I wonder if folks had the same opinion of Amazon when it first started. I'll admit, I never thought it would pull itself out of the red; but it has, and it's pretty much shown that internet businesses can be "*real*" businesses, too.
The beauty of IM programs, though, is you can minimize their advertising potential with one simple step: disable the applications' access to HTTP port 80 in your firewall software.
Maybe I'm just arrogant, but is it so difficult to ask that some things--like the Internet--be restricted to someone who can understand it on at least a basic level?
C'mon, how many "me too"-ers can you stand before the urge to go postal overwhelms?
A basic competency test isn't too much, is it? We require it for cars, why not for computers?
I'm a legal resident of Pinellas County, Florida. I live in Montgomery, Alabama, as a consequence of being stationed at Maxwell Air Force Base. So, can someone tell me why I should owe the state of Florida a use tax on a product that I order from, say, Maryland?
Right. But bullshitting around the water cooler isn't likely to violate a copyright. That's the difference - who cares if folks want to BS around the water cooler and such, as long as they can still meet their project deadlines? But the cost of file-sharing copyrighted files, in terms of both bandwidth and liability, is simply too high for a company to tolerate.
Maybe employees who are working for these corporations should be doing their jobs. If they have enough time on their hands to use P2P networks--and waste someone else's money in the process--maybe that's one position the company can do without the next time some cuts have to be made.
My office has a fairly liberal policy on non-business-related web use; but the shit would hit the fan fast if folks started getting busted for using Kazaa, etc., or even for using file-shares to trade music over the office intranet. A certain level of freedom to use the internet at work is good for morale; but that freedom doesn't need to include the "freedom" to violate copyright.
'Course, most corporations with an IT department worth its salt will have the most popular filesharing programs' ports blocked, anyway. But from the sound of this latest RIAA temper tantrum, a lot of corporations' IT departments are asleep at the wheel.
You know, a couple of years ago when this started to heat up, I would have been the first customer in line to use this service in order to prove that I'm willing to be legit about music. When they started doing things like proposing the SSSCA and accusing Apple of promoting piracy, they made me mad. So now my attitude is 'screw them'.
Translation: You still want an excuse to download music over P2P. Hey, that's fine, but don't try to cloak it in self-righteousness.
Maybe that's how Berman got elected in the first place. . . people just misread his name on the ballot. This is Hollywood we're talking about, after all. ..
How is this "informative"? It gives absolutely no information as to how legislation against peer-to-peer networking would impact Open Source developers or providers. Seriously, did RedHat start using Kazaa to distribute its ISOs while I wasn't paying attention?
Granted, it may be mostly partisan - but the AC does list one Republican out of the four Congresscritters. I doubt partisanship is the real motive here. . . it's more likely the guy's tinfoil hat slipped off again.
I know you're probably just trying to be funny, but let's set one matter straight. You didn't teach me how to design software; you don't pay for my office tools; you don't pay for the roof over my head or the food in my refrigerator. I therefore invite you to share your self-righteous tirade with the "WILL WORK FOR FOOD" guy on the I-25 interchange; or else shove said tirade up your ass, that it might dislodge the obvious backlog of shit you've built up. If you shove with enough force, you might even relocate your head onto its rightful place atop your shoulders.
Yes, programming can be an art; but it is first and foremost a job. When you:
A) Graduate College,
B) Move out of your parents' attic
. ..you will understand that life doesn't always mean working jobs you like - sometimes, it's just about working jobs that pay the rent better than, "Would you like fries with that?"
X10 has tech support. Moreover, at least as far as this article implies, X10 has decent tech support! Hell with cameras, maybe these folks should write an OS. ..
Silly troll. Open source doesn't mean you get to look at my code. You don't even get to come near it. . . but my buddies might get to shoot you for trying.
I'll tell you one thing that's wrong with WordStar and typewriters: performance reports.
I'm actually in the Air Force, but I suspect all the branches have a similar dilemma. Performance reports have to be written every year for almost every uniformed member of the US armed forces. The formula for writing these is arcane and ambiguous - and it's a very regular occurrence to have to make over a dozen corrections to a single performance report. Now, consider that your average O2 (1st Lieutenant / Lieutenant J.G.) may directly oversee as many as a dozen enlisted members, and will have to review the performance reports for every servicemember under them. As you can see, officers really do work for a living!
Now, WordStar is at least a word processor - though, never having worked with it, I don't know if it would be up to the task of properly formatting a performance report to fit on the form page. Does WordStar even allow forms? If not, go straight to the typewriter, do not pass go, do not collect $200.
Six billion dollars is a lot of money. But we pay our armed forces to kill people, not to file paperwork - and if the Navy is still using twenty-year-old solutions for filling out performance reports, I guarantee they've already spent more than six billion dollars in those twenty years to do so.
If Microsoft has taught us anything, it taught us that added features should be turned on by default and made difficult to turn off through obscurity. Lesson learned, I'd say.
LOL, you'd think so, but I guess they didn't think of that. Which is ironic, since People Eating Tasty Animals actually owned the peta.org domain before PETA did.
A couple of the points you try to make are completely nonsensical.
The people going out and buying those new hard drives tend to be overclockers, film traders and other sketchy folks, who either are compensating for a lack of sexual experience or equipment by having more gigs than Joe Sixpack, or are filling up their hard drives with illegally downloaded movies.
Or businesses who employ developers to work on applications using Oracle databases, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, etc. Or graphic artists--.EPS files are not chump change, often weighing in as large as 10MB apiece. Last time I checked the sales specs, 40GB is pretty commonplace for a middle-of-the-line desktop PC.
There is a bright side to this, DRM. Once DRM is in place in hard drives and CPUs, overclocking and upgrading hard drives won't be as common, and we can get back to 3 year warranties.
If you really think hard drive manufacturers will bring back three-year warranties because of digital rights management, I want what you're smoking.
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I wonder if folks had the same opinion of Amazon when it first started. I'll admit, I never thought it would pull itself out of the red; but it has, and it's pretty much shown that internet businesses can be "*real*" businesses, too.
The beauty of IM programs, though, is you can minimize their advertising potential with one simple step: disable the applications' access to HTTP port 80 in your firewall software.
Maybe I'm just arrogant, but is it so difficult to ask that some things--like the Internet--be restricted to someone who can understand it on at least a basic level?
C'mon, how many "me too"-ers can you stand before the urge to go postal overwhelms?
A basic competency test isn't too much, is it? We require it for cars, why not for computers?
Let's throw forward another scenario:
I'm a legal resident of Pinellas County, Florida. I live in Montgomery, Alabama, as a consequence of being stationed at Maxwell Air Force Base. So, can someone tell me why I should owe the state of Florida a use tax on a product that I order from, say, Maryland?
True enough; but you can still pick on the misplaced "your" in the submission itself!
Right. But bullshitting around the water cooler isn't likely to violate a copyright. That's the difference - who cares if folks want to BS around the water cooler and such, as long as they can still meet their project deadlines? But the cost of file-sharing copyrighted files, in terms of both bandwidth and liability, is simply too high for a company to tolerate.
Maybe employees who are working for these corporations should be doing their jobs. If they have enough time on their hands to use P2P networks--and waste someone else's money in the process--maybe that's one position the company can do without the next time some cuts have to be made.
My office has a fairly liberal policy on non-business-related web use; but the shit would hit the fan fast if folks started getting busted for using Kazaa, etc., or even for using file-shares to trade music over the office intranet. A certain level of freedom to use the internet at work is good for morale; but that freedom doesn't need to include the "freedom" to violate copyright.
'Course, most corporations with an IT department worth its salt will have the most popular filesharing programs' ports blocked, anyway. But from the sound of this latest RIAA temper tantrum, a lot of corporations' IT departments are asleep at the wheel.
You know, a couple of years ago when this started to heat up, I would have been the first customer in line to use this service in order to prove that I'm willing to be legit about music. When they started doing things like proposing the SSSCA and accusing Apple of promoting piracy, they made me mad. So now my attitude is 'screw them'.
Translation: You still want an excuse to download music over P2P. Hey, that's fine, but don't try to cloak it in self-righteousness.
Maybe that's how Berman got elected in the first place. . . people just misread his name on the ballot. This is Hollywood we're talking about, after all. . .
How is this "informative"? It gives absolutely no information as to how legislation against peer-to-peer networking would impact Open Source developers or providers. Seriously, did RedHat start using Kazaa to distribute its ISOs while I wasn't paying attention?
Enforce the fireworks laws and reduce overpopulation in one fell swoop! I like it!
Granted, it may be mostly partisan - but the AC does list one Republican out of the four Congresscritters. I doubt partisanship is the real motive here. . . it's more likely the guy's tinfoil hat slipped off again.
Let's write to them and show them that we didn't elect these guys to screw us over.
Y'know, it's notsomuch that. We know these guys are going to screw us over. . . nowadays, I just vote for the candidate that promises lubrication.
I know you're probably just trying to be funny, but let's set one matter straight. You didn't teach me how to design software; you don't pay for my office tools; you don't pay for the roof over my head or the food in my refrigerator. I therefore invite you to share your self-righteous tirade with the "WILL WORK FOR FOOD" guy on the I-25 interchange; or else shove said tirade up your ass, that it might dislodge the obvious backlog of shit you've built up. If you shove with enough force, you might even relocate your head onto its rightful place atop your shoulders.
Yes, programming can be an art; but it is first and foremost a job. When you:
A) Graduate College,
B) Move out of your parents' attic
. . .you will understand that life doesn't always mean working jobs you like - sometimes, it's just about working jobs that pay the rent better than, "Would you like fries with that?"
It looks like a 1 2 3 4 profit plan to me, only there's no ??? or Profit! in it.
X10 has tech support. Moreover, at least as far as this article implies, X10 has decent tech support! Hell with cameras, maybe these folks should write an OS. . .
It's probably already occurred to some to try this; but glass weapons are outlawed by the Geneva Convention. Ironically, nukes aren't.
Though it's hard to say which is worse. I think I'd rather be nuked just once than bombarded with a million AOL CDs.
He must be going backwards or randomly or something. Wasn't his last word-a-day "developers"?
2) ???
Box Office Says Star Wars is Doomed
Silly troll. Open source doesn't mean you get to look at my code. You don't even get to come near it. . . but my buddies might get to shoot you for trying.
I'll tell you one thing that's wrong with WordStar and typewriters: performance reports.
I'm actually in the Air Force, but I suspect all the branches have a similar dilemma. Performance reports have to be written every year for almost every uniformed member of the US armed forces. The formula for writing these is arcane and ambiguous - and it's a very regular occurrence to have to make over a dozen corrections to a single performance report. Now, consider that your average O2 (1st Lieutenant / Lieutenant J.G.) may directly oversee as many as a dozen enlisted members, and will have to review the performance reports for every servicemember under them. As you can see, officers really do work for a living!
Now, WordStar is at least a word processor - though, never having worked with it, I don't know if it would be up to the task of properly formatting a performance report to fit on the form page. Does WordStar even allow forms? If not, go straight to the typewriter, do not pass go, do not collect $200.
Six billion dollars is a lot of money. But we pay our armed forces to kill people, not to file paperwork - and if the Navy is still using twenty-year-old solutions for filling out performance reports, I guarantee they've already spent more than six billion dollars in those twenty years to do so.
If Microsoft has taught us anything, it taught us that added features should be turned on by default and made difficult to turn off through obscurity. Lesson learned, I'd say.
LOL, you'd think so, but I guess they didn't think of that. Which is ironic, since People Eating Tasty Animals actually owned the peta.org domain before PETA did.
A couple of the points you try to make are completely nonsensical.
The people going out and buying those new hard drives tend to be overclockers, film traders and other sketchy folks, who either are compensating for a lack of sexual experience or equipment by having more gigs than Joe Sixpack, or are filling up their hard drives with illegally downloaded movies.
Or businesses who employ developers to work on applications using Oracle databases, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, etc. Or graphic artists--.EPS files are not chump change, often weighing in as large as 10MB apiece. Last time I checked the sales specs, 40GB is pretty commonplace for a middle-of-the-line desktop PC.
There is a bright side to this, DRM. Once DRM is in place in hard drives and CPUs, overclocking and upgrading hard drives won't be as common, and we can get back to 3 year warranties.
If you really think hard drive manufacturers will bring back three-year warranties because of digital rights management, I want what you're smoking.