"Macromedia: Get over yourself. You're good, but not that good."
I'm hoping Adobe changes Macromedia's backward personality, too. Of
course, Macromedia must be really bad if Bruce Chizen can fix the company. (Mr. Chizen looks more than a little
crazy in that official photo, as though he were a fox assuring chickens of
their safety.)
Mr. Chizen is the CEO who bought Adobe millions of
dollars in bad publicity with the handling of the Skylarov situation. For example:
"Bruce Chizen -- President, Director, CEO Adobe
John Warnock -- Co-Chairman Adobe
Charles Geschke -- Co-Chairman Adobe
"... These are the individuals that could have had Dmitry home last July.
Instead they thought it would be fun to play with Dmitry, Adobe's reputation,
and the money of Adobe's stockholders.... If there were justice in America,
these such persons would be spending Christmas in a cardboard box under the
freeway overpass."
Mr. Chizen also headed another effort to get bad publicity for Adobe:
Dealing with the originator of Killustrator in a
socially inept way.
Mr. Chizen followed that with a socially backward way of dealing with
Chinese piracy. Adobe may ditch China sales. This time, someone else at Adobe tried to
mend the damage by saying Mr. Chizen was wrong.
Thanks to a miracle of modern science called the Flashblock extension, Flash embedded in a
web page appears as a sylized F in Firefox. A welcome relief since almost
everything done in Flash is a childish demand for undeserved attention.
-- Trying to make one book explain all of life makes some people
crazy enough to kill.
Re:Once again, deceived by pseudo-science.
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Coffee A Health Drink?
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Caffeine is an alkaloid. Alkaloids were invented by plants to slow being eaten by insects. Caffeine does not kill insects, it just prevents them from eating much of the plant. Not all poisons kill.
Slashdot editors have often been deceived by pseudo-science. One Slashdot story was about a new method of data compression that could compress data much more than other compression methods. Of course, it later was found to be completely false.
Some coffee company P.R. person was successful in making this study of little importance into a major news story.
However, the question is whether the FBI is, in some ways, actually
influencing law enforcement and the law in other countries. That's what
happens with the U.S. government's CIA agency; "working with other countries"
meant "infiltrating the governments of other countries". Does the FBI operate
by its own rules, but show the other government only what it wants the other
government to know?
Corruption of the Brazilian government by the CIA in Brazil is a
strong present-day concern. O Globo, the place where the article was originally published,
is the biggest media company in Brazil.
The question is not what you see, but what is deliberately hidden from
you.
In actuality, it is very difficult to run any organization.
Organizations that have a high degree of secrecy quickly become uncontrolled.
U.S. Senator Frank Church investigated extreme
corruption in the U.S. government's secret agencies. The agencies
certainly never apologized; it must be assumed that nothing really changed.
I'm guessing that you, like most American citizens, have never read
about the corruption mentioned here, or the many other cases of extreme
corruption of the U.S. government in influencing other countries. That's why
you mentioned "tinfoil hats".
-- Trying to make one book explain all of life makes some people
crazy enough to kill.
In other pseudo-science news, squirrels are obviously smarter than people. People have to go to work every day. Squirrels take afternoon naps on their favorite tree branches.
People travel on dangerous streets; squirrels travel on low-traffic overhead wires that they had the people install for them. All hail our squirrel overlords!
It's pseudo-science, not real science. Pseudo scientists say anything they think will get attention.
Psychologists and sociologists adopt the language of science, what little they know of it, to try to seem more important. But they don't actually do the work. Almost all social science is social pseudo-science.
There are many possible reasons for the small differences they say they discovered.
The best way to deal with these guys may be, every time you see them, act like you are calling a pig, and say sooooodoooooe, sooooodoooooe, sooooodoooooe.
How better to communicate disgust? Sometimes when you show disrespect for stupid things, you are indicating respect for more important things.
I feel uncomfortable using closed-source encryption tools. Encryption is complicated. It is easy to introduce weaknesses. You don't know if secret software has back doors.
"Funny" names slow the acceptance of many OSS packages.
Marketing is connecting the mind of the prospective customer with the facts of the project. There is as much need for marketing of OSS as for commercial software. However, marketing is an intellectual challenge as big as programming, and most people don't know how to do both.
Maybe there's a simple explanation for the bet. Maybe the Bush administration gave the Russian scientists $20,000. Sure, the Russians will have to pay $10,000 in 10 years, but the money buys those who want greenhouse gases 10 years of public relations.
"That means that GE management has a motivation to find and hire
amoral, see-no-evil employees who are happy to kill anyone so long as it isn't in their
country.
"
should have been:
"That means that GE management has a motivation to find and hire
amoral, see-no-evil employees to write the news who are happy to kill anyone so long as it isn't in their country.
The government allows eCash. The government must be involved so that
the money can be universal. eCash should be world-wide, so other governments
must agree.
You put $10 into eCash using your credit card, and get $10 of eCash
minus the credit card companies' hefty cut of all credit card commerce.
You could put money into eCash by asking your bank to transfer the money.
When you visit a web page, you pay 1 cent, $0.01, to view a page. Or,
maybe 1/10 cent, $0.001.
The online media company that is able to attract 50,000 readers for a
page at 1 cent per page makes $500 for that page.
Problems with this:
The credit card companies will pay politicians for government
corruption, to try to block eCash. They won't care if the government is more corrupt,
they want their hefty cut.
Banks will pay politicians for government corruption, because they won't
want some of the commerce to eliminate their involvement, and their hefty profits.
The FBI, which seems to secretly want to take over the entire
government, will demand to be able to read everyone's eCash transactions,
without a court order. This kind of thing has already happened.
Every media company has very unintelligent people who do what they
call "marketing", but is really just sinking the company by being adversarial
to customers. Generally those people think they are gaining because no one
will notice their sneaky tricks. Those "marketing people" will say, "Wow, if
we charge $1 per page we will make 100 times more." The New York Times does
this now. They charge more than the cost of the newspaper to download one
article.
Once the really, really dumb people and the really, really angry and
self-destructive people can be eliminated from powerful positions, eCash can
transform our lives. Here's how:
Any society that depends on advertising-supported news is a deeply
corrupt society. For example, GE makes weapons, and GE owns NBC. That means
the GE shareholders have a motivation to engage in Vietnam wars and Iraq wars,
which will make them richer. That means that GE management has a motivation to find and hire
amoral, see-no-evil employees who are happy to kill anyone so long as it isn't in their
country.
When the media can be supported by direct payments, a single
investigative reporter can build a reputation for good work and accuracy.
Independent news would eliminate a huge wasteful infrastructure of advertising
departments. It would eliminate advertisers influencing stories by saying "I
don't want my advertising next to negative stories. Why can't killing Iraqis
be given a positive spin?"
Independent news would unbundle real news from "P.R." that tries to
seem as though it is news. There are many, many very corrupt organizations
that would not like that. But, independent news would make our societies far
more friendly and honest.
There would still be large news organizations. They would achieve a
reputation for hiring only the best investigators and writers.
A more well-researched development of this idea would make me $500 if I could
attract 50,0000 readers at 1/10 cent per page because of the clarity and completeness of my communication.
As it is, I still own what I say here, copyright 2005, as I own all my Slashdot comments,
but I must give even better developed articles to everyone free because there is no accepted manner of re-imbursing writers for their work.
-- If your gov't chose killing as policy (CIA trained Arabs in
1980), expect others to choose the same.
Other people who responded to your post seem not to have understood it.
Motherboard speeds vary by a small amount. So, the testers cut off the bottom of the graph bars. That makes a 1% improvement look like a reason to buy one motherboard over the other. It makes a 1% improvement on one look as though the others are slow for some reason. People think, Why? Maybe other things will be slow, as well.
From the Slashdot story: "The site is done by a single publisher with minimal information, and most of it looks like an advertisement."
I've found that also. Most "reviews" of ISPs are actually advertisements, and the reviewers, because they represent differently, are lying. Therefore you cannot trust them.
How do you rate George W. Bush and Dick Cheney? -- Questions for Questions:
Q: When he harms other people, does he feel a lack of remorse or guilt?A: Does killing people qualify as harming them?
Q: Does he lie habitually even though he can easily be found out?A: Does lying to start a war qualify as lying? A2: Does pretending that you have reduced the violence in another country, rather than increased it, qualify as lying?
Q: When he's exposed, does he still act unconcerned because he thinks he can weasel out of it?A: Does saying it's all fine qualify as being unconcerned?
Q: Is he concerned about himself rather than the wreckage he inflicts on others or society at large?A: Does worrying only about election results qualify as being concerned only about oneself?
Q: Does he use his skill at lying to cheat or manipulate other people in his quest for money?A: When both Bush and Cheney have a long history of oil and weapons investments among family and friends, does starting a war in the world's second most oil-rich country qualify as a quest for money?
Q: Does he cruelly mock others?A: Does George W. Bush calling his deputy chief of staff, Karl Rove, "turd blossom" qualify as cruelly mocking him? A2: Does giving people disrespectful nicknames qualify as mocking them?
Slashdot Mirror
"Macromedia: Get over yourself. You're good, but not that good."
I'm hoping Adobe changes Macromedia's backward personality, too. Of course, Macromedia must be really bad if Bruce Chizen can fix the company. (Mr. Chizen looks more than a little crazy in that official photo, as though he were a fox assuring chickens of their safety.)
Mr. Chizen is the CEO who bought Adobe millions of dollars in bad publicity with the handling of the Skylarov situation. For example:
"Bruce Chizen -- President, Director, CEO Adobe
John Warnock -- Co-Chairman Adobe
Charles Geschke -- Co-Chairman Adobe
"... These are the individuals that could have had Dmitry home last July. Instead they thought it would be fun to play with Dmitry, Adobe's reputation, and the money of Adobe's stockholders.
Mr. Chizen also headed another effort to get bad publicity for Adobe: Dealing with the originator of Killustrator in a socially inept way.
Mr. Chizen followed that with a socially backward way of dealing with Chinese piracy. Adobe may ditch China sales. This time, someone else at Adobe tried to mend the damage by saying Mr. Chizen was wrong.
Thanks to a miracle of modern science called the Flashblock extension, Flash embedded in a web page appears as a sylized F in Firefox. A welcome relief since almost everything done in Flash is a childish demand for undeserved attention.
--
Trying to make one book explain all of life makes some people crazy enough to kill.
Wow! Someone found some other pseudo-science: Dark chocolate is healthy.
P.R. agencies are often very successful at fraud.
--
If you support dishonesty and violence, don't say you are Christian.
Caffeine is an alkaloid. Alkaloids were invented by plants to slow being eaten by insects. Caffeine does not kill insects, it just prevents them from eating much of the plant. Not all poisons kill.
Slashdot editors have often been deceived by pseudo-science. One Slashdot story was about a new method of data compression that could compress data much more than other compression methods. Of course, it later was found to be completely false.
Some coffee company P.R. person was successful in making this study of little importance into a major news story.
--
Faith-based lying? Faith-based killing?
Sri Lanka has a population of 20 million and has 19 political parties.
--
Faith-based lying? Faith-based killing?
I don't doubt what you say. It makes sense to me.
However, the question is whether the FBI is, in some ways, actually influencing law enforcement and the law in other countries. That's what happens with the U.S. government's CIA agency; "working with other countries" meant "infiltrating the governments of other countries". Does the FBI operate by its own rules, but show the other government only what it wants the other government to know?
In Brazil 40 years ago, U.S. government agencies "providing training" meant influencing the military to create a military dictatorship. Hidden actions of the U.S. government overthrew Brazil's government.
Corruption of the Brazilian government by the CIA in Brazil is a strong present-day concern. O Globo, the place where the article was originally published, is the biggest media company in Brazil.
The question is not what you see, but what is deliberately hidden from you.
In actuality, it is very difficult to run any organization. Organizations that have a high degree of secrecy quickly become uncontrolled.
U.S. Senator Frank Church investigated extreme corruption in the U.S. government's secret agencies. The agencies certainly never apologized; it must be assumed that nothing really changed.
I'm guessing that you, like most American citizens, have never read about the corruption mentioned here, or the many other cases of extreme corruption of the U.S. government in influencing other countries. That's why you mentioned "tinfoil hats".
--
Trying to make one book explain all of life makes some people crazy enough to kill.
The FBI web site gives the impression that they are only there to help. However, the FBI acts on its own most of the time, I understand.
A transition happened, and American citizens were not allowed to consider the issues.
It is interesting that the U.S. government's FBI agency has become a world-wide police force.
--
Trying to make one book explain all of life makes some people crazy enough to kill.
In other pseudo-science news, squirrels are obviously smarter than people. People have to go to work every day. Squirrels take afternoon naps on their favorite tree branches.
People travel on dangerous streets; squirrels travel on low-traffic overhead wires that they had the people install for them. All hail our squirrel overlords!
It's pseudo-science, not real science. Pseudo scientists say anything they think will get attention.
Psychologists and sociologists adopt the language of science, what little they know of it, to try to seem more important. But they don't actually do the work. Almost all social science is social pseudo-science.
There are many possible reasons for the small differences they say they discovered.
The best way to deal with these guys may be, every time you see them, act like you are calling a pig, and say sooooodoooooe, sooooodoooooe, sooooodoooooe. How better to communicate disgust? Sometimes when you show disrespect for stupid things, you are indicating respect for more important things.
I'm very interested in anyone's experience with Slashcode, as well.
--
If you support dishonest and violence, don't say you are Christian.
Mod Parent UP!! Very interesting. I didn't know that AOL was pulling that with the CDs, as well.
I wonder about Ted Turner. Why did he sell to that old grey horse of a company Time-Warner?
--
If you support dishonest and violence, don't say you are Christian.
I feel uncomfortable using closed-source encryption tools. Encryption is complicated. It is easy to introduce weaknesses. You don't know if secret software has back doors.
Link to Jetico.
The point is that if you want people to use your software, give it a name that is easy for people.
MOD PARENT UP!
"Funny" names slow the acceptance of many OSS packages.
Marketing is connecting the mind of the prospective customer with the facts of the project. There is as much need for marketing of OSS as for commercial software. However, marketing is an intellectual challenge as big as programming, and most people don't know how to do both.
Maybe there's a simple explanation for the bet. Maybe the Bush administration gave the Russian scientists $20,000. Sure, the Russians will have to pay $10,000 in 10 years, but the money buys those who want greenhouse gases 10 years of public relations.
6600GT "infinite loop". 7,900 hits.
--
If you support dishonesty and violence, don't say you are Christian.
Correction to the comment above:
"That means that GE management has a motivation to find and hire amoral, see-no-evil employees who are happy to kill anyone so long as it isn't in their country. "
should have been:
"That means that GE management has a motivation to find and hire amoral, see-no-evil employees to write the news who are happy to kill anyone so long as it isn't in their country.
Here's a solution:
The government allows eCash. The government must be involved so that the money can be universal. eCash should be world-wide, so other governments must agree.
You put $10 into eCash using your credit card, and get $10 of eCash minus the credit card companies' hefty cut of all credit card commerce.
You could put money into eCash by asking your bank to transfer the money.
When you visit a web page, you pay 1 cent, $0.01, to view a page. Or, maybe 1/10 cent, $0.001.
The online media company that is able to attract 50,000 readers for a page at 1 cent per page makes $500 for that page.
Problems with this:
The credit card companies will pay politicians for government corruption, to try to block eCash. They won't care if the government is more corrupt, they want their hefty cut.
Banks will pay politicians for government corruption, because they won't want some of the commerce to eliminate their involvement, and their hefty profits.
The FBI, which seems to secretly want to take over the entire government, will demand to be able to read everyone's eCash transactions, without a court order. This kind of thing has already happened.
Every media company has very unintelligent people who do what they call "marketing", but is really just sinking the company by being adversarial to customers. Generally those people think they are gaining because no one will notice their sneaky tricks. Those "marketing people" will say, "Wow, if we charge $1 per page we will make 100 times more." The New York Times does this now. They charge more than the cost of the newspaper to download one article.
Once the really, really dumb people and the really, really angry and self-destructive people can be eliminated from powerful positions, eCash can transform our lives. Here's how:
Any society that depends on advertising-supported news is a deeply corrupt society. For example, GE makes weapons, and GE owns NBC. That means the GE shareholders have a motivation to engage in Vietnam wars and Iraq wars, which will make them richer. That means that GE management has a motivation to find and hire amoral, see-no-evil employees who are happy to kill anyone so long as it isn't in their country.
When the media can be supported by direct payments, a single investigative reporter can build a reputation for good work and accuracy. Independent news would eliminate a huge wasteful infrastructure of advertising departments. It would eliminate advertisers influencing stories by saying "I don't want my advertising next to negative stories. Why can't killing Iraqis be given a positive spin?"
Independent news would unbundle real news from "P.R." that tries to seem as though it is news. There are many, many very corrupt organizations that would not like that. But, independent news would make our societies far more friendly and honest.
There would still be large news organizations. They would achieve a reputation for hiring only the best investigators and writers.
A more well-researched development of this idea would make me $500 if I could attract 50,0000 readers at 1/10 cent per page because of the clarity and completeness of my communication. As it is, I still own what I say here, copyright 2005, as I own all my Slashdot comments, but I must give even better developed articles to everyone free because there is no accepted manner of re-imbursing writers for their work.
--
If your gov't chose killing as policy (CIA trained Arabs in 1980), expect others to choose the same.
Other people who responded to your post seem not to have understood it.
Motherboard speeds vary by a small amount. So, the testers cut off the bottom of the graph bars. That makes a 1% improvement look like a reason to buy one motherboard over the other. It makes a 1% improvement on one look as though the others are slow for some reason. People think, Why? Maybe other things will be slow, as well.
--
If you support dishonesty and violence, don't say you are Christian.
If this is verified, I will never buy from ASUS again. Before I thought they were a vendor of quality motherboards.
--
Bush lied, many died.
From the Slashdot story: "The site is done by a single publisher with minimal information, and most of it looks like an advertisement."
I've found that also. Most "reviews" of ISPs are actually advertisements, and the reviewers, because they represent differently, are lying. Therefore you cannot trust them.
Questions taken from the Slashdot story: Is your boss a Psychopath?
How do you rate George W. Bush and Dick Cheney? -- Questions for Questions:
Q: When he harms other people, does he feel a lack of remorse or guilt? A: Does killing people qualify as harming them?
Q: Does he lie habitually even though he can easily be found out? A: Does lying to start a war qualify as lying? A2: Does pretending that you have reduced the violence in another country, rather than increased it, qualify as lying?
Q: When he's exposed, does he still act unconcerned because he thinks he can weasel out of it? A: Does saying it's all fine qualify as being unconcerned?
Q: Is he concerned about himself rather than the wreckage he inflicts on others or society at large? A: Does worrying only about election results qualify as being concerned only about oneself?
Q: Does he use his skill at lying to cheat or manipulate other people in his quest for money? A: When both Bush and Cheney have a long history of oil and weapons investments among family and friends, does starting a war in the world's second most oil-rich country qualify as a quest for money?
Q: Does he cruelly mock others? A: Does George W. Bush calling his deputy chief of staff, Karl Rove, "turd blossom" qualify as cruelly mocking him? A2: Does giving people disrespectful nicknames qualify as mocking them?
Q: Is he callous and lacking in empathy? A: Does taking habitual risks with the lives of other people while driving qualify as lacking in empathy? A2: George W. Bush DUI, 1st record of arrest A3: George W. Bush DUI, 2nd record of arrest George W. Bush was arrested 2 other times in his life, also, for stunts that were not something a sober person would find interesting. A4: Dick Cheney DUI, record of 1st arrest A5: Dick Cheney DUI, record of 2nd arrest
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If your government chooses killing as policy, expect others to choose the same.
Well written.
Maybe you mean the Riverdale School District in Portland, Oregon? Very impressive project, great guys.
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Bush lied, many died.