I wonder if the Universal Pictures / Lovefilm dispute has had an impact. Since November 2009 Universal Pictures have refused to make their movies available to most online DVD-rental services. So you want to see one of their movies you have to pirate it, buy it, or switch to Blockbuster.
From those complaints, it sounds like he's not doing too much harm: you don't mention him forcing you to adopt unsuitable technologies, or embedding you in a quagmire of bureaucracy.
Also it sounds like at least he's willing to listen to you when he doesn't know how to do things. A typical bad IT boss won't admit his ignorance, and forces everyone to use the obsolete technology that he still understands.
Sounds to me like you're relatively well off with him.
but what if i voted exactlly like you on 1,000 items... or 10,000 items... and so did 10,000 users just like me. and then we ALL spammed a bad file and marked it good, and then spammed a good file and marked it bad
Then you would all have marked 2 files in 10,002 incorrectly, and 10,000 correctly. I can live with that.
This system specifically addresses kuro5hin's main problem.
On K5, only a few people rate comments. Basically crapflooders cabals got together enough accounts to outweigh legitimate raters, giving them control of the rating system.
With this system, the crapflooders would be able to rate each other up... but if you rate differently to them, your view would ignore or reverse their ratings.
If I see a really interesting article, I'll probably want my friends to see it too; either by emailing it or blogging about it.
A subscription-only site has less value to me since I can't spread the news around. Even if I subscribe to a micropayments scheme, my friends probably don't.
If you close content off from the public, you reduce the value of that content. A subscription site might have great content, but most people will never know about it because no-one else is linking too it.
Assume I'm in a room with a 100 watt light bulb. Call it 5 x 5 x 5 metres:
that's 150 square metres of wall. So, the background is 0.67 watts per square meter.
They're talking about 4 watts for a "travel TV sized" screen. Assume 50cm by 50cm,
that's 16 watts per square meter. The image should be easily visible in indoor light.
Don't forget that while the projector won't be 100% efficient, neither is a light bulb.
I've used Pengaol before, and it works fine. Essentially it's just a tunnel: if you have a valid username and password you can use it as a normal ISP from Linux. You don't have access to the AOL chatrooms or proprietary content (or didn't when I used it a year or so ago), and you have to sign up from a Windows machine: you can't create an AOL account with Pengaol.
I don't see how AOL are being harmed by this, since you still need to be signed up with them. Hopefully they'll keep the project going in spite of this harassment.
From what I've seen, admins aren't having it too bad. Companies are trying to reduce costs, but there are limits to how many people they can downsize and still keep their machines running
Developers seem to be much worse off. It's a lot easier to cancel new development, so new development has been cut down to the bone.
Maintenance programming is still going on, but if you're a developer in new software and you're out of work, things are very very tough right now. There are still some jobs of course, but the competition is very intense.
He seems to be making a big assumption that Stallman actually wants laws passed to make closed-source software illegal. Has Stallman actually said this? Is he actually lobbying for laws to be passed?
I can't help noticing that Napster and Microsoft both offer very large downloads... most of the "time" is probably just people downloading huge files in the background.
I'd guess that therefore AOL and Yahoo are the real biggies for time spent actually looking at stuff.
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I wonder if the Universal Pictures / Lovefilm dispute has had an impact. Since November 2009 Universal Pictures have refused to make their movies available to most online DVD-rental services. So you want to see one of their movies you have to pirate it, buy it, or switch to Blockbuster.
The whole user interface is based around a touchscreen where you drag elements around. It would be pointless on a device with just a keypad.
From those complaints, it sounds like he's not doing too much harm: you don't mention him forcing you to adopt unsuitable technologies, or embedding you in a quagmire of bureaucracy.
Also it sounds like at least he's willing to listen to you when he doesn't know how to do things. A typical bad IT boss won't admit his ignorance, and forces everyone to use the obsolete technology that he still understands.
Sounds to me like you're relatively well off with him.
This system specifically addresses kuro5hin's main problem.
On K5, only a few people rate comments. Basically crapflooders cabals got together enough accounts to outweigh legitimate raters, giving them control of the rating system.
With this system, the crapflooders would be able to rate each other up... but if you rate differently to them, your view would ignore or reverse their ratings.
Wouldn't help anonymous users though.
If I see a really interesting article, I'll probably want my friends to see it too; either by emailing it or blogging about it.
A subscription-only site has less value to me since I can't spread the news around. Even if I subscribe to a micropayments scheme, my friends probably don't.
If you close content off from the public, you reduce the value of that content. A subscription site might have great content, but most people will never know about it because no-one else is linking too it.
The F-ing Article. As in RTFA.
Don't forget that while the projector won't be 100% efficient, neither is a light bulb.
I don't see how AOL are being harmed by this, since you still need to be signed up with them. Hopefully they'll keep the project going in spite of this harassment.
Developers seem to be much worse off. It's a lot easier to cancel new development, so new development has been cut down to the bone.
Maintenance programming is still going on, but if you're a developer in new software and you're out of work, things are very very tough right now. There are still some jobs of course, but the competition is very intense.
I believe Dare Obananjo is Carnage4Life.
...since I'm a professional programmer.
business = rent
business = food
I get very hungry and cold without business.
He seems to be making a big assumption that Stallman actually wants laws passed to make closed-source software illegal. Has Stallman actually said this? Is he actually lobbying for laws to be passed?
The report refers to "time spent online".
I can't help noticing that Napster and Microsoft both offer very large downloads... most of the "time" is probably just people downloading huge files in the background.
I'd guess that therefore AOL and Yahoo are the real biggies for time spent actually looking at stuff.
To do anything useful in .Net (e.g. write to a file) you have to use one of the "framework" classes to do it.
Microsoft have NOT said for certain that they will make the specs/code to the framework classes public.
If they don't, it will be "cross-platform" in their marketing... but virtually impossible to use outside Windows.