You got to get to the point, I'd think, where people are actually thinking about doing this, and *then* hit them with the "gotcha".
I thought that too; but think about it.
How far can they go? Can they have people type in their credit card number and hit submit? They'd have people calling up the SEC and screaming that they just got scammed, and the website told them so. Not joking.
Also, if people feel stupid, they get pissed off. This way, people can say that THEY would NEVER have really fallen for it...
>This is something that, alas, computer and
>software companies still haven't learned.
Gateway and Dell is a pretty big difference from Amazon, LL Bean, and pet food. People buy media, books, food, clothes on a monthly basis.
I mean, do you think Dell should send emails saying, "As someone who bought a hard drive in the recent past, you might be interested in our hard drive specials this week!"
Different businesses, different marketing. Then again, you didn't have to think about it because you're Jon Katz, and its been demonstrated that your articles don't have to make sense.
They only send me stuff I would want to see, I get it no more than maybe 1-2 times a week, and it often includes a $5 off coupon or something.
Most of my bad spam is for absolute random crap or porn, with the same old line on the bottom informing me that the reason I'm being informed about all these Internet Cum Sluts is because I specificly requested to be spamed on their site or one of their partner's sites.
Plus, the latest thing is dating the message 3-4 days back, so you have to scroll back on your inbox to read/erase the spam. It stops the instant deletes by hiding it.
But the job of a reporter is to report. Reuters did not make an extraordinary claim. The hoaxter did.
If I claimed I could fly using the power of my brain, and demonstrated it by jumping off a ladder and saying that I had fallen slower than I was supposed to, and it made the NEWS, could you blame the news organization then?
I've read "Lets hope they get bought" by a bunch of people.
Why the hell would anyone buy them? Loki's only assets are a bunch of old Linux ports which clearly aren't selling well enough to keep them in business.
Do you all think that AOL is some special company who buys anything that competes w/ Microsoft just because they bought netscape?
Because if I sent an email saying "I think President Bush is doing a bad job." to someone, the secret police are going to bust in and put me in a labor camp.
Or better yet for them, they make digital music a service like cable.
$9.99 for popular hits
+$8.99 for the deluxe service that includes more music.
+$6.99 ea for the "country" package, the "rock" package, etc.
Make it $30/month for access to every song ever written. When you take out the overhead of making CDs, etc, thats getting the same cash from people as 4-5CDs? I sure as hell don't buy 4-5CDs a month.
Europa, on the other hand, has everything life needs to flourish. Water- most likely in a huge ocean under the surface ice, and energy- mainly geothermic energy produced by the mammoth gravitational force exerted by jupiter (the same ones that make io the most volcanicly active body in the solar system), as well as a phenominal amount of magnetic flux produced by hydrogens metalic core.
Ummm, yeah. All its missing is not-being-above negative 200 degrees, and the whole wildly fluctuating temperatures of being a moon. So, if a giant fetus shows up and blows up Jupiter, i'm sure he'll be grateful we didn't put spores on Europa.
The spin will be, that the failure of Napster is due to digital music not being accepted by the public in this form, as its only use is to pirate music.
They aren't going to benefit from copy protection, so they'll circumvent it with another device you'll have to buy. This is just another way to make money.
I mean, sure, buy a Philips Tivo instead of a Sony one, but its not like they're the avenging angel of fair use.
RMS forwards a suggestion from a Mr. Bob Chassell that a way to get people to stop sending you MS-Word attachments would be to reply with:
I am puzzled. Why did you choose to send me 876,377 bytes in your recent message when the content is only 27,133 bytes?
My response to that would be:
Fuck you, you arrogant prick.
Thats a 29 byte message for you. Nice and concise.
Thanks, RMS. I think that sending a message with data to seven significant digits to convince people to change formats will really help the perception of the open source movement.
If there is a bug in the library they call which causes an obscure crash or the user changes the library to an unstable version, you can hardly blame the app developer.
Agreed. In the case of Word, you don't know whether its the developers of Word or the developers of the Windows libraries that are at fault.
Oh wait.
There are a LOT of Ground Troops.
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Haven't you heard of the Northern Alliance? I mean, you seem to have been aware of the media/etc questioning the government on how the war would need ground troops. Did you ever hear the responses? We provide the "drones", the Northern Alliance provides the ground support.
My karma is always 48, because whenever I hit the cap, I flame Katz.
There is never a reason to do that, unless your reason for leaving is so great, (You got punched by your boss, etc), you plan on calling the police or a lawyer when you get home.
I left a job that I really didn't like because I was getting very boring work to do. I found another position, and when I left the company, I explained why I was leaving, gave notice, and left two weeks later.
After 2-3 weeks on my new job, I realized that I had made a mistake. What I considered boring at my last job was nothing compared to this new place.
I was able to call back my own employer, and because I had left on good terms with everyone, and had done a good job when I was there, I was able to get my old job/seniority/etc back, and was actually given more interesting work to do than before.;)
BTW: I'd guess this guy's problem is that some overzealous previous manager was overpaying him for what a 19 year old can do in the company. I don't know about IT, but in the programming world, the sharpest programmer in the company isn't going to be a good employee if he can't interact w/ customers, people, etc to come up with a good project plan. You might be a whiz when you're working on the machines, but maybe you're coming off as annoying and incompetent when you get into a planning meeting.
Lean to do math, it will help you out a lot later on in life. Especially in the CS field.
Starting Salary: 25k
After year 1 50% raise: 37.5k
After year 2 50% raise: 56.25k
After year 3 50% raise: 84.375k
After year 4 50% raise: 126.56k
After year 5 50% raise: 189.84k
Wow, 50% for 5 years. Well, lets say you started out at a very entry level salary (25k/year) 5 years ago. that means you're making well over $200k now.
If you started out a normal starting rate, it means you're making almost 300k/year.
Anybody out there in the real world care to comment how likely that a 24 year old w/ no CS degree is taking home 150/hour as a consulting rate nowadays? Now you want a CS degree in one year? I think./ got trolled.
We tested Gainward's new GF2 Ti bearing the confusing Ti500 moniker, as well as the GeForce 3 Ti500 board carrying the equally inaccurate name Ti550 TV. Obviously, Gainward is trying to create an impression of technological superiority for its products. Nonetheless, these cards carry the same NVIDIA chips as the competition and not some newer version, as the name might imply to less informed buyers.
Technological superiority? Try fraud. They name their boards the "Ti500" when it has the regular Ti, and NOT the Ti500 chip, then call their Ti500 board the "Ti550". If I was reviewing that, I'd certainly point that out a little more plainly than as a "technological superiority" attempt.
This patent was filed January 8, 1999, so this is kind of old news, but hey, I'm always up for bashing MS...
Its also not unexpected. Microsoft wants to make their OS the only one that can read digital media. Then they can convince companies to only release media in MS format. Then maybe, as a bonus, they can get Linux declared illegal as a circumvention device!
As a business user, I'd be sore pressed to consider anything but Commercial software after reading this.
Word charges $339 per copy of Word 2002.
If 12 people work on it, that means that if only 3000 copies of AbiWord were sold for the same price as Word, all 12 of those programmers would be able to work full time on it with very comfortable salaries.
Kind of makes you think about the price of software.
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I thought that too; but think about it.
How far can they go? Can they have people type in their credit card number and hit submit? They'd have people calling up the SEC and screaming that they just got scammed, and the website told them so. Not joking.
Also, if people feel stupid, they get pissed off. This way, people can say that THEY would NEVER have really fallen for it...
So I can start using more drugs.
>This is something that, alas, computer and
>software companies still haven't learned.
Gateway and Dell is a pretty big difference from Amazon, LL Bean, and pet food. People buy media, books, food, clothes on a monthly basis.
I mean, do you think Dell should send emails saying, "As someone who bought a hard drive in the recent past, you might be interested in our hard drive specials this week!"
Different businesses, different marketing. Then again, you didn't have to think about it because you're Jon Katz, and its been demonstrated that your articles don't have to make sense.
They only send me stuff I would want to see, I get it no more than maybe 1-2 times a week, and it often includes a $5 off coupon or something.
Most of my bad spam is for absolute random crap or porn, with the same old line on the bottom informing me that the reason I'm being informed about all these Internet Cum Sluts is because I specificly requested to be spamed on their site or one of their partner's sites.
Plus, the latest thing is dating the message 3-4 days back, so you have to scroll back on your inbox to read/erase the spam. It stops the instant deletes by hiding it.
If I claimed I could fly using the power of my brain, and demonstrated it by jumping off a ladder and saying that I had fallen slower than I was supposed to, and it made the NEWS, could you blame the news organization then?
I've read "Lets hope they get bought" by a bunch of people.
Why the hell would anyone buy them? Loki's only assets are a bunch of old Linux ports which clearly aren't selling well enough to keep them in business.
Do you all think that AOL is some special company who buys anything that competes w/ Microsoft just because they bought netscape?
Because if I sent an email saying "I think President Bush is doing a bad job." to someone, the secret police are going to bust in and put me in a labor camp.
I hate Katz. That pompass ass. I wish I went to high school with him so I could have helped kick his ass everyday.
I logged on, glaced at the front page, saw the phrase "civil transnationalism", and knew that Katz had struck again.
At least this is just a book review, and not original writing.
My Karma is always 48, because whenever I hit 50, I express my feelings for Jon Katz.
Or better yet for them, they make digital music a service like cable.
$9.99 for popular hits
+$8.99 for the deluxe service that includes more music.
+$6.99 ea for the "country" package, the "rock" package, etc.
Make it $30/month for access to every song ever written. When you take out the overhead of making CDs, etc, thats getting the same cash from people as 4-5CDs? I sure as hell don't buy 4-5CDs a month.
Ummm, yeah. All its missing is not-being-above negative 200 degrees, and the whole wildly fluctuating temperatures of being a moon. So, if a giant fetus shows up and blows up Jupiter, i'm sure he'll be grateful we didn't put spores on Europa.
The spin will be, that the failure of Napster is due to digital music not being accepted by the public in this form, as its only use is to pirate music.
Yeah, its not like Tammy and her "barely 18" horny friends are going to be intimidated by potential castration.
Once again, ./ hasn't thought the problem through.
I mean, sure, buy a Philips Tivo instead of a Sony one, but its not like they're the avenging angel of fair use.
Wow, you're going to get 32767 responses to this.
1. #vi /etc/apt/sources.list
2. Change all instances of "stable" or "potato" to "woody".
3. #apt-get dist-upgrade
(4.) #apt-get -f install ;apt-get dist-upgrade --yes , until it all works.
I am puzzled. Why did you choose to send me 876,377 bytes in your recent message when the content is only 27,133 bytes?
My response to that would be:
Fuck you, you arrogant prick.
Thats a 29 byte message for you. Nice and concise.
Thanks, RMS. I think that sending a message with data to seven significant digits to convince people to change formats will really help the perception of the open source movement.
Agreed. In the case of Word, you don't know whether its the developers of Word or the developers of the Windows libraries that are at fault.
Oh wait.
My karma is always 48, because whenever I hit the cap, I flame Katz.
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There is never a reason to do that, unless your reason for leaving is so great, (You got punched by your boss, etc), you plan on calling the police or a lawyer when you get home.
I left a job that I really didn't like because I was getting very boring work to do. I found another position, and when I left the company, I explained why I was leaving, gave notice, and left two weeks later.
After 2-3 weeks on my new job, I realized that I had made a mistake. What I considered boring at my last job was nothing compared to this new place.
I was able to call back my own employer, and because I had left on good terms with everyone, and had done a good job when I was there, I was able to get my old job/seniority/etc back, and was actually given more interesting work to do than before. ;)
BTW: I'd guess this guy's problem is that some overzealous previous manager was overpaying him for what a 19 year old can do in the company. I don't know about IT, but in the programming world, the sharpest programmer in the company isn't going to be a good employee if he can't interact w/ customers, people, etc to come up with a good project plan. You might be a whiz when you're working on the machines, but maybe you're coming off as annoying and incompetent when you get into a planning meeting.
Starting Salary: 25k
After year 1 50% raise: 37.5k
After year 2 50% raise: 56.25k
After year 3 50% raise: 84.375k
After year 4 50% raise: 126.56k
After year 5 50% raise: 189.84k
What math do I have to "learn"?
If you started out a normal starting rate, it means you're making almost 300k/year.
Anybody out there in the real world care to comment how likely that a 24 year old w/ no CS degree is taking home 150/hour as a consulting rate nowadays? Now you want a CS degree in one year? I think ./ got trolled.
Technological superiority? Try fraud. They name their boards the "Ti500" when it has the regular Ti, and NOT the Ti500 chip, then call their Ti500 board the "Ti550". If I was reviewing that, I'd certainly point that out a little more plainly than as a "technological superiority" attempt.
A golden humor opportunity thrown away.
Its also not unexpected. Microsoft wants to make their OS the only one that can read digital media. Then they can convince companies to only release media in MS format. Then maybe, as a bonus, they can get Linux declared illegal as a circumvention device!
Word charges $339 per copy of Word 2002.
If 12 people work on it, that means that if only 3000 copies of AbiWord were sold for the same price as Word, all 12 of those programmers would be able to work full time on it with very comfortable salaries.
Kind of makes you think about the price of software.