BSOD?
It won't fry "an adversary's countless computers and electronic gadgets" and will cause damage to hair (when the enemy pulls theirs out), but it will stop them.
Remember, there were two V mini-series: the original in 1983, and the "Final Battle" in 1984, and a short-lived weekly series after that. At some point, Kenneth Johnson walked out of development of "Final Battle" (the one that introduced the 'star child'), and I don't think he had anything to do with the awful weekly series. In the past, he has said that if he resumed work on V, he would ignore the Final Battle and the weekly series, and pick up after the first mini-series, the only one over which he had full control.
What happens when those chimes start lighting up near embarassing items that sometimes need to be purchased? Or you look around, and everyone is staring at your cart while it announces discounts on Preparation H?
Re: It's probably better than "webinar"
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The one thing AOL has that no other service on Earth has is this: a gigantic user base to chat with. There are lots of other smaller niche chat sites out there, but nowhere can you find such a wide assortment of chat rooms. And the one thing that chat requires...people...is the one thing AOL can definitely provide.
That's why anyone...Linux user, Windows user, whoever...might use AOL. That's why this (Linux user) has an AOL account.
I guess if we don't all buy our gear exclusively online or live in a congested, polluted urban area, we're not worthy.
For all its faults, Walmart sure stands out in some areas. Where else can you go at 3 AM to buy a computer peripheral, and be able to choose from a fairly wide selection too? And I feel a lot better about trying to return something to Wallyworld than any 'elite' online dealer.
Killer Artists & the Internet Top 40
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On getting "non-corporate sanctioned music" to be heard:
I still think the Internet has the ability to completely obliterate the power that Clear Channel, the RIAA, and their ilk have on widely-heard music. Maybe it is like the 'Killer App' problem: in the same sense that the killer app still eludes us (if it wasn't Napster), the killer Internet artist does too. It's going to take a Net-born artist or perhaps a handful of artists, brought together as a package, to really give people a reason to pay attention to Internet music.
I think it's a visibility problem. I'm sure there are artists out there who I would really enjoy...but it takes such an effort to find them. What I'd like is something like an Internet Top 40: a professionally programmed, DJ'ed, sleek production presenting new and independent artists that I can listen to while I program/cook/take a shower. The situation right now, where everything is so fragmented, doesn't lend itself well to taking on the power of the traditional media conglomerates.
1. Perhaps those who are critical of Christian Science would be better served by using P2P networks. For example, instead of publishing these documents on the web, they could set up a webpage describing what can be found on those networks, and then get people to host the documents on their hard drives. Everyone from/. could pitch in and help! Google could then list the website since it contains absolutely no copyrighted material, and Christian Science gets put in the same boat as the RIAA.
2. I couldn't help noticing that Christian Science Monitor is a "US News Source" on Google's "News and Resources" page. Something bothers me about that.
The GeekPac name
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Why is everyone up in arms over the name "GeekPac"? Both the draft document and the article confirm that the name of the PAC is American Open Technology Consortium; GeekPac is just the address to which pledges are going. I'm sure that if the effort gains momentum, they'll can establish an email address that's a little more professional.
At my previous employer's annual "Kickoff" meeting, popular songs were lyrically altered to celebrate various products, and employees performed the songs for those in attendance (usually about 5000 people). This was rehearsed with costumes and live bands and a full stage with light/sound system, mind you. One particular performance of Aretha Franklin's "Respect" extolling the virtues of the latest laser printers still makes me ill.
Also, with reference to the post mentioning William Gibson's "Neuromancer": Samsung Electronics actually does this in Korea. According to an article in a recent TIME magazine, employees are sent away to four-week boot camps, awake before 6 AM every morning, and sing the company song.
I plan on publishing a website in the near future which, if successful, could experience out-of-control bandwidth. If bandwidth ever begins to be a problem, my plan is simple: I'll set a per-day bandwidth cap. Once that cap is reached, the site "closes" until the next morning.
Like a brick-and-mortar store that knows how many hours it can be open per day and remain profitable, I can similarly determine how much free bandwidth I can offer per day.
If users simply must use the site while closed, they will be encouraged to purchase 'after-hours' passes, which basically will offer them bandwidth allotments at the rate I pay my hosting provider. $6 for 1.5G of use will last a long time for an individual user.
One might respond that "closing" the site every night will simply encourage users to go somewhere else, and I agree. The burden is on me to provide a site that users will WANT to come back to.
"The irony of that would be that
there'd be no new music left to trade since the over produced modern pop crap is always the most popular."
Sure there would. Imagine this: instead of hearing over-produced fluff pop on the radio and racing home to download it from the Internet (and getting burned in the RIAA-sponsored musical witchhunt in the process), music would simply become more grassroots by way of the Internet. If the RIAA ever lost its grip and corporate music producers went out of business, one fact remains: music lovers will still seek out what they want. I imagine hordes of sites set up by fans who have found new, exciting independent artists. As people hear about these new artists, they would head over to Morpheus to give them a try.
The Internet really does have the power to destroy the RIAA's music industry, and create one of its own. Of course, the right set of circumstances for this to happen haven't come along yet, but it's only a matter of time.
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BSOD? It won't fry "an adversary's countless computers and electronic gadgets" and will cause damage to hair (when the enemy pulls theirs out), but it will stop them.
Remember, there were two V mini-series: the original in 1983, and the "Final Battle" in 1984, and a short-lived weekly series after that. At some point, Kenneth Johnson walked out of development of "Final Battle" (the one that introduced the 'star child'), and I don't think he had anything to do with the awful weekly series. In the past, he has said that if he resumed work on V, he would ignore the Final Battle and the weekly series, and pick up after the first mini-series, the only one over which he had full control.
What happens when those chimes start lighting up near embarassing items that sometimes need to be purchased? Or you look around, and everyone is staring at your cart while it announces discounts on Preparation H?
Webinar = web seminar (I think)
Blog I can at least tolerate.
The one thing AOL has that no other service on Earth has is this: a gigantic user base to chat with. There are lots of other smaller niche chat sites out there, but nowhere can you find such a wide assortment of chat rooms. And the one thing that chat requires...people...is the one thing AOL can definitely provide.
That's why anyone...Linux user, Windows user, whoever...might use AOL. That's why this (Linux user) has an AOL account.
For another example of snobbery, see also Iowa Court May Order Microsoft Refunds.
I guess if we don't all buy our gear exclusively online or live in a congested, polluted urban area, we're not worthy.
For all its faults, Walmart sure stands out in some areas. Where else can you go at 3 AM to buy a computer peripheral, and be able to choose from a fairly wide selection too? And I feel a lot better about trying to return something to Wallyworld than any 'elite' online dealer.
On getting "non-corporate sanctioned music" to be heard:
I still think the Internet has the ability to completely obliterate the power that Clear Channel, the RIAA, and their ilk have on widely-heard music. Maybe it is like the 'Killer App' problem: in the same sense that the killer app still eludes us (if it wasn't Napster), the killer Internet artist does too. It's going to take a Net-born artist or perhaps a handful of artists, brought together as a package, to really give people a reason to pay attention to Internet music.
I think it's a visibility problem. I'm sure there are artists out there who I would really enjoy...but it takes such an effort to find them. What I'd like is something like an Internet Top 40: a professionally programmed, DJ'ed, sleek production presenting new and independent artists that I can listen to while I program/cook/take a shower. The situation right now, where everything is so fragmented, doesn't lend itself well to taking on the power of the traditional media conglomerates.
Don't DVD movies force you to watch things at the beginning?
OK, I did confuse the two.
:-)
So, scratch #2, and amend #1 to substitute Scientology for Christian Science.
P.S. Be nice. It's Monday.
1. Perhaps those who are critical of Christian Science would be better served by using P2P networks. For example, instead of publishing these documents on the web, they could set up a webpage describing what can be found on those networks, and then get people to host the documents on their hard drives. Everyone from /. could pitch in and help! Google could then list the website since it contains absolutely no copyrighted material, and Christian Science gets put in the same boat as the RIAA.
2. I couldn't help noticing that Christian Science Monitor is a "US News Source" on Google's "News and Resources" page. Something bothers me about that.
Why is everyone up in arms over the name "GeekPac"? Both the draft document and the article confirm that the name of the PAC is American Open Technology Consortium; GeekPac is just the address to which pledges are going. I'm sure that if the effort gains momentum, they'll can establish an email address that's a little more professional.
At my previous employer's annual "Kickoff" meeting, popular songs were lyrically altered to celebrate various products, and employees performed the songs for those in attendance (usually about 5000 people). This was rehearsed with costumes and live bands and a full stage with light/sound system, mind you. One particular performance of Aretha Franklin's "Respect" extolling the virtues of the latest laser printers still makes me ill.
Also, with reference to the post mentioning William Gibson's "Neuromancer": Samsung Electronics actually does this in Korea. According to an article in a recent TIME magazine, employees are sent away to four-week boot camps, awake before 6 AM every morning, and sing the company song.
I'm not sure Leahy gets technology very well. After all, he did help to write the DMCA.
"The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a good bill on which so many of us have worked so hard and cooperated so closely across the aisle..." Senator Leahy's remarks concerning the House delay of voting on the DMCA October 20, 1998 - Sen. Patrick Leahy
I plan on publishing a website in the near future which, if successful, could experience out-of-control bandwidth. If bandwidth ever begins to be a problem, my plan is simple: I'll set a per-day bandwidth cap. Once that cap is reached, the site "closes" until the next morning.
Like a brick-and-mortar store that knows how many hours it can be open per day and remain profitable, I can similarly determine how much free bandwidth I can offer per day.
If users simply must use the site while closed, they will be encouraged to purchase 'after-hours' passes, which basically will offer them bandwidth allotments at the rate I pay my hosting provider. $6 for 1.5G of use will last a long time for an individual user.
One might respond that "closing" the site every night will simply encourage users to go somewhere else, and I agree. The burden is on me to provide a site that users will WANT to come back to.
"The irony of that would be that there'd be no new music left to trade since the over produced modern pop crap is always the most popular."
Sure there would. Imagine this: instead of hearing over-produced fluff pop on the radio and racing home to download it from the Internet (and getting burned in the RIAA-sponsored musical witchhunt in the process), music would simply become more grassroots by way of the Internet. If the RIAA ever lost its grip and corporate music producers went out of business, one fact remains: music lovers will still seek out what they want. I imagine hordes of sites set up by fans who have found new, exciting independent artists. As people hear about these new artists, they would head over to Morpheus to give them a try.
The Internet really does have the power to destroy the RIAA's music industry, and create one of its own. Of course, the right set of circumstances for this to happen haven't come along yet, but it's only a matter of time.