Because in most companies the shareholders have the controling share. Therfore they can vote on things, like the salaries of the CEOs, or... even to fire the CEO. Have your stock perform poorly -> Have a mob of angry shareholders out for blood -> Look for a new job with bootedfromcompany:httpenwikipediaorgwikiMichealEis ner on your resume.
Mmmm... yeah. You see, all nerds have to administer at least one network. Did you see the memo about this? So if you could just start to administer a network now that would be great, let me go and send you that memo again, Thanks.
I wanted to give you mod points, but I will respond to you instead. (since its an either or proposition, and this stuff interests me.)
30 Boxes really is great, My girlfriend can keep me organized by updating her calender and having it reflect on my own, then using the RSS reader to put it on my google/ig page and its perfect. It needs a lot of work, but its fairly robust already, and advancing quickly. Its nothing revolutionary, just good execution.
There were some of these "2.0" applications I hadn't tried, specifically White board, and Meebo, My first impression of Meebo was... Lackluster at best, its a single editable page, with roughly five formatting codes, and no project management, no spell check, works like giving everyone their own password protected Wiki page. Only reason its "web 2.0" is the theme, rounded edges and shadows and whatnot. A good program would be able to make trees of documents, have many pages, give completion ratings, assign pages to users, mark pages needing further work, revision, fact checking, editing, or any tag you wish, and be able to have users highlight individual tags, (say if your job is to edit, any page needing editing would show up bright red) Link to documents within documents, built in commenting, visible on text on mouse over. Just tons of stuff, This product shouldn't be even considered 1.0 its nowhere near a full product.
Secondly, Meebo.com
Looks really good, feels very good, very responsive, Much better than any of the "2 go" IM projects out there, great interface, feels like your using a real program. Now I just hope this runs on my Nintendo DS when it gets a browser!
Yeah I call BS on this one, I have some 8 year old CDs right here, let me just stick one in and verify... shit.
Just kidding, I did have a no-name batch that didnt age well at all, a batch of CDs back when they still cost a buck a pop. They aged like a 5 dollar box wine. But I have a binder of 300 that did just fine. (Memorex mostly)
Dont worry, once you see the heaps of giant flatscreen monitors and really cool custom "Terrortracking" GUIs just flashing random information on the screens faster than anyone could processs the information you will feel much safer. Oh and its all going to make cool Beeps and Boops, alienware is supplying the cases, and Dont let me forget to mention the tinted glass walls everywhere and blue and red gelled accent lighting, oh, and the lasers!
A conventional blimp might be able to work as a "sky crane" though its doubtful due to ballast issues (once it drops the tree does it rocket up a few hundred feet with no way to get down other than venting?
But it absolutely would not work for this application as this vehicle is a Heavier than air vehicle, It only stays up if it keeps moving, just like an airplane, only it has to do less work to stay in the air.
Though the water idea isnt half bad, a floating raincloud over fightfighters, might just come in handy, and make things safer.
Uh... He viewed us as a group of people with "real insight" who if they were to turn their gaze to the dark side, would be more than proficient at it. He never once implied that slashdotters were plotting the destruction of civilization, Just that we would be good at it if we tried. One could say the same of Albert Einstein and the rest of the genuises behind the Manhatten Project, if they had decided to help Nazi Germany, I think we can all agree things could have turned out quite different.
I just hope if they make one it goes in GBA slot, and not the DS slot, Since I never use the bottom one, and would also never want to remove a browser.
Right under Dawkins (yes the first name I clicked) was this guy "KAI KRAUSE"
My first thought was: what if any really smart set of people really set their mind to it...how utterly and scarily trivial it would be, to disrupt the very fabric of life, to bring society to a dead stop?
The relative innocence and stable period of the last 50 years may spiral into a nearly inevitable exposure to real chaos. What if it isn't haphazard testosterone driven riots, where they cannibalize their own neighborhood, much like in L.A. in the 80s, but someone with real insight behind that criminal energy ? What if Slashdotters start musing aloud about "Gee, the L.A. water supply is rather simplistic, isn't it?" An Open Source crime web, a Wiki for real WTO opposition ? Hacking L.A. may be a lot easier than hacking IE.
Because in America to get a seat in politics you need to WIN elections, not get "4% of the votes, or roughly 225000 votes" The losers dont get seats here, the losers dont get a friggin gift basket. a three party system is doomed to fail here due to how our elections are setup, unlike other countries where third parties are commonplace
Yeah, its a great world where free market means "We would like to sell you this for fifty dollars" and we can reply "How about... free?" They then reply "No" and we then proceed to give them our free and take the product because... Its a free market and for some odd reason we don't value someone else's work as much as they value their own.
If you think someone is not worth the price, You don't buy it and shop for the competition, (competition not defined as people who "liberated" some more of the expensive products from their true owners) If its a good price, you take two. Simply saying it's too expensive is not a ticket to ride, Non-tangible goods or not.
"if the developers think that they should get more money for writing software that they receive from the sale of a hard disk with their code and hundreds of other game developer's code, then get the fuck out of the game development business!. Write code for someone who will pay your more for your services."
What do you mean, are you saying that, if the developers think they should get paid more than zero dollars, (silly rabbit) from some people who copied their creation without their permission they should... stop making games, and start programing something else you would probably advocate the mandatory free price tag for as well?
Since we are on slashdot, we need poor analogies to demonstrate my point as if you were a five year old. But with your... shall we say interesting world view, I'm going to say thats not a terribly bad place to start.
We are going to go on vacation. (Yay!) First we need a rental car, we want the Mustang, sadly we can afford the cavalier, so we haggle, which is to say, we pay them for the cavalier, then hot wire the Mustang (don't worry, we will return it, so really, its a non-tangible good, the "rental")
So finally we get to Florida in our 'loaned' car...
Your standing in line at Disney world, You come up to the front gates, and They expect 80 dollars from you for a day in the park (The nerve) you refuse, in a real market, you would go to six flags which is cheaper just with less rides. But in your wonderland... You find a guy out back who says he can let you into the park for the cost of opening the door to a service entrance. (because really, thats a free market, and we just haggled with Disney)
Where the hell did you get the notion that "haggling" means, whatever the buyer says = "that's the price that's fair and reasonable. " and that, all software should be sold for the price of some loser putting it on a hard drive.
"The game developers and distribution companies are just going to have to get used to working in the actual marketplace." What the hell does this even Mean?! What "Actual Marketplace" is this?! Some prince of thieves Walmart where all customers walk up to the front counter with a knife, name their price, then grit their teeth, tighten their grip on their saber, and then repeat their process in a more menacing tone?
It really, really hard to imagine viewing the world though as distorted and ridiculous scope as your own I'm not sure if you just some "free software (no, thats not a suggestion)" nut or if you really think that if someone can take it for free, that means thats now the price as if the people who create it don't own anything other than the physical DVD these games come on.
In conclusion, Get a clue, and uh.. Guess I will be seeing you in the paper for "haggling" one day.
Yeah, they were just selling an xbox package of over 3000 dollars worth of games for 500 dollars, orrrr they were just regularly selling these packages to all of the many people who aleady invested 3000+ dollars worth of games, proved it to the company and dont like Putting the disk in the drive.
And they wont be found guilty of 77 charges of piracy, they pirated 77 games, multiple times. These people were selling pirated software, its simple, plain as day, and obvious. Let it go. fight the 'anti-hardware modification' fight, not the 'hard drive loaded with pirated games' fight.
And in the spirit of custom builts, Does anyone have a good link to a site that might select whole profiles of compatible computer parts for different kinds of systems with link to a pricewatch style website so you can pick and choose from compatible pieces? (mainly good recomendations as to motherboard/ram/processor combos)
Admitedly they barely tried and probably dont care one bit. They dont really care about losing this platform and dont see it as any skin off their back, the less access apple users have to the many IE only pages the better in their book. Yes 'full access" isnt the real reason, but I think the only person getting that emotional about it is you.
A wonderful point, I beilive from their actions thus far the body of evidence supports this claim. Television is trying it's hardest to pretend they have a clue, and in the end, I think it's going to work for them. (*thankfully Tivo gave them a kick in the arse) But the music industry as it exists today is pretty much on the fast track to obscurity. From how well they have embraced downloads, free music samples as advertisement, itunes, digital content and freedom, online advertisement, online music videos, lyrics, smaller albums, the threat of self publishing and promotion, the larger 'indie' film soundtracks, basicly they made just about every move in the wrong direction reliably. Oh well, some small labels that get it will prevail, rise from obscurity, and they will promptly be bought by the existing large companies because its not like they dont have income coming in from other sources, and the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation will return to the status quo.
Not to mention ten or more years ago most of us would be happily running 3.1 using dos regularly to play homemade games making jokes about how Mac is doing everything in their power to run their own company into the ground and excited to get our new DOS disks (With Hologram) to play the new kings quest. With no qualms whatsoever to give Microsoft more of our money because they were doing exciting things.
And really, back then it could have gone one of two ways, The monopoly could have fallen on apple, who would have then used their market position to sue any competitor who tried to manufacture computers with stolen apple software on it (because permission would not be forthcoming), prohibited or crippled third party computers, continue to block support for non apple products, and fill their systems with as much proprietary hardware as possible, all because they are a "Hardware company" So instead of one monopolized market, we would have two.
Want to blame anyone for Microsoft's dominance, blame apple and blame yourself. Because I'm pretty sure most of you could relate to that first paragraph. (yes Mr obligatory "I was using unix before you were born" we understand you were cool before it was "in", please be quiet)
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Because in most companies the shareholders have the controling share. Therfore they can vote on things, like the salaries of the CEOs, or... even to fire the CEO. Have your stock perform poorly -> Have a mob of angry shareholders out for blood -> Look for a new job with bootedfromcompany:httpenwikipediaorgwikiMichealEis ner on your resume.
And I was wondering why the net was running a little slow...
kidding, still clipping along at 3894kb/s, something tells me doit, can cope with a little "slashdotting"
You mean this? http://www.nintendoworldstore.com/
Mmmm... yeah. You see, all nerds have to administer at least one network. Did you see the memo about this? So if you could just start to administer a network now that would be great, let me go and send you that memo again, Thanks.
I wanted to give you mod points, but I will respond to you instead. (since its an either or proposition, and this stuff interests me.) 30 Boxes really is great, My girlfriend can keep me organized by updating her calender and having it reflect on my own, then using the RSS reader to put it on my google/ig page and its perfect. It needs a lot of work, but its fairly robust already, and advancing quickly. Its nothing revolutionary, just good execution.
There were some of these "2.0" applications I hadn't tried, specifically White board, and Meebo, My first impression of Meebo was... Lackluster at best, its a single editable page, with roughly five formatting codes, and no project management, no spell check, works like giving everyone their own password protected Wiki page. Only reason its "web 2.0" is the theme, rounded edges and shadows and whatnot. A good program would be able to make trees of documents, have many pages, give completion ratings, assign pages to users, mark pages needing further work, revision, fact checking, editing, or any tag you wish, and be able to have users highlight individual tags, (say if your job is to edit, any page needing editing would show up bright red) Link to documents within documents, built in commenting, visible on text on mouse over. Just tons of stuff, This product shouldn't be even considered 1.0 its nowhere near a full product. Secondly, Meebo.com Looks really good, feels very good, very responsive, Much better than any of the "2 go" IM projects out there, great interface, feels like your using a real program. Now I just hope this runs on my Nintendo DS when it gets a browser!
So much easier than the original version I played on my 386, If you want to play it on the hard difficulty setting, find a copy and play it on a P4 :D
"Who, then, precisely, does Hollywood think is going to buy this DRM-encumbered garbage?"
I think their ultimate goal would be... Everyone.
No shit Sherlock.
Yeah I call BS on this one, I have some 8 year old CDs right here, let me just stick one in and verify... shit.
Just kidding, I did have a no-name batch that didnt age well at all, a batch of CDs back when they still cost a buck a pop. They aged like a 5 dollar box wine. But I have a binder of 300 that did just fine. (Memorex mostly)
Dont worry, once you see the heaps of giant flatscreen monitors and really cool custom "Terrortracking" GUIs just flashing random information on the screens faster than anyone could processs the information you will feel much safer. Oh and its all going to make cool Beeps and Boops, alienware is supplying the cases, and Dont let me forget to mention the tinted glass walls everywhere and blue and red gelled accent lighting, oh, and the lasers!
I mean, atleast, if its anything like TV.
"so let the debate begin again over which OS is really more secure."
How about we don't and just say we did, better yet, whichever side you agree with, it won the debate.
A conventional blimp might be able to work as a "sky crane" though its doubtful due to ballast issues (once it drops the tree does it rocket up a few hundred feet with no way to get down other than venting?
But it absolutely would not work for this application as this vehicle is a Heavier than air vehicle, It only stays up if it keeps moving, just like an airplane, only it has to do less work to stay in the air.
Though the water idea isnt half bad, a floating raincloud over fightfighters, might just come in handy, and make things safer.
Uh... He viewed us as a group of people with "real insight" who if they were to turn their gaze to the dark side, would be more than proficient at it. He never once implied that slashdotters were plotting the destruction of civilization, Just that we would be good at it if we tried. One could say the same of Albert Einstein and the rest of the genuises behind the Manhatten Project, if they had decided to help Nazi Germany, I think we can all agree things could have turned out quite different.
I just hope if they make one it goes in GBA slot, and not the DS slot, Since I never use the bottom one, and would also never want to remove a browser.
Right under Dawkins (yes the first name I clicked) was this guy "KAI KRAUSE"
My first thought was: what if any really smart set of people really set their mind to it...how utterly and scarily trivial it would be, to disrupt the very fabric of life, to bring society to a dead stop?
The relative innocence and stable period of the last 50 years may spiral into a nearly inevitable exposure to real chaos. What if it isn't haphazard testosterone driven riots, where they cannibalize their own neighborhood, much like in L.A. in the 80s, but someone with real insight behind that criminal energy ? What if Slashdotters start musing aloud about "Gee, the L.A. water supply is rather simplistic, isn't it?" An Open Source crime web, a Wiki for real WTO opposition ? Hacking L.A. may be a lot easier than hacking IE.
Because in America to get a seat in politics you need to WIN elections, not get "4% of the votes, or roughly 225000 votes" The losers dont get seats here, the losers dont get a friggin gift basket. a three party system is doomed to fail here due to how our elections are setup, unlike other countries where third parties are commonplace
Mod parent funny! "It is dangerous to future astronauts and outposts."
Looks like their servers are on burning in flames. Too bad they didnt run linux.
(Sorry, this linkless submission very well stood the chance of being the first to lack this post)
Yeah, its a great world where free market means "We would like to sell you this for fifty dollars" and we can reply "How about... free?" They then reply "No" and we then proceed to give them our free and take the product because... Its a free market and for some odd reason we don't value someone else's work as much as they value their own.
If you think someone is not worth the price, You don't buy it and shop for the competition, (competition not defined as people who "liberated" some more of the expensive products from their true owners) If its a good price, you take two. Simply saying it's too expensive is not a ticket to ride, Non-tangible goods or not.
"if the developers think that they should get more money for writing software that they receive from the sale of a hard disk with their code and hundreds of other game developer's code, then get the fuck out of the game development business!. Write code for someone who will pay your more for your services."
What do you mean, are you saying that, if the developers think they should get paid more than zero dollars, (silly rabbit) from some people who copied their creation without their permission they should... stop making games, and start programing something else you would probably advocate the mandatory free price tag for as well?
Since we are on slashdot, we need poor analogies to demonstrate my point as if you were a five year old. But with your... shall we say interesting world view, I'm going to say thats not a terribly bad place to start.
We are going to go on vacation. (Yay!) First we need a rental car, we want the Mustang, sadly we can afford the cavalier, so we haggle, which is to say, we pay them for the cavalier, then hot wire the Mustang (don't worry, we will return it, so really, its a non-tangible good, the "rental")
So finally we get to Florida in our 'loaned' car...
Your standing in line at Disney world, You come up to the front gates, and They expect 80 dollars from you for a day in the park (The nerve) you refuse, in a real market, you would go to six flags which is cheaper just with less rides. But in your wonderland... You find a guy out back who says he can let you into the park for the cost of opening the door to a service entrance. (because really, thats a free market, and we just haggled with Disney)
Where the hell did you get the notion that "haggling" means, whatever the buyer says = "that's the price that's fair and reasonable. " and that, all software should be sold for the price of some loser putting it on a hard drive.
"The game developers and distribution companies are just going to have to get used to working in the actual marketplace." What the hell does this even Mean?! What "Actual Marketplace" is this?! Some prince of thieves Walmart where all customers walk up to the front counter with a knife, name their price, then grit their teeth, tighten their grip on their saber, and then repeat their process in a more menacing tone?
It really, really hard to imagine viewing the world though as distorted and ridiculous scope as your own I'm not sure if you just some "free software (no, thats not a suggestion)" nut or if you really think that if someone can take it for free, that means thats now the price as if the people who create it don't own anything other than the physical DVD these games come on.
In conclusion, Get a clue, and uh.. Guess I will be seeing you in the paper for "haggling" one day.
Yeah, they were just selling an xbox package of over 3000 dollars worth of games for 500 dollars, orrrr they were just regularly selling these packages to all of the many people who aleady invested 3000+ dollars worth of games, proved it to the company and dont like Putting the disk in the drive.
And they wont be found guilty of 77 charges of piracy, they pirated 77 games, multiple times. These people were selling pirated software, its simple, plain as day, and obvious. Let it go. fight the 'anti-hardware modification' fight, not the 'hard drive loaded with pirated games' fight.
I think that goes without saying by now. The new version has deffinately come into it's own. I cant wait till the seccond half of the seccond season!
And in the spirit of custom builts, Does anyone have a good link to a site that might select whole profiles of compatible computer parts for different kinds of systems with link to a pricewatch style website so you can pick and choose from compatible pieces? (mainly good recomendations as to motherboard/ram/processor combos)
Admitedly they barely tried and probably dont care one bit. They dont really care about losing this platform and dont see it as any skin off their back, the less access apple users have to the many IE only pages the better in their book. Yes 'full access" isnt the real reason, but I think the only person getting that emotional about it is you.
A wonderful point, I beilive from their actions thus far the body of evidence supports this claim. Television is trying it's hardest to pretend they have a clue, and in the end, I think it's going to work for them. (*thankfully Tivo gave them a kick in the arse) But the music industry as it exists today is pretty much on the fast track to obscurity. From how well they have embraced downloads, free music samples as advertisement, itunes, digital content and freedom, online advertisement, online music videos, lyrics, smaller albums, the threat of self publishing and promotion, the larger 'indie' film soundtracks, basicly they made just about every move in the wrong direction reliably. Oh well, some small labels that get it will prevail, rise from obscurity, and they will promptly be bought by the existing large companies because its not like they dont have income coming in from other sources, and the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation will return to the status quo.
Not to mention ten or more years ago most of us would be happily running 3.1 using dos regularly to play homemade games making jokes about how Mac is doing everything in their power to run their own company into the ground and excited to get our new DOS disks (With Hologram) to play the new kings quest. With no qualms whatsoever to give Microsoft more of our money because they were doing exciting things. And really, back then it could have gone one of two ways, The monopoly could have fallen on apple, who would have then used their market position to sue any competitor who tried to manufacture computers with stolen apple software on it (because permission would not be forthcoming), prohibited or crippled third party computers, continue to block support for non apple products, and fill their systems with as much proprietary hardware as possible, all because they are a "Hardware company" So instead of one monopolized market, we would have two. Want to blame anyone for Microsoft's dominance, blame apple and blame yourself. Because I'm pretty sure most of you could relate to that first paragraph. (yes Mr obligatory "I was using unix before you were born" we understand you were cool before it was "in", please be quiet)