Furthermore, once Iraq has finally subdued into becoming a Vassal state, they're going to need Cyber Cafes, tech support, people who know about the power generation plant software, library software, people who know stuff about open-source software will be in demand. You think Iraq is going to buy stuff from Microsoft to get off the ground? But the problem is, you are all cynical Americans. You think that Iraq will never have the need for this things. The same way you thought those Cow-worshipping Indians could never get a clue and compete with you on anything. There are a lot things out there which need solving. And you have skills. Learn to fucking use them instead of sitting on your butt.
Here, I'll give you some ideas for free -
1) Sell Bollywood DVDs (if u don't know what bollywood is, find out). If you need help writing the software for your site, get the grunt work outsourced.
2) Sell DVDs of anything Chinese, and repeat the step above
3) Find a better way to sell MP3s online, which somehow accounts for all the pirated stuff already out there. If you need some extra hands for coding to get your site running fast to beat the existing people, outsource some of it.
4) Write an operating system that looks and acts like Windows (I'm talking about the positive behaviour), is compatible with ALL windows software, but without the security holes and clippy.If you need help, have some of it outsourced.
5) Since the Indians are going to have more money, convince Jeff Bezos to open Amazon.co.in and also have eBay join fray with eBay.co.in. Then claim credit for suggesting the idea and live off that money, or actually help set it up, and become chief software head lording it over those brownies
6) Write software which helps simulate the reactions of different genes, drugs on the AIDs virus. If it's already been done, write a more efficient version. If you're doing it, have it outsourced, but don't tell your client.
7)???
8) Profit.
Anybody interested in Parallel universes (and Catholic-bashing) ought to read Philip Pullman's trilogy - His Dark Materials
Also being made into a Movie
No I am not a karma-whore. I don't charge.
Thank God you didn't get any of the following on your wall:
In Soviet Russia, the Alternate Universe Proves YOU! or
Give me back my diffracted light, you insensitive CLOD!
All of your alternate universe are belong to us
You can't imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these, because one interfere's with other HA HA! (Nelson-style)
No no, it's hot in India. And India produced Gandhi so... I think the grand-parent's correct.
BTW, once we discover other civilizations, I get first dibs on the.mars domain. I wonder what picture of the world Aliens would get if their first window to Earth was Slashdot.....trolling? Me?
Sir I salute your honest post, and will willing take the fall for you, as I'm sure I will be marked troll/flamebait for agreeing with you
After 9/11 there was a section of America wondering "Why do they hate us so much?" (The rest were busy hoping anybody who hated u so much was being sentenced to permanent time in Abu Ghraib..). Anyway I'd like to propose a reason why "they hate you so much" - it's simply hypocrisy. America - to the outside world keep preaching equality , justice, huma rights, democracy e.t.c. But you drop all that bullshit in an instant if the dictator come around to your side and starst kissing your ass. This foreign policy causes a LOT of resentment. If you really stood for Democracy and the rule of law why would u support Pakistan(Dictatorship) over India(Democracy), Saudi Arabia(Theocracy), and let human rights abuses in China go by in a flash, but highlight them in the rest of the world. Be consistent. A dictatorship is a dictatorship, whether it kisses American butt or not. Plus Dictatorships have the nasty tendency to turn against you when they get bored - i.e. The Taliban (who are/were a CIA creation, designed to kick Soviet Russian ass) and Iraq as well (in the Iran/Iraq war). So as an appeal to Americans, please vote out this monkey of a president, and make sure you pressure the other guy and make sure he's more bothered about local jobs than foreign leaders.
Where the hell did you pick that up? You're right about the address verification part, but minors weren't a part of that story at all. And the 'elements' it was meant to appease was the general public. Like all publicly available services these were suspected to be frequently used by terrorists (or Freedom Fighters if your a Paki). Of course, it's a fscking stupid idea, so yea, it was never implemented. But terrorism was the same reason they shutdown the mobile network in Kashmir too for a time....
Anyway, this still doesn't compare to Communist China, where Cyber Cafe browses YOU!
Yea, you're right, and that's what I'm saying above. The 3G mobile operators are going to emphasize these 'premium' types of service, because there's no money left in voice, and in the 3G networks, voice calls can be totally taken for granted, as they will be of high quality (my assumption), and will take very little bandwidth.The article that's referred to, however, talks about using WiFi for VOIP for cheap calls, and I'm just saying that's pretty pointless (for reasons mentioned above)
Why would you want to use Wi-Fi, when you have a tried and tested secure, ready-to-use technology like 3GSM? If it really is all about cheap calls, then 3G takes care of those issues anyway. Cellphone providers outside America (Europe-Asia) have woken up to the fact that they aren't going to make any money off voice anymore, as rates are low, and it's tough to raise then in the current situation. This was part of the motivation for upping the bandwidth available to mobile networks, so as to provide users with "value-added services" much like what DoCoMo is already doing in Japan. With so much bandwidth available, voice calls become dirt cheap anyway, since youll instead be paying for that Music Video you just downloaded, e.t.c. WiFi is fine and dandy in the states, but outside it, it's still spotty coverage (and inside too).... You can find all info regarding 3G at GSM World. Yes 3G networks have yet to get off the ground, but that's not because the technology sucks. It's for opther reasons (i.e. ludicrous spectrum license fees, inertia on part of the mobile providers to release 3G handests e.t.c.) Eventually, the mobile networks will be as fast WiFi, and our mobile phones are already just more than that. Why try and fit WiFi onto cellphones when 3G already has the inbuilt billing, encryption and other stuff ready?
There is 1 reason behind this:
1. Ego
You have about 15/16 different telecom companies with 2/3 major standards all battling it out. Thing is CDMA is essentially an American standard, developed by Qualcomm (I think), and there is no way it would bend over for a European cheese-eating monkey standard like GSM (developed by Nokia and Ericsson, I think).
Further the mobile phone system here isn't an open or uniform standard like in Europe/Asia. Even with GSM here, y'all had to shift it to a different frequency - 1900 MHz instead of the 900/1800 bands used in Europe/Asia. Your mobile is tied to your provider, whereas in Europe/Asia, buy the phone from anyone anywhere, and simply plug in the GSM chip supplied by the provider you choose. As any slashdotter will tell you, when you use Open and Uniform standards, you get growth and innovation. So this is the unfortunate situation in the US of A. CDMA may be a better standard technically, but GSM is the what the worlds uses. Which is why while most of us are happily MMS-ing, Text messaging is only now becoming a big deal in USA.
Well, see I'm not so sure you can draw that parallel.. ICQ was (and I suppose is..haven't used it since the 'Bloat') a messaging client. And there's not much it can do to get out of that box (being a 2d piece of code). But what used to be a cellphone is already so much more. I don't think they should be called cellphones anymore anyway - 'Personal Communicator' or some such marketing poop would be more appropriate...like what Nokia calls its 9000 series. Once you've put a TV Tuner into a cellphone (complete with obligatory "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these...") you've pretty much got something else there (Let's not forget the 3300 by the same company - MP3 Player or N-GAGE - gaming device). A better parallel is Yahoo I think.. It also got bloated, and then along came Google. I can't wait for the launch of 'GooglePhone'.... I wonder what happens when u press the "I'm feeling lucky" button...
So basically, you're trying to say a few American people got togther with that whore Lyndie England to destroy America's reputation, piss off the remaining few Muslims that WERE on America's side and make the world in general a much more dangerous place for Americans who now have to deal with any crazed nut with a gun who saw those pictures? Real smart buddy. Elvis is probably still alive....
This is disease in contagious. The only way you'd manage that is if you could round up all the illegals(and how are u going check who's illegal and who's not quickly enough to prevent then spreading to the citizens of your country?), while wearing a suit to prevent you from catching the disease.... this requires more time and resources than simply injecting everyone in your country with a vaccine.... I guess what's obvious to some people isn't that obvious to others...
Say there is an outbreak of a highly contagious disease in your country, which can spread simply by breathing or something. Do you only inoculate your citizens, and skip the illegal immigrants? Only if you want to kill off your population.....
And the "Imagine a beowulf cluster of these Puppies!", followed by: In Soviet Russia, the DVD burns YOU! , followed by I can't afford electricity you Insensitive CLOD! followed by
1. DVD R9 Player
2. ????
3. Profit!!
On the contrary, regions are a big problem, and they do NOT prevent piracy they BOOST piracy. Most TVs, DVD players, and Computers have the option to switch between NTSC and PAL (I'm writing to u from Asia, and we have that option, I'm sure American TVs/Computers do too. However, with this fucked up region system, here's what happens. LOTR fans in Asia would like to own the LOTR DVD. However, these LOTR fans are bracketed in Region 5 (I'm talking about the Indian Sub-Continent here).
Question: How many Hollywood movies were released in Region 5 this yr? The answer is FIVE, and LOTR was not one of them. So people in Asia have the choice of paying $20 for the DVD + $20 Shipping to Asia from America, to get a Region 1 DVD which their hacked DVD player will play...OR.... they could go down to the local bootlegger and get a pirated DVD/VideoCD.
Let's see what would happen in a non-region encoding situation:
LOTR DVD is released, simultaneously worldwide. Person in god-forsaken 3rd-world country has easy access to the legal, region-free DVD at local prices...
The Indian food is better in UK. Plus we also drive on the better side of the rd. Finally, Nokia cellphones sold in Europe/Asia beat the crap out of any mobiles you get in America.
Does that mean that if I spread my 'seed' I get to patent any babies/foetuses as a result? (ducks)Of course, since I am a slashdotter, I doubt I'd get to spread my seed in the appropriate bushes...(ducks again!)
This doesn't seem to make sense. Widespread usage of broadband will also lead to greater instances of viruses/virii. Plus the patches to Windows only get big if you don't update frequently. If you do it once a week (which is very humanly possible to do), coupled with ZoneAlarm and Norton Antivirus installed, I think you reduce your chances of getting a virus significantly.
You don't really think that paper is going to be extinct? Dude, any technology that's been around for 5000 years, with very minor upgrades ain't disappearing. It's basically a tried and tested medium, and ePaper, or iPaper or BillGatesSuxPaper are never gonna replace it. Let's not forget, the "paperless" office consumes more paper than ever before (ok, so that's anecdotal...)
Umm, yes, if you leave your bike unchained, you're 50% at fault. But the bike company is also at fault if they make a bike which it is difficult to lock up, making it the main target for theives i.e. the designers left a SCREW LOOSE...HAHA (ducks)
MSG to all the upcoming trolls: please don't carry this analogy any further...
can he be held at least partially responsible for any deaths that occurred during this outage?
That's an interesting point, which my college CS prof demonstrated to good effect. He asked the class one day - "How many of u expect your cars to be engineered such that they will run safely and properly 99.9% of the time?" Everbody's hand's go up. "How many of u think that if there is a life-threatening fault in the car, the engineers responsible for building it should be held accountable?" Everbody's hand goes, up, along with a few grunts of "DUH!". Then the next question: "How many of you feel that if mission-critical software, like the stuff that runs airplanes, fails, the programmers should be held accountable too?" Silence.... granted writing code ain't quite like building a car, but he got his point across. He wanted to bring home the fact that most software comes with the rider that it won't just one-day break. This applies to non-M$ as much as M$, though with a lot less frequency....
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Furthermore, once Iraq has finally subdued into becoming a Vassal state, they're going to need Cyber Cafes, tech support, people who know about the power generation plant software, library software, people who know stuff about open-source software will be in demand. You think Iraq is going to buy stuff from Microsoft to get off the ground? But the problem is, you are all cynical Americans. You think that Iraq will never have the need for this things. The same way you thought those Cow-worshipping Indians could never get a clue and compete with you on anything. There are a lot things out there which need solving. And you have skills. Learn to fucking use them instead of sitting on your butt.
Here, I'll give you some ideas for free -
1) Sell Bollywood DVDs (if u don't know what bollywood is, find out). If you need help writing the software for your site, get the grunt work outsourced.
2) Sell DVDs of anything Chinese, and repeat the step above
3) Find a better way to sell MP3s online, which somehow accounts for all the pirated stuff already out there. If you need some extra hands for coding to get your site running fast to beat the existing people, outsource some of it.
4) Write an operating system that looks and acts like Windows (I'm talking about the positive behaviour), is compatible with ALL windows software, but without the security holes and clippy.If you need help, have some of it outsourced.
5) Since the Indians are going to have more money, convince Jeff Bezos to open Amazon.co.in and also have eBay join fray with eBay.co.in. Then claim credit for suggesting the idea and live off that money, or actually help set it up, and become chief software head lording it over those brownies
6) Write software which helps simulate the reactions of different genes, drugs on the AIDs virus. If it's already been done, write a more efficient version. If you're doing it, have it outsourced, but don't tell your client.
7)??? 8) Profit.
Anybody interested in Parallel universes (and Catholic-bashing) ought to read Philip Pullman's trilogy - His Dark Materials
Also being made into a Movie
No I am not a karma-whore. I don't charge.
Thank God you didn't get any of the following on your wall:
In Soviet Russia, the Alternate Universe Proves YOU!
or Give me back my diffracted light, you insensitive CLOD!
All of your alternate universe are belong to us
You can't imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these, because one interfere's with other HA HA! (Nelson-style)
No no, it's hot in India. And India produced Gandhi so... I think the grand-parent's correct. BTW, once we discover other civilizations, I get first dibs on the .mars domain. I wonder what picture of the world Aliens would get if their first window to Earth was Slashdot.....trolling? Me?
Sir I salute your honest post, and will willing take the fall for you, as I'm sure I will be marked troll/flamebait for agreeing with you
After 9/11 there was a section of America wondering "Why do they hate us so much?" (The rest were busy hoping anybody who hated u so much was being sentenced to permanent time in Abu Ghraib..). Anyway I'd like to propose a reason why "they hate you so much" - it's simply hypocrisy. America - to the outside world keep preaching equality , justice, huma rights, democracy e.t.c. But you drop all that bullshit in an instant if the dictator come around to your side and starst kissing your ass. This foreign policy causes a LOT of resentment. If you really stood for Democracy and the rule of law why would u support Pakistan(Dictatorship) over India(Democracy), Saudi Arabia(Theocracy), and let human rights abuses in China go by in a flash, but highlight them in the rest of the world. Be consistent. A dictatorship is a dictatorship, whether it kisses American butt or not. Plus Dictatorships have the nasty tendency to turn against you when they get bored - i.e. The Taliban (who are/were a CIA creation, designed to kick Soviet Russian ass) and Iraq as well (in the Iran/Iraq war). So as an appeal to Americans, please vote out this monkey of a president, and make sure you pressure the other guy and make sure he's more bothered about local jobs than foreign leaders.
Where the hell did you pick that up? You're right about the address verification part, but minors weren't a part of that story at all. And the 'elements' it was meant to appease was the general public. Like all publicly available services these were suspected to be frequently used by terrorists (or Freedom Fighters if your a Paki). Of course, it's a fscking stupid idea, so yea, it was never implemented. But terrorism was the same reason they shutdown the mobile network in Kashmir too for a time.... Anyway, this still doesn't compare to Communist China, where Cyber Cafe browses YOU!
Yea, you're right, and that's what I'm saying above. The 3G mobile operators are going to emphasize these 'premium' types of service, because there's no money left in voice, and in the 3G networks, voice calls can be totally taken for granted, as they will be of high quality (my assumption), and will take very little bandwidth.The article that's referred to, however, talks about using WiFi for VOIP for cheap calls, and I'm just saying that's pretty pointless (for reasons mentioned above)
Why would you want to use Wi-Fi, when you have a tried and tested secure, ready-to-use technology like 3GSM? If it really is all about cheap calls, then 3G takes care of those issues anyway. Cellphone providers outside America (Europe-Asia) have woken up to the fact that they aren't going to make any money off voice anymore, as rates are low, and it's tough to raise then in the current situation. This was part of the motivation for upping the bandwidth available to mobile networks, so as to provide users with "value-added services" much like what DoCoMo is already doing in Japan. With so much bandwidth available, voice calls become dirt cheap anyway, since youll instead be paying for that Music Video you just downloaded, e.t.c. WiFi is fine and dandy in the states, but outside it, it's still spotty coverage (and inside too).... You can find all info regarding 3G at GSM World. Yes 3G networks have yet to get off the ground, but that's not because the technology sucks. It's for opther reasons (i.e. ludicrous spectrum license fees, inertia on part of the mobile providers to release 3G handests e.t.c.) Eventually, the mobile networks will be as fast WiFi, and our mobile phones are already just more than that. Why try and fit WiFi onto cellphones when 3G already has the inbuilt billing, encryption and other stuff ready?
There is 1 reason behind this:
1. Ego
You have about 15/16 different telecom companies with 2/3 major standards all battling it out. Thing is CDMA is essentially an American standard, developed by Qualcomm (I think), and there is no way it would bend over for a European cheese-eating monkey standard like GSM (developed by Nokia and Ericsson, I think).
Further the mobile phone system here isn't an open or uniform standard like in Europe/Asia. Even with GSM here, y'all had to shift it to a different frequency - 1900 MHz instead of the 900/1800 bands used in Europe/Asia. Your mobile is tied to your provider, whereas in Europe/Asia, buy the phone from anyone anywhere, and simply plug in the GSM chip supplied by the provider you choose. As any slashdotter will tell you, when you use Open and Uniform standards, you get growth and innovation. So this is the unfortunate situation in the US of A. CDMA may be a better standard technically, but GSM is the what the worlds uses. Which is why while most of us are happily MMS-ing, Text messaging is only now becoming a big deal in USA.
Well, see I'm not so sure you can draw that parallel.. ICQ was (and I suppose is..haven't used it since the 'Bloat') a messaging client. And there's not much it can do to get out of that box (being a 2d piece of code). But what used to be a cellphone is already so much more. I don't think they should be called cellphones anymore anyway - 'Personal Communicator' or some such marketing poop would be more appropriate...like what Nokia calls its 9000 series. Once you've put a TV Tuner into a cellphone (complete with obligatory "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these...") you've pretty much got something else there (Let's not forget the 3300 by the same company - MP3 Player or N-GAGE - gaming device). A better parallel is Yahoo I think.. It also got bloated, and then along came Google. I can't wait for the launch of 'GooglePhone'.... I wonder what happens when u press the "I'm feeling lucky" button...
So basically, you're trying to say a few American people got togther with that whore Lyndie England to destroy America's reputation, piss off the remaining few Muslims that WERE on America's side and make the world in general a much more dangerous place for Americans who now have to deal with any crazed nut with a gun who saw those pictures? Real smart buddy. Elvis is probably still alive....
This is disease in contagious. The only way you'd manage that is if you could round up all the illegals(and how are u going check who's illegal and who's not quickly enough to prevent then spreading to the citizens of your country?), while wearing a suit to prevent you from catching the disease.... this requires more time and resources than simply injecting everyone in your country with a vaccine.... I guess what's obvious to some people isn't that obvious to others...
Say there is an outbreak of a highly contagious disease in your country, which can spread simply by breathing or something. Do you only inoculate your citizens, and skip the illegal immigrants? Only if you want to kill off your population.....
And the "Imagine a beowulf cluster of these Puppies!",
followed by:
In Soviet Russia, the DVD burns YOU! ,
followed by
I can't afford electricity you Insensitive CLOD!
followed by
1. DVD R9 Player
2. ????
3. Profit!!
On the contrary, regions are a big problem, and they do NOT prevent piracy they BOOST piracy. Most TVs, DVD players, and Computers have the option to switch between NTSC and PAL (I'm writing to u from Asia, and we have that option, I'm sure American TVs/Computers do too. However, with this fucked up region system, here's what happens. LOTR fans in Asia would like to own the LOTR DVD. However, these LOTR fans are bracketed in Region 5 (I'm talking about the Indian Sub-Continent here).
Question: How many Hollywood movies were released in Region 5 this yr? The answer is FIVE, and LOTR was not one of them. So people in Asia have the choice of paying $20 for the DVD + $20 Shipping to Asia from America, to get a Region 1 DVD which their hacked DVD player will play...OR.... they could go down to the local bootlegger and get a pirated DVD/VideoCD.
Let's see what would happen in a non-region encoding situation:
LOTR DVD is released, simultaneously worldwide. Person in god-forsaken 3rd-world country has easy access to the legal, region-free DVD at local prices...
The Indian food is better in UK. Plus we also drive on the better side of the rd. Finally, Nokia cellphones sold in Europe/Asia beat the crap out of any mobiles you get in America.
It would also be the first time you could speed up boot time with Velcro......
Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these!!!.... (Just for kicks of course....)
Does that mean that if I spread my 'seed' I get to patent any babies/foetuses as a result? (ducks)Of course, since I am a slashdotter, I doubt I'd get to spread my seed in the appropriate bushes...(ducks again!)
This doesn't seem to make sense. Widespread usage of broadband will also lead to greater instances of viruses/virii. Plus the patches to Windows only get big if you don't update frequently. If you do it once a week (which is very humanly possible to do), coupled with ZoneAlarm and Norton Antivirus installed, I think you reduce your chances of getting a virus significantly.
You don't really think that paper is going to be extinct? Dude, any technology that's been around for 5000 years, with very minor upgrades ain't disappearing. It's basically a tried and tested medium, and ePaper, or iPaper or BillGatesSuxPaper are never gonna replace it. Let's not forget, the "paperless" office consumes more paper than ever before (ok, so that's anecdotal...)
Umm, yes, if you leave your bike unchained, you're 50% at fault. But the bike company is also at fault if they make a bike which it is difficult to lock up, making it the main target for theives i.e. the designers left a SCREW LOOSE...HAHA (ducks)
MSG to all the upcoming trolls: please don't carry this analogy any further...
Whoops, I meant that most sw comes with a rider that it MAY break some day...
can he be held at least partially responsible for any deaths that occurred during this outage?
That's an interesting point, which my college CS prof demonstrated to good effect. He asked the class one day - "How many of u expect your cars to be engineered such that they will run safely and properly 99.9% of the time?" Everbody's hand's go up. "How many of u think that if there is a life-threatening fault in the car, the engineers responsible for building it should be held accountable?" Everbody's hand goes, up, along with a few grunts of "DUH!". Then the next question: "How many of you feel that if mission-critical software, like the stuff that runs airplanes, fails, the programmers should be held accountable too?" Silence.... granted writing code ain't quite like building a car, but he got his point across. He wanted to bring home the fact that most software comes with the rider that it won't just one-day break. This applies to non-M$ as much as M$, though with a lot less frequency....