i dont reeding boucks much theese daze and i dont sea how it hurt my abelitey too comunnickait atall reeding is a waist of tim too me and your not so smarrt cause you reed alot
The overpackaging is nothing compared to the space the app takes up. 4 - count 'em - 4 CD's for Office 2000 (60 MB for Staroffice download - that's about 1/40th the size).
So what, you say? Considering the rate at which Microsoft makes current computers obsolete, the industrial waste caused by the turnover of PCs in this country might outweigh the packaging for the software that makes the obsolescence possible.
How much does 100 Netpliance boxes cost them? What if just one of the 100 projects produces a killer app? Something that makes it hugely marketable? How much is that worth?
from the article: "By charging content distributors, the Redwood City-based company hopes to tap into a lucrative source of new revenues. Last year, Excite@Home lost $1.5 billion on sales of $337 million"
Excite needs money. Bad. And they'll use all of their resources (i.e., their infrastructure) to make it. I don't think it is really clear what the effects will be on others. If Excite isn't robbing Peter of bandwidth to pay Paul, then they should be free to sell their resources as they see fit.
If the Chinese government insists on such draconian penalties for web site operators, the only web content you will find in China will be officially sanctioned propaganda - in other words, of no use to anyone outside China (and of dubious value within China). China will hamper internet economy development within its own borders. China will have to decide whether it really wants to compete in this global economy or not. If not, they are only hurting themselves.
"Of course, an amendment will not guarantee an end to online piracy. Cyberlibertarians are hard at work creating new software protocols for completely decentralized file swapping networks, such as Gnutella and Freenet, that connect computer users to each other directly and anonymously without going through a Napster-like searchable database. These protocols would render the DMCA moot because there is no company to sue and no central server to shut down. Because Gnutella and Freenet have no profit potential and no incentive to create user-friendly software, this new technology will probably be limited to a relatively small community of highly-skilled computer operators. If these decentralized software protocols do ever gain widespread popularity, Congress will have to revisit this issue. However, the mere threat of a future problem does not justify forestalling action to stop Napster-like services today." I would like to hear how PPI would propose to regulate decentralized protocols. I suppose TCP/IP would qualify as a decentralized anonymous protocol which should be regulated, according to the PPI.
From the Wired article: " 'The public doesn't want law enforcement to be done on the basis of polls,' Klein told a forum sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Tuesday. "
huh? "a poll shows people don't want us to go by polls to make decisions" So the public wants law enforcement to not do what the public wants. Well, they should make sure and give the public what they want and not do what they want.
Most flaming I have seen is not meant to educate but to "rub someone's nose in it". People who flame others have been around long before computers. When it's done in person, it's called "being a jerk". The net has simply allowed that inner jerk in each of us to come out. You simply see more truly what is in a person's character when you read their posts/e-mails. Imagine a society where everyone says exactly what it on their mind, so matter how abusive or abrasive it is. That's the online world.
I was listening to the radio the other day and I heard a clip in which Michael Stipe of REM says that he was opposed to Jim Carrey playing Andy K, but that he "was proved wrong" (in his own words).
check out the transcript of the CNN interview where Al Gore says: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
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Are "Hindus, Buddhists, Wiccans, Pagans, Satanists, and people who worship Alan Greenspan" atheists? Are you are saying that because people of these faiths have a absolute moral framework that atheists must also? There is still a difference between people with a belief in something above themselves and those without it.
That was the point of the original post, and you have not addressed that, your BZZT! notwithstanding.
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Another Jon Katz article you might have missed:
Up to now, the fact that the world has not been connected by a vast electronic network had made it possible to keep large numbers of people in the world, myself included, from realizing one of the biggest secrets in human history: that we as humans have, and always have had, the ability to create other humans. If this sounds like something out of "Three Men and a Baby", I assure you that it is real and true.
And it seems that reproduction of human species forms is somehow linked with sexual attraction. This is a truly insidious development. In the not-too-distant future, it may be common that people actually produce another human being unintentionally, just because of this powerful and not-well-understood sexual phenomenon. What is society to do with accidental offspring production? Should there be legislation to curb this sex thing before it gets out of hand? I uncovered evidence at a local all-night book selling establishment that if people had sex as much as they wanted, they would produce enough other humans to cover the entire planet. I'm talking billions of people, not just millions.
The implications of this are much more dangerous than we imagine. We have no way of knowing who might be using this strange power to reproduce. What if someone wanted to take over the world? They could have children, and those children could have children, and so on. Do the math! We go to bed every night thinking the world is safe, but elsewhere, in beds just like the ones you and I are sleeping in, people are engaging in sexual acts which seem innocent enough, but are really causing more humans to be produced in an explosive, uncontrolled fashion.
The really scary part is that our government doesn't seem to even be that interested in regulating these practices. When I contacted government officials about what controls exist regarding human reproduction, he said that the only real rule was that men weren't allowed to give birth. In fact, my extensive research at Blockbusters video found no examples of men giving birth. Very strange indeed.
According to the article Sun thinks Java can stand on its own. In other words, Sun is saying "We don't need you anymore; we write our own ticket from now on" to ECMA.
They seem to be saying "we don't need you-you need us" to developers too (SCSL?). They might have been better off not portraying themselves as the knight in shining armor, then abandoning that role once it had any disadvantages (at least short-term). At least with Microsoft, developers have no illusions about motive; you know what you get there.
There may be a lot of scorned developers out there who react like they have been betrayed by Sun. If that happens, we will find out if Sun "doesn't need you anymore."
The Scientologists have done very well using the legal system to stop anti-Scientology groups from operating. They sued and won a case against CAN (Cult Awareness Network - one of the strongest opponents of Scientology), which bankrupted CAN, then they promptly bought CAN.
"or if they are accessing a Microsoft driven database."
Does that mean if you use MS SQL Server for your web app, you have to pay, but if you are using Oracle, you don't? This would seem to push people away from SQL Server.
If this is the election where the Internet matters, then its inventor should fare very well indeed. Cyber-George Washington, the father of our digital nation.
Collecting information about people is far from limited to online. Many supermarket chains have some sort of "discount club card" or some such thing which you have to use to get the better price on a significant number of things in the store. It's free, but now they know every last thing you buy at the supermarket. Your credit card company knows everything you buy with that.
Everyone is collecting every bit of information on people to use to sell stuff. I would doubt that there is any other motive than profit. Now if RealNetworks was bought by the RIAA or something...
How much real damage could there be to having an occasional failure to the floppy? Who puts their only copy of critical information or files on a floppy?
As a Christian, I find it laughable that anyone would try to claim that playing this video game would have any spiritual merit. The bible even forbids "slandering celestial beings" (never mind blowing them up with lasers, bombs, whatever).
I would hesitate to label a game "Christian." That's like labeling food "Christian." Christianity is a matter of will and of the heart, not of what food you eat, what clothes you wear, what books you read, what games you play, etc.
If you love to play Doom, that doesn't mean you are evil or violent. If you love to play The War In Heaven, it doesn't mean you are a good Christian (personally, I like Warcraft). In fact, dangling things like blaspheming and killing praying angels in front of gamers is akin to spiritual entrapment.
In my experience, Compaqs are unreliable, buggy, loaded with junk, and hard to upgrade. Compaq should be thankful that they've actually been able to keep up with market growth. I would rate them a notch above Packard Bell and no higher.
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i dont reeding boucks much theese daze and i dont sea how it hurt my abelitey too comunnickait atall reeding is a waist of tim too me and your not so smarrt cause you reed alot
Finally, there's a system out there that's free of the oppressive influence of evil Slashdot moderators ;-)
The overpackaging is nothing compared to the space the app takes up. 4 - count 'em - 4 CD's for Office 2000 (60 MB for Staroffice download - that's about 1/40th the size).
So what, you say? Considering the rate at which Microsoft makes current computers obsolete, the industrial waste caused by the turnover of PCs in this country might outweigh the packaging for the software that makes the obsolescence possible.
How much does 100 Netpliance boxes cost them? What if just one of the 100 projects produces a killer app? Something that makes it hugely marketable? How much is that worth?
Excite needs money. Bad. And they'll use all of their resources (i.e., their infrastructure) to make it. I don't think it is really clear what the effects will be on others. If Excite isn't robbing Peter of bandwidth to pay Paul, then they should be free to sell their resources as they see fit.
If the Chinese government insists on such draconian penalties for web site operators, the only web content you will find in China will be officially sanctioned propaganda - in other words, of no use to anyone outside China (and of dubious value within China). China will hamper internet economy development within its own borders. China will have to decide whether it really wants to compete in this global economy or not. If not, they are only hurting themselves.
"Of course, an amendment will not guarantee an end to online piracy. Cyberlibertarians are hard at work creating new software protocols for completely decentralized file swapping networks, such as Gnutella and Freenet, that connect computer users to each other directly and anonymously without going through a Napster-like searchable database. These protocols would render the DMCA moot because there is no company to sue and no central server to shut down. Because Gnutella and Freenet have no profit potential and no incentive to create user-friendly software, this new technology will probably be limited to a relatively small community of highly-skilled computer operators. If these decentralized software protocols do ever gain widespread popularity, Congress will have to revisit this issue. However, the mere threat of a future problem does not justify forestalling action to stop Napster-like services today."
I would like to hear how PPI would propose to regulate decentralized protocols. I suppose TCP/IP would qualify as a decentralized anonymous protocol which should be regulated, according to the PPI.
" 'The public doesn't want law enforcement to be done on the basis of polls,' Klein told a forum sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Tuesday. "
huh?
"a poll shows people don't want us to go by polls to make decisions" So the public wants law enforcement to not do what the public wants. Well, they should make sure and give the public what they want and not do what they want.
"Believe half of what you read and none of what you hear."
What passes for journalism on the web reminds me of this every day.
Palm Computing is bought by U.S. Robotics
U.S. Robotics is bought by 3Com
Palm Computing is sold by 3Com
U.S. Robotics is sold by 3Com
What's next?
Palm Computing is bought by U.S. Robotics?
You're right! This may be as big of a problem as Y2K!!!
Most flaming I have seen is not meant to educate but to "rub someone's nose in it". People who flame others have been around long before computers. When it's done in person, it's called "being a jerk". The net has simply allowed that inner jerk in each of us to come out. You simply see more truly what is in a person's character when you read their posts/e-mails. Imagine a society where everyone says exactly what it on their mind, so matter how abusive or abrasive it is. That's the online world.
I was listening to the radio the other day and I heard a clip in which Michael Stipe of REM says that he was opposed to Jim Carrey playing Andy K, but that he "was proved wrong" (in his own words).
Anybody else catch this quote?
check out the transcript of the CNN interview where Al Gore says: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
Are "Hindus, Buddhists, Wiccans, Pagans, Satanists, and people who worship Alan Greenspan" atheists? Are you are saying that because people of these faiths have a absolute moral framework that atheists must also? There is still a difference between people with a belief in something above themselves and those without it.
That was the point of the original post, and you have not addressed that, your BZZT! notwithstanding.
Another Jon Katz article you might have missed:
Up to now, the fact that the world has not been connected by a vast electronic network had made it possible to keep large numbers of people in the world, myself included, from realizing one of the biggest secrets in human history: that we as humans have, and always have had, the ability to create other humans. If this sounds like something out of "Three Men and a Baby", I assure you that it is real and true.
And it seems that reproduction of human species forms is somehow linked with sexual attraction. This is a truly insidious development. In the not-too-distant future, it may be common that people actually produce another human being unintentionally, just because of this powerful and not-well-understood sexual phenomenon. What is society to do with accidental offspring production? Should there be legislation to curb this sex thing before it gets out of hand? I uncovered evidence at a local all-night book selling establishment that if people had sex as much as they wanted, they would produce enough other humans to cover the entire planet. I'm talking billions of people, not just millions.
The implications of this are much more dangerous than we imagine. We have no way of knowing who might be using this strange power to reproduce. What if someone wanted to take over the world? They could have children, and those children could have children, and so on. Do the math! We go to bed every night thinking the world is safe, but elsewhere, in beds just like the ones you and I are sleeping in, people are engaging in sexual acts which seem innocent enough, but are really causing more humans to be produced in an explosive, uncontrolled fashion.
The really scary part is that our government doesn't seem to even be that interested in regulating these practices. When I contacted government officials about what controls exist regarding human reproduction, he said that the only real rule was that men weren't allowed to give birth. In fact, my extensive research at Blockbusters video found no examples of men giving birth. Very strange indeed.
According to the article Sun thinks Java can stand on its own. In other words, Sun is saying "We don't need you anymore; we write our own ticket from now on" to ECMA.
They seem to be saying "we don't need you-you need us" to developers too (SCSL?). They might have been better off not portraying themselves as the knight in shining armor, then abandoning that role once it had any disadvantages (at least short-term). At least with Microsoft, developers have no illusions about motive; you know what you get there.
There may be a lot of scorned developers out there who react like they have been betrayed by Sun. If that happens, we will find out if Sun "doesn't need you anymore."
Germany is not the U.S.; state censorship is legal in Germany. Last time I checked, they have their own constitution.
The Scientologists have done very well using the legal system to stop anti-Scientology groups from operating. They sued and won a case against CAN (Cult Awareness Network - one of the strongest opponents of Scientology), which bankrupted CAN, then they promptly bought CAN.
"or if they are accessing a Microsoft driven database."
Does that mean if you use MS SQL Server for your web app, you have to pay, but if you are using Oracle, you don't? This would seem to push people away from SQL Server.
If this is the election where the Internet matters, then its inventor should fare very well indeed. Cyber-George Washington, the father of our digital nation.
Collecting information about people is far from limited to online. Many supermarket chains have some sort of "discount club card" or some such thing which you have to use to get the better price on a significant number of things in the store. It's free, but now they know every last thing you buy at the supermarket. Your credit card company knows everything you buy with that.
Everyone is collecting every bit of information on people to use to sell stuff. I would doubt that there is any other motive than profit. Now if RealNetworks was bought by the RIAA or something...
$2 Billion for unspecified, potential harm...
How much real damage could there be to having an occasional failure to the floppy? Who puts their only copy of critical information or files on a floppy?
As a Christian, I find it laughable that anyone would try to claim that playing this video game would have any spiritual merit. The bible even forbids "slandering celestial beings" (never mind blowing them up with lasers, bombs, whatever).
I would hesitate to label a game "Christian." That's like labeling food "Christian." Christianity is a matter of will and of the heart, not of what food you eat, what clothes you wear, what books you read, what games you play, etc.
If you love to play Doom, that doesn't mean you are evil or violent. If you love to play The War In Heaven, it doesn't mean you are a good Christian (personally, I like Warcraft). In fact, dangling things like blaspheming and killing praying angels in front of gamers is akin to spiritual entrapment.
In my experience, Compaqs are unreliable, buggy, loaded with junk, and hard to upgrade. Compaq should be thankful that they've actually been able to keep up with market growth. I would rate them a notch above Packard Bell and no higher.