This is just wonderful. A *bunch* of my posts got modded all the way down to -1 Off Topic in relation to the Soviets and IIS. I lost 11 karma points over it!
When the article was originally posted, it said IIS and not ISS. That means that my jokes were on-topic, not off-topic.
If I had lost one ore two points, I wouldn't even care. (heck, even 4'd be fine since that's how many comments I made.) But 11?!
"In America at least, I think the struggling economy is mostly to blame. Manufacturers are just trying to cut costs to bring their profit margins up, and one of the easiest ways of cutting costs is cutting quality."
In Corporate America, quality products decline you! Heek heek
I'm not really sure how to answer that question. What I've seen lately is bolder, riskier products coming out.
You all remember that voice activated R2D2 toy that Slashdot reported a month or two ago? I bought one of those. I have to say, I'm rather impressed with what it can do. It's voice recognition is pretty good, and it's a fun little toy to play with. Is it going to survive a drop off the bed? Probably not. I'm not terribly concerned with that, though. Thing is, I like when products are released that do stranger and stranger things. It seems to me that if they were to ruggedize Mr. D2, it'd cost me some of the things I really like about it.
Sometimes you get what you pay for, but consider that we live in a digital world. You'd be hard pressed to buy a gadget that doesn't have a microchip in it. As long as that keeps happening, products will advance every year to the point that you develop interest in replacing it. I am wiling to bet that in a year or two, they'll release a new R2D2 toy with a USB 2.0 port and flash memory. Chances are good that I'd buy one too because it's a significant upgrade over the original which has no upgradability options.
These products don't need to survive very long because the companies pushing them are going to find new ingenius ways for you to buy the latest one. And you wanna know what? That's good for the economy. Nobody's interested in building a fridge that'll last 25 years anymore. Your business dries up real fast.
"Today only, there is a double your money back satisfaction guarantee for linux. If not fully satisfied, you can take advantage of this one time offer."
I'm going to write me a minivan!!
(Ha! I made an obscure Dilbert reference! All the karma will be MINE!! BUAHAHA!)
"In Soviet Russia we imagen a beowulf cluster of these... In Soviet Russia, Beowulf imagines a cluster of YOU!"
That style of humor is getting a little forumlaic. It's like that Mexican Funny Videos show where 43% of their content is people falling down, and another 10% of their content is repeating that footage over and over again.
"If it means your computer broadcasts other peoples voices on your computer, imagine what damage would be caused by someone reading breaking news stories for a day or two (getting trust), and then screaming out stories like "I spanked your mom! GOATSE!" all day."
Wait a minute.. are you saying that with the right pair of headphones I could listen to porn at work?!
"Sound cool, but what keeps people from spreading false news around? Any enterprising young H.G. Wells want to pull a 'War of the Worlds' all over again?"
Common sense. Don't believe me? Look at the people who still insist the moon landing was faked.
"OK, but why do it in audio then? Text is more portable, you don't need to worry about having the correct codec. It would use less bandwidth. It would give just as much information (or possibly more, 'cause you can put more in without worrying about bandwidth)."
I have days at work where I'm working on visual projects (I.e. artwork or a demo or something), and I'm basically running on auto-pilot. On those days, I listen to music. I've had days, though, where I'd rather listen to the news. Now remember, my eyes are occupied so reading the text is out of the question. Fortunately, I have a local news station that does audio streaming. The only downside is that they think Dr. Laura needs to be on in the morning.
There's other reasons too. I'm just giving you an example of why this article caught my eye.
The problem with saying "why do I need this?" is that what you're really saying is "I can make due without it if I just work harder!" Well, that's pretty much true of any technology. "I don't need glasses, I can just move my face closer to the monitor!" See what I'm saying? That's just not a useful attitude to have. If you're not sold on something, it's because you're not getting it. It's not because there's a fundamental problem with it.
"I visit Slashdot, but I'm skeptical as to whether the true spirit of the original site will persist. The ideas and expressions that once comprised geek culture have changed so much that the original Slashdot themes of individualist strength and moral integrity in the face of monopolistic powers will probably be cast aside in favor of a more contemporary populist sensibility."
"with all the stories I've seen about being unable to retrieve data from just 15 yrs ago (because the format is unreadable, not because the media deteriorated) I'm convinced that archiving data using a chisel and a rock is the best way to go."
He's right, you know. Look at the info we're gathering from fossilized remains of dinosaurs! Once they found the petrified remains of a velociraptor next to a picket sign protesting the use of fossil fuels.
"I think this is just some bullshit the industry exec invented out of whole cloth to prove again how 'damaging' pirating is to his industry. "
I don't think they're really worried about damage to the industry. There'll always be huge demand for content. I think what they're really worried about is damage to their business model. They might have to *gasp* change it!
I was telling my gf a couple of days ago that I think Hollywood should release DVDs of movies the day they come out in theaters. That way, they can capitalize on a movie while it's at the peek of its hype. In the middle of the conversation, I realized why they'd never ever go for it: they can't charge people individually for watching a flick. Cute, eh?
The big threat to the Movie Industry is that when a movie launches, it'll have to simu-launch around the world on virtually the same day. For some reason, they're very afraid of this.
They think that the moment it hits the net, nobody'll pay for it, they'll instead opt for >24 hour downloads in order to save a couple of bucks. This says one of two things: 1.) They're unwilling to charge fairly for their offerings or 2.) They have no stinking clue how fair people really are. (I personally think it's a mix of both.) Funny thing is, there's all kinds of proof out there that people don't mind paying for content. Porn anybody?
To be honest, I'm amazed that the Movie Industry hasn't embraced the internet. It's a much deeper media for content. As for advertising capability, even today it still has the power to hold an audience. Imagine if Paramount hosted streaming versions of [INSERT FAVORITE TREK SERIES HERE (but if you're tasteful, you'll want DS9:P)] with commercials inserted. A dedicated fan of the show is going to want to watch every ep in order. That's advertising time they couldn't extract from me today, even if they did air it daily on TV like TNG is.
I have to admit, I'm pretty disappointed with how everything's been handled. I'm genuinely surprised that a studio like Dreamworks hasn't picked up the ball and said "Huh... there's lots of cool technology here."
"Congratulations! We may not always agree with your opinions/story selection/spelling/etc, but none of that is important in the long run. Marriage is one of those things that's truly important, and today we unite to wish you and Kathleen a long and happy life together."
Heh I'm starting to wonder which part of that post was insightful. My bet's on... spelling!
"And in other news, Ohio native reads slashdot and wonders who the fck this guy is, and why he's supposed to care!!"
Slashdot is trying to save bandwidth by not using lengthy sentences like "She charged that Johansen, popularly known as "DVD-Jon," made a Windows program called DeCSS that decrypts CSS codes and then makes a decrypted copy of the DVD".
"If cable companies despise PVRs, why does AT&T sell Tivo, branded under their cable service?"
Probably because DirecTV won't stop bombarding people with 'free satellite and PVR' deals. If I didn't think I'd be moving soon, I'd have jumped ship already.
"maybe you guys should post articles on movies that don't do their CGI with a Linux cluster (along with their cost of production)."
CGI is a very interesting field that quite a few members of Slashdot are interested in. It's a pity they only cover it when they can link Linux to it in some way. It's like some feeble attempt to inflate the importance of Linux in the workplace instead of reporting news.
Slashdot Mirror
"Wow, the fastest netscape I've used to date is (IIRC) Netscape 3.x. All subsequent versions have been progressively slower."
No no no, you see everybody had Pentiums running at 120 mhz when Netscape 3.0 was out. So technically they're right!
"And you thought AMD was quittingthe PC chip market?"
I didn't think they were quitting the PC Chip market. I actually read the article.
This is just wonderful. A *bunch* of my posts got modded all the way down to -1 Off Topic in relation to the Soviets and IIS. I lost 11 karma points over it!
When the article was originally posted, it said IIS and not ISS. That means that my jokes were on-topic, not off-topic.
If I had lost one ore two points, I wouldn't even care. (heck, even 4'd be fine since that's how many comments I made.) But 11?!
That is rather overly zealous moderation
"In America at least, I think the struggling economy is mostly to blame. Manufacturers are just trying to cut costs to bring their profit margins up, and one of the easiest ways of cutting costs is cutting quality."
In Corporate America, quality products decline you! Heek heek
I'm not really sure how to answer that question. What I've seen lately is bolder, riskier products coming out.
You all remember that voice activated R2D2 toy that Slashdot reported a month or two ago? I bought one of those. I have to say, I'm rather impressed with what it can do. It's voice recognition is pretty good, and it's a fun little toy to play with. Is it going to survive a drop off the bed? Probably not. I'm not terribly concerned with that, though. Thing is, I like when products are released that do stranger and stranger things. It seems to me that if they were to ruggedize Mr. D2, it'd cost me some of the things I really like about it.
Sometimes you get what you pay for, but consider that we live in a digital world. You'd be hard pressed to buy a gadget that doesn't have a microchip in it. As long as that keeps happening, products will advance every year to the point that you develop interest in replacing it. I am wiling to bet that in a year or two, they'll release a new R2D2 toy with a USB 2.0 port and flash memory. Chances are good that I'd buy one too because it's a significant upgrade over the original which has no upgradability options.
These products don't need to survive very long because the companies pushing them are going to find new ingenius ways for you to buy the latest one. And you wanna know what? That's good for the economy. Nobody's interested in building a fridge that'll last 25 years anymore. Your business dries up real fast.
"well, yeah, but it had a hefty uptime still."
It wasn't that impressive. When it crashed, it needed replacment.
Look who's talking, Mr. 'Stratjakt'.
"Are they going to switch to apache instead?"
They did, it was called Mir. It was very patchy.
"For a second there I thought my IIS server was going to start serving up "IN SOVIET RUSSIA" web pages!"
Error 404
The file has not found you!
"Today only, there is a double your money back satisfaction guarantee for linux. If not fully satisfied, you can take advantage of this one time offer."
I'm going to write me a minivan!!
(Ha! I made an obscure Dilbert reference! All the karma will be MINE!! BUAHAHA!)
"In Soviet Russia we imagen a beowulf cluster of these...
In Soviet Russia, Beowulf imagines a cluster of YOU!"
That style of humor is getting a little forumlaic. It's like that Mexican Funny Videos show where 43% of their content is people falling down, and another 10% of their content is repeating that footage over and over again.
"If it means your computer broadcasts other peoples voices on your computer, imagine what damage would be caused by someone reading breaking news stories for a day or two (getting trust), and then screaming out stories like "I spanked your mom! GOATSE!" all day."
Wait a minute.. are you saying that with the right pair of headphones I could listen to porn at work?!
"Sound cool, but what keeps people from spreading false news around? Any enterprising young H.G. Wells want to pull a 'War of the Worlds' all over again?"
Common sense. Don't believe me? Look at the people who still insist the moon landing was faked.
"OK, but why do it in audio then? Text is more portable, you don't need to worry about having the correct codec. It would use less bandwidth. It would give just as much information (or possibly more, 'cause you can put more in without worrying about bandwidth)."
I have days at work where I'm working on visual projects (I.e. artwork or a demo or something), and I'm basically running on auto-pilot. On those days, I listen to music. I've had days, though, where I'd rather listen to the news. Now remember, my eyes are occupied so reading the text is out of the question. Fortunately, I have a local news station that does audio streaming. The only downside is that they think Dr. Laura needs to be on in the morning.
There's other reasons too. I'm just giving you an example of why this article caught my eye.
The problem with saying "why do I need this?" is that what you're really saying is "I can make due without it if I just work harder!" Well, that's pretty much true of any technology. "I don't need glasses, I can just move my face closer to the monitor!" See what I'm saying? That's just not a useful attitude to have. If you're not sold on something, it's because you're not getting it. It's not because there's a fundamental problem with it.
"I visit Slashdot, but I'm skeptical as to whether the true spirit of the original site will persist.
The ideas and expressions that once comprised geek culture have changed so much that the original Slashdot themes of individualist strength and moral integrity in the face of monopolistic powers will probably be cast aside in favor of a more contemporary populist sensibility."
I ache for a Bable Fish.
"with all the stories I've seen about being unable to retrieve data from just 15 yrs ago (because the format is unreadable, not because the media deteriorated) I'm convinced that archiving data using a chisel and a rock is the best way to go."
He's right, you know. Look at the info we're gathering from fossilized remains of dinosaurs! Once they found the petrified remains of a velociraptor next to a picket sign protesting the use of fossil fuels.
"Backing up to IDE hard drives.... That's a paddling
Not using SCSI like you should... That's a paddling "
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of IDE...ow.. that's a paddling.
"Print out all your data in hexadecimal and store it in a large vault. If and when a data loss occurs you just need to re-type all the data back in."
I was surprised to find this comment modded as Troll. It was obviously intended to be funny.
I'd moderate it as Overrated because it wasn't even funny enough to be used on Just Shoot me, but Troll was very inaccurate.
"I think this is just some bullshit the industry exec invented out of whole cloth to prove again how 'damaging' pirating is to his industry. "
:P)] with commercials inserted. A dedicated fan of the show is going to want to watch every ep in order. That's advertising time they couldn't extract from me today, even if they did air it daily on TV like TNG is.
I don't think they're really worried about damage to the industry. There'll always be huge demand for content. I think what they're really worried about is damage to their business model. They might have to *gasp* change it!
I was telling my gf a couple of days ago that I think Hollywood should release DVDs of movies the day they come out in theaters. That way, they can capitalize on a movie while it's at the peek of its hype. In the middle of the conversation, I realized why they'd never ever go for it: they can't charge people individually for watching a flick. Cute, eh?
The big threat to the Movie Industry is that when a movie launches, it'll have to simu-launch around the world on virtually the same day. For some reason, they're very afraid of this.
They think that the moment it hits the net, nobody'll pay for it, they'll instead opt for >24 hour downloads in order to save a couple of bucks. This says one of two things: 1.) They're unwilling to charge fairly for their offerings or 2.) They have no stinking clue how fair people really are. (I personally think it's a mix of both.) Funny thing is, there's all kinds of proof out there that people don't mind paying for content. Porn anybody?
To be honest, I'm amazed that the Movie Industry hasn't embraced the internet. It's a much deeper media for content. As for advertising capability, even today it still has the power to hold an audience. Imagine if Paramount hosted streaming versions of [INSERT FAVORITE TREK SERIES HERE (but if you're tasteful, you'll want DS9
I have to admit, I'm pretty disappointed with how everything's been handled. I'm genuinely surprised that a studio like Dreamworks hasn't picked up the ball and said "Huh... there's lots of cool technology here."
"Congratulations! We may not always agree with your opinions/story selection/spelling/etc, but none of that is important in the long run. Marriage is one of those things that's truly important, and today we unite to wish you and Kathleen a long and happy life together."
Heh I'm starting to wonder which part of that post was insightful. My bet's on... spelling!
"Any change in my seating position will send my poo spilling down my legs and into my socks and shoes. There is no way I can play this off as a fart."
You run Outlook, right? Try telling your boss that your computer contracted the brownnoise.h virus.
"And in other news, Ohio native reads slashdot and wonders who the fck this guy is, and why he's supposed to care!!"
Slashdot is trying to save bandwidth by not using lengthy sentences like "She charged that Johansen, popularly known as "DVD-Jon," made a Windows program called DeCSS that decrypts CSS codes and then makes a decrypted copy of the DVD".
"The trial is supposed to last a week, and I'm sure Slashdot will keep up with it, so please submit only *new* stories about it, thanks."
;)
The same could be asked of the editors..
"If cable companies despise PVRs, why does AT&T sell Tivo, branded under their cable service?"
Probably because DirecTV won't stop bombarding people with 'free satellite and PVR' deals. If I didn't think I'd be moving soon, I'd have jumped ship already.
"maybe you guys should post articles on movies that don't do their CGI with a Linux cluster (along with their cost of production)."
CGI is a very interesting field that quite a few members of Slashdot are interested in. It's a pity they only cover it when they can link Linux to it in some way. It's like some feeble attempt to inflate the importance of Linux in the workplace instead of reporting news.