Shawn's definitely good at connecting with customers. I've asked him non-product related questions and he's been happy to answer them before. So he can be extremely helpful. However, I've also seen him fly off the handle for really no good reason, so it's not all good, in my mind.
You're joking, right? I like TKC's products. In fact I bought like 4 Zaurus apps in my life and I bought Quanta Gold. But Shawn isn't the king of people skills. If he's not lambasting people on the TKC mailing list he's laying into people on IRC for things they *didn't* say. So, no, I don't think he always presents himself in a good light. I would say that's probably something he needs to work on.
What I'd like to know is why something is called a "feature" if the users don't need it/want it. It's pretty clear that TCPA is only going to benefit media companies that want to control digital rights and that the hardware makers are buckling for fear of regulation. It's obvious what Microsoft's interest is in this. Eventually they could become the only usable (by the common man) OS that was "certified" to run on TCPA hardware. So why should I not go by my "last computer" and vow never to buy from you again? Please convince me to change my mind, because as it is I'm considering the x86 computer world dead and blood is on your hands in part.
I never said I don't buy anything electronic. I'm on a computer typing this, for God's sake. The point is that there is a huge difference between having a few gadgets and having EVERY DAMN GADGET THAT COMES out, having opening parties for them, creating web sites worshipping them (and advertising them), getting your site on Slashdot, then spending copious amounts of time defending yourself. My ecological footprint isn't zero. Not even close. But compared to you I'm freaking Captain Planet. If you don't get that you never will.
Well, except with the *minor* difference that there won't be a major corporation in charge of the source code, making tweaks to it to continue to abuse its entrenched monopoly position. Other than that dominance by Mozilla would be identical to dominance by IE.
Try everything you're pimping on your site. The robocat, the parts for the Segway, your X-Box, your iPod. Most electronic goods and parts are made in foreign nations by absurdly cheap labor under dubious work conditions, with very little pay. So if you really were trying to save the planet, step one is to buy less plastic and electronic crap and to stop worshipping it and advertising for it for free.
Keep in mind as you worship your toys the people who work in sweatshops to make them or the energy it takes to create them. Getting rid of your car probably did little to reduce your ecological footprint, in reality.
That's why people are "writing crummy things", because many of us don't view a world where sheep write advertisements for products they love as a great world. We view it as a world where consumer culture and the worship of objects has gone way too far. You see. There are important things in this world. Nature is beautiful. Friendsip is something to be appreciated. Love is quite important to many of us. And when I have the time I try to give to others, to try to fight for a cleaner planet with more equality for people of all classes and nationalities. That to me is the path to happiness and a better planet. Your path, hyper-accellerated object worship is exactly where we shouldn't be headed. The fact that you think there's nothing wrong with that is precisely why you're being ridiculed. Keep worshiping your things if it makes you happy. Just pay me know mind when I scowl or laugh at your idiocy.
Actually, I think he might just be a REALLY BIG fan of all these things. That's worse, however, since these are products. Spending this much time lavishing praise on products is a sign you need to reprioritize your life. I guess this is the Apex of Western Consumer culture. When people spend copious hours writing blogs about products they love. Advertising becomes unnecessary because the sheep are so hooked, they take care of that for you.
Oh no! This the SAME guy that's pimping Flash all the time? Talking about how Flash should replace web pages while he's (conveniently) selling books on Flash. I knew there was a reason I hated this site.
That's funny, incidentally. I'm one of those crazy people who ditched my car as well. Except, I ditched it for a bike. Oh, and I lost 150lbs. in the process. The Segway is going the wrong direction. If anything, people should be questioning the fact that they don't propel themselves more with their bodies. Since a Segway doesn't protect you any more from the rain than a bike does and you get less exercise AND it costs more AND it isn't really "zero emissions" (the mensa who put together this site doesn't seem to realize that the energy that powers the Segway comes from *somewhere*) I really don't see the point to it.
As Americans get fatter and lazier they will more often than not need wheelchairs. This is just a way of getting them used to the idea that their entire lives will be spent in one while letting them feel good about their "zero emissions" vehicle.
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Just heading the "BSD IS DEAD" posts off at the pass.
That's my point. The fact that something can be owned by Time Warner and still be called "indie" (not my term, but one I often hear) is testament to the fact that media consolidation of a dangerous level has long since occurred. For companies to lobby for *further* erosion of the ideal of independent media is quite humorous considering they already have concentration of a gross and damaging level.
That's what I was thinking. We must stop media consolidation before it gets out of control!! Now leave me alone so I can go back to watching the Daily Show on Comedy Central, which is owned by Time Warner, which owns the #1 ISP in the world along with major film studios, indie film studios like Mirimax, around 20 cable TV channels and.......
I'm not saying college is a mistake. I come from a very poor background. College was the only way for me. Really. My high school education (although I did well) was crappy. I didn't find this out until I got to college and saw what my peers had been taught. So I wouldn't have fared well outside of milking cows and I probably wouldn't have ever left my small home town. So college was the only way out of relative ignorance and desparate poverty for me. It's just a pity it came at such a steep cost.
Anyway, my point wasn't to say college was bad. My point was to say that some of us have to worry about money. As much as we'd like not to.
Seriously. I've gotten used to the real Star Trek, where this is rampant, so I just can't watch Star Trek unless time travel is involved. Let me know if they go back in time to chase Klingons or get visited by Borg, and then I'm interested.
That is what I thought before I realized I was poor, needed to go to college to escape working on a farm my whole life, then ended up with $60,000 in student loans to pay off. I guess to those of us who start off in bleak poverty, monetary gain does matter. Mainly because it *HAS* to if you ever want to pull yourself out of the muck.
Maybe confusing to you, but it shouldn't be confusing. The reason Slashdotters see such huge momentum behind Open Source and the reason they see it as viable competition is precisely because it offers an alternative to the MS Monopoly. I mean, let's be frankly honest. Some of us use Linux because we want to support software that everyone gets to take advantage of. That's why I purchase Linux. Not because it's free. Not because it's not Microsoft. But because my money goes to support GPL software. Now some people, particularly the corporations backing Linux these days, jump in for other reasons. The main reasons being tied largely to the fact that MS is a Monopoly. There are many non-altruistic reasons to want to go with more open software rather than a monopoly. The number 1 reason being that once you're locked in and there is no viable competition, who knows what you get charged.
So as a Slashdotter who holds what you think is a contradictory postion, I see it like this. If Microsoft wasn't allowed to hold such an ovewhelming monopoly position and abuse it to such an amazing extent. And if the govt. wasn't asleep at the wheel in general with regards to corporate consolidation, you'd have real competition. And in that kind of a world, in a world with real competition between more than just two or three companies per market segment, Linux becomes less attractive to many of the companies currently investing in it. Because they know they can leverage Company A against Microsoft. Or they can leverage Company B against Microsoft. Or they can go to sleep at night knowing Microsoft won't lock them into proprietary standards, because Companies A through E agreed to another open standard.
But we don't live in that world, unfortunately. We live in a world where Microsoft is a monopoly and threatens our very freedom to compute as we see fit, in the name of profit. They have the govt. in their back pocket. In light of this we are both doomed and at the same time seeing an accelerated move to Open Source because people are starting to catch on. Here's hoping the rest of the world catches on before TCPA/Palladium destroys computing as we know it and hands Microsoft the entire market on a silver platter.
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Shawn's definitely good at connecting with customers. I've asked him non-product related questions and he's been happy to answer them before. So he can be extremely helpful. However, I've also seen him fly off the handle for really no good reason, so it's not all good, in my mind.
You're joking, right? I like TKC's products. In fact I bought like 4 Zaurus apps in my life and I bought Quanta Gold. But Shawn isn't the king of people skills. If he's not lambasting people on the TKC mailing list he's laying into people on IRC for things they *didn't* say. So, no, I don't think he always presents himself in a good light. I would say that's probably something he needs to work on.
Except that, in large part, this national treasure is owned and operated by companies who already essentially tax Internet use at many points.
What I'd like to know is why something is called a "feature" if the users don't need it/want it. It's pretty clear that TCPA is only going to benefit media companies that want to control digital rights and that the hardware makers are buckling for fear of regulation. It's obvious what Microsoft's interest is in this. Eventually they could become the only usable (by the common man) OS that was "certified" to run on TCPA hardware. So why should I not go by my "last computer" and vow never to buy from you again? Please convince me to change my mind, because as it is I'm considering the x86 computer world dead and blood is on your hands in part.
This is a nice idea, but I can see that single CD filling up quickly once you start including all the dependencies for that apps voted on.
I never said I don't buy anything electronic. I'm on a computer typing this, for God's sake. The point is that there is a huge difference between having a few gadgets and having EVERY DAMN GADGET THAT COMES out, having opening parties for them, creating web sites worshipping them (and advertising them), getting your site on Slashdot, then spending copious amounts of time defending yourself. My ecological footprint isn't zero. Not even close. But compared to you I'm freaking Captain Planet. If you don't get that you never will.
Well, except with the *minor* difference that there won't be a major corporation in charge of the source code, making tweaks to it to continue to abuse its entrenched monopoly position. Other than that dominance by Mozilla would be identical to dominance by IE.
Try everything you're pimping on your site. The robocat, the parts for the Segway, your X-Box, your iPod. Most electronic goods and parts are made in foreign nations by absurdly cheap labor under dubious work conditions, with very little pay. So if you really were trying to save the planet, step one is to buy less plastic and electronic crap and to stop worshipping it and advertising for it for free.
Keep in mind as you worship your toys the people who work in sweatshops to make them or the energy it takes to create them. Getting rid of your car probably did little to reduce your ecological footprint, in reality.
That's why people are "writing crummy things", because many of us don't view a world where sheep write advertisements for products they love as a great world. We view it as a world where consumer culture and the worship of objects has gone way too far. You see. There are important things in this world. Nature is beautiful. Friendsip is something to be appreciated. Love is quite important to many of us. And when I have the time I try to give to others, to try to fight for a cleaner planet with more equality for people of all classes and nationalities. That to me is the path to happiness and a better planet. Your path, hyper-accellerated object worship is exactly where we shouldn't be headed. The fact that you think there's nothing wrong with that is precisely why you're being ridiculed. Keep worshiping your things if it makes you happy. Just pay me know mind when I scowl or laugh at your idiocy.
Actually, I think he might just be a REALLY BIG fan of all these things. That's worse, however, since these are products. Spending this much time lavishing praise on products is a sign you need to reprioritize your life. I guess this is the Apex of Western Consumer culture. When people spend copious hours writing blogs about products they love. Advertising becomes unnecessary because the sheep are so hooked, they take care of that for you.
Oh no! This the SAME guy that's pimping Flash all the time? Talking about how Flash should replace web pages while he's (conveniently) selling books on Flash. I knew there was a reason I hated this site.
That's funny, incidentally. I'm one of those crazy people who ditched my car as well. Except, I ditched it for a bike. Oh, and I lost 150lbs. in the process. The Segway is going the wrong direction. If anything, people should be questioning the fact that they don't propel themselves more with their bodies. Since a Segway doesn't protect you any more from the rain than a bike does and you get less exercise AND it costs more AND it isn't really "zero emissions" (the mensa who put together this site doesn't seem to realize that the energy that powers the Segway comes from *somewhere*) I really don't see the point to it.
As Americans get fatter and lazier they will more often than not need wheelchairs. This is just a way of getting them used to the idea that their entire lives will be spent in one while letting them feel good about their "zero emissions" vehicle.
Just heading the "BSD IS DEAD" posts off at the pass.
That's my point. The fact that something can be owned by Time Warner and still be called "indie" (not my term, but one I often hear) is testament to the fact that media consolidation of a dangerous level has long since occurred. For companies to lobby for *further* erosion of the ideal of independent media is quite humorous considering they already have concentration of a gross and damaging level.
That's what I was thinking. We must stop media consolidation before it gets out of control!! Now leave me alone so I can go back to watching the Daily Show on Comedy Central, which is owned by Time Warner, which owns the #1 ISP in the world along with major film studios, indie film studios like Mirimax, around 20 cable TV channels and.......
...The DirectTV P4 cards hand out information about you over the web.
Anyway, my point wasn't to say college was bad. My point was to say that some of us have to worry about money. As much as we'd like not to.
Seriously. I've gotten used to the real Star Trek, where this is rampant, so I just can't watch Star Trek unless time travel is involved. Let me know if they go back in time to chase Klingons or get visited by Borg, and then I'm interested.
That's so funny. If I had moderator points I'd mod it up.
That is what I thought before I realized I was poor, needed to go to college to escape working on a farm my whole life, then ended up with $60,000 in student loans to pay off. I guess to those of us who start off in bleak poverty, monetary gain does matter. Mainly because it *HAS* to if you ever want to pull yourself out of the muck.
Athlons unite and form Opteron.
So as a Slashdotter who holds what you think is a contradictory postion, I see it like this. If Microsoft wasn't allowed to hold such an ovewhelming monopoly position and abuse it to such an amazing extent. And if the govt. wasn't asleep at the wheel in general with regards to corporate consolidation, you'd have real competition. And in that kind of a world, in a world with real competition between more than just two or three companies per market segment, Linux becomes less attractive to many of the companies currently investing in it. Because they know they can leverage Company A against Microsoft. Or they can leverage Company B against Microsoft. Or they can go to sleep at night knowing Microsoft won't lock them into proprietary standards, because Companies A through E agreed to another open standard.
But we don't live in that world, unfortunately. We live in a world where Microsoft is a monopoly and threatens our very freedom to compute as we see fit, in the name of profit. They have the govt. in their back pocket. In light of this we are both doomed and at the same time seeing an accelerated move to Open Source because people are starting to catch on. Here's hoping the rest of the world catches on before TCPA/Palladium destroys computing as we know it and hands Microsoft the entire market on a silver platter.
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No, we're not a monopoly yet. Nothing to worry about. Go back to playing your game made by Rare.