I don't see the original thought here. Intrusive ads generate more revenue... yep. Some services need more revenue... yep. There are many ways to pay that increased cost of which intrusive ads are one... yep. That doesn't make them less obnoxious and isn't really new.
If you want to use those ads as a way to generate revenue then good for you. Maybe it will work, and maybe those customers of yours will enable popups and other crap to use your service. The rest of us will still avoid those boils on the ass of humanity as much as we can because that's what they are.
Companies don't set out to innovate. If that process worked then the best way to come up with new ideas would be to close your eyes really hard and try to "think original". If you have enough minds in the room then a few of them will be thinking of something new, and a few of those will have the drive to actually do it. When someone gets a new, strange, and risky idea and decides to implement it themselves, and when that person succeeds, then you get an "innovative developer" (coming as a side-effect not from intent).
The advantages that big companies have are leverage and resources. The drawback they live with is that they have to plan more carefully to keep the organization moving forward productively. This leads them to take safer bets and often stifle the "wild ideas". Small companies will take more risks. The ability of small companies to fill a niche and to react quickly are their main competitive advantages. This means that, other things equal, the public will see more innovation coming from small organizations than large ones.
yeeesh, I'm not sure you want to be doing this stuff if the solution isn't pretty clear. " ssh hostname 'command' " will execute whatever command you want on the remote machine. Use authorized_keys on the machines so the ssh goes through without a hitch. Use your scripting language of choice to send each command in a sequence to a list of machines.
If you want to get really funky then add interaction to the script to allow inputing commands. If you are actually messing with multiple machines I submit it is quite dumb to do these operations with a console. You don't want input error to be a factor in a production environment. You do want to test the sequence of commands on a single box and then run them in replication.
You really need to use the definitions everyone else in the world use.
Atheism : The doctrine that there is no god or gods.
Agnosticism : The doctrine that certainty about first principles or absolute truth is unattainable and that only perceptual phenomena are objects of exact knowledge. (The short version is: "we don't know")
These were from "The American Heritage Dictionary", but you may pick any widely know english dictionary and the definition will not change.
"capable of transmitting up to 0.9 miles (1.4 km) in line-of-sight conditions"... Using a satellite dish or other hinky 2.4 GHz antenna's. In normal usage the wikipedia is dead on.
That bug was in bugzilla since FC1. Are you saying it's not their responsibility to look through bugzilla and clear out the showstopper's before release? It wasn't exactly "new"....
Actually I _think_ the problem can happen with updates too... especially if you see the warnings about the installer seeing something funny about your partition table. But honestly fedora hasn't been proactive on the bug and I don't think anyone really knows whats going on.
a) Per bugzilla bugs 113202 and 115980 people are getting corrupted partition tables after installing FC2 (and the previous test versions). This is a known bug, but the release shipped anyhow... (wierd)
b) NVidia drivers don't work with this release do to a kernel patch (the "4K Stack" patch). Seems to be an even split on who should fix this, but the end result is no nvidia drivers for people using this release (at the moment).
I hate to post a "me too", but... me too. I was bitten on a 2 year old Award Bios 2.2GHz P4 dual boot machine. After installing FC2T3 I was unable to get into my windows partition. I tried to FixMBR, reformat, and repartition. In order to get windows back on my drive without monkeying with the bios I had to nuke the drive (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda). At this point the drive would work properly again and I did a reinstall (windows, then FC test-3). It happened again on this clean install. This time I only zero'd the boot sector and partition table (which is what get's hosed) and reinstalled with FC1 (no problems). The bug #'s on fedora bugzilla are 115980 and 120128.
Despite multiple reports they proceed to release the product with the bug resolved....
In response to an email my email I got the prompt response:
(SNIP) Hi Hunter -
Unfortunately, he's not telling the truth. What is happening is simply attempted extortion. He didn't contact us, never has, and has been harassing us for over a year.
Actually the programs are not the important thing, the data generated by them is. Just because a document is written in Abiword, it is not public domain. Neither is any set of calculations done with Octave automatically GPL'd. Most importantly all data stored on a Samba file server is not therefore Public Domain or GPL.
All of these are perfectly good uses for open source. In Addition, these programs (and an underlying Open Source OS) all also provide the benefit of being easily audited for security (and fixed). All upsides here...
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I don't see the original thought here. Intrusive ads generate more revenue... yep. Some services need more revenue... yep. There are many ways to pay that increased cost of which intrusive ads are one... yep. That doesn't make them less obnoxious and isn't really new.
If you want to use those ads as a way to generate revenue then good for you. Maybe it will work, and maybe those customers of yours will enable popups and other crap to use your service. The rest of us will still avoid those boils on the ass of humanity as much as we can because that's what they are.
I was also looking for Mindstorms NXT parts and found this site: LegoEducation.com. It has an expansion kit as well as individual motors and sensors.
I hope this helps,
Hunter
The first game I've played that has re-created the fun of Thief 1 is Oblivion (when played strictly "thiefy").
Gosh, I bet you miss it.
Companies don't set out to innovate. If that process worked then the best way to come up with new ideas would be to close your eyes really hard and try to "think original". If you have enough minds in the room then a few of them will be thinking of something new, and a few of those will have the drive to actually do it. When someone gets a new, strange, and risky idea and decides to implement it themselves, and when that person succeeds, then you get an "innovative developer" (coming as a side-effect not from intent).
The advantages that big companies have are leverage and resources. The drawback they live with is that they have to plan more carefully to keep the organization moving forward productively. This leads them to take safer bets and often stifle the "wild ideas". Small companies will take more risks. The ability of small companies to fill a niche and to react quickly are their main competitive advantages. This means that, other things equal, the public will see more innovation coming from small organizations than large ones.
yeeesh, I'm not sure you want to be doing this stuff if the solution isn't pretty clear. " ssh hostname 'command' " will execute whatever command you want on the remote machine. Use authorized_keys on the machines so the ssh goes through without a hitch. Use your scripting language of choice to send each command in a sequence to a list of machines.
If you want to get really funky then add interaction to the script to allow inputing commands. If you are actually messing with multiple machines I submit it is quite dumb to do these operations with a console. You don't want input error to be a factor in a production environment. You do want to test the sequence of commands on a single box and then run them in replication.
You really need to use the definitions everyone else in the world use.
Atheism : The doctrine that there is no god or gods.
Agnosticism : The doctrine that certainty about first principles or absolute truth is unattainable and that only perceptual phenomena are objects of exact knowledge. (The short version is: "we don't know")
These were from "The American Heritage Dictionary", but you may pick any widely know english dictionary and the definition will not change.
"capable of transmitting up to 0.9 miles (1.4 km) in line-of-sight conditions"... Using a satellite dish or other hinky 2.4 GHz antenna's. In normal usage the wikipedia is dead on.
Man, his list is going to be HUGE.
HDTV 720p sure can....
Not to mention GTA:San Andreas and Halo2....
That bug was in bugzilla since FC1. Are you saying it's not their responsibility to look through bugzilla and clear out the showstopper's before release? It wasn't exactly "new"....
The people who seemed to have a clue of what was up seemed to think it was parted. But YMMV
Actually I _think_ the problem can happen with updates too... especially if you see the warnings about the installer seeing something funny about your partition table. But honestly fedora hasn't been proactive on the bug and I don't think anyone really knows whats going on.
a) Per bugzilla bugs 113202 and 115980 people are getting corrupted partition tables after installing FC2 (and the previous test versions). This is a known bug, but the release shipped anyhow... (wierd)
b) NVidia drivers don't work with this release do to a kernel patch (the "4K Stack" patch). Seems to be an even split on who should fix this, but the end result is no nvidia drivers for people using this release (at the moment).
I hate to post a "me too", but... me too. I was bitten on a 2 year old Award Bios 2.2GHz P4 dual boot machine. After installing FC2T3 I was unable to get into my windows partition. I tried to FixMBR, reformat, and repartition. In order to get windows back on my drive without monkeying with the bios I had to nuke the drive (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda). At this point the drive would work properly again and I did a reinstall (windows, then FC test-3). It happened again on this clean install. This time I only zero'd the boot sector and partition table (which is what get's hosed) and reinstalled with FC1 (no problems). The bug #'s on fedora bugzilla are 115980 and 120128.
Despite multiple reports they proceed to release the product with the bug resolved....
If you go black even 50% of the time you end up pretty much railed on the Dark Side. No need to be UberDark (tm)...
*sigh* preview shoulda been my friend...
The email was to Mark Surfas, Founder and CEO Gamespy...
In response to an email my email I got the prompt response:
(SNIP)
Hi Hunter -
Unfortunately, he's not telling the truth. What is happening is simply attempted extortion. He didn't contact us, never has, and has been harassing us for over a year.
Mark
(/SNIP)
Well argued, but it's a _game_ folks.....
>> I don't think it's in danger of being in a sitution where "through inaction,
>> [it would] allow a human being to come to harm" quite yet.
Actually I think thats the _only_ commandment it's in danger of breaking...
Actually the programs are not the important thing, the data generated by them is. Just because a document is written in Abiword, it is not public domain. Neither is any set of calculations done with Octave automatically GPL'd. Most importantly all data stored on a Samba file server is not therefore Public Domain or GPL.
All of these are perfectly good uses for open source. In Addition, these programs (and an underlying Open Source OS) all also provide the benefit of being easily audited for security (and fixed). All upsides here...
The WAP11 (Linksys Wireless Bridge) will do this no problem (plus its an Access Point). Lowest price off CNet is $138. =)
8 Processors in an 4U? Dell sells 1U duals (PIII 1GigHz) for about 1K a pop. Buy 4 of em....
Only downside is that IPSec would drown that processor too...