"Public" Places used to be "private" places when nobody else was around -- because nobody else was around. I believe this to be the crux of the camera problem, because that's gone.
There ought to be some law that you have to place signs that identify where cameras are located in public places if you're going to make it legal to put them there.
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it's not a link to goatse, i swear
I have put all my eggs in this 'niche' basket
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I completely agree that the future of commerce is a niche-driven market. That is why when I created my company -- WeaselBalls.com, we decided to cater to a specific kind of consumer, and only that kind of consumer.
Voting very evil is the better option sometimes, because at least there's the hope that the evil will anger the people so greatly that the next time maybe there would be a viable option.
Hey, remember Gore? If he was so likeable and so deserving to be the President of the United States, that is, if he was truly the best man for the job 4 years ago, what has changed? Why aren't the Democrats demanding he run again?
Could it be that, perhaps, nobody liked him in the first place?
Has anybody noticed that the new icon for the file extensions that firefox takes over (like.html,.gif, etc) is basically a gigantic fox humping the earth?
When you're sick, you're told to sleep a lot, or you sleep a lot because there's nothing else to do because you're sick.
People in hospital beds sleep a lot.
People in hospital beds also tend to die more often than people who are not in hospital beds.
People who are depressed tend to sleep more.
People who are obscenely overweight tend to sleep more, seeing as they are bedridden.
All of this is probably enough to skew the statistics by a few hours.
Additonally, does anybody really really treasure those last 10-15 years of your life before you keel over? Personally I'm not really concerned about it right now.
Ah, bullshit. They don't pay attention to e-mail at all. They barely pay attention to letters, and they certainly don't pay attention to people in person -- they just smile and nod and tell you that your ideas are very well founded unless you say something like
"I WANNA KILL ME SOME BABIES! YEEHAH!"
There really isn't a good way to determine the locality of an e-mail, which means, people across the entire country get all upset about something (ie, support of same-sex marriages in Vermont, which was the issue as of recent) and they send out a million chain-emails urging people to spam the vermont legislators with a bunch of begging. Senators care about their voting public more than anything, because, as you stated, they're directly responsible for giving them work.
The majority of voters are old people. Old people hate technology and hey, guess what? They hate russians too. "Commie pinkos I tells ya leo, we should have nuked the fuckers when we had the chance."
E-mail can be replicated thousands of times or even (gasp) computer generated and randomized with absolutely no costs incurred whatsoever. At least with a letter, it takes some effort.
Personally I prefer to wallow in a pool of my own apathy thankyouverymuch.
Slackware have about 4-5 people, I believe. 2 maintain the website predominantly, Patrick Volkerding has full control over the distribution.
It gets along quite nicely.... I can understand perhaps, some programmers for designing the Suse-specific apps, but how many could there be?
70 expendable workers? You just can't throw workers at a problem and expect everything to just organize. This is why so many companies tank.
Of course, I'm sure Slackware would have been getting along a lot _more_ nicely had they not put their store on a very slow ASDL line when their new release was announced on slashdot...
That's just dumb. It was bogged down for like 3 days, and even now it's very slow.
Napster is totally done-for, and was even before this. They'll probably run out of money before they're able to appeal something like this.
The concept only worked with regard to trading illegal files, not legitimate ones.
Legitimate files can easily find a good space on a website, or several, why bother with peer to peer sharing? Last time I checked, there were multiple places to post unsigned artists' music on the internet...
Places that won't cut your download off in the middle because the person you were downloading from designed to go offline. Places that won't charge you money for the convenience of downloading freely-available music all while turning your computer into a fileserver for a large corporation's benefit....Why bother with the uncertaintly of file availablility if you're not trying to hide your actions?
There's just no reason.
Stick a fork in them, because they sure are done.
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For the life of me, I don't understand why every distro and their mother have to have a different package management system.
So, basically the argument of Ford/General Motors is that people visiting FuckGeneralMotors.com will think that this link is actually sponsored by Ford themselves?
Because yeah, all the companies I know like to register the domain equivalent of:
Fuck-Me-I-Totally-Suck.com, and then link it to their own site for branding purposes....
I was at LinuxWorld Wednesday, and I've got a new view of trade shows.
Trade shows are pointless.
They're like big slow in-person websites without text. The only real good thing about them is that companies give you free trinkets, and from what I gathered, it wasn't all that much, although I did get a fuzzy little penguin guy from Penguin Computing.
I did give perlmonks.org some donation money (which consisted of a pile of money on a table), though. So that was kind of good, but otherwise, the whole thing was pretty boring. Even the people involved seemed quite bored.
Actually, it's just within Microsoft's interest to try and find some what-looks-to-be-legal way to file a lawsuit. Frivilous or not, basically, no matter what Microsoft is suing you for, they have more money than you do to keep up their legal team.
It's not like in Britain, where if you sue someone and lose, you pay both parties legal expenses. Lawsuits hurt win or lose, especially when one side can crush you like an ant.
The mere threat of a lawsuit is enough to get a company to change their tune (unfortunately)
Slashdot Mirror
and we wonder why they hate us
What usenet groups do you use to score shows?
My side business is http://www.WeaselBalls.com, we buy our weasel balls in bulk -- and pass the savings on TO YOU!!!
Hey, it's a Niche Market. Go to hell!
Are we that cynical?
Yes Bill, We are.
Ww too will be at the meeting down by the docks you fucker!
My dot com is going to make it where the others have failed. Our business plan is infallible.
I don't exactly know how this IPO stuff works, but I can't wait to allow people to make the claim that they own a tiny portion of my Weasel Balls.
"Public" Places used to be "private" places when nobody else was around -- because nobody else was around. I believe this to be the crux of the camera problem, because that's gone.
There ought to be some law that you have to place signs that identify where cameras are located in public places if you're going to make it legal to put them there.
it's not a link to goatse, i swear
I completely agree that the future of commerce is a niche-driven market. That is why when I created my company -- WeaselBalls.com , we decided to cater to a specific kind of consumer, and only that kind of consumer.
In the long run, I think it's going to pay off.
Sorry, links to Bugzilla from Slashdot are disabled.
ooh, bugzilla you sassy wench
They still have yet to fix a much more serious bug.
Just because most of us don't live in South America doesn't mean it isn't huge problem.
Voting very evil is the better option sometimes, because at least there's the hope that the evil will anger the people so greatly that the next time maybe there would be a viable option.
Hey, remember Gore? If he was so likeable and so deserving to be the President of the United States, that is, if he was truly the best man for the job 4 years ago, what has changed? Why aren't the Democrats demanding he run again?
Could it be that, perhaps, nobody liked him in the first place?
I'm using Firefox right now as a matter of fact, but I don't know where they're going with their icon designs...
the new logo appears to be a gigantic fox humping the earth
I wonder if that's the old IE 2 earth icon he's humping?
Has anybody noticed that the new icon for the file extensions that firefox takes over (like .html, .gif, etc) is basically a gigantic fox humping the earth?
Awesome. I see a slogan somewhere in there.
When you're sick, you're told to sleep a lot, or you sleep a lot because there's nothing else to do because you're sick.
People in hospital beds sleep a lot.
People in hospital beds also tend to die more often than people who are not in hospital beds.
People who are depressed tend to sleep more.
People who are obscenely overweight tend to sleep more, seeing as they are bedridden.
All of this is probably enough to skew the statistics by a few hours.
Additonally, does anybody really really treasure those last 10-15 years of your life before you keel over? Personally I'm not really concerned about it right now.
What the hell are you talking about?
One kills people, the other really likes free software. I don't see the connection here.
You're a lot like Osama Bin Laden too, in that you drink water, breathe, and walk sometimes. Clearly you're a bloody terrorist.
You ass.
"I WANNA KILL ME SOME BABIES! YEEHAH!"
There really isn't a good way to determine the locality of an e-mail, which means, people across the entire country get all upset about something (ie, support of same-sex marriages in Vermont, which was the issue as of recent) and they send out a million chain-emails urging people to spam the vermont legislators with a bunch of begging. Senators care about their voting public more than anything, because, as you stated, they're directly responsible for giving them work.
The majority of voters are old people. Old people hate technology and hey, guess what? They hate russians too. "Commie pinkos I tells ya leo, we should have nuked the fuckers when we had the chance."
E-mail can be replicated thousands of times or even (gasp) computer generated and randomized with absolutely no costs incurred whatsoever. At least with a letter, it takes some effort.
Personally I prefer to wallow in a pool of my own apathy thankyouverymuch.
70 expendable workers? You just can't throw workers at a problem and expect everything to just organize. This is why so many companies tank.
Of course, I'm sure Slackware would have been getting along a lot _more_ nicely had they not put their store on a very slow ASDL line when their new release was announced on slashdot...
That's just dumb. It was bogged down for like 3 days, and even now it's very slow.
Slackware Store
The concept only worked with regard to trading illegal files, not legitimate ones.
Legitimate files can easily find a good space on a website, or several, why bother with peer to peer sharing? Last time I checked, there were multiple places to post unsigned artists' music on the internet...
Places that won't cut your download off in the middle because the person you were downloading from designed to go offline. Places that won't charge you money for the convenience of downloading freely-available music all while turning your computer into a fileserver for a large corporation's benefit....Why bother with the uncertaintly of file availablility if you're not trying to hide your actions?
There's just no reason.
Stick a fork in them, because they sure are done.
Sup wit dat, yo.
Hooray for one line posts.
What I don't want is for elroy to blow me.
http://oshealtd.com/3trackroy.htm
Sup wit dat, yo? Astro is a big pimp or something.
Because yeah, all the companies I know like to register the domain equivalent of:
Fuck-Me-I-Totally-Suck.com, and then link it to their own site for branding purposes....
It makes perfect sense...
Yeah...
You probably did. There weren't a lot of people there, and I have blue hair....
Trade shows are pointless.
They're like big slow in-person websites without text. The only real good thing about them is that companies give you free trinkets, and from what I gathered, it wasn't all that much, although I did get a fuzzy little penguin guy from Penguin Computing.
I did give perlmonks.org some donation money (which consisted of a pile of money on a table), though. So that was kind of good, but otherwise, the whole thing was pretty boring. Even the people involved seemed quite bored.
It's not like in Britain, where if you sue someone and lose, you pay both parties legal expenses. Lawsuits hurt win or lose, especially when one side can crush you like an ant.
The mere threat of a lawsuit is enough to get a company to change their tune (unfortunately)
Slashdot Cruiser
Now there's an ugly car.