I would suggest you go with a proven business model.
Should be "non-profit".
Just make sure that you patent the idea.
Don't tell anyone about the pending patent.
Work as part of a standards group to gain wide acceptance.
Wait 3-5 years.
Now what's the phrase I'm looking for?
Damn the torpedoes?
Up periscope?
"the entertainment industry is trying to tell you what you can do with your own machines."
Hey There,
I'm the first to admit I'm "legally" challenged.
But I don't think that this is an attempt to tell us what we can do with our machines.
But rather, it is an attempt...
to tell people who want to sell goods and services in the public venue...
what we as a community will and will not tolerate...
if you want to operate in the community.
I think the community has not only the right...
but the responsibility...
to make these sort of decisions.
Do I "personally" agree with this decision?
No.
But it doesn't limit me as an individual.
Or what I can do with a personal device.
I can create my own personal device that does what ever I wish.
I may not be able to share it with anyone else...
but I can create a machine to do what ever I wish.
And given the day and age that we live in,
Give me a computer...
A piece of hardware...
And I'll write a device driver that does whatever I want it to.
I assume my personal rights would end just before...
The distribution of that software.
I loved my last office.
And it wasn't the arron chairs that did it for me.
I loved the fact that I could re-arrange the items in my cube to my hearts content.
The cube was 12x12.
I was able to pitch half the desk area...
and replace it with book shelves
and a guest chair area.
We also had closet/fileing cabinet combos.
I didn't like that so much.
Took up a lot of space for what it was worth.
But it was mobile too.
So I put it in the isle way...
out of my cube area.
Eden.
If only management was as comfortable as my work space!
He thought backward compatibility was awesome.
Why?
Because he still had a bunch of titles available to play...
while he waited for the new PS2 tiles that he was interested in...
to hit the shelves.
I don't understand why this wouldn't be a trivial thing for xBox?
It's all standard hardware?
Even if the new consoles were going to be specialized...
wouldn't it be a matter of building the appropriate VM...
so that it could kick in when an old title was inserted?
I haven't read any of the responses in the thread...
But my immediate reaction after seeing the pictures is: WTF?
and
Why/How did this make it on/. ?
There is no cool case mod.
He put a freakin' univac in his trunk
for crying out loud!
We don't want to reward this behavior.
Someone on the dudes web site said it best.
"Dad, I'm sick of this song"
"Ok, son, just use your terminal to telnet
into the e450 and modify the rc script to
exclude that song"
"Can't we just get one of those dvd players
like Jimmy has?"
"No. Use the supercomputer. You need to
learn solaris."
I don't have a job...
The economy is bad.
Employers are bad.
Everyone is out to get me.
*WAAAHH*
You don't have a job because you're a no talent hack, that spends too much time on/. bitching about it.
Make a real contribution to the world.
And the world will make a real contribution back.
Largely certifications don't matter.
Sort of fits into the category of...
Those who can't do teach...
err...
Claim to be taught.
The economy is not bad...
You're just stupid,
Cheers.
I didn't have a chance to read the whole article...
But I'd just like to mention that...
There's a difference between the currently accepted legal position...
And right vs. wrong...
Too many times legality is mistaken for...
Morality.
And the Judiciary is mistaken for a...
moral compass.
I fear the notion of...
keeping someone from...
creating clothing...
that looks just like your line of clothing...
stamping your label on it...
and selling it.
Has mutated into...
I am the only one w/ the right to sell clothes.
Cheers, -- El Duderino
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I agree,
My question is when is it worth while to develop software for a Linux platform?
Beyond a software driver for some piece of hardware you'd want everyone to purchase?
Linus is the leader of the 'free' world and all... If that's true... Why develop anything commercially for it? Where's the money? Doesn't everyone using it expect everything to be 'open source' and 'free'? Almost Educational?
1. Neo enters the matrix without having to use a hard line... but has to get back out with one?
2. Just because the Oracle says that they may see Neo again... Doesn't mean that he's not dead... I think it means that the franchise is trying to say... the humans may have to search for their "one" again... because the peace will not last? Matrix 4,5,6 anyone? Or will we just try to do a pre-history -2, -1, 0
3. I can't go on any more... I'm tired... The second movie promised so much... And delivered so little... It's not worth my energy.... Duder
Unbeliveable bad writing... Enjoyed by a loud few... Who in their own right can drown on and on about the books...
But I can't seem to force feed them to myself.
As a movie... The first one drowned on and on (much like the book)... I found myself praying it would end.
The second one had a better mix... But please... I can't sit through a three hour movie without an intermission... And no movie that long should be made up of 60% action.
Where does the Matrix fall in this rant? I don't quite know anymore... I'm just disappointed to the degree where I'm likely to be negative about anything.
I didn't read the article in question,
But from the point of view that...
Perhaps, corporate america shaped the third movie through the use of market screening.
And the Brother's Duo...
May not have had much artistic license, after the second movie seemed to confuse anyone who wasn't a "true fan"... err... subistute "true believer" I suppose.
Later,
--Duder
They're trying to squeeze the franchise for all it's worth... Holidays and the Like.
But as for the rest of your post... I'll be the one to tell you that "The King has no clothes. Naked, is the King. Completely and utterly nude. (And he has wrinkles too)".
What do I mean by that? I think you'd be hurt to admit that you invested time and emotion into something, just to have corporate america take it away from you.
I must say that I agree with much of what you have to say,
I prefer to think that the Wachowski brothers have little control over all of the movie content any more.
I keep haveing flash backs to the origional Terminator movies. Flash backs to alternet endings that were put in front of "Joe Average American" to determine how best to let things wrap up. I wonder if something like that has happened here.
We've seen something new as far as movies go. They've released the third movie six months after the sequel. Add on top of this that the 2nd movie had much criticism from people who were not considered fans. Comments were floated to the effect of "I couldn't understand what it meant".
Could the suits have paniced? If the third movie did explain things away the way fans would have expected... but left "Joe Q Public" in the dark... That could have eaten into the last opportunity for the suits to "re-coup" all of this "Magic Money" they had been banking on?
This was not suppsoed to be a HAPPY ENDING movie. If you ask me they should have had the machines "use" neo. Then rip apart ZION anyway. And ZION should have been another construct. BECAUSE... HELLO... How the hell can the machines keep any kind of "real" tab on ZION if it's not part of their construct. Oh yeah... And the Grey Haired councelor... The one who had the conversation with Neo in the engineering level of Zion... That guy should have been a spy for the machines. He was talking all peacey just like the Oracle. There's no way that you have dialog that's that similar without their being a CONSPIRACY.
My list of things that I did like:
They were ambiguous as to why the oracle had a new shell... Allthough they didn't really need the oracle in the third movie if you ask me. It could have been PROVIDENCE that the actor kicked off in real life. Perhaps it was FATE telling the Wachowski's that they should write her part out of the movie. You know what... This sounds like more of a con then a pro... Scratch that... Add this to the list of things that I didn't like.
My list of things that I didn't like:
* Weak ending. And they left it open so that they could have another damn movie. They did this WHEN the Architect asks how long this PEACE could last. (Ack) At this point they'd have to pay me to see a 4th movie.
* Didn't explain why Neo had powers outside of the Matirx
* Didn't explain why Neo could enter the Matrix without having to plug in
* Didn't explain why they had to plug Neo in to then GET HIM OUT AGAIN
* Didn't explain how Smith was able to exist outside of the Matrix
* If the machines couldn't clean up the black sky in the last 600+ years to gain a power source what do they gain by having peace? Do the people let out of the matrix volunteer to run in little wheeles in the Desert of the Real?
Slashdot Mirror
"Should it be for-profit or non-profit?"
;)
Hey There,
I would suggest you go with a proven business model.
Should be "non-profit".
Just make sure that you patent the idea.
Don't tell anyone about the pending patent.
Work as part of a standards group to gain wide acceptance.
Wait 3-5 years.
Now what's the phrase I'm looking for?
Damn the torpedoes?
Up periscope?
Surface that submarine
Cheers,
--The Dude
Okay ...
...
/. standards slipping? :)
Is this supposed to be some kind of update?
'Cause I swear I've seen this here before.
If not here
This is certainly not a "new" story.
Are
Cheers,
--The Dude
*Lauging Out Loud*
/..
Not only do I not believe everything I read.
I don't believe every post placed on
This is clearly flame bait.
If not.
I wouldn't work for this individual.
What's the phrase I'm looking for?
"Die free on my feet; before I'll live like a slave on my knees."
Cheers,
--The Dude
"Want to make a lot of geeks happy and release that final patent into the public domain?"
*LOL*
Somehow I don't think what about the geeks carries as much weight as:
"What about the children?"
Cheers,
--The Dude
"the entertainment industry is trying to tell you what you can do with your own machines."
... ... ...
... ...
...
... ...
...
Hey There,
I'm the first to admit I'm "legally" challenged.
But I don't think that this is an attempt to tell us what we can do with our machines.
But rather, it is an attempt
to tell people who want to sell goods and services in the public venue
what we as a community will and will not tolerate
if you want to operate in the community.
I think the community has not only the right
but the responsibility
to make these sort of decisions.
Do I "personally" agree with this decision?
No.
But it doesn't limit me as an individual.
Or what I can do with a personal device.
I can create my own personal device that does what ever I wish.
I may not be able to share it with anyone else
but I can create a machine to do what ever I wish.
And given the day and age that we live in,
Give me a computer
A piece of hardware
And I'll write a device driver that does whatever I want it to.
I assume my personal rights would end just before
The distribution of that software.
But I still have rights!
Don't I?
Cheers,
-- The Dude
Hey There ...
...
I really really like WIRED!
If I didn't like it
I wouldn't find it so offensive when they publish rubbish.
In fact, I wouldn't even know about it 8)
Cheers,
-- The Dude
Hey There ...
...
For all you Neal Stephenson fans
Doesn't this article scream Snow Crash's neolinguistic hacking?
Thanks,
-- The Dude
Hey There,
Apparently disk storage is so cheep we offer it free to the bio-mass.
Why not free FTP sites?
Or anything else that requires disk storage!?
Cheers,
-- The Dude
Hey There,
...
... ... ... ...
Okay
You can't just throw out phrases like
Massive muscles
Overlords
Super Kid
And not provide any pictures!?!
I want pictures!
Inquireing minds want to know,
-- The Dude
Hey There,
...
...
If anyone out there has read this book
you know exactly what I'm talking about.
Things change.
Business models must adapt.
People must adapt.
Far too often we want today to be just like yesterday.
When we need to keep an eye toward creativity.
If these initiatives were a bad idea
they would collapse under their own weight.
Cheers,
-- The Dude
Hey There,
My friend is in the Peace Corps in West Africa.
I think they need more basic services first.
Like power.
I recently sent her a solar powered lantern...
because she has no good way to read when the sun goes down.
Previously having used candles.
Cheers,
-- The Dude
Hey There,
...
...
...
I loved my last office.
And it wasn't the arron chairs that did it for me.
I loved the fact that I could re-arrange the items in my cube to my hearts content.
The cube was 12x12.
I was able to pitch half the desk area
and replace it with book shelves
and a guest chair area.
We also had closet/fileing cabinet combos.
I didn't like that so much.
Took up a lot of space for what it was worth.
But it was mobile too.
So I put it in the isle way
out of my cube area.
Eden.
If only management was as comfortable as my work space!
Regardless.
The other major selling point
wide isle ways.
Ours were as wide as our cubes were.
Cheers,
-- The Dude
Hey There,
... ...
... ...
First off.
I don't have a PS2.
My buddy does.
He thought backward compatibility was awesome.
Why?
Because he still had a bunch of titles available to play
while he waited for the new PS2 tiles that he was interested in
to hit the shelves.
I don't understand why this wouldn't be a trivial thing for xBox?
It's all standard hardware?
Even if the new consoles were going to be specialized
wouldn't it be a matter of building the appropriate VM
so that it could kick in when an old title was inserted?
Cheers,
-- The Dude
I checked back to the referenced blogs ...
/. quality from tanking?
Even the blog posters claim ppl are running around, claiming the sky is falling, for no reason.
Do we need to quarantine posts in order to keep
Cheers,
-- The Dude
I haven't read any of the responses in the thread ...
/. ?
But my immediate reaction after seeing the pictures is: WTF?
and
Why/How did this make it on
There is no cool case mod.
He put a freakin' univac in his trunk
for crying out loud!
We don't want to reward this behavior.
Someone on the dudes web site said it best.
"Dad, I'm sick of this song"
"Ok, son, just use your terminal to telnet
into the e450 and modify the rc script to
exclude that song"
"Can't we just get one of those dvd players
like Jimmy has?"
"No. Use the supercomputer. You need to
learn solaris."
Cheers,
-- The Dude
*Laugh*
... only to give it away to the open source community.
I'm sorry.
I can't believe that an organization would put so much time, effort, and money into a product
Open source.
Maybe when we all give up on Java and move to the CLR.
Cheers,
-- The Dude
I don't have a job ...
The economy is bad.
Employers are bad.
Everyone is out to get me.
*WAAAHH*
You don't have a job because you're a no talent hack, that spends too much time on /. bitching about it.
Make a real contribution to the world.
And the world will make a real contribution back.
Largely certifications don't matter.
Sort of fits into the category of ...
Those who can't do teach ...
err ...
Claim to be taught.
The economy is not bad ...
You're just stupid,
Cheers.
I didn't have a chance to read the whole article ...
... ... ...
... ...
... ... ... ... ...
...
But I'd just like to mention that
There's a difference between the currently accepted legal position
And right vs. wrong
Too many times legality is mistaken for
Morality.
And the Judiciary is mistaken for a
moral compass.
I fear the notion of
keeping someone from
creating clothing
that looks just like your line of clothing
stamping your label on it
and selling it.
Has mutated into
I am the only one w/ the right to sell clothes.
Cheers,
-- El Duderino
I agree,
My question is when is it worth while to develop software for a Linux platform?
Beyond a software driver for some piece of hardware you'd want everyone to purchase?
Later,
Duder
I thought Linux was this 'free' OS ...
... If that's true ... Why develop anything commercially for it? Where's the money? Doesn't everyone using it expect everything to be 'open source' and 'free'? Almost Educational?
Linus is the leader of the 'free' world and all
Later,
-- Duder
If the movie answered all your questions,
... but has to get back out with one?
... Doesn't mean that he's not dead ... I think it means that the franchise is trying to say ... the humans may have to search for their "one" again ... because the peace will not last? Matrix 4,5,6 anyone? Or will we just try to do a pre-history -2, -1, 0
... I'm tired ... The second movie promised so much ... And delivered so little ... It's not worth my energy. ... Duder
Did you ask yourself:
1. Neo enters the matrix without having to use a hard line
2. Just because the Oracle says that they may see Neo again
3. I can't go on any more
Sorry,
... As a book sucks.
... Enjoyed by a loud few ... Who in their own right can drown on and on about the books ...
... The first one drowned on and on (much like the book) ... I found myself praying it would end.
... But please ... I can't sit through a three hour movie without an intermission ... And no movie that long should be made up of 60% action.
... I'm just disappointed to the degree where I'm likely to be negative about anything.
LotR
Unbeliveable bad writing
But I can't seem to force feed them to myself.
As a movie
The second one had a better mix
Where does the Matrix fall in this rant? I don't quite know anymore
Sorry,
-- Duder
I didn't read the article in question, But from the point of view that ...
Perhaps, corporate america shaped the third movie through the use of market screening.
And the Brother's Duo ...
May not have had much artistic license, after the second movie seemed to confuse anyone who wasn't a "true fan" ... err ... subistute "true believer" I suppose.
Later,
--Duder
I agree,
... Holidays and the Like.
... I'll be the one to tell you that "The King has no clothes. Naked, is the King. Completely and utterly nude. (And he has wrinkles too)".
They're trying to squeeze the franchise for all it's worth
But as for the rest of your post
What do I mean by that? I think you'd be hurt to admit that you invested time and emotion into something, just to have corporate america take it away from you.
Sorry, they took it away from you anyway.
Later,
--Duder
I must say that I agree with much of what you have to say,
... but left "Joe Q Public" in the dark ... That could have eaten into the last opportunity for the suits to "re-coup" all of this "Magic Money" they had been banking on?
... HELLO ... How the hell can the machines keep any kind of "real" tab on ZION if it's not part of their construct. Oh yeah ... And the Grey Haired councelor ... The one who had the conversation with Neo in the engineering level of Zion ... That guy should have been a spy for the machines. He was talking all peacey just like the Oracle. There's no way that you have dialog that's that similar without their being a CONSPIRACY.
... Allthough they didn't really need the oracle in the third movie if you ask me. It could have been PROVIDENCE that the actor kicked off in real life. Perhaps it was FATE telling the Wachowski's that they should write her part out of the movie. You know what ... This sounds like more of a con then a pro ... Scratch that ... Add this to the list of things that I didn't like.
I prefer to think that the Wachowski brothers have little control over all of the movie content any more.
I keep haveing flash backs to the origional Terminator movies. Flash backs to alternet endings that were put in front of "Joe Average American" to determine how best to let things wrap up. I wonder if something like that has happened here.
We've seen something new as far as movies go. They've released the third movie six months after the sequel. Add on top of this that the 2nd movie had much criticism from people who were not considered fans. Comments were floated to the effect of "I couldn't understand what it meant".
Could the suits have paniced? If the third movie did explain things away the way fans would have expected
This was not suppsoed to be a HAPPY ENDING movie. If you ask me they should have had the machines "use" neo. Then rip apart ZION anyway. And ZION should have been another construct. BECAUSE
My list of things that I did like:
They were ambiguous as to why the oracle had a new shell
My list of things that I didn't like:
* Weak ending. And they left it open so that they could have another damn movie. They did this WHEN the Architect asks how long this PEACE could last. (Ack) At this point they'd have to pay me to see a 4th movie.
* Didn't explain why Neo had powers outside of the Matirx
* Didn't explain why Neo could enter the Matrix without having to plug in
* Didn't explain why they had to plug Neo in to then GET HIM OUT AGAIN
* Didn't explain how Smith was able to exist outside of the Matrix
* If the machines couldn't clean up the black sky in the last 600+ years to gain a power source what do they gain by having peace? Do the people let out of the matrix volunteer to run in little wheeles in the Desert of the Real?
Later,
Duder