Not all of them spam like that, especially small business owners. I have friends around the world and spend most of my year living elsewhere too, and especially in Asia some expats have small businesses on the side, like restaurants or baking things you can't get elsewhere. When they post "I'm baking (food we eat in my home country), they just went to oven!" it really doesn't seem like bad marketing. So I go visit, grab a beer and buy and eat a piece or two while talking with the guys at the same time. In addition to that, I don't really mind when the restaurants I visit post some party pictures (relaxed pictures, not "everyone is fucking drunk" ones), it doesn't bother me either. Of course, somehow in Asia stuff like that has a much more personal feel. And you can easily find new interesting people that way, and find the restaurants via your friends or people you meet. This is why Facebook is so good for it - you find stuff you don't even know to look for, via connections.
Of course, it's your own fault if you follow something like Walmart on Facebook.
I've always been wondering about this, and this line reminds me about it again. Why do countries have genders? Not every country is a man either - for example Russia, China and my country all view it as motherland. On the other hand, according to this, US and then several other countries view it as fatherland. Why?
I think the best solution would be if YouTube went to pay-per-view model. Users would get to see for example 1 minute of the video and if they like it, they can quickly pay for access from their wallet. Since the wallet can be filled for example at $5, $10 or $25, it also enables micro-transactions inside YouTube. Liked that baby video? Give it $0.01. Liked that funny cat video? Give it $0.01 too. And when the video uploader has asked for a price, you could pay few dollars to watch it. The profit would be split between YouTube, content owner and the uploader.
I just like to point out that this is exactly why Microsoft has gone to courts regarding patents too. Others have sued them first and MS has used their defenses. But on Slashdot that always gets turned around as MS suing first and "threatening" Linux, especially with the FAT filesystem thing (which war other company first started)
So much for Google's do no evil. At the same time while they're talking how patents are bad, they use their proxy companies to attack competitors. They get what they want and Google keeps it white clean image.
I'm fairly sure Windows is a general purpose OS with no one philosophy. It has a market share of over 90% - every kind of person uses Windows. There's a fair share of programmers (even FOSS ones) and hackers (in the good sense) too.
Also, many web developers probably aren't really trying to learn JavaScript - they're working on something else, for example with PHP and HTML, but need to do a few specific things with JavaScript.
Well that's not entirely true. Spammers don't have infinite resources, and they value working email addresses. This is why they also clean up their lists or buy lists that are guaranteed to work. It makes their process much faster and more efficient. If they had infinite resources, they would be just spamming random email addresses.
It can be easily done with Outlook and some VBA scripting. But I remember that at least last time VBA support under Linux wasn't really that good. So you need Windows for this task.
Sidestepping the whole garbage that your post was, how the hell is this an OS function? It isn't in Linux either. And there is no reason why it couldn't be done on any OS.
And what would that reason be? Is there some reason why you cannot upload it elsewhere or host it?
You would have a good argument if there actually would be large amount of legit binaries on Usenet. Frankly, 99.99% of it is pirated material and sadly that changes things. Especially when everyone knows you pay those Usenet binary companies for the sole reason of getting warez.
It's because Android devices are marketed for nerds, by nerds. And nerds don't understand marketing or user experience. You can see it with Linux. Even if the Android advertisements would include features, I have a strong feeling it would be something like "Freedom! 1 GHz processor! 128MB RAM!", ie. just listing specs. That isn't interesting. Users don't know what and why. They don't need to know the specs. In this day and age everyone has lots of things to do, and contrary to popular Slashdot belief, normal people have no need to learn such things. Hell, there's many things I could learn and which would improve my daily life, but I rather learn more about things that really matter and interest to me - that being computers and everything related. At the same time I can see everyone is the same way, but about other things. I don't expect them to know computers or what I know, and they don't expect me to know everything either. Then you can just laught it off. That's being social, something nerds are really bad with.
What most nerds don't get about advertising and user experience is WHY. What can this do to me and why? "What do I get out of the freedom of Android (or Linux)?" It needs to be something that the user, the normal user, actually cares about. As a side note, I honestly can't think of any reason the freedom of Linux would provide to casual users, compared to Windows and OSX. That is probably the reason why Linux still isn't on desktop. It's also what Stallman constantly forgets to mention and just comes out as an asshole trying to force everyone to FOSS.
The iPhone ad shown in the article is actually perfect. It answers why, it shows what you can do and it doesn't go on and on about things users don't directly care about, like processor speed. Hell, I'm a geek and that ad made me want to buy iPhone (and on top of that iPad too!). The Android advertisement just left me thinking if it's an advertisement for some movie or wtf.
And another why: why aren't I, as a software engineer, entitled to getting royalties every time someone uses something with my code in it? It's creative work, it's copyrighted work, so why don't I get paid every time like musicians?
What? It's entirely possible. Just license your code that way.
Oh and just as a note, they could still just carry all the other groups. In fact they could carry all groups, but just block binaries. They already have that system in place as they save text posts longer than binaries. This would satisfy BREIN's wishes. Of course, Usenet providers know that they will lose all their pirating customers if they did that, so they decided to just wrap it up and go home (after a good long profitable run).
It's not a free speech matter. Just take a look at Binverse and Usenext sites. All they do is advertise download speeds, binaries, "user uploaded content" and blazing fast downloads. It's clear to everyone what files those are and what users will be looking for. Sadly, that is the state of Usenet now. It's just warez. You would had have a good point in the 90's, but now it's just a scheme from Usenet companies to profit from such material. They know that without warez they would not have subscribers.
That would had been the case in 90's when USENET still was something. Sadly, now it's 99.99% warez, and these companies are marketing it as such. Binverse, etc. all market the good and fast access to binary groups and there's nothing but pirated material there. These companies are more or less directly profiting from warez.
To be honest, I felt like I was much more intelligent when I was 16-17 years old. I spent my days learning and coding. Now that I am 23, I look back to my past year and it's full of partying, booze, traveling around the world and having sex with random chicks from all around the world. Not that intelligently spent time as I did when I was 16-17 years old. Of course I know a lot more about things, but that doesn't come from sudden increase in my intelligence, it just comes from my experiences. If anything, I feel like I'm only dumber now.
16 year old isn't a child. It's late teens, almost an adult. That's why the whole video should be considered as violence against adult, not teaching your child (and even then it would go seriously over the top). But fact is, 16 year olds are adult already. Most can act and think that way too. At least I could.
There's one highly successful "DRM" that can't be circumcised and what game companies have been started doing lately. It originates from Asia, where piracy has always been a problem, but only recently has been started gaining support in western markets. Many people hate it, many love it, but it's a direct result of piracy, and also what more and more companies will start using. It's free2play games, and other multiplayer games, and means dark times for single player gamers.
I think Valve succeeded with f2p in Team Fortress 2. It doesn't get too much in the way, and users can still get everything without paying lots of money. But there is incentive to do so. But then there's also all those Facebook games and other shitty free2play games which practically require you to pay lots and lots of money. It also means one can buy advantage in the game. But in the end, it is result of the widespread piracy and companies adapting to the situation, just like people always said they should do.
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Not all of them spam like that, especially small business owners. I have friends around the world and spend most of my year living elsewhere too, and especially in Asia some expats have small businesses on the side, like restaurants or baking things you can't get elsewhere. When they post "I'm baking (food we eat in my home country), they just went to oven!" it really doesn't seem like bad marketing. So I go visit, grab a beer and buy and eat a piece or two while talking with the guys at the same time. In addition to that, I don't really mind when the restaurants I visit post some party pictures (relaxed pictures, not "everyone is fucking drunk" ones), it doesn't bother me either. Of course, somehow in Asia stuff like that has a much more personal feel. And you can easily find new interesting people that way, and find the restaurants via your friends or people you meet. This is why Facebook is so good for it - you find stuff you don't even know to look for, via connections.
Of course, it's your own fault if you follow something like Walmart on Facebook.
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I've always been wondering about this, and this line reminds me about it again. Why do countries have genders? Not every country is a man either - for example Russia, China and my country all view it as motherland. On the other hand, according to this, US and then several other countries view it as fatherland. Why?
I think the best solution would be if YouTube went to pay-per-view model. Users would get to see for example 1 minute of the video and if they like it, they can quickly pay for access from their wallet. Since the wallet can be filled for example at $5, $10 or $25, it also enables micro-transactions inside YouTube. Liked that baby video? Give it $0.01. Liked that funny cat video? Give it $0.01 too. And when the video uploader has asked for a price, you could pay few dollars to watch it. The profit would be split between YouTube, content owner and the uploader.
I just like to point out that this is exactly why Microsoft has gone to courts regarding patents too. Others have sued them first and MS has used their defenses. But on Slashdot that always gets turned around as MS suing first and "threatening" Linux, especially with the FAT filesystem thing (which war other company first started)
Ah, the "but mooom, he started it!". I get it.
So much for Google's do no evil. At the same time while they're talking how patents are bad, they use their proxy companies to attack competitors. They get what they want and Google keeps it white clean image.
I'm fairly sure Windows is a general purpose OS with no one philosophy. It has a market share of over 90% - every kind of person uses Windows. There's a fair share of programmers (even FOSS ones) and hackers (in the good sense) too.
Hey twat, how fucking high are you? The quote is right in GPP's post. It's not a long post either.
Also, many web developers probably aren't really trying to learn JavaScript - they're working on something else, for example with PHP and HTML, but need to do a few specific things with JavaScript.
Well that's not entirely true. Spammers don't have infinite resources, and they value working email addresses. This is why they also clean up their lists or buy lists that are guaranteed to work. It makes their process much faster and more efficient. If they had infinite resources, they would be just spamming random email addresses.
It can be easily done with Outlook and some VBA scripting. But I remember that at least last time VBA support under Linux wasn't really that good. So you need Windows for this task.
Sidestepping the whole garbage that your post was, how the hell is this an OS function? It isn't in Linux either. And there is no reason why it couldn't be done on any OS.
Eudora is actually just Thunderbird with an Eudora-like look now. It's sad really, I loved Eudora.
And what would that reason be? Is there some reason why you cannot upload it elsewhere or host it?
You would have a good argument if there actually would be large amount of legit binaries on Usenet. Frankly, 99.99% of it is pirated material and sadly that changes things. Especially when everyone knows you pay those Usenet binary companies for the sole reason of getting warez.
It's because Android devices are marketed for nerds, by nerds. And nerds don't understand marketing or user experience. You can see it with Linux. Even if the Android advertisements would include features, I have a strong feeling it would be something like "Freedom! 1 GHz processor! 128MB RAM!", ie. just listing specs. That isn't interesting. Users don't know what and why. They don't need to know the specs. In this day and age everyone has lots of things to do, and contrary to popular Slashdot belief, normal people have no need to learn such things. Hell, there's many things I could learn and which would improve my daily life, but I rather learn more about things that really matter and interest to me - that being computers and everything related. At the same time I can see everyone is the same way, but about other things. I don't expect them to know computers or what I know, and they don't expect me to know everything either. Then you can just laught it off. That's being social, something nerds are really bad with.
What most nerds don't get about advertising and user experience is WHY. What can this do to me and why? "What do I get out of the freedom of Android (or Linux)?" It needs to be something that the user, the normal user, actually cares about. As a side note, I honestly can't think of any reason the freedom of Linux would provide to casual users, compared to Windows and OSX. That is probably the reason why Linux still isn't on desktop. It's also what Stallman constantly forgets to mention and just comes out as an asshole trying to force everyone to FOSS.
The iPhone ad shown in the article is actually perfect. It answers why, it shows what you can do and it doesn't go on and on about things users don't directly care about, like processor speed. Hell, I'm a geek and that ad made me want to buy iPhone (and on top of that iPad too!). The Android advertisement just left me thinking if it's an advertisement for some movie or wtf.
And another why: why aren't I, as a software engineer, entitled to getting royalties every time someone uses something with my code in it? It's creative work, it's copyrighted work, so why don't I get paid every time like musicians?
What? It's entirely possible. Just license your code that way.
Oh and just as a note, they could still just carry all the other groups. In fact they could carry all groups, but just block binaries. They already have that system in place as they save text posts longer than binaries. This would satisfy BREIN's wishes. Of course, Usenet providers know that they will lose all their pirating customers if they did that, so they decided to just wrap it up and go home (after a good long profitable run).
It's not a free speech matter. Just take a look at Binverse and Usenext sites. All they do is advertise download speeds, binaries, "user uploaded content" and blazing fast downloads. It's clear to everyone what files those are and what users will be looking for. Sadly, that is the state of Usenet now. It's just warez. You would had have a good point in the 90's, but now it's just a scheme from Usenet companies to profit from such material. They know that without warez they would not have subscribers.
That would had been the case in 90's when USENET still was something. Sadly, now it's 99.99% warez, and these companies are marketing it as such. Binverse, etc. all market the good and fast access to binary groups and there's nothing but pirated material there. These companies are more or less directly profiting from warez.
BREIN didn't have any power, courts did. And they went there and got results, just like you do in a civilized country.
With a foundation of fear, you can build up respect, trust and love. Sure, it's nicer if you can avoid it
Is this how you handle all your relationships?
To be honest, I felt like I was much more intelligent when I was 16-17 years old. I spent my days learning and coding. Now that I am 23, I look back to my past year and it's full of partying, booze, traveling around the world and having sex with random chicks from all around the world. Not that intelligently spent time as I did when I was 16-17 years old. Of course I know a lot more about things, but that doesn't come from sudden increase in my intelligence, it just comes from my experiences. If anything, I feel like I'm only dumber now.
Minor yes, but not a child.
16 year old isn't a child. It's late teens, almost an adult. That's why the whole video should be considered as violence against adult, not teaching your child (and even then it would go seriously over the top). But fact is, 16 year olds are adult already. Most can act and think that way too. At least I could.
There's one highly successful "DRM" that can't be circumcised and what game companies have been started doing lately. It originates from Asia, where piracy has always been a problem, but only recently has been started gaining support in western markets. Many people hate it, many love it, but it's a direct result of piracy, and also what more and more companies will start using. It's free2play games, and other multiplayer games, and means dark times for single player gamers.
I think Valve succeeded with f2p in Team Fortress 2. It doesn't get too much in the way, and users can still get everything without paying lots of money. But there is incentive to do so. But then there's also all those Facebook games and other shitty free2play games which practically require you to pay lots and lots of money. It also means one can buy advantage in the game. But in the end, it is result of the widespread piracy and companies adapting to the situation, just like people always said they should do.