Its funny they poke fun at expensive experts. At least with UNIX you have experts out there that you can hire who WILL solve your problems. Most of the MCSE's I know were psych majors in college who were sitting on the couch drinking beer one day when they realized computer people make more money so they went and took a class. These people might as well use their certificates to wipe their asses, because thats about all they are good for. And by the way, if NT guys are cheaper and you need 1 for ever 3 servers it isn't any cheaper when 1 good UNIX guy can admin 100s of boxes.
Why? Maybe because they are a business and businesses (despite what people like RMS and ESR might tell you) need to create revenue to stay alive?/. is one of the most visited sites on the net (I have no facts to back this up, but its popular anyway) so why wouldn't they throw in a link to one of their own sites every now and then for a bit of free self advertising? Its not sneaky, or in my opinion all that annoying, its just good business.
But isnt it the same thing? The show makes the timeslot, so advetising during Friends would still be expensive, and advertising during show Foo at 4am would still be cheaper. If anything they could start charging more for the advertising during Foo, since most of its 200,000 fans would actually watch it every week now (instead of the few people who bothered to stay up or set their VCR in the past) since they can grab it at 4am with their PVR and watch it whenever they want with ease.
I can't beleive how shortsighted these people are being. Its all FUD.. If they would look past their fears they would see the huge potential of PVRs. This is the best thing to have happened to TV in a long time. I watch so much more TV now that I have TiVo. I would never go back. There are plenty of ways for networks to take advantage. Put obscure shows with cult followings on at 4am when time is cheap, doesnt matter since PVR users can just get it and watch it at their leisure. Get advertisers that are highly targeted to the audiences these niche shows attract.. Etc. etc. Don't be scared of new technology. Sheesh, do they think there are tiny little people in the box acting out the shows? Technology is their friend.
exactly. this will happen at the same time as they throw away all their desktops and install network computers as per Larry's last brilliant idea. not that network computers aren't a good idea, but because Mr. Ellison says 'this is a good idea' doesn't mean a whole industry instantly realligns itself.. He can't even get the DB industry to do that anymore.
Someone at the GATech CS dept figured out how to run diff?! Wow, no wonder its considered a top University. I guess now people will start reformatting the code until the University discovers the -w flag. Once that happens, who knows, CS students might actually have to learn to code.. The horror!
Does MAME run? Can you use the controllers? I've been planning to build a PC that hooks to the TV in my living room to be a more or less dedicated MAME box. The DC sounds like the perfect simple solution (TV interface built in, nice controllers available..) But does it work? I have an old DC, so it should be linux/NetBSDable.
This is like Exxon saying if you want to use their gas you have to have an Exxon car. Someone please explain to me again why MS's business practices aren't anti-competitive? I won't even get into how oxymoronic it is to push outlook and hotmail as ways to combat spam, worms, etc..
Whats the big deal? 'Can it be held?' Maybe the reviewer doesnt have opposible thumbs, but for those of us that do, I don't see much of an issue. Its not a terrible idea.. Hold it as a joystick, then when you need to type set it down in your lap or on the coffee table in front of you, type, and then pick it back up. I don't know if its so much of a win over a joystick and a keyboard that are seperate, but it is hardly radical, and hardly news.
Advertising is more or less a fact of life, so I don't think targeting is necessarily such a bad thing. If I'm forced to sit through ads, I'd rather see ads for things I might actually be interested in instead of commercials about that 'unfresh feeling'.
What I would really like is to not see ads for things I've alrady bought. Nothing pisses me off more than watching ads for DirecTV on my DirecTV system.. Hello? Its like having printed ads for literacy - why bother?
I should 'donate' $1000 to this company to support 'free' software and the good work they do? Sounds good.. While I'm at it, anyone know where I can buy some 1 dollar bills for about $20 each? I want to show my support for the good work the US mint does.
Go ahead, say that I 'dont get it'.. I think I do get it, and I think the recent plummeting of all these dot-com and linux stocks shows that the rest of the world is 'getting it' now too.
Here is an idea for Mandrake, market a product or service that is better than the free one, and charge people for it. Wasnt that supposed to be the way for OSS companies to make money?
Its not a bug. The cap is stop Karma whores. The funny thing is that there is a negative cap also, because when they put in a maximum cap all the idiots started reverse hordeing. Human nature is a funny thing.
I'm not sure if 'hordeing' is the right spelling, but CT doesnt like spellcheckers, so it will have to do.:)
A quick blurb on Yahoo news mentions that IBM is going to resell RLX boxes. It also calls RLX a Compaq offshoot, although I'm not sure this is a valid use of the term 'offshoot'.
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I have a theory that the downfall of banner ads was that the 'feature' of being able to measure effectiveness through (lack of) clickthroughs. Advertisers were able to get a nice itemized monthly report from Doubleclick.com or whoever showing them just how innifectual their ads were. They continue to pay for for ads in print media, which are no more effective, because they don't know any better.. Its just accepted. The said fact is that direct marketing (read: SPAM) is probably the best online marketing model around right now.
If you think $7/hour is worth your time being on call in an IT job you need to work on your self esteem. I'd gladly give my employer $7/hour to leave me alone when I'm not in the office.
michael + timothy were guests at NY Linux User Group the other day and one of the things they said was that putting the upper and lower limit on Karma was one of the best thing that ever happened to discourage abuse. Amazing how people will make a game out of everything.
You would think the largest software company in the world could have come up with a better graphic.. Can anyone read that map? How am I supposed to aim the missles?
This is an excellent question.. I was recently researching SS disks at work and found them to be much too expensive to be practical. The units from the big manufacturers (SolidData, Imperial Tech, Bitmicro) all come in at $15k-$20k for a 1G drive. Absurd.. It seems to me that building one of these is fairly simple.. Maybe a junior year EE project. In fact, the mechanics of it should be much simpler than a conventional disk drive unless I am missing something...
Is softmore the new term if you are studying CS? Things sure have changed since I went to college.
I think people with CS degrees look down upon people with CIS/MIS (especially MIS) degrees. I also think they have a reason too, its not as intensive, not as technical.. Its basically the easy way out if you don't like math/heavy theory and programming.. You know, all the good stuff. Go for CS.
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Its funny they poke fun at expensive experts. At least with UNIX you have experts out there that you can hire who WILL solve your problems. Most of the MCSE's I know were psych majors in college who were sitting on the couch drinking beer one day when they realized computer people make more money so they went and took a class. These people might as well use their certificates to wipe their asses, because thats about all they are good for. And by the way, if NT guys are cheaper and you need 1 for ever 3 servers it isn't any cheaper when 1 good UNIX guy can admin 100s of boxes.
Why? Maybe because they are a business and businesses (despite what people like RMS and ESR might tell you) need to create revenue to stay alive? /. is one of the most visited sites on the net (I have no facts to back this up, but its popular anyway) so why wouldn't they throw in a link to one of their own sites every now and then for a bit of free self advertising? Its not sneaky, or in my opinion all that annoying, its just good business.
But isnt it the same thing? The show makes the timeslot, so advetising during Friends would still be expensive, and advertising during show Foo at 4am would still be cheaper. If anything they could start charging more for the advertising during Foo, since most of its 200,000 fans would actually watch it every week now (instead of the few people who bothered to stay up or set their VCR in the past) since they can grab it at 4am with their PVR and watch it whenever they want with ease.
choose the language that most of the developers know.
I can't beleive how shortsighted these people are being. Its all FUD.. If they would look past their fears they would see the huge potential of PVRs. This is the best thing to have happened to TV in a long time. I watch so much more TV now that I have TiVo. I would never go back. There are plenty of ways for networks to take advantage. Put obscure shows with cult followings on at 4am when time is cheap, doesnt matter since PVR users can just get it and watch it at their leisure. Get advertisers that are highly targeted to the audiences these niche shows attract.. Etc. etc. Don't be scared of new technology. Sheesh, do they think there are tiny little people in the box acting out the shows? Technology is their friend.
You are probably right, if longer term means 50 years or so.
Why do people assume that linux must kill everything else? Why wouldn't other OSes evolve as well?
I swear, linux zealots insist that monopolies are wrong and people have choices for the OS they run, but they want linux to be the only choice.
exactly. this will happen at the same time as they throw away all their desktops and install network computers as per Larry's last brilliant idea. not that network computers aren't a good idea, but because Mr. Ellison says 'this is a good idea' doesn't mean a whole industry instantly realligns itself.. He can't even get the DB industry to do that anymore.
Someone at the GATech CS dept figured out how to run diff?! Wow, no wonder its considered a top University. I guess now people will start reformatting the code until the University discovers the -w flag. Once that happens, who knows, CS students might actually have to learn to code.. The horror!
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Does MAME run? Can you use the controllers? I've been planning to build a PC that hooks to the TV in my living room to be a more or less dedicated MAME box. The DC sounds like the perfect simple solution (TV interface built in, nice controllers available..) But does it work? I have an old DC, so it should be linux/NetBSDable.
This is like Exxon saying if you want to use their gas you have to have an Exxon car. Someone please explain to me again why MS's business practices aren't anti-competitive? I won't even get into how oxymoronic it is to push outlook and hotmail as ways to combat spam, worms, etc..
Whats the big deal? 'Can it be held?' Maybe the reviewer doesnt have opposible thumbs, but for those of us that do, I don't see much of an issue. Its not a terrible idea.. Hold it as a joystick, then when you need to type set it down in your lap or on the coffee table in front of you, type, and then pick it back up. I don't know if its so much of a win over a joystick and a keyboard that are seperate, but it is hardly radical, and hardly news.
Advertising is more or less a fact of life, so I don't think targeting is necessarily such a bad thing. If I'm forced to sit through ads, I'd rather see ads for things I might actually be interested in instead of commercials about that 'unfresh feeling'.
What I would really like is to not see ads for things I've alrady bought. Nothing pisses me off more than watching ads for DirecTV on my DirecTV system.. Hello? Its like having printed ads for literacy - why bother?
Wow, this brings back memories. All night nettrek in the graphics lab at Bell. Its been too long since I killed some twinks.
I should 'donate' $1000 to this company to support 'free' software and the good work they do? Sounds good.. While I'm at it, anyone know where I can buy some 1 dollar bills for about $20 each? I want to show my support for the good work the US mint does.
Go ahead, say that I 'dont get it'.. I think I do get it, and I think the recent plummeting of all these dot-com and linux stocks shows that the rest of the world is 'getting it' now too.
Here is an idea for Mandrake, market a product or service that is better than the free one, and charge people for it. Wasnt that supposed to be the way for OSS companies to make money?
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Its not a bug. The cap is stop Karma whores. The funny thing is that there is a negative cap also, because when they put in a maximum cap all the idiots started reverse hordeing. Human nature is a funny thing.
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I'm not sure if 'hordeing' is the right spelling, but CT doesnt like spellcheckers, so it will have to do.
Yes. See RLX article from yesterday..
A quick blurb on Yahoo news mentions that IBM is going to resell RLX boxes. It also calls RLX a Compaq offshoot, although I'm not sure this is a valid use of the term 'offshoot'.
I have a theory that the downfall of banner ads was that the 'feature' of being able to measure effectiveness through (lack of) clickthroughs. Advertisers were able to get a nice itemized monthly report from Doubleclick.com or whoever showing them just how innifectual their ads were. They continue to pay for for ads in print media, which are no more effective, because they don't know any better.. Its just accepted. The said fact is that direct marketing (read: SPAM) is probably the best online marketing model around right now.
If you think $7/hour is worth your time being on call in an IT job you need to work on your self esteem. I'd gladly give my employer $7/hour to leave me alone when I'm not in the office.
michael + timothy were guests at NY Linux User Group the other day and one of the things they said was that putting the upper and lower limit on Karma was one of the best thing that ever happened to discourage abuse. Amazing how people will make a game out of everything.
You would think the largest software company in the world could have come up with a better graphic.. Can anyone read that map? How am I supposed to aim the missles?
This is an excellent question.. I was recently researching SS disks at work and found them to be much too expensive to be practical. The units from the big manufacturers (SolidData, Imperial Tech, Bitmicro) all come in at $15k-$20k for a 1G drive. Absurd.. It seems to me that building one of these is fairly simple.. Maybe a junior year EE project. In fact, the mechanics of it should be much simpler than a conventional disk drive unless I am missing something...
Is softmore the new term if you are studying CS? Things sure have changed since I went to college.
I think people with CS degrees look down upon people with CIS/MIS (especially MIS) degrees. I also think they have a reason too, its not as intensive, not as technical.. Its basically the easy way out if you don't like math/heavy theory and programming.. You know, all the good stuff. Go for CS.