The target audience was miniscule - how many people in SF have the midnight munchies?
uhm, you obviously have never met the large stoner population of SF. Which means you've never been to SF because its most of SF.
I'm with you that the "business model" sounds like the people who invented it were high, though. Where they went wrong was assuming that the stoners had any money left over for food.
I'd pay for software that could listen to music, tell me if I have it on MP3 or WAV or AAC or whatever (never mind that it was on a cd burned from this computer), and tell me where on my many hard drive partitions it was squirreled away!
Seriously, 200 GB with 10 partitions is more than enough rope to hang yourself.
two and a half years ago when I was learning about Gig-E in grad school, it was cat 5E (note the upper case). Now I'm building a house and I want the walls wired; naturally I ask about cat 5E. And the builder tells me "cat 5e is standard"- thats because there is ONLY cat 5e these days.
It helps if you are rich. Just ask Lady 3Jane Marie France Tessier-Ashpool. It also helps if you are in Freeside; Orbital law is soft on cloning as well.
This is OBVIOUSLY an april fools hoax! Who in their right mind would abandon enterprise Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) systems for customer software?!
When you buy a car, do you have them custom build it from the metal up? No- you buy a mass produced model, getting efficient design and cheap mass production. Have fun working out the bugs yourself while I'm driving in style.
This luddite is calling for a return to the dark ages. I suppose he couldn't get his MCSE.
Would that be considered "great bandwidth"? to get pedantic for a sec: While "bandwidth" isn't exactly the same as data rate (bandwidth is the total maximum physical capacity for the medium), continual improper usage of the word has lead to them being defacto synonyms.
And YES. That IS great bandwidth (it's the classic example in Tannenbaum's text book: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a stationwagon full of magtapes. )
Internet startup. Turn batch perl scripts for searching domain names for sale into a live cgi.
The "server" was a P133 running bsd. Once I got it to run, it would take 15-20 minutes to generate the output. The web page would periodically reload once a minute. The Boss had a cable modem set-up where after a certain number of reloads, they would just cache the page. He never actually got to see it work.
THe next day another guy just loaded all the possible names in a database on a fast machine with gigs of ram. Response time? Sub-second.
I still got paid, though (much to the chagrin of the owner).
Awesome. I really must find out how he's managed to develop an encryption algorythm which is already understood by every browser including Netscape 1.1N but which is completely uncrackable by human beings!
Oh that's easy. Its called Microsoft Front Page! Have you seen the nested tables belched by that thing? gross!
I think knoppix does a great job: you can fire it up and see what it looks like, and if you want, mount a hard-drive partition for the cd, or just install onto your harddrive.
I have an olde sk00l Yepp-32 player 32MB on board, with 32 MB smart media cards. Yep. Thats ALL it takes, 32 mb- can't handle 64 or more!
So, that's 64mb total, and since I only use it on planes, trains, or raised-floor labs, I rip mp3's to 64kbps mono. So I can fit more than an hour of music. But juggling 32mb cards is annoying. I like your automated method...
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enunciation of the 't' is for squares. NERD.
my only complaint was that the shower head was directly over the toilet...
that way, you're doing double duty.
Read aloud. I'll just let that one sink in.
NetZero still has a LIMITED free service. I used it for immediate dial-up access when my cablemodem went down.
The target audience was miniscule - how many people in SF have the midnight munchies?
uhm, you obviously have never met the large stoner population of SF. Which means you've never been to SF because its most of SF.
I'm with you that the "business model" sounds like the people who invented it were high, though. Where they went wrong was assuming that the stoners had any money left over for food.
Gaia, here's some chicken soup for the planet's soul...
I clearly remember Drudge reporting how one of the most beloved TV sitcom fathers had passed away.
Show me that smile again....
I'd pay for software that could listen to music, tell me if I have it on MP3 or WAV or AAC or whatever (never mind that it was on a cd burned from this computer), and tell me where on my many hard drive partitions it was squirreled away!
Seriously, 200 GB with 10 partitions is more than enough rope to hang yourself.
Like I said, the black box is stuck on "nerd" when it should clearly be pointing to Dork!
can't trust these modern devices!
My black boxes is stuck at "doesn't signal while changing lanes" and "sings along to the Backstreet boys at top volume!"
They day I get pulled over and ticketed because my box says I'm "stuck at nerd" is the day that the terrorists win.
two and a half years ago when I was learning about Gig-E in grad school, it was cat 5E (note the upper case). Now I'm building a house and I want the walls wired; naturally I ask about cat 5E. And the builder tells me "cat 5e is standard"- thats because there is ONLY cat 5e these days.
Shouldn't that be the focus of inventing new ways for doing things by the way? To improve peoples life?
Apparently this invention has freed nigerians from having to sell vegetables at the market and now allows them to send scam emails.
AWESOME.
Big up. My wife rocks on the PS2.
That being said, I've never made it past level 1 of donkey kong on the atari (And that horrible, poop-colored Donkey-kong, yeccchhh!)
We used to light our cigarettes off of our halogen torchier lamps. Of course, we took off the safety glass first.
It helps if you are rich. Just ask Lady 3Jane Marie France Tessier-Ashpool. It also helps if you are in Freeside; Orbital law is soft on cloning as well.
damn! You beat me to it!
This is actually Audio Spectrum Steganography, and not really subliminal.
Still, its DAMN cool.
This is OBVIOUSLY an april fools hoax! Who in their right mind would abandon enterprise Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) systems for customer software?!
When you buy a car, do you have them custom build it from the metal up? No- you buy a mass produced model, getting efficient design and cheap mass production. Have fun working out the bugs yourself while I'm driving in style.
This luddite is calling for a return to the dark ages. I suppose he couldn't get his MCSE.
Would that be considered "great bandwidth"?
to get pedantic for a sec:
While "bandwidth" isn't exactly the same as data rate (bandwidth is the total maximum physical capacity for the medium), continual improper usage of the word has lead to them being defacto synonyms.
And YES. That IS great bandwidth (it's the classic example in Tannenbaum's text book: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a stationwagon full of magtapes. )
Internet startup.
Turn batch perl scripts for searching domain names for sale into a live cgi.
The "server" was a P133 running bsd. Once I got it to run, it would take 15-20 minutes
to generate the output. The web page would periodically reload once a minute. The Boss
had a cable modem set-up where after a certain number of reloads, they would just cache the
page. He never actually got to see it work.
THe next day another guy just loaded all the possible names in a database on a fast machine
with gigs of ram. Response time? Sub-second.
I still got paid, though (much to the chagrin of the owner).
I guess you've never been to alt.seduction.fast then. They've got a good web page, too. Lots of NLP (neurolinguistic programming) applications.
You should be rolling in the chicks (or with them, whatever) in no time.
what's that shit that they be smoking?
Tical, tical, tical!
Awesome. I really must find out how he's managed to develop an encryption algorythm which is already understood by every browser including Netscape 1.1N but which is completely uncrackable by human beings!
Oh that's easy. Its called Microsoft Front Page!
Have you seen the nested tables belched by that thing? gross!
I think knoppix does a great job: you can fire it up and see what it looks like, and if you want, mount a hard-drive partition for the cd, or just install onto your harddrive.
Add games and you've got teen-geek heaven.
He must have 10 lbs of stuff he carries around.
;)
Geek's gotta stay in shape somehow!
intriguing.
So you use just 1 stick?!
I have an olde sk00l Yepp-32 player 32MB on board, with 32 MB smart media cards. Yep. Thats ALL it takes, 32 mb- can't handle 64 or more!
So, that's 64mb total, and since I only use it on planes, trains, or raised-floor labs, I rip mp3's to 64kbps mono. So I can fit more than an hour of music. But juggling 32mb cards is annoying. I like your automated method...
And the reactions they get from those around them- especially the old woman behind them on the monorail!