I was faced with a situation like that too. A startup company which was using High Tech, had a founder who f***ed the finances, and lost an account. I tried to stick it out. I took a pay cut, and in the end was working for a few months for free while the remaining founder was looking for clients and a potential buyout.
I ended up bagging it. I loved working there, and would have loved to have seen it get out of it's problems. I however was not the one who got the company into the problem in the first place. All my efforts really never got me anything. The upper management bought Mercedes sport cars, Mustang convertibles, etc. I worked 7 days a week, and had no life. A good check at the end of the week, but not a GREAT check.
If I was in the situation again, I'd be looking for other work right now. You have to watch out for #1 (YOU!) before anything else. --
Hell yeah. I can totally relate to that. I too have both, and using a mac is worlds easier to use compared to a PC, ESPECIALLY if it is running Windows.
Also, crash recovery on a Mac is soo much easier. If you want to move files to a bigger drive, then hook that drive up somehow, format it, and then drag all the files over.......I wish WINDOWS could learn about that....... --
Interesting to know that it boots Linux, but the real question is how does LinuxPPC compare to Mac OS X on the same machine.
Does LinuxPPC run faster? Using similar software, which system runs the app faster? Which OS eats up more memory? etc.
Now, I like Linux as much as the next guy (actually I prefer FreeBSD but that is another story), but I'm more interested in Mac OS X than running LinuxPPC. --
Yeah, but if every slashdot user could moderate, we'd never be able to load a slashdot page.
I think perhaps the slashdot source people need to maybe redo or rethink moderation. I can count on one hand (2 times) the number of times I have been able to moderate. Maybe a good compromise would be to have moderation be available when you have more than 10 points, and it's been more than 2-3 days since you last moderated. I think that would be a better balance than the current haphazard moderation slash has now..... --
It's damn slow, and I really don't see why you'd want to run it. If you wanted something like that, you could probably hack the slashdot code to do it (IE, open story submissions and moderation). --
What a STUPID proposal. Dropping Dual G4s! In the face of Mac OS X being around the corner, you'd think they'd WANT to show off the fact that a dual G4 running OS X would kick ass......but no!
Being an owner of a couple of macs, including a 9600 (old multiprocessor 604 computer) and a pc owner (1 dual pentium 166, 1 dual pentium pro, 2 dual pentium II 333 a single processor athlon and a partridge in a pear tree;-) ), I'd say that my experience with multiprocessor computers is very favorable. Running Linux/FreeBSD or Windows 2000/NT, it really makes the machine more useable. Like if I encode a MP3 on my single processor computer, it will chew up all the processor time and make other programs running deadly slow (on my windows 2000 machine), but on the dual processor machine (windows 2000 or freebsd/linux) the machine can easily encode a mp3 and it will only chew up 50% resources.
I think Apple jumped the gun with dual G4s, but NOW IS NOT THE TIME to stop making them. OS X will take advantage of the extra CPU and make the thing fly! --
Now, those sound better than a 60 billion dollar tunnel. I think mankind would be better off learning more about the oceans and ocean life rather than wasting money on some lame-o tunnel. --
Very cool stuff. I really liked a link I found off the Antimater project. this site deals with the things we need to overcome before we can "warp" to a planet. --
Can we see some of the Perl::Flash stuff in the next version of Slash? Like, it would be so cool maybe to have the banner swish in, or when you click stuff sounds happen........ --
Listen, if your going to put up a website, then you should EXPECT certain things. Traffic, depending on how good a site is, etc.
Your statement saying that companies should be able to enforce ANY pricing model is down right scarey. Can you really imagine how that would change, for the worst, the internet? The freedom of the internet is about sharing information, not allowing old business models to be forced in a medium that allows the free exchange of information.
I don't think your flat rate or ANY pricing model would work or will ever work. A company or site doing that would be blacklisted (slashdotted?) and no one will visit it.
A better way might be to require a person visiting to login in so that you can atleast get some statistical data about who is coming to the site, and getting an email so then maybe you could perhaps target some ads to them. But a ANY pricing model is just NOT right......... --
I don't agree. If they have a website, and put content up there for free, then they should EXPECT that some people will link to articles, or what you call freeloading.
If they are concerned about their content, perhaps requiring someone to LOGIN or CREATE an account might be the answer. Like what the New York Times does...... --
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What happens if they mess up..........
Why not concentrate on things like improving our industries to make them less poluting......
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Yeah, and he lost quite a few battles too
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Cool, lets get some video games using this. Playstation 3 maybe?
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Seriously, can you see people selling their DNA for a price?
Scarey stuff!
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Now, a lego chair sucks, but the that other chair looks sweet!
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Damn good!
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I ended up bagging it. I loved working there, and would have loved to have seen it get out of it's problems. I however was not the one who got the company into the problem in the first place. All my efforts really never got me anything. The upper management bought Mercedes sport cars, Mustang convertibles, etc. I worked 7 days a week, and had no life. A good check at the end of the week, but not a GREAT check.
If I was in the situation again, I'd be looking for other work right now. You have to watch out for #1 (YOU!) before anything else.
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Also, crash recovery on a Mac is soo much easier. If you want to move files to a bigger drive, then hook that drive up somehow, format it, and then drag all the files over.......I wish WINDOWS could learn about that.......
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Does LinuxPPC run faster? Using similar software, which system runs the app faster? Which OS eats up more memory? etc.
Now, I like Linux as much as the next guy (actually I prefer FreeBSD but that is another story), but I'm more interested in Mac OS X than running LinuxPPC.
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I think perhaps the slashdot source people need to maybe redo or rethink moderation. I can count on one hand (2 times) the number of times I have been able to moderate. Maybe a good compromise would be to have moderation be available when you have more than 10 points, and it's been more than 2-3 days since you last moderated. I think that would be a better balance than the current haphazard moderation slash has now.....
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It's damn slow, and I really don't see why you'd want to run it. If you wanted something like that, you could probably hack the slashdot code to do it (IE, open story submissions and moderation).
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Being an owner of a couple of macs, including a 9600 (old multiprocessor 604 computer) and a pc owner (1 dual pentium 166, 1 dual pentium pro, 2 dual pentium II 333 a single processor athlon and a partridge in a pear tree ;-) ), I'd say that my experience with multiprocessor computers is very favorable. Running Linux/FreeBSD or Windows 2000/NT, it really makes the machine more useable. Like if I encode a MP3 on my single processor computer, it will chew up all the processor time and make other programs running deadly slow (on my windows 2000 machine), but on the dual processor machine (windows 2000 or freebsd/linux) the machine can easily encode a mp3 and it will only chew up 50% resources.
I think Apple jumped the gun with dual G4s, but NOW IS NOT THE TIME to stop making them. OS X will take advantage of the extra CPU and make the thing fly!
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Now, those sound better than a 60 billion dollar tunnel. I think mankind would be better off learning more about the oceans and ocean life rather than wasting money on some lame-o tunnel.
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Yep, typical russian project
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Very cool stuff. I really liked a link I found off the Antimater project. this site deals with the things we need to overcome before we can "warp" to a planet.
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Can we see some of the Perl::Flash stuff in the next version of Slash? Like, it would be so cool maybe to have the banner swish in, or when you click stuff sounds happen........
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So, if I recommend slashdot to others, do I get charged or do I collect? If so from who?
This whole thing is damn silly.
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iCopyright.com files suit against Slashdot.org for linking to articles on it's client's sites without paying the proper licensing fees
Don't laugh........it could VERY well happen.......
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It reeks of something rotting. I can maybe understand reprints and copies, but charging for emails and links? Whatsup with that?
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They seem to be a company that will let you obtain a reuse license. Check Here for an article that has this thing active, and at the bottom there is a link to the icopyright.com site.
This smells fishy......
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Listen, if your going to put up a website, then you should EXPECT certain things. Traffic, depending on how good a site is, etc.
Your statement saying that companies should be able to enforce ANY pricing model is down right scarey. Can you really imagine how that would change, for the worst, the internet? The freedom of the internet is about sharing information, not allowing old business models to be forced in a medium that allows the free exchange of information.
I don't think your flat rate or ANY pricing model would work or will ever work. A company or site doing that would be blacklisted (slashdotted?) and no one will visit it.
A better way might be to require a person visiting to login in so that you can atleast get some statistical data about who is coming to the site, and getting an email so then maybe you could perhaps target some ads to them. But a ANY pricing model is just NOT right.........
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If they are concerned about their content, perhaps requiring someone to LOGIN or CREATE an account might be the answer. Like what the New York Times does......
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Got my copy today, excellent. English and Japanese.......great story and transfer (letterbox!)
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My GOD, I made first post?!?!
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And they had cables, and disks that spun around and everything........
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