The actual, unedited comment went something like this:
The NSFnet Backbone has reached a state where we would like to more officially let operational traffic on. Specifically porn. We feel that would provide an actual representation of bandwidth load.' To which someone responded: 'Heh. You said, 'load.'
(I'm sure someone in another post already pointed this out, but I'm too lazy to check.) The fact that this is happening is old news. Been the case for a few years, despite their claim that they were taking steps to fix it.
Viral marketing and word of mouth support all die with the purchase not made.
Sorta. In reality, there are most likely more legitimate legel-gamers than pirate-gamers. While those that pirate the games take a bite out of profit, if the pirates outnumbered the legal folks then the gaming industry would have gone away a long time ago.
(Look at the early Mac game market (I don't mean the early, early Apple market when games were aplenty as it had a large market share among home PCs): It was strong for its size until pirating took a big enough chunk out of it and producers moved on.)
My point is that word of mouth and viral marketing works; Games get sold. The people with the "skillz" to pirate the games are going by word-of-mouth: Fellow pirates say the game is good and make it available through newsgroups, IRC, whatever. Those who purchase games hear about/see them in commercials and things like G4 (when it bothers to show game-related shows). The legit folks don't care about DRM because they're going to play the games with the disks in, with the callbacks (if they even know what those are) and with whatever DRM methods come up next. So in effect voting does occur with the wallets... there are more people willing to buy a game, and thus, in effect, have their vote counted then there are people who, by pirating the game, don't.
A) Who said we were talking about curing the patient?
Actually, I thought we were talking about road rage and got off on this tangent.
And I kind of assumed road rage was caused by assholes and had nothing to do with spinning wheel covers (or whatever they're called), etc. Granted the two seem to go together, but I'm not sure it's cause-and-effect.
The main difference between junk calls and junk email is that the email arrives at your mail server before you access it.
Not really. With things like Google's phone service (Grand Central or something?) I get a notice of who's calling me an asking me if I want to respond. Couldn't that be tailored to do the same thing?
"If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for . . but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong. If this is too blind for your taste, consult some well-meaning fool (there is always one around) and ask his advice. Then vote the other way. This enables you to be a good citizen (if such is your wish) without spending the enormous amount of time on it that truly intelligent exercise of franchise requires." - Lazarus Long, via Robert A. Heinlein
Seeing as we're forcing through silly laws, I think we should have one that states no representative or senator can vote on any law dealing with computers unless they take a course on - and receive their - A+. No, it's not the biggest indicator of computer smarts, but it sure is an indicator that they know more than they obviously currently do.
Oh, I don't know, I'm glad they might be making " the Official Indiana Jones' game." I've felt bad about playing the unofficial versions all this time.
What the hell does the "official" version mean? LucasArts released all of the others, haven't they? Well, with the exception of the truly terrible role-playing game version.
OK, I'm a big enough person to admit it: I have no idea what Sibelus is. Regardless, I'm wondering about whether to install Silverlight. I'm on an Intel-Mac and in general have found that I've had little use for MS-specific plug-ins. Any other Mac folks found a legitimate reason to install Silverlight? Or is it all eye candy stuff right now?
I thought the expectation was that the new iPhone would be announced then. Would a major announcement like the new OS being demoed mean the new iPhone would get lost in the shuffle if it, too, were announced at the same time?
Funny you mention Big Brother. Wasn't there a bit in 1984 when Winston Smith isn't participating in the morning exercise and the two-way TV chastised him? No, I'm not saying that would be the case with this, but it was the first thought I had.
Just a quick search on ebay shows that there's not a lot of interest. Don't know if you'd have luck at a comic con or something similar. While I agree that they're cool, I think that's mostly from a fond-memory kind of thing and not something that could be turned into something financially tangible. That and my wife would kill me if I offered to buy them...;)
I decided to re-purpose a G4 powerbook that I wasn't doing anything with and decided that it was a decent time to give a newer *nix ditro a shot. I had recently used Ubuntu to create a headless fileserver and was pleased with it. On the laptop, not as much. Airport Extreme support - from the OS, _NOT_ the Ubuntu support forums - was really, really painful. I tried YellowDog, SuSE and a few others but no love from any. I went back to Ubuntu (actually Xubuntu) and spent a number of hours working through the Support Forums, which are really well categorized into different topics. I ended up getting wireless to work with _a lot_ of help from the numerous posts responding to Ubuntu beginners like myself. Was it easy? Nope. Was it doable? Yup, thanks to the great community support. I think that's the best answer to "What is it with Ubuntu." But as always, YMMV.
Slashdot Mirror
The actual, unedited comment went something like this:
;)
The NSFnet Backbone has reached a state where we would like to more officially let operational traffic on. Specifically porn. We feel that would provide an actual representation of bandwidth load.' To which someone responded: 'Heh. You said, 'load.'
And thus the tubes were born.
You deserve a pat on the head
... ;)
With a Buick
> The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early!
...
*look of boredom*
Nope, didn't help
(I'm sure someone in another post already pointed this out, but I'm too lazy to check.) The fact that this is happening is old news. Been the case for a few years, despite their claim that they were taking steps to fix it.
Viral marketing and word of mouth support all die with the purchase not made.
... there are more people willing to buy a game, and thus, in effect, have their vote counted then there are people who, by pirating the game, don't.
Sorta. In reality, there are most likely more legitimate legel-gamers than pirate-gamers. While those that pirate the games take a bite out of profit, if the pirates outnumbered the legal folks then the gaming industry would have gone away a long time ago.
(Look at the early Mac game market (I don't mean the early, early Apple market when games were aplenty as it had a large market share among home PCs): It was strong for its size until pirating took a big enough chunk out of it and producers moved on.)
My point is that word of mouth and viral marketing works; Games get sold. The people with the "skillz" to pirate the games are going by word-of-mouth: Fellow pirates say the game is good and make it available through newsgroups, IRC, whatever. Those who purchase games hear about/see them in commercials and things like G4 (when it bothers to show game-related shows). The legit folks don't care about DRM because they're going to play the games with the disks in, with the callbacks (if they even know what those are) and with whatever DRM methods come up next. So in effect voting does occur with the wallets
A) Who said we were talking about curing the patient?
Actually, I thought we were talking about road rage and got off on this tangent.
And I kind of assumed road rage was caused by assholes and had nothing to do with spinning wheel covers (or whatever they're called), etc. Granted the two seem to go together, but I'm not sure it's cause-and-effect.
Schrödinger's vulnerability?
The main difference between junk calls and junk email is that the email arrives at your mail server before you access it.
Not really. With things like Google's phone service (Grand Central or something?) I get a notice of who's calling me an asking me if I want to respond. Couldn't that be tailored to do the same thing?
"If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for . . but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong. If this is too blind for your taste, consult some well-meaning fool (there is always one around) and ask his advice. Then vote the other way. This enables you to be a good citizen (if such is your wish) without spending the enormous amount of time on it that truly intelligent exercise of franchise requires." - Lazarus Long, via Robert A. Heinlein
Yeah, like most /.'ers will get that joke ;)
Seeing as we're forcing through silly laws, I think we should have one that states no representative or senator can vote on any law dealing with computers unless they take a course on - and receive their - A+. No, it's not the biggest indicator of computer smarts, but it sure is an indicator that they know more than they obviously currently do.
If only some countries had places where one could go to share their opinions with large groups ...
These stories are getting more and more depressing. I suggest changing the section name to, "Your (Lack of) Rights Online."
Oh, I don't know, I'm glad they might be making " the Official Indiana Jones' game." I've felt bad about playing the unofficial versions all this time.
What the hell does the "official" version mean? LucasArts released all of the others, haven't they? Well, with the exception of the truly terrible role-playing game version.
OK, I'm a big enough person to admit it: I have no idea what Sibelus is. Regardless, I'm wondering about whether to install Silverlight. I'm on an Intel-Mac and in general have found that I've had little use for MS-specific plug-ins. Any other Mac folks found a legitimate reason to install Silverlight? Or is it all eye candy stuff right now?
I thought the expectation was that the new iPhone would be announced then. Would a major announcement like the new OS being demoed mean the new iPhone would get lost in the shuffle if it, too, were announced at the same time?
Nah. This one goes to 12.
Yeah, yeah. And you had to walk uphill in the snow both ways to load your punch cards... ;)
why does it take 3 years for the inn in Westfall to get repaired?
:)
Because it's not on UPS's route?
Every time you put an Intel Mac to sleep, it writes the contents of RAM to /var/vm/sleepimage in the clear.
So disable safe sleep.
Funny you mention Big Brother. Wasn't there a bit in 1984 when Winston Smith isn't participating in the morning exercise and the two-way TV chastised him? No, I'm not saying that would be the case with this, but it was the first thought I had.
Should this be marked, "Funny" or "Informative"? ;)
Just a quick search on ebay shows that there's not a lot of interest. Don't know if you'd have luck at a comic con or something similar. While I agree that they're cool, I think that's mostly from a fond-memory kind of thing and not something that could be turned into something financially tangible. That and my wife would kill me if I offered to buy them ... ;)
The work of their various Councils and Societies encompasses a large number of projects, to include Open Source projects.
I decided to re-purpose a G4 powerbook that I wasn't doing anything with and decided that it was a decent time to give a newer *nix ditro a shot. I had recently used Ubuntu to create a headless fileserver and was pleased with it. On the laptop, not as much. Airport Extreme support - from the OS, _NOT_ the Ubuntu support forums - was really, really painful. I tried YellowDog, SuSE and a few others but no love from any. I went back to Ubuntu (actually Xubuntu) and spent a number of hours working through the Support Forums, which are really well categorized into different topics. I ended up getting wireless to work with _a lot_ of help from the numerous posts responding to Ubuntu beginners like myself. Was it easy? Nope. Was it doable? Yup, thanks to the great community support. I think that's the best answer to "What is it with Ubuntu." But as always, YMMV.