just charge a $1 registration fee. give them 1 post per day when they are noobs. ban their ip if they spam. when the trial period is up and they're legit then give them unlimited posts. keep the $1.
spam-free and troll-free boards take time and effort to keep clean. why not charge a buck? i'd pay a buck to join a forum.
as for credit card processors and transaction fees, the vendor pays to use the cgi and none of that is supposed to be passed on to the consumer. so yeah, it'd only cost a buck, as in $1.00
The reason nobody will buy YouTube is because it would cost too much when compared to them just buying a little outfit nobody has heard of, fixing it up a bit, and saying to the world HAY GUYS WE HAVE A YOUTUBE THING TOO!
When I was in high school (2002) we were told that if a school shooting or an intruder came on campus and we had to go to lock-down, that cellphones were NOT supposed to be used. This was so "the air could stay open for authorities".
[tangent] I feel sorry for highschool kids because of the unneccessary crap they go through, being spoonfed mud but are told it's chocolate pudding. The minute you step on campus you are treated like a criminal and a drone, pretty much all of the faculty are power hungry losers and anything you happen to do wrongly you can bet your ass that the punishment will not match the crime. I once got into an argument with the Vice Principal and used a cuss word, and that one word got me suspended for 5 days. Yeah. That's fairness for ya. Growing up we were always told that life was unfair but what they fail to mention is that the legal system and the power of the state/school is supposed to work in FAVOR of fairness.
At this rate, kids are going to grow up expecting to get thrown in jail the minute they hit the real world. Whenever I meet people who are still in highschool and are bummed out because of all the crap, I always tell them that it's only temporary and things get much much better once they get out, and I feel good because of the expression of relief on their faces. [/tangent]
"Is this what you are looking for, training a bunch of mindless zombies that can calculate numbers, memorize facts and correctly fill in standardized test bubbles?"
Sounds like the ideal white collar worker to me.
Also, you're suggesting as if there is only ONE way to distribute a pirated copy of a movie over the internet, and that you have to be a member of some elite hacking group to do so. That my friend is naive, to think information sharing works within a single paradigm and to think that the internet is policed the world over.
It only takes one person, not a group, nor an underground organization evading authorities. All it takes is some 16 year old kid in his mom's basement with a high speed connection to IRC or a P2P network and the whole system comes crashing down, because that one kid sends it to maybe a dozen people, then those dozen people send it to another dozen each, and so on and so forth until a couple weeks later when Sony execs download it off of KaZaA or find it floating around as a torrent and realize they have their thumbs up their asses.
Exactly. With a company like Intel teaming up with a Linux distro, it's a major endorsement from a large reputible company for open source products.
As for hardware vendors, yeah, this should be a big wakeup call. As it is, most Linux drivers are reverse engineered, and even the ones that are given out by the vendors are very poorly written (cough, ATI, cough), save a few (nVidia, LinkSys). Having to reverse engineer hardware in order to make drivers can only get you so much performance out of your hardware, and in most cases nowhere near it's full vendor-driver-potential. This is why getting tv cards, printers, etc to work in Linux is so frustrating. Hopefully this will open the door for hardware vendors to be like "Huhwha? Linux drivers? OK! Here you go!"
I read slashdot purely for the comments and to see zealots flame eachother. It's.... amusing. And y'never know, maybe someone will say something that actually is insightful, and not just modded as insightful by biased mods.
This site stopped being "news for nerds" a long time ago. Now it's more like "news for newbs".
So since the machines found an equilibrium with the real world and figured out how to maintain their own resources within the single geographic location (machine city), the machines are mammals?
Everything in windows is more intuitive at the Joe User level than in Linux
Hahaha, so I guess all these people calling me for tech support on how to change their background image or what the difference between Word and Excel is are all paid actors? Tell me why I need to explain to everybody where to go in order to just refresh their IP address when their "internets dont work".
I love your argument. Focus on two very specific issues with each OS and decide what OS is better based on that and nothing else. Tell me, if you renamed the Start button to just "Menu", would half the "intuitiveness" of the OS not vanish?
What was this creator made out of? Did this creator transend time and space? If so, why did a single event need to start the universe? Is it likely that the universe created itself?
As you can see, ID tends to fall away from conventional science and goes straight into the mental-masturbation domain of philosophy and speculation.
As a Pastafarian I refuse to believe in Satan. The bones were obvioulsy placed there by the one and only God, Flying Spaghetti Monster. And lo' there was the soil, and in which were not dinosaur bones but empty beer cans and a midget, which proved His existence, and He took his noodly appendage and turned them into dinosaur bones to confuse us. Raaaaaaamen.
Please convert to Pastafarianism, since there is obviously only one correct religion and this is it.
And in terms of being off-scale, please re-read my initial criticism of parent post. Tornado + Junkyard != Something as large as a 747. I completely agree that a tornado in a junkyard cant make a 747, which is what the statement is supposed to do, make you think it's impossible because its a biased and innaccurate analogy. Maybe a tornado in a junkyard could make something _smaller_ (assuming the range of acceptable "things" were things we are already familiar with). The statement assumes that a strong wind could assemble an airplane out of washing machines, broken tv's, rocking chairs, and a toaster. No wonder it's so easy to not believe.
"Believing in gravity is like believing birds cant fly!"
So let me re-iterate and spell it out for you, with a "junkyard" the size of the universe, "junk" meaning an unimaginable amount of particles, "tornados" being natural forces not chaotic enough to destroy said particles if they were to happen to assemble by chance, and "boeing 747" meaning intelligent life. Then yeah, what is so impossible about something nice happening given enough time?
Much more believable than "Oh. Yeah. Some invisible grandfather-figure guy, who has no creator, who is very involved in human affairs, made you from nothing."
Dinosaurs were laying eggs way before chickens were.
Oops I forgot-- Dinosaurs didn't really exist, God put them in the ground so we get confused when we try to question him.
"the chance that higher life forms might have emerged by chance is comparible with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein."
in a junkyard the size of the universe, with a tornado the size of billions of galaxies, and it blew the materials around in such a way that they could only create structure and build off of their own structure, over the course of billions of years, i really think it would be impossible if many "Boeing 747s" weren't formed together.
No evidence of evolution? HEY POT! IT'S ME: KETTLE!
Sorry but i've cleaned dozens of PC`s 'protected' with AVG and it is totally inadequate for protecting most users.
I've cleaned hundreds of PCs "protected" with Norton and it's a surprise that many of the machines were salvagable at all. And of the machines we replaced Norton with AVG, the machines now come in for tuneups probably only once every year or so (as opposed to every six months), and thats assuming they come in at all since we educate our customers about running Spybot/etc. AVG+SpyBot/Adaware = 100% better than Norton. They're free, effective, not bloated, and don't mind when you want to uninstall them. Norton is intrusive, slow, outdated, and just plain crappy.
We have maybe had one or two machines come in that had AVG on them, and they were in for either RAM upgrades or spyware problems. The rest, Norton let them get to the edge of being unfixable without a complete reinstall.
You forgot "don't get raped, mugged and stabbed with a previously used knife, have some guy pick a fight with you and get blood on you, let anyone give you cpr, be around anyone who is psychotic enough to prick you with an AIDS needle on a subway or in an elevator, always perform background checks on everyone you know ever, never be lied to by someone you love."
I'm sick of people saying "all we need to do to solve problem X is do Y. Simple!"
In a perfect world my friend, yes. But a perfect world this is not. Major problems are never limited to persons of type X, and can never be solved by just applying theory Y.
A) looking at porn does not guarentee you will go out and look at more. B) child pornography does not follow supply and demand. child pornography is a byproduct of bad human nature, not because of the needs of some imaginary underground community. child pornographers will not lose motivation to make child porn just because they have no audience. C) define the exact age when every single person on the planet was known to be self-aware and able to make judgements for themselves. you might find it harder than you think. age of consent in idaho is 14.
child porn does need to be stopped, but understand that child porn does not make people into child molesters, it's the other way around. these are blurry lines we walk on. if i watch a video of someone being killed and am gratified by it, am i no different than the murderer? who is fit to judge?
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its for our own good, the press release even says so!
just charge a $1 registration fee. give them 1 post per day when they are noobs. ban their ip if they spam. when the trial period is up and they're legit then give them unlimited posts. keep the $1.
spam-free and troll-free boards take time and effort to keep clean. why not charge a buck? i'd pay a buck to join a forum.
as for credit card processors and transaction fees, the vendor pays to use the cgi and none of that is supposed to be passed on to the consumer. so yeah, it'd only cost a buck, as in $1.00
The reason nobody will buy YouTube is because it would cost too much when compared to them just buying a little outfit nobody has heard of, fixing it up a bit, and saying to the world HAY GUYS WE HAVE A YOUTUBE THING TOO!
An army of linux-robots marching to the gates of Microsoft headquarters, all fitted with chainsaws and laser eyes.
When I was in high school (2002) we were told that if a school shooting or an intruder came on campus and we had to go to lock-down, that cellphones were NOT supposed to be used. This was so "the air could stay open for authorities".
[tangent]
I feel sorry for highschool kids because of the unneccessary crap they go through, being spoonfed mud but are told it's chocolate pudding. The minute you step on campus you are treated like a criminal and a drone, pretty much all of the faculty are power hungry losers and anything you happen to do wrongly you can bet your ass that the punishment will not match the crime. I once got into an argument with the Vice Principal and used a cuss word, and that one word got me suspended for 5 days. Yeah. That's fairness for ya. Growing up we were always told that life was unfair but what they fail to mention is that the legal system and the power of the state/school is supposed to work in FAVOR of fairness.
At this rate, kids are going to grow up expecting to get thrown in jail the minute they hit the real world. Whenever I meet people who are still in highschool and are bummed out because of all the crap, I always tell them that it's only temporary and things get much much better once they get out, and I feel good because of the expression of relief on their faces.
[/tangent]
"Is this what you are looking for, training a bunch of mindless zombies that can calculate numbers, memorize facts and correctly fill in standardized test bubbles?" Sounds like the ideal white collar worker to me.
"ignorant and or stupid people"
Don't put words in my mouth.
Also, you're suggesting as if there is only ONE way to distribute a pirated copy of a movie over the internet, and that you have to be a member of some elite hacking group to do so. That my friend is naive, to think information sharing works within a single paradigm and to think that the internet is policed the world over.
It only takes one person, not a group, nor an underground organization evading authorities. All it takes is some 16 year old kid in his mom's basement with a high speed connection to IRC or a P2P network and the whole system comes crashing down, because that one kid sends it to maybe a dozen people, then those dozen people send it to another dozen each, and so on and so forth until a couple weeks later when Sony execs download it off of KaZaA or find it floating around as a torrent and realize they have their thumbs up their asses.
the death of tv.
Exactly.
With a company like Intel teaming up with a Linux distro, it's a major endorsement from a large reputible company for open source products.
As for hardware vendors, yeah, this should be a big wakeup call. As it is, most Linux drivers are reverse engineered, and even the ones that are given out by the vendors are very poorly written (cough, ATI, cough), save a few (nVidia, LinkSys). Having to reverse engineer hardware in order to make drivers can only get you so much performance out of your hardware, and in most cases nowhere near it's full vendor-driver-potential. This is why getting tv cards, printers, etc to work in Linux is so frustrating. Hopefully this will open the door for hardware vendors to be like "Huhwha? Linux drivers? OK! Here you go!"
I totally agree.
I read slashdot purely for the comments and to see zealots flame eachother. It's.... amusing. And y'never know, maybe someone will say something that actually is insightful, and not just modded as insightful by biased mods.
This site stopped being "news for nerds" a long time ago. Now it's more like "news for newbs".
So since the machines found an equilibrium with the real world and figured out how to maintain their own resources within the single geographic location (machine city), the machines are mammals?
2 buck chuck is AWESOME. It's cheap, and gets you and your date drunk. TWO DOLLARS. WTFPWNBBQ~~!!!!???!!
Everything in windows is more intuitive at the Joe User level than in Linux
Hahaha, so I guess all these people calling me for tech support on how to change their background image or what the difference between Word and Excel is are all paid actors? Tell me why I need to explain to everybody where to go in order to just refresh their IP address when their "internets dont work".
I love your argument. Focus on two very specific issues with each OS and decide what OS is better based on that and nothing else. Tell me, if you renamed the Start button to just "Menu", would half the "intuitiveness" of the OS not vanish?
Mod parent down. Flamebait.
What was this creator made out of? Did this creator transend time and space? If so, why did a single event need to start the universe? Is it likely that the universe created itself? As you can see, ID tends to fall away from conventional science and goes straight into the mental-masturbation domain of philosophy and speculation.
As a Pastafarian I refuse to believe in Satan. The bones were obvioulsy placed there by the one and only God, Flying Spaghetti Monster. And lo' there was the soil, and in which were not dinosaur bones but empty beer cans and a midget, which proved His existence, and He took his noodly appendage and turned them into dinosaur bones to confuse us. Raaaaaaamen.
Please convert to Pastafarianism, since there is obviously only one correct religion and this is it.
And in terms of being off-scale, please re-read my initial criticism of parent post. Tornado + Junkyard != Something as large as a 747. I completely agree that a tornado in a junkyard cant make a 747, which is what the statement is supposed to do, make you think it's impossible because its a biased and innaccurate analogy. Maybe a tornado in a junkyard could make something _smaller_ (assuming the range of acceptable "things" were things we are already familiar with). The statement assumes that a strong wind could assemble an airplane out of washing machines, broken tv's, rocking chairs, and a toaster. No wonder it's so easy to not believe. "Believing in gravity is like believing birds cant fly!" So let me re-iterate and spell it out for you, with a "junkyard" the size of the universe, "junk" meaning an unimaginable amount of particles, "tornados" being natural forces not chaotic enough to destroy said particles if they were to happen to assemble by chance, and "boeing 747" meaning intelligent life. Then yeah, what is so impossible about something nice happening given enough time? Much more believable than "Oh. Yeah. Some invisible grandfather-figure guy, who has no creator, who is very involved in human affairs, made you from nothing."
Uhhhh
Did you not see the quotes I put around Boeing 747?
Did you not even stop, for a moment, to think that I metaphorically meant "intelligent life"?
Dinosaurs were laying eggs way before chickens were. Oops I forgot-- Dinosaurs didn't really exist, God put them in the ground so we get confused when we try to question him.
That's no acheivement, man. That's something to be downright ashamed of.
"the chance that higher life forms might have emerged by chance is comparible with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein."
in a junkyard the size of the universe, with a tornado the size of billions of galaxies, and it blew the materials around in such a way that they could only create structure and build off of their own structure, over the course of billions of years, i really think it would be impossible if many "Boeing 747s" weren't formed together.
No evidence of evolution? HEY POT! IT'S ME: KETTLE!
Sorry but i've cleaned dozens of PC`s 'protected' with AVG and it is totally inadequate for protecting most users.
I've cleaned hundreds of PCs "protected" with Norton and it's a surprise that many of the machines were salvagable at all. And of the machines we replaced Norton with AVG, the machines now come in for tuneups probably only once every year or so (as opposed to every six months), and thats assuming they come in at all since we educate our customers about running Spybot/etc. AVG+SpyBot/Adaware = 100% better than Norton. They're free, effective, not bloated, and don't mind when you want to uninstall them. Norton is intrusive, slow, outdated, and just plain crappy.
We have maybe had one or two machines come in that had AVG on them, and they were in for either RAM upgrades or spyware problems. The rest, Norton let them get to the edge of being unfixable without a complete reinstall.
Care to cite your source? Or did you just make that up because it's what you want to believe.
You forgot "don't get raped, mugged and stabbed with a previously used knife, have some guy pick a fight with you and get blood on you, let anyone give you cpr, be around anyone who is psychotic enough to prick you with an AIDS needle on a subway or in an elevator, always perform background checks on everyone you know ever, never be lied to by someone you love."
I'm sick of people saying "all we need to do to solve problem X is do Y. Simple!"
In a perfect world my friend, yes. But a perfect world this is not. Major problems are never limited to persons of type X, and can never be solved by just applying theory Y.
A) looking at porn does not guarentee you will go out and look at more.
B) child pornography does not follow supply and demand. child pornography is a byproduct of bad human nature, not because of the needs of some imaginary underground community. child pornographers will not lose motivation to make child porn just because they have no audience.
C) define the exact age when every single person on the planet was known to be self-aware and able to make judgements for themselves. you might find it harder than you think. age of consent in idaho is 14.
child porn does need to be stopped, but understand that child porn does not make people into child molesters, it's the other way around.
these are blurry lines we walk on. if i watch a video of someone being killed and am gratified by it, am i no different than the murderer? who is fit to judge?