Too successful? At what? Giving away bandwidth and disk space?
MP3.com desperately needed to get rid of the crap. Allowing people to freely upload music wasn't a good idea- you get a lot of crap that nobody cares about, including the person who uploaded it.
Maybe charging $50/year would have cut the 80% of music that was such crap.
I don't think it belonged to us at MP3.com.. I think they are throwing them in from some other account. MP3.com was leasing a Jeep Cherokee for a while, that was the only 'company vehicle'.
I dunno what Pootie is/was. Behind that rack are probably some Rimage CD burners. DAM CDs anyone?
"this thing" is just an artsy piece. I always snickered, because it looks like a condom. The silver stuff is a stretchy fabric. It doesn't go up and down, even though it looks like it might.
"this stuff". Heh. I don't know whose office that was. Those desks are really cool- the two sections are adjustable. There's a crank so you can bump them up and down.
The rocket ship is from the College Tour, where Goo Goo Dolls showed their reliance on ProTools.
MP3.com died because they lacked a solid business plan.
I can understand that, and I'm sure he's got a lot of good points.
I think the best resource for jobs is friends and 'networking associates'. They tend to know about jobs in their workplace before it becomes public, so you can be an early applicant, at the very least.
C'mon, look at the context. The name of the site is asktheheadhunter.com. Whose interests do they have in mind?
Also, more obvious, is the job market isn't what it used to be. Sure, it's harder to get a job now than it was a few years ago. But that doesn't mean that monster and the like aren't useful.
Now if netglen said "I compared Monster to my local papers' classifieds, and to the headhunters, and got a better response rate from the headhunters", that would be useful. Maybe netglen doesn't have any marketable skills. That doesn't mean monster isn't helpful.
The experience of myself and others I know is that job boards are better than headhunters, worse than going directly to a company's website. Most of us won't even talk to headhunters- they overpromise and overhype. Now that's irony, because that's what they say about the job boards.
This is a crack? I mean, if you count the cap'n crunch as a crack, sure. But I don't consider tilting a bottle of soda a crack. It seems more like social engineering.
-ted, waiting for the inevitable replies about "who cares if they require you to register!" and "big companies are evil!" and "who cares if it isn't goatse!"
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Yeah, it was MUCH harder to read the display back in the day of black-on-black displays. I'm really glad someone had the idea of creating a black-on-white display.
One of MP3.com's major problems (besides no promising revenue stream) was quality control. If you allow anyone to upload tracks, you get a lot of crap. The bar really should have been raised from the onset.
Another problem was an illusion that if you simply uploaded to MP3.com, you'd be rich. MP3.com was just a vehicle for the music, not a marketing machine. The popular artists on MP3.com were great marketers, or knew how to game the system.
Trusonic is pretty cool. They are an offshoot of MP3.com (before MP3 died and the domain name was sold to cnet) called "Retail Music Services". They used to use small, rugged PCs with a couple of audio output jacks, running Linux. They probably have something better now, but it was cool to see Linux boxes at the back of businesses.
euro-centric? Are we talking about the same book? The majority of the book talks about studies of the pacific islanders. If anything, he's trying hard *not* to be euro-centric.
Also, what quantifies "internet use"? For this study, I'm assuming that means time spent in front of a web browser. Does ssh'ing into a linux box halfway across the world count? What if it's across the same city? What if it's under my desk?
Does checking email count? What if I download my email and read it offline? What if I print out my email and then read it? (no, I don't do this, but I know execs that do)
What if I'm at my computer, playing nethack, but I'm signed into Trillian?
So do internet users read more, or do readers watch less TV?
What a surprise. Some people want more intellectual stimulation than TV provides. Not that South Park and the Daily Show aren't intellectual, but they aren't exactly on the same level as Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel".
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Too successful? At what? Giving away bandwidth and disk space?
MP3.com desperately needed to get rid of the crap. Allowing people to freely upload music wasn't a good idea- you get a lot of crap that nobody cares about, including the person who uploaded it.
Maybe charging $50/year would have cut the 80% of music that was such crap.
I don't think it belonged to us at MP3.com.. I think they are throwing them in from some other account. MP3.com was leasing a Jeep Cherokee for a while, that was the only 'company vehicle'.
-ted, mppp 7/99-1/03
I dunno what Pootie is/was. Behind that rack are probably some Rimage CD burners. DAM CDs anyone?
"this thing" is just an artsy piece. I always snickered, because it looks like a condom. The silver stuff is a stretchy fabric. It doesn't go up and down, even though it looks like it might.
"this stuff". Heh. I don't know whose office that was. Those desks are really cool- the two sections are adjustable. There's a crank so you can bump them up and down.
The rocket ship is from the College Tour, where Goo Goo Dolls showed their reliance on ProTools.
MP3.com died because they lacked a solid business plan.
-ted, at mppp from July 99 to Jan 03.
I can understand that, and I'm sure he's got a lot of good points.
I think the best resource for jobs is friends and 'networking associates'. They tend to know about jobs in their workplace before it becomes public, so you can be an early applicant, at the very least.
C'mon, look at the context. The name of the site is asktheheadhunter.com. Whose interests do they have in mind?
Also, more obvious, is the job market isn't what it used to be. Sure, it's harder to get a job now than it was a few years ago. But that doesn't mean that monster and the like aren't useful.
Now if netglen said "I compared Monster to my local papers' classifieds, and to the headhunters, and got a better response rate from the headhunters", that would be useful. Maybe netglen doesn't have any marketable skills. That doesn't mean monster isn't helpful.
The experience of myself and others I know is that job boards are better than headhunters, worse than going directly to a company's website. Most of us won't even talk to headhunters- they overpromise and overhype. Now that's irony, because that's what they say about the job boards.
You're right, cheat is a much better word for it.
I meant that it is more similar to social engineering than it is to a crack.
This is a crack? I mean, if you count the cap'n crunch as a crack, sure. But I don't consider tilting a bottle of soda a crack. It seems more like social engineering.
And don't forget Marc Majcher's nytview page. It works well if you RTFM.
-ted, waiting for the inevitable replies about "who cares if they require you to register!" and "big companies are evil!" and "who cares if it isn't goatse!"
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No affiliate tags are used above. But here's the amazon link with my tag, if you feel generous.
Yeah, it was MUCH harder to read the display back in the day of black-on-black displays. I'm really glad someone had the idea of creating a black-on-white display.
One of MP3.com's major problems (besides no promising revenue stream) was quality control. If you allow anyone to upload tracks, you get a lot of crap. The bar really should have been raised from the onset.
Another problem was an illusion that if you simply uploaded to MP3.com, you'd be rich. MP3.com was just a vehicle for the music, not a marketing machine. The popular artists on MP3.com were great marketers, or knew how to game the system.
-ted
Glad to hear people appreciated it! I was one of the peons that worked on engineering the CD-R production. It was a fun operation.
-ted
Trusonic is pretty cool. They are an offshoot of MP3.com (before MP3 died and the domain name was sold to cnet) called "Retail Music Services". They used to use small, rugged PCs with a couple of audio output jacks, running Linux. They probably have something better now, but it was cool to see Linux boxes at the back of businesses.
-ted
euro-centric? Are we talking about the same book? The majority of the book talks about studies of the pacific islanders. If anything, he's trying hard *not* to be euro-centric.
Also, what quantifies "internet use"? For this study, I'm assuming that means time spent in front of a web browser. Does ssh'ing into a linux box halfway across the world count? What if it's across the same city? What if it's under my desk?
Does checking email count? What if I download my email and read it offline? What if I print out my email and then read it? (no, I don't do this, but I know execs that do)
What if I'm at my computer, playing nethack, but I'm signed into Trillian?
So do internet users read more, or do readers watch less TV?
What a surprise. Some people want more intellectual stimulation than TV provides. Not that South Park and the Daily Show aren't intellectual, but they aren't exactly on the same level as Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel".
Good god. You are only one internet outage away from winning a Darwin Award.
And yet it's still 3 seconds slower than HTML. Plus HTML flows to my screen size, among other things.
I emailed the moderators, and it looks like they've added it.
Thanks to google, here's the HTML version of the PDF.
Sure, karma whoring, but who wants to load a PDF? At least I didn't post a MS Word version of it!
-ted
Who is pam, and what did she have to do with openssh?
-ted
So I've had a couple of ideas of how we could express our displeasure in this:
* a cron entry that runs every minute or two, and hits port 80 on verisign's webserver farm.
* infrequent ping- like 1 every 30 seconds
With enough people, this would becomre more than an annoyance. But I'm looking for better ideas. Anyone? Bueller?
-ted
-1 point, multiple question marks.
-2 points, combining bold and italics.
-2 points, high strung
Total: -5 points, LUG member living in Mom's basement.
More of my rant:
http://www.mailtown.org/geeklog/article.php?story= 20030814144536624
-ted