Guys, I hope this becomes a law too but the cynic in me is troubled. Congress recesses on Oct 11 and when it returns it's a lame duck session.
I'm just afaid that this bill is being put up to shake some cash out of the Movie and Music lobby.
Has anyone considered that this is vaporware
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I saw an article not long ago that Sony was able to cut the cost of PS2 much earlier than anyone including Microsoft expected. This lead to Microsoft cutting the price of the Xbox and losing even more money per unit that before while Sony was still making a per unit profit or at least breaking even while gaining more and more market share.
Now consider Microsoft, a place where non-authorized leaks rarely make it into the press and even when they do die soon for lack of any comment. Also look at who is re-running the WSJ article, MSNBC.com.
Now If I were Microsoft I might float a story of how great our next product will be and that it is right around the corner. Hopefully all the kiddies and they're SUV driving parents will keep their cash in their pockets and not by any system waiting for MS revolutionary system.
Microsoft's best stratagey is to keep as many consumers out of the market until it has a console that it makes some money on or at least loses less and is more competitive with Sony's console.
Sounds like you boss is spineless, so go to him and be assertive (not belligerent) and tell him that during the summer break the network will need to upgraded (at little or no cost) to comply with state and federal policy. Also stress that this upgrade will increase available bandwidth greatly.
On the teacher front, when they lose their warez ability remind them that file sharing activity could possibly jeopardize their tenure and happily refer them to legal.
>Could the biggest problem with Linux usability be that most of the people teaching newbies to use Linux are too smart and know too much?"
Naw, the problem is they don't understand the needs of most users and how to convey the information. When you were in drivers ed, how long did the teacher spend on internal combustion mechanics or how the electrics of the car worked. NADA, ZIP, ZERO time beacuse it's not nessasary for 99.9% of the people in that class to know. The teacher figures that any one who wants to know about internal combustion will seek out more indepth classes.
Same for Linux. If Linux is ever going to be more than a bussiness backend server or hobbiest OS it's going to have to be able to be taught to people who don't really care that much about the underlying structure of Linux.
Bruce, you gave a reading at the Borders book store in 5 World Trade Ctr a few months back.
How does it feel to have given a reading at a place that doesn't exist anymore?
Also what change if any do you think will or should happen to the entertainment industry post Sept-11? Like Sam Rami removing shots of the WTC from his upcoming Spiderman movie or writers changing plotlines.
I work in 3 world fincial center for lehaman Brothers. As a tek guy I spent a lot of time on the 40th floor of one of the WTC towers with our development guys. I hope they all made it out.
I took Monday off so was catching up on a lot of work when someone said they heard a boom. Figuing it was some huge truck accident I didn't go look until someone said that the top of one of the towers was on fire.
I could see from our window on the 7th floor of 3 World Fincial Plaza the top 10 or so stories were billowing smoke and some fire. From our side we couldn't see the gaping hole. Soon we found out the damage was caused by a plane, a small cessna we all though as most of us went back to work.
We fielded calls from clients assuring them that we were all okay and that it was the building next store that had been hit and not us. About 15 mintues after that we heard that the other tower had been hit by another plane, it seemed like a sick joke only it was CNBC telling it.
This time we could see that horrible damage done to the building. Huge amnounts of fire and smoke were coming from both towers now. We tried calling the people we knew in the towers but got no answer. Hopefully they were out of the building by that time.
My boss said he'd be happy to buy everyone breakfast, way uptown. Leaving the building we were directed to exits away from the towers. I made a bee line for the ferries which would take me to Hoboken. I passed people who had stopped and were watching the towers blaze.
I waited on a line to buy a ferry ticket and just made it onto a ferry that was leaving. I tried to hand my ticket to the attendant but he looked at me like I was crazy.
At that moment he could have named just about any price for that ferry ride I would have gladly paid it.
Leaving manhattan I could se at least three other ferries waiting to pick people up. I could now also see the scope of the damage the WTC had sustained.
It was bad.
Still I didn't think either tower would fall, hey one survived a bomb blast in 1998. Right? On the ferry I heard that the pentagon had been hit.
How many more planes did they have I thought glancing at Lady Liberty stading in the harbor.
Once safe in Hoboken I just watched the towers. There wasn't much to see really. Both towers cloaked in heavy smoke with flames visible. The streets of Hoboken were very quite. People just stared in frustatrion at their cell phone as they were unable to reach loved ones or friends still in danger.
Just then we heard the roaring sound of a low plane. Everyone on the street froze and nervously scanned the sky. Th F-16 was a welcome sight as it passed over us. Hopefully it would mean the end of kamikaze 767's.
It was on TV that I saw the first tower fall. I ran to the river and could only make out the one remaining tower through all the smoke.
Those Towers had seemed so huge and permanent as I passed through them almost every day. Like a moutain you could see the Twins from just about anywhere.
Then the second one fell.
The World Trade Center was gone.
Slowly I made contact with friends and family. A girl I know is a nurse and will probably be caring for the wounded for the next few days with out much rest. My cousin is a cop and is managing one of the makeshift morges.
I hope my collegues in the tower never meets either of them.
I went to the river last around 10pm. Most of southern tip of Manhattan is dark except for the light on the ambulances and police cars along the west side highway. The smoke still rises from where the WTC once stood and the fires still burn.
Over the next few day the fires will stop, the smoke will clear, and hundreds, probably thousands of people will be pulled from the wreckage.
I still can't answer the question of why though. For myself that is the most distubing thing.
What was accomplished this day, some few thousand Americans were killed, a few buildings destroyed? To what end.
Waging a war in a democracy is a difficult thing. Many citizens are appaled with death and destruction on both sides and pressure their leaders to end the violence.
Today's destruction diminished those voices if it hasn't silenced them all together.
I know this.
WE WILL find those responsible for today's destruction. We've done it before and we are very good at it.
And without those voices of compassion to mollify our anger. We will, one way or another end the ability of those responsible to duplicate today's actions. After all who is there to stop us.
I doubt this is plausable, looking at the population of early man, where they lived, and
their hunting techniques it's doubtful that early
man was a notable contributor to the extiction
of any large species.
is inane. The philosphy behind it's business is that by using the web it won't need brick and motar(B&M) stores and fewer employees. That means after it's intial investments are payed off it should have a much lower overhead and should have a greater profit margin that B&M book stores. So how come after this long with all the investment capital in the world at it's disposal it hasn't tuned a profit? Ans: Bezos is a chuckling moron.
Is that possible, according to the heisenberg uncertanty principle you can never know both the location _and_ direction of movement of a quantum particle. So how would you be able to reconstitute it without this info?
It would probably help if you can find out the reasons management would like to get rid of your flex time and then address their concerns rather then come up with your own arguments. Is it an accounting problem, is there a morale problem in other divisions because they don't have flextime, ECT. Once you find out why management wants to end it, address those specific reasons and then demonstrate the benefits they as managers receive from employee flex time,like increased productivity, higher morale, less unscheduled sick/vacation days. If
it isn't a pissing contest between managers you have a decent shot of keeping it.
I'm only 24 and up to a short while ago I thought the ratings were a load of s**t too, I remember playing violent games where I slaughtered endless badguys(contra, ect.). But not to long ago I was in a store where I saw a kid(12 or 13 yro) playing a FPS, it's a heck a lot more realistic than any game most of us played at that age. With the realism and violence in games mainly FPS's I think there should be rating on them similar to movies.
The Duron is intended to compete on price with the fabled Intel Celeron. Duron will include 128KB of primary and 64KB of integrated cache, meanwhile Athlons contain 128KB primary and no integrated cache.
Okay here it is, won't the Duron be faster than the Athlon if it has 64KB of intergrated cache in addition to the 128 KB of primary?
I work in finance (bonds not stocks but anyway), the market has corrected and may correct again the point is the no-profit, pure story compaines are an will contnue to go out of bussiness, not all at once but slowly over many months. Also the market conditions are making some companies reexamine going through with an IPO so less are entering the marketplace. So while a great amount of money may be lost it won't be in a great crash but through a prolonged corrective period, perhaps leading to a bear market.
Mr.Adams as someone who writes books(develops content) what view do you have on napster. It has been argued that commercialism is infringing on the freedom of ideas and that people distributing music for free on the net will force the record compaines to sell their products in a more consumer friendly(some would say cheaper)fashion. How would you feel abouting writing a book and only being paid for it if readers felt the need to?
So your saying that after you stole someone else's work if you find it enjoyable you'll pay for it. If I hire you to do a job for a 100 bucks, when pay time comes around I only give you $65 cause I don't think all the work you did was worthwhile you'd think that was fair? The music your stealing is not offered under a shareware agreement, you have every right to buy or not to buy this product under the terms offered. This is not about freedom of ideas only about people wanting to have free enterainment.
I once read a story where a society was crafted where everyone was made equal, in every way. If you were a better athlete you were made to where heavy clothes to impare you. If you were very intelligent youd have a small device implanted to every so often disrupt you concentration. The point in short is that equal is not necessarily free.
I've downloaded mp3's off the net but I knew it was wrong and never tried to convince people that my stealing what others had made, no matter how greedy, evil, or otherwises demented had made. Should I be able to go into you room and say I'm going to live here now, we'll share the room cause mine isn't as nice and I can't afford what you have.
Napster isn't a tool to spread ideas its purpose is to make it easier for people to share music they haven't paid for. It's not about a revolution to free information it just the far more mundane search for free and easy entertainment.
Guys on one point I have to disagree, when in college and ftping MP3's from sites I knew it was wrong, I was breaking laws that protect artists. That HUGE companies were making most of the profits off those artists is irrelevant. Downloading music off napster is no different from buying a book and reprinting it on the net without the author's approval. Even if the publisher makes most of the money it's still the artist that your ripping off. Now I still download music off the net and does that make me a hypocrit, yeah probably but I don't complain when the people who own the music tell me to stop stealing it cause they are just tring to protect there product. Frode z
Hey I went to school in albany and knew this guy, We all called him satan, he was a freak, i guess he still is. If you want to meet him, he might still bounce at a crappy bar called the Old Town Taveren. It's a small slashdot world.
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Guys, I hope this becomes a law too but the cynic in me is troubled. Congress recesses on Oct 11 and when it returns it's a lame duck session.
I'm just afaid that this bill is being put up to shake some cash out of the Movie and Music lobby.
I saw an article not long ago that Sony was able to cut the cost of PS2 much earlier than anyone including Microsoft expected. This lead to Microsoft cutting the price of the Xbox and losing even more money per unit that before while Sony was still making a per unit profit or at least breaking even while gaining more and more market share.
Now consider Microsoft, a place where non-authorized leaks rarely make it into the press
and even when they do die soon for lack of any comment. Also look at who is re-running the WSJ article, MSNBC.com.
Now If I were Microsoft I might float a story of how great our next product will be and that it is right around the corner. Hopefully all the kiddies and they're SUV driving parents will keep their cash in their pockets and not by any system waiting for MS revolutionary system.
Microsoft's best stratagey is to keep as many consumers out of the market until it has a console that it makes some money on or at least loses less and is more competitive with Sony's console.
-FRODE
Sounds like you boss is spineless, so go to him and be assertive (not belligerent) and tell him that during the summer break the network will need to upgraded (at little or no cost) to comply with state and federal policy. Also stress that this upgrade will increase available bandwidth greatly.
On the teacher front, when they lose their warez ability remind them that file sharing activity could possibly jeopardize their tenure and happily refer them to legal.
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>Could the biggest problem with Linux usability be that most of the people teaching newbies to use Linux are too smart and know too much?"
Naw, the problem is they don't understand the needs of most users and how to convey the information. When you were in drivers ed, how long did the teacher spend on internal combustion mechanics or how the electrics of the car worked. NADA, ZIP, ZERO time beacuse it's not nessasary for 99.9% of the people in that class to know. The teacher figures that any one who wants to know about internal combustion will seek out more indepth classes.
Same for Linux. If Linux is ever going to be more than a bussiness backend server or hobbiest OS it's going to have to be able to be taught to people who don't really care that much about the underlying structure of Linux.
Bruce, you gave a reading at the Borders book store in 5 World Trade Ctr a few months back.
How does it feel to have given a reading at a place that doesn't exist anymore?
Also what change if any do you think will or should happen to the entertainment industry post Sept-11? Like Sam Rami removing shots of the WTC from his upcoming Spiderman movie or writers changing plotlines.
I work in 3 world fincial center for lehaman Brothers. As a tek guy I spent a lot of time on the 40th floor of one of the WTC towers with our development guys. I hope they all made it out.
I took Monday off so was catching up on a lot of work when someone said they heard a boom. Figuing it was some huge truck accident I didn't go look until someone said that the top of one of the towers was on fire.
I could see from our window on the 7th floor of 3 World Fincial Plaza the top 10 or so stories were billowing smoke and some fire. From our side we couldn't see the gaping hole. Soon we found out the damage was caused by a plane, a small cessna we all though as most of us went back to work.
We fielded calls from clients assuring them that we were all okay and that it was the building next store that had been hit and not us. About 15 mintues after that we heard that the other tower had been hit by another plane, it seemed like a sick joke only it was CNBC telling it.
This time we could see that horrible damage done to the building. Huge amnounts of fire and smoke were coming from both towers now. We tried calling the people we knew in the towers but got no answer. Hopefully they were out of the building by that time.
My boss said he'd be happy to buy everyone breakfast, way uptown. Leaving the building we were directed to exits away from the towers. I made a bee line for the ferries which would take me to Hoboken. I passed people who had stopped and were watching the towers blaze.
I waited on a line to buy a ferry ticket and just made it onto a ferry that was leaving. I tried to hand my ticket to the attendant but he looked at me like I was crazy.
At that moment he could have named just about any price for that ferry ride I would have gladly paid it.
Leaving manhattan I could se at least three other ferries waiting to pick people up. I could now also see the scope of the damage the WTC had sustained.
It was bad.
Still I didn't think either tower would fall, hey one survived a bomb blast in 1998. Right? On the ferry I heard that the pentagon had been hit.
How many more planes did they have I thought glancing at Lady Liberty stading in the harbor.
Once safe in Hoboken I just watched the towers. There wasn't much to see really. Both towers cloaked in heavy smoke with flames visible. The streets of Hoboken were very quite. People just stared in frustatrion at their cell phone as they were unable to reach loved ones or friends still in danger.
Just then we heard the roaring sound of a low plane. Everyone on the street froze and nervously scanned the sky. Th F-16 was a welcome sight as it passed over us. Hopefully it would mean the end of kamikaze 767's.
It was on TV that I saw the first tower fall. I ran to the river and could only make out the one remaining tower through all the smoke.
Those Towers had seemed so huge and permanent as I passed through them almost every day. Like a moutain you could see the Twins from just about anywhere.
Then the second one fell.
The World Trade Center was gone.
Slowly I made contact with friends and family. A girl I know is a nurse and will probably be caring for the wounded for the next few days with out much rest. My cousin is a cop and is managing one of the makeshift morges.
I hope my collegues in the tower never meets either of them.
I went to the river last around 10pm. Most of southern tip of Manhattan is dark except for the light on the ambulances and police cars along the west side highway. The smoke still rises from where the WTC once stood and the fires still burn.
Over the next few day the fires will stop, the smoke will clear, and hundreds, probably thousands of people will be pulled from the wreckage.
I still can't answer the question of why though. For myself that is the most distubing thing.
What was accomplished this day, some few thousand Americans were killed, a few buildings destroyed? To what end.
Waging a war in a democracy is a difficult thing. Many citizens are appaled with death and destruction on both sides and pressure their leaders to end the violence.
Today's destruction diminished those voices if it hasn't silenced them all together.
I know this.
WE WILL find those responsible for today's destruction. We've done it before and we are very good at it.
And without those voices of compassion to mollify our anger. We will, one way or another end the ability of those responsible to duplicate today's actions. After all who is there to stop us.
Early man's hunting the cause of extinction?
I doubt this is plausable, looking at the population of early man, where they lived, and
their hunting techniques it's doubtful that early
man was a notable contributor to the extiction
of any large species.
is inane. The philosphy behind it's business is that by using the web it won't need brick and motar(B&M) stores and fewer employees. That means after it's intial investments are payed off it should have a much lower overhead and should have a greater profit margin that B&M book stores. So how come after this long with all the investment capital in the world at it's disposal it hasn't tuned a profit? Ans: Bezos is a chuckling moron.
Is that possible, according to the heisenberg uncertanty principle you can never know both the location _and_ direction of movement of a quantum particle. So how would you be able to reconstitute it without this info?
It would probably help if you can find out the reasons management would like to get rid of your flex time and then address their concerns rather then come up with your own arguments. Is it an accounting problem, is there a morale problem in other divisions because they don't have flextime, ECT. Once you find out why management wants to end it, address those specific reasons and then demonstrate the benefits they as managers receive from employee flex time,like increased productivity, higher morale, less unscheduled sick/vacation days. If
it isn't a pissing contest between managers you have a decent shot of keeping it.
Frode!
Problem with that is then users lose anonymity, and gives Mettalica and Dr.Dre(People I happen to agree with) a person to track down and sue.
I'm only 24 and up to a short while ago I thought the ratings were a load of s**t too, I remember playing violent games where I slaughtered endless badguys(contra, ect.). But not to long ago I was in a store where I saw a kid(12 or 13 yro) playing a FPS, it's a heck a lot more realistic than any game most of us played at that age. With the realism and violence in games mainly FPS's I think there should be rating on them similar to movies.
The Duron is intended to compete on price with the fabled Intel Celeron. Duron will include 128KB of primary and 64KB of integrated cache, meanwhile Athlons contain 128KB primary and no integrated cache.
Okay here it is, won't the Duron be faster than the Athlon if it has 64KB of intergrated cache in addition to the 128 KB of primary?
Frode!
z
I work in finance (bonds not stocks but anyway), the market has corrected and may correct again the point is the no-profit, pure story compaines are an will contnue to go out of bussiness, not all at once but slowly over many months. Also the market conditions are making some companies reexamine going through with an IPO so less are entering the marketplace. So while a great amount of money may be lost it won't be in a great crash but through a prolonged corrective period, perhaps leading to a bear market.
Frode
z
Mr.Adams as someone who writes books(develops content) what view do you have on napster. It has been argued that commercialism is infringing on the freedom of ideas and that people distributing music for free on the net will force the record compaines to sell their products in a more consumer friendly(some would say cheaper)fashion. How would you feel abouting writing a book and only being paid for it if readers felt the need to?
Frode
z
So your saying that after you stole someone else's work if you find it enjoyable you'll pay for it. If I hire you to do a job for a 100 bucks, when pay time comes around I only give you $65 cause I don't think all the work you did was worthwhile you'd think that was fair? The music your stealing is not offered under a shareware agreement, you have every right to buy or not to buy this product under the terms offered. This is not about freedom of ideas only about people wanting to have free enterainment.
Frode
z
I once read a story where a society was crafted where everyone was made equal, in every way. If you were a better athlete you were made to where heavy clothes to impare you. If you were very intelligent youd have a small device implanted to every so often disrupt you concentration. The point in short is that equal is not necessarily free.
I've downloaded mp3's off the net but I knew it was wrong and never tried to convince people that my stealing what others had made, no matter how greedy, evil, or otherwises demented had made. Should I be able to go into you room and say I'm going to live here now, we'll share the room cause mine isn't as nice and I can't afford what you have.
Napster isn't a tool to spread ideas its purpose is to make it easier for people to share music they haven't paid for. It's not about a revolution to free information it just the far more mundane search for free and easy entertainment.
But that's just one Frode's opinion.
z
Guys on one point I have to disagree, when in college and ftping MP3's from sites I knew it was wrong, I was breaking laws that protect artists. That HUGE companies were making most of the profits off those artists is irrelevant. Downloading music off napster is no different from buying a book and reprinting it on the net without the author's approval. Even if the publisher makes most of the money it's still the artist that your ripping off. Now I still download music off the net and does that make me a hypocrit, yeah probably but I don't complain when the people who own the music tell me to stop stealing it cause they are just tring to protect there product.
Frode
z
grep
Hey I went to school in albany and knew this guy, We all called him satan, he was a freak, i guess he still is. If you want to meet him, he might still bounce at a crappy bar called the Old Town Taveren. It's a small slashdot world.