The article stated it was "up to 12 miles long" and that a team "followed it [by helicopter] for about 15 miles." Granted, the average digestee probably does not care if the blob devouring him is 12 or 15 miles long.
Agreed. Want to see fun(!) evidence of this? Click on the "Reader Responses" section of the article in question and see just how many opposing responses are availabe. By my count... let's see... still zero.
Sony's EQ2 is taking a beating as well. Not to mention the original EQ that they simply let (are letting) die. I think the guy's at Penny Arcade hit the nail on the head with a recent cartoon: (paraphrase) they seem to be generating content by robots completely devoid of a human touch.
Your bullying skill has improved (+1)! Your empathy skill has decreased (-25)!
While this is just an application I'd wager 7:3 that it will be approved. After all, is it not the government's job to ensure that large businesses have every tool at their disposal to squash any would-be start up?
Remind me again why innovation in the US is 5 years behind Japan, Denmark, Norway, et al? Oh, right. Nevermind.
It's up to you (us)/.ers to make sure he doesn't have his ass dragged through the mud. Who gives a flying fuck about his motivations, political leanings, religous beliefs or deli meat preferences. Bram is Bram, Bittorrent is what it is. We love it, we use it, we know the history of its creator is totally irrelevant. If the MSM, the MPAA, the RIAA and Joe Pissnut Politician try to make him their new whipping boy tell everyone who will listen that P2P is the story --- NOT Sean, NOT Bram NOT the next creator/victim. RATM!
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You must not be from around here (or, rather, I must not be from around there). Our government serves the highest bidder. In fact, I think we will start printing that on the currency soon: "In we trust."
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In all seriousness, I wish the folks in our government would become beholden to common sense and take this same approach. I remember M$ strategy a few years ago of making newer Word documents incompatible with older version (unsure if they still take this approach). What a pain when 1 person in the company had upgraded to Office Your Version + 1 and then modified *your* document. Open format, you have my vote.
Wow! Does flame bait come any more readily packaged? Posting this topic on Slashdot is akin to tossing a pile of oily rags into a room full of pyromaniacs. "Why is it suddenly so bright in here?"
I certainly think this guy is dead wrong. OSS is for the little guy and innovation almost always comes from the little guy. Most of us who serve our time in the fluorescent lit trenchs of the corporate world know that vast sums of money/power rarely drive anything new -- just the opposite, in fact. The juggernaut is good (adept, actually) at taking something that has been around for ages, moving the bell from the back to the front, increasing the tone of the whistle by one octave and then selling the slightly altered thing as something new that no one can live without. Sadly, enough people sign on to this charade to make this "business model" much more than just viable -- I suspect McVoy is a regular customer at Juggernaut Inc.
But what is one to make of McVoy's attitude and others like him? IMHO, people make statements like this because juggernauts deliver them intellectual fast food. Trying to dig through 4000 projects on sourceforge is a pain in the ass but sourceforge is absolutely bubbling over with innovation. Juggernaut Inc. has no new ideas (ok, maybe one or two) but the average Joe on the street is inundated with Juggernaut Inc. advertising making Juggernaut Inc. a regular part of his life. Street Joe couldn't give a rat's ass about sourceforge, however. Do we care? Should we care? 51% of street Joes generally decide who is going to be running things in a given location at a given time. So, yeah, I kinda care. So I ask the question: how does one get street Joe, fast food consumer #1048576, to realize the value of OSS?
In other news, Microsoft is delivering tabbed browsing with their new OS. People like tabbed browsing. When people start using Windows Longhorn XPFU (now with bells in front AND back) a lot of them are going to think, "hey, these Microsoft guys are on the ball with their innovative, fancy tabbed browsing. Big corporations always give us great new things." To which I grumble, "fuckers!"
...and so one day me and my buddies stumble upon this remarkable tower which soared into the clouds. We talked to the natives who explained that local peasants had built the tower over a thousand years and that everyone was welcome inside. We were told we could even live in the tower, modify it or add to it if we wanted.
Anywho, my buddies and I spent about three months adding a room to the top of the tower. That place was decked out too -- shag carpet, wall-to-wall speakers with a phat 8-track STEREO sound system, posters, a big fountain. I'm tell you, that place was the... well, it was quite nice.
So one day we get a knock on the door. The local peasants want to come in and have a look at our addition. They said, "we often are inspired by the ideas of others and would like to see what you have done." Can you believe that?! Fucking pricks. Coming in to STEAL our ideas?! After all the work we had done even! Man, I just don't know about peasants sometime. I don't think they understand anything.
I'm sure they realize that people are producing content out there and distributing it via P2P. Do you think it's lost on them that eliminating P2P also eliminates some of their competition?
Can someone find out who is funding these two?
I see from PolitcalMoneyLine.com that Mary Bono has received $50,250 from "Communications, Technology" and Ed Towns has received $43,864. Unfortunately, I'm not a regsitered user and cannot drill down to see exactly from whom those donations originated.
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The article stated it was "up to 12 miles long" and that a team "followed it [by helicopter] for about 15 miles." Granted, the average digestee probably does not care if the blob devouring him is 12 or 15 miles long.
Bill Maher has ruined HBO. He used to be funny. Now, he's just bitter and angry... Al Franken is another one... he's bitter and angry
Sounds like someone else might be a little bitter and angry...
Agreed. Want to see fun(!) evidence of this? Click on the "Reader Responses" section of the article in question and see just how many opposing responses are availabe. By my count... let's see... still zero.
Sony's EQ2 is taking a beating as well. Not to mention the original EQ that they simply let (are letting) die. I think the guy's at Penny Arcade hit the nail on the head with a recent cartoon: (paraphrase) they seem to be generating content by robots completely devoid of a human touch.
Your bullying skill has improved (+1)!
Your empathy skill has decreased (-25)!
While this is just an application I'd wager 7:3 that it will be approved. After all, is it not the government's job to ensure that large businesses have every tool at their disposal to squash any would-be start up?
Remind me again why innovation in the US is 5 years behind Japan, Denmark, Norway, et al? Oh, right. Nevermind.
I am currently a BellSouth DSL customer. That will be changing today when I switch my service to Comcast.
It's up to you (us) /.ers to make sure he doesn't have his ass dragged through the mud. Who gives a flying fuck about his motivations, political leanings, religous beliefs or deli meat preferences. Bram is Bram, Bittorrent is what it is. We love it, we use it, we know the history of its creator is totally irrelevant. If the MSM, the MPAA, the RIAA and Joe Pissnut Politician try to make him their new whipping boy tell everyone who will listen that P2P is the story --- NOT Sean, NOT Bram NOT the next creator/victim. RATM!
rant:on
You must not be from around here (or, rather, I must not be from around there). Our government serves the highest bidder. In fact, I think we will start printing that on the currency soon: "In we trust."
rant:off
In all seriousness, I wish the folks in our government would become beholden to common sense and take this same approach. I remember M$ strategy a few years ago of making newer Word documents incompatible with older version (unsure if they still take this approach). What a pain when 1 person in the company had upgraded to Office Your Version + 1 and then modified *your* document. Open format, you have my vote.
Is this some type of recursion test?
I certainly think this guy is dead wrong. OSS is for the little guy and innovation almost always comes from the little guy. Most of us who serve our time in the fluorescent lit trenchs of the corporate world know that vast sums of money/power rarely drive anything new -- just the opposite, in fact. The juggernaut is good (adept, actually) at taking something that has been around for ages, moving the bell from the back to the front, increasing the tone of the whistle by one octave and then selling the slightly altered thing as something new that no one can live without. Sadly, enough people sign on to this charade to make this "business model" much more than just viable -- I suspect McVoy is a regular customer at Juggernaut Inc.
But what is one to make of McVoy's attitude and others like him? IMHO, people make statements like this because juggernauts deliver them intellectual fast food. Trying to dig through 4000 projects on sourceforge is a pain in the ass but sourceforge is absolutely bubbling over with innovation. Juggernaut Inc. has no new ideas (ok, maybe one or two) but the average Joe on the street is inundated with Juggernaut Inc. advertising making Juggernaut Inc. a regular part of his life. Street Joe couldn't give a rat's ass about sourceforge, however. Do we care? Should we care? 51% of street Joes generally decide who is going to be running things in a given location at a given time. So, yeah, I kinda care. So I ask the question: how does one get street Joe, fast food consumer #1048576, to realize the value of OSS?
In other news, Microsoft is delivering tabbed browsing with their new OS. People like tabbed browsing. When people start using Windows Longhorn XPFU (now with bells in front AND back) a lot of them are going to think, "hey, these Microsoft guys are on the ball with their innovative, fancy tabbed browsing. Big corporations always give us great new things." To which I grumble, "fuckers!"
...and so one day me and my buddies stumble upon this remarkable tower which soared into the clouds. We talked to the natives who explained that local peasants had built the tower over a thousand years and that everyone was welcome inside. We were told we could even live in the tower, modify it or add to it if we wanted. Anywho, my buddies and I spent about three months adding a room to the top of the tower. That place was decked out too -- shag carpet, wall-to-wall speakers with a phat 8-track STEREO sound system, posters, a big fountain. I'm tell you, that place was the... well, it was quite nice. So one day we get a knock on the door. The local peasants want to come in and have a look at our addition. They said, "we often are inspired by the ideas of others and would like to see what you have done." Can you believe that?! Fucking pricks. Coming in to STEAL our ideas?! After all the work we had done even! Man, I just don't know about peasants sometime. I don't think they understand anything.
I'm sure they realize that people are producing content out there and distributing it via P2P. Do you think it's lost on them that eliminating P2P also eliminates some of their competition?
Can someone find out who is funding these two? I see from PolitcalMoneyLine.com that Mary Bono has received $50,250 from "Communications, Technology" and Ed Towns has received $43,864. Unfortunately, I'm not a regsitered user and cannot drill down to see exactly from whom those donations originated.