...the P2P companies are trying to ransom the entertainment industries into accepting their networks as a distribution channel and source of revenue.
This is HILARIOUS! They're accusing P2P "companies" of trying to get a monopoly on music distribution? Isn't that a little like Napoleon accusing Hitler of being a dictator? Holy tamoly, these guys got balls.
Secondly... the fact that they use "companies" shows once again that they don't get it. Computer networks don't have to be sponsored by companies! These lawmakers are so deluded that they not only do they allow corporations to overrun the country, they refuse to acknowledge that indviduals even exist anymore.
Don't you think, though, that there is not one single factor that can bring dictators down but it's a set of smaller reasons.
I think the Internet is a rather strong eroding factor. It isn't an instant fix, but it works to undermind the foundation of these regimes. Someone above said that "radio, TV, telephone" didn't do it either.. right, but the contributed. Nothing works all at once... all the communication together eventually brings it all down at once upon itself, like it did in the USSR.
supposed to be funny, but I worry about this exact problem.
Organizations don't always get along like happy families. I can easily see people getting put on a list because they pissed someone off or they rub someone the wrong way. Anyone that has a huge ego (including CEOs) might use it as a way to get people on their own personal enemy list in trouble.
When you look to get people that have no "problems" in their past, you are looking for people that haven't really done anything. People who have made mistakes are people who have actually learned something.
that and "keywording" resumes pretty much makes the whole H.R. system crap.
I'll write to developers, and join the mail lists for some projects (even contribute answers from time-to-time), but I don't have time (or staffing money) to build the project I want.
People are interpreting my statement in odd ways...
What YOU say you do is pretty close to what I say that CIOs (or people they designate) should do... become a part of the project and let them know what their experiences and/or needs are and THAT will help set the direction of the project in itself.
I said "help set the roadmap" not organize the project for them. Getting and giving feedback is supposed to be the backbone of any Open Source project.
Again.. as I wrote above, if they are concerned about the roadmap then they need to GET INVOLVED WITH THE PROJECT and help SET THE AGENDA themselves. As a matter of fact, if they did this their needs would be serviced a lot more quickly and thoroughly than trying to work with any big bloated software company.
I think this point is just showing their exceutive lazyness.
CIOs are scared because of "lack of roadmaps" in the projects?
Why don't they contribute to the project and help set the roadmap if they are so concerned.... or do they only want to take the project's output without contributing anything to it?
I am glad that this author goes after this one... hearing this argument these days makes me want to scream.
It's really hard to continue listening to anyone (especially some knowitall exec, even it is from Oracle) that still brings this forward as a general problem with Open Source. It might be a problem with individual packages, but as an overall argument against open source it just shows ignorance of the subject matter, IMHO. After that argument all following arguments become suspect.
I believe that it's used both ways. On my 802.11b gear I believe they use WAN as "Wireless Area Network." It's not a matter of proper terms, it's just how those particular marketing drones label it.
but, having said that, if I could rewrite the post I would say LAN. I think that's closer to what I meant.
I am god damned tired of hearing the "they only are accountable to their shareholders" or "they only are doing what is best for their company" B.S. This is exactly the type of thinking that is letting corporations overrun our country and our government.
And worse, it DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THAT WAY. Companies don't have to be run in a way where the bottom line is only what counts at all costs and I bet there are plenty of examples of good profitable businesses that AREN'T run that way. It's just a excuse for bad ethics and bad behavior.
The only reason they are getting away with it is because the groupthink of the country is letting it happen. We ought to get together and put forward a philosophy that ethics and issues do matter, and once we hit critical mass, THAT will be the reality. Vote with your feet and out investment dollar.
This is just great... create a two-tiered system with "trusted" and "untrusted" e-mail servers. Guess who will own the "trusted" servers... corporations who can afford to pay the fee!
I would like the ability to run my own servers and web sites as an individual, please. We don't need ANY system of top level domains that favor corporations over non-corporations. Find another way around the problem, please.
When you put something together that is good enough the bloated Micro$oft blimps bother to put out a publication libeling your product you KNOW you have to be doing something right!
...and they already have the basic system to do a lot of this. Instead of pressing thumbs up for the SHOWS they'll be doing that for the commercials, too... they can get a database of liked commercials just like they can get a database of liked tv shows.
now all you have to do is get the custom commercials down to the machine.
Well, mine (I have two version 1 tivos) is set up to do all updates via a Wi-Fi connection. It's not really set up for it, but if you hack your tivo you can set it up to download forcasts, email, and the like. I agree that for video it's a lot better just to buy the time on the Discovery channel and have the machine save it, but what I was saying is that Tivo boxes could probably also do some of the services that cable companies were supposed to do better than they do now. With the services that have came out for version 2 tivos, it looks like they are headed that direction themselves.
Right now they have some trailers once in a while, but I am sure Tivo has to be paid for them to push it out there.
Too bad... maybe Tivos will continue to evolve and they will become the set to interative box we have always read about... able to get all the movie times, buy tickets, order chineese food.. whatever. Maybe when everyone has broadband...
They already did this, I believe, at least once last year. When a certain car commercial came on (can't remember which one.. maybe M.B. or V.W.) it went to an extended commercial if you wanted by hitting the thumbs up button. Not much to talk about really... the tivo is set up to save messages and commercials from the air at 3:00am on scheduled days.
There are other types of commercials too... for instance right now there are a couple of previews for Dawn of the Dead. They are just extending this out to more non-entertainment products too. You don't have to watch them if you don't want to.
Has anyone on the SCO board thought about getting Darl checked for mental illness?
I mean, seriously... his quotes get more and more outlandish and now he wants to PICK A FIGHT with the government? There is something suicidal and crazy going on here...
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...the P2P companies are trying to ransom the entertainment industries into accepting their networks as a distribution channel and source of revenue.
This is HILARIOUS! They're accusing P2P "companies" of trying to get a monopoly on music distribution? Isn't that a little like Napoleon accusing Hitler of being a dictator? Holy tamoly, these guys got balls.
Secondly... the fact that they use "companies" shows once again that they don't get it. Computer networks don't have to be sponsored by companies! These lawmakers are so deluded that they not only do they allow corporations to overrun the country, they refuse to acknowledge that indviduals even exist anymore.
It gets worse every day...
Don't you think, though, that there is not one single factor that can bring dictators down but it's a set of smaller reasons.
I think the Internet is a rather strong eroding factor. It isn't an instant fix, but it works to undermind the foundation of these regimes. Someone above said that "radio, TV, telephone" didn't do it either.. right, but the contributed. Nothing works all at once... all the communication together eventually brings it all down at once upon itself, like it did in the USSR.
supposed to be funny, but I worry about this exact problem.
Organizations don't always get along like happy families. I can easily see people getting put on a list because they pissed someone off or they rub someone the wrong way. Anyone that has a huge ego (including CEOs) might use it as a way to get people on their own personal enemy list in trouble.
The only growth industry in the U.S.A.!!
It's hard to outsource it overseas, too.
When you look to get people that have no "problems" in their past, you are looking for people that haven't really done anything. People who have made mistakes are people who have actually learned something.
that and "keywording" resumes pretty much makes the whole H.R. system crap.
When you show me an article on cnn.com that has a well reasoned article about Linux and O.S. movement then I will REALLY be impressed.
I'll write to developers, and join the mail lists for some projects (even contribute answers from time-to-time), but I don't have time (or staffing money) to build the project I want.
People are interpreting my statement in odd ways...
What YOU say you do is pretty close to what I say that CIOs (or people they designate) should do... become a part of the project and let them know what their experiences and/or needs are and THAT will help set the direction of the project in itself.
I doubt many CIOs even care to contribute that...
I said "help set the roadmap" not organize the project for them. Getting and giving feedback is supposed to be the backbone of any Open Source project.
Again.. as I wrote above, if they are concerned about the roadmap then they need to GET INVOLVED WITH THE PROJECT and help SET THE AGENDA themselves. As a matter of fact, if they did this their needs would be serviced a lot more quickly and thoroughly than trying to work with any big bloated software company.
I think this point is just showing their exceutive lazyness.
CIOs are scared because of "lack of roadmaps" in the projects?
Why don't they contribute to the project and help set the roadmap if they are so concerned.... or do they only want to take the project's output without contributing anything to it?
I am glad that this author goes after this one... hearing this argument these days makes me want to scream.
It's really hard to continue listening to anyone (especially some knowitall exec, even it is from Oracle) that still brings this forward as a general problem with Open Source. It might be a problem with individual packages, but as an overall argument against open source it just shows ignorance of the subject matter, IMHO. After that argument all following arguments become suspect.
I believe that it's used both ways. On my 802.11b gear I believe they use WAN as "Wireless Area Network." It's not a matter of proper terms, it's just how those particular marketing drones label it.
but, having said that, if I could rewrite the post I would say LAN. I think that's closer to what I meant.
Playing games with power gloves and VR glasses in a park would cause a bigger panic than the War of the Worlds broadcast!
What idiot marketing person came up with the term "island internet". The words are mutually exclusive.
It's a mobile WAN! This is a tech website, people, not cnn.com tech news!
I am god damned tired of hearing the "they only are accountable to their shareholders" or "they only are doing what is best for their company" B.S. This is exactly the type of thinking that is letting corporations overrun our country and our government.
And worse, it DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THAT WAY. Companies don't have to be run in a way where the bottom line is only what counts at all costs and I bet there are plenty of examples of good profitable businesses that AREN'T run that way. It's just a excuse for bad ethics and bad behavior.
The only reason they are getting away with it is because the groupthink of the country is letting it happen. We ought to get together and put forward a philosophy that ethics and issues do matter, and once we hit critical mass, THAT will be the reality. Vote with your feet and out investment dollar.
If they mess up, it could mess up the system.
wow... you managed to insult over half of the Slashdot community in one fell swoop.
I have run my own e-mail server since about 1997. I think I can configure it correctly... jessh.
This is just great... create a two-tiered system with "trusted" and "untrusted" e-mail servers. Guess who will own the "trusted" servers... corporations who can afford to pay the fee!
I would like the ability to run my own servers and web sites as an individual, please. We don't need ANY system of top level domains that favor corporations over non-corporations. Find another way around the problem, please.
Congrats to OO.org!
When you put something together that is good enough the bloated Micro$oft blimps bother to put out a publication libeling your product you KNOW you have to be doing something right!
Kudos!
I don't really want my Tivo to incorporate Flash, Java, .Net, or some other idiotic interative presentation language.
...and they already have the basic system to do a lot of this. Instead of pressing thumbs up for the SHOWS they'll be doing that for the commercials, too... they can get a database of liked commercials just like they can get a database of liked tv shows.
now all you have to do is get the custom commercials down to the machine.
Well, mine (I have two version 1 tivos) is set up to do all updates via a Wi-Fi connection. It's not really set up for it, but if you hack your tivo you can set it up to download forcasts, email, and the like. I agree that for video it's a lot better just to buy the time on the Discovery channel and have the machine save it, but what I was saying is that Tivo boxes could probably also do some of the services that cable companies were supposed to do better than they do now. With the services that have came out for version 2 tivos, it looks like they are headed that direction themselves.
maybe they can put all the Christina Angulara, Brittney Spears, and Jessica Simpson in one place so we can... uh, STUDY them closely. eh?
Right now they have some trailers once in a while, but I am sure Tivo has to be paid for them to push it out there.
Too bad... maybe Tivos will continue to evolve and they will become the set to interative box we have always read about... able to get all the movie times, buy tickets, order chineese food.. whatever. Maybe when everyone has broadband...
They already did this, I believe, at least once last year. When a certain car commercial came on (can't remember which one.. maybe M.B. or V.W.) it went to an extended commercial if you wanted by hitting the thumbs up button. Not much to talk about really... the tivo is set up to save messages and commercials from the air at 3:00am on scheduled days.
There are other types of commercials too... for instance right now there are a couple of previews for Dawn of the Dead. They are just extending this out to more non-entertainment products too. You don't have to watch them if you don't want to.
Has anyone on the SCO board thought about getting Darl checked for mental illness?
I mean, seriously... his quotes get more and more outlandish and now he wants to PICK A FIGHT with the government? There is something suicidal and crazy going on here...