True - the last customer in the supply chain always pays everyone's costs and margins or the product dies. What bonding-on-bid does though is force suppliers to get insurance before signing on contractual commitments thereby achieving two aims:
A) levelling the playing field between those who pre-emptively had their backsides covered and those who don't
B) filtering out all potential players for whom the market can not find a palatable cost at which to price their risk
Why should the rocket manufacturer pay the insurance
Wait what? In many industries bonding is a prerequisite for simply submitting a bid and being bondable a prerequisite for being employed.
Hell try getting a mortgage without insurance.
This is so dumb I had to login to comment for the first time in years.
A common method of license enforcement is a serial check upon logging onto the official server network. Hosting your own server would, of course, avoid that.
The problem as I see it though is that many online server networks do not make it easy or enjoyable or, in cases, even possible to setup games for the enjoyment of people who already know each other - particularly if they are in the same room. Explicitly working against local lan play makes many games a poor choice for those who would wish to use them in a social setting.
Essentially the BSD license is a little more permissive. So releasing code you don't own is something akin to a privilege elevation exploit - you've attained more (legal) rights than you were entitled to.
Show me damage. Show me Viacom acting in bad faith, rather than merely negligently or recklessly. THEN talk about lawsuits and restraint of trade. Until then... this is just not a big deal. The DMCA has a million huge problems - and this is somewhere around 950,000 on that list.
Show me how dinner parties and wedding video and tutorials damaged Viacom. Show me damage. Show me millions of users acting in bad faith, rather than merely negligently or recklessly. THEN talk about lawsuits and restraint of trade. Show me rigorous argument that my property is as important to the law as Viacom's.
Until then this supposed piracy is just not a big deal. The market has a million huge problems - and this is somewhere around 950,000 on that list.
/.'s job is to pick stories that provoke discussion
Taco has mentioned several times in this discussion that moderating articles is suboptimal as it opens many way to game the system - to make article selection a matter of fashion. I note, though, that every article has a valuable source of hard to fake metainformation regarding it's quality. How hard would it be to spider/. frontpage stroies every couple of hours and spit out a list of stories with a high percentage of comments modded informative or funny or what have you.
Heck it gets even easier than that. Personally I don't bother reading most of the comments. When a story is old/interesting enough to have gotten at least a dozen +3 comments I'll take a peek at it. That's not to say I read every +3 comment either - usually I read at what ever level I need to get the number of comments in the 12-20 range. If any comment is particualrily interesting I'll read it's children and sometimes it's parent. Couldn't be too hard to automate, I guess, and publish via rss or, perhaps, mod with greasemonkey.
Oh you know i tried to read digg for a few days regulary. Let me tell you, 99% of the content here is already crap. You can tell that most digg users are 14 years old or something from what is posted and popular. And the comments... the comments are worse than what you would find if you could browse slashdot with only 0ed posts, maybe with less spam and f1rst psot, but even less interesting than that
The overwhelming percentage of the content posted @/. consists of the comments - it's what/. is for. The comments @ digg are truly horrible but, and this is a fairly large but, most of the links that are popular @ digg and make the/. front page are visible @ digg much much earlier. If anything digg is a little like CNN (lotsa crap but it comes fast and if anything important happens it'll prob at least make the ticker even if the signal:noise ratio is low) and/. has become a bit more like a magazine.
I don't think the two compete. I'm pretty sure they shouldn't. I certainly follow digg via rss (and rarely bother with the comments at all) and browse/. @ +4
Responsibility and authority go hand in hand. If they want to hand the the responsibility, they give me the authority to go with it. If, OTOH, they don't want to give me the authority, then they can shoulder the responsibility.
Screw authority - give me ownership. If my employer is going claim all I/P rights (work for hire) they can take any, all and every responsibility for it's marketing and liability.
Ummm... If I wanted to run KDE, why would I buy a Mac? I mean I love my Powerbook, but I know the Pentium M systems are faster, cheaper, and (if my experiences are the rule not the exception) more reliable.
Simply put... you wouldn't. At least not what the poster is sugesting. OTOH running something like konqueror natively without an xserver (not yet possible) would rock as the finder simply sucks.
And then there's Vancouver, hamilton, toronto, ottawa, quebec, montreal etc. Calgary, edmonton, regina & winnipeg are pretty much the only large centers (saskatoon isn't really on this planet at all) significantly north of the border. Oh I'm sure you could say such and such a place and this that and the other over here and what about fooville but most canadians simply live very close to the border.
Heck - I just moved from Red Deer to Victoria and the whole bloody city is south of the 49th. Oh and your numbers are rather off too try:
easy. it's sonicstage (stupid). It only 'works' under windows, and there's no realiable way to use the bloody thing without it. I'm not some kind of anti windows zealot, heck there's 2 machines running 2k in my cavement.... right over by the BSD routers, the mac mini, the debian server, the mythtv box and the small stack of ibooks.
I spend much of my time working, not with applications, but services accessible with clients available to all of those systems. If it's not crossplatform, or at least not highly interoperable, I'm not interested.
it is just impractical for people with decent sized music collections.
I beg to differ. My music collection is 'reasonable' weighing in at something just under what the largest ipod will hold. My audiobook collection (with a smattering of podcasts and old radio productions) though tops 1/4tb. Since there is _no_ way any portable player is going to hold all of that any time soon there's simply no point in trying.
I have a mini. I bought it because it had the wheel, was intuitive enough to use while walking (no visuals need most of the time) weighed less than the other hdd models (I tend to drop things) and it was cheap. That last point being the most important one. For 2/3s the cost of a 'larger' ipod I got everything I wanted.
If sweat is what qualifies a sport, then sitting on the beach is a sport. Try again.
I prefer this classification:
Art) Any activity, physically demanding or otherwise, succes at which requires a subjective judgement. Ex: Diving/
Sport) Any competitive activiy primarily physical in nature succes at which is measured against a quantifiable, repeatable standard. Ex: running the 100m, though not the relay as the varrying length of the legs ensure that the same relay is never run twice
Game) Everything else. Ex: most team 'sports' & leisure activities.
This classification should be considered value neutral.
had Newton needed to work this way he never could have said "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."
The difference being Newton had to know his algebra to understand that he needed calculus. it's not like Euclid was some kinda blackbox that spit out answers and somehow, automagically, optics and calculus came out.
Many of us belive that math is important and you don't get that from a 3 credit calculator operation class.
You must mean a perfect Perfectly Normal Beast sandwich.
Actually further research indicates that the perfectly normal beast sandwich is only a local optimum (the beast being discontinuous). Following an earlier work it seems that the penultimate sandwich may be egg & cress though, too, may fail to prove universal as research has turned up empirical evidence for two conditions only - approx the creation of the universe and (with slight variations) the gi tract of one particular cryogenic time traveler.
Cringely is impressed that Google is offering a web accelerator service, something AOL has done for years;
Well something to think about - AOL grew out of their own network, which sucked but they had full control over, into an interweb gateway (which they still suck at) but google has done it simply as a side effect of having built the required infrastructure they use to do other tasks very very well. With a small effort they've nearly moved into another market and further solidified their status as valuable _required_ infrastructure and not some bolt on crap extra no one wants to pay for.
that the XBox will play music and video, something the playstations 1 and 2 did, respectively;
With the very likely possibility that it'll do so better and easier and offer enough generic processing power and apis to function as a general purpose computer. This is less like, say, ford building sports cars and more like ford winning a contract to repave interstates adding, along the way, their own toll booths.
that Yahoo is unveiling a service almost identical to the Napster service that appeared in the wake of the iTunes Music Store;
That yahoo can offer services, simlar to a couple of upstarts, at cost prices giving, for the first time, the dominate player a run for their money.
and that Apple may, at some unspecified point in the future be releasing a product.
This last one is a stretch but, as you've tried to point out it wouldn't be a Cringly article without such a device. That being said it's his job to editorialize a bit and he's said something that makes a lot of sense. Enough sense to be rather likely and remain exciting at the same time. Tasty.
i get sick of people telling me to do 'something' without an earthly suggestion as to what 'something' is. all realistic 'somethings' i can think of are forms of communication, from writing here to writing my representation, to engaging in a protest.
Which is sort of the point - do any of those things just don't sit here and preach (smugly) to the choir. There are days when I (nearly) wish I had an amurican congresscritter to bitch at. Your government is trampling on my world and doesn't care if I vote for them or not.
I certainly hope so. I've toyed with the google API for a number of things but the one 'toy' that gets smacked around a lot is a related: links spider. A trivial idea that everyone and their dog did when the API was new. The problem is that since every URI is unique, and the googlebot became rather stupid in the middle of jan, I've been getting 3-4000 requests for (basically) the same bloody page every day. The googlebot isn't smart enough, apparently, to see it's GETting the same page with different parameters somthing like 35000 times in the last several weeks.
The upshot is I've had some fun (as in omg - I'm log grepping bored fun) watching the damned thing even as it's sucked up waaay more than my alotted api searches every day thereby (even with caching) making anything else I use it for useless.
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Insurance is important in most trades.
Why should the rocket manufacturer pay the insurance
Wait what? In many industries bonding is a prerequisite for simply submitting a bid and being bondable a prerequisite for being employed. Hell try getting a mortgage without insurance. This is so dumb I had to login to comment for the first time in years.
I live in Canada. What's this Hulu of which you speak? The sooner flash dies the better.
The problem as I see it though is that many online server networks do not make it easy or enjoyable or, in cases, even possible to setup games for the enjoyment of people who already know each other - particularly if they are in the same room. Explicitly working against local lan play makes many games a poor choice for those who would wish to use them in a social setting.
Essentially the BSD license is a little more permissive. So releasing code you don't own is something akin to a privilege elevation exploit - you've attained more (legal) rights than you were entitled to.
Until then this supposed piracy is just not a big deal. The market has a million huge problems - and this is somewhere around 950,000 on that list.
So slam it hard enough that the edge (or more likely the shockwave) breaks mach 1......
English needs a preprocessor... for those who have problems with token substitution.
Taco has mentioned several times in this discussion that moderating articles is suboptimal as it opens many way to game the system - to make article selection a matter of fashion. I note, though, that every article has a valuable source of hard to fake metainformation regarding it's quality. How hard would it be to spider /. frontpage stroies every couple of hours and spit out a list of stories with a high percentage of comments modded informative or funny or what have you.
Heck it gets even easier than that. Personally I don't bother reading most of the comments. When a story is old/interesting enough to have gotten at least a dozen +3 comments I'll take a peek at it. That's not to say I read every +3 comment either - usually I read at what ever level I need to get the number of comments in the 12-20 range. If any comment is particualrily interesting I'll read it's children and sometimes it's parent. Couldn't be too hard to automate, I guess, and publish via rss or, perhaps, mod with greasemonkey.
The overwhelming percentage of the content posted @ /. consists of the comments - it's what /. is for. The comments @ digg are truly horrible but, and this is a fairly large but, most of the links that are popular @ digg and make the /. front page are visible @ digg much much earlier. If anything digg is a little like CNN (lotsa crap but it comes fast and if anything important happens it'll prob at least make the ticker even if the signal:noise ratio is low) and /. has become a bit more like a magazine.
I don't think the two compete. I'm pretty sure they shouldn't. I certainly follow digg via rss (and rarely bother with the comments at all) and browse /. @ +4
Heck - I just moved from Red Deer to Victoria and the whole bloody city is south of the 49th. Oh and your numbers are rather off too try:
I spend much of my time working, not with applications, but services accessible with clients available to all of those systems. If it's not crossplatform, or at least not highly interoperable, I'm not interested.
I beg to differ. My music collection is 'reasonable' weighing in at something just under what the largest ipod will hold. My audiobook collection (with a smattering of podcasts and old radio productions) though tops 1/4tb. Since there is _no_ way any portable player is going to hold all of that any time soon there's simply no point in trying.
I have a mini. I bought it because it had the wheel, was intuitive enough to use while walking (no visuals need most of the time) weighed less than the other hdd models (I tend to drop things) and it was cheap. That last point being the most important one. For 2/3s the cost of a 'larger' ipod I got everything I wanted.
- Art) Any activity, physically demanding or otherwise, succes at which requires a subjective judgement. Ex: Diving/
- Sport) Any competitive activiy primarily physical in nature succes at which is measured against a quantifiable, repeatable standard. Ex: running the 100m, though not the relay as the varrying length of the legs ensure that the same relay is never run twice
- Game) Everything else. Ex: most team 'sports' & leisure activities.
This classification should be considered value neutral.Many of us belive that math is important and you don't get that from a 3 credit calculator operation class.
how about Black playing Belushi Playing Desiato?
That's the thing about people who think they hate transporters. What they really hate is lousy calibrators.
The upshot is I've had some fun (as in omg - I'm log grepping bored fun) watching the damned thing even as it's sucked up waaay more than my alotted api searches every day thereby (even with caching) making anything else I use it for useless.