I've been saying this for years, and I'll say it again.
The "per click" is flawed. I don't click... almost never do. I'm at a site to read it's content. Not just link jump from site to site.
If I see something of interest, I'll note the URL in my head and check it out later.
Think TV Ads or Newspaper Ads:
I don't leave my favorite show to run off to the store??? Nor do I stop reading the Newspaper column to buy that new car at that low low price...
It doesn't work that way.
Ads should be sold on a number of eyeballs flat rate fee, and that's it. The whole "per click" notion is flawed...
Anyhow... we block ads because they are obtrusive and annoying!! What happened to the superbowl ads? Why doesn't soemone try and make some for the internet. Fun and Entertaining... something we'll WANT to watch? Not so we click, but so we remember your name and url....
There's probably a lot of money to be made for the person who can finally get this right.
The problem with software is that we try and make it do everything so we can satisfy everyone!
This is where modular development comes in and where Firefox excels..
I started an open source portal, with simplicity in mind. It was great for what "I" wanted, but not everyone else...
Some wanted a membership only, some wanted to sell items, some wanted this that, etc etc... You get the picture. Different web site, different needs.
Of course no one wanted to program something for themselves, so I tried to accomodate them as the versions went up. Well, by the end of the year, I had this bloated / complicated portal.
Now I'm on the modular path... I really no longer have time for it, so others have taken over.
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Sorry to make a short story long, but the point of this one should be:
Make it simple - Fast - Easy to Use, and then allow modular capabilities to add everything else under the sun.
Don't try and make one program do it all.... Not everyone needs it ALL.
"Tour de France pales next to the 25-game reign of Jeopardy!"
I'm sorry, but a 23 day 2235 mile, (3600 KM), race at full speed PALES?
Yesterday was the time trials, and the US Postal team finished first with an average speed of 33 MPH, 53 KPH.
That's amazing... and they'll keep doing it. With other racers such as Ullrich, Hamilton, Julich, etc, this is going to be a great year to watch the race.
Sure this fella on Jepoardy is smart, but we don't know if the show is trumping it up, now do we?
I mean... we can get one smart guy, and keep getting dumb challengers, and hey... look... wow.. he DEFINATELY looks smart, and won't loose.
Can anyone say, "ratings"... I mean, on a bad channel, and a bad time... they need something right?
At least the tour isn't fake, and everyone is at the same level, going for the same goal.
The US ISP takes the correct steps and actions, the UK ISP, just deletes the internet site with no questions asked... Censoring whatever content with no justified reason.
Yet you fools in the UK still find the time to bitch about the US... lol...
You should probably start in your own back yard first.
RFID tags on license plates... video cameras everywhere... It's near impossible to own a gun over there... High taxes, high fuel costs...
Was the google searching on broadband or 56k? Heck... 56k.. who am I kidding? Most places your lucky to get over 40k, and with the site / ad intensive sites today...
Talking didn't work... we've been talking w/ multiple resolutions for 15 years.
Bill Clinton slammed over 200 missles into supposed WMD sites in 1998... I didn't hear you say anything then?
And still nothing changed.
Now, we're not just slinging missles and leaving Sadam in power... instead he's been removed and the Iraqi people will finally have freedom.
Where is the wrong in that?
Again... if you are to be taken seriously then you would have spoken in 1998... you didn't. The truth is, you just to small minded to see and read the whole story and have your blinders on.
Man, it SHOULD have been for the oil, it wasn't but it should have been... Oil prices are high. Granted fixed for inflation, it's still lower then it was in the 80's and 60's but still... I'd like it to be cheaper.
The war should have been for the oil, and we should have tanked all that shit back here!
But alas it wasn't. The worlds 2nd largest reserve is in Alaska... and we don't even touch it. We get more oil from russia and brazil then iraq.
If you REALLY think that it was over oil, then if someone told you to kill yourself, you'd probably do it.
So go kill yourself.
Heck, even the ultra-leftists have stopped saying that since they finally came to their senses... You're still so far out in left field that you have no clue!!! Still spouting old retoric that no one believes...
hahahahaha
Get some original ideas!!!
The world is full of idiots, and their being lead by "455"... hahahahahaha
You can't see your hand in front of your face can you?
[quote] The fact that the slashdot response has been so negative is perhaps the strongest justification for the position you have taken.
[/quote]
That's the dumbest statement I've heard in a while... The response of the slashdot crowd is negative because the guy is a moron. This crowd here probably leans more to the left on the political spectrum with Green party freaks, etc... That if this guy was correct in his thinking, then people would be cheering him on. But only a select few drones are doing that.
Read his article, and think of the big picture. He's an idiot.
If the terrorists were using his code... he'd probably shout "It's their right to use what they want", but if the Military uses it, he steps down and crys about the war...
Does that make sense to you?
And you can bet your botton dollar that if the terrorists were using his code, that is EXACTLY what he'd say. He wouldn't have stepped down, but instead condoned their action. Trust me, this isn't the type of person we want in charge of dust lint.
You're full of it, and you know it.... That sad part is, you're using linux as a veil to hide behind.
"U.S. today is committing mass murder in Fallouja"
You seriously need to get your priorities straight!!! You didn't give.02 worth of thought when Sadam was killing (Mass murder, mass graves, rape rooms, starving children... hell children in prison!!) his own people. It's ok if they die by the thousands.... At least WE'RE not doing it right!!??!!
I mean think about it... Sadam killing thousands of innocent people so they stay in fear of him, and he stays in power... OR some of those men and women dying for the cause of freedom?
At least when the U.S. is through, the killing will end. Sadam killed for power and for the fun of it.
Would you like a link to the Plastic Recycle Shredders they put peolple through? The people he really didn't like went through feet first! (Think of a cross shredder). Or how they tortured the Olympic athletes that came back loosers.... Women were not educated.... rape rooms.... children starting to death by the thousands...
Where the F*** do you come off condoning that action? I didn't see you stand up against that? Not a peep....
[quote]
The point is this - he's a large part of something that now has military application,
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Let's see... hmmm, the INTERNET has military applications... Satilites have military applications... screw Military applications... they were f*ing developed by the Military!!!
We OWE so many technology to the military from new polymers for protective suits down to jogging wear, to new rescue items for fire and police departments, all the way to hi-tech gadgets from GPS that save lives and direct boats, people, airplanes, etc
[quote]
The point is this - he's a large part of something that now has military application,
[/quote]
Under your reasoning... all those who don't agree should be hermits living in Alaska with tin foil hats... Go get em boy!
I'm going quit an cry because I don't like who's using my FREE software.
Hey... go work for Microsoft now why don't you... Instead of supplying the Military for the best software possible, lets give them something buggy, secretive, and who knows what else.
Let me step down and NO LONGER promote linux and other unix variations, because I let POLITICS get in the way!!!
Man, get OVER it!!!
Agree with whats going on or not... it doesn't matter. But by NOT promoting linux and playing with your undersized dink isn't going to do the community any good at all....
Hope you enjoyed your 2 seconds of fame... I didn't know your name before, but I do now... and I'll be sure never to hire you to help my corporation out! Maybe you'll leave because I hurt your feelings by making you try and meet a deadline!!!
You're right.. Hiroshima ended the war, and was the best thing that could have happened to stop the bloodshed.
We're talking about a country that sacrificed its own men (suicide bombers / pilots) to win at all costs. Bombing their home front was the only thing the understood.
We also bluffed... We said we had more bombs. We didn't. But they didn't know that. The surrendered under the fear and guise that we had more.
Slashdot Mirror
I've been saying this for years, and I'll say it again.
The "per click" is flawed. I don't click... almost never do. I'm at a site to read it's content. Not just link jump from site to site.
If I see something of interest, I'll note the URL in my head and check it out later.
Think TV Ads or Newspaper Ads:
I don't leave my favorite show to run off to the store??? Nor do I stop reading the Newspaper column to buy that new car at that low low price...
It doesn't work that way.
Ads should be sold on a number of eyeballs flat rate fee, and that's it. The whole "per click" notion is flawed...
Anyhow... we block ads because they are obtrusive and annoying!! What happened to the superbowl ads? Why doesn't soemone try and make some for the internet. Fun and Entertaining... something we'll WANT to watch? Not so we click, but so we remember your name and url....
There's probably a lot of money to be made for the person who can finally get this right.
The problem with software is that we try and make it do everything so we can satisfy everyone!
This is where modular development comes in and where Firefox excels..
I started an open source portal, with simplicity in mind. It was great for what "I" wanted, but not everyone else...
Some wanted a membership only, some wanted to sell items, some wanted this that, etc etc... You get the picture. Different web site, different needs.
Of course no one wanted to program something for themselves, so I tried to accomodate them as the versions went up. Well, by the end of the year, I had this bloated / complicated portal.
Now I'm on the modular path... I really no longer have time for it, so others have taken over.
---------
Sorry to make a short story long, but the point of this one should be:
Make it simple - Fast - Easy to Use, and then allow modular capabilities to add everything else under the sun.
Don't try and make one program do it all.... Not everyone needs it ALL.
How about: Va t'en!
That suit the bill?
"Tour de France pales next to the 25-game reign of Jeopardy!"
I'm sorry, but a 23 day 2235 mile, (3600 KM), race at full speed PALES?
Yesterday was the time trials, and the US Postal team finished first with an average speed of 33 MPH, 53 KPH.
That's amazing... and they'll keep doing it. With other racers such as Ullrich, Hamilton, Julich, etc, this is going to be a great year to watch the race.
Sure this fella on Jepoardy is smart, but we don't know if the show is trumping it up, now do we?
I mean... we can get one smart guy, and keep getting dumb challengers, and hey... look... wow.. he DEFINATELY looks smart, and won't loose.
Can anyone say, "ratings"... I mean, on a bad channel, and a bad time... they need something right?
At least the tour isn't fake, and everyone is at the same level, going for the same goal.
I'll take the Tour over any WB show anyday.
You're a moron....
All I have to say
The US ISP takes the correct steps and actions, the UK ISP, just deletes the internet site with no questions asked... Censoring whatever content with no justified reason.
Yet you fools in the UK still find the time to bitch about the US... lol...
You should probably start in your own back yard first.
RFID tags on license plates... video cameras everywhere... It's near impossible to own a gun over there... High taxes, high fuel costs...
No thank you.
I think I'll stay right here....
Yeah... and on that same report, it says that "Residential" consumption is only 21%
he's right... only 21%... the rest is still needed to make the world go around... business, etc.
So if we all stopped driving and walked to work, it would only be 20% of our consumption...
DMAN MAN... Didn't you see that Mythbusters episode??
The sad part is, they're ALL getting "informative" posts... hello?
Anyhow, shouldn't the original editor of seen this... we are geeks right?
The best part about the parent post....
is that he knew exactly where to find those links... especially those penis enlargement pills.
heh.. just making an observation.
So all it means is that your a moron.. so what?
I have a MS 802.11 B / router right now, and I'm doing this on my wireless windows 98 laptop.
I have a Win XP box hooked up, and a Linux Redhat server on the same connection. All running.. right now!
I have 128 bit WEP on... simple... I've blocked incomming pings, and routed certain ports directly to my server.
I also have a wireless network, networking all 3 computers. Now that wasn't fun to do, but I could do it.
Everything else was a snap.
It's amazing what you can do when you are able to read directions...
Was the google searching on broadband or 56k? Heck... 56k.. who am I kidding? Most places your lucky to get over 40k, and with the site / ad intensive sites today...
Anyone want to car pool to the library?
I didn't speak up because I thought it was the right thing to do then.
I don't let Politics dominate my thought. Clinton, Bush.. doesn't matter....
They both are doing / did the right thing. You on the other hand are only political....
Hey... asshat.... Think you might have something original to say one day? Or are you just going to keep copy and pasting your marching orders?
Stop being an ultra-leftist zombie... get an original thought for once.
People like you make me sick... Learn to think for yourself.
Then what do you propose?
Talking didn't work... we've been talking w/ multiple resolutions for 15 years.
Bill Clinton slammed over 200 missles into supposed WMD sites in 1998... I didn't hear you say anything then?
And still nothing changed.
Now, we're not just slinging missles and leaving Sadam in power... instead he's been removed and the Iraqi people will finally have freedom.
Where is the wrong in that?
Again... if you are to be taken seriously then you would have spoken in 1998... you didn't. The truth is, you just to small minded to see and read the whole story and have your blinders on.
Time to take them off there buddy....
HAHA... TROLL!!!!!
We always knew you were.....
you ARE an idiot aren't you??
Man, it SHOULD have been for the oil, it wasn't but it should have been... Oil prices are high. Granted fixed for inflation, it's still lower then it was in the 80's and 60's but still... I'd like it to be cheaper.
The war should have been for the oil, and we should have tanked all that shit back here!
But alas it wasn't. The worlds 2nd largest reserve is in Alaska... and we don't even touch it. We get more oil from russia and brazil then iraq.
If you REALLY think that it was over oil, then if someone told you to kill yourself, you'd probably do it.
So go kill yourself.
Heck, even the ultra-leftists have stopped saying that since they finally came to their senses... You're still so far out in left field that you have no clue!!! Still spouting old retoric that no one believes...
hahahahaha
Get some original ideas!!!
The world is full of idiots, and their being lead by "455"... hahahahahaha
Idiot Alert!!! Bloop Bloop Idiot Alert!!
You can't see your hand in front of your face can you?
[quote]
The fact that the slashdot response has been so negative is perhaps the strongest justification for the position you have taken.
[/quote]
That's the dumbest statement I've heard in a while... The response of the slashdot crowd is negative because the guy is a moron. This crowd here probably leans more to the left on the political spectrum with Green party freaks, etc... That if this guy was correct in his thinking, then people would be cheering him on. But only a select few drones are doing that.
Read his article, and think of the big picture. He's an idiot.
If the terrorists were using his code... he'd probably shout "It's their right to use what they want", but if the Military uses it, he steps down and crys about the war...
Does that make sense to you?
And you can bet your botton dollar that if the terrorists were using his code, that is EXACTLY what he'd say. He wouldn't have stepped down, but instead condoned their action. Trust me, this isn't the type of person we want in charge of dust lint.
He's small minded and can not see the big picture!
I have no respect for Clay and his decision... Unless he was that second runner up on American Idol, then I take it all back.
But till he proves other wise...
Buzz off and don't come back you commie bastard!
Bull SHIT!!
.02 worth of thought when Sadam was killing (Mass murder, mass graves, rape rooms, starving children... hell children in prison!!) his own people. It's ok if they die by the thousands.... At least WE'RE not doing it right!!??!!
You're full of it, and you know it.... That sad part is, you're using linux as a veil to hide behind.
"U.S. today is committing mass murder in Fallouja"
You seriously need to get your priorities straight!!! You didn't give
I mean think about it... Sadam killing thousands of innocent people so they stay in fear of him, and he stays in power... OR some of those men and women dying for the cause of freedom?
At least when the U.S. is through, the killing will end. Sadam killed for power and for the fun of it.
Would you like a link to the Plastic Recycle Shredders they put peolple through? The people he really didn't like went through feet first! (Think of a cross shredder). Or how they tortured the Olympic athletes that came back loosers.... Women were not educated.... rape rooms.... children starting to death by the thousands...
Where the F*** do you come off condoning that action? I didn't see you stand up against that? Not a peep....
Ask yourself this mutzy....
If he found out that terrorists were using his product because they thought it was a great tool...
Would he have resigned in the same way? Or would have have yelled: "It's GPL, they have a right to use whatever they want!!"
Ask yourself that.... If he wouldn't, and you KNOW he wouldn't... then he's not worth a handfull of sand in my eyes.
Now ask yourself Mutzy.... Would you have condemned or condoned it?
Bloop Bloop Idiot alert Bloop Bloop Idiot Alert!!
[quote] The point is this - he's a large part of something that now has military application, [/quote]
Let's see... hmmm, the INTERNET has military applications... Satilites have military applications... screw Military applications... they were f*ing developed by the Military!!!
We OWE so many technology to the military from new polymers for protective suits down to jogging wear, to new rescue items for fire and police departments, all the way to hi-tech gadgets from GPS that save lives and direct boats, people, airplanes, etc
[quote] The point is this - he's a large part of something that now has military application, [/quote]
Under your reasoning... all those who don't agree should be hermits living in Alaska with tin foil hats... Go get em boy!
A Right to be an idiot....
I'm going quit an cry because I don't like who's using my FREE software.
Hey... go work for Microsoft now why don't you... Instead of supplying the Military for the best software possible, lets give them something buggy, secretive, and who knows what else.
Let me step down and NO LONGER promote linux and other unix variations, because I let POLITICS get in the way!!!
Man, get OVER it!!!
Agree with whats going on or not... it doesn't matter. But by NOT promoting linux and playing with your undersized dink isn't going to do the community any good at all....
Hope you enjoyed your 2 seconds of fame... I didn't know your name before, but I do now... and I'll be sure never to hire you to help my corporation out! Maybe you'll leave because I hurt your feelings by making you try and meet a deadline!!!
grrrrrrrr.....
You're right.. Hiroshima ended the war, and was the best thing that could have happened to stop the bloodshed.
We're talking about a country that sacrificed its own men (suicide bombers / pilots) to win at all costs. Bombing their home front was the only thing the understood.
We also bluffed... We said we had more bombs. We didn't. But they didn't know that. The surrendered under the fear and guise that we had more.
History my dear boy... you can learn alot.
Ok, thanks...
Slam the guy with English as a second language.
How many do you languages do you speak and write perfectly you insensitive clod?
Shhh.. Why do you think I replied in the first place..
My Government MASTER is telling me to convert this last pocket of resistance!