Totally. I am an "admin" who "manages" about 150 Windows systems these days. Of course, I'm supported by other teams of "non-admins", so even that figure doesn't clearly indicate the Windows TCO.
It's still not clear where the webcasters are supposed to get this magical money from. After all, they can't fund new albums unless they have some sort of revenue stream, right?
So: are they planning to charge for their 'casts? Are they planning to sell ads? Are they hoping for industry payola?
Charging for the 'cast probably won't work. Selling ads might work, if advertisers and websurfers weren't both in "once bitten, twice shy" mode about internet advertising. And if you're doing an end-run around the industry, payola is pretty much a non-option.
Personally, I'd prefer to wait for something truly impressive, before giving up the name of my supreme deity for taxonomical purposes.
"The Tongva people? Didn't we name one of those half-assed trans-Neptunian bodies after one of their gods? Qu-something-or-other? Whatever. Anyway, want another latte?"
The convention is overwhelmingly for Roman deities. With the exception of Earth, all the planets are named after figures from the Greek/Roman pantheon, using the Roman names: Mercury, Venus, [Earth], Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.
My vote is for Minerva, if it's not already taken.
Then, of course, there's the painful deviation from the traditional planet naming convention to consider: Minerva, Ulysses, and Orpheus are all better choices than "Q-mumble-mumble".
I swear, it looks like the sort of name that was made specially for Ash to mispronounce, thereby summoning unspeakable evil to an S-Mart near you.
I'm actually abysmal at math. Within my own idiom, my thinking is generally clear and consistent, but when it comes to simple calculations... I can get about halfway through, and then I have to wing it. I should have just said "whatever it is, it looks like a lot, so I'm interested". Oh well.
What makes this article news is the sudden jump in bandwidth over the current technology: from 10bps to 1Mbps. That's a 100x increase, which sounds pretty interesting to me. I mean, if Cisco came to you and said their new switches could pass 10,000% more data per second, would you blow them off, saying "sorry, but packet switching is old news, not interested"?
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MTV will portray Fanning as a hero, and Napster as the Holy Grail, and then... nothing. One week later, nobody will remember or care. For MTV, its sponsors, its RIAA overlords, and its viewers, it will be business as usual: a cookie-cutter counterculture/rebel story ("based on real events") to entertain the masses, and no real threat to the status quo.
...the only thing belief systems beget is intolerance.
Unless, of course, it happens to be a system of belief in tolerance. You seem to be pro-tolerance, so I feel comfortable predicting that you yourself subscribe to a pro-tolerance belief system.
You can contradict me, if you like, but that might be a sign of intolerance... not that intolerance is necessarily a bad thing. After all, if you're unwilling to assert that certain things are wrong and should not be tolerated, then where are you? You can't meet your SLAs, your workstation will be misconfigured and ineffective, your liberties will be abridged at every turn, and your thinking will lack rigor.
It looks like belief systems are a Good Thing, precisely because they specify what is acceptable and what isn't.
Here's the alert propagating through our datacenter (San Diego, CA):
"10/3/2002 11:50:22 AM
OPEN - Alert - The UUNET Network outage is still outstanding. Problems are
spreading from the East coast, westward. There are no indications of when
the issue will be resolved. Currently the only problems [company name] is having
is the degradation of connectivity to overseas [company name] sites as well as
partners who do no have a backup ISP. Next update when the issue is
resolved."
I think C.S. Lewis had the right idea: that the State exists for the sole purpose of protecting and improving the life of the citizen.
Nowadays it seems as though both parties are interested in nothing more than the perpetuation of their own rulership. The citizen is added almost as an afterthought, or as a target for marketing ("Vote for us! We'll make everything better!").
You've overlooked the fact that putting a lot of drives under an OS that can trivially handle a lot of drives is uninteresting. Finding hardware that plays nice with Win95 and has the bus(es) to support lots of drives, and getting the whole thing to work is the opposite of uninteresting. And no more pointless than your beloved VMS device names.
And if the cook is an excellent cook, but doesn't understand your order as submitted? Perhaps someone with good written and verbal communication skills, comprehensive knowledge of the menu, and experience with customers might perform a valuable function. Until the cook can communicate as well as the waiter, and possibly better than myself, I'll stick with proven natural language processing technology, thank you very much.
If your waiter consistently garbles your order, I submit that your problem is with the implementation, not the design. Try a different restaurant.
The individual poster you're addressing may not actually have the double standard you accuse him of. If any one poster can represent all of Slashdot's different and conflicting opinions, then I'm free to hold you personally responsible for the whole Goatse thing.
Not to mention the fact that actions may be judged by motivation--someone who finds Apple to be a "nicer" company might tolerate or even approve of many actions that would draw nothing but criticism if undertaken by Microsoft.
And about the Goatse thing: Nice job, fucko. I hope you rot in hell.
Sweet! With a User # of 2919, you're the oldest tiresome bore in my/. collection. Between that and making Blade Runner look stupid, you must be very proud.
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Totally. I am an "admin" who "manages" about 150 Windows systems these days. Of course, I'm supported by other teams of "non-admins", so even that figure doesn't clearly indicate the Windows TCO.
It's still not clear where the webcasters are supposed to get this magical money from. After all, they can't fund new albums unless they have some sort of revenue stream, right?
So: are they planning to charge for their 'casts? Are they planning to sell ads? Are they hoping for industry payola?
Charging for the 'cast probably won't work. Selling ads might work, if advertisers and websurfers weren't both in "once bitten, twice shy" mode about internet advertising. And if you're doing an end-run around the industry, payola is pretty much a non-option.
Indeed. I have recently refined my position.
Curses! Foiled again! Goddamn trans-Neptunian bodies. Why do they need names, anyway?
Personally, I'd prefer to wait for something truly impressive, before giving up the name of my supreme deity for taxonomical purposes.
"The Tongva people? Didn't we name one of those half-assed trans-Neptunian bodies after one of their gods? Qu-something-or-other? Whatever. Anyway, want another latte?"
Finally, a space program that makes sense! In other news, I'll be refferring to everything past Neputune as "trans-Neputnian bodies".
Clearly, we should just call the thing "Ten of Nine", and leave it at that. After all, it's clear that Saturn is the sexiest planet.
The convention is overwhelmingly for Roman deities. With the exception of Earth, all the planets are named after figures from the Greek/Roman pantheon, using the Roman names: Mercury, Venus, [Earth], Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.
My vote is for Minerva, if it's not already taken.
Then, of course, there's the painful deviation from the traditional planet naming convention to consider: Minerva, Ulysses, and Orpheus are all better choices than "Q-mumble-mumble".
I swear, it looks like the sort of name that was made specially for Ash to mispronounce, thereby summoning unspeakable evil to an S-Mart near you.
I'm actually abysmal at math. Within my own idiom, my thinking is generally clear and consistent, but when it comes to simple calculations... I can get about halfway through, and then I have to wing it. I should have just said "whatever it is, it looks like a lot, so I'm interested". Oh well.
What makes this article news is the sudden jump in bandwidth over the current technology: from 10bps to 1Mbps. That's a 100x increase, which sounds pretty interesting to me. I mean, if Cisco came to you and said their new switches could pass 10,000% more data per second, would you blow them off, saying "sorry, but packet switching is old news, not interested"?
MTV will portray Fanning as a hero, and Napster as the Holy Grail, and then... nothing. One week later, nobody will remember or care. For MTV, its sponsors, its RIAA overlords, and its viewers, it will be business as usual: a cookie-cutter counterculture/rebel story ("based on real events") to entertain the masses, and no real threat to the status quo.
Unless, of course, it happens to be a system of belief in tolerance. You seem to be pro-tolerance, so I feel comfortable predicting that you yourself subscribe to a pro-tolerance belief system.
You can contradict me, if you like, but that might be a sign of intolerance... not that intolerance is necessarily a bad thing. After all, if you're unwilling to assert that certain things are wrong and should not be tolerated, then where are you? You can't meet your SLAs, your workstation will be misconfigured and ineffective, your liberties will be abridged at every turn, and your thinking will lack rigor.
It looks like belief systems are a Good Thing, precisely because they specify what is acceptable and what isn't.
"10/3/2002 11:50:22 AM
OPEN - Alert - The UUNET Network outage is still outstanding. Problems are spreading from the East coast, westward. There are no indications of when the issue will be resolved. Currently the only problems [company name] is having is the degradation of connectivity to overseas [company name] sites as well as partners who do no have a backup ISP. Next update when the issue is resolved."
I think C.S. Lewis had the right idea: that the State exists for the sole purpose of protecting and improving the life of the citizen.
Nowadays it seems as though both parties are interested in nothing more than the perpetuation of their own rulership. The citizen is added almost as an afterthought, or as a target for marketing ("Vote for us! We'll make everything better!").
Not all of us here at Slashdot are being hypocritical: some of us actually have research to support our claims. Thanks for generalizing, though.
I won't lie to you: Netflix is the bomb. But it's also been sitting on the shelves at my local Blockbuster for almost a year now.
You've overlooked the fact that putting a lot of drives under an OS that can trivially handle a lot of drives is uninteresting. Finding hardware that plays nice with Win95 and has the bus(es) to support lots of drives, and getting the whole thing to work is the opposite of uninteresting. And no more pointless than your beloved VMS device names.
And if the cook is an excellent cook, but doesn't understand your order as submitted? Perhaps someone with good written and verbal communication skills, comprehensive knowledge of the menu, and experience with customers might perform a valuable function. Until the cook can communicate as well as the waiter, and possibly better than myself, I'll stick with proven natural language processing technology, thank you very much.
If your waiter consistently garbles your order, I submit that your problem is with the implementation, not the design. Try a different restaurant.
I don't think people "gladly" pay so much as they "unknowingly" pay.
Yes, we can surely learn a lot from people who value their beer more than their spirituality.
What, like ring gags?
Obviously, your problem is that you're playing Dungeon Siege.
The individual poster you're addressing may not actually have the double standard you accuse him of. If any one poster can represent all of Slashdot's different and conflicting opinions, then I'm free to hold you personally responsible for the whole Goatse thing.
Not to mention the fact that actions may be judged by motivation--someone who finds Apple to be a "nicer" company might tolerate or even approve of many actions that would draw nothing but criticism if undertaken by Microsoft.
And about the Goatse thing: Nice job, fucko. I hope you rot in hell.
Sweet! With a User # of 2919, you're the oldest tiresome bore in my /. collection. Between that and making Blade Runner look stupid, you must be very proud.