They're not giving you "just-go-away-leave-us-alone figures." They're giving you the price it costs to pay the human cost (salaries, benefits, travel costs) of reporting the news you say you want to give your readers. It's not cheap.
Of course, you could try the old-fashioned way: do the legwork yourselves. How much do you suppose that costs?
I just linked to the article(Press release) about me going to be sued for linking to articles...
Of course, there's nothing in that press release that says anything about suing people for links. AP's specifically looking for copy-and-paste bloggers, along with outfits like AllHeadlineNews.com. Ever seen AHN? It's notorious for telling its contributors to produce "their" articles by repackaging other sites' online news content (rather than doing any actual work themselves), then reselling that content. AP's already filed one lawsuit alleging that AHN does just exactly that with the fruits of the AP's labor.
Ha! You may have noticed the distinct lack of monster buyout/aid programs for struggling newspapers and the thousands of former employees they've put on the street the past couple of years.
I find it interesting that the number of unique users at one of my alma maters' computer labs (a general-use lab located in the student union, a building which didn't exist in my time there) continues to climb, despite submitter "theodp" questioning why computer labs are still necessary and the headline announcing that campus computer labs are going to die this year.
Unfortunately, so does the ongoing slaughter of trees. Whatever happened to the paperless office/campus we were all promised a couple of decades ago?
Posting because I missed and hit "informative" instead of "funny".
Bad moderator!
Not necessarily. I can make a very strong case that he deserved to be modded "informative" because he was informing us that there is one word that is definitely bad.
I'm going to pay $13/month because some satellite radio DJ creates better iPOD playlists than me? Seriously.
Yes, seriously. Unless you have 10,000 CDs and/or an entire 160Gbyte iPod filled with every possible kind of music, satellite radio will have more varied content than your CD/MP3 collection. I like listening to new songs and artists as well as the ones I already own.
We won't even begin to discuss how hard it is to find political radio for liberals and independent-minded people --- sure, the shows are out there but most political talk radio in this country is slanted toward the far right end of the political spectrum. SiriusXM gives you more options than just the wingnuts who dominate AM radio.
And my local NPR "affiliate" picks up little more than the morning and afternoon news shows and Car Talk.
There are any number of problems with this proposal.
It too is tied to one specific mobile provider (AT&T Mobile, which is notorious for awful customer service) and it too has proprietary hardware (Apple, which won't release its iTunes software for open systems and sics its lawyers on attempts to crack its current iPod hash security scheme, as already discussed: Apple DMCAs iPodHash Project).
Interesting as a proposal for the future, but that's all.
Phillip, are you asking your friends' permission before you go madly about eliminating Flash from all your friends' machines? Or are you, as the AC implied, crippling your YouTube-using friends' computers because you personally don't like Flash? If your answer is the latter, you're an asshole. Just because you don't like Flash (or another software package), that doesn't mean you have the right to take it away from people who want or need some or all of Flash's features and (more importantly) have not given you permission to do so.
If eliminating ads is your friends' issue, the AdBlock Plus extension for Firefox (among others) does a "mostly better than fine" job of that --- it blocks Flash animations, images, Javascripts and about any other page element you can think of --- without taking away Flash functionality from people who actually want it.
... walks away muttering, "Ye gods! What kind of geek would actually take away software features a user wants?... well, OK, Microsoft engineers but they really don't count as true geeks"...
I'm using the newest version of Flash on Ubuntu 8.04.1 (32-bit, because I don't actually need 64-bit at this time) with no major problems whatsoever. The only minor problem I have is that if I watch too many videos in a row, Firefox's RAM allotment chokes and crashes the browser.
I'm curious, kdawson... What distro/bit-type/browser are you using?
Hopefully, competition from Microsoft will force Adobe to get its act together. (That will be the last nice thing I say about Microsoft this year.)
Guess what, browsing to infoworld.com opens a page with *just one single huge dell ad*, and a link "skip this ad". Sorry, I do not take any site seriously that has to resort to those tactics.
Selling ads to make money to pay their staff is an objectionable tactic? Since when?
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They're not giving you "just-go-away-leave-us-alone figures." They're giving you the price it costs to pay the human cost (salaries, benefits, travel costs) of reporting the news you say you want to give your readers. It's not cheap.
Of course, you could try the old-fashioned way: do the legwork yourselves. How much do you suppose that costs?
http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_040609a.html
I just linked to the article(Press release) about me going to be sued for linking to articles...
Of course, there's nothing in that press release that says anything about suing people for links. AP's specifically looking for copy-and-paste bloggers, along with outfits like AllHeadlineNews.com. Ever seen AHN? It's notorious for telling its contributors to produce "their" articles by repackaging other sites' online news content (rather than doing any actual work themselves), then reselling that content. AP's already filed one lawsuit alleging that AHN does just exactly that with the fruits of the AP's labor.
Ha! You may have noticed the distinct lack of monster buyout/aid programs for struggling newspapers and the thousands of former employees they've put on the street the past couple of years.
As with patent trolls, its much easier to let someone else do the work then sue them.
Actually, this is exactly the reverse: do all the work of reporting the story yourself, then sue somebody who steals it without permission.
Linking to it: not a problem.
Wholesale copy-and-pasting into one's own web template: big problem.
I find it interesting that the number of unique users at one of my alma maters' computer labs (a general-use lab located in the student union, a building which didn't exist in my time there) continues to climb, despite submitter "theodp" questioning why computer labs are still necessary and the headline announcing that campus computer labs are going to die this year.
Unfortunately, so does the ongoing slaughter of trees. Whatever happened to the paperless office/campus we were all promised a couple of decades ago?
The Cybots were created by man ... and they have a plan.
Odd that this is just now breaking on Slashdot. According to the Mono project's Moonlight page, the final version of Moonlight 1.0 was released Jan. 20 -- just in time for Linux users to accept de Icaza's invitation to watch President Obama's inauguration over the Internet via Silverlight.
To answer somebody's earlier question, Moonlight 1.0 is licensed under LGPL.
Posting because I missed and hit "informative" instead of "funny".
Bad moderator!
Not necessarily. I can make a very strong case that he deserved to be modded "informative" because he was informing us that there is one word that is definitely bad.
You moderated insightfully. Good job!
The majority of Americans are not the same group as the majority of the people you know.
I'm going to pay $13/month because some satellite radio DJ creates better iPOD playlists than me? Seriously.
Yes, seriously. Unless you have 10,000 CDs and/or an entire 160Gbyte iPod filled with every possible kind of music, satellite radio will have more varied content than your CD/MP3 collection. I like listening to new songs and artists as well as the ones I already own.
We won't even begin to discuss how hard it is to find political radio for liberals and independent-minded people --- sure, the shows are out there but most political talk radio in this country is slanted toward the far right end of the political spectrum. SiriusXM gives you more options than just the wingnuts who dominate AM radio.
And my local NPR "affiliate" picks up little more than the morning and afternoon news shows and Car Talk.
There are any number of problems with this proposal.
It too is tied to one specific mobile provider (AT&T Mobile, which is notorious for awful customer service) and it too has proprietary hardware (Apple, which won't release its iTunes software for open systems and sics its lawyers on attempts to crack its current iPod hash security scheme, as already discussed: Apple DMCAs iPodHash Project).
Interesting as a proposal for the future, but that's all.
Prevent Windows piracy: Use Linux instead!
How long until some researcher releases a study showing that Dr. Ioannidis' research findings are themselves wrong?
Phillip, are you asking your friends' permission before you go madly about eliminating Flash from all your friends' machines? Or are you, as the AC implied, crippling your YouTube-using friends' computers because you personally don't like Flash? If your answer is the latter, you're an asshole. Just because you don't like Flash (or another software package), that doesn't mean you have the right to take it away from people who want or need some or all of Flash's features and (more importantly) have not given you permission to do so.
If eliminating ads is your friends' issue, the AdBlock Plus extension for Firefox (among others) does a "mostly better than fine" job of that --- it blocks Flash animations, images, Javascripts and about any other page element you can think of --- without taking away Flash functionality from people who actually want it.
If I actually ever came across any RealPlayer videos, mplayer is supposed to play them with no difficulty.
I haven't seen one of those videos since the first Bush administration.
I'm using the newest version of Flash on Ubuntu 8.04.1 (32-bit, because I don't actually need 64-bit at this time) with no major problems whatsoever. The only minor problem I have is that if I watch too many videos in a row, Firefox's RAM allotment chokes and crashes the browser.
... What distro/bit-type/browser are you using?
I'm curious, kdawson
Hopefully, competition from Microsoft will force Adobe to get its act together. (That will be the last nice thing I say about Microsoft this year.)
Great. Three replies in and this thread's already been conquered by Vorlons.
Never used it myself, but my clients who have say Avira AntiVir has annoying daily nag screens trying to induce upgrading to the commercial product.
For that reason I suspect Avast! or ClamWin might be a better choice.
Best reply on the entire topic. Thank you for giving me the best laugh I've had all week.
Guess what, browsing to infoworld.com opens a page with *just one single huge dell ad*, and a link "skip this ad". Sorry, I do not take any site seriously that has to resort to those tactics.
Selling ads to make money to pay their staff is an objectionable tactic? Since when?
What about Lindros?
Covered previously in the discussion. Besides, most people would wonder why a former NHL player is distributing Linux.
... filled with an infinite series of choices.
By the way, wasn't Xandros one of the distributions that paid the M$ tax?
That's why I mentioned it when I submitted the story. :)
Use the Beowulf cluster to hunt down and kill the grendel that's attacking the /. mead hall.