Is anyone else getting tired of sensationalist headlines? Granted, this is a bad thing. But this isn't banning social networking sites from Illinois, it is banning social networking sites from LIBRARIES in Illinois...
Come on./. does not need to pull the same shit as my 5PM news stations.
I've stopped buying CDs simply because I fear another rootkit fiasco.
If they continue to add crazy DRM to DVDs, I'll stop buying DVDs in fear that my movie won't work in my home player.
The sad thing is, I used to spend a grand or two on content per year. I spend maybe $100 a year now, but not because I wouldn't like to own the content. I refuse to pay to be treated like a criminal.
It isn't licensing fees. They organized it as an "investment" in the lable so that it is not profit/gross. Using this "investment" method, artists do not collect money out of the company gain. I would be surprised if the SEC didn't look into this questionable "investment".
It is a total screw over to any and all artists under the labels paid off.
Honestly, I believe that there should be a WC3 conference to contribute a single CA that makes its way onto all browsers. Give the WC3 CA site an automated system for generating certs, including an open API and then combine DNS registration protocals with the CA gen protocals. Publicly open the API, and charge small, if anything. This service is an easy one to implement. The real issue is getting browsers to add it to its automatically trusted CA list. I can create SSL at home, but I can't get browsers to add my home web onto the trusted CA list by default.
I know that just about anywhere that required me to give my fingerprint for purchasing their product and/or participating in their business would have a psychological effect on me. I'd just be looking for alternative locations to do business.
Here is the problem with Vista:
You two broad user groups:
1. Users who don't know how to find the information they want when they want it
2. Users who know how to find the info they want when they want it; and they don't want it otherwise
Vista caters to the first group (the larger percentage out there - which is a smart move), but they do it to such a point that they have completely alienated the advanced users, and are starting to get on the nerves of the intermediate ones. You know, the ones who no longer tell anyone they have a computer and can hack the world with it.
IMO MS should come with 2 modes: "advanced computer user" and "average stupid fuck"
Advanced should start off with showing file extensions, window's classic mode, never hiding system files, and Window's useless software firewall turned off (this last one because all of these folks have hardware firewalls and load virus protection before connecting to the internet).
ASF mode should start off with everything hidden but IE, Office, and MSN IM. The firewall should be a firewall beast that shits incoming port scans/requests to the depths of hell. To entertain these users, you could even have an animated popup gif anytime he protects the innocent plebe user of the beast performing said action.
Anyone that really wants a 2-4 gig mp3 player had it long before MS came out with their new player. Their software, no matter how great it is, really fails because there is nothing new and exciting about it. You can't tell someone that already has an iPod (the entire population of people that care about mp3 players), spend x$ on Zuma because it is from MS. Want to sell your product Microsoft? Get rid of the DRM and it will sell like hotcakes.
It is my understanding that Google employees are given around 25% of their time to research and develop new initiatives. If you are the type that enjoys taking on new tasks, coming up with new ideas, and are the inventor type of person, definitely go with Google. You really might find yourself making a difference if you came up with something new and impressive in this time, not to mention it is up to you to figure out what it is that you want to dedicate that time to. It is really hard to beat given free time for R&D and getting paid very well to do it. I do it in my spare time at home simply because I don't have time for it at work...
Couldn't any DVD that carries this protection claiming to be a full length feature film fall under bait and switch since it magnificently turns itself into a shiny 20$ paperweight? I mean they claim to give you a useable, watchable feature film but it ends up being unplayable in your DVD player...?
There is actually a prototype artillery shell that is directed via a ground team pointing a lazer at a target while GPS directs the shell. The big problems, which they have successfully circumvented, was pressure on the GPS tracking chip. The solution was a better outer shell. The artillery itself is directed by retractable fins that can actually fix a misfire of over 5 miles. It was accurate up to 10 feet radius, which for artillery is amazing.
Granted, oil is a commodity, but at a certain peak price other options will become available and necessary. At $100 a barrel, I'd expect to see some start-up companies and research at universities for alternative fuel sources, including hydrogen again. I'm not too scared to see oil prices spike, so long as it does it over around 10 years or more. Granted, life will suck ass during that time period, but afterwords everyone will come to whoever has the best alternative solutions, hopefull the US. That move in turn will cut the middle-east out of the loop all together. You think China wants to continue to support the middle-east any more than we do? They don't want anyone having nukes, and countries without money can't afford them.
Really, Java is not meant to be a string processing utility. It is honestly too slow with too much overhead for this type of functionality. Regex expressions were meant to be used in the occassional light occurrence of string processing in Java. If you are really needing some string processing, like over a large dataset, stick with something like Python which is based on C++. It is fast with some very cool tools, such as regex, dictionary use, etc. Even if you need a light GUI, you could always interlace some Python with TK.
The real goal of this type of advertising is not necessarily to get you to buy from them. Most of us, especially the computer savvy ones, would never buy from a popup add. But the simple fact is, we've seen them. We notice them, judging by the comments on/., which means the advertisers have done their job. They are getting a company's name and/or product out and NOTICED. Cingular and Netflix could make 0$ in sales from popups, but they certainly can claim they have been viewed by more users and more times due to this type of advertising. Coke doesn't put a purchasing phone number on their TV commercials (comparable to the ability to click on a popup directly to a sales site), yet plenty would say that Coke simply having commercials increases recognition and/or sales.
The real problem with this idea comes in with people who want access from rural locations or connecting cities across large distances. Who is going to pay the million bucks to get the wiring from the DFW area to Austin?
I hope Google catches the telcos with the same timing they took on Microft. Everyone was starting to get irritated with IE6, the Microsoft Monopoly, all of the little M$ gotchas. Then a savior, GOOGLE and open source! Hurrah!
Now they get the same opportunity. Telcos getting greedy, making front-page headlines on cnn, the Telco Trigopoly (or whatever), charging my ass 60 bucks a month for cable internet alone. Time for Google to step in again. Can't wait to see the telcos try to fend them off like M$.
The problem is that we, the people, paid for the network infrastructure through government subsidies. This wouldn't be too bad if other companies were allowed to piggyback on top of this infrastructure. Let's say Google says, "Screw paying ISPs, let's set up our own Internet infrastructure". Well, they have to start from the ground up and are not allowed to piggyback on the infrastructure paid for with US Tax dollars. This sets them way, way back on money and time, as well as slows down their ability to provide more, better content.
First off, the subsidized network that I have already paid for should not require 60$ a month for access. Second, there is no way in hell it should be able to be manipulated into a toll booth. What happens when a company like Amazon says, "OK, Fine. We'll pay, but we can only afford to pay 2 of the 3 large Telcos."? So I have Comcast, but Amazon paid for fast access through Verizon and Southwest? My content still gets slow as hell once it hit's Comcast, if they don't "accidentally" drop packets.
Comcast: 60$ A Month for low level broadband in Arlington, TX
I-net Infrastructure: Gazillion dollars by US Tax payers
Seeing greedy Telcos bend over the content providers you've already paid access too: Priceless.
I think the question their article fails to answer is how much Kw per hour they are capable of generating with a constant wind speed and a typical sized generator. The 2.5c per Kw hour might be a fantastic price, but if it takes 5 days to generate 1 Kw then it would just be an unusable apparatus.
The joke is on MS by continuously changing their features and protocols. You can only get the development system ripped out from under you so many times before you get pissed off and move to something stable. In example, anyone remember trying to port VB4 to VB6, or VB6 to VB.NET? It doesn't happen...
Open-source applications will keep catching up and surpassing MS because MS requires its developers to re-implement whatever they develop when MS changes its OS/Developer systems. We will see Vista cause the same problem. Sure, it will be backwards compatible. However, to take advantage of the new features, you must adhere to their new standards. It's always been the thorn in developer's sides with MS, and as long as Linux doesn't do that to us, MS will get left in the dust within the next few years.
...automobile enginners personally responsible for break failure...building architects personally responsible for a collapsing foundation
Poor software doesn't just belong to one developer or even a small team of developers, it involves a poor business structure. This includes a lack of source control, poor time constraints, lack of a testing environment, etc. This guy is clearly nuts.
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Is anyone else getting tired of sensationalist headlines? Granted, this is a bad thing. But this isn't banning social networking sites from Illinois, it is banning social networking sites from LIBRARIES in Illinois... Come on. /. does not need to pull the same shit as my 5PM news stations.
I've stopped buying CDs simply because I fear another rootkit fiasco. If they continue to add crazy DRM to DVDs, I'll stop buying DVDs in fear that my movie won't work in my home player. The sad thing is, I used to spend a grand or two on content per year. I spend maybe $100 a year now, but not because I wouldn't like to own the content. I refuse to pay to be treated like a criminal.
Your mancard has been deleted from the system. Have a nice day.
It isn't licensing fees. They organized it as an "investment" in the lable so that it is not profit/gross. Using this "investment" method, artists do not collect money out of the company gain. I would be surprised if the SEC didn't look into this questionable "investment".
It is a total screw over to any and all artists under the labels paid off.
Honestly, I believe that there should be a WC3 conference to contribute a single CA that makes its way onto all browsers. Give the WC3 CA site an automated system for generating certs, including an open API and then combine DNS registration protocals with the CA gen protocals. Publicly open the API, and charge small, if anything. This service is an easy one to implement. The real issue is getting browsers to add it to its automatically trusted CA list. I can create SSL at home, but I can't get browsers to add my home web onto the trusted CA list by default.
I know that just about anywhere that required me to give my fingerprint for purchasing their product and/or participating in their business would have a psychological effect on me. I'd just be looking for alternative locations to do business.
Here is the problem with Vista:
You two broad user groups:
1. Users who don't know how to find the information they want when they want it
2. Users who know how to find the info they want when they want it; and they don't want it otherwise
Vista caters to the first group (the larger percentage out there - which is a smart move), but they do it to such a point that they have completely alienated the advanced users, and are starting to get on the nerves of the intermediate ones. You know, the ones who no longer tell anyone they have a computer and can hack the world with it.
IMO MS should come with 2 modes: "advanced computer user" and "average stupid fuck"
Advanced should start off with showing file extensions, window's classic mode, never hiding system files, and Window's useless software firewall turned off (this last one because all of these folks have hardware firewalls and load virus protection before connecting to the internet).
ASF mode should start off with everything hidden but IE, Office, and MSN IM. The firewall should be a firewall beast that shits incoming port scans/requests to the depths of hell. To entertain these users, you could even have an animated popup gif anytime he protects the innocent plebe user of the beast performing said action.
And look, it comes with it's own porn.
Anyone that really wants a 2-4 gig mp3 player had it long before MS came out with their new player. Their software, no matter how great it is, really fails because there is nothing new and exciting about it. You can't tell someone that already has an iPod (the entire population of people that care about mp3 players), spend x$ on Zuma because it is from MS. Want to sell your product Microsoft? Get rid of the DRM and it will sell like hotcakes.
It is my understanding that Google employees are given around 25% of their time to research and develop new initiatives. If you are the type that enjoys taking on new tasks, coming up with new ideas, and are the inventor type of person, definitely go with Google. You really might find yourself making a difference if you came up with something new and impressive in this time, not to mention it is up to you to figure out what it is that you want to dedicate that time to. It is really hard to beat given free time for R&D and getting paid very well to do it. I do it in my spare time at home simply because I don't have time for it at work...
Couldn't any DVD that carries this protection claiming to be a full length feature film fall under bait and switch since it magnificently turns itself into a shiny 20$ paperweight? I mean they claim to give you a useable, watchable feature film but it ends up being unplayable in your DVD player...?
There is actually a prototype artillery shell that is directed via a ground team pointing a lazer at a target while GPS directs the shell. The big problems, which they have successfully circumvented, was pressure on the GPS tracking chip. The solution was a better outer shell. The artillery itself is directed by retractable fins that can actually fix a misfire of over 5 miles. It was accurate up to 10 feet radius, which for artillery is amazing.
I was watching this on the discovery channel.
Granted, oil is a commodity, but at a certain peak price other options will become available and necessary. At $100 a barrel, I'd expect to see some start-up companies and research at universities for alternative fuel sources, including hydrogen again. I'm not too scared to see oil prices spike, so long as it does it over around 10 years or more. Granted, life will suck ass during that time period, but afterwords everyone will come to whoever has the best alternative solutions, hopefull the US. That move in turn will cut the middle-east out of the loop all together. You think China wants to continue to support the middle-east any more than we do? They don't want anyone having nukes, and countries without money can't afford them.
It's a space station!
No, it's a really a moon. And it is reminding me about some the rotund bitches I've dated in my life... sad. Let's get the hyper-hell outta here.
=(
Really, Java is not meant to be a string processing utility. It is honestly too slow with too much overhead for this type of functionality. Regex expressions were meant to be used in the occassional light occurrence of string processing in Java. If you are really needing some string processing, like over a large dataset, stick with something like Python which is based on C++. It is fast with some very cool tools, such as regex, dictionary use, etc. Even if you need a light GUI, you could always interlace some Python with TK.
I wonder if it's requirements meet Vista's ungodly needs...
The real goal of this type of advertising is not necessarily to get you to buy from them. Most of us, especially the computer savvy ones, would never buy from a popup add. But the simple fact is, we've seen them. We notice them, judging by the comments on /., which means the advertisers have done their job. They are getting a company's name and/or product out and NOTICED. Cingular and Netflix could make 0$ in sales from popups, but they certainly can claim they have been viewed by more users and more times due to this type of advertising. Coke doesn't put a purchasing phone number on their TV commercials (comparable to the ability to click on a popup directly to a sales site), yet plenty would say that Coke simply having commercials increases recognition and/or sales.
And after a few hours of awake time, along with some asparin for the hangover, I realize I have made a complete jackass out of myself.
My eyes are no longer glazed and I even RTFA.
My bad.
The real problem with this idea comes in with people who want access from rural locations or connecting cities across large distances. Who is going to pay the million bucks to get the wiring from the DFW area to Austin?
I hope Google catches the telcos with the same timing they took on Microft. Everyone was starting to get irritated with IE6, the Microsoft Monopoly, all of the little M$ gotchas. Then a savior, GOOGLE and open source! Hurrah! Now they get the same opportunity. Telcos getting greedy, making front-page headlines on cnn, the Telco Trigopoly (or whatever), charging my ass 60 bucks a month for cable internet alone. Time for Google to step in again. Can't wait to see the telcos try to fend them off like M$.
The problem is that we, the people, paid for the network infrastructure through government subsidies. This wouldn't be too bad if other companies were allowed to piggyback on top of this infrastructure. Let's say Google says, "Screw paying ISPs, let's set up our own Internet infrastructure". Well, they have to start from the ground up and are not allowed to piggyback on the infrastructure paid for with US Tax dollars. This sets them way, way back on money and time, as well as slows down their ability to provide more, better content.
First off, the subsidized network that I have already paid for should not require 60$ a month for access. Second, there is no way in hell it should be able to be manipulated into a toll booth. What happens when a company like Amazon says, "OK, Fine. We'll pay, but we can only afford to pay 2 of the 3 large Telcos."? So I have Comcast, but Amazon paid for fast access through Verizon and Southwest? My content still gets slow as hell once it hit's Comcast, if they don't "accidentally" drop packets.
Comcast: 60$ A Month for low level broadband in Arlington, TX
I-net Infrastructure: Gazillion dollars by US Tax payers
Seeing greedy Telcos bend over the content providers you've already paid access too: Priceless.
I think the question their article fails to answer is how much Kw per hour they are capable of generating with a constant wind speed and a typical sized generator. The 2.5c per Kw hour might be a fantastic price, but if it takes 5 days to generate 1 Kw then it would just be an unusable apparatus.
So, can I plug my Nintendo 64 controller into my new XBox 360?
The joke is on MS by continuously changing their features and protocols. You can only get the development system ripped out from under you so many times before you get pissed off and move to something stable. In example, anyone remember trying to port VB4 to VB6, or VB6 to VB.NET? It doesn't happen... Open-source applications will keep catching up and surpassing MS because MS requires its developers to re-implement whatever they develop when MS changes its OS/Developer systems. We will see Vista cause the same problem. Sure, it will be backwards compatible. However, to take advantage of the new features, you must adhere to their new standards. It's always been the thorn in developer's sides with MS, and as long as Linux doesn't do that to us, MS will get left in the dust within the next few years.
...automobile enginners personally responsible for break failure ...building architects personally responsible for a collapsing foundation
Poor software doesn't just belong to one developer or even a small team of developers, it involves a poor business structure. This includes a lack of source control, poor time constraints, lack of a testing environment, etc. This guy is clearly nuts.