Congratulations on giving Dr Pepper the free advertising. That is what makes Rush L. so popular. Many people listen in just so they can rant about him that afternoon. That is where pularity / notoriety comes from. Same thing with Howard Stern, many daytime talk shows, or any other shock media personality or program.
Bloggs follow a trend for a bit, then dump it and move on. That is their nature.
They accelerate a trend's time line. Faster upswing and mainstream recognition, faster crash and end of free marketing. It all evens out.
I happen to believe that like the OSS programmers sticking to their issues, some bloggs will never "sell out" by blatent sponsored postings. OSS isn't the only community to have moral reasons for sticking to a position/decision/political party/country or residence.
It doesn't have to tell you what they are selling. It only has to tell you that you are missing out on something new and that you need to pay attention. Eventually they will be more blatent about the product.
But that is what advertising is for. Mission accomplished. You recognize the new product name and even consider buying it. Eventually you do. Granted, advertising would want you to buy it because it seems great, and because everyone else uses / consumes / does it.
With how many people reached by ads, the tiny fraction that act on the ad make the ad profitable.
Dr. Pepper et al could care less what the blogging public thinks about their practices of giving away their product to selected popular individuals. They just want free news. You usually can't pay a legit news service to spread the word about your product unless they want to cover it.
Bloggers may be more influenced by free stuff (aka disguised bribes) since they do what they want to do. If getting free stuff is cool, then they will get free stuff, talk about it for awhile, then drop it when the next new thing rolls along.
Unfortunately for my employeer, I just spent a large chunk of time visiting the referenced discussion about the journalist's notes. While doing so I followed a link to a TCPA and Palladium faq.
As a result, I think I just crapped my pants (I could be wrong, let me check). Nope that wasn't crap. It was any hope of a bright future leaving my body through the same orafice that I will take it for the rest of my life.
I admit to ignoring most news / rumors about TCPA and Palladium. Until now I didn't read much about it. Having done so, and serriously thought about ramifications, possibilities, and likely outcomes, I have concluded that the future will not be bright. I think I'll start digging that hole I will eventually shove my head in.
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1) Some people here call card counting cheating, this is obviously rubbish, even the casinos dont see it that way, it is playing by the rules and you are fully entitled to play any way you like.
Here is a devil's advocate point (may be)...
What about tests? You aren't allowed to take the EMT Basic exam with a buddy to help you remember a few things.
But on second thought I guess a test is more a measure of your aptitude where as a casino is a game. Some may say that it is also a measure of your skill to play the game, except that argument breaks down because the Casino has the right to make you leave. That has the effect of tipping not the odds, but the control in their favor.
Think of it like two pro teams (pick your sport) playing for the title in their sport and one of them giving up when after many scorless periods, their star player, upon whom the team relies for their performance, is serriously injured and must leave the playing field. Now an inferior replacement must be brough in but instead of play with that handicap and risk loosing the title, the team calls the game and asks the other team to back out nice and quietly.
This would be all the more impressive if she had been hte person to actually install Linux. But since you did the ob for her, then her lack of technical know-how is beside the point. Any person can use a computer that is already configured and running. Any person can drive a car. Any person can surf the web. But not every person can service an engine. Not every person can configure IP chains.
It wasn't what you hoped for, but that is because you didn't make it.
Do you have $300 million in spare cash to funel into a massive 8 year film project, the creative talent to visualize all of the characters, the orginizational skills necessary to oversee several filming units for 18 months across an entire country?
If not, then how about you just sit down and shut up.
I only see a few ways that the review could have been worded that would _not_ give away the plot or other points that you just need to watch it to find out.
Here is an example. I was thinkin about watching the Harry potter movie after I had read at least one of the books, but then a friend of mine (big Harry potter fan) suggested taht I watch the Harry Potter movie with out reading the books, and he would watch the LoTR with out reading the books. An interesting twist I decided.
The end result was that I thought the Harry Potter movie kicked ass and was very cool. I had no prior knowledge or opinion. This is supposed to be how a jurry works . . . right?
So my friend is going to see the movie as his first impression of this work of art. I have no doubt that he will think it kicked ass (and I'll give a few good natured gabs at it being better than HP). Then He will read the books and find out all the other fun details to the work.
I just got that game yesterday and that was one of the first things I noticed about the game play. Agreed. . . very slick water coding. I can't remember if the speed you walk affects the height of the wave generated, but the angle that the water spreads out is realistic (NOTE: . . realistic does not mean exactly physically correct).
In any case, I am very impressed. The collections of movable objects (mainly boxes) also seem to be modeled well; ie they rotate when pushed from a corner instead of when pushed from the center of a side.
hummmmmmm that makes me want to play some more of Act II now . . .
You know, that is one of the best ideas I have heard of for running cable! I bet that saves lots of hassles for trying to remember all of the details about the install!
Fortunately for me, I have a crawl space under my house (one story with no basement) so running cable is rediculously easy. I just loosely staple it to the wood beans under the floor. I only ran cable between two rooms so the distance was only ~30 feet.
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Do you really want some script kiddie rooting your fridge?
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Can't some of the wireless access point devices simply keep a list of allowed devices via hardware card address? That will prevent any active connections to the WAP since the kiddie's wireless laptop won't have a known hardware address entered in your WAP? I am thinking specifically about the Linksys WAP11 which may be turned into a mode that allows only known hardware to contact it.
So that brings up the question of if a passive sniffer runing snort / h4x0r tool of the day can find the hardware address of a device on the wireless net and then spoof it . . .
I was wondering why they had listed such a huge number. I am guessing that Microsft has massive involvement in the games. This means a lot of different computers doing jobs. Like the parent post says, I bet they could eliminate net access for all the inside machines and KISS by only have the scores and stats updated every 5 min or so. Another poster linked to netcraft, and that is some scary stats. IIS yeash. I am just waiting for this to come crashing down. If that does happen, may be _finally_ the average Joe Six Pack of US and other nations will get a clue about MS's crappy software.
who gives a rip? What are you . . . an English / Grammer Nazi??
This is a message board, not a scholarly publication. I get pissed every time someone points out the less than perfect grammer or spelling of a poster.
Did you understand the message the poster was trying to say???? If so . . . THEN the grammer is irrelevant.
Well may be if you asked your questions in a funny and engaging book, then published that book of questions, then sent it to him . . . . may be then he would respond. But otherwise, the ratio of questions he gets asked to the time he has to answer them is probably far greater than 10000:1 Hence the book and web site.
Tell the 1337 kiddies to buzz off until the/. teams is darn good and ready.
And while you're at it, script in a few filters to your email that will automaticall reply to any email with the text "When will the answers for the interview with" that way you don't have to bother with them.
I hadn't looked at it like that. Good point. The amount of editing done by the/. team on the response is probably next to nill so you can actually get what the subject meant to say! I already guessed that the/. interviews were pretty honest (purely supposition on my part), but this theory makes even more sense.
Those representatives assumed that you would not be running a CAT5 over to a friends place, or a 802.11b. One possibility is to consider the contract you have with the cable / DSL company similar to a MS software contract. The analogy is that a household on cable is similar to a computer with many users.
You can install a sw application on a single computer but have it used by as many users as are on the system, but you cannot install the same SW onto a new computer. Likewise, the cable companies are fine with you using the bandwidth in your household to several devices (analogus to users of the system) but not ok with you sharing via 802.11b with other households (an additional computer).
The reason is that bandwidth is not the issue. The issue is charging per subscriber (household). That gives them much more money per month.
Take the example from the article. Bob shares with three other people. Even if Bob paid for the 3 additional IPs (theoretical since the cable modem can't support more than a total of 3 IPs). That additional revenue to the cable co is $15/month. But what they want you to do is have three seperate accounts which would earn them $150/month. Big difference.
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Great example is SPAM. The cost of the advertisement is much smaller (2-4 orders or magnitude) but the principle is identical.
It is fundamentally how the advertising business works. And in a larger sense it is how capatalism works.
robi
Congratulations on giving Dr Pepper the free advertising. That is what makes Rush L. so popular. Many people listen in just so they can rant about him that afternoon. That is where pularity / notoriety comes from. Same thing with Howard Stern, many daytime talk shows, or any other shock media personality or program.
robi
Bloggs follow a trend for a bit, then dump it and move on. That is their nature.
They accelerate a trend's time line. Faster upswing and mainstream recognition, faster crash and end of free marketing. It all evens out.
I happen to believe that like the OSS programmers sticking to their issues, some bloggs will never "sell out" by blatent sponsored postings. OSS isn't the only community to have moral reasons for sticking to a position/decision/political party/country or residence.
robi
It doesn't have to tell you what they are selling. It only has to tell you that you are missing out on something new and that you need to pay attention. Eventually they will be more blatent about the product.
robi
But that is what advertising is for. Mission accomplished. You recognize the new product name and even consider buying it. Eventually you do. Granted, advertising would want you to buy it because it seems great, and because everyone else uses / consumes / does it.
With how many people reached by ads, the tiny fraction that act on the ad make the ad profitable.
Dr. Pepper et al could care less what the blogging public thinks about their practices of giving away their product to selected popular individuals. They just want free news. You usually can't pay a legit news service to spread the word about your product unless they want to cover it.
Bloggers may be more influenced by free stuff (aka disguised bribes) since they do what they want to do. If getting free stuff is cool, then they will get free stuff, talk about it for awhile, then drop it when the next new thing rolls along.
Remember the Simpsons, crowds are fickle.
robi
Unfortunately for my employeer, I just spent a large chunk of time visiting the referenced discussion about the journalist's notes. While doing so I followed a link to a TCPA and Palladium faq. As a result, I think I just crapped my pants (I could be wrong, let me check). Nope that wasn't crap. It was any hope of a bright future leaving my body through the same orafice that I will take it for the rest of my life. I admit to ignoring most news / rumors about TCPA and Palladium. Until now I didn't read much about it. Having done so, and serriously thought about ramifications, possibilities, and likely outcomes, I have concluded that the future will not be bright. I think I'll start digging that hole I will eventually shove my head in.
1) Some people here call card counting cheating, this is obviously rubbish, even the casinos dont see it that way, it is playing by the rules and you are fully entitled to play any way you like.
Here is a devil's advocate point (may be)...
What about tests? You aren't allowed to take the EMT Basic exam with a buddy to help you remember a few things.
But on second thought I guess a test is more a measure of your aptitude where as a casino is a game. Some may say that it is also a measure of your skill to play the game, except that argument breaks down because the Casino has the right to make you leave. That has the effect of tipping not the odds, but the control in their favor.
Think of it like two pro teams (pick your sport) playing for the title in their sport and one of them giving up when after many scorless periods, their star player, upon whom the team relies for their performance, is serriously injured and must leave the playing field. Now an inferior replacement must be brough in but instead of play with that handicap and risk loosing the title, the team calls the game and asks the other team to back out nice and quietly.
jason
robi2106
This would be all the more impressive if she had been hte person to actually install Linux. But since you did the ob for her, then her lack of technical know-how is beside the point. Any person can use a computer that is already configured and running. Any person can drive a car. Any person can surf the web. But not every person can service an engine. Not every person can configure IP chains.
jason
robi2106
It wasn't what you hoped for, but that is because you didn't make it.
Do you have $300 million in spare cash to funel into a massive 8 year film project, the creative talent to visualize all of the characters, the orginizational skills necessary to oversee several filming units for 18 months across an entire country?
If not, then how about you just sit down and shut up.
robi
All of you complaining about the stolen review need to take a look at the last line of the post:
"-RE"
That should tell you enough.
robi
I only see a few ways that the review could have been worded that would _not_ give away the plot or other points that you just need to watch it to find out.
Here is an example. I was thinkin about watching the Harry potter movie after I had read at least one of the books, but then a friend of mine (big Harry potter fan) suggested taht I watch the Harry Potter movie with out reading the books, and he would watch the LoTR with out reading the books. An interesting twist I decided.
The end result was that I thought the Harry Potter movie kicked ass and was very cool. I had no prior knowledge or opinion. This is supposed to be how a jurry works . . . right?
So my friend is going to see the movie as his first impression of this work of art. I have no doubt that he will think it kicked ass (and I'll give a few good natured gabs at it being better than HP). Then He will read the books and find out all the other fun details to the work.
robi
I just got that game yesterday and that was one of the first things I noticed about the game play. Agreed. . . very slick water coding. I can't remember if the speed you walk affects the height of the wave generated, but the angle that the water spreads out is realistic (NOTE: . . realistic does not mean exactly physically correct).
In any case, I am very impressed. The collections of movable objects (mainly boxes) also seem to be modeled well; ie they rotate when pushed from a corner instead of when pushed from the center of a side.
hummmmmmm that makes me want to play some more of Act II now . . .
robi
pictures . . .
You know, that is one of the best ideas I have heard of for running cable! I bet that saves lots of hassles for trying to remember all of the details about the install!
Fortunately for me, I have a crawl space under my house (one story with no basement) so running cable is rediculously easy. I just loosely staple it to the wood beans under the floor. I only ran cable between two rooms so the distance was only ~30 feet.
robi
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Do you really want some script kiddie rooting your fridge?
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Can't some of the wireless access point devices simply keep a list of allowed devices via hardware card address? That will prevent any active connections to the WAP since the kiddie's wireless laptop won't have a known hardware address entered in your WAP? I am thinking specifically about the Linksys WAP11 which may be turned into a mode that allows only known hardware to contact it.
So that brings up the question of if a passive sniffer runing snort / h4x0r tool of the day can find the hardware address of a device on the wireless net and then spoof it . . .
robi
I was wondering why they had listed such a huge number. I am guessing that Microsft has massive involvement in the games. This means a lot of different computers doing jobs. Like the parent post says, I bet they could eliminate net access for all the inside machines and KISS by only have the scores and stats updated every 5 min or so. Another poster linked to netcraft, and that is some scary stats. IIS yeash. I am just waiting for this to come crashing down. If that does happen, may be _finally_ the average Joe Six Pack of US and other nations will get a clue about MS's crappy software.
robi
who gives a rip? What are you . . . an English / Grammer Nazi??
This is a message board, not a scholarly publication. I get pissed every time someone points out the less than perfect grammer or spelling of a poster.
Did you understand the message the poster was trying to say???? If so . . . THEN the grammer is irrelevant.
robi
Well may be if you asked your questions in a funny and engaging book, then published that book of questions, then sent it to him . . . . may be then he would respond. But otherwise, the ratio of questions he gets asked to the time he has to answer them is probably far greater than 10000:1 Hence the book and web site.
robi
I actually thought that was one of the funnier questions. And many of the questions asked were already asked/answered in the book or on the web site.
But given that ChrisD wasn't expecting the call, the hastily asked questions make sense and are to be expected on such short notice.
robi
Definantly ...
/. teams is darn good and ready.
Tell the 1337 kiddies to buzz off until the
And while you're at it, script in a few filters to your email that will automaticall reply to any email with the text "When will the answers for the interview with" that way you don't have to bother with them.
robi
I do find the manerisms of the interviewed subject particularly interesting especially with real fun people like Will W. & Bruce.
I'll just plan on staying tuned to read the text interview when/if Bruce gets back with you.
robi
hummmmmm
/. team on the response is probably next to nill so you can actually get what the subject meant to say! I already guessed that the /. interviews were pretty honest (purely supposition on my part), but this theory makes even more sense.
I hadn't looked at it like that. Good point. The amount of editing done by the
robi
Thanks Chris.
/. to try and counter the nearly always negative feed back regarding the /. team)
robi
(I thought I should also voice my approval of something done on
Because the answers to interview questions are always in their own thread. . . . don't you pay attention??
robi
Those representatives assumed that you would not be running a CAT5 over to a friends place, or a 802.11b. One possibility is to consider the contract you have with the cable / DSL company similar to a MS software contract. The analogy is that a household on cable is similar to a computer with many users.
You can install a sw application on a single computer but have it used by as many users as are on the system, but you cannot install the same SW onto a new computer. Likewise, the cable companies are fine with you using the bandwidth in your household to several devices (analogus to users of the system) but not ok with you sharing via 802.11b with other households (an additional computer).
The reason is that bandwidth is not the issue. The issue is charging per subscriber (household). That gives them much more money per month.
Take the example from the article. Bob shares with three other people. Even if Bob paid for the 3 additional IPs (theoretical since the cable modem can't support more than a total of 3 IPs). That additional revenue to the cable co is $15/month. But what they want you to do is have three seperate accounts which would earn them $150/month. Big difference.
robi