...If Google becomes the label. If Google can do what MySpace succeeded at, which is become the home for small artists, Google may be onto something. They can go a step further and become the label, offering video and audio hosting, a store and perhaps even CD printing through suppliers. Bands would upload to Google rather than MySpace or with an independent label. It would be a natural extension to the service provider portfolio, Picassa, Docs, Voice, Apps etc.
If not, expect a legal creampie with only the lawyers (and the RIAA) profiting.
(Google lost the way but maybe they can claw back some? Either way, they're still evil.)
I do think however that genuine geeks are more interested in improving and learning than fleecing people. It just so happens that the skills of a geek are often helpful for businesses, such as system administration or coding. We secretly want to improve everything and if we had the resources to do so, the world could be amazing.
Of course I'would like to make a living. Maybe the only true win-win situation is to do Situation 2 first then use the cash you make to startup a company to implement Situation 1.
Our society is hopelessly broken that those rewards are reversed. We're heading in the wrong direction as a society. We do not reward true innovation or contribution. Maybe I'm idealist but doesn't it depress you that most industries are merely rent seekers that leech from the real contributors of society?
Media distributors take the majority if not all of any sold product Apple takes a commission on all app sales when the technology would perfectly support third party purchases. Researchers probably don't make much from a research paper, a business does. People can patent things they did not invent and usurp time, effort and money.
You are absolutely right and it's depressing. Most of IT is based on the premise of bullshit. It's one big lying bubble. I hope we're in another bubble and it will collapse soon. Apps? Mostly bullshit. I am sure there are useful ones out there but are they free? What happened to tethering? DRM? Bullshit. Internet media? Bullshit. Social marketing? Bullshitting. Twitter? Bullshit. Facebook? Lots of bullshit. Contextual advertising? Bullshit. Cloud? Bullshit. Web 2.0? Bullshit. Social web? Bullshit.
Ever felt you'll be left behind? This IT treadmill is ridiculous. I learn things that come out that are new but often see through the hype. These apps aren't breakthroughs in any sense of the word. It's ridiculous how people can make money from doing nothing groundbreaking. The clueless public buy into it. I have never understood how internet media/web design/app companies can be started by students with bigger egos than ability and what they make is so painfully trivial, why are they being rewarded?
Is there such thing as geek purity? Or am I just bitter because they did it first?
It's nice to see that someone has an idea where we as a society are heading. It's depressing what people close to you are arguing about and think are the real problems, completely oblivious to the status quo.
Isaac Asimov's Foundation anyone? Ten thousand years of barbarianism? Not quite what I expect but there must be a even darker relapse in humanity at the present rate. Another issue is that even with the Internet and web, the vested interests are destroying our will to be self-organized and form communities. If you self-organize, you're met with suspicion and treated like a criminal.
Computer geeks need to self-organize in passive righteousness. Think secure cells of command and mutual co-operation.
Friends don't let friends buy domains from GoDaddy, they put your details straight on WhoIs. It made me laugh when the personal details of my entire class was put online.
It's not the innovation in technology that is the problem. I praise this much. It's the 'politics'.
It's a ploy to get people to use Chrome, it acts as a marketing move and it only damages the (para)stability that we have now. This sort of thing should be going through standards bodies. You can now advertize that Chrome is now faster than every other browser! Great but of course users don't realize that you've cheated the process. They think other browsers are slow and stupid when in fact you've now added disruptive pressure to server vendors and other browsers. It's leverage that Google can use to stay relevant. (That's why you made a browser.) You're provoking change to force everyone to catch up and calling it technical progress when it's a strategic move that splinters the web.
If everybody were doing this, no web browser and server would be able to communicate except through a common denominator. I find it arrogant that Google wants to change the general semantics of the HTTP protocol in attempt to bolster its market position and its browser. Surely everyone will need to implement this in server and browser to benefit from this?
I understand that this would make serving ads a helluva lot more efficient...
I cannot be the only person to think this is not a good thing. So now we'll have sites that have to run both technologies with regular HTTP/TCP as fallback and we fragment the web browser ecosystem even more.
Thanks Google. As much as I want HTTP to be faster, I think this way is a bit degrading to the web... There was no standards process. It will probably now be rushed as a standard.
Basically its a fake way of making Google look faster, so you either adopt Google's tech to get ahead. It reeks of a Microsoft strategic move to me. Can't optimize the browser? Change the browser and make an incompatible change! Well done...
Just when I'm watching DS9 this comes up. AWESOME! This doesn't actually prove that there WERE actual aliens, only confirms of the original report which could just as well be bogus.
I HOPE IT IS NOT. I want me an Asgard friend* and one of those computers that lets me build what I want!
* Everyone knows that Slashdotters have no friends.
Investigative journalism...by geeks! Yes there is a difference! 1. Get 3200 Geeks to donate £5 a year 2. Pay decora 3. ???? 4. Profit!
Its more of a log of transgressions over time and linking them to damages. They can be marked with 'credibility' tags like 'proven', 'alleged by' with links to who said what, who supported or commented on it at the time. People could even vote if they believe something or not. Almost like a provenance system. Or bullshit log.
The relationships between companies and the individuals that spout things about them should be out in the open in such a way the bullshit is clear. It would almost be like a scoreboard, readers should be able to see the companies that are doing more or less better than others. The problem with investigative journalism is that it is not supposed to be a resource but a one-shot discovery that people generally forget about in their day to day life. There is no community built up around it.
I think you're right that it can be combined with suggesting alternatives. I think it could be more visible and defensible than the generic than x sucks dot com, where x might be an ISP, paypal or whatever. The vegetarian, animal rights, patent, GNU, boycott movements for various products would love it.
I answered a guy aboutmaintaining the signal to noise ratio. Obviously you don't want the business themselves countering the truth on your wiki for example.
Just a matter of time. If I had the time maybe it would be nice to pick up the mantle. It need not be a necessarily have to be a website so Freenet is a nice alternative.
Every business function (but IT) are professional liars. The world is sucking it up advertising and marketing as how society should be. The "cheaters" are winning. We're the grudgers but we're acting like suckers!
Our society is being selected for bullshit over honesty. Why are we letting this happen?
Slashdot Mirror
...If Google becomes the label. If Google can do what MySpace succeeded at, which is become the home for small artists, Google may be onto something. They can go a step further and become the label, offering video and audio hosting, a store and perhaps even CD printing through suppliers. Bands would upload to Google rather than MySpace or with an independent label. It would be a natural extension to the service provider portfolio, Picassa, Docs, Voice, Apps etc.
If not, expect a legal creampie with only the lawyers (and the RIAA) profiting.
(Google lost the way but maybe they can claw back some? Either way, they're still evil.)
All information is incomplete. We only think terrorist groups are terrorists because our media spins it that way.
You got me there.
I do think however that genuine geeks are more interested in improving and learning than fleecing people. It just so happens that the skills of a geek are often helpful for businesses, such as system administration or coding. We secretly want to improve everything and if we had the resources to do so, the world could be amazing.
Enginertopia
Of course I'would like to make a living. Maybe the only true win-win situation is to do Situation 2 first then use the cash you make to startup a company to implement Situation 1.
Our society is hopelessly broken that those rewards are reversed. We're heading in the wrong direction as a society. We do not reward true innovation or contribution. Maybe I'm idealist but doesn't it depress you that most industries are merely rent seekers that leech from the real contributors of society?
Media distributors take the majority if not all of any sold product
Apple takes a commission on all app sales when the technology would perfectly support third party purchases.
Researchers probably don't make much from a research paper, a business does.
People can patent things they did not invent and usurp time, effort and money.
Can you think of more examples?
You are absolutely right and it's depressing. Most of IT is based on the premise of bullshit. It's one big lying bubble. I hope we're in another bubble and it will collapse soon.
Apps? Mostly bullshit. I am sure there are useful ones out there but are they free? What happened to tethering?
DRM? Bullshit.
Internet media? Bullshit.
Social marketing? Bullshitting.
Twitter? Bullshit.
Facebook? Lots of bullshit.
Contextual advertising? Bullshit.
Cloud? Bullshit.
Web 2.0? Bullshit.
Social web? Bullshit.
Ever felt you'll be left behind? This IT treadmill is ridiculous. I learn things that come out that are new but often see through the hype. These apps aren't breakthroughs in any sense of the word. It's ridiculous how people can make money from doing nothing groundbreaking. The clueless public buy into it. I have never understood how internet media/web design/app companies can be started by students with bigger egos than ability and what they make is so painfully trivial, why are they being rewarded?
Is there such thing as geek purity? Or am I just bitter because they did it first?
Get off my lawn?
That should say, a much darker relapse than a economic recession but not quite so bad as a ten thousand year one...
It's nice to see that someone has an idea where we as a society are heading. It's depressing what people close to you are arguing about and think are the real problems, completely oblivious to the status quo.
Isaac Asimov's Foundation anyone? Ten thousand years of barbarianism? Not quite what I expect but there must be a even darker relapse in humanity at the present rate. Another issue is that even with the Internet and web, the vested interests are destroying our will to be self-organized and form communities. If you self-organize, you're met with suspicion and treated like a criminal.
Computer geeks need to self-organize in passive righteousness. Think secure cells of command and mutual co-operation.
Frankly I agree, they do not even accept direct links.
Clicking on the article link takes you to the homepage. Gawker must be desperate for hits.
At least they did not include Peter F Hamilton. Some of the worst scifi I've read.
Sounds like a Ferengi law in the Rules of Acquisition.
The question is how do we defend against it? Can we donate to IMSLP?
Friends don't let friends buy domains from GoDaddy, they put your details straight on WhoIs. It made me laugh when the personal details of my entire class was put online.
I wonder how many games have stunning demo content with high polish with the rest of the game lacking.
It's not the innovation in technology that is the problem. I praise this much. It's the 'politics'.
It's a ploy to get people to use Chrome, it acts as a marketing move and it only damages the (para)stability that we have now. This sort of thing should be going through standards bodies. You can now advertize that Chrome is now faster than every other browser! Great but of course users don't realize that you've cheated the process. They think other browsers are slow and stupid when in fact you've now added disruptive pressure to server vendors and other browsers. It's leverage that Google can use to stay relevant. (That's why you made a browser.) You're provoking change to force everyone to catch up and calling it technical progress when it's a strategic move that splinters the web.
If everybody were doing this, no web browser and server would be able to communicate except through a common denominator. I find it arrogant that Google wants to change the general semantics of the HTTP protocol in attempt to bolster its market position and its browser. Surely everyone will need to implement this in server and browser to benefit from this?
I understand that this would make serving ads a helluva lot more efficient...
I cannot be the only person to think this is not a good thing. So now we'll have sites that have to run both technologies with regular HTTP/TCP as fallback and we fragment the web browser ecosystem even more.
Thanks Google. As much as I want HTTP to be faster, I think this way is a bit degrading to the web... There was no standards process. It will probably now be rushed as a standard.
Basically its a fake way of making Google look faster, so you either adopt Google's tech to get ahead. It reeks of a Microsoft strategic move to me. Can't optimize the browser? Change the browser and make an incompatible change! Well done...
Shadow == B5
Just when I'm watching DS9 this comes up. AWESOME! This doesn't actually prove that there WERE actual aliens, only confirms of the original report which could just as well be bogus.
I HOPE IT IS NOT. I want me an Asgard friend* and one of those computers that lets me build what I want!
* Everyone knows that Slashdotters have no friends.
Jobs did steal, he pocketed cash that was meant for Steve Wozniak.
http://www.woz.org/letters/general/91.html
You sound like a shill because the PS3 is not open. Not anymore, if you're running PSN that means you have upgraded and lost the OtherOS feature.
3D? seriously? 'Sony has delivered'?
Do you work for NMS?
Are you associated with the website?
For a site that claims to offer pure information technology and then spams you with popovers to subscribe. Junk website waste of bandwidth.
For the real source, try google themselves.
Why is this modded Flamebait?
Investigative journalism...by geeks! Yes there is a difference!
1. Get 3200 Geeks to donate £5 a year
2. Pay decora
3. ????
4. Profit!
Its more of a log of transgressions over time and linking them to damages. They can be marked with 'credibility' tags like 'proven', 'alleged by' with links to who said what, who supported or commented on it at the time. People could even vote if they believe something or not. Almost like a provenance system. Or bullshit log.
The relationships between companies and the individuals that spout things about them should be out in the open in such a way the bullshit is clear. It would almost be like a scoreboard, readers should be able to see the companies that are doing more or less better than others. The problem with investigative journalism is that it is not supposed to be a resource but a one-shot discovery that people generally forget about in their day to day life. There is no community built up around it.
I think you're right that it can be combined with suggesting alternatives. I think it could be more visible and defensible than the generic than x sucks dot com, where x might be an ISP, paypal or whatever. The vegetarian, animal rights, patent, GNU, boycott movements for various products would love it.
I answered a guy aboutmaintaining the signal to noise ratio. Obviously you don't want the business themselves countering the truth on your wiki for example.
Just a matter of time. If I had the time maybe it would be nice to pick up the mantle. It need not be a necessarily have to be a website so Freenet is a nice alternative.
That should say screwing with customers.
Every business function (but IT) are professional liars. The world is sucking it up advertising and marketing as how society should be. The "cheaters" are winning. We're the grudgers but we're acting like suckers!
Our society is being selected for bullshit over honesty. Why are we letting this happen?