Okay, so here's another semi-dupe story. After all the flames, I have an idea on how these can be handled, since they happen A LOT.
Simply create a new section, "Duplicates," like "Ask Slashdot (I Can't Find Google)" or "BSD (Is Not Dying)." Then if the article is found to be duplicate, an editor can simply move it to this section. Users who don't like duplicates can then exclude this section from their homepage.
is IRS tax fraud. They are calling themselves a religion to justify their bilking of membes out of thousands by selling worthless services, and not paying taxes on what they sell. Religious and non-religious people alike can object to this.
Sometimes when I read/. I wonder if anyone has paid any attention to the PC industry over the last 20 years. This is absolutely true and must be emphasized.
I know what the killer app for Linux as a server is (Apache, with high reliability and scalability at low cost) but what's the killer app for Linux on the desktop? GIMP and StarOffice, clones of leading products, don't qualify. What desktop application can I run best on Linux? Someone needs to come up with an answer here that everyone agrees to.
If it weren't for iTunes/iPod, I might say MP3. (Or Ogg, for the cantankerous.) But Mac supports that with no DRM bullshit. What else?
Or maybe The Linux Journal needs to call for Tech Support.
A classic case for a public-service website.
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Adcritic, Slashdot, Body Modification Ezine: sites that provide a valuable service to readers and fans of a whole industry, and yet can't pay the bills. How to make it add up?
Of course they could go the Salon route, and introduce "AdCritic PREMIUM!" with larger vid feeds for a few bux. Or they could hire a laid-off pr0n editor and introduce pay-per-view. But there's got to be a better way, one that rightfully assigns the cost of serving the ads on the advertisers themselves, who surely want people to see the ads.
Here's the answer: a mandatory annual levy on the advertising industry to support AdCritic. It's commonly used in agriculture, to support those "It's the Cheese" and "Got Milk?" ads; and courts have ruled that it's legal.
This is the right solution for so many reasons. Advertisers pay for a service they benefit from; advertisers, buyers, and consumers get their ads in full-motion QuickTime, Windows Media, or Divx; and people see the ads and buy more stuff! Everyone wins.
is "internal consistency" something that people really look for in an OS?
Yes. For a desktop OS, when you are "deploying" 1000s of laptops to salespeople and adminstrative assistants, it damn well better be "internally consistent" to make training possible (surprising as it is to me, many, many people need training to use a PC) and to keep help desk costs under control.
To burn a data CD, you drag the volume toward the Trash.
When will they ever learn? Don't those numbnuts at Apple know that this is the #1 most annoying and stupid thing about the OS, and has been since - oh, I dunno, 1987?
Are you sure about *BSD? Even OpenBSD leader Theo admits that, since it continues to lose market share, there isn't as much admin talent as there used to be, and it's generally limited to hobbyists, dabblers, and dilettantes. But I may be wrong.
Well, presumably gas won't have run out by the time it's expensive enough to make solar (or this cockamamie moon idea) cost-effective. Why not keep the gas plants around, and when voltage from the solar collectors dips, turn up the heat?
These are the key words in the document, which I found Interesting, Informative, and even Insightful. For fun! They're not trying to cut M$' marketshare; they're not trying to show up StarOffice; they're not trying to build the Next Big Thing and retire gazillionaires; they're just building it because they want a nice, free word processor.
All y'all who are complaining that this means they're not commercial-grade, etc.: You're right! But it doesn't matter! These guys don't care about that, and they don't need to, because they're spending their own time on it. Use it if you like, don't if you don't, life goes on either way.
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Didn't Coca-Cola invent Santa Claus as we know him?
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Maybe they could be convinced to run some? The ACLU runs them all the time, both getting them members and PR.
Where will you get the $millions to run hit TV ads? I love the concept ("Ernest Hollings wants to take away YOUR freedom") but where are the bux?
You're right. Ebooks failed, nobody uses ATRAC or SDMI, yet project Gutenberg and MP3 are doing just fine. No reason to panic.
It is, that's correct. However, this case is in Holland, and the DMCA is a US law, so your comment isn't as relevant as you think.
Simply create a new section, "Duplicates," like "Ask Slashdot (I Can't Find Google)" or "BSD (Is Not Dying)." Then if the article is found to be duplicate, an editor can simply move it to this section. Users who don't like duplicates can then exclude this section from their homepage.
is IRS tax fraud. They are calling themselves a religion to justify their bilking of membes out of thousands by selling worthless services, and not paying taxes on what they sell. Religious and non-religious people alike can object to this.
However, they were successful in making Building 15 vanish.
Sony is a member of both MPAA and RIAA, and Microsoft and Nintendo are not.
water is as wasy to deliver as software, you have never toured Hetch Hetchy.
I know what the killer app for Linux as a server is (Apache, with high reliability and scalability at low cost) but what's the killer app for Linux on the desktop? GIMP and StarOffice, clones of leading products, don't qualify. What desktop application can I run best on Linux? Someone needs to come up with an answer here that everyone agrees to.
If it weren't for iTunes/iPod, I might say MP3. (Or Ogg, for the cantankerous.) But Mac supports that with no DRM bullshit. What else?
Don't more than half the students take SAT prep courses these days? "Oxymoron" is the classic SAT word.
Or maybe The Linux Journal needs to call for Tech Support.
Of course they could go the Salon route, and introduce "AdCritic PREMIUM!" with larger vid feeds for a few bux. Or they could hire a laid-off pr0n editor and introduce pay-per-view. But there's got to be a better way, one that rightfully assigns the cost of serving the ads on the advertisers themselves, who surely want people to see the ads.
Here's the answer: a mandatory annual levy on the advertising industry to support AdCritic. It's commonly used in agriculture, to support those "It's the Cheese" and "Got Milk?" ads; and courts have ruled that it's legal.
This is the right solution for so many reasons. Advertisers pay for a service they benefit from; advertisers, buyers, and consumers get their ads in full-motion QuickTime, Windows Media, or Divx; and people see the ads and buy more stuff! Everyone wins.
Since I play all my CDs on my Powerbook, no more Universal CDs for me either. Oh fucking well!
now we can fleece the Canadian taxpayers for this mega-boondoggle.
Yes. For a desktop OS, when you are "deploying" 1000s of laptops to salespeople and adminstrative assistants, it damn well better be "internally consistent" to make training possible (surprising as it is to me, many, many people need training to use a PC) and to keep help desk costs under control.
When will they ever learn? Don't those numbnuts at Apple know that this is the #1 most annoying and stupid thing about the OS, and has been since - oh, I dunno, 1987?
Are you sure about *BSD? Even OpenBSD leader Theo admits that, since it continues to lose market share, there isn't as much admin talent as there used to be, and it's generally limited to hobbyists, dabblers, and dilettantes. But I may be wrong.
Why isn't this in Your Rights Online then?!
Well, presumably gas won't have run out by the time it's expensive enough to make solar (or this cockamamie moon idea) cost-effective. Why not keep the gas plants around, and when voltage from the solar collectors dips, turn up the heat?
I wondered if he was related. BTW Pres. Obasanjo seems like the best thing for Nigeria in a very long time.
All y'all who are complaining that this means they're not commercial-grade, etc.: You're right! But it doesn't matter! These guys don't care about that, and they don't need to, because they're spending their own time on it. Use it if you like, don't if you don't, life goes on either way.
Convergence often doesn't work. But I guess engineers/marketers have to try every possible A+B combination to see which do...