Did anyone read the article before coming up with the post title?
Even if it turns out to be a misleading headline, I can live with Sony being vilified some more. I'd consider it appropriate collateral payback for their original rootkit foray.
There must be sane limits on this. For example, it's a crime for me to shoot someone, but it's not a crime for me to shoot someone who's broken into my home and is threatening the lives of my family. And this analogy is not far-fetched; these monkeys are causing the villagers to face the prospect of starvation... to death.
I completely agree with your larger point about lethal force, wanted to ask about this minor point:
A problem is that the monkeys are large enough to be potentially dangerous
According to Wikipedia, this type of monkey maxes out at 40cm, or a bit over a foot. Is this considered a dangerous size? I'm sure these monkeys could bite, but that's not really a product of their size so much as the fact that they have teeth...
If market cap was actually an indicator of potential success in the auction, Google would lose.
But it's not that whoever has the biggest market cap wins... it's that whoever has sufficient money to bid may win. All of the named players seem likely to have sufficient money.
Beyond that, Google's market cap is significantly less diluted than that of the others, IIRC. Which would mean they'd have an easier time reallocating that money.
ultimately, most of YouTube's revenue is not going to come from subscription programs [because] most users (who frequent YouTube quite casually) wouldn't consider spending money on a YouTube subscription
Though users might well contemplate spending money if it enables them to avoid watching ads. Other incentives in return for money could include delivering higher quality vids (larger view area, better compression levels) or early or exclusive access to certain media.
btw, don't know if you've come across scroogle, it's been a goodie for me. One thing I find reassuring about it is that it's clear from the accompanying graphics and text on the scroogle pages that the people running it genuinely hate google... they're more foamy at the mouth about google than I am.:)
Those without Firefox can still make use of Blackboxsearch
I just tried blackboxsearch (thanks for the link), both its google and yahoo flavors, and both gave me a message saying something about the referring page being broken. Whether this had something to do with my suppressing cookies and having noscript on I can't say... but I figure that a site trying to appeal to people concerned with privacy shouldn't require either cookies or scripts, so either way I'd consider the site broken, whether in implementation or concept.
This is a good thing, because it helps to reduce the number of frivolous lawsuits clogging up the court. It reduces fees for companies and reduces product and service cost. All in all, it's a very good thing.
I'm skeptical. Along with reducing frivolous lawsuits, it reduces legitimate lawsuits. How is it so clear that the benefits outweigh that cost?
The reason SCO sued, apparently, is because they were failing as a business and they went into meltdown-mode.
I think you're trying to be reassuring, but this is in fact one of the most problematic aspects of Novell's stated position that they won't sue: namely that Novell could likewise find its business failing at some point, and decide in a paroxysm of desperation to sue over unix copyrights. So don't wake me up until Novell wants to back up their nice statements today with maneuvers that legally bind them to said statements.
Oh, crap. I always wondered why I couldn't walk more than three feet from the wall while I'm charging my phone.
You think you have it bad? If the lid of a toilet I'm standing in front of accidentally slams down, I can't walk more *two* feet from it until I put the lid back up. Then there's the pain.
The NSA wants automatic surveillance capabilities in telephone switches. But once such capabilities are built in, others could use them to intercept communications. Within 10 years this could render the US vulnerable to attacks from terrorist groups across the globe, as well as from the military establishments of other nations.
Gee, it's really nice to see an Orwellian initiative take a confidence hit due to paranoia over the very thing it's allegedly supposed to prevent. Ahh, the system works.
Yeah, but the parent was implying that this phone was better for developers because it has a supported toolkit, which it does not right now (If they had a toolkit, why wait until October to release it?) Maybe it will have one in the future, maybe the iphone will too.
I think the parent (now gp) was implying more than that. The implication you suggest -- and the comparison about dev kits ("Maybe it will have one in the future, maybe the iphone will too") -- doesn't hold water. The iPhone is released, and although it may have a dev kit in the future) does not have a dev kit now, and that is by design, i.e. Jobs intended the iPhone to not be open. By contrast the openmoko will likely have a dev kit at its release, and if it doesn't then the thing holding it back will be a lack of time, and will be at worst a temporary delay... because by design and intent the openmoko is an open platform. IMO that adds up to a gp misportrayal, whether or not the intended implication was as you suggest.
The "what you can't expect yet" is the link to the list of restrictions on their developer preview... in other words, this is isn't a list of restrictions on the final product in October.
The arrival of a phone like the iPhone is, I think, a good thing as far as waking people up to the roles a cellphone can play, so I'm glad to see it happening. The "free but not free" US cellphone market has a lot to do with the lack of innovation and competition, but consumers bear some responsibility too; the clamor from some who "just want a phone, dammit", who disparage anyone who wants more as having a need to compensate for small genitals... is just assinine. The idea that people shouldn't be allowed to feel good about how they spend their hard-earned money really needs to go away.
That said, having read this in-depth review of the iPhone as well as others, my list of iPhone deficiencies includes:
the iPhone should be decoupled from AT&T/Cingular; users should have the ability to use sims from any GSM provider; and the ability to purchase unlocked
it needs a faster connection e.g., UMTS or better (though the fact that its existing EDGE connection is deemed acceptable to some is largely another reflections of the non-free non-competetive market for cells and broadband, evident in all surveys showing the US bypassed by nearly every other major country on the planet)
more storage, perhaps an 80G disk. A great movie-watching screen with just 8G (most of which would be occupied by a typical music collection) is a waste
802.11n support in the hardware/software
landscape keyboard available for all apps, not just safari
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Even if it turns out to be a misleading headline, I can live with Sony being vilified some more. I'd consider it appropriate collateral payback for their original rootkit foray.
There must be sane limits on this. For example, it's a crime for me to shoot someone, but it's not a crime for me to shoot someone who's broken into my home and is threatening the lives of my family. And this analogy is not far-fetched; these monkeys are causing the villagers to face the prospect of starvation... to death.
This is why I was so sad at the demise of SACD... because among their improvements, SACDs go to eleven.
But it's not that whoever has the biggest market cap wins... it's that whoever has sufficient money to bid may win. All of the named players seem likely to have sufficient money.
Beyond that, Google's market cap is significantly less diluted than that of the others, IIRC. Which would mean they'd have an easier time reallocating that money.
Though users might well contemplate spending money if it enables them to avoid watching ads. Other incentives in return for money could include delivering higher quality vids (larger view area, better compression levels) or early or exclusive access to certain media.
To paraphrase: "D1. No chat. Uses more bandwidth than D2. Lame."
btw, don't know if you've come across scroogle, it's been a goodie for me. One thing I find reassuring about it is that it's clear from the accompanying graphics and text on the scroogle pages that the people running it genuinely hate google... they're more foamy at the mouth about google than I am. :)
I just tried blackboxsearch (thanks for the link), both its google and yahoo flavors, and both gave me a message saying something about the referring page being broken. Whether this had something to do with my suppressing cookies and having noscript on I can't say... but I figure that a site trying to appeal to people concerned with privacy shouldn't require either cookies or scripts, so either way I'd consider the site broken, whether in implementation or concept.
I'm skeptical. Along with reducing frivolous lawsuits, it reduces legitimate lawsuits. How is it so clear that the benefits outweigh that cost?
I refuse to believe that everyone refuses to believe the truth.
I was actually on a tall stepladder, changing a light while using the toilet at the same time.
And then they killed Big Wuss on the Sopranos... he just can't catch a break.
I think you're trying to be reassuring, but this is in fact one of the most problematic aspects of Novell's stated position that they won't sue: namely that Novell could likewise find its business failing at some point, and decide in a paroxysm of desperation to sue over unix copyrights. So don't wake me up until Novell wants to back up their nice statements today with maneuvers that legally bind them to said statements.
You think you have it bad? If the lid of a toilet I'm standing in front of accidentally slams down, I can't walk more *two* feet from it until I put the lid back up. Then there's the pain.
Gee, it's really nice to see an Orwellian initiative take a confidence hit due to paranoia over the very thing it's allegedly supposed to prevent. Ahh, the system works.
Nope; a nerd is someone who's able to state an informed opinion in certain specialized topic domains. What you're describing is a blowhard.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
I think the parent (now gp) was implying more than that. The implication you suggest -- and the comparison about dev kits ("Maybe it will have one in the future, maybe the iphone will too") -- doesn't hold water. The iPhone is released, and although it may have a dev kit in the future) does not have a dev kit now, and that is by design, i.e. Jobs intended the iPhone to not be open. By contrast the openmoko will likely have a dev kit at its release, and if it doesn't then the thing holding it back will be a lack of time, and will be at worst a temporary delay... because by design and intent the openmoko is an open platform. IMO that adds up to a gp misportrayal, whether or not the intended implication was as you suggest.
The "what you can't expect yet" is the link to the list of restrictions on their developer preview... in other words, this is isn't a list of restrictions on the final product in October.
That said, having read this in-depth review of the iPhone as well as others, my list of iPhone deficiencies includes:
Yeah, but how many? It's like askin' the square root of a million... no none will ever know.
How about just "containment". That way, rampant verbification won't overrunerrize things.
As a major contributor to JeauxLinux, I'm concerned that your distro's name will confuse our users.
Can you elaborate? I read the EFF's position and find myself agreeing with their position.