I thought about this question for a while. Why would they care? They've already got our money.
I think they're fighting here not because of "artistic value", but for something more sinister: Ad revenues. You heard me right. If you've seen Vanilla Sky you've already been exposed to the countless in-movie ads for Lexus. Now if they allowed us to control the editing, maybe one day we'll start editing commercials out completely.
To me, it's just corporate double talk. The wolf hiding in sheep's clothing.
MS is indeed afraid of Linux. You see, with other competitors they can just squeeze their profits dry and kill them off. With Linux it's not so easy, because money and profit doesn't matter here. That is one less lethal weapon that they've got. In fact it's probably one of the major reasons Netscape crashed.
So go ahead MS, keep trying. Linux ain't dying buddy.
I think the government and many corporations are partly to blame for this.
1) The government because it's too incompetent and slow to move.
I have personal experience dealing with my local police. I called them once regarding a case of internet identity theft. Their response to me? Something like "we don't have any way to get at these cases, so why don't you just change your e-mail and other online identities?" How INCOMPETENT is that!
2) Some corporations because they want to reserve the right to market to internet users.
Companies are reluctant for any type of anti-spam regulation, even if most of them don't spam. Why? Because any regulation threatens to restrict them from mass emailing current/potential customer base.
Hmmm... let's see... when it comes to people mass pirating mp3s on/. it's the RIAA that's EVIL, but when it's someone pirating off GPL software it's called said to have been "ripped off".
Typical movies are still about 2 hours long. Compress it to divx format and it'll be 600mb, which is burnable on a typical cd-rom. And the quality? Not bad.
On the other hand, you may be thinking, perhaps they'll make lenghthier movies then. I for one REALLY doubt that the movie studios are going to come out with 20 hour movies.
It seems every god damn journalist or wannabe journalists comes out after it's really evident that the dot com crash has occurred and starts to preach to us about how stupid that whole episode was.
Well my question is, where was Heather Cochran PRIOR to the dot com heyday? Where were all the stock analysts telling us of the impending doom? Fact is, either they were too cowardly to stand up and tell us then, or they too were sucked into the trap.
I'm so sick and tired of these types of articles.
And the author isn't very knowledgeable about domain names either. Ever heard of search engine seeding using keywords in domain names? Next time do a search on Yahoo for "free hosting" and see what the first few results say. Don't be surprised to see sites like "www.free-web-site-hosting.com", "www.free-web-page-space-hosting.com", etc... listed at number one!
Not exactly. With the right domain name you can also have the advantage in search engines. With a domain name like unix.com your chances of getting listed at the top of every major search engine with the keyword "unix" is much much higher than someone with "iloveunix.com".
What kind of moral principle is the school teaching the students here? Students will go out into the real world and think that they can just go around screwing other people/countries/companies and steal their stuff with any excuse. Isn't that what criminals do? "Yeah the banks are too greedy and rich anyways. They won't be missing the thousands of dollars I've stolen."
It's not like there aren't free alternatives for learning now is it? And if anything the schools should be pushing the government for more funding and do things the legitimate way, as opposed to just breaking laws.
Here we go again. M$ is doing nothing but trying to fool the DOJ and the people into thinking that there really is healthy competition in the marketplace for operating systems. Don't believe it for a minute. I think M$ has more power over the market than they care to admit freely. Sure theoretically Linux/IBM might be a threat, but realistically, no.
They know comments like that will get published on anti-M$ sites like/. and maybe the DOJ will take notice too. I for one ain't buying it.
1. This ain't about spam. It's about emailing people for information. I'm willing to bet lots of people aren't going to read the article and will just pump out knee-jerk responses about UCE in general.
2. The theory being talked about in the article is already widely known in psychology. I forget the exact term for it, but in real life it's the same. If you got injured in a crowd of people, the chances are less that you'll get someone to call 911 than if there were only a couple of people on the street. In a crowd everybody just thinks someone else will or have already called the paramedics.
How long do you think it'll take for the types of animation you see in movies today be render-able in realtime? I can't wait till some seriously realistic video games... or porn flicks appear.:)
M$ knows the government is watching them. They know that any one of these days they can REALLY be split up.
What would you do if your company were in such a situation?
I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd purposely let my competitors gain a bit of market share, but keep them in check at all times. I'd invest in Apple so they don't go kapoof. I'd play up Linux as a competitor just so "they" think M$ isn't really a monopoly any longer.
Don't fall for this people. Not saying that it's happening, but be on the lookout.
Now for my second point:
M$ has a concentrated effort to kill their competitors, but Linux doesn't. When's the last time Linux embraced and extended a protocol to mess with M$'s implementation? Like never. And when was the last time M$ changed a standard and broke Linux compatibility? **cough**Samba**cough**
Until there's a concentrated effor on behalf of the Linux community to mess with M$ in return, this competition isn't really anything they're afraid of.
Let's just say a day comes when Linux gains so much market share that M$ really starts feeling the heat? What can they do? They can make their own version of Linux and "extend" it till they kidnap it all to themselves. And this would only occur "IF" (and that's a big IF) Linux ever gains THAT much market share.
Yet again we see how the world is still backwards thinking. They can't even provide one spec of evidence that god exists, and yet they fight this hard to censor any negative comments about their imaginary friend.
Yeah mod me down all the regligious folks. It's not like the/. mod system was ever fair, especially in the hands of pious (sp?) individuals.
Don't for a minute think the politians are voting for what's best for this country. They are only voting for the selfish goals of their respective states. If there's nuclear waste in Texas, you can bet the politians there will vote yes to get it out of their backyard.
They don't care about the consequences of having just one concentrated area of HUGE nuclear waste, a potential world-ending pile of fuel that can be set off by a huge earthquake or some terrible accident. They just want it out of their state god dammit!
"Evil" is a subjective term. Nobody lives thinking they are "evil". Everyone thinks they are doing what is right.
Oh and MS doesn't need to tiddle their books only because they don't have to. When times are down and billions are at stake, things may change. The fact that they've not faced the situation is no indication that they might never do that.
But you're right. Capitalism by itself is NOT a just cause to be called "evil". Doing that would be stupid and juvenile.
What I've observed is that local news tend to be more sensational than national news. Shows like NightLine, World News with Peter Jennings, etc. tend to have higher quality (note tend to, not always) than local news.
Here in Los Angeles, what do I see every day on the local news? Stupid car chases with careless commentary by people who seem to enjoy the show themselves. Dumb topics like "cure for cancer?" or "eat foods with fat to lose weight?" get weekly coverage. Sensational headlines that follow up with a "stay tuned", meaning you have to sit through a whole hour of this "stay tuned" delay BS just to finally learn that the headline was full of baloney, designed so that you will "stay tuned" and watch all of the commercials.
You're absolutely right. I think the majority of the people are in some ways "stupid". We all fall for the hype of tv like fish to bait. Think of all those MTV and Entertainment shows. They're nothing but half-hour-long advertisements and promotions for other shows/movies/stars.
What we see on tv is a distortion of reality. It is based on short sound bites, misleading statements like "a cure for cancer? stay tuned", and a bunch of marketing bullshit.
You know what's the best solution? Turn off that god-awful tv and read the newspapers. Go outside and experience life for once. But you're never ever going to hear that kind of advice from ANYONE on tv. And if you have to wonder why then consider yourself part of the "STUPID" crowd of herded sheep.
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I thought about this question for a while. Why would they care? They've already got our money.
I think they're fighting here not because of "artistic value", but for something more sinister: Ad revenues. You heard me right. If you've seen Vanilla Sky you've already been exposed to the countless in-movie ads for Lexus. Now if they allowed us to control the editing, maybe one day we'll start editing commercials out completely.
To me, it's just corporate double talk. The wolf hiding in sheep's clothing.
MS is indeed afraid of Linux. You see, with other competitors they can just squeeze their profits dry and kill them off. With Linux it's not so easy, because money and profit doesn't matter here. That is one less lethal weapon that they've got. In fact it's probably one of the major reasons Netscape crashed.
So go ahead MS, keep trying. Linux ain't dying buddy.
I think the government and many corporations are partly to blame for this.
1) The government because it's too incompetent and slow to move.
I have personal experience dealing with my local police. I called them once regarding a case of internet identity theft. Their response to me? Something like "we don't have any way to get at these cases, so why don't you just change your e-mail and other online identities?" How INCOMPETENT is that!
2) Some corporations because they want to reserve the right to market to internet users.
Companies are reluctant for any type of anti-spam regulation, even if most of them don't spam. Why? Because any regulation threatens to restrict them from mass emailing current/potential customer base.
You're not getting the question. He needs it to route through the internet to far-away places. Your suggestion won't work.
Hmmm... let's see... when it comes to people mass pirating mp3s on /. it's the RIAA that's EVIL, but when it's someone pirating off GPL software it's called said to have been "ripped off".
Interesting concept of fairness...
Typical movies are still about 2 hours long. Compress it to divx format and it'll be 600mb, which is burnable on a typical cd-rom. And the quality? Not bad.
On the other hand, you may be thinking, perhaps they'll make lenghthier movies then. I for one REALLY doubt that the movie studios are going to come out with 20 hour movies.
It seems every god damn journalist or wannabe journalists comes out after it's really evident that the dot com crash has occurred and starts to preach to us about how stupid that whole episode was.
Well my question is, where was Heather Cochran PRIOR to the dot com heyday? Where were all the stock analysts telling us of the impending doom? Fact is, either they were too cowardly to stand up and tell us then, or they too were sucked into the trap.
I'm so sick and tired of these types of articles.
And the author isn't very knowledgeable about domain names either. Ever heard of search engine seeding using keywords in domain names? Next time do a search on Yahoo for "free hosting" and see what the first few results say. Don't be surprised to see sites like "www.free-web-site-hosting.com", "www.free-web-page-space-hosting.com", etc... listed at number one!
I just found out that China is part of the U.S.!!! Holy geography Batman!
Not exactly. With the right domain name you can also have the advantage in search engines. With a domain name like unix.com your chances of getting listed at the top of every major search engine with the keyword "unix" is much much higher than someone with "iloveunix.com".
What kind of moral principle is the school teaching the students here? Students will go out into the real world and think that they can just go around screwing other people/countries/companies and steal their stuff with any excuse. Isn't that what criminals do? "Yeah the banks are too greedy and rich anyways. They won't be missing the thousands of dollars I've stolen."
It's not like there aren't free alternatives for learning now is it? And if anything the schools should be pushing the government for more funding and do things the legitimate way, as opposed to just breaking laws.
Here we go again. M$ is doing nothing but trying to fool the DOJ and the people into thinking that there really is healthy competition in the marketplace for operating systems. Don't believe it for a minute. I think M$ has more power over the market than they care to admit freely. Sure theoretically Linux/IBM might be a threat, but realistically, no.
/. and maybe the DOJ will take notice too. I for one ain't buying it.
They know comments like that will get published on anti-M$ sites like
I have 2 gripes with this news:
1. This ain't about spam. It's about emailing people for information. I'm willing to bet lots of people aren't going to read the article and will just pump out knee-jerk responses about UCE in general.
2. The theory being talked about in the article is already widely known in psychology. I forget the exact term for it, but in real life it's the same. If you got injured in a crowd of people, the chances are less that you'll get someone to call 911 than if there were only a couple of people on the street. In a crowd everybody just thinks someone else will or have already called the paramedics.
So basically, this is nothing new.
How long do you think it'll take for the types of animation you see in movies today be render-able in realtime? I can't wait till some seriously realistic video games... or porn flicks appear. :)
M$ knows the government is watching them. They know that any one of these days they can REALLY be split up.
What would you do if your company were in such a situation?
I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd purposely let my competitors gain a bit of market share, but keep them in check at all times. I'd invest in Apple so they don't go kapoof. I'd play up Linux as a competitor just so "they" think M$ isn't really a monopoly any longer.
Don't fall for this people. Not saying that it's happening, but be on the lookout.
Now for my second point:
M$ has a concentrated effort to kill their competitors, but Linux doesn't. When's the last time Linux embraced and extended a protocol to mess with M$'s implementation? Like never. And when was the last time M$ changed a standard and broke Linux compatibility? **cough**Samba**cough**
Until there's a concentrated effor on behalf of the Linux community to mess with M$ in return, this competition isn't really anything they're afraid of.
Let's just say a day comes when Linux gains so much market share that M$ really starts feeling the heat? What can they do? They can make their own version of Linux and "extend" it till they kidnap it all to themselves. And this would only occur "IF" (and that's a big IF) Linux ever gains THAT much market share.
And it's even worse to censor others into submission.
Yet again we see how the world is still backwards thinking. They can't even provide one spec of evidence that god exists, and yet they fight this hard to censor any negative comments about their imaginary friend.
/. mod system was ever fair, especially in the hands of pious (sp?) individuals.
Yeah mod me down all the regligious folks. It's not like the
Don't for a minute think the politians are voting for what's best for this country. They are only voting for the selfish goals of their respective states. If there's nuclear waste in Texas, you can bet the politians there will vote yes to get it out of their backyard.
They don't care about the consequences of having just one concentrated area of HUGE nuclear waste, a potential world-ending pile of fuel that can be set off by a huge earthquake or some terrible accident. They just want it out of their state god dammit!
Is it just me or do most of you secretly desire for this man to crash and burn in the ocean?
What a waste of time and energy. It's year 2002 and you accomplish something using 1900 technology helped by 2002 gadgets. Big freaking deal!
Don't give in to the media hype. Ignore all coverage of this gluutonous event and focus your lives discussing "REAL" topics.
"Evil" is a subjective term. Nobody lives thinking they are "evil". Everyone thinks they are doing what is right.
Oh and MS doesn't need to tiddle their books only because they don't have to. When times are down and billions are at stake, things may change. The fact that they've not faced the situation is no indication that they might never do that.
But you're right. Capitalism by itself is NOT a just cause to be called "evil". Doing that would be stupid and juvenile.
What I've observed is that local news tend to be more sensational than national news. Shows like NightLine, World News with Peter Jennings, etc. tend to have higher quality (note tend to, not always) than local news.
Here in Los Angeles, what do I see every day on the local news? Stupid car chases with careless commentary by people who seem to enjoy the show themselves. Dumb topics like "cure for cancer?" or "eat foods with fat to lose weight?" get weekly coverage. Sensational headlines that follow up with a "stay tuned", meaning you have to sit through a whole hour of this "stay tuned" delay BS just to finally learn that the headline was full of baloney, designed so that you will "stay tuned" and watch all of the commercials.
You're absolutely right. I think the majority of the people are in some ways "stupid". We all fall for the hype of tv like fish to bait. Think of all those MTV and Entertainment shows. They're nothing but half-hour-long advertisements and promotions for other shows/movies/stars.
What we see on tv is a distortion of reality. It is based on short sound bites, misleading statements like "a cure for cancer? stay tuned", and a bunch of marketing bullshit.
You know what's the best solution? Turn off that god-awful tv and read the newspapers. Go outside and experience life for once. But you're never ever going to hear that kind of advice from ANYONE on tv. And if you have to wonder why then consider yourself part of the "STUPID" crowd of herded sheep.
Oops didn't know that. My first time giving this advice. Well for everyone, just goto www.google.com and type in the address:
. ht ml
http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq
Then just click on the "Cached" link in the results page.
I can't get in and there's only like 6 comments! Can't believe this.
4 C: razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html+&hl= en&ie=UTF-8
No worries. Google cache saves the day:
http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:sJUlrsbgsJ
There are links in the article. Just change the url in the google cache address accordingly and voila!
How true, how true.
Heck just look at my name haha...
I'm telling you, religious people are very slippery. They always have that "god works in mysterious ways" ace card.
Well if you already know that it would happen before going into a theatre, then you go in at your own risk.
Until everyone starts turning their phones to silent when they go into theatres, this solution will be good.