"How can we - people who don't pay a single dime to each use gigabytes worth of Slashdot bandwidth - complain that Slashdot is trying to generate some revenue to pay for what must be a very expensive to run website?"
Although I've seen no evidence that slashdot is being paid to run these stories (clever submitters + lazy editors = advert on front page) even if they were, running ads as news shows a complete lack of integrity. There is a time and place for advertizements. Notice how slashdot blasts search engines which allow companies to buy rankings, but encourages google, who clearly marks their advertizements in a professional manner. It is irresponsible ( and boring) to post stories which are little more then ads. Slashdot should just make these companies pay for banners like everyone else, or at least save this crap for a slashback.
Just think, how many times have many opportunities to aid rich Nigerians in distress (for a 20% cut) because of your isp's spam filters? I demand reperations be paid for the money I might have earned on these unique opportunities!
This is offtopic, but getting an fbi car isnt hard. If you get one of every emergency vehicle to the crane in the docks in portland you even get an infinte supply of them. Theres no real point, however, cause they habdle exactly like a kururama. I think they might be a little bit tougher however. I'll take my -1 now, moderator.
But the astronauts might get carried away, build cool mechs and attack the earth! We better start developing gundamium now! I hear it can only be made in space however, so we will finally have a use for the ISS...
People like you are the reason cops hassle us legit paintball players. I realize you were joking, but kids shooting paintballs at people has seriously harmed the sport's rep. It's very dangerous to fire on someone not wearing a proper paintball mask.
I'm a high school senior right now. Being a geek, I help out a lot with our school's highly overworked IT people. I've seen a large resistance throughout the district to change over to OS X. These people don't like change. Change requires retraining teachers and changing infrastructure. Its a great effort just to teach most teachers how to check their email. Now when we change to OS X, a lot of things are going to be done differently. Apple has probably seen this resistance in action. Apple has shown they want to completely get rid of classic as soon as possible. To smooth this transistion it makes sense for them to give it away along with training materials. It will also help cash strapped districts create a homogenous OS enviroment. OS X runs a little slow on older g3s, but it runs it fast enough for most educational purposes. This is a sound business and PR move for apple in my opinion.
Why is it automatically OUR fault when someone's previously successfull business starts to fail? That's business. When you find something that works you stick with it until it stops working. At that point you have to change. If you've invested to much in the old way to be able to adapt to new circumstances, someone new will come along and steal away your business. If the current Hollywood has to be brought to the ground for a new succesfull business model so be it. They stopped listening to consumers a long time ago.
Thats coming right after the linux driven flying cars. Not to mention, I'm willing to wager 75% of windows crashes are caused by crappy proprietary windows drivers.
Your logic makes no sense. You are dealing with two completely different things. In the case of email, the cost is finite and calculable. Bandwidth costs money, its a fact. Money supposedly lost due to movie/music piracy is completely subjective. Their is no proof they would have made that money had it not been pirated. The RIAA can essentially make up any numbers they want, the fact remains they havent lost any money, cause they havent made it yet.
The problem is that it would take a great deal of manpower to care for the flags. Flags are supposed to be removed at night and during inclement weather. A damaged flag is supposed to be replaced immediatly. I doubt many companies would be willing to take on this burden, constant flag maintenance or tons of bad PR. Maybe they could rope some of the local high school ROTC classes into helping out, they seem obsessed with flags.
"and to try to prevent further abuse of the language, have begun penalizing students for using the net slang."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isnt it par for the course to penalize students for using improper english? I use "net slang" all the time when talking to friends over IM. I never tried to hand in an essay with it. Just as how you talk with your friends(or posting on slashdot) is different then how you would speak when giving a presenation or at a job interview. This seems an open and shut case. Student hands in paper full of slang, student gets F. Just because the net is involved doesnt mean ou have to reinvent the rules.
Surely this is merely a gimmick to trap would-be hackers. I cant think of a bigger target for the script kiddies. After years of "hacking" IIS servers, surely the opportunity to actually crush a server would be irresistable.
There is a valid reason for doing this. Nothing ruins a good multiplayer game like cheaters. If an Xbox can be modded to allow one to cheat, it will be. Especially when you consider how hard it can be to distribute a patch with console games.
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You should've come during the KSC FIRST Robotics Competition Regional. The park may be lame, but anywhere that lets us take over their parking lot, then throws us a party in the saturn V building is ok in my books.
What if we make one decoder that uses a standardized input/output scheme designed to interoperate with other programs. We could then make any mp3 player app we wanted, and have it run said decoder in the background. In this way we would only need to pay the one time fee per decoder, but still have all the different front ends we want. This seems the cheap and effective way to rescue most of the linux players.
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I'd be careful, Mr slashdot armchair scientist. Accidents happen when you poke holes at the ideas of weapons researchers.
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And here I thought this armor was supposed to keep people alive. Thank you for revealing the secret behind these apc death traps.
As a high school student, I'd like to point out our district is swimming in monitors we can't seem to give away. We've got closets stacked with them. Unless the monitor is working and of a high quality, they probably don't want it. Just because they are a school doesn't mean yoiu get to dump your 14" flickering fuzzy imaged peice of junk on them.
Since when did the RIAA (or MPAA for that matter) have the right to make money? If they are losing money, it's not because everyone is pirating, it's because their business model is flawed. They like the system the way it is far too much to change it. It is not the goverment's job to make laws to help them prop up their dieing business. The RIAA literally has no strong competition, so they have gotten fat and lazy. Open up the playing field, and I garuntee either the RIAA will adapt and change it's business model, or it will die and be replaced by a company which can adjust to changes in technology better. If I own a car dealership, I don't blame a slump in car sales on car theft. The author figures that sales are down more then they should be in a depression. His conclusion is it must be because of piracy. I say it's because they have given us no incentive to buy. The people who pirate 99% of the time wouldn't have bought the cd anyway. The RIAA is losing money because they would rather buy legislation then give up their cartel like business practices.
Step 1. Announce considering new law mandating open source software for all goverment contracts. Step 2. Try not to laugh when the MS reps show up with wheelbarrows full of cash. Step 3. Announce the law will be tabled for further discussion, and brought up for vote again next year. Step 4. Repeat
Naturally, free and independent email services would operate alongside it, but imagine if, for a reasonable fee, you could have a postal service mail account in which all e-mails it sends or recieves have all the same protections and legal bearing of snail mail. I think this service would be invaluable for businesses or independent professionals. Many things can not be done over e-mail because the messages do not bear the same legal weight as snail mail. Consider how many times the postal service's datestamp has been used as evidence in court.
It's American, not USAian. We are the United States of America. The proper term is American. Despite all the "US is not the Americas" BS, the tried and true, standardized term for a citizen of the United States of America is American. We do not claim to own the continent, a generic term for someone from our continent is North American. The proper term for someone from South America is South American. Furthermore, both continents to togethor do not make up "America", but rather the "Americas". If you must persist in not calling citizens of the United States of America "Americans", then use the term citizen of the United States(Although we are not the only country that includes "United States" as part of its name). Calling us "Americans" or "American" does not imply we own both continents. It's just semantics. "USAian" is not even a word, and makes you sound as intelligent as a drunk feild mouse. If you doubt me, trying saying it out loud. We do not call members of the United Kingdom "UKians" or "UKers", nor did we call members of the USSR "USSRians". Stop adding suffixes onto ackronyms. I apologize for this rant (and will probably lose karma for it), but the tem "USAian" is just so incredibly silly. Noone is going to get confused as to your intentions when you refer to Americans.
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"How can we - people who don't pay a single dime to each use gigabytes worth of Slashdot bandwidth - complain that Slashdot is trying to generate some revenue to pay for what must be a very expensive to run website?"
Although I've seen no evidence that slashdot is being paid to run these stories (clever submitters + lazy editors = advert on front page) even if they were, running ads as news shows a complete lack of integrity. There is a time and place for advertizements. Notice how slashdot blasts search engines which allow companies to buy rankings, but encourages google, who clearly marks their advertizements in a professional manner. It is irresponsible ( and boring) to post stories which are little more then ads. Slashdot should just make these companies pay for banners like everyone else, or at least save this crap for a slashback.
Just think, how many times have many opportunities to aid rich Nigerians in distress (for a 20% cut) because of your isp's spam filters? I demand reperations be paid for the money I might have earned on these unique opportunities!
Your comment got me curious, I found this after a little looking http://www.howstuffworks.com/question273.htm
This is offtopic, but getting an fbi car isnt hard. If you get one of every emergency vehicle to the crane in the docks in portland you even get an infinte supply of them. Theres no real point, however, cause they habdle exactly like a kururama. I think they might be a little bit tougher however. I'll take my -1 now, moderator.
But the astronauts might get carried away, build cool mechs and attack the earth! We better start developing gundamium now! I hear it can only be made in space however, so we will finally have a use for the ISS...
People like you are the reason cops hassle us legit paintball players. I realize you were joking, but kids shooting paintballs at people has seriously harmed the sport's rep. It's very dangerous to fire on someone not wearing a proper paintball mask.
I'm a high school senior right now. Being a geek, I help out a lot with our school's highly overworked IT people. I've seen a large resistance throughout the district to change over to OS X. These people don't like change. Change requires retraining teachers and changing infrastructure. Its a great effort just to teach most teachers how to check their email. Now when we change to OS X, a lot of things are going to be done differently. Apple has probably seen this resistance in action. Apple has shown they want to completely get rid of classic as soon as possible. To smooth this transistion it makes sense for them to give it away along with training materials. It will also help cash strapped districts create a homogenous OS enviroment. OS X runs a little slow on older g3s, but it runs it fast enough for most educational purposes. This is a sound business and PR move for apple in my opinion.
Why is it automatically OUR fault when someone's previously successfull business starts to fail? That's business. When you find something that works you stick with it until it stops working. At that point you have to change. If you've invested to much in the old way to be able to adapt to new circumstances, someone new will come along and steal away your business. If the current Hollywood has to be brought to the ground for a new succesfull business model so be it. They stopped listening to consumers a long time ago.
Thats coming right after the linux driven flying cars. Not to mention, I'm willing to wager 75% of windows crashes are caused by crappy proprietary windows drivers.
Your logic makes no sense. You are dealing with two completely different things. In the case of email, the cost is finite and calculable. Bandwidth costs money, its a fact. Money supposedly lost due to movie/music piracy is completely subjective. Their is no proof they would have made that money had it not been pirated. The RIAA can essentially make up any numbers they want, the fact remains they havent lost any money, cause they havent made it yet.
The problem is that it would take a great deal of manpower to care for the flags. Flags are supposed to be removed at night and during inclement weather. A damaged flag is supposed to be replaced immediatly. I doubt many companies would be willing to take on this burden, constant flag maintenance or tons of bad PR. Maybe they could rope some of the local high school ROTC classes into helping out, they seem obsessed with flags.
"and to try to prevent further abuse of the language, have begun penalizing students for using the net slang."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isnt it par for the course to penalize students for using improper english? I use "net slang" all the time when talking to friends over IM. I never tried to hand in an essay with it. Just as how you talk with your friends(or posting on slashdot) is different then how you would speak when giving a presenation or at a job interview. This seems an open and shut case. Student hands in paper full of slang, student gets F. Just because the net is involved doesnt mean ou have to reinvent the rules.
Surely this is merely a gimmick to trap would-be hackers. I cant think of a bigger target for the script kiddies. After years of "hacking" IIS servers, surely the opportunity to actually crush a server would be irresistable.
There is a valid reason for doing this. Nothing ruins a good multiplayer game like cheaters. If an Xbox can be modded to allow one to cheat, it will be. Especially when you consider how hard it can be to distribute a patch with console games.
You should've come during the KSC FIRST Robotics Competition Regional. The park may be lame, but anywhere that lets us take over their parking lot, then throws us a party in the saturn V building is ok in my books.
What if we make one decoder that uses a standardized input/output scheme designed to interoperate with other programs. We could then make any mp3 player app we wanted, and have it run said decoder in the background. In this way we would only need to pay the one time fee per decoder, but still have all the different front ends we want. This seems the cheap and effective way to rescue most of the linux players.
I'd be careful, Mr slashdot armchair scientist. Accidents happen when you poke holes at the ideas of weapons researchers.
And here I thought this armor was supposed to keep people alive. Thank you for revealing the secret behind these apc death traps.
I think he deserved that. Thank you raduga.
As a high school student, I'd like to point out our district is swimming in monitors we can't seem to give away. We've got closets stacked with them. Unless the monitor is working and of a high quality, they probably don't want it. Just because they are a school doesn't mean yoiu get to dump your 14" flickering fuzzy imaged peice of junk on them.
Since when did the RIAA (or MPAA for that matter) have the right to make money? If they are losing money, it's not because everyone is pirating, it's because their business model is flawed. They like the system the way it is far too much to change it. It is not the goverment's job to make laws to help them prop up their dieing business. The RIAA literally has no strong competition, so they have gotten fat and lazy. Open up the playing field, and I garuntee either the RIAA will adapt and change it's business model, or it will die and be replaced by a company which can adjust to changes in technology better. If I own a car dealership, I don't blame a slump in car sales on car theft. The author figures that sales are down more then they should be in a depression. His conclusion is it must be because of piracy. I say it's because they have given us no incentive to buy. The people who pirate 99% of the time wouldn't have bought the cd anyway. The RIAA is losing money because they would rather buy legislation then give up their cartel like business practices.
5 things, he said its Canadian too. Do you want America entrusting its data to our socialist neighbors?
(gotta get on all the Canadian's foe list all at once, after all...)
Step 1. Announce considering new law mandating open source software for all goverment contracts.
Step 2. Try not to laugh when the MS reps show up with wheelbarrows full of cash.
Step 3. Announce the law will be tabled for further discussion, and brought up for vote again next year.
Step 4. Repeat
Naturally, free and independent email services would operate alongside it, but imagine if, for a reasonable fee, you could have a postal service mail account in which all e-mails it sends or recieves have all the same protections and legal bearing of snail mail. I think this service would be invaluable for businesses or independent professionals. Many things can not be done over e-mail because the messages do not bear the same legal weight as snail mail. Consider how many times the postal service's datestamp has been used as evidence in court.
It's American, not USAian. We are the United States of America. The proper term is American. Despite all the "US is not the Americas" BS, the tried and true, standardized term for a citizen of the United States of America is American. We do not claim to own the continent, a generic term for someone from our continent is North American. The proper term for someone from South America is South American. Furthermore, both continents to togethor do not make up "America", but rather the "Americas". If you must persist in not calling citizens of the United States of America "Americans", then use the term citizen of the United States(Although we are not the only country that includes "United States" as part of its name). Calling us "Americans" or "American" does not imply we own both continents. It's just semantics. "USAian" is not even a word, and makes you sound as intelligent as a drunk feild mouse. If you doubt me, trying saying it out loud. We do not call members of the United Kingdom "UKians" or "UKers", nor did we call members of the USSR "USSRians". Stop adding suffixes onto ackronyms. I apologize for this rant (and will probably lose karma for it), but the tem "USAian" is just so incredibly silly. Noone is going to get confused as to your intentions when you refer to Americans.