This looks lik eba news for Etherium and ETH - as the banks were their main market and backers ? Makes ETC look like a better long term opportunity now...
Those guys were jerks anyway - we flew all the way from Jamaica to Canada to see them - just to meet with them about getting Bitcoin ATM's and terminals in Jamaica - and they totally blew us off. Never turned up to the meeting then sent us a terminal to the hotel that we had to pay $800 dollars for or the trip would have been a total bust.
then when we got back to Jamaica they told us they dont do phone support - just online - so took us weeks to get our terminals up and running. currently they are in the dustbin along with coinkite huraaaaa maybe they pissed someone else off !!!
Based on the amount of Cash Google makes, and the fact that their entire systm is automated (adsense and adwords) on would think that a public search engine would be able to fund itself, pay for its own servers, and pay for a management team to run it? I would have thought that if the guys behind Cuil.com were to have taken this direction they would have been massively sucessful.... what ever happened to them?
Well this is just one more good reason to take the move to plugin electric cars seriously, the majority of oil is burnt up in transport every day and if the public were to boycott gas burning vehicles (seems we all already forgot about the BP spill in the gulf) we could avoid the apocalypse that the oil wars will surely bring about.
Plugin electic cars and clean nuclear energy are the answer.... Obama is pushing America in that direction but the public needs to get behind this transition http://www.plugin.com/2010/09/alexander-agrees-with-obama-on-electric-vehicles/
They also make the OSS version VERY difficult to install, and bugs that affect 90% of installs are well hidden and un-documented, forcing you to PAY PAY PAY very sneaky...
wow, its amazing to see so many google lovers out there or are most of the folks here hired by google to promote their 'we do no evil' philosophy? if microsoft did this they would have been slammed to high hell from the get go...
great, so first google totally rips of linux and calls it 'android' and now its ripping off java. Combine this with the fact that every company they buy becomes number 1 in their search index, killing of anyone who competes with them, and we get what we deserve. Personally i cant wait for my AI to search the web for me, cutting out the middle man.
i feel your pain! funding killed my project... and herein lies my story:) jahshaka (http://jahshaka.org/) was a open source digital content creation tool for film/video released at the start of the online video revolution. We had great hopes and we were pretty hot with 40-50k downloads a month and a active community. we won a few awards (best graphics software of the year) and intel contacted us saying they wanted to help out.
One thing led to another and with intels help we got £4 million from a tier-1 vc in the UK, under the terms that i move to the UK to be cheif evangleist (?). Sounds great right? Well for the first year 75% the funding went into the hands of upper management and their consultants (since upper management were clueless to open source).
Then they close-sourced the project, so with the communities help we tried to wage a war against management to 'open their eyes' and i ended up getting sacked for it - and left stuck in london with my family, wife and kids. And london aint cheap.
After the 2nd year (with no progress at-all, no new releases, and a failed attempt at build a CMS which was nothing to do with our project) eventually i was hired back as a consultant.
I immediatly directed as much of the budget as possible (turned out to be around 2 mil us) into building a fork of the underlying engine in the original project, called the openlibraries, under the LGPL. i took a back seat and directed this while i watched another CEO proceed to build a online video distribution system with the rest of our cash (also nothing to do with our project but whatever) with a goal of eventually getting my stuff back.
In the end i was able to use my consulting fees to buy it all back... for around £50k... only to find out that i had wasted 4 years of my life and was back to where i was when i got the funding. I got some cool tech out of the deal and some cool domains (http://plugin.com/) but it has then taken me the better half of this year to figure out how to get the project back off the ground.
so, if nothing at all, you can learn from mmy experiences. open source is not about money its about the people. if you want to build a comercial business then you need to make up your mind from the start.
i cant beleive you stupid yankees let the RIAA do this to you and to your children... when you are the ones who pay their bills! every time someone buys a CD or a song the RIAA makes money to go screw everyone else. you need to campaign against the people who pay the RIAA's bills if you want to make a difference.
if every university in the USA stopped buying music for 1 week it would cost the record labels millions of dollars (probably put some of them on the edge as their cashflow cant afford such a hit) and would force them to listen...
just set a week and pass the word you dont even need a website to hurt them. the millionaire artists are supported by the kids who buy their cd's they will listed as well.
money makes the world turn the only way to make a difference is to hit them all where it hurts
you tube suckes and google is big brother - controlling what we see is the last straw... now google knows what we are looking for, can guide us to the answers it thinks are best, and will be able to reprogram our minds subliminally...
yea but if you hae 1/2 a brain you can sell prostitution services online just call it a escort service! i assume if you want to sell tobacco and firewarms then you can do the same... this is really just publicity at the end of the day...
i am sure it has nothing to do with the fact that a regular dvd is under $20 bucks and the hd dvds are like 50-60 bucks.... so do the math for someone who usually buys 2-3 dvd's to bring home to the family... who the hell wants to dish out that cash when component dvd looks so good anyway?
the law is the law and you cant jack other peoples stuff... just because someone else is doing it. someone else can sue viacom is all it means and the lawsuit will set the price
google is screwing everyone wiht content out there just because the pOwn search - it will be good for them to get whats coming to them
i cant wait for my quantum computing laptop so i can host the web on my own and control my own searchwithout having to see all those fricking addwords
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This looks lik eba news for Etherium and ETH - as the banks were their main market and backers ? Makes ETC look like a better long term opportunity now...
Those guys were jerks anyway - we flew all the way from Jamaica to Canada to see them - just to meet with them about getting Bitcoin ATM's and terminals in Jamaica - and they totally blew us off. Never turned up to the meeting then sent us a terminal to the hotel that we had to pay $800 dollars for or the trip would have been a total bust.
then when we got back to Jamaica they told us they dont do phone support - just online - so took us weeks to get our terminals up and running. currently they are in the dustbin along with coinkite huraaaaa maybe they pissed someone else off !!!
dont forget to check out www.osaware.com !
http://www.videocore.com/
they should have checked out www.plugin.com first :)
We reverted to BASIC and decided to start over
Based on the amount of Cash Google makes, and the fact that their entire systm is automated (adsense and adwords) on would think that a public search engine would be able to fund itself, pay for its own servers, and pay for a management team to run it? I would have thought that if the guys behind Cuil.com were to have taken this direction they would have been massively sucessful.... what ever happened to them?
beed doing my own blog trying to help save the world www.plugin.com
cant help but to say i told you so http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/10/05/1421258/Google-Patent-Proposes-2-Fee-To-Skip-Commercials
thats just cuz you work for google
I think everyone should boycott google, they are using search to own just about every facet of our lives.
Well this is just one more good reason to take the move to plugin electric cars seriously, the majority of oil is burnt up in transport every day and if the public were to boycott gas burning vehicles (seems we all already forgot about the BP spill in the gulf) we could avoid the apocalypse that the oil wars will surely bring about. Plugin electic cars and clean nuclear energy are the answer.... Obama is pushing America in that direction but the public needs to get behind this transition http://www.plugin.com/2010/09/alexander-agrees-with-obama-on-electric-vehicles/
They also make the OSS version VERY difficult to install, and bugs that affect 90% of installs are well hidden and un-documented, forcing you to PAY PAY PAY very sneaky...
wow, its amazing to see so many google lovers out there or are most of the folks here hired by google to promote their 'we do no evil' philosophy? if microsoft did this they would have been slammed to high hell from the get go...
woowoo homer is going to love this!!! and mr burns will be making bank with a few more subsidaries...
great, so first google totally rips of linux and calls it 'android' and now its ripping off java. Combine this with the fact that every company they buy becomes number 1 in their search index, killing of anyone who competes with them, and we get what we deserve. Personally i cant wait for my AI to search the web for me, cutting out the middle man.
tried to open up a bit but got downmodded to -1 :)
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=984735&cid=25249539
hi,
:) jahshaka (http://jahshaka.org/) was a open source digital content creation tool for film/video released at the start of the online video revolution. We had great hopes and we were pretty hot with 40-50k downloads a month and a active community. we won a few awards (best graphics software of the year) and intel contacted us saying they wanted to help out.
i feel your pain! funding killed my project... and herein lies my story
One thing led to another and with intels help we got £4 million from a tier-1 vc in the UK, under the terms that i move to the UK to be cheif evangleist (?). Sounds great right? Well for the first year 75% the funding went into the hands of upper management and their consultants (since upper management were clueless to open source).
Then they close-sourced the project, so with the communities help we tried to wage a war against management to 'open their eyes' and i ended up getting sacked for it - and left stuck in london with my family, wife and kids. And london aint cheap.
After the 2nd year (with no progress at-all, no new releases, and a failed attempt at build a CMS which was nothing to do with our project) eventually i was hired back as a consultant.
I immediatly directed as much of the budget as possible (turned out to be around 2 mil us) into building a fork of the underlying engine in the original project, called the openlibraries, under the LGPL. i took a back seat and directed this while i watched another CEO proceed to build a online video distribution system with the rest of our cash (also nothing to do with our project but whatever) with a goal of eventually getting my stuff back.
In the end i was able to use my consulting fees to buy it all back... for around £50k... only to find out that i had wasted 4 years of my life and was back to where i was when i got the funding. I got some cool tech out of the deal and some cool domains (http://plugin.com/) but it has then taken me the better half of this year to figure out how to get the project back off the ground.
so, if nothing at all, you can learn from mmy experiences. open source is not about money its about the people. if you want to build a comercial business then you need to make up your mind from the start.
hope this helps,
Jah Shaka http://www.jahshaka.org/
i have been tracking the movements of AI on this site http://www.osaware.org/
i cant beleive you stupid yankees let the RIAA do this to you and to your children... when you are the ones who pay their bills! every time someone buys a CD or a song the RIAA makes money to go screw everyone else. you need to campaign against the people who pay the RIAA's bills if you want to make a difference.
if every university in the USA stopped buying music for 1 week it would cost the record labels millions of dollars (probably put some of them on the edge as their cashflow cant afford such a hit) and would force them to listen...
just set a week and pass the word you dont even need a website to hurt them. the millionaire artists are supported by the kids who buy their cd's they will listed as well.
money makes the world turn the only way to make a difference is to hit them all where it hurts
you tube suckes and google is big brother - controlling what we see is the last straw... now google knows what we are looking for, can guide us to the answers it thinks are best, and will be able to reprogram our minds subliminally...
yea but if you hae 1/2 a brain you can sell prostitution services online just call it a escort service! i assume if you want to sell tobacco and firewarms then you can do the same... this is really just publicity at the end of the day...
i am sure it has nothing to do with the fact that a regular dvd is under $20 bucks and the hd dvds are like 50-60 bucks.... so do the math for someone who usually buys 2-3 dvd's to bring home to the family... who the hell wants to dish out that cash when component dvd looks so good anyway?
bootcamp on the mac pro running vista is limited to 32bit only and suffers from ACPI issues...
the law is the law and you cant jack other peoples stuff... just because someone else is doing it. someone else can sue viacom is all it means and the lawsuit will set the price google is screwing everyone wiht content out there just because the pOwn search - it will be good for them to get whats coming to them i cant wait for my quantum computing laptop so i can host the web on my own and control my own searchwithout having to see all those fricking addwords