"Why community matters": Yeah it does, but community only lasts as long as dissenting opinion is allowed. In the case of Slashdot those who disagree are moderated down immediately, just because their viewpoint is not liked. Slashdot has become a community of Yes-men.
It means that investors who were stpuid enough in the first place to put their money into dotcoms without business plans are balking at spending money at dotcoms at all, even when the dotcoms that are surviving are advancing quite nicely along their well-planned business goals. I'm getting pretty tired of scared investors crying in their expensive spilt milk over all the money they've not made. If they wanted to have structured, long-term-slow-growth for their retirement, they probably should have planned better and got better advice.
>Seriously, at 20000m/s, that would probably sound-off like a siren. Probably not suitable for hunting.
Not really...it depends on what you are hunting. If you are going for a single large animal, this would take him down quickly before he could react to the sound. Just don't miss...and make sure of a couple things, 1) that you've got a mountain behind your shot to stop the projectile and 2) that some hunter isn't going to kick your butt for scaring all the other animals away.
This is just another example of the corporate smackdown. It comes from lawyers, not administrators, the admins are into anything which develops new, sellable products (and if linux really takes off, there will be a huge market in apps). I just wrote about this corporate-lawyer culture which allows this on my site.
Yeah, it's funny, but this is horribly offtopic and should be marked as such. By not doing so you basically give credence to all sorts of discussion spammers.
Having contended with cruise ships up the Georgia Straights (between Vancouver island and the mainland) while working as a dockmaster (specifically getting food for the store), I hope that nothing ever gets within 10 miles of the thing at top speed.
For the record, I don't have anything against larger cars. Just SUVs, and even that only in the city. I grew up on a mountain ranch before moving to a city of 2 million people so I can understand the utility of larger vehicles.
HOWEVER...even at your size, there is no reason to be running around in a vehicle that can carry 6 people of equal size.
AND...These smaller cars are mostly considered unsafe because of the results of the accidents they get in, against larger vehicles. Sure, they could be made safer, and should be. But small car vs. small car is a much different story than small car vs. SUV.
AND...on the tree-hugging environmental side...I fill up for less, go farther for the gas I buy, pollute less.
I drive a '94 Ford Aspire, which is #8 of the "Worst cars to be in during an accident". I think it got there because of the ridiculous number of SUVs on the road with their higher bumpers. Given that my car is dead cheap on gas and gets me around just as fast as a 5xCost SUV, and that SUVs are being blamed for many of the worst road fatalities on roads today, what do you think we as smarter car drivers could do to convince manufacturers and gov't officials that vehicles such as SUVs aren't worth keeping around?
I disagree...there is nothing to stop Internet broadcasts from having advertising on them (clips at the start of RealVideo for example, or even just banner ads). The Olympic advertisers are just running scared from new technology, instead of embracing new ways to make gobbets of cash.
Hey, sounds an awful lot like the music companies!
Does this mean a 10 year delay in using Olympic clips, or that 10 years from now the 2010 Olympics won't have this issue? While I suspect the former, it's not clear.
Why not find out who http://www.fuckedcompany.com registered their domain through. If that URL didn't trip alarms, then you've pretty much got to be ok.
Normally I'd find the enforced censorship of material on the web offensive, but to be honest I'm getting a little tired of Western (and by this I mostly mean American) companies, governments and citizens cramming their rules and laws down the throats of the rest of the world. The simple fact of the matter is that France has laws regarding this, and whether you agree with them or not, they have the right to enforce them within their abilities.
Yahoo's failure to see this is one of the shortcomings of having a global communication device (the internet, obviously) while we still have borders and different laws for different regions of the world. The bonus to this sort of fight is that it might, if egos allow, begin to break down the borders worldwide and move to a global government with the same rights for everyone. I have my doubts though.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but I always thought that once knowledge of the manufacture of a product became so widespread nearly anyone could make it (with the proper facilities), the patent was deemed unenforcable and was dropped.
I would, but since I run linux, and therefore netscape, I can't use your product. As far as I'm concerned, the same rule applies to products as webpages. If you ignore half (or more) of your audience, you've got a broken product. Limitations of the technology is not much of an excuse honestly. If you intend this for a global audience made up of more than IE/Windows users, then the product announcement should have been held until those very users could use it. Otherwise it's a pointless endeavour.
Yes, your network outages in the past were your providers fault. You were running an office on Rogers Cable @Home version as I recall being told.
Either way Brian, I don't have anything directly against your company or you. However the decision to release a broken product which only works on IE/Windows was a flawed one, most especially on Slashdot, where the general rule is "Support Linux". I wish you the best of luck getting this to be a workable product, though I doubt I'll know anyone who actually uses it as a search engine on any regular basis.
I went for an interview there a number of months back and to be honest, I was SORELY unimpressed. Not only was the technology pointless and slow, the people in charge were so oriented on the 'coolness' of the product they were declining to see any that their business model was horribly flawed. Their intent at that point was to create a 3-d search engine based on Java, while constantly bombarding the user with 3-d in-your-face ads. They neglect to see that anyone who is searching for someone would be served much better by not having that search delayed with bad tech and advertising that prevented seeing the results of that search.
Hey, if they manage to come out with something really cool and useful, more power to them. What I saw in that office, amid network outages, system and browser crashes, and immense egos, was that it was pretty unlikely going to happen.
I think the order of "Reuse, Recycle" is important and there is no need to recycle any working or repairable hardware. If you can't give it to the kid down the street or the Linux enthusiast who needs a firewall, then perhaps these should be sent to another continent. Only when the machine or parts are not repairable should they be taken down into raw materials.
Doesn't sound like a troll to me. Sounds more like the author sees something that paints Katz in a negative light and is being slammed for pointing it out.
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I thought it said "Eminem Domain"...What kind of power does this white boy hold???
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If only it were true.
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It means that investors who were stpuid enough in the first place to put their money into dotcoms without business plans are balking at spending money at dotcoms at all, even when the dotcoms that are surviving are advancing quite nicely along their well-planned business goals. I'm getting pretty tired of scared investors crying in their expensive spilt milk over all the money they've not made. If they wanted to have structured, long-term-slow-growth for their retirement, they probably should have planned better and got better advice.
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Not really...it depends on what you are hunting. If you are going for a single large animal, this would take him down quickly before he could react to the sound. Just don't miss...and make sure of a couple things, 1) that you've got a mountain behind your shot to stop the projectile and 2) that some hunter isn't going to kick your butt for scaring all the other animals away.
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Are you whoring for boredom karma?
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You mean you're similar to Parisians? I didn't dislike Belgians before, but now I do.
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This is just another example of the corporate smackdown. It comes from lawyers, not administrators, the admins are into anything which develops new, sellable products (and if linux really takes off, there will be a huge market in apps). I just wrote about this corporate-lawyer culture which allows this on my site.
TheGeek
Yeah, it's funny, but this is horribly offtopic and should be marked as such. By not doing so you basically give credence to all sorts of discussion spammers.
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I'd still rather have the motorized skateboard from Motoboard.com. Theose gas powered rollerblades scare the bejesus out of me though.
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Having contended with cruise ships up the Georgia Straights (between Vancouver island and the mainland) while working as a dockmaster (specifically getting food for the store), I hope that nothing ever gets within 10 miles of the thing at top speed.
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Very true, all the porn sites would have to stop promoting their ability to help you jerk-...
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HOWEVER...even at your size, there is no reason to be running around in a vehicle that can carry 6 people of equal size.
AND...These smaller cars are mostly considered unsafe because of the results of the accidents they get in, against larger vehicles. Sure, they could be made safer, and should be. But small car vs. small car is a much different story than small car vs. SUV.
AND...on the tree-hugging environmental side...I fill up for less, go farther for the gas I buy, pollute less.
TheGeek
I drive a '94 Ford Aspire, which is #8 of the "Worst cars to be in during an accident". I think it got there because of the ridiculous number of SUVs on the road with their higher bumpers. Given that my car is dead cheap on gas and gets me around just as fast as a 5xCost SUV, and that SUVs are being blamed for many of the worst road fatalities on roads today, what do you think we as smarter car drivers could do to convince manufacturers and gov't officials that vehicles such as SUVs aren't worth keeping around?
TheGeek
Hey, sounds an awful lot like the music companies!
TheGeek
Does this mean a 10 year delay in using Olympic clips, or that 10 years from now the 2010 Olympics won't have this issue? While I suspect the former, it's not clear.
TheGeek
Why not find out who http://www.fuckedcompany.com registered their domain through. If that URL didn't trip alarms, then you've pretty much got to be ok.
TheGeek
Favorite episode? Probably the fixed wing gliders.
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Yahoo's failure to see this is one of the shortcomings of having a global communication device (the internet, obviously) while we still have borders and different laws for different regions of the world. The bonus to this sort of fight is that it might, if egos allow, begin to break down the borders worldwide and move to a global government with the same rights for everyone. I have my doubts though.
TheGeek
Any patent attorneys in the crowd?
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Yes, your network outages in the past were your providers fault. You were running an office on Rogers Cable @Home version as I recall being told.
Either way Brian, I don't have anything directly against your company or you. However the decision to release a broken product which only works on IE/Windows was a flawed one, most especially on Slashdot, where the general rule is "Support Linux". I wish you the best of luck getting this to be a workable product, though I doubt I'll know anyone who actually uses it as a search engine on any regular basis.
TheGeek
I heard Stevie Wonder was gonna beta-test, but in the initial trials he was too damned good at the head movements.
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Hey, if they manage to come out with something really cool and useful, more power to them. What I saw in that office, amid network outages, system and browser crashes, and immense egos, was that it was pretty unlikely going to happen.
TheGeek
I think the order of "Reuse, Recycle" is important and there is no need to recycle any working or repairable hardware. If you can't give it to the kid down the street or the Linux enthusiast who needs a firewall, then perhaps these should be sent to another continent. Only when the machine or parts are not repairable should they be taken down into raw materials.
TheGeek
Doesn't sound like a troll to me. Sounds more like the author sees something that paints Katz in a negative light and is being slammed for pointing it out.
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