Unless I'm misreading this, AT&T has been subleasing (ie. beta testing) this service through mom and pop telcos for a long time now.
The real news is how ATT has beaten them on both ends by being one of the few games in town who will be able to negotiate content prices while small shops will have to go with whatever price they are given (ass rape, seriously ass rape).
I think the guy who did Minecraft would like to speak with both of you. You don't need a cast of thousands, just a product that sells. See Xanga for more info.
That's very interesting Caller, but tonight we are talking about how and why Kenny Rogers was behind the Kennedy Assassination. Next we have a Clyde from east of the Rockies. You're on Caller.
Yep, that's precisely the meaning of "giving the customer choice". Take the worst of all possible options, segment it and get rid of all other options.
In your sig, shouldn't that be, "Nationalism is bigotry.", not "Patriotism is bigotry."? If I said, "Go USA!" that would generally be perceived as patriotic; supporting a nation, but not denigrating another. If I said, "USA is number 1!", that would be nationalistic as it says that the USA is above or superior to other nations.
I'd like to see someone get a group of musicians together (there were a lot of them in the 80s and 90s) to express the discontent they had for the RIAA. Some of the agreements they signed borderlined on the unconscionable. The real problem with a pirate party is that there isn't really a public face for this issue other than 18-30 year olds that older voters have no real connection to. Any kind of real movement needs a "battered wife".
To paraphrase Stallman, there is no such thing as Intellectual Property. There are patents, copyrights and trademarks. Anything else is someone trying to get over on you.
I'd suggest going to a F/OSS event in an area with a depressed economy. Someone could shout out that and criticism of patents is an offense again America and Jesus and you won't hear a word. They just want a job from the well connected guy at the podium.
Given the number of corporate shills who show up at F/OSS conventions peddling things like, "'you people' need to get over software patents" or "sometimes you just can't just hand the source over to the client, its just good for business" or "I'm not calling you people communist -or even traitors, but you have to wonder about someone who doesn't genuinely care about the shareholder's position", I have no problem with Stallman shitting in their yard. Good for him.
The revolutionary mindset has something to do with it. Your average goat herder or basket weaver isn't all that interested in toppling whatever ideology he resents. That kind of stuff is generally a product of an angry, middle class; those who aren't as concerned with where their next meal comes from. Those coming from an emergent middle-class often follow fields that are more necessary. You need doctors and engineers before you need psychologists and art majors.
Because that doesn't get you a NYT article claiming that you are cool, young, Manhattan based, anti-Facebook coders (preventing you from getting cool, Manhattan based funding). It stinks of 1.) Get attention 2.) ??? 3.) Profit
Can only speak for the States, but I think the answer you are looking for is health insurance. Plenty of people are trapped in jobs they hate because they can't afford to spend 3 months without it or even worse, they don't want themselves or a loved one denied future coverage.
Nothing as disheartening as turning down a nice job offer because your wife would have to go without insulin.
I've been working around this business for most of my adult life, going from phone jockey to the guy who wrote the manuals to the IT dept. To be brutally honest, a lot (though certainly not all) of that has less to do with people getting lazy about their job and more about employers dumbing down training and automating so much of the troubleshooting process so they can hire any idiot off the street. Soon you have a floor full of idiots and management can't be happier. Pay rates drop, distension disappears because you have made the use of critical thinking skills a punishable offense and the higher levels egos get rubbed because they are now the smartest minds in the building.
Finally quality drops and the training dept begins to yet again lower standards. Wash, rinse and repeat. In the end you have a room full of shivering, gibbering, shit producing bio-IVRs who are too afraid that they will get canned for saying anything other than the text they see on the screen.
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Unless I'm misreading this, AT&T has been subleasing (ie. beta testing) this service through mom and pop telcos for a long time now.
The real news is how ATT has beaten them on both ends by being one of the few games in town who will be able to negotiate content prices while small shops will have to go with whatever price they are given (ass rape, seriously ass rape).
I dunno, that works out pretty well for bacteria.
I think the guy who did Minecraft would like to speak with both of you. You don't need a cast of thousands, just a product that sells. See Xanga for more info.
Hrm... http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/10/ratcar.html
I wouldn't call that a slippery slope, I'd call it the bottom.
The state itself isn't evil, any more than a hammer is evil. That is up to the people who wield it.
That's very interesting Caller, but tonight we are talking about how and why Kenny Rogers was behind the Kennedy Assassination. Next we have a Clyde from east of the Rockies. You're on Caller.
Yep, that's precisely the meaning of "giving the customer choice". Take the worst of all possible options, segment it and get rid of all other options.
Interesting, thanks.
In your sig, shouldn't that be, "Nationalism is bigotry.", not "Patriotism is bigotry."? If I said, "Go USA!" that would generally be perceived as patriotic; supporting a nation, but not denigrating another. If I said, "USA is number 1!", that would be nationalistic as it says that the USA is above or superior to other nations.
Excellent description.
I'd like to see someone get a group of musicians together (there were a lot of them in the 80s and 90s) to express the discontent they had for the RIAA. Some of the agreements they signed borderlined on the unconscionable. The real problem with a pirate party is that there isn't really a public face for this issue other than 18-30 year olds that older voters have no real connection to. Any kind of real movement needs a "battered wife".
To paraphrase Stallman, there is no such thing as Intellectual Property. There are patents, copyrights and trademarks. Anything else is someone trying to get over on you.
I'd suggest going to a F/OSS event in an area with a depressed economy. Someone could shout out that and criticism of patents is an offense again America and Jesus and you won't hear a word. They just want a job from the well connected guy at the podium.
Given the number of corporate shills who show up at F/OSS conventions peddling things like, "'you people' need to get over software patents" or "sometimes you just can't just hand the source over to the client, its just good for business" or "I'm not calling you people communist -or even traitors, but you have to wonder about someone who doesn't genuinely care about the shareholder's position", I have no problem with Stallman shitting in their yard. Good for him.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1792512&cid=33632372
It is, until 9 of the developers decide to write 12 difference frameworks. Then the one generic framework sounds like heaven.
Because Google is doing it.
I'll put my money on this being a PR stunt.
We've debated on it for quite some time and, unfortunately, we've decided that GOG.com simply cannot remain in its current form.
Sounds more like melodrama for they are going out of beta or introducing a Steam like client.
The revolutionary mindset has something to do with it. Your average goat herder or basket weaver isn't all that interested in toppling whatever ideology he resents. That kind of stuff is generally a product of an angry, middle class; those who aren't as concerned with where their next meal comes from. Those coming from an emergent middle-class often follow fields that are more necessary. You need doctors and engineers before you need psychologists and art majors.
Because that doesn't get you a NYT article claiming that you are cool, young, Manhattan based, anti-Facebook coders (preventing you from getting cool, Manhattan based funding). It stinks of 1.) Get attention 2.) ??? 3.) Profit
I thought that was really about a guy going into a non-costume area with a consume on, not the costume itself?
The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's dept are in the for the lolz.
Can only speak for the States, but I think the answer you are looking for is health insurance. Plenty of people are trapped in jobs they hate because they can't afford to spend 3 months without it or even worse, they don't want themselves or a loved one denied future coverage.
Nothing as disheartening as turning down a nice job offer because your wife would have to go without insulin.
I've been working around this business for most of my adult life, going from phone jockey to the guy who wrote the manuals to the IT dept. To be brutally honest, a lot (though certainly not all) of that has less to do with people getting lazy about their job and more about employers dumbing down training and automating so much of the troubleshooting process so they can hire any idiot off the street. Soon you have a floor full of idiots and management can't be happier. Pay rates drop, distension disappears because you have made the use of critical thinking skills a punishable offense and the higher levels egos get rubbed because they are now the smartest minds in the building.
Finally quality drops and the training dept begins to yet again lower standards. Wash, rinse and repeat. In the end you have a room full of shivering, gibbering, shit producing bio-IVRs who are too afraid that they will get canned for saying anything other than the text they see on the screen.
the site's stash of Iraq documents is believed to be about three times as large as its Afghanistan collection.
So only 1/3rd of the number of people who bothered to read the Afghanistan collection will read the one on Iraq?