One million were not sold to consumers. These were all sold to OEMs. This is just mindless FUD that MS uses to combat others. That million that they sold includes all versions of Windows that are on store shelves, and all the companies that install Win2k and then buy 50,000 licenses (some of which they won't even use). And they probably throw in the total amount of Win2k downloads from MSDN just for kicks. Of that 1 million copies, I'd guess only 3-400k are actually installed and being used right now.
Not that we'd need them or probably even buy them, but when the market is saturated with 1Ghz chips, and they sell like beanie babies to Wintel lemmings, the prices of the current 800-700Mhz will drop. Even chips like the 450Mhz (more than adequate in most needs) will drop substantially.
So even if a 1Ghz seems to be a waste to you, let it live, so the rest of us can get cheaper equipment that runs just as fast
All these posts about companies not having the "foresight" to register their domain names, and being out of luck have no real touch with reality. Think of the internet not in the instance of where it exists today, but over time since it's creation.
Companies are created from scratch everyday, everyone didn't start at exactly the same time, and raced to get to domain names when the gun shot.
Let's say I just thought of a great, easy-to-remember name for a company I just started, and went to register the domain, and found out that some squatter is using it, or a porn site, though the name has nothing to do with porn. Who's fault is that? I wasn't around 2 years ago to register it, and this company is only using it because it's easy to remember, and people will type it in, thinking it's not a porn site.
Is this fair? We know it's not ethical (as if such a thing exists these days), but I should be able to fight for it. What does whitehouse.com have to do with the whitehouse? Or the hundred of other domain names like it. And say White House Systems is created one day, selling custom Linux boxes, and goes IPO, tripling it's initial price... Shouldn't they get whitehouse.com over what's already on it?
I think that any generic domain name is auctionable to the highest bidder, per-say. For example, loans.com, business.com, buy.com. No one in their right mind would name a company by that name, so pretty much the domain would just point to an already existing business domain.
However, where it comes down to someone selling a domain name that is already the name of an established business, is where the line should be drawn. If a company would want to sell, they should sell to the company that has it as a rightful name, rather than some other company that'd just exploit it.
There's a prompt somewhere to change them from fading to Win98 -sliding style, or regular style. But I can't find it anywhere now... on w2k final. It's not where it SHOULD be (Taskbar and Start Menu Properties).
I have been using them for the last few months, besides the busy signals, which I can put up with, their technical support is POS. I accidently went over my *2meg* quota, and suddenly lost all access to my mailbox. Any attempts to connect, to check my mail or delete old mail, results in a "Connection broken by host". Their $15/incident live tech support is laughable, but it took 3 emails (the final being very stern), and over a week of no email (and everyone receiving messages that my box is over quota) before they contacted me back, at my work email, saying that they can wipe all my mail out.
As of this date, I still have no email access.
And don't get me started on NetZero. Their nav bar had serious memory leaks, and would lock any of our computers solid if we ever went into command.com.
There has yet to be, IMO, a reliable free ISP. You can't live off advertising forever.
I planned my whole day to arrange to have my lunch hour right now, just to watch it... then I see it posted here and there goes all hope. Those of us who really looked forward to it have to stand in line behind those who are just bored and want to see what everyone's talking about.
Oh well.. might as well spend my lunch putting more server racks together...
Red Flag? It's clearly obvious. The commies are devising an operating system to compete with us capitalistic pigs. Free read/write rights for all. (Though the read rights are only good on howto's and FAQ's, they may never touch executables, that's for the government super users).
They know we're well rounded. We gain that shape because of our insistent cravings for slacking and junk food, and utter loathing for anything that requires physical movement of more than fingers.
Tech stocks are, in general, falling all across the board, mostly due to the end of the year, and because of the huge volumes of shares that are being traded on Nasdaq. The market is very saturated with clueless investors. And with the entire nasdaq composite index down almost 100 points lately, and dropping, it looks like people are finally realizing that they are being played as fools.
Sure, I'd love to think that we helped in part to the downfall of etoys (I even went out of my way to avoid purchasing from them), but a lot of their failing stocks is also because of the christmas bandwagon. They fell into the same pit that Toy 'R Us did, not enough manpower, not enough equipment, and not enough experience to handle the onslaught of Christmas buyers, and they couldn't keep up with demand. So in fact, the actual BUYING from their site has done more damage than not buying from them.
Just from reading the article. Not the actual details that he's trying to prove, but how the article is written, and how the information is presented. This, to me, does not seem like a valid article written by any journalist. Blatant profanity, and ego-hyping of the inventor, it seems as if the article was written by the man himself. But, then again, maybe that's just the writer's style. Erik Baard, has also written many other articles on the uses of power and electricity. Fraud or no, the whole thing just looks like a big game for the public to me.
Get praise for the work you do right, and be ashamed for your mistakes. Community code, as such, doesn't teach each programmer his mistakes, IMO. If you feel that you have the syntax correct, and convince your partner in that, what if the next day a new pair of coders happen upon it and tear it to pieces. Granted, it was returning null values in the first place, but if the work is already done and posted up, you can look over it, but do you really learn from it?
The way I like it, each person on their own, knowing what to work towards. On routine schedules, a manager(s) will look over everyone's code and test it together. If a problem is found, the manager will discuss it with the coder, and give help on fixing it. This may be less time effective, but you know that the skills of each programmer are rising, rather than looking at the overall skill of the community (the strong make up for the weak).
I agree to the same. The world works within natural boundaries of physics and life, much of which is unknown to us. I believe that God would like us to educate ourselves and strive to learn more and do more. And if it comes to a step where we have gone to far, and it's not the right time, I know that it isn't going to happen, for some reason or another, he won't let it. No matter how much various religious leaders and followers will cry out, how do we, as humans, know ultimately what is good or bad? People that feel so strongly against it have a lot to think about upon faith and prayer, instead of knee-jerk blasting of innovators.
Public $30/share; Underwriting discount and commissions $2.10/share; VA Linux gets $27.90/share. $2.10 didn't look like a lot to me until I saw that out of the total $132,000,000 to the public, the underwriters get $9,240,000. So no matter how big it jumped on IPO, LNUX only walks away with $123mil. Then again, IPO jumps are mostly based on fads of the public. People liked disco at one time, too... One of their filings has 14 pages of risk factors alone. Though I still wouldn't have minded being in on that one.
In mind that they probably filter the pages that they store in their engine, or maybe have it limited for that frontend (though I doubt that). Though it may not be such a great engine for a general-user search-all task, if it was localized to say, a student home page directory, it would be a whole different story. And searching through a hundred thousand pages wouldn't take nearly as long as a few million. But hey, it's a start.
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One million were not sold to consumers. These were all sold to OEMs. This is just mindless FUD that MS uses to combat others. That million that they sold includes all versions of Windows that are on store shelves, and all the companies that install Win2k and then buy 50,000 licenses (some of which they won't even use). And they probably throw in the total amount of Win2k downloads from MSDN just for kicks.
Of that 1 million copies, I'd guess only 3-400k are actually installed and being used right now.
I'm purely insulted!
So, officially, did they come out before Intel or did those 'few' Intel chips already hit?
Not that we'd need them or probably even buy them, but when the market is saturated with 1Ghz chips, and they sell like beanie babies to Wintel lemmings, the prices of the current 800-700Mhz will drop. Even chips like the 450Mhz (more than adequate in most needs) will drop substantially.
So even if a 1Ghz seems to be a waste to you, let it live, so the rest of us can get cheaper equipment that runs just as fast
All these posts about companies not having the "foresight" to register their domain names, and being out of luck have no real touch with reality. Think of the internet not in the instance of where it exists today, but over time since it's creation.
... Shouldn't they get whitehouse.com over what's already on it?
...
Companies are created from scratch everyday, everyone didn't start at exactly the same time, and raced to get to domain names when the gun shot.
Let's say I just thought of a great, easy-to-remember name for a company I just started, and went to register the domain, and found out that some squatter is using it, or a porn site, though the name has nothing to do with porn. Who's fault is that? I wasn't around 2 years ago to register it, and this company is only using it because it's easy to remember, and people will type it in, thinking it's not a porn site.
Is this fair? We know it's not ethical (as if such a thing exists these days), but I should be able to fight for it. What does whitehouse.com have to do with the whitehouse? Or the hundred of other domain names like it. And say White House Systems is created one day, selling custom Linux boxes, and goes IPO, tripling it's initial price
The rambling of a sick-of-society man
I think that any generic domain name is auctionable to the highest bidder, per-say. For example, loans.com, business.com, buy.com. No one in their right mind would name a company by that name, so pretty much the domain would just point to an already existing business domain.
However, where it comes down to someone selling a domain name that is already the name of an established business, is where the line should be drawn. If a company would want to sell, they should sell to the company that has it as a rightful name, rather than some other company that'd just exploit it.
Just IMO
There's a prompt somewhere to change them from fading to Win98 -sliding style, or regular style. But I can't find it anywhere now ... on w2k final. It's not where it SHOULD be (Taskbar and Start Menu Properties).
I have been using them for the last few months, besides the busy signals, which I can put up with, their technical support is POS. I accidently went over my *2meg* quota, and suddenly lost all access to my mailbox. Any attempts to connect, to check my mail or delete old mail, results in a "Connection broken by host".
Their $15/incident live tech support is laughable, but it took 3 emails (the final being very stern), and over a week of no email (and everyone receiving messages that my box is over quota) before they contacted me back, at my work email, saying that they can wipe all my mail out.
As of this date, I still have no email access.
And don't get me started on NetZero. Their nav bar had serious memory leaks, and would lock any of our computers solid if we ever went into command.com.
There has yet to be, IMO, a reliable free ISP. You can't live off advertising forever.
Looks like everyone picked up on the error except me :)
Finally a good animated linux mascot. Now to make him sing and dance UF tunes ....
I planned my whole day to arrange to have my lunch hour right now, just to watch it ... then I see it posted here and there goes all hope. Those of us who really looked forward to it have to stand in line behind those who are just bored and want to see what everyone's talking about.
.. might as well spend my lunch putting more server racks together ...
Oh well
Red Flag? It's clearly obvious. The commies are devising an operating system to compete with us capitalistic pigs. Free read/write rights for all.
(Though the read rights are only good on howto's and FAQ's, they may never touch executables, that's for the government super users).
They know we're well rounded. We gain that shape because of our insistent cravings for slacking and junk food, and utter loathing for anything that requires physical movement of more than fingers.
Tech stocks are, in general, falling all across the board, mostly due to the end of the year, and because of the huge volumes of shares that are being traded on Nasdaq. The market is very saturated with clueless investors. And with the entire nasdaq composite index down almost 100 points lately, and dropping, it looks like people are finally realizing that they are being played as fools.
Sure, I'd love to think that we helped in part to the downfall of etoys (I even went out of my way to avoid purchasing from them), but a lot of their failing stocks is also because of the christmas bandwagon. They fell into the same pit that Toy 'R Us did, not enough manpower, not enough equipment, and not enough experience to handle the onslaught of Christmas buyers, and they couldn't keep up with demand. So in fact, the actual BUYING from their site has done more damage than not buying from them.
Ironic, huh?
Just from reading the article. Not the actual details that he's trying to prove, but how the article is written, and how the information is presented. This, to me, does not seem like a valid article written by any journalist. Blatant profanity, and ego-hyping of the inventor, it seems as if the article was written by the man himself.
But, then again, maybe that's just the writer's style. Erik Baard, has also written many other articles on the uses of power and electricity.
Fraud or no, the whole thing just looks like a big game for the public to me.
http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/9
Get praise for the work you do right, and be ashamed for your mistakes. Community code, as such, doesn't teach each programmer his mistakes, IMO. If you feel that you have the syntax correct, and convince your partner in that, what if the next day a new pair of coders happen upon it and tear it to pieces. Granted, it was returning null values in the first place, but if the work is already done and posted up, you can look over it, but do you really learn from it?
The way I like it, each person on their own, knowing what to work towards. On routine schedules, a manager(s) will look over everyone's code and test it together. If a problem is found, the manager will discuss it with the coder, and give help on fixing it.
This may be less time effective, but you know that the skills of each programmer are rising, rather than looking at the overall skill of the community (the strong make up for the weak).
I agree to the same. The world works within natural boundaries of physics and life, much of which is unknown to us. I believe that God would like us to educate ourselves and strive to learn more and do more. And if it comes to a step where we have gone to far, and it's not the right time, I know that it isn't going to happen, for some reason or another, he won't let it. No matter how much various religious leaders and followers will cry out, how do we, as humans, know ultimately what is good or bad? People that feel so strongly against it have a lot to think about upon faith and prayer, instead of knee-jerk blasting of innovators.
Public $30/share; Underwriting discount and commissions $2.10/share; VA Linux gets $27.90/share. $2.10 didn't look like a lot to me until I saw that out of the total $132,000,000 to the public, the underwriters get $9,240,000. So no matter how big it jumped on IPO, LNUX only walks away with $123mil. Then again, IPO jumps are mostly based on fads of the public. People liked disco at one time, too ... One of their filings has 14 pages of risk factors alone. Though I still wouldn't have minded being in on that one.
In mind that they probably filter the pages that they store in their engine, or maybe have it limited for that frontend (though I doubt that). Though it may not be such a great engine for a general-user search-all task, if it was localized to say, a student home page directory, it would be a whole different story. And searching through a hundred thousand pages wouldn't take nearly as long as a few million. But hey, it's a start.