Yeah, that's fine position for you to take as an individual, but as a "reporter" it is your JOB to research people's claims for veracity instead of merely parroting them. If the press went around repeating whatever people told them without checking the facts, all sorts of bad stuff would happen- we'd probably even be sending people off to war under false pretenses. Oh wait...
Face it. You do no investigation when it comes to your stories. You just publish whatever sensational pie-in-the sky crap they give you for the purpose of getting VC for them. Then you go and [I bet] pay slashdot to run your stories to draw traffic to your site, so that more crackpots will come to you asking for you to print a story on their crackpot product. Repeat ad nauseum. How about you get a real job?
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Did you see this data? Did you see how they acquired this data? Oh wait... did they just TELL you they had data?
Hey Sterling- I've got a working prototype of a cold fusion reactor at home. It just has a few kinks to work out, but my data shows that it will generate 1MW for $.05. I've got a patent pending, too. Why don't you do a story on me?
10 years of prototyping doesn't mean jack. You could prototype something for a century and that doesn't make it a working model. Did you contact anyone at CPP to verify their claims?
Wow... Somebody mod parent up! If his "Open Source Energy Network" crap didn't reveal him as a crackpot, that surely did... Great work. It's time Slashdot quit posting this crap. It's worse than Roland Piquepaille (or however it's spelled) Next they'll be posting links to Art Bell.
Right- the AP picked up a story from the Casper Star-Tribune, which then got reprinted by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, CBS News, Yahoo News, etc. That story was basically coverage of a press conference. I don't imagine there's a whole hell of a lot to cover on any given day in Cheyenne, so of course they'd be there. The fact remains that they don't have a production prototype, and haven't shown anything, so for now they're all talk.
Oh, the consumer cares. But the consumer is not rational in that regard. That's why the marketing works. Convince the consumer that the mark "Made in Italy" means something, and they're willing to pay more for it. It was true at one point, a long time ago, that Italians had perfected methods of making shoes that others hadn't, much like the Swiss with regard to watches and the French with cheese. But for the most part it's not the same anymore. Those products are made pretty much the same way wherever they're made. Whatever cachet the mark carries is residual, and largely a result of nationalistic fervor. Those "other" people can't POSSIBLY make something as good as we do! Nooooo! This is much like how people used to percieve Japanese cars/electronics as crap, and then as high quality. And now a lot of Japanese cars are actually made in America. So are they crap now? It just depends on the product. The nationality means little, as an indicator of quality, and as globalization continues it will mean less and less.
Maybe we could put a deposit on cigarette butts. $.10 each. That way if the owners don't save them up to get their money back, it will at least give bums something to do:)
So it's not about whether or not they're made in China, because most of them are at least partly made in China. It's about whether or not it's coming from a brand that gives a crap about quality. Now there may be a lot of cheap, lo-quality brands that make stuff in China, but it does not follow that everything that comes out of China is crap, or that being made in Italy necessarily makes a pair of shoes good. In the end, it doesn't matter the nationality of the brand or its craftsmen- it's just about the quality of the product, and where in the world it is made has no bearing on that.
It doesn't make a difference is something is made in Italy or China if the materials and construction are the same, which they are. It's not like stitching made by Italian hands are any better than those made by Chinese hands- they're all made by machines anyway. If anything, I'd imagine that the Chinese laborers would be more skilled than the Italians. The whole "Made in XXXX" thing is just marketing crap. Products both great and lousy can come from anywhere.
The next Intranet is being built by a half dozen teenage kids in their darkend bedrooms around the world.
No, they're too busy checking out the endless supply of free porn, looking too hook up with girls on myspace, downloading warez, and updating their blogs to do that.
That's not what I heard, but maybe I heard wrong. It was my understanding that they were having issues with IBM not delivering 3GHz G5s, nor G5s that would work well for laptops. Anyway, once they've made the transition to x86 architecture, there's nothing to stop Apple from switching to AMD processors in the future, right? Does AMD not make processors that accept the same instructions as Intel?
Right- and that's their right to to make all their products proprietary, just like it's your right to not buy them. They're going to do what they percieve as being best for them, and you do what's best for you. That's generally how business works- buyers try to get the most for their money, sellers try to get the most money they can for their products. Maybe when enough people percieve proprietary products as a bad choice and quit buying them, MS will begin to make their products more open. It's well within MS's rights to keep their products closed, and it's well within yours and the state of Massachusetts' rights to not buy them.
I think you misunderstood what he is saying- The idea is that they try and build the system out of as many interchangeable off-the-shelf components as possible so that they can benefit from competition and economies of scale, and that they try to own the IP/means of production on whatever parts can't be interchangeable so that they aren't beholden to any one supplier.
This is sorta the opposite case of Apple's move to x86- having only one major producer of PowerPC chips made Apple dependent upon IBM's capacity to produce the chips in the quantities they need at a good price. Moving to x86 allows them to not only benefit from the Intel's massive production capabilities, but also the fact that there is competition in the market for chips that can handle the x86 instruction set, which drives down prices, and having the possibility of switching to AMD or another producer keeps their options open should Intel try to mess with them.
It's just good business. Funny how when MS does it, they get bashed... Yo, don't hate the playa, hate the game, dawg:)
Sorry, but at least in terms of music, I trust certain critics (who probably don't pay for the music they review) a lot more than my friends. Having good taste in music and the ability to understand the artists' influences and what makes their music interesting and relevant matters a lot more to me than whether or not they paid to hear it. I'd much prefer taking my chances buying an album pitchfork puts on their best new music list that I've never heard of than buying something a friend recommends. The same probably goes for movies, but I'm not a big movie buff.
But music and movies are much more subjective things. With cars, people have much more concrete ideas about how they should operate. If something rattles, nobody's going to say "oh, I like the rattle". No. It's something wrong with the car. However, if they're getting the car for free, they're much more likely to overlook something minor like that.
Or do you mean the Corporate American cultural hegemony? With crap like this going on, people are bound to eventually quit consuming the RIAA/MPAA's product and low-budget, independent alternatives are bound to arise. They may not have million dollar special effects, but hey, anything's better than Will and Grace.
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Yeah, that's fine position for you to take as an individual, but as a "reporter" it is your JOB to research people's claims for veracity instead of merely parroting them. If the press went around repeating whatever people told them without checking the facts, all sorts of bad stuff would happen- we'd probably even be sending people off to war under false pretenses. Oh wait...
Face it. You do no investigation when it comes to your stories. You just publish whatever sensational pie-in-the sky crap they give you for the purpose of getting VC for them. Then you go and [I bet] pay slashdot to run your stories to draw traffic to your site, so that more crackpots will come to you asking for you to print a story on their crackpot product. Repeat ad nauseum. How about you get a real job?
So THAT's why gangsters like lots of bling!
Did you see this data? Did you see how they acquired this data? Oh wait... did they just TELL you they had data?
Hey Sterling- I've got a working prototype of a cold fusion reactor at home. It just has a few kinks to work out, but my data shows that it will generate 1MW for $.05. I've got a patent pending, too. Why don't you do a story on me?
Oh yeah, and I've got a bridge to sell you, too.
10 years of prototyping doesn't mean jack. You could prototype something for a century and that doesn't make it a working model. Did you contact anyone at CPP to verify their claims?
Wow... Somebody mod parent up! If his "Open Source Energy Network" crap didn't reveal him as a crackpot, that surely did... Great work. It's time Slashdot quit posting this crap. It's worse than Roland Piquepaille (or however it's spelled) Next they'll be posting links to Art Bell.
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Right- the AP picked up a story from the Casper Star-Tribune, which then got reprinted by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, CBS News, Yahoo News, etc. That story was basically coverage of a press conference. I don't imagine there's a whole hell of a lot to cover on any given day in Cheyenne, so of course they'd be there. The fact remains that they don't have a production prototype, and haven't shown anything, so for now they're all talk.
I think it's more likely that "Sterling Alan" is paying /. to post stories that he writes.
...but I don't take anything "Open Source Energy News" posts seriously anymore. It seems like every post that comes from them is a crackpot.
Oh, the consumer cares. But the consumer is not rational in that regard. That's why the marketing works. Convince the consumer that the mark "Made in Italy" means something, and they're willing to pay more for it. It was true at one point, a long time ago, that Italians had perfected methods of making shoes that others hadn't, much like the Swiss with regard to watches and the French with cheese. But for the most part it's not the same anymore. Those products are made pretty much the same way wherever they're made. Whatever cachet the mark carries is residual, and largely a result of nationalistic fervor. Those "other" people can't POSSIBLY make something as good as we do! Nooooo! This is much like how people used to percieve Japanese cars/electronics as crap, and then as high quality. And now a lot of Japanese cars are actually made in America. So are they crap now? It just depends on the product. The nationality means little, as an indicator of quality, and as globalization continues it will mean less and less.
Maybe we could put a deposit on cigarette butts. $.10 each. That way if the owners don't save them up to get their money back, it will at least give bums something to do :)
So it's not about whether or not they're made in China, because most of them are at least partly made in China. It's about whether or not it's coming from a brand that gives a crap about quality. Now there may be a lot of cheap, lo-quality brands that make stuff in China, but it does not follow that everything that comes out of China is crap, or that being made in Italy necessarily makes a pair of shoes good. In the end, it doesn't matter the nationality of the brand or its craftsmen- it's just about the quality of the product, and where in the world it is made has no bearing on that.
It doesn't make a difference is something is made in Italy or China if the materials and construction are the same, which they are. It's not like stitching made by Italian hands are any better than those made by Chinese hands- they're all made by machines anyway. If anything, I'd imagine that the Chinese laborers would be more skilled than the Italians. The whole "Made in XXXX" thing is just marketing crap. Products both great and lousy can come from anywhere.
Man. Talk about an annoying way to make your point. Next time, just skip the "Quiz" "Tick Tock" crap and make your point already.
The next Intranet is being built by a half dozen teenage kids in their darkend bedrooms around the world.
No, they're too busy checking out the endless supply of free porn, looking too hook up with girls on myspace, downloading warez, and updating their blogs to do that.
Why am I a troll for saying this? Is it just something that /.ers don't like to hear?
That's not what I heard, but maybe I heard wrong. It was my understanding that they were having issues with IBM not delivering 3GHz G5s, nor G5s that would work well for laptops. Anyway, once they've made the transition to x86 architecture, there's nothing to stop Apple from switching to AMD processors in the future, right? Does AMD not make processors that accept the same instructions as Intel?
They want everything to work seemlessly
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I think you meant to say that they want everything to work seamlessly. MS are the ones who make software work seemlessly.
Dude... Candace was the actress's name. DJ was the character. Geeeez- Can't people get basic Full House trivia right anymore?
Right- and that's their right to to make all their products proprietary, just like it's your right to not buy them. They're going to do what they percieve as being best for them, and you do what's best for you. That's generally how business works- buyers try to get the most for their money, sellers try to get the most money they can for their products. Maybe when enough people percieve proprietary products as a bad choice and quit buying them, MS will begin to make their products more open. It's well within MS's rights to keep their products closed, and it's well within yours and the state of Massachusetts' rights to not buy them.
I think you misunderstood what he is saying- The idea is that they try and build the system out of as many interchangeable off-the-shelf components as possible so that they can benefit from competition and economies of scale, and that they try to own the IP/means of production on whatever parts can't be interchangeable so that they aren't beholden to any one supplier.
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This is sorta the opposite case of Apple's move to x86- having only one major producer of PowerPC chips made Apple dependent upon IBM's capacity to produce the chips in the quantities they need at a good price. Moving to x86 allows them to not only benefit from the Intel's massive production capabilities, but also the fact that there is competition in the market for chips that can handle the x86 instruction set, which drives down prices, and having the possibility of switching to AMD or another producer keeps their options open should Intel try to mess with them.
It's just good business. Funny how when MS does it, they get bashed... Yo, don't hate the playa, hate the game, dawg
Sorry, but at least in terms of music, I trust certain critics (who probably don't pay for the music they review) a lot more than my friends. Having good taste in music and the ability to understand the artists' influences and what makes their music interesting and relevant matters a lot more to me than whether or not they paid to hear it. I'd much prefer taking my chances buying an album pitchfork puts on their best new music list that I've never heard of than buying something a friend recommends. The same probably goes for movies, but I'm not a big movie buff.
But music and movies are much more subjective things. With cars, people have much more concrete ideas about how they should operate. If something rattles, nobody's going to say "oh, I like the rattle". No. It's something wrong with the car. However, if they're getting the car for free, they're much more likely to overlook something minor like that.
Or do you mean the Corporate American cultural hegemony? With crap like this going on, people are bound to eventually quit consuming the RIAA/MPAA's product and low-budget, independent alternatives are bound to arise. They may not have million dollar special effects, but hey, anything's better than Will and Grace.
quality, service and price
How about Quality, Value, and Convenience? (QVC) I'm sure you'll get a lot of that...
those are quite tiny! still, cool that you got something...