All this talk of paying for email is silly. It won't work. We're already nickled and dimed for bandwith, connection fees, cell phone services, etc. It's an interesting theory, but it just won't work. I have a better solution to deal with the spammer solution.
First, you hunt down the spammers. Torture them until you get a hold of the people they were hired by. Torture them. Continue until you get to the CEO of nike, or viagra, or whoever started the chain.
Take this long line of people and dismember them publicly (perhaps take some of George Carlin's ideas about letting people bet on the event to make some money) in a most graphic fashion. Make sure that everyone knows that this is because they were spammers, or directly contributing to spamming.
Repeat as needed. Eventually this none too subtle approach will encourage people to find other lines of business. Sure, you might get some collateral damage, housewives, people wrongly identified, that sort of thing, but if you do your best (ie: not just looking at mail headers), this can be minimized. You have to break eggs to make an omlette I say! I think it'd work.
Seriously though, saying "it takes in more money than it puts out" is a bogus argument. I can pimp out my 12 year old sister on the street corner and take in more money than I put out, but that doesn't make it right. Saying "but she's a blonde, and all I have to do is buy a pair of high heals every 6 months" doesn't make me not the scum of the earth. I can make money by dumping radioactive waste in a playground for big business and make money as well, but does that mean I should?
On second thought, maybe my first idea isn't so far fetched after all.
Other than the URLs being different, lets see what's the same....
'cached' link - check
text ads on right - check
same color scheme - check
bold search terms in results list - check
highlight search terms in cached view - check
sponsored links on top - check (with more than the one or two that are given on google)
top menu bar for directory, news, etc - check
misspelling suggestions - check
Hmm..... looks like a carbon copy so far. New features?
add to my yahoo
view as xml (to suck down rss feeds)
The 'view as xml' is probably the most interesting to me, but other than that.... well, they've done a good job emulating/copying googles feature set, which is no small task I'll gather. But still....
I'm going to guess that this will mean yet another increase in the cost of tickets (up to $13 CND in some theatres here) and food (overpriced to begin with) for theatre patrons. Is the lower cost to theatres going to be reflected by lowering prices for movie goers instead of screwing them over more for the "big screen experience"? I doubt it.
Just out of interest, what is new/changed in 4.4? I looked through the site and didn't find anything. Is it just new hardware support, or more substantial things (ie: proper XRENDER (think that's it anyway) extensions, hardware gl support, rendering of transparancy....)? Anyone got a changelog or brief overview?
People are waiting for Half Life 2 and Doom 3 to be released however. A good example of the 'late release == sucky game' can be seen in Daikatana. When it was released it was a very advanced game..... for two years ago (or whenever their original ship date was). Sadly they released it in the present, not the past, and therefor it sucked donkey balls.
Hopefully Doom3 and HL2 get put out RSN and aren't subjected to the same fate.
I was expecting something with more hard numbers. The MS TCO site is full of pretty graphs and charts showing how MS software is cheaper in the long run than "free" software. This article had none of that.
What I'd like to see is a linux biased company come out with a similar "get the real truth.com" site which has case studies that show linux is cheaper in the long run than Windows based solutions.
Why, it's been working for Microsoft for ages? Anyone remember the time around OS/2 and Windows 95 being launched, with MS constantly saying that 95 was delayed but it was going to be so damn good so you'd better just wait a bit longer and not go with that other silly IBM os.
Wasn't Big Bill talking about how they patched faster than the evil open source programmers not that long ago? Isn't this bug something that's been a problem for years, been know about for just as long, and been in hot debate for a couple of weeks now?
I thought so.
Seems like only lots of contraversy gets MS to update their software somtimes.
I've had the opposite, where more than one of my profs was the author of the book that was used for the class, so they had even more incentive to get us to use that book. I've also had profs that photocopy appropriate sections for us though.
Yea, that's how I felt when I left M&C. Great details, really made me not want to be a sailor, but not enough plot to compete with LOTR. Some may say that PJ just took a great story and put it on film, but it was still a huge undertaking.
So how is gentoo (or debian, or any linux, assuming you are making the argument against gentoo vs the argument against linux) worse than another distro/unix? On my current gentoo server packages are only updated occassionally, and when they are it's with either security updates or newer versions. I have the choice to update to what I want. I don't see how this is different than *bsd or another linux.
Because it works for me, and I'm familiar with it? I considered BSD at one point but I don't feel comfortable enough using an OS that I'm not familar with on the net and with a fair number of users.
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Don't forget the power of USE flags. One of the things that I love about gentoo more than anything else is the power that USE flags give me. Want a server without any X compiled into the programs you're installing? Set USE="-X". Want to make sure that ssl is enabled everywhere that you have the option? USE="ssl". Want KDE instead of gnome for programs that have multiple GUI interfaces? USE="kde -gnome". Easy and powerful.
Well, I think that these days you see "viagra" far less than you see "v14gra", "vi ag ra" or "V!I!A!G!R!A!!", so maybe it's going to end up on your non-spam wordlist?:)
Not really chicken and egg. It would be true if you could only get music for the ipod from the ITMS, but you can get it from just about anywhere that has the ability to talk to the ipod (quite a few apps). So releasing a firmware upgrade or a separate ipod that supports wma wouldn't break anything or prevent anything from happening. It would just give the ipod the ability to play music from $other_music_store. Now when the ipod has support for wma apple is free to start releaseing stuff from the itms in wma format. Of course, since their software and their hardware is the only thing that talks to ITMS it doesn't really make sense to do this. Well, that and that whole, "making a deal with the devil" thing. If they opened up their store to other players then yes, but I don't see that happening right now when they have the premium service and player around.
The cropping is simple a way to polish. Obviously gimp has had cropping from day one, but the way that PS does it if you've ever seen it just makes it a bit easier because you can see what the image will look like in the end. I also wish they could do that with the canvas rotation functionality.
They don't have the polish though. IE: in PS when you crop the area outside the crop area is dimmed, so you have a better idea of what the final image has, auto-levels, auto-color, and GIMP doesn't have the "photo filters" (ie: warming filter, cooling filter, etc) that PS/Elements/PictureIt! have.
This is the sort of thing that the gimp is lacking lately, and hopefully will start catching up on now when the 2.0 is released.
I love gimp, but latey it seems to be falling farther and farther behind the windows alternatives, at least in the area of digital photography manipulation. Don't get me wrong, it can still do all the things that it needs (I think), but the ease of use and UI from programs such as photohop, elements, and even ms pictureit/digital image pro make it pale in comparision.
A couple of quick examples of things I'd like to see (which aren't in the last gimp 1.3.2x version I have installed):
- crop which dims the area outside the crop to give you a better feel of what the cropped image will look like
- a "straighten image" function like MS has in their product, where you simply click a line on the horizon (or whatever) and the image is rotated and cropped automagically
- auto-[levels,colors]
Though I'm not sure if the gimp needs this sort of functionality, or if a branch using it's libs for digital imaging (gimp-elements?) needs to be branched off and started.
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All this talk of paying for email is silly. It won't work. We're already nickled and dimed for bandwith, connection fees, cell phone services, etc. It's an interesting theory, but it just won't work. I have a better solution to deal with the spammer solution.
First, you hunt down the spammers. Torture them until you get a hold of the people they were hired by. Torture them. Continue until you get to the CEO of nike, or viagra, or whoever started the chain.
Take this long line of people and dismember them publicly (perhaps take some of George Carlin's ideas about letting people bet on the event to make some money) in a most graphic fashion. Make sure that everyone knows that this is because they were spammers, or directly contributing to spamming.
Repeat as needed. Eventually this none too subtle approach will encourage people to find other lines of business. Sure, you might get some collateral damage, housewives, people wrongly identified, that sort of thing, but if you do your best (ie: not just looking at mail headers), this can be minimized. You have to break eggs to make an omlette I say! I think it'd work.
Seriously though, saying "it takes in more money than it puts out" is a bogus argument. I can pimp out my 12 year old sister on the street corner and take in more money than I put out, but that doesn't make it right. Saying "but she's a blonde, and all I have to do is buy a pair of high heals every 6 months" doesn't make me not the scum of the earth. I can make money by dumping radioactive waste in a playground for big business and make money as well, but does that mean I should?
On second thought, maybe my first idea isn't so far fetched after all.
'cached' link - check
text ads on right - check
same color scheme - check
bold search terms in results list - check
highlight search terms in cached view - check
sponsored links on top - check (with more than the one or two that are given on google)
top menu bar for directory, news, etc - check
misspelling suggestions - check
Hmm..... looks like a carbon copy so far. New features?
add to my yahoo
view as xml (to suck down rss feeds)
The 'view as xml' is probably the most interesting to me, but other than that.... well, they've done a good job emulating/copying googles feature set, which is no small task I'll gather. But still....
Meh.
I'm going to guess that this will mean yet another increase in the cost of tickets (up to $13 CND in some theatres here) and food (overpriced to begin with) for theatre patrons. Is the lower cost to theatres going to be reflected by lowering prices for movie goers instead of screwing them over more for the "big screen experience"? I doubt it.
Just out of interest, what is new/changed in 4.4? I looked through the site and didn't find anything. Is it just new hardware support, or more substantial things (ie: proper XRENDER (think that's it anyway) extensions, hardware gl support, rendering of transparancy....)? Anyone got a changelog or brief overview?
Probably not :)
People are waiting for Half Life 2 and Doom 3 to be released however. A good example of the 'late release == sucky game' can be seen in Daikatana. When it was released it was a very advanced game..... for two years ago (or whenever their original ship date was). Sadly they released it in the present, not the past, and therefor it sucked donkey balls.
Hopefully Doom3 and HL2 get put out RSN and aren't subjected to the same fate.
I was expecting something with more hard numbers. The MS TCO site is full of pretty graphs and charts showing how MS software is cheaper in the long run than "free" software. This article had none of that.
.com" site which has case studies that show linux is cheaper in the long run than Windows based solutions.
What I'd like to see is a linux biased company come out with a similar "get the real truth
Why, it's been working for Microsoft for ages? Anyone remember the time around OS/2 and Windows 95 being launched, with MS constantly saying that 95 was delayed but it was going to be so damn good so you'd better just wait a bit longer and not go with that other silly IBM os.
Wasn't Big Bill talking about how they patched faster than the evil open source programmers not that long ago? Isn't this bug something that's been a problem for years, been know about for just as long, and been in hot debate for a couple of weeks now?
I thought so.
Seems like only lots of contraversy gets MS to update their software somtimes.
I've had the opposite, where more than one of my profs was the author of the book that was used for the class, so they had even more incentive to get us to use that book. I've also had profs that photocopy appropriate sections for us though.
Probably similar to the "god made the world in 7 days where 1 day is any length of time" argument. I think it took 24h+ on my k7-900 a while back.
Yea, that's how I felt when I left M&C. Great details, really made me not want to be a sailor, but not enough plot to compete with LOTR. Some may say that PJ just took a great story and put it on film, but it was still a huge undertaking.
Cool. See, that's the sort of thing I have NO clue about and why I'm not on a *BSD right now (yet :)
So how is gentoo (or debian, or any linux, assuming you are making the argument against gentoo vs the argument against linux) worse than another distro/unix? On my current gentoo server packages are only updated occassionally, and when they are it's with either security updates or newer versions. I have the choice to update to what I want. I don't see how this is different than *bsd or another linux.
Because it works for me, and I'm familiar with it? I considered BSD at one point but I don't feel comfortable enough using an OS that I'm not familar with on the net and with a fair number of users.
Did someone say low UID?
Don't forget the power of USE flags. One of the things that I love about gentoo more than anything else is the power that USE flags give me. Want a server without any X compiled into the programs you're installing? Set USE="-X". Want to make sure that ssl is enabled everywhere that you have the option? USE="ssl". Want KDE instead of gnome for programs that have multiple GUI interfaces? USE="kde -gnome". Easy and powerful.
Well, I think that these days you see "viagra" far less than you see "v14gra", "vi ag ra" or "V!I!A!G!R!A!!", so maybe it's going to end up on your non-spam wordlist? :)
Not really chicken and egg. It would be true if you could only get music for the ipod from the ITMS, but you can get it from just about anywhere that has the ability to talk to the ipod (quite a few apps). So releasing a firmware upgrade or a separate ipod that supports wma wouldn't break anything or prevent anything from happening. It would just give the ipod the ability to play music from $other_music_store. Now when the ipod has support for wma apple is free to start releaseing stuff from the itms in wma format. Of course, since their software and their hardware is the only thing that talks to ITMS it doesn't really make sense to do this. Well, that and that whole, "making a deal with the devil" thing. If they opened up their store to other players then yes, but I don't see that happening right now when they have the premium service and player around.
Erhmm... the ebgames page says it's ship date is 7/14/2004...
Very cool sounding, I hadn't seen this before. Thanks for the info!
The cropping is simple a way to polish. Obviously gimp has had cropping from day one, but the way that PS does it if you've ever seen it just makes it a bit easier because you can see what the image will look like in the end. I also wish they could do that with the canvas rotation functionality.
They don't have the polish though. IE: in PS when you crop the area outside the crop area is dimmed, so you have a better idea of what the final image has, auto-levels, auto-color, and GIMP doesn't have the "photo filters" (ie: warming filter, cooling filter, etc) that PS/Elements/PictureIt! have.
This is the sort of thing that the gimp is lacking lately, and hopefully will start catching up on now when the 2.0 is released.
I love gimp, but latey it seems to be falling farther and farther behind the windows alternatives, at least in the area of digital photography manipulation. Don't get me wrong, it can still do all the things that it needs (I think), but the ease of use and UI from programs such as photohop, elements, and even ms pictureit/digital image pro make it pale in comparision.
A couple of quick examples of things I'd like to see (which aren't in the last gimp 1.3.2x version I have installed):
- crop which dims the area outside the crop to give you a better feel of what the cropped image will look like
- a "straighten image" function like MS has in their product, where you simply click a line on the horizon (or whatever) and the image is rotated and cropped automagically
- auto-[levels,colors]
Though I'm not sure if the gimp needs this sort of functionality, or if a branch using it's libs for digital imaging (gimp-elements?) needs to be branched off and started.
How far away is the US probe from the beagle landing site? Could they send their own little explorer over to check out what happened?