hehe, today I got to look at a certain companies web statistics for overall usage of the Internet.
Slashdot was ranked around 2,000th. They also had an average "stickiness", which many of us know is actually much closer to "tar pitness".
So I'm thinkin, o.k., their methodology is a bit whacked and maybe the type of people who frequent/. aren't exactly the kind who wish all their surfing habits tracked and profiled.
Then I read more and come to understand that thier statistics are based on home usage of Windows 95/98/NT. Most likely having to do with compatibility issues...
Anyway, polls and statistics are just that, and are much better at showing trends than actual reality. Linux is on the uptake, on nearly every level of computing. Which is good news for some people, including those under the eye of the DOJ and EU-DOJ equivalent.
Why would the farmer find a new job? He likes making food. If he doesn't then he shouldn't be a farmer. The fact that his one farm can feed the entire world just changes the paradigm a bit. If he's making shit food, then no one will want him to make anymore, they'll eat his stuff, process it, and eliminate it. Now if he happens to be a particularly good farmer, or makes really good potatoes, people will realize this and eventually will come straight to the farmer for food. If the farmer makes it clear that he cannot make food without seeds, his fans would have to buy enough seed to make a new crop. Now the farmer could also sell other items, while people are eating, to buy his seed and pay his rent. This was, as someone mentioned the other day, the original reason for the saying "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch," i.e. get them addicted and then jack up the price, or make it up on beer.
Of the course the Farmer's Market doesn't like any of this, since they have been using their market power to convince and browbeat all sellers of korn to do it at $17.00/bushel. --
the hostility comes from writing at the beginning of the cold war. Atlas shrugged is a 1,000 page rant against communism. Although my guess is that she would fervently support the open source movement (it's about as close to the mountain village of people creating cool stuff at will as you'll find). --
it's not all laws that need to be re-written, (IMHO), but those that deal with copyright and IP (keeping on-topic). Because there now exists the possibility for citizen run and supported media networks, the law should allow for it also. I think it's very simple (at a high level), only the person who holds a copyright can profit from digital artifacts. This produces a situation with high motivation to disseminate works, but only allows creators to make money off them. Interpretation would define the nuances over time, but I think this is a good foundation.
Enforcing distribution rights will lead to civil rights decay like we've seen during the onerous War on Drugs (except the ones with good lobbyists). --
people have a responsibility to the FCC because they are granted a license to use a scarce resource of the United States.
And taking responsibilty for your own opinions would seem to be covered in that. You've made no point, I prefer brutal honesty from my gatekeepers, not the illusion of community caring (which is how most major FCC license holders do it). --
"We need to reduce nuclear missiles and nuclear tenstion, while building the [star wars] program."
"We need to take 'car of our kids, like I did in Texas, where if kids don't study hard, they don't eat."
"Black people are Republicans too" (o.k. he didn't say it, just a theme from the convention)
.and my favorite from a different source
"We need to keep the Internet free of government intervention to allow for vibrant new businesses and economies to grow and prosper, while defending the right of copyright holders and intellectual property for ANOTHER frickin' hundred years."
and while it's unstated, it's understood...
"we need to get the DOJ off of Microsoft's back and let them innovate their stock prices back into the stratosphere."
(final note: this is posted from BeOS since my w2k internet connection got borked by sp1. I can post it from linux too if that gives you a stiffy)
(really final note: I totally support CT for posting whatever he feels like on his web site. It is a bastion for free speech after all. If you don't like it, make your own and convince a shitload of people to read it, BY POSTING WHAT YOU WANT!)
(just being silly note: I'm from Texas and I can't stand GWB, I like his dad, but I knew kids like GWB in college. He's a shithead, but you won't know it till you party with him till sunrise.) --
me too, no offense (that truncation is just annoying). Oh, and about the Karma thing. I went up a couple earlier this week, but I'm at a lowly 218 so maybe the limit is higher than that. --
The US, well, we can't come up with anything really, really cool and innovative, but we can market the shit outta anything and convince everyone here that they need it, even when we have no use for it except for the wow factor and to spend money (which is usually the case).
This really isn't as much a factor of being good at something, but a factor of applying the available information. IIRC, Europe has much higher privacy standards than the U.S., and much of marketing is based on who you are personally which can be gleaned from wide variety of sources. Having a shitty school system that ensures that half of the population recieved a sub-standard education also helps out the marketing department. Gawwrsh, you mean they're showin' me them titties so I'll buy beer? --
i'm just eager to die so we can see which religion was right;-)
Well, if Southpark is any indication of the Eternal truth, it's the Mormons. The Mormons had it right. (and I can attest that spending an eternity with them would be hell, or at least as boring as it.) --
despite what most trolls think, for the most part it does. If you give stories time to sort themselves out, and read at 1 (or 2) the moderation system seems to work fairly well, or at least MUCH better than the site would be without it.
Like any system it is quite abusable once you know the rules, and have a reason to do so. --
I count myself both lucky and fortunate to have not seen a second of these "reality" shows (created by putting people in totally unrealistic situations). I have, however, watched a few minutes of Who Wants to be a Media Whore? In which the player was asked how he felt and I quote "I feel like I'm sitting on a toilet and all America is watching me."
I wonder (seriously) if any of the "actors" involved with these programs will ever see royalties, or are they just "geanea pigs for hire"? --
So I work 40 hours in my studio and end up with a song on DAT. I offer to sell the rights for $100. If someone came along and took it from me without paying, that would be "liberating the information that wants to be free"?
But they haven't taken the thing you wanted to sell, the "rights" to the song. They've only taken the song. The "right" to the song should stay with the copyright holder, but what exactly that right should entail is the big question (in my mind, because of the nature of digital distrubution)
Personally I think it all has to do with making money off that "right", and, given the problems with enforcing an absolute right to digital distrubution, not an absolute right to control who hears it.
Umm it's not hard to understand that (actually I mentioned how exactly it works in my post), but can you tell me when I'm taking money away from anyone?
Artists want people to hear their music. Copyright owners want people to pay to access their IP. And I want to hear music, and pay to make sure the stuff I like keeps coming. But I don't want to pay someone who is actively taking away rights form both artists and consumers.
Maybe some people will realize that Company X isn't a great place to work. Unfortunately company X wants to be the only place that people can do that kind of work. I don't like company x, and most of it's value to me as a consumer has been replaced with superiour technology, which company X is trying to destroy, instead of compete with.
So yes, there is an unfortunate side to attacking company X, but there is a very unfortunate side to supporting them.
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hehe, today I got to look at a certain companies web statistics for overall usage of the Internet.
/. aren't exactly the kind who wish all their surfing habits tracked and profiled.
Slashdot was ranked around 2,000th. They also had an average "stickiness", which many of us know is actually much closer to "tar pitness".
So I'm thinkin, o.k., their methodology is a bit whacked and maybe the type of people who frequent
Then I read more and come to understand that thier statistics are based on home usage of Windows 95/98/NT. Most likely having to do with compatibility issues...
Anyway, polls and statistics are just that, and are much better at showing trends than actual reality. Linux is on the uptake, on nearly every level of computing. Which is good news for some people, including those under the eye of the DOJ and EU-DOJ equivalent.
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You mean they have machines that will breathe for you? - Homer S.
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Why would the farmer find a new job? He likes making food. If he doesn't then he shouldn't be a farmer. The fact that his one farm can feed the entire world just changes the paradigm a bit. If he's making shit food, then no one will want him to make anymore, they'll eat his stuff, process it, and eliminate it. Now if he happens to be a particularly good farmer, or makes really good potatoes, people will realize this and eventually will come straight to the farmer for food. If the farmer makes it clear that he cannot make food without seeds, his fans would have to buy enough seed to make a new crop. Now the farmer could also sell other items, while people are eating, to buy his seed and pay his rent. This was, as someone mentioned the other day, the original reason for the saying "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch," i.e. get them addicted and then jack up the price, or make it up on beer.
Of the course the Farmer's Market doesn't like any of this, since they have been using their market power to convince and browbeat all sellers of korn to do it at $17.00/bushel.
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the hostility comes from writing at the beginning of the cold war. Atlas shrugged is a 1,000 page rant against communism. Although my guess is that she would fervently support the open source movement (it's about as close to the mountain village of people creating cool stuff at will as you'll find).
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oh, and in a completely off-topic note (not that it matters) it seems moderation has been turned off in a karmic sense. good riddance.
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it's more of a "point" thing and will probably disappear soon, but point taken, more bass in the voice.
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...opinion and reasoning, makes me think another cluestick needs whackin'. Guess what I'm doing tonight?
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It is common that one says that nukes made sure the cold war stayed cold.
This was the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction
or MAD for short.
which goes with another acronym I first heard from Dinosaurs (the sitcom), the "We Are Right" initiative...or "war" for short.
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it's not all laws that need to be re-written, (IMHO), but those that deal with copyright and IP (keeping on-topic). Because there now exists the possibility for citizen run and supported media networks, the law should allow for it also. I think it's very simple (at a high level), only the person who holds a copyright can profit from digital artifacts. This produces a situation with high motivation to disseminate works, but only allows creators to make money off them. Interpretation would define the nuances over time, but I think this is a good foundation.
Enforcing distribution rights will lead to civil rights decay like we've seen during the onerous War on Drugs (except the ones with good lobbyists).
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people have a responsibility to the FCC because they are granted a license to use a scarce resource of the United States.
And taking responsibilty for your own opinions would seem to be covered in that. You've made no point, I prefer brutal honesty from my gatekeepers, not the illusion of community caring (which is how most major FCC license holders do it).
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yea, but after you run the fully trusted executable, you get to see ALL the source code, silly.
LOL
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Semi-quotes from GWB "acceptance" speech"
"We need to reduce nuclear missiles and nuclear tenstion, while building the [star wars] program."
"We need to take 'car of our kids, like I did in Texas, where if kids don't study hard, they don't eat."
"Black people are Republicans too" (o.k. he didn't say it, just a theme from the convention)
.and my favorite from a different source
"We need to keep the Internet free of government intervention to allow for vibrant new businesses and economies to grow and prosper, while defending the right of copyright holders and intellectual property for ANOTHER frickin' hundred years."
and while it's unstated, it's understood...
"we need to get the DOJ off of Microsoft's back and let them innovate their stock prices back into the stratosphere."
(final note: this is posted from BeOS since my w2k internet connection got borked by sp1. I can post it from linux too if that gives you a stiffy)
(really final note: I totally support CT for posting whatever he feels like on his web site. It is a bastion for free speech after all. If you don't like it, make your own and convince a shitload of people to read it, BY POSTING WHAT YOU WANT!)
(just being silly note: I'm from Texas and I can't stand GWB, I like his dad, but I knew kids like GWB in college. He's a shithead, but you won't know it till you party with him till sunrise.)
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me too, no offense (that truncation is just annoying). Oh, and about the Karma thing. I went up a couple earlier this week, but I'm at a lowly 218 so maybe the limit is higher than that.
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The US, well, we can't come up with anything really, really cool and innovative, but we can market the shit outta anything and convince everyone here that they need it, even when we have no use for it except for the wow factor and to spend money (which is usually the case).
This really isn't as much a factor of being good at something, but a factor of applying the available information. IIRC, Europe has much higher privacy standards than the U.S., and much of marketing is based on who you are personally which can be gleaned from wide variety of sources. Having a shitty school system that ensures that half of the population recieved a sub-standard education also helps out the marketing department. Gawwrsh, you mean they're showin' me them titties so I'll buy beer?
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please moderate down, it is no longer /.'ed and I'd hate to see the flamebait get more banner ads than the firehose. Thanks
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everyone on the planet is going to start directing radio broadcasts there in hopes of getting a SETI response. I think that qualifies as spam.
no, no, no. it's really quiet there, it qualifies as an act of war.
oh wait, you were right.
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i'm just eager to die so we can see which religion was right ;-)
Well, if Southpark is any indication of the Eternal truth, it's the Mormons. The Mormons had it right. (and I can attest that spending an eternity with them would be hell, or at least as boring as it.)
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despite what most trolls think, for the most part it does. If you give stories time to sort themselves out, and read at 1 (or 2) the moderation system seems to work fairly well, or at least MUCH better than the site would be without it.
Like any system it is quite abusable once you know the rules, and have a reason to do so.
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I count myself both lucky and fortunate to have not seen a second of these "reality" shows (created by putting people in totally unrealistic situations). I have, however, watched a few minutes of Who Wants to be a Media Whore? In which the player was asked how he felt and I quote "I feel like I'm sitting on a toilet and all America is watching me."
I wonder (seriously) if any of the "actors" involved with these programs will ever see royalties, or are they just "geanea pigs for hire"?
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They have sheilded 486's they've sent up, and remember the story a few (months?) ago about sending some G4's into space
Doesn't that violate export restrictions?
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try my new video "you can either pipe down, or I'll pop you in the mouth again." Guaranteed to cure add.
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thank you.
or as Homer would say it if he was as pathetic as that. d'oh.
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TIMMY!!!!
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So I work 40 hours in my studio and end up with a song on DAT. I offer to sell the rights for $100. If someone came along and took it from me without paying, that would be "liberating the information that wants to be free"?
But they haven't taken the thing you wanted to sell, the "rights" to the song. They've only taken the song. The "right" to the song should stay with the copyright holder, but what exactly that right should entail is the big question (in my mind, because of the nature of digital distrubution)
Personally I think it all has to do with making money off that "right", and, given the problems with enforcing an absolute right to digital distrubution, not an absolute right to control who hears it.
...but I'm not in charge....yet.
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Umm it's not hard to understand that (actually I mentioned how exactly it works in my post), but can you tell me when I'm taking money away from anyone?
Artists want people to hear their music. Copyright owners want people to pay to access their IP. And I want to hear music, and pay to make sure the stuff I like keeps coming. But I don't want to pay someone who is actively taking away rights form both artists and consumers.
Maybe some people will realize that Company X isn't a great place to work. Unfortunately company X wants to be the only place that people can do that kind of work. I don't like company x, and most of it's value to me as a consumer has been replaced with superiour technology, which company X is trying to destroy, instead of compete with.
So yes, there is an unfortunate side to attacking company X, but there is a very unfortunate side to supporting them.
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