giving the house the ability to kill the player's (already slim) edge... What does Slashdot think about this?
Slashdot thinks that people who play slots lose between 5 and 15 cents every time they pull the lever on the one dollar "pretty blinky light machine."
Slashdot also thinks that people who believe they have an "alread slim edge" in slots are probably the greatest thing ever, since they pay for all the cool hotels and stuff that the rest of us stay at when we're in Vegas.
In the future, you should argue about the facts, not about the person. If you're not able to find a cogent arguement against the facts I've presented, you should probably think twice about posting.
Anyhow, that's how we've done it in the civilized world for thousands of years. On another note, you are full of shit, and obviously you haven't won and arguements lately. STFU.
Can you explain what you mean by "Hold Onto the Domain?" According to Network Solutions, the WHOIS info is:
Domain ID: D3077347-CNO Domain Name: bigboydrums.com Creation Date: 2003-01-16 17:47:38 UTC Expiration Date: 2004-01-16 16:50:28 UTC Sponsoring Registrar: CORE-95 Created by: CORE-95 Updated by: CORE-95 Last Updated By Registrar: CORE-95 Maintainer: 95 Registrant ID: COCO-1401654 Registrant Name: Daniel Cervantes Registrant City: Moreno Valley Registrant State/Province: CA Registrant Postal Code: 92557 Registrant Country: US Registrant Phone Number: +90.96408124 Registrant Fax Number: +. Registrant Email: danrox79@aol.com Admin ID: COCO-1401655 Admin Name: Daniel Cervantes Admin City: Moreno Valley Admin State/Province: CA Admin Postal Code: 92557 Admin Country: US Admin Phone Number: +90.96408124 Admin Fax Number: +. Admin Email: danrox79@aol.com Tech ID: COCO-68844 Tech Name: Fast DNS Tech Organization: FastDNS Tech Address: 4 trefoil drive Tech City: Trumbull Tech State/Province: CT Tech Postal Code: 06611 Tech Country: US Tech Phone Number: +99.99999999 Tech Email: reg@fastdns.net Zone ID: COCO-68844 Zone Name: Fast DNS Zone Organization: FastDNS Zone Address: 4 trefoil drive Zone City: Trumbull Zone State/Province: CT Zone Postal Code: 06611 Zone Country: US Zone Phone Number: +99.99999999 Zone Email: reg@fastdns.net Name Server: ns1.worldaxxs.net Name Server: ns2.worldaxxs.net
Database last updated on 2003-10-02 22:25:44 UTC
Are you saying that your friend registered the domain through his hosting company, but someone at the hosting company named "Daniel Cervantes" registered it in his own name instead?
If that is the case, then you don't have a domain squatter. You have theft through deception. Take them to court.
you must be a master admin. you can go up front and order a cookie from the counter person on your next 15 minute break. it's on me... just send me the bill.
You left your machines on the net, unpatched, for over two years at a time?
Or, do you mean that "I wish I only had to patch the services, update the libraries, and fix kernel holes every couple of weeks on Windows, like I do on Linux. It's so awesome that individual applications and services can be started and stopped on Linux, so that the machine can technically still be 'up' while performing no useful tasks, but Windows has nothing similar."
No, wait. Windows does have that. I don't know what the hell I'm talking about, I guess.
Maybe clueless dorks like you and I should just STFU.
And our users don't adhere to the "don't put crap on the local hard drive" policy, and many of them put work-related stuff there, so we can't just say "too bad."
If "users can install any software they choose" and "users are encouraged to store files anywhere on the harddrive and not keep backups" are two of your business requirements, then nothing you've described -- not thin windows clients and not thin linux clients -- should even be considered for your environment. They don't match your business requirements. You can't use terminal services or lightweight clients. Period.
Everyone has administrative access to the machines on their desks. It sounds like one of the "real" reasons for going to thin clients is to remove admin access from everyone. It is possible that the people advocating thin clients do not even recognize the business reasons for using thin clients. It is also possible that the people advocating thin clients do recognize the business reasons, but are hoping to pull a fast one on their own customers.
Face it -- taking administrative access to the machines on their desks away from users would not be a popular move. It's a policy that people can readily understand the implications of before its implemented, it's a policy that would allow focused complaints and analysis, and it's a policy that can be inexpensively reversed. It just won't work.
Thin clients, however, are much easier. Most people have no idea what they are and will be unable to explain why they don't like them. By the time any reasonable protest is formed, such a huge investment will be in place that reversal will be impossible anyhow. Thin clients are perfect, as long as everyone is very, very careful not to ever tell the customers what a thin client is.
However, I will agree that moving to a Windows thin client will greatly increase the number of formal admins you'll need. There is probably a lot of self-support and informal support going on among the 40 independent and 1,000's of users. Removing all avenues of informal support and moving the cost, administration, and communication to a centralized department will invariably increase the size of the centralized department. The central department will employ more people. Your resume is not needed.
How hard could it be to reimage a workstation? You just bring a new workstation out to the users desk, take the old one away, and put it in the reimage pile. Once a month, a $7/hr high school student spends two or three hours running hardware tests on all the boxes in the reimage pile, and then drops in the ghost CD. The next morning, you have a new pile of boxes ready to go.
Meanwhile, the user types in his password and starts working again. To the user, the machine is 100% identical. File shares, email, printers, application settings, and all the other cruft just work. The whole process can't take much more than 10 minutes of your time, and maybe 30 seconds of the user's time.
Frankly, if you're not already at this point with Windows, then I have no idea what makes you think Linux is going to get you there. If you're not already at this point with Windows, then I have no idea what makes you think Terminal Services is going to get you there, either.
I'll say it again. If someone is telling you that new people are going to be hired after the lightweight clients are put in, it can only be because everyone knows that the old people are going in the trash with the old machines. Start working on your resume.
I must be really stupid. How on earth is linux going to save you money?
Your users are still going to be using Microsoft Office, Groupwise, and the custom-written applications to access the Oracle DB, right? Isn't most of your cost supporting these applications? Isn't supporting these applications on Linux going to be just as difficult?
I am very, very suprised that thin clients are going to increase the number of administrators that you'll need.
It is possible that thin clients are going to require hiring. Possibly, all of the current support staff is probably going to be fired, and people with thin client support experience are going to be hired.
I am not familiar with the "unlimited service" word you use. Could you please define it? Are you perhaps confusing this term "unlimited service" with the totally unrelated term "unlimited bandwidth?"
I think it would be funny if some company put "unlimited bandwidth" in a contract. I think it would be downright hilarious if it was included in a $35/month contract.
I'd immediately try to tranfer several hundred thousand terabytes of/dev/random. When I discovered the transfer wasn't completed within a few minutes, I'd sue the bastards for breach of contract.
I trust that some company with a heavy market share, a strong commitment to user experience, and a proven trackrecord of providing useful functional specs will get the A/V market in line within the next five years.
But, until Microsoft fixes it, I'll just keep having three remotes on my cofee table.
I don't get it. Why the hell would I want to program my remote?
I want a button that says "go".
I really don't care if I'm using VCR, Tivo, DVD, cable, broadcast, satellite, baby monitoring cam, or anything else.
I just want a "go" button.
After that, if I can fast forward, or rewind, or pause, or get a closeup, or change the volume, I suppose those buttons could light up, so that I know that they'll do something.
Cops are normal human beings, just like you and me. They, too, learn what they should say in the common situations they experience every day on the job.
Of course any cop would have seen the person throwing the knife. Any cop who hasn't yet learned enough about America law enforcement to know that he did see the person throwing the knife frankly is not smart enough to be a cop.
Judge: Did you see the accused throw the knife Cop: Uhh.... not really. Judge: WTF? Can I talk to you in the back? five minutes later... Judge: Did you see the accused throw the knife? Cop: Yes.
I'm sure you'd want to konw if your backbone provider planned to cut you off when your business became inconvenient for them.
I would hope that his backbone provider would do exactly that. There's no way that a business should be required to continue doing business at a loss. If backbone providers go around losing money, they're going to go broke.
That would be bad.
Anyhow, he has probably signed a contract that lays describes what he can expect from his service provider, and describes what his service provider can expect from him. If he's a smart person, that contract describes a business relationship that is beneficial to all parties involved.
He is also probably not paying $35/month, and counting on some vague terms printed on the back of his receipt.
Yes. People who cost them too much money are sent letters. The letters say, "change your usage patterns so that we have a mutually beneficial business relationship, or we will terminate our business relationship."
That is how business works. Welcome to consumer law 101.
Is there some requirement that no-one may read an article, before or after it is submitted to slashdot?
A guy got a letter from his Cable Provider. It said, "Stop uploading and downloading so much crap. It costs us more to give you service than you pay us. If you don't stop being so damned expensive to deal with, we'll stop doing business with you under the current agreement. Have a nice day."
Last time I checked, this is a good thing. The company is being forthright and honest with the user. They're not dicking him around in unusual, untraceable ways. They're not going out of their way to make his experience worse.
They're saying, "Change your usage, or we'll stop selling you service. Thank you."
What kind of pig-fuckers live in a world where this is a bad thing?
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I usually discover useful types, properties, and methods just by wading throug the documentation.
Go figure.
You can set up Emacs to have an intellisense-style option for Java code.
Really.
giving the house the ability to kill the player's (already slim) edge... What does Slashdot think about this?
Slashdot thinks that people who play slots lose between 5 and 15 cents every time they pull the lever on the one dollar "pretty blinky light machine."
Slashdot also thinks that people who believe they have an "alread slim edge" in slots are probably the greatest thing ever, since they pay for all the cool hotels and stuff that the rest of us stay at when we're in Vegas.
Another /. loser, but you're in good company.
There's no break between the body of your message and your sig.
In the future, you should argue about the facts, not about the person. If you're not able to find a cogent arguement against the facts I've presented, you should probably think twice about posting.
Anyhow, that's how we've done it in the civilized world for thousands of years. On another note, you are full of shit, and obviously you haven't won and arguements lately. STFU.
you can't get into a more price competitive market than soft drinks
.5 cents of sugar water, and 47.5 cents of advertising in a can of soda.
Are you trolling? Pepsi, Coke, and Dr. Pepper cost about 50 cents a can, retail Just about every other soda on earth costs about 25 cents a can.
There's about 2 cents of can,
There probably isn't less competitive market than market than soft drinks.
This is why I host everything for my domain myself. Its hard to trust any company in this day and age.
I made my own car out of wood, organic tea leaves, and bamboo. It's hard to trust any auto maker in this day and age, so I do it myself.
If that is the case, then you don't have a domain squatter. You have theft through deception. Take them to court.
You do not appear smart. This is not bad.
You do not appear to know that you do not appear smart. That is unfortunate, both for you, and the people around you.
wow... up a full year!!!
you must be a master admin. you can go up front and order a cookie from the counter person on your next 15 minute break. it's on me... just send me the bill.
Yeah, Karma bonuses are soooo hard to get. It takes about about 4 hours of posting to bounce off the karma kap.
Slashdot moderators may be the only humans on earth stupider than the majority of slashdot posters.
You left your machines on the net, unpatched, for over two years at a time?
Or, do you mean that "I wish I only had to patch the services, update the libraries, and fix kernel holes every couple of weeks on Windows, like I do on Linux. It's so awesome that individual applications and services can be started and stopped on Linux, so that the machine can technically still be 'up' while performing no useful tasks, but Windows has nothing similar."
No, wait. Windows does have that. I don't know what the hell I'm talking about, I guess.
Maybe clueless dorks like you and I should just STFU.
Every few months or so I have to restart X to get it to stop piggin' up the RAM (but that is not the OSes fault).
STFU.
Lindows CEO Micheal Roberts is a lying scumbag? Who would have ever guessed?
And our users don't adhere to the "don't put crap on the local hard drive" policy, and many of them put work-related stuff there, so we can't just say "too bad."
If "users can install any software they choose" and "users are encouraged to store files anywhere on the harddrive and not keep backups" are two of your business requirements, then nothing you've described -- not thin windows clients and not thin linux clients -- should even be considered for your environment. They don't match your business requirements. You can't use terminal services or lightweight clients. Period.
Everyone has administrative access to the machines on their desks. It sounds like one of the "real" reasons for going to thin clients is to remove admin access from everyone. It is possible that the people advocating thin clients do not even recognize the business reasons for using thin clients. It is also possible that the people advocating thin clients do recognize the business reasons, but are hoping to pull a fast one on their own customers.
Face it -- taking administrative access to the machines on their desks away from users would not be a popular move. It's a policy that people can readily understand the implications of before its implemented, it's a policy that would allow focused complaints and analysis, and it's a policy that can be inexpensively reversed. It just won't work.
Thin clients, however, are much easier. Most people have no idea what they are and will be unable to explain why they don't like them. By the time any reasonable protest is formed, such a huge investment will be in place that reversal will be impossible anyhow. Thin clients are perfect, as long as everyone is very, very careful not to ever tell the customers what a thin client is.
However, I will agree that moving to a Windows thin client will greatly increase the number of formal admins you'll need. There is probably a lot of self-support and informal support going on among the 40 independent and 1,000's of users. Removing all avenues of informal support and moving the cost, administration, and communication to a centralized department will invariably increase the size of the centralized department. The central department will employ more people. Your resume is not needed.
How hard could it be to reimage a workstation? You just bring a new workstation out to the users desk, take the old one away, and put it in the reimage pile. Once a month, a $7/hr high school student spends two or three hours running hardware tests on all the boxes in the reimage pile, and then drops in the ghost CD. The next morning, you have a new pile of boxes ready to go.
Meanwhile, the user types in his password and starts working again. To the user, the machine is 100% identical. File shares, email, printers, application settings, and all the other cruft just work. The whole process can't take much more than 10 minutes of your time, and maybe 30 seconds of the user's time.
Frankly, if you're not already at this point with Windows, then I have no idea what makes you think Linux is going to get you there. If you're not already at this point with Windows, then I have no idea what makes you think Terminal Services is going to get you there, either.
I'll say it again. If someone is telling you that new people are going to be hired after the lightweight clients are put in, it can only be because everyone knows that the old people are going in the trash with the old machines. Start working on your resume.
I must be really stupid. How on earth is linux going to save you money?
Your users are still going to be using Microsoft Office, Groupwise, and the custom-written applications to access the Oracle DB, right? Isn't most of your cost supporting these applications? Isn't supporting these applications on Linux going to be just as difficult?
I am very, very suprised that thin clients are going to increase the number of administrators that you'll need.
It is possible that thin clients are going to require hiring. Possibly, all of the current support staff is probably going to be fired, and people with thin client support experience are going to be hired.
Maybe it's time to update your resume.
I am not familiar with the "unlimited service" word you use. Could you please define it? Are you perhaps confusing this term "unlimited service" with the totally unrelated term "unlimited bandwidth?"
/dev/random. When I discovered the transfer wasn't completed within a few minutes, I'd sue the bastards for breach of contract.
I think it would be funny if some company put "unlimited bandwidth" in a contract. I think it would be downright hilarious if it was included in a $35/month contract.
I'd immediately try to tranfer several hundred thousand terabytes of
Yeah, remotes suck.
I trust that some company with a heavy market share, a strong commitment to user experience, and a proven trackrecord of providing useful functional specs will get the A/V market in line within the next five years.
But, until Microsoft fixes it, I'll just keep having three remotes on my cofee table.
I don't get it. Why the hell would I want to program my remote?
I want a button that says "go".
I really don't care if I'm using VCR, Tivo, DVD, cable, broadcast, satellite, baby monitoring cam, or anything else.
I just want a "go" button.
After that, if I can fast forward, or rewind, or pause, or get a closeup, or change the volume, I suppose those buttons could light up, so that I know that they'll do something.
But, other than that, I'll be happy with "go".
Cops are normal human beings, just like you and me. They, too, learn what they should say in the common situations they experience every day on the job.
Of course any cop would have seen the person throwing the knife. Any cop who hasn't yet learned enough about America law enforcement to know that he did see the person throwing the knife frankly is not smart enough to be a cop.
Judge: Did you see the accused throw the knife
Cop: Uhh.... not really.
Judge: WTF? Can I talk to you in the back?
five minutes later...
Judge: Did you see the accused throw the knife?
Cop: Yes.
I'm sure you'd want to konw if your backbone provider planned to cut you off when your business became inconvenient for them.
I would hope that his backbone provider would do exactly that. There's no way that a business should be required to continue doing business at a loss. If backbone providers go around losing money, they're going to go broke.
That would be bad.
Anyhow, he has probably signed a contract that lays describes what he can expect from his service provider, and describes what his service provider can expect from him. If he's a smart person, that contract describes a business relationship that is beneficial to all parties involved.
He is also probably not paying $35/month, and counting on some vague terms printed on the back of his receipt.
Yes. People who cost them too much money are sent letters. The letters say, "change your usage patterns so that we have a mutually beneficial business relationship, or we will terminate our business relationship."
That is how business works. Welcome to consumer law 101.
Is there some requirement that no-one may read an article, before or after it is submitted to slashdot?
A guy got a letter from his Cable Provider. It said, "Stop uploading and downloading so much crap. It costs us more to give you service than you pay us. If you don't stop being so damned expensive to deal with, we'll stop doing business with you under the current agreement. Have a nice day."
Last time I checked, this is a good thing. The company is being forthright and honest with the user. They're not dicking him around in unusual, untraceable ways. They're not going out of their way to make his experience worse.
They're saying, "Change your usage, or we'll stop selling you service. Thank you."
What kind of pig-fuckers live in a world where this is a bad thing?