No serious site is going to want someone posting uninformed flamebait all the time (except maybe/., I'm still here after all) because every time Dvorak pisses us off he turns us off from PCMag. Everytime he prints something so blatantly phony he reminds us about the shallow level of analysis on PCMags site.
He is not getting it any closer to being a site I regularly visit. Which is what he actually should be doing to keep his editors happy...
WRONG WRONG WRONG!!!!!
They do not care about YOU! YOU are far too technically astute. YOU are not ZD's market! Nor are you M$ market! I posted something to this effect quite some time ago on ZDNN. Althought I was writing about M$, it is equally applicable to ZDNN. Rather than post a link to it on ZDNN and thus provide more grist for their banner serving mill, I'll just quote it verbatim:
I have come to the conclusion that MS isn't stupid, its just that MS has realized that people like you, myself and many of the other Talkback posters here don't matter. We are laboring under the false impression that it's people like us they want to sell software to. It's not! All the money of all the halfway knowlegeable/informed/technically astute folks out there is a drop in the bucket compared to the trillions of readily available dollars in the hands of those who know no better. The 11 million people who think AOL is the internet. The ones who still use Netscape 1.1, with www.netscape.com set as the home page, because thats what they got when they signed up with their ISP. People who dont know what drag and drop is. People running their $600 17' monitors in 640 x 480 mode, with Start buttons the size of my shoe. We simply don't matter. THOSE people are the great untapped market of future software sales - they will buy anything you tell them they need, and when it makes a mess of their system, they'll beleive it's their fault, because they readily beleive Bill Gates invented the internet, and TCI invented cable television, and that both televisions and computers are smarter than they are...
Bite My Ziff, Davis!
====== "Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
Truthfully, I think he was taunting the slashdot crowd to come on over and post your flames. The more feedbacks they get the higher their ratings. Just like the Neilsen ratings. Show alot of swimsuits, flame Linux -- same thing.
Exact-o-mundo! ZDNN is nothing but a big banner serving machine. Talkback is an interesting mechanism - every talkback is presented on its own page with a full complement of ads. If 50 get posted on any given "story", and 100,000 readers view each one, ZD's "eyeball count" leaps by 5 million, driving up their banner rates and swelling their number of served impressions.
Now the best part is - the readers provide the content for nothing. The no-cost content is packaged into pages and served up generating all kinds of revenue. If you thought they were just being nice and letting you speak up, well, think again.
Bite My Ziff, Davis!
====== "Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
I also received the spam thismorning, and the part that really hacked me off (I was unaware until now of the security implication of the email account) is the end of it:
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So by opting out of their spam, you are opting out of ANY communication from them at all regarding your domain(s).
To paraphrase The Who, "Who the fuck are they????????
Bite My Ziff, Davis!
====== "Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
I for one got very excited about the cam. I LOVE storms and place myself right into them whenever I can. I live in Michigan and one thing I really want to see with my own eyes is a tornado. I cowered in the basement in 1964 when I was 11 years old and one passed less than 1/4 mile away, on the ground. That may be the earliest discovery for me that there were things my Father actually feared, and him being frightened scared the hell out of me. I certainly respect the strength and possible deadliness of natural phenomena like tornado's. Nevertheless, I'll consider myself lucky if one of these days I get to observe one!
I have never before had the opportunity to stand on someones back porch and observe a hurricane via the web. Yes, I am aware there will be damage and possible loss of life and lives disrupted in unpleasant ways. That doesn't dampen my enthusiasm for an opportunity to view the phenomena. And THAT doesn't make me insensitive. Storms and natural disasters occur - my compulsion to view them has no impact on that and causes nobody harm.
Bite My Ziff, Davis!
====== "Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
BMG (Bertelsmann Music Group) owns Windham Hill Group which in turn supplies us with Yanni. The entire rating system is a secret ploy to support their evil elevator music empire. (insert maniacal laughing here).
I KNEW IT!!!! Yanni IS the Anti-Christ!!!
Bite My Ziff, Davis!
====== "Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
Lets all chip in and buy an Island, then we could start our own country, The last free country in the world!!! Homer -"I call President!" Mr. Burns -"Vice President!" Smithers -"Aww crap..."
I can see the evening news now... "The proposed legislation is stalled in committee after being moderated down, some say unfairly. Fert Berfner, head of the powerful right-wing ultra-conservative Fairness in Meta Moderation PAC, has said his organization is considering becoming involved. 'We need to hit the bastards where it hurts - in their Karma fields!'"
Bite My Ziff, Davis!
====== "Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
We will probably spend the next twenty years and who knows how much money defining copyright law for the web in the courts, and then even more money enforcing that law. Worse, the only real benefit will be to the distribution channels, not the content artists or end users.
And thus, the crux of the matter, and the real reason we face 20 years of litigation: the web is The Distribution Channel to end all distribution channels!
Bite My Ziff, Davis!
====== "Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
Go talk to your ham radio neighbor. If he's a typical ham, he'll assist you in eliminating the interference.
Now, I wonder what FCC would think about the unlicensed use of a device "pushing a 20 megawatt burst of undisciplined radio noise through an antenna." Not much, I'll wager!
====== "Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
I remember when I first saw Netscape, I could not understand why an email client was integrated. It was not as slick nor did it offer features found in dedicated clients. Email is email, and web is web, it seemed to me. I still feel the same way - why would I want to use a browser interface for FTP when there are better FTP clients?
I feel this sort of all-in-one integration has confused the newbies as well - IMHO, newbies NEED to make the distinction between the various net protocols, lest they NEVER get a clue about what they are doing on the net.
The "bundling" of all these various functions into the single product seems awfully "Microsoftish" to me. I'm aware this is probably heresy in this environment to criticize Mozilla, but I'd like to see it concentrate on giving us what we have yet to see from either Netscrape Aggravator OR Internet Exploiter - a standards-compliant, fully functional http client that is the best of breed.
Why cobble the thing up with IRC and RTM? There are excellent clients available for those protocols as it is. The same cannot be said for http clients!
====== "Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
Frankly, this "write once, run everywhere" thing just ain't what it's cracked up to be.
Why not just call a spade a spade? "Write once, run anywhere" is a flat out lie. It never has, and it never will, run "anywhere". Before Java could run any any new hardware platform, a "virtual machine" (read: interpreter) specific to that platform must be created.
====== "Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
Perhaps if a few slashdotters visited the comment submission page it would have some impact...
Form Confirmation Thank you for submitting the following information: MessageType: Complaint Subject: (Other) SubjectOther: Theft of Content Username: Kevin O'Malley UserEmail: filemaker.theft.response@kevino.com ContactRequested: ContactRequested Comments How much of this content is stolen and re-used without permission?
====== "Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
Most of us stop believing in the boogieman as soon as we are old enough to open the closet door and look for ourselves, some merely graduate to bigger, badder boogiemen...
====== "Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
Re:Thats because its utah :)
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my humble lil web server is located at the verio/iserver facility in orem, utah... i am personally located about 40 minutes up I196 from Holland MI, the home of SlashDot, on the north side of Grand Rapids. i wonder where the slashdot servers are located?
====== "Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
However, I'm not suprised that people are becoming more discerning.
Discerning? I don't think so. I think you just have these massive amounts of dummies coming online who don't know how to get anywhere. These are the folks who are running their 17 inch monitors at 640x480 with Win98 and a Start button as big as my shoe. Who will still be running IE5 in 2 years, because thats what was on their machine. Who, if they actually DON'T have AOL, have their start page set to their ISP, or Yahoo, etc, because thats how it came.
I don't believe these statistics because the people who are being measured don't understand the web, and the people who write about them don't understand the damn thing either.
I have to laugh almost every day when I read about some new amazing life-changing possibility soon to be brought to us via the web. The other day it was something about controlling your home remotely. The people who are supposedly going to use and benefit? The same bozo's whose VCR clock has been flashing for 7 years... Yeah, Right!
====== "Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
So corporations can lie all they want if any "reasonable" person would recognize it is a lie? Does this mean that Ford can advertise that their trucks get 65mpg since no "reasonable" person would believe it? Does this mean that Del can advertise that their $1,000 computers outperform the highest performance SGI?
Sure! Just like Microsoft can advertise that their software belongs in the data center!
The guy is obviously unreasonable to have drinken 7,000,000 cans of Coke. Mt. Dew I can see, but Coke????!!! Methinks that Cokeocola was thinking anyone who could drink that much Coke would just die and be unable to collect the Jet, and if he survived he would be WAY to fat to get it off of the ground.
drinken? Cokeocola? Methinks?!?!?!?!
No, you don't. Don't read much either by the looks of things...
Interesting to me that there are actually people here who are surprised at this incompatibility! Do you think people are joking when they tell you that, as far as MS is concerned, there is no html, no javascript, but theirs? Did you find the remark by the MS webmaster that "the site isn't supposed to work with Netscape" arrogant? Why? That is the reality those people live in - there is no Netscape, there is no HTML, no javascript, those have been embraced, extended, and extinguished! Now there is simply web integration, brought to you by MS. People who use Netscape are not following the company line. They are not important, and eventually anyone using anything but MS stuff will simply not matter. Now, I'm saying that is THEIR reality, not mine! It just surprised me that there were people who were surprised by the Netscape problems. In their world, nobody uses Netscape! Why would they code for it?
Can anyone honestly say that they can picture a Windows-based OS in their car? Or in ATMs? Or IP-based phone-switches? (Will we need to reboot your neighbourhood exchange when the phone company adds a new user?)
Slashdot Mirror
Think again, oh Clueless One!
No SSN == No IRS deduction for that child.
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
Yo, d00d, and like, it clashes major big-time with their Old Navy, Gap and Nike logos, too.
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
He is not getting it any closer to being a site I regularly visit. Which is what he actually should be doing to keep his editors happy...
WRONG WRONG WRONG!!!!!
They do not care about YOU! YOU are far too technically astute. YOU are not ZD's market! Nor are you M$ market! I posted something to this effect quite some time ago on ZDNN. Althought I was writing about M$, it is equally applicable to ZDNN. Rather than post a link to it on ZDNN and thus provide more grist for their banner serving mill, I'll just quote it verbatim:
I have come to the conclusion that MS isn't stupid, its just that MS has realized that people like you, myself and many of the other Talkback posters here don't matter. We are laboring under the false impression that it's people like us they want to sell software to. It's not! All the money of all the halfway knowlegeable/informed/technically astute folks out there is a drop in the bucket compared to the trillions of readily available dollars in the hands of those who know no better. The 11 million people who think AOL is the internet. The ones who still use Netscape 1.1, with www.netscape.com set as the home page, because thats what they got when they signed up with their ISP. People who dont know what drag and drop is. People running their $600 17' monitors in 640 x 480 mode, with Start buttons the size of my shoe. We simply don't matter. THOSE people are the great untapped market of future software sales - they will buy anything you tell them they need, and when it makes a mess of their system, they'll beleive it's their fault, because they readily beleive Bill Gates invented the internet, and TCI invented cable television, and that both televisions and computers are smarter than they are...
Bite My Ziff, Davis!
======
"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
Exact-o-mundo! ZDNN is nothing but a big banner serving machine. Talkback is an interesting mechanism - every talkback is presented on its own page with a full complement of ads. If 50 get posted on any given "story", and 100,000 readers view each one, ZD's "eyeball count" leaps by 5 million, driving up their banner rates and swelling their number of served impressions.
Now the best part is - the readers provide the content for nothing. The no-cost content is packaged into pages and served up generating all kinds of revenue. If you thought they were just being nice and letting you speak up, well, think again.
Bite My Ziff, Davis!
======
"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
Little guy on a raft?
Bite My Ziff, Davis!
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
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To paraphrase The Who, "Who the fuck are they????????
Bite My Ziff, Davis!
======
"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
I have never before had the opportunity to stand on someones back porch and observe a hurricane via the web. Yes, I am aware there will be damage and possible loss of life and lives disrupted in unpleasant ways. That doesn't dampen my enthusiasm for an opportunity to view the phenomena. And THAT doesn't make me insensitive. Storms and natural disasters occur - my compulsion to view them has no impact on that and causes nobody harm.
Bite My Ziff, Davis!
======
"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
I KNEW IT!!!! Yanni IS the Anti-Christ!!!
Bite My Ziff, Davis!
======
"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
I can see the evening news now...
"The proposed legislation is stalled in committee after being moderated down, some say unfairly. Fert Berfner, head of the powerful right-wing ultra-conservative Fairness in Meta Moderation PAC, has said his organization is considering becoming involved. 'We need to hit the bastards where it hurts - in their Karma fields!'"
Bite My Ziff, Davis!
======
"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
And thus, the crux of the matter, and the real reason we face 20 years of litigation: the web is The Distribution Channel to end all distribution channels!
Bite My Ziff, Davis!
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
I found the 'divide by zero' excuse really amusing, and the response that a $2.95 calculator cannot be crashed in this manner is priceless!
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
Now, I wonder what FCC would think about the unlicensed use of a device "pushing a 20 megawatt burst of undisciplined radio noise through an antenna." Not much, I'll wager!
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
I feel this sort of all-in-one integration has confused the newbies as well - IMHO, newbies NEED to make the distinction between the various net protocols, lest they NEVER get a clue about what they are doing on the net.
The "bundling" of all these various functions into the single product seems awfully "Microsoftish" to me. I'm aware this is probably heresy in this environment to criticize Mozilla, but I'd like to see it concentrate on giving us what we have yet to see from either Netscrape Aggravator OR Internet Exploiter - a standards-compliant, fully functional http client that is the best of breed.
Why cobble the thing up with IRC and RTM? There are excellent clients available for those protocols as it is. The same cannot be said for http clients!
======
"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
Why not just call a spade a spade? "Write once, run anywhere" is a flat out lie. It never has, and it never will, run "anywhere". Before Java could run any any new hardware platform, a "virtual machine" (read: interpreter) specific to that platform must be created.
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
Perhaps if a few slashdotters visited the comment submission page it would have some impact...
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How much of this content is stolen and re-used without permission?
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
Most of us stop believing in the boogieman as soon as we are old enough to open the closet door and look for ourselves, some merely graduate to bigger, badder boogiemen...
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
Discerning? I don't think so. I think you just have these massive amounts of dummies coming online who don't know how to get anywhere. These are the folks who are running their 17 inch monitors at 640x480 with Win98 and a Start button as big as my shoe. Who will still be running IE5 in 2 years, because thats what was on their machine. Who, if they actually DON'T have AOL, have their start page set to their ISP, or Yahoo, etc, because thats how it came.
I don't believe these statistics because the people who are being measured don't understand the web, and the people who write about them don't understand the damn thing either.
I have to laugh almost every day when I read about some new amazing life-changing possibility soon to be brought to us via the web. The other day it was something about controlling your home remotely. The people who are supposedly going to use and benefit? The same bozo's whose VCR clock has been flashing for 7 years... Yeah, Right!
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
Sure! Just like Microsoft can advertise that their software belongs in the data center!
drinken? Cokeocola?
Methinks?!?!?!?!
No, you don't. Don't read much either by the looks of things...
Interesting to me that there are actually people here who are surprised at this incompatibility! Do you think people are joking when they tell you that, as far as MS is concerned, there is no html, no javascript, but theirs? Did you find the remark by the MS webmaster that "the site isn't supposed to work with Netscape" arrogant? Why? That is the reality those people live in - there is no Netscape, there is no HTML, no javascript, those have been embraced, extended, and extinguished! Now there is simply web integration, brought to you by MS. People who use Netscape are not following the company line. They are not important, and eventually anyone using anything but MS stuff will simply not matter. Now, I'm saying that is THEIR reality, not mine! It just surprised me that there were people who were surprised by the Netscape problems. In their world, nobody uses Netscape! Why would they code for it?
Deep inside this obscure site the truth can be found...
Beleive it or not, there are those who are already testing those waters - er, no pun intended - see Software glitches leave Navy Smart Ship dead in the water.
Utterly unbeleivable, some of the statements made in that article. An "engineering local area network casualty" indeed!