This information is to help decide where to put new churches, mosques, synagogues, temples, whatever. To do that you have to know where the people who need them are.
Your government builds your churches? How bizarre! Or do the religions have your government do their market research for them? What's next? You get asked how often you invest in stock market schemes so that shady brokerages will know to whom they should canvas?
I think you are harsh. Yes, some of it is inflated. Some incorrect. But did you really go to the site to check it out?
I think you're a troll. You created this account just to reply to me? How strange. (And journal about some other slow as hell video site it appears.) And, yes, I did check out the site. The site itself doesn't negate the fact that the writeup is still bullshit.
The Register is the Enquirer of the IT world. It posts all sorts of vague and misleading titles of stories. Try reading the articles and you'll see what I mean.
And I'm sure you'll keep saying it again, so long as you don't understand British humour. As the other reply in this thread stated, RTFA if you want to know what the story's about. The titles are often witty and filled with puns or references to previous events. I'll bet you watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail then complain about how it's a vague and misleading portrayal of history too, right?
How many readers does slashdot have? Even if only 10% of them RTFA, it'll cause a dent. A paperless dent at that. Granted, DDOSing a bandwidth provider may not work too well, but it's the thought that counts.
You misunderstood... or maybe I'm not understanding you. When I say a legal denial of service, what I mean is that you bury them in so much legal paperwork as a result of individual court actions that it affects their whole organization. Much in the same way that many individuals browsing a website can bring a website to its knees, can a similar be done with many people in the real world using the court system?
They'll probably back off immediately with a simple letter from a law firm, and if that's all it takes, it won't even cost much. If you really want to stick it to them...
Actually, if you did want to stick it to them, how about an option to go with a lawyer who is very pro-consumer and can make claims for all kinds of documents during a discovery period (a la SCO) to flood them with paperwork and make them spend a lot of money on lawyers? After all, there's not much that the company would be able to request from the subscriber but theoretically a lot can be requested from the company. Is it possible to get enough people together and effectively do a legal denial of service on a company?
Content is streamed directly to the user's PC, so there's no buffering or download.
Wow, streaming video without any need to buffer -- it just starts playing with 0 bytes. And look! You don't even have to download it -- the video must just automagically appear on your hard drive or something.
offers instantaneous video delivery
Bullshit... total PR fluff.
of professional media content
Translation: no, you can't upload stuff. We get paid by the professional media firms to advertise their videos in your face. It's like a 24/7 all-advertising site that you can't contribute to, except to build playlists which consist of all ads. Please participate in this site so that we can sell your marketing data back to the professional media firms.
enables their staff to 'tag' specific points
The fact that the PR firm put quotes around the word tag shows that they know nothing of the technology.
This allows users to create playlists of video snippets - based on keywords - and share those with other people.
The only way the tagging would have been remotely clever is if users could tag certain parts. But who'd want to create playlists of ads anyway?
Gotuit is different from YouTube and Google Video in that it offers professional media content
I suppose lying is a longstanding tradition for PR firms.
and its video streaming technology is more advanced.
You appear to be right. For whatever reason, I had one hell of a time parsing that sentence. One too many commas confused me as to which parts were parenthetical statements I think.
But if i had a car with a range of 250 miles, then i would have to stop on my trip, and it had better not make a 5 hour trip 12 hrs longer, due to recharging time.
Easy... just plug the car's charger into the cigarette lighter and charge as you go!:)
Their, and the electric cars', significantly limited-life batteries, and the inefficiences in recharging them, certainly are.
Do you, always write with, so many commas, in your text, so that it's, one, big, run-on, sentence? Plus, it makes no sense... it should be "they" instead of "their" -- "their certainly are" vs. "they certainly are".
Most people are quite capable of reading text that has no commas and understanding the meaning of the text without having to be cued as to when you would have had to pause to take a breath.
For the price of the laptop, Excel, and his time, he could have bought enough extra fuel to last years.
And for the cost of raising him, his parents could have not had kids and saved hundreds of thousands of dollars... enough to buy all the fuel that his non-existent self will never need!
Nobody in the history of mankind has ever said, "hey, I've got an idea. Let's go out and watch people play computer games. That would be the perfect way to spend an evening!"
What a lousy argument. For how much of "the history of mankind" have videogames existed? That aside, many sports today appeal to large members of the population because they grew up watching them on TV. If videogames ever reach the same kind of critical mass that sports currently has, I doubt it will be much different. We already have tournaments where the top players get together and play Quake for example. If that were broadcasted in a similar format that various sports entertainment is, I know I'd watch it... heck, it'd be interesting to see how that kid played who won Carmack's Ferrari.
I don't think human civilization will change overnight and adopt videogame viewing as the next big sensation... but if your argument is that people have watched sports since the dawn of civilization and that now, some thousands of years later, it's popular on TV -- then how about giving videogames at least a decade or two to catch up? You'll also notice that all the big sporting events on TV aren't just some random kids playing sports... they're professional teams with big money backing them up. Your comparison of some random teenagers playing NBA Jam vs. professional NBA players is quite flawed in so many ways. If that's an example of your best logic, you might want to start questioning your own hold on reality.
People for the most part would rather PLAY video games than watch them.
They said the same thing about sports. "What? Broadcast a soccer/football match to nobody in particular and you actually expect people to get enjoyment sitting on their couch for hours watching OTHER people playing it? And that, between plays, we could actually get paid to pitch products to them and they'd enjoy it?"
Screw that. I'm going to fork the code and put my name in every other line.
Okay, might not be the most scalable solution. So how about displaying a full-page ad in some obscure newspaper? I've got this great idea... make it all yellow, include a picture of Mount Rushmore, and then claim that dead presidents who knew nothing about computers would actually use it because it's FREE FREE FREE. Yeah! Now I just need to start raising money.
As someone else pointed out, it's an even bigger non-story. The freelance job posted is asking for someone to promote zendecode.com to the top of Google, MSN, etc. and posting on Slashdot certainly helps. The link to "Zen decoding" just goes to zendecode.com. The "sandbox testing" link goes to the forums on zendecode.com. And finally, the link to "popular PHP-based billing applications" just goes to modernbill.com and doesn't link to any reports of bugs. The whole thing is 100% spam backed by FUD. Whoever submitted this is trying to get the keywords "zen decoding" and "sandbox testing" ranked in search engines as being popular terms for zendecode.com. And they're perhaps trying to promote ModernBill for keywords such as "PHP billing application" as well.
Just look at the combination lock, it can be cracked open with a bic pen top.
I think you mean Kryptonite's old cylinder key locks, and those could be opened with the end of a Bic pen's casing, not the top. And even military grade padlocks won't protect you against someone with large enough boltcutters or welding equipment. It seems rather disingenious to argue that it's merely sizzle if the protection isn't perfect against 100% of situations.
They sell the sizzle, not the steak, and I think that's what the point of the article was.
Did we read different Slashdot stories? Whoever posted this one asked if all applications should be open sourced given that the protection offered isn't perfect -- that was the point. The point wasn't to argue that Zend shouldn't overstate how much mitigation their solution provides against attack, but rather to use this as a rather bizarre line of reasoning to argue in favor of open sourcing everything as a means to eliminate all bugs and just accept the inevitable. So because some people are able to extract the source code from a Zend-encoded PHP app, companies should forego making revenue from their PHP apps and just open source it all and hope to make it up elsewhere? That's about the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
This is like somebody going around selling paper-mache deadbolts and telling you about all the horrible things that can happen to your home if you don't buy one. There's an obvious level of dishonesty in selling something and calling it protection (particularly since they go so far as to call it "encryption") when it's fairly trivial to break, and won't protect you against anyone who wants to steal your stuff.
A person who is an accomplished lockpick can pick your average brass deadbolt in a few minutes or less... so to them, every lock is effectively papier mache. However, your comment about encryption is accurate as it's simply a form of good enough protection for most.
How would one go about calculating the average age at which a British child first receives a cell phone?
Take an unbiased sample of a thousand kids and extrapolate to the UK population. This will give you a suitable answer to within plus or minus a few percent.
However, the question stands: How do you work best outside an office environment?
I think this is the key that many other people who have posted are missing. Outside of an office environment, it's really tough to maintain that discipline. There are too many distractions at home. Many can do it, but the majority aren't wired that way. So don't think that, short of drugs, you can just change a couple of things and magically focus twice as much. Odds are, you can't.
My advice, having experienced the same thing, is this: find other contractors in your area who are in the same boat as you. Get together and get some office space and recreate the office environment. Generally what I've found is that what motivates people -- and I certainly fall into this category -- to work is being in an environment where everyone else is working too. Then when you stop working, you start feeling like the odd man out and want to work again. So if you can get a reasonable sense of the office environment, you can motivate yourself that way. And, if getting actual office space isn't feasible (and there are tons of reasons why it may not be a good good risk for you) then consider looking up various packaged/executive office spaces where you can rent a small office. If you're in a larger city, you're bound to find companies offering this service... generally anywhere from about $400 to $1000/month depending on size of office, what services are included, the going rental rates, etc. You often also get the benefit that they'll answer your phone professionally for you, which might be a plus for you too. If you're in a smaller city with a low cost of living, you might find something even cheaper. But the extra cost will more than make up for the increase in productivity.
Or, partner up with a company that you've dealt with before. Many have more office space than they need and might be amicable to letting you take up an unused office or desk in exchange for some consulting work.
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That they're hate and fear based, and when you let hate and fear dictate your principals, you end up hurting yourself and those you want to help.
And we all know that this leads directly to the dark side.
This information is to help decide where to put new churches, mosques, synagogues, temples, whatever. To do that you have to know where the people who need them are.
Your government builds your churches? How bizarre! Or do the religions have your government do their market research for them? What's next? You get asked how often you invest in stock market schemes so that shady brokerages will know to whom they should canvas?
Java's bad because as we all know it's proprietary.
The most popular implementation is. The language spec isn't.
I think you are harsh. Yes, some of it is inflated. Some incorrect. But did you really go to the site to check it out?
I think you're a troll. You created this account just to reply to me? How strange. (And journal about some other slow as hell video site it appears.) And, yes, I did check out the site. The site itself doesn't negate the fact that the writeup is still bullshit.
The Register is the Enquirer of the IT world. It posts all sorts of vague and misleading titles of stories. Try reading the articles and you'll see what I mean.
And I'm sure you'll keep saying it again, so long as you don't understand British humour. As the other reply in this thread stated, RTFA if you want to know what the story's about. The titles are often witty and filled with puns or references to previous events. I'll bet you watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail then complain about how it's a vague and misleading portrayal of history too, right?
Well, it's Apple! If it weren't apple, the predominant tag here would be "slashvertisement".
How many readers does slashdot have? Even if only 10% of them RTFA, it'll cause a dent. A paperless dent at that. Granted, DDOSing a bandwidth provider may not work too well, but it's the thought that counts.
You misunderstood... or maybe I'm not understanding you. When I say a legal denial of service, what I mean is that you bury them in so much legal paperwork as a result of individual court actions that it affects their whole organization. Much in the same way that many individuals browsing a website can bring a website to its knees, can a similar be done with many people in the real world using the court system?
They'll probably back off immediately with a simple letter from a law firm, and if that's all it takes, it won't even cost much. If you really want to stick it to them...
Actually, if you did want to stick it to them, how about an option to go with a lawyer who is very pro-consumer and can make claims for all kinds of documents during a discovery period (a la SCO) to flood them with paperwork and make them spend a lot of money on lawyers? After all, there's not much that the company would be able to request from the subscriber but theoretically a lot can be requested from the company. Is it possible to get enough people together and effectively do a legal denial of service on a company?
Kurt Gödel will never say this sentence is true.
At the very least, it's not completely true.
Content is streamed directly to the user's PC, so there's no buffering or download.
Wow, streaming video without any need to buffer -- it just starts playing with 0 bytes. And look! You don't even have to download it -- the video must just automagically appear on your hard drive or something.
offers instantaneous video delivery
Bullshit... total PR fluff.
of professional media content
Translation: no, you can't upload stuff. We get paid by the professional media firms to advertise their videos in your face. It's like a 24/7 all-advertising site that you can't contribute to, except to build playlists which consist of all ads. Please participate in this site so that we can sell your marketing data back to the professional media firms.
enables their staff to 'tag' specific points
The fact that the PR firm put quotes around the word tag shows that they know nothing of the technology.
This allows users to create playlists of video snippets - based on keywords - and share those with other people.
The only way the tagging would have been remotely clever is if users could tag certain parts. But who'd want to create playlists of ads anyway?
Gotuit is different from YouTube and Google Video in that it offers professional media content
I suppose lying is a longstanding tradition for PR firms.
and its video streaming technology is more advanced.
Oh, and Google kills babies.
Most bloggers are throwing messages in bottles into the sea, but their bottles don't have corks.
Nor, for that matter, a message in most cases.
You appear to be right. For whatever reason, I had one hell of a time parsing that sentence. One too many commas confused me as to which parts were parenthetical statements I think.
But if i had a car with a range of 250 miles, then i would have to stop on my trip, and it had better not make a 5 hour trip 12 hrs longer, due to recharging time.
:)
Easy... just plug the car's charger into the cigarette lighter and charge as you go!
Their, and the electric cars', significantly limited-life batteries, and the inefficiences in recharging them, certainly are.
Do you, always write with, so many commas, in your text, so that it's, one, big, run-on, sentence? Plus, it makes no sense... it should be "they" instead of "their" -- "their certainly are" vs. "they certainly are".
Most people are quite capable of reading text that has no commas and understanding the meaning of the text without having to be cued as to when you would have had to pause to take a breath.
Now back to your regular programming...
For the price of the laptop, Excel, and his time, he could have bought enough extra fuel to last years.
And for the cost of raising him, his parents could have not had kids and saved hundreds of thousands of dollars... enough to buy all the fuel that his non-existent self will never need!
Nobody in the history of mankind has ever said, "hey, I've got an idea. Let's go out and watch people play computer games. That would be the perfect way to spend an evening!"
What a lousy argument. For how much of "the history of mankind" have videogames existed? That aside, many sports today appeal to large members of the population because they grew up watching them on TV. If videogames ever reach the same kind of critical mass that sports currently has, I doubt it will be much different. We already have tournaments where the top players get together and play Quake for example. If that were broadcasted in a similar format that various sports entertainment is, I know I'd watch it... heck, it'd be interesting to see how that kid played who won Carmack's Ferrari.
I don't think human civilization will change overnight and adopt videogame viewing as the next big sensation... but if your argument is that people have watched sports since the dawn of civilization and that now, some thousands of years later, it's popular on TV -- then how about giving videogames at least a decade or two to catch up? You'll also notice that all the big sporting events on TV aren't just some random kids playing sports... they're professional teams with big money backing them up. Your comparison of some random teenagers playing NBA Jam vs. professional NBA players is quite flawed in so many ways. If that's an example of your best logic, you might want to start questioning your own hold on reality.
People for the most part would rather PLAY video games than watch them.
They said the same thing about sports. "What? Broadcast a soccer/football match to nobody in particular and you actually expect people to get enjoyment sitting on their couch for hours watching OTHER people playing it? And that, between plays, we could actually get paid to pitch products to them and they'd enjoy it?"
Wastage?
Fuck you for diluting the language.
Oh, come now. I found it perfectly cromulent.
Screw that. I'm going to fork the code and put my name in every other line.
Okay, might not be the most scalable solution. So how about displaying a full-page ad in some obscure newspaper? I've got this great idea... make it all yellow, include a picture of Mount Rushmore, and then claim that dead presidents who knew nothing about computers would actually use it because it's FREE FREE FREE. Yeah! Now I just need to start raising money.
As someone else pointed out, it's an even bigger non-story. The freelance job posted is asking for someone to promote zendecode.com to the top of Google, MSN, etc. and posting on Slashdot certainly helps. The link to "Zen decoding" just goes to zendecode.com. The "sandbox testing" link goes to the forums on zendecode.com. And finally, the link to "popular PHP-based billing applications" just goes to modernbill.com and doesn't link to any reports of bugs. The whole thing is 100% spam backed by FUD. Whoever submitted this is trying to get the keywords "zen decoding" and "sandbox testing" ranked in search engines as being popular terms for zendecode.com. And they're perhaps trying to promote ModernBill for keywords such as "PHP billing application" as well.
Just look at the combination lock, it can be cracked open with a bic pen top.
I think you mean Kryptonite's old cylinder key locks, and those could be opened with the end of a Bic pen's casing, not the top. And even military grade padlocks won't protect you against someone with large enough boltcutters or welding equipment. It seems rather disingenious to argue that it's merely sizzle if the protection isn't perfect against 100% of situations.
They sell the sizzle, not the steak, and I think that's what the point of the article was.
Did we read different Slashdot stories? Whoever posted this one asked if all applications should be open sourced given that the protection offered isn't perfect -- that was the point. The point wasn't to argue that Zend shouldn't overstate how much mitigation their solution provides against attack, but rather to use this as a rather bizarre line of reasoning to argue in favor of open sourcing everything as a means to eliminate all bugs and just accept the inevitable. So because some people are able to extract the source code from a Zend-encoded PHP app, companies should forego making revenue from their PHP apps and just open source it all and hope to make it up elsewhere? That's about the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
This is like somebody going around selling paper-mache deadbolts and telling you about all the horrible things that can happen to your home if you don't buy one. There's an obvious level of dishonesty in selling something and calling it protection (particularly since they go so far as to call it "encryption") when it's fairly trivial to break, and won't protect you against anyone who wants to steal your stuff.
A person who is an accomplished lockpick can pick your average brass deadbolt in a few minutes or less... so to them, every lock is effectively papier mache. However, your comment about encryption is accurate as it's simply a form of good enough protection for most.
How would one go about calculating the average age at which a British child first receives a cell phone?
Take an unbiased sample of a thousand kids and extrapolate to the UK population. This will give you a suitable answer to within plus or minus a few percent.
Idiot... don't you know that when your mother includes attachments in email, it only copies teh intarbew?
However, the question stands: How do you work best outside an office environment?
I think this is the key that many other people who have posted are missing. Outside of an office environment, it's really tough to maintain that discipline. There are too many distractions at home. Many can do it, but the majority aren't wired that way. So don't think that, short of drugs, you can just change a couple of things and magically focus twice as much. Odds are, you can't.
My advice, having experienced the same thing, is this: find other contractors in your area who are in the same boat as you. Get together and get some office space and recreate the office environment. Generally what I've found is that what motivates people -- and I certainly fall into this category -- to work is being in an environment where everyone else is working too. Then when you stop working, you start feeling like the odd man out and want to work again. So if you can get a reasonable sense of the office environment, you can motivate yourself that way. And, if getting actual office space isn't feasible (and there are tons of reasons why it may not be a good good risk for you) then consider looking up various packaged/executive office spaces where you can rent a small office. If you're in a larger city, you're bound to find companies offering this service... generally anywhere from about $400 to $1000/month depending on size of office, what services are included, the going rental rates, etc. You often also get the benefit that they'll answer your phone professionally for you, which might be a plus for you too. If you're in a smaller city with a low cost of living, you might find something even cheaper. But the extra cost will more than make up for the increase in productivity.
Or, partner up with a company that you've dealt with before. Many have more office space than they need and might be amicable to letting you take up an unused office or desk in exchange for some consulting work.