However, I was thinking of putting up open documents like this: docs.google.com/blah so you could see where I'd got to and put me right if I was going off track (as it were). Good idea? Bad idea?
Putting this stuff on google is like asking the NSA to host wikileaks
You missed some more!
googleapis
simplifydigital
guim
llnwd
ophan
ytimg
youtube
quantserve
wunderloop
revsci
cogmatch
imrworldwide
I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to de-dupe the above list (e.g. quantserve Vs quantcast and ytimg Vs youtube) and decide for themselves which ones are innocuous.
I didn't even bother to let any of them run any javascript to discover what else they might try to sneak in. I'm also willing to bet I missed something.
You have to love the "obfuscation" and attempts to get past blocking, from the simple noscript web-bugs to
document.write('<scr' + 'ipt type="text/javascript"
You may have reduced their revenue, but have you reduced their profit? The costs associated with digital distribution should be trivial compared to pressing, shipping, warehousing, picking and delivery. End result being that even with a huge drop in revenue the industry could still be making more profit then ever. When deciding if they need to cut more jobs they won't be basing it on revenue but on their bottom line.
Or in other words, lies, damn lies and statistics, no need to argue with them over the statistic they pick to best suit their arguments.
It's not wasting your vote, it's just using your vote to influence future elections rather then the one you are voting on right then. Each extra vote for an "unlikely" candidate makes it that much more likely that the next election will see more backing for other candidates, or simply modify the behaviour of the candidates who see the extra votes to be won.
I say this from a country where I enjoy never having to contemplate this as we have multi-seat transferable votes. I usually have to spend a while ranking anywhere from 10-20 candidates for 5 seats. I invariably end up starting with the pleasure of trying to pick which piece of scum deserves the bottom ranking the most this time round. I enjoy watching the count results just to see how many piles my vote has moved through before it reaches one of the candidates left in at the final round where it is ultimately "counted".
3. Embrace Linux - if some person makes their generations Tetris, Myst/HyperCard, bird game - the PR glow is a net positive - give the game away with every unit shipped/sold game and be nice to the team/person who used your product to show it to the world. Support them.
I think they would have to do something like make a >$100m donation to the FSF and put >$10b in some sort of FSF approved escrow before that strategy will get them anywhere. If they announced Linux support on the PS4 I would imagine that any positive noises would be drowned out by a million people crying out something along the lines of "fool me once
If they try this, I hope that the first journalist who is in the presence of a Sony representative making any claims about Linux support has a copy of the email from Sony around the time of the Slim release which proclaimed
SCE is committed to continue the support for previously sold models that have the "Install Other OS" feature and that this feature will not be disabled in future firmware releases
That mail was sent 40 days before they announced they were disabling OtherOS or 42 days before Sony Fools Day when they actually released the "update" to do so. I'd hope the journalist would simply ask "you do know today isn't April 1st right?" unless of course it is, in which case they can just crack up laughing and promise "to write a great piece about how Sony has a sense of humour and won't be allowing any other OS on their consoles after learning their lesson when they lied to their customers the last time".
Released in 1983
Obviously the above list is far from comprehensive and biased by the idiot who plucked thoe above from the various lists, but I'm sure you get the idea. You might also notice I was slightly biased towards early (and final) works of an artist/series as I wonder how many of these might have seen a renewed interest in the rest of their catalogue now if these initial works were entering the Public Domain.
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