was anecdotal and goes completely misses my point about comparing apples to apples.
By definition the houses you described are not comparable, especially when you say the condition and size of the two were so different.
I'm not saying you are wrong, just that I think we are talking about two different things.
RE: Miss. $5,000 in 1950 was $36,000 in 2000. Most homes in 2000 were in the $80,000 to $120,000 range, often much higher.
Are you talking about the cost of the house or the cost of a house on a plot of land when you quote housing prices for 2000?
I think nowadays, the land/location is what is primarily responsible for our high housing costs.
Also the scale of houses being built now is much greater than the typical 1950s house in terms of footprint, number of rooms, number of bathrooms, garages, add-ons, etc..
If you compare apples to apples, I wouln't call it a Miss.
Thanks for realizing my remark was sarcastic and not meant to be mean-spirited.
I think you meant: ~Did anyone notice that they took off those lines from later reprints, not that they were there in the first place.
Anyway, you did have a good point, I actually did notice that and was wondering if the publisher removed those lines to "dumb down" and not confuse a mass audience.
Did anyone notice that on the first releases of the books, the fourth book was tagged `the fourth book in the inaccurately named "Hitchhikers' Trilogy"' and the fifth `the fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named "Hitchhikers' Trilogy"' ?
No, no one noticed that--the author, the editor, the graphic designer, the printer, the reviewers, the millions of readers, no one noticed what was printed on the cover of the book.
Thanks for pointing it out to all of us, how could we have missed it?
If Cliff is trying to make the author look like a gibbering idiot, he's done a pretty good job.
All good art, i.e., art that stands the test of time, has a large degree of ambiguity in it to allow for various forms of interpretation and meaning. That is part of what gives it value.
I think the book says more about the author than the subject. Boy is he deep and intelligent. I can't wait for his brainy analysis of Brittany Spears lyrics and how they are derived from Greek Philosophy AND quantum physics. You can PROVE this by rearranging the letters in the words to Baby Hit Me One More Time. It's soo obvious.....
Yeah, but ~15-30 hours a week shooting for F1RST P0ST happen DURING the ~40 hours a week at "real" job, so that means I work 10hours a week.
But then take out 5 hours per week for lunch, (more if it's slow) 2 1/2 hours for coffee breaks, and other 2 1/2 for bathroom breaks, that leaves ZERO...hmm... wouldn't it be better for everyone concerned if they let me stay home and just direct deposited my payroll check....
$10 million plus as a first step to reinvent the wheel.
What are the problems that simputer solves that a old palm can't? $200 isn't even cheap compared to existing alternatives, esp. those available by the time this thing ships, if it ever does.
Why not start by setting up a PO Box in india where I can ship the seven perfectly usable PCs and Macs I have lying around not in use. and give these to a village as a central resource. One kid in each village would probably become a wizard and help the whole community. Everyone i know (exaggeration) is throwing out old PCs, these things become out of style but not functionally obsolete.
Why try to create some new OS standards when they will never be able to catch up to the development that goes into *nix, Windows, or Mac or even palmOS.
Even a proprietary OS company would be smart to say "hey India, use my OS for Free for five years" Add an extra one billion users to their user base to hit up for system upgrades in a few years. It's not like they are going to be able to track down that "pirate" farmer in Northern India and extract $100,000 for each infraction that i keep hearing about from that Software Protection Agency (whatever they are called..)
And why is there some implication that villagers that are illiterate, so somehow that makes them dumb? How insulting. Farming takes brains, shrewdness, planning and survival skills. Most of the posters on Slashdot are illiterate (just look at the mispellings and grammur;) ) and there are programming geniuses amongst us. (I'm NOT including myself in that, foks)
I am not trying to be dissmissive or discouraging, but I really don't get it. If anyone can give me more info or explain what I am missing, I am all ears. I really don't get this. They are staking out territory in between a PC and a PDA and in six months will get squeezed out on features on either side....
Okay, I do have one comment to make about French people, but it is more an observation or even more precisely, an ancedote: (And it is not about ALL French people, just the ones involved in this true story.)
I got flown to London, England, last fall with two other people to work on a web project for a French technology company. The project went very well and everyone was very happy with the results. The CEO of this French company, (who was also himself French) wanted to take the three of us out to dinner with some key members of his company to celebrate.
So having spent some time in England at this point and being unimpressed with every meal I had seen so far, I was actually looking forward to dining out with these cultured European gentlemen, hoping to at last have a decent meal.
They said this was a favorite place of theirs.
Where did we go? Pizza Hut. This is a true story. No, they weren't playing a joke on us, no they weren't running out of money, the plain truth was that they loved the place.
I don't know if there is a moral to this story, you can make up your own.
Note: This was not meant as a generalization about all French people.
I would like to apologize for the comments at the beginning and end of my previous post. They were inappropriate.
I do think that my point about the self-serving nature of the Envisional press release remain valid, and it was a mistake to include that point within the offending comments I made.
I have chosen to make no comments about French people so that I do not further this unfortunate misunderstanding I have caused.
Again, I would like to sincerely apologize to anyone I personally offended.
I don't think what your are doing is wrong, and I think what you posted is funny in a good way. But you can't by law publish sheet music without permission. If by "interpretation" you mean music criticism of a song, then you can freely post that. If you mean sheet music you can't by law. You can publish a "reasonable" section of a song for educational use, you can't publish a whole song for "educational use."
The reason Harry Fox hasn't chased you is because if you have "written several tabulatures" and give them away to several people, you have caused (several pennies times several people) several pennies worth of infringement. It probably cost them more money to open and read your email than "damages" you have caused or that they could recover.
If you had a web site that published thousands of sheets of tab, then maybe you would be on their radar screen.
I have used online tab myself, so don't think that I am criticizing what you are doing, I am not. I am just trying to clarify the facts to the best of my knowledge.
In the article, the IBM spokesmodel is addressing issues brought up by bosses and beancounters, people who generally have no idea what the real technical issues are. (not trying to paint with a broad brush, but there you go...)
Anyway, and more interestingly I think this shows a lack of appreciation of a bigger issue. You have to trade off stability and rate of change of a structure. What I mean is that if you are designing something that isn't going to change or exist in an enviroment that is undergoing rapid change, you can design it to be really stable and self-healing and all the bells and whistles, but if you do that and then have to add new features to deal with technologies and applications that didn't exist when you started the design, either you won't be able to accomodate them or you introduce things that increase the risk of breaking the design.
If the IT world were very stable and unchanging, you could think about making a self-healing system or server, etc. But if two months after you are done with your design, you have to deal with a new protocol or technology, you have to either NOT deal with it and become obsolete, or try to deal with it and alter and destabilize your "perfect" design.
I am not a "high powered attorney," I am a musician. I wasn't trying to get anyone to "quake in their boots," it just seems like a lot of people were making posts that were completely detached from the facts, and they were just wheelspinning. You are right that sales of sheet are a small part of the money that big companies take in, though it is in the millions of dollars each year. But that is only a small part of what the Harry Fox Company does. They are the ones that go in and audit the record companies and get them to pay royalties to artists that got "lost" in the record company's accounting practices. They are also the ones who negotiate the use of music in commercials and movies.
If you re-read my post you will see that I am not an advocate of the present copyright system.
But I do think that it should be the right of the artist who creates a song to decide what happens to it, otherwise the small independent artists will get steamrolled by large corporate interests everytime.
Otherwise, a band like Rage Against the Machine (granted they are on a major label-I'm using them as an example because their political beliefs are widely known) could have one of their songs co-opted and used in a commercial for Exxon and they wouldn't be able to stop it. Would that be right? I don't think so.
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Okay, so one one else got it, has2k1, but I laughed real hard.
:giantest rolleyes emoticon evar:
hilarious
The solution is to have the cellphone owner be able to set a price at which incoming messages will be charged. If you want to get restaurant spam, you set the price at free, if you don't want to be bothered, you set it at ten dollars, I would accept a solicitation from a restaurant if they paid me ten dollars to receive it.
Considering that they were both copying wings found in Nature, they are actually very different. Did you look closely at the image you posted?
I meant that they were motivated by political goals not humanitarian, scientific ones, and what useful data was collected? I was under the impression that they were more a series of sadistic experiments, like let's see what happens when we pull the wings off a fly, than any attempt at real scientific research designed for anyone's benefit.
Do you think that was "scientific research" or a government sponsored political propaganda thingamajig?
I plan on protesting the Bush enviromental policy by cutting down all the trees in my yard, that will teach Bush a lesson!
I will help beggars in the street by kicking them, that will teach Bush a lesson!
I plan on protesting the waste of our tax dollars by not paying my taxes, really it is not because I want to keep the money, it is because I stand on higher moral ground than everyone else.
By the way, his Shutterfly.com rocks!!! Did you know that now you can post photographs on the internet by converting them to what is called "digital" format? coooool. I've been waiting for a way to do this, thanks Jim!!!
the problem is that verizon IS doing the earthlink scenario you describe. It is a problem.
So what if an experienced hacker's comments are more insightful and relevant, my postings are certified.
The funniest example was how he expected people to *want* to have a waterproof living room that they could hose down to keep clean.
Everything else you posted, while interesting, was anecdotal and goes completely misses my point about comparing apples to apples.
By definition the houses you described are not comparable, especially when you say the condition and size of the two were so different.
I'm not saying you are wrong, just that I think we are talking about two different things.
Are you talking about the cost of the house or the cost of a house on a plot of land when you quote housing prices for 2000?
I think nowadays, the land/location is what is primarily responsible for our high housing costs.
Also the scale of houses being built now is much greater than the typical 1950s house in terms of footprint, number of rooms, number of bathrooms, garages, add-ons, etc..
If you compare apples to apples, I wouln't call it a Miss.
I think you meant: ~Did anyone notice that they took off those lines from later reprints, not that they were there in the first place.
Anyway, you did have a good point, I actually did notice that and was wondering if the publisher removed those lines to "dumb down" and not confuse a mass audience.
Could someone tell me why the above post (quoted in its entirety) is a 5 and/or Insightful????
I am not disparaging the post, just wondering how it got modded to that.
Thanks
No, no one noticed that--the author, the editor, the graphic designer, the printer, the reviewers, the millions of readers, no one noticed what was printed on the cover of the book.
Thanks for pointing it out to all of us, how could we have missed it?
All good art, i.e., art that stands the test of time, has a large degree of ambiguity in it to allow for various forms of interpretation and meaning. That is part of what gives it value.
I think the book says more about the author than the subject. Boy is he deep and intelligent. I can't wait for his brainy analysis of Brittany Spears lyrics and how they are derived from Greek Philosophy AND quantum physics. You can PROVE this by rearranging the letters in the words to Baby Hit Me One More Time. It's soo obvious.....
But then take out 5 hours per week for lunch, (more if it's slow) 2 1/2 hours for coffee breaks, and other 2 1/2 for bathroom breaks, that leaves ZERO...hmm... wouldn't it be better for everyone concerned if they let me stay home and just direct deposited my payroll check....
Why not start by setting up a PO Box in india where I can ship the seven perfectly usable PCs and Macs I have lying around not in use. and give these to a village as a central resource. One kid in each village would probably become a wizard and help the whole community. Everyone i know (exaggeration) is throwing out old PCs, these things become out of style but not functionally obsolete.
Why try to create some new OS standards when they will never be able to catch up to the development that goes into *nix, Windows, or Mac or even palmOS.
Even a proprietary OS company would be smart to say "hey India, use my OS for Free for five years" Add an extra one billion users to their user base to hit up for system upgrades in a few years. It's not like they are going to be able to track down that "pirate" farmer in Northern India and extract $100,000 for each infraction that i keep hearing about from that Software Protection Agency (whatever they are called..)
And why is there some implication that villagers that are illiterate, so somehow that makes them dumb? How insulting. Farming takes brains, shrewdness, planning and survival skills. Most of the posters on Slashdot are illiterate (just look at the mispellings and grammur ;) ) and there are programming geniuses amongst us. (I'm NOT including myself in that, foks)
I am not trying to be dissmissive or discouraging, but I really don't get it. If anyone can give me more info or explain what I am missing, I am all ears. I really don't get this. They are staking out territory in between a PC and a PDA and in six months will get squeezed out on features on either side....
I got flown to London, England, last fall with two other people to work on a web project for a French technology company. The project went very well and everyone was very happy with the results. The CEO of this French company, (who was also himself French) wanted to take the three of us out to dinner with some key members of his company to celebrate.
So having spent some time in England at this point and being unimpressed with every meal I had seen so far, I was actually looking forward to dining out with these cultured European gentlemen, hoping to at last have a decent meal.
They said this was a favorite place of theirs.
Where did we go? Pizza Hut. This is a true story. No, they weren't playing a joke on us, no they weren't running out of money, the plain truth was that they loved the place.
I don't know if there is a moral to this story, you can make up your own.
Note: This was not meant as a generalization about all French people.
I do think that my point about the self-serving nature of the Envisional press release remain valid, and it was a mistake to include that point within the offending comments I made.
I have chosen to make no comments about French people so that I do not further this unfortunate misunderstanding I have caused.
Again, I would like to sincerely apologize to anyone I personally offended.
The reason Harry Fox hasn't chased you is because if you have "written several tabulatures" and give them away to several people, you have caused (several pennies times several people) several pennies worth of infringement. It probably cost them more money to open and read your email than "damages" you have caused or that they could recover.
If you had a web site that published thousands of sheets of tab, then maybe you would be on their radar screen.
I have used online tab myself, so don't think that I am criticizing what you are doing, I am not. I am just trying to clarify the facts to the best of my knowledge.
Anyway, and more interestingly I think this shows a lack of appreciation of a bigger issue. You have to trade off stability and rate of change of a structure. What I mean is that if you are designing something that isn't going to change or exist in an enviroment that is undergoing rapid change, you can design it to be really stable and self-healing and all the bells and whistles, but if you do that and then have to add new features to deal with technologies and applications that didn't exist when you started the design, either you won't be able to accomodate them or you introduce things that increase the risk of breaking the design.
If the IT world were very stable and unchanging, you could think about making a self-healing system or server, etc. But if two months after you are done with your design, you have to deal with a new protocol or technology, you have to either NOT deal with it and become obsolete, or try to deal with it and alter and destabilize your "perfect" design.
If you re-read my post you will see that I am not an advocate of the present copyright system.
But I do think that it should be the right of the artist who creates a song to decide what happens to it, otherwise the small independent artists will get steamrolled by large corporate interests everytime.
Otherwise, a band like Rage Against the Machine (granted they are on a major label-I'm using them as an example because their political beliefs are widely known) could have one of their songs co-opted and used in a commercial for Exxon and they wouldn't be able to stop it. Would that be right? I don't think so.
No, you can write your own transcription of a song and use it, but you can't PUBLISH the sheet music without permission.
Millions of dollars spent by retailers to find out that my eyes are attracted to bright colors, flashing lights, and breasts. Thanks IBM.