I expect to see that kind of amateur, fact evading, OMYGOD hair-on-fire hysteria from WIRED. I don't just not expect to see it on/., I expect to NOT see it on/.
Where you been last few years, you foo!
It's now an unwritten requirement that all Slashdot stories should be bent into the group think and should end with cheap speculation.
Literally I've witnessed plenty of times the same story covered accurately in Firehose, and another which is skewed and speculative. The latter wins every single time.
Shock, Horror: Company tries to do something new and doesn't deliver on time. The sky *is* falling, yes ? I mean, it looks like it's still up there, but that's an illusion, right ?
Shock, Horror: A Shock, Horror post on Slashdot!
The interesting observation here is, for Slashdot, the glass is always % empty, never % full.
EA released 4 of the 6 promised games on Mac recently. We don't get news on that, instead we get news how they "broke their promise" to deliver the last 2 games on time. Let's laugh at EA.
I know I don't. It really doesn't matter if Blu-Ray or HD-DVD wins out in the end
Well, funny thing is, if this continues, neither will. The movie market is quite unlike the game console market. Exclusives for a format means consumers will buy either hybrids that play both formats, or nothing.
In a game console you're expected to buy 2-3 great games and maybe 7-8 average games, and play those for years. For a movie player, if 30% of your favorite movies aren't available to you never mind which HD format you pick... well then you pick the older universally compatible format.
Compatibility rules in everything, first and foremost.
I an not sure really what the point is, I guess I am just venting out of frustration. Also adding some information to anyone interested similar work I had done, showing this isn't a new idea.
I put $100,000 Cash and almost 2 years worth of work into this and got nothing, no one was even interested.
I'm not sure why the frustration. I'm sure multi-core was not just your original idea. If you're in the industry you know that:
1. IT is rich on ideas, poor on implementation. 2. Marketing a product is just as (if not more) important than making a product. 3. Most businesses fail in the first 5 years. And this one may be no exception. They didn't exactly enjoy massive success just yet. They got few crappy articles and landed Slashdot. Kind of hard for a hardware company to cash in on that alone.
There design really looks like it was lifted straight off my paper. So I guess at least I am exposing some plagiarisms.
You don't expose plagiarism by venting frustration on Slashdot: where are your patents. How's there guarantee you're the originator, and how's there guarantee they *stole* your work versus reinvent it independently, which happens often with technology that's in a boom (i.e. multi-core designs). There's a reason the patent system exists, forget the grab you read here about patents on Slashdot.
Yea, I say, we got it the best way over here, and we gotta feed freedom down the worlds throat I think.
Not just spam proxies, we must, and it's our sacred mission, to shoot, bomb and nuke proxies their way. They must be really happy we think about their good for 'em, so they don't have to.
He seems to think that Opera is fast. My experience has been that although Opera renders more accurately than Firefox (1.5.0.2), Opera is a lot slower.
If only it mattered how fast Firefox is. Since when you open few more tabs in it, it'll instantly become ultra slow or hang mid-action while waiting for who-knows-what, while no other browser (safari, ie, opera) does this.
As a heavy Firefox/Opera user I can tell you, the overall experience in Firefox is sluggish at best.
This reminds me of my reaction to Linux on PCs about 15 years ago - I had a choice of UnixWare (from Novell) or Linux, and thought that Linux was very incomplete and wouldn't go anywhere. Today, UnixWare is almost dead, and many of the surviving Unixes are open source (the BSDs, Solaris, Darwin,...) due to the success of Linux on the server.
Yes, the best choice isn't a constant in time. As things change, so does your best choice. It doesn't mean we should try and guess how things will be far forward and use products that will be only usable 15 years in the future.
It would be hard for the Microsoft camp to spin ten times as many ODF documents added as OOXML documents, especially since 34% of those new documents were added on Microsoft.com.
Man, relative comparison really makes this sound tough for Microsoft. 10x more ODF! 34% on Microsoft! If only we could skip the part with the absolute numbers, where it turns out this is about mere several thousands of documents found on the web (of either format).
Congratulations on the self-referring sarcasm about the spin though.
Apparently no spin is hard enough for either Microsoft or the FOSS fanatics.
We're not saying he shouldn't be allowed to block firefox users - we're just saying he's a massive dumbass with a broken business model.
He's apparently not out of business, so his business model isn't broken.
I always find it funny to see qualifications like "massive dumbass with a broken business model". So who's the authority here - the massive dumbasses with no business model at all?
You know, like, for example a bunch of Slashdotters ranting how if a site should allow people to block its ads, but the site owners shouldn't be allowed to block Firefox users.
You could argue if it makes sense to just block Firefox users. Nope, it makes no (much) sense, but then site owners have the right to do whatever the hell they want. If they block Firefox, they lose the Firefox users.
Firefox users aren't any more entitled to see a site than the site owners are entitled to force ads our throats.
The Speed movie is quite unfortunate. Month or two and again the poor movie is the root cause of some present day disaster.
I'm instead old fashioned. In a time where everything that we are, needs to have some external source we can blame for our faults, I say: well, many people are simply stupid. Plain old stupid. This is why they believed Speed in the first place.
... I really, really don't know what words can be used to describe what I just read. Really. I don't. September 11th and Nazi gold jokes are bad enough, but is the world really ready for a movie featuring Dave Foley scratching his fully exposed balls?
It's like that in USA, you gotta get used to it. Grand theft auto, a game about killing cops and stealing cars. But what pulled it out of the stores? A hidden texture of a nude woman that could be enabled with a third party patch.
The entire reason for this article being on Slashdot escapes me. But if anything, it just proves once more that Uwe's bashers are much sadder than Uwe himself.
I,Robot, Transformers, all the comic book movies lately..... When is the movie industry going stop pissing all over my childhood?
Don't watch the movie. Easy enough. It's not your childhood, it's a show some completely unrelated people to you wrote, created and aired. The fact you watched it, doesn't make you any more entitled to talk about "pissing all over my childhood" than any random guy out there.
I just hope, however, that watching a silly cartoon isn't the best thing you ever did as a kid, otherwise you pissed all over your own childhood.
Thanks for the intelligent contribution and rebutal excellent work, I'll be sure to look out for your clever posts in future.
Why should I bother. I don't explain deeply philosophical things to my cat, it wouldn't get it anyway. If it scratches the wrong piece of furniture, I just kick it while still on the crime scene, and it knows better next time.
Not sure where morals or ethics are involved. If I buy something for one price (even if that price is $0), and the price rises, I don't see why I should be prevented from selling it at the higher price. Obviously, to be legal, I would have to delete any copies that I may have of the mp3 after I sell it.
Don't forget that whether you can sell it depends on the license you agreed to when you purchased your LICENSE to use the provided mp3.
It's a tired topic for me to re-iterate, but damn, people seem to keep ignoring it.
I've always dreamed about being a bikini and bra model. But because I'm a man, the industry is treating my unfairly, and I could never work in my field, and any attempt was met with cruel ridicule and attacks.
Where are the articles for coping with that, huh:( ?
If you were establishing a new government today, which would you prefer? Capitalism or a centralized economy?
I personally - aspects of both. Running a country at maximum efficiency is complex. No single rule works everywhere. And even when you setup just the right balance, in 5 years the right balance will be elsewhere. So it's complex. Which doesn't mean politicians are very smart, many of them have no clue what they're doing.
Of course I wouldn't limit people to buy cars and apartments if they want to, but centralized economy if done properly has this strange property of lowering crime and fraud, since there's less incentive to have plenty of money, and there are better social services.
I was under the impression, there was limits on what people could buy in China. A chinese class mate was telling me how you would get slips, that would authorize you the ability to buy 1 computer. But you were limited on how many or what you could buy. So even if you were rich, it wasn't like you could go down to the store and buy 10 computers for a home cluster. Anyone know more on this?
In a capitalism, when stock is limited, prices go up and demand gets lower. In a centralized economy they put you on queue and first-in gets first served. So for some property, yes, you gotta prove you need what you buy (from the bigger stuff, cars, apartments, and in the past computers, I don't know about presently), since the prices are sub-market and the stock is limited.
But China today isn't so black-and-white in terms of the economy model. It's a weird mixture of capitalism and communism.
Plus, this limitation of purchase applies to a person though, not companies. Companies still exist in China and they can make clustered servers for their business without troubles, trust me.
Even if you don't have encrypted transfer, session cookies can be easily secured by associating them with a certain IP address. The attacker who captures the cookies has a differnt IP address so the cookie is rejected as invalid.
AOL dial-up which is relatively popular in USA (yea..) does this. Every request is on a different IP. Which is why many people don't do this.
It gets complex: you can not apply this fix to IP-ranges on AOL you know are used for dial-up. I also check the exact user agent string, of course this is fakeable, but better than nothing.
I'm always bothered when I read articles like this because I know the Slashdot party line is always "File sharing good, fuck the content creators". I get upset because I think of my little brother, who's basically been screwed by piracy.
My little brother has a band. The music is quite good. The band is quite popular locally. It's so popular, in fact, that people bootleg their music and share it across the internet.
At first they were quite happy about this. They were reaching a much larger audience. Surely these people will come to their concerts and buy their CDs if they like the music (at least, that's what Slashdot always says will happen).
However, it didn't. Turns out (from conversations with their fans on their message board) that no one wants to buy their music. They like it, but hwy buy the music when fans can download every one of their albums for free online?
Did your brother bother making it easy to buy his music? Is it available on eMusic, iTunes, on his own band site (does he have one, what is it?). Does he advertise his art online and does he sell signed CD-s on his live performances?
Making money as an artist is a lot, lot more than making good art.
Of course, Pirate Byran's hypocricy is astounding - they're building very hot business around content piracy. Apparently if everyone shared their ideology, the very content they make money off wouldn't have existed, or would be easily accessible via other channels. They would be broke then.
But my post isn't about those losers, its about your brother who you believe has the automatic right to profit from making good music, and if he doesn't, it's others to blame. Art is a business like any else, the moment you want to profit from it. Same rules apply. Nothing works magically in business.
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I expect to see that kind of amateur, fact evading, OMYGOD hair-on-fire hysteria from WIRED. I don't just not expect to see it on /., I expect to NOT see it on /.
Where you been last few years, you foo!
It's now an unwritten requirement that all Slashdot stories should be bent into the group think and should end with cheap speculation.
Literally I've witnessed plenty of times the same story covered accurately in Firehose, and another which is skewed and speculative. The latter wins every single time.
Shock, Horror: Company tries to do something new and doesn't deliver on time. The sky *is* falling, yes ? I mean, it looks like it's still up there, but that's an illusion, right ?
Shock, Horror: A Shock, Horror post on Slashdot!
The interesting observation here is, for Slashdot, the glass is always % empty, never % full.
EA released 4 of the 6 promised games on Mac recently. We don't get news on that, instead we get news how they "broke their promise" to deliver the last 2 games on time. Let's laugh at EA.
I know I don't. It really doesn't matter if Blu-Ray or HD-DVD wins out in the end
Well, funny thing is, if this continues, neither will. The movie market is quite unlike the game console market. Exclusives for a format means consumers will buy either hybrids that play both formats, or nothing.
In a game console you're expected to buy 2-3 great games and maybe 7-8 average games, and play those for years. For a movie player, if 30% of your favorite movies aren't available to you never mind which HD format you pick... well then you pick the older universally compatible format.
Compatibility rules in everything, first and foremost.
I an not sure really what the point is, I guess I am just venting out of frustration. Also adding some information to anyone interested similar work I had done, showing this isn't a new idea.
I put $100,000 Cash and almost 2 years worth of work into this and got nothing, no one was even interested.
I'm not sure why the frustration. I'm sure multi-core was not just your original idea. If you're in the industry you know that:
1. IT is rich on ideas, poor on implementation.
2. Marketing a product is just as (if not more) important than making a product.
3. Most businesses fail in the first 5 years. And this one may be no exception. They didn't exactly enjoy massive success just yet. They got few crappy articles and landed Slashdot. Kind of hard for a hardware company to cash in on that alone.
There design really looks like it was lifted straight off my paper. So I guess at least I am exposing some plagiarisms.
You don't expose plagiarism by venting frustration on Slashdot: where are your patents. How's there guarantee you're the originator, and how's there guarantee they *stole* your work versus reinvent it independently, which happens often with technology that's in a boom (i.e. multi-core designs). There's a reason the patent system exists, forget the grab you read here about patents on Slashdot.
Yea, I say, we got it the best way over here, and we gotta feed freedom down the worlds throat I think.
Not just spam proxies, we must, and it's our sacred mission, to shoot, bomb and nuke proxies their way. They must be really happy we think about their good for 'em, so they don't have to.
He seems to think that Opera is fast. My experience has been that although Opera renders more accurately than Firefox (1.5.0.2), Opera is a lot slower.
If only it mattered how fast Firefox is. Since when you open few more tabs in it, it'll instantly become ultra slow or hang mid-action while waiting for who-knows-what, while no other browser (safari, ie, opera) does this.
As a heavy Firefox/Opera user I can tell you, the overall experience in Firefox is sluggish at best.
This reminds me of my reaction to Linux on PCs about 15 years ago - I had a choice of UnixWare (from Novell) or Linux, and thought that Linux was very incomplete and wouldn't go anywhere. Today, UnixWare is almost dead, and many of the surviving Unixes are open source (the BSDs, Solaris, Darwin, ...) due to the success of Linux on the server.
Yes, the best choice isn't a constant in time. As things change, so does your best choice. It doesn't mean we should try and guess how things will be far forward and use products that will be only usable 15 years in the future.
It would be hard for the Microsoft camp to spin ten times as many ODF documents added as OOXML documents, especially since 34% of those new documents were added on Microsoft.com.
Man, relative comparison really makes this sound tough for Microsoft. 10x more ODF! 34% on Microsoft!
If only we could skip the part with the absolute numbers, where it turns out this is about mere several thousands of documents found on the web (of either format).
Congratulations on the self-referring sarcasm about the spin though.
Apparently no spin is hard enough for either Microsoft or the FOSS fanatics.
We're not saying he shouldn't be allowed to block firefox users - we're just saying he's a massive dumbass with a broken business model.
He's apparently not out of business, so his business model isn't broken.
I always find it funny to see qualifications like "massive dumbass with a broken business model". So who's the authority here - the massive dumbasses with no business model at all?
RSH: Rampant Slashdot Hypocrisy.
You know, like, for example a bunch of Slashdotters ranting how if a site should allow people to block its ads, but the site owners shouldn't be allowed to block Firefox users.
You could argue if it makes sense to just block Firefox users. Nope, it makes no (much) sense, but then site owners have the right to do whatever the hell they want. If they block Firefox, they lose the Firefox users.
Firefox users aren't any more entitled to see a site than the site owners are entitled to force ads our throats.
The Speed movie is quite unfortunate. Month or two and again the poor movie is the root cause of some present day disaster.
I'm instead old fashioned. In a time where everything that we are, needs to have some external source we can blame for our faults, I say: well, many people are simply stupid. Plain old stupid. This is why they believed Speed in the first place.
Why is it so difficult to get?
I ask the same thing: why is it so difficult to get, they just don't care.
Maybe the right question is: if they fixed it, would it bring more banner impressions.
... I really, really don't know what words can be used to describe what I just read. Really. I don't. September 11th and Nazi gold jokes are bad enough, but is the world really ready for a movie featuring Dave Foley scratching his fully exposed balls?
It's like that in USA, you gotta get used to it. Grand theft auto, a game about killing cops and stealing cars. But what pulled it out of the stores? A hidden texture of a nude woman that could be enabled with a third party patch.
The entire reason for this article being on Slashdot escapes me. But if anything, it just proves once more that Uwe's bashers are much sadder than Uwe himself.
Double standard means judging the same action by two subjects in a different way.
We have here judging opposite actions by two different subjects in an opposite way. It's not a double standard.
I,Robot, Transformers, all the comic book movies lately.. ... When is the movie industry going stop pissing all over my childhood?
Don't watch the movie. Easy enough. It's not your childhood, it's a show some completely unrelated people to you wrote, created and aired. The fact you watched it, doesn't make you any more entitled to talk about "pissing all over my childhood" than any random guy out there.
I just hope, however, that watching a silly cartoon isn't the best thing you ever did as a kid, otherwise you pissed all over your own childhood.
Thanks for the intelligent contribution and rebutal excellent work, I'll be sure to look out for your clever posts in future.
Why should I bother. I don't explain deeply philosophical things to my cat, it wouldn't get it anyway. If it scratches the wrong piece of furniture, I just kick it while still on the crime scene, and it knows better next time.
I thought I'd go for the same here.
I think I'll puke now..
Not sure where morals or ethics are involved. If I buy something for one price (even if that price is $0), and the price rises, I don't see why I should be prevented from selling it at the higher price. Obviously, to be legal, I would have to delete any copies that I may have of the mp3 after I sell it.
Don't forget that whether you can sell it depends on the license you agreed to when you purchased your LICENSE to use the provided mp3.
It's a tired topic for me to re-iterate, but damn, people seem to keep ignoring it.
It's hardly coincidental that coffee and tea caught on in Europe just as the first factories were bringing in the industrial revolution.
That, AND they found Megatron burried in the ice around that time.
I've always dreamed about being a bikini and bra model. But because I'm a man, the industry is treating my unfairly, and I could never work in my field, and any attempt was met with cruel ridicule and attacks.
:( ?
Where are the articles for coping with that, huh
I can drop a single drop of alcohol on your gear lever, and your car won't run for hours never mind what you do.
Enjoy.
If you were establishing a new government today, which would you prefer? Capitalism or a centralized economy?
I personally - aspects of both. Running a country at maximum efficiency is complex. No single rule works everywhere. And even when you setup just the right balance, in 5 years the right balance will be elsewhere. So it's complex. Which doesn't mean politicians are very smart, many of them have no clue what they're doing.
Of course I wouldn't limit people to buy cars and apartments if they want to, but centralized economy if done properly has this strange property of lowering crime and fraud, since there's less incentive to have plenty of money, and there are better social services.
I was under the impression, there was limits on what people could buy in China. A chinese class mate was telling me how you would get slips, that would authorize you the ability to buy 1 computer. But you were limited on how many or what you could buy. So even if you were rich, it wasn't like you could go down to the store and buy 10 computers for a home cluster. Anyone know more on this?
In a capitalism, when stock is limited, prices go up and demand gets lower. In a centralized economy they put you on queue and first-in gets first served. So for some property, yes, you gotta prove you need what you buy (from the bigger stuff, cars, apartments, and in the past computers, I don't know about presently), since the prices are sub-market and the stock is limited.
But China today isn't so black-and-white in terms of the economy model. It's a weird mixture of capitalism and communism.
Plus, this limitation of purchase applies to a person though, not companies. Companies still exist in China and they can make clustered servers for their business without troubles, trust me.
Even if you don't have encrypted transfer, session cookies can be easily secured by associating them with a certain IP address. The attacker who captures the cookies has a differnt IP address so the cookie is rejected as invalid.
AOL dial-up which is relatively popular in USA (yea..) does this. Every request is on a different IP. Which is why many people don't do this.
It gets complex: you can not apply this fix to IP-ranges on AOL you know are used for dial-up. I also check the exact user agent string, of course this is fakeable, but better than nothing.
I'm always bothered when I read articles like this because I know the Slashdot party line is always "File sharing good, fuck the content creators". I get upset because I think of my little brother, who's basically been screwed by piracy.
My little brother has a band. The music is quite good. The band is quite popular locally. It's so popular, in fact, that people bootleg their music and share it across the internet.
At first they were quite happy about this. They were reaching a much larger audience. Surely these people will come to their concerts and buy their CDs if they like the music (at least, that's what Slashdot always says will happen).
However, it didn't. Turns out (from conversations with their fans on their message board) that no one wants to buy their music. They like it, but hwy buy the music when fans can download every one of their albums for free online?
Did your brother bother making it easy to buy his music? Is it available on eMusic, iTunes, on his own band site (does he have one, what is it?). Does he advertise his art online and does he sell signed CD-s on his live performances?
Making money as an artist is a lot, lot more than making good art.
Of course, Pirate Byran's hypocricy is astounding - they're building very hot business around content piracy. Apparently if everyone shared their ideology, the very content they make money off wouldn't have existed, or would be easily accessible via other channels. They would be broke then.
But my post isn't about those losers, its about your brother who you believe has the automatic right to profit from making good music, and if he doesn't, it's others to blame. Art is a business like any else, the moment you want to profit from it. Same rules apply. Nothing works magically in business.