I suspect that only Penguin can do something about this. Even if Katiet.com is eliminated, the book title will still destroy the real katie.com. (Think about all the people that had the real phone number 867-5309.)
Getting Penguin on the side of the angels leaves Katie Tarbox with no support. That's the approach to take unless you enjoy playing 'whack-a-mole'.
Complain (in ink on paper) to Penguin
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The Saga of Katie.com
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I sent a letter to Penguin yesterday letting them know that I disapprove of their actions in this matter.
It's conceivable, but unlikely, that if enough people write or call they will change their tactics.
I assume that dealing with a large publisher is like dealing with government; I expect that they ignore email complaints but are more likely to respond to letters or phone calls.
The real reason hair stylists are required to have licenses is to prevent competition -- if too many people are going into the business, the powers that be (who are almost always shop owners) can just make the entry a little tougher. Don't think tougher means more qualified, either, it just means that the test is only given on the second full moon of the month and the fee is doubled.
Licensing boards almost always end up being run by the ones being licensed because they are the only ones interested enough to do the job. It doesn't take long for such licensing to become a barrier to entry rather than a protection for the consumer.
Just because the ITU makes voice telephone companies subsidize traffic to Africa doesn't make it necessary or right for everyone to have to do the same. Every ISP I know of has to pay for its own connections (barring a swap of some kind).
The local/regional exchanges are the best way to deal with this; if the exchanges generate enough traffic, then they will be able to peer with other backbones for a reduced (or no) cost. That's the way the internet works.
I would say "Everything is a weighting of cost/benefits. Do you stay at home, not moving, not eating, never doing anything -- because of the possible danger of any action? No, we go about our lives having weighed the risks versus the costs of avoiding them. Do you really believe that we have the power to destroy the environment? That is ridiculous. We have the power to change it a little. Also remember that many studies have shown that for every place that is damaged by a measurable increase in global temperatures (if it occurs and is not a statistical blip) there are just as many that will be improved. Some places may get drier, but others will bloom."
Try actually studying some of the research (and analysis by both sides and neutral, if you can find them, observers) instead of sticking to the USA Today headlines. The comments I have read have mostly demonstrated that the shrill cries of the big-business, big-money environmental lobby have managed to overpower all calls for an objective study of these issues.
It's nice that all these concerned people are worried about the effect of increased agricultural productivity on Africa's ecology. It would surely be a horrible thing for those countries to be able to produce enough food for their people to survive. I guess that the average Slashdot reader would rather have the people on the edge of starvation and the flies fat, dumb and happy like they are now.
If the people living there want to do this, we have no right to say no unless we can solve their problems another way.
If they cut bandwidth on one thing interfering with educational purposes they would honestly have to cut back all of the pet projects that also don't contribute to education (including SETI).
Plus, when has the legality or illegality of an act affected the decision of the administration at Berkeley (at least against the illegal acts)?
I may have missed a previous post on this, but the 1 page Quickstart document assumes that you have a nice distributed application. In my experience, useful distributed applications don't write themselves and the expense (dollars and time) of creating the software will dwarf any expense involved in setting them up (unless you are doing things on a distributed.net kind of scale).
Does this mean that Alan Cox will now, in a fit of pique, not even tell himself what the changelog contains? According to the Register article this makes the British law much more in favor of copyright holders than the DMCA.
I assume that when you wrote this that your brain had to shut down so your fingers could work.
"All the atrocities in the recorded human history have been carried out by the agents of whatever government has been in power at the time. "
To just pick the most current example: what government sent its agents to knock down the World Trade Center? What government did the woman in Texas who killed her own children serve as an agent for? What government set the Omagh bomb in Ireland? What government dived the Egyptian 747 into Long Island Sound? What government opened up on all the other passengers in a car on the Long Island Railroad? (Or are all those examples of 'protected' speech?)
While I will not deny that governments have been responsible for atrocities, (In the whole of recorded history, we could probably find examples of cartoon characters being responsible for atrocities) you are seriously blinded by some form of political belief to blame everything on them. Remember, the reason people banded together to form governments was to protect themselves from the physically stronger.
Until we can do something about an asteroid that is going to hit us, there is really no point in spending a fortune (that can be spent on useful projects) on watching out for them.
Most of the 'high tech' hotels did not go out of business, they just lost their high-speed internet access, or dropped it because it was not adding to their bottom line in a time of hard business conditions. (Remember: hotels existed for years without high-speed internet and will continue to exist without it in the future.)
Bottom line as it regards your question: Those hotels are still hotels with RJ45 (or whatever) connections in their rooms that don't go anywhere particularly useful.
I hang out all the time with some people who were coworkers at a previous programming-only shop.
My current employment is at a place where I am the only programmer (not even a sysadmin at this location). This is the place where I don't have 'work friends' over all the time.
The problem with all the methods that claim to develop good estimates of time are that they require that you know in advance the size of the project, the number of programmers available and how good they are. They just move the estimation problem to these dependencies.
This may already have been said but here are the rules as I have been told:
Always write letters or use the telephone. Email is not weighed heavily because of the low effort perceived to be put into it.
Always communicate through your own representatives first. They all receive so much mail that they pretty much ignore non-constituent communications unless there is some special circumstance.
Write your own letter. Petitions (and especially email petitions) are pretty much weighed evenly with individual letters. Don't use verbatim a sample letter given to you. Remember, they pay attention to how much effort it looks like you put into the communication.
Always (generally) stick to one point in a single communication. Try to present a very short but logical argument for what you are espousing. If you want to discuss two or more topics, send two or more letters.
The best way to communicate, and it takes time, is to volunteer on election campaigns and things like that. You get to meet the candidates (frequently one-on-one) face to face in a situation where they are trying to determine what their consituents concerns are. Donate money. Go to campaign events. Just because they ask for a $200 donation for something does not mean that they won't accept $50 or less; they want attendance at these events. Dress appropriately and behave appropriately; you are more likely to be listened to if you don't look or act like a lunatic or a homeless person.
Remember, it wasn't Republicans who forced the CDA through (and its successors). It was the good old-fashioned 'we know what is good for you' big-government liberals. Back then it was Paul Simon and Jim Exon; now it's The editors of the New York Times, the producers of the evening news, Ted Turner, many feminists and those who are 'more sensitive' who want to protect you from anything that may damage your tender psyche. After all, with our laws, who but the media can censor the media?
Did you know that the weather stations built in the early parts of this century were on the edges of cities? Did you know that areas that were on the edge of a city in 1900 are now in the center of the city? Did you know that it is warmer in a city than in the countryside? Did you know that we could probably make cities cooler places by getting rid of all the people? Who wants to be gotten rid of?
According to anecdotal evidence, companies around here are figuring out that the MIS curriculum is vacant AND vacuous and are not hiring the graduates for anything technical (of course it is robably still worth more than a French Literature major).
If you don't want to get a technical degree, at least learn some useful non-technical stuff like accounting or marketing -- it will be more useful in the long run.
According to Fox News this morning, they have been using that ballot design for 30 years. If it has suddenly become confusing, that probably says more about the Palm Beach electorate than about the ballot design.
1. You say that you can't imagine a more anti-democratic, non-interactive assembly -- what about the Academy Awards you were so fond of? They are specifically and pointedly both non-democratic and non-interactive. Remember, the point of the political conventions is not to be democratic, it is to confirm and celebrate a decision already made.
2. If women designed things, there would be communal (neighborhood-oriented) laundries? What world would this happen in? Where I live, the women get home from work around 6:00 PM and I doubt that they want to have to go down to the neighborhood laundry to do a quick load of clothing anymore than most men do.
I am sure that it is wonderful to be smarter and more caring than everyone you know, but it is possible that some things have come to exist because they work best and that's the way that people want it.
In closing, I agree that it's sad that more people don't vote, but I don't find it surprising: people like Katz have been telling them that their vote won't help or count for close to 40 years.
How does this story relate to the surveys which show the number of people pursuing technical studies to be steadily decreasing. For years, we have heard how playing video games make people more computer-wise, but I never heard that playing pinball machines made someone into a mechanic. What is the real difference -- both video game players and pinball machine players were simply using artifacts produced by other (generally older) people. (In fact, at least the pinball machines taught you how to manipulate machinery by lifting, hitting and shaking the machines without causing a 'tilt'.)
The same arguments apply to users of email who know nothing about computers -- are they wiser than people who use telephones but don't know about electronics?
In the end, Mr. Katz is praising the 'new generation' because they are used to getting exactly what they want and are reaping the benefits of many great engineers of the past couple of generations.
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This is insightful? After that, go watch "Titanic" to learn about shipbuilding and "The Day After Tomorrow" to learn climatology.
I suspect that only Penguin can do something about this. Even if Katiet.com is eliminated, the book title will still destroy the real katie.com. (Think about all the people that had the real phone number 867-5309.)
Getting Penguin on the side of the angels leaves Katie Tarbox with no support. That's the approach to take unless you enjoy playing 'whack-a-mole'.
I sent a letter to Penguin yesterday letting them know that I disapprove of their actions in this matter.
It's conceivable, but unlikely, that if enough people write or call they will change their tactics.
I assume that dealing with a large publisher is like dealing with government; I expect that they ignore email complaints but are more likely to respond to letters or phone calls.
The real reason hair stylists are required to have licenses is to prevent competition -- if too many people are going into the business, the powers that be (who are almost always shop owners) can just make the entry a little tougher. Don't think tougher means more qualified, either, it just means that the test is only given on the second full moon of the month and the fee is doubled.
Licensing boards almost always end up being run by the ones being licensed because they are the only ones interested enough to do the job. It doesn't take long for such licensing to become a barrier to entry rather than a protection for the consumer.
I used to like Dells, but I've seen too many of them with missing keycaps and other annoying problems on airplanes and in airports.
I prefer Thinkpads, but price is always an issue with IBM.
Just because the ITU makes voice telephone companies subsidize traffic to Africa doesn't make it necessary or right for everyone to have to do the same. Every ISP I know of has to pay for its own connections (barring a swap of some kind).
The local/regional exchanges are the best way to deal with this; if the exchanges generate enough traffic, then they will be able to peer with other backbones for a reduced (or no) cost. That's the way the internet works.
Try actually studying some of the research (and analysis by both sides and neutral, if you can find them, observers) instead of sticking to the USA Today headlines. The comments I have read have mostly demonstrated that the shrill cries of the big-business, big-money environmental lobby have managed to overpower all calls for an objective study of these issues.
It's nice that all these concerned people are worried about the effect of increased agricultural productivity on Africa's ecology. It would surely be a horrible thing for those countries to be able to produce enough food for their people to survive. I guess that the average Slashdot reader would rather have the people on the edge of starvation and the flies fat, dumb and happy like they are now.
If the people living there want to do this, we have no right to say no unless we can solve their problems another way.
If they cut bandwidth on one thing interfering with educational purposes they would honestly have to cut back all of the pet projects that also don't contribute to education (including SETI).
Plus, when has the legality or illegality of an act affected the decision of the administration at Berkeley (at least against the illegal acts)?
I may have missed a previous post on this, but the 1 page Quickstart document assumes that you have a nice distributed application. In my experience, useful distributed applications don't write themselves and the expense (dollars and time) of creating the software will dwarf any expense involved in setting them up (unless you are doing things on a distributed.net kind of scale).
Does this mean that Alan Cox will now, in a fit of pique, not even tell himself what the changelog contains? According to the Register article this makes the British law much more in favor of copyright holders than the DMCA.
I assume that when you wrote this that your brain had to shut down so your fingers could work.
"All the atrocities in the recorded human history have been carried out by the agents of whatever government has been in power at the time. "
To just pick the most current example: what government sent its agents to knock down the World Trade Center? What government did the woman in Texas who killed her own children serve as an agent for? What government set the Omagh bomb in Ireland? What government dived the Egyptian 747 into Long Island Sound? What government opened up on all the other passengers in a car on the Long Island Railroad? (Or are all those examples of 'protected' speech?)
While I will not deny that governments have been responsible for atrocities, (In the whole of recorded history, we could probably find examples of cartoon characters being responsible for atrocities) you are seriously blinded by some form of political belief to blame everything on them. Remember, the reason people banded together to form governments was to protect themselves from the physically stronger.
Until we can do something about an asteroid that is going to hit us, there is really no point in spending a fortune (that can be spent on useful projects) on watching out for them.
Most of the 'high tech' hotels did not go out of business, they just lost their high-speed internet access, or dropped it because it was not adding to their bottom line in a time of hard business conditions. (Remember: hotels existed for years without high-speed internet and will continue to exist without it in the future.)
Bottom line as it regards your question: Those hotels are still hotels with RJ45 (or whatever) connections in their rooms that don't go anywhere particularly useful.
I hang out all the time with some people who were coworkers at a previous programming-only shop.
My current employment is at a place where I am the only programmer (not even a sysadmin at this location). This is the place where I don't have 'work friends' over all the time.
The problem with all the methods that claim to develop good estimates of time are that they require that you know in advance the size of the project, the number of programmers available and how good they are. They just move the estimation problem to these dependencies.
Jobs aren't that hard to find.
This may already have been said but here are the rules as I have been told:
Always write letters or use the telephone. Email is not weighed heavily because of the low effort perceived to be put into it.
Always communicate through your own representatives first. They all receive so much mail that they pretty much ignore non-constituent communications unless there is some special circumstance.
Write your own letter. Petitions (and especially email petitions) are pretty much weighed evenly with individual letters. Don't use verbatim a sample letter given to you. Remember, they pay attention to how much effort it looks like you put into the communication.
Always (generally) stick to one point in a single communication. Try to present a very short but logical argument for what you are espousing. If you want to discuss two or more topics, send two or more letters.
The best way to communicate, and it takes time, is to volunteer on election campaigns and things like that. You get to meet the candidates (frequently one-on-one) face to face in a situation where they are trying to determine what their consituents concerns are. Donate money. Go to campaign events. Just because they ask for a $200 donation for something does not mean that they won't accept $50 or less; they want attendance at these events. Dress appropriately and behave appropriately; you are more likely to be listened to if you don't look or act like a lunatic or a homeless person.
I hope this helps you in the future.
Remember, it wasn't Republicans who forced the CDA through (and its successors). It was the good old-fashioned 'we know what is good for you' big-government liberals. Back then it was Paul Simon and Jim Exon; now it's The editors of the New York Times, the producers of the evening news, Ted Turner, many feminists and those who are 'more sensitive' who want to protect you from anything that may damage your tender psyche. After all, with our laws, who but the media can censor the media?
Did you know that the weather stations built in the early parts of this century were on the edges of cities? Did you know that areas that were on the edge of a city in 1900 are now in the center of the city? Did you know that it is warmer in a city than in the countryside? Did you know that we could probably make cities cooler places by getting rid of all the people? Who wants to be gotten rid of?
If you don't want to get a technical degree, at least learn some useful non-technical stuff like accounting or marketing -- it will be more useful in the long run.
According to Fox News this morning, they have been using that ballot design for 30 years. If it has suddenly become confusing, that probably says more about the Palm Beach electorate than about the ballot design.
The subject says it all; there is no time to make any changes, no matter who orders them.
1. You say that you can't imagine a more anti-democratic, non-interactive assembly -- what about the Academy Awards you were so fond of? They are specifically and pointedly both non-democratic and non-interactive. Remember, the point of the political conventions is not to be democratic, it is to confirm and celebrate a decision already made.
2. If women designed things, there would be communal (neighborhood-oriented) laundries? What world would this happen in? Where I live, the women get home from work around 6:00 PM and I doubt that they want to have to go down to the neighborhood laundry to do a quick load of clothing anymore than most men do.
I am sure that it is wonderful to be smarter and more caring than everyone you know, but it is possible that some things have come to exist because they work best and that's the way that people want it.
In closing, I agree that it's sad that more people don't vote, but I don't find it surprising: people like Katz have been telling them that their vote won't help or count for close to 40 years.
How does this story relate to the surveys which show the number of people pursuing technical studies to be steadily decreasing. For years, we have heard how playing video games make people more computer-wise, but I never heard that playing pinball machines made someone into a mechanic. What is the real difference -- both video game players and pinball machine players were simply using artifacts produced by other (generally older) people. (In fact, at least the pinball machines taught you how to manipulate machinery by lifting, hitting and shaking the machines without causing a 'tilt'.)
The same arguments apply to users of email who know nothing about computers -- are they wiser than people who use telephones but don't know about electronics?
In the end, Mr. Katz is praising the 'new generation' because they are used to getting exactly what they want and are reaping the benefits of many great engineers of the past couple of generations.