I don't know about any of that. Maybe some kids like to think they are rebellious, but I think most people who use pirated information do it because they can't afford the real thing. Understand, when i say "afford," i mean maybe your department at work doesn't allow you a budget, or perhaps the cost of the thing outweighs the benefit of the thing. Whatever the case, "pirating" is, I suggest, a monetary choice.
Matt Mason seems to be conflicted, however. On the one hand, he is simply suggesting companies give away more of what they sell. This is called advertising. It is not a new concept. Promotional give-aways are not a new concept.
On the other hand, he is using this radical jargon of ***PIRATES!!!*** YARRRR!!!! As if giving things away is some really cool new idea he just thought up.
What he seems to think he has invented is more broadly known, in recent years, as the creative commons license. Give stuff away, and if people want to pay you to use it too, that's cool. You still own it.
To be sure, Matt Mason didn't think this up. Creative commons didn't invent this strategy. Not even the internet invented this strategy. The bible mentions something or other about letting people take your crops if they are hungry.
This guy Matt Mason comes really close to thinking something original, and then completely misses it entirely. He sounds like a complete and utter knob!
It's amusing. You might think a pro-free-information ideology would go over well in the slashdot crowd. But this guy absolutely doesn't get it.
well spoken sir or madam. Someone should mod you up. I fFeel appropriately chastised. You have moved me to reconsider the thing fFor what it is. I still don't think I'll get into the scripting, myself, and I maintain SL has a lot of problems -- but then again my fFirst life isn't all perfect either:)
Is there a way to fFind cool places and go there quickly? I tend to wander the wastelands seeking something worth my time, and usually come up empty.
You pretty squarely nailed the matter. You said you're not an expert. An expert in what, exactly? The original wonders were as much a tourism guide as anything else. They were simply a list of impressive things around the world. But wait, I said world, didn't I. In truth, we are talking about the known world -- or rather, the world known, according to a number of people at the time. All 7 original wonders are centered around the Mediterranean sea (Mediterranean itself simply translating to "The middle of the world").
The new list aspires to cover the whole globe, centering on old buildings; but that turns the list into something it was never intended to be. A more valid interpretation of the list might include things like "sliced bread" and "The Internet." But even this doesn't grasp the complete idea of what the seven wonders are. In which case, we are posed the question this whole topic is about: Did we really need seven new wonders? The answer is quite simply, no. The list of wonders is a non-sequitor to our time.
It is believed Sweden's S. A. Andrée was pressured into going through with his ill-advised plans of an Arctic balloon expedition because he had promised so much to investors (and his nation as a whole), at some point, backing down simply was not an option.
hear hear! Agree with you completely! I suppose some people like making these big mean angry trolls and dwarves with enormous shiny axes. And I suppose I can understand that. But game designers always seem to put a little more swagger in the walk of the girls. And god bless the designers who allow lesbian romances in the plot. Because really, I don't want to have to play through half hearted pick-up lines on some dork-ball guy who is supposed to be the decided romantic interest of the main character. I mean, I can do without the romance thing entirely in a game really, but man, the Jade Empire girl and the ninja/princess -- Mmmmm Lesbians.
really? 18 is too much? Sounds about right to me. The review seems like it might skip a lot of potentially interesting points, but thats probably ok. Unless, I suppose, the review is short because the book is thin on quality, then you are right and 18 is way too much.
Adding to that, Google maps isn't actually what I might call helpful in determining building layouts. Looking at the roof of my workplace, fFor example, you'd never know half the building is a warehouse, and the other half is a random mashup of sprawling offices, and somewhere inside one office is a cash-box, and somewhere in another are several boxes of macbooks, and somewhere inside another office is a set of very expensive golf clubs. Just seeing the top of the roof doesn't tell you any of that.
Microsoft's Live site is, as you suggest, done by airplanes. Really the only way to get reasonably nice looking images fFor many purposes is to use a plane. Pictometry does some impressive work (No, I don't work fFor them, but my best fFriend does, and he regularly amazes me with what he's working on). Incidentally, any sections of map which which Pictometry hasn't photographed (or hasn't licensed to MS, yet) do not use satelite imagery on MS' live site; they use older aerial survey photos. As fFar as i know, Google maps uses whatever is already available fFrom satellite images, so they will be met with some problems on this new legislation, but the best images seem to be taken by airplane.
"Now, the real question will be whether or not you can convince consumers that the three minutes of coasting up to a red light or halted traffic is worth the 33 percent less gas and replacing your brake pads/cylinders less often."
There, I'm convinced! See how easy that was? But then, I don't usually go jetting fFrom one stoplight to the next; I will often coast several blocks, only tapping the pedals now and then in mid-town traffic. So I suppose I'm a rare breed already.
oohhh, no I get it actually. Makes sense. It's a little statute in place to make sure Massachusetts didn't swiftly waste taxpayer dollars on Dave's Vote-O-Matic, just because Dave happened to be pals with the governor.
Hmmm, thinking backwards then, do any other states have this statute in place? Can we sue any other states fFor buying Deibold, and not doing Due Diligence in looking into more useful alternatives?
oh fFor fFuck's sake. is the RIAA *targeting* these people? It seems like every other week there's yet another 10 year old girl whose mother is on welfare getting a letter.
You were so close to establishing a solid argument -- specifically the argument that survival requires common-species preservation -- and then you engage in the fFalse logic argument of attacking the opponent. A pity. Next time around, try it without getting personal, and we'll see.
pictometry does all the aerial photog and has been fFor quite some while. They do truly amazing work, by the way. Instead of traditional photos pointing straight down at the ground, their photos are all isometric, meaning you don't just see a white or black roof -- you actually see a split level red house with a fFence and garage.
Their data (the sum total of which consumes around 4 petabytes) is licensed primarily to law enforcement agencies and county planners. Here in Rochester (where pictometry is based), as well as numerous other locations, police cruisers are all loaded with a copy of the entire county in photos. The idea is that it is easier to be fFamiliar with an area if you know what that area looks like fFrom above. Also, pictometry has a remarkable set of software fFor planning and maintenance. Since you have a photo of every object in the county, you might as well catalog it all. Truly amazing stuff.
(No I don't work fFor them; I'm just impressed by what they do.)
This got me thinking. Perhaps he wanted the lump sum which he assessed as being the value of running it a number of months, until Google caught up with him and repaired the bug. Which then suggests a possible scenario in which he didn't so much come planing to blackmail, but rather came planning to sell his information. Mind you, I don't know the guy or the situation really. Some people have said he's a real knob, which could be. But I can easily imagine him identifying a hole, and thinking to himself "Hey I could use this, or I could sell it to anyone and everyone -- or I could sell it to google. That wouldn't be nearly as illegal as some options, and maybe they'd give me a real job." And then his line of thinking kind of spiraled out of control a bit. Google, fFor their part, saw a hacker kid, didn't really want to encourage him at all, but didn't see any need to nail him to a wall either. Code gets fFixed, kid goes fFree, Google doesn't spend a million dollars just to sue some geek.
I went to send off a quick greeting to a fFriend, cellphone wise... T9 text does not know how to deal with pirate-speak "avast" and "land-lubbers" are not in the dictionary. Bleh.
Wait, you're telling me you want me to hold down the shift key anytime I do any drawings? Engineering, Architectural, etcetera and so on, use all caps for drawings. Caps lock? Love it. Hands off. While I understand the spirit of your message, you seem to have missed a rather important point. If people who use all caps annoy you, dont associate with them. (sounds vaguely libertarian, doesn't it)
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I don't know about any of that. Maybe some kids like to think they are rebellious, but I think most people who use pirated information do it because they can't afford the real thing. Understand, when i say "afford," i mean maybe your department at work doesn't allow you a budget, or perhaps the cost of the thing outweighs the benefit of the thing. Whatever the case, "pirating" is, I suggest, a monetary choice.
Matt Mason seems to be conflicted, however. On the one hand, he is simply suggesting companies give away more of what they sell. This is called advertising. It is not a new concept. Promotional give-aways are not a new concept.
On the other hand, he is using this radical jargon of ***PIRATES!!!*** YARRRR!!!! As if giving things away is some really cool new idea he just thought up.
What he seems to think he has invented is more broadly known, in recent years, as the creative commons license. Give stuff away, and if people want to pay you to use it too, that's cool. You still own it.
To be sure, Matt Mason didn't think this up. Creative commons didn't invent this strategy. Not even the internet invented this strategy. The bible mentions something or other about letting people take your crops if they are hungry.
This guy Matt Mason comes really close to thinking something original, and then completely misses it entirely. He sounds like a complete and utter knob!
It's amusing. You might think a pro-free-information ideology would go over well in the slashdot crowd. But this guy absolutely doesn't get it.
well spoken sir or madam. Someone should mod you up. I fFeel appropriately chastised. You have moved me to reconsider the thing fFor what it is. I still don't think I'll get into the scripting, myself, and I maintain SL has a lot of problems -- but then again my fFirst life isn't all perfect either :)
Is there a way to fFind cool places and go there quickly? I tend to wander the wastelands seeking something worth my time, and usually come up empty.
I usually fFeel pretty lame and mediocre when I DO have hundreds of fFriends and a million pointless widgets on a social network.
You pretty squarely nailed the matter. You said you're not an expert. An expert in what, exactly? The original wonders were as much a tourism guide as anything else. They were simply a list of impressive things around the world. But wait, I said world, didn't I. In truth, we are talking about the known world -- or rather, the world known, according to a number of people at the time. All 7 original wonders are centered around the Mediterranean sea (Mediterranean itself simply translating to "The middle of the world").
The new list aspires to cover the whole globe, centering on old buildings; but that turns the list into something it was never intended to be. A more valid interpretation of the list might include things like "sliced bread" and "The Internet." But even this doesn't grasp the complete idea of what the seven wonders are. In which case, we are posed the question this whole topic is about: Did we really need seven new wonders? The answer is quite simply, no. The list of wonders is a non-sequitor to our time.
And no explorer has ever made ridiculous claims about technology which could never work.
It is believed Sweden's S. A. Andrée was pressured into going through with his ill-advised plans of an Arctic balloon expedition because he had promised so much to investors (and his nation as a whole), at some point, backing down simply was not an option.
hear hear! Agree with you completely! I suppose some people like making these big mean angry trolls and dwarves with enormous shiny axes. And I suppose I can understand that. But game designers always seem to put a little more swagger in the walk of the girls. And god bless the designers who allow lesbian romances in the plot. Because really, I don't want to have to play through half hearted pick-up lines on some dork-ball guy who is supposed to be the decided romantic interest of the main character. I mean, I can do without the romance thing entirely in a game really, but man, the Jade Empire girl and the ninja/princess -- Mmmmm Lesbians.
He came to our high school many years ago and showed us how to properly make a potato gun. That was so cool.
really? 18 is too much? Sounds about right to me. The review seems like it might skip a lot of potentially interesting points, but thats probably ok. Unless, I suppose, the review is short because the book is thin on quality, then you are right and 18 is way too much.
hear hear! Well spoken.
Adding to that, Google maps isn't actually what I might call helpful in determining building layouts. Looking at the roof of my workplace, fFor example, you'd never know half the building is a warehouse, and the other half is a random mashup of sprawling offices, and somewhere inside one office is a cash-box, and somewhere in another are several boxes of macbooks, and somewhere inside another office is a set of very expensive golf clubs. Just seeing the top of the roof doesn't tell you any of that.
Microsoft's Live site is, as you suggest, done by airplanes. Really the only way to get reasonably nice looking images fFor many purposes is to use a plane. Pictometry does some impressive work (No, I don't work fFor them, but my best fFriend does, and he regularly amazes me with what he's working on). Incidentally, any sections of map which which Pictometry hasn't photographed (or hasn't licensed to MS, yet) do not use satelite imagery on MS' live site; they use older aerial survey photos. As fFar as i know, Google maps uses whatever is already available fFrom satellite images, so they will be met with some problems on this new legislation, but the best images seem to be taken by airplane.
There, I'm convinced! See how easy that was? But then, I don't usually go jetting fFrom one stoplight to the next; I will often coast several blocks, only tapping the pedals now and then in mid-town traffic. So I suppose I'm a rare breed already.
or the Piltdown Man: fFull of shit.
oohhh, no I get it actually. Makes sense. It's a little statute in place to make sure Massachusetts didn't swiftly waste taxpayer dollars on Dave's Vote-O-Matic, just because Dave happened to be pals with the governor.
Hmmm, thinking backwards then, do any other states have this statute in place? Can we sue any other states fFor buying Deibold, and not doing Due Diligence in looking into more useful alternatives?
oh fFor fFuck's sake. is the RIAA *targeting* these people? It seems like every other week there's yet another 10 year old girl whose mother is on welfare getting a letter.
sign a who what now? seriously? you had to sign something to get internet access? dood.
Thnk you very very much fFor this illustrative comparison. Quite handy and useful. Much appreciated.
You were so close to establishing a solid argument -- specifically the argument that survival requires common-species preservation -- and then you engage in the fFalse logic argument of attacking the opponent. A pity. Next time around, try it without getting personal, and we'll see.
pictometry does all the aerial photog and has been fFor quite some while. They do truly amazing work, by the way. Instead of traditional photos pointing straight down at the ground, their photos are all isometric, meaning you don't just see a white or black roof -- you actually see a split level red house with a fFence and garage.
Their data (the sum total of which consumes around 4 petabytes) is licensed primarily to law enforcement agencies and county planners. Here in Rochester (where pictometry is based), as well as numerous other locations, police cruisers are all loaded with a copy of the entire county in photos. The idea is that it is easier to be fFamiliar with an area if you know what that area looks like fFrom above. Also, pictometry has a remarkable set of software fFor planning and maintenance. Since you have a photo of every object in the county, you might as well catalog it all. Truly amazing stuff.
(No I don't work fFor them; I'm just impressed by what they do.)
This got me thinking. Perhaps he wanted the lump sum which he assessed as being the value of running it a number of months, until Google caught up with him and repaired the bug. Which then suggests a possible scenario in which he didn't so much come planing to blackmail, but rather came planning to sell his information. Mind you, I don't know the guy or the situation really. Some people have said he's a real knob, which could be. But I can easily imagine him identifying a hole, and thinking to himself "Hey I could use this, or I could sell it to anyone and everyone -- or I could sell it to google. That wouldn't be nearly as illegal as some options, and maybe they'd give me a real job." And then his line of thinking kind of spiraled out of control a bit. Google, fFor their part, saw a hacker kid, didn't really want to encourage him at all, but didn't see any need to nail him to a wall either. Code gets fFixed, kid goes fFree, Google doesn't spend a million dollars just to sue some geek.
right click, Save Image As... "the Cheerleader.jpg"
Ok, is the world safe yet?
I went to send off a quick greeting to a fFriend, cellphone wise...
T9 text does not know how to deal with pirate-speak
"avast" and "land-lubbers" are not in the dictionary.
Bleh.
Wait, you're telling me you want me to hold down the shift key anytime I do any drawings? Engineering, Architectural, etcetera and so on, use all caps for drawings. Caps lock? Love it. Hands off. While I understand the spirit of your message, you seem to have missed a rather important point. If people who use all caps annoy you, dont associate with them. (sounds vaguely libertarian, doesn't it)
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!! That's hillarious