Are the Germany councilmen (yes, men) closet homosexuals? Stuffed animals to wins their hearts but they can't afford to be seen in public being weaker than a woman? Call the Drudgereport! Sound the alarm! "German Councilmen Outed by Linux!"
Kidding aside, this shows that everything is politics, salesmanship and psychology; even something as simple as choosing the best software platform.
I'm sitting at a Starbucks now downloading Knoppix 3.4 via BitTorrent. I still use Windows XP on this beastie 'cuz I haven't been real successful with Linux on this yet... Here's hopin'
Does it play the startup wave coming off standby or out of hibernate or does Enderle shutdown his computer when he moves it from place to place? My Dell Inspiron 5150, with much better specs than his puny eye-candy, moves from home to office to Starbucks to Newport Beach Brewery (which has free wifi access) in hibernate state but rarely do I shutdown. In fact I reboot only when a MSFT security patch comes out.
Oh. If you're really, really desirous of a.wav of a race/luxury car and want to save your $1,899 admission price for something else, go to this page but turn off sound before you do. I warned you.
Jobs versus Eisner & Gates. Hmmm. Eisner is under attack by the Disney family (having kicked the Son off the board, effectively) and has had a high profile contract loss (Pixar itself). Gates is reviled and ridiculed by roughly the same people since Greenspun made his Bill Gates Personal Wealth Clock; this hasn't hurt him much at all. Jobs is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma (without the genocide). Pixar had a disappointing earnings report
Will Time Warner choose sides?
Speaking of which, will this Internet/Media marriage have as much impact as TimeWarner/AOL? if so, this is non-news.
You're right. With Mozilla's built-in Google-accessibility and Google Toolbar on IE I didn't see the fractious fractal logo even though I used Google (checking)... more than 40 times yesterday (according to History).
Getting moderated down is fine, but what idiot thought this was FLAMEBAIT?
Catch a clue, moderators. This is a flamebait:
Whoever moderated the parent as Flamebait is a moron or a India-based technology wonk thinking their $.35/day wages are going to make them the next Bill Gates, in which case I excuse them for failing to understand basic English. Whoever you are you suck and should have moderating privileges removed retroactive to the date of your birth, which would probably be sometime in 1999.
Philip Greenspun, I believe, commented at the height of Internet Hype email was still the killer app of the Internet, not the web. Indeed in 2000, iirc, Dave Winer sent out an email newsletter wherein he stated his amazement that more people rely on his newsletter for updates than visit his dymnamically updated website. No mystery to me: emailed newsletters require no action on my part except subscribing (and not always that is required, which is why we're discussing spam, eh?), has a familiar interface that my Mom, a grandmother many times over, has no trouble mastering, and is well-supported by various vendors. But email is overrun with spam, worms and viruses... and forwarded conspiracies from grandmothers (*ahem*).
But another method of delivering news is available to content serializers: RSS feeds. RSS feeds allow for true "push" content delivery like email. But, RSS feeds are not as easy to grasp, access or view as email.
Proposal: create an add-in RSS feed aggregator into common email platforms such as Outlook, Outlook Express, Mozilla, Eudora, pine (kidding), etc. Build content creation mechansism into the same email clients with the ability to post the feeds to a public directory (Google? Anyone listening?) with various subscription options on both ends.
This way email could be returned to a person-to-person(s) communication tool for low-volume communication needs; content aggregators could better server their readers/viewers and we can all experience whirrled peas.
Whatever. Anyway, just an idea -- what thinkest thou?
Federal BIll 602p
Guess the warnings were true. Federal Bill 602P 5-cents per E-mail sent. It figures! No more free E-mail! We knew this was coming!! Bill 602P will permit the Federal Government to charge a 5-cent charge on every delivered E-mail. Please read the following carefully if you intend to stay online and continue using E-mail. The last few months have revealed an alarming trend in the Government of the United States attempting to quietly push through legislation that will affect our use of the Internet. Under proposed legislation, the US Postal Service will be attempting to bill E-mail users out of "alternative postage fees". Bill 602P will permit the
Federal Government to charge a 5-cent surcharge on every e-mail delivered, by billing Internet Service Providers at source. The consumer would then be billed in turn by the ISP. Washington DC lawyer Richard Stepp is working without pay to prevent this legislation from becoming law. The US Postal Service is claiming lost revenue, due to the proliferation of E-mail, is costing nearly $230,000,000 in revenue per year. You may have noticed their recent ad campaign: "There is nothing like a letter." Since the average person received about 10 pieces of E-mail per day in 1998, the cost of the typical individual would be an additional 50 cents a day - or over $180 per year - above and beyond their regular Internet costs. Note that this would be money paid directly to the US Postal Service for a service they do not even provide. The whole point of the Internet is
democracy and non-interference. You are already paying an exorbitant price for snail mail because of bureaucratic inefficiency. It currently takes up to 6 days for a letter to be delivered from coast to coast. If the US Postal Service is allowed to tinker with E-mail, it will mark the end of the "free" Internet in the United States. Congressional representative, Tony Schnell (r) has even suggested a "$20-$40 per month surcharge on all Internet service" above and beyond the governments proposed E-mail charges. Note that most of the major newspapers have ignored the story the only exception being the Washingtonian which called the idea of E-mail surcharge "a useful concept who's time has come" (March 6th,1999 Editorial).
Do not sit by and watch your freedom erode away! Send this E-mail to EVERYONE on your list, and tell all your friends and relatives to write their congressional representative and say "NO" to Bill 602P.
It will only take a few moments of your time and could very well be instrumental in killing a bill we do not want.
I went on US house of Representatives to e-mail my State Representative.
PLEASE FORWARD!
Is all spam destined to become true? I better stock up on credit card debt busting male member enhancing pharmaceuticals...
True. But who wants to live in a country with a dying culture, stagnant language, corrupt national leaders who take bribes from murdering tyrannts and who don't know that their relevance to the world scene ended on June 22, 1940?
Besides, the number of deaths in France was directly attributed to the lack of care Frenchmen give to their own elderly relatives. France is a decaying, vain, miserable country.
You can't just jump into an existing niche with a text editor or password manager or anything else there are fifty of already. You also can't compete with high-end applications
I hear this rhetoric so often that it seems true, but it is not. It is easier to be sucessful having a unique product that is also in high demand. But where are the ones willing to work hard to make something better than the existing, professional, mature programs?
Where have the real programmers gone? The ones confident enough to take on the powerhouses and make a better product rather than merely finding the little niche no one is addressing so they can get started without competition?
Friend of mine started a project 1 year ago and is going up against the biggest names in his highly saturated target market. His approach: make a vastly superior product, gather a team of top technical, customer service, marketing talent; leverage contacts through previous successful development projects and to be bold.
Why not be bold? Why not do what it takes to be the best? Of course, you need to think that you can be the best to take that path. And you need to be able to be the best to be successful.
My friend? His project is making serious waves in his industry and he has won some major customers from the biggest players in a very public way. He's targeting a saturated market with the strategy of besting everyone else.
I was contacted by a company that has a GPL'ed/Commercial product. I was contacted to see if I was interested in helping them with a "big push." I answered that I was and I looked forward to discussing the opportunity further . I said working with a company providing the [deleted] industry with a solution both GPL'ed and commercially available was attractive, as I liked the idea of making a living but also being able to contribute to the [deleted] industry.
Needless to say I never received anything back from them.
Too many times companies want to start a "GPL" project and think that the programmers doing the work would also be free. GPL programmers either are paid to program, have a personal interest and are making their own contributions, or are naive. I'm not naive, and they weren't interested in paying. So, if I do the work (once my NDA/NCA expires next year) it will be on my own as long as I can itch and scratch.
As someone born at the end of the 60's I can empathize. I remember when everyone wanted a CB radio, about the time Convoy ("Rubber Duck") was a hit song. Today it is hard to imagine paying money for a device that enables me to listen to over-the-road haulers' conversation. I mean, when I'm traveling and stop at a truck stop I don't run over and strike up a conversation with the truckers...I kinda avoid them...
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I guess "stagnant" is well-defined. SCO's recent investments in its technology core ($0) prove they are committed to stagnation, too.
How many people are thinking, "Whew, I'm glad my company isn't listed on that Hall of Shame page? I know I am!"
Kidding aside, this shows that everything is politics, salesmanship and psychology; even something as simple as choosing the best software platform.
Congratulations!
Besides, I was just pullin' your chain :)
Dell Inspiron 5150
:)
Processor , Current Processor Speed Genuine Intel(R) CPU 3.06GHz
Total Memory 1024 MB
Model Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN Mini-PCI Card [802.11g]
Model Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Controller
Model Conexant D480 MDC V.92 Modem
CD / CD-RW / DVD / DVD+RW
Model QSI CDRW/DVD SBW-242 [didn't want DVD+RW]
Model MOBILITY RADEON 9000
RAM 64 MB
1600x1400
USB Controller Intel(R) 82801DB/DBM USB Universal Host Controller - 24C2
USB Controller Intel(R) 82801DB/DBM USB Universal Host Controller - 24C4
USB Controller Intel(R) 82801DB/DBM USB Universal Host Controller - 24C7
USB Controller Intel(r) 82801DB/DBM USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller - 24CD
1394 Controller Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
I'm sitting at a Starbucks now downloading Knoppix 3.4 via BitTorrent. I still use Windows XP on this beastie 'cuz I haven't been real successful with Linux on this yet... Here's hopin'
Oh. If you're really, really desirous of a .wav of a race/luxury car and want to save your $1,899 admission price for something else, go to this page but turn off sound before you do. I warned you.
Jobs versus Eisner & Gates. Hmmm. Eisner is under attack by the Disney family (having kicked the Son off the board, effectively) and has had a high profile contract loss (Pixar itself). Gates is reviled and ridiculed by roughly the same people since Greenspun made his Bill Gates Personal Wealth Clock; this hasn't hurt him much at all. Jobs is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma (without the genocide). Pixar had a disappointing earnings report
Will Time Warner choose sides?
Speaking of which, will this Internet/Media marriage have as much impact as TimeWarner/AOL? if so, this is non-news.
- Wierd, ins't it?
You wrote:- It's spelt weird.
:)
Did you miss the sarcasm or did you think ins't was spelled correctly?You're right. With Mozilla's built-in Google-accessibility and Google Toolbar on IE I didn't see the fractious fractal logo even though I used Google (checking) ... more than 40 times yesterday (according to History).
very nice.
Catch a clue, moderators. This is a flamebait:
Now that's Flamebait, buck-o.But another method of delivering news is available to content serializers: RSS feeds. RSS feeds allow for true "push" content delivery like email. But, RSS feeds are not as easy to grasp, access or view as email.
Proposal: create an add-in RSS feed aggregator into common email platforms such as Outlook, Outlook Express, Mozilla, Eudora, pine (kidding), etc. Build content creation mechansism into the same email clients with the ability to post the feeds to a public directory (Google? Anyone listening?) with various subscription options on both ends.
This way email could be returned to a person-to-person(s) communication tool for low-volume communication needs; content aggregators could better server their readers/viewers and we can all experience whirrled peas.
Whatever. Anyway, just an idea -- what thinkest thou?
In America, conservative Christians restrict Scandanavian cultural behaviors.
Besides, the number of deaths in France was directly attributed to the lack of care Frenchmen give to their own elderly relatives. France is a decaying, vain, miserable country.
*Foreigners desiring to work in India are welcome only if they locate in Andhra Pradesh .
(Source: HotJobs.com)
Trolls have ruined trolling to such an extent that reading below +1 is no longer entertaining. Hence, AC posts don't count towards redundancy.
If you don't understand why this is true, there is no help for you.
its grammer, dammint!
I hear this rhetoric so often that it seems true, but it is not. It is easier to be sucessful having a unique product that is also in high demand. But where are the ones willing to work hard to make something better than the existing, professional, mature programs?
Where have the real programmers gone? The ones confident enough to take on the powerhouses and make a better product rather than merely finding the little niche no one is addressing so they can get started without competition?
Friend of mine started a project 1 year ago and is going up against the biggest names in his highly saturated target market. His approach: make a vastly superior product, gather a team of top technical, customer service, marketing talent; leverage contacts through previous successful development projects and to be bold.
Why not be bold? Why not do what it takes to be the best? Of course, you need to think that you can be the best to take that path. And you need to be able to be the best to be successful.
My friend? His project is making serious waves in his industry and he has won some major customers from the biggest players in a very public way. He's targeting a saturated market with the strategy of besting everyone else.
Boldly going where many others have gone before.
I was contacted by a company that has a GPL'ed/Commercial product. I was contacted to see if I was interested in helping them with a "big push." I answered that I was and I looked forward to discussing the opportunity further . I said working with a company providing the [deleted] industry with a solution both GPL'ed and commercially available was attractive, as I liked the idea of making a living but also being able to contribute to the [deleted] industry.
Needless to say I never received anything back from them.
Too many times companies want to start a "GPL" project and think that the programmers doing the work would also be free. GPL programmers either are paid to program, have a personal interest and are making their own contributions, or are naive. I'm not naive, and they weren't interested in paying. So, if I do the work (once my NDA/NCA expires next year) it will be on my own as long as I can itch and scratch.
Hopefully I haven't described your efforts.
"If it sounds like Boo.com, run."
Investment Strategy Tip #172
LOL
Yeah, like moron spelling/grammar nazis who use non-words such as "alot" in place of "a lot".
Wierd, ins't it?
Good idea. I nearly went for the joint MBA/JD degree at UNC when I got my BS/IS in 1994. Still think about it, actually.
As someone born at the end of the 60's I can empathize. I remember when everyone wanted a CB radio, about the time Convoy ("Rubber Duck") was a hit song. Today it is hard to imagine paying money for a device that enables me to listen to over-the-road haulers' conversation. I mean, when I'm traveling and stop at a truck stop I don't run over and strike up a conversation with the truckers...I kinda avoid them...