I agree! I therefore announce that I will be making available for sale recordings of me singing in the shower and of my young son crying. These will be released without any DRM so please, support me and show that this can work! A dollar for me is a vote against The Man!
We believe that most people like to be treated as customers and not potential criminals...
We know the 13 of you who purchased music from our catalog in the past will appreciate this and we hope to double our customer base by the end of the year.
I can write a book about Tolkien and title it "The Life of Tolkien". Why shouldn't I be able to get a domain name with his name, as long as I state I'm not he (or his heirs)? Businesses I understand - trademarks, etc. Maybe there should be a top level domain for "unofficial", so you'd have jrrtolkien.official and jrrtolkien.unofficial. A litter cumbersome but you get the point.
That's the army site but you can find others. Even if your school doesn't offer ROTC you can still participate if a local school does offer ROTC. For example, the university I attended didn't have ROTC so I did my ROTC training at another larger (local) university, while receiving a full scholarship (+ books and a stipend) for the school I was attending.
Open Source systems (bazaar) are often much more stable than commercial systems (cathedral) just because of the number of bug hunters
How's that? You don't need to be using OSS to find bugs. People are complaining all the time about bugs in MS products. Given Microsoft's market share I submit MS has far more bug hunters than all of open sourcedom combined.
Perhaps you meant bug fixers? Who is going to run, debug, recode military applications? They would then submit the fixes through, what, anonymous CVS? Yes, that's a sound way to ensure your mission critical military applications are stable and bug free.
Now, is it a bug if all the missiles launched turn and head toward the White House if someone put that code in intentionally?
The original Internet and Open Source standards came out of public monies mostly granted to university research departments by the Department of Defense. Who paid for those efforts? Why must the public have to pay for those technologies once again because companies like Microsoft adopt them and then resell them as proprietary software?
What the hell is he talking about? In the previous paragraph he writes:
If the Internet failed to follow accepted standards, it simply would not work
So the Internet works because it "follows standards", and we know MSIE (price: free) has the largest share of the browser market. So MS hasn't broken the Internet. Can someone give an example of what he's talking about? And don't tell me Kerberos because it's not the example you're looking for (MS did not co-opt it - MS extended Kerberos in accordance with the spec).
He started out reasonable and then got shrill. He throws out statements like, "Seventy-five percent of the municipalities and schools in the United States cannot afford proprietary software" So...that means 75% of the municipalities are either a) running OSS, b) using pen and paper, or c) pirating all their software. A source reference would have been nice.
Oh no...he has recommendations too:
the states should require the use of Open Standards and Open Source Software when applicable
When applicable? So, who decides when the software "applies"? Availability? Cost? (cost of development for a custom solution vs cost of COTS software) Everyone knows offshore development is cheaper - since he beats the fiscal drum so loudly does he also advocate sending any custom programming jobs overseas? He did have one good idea:
If we can pay for software one time and share it with all government entities, we empower Americans to participate in the security of the homeland.
Now, did you even try? No, you didn't. You're just making stuff up.
In case you do run into a place that requires a valid e-mail account, here are some instructions from me to you so you won't have this problem in the future:
Create new AOL screen name. Hint: it doesn't have to be your real name.
Dial in to AOL using the screen name you just created.
Register at the website of your choice using the e-mail address for the new screen name.
Wait for the confirmation e-mail. Click the link. Change the password to something you can remember.
The New York Times has an interview with Alan Ralsky, commonly known as the world's worst spammer...Ralsky admits using open relays and virus-infected PCs and not honoring unsubscribe lists.
From that description it sounds like he's a pretty damn good spammer. The world's worst spammer is probably some guy trying to send spam through his AOL account.
New e-mail
Paste address
Paste body
Send e-mail
Dismiss popup ad
New e-mail
etc etc
Profit!
No, I think ol' Alan is good at what he does. Of course that's like arguing who was the best serial killer...
The GF4 Ti4600 comes out at or near the top of their "Fbucks" rating, which is fps/$. They show a price of $65 for the card, based on what bizrate.com reports. If you go to bizrate.com and look at the Ti4600's available it does appear there are some for $55-65.
If you dig a little deeper and follow the link for the Jaton 3DForce4 Ti4600 for $54 you'll find all the retailers listed are actually selling the MX440, a lesser card.
If you follow an $89 link (still a great price) you'll find half.com is offering the PNY Verto GEFORCE4 TI 4600 for that price (according to bizrate). Click the link to half.com and hey! you can get a new one for $319 or a used one for $180. No $89.
While I respect Tom's hardware I think fact checking is a much larger task in these bulk reviews and is something they need to pay a little more attention to.
Excellent post...I was going to say the same thing, except I don't have Real Player installed on my system for the reasons you gave - it's bloated spyware.
His experience installing many operating systems does not necessarily mean he's an expert on which ones are best for doing work. I'm sure he hasn't tried to be productive in all 55 operatings systems.
Apparently you didn't get the memo...please complete the quote. Your paraphrase does not meet spec. Here's the template:
And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves."
For full compliance you could have written something like, "as a trusted slashdot poster, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground bargain music caves" or something funnier.
Oh, and all jokes must now use the new cover sheet...
I suppose this is where I am expected to say something along the lines of, "I thought the recording industry said that this business model wouldn't work, that people won't pay for what they can download for free?" So, there you go.
I'm sorry, I didn't hear a thing. Could you speak up? And do it soon, I'm getting ready to hit the sack. Thanks.
Slashdot Mirror
Sig: "All negative mods are now being metamodded as unfair. Think before you abuse."
I'm sure the "GNAA" and other trolls are very happy to read this.
Now head back to your Garth Brooks and Shania fucking Twain and give the rest of us some peace.
Wow, one of the 13 responds! It brings a song to mind..."Man, I feel like a coward..."
The strength of your convictions is totally eliminated by your choice to post anonymously.
I agree! I therefore announce that I will be making available for sale recordings of me singing in the shower and of my young son crying. These will be released without any DRM so please, support me and show that this can work! A dollar for me is a vote against The Man!
We believe that most people like to be treated as customers and not potential criminals...
We know the 13 of you who purchased music from our catalog in the past will appreciate this and we hope to double our customer base by the end of the year.
Heh. I'd mod you up. Ignore the humorless cretins.
I can write a book about Tolkien and title it "The Life of Tolkien". Why shouldn't I be able to get a domain name with his name, as long as I state I'm not he (or his heirs)? Businesses I understand - trademarks, etc. Maybe there should be a top level domain for "unofficial", so you'd have jrrtolkien.official and jrrtolkien.unofficial. A litter cumbersome but you get the point.
If he told us the ISP then we could look up the ISP's AUP. More than likely it has a clause restricting usage and he doesn't want us to see that.
In other words, RTFAUP!
That's the army site but you can find others. Even if your school doesn't offer ROTC you can still participate if a local school does offer ROTC. For example, the university I attended didn't have ROTC so I did my ROTC training at another larger (local) university, while receiving a full scholarship (+ books and a stipend) for the school I was attending.
Open Source systems (bazaar) are often much more stable than commercial systems (cathedral) just because of the number of bug hunters
How's that? You don't need to be using OSS to find bugs. People are complaining all the time about bugs in MS products. Given Microsoft's market share I submit MS has far more bug hunters than all of open sourcedom combined.
Perhaps you meant bug fixers? Who is going to run, debug, recode military applications? They would then submit the fixes through, what, anonymous CVS? Yes, that's a sound way to ensure your mission critical military applications are stable and bug free.
Now, is it a bug if all the missiles launched turn and head toward the White House if someone put that code in intentionally?
The original Internet and Open Source standards came out of public monies mostly granted to university research departments by the Department of Defense. Who paid for those efforts? Why must the public have to pay for those technologies once again because companies like Microsoft adopt them and then resell them as proprietary software?
What the hell is he talking about? In the previous paragraph he writes:
If the Internet failed to follow accepted standards, it simply would not work
So the Internet works because it "follows standards", and we know MSIE (price: free) has the largest share of the browser market. So MS hasn't broken the Internet. Can someone give an example of what he's talking about? And don't tell me Kerberos because it's not the example you're looking for (MS did not co-opt it - MS extended Kerberos in accordance with the spec).
He started out reasonable and then got shrill. He throws out statements like, "Seventy-five percent of the municipalities and schools in the United States cannot afford proprietary software" So...that means 75% of the municipalities are either a) running OSS, b) using pen and paper, or c) pirating all their software. A source reference would have been nice.
Oh no...he has recommendations too:
the states should require the use of Open Standards and Open Source Software when applicable
When applicable? So, who decides when the software "applies"? Availability? Cost? (cost of development for a custom solution vs cost of COTS software) Everyone knows offshore development is cheaper - since he beats the fiscal drum so loudly does he also advocate sending any custom programming jobs overseas? He did have one good idea:
If we can pay for software one time and share it with all government entities, we empower Americans to participate in the security of the homeland.
Solution: site licenses for America!
Now, did you even try? No, you didn't. You're just making stuff up.
In case you do run into a place that requires a valid e-mail account, here are some instructions from me to you so you won't have this problem in the future:
- Create new AOL screen name. Hint: it doesn't have to be your real name.
- Dial in to AOL using the screen name you just created.
- Register at the website of your choice using the e-mail address for the new screen name.
- Wait for the confirmation e-mail. Click the link. Change the password to something you can remember.
- Cancel the screen name created in step 1.
Voila.Well, I for one don't enjoy tossing my information about willy-nilly just to read an article
Psssst...don't tell anyone I told you this, but...you don't have to use your real information.
From that description it sounds like he's a pretty damn good spammer. The world's worst spammer is probably some guy trying to send spam through his AOL account.
- New e-mail
- Paste address
- Paste body
- Send e-mail
- Dismiss popup ad
- New e-mail
- etc etc
- Profit!
No, I think ol' Alan is good at what he does. Of course that's like arguing who was the best serial killer...The GF4 Ti4600 comes out at or near the top of their "Fbucks" rating, which is fps/$. They show a price of $65 for the card, based on what bizrate.com reports. If you go to bizrate.com and look at the Ti4600's available it does appear there are some for $55-65.
If you dig a little deeper and follow the link for the Jaton 3DForce4 Ti4600 for $54 you'll find all the retailers listed are actually selling the MX440, a lesser card.
If you follow an $89 link (still a great price) you'll find half.com is offering the PNY Verto GEFORCE4 TI 4600 for that price (according to bizrate). Click the link to half.com and hey! you can get a new one for $319 or a used one for $180. No $89.
While I respect Tom's hardware I think fact checking is a much larger task in these bulk reviews and is something they need to pay a little more attention to.
Excellent post...I was going to say the same thing, except I don't have Real Player installed on my system for the reasons you gave - it's bloated spyware.
Sadly, you are right
But look at my posting time
I was up too late
This really bores me.
Work and home, XP for me
You all need a life
Oh wait, you said colorful. Ok...
Pasty white skin tone,
Yellow teeth, bloodshot red eyes.
Come out of the basement!
His experience installing many operating systems does not necessarily mean he's an expert on which ones are best for doing work. I'm sure he hasn't tried to be productive in all 55 operatings systems.
Apparently you didn't get the memo...please complete the quote. Your paraphrase does not meet spec. Here's the template:
And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves."
For full compliance you could have written something like, "as a trusted slashdot poster, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground bargain music caves" or something funnier.
Oh, and all jokes must now use the new cover sheet...
I suppose this is where I am expected to say something along the lines of, "I thought the recording industry said that this business model wouldn't work, that people won't pay for what they can download for free?" So, there you go.
I'm sorry, I didn't hear a thing. Could you speak up? And do it soon, I'm getting ready to hit the sack. Thanks.
I was just going to point that out. Maybe they are only ranking relational databases and didn't know what to do with your object oriented database.
For those unfamiliar with BaBar the project uses Objectivity. Here's an article about it.
The banner ad I'm seeing right now reads:
LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards
Best Integration Software.
Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX.
It seems at least a few people have heard of this "Windows". link
No way. Brazil is much too large to get into the air.
I'm fortunate in that I have a friend who works for EA, and whose girlfriend couldn't make it to the screening.
Unfortunately, my friend expected me to swallow.
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week.
What of instead of Lindows they called it X-Lindows, as it being based of *nix software? Would Microsoft then still have a case in your opinion?
No.