Re:Perspective of a mellow spelling Nazi
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I must be somewhere in the middle, then. I fly right through typos. I dunno, maybe I quickly switch back and forth in between both modes.
I'd like to apologize to you, I never thought that people had different styles of reading. I just assumed everybody that complained about spelling was attempting to make themselves look smarter than they really are. I think I have a lot to learn still about how people operate.
I have a pet peeve about people who make drastic assumptions about other people, especially in a negative tone. I did that and it's a humbling experience. Both you and the parent poster have given me something to really think about. I hope you guys don't think I'm a total jerk.
"I ugri! Wy hav enni speling roolz at ahl, az long az we can wurk owt wut sumwun meenz? Its nawt lyk this replie iz hard tu reed."
That was a leeetle harder to read than most typos, but still presented little trouble.
"I agree! Why have any spelling rules at all, as long as we can work out what someone means? Its not like this reply is hard to read." -- That took me maybe 15% longer to read than a well spelt (or even heavily typo ridden) post. Most typos I don't even notice at all, so pardon me for not being sympathetic to those who pretend typos give them syntax errors. Not my fault their brains are that hardwired.
I have a story idea I'd like to put out one day via the internet. It's like a comic. I do worry about people taking it and not paying for it, but I worry 10x more about a corp using it to enhance their own image (like Austin Powers and Taco Bell...) without compensating me.
For what I want to do, copyrighting the material would be for protection against corporate theft, but it'd be less for the prevention of consumer theft.
The corporate example I used is an example of theft, but I do not believe somebody acquiring the images without paying for them is theft. What'd they steal? Electrons? They didn't cost me anything by taking it, they just didn't pay me. I could threaten to sue anybody who doesn't do that, but instead I'd rather appeal to people's good sense. "If you like my work, pay me so I can keep doing it." (Note: My definition of theft is solely limited to the context of my content, I do not intend to imply that I feel that way about copyrighted material across the board.)
If somebody has my work but doesn't want to pay for it, how can I assume they'd pay for it if they couldn't get it otherwise? If anything, somebody got to trial my work and develop a taste for it. At that point, it's up to me to make the service worth paying for. "Want to see it today instead of having to wait a week or two for somebody to make it available?"
I believe people are basically honest. I also believe that there'll always be a percentage of those who don't pay for the work but they should. That's called risk. The best thing I can do is figure out why they prefer not to pay for it and consider ways of making it interesting to them. Maybe I can offer a deal where they get it for half price if they agree to buy a bunch of it up front? Who knows?
I certainly think that locking up the content so they can't use it or learn from it is by far the worst thing I could do. How do I know some guy didn't by my work only because he's interested in 3d rendering?
Anyway, Im responding to the parent post not to specifically agree or disagree, I just thought I'd express my view as a potential content provider in the future.
This is a very valid problem. There's also issues of routing bandwidth through these networks.
I dunno.. I kinda imagined it like BBS's from ages past. It wouldn't be hard to get my complex to hook up to a neighboring complex across the street. We'd have to work out a gateway server in between them, but that wouldn't require reinventing the wheel. The big problem would be connecting to another similar network across town. I don't think that the place across town would need to talk to my computer directly, but rather to the gateway server. The GW server would talk to my computer and forward the data through like a proxy.
Maybe they would set up an 802.11 cloud and I could take my laptop over to grab the data, then come back to my network and make it available. This wouldn't be a replacement to the internet.
I didn't really envision talking to another computer that was on the opposite coast. I mean, it'd be possible especially with the internet involved. But I figured it'd be more like BBS's were.
I'm not claiming to have really thoguht this through very well so don't beat me up too hard. I do see a day coming soon when we're all sharing data independent of the internet. (Or at least MOSTLY independent.) It's happening now with CD-r's.
... that within a few years, there'll be informal networks across the country. I can just see my apartment complex linking all the computers together via 802.11 and sharing what they got. Once you've got a network at an apartment complex (for example), then it isn't hard to link it to a neighboring complex. Anybody remember that story of the guy getting a 3-mile LOS wirless connection going in San Fran? (I may have the details wrong, but the idea mostly works..)
If/When that becomes popular, before long people'll be able to look to these informal nets when the corporate internet lets them down. Maybe I'm just fantasizing, but I do think networking has become cheap and easy enough, and I think the internet is getting regulated enough that people will have interest in doing these kinds of things.
Exchange has it's plusses and minuses. I like how easy it is to set up, I like how easy it is to maintain, and it's pretty easy to make the features it has useful.
However, there are two issues with it that bother the hell out of me: (Note: This is Exchange 5.5, not the latest one. Nobody where I work is interested in paying gobs more when there's free stuff out there.)
1.) The copy we have is limited to 25 licenses. This means that 25 connections are allowed at one time. More than that and Exchange punts you. "Sorry, you have to wait until a connection is open."
The IMAP protocol is particularly attractive, so it's used a lot. But it counts as 2 connections because it makes one for inbound and one for outbound. So you can have 12.5 simultaneous connections before Exchange says "Sorry, give me more money."
What makes it worse is that IMAP is rather persistent, as opposed to POP3 that just hops in and hops out. My company of 19 had to tighten control over who uses what and when over it. This alone is enough to make us move away from MS.
2.) You cannot uninstall Exchange 5.5. I boogered up the install once and had to reinstall WinNT because it wouldn't give me the option to remove Exchange and start over. Maybe a little more poking and prodding could have solved it without a rebuild, but I was in emergency 'We need it yesterday!!' mode and didn't have the keys to the company Tardis.
Exchange gets points for being very easy to use and run, but it is a huge moneypit. If I were running on less than 15 people, I'd be fine with it. However, for more than that I'm ready to learn how Linux works and build a server with that.
The worst case scenario is that it gives people more reason to go to Linux or OSX. Sounds funny I know, but I've overheard several "geez, MS tightening up that market too?" conversations around the office. Every time MS tightens it's grip, my company thinks harder about how to not be dependent on them.
heh yep. Some stupid AC didn't like that I used 'ur' instead of 'your'. I wouldn't mind but he was damn near hostile about it. "Youve got a Y and an O, USE THEM!"
You caught me not paying attention to the details of my own post. *GUILTY*
I use 'ur' not only because I can type it much faster, but it also saves me from having to check between your and you're. Unfortunately, I'm a little obsessive about keeping those two correct, so 'ur' saves me a lot of thought-bandwidth.
Thanks for being tactful about it. My sig doesn't apply to you.
Okay, that's not terribly interesting to know. Im not that insightful today.
"You can't honestly tell me they were trying to capitalize on legal trading."
Yes they were. They created an audience ready to acquire music. If the RIAA had any intelligence, they would have taken advantage of this, charged modest prices, and let the money roll in. Napster would have become a promotional tool that the RIAA would pay $$$ to keep running.
Let me be clear about something: Before you tell me I'm wrong, tell me how Napster could have possibly made money off of people illegally trading files.
"That said, dare to challenge your views! And feel free to mod me down, bitches! I have no fear of/. hypocricy!"
I'd mod you down as Flamebait if I could. You over-simplified a well-known situation and twisted it into an attack.
If there was any legitimate point to what you were saying, your solution wouldn't be so simple. Frankly, I think the GPL comment you made was icing to earn karma.
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I must be somewhere in the middle, then. I fly right through typos. I dunno, maybe I quickly switch back and forth in between both modes.
I'd like to apologize to you, I never thought that people had different styles of reading. I just assumed everybody that complained about spelling was attempting to make themselves look smarter than they really are. I think I have a lot to learn still about how people operate.
I have a pet peeve about people who make drastic assumptions about other people, especially in a negative tone. I did that and it's a humbling experience. Both you and the parent poster have given me something to really think about. I hope you guys don't think I'm a total jerk.
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What? There's a switch I can flip to disable that? Or are you pulling my leg?
"I ugri! Wy hav enni speling roolz at ahl, az long az we can wurk owt wut sumwun meenz? Its nawt lyk this replie iz hard tu reed."
That was a leeetle harder to read than most typos, but still presented little trouble.
"I agree! Why have any spelling rules at all, as long as we can work out what someone means? Its not like this reply is hard to read." -- That took me maybe 15% longer to read than a well spelt (or even heavily typo ridden) post. Most typos I don't even notice at all, so pardon me for not being sympathetic to those who pretend typos give them syntax errors. Not my fault their brains are that hardwired.
... I don't typically flip people off until they're facing away.
" It seems to me that we need gloves that translate badly spelt words into the correct spelling as one types! "
:oP
You mean like your brain does when youd read the words and understand them anyway?
Here's what I meant by 'easy to set up':
I know nothing about mailservers, but within a day I was able to install it and have it ready for my company to use.
I have no doubt there are things that are obstructive at best. heh.
In your position, I would have looked for a way to automate that. Windows Scripting Host maybe? (I woulda used VB, it can do that...)
I have a story idea I'd like to put out one day via the internet. It's like a comic. I do worry about people taking it and not paying for it, but I worry 10x more about a corp using it to enhance their own image (like Austin Powers and Taco Bell...) without compensating me.
For what I want to do, copyrighting the material would be for protection against corporate theft, but it'd be less for the prevention of consumer theft.
The corporate example I used is an example of theft, but I do not believe somebody acquiring the images without paying for them is theft. What'd they steal? Electrons? They didn't cost me anything by taking it, they just didn't pay me. I could threaten to sue anybody who doesn't do that, but instead I'd rather appeal to people's good sense. "If you like my work, pay me so I can keep doing it." (Note: My definition of theft is solely limited to the context of my content, I do not intend to imply that I feel that way about copyrighted material across the board.)
If somebody has my work but doesn't want to pay for it, how can I assume they'd pay for it if they couldn't get it otherwise? If anything, somebody got to trial my work and develop a taste for it. At that point, it's up to me to make the service worth paying for. "Want to see it today instead of having to wait a week or two for somebody to make it available?"
I believe people are basically honest. I also believe that there'll always be a percentage of those who don't pay for the work but they should. That's called risk. The best thing I can do is figure out why they prefer not to pay for it and consider ways of making it interesting to them. Maybe I can offer a deal where they get it for half price if they agree to buy a bunch of it up front? Who knows?
I certainly think that locking up the content so they can't use it or learn from it is by far the worst thing I could do. How do I know some guy didn't by my work only because he's interested in 3d rendering?
Anyway, Im responding to the parent post not to specifically agree or disagree, I just thought I'd express my view as a potential content provider in the future.
This is a very valid problem. There's also issues of routing bandwidth through these networks.
I dunno.. I kinda imagined it like BBS's from ages past. It wouldn't be hard to get my complex to hook up to a neighboring complex across the street. We'd have to work out a gateway server in between them, but that wouldn't require reinventing the wheel. The big problem would be connecting to another similar network across town. I don't think that the place across town would need to talk to my computer directly, but rather to the gateway server. The GW server would talk to my computer and forward the data through like a proxy.
Maybe they would set up an 802.11 cloud and I could take my laptop over to grab the data, then come back to my network and make it available. This wouldn't be a replacement to the internet.
I didn't really envision talking to another computer that was on the opposite coast. I mean, it'd be possible especially with the internet involved. But I figured it'd be more like BBS's were.
I'm not claiming to have really thoguht this through very well so don't beat me up too hard. I do see a day coming soon when we're all sharing data independent of the internet. (Or at least MOSTLY independent.) It's happening now with CD-r's.
... that within a few years, there'll be informal networks across the country. I can just see my apartment complex linking all the computers together via 802.11 and sharing what they got. Once you've got a network at an apartment complex (for example), then it isn't hard to link it to a neighboring complex. Anybody remember that story of the guy getting a 3-mile LOS wirless connection going in San Fran? (I may have the details wrong, but the idea mostly works..)
If/When that becomes popular, before long people'll be able to look to these informal nets when the corporate internet lets them down. Maybe I'm just fantasizing, but I do think networking has become cheap and easy enough, and I think the internet is getting regulated enough that people will have interest in doing these kinds of things.
Exchange has it's plusses and minuses. I like how easy it is to set up, I like how easy it is to maintain, and it's pretty easy to make the features it has useful.
However, there are two issues with it that bother the hell out of me: (Note: This is Exchange 5.5, not the latest one. Nobody where I work is interested in paying gobs more when there's free stuff out there.)
1.) The copy we have is limited to 25 licenses. This means that 25 connections are allowed at one time. More than that and Exchange punts you. "Sorry, you have to wait until a connection is open."
The IMAP protocol is particularly attractive, so it's used a lot. But it counts as 2 connections because it makes one for inbound and one for outbound. So you can have 12.5 simultaneous connections before Exchange says "Sorry, give me more money."
What makes it worse is that IMAP is rather persistent, as opposed to POP3 that just hops in and hops out. My company of 19 had to tighten control over who uses what and when over it. This alone is enough to make us move away from MS.
2.) You cannot uninstall Exchange 5.5. I boogered up the install once and had to reinstall WinNT because it wouldn't give me the option to remove Exchange and start over. Maybe a little more poking and prodding could have solved it without a rebuild, but I was in emergency 'We need it yesterday!!' mode and didn't have the keys to the company Tardis.
Exchange gets points for being very easy to use and run, but it is a huge moneypit. If I were running on less than 15 people, I'd be fine with it. However, for more than that I'm ready to learn how Linux works and build a server with that.
"Don't bring it to Arizona. Anyone they try to operate on will be instantly vaporized."
"The good news is that we removed that mole on your chest, the bad news is you'll need to be fitted with a prosthetic abdomen."
Heh.
"I'd make it into an ironin board, but I'd need one more TV so she'd have a place for her spitcup."
Well, I just discovered my monitor doesn't make a very good spitcup. At least I get a pretty rainbow.
Oregon.
Although I'm reasonably sure Maine has the same problem I'm referring to heh.
You could get skin cancer while having skin cancer removed.
God I hope they don't try this in Portland.
BSOD's usually a simple hardware problem and can be troubleshooted by reading which driver that caused it.
I told them that after I noticed they weren't laughing at the Clippy comment. Heh.
The worst case scenario is that it gives people more reason to go to Linux or OSX. Sounds funny I know, but I've overheard several "geez, MS tightening up that market too?" conversations around the office. Every time MS tightens it's grip, my company thinks harder about how to not be dependent on them.
Ah!
I find your honesty refreshing! Heh.
You musta laughed your ass off when you got a +1 heh.
heh yep. Some stupid AC didn't like that I used 'ur' instead of 'your'. I wouldn't mind but he was damn near hostile about it. "Youve got a Y and an O, USE THEM!"
"Yeah whatever, Trans-Am Wheel Arch Nostrils."
Yes, u're right. Heh.
You caught me not paying attention to the details of my own post. *GUILTY*
I use 'ur' not only because I can type it much faster, but it also saves me from having to check between your and you're. Unfortunately, I'm a little obsessive about keeping those two correct, so 'ur' saves me a lot of thought-bandwidth.
Thanks for being tactful about it. My sig doesn't apply to you.
Okay, that's not terribly interesting to know. Im not that insightful today.
"You can't honestly tell me they were trying to capitalize on legal trading."
Yes they were. They created an audience ready to acquire music. If the RIAA had any intelligence, they would have taken advantage of this, charged modest prices, and let the money roll in. Napster would have become a promotional tool that the RIAA would pay $$$ to keep running.
Let me be clear about something: Before you tell me I'm wrong, tell me how Napster could have possibly made money off of people illegally trading files.
"That said, dare to challenge your views! And feel free to mod me down, bitches! I have no fear of /. hypocricy!"
I'd mod you down as Flamebait if I could. You over-simplified a well-known situation and twisted it into an attack.
If there was any legitimate point to what you were saying, your solution wouldn't be so simple. Frankly, I think the GPL comment you made was icing to earn karma.
Is that the same as 'giveusatank'? Heh
"Anybody else notice...that XVID is DIVX backwards?"
Nice DMCA violation there. Heh.
I interviewed for a position as Sysadmin once. They asked me how I'd troubleshoot the Blue Screen of Death. My response was "I'd ask Clippy".
Didn't get the job, though.