...other companies/projects had spam solved before Gates even uttered those words. Where I work, we've been using the Barracuda Spam Firewall for over two years now and the spam that makes it through is minimal. Once again, MS is late to the show but their marketing dollars will make them come out smelling like a rose nonethelesss.
That's really asstute of you to notice that. Here is my business plan: I have some softwares you might want for free but it'll cost ya. My softwares will help you grow your own busyness at hoam using the simple tool of emails. The more emails you send the more money you can make. The profit margins oare all up to you my friend. Some of my partners have made millions with my softwares. And you can too. Just ask me how.
Imagine a photo blog with the mental age of 12, but the environment of a singles bar and the insecurities of all attention whores concentrated in one place. Shouldn't happen, should it? Well it has and it's called Yafro. Please h4x0r this sight friendly hackers.;P
Ah but you forget... it is possible to be profitable AND still beneficial to society at large. As much as I oppose big business, I do not think that a business built for profit is inherently evil if it is only interested in reasonable profit. It's the companies that think they have to use every measure possible to be profitable, to the detriment of other people, that I have a problem with. Currently, that's about 99.9% of all businesses. But it doesn't need to be that way.
I have a feeling that one of Google's main competitors is behind this. If they can't win by outdoing Google technically, then the time has come to use PAID FOR governmental pressure to stymie them. This is completely ridiculous. Technology exists to better every person's life. READ THAT AGAIN: Technology exists to better EVERY person's life, not just some fat, balding "suit" in a Home-a-ramaville development. EVERYONE should benefit from technology and that's what Google has been really good about thus far. Google has helped people learn things. Google has helped people connect with others of a like mind. Google has provided some damn incredible services with no barrier to entry for anyone. (Yes, even those without access to their own computers can benefit from Google by going to their public libraries) Because Google can do this kind of thing and still be somewhat profitable, their competitors have it in for them. Why? Because they don't want to have to benefit anyone but their shareholders. Screw that!! Screw the people behind this too. And most of all screw George W. Bush, and his entire administration with skewer. Those assholes don't care about America or Americans like me. So I don't give a rat's ass about them either.
Ah but young padwan... you forget... What was it that got Windows to sell? Was it their lower cost during the Win 3.1 days? Was it their fugly Program Manager/File Manager paradigm in Windows 3.1? What's that you say? Windows 3.1 didn't sell well at all compared to Mac OS? Well, allow me to explain:
1. Windows didn't sell like hot cakse until they did two things. The first is that they raised their price thereby instantly making them better in perception than Mac OS. The thinking behind this? "If people are willing to shell out a lot of money for Mac OS, they will be just as willing to shell out MORE money for Windows 95". 2. They then mimicked all of the good things about Mac OS in Win95. They did it poorly, but they did it. And they added more garish color which equates to "comfortable" for the clueless among us. 3. They also made sure to jump from 16-bit to mostly 32-bit in order to make the OS run slower on existing PCs of the day. So that works out in their favor too because people then know that to have a really good experience they need to dump that old box and get new stuff because PCs get slower as they get older due to some undiscovered law of physics. 4. Those newer PCs are less efficient than the older ones and therefore use more power. 5. Windows 9x was considerably more complex than DOS/Win 3.1 in a technical sense and therefore more prone to failure. 6. For those techs who were diehard DOS/Windows fans, Win95 was not a happy move. They couldn't deal and therefore left the business so they could manage their BBSs in peace.
So there you have it. Windows exhibited ever aspect that you consider a flaw in these mag lev elevators. And it is a huge success. Undisputed. Now... I'll tell you where you went wrong there young 'un. You didn't realize that the one fatal flaw of maglev elevators is that they use magnetism to operate. This means that you'd better have all your magstripe cards in a shielded wallet if you want to be able to use them. Of course, I contend that Toshiba is fully aware of the fact that mag stripes are going the way of the dodo and it won't matter anymore that mag lev elevators give off huge magnetic fields. And when the brain tumor lawsuits come, they won't know what hit them. Whaddaya think of them apples!?
Ummm... you need to learn "Slinglish" to be able to read/. properly. Here are some examples of how to read the original story without concern for the placement of "THAT":
1. "I hear pray tell of a new horseless carriage can go 25 miles per hour"!
2. "So I know a guy can do some incredible things you wouldn't believe in it".
3. "Finally. A refrigerator (what) can do deep freeze in an hour. Tremendous"!
And so you see, it's not hard to ignor the use of the word "THAT" before the word "can". In fact, you can even replace "THAT" with "what" for a more down home flavor reminicent of the PoTUS, G Dubya. That should make anyone want to have a drink with you over say... Stephen Hawking.
Utilizing spooky action at a distance, it would be possible to analyze every particle that comprises a living organism. Comparing the being's current structure (in a particular biological system) with multiple "healthy" models of the various systems, or "baseline" snapshots of the patient's previous states as stored in the global molecular structure databases, diagnoses become trivial. Oh damn! It's only 2006 and I keep forgetting to keep my mouth shut. Never mind.
I hear there's plenty of copper in the same magical fairyland that we can get abundant oil from indefinitely. A neocon told me so on Fox news. No worries mate!;P
If people really feel they need a pill (ie. "quick fix") for every problem that life hands them, I've got a solution. One pill that takes care of any problem. Permananently. It's called Cyanide.
Jesus H. K-RISTE!!! Emotional pain can be quite debilitating and there are many things people shouldn't have to go through. But doesn't anyone find it the least bit frightening that we, as a society, are trying to find ways to remove every negative thing life throws at us? Is that really a "good thing"? I remember a particularly painful breakup I went through and it took me a very long time to get over it. I certainly would have been tempted to take that pill when I was experiencing the pain. However, looking at it a decade and a half on, I'm glad that such a thing was not available. Had I chosen to forget that trauma (yes, it's mild by comparison to PTSD or rape) I would not have developed as a person and would likely have not been able to form healthy relationships later. I suspect that there are aspects of negative experiences that build us up into better people. Whether it's a rape victim who channels his or her rage into working to protect others from the same fate, or a soldier who tells the truth about what really happened on the field in an extended conflagration. Pumping these people with pills would take that away from society as a whole. And that is a BAD THING. We really need to question the use of medication for everything. It's gone completely out of control and mostly due to profit motive of the pharma industry.
Why do people harsh on the eSound daemon? It works really well for me. I'm using it on the Linux side for a complete remote desktop solution including sound. I can use MPlayer, Xine, XMMS, and RealPlayer just fine this way. All this and over 802.11b... I think eSound is "the bomb".
Aha... shows you what RTFA will do. Well then. I was wrong about the impact, but I hold that not one of those reviewers or Speilberg will be griping about the encryption/region coding. They will be griping about the company that made the DVDs.
This is more a problem of quality control at the manufacturing plant. It's like those Barbies that got shipped out with G.I. Joe voice boxes a few years ago. The people who were supposed to view these aren't even going to notice. They'll likely get new copies in a week or two and watch them without even having one thought of shaking their fists at the MPAA.
Yes. Taco SHOULD make money because he did the work behind creating Slashdot initially. Now, the quality of his work is something that a lot of people debate about and I don't want to get into that. My point is that he actually wrote the code and came up with the original concept of Slashdot. In that case, he can do whatever the hell he wants. No one else qualifies in that way outside of employees of Slashdot and the parent company.
The jealousy thing keeps coming up which is kind of interesting and says more about the people who bring it up than it does the people who complain about the money grubbing. Personally, I can't stand the thought of making money through shifty channels. That's why I won't do something like Amway or any kind of direct marketing no matter how desperate I am for work. You have to be totally honest to make money the right way. These guys aren't doing that. My moral code doesn't allow me to do what they do. It would feel slimy.
Not really. I don't think money should be rewarded unless you actually do some real work. The way I see it, people who do what those two assholes do are just like the people who resell long distance, the RIAA, the MPAA, etc... They're useless, pointless middlemen who do nothing but skim money with as little effort expended as possible. They're pretty much akin to spammers. No real work. Just pointy-clicky on the magical "money machine" and wait for the check. I suppose you would argue that if I bottled some "secret" mixture of juices and herbs with a little alcohol in it and drove around the country selling it as a miracle cure, that I would have legitimately earned the money of the people I fleeced with my garbage too? There is no difference.
...I suggest that we clone the world's past great leaders and scientists (FDR, Einstein, Tesla...) and build a new government manned by them when they reach maturity. It's got to be an improvement on the current situation here in the U.S.
...genes can predict the future? Does this mean that if we study genes in people at any age we'll know how they are going to die? That's freakin' scary!;P
I work for a non-profit organization that benefits the city I live in in a pretty generous way. So I feel like I have a pretty good position to think like this. Sure, it's not perfect, but it's what I wanted to do because I believe in helping people who need help just because it's the right thing to do. I could have looked for more money (salary wise) in the private sector, but I'm not interested in that. Yes, I need to pay the bills, but I want to do so with a clean conscience and want to contribute as little as possible to what I perceive to be a problem: profit motive/commerce.
I also realize that even in the non-profit sector we still have to send our money to businesses that exist soley for profit. In many cases, that's OK because those businesses are reasonable. Especially the local ones. But I don't believe in supporting companies like WalMart where they only care about the stock holders. So that's a bit of a pulse on where I'm "coming from".
It's not what you said, it's how you said it. I'll post an example here of how you SHOULD have responded:
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You're apparent naivity stems from the fact that you apparently don't understand the mechanisms of the real world. Human beings are by their very nature, self interested. Although this can cause problems at times (people like Saddam Hussein for example), in most reasonable people it's a useful motivator to be a productive member of society.
But this is all academic. I am certain you've seen the way things work around you in our society and if life has been good to you, you are likely benefiting from the system itself regardless of your protests to the contrary. Perhaps a few more years of experience and some time to mature will help you understand that even though the system isn't perfect, it's what we have and we have to work within it.
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See? No need to be insulting. But I suppose my 36 years on this planet have taught me a thing or two about that sort of thing.;p Cheers.
My original statement is a little poorly worded. But I, personally, do not feel that I should benefit directly (especially in a monetary sense) from submitting a story to Slashdot. A project like the Linux kernel, or an open source media player, then yes the benefits are obvious and inevitable.
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...other companies/projects had spam solved before Gates even uttered those words. Where I work, we've been using the Barracuda Spam Firewall for over two years now and the spam that makes it through is minimal. Once again, MS is late to the show but their marketing dollars will make them come out smelling like a rose nonethelesss.
...it's a TRAP!!!! ;P
Of course you all know exactly what I mean.
That's really asstute of you to notice that. Here is my business plan: I have some softwares you might want for free but it'll cost ya. My softwares will help you grow your own busyness at hoam using the simple tool of emails. The more emails you send the more money you can make. The profit margins oare all up to you my friend. Some of my partners have made millions with my softwares. And you can too. Just ask me how.
I have a sight for them to hack: www.yafro.com
;P
Imagine a photo blog with the mental age of 12, but the environment of a singles bar and the insecurities of all attention whores concentrated in one place. Shouldn't happen, should it? Well it has and it's called Yafro. Please h4x0r this sight friendly hackers.
Ah but you forget... it is possible to be profitable AND still beneficial to society at large. As much as I oppose big business, I do not think that a business built for profit is inherently evil if it is only interested in reasonable profit. It's the companies that think they have to use every measure possible to be profitable, to the detriment of other people, that I have a problem with. Currently, that's about 99.9% of all businesses. But it doesn't need to be that way.
I have a feeling that one of Google's main competitors is behind this. If they can't win by outdoing Google technically, then the time has come to use PAID FOR governmental pressure to stymie them. This is completely ridiculous. Technology exists to better every person's life. READ THAT AGAIN: Technology exists to better EVERY person's life, not just some fat, balding "suit" in a Home-a-ramaville development. EVERYONE should benefit from technology and that's what Google has been really good about thus far. Google has helped people learn things. Google has helped people connect with others of a like mind. Google has provided some damn incredible services with no barrier to entry for anyone. (Yes, even those without access to their own computers can benefit from Google by going to their public libraries) Because Google can do this kind of thing and still be somewhat profitable, their competitors have it in for them. Why? Because they don't want to have to benefit anyone but their shareholders. Screw that!! Screw the people behind this too. And most of all screw George W. Bush, and his entire administration with skewer. Those assholes don't care about America or Americans like me. So I don't give a rat's ass about them either.
Ah but young padwan... you forget... What was it that got Windows to sell? Was it their lower cost during the Win 3.1 days? Was it their fugly Program Manager/File Manager paradigm in Windows 3.1? What's that you say? Windows 3.1 didn't sell well at all compared to Mac OS? Well, allow me to explain:
1. Windows didn't sell like hot cakse until they did two things. The first is that they raised their price thereby instantly making them better in perception than Mac OS. The thinking behind this? "If people are willing to shell out a lot of money for Mac OS, they will be just as willing to shell out MORE money for Windows 95".
2. They then mimicked all of the good things about Mac OS in Win95. They did it poorly, but they did it. And they added more garish color which equates to "comfortable" for the clueless among us.
3. They also made sure to jump from 16-bit to mostly 32-bit in order to make the OS run slower on existing PCs of the day. So that works out in their favor too because people then know that to have a really good experience they need to dump that old box and get new stuff because PCs get slower as they get older due to some undiscovered law of physics.
4. Those newer PCs are less efficient than the older ones and therefore use more power.
5. Windows 9x was considerably more complex than DOS/Win 3.1 in a technical sense and therefore more prone to failure.
6. For those techs who were diehard DOS/Windows fans, Win95 was not a happy move. They couldn't deal and therefore left the business so they could manage their BBSs in peace.
So there you have it. Windows exhibited ever aspect that you consider a flaw in these mag lev elevators. And it is a huge success. Undisputed. Now... I'll tell you where you went wrong there young 'un. You didn't realize that the one fatal flaw of maglev elevators is that they use magnetism to operate. This means that you'd better have all your magstripe cards in a shielded wallet if you want to be able to use them. Of course, I contend that Toshiba is fully aware of the fact that mag stripes are going the way of the dodo and it won't matter anymore that mag lev elevators give off huge magnetic fields. And when the brain tumor lawsuits come, they won't know what hit them. Whaddaya think of them apples!?
Ummm... you need to learn "Slinglish" to be able to read /. properly. Here are some examples of how to read the original story without concern for the placement of "THAT":
1. "I hear pray tell of a new horseless carriage can go 25 miles per hour"!
2. "So I know a guy can do some incredible things you wouldn't believe in it".
3. "Finally. A refrigerator (what) can do deep freeze in an hour. Tremendous"!
And so you see, it's not hard to ignor the use of the word "THAT" before the word "can". In fact, you can even replace "THAT" with "what" for a more down home flavor reminicent of the PoTUS, G Dubya. That should make anyone want to have a drink with you over say... Stephen Hawking.
Utilizing spooky action at a distance, it would be possible to analyze every particle that comprises a living organism. Comparing the being's current structure (in a particular biological system) with multiple "healthy" models of the various systems, or "baseline" snapshots of the patient's previous states as stored in the global molecular structure databases, diagnoses become trivial. Oh damn! It's only 2006 and I keep forgetting to keep my mouth shut. Never mind.
I hear there's plenty of copper in the same magical fairyland that we can get abundant oil from indefinitely. A neocon told me so on Fox news. No worries mate! ;P
"What I think matters before I click 'save', and what I don't."
The first thing that followed was an advert. I guess we all know what matters now. ;P (I kid, I kid. Because I love...)
If people really feel they need a pill (ie. "quick fix") for every problem that life hands them, I've got a solution. One pill that takes care of any problem. Permananently. It's called Cyanide.
Jesus H. K-RISTE!!! Emotional pain can be quite debilitating and there are many things people shouldn't have to go through. But doesn't anyone find it the least bit frightening that we, as a society, are trying to find ways to remove every negative thing life throws at us? Is that really a "good thing"? I remember a particularly painful breakup I went through and it took me a very long time to get over it. I certainly would have been tempted to take that pill when I was experiencing the pain. However, looking at it a decade and a half on, I'm glad that such a thing was not available. Had I chosen to forget that trauma (yes, it's mild by comparison to PTSD or rape) I would not have developed as a person and would likely have not been able to form healthy relationships later. I suspect that there are aspects of negative experiences that build us up into better people. Whether it's a rape victim who channels his or her rage into working to protect others from the same fate, or a soldier who tells the truth about what really happened on the field in an extended conflagration. Pumping these people with pills would take that away from society as a whole. And that is a BAD THING. We really need to question the use of medication for everything. It's gone completely out of control and mostly due to profit motive of the pharma industry.
Why do people harsh on the eSound daemon? It works really well for me. I'm using it on the Linux side for a complete remote desktop solution including sound. I can use MPlayer, Xine, XMMS, and RealPlayer just fine this way. All this and over 802.11b... I think eSound is "the bomb".
..."The Best Macworld Evar! 2006"
Aha... shows you what RTFA will do. Well then. I was wrong about the impact, but I hold that not one of those reviewers or Speilberg will be griping about the encryption/region coding. They will be griping about the company that made the DVDs.
This is more a problem of quality control at the manufacturing plant. It's like those Barbies that got shipped out with G.I. Joe voice boxes a few years ago. The people who were supposed to view these aren't even going to notice. They'll likely get new copies in a week or two and watch them without even having one thought of shaking their fists at the MPAA.
Yes. Taco SHOULD make money because he did the work behind creating Slashdot initially. Now, the quality of his work is something that a lot of people debate about and I don't want to get into that. My point is that he actually wrote the code and came up with the original concept of Slashdot. In that case, he can do whatever the hell he wants. No one else qualifies in that way outside of employees of Slashdot and the parent company.
The jealousy thing keeps coming up which is kind of interesting and says more about the people who bring it up than it does the people who complain about the money grubbing. Personally, I can't stand the thought of making money through shifty channels. That's why I won't do something like Amway or any kind of direct marketing no matter how desperate I am for work. You have to be totally honest to make money the right way. These guys aren't doing that. My moral code doesn't allow me to do what they do. It would feel slimy.
Not really. I don't think money should be rewarded unless you actually do some real work. The way I see it, people who do what those two assholes do are just like the people who resell long distance, the RIAA, the MPAA, etc... They're useless, pointless middlemen who do nothing but skim money with as little effort expended as possible. They're pretty much akin to spammers. No real work. Just pointy-clicky on the magical "money machine" and wait for the check. I suppose you would argue that if I bottled some "secret" mixture of juices and herbs with a little alcohol in it and drove around the country selling it as a miracle cure, that I would have legitimately earned the money of the people I fleeced with my garbage too? There is no difference.
...I suggest that we clone the world's past great leaders and scientists (FDR, Einstein, Tesla...) and build a new government manned by them when they reach maturity. It's got to be an improvement on the current situation here in the U.S.
...genes can predict the future? Does this mean that if we study genes in people at any age we'll know how they are going to die? That's freakin' scary! ;P
To that I can agree. I include myself among them as there are people far brighter than I am.
I work for a non-profit organization that benefits the city I live in in a pretty generous way. So I feel like I have a pretty good position to think like this. Sure, it's not perfect, but it's what I wanted to do because I believe in helping people who need help just because it's the right thing to do. I could have looked for more money (salary wise) in the private sector, but I'm not interested in that. Yes, I need to pay the bills, but I want to do so with a clean conscience and want to contribute as little as possible to what I perceive to be a problem: profit motive/commerce.
I also realize that even in the non-profit sector we still have to send our money to businesses that exist soley for profit. In many cases, that's OK because those businesses are reasonable. Especially the local ones. But I don't believe in supporting companies like WalMart where they only care about the stock holders. So that's a bit of a pulse on where I'm "coming from".
It's not what you said, it's how you said it. I'll post an example here of how you SHOULD have responded:
;p Cheers.
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You're apparent naivity stems from the fact that you apparently don't understand the mechanisms of the real world. Human beings are by their very nature, self interested. Although this can cause problems at times (people like Saddam Hussein for example), in most reasonable people it's a useful motivator to be a productive member of society.
But this is all academic. I am certain you've seen the way things work around you in our society and if life has been good to you, you are likely benefiting from the system itself regardless of your protests to the contrary. Perhaps a few more years of experience and some time to mature will help you understand that even though the system isn't perfect, it's what we have and we have to work within it.
---
See? No need to be insulting. But I suppose my 36 years on this planet have taught me a thing or two about that sort of thing.
My original statement is a little poorly worded. But I, personally, do not feel that I should benefit directly (especially in a monetary sense) from submitting a story to Slashdot. A project like the Linux kernel, or an open source media player, then yes the benefits are obvious and inevitable.