Shit breaks, and that's all there is to it. Nothing in this world is perfect. Humans are not perfect, they do not make perfect things. Saying we should have computers that don't crash is like saying we should have cars that hit 200 mph in.01 seconds, generate 0 emissions, and never ever ever need repair or maintenance - esp cause we've had cars longer than computers. You are asking for perfection and that is not humanly possible.
In my town of 500 people in rural NJ, I can't get T1 or cable access...it suxors cause I want to start a business that would require I get a high speed line for people to connect to my servers but I can't do it from an office close to home...
Do they make them in different sizes, like for servers or rack mounted machines? If you take a really big cardboard box, I'm sure you could build an entire beowulf cluster in one of these...
In "Knight Rider 2000", KITT is a modified Pontiac Banshee - which is a concept car. And in a way we are both right...the actual car used on TV was a Trans Am, but I remember reading somewhere that at least in the pilot episode or even before Knight Rider actually hit the air the car was a Grand National. Maybe the source I read was wrong, and it was not something I read on the internet. Anyways, the trans am is definately a better choice:)
Is the IMAX version actually shot for an IMAX theatre, or are they just blowing up the standard flick for an IMAX screen? I wish they'd make a normal movie with the IMAX setup in mind..i.e. put more subjects in a frame cause it will fit on the screen at a normal size...otherwise it's just the same movie, only with Keanu's empty head 5x larger (and therefore 5x emptier).
By saying a business is targeting children as a market, you are saying that:
1)The business is expecting children to go to the location of that business,
or
2)Go where that business's product is located,
and
3)Purchase that product or service in response to their advertising campaign.
Now tell me: How many 10 year olds have credit cards? Amazon targets the people who are legally able to have their own credit card - ADULTS! Ok maybe 15-17 year olds get copies in their parents' names, but still...
And in response to this quote:
"The fact is that parents give their kids the means to pay for things. When a parent does that, they're in effect giving their consent to their child interacting with a Web site."
This is absolute bullshit. Posession of a credit card has nothing to do with the act of using a website. By applying that quote to ALL websites, does it then imply that parents are giving consent to their children to use pr0n sites simply because they gave their kids their credit card info? If that's the case, then those parents should be the ones accused of endangering children, not Amazon. But let's put that aside for a moment, because that is just a hypothetical.
I don't need a credit card to post to most blogs, message boards, or guest books - which is basically what Amazon's customer review feature is. If this is truly about children giving out personal information, any 6 year old that knows his/her name and address can do the same thing anywhere else.
This is simply another case of parents wanting society to raise their children for them.
...if you still do the same job and make the same amount of money. Last year my title was changed from Network Administrator to Information Systems Manager, but I'm still an IT Department of one (kinda like "The Army of One"), still have total responsibility but absolutely no authority, still have no budget, and still have no pay raise.
The title and 50 cents can get me a cup of coffee. And I still would have to go to the owner of the company to get permission to spend money on the cup of coffee.
OMG not legacy technology....
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Why the hell am I using light bulbs with filament in them? Why use light bulbs at all? And well the clothes I'm wearing have buttons...and that is like 1000 year old technology...does somebody want to make me a shirt that doesn't contain all this legacy technology? Seriously...if it ain't broke, don't fix it!!!
But you are not talking about the same product. The water that comes from a bottle is different than the water from your tap. Even people's taps differ. And most people do pay for what comes out of the tap - it's called a water bill. Unless you actually gather the water yourself via well and a septic system (I actually have both), the municipality you live in provides water/sewage service and you pay for it.
I don't see your post as a bait. I can agree with your perspective that if this paid service is somehow better that more people would wind up using it. That's how most other businesses work after all.
However I don't think the comparison to open source software is a valid one. Yes you are right that more people buy proprietary over downloading Open Source. The main reason people (and I mean the general population) pay for their OS is because it comes preinstalled on their computer. Besides that fact, there are differences between OSes. People use certain software because of what it does, how it is used, being trained to use it, whatever. So let's assume for a minute that there is this song that a pay service and a free service both offer. It is the same exact song, both excellent quality files, etc. There is no real difference between the mp3 that comes from a pay service and the same mp3 coming from a free service. They both operate the same exact way. For instance, your average person doesn't need to relearn how to use that paid mp3 vs the free mp3, but the average person would have to relearn a different OS if they wanted something else.
Now that's out of the way, let's address the quality issue. If the service relies on it's users to supply the mp3s, there is no guarantee of quality of mp3s by using a pay service. In order to guarantee superior quality mp3s, the pay service would have to buy the CDs and rip them themselves, or purchase the mp3s from the record companies outright. But by doing that it ceases to be a file sharing service.
...because most people won't pay for what they can get for free otherwise. While the system may make some money, it won't even put a dent in copyright infringement. There will always be another free file sharing system. I've asked a number of my friends - most of who are not techie type people - if they would be doing it if they had to pay for their downloads. They all said no.
We can all scream bloody murder about how there are no pay systems, CD prices are too high, artists today blow, intellectual property rights are wrong, filesharing actually increases CD sales, capitalism is evil, whatever your favorite argument is...the fact is you can't beat free and as long as the people can get it for free, the majority of people will not use a pay service.
That's reality. Maybe not the reality in your head or on Slashdot, but the reality of the world.
I realize that genetic engingeering has been around since monks and peas, however it is obvious that the engineering they are talking about here is alot more complicated than crossbreeding two variations of plants, and at some point required modern laboratory facilities.
Ishmael: Hey Ezekiel! I have an idea! We can grow genetically engineered tobacco that is non-habit forming!!! Ezekiel: That's wonderful! What is genetic engineering? Ishmael: Well, you take this machine, plug it in, and...oh...nevermind.
I am so happy Microsoft got a taste of the problems that their own buggy software has...I wonder how many times this will have to happen to them until they get the picture.
"That vulnerability is completely theor...oh shit!"
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Shit breaks, and that's all there is to it. Nothing in this world is perfect. Humans are not perfect, they do not make perfect things. Saying we should have computers that don't crash is like saying we should have cars that hit 200 mph in .01 seconds, generate 0 emissions, and never ever ever need repair or maintenance - esp cause we've had cars longer than computers. You are asking for perfection and that is not humanly possible.
In my town of 500 people in rural NJ, I can't get T1 or cable access...it suxors cause I want to start a business that would require I get a high speed line for people to connect to my servers but I can't do it from an office close to home...
Do they make them in different sizes, like for servers or rack mounted machines? If you take a really big cardboard box, I'm sure you could build an entire beowulf cluster in one of these...
Just ask Google! They don't seem to be complaining.
In "Knight Rider 2000", KITT is a modified Pontiac Banshee - which is a concept car. And in a way we are both right...the actual car used on TV was a Trans Am, but I remember reading somewhere that at least in the pilot episode or even before Knight Rider actually hit the air the car was a Grand National. Maybe the source I read was wrong, and it was not something I read on the internet. Anyways, the trans am is definately a better choice :)
Incidentally, the original KITT was a Buick Grand National, not a Firebird...
Is the IMAX version actually shot for an IMAX theatre, or are they just blowing up the standard flick for an IMAX screen? I wish they'd make a normal movie with the IMAX setup in mind..i.e. put more subjects in a frame cause it will fit on the screen at a normal size...otherwise it's just the same movie, only with Keanu's empty head 5x larger (and therefore 5x emptier).
By saying a business is targeting children as a market, you are saying that:
1)The business is expecting children to go to the location of that business,
or
2)Go where that business's product is located,
and
3)Purchase that product or service in response to their advertising campaign.
Now tell me: How many 10 year olds have credit cards? Amazon targets the people who are legally able to have their own credit card - ADULTS! Ok maybe 15-17 year olds get copies in their parents' names, but still...
And in response to this quote:
"The fact is that parents give their kids the means to pay for things. When a parent does that, they're in effect giving their consent to their child interacting with a Web site."
This is absolute bullshit. Posession of a credit card has nothing to do with the act of using a website. By applying that quote to ALL websites, does it then imply that parents are giving consent to their children to use pr0n sites simply because they gave their kids their credit card info? If that's the case, then those parents should be the ones accused of endangering children, not Amazon. But let's put that aside for a moment, because that is just a hypothetical.
I don't need a credit card to post to most blogs, message boards, or guest books - which is basically what Amazon's customer review feature is. If this is truly about children giving out personal information, any 6 year old that knows his/her name and address can do the same thing anywhere else.
This is simply another case of parents wanting society to raise their children for them.
Imagine a beowulf culster of barstools!!!!
In Soviet Russia, the Barstool races YOU!!!
All your barstools are belong to us...
...if you still do the same job and make the same amount of money. Last year my title was changed from Network Administrator to Information Systems Manager, but I'm still an IT Department of one (kinda like "The Army of One"), still have total responsibility but absolutely no authority, still have no budget, and still have no pay raise.
The title and 50 cents can get me a cup of coffee. And I still would have to go to the owner of the company to get permission to spend money on the cup of coffee.
Why the hell am I using light bulbs with filament in them? Why use light bulbs at all? And well the clothes I'm wearing have buttons...and that is like 1000 year old technology...does somebody want to make me a shirt that doesn't contain all this legacy technology? Seriously...if it ain't broke, don't fix it!!!
IANAL, but if the BSA uses the IDC to create FUD about IP rights, shoudn't the EFF get a case together ASAP? ROFLMAO!
...now I can get a partial brain transplant from a hippopotamus??????
They can stop pirating, but they can't make me go back to buying CDs.
Thank you for that...that is a very good perspective on things.
But you are not talking about the same product. The water that comes from a bottle is different than the water from your tap. Even people's taps differ. And most people do pay for what comes out of the tap - it's called a water bill. Unless you actually gather the water yourself via well and a septic system (I actually have both), the municipality you live in provides water/sewage service and you pay for it.
I don't see your post as a bait. I can agree with your perspective that if this paid service is somehow better that more people would wind up using it. That's how most other businesses work after all. However I don't think the comparison to open source software is a valid one. Yes you are right that more people buy proprietary over downloading Open Source. The main reason people (and I mean the general population) pay for their OS is because it comes preinstalled on their computer. Besides that fact, there are differences between OSes. People use certain software because of what it does, how it is used, being trained to use it, whatever. So let's assume for a minute that there is this song that a pay service and a free service both offer. It is the same exact song, both excellent quality files, etc. There is no real difference between the mp3 that comes from a pay service and the same mp3 coming from a free service. They both operate the same exact way. For instance, your average person doesn't need to relearn how to use that paid mp3 vs the free mp3, but the average person would have to relearn a different OS if they wanted something else. Now that's out of the way, let's address the quality issue. If the service relies on it's users to supply the mp3s, there is no guarantee of quality of mp3s by using a pay service. In order to guarantee superior quality mp3s, the pay service would have to buy the CDs and rip them themselves, or purchase the mp3s from the record companies outright. But by doing that it ceases to be a file sharing service.
...because most people won't pay for what they can get for free otherwise. While the system may make some money, it won't even put a dent in copyright infringement. There will always be another free file sharing system. I've asked a number of my friends - most of who are not techie type people - if they would be doing it if they had to pay for their downloads. They all said no.
We can all scream bloody murder about how there are no pay systems, CD prices are too high, artists today blow, intellectual property rights are wrong, filesharing actually increases CD sales, capitalism is evil, whatever your favorite argument is...the fact is you can't beat free and as long as the people can get it for free, the majority of people will not use a pay service.
That's reality. Maybe not the reality in your head or on Slashdot, but the reality of the world.
Cause that shit must be good....for once, they're actually doing stuff in the interest of the public!!!!!
BTW, first post!
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!
In SOVIET RUSSIA, the game console MODS YOU!!!!
1) Go to flea market.
2) Buy old NES
3) Turn it into a PC
4) ?????
5) PROFIT!!!!!
I realize that genetic engingeering has been around since monks and peas, however it is obvious that the engineering they are talking about here is alot more complicated than crossbreeding two variations of plants, and at some point required modern laboratory facilities.
1) Re-engineer tobacco to eliminate nicotine
2) Sell to Amish, Amish grow tobacco
3) Make cigarettes
4) Crappy cigarettes collect dust on shelves
5) ??????
6) PROFIT!!!!
Ishmael: Hey Ezekiel! I have an idea! We can grow genetically engineered tobacco that is non-habit forming!!!
Ezekiel: That's wonderful! What is genetic engineering?
Ishmael: Well, you take this machine, plug it in, and...oh...nevermind.
I am so happy Microsoft got a taste of the problems that their own buggy software has...I wonder how many times this will have to happen to them until they get the picture.
"That vulnerability is completely theor...oh shit!"
I wouldn't watch it anyway.. William Shatner parodying Bush might make my head explode.
s !"
I could just imagine the dialogue...
"My dear Americans....we need...to...do...something...about...those...folk
"Spock, the evidoers...must...be...stopped!"
"Where...did...my...dog...Barney...run...off to?"
What?!?!?!? Troll MY ASS!!!!