The snideness of my other reply aside, I re-read your comment.
I believe the question was, "Would you really give a shit if your LiveJournal suddenly went offline?" Since you're a non-user, your answer isn't really relevant to the question.
In any case, unlike the stereotype, the vast majority of my friends who are also on LiveJournal are actually literate. Some of them have a real flair for writing, and it's nice to read their journal entries.
I take issue with your blanket assertion that "there is nothing interesting on LJ". Perhaps there is nothing interesting for you on LJ. Who the hell wants to read about what's going on in my life? Most people -- you included -- wouldn't. My real-life friends -- those people who I care about and who care about me -- are interested in what's going on. It's boring to anybody else, really.
One account that I find interesting and that might have broad appeal is that of Tolyn. He's a cop in California who has a real knack for telling a story. In my opinion, his earlier entries were more entertaining, but give it a shot.
I have a friend who uses NetBSD for damn near everything with an LJ. (He also interned at Wasabi Systems one summer.) Another friend who works for Akamai has an account. (He had been keeping a journal on his site in static HTML pages, but he redid it with PHP and a database several months before he first got on LJ.) There were a couple other people who decided to move their journals onto their own sites using WordPress or something, but they set up plugins to automatically post their WordPress entries in their LiveJournals because they wanted to make it convenient for the rest of us to read their journal entries. In such a system as you describe, one would have to check n web sites daily, or use an RSS aggregator and lose the benefits of restricted viewing of entries.
And honestly when you mentioned the "If you see this as the first post.... you know what to do" business, I had no idea what you were talking about until someone else in this thread mentioned that those are friends-only journals where people feel the need to announce it in a cutesy way. (There's stuff there, but you have to be logged into an account that they have on their friends list in order to see anything.) Those may be stereotypical LJ users, but they are not representative of all types of LJ users.
Yes, I pay for an account. The extra features are nice to have, and I get the warm fuzzies supporting a GPL project.
Why do you need the telephone, email, and AIM, when you have feet and a mouth to walk up and say hello? No, really; I'm not just being pedantic. It's just another option for communication, and it's one that many people find useful.
I understand what push and pull mean in relation to content. Nonetheless, I think you are overestimating the technical abilities of the average person. What about Joe or Jane User who just wants to keep up on what's happening with their friends and/or wants to keep their friends updated? Somehow, I think you'd have a difficult time convincing that person to buy a domain name, pay for colo or hosting, do some PHP coding, and so on, and so forth. Not to mention that it starts to get somewhat difficult to restrict who can see your journal (yes, I hate the word "blog") entries in the kind of mesh setup you're describing. Then Mr. or Ms. User would need to convince their friends to do the same, minus coding (since it would already be done).
I hadn't heard of Lilina, so I Googled for it. As one of my friends recently pointed out, however, the LiveJournal "friends" system is actually an RSS aggregator. (It's also a basis for permissions-based granting of read access, doing double duty.)
For what it's worth, I too used to think LiveJournal was silly. Then, one of my friends from before I moved across the country (many of us hang out in our own crappy little IRC channel and have for quite a while now) mentioned that he was creating an account because many of the people in his new social group (he had just moved to another city) had journals, and he would find it convenient to be able to read their journals all on one page. Shortly after that, I found that many of the people that I was meeting had LiveJournal accounts, so I gave it a try myself. I liked it.
If you don't like it, that's fine. I find it convenient. You're entitled to your opinion, just as I'm entitled to mine.
The main draw of LiveJournal is when you have friends (insert snide remark
about your social life here), and they use it. Suddenly, you can keep up
with what's going on with them from a single page. Can your crappy
web site do that?
Keep in mind that you'll see the ads only if you don't have an account, or
if you agree to see ads to get more features on your account. If
you don't want to see the ads, you can simply change your account from the
new Sponsored+ level back to the standard Free level.
No one's forcing you to view the ads. You're agreeing to see them to
get more features on your (free!) account. You can also pay $20 for an
entire year and get even more features and no ads.
X is designed such that there is a highlight-and-middle-click copy-and-paste
buffer. Going way back to the days of Netscape 4 (and possibly before),
Netscape and derived browsers on X (and now on Windows, with Mozilla and
Firefox) will open a link in a new window (or, configurably, a new tab,
with Netscape's modern descendants) if you middle-click it. With the
middle-paste X behavior, middle-clicking on a page when you have a URL in
the copy buffer (from highlighting, not from selecting "Copy") will "paste"
it into the current window -- that is, it will open that URL. With Firefox
(and perhaps Mozilla, but I'm not sure), it is configured by default to do
an I'm-Feeling-Lucky Google searchfor the terms you paste into the browser
window.
Of course, practically all of this is configurable nowadays, and
cross-platform, too.
Of course, some (Perhaps many? Still a minority, though.) people use "gay" (or "queer") as a catch-all term for "not straight", in which case the usage by Smith (and his characters) is correct, if non-specific.
Devil's advocacy aside, I do essentially agree with you.
You're confusing this with the way copyright originally worked in this country. It used to be a term of 14 years, with an optional 14-year renewal. Then it was changed to a term of 28 years, with on optional 14-year renewal. (It might have been the other way around.) Then it was changed to a 28-year term with the optional 28-year renewal. After that, they started extending the term willy-nilly. See my other comment for more info.
Try Title 17, Chapter 3, 302 instead. Chapter 2, 203 deals with duration of licenses, not copyrights.
This clause primarily affects the music industry. The artists get their music "back" from the labels after 35 years. As a side note, remember the story a while back about the Congressional secretary slipping in a provision defining music as being works-for-hire? He claimed that it was simply an editorial change that clarified existing practice when in fact it drastically altered the way things currently work. He was later offered a lucrative job by one of the labels or the RIAA.
In any case, Mr. Dvorak was wrong. (What else is new?) It's life plus 70, not life plus 75.
I just use vi as-is with the Dvorak layout. The basic movement keys are easy enough -- J and K are still together, while H and L still approximate their old positions. The rest I just relearned -- sequences like 'dw' and 'xp' and 'c4w' threw me off while I was learning, since it's more muscle memory than key position, but I got used to it.
They pointed out on the DVD set that there are two answers to this question: The time-traveler's answer and the mechanic's answer.
Mechanic's answer: If you're going to store a car for a long period of time (and 70 years would qualify), then you of course need to drain the fluids. The gas tank in the DeLorean in the mine is bone dry, the oil's been drained, etc.
Time-travel answer: Ignoring the former, Doc would risk a paradox by going back to the DeLorean in the mine -- suppose the cave's roof fell in, or something along those lines.
They clearly didn't think of these until after the fact, though, or else they would included a couple lines about it in the script.:-)
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I believe the question was, "Would you really give a shit if your LiveJournal suddenly went offline?" Since you're a non-user, your answer isn't really relevant to the question.
In any case, unlike the stereotype, the vast majority of my friends who are also on LiveJournal are actually literate. Some of them have a real flair for writing, and it's nice to read their journal entries.
I take issue with your blanket assertion that "there is nothing interesting on LJ". Perhaps there is nothing interesting for you on LJ. Who the hell wants to read about what's going on in my life? Most people -- you included -- wouldn't. My real-life friends -- those people who I care about and who care about me -- are interested in what's going on. It's boring to anybody else, really.
One account that I find interesting and that might have broad appeal is that of Tolyn. He's a cop in California who has a real knack for telling a story. In my opinion, his earlier entries were more entertaining, but give it a shot.
I have a friend who uses NetBSD for damn near everything with an LJ. (He also interned at Wasabi Systems one summer.) Another friend who works for Akamai has an account. (He had been keeping a journal on his site in static HTML pages, but he redid it with PHP and a database several months before he first got on LJ.) There were a couple other people who decided to move their journals onto their own sites using WordPress or something, but they set up plugins to automatically post their WordPress entries in their LiveJournals because they wanted to make it convenient for the rest of us to read their journal entries. In such a system as you describe, one would have to check n web sites daily, or use an RSS aggregator and lose the benefits of restricted viewing of entries.
And honestly when you mentioned the "If you see this as the first post.... you know what to do" business, I had no idea what you were talking about until someone else in this thread mentioned that those are friends-only journals where people feel the need to announce it in a cutesy way. (There's stuff there, but you have to be logged into an account that they have on their friends list in order to see anything.) Those may be stereotypical LJ users, but they are not representative of all types of LJ users.
Yes, I pay for an account. The extra features are nice to have, and I get the warm fuzzies supporting a GPL project.
I understand what push and pull mean in relation to content. Nonetheless, I think you are overestimating the technical abilities of the average person. What about Joe or Jane User who just wants to keep up on what's happening with their friends and/or wants to keep their friends updated? Somehow, I think you'd have a difficult time convincing that person to buy a domain name, pay for colo or hosting, do some PHP coding, and so on, and so forth. Not to mention that it starts to get somewhat difficult to restrict who can see your journal (yes, I hate the word "blog") entries in the kind of mesh setup you're describing. Then Mr. or Ms. User would need to convince their friends to do the same, minus coding (since it would already be done).
(Irony in this case might dictate the use of the LiveJournal server software itself to run your site.)
I hadn't heard of Lilina, so I Googled for it. As one of my friends recently pointed out, however, the LiveJournal "friends" system is actually an RSS aggregator. (It's also a basis for permissions-based granting of read access, doing double duty.)
For what it's worth, I too used to think LiveJournal was silly. Then, one of my friends from before I moved across the country (many of us hang out in our own crappy little IRC channel and have for quite a while now) mentioned that he was creating an account because many of the people in his new social group (he had just moved to another city) had journals, and he would find it convenient to be able to read their journals all on one page. Shortly after that, I found that many of the people that I was meeting had LiveJournal accounts, so I gave it a try myself. I liked it.
If you don't like it, that's fine. I find it convenient. You're entitled to your opinion, just as I'm entitled to mine.
The main draw of LiveJournal is when you have friends (insert snide remark about your social life here), and they use it. Suddenly, you can keep up with what's going on with them from a single page. Can your crappy web site do that?
No one's forcing you to view the ads. You're agreeing to see them to get more features on your (free!) account. You can also pay $20 for an entire year and get even more features and no ads.
No, but three lefts do.
Of course, practically all of this is configurable nowadays, and cross-platform, too.
Hope that helps.
Sure. You just go to the other end of that gun range, we'll fire at you, and you can catch those "pansy ass" bullets.
Thanks for the information! I consider myself corrected.
Your question is based on an invalid premise, namely, that there is anything preventing anybody from suing anybody else for any or no reason.
How do you propose to get unemployment compensation if you voluntarily quit your job?
You might have a point if it was the US and not the UK.
You do realize that the seven years doesn't start right away, don't you?
Devil's advocacy aside, I do essentially agree with you.
Consider trying Alt-Home.
Yes, it's "not bad" if "must relink the kernel and reboot for an IP address change" is "not bad". :-)
I think you mean "perspiration".
Or Emacs. :-)
Source: Lessig, Lawrence. Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity . New York, NY: The Penguin Press, 2004.
See page 134 for the specific reference; start at page 133 for a discussion on the history of copyright in the US.
You're confusing this with the way copyright originally worked in this country. It used to be a term of 14 years, with an optional 14-year renewal. Then it was changed to a term of 28 years, with on optional 14-year renewal. (It might have been the other way around.) Then it was changed to a 28-year term with the optional 28-year renewal. After that, they started extending the term willy-nilly. See my other comment for more info.
This clause primarily affects the music industry. The artists get their music "back" from the labels after 35 years. As a side note, remember the story a while back about the Congressional secretary slipping in a provision defining music as being works-for-hire? He claimed that it was simply an editorial change that clarified existing practice when in fact it drastically altered the way things currently work. He was later offered a lucrative job by one of the labels or the RIAA.
In any case, Mr. Dvorak was wrong. (What else is new?) It's life plus 70, not life plus 75.
You can't afford $5 per year?
I just use vi as-is with the Dvorak layout. The basic movement keys are easy enough -- J and K are still together, while H and L still approximate their old positions. The rest I just relearned -- sequences like 'dw' and 'xp' and 'c4w' threw me off while I was learning, since it's more muscle memory than key position, but I got used to it.
Should be portable enough between shells.
Mechanic's answer: If you're going to store a car for a long period of time (and 70 years would qualify), then you of course need to drain the fluids. The gas tank in the DeLorean in the mine is bone dry, the oil's been drained, etc.
Time-travel answer: Ignoring the former, Doc would risk a paradox by going back to the DeLorean in the mine -- suppose the cave's roof fell in, or something along those lines.
They clearly didn't think of these until after the fact, though, or else they would included a couple lines about it in the script. :-)