IMHO, Michael Robertson talks nonsense all the time... he's just an opportunist, capitalistic businessman, just like you mention.
He doesn't know (nor do I think bother) with technology like how geeks see it, he only sees the step 3 part of it (PROFIT!!!!)... for exploitation to increase his money.
Want to see more of his passionate quotes? Check them out here(be prepared to use Google's language tools for some parts of the site). I bet you're loving him and his company more and more now, don't you?
it is best to get hold of as much knowledge as possible. Don't target anything trendy, but strenghthen yourself with basic computing knowledge such as server administration, network implementation, and computer repair & maintenance. Although it does sound blue-collarish but believe you me, in the IT business, they are a must.
Since you already have good programming-based skills, you should just keep them polished.
And when you actually apply for a job, don't over-pimp your skills, they will then have a reason to categorize you as over-qualified. It's suffice just to exibit your ability to handle situations from hardware to code and vice-versa. This will make you appear more all-rounded and project an image that you will be beneficial in the long run.
Just speaking from experience watching all my Masters degree friends stay home because of lack of work whilst I have a fixed income to look forward to at the end of every month.
Spiderman is one of the many movies that I actually went to a cinema to watch... why? because I respect Stan Lee, and I would rather let him have part of my ticket proceeds rather than pirate the movie off Kazaa or something.
But when shit like this happens, I wonder whether it was worth it. It's amazing how 400mil is not enough to be considered profitable. Last I checked the movie didn't cost a billion bucks to make (I don't think it even costs 500mil).
Thanks Sony... I'll repay you with my unlimited bandwidth.
Thanks, but the link is mostly about planning and implementing your business. I do have most of that part covered. But thanks for the P.O. box idea, never thought of that before.
OK, I run a personal site powered by PHP. I try to keep my site as HTML-compliant as I possibly can, so far everything is fine until I added a Flash header to my site.
Somehow there is a severe lack of info on how to make Flash codes HTML compliant. I figured maybe I should use the <OBJECT> tag to somehow smuggle the Flash code from an external file.
OK, end of unrelated rant, now for the P3P thingy. I figured this will be important for my site in the future because I'm considering engaging in e-commerce (very small scale), so what the heck.
The thing is, the examples of P3P XML files I looked at from various sources always contain sensitive elements like business.contact-info.postal.address(using loosely, I know that it's supposed to be.postal.street,.postal.city bla bla). If I'm a full-fledged business, that info might not be so sensitive... heck, I would want everyone to know the physical location of my business.
But what if it's a home-based business? I surely don't want customers knowing my home address and dropping in whenever they like, a main reason why I chose to do online business in the first place. So in order to safeguard the privacy of my customers, I now seem to be compromising my own.
If there is a proper workaround for this issue (without any legal problems), can some intelligent and experienced individual point it out to me? Are all those business.contact-info.* tags required in the first place? It seems that every compliant site have them.
The point being missed is that the cost of a CD has to cover much more than just the manufacturing and distribution of that disk. It has to cover the expenses in finding and developing talent, recording and touring, marketing and advertising. These expenses far exceed the costs of pressing a CD.
OK, point noted. But pray, tell me how is it that audio cassettes (that costs more to produce) are actually cheaper than CDs?
Most bands are commercial failures, too, so the few successful acts have to be priced high enough to cover the money lost on the others. It's like the oil business where you have to drill 20 dry holes for every one that hits the black gold.
So now it's up to the consumers to cushion the costs of the recording industry's "commercial failures"?
Anyway, your comparison with the oil business is irrelevant. Let's say someone discovers a way to make vehicles run on water, consumers will ditch petrol in a blink of an eye. And don't be suprised if OPEC (or any other oil-centric associations) engage in a campaign to halt production of water-powered engines.
But for now, they are still unchallenged, whereas the RIAA is.
What do you expect? The Americans are blinded by the world's perception towards them... To them, there is no democracy other than American-style democracy... and that the only people who hates them are terrorists (read Arabs/Moslems).
Why understand when you can just force things unto others? We are great! We are Americans! Tremble before our might!
And don't hope for too much support from Americentric Slashdotters too.:)
What's so big a deal about computer generated crowds? It's been done since computers are actively used for visual effects (remember the Skeleton Army from Living Dead?).
Yeah, sure they are more detailed nowadays... but that's the beauty of technology, everything improves over time.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of Tolkien and the LOTR movies, but I don't get how 6 pictures of scanned pages can generate such irrelevant headline on Slashdot.
No it doesn't necessarily have to be new and shiny... Yes I do play chess, and go, and checkers (or droughts, what ever you wish to call it), and chinese chess. So my answer here is, "You took it wrong!. Just because I find Nethack dumb, it doesn't mean that I don't appreciate true classics.
And for your info... Nethack does involve a computer... so it's not exactly a dice-and-book-dungeons-and-dragons-game. So what does it got to do with what kind of (computer-based or otherwise) games I play?
OK, how do you merit Nethack with quality and depth? Sure it has a gazillion dungeons and monsters (which I remind you, is represented by some ASCII character). But what person who has a life would spend hours a day (at present) staring at typefaces which are supposed to be characters of a game?
I'm not saying it doesn't have quality or depth... It used to have... back in the 80s and early 90s *at most*.
IMHO Nethack is way due its expiration date... This is not a flame, nor do I find ASCII-based games boring, but face it, Nethack is just being kept alive so that a mid-30s Unix admin can brag about the items he discovered back in the "good old days".
Just face it, whoever says that Nethack is better MUD surely has something wrong in the head. My reasons?
MUD is Multiplayer
Text (ASCII) is better used for describing things rather that "draw" them
There are better gaming technologies at present, why hang on to a "has-been" from ages ago?
Wasteful misuse of that GeForce4 4600 you just brought
Nethack is long dead, why not let it go in peace rather than holding on to the nostalgia of the past. Let Nethack take it's place beside Pong, Space Invader, Frogger, etc. and be proud of what it has achieved in the past.
The project from what I see is mostly (if not all) done by non-Americans. So the DMCA does not apply to these people, nor to more than 99% of the countries in the world.
Sure, it's hosted on sourceforge servers, which I assume is located in the US, but hosting can be obtained elsewhere just as easily.
So quit naysaying and just accept the fact that not every open source project is an attempt to defile MS's (or the American legal system's) supremacy.
Millions of dollars are spent on campaigning, cocktail parties, leaflet printing, etc... and come election time, you would already paid a considerable wager betting against your opposition that you will gain more support than him/her.
And when you win, is helping promote, no let's just say introduce, your next opponent, from the opposing party you worked very hard to beat, and in the process spent millions!
I'd do everything in my power to ensure that the loser gets beaten again come election time! Why the heck should I help him... he would have done exactly the same thing if he won.
This cycle is fated, it's the way things go. So I don't get it why this is an issue. It's not just happening in the US, it's happening around the world! At least in the US opposition can always bash the ruling party on TV or some other media. In some countries the ruling party controls the media itself. So Americans, consider yourself lucky!
Well, at least it grabbed some attention...
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not to mention the fact that it is environmentally friendly. Why did I brought up this point?
Well, because I've seen some poor form of advertising from a rising star of the PC industry. Why do I call it poor? Because they think that it is a good idea to include a pamphlet of their latest offering on every issue of free daily newspapers in Singapore. Basically it's an ad sleeve covering the paper.
Most of the time people simply pull it out and throw it into the bin. Which is OK in my opinion except that 1/2 an hour later, almost all the bins in the MRT (mass rapid transit) station gets filled to the brim and adverts are flying everywhere. And those marketing guys from that company doesn't seem to bother, or perhaps they are all so bloody rich and never use public transport anyway.
Before you mod my rant as offtopic, think of the essence of this post which is about advertising (what MS and hyperlinked company are doing) and it's implication on people and the environment.
P/S: I do not work for neither company, and all opinions expressed are my own.
because like mentioned previously, outside the US calls to mobiles are actually more costly than to land lines. But my post is actually more of a question to US cellphone owners:
How much (on average) does an outgoing call from your mobile costs? Please provide explanation such as within same area code or otherwise, service operator, etc.
Do you get charged for incoming calls as well?
Do you have prepaid packages? How popular is it and what are its pros and cons?
I live in Malaysia and work in Singapore, and I use prepaid packages for cellphone usage. In Malaysia, I'm using the HotLink package from Maxis, where as in Singapore I use the M Card by M1. A significant difference between the two is that in Singapore, they actually charge for incoming calls, something that doesn't happen in Malaysia.
Which method does the mobile operators in your countries follow?
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Yeah, it's stupid... as you can see from the article itself, everyone involved in that project has a @*.gov email.
Sheesh...
Please give your opinions on what you think the billboard will display when...
1) The car stereo is tuned in onto (eg. freq in MHz) 99.5FM while at the back seat, another person is listening to 110.5 FM.
2) The person has a TV installed instead of a radio.
3) A bus which has no radio passes by, but the passengers are listening to at least 10 different radio stations via mobile radios.
4) A police car passes by.
I got a few more possible situations, but these are the more interesting ones
but I believe the eVisa.com guy could still be saved. The content on the previously-known-as-evisa.com site clearly showcases Passport-related items.
I think the best option for him is to buy the domain ePassport.com (if it's still available).
Doh! I forgot, he will then be sued by MS for 'diluting' MS's cross-site authentication trademark...
I guess he's screwed then... too bad.
for flushing an American company that actually produces something exciting down the bandwidth toilet...
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The requested URL Bandwidth is temporarily unavailable.
IMHO, Michael Robertson talks nonsense all the time... he's just an opportunist, capitalistic businessman, just like you mention.
He doesn't know (nor do I think bother) with technology like how geeks see it, he only sees the step 3 part of it (PROFIT!!!!)... for exploitation to increase his money.
Want to see more of his passionate quotes? Check them out here (be prepared to use Google's language tools for some parts of the site). I bet you're loving him and his company more and more now, don't you?
Hell Yeah! Lindows will die because it will be replaced by (guess what) Microsoft Linux.
ph33r M$!
but who the hell are the CommonCriteria folks, and why must I give a shit what they think of whatever OS?
The above is an honest question, if you can't elaborate clearly, please don't even bother to reply.
Thank you.
Cool... first the BBC is downloading to my computer using some kind of unexplained supernatural forces.
Now, I learnt that I can actually unclick Java. Cool.
If these aren't News for Nerds... I don't know what stuff actually matters anymore.
it is best to get hold of as much knowledge as possible. Don't target anything trendy, but strenghthen yourself with basic computing knowledge such as server administration, network implementation, and computer repair & maintenance. Although it does sound blue-collarish but believe you me, in the IT business, they are a must.
Since you already have good programming-based skills, you should just keep them polished.
And when you actually apply for a job, don't over-pimp your skills, they will then have a reason to categorize you as over-qualified. It's suffice just to exibit your ability to handle situations from hardware to code and vice-versa. This will make you appear more all-rounded and project an image that you will be beneficial in the long run.
Just speaking from experience watching all my Masters degree friends stay home because of lack of work whilst I have a fixed income to look forward to at the end of every month.
Best of luck in your endeavours!
Spiderman is one of the many movies that I actually went to a cinema to watch... why? because I respect Stan Lee, and I would rather let him have part of my ticket proceeds rather than pirate the movie off Kazaa or something.
But when shit like this happens, I wonder whether it was worth it. It's amazing how 400mil is not enough to be considered profitable. Last I checked the movie didn't cost a billion bucks to make (I don't think it even costs 500mil).
Thanks Sony... I'll repay you with my unlimited bandwidth.
Thanks, but the link is mostly about planning and implementing your business. I do have most of that part covered. But thanks for the P.O. box idea, never thought of that before.
OK, I run a personal site powered by PHP. I try to keep my site as HTML-compliant as I possibly can, so far everything is fine until I added a Flash header to my site.
.postal.street, .postal.city bla bla). If I'm a full-fledged business, that info might not be so sensitive... heck, I would want everyone to know the physical location of my business.
Somehow there is a severe lack of info on how to make Flash codes HTML compliant. I figured maybe I should use the <OBJECT> tag to somehow smuggle the Flash code from an external file.
OK, end of unrelated rant, now for the P3P thingy. I figured this will be important for my site in the future because I'm considering engaging in e-commerce (very small scale), so what the heck.
The thing is, the examples of P3P XML files I looked at from various sources always contain sensitive elements like business.contact-info.postal.address (using loosely, I know that it's supposed to be
But what if it's a home-based business? I surely don't want customers knowing my home address and dropping in whenever they like, a main reason why I chose to do online business in the first place. So in order to safeguard the privacy of my customers, I now seem to be compromising my own.
If there is a proper workaround for this issue (without any legal problems), can some intelligent and experienced individual point it out to me? Are all those business.contact-info.* tags required in the first place? It seems that every compliant site have them.
Thanks in advance.
I thought the tablets were something of the medical type... to cure you from XPlitis from using the PC at work!
Imagine my disappointment when it turns out to be quite the opposite. More exposure to XPlitis infested equipment!
OK, point noted. But pray, tell me how is it that audio cassettes (that costs more to produce) are actually cheaper than CDs?
So now it's up to the consumers to cushion the costs of the recording industry's "commercial failures"?
Anyway, your comparison with the oil business is irrelevant. Let's say someone discovers a way to make vehicles run on water, consumers will ditch petrol in a blink of an eye. And don't be suprised if OPEC (or any other oil-centric associations) engage in a campaign to halt production of water-powered engines.
But for now, they are still unchallenged, whereas the RIAA is.
What do you expect? The Americans are blinded by the world's perception towards them... To them, there is no democracy other than American-style democracy... and that the only people who hates them are terrorists (read Arabs/Moslems).
:)
Why understand when you can just force things unto others? We are great! We are Americans! Tremble before our might!
And don't hope for too much support from Americentric Slashdotters too.
What's so big a deal about computer generated crowds? It's been done since computers are actively used for visual effects (remember the Skeleton Army from Living Dead?).
Yeah, sure they are more detailed nowadays... but that's the beauty of technology, everything improves over time.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of Tolkien and the LOTR movies, but I don't get how 6 pictures of scanned pages can generate such irrelevant headline on Slashdot.
Flamebait, but heck, I'll bite anyway. Stop putting words into my mouth...
First of all, Nethack is not a book... so your conclusion/question is totally unrelated to my comment.
I didn't even say that playing Nethack itself is wrong... all I said is that it has passed its prime.
No it doesn't necessarily have to be new and shiny... Yes I do play chess, and go, and checkers (or droughts, what ever you wish to call it), and chinese chess. So my answer here is, "You took it wrong!. Just because I find Nethack dumb, it doesn't mean that I don't appreciate true classics.
And for your info... Nethack does involve a computer... so it's not exactly a dice-and-book-dungeons-and-dragons-game. So what does it got to do with what kind of (computer-based or otherwise) games I play?
OK, how do you merit Nethack with quality and depth? Sure it has a gazillion dungeons and monsters (which I remind you, is represented by some ASCII character). But what person who has a life would spend hours a day (at present) staring at typefaces which are supposed to be characters of a game?
I'm not saying it doesn't have quality or depth... It used to have... back in the 80s and early 90s *at most*.
Just face it, whoever says that Nethack is better MUD surely has something wrong in the head. My reasons?
Nethack is long dead, why not let it go in peace rather than holding on to the nostalgia of the past. Let Nethack take it's place beside Pong, Space Invader, Frogger, etc. and be proud of what it has achieved in the past.
For more info, click on this link...
Will be especially helpful for people whose posts contains the phrase "free pr0n".
The project from what I see is mostly (if not all) done by non-Americans. So the DMCA does not apply to these people, nor to more than 99% of the countries in the world.
Sure, it's hosted on sourceforge servers, which I assume is located in the US, but hosting can be obtained elsewhere just as easily.
So quit naysaying and just accept the fact that not every open source project is an attempt to defile MS's (or the American legal system's) supremacy.
Millions of dollars are spent on campaigning, cocktail parties, leaflet printing, etc... and come election time, you would already paid a considerable wager betting against your opposition that you will gain more support than him/her.
And when you win, is helping promote, no let's just say introduce, your next opponent, from the opposing party you worked very hard to beat, and in the process spent millions!
I'd do everything in my power to ensure that the loser gets beaten again come election time! Why the heck should I help him... he would have done exactly the same thing if he won.
This cycle is fated, it's the way things go. So I don't get it why this is an issue. It's not just happening in the US, it's happening around the world! At least in the US opposition can always bash the ruling party on TV or some other media. In some countries the ruling party controls the media itself. So Americans, consider yourself lucky!
not to mention the fact that it is environmentally friendly. Why did I brought up this point?
Well, because I've seen some poor form of advertising from a rising star of the PC industry . Why do I call it poor? Because they think that it is a good idea to include a pamphlet of their latest offering on every issue of free daily newspapers in Singapore. Basically it's an ad sleeve covering the paper.
Most of the time people simply pull it out and throw it into the bin. Which is OK in my opinion except that 1/2 an hour later, almost all the bins in the MRT (mass rapid transit) station gets filled to the brim and adverts are flying everywhere. And those marketing guys from that company doesn't seem to bother, or perhaps they are all so bloody rich and never use public transport anyway.
Before you mod my rant as offtopic, think of the essence of this post which is about advertising (what MS and hyperlinked company are doing) and it's implication on people and the environment.
P/S: I do not work for neither company, and all opinions expressed are my own.
because like mentioned previously, outside the US calls to mobiles are actually more costly than to land lines. But my post is actually more of a question to US cellphone owners:
How much (on average) does an outgoing call from your mobile costs? Please provide explanation such as within same area code or otherwise, service operator, etc.
Do you get charged for incoming calls as well?
Do you have prepaid packages? How popular is it and what are its pros and cons?
I live in Malaysia and work in Singapore, and I use prepaid packages for cellphone usage. In Malaysia, I'm using the HotLink package from Maxis, where as in Singapore I use the M Card by M1. A significant difference between the two is that in Singapore, they actually charge for incoming calls, something that doesn't happen in Malaysia.
Which method does the mobile operators in your countries follow?