I demand that as of now a 'Nutter' option (+ or - is up to you) be added to the/. moderation system, I mean how am I am meant to deal with shit like this????
just for the record, no grits (breakfast cereal) here grits would be the plural of grit (small stones) except that it isn't (grit is, it is the plural).
oh yeah, and if you ever compliment a guy on his pants you are going to get some seriously weird looks.
some things are funny because they are repeated, try Robert Rankin.
then a another slow pan (hey I watch a lot of HK movues, if it's not slow I get confused, speaking of which why can't you buy chow yun fat's pre Woo comedy movies anywhere??? I mean no one can throw a baby out the window like him) to the stormtroopers and their light sabers "Microsoft(tm). Made In The U.S.A." followed by a sudden blue flash with white letters, Stormtroopers slashed, final scene "Please enter your login name and password"
Had problems with scandisk as well, read the drives and kept discovering bad blocks, ran a low level format on it and it was ok again (BIOS didn't find any errors), not that I'm an expert on hard drives so that might be perfectly normal...
but anyway.... the point is, scandisk did this when it ran automatically after a system crash, no user involvement at all.
Then again no matter what I don't think there is ever going to any comeback on companies for software bugs, they'd all be bankrupt in a week.
How would this work with free software anyway? You could put it up on a server in another country, even appoint someone from there as 'Project Coordinater' or some such. Short of somehow banning downloads from states with UCITA (you can get a cream for that) surely it is the users responsibility if they choose to download and use it?
The only difficulty with that is quite a lot of sites use different servers to err serve stuff, e.g. for slashdot all the pics are coming from images.slashdot.org, although I guess if you had a boss server to tie all the info together it should still be faster.
It would of course make having several hundred '127.0.0.1 ads.doubleclick.net' type entries in my hosts file a bit obsolete.
If you have everything in one stream does that mean it's all or nothing as well?
I'd imagine so, it's probably not a good idea to be any sort of minority in a real 1 person 1 vote society with an avg IQ of 100 (not that I would want to equate cleverness with wisdom). Chances are though it will be the most vocal and pushy that get their way, the majority of people don't care. (PMRC?)
And as for telemarketers I'd prefer an opt-in list rather than opt out...
Yup, in fact what might have been a more significant move is if they were to go through their archives put them on the web, at least that way they might be encoureged to stand by their promises... (they might already be doing this of course, but I generally only browse goverment websites to avoid fines)
It's all going to be a lot easier when we all have neural implants to connect us to the web, pre election ad campaigns will be more fun anyway, they can just flash the party name while hitting our happy buttons:)
followed of course by twice as much time flashing the opposition party's name and some pain...
In a way it might be a good thing if they do leave it too late, that way there is a chance that something better, both for the artists and consumers, might come along.
What is really needed is something half way between Napster and the established music industry.
There was actually a really interesting thread on/. a few days ago, it never made it to the front page and now has about 15 comments...
It is about an article by Courtney Love (worth reading) on Salon . From what she says it sounds like pretty much anything would be better than the current Music Biz...
sorry, you'd think that as a web designer (and one who has done work for some stupidly big companies) I wouldn't make mistakes like that...
/. really could use an edit facility, not to mention an auto mod thing so you can log in and post at 0 if you want, and maybe just a general chat area... boy am I ever the sort of client I hate:)
First of all, why is this topic lingering in the backwoods? Courtney Love's article is far more interesting than anything Lars had to say... and to be honest (IMHO) far more knowlegable and 'insightful' than anything posted to that thread either, admittedly I never read it when I first posted, and quite fairly got modded down for saying badly what she already had. (Just for the record I still don't know who she is, she married that guy who shot himself?)
but anyway, if the situation really is this bad now then something has to change, I'd imagine that the move to independent record labels can be in no small part due to this...
how widespread is this anyway, I'm from the UK and have never heard anything of this at all, which you'd have hoped in 3 years (admittedly a while ago) I would have... or is it just par for the course, beneath mentioning, it's what you do to get the gigs, etc...
It looks like Metallica have much more important fights than Napster, the fact they have chosen the one they have kinda implies that they have more business sense than musical (or rather concern for music at large), which really is sad since they were a great band when I last listened (Master of Puppets).
Just out of curiosity is owning the masters the important part? you can always record again... (yeah I know about the costs for a good studio), but unless you give the record co explicit permission then their masters are worth nothing?
I guess it's all down to contracts.
Anyway I'm off to find teentown on MP3 by Mr Pastorius, cos I'm not sober, I have the Vinyl that should make it ok yeah?
Linux was a fairly major player (?) in the internet (server) market long before RH Debian SuSE etc were anything close to resembling a corporation, they have become bigish business only recently, like where in the UK could you have bought a red hat box set over a year ago?.
Then again how long has big business been around?, even things like the East India Company (whatever their real name was) weren't that big by todays standards.
Big business succedes mainly today because they are convenient (good bit about this in Damian Conways OO perl book), but with the web that is more open to anyone.
It could that todays corps are just a transitional stage, tho then again maybe not and Gibsons books are the future.
also I'd guess that big business tends towards evil, they all start small and many with high ideals, but then it gets bigger and more complex, more people who are specialists in business itself and not actual production are bought in, the original people leave/retire what is left is in most cases just a machine with the sole purpose of making money, because that is now their remit, what actually comes out the factory doors to get the dosh is mostly irrelevant except in that they have market share and history to back them, also as you say the decisions aren't made by the people doing the work, and even worse are made in a way by the business equivalent of A/Cs, they are removed from the consenquences and only have the intense pressure to succede.
(hyperbole intended - I know it isn't absolutely true)
One thing to make absolutely sure of though when using any 3rd party money processor is to make sure you are getting a copy of all the information you need to ship (name, address, not cc info) before either they get sent to the payment service providers site, or your cgi hits the code to process the payment. DO NOT rely on them getting the info to you!
I've used a few in the past and with 2 had serious problems, one of them messed up the file setup on their side, the other had a slow server that accepted the payment but then timed out, in both cases this resulted in people being billed and no one knowing who (until they emailed a few weeks later, none too happy.
I'd admit I am probably partly to blame for this for actually trusting them (one was a large bank, the other one of the major players in the online CC business).
What's with the doubleclick stuff btw, my comps think my server is doubleclick (and just about every other ad server in creation) and there seems to be some sort of redirect sending there when I accessed this article (probably an include or.js file), I only got here by clicking back fast... does this mean that before long we won't be able to access/. if we are ignoring doubleclick?
"So far no one has come up with a convincing explanation for the sudden emigration of thousands of North Americans, mostly computer professionals, to the United Kingdom in late 2000. This was a complete reversal to previous patterns, and is believed to be one of the main contributing factors to the downfall of Silicon Valley as the IT capital of the world."
this kind of thing, actually plenty of places other than indonesia. Also nothing new I guess, remember some books my parents had when I was a kid, a pictorial history of WWII, nice embossed blue covers, not so nice pics inside. Or of course Time magazine....
I think one of the main points they are trying to make is that the law wouldn't do any good at all, e.g. it is as if your kids had a teleport, ok in the US a porn shop should be liable if they let kids in, but in Thailand? (I know it is a great country really if you can avoid the sleaze), also you have to imagine that your kids can appear to be any age they wish when they teleport. (oops just reread your post, repeating what u said partially, sowwie)
The only way that the US could enforce such a law would be by blocking packets when they reach the country, essentially censoring the Internet, or, by attempting to enforce the ruling in non US countries. Neither of which I can see being awfully popular moves, even if not entirely out of character.
The only people that can do anything without submitting the whole shebang to government/international agency control is the end user. Unfortunate I guess since most people aren't going to do much than hide the virtual vids in the virtual sock drawer.
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I demand that as of now a 'Nutter' option (+ or - is up to you) be added to the /. moderation system, I mean how am I am meant to deal with shit like this????
oh yeah, and if you ever compliment a guy on his pants you are going to get some seriously weird looks.
some things are funny because they are repeated, try Robert Rankin.
bye bye karma :P
11+ (I guess only checked a couple) seem to be free, anyone want to invest? (given of course that Pentium is a made up name, and a trademark)
then a another slow pan (hey I watch a lot of HK movues, if it's not slow I get confused, speaking of which why can't you buy chow yun fat's pre Woo comedy movies anywhere??? I mean no one can throw a baby out the window like him) to the stormtroopers and their light sabers "Microsoft(tm). Made In The U.S.A." followed by a sudden blue flash with white letters, Stormtroopers slashed, final scene "Please enter your login name and password"
but anyway.... the point is, scandisk did this when it ran automatically after a system crash, no user involvement at all.
Then again no matter what I don't think there is ever going to any comeback on companies for software bugs, they'd all be bankrupt in a week.
How would this work with free software anyway? You could put it up on a server in another country, even appoint someone from there as 'Project Coordinater' or some such. Short of somehow banning downloads from states with UCITA (you can get a cream for that) surely it is the users responsibility if they choose to download and use it?
It would of course make having several hundred '127.0.0.1 ads.doubleclick.net' type entries in my hosts file a bit obsolete.
If you have everything in one stream does that mean it's all or nothing as well?
And as for telemarketers I'd prefer an opt-in list rather than opt out...
fundementals (it should be plural) of course I might be wrong, it's been a while. . .
It's all going to be a lot easier when we all have neural implants to connect us to the web, pre election ad campaigns will be more fun anyway, they can just flash the party name while hitting our happy buttons :)
followed of course by twice as much time flashing the opposition party's name and some pain ...
It hardly seems fair to call it an address to the 'Nation' if it is, what percentage of people are actually online in the US anyway?
If I was in the US and unable to afford or didn't want a PC I'd be getting kinda worried about now...
It must be a timezone thing, I mean it's still only June here in the UK, still got a month to wait before we can watch it...
Anyway off back to my private /. chat, gotta flame myself for something rather mean I just said to myself.
What is really needed is something half way between Napster and the established music industry.
There was actually a really interesting thread on /. a few days ago, it never made it to the front page and now has about 15 comments...
It is about an article by Courtney Love (worth reading) on Salon . From what she says it sounds like pretty much anything would be better than the current Music Biz...
/. really could use an edit facility, not to mention an auto mod thing so you can log in and post at 0 if you want, and maybe just a general chat area... boy am I ever the sort of client I hate :)
I spent 3 years (Bass Guitar FWIW) and if this is the state of things I'm damn glad I dropped out (drank too much, developed phobia, never play now, when I'm drunk I sometimes get tempted by Stanley Clark, Jaco, and Jamerson, but I have discovered the one true perl now)
but anyway, if the situation really is this bad now then something has to change, I'd imagine that the move to independent record labels can be in no small part due to this...
how widespread is this anyway, I'm from the UK and have never heard anything of this at all, which you'd have hoped in 3 years (admittedly a while ago) I would have... or is it just par for the course, beneath mentioning, it's what you do to get the gigs, etc...
It looks like Metallica have much more important fights than Napster, the fact they have chosen the one they have kinda implies that they have more business sense than musical (or rather concern for music at large), which really is sad since they were a great band when I last listened (Master of Puppets).
Just out of curiosity is owning the masters the important part? you can always record again... (yeah I know about the costs for a good studio), but unless you give the record co explicit permission then their masters are worth nothing?
I guess it's all down to contracts.
Anyway I'm off to find teentown on MP3 by Mr Pastorius, cos I'm not sober, I have the Vinyl that should make it ok yeah?
umm because win95 is win 3.1 in a tuxedo? :)
no reason they shouldn't release the binaries though, don't imaginge demand would be very high though. Anyway never mind 3.1 can't get DOS either...
Imagine Big Business HAD created the Internet...
Then again how long has big business been around?, even things like the East India Company (whatever their real name was) weren't that big by todays standards.
Big business succedes mainly today because they are convenient (good bit about this in Damian Conways OO perl book), but with the web that is more open to anyone.
It could that todays corps are just a transitional stage, tho then again maybe not and Gibsons books are the future.
just thoughts...
(hyperbole intended - I know it isn't absolutely true)
I've used a few in the past and with 2 had serious problems, one of them messed up the file setup on their side, the other had a slow server that accepted the payment but then timed out, in both cases this resulted in people being billed and no one knowing who (until they emailed a few weeks later, none too happy.
I'd admit I am probably partly to blame for this for actually trusting them (one was a large bank, the other one of the major players in the online CC business).
What's with the doubleclick stuff btw, my comps think my server is doubleclick (and just about every other ad server in creation) and there seems to be some sort of redirect sending there when I accessed this article (probably an include or .js file), I only got here by clicking back fast... does this mean that before long we won't be able to access /. if we are ignoring doubleclick?
Suspect this probably isn't the case though, monopoly tactics vs citizen safety?
this kind of thing, actually plenty of places other than indonesia. Also nothing new I guess, remember some books my parents had when I was a kid, a pictorial history of WWII, nice embossed blue covers, not so nice pics inside. Or of course Time magazine....
The only way that the US could enforce such a law would be by blocking packets when they reach the country, essentially censoring the Internet, or, by attempting to enforce the ruling in non US countries. Neither of which I can see being awfully popular moves, even if not entirely out of character.
The only people that can do anything without submitting the whole shebang to government/international agency control is the end user. Unfortunate I guess since most people aren't going to do much than hide the virtual vids in the virtual sock drawer.