"dear Joe Average Employee,
please do . If you won't do it I'll fire you.
sincerely,
your Boss."
if Joe goes to court then Microsoft COULD unlock the mail - but what if the mail was deleted? How can Joe Average prove what the Boss told him? How can he even compete with the Corporation Lawyers?
And why it will be widely adopted: - new worms scaring people - FUDs from microsoft - new fancy things - office 2003 will come with DRM enabled by default - corporations will get discounts on it - no more support for "older" version..and there we go.
...and it has to be pushed while holding down ctrl-alt-shift-X-^-F13 (HA! found that!) to have your coffee done.
in other news, the Bush administration will probably make the Alt-Gr key illegal because terrorists can use that key to type the Euro symbol, thus making money.
but then they were treated as we treat "terrorists" now. the scary part is that if such a movement were to take place in this days, I fear that it would not work - because all the draconian laws that are passing in the US would prevent it and eradicate it at the very beginning.
those in power forgot that history and people's opinion changes, and using technology to freeze progress only results in delaying a country's development.
a VIP with an uber-cool gadget that will be shown to other clueless VIPs just for the sake of having it? it's so sad.. I hate seeing all that technology being wasted into the hand of a clueless person. I know, I know - money equals more research on it and price dropping. But I feel sad about that anyway.
just give everyone the possibility to develop add-ons to the game, make it portable, and let the thing go. a single programmer or a limited team of them cannot think about every possible situation or every possible way to attract people. but a whole world of programmers in a lot of countries maybe can do it. make the game easily customizable and playable in many countries (language support, country servers), and let the whole thing evolve. don't worry too much about piracy issues - if the game is good, people will buy it. make licenses available online to buy. let people try it by providing 20 days licenses to play in a smaller world.
the problem is that in a year or so they might decide to change their mind. how can we stop such draconians law to pass from now ever?
software companies can pay people to lobby politicians all day long for the rest of their lives; we can't afford that. on the long run they win, unless we find a way to block such things from happen again - at all.
beyond all the editor wars, beyond all the people that proposed a thousand different editors (without maybe reading the entire post) - I find this to be a very interesting article. It describes exactly my feelings and my need to find an editor, and I'm happy because (g)vi(m) was my choice, too. I'm writing this just to tell the author - you're not alone:)
people will keep their old PCs because of that. how are the sales supposed to increase then? will they sneak drm-enabled processors to customers without telling it? maybe with a new eXPerience of an Operating System?
I really hope that some new company (from China, maybe?) will come up with new brands of processors without the DRM stuff. but then probably the US government will make them illegal in the country:)
in civilized countries they have a way to avoid what you're saying: they call them union.. and they seem to work. Maybe they're not always the solution, but they help a lot.
that sounds like what they were used to say 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 30 years ago and so on.
think about that: you're working more than your parents at your age, and making less (compared with inflaction). what's going to be next? is this the world you want for your kids?
the problem is - what's next? and how come that you're making 30% less than you were 18months ago, and not some CEO? are we really sure that their pay is what they deserve? Don't forget that you got laid off probably by one of those..
now tell me, how come that in the last years: "average" workers (at least in IT) either
a) lost their jobs because of the "recession" b) have to work for free or similar because there are too many people that are willing to do the same or c) have to work for 70 hours a week to have a life?
am I the only one who thinks that there's something rotten in the "american way of life"
what if on my code there are some lines that are the only *best* way to do something? Will we be forced to write less optimized code because of copyright issues?
First: assume that music could be downloaded for "free" from any website. Second: enable users to donate an euro (or a dollar..) for every song they download IF THEY WANT TO Third: develop a way to "pay" for those one-euro donations; it could be done with e-money Fourth: e-money should be bought with real cash.
Here's the plot: a) a user goes to a music store, buys a data CD containing X amount of "credits" b) those credits are unique codes; those are sent (securely) to an artist for a donation c) the user downloads art (music, movies, etc) and keeps it/share it/whatever d) if the user has no internet access, the music store should download the music (maybe have it stored locally) and charge the user a small fee for the media d-1) users can still donate if they like the artist e) radio stations could download the same music and play it; they won't have to pay high royalities for it, so they could play better music f) websites should be used to show which songs are most downloaded g) artists will get far more money than they get now (think about it - 1 euro every 5/6 CD "sold" is WAY more than they get now) h) artists will get money for concerts i) music will get better overall j) we won't have multibillion-artists bitching about their make-up all day long
the downside of that is that the music "industry" that provides people "what they should like" would die.
if you like it, talk about it with everyone you want.
if many viruses that are being studied are destroyed, only the evil guys will keep them (since they don't need to tell the government about that). once used who will provide the cure?
too much bureaucracy is killing the research, expecially those research who is important.
Slashdot Mirror
"dear Joe Average Employee,
..and there we go.
please do . If you won't do it I'll fire you.
sincerely,
your Boss."
if Joe goes to court then Microsoft COULD unlock the mail - but what if the mail was deleted? How can Joe Average prove what the Boss told him? How can he even compete with the Corporation Lawyers?
And why it will be widely adopted:
- new worms scaring people
- FUDs from microsoft
- new fancy things
- office 2003 will come with DRM enabled by default
- corporations will get discounts on it
- no more support for "older" version
I'm sorry I have to live in such a sad world.
as it is widely known, to launch a technology you need to make it widely support pr0n. see also: "VCR," "Internet" and so on
:)
does this laptop comes with a full year membership..? I wasn't able to find it out from the links..
http://www.sco.com/
you'll find the latest, updated and best-written collection of FUDs about Linux.
try dia, it's what works best for those kind of stuff, if I understood your problem correctly.
...and it has to be pushed while holding down ctrl-alt-shift-X-^-F13 (HA! found that!) to have your coffee done.
in other news, the Bush administration will probably make the Alt-Gr key illegal because terrorists can use that key to type the Euro symbol, thus making money.
but then they were treated as we treat "terrorists" now.
the scary part is that if such a movement were to take place in this days, I fear that it would not work - because all the draconian laws that are passing in the US would prevent it and eradicate it at the very beginning.
those in power forgot that history and people's opinion changes, and using technology to freeze progress only results in delaying a country's development.
imho, of course.
a VIP with an uber-cool gadget that will be shown to other clueless VIPs just for the sake of having it?
it's so sad.. I hate seeing all that technology being wasted into the hand of a clueless person.
I know, I know - money equals more research on it and price dropping.
But I feel sad about that anyway.
just give everyone the possibility to develop add-ons to the game, make it portable, and let the thing go. a single programmer or a limited team of them cannot think about every possible situation or every possible way to attract people.
.02 euros
but a whole world of programmers in a lot of countries maybe can do it.
make the game easily customizable and playable in many countries (language support, country servers), and let the whole thing evolve.
don't worry too much about piracy issues - if the game is good, people will buy it. make licenses available online to buy. let people try it by providing 20 days licenses to play in a smaller world.
just my
already have a lot of trouble with that picture-of-the-email-address thing. it is a neat solution but it lacks portability, to state it another way.
what about DMCA concerns? couldn't this be considered reverse engineering?
and yes, before you ask, I submitted a story about it but it got rejected before this netcraft story passed. so mod me down, because this /is/ a rant.
I just hope the slashdot folks will modify slashcode and make registered users able to see rejected stories soon.
rev_theatre_0x3839_640_dl.mov
Here's the ed2k link:
rev_theatre_0x3839_640_dl.mov
the hash is: 43581a3059cad96a33bde304f5622523
the problem is that in a year or so they might decide to change their mind. how can we stop such draconians law to pass from now ever?
software companies can pay people to lobby politicians all day long for the rest of their lives; we can't afford that. on the long run they win, unless we find a way to block such things from happen again - at all.
beyond all the editor wars, beyond all the people that proposed a thousand different editors (without maybe reading the entire post) - I find this to be a very interesting article. :)
It describes exactly my feelings and my need to find an editor, and I'm happy because (g)vi(m) was my choice, too.
I'm writing this just to tell the author - you're not alone
good job
people will keep their old PCs because of that. how are the sales supposed to increase then? will they sneak drm-enabled processors to customers without telling it? maybe with a new eXPerience of an Operating System?
:)
I really hope that some new company (from China, maybe?) will come up with new brands of processors without the DRM stuff. but then probably the US government will make them illegal in the country
in civilized countries they have a way to avoid what you're saying: they call them union.. and they seem to work. Maybe they're not always the solution, but they help a lot.
I was talking about working in an office and/or into IT.
can you imagine 60% of the ATMs in your city hitting windowsupdate.com all together?
what about 60% of the ATMs in the US hitting it?
Damn, we'll have to rename the slashdot effect into ATMeffect
that sounds like what they were used to say 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 30 years ago and so on.
think about that: you're working more than your parents at your age, and making less (compared with inflaction). what's going to be next? is this the world you want for your kids?
the problem is - what's next? and how come that you're making 30% less than you were 18months ago, and not some CEO?
are we really sure that their pay is what they deserve? Don't forget that you got laid off probably by one of those..
now tell me, how come that in the last years: "average" workers (at least in IT) either
a) lost their jobs because of the "recession"
b) have to work for free or similar because there are too many people that are willing to do the same
or
c) have to work for 70 hours a week to have a life?
am I the only one who thinks that there's something rotten in the "american way of life"
what if on my code there are some lines that are the only *best* way to do something? Will we be forced to write less optimized code because of copyright issues?
First: assume that music could be downloaded for "free" from any website.
Second: enable users to donate an euro (or a dollar..) for every song they download IF THEY WANT TO
Third: develop a way to "pay" for those one-euro donations; it could be done with e-money
Fourth: e-money should be bought with real cash.
Here's the plot:
a) a user goes to a music store, buys a data CD containing X amount of "credits"
b) those credits are unique codes; those are sent (securely) to an artist for a donation
c) the user downloads art (music, movies, etc) and keeps it/share it/whatever
d) if the user has no internet access, the music store should download the music (maybe have it stored locally) and charge the user a small fee for the media
d-1) users can still donate if they like the artist
e) radio stations could download the same music and play it; they won't have to pay high royalities for it, so they could play better music
f) websites should be used to show which songs are most downloaded
g) artists will get far more money than they get now (think about it - 1 euro every 5/6 CD "sold" is WAY more than they get now)
h) artists will get money for concerts
i) music will get better overall
j) we won't have multibillion-artists bitching about their make-up all day long
the downside of that is that the music "industry" that provides people "what they should like" would die.
if you like it, talk about it with everyone you want.
if many viruses that are being studied are destroyed, only the evil guys will keep them (since they don't need to tell the government about that). once used who will provide the cure?
too much bureaucracy is killing the research, expecially those research who is important.
sad, anyway.