Yes this will get people to sign up. It will get people to sign up accounts that will get nothing but spam sent to them to go for the big account. All that will be left 6 months from now are tens of thousands of accounts that were abbandoned that are getting hundreds of megs a month of spam sent too them...
Ah yes, I understand, this, I was saying download one of the many FREE and available go games that have been around for 5+ years, that all ready have a huge, strong community, and one that has been developed on for many years.
Most of these sites offer "free online poker". what you have to do is you sit for 30-60 seconds while you see ad's and you get to continue playing for free. Simple solution. while waiting for this period require the person to "prove" their still in front of the computer, require them to type in a code or something that requires them to authenicate before they move to the next round.
What will this do?
It will require each member to authenicate every time the round is over, normally 5-10 minutes, this would make it not worth trying to run bots on these sites, it would also increase revenue from the ad's because people will have to be in front of the pc to authenicate to move to the next match.
And if people dont like it then maybe they shouldnt play poker online for free.
I call B.S. on this.
You are right there is costs on the OS, and yes they wont make money by offering the OS for free.
They will make money by selling their PC's with their brand, or another for the shear fact that most hardware manufactures are not just in the hardware business anymore.
Naturally the costs will jump heavlly developing and supporting the os, but we have allways seen this happen, its mostly been in the server side of computing, but I belive this will change over time.
Examples.
IBM allways been writing software, allways into hardware, big jumps into linux the last few years.
Novel, Suse linux. once leaders in the network hardware / software industry.
APPLE, own software own hardware, yes its not linux, but a good example of a company that supplies their own OS with their PC's.
HP has been moving over their software from HP UNIX (kinda their own OS), and have been writing more and more software for linux.
Sun (solaris) again not linux, but their own OS.
What I have thought for a while is that the hardware vendors will learn from the mistakes of the past. Instead of just creating hardware, they will also supply their own brand of linux with their machines.
Even today you see hardware manufactures creating their own software, look at HP and everything they are doing. IBM? APPLE....
I think companies like IBM, DELL, HP will be the first ones to do this, with NOVEL and IBM leading the way. It would give them a very high jump in revenues, not needing to pay for all the different licenses, allow them to bundle their own software (music store software the big thing I can think of first, then changed into a mulit media application like I see ITunes becomming), and partnerships with many companies (I cant belive AIM is not bundles with any manufacture PC's).
So yeah, pc manufactures will be the ones killng of MS (if anyone) because they will be the ones who change the home desktop.
My xp pro box at work has never failed in any way, neither has any of the software that I run (minus my vpn software when trying to connect when machine is not connected to the internet.)
My 2k pro laptop has failed 2-4 times in the 2 years that I have owned it. My 2k pro machine at home has failed maybe 10-20 times, but this is also my gaming machine/movies/ torrant etc. This machine is really abused, and has many strange pieces of hardware in it, and that is 10-20 times over 3-4 years.
Personally from my expierence, and being on a pc on average 8-16 hours a day for the past 3 years, windows has been good to me, but then again my linux box has only had problems with power failures, other then that never a problem yet.
First thing I allways check with web based riddles is the html code, sometimes they hide interesting information in it, and I guess they expected that.
The sites I manage have about 12-14 million hits a month (only about 1 million are unique) and when viewing the stats on all of the different websites I am only seeing about a 5% usage for other browsers, IE is still 95%.
Of course they are doing this, they have been planning this sience the early 90's.
The cable industry has been trying to push away the idea of free TV for over 10 years now, why give away TV shows for free with commercials, when you can charge people for TV AND still show commercials.
By doing this and having no available free TV anymore, everyone will need to pay, and naturally with that many channels you will need to buy 1 or more subscriptions to try mixing and matching the stations you want to watch.
It has the same function as only allowing people who are on your list of ok senders to receive emails from.
Or a internal email system that allows only internal emails to be sent to other employees in a company.
Have your company buy a few development machines. Choose a distro to use, and install it on these machines, as well as one at home.
Pick a subject that you would need to tackle, for example setting up a webserver. read the docs that come with your linux distro, and just take the steps, its one of the best ways to learn linux, learn by using it, and you will also learn the steps you will need to your job too.
Then you can start learning the more difficult tasks, and once your company is ready to make the change, so you will (and other people in your department, if any).
Its that easy, if your company complains about you not willing to work over time (aka get shafted) tell them to either pay you more, or to give you salery, but dont for overtime, the extra bonus for working more then 40 hours is the main (if only) reason people ever work(ed) overtime.
Well thought out except this paragraph (IMO)
"Politically based literature, I believe is essential. It is absolutely necessary to create a populace that understands issues on both sides and is able to logically analyze those issues and "pick a side" so to speak. Most of our nations most dividing issues (abortion, being the most notable one that comes to mind) have sane, reasonable arguments on both sides of the fence."
Pushing children into 1 of the two different political org. is just downright wrong, as their are many sides to every opinion that will exer exist. Yes people should be in the know about political issues, but saying that children should be taugh to decide on being a dem or a rep (anarchist, nihilist, communist etc etc) is not what school is sapose to be about, let them decide on their own when their younger, otherwise I could just see this as another type of brainwashing.
Good example a republican teacher only focusing on good rep issues and bad dem issues (as im sure happens all the time in schools anyways).
I spend 1/2 the hurricane in Orlando, and the other half in fort lauderdale, and this was not a hurricane, even after landfall ( about 8 hours I belive) they changed it to a tropical storm.
It was so tame we drove through most of sunday night 3 hours, and there was minimal damage, and I really have yet to understand what the "10 billion" in damages is from.
Im sure all the studies are taking into consideration how its a good thing for the corporations and few business's that are able to take advantage of the available workers over seas, but is it good for the people (in america)?
Anyone who has a job in the US that are in the know about jobs being moved over seas, would say no, in fact the very idea of saying, "moving jobs over seas is good for the econemy" is the same thing as saying we dont care who does our work, as long as its cheap.
When it comes right down to it, if it comes down to your company saving a buck and you having a job in most situations, what do you think will happen?
Yeah this would be ok for your desktop, or having something that you can bring to a friends house to watch stored videos on a pc on your tv, but what Im thinking this would be good for is laptops, most laptops lack this technology.
OK well I guess while you were yawning you missed the first line :
"Implementation quirks in Voice over IP are making it easy for hackers to spoof Caller I.D., and to unmask blocked numbers. "
And another quote explaing how they are able to do it.
"There are little exploits that you can do," says Lucky. But the most powerful tool for manipulating and accessing CPN data is the open-source Linux-based PBX software Asterisk, used in combination with a permissive VoIP provider. "It's fully configurable, you can pretty much do anything you want with it," says Lucky. "That's why Voice over I.P. is changing things."
Next time spend less time yawning and more time reading:p
When ever you get a support rep on the line, in the middle of talking with them, ask them what time it is, if you catch them off guard normally they will blurt out what time is on their clock, computer, terminal what ever.
Most places tell their support people never answer this question, or have their clocks set to US time, but in just about every situation I have tired this in, it has worked (works with live support online etc..)
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Yes this will get people to sign up. It will get people to sign up accounts that will get nothing but spam sent to them to go for the big account. All that will be left 6 months from now are tens of thousands of accounts that were abbandoned that are getting hundreds of megs a month of spam sent too them...
Ah yes, I understand, this, I was saying download one of the many FREE and available go games that have been around for 5+ years, that all ready have a huge, strong community, and one that has been developed on for many years.
Go play IGS, its been around for years, many amazing players.
http://gobase.org/software/clients/
Price starts at 330.00 for the 20 gig player. Not bad, considering this is not just an mp3 player, but a multimedia player.
16 hours of battery life, but really Im thinking that running the screen at all times would drop that to at least 10 or even 8 hours if your lucky.
Its easy.
Most of these sites offer "free online poker". what you have to do is you sit for 30-60 seconds while you see ad's and you get to continue playing for free. Simple solution. while waiting for this period require the person to "prove" their still in front of the computer, require them to type in a code or something that requires them to authenicate before they move to the next round.
What will this do?
It will require each member to authenicate every time the round is over, normally 5-10 minutes, this would make it not worth trying to run bots on these sites, it would also increase revenue from the ad's because people will have to be in front of the pc to authenicate to move to the next match.
And if people dont like it then maybe they shouldnt play poker online for free.
I thought they used a green screen because of the black outline that blue screens left around people.
I call B.S. on this. You are right there is costs on the OS, and yes they wont make money by offering the OS for free. They will make money by selling their PC's with their brand, or another for the shear fact that most hardware manufactures are not just in the hardware business anymore. Naturally the costs will jump heavlly developing and supporting the os, but we have allways seen this happen, its mostly been in the server side of computing, but I belive this will change over time. Examples. IBM allways been writing software, allways into hardware, big jumps into linux the last few years. Novel, Suse linux. once leaders in the network hardware / software industry. APPLE, own software own hardware, yes its not linux, but a good example of a company that supplies their own OS with their PC's. HP has been moving over their software from HP UNIX (kinda their own OS), and have been writing more and more software for linux. Sun (solaris) again not linux, but their own OS.
What I have thought for a while is that the hardware vendors will learn from the mistakes of the past. Instead of just creating hardware, they will also supply their own brand of linux with their machines.
Even today you see hardware manufactures creating their own software, look at HP and everything they are doing. IBM? APPLE....
I think companies like IBM, DELL, HP will be the first ones to do this, with NOVEL and IBM leading the way. It would give them a very high jump in revenues, not needing to pay for all the different licenses, allow them to bundle their own software (music store software the big thing I can think of first, then changed into a mulit media application like I see ITunes becomming), and partnerships with many companies (I cant belive AIM is not bundles with any manufacture PC's).
So yeah, pc manufactures will be the ones killng of MS (if anyone) because they will be the ones who change the home desktop.
My xp pro box at work has never failed in any way, neither has any of the software that I run (minus my vpn software when trying to connect when machine is not connected to the internet.) My 2k pro laptop has failed 2-4 times in the 2 years that I have owned it. My 2k pro machine at home has failed maybe 10-20 times, but this is also my gaming machine/movies/ torrant etc. This machine is really abused, and has many strange pieces of hardware in it, and that is 10-20 times over 3-4 years. Personally from my expierence, and being on a pc on average 8-16 hours a day for the past 3 years, windows has been good to me, but then again my linux box has only had problems with power failures, other then that never a problem yet.
When you view the html on the second page (http://7427466391.com/)
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You will see the following
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First thing I allways check with web based riddles is the html code, sometimes they hide interesting information in it, and I guess they expected that.
The sites I manage have about 12-14 million hits a month (only about 1 million are unique) and when viewing the stats on all of the different websites I am only seeing about a 5% usage for other browsers, IE is still 95%.
Of course they are doing this, they have been planning this sience the early 90's.
The cable industry has been trying to push away the idea of free TV for over 10 years now, why give away TV shows for free with commercials, when you can charge people for TV AND still show commercials.
By doing this and having no available free TV anymore, everyone will need to pay, and naturally with that many channels you will need to buy 1 or more subscriptions to try mixing and matching the stations you want to watch.
It has the same function as only allowing people who are on your list of ok senders to receive emails from. Or a internal email system that allows only internal emails to be sent to other employees in a company.
Have your company buy a few development machines. Choose a distro to use, and install it on these machines, as well as one at home. Pick a subject that you would need to tackle, for example setting up a webserver. read the docs that come with your linux distro, and just take the steps, its one of the best ways to learn linux, learn by using it, and you will also learn the steps you will need to your job too. Then you can start learning the more difficult tasks, and once your company is ready to make the change, so you will (and other people in your department, if any).
And there still wont be anything on.
Its that easy, if your company complains about you not willing to work over time (aka get shafted) tell them to either pay you more, or to give you salery, but dont for overtime, the extra bonus for working more then 40 hours is the main (if only) reason people ever work(ed) overtime.
" In public schools, the government is the customer."
Jcr, that is the best quote I have seen on slashdot ever, and Ive been here a while.
Well thought out except this paragraph (IMO) "Politically based literature, I believe is essential. It is absolutely necessary to create a populace that understands issues on both sides and is able to logically analyze those issues and "pick a side" so to speak. Most of our nations most dividing issues (abortion, being the most notable one that comes to mind) have sane, reasonable arguments on both sides of the fence." Pushing children into 1 of the two different political org. is just downright wrong, as their are many sides to every opinion that will exer exist. Yes people should be in the know about political issues, but saying that children should be taugh to decide on being a dem or a rep (anarchist, nihilist, communist etc etc) is not what school is sapose to be about, let them decide on their own when their younger, otherwise I could just see this as another type of brainwashing. Good example a republican teacher only focusing on good rep issues and bad dem issues (as im sure happens all the time in schools anyways).
I spend 1/2 the hurricane in Orlando, and the other half in fort lauderdale, and this was not a hurricane, even after landfall ( about 8 hours I belive) they changed it to a tropical storm. It was so tame we drove through most of sunday night 3 hours, and there was minimal damage, and I really have yet to understand what the "10 billion" in damages is from.
Im sure all the studies are taking into consideration how its a good thing for the corporations and few business's that are able to take advantage of the available workers over seas, but is it good for the people (in america)? Anyone who has a job in the US that are in the know about jobs being moved over seas, would say no, in fact the very idea of saying, "moving jobs over seas is good for the econemy" is the same thing as saying we dont care who does our work, as long as its cheap. When it comes right down to it, if it comes down to your company saving a buck and you having a job in most situations, what do you think will happen?
Yeah this would be ok for your desktop, or having something that you can bring to a friends house to watch stored videos on a pc on your tv, but what Im thinking this would be good for is laptops, most laptops lack this technology.
I'm always finding files on p2p networks that people either didn't know were available to the public, or had no idea what was in them.
.sql, also simple things like "phone" "password" "address work too.
next time your on a p2p search for access files, excel, QuickBooks,
Same thing really as with google where people had no idea what they were doing, and gave access to sensitive information to the public unknowingly.
OK well I guess while you were yawning you missed the first line : "Implementation quirks in Voice over IP are making it easy for hackers to spoof Caller I.D., and to unmask blocked numbers. " And another quote explaing how they are able to do it. "There are little exploits that you can do," says Lucky. But the most powerful tool for manipulating and accessing CPN data is the open-source Linux-based PBX software Asterisk, used in combination with a permissive VoIP provider. "It's fully configurable, you can pretty much do anything you want with it," says Lucky. "That's why Voice over I.P. is changing things." Next time spend less time yawning and more time reading :p
Ooh geeze, you know what I ment, if you can tell that the time zone is off, say 10 hours you can tell their not in your area :)
When ever you get a support rep on the line, in the middle of talking with them, ask them what time it is, if you catch them off guard normally they will blurt out what time is on their clock, computer, terminal what ever.
Most places tell their support people never answer this question, or have their clocks set to US time, but in just about every situation I have tired this in, it has worked (works with live support online etc..)