Actually, for your analogy to be right it would have to be something more like: GM owns the roads and some cars. Porsche comes up with a better car. GM makes their roads incompatible with Porche's car while pushing their own inferior car. Government says as a punishment GM has to use Porshe parts.
To end the analogy, government now says "Whoopsy, we don't really know anything about roads or cars so do whatever you like."
5 Times August
Acoustic Reserve
Brandon Chandler
Dave Widders
Matt Wertz
Syd
Zachary Tree
Short list of talented people in my playlist offering at least some of their music for free on mp3.com. Any of which are 5 to 5000 times as talented as the lastest cookie cutter teenie bopper 'musician'.
Spiderman OW: 114m, 403m total
Matrix Reloaded OW: 91m, 247m total (and counting)
Harry Potter 2 OW: 88m, 261m total
3 of the 4 top opening weekend gross movies came out with the last year. If they aren't making money it's because they're stupid. Ravaged by piracy... fsck off.
"//Trillian v 1.0" -- found 35 times
"/* I hope this works */" -- found 18 times
"int i" -- found 370 times
"//... and... the... is" -- found 61 times
"// AOL SUCKS" -- OK, this one was only found in the chat program...
And they didn't even bother to change the name! Man those guys are screwed.
From the Byte.com article:
"So are you saying that the U.S. government might file a "Friend of the Court Brief" to support your case against IBM?" I blurted out. "Don't be surprised" was Sontag's answer.
TIA TERMINAL:
SELECT Count(*)
INTO $RESULT
FROM GOV.WHITEHOUSE, SCO.BOARD
WHERE GOV.WHITEHOUSE.CABINET.MEMBER = SCO.BOARD.MEMBER
OR SCO.BOARD.MEMBER.LASTNAME = "CHENEY";
if $RESULT >= 0 then sidewith(SCO)
else sidewith(null)
Sue what? They're broke. The only thing suing them would do would be speed their Chapter 11 along. Hell, it would be more harmful to the company if all slashdot reads made their sig "Darl has no penis."
The problem is Mr. McBride was mis-quoted. The quote:
'If we don't have a resolution by midnight on Friday the 13th, the AIX world will be a different place'
should have read:
'If we don't *get bought* by midnight on Friday the 13th, *we* will be in a different place'
"We live by the seat of our pants"
*processing*
"I don't know...wanna rent a movie?"
*head explodes*
Seriously though, netflix appeals to 2 kinds of movie watchers. Those that watch every damn thing ever put on disk and don't really care so much about what they have at any give time. (Farscape season 1 disk 1 just came in and I'm 1/2 through my ST:TNG marathon.) It's binge watching occassionally purged by work and games.
And those that queue up a bunch of really good (relative of course) movies for the coming weekend and sit on those until watched. This requires a little speculation but I'm pretty sure the woman's gonna want any crap with Hugh Grant or Freddie Prinz or [insert random teenie turd here] in it and I'm gonna want something with spaceships or death.
So basically, I hold one of my 3 rentals back for squishy time with the gf and the other 2 are cycled as quickly as possible for optimal brain rottage. Either way, I'm saving a ton over the 5 bucks @ BB and even the 4 bucks @ the grocery store.
The problem with lettings kids get their roots in web programming is that it's fairly inaccessible away from the classroom. Once school's over you can't expect a bunch of 10 year olds (or their even more clueless parents) to set up and configure a web server and hosted sites cost money.
If you ask me, JAVA would be an excellent start. The tools are free, there's a ton of documentation, it's cross platform and fairly easy to use. I'd say that JAVA programming using the SunONE studio is only slightly less obvious that VB.
On a side note, the problem with these darn kids today is they just aren't as impressed with what you can do. Back in the day, a happy birthday animation writting in BASIC wowed the entire class. Most of them had hardly ever used a computer and feared the command prompt like kryptonite. Today, there are so many computers and so much software that the things you can do after a couple hours of learning just aren't that impressive to them.
"nVidia's cheat involved dropping instructions entirely, equivalent to doing more in a day by checking things off your list without actually doing them, letting the food rot in the kitchen and the dirty laundry pile up."
I never do laundry and 75% of my fridge is rotten. I guess I'm cheating life! Actually, those things were never on my list so I guess it doesn't count.
While it's not an accredited institution, the professors at GameInstitute were always on the ball. They gave weekly discussions via IRC, they have the messageboards, the textbook was in pdf or online in a powerpoint-style presentation with audio commetary. They are also soon expanding to offer accredited courses.
However, their courses are very specific and detailed. I don't think I would trust any online institution with a *real* college education. The preconception that everyone on the internet is trying to screw you as well as the fact that just being at a college sitting in the class as part of the learning experience would keep me from trying it out.
It's just as easy for the students to get lazy as it is for the professors unless they're dogging you 3 times a week.
Accorting to TrafficRanking.com AdCritic is more popular than Cinemax online and Showtime online. If the commercials are good people will seek them out.
Assume for a second that IBM did give licensed code to the community AND after all these years poor SCO discovered they were the glue that held Linux together AND they had sufficient proof of this... IBM has a dollar or two in the bank.
Couldn't they just tie this up in courts just about indefinitely and SCO's last dollar will be spent responding to requests for extentions. It's seems to work in other markets.
At least with the CDs v. MP3 debate we had SOME outlet to obtain the product we desire. It can be hard to find publised lyrics to some music especially if you don't want guitar/piano/etc music along with it (and the costs it incurrs).
I seriously doubt signifigant royalties can be made off of lyric sales and obtaining the lyrics for a song only serves to bolster that songs popularity. It's free advertising. This is another shining example of an industry's near-sightedness.
Next they'll go after OLGA.... again.
... is because that's the optimal way to make money off of their product lifecycle sceme. C'mon people, this is slashdot and you all are missing the obvious jab. Windows 2000, the GOOD Windows, falls out of 'Mainstream Support' in 2005. 2003 has no real advantages over 2000 so what are people supposed to do?
In 2005, you could either 1. Upgrade to Longhorn dumping tons of money and effort converting to what will essentially be beta software (let's throw EVERYTHING on their new untested filesystem.) or 2. Pay a heap in licensing to baby step up to 2003. You'll re-buy licenses for all of your systems and tide yourself over for 3 more years while still running what is essentially Windows 2000. By 2003's EOL, Longhorn 2008 will be ready for release and maybe even almost kinda sort stable and secure (at least through MS tinted glasses).
Make no mistake about it. Their release dates are not scheduled because the product is 'done' or 'working' or because people 'want' or 'need' it. They're schedule in order to most efficiently screw the consumer. Check out their Product Lifecycle crap to see when your next forced upgrade is.
The main reason I signed up with Netflix was that they had every movie I wanted available during the trial period. Now, if I rent a bunch of movies each month I don't get the new releases?
I have a constant queue of about 50 moves. Some new, some old, some good, some crap. My usage will always be high because I expect to have new movies every couple of days. I will *settle* for getting the shitty movies under the assumption that the wait for new releases will be short. This assumption was established over my trial period and the first month that I've been using it.
However, using Netflix, it appears that I'll never be eligible for new releases because I'm content to settle for crap movies to fill the time! "Don't rent the crap movies" you say. Then I don't get my monies worth from the service. If things get bad enough, I may be back at DVD Barn. They might've had more waits but at least they're honest and fair about it.
Now if Netflix's policy was to weigh new releases or movies with people enqueued when determining your wait time for new releases, that would be understandable. You couldn't go in and rent every new release every month. But, when I'm renting ST:TNG seasons and B-rate horror flicks to tide the time until something good comes along and being punished for it... bullshit.
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Actually, for your analogy to be right it would have to be something more like: GM owns the roads and some cars. Porsche comes up with a better car. GM makes their roads incompatible with Porche's car while pushing their own inferior car. Government says as a punishment GM has to use Porshe parts.
To end the analogy, government now says "Whoopsy, we don't really know anything about roads or cars so do whatever you like."
5 Times August Acoustic Reserve Brandon Chandler Dave Widders Matt Wertz Syd Zachary Tree Short list of talented people in my playlist offering at least some of their music for free on mp3.com. Any of which are 5 to 5000 times as talented as the lastest cookie cutter teenie bopper 'musician'.
"Ravaged by piracy, movie studios..."
Spiderman OW: 114m, 403m total
Matrix Reloaded OW: 91m, 247m total (and counting)
Harry Potter 2 OW: 88m, 261m total
3 of the 4 top opening weekend gross movies came out with the last year. If they aren't making money it's because they're stupid. Ravaged by piracy... fsck off.
From The Trillian Project
... and ... the ... is" -- found 61 times
"//Trillian v 1.0" -- found 35 times
"/* I hope this works */" -- found 18 times
"int i" -- found 370 times
"//
"// AOL SUCKS" -- OK, this one was only found in the chat program...
And they didn't even bother to change the name! Man those guys are screwed.
From the Byte.com article:
"So are you saying that the U.S. government might file a "Friend of the Court Brief" to support your case against IBM?" I blurted out. "Don't be surprised" was Sontag's answer.
TIA TERMINAL:
SELECT Count(*)
INTO $RESULT
FROM GOV.WHITEHOUSE, SCO.BOARD
WHERE GOV.WHITEHOUSE.CABINET.MEMBER = SCO.BOARD.MEMBER
OR SCO.BOARD.MEMBER.LASTNAME = "CHENEY";
if $RESULT >= 0 then sidewith(SCO)
else sidewith(null)
Sue what? They're broke. The only thing suing them would do would be speed their Chapter 11 along. Hell, it would be more harmful to the company if all slashdot reads made their sig "Darl has no penis."
RIAA's Matt Oppenheim: "We are doing exactly the same thing that every other infringer is doing."
The problem is Mr. McBride was mis-quoted. The quote:
'If we don't have a resolution by midnight on Friday the 13th, the AIX world will be a different place'
should have read:
'If we don't *get bought* by midnight on Friday the 13th, *we* will be in a different place'
"We live by the seat of our pants"
*processing*
"I don't know...wanna rent a movie?"
*head explodes*
Seriously though, netflix appeals to 2 kinds of movie watchers. Those that watch every damn thing ever put on disk and don't really care so much about what they have at any give time. (Farscape season 1 disk 1 just came in and I'm 1/2 through my ST:TNG marathon.) It's binge watching occassionally purged by work and games.
And those that queue up a bunch of really good (relative of course) movies for the coming weekend and sit on those until watched. This requires a little speculation but I'm pretty sure the woman's gonna want any crap with Hugh Grant or Freddie Prinz or [insert random teenie turd here] in it and I'm gonna want something with spaceships or death.
So basically, I hold one of my 3 rentals back for squishy time with the gf and the other 2 are cycled as quickly as possible for optimal brain rottage. Either way, I'm saving a ton over the 5 bucks @ BB and even the 4 bucks @ the grocery store.
The problem with lettings kids get their roots in web programming is that it's fairly inaccessible away from the classroom. Once school's over you can't expect a bunch of 10 year olds (or their even more clueless parents) to set up and configure a web server and hosted sites cost money. If you ask me, JAVA would be an excellent start. The tools are free, there's a ton of documentation, it's cross platform and fairly easy to use. I'd say that JAVA programming using the SunONE studio is only slightly less obvious that VB. On a side note, the problem with these darn kids today is they just aren't as impressed with what you can do. Back in the day, a happy birthday animation writting in BASIC wowed the entire class. Most of them had hardly ever used a computer and feared the command prompt like kryptonite. Today, there are so many computers and so much software that the things you can do after a couple hours of learning just aren't that impressive to them.
In summary:
Stealing = bad
Sticking it to the Man = good
Sticking it to the Man by stealing = Karma: Neutral
RIAA: "1 in 6 use P2P? Hurry up and legislate before it's 3 in 6 and that whole Democracy thing takes over." It's a joke, not a troll damnit!
"nVidia's cheat involved dropping instructions entirely, equivalent to doing more in a day by checking things off your list without actually doing them, letting the food rot in the kitchen and the dirty laundry pile up."
I never do laundry and 75% of my fridge is rotten. I guess I'm cheating life! Actually, those things were never on my list so I guess it doesn't count.
While it's not an accredited institution, the professors at GameInstitute were always on the ball. They gave weekly discussions via IRC, they have the messageboards, the textbook was in pdf or online in a powerpoint-style presentation with audio commetary. They are also soon expanding to offer accredited courses. However, their courses are very specific and detailed. I don't think I would trust any online institution with a *real* college education. The preconception that everyone on the internet is trying to screw you as well as the fact that just being at a college sitting in the class as part of the learning experience would keep me from trying it out. It's just as easy for the students to get lazy as it is for the professors unless they're dogging you 3 times a week.
Worlds fastest supercomputer: SETI@home.
Accorting to TrafficRanking.com AdCritic is more popular than Cinemax online and Showtime online. If the commercials are good people will seek them out.
AdCritic: 53935
Cinemax: 60065
Showtimeonline:214773
Assume for a second that IBM did give licensed code to the community AND after all these years poor SCO discovered they were the glue that held Linux together AND they had sufficient proof of this... IBM has a dollar or two in the bank.
Couldn't they just tie this up in courts just about indefinitely and SCO's last dollar will be spent responding to requests for extentions. It's seems to work in other markets.
At least with the CDs v. MP3 debate we had SOME outlet to obtain the product we desire. It can be hard to find publised lyrics to some music especially if you don't want guitar/piano/etc music along with it (and the costs it incurrs). I seriously doubt signifigant royalties can be made off of lyric sales and obtaining the lyrics for a song only serves to bolster that songs popularity. It's free advertising. This is another shining example of an industry's near-sightedness. Next they'll go after OLGA.... again.
... is because that's the optimal way to make money off of their product lifecycle sceme. C'mon people, this is slashdot and you all are missing the obvious jab. Windows 2000, the GOOD Windows, falls out of 'Mainstream Support' in 2005. 2003 has no real advantages over 2000 so what are people supposed to do?
In 2005, you could either 1. Upgrade to Longhorn dumping tons of money and effort converting to what will essentially be beta software (let's throw EVERYTHING on their new untested filesystem.) or 2. Pay a heap in licensing to baby step up to 2003. You'll re-buy licenses for all of your systems and tide yourself over for 3 more years while still running what is essentially Windows 2000. By 2003's EOL, Longhorn 2008 will be ready for release and maybe even almost kinda sort stable and secure (at least through MS tinted glasses).
Make no mistake about it. Their release dates are not scheduled because the product is 'done' or 'working' or because people 'want' or 'need' it. They're schedule in order to most efficiently screw the consumer. Check out their Product Lifecycle crap to see when your next forced upgrade is.
The main reason I signed up with Netflix was that they had every movie I wanted available during the trial period. Now, if I rent a bunch of movies each month I don't get the new releases?
I have a constant queue of about 50 moves. Some new, some old, some good, some crap. My usage will always be high because I expect to have new movies every couple of days. I will *settle* for getting the shitty movies under the assumption that the wait for new releases will be short. This assumption was established over my trial period and the first month that I've been using it.
However, using Netflix, it appears that I'll never be eligible for new releases because I'm content to settle for crap movies to fill the time! "Don't rent the crap movies" you say. Then I don't get my monies worth from the service. If things get bad enough, I may be back at DVD Barn. They might've had more waits but at least they're honest and fair about it.
Now if Netflix's policy was to weigh new releases or movies with people enqueued when determining your wait time for new releases, that would be understandable. You couldn't go in and rent every new release every month. But, when I'm renting ST:TNG seasons and B-rate horror flicks to tide the time until something good comes along and being punished for it... bullshit.