just because they request personal information, does not mean you have to be HONEST with your personal information.
I am tempted to fill in my home page info as that goat page.
In fact the idea of a having the Passport database filled with dummy accounts pointing to perverted sites, all in the name of mr gates amuses me. They have to be able to document more than one person with the same name, right?
Art as an expression is the start of communication. even if it is failed, destroyed, successful or whatever. even it it is communication with your paint brush and canvas. If I write a letter, and it is destroyed in transit was it ever a letter? Of course it was.
Expression without communication is just like pissing in the wind. If you merely what to express yourself, go talk to a wall. Note I do note recommend this.
Expressionism as you have detailed here seems to examine the world of "we have a failure to communicate" as well as the attempts and struggles to communicate, and finally sanctifies the original impulse to say something, without seeing any interaction down the road.
Of course, the secret is, that it IS alright to communicate. Although, for some the jargon and jokes will be arcane, resting on a select vocabulary. NOTE: Interactivity is good, most of the time.
an Arcane artist vocabulary results in phenomena like learning to appreciate the poetry of a foreign language without ever learning the language or seeing a translation. You are left with the vocal patterns only. This can be fun, but you wind up missing stuff.
"Art" is one of those words that doesn't have a definition, yet people try so
hard to give it one.
in this context, ART refers to a subtle experinece in the viewer, the receiver of the art. (which can also be the artist!) This experience is an interaction which brings together and evokes various emotions and thoughts in the viewer/listener/audience/etc. depending on the experience of the recipient and how this relates to the "art"
Example, most folks might relate to an abstract "Study in Green" as having to do with money, as one of many possible meanings. White is a wedding colour in the West, while in china, it as a funeral colour. rather different emotions, for the same colour, depending on context.
So art DOES have a definition. It is defined that thing that provides for a certain experience of reflection, that penetrates past the social veneer of a person.
But note that the definition you choose for yourself will colour what you create in your art.
Art as something you breath life into is a bit much for some folks.
I remember reading comments by a number of well known and successful artists and authors that the way people analyse stories and artwork in schools is NOT how they write or paint, etc. Really succesful authors, for example, consider that stuff pure comedy, pure BS for people like critics to indulge in, to fool the public with. An interesting experiment is to count the number of successful authors who went to university to learn to write.
1) Communication: Art is a form of communication. Therefore, does it reach the intended audience? via the medium that It is expressed in (rock music, sculpture in silly putty or stone, etc.
2) Technique: The quality of technique can have an impact completely aside from anything else.
3) Audience Response, also know as Participation of the Audience. It has to be interactive somehow on some level, emotional, philosophical, etc. This often means using the symbolism, etc of the culture and people your are intending to reach.
As an example, do a web search for the painting, the "Volga Boat Men". This was famous in pre-revolution Russia, to the extent that many revolutionaries made a pilgrimage to the painting and swore an oath on it. YOU look at it now, and the impact may be a bit less. It worked within that culture, probably less so for ours.
4)Social Agreements and the Opions of Experts - This is where a lot of bullshit lives. you often have a lot of arbitrary opinions, such as that art would have to involve a lot of hard work and effort. Therefore, something that a genius tossed off with minimum effort would be less artistic then something with alot of struggle. which is nonsense. Also, artistic expression can only be through familiar techniques. Which is another bit of junque.
For example, I consider Linux as an OS is a work of ART by Linus, which uses the bits of contributed code as the elements of the montage. It is a somewhat of a self potrait in that regard.
The important part is that familiar techniques usually communicate more easily than unfamiliar ones.
5) Art as a weapon: Comment: Art for Art's sake is nice, but tends to sabotage communication if carried to far. Because Art is also partly communication, you can use it to do something. You can use it as a weapon. Again, the Painting the "Volga Boat Men" was a weapon against the Russia of the Tsars.
Final Thought: Ultimately, Art is something that YOU breath life into. If it is not alive, it is not art. If it is alive, it will communicate, and it is ART. What kind of life it is it up to you.
and yes, in this regard a community or an OS or anything else can be a work of ART.
This seems like another example of "big bucks" shoving their weight around.
In a similar, but not related story, The company that owns the trade mark for Barney the dinosaur has gone after a satire/parody site. Another example of a big bucks company going after a smaller concern.
But the reply is a hoot:
""It has come to the attention of Cybercheeze that you are operating an illegal scam called 'Strong Arm' under the guise of 'Intellectual Property'. We have reviewed your letter and found that it not only is about as intellectual as the purple quivering mass of
gyrating goo you call Barney, but that it also is demeaning to everyone that visits our website and reads this worthless attempt and scare tactic."
spunky attitude. I like it. Gaim should set up a defense fund or something.
heck someone should set up an open source defense fund. but that would require folks to be orgainzed or something.
This bit from towards the end of the original paper is interesting in this regard.
No information can escape from a classical black hole: what goes in does not come
out. [...] Recent work in string theory suggests
that black holes do not actually destroy the information about how they were formed, but
instead process it and emit the processed information as part of the Hawking radition as
they evaporate: what does in does come out, but in an altered form.
If the latter picture is correct, then black holes could in principle be `programmed':
one forms a black hole whose initial conditions encode the information to be processed,
lets that information be processed by the Planckian dynamics at the hole's horizon, and
gets out the answer to the computation by examining the correlations in the Hawking
radiation emitted when the hole evaporates. Despite our lack of knowledge of the precise
details of what happens when a black hole forms and evaporates (a full account must await
a more exact treatment using whatever theory of quantum gravity and matter turns out
to be the correct one), we can still provide a rough estimate how much information is
processed during this computation.
"Black Hole" computers sound like a little beyond the limits of the current technology. However, It sheds light on possibilities of the Galactic Structure.
Dead sites, dead media
on
Net Cemetery
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· Score: 3
I am reminded of the Dead Media Project, which brings me to the speculation of what would the world be like the day the Internet is dead media?
This ties is well with Story of the Pnuematic tubes, a highly developed system that disappeared and became utterly forgotten because of other systems that were utterly superior to it. (Telephones. fax, etc.)
I also am fascinated by the Athenian "computer" that ran the old Athenian democracy. (see info here in 5 parts: 1,2,3,4,5) It was far more IT intensive than most folks realize.
So with these dead sites, etc the question comes to mind: What replaces the internet when it is over?
My vote is that the most likely course is the borgification of the world. Wireless, of course.
But of course, it could be something else as well.
Just because it was made in the 60s, doesn't mean it was copyrighted.
In the USA, all artists, musicians, writers, etc. have instant copyright to their work. It is inherent in the act of creation. it is ALWAYS there. Thus you have to deal with legal nicities of works for hire, etc.
There is always a copyright. Always.
Who owns it is something else. When it expires is something else.
Right now, the drop dead date on copyright items like songs, etc is sometime just after World War ONE
1)Grace took a public database that was contributed to freely by thousands of people as a public cetral resource, and decided that this was theirs alone, and no one else could used it. 2)Roxio decided to use someone else's database 3)Grace sued Roxio , saying that they couldn't use someone else's database, because they had the copyright on all of the data, and to do so was to break copyright law because veryone else database had to be breaking the copyright law on this. Even if independantly compiled. 4)Roxio is now counter suing, asaying that Grace is trying to copyright public domain data.
I think I have it mostly right, but I am sure someone will correct me on the details.
it is sort of like suing someone for using a different dictionary or telephone book or whatever because you got a copyright on it.
Now Grace has got a problem, because I think Roxio was their biggest user, and Grace tried to muscle in with big ticket license fees. to which Roxio said "sphhhxxxt!"
I swear, when I set up my slash site, I'm am going to have a moderation item labeled "clueless"
The operating system kernel (Linux) is the largest single component, at over 2.4 million lines of code (mostly in C); that compares to 1.5 million
lines of code in Red Hat 6.2. Over 1,400,000 lines (57% of the Linux kernel) are in the ``drivers'' subdirectory, thus, the primary reason the kernel is so large is that it
supports so many different kinds of peripherals. No other subdirectory comes close to this size - the second largest is the ``arch'' directory (at over
446,000 SLOC, 18% of the kernel), which contains the architecture-unique code for each CPU architecture.
Red Hat Linux 7.1 includes over 30 million physical source lines of code (SLOC), compared to well over 17 million SLOC in version 6.2 (which had been released about one year earlier). Using the COCOMO cost model, this system is estimated to have required about 8,000 person-years of development time (as compared to 4,500 person-years to develop version 6.2).
Had this Linux distribution been developed by conventional proprietary means, it would have cost over $1.08 billion (1,000 million) to develop in the U.S. (in year 2000 dollars). Compare this to the $600 million estimate for version 6.2. Thus, Red Hat Linux 7.1 represents over a 60% increase in size, effort, and traditional development costs over Red Hat Linux 6.2. This is quite extraordinary, since this represents approximately one year.
This is interesting, since it makes the Linux effort competitive with Microsoft in hours and bucks alone. (note that the IBM contribution is not included here, and is likely spread over several years (?))
The DVD's can be picked up at most major video stores around the US. They can also be bought online at many major shopping sites, at a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $14.98 or less for the individual DVD's, and $44.95 or less for the box sets.
Looks like you spotted the prices for different set:
Super Dimension Fortress: Macross - Complete Box Set This special Macross DVD box set includes the 36-episode Macross series in its original Japanese form, uncut and with remastered footage. In addition, fans who sign up for the preorder list now will enjoy a hefty discount of $110 off the retail price! IMPORTANT NOTE: This is the Japanese Macross series, not the Macross Saga of Robotech.
One UK university recently took lots of cash from a tobacco company. Amusingly a student who got a major prize from that department publicly turned it down at the prize giving.
Which is plain silly.
what the student should have done was donate the money to the arch foe of the tobacco company. Say a public action group, or something.
How many people here would take a grant from Microsoft, and donate it to the EFF, or what ever?
This event (Redhat in the Black) contrasts well with the recent statement of Gates, as noted in the previous Slash story:
The GPL, he continued, "breaks that cycle--that is, it makes it impossible for a commercial company to use any of that work or build on any of that work."
This, taken to the logical end, would make the success of Redhat impossible. All this means is that there is a subtle bug in his logic.
which is somehow appropriate.
It is my view that the MS proprietary accomplishes the exact thing that Gates accuses the GPL of. It makes it impossible for a commercial company to use any of that work or build on any of that work, except with the permission of Microsoft.
Redhat obviously does not have this as an issue, as they are continuing to grow nicely.
Parisi owns about 700 domain names containing the word "sucks," including Microsoftsucks.com and Chinasucks.com. Typing in those Web addresses redirects surfers to the Sucks.com message board, where they can complain about a variety of organizations and people, including corporations, governments and CEOs, such as Michael Dell.
As much as I dislike this, I can see it as a business plan, to drive traffic to his "sucks" themed websites.
This must annoy the big players no end, so he gets bonus brownie points just for that.
In the story, a couple of consultants/network guys wound up in a shelter because they lost their jobs and couldn't pay their bills. One had a 100K a year job, the other a steady 60K consulting gig. These men caught the fear and it has swept them into the gutter. Is the idea of being young and homeless scary? Sure. But here are some factors people have to consider before embracing the fear. Why? Because the fear is a powerful thing. Once it has a hold of you, it owns you. You can't think, can't do anything but absorb the fear and let it control you. Why is the fear spreading so fast, based on ONE article? Because it could be anyone. It was as if everyone now had permission to be scared about their future and all of a sudden, all that liberterian thought they had sucked down was not working. The possibility of poverty, or a
quick trip back to 1992 was not what they expected after the boom. And the fact that it's here scares people to the core. There's no work, there doesn't look like there's going to be any work, and people don't see a market for their skills. No more trips to Europe, no more unlimited futures, no more foosball in the office. No more office. But let's look at the circumstances of that article more closely: "
And it goes on.
a pretty good look at the psychology behind why the story struck a raw nerve in folks
Almost everyone has been posting general sites. when the contest specifies exact news stories for most categories.
As a general site, I recommend Netslaves. They have a large number of articles by a number of talented writers, and so it is hard to recommend just one.
But the one I actually recommend is the "How To read a 10q" series of articles kicking apart the hard core financials of places like Juno, Salon, Razorfish, Yahoo, and many others. The explanation The Media, Money, and You by Steve Gilliard also should be included with it, as it explains what the series is about. The whole package is really worth looking at.
There is a menu box on the right side devoted just to this series, complete with the intro, etc. Definitely worth putting in for something.
How many IT workers have another *really* saleable skill.
Very true, although you could have one of those guys who is (likely) a rocket scientist or a heart surgeon, along with being a expert classical musician (violin and piano), who then decided to have a computerized research center running the proverbial Beowulf cluster in an "out" building separate from the main house.
Sort of a modern day Doctor Frankenstein, I guess.
I really dislike it if someone comes along and tries to piggy-pack on my work, good bad, or otherwise. If I donate my work to Open source, that is one thing. But straight ripoffs - ugh.
An example in point is the Darwin Awards. There is the Original Darwin Awards, done by a college student. This is the one that got the original fame. Then there is the copy cat Darwin Awards site who was better financed, and grabbed the URL first. So the college student sort of got plowed under.
Slashdot Mirror
I am tempted to fill in my home page info as that goat page.
In fact the idea of a having the Passport database filled with dummy accounts pointing to perverted sites, all in the name of mr gates amuses me. They have to be able to document more than one person with the same name, right?
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Including programming, although this is admittedly adstract.
Take for example the Saga of Mel, as seen in the Jargon File. His was a level of skill that could not be appreciated, except by a select view.
I would argue that his work was certainly artistic.
And in the case of the Linux kernel. I would argue that the structural embody a set of selective choices that are to some extent artisitic.
The words that go to make up War and Piece do not physically look like Tolstoy, for example.
This ultimately goes back to the arguments of expression that make up the DeCSS legal cases.
Is Code Art? Is it Expressive?
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Expression without communication is just like pissing in the wind. If you merely what to express yourself, go talk to a wall. Note I do note recommend this.
Expressionism as you have detailed here seems to examine the world of "we have a failure to communicate" as well as the attempts and struggles to communicate, and finally sanctifies the original impulse to say something, without seeing any interaction down the road.
Of course, the secret is, that it IS alright to communicate. Although, for some the jargon and jokes will be arcane, resting on a select vocabulary. NOTE: Interactivity is good, most of the time.
an Arcane artist vocabulary results in phenomena like learning to appreciate the poetry of a foreign language without ever learning the language or seeing a translation. You are left with the vocal patterns only. This can be fun, but you wind up missing stuff.
"Art" is one of those words that doesn't have a definition, yet people try so hard to give it one.
in this context, ART refers to a subtle experinece in the viewer, the receiver of the art. (which can also be the artist!) This experience is an interaction which brings together and evokes various emotions and thoughts in the viewer/listener/audience/etc. depending on the experience of the recipient and how this relates to the "art"
Example, most folks might relate to an abstract "Study in Green" as having to do with money, as one of many possible meanings. White is a wedding colour in the West, while in china, it as a funeral colour. rather different emotions, for the same colour, depending on context.
So art DOES have a definition. It is defined that thing that provides for a certain experience of reflection, that penetrates past the social veneer of a person.
But note that the definition you choose for yourself will colour what you create in your art.
Art as something you breath life into is a bit much for some folks.
I remember reading comments by a number of well known and successful artists and authors that the way people analyse stories and artwork in schools is NOT how they write or paint, etc. Really succesful authors, for example, consider that stuff pure comedy, pure BS for people like critics to indulge in, to fool the public with. An interesting experiment is to count the number of successful authors who went to university to learn to write.
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1) Communication: Art is a form of communication. Therefore, does it reach the intended audience? via the medium that It is expressed in (rock music, sculpture in silly putty or stone, etc.
2) Technique: The quality of technique can have an impact completely aside from anything else.
3) Audience Response, also know as Participation of the Audience. It has to be interactive somehow on some level, emotional, philosophical, etc. This often means using the symbolism, etc of the culture and people your are intending to reach.
As an example, do a web search for the painting, the "Volga Boat Men". This was famous in pre-revolution Russia, to the extent that many revolutionaries made a pilgrimage to the painting and swore an oath on it. YOU look at it now, and the impact may be a bit less. It worked within that culture, probably less so for ours.
4)Social Agreements and the Opions of Experts - This is where a lot of bullshit lives. you often have a lot of arbitrary opinions, such as that art would have to involve a lot of hard work and effort. Therefore, something that a genius tossed off with minimum effort would be less artistic then something with alot of struggle. which is nonsense. Also, artistic expression can only be through familiar techniques. Which is another bit of junque.
For example, I consider Linux as an OS is a work of ART by Linus, which uses the bits of contributed code as the elements of the montage. It is a somewhat of a self potrait in that regard.
The important part is that familiar techniques usually communicate more easily than unfamiliar ones. 5) Art as a weapon: Comment: Art for Art's sake is nice, but tends to sabotage communication if carried to far. Because Art is also partly communication, you can use it to do something. You can use it as a weapon. Again, the Painting the "Volga Boat Men" was a weapon against the Russia of the Tsars.
Final Thought: Ultimately, Art is something that YOU breath life into. If it is not alive, it is not art. If it is alive, it will communicate, and it is ART. What kind of life it is it up to you.
and yes, in this regard a community or an OS or anything else can be a work of ART.
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In a similar, but not related story, The company that owns the trade mark for Barney the dinosaur has gone after a satire/parody site. Another example of a big bucks company going after a smaller concern.
But the reply is a hoot:
""It has come to the attention of Cybercheeze that you are operating an illegal scam called 'Strong Arm' under the guise of 'Intellectual Property'. We have reviewed your letter and found that it not only is about as intellectual as the purple quivering mass of gyrating goo you call Barney, but that it also is demeaning to everyone that visits our website and reads this worthless attempt and scare tactic."
spunky attitude. I like it. Gaim should set up a defense fund or something.
heck someone should set up an open source defense fund. but that would require folks to be orgainzed or something.
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here's the link
http://webevents.broadcast.com/compaq/PressAnnounc ement
For those of us who are into hearing sales geeks talk.
[Note the space typo in the link is a slash problem/bug. I can see it spelled correctly in the comment box.]
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I can see toasters and coffepot weeb cams with IP numbers.
but light bulbs? Like we can't run out of IPV6 space fast enough already.
sheesh!
;-)
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The science fiction story angle on it is that eventually all black holes are computers.
Also, It is considered that all galaxies have black holes in the center.
So that galatic cores are data centers, among other things.
Bit of a stretch, but it would be a science fiction story any how.
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On the other hand, It would be nice if 32 bit *nix/*BSD distribs be out 64 bit MS product anyhow.
Not that this would be *that* hard to do, for those reasonably expert.
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No information can escape from a classical black hole: what goes in does not come out. [...] Recent work in string theory suggests that black holes do not actually destroy the information about how they were formed, but instead process it and emit the processed information as part of the Hawking radition as they evaporate: what does in does come out, but in an altered form.
If the latter picture is correct, then black holes could in principle be `programmed': one forms a black hole whose initial conditions encode the information to be processed, lets that information be processed by the Planckian dynamics at the hole's horizon, and gets out the answer to the computation by examining the correlations in the Hawking radiation emitted when the hole evaporates. Despite our lack of knowledge of the precise details of what happens when a black hole forms and evaporates (a full account must await a more exact treatment using whatever theory of quantum gravity and matter turns out to be the correct one), we can still provide a rough estimate how much information is processed during this computation.
"Black Hole" computers sound like a little beyond the limits of the current technology. However, It sheds light on possibilities of the Galactic Structure.
;-)
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It actually refers to a type of special magical charm
Inde =Azure, a bright blue color. Note the relation to the word "Indigo"
Pendant = a variety of common meanings, including an ornament worn on a necklace, etc.
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This ties is well with Story of the Pnuematic tubes, a highly developed system that disappeared and became utterly forgotten because of other systems that were utterly superior to it. (Telephones. fax, etc.)
I also am fascinated by the Athenian "computer" that ran the old Athenian democracy. (see info here in 5 parts: 1,2,3,4,5) It was far more IT intensive than most folks realize.
So with these dead sites, etc the question comes to mind: What replaces the internet when it is over?
My vote is that the most likely course is the borgification of the world. Wireless, of course.
But of course, it could be something else as well.
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In the USA, all artists, musicians, writers, etc. have instant copyright to their work. It is inherent in the act of creation. it is ALWAYS there. Thus you have to deal with legal nicities of works for hire, etc.
There is always a copyright. Always.
Who owns it is something else. When it expires is something else.
Right now, the drop dead date on copyright items like songs, etc is sometime just after World War ONE
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this is why you may be uninformed.
To recap for you:
1)Grace took a public database that was contributed to freely by thousands of people as a public cetral resource, and decided that this was theirs alone, and no one else could used it.
2)Roxio decided to use someone else's database
3)Grace sued Roxio , saying that they couldn't use someone else's database, because they had the copyright on all of the data, and to do so was to break copyright law because veryone else database had to be breaking the copyright law on this. Even if independantly compiled.
4)Roxio is now counter suing, asaying that Grace is trying to copyright public domain data.
I think I have it mostly right, but I am sure someone will correct me on the details.
it is sort of like suing someone for using a different dictionary or telephone book or whatever because you got a copyright on it.
Now Grace has got a problem, because I think Roxio was their biggest user, and Grace tried to muscle in with big ticket license fees. to which Roxio said "sphhhxxxt!"
I swear, when I set up my slash site, I'm am going to have a moderation item labeled "clueless"
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That presumes that MS is smarter than it has demonstrated via it's spokesmen.
The slashdotters, while often religiously fanatic and stubborn, are also notoriously independent.
I am sure that you could do an ultimate lightbulb joke about Slash.
(How many Slashdotters does it take to change a light bulb?)(Insert List answer here)
Where the canonical answer for Microsoft is that "Bill declares Dark the Standard".
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The operating system kernel (Linux) is the largest single component, at over 2.4 million lines of code (mostly in C); that compares to 1.5 million lines of code in Red Hat 6.2. Over 1,400,000 lines (57% of the Linux kernel) are in the ``drivers'' subdirectory, thus, the primary reason the kernel is so large is that it supports so many different kinds of peripherals. No other subdirectory comes close to this size - the second largest is the ``arch'' directory (at over 446,000 SLOC, 18% of the kernel), which contains the architecture-unique code for each CPU architecture.
Red Hat Linux 7.1 includes over 30 million physical source lines of code (SLOC), compared to well over 17 million SLOC in version 6.2 (which had been released about one year earlier). Using the COCOMO cost model, this system is estimated to have required about 8,000 person-years of development time (as compared to 4,500 person-years to develop version 6.2).
Had this Linux distribution been developed by conventional proprietary means, it would have cost over $1.08 billion (1,000 million) to develop in the U.S. (in year 2000 dollars). Compare this to the $600 million estimate for version 6.2. Thus, Red Hat Linux 7.1 represents over a 60% increase in size, effort, and traditional development costs over Red Hat Linux 6.2. This is quite extraordinary, since this represents approximately one year.
This is interesting, since it makes the Linux effort competitive with Microsoft in hours and bucks alone. (note that the IBM contribution is not included here, and is likely spread over several years (?))
Now as far as the Talent goes ...
;-)
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As seen here:
http://www.robotech.com/news/viewarticle.php?id=27
The DVD's can be picked up at most major video stores around the US. They can also be bought online at many major shopping sites, at a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $14.98 or less for the individual DVD's, and $44.95 or less for the box sets.
Looks like you spotted the prices for different set:
Super Dimension Fortress: Macross - Complete Box Set This special Macross DVD box set includes the 36-episode Macross series in its original Japanese form, uncut and with remastered footage. In addition, fans who sign up for the preorder list now will enjoy a hefty discount of $110 off the retail price! IMPORTANT NOTE: This is the Japanese Macross series, not the Macross Saga of Robotech.
Don't Panic Yet!
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Which is plain silly.
what the student should have done was donate the money to the arch foe of the tobacco company. Say a public action group, or something.
How many people here would take a grant from Microsoft, and donate it to the EFF, or what ever?
What a minute ...
never mind ...
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The GPL, he continued, "breaks that cycle--that is, it makes it impossible for a commercial company to use any of that work or build on any of that work."
This, taken to the logical end, would make the success of Redhat impossible. All this means is that there is a subtle bug in his logic.
which is somehow appropriate.
It is my view that the MS proprietary accomplishes the exact thing that Gates accuses the GPL of. It makes it impossible for a commercial company to use any of that work or build on any of that work, except with the permission of Microsoft.
Redhat obviously does not have this as an issue, as they are continuing to grow nicely.
Congratulations, Redhat!
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As much as I dislike this, I can see it as a business plan, to drive traffic to his "sucks" themed websites.
This must annoy the big players no end, so he gets bonus brownie points just for that.
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In part (it is a long and thoughtful read):
In the story, a couple of consultants/network guys wound up in a shelter because they lost their jobs and couldn't pay their bills. One had a 100K a year job, the other a steady 60K consulting gig. These men caught the fear and it has swept them into the gutter. Is the idea of being young and homeless scary? Sure. But here are some factors people have to consider before embracing the fear. Why? Because the fear is a powerful thing. Once it has a hold of you, it owns you. You can't think, can't do anything but absorb the fear and let it control you. Why is the fear spreading so fast, based on ONE article? Because it could be anyone. It was as if everyone now had permission to be scared about their future and all of a sudden, all that liberterian thought they had sucked down was not working. The possibility of poverty, or a quick trip back to 1992 was not what they expected after the boom. And the fact that it's here scares people to the core. There's no work, there doesn't look like there's going to be any work, and people don't see a market for their skills. No more trips to Europe, no more unlimited futures, no more foosball in the office. No more office. But let's look at the circumstances of that article more closely: "
And it goes on.
a pretty good look at the psychology behind why the story struck a raw nerve in folks
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"Give us your wretched, your tired, your huddled geeks yearning to surf free"
Brings a tear to the eye
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As a general site, I recommend Netslaves. They have a large number of articles by a number of talented writers, and so it is hard to recommend just one.
There is The Last Time I Ate Neuchatel By Heedless Housman; and many other similar observational pieces.
But the one I actually recommend is the "How To read a 10q" series of articles kicking apart the hard core financials of places like Juno, Salon, Razorfish, Yahoo, and many others. The explanation The Media, Money, and You by Steve Gilliard also should be included with it, as it explains what the series is about. The whole package is really worth looking at.
There is a menu box on the right side devoted just to this series, complete with the intro, etc. Definitely worth putting in for something.
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Very true, although you could have one of those guys who is (likely) a rocket scientist or a heart surgeon, along with being a expert classical musician (violin and piano), who then decided to have a computerized research center running the proverbial Beowulf cluster in an "out" building separate from the main house.
Sort of a modern day Doctor Frankenstein, I guess.
;-)
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An example in point is the Darwin Awards. There is the Original Darwin Awards, done by a college student. This is the one that got the original fame. Then there is the copy cat Darwin Awards site who was better financed, and grabbed the URL first. So the college student sort of got plowed under.
Guess where my sympathy lies.
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