So, some people think that the editors sit around and mod down trolls, crap, and maybe also some posts that the editor just isn't comfortable with.
Personally, I find this ridiculous. Yes, it is possible that the editors could be doing this, but who would be willing to waste that much of their time? I can't think of a more boring job.
You, too, can intern at VA Linux this summer! Our stock price may not be all that high, so we might find it hard to pay decent wages, but we'll give you unlimited mod points on Slashdot!:)
Is it just me, or did napster already distribute music from over 150 companies over the net? ^_^
That wasn't distribution, that was 'aiding and abetting' distribution (remember, they weren't hosting the music at the time). Maybe this time round they'll be a traditional download service as well (e.g. 10% of Napster users actually end up being bots with addresses like indydist3.napster.com)?
You might find a nice trip hard to come by -- ever since the Crown Prince (well, apparently him, anyway) strafed the family with bullets while high on hash & cocaine, things have been just a leeetle bit tense there...
I'd hope Mozilla loads faster since it's eating an extra 15MB of ram without a browser window even open.
How much memory do the parts of IE that Windows loads when it starts up use? (i.e. the browser as a workplace shell idea) -turbo just gives parity on that scale, maybe with a slightly higher cost in memory usage.
A better solution is to have the client send what types of data it prefers, perhaps a "Content-class: simple" as an example. You should send what a client says it wants, not keep a list of clients and what to send them (which leaves you stuck if a new client comes out until you update the database).
You'd probably want to have clients send a list of what they handle in preferential order, e.g. "Content-class: HTML4, HTML1, WAP, plain-text', and that way web servers could be set up to serve content at specific different levels -- something doing minimal data might only send out WAP and plain text, while all-singing all-dancing sites would have 'XML+CSS2+Shockwave' only:)
That way lies Web balkanization, but aren't we headed there anyway? Either that or an enforced socialism (i.e. you use IE6 or you don't exist). I know which one I'd prefer.
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Here's an object lesson: look up fractal image compression, invented by Michael Barnsley in the 1980's. It's a hell of a lot better than the DCT approach we use in JPEG, and better even than the wavelet technique used in JPEG-2000, but since Barnsley apparently has NO business sense, (insisting that he MUST get paid each and every time someone uses his compressor) the only place you'll see fractal compression is in things like the MicroSquish Encarta encyclopedia, NOT saving us all about 40% of the bandwidth wasted on P0rn every day.
I remember seeing this in New Scientist when Barnsley was first hyping it -- they expressed doubts about his business model too:) Any idea when those patents expire, and we can actually begin to implement it in something widely used?
4.5 million times 50. Wow, thats $225,000,000. I wonder what their incentives are!
You're not taking into account freebies for friends, and of course for celebrities for the promotional value! Call that 2000 people, that's a whole $100,000 they'll be missing out on...
I hear that the White House staffers are trying to teach him, so he'll be able to see what those funny squiggles are on his honorary doctorate -- a sad day for universities everywhere, that was...
The first two are both McDonalds sites (I can't remember the proper name of the first one, briefly saw it on a cup) and the second is a site for a movie.
It seems anyone with enough money can get around the.au "restrictions". [sigh]
All you have to do is register, e.g. McHappyDay Networks as a business name at your local registrar, paying a fee which varies from state to state (here in SA it's $105 for 2 years, I think) and then apply for the domain name using that company name as the company setting up the site. Of course, if you're doing this with the full approval and at the request of McDonald's, you won't get sued:)
You're going to have TV with an 'eye' that laserpinpoints your eyeball movements and makes sure that you're actually watching the ads by seeing if the laser reflects off of your retina. If you're not watching, an electrode that MUST be inserted in your arm in order to start up the TV will be sent a series of electric shocks until your eyeball is properly aligned again.
I think more research needs to be done into 'Blipverts', first seen in Canadian near-future SF TV program Max Headroom...
What about porn... will it give you links to other porn, and info about more porn. I'd give M$ props on that.
That depends... does Microsoft have substantial investments in any porn sites?
Just because everybody seems to obey when Microsoft tells them to bend over and take it, doesn't mean that they will try and making a profit by selling the videos:)
Only a real conspiracy nut would believe in mysterious organizations like the 'Troll High Council' (a secret group available for hire by websites to generate controversial discussions and hence increase page hits).
Apparently sometimes these guys are hired by senior management, and even the guys running the web site don't know that they have paid, professional trolls 'improving' their site on a daily basis.
Only a real conspiracy nut (and don't worry, that's a compliment:) would mention the possibility only to dismiss it, thus leaving open the tantalising possibility that this denial is just part of the cover-up...
I blame the Illuminatus! books. Ever since reading them, my critical faculties are all shot to hell:)
Obviously Jon Erikson does not exist (read his user info, it is quite funny) but people like that do exist, and their not satires.
1 Menstruation is a sin posted on 05:57 AM June 13th, 2001 CAS (Score:4 Replies:11)
attached to Really Targeted Advertising
2 Ugh, tampons are not suitable for TV posted on 05:32 AM June 13th, 2001 CAS (Score:2 Replies:4)
attached to Really Targeted Advertising
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4 Value added posted on 10:28 PM June 12th, 2001 CAS (Score:3 Replies:39)
attached to "Smart Tags," Round Two
Trolling his way to high karma, obviously:) Surely playing the reactionary in an online forum is much less rewarding than playing one in real life? The reactions are so much more extreme when you, e.g., try to blockade a Gay Pride march...
Well, the reason K-9 malfunctioned so often was that he always knew the answer to any bloody question:) Made things somewhat repetitive in the writing department...
One by one the unlimited dialups are going under. Eisa has stopped it. Optus have stopped it. Telstra have stopped it. Most of the smaller ISPs have stopped it, because it is simply unsustainable!
I actually decided to pre-select all services to Primus based on my experience with their net dialup -- and as I work from home, that's a lot of phone calls during the day. Hopefully they make some money from me that way (and oddly enough, I probably wouldn't have chosen them as my net provider if pre-selection had been enforced:)
I just want to get value for my money, and even if I don't intend to go over a bandwidth limit I look for the maximum value from the money I pay. There will always be companies willing to burn money for market share, when conditions are benign enough to permit such behaviour, and I feel no shame in this capital-obsessed society with taking advantage of that fact...
The average user uses DIALUP connections, not cable. Many ISPs still charge by the hour. The 'unlimited' type dialup plans are mostly the same: 300MB limit per month, 4hr disconnect time. Additional MB are usually charged at 20-30c. These plans usually cost us AU$20-30/mth. All traffic, incl. email/spam etc, counts towards our 300MB limit.
If you look around, you can usually find an unlimited dialup... I'm using iPrimus (still has the 4 hour disconnect though), and that's $75/3 months. I was hoping to get cable or ADSL soon, but now I think I'll wait a few more months before looking at the options again...
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Maybe the tags Microsoft created were *Really* smart tags and they self-destructed while contemplating the meaning of their life...
:)
A little like the bomb in Dark Star, that had to be taught philosophy to dissuade it from blowing up while still attached to the ship?
lomg -> long
:)
(I even previewed and everything! I blame Microsoft, they're dynamically changing my content already...
I was under the impression that it was possible to have some meta tags that would disable the smart tags if you were so inclined.
Hey, it's not going to take too lomg to add those meta-tags to every bloody web page out there, is it?
Sheesh... opt-out never works, at least not for all those people who get included against their will.
So, some people think that the editors sit around and mod down trolls, crap, and maybe also some posts that the editor just isn't comfortable with.
:)
Personally, I find this ridiculous. Yes, it is possible that the editors could be doing this, but who would be willing to waste that much of their time? I can't think of a more boring job.
You, too, can intern at VA Linux this summer! Our stock price may not be all that high, so we might find it hard to pay decent wages, but we'll give you unlimited mod points on Slashdot!
OSDN, Audit ALL of your systems NOW.
:)
They should be well schooled in how to do it after the FluffyBunny cracks...
/me cowers in anticipation of Flamebait moderation.
Ha, ha, ha. I think I'm going to have to give up satire.
:)
A little like Tom Lehrer retiring when Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize, claiming that "satire was dead"?
Is it just me, or did napster already distribute music from over 150 companies over the net? ^_^
That wasn't distribution, that was 'aiding and abetting' distribution (remember, they weren't hosting the music at the time). Maybe this time round they'll be a traditional download service as well (e.g. 10% of Napster users actually end up being bots with addresses like indydist3.napster.com)?
put the money into a nice trip to Nepal
You might find a nice trip hard to come by -- ever since the Crown Prince (well, apparently him, anyway) strafed the family with bullets while high on hash & cocaine, things have been just a leeetle bit tense there...
] From the article:
] "...Microsoft's main objection has been to
] Linux, which has a more restrictive licensing
] arrangement than FreeBSD."
What's ironic about that? What's wrong with that perspective? It happens to be true.
It is true; however, Microsoft's standard EULA is much more restrictive than both. We don't see them objecting to that, do we?
and of course for celebrities for the promotional value!
:)
Just what we need, aliens cloning our boy bands...
And this is different from current pop music how, exactly?
I'd hope Mozilla loads faster since it's eating an extra 15MB of ram without a browser window even open.
How much memory do the parts of IE that Windows loads when it starts up use? (i.e. the browser as a workplace shell idea) -turbo just gives parity on that scale, maybe with a slightly higher cost in memory usage.
A better solution is to have the client send what types of data it prefers, perhaps a "Content-class: simple" as an example. You should send what a client says it wants, not keep a list of clients and what to send them (which leaves you stuck if a new client comes out until you update the database).
:)
You'd probably want to have clients send a list of what they handle in preferential order, e.g. "Content-class: HTML4, HTML1, WAP, plain-text', and that way web servers could be set up to serve content at specific different levels -- something doing minimal data might only send out WAP and plain text, while all-singing all-dancing sites would have 'XML+CSS2+Shockwave' only
That way lies Web balkanization, but aren't we headed there anyway? Either that or an enforced socialism (i.e. you use IE6 or you don't exist). I know which one I'd prefer.
Here's an object lesson: look up fractal image compression, invented by Michael Barnsley in the 1980's. It's a hell of a lot better than the DCT approach we use in JPEG, and better even than the wavelet technique used in JPEG-2000, but since Barnsley apparently has NO business sense, (insisting that he MUST get paid each and every time someone uses his compressor) the only place you'll see fractal compression is in things like the MicroSquish Encarta encyclopedia, NOT saving us all about 40% of the bandwidth wasted on P0rn every day.
:) Any idea when those patents expire, and we can actually begin to implement it in something widely used?
I remember seeing this in New Scientist when Barnsley was first hyping it -- they expressed doubts about his business model too
4.5 million times 50. Wow, thats $225,000,000. I wonder what their incentives are!
You're not taking into account freebies for friends, and of course for celebrities for the promotional value! Call that 2000 people, that's a whole $100,000 they'll be missing out on...
President Bush can Read!?
I hear that the White House staffers are trying to teach him, so he'll be able to see what those funny squiggles are on his honorary doctorate -- a sad day for universities everywhere, that was...
One thing that pisses me off is that supposedly you're only allowed one domain name per registered company, and yet i've seen shit like this:
.au "restrictions". [sigh]
:)
www.mchappyday.com.au (or similar?)
www.burgermeister.com.au
www.pearlharbor.com.au
The first two are both McDonalds sites (I can't remember the proper name of the first one, briefly saw it on a cup) and the second is a site for a movie.
It seems anyone with enough money can get around the
All you have to do is register, e.g. McHappyDay Networks as a business name at your local registrar, paying a fee which varies from state to state (here in SA it's $105 for 2 years, I think) and then apply for the domain name using that company name as the company setting up the site. Of course, if you're doing this with the full approval and at the request of McDonald's, you won't get sued
You're going to have TV with an 'eye' that laserpinpoints your eyeball movements and makes sure that you're actually watching the ads by seeing if the laser reflects off of your retina. If you're not watching, an electrode that MUST be inserted in your arm in order to start up the TV will be sent a series of electric shocks until your eyeball is properly aligned again.
I think more research needs to be done into 'Blipverts', first seen in Canadian near-future SF TV program Max Headroom...
What about porn... will it give you links to other porn, and info about more porn. I'd give M$ props on that.
:)
That depends... does Microsoft have substantial investments in any porn sites?
Just because everybody seems to obey when Microsoft tells them to bend over and take it, doesn't mean that they will try and making a profit by selling the videos
Only a real conspiracy nut would believe in mysterious organizations like the 'Troll High Council' (a secret group available for hire by websites to generate controversial discussions and hence increase page hits).
:) would mention the possibility only to dismiss it, thus leaving open the tantalising possibility that this denial is just part of the cover-up...
:)
Apparently sometimes these guys are hired by senior management, and even the guys running the web site don't know that they have paid, professional trolls 'improving' their site on a daily basis.
Only a real conspiracy nut (and don't worry, that's a compliment
I blame the Illuminatus! books. Ever since reading them, my critical faculties are all shot to hell
Good bit of trolling.
:) Surely playing the reactionary in an online forum is much less rewarding than playing one in real life? The reactions are so much more extreme when you, e.g., try to blockade a Gay Pride march...
Obviously Jon Erikson does not exist (read his user info, it is quite funny) but people like that do exist, and their not satires.
1 Menstruation is a sin posted on 05:57 AM June 13th, 2001 CAS (Score:4 Replies:11)
attached to Really Targeted Advertising
2 Ugh, tampons are not suitable for TV posted on 05:32 AM June 13th, 2001 CAS (Score:2 Replies:4)
attached to Really Targeted Advertising
...
4 Value added posted on 10:28 PM June 12th, 2001 CAS (Score:3 Replies:39)
attached to "Smart Tags," Round Two
Trolling his way to high karma, obviously
No reliance on deus-ex-machina technology
;)
:) Made things somewhat repetitive in the writing department...
*cough* sonic screwdriver *cough*
Well, the reason K-9 malfunctioned so often was that he always knew the answer to any bloody question
One by one the unlimited dialups are going under. Eisa has stopped it. Optus have stopped it. Telstra have stopped it. Most of the smaller ISPs have stopped it, because it is simply unsustainable!
:)
I actually decided to pre-select all services to Primus based on my experience with their net dialup -- and as I work from home, that's a lot of phone calls during the day. Hopefully they make some money from me that way (and oddly enough, I probably wouldn't have chosen them as my net provider if pre-selection had been enforced
I just want to get value for my money, and even if I don't intend to go over a bandwidth limit I look for the maximum value from the money I pay. There will always be companies willing to burn money for market share, when conditions are benign enough to permit such behaviour, and I feel no shame in this capital-obsessed society with taking advantage of that fact...
And let's not forget BMX Bandits....
:)
Now I'm sure that's not what Nicole would say.
ask your mom if she would rather visit is portal, or an internet media hub and see which one she chooses.
"What's that again, dear?"
The average user uses DIALUP connections, not cable. Many ISPs still charge by the hour. The 'unlimited' type dialup plans are mostly the same: 300MB limit per month, 4hr disconnect time. Additional MB are usually charged at 20-30c. These plans usually cost us AU$20-30/mth. All traffic, incl. email/spam etc, counts towards our 300MB limit.
If you look around, you can usually find an unlimited dialup... I'm using iPrimus (still has the 4 hour disconnect though), and that's $75/3 months. I was hoping to get cable or ADSL soon, but now I think I'll wait a few more months before looking at the options again...