New media ventures that seemed to make so much sense a year ago are dropping like flies. I remember a time when I pittied tree-meat-based publications.
Ad brokers have for some time delayed or simply refused payment to web site operators. But we small fries expect to be batted around like a ragged cat toy. But Salon?
From the story, it sounds like Salon is heading in the "tip jar" direction. [Thanks to Amazon's Honor System Program, my wallet is $1.43 fatter. Oh, yeah.] But something tells me that making payroll is going to be tough either way.
Team leader John Harries said at the press conference: "I hope this convincing proof of the greenhouse effect will motivate my colleagues to end the debate- and shut the hell up."
When asked if the greenhouse theory was still a theory, Harries said, "It's a fact now. Get over it. You lost. We won."
She debunked "theraputic touch" through a double-blind study while she was in sixth grade (that age is a rough guess). No one had ever bothered (or dared) challenge the validity of the practice. Sometimes it takes someone several years shy of a driver's license to shake up a feild of science.
Say what you will about this. But what amazes me about this story is that this kid took the initiative to check on whether the idea was novel or not. I think we can all learn a little from that.
Man, Napster, you used to be so cool. But what happened to you? The minute the heat is on you, you up and rat on everyone.
One day I'm "sharing" tracks with "friends" I've never met. The next day, I'm "stealing." What the hell happened to you, Napster?
This reminds me of that guy we all knew in high school who used to let us borrow his car all the time. Sure he was friendly when we were hanging around and borrowing his car. But once we crashed it into a tree, he wasn't very friendly anymore.
Everything was cool when you were cool, Napster. Remember? We were all having fun until the cops came a'knocking. Hell, half the stuff I stole I didn't even like.
Man, SONY just needs to be cool and lay back. If they want people to like them, they should just walk away from the Connectix situation and pretend like they don't exist.
SONY wants to stifle Innovation. By my definition, innovation means coming up with new ways to get me stuff for free. Napster was a great innovation. Allowing me to run PS1 games on my $1,400 computer to save me $199 is a wonderful innovation.
If you look closely at the newest Barbi Vettes (for those of us with duaghters, that is), you'll see a little sticker on the rearview. It's supposed to be an OnStar button for when Barbi's ride gets stuck in the mud.
With this system, it looks like Ken might get all Eminem on Barbi's plastic butt when he retraces her car's steps to the poolboy's house.
You get hired because a sheet of paper makes you look good. With the exception of business failure, you keep the job based on your ability to solve problems, regardless of experience or "book learnin'."
I've seen plenty of "experienced" IT guys get the hook because their attitudes sucked. Managers approach these guys with future plans and all they get is flack. You're supposed to solve problems, not create them. And for every cranky employee you have, ten fresh resumes arrive every day.
The problem with most IT folks I hear about on/. is that they assume that knowing how to build a network entitles them to job security or high pay. But the cold fact of life is that if you suck and solving problems, you're as useless as bore-hog boobies. If I can't use you, you're gone. Screw the NDA. Go sour someone else's IT department.
We at the Caman Island Holding Company extend our best wishes to you and hope you will host your highly-illegal web content on our no-questions-asked principality.
Need a place to stash your cash in a place Uncle Sam cannot find? The CIHC would be glad to help you as well as extend a generous interest rate.
On each boot up, you have to agree to the NDA and licensing agreement which expires every seven days.
It would include an obscene number of proprietary protocols and apis, making it completely incompatible with the rest of the Linux world.
But through shrewd deal-making and corporate IT fear, Microsoft embeds itself into the Linux landscape, causing an irreperable fork in kernel development.
Of course, all they would have to do is put an ugy UI on NT and call it Linux. Most folks would play along.
Is the idea here to port what PC/Mac users no longer want to buy? More and more stories on/. surround the idea of running windows on linux, running old crappy windows games on linux, etc. why?
Perhaps someone could enlighten me as to why anyone should care why game technology older than many Linux developers should be exciting.
So, I can have my cake and get instability, too? Awesome! I'll run all these sweet Linux ports of lame windoze apps and still be able to read.doc files! Rock on!
I used to be a born-again Jedi. After three failed marriages and an addiction to correction fluid, I saw the light and joined the Holy Apestolic Church of Jedi.
Haleluyah!
People say the Church of Jedi is bad because we permit polygamy and such. But brother believe me, they're just denying the all-encompasing truth of The Force.
Yes it can be done. I work in an office where we heavily invested in Access95 and have seen little reason to "upgrade" since many of the new features can be recreated in earlier versions with a little VB and sweat.
We bought one copy of 97 to test with it and installed in on out NT 4 server along with Apache and PHP. Once everything was running properly, I just fired up the ODBC driver and everything worked perfectly - a little slow since I've never tweaked it or gotten rid of IIS. Far-flung employees can dial in and check in via a browser. Access as a client over a phone line is a nightmare.
I hope it works best for you. If we were starting over again, I'd seriously consider using front-to-back opensource. But Access clients allow you to edit several records in a single step (without refreshing the page twelve times) which makes users happy.
It makes you wonder... Not that this virus isn't completely real, but aren't there certain people or companies that are helped by bogus virus warnings?
When I joined the Army, they told me right off the bat that I couldn't go off and join another country's army without getting arrested for "treason." And get this, I could even get sent to the electric chair.
And I can't even leave the Army whenever I choose. They said that if I was "absent without leave," the MP's might shoot me on sight.
From all the books I've read about getting ahead in your job, it seems the best way to advance is to hop from job to job every five years. Now, how am I supposed to do that?
Private Phil McCrakkin
Sure, Microsoft very likely did nothing wrong. But if you look at the purpose of law from an anthropological standpoint, the government needs to satisfy the public's blood lust - just a little.
Laws exist to maintain the idea of justice in the eyes of the public. If people think OJ did it, they don't think the 'system' works.
So, public flogging of unpopular business figures will be held on the Capital steps in D.C. on the first of each month. The "winners" will be chosen by secret election. You cannot be flogged more than twice in any given year (kind of like TRL).
Sure, it's curel. It's unusual. But did you ever hear of an over-arching operating systems monopoly when the Puritans ran the show?
Some months ago, we announced on Slashdot our difficulty in defending our Zero Click Ordering patent. Far better and more innovative than Bezos' punk-ass One Click Ordering technology. Users don't even have to do anything. They just receive merchandise along with a pre-paid invoice. Thanks to last-year's e-tail security leaks, we now have a rather large list of "customers."
[Due to laws in six states, we are obligated to put the word clients in quotes.]
A few weeks ago, our patent was challenged by another software company. In their legal brief, they claim to have invented quasi-wire-fraud. Indeed.
Hopefully, we can fight off the lawyers (and the DOJ) and keep the patent that is rightfully ours. But we will need your help.
I wonder what would ruin the digital world faster, some high-intensity solar flare or just everyone using unpatched versions of Outlook.
Virus writing is easier than it has ever been and if people don't disable VBS on their systems soon, we could all be in for some rough times.
Seriously, how hard would it be to make a virus so bad that folks would erect a memorial in its honor decades later? Buffer overflow, anyone?
Virus technology seems to advance much faster than consumer-level security. Is that perception correct or just created by the evening news?
This will finally drum up interest in Mars mission
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Before we had a decent Net connection, few Americans thought the idea of a manned Mars mission made a lot of sense. Who would want to be away from their pr0n for that long?
But the idea of trolling from Mars should sound intriguing enough to the average American that people might actually get interested in it again.
bathroom humor = intergalactic language
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pictograms are okay. but when it comes to really communicating with a different species, start with the good stuff: a pictogram of ET getting kicked in the sack.
Oh, sure. Say what you want about evolutionary paths and my childishly anthropomorphic ideas of life on other planets. But the golden phonograph record from the 70's hasn't worked yet. It just makes sense to transmit something that makes a non-human say "hey, I want to party with those guys."
SomethingAwful's Lowtax didn't get paid for months this past Fall. Unless you can afford the $1,000 doubleclick sign-up fee (another scam?) you're stuck with those who fly by night.
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I still remember the advice my father gave me: Never get in anything Russian-made with an airlock."
Ad brokers have for some time delayed or simply refused payment to web site operators. But we small fries expect to be batted around like a ragged cat toy. But Salon?
From the story, it sounds like Salon is heading in the "tip jar" direction. [Thanks to Amazon's Honor System Program, my wallet is $1.43 fatter. Oh, yeah.] But something tells me that making payroll is going to be tough either way.
For now, all the little guys like me can do is shudder and post dimly-lit photos of the people I keep in my basement to generate hits.
I don't think that movie was written around a toy marketing campaign, either. Maybe that's why it rocks so much.
Imagine what a Mulan-style trash-talking miniature dragon would have done to the picture. On second thought, I'd rather not.
Oh, I forgot. You can't compare the two films because SWPM was a kids' movie.
jarjarroastingonaspit.com
you'll go blind!
When asked if the greenhouse theory was still a theory, Harries said, "It's a fact now. Get over it. You lost. We won."
New definition of 'zero emissions'
Say what you will about this. But what amazes me about this story is that this kid took the initiative to check on whether the idea was novel or not. I think we can all learn a little from that.
One day I'm "sharing" tracks with "friends" I've never met. The next day, I'm "stealing." What the hell happened to you, Napster?
This reminds me of that guy we all knew in high school who used to let us borrow his car all the time. Sure he was friendly when we were hanging around and borrowing his car. But once we crashed it into a tree, he wasn't very friendly anymore.
Everything was cool when you were cool, Napster. Remember? We were all having fun until the cops came a'knocking. Hell, half the stuff I stole I didn't even like.
Well, I've gotta go shave my donkey ears.
SONY wants to stifle Innovation. By my definition, innovation means coming up with new ways to get me stuff for free. Napster was a great innovation. Allowing me to run PS1 games on my $1,400 computer to save me $199 is a wonderful innovation.
Corporate geed is worst when gets in the way of me getting free stuff.
With this system, it looks like Ken might get all Eminem on Barbi's plastic butt when he retraces her car's steps to the poolboy's house.
Photos of Ken ridin' around town w/ Barbi's head in the trunk.
I've seen plenty of "experienced" IT guys get the hook because their attitudes sucked. Managers approach these guys with future plans and all they get is flack. You're supposed to solve problems, not create them. And for every cranky employee you have, ten fresh resumes arrive every day.
The problem with most IT folks I hear about on /. is that they assume that knowing how to build a network entitles them to job security or high pay. But the cold fact of life is that if you suck and solving problems, you're as useless as bore-hog boobies. If I can't use you, you're gone. Screw the NDA. Go sour someone else's IT department.
Entropy: The Silent Killer
Need a place to stash your cash in a place Uncle Sam cannot find? The CIHC would be glad to help you as well as extend a generous interest rate.
Sure, you may have to renounce your citizenship and live on some far-away island with no family or friends. But hey, it worked for Marc Rich. Off-shore auction site sells human organs, children
It would include an obscene number of proprietary protocols and apis, making it completely incompatible with the rest of the Linux world.
But through shrewd deal-making and corporate IT fear, Microsoft embeds itself into the Linux landscape, causing an irreperable fork in kernel development.
Of course, all they would have to do is put an ugy UI on NT and call it Linux. Most folks would play along.
Be affraid. Be very affraid.
Is the idea here to port what PC/Mac users no longer want to buy? More and more stories on /. surround the idea of running windows on linux, running old crappy windows games on linux, etc. why?
Perhaps someone could enlighten me as to why anyone should care why game technology older than many Linux developers should be exciting.
Today: news organizations recruiting unstable high school gun nuts
So, I can have my cake and get instability, too? Awesome! I'll run all these sweet Linux ports of lame windoze apps and still be able to read .doc files! Rock on!
rid-ic-u-lop-a-thy
Haleluyah!
People say the Church of Jedi is bad because we permit polygamy and such. But brother believe me, they're just denying the all-encompasing truth of The Force.
Can I get an 'amen?'
Have a Forceful day.
Local preist gives up Catholicism for Lent
We bought one copy of 97 to test with it and installed in on out NT 4 server along with Apache and PHP. Once everything was running properly, I just fired up the ODBC driver and everything worked perfectly - a little slow since I've never tweaked it or gotten rid of IIS. Far-flung employees can dial in and check in via a browser. Access as a client over a phone line is a nightmare.
I hope it works best for you. If we were starting over again, I'd seriously consider using front-to-back opensource. But Access clients allow you to edit several records in a single step (without refreshing the page twelve times) which makes users happy.
And as we all know, happy users is what this is all about.
RIAA to put Napster in Crapster
"Lovable Lars" Fan Club
And I can't even leave the Army whenever I choose. They said that if I was "absent without leave," the MP's might shoot me on sight.
From all the books I've read about getting ahead in your job, it seems the best way to advance is to hop from job to job every five years. Now, how am I supposed to do that? Private Phil McCrakkin
Laws exist to maintain the idea of justice in the eyes of the public. If people think OJ did it, they don't think the 'system' works.
So, public flogging of unpopular business figures will be held on the Capital steps in D.C. on the first of each month. The "winners" will be chosen by secret election. You cannot be flogged more than twice in any given year (kind of like TRL).
Sure, it's curel. It's unusual. But did you ever hear of an over-arching operating systems monopoly when the Puritans ran the show?
I think not.
begin voting now for whom shall be flogged first
Just because someone or some thing is the victim of a witch hunt- that doesn't meant they're not a witch.
Click here for more information on the legal preciedence of the Nobody Likes Me Defense
[Due to laws in six states, we are obligated to put the word clients in quotes.]
A few weeks ago, our patent was challenged by another software company. In their legal brief, they claim to have invented quasi-wire-fraud. Indeed.
Hopefully, we can fight off the lawyers (and the DOJ) and keep the patent that is rightfully ours. But we will need your help.
Zero Click Legal Defense Fund
Virus writing is easier than it has ever been and if people don't disable VBS on their systems soon, we could all be in for some rough times.
Seriously, how hard would it be to make a virus so bad that folks would erect a memorial in its honor decades later? Buffer overflow, anyone?
Virus technology seems to advance much faster than consumer-level security. Is that perception correct or just created by the evening news?
But the idea of trolling from Mars should sound intriguing enough to the average American that people might actually get interested in it again.
red sand beach party 2010
Oh, sure. Say what you want about evolutionary paths and my childishly anthropomorphic ideas of life on other planets. But the golden phonograph record from the 70's hasn't worked yet. It just makes sense to transmit something that makes a non-human say "hey, I want to party with those guys."
extra-solar bathroom humor, inc.
SomethingAwful's Lowtax didn't get paid for months this past Fall. Unless you can afford the $1,000 doubleclick sign-up fee (another scam?) you're stuck with those who fly by night.
Thank goodness we're all independently wealthy