Anti-trust or no anti-trust, if Microsoft wants to give their media player a shop option that points to their shop using their browser, let them.
What? Let me try re-write that for you:
"Laws against murder or no laws against murder, if Microsoft wants to kill somebody in cold blood, let them."
Doesn't sound so great that way, does it? Now I'm not trying to compare anti-trust voloations to murder, but rather law to law. If their settlement said that they were to not use their OS dominance to unfairly promote their browser and then they use one of their OS applications to launch a hard-coded IE session, by-passing the perfectly good %default_browser% option, then they are in violation. Simple.
Kongratulations to the KDE development team. I kan hardly believe that it has been seven years for this krazy and kool environment for linux. There's gno way that Gnome kan katch up with your konstant innovations in application naming! Gnow that I think about it, Gnome's gnot even kapable of kashing in on single-letter usage they way KDE kan! Keep the gnew stuff koming!
ROCHESTER -- He may be known as "DJ MasterWeb" now to his nightclub regulars at Plum Crazy, but Sanford Wallace once ruled the Internet as the king of spam.
By his own account, Wallace, who owns the hopping night spot Plum Crazy on Route 11, was, at one time, responsible for about 80 percent of direct Internet mailings sent to in-boxes around the globe.
The mailings are popularly known as "spam" in the Web world and are virtually impossible to avoid, despite constant efforts to do away with them.
But in the early 1990s, not many people had even heard of the Internet, never mind Internet spam.
"It was junk mail. I have no problem using the term," said the 35-year-old Wallace.
Wallace first learned the craft of computer programming in 1990 from the Chubb Institute, a couple of years before the Internet boom of 1993 and 1994.
Prior to that, the Internet was mainly used by the government and military -- certainly not widely available to the passive computer owner.
When the Web became accessible to the general public, Wallace's entrepreneurial mind began churning.
Much like the junk mail that came through his old-fashioned mailbox every day, Wallace thought there must be a way to transfer that method to the rapidly growing cyberworld.
Wallace found ways to collect a massive list of personal e-mail addresses. He then contacted businesses big and small and asked if -- for a fee -- they would be interested in getting their names out to hundreds, if not millions of people.
In turn, the companies would send their information to Wallace, who formed a Philadelphia, Pa.-based company under the name Cyber Promotions in 1994. He would create advertisements, and send them off into the World Wide Web.
Over the next three years, Wallace sent as many as 30 million e-mails a day to consumers from 10,000 clients, and made millions of dollars in the process.
"I didn't think there was anything wrong with what I was doing. It wasn't as annoying as telemarketing, because with e-mail, I wasn't interrupting anyone's dinner," Wallace said.
But some heavy hitters with very deep pockets didn't quite see it that way.
From 1995 until 1997, Cyber Promotions was involved in 16 separate lawsuits, with companies like America Online and CompuServe.
The basis of many of the lawsuits was that unlike phone lines, computers were considered private property, and Wallace was accused of violating that privacy.
"People were essentially lining up at my virtual door," Wallace said. "I made a lot of lawyers very rich."
Wallace also attracted the ire of Internet enthusiasts -- or computer geeks, as he classifies them -- who strongly voiced their disapproval and outright loathing of Wallace on message boards throughout the Web.
The distaste infamously earned him the nickname "Spamford" in online circles around the country.
The negative reactions and relentless lawsuits started to take their toll, and Wallace decided to get out of the business in 1997.
"I was getting tired of the controversy. My goal was never to bother people," Wallace said.
Wallace took another stab at Internet spamming with SmartBot, a permission-based system where marketers and consumers would agree to be sent spam e-mail, similar to the check boxes found on most online registration pages.
The business lasted for a few more years until the dot-com crash of 2000, when hundreds of self-made millionaires lost their shirts on investments that peaked and fell in just a couple of years.
That was it for Wallace's life as "Spamford."
"A lot of people lost a lot of money. I did too, but there were people out there who got it a lot worse," Wallace said.
Walter Rines, who is a close friend and Wallace's ex-business partner, lead the former King of Spam toward his second life as "DJ MasterWeb", a take on his former occupation as a webmaster.
In 2001, Rines, of Stratham, opened a quaint restaurant called
Funny, that. I guess I'll chalk this up to being a response from a "typical slashdotter." No one with a wife/girlfriend and living in anything resembling the "real world" can actually believe that "being right is all that really matters."
What will you look like 30 years from now?
It actually took a few moments to try to decipher that last line. Then I realized that you were talking about physical appearance and assumed that I was as well, which just drives home the suspicion that you live in your parent's basement.
In my experience the majority of Developers don't have an in depth knowledge of OS and Hardware performance.
That's true for probably 90% of developers out there, but the truly *great* programmers realize these concepts play a tremendous role in software development and try to understand them as much as possible. Any developer writing anything close to real-time software *has* to know how things are working at a very low level.
Unfortunately every game reviewer would probably blast the game for not looking or sounding 'pretty' as compared to games that are half prerendered cutscenes. But it'd be fun damnit.
Bingo. I think you hit a valid point there.
[Gaming Industry] Fun? This is a business, dammit! If you don't have features X, Y, and Z, then you can't compete. And after we code X, Y, and partially implement Z, then we're out of money and don't have time to code "Fun" into the game. Oh well, maybe we can implement "Fun" in a 145MB patch next year. After, of course, the 178MB "Actually Playable" patch is out. [/Gaming Industry]
I do agree that a certain higher level of creativity seems to have emerged in the SNES days. Perhaps all the great NES coders were working on getting around the limitations of an 8-bit system when a 16-bit system arrived, so that they could pour all their work into a system that could add some graphical goodness.
Also, don't forget that the PC game market is so make-or-break to developers today (do to the almost insane expectations of users who want everything to be shiny and big-budget-looking), that they have little incentive to take a risk. That's why you see so much derivative crap.
In fact, they should have taken it a step further:
"The linuxosity of the linux-enabled YOPY YP-3700 LDA (Linux Digital Assistant) shines with linux-like GNU. Linus himself would marvel at the linuxy linuxitude. Its linuxy linux is the most linux of the linuxical linuxes..."
OMG - Linux no longer sounds like a real word to me! Nooo!
Interestingly enough, everyone seems to think that the "golden era of gaming" was whatever era they starting playing games in. That was when "graphics didn't matter, it was all about the game play." Ask kids that today, and they will tell you that "Game X (from 3 years ago) was 'all about the game play.'"
Do you think any game company today could make a profit or even stay afloat if they made SNES-level games today? While I agree that a lot of newer games are mostly fluff, let's not sweep the entire market under the rug in favor of Double Dragon and Rad Racer.
There are several cool/disturbing potentials for this kind of thing. Some are nifty is a "Down and Out in the Magic Kindom" kind of way. Use nano-implants to control your medicine dosage. Wake up and feel a little queazy? *Blink* - administered [X]mg of [anti-nausea] medication. What about diabetics? And, like you mention, Viagra? It would definitely remove any stigmata/embarrassment from taking medication publicly.
On the other hand, I think back to "Brave New World" kind of literature, and then it doen't seem like that great of an idea anymore. Oh well.
That might explain the relatively few number of small, rural bars in this area. It's nothing like it was in Louisiana. There were a dozen bars on every other country road. Here, they are all located in downtown Dallas, on the same freaking block.
the TABC is the most corrupt government agency I've ever personally done business with.
It's true. The Texas Association of Bass Clubs is pure evil! They shove their catches full of depleted uranium! A 46lb bass that's only 14" long? Yeah, right!
Anyway, WTF are you talking about? I posted a chart of all the states who's alcohol distributions are controlled by their respective ABC. Clean your own house? Get a f'ing life, you 4-digit UID slashdick.
And naturally, the few mods that are around have basically wasted a dozen or so points by methodically modding this entire thread Off-Topic. Not that I mind, but for Pete's sake, there's not a single +5 Mod in this topic yet! There's only 4 "+3"s posts! At least try to be constructive, for crying-out-loud! =P
I agree about the quality of recent stories. I use to look forward to refreshing the main page all day and seeing an interesting story pop-up every hour or so, one that generates a couple of hundred comments and several deeply-nested threads.
Now I refresh and see a review of a pirate book with ~70 "+2" comments and "Third Anniversary of Bezos-Backed Patent Reform," which went completely ignored. Meh.
Of course, I'm not helping by posting near-useless comments like this...
Slashdot Mirror
Anti-trust or no anti-trust, if Microsoft wants to give their media player a shop option that points to their shop using their browser, let them.
What? Let me try re-write that for you:
"Laws against murder or no laws against murder, if Microsoft wants to kill somebody in cold blood, let them."
Doesn't sound so great that way, does it? Now I'm not trying to compare anti-trust voloations to murder, but rather law to law. If their settlement said that they were to not use their OS dominance to unfairly promote their browser and then they use one of their OS applications to launch a hard-coded IE session, by-passing the perfectly good %default_browser% option, then they are in violation. Simple.
Work great in the middle east, though.
Yep. No small particles of anything in the air during those frequent sandstorms. =P
I've always wondered:
Gnome - 'Guh-nome' or 'nome'?
GNU - 'Guh-new' or 'new'?
Gnutella - 'Guh-new-tella' or 'new-tella'
??
Kongratulations to the KDE development team. I kan hardly believe that it has been seven years for this krazy and kool environment for linux. There's gno way that Gnome kan katch up with your konstant innovations in application naming! Gnow that I think about it, Gnome's gnot even kapable of kashing in on single-letter usage they way KDE kan! Keep the gnew stuff koming!
??? I'm having a hard time smurfing the way you smurf. =P
ROCHESTER -- He may be known as "DJ MasterWeb" now to his nightclub regulars at Plum Crazy, but Sanford Wallace once ruled the Internet as the king of spam.
By his own account, Wallace, who owns the hopping night spot Plum Crazy on Route 11, was, at one time, responsible for about 80 percent of direct Internet mailings sent to in-boxes around the globe.
The mailings are popularly known as "spam" in the Web world and are virtually impossible to avoid, despite constant efforts to do away with them.
But in the early 1990s, not many people had even heard of the Internet, never mind Internet spam.
"It was junk mail. I have no problem using the term," said the 35-year-old Wallace.
Wallace first learned the craft of computer programming in 1990 from the Chubb Institute, a couple of years before the Internet boom of 1993 and 1994.
Prior to that, the Internet was mainly used by the government and military -- certainly not widely available to the passive computer owner.
When the Web became accessible to the general public, Wallace's entrepreneurial mind began churning.
Much like the junk mail that came through his old-fashioned mailbox every day, Wallace thought there must be a way to transfer that method to the rapidly growing cyberworld.
Wallace found ways to collect a massive list of personal e-mail addresses. He then contacted businesses big and small and asked if -- for a fee -- they would be interested in getting their names out to hundreds, if not millions of people.
In turn, the companies would send their information to Wallace, who formed a Philadelphia, Pa.-based company under the name Cyber Promotions in 1994. He would create advertisements, and send them off into the World Wide Web.
Over the next three years, Wallace sent as many as 30 million e-mails a day to consumers from 10,000 clients, and made millions of dollars in the process.
"I didn't think there was anything wrong with what I was doing. It wasn't as annoying as telemarketing, because with e-mail, I wasn't interrupting anyone's dinner," Wallace said.
But some heavy hitters with very deep pockets didn't quite see it that way.
From 1995 until 1997, Cyber Promotions was involved in 16 separate lawsuits, with companies like America Online and CompuServe.
The basis of many of the lawsuits was that unlike phone lines, computers were considered private property, and Wallace was accused of violating that privacy.
"People were essentially lining up at my virtual door," Wallace said. "I made a lot of lawyers very rich."
Wallace also attracted the ire of Internet enthusiasts -- or computer geeks, as he classifies them -- who strongly voiced their disapproval and outright loathing of Wallace on message boards throughout the Web.
The distaste infamously earned him the nickname "Spamford" in online circles around the country.
The negative reactions and relentless lawsuits started to take their toll, and Wallace decided to get out of the business in 1997.
"I was getting tired of the controversy. My goal was never to bother people," Wallace said.
Wallace took another stab at Internet spamming with SmartBot, a permission-based system where marketers and consumers would agree to be sent spam e-mail, similar to the check boxes found on most online registration pages.
The business lasted for a few more years until the dot-com crash of 2000, when hundreds of self-made millionaires lost their shirts on investments that peaked and fell in just a couple of years.
That was it for Wallace's life as "Spamford."
"A lot of people lost a lot of money. I did too, but there were people out there who got it a lot worse," Wallace said.
Walter Rines, who is a close friend and Wallace's ex-business partner, lead the former King of Spam toward his second life as "DJ MasterWeb", a take on his former occupation as a webmaster.
In 2001, Rines, of Stratham, opened a quaint restaurant called
Foster's - Australian for "dead server."
It's statute of limitations, not... oh. Uh, nevermind. =P
She was right, though. Which is what matters.
Funny, that. I guess I'll chalk this up to being a response from a "typical slashdotter." No one with a wife/girlfriend and living in anything resembling the "real world" can actually believe that "being right is all that really matters."
What will you look like 30 years from now?
It actually took a few moments to try to decipher that last line. Then I realized that you were talking about physical appearance and assumed that I was as well, which just drives home the suspicion that you live in your parent's basement.
In my experience the majority of Developers don't have an in depth knowledge of OS and Hardware performance.
That's true for probably 90% of developers out there, but the truly *great* programmers realize these concepts play a tremendous role in software development and try to understand them as much as possible. Any developer writing anything close to real-time software *has* to know how things are working at a very low level.
LOL. I read the article. But it turned out to be rather boring, so I decided to run with this "what if it really was a microchip (controller)?"
Unfortunately every game reviewer would probably blast the game for not looking or sounding 'pretty' as compared to games that are half prerendered cutscenes. But it'd be fun damnit.
Bingo. I think you hit a valid point there.
[Gaming Industry]
Fun? This is a business, dammit! If you don't have features X, Y, and Z, then you can't compete. And after we code X, Y, and partially implement Z, then we're out of money and don't have time to code "Fun" into the game. Oh well, maybe we can implement "Fun" in a 145MB patch next year. After, of course, the 178MB "Actually Playable" patch is out.
[/Gaming Industry]
LOL! I was thinking the exact same thing. "Bah - I told you all! I was right. Humbug!"
I do agree that a certain higher level of creativity seems to have emerged in the SNES days. Perhaps all the great NES coders were working on getting around the limitations of an 8-bit system when a 16-bit system arrived, so that they could pour all their work into a system that could add some graphical goodness.
Also, don't forget that the PC game market is so make-or-break to developers today (do to the almost insane expectations of users who want everything to be shiny and big-budget-looking), that they have little incentive to take a risk. That's why you see so much derivative crap.
In fact, they should have taken it a step further:
"The linuxosity of the linux-enabled YOPY YP-3700 LDA (Linux Digital Assistant) shines with linux-like GNU. Linus himself would marvel at the linuxy linuxitude. Its linuxy linux is the most linux of the linuxical linuxes..."
OMG - Linux no longer sounds like a real word to me! Nooo!
and that it is "undoubtedly the most linuxy handheld device I've seen. It out-linuxes the Sharp Zaurus
./ material!
Any review that uses the phrases "linuxy" and "out-linuxes" is definitely
Interestingly enough, everyone seems to think that the "golden era of gaming" was whatever era they starting playing games in. That was when "graphics didn't matter, it was all about the game play." Ask kids that today, and they will tell you that "Game X (from 3 years ago) was 'all about the game play.'"
Do you think any game company today could make a profit or even stay afloat if they made SNES-level games today? While I agree that a lot of newer games are mostly fluff, let's not sweep the entire market under the rug in favor of Double Dragon and Rad Racer.
There are several cool/disturbing potentials for this kind of thing. Some are nifty is a "Down and Out in the Magic Kindom" kind of way. Use nano-implants to control your medicine dosage. Wake up and feel a little queazy? *Blink* - administered [X]mg of [anti-nausea] medication. What about diabetics? And, like you mention, Viagra? It would definitely remove any stigmata/embarrassment from taking medication publicly.
On the other hand, I think back to "Brave New World" kind of literature, and then it doen't seem like that great of an idea anymore. Oh well.
Or even better, have you seen Pi? There's an effective way of getting something out of your head...
That might explain the relatively few number of small, rural bars in this area. It's nothing like it was in Louisiana. There were a dozen bars on every other country road. Here, they are all located in downtown Dallas, on the same freaking block.
the TABC is the most corrupt government agency I've ever personally done business with.
It's true. The Texas Association of Bass Clubs is pure evil! They shove their catches full of depleted uranium! A 46lb bass that's only 14" long? Yeah, right!
Anyway, WTF are you talking about? I posted a chart of all the states who's alcohol distributions are controlled by their respective ABC. Clean your own house? Get a f'ing life, you 4-digit UID slashdick.
FYI:
:P
Is your state backwards as well?
Mine (Texas) is not. But then again, we do have other problems.
*something funny about Mississippi residents and lack of alcohol*
=P
And naturally, the few mods that are around have basically wasted a dozen or so points by methodically modding this entire thread Off-Topic. Not that I mind, but for Pete's sake, there's not a single +5 Mod in this topic yet! There's only 4 "+3"s posts! At least try to be constructive, for crying-out-loud! =P
I agree about the quality of recent stories. I use to look forward to refreshing the main page all day and seeing an interesting story pop-up every hour or so, one that generates a couple of hundred comments and several deeply-nested threads.
Now I refresh and see a review of a pirate book with ~70 "+2" comments and "Third Anniversary of Bezos-Backed Patent Reform," which went completely ignored. Meh.
Of course, I'm not helping by posting near-useless comments like this...