BTW: One night over bridge (they did this regularly, with generous libations) L. Ron Hubbard and RAH made a $1 bet over who could create the better sci-fi religion. LRH gave us Battleship Earth and Scientology. RAH gave us Stranger In a Strange Land and the Universal Life Church. Eventually RAH wrote: "Here's your buck. Get these hippies off my lawn." LRH fell into the adoration of his self-created church, and RAH escaped capture from his.
A pro-active media strategy will solve it. Get in front of the story by acknowledging the sober truth up front ( "one day it will happen" ) and combine that with public education campaigns, facts and figures type stuff. The message is the exact thing we're already espousing on here - that it can't be 100% safe, but it's better than people. Give that a year or two to become the default mantra, and when that first fatality DOES occur, it'll be a non-issue. The only way this gets blown up is if it catches the public unaware and gets turned in to the Next Big Story.
The difference between GD and Word is one of presentation. Both word processors are perfectly capable of making headers and lists and tables and paragraphs, but Word can make stuff really pretty. The majority of the time I'm working on a document though, collaboration and accessibility is the most important factor. The only time presentation is an issue is when it's going to be sent out to a client, and for those times, we often edit in GD and dump in to a Word template. Word isn't going away any time soon, but it's becoming less and less relevant. We do about 70% of our documents on GD already, this is only going to grow as its presentational capabilities increase.
Magento is awesome, don't listen to the haters. Yes, it probably requires a VPS, but a 1gb VPS will handle a fair bit of traffic with Magento's caching turned on. Secondly, you know all those crazy requirements ecom customers want, like their own special fancy way of doing things? Magento is a thousand times more configurable than any of the other OS ecom packages out there, I can't tell you the number of times we've been able to meet a client's requirement just out of the box. Sure, it's huge and complicated, but it's also very powerful, and absolutely devours ZenCart and osCommerce, both of which I've used, and both of which have just the worst imaginable codebase.
And the desire to make a patent free format had nothing to do whatsoever in even the slightest way with the fact that commonly used formats like GIF were patented?
This is exactly right. A police officer's testimony counts for more than the common person's testimony when it comes to a straight your word versus theirs. Typically cases brought before the court are more complicated than that, but should something as simple as your word versus theirs get brought in, the copper will win. Of course, should that officer ever get caught lying to the court in any future cases, you'd have an excellent case to get your conviction overturned.
I think the Pirate Party should rebrand itself as the Internet Party, Digital Party or Future Party, some such thing, and just fight for the rights of all things that service the good of the Internet, which is kinda what they're doing anyway, except to the layman, who asks "what the hell has pirates got to do with the Internet"?
I'm serious, they're not the government, they're not the police, they're a private company, where do they get the right to storm your offices and start poking around in your computers, counting up all your software licenses? I run a small IT shop and if they ever tried that shit on me, I'd tell them to go fuck themselves in no uncertain terms. Can I storm THEIR offices and have a look at all their computers? Or should I too expect to be told to go fuck myself?
Basically every website I've ever built has a T&C, and every time we have the discussion with the client about them, it goes like this.
"We need some content for your terms and conditions page" "ok, umm... what do you think?" "well, we have a boilerplate T&C we use that covers most bases..." "OH! well just put that in there!"
I've only ever had ONE company deliver an actual real true to life T&C they wrote themselves, and even *IT* was a cut and paste off of an earlier site they had that we didn't build.
All in all, I'd say that most companies really couldn't give the slightest shit about T&Cs, and it really surprises me the amount of debate that goes on about them around here. Surely people just ignore them and do whatever they want anyway? And as for "we will not sell your details", well, isn't it just easier to assume they will and use mailinator / easily filterable addressses?
You just hit the nail on the head. The one major thing that shits me about MS development is the artificial roadblocks. If I need to chuck another dev box together for a new app we're building, the absolute last thing I want to worry about is making sure all the various licensing options for all the various bits of software are in order. I just want to install and go. What's so wrong with that? Can't I work out the money stuff later?
The best thing about all this is when the dust is all settled, Facebook will be little more than Yet Another Social Networking Site (Zuckerberg, SELL NOW). I think at some point in the future, when data is homogenised across all SN sites who wish to participate, and it doesn't matter what site you're using personally because you can find all your friends no matter what site they're using, then perhaps it'll be the obscurity of the site you choose to use that singles you out. One thing is for sure, I'm keeping my niggaspace.com (yes, it's real) account tip top and polished up...
It's simple. Make it so [i]girls[/i] think it is tacky and cheap. All that they need to do is throw a few ads around the place of girls looking mightily unimpressed that all you have to show them is a crappy downloaded cam rip stored on a spindle of blank CDs. I guarantee you real DVD sales would go through the fucking ROOF. Associate "real DVDs" with "something girls would watch with you", and you win the battle. Jesus, do I have to think of everything for these useless pricks?
Why do businesses get this first? I don't understand. Is there something different between the version to be given to regular consumers and the one that businesses get? Is it not finished or something, but the business clients get a beta version to test? Or is it some sneaky way to milk more money out of people? I honestly don't get it.
Our "censored internet" is a joke. That entire piece of legislation, with the benefit of hindsight, smells suspiciously like something that was passed as a back scratch for some cranky senator to get his vote on another bill. I don't have any specific proof of this (and yes, I realise how stupid I sound), but how else do you explain the fact that this so-called censorship doesn't actually seem to censor anything? The AMCA seems completely uninterested in actually blocking any content, and despite a couple of vague attempts to utilize the laws that were quickly shut down, it doesn't seem like anything is going to happen in the future either. Oh, and for the real kicker, the filter itself isn't applied at the border routers, it's voluntarily installed on a home user's PC.
I understand some people disagree with the way politicians play the game, but this is exactly how it's done. "You wanna pass your bill? Well this is what I want...". It's far more prevalent in the US that it is over here - look at the number of irrelevant amendments that get tacked on to every bill that gets passed in to US law. Is it a morally corrupt system? Arguably so. I don't see any other real-world examples of a perfect democratic utopia to which we can all strive though.
I work in porn, and I couldn't possibly agree with you more. Unfortunately, it's a great marketing point amongst online distributors to offer ever higher resolutions of the content. It puts a strain on storage systems, media manipulation tools, the bandwidth required to serve it all, you name it. The worst part is, you really can see every little blemish, and it ain't pretty. I'm all for halting shit at 640x480. Have you ever seen a close up still of a vagina in 4k resolution? Damn things look like monsters.
That's nothing. There have been Alterac Valley matches in World of Warcraft that have gone well over 24 hours. It wasn't at all unusual to join the battle 12 hours in, play for a couple of hours, disconnect for dinner, rejoin and find the same battle still raging. This, of course, is before the massive reduction in the number of NPCs which has turned the place in to a 2 hour win, guaranteed - so long as you're horde and on our server, of course. Alliance really do suck.
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BTW: One night over bridge (they did this regularly, with generous libations) L. Ron Hubbard and RAH made a $1 bet over who could create the better sci-fi religion. LRH gave us Battleship Earth and Scientology. RAH gave us Stranger In a Strange Land and the Universal Life Church. Eventually RAH wrote: "Here's your buck. Get these hippies off my lawn." LRH fell into the adoration of his self-created church, and RAH escaped capture from his.
What's your source on this?
Does anyone else find that plodding kick drum in the background really annoying? Completely ruins it for me.
A pro-active media strategy will solve it. Get in front of the story by acknowledging the sober truth up front ( "one day it will happen" ) and combine that with public education campaigns, facts and figures type stuff. The message is the exact thing we're already espousing on here - that it can't be 100% safe, but it's better than people. Give that a year or two to become the default mantra, and when that first fatality DOES occur, it'll be a non-issue. The only way this gets blown up is if it catches the public unaware and gets turned in to the Next Big Story.
The difference between GD and Word is one of presentation. Both word processors are perfectly capable of making headers and lists and tables and paragraphs, but Word can make stuff really pretty. The majority of the time I'm working on a document though, collaboration and accessibility is the most important factor. The only time presentation is an issue is when it's going to be sent out to a client, and for those times, we often edit in GD and dump in to a Word template. Word isn't going away any time soon, but it's becoming less and less relevant. We do about 70% of our documents on GD already, this is only going to grow as its presentational capabilities increase.
A story for which my signature is appropriate!
Magento is awesome, don't listen to the haters. Yes, it probably requires a VPS, but a 1gb VPS will handle a fair bit of traffic with Magento's caching turned on. Secondly, you know all those crazy requirements ecom customers want, like their own special fancy way of doing things? Magento is a thousand times more configurable than any of the other OS ecom packages out there, I can't tell you the number of times we've been able to meet a client's requirement just out of the box. Sure, it's huge and complicated, but it's also very powerful, and absolutely devours ZenCart and osCommerce, both of which I've used, and both of which have just the worst imaginable codebase.
And the desire to make a patent free format had nothing to do whatsoever in even the slightest way with the fact that commonly used formats like GIF were patented?
Since when is it the role of the courts to arbitrarily legislate to protect the failing business models of certain corporations?
This is exactly right. A police officer's testimony counts for more than the common person's testimony when it comes to a straight your word versus theirs. Typically cases brought before the court are more complicated than that, but should something as simple as your word versus theirs get brought in, the copper will win. Of course, should that officer ever get caught lying to the court in any future cases, you'd have an excellent case to get your conviction overturned.
Bing results pretty good? Sure, if you don't mind them actively filtering search results to remove anti-MS content: http://advice.cio.com/shane_oneill/bing_search_tainted_by_pro_microsoft_results
I think the Pirate Party should rebrand itself as the Internet Party, Digital Party or Future Party, some such thing, and just fight for the rights of all things that service the good of the Internet, which is kinda what they're doing anyway, except to the layman, who asks "what the hell has pirates got to do with the Internet"?
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I'm serious, they're not the government, they're not the police, they're a private company, where do they get the right to storm your offices and start poking around in your computers, counting up all your software licenses? I run a small IT shop and if they ever tried that shit on me, I'd tell them to go fuck themselves in no uncertain terms. Can I storm THEIR offices and have a look at all their computers? Or should I too expect to be told to go fuck myself?
Basically every website I've ever built has a T&C, and every time we have the discussion with the client about them, it goes like this.
"We need some content for your terms and conditions page"
"ok, umm... what do you think?"
"well, we have a boilerplate T&C we use that covers most bases..."
"OH! well just put that in there!"
I've only ever had ONE company deliver an actual real true to life T&C they wrote themselves, and even *IT* was a cut and paste off of an earlier site they had that we didn't build.
All in all, I'd say that most companies really couldn't give the slightest shit about T&Cs, and it really surprises me the amount of debate that goes on about them around here. Surely people just ignore them and do whatever they want anyway? And as for "we will not sell your details", well, isn't it just easier to assume they will and use mailinator / easily filterable addressses?
At least they're thinking big, I guess. Like, you know, on the scale that makes God seem insignificant.
I feel a great disturbance on the Internet. As if millions of tenuous business models suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
You just hit the nail on the head. The one major thing that shits me about MS development is the artificial roadblocks. If I need to chuck another dev box together for a new app we're building, the absolute last thing I want to worry about is making sure all the various licensing options for all the various bits of software are in order. I just want to install and go. What's so wrong with that? Can't I work out the money stuff later?
that maybe they timed the fine to coincide with the value of $1.337 billion?
The best thing about all this is when the dust is all settled, Facebook will be little more than Yet Another Social Networking Site (Zuckerberg, SELL NOW). I think at some point in the future, when data is homogenised across all SN sites who wish to participate, and it doesn't matter what site you're using personally because you can find all your friends no matter what site they're using, then perhaps it'll be the obscurity of the site you choose to use that singles you out. One thing is for sure, I'm keeping my niggaspace.com (yes, it's real) account tip top and polished up...
It's simple. Make it so [i]girls[/i] think it is tacky and cheap. All that they need to do is throw a few ads around the place of girls looking mightily unimpressed that all you have to show them is a crappy downloaded cam rip stored on a spindle of blank CDs. I guarantee you real DVD sales would go through the fucking ROOF. Associate "real DVDs" with "something girls would watch with you", and you win the battle. Jesus, do I have to think of everything for these useless pricks?
Hoffman-La Roche and Schering Plough released a statement today. It reads as follows:
"FUCK!"
Why do businesses get this first? I don't understand. Is there something different between the version to be given to regular consumers and the one that businesses get? Is it not finished or something, but the business clients get a beta version to test? Or is it some sneaky way to milk more money out of people? I honestly don't get it.
Our "censored internet" is a joke. That entire piece of legislation, with the benefit of hindsight, smells suspiciously like something that was passed as a back scratch for some cranky senator to get his vote on another bill. I don't have any specific proof of this (and yes, I realise how stupid I sound), but how else do you explain the fact that this so-called censorship doesn't actually seem to censor anything? The AMCA seems completely uninterested in actually blocking any content, and despite a couple of vague attempts to utilize the laws that were quickly shut down, it doesn't seem like anything is going to happen in the future either. Oh, and for the real kicker, the filter itself isn't applied at the border routers, it's voluntarily installed on a home user's PC.
I understand some people disagree with the way politicians play the game, but this is exactly how it's done. "You wanna pass your bill? Well this is what I want...". It's far more prevalent in the US that it is over here - look at the number of irrelevant amendments that get tacked on to every bill that gets passed in to US law. Is it a morally corrupt system? Arguably so. I don't see any other real-world examples of a perfect democratic utopia to which we can all strive though.
I work in porn, and I couldn't possibly agree with you more. Unfortunately, it's a great marketing point amongst online distributors to offer ever higher resolutions of the content. It puts a strain on storage systems, media manipulation tools, the bandwidth required to serve it all, you name it. The worst part is, you really can see every little blemish, and it ain't pretty. I'm all for halting shit at 640x480. Have you ever seen a close up still of a vagina in 4k resolution? Damn things look like monsters.
That's nothing. There have been Alterac Valley matches in World of Warcraft that have gone well over 24 hours. It wasn't at all unusual to join the battle 12 hours in, play for a couple of hours, disconnect for dinner, rejoin and find the same battle still raging. This, of course, is before the massive reduction in the number of NPCs which has turned the place in to a 2 hour win, guaranteed - so long as you're horde and on our server, of course. Alliance really do suck.