Too bad Steam is already proving to be DRMified shit. I don't have very high hopes for HL2 anymore. I'm sick of Gabe Newell whining about why he can't get his shitty code to work with nvidia cards when everybody else doesn't seem to have any problems. On the other hand, ID has always done right by me. They kinda invented the whole Genre and their games ALWAYS blow everyone away. So I'm pretty sure Doom3 and Quake4 will rock intently. I hope UT2004 is at least as fun with instagib as UT2003 is. It's not a terribly great game.
I paid 50 bucks for my tin box edition Linux quake3 and installed it on FreeBSD. I paid 40 bucks for my Linux version of RTCW. I paid 50 bucks for UT2003 and it installed on Linux. I paid like 20 for UT because I came it late. So like, you really don't know what the fuck you are talking about.:) THANK YOU FOR PLAYING!
The same reason people buy a samurai sword or a dimestore trinket or an espresso machine that's collecting dust. I had some disposable income and thought "hey, wouldn't it be neat to never have to take my hand off my mouse?". So I put the thing in my left hand and got pretty fast with it. I eventually got bored with it. If anything I noticed a slight improvement in my guitar fretwork. Otherwise I'm about twice as fast with a normal keyboard.
We used to use Netapps at MindSpring to serve 80,000+ commercial webhosting clients. They are tough as hell, easy to maintain, last forever, and do everything right. You can mount the shares with NFS or CIFS. It has a web based interface for configuration, or a simple command line interface. You can add drives and change volume sizes, inodes, etc without shutting it off or losing a connection to it. The snapshot feature will eventually save your butt like it saved mine on many occasions. Hope this helps.
Indeed. Laughed my ass off. It's a treat to see how strongly people feel about things. Exposing the cracks in character. I don't do it often either, but I do it differently. Every once in a while I strike gold.
No doubt. Actually though the ripples of earning it would get to you before the light and gravity of the t-shirt. There would be a precursor event to the UPS guy showing up.
Bradley Scott McConkey led police on a 200km car chase at speeds of up to 180 kilometres per hour, as well as stealing cars at knifepoint and committing armed robbery on two businesses. If he spent a total of 15 minutes stealing cars at knifepoint, and commiting armed robbery while maintaining a total average speed of 155kph when he was driving, how big is his butthole now?
Possibly. But what about the phone(s) in the business? Don't assume that the phone on the desk in the cubicle is going anywhere anytime soon. Don't assume that the enormous infrastructure in place to provide phone service for the business market will go away for a very long time. That would have been a very viable market for the startup I was involved with. I think you are being slightly naive about how quickly the phone in the home will disappear also. Until such time as reliable and fast Internet service can be provided wireless for people that can't even get broadband. Until it is feasable to send faxes over a cellphone. Perhaps the phone in the home is going away in the cities. But in rural america, it's going to be around for a very long time.
A long time ago I got a new compaq server with a free copy of NT4. I had no use for the NT4, but a friend of mine across the country did. So I emailed him the prod key, and from IRC I used DCC file transfer to send him a zipfile of the i386 directory off the cd. He was on a 14.4 modem so it took something like 72 hours. Shout out to my homey criZasher.
VoIP can suck. Ours didn't though. We had an exclusive license on a very slick compression technology. If I'm not mistake, the IP holder has since licensed this technology to just about every telco he can. We also had a very impressive and more importantly PRETTY proof of concept rig we toted around with us to VC meetings. That part is very important if anyone is going to actually take you seriously. We also had partnership agreements with all the big names we were using. We actually had an agreement to set up a lab with Qwest to do developement on technologies to increase the amount of bandwidth we could push across fiber because we saw that as very important to our future. We made an insane effort to address every single issue we could think of to address common areas (competition in the market, emerging technologies, any potential show stoppers) before we made our first presentation. It obviously went well. It's just that the thing that can sink your business plan faster than anything is when you potentially have someone huge poised to take you out at every turn. Nobody is going to put money into something with a big bear on it's back. The news spread rapidly. We tried to put a positive face on it for a few weeks and simply gave up. Fortunately it wasn't so much a finantial loss for any of the original 12 of us as it was a loss of time spent. We did find ways to make some money out of the ideas in the end, but nothing substantial. Perhaps just enough to justify the time we had spent on the project.
Ok, I'll give you an example. MindSpring Enterprises was the first ISP in history to purchase customers outright from another ISP. They paid $499 per customer to buy all of PSInet's dialup customers. Because of that, from that moment forward all ISP's were valued by the number of customers they had times 499. If the startup I was involved with had succeeded, things right now would be very different. You couldn't be sure that 20 dollars flat rate is what someone could get for long distance. The market would have been effected by our 30 dollar a month offering. If anything, a pricing war might have ensued and we'd be at 10 dollars a month now. So it's silly to say "well, it's like this today so you'd be screwed" or any other comments in that vein for that reason. The whole landscape would have been altered earlier in the timeline.
You are overlooking the benefits of being first to market with something. That and the phone in the home isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Who is to say that we wouldn't have eventually been able to offer transport on our network to a t-mobile or similar company? That and advances in the past 3-4 years with fiber technology would have meant we could have easily doubled the traffic we would have been able to push across our fiber. It wouldn't have been hard at all to stay ahead. Granted, a great deal of our profit would have ended up going towards FCC lobby and other legal expenses because we knew the telcos would not take something like this sitting down. That's why we had provisions for such things in our business plan.
Sure, if at the time everyone had the option of hopping in a time machine and going 3 or 4 years in the future to use that 20 dollar a month long distance. As things were, we would have been the first kids on the block.
Almost. We were going to lease it from qwest. They had already done the work. I think the way things ended up, we had a 20 year lease agreement that kinda would have screwed us down the road. But we would have had a decade or so to figure something out. Qwest was trying very hard to sell us a managed solution. They initially didn't like the idea of parting with any unlit fiber. You should see the difference in prices between a managed fiber solution and leasing dark fiber.
A few years ago I was involved in a startup company. We had talked to qwest about buying a bunch of dark fiber. We had secured an insane amount of capital from Phoenix, E-Street, and MSDW surprisingly as they normally wouldn't be interested in a startup as they don't normally cater to incubator or angel type projects. So what were we selling? We had sat down and figured out that with some very expensive sycamore or juniper routers and DWDM and a bunch of dark fiber, we could roll out a nationwide flat rate VoIP long distance service for about 250 million dollars. We had an awesome business plan. A solid year of work. All the right buzzwords and an executive summary that would make the most hardened VC blush. We were a few months from starting. Qwest was excited. Everyone was excited. Then *poof*. All gone in an instant. It seems that AT&T had issued a statement to their stock holders that they would not be paying out dividends that year to anyone because they wanted to warchest that money in case someone like us came along. So the business plan was instantly invalidated. If things had gone the other way, I'd more than likely be selling a lot of you unlimited long distance service for 30 bucks a month, and expanding worldwide.
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Oh, how cute. You annoy people that blow your points out of the water by posting as an anonymous coward.
You mean like, how tuxgames.com is in business? Transgaming? Must be awesome always being right about everything.
Too bad Steam is already proving to be DRMified shit. I don't have very high hopes for HL2 anymore. I'm sick of Gabe Newell whining about why he can't get his shitty code to work with nvidia cards when everybody else doesn't seem to have any problems. On the other hand, ID has always done right by me. They kinda invented the whole Genre and their games ALWAYS blow everyone away. So I'm pretty sure Doom3 and Quake4 will rock intently. I hope UT2004 is at least as fun with instagib as UT2003 is. It's not a terribly great game.
Lets see,
:) THANK YOU FOR PLAYING!
I paid 50 bucks for my tin box edition Linux quake3 and installed it on FreeBSD. I paid 40 bucks for my Linux version of RTCW. I paid 50 bucks for UT2003 and it installed on Linux. I paid like 20 for UT because I came it late. So like, you really don't know what the fuck you are talking about.
Sure. Just because.
The same reason people buy a samurai sword or a dimestore trinket or an espresso machine that's collecting dust. I had some disposable income and thought "hey, wouldn't it be neat to never have to take my hand off my mouse?". So I put the thing in my left hand and got pretty fast with it. I eventually got bored with it. If anything I noticed a slight improvement in my guitar fretwork. Otherwise I'm about twice as fast with a normal keyboard.
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I gots one just because. I can pick it up every few months and maintain 45wpm.
Used Netapp brand Network Appliances
We used to use Netapps at MindSpring to serve 80,000+ commercial webhosting clients. They are tough as hell, easy to maintain, last forever, and do everything right. You can mount the shares with NFS or CIFS. It has a web based interface for configuration, or a simple command line interface. You can add drives and change volume sizes, inodes, etc without shutting it off or losing a connection to it. The snapshot feature will eventually save your butt like it saved mine on many occasions. Hope this helps.
Indeed. Laughed my ass off. It's a treat to see how strongly people feel about things. Exposing the cracks in character. I don't do it often either, but I do it differently. Every once in a while I strike gold.
This brings back memories
I should write for CSI or something.
No doubt. Actually though the ripples of earning it would get to you before the light and gravity of the t-shirt. There would be a precursor event to the UPS guy showing up.
You are supposed to say "whitey"
I don't know if Tomb Raider AOD counts. It's less of a program and more of a poorly done commercial for a brand.
Bradley Scott McConkey led police on a 200km car chase at speeds of up to 180 kilometres per hour, as well as stealing cars at knifepoint and committing armed robbery on two businesses. If he spent a total of 15 minutes stealing cars at knifepoint, and commiting armed robbery while maintaining a total average speed of 155kph when he was driving, how big is his butthole now?
adopting the Microsoft business model is going to work out for them.
Possibly. But what about the phone(s) in the business? Don't assume that the phone on the desk in the cubicle is going anywhere anytime soon. Don't assume that the enormous infrastructure in place to provide phone service for the business market will go away for a very long time. That would have been a very viable market for the startup I was involved with. I think you are being slightly naive about how quickly the phone in the home will disappear also. Until such time as reliable and fast Internet service can be provided wireless for people that can't even get broadband. Until it is feasable to send faxes over a cellphone. Perhaps the phone in the home is going away in the cities. But in rural america, it's going to be around for a very long time.
hehe, awesome.
A long time ago I got a new compaq server with a free copy of NT4. I had no use for the NT4, but a friend of mine across the country did. So I emailed him the prod key, and from IRC I used DCC file transfer to send him a zipfile of the i386 directory off the cd. He was on a 14.4 modem so it took something like 72 hours. Shout out to my homey criZasher.
THANKS!
Ok, I'll bite.
VoIP can suck. Ours didn't though. We had an exclusive license on a very slick compression technology. If I'm not mistake, the IP holder has since licensed this technology to just about every telco he can. We also had a very impressive and more importantly PRETTY proof of concept rig we toted around with us to VC meetings. That part is very important if anyone is going to actually take you seriously. We also had partnership agreements with all the big names we were using. We actually had an agreement to set up a lab with Qwest to do developement on technologies to increase the amount of bandwidth we could push across fiber because we saw that as very important to our future. We made an insane effort to address every single issue we could think of to address common areas (competition in the market, emerging technologies, any potential show stoppers) before we made our first presentation. It obviously went well. It's just that the thing that can sink your business plan faster than anything is when you potentially have someone huge poised to take you out at every turn. Nobody is going to put money into something with a big bear on it's back. The news spread rapidly. We tried to put a positive face on it for a few weeks and simply gave up. Fortunately it wasn't so much a finantial loss for any of the original 12 of us as it was a loss of time spent. We did find ways to make some money out of the ideas in the end, but nothing substantial. Perhaps just enough to justify the time we had spent on the project.
Ok, I'll give you an example. MindSpring Enterprises was the first ISP in history to purchase customers outright from another ISP. They paid $499 per customer to buy all of PSInet's dialup customers. Because of that, from that moment forward all ISP's were valued by the number of customers they had times 499. If the startup I was involved with had succeeded, things right now would be very different. You couldn't be sure that 20 dollars flat rate is what someone could get for long distance. The market would have been effected by our 30 dollar a month offering. If anything, a pricing war might have ensued and we'd be at 10 dollars a month now. So it's silly to say "well, it's like this today so you'd be screwed" or any other comments in that vein for that reason. The whole landscape would have been altered earlier in the timeline.
Love your sig. Is that from Carl from ATHF? I could have swore that's what he said when he had the Foreigner power belt on.
You are overlooking the benefits of being first to market with something. That and the phone in the home isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Who is to say that we wouldn't have eventually been able to offer transport on our network to a t-mobile or similar company? That and advances in the past 3-4 years with fiber technology would have meant we could have easily doubled the traffic we would have been able to push across our fiber. It wouldn't have been hard at all to stay ahead. Granted, a great deal of our profit would have ended up going towards FCC lobby and other legal expenses because we knew the telcos would not take something like this sitting down. That's why we had provisions for such things in our business plan.
Sure, if at the time everyone had the option of hopping in a time machine and going 3 or 4 years in the future to use that 20 dollar a month long distance. As things were, we would have been the first kids on the block.
Almost. We were going to lease it from qwest. They had already done the work. I think the way things ended up, we had a 20 year lease agreement that kinda would have screwed us down the road. But we would have had a decade or so to figure something out. Qwest was trying very hard to sell us a managed solution. They initially didn't like the idea of parting with any unlit fiber. You should see the difference in prices between a managed fiber solution and leasing dark fiber.
You don't know much about qwest do you. :) I'll leave it at that.
A few years ago I was involved in a startup company. We had talked to qwest about buying a bunch of dark fiber. We had secured an insane amount of capital from Phoenix, E-Street, and MSDW surprisingly as they normally wouldn't be interested in a startup as they don't normally cater to incubator or angel type projects. So what were we selling? We had sat down and figured out that with some very expensive sycamore or juniper routers and DWDM and a bunch of dark fiber, we could roll out a nationwide flat rate VoIP long distance service for about 250 million dollars. We had an awesome business plan. A solid year of work. All the right buzzwords and an executive summary that would make the most hardened VC blush. We were a few months from starting. Qwest was excited. Everyone was excited. Then *poof*. All gone in an instant. It seems that AT&T had issued a statement to their stock holders that they would not be paying out dividends that year to anyone because they wanted to warchest that money in case someone like us came along. So the business plan was instantly invalidated. If things had gone the other way, I'd more than likely be selling a lot of you unlimited long distance service for 30 bucks a month, and expanding worldwide.
Couldn't resist. Much love for FreeBSD btw.