"The new scientist has this history on a new plant to construct to a database of the translation of the multi-language called the wide lexicon the world, using a distributed community of the volunteers. The designer compares it it a distributed design computing and believes it that could more easy making translate languages obscurer."
...and give out Altnet resource dollars in exchange
Excellent! I can't wait to get ahold of some of those Altnet dollars. I wonder what the exchange rate is on Altnet to TreeLoot dollars? I've punched the monkey too many times to want to change to a different currency.
"After all, he can't build a peer-to-peer network using the computers of people who are angry at him, he says."
Is that so? He managed to get his software on millions of people's computers without the majority of anyone knowing about it or asking for it. Is it that much harder of a step to just activate this network without these angry people knowing about it? I think it would be quite easy, and not below this guy, or Kazaa, at all.
"Everybody will get turned on in more or less a simultaneous fashion," Bermeister said. "This will be an opt-in program...We're trying to create a secure network based on end-user relationships."
And they're off to a wonderful start, inserting unwanted software into end-users' computers secretly.
What I want to know, is how will everyone be turned on in a "simultaneous fashion", and yet still be "opt-in"? Or do they call installing Kazaa (who already has a history of not imforming users of sleazy practices) "opting in"? How can they call it an "opt-in program", if I didn't ask to have it installed, or wasn't even informed it was going to be installed?
The cost of living is just getting ridiculous in California. I don't even live in a major met area, but apartment and gas prices are rising month after month, and average wages haven't increased a dime in my county in about 4 years. So, it doesn't surprise me that companies are leaving for greener pastures.
There's a mass exodus going on in California. I looked into renting a moving truck to go across the country. The cost was insane, and the reason given? Trucks are leaving the state so fast that they can't keep them in stock, and almost none are coming back this way.
But until software developers (specifically free software developers) catch on and learn that new users and people switching to Linux are not going to want to compile every single app, and start providing more binaries, Linux will be a tough switch for the new user.
I'm a long time Windows and Mac user, who recently bought Mandrake 8.1 after I got sick of Windows. Installed beautifully. I love KDE. Plug and Play actually works...
Then I started downloading some usefull apps that I wanted. They were all source. NONE of them would compile on my machine with the instructions that the developer provided. I'm not a computer newbie. I even understand some programming. But I'm not a C expert. Something that most developers seem to think everyone is.
So, this is a message to all you Linux developers, building cool little apps for people to use: We don't all have your development machines, with every single library in existance. You want your software to really catch on and help make Linux attractive to new people? Provide binaries that are easy to install.
Could have fooled me. If there is one, it sure doesn't seem to work. I continue to get increasing levels of spam on accounts that I haven't even used...
...but on the other hand, I've got this really cool diploma from a prestigious non-accredited university!
Isn't this the guy who cried censorship... and then it came out that he was threatening to blow stuff up, and even admitted he hacked several government sites? Sounds like a wannabe myrtar, except without any intelligence. I'm surprised they let him go.
Wow... these SightSound guys with their lucky patent are still around? I remember the first made a name for themselves trying to sue MP3.com (back when MP3.com was still cool) for distrubuting MP3s online for a fee.
Have you ever read their patent? It's so vague it's pathetic; and there's so much priot art it isn't funny. It basically says they invented the concept of selling digital music over communication lines. That's all? I remember BBSs back in the day that were pay-membership, having MIDI and MOD music files for download. long before they "invented" it.
But what surprised me is how many large corporations just caved in to this little two-bit operation waving around their bogus patent! I'm really surprised it hasn't been struck down yet.
Thus, why I said *pointless* meetings. Some meetings will be required, yes. But I've seen project times doubled and even tripled just in useless meetings, in which there was no clear purpose, no reason for a developer to be there, nothing was decided, and nothing was even really talked about.
XML - Everytime I've ever heard a manager utter these three letters, they have NO clue what it actually is and why it isn't necessary for the current project. I've seen projects waste countless man-hours rewriting perfectly good functions just to impliment XML in something, *anything*; because the PHB read it in some executive-ear-tickling magazine.
Let. Them. Code.
Don't change focus on a project just after they start to get into it. Don't watch over their shoulders and make meaningless uninformed suggestions. Don't waste their time with pointless meetings. Just let them do their job.
1. They can't actually see if you're using NAT.
2. It's completely non-enforceable in court, with precident. (See: Phone companies trying to charge per individual phone, cable companies trying to charge per individual TV.)
It's a scare policy plain and simple. Get enough "word on the street" out that Comcast will somehow magically find you if you're using NAT, and your average Joe Blow new subscriber will be too scared to buy that shiny new Linksys router, and will just cave in to the "nominal" extra fee.
Hey, maybe it's a good thing, like a natural cleansing of the dregs of the gene pool! We should lock all those l33t h4x0rs and script kiddies in an internet cafe running ConterStrike, and maybe they'll self-destruct themselves.
Maybe then I could at least play a decent game without some 14-year-old punk aimbotting me.
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"We applaud IIS for accepting its responsibility and working actively with us to settle this case out of court."
I'd be clapping too, if I collected a cool 1 million just for writing a letter.
Post-9/11... Post-Colombine... Post-Tech Boom... Nope. Looks like we're safe in this one.
Now he can avoid all that traffic... in his backyard.
Unless he has kids, you'd think riding that thing around would get old really quick. Heck, even *with* kids it would get old quick.
Can I get a patent for a method and system for taking out vague, simplistic patents for the sole purpose of extortion?
"The new scientist has this history on a new plant to construct to a database of the translation of the multi-language called the wide lexicon the world, using a distributed community of the volunteers. The designer compares it it a distributed design computing and believes it that could more easy making translate languages obscurer."
Can't wait.
Excellent! I can't wait to get ahold of some of those Altnet dollars. I wonder what the exchange rate is on Altnet to TreeLoot dollars? I've punched the monkey too many times to want to change to a different currency.
"After all, he can't build a peer-to-peer network using the computers of people who are angry at him, he says."
Is that so? He managed to get his software on millions of people's computers without the majority of anyone knowing about it or asking for it. Is it that much harder of a step to just activate this network without these angry people knowing about it? I think it would be quite easy, and not below this guy, or Kazaa, at all.
"Everybody will get turned on in more or less a simultaneous fashion," Bermeister said. "This will be an opt-in program...We're trying to create a secure network based on end-user relationships."
And they're off to a wonderful start, inserting unwanted software into end-users' computers secretly.
What I want to know, is how will everyone be turned on in a "simultaneous fashion", and yet still be "opt-in"? Or do they call installing Kazaa (who already has a history of not imforming users of sleazy practices) "opting in"? How can they call it an "opt-in program", if I didn't ask to have it installed, or wasn't even informed it was going to be installed?
Hey, I've got a great bridge on sale for cheap.
Come on... you've got to make them harder to spot than that.
Another JonKatz Post-something article! Just what I needed in the morning!
Someday we really should have a Post-JonKatz Slashdot perspective.
The cost of living is just getting ridiculous in California. I don't even live in a major met area, but apartment and gas prices are rising month after month, and average wages haven't increased a dime in my county in about 4 years. So, it doesn't surprise me that companies are leaving for greener pastures.
There's a mass exodus going on in California. I looked into renting a moving truck to go across the country. The cost was insane, and the reason given? Trucks are leaving the state so fast that they can't keep them in stock, and almost none are coming back this way.
But until software developers (specifically free software developers) catch on and learn that new users and people switching to Linux are not going to want to compile every single app, and start providing more binaries, Linux will be a tough switch for the new user.
I'm a long time Windows and Mac user, who recently bought Mandrake 8.1 after I got sick of Windows. Installed beautifully. I love KDE. Plug and Play actually works...
Then I started downloading some usefull apps that I wanted. They were all source. NONE of them would compile on my machine with the instructions that the developer provided. I'm not a computer newbie. I even understand some programming. But I'm not a C expert. Something that most developers seem to think everyone is.
So, this is a message to all you Linux developers, building cool little apps for people to use: We don't all have your development machines, with every single library in existance. You want your software to really catch on and help make Linux attractive to new people? Provide binaries that are easy to install.
It's an obvious fake. Look at it! There are no lines to show you where the states are!
Could have fooled me. If there is one, it sure doesn't seem to work. I continue to get increasing levels of spam on accounts that I haven't even used...
...but on the other hand, I've got this really cool diploma from a prestigious non-accredited university!
Isn't this the guy who cried censorship... and then it came out that he was threatening to blow stuff up, and even admitted he hacked several government sites? Sounds like a wannabe myrtar, except without any intelligence. I'm surprised they let him go.
Having a domain other than .com, .net, or .org is like getting kissed over the telephone, or winning a silver medal.
Wow... these SightSound guys with their lucky patent are still around? I remember the first made a name for themselves trying to sue MP3.com (back when MP3.com was still cool) for distrubuting MP3s online for a fee.
Have you ever read their patent? It's so vague it's pathetic; and there's so much priot art it isn't funny. It basically says they invented the concept of selling digital music over communication lines. That's all? I remember BBSs back in the day that were pay-membership, having MIDI and MOD music files for download. long before they "invented" it.
But what surprised me is how many large corporations just caved in to this little two-bit operation waving around their bogus patent! I'm really surprised it hasn't been struck down yet.
Thus, why I said *pointless* meetings. Some meetings will be required, yes. But I've seen project times doubled and even tripled just in useless meetings, in which there was no clear purpose, no reason for a developer to be there, nothing was decided, and nothing was even really talked about.
That happens all too often with bad managers.
I'll add to that:
XML - Everytime I've ever heard a manager utter these three letters, they have NO clue what it actually is and why it isn't necessary for the current project. I've seen projects waste countless man-hours rewriting perfectly good functions just to impliment XML in something, *anything*; because the PHB read it in some executive-ear-tickling magazine.
Let. Them. Code. Don't change focus on a project just after they start to get into it. Don't watch over their shoulders and make meaningless uninformed suggestions. Don't waste their time with pointless meetings. Just let them do their job.
1. They can't actually see if you're using NAT. 2. It's completely non-enforceable in court, with precident. (See: Phone companies trying to charge per individual phone, cable companies trying to charge per individual TV.) It's a scare policy plain and simple. Get enough "word on the street" out that Comcast will somehow magically find you if you're using NAT, and your average Joe Blow new subscriber will be too scared to buy that shiny new Linksys router, and will just cave in to the "nominal" extra fee.
If we can have a cell-phone free zone, how about a Microsoft-free zone! I'm PC-sensitive.
Hey, maybe it's a good thing, like a natural cleansing of the dregs of the gene pool! We should lock all those l33t h4x0rs and script kiddies in an internet cafe running ConterStrike, and maybe they'll self-destruct themselves. Maybe then I could at least play a decent game without some 14-year-old punk aimbotting me.