...tomorrow space will become the next place to host their data centers, and then they'll start colonizing worlds and start being referred to as "the company"
I've started an after-hours business with some friends and basically we've targeted restaurants and the hospitality industry to provide services for. A lot of places out there want a simple, well designed website and don't want to pay an arm and a leg, we charge about 1/4 of what the market charges because we get to pocket the lot and overhead costs are very minimal - we pay about $50/month for our hosting and will be moving to co-location from our homes in the near future.
basically the design for the site takes around 10-12 hours using GIMP, cutting it up and coding it in html/php should only take 8 hours, then you just need to add the content which should take no time at all. and you can net yourself a tidy little profit, plus ongoing profit if you host the sites yourself.
which is exactly why I went out and bought the Linux version of the Acer Aspire One even though it's got worse hardware than the Windows version... It chalks up another sale for Linux so that the douchebags running the company can see that there is a justifiable market for Linux PCs out there.
I have to agree with the parent... a polished turd is still a turd.
That said KDE was getting bloated as well, hence the reason for a ground-up rewrite of QT/KDE when they released KDE4... which, despite it's bugs is architecturally brilliant and once the kinks get ironed out it would be interesting to see if more distros would look at making the switch.
Red Hat has been far more focused on improving server side services, stuff that they get paid support fees for, they do invest some time into the desktop experience, but not nearly on the magnitude that Shuttleworth/Canonical are doing.
while vista is a steaming pile of shit... apple, nay any software distributor shouldn't be releasing software without first thoroughly testing it on all the "supported" platforms
the uberGeek. We should all aspire to be like that guy, he's worth millions but he chooses to give back to the community by paying for FOSS development out of his own pocket. Sure, Canonical is a business and I'm sure the publicity and improvements he's paying for will help get some more license fees, but the geek points he's scoring are worth so much more
"And since nowhere I've ever worked allowed IMs due to security reasons, I've never really used them"
at my workplace we use Spark: http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/spark/index.jsp
because the server is hosted on the intranet, so no real security issues and it's pretty damn handy for finding communicating across the office(s), much quicker responses than email.
and even if it was illegal... US law doesn't mean jackshit elsewhere in the world... something that SafeNet and RIAA/MPAA seem to be blissfully unaware of
Hopefully now these bastards will actually get prosecuted and shut down. the number of false positives they've turned up and RIAA (read: Sony/BMG/Universal/etc) have litigated is truly disturbing.
they did the same thing with the mormon "religion", if only they had the time to do it about all the crackpot cults out there people might actually get educated, don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with religion and faith... but when people start claiming that jesus was in america chatting with the native indians and that only one man is allowed to read from sacred scrolls, does it twice and gets variations in the story... or that we came here in spacecraft that look like dc10s... if it sounds like poorly written fiction, chances are it is.
I wonder how the news cartels will react to their copyrighted works being copied and put online... they've tried to sue google just for displaying content available on their sites and referenced from their sites with links...
compared to the millions of billions of gigalitres of water already in the sea... if all the ice on land melted and flooded into the sea it would be like adding a bucket of water to the swimming pool.
their products are all bloated with adware... and since when was copying an entire dvd difficult? dvdShrink takes all of 4 clicks to copy an entire dvd, menus and all, and two of those clicks are opening the shortcut on your desktop!
water expands when frozen, and 90% of an iceberg is below water... any flooding that occurs isn't going to be of the magnitude most people seem to be expecting... the amount of water in the sea will still be the same, just less of it will be frozen...
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just download the bittorent then re-encode it for whatever device you want to play it on. easy.
...tomorrow space will become the next place to host their data centers, and then they'll start colonizing worlds and start being referred to as "the company"
true, but I'm sure the folks on the bus would appreciate 2girls1cup a lot more with sound. It's much more tasteful with the audio cranked up.
I've started an after-hours business with some friends and basically we've targeted restaurants and the hospitality industry to provide services for. A lot of places out there want a simple, well designed website and don't want to pay an arm and a leg, we charge about 1/4 of what the market charges because we get to pocket the lot and overhead costs are very minimal - we pay about $50/month for our hosting and will be moving to co-location from our homes in the near future.
basically the design for the site takes around 10-12 hours using GIMP, cutting it up and coding it in html/php should only take 8 hours, then you just need to add the content which should take no time at all. and you can net yourself a tidy little profit, plus ongoing profit if you host the sites yourself.
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*whoosh*
can now get harassed to make savings on his long distance calls to his home planet
another religion being taught in schools...
which is exactly why I went out and bought the Linux version of the Acer Aspire One even though it's got worse hardware than the Windows version... It chalks up another sale for Linux so that the douchebags running the company can see that there is a justifiable market for Linux PCs out there.
I have to agree with the parent... a polished turd is still a turd. That said KDE was getting bloated as well, hence the reason for a ground-up rewrite of QT/KDE when they released KDE4... which, despite it's bugs is architecturally brilliant and once the kinks get ironed out it would be interesting to see if more distros would look at making the switch.
Red Hat has been far more focused on improving server side services, stuff that they get paid support fees for, they do invest some time into the desktop experience, but not nearly on the magnitude that Shuttleworth/Canonical are doing.
while vista is a steaming pile of shit... apple, nay any software distributor shouldn't be releasing software without first thoroughly testing it on all the "supported" platforms
the uberGeek. We should all aspire to be like that guy, he's worth millions but he chooses to give back to the community by paying for FOSS development out of his own pocket. Sure, Canonical is a business and I'm sure the publicity and improvements he's paying for will help get some more license fees, but the geek points he's scoring are worth so much more
**Geek points not redeemable for any cash value.
"And since nowhere I've ever worked allowed IMs due to security reasons, I've never really used them"
at my workplace we use Spark: http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/spark/index.jsp
because the server is hosted on the intranet, so no real security issues and it's pretty damn handy for finding communicating across the office(s), much quicker responses than email.
50% is being a bit generous isn't it, or did he only manage to get through primary school?
and even if it was illegal... US law doesn't mean jackshit elsewhere in the world... something that SafeNet and RIAA/MPAA seem to be blissfully unaware of
Hopefully now these bastards will actually get prosecuted and shut down. the number of false positives they've turned up and RIAA (read: Sony/BMG/Universal/etc) have litigated is truly disturbing.
conservation of momentum anyone?
why is it that people who "unintentionally" make a pun always have to draw attention to it? it's downright hypocritical(no pun intended)...
it's a kangaroo with suicidal tendencies, you see them dangling from gum-trees all the time.
they did the same thing with the mormon "religion", if only they had the time to do it about all the crackpot cults out there people might actually get educated, don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with religion and faith... but when people start claiming that jesus was in america chatting with the native indians and that only one man is allowed to read from sacred scrolls, does it twice and gets variations in the story... or that we came here in spacecraft that look like dc10s... if it sounds like poorly written fiction, chances are it is.
the entire car!!!
I'd rather lug around a 45kg battery pack than a 1.2tonne car, much better for your back.
I wonder how the news cartels will react to their copyrighted works being copied and put online... they've tried to sue google just for displaying content available on their sites and referenced from their sites with links...
compared to the millions of billions of gigalitres of water already in the sea... if all the ice on land melted and flooded into the sea it would be like adding a bucket of water to the swimming pool.
their products are all bloated with adware... and since when was copying an entire dvd difficult? dvdShrink takes all of 4 clicks to copy an entire dvd, menus and all, and two of those clicks are opening the shortcut on your desktop!
water expands when frozen, and 90% of an iceberg is below water... any flooding that occurs isn't going to be of the magnitude most people seem to be expecting... the amount of water in the sea will still be the same, just less of it will be frozen...