I think a single, good commercial could help Google. Likewise a few print ads in magazines (not computer ones tho!) or newspapers would help spread Google to new Internet users.
As long as the commercial isn't stupid or overly expensive to produce I don't see what harm it could do. It wouldn't kill Google, that's for sure. I think what ended up killing other search engines (like AltaVista, HotBot, etc.) were poor search results and terrible strategies. If people want a portal they will use Google or another one. When people just want to search the net a portal with ad banners and pop-ups makes searching a chore.
The biggest source of noise in my new machine is the heatsink fan. I would love to merely quiet that one fan, but I can't think of any sane ideas to do so. Anybody had success getting those suckers to be less noisy?
This happens with Pacific Bell (PacHell to those in CA) too. Never used my e-mail account for anything but sending messages (which have a different reply to address) and I got spam.
On another note I think what irks me the most is companies like Outpost.com who have a link to unsubscribe, but somehow you keep getting their crap...
I feel compelled to put my $1.99+TAX in on this. We have reached an evolutionary slow down in humans, especially in first world countries. There are a couple reasons.
One is hospitals. Instead of people dying from ailments that used to be life threatening, now they are living to have children. Things that would have been eliminated by genetics are being passed on.
Another factor is technology. How many of my fellow/.'ers wear glasses? *sheepishly raises hand* Quite a few, eh? Now just imagine if there was no technology to correct bad vision. Nature would select against those with poor eyesight and eventually new generations wouldn't have so many eyesight woes.
The last factor I can think of right now would be welfare programs. Some (some being the operative word) of the people receiving aid may have undesirable genetic traits that put them in the position they are in (mental instability, drug problems, etc).
1. Find a feature your competitors have that you don't.
2. Pick the shortest month of the year
3. Give half your workforce the month off (saving lots in salaries).
4. Announce an ambitious month long project that has no chance in hell of succeeding.
5. Watch your stocks go up.
Don't tell me linux doesn't need it. Some of the important code I've seen is pretty damn amateurish. Check out the MD5_crypt code for PAM, for instance.
That is where people like you and me can help. Do you know how to make the MD5_crypt code in PAM better? Submit a patch. I can't code worth shit, but I still try to jump in the help channels in IRC and help people out. Unlike with MS products WE CAN make Linux better. Linux is a community effort; we must never forget that.
Let's think about this. The airline either wants you to mail the knife to yourself (pain in the ass, costs money, takes time (may miss flight)) or throw away the knife. I'm willing to bet the attendant would be more than willing to throw the knife away for you.
All these things have to go somewhere, and I highly doubt the airline would throw them out. They probably wait a month, and if nobody claims the items somebody sells them to a pawn shop. I'm probably being overly paranoid, but I could see this happening.
The sites don't even use cookies (just a waste of time for this purpose). I guess if they wanted to have evidence against you they would at least leave a cookie. Hell, the people who get duped by this would probably grant permission for the page to run a program on their machine (and mark their machine good!).
I would like to see a limited subset of HTML used for e-mail. When you think about it, you only need a few tags for text based stuff./. limited html for posting is good, but I could see adding a color tag (don't need many colors supported either) in there too (for emphasis or important stuff (although I can see E-tards making every individual letter different colors). I don't think this would add much data on to a standard message, it would be easy, and not as abusable as full HTML mail. The beauty of this is that Gopher clients could even add support for it, as could HTML browsers and the like. As an added benefit, building simple sites would once again be easy and quick.
Does anybody know of any projects that do something like this?
I think that is a horrible stereotype. Everybody knows that the market share of Outlook Express will absolutely collapse when MS decides to implement some form of security in Outlook. If the Outlook users don't have thier virii, they won't have any mail either.
I like how this has gone unfixed for so long. From the MS website: Published Jun 13 2000 10:08AM
Last Modifed Nov 23 2000 1:21PM
So they know about the bug, felt the bug was important enough to update, but have failed to fix the bug. Lovely. I'm sure they tend to security exploits much more quickly.
I don't think icq (or any other messaging app) is really a problem. There is LICQ, GnomeICU, GAIM, Everybuddy, and last but not least Jabber has many Linux clients.
I think Microsoft holds two different sets of users by the balls right now. One group is the office users, who all use Office and Outlook. The other group is home users, who do stuff like play games. Right now I think an Office or even Word "Winelet" would pull over more dual booters than CounterStrike or any other FPSs.
I like video games, but not just FPS ones. I keep Quake2 and sometimes Doom for FPS, but other than that I don't play them. Postal (ja, I know, but I like psycho games like that) was the only game Loki had that I was interested in, but I didn't feel it was worth the price. If Loki had ported games like The Sims, GTA2, and some sports titles I would have been more apt to support them. I just can't see shelling out $50 for a FPS that just rehashes Quake and is cheaper for Windows.
Your.fr e-mail address and inflammatory posts give you away as an arrogant frenchie. And France wonders why people don't like them. Above all, it's just plain stupid to accuse or assume a person is a certain religion. What a spineless rebuttal you posted.
Not posting anonymously because I have the balls to say what I want.
Kinda reminds me of those people who type in www.randomwebsite.com in a search engine. Really, if you know the address why not just type it in? I am not making this up. Saw it happen while watching MetaSpy one day.
It would be a good idea to build a few identical machines to act as honeypots. The nice thing about a honeypot (if they machines are identical (same case, drives, etc.)) is that it can deter both physical and net attacks.
Start drinking copius amounts of liquor. Drink enough to make it hurt and keep on drinking. After 6-12 months of that stop cold. Soon you should have pancreatis. After this you will have problems absorbing food. Write many, many long-winded letters to Microsoft thanking them for turning you into an alcoholic and solving your weight problems.
This will work. The only bad parts are the initial weight gain (from drinking) and the unbearable pain.
I understand what you are saying, but I think the tech fetish many of us have is more akin to a sport. We don't need to use computers nor does a person need to play sports (excercise doesn't have to be a sport). People also don't need to eat (much), yet they do.
I don't really use the phone, or watch much TV. I used to use both a lot more, but the computer has replaced much of that for me. The money I used to spend on hobbies like sports cards and comic books I channel into computers now. Computers are just a hobby (and maybe a job).
Also, a home is something people tend to put a lot of thought into. Why not make it as comfortable as you can?
Think about living in a hotel for a second. It's ONE ROOM, first of all. No kitchen. No living room. No den, no dining room, and I'm pretty sure there's NO FUCKING SERVER ROOM.
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Both are statements assumed true by most /.ers, but neither statement really is. What's the problem?
Good point. I wish I had the time to sit down and actually learn how to do it. *grumbles about college taking so much time*
I think a single, good commercial could help Google. Likewise a few print ads in magazines (not computer ones tho!) or newspapers would help spread Google to new Internet users.
As long as the commercial isn't stupid or overly expensive to produce I don't see what harm it could do. It wouldn't kill Google, that's for sure. I think what ended up killing other search engines (like AltaVista, HotBot, etc.) were poor search results and terrible strategies. If people want a portal they will use Google or another one. When people just want to search the net a portal with ad banners and pop-ups makes searching a chore.
The biggest source of noise in my new machine is the heatsink fan. I would love to merely quiet that one fan, but I can't think of any sane ideas to do so. Anybody had success getting those suckers to be less noisy?
This happens with Pacific Bell (PacHell to those in CA) too. Never used my e-mail account for anything but sending messages (which have a different reply to address) and I got spam.
On another note I think what irks me the most is companies like Outpost.com who have a link to unsubscribe, but somehow you keep getting their crap...
Somehow I have come to imagine the voice of Jon Katz sounding exactly like the announce in that flash movie.
I feel compelled to put my $1.99+TAX in on this. We have reached an evolutionary slow down in humans, especially in first world countries. There are a couple reasons.
/.'ers wear glasses? *sheepishly raises hand* Quite a few, eh? Now just imagine if there was no technology to correct bad vision. Nature would select against those with poor eyesight and eventually new generations wouldn't have so many eyesight woes.
One is hospitals. Instead of people dying from ailments that used to be life threatening, now they are living to have children. Things that would have been eliminated by genetics are being passed on.
Another factor is technology. How many of my fellow
The last factor I can think of right now would be welfare programs. Some (some being the operative word) of the people receiving aid may have undesirable genetic traits that put them in the position they are in (mental instability, drug problems, etc).
Once again, just my $2.79+TAX.
1. Find a feature your competitors have that you don't.
2. Pick the shortest month of the year
3. Give half your workforce the month off (saving lots in salaries).
4. Announce an ambitious month long project that has no chance in hell of succeeding.
5. Watch your stocks go up.
Don't tell me linux doesn't need it. Some of the important code I've seen is pretty damn amateurish. Check out the MD5_crypt code for PAM, for instance.
That is where people like you and me can help. Do you know how to make the MD5_crypt code in PAM better? Submit a patch. I can't code worth shit, but I still try to jump in the help channels in IRC and help people out. Unlike with MS products WE CAN make Linux better. Linux is a community effort; we must never forget that.
Let's think about this. The airline either wants you to mail the knife to yourself (pain in the ass, costs money, takes time (may miss flight)) or throw away the knife. I'm willing to bet the attendant would be more than willing to throw the knife away for you.
All these things have to go somewhere, and I highly doubt the airline would throw them out. They probably wait a month, and if nobody claims the items somebody sells them to a pawn shop. I'm probably being overly paranoid, but I could see this happening.
The sites don't even use cookies (just a waste of time for this purpose). I guess if they wanted to have evidence against you they would at least leave a cookie. Hell, the people who get duped by this would probably grant permission for the page to run a program on their machine (and mark their machine good!).
I would like to see a limited subset of HTML used for e-mail. When you think about it, you only need a few tags for text based stuff. /. limited html for posting is good, but I could see adding a color tag (don't need many colors supported either) in there too (for emphasis or important stuff (although I can see E-tards making every individual letter different colors). I don't think this would add much data on to a standard message, it would be easy, and not as abusable as full HTML mail. The beauty of this is that Gopher clients could even add support for it, as could HTML browsers and the like. As an added benefit, building simple sites would once again be easy and quick.
Does anybody know of any projects that do something like this?
I think that is a horrible stereotype. Everybody knows that the market share of Outlook Express will absolutely collapse when MS decides to implement some form of security in Outlook. If the Outlook users don't have thier virii, they won't have any mail either.
I like how this has gone unfixed for so long. From the MS website:
Published Jun 13 2000 10:08AM Last Modifed Nov 23 2000 1:21PM
So they know about the bug, felt the bug was important enough to update, but have failed to fix the bug. Lovely. I'm sure they tend to security exploits much more quickly.
I don't think icq (or any other messaging app) is really a problem. There is LICQ, GnomeICU, GAIM, Everybuddy, and last but not least Jabber has many Linux clients.
I think Microsoft holds two different sets of users by the balls right now. One group is the office users, who all use Office and Outlook. The other group is home users, who do stuff like play games. Right now I think an Office or even Word "Winelet" would pull over more dual booters than CounterStrike or any other FPSs.
I like video games, but not just FPS ones. I keep Quake2 and sometimes Doom for FPS, but other than that I don't play them. Postal (ja, I know, but I like psycho games like that) was the only game Loki had that I was interested in, but I didn't feel it was worth the price. If Loki had ported games like The Sims, GTA2, and some sports titles I would have been more apt to support them. I just can't see shelling out $50 for a FPS that just rehashes Quake and is cheaper for Windows.
Your .fr e-mail address and inflammatory posts give you away as an arrogant frenchie. And France wonders why people don't like them. Above all, it's just plain stupid to accuse or assume a person is a certain religion. What a spineless rebuttal you posted.
Not posting anonymously because I have the balls to say what I want.
Kinda reminds me of those people who type in www.randomwebsite.com in a search engine. Really, if you know the address why not just type it in? I am not making this up. Saw it happen while watching MetaSpy one day.
If Lindows if phonetically (sp?) similar to Windows, why not just callit Linders or something? That takes care of the phonetics.
If that were true the RIAA would probably take 25 cents off the price every CD you want to upgrade to.
It would be a good idea to build a few identical machines to act as honeypots. The nice thing about a honeypot (if they machines are identical (same case, drives, etc.)) is that it can deter both physical and net attacks.
Start drinking copius amounts of liquor. Drink enough to make it hurt and keep on drinking. After 6-12 months of that stop cold. Soon you should have pancreatis. After this you will have problems absorbing food. Write many, many long-winded letters to Microsoft thanking them for turning you into an alcoholic and solving your weight problems.
This will work. The only bad parts are the initial weight gain (from drinking) and the unbearable pain.
I understand what you are saying, but I think the tech fetish many of us have is more akin to a sport. We don't need to use computers nor does a person need to play sports (excercise doesn't have to be a sport). People also don't need to eat (much), yet they do.
I don't really use the phone, or watch much TV. I used to use both a lot more, but the computer has replaced much of that for me. The money I used to spend on hobbies like sports cards and comic books I channel into computers now. Computers are just a hobby (and maybe a job).
Also, a home is something people tend to put a lot of thought into. Why not make it as comfortable as you can?
Think about living in a hotel for a second. It's ONE ROOM, first of all. No kitchen. No living room. No den, no dining room, and I'm pretty sure there's NO FUCKING SERVER ROOM.
And this is different from a dorm room?
And every time we speak the chip will override our speach with one of those annoying Pentium Chimes (from all the commercials).