they want people be forced to stick to encyclopedia britannica and the like, which are sources of 'information' that are from companies which are controllable by big capital. wikipedia is not.
hence, first stuff about 'wikipedia going bankrupt' in order to turn it to a capital corporation, then exagerrated news about vandalism in order to prevent uncontrolled knowledge entry.
not so much out of sync with the anti net neutrality crowd.
assertion that Slashdot is full of Very Powerful People whose opinions will make or break the NBC site.
slashdot is actually full of people whose opinions made linux, and php, and the like, DESPITE fight-back from hulking dinosaurs like microsoft and the like.
it is not too far fetched to assume that with the resources these people have, they would be able to put out new things to rival anything nbc can put out.
Apparently you have no clue about php ?
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With php, code is seperated from the design, templates handling the visuals.
all major software like phpbb et al are like that.
you can make it so that not a single byte of code mingles with template if you wish.
php offers liberty on seperating content with the code. some do not, some do.
will not work with the present xbox games you have, will not work with the present tv you have. you have to buy at least $1500 worth LCD or Plasma to be able to play games with it. also, the new Xbox 360 Elite Live Family Special Business will be much slower in any operation than its predecessors, but rest assured you will have an easy mind knowing that copyrights of major companies are protected with it.
well, first of all, you seem to be assuming that what makes youtube are kids. this is a mistake in my opinion. creative content rarely comes out of 13 year olds.
and even if that was the case and nbc won this audience, what would be the result ? more kids watching nbc. and what advertisement can you serve these kids ? toys ?
and as for developers, getting paid does not make anything cool in developers' eyes. its not like developers get emotionally attached to the work they are bound to complete. not only that, but most of the time, they are 'told' to take on the project by the parent company (or whomever can order the it division to take care of it), and they take it as usual work, as always.
another major factor is free speech and reliability when it comes to that. think of google vs microsoft. think of how google fought u.s. government in order not to let them get ahold of their users' search data. remember that a lot of content posted in youtube might be found illegal by dinosaurs in many countries (like the recent video thing in turkey where youtube got banned). people can trust youtube (aka google now) not to snitch them to local or federal or international governments. however nbc is a big corporation, that has physical assets and interests in many countries in local scale, and rather snitch their users than to risk millions of $ of investment in that country.
it all comes down to a traditional bulking corporation versus a peoples' new trend corporation. who wins in that race ? the latter wins. only way for the former to be competitive is to transform itself to the latter.
you gotta understand the fact that whatever deemed is cool, is still going to be made with the hands of these people. and if something does not seem that cool to them, or not viable, will not get enough effort from these people. an unwilling bunch of development/implementation group adds up greatly to a project's end without success.
in the end, these are the carriers of the burden of technological world we are living in. or rather 'we'.
not to forget that majority, heck, all of these people are having multiple personalities within - still kids, and also adults at the same time.
ehh, there is that, and there will always be the former because while old geeks are becoming developers, programmers, sysadmins, enterpreneurs, webmasters, it staff somewhere, new generations are growing up in their mom's basement.
slashdot is something much more bigger than you think.
you are probably thinking that who are hanging out in slashdot are a bunch of long haired geeks in their mom's basement and half lit university labs. along with a couple of linux, ms and nasa junkies...
reality is that/. is the place where majority of people who build the web and tech world hang out - not excluding high level techies, executives, prominent tech pioneers, industry celebrities, very high profile personas, ages-old black & white hat hackers with long list of deeds behind them. ah, also a number of politicians.
not to mention countless hordes of developers & programmers, whose collective mind decides the fate of programming languages, numerous software and hardware products, and even ideas, for the future.
ever wondered why there are so many anonymous posts in slashdot ? only for trolling better ? afraid of persecution ?
Up to this day i have restrained myself from speaking like this, and even defended u.s. position saying that mistakes and mishaps can happen in democratic processes, however that really does it.
considering u.s. public voted the idiots who are behind all these charades into power, the bush & co, and considering there are still a goodly number of people who are supporting the party behind these, the republicans, it can be said that a GREAT deal of americans in united states are utterly and plainly STUPID.
my apologies to democrats, liberals, libertarians, hippies, techies and such, but i had to say this : you are living among a sea of STUPID people.
I dont remember an album that i ever bought or listened that had more than 2 (often 1 and a half) songs that i liked from the 10-12 songs it had.
they were just pushing us ten times the product we wanted to buy.
all industry should adapt for the new trend of people buying ONLY the track they like. that would also save the bands a lot of wasted creativity on creating crap songs to fill an album.
id rather not have a fully blown brutal exploitation industry on the works.
there are numerous ways to 'save the children'. not only that, but the number and percentage of children that were to be saved this way are negligibly low. you know as well as i do that these are for the aging generation.
and for that generation - they shouldnt have smoked for 30 years, and should have kept a healthy diet.
"A viacom representative earlier today has revealed that Viacom was the main driving force and innovator behind Internet. Representative also shed light on the misassumption that internet was an unlimited number of computers networked, saying that internet is in fact "a series of tubes".
Heaploads of cash paid to reviewers, games sent en masse to review magazines before they are out, and such.
you know the drill - its the usual marketing stuff. except, apparently nintendo does not do it anymore, but microsoft, and sony still play by the old rules.
And how is going to a court and being fried by sharky lawyers going to affect future psychology of the kid ?
as for turkey, you should know that many of the alleged violations are fabricated or unfounded.
there is a problem with international, but especially european human rights circles.
as they have not lived in any place other than europe generally, they seem to take whomever they meet in the same standards.
people have no reason to fabricate truth, or lie about anything in europe generally. however people in third world countries and countries like turkey, do.
first of all, many youth try to immigrate to any european country using the pretense that they were tortured in turkey. curiously this is a very easy way to haul oneself's arse to a european country. especially kurds utilize that excuse much, as embassies readily inclined to believe it sooner if a kurd says s/he has been tortured. whereas number of turks exploiting that excuse lower.
political groups of marxist origin, pkk and the like do much activity and fabrication in europe. unfortunately for the credibility of human rights cause, human rights activists believe these people without ever considering the fact that they are a marxist terrorist organization, or even checking the facts as to whether they are really correct. in the past even photos of turkish villagers who were killed by pkk were passed in europe as kurds being killed by the state military.
beatings do occur in turkey. however they are not systematic or planned as the reports suggest. turkish people are still a society that is more in line with middle eastern culture, and aggressive action unfortunately holds a great deal in this culture.
despite that fact, you would find it amazing that, due to recent laws, criminals are living their day.
because of the laws that eu have imposed upon turkey because of the clueless human rights groups, who think that every country in the world has a society like denmark, finland or sweden, but only states suppress people, now criminals do not ever go into prison when they commit a crime here.
if someone robs somewhere, he (generally he) is charged, and then court starts. for the duration of the court, he is not taken into prison - he is let go. due to that, many exploit this - some people commit up to 218 different robberies of different sizes before 1 year duration ends, and when their case is about to conclude in the court, they just vanish to another city.
another much worse problem due to clueless human rights understanding is that, "minors can not do offenses".
now we have kids and teenagers of age 6-13 in the streets, getting high on volatile spirits (by inhaling), and robbing people, and committing murder at times. the particular spirit they use to get high kills the parts of the brain related to social behaviour. after some time these kids lose understanding of what is civil, what is proper or not. they swarm you in 5-6 lots in the middle of foremost cities like istanbul, want a few dollars from you, and if you dont give it, or act a little aggressive - voila - you are stabbed in the midst of hundreds of people. people cant act, react to save you either - these kids, as said, have their social centers dead - they can just stab you in the eye for just saying "dont do it".
police takes them into child care centers - they run away. you cant lock them in prisons either, due to laws that were imposed by eu, supposedly for "human rights" with the pressure from related groups. they are just let go.
around at age 12, they are promoted to burglars by the now-dynamic street mafia. they start breaking into homes and stealing.
it has gone to such a level that, people are advised to "not to interfere, not to get out of bed, and act like they are sleeping" in case they sense that a burglar is in their home in the middle of the night.
because if you act, and in any way harm, wound the burglar, you are found guilt
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with an infinite storage, you could as well store negative numbers, 0 and positive numbers together.
Just whats the point of it ?
they want people be forced to stick to encyclopedia britannica and the like, which are sources of 'information' that are from companies which are controllable by big capital. wikipedia is not.
hence, first stuff about 'wikipedia going bankrupt' in order to turn it to a capital corporation, then exagerrated news about vandalism in order to prevent uncontrolled knowledge entry.
not so much out of sync with the anti net neutrality crowd.
hey - everyone is entitled to go flamy once in a while.
Just about that :
assertion that Slashdot is full of Very Powerful People whose opinions will make or break the NBC site.
slashdot is actually full of people whose opinions made linux, and php, and the like, DESPITE fight-back from hulking dinosaurs like microsoft and the like.
it is not too far fetched to assume that with the resources these people have, they would be able to put out new things to rival anything nbc can put out.
With php, code is seperated from the design, templates handling the visuals.
all major software like phpbb et al are like that.
you can make it so that not a single byte of code mingles with template if you wish.
php offers liberty on seperating content with the code. some do not, some do.
- price $3600
will not work with the present xbox games you have, will not work with the present tv you have. you have to buy at least $1500 worth LCD or Plasma to be able to play games with it. also, the new Xbox 360 Elite Live Family Special Business will be much slower in any operation than its predecessors, but rest assured you will have an easy mind knowing that copyrights of major companies are protected with it.
well, first of all, you seem to be assuming that what makes youtube are kids. this is a mistake in my opinion. creative content rarely comes out of 13 year olds.
and even if that was the case and nbc won this audience, what would be the result ? more kids watching nbc. and what advertisement can you serve these kids ? toys ?
and as for developers, getting paid does not make anything cool in developers' eyes. its not like developers get emotionally attached to the work they are bound to complete. not only that, but most of the time, they are 'told' to take on the project by the parent company (or whomever can order the it division to take care of it), and they take it as usual work, as always.
another major factor is free speech and reliability when it comes to that. think of google vs microsoft. think of how google fought u.s. government in order not to let them get ahold of their users' search data. remember that a lot of content posted in youtube might be found illegal by dinosaurs in many countries (like the recent video thing in turkey where youtube got banned). people can trust youtube (aka google now) not to snitch them to local or federal or international governments. however nbc is a big corporation, that has physical assets and interests in many countries in local scale, and rather snitch their users than to risk millions of $ of investment in that country.
it all comes down to a traditional bulking corporation versus a peoples' new trend corporation. who wins in that race ? the latter wins. only way for the former to be competitive is to transform itself to the latter.
We should post these EVERY RIAA story that is put on slashdot.
you gotta understand the fact that whatever deemed is cool, is still going to be made with the hands of these people. and if something does not seem that cool to them, or not viable, will not get enough effort from these people. an unwilling bunch of development/implementation group adds up greatly to a project's end without success.
in the end, these are the carriers of the burden of technological world we are living in. or rather 'we'.
not to forget that majority, heck, all of these people are having multiple personalities within - still kids, and also adults at the same time.
Mind-sockkingly biggerful !
Not only that, but it is 'enbiggening' morely day by days.
ehh, there is that, and there will always be the former because while old geeks are becoming developers, programmers, sysadmins, enterpreneurs, webmasters, it staff somewhere, new generations are growing up in their mom's basement.
the ones in "developersdevelopersdevelopers" ?
havent they all got a chair thrown towards them already ?
eheheheheehee. couldnt resist. sorry.
You gotta understand that maybe 3/4 of all these people (of who are non 17 yr olds) are people who did not, and will not ever grow up.
slashdot is something much more bigger than you think.
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/. is the place where majority of people who build the web and tech world hang out - not excluding high level techies, executives, prominent tech pioneers, industry celebrities, very high profile personas, ages-old black & white hat hackers with long list of deeds behind them. ah, also a number of politicians.
you are probably thinking that who are hanging out in slashdot are a bunch of long haired geeks in their mom's basement and half lit university labs. along with a couple of linux, ms and nasa junkies
reality is that
not to mention countless hordes of developers & programmers, whose collective mind decides the fate of programming languages, numerous software and hardware products, and even ideas, for the future.
ever wondered why there are so many anonymous posts in slashdot ? only for trolling better ? afraid of persecution ?
think again.
Up to this day i have restrained myself from speaking like this, and even defended u.s. position saying that mistakes and mishaps can happen in democratic processes, however that really does it.
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considering u.s. public voted the idiots who are behind all these charades into power, the bush & co, and considering there are still a goodly number of people who are supporting the party behind these, the republicans, it can be said that a GREAT deal of americans in united states are utterly and plainly STUPID.
my apologies to democrats, liberals, libertarians, hippies, techies and such, but i had to say this : you are living among a sea of STUPID people.
plainly stupid
I dont remember an album that i ever bought or listened that had more than 2 (often 1 and a half) songs that i liked from the 10-12 songs it had.
they were just pushing us ten times the product we wanted to buy.
all industry should adapt for the new trend of people buying ONLY the track they like. that would also save the bands a lot of wasted creativity on creating crap songs to fill an album.
id rather not have a fully blown brutal exploitation industry on the works.
there are numerous ways to 'save the children'. not only that, but the number and percentage of children that were to be saved this way are negligibly low. you know as well as i do that these are for the aging generation.
and for that generation - they shouldnt have smoked for 30 years, and should have kept a healthy diet.
So it has come to organ harvesting now - killing animals not only for their 'meat', but for their organs.
fucking brutal society.
"A viacom representative earlier today has revealed that Viacom was the main driving force and innovator behind Internet. Representative also shed light on the misassumption that internet was an unlimited number of computers networked, saying that internet is in fact "a series of tubes".
Anyone smell something here or am i mistaken ?
Heaploads of cash paid to reviewers, games sent en masse to review magazines before they are out, and such.
you know the drill - its the usual marketing stuff. except, apparently nintendo does not do it anymore, but microsoft, and sony still play by the old rules.
And how is going to a court and being fried by sharky lawyers going to affect future psychology of the kid ?
as for turkey, you should know that many of the alleged violations are fabricated or unfounded.
there is a problem with international, but especially european human rights circles.
as they have not lived in any place other than europe generally, they seem to take whomever they meet in the same standards.
people have no reason to fabricate truth, or lie about anything in europe generally. however people in third world countries and countries like turkey, do.
first of all, many youth try to immigrate to any european country using the pretense that they were tortured in turkey. curiously this is a very easy way to haul oneself's arse to a european country. especially kurds utilize that excuse much, as embassies readily inclined to believe it sooner if a kurd says s/he has been tortured. whereas number of turks exploiting that excuse lower.
political groups of marxist origin, pkk and the like do much activity and fabrication in europe. unfortunately for the credibility of human rights cause, human rights activists believe these people without ever considering the fact that they are a marxist terrorist organization, or even checking the facts as to whether they are really correct. in the past even photos of turkish villagers who were killed by pkk were passed in europe as kurds being killed by the state military.
beatings do occur in turkey. however they are not systematic or planned as the reports suggest. turkish people are still a society that is more in line with middle eastern culture, and aggressive action unfortunately holds a great deal in this culture.
despite that fact, you would find it amazing that, due to recent laws, criminals are living their day.
because of the laws that eu have imposed upon turkey because of the clueless human rights groups, who think that every country in the world has a society like denmark, finland or sweden, but only states suppress people, now criminals do not ever go into prison when they commit a crime here.
if someone robs somewhere, he (generally he) is charged, and then court starts. for the duration of the court, he is not taken into prison - he is let go. due to that, many exploit this - some people commit up to 218 different robberies of different sizes before 1 year duration ends, and when their case is about to conclude in the court, they just vanish to another city.
another much worse problem due to clueless human rights understanding is that, "minors can not do offenses".
now we have kids and teenagers of age 6-13 in the streets, getting high on volatile spirits (by inhaling), and robbing people, and committing murder at times. the particular spirit they use to get high kills the parts of the brain related to social behaviour. after some time these kids lose understanding of what is civil, what is proper or not. they swarm you in 5-6 lots in the middle of foremost cities like istanbul, want a few dollars from you, and if you dont give it, or act a little aggressive - voila - you are stabbed in the midst of hundreds of people. people cant act, react to save you either - these kids, as said, have their social centers dead - they can just stab you in the eye for just saying "dont do it".
police takes them into child care centers - they run away. you cant lock them in prisons either, due to laws that were imposed by eu, supposedly for "human rights" with the pressure from related groups. they are just let go.
around at age 12, they are promoted to burglars by the now-dynamic street mafia. they start breaking into homes and stealing.
it has gone to such a level that, people are advised to "not to interfere, not to get out of bed, and act like they are sleeping" in case they sense that a burglar is in their home in the middle of the night.
because if you act, and in any way harm, wound the burglar, you are found guilt
there is no legal opression of 10 year olds by established big buck companies here.