you and i don't, but lots of less-informed folks do, because Rush or O'Reilly or some other hack prepackaged it for them in a nice little soundbite....
RIchard Clarke is a true patriot and a class guy all around -- not like people who slap a yellow ribbon magnet on their car and think they are "fighting terrorism."
What would it take to get a story like this onto the desk of every Gates-worshipping, MSFT-stock-owning, spyware-infested-Windows-machine-running, Gartner-Group-report-reading, pointy-haired boss?
i'm sorry, but that's fucking brilliant.... can we mod up more please???!?!?!?
... do you think intellectual-property laws need to be reformed?
No, I'd say that of the world's economies, there's more that believe in intellectual property today than ever. There are fewer communists in the world today than there were. There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think that those incentives should exist.
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what a creep. as if the almighty dollar were the only conceivable incentive for creative endeavor.
if you'd look at the DailyKos diaries, you'd see the unprecedented level of collabo among all the folks who dig the logwork... it's damned impressive.
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i hope your reply was tongue-in-cheek... i'm about the furthest thing from an open-source champion that there is. i just like Firefox, and think it's a great app. plus, all the things users might actually need in a Yahoo toolbar is already available w/o installing the damn thing. as many others have noted, it really only benefits Yahoo by making it easy to use Yahoo svcs that don't really even belong in a browser.
do you think the Yahoo malbar is a good idea? i mean, for users, not for Yahoo's bottom line?
Simple: don't employ people who refuse to work on anything that isn't "exciting" or "interesting".
well yeah, that's simple to say, but what i'm wondering is if there will be a long-term effect on morale, as the 70% doing the "boring" stuff look longingly at the 10% doing the "fun" stuff. thassall.
one could even draw a parallel to using drugs vs. selling them. maybe the powers that be are considering DLing copyrighted materials as "possession with intent to distribute."
right, but the 70-20-10 is being floated as a guide to how they'll spend their money (if i RTFA correctly). plain ol' search (and related stuff like AdWords) has gotta take up the vast majority of their resources, i'd guess.
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... on the Web Pro News site?? and i thought you lot were a bunch of contentious retards.... :-)
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now you've done it. you're on my Friends list... :-)
you and i don't, but lots of less-informed folks do, because Rush or O'Reilly or some other hack prepackaged it for them in a nice little soundbite....
"Proof of concept came when we relocated the simulator from Dave's house to school. "
:)
that killed me.
RIchard Clarke is a true patriot and a class guy all around -- not like people who slap a yellow ribbon magnet on their car and think they are "fighting terrorism."
also, off topic.
move along, nothing to see here.
so ... wait.
what does the spyware do in Soviet Russia? does it still spy on YOU?
HAAAA haaaaa!
ahhh, iraq. the GAO's "other pants," as it were.
now where did i put that $3 billion....
i had no idea he was playing Ford Prefect. i was mildly excited about this before, but now i can hardly contain myself.
-geeky fanboy x 2
that was priceless.
What would it take to get a story like this onto the desk of every Gates-worshipping, MSFT-stock-owning, spyware-infested-Windows-machine-running, Gartner-Group-report-reading, pointy-haired boss?
i'm sorry, but that's fucking brilliant.... can we mod up more please???!?!?!?
... do you think intellectual-property laws need to be reformed?
No, I'd say that of the world's economies, there's more that believe in intellectual property today than ever. There are fewer communists in the world today than there were. There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think that those incentives should exist. +-+-+-+-+-+-+- what a creep. as if the almighty dollar were the only conceivable incentive for creative endeavor.
if you'd look at the DailyKos diaries, you'd see the unprecedented level of collabo among all the folks who dig the logwork... it's damned impressive. link
well, susang and lots of other folks, but she drove the whole thing. that's the cnxn.
in other news, war is peace, hate is love, and microsoft ROXXORZZZZZ.
i hope your reply was tongue-in-cheek ... i'm about the furthest thing from an open-source champion that there is. i just like Firefox, and think it's a great app. plus, all the things users might actually need in a Yahoo toolbar is already available w/o installing the damn thing. as many others have noted, it really only benefits Yahoo by making it easy to use Yahoo svcs that don't really even belong in a browser.
do you think the Yahoo malbar is a good idea? i mean, for users, not for Yahoo's bottom line?
yup, i install an open-source, highly configurable browser and then install some creepy malbar that will hijack the whole goddamn thing.
no thanks, yahoo. thanks for playing.
i think steve gutenberg's career is beyond even the help of google, sadly.
R'ing TFA made me literally weep and gnash my teeth. literally.
now the school will know when kids leave campus and go to Steve Wynn's casino on the Las Vegas strip.
or the morgue.
ehhh, it hardly matters. the house always gets its chips back eventually....
Simple: don't employ people who refuse to work on anything that isn't "exciting" or "interesting".
well yeah, that's simple to say, but what i'm wondering is if there will be a long-term effect on morale, as the 70% doing the "boring" stuff look longingly at the 10% doing the "fun" stuff. thassall.
damn, took the words out of my mouth.
one could even draw a parallel to using drugs vs. selling them. maybe the powers that be are considering DLing copyrighted materials as "possession with intent to distribute."
right, but the 70-20-10 is being floated as a guide to how they'll spend their money (if i RTFA correctly). plain ol' search (and related stuff like AdWords) has gotta take up the vast majority of their resources, i'd guess.