I actually intend to be one of the first to offer my bandwidth for Brilliant's new network. On a system that is currently struggling to find a way to turn a profit from "eyeballs" I wholeheartedly support a system that charges me in the one true currency I have to offer, bandwidth. I appreciate the fact that these people are asking for permission before they access my system, but think they should take it one step further. For those high bandwidth users who offer them their spare processes and bandwidth, I think they should work out a deal width Kazaa to remove the ads from the service, sort of a "Premium" member system that Slashdot is trying.
For all our complaints about pop up ads, banners, and spy ware, this is the only way that I can see for us to offer some form of payment for a service we enjoy, without paying a dime.
Bravo Brilliant, you may have just made the "killer app" in internet profits.
I'm suprised no one has said this yet...
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LoTR Takes 4 Oscars
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I loved LOTR:FOTR as much as anyone else here, but even out of the nomminees it wasn't the best movie. As many have said, the oscars are nothing if not a giant marketing campaign, and A Beautiful Mind does not deserve Best anything, but if anything "In the Bedroom" deserved every one of those rewards. The sheer emotional weight of that movie made it one of if not THE best movies of all time. The charecters were so real that some scenes in the movie almost physically hurt, and while the ability to scale down LOTR to a movie is impressive, the ability to make charecters that seem, not "Well written" but REAL is a True talent not often seen in writers, let alone Hollywood movies.
For all our defense of command line interfaces and general disdain of Visual Basic, it must be said that almost always, a GUI interface is easier for a non-geek to use. Something that I feel is often neglected by coders and other techie types is the fact that not everyone can understand the concept of computer use. I spent a the majority of my freshman year in college working as a lab assistant in a community college Open computer lab. Every day I would see people of all ages come in and try to undertstand how to do even the easiest tasks on a computer like typing a paper, sending e-mail and even getting rid of the screen saver. Those of you in the tech support field know what I'm talking about, because when something goes wrong, they react with fear and often anger (How many people have YOU had call up to scream and yell at you, and THEN ask how to fix the problem?) Command line is fine, and for those of us who KNOW how to use a computer without having to think about each step, often better because it offers much more flexability, but often we are not the ones using these programs. Those that do need to have access to all the available features, in plain English, at the push of a button. I now run a little database design company, and yes, I use VB to get the interface to look as much like a Microsoft product as I can, not because think that Microsoft's products are supperior (After all I HAVE used Access *shudder*), but because everyone knows these interfaces. Standards don't develop because they are the best or the most stable, they develop because it's what everyone knows.
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I actually intend to be one of the first to offer my bandwidth for Brilliant's new network. On a system that is currently struggling to find a way to turn a profit from "eyeballs" I wholeheartedly support a system that charges me in the one true currency I have to offer, bandwidth. I appreciate the fact that these people are asking for permission before they access my system, but think they should take it one step further. For those high bandwidth users who offer them their spare processes and bandwidth, I think they should work out a deal width Kazaa to remove the ads from the service, sort of a "Premium" member system that Slashdot is trying.
For all our complaints about pop up ads, banners, and spy ware, this is the only way that I can see for us to offer some form of payment for a service we enjoy, without paying a dime.
Bravo Brilliant, you may have just made the "killer app" in internet profits.
I loved LOTR:FOTR as much as anyone else here, but even out of the nomminees it wasn't the best movie. As many have said, the oscars are nothing if not a giant marketing campaign, and A Beautiful Mind does not deserve Best anything, but if anything "In the Bedroom" deserved every one of those rewards. The sheer emotional weight of that movie made it one of if not THE best movies of all time. The charecters were so real that some scenes in the movie almost physically hurt, and while the ability to scale down LOTR to a movie is impressive, the ability to make charecters that seem, not "Well written" but REAL is a True talent not often seen in writers, let alone Hollywood movies.
And in the news today two astonauts were lost today, their last communications were, "Forget the girder I'm almost level 21 in Everquest!"
For all our defense of command line interfaces and general disdain of Visual Basic, it must be said that almost always, a GUI interface is easier for a non-geek to use. Something that I feel is often neglected by coders and other techie types is the fact that not everyone can understand the concept of computer use. I spent a the majority of my freshman year in college working as a lab assistant in a community college Open computer lab. Every day I would see people of all ages come in and try to undertstand how to do even the easiest tasks on a computer like typing a paper, sending e-mail and even getting rid of the screen saver. Those of you in the tech support field know what I'm talking about, because when something goes wrong, they react with fear and often anger (How many people have YOU had call up to scream and yell at you, and THEN ask how to fix the problem?) Command line is fine, and for those of us who KNOW how to use a computer without having to think about each step, often better because it offers much more flexability, but often we are not the ones using these programs. Those that do need to have access to all the available features, in plain English, at the push of a button. I now run a little database design company, and yes, I use VB to get the interface to look as much like a Microsoft product as I can, not because think that Microsoft's products are supperior (After all I HAVE used Access *shudder*), but because everyone knows these interfaces. Standards don't develop because they are the best or the most stable, they develop because it's what everyone knows.