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I hereby propose (and invoke) Jenkins' Supplement to Godwin`s Law: any thread, given long enough or a wide participation base, will eventually include posts that blame/glorify the current administration, no matter the topic. While not damaging to the overall thread, it immediately disqualifies the poster from any rational conclusion.
(originally proposed and accepted on www.fark.com discussion boards)
Yes, it is an old example, and yes, it is simplistic-- but it is still very relevant: Betamax vs. VHS.
Sony had a superior quality format for videotape (betamax), but wouldn't share with anyone. Meanwhile, Panasonic, Philips, and others all got together and agreed on VHS format. Competition brought lower priced machines, and eventually VHS killed betamax for home use.
Microsoft is half-right: it is about choice-- but it must ALL be available for choice: the hardware, the OS, the apps, the data format. Only true, open standards under a GPL, LGPL, or other similar "free to evolve independent of any single vendor"-type license will work in the long run.
Is this evidence of the ascention of the "service" model over the "product" model for business? In other words, it seems that TiVo and others are realizing there is far more revenue to be had in providing a wide range of services rather than trying to get rich at $199 a peice for the hardware and a 1-year subscription.
Certainly-- if the loss of advertising revenue because of TiVo didn`t scare the cable companies, this new angle should: it is aimed directly at their throats (providing end-services to the customer). If TiVo succeeds, then cable will be relegated to a simple provider of digital feed-- a commodity that may come via cable, dish, or TVoIP. If I worked at TimeWarnerAOLComcast, I would be worried.
Is there a Tivo like device for normal FM or AM radio? I enjoy a few programmes on radio but not too many, and it would be a benefit to record these simply.
Yes. It`s called a "cassette tape recorder", and records the analog signals on small plastic "cassettes" that can be stored, transferred, or "dubbed" onto other cassettes.
Many units are integrated-- both radio and cassette "deck" into a single unit-- often refered to as a "boombox", for unkown reasons.
Bush hopes to spark renewed public interest in his re-election campaign.... It's campaign season, folks. I'd love to see it happen, but let's save the Huzzahs! until it actually does, hmm?
And thank $diety.pref that the USA is a Democratic Republic, where this desire for reelection makes the leader do what he thinks the masses want. Would you rather he build a network of palaces? How about some big-ass scimitars above Penn Ave?
Lighten up. Of course this is because of reelection-- that is a good thing.
hat way they can make decisions based on what they think is best, not what will increase their stock price the most next quarter.
Fortunately, those are one and the same most of the time. If a company cannot make money consistently, it will go out of business, and thus fail itself, its employees, investors, and customers.
If Google-- or any public company-- makes a mistake, its stock price will drop, middle managers will get fired, and the company will (hopefully) learn and do better.
Private companies often fall to the whims of the owner/executives, and no one can stop their madness or kooky schemes. Private companies are more apt to fail from poor execution because there is no check or balance (execs delude themselves that they know best).
It may confuse/distract/prevent some actions from happening. It may create some voice traffic and give them some information.
Agreed.
The most clear goal (attained or not), was to codify a standard set of escalations among every involved law enforcement and related agency. Every group could then exchange/legislate/codify its response for each level. Whether this has seeped into Buford T Justice`s brain is another problem...
I work in Tokyo, Seoul, and Hong Kong, and I have noticed an interesting trend: Asians (especially Japanese) pack their presentations with enourmous amounts of text, and very convoluted diagrams. In meetings, Asians tend to read through these laboriously heavy presentations, and the audience usually sleeps.
I have made presentations here and there for my Japanese and Korean audiences, and I have often been complimented afterwards on the brevity, clarity, and "to the point" quality of my slides.
I fully agree that presentations should not become policy, nor should they be treated as written documents-- sides are only there to outline and organize a verbal conversation and presentation.
On the other hand, Asians are amazed that I actually prepare 4-5 page (single-spaced) reports to accompany my presentations (I assume because they thought I would try to pack all that text into my presentation and then read it to them).
prices for thowing things into orbit will only come down when there is some straightforward competition. It is good to see more players in the field, and it is good to see various technologies tried-- I doubt this is the most efficient, but let them give it a shot.
Rocketry is yes-- rocket science-- but certainly within the grasp of "second tier" tech nations like China, India, Brazil, and Korea.
Digital, fine. I'm still convinced that Soupy Sales is running the networks here.
This still won't improve Japanese television much. All the shows come down to 4 types:
Simplistic travelogues to remote regions of Japan, where some little Tokyo cutiepie samples the local ramen, miso soup, and makes smirking comments about the funny accents when talking to some old man (NHK)
Two or three guys hanging around in some little bar, making snide comments about the girls they bring on the show, while idolizing their rice rockets (FujiTV)
Trivia game shows (with trivia so obscure that the shows _must_ be rigged) with the panel of stars (think matchgame 75 crossed with Jackpot)
Samurai weekly adventures on the level of "Gunsmoke" or "Rockford Files"
I would assume MAC addresses of the ethernet jacks/boards/whatever are being transmitted, no?
For a notebook-- this would be built-in, and probably tracable in the inventory. It would be pretty simple for the FBI to wait for a specific MAC address, trace the corresponding IP address, and then narrow it down to a router (now we have the neighborhood/village). It`s simple drive-around from there...
I rented a small office for that exact reason when I started out. Rent was $300/month, but it was nice for the following:
- work was work, and I could leave and go home. It forced me to actually work when I was in the office.
- human interaction is needed for my personality. Moreover, the office was downtown, which was good for human networking.
- the occasional customer would actually want to come and "see the operation". It didn't matter that the office was small, just that it existed.
I`ve been thinking about a way to introduce monetary disincentives for spam, and came up with the following scheme:
1. Individuals or corporations voluntarily register their `account` with some neutral registry (which we create).
2. Registrants then filter to only accept mail from others in that registry.
3a. Each you send an email to someone in this registry, you owe them $.01, which is recorded by the receiver when filtered or by the sender via bcc:registry.
3b. If you are not in the registry, you get an autoreply to register. Spammers would be loathe to join.
4. Your friend simply sends you replies to each of your email messages in order to "zero" your account with her (because you have both sent the same number of emails). The same would apply between two companies or domains, etc. At worst, you owe your friend $.10 or some small amount if you are sending more email than she is replying. (If things get way out of control one-way, then the reciever can place that sender on the `spammer` list at the registry.)
5.Bulk mail orgs, such as political groups, advertizers, etc, would be willing to pay the $.01 per email.
6. This would be completely voluntary and have nothing to do with the govt.
Somewhere, there's an open source developer who's just realized that his work is being used to the development of nuclear weapons. All jokes about derivative works aside, I think it's a good time to consider the implications of this.
Somewhere else, there's an open source developer who's just realized that his work is being used to power machines for Doctors without Borders, the Red Cross, a number of innercity churches and rec centers, and hospitals.
Yet somewhere else, there are soldiers testing out new battlefield computers that run open source, and those machines are more stable, which means more safe, which means one more son doesn't come home in a body bag.
Honestly, does that sand around your head taste good?
As long as our governments are only willing to enforce the laws that make them money, the problems that plague our society will continue.
*sigh* Your table is waiting, Mr Guevarra. Governments enforce the laws based on their percieved priority in keeping the population happy and general economic wellbeing. Laws that don't fit into this category are usually thrown out.
Seriously. Call up your local police office and report the 50 spams you got. Call the FBI. The FCC. The FTC. Call as many government offices as you care to until you're blue in the face. They all have some law that they should be enforcing that Spam breaks, but they're not interested.
Good. I would rather they concentrate on finding terrorists, burglars, rapists, counterfeiters, and embezzlers (note I didn't say pot-smokers). Here again, my taxes pay for the cops, and I want them working on shit that _really_ matters.
Fix the problem, people, not the symptom. If you elect some leaders that will actually enforce laws that make the average citizen's life better, Spam will go away, along with a litany of other problems just like it.
I see. so, enforcement will fix spam? how? what are these other problems that will magically go away when the cops start poking around?
That, or just keep voting for the same politicians that are in the pockets of the corporations, and these problems will persist.
Huh. So spam is a tool of major corporations and crooked special interests? I thought the article explained how it was a major cost burden to them. Or did you just want a place to grind your axe about post-industrial society and free trade?
Americans are only bashing the French because the Canadians haven't done much this year. I realize you've got separation anxiety from your usual Canadian Defense League, but don't worry-- you hockey-chucking pot-heads will think up something to get you back in first place soon enough.
No. "kedo" is a conversational article, much like "umm" or "uhh" meaning "but", but because this is a slashdot signature, common sense would tell us it should be read as a kotowaza, not a conversation fragment.
"da ga" is often used in written form (older) to note "in spite of the fact" in a short abbreviated way.
While the first half is a complete phrase, it is still only a phrase, hence "da" instead of "desu".
"De aru"? Wow, you almost got through 2nd year Japanese, eh?
Okay numbnuts, since you asked, and because Japanese is somewhat of a hobby for many slashdotters here...
1. "desu" is the formal way to end a sentence, both conversational and written.
2. "de aru" is an extreme formal form to say the same thing, often used in kotowaza or by Samurai (or manga characters trying to recall the samurai period).
3. I never took 2nd year Japanese. After returning to the United States from Japan, I skipped straight to 3rd year Japanese, and went on to complete my degree in Japanese Lit. I then interned in the Japanese Diet, and now run operations for a software firm in Japan. baka.
Feh. We`ve been hearing this same story about future Chinese domination since 1850, and China always comes up short:
- China is certainly making great strides in manufacturing, R&D, and IT, but this is only remarkable because they are starting from such a backwards position. Do you honestly think Chinese IT are going to beat Intel, HP, Motorola, IBM at advanced development? No. If anything, those US and EU companies will outsource some manufacturing to China.
- China, for obvious political bragging rites, is putting a man in orbit. This is aimed more at thumbing their nose at the Russians than the Americans: all those non-aligned and non-US puppets need an older brother to look to-- Beijing is telling them that they are the new hotness, Moscow is old and busted
- GDP per population is the guiding indicator for a reason: as governments must assume responsibilities and costs from their respective populations, the total income per population becomes important. China`s economy may grow rapidly for another 10 years straight, but the 1.2 BILLION people (mouths to feed) will always keep China in the permanent poorhouse.
- China`s military cannot project power. Hell, they cannot even take back an island right off their coast.
Governemnt interference with the market is bad. Huge subsidies that distort thetrade in agricultural products is bad, and it is killing Africa (literally).
Tariffs or other protectionism would not work-- what would we do? demand that XX% of code is written in North America?
The software sector is simply waking up to something that has happened to every other sector: as the segment matures, labor becomes portable, and therefore companies will seek the cheapest labor possible. Trying to stop this only costs consumers, and-- perversely-- the very segment they are trying to protect via regulation compliance costs, taxes, and loss of overseas marketshare.
You want a job? innovate. Become efficient. Figure out howto make money by "exploiting" all that cheap Chinese labor yourself. Find something that those rising Chinese and Indian middle-class consumers want.
If you want action from the government, demand that they stop supporting 19th century industries and that they demand open trade with other countries. Protectionism is going back.
Let me voice my opinion in/. terminology: Protectionism is proprietary; free trade is free.
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ooked up by creationists in the Bush administration
I hereby propose (and invoke) Jenkins' Supplement to Godwin`s Law: any thread, given long enough or a wide participation base, will eventually include posts that blame/glorify the current administration, no matter the topic. While not damaging to the overall thread, it immediately disqualifies the poster from any rational conclusion.
(originally proposed and accepted on www.fark.com discussion boards)
Yes, it is an old example, and yes, it is simplistic-- but it is still very relevant: Betamax vs. VHS.
Sony had a superior quality format for videotape (betamax), but wouldn't share with anyone. Meanwhile, Panasonic, Philips, and others all got together and agreed on VHS format. Competition brought lower priced machines, and eventually VHS killed betamax for home use.
Microsoft is half-right: it is about choice-- but it must ALL be available for choice: the hardware, the OS, the apps, the data format. Only true, open standards under a GPL, LGPL, or other similar "free to evolve independent of any single vendor"-type license will work in the long run.
Is this evidence of the ascention of the "service" model over the "product" model for business? In other words, it seems that TiVo and others are realizing there is far more revenue to be had in providing a wide range of services rather than trying to get rich at $199 a peice for the hardware and a 1-year subscription.
Certainly-- if the loss of advertising revenue because of TiVo didn`t scare the cable companies, this new angle should: it is aimed directly at their throats (providing end-services to the customer). If TiVo succeeds, then cable will be relegated to a simple provider of digital feed-- a commodity that may come via cable, dish, or TVoIP. If I worked at TimeWarnerAOLComcast, I would be worried.
Is there a Tivo like device for normal FM or AM radio? I enjoy a few programmes on radio but not too many, and it would be a benefit to record these simply.
Yes. It`s called a "cassette tape recorder", and records the analog signals on small plastic "cassettes" that can be stored, transferred, or "dubbed" onto other cassettes.
Many units are integrated-- both radio and cassette "deck" into a single unit-- often refered to as a "boombox", for unkown reasons.
Bush hopes to spark renewed public interest in his re-election campaign.... It's campaign season, folks. I'd love to see it happen, but let's save the Huzzahs! until it actually does, hmm?
And thank $diety.pref that the USA is a Democratic Republic, where this desire for reelection makes the leader do what he thinks the masses want. Would you rather he build a network of palaces? How about some big-ass scimitars above Penn Ave?
Lighten up. Of course this is because of reelection-- that is a good thing.
hat way they can make decisions based on what they think is best, not what will increase their stock price the most next quarter.
Fortunately, those are one and the same most of the time. If a company cannot make money consistently, it will go out of business, and thus fail itself, its employees, investors, and customers.
If Google-- or any public company-- makes a mistake, its stock price will drop, middle managers will get fired, and the company will (hopefully) learn and do better.
Private companies often fall to the whims of the owner/executives, and no one can stop their madness or kooky schemes. Private companies are more apt to fail from poor execution because there is no check or balance (execs delude themselves that they know best).
It may confuse/distract/prevent some actions from happening. It may create some voice traffic and give them some information.
Agreed.
The most clear goal (attained or not), was to codify a standard set of escalations among every involved law enforcement and related agency. Every group could then exchange/legislate/codify its response for each level. Whether this has seeped into Buford T Justice`s brain is another problem...
I work in Tokyo, Seoul, and Hong Kong, and I have noticed an interesting trend: Asians (especially Japanese) pack their presentations with enourmous amounts of text, and very convoluted diagrams. In meetings, Asians tend to read through these laboriously heavy presentations, and the audience usually sleeps.
I have made presentations here and there for my Japanese and Korean audiences, and I have often been complimented afterwards on the brevity, clarity, and "to the point" quality of my slides.
I fully agree that presentations should not become policy, nor should they be treated as written documents-- sides are only there to outline and organize a verbal conversation and presentation.
On the other hand, Asians are amazed that I actually prepare 4-5 page (single-spaced) reports to accompany my presentations (I assume because they thought I would try to pack all that text into my presentation and then read it to them).
prices for thowing things into orbit will only come down when there is some straightforward competition. It is good to see more players in the field, and it is good to see various technologies tried-- I doubt this is the most efficient, but let them give it a shot.
Rocketry is yes-- rocket science-- but certainly within the grasp of "second tier" tech nations like China, India, Brazil, and Korea.
This still won't improve Japanese television much. All the shows come down to 4 types:
I would assume MAC addresses of the ethernet jacks/boards/whatever are being transmitted, no?
For a notebook-- this would be built-in, and probably tracable in the inventory. It would be pretty simple for the FBI to wait for a specific MAC address, trace the corresponding IP address, and then narrow it down to a router (now we have the neighborhood/village). It`s simple drive-around from there...
I rented a small office for that exact reason when I started out. Rent was $300/month, but it was nice for the following:
- work was work, and I could leave and go home. It forced me to actually work when I was in the office.
- human interaction is needed for my personality. Moreover, the office was downtown, which was good for human networking.
- the occasional customer would actually want to come and "see the operation". It didn't matter that the office was small, just that it existed.
I`ve been thinking about a way to introduce monetary disincentives for spam, and came up with the following scheme:
1. Individuals or corporations voluntarily register their `account` with some neutral registry (which we create).
2. Registrants then filter to only accept mail from others in that registry.
3a. Each you send an email to someone in this registry, you owe them $.01, which is recorded by the receiver when filtered or by the sender via bcc:registry.
3b. If you are not in the registry, you get an autoreply to register. Spammers would be loathe to join.
4. Your friend simply sends you replies to each of your email messages in order to "zero" your account with her (because you have both sent the same number of emails). The same would apply between two companies or domains, etc. At worst, you owe your friend $.10 or some small amount if you are sending more email than she is replying. (If things get way out of control one-way, then the reciever can place that sender on the `spammer` list at the registry.)
5.Bulk mail orgs, such as political groups, advertizers, etc, would be willing to pay the $.01 per email.
6. This would be completely voluntary and have nothing to do with the govt.
Somewhere, there's an open source developer who's just realized that his work is being used to the development of nuclear weapons. All jokes about derivative works aside, I think it's a good time to consider the implications of this.
Somewhere else, there's an open source developer who's just realized that his work is being used to power machines for Doctors without Borders, the Red Cross, a number of innercity churches and rec centers, and hospitals.
Yet somewhere else, there are soldiers testing out new battlefield computers that run open source, and those machines are more stable, which means more safe, which means one more son doesn't come home in a body bag.
Honestly, does that sand around your head taste good?
What do OEMs contemplate?
So, everyone who wants a computer has one now, no new market there. Everyone who wants a laptop has one now, no new market there either... Now what?
Cell phones? nah-- not dependent on PCs, and hardware too disposable.
PDAs? Yea, we tried that, but market not really that big (mostly just businessman toy-mongers). We have some products there, and they are doing okay.
Hrmmmm... peripherals, peripherals....
I know! That iPod thingy is pretty cool. And Apple usually makes new markets pretty well! Let`s make an mp3 player!
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I would expect an mp3 player from Sony, Samsung, and maybe Hitachi. IBM and HP are too into the high-end server market to bother.
That seems like a lot of money just to find one little clown fish...
Did you contact Red Hat support withyour issues? I would think they would have helped you through your issues. Where did you buyyour support contract?
Do you apply the patches you get from Red Hat Network regularly?
As long as our governments are only willing to enforce the laws that make them money, the problems that plague our society will continue.
*sigh* Your table is waiting, Mr Guevarra. Governments enforce the laws based on their percieved priority in keeping the population happy and general economic wellbeing. Laws that don't fit into this category are usually thrown out.
Seriously. Call up your local police office and report the 50 spams you got. Call the FBI. The FCC. The FTC. Call as many government offices as you care to until you're blue in the face. They all have some law that they should be enforcing that Spam breaks, but they're not interested.
Good. I would rather they concentrate on finding terrorists, burglars, rapists, counterfeiters, and embezzlers (note I didn't say pot-smokers). Here again, my taxes pay for the cops, and I want them working on shit that _really_ matters.
Fix the problem, people, not the symptom. If you elect some leaders that will actually enforce laws that make the average citizen's life better, Spam will go away, along with a litany of other problems just like it.
I see. so, enforcement will fix spam? how? what are these other problems that will magically go away when the cops start poking around?
That, or just keep voting for the same politicians that are in the pockets of the corporations, and these problems will persist.
Huh. So spam is a tool of major corporations and crooked special interests? I thought the article explained how it was a major cost burden to them. Or did you just want a place to grind your axe about post-industrial society and free trade?
Americans are only bashing the French because the Canadians haven't done much this year. I realize you've got separation anxiety from your usual Canadian Defense League, but don't worry-- you hockey-chucking pot-heads will think up something to get you back in first place soon enough.
Oh, and don't bash me, I live in Japan.
Ga sounds odd in this context. Kedo is better.
No. "kedo" is a conversational article, much like "umm" or "uhh" meaning "but", but because this is a slashdot signature, common sense would tell us it should be read as a kotowaza, not a conversation fragment.
"da ga" is often used in written form (older) to note "in spite of the fact" in a short abbreviated way.
While the first half is a complete phrase, it is still only a phrase, hence "da" instead of "desu".
ask Gessel-sensei. He`ll vouch for me on this.
"De aru"? Wow, you almost got through 2nd year Japanese, eh?
Okay numbnuts, since you asked, and because Japanese is somewhat of a hobby for many slashdotters here...
1. "desu" is the formal way to end a sentence, both conversational and written.
2. "de aru" is an extreme formal form to say the same thing, often used in kotowaza or by Samurai (or manga characters trying to recall the samurai period).
3. I never took 2nd year Japanese. After returning to the United States from Japan, I skipped straight to 3rd year Japanese, and went on to complete my degree in Japanese Lit. I then interned in the Japanese Diet, and now run operations for a software firm in Japan. baka.
Tsuyoikoto ha taisetsu da ne, dakedo namida mo hitsuyousa
nice manga Japanese.
Try this instead:
Chikara ha taisetsu da ga, namida mo hitsuyou de aru.
Feh. We`ve been hearing this same story about future Chinese domination since 1850, and China always comes up short:
- China is certainly making great strides in manufacturing, R&D, and IT, but this is only remarkable because they are starting from such a backwards position. Do you honestly think Chinese IT are going to beat Intel, HP, Motorola, IBM at advanced development? No. If anything, those US and EU companies will outsource some manufacturing to China.
- China, for obvious political bragging rites, is putting a man in orbit. This is aimed more at thumbing their nose at the Russians than the Americans: all those non-aligned and non-US puppets need an older brother to look to-- Beijing is telling them that they are the new hotness, Moscow is old and busted
- GDP per population is the guiding indicator for a reason: as governments must assume responsibilities and costs from their respective populations, the total income per population becomes important. China`s economy may grow rapidly for another 10 years straight, but the 1.2 BILLION people (mouths to feed) will always keep China in the permanent poorhouse.
- China`s military cannot project power. Hell, they cannot even take back an island right off their coast.
Damn, I didn't know that software dev/other IT fields were 19th century industries.
They`re not. I was referring to the industries that the Gov`t DOES subsidize: agriculture and steel, both 19th century industries.
Governemnt interference with the market is bad. Huge subsidies that distort thetrade in agricultural products is bad, and it is killing Africa (literally).
/. terminology: Protectionism is proprietary; free trade is free.
Tariffs or other protectionism would not work-- what would we do? demand that XX% of code is written in North America?
The software sector is simply waking up to something that has happened to every other sector: as the segment matures, labor becomes portable, and therefore companies will seek the cheapest labor possible. Trying to stop this only costs consumers, and-- perversely-- the very segment they are trying to protect via regulation compliance costs, taxes, and loss of overseas marketshare.
You want a job? innovate. Become efficient. Figure out howto make money by "exploiting" all that cheap Chinese labor yourself. Find something that those rising Chinese and Indian middle-class consumers want.
If you want action from the government, demand that they stop supporting 19th century industries and that they demand open trade with other countries. Protectionism is going back.
Let me voice my opinion in