Come on, Slashdot Staff! You've got clout! Instead of posting an "Ask Slashdot" article (Which, most of the answers would be speculation anyway...), why not call up
Intervideo and ask them directly?
Or ask for an interview! Get one of the high-ranking officials on the horn, and field some questions! If you call them up, and they say "A representative from Slashdot is
on the phone", I doubt they'll blow you off. If they do, that adds fuel to our side of the argument. "They keep delaying the release, they pulled information from their
pages, and they refused an interview." That would say a lot right there.
It's not a sure thing. Plus how do you know that they *didn't* try to get one?
I'm sorry, but posting this as an "Ask Slashdot" piece seems like a lazy way out. We'd get no answers to the question that can be held as proof - merely speculation as
to what "Might have happened." (Unless an Interview Employee replies, but that's not very interactive/informative.)
I don't think it's that bad of an idea given lack of genuine information.
Well from what I gather from other posters supposedly with nanites you can create almost anything you want. One of the reasons that the British wanted colonies was for the economics and raw materials. So in a society that can create anything at all what would be the use of irritating a large mass of people who would just wish you harm?
A used VGA monitor will cost about $100-$200 around here. A new one will cost about $500 or so. That's a bit of change for me when I can get a whole new computer on pricewatch for about $300-$400 with an AMD chip and linux on it.
Not necesarily, clients always get a kick out of our 'hall of iMacs'. Many of our copywriters work in this one area that is sort of a hall with open offices along one side.
The desks face the hall and each one has a blueberry iMac on it which complements (to a degree) the decor. It looks quite good and very modern. The secretary's and
boss's graphite iMacs are, admittedly, even more impressive to the suits. We've also got some green ones and red ones, but we kind of hide 'em since they clash.
Funny enough, here in big orange country, not one person has asked for an orange one. No wonder Apple quit making it if even people in Tennessee weren't buying
'em.
Interior design and the computer industry are like oil and water they just don't mix.
The only people who are even working on any of it are the debian people and Stallman himself and I don't see too much work going on in that area. Persoanlly I would like to run something that could be modularized but I don't hold my breath. I would like to see extremely small memory footprint and apps redesigned to work with small memory systems ala QNX but free and with the apps I like for linux. But I doubt that will happen by 2003 anyway.
It's interesting when I started running linux they said that 8Mb of ram was good for console stuff and that 16 was adequate for X apps and the like. Now I routinely see apps that take 16+ for just *one* app. That is called bloat.
Is it really that bad? What are they running every single network daemon and quake on bootup? And why do you need to install 1.5 gigs of OS components?
I would think that having a virtual desktop would be better and in the long run cheaper since it has less mean time between failures than having 2 monitors would.
It may not be being used in industry as much anymore but last time I looked (last week) many of the utilities and tools not to mention many good pieces of open source software were composed of C or a derivitive I think that's progress. Contrast this with the lack of Java apps and you see which language is really working.
Where is the book that tells users how best to survive life under a BOFH? You know, with tips on how to protect your data, how to get the sysadmin to actually do
some work instead of goofing off surfing pr0n or playing games or reading users' email. We need a book tha...
My personal favorites would be "The Art of War" and some various good texts on covert survailing people without their knowledge. Also personally being able to note the actions of such individuals and getting them prosecuted in civil and criminal courts works well as well.
To paraphrase what someone else said earlier on this thread we're watching the decline of our society back into the mud because of corporatism. If left unchecked you can be assured that the new "crop" of people will be
drones within a very short time.
That's a paranoid asumption. To have people become drones you would have to simultaneously have to have them indoctrinated and then prevented from getting any competing information at all. That isn't the case here.
How short a time depends on how badly we fight for our freedoms while sinking.
What freedoms are you loosing? These companies are just excercising their freedom to advertise with their money to a school that accepts them. If you don't want to have to access them then by all means pay for an ad free service. Until then deal with the ads like most people ignore them.
B) So its ads. Whine all you want. You think the coke machine in the student union isn't an ad for coca-cola? I'm sure the Levis t-shirts you wear aren't ads for the jean company, they're an expression of your
individuality. Really.
But that's not the intent. I don't go looking at people and start staring at them to rate the clothing that they have and then make a choice on what to wear based on the fact that there is some logo or something on the clothing. That's really bad reasoning.
To think that the internet, and now intranets and other faces of your wired life are somehow immune, better, different, whatever, is naive.
I don't think it's naive just wishful. In every medium people want to believe that it has some form of ideals or principles and the like. It's just to avoid nihilism.
If something is that common people will eventually ignore it. Soldiers on a battle field eventually become immune to the shock of death and killing so to will the American consumer. Merit eventually wins.
The books are still there and they are still expensive $100+ hard cover tomes that you cannot sell back and that aren't avaible used. Advertising dosn't change the educational quality of what you are watching just ads more stuff. You can still have a show about quantum physics with commercials every 15 minutes in it.
If advertising worked as well as you say it does why then are advertisers having a harder and harder time getting people to buy? Simple psychology. Basically if something is common enough people don't really think about it and therefore it dosn't make them take notice. I don't really get all that excited by commercials and banner ads and I have never bought something just because I saw it on television. It dosn't work for me.
The school that I am familar with uses it and I can't say that I really ever used if before or really cared. Just like slashdot advertising banners I rarely if ever click on them at all.
They could try but then they would have to defend themselves against everyone and anyone. Persoanlly I would give them 5 minutes outside of the protections of the USA.
You had to launch it to get it there right? Well then all the adversary has to do is to use another similar tajectory and it can smash into your computer going at a high rate of speed. Different tactic, same result.
you pay taxes.
If you don't pay taxes you go to jail or pay a *huge* fine to the IRS. Plain and simple. What you are talking about is almost like money laundering unless you pay the proper taxes on it.
Really that's almost funny. The only real soverign power that actually "controls" the moon would be the united states. I don't think anyone would mind too much taking a laser and taking out that server of yours.
Slashdot Mirror
That might be something for you to consider first before blaming slashdot for acting like idiots.
Come on, Slashdot Staff! You've got clout! Instead of posting an "Ask Slashdot" article (Which, most of the answers would be speculation anyway...), why not call up
Intervideo and ask them directly?
Or ask for an interview! Get one of the high-ranking officials on the horn, and field some questions! If you call them up, and they say "A representative from Slashdot is
on the phone", I doubt they'll blow you off. If they do, that adds fuel to our side of the argument. "They keep delaying the release, they pulled information from their
pages, and they refused an interview." That would say a lot right there.
It's not a sure thing. Plus how do you know that they *didn't* try to get one?
I'm sorry, but posting this as an "Ask Slashdot" piece seems like a lazy way out. We'd get no answers to the question that can be held as proof - merely speculation as
to what "Might have happened." (Unless an Interview Employee replies, but that's not very interactive/informative.)
I don't think it's that bad of an idea given lack of genuine information.
As long as the stuff is "liscenced" it's fair game. If I had enough I would get a liscence and let people help me make a DVD player.
Well from what I gather from other posters supposedly with nanites you can create almost anything you want. One of the reasons that the British wanted colonies was for the economics and raw materials. So in a society that can create anything at all what would be the use of irritating a large mass of people who would just wish you harm?
A used VGA monitor will cost about $100-$200 around here. A new one will cost about $500 or so. That's a bit of change for me when I can get a whole new computer on pricewatch for about $300-$400 with an AMD chip and linux on it.
Never heard of it and I don't really see any significant use for diamonds in many things except for drills and rings what about titanium?
Not necesarily, clients always get a kick out of our 'hall of iMacs'. Many of our copywriters work in this one area that is sort of a hall with open offices along one side.
The desks face the hall and each one has a blueberry iMac on it which complements (to a degree) the decor. It looks quite good and very modern. The secretary's and
boss's graphite iMacs are, admittedly, even more impressive to the suits. We've also got some green ones and red ones, but we kind of hide 'em since they clash.
Funny enough, here in big orange country, not one person has asked for an orange one. No wonder Apple quit making it if even people in Tennessee weren't buying
'em.
Interior design and the computer industry are like oil and water they just don't mix.
The only people who are even working on any of it are the debian people and Stallman himself and I don't see too much work going on in that area. Persoanlly I would like to run something that could be modularized but I don't hold my breath. I would like to see extremely small memory footprint and apps redesigned to work with small memory systems ala QNX but free and with the apps I like for linux. But I doubt that will happen by 2003 anyway.
It's interesting when I started running linux they said that 8Mb of ram was good for console stuff and that 16 was adequate for X apps and the like. Now I routinely see apps that take 16+ for just *one* app. That is called bloat.
Is it really that bad? What are they running every single network daemon and quake on bootup? And why do you need to install 1.5 gigs of OS components?
I would think that having a virtual desktop would be better and in the long run cheaper since it has less mean time between failures than having 2 monitors would.
It may not be being used in industry as much anymore but last time I looked (last week) many of the utilities and tools not to mention many good pieces of open source software were composed of C or a derivitive I think that's progress. Contrast this with the lack of Java apps and you see which language is really working.
Where is the book that tells users how best to survive life under a BOFH? You know, with tips on how to protect your data, how to get the sysadmin to actually do
some work instead of goofing off surfing pr0n or playing games or reading users' email. We need a book tha...
My personal favorites would be "The Art of War" and some various good texts on covert survailing people without their knowledge. Also personally being able to note the actions of such individuals and getting them prosecuted in civil and criminal courts works well as well.
To paraphrase what someone else said earlier on this thread we're watching the decline of our society back into the mud because of corporatism. If left unchecked you can be assured that the new "crop" of people will be
drones within a very short time.
That's a paranoid asumption. To have people become drones you would have to simultaneously have to have them indoctrinated and then prevented from getting any competing information at all. That isn't the case here.
How short a time depends on how badly we fight for our freedoms while sinking.
What freedoms are you loosing? These companies are just excercising their freedom to advertise with their money to a school that accepts them. If you don't want to have to access them then by all means pay for an ad free service. Until then deal with the ads like most people ignore them.
B) So its ads. Whine all you want. You think the coke machine in the student union isn't an ad for coca-cola? I'm sure the Levis t-shirts you wear aren't ads for the jean company, they're an expression of your
individuality. Really.
But that's not the intent. I don't go looking at people and start staring at them to rate the clothing that they have and then make a choice on what to wear based on the fact that there is some logo or something on the clothing. That's really bad reasoning.
To think that the internet, and now intranets and other faces of your wired life are somehow immune, better, different, whatever, is naive.
I don't think it's naive just wishful. In every medium people want to believe that it has some form of ideals or principles and the like. It's just to avoid nihilism.
If something is that common people will eventually ignore it. Soldiers on a battle field eventually become immune to the shock of death and killing so to will the American consumer. Merit eventually wins.
The books are still there and they are still expensive $100+ hard cover tomes that you cannot sell back and that aren't avaible used. Advertising dosn't change the educational quality of what you are watching just ads more stuff. You can still have a show about quantum physics with commercials every 15 minutes in it.
If advertising worked as well as you say it does why then are advertisers having a harder and harder time getting people to buy? Simple psychology. Basically if something is common enough people don't really think about it and therefore it dosn't make them take notice. I don't really get all that excited by commercials and banner ads and I have never bought something just because I saw it on television. It dosn't work for me.
The school that I am familar with uses it and I can't say that I really ever used if before or really cared. Just like slashdot advertising banners I rarely if ever click on them at all.
They could try but then they would have to defend themselves against everyone and anyone. Persoanlly I would give them 5 minutes outside of the protections of the USA.
any info?
You had to launch it to get it there right? Well then all the adversary has to do is to use another similar tajectory and it can smash into your computer going at a high rate of speed. Different tactic, same result.
you pay taxes.
If you don't pay taxes you go to jail or pay a *huge* fine to the IRS. Plain and simple. What you are talking about is almost like money laundering unless you pay the proper taxes on it.
All anyone would have to do is bribe a group of Nigerian nationals and train them and give them arms to attack/destroy the server facility.
Really that's almost funny. The only real soverign power that actually "controls" the moon would be the united states. I don't think anyone would mind too much taking a laser and taking out that server of yours.