What is it with the BBC (and other news organizations) stories where every sentence is a paragraph by itself? Is this some rule of journalism I'm not familiar with? Seems rather jarring.
Why is this news? "Oh, gee, you mean this person I'm trying to buy something from, whom I've never met before, have no idea what his real address, phone number, or even his name may be, might be trying to rip me off?" You know, if people were conducting this transaction over the phone, or by snailmail, everyone would say, "Well Duh" and laugh at the person's stupidity. But it's on the Internet, so suddenly it's a major catastrophe and the FBI has to step in and save us.
It's like all common sense flies out the window whenever any issue deals with the Internet in any way.
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Cause no one's going to spend $900 on a "large format PDA"? Seriously, it's all in how you market your product.
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But Viewsonic is marketing this as a "Wireless Monitor", even if it is just a tablet PC doing some remote access.
Oddly enough, I'm still not exactly sure what they were trying to do.
Which pretty much explains why they are going under, doesn't it? If you can't get your point across to those that are interested in what you are doing, you have no hope when it comes to the rest of the world.
You want to focus on how the bill will strip away the rights of the consumer, but you want to stay away from the negative side of this. Don't try to defend Napster, don't try to equate piracy with freedom, and don't try to define the difference between a hacker and a cracker.
Unless you're walking in there with 10 large in your pocket for a campaign contribution, or your dad's an old Harvard buddy or something, it's unlikely you'll be given more than a scant few minutes to make your point. "Gosh, I'd love to hear more about this, but I'm a very busy person, so if you'll just leave this information on my desk..." Therefore, it's important that you make your point quickly and forcefully, with minimum of topic distraction. If he asks about something else, respond to it, but do everything you can to keep the focus on what you want to talk about.
To me, your biggest selling points should be Freedom to Innovate (go ahead, steal an MS phrase), and the taking away of consumer's fair use rights. Bring up the fact that VCR's and tape decks, once decried as evil by the MPAA and RIAA, are now multi-billion dollar businesses for them. Point out that, time and again, consumers have rewarded companies (with their business) that give them new technologies.
I'm sure Reed Richards and the rest of the Fantastic Four will be happy to hear this. Perhaps they can now develop shielding for the X-10 rocket ship that will finally be able to block those nasty Gamma Rays.
Oh wait, those were cosmic rays. And come to think of it, why they hell would you want to block them? Hell, who doesn't want cool super powers? Trust me kids, it's a blast.
Sadly, Slashdot used up it's ration of Funny somewhere around December of 2000, and is not scheduled to receive another shipment until sometime Q4 2003. Until then, please enjoy this collection of Leonard Nimoy poetry readings, circa 1978.
NO!!!! Why Adam Schiff, why? I know times have probably been tough since you lost your job as DA of New York City, but please don't sell out to the Hollywood lobby!
Quick, someone get Ben Stone and Jack McCoy on the phone and tell them to talk some sense into the old man.
I used to think Ebert was some pompous windbag, who wouldn't know a good movie it it slapped him in the face. But the older he gets, and the more I read stuff he's written, the more I come to realize he's a guy who really "gets it".
Indeed, one of the big benefits that Carey sees is that Merrill can write an application once and then deploy it with minimal work on mainframes, minicomputers, desktops, laptops and handhelds--whether it be on Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people) hardware or something else.
This contrasts with Unix in that developers write software for every version of Unix, including for tools and patches. This approach, says Carey, is time-consuming and expensive. If a Unix project doesn't work out for some reason, the technology is rarely transferable to another project.
"When I have proprietary hardware and proprietary software, I have sunk costs into that project that I can't recover," says Carey, adding that commodity technologies are more easily transferable. "Unix took Wall Street fifteen years to master. Nobody has time for that."
I guess it's more implied than explicitly stated they're running UNIX right now, but it seems pretty clear to me they are.
Before all you Slashbots start screaming "Windoze Suxors!", read the article, and realize Merill is replacing their UNIX systems with Linux. There is no mention of replacing any Windows systems.
You know, Microsoft doing this sort of thing is certainly VeryBad(tm), but it's nobody's fault but Gateway, Dell, and all the others that it happened.
You really have to think about how things came to be this bad. Way back in the old 3.x days, if MS would have tried to pull something like this in the licensing, the OEM's would have told them to take a flying leap and installed OS2. So of course they gave the OEM's licenses dirt cheap, and probably a whole bunch of other things to get them to install Windows by default.
Ever heard of looking a gift horse in the mouth? Did these OEM's think Microsoft was doing this out of the goodness of their hearts? Of course not, they didn't think about it at all. All they saw was the bottom line.
Fast forward 5 years when the entire country is hooked up to Windows for life support, in part, I might add, to the OEM's willingness to throw Windows out there with every computer simply because they were getting a hell of a deal. Now they can't tell MS to take a flying leap, so of course MS is there to "restructure" the licensing deals. But is this MS's fault, or is it the fault of the OEM's for being greedy, and getting burned by it. Depends on your philosophy on life I guess: Is it the drug dealer's fault for selling crack, or is it the addicts fault for trying it?
"Slashdot" doesn't look hypocritical at all. Slashdot mearly posted afewarticles (which were user submitted, BTW) about the Blizzard v. bnetd topic. I don't believe they took a side in the issue one way or another. Now they choose to post their review about Warcraft 3.
It's up to you to decide whether you're still going to support Blizzard or not.
So what your saying is that we should travel back in time to the 1940's, and stop all those first radio and television transmissions that had enough power to escape our solar system, since they have no chance of reaching ET?
Ahh, just when I think Life is one big problem after another, something like this comes along and makes me laugh. The thought of those "genius" AOL executives who pushed this email switch down Time Warner's throat, sitting in a board room across a table from some very pissed off Time Warner executives, makes me smile. Thanks Slashdot.
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One cavalry squad is fine. Those Indians won't do anything.
The Maginot Line is fine. Those Germans won't do anything.
OS-2 is fine. Windows won't do anything.
What is it with the BBC (and other news organizations) stories where every sentence is a paragraph by itself? Is this some rule of journalism I'm not familiar with? Seems rather jarring.
Why is this news? "Oh, gee, you mean this person I'm trying to buy something from, whom I've never met before, have no idea what his real address, phone number, or even his name may be, might be trying to rip me off?" You know, if people were conducting this transaction over the phone, or by snailmail, everyone would say, "Well Duh" and laugh at the person's stupidity. But it's on the Internet, so suddenly it's a major catastrophe and the FBI has to step in and save us.
It's like all common sense flies out the window whenever any issue deals with the Internet in any way.
Cause no one's going to spend $900 on a "large format PDA"? Seriously, it's all in how you market your product.
But Viewsonic is marketing this as a "Wireless Monitor", even if it is just a tablet PC doing some remote access.
Excellent.
Oddly enough, I'm still not exactly sure what they were trying to do.
Which pretty much explains why they are going under, doesn't it? If you can't get your point across to those that are interested in what you are doing, you have no hope when it comes to the rest of the world.
Man, no lie. That whole sites makes Zero Wing look almost comprehensible by comparison.
You got something against green?
You want to focus on how the bill will strip away the rights of the consumer, but you want to stay away from the negative side of this. Don't try to defend Napster, don't try to equate piracy with freedom, and don't try to define the difference between a hacker and a cracker.
Unless you're walking in there with 10 large in your pocket for a campaign contribution, or your dad's an old Harvard buddy or something, it's unlikely you'll be given more than a scant few minutes to make your point. "Gosh, I'd love to hear more about this, but I'm a very busy person, so if you'll just leave this information on my desk..." Therefore, it's important that you make your point quickly and forcefully, with minimum of topic distraction. If he asks about something else, respond to it, but do everything you can to keep the focus on what you want to talk about.
To me, your biggest selling points should be Freedom to Innovate (go ahead, steal an MS phrase), and the taking away of consumer's fair use rights. Bring up the fact that VCR's and tape decks, once decried as evil by the MPAA and RIAA, are now multi-billion dollar businesses for them. Point out that, time and again, consumers have rewarded companies (with their business) that give them new technologies.
I'm sure Reed Richards and the rest of the Fantastic Four will be happy to hear this. Perhaps they can now develop shielding for the X-10 rocket ship that will finally be able to block those nasty Gamma Rays.
Oh wait, those were cosmic rays. And come to think of it, why they hell would you want to block them? Hell, who doesn't want cool super powers? Trust me kids, it's a blast.
Sadly, Slashdot used up it's ration of Funny somewhere around December of 2000, and is not scheduled to receive another shipment until sometime Q4 2003. Until then, please enjoy this collection of Leonard Nimoy poetry readings, circa 1978.
I wonder how long until they figure out my name isn't really Hal Jordan?
Confirmed again. Set all to Yes on two seperate Yahoo accounts.
No, I heard they're courting a bunch of retired NFL stars for a football-themed commercial.
NO!!!! Why Adam Schiff, why? I know times have probably been tough since you lost your job as DA of New York City, but please don't sell out to the Hollywood lobby!
Quick, someone get Ben Stone and Jack McCoy on the phone and tell them to talk some sense into the old man.
Common sense very rarely has anything to do with what "sells". Witness the Pet Rock.
I used to think Ebert was some pompous windbag, who wouldn't know a good movie it it slapped him in the face. But the older he gets, and the more I read stuff he's written, the more I come to realize he's a guy who really "gets it".
Indeed, one of the big benefits that Carey sees is that Merrill can write an application once and then deploy it with minimal work on mainframes, minicomputers, desktops, laptops and handhelds--whether it be on Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people) hardware or something else.
This contrasts with Unix in that developers write software for every version of Unix, including for tools and patches. This approach, says Carey, is time-consuming and expensive. If a Unix project doesn't work out for some reason, the technology is rarely transferable to another project.
"When I have proprietary hardware and proprietary software, I have sunk costs into that project that I can't recover," says Carey, adding that commodity technologies are more easily transferable. "Unix took Wall Street fifteen years to master. Nobody has time for that."
I guess it's more implied than explicitly stated they're running UNIX right now, but it seems pretty clear to me they are.
Before all you Slashbots start screaming "Windoze Suxors!", read the article, and realize Merill is replacing their UNIX systems with Linux. There is no mention of replacing any Windows systems.
You know, Microsoft doing this sort of thing is certainly VeryBad(tm), but it's nobody's fault but Gateway, Dell, and all the others that it happened.
You really have to think about how things came to be this bad. Way back in the old 3.x days, if MS would have tried to pull something like this in the licensing, the OEM's would have told them to take a flying leap and installed OS2. So of course they gave the OEM's licenses dirt cheap, and probably a whole bunch of other things to get them to install Windows by default.
Ever heard of looking a gift horse in the mouth? Did these OEM's think Microsoft was doing this out of the goodness of their hearts? Of course not, they didn't think about it at all. All they saw was the bottom line.
Fast forward 5 years when the entire country is hooked up to Windows for life support, in part, I might add, to the OEM's willingness to throw Windows out there with every computer simply because they were getting a hell of a deal. Now they can't tell MS to take a flying leap, so of course MS is there to "restructure" the licensing deals. But is this MS's fault, or is it the fault of the OEM's for being greedy, and getting burned by it. Depends on your philosophy on life I guess: Is it the drug dealer's fault for selling crack, or is it the addicts fault for trying it?
"Slashdot" doesn't look hypocritical at all. Slashdot mearly posted a few articles (which were user submitted, BTW) about the Blizzard v. bnetd topic. I don't believe they took a side in the issue one way or another. Now they choose to post their review about Warcraft 3.
It's up to you to decide whether you're still going to support Blizzard or not.
Your ideas sicken and confuse me, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter. But only if it's a green one.
So what your saying is that we should travel back in time to the 1940's, and stop all those first radio and television transmissions that had enough power to escape our solar system, since they have no chance of reaching ET?
Ahh, just when I think Life is one big problem after another, something like this comes along and makes me laugh. The thought of those "genius" AOL executives who pushed this email switch down Time Warner's throat, sitting in a board room across a table from some very pissed off Time Warner executives, makes me smile. Thanks Slashdot.