And Brazil is hardly a shining beacon of civil rights
Care to clarify on that ? I live in Brazil and, based on what I read, I feel my civil rights are much safer here than in USA and several European countries.
If this is really astroturfing, they just shot themselves on the foot. I mean, I've just got the message that this new technology of theirs will be "prohibitively expensive"...
Some time ago, a publisher released a book that I wanted. It was part of an ongoing series, and I had all the previous as e-books (paid for). However, now the publisher told the stores they can no longer sell these e-books for people from outside USA. This e-book is now simply unavailable to me. They don't sell it in my country, or anywhere else that will sell to me.
To add insult to injury, after several attempts to talk to the publisher, they never, even once, replied to my e-mails.
Need prove I was willing to pay ? I payed for all the others before. I even payed premium for those "just released" books.
My option ? A pirate download, of course. Which was, I'm said to say, readily available after a few days.
It amazes people they keep complaining about piracy, when they seem to simply be unwilling to sell to people who wants to pay. In this particular case, even the author of the book (who DID reply me) was baffled by the publisher's attitude. Yeah, protecting the authors my ass.
1s44c, please don't take this as criticism toward you. I'm just taking this as an example.
Most people on IT really have no idea what high-availability is. They should talk to some people on the telecom industry.
For example: having 2 systems that are virtually equal, one as backup as the other, is just not HA. For real HA, you need to have 2 systems as different from each other as possible, including bands. One box is Intel ? Make the other AMD. It is even better if you can have a PC and a non-PC system, but usually you can't justify the budget for that.
This is called "single point of failure". And, as you said, that is EXACTLY where the problem will happen.
People with critical servers that don't have fallback configurations to handle this kind of thing deserve to have their servers shutdown.
I've been using 0.95 for some time now, so none of my servers were affected but, even if they were, my servers are smart enough not to interrupt the services, and to notify me.
It is really disgusting the way people build servers these days. They think all they need to do is to install a couple packages, change a couple config lines and boom, the server is ready. They are getting what they asked for when stuff like this happens.
A few things, yes. Probably most of those were answered already, but lets do it again:
- Find out what the companies are looking for. Do your research. Your post seems to indicate you might be missing this one - No, most likely you can't program. Just because you think you can, doesn't mean that the companies will think the same way. Talk to some people who are already working in this business and see what they think - School didn't teach you a trade. Deal with it. If you were dedicated and lucky, it thought you how to LEARN a trade. You do that after school. (Unless you were working while in college, and that doesn't seem to be the case) - Ask yourself: why would a given company hire you, and not one of the other 9000 who applied.
In other words, make yourself into something they need. Sorry, no dream jobs out there, at least for people who are starting now. Find what they want, become that, and then, after you are inside, find ways to move into positions that will suit you better.
I understood you. I just wanted to clarify this because some people might think you only meant stuff like servers hosted by big companies (Blizzard etc), and not the small persistent worlds like we had on NWN.
Just because YOU are not paying for it, doesn't mean it is free. I remember a friend of mine that used to run a NWN permanent world. Used to cost him some good money and time.
Not to mention the costs of keeping the servers running. Hardware, staff, bandwidth, more staff. Yes, WoW is a gold making machine for Blizzard. No, it is still not cheap to develop/maintain.
They're not doing it because they want it; they're doing it because they're paid to do it.
So we are to believe that working for AMD, we can do whatever we want, and not be ordered to do stuff we don't want ?
And what ? Developer companies doing things for the money ? No, I can't believe that. I mean, all their games are free today, right ?
This simply can't be true. I never heard of any company doing their stuff for the money. They all do it for the sheer pleasure of whatever it is they do.
I agree that people can be dumb, specially when placing blame.
I don't blame either the users or the websites for this, but the advertisements.
There is always a level of advertisement that people will accept. How intrusive and distracting it is. When we go after that limit, people will either start block adds, or look for a new website. Give enough websites with excessive/annoying adds, and people will start blocking everything, just in case. Does this surprise anyone ? Anyone with even a bare knowledge of human behavior could predict this outcome.
Keep the adds simple, non intrusive. Make them attractive and "distracting" only for people interested on whatever the hell you are selling. It is not hard. Leave everyone else alone, otherwise whenever those people want something like what you are selling, they will go out of their way to avoid you. I did it in the past, and know a lot of other people who did the same.
Do people really need (as in not to be annoyed) adblocking software for all websites they visit ? No. Do they need it on enough software that they will just rather leave it on by default ? Yes.
So, here is an idea. Make a group of websites that agree to a given standard regarding add. Get in contact with the people who develop the add blocking addons, and ask them to add a new option so people can block adds for all websites but those from that group. Make that option on (people can see the add) by default, but make it easy for the users to turn it off if they still want.
Also, make sure there is someone, maybe some 3rd party, to check that these websites are following the rules, and dump them with extreme prejudice if they break them.
It is totally possible to have a healthy amount of advertising, without becoming annoying to a point where the option are to either block the adds, or stop visiting the website.
Trust me, things in Brazil are not any better than in USA.
I just hate Pilsener beer (or Pilsen, as it is called around here). At least we can find Red Ale, and some other real beers, from small breweries, if you know where to look.
I will take a sucktacular pirated ebook over a translated one anyday.
Seriously. Not only you lose a lot of the flavor, some things simply don't translate well. Not to mention that most translations are done by people who have no idea what they are translating, and things end up completely messed up.
I have a couple books here where I have both the original (english) and the translated copy. It is almost 2 different books (the second one sucking).
I never said these books had DRM. They actually do. And this is something new. Until a couple months before, I was able to buy those without a problem.
And what kind of STUPID publishing agreement is that ? I can understand (not agree, but understand) if someone else was selling those books in my country, but no one is. The books simply don't exist here.
DRM is just part of this race to P2P. I always payed for my EBooks. They were cheap and easy. I get them in a few seconds, instead of having to wait days for delivery. Ok, I live outside USA, so ordering paper books is always a exercise in patience. Now, the last time I tried to buy an e-book, I've got a message I could not buy it because I was outside the USA. It was a restriction imposed by the publisher. Now: 1) I can't get those in my country 2) Even if I could, it would be a translated version (which sucks)
So my only option was to get a pirated version of the book. Took me 5 minutes, tops and, since I could not download that single ebook, I ended up downloading (and reading) other books by the same author.
I WANT to PAY for my content. But things get to a point where they simply won't take my money. And then they complain about piracy. It is just ridiculous. I contacted the bookstore and even the publisher to try and sort this out, but simply could not BUY the ebook.
Isn't this exactly the same thing we do when creating spamassassin regexps to block spam ? I know I do this several times a week, trying to identify common elements on spam to create effective filters that work despite the variations.
What part of this is news again ? We've all been doing this for years.
Ok, here are some practical questions: - Which countries are in line to sign this ? - How can we really fight this ? (Besides bitching on/.)
The USA have been trying to push DMCA-like stuff on the whole world for a few years now, mostly unsuccessfully (except for England, maybe?). How scared should we be ?
I don't know, but I really can't see a lot of countries signing this.
Not questioning how good javascript as a language is. However, you get a lot of overhead on a system with somewhat limited resources. So you have to add not only the interpreter, but also the browser and GUI, and that is a lot of overhead.
I just can't imagine any reason for Javascript on this one. One of the reasons for javascript (and web based Java) is so the application will run on the client, not on the server (yes, I know about ssjs etc). Why would anyone use it on a platform that is both the server and the client ? Sorry, it really sounds stupid to me.
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Care to clarify on that ? I live in Brazil and, based on what I read, I feel my civil rights are much safer here than in USA and several European countries.
If this is really astroturfing, they just shot themselves on the foot. I mean, I've just got the message that this new technology of theirs will be "prohibitively expensive" ...
Google is different case. They have branch offices in several countries. Probably one in Italy (since they have one in Brazil).
So they are subject to those countries laws.
Some time ago, a publisher released a book that I wanted. It was part of an ongoing series, and I had all the previous as e-books (paid for). However, now the publisher told the stores they can no longer sell these e-books for people from outside USA. This e-book is now simply unavailable to me. They don't sell it in my country, or anywhere else that will sell to me.
To add insult to injury, after several attempts to talk to the publisher, they never, even once, replied to my e-mails.
Need prove I was willing to pay ? I payed for all the others before. I even payed premium for those "just released" books.
My option ? A pirate download, of course. Which was, I'm said to say, readily available after a few days.
It amazes people they keep complaining about piracy, when they seem to simply be unwilling to sell to people who wants to pay. In this particular case, even the author of the book (who DID reply me) was baffled by the publisher's attitude. Yeah, protecting the authors my ass.
Or maybe people should ... you know ... not apply updates directly to their production servers without testing them first ?
No, that would be too radical. Who ever heard of updates causing problems ? It would never happen.
You know the "free" part there doesn't mean you are free not to do a good job, right ? Because, you know, you are not.
People still should know what they are doing. I never saw this announcement regarding 0.94, but nevertheless, none of my servers stopped.
1s44c, please don't take this as criticism toward you. I'm just taking this as an example.
Most people on IT really have no idea what high-availability is. They should talk to some people on the telecom industry.
For example: having 2 systems that are virtually equal, one as backup as the other, is just not HA. For real HA, you need to have 2 systems as different from each other as possible, including bands. One box is Intel ? Make the other AMD. It is even better if you can have a PC and a non-PC system, but usually you can't justify the budget for that.
This is called "single point of failure". And, as you said, that is EXACTLY where the problem will happen.
"Passing e-mails without checking in case the AV failed" is not really a fallback, at least not one I would recommend.
I was talking about having a second, different AV for that.
People with critical servers that don't have fallback configurations to handle this kind of thing deserve to have their servers shutdown.
I've been using 0.95 for some time now, so none of my servers were affected but, even if they were, my servers are smart enough not to interrupt the services, and to notify me.
It is really disgusting the way people build servers these days. They think all they need to do is to install a couple packages, change a couple config lines and boom, the server is ready. They are getting what they asked for when stuff like this happens.
A few things, yes. Probably most of those were answered already, but lets do it again:
- Find out what the companies are looking for. Do your research. Your post seems to indicate you might be missing this one
- No, most likely you can't program. Just because you think you can, doesn't mean that the companies will think the same way. Talk to some people who are already working in this business and see what they think
- School didn't teach you a trade. Deal with it. If you were dedicated and lucky, it thought you how to LEARN a trade. You do that after school. (Unless you were working while in college, and that doesn't seem to be the case)
- Ask yourself: why would a given company hire you, and not one of the other 9000 who applied.
In other words, make yourself into something they need. Sorry, no dream jobs out there, at least for people who are starting now. Find what they want, become that, and then, after you are inside, find ways to move into positions that will suit you better.
Notice: I am an IT business owner
I understood you. I just wanted to clarify this because some people might think you only meant stuff like servers hosted by big companies (Blizzard etc), and not the small persistent worlds like we had on NWN.
Just because YOU are not paying for it, doesn't mean it is free.
I remember a friend of mine that used to run a NWN permanent world. Used to cost him some good money and time.
Not to mention the costs of keeping the servers running. Hardware, staff, bandwidth, more staff.
Yes, WoW is a gold making machine for Blizzard. No, it is still not cheap to develop/maintain.
So we are to believe that working for AMD, we can do whatever we want, and not be ordered to do stuff we don't want ?
And what ? Developer companies doing things for the money ? No, I can't believe that. I mean, all their games are free today, right ?
This simply can't be true. I never heard of any company doing their stuff for the money. They all do it for the sheer pleasure of whatever it is they do.
I agree that people can be dumb, specially when placing blame.
I don't blame either the users or the websites for this, but the advertisements.
There is always a level of advertisement that people will accept. How intrusive and distracting it is. When we go after that limit, people will either start block adds, or look for a new website. Give enough websites with excessive/annoying adds, and people will start blocking everything, just in case. Does this surprise anyone ? Anyone with even a bare knowledge of human behavior could predict this outcome.
Keep the adds simple, non intrusive. Make them attractive and "distracting" only for people interested on whatever the hell you are selling. It is not hard. Leave everyone else alone, otherwise whenever those people want something like what you are selling, they will go out of their way to avoid you. I did it in the past, and know a lot of other people who did the same.
Do people really need (as in not to be annoyed) adblocking software for all websites they visit ? No. Do they need it on enough software that they will just rather leave it on by default ? Yes.
So, here is an idea. Make a group of websites that agree to a given standard regarding add. Get in contact with the people who develop the add blocking addons, and ask them to add a new option so people can block adds for all websites but those from that group. Make that option on (people can see the add) by default, but make it easy for the users to turn it off if they still want.
Also, make sure there is someone, maybe some 3rd party, to check that these websites are following the rules, and dump them with extreme prejudice if they break them.
It is totally possible to have a healthy amount of advertising, without becoming annoying to a point where the option are to either block the adds, or stop visiting the website.
Trust me, things in Brazil are not any better than in USA.
I just hate Pilsener beer (or Pilsen, as it is called around here). At least we can find Red Ale, and some other real beers, from small breweries, if you know where to look.
It is not. Their main problem is the warm beer.
I will take a sucktacular pirated ebook over a translated one anyday.
Seriously. Not only you lose a lot of the flavor, some things simply don't translate well. Not to mention that most translations are done by people who have no idea what they are translating, and things end up completely messed up.
I have a couple books here where I have both the original (english) and the translated copy. It is almost 2 different books (the second one sucking).
I never said these books had DRM. They actually do. And this is something new. Until a couple months before, I was able to buy those without a problem.
And what kind of STUPID publishing agreement is that ? I can understand (not agree, but understand) if someone else was selling those books in my country, but no one is. The books simply don't exist here.
DRM is just part of this race to P2P.
I always payed for my EBooks. They were cheap and easy. I get them in a few seconds, instead of having to wait days for delivery.
Ok, I live outside USA, so ordering paper books is always a exercise in patience.
Now, the last time I tried to buy an e-book, I've got a message I could not buy it because I was outside the USA. It was a restriction imposed by the publisher. Now:
1) I can't get those in my country
2) Even if I could, it would be a translated version (which sucks)
So my only option was to get a pirated version of the book. Took me 5 minutes, tops and, since I could not download that single ebook, I ended up downloading (and reading) other books by the same author.
I WANT to PAY for my content. But things get to a point where they simply won't take my money. And then they complain about piracy. It is just ridiculous. I contacted the bookstore and even the publisher to try and sort this out, but simply could not BUY the ebook.
Isn't this exactly the same thing we do when creating spamassassin regexps to block spam ? I know I do this several times a week, trying to identify common elements on spam to create effective filters that work despite the variations.
What part of this is news again ? We've all been doing this for years.
Maybe you should read it again. Hydro has the lowest footprint.
Ok, here are some practical questions: /.)
- Which countries are in line to sign this ?
- How can we really fight this ? (Besides bitching on
The USA have been trying to push DMCA-like stuff on the whole world for a few years now, mostly unsuccessfully (except for England, maybe?). How scared should we be ?
I don't know, but I really can't see a lot of countries signing this.
Not questioning how good javascript as a language is. However, you get a lot of overhead on a system with somewhat limited resources. So you have to add not only the interpreter, but also the browser and GUI, and that is a lot of overhead.
I just can't imagine any reason for Javascript on this one. One of the reasons for javascript (and web based Java) is so the application will run on the client, not on the server (yes, I know about ssjs etc). Why would anyone use it on a platform that is both the server and the client ? Sorry, it really sounds stupid to me.