3 bits for continent, that's good for 8 continents, fair enough.
16 bits for nation, that's 256 nations per continent (we've already specified the continent) I'm not sure what continent has the most nations, but it's no where near 256.
24 for city, that's 16 million cities per nation - not likely. If applied to China, that would imply an average city population of 60 people.
48 bits for the individuals/companies?? I don't know how many that is, but it's about a billion billion billion times larger than the largest city. 27 bits would handle cities w/populations of 128 million, make it 30 and you've got enough for cities of a billion.
So, once again, Microsoft speaks, and millions of Open Source/Free Software geeks listen in rapt attention, then spend the next few days bitching about what was said.
Guys (and gals), listen to me: When you're paying attention to Mundie or Ballmer or Gates, and then bitching about how evil they are... You're not getting laid.
Can't you see? By holding these "talks" and issuing press releases, Microsoft's intent is to distract you from getting laid!
All that time you spent writing up a self-righteously indignant post to Slashdot, the time you spent checking your user profile to see if anyone replied to it or modded it up, that time you spent writing counter-replies, all that time you could have spent laying pipe is now lost. (And yes, by writing this post, I myself am guilty of that offense.)
Look, Microsoft's "Shared Wife" initiative has two primary purposes: To throw the Open Sex/Free Sex advocates into disarray, and to keep virgins from getting involved with Open Love/Free Love in the first place. The purpose behind this is to forestall any competition to Microsoft's.SEX buildout, which is going to require a gargantuan auditioning effort. Microsoft will have to get all the girls themselves, whereas a potential competitor may choose to leverage Open Sex/Free Sex works to get to market quicker. So naturally, Microsoft wants to scare as many people as possible away from OS/FS. The "Shared Wife" ploy also theoretically gets them free debugging expertise, a job they have traditionally been unable or unwilling to do themselves.
My advice (which is worth every cent you paid for it): Get Laid. Ignore them and get jiggy with it.
Jump on ICQ
I name ICQ since it's one of the best known, but there's no reason you can't go to AIM... er, IRC... er, MSN. Or the FSF's dating pages. Or any other site hosting Open Sex/Free Sex works.
Pick a girl
There are thousands of pieces of ass out there needing work. Some are sexier than others. Some are dull but have crucial skills or pieces of ass. Some don't exist at all, except in your imagination. Pick one.
Bust a nut.
Some consider the lack of a hymen to be a bug, so add one if you like. Either way, it'll improve the quality of the girl.
Microsoft is worried because a lot of the Open Sex/Free Sex alternatives are better than their own stuff. Where OS/FS alternatives fall short, they are rapidly catching up. Microsoft can make all the sophomoric remarks it wants about the GPL and Open Sex/Free Sex ("If you touch the GPL, your intellectual girls will get crabs! Ooo, icky!"). But at the end of the day, the reliability and quality of OS/FS projects will be the compelling factor that causes users, both business and casual, to migrate over to our girls. And that will happen only if the work is done to make the OS/FS projects better.
Personally, I can think of no more direct or effective rebuke to Mundie's "talk" than an audience full of people with laptops and 802.11b cards, deliberately and maliciously watching porn with their dates, while Mundie goes home alone.
Jump on ICQ. Pick a girl. Bust a nut.
And then when you've checked in your score, post about it here, so everyone can see the progress being made.
Back to the grind,
Schwab
Adobe should feel ashamed of its tactics, which resemble more the methods of the Gestapo, or a protection racket, than civilised society.
The "Good Cop, Bad Cop"® routine is a time honoured technique in politics, business, management, and sales in many a civilized society.
The only way to rid ourselves of tactics like these would be to change human pyschology such that it was no longer susceptible to them. Of course, in time, new tactics would spring up, because it seems it is always advantageous to control or persuade another.
I don't like it, but that just seems to be the way our brains or evolution works. So yea.. good luck.
1) If you don't like McDonalds, you can go somewhere else. If you don't like RIAA, you're stuck.
2) Similar problem, all contracts offered by record companies to bands will be similar in the magnitude of the raping, and you have no where else to go except give it away.
But I would agree that a good start to a solution would be convincing people not to sign away their lives and their music and be proud of the more modest rewards accorded smaller scale promotion distribution, internet and what not.
ahh but if 90% of the people get them on line, then there won't *be* a physical line for you or anyone else who won't submit to ms, to wait in. They'll close up shop & make you buy a new pc & a legal OS of course.
If
shareholders could lose more than just their investment, and worse yet, be held criminally liable for behavior over which they had no control,
then there would be a terrible disincentive for investing and our financial system would come to a screeching halt.
No it wouldn't, it would just be different. People would take investments in public companies much more seriously than they do now. Sure, our financial system might be less of a 1000mph roller coaster if people were worried about liability, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
In any case, the whole point to granting limited liability is the idea that the corporation is serving the public good. It's a tradeoff, similiar to the way we grant poor starving artists 1 billion year monopolies on their work, all possible derrivitives of their work, brain wave patterns indicating thought about the artists work in return for their creative.... oh uh.. nevermind.
If we aren't going to police corporations and their aims, and we allow them to exist with no justification save for making their shareholders rich, then why should they still enjoy limited liablity?
If
shareholders could lose more than just their investment, and worse yet, be held criminally liable for behavior over which they had no control,
then there would be a terrible disincentive for investing and our financial system would come to a screeching halt.
No it wouldn't, it would just be different. People would take investments in public companies much more seriously than they do now. Sure, our financial system might be less of a 1000mph roller coaster if people were worried about liability, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
If I am considering becoming a partner in a private business, you can be damn sure I will want to know if any thing close to criminal behaviour has gone in with the business, who my partners are and what their past is like, etc. etc. And all that even though I'll still enjoy limited liabilty
Actually, they had a very sound busines model. MANY companies have been quite successful at generating a substantial amount of revenue
using subscription models similar to Eazel.
The problem with manned missions is that they can, in the case of an accident, be a huge PR loss for NASA. And bad PR means further cuts in
funding (the US public will ask itself, why spend millions to send people to their deaths when it could be spent looking for cures for our heart
conditions?).
But we already have cures for our heart conditions:
Get off the couch.
Use your legs once in a while.
Eat less KFC/MCD etc.
Eat more fruits & vegetables.
There, your heart condition is cured, let's go to mars.:)
exactly. RIAA is *a* business. Why is it, that when I want to buy cell phone service, I have 4 or 5 different busineses to choose from? When I want to buy a car, I have my choice of a handful of large companies and a few handfuls of smaller ones.
Why is it that when I want to buy music I must deal with either The One True Record Cartel/Company or an independant. Why don't the individual big record co.'s compete with one another on price? Isn't it called price fixing when they don't? I'm pretty sure they don't.
Creating a CD is almost 400% lower than making a cassette yet CD's are more expensive for some unknown reason.
I thought only my PHB made math errors like this. Never thought I'd see it on/. Oh well..
If this is the case, then not only is CD manufacture cheaper than tapes, but in actuality, you get paid 300% of the cost of a tape for each CD. (price = 100% - 400% = -300% - perhaps you meant, "cost 25% of the cost of tapes" or "cost 75% less than.." etc etc)
This math flame has been brought to you by the numbers 4, 25, and the symbol %.
cygwin is great - my life got a little better when I installed in on our NT machine @ work. I put perl on as well and could do things impossible otherwise.
I have no sympathy for the crooks running Napster, the idea you can build a billion dollar business helping people rip off everyone else in the
music business is one extreeme of the debate.
huh? Billion dollar business? What business? Napster didn't charge for anything and ads, as we all know, are a joke. I suppose it's possible that they thought they might one day become a billion dollar business, but I don't think they ever really thought about how they might get there.
What napster is/was, is high profile & well financed, i.e. a lot of dumb people "invested" a lot of dumb money.
It can be worse however. My boss, noticing my replies to his messages included his quoted text with interpersed comments (old school usenet style) asked how to do this. Like a fool, I showed him how to quote in the reply & nothing else. Now he sends out quoted replies to everyone with his text in ALL CAPS interpersed WITHIN the text of the quote, like this:
When hell froze over, Joe said this:
> So anyways, I think we should move forward
> with the motion to delinearate the business
> process. I WILL GREEN LITE THIS JOE As soon as
> we can make this happen...
Radio has a high entry cost because of an artifical scarcity of licenses. Open up the licenses and bingo - no entry barrier. Of course, existing stations will cry that with too many licenses, no one will make any money, but that's the argument that got us to this deplorable state, so I think it's time for a change.
I wish it wasn't true, but in Canada the makers of many kinds of blank media (cds/tapes, not sure about vhs) do charge a levy that supposedly goes to compensate for piracy.. Not sure who actually gets it though or how they know what one pirates..
Slashdot Mirror
ok..
3 bits for continent, that's good for 8 continents, fair enough.
16 bits for nation, that's 256 nations per continent (we've already specified the continent) I'm not sure what continent has the most nations, but it's no where near 256.
24 for city, that's 16 million cities per nation - not likely. If applied to China, that would imply an average city population of 60 people.
48 bits for the individuals/companies?? I don't know how many that is, but it's about a billion billion billion times larger than the largest city. 27 bits would handle cities w/populations of 128 million, make it 30 and you've got enough for cities of a billion.
So, once again, Microsoft speaks, and millions of Open Source/Free Software geeks listen in rapt attention, then spend the next few days bitching about what was said. Guys (and gals), listen to me: When you're paying attention to Mundie or Ballmer or Gates, and then bitching about how evil they are... You're not getting laid. Can't you see? By holding these "talks" and issuing press releases, Microsoft's intent is to distract you from getting laid! All that time you spent writing up a self-righteously indignant post to Slashdot, the time you spent checking your user profile to see if anyone replied to it or modded it up, that time you spent writing counter-replies, all that time you could have spent laying pipe is now lost. (And yes, by writing this post, I myself am guilty of that offense.) Look, Microsoft's "Shared Wife" initiative has two primary purposes: To throw the Open Sex/Free Sex advocates into disarray, and to keep virgins from getting involved with Open Love/Free Love in the first place. The purpose behind this is to forestall any competition to Microsoft's .SEX buildout, which is going to require a gargantuan auditioning effort. Microsoft will have to get all the girls themselves, whereas a potential competitor may choose to leverage Open Sex/Free Sex works to get to market quicker. So naturally, Microsoft wants to scare as many people as possible away from OS/FS. The "Shared Wife" ploy also theoretically gets them free debugging expertise, a job they have traditionally been unable or unwilling to do themselves.
My advice (which is worth every cent you paid for it): Get Laid. Ignore them and get jiggy with it.
Jump on ICQ
I name ICQ since it's one of the best known, but there's no reason you can't go to AIM... er, IRC... er, MSN. Or the FSF's dating pages. Or any other site hosting Open Sex/Free Sex works.
Pick a girl
There are thousands of pieces of ass out there needing work. Some are sexier than others. Some are dull but have crucial skills or pieces of ass. Some don't exist at all, except in your imagination. Pick one.
Bust a nut.
Some consider the lack of a hymen to be a bug, so add one if you like. Either way, it'll improve the quality of the girl.
Microsoft is worried because a lot of the Open Sex/Free Sex alternatives are better than their own stuff. Where OS/FS alternatives fall short, they are rapidly catching up. Microsoft can make all the sophomoric remarks it wants about the GPL and Open Sex/Free Sex ("If you touch the GPL, your intellectual girls will get crabs! Ooo, icky!"). But at the end of the day, the reliability and quality of OS/FS projects will be the compelling factor that causes users, both business and casual, to migrate over to our girls. And that will happen only if the work is done to make the OS/FS projects better.
Personally, I can think of no more direct or effective rebuke to Mundie's "talk" than an audience full of people with laptops and 802.11b cards, deliberately and maliciously watching porn with their dates, while Mundie goes home alone.
Jump on ICQ. Pick a girl. Bust a nut.
And then when you've checked in your score, post about it here, so everyone can see the progress being made.
Back to the grind,
Schwab
No, tech support.
The "Good Cop, Bad Cop"® routine is a time honoured technique in politics, business, management, and sales in many a civilized society.
The only way to rid ourselves of tactics like these would be to change human pyschology such that it was no longer susceptible to them. Of course, in time, new tactics would spring up, because it seems it is always advantageous to control or persuade another.
I don't like it, but that just seems to be the way our brains or evolution works. So yea.. good luck.
King Kong of Kernels
Hackers love you, and create
Rootkits internal.
Just one Q:
If you're seeing how things really work, why did you buy your son action figures?
i.e. don't make the net her babysitter. If she's going to surf the net, surf it with her.
Good example except:
1) If you don't like McDonalds, you can go somewhere else. If you don't like RIAA, you're stuck.
2) Similar problem, all contracts offered by record companies to bands will be similar in the magnitude of the raping, and you have no where else to go except give it away.
But I would agree that a good start to a solution would be convincing people not to sign away their lives and their music and be proud of the more modest rewards accorded smaller scale promotion distribution, internet and what not.
ahh but if 90% of the people get them on line, then there won't *be* a physical line for you or anyone else who won't submit to ms, to wait in. They'll close up shop & make you buy a new pc & a legal OS of course.
Individuals have a right to the pursuit of happiness, which may include the pursuit of profit, but no one has to "right" to succeed in that pursuit.
If shareholders could lose more than just their investment, and worse yet, be held criminally liable for behavior over which they had no control, then there would be a terrible disincentive for investing and our financial system would come to a screeching halt.
No it wouldn't, it would just be different. People would take investments in public companies much more seriously than they do now. Sure, our financial system might be less of a 1000mph roller coaster if people were worried about liability, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
In any case, the whole point to granting limited liability is the idea that the corporation is serving the public good. It's a tradeoff, similiar to the way we grant poor starving artists 1 billion year monopolies on their work, all possible derrivitives of their work, brain wave patterns indicating thought about the artists work in return for their creative.... oh uh.. nevermind.
If we aren't going to police corporations and their aims, and we allow them to exist with no justification save for making their shareholders rich, then why should they still enjoy limited liablity?
No it wouldn't, it would just be different. People would take investments in public companies much more seriously than they do now. Sure, our financial system might be less of a 1000mph roller coaster if people were worried about liability, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. If I am considering becoming a partner in a private business, you can be damn sure I will want to know if any thing close to criminal behaviour has gone in with the business, who my partners are and what their past is like, etc. etc. And all that even though I'll still enjoy limited liabilty
Name one.
But we already have cures for our heart conditions:
Get off the couch.
Use your legs once in a while.
Eat less KFC/MCD etc.
Eat more fruits & vegetables.
There, your heart condition is cured, let's go to mars. :)
The secret to happiness is not getting what you want, it's wanting what you get.
much better.
Happiness is not getting what you want, Happiness is wanting what you get.
exactly. RIAA is *a* business. Why is it, that when I want to buy cell phone service, I have 4 or 5 different busineses to choose from? When I want to buy a car, I have my choice of a handful of large companies and a few handfuls of smaller ones.
Why is it that when I want to buy music I must deal with either The One True Record Cartel/Company or an independant. Why don't the individual big record co.'s compete with one another on price? Isn't it called price fixing when they don't? I'm pretty sure they don't.
I thought only my PHB made math errors like this. Never thought I'd see it on /. Oh well..
If this is the case, then not only is CD manufacture cheaper than tapes, but in actuality, you get paid 300% of the cost of a tape for each CD. (price = 100% - 400% = -300% - perhaps you meant, "cost 25% of the cost of tapes" or "cost 75% less than.." etc etc)
This math flame has been brought to you by the numbers 4, 25, and the symbol %.
cygwin is great - my life got a little better when I installed in on our NT machine @ work. I put perl on as well and could do things impossible otherwise.
Agreed.
.. that was easy :)
I second the motion.
Any objections?
All say, "Aye"
There
I have no sympathy for the crooks running Napster, the idea you can build a billion dollar business helping people rip off everyone else in the music business is one extreeme of the debate.
huh? Billion dollar business? What business? Napster didn't charge for anything and ads, as we all know, are a joke. I suppose it's possible that they thought they might one day become a billion dollar business, but I don't think they ever really thought about how they might get there.
What napster is/was, is high profile & well financed, i.e. a lot of dumb people "invested" a lot of dumb money.
Billion dollar business my ass.
God, I would like to second Tackhead's motion.
..
It can be worse however. My boss, noticing my replies to his messages included his quoted text with interpersed comments (old school usenet style) asked how to do this. Like a fool, I showed him how to quote in the reply & nothing else. Now he sends out quoted replies to everyone with his text in ALL CAPS interpersed WITHIN the text of the quote, like this:
When hell froze over, Joe said this:
> So anyways, I think we should move forward
> with the motion to delinearate the business
> process. I WILL GREEN LITE THIS JOE As soon as
> we can make this happen...
Fuckin annoying
Bullshit.
Radio has a high entry cost because of an artifical scarcity of licenses. Open up the licenses and bingo - no entry barrier. Of course, existing stations will cry that with too many licenses, no one will make any money, but that's the argument that got us to this deplorable state, so I think it's time for a change.
I wish it wasn't true, but in Canada the makers of many kinds of blank media (cds/tapes, not sure about vhs) do charge a levy that supposedly goes to compensate for piracy.. Not sure who actually gets it though or how they know what one pirates..
... and nobody uses seatbelts anyways, hence highway fatalities, so they'd never go near a 5 point harness...