Yes, you're right, but it seems nobody has mentioned what is painfully obvious to me from dealing with my own clients. "What's a server log? Do we have one of those? How much is that?" Most businesspeople (suits) need somebody to translate the tech for them, and whenever there's a translation, there's the opportunity for deceit.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
If everybody had a DSL connexion and could write Perl poems and everybody had stock options worth gajillions, who'd be making our bean burritos and Dr. Pepper???
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
...but if nobody paid attention to what's going on in space, Nell might have bigger things to worry about than a rat bite.
Got any poems about asteroids hitting the projects? (Sorry, couldn't resist. Not trying to be mean, just playing devil's advocate.)
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
... this may be obvious to everyone else, maybe I missed reading/. the day it was first discussed: What's the deal with the one-click patent? Does it just mean you can say 'one click' on your site or does it include the simple act of only clicking once to buy something? If the latter is the case, I'll get up in arms with the rest of you...if the former, then, uh, why all the fuss?
Thanks...
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
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I hear you loud and clear. I got my BA in Creative writing, and taught myself HTML as a hobby. Turns out the hobby has become the job, while writing is something I use only once in a while (for profit, that is). But a few years from now I fully expect to be leaving the realm of web design for the role of 'content provider.' Meaning, ok, now all the world is online, you've got a website, why should people come visit you? You need fresh content that changes daily. Enter me.:-)
Change is good...so is knowing you can pay rent and have money left over for food. I guess all we can do is pay attention to the trends and try to adapt.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
This is about the only point you can make to the members of the board that might really turn their heads. Did anyone at the meeting pose this scenario to the lawyer?
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
later, when the record companies have poured billions into the technology, somebody will discover a flaw
Now, would that be a dedicated employee, in which case we the people will never hear about it, or will it be a hax0r who'll get lots of press and then probably be taken to court by the RIAA?
Don't get me wrong, I agree with the boycott, but I wonder about what will happen when it is released and (inevitably) hacked.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
They'll be done when I'm 80, I can take a trip up and annoy people the whole way with stories of my gall bladder operation. Wanna see my scar again?
That's a pretty long time to be stuck in an elevator with tourists.
(Fountains of Paradise was a great book, BTW.)
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Geeks are not politically irrelevant unless they don't vote, regardless of what they believe in. I write my congressmen/women, and I vote (not quite as often as I should but...), which unfortunately puts me in a minority here on the rant boards of/. - if I'm wrong about that, you politically active geeks come out and be counted! Do we have a voice or not?
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
In a situation you describe, what would be ideal is having the option to cast a vote of no confidence. If 20% of people bothered to go out and pull a lever that said "I think you ALL suck" then maybe the sad sacks in DC would take notice.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
the real question is whether that is enough credit to give in return for "yoinking" an entire website design.
Speaking as a web designer, I say absolutely NOT.
At least have the decency to change the color scheme or something. Some may call it imitation/flattery, I call it disrespectful laziness. If you don't have the talent to create your own 'look and feel' then hire someone who does. Sheesh, if my clients could just steal other people's entire sites for their own then I'd soon be out of a job... then again, most clients would still need help just doing that. Ugh.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
If flee evolved as dominant somewhere else, that would explain why they haven't come here...
"Those humans, there they go again, killing each other..."
"What for THIS time? Oil? Race? Religion?"
"No, I keep picking up something about a flaming troll..."
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Doesn't it bother anyone that he advertised there would be a blurb about Napster and then there wasn't one, yet we're all talking about it anyway?
Sheesh.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
``Google may not be good on a particular query. If you wanted to find multimedia or audio-visual files, Google wouldn't be helpful at all.''
Very true. I use Google 99% of the time, but if I need images I find that Altavista's image search is absolutely the best. Outperforms scour.com no contest.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Slightly OT here - does it bother anyone else that they're bringing back the wooly mammoth, a creature from the ice age, to the present, where the north pole is melting and the greenhouse effect is raising the overall tempurature? I can't do much but shake my head over this whole story...good breeding questions from you guys. One can only hope the professionals in charge have an answer.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
- it's the WAY it's presented that puts me off. Like the old Don Henley tune, "she can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye" - the smiling, powdered, white-bread looking anchors fumbling through their scripts. Sickening. PBS does a better job, but even then sometimes they go off on tangents./. is good for techie news, Suck is good for satire, and NPR is my morning fix. Local news is shallow, ratings-driven, pancake makeup crap.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Who's to stop the mega-corps now? "You have a site that tells people how to [fill in the blank with your favorite anarchic passtime], which will encourage [piracy][copyright infringement][free thought][other bad action]. Take it down or we'll see you in court."
Holy crap, guys, what WON'T they be able to do now?
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
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Yes, you're right, but it seems nobody has mentioned what is painfully obvious to me from dealing with my own clients. "What's a server log? Do we have one of those? How much is that?" Most businesspeople (suits) need somebody to translate the tech for them, and whenever there's a translation, there's the opportunity for deceit.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
So he says if we want to hang ourselves we're more than welcome to.
Nice to see a step in the direction of individual responsibility for once.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
If everybody had a DSL connexion and could write Perl poems and everybody had stock options worth gajillions, who'd be making our bean burritos and Dr. Pepper???
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Not to disagree, but even most local bands admit they have hopes of signing with a major label. The whole system needs to change.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
...but if nobody paid attention to what's going on in space, Nell might have bigger things to worry about than a rat bite.
Got any poems about asteroids hitting the projects? (Sorry, couldn't resist. Not trying to be mean, just playing devil's advocate.)
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
... this may be obvious to everyone else, maybe I missed reading /. the day it was first discussed: What's the deal with the one-click patent? Does it just mean you can say 'one click' on your site or does it include the simple act of only clicking once to buy something? If the latter is the case, I'll get up in arms with the rest of you...if the former, then, uh, why all the fuss?
Thanks...
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
I hear you loud and clear. I got my BA in Creative writing, and taught myself HTML as a hobby. Turns out the hobby has become the job, while writing is something I use only once in a while (for profit, that is). But a few years from now I fully expect to be leaving the realm of web design for the role of 'content provider.' Meaning, ok, now all the world is online, you've got a website, why should people come visit you? You need fresh content that changes daily. Enter me. :-)
Change is good...so is knowing you can pay rent and have money left over for food. I guess all we can do is pay attention to the trends and try to adapt.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
This is about the only point you can make to the members of the board that might really turn their heads. Did anyone at the meeting pose this scenario to the lawyer?
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
later, when the record companies have poured billions into the technology, somebody will discover a flaw
Now, would that be a dedicated employee, in which case we the people will never hear about it, or will it be a hax0r who'll get lots of press and then probably be taken to court by the RIAA?
Don't get me wrong, I agree with the boycott, but I wonder about what will happen when it is released and (inevitably) hacked.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
They'll be done when I'm 80, I can take a trip up and annoy people the whole way with stories of my gall bladder operation. Wanna see my scar again?
That's a pretty long time to be stuck in an elevator with tourists.
(Fountains of Paradise was a great book, BTW.)
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Geeks are not politically irrelevant unless they don't vote, regardless of what they believe in. I write my congressmen/women, and I vote (not quite as often as I should but...), which unfortunately puts me in a minority here on the rant boards of /. - if I'm wrong about that, you politically active geeks come out and be counted! Do we have a voice or not?
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
In a situation you describe, what would be ideal is having the option to cast a vote of no confidence. If 20% of people bothered to go out and pull a lever that said "I think you ALL suck" then maybe the sad sacks in DC would take notice.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
the real question is whether that is enough credit to give in return for "yoinking" an entire website design.
Speaking as a web designer, I say absolutely NOT. At least have the decency to change the color scheme or something. Some may call it imitation/flattery, I call it disrespectful laziness. If you don't have the talent to create your own 'look and feel' then hire someone who does. Sheesh, if my clients could just steal other people's entire sites for their own then I'd soon be out of a job... then again, most clients would still need help just doing that. Ugh.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Crap! Now instead of being 'that chick who knows all the inside stuff' I'm gonna be 'that chick who lies all the time.'
Grrrr....
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
If flee evolved as dominant somewhere else, that would explain why they haven't come here...
"Those humans, there they go again, killing each other..."
"What for THIS time? Oil? Race? Religion?"
"No, I keep picking up something about a flaming troll..."
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
...the 13th is the full moon. ;-)
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Well, depending on which side of the Mason-Dixon line you're on, you could be in trouble for that. ;-)
*smooch*
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
4.5 gigabytes of data.... on a 1000X Web, ...can be yours in just 15 seconds.
;-)
Crap, don't let the RIAA and MPAA hear about this.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Microsoft prefers the stuff "written by college kids in their basements"
Ha! So when their monopoly squelches the Open Source movement, who'll keep their servers up? This is beautiful.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Doesn't it bother anyone that he advertised there would be a blurb about Napster and then there wasn't one, yet we're all talking about it anyway?
Sheesh.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
``Google may not be good on a particular query. If you wanted to find multimedia or audio-visual files, Google wouldn't be helpful at all.''
Very true. I use Google 99% of the time, but if I need images I find that Altavista's image search is absolutely the best. Outperforms scour.com no contest.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Slightly OT here - does it bother anyone else that they're bringing back the wooly mammoth, a creature from the ice age, to the present, where the north pole is melting and the greenhouse effect is raising the overall tempurature? I can't do much but shake my head over this whole story...good breeding questions from you guys. One can only hope the professionals in charge have an answer.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
I'm not an AC, I don't know why it posted that way... crap. That's mine up there. Sorry.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
- it's the WAY it's presented that puts me off. Like the old Don Henley tune, "she can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye" - the smiling, powdered, white-bread looking anchors fumbling through their scripts. Sickening. PBS does a better job, but even then sometimes they go off on tangents. /. is good for techie news, Suck is good for satire, and NPR is my morning fix. Local news is shallow, ratings-driven, pancake makeup crap.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Who's to stop the mega-corps now? "You have a site that tells people how to [fill in the blank with your favorite anarchic passtime], which will encourage [piracy][copyright infringement][free thought][other bad action]. Take it down or we'll see you in court."
Holy crap, guys, what WON'T they be able to do now?
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk