The statistics make it likely to be a likely to be a Poisson Flow Distribution or something similar (As the Irony Nazi already pointed out). It's the same curve that computer process arrival times (at the processor) follow. You can read more about it in this white paper from IEEE.
It's no wonder that Steve Gillard has problems installing Linux. Most of the other articles that he's written have to do with Construction and civil engineering.
My favorite, which I'll post here, is his story about using explosives to bring down the train bridge across the Ferdinan Gorge. From the pictures, those beams demolished the abandoned house that was in the canyon. I hope he let's me use that picture for my website.
They even make mention of this Slashdot story on the front page! According the the site this isn't a new event.
The cool thing is this article and that the
I'm going to put on a different hat for a second and ask is this really where we want things to go? Micropayments
for everything?
Sure, I own some CD's that I love so much I would have paid $50 for them. A tip system would be great to show
my gratitude to the artist. And as the poster wrote, there are some personal websites that had me ROTFLMAO
or greatly influenced me as a web developer and designer. I would love to send them $5 and say "Thanks! Have
a beer on me."
That said, I wonder how long it will go on before things we used to do for pleasure and personal edification are
motivated by the prospect of being micropaid for it. Art by the amateur has always been done for the love of
producing art - it freaks me out a bit to think that amateur art may now be done for micropayments. Obviously,
that's not the sole reason it's done but it could certainly be a motivator now. As an example, most/.ers
participate because they enjoy participating but, be honest now, karma is definately a motivator, right? And what
is karma? An abstract point system for quality posts - it doesn't really do anything but make you feel good. Now
imagine if karma were micropayments - even more incentive right?
I guess I'm just wondering if micropayments will devalue the intrinsic good of things like art. I pull off and help
someone change their flat tire or return a lost wallet to contribute good to the world, not b/c I'm hoping for
compensation. A "Thanks a lot" is the only compensation I want. And while this may be extreme, it's possible
these things could be motivated by the micropayment.
"Hey, nice shoes!"
"Thanks, here's a $1 micropayment!"
I realize that is a silly example but it helps to illustrate the possible trend towards money being the sole motivator
and compensator for everything. I remember reading an article a while back about sites like Epinions and
"expert" sites. They explored why people would devote large amounts of time to writing reviews and answering
questions for complete strangers. The short answer was "egoboo" or ego boosts that came from being positively
rated as a reviewer. But it made me proud that these sites went counter to the idea of the net being a commercial
medium, like the corps view it. I was proud to be involved with a medium that is about free exchange of
information and assistance with the motivation being the virtue of helping someone else out without
compensation. I just wonder if micropayments for everything will threaten that notion.
Sorry to play devil's advocate but I have only read about how wonderful a micropayment system will be in light
of the whole Napster fiasco. I've just been waiting for the other shoe to drop...
Here's some of the details:
This 200 MHz beast is made by MyTurn and features the last of the WinChip 2's on the market. Like the Netpliance's device, it features 32 MB ram with a 16 MB flash chip. Applications and images, however are saved on a remote server located at the ISP. It runs the QNX operating system, but I couldn't drop into a shell in order to see if they fixed the passwd encryption yet.
Although the software looks impressive from the website, it is VERY slow. It seems to download the pages for the applications. I'm not sure if this is true, but you have to be online to run all of the organization software and every time that the page has to refresh, it takes about 30 seconds for it to refresh. This was the main complaint that my Aunt had.
If it's hackable, then I'm sure that Codeman will be able to do it. I won't get one because the flat screen I-opener is all that I need.
Slashdot Mirror
... and it's goatse.cx, not goatse.cs.
Don't worry. I'm busy at a photo shoot on that evening.
He did it as a tribute to me, you moron! To my brown eye in the sky!!
The statistics make it likely to be a likely to be a Poisson Flow Distribution or something similar (As the Irony Nazi already pointed out). It's the same curve that computer process arrival times (at the processor) follow. You can read more about it in this white paper from IEEE.
I don't want to fool people anymore. so I've decided to include a link for the masses.
goatse.cx guy proudly presents...
http://goatse.cx
Plese.... Click. Bookmark. Enjoy.
As it states in their white-paper[kde.org], The Dcop is *very* much based upon MS COM structure. It even mentions it in the abstract.
What the hell is the postercomment compression filter anyways?
Damn lameness filter. You'd think that it wasn't working since all these jerks are posting their ascii art garbage all over the place.
When I am named God, then you shall be my Right-Hand-Man.
Until then please visit my website about flowers.
They fixed Slashcode so that it puts the stupid next to the link in the signature.
today sad GOAT.
My favorite, which I'll post here, is his story about using explosives to bring down the train bridge across the Ferdinan Gorge. From the pictures, those beams demolished the abandoned house that was in the canyon. I hope he let's me use that picture for my website.
Are they going to fix slashdot? Everytime I log in it logs me back out. I can't even post messages without getting some crazy error.
They even make mention of this Slashdot story on the front page! According the the site this isn't a new event.
The cool thing is this article and that the
http://www.stopftaa.org
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http://www.citizen.org/pctrade/gattwto/gatthome.h
http://www.indymedia.org
http://www.zmag.org/ZNETTOPnoanimation.html
Glad that I could help out.
...and how exactly do you propose that I shall prove it?
Thank you very much and have a nice evening.
Sure, I own some CD's that I love so much I would have paid $50 for them. A tip system would be great to show my gratitude to the artist. And as the poster wrote, there are some personal websites that had me ROTFLMAO or greatly influenced me as a web developer and designer. I would love to send them $5 and say "Thanks! Have a beer on me."
That said, I wonder how long it will go on before things we used to do for pleasure and personal edification are motivated by the prospect of being micropaid for it. Art by the amateur has always been done for the love of producing art - it freaks me out a bit to think that amateur art may now be done for micropayments. Obviously, that's not the sole reason it's done but it could certainly be a motivator now. As an example, most /.ers
participate because they enjoy participating but, be honest now, karma is definately a motivator, right? And what
is karma? An abstract point system for quality posts - it doesn't really do anything but make you feel good. Now
imagine if karma were micropayments - even more incentive right?
I guess I'm just wondering if micropayments will devalue the intrinsic good of things like art. I pull off and help someone change their flat tire or return a lost wallet to contribute good to the world, not b/c I'm hoping for compensation. A "Thanks a lot" is the only compensation I want. And while this may be extreme, it's possible these things could be motivated by the micropayment.
"Hey, nice shoes!" "Thanks, here's a $1 micropayment!"
I realize that is a silly example but it helps to illustrate the possible trend towards money being the sole motivator and compensator for everything. I remember reading an article a while back about sites like Epinions and "expert" sites. They explored why people would devote large amounts of time to writing reviews and answering questions for complete strangers. The short answer was "egoboo" or ego boosts that came from being positively rated as a reviewer. But it made me proud that these sites went counter to the idea of the net being a commercial medium, like the corps view it. I was proud to be involved with a medium that is about free exchange of information and assistance with the motivation being the virtue of helping someone else out without compensation. I just wonder if micropayments for everything will threaten that notion.
Sorry to play devil's advocate but I have only read about how wonderful a micropayment system will be in light of the whole Napster fiasco. I've just been waiting for the other shoe to drop...
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I hope that that clears things up for you.
Please apologies for saying that I have a nasty ass.
This 200 MHz beast is made by MyTurn and features the last of the WinChip 2's on the market. Like the Netpliance's device, it features 32 MB ram with a 16 MB flash chip. Applications and images, however are saved on a remote server located at the ISP. It runs the QNX operating system, but I couldn't drop into a shell in order to see if they fixed the passwd encryption yet.
Although the software looks impressive from the website, it is VERY slow. It seems to download the pages for the applications. I'm not sure if this is true, but you have to be online to run all of the organization software and every time that the page has to refresh, it takes about 30 seconds for it to refresh. This was the main complaint that my Aunt had.
If it's hackable, then I'm sure that Codeman will be able to do it. I won't get one because the flat screen I-opener is all that I need.
Hee hee. Why thank you very much. I do work it out daily to keep the cellulite away.
Please refrain from blaming people for linking to my photograph, unless they are actually linking to my photograph.