Is it worth upgrading at this point? Does anyone, having used it, say its all that much better?
Most of what I do is basic anyhow...so from what I've read, I'm not sure its worth an upgrade at this point. I don't think my projects would benefit that terribly much from it.
I agree: None of their ideas were "insanely great" as you so well put it. The problem as I see it was too many promises, late releases, and the simple fact that they bragged a bit too much too early.
They should base their business model on some company that is well liked as opposed to a company like Microsoft. Notice similar business tactics? Difference is, Microsoft is big enough to pull it off.
Seriously though, the ideas they had could very well be worthwhile. While I would hate to see Transmeta fold, at least the ideas and the technology are out there, and would likely be sold should the company fail completely. Supposing a company like AMD got ahold of Transmeta's research and knowledge base...a veteran company might be able to market such a product better than Transmeta has.
The way I see it, Transmeta will either pull through, or the technology will get passed on. Sad to say, but it's win/win for the industry...and only hard times ahead for Transmeta.
It seems like a big expensive proposition, and what for? To spite Microsoft?
Initial cost would be high, I agree. But as with any business, it comes down to opportunity costs. The reason is simple: AOL owns Netscape. That alone means nothing, so I can see your point. But don't forget two major points:
1) Using a third party's product (in this case, MS's IE for their engine), they have to essentially follow that party's release time line. The reality is that AOL has an obligation to keep their users up to date, and the most logical way to do that is to keep the IE engine fully integrated and up-to-date with each release of AOL. The less that a company has to depend on, the more likely it is for them to make thier own deadlines. Please don't think what the layman might think of marketing -- just because AOL sets the deadlines for the AOL coders, that doesn't mean they don't lose money if they miss their own deadline. Marketing sets deadlines, because they plan to launch promotion campaigns at that deadline. Simply put, the easiest way to get new subscribers is to release a new version and talk about its new features. People gain interest, people subscribe.
2) The costs of maintaining a project like AOL is astronomical. Throw on top of that the licensing that they might have to do to get the support so that they can continue to integrate IE into their engine. Then throw in the cost it takes for their coders to implement each new version of IE into their own engine. Sadly, the reality is that even if MS releases the source code for IE to AOL, it's still not AOL's code, and they have to take time to research the code each time a new stable release of IE is made. This takes time, and costs money. That's not to say this wouldn't happen if they were to use the Mozilla/Netscape engine...but it would be minimized as it would be an internal project.
On a final note, the simple rule of economics applies here: Using a product of another company to conduct your business is only advantageous if your own company does not have the resources to research said product. If one already has the technology, and the resources to build it, it is often cheaper to do it oneself. AOL owns Netscape, and has the resources to maintain it cheaply (and they do, regardless of the fact that AOL doesn't use it in their engine). The cost is being made...might as well save money by escaping IE.
If I were in charge of AOL, and I wanted to once again make one of my products (Netscape) a staple on the internet, I would employ one simple strategy. I would pick a version of the Mozilla engine (aka, Netscape). Mozilla 1.0 final seems like a good choice, as it's a stable release, and it has reached approval from many critics. Now, I would make a development timeline for AOL version 8 (or whatever version might be next). Then, I would make an all media announcement: "AOL version 8 is scheduled to release on December 1st. At this time, we will fully implement the Mozilla engine into our browser, using Mozilla 1.0 as our framework."
The important step is the follow through, however. I can say that, but I have to do two things to make sure I maintain my market share. First, I have to make sure that I do in fact implement the Mozilla engine completely. Second, I have to make some sort of incentive for AOL users to upgrade. Nevermind a minor release. This would have to be a major release with lots of new features. Maybe take advantage of Chatzilla and get that fully integrated into AOL. Whatever it takes...but just changing the rendering engine or the browser will not be enough for most AOL users to upgrade.
The old addage is "If it isn't broken, don't fix it." Many people know that. But many people also know the caveat: "If its got new features, it might be worth a try."
I'm assuming that 600' means 600' from the ground. I don't know Sydney that well...but I'm making a broad assumption that there are plenty of buildings over 6' in height (roughly 6 stories). Aside from pissing people off by shutting down a city...what's to say that the stunt will work perfectly? What's to say that they don't accidentally crash that sucker into one of these buildings? They'd end up with a crap load more pissed off people.
You bring up a good point. I wonder why they're not taking advantage of this technology. After all, wasn't the original taking advantage of some really cutting edge tech?
As someone pointed out above, it's probably a lot of hype. Kinda like when "Fargo" came out -- supposidly it was based on a true story...and we found out AFTER they got their award that it was all hype.
Abeit, I like a good action flick as good as the next guy. But shutting down a whole city? A pretty major one at that! If it were for scientific experimentation, then I could maybe be persuaded to support the concept. But for the sake of entertainment?
How much money in the form of opportunity cost do you think the city might lose?
Sadly, I have to agree with your point. While us geeks know the difference between HTML 4.0 compliant and IE 5.x+ compliant, the average user does not. That's too bad. But there are too many people out there (commercial web designers as well) that take advantage of some of the features that IE has implemented. Last time I said that, people jumped all over me...but to the end user, if browser X does something that browser Y and Z don't do...it's a feature (from a marketing point of view anyhow...and what runs the world? Marketing).
Anyhow, a friend of mine pointed out a back-alley solution to the situation that has, unfortunately, become a reality. At install time (and as a toggle after install), it would be pretty educating to the joe-web-user to actually have an option in which you can choose how pages are rendered:
How would you like Mozilla to render web pages?
Render pages following the Microsoft standards
Render pages following the more widely accepted HTML standards promoted by the World Wide Web Consortium
If nothing else, such a scheme would be a bit of an eye opener, and maybe pick up a few more web designers -- maybe we'd even grow a few more purists. I imagine that Netscape wouldn't want to do this as they don't want to draw on a law suit. But an open source project like Mozilla could pull it off.
The problem is as it always is: Lack of Education ruins quality and puts money in the pockets of the greedy (aka, MS).
The goal is to prevent the clutter that ultimately exists on the front of my computer. It gets in the way of my other drive bays, and generally makes my computer look cluttered. It is, but I don't really want to see all those cables all the time. Side mounted, top mounted...it doesn't really matter.
CD Drive
CD-RW Drive
SB-Live Drive
DMX 6Fire Interface
Zip Drive
Floppy drive (ok...so I don't really use this)
Plugged into those two bays:
Digital Audio Out cables
two sets Midi In-Out cables
Audio-In (4 plugs total) from MIDI Devices and other devices
Sometimes, even a headset
The problem is that I have cables coming out the front of my case, which is functional, but messy. The interfaces have lots of knobs that I often play with...so I want access to them. I just don't want so many cables getting in the way of my other drives and my overall aesthetics of my room.
I agree fully with the article, and I imagine that most people are aware of some search engine to find the company they need (albeit, it might not be google).
But what about the return visitor that isn't 100% sure of the domain name, but they can get close.
Slashdot is the perfect example. It appears to me that they have both slashdot.org and slashdot.com registered and pointing to the same machine. But supposing Slashdot didn't have the.com address registered. What's to prevent someone else from picking it up? As is the case with Orange Juice, a very respectable demoscene resource, someone registered ojuice.com several months ago, and turned it into a porn site, hoping that sceners might accidentally type.com instead of.org. I'm sure it worked for a while...but it pissed off a lot of sceners.
Things could've been worse. After all, someone could've registered slashdot.com -- and created a spoof site (using the open source slash code) with no purpose other than to blacken the name of the real slashdot. It might have useless articles about porn, out dated technology, and stupid shit like that. What would that do for slashdot?
My ex-girlfriend is not a geek by any stretch of the imagination. But she was addicted to Tux Racer. When one needs to think of good games (for any system), one really has to consider the fact that it must have a broad audience. Tux Racer, while it does have some internal geek connotations (A penguin named Tux? Only the geeks understand that.), it is very entertaining, and definately worthwhile for ANYONE to play.
While I like X-Bill and other classic games of the sort, I don't think it would be nearly as much fun if I didn't understand the joke behind it. So, not geared for a large audience. So, it wouldn't even be on my list of best games. Personal favorites, yes. But best games? No.
Honestly, I can't remember what exact year it was (I was a bit too young), but MTV came out with as much of a mission as this channel might have. Music Television, who would've thought of some sort of thing? But, it was the early '80s, and music was the biggest trend one could imagine when it came to entertainment.
Now, it's the 2000s, and the biggest form of entertainment is...well, actually, it's probably the internet. But Gaming is definately up there. It's logical that someone might want to start a gaming channel. But someone will learn as much as MTV did...just 'cause it's popular doesn't mean one can make an entertaining network station out of it. After all, Music Videos aren't as fun to watch as one would imagine, especially when you see the same 40 videos time after time. So, MTV becomes the best place to get pop-culture based reality TV and game shows. Where else would you look except Music Television? (yes, i'm being very sarcastic).
I predict that the Gameing network will get a lot of hype, and maybe be pretty popular for a year or two. But then, it'll end up being the next MTV. People will be scratching their heads and wondering what said soap opera, or said reality program has to do with gaming. I can't wait 'til I see their answer to MTV's Spring Break: The Gaming Channel's Gaming Tournament at Spring Break. It's the choice place for zit faced teens and pre-teens (and some college students with similar characteristics) to go during spring break.
Beer? Is that like Caffeine? Girls? Do they come in JPG format? Oh, I can't wait for that adventure.
Maybe such a method already exists. But in case it doesn't, it would be nice to be able to integrate such information directly into the ls function (so what if it's a subcommand, doesn't bother me). That way, you can do a list of the directory, and see ON THE FLY what program does what. I imagine that performance might be an issue on large directories...but a database query can't be too processor demanding these days, can it?
I agree, though. We don't necessarily need to separate programs for the most part. Espeically since the average program in the/usr/bin directory is only one file. But in the case that such a program requires several files (IE: Mozilla), these programs are already separated for the most part. So, it tends to be a non-issue anyhow. Mind you, the only real issue at hand would be the fact that one would have to create a standard for what gets separated, and what doesn't. But again, that's essentially a non-issue as a symbolic link typically takes a programs place within the/usr/bin directory anyhow.
I have no interest in promoting a company with the shady backhanded things that MS does, so long as they offer something of value. I have long said that MS's only division that's any bit quality oriented is its hardware division. It's true. What makes the hardware division even better is the fact that they don't (to the best of my knowledge) do this shady stuff that the MS software division does. At least you don't find websites on MSN, Zone, Hotmail, etc that require a Microsoft Keyboard or Mouse.
The thing is, however, MS is huge. They're so powerful that the DOJ won't be able to enforce their decision very long. MS will do whatever it wants, maybe end up in another law suit, and throw more lawyers at it. But they wouldn't do it if they weren't makeing money...so they'll do it so long as they do. The only thing that will stop MS is a consumer level loss of interest. Office XP,.NET and the new licensing system could do just that.
It's not so much a question of the droplet velocity. The important fact is that the water is also pushing air. And in doing so, it is increasing air velocity. And what does moving air do in an enclosed (non-vaccuum) space? It decreases air pressure. Now, the air pressure inside the shower only needs to be slightly less than that outside the curtain for the curtain to tend to move inward. And considering that the curtain is a flexible object, suspended from a fulcrum with little (or no) forces acting to keep it in place, it doesn't take much to push it at all. Thus, only a very slight pressure drop inside is required.
To better understand this, try using two curtains: A lighter, plastic curtain inside, and a heavier plastic curtain outside the tub. It's important that you use plastic so as to limit the air flow through the curtains. Anyhow...the heavier curtain likely won't move, and you will notice that the inside curtain actually won't move much either. Why is this? Because if the inner curtain moves into the tub, the air pressure would decrease between the curtains (greater volume, lower air pressure). In order for the inner curtain to bellow inward, it needs to also move the outer curtain -- which requires a much lower air pressure inside the tub in order to overcome the air pressure between the curtains, and the force of the outer curtain.
I've over-simplified this a bit, but I think you get the point. Bernoulli's principle is often over-simplified in itself. To really understand what's happening, you ought to understand the entire principle. After all, it is all about pressure -- lift is just the common example that is used to demonstrate that principle.
FYI, stunt planes that can fly upside-down for a period of time (IE, not just a flip, but actually exist upside-down) has flaps that can angle either direction on the back of the wing. By making the lower surface concave, one can get the desired lift. If the lower surface becomes convex on said plane, it sends it into a dive. To roll over - it makes one wing concave downward, and the other upward.
I am a Landscape Architect working for a pretty large Engineering firm. Basically, we're in the land development field, and it's crazy.
First, consider the fact that in a given day, I have three projects due. I think the official average for my work week is 19 projects per week. As a company (with roughly 400 employees), we produce well over 200 complete packages per week. And as one of the four landscape architects here, I get to touch almost every project here (at least all the ones that require a landscape design).
So, what do I typically work? My work week is about 50 hrs per week. I still don't work weekends though.
I admire anyone who is willing to dedicate ANYTHING to the betterment of others. Those doubting will say "Yeah, but it makes him look better too!"
But if making yourself look better requires you to do nearly as much as Greenspun, lazy and selfish people would not do it. I especially like the photo gallery thing, as that is a truly unselfish thing.
Does anyone have the URL for his photo gallery (if it is still online)?
As much as people don't like to admit it, marketing really does push products. I never used Stormix, so I don't know what kind of product it was. I do know that I didn't know enough about it.
I blame that on the marketing department.
Even today, i'm not sure what exactly they have to offer (though I do know about their firewall stuff). More important is the fact that I don't know of any reason why I would choose Stormix over another product.
It's sad to admit it, but the marketing department really needs to get into faces and get stuff out there. I don't remember reading any product reviews or anything like that. Did they send out free copies to anyone for reviewing purposes? If not, maybe they should've.
Anyhow, one company going down doesn't make that much of a dent in the scene. You still got the heavy hitters like Ximian and Redhat out there, and so long as interest remains, that's all that matters.
I would imagine, it all comes down to the market life of a game. My favorite games are rpg games, so I've played a lot. Zelda (actually, more of a quest game) is short. Yes, it would be lovely to have a completely different story line for a rpg game of today (Suikoden, FFx, Fallout, etc). But these modern games are huge -- very long relative to the days of zelda. I imagine that it would be very unprofitable to do that sort of thing.
After all, if someone gets their fill on Fallout, then Fallout II has no need to exist.
Damn, I loved Zelda (I still have a functional NES and Cartridge).
Worthless websites might have helped you find your friends, but websites like Classmates.com are far better for that purpose. They have a military section too.
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Most of what I do is basic anyhow...so from what I've read, I'm not sure its worth an upgrade at this point. I don't think my projects would benefit that terribly much from it.
They should base their business model on some company that is well liked as opposed to a company like Microsoft. Notice similar business tactics? Difference is, Microsoft is big enough to pull it off.
Seriously though, the ideas they had could very well be worthwhile. While I would hate to see Transmeta fold, at least the ideas and the technology are out there, and would likely be sold should the company fail completely. Supposing a company like AMD got ahold of Transmeta's research and knowledge base...a veteran company might be able to market such a product better than Transmeta has.
The way I see it, Transmeta will either pull through, or the technology will get passed on. Sad to say, but it's win/win for the industry...and only hard times ahead for Transmeta.
Initial cost would be high, I agree. But as with any business, it comes down to opportunity costs. The reason is simple: AOL owns Netscape. That alone means nothing, so I can see your point. But don't forget two major points:
1) Using a third party's product (in this case, MS's IE for their engine), they have to essentially follow that party's release time line. The reality is that AOL has an obligation to keep their users up to date, and the most logical way to do that is to keep the IE engine fully integrated and up-to-date with each release of AOL. The less that a company has to depend on, the more likely it is for them to make thier own deadlines. Please don't think what the layman might think of marketing -- just because AOL sets the deadlines for the AOL coders, that doesn't mean they don't lose money if they miss their own deadline. Marketing sets deadlines, because they plan to launch promotion campaigns at that deadline. Simply put, the easiest way to get new subscribers is to release a new version and talk about its new features. People gain interest, people subscribe.
2) The costs of maintaining a project like AOL is astronomical. Throw on top of that the licensing that they might have to do to get the support so that they can continue to integrate IE into their engine. Then throw in the cost it takes for their coders to implement each new version of IE into their own engine. Sadly, the reality is that even if MS releases the source code for IE to AOL, it's still not AOL's code, and they have to take time to research the code each time a new stable release of IE is made. This takes time, and costs money. That's not to say this wouldn't happen if they were to use the Mozilla/Netscape engine...but it would be minimized as it would be an internal project.
On a final note, the simple rule of economics applies here: Using a product of another company to conduct your business is only advantageous if your own company does not have the resources to research said product. If one already has the technology, and the resources to build it, it is often cheaper to do it oneself. AOL owns Netscape, and has the resources to maintain it cheaply (and they do, regardless of the fact that AOL doesn't use it in their engine). The cost is being made...might as well save money by escaping IE.
If I were in charge of AOL, and I wanted to once again make one of my products (Netscape) a staple on the internet, I would employ one simple strategy. I would pick a version of the Mozilla engine (aka, Netscape). Mozilla 1.0 final seems like a good choice, as it's a stable release, and it has reached approval from many critics. Now, I would make a development timeline for AOL version 8 (or whatever version might be next). Then, I would make an all media announcement: "AOL version 8 is scheduled to release on December 1st. At this time, we will fully implement the Mozilla engine into our browser, using Mozilla 1.0 as our framework."
The important step is the follow through, however. I can say that, but I have to do two things to make sure I maintain my market share. First, I have to make sure that I do in fact implement the Mozilla engine completely. Second, I have to make some sort of incentive for AOL users to upgrade. Nevermind a minor release. This would have to be a major release with lots of new features. Maybe take advantage of Chatzilla and get that fully integrated into AOL. Whatever it takes...but just changing the rendering engine or the browser will not be enough for most AOL users to upgrade.
The old addage is "If it isn't broken, don't fix it." Many people know that. But many people also know the caveat: "If its got new features, it might be worth a try."
I'm assuming that 600' means 600' from the ground. I don't know Sydney that well...but I'm making a broad assumption that there are plenty of buildings over 6' in height (roughly 6 stories). Aside from pissing people off by shutting down a city...what's to say that the stunt will work perfectly? What's to say that they don't accidentally crash that sucker into one of these buildings? They'd end up with a crap load more pissed off people.
As someone pointed out above, it's probably a lot of hype. Kinda like when "Fargo" came out -- supposidly it was based on a true story...and we found out AFTER they got their award that it was all hype.
How much money in the form of opportunity cost do you think the city might lose?
Anyhow, a friend of mine pointed out a back-alley solution to the situation that has, unfortunately, become a reality. At install time (and as a toggle after install), it would be pretty educating to the joe-web-user to actually have an option in which you can choose how pages are rendered:
How would you like Mozilla to render web pages?
Render pages following the Microsoft standards
Render pages following the more widely accepted HTML standards promoted by the World Wide Web Consortium
If nothing else, such a scheme would be a bit of an eye opener, and maybe pick up a few more web designers -- maybe we'd even grow a few more purists. I imagine that Netscape wouldn't want to do this as they don't want to draw on a law suit. But an open source project like Mozilla could pull it off.
The problem is as it always is: Lack of Education ruins quality and puts money in the pockets of the greedy (aka, MS).
The goal is to prevent the clutter that ultimately exists on the front of my computer. It gets in the way of my other drive bays, and generally makes my computer look cluttered. It is, but I don't really want to see all those cables all the time. Side mounted, top mounted...it doesn't really matter.
CD Drive
CD-RW Drive
SB-Live Drive
DMX 6Fire Interface
Zip Drive
Floppy drive (ok...so I don't really use this)
Plugged into those two bays: Digital Audio Out cables two sets Midi In-Out cables Audio-In (4 plugs total) from MIDI Devices and other devices Sometimes, even a headset
The problem is that I have cables coming out the front of my case, which is functional, but messy. The interfaces have lots of knobs that I often play with...so I want access to them. I just don't want so many cables getting in the way of my other drives and my overall aesthetics of my room.
Hope that clears it up.
R-Rated has such potential. Do we get to see Liv Tyler naked?
As for me, I'll continue to use my Foosball table with the glass top as my kitchen table.
But what about the return visitor that isn't 100% sure of the domain name, but they can get close.
Slashdot is the perfect example. It appears to me that they have both slashdot.org and slashdot.com registered and pointing to the same machine. But supposing Slashdot didn't have the .com address registered. What's to prevent someone else from picking it up? As is the case with Orange Juice, a very respectable demoscene resource, someone registered ojuice.com several months ago, and turned it into a porn site, hoping that sceners might accidentally type .com instead of .org. I'm sure it worked for a while...but it pissed off a lot of sceners.
Things could've been worse. After all, someone could've registered slashdot.com -- and created a spoof site (using the open source slash code) with no purpose other than to blacken the name of the real slashdot. It might have useless articles about porn, out dated technology, and stupid shit like that. What would that do for slashdot?
My ex-girlfriend is not a geek by any stretch of the imagination. But she was addicted to Tux Racer. When one needs to think of good games (for any system), one really has to consider the fact that it must have a broad audience. Tux Racer, while it does have some internal geek connotations (A penguin named Tux? Only the geeks understand that.), it is very entertaining, and definately worthwhile for ANYONE to play.
While I like X-Bill and other classic games of the sort, I don't think it would be nearly as much fun if I didn't understand the joke behind it. So, not geared for a large audience. So, it wouldn't even be on my list of best games. Personal favorites, yes. But best games? No.
Now, it's the 2000s, and the biggest form of entertainment is...well, actually, it's probably the internet. But Gaming is definately up there. It's logical that someone might want to start a gaming channel. But someone will learn as much as MTV did...just 'cause it's popular doesn't mean one can make an entertaining network station out of it. After all, Music Videos aren't as fun to watch as one would imagine, especially when you see the same 40 videos time after time. So, MTV becomes the best place to get pop-culture based reality TV and game shows. Where else would you look except Music Television? (yes, i'm being very sarcastic).
I predict that the Gameing network will get a lot of hype, and maybe be pretty popular for a year or two. But then, it'll end up being the next MTV. People will be scratching their heads and wondering what said soap opera, or said reality program has to do with gaming. I can't wait 'til I see their answer to MTV's Spring Break: The Gaming Channel's Gaming Tournament at Spring Break. It's the choice place for zit faced teens and pre-teens (and some college students with similar characteristics) to go during spring break.
Beer? Is that like Caffeine? Girls? Do they come in JPG format? Oh, I can't wait for that adventure.
I agree, though. We don't necessarily need to separate programs for the most part. Espeically since the average program in the /usr/bin directory is only one file. But in the case that such a program requires several files (IE: Mozilla), these programs are already separated for the most part. So, it tends to be a non-issue anyhow. Mind you, the only real issue at hand would be the fact that one would have to create a standard for what gets separated, and what doesn't. But again, that's essentially a non-issue as a symbolic link typically takes a programs place within the /usr/bin directory anyhow.
So nothing new needs to be done.
The thing is, however, MS is huge. They're so powerful that the DOJ won't be able to enforce their decision very long. MS will do whatever it wants, maybe end up in another law suit, and throw more lawyers at it. But they wouldn't do it if they weren't makeing money...so they'll do it so long as they do. The only thing that will stop MS is a consumer level loss of interest. Office XP, .NET and the new licensing system could do just that.
The name rings a bell...but I'm not quite sure where I've heard it before. Refresh my memory...what's that game about, and what did I play it on?
To better understand this, try using two curtains: A lighter, plastic curtain inside, and a heavier plastic curtain outside the tub. It's important that you use plastic so as to limit the air flow through the curtains. Anyhow...the heavier curtain likely won't move, and you will notice that the inside curtain actually won't move much either. Why is this? Because if the inner curtain moves into the tub, the air pressure would decrease between the curtains (greater volume, lower air pressure). In order for the inner curtain to bellow inward, it needs to also move the outer curtain -- which requires a much lower air pressure inside the tub in order to overcome the air pressure between the curtains, and the force of the outer curtain.
I've over-simplified this a bit, but I think you get the point. Bernoulli's principle is often over-simplified in itself. To really understand what's happening, you ought to understand the entire principle. After all, it is all about pressure -- lift is just the common example that is used to demonstrate that principle.
FYI, stunt planes that can fly upside-down for a period of time (IE, not just a flip, but actually exist upside-down) has flaps that can angle either direction on the back of the wing. By making the lower surface concave, one can get the desired lift. If the lower surface becomes convex on said plane, it sends it into a dive. To roll over - it makes one wing concave downward, and the other upward.
Physics is life.
First, consider the fact that in a given day, I have three projects due. I think the official average for my work week is 19 projects per week. As a company (with roughly 400 employees), we produce well over 200 complete packages per week. And as one of the four landscape architects here, I get to touch almost every project here (at least all the ones that require a landscape design).
So, what do I typically work? My work week is about 50 hrs per week. I still don't work weekends though.
But if making yourself look better requires you to do nearly as much as Greenspun, lazy and selfish people would not do it. I especially like the photo gallery thing, as that is a truly unselfish thing.
Does anyone have the URL for his photo gallery (if it is still online)?
I blame that on the marketing department.
Even today, i'm not sure what exactly they have to offer (though I do know about their firewall stuff). More important is the fact that I don't know of any reason why I would choose Stormix over another product.
It's sad to admit it, but the marketing department really needs to get into faces and get stuff out there. I don't remember reading any product reviews or anything like that. Did they send out free copies to anyone for reviewing purposes? If not, maybe they should've.
Anyhow, one company going down doesn't make that much of a dent in the scene. You still got the heavy hitters like Ximian and Redhat out there, and so long as interest remains, that's all that matters.
Cheers,
Coplan
After all, if someone gets their fill on Fallout, then Fallout II has no need to exist.
Damn, I loved Zelda (I still have a functional NES and Cartridge).
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And I find that to be content oriented.