Ah hah! Netscape would indeed be it :-(
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My Netscape has been surprisingly well-behaved recently. It runs about as well as it does on my SGI workstation. It used to be Linux netscape was a lot crashier than on the SGI..
Or it might just be because I'm testing my web site using this system as both a client and a server, and I don't use very many complex HTML tricks (don't want to confuse poor Netscape, after all:-( ).
Thanks for the responses, all. I'll just remember to shut down Netscape more often.
I've been using Red Hat's Enlightenment 15.5 on my Linux notebook, an IBM ThinkPad 770Z with 1280x1024 screen and 256MB RAM. You can see I don't really care about memory use that much:-) - except that something called ld-linux.so is chewing up half my memory for some reason - is this the Enlightenment memory leak Raster talks about? And if it isn't, any idea what it might be?
Is there a non-horrifying procedure to upgrade my notebook to the latest Enlightenment? Could some kind soul give me an idea of what it is? When I last tried installing Enlightenment, it took about a week for my system to become vaguely usable:-(.
Raster claims there's a terrifying memory leak in this package - is this why my ld-linux.so appears in top as consuming 100mb RAM after the system has been running for a while.
Very interesting message. I have to admit this whole thing has fascinated me in a morbid sort of way.
How could they add the data capacity down the road? I thought what capacity existed was dependent on the specific satellites that were already up there. Or were they just planning replacement satellites for the data services?
Slightly off topic, I suppose, but does anyone know of a good ODBC client for Linux? I visited FreshMeat a month or so ago and found OdbcSocketServer, which does work, but seems to fall apart when used with larger databases. That is, if I want to update one or two records, it works great, but if I want to suck down an entire SQL Server database, it doesn't work right.
The application, if you're curious, is to integrate a Windows-based accounting program with a mySQL-based e-commerce site.
I'd like to hear reviews before I start using a commercial product, and it looks like that's what most of the other drivers are. So does anyone have experience with ODBC clients under Linux, and which one would you recommend? Ideally, it would have a similar API to mySQL, since I'm so used to that.
Well, the figures make me think virtually all their sales must be to OEMs, with few upgrades.
This would make sense, because the hardware requirements of the product are so daunting.
Windows 2000 is an automatic revenue generator simply because people will automatically receive it with new higher-end computers. So I don't think it will be such a disaster as to bankrupt Microsoft.
But I don't doubt that few upgrade sales will show up compared to what they "should" be.
I'm sure Windows2000 has far more than 65,535 bugs.
We just don't know what they are yet. The basis for that count is Microsoft's list of bugs they have already found, which I doubt has much relationship to the number of bugs lurking in the OS, waiting to be discovered.
This is why I don't deal directly with financial information on my web site order database - orders eventually get sent over to an accouting package (running, sadly, under MS SQL Server) which does the heavy lifting of updating balances and such. I bring them in as sales orders, and when they are complete in the accounting package they are turned into invoices, with the implications this has for the customer balances.
Since I'm not maintaining a balance (where I recognize transactions are essential), I should be OK, unless there's something here I've missed.
right now. Their losses have (allegedly) come from their expansion into other businesses.
I wonder if this wasn't a mistake. amazon.com electronics is not that compelling a creation, since I can get identical if not lower pricing from bricks and mortar stores.
insert into line_items (order_id,....) values (order_id) [repeat as necessary]
update changes set done = 'y' where id = order_id
Ignore / retry from logs any transactions where done = 'n'.
Isn't that all transactions amount to, at least for something that isn't a full-blown double-entry accounting system?
When I first started using Unix SQL databases, frankly mySQL was the only one I could afford. (I actually started using mSQL and converted to mySQL).
Now I work for a mid-sized company, and if we really wanted to we could probably afford Oracle. But it sounds to me that you can only get the performance out of Oracle you need by hiring an extremely expensive Oracle professional to run it. And, of course, I'd have to ascend a fairly high learning curve and rewrite all my scripts, since the API bears not even the slightest resemblance to mySQL's.
Since everyone wants these things done yesterday, mySQL was the only viable solution for my situation. And so far, it's worked perfectly, even with heavy load testing.
But I can't help but be concerned at all the people who say they're running into trouble with it at high volumes. These reports are a little vague for my taste; does anyone have real-life war stories?
I'm using the Enlightenment that comes with Red Hat 6.1, and I think it's the best Linux user interface by far. The Enlightenment folks know how to make things pretty, and usability isn't half bad. True, I still prefer the sleekness of my SGI box, but the Linux desktop has come a long way, and I'm no longer embarassed to show it to my friends. Now I tell them, "Look how cool this looks on my new 1280x1024 ThinkPad(tm)!"
Certainly it's far more elegant than KDE, which strikes me as "more Windows than Windows". I appreciate the effort that went into KDE, but its slavish imitation of Windows scares me.
I suspect that those who prefer KDE do so mainly because it's been around longer, and early versions of Gnome were horribly crashy. The Gnome I'm using now seems pretty stable - it's still not as rock-solid as KDE, but it's not half bad, and you can usually recover from problems without rebooting.
I wonder if I'm the only person in the world who found PicoSpan incredibly easy and fun to use, even when I first tried it.
In my BBS days, I would run up massive phone bills calling m-Net because I really loved the way the software worked and the community over there. The BBS software I subsequently wrote copied m-Net/PicoSpan's conferencing idea, but tried to make it a bit more user-friendly. I ran my five-line system at a tiny profit until my hard disk died.
Interesting that the original owner gave it up because of the flamewars - one of the reasons I didn't ressurect my system after the hard drive died was that I was tired of the complaints people made about them. I tried a number of different moderation schemes but none of them solved the root problems I faced.
The one thing I really loved about the BBS world is that most people could meet in person. I had numerous parties, made numerous friends and even a couple of lovers through the BBS. My social life has been pretty much dry since then, because people I encounter on the Internet tend to be in other states or even - often! - other countries.
Here in Los Angeles, our base Metro Rail system cost $ 3.46 billion for 4.4 miles of track and rolling stock, so I don't see $1 billion for a major freeway as terrible. If I recall correctly, that particular segment of road was one of the more expensive ones in the entire system because of the complex engineering involved.
The real bottom line is that people hate to wait for rail or bus transit, people hate it when they can't get seats, and people like the freedom cars give to travel when and where they want. Unfortunately, economic viability of public transit requires that you pack 'em in like sardines. Do I want to become a human sardine, or do I want to ride in my comfortable European luxury import?
I don't think cars are subsidized at all when the taxes paid by drivers are taken into consideration. In California, we pay a gas tax of about $ 0.30 a gallon - until the recent gas price spike, that was almost 1/3 of the total cost at the pump. I think we should expect gold-plated roads for that kind of money, but our government generally spends it elsewhere. Cars are a net contributer to government, not a net loss like public transport.
First, considering RMS's stands on these issues, I was surprised at how reasonable his essay sounded - it strikes me that in practical terms, RMS and amazon are not that far apart.
It is my belief that the One-Click patent was created solely as a weapon in Amazon's long-standing legal fight against Barnes & Noble. I'm sure Bezos will never forget the lawsuit B&N filed over the "Earth's Biggest Bookstore" tagline; it could have crushed the online bookseller at a time when it was small, weak and vunerable. Does he want revenge? Of course. Does he deserve it? Probably.
His remarks, before and after this imbroligo, indicate that he does not plan to enforce the patent on any entity other than B&N. As long as he does that, I don't believe he's done anything wrong.
Users aren't going to do anything like that unless they have a bloody good reason, and using your web site instead of someone else's isn't likely to be one.
Unfortunately, it doesn't help for the columns themselves to be indexed. Take this:
select id from inventory where description like '%foo%';
Indexing doesn't help with this at all since it has to search through the entire description field - 'foo' could be in the middle of the field as much as the beginning.
The solution is to create another database consisting of all the words in the applicable fields and a pointer to the record's location. Like this:
create table word ( word varchar(20), id int);
where id is the record ID of the record with the word in it. So a description field like this:
HEWLETT PACKARD LASERJET 4
would become four records, with word being 'hewlett', 'packard', 'laserjet' and '4'. Then you can build queries that search for occurances of those words in the word database, which is - of course - indexed.
I was able to decrease query time from.40 second to.01 second by making this change, and as a bonus the search results are more relevent, too, since parts of words were not considered.
I'm sure that was what the original poster was referring to. If you do it, remember to exclude common words like 'and' or 'for'.
If you want to have your certificate recognized by most web browsers without pulling up a really, really ugly looking error message, I'd say Verisign and Thwate are the only games in town, because any other certificate signer will cause that to happen.
Truth is that I really hate this wierd certificate business. All I want to be able to do is use SSL - why should I have to pay someone $800 a year just so I can do that without causing my users to panic? Ugh. It's almost like blackmail.
Incidentally, an oddity: Although Thwate is now owned by Verisign, they have not yet done anything to their rates. So get your Thwate certificate before it's too late.
Cars Direct strikes me as a little pricey for the high-end European cars I fancy (but have not yet acquired). I asked them about this, and it looks like they are really much better geared up to focus on the massive middle instead of the high end.
It wouldn't hurt to visit your local dealer armed with the CarsDirect price and see if you can improve on the deal. I kinda like being able to see, feel and pinch the car before purchase anyway.
Personally, at least on a Linux box or SGI workstation, I find serif fonts much easier to read than san serif ones.
It could just be the wretched quality of Unix san serif fonts in general, though. For some reason they lag dramatically behind those on a PC, let alone the class-leading Macintosh.
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Well, this would be a reasonable contention, but I've had mixed success with it in reality. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and sometimes I just don't have the coordination to press the buttons as described:-(.
One problem with selling a name is the value of the existing search engine positions and links to your site. In my case, for instance, there are billions and billions of links to various resources on amazing.com. If I sold amazing.com, all those links would suddenly die, and I'd have to write everyone in the known universe asking them to change them. In addition, since my site has been active since circa 1995, it has positions in search engines like Yahoo which would be extremely difficult if not impossible to duplicate today.
The hassle factor alone is a good reason why I'm not eager to sell amazing.com, even though on paper I'm sitting on a massive windfall.
As far as I can tell, basically nobody ever sells domain names on eBay, at least not for anything other than fire sale prices.
I'm still trying to figure out whether I should sell my domain name (amazing.com) - it's rather bizarre to see a somewhat quirky impulse turn into the only really valuable thing I own on this planet. If I do decide to sell it, I'm in a real fix - so far, I think most domain brokers are scam artists who most likely won't give me good value for the name. I'd love to hear anyone's good or bad experiences with services like afternic.com (which has a very nice appraisal feature I've tried) or greatdomains.com (which seems to get the most money for the names).
If you consider what a puny percentage of the content is actually generated by Rob et al, I'd say this site is pretty safe from harmful corporate interference. Heck, even Windows advocates have their say! Unless VA absolutely destroys the site, I'd say it's unlikely to change this basic model.
Besides, Slashdot chooses articles based on a loose "This is cool!" criteria. You damage this, you damage the site. Since the inherent biases of the authors are going to be strongly in support of VA regardless of what happens, I see no reason for VA to ham-handedly change things.
Of course I'm upset for two other reasons - I wanted to invest in Andover since I suspect the stock is a good Linux play, and now absurdly overvalued VA has taken it over and I lose the opportunity. Also, on the whole I hate takeovers because they create knotty bureaucratic problems. I can only hope this is an exception.
As someone who owns both a Mac and a PC, I will admit that Photoshop itself is the same program on both platforms.
But it's so much prettier on a Mac... the fonts are nicer, the buttons are cuter, the whole experience is just somehow right in an aesthetic sense. I have a feeling artists respond to that even more than I do, and as a result they have a queasy feeling when visiting a PC. I know I feel a bit of that myself, and that's why I'll probably always own a Mac, even though it would be more cost-effective to do my arty stuff on a PC which I have to own anyway.
Of course this is why Linux is absolutely hopeless for artists, and why I'd rather use a SGI workstation than a Linux box, open source movement or no.
The Income Tax was enacted. Some people thought to limit the tax to 10%, but others carried the day with the argument that this was automatic permission to increase the tax to that outrageous level.
Others thought we were at the beginning of a very slippery slope. They were laughed at, probably by the same academics you refer to.
I think Slippery Slope is a pretty good argument:-).
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My Netscape has been surprisingly well-behaved recently. It runs about as well as it does on my SGI workstation. It used to be Linux netscape was a lot crashier than on the SGI..
:-( ).
Or it might just be because I'm testing my web site using this system as both a client and a server, and I don't use very many complex HTML tricks (don't want to confuse poor Netscape, after all
Thanks for the responses, all. I'll just remember to shut down Netscape more often.
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I've been using Red Hat's Enlightenment 15.5 on my Linux notebook, an IBM ThinkPad 770Z with 1280x1024 screen and 256MB RAM. You can see I don't really care about memory use that much :-) - except that something called ld-linux.so is chewing up half my memory for some reason - is this the Enlightenment memory leak Raster talks about? And if it isn't, any idea what it might be?
:-(.
Is there a non-horrifying procedure to upgrade my notebook to the latest Enlightenment? Could some kind soul give me an idea of what it is? When I last tried installing Enlightenment, it took about a week for my system to become vaguely usable
Raster claims there's a terrifying memory leak in this package - is this why my ld-linux.so appears in top as consuming 100mb RAM after the system has been running for a while.
Many thanks for any ideas
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Very interesting message. I have to admit this whole thing has fascinated me in a morbid sort of way.
How could they add the data capacity down the road? I thought what capacity existed was dependent on the specific satellites that were already up there. Or were they just planning replacement satellites for the data services?
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Seems to me it could have succeeded in the sense of being useful if it could have supported higher data rates (say ISDN speeds at minimum).
Any idea why they didn't built that into the system? It seems like a pretty obvious requirement in hindsight.
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Slightly off topic, I suppose, but does anyone know of a good ODBC client for Linux? I visited FreshMeat a month or so ago and found OdbcSocketServer, which does work, but seems to fall apart when used with larger databases. That is, if I want to update one or two records, it works great, but if I want to suck down an entire SQL Server database, it doesn't work right.
The application, if you're curious, is to integrate a Windows-based accounting program with a mySQL-based e-commerce site.
I'd like to hear reviews before I start using a commercial product, and it looks like that's what most of the other drivers are. So does anyone have experience with ODBC clients under Linux, and which one would you recommend? Ideally, it would have a similar API to mySQL, since I'm so used to that.
Many thanks for any thoughts.
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Well, the figures make me think virtually all their sales must be to OEMs, with few upgrades.
This would make sense, because the hardware requirements of the product are so daunting.
Windows 2000 is an automatic revenue generator simply because people will automatically receive it with new higher-end computers. So I don't think it will be such a disaster as to bankrupt Microsoft.
But I don't doubt that few upgrade sales will show up compared to what they "should" be.
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I'm sure Windows2000 has far more than 65,535 bugs.
We just don't know what they are yet. The basis for that count is Microsoft's list of bugs they have already found, which I doubt has much relationship to the number of bugs lurking in the OS, waiting to be discovered.
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This is why I don't deal directly with financial information on my web site order database - orders eventually get sent over to an accouting package (running, sadly, under MS SQL Server) which does the heavy lifting of updating balances and such. I bring them in as sales orders, and when they are complete in the accounting package they are turned into invoices, with the implications this has for the customer balances.
Since I'm not maintaining a balance (where I recognize transactions are essential), I should be OK, unless there's something here I've missed.
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right now. Their losses have (allegedly) come from their expansion into other businesses.
I wonder if this wasn't a mistake. amazon.com electronics is not that compelling a creation, since I can get identical if not lower pricing from bricks and mortar stores.
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I hear this all the time: "mySQL isn't a real database because it doesn't have transactions."
... blah blah , done) values ( blah blah , 'n');
....) values (order_id)
What's wrong with something like this:
insert into orders (
order_id = mysql_insert_id(mysql)
insert into line_items (order_id,
[repeat as necessary]
update changes set done = 'y' where id = order_id
Ignore / retry from logs any transactions where done = 'n'.
Isn't that all transactions amount to, at least for something that isn't a full-blown double-entry accounting system?
When I first started using Unix SQL databases, frankly mySQL was the only one I could afford. (I actually started using mSQL and converted to mySQL).
Now I work for a mid-sized company, and if we really wanted to we could probably afford Oracle. But it sounds to me that you can only get the performance out of Oracle you need by hiring an extremely expensive Oracle professional to run it. And, of course, I'd have to ascend a fairly high learning curve and rewrite all my scripts, since the API bears not even the slightest resemblance to mySQL's.
Since everyone wants these things done yesterday, mySQL was the only viable solution for my situation. And so far, it's worked perfectly, even with heavy load testing.
But I can't help but be concerned at all the people who say they're running into trouble with it at high volumes. These reports are a little vague for my taste; does anyone have real-life war stories?
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I'm using the Enlightenment that comes with Red Hat 6.1, and I think it's the best Linux user interface by far. The Enlightenment folks know how to make things pretty, and usability isn't half bad. True, I still prefer the sleekness of my SGI box, but the Linux desktop has come a long way, and I'm no longer embarassed to show it to my friends. Now I tell them, "Look how cool this looks on my new 1280x1024 ThinkPad(tm)!"
Certainly it's far more elegant than KDE, which strikes me as "more Windows than Windows". I appreciate the effort that went into KDE, but its slavish imitation of Windows scares me.
I suspect that those who prefer KDE do so mainly because it's been around longer, and early versions of Gnome were horribly crashy. The Gnome I'm using now seems pretty stable - it's still not as rock-solid as KDE, but it's not half bad, and you can usually recover from problems without rebooting.
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I wonder if I'm the only person in the world who found PicoSpan incredibly easy and fun to use, even when I first tried it.
In my BBS days, I would run up massive phone bills calling m-Net because I really loved the way the software worked and the community over there. The BBS software I subsequently wrote copied m-Net/PicoSpan's conferencing idea, but tried to make it a bit more user-friendly. I ran my five-line system at a tiny profit until my hard disk died.
Interesting that the original owner gave it up because of the flamewars - one of the reasons I didn't ressurect my system after the hard drive died was that I was tired of the complaints people made about them. I tried a number of different moderation schemes but none of them solved the root problems I faced.
The one thing I really loved about the BBS world is that most people could meet in person. I had numerous parties, made numerous friends and even a couple of lovers through the BBS. My social life has been pretty much dry since then, because people I encounter on the Internet tend to be in other states or even - often! - other countries.
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Here in Los Angeles, our base Metro Rail system cost $ 3.46 billion for 4.4 miles of track and rolling stock, so I don't see $1 billion for a major freeway as terrible. If I recall correctly, that particular segment of road was one of the more expensive ones in the entire system because of the complex engineering involved.
The real bottom line is that people hate to wait for rail or bus transit, people hate it when they can't get seats, and people like the freedom cars give to travel when and where they want. Unfortunately, economic viability of public transit requires that you pack 'em in like sardines. Do I want to become a human sardine, or do I want to ride in my comfortable European luxury import?
I don't think cars are subsidized at all when the taxes paid by drivers are taken into consideration. In California, we pay a gas tax of about $ 0.30 a gallon - until the recent gas price spike, that was almost 1/3 of the total cost at the pump. I think we should expect gold-plated roads for that kind of money, but our government generally spends it elsewhere. Cars are a net contributer to government, not a net loss like public transport.
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First, considering RMS's stands on these issues, I was surprised at how reasonable his essay sounded - it strikes me that in practical terms, RMS and amazon are not that far apart.
It is my belief that the One-Click patent was created solely as a weapon in Amazon's long-standing legal fight against Barnes & Noble. I'm sure Bezos will never forget the lawsuit B&N filed over the "Earth's Biggest Bookstore" tagline; it could have crushed the online bookseller at a time when it was small, weak and vunerable. Does he want revenge? Of course. Does he deserve it? Probably.
His remarks, before and after this imbroligo, indicate that he does not plan to enforce the patent on any entity other than B&N. As long as he does that, I don't believe he's done anything wrong.
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Um ... you don't know too many users, do you?
Users aren't going to do anything like that unless they have a bloody good reason, and using your web site instead of someone else's isn't likely to be one.
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Unfortunately, it doesn't help for the columns themselves to be indexed. Take this:
.40 second to .01 second by making this change, and as a bonus the search results are more relevent, too, since parts of words were not considered.
select id from inventory where description like '%foo%';
Indexing doesn't help with this at all since it has to search through the entire description field - 'foo' could be in the middle of the field as much as the beginning.
The solution is to create another database consisting of all the words in the applicable fields and a pointer to the record's location. Like this:
create table word (
word varchar(20),
id int);
where id is the record ID of the record with the word in it. So a description field like this:
HEWLETT PACKARD LASERJET 4
would become four records, with word being 'hewlett', 'packard', 'laserjet' and '4'. Then you can build queries that search for occurances of those words in the word database, which is - of course - indexed.
I was able to decrease query time from
I'm sure that was what the original poster was referring to. If you do it, remember to exclude common words like 'and' or 'for'.
Hope that helps.
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If you want to have your certificate recognized by most web browsers without pulling up a really, really ugly looking error message, I'd say Verisign and Thwate are the only games in town, because any other certificate signer will cause that to happen.
Truth is that I really hate this wierd certificate business. All I want to be able to do is use SSL - why should I have to pay someone $800 a year just so I can do that without causing my users to panic? Ugh. It's almost like blackmail.
Incidentally, an oddity: Although Thwate is now owned by Verisign, they have not yet done anything to their rates. So get your Thwate certificate before it's too late.
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Cars Direct strikes me as a little pricey for the high-end European cars I fancy (but have not yet acquired). I asked them about this, and it looks like they are really much better geared up to focus on the massive middle instead of the high end.
It wouldn't hurt to visit your local dealer armed with the CarsDirect price and see if you can improve on the deal. I kinda like being able to see, feel and pinch the car before purchase anyway.
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Personally, at least on a Linux box or SGI workstation, I find serif fonts much easier to read than san serif ones.
It could just be the wretched quality of Unix san serif fonts in general, though. For some reason they lag dramatically behind those on a PC, let alone the class-leading Macintosh.
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Well, this would be a reasonable contention, but I've had mixed success with it in reality. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and sometimes I just don't have the coordination to press the buttons as described :-(.
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One problem with selling a name is the value of the existing search engine positions and links to your site. In my case, for instance, there are billions and billions of links to various resources on amazing.com. If I sold amazing.com, all those links would suddenly die, and I'd have to write everyone in the known universe asking them to change them. In addition, since my site has been active since circa 1995, it has positions in search engines like Yahoo which would be extremely difficult if not impossible to duplicate today.
The hassle factor alone is a good reason why I'm not eager to sell amazing.com, even though on paper I'm sitting on a massive windfall.
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As far as I can tell, basically nobody ever sells domain names on eBay, at least not for anything other than fire sale prices.
I'm still trying to figure out whether I should sell my domain name (amazing.com) - it's rather bizarre to see a somewhat quirky impulse turn into the only really valuable thing I own on this planet. If I do decide to sell it, I'm in a real fix - so far, I think most domain brokers are scam artists who most likely won't give me good value for the name. I'd love to hear anyone's good or bad experiences with services like afternic.com (which has a very nice appraisal feature I've tried) or greatdomains.com (which seems to get the most money for the names).
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If you consider what a puny percentage of the content is actually generated by Rob et al, I'd say this site is pretty safe from harmful corporate interference. Heck, even Windows advocates have their say! Unless VA absolutely destroys the site, I'd say it's unlikely to change this basic model.
Besides, Slashdot chooses articles based on a loose "This is cool!" criteria. You damage this, you damage the site. Since the inherent biases of the authors are going to be strongly in support of VA regardless of what happens, I see no reason for VA to ham-handedly change things.
Of course I'm upset for two other reasons - I wanted to invest in Andover since I suspect the stock is a good Linux play, and now absurdly overvalued VA has taken it over and I lose the opportunity. Also, on the whole I hate takeovers because they create knotty bureaucratic problems. I can only hope this is an exception.
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As someone who owns both a Mac and a PC, I will admit that Photoshop itself is the same program on both platforms.
... the fonts are nicer, the buttons are cuter, the whole experience is just somehow right in an aesthetic sense. I have a feeling artists respond to that even more than I do, and as a result they have a queasy feeling when visiting a PC. I know I feel a bit of that myself, and that's why I'll probably always own a Mac, even though it would be more cost-effective to do my arty stuff on a PC which I have to own anyway.
But it's so much prettier on a Mac
Of course this is why Linux is absolutely hopeless for artists, and why I'd rather use a SGI workstation than a Linux box, open source movement or no.
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The Income Tax was enacted. Some people thought to limit the tax to 10%, but others carried the day with the argument that this was automatic permission to increase the tax to that outrageous level.
:-).
Others thought we were at the beginning of a very slippery slope. They were laughed at, probably by the same academics you refer to.
I think Slippery Slope is a pretty good argument
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