I don't get it either, this way the "consumer" is hit twice while napster, making the money, pays nothing. Nice.
The RIAA doesn't represent *all* artists, it just represents the big ones. You know, the ones in the Brotherhood which is already peeling away the big bucks.... So the little guys get screwed *again*, while the RIAA manages to find yet another revenue model.
How exactly do the record companies make money on PC sales? And how exactly do musicians make money on them?
And what's this supposed to mean?
So Napster, which cost almost nothing to create
Let's see, 800,0000 simultaneous users. 1.7 billion downloads. I think there might be a penny or two spent on infrastructure there, and maybe a coupla nickels for bandwidth.
People just don't seem to understand what kinda costs go into server architecture and bandwidth these days...
....my favorite example of this is the splash screens that come up during a Windows install, telling you that this new Os will "Make Your System Faster" even though after using w2k for a month, reinstalling NT4WS on the same box brings up an immediately noticeable speed boost...
My favorite one is from the Windows 95 installer, "Everything you do will be more fun!"
I love the fact that they haven't updated the solitaire since Windows 3.1, so when you win the game, the sequence of cards bouncing off the screen is timed for a 286....
Who really cares about market penetration?
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Sure, Redhat and the other commercial distros...
But this is an operating system, not a popularity contest.
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troll, my ass. this is SO non-troll and on-topic that it hurts.
In a Corporatocracy, we're all just targets.
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This doesn't surprise me at all.
As a people, we are far less useful for our labor than we are for what we spend it on. The economy is of utmost importance in this country, no matter how much our new US leader goes on about "faith"...
With the constant barrage of "targeted" advertising becoming more and more insistent, more and more precise, more and more prevalent and more and more psychologically driven, it's any wonder we can think for ourselves at all.
Psychology these days is used more to sell things than it is for spiritual healing. This shows where our priorities as a nation lie.
At this point, our constitution might as well be changed to read "We, the Corporations, of the United States of America..."
Seriously. Run "ejb" through any job search engine. Or "servlet"...
If Sun would just give up on Swing and use something mature and stable, their client-side problems would disappear pretty quickly as well. I'll never understand why they're still using Swing, it's a horribly useless pile of crap for building applications.
But server side... There I'd rather be dealing with Java than anything else out there.
I work for an elearning software company, and I can say from experience that if your distance learning initiatives are dependent on video/audio feeds, you're most likely going to run into problems.
One of the main problems is end-user bandwidth. We have a completely web-based elearning product that requires nothing beyond a 4.0 browser and a 28.8 connection, and still end users run into problems...
For elearning today, you're best off using something with forums, threaded messaage boards and text chat. This makes it easier for the teacher to control the situation, and easier for the students to ask questions without completely interrupting. These methods actually fit the model better, and you don't have to worry about as many issues with getting the information out to the student.
It amazes me that all anyone got out of my post was the economic aspect. In all honesty, it's the least important, and has the most bearing on your married\single status.
I haven't had a chance to sit down to a meal with my wife for weeks now. My cats look at me like I'm the most evil person on the planet. I haven't spoken to my brother, my mother, my sister, or anyone outside of the office and my wife when I wake up in the morning in weeks.
Time is far more important than money. Money is fluid, it can always be found. Time isn't, and it goes by WAY too fast.
I think that employers should have reasonable expectations toward how much of their employees' time they can require. I don't think that this is too much to ask.
I am single, and too work in the tech industry, but understand a very simple principle that most don't ever think of. Look for a new job, get offer, accept offer, and then quit. Not so complicated now is it?
Let's see... I don't have time to spend at home, or to call my family, or to talk to my wife, but somehow I have time to job hunt, interview, second interview, etc.
What you are saying is that because you have voluntarily made certain life choices, everyone must change to accomodate you.
That is pretty far from what I'm saying.
What I'm saying is that a 40-hour work week isn't too much to ask of an employer. I'd be happy with a 50-hour week, but that's out of the question as well.
Here's a wacky concept: maybe you shouldn't buy a house or cars if you can't afford them, and maybe you shouldn't have kids if you can't afford to raise them.
I can afford them quite well, actually, but I don't see the need to work 12 hour days 7 days a week to pay for them. I don't drive an expensive car, I don't live in a mansion, and I spend very little money, putting over 40% of my income in the bank. I don't live paycheck to paycheck, and I haven't since I was in college, which I will also be paying for for the next 30 years.
But buying a house is expensive, ongoing bills are expensive, and really, none of this has anything to do with what is reasonable to expect from your employees.
If you work at a company that's abusing you, it isn't their fault for doing it, it's your fault for letting them.
My company isn't always like this, and hasn't been for the couple of years I've been here. The company has changed drastically over the last couple of months, and I'm in a position where even a couple of weeks out of work would be unacceptable.
We're not all young and single and without commitments. We're not all in full control of our work situations.
The company took on VC money and a new CTO. He's of the mind that we weren't hired, we were purchased. This isn't a unique situation, either, and I'm stuck with it for a couple more months.
Once you have a family and a mortgage, cars and educations to pay for, the whole "you can get another job" thing isn't quite as simple.
This is the same sort of argument that drives me nuts when police and firefighters bitch about how dangerous their work is. If you don't like the job or the pay or the hours, quit.
That's genius. Sheer genius. Ever hear of a sense of duty? Ever had your house catch fire, or robbed?
It is true that technology companies expect un-sustainable levels of work, but in the vast majority of cases, these companies are fairly compensating their employees.
This is SUCH bullshit.
How do you compensate someone who is totally lost to their family because they're stuck in the office 7 days a week?
How do you compensate someone for the entire months lost due to crunch time, forced by the people who a) have the money to invest in realistic scheduling and b) aren't there with you the whole time?
There's only been one day that was less than 12 hours, and I fought like mad to get that one day.
Everywhere you go, you hear "that's how tech is."
Tech burnout, IT madness, whatever you want to call it, it's pervasive and for some unknown reason we're expected to be available 24/7 7 days a week. Beepers, cell phones, etc. totally invade our privacy.
It's got to stop before the tech industry eats itself. The business owners aren't going to do it, as we've seen lately with Amazon and Cobalt, they're going to do whatever they can to keep things as they are.
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calling me an ass is playing nicely?
I don't get it either, this way the "consumer" is hit twice while napster, making the money, pays nothing. Nice.
The RIAA doesn't represent *all* artists, it just represents the big ones. You know, the ones in the Brotherhood which is already peeling away the big bucks.... So the little guys get screwed *again*, while the RIAA manages to find yet another revenue model.
if i had mod points, and I could keep my mouth shut on this topic, you'd get 'em.
uh, sure. go back to your verse -> chorus -> verse and give up on labelling classical music.
or, go out and check out John Cage, or Phillip Glass, or any one of the countless other modern composers.
id Chopin is just elevator music to you, then you've negated your earlier point anyway.
How exactly do the record companies make money on PC sales? And how exactly do musicians make money on them?
And what's this supposed to mean?
So Napster, which cost almost nothing to create
Let's see, 800,0000 simultaneous users. 1.7 billion downloads. I think there might be a penny or two spent on infrastructure there, and maybe a coupla nickels for bandwidth.
People just don't seem to understand what kinda costs go into server architecture and bandwidth these days...
...and if it's fitting into a plane seat pocket or between the pages of a book, it isn't exactly a laptop, is it?
"god, what an annoying, nitpicking post" he thought, as he hit the submit button....
So far I have yet to see a single game come out of the open source 3d engine projects... and of course they're all "massively multiplayer"
Beyond FreeCiv, what other projects have been completed?
....my favorite example of this is the splash screens that come up during a Windows install, telling you that this new Os will "Make Your System Faster" even though after using w2k for a month, reinstalling NT4WS on the same box brings up an immediately noticeable speed boost...
My favorite one is from the Windows 95 installer, "Everything you do will be more fun!"
That's quite a claim.
developers have no choice but to implement it themselves or go searching for someone else's code.
...or use open-source projects, like saxon...
and what exactly is jaxp doing for us, if it isn't handling xml in Java?
Kent State again... Has anyone notified Neil Young?
Feel like sharing your source?
I love the fact that they haven't updated the solitaire since Windows 3.1, so when you win the game, the sequence of cards bouncing off the screen is timed for a 286....
Sure, Redhat and the other commercial distros...
But this is an operating system, not a popularity contest.
troll, my ass. this is SO non-troll and on-topic that it hurts.
This doesn't surprise me at all.
As a people, we are far less useful for our labor than we are for what we spend it on. The economy is of utmost importance in this country, no matter how much our new US leader goes on about "faith"...
With the constant barrage of "targeted" advertising becoming more and more insistent, more and more precise, more and more prevalent and more and more psychologically driven, it's any wonder we can think for ourselves at all.
Psychology these days is used more to sell things than it is for spiritual healing. This shows where our priorities as a nation lie.
At this point, our constitution might as well be changed to read "We, the Corporations, of the United States of America..."
Seriously. Run "ejb" through any job search engine. Or "servlet"...
If Sun would just give up on Swing and use something mature and stable, their client-side problems would disappear pretty quickly as well. I'll never understand why they're still using Swing, it's a horribly useless pile of crap for building applications.
But server side... There I'd rather be dealing with Java than anything else out there.
You are at a red light
>wait
You are at a red light
>wait
You are at a green light
>look
You see three people crossing the street while talking on cell phones and a man with a white-tipped cane.
>go north
You have killed 3 pedestrians and avoided the blind man, for a total of 300 points.
I work for an elearning software company, and I can say from experience that if your distance learning initiatives are dependent on video/audio feeds, you're most likely going to run into problems.
One of the main problems is end-user bandwidth. We have a completely web-based elearning product that requires nothing beyond a 4.0 browser and a 28.8 connection, and still end users run into problems...
For elearning today, you're best off using something with forums, threaded messaage boards and text chat. This makes it easier for the teacher to control the situation, and easier for the students to ask questions without completely interrupting. These methods actually fit the model better, and you don't have to worry about as many issues with getting the information out to the student.
It amazes me that all anyone got out of my post was the economic aspect. In all honesty, it's the least important, and has the most bearing on your married\single status.
I haven't had a chance to sit down to a meal with my wife for weeks now. My cats look at me like I'm the most evil person on the planet. I haven't spoken to my brother, my mother, my sister, or anyone outside of the office and my wife when I wake up in the morning in weeks.
Time is far more important than money. Money is fluid, it can always be found. Time isn't, and it goes by WAY too fast.
I think that employers should have reasonable expectations toward how much of their employees' time they can require. I don't think that this is too much to ask.
I am single, and too work in the tech industry, but understand a very simple principle that most don't ever think of. Look for a new job, get offer, accept offer, and then quit. Not so complicated now is it?
Let's see... I don't have time to spend at home, or to call my family, or to talk to my wife, but somehow I have time to job hunt, interview, second interview, etc.
Write back to us when you have kids.
What you are saying is that because you have voluntarily made certain life choices, everyone must change to accomodate you.
That is pretty far from what I'm saying.
What I'm saying is that a 40-hour work week isn't too much to ask of an employer. I'd be happy with a 50-hour week, but that's out of the question as well.
Here's a wacky concept: maybe you shouldn't buy a house or cars if you can't afford them, and maybe you shouldn't have kids if you can't afford to raise them.
I can afford them quite well, actually, but I don't see the need to work 12 hour days 7 days a week to pay for them. I don't drive an expensive car, I don't live in a mansion, and I spend very little money, putting over 40% of my income in the bank. I don't live paycheck to paycheck, and I haven't since I was in college, which I will also be paying for for the next 30 years.
But buying a house is expensive, ongoing bills are expensive, and really, none of this has anything to do with what is reasonable to expect from your employees.
If you work at a company that's abusing you, it isn't their fault for doing it, it's your fault for letting them.
My company isn't always like this, and hasn't been for the couple of years I've been here. The company has changed drastically over the last couple of months, and I'm in a position where even a couple of weeks out of work would be unacceptable.
We're not all young and single and without commitments. We're not all in full control of our work situations.
The company took on VC money and a new CTO. He's of the mind that we weren't hired, we were purchased. This isn't a unique situation, either, and I'm stuck with it for a couple more months.
Once you have a family and a mortgage, cars and educations to pay for, the whole "you can get another job" thing isn't quite as simple.
This is the same sort of argument that drives me nuts when police and firefighters bitch about how dangerous their work is. If you don't like the job or the pay or the hours, quit.
That's genius. Sheer genius. Ever hear of a sense of duty? Ever had your house catch fire, or robbed?
It is true that technology companies expect un-sustainable levels of work, but in the vast majority of cases, these companies are fairly compensating their employees.
This is SUCH bullshit.
How do you compensate someone who is totally lost to their family because they're stuck in the office 7 days a week?
How do you compensate someone for the entire months lost due to crunch time, forced by the people who a) have the money to invest in realistic scheduling and b) aren't there with you the whole time?
...and I have 6 more to go.
There's only been one day that was less than 12 hours, and I fought like mad to get that one day.
Everywhere you go, you hear "that's how tech is."
Tech burnout, IT madness, whatever you want to call it, it's pervasive and for some unknown reason we're expected to be available 24/7 7 days a week. Beepers, cell phones, etc. totally invade our privacy.
It's got to stop before the tech industry eats itself. The business owners aren't going to do it, as we've seen lately with Amazon and Cobalt, they're going to do whatever they can to keep things as they are.
heheheheh.... maybe if the massive scalability is added through his project, WebBoard will be able to handle more than 255 boards.