for startling insights into marketing. (Ok, duh, this is John Dvorak, but still...)
Truly, marketing is designed to convince you that what they've got is much better than what you've got. If you have independent, localized computing, marketing will try to sell you distributed service-based computing. When you've had your fill of service-based computing, well, that's just an opportunity for marketing to sell you independent localized computing.
It's like samsara except that the marketers consider the cycle of rebirth to be good. (They are marketers, after all; enlightenment means that they no longer have anything to sell you!)
So, 29k transistors. Hmm. How many transistors does a wristwatch have? I'm guessing, for instance, that my P.O.S. Timex LCD critter can't have too much semiconductor complexity. OTOH, this prolly has scads and scads more transistor-y goodness.
But if it became popular to install an ad filter on the cable line before it reached your television, it would undermine television's business model.
Whadday mean, "If"? It exists. Every PVR in the universe used for, at the very least, fast-forwarding through ads. And a few supported blind skipping of commercials on-demand.
Some bright young thing here will point out that this class of ad-blocking has been taken out of commercially-made PVRs because of pressure from advertising content providers. (Tivo banner ads, for instance.) That just proves that your kind of distorted thinking has precedent.
It's pretty obvious that ad-blocking web sites IS akin to resource theft...
Odd. I think I've heard this before. Oh, yeah, Big Broadcast Media has whined about commercial-skipping on over-the-air TV using this exact same pitiful "logic"...
"Because of the ad skips.... It's theft. Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots. Otherwise you couldn't get the show on an ad-supported basis. Any time you skip a commercial or watch the button you're actually stealing the programming." -- Jamie Kellner, CEO, Turner Broadcasting, April 2002.
So... you're publicly agreeing on/. with media pigopolists? Commercial-skipping is wrong and EEEE-vil and we should be good little consumers and look at the pretty ads?
Sorry, I choose what I watch. Block if you wish. I obviously have no use for your website anyways, if it's so crap that you have to pimp it out to make it work.
He wasn't talking about TFA. He was talking about the FUD in his own posting.
You aren't supposed to be pressing for details (or meta-details, for that matter). You're supposed to be quaking in fear, wallowing in uncertainty, and paralyzed by doubt.
Did you really buy that cock-and-bull story about having to release radioactive gas into Gnomergan to drive off the troggs? Puh-lease! That was clearly a massive accidental release from their underground WMD labs.
This unsanctioned action by the ISPs is simply fighting the last war with untargeted dumb weapons. The only thing they're accomplishing is collateral damage.
That's akin to some photocopier-humor geek jokes we assembler coders used to share in my salad days. My favorite hypothetical assembler opcode was "HCF"... "Halt and Catch Fire".
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for startling insights into marketing. (Ok, duh, this is John Dvorak, but still...)
Truly, marketing is designed to convince you that what they've got is much better than what you've got. If you have independent, localized computing, marketing will try to sell you distributed service-based computing. When you've had your fill of service-based computing, well, that's just an opportunity for marketing to sell you independent localized computing.
It's like samsara except that the marketers consider the cycle of rebirth to be good. (They are marketers, after all; enlightenment means that they no longer have anything to sell you!)
I'd have to mod TFA "-1, Obvious".
(from http://redhill.net.au/c/c-1.html
So, 29k transistors. Hmm. How many transistors does a wristwatch have? I'm guessing, for instance, that my P.O.S. Timex LCD critter can't have too much semiconductor complexity. OTOH, this prolly has scads and scads more transistor-y goodness.
Consider the maxim "Gambling is a voluntary tax on poor math skills."
Except lying, feints etc are parts of strategy so perhaps those could be predicted too.
Everything I ever needed to learn, I learned from The Princess Bride
But if it became popular to install an ad filter on the cable line before it reached your television, it would undermine television's business model.
Whadday mean, "If"? It exists. Every PVR in the universe used for, at the very least, fast-forwarding through ads. And a few supported blind skipping of commercials on-demand.
Some bright young thing here will point out that this class of ad-blocking has been taken out of commercially-made PVRs because of pressure from advertising content providers. (Tivo banner ads, for instance.) That just proves that your kind of distorted thinking has precedent.
It's pretty obvious that ad-blocking web sites IS akin to resource theft...
Odd. I think I've heard this before. Oh, yeah, Big Broadcast Media has whined about commercial-skipping on over-the-air TV using this exact same pitiful "logic"...
(Source: http://www.2600.com/news/view/article/1113)So... you're publicly agreeing on /. with media pigopolists? Commercial-skipping is wrong and EEEE-vil and we should be good little consumers and look at the pretty ads?
Sorry, I choose what I watch. Block if you wish. I obviously have no use for your website anyways, if it's so crap that you have to pimp it out to make it work.
Moof!
Thud.
He wasn't talking about TFA. He was talking about the FUD in his own posting.
You aren't supposed to be pressing for details (or meta-details, for that matter). You're supposed to be quaking in fear, wallowing in uncertainty, and paralyzed by doubt.
So get on it, chop-chop!
DIY directed energy weapons projects on /.
C'mon folks, there's a fine line between casemodding and the Anarchist's Cookbook, and we just flew way the Hell over it.
No, the real question is... Does the ice cream truck blend?
Great. I can't decide whether to mod this "-1 clueless speller" or "+1 ironically funny".
Of course, I'm posting, so the whole issue is moot. (Not mute.)
(See? We men aren't useful for much except for fixing cars and hauling around heavy objects. ;)
It's a standing joke between my Beloved and I.... "If only cucumbers could mow the grass...."
I hope it's a joke, at least.
Damn straight.
Did you really buy that cock-and-bull story about having to release radioactive gas into Gnomergan to drive off the troggs? Puh-lease! That was clearly a massive accidental release from their underground WMD labs.
in 3..2..1..
Does Atheros agree? On paper?
If not, queue the lawsuits in 5...4...3..2..1
That doesn't excuse you from writing nonsense.
Yeah, I thought the "Skippy" and "Darth" things were a bit over the top too.
You see? Here in America, you can find ANYTHING to satirize. And, by and large, you won't go to prison for it.
You misread that card, Mate.
It says (now) "Bank Error in Your Favor, Go to Jail, Go Directly to Jail, Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200"
But that's OK, I and my battleship will visit you from time to time.
that explains a lot.
Still, the SCOTUS will fix^h^h^h overturn this soon.
Pirates v. Ninjas
Chuck Norris v. Vin Diesel
Horde v. Alliance
Atari ST v. Amiga
vi v. emacs
Eris v. FSM
of how the balance of power has shifted:
I click da linky to read TFA and am greeted with:
How the mighty have fallen.
Angry Fruit Salad.
Most everyone hates botnets, but no one wants to actually do anything about it. I commend them for actually doing something about it.
Congratulations on doing the wrong thing about it. But I guess the appearance of action is better than a wise and considered inaction.
In case you didn't know, botnets don't use static IRC services for command and control any more. (http://www.mcafee.com/us/local_content/white_pape rs/threat_center/wp_vb2006_myers.pdf) (http://honeyblog.org/archives/32-Steganography-in -Botnet-Command-Control.html) (http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11473).
This unsanctioned action by the ISPs is simply fighting the last war with untargeted dumb weapons. The only thing they're accomplishing is collateral damage.
Sad to say.
The root password on the U. S. Constitution is "The Global War on $SUBJECT"
There's a story behind that...http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=10289305 4014512&w=2
That's akin to some photocopier-humor geek jokes we assembler coders used to share in my salad days. My favorite hypothetical assembler opcode was "HCF"... "Halt and Catch Fire".
has cleared their trademark with Joan Miro's estate?
If not, queue intellectual property lawsuits in 5..4..3..
It's happened before.
The joke's on teh 133t h@x0r; I know it won't terminate.
But now you've blown the punchline...