"Technology people never gave their stuff away," Schroeder says. "But now folks are saying, 'You mean the New England Journal of Medicine is charging people?' "
Well, Schroeder seems to have called our bluff. You got us. Open Source doesn't really exist.
Hmmm... I don't know, this sentence coming from a sysadmin kind of scares me. 'touch wood'... Hmm.
Doesn't surprise me much... in fact I bet if they did a study they'd find that sysadmins 'touch wood' more often than any other profession. (Or would they call it 'pounding the Penguin'?)
1.) As anyone who's ever been to a CompUSA knows, most people hate support plans.
True, but most corporations love them. Take a bit more out of the budget to make sure you don't spend your weekend banging your head against a problem with no resource to fall back on? You bet!
2.) Developers and Linux/FreeBSD users especially hate support plans. Why need support when all of the tools are already available.
Again, Linux developers should be the people PROVIDING support, not signing up for it. Both Micro$oft and the Linux support vendors know that the big money is deep-pockets-corporate money, not joe user's "aw geez should I pay $29 for support".
I think Katz's problem is that he doesn't realize that this is nothing new. This is the age old issue of the have's and the have not's. The rich get richer and all that....
Look back in time. Rich kids get more textbooks. Rich kids eat better meals so they learn better. Just look at the statistics of childhood wealth vs. college education! The dept. of Education has a lot of it right there.
Netscape 6? Wouldn't it be a wonderful world if the only browsers we had to consider were the lastest revision IE and NS.... Unfortunately, an even bigger problem than current IE/NS incompatibilities are the quirks and bugs of all the previous versions.
I too used to say, "Well let'em upgrade. It's free!" But unfortunately, Joe Modem isn't about to take his evening to get the latest freebie since he usually only surfs to ESPN anyway.
So you're designing a site not for 2 browsers, but 6 or 8. Of course you could always dumb it down to the lowest common denominator: you'd have a fast and efficient cross-browser site that would have the suits crying for your pinkslip in a matter of days...
Want to have a new TLD? Buy the rights from some rinkydink island nation! But there ARE no more good ones, you say? Well, don't wait around for Congress. I say:
Create your own TLD
For this project, you will need several million tons of sand and/or steel sufficient to build your own island nation in international waters.
Now you must name your nation. This is the most vital step! EG If you want a.news TLD, name your nation Newsonia or, the Democratic Repulic of News. Beware names like Assonia, Crapia, etc. as you may not be taken seriously as a nation.
Finally, simply build your nation and get it recognized internationally as a country. If you want to make extra cash, make your nation a haven for drug money, war criminals, or anonymous bank accounts.
'New Thinkpad To Combine Pen/Paper' - Combining pen and paper? Revolutionary! Ripped from the pages of Duh! magazine...
But actually this could spur some interesting hacks... command line scripting with pen and paper? Of course it's hard to clear the screen when you've been badmouthing the boss, if it's right there on paper.
Well, they are really changing the 'defaults' because someone no doubt noticed that it was stupid to default everything to 'NO'. Then they got the bright idea of grandfathering existing users who might have just blindly submitted the form.
At least they're using a 'grace period' before they open the floodgates.
As long as they don't sent me notices about auctions for University Diplomas, internet spy software, and pop-up-laden pr0n, I won't be TOO annoyed.
75GB HD holds 30 minutes... D-VHS holds 4 hours... so this is a 600GB Tape capable of writing end-to-end in 4 hours? I'd be willing to pay consumer video device prices to back up my home 'enterprise';)
With the proper computer equipment, they might be able scan large chunks of sky quickly, due to the speed of the dishes.
Unfortunately, hunting for long-range signals and super-distant light sources doesn't work that way. It's like saying if I can run really fast with my shovel I can dig up the whole yard in minutes. Fast motion only helps for targeting near-Earth objects in motion, such as satellites in orbit. The only motion the dishes need is to keep focused on a single point in space while on a rotating Earth.
Bzzt, wrong! The 'k' for ``kilo'' is always lowercase ('K' means ``Kelvin''), so it should have been kb/s or kbps.
Not this again. Things change, especially where technology is concerned. I have seen some sticklers who demand that K=1024x and k=1000x. That's neither here nor there. But common usage is going against you here.
As for my personal opinion: Oh COME ON! Do you really think there's any danger of someone getting confused and thinking we're talking about KELVIN BITS PER SECOND? What is that? The heat generated by the bit's friction?
Oh, and I'll try to refrain from slapping you for that oh-so-superior 'Bzzt, wrong'
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Since they obviously have no clue what they're talking about why even mention a release date in the first place?
Why not just say "It'll be done when it's done" and leave it at that rather than pulling dates out of thin air that obviously mean nothing?
Because of a little thing called Mindshare. The whole purpose of the marketroid is to keep us thinking about ProductX so we don't turn our attention to CompetitorY. Even Linus dangles a little carrot in front of us in the hopes we don't all get bored and install some flavor of BSD.
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Until some geneticist-version of a script-kiddie creates the roach-rat which multiplies and kills us all.
Well, Schroeder seems to have called our bluff. You got us. Open Source doesn't really exist.
Who will be the first to patent Mirror Cells?
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Doesn't surprise me much... in fact I bet if they did a study they'd find that sysadmins 'touch wood' more often than any other profession. (Or would they call it 'pounding the Penguin'?)
True, but most corporations love them. Take a bit more out of the budget to make sure you don't spend your weekend banging your head against a problem with no resource to fall back on? You bet!
2.) Developers and Linux/FreeBSD users especially hate support plans. Why need support when all of the tools are already available.
Again, Linux developers should be the people PROVIDING support, not signing up for it. Both Micro$oft and the Linux support vendors know that the big money is deep-pockets-corporate money, not joe user's "aw geez should I pay $29 for support".
Look back in time. Rich kids get more textbooks. Rich kids eat better meals so they learn better. Just look at the statistics of childhood wealth vs. college education! The dept. of Education has a lot of it right there.
I too used to say, "Well let'em upgrade. It's free!" But unfortunately, Joe Modem isn't about to take his evening to get the latest freebie since he usually only surfs to ESPN anyway.
So you're designing a site not for 2 browsers, but 6 or 8. Of course you could always dumb it down to the lowest common denominator: you'd have a fast and efficient cross-browser site that would have the suits crying for your pinkslip in a matter of days...
Create your own TLD
For this project, you will need several million tons of sand and/or steel sufficient to build your own island nation in international waters.
Now you must name your nation. This is the most vital step! EG If you want a .news TLD, name your nation Newsonia or, the Democratic Repulic of News. Beware names like Assonia, Crapia, etc. as you may not be taken seriously as a nation.
Finally, simply build your nation and get it recognized internationally as a country. If you want to make extra cash, make your nation a haven for drug money, war criminals, or anonymous bank accounts.
But actually this could spur some interesting hacks... command line scripting with pen and paper? Of course it's hard to clear the screen when you've been badmouthing the boss, if it's right there on paper.
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At least they're using a 'grace period' before they open the floodgates.
As long as they don't sent me notices about auctions for University Diplomas, internet spy software, and pop-up-laden pr0n, I won't be TOO annoyed.
75GB HD holds 30 minutes... D-VHS holds 4 hours... so this is a 600GB Tape capable of writing end-to-end in 4 hours? I'd be willing to pay consumer video device prices to back up my home 'enterprise' ;)
Hmm, actually I meant geometrically. But now that the crack is wearing off, I'm thinking that geometrical and exponential are not mutually exclusive.
It seems to me that doubling every 18 months is a mathematical, not exponential, progression.
I think they dumbed it down purposefully for us non-quantum physicists.
Yet it will never be modded up because I forgot to say Linux ROCKS! at the end. Sigh.
Unfortunately, hunting for long-range signals and super-distant light sources doesn't work that way. It's like saying if I can run really fast with my shovel I can dig up the whole yard in minutes. Fast motion only helps for targeting near-Earth objects in motion, such as satellites in orbit. The only motion the dishes need is to keep focused on a single point in space while on a rotating Earth.
Well for one, Ricochet offers 128kbps on a handy little receiver small enough to piggyback on your laptop. Might not be as fast, but pretty damn cool.
But this is a line-of-site technology; it's not even portable (ie This oak tree is just gonna have to go).
There are better,portable, wireless highspeed technologies out there now.
I never said anything about 'authoritative'. I said 'things change', 'common usage is against you', and '"Bzzt wrong" is annoying and slap-worthy.
Not this again. Things change, especially where technology is concerned. I have seen some sticklers who demand that K=1024x and k=1000x. That's neither here nor there. But common usage is going against you here.
webcoaches.com disagrees with you.
Ohio State University disagrees with you.
ABC Computer Classes disagrees with you. They also go into detail about the 1024K vs 1000k.
PCToday.com disagrees with you.
As for my personal opinion:
Oh COME ON! Do you really think there's any danger of someone getting confused and thinking we're talking about KELVIN BITS PER SECOND? What is that? The heat generated by the bit's friction?
Oh, and I'll try to refrain from slapping you for that oh-so-superior 'Bzzt, wrong'
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Why not just say "It'll be done when it's done" and leave it at that rather than pulling dates out of thin air that obviously mean nothing?
Because of a little thing called Mindshare. The whole purpose of the marketroid is to keep us thinking about ProductX so we don't turn our attention to CompetitorY. Even Linus dangles a little carrot in front of us in the hopes we don't all get bored and install some flavor of BSD.
SUBLIMINAL (insightful) MESSAGES (insightful) SUCK!
Yeah, but when you get out of prison you suddenly realize that they weren't so appealing after all...
Well maybe it can be configured to send you the porn emails with a higher priority.