is that the MIT site is really responsive, even with inevitable slashdotting. I'm impressed by how fast the pages are loading, which says something for the people who did the actual implementation. Way to go folks!
Like hell it didn't help wholesale prices. If retail prices were to drop significantly, does anybody think wholesale prices would stay the same? Hel-lo???
Let's see, average price $15, average cost 50 cents. Those CDs will set the companies back a whopping $3 million, which is probably less than their lawyers' cocaine bill.
This sounds like any number of sci-fi visions of society as a hellish beehive of workers who never leave their jobs behind. What bothers me most is the push for car-mounted information displays. I hope soembody is working on getting the cars to steer themselves while the "driver" reads email, sends the boss a status report and tells the micro-refrig-owave at home to nuke a pizza, while ransacking the glove compartment for blood pressure pills.
Why get upset?? This guy decided to turn the Nigerian Spam Scam into a contest. You forward the emails to him, he adds up the amounts promised to you. I'm currently in about 10th place with $82 million. There's no prize, it's just for fun.
And Slashdot already posted this entertaining saga of someone who pretended to go along with it to see what would happen. Hilarious.
I don't get it. They trick the guy into buying a computer, or maybe 2 computers, at some store. Do they get something out of having the UPC codes? Maybe I'm just smoking crack but it seems pointless.
Lots of very interesting opinions being expressed here, but considering our recent experience with Firefly let's hold off on analyzing MIT's program until Sept 30 when it's actually released. Then we can actually look at some of the course material and THEN unleash our praises and criticisms. Personally, having attended a small, non-geek-friendly liberal arts college because I was too introverted to move away from home, I'm salivating to partake of a little vicarious MIT experience, even in a small way.
Even a third-rate lawyer could easily chew up anybody who tried to assert that "on-the-fly" mods are not copyright infringement. Output to the end consumer is just as controlled as copying. For example, it's illegal to use copyrighted music in a live stage play without permission, even if you never record the final output.
Yeah, and I love the way they correct themselves over at AMDZone -- the above quoted 2 lines are tacked onto the story, which still bears the headline, "Opteron to Support Palladium." If they took the time to add the correction, do you think they coulda stuck a "Not" in that headline?
I am Nakombo Aragumba, secretary of the recently deceased President Sani Abacha of Nigeria, who was avidly an expert player of the American computer game, "Ultima Online," amassing the sum of 26.3 million gold pieces. Before his untimely death the President entrusted to me control of these sums of gold, in the fear that our new and corrupt government would want to seeking control of this fortune.
My character is constant watched under by Government spies searching for this moneys who have infiltrated the game. It is the asking of your help for the transfer of this gold from my personal Ultima Online character to yours, in exchange you will receive a consideration of 2.3 million gold pieces.
Please contact me immediately to arrange for the transfer of this important fortune, as will be to our mutual benefit.
Respectful of yours sincerely Nakombo Aragumba, "Brentley of the Shire"
Yeah, it really makes you feel great about the government spending your tax dollars to protect these guys' 7- to 10-figure incomes when they drop hundreds of millions of dollars to win a boat race. Have fun boys.
We tend to forget that people involved with a specific popular thing have a perspsective bigger than that one thing. I don't know if Roddenberry would personally like Enterprise, but I'm certain he would judge it first as a television show and second as Star Trek. After all, he was a veteran writer, director and producer who did plenty of television other than Star Trek. I bet Gene would think pretty well of Enterprise as television, and would certainly allow that this one is somebody else's baby.
It's always dangerous to call somebody naive.
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Your social studies book may have said that our elected representatives represent us, but the person with the most campaign money has won every presidential election since Truman, and over 85% of congressional elections. The evolution of modern advertising in the 1950's convered American politics into a fundraising competition. Our representatives get elected on the basis of how well they convince us they are representing us, and they get the money to do that from the various money sources whose interests they actually represent.
If more people would put their money and effort where their mouths are and take the time to look for non-label bands, they would find bands they like just as much as the ones that have been spoon-fed to them. There is a ton of excellent music freely available from the bands themselves, which the labels have absolutely no control over and can't touch you for downloading. Finding it on doesn't even take that much more effort than bitching on/.
If people stop buying big-label music and buy unknown bands, the big labels will go out of business. But it takes effort to break our advertising-induced buying habits. Most people would rather rationalize their own laziness.
At the extreme end of the spectrum, a world completely without the concept of intellectual property would also be without the overhead incurred by all this bickering. Does open source cut out most of this crap or just create new varieties?
/. doesn't have to be all about file sharing and Linux distros. In my book the fine folks who collect these items are bona fide Geeks. It's educational to peek at the drama of their very different world.
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and got his first stock a month before Win3 was released.
is that the MIT site is really responsive, even with inevitable slashdotting. I'm impressed by how fast the pages are loading, which says something for the people who did the actual implementation. Way to go folks!
Like hell it didn't help wholesale prices. If retail prices were to drop significantly, does anybody think wholesale prices would stay the same? Hel-lo???
Let's see, average price $15, average cost 50 cents. Those CDs will set the companies back a whopping $3 million, which is probably less than their lawyers' cocaine bill.
This sounds like any number of sci-fi visions of society as a hellish beehive of workers who never leave their jobs behind. What bothers me most is the push for car-mounted information displays. I hope soembody is working on getting the cars to steer themselves while the "driver" reads email, sends the boss a status report and tells the micro-refrig-owave at home to nuke a pizza, while ransacking the glove compartment for blood pressure pills.
Stallman: "And monkeys will fly out of my butt"
I heard this guy Knight has it locked up.
Why get upset?? This guy decided to turn the Nigerian Spam Scam into a contest. You forward the emails to him, he adds up the amounts promised to you. I'm currently in about 10th place with $82 million. There's no prize, it's just for fun.
And Slashdot already posted this entertaining saga of someone who pretended to go along with it to see what would happen. Hilarious.
I don't get it. They trick the guy into buying a computer, or maybe 2 computers, at some store. Do they get something out of having the UPC codes? Maybe I'm just smoking crack but it seems pointless.
Lots of very interesting opinions being expressed here, but considering our recent experience with Firefly let's hold off on analyzing MIT's program until Sept 30 when it's actually released. Then we can actually look at some of the course material and THEN unleash our praises and criticisms. Personally, having attended a small, non-geek-friendly liberal arts college because I was too introverted to move away from home, I'm salivating to partake of a little vicarious MIT experience, even in a small way.
Even a third-rate lawyer could easily chew up anybody who tried to assert that "on-the-fly" mods are not copyright infringement. Output to the end consumer is just as controlled as copying. For example, it's illegal to use copyrighted music in a live stage play without permission, even if you never record the final output.
Three things that could come together happily:
1) A huge audience with prematurely obsolete video equipment, looking for material to watch on it
2) Independent filmmakers who don't expect to make money off their first efforts, just exposure
3) Broadband
I'm not qualified to propose a workable economic model for this, but it has the feel of something exciting waiting to happen.
Yeah, and I love the way they correct themselves over at AMDZone -- the above quoted 2 lines are tacked onto the story, which still bears the headline, "Opteron to Support Palladium." If they took the time to add the correction, do you think they coulda stuck a "Not" in that headline?
Sigh.
I can read most l33t, but could somebody tell me what the word "l33t" actually means?
I am Nakombo Aragumba, secretary of the recently deceased President Sani Abacha of Nigeria, who was avidly an expert player of the American computer game, "Ultima Online," amassing the sum of 26.3 million gold pieces. Before his untimely death the President entrusted to me control of these sums of gold, in the fear that our new and corrupt government would want to seeking control of this fortune.
My character is constant watched under by Government spies searching for this moneys who have infiltrated the game. It is the asking of your help for the transfer of this gold from my personal Ultima Online character to yours, in exchange you will receive a consideration of 2.3 million gold pieces.
Please contact me immediately to arrange for the transfer of this important fortune, as will be to our mutual benefit.
Respectful of yours sincerely
Nakombo Aragumba,
"Brentley of the Shire"
Yeah, it really makes you feel great about the government spending your tax dollars to protect these guys' 7- to 10-figure incomes when they drop hundreds of millions of dollars to win a boat race. Have fun boys.
We tend to forget that people involved with a specific popular thing have a perspsective bigger than that one thing. I don't know if Roddenberry would personally like Enterprise, but I'm certain he would judge it first as a television show and second as Star Trek. After all, he was a veteran writer, director and producer who did plenty of television other than Star Trek. I bet Gene would think pretty well of Enterprise as television, and would certainly allow that this one is somebody else's baby.
Jon B J, can you say "Duh?"
Time Travel.
Wesley.
Your social studies book may have said that our elected representatives represent us, but the person with the most campaign money has won every presidential election since Truman, and over 85% of congressional elections. The evolution of modern advertising in the 1950's convered American politics into a fundraising competition. Our representatives get elected on the basis of how well they convince us they are representing us, and they get the money to do that from the various money sources whose interests they actually represent.
If more people would put their money and effort where their mouths are and take the time to look for non-label bands, they would find bands they like just as much as the ones that have been spoon-fed to them. There is a ton of excellent music freely available from the bands themselves, which the labels have absolutely no control over and can't touch you for downloading. Finding it on doesn't even take that much more effort than bitching on /.
If people stop buying big-label music and buy unknown bands, the big labels will go out of business. But it takes effort to break our advertising-induced buying habits. Most people would rather rationalize their own laziness.
At the extreme end of the spectrum, a world completely without the concept of intellectual property would also be without the overhead incurred by all this bickering. Does open source cut out most of this crap or just create new varieties?
/. doesn't have to be all about file sharing and Linux distros. In my book the fine folks who collect these items are bona fide Geeks. It's educational to peek at the drama of their very different world.
He's known as "the Father of Modern Data Networking." Says so right here on his site.