Sounds kinda like the definition of a strike. Which leads to another thought: unionize? You get to keep your job, and maybe you'll be able to bargain for better working hours as well.
I think that's the first time I've ever heard those words on SlashDot. I'm going to look out my window now to see if the sun has turned black or the seas have gone red.
I don't think Slahdot is so much legit journalism as it is legitimized blogging. Real journalism entails a lot more than grabbing stories from other websites and saying "discuss!" after all. But if Michael in particular bugs you, just ignore him. I know there's a setting somewhere for that. ..
Popular opinion (here at least) is that customer pressure will force features back into crippled devices. Can anyone actually find a case where this has happened?
There was the DVD vs. DivX battle a couple years ago - DivX was crippled, compared to DVD, because the silly box had to "phone home" whenever you viewed a movie. Most people believe that, when they buy a movie, they have the right to watch it whenever they want without paying beyond the original purchase; so of course DivX flopped.
Also, look how well music CDs that are crippled sell. Celine Dion's latest CD had some sort of copy protection on it that totally FUBARed CD-Rom drives on iMacs, if I recall. I don't have statistics handy, but it doesn't require a great logical leap to imagine the impact that probably had on sales of the crippled CD.
Crippled devices are similar enough to downgrading technology that most people won't want to do it. Why pay more for less? It just doesn't make sense.
Is that really necessary from a (presumably) unbiased editor?
I know it's been asked before, but I may as well ask again: where have the editors on Slashdot said they're unbiased? Where is it stated as a requirement that Slashdot editors be unbiased? An editor who doesn't have a bias wouldn't be able to pick the good stories from the bad. . . Slashdot's editors are just more vocal about their biases than others. Where editors of larger newspapers have to be discreet,/. can place the bias out on the table for everyone to see - which really is doing its readers a favor, since you don't have to read as critically to find out the editorial spin here as you would on, say, FoxNews.
Think of it as open source bias, if that will help.:)
Why not? It worked for Ozzy. Do you think he'd be where he is today if he hadn't bit the head off that dove while he was in the record studio?
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. ..and if oxygen was rare there, life wouldn't have evolved there anyway.
Animal life evolved on earth despite the presence of an oxygen atmosphere, not because of it. Prior to that, oxygen was just a corrosive by-product of photosynthesis. Even now, there're far more anoxic lifeforms on Earth than there are lifeforms that require molecular oxygen to live. . . probably by about 10:1 or so.
ok now how about running the same test with REALISTIC amplitudes... no cellphone on this planet can generate 50V per Meter.
No single cellphone, no. But how about a hundred or so? Figure a 737 or MD-88 can carry about 150-180 passengers, and that about 60-70% of those passengers have cellphones. Now, what kind of field strength would you have from that many cellphones in use on an aircraft at the same time?
And the only way I can really write, as opposed to rewriting or editing, is to write on notebook paper with pencil, in cursive. That's really the only time I use it, but I'm glad I know it. And I want my progeny to know it, too, if only because more knowledge is never a bad thing.
On this topic, I happened across a re-release of Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" CD. I passed it up because it was in SACD format--I didn't like having to put it back, but I didn't want to take it home and find out my CD-Rom couldn't read it, either.
I know it'd be a tall task and maybe not possible, but has any group of developers considered paging through the Linux 2.4 source code and asking the question, "Who wrote this?" for distinct blocks of the software? At least the OSS community might be able to narrow down the suspect code to what isn't accounted for after two or three rounds of asking the question.
India offshore tech support companies may soon face job losses as U.S. companies such as IBM, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and PeopleSoft explore countries with even cheaper sources of technical labor, including Romania, Russia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander. American employees hopefully won't lose any more jobs than they have already; but it kinda sucks for the Indian employees who are going to be out of work now.
The biggest problem with a global economy is that it caters to the lowest common denominator. The second biggest problem is, you more often than not get what you pay for. I have to wonder if American IT companies are even concerned with the quality of their technical support anymore?
Whatever happened to Origin? I can remember three distinct occasions where I upgraded my PC just so I would be able to play an Origin game (Wing Commander III, IV, and WC Prophecy). Point is, if you release a good enough game, people will upgrade their PCs to get it.
What is this, fortune-telling through NASDAQ? You'd have better luck reading SCO's future with tea leaves than looking at a one-day stock price. If you look at the longer-term trend of their stock over the last quarter or year, that's actually useful information. A one-day rise or fall, in and of itself, is a hiccup.
Methinks Verizon will lose many a customer over this.
That'd be a shame, since they're fighting it tooth and claw. Verizon's doing the Right Thing - it'd truly suck for their customer base to bust their chops for this.
Copyright is a social contract. If you want to keep something out of the hands of the public, DON'T PUBLISH IT.
Yes, I'm aware of this argument--in fact, I used it on someone else before I posted it. That's not my point. My point is, we shouldn't be focused on making people pay another senseless tax--we should simply limit copyright. That's the right thing to do, so why beat around the bush?
Why should I, as an owner of a copyrighted work, have to pay the government anything for the ownership of my property? This is an intellectual property tax--which sounds nice when the fee is only $1 every 50 years. But what happens when it becomes $2, then $10, etc.? And why does the government need this money?
Sorry, but I prefer chopping copyright length back down to a reasonable 20- or 30-year period. There's no good reason to give the government yet another means to wrest money out of my wallet.
If I design/create something, why should there be a time limit on it? It's 100% mine, and no one should be lining up at the door 50 years from now, waiting for my ownership to expire.
Quite frankly: If you don't want to share your work, don't publish it.
Fair enough. In that case, I'll amend my statement: It's more difficult to alter a.PDF document than it is to alter a.DOC document; and Adobe's.PDF format is widespread enough that almost any DoD computer will be able to read it.
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Dang! Where are all those AOL CDs when I actually WANT them?
Right here.
Sounds kinda like the definition of a strike. Which leads to another thought: unionize? You get to keep your job, and maybe you'll be able to bargain for better working hours as well.
Thank you, Bill Gates.
I think that's the first time I've ever heard those words on SlashDot. I'm going to look out my window now to see if the sun has turned black or the seas have gone red.
I don't think Slahdot is so much legit journalism as it is legitimized blogging. Real journalism entails a lot more than grabbing stories from other websites and saying "discuss!" after all. But if Michael in particular bugs you, just ignore him. I know there's a setting somewhere for that. . .
I didn't know TiVo had fearues in the first place! :)
Popular opinion (here at least) is that customer pressure will force features back into crippled devices. Can anyone actually find a case where this has happened?
There was the DVD vs. DivX battle a couple years ago - DivX was crippled, compared to DVD, because the silly box had to "phone home" whenever you viewed a movie. Most people believe that, when they buy a movie, they have the right to watch it whenever they want without paying beyond the original purchase; so of course DivX flopped.
Also, look how well music CDs that are crippled sell. Celine Dion's latest CD had some sort of copy protection on it that totally FUBARed CD-Rom drives on iMacs, if I recall. I don't have statistics handy, but it doesn't require a great logical leap to imagine the impact that probably had on sales of the crippled CD.
Crippled devices are similar enough to downgrading technology that most people won't want to do it. Why pay more for less? It just doesn't make sense.
Is that really necessary from a (presumably) unbiased editor?
I know it's been asked before, but I may as well ask again: where have the editors on Slashdot said they're unbiased? Where is it stated as a requirement that Slashdot editors be unbiased? An editor who doesn't have a bias wouldn't be able to pick the good stories from the bad. . . Slashdot's editors are just more vocal about their biases than others. Where editors of larger newspapers have to be discreet, /. can place the bias out on the table for everyone to see - which really is doing its readers a favor, since you don't have to read as critically to find out the editorial spin here as you would on, say, FoxNews.
Think of it as open source bias, if that will help. :)
Yes, and I'm convinced that's why George W. Bush is President and American Idol is such a popular TV show. :)
Why not? It worked for Ozzy. Do you think he'd be where he is today if he hadn't bit the head off that dove while he was in the record studio?
. . .and if oxygen was rare there, life wouldn't have evolved there anyway.
Animal life evolved on earth despite the presence of an oxygen atmosphere, not because of it. Prior to that, oxygen was just a corrosive by-product of photosynthesis. Even now, there're far more anoxic lifeforms on Earth than there are lifeforms that require molecular oxygen to live. . . probably by about 10:1 or so.
ok now how about running the same test with REALISTIC amplitudes... no cellphone on this planet can generate 50V per Meter.
No single cellphone, no. But how about a hundred or so? Figure a 737 or MD-88 can carry about 150-180 passengers, and that about 60-70% of those passengers have cellphones. Now, what kind of field strength would you have from that many cellphones in use on an aircraft at the same time?
And the only way I can really write, as opposed to rewriting or editing, is to write on notebook paper with pencil, in cursive. That's really the only time I use it, but I'm glad I know it. And I want my progeny to know it, too, if only because more knowledge is never a bad thing.
On this topic, I happened across a re-release of Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" CD. I passed it up because it was in SACD format--I didn't like having to put it back, but I didn't want to take it home and find out my CD-Rom couldn't read it, either.
I don't think the Martians need any help - the bureaucrats at NASA are sabotaging it just fine.
That said, how did this get modded "insightful"? What, exactly, is the insight? Maybe there should be a "+/-1, TinFoilHat" mod.
It's not as bad as you think - 300K = 27C = about 77F.
I know it'd be a tall task and maybe not possible, but has any group of developers considered paging through the Linux 2.4 source code and asking the question, "Who wrote this?" for distinct blocks of the software? At least the OSS community might be able to narrow down the suspect code to what isn't accounted for after two or three rounds of asking the question.
India offshore tech support companies may soon face job losses as U.S. companies such as IBM, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and PeopleSoft explore countries with even cheaper sources of technical labor, including Romania, Russia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander. American employees hopefully won't lose any more jobs than they have already; but it kinda sucks for the Indian employees who are going to be out of work now.
The biggest problem with a global economy is that it caters to the lowest common denominator. The second biggest problem is, you more often than not get what you pay for. I have to wonder if American IT companies are even concerned with the quality of their technical support anymore?
Whatever happened to Origin? I can remember three distinct occasions where I upgraded my PC just so I would be able to play an Origin game (Wing Commander III, IV, and WC Prophecy). Point is, if you release a good enough game, people will upgrade their PCs to get it.
Maybe we'll see Doom3 on DVD? It's a thought.
And where exactly did Slashdot claim to be "fair and balanced"? :)
What is this, fortune-telling through NASDAQ? You'd have better luck reading SCO's future with tea leaves than looking at a one-day stock price. If you look at the longer-term trend of their stock over the last quarter or year, that's actually useful information. A one-day rise or fall, in and of itself, is a hiccup.
Methinks Verizon will lose many a customer over this.
That'd be a shame, since they're fighting it tooth and claw. Verizon's doing the Right Thing - it'd truly suck for their customer base to bust their chops for this.
Copyright is a social contract. If you want to keep something out of the hands of the public, DON'T PUBLISH IT.
Yes, I'm aware of this argument--in fact, I used it on someone else before I posted it. That's not my point. My point is, we shouldn't be focused on making people pay another senseless tax--we should simply limit copyright. That's the right thing to do, so why beat around the bush?
Why should I, as an owner of a copyrighted work, have to pay the government anything for the ownership of my property? This is an intellectual property tax--which sounds nice when the fee is only $1 every 50 years. But what happens when it becomes $2, then $10, etc.? And why does the government need this money?
Sorry, but I prefer chopping copyright length back down to a reasonable 20- or 30-year period. There's no good reason to give the government yet another means to wrest money out of my wallet.
If I design/create something, why should there be a time limit on it? It's 100% mine, and no one should be lining up at the door 50 years from now, waiting for my ownership to expire.
Quite frankly: If you don't want to share your work, don't publish it.
Fair enough. In that case, I'll amend my statement: It's more difficult to alter a .PDF document than it is to alter a .DOC document; and Adobe's .PDF format is widespread enough that almost any DoD computer will be able to read it.