The CEO was the one driving their fights against the media companies. He was winning. What happens when we lose that knight? Who will take up the charge?
This is a very bad day for digital rights.
Archon is what you are talking about ...
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Archon was released by Electronic Arts and I loved playing it on the Commodore 64.
... with the bath water is one of the problems in fighting spam.
I use Mail Washer as a pre-processor for my email accounts. It has now turned out to take more time to weed out legitimate messages.
More and more of my legitimate email from distro lists I have subscribed to from cNet, Woody's Windows Watch and even obscure lists such as Amusing Facts Daily now show up in the ORBD and other spam lists it consults.
For instance, just coming back from vacation I had 1200 messages across five accounts. 70% were tagged as spam from a spam list. 20% of those were legitimate distro lists.
The independent spam lists do a good job of catching most of the spam, but it also catches too many legitimate lists. I try to send an email to the list admin letting them know, but typically they respond that it's not worth the effort trying to get off the lists.
Just what we need another zealot organization. Who remembers the days when Team OS/2 would do the same things you are proposing?
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/archives/archivesm ai l/mail52.html
I do agree with putting your money where your mouth is, but preaching to "non-converts" when you don't have the actual goods to back it up borders on futile.
The lady in the checkout wants to turn her PC and play a game or balance her checkbook. She doesn't want to hunt online for these things. She wants to buy them at the local store.
Domination of an Industry
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It is the domination of an industry. Period. There are no viable alternatives to either.
eBay has 85% of the market.
PayPal has almost the same numbers.
What you get is one company that can control everything in the process of selling goods auction style online. Fees are raised, people who don't play the game get squeezed out.
Yahoo has seen the light and has stopped their auction services in every country except America. Where do the send the traffic? eBay of course.
I like eBay and I like PayPal. I don't like the combination. eBay has shown a historical record of squeezing out the little guy. They will continue this with PayPal who already has draconian methods of handling customer service.
This is a monopoly of an industry pure and simple. The only thing left for ebay to buy is a delivery company and it will be complete.
One of the chief metrics used to determine a monopoly is viable competition. On this web we use it all the time to look at Microsoft. Here it applies as well. Is there a viable alternative to eBay. No. Is there a viable alternative to PayPal. No.
I am tired of the ass kissing everyone does of Spielberg.
It was horrible and cliched. It should have ended 30 minutes before the official end. ENDING THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A STATEMENT ABOUT WHERE WE ARE GOING!
Tell me, why in the hell does Hollywood think we need happy endings?
Anyone who claims that this movie is profound or is making a statement hasn't been living in this world that long.
The movie did have a neat vision of gadgets in the future. I would love one of those spiders as a pet.
This is idiotic. I am a huge Doom fan and cannot wait. I salivated over the 90 meg movie. I have promised myself a top of the line PC when it comes out.
Well, now I am safe... it'll be over by the time it's released.
This is nuts.
"Watching programming legend John Carmack manipulate the lone marine through the claustrophobic corridors, it was easy to get caught up in the revolutionary steps embodied by the technology on display." I thought the whole idea behind games was so that PEOPLE could play them.
In Search of the Ice Age
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Remember the Leonard Nimoy series In Search Of? Well, they were predicting the coming ice age in the 70s. I love how in 30 years we're now looking at global warming instead of global cooling. If you have never seen the episode they looked at evidence that included Alaska was getting colder and the Eastern seaboard was socked by snow five years in a row.
This *is* cool because it's geeky, but what makes it even cooler is that the people behind the scenes walk you through what they did to make it happen.
In their working against Qwest they had to settle a couple of issues. The include the forms and paperwork they used to make it happen and these can be used as a template.
What pushes this over the cool mode into the must read are the accompanying technical documents. They have network diagrams, monitoring statuses and more. It's amazing.
The best part of their site is a list of other communities have done the same thing.
The site is dynamite and is full of information! One of the best articles I have seen on Slashdot in a long time.
That was part of the mystique of Fidonet. You had to get it up and running on your machine and successfully send and receive mail before they would let you on. I wish I could remember my node number.:-)
There will be nothing like BBS again. The internet has superceded it in some areas and has faltered in others.
File downloads are clearly better on the internet, as are games.
Message boards, though, suck on the internet. There are islands of information our there, but nothing like it should be. For instance, for HTML help I go to one message board, for domain name advice another and to web hosting even another one.
Everyone remember Interlink, Fidonet, WWIVNet, RIME (PC Relay), etc? These were message networks that were all inclusive. Every topic under the sun was available and the messages were public. You could download your messages using a QWK compatible door and read them offline. Those were the days.
The closest thing we have now is USENET, where the noise to signal ratio is too high.
PC Pursuit is another vestiage of the BBS age. It was a service by Sprint that allowed you to X.25 into other POPs around the country for a low monthly fee. For instance, I could dial my local sprint number, connect to a pad in Boston and jump on Channel 1 with no long distance.
At the risk of being slammed in moderation, thank goodness they are adopting Linux. Not because it's the way to go, but because it means they are no longer possibly pirating software.
Many many many people believe that tactics used are heacy handed... they are. Many people believe that for some reason Microsoft is evil because they charge for their product. They aren't.
It's when the two get together you have horrible perceptions. Heavy handed tactics... school districts crying poor... Microsoft wanting money...
Going to Linux solves the money issue and most of the potential piracy issues. Is it a victory for open source? Not so much as it is a victory for living within your means.
It's a choice for schools... do they do it legally or do they do it on the sly.
"This book discusses some design patterns and their issues and solutions for Java programming. The author uses VisualAge for Java, Websphere and DB2 as his tools, but the principles can be applied to any Java project. The codes are developed with JDK 1.2.2. Some, but not all, of them have been compiled, but not tested, in JDK 1.3.1. The author uses the term "antipattern" for a flaw in design. In addition, he attempts to have a unique descriptive term for each antipattern. If you jump from one chapter to another without specific order, you might be puzzled by all the new terms. Fortunately, the book has a good index on the keywords and the pages they are described."
Yep, but in a buyer's market you look at two things:
Availablity of CCIEs -- They aren't as exclusive as they once were.
Costs to Secure CCIEs -- The situation used to exist where there was zero help or preperation available for CCIE exams. Now you can take the boot camps, etc. It waters down the field.
The supply of tech professionals for operations, non-development, is far outpaced by the demand. Right now it is simply a buyer's market. What does that mean for folks who hire:
1) We can demand experience. We don't have to take the time to train someone and get them up to speed.
2) We don't have to offer the salaries and benefits we did two years ago.
3) Certifications aren't as valuable as they once were. The last boom in certifications was the Cisco program and that has stagnated as the technology and programs have become entrenched. It's all cyclical with certification programs anyway. You have to be in at the beginning to reap the benefits.
The other fact you need to face is the best way to secure employment is not through classifieds and monster.com, but personal contact with people in the field. Join user groups, go to vendor tech demos and start meeting people.
Slashdot Mirror
It's in great peril now.
The CEO was the one driving their fights against the media companies. He was winning. What happens when we lose that knight? Who will take up the charge?
This is a very bad day for digital rights.
Archon was released by Electronic Arts and I loved playing it on the Commodore 64.
Here's a site with a review and screen shots.
... with the bath water is one of the problems in fighting spam.
I use Mail Washer as a pre-processor for my email accounts. It has now turned out to take more time to weed out legitimate messages.
More and more of my legitimate email from distro lists I have subscribed to from cNet, Woody's Windows Watch and even obscure lists such as Amusing Facts Daily now show up in the ORBD and other spam lists it consults.
For instance, just coming back from vacation I had 1200 messages across five accounts. 70% were tagged as spam from a spam list. 20% of those were legitimate distro lists.
The independent spam lists do a good job of catching most of the spam, but it also catches too many legitimate lists. I try to send an email to the list admin letting them know, but typically they respond that it's not worth the effort trying to get off the lists.
I've gone through a something just like it where I was Mudrered Electronically by my ISP.
This site talks about what happens when a legitimate company gets on the list.
Just what we need another zealot organization. Who remembers the days when Team OS/2 would do the same things you are proposing?
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http://www.jerrypournelle.com/archives/archives
I do agree with putting your money where your mouth is, but preaching to "non-converts" when you don't have the actual goods to back it up borders on futile.
The lady in the checkout wants to turn her PC and play a game or balance her checkbook. She doesn't want to hunt online for these things. She wants to buy them at the local store.
It is the domination of an industry. Period. There are no viable alternatives to either.
eBay has 85% of the market.
PayPal has almost the same numbers.
What you get is one company that can control everything in the process of selling goods auction style online. Fees are raised, people who don't play the game get squeezed out.
Yahoo has seen the light and has stopped their auction services in every country except America. Where do the send the traffic? eBay of course.
I like eBay and I like PayPal. I don't like the combination. eBay has shown a historical record of squeezing out the little guy. They will continue this with PayPal who already has draconian methods of handling customer service.
This is a monopoly of an industry pure and simple. The only thing left for ebay to buy is a delivery company and it will be complete.
One of the chief metrics used to determine a monopoly is viable competition. On this web we use it all the time to look at Microsoft. Here it applies as well. Is there a viable alternative to eBay. No. Is there a viable alternative to PayPal. No.
I am tired of the ass kissing everyone does of Spielberg.
It was horrible and cliched. It should have ended 30 minutes before the official end. ENDING THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A STATEMENT ABOUT WHERE WE ARE GOING!
Tell me, why in the hell does Hollywood think we need happy endings?
Anyone who claims that this movie is profound or is making a statement hasn't been living in this world that long.
The movie did have a neat vision of gadgets in the future. I would love one of those spiders as a pet.
to all the major game sites.
... it'll be over by the time it's released.
This is idiotic. I am a huge Doom fan and cannot wait. I salivated over the 90 meg movie. I have promised myself a top of the line PC when it comes out.
Well, now I am safe
This is nuts.
"Watching programming legend John Carmack manipulate the lone marine through the claustrophobic corridors, it was easy to get caught up in the revolutionary steps embodied by the technology on display." I thought the whole idea behind games was so that PEOPLE could play them.
Remember the Leonard Nimoy series In Search Of? Well, they were predicting the coming ice age in the 70s. I love how in 30 years we're now looking at global warming instead of global cooling. If you have never seen the episode they looked at evidence that included Alaska was getting colder and the Eastern seaboard was socked by snow five years in a row.
This *is* cool because it's geeky, but what makes it even cooler is that the people behind the scenes walk you through what they did to make it happen.
In their working against Qwest they had to settle a couple of issues. The include the forms and paperwork they used to make it happen and these can be used as a template.
What pushes this over the cool mode into the must read are the accompanying technical documents. They have network diagrams, monitoring statuses and more. It's amazing.
The best part of their site is a list of other communities have done the same thing.
The site is dynamite and is full of information! One of the best articles I have seen on Slashdot in a long time.
Sigh ...
Working Link
If you're interested in what happened, people working out of the trunks of their car, check out this overview.
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Wacky Stuff
Chiat/Day Experiment
Thanks! Those two sites have great overviews. I really liked TIs flash on how it works. That was a perfect way to show how flash can be useful.
Of course it also says, "News for Nerds." Which means that the stuff that matters is for nerds.
I still don't see the link between the two environmental stories and nerds.
The Correct Link
Sig: CompuNotes Rocks what else should I say?
When did Slashdot become EccoDot? EnviroDot?
:-)
First Kyoto, then this. Next we'll see that Richard Stallman's talks contribute to global warming.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:-)
That was part of the mystique of Fidonet. You had to get it up and running on your machine and successfully send and receive mail before they would let you on. I wish I could remember my node number.
There will be nothing like BBS again. The internet has superceded it in some areas and has faltered in others.
File downloads are clearly better on the internet, as are games.
Message boards, though, suck on the internet. There are islands of information our there, but nothing like it should be. For instance, for HTML help I go to one message board, for domain name advice another and to web hosting even another one.
Everyone remember Interlink, Fidonet, WWIVNet, RIME (PC Relay), etc? These were message networks that were all inclusive. Every topic under the sun was available and the messages were public. You could download your messages using a QWK compatible door and read them offline. Those were the days.
The closest thing we have now is USENET, where the noise to signal ratio is too high.
PC Pursuit is another vestiage of the BBS age. It was a service by Sprint that allowed you to X.25 into other POPs around the country for a low monthly fee. For instance, I could dial my local sprint number, connect to a pad in Boston and jump on Channel 1 with no long distance.
Died last year. He left the still to me and the pickup to my sister.
Ma got the coffee makers while Pa got the coon hound.
To those who claim pop unders are the evil of the internet give it a rest.
... let's go to micropayments. We can each pay a thousandth of a cent to read these posts.
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The internet is not free. You pay for it somehow. Someone, somewhere pays for the content you are reading.
Pop unders make some of the content available to you at no charge.
Options? Let's all go back to lynx and use the internet for academic pursuits.
Better yet
It takes less than a second to close a pop under. Now, if they spawn more and more pop unders we have a problem
At the risk of being slammed in moderation, thank goodness they are adopting Linux. Not because it's the way to go, but because it means they are no longer possibly pirating software.
... they are. Many people believe that for some reason Microsoft is evil because they charge for their product. They aren't.
... school districts crying poor ... Microsoft wanting money ...
... do they do it legally or do they do it on the sly.
Many many many people believe that tactics used are heacy handed
It's when the two get together you have horrible perceptions. Heavy handed tactics
Going to Linux solves the money issue and most of the potential piracy issues. Is it a victory for open source? Not so much as it is a victory for living within your means.
It's a choice for schools
I say legally.
Opening paragraph:
"This book discusses some design patterns and their issues and solutions for Java programming. The author uses VisualAge for Java, Websphere and DB2 as his tools, but the principles can be applied to any Java project. The codes are developed with JDK 1.2.2. Some, but not all, of them have been compiled, but not tested, in JDK 1.3.1. The author uses the term "antipattern" for a flaw in design. In addition, he attempts to have a unique descriptive term for each antipattern. If you jump from one chapter to another without specific order, you might be puzzled by all the new terms. Fortunately, the book has a good index on the keywords and the pages they are described."
URL: Bitter Java Review
Yep, but in a buyer's market you look at two things:
Availablity of CCIEs -- They aren't as exclusive as they once were.
Costs to Secure CCIEs -- The situation used to exist where there was zero help or preperation available for CCIE exams. Now you can take the boot camps, etc. It waters down the field.
The supply of tech professionals for operations, non-development, is far outpaced by the demand. Right now it is simply a buyer's market. What does that mean for folks who hire:
1) We can demand experience. We don't have to take the time to train someone and get them up to speed.
2) We don't have to offer the salaries and benefits we did two years ago.
3) Certifications aren't as valuable as they once were. The last boom in certifications was the Cisco program and that has stagnated as the technology and programs have become entrenched. It's all cyclical with certification programs anyway. You have to be in at the beginning to reap the benefits.
The other fact you need to face is the best way to secure employment is not through classifieds and monster.com, but personal contact with people in the field. Join user groups, go to vendor tech demos and start meeting people.
Good luck.
Commented today, "This is it. We're done. This will kill the movie and music industry just like the VHS tape, CD and DVD."
Senator Hollings responded, "We're asking China to invade Tawain today to stop this evil horde from joining the axis of evil."
What is the filename?
I can't find it. I still can't find anyone who has actually seen it.
Most people show the same blurred screen shots as evidence, but they could have come from tv shows, publicity shots, etc.