Unless I am mistaken Salon, like most websites trying to make some money, is having financial problems.
They changed to a registration/fee based model, but allowed 1 day passes for whatever reason.
Nothing can hurt them more than being slashdotted by a bunch of people using a day pass.
someone has already copied the contents of the article into a comment which is good because it saves them bandwidth, but... without their permission isn't that plagiarism?
This is why things like the DMCA and DRM come about - people thoughtlessly violating other people's copyrights/etc, and/or taking their services for granted.
I'm no better than anyone else, I do the same thing.
I guess my point is: either support the people who provide services you enjoy (music, video, news, web content, porn, whatever), or quit complaining when they finally start defending themselves.
So 2 million high school&college kids/temp workers with no invested education for their job are out of work. They can go work anywhere else that doesn't require training.
Now how about the IT industry planning to fire 8% of it's US work force and move 3.3 million jobs to India and other Asian countries?
We need to sue/pass legislature/whatever to secure our jobs, damnit!
From the article: "Our aim here is not cost-driven," he said. "It's to build a 24/7 follow-the-sun model for development and support. When a software engineer goes to bed at night in the U.S., his or her colleague in India picks up development when they get into work. They're able to continually develop products."
If they actually think this will work, they're destined for failure anyway. A classic case of "If one programmer can do it in 2 month, then 2 should be able to do it in 1 month, right?"
So much time and money will be lost because: -language barriers -communication hangups (so I'm sharing this problem with Habeeb in India. I don't understand what he checked in lastnight... how am I supposed to ask him about it?) -All the other problems around having multiple people working on one thing.
From the article:...the company's executives were particularly worried that the trend could spur unionization efforts.
Why aren't we unionized? What are the actual benefits, downsides, and what does it take to get there?
This is obviously the beginning of a downward spiral, so I say we should act now while we have a chance.
This is part of a larger problem in which everyone looks out for #1. If we would only concider our actions on the scope of our community (speaking nationally), things might be different... from copyright laws to workforce management.
Your idea seems good, but must be executed carefully in order to succeed.
Essentially, you want to "vote with your wallet". In other words, don't buy a product that was produced overseas.
Conversely, you must support local business. If you boycot everyone, it will be like the early 1930's again. The Great Depression held for so long because no one was willing to spend any money, they just hoarded what little they had.
Ah... So it's not wrong for Walmart to sell everything at a loss, just to drive the Mom-'n-Pop local shops out of business?
I'm sure if you ask the people who used to own their own local business (but now greet people at Walmart's doors) if that tactic is evil, I think they'd say yes.
was one that looked just like an AOL instant messenger window. It was an animated gif and the "content" of the ad was delivered as messages being sent to me. Being signed on and talking to a few people at the time, it almost had me.
Oh, and other things that suck: flash ads that float around the page ads that make noise windows that turn off the windowing frame (no close button, etc). windows that appear off screen
This isn't the place to ask, but parts of the Bible like this really confuse me. If the author(s) want people to believe God is all knowing and all powerful, they should take out the scenes where a mere mortal can sway His decision like this. A true omnipotent being would know how many sinners there were, what their sins were, where they were, what Abraham was thinking, what he was going to say, blah blah blah. Hell, He'd know I was going to type this right now, all the way back then.
I really hope you are aware that an ipod has an internal hard drive. hard drives offer much more storage space, but are way way way slower.
Flash memory is usually what is included in smaller mp3 players (in the 32mb-256mb range for example) and also in these hand helds. Flash ram has advantage of keeping what it was storing, even when power is turned off.
PC's use another kind of ram, which is fast, is cheaper than flash memory (thus you can afford more), but loses its contents when power is disconnected.
Just because they share the same unit (byte), doesn't mean they're the same thing.
It seems to me that rather than create a secure system for holding this crucial data, they went first for security via obscurity ("who would ever figure out to just read the smartcard??") to security via legal action ("They own a smartcard reader? sue the fuckers.")
Isn't this the same company that decided to sue someone for all "possible" damages (damages that would have occured if they had sold all their units)?
I read through the responses to your question(s) and it seems this pretty much sums it up (+/- a few things).
- Netscape/Mozilla (N/M) has tabbed browsing - N/M works on all used platforms - N/M Blocks popups - N/M has mouse gestures (though I haven't gotten them to work). - Group bookmarks
Here's what Opera (7) has: - multiple windows inside parent window (aka, tabbed browsing) - mouse gestures (that work right away) - zooming in/out - I HATE the tiny fixed size fonts used these days. -Sessions (save where you left off, save group of windows, etc... sounds a lot like group bookmarks) -Opera blocks popups - either all, none, or only non-requested ones -Opera works on atleast Linux & Windows, and I think Mac, and maybe other *nix. (Though if you buy it, you need a separate license for each OS, which is BS if you ask me).
Now, I know N/M is free (in both ways), and opera isn't. But to me, it's worth putting up with an ad in opera, vs the slowness of N/M.
IE is still my primary browser though, I juse use opera for specialize needs.
While your comment is accurate, it is also slightly misdirected, I'd say.
It is true that analysis jobs and administrative jobs will remain local (because an expertise in the local industry is required), which just means CEO's and the like will keep their super-huge-salary jobs.
However, those jobs are not (in my mind) "tech" jobs, they are business/administrative/analysis/etc jobs.
"Tech" jobs usually have to do with programming. Java code is Java code, whether written by an african worker, or by an american worker. A circuit board designed by an American functions identically to a board designed by an Asian, etc.
You don't see administrators here on/. (or anywhere) complaining about jobs disappearing, you see the tech workers.
Su does not "maintain state" like the XP/OSX fast user switching features does. If I log in as user1, then user2 wants to finish some old work, I do not do "su user2" and have it resume where he last left off.
I worked tech support for an ISP for several years a while ago, and when products like ZoneAlarm started making their way around it was no help.
Even other tech support people came to me everytime a port was scanned, or anything showed up on it. Then those tech support people recommended it to their callers, and the problem got worse.
Of course, 99.9999% of these scans/hits/etc were not attacks and were just routine net traffic. The personal firewalls just builds paranoia of something they don't understand.
I know, I know... I'll probably get modded Troll for this. Oh well. I do agree with the points you made though.
- Anything you tried to create and sell with your pen would instantly be copied by the rest of the pen community and redistributed without any credit towards you
- Every 3 years a new pen would come out that was somehow better, and even though the previous pens still did their job, everyone feels the need to buy the new pen. Of course, the old one will still be available for 1/2 the price... but who would want it?
For the same reason they charge you to talk on the local phone network, or to check your free hotmail account on your web-enabled phone, or.
The content will remain free (and probably even bring revenue, you're right), but the service used to access that content will still cost an arm and a leg.
Actually, 10G's is just enough to make a human pass out.
This is measured not as a sudden impact, but as a multiple of gravity. IE: when you're in a plane and they pull up sharp, you experience maybe 2x gravity.
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Where is that quote from? I couldn't find it in the links...
First they come up with the rediculous idea to copyright a business model (imagine having to pay a royalty for having a Point of Sales in your shop)...
then they tried to copyright laws??? Give me a break.
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Unless I am mistaken Salon, like most websites trying to make some money, is having financial problems.
... without their permission isn't that plagiarism?
They changed to a registration/fee based model, but allowed 1 day passes for whatever reason.
Nothing can hurt them more than being slashdotted by a bunch of people using a day pass.
someone has already copied the contents of the article into a comment which is good because it saves them bandwidth, but
This is why things like the DMCA and DRM come about - people thoughtlessly violating other people's copyrights/etc, and/or taking their services for granted.
I'm no better than anyone else, I do the same thing.
I guess my point is: either support the people who provide services you enjoy (music, video, news, web content, porn, whatever), or quit complaining when they finally start defending themselves.
So 2 million high school&college kids/temp workers with no invested education for their job are out of work. They can go work anywhere else that doesn't require training.
Now how about the IT industry planning to fire 8% of it's US work force and move 3.3 million jobs to India and other Asian countries?
We need to sue/pass legislature/whatever to secure our jobs, damnit!
From the article:
"Our aim here is not cost-driven," he said. "It's to build a 24/7 follow-the-sun model for development and support. When a software engineer goes to bed at night in the U.S., his or her colleague in India picks up development when they get into work. They're able to continually develop products."
If they actually think this will work, they're destined for failure anyway. A classic case of "If one programmer can do it in 2 month, then 2 should be able to do it in 1 month, right?"
So much time and money will be lost because:
-language barriers
-communication hangups (so I'm sharing this problem with Habeeb in India. I don't understand what he checked in lastnight... how am I supposed to ask him about it?)
-All the other problems around having multiple people working on one thing.
From the article: ...the company's executives were particularly worried that the trend could spur unionization efforts.
Why aren't we unionized? What are the actual benefits, downsides, and what does it take to get there?
This is obviously the beginning of a downward spiral, so I say we should act now while we have a chance.
This is part of a larger problem in which everyone looks out for #1. If we would only concider our actions on the scope of our community (speaking nationally), things might be different... from copyright laws to workforce management.
Your idea seems good, but must be executed carefully in order to succeed.
Essentially, you want to "vote with your wallet". In other words, don't buy a product that was produced overseas.
Conversely, you must support local business. If you boycot everyone, it will be like the early 1930's again. The Great Depression held for so long because no one was willing to spend any money, they just hoarded what little they had.
Ah...
So it's not wrong for Walmart to sell everything at a loss, just to drive the Mom-'n-Pop local shops out of business?
I'm sure if you ask the people who used to own their own local business (but now greet people at Walmart's doors) if that tactic is evil, I think they'd say yes.
I really need to learn to proof read :) it's a good thing I'm not a boo(k) author!
I always find it annoying when reading a paper boo when I can't Ctrl-F to find a certain segment.
Now I can just hop online to amazon, do the search, it will tell me what page it's on, and I can go read it!
was one that looked just like an AOL instant messenger window. It was an animated gif and the "content" of the ad was delivered as messages being sent to me.
Being signed on and talking to a few people at the time, it almost had me.
Oh, and other things that suck:
flash ads that float around the page
ads that make noise
windows that turn off the windowing frame (no close button, etc).
windows that appear off screen
All those added together = 95.17%
Ah, but if it were running on a 3G phone it would have all the bandwidth it needed!
It must be on an older 2 or 2.5G phone.
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This isn't the place to ask, but parts of the Bible like this really confuse me. If the author(s) want people to believe God is all knowing and all powerful, they should take out the scenes where a mere mortal can sway His decision like this. A true omnipotent being would know how many sinners there were, what their sins were, where they were, what Abraham was thinking, what he was going to say, blah blah blah. Hell, He'd know I was going to type this right now, all the way back then.
Disclaimer: I classify myself as agnostic/deist
So, umm, at what point was the RIAA granted the title of "God"?
When they were given the power to "destroy"
I really hope you are aware that an ipod has an internal hard drive. hard drives offer much more storage space, but are way way way slower.
Flash memory is usually what is included in smaller mp3 players (in the 32mb-256mb range for example) and also in these hand helds. Flash ram has advantage of keeping what it was storing, even when power is turned off.
PC's use another kind of ram, which is fast, is cheaper than flash memory (thus you can afford more), but loses its contents when power is disconnected.
Just because they share the same unit (byte), doesn't mean they're the same thing.
It seems to me that rather than create a secure system for holding this crucial data, they went first for security via obscurity ("who would ever figure out to just read the smartcard??") to security via legal action ("They own a smartcard reader? sue the fuckers.")
Isn't this the same company that decided to sue someone for all "possible" damages (damages that would have occured if they had sold all their units)?
I read through the responses to your question(s) and it seems this pretty much sums it up (+/- a few things).
- Netscape/Mozilla (N/M) has tabbed browsing
- N/M works on all used platforms
- N/M Blocks popups
- N/M has mouse gestures (though I haven't gotten them to work).
- Group bookmarks
Here's what Opera (7) has:
- multiple windows inside parent window (aka, tabbed browsing)
- mouse gestures (that work right away)
- zooming in/out - I HATE the tiny fixed size fonts used these days.
-Sessions (save where you left off, save group of windows, etc... sounds a lot like group bookmarks)
-Opera blocks popups - either all, none, or only non-requested ones
-Opera works on atleast Linux & Windows, and I think Mac, and maybe other *nix. (Though if you buy it, you need a separate license for each OS, which is BS if you ask me).
Now, I know N/M is free (in both ways), and opera isn't. But to me, it's worth putting up with an ad in opera, vs the slowness of N/M.
IE is still my primary browser though, I juse use opera for specialize needs.
Why did he wait so long to announce this?
Also, so what? OJ Simpson said "I didn't kill them", and any accused person would claim innocense (I know Linus wasn't directly accused, shut up.)
Go ahead, mod me down for not cheering on the great Torvalds.
While your comment is accurate, it is also slightly misdirected, I'd say.
/. (or anywhere) complaining about jobs disappearing, you see the tech workers.
It is true that analysis jobs and administrative jobs will remain local (because an expertise in the local industry is required), which just means CEO's and the like will keep their super-huge-salary jobs.
However, those jobs are not (in my mind) "tech" jobs, they are business/administrative/analysis/etc jobs.
"Tech" jobs usually have to do with programming. Java code is Java code, whether written by an african worker, or by an american worker. A circuit board designed by an American functions identically to a board designed by an Asian, etc.
You don't see administrators here on
That sounds pretty Apples vs. Apples to me.
Su does not "maintain state" like the XP/OSX fast user switching features does. If I log in as user1, then user2 wants to finish some old work, I do not do "su user2" and have it resume where he last left off.
I worked tech support for an ISP for several years a while ago, and when products like ZoneAlarm started making their way around it was no help.
Even other tech support people came to me everytime a port was scanned, or anything showed up on it. Then those tech support people recommended it to their callers, and the problem got worse.
Of course, 99.9999% of these scans/hits/etc were not attacks and were just routine net traffic. The personal firewalls just builds paranoia of something they don't understand.
I know, I know... I'll probably get modded Troll for this. Oh well. I do agree with the points you made though.
- Anything you tried to create and sell with your pen would instantly be copied by the rest of the pen community and redistributed without any credit towards you
- Every 3 years a new pen would come out that was somehow better, and even though the previous pens still did their job, everyone feels the need to buy the new pen. Of course, the old one will still be available for 1/2 the price... but who would want it?
For the same reason they charge you to talk on the local phone network, or to check your free hotmail account on your web-enabled phone, or .
The content will remain free (and probably even bring revenue, you're right), but the service used to access that content will still cost an arm and a leg.
Actually, 10G's is just enough to make a human pass out.
This is measured not as a sudden impact, but as a multiple of gravity. IE: when you're in a plane and they pull up sharp, you experience maybe 2x gravity.
Where is that quote from? I couldn't find it in the links...
First they come up with the rediculous idea to copyright a business model (imagine having to pay a royalty for having a Point of Sales in your shop)...
then they tried to copyright laws??? Give me a break.