1. Google paid 1.5% of the company in stock to purchase YouTube. Google stock jumped 5% on the news. Purchasing YouTube resulted in a profit for Google.
Someone else called that "bubble math", and they're right. Google's profit hasn't changed. Their value has. If they could sell themselves completely at that price right this minute, that'd be profit.
2. Television as we know it is dieing, and quickly
Rubbish. TV's nowhere near dead. The easy and convenience of picking a channel when you're bored compared to the slog of finding material on the web. Even after bringing back commercials pay TV is thriving. How many people recently told you they were exhausted and were going to just go home and collapse in front of the webcast (vs the tele) ?
3. Media providers were already signing up in ones and twos with YouTube. They will now fall all over themselves to sign up with the web's largest advertising company....Or fall over themselves getting in line to sue Google and their competition into oblivion given half a chance. Personally I don't know who's bought which dirty politician so I can't tell you which way it'll go, but if pressed I'd say at least some will try to go the route of sueing.
4. You can't be sued for hosting copyrighted content unless you have been properly notified of your infringement by the copyright holder and ignored it. No legal risk unless you bungle it.
5. With media providers signing up with YouTube to host their copyrighted content, there will be more copyrighted content available, at higher quality. You will have to sit through adds, but not as many as when you watch TV, and you can do it at your own schedule.
You really think that copyright material is going to be ad supported only?
Google will be the largest media company in the world within 10 years. You heard it here first.
Your crystal ball is defective, and your ego is inflated. Ever consider becoming a phone psychic?
You've got to be kidding right? Just because you can do this nasty hack on your laptop, doesn't make it a good solution for testing. Someone else says you get a hybrid. Well it's also a hack. Can't imagine this even being allowed where I work, and for good reason. Not to mention the possible licensing violations.
The correct term for this kind of hacking is "Cowboy Coding". It has it's place but not in a pro environment.
If they're taking the piss out of themselves fair enough. However when you fix your next customer's computer and call them Typhoid Jane they might not be so amused.
How much money have you spent on clothes and make-up, and lotions, and shoes?
I'm no longer single. When I was dating I wouldn't go out dressed like a hobo. Also how superficial are you if you're only attracted to the ones that are made up to the hilt and spend all their time on that crap? My fiancee does spend some time and money on being an attractive female. But she doesn't spend TONS of time and money on it and if she did we'd have a problem.
Yes, I will agree lot's of attractive girls go for guys that treat them like dirt, but it is not because they are good looking, and it is not because they are fucktards... It is because women are drawn to many aspects of the asshole guys
Yes and alcoholics only drink because they're drawn to it. I can't stand apologists who try to excuse other people's behviour or their own. Except in the case of mental illness or unwilfully being drugged, a person is responsible for their own behaviour despite their desires.
Men also use looks as an excuse way too much. Girls are not like you, they do not instantly make up their minds on who they like based on looks
Dude, you're in denial. Women and men can both be incredibly superficial.
Girls get a lot of things that men don't pick up on. Body language, eye contact, voice tone just to name a few
Tell that to a player that can pick up one girl after the next. Again, you're making stupid generalisations. Some men are very good at picking up on and manipulating body language and audio visual cues.
Women are not dumb, they are different, a liberal crowd like slashdot should understand that. Some women are very stupid. (Dumb's a bad word. Doesn't mean what you think it does. Look it up.) Some men are very stupid too. I don't think either sex has a monopoly. But women do seem much more attracted to the alpha jerk than men to the alpha bimb. Drop an alpha jerk into a room full of otherwise intelligent single women and watch them flock to him. Drop a bimbo into a room full of guys and some will flock while others will walk away. Still others learn with time that women like that aren't worth the effort. Few women seem to learn at all. They just go after one alpha jerk after another. I'm telling you this is what I've seen from personal experience.
Of course there are intelligent women. I'm very lucky to be with one. I don't treat her as anything but an equal (Yes different, but an equal and I value her opinion and her wants/needs/feelings very highly).
What are you smoking? This isn't tantamount to saying girls shouldn't wear short skirts at all. It's common sense to get out when you're in danger. Do you walk down narrowest back alley in the roughest part of town wearing gold chains with money hanging out your pockets? No, you avoid trouble whether you're a guy or a girl...And if you don't most people wouldn't give you much sympathy.
This whole "girls should be able to wear shorts skirts or even walk down the street naked if they want to without fear of being harrassed" arguement is BS. It doesn't make getting assaulted if you're wearing a short skirt any more acceptable, but you have to realise there are nasty people out there who are more than happy to use you and hurt you any way they can. These people should certainly be punished for it and there should be deterents but it doesn't make dressing provocatively in a dangerous place at all smart.
If a guy's hitting on you in a way that's "dangerous" or more than a little annoying you need to learn NOT to be polite. The only reason to even consider being polite is that you're in a situation where being impolite might get you assaulted.
If a guy's showing you interest respectfully then by all means be gracious about turning him down. If it's respectful it's a compliment and whining about it happening too much shows just how good you girls have it.
I have a new appreciation for some of the hassle girls go through.
Fuck this pseudo sensative snag bullshit. It doesn't matter to me now as I'm no longer single and failing one of us dieing I can see this relationship lasting. But oh to have had such hassles! Girls get lots of offers - many not very good ones, but some good - without having to work for it. Guys have to work very hard and often the girls go for good looking fucktards that treat them like dirt. (Yep men do this too - go for the bimbo that treats them like shit, but not as often, and the bottom line is it's much easier for a female to find a suitable partner, and they usually get a wide selection)
So girls get hit on. If the guy's unpleasant how hard is it to say "fuck off and leave me alone you small dicked loser". Many guys will get the hint if dropped on them like a sledgehammer. There might be a little bit of unpleasantness back but few stalk based on one conversation. If a girl's in an environment where it goes beyond a few lewd comments she should get out. Only when that isn't possible is there a real problem. But there's a world of difference between being hit on and being assaulted.
Fuck I hope that was laundered before it was auctioned off. I imagine it was worn quite a bit and I know I wouldn't pay USD15k for a sweaty jogging suite worn by Patrick Stewart a few years ago.
OH for fuck sake people how is this off topic. I've just pointed out that MS seems to have had an agressive change in the way it does business that puts its customers last at least in some ways. A company that does that isn't going to care if it gave its MVP to someone that hurt customers. How hard a connection is that to make.
First of all my parents spent about a quarter of their earnings that year on that damn overpriced piece of shit. I was what 7 or 8 at the time. I can hold that grudge if I so choose. If more people held grudges for so long we might have companies that paid something more than lip service to the idea of serving their customer. When I get bent over I don't come back every 2-3 years and say please sir can I have some more.
Second, Apple still works with a proprietary OS on a proprietary hardware platform and use that to price gouge. They always put style over substance and that means I'm not going to touch their stuff unless there's no other product that does what I want.
Thirdly here in Aus Apple have had to change their policy on forcing retailers not to exchange iPods that are defective out of the box because it was illegal under our fair trading laws here. Basically if you bought an iPod and it was broken when you got it you had to send it in to Apple and go through that hassle so that hopefully in a couple of weeks you'd have a working iPod. The company has never gone out of its way for the customer.
I was screwed by Apple before I ever used a PC. Apple IIe. Overpriced. Salesman screwed my parents into thinking the IIe was better than the first Macs. Apple then pulled software distribution so I had to mail order or travel many kilometers as a kid to get software. I recently begrudgingly bought a couple of iPods because they were the best of a bad bunch of players. However don't fool yourself into thinking that Apple's going to treat you any better.
When you're working on apps that need corporate databases and other corporate resources that you simply can't run from home. (Eg. Expensive certificate authority hardware), you need a lot more to test your app. VPN's that only half work or are buggy don't help.
1) I'm taking a sickie really and I don't feel like working and look the business has provided me with a good excuse. 2) Legitimate working from home.
Unfortunately the infrastructure at the moment seems to be set up more for type 1, because every employer I've worked for hasn't got their technology right to facilitate type 2. Mind you I'm in IT and require access to a lot more than many non-IT employees might.
I think if you're going to allow work from home, that's a good thing, but for goodness sake unless your business can afford slacking off set some goals that have to be met, and provide the technology.
...the one that's saying screw you to everyone but the software publisher. The one that's now pushing activation on everything and reactivation every time you change hardware or cough too loudly. Microsoft's new DRM is king leadership is taking it straight down the toilet.
Well I can stop my fiancee's hiccups by kissing her very passionately. Changes her breathing. Works every time. Mind you if I stuck my finger up her anus I'm pretty sure it would be me that was permanently cured of the condition known as living *smirk*.
What do you think adults are going to just suddenly wake up, have self control, and make good decisions. What an excellent opportunity to teach kids the consequences of their actions. By all means don't let them run wild, but silly rules like this make for one hell of a rebellious teenager when they realise the rules you've made up are arbitrary and pointless. Try getting them interested in other things instead of just the computer game so that even if they do have a bit of a run with a game, they are aware there's other fun things to do with your spare time that also happen to be excellent learning experiences. Spend some time with the kid too if you want to be able to shape anything they do.
To tell you the truth after investing so much effort into learning VRML 1, 2, and 97 and watching those standards die, I'm a little wary of jumping into X3D. Most people seem more interested in making money out of difficult clunky proprietary formats than enabling others with a standard file format.
Hey you should see the hate I get here at/. (and indeed elsewhere) when I suggest that Mythbusters don't do real science (and its harmful to think of what they do as science) or that you don't do real animal behaviour study or conservation by jumping on the back of a crocodile and yelling "Woooooo!" like Steve Irwin. If you want to talk about a failure in education, forget the ability to write. To write a coherent piece you first have to be able to think for yourself, and think critically. Whereas most people (not just this generation) wouldn't know anything but how to think like politically correct sheep. As for the scientific method, they wouldn't know real science from a bag of horse manure.
When oh when will we have truely open and interoperable standards in 3D modelling. Imagine if every web browser, rather than just redendering differently or supporting a small set of different features that good web designers avoid, worked with completely different markup languages. I know there are tools to convert (though not for all proprietary 3D file formats) but this is ridiculous. I want to get into 3D modelling, but given the time and effort it takes to create a 3D model I'll be damned if I learn how to do it using one tool only to have it fall into obsolescence or have it yanked away the way GMax was.
Have all the breast cancer awareness you want. Add prostate cancer to the mix too, raise all the money you like, but I am not fucking changing the colour scheme of my web site to something horrid that makes it unreadable so I can be politically correct.
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1. Google paid 1.5% of the company in stock to purchase YouTube. Google stock jumped 5% on the news. Purchasing YouTube resulted in a profit for Google.
...Or fall over themselves getting in line to sue Google and their competition into oblivion given half a chance. Personally I don't know who's bought which dirty politician so I can't tell you which way it'll go, but if pressed I'd say at least some will try to go the route of sueing.
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Someone else called that "bubble math", and they're right. Google's profit hasn't changed. Their value has. If they could sell themselves completely at that price right this minute, that'd be profit.
2. Television as we know it is dieing, and quickly
Rubbish. TV's nowhere near dead. The easy and convenience of picking a channel when you're bored compared to the slog of finding material on the web. Even after bringing back commercials pay TV is thriving. How many people recently told you they were exhausted and were going to just go home and collapse in front of the webcast (vs the tele) ?
3. Media providers were already signing up in ones and twos with YouTube. They will now fall all over themselves to sign up with the web's largest advertising company.
4. You can't be sued for hosting copyrighted content unless you have been properly notified of your infringement by the copyright holder and ignored it. No legal risk unless you bungle it.
Oh, you mean like this:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060718-728
5. With media providers signing up with YouTube to host their copyrighted content, there will be more copyrighted content available, at higher quality. You will have to sit through adds, but not as many as when you watch TV, and you can do it at your own schedule.
You really think that copyright material is going to be ad supported only?
Google will be the largest media company in the world within 10 years. You heard it here first.
Your crystal ball is defective, and your ego is inflated. Ever consider becoming a phone psychic?
You've got to be kidding right? Just because you can do this nasty hack on your laptop, doesn't make it a good solution for testing. Someone else says you get a hybrid. Well it's also a hack. Can't imagine this even being allowed where I work, and for good reason. Not to mention the possible licensing violations.
The correct term for this kind of hacking is "Cowboy Coding". It has it's place but not in a pro environment.
If they're taking the piss out of themselves fair enough. However when you fix your next customer's computer and call them Typhoid Jane they might not be so amused.
How much money have you spent on clothes and make-up, and lotions, and shoes?
I'm no longer single. When I was dating I wouldn't go out dressed like a hobo. Also how superficial are you if you're only attracted to the ones that are made up to the hilt and spend all their time on that crap? My fiancee does spend some time and money on being an attractive female. But she doesn't spend TONS of time and money on it and if she did we'd have a problem.
Yes, I will agree lot's of attractive girls go for guys that treat them like dirt, but it is not because they are good looking, and it is not because they are fucktards... It is because women are drawn to many aspects of the asshole guys
Yes and alcoholics only drink because they're drawn to it. I can't stand apologists who try to excuse other people's behviour or their own. Except in the case of mental illness or unwilfully being drugged, a person is responsible for their own behaviour despite their desires.
Men also use looks as an excuse way too much. Girls are not like you, they do not instantly make up their minds on who they like based on looks
Dude, you're in denial. Women and men can both be incredibly superficial.
Girls get a lot of things that men don't pick up on. Body language, eye contact, voice tone just to name a few
Tell that to a player that can pick up one girl after the next. Again, you're making stupid generalisations. Some men are very good at picking up on and manipulating body language and audio visual cues.
Women are not dumb, they are different, a liberal crowd like slashdot should understand that.
Some women are very stupid. (Dumb's a bad word. Doesn't mean what you think it does. Look it up.) Some men are very stupid too. I don't think either sex has a monopoly. But women do seem much more attracted to the alpha jerk than men to the alpha bimb. Drop an alpha jerk into a room full of otherwise intelligent single women and watch them flock to him. Drop a bimbo into a room full of guys and some will flock while others will walk away. Still others learn with time that women like that aren't worth the effort. Few women seem to learn at all. They just go after one alpha jerk after another. I'm telling you this is what I've seen from personal experience.
Of course there are intelligent women. I'm very lucky to be with one. I don't treat her as anything but an equal (Yes different, but an equal and I value her opinion and her wants/needs/feelings very highly).
What are you smoking? This isn't tantamount to saying girls shouldn't wear short skirts at all. It's common sense to get out when you're in danger. Do you walk down narrowest back alley in the roughest part of town wearing gold chains with money hanging out your pockets? No, you avoid trouble whether you're a guy or a girl...And if you don't most people wouldn't give you much sympathy.
This whole "girls should be able to wear shorts skirts or even walk down the street naked if they want to without fear of being harrassed" arguement is BS. It doesn't make getting assaulted if you're wearing a short skirt any more acceptable, but you have to realise there are nasty people out there who are more than happy to use you and hurt you any way they can. These people should certainly be punished for it and there should be deterents but it doesn't make dressing provocatively in a dangerous place at all smart.
If a guy's hitting on you in a way that's "dangerous" or more than a little annoying you need to learn NOT to be polite. The only reason to even consider being polite is that you're in a situation where being impolite might get you assaulted.
If a guy's showing you interest respectfully then by all means be gracious about turning him down. If it's respectful it's a compliment and whining about it happening too much shows just how good you girls have it.
In that case she should get out and sue.
Pity if she likes her job. Life's not fair some times. But there are people out there who will think nothing of raping and murdering anyone at a whim.
Dude,
I'm pretty sure if you go around calling someone a "Typhoid User" they're not going to pay you to fix their computer.
No amount of computer skill replaces people skills.
I have a new appreciation for some of the hassle girls go through.
Fuck this pseudo sensative snag bullshit. It doesn't matter to me now as I'm no longer single and failing one of us dieing I can see this relationship lasting. But oh to have had such hassles! Girls get lots of offers - many not very good ones, but some good - without having to work for it. Guys have to work very hard and often the girls go for good looking fucktards that treat them like dirt. (Yep men do this too - go for the bimbo that treats them like shit, but not as often, and the bottom line is it's much easier for a female to find a suitable partner, and they usually get a wide selection)
So girls get hit on. If the guy's unpleasant how hard is it to say "fuck off and leave me alone you small dicked loser". Many guys will get the hint if dropped on them like a sledgehammer. There might be a little bit of unpleasantness back but few stalk based on one conversation. If a girl's in an environment where it goes beyond a few lewd comments she should get out. Only when that isn't possible is there a real problem. But there's a world of difference between being hit on and being assaulted.
> -Captain Picard's black-and-grey uniform: $15,000 ($8,000)
Fuck I hope that was laundered before it was auctioned off. I imagine it was worn quite a bit and I know I wouldn't pay USD15k for a sweaty jogging suite worn by Patrick Stewart a few years ago.
OH for fuck sake people how is this off topic. I've just pointed out that MS seems to have had an agressive change in the way it does business that puts its customers last at least in some ways. A company that does that isn't going to care if it gave its MVP to someone that hurt customers. How hard a connection is that to make.
Slashdot moderation has gone to the dogs.
Dude,
First of all my parents spent about a quarter of their earnings that year on that damn overpriced piece of shit. I was what 7 or 8 at the time. I can hold that grudge if I so choose. If more people held grudges for so long we might have companies that paid something more than lip service to the idea of serving their customer. When I get bent over I don't come back every 2-3 years and say please sir can I have some more.
Second, Apple still works with a proprietary OS on a proprietary hardware platform and use that to price gouge. They always put style over substance and that means I'm not going to touch their stuff unless there's no other product that does what I want.
Thirdly here in Aus Apple have had to change their policy on forcing retailers not to exchange iPods that are defective out of the box because it was illegal under our fair trading laws here. Basically if you bought an iPod and it was broken when you got it you had to send it in to Apple and go through that hassle so that hopefully in a couple of weeks you'd have a working iPod. The company has never gone out of its way for the customer.
I was screwed by Apple before I ever used a PC. Apple IIe. Overpriced. Salesman screwed my parents into thinking the IIe was better than the first Macs. Apple then pulled software distribution so I had to mail order or travel many kilometers as a kid to get software. I recently begrudgingly bought a couple of iPods because they were the best of a bad bunch of players. However don't fool yourself into thinking that Apple's going to treat you any better.
When you're working on apps that need corporate databases and other corporate resources that you simply can't run from home. (Eg. Expensive certificate authority hardware), you need a lot more to test your app. VPN's that only half work or are buggy don't help.
There seems to be 2 kinds of working from home:
1) I'm taking a sickie really and I don't feel like working and look the business has provided me with a good excuse.
2) Legitimate working from home.
Unfortunately the infrastructure at the moment seems to be set up more for type 1, because every employer I've worked for hasn't got their technology right to facilitate type 2. Mind you I'm in IT and require access to a lot more than many non-IT employees might.
I think if you're going to allow work from home, that's a good thing, but for goodness sake unless your business can afford slacking off set some goals that have to be met, and provide the technology.
...the one that's saying screw you to everyone but the software publisher. The one that's now pushing activation on everything and reactivation every time you change hardware or cough too loudly. Microsoft's new DRM is king leadership is taking it straight down the toilet.
Well I can stop my fiancee's hiccups by kissing her very passionately. Changes her breathing. Works every time. Mind you if I stuck my finger up her anus I'm pretty sure it would be me that was permanently cured of the condition known as living *smirk*.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv4Potdpjhw
There are not an infinite number of stars, planets or even atoms in the Universe. It's a finite very very very large number.
What do you think adults are going to just suddenly wake up, have self control, and make good decisions. What an excellent opportunity to teach kids the consequences of their actions. By all means don't let them run wild, but silly rules like this make for one hell of a rebellious teenager when they realise the rules you've made up are arbitrary and pointless. Try getting them interested in other things instead of just the computer game so that even if they do have a bit of a run with a game, they are aware there's other fun things to do with your spare time that also happen to be excellent learning experiences. Spend some time with the kid too if you want to be able to shape anything they do.
To tell you the truth after investing so much effort into learning VRML 1, 2, and 97 and watching those standards die, I'm a little wary of jumping into X3D. Most people seem more interested in making money out of difficult clunky proprietary formats than enabling others with a standard file format.
Hey you should see the hate I get here at /. (and indeed elsewhere) when I suggest that Mythbusters don't do real science (and its harmful to think of what they do as science) or that you don't do real animal behaviour study or conservation by jumping on the back of a crocodile and yelling "Woooooo!" like Steve Irwin. If you want to talk about a failure in education, forget the ability to write. To write a coherent piece you first have to be able to think for yourself, and think critically. Whereas most people (not just this generation) wouldn't know anything but how to think like politically correct sheep. As for the scientific method, they wouldn't know real science from a bag of horse manure.
When oh when will we have truely open and interoperable standards in 3D modelling. Imagine if every web browser, rather than just redendering differently or supporting a small set of different features that good web designers avoid, worked with completely different markup languages. I know there are tools to convert (though not for all proprietary 3D file formats) but this is ridiculous. I want to get into 3D modelling, but given the time and effort it takes to create a 3D model I'll be damned if I learn how to do it using one tool only to have it fall into obsolescence or have it yanked away the way GMax was.
http://groups.google.com.au/group/alt.games.micros oft.flight-sim/browse_frm/thread/7832a189f5627f9d/ ecacf8fc0fc5180b?lnk=arm&hl=en#ecacf8fc0fc5180b
Have all the breast cancer awareness you want. Add prostate cancer to the mix too, raise all the money you like, but I am not fucking changing the colour scheme of my web site to something horrid that makes it unreadable so I can be politically correct.