God forbid. I worked at that awful place for six months, and let me tell you, there's nothing there that resembles journalism (not that there's really any of that here) or insightful commentary (which/. is brimming with, of course).
I know this is kind of offtopic (prepare to be moderated down) but the same thing that happened to the geeks with the RedHat IPO debacle happened to me with the Andover.net IPO: I was rejected for not being rich enough, despite the fact that I was risking a relatively small amount of money.
Seems to me the whole OpenIPO thing is a farce. It sounds nice, but it's still only for the rich folks.
The sad opening to the LinuxOne page (once you can finally connect) was written by Dr. Wun C. Chiou, the founder. He also founded a company now known as NetUSA, whose stock is currently hovering around zero.
Surely Red Hat wasn't aware that this would be a problem when it offered the shares to the community. It sounds as though this is an automatic response by E*Trade's systems--another example of the problem of letting computers make decisions that should be made by people.
I think that the likely solution to this problem is attention; once the usual sources--News.com, Wired, Salon, and so on--pick up on this (and we know they check Slashdot regularly), E*Trade will likely right the wrong. I bet it will look strikingly similar to the Yahoo/Geocities debacle once it's over.
Sure, there's money to be made on the Web, and $70 is definitely cheap for your own little corner of the Web. (I wouldn't give mine up for the world. But the value of having a domain name, which can range anywhere from less than $0 (me) to more than $20 billion (Amazon.com) is not the same thing as an intrinsic value for a specific domain name. Amazon.com doesn't have one, really, while something like Porn.com does. And I doubt there are any Porn.coms left.
Maybe I'm just stating the obvious here, but there just isn't a huge intrinsic value to a single domain. Anything that is likely to attract traffic from its name alone (as opposed to a huge marketing effort) has long been registered. Sure, a lot of people probably go to see what's at www.porn.com every day, but you think there are a lot of names like that left? You think people are randomly going to check out nyuk-nyuk-nyuk.com when looking for Three Stooges information?
Amazon.com is a great example. It has a market cap of more than $20 billion, but do you think that's because of the name? Do you think that it would be a good idea to go back in time and snap it up cheap? Jeff Bezos would have picked something else equally euphonous, and we'd be buying our books from Mississippi.com instead.
The hype *is* the point. I'm just having fun getting excited and checking out Web sites and downloading previews and all that good stuff.
It'll probably be months before I can actally get into the theatre to *see* the damn thing, so I figure I might as well enjoy the hype while its around.
Nevertheless, these new commercials are *terrible*.
What a bunch of crap. "Don't look back. When you leave." Makes me want to toss my cookies. I just hope whoever put them together was some marketing drone who had nothing to do with the movie. With the way GL has been micromanaging everything, it's hard to imagine that he wasn't involved in them.
thought recognition has already been done!
on
Thought Recognition
·
· Score: 1
SAP isn't just big in Germany, you know. It's the number one ERP developer worldwide. Everything is going to SAP, there's tons of money falling into SAP development, and if SAP were actually to port to Linux, it would be a real coup.
If you're paying $99 on top of a complete system, is that on top of the tax to bill. If not, shouldn't it be cheaper, once you subtract the Winblows cost?
It's basically an ID card, and I'd rather have a card in my wallet than a glass bauble in my arm. That bit about it possibly shattering during racquet ball was frightening. Ouch.
Now, when it can do something other than transmit: HEY! PERSON #435823 IS APPROACHING, then there might be some potential.
Let's face it, the real breakthrough will not be getting a chip into someone (oooh...we know how to sterilize stuff) but getting a chip into someone that actuall has an interface to living tissue.
How about it? Anyone up for designing an interface that links to your optic or aural nerves? To hell with reading my email; I want to watch South Park.
What exactly does LoU plan to hack in Iraq? I don't think they have an Internet connection there yet. This is kind of an old link, but it says something to that effect.
Slashdot Mirror
God forbid. I worked at that awful place for six months, and let me tell you, there's nothing there that resembles journalism (not that there's really any of that here) or insightful commentary (which /. is brimming with, of course).
I know this is kind of offtopic (prepare to be moderated down) but the same thing that happened to the geeks with the RedHat IPO debacle happened to me with the Andover.net IPO: I was rejected for not being rich enough, despite the fact that I was risking a relatively small amount of money.
Seems to me the whole OpenIPO thing is a farce. It sounds nice, but it's still only for the rich folks.
He's the anti-Linux, pro-MS columnist for ZDNet. You can always find his latest drek here.
Not the most credible thing in the world, even coming from the NYT.
The sad opening to the LinuxOne page (once you can finally connect) was written by Dr. Wun C. Chiou, the founder. He also founded a company now known as NetUSA, whose stock is currently hovering around zero.
This sounds like a baaaaaad investment to me...
Perhaps this quickly cobbled-together Venn diagram will explain things.
Well, on my Mac running Netscape it already looks like it's been trashed, but I guess it wasn't designed for non-M$-standard machines...
Surely Red Hat wasn't aware that this would be a problem when it offered the shares to the community. It sounds as though this is an automatic response by E*Trade's systems--another example of the problem of letting computers make decisions that should be made by people.
I think that the likely solution to this problem is attention; once the usual sources--News.com, Wired, Salon, and so on--pick up on this (and we know they check Slashdot regularly), E*Trade will likely right the wrong. I bet it will look strikingly similar to the Yahoo/Geocities debacle once it's over.
Sure, there's money to be made on the Web, and $70 is definitely cheap for your own little corner of the Web. (I wouldn't give mine up for the world. But the value of having a domain name, which can range anywhere from less than $0 (me) to more than $20 billion (Amazon.com) is not the same thing as an intrinsic value for a specific domain name. Amazon.com doesn't have one, really, while something like Porn.com does. And I doubt there are any Porn.coms left.
Maybe I'm just stating the obvious here, but there just isn't a huge intrinsic value to a single domain. Anything that is likely to attract traffic from its name alone (as opposed to a huge marketing effort) has long been registered. Sure, a lot of people probably go to see what's at www.porn.com every day, but you think there are a lot of names like that left? You think people are randomly going to check out nyuk-nyuk-nyuk.com when looking for Three Stooges information?
Amazon.com is a great example. It has a market cap of more than $20 billion, but do you think that's because of the name? Do you think that it would be a good idea to go back in time and snap it up cheap? Jeff Bezos would have picked something else equally euphonous, and we'd be buying our books from Mississippi.com instead.
Ha!
Yes, you can't just check it out by seeing if there's a Web site at www.infosys.com...
Yeah, I came here to submit it--I wasn't even sure if it was appropriate, but I'm so glad someone already did.
that alltheweb.com is *fast*. good coverage too.
It'll probably be months before I can actally get into the theatre to *see* the damn thing, so I figure I might as well enjoy the hype while its around.
Nevertheless, these new commercials are *terrible*.
What a bunch of crap. "Don't look back. When you leave." Makes me want to toss my cookies. I just hope whoever put them together was some marketing drone who had nothing to do with the movie. With the way GL has been micromanaging everything, it's hard to imagine that he wasn't involved in them.
Tidal Wave Communications
SAP isn't just big in Germany, you know. It's the number one ERP developer worldwide. Everything is going to SAP, there's tons of money falling into SAP development, and if SAP were actually to port to Linux, it would be a real coup.
If you're paying $99 on top of a complete system, is that on top of the tax to bill. If not, shouldn't it be cheaper, once you subtract the Winblows cost?
Now, when it can do something other than transmit: HEY! PERSON #435823 IS APPROACHING, then there might be some potential.
Let's face it, the real breakthrough will not be getting a chip into someone (oooh...we know how to sterilize stuff) but getting a chip into someone that actuall has an interface to living tissue.
How about it? Anyone up for designing an interface that links to your optic or aural nerves? To hell with reading my email; I want to watch South Park.
What exactly does LoU plan to hack in Iraq? I don't think they have an Internet connection there yet. This is kind of an old link, but it says something to that effect.