good bye editorial independance. Just like when Disney bought ABC, and others we could name, so too will the new heads of Slashdot control the content. it's too tempting _not_ too. I don't believe for one second that They can refrain from messing with it, Rob's comments aside.
I mean, think of how much better life might be for all of us if AOHell had taken a different line and tried to make things easy to understand, rather than simple. Easy To Understand being different, explaining what everything does, rather than Simple saying "Just click here and enter your credit card number, then click on things you like!". It is criminal how stupid they've made, oh, say, 8-10 million human beings.
We won't debate on wether or not using AOL makes you stupid or anything. That's not my point. If they'd bothered to make things educational rather than simple... (sigh)
"The Reports of my Death are Greatly Exaggerated."
I think that says it best. Granted, wireless is where the next big boom in growth will be, mainly in areas where Phone service either sucks, is expensive, or both.:) (Europe comes to mind) In the US, we are used to cheap phones, and are now getting spoiled on cheap broadband access. Being mindful of our neighbors can't hurt us.
If you want to watch DVD's... get one of the TV. Don't get one for your computer. Course, I may just say the hell with it and never buy one period. Nothing I want to watch anyway.
They will control a vast portion of the music channel. From signing,recording,promotion,music videos and such, you can get it all in one stop: AOL/TW/EMI. Want news on that? Easy! Turn to Your AOL Cable and see it on CNN! Watch as CNN's "clear" and "unbiased" reporting tells of the big new trend. Want to get online and see more? Easy! Fire up the computer and get on AOL via the Cable Modem you have and go to keyword (whatever).
I heard it from Paul Harvey (true!) That she and her composer friend were thinking about the jamming problem, and she simple asked "why does it have to be on one frequency?" Thus the invention of spread spectrum broadcasting.
Not sure if it's true, but sometimes the best inventions come from people who aren't knee deep in the problem already.:)
Talk about having you point proven... He talks about people being uncivil online, and everyone thinks he's repressing "freedom of speech" and go ballistic. You do not have the freedom to be mean.
Linus is probably getting smart and checking to see who is getting the domain names. I know It'd be irritating to go to linuxsomething.org and be confronted with say, tons of popups and porn. Enough of that and people would get the wrong idea. I have no problems with him doing this.
Here where I live, cable modems are a myth. Other people have them. Time Warner here is sitting on its ass doing nothing about "digital cable" (saw a commercial for it... once.) and two way cable modems are a joke. Meanwhile, Bellsouth is cleaning house with a well built ADSL system, and good tech support. Mine kicks major butt when I'm in linux. I read on ABCnews that the audience went dead silent when he told them they had to put up some standards or get regulated and set a date. I figure it is about time someone tells those greedy broadcasters to quit thinking with their wallets and get moving. If we wait for them to bring about this super clear TV revolution you'll be old and grey. And Broke. Ironically, I've seen HDTV here in Jackson. The local PBS station has a digital system. Just no one to broadcast to. You can sit in their lobby and watch super clear images for hours...
it's called a "Death Penalty". You get it when you break laws. You don't break a law, you don't become eligible for death penalties. It's that simple. GWB didn't pull one switch, or inject one prisoner. He is responsible for the excution of laws, and one of them is this death penalty thing. He's not a murderer. Those are the ones getting those lethal injections. It's a simple difference, you know.
the more convinced I am that Intel has taken aim at it's foot and is loading a 10 gauge. AMD is in good position to take a big lead. Intel has wonderful parts no one can have, and AMD has good parts you can actually buy. Granted AMD has a problem with the cache speed and all, but at least you can buy em and sell them.
What I think they're worried about is that anyone else trying to sell anything with the "linux" name on it in their country will be banned. You'd have to call it something else. Unless you can wing enough power to force change, but that involves Big Corporations and Political Pressure.
It'll survive, grow and flourish. Cause people care to work on it.
Nope, it's the wireless replacing cable that I find funny. Starters, Time Warner owns a good number of local cable companies, not to mention Road Runner, their two way cable based ISP. I doubt seriously they'll just "dump" all that and go wireless cause it "works better". No company will do that just for that reason. It'd have to provide an advantage over current methods, which it really doesn't. Of course, there are all those Sat Dishes that are popular, what with local TV now being an option. Hm. Maybe they should all move into Sat broadcasting and leave wireless to cell phones. Heck, right now Truck Stops offer Dish Network units with WebTV internet access via Satellite Dish. No matter where you are. That's an invention I need. Maybe that's the way it should go. Who knows.
Aside from the 1.5 mil the "two key employees" of slashdot.org got for the sellout, I'm wondering about that Intangable assets thing. Is the source code "Intangable Assets"? And when andover.net doesn't make money and cuts people out(as they can), do they keep the code? If I'm reading this right, they can. Can you two clairify this?
And so what if the author won the Arthur C.Clark award? Should I bow and scrape before them? Or arent' I allowed to show my total disgust for some brands of SciFi? Sir Arthur is more of a pervert than SF writer these days anyway.
a. Toilet Paper. A good case of Scott Tissue will do. b. Ramen and Soup. C. Vitamins d. Warm Clothes. e. blunt heavy object. I'll work my way up to firearms. I figure the first few will be dumb... f. Diapers. I have two kids. g. big flashlight and batteries. spare blunt object.
Okay... KAL flight whatever got shot down by either A. Soviet Pilot Error or B. Soveit Pilot Boredom. In the USS Vincennes deal, the Airliner had two identifer boxes, one for making it an F-16. And the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.. I'm not sure anyone knew about harmonics then. I know it inspired research into the effect.
A. Mr Showbiz Liked Mr Ripley. means I will avoid it like AIDS. B. Any Given Sunday was ignored/shunned/blacklisted by the NFL. Says it all right there. Besides, its an Oliver "I know what REALLY happened" Stone.
Automatically. First time I got on was in 1992, using a friends Amiga 500 . Sure, the server at Millsaps was a Vax or something, and we downloaded C64 software from Europe with no problem. But, how many people had actually heard of this "internet" thingy? PC's are easy to use, had have become the platform of choice to log on. Why? Simple, Unix wasn't around for Personal Computer Use in 1980, and CPM got outmarketed. Now we are hoping Linux will catch up. Given history, it should.
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good bye editorial independance. Just like when Disney bought ABC, and others we could name, so too will the new heads of Slashdot control the content. it's too tempting _not_ too. I don't believe for one second that They can refrain from messing with it, Rob's comments aside.
I mean, think of how much better life might be for all of us if AOHell had taken a different line and tried to make things easy to understand, rather than simple. Easy To Understand being different, explaining what everything does, rather than Simple saying "Just click here and enter your credit card number, then click on things you like!". It is criminal how stupid they've made, oh, say, 8-10 million human beings.
We won't debate on wether or not using AOL makes you stupid or anything. That's not my point. If they'd bothered to make things educational rather than simple... (sigh)
"The Reports of my Death are Greatly Exaggerated."
:) (Europe comes to mind)
I think that says it best. Granted, wireless is where the next big boom in growth will be, mainly in areas where Phone service either sucks, is expensive, or both.
In the US, we are used to cheap phones, and are now getting spoiled on cheap broadband access. Being mindful of our neighbors can't hurt us.
I've got all 20 episodes. (if you count 3.1 as a seperate episode). Does this mean I need a new hobby?
Oh well... It's always funny to listen to.
If you want to watch DVD's... get one of the TV. Don't get one for your computer. Course, I may just say the hell with it and never buy one period. Nothing I want to watch anyway.
They will control a vast portion of the music channel. From signing,recording,promotion,music videos and such, you can get it all in one stop: AOL/TW/EMI. Want news on that? Easy! Turn to Your AOL Cable and see it on CNN! Watch as CNN's "clear" and "unbiased" reporting tells of the big new trend. Want to get online and see more? Easy! Fire up the computer and get on AOL via the Cable Modem you have and go to keyword (whatever).
Want an alternative view? It won't exist.
(argh... that's tab, not enter)
Gee... I'm stunned. AOL engaging in Anti-Competitive tatics. Just wait for the Microsoft/AOL-Time Warner-Netscape-Winamp merger...
I agree. You can tighten slashdot down without sacrificing speech. We can do without the flames.
I heard it from Paul Harvey (true!) That she and her composer friend were thinking about the jamming problem, and she simple asked "why does it have to be on one frequency?" Thus the invention of spread spectrum broadcasting.
:)
Not sure if it's true, but sometimes the best inventions come from people who aren't knee deep in the problem already.
Talk about having you point proven... He talks about people being uncivil online, and everyone thinks he's repressing "freedom of speech" and go ballistic.
You do not have the freedom to be mean.
Linus is probably getting smart and checking to see who is getting the domain names. I know It'd be irritating to go to linuxsomething.org and be confronted with say, tons of popups and porn. Enough of that and people would get the wrong idea. I have no problems with him doing this.
Open Source Zealotry destroy a perfectly good OS simply because it isn't "open source". They don't have to open it up, ya'll don't have to run it.
Here where I live, cable modems are a myth. Other people have them. Time Warner here is sitting on its ass doing nothing about "digital cable" (saw a commercial for it... once.) and two way cable modems are a joke. Meanwhile, Bellsouth is cleaning house with a well built ADSL system, and good tech support. Mine kicks major butt when I'm in linux.
I read on ABCnews that the audience went dead silent when he told them they had to put up some standards or get regulated and set a date. I figure it is about time someone tells those greedy broadcasters to quit thinking with their wallets and get moving. If we wait for them to bring about this super clear TV revolution you'll be old and grey. And Broke.
Ironically, I've seen HDTV here in Jackson. The local PBS station has a digital system. Just no one to broadcast to. You can sit in their lobby and watch super clear images for hours...
it's called a "Death Penalty". You get it when you break laws. You don't break a law, you don't become eligible for death penalties. It's that simple. GWB didn't pull one switch, or inject one prisoner. He is responsible for the excution of laws, and one of them is this death penalty thing.
He's not a murderer. Those are the ones getting those lethal injections. It's a simple difference, you know.
the more convinced I am that Intel has taken aim at it's foot and is loading a 10 gauge. AMD is in good position to take a big lead. Intel has wonderful parts no one can have, and AMD has good parts you can actually buy. Granted AMD has a problem with the cache speed and all, but at least you can buy em and sell them.
What I think they're worried about is that anyone else trying to sell anything with the "linux" name on it in their country will be banned. You'd have to call it something else. Unless you can wing enough power to force change, but that involves Big Corporations and Political Pressure.
It'll survive, grow and flourish. Cause people care to work on it.
Nope, it's the wireless replacing cable that I find funny. Starters, Time Warner owns a good number of local cable companies, not to mention Road Runner, their two way cable based ISP. I doubt seriously they'll just "dump" all that and go wireless cause it "works better". No company will do that just for that reason. It'd have to provide an advantage over current methods, which it really doesn't. Of course, there are all those Sat Dishes that are popular, what with local TV now being an option. Hm. Maybe they should all move into Sat broadcasting and leave wireless to cell phones.
Heck, right now Truck Stops offer Dish Network units with WebTV internet access via Satellite Dish. No matter where you are. That's an invention I need. Maybe that's the way it should go. Who knows.
Aside from the 1.5 mil the "two key employees" of slashdot.org got for the sellout, I'm wondering about that Intangable assets thing. Is the source code "Intangable Assets"? And when andover.net doesn't make money and cuts people out(as they can), do they keep the code? If I'm reading this right, they can. Can you two clairify this?
re .sig: Huh?
And so what if the author won the Arthur C.Clark award? Should I bow and scrape before them? Or arent' I allowed to show my total disgust for some brands of SciFi? Sir Arthur is more of a pervert than SF writer these days anyway.
every time I see someone write a book which purports to "explore the human condition" blah blah blah, it's a sure sign of a clueless moron.
a. Toilet Paper. A good case of Scott Tissue will do.
b. Ramen and Soup.
C. Vitamins
d. Warm Clothes.
e. blunt heavy object. I'll work my way up to firearms. I figure the first few will be dumb...
f. Diapers. I have two kids.
g. big flashlight and batteries. spare blunt object.
*just kidding*
Okay... KAL flight whatever got shot down by either A. Soviet Pilot Error or B. Soveit Pilot Boredom. In the USS Vincennes deal, the Airliner had two identifer boxes, one for making it an F-16.
And the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.. I'm not sure anyone knew about harmonics then. I know it inspired research into the effect.
A. Mr Showbiz Liked Mr Ripley. means I will avoid it like AIDS.
B. Any Given Sunday was ignored/shunned/blacklisted by the NFL. Says it all right there. Besides, its an Oliver "I know what REALLY happened" Stone.
I'll go see Toy Story 2 instead.
Automatically. First time I got on was in 1992, using a friends Amiga 500 . Sure, the server at Millsaps was a Vax or something, and we downloaded C64 software from Europe with no problem. But, how many people had actually heard of this "internet" thingy?
PC's are easy to use, had have become the platform of choice to log on. Why? Simple, Unix wasn't around for Personal Computer Use in 1980, and CPM got outmarketed. Now we are hoping Linux will catch up. Given history, it should.
It's that 64meg Ram free above what the OS takes that hurts. Granted, I've got it, but still, If I want to use up all my memory, I'll keep Win98.