Hmmm, i ordered this "table" for myself, the only thing that's actually printed on it is the element "Deitium". And according to the accompanying fact chart, this "Dmitri Mendeleev" was a violent communist, full of crank. The chart also says it's a work in progress, as the next iterations will include "Divinium", "Judaism" and "Wholesomnium".
The weirdest thing is though, the table itself has a backdrop of some scene of a dinner party where there's 3 robed figures, 1 fat 2 skinny, 28 figures that bear an uncanny resemblance to a disciple of some sort, even a conjurer and mariachi band!
Not to sound all doomy & gloomy here, but i seriously question the appeal of video clips on an ipod. Are people really going to sit in the subway/ train and look at britney spears strut her stuff on a teeny tiny screen? For (rumor) 2 bucks a pop?
Especially when MTV and VH1 already pump out the same drek day in, day out.
Ofcourse this is a double edged sword, if the ipod plays itunes clips only that severely limits the appeal (i sure as hell won't pay for videoclips) of the vPod. Then again if the vPod is as open as the iPod is (calm down, ogg users) then Apple stands to gain almost nothing in the way of being a new contect provider.
And i don't think videoclips will be the new iTunes hot item. People want to pay for music because they've been doing it for decades and they are inherently lazy. Clicking together a few songs to listen on the commute to work is a whole different ballgame than downloading videoclips at an even higher pricepoint, especially when this is a "new" type of content. A type of content which has a too narrow appeal of the same techno hipster show-offs who insist they keep their iPod mini's in their hands so they can show it off to the world.
While it's a nice thing to have for the former BEos enthusiast, the rest of the world shrugs and says "So?" I think that with the pool of apps ported to all platforms (Firefox, VLC, Thunderbird et al) A modern platform has to have some significant advantages to stand out.
I just don't think that having a Spotlight(c) like functionality in the OS is much of a selling point, neither is "Good video editing" capabilities. For all i(and everybody else) know it's just another video editing application, when in the rest of the OS world there's already plenty to satisfy the budding Spielberg or (god forbid) Uwe Boll. It's just an example to illustrate the lack of REAL tangible selling points this OS has. Any of the real BEos fans want to educate a sceptic with some real advantages instead of that subjective "It's just a better experience for ${APPLICATION}" garbage you hear in every platform discussion?
In my day, we had to use half a folded up maple leaf. Then after we were done, we had to wash the maple leaf in the lake, dry it out and use it to wave cool air at our masters for 18 hours a day. And we were happy!
Come on now, just because it's a popular book, are all these ridiculous things necessary? I'm sure the publishers don't mind the free hype. Just because it's a book doesn't mean they can impose all these stupid rules and guidelines.
They're treating this like it's the second coming of {$DEITY}, but it's just a book. Got that? A BOOK. a fictional story. I can see people wanting to get a copy early, but court injunctions to stop them from reading them sound a little excessive. Consumer rights don't go out the window just because the book they accidentally bought is popular. What's next, shrinkwrap EULA's in every copy?
While the game looks incredible, id's not hiding the fact that they're just selling you a glorified SDK anymore. It looks nice though. And it has zombies. yeah. zombies. think about it.
Ok, so now we have Ubuntu, Gentoo, Suse, Red hat, Mandriva, colinux, Yellow dog, Caldera and god knows who else vying for a slice of an ever so slowly growing pie, not even counting Brazilian, Chinese, Japanese or german national efforts.
Isn't it time that some of those efforts were combined to get some kind of weight behind Linux as a whole, or are companies like IBM and Novell already moving into their respective trenches when linux on the {Desk, lap, floor}top takes off? While i can understand these companies having their own distro as has been traditionally the case, but do we REALLY need another non-profit foundation that thinks it can topple the 800 pound Red Gorilla on it's own while trying to reinvent the wheel and juggling a mix of community support and paid support? I'm not trying to be an anti-linux jerk, i'm just wondering what Ubuntu has to offer that isn't in another distro already.
To bring me unwanted 128 kbps rips of the latest shitty B artist to come out of Europe. Honestly, can't we let the industry work something out?
If anything, let them change the laws that shit on starving indie artists, seems a lot simpler than a system like this. The local music scene here seems to thrive without a system like this in place.
Dupe dupe dupe, even linking to THE SAME FUCKING ARTICLE! Oh wow, it adds some stuff about wardriving and some FUD about *GASP* CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, man the battlestations!
Wake up and smell the noise, admins. I know it's just me screaming in the sea of other people yelling about dupes, but isn't it time to implement some kind of link checker system?
Yeah right, and what's to say this information is actually valuable? TFA says that at least some of it is, but just like bulk email lists there's bound to be a lot of chaff in all of it, due to natural entropy of data, etc etc.
And it's not like these lists ever get refreshed much, so what you end up with is increasingly less useful data in these lists, and the vendors don't even care about it. It's just the nature of the beast (and the overall state of former Russia, where anything goes).
Carving the front of another iPod from the bones of the starved musicians that died after the massive proliferation of music piracy. Available in bone and regular white!
Lemme get this straight, a maker of software that detects click fraud is sueing google for click fraud? This is either gonna make or break them, all off google's back. Looks like Google has got a hell of a hard time ahead, sitting on fat cash like they do.
Otoh, this'll be even worse for google if Click defense manages to score a win in the courts.
Is for 1 developer to crack and sue these crackpots for slamming their games in such a disgusting way. I mean, footage of actual dead cops and a GAME? Way to lose perspective there, mrs. Grace.
Disclaimer: I am aware of the problems surrounding using the word perspective when referring to CNN.
Damn you and your answers to everything! Now where's my Martini, and my signed copy of Billy Ocean's "Greatest hits" (and i'm using that term loosely).
Ok, so it's not stealing. Should we invent a new word for this behaviour? Using the word piracy will just get the whole eyepatch and parrot on the shoulder lobby mad at us. My money's on "vzzbxt".
Using YOUR logic, pirating movies/ whatever is sometimes ok because "i wasn't gonna pay for it anyway, so it's not stealing".
If you want it, buy it, if not, leave it alone.
From my own experiences, it's absolutely true what they're saying. I was copying c64 games for my friends (not for profit ofcourse) back when i was about 7-8. It moved on over the years (tape swapping in school, more games copying). It sort of snuck in. Why? Because it was so damn EASY. That's right, morals got conveniently put on the backburner, just to listen to the latest tunes or play the latest shit-hot game with my friends.
Fast forward that to the present: IT'S STILL EASY! Games, movies music are so readily available(for free) i'd be embarassed if i produced any of it. For the less techno-savvy people under us, it's still relatively easy, maybe a magnitude or 2 less, plus they now have a little disposable income to throw around for the sake of convenience, so they might buy the latest movie released from some dodgy bloke out of his trunk. Is this right? NO. Is this illegal? YES! Is it easy? You bet! They're basically doing it because it's convenient, easy, cheap and they've been doing it for years.
Having said that, personally i'm now working and have a lot more money to spend, so i'm buying stuff all the damn time. The solution to all of this: I have no clue, but DRM-short-of-a-gloved-hand-up-the-ass isn't the way to do it.
It's my honest opinion that the outsourcing market is one that is going to collapse even greater than the whole dot-com debacle.
I'm not an economist, but even i can grasp the simple economic principles that the indian people will either start competing themselves, when they wise up and realize that all this programming talent can be harnessed not just for this kind of virtual slave labor, but for honest to god competition.
Then the outsourcers will have to hop one over to find an even poorer country that has developed their curriculums over the last 10-20 years to crank out ever more skilled programmers. This is kind of a hard sell (Maybe Pakistan?) and potentially impossible. I've seen this happen in the clothing manufacturing business, where they have been outsourcing like this for decades, and have had to migrate their operations time and time again. This is basically comparable to that, only the goods being manufactured are virtual, not tangible.
And that concludes today's random rant about outsourcing!
As per the article, all this is is just plain old playing it by the numbers. Send out 1000k+ emails, some of them are bound to be hits, then profit from there. This article really doesn't prove much beyond what was already pretty much known.
Also i have to say i doubt the notion that there are "phishers 'r us" websites/ lists/ organisattions that can a). operate for any decent lengh of time before going down by infighting and b). stay out of the public eye for however many years now?
What i'd really like to see though, is an effort by governments to curb this kind of criminal behavior first, and then going after petty internet crime like music piracy et al. Hell, if they can bust a warez ring, a phishers ring with real, tangible damage to both banks and customers would be even easier. Especially if they (supposedly) already have leaks, like Mr. Incredible here who used his massive skills to write a vague article that really doesn't tell us much.
After surveying a non-representative sampling of people(my friends) on a saturday night, i have come to the conclusion that opiates are in fact, the opiates of the masses.
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The weirdest thing is though, the table itself has a backdrop of some scene of a dinner party where there's 3 robed figures, 1 fat 2 skinny, 28 figures that bear an uncanny resemblance to a disciple of some sort, even a conjurer and mariachi band!
Especially when MTV and VH1 already pump out the same drek day in, day out.
Ofcourse this is a double edged sword, if the ipod plays itunes clips only that severely limits the appeal (i sure as hell won't pay for videoclips) of the vPod. Then again if the vPod is as open as the iPod is (calm down, ogg users) then Apple stands to gain almost nothing in the way of being a new contect provider.
And i don't think videoclips will be the new iTunes hot item. People want to pay for music because they've been doing it for decades and they are inherently lazy. Clicking together a few songs to listen on the commute to work is a whole different ballgame than downloading videoclips at an even higher pricepoint, especially when this is a "new" type of content. A type of content which has a too narrow appeal of the same techno hipster show-offs who insist they keep their iPod mini's in their hands so they can show it off to the world.
I just don't think that having a Spotlight(c) like functionality in the OS is much of a selling point, neither is "Good video editing" capabilities. For all i(and everybody else) know it's just another video editing application, when in the rest of the OS world there's already plenty to satisfy the budding Spielberg or (god forbid) Uwe Boll. It's just an example to illustrate the lack of REAL tangible selling points this OS has. Any of the real BEos fans want to educate a sceptic with some real advantages instead of that subjective "It's just a better experience for ${APPLICATION}" garbage you hear in every platform discussion?
Luxury!
In my day, we had to use half a folded up maple leaf. Then after we were done, we had to wash the maple leaf in the lake, dry it out and use it to wave cool air at our masters for 18 hours a day. And we were happy!
They're treating this like it's the second coming of {$DEITY}, but it's just a book. Got that? A BOOK. a fictional story. I can see people wanting to get a copy early, but court injunctions to stop them from reading them sound a little excessive. Consumer rights don't go out the window just because the book they accidentally bought is popular. What's next, shrinkwrap EULA's in every copy?
While the game looks incredible, id's not hiding the fact that they're just selling you a glorified SDK anymore. It looks nice though. And it has zombies. yeah. zombies. think about it.
Isn't it time that some of those efforts were combined to get some kind of weight behind Linux as a whole, or are companies like IBM and Novell already moving into their respective trenches when linux on the {Desk, lap, floor}top takes off? While i can understand these companies having their own distro as has been traditionally the case, but do we REALLY need another non-profit foundation that thinks it can topple the 800 pound Red Gorilla on it's own while trying to reinvent the wheel and juggling a mix of community support and paid support? I'm not trying to be an anti-linux jerk, i'm just wondering what Ubuntu has to offer that isn't in another distro already.
If anything, let them change the laws that shit on starving indie artists, seems a lot simpler than a system like this. The local music scene here seems to thrive without a system like this in place.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/ 06/0217252&tid=193&tid=17
Wake up and smell the noise, admins. I know it's just me screaming in the sea of other people yelling about dupes, but isn't it time to implement some kind of link checker system?
I'm afraid i'm gonna have to fine you some karma credits for using facts before 1pm on a thursday, on SLASHDOT not less.
And it's not like these lists ever get refreshed much, so what you end up with is increasingly less useful data in these lists, and the vendors don't even care about it. It's just the nature of the beast (and the overall state of former Russia, where anything goes).
Not to mention the original article was a lot better, and not a link to yet another news aggregrator that in turn links to another site: http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM .20050704.gtvirusjul4/BNStory/Technology/
Carving the front of another iPod from the bones of the starved musicians that died after the massive proliferation of music piracy. Available in bone and regular white!
Otoh, this'll be even worse for google if Click defense manages to score a win in the courts.
The person buying it has a rather large insect/ leaf collection?
Thank you for that subtle play on words there Mr. Coward, i shall be using that for my memoires.
Disclaimer: I am aware of the problems surrounding using the word perspective when referring to CNN.
Damn you and your answers to everything! Now where's my Martini, and my signed copy of Billy Ocean's "Greatest hits" (and i'm using that term loosely).
Ok, so it's not stealing. Should we invent a new word for this behaviour? Using the word piracy will just get the whole eyepatch and parrot on the shoulder lobby mad at us. My money's on "vzzbxt".
It's not a small, spikey mammal either (unless you're pirating Sonic the Hedgehog games), what's your point?
Using YOUR logic, pirating movies/ whatever is sometimes ok because "i wasn't gonna pay for it anyway, so it's not stealing". If you want it, buy it, if not, leave it alone.
Fast forward that to the present: IT'S STILL EASY! Games, movies music are so readily available(for free) i'd be embarassed if i produced any of it. For the less techno-savvy people under us, it's still relatively easy, maybe a magnitude or 2 less, plus they now have a little disposable income to throw around for the sake of convenience, so they might buy the latest movie released from some dodgy bloke out of his trunk. Is this right? NO. Is this illegal? YES! Is it easy? You bet! They're basically doing it because it's convenient, easy, cheap and they've been doing it for years.
Having said that, personally i'm now working and have a lot more money to spend, so i'm buying stuff all the damn time. The solution to all of this: I have no clue, but DRM-short-of-a-gloved-hand-up-the-ass isn't the way to do it.
I'm not an economist, but even i can grasp the simple economic principles that the indian people will either start competing themselves, when they wise up and realize that all this programming talent can be harnessed not just for this kind of virtual slave labor, but for honest to god competition.
Then the outsourcers will have to hop one over to find an even poorer country that has developed their curriculums over the last 10-20 years to crank out ever more skilled programmers. This is kind of a hard sell (Maybe Pakistan?) and potentially impossible. I've seen this happen in the clothing manufacturing business, where they have been outsourcing like this for decades, and have had to migrate their operations time and time again. This is basically comparable to that, only the goods being manufactured are virtual, not tangible.
And that concludes today's random rant about outsourcing!
Also i have to say i doubt the notion that there are "phishers 'r us" websites/ lists/ organisattions that can a). operate for any decent lengh of time before going down by infighting and b). stay out of the public eye for however many years now?
What i'd really like to see though, is an effort by governments to curb this kind of criminal behavior first, and then going after petty internet crime like music piracy et al. Hell, if they can bust a warez ring, a phishers ring with real, tangible damage to both banks and customers would be even easier. Especially if they (supposedly) already have leaks, like Mr. Incredible here who used his massive skills to write a vague article that really doesn't tell us much.
After surveying a non-representative sampling of people(my friends) on a saturday night, i have come to the conclusion that opiates are in fact, the opiates of the masses.