If you can get a RioVolt 250 or 300 for cheap, do so. I have a 250 and it is one of the best products I have every owned, next to my TiVo. Never skips, plays MP3's, built in recharger and fairly lite.
I know I see 300k/sec downloads on emule, and I find just about anything I'm looking for on it.
Why is freenet better than edonkey?
Your not getting 300k/sec with emule. I have been using it for a long time now and the absolute highest I have ever gotten is 50k/sec. The eDonkey protocol is really just a dumb design. Your forced to share with many people, which is cool, but the max upload rate of emule is 3 or 4k/sec, which is lame. The idea is that it's better to share to many slowly than a to few fast. This means, a thousand people has to have the file your looking for, and you have to be able to connect to a lot of them to get what you want a high speed. This just does not happen.
Justin Market, a 25-year-old programmer in San Francisco, embodies the shopworn stereotype of the dot-com youngster who seemed to get everything too easily. (The name is a pseudonym; he didn't want his real name published, for fear that prospective employers might question his love of the software industry, which he is thinking about leaving entirely.) Six years ago, Market dropped out of college -- school was no match for the fortunes being minted in the Internet industry. It turned out to be a pretty good decision. Market founded a company that was eventually purchased by WebMD, and, when that company went public, he became an instant millionaire.
When he was 22, Market sold some of his stock to buy an $800,000 house in the city. "I listened to everyone but my accountant," he says now, "and I didn't put enough away for taxes." He has been out of work since early last year, and has about $300 in his bank account. He's trying to sell his house, which he thinks is worth a bit more than $1 million; most of the money he gets from that will go to pay the IRS. He owes "piles and piles" in taxes, he says.
Boo fucking wooooo. I get so sick of hearing these stories. This guy came up with some lame idea, found some fool to paid way too much for it and then pissed it all away. I'm crying in my coffee for you buddy. What an idiot.
Look people, if some tool gives you a million, don't buy a $800,000 house! Stick it away in the bank and and invest in something safe (Bonds and such). After about 10 years it will have doubled and you can retire for real. Don't be a dumass a spend it all on crap you really don't need.
You got lucky; whatever runs the universe smiled on you. Don't be stupid and think it will happen again because it won't.
If your company can not stand on it's own two legs, then it should not be. That goes for airlines, car and game companies. If there is a desire by people willing to pay then someone will run a successful business providing that service or good.
I don't understand this attitude that says, Privatize profits but socialize loses. Just because you can't come up with a good idea and implement it, does not mean my taxes should be raised to cover any loses.
And do you really want government to stick its nose into gaming content? Yes, there is a rating system, but it does not limit what can be in a game. The last thing I want is John Ashcroft and President Bush looking over John Carmacks shoulder telling him he can't put in the monsters of my soon to be nightmares into Doom 3.
I don't know why people are slamming college students that are interns at Microsoft. First off, any job in this economy is a good job. The dot com boom is over and so are the 100K jobs where a pulse was the only requirement.
Second, when you have a big company like MS on your resume, the job market opens up a lot more, even in bad times. I worked at the "Evil Northwest Book, CD's and More company" and don't regret it one bit. After leaving that company I had a job in 6 weeks that paid 15K more a year. Having that those kinds of companies on the resume helps a lot. You can call me a whore, but you'll do it from the unemployment office.
Three, MS treats it employees well. I know of very few companies that offer all of the benefts and salary that MS offers. When it comes down to it, work is only about three things; Pay, Benefits, and Intresting work. MS appears to provide all three.
So what did my fellow Slashdoters expect? We all know it is Sun that is feeling the effects of Linux taking off. It's been reported time and time again that it is Unix venders that feel the effect of losing sales to Linux rather than Microsoft. Microsoft does lose some sales to Linux, but not as much as Sun, HP, or IBM.
Sun would like Linux to go away so they can retake the low end and mid level markets, where Linux dominates.
On this theme, how about the Kalashnikov AK-47? 50 years old and still the basis of weapons used all over the world.
AK-47 is not that good, in fact, it's a pretty piss poor rifle in accuracy. The only reason people use it is that it is cheap. There is a saying, "The only people who buy AK-47's are people who can't afford M-16's."
I never have been into MMO (Massive Multi-Player Onlines) and I'll tell you why:
1) Recycled games themes; You get either Dungeon and Dragons or Future Space SciFi. No one is really breaking out of the box on this. Of the 100 games on the market, they fall into these two catagories. 2) Too restrictive, Narrow play. Stop making the game so static. Just make a world that has rules and let the players do the rest. Don't make it so you have to do missions to advance. If players want to be in a clan that raids other clans, then let it be. You can make protection zones (No fighting in the zones), but once out of the zone, go at it. For exmaple, let players set the price of items by supply and demand.
I am still waiting for a Fallout (Post apocalyptic) style MMOG where I can be evil or nice or anything in between. Just create the world and let the players do the rest.
I use to be a member of the team that ran, maintained and added new domains to Amazon.com DNS's. While I won't tell you everything, I can tell you they did this to save money since Amazon.com owns something like 4,000 domains (Maybe less, maybe more). Just paying the money to be a registar and then not having to pay to register new domains and also not paying to re-register all the domain names they own will save them a lot of money.
Please explain how you're gonna get 2.5 feet of snow off your roads if you don't give money to your local government, then please. Are you suggesting the money to fuel the plows and pay for the salt and the guys driving the trucks grows on trees or something? (just an example, I don't know where you live).
Your assuption is that government always spends the money wisely. The problems is that %50 of money government can be wasted. The best thing you can do is try to pay as little to the government as possible and force them to spend our money wisely.
Ever hear of a little non-killing game called The Sims and how it became a best-seller??
I agree, however, I have no clue how The Sims became such a hit. It is about the most boring game in the world. I see people playing it for hours and just smile as they play. I just don't understand how.
I was in the The Sim Online beta, again samething. I have no clue how that game can survive let along actually get people to stay with it. I would rather watch paint dry than play The Sims. I guess it's just me.
Not to sound like the blood thirsty American that I am, but what the hell is the point? If I can't bash in the head of another person, virtually of course, then I don't want to play this MMORPG.
I want blood, gore, violence, sex, weapons, and some interaction with other people of like mind. If I want to live a violent free life, I would interact with real people in the real world.
Yes, the real world is not that violent.
So if the big debate is whether these "rocks" from space contain the building blocks of life, but are being contaminated when they hit earth. Why don't we send up a robot (Or what have you) into space and collect some rocks that have not been on earth?
To me, if you collected about 20 or 30 of these things, it would answer the question rather quickly. Yes, I know that does mean we would get rocks with ammo acids, but sitting waiting for the rocks to come to us seems to be a waste of time.
Sure, California's scheme for "deregulation" had some major flaws, but that doesn't excuse Enron, as well as other energy corporations from committing wire fraud, to the point of almost bankrupting the state.
You don't understand. Davis did not lose 1.8 billion or 3 billion dollars, he lost 34 billon dollars. I would be hard pressed to believe that energy crisis was resposible for that. I think Davis is just using Enron as an excuse to cover his own ass.
California is a Liberal state with a conservitive government in place. We are not going to get any pork. Bush knows he is not going to get California in the next election, so he can send that pork to states that are on the fence.
Starbucks employed the most aggressive expansion strategy in the history of retail.
Okay then, how come they sell millions of their products every day around the world? If you make a crap product that no one wants and you open a million stores, it does not mean anyone is going to buy your product. It is the selling of a consistently good product at all stores, day in and day, that appeals to wide audience is what sells.
What needs to happen is you anti-free market and anti-capitalism wanna be do-gooders need to do is go back to econ 101 and learn that a product sells when people desire it or need it, people know about it and can buy it. In the case of Starbucks, a good, cheap product made quickly and easily accessible.
It might come as a big shock, but any Starbucks, anywhere in the world, is better than 95% of the non-chain Coffee Houses. I know, weird, but they sell a good product.
The only thing worse than living near the stadium in the city that is hosting the Super Bowl is living near the stadium in the city that is hosting the Super Bowl with the Raiders in the Super Bowl.
I use to work for Amazon.com as a Unix Admin and I can tell you Amazon and Alexa are barely related. They are two different companies, it's just that one owns the other. Barely anything between them on the computer system level is intergrated. The main offices for Amazon.com are in Seattle and Alexa offcies are in S.F., Ca. If someone is making a mistake at Alexa, Amazon.com can not really be held responsible.
For some reason, they keep track of how many, and why people die in this country. Goto their website and it has all kinds of information not relating to Diseases.
HP has developped a pretty cool type of RAID. An automatic RAID-level that automatically organizes your disks for best performance while maintaining security.
When a friend explained it to me, it sounded like a mixture of raid 5 and 0+1. For example, if you replace a disk with a larger one, the extra capacity will be used to duplicate some other part of the array.
It's called AutoRAID and it is found on products like the HP Virtual Array 7100 and 7400. As a person who ran several 6 proc 4 Gig of memory Linux machines in a hardcore development enviroment running on these, they suck. They would stop working under high load, which would require a reset of the whole device. Also, linux does not like it's filesystem to be dynamic, it likes it to be one size that never changes. So you never got to use all the "cool" features of the device.
The problem I saw was that they made something fancy that simple RAID 10 handled just fine. Don't put your data on something that is too complicated.
I just love these information packed articles that Slashdot points to.
Come'on! If your going to put up a topic that is worthy of Slashdot, atleast refer to a story that actually has more information than the subject line!
Being 19, you should worry more about getting out from Mommy and Daddy's house and driving their car than what they put in their car that you use. If it is your property, then rip the thing out.
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If you can get a RioVolt 250 or 300 for cheap, do so. I have a 250 and it is one of the best products I have every owned, next to my TiVo. Never skips, plays MP3's, built in recharger and fairly lite.
Why is freenet better than edonkey?
Your not getting 300k/sec with emule. I have been using it for a long time now and the absolute highest I have ever gotten is 50k/sec. The eDonkey protocol is really just a dumb design. Your forced to share with many people, which is cool, but the max upload rate of emule is 3 or 4k/sec, which is lame. The idea is that it's better to share to many slowly than a to few fast. This means, a thousand people has to have the file your looking for, and you have to be able to connect to a lot of them to get what you want a high speed. This just does not happen.
Justin Market, a 25-year-old programmer in San Francisco, embodies the shopworn stereotype of the dot-com youngster who seemed to get everything too easily. (The name is a pseudonym; he didn't want his real name published, for fear that prospective employers might question his love of the software industry, which he is thinking about leaving entirely.) Six years ago, Market dropped out of college -- school was no match for the fortunes being minted in the Internet industry. It turned out to be a pretty good decision. Market founded a company that was eventually purchased by WebMD, and, when that company went public, he became an instant millionaire.
When he was 22, Market sold some of his stock to buy an $800,000 house in the city. "I listened to everyone but my accountant," he says now, "and I didn't put enough away for taxes." He has been out of work since early last year, and has about $300 in his bank account. He's trying to sell his house, which he thinks is worth a bit more than $1 million; most of the money he gets from that will go to pay the IRS. He owes "piles and piles" in taxes, he says.
Boo fucking wooooo. I get so sick of hearing these stories. This guy came up with some lame idea, found some fool to paid way too much for it and then pissed it all away. I'm crying in my coffee for you buddy. What an idiot. Look people, if some tool gives you a million, don't buy a $800,000 house! Stick it away in the bank and and invest in something safe (Bonds and such). After about 10 years it will have doubled and you can retire for real. Don't be a dumass a spend it all on crap you really don't need.
You got lucky; whatever runs the universe smiled on you. Don't be stupid and think it will happen again because it won't.
If your company can not stand on it's own two legs, then it should not be. That goes for airlines, car and game companies. If there is a desire by people willing to pay then someone will run a successful business providing that service or good.
I don't understand this attitude that says, Privatize profits but socialize loses. Just because you can't come up with a good idea and implement it, does not mean my taxes should be raised to cover any loses.
And do you really want government to stick its nose into gaming content? Yes, there is a rating system, but it does not limit what can be in a game. The last thing I want is John Ashcroft and President Bush looking over John Carmacks shoulder telling him he can't put in the monsters of my soon to be nightmares into Doom 3.
I don't know why people are slamming college students that are interns at Microsoft.
First off, any job in this economy is a good job. The dot com boom is over and so are the 100K jobs where a pulse was the only requirement.
Second, when you have a big company like MS on your resume, the job market opens up a lot more, even in bad times. I worked at the "Evil Northwest Book, CD's and More company" and don't regret it one bit. After leaving that company I had a job in 6 weeks that paid 15K more a year. Having that those kinds of companies on the resume helps a lot. You can call me a whore, but you'll do it from the unemployment office.
Three, MS treats it employees well. I know of very few companies that offer all of the benefts and salary that MS offers. When it comes down to it, work is only about three things; Pay, Benefits, and Intresting work. MS appears to provide all three.
So what did my fellow Slashdoters expect? We all know it is Sun that is feeling the effects of Linux taking off.
It's been reported time and time again that it is Unix venders that feel the effect of losing sales to Linux rather than Microsoft. Microsoft does lose some sales to Linux, but not as much as Sun, HP, or IBM.
Sun would like Linux to go away so they can retake the low end and mid level markets, where Linux dominates.
AK-47 is not that good, in fact, it's a pretty piss poor rifle in accuracy. The only reason people use it is that it is cheap. There is a saying, "The only people who buy AK-47's are people who can't afford M-16's."
I never have been into MMO (Massive Multi-Player Onlines) and I'll tell you why:
1) Recycled games themes; You get either Dungeon and Dragons or Future Space SciFi. No one is really breaking out of the box on this. Of the 100 games on the market, they fall into these two catagories.
2) Too restrictive, Narrow play. Stop making the game so static. Just make a world that has rules and let the players do the rest. Don't make it so you have to do missions to advance.
If players want to be in a clan that raids other clans, then let it be. You can make protection zones (No fighting in the zones), but once out of the zone, go at it. For exmaple, let players set the price of items by supply and demand.
I am still waiting for a Fallout (Post apocalyptic) style MMOG where I can be evil or nice or anything in between. Just create the world and let the players do the rest.
Do you have proof, or are you just a troll.
I am not suprised at all.
I use to be a member of the team that ran, maintained and added new domains to Amazon.com DNS's. While I won't tell you everything, I can tell you they did this to save money since Amazon.com owns something like 4,000 domains (Maybe less, maybe more).
Just paying the money to be a registar and then not having to pay to register new domains and also not paying to re-register all the domain names they own will save them a lot of money.
Smart move, IMHO.
Your assuption is that government always spends the money wisely. The problems is that %50 of money government can be wasted. The best thing you can do is try to pay as little to the government as possible and force them to spend our money wisely.
I agree, however, I have no clue how The Sims became such a hit. It is about the most boring game in the world. I see people playing it for hours and just smile as they play. I just don't understand how.
I was in the The Sim Online beta, again samething. I have no clue how that game can survive let along actually get people to stay with it. I would rather watch paint dry than play The Sims. I guess it's just me.
Not to sound like the blood thirsty American that I am, but what the hell is the point? If I can't bash in the head of another person, virtually of course, then I don't want to play this MMORPG.
I want blood, gore, violence, sex, weapons, and some interaction with other people of like mind. If I want to live a violent free life, I would interact with real people in the real world.
Yes, the real world is not that violent.
So if the big debate is whether these "rocks" from space contain the building blocks of life, but are being contaminated when they hit earth. Why don't we send up a robot (Or what have you) into space and collect some rocks that have not been on earth?
To me, if you collected about 20 or 30 of these things, it would answer the question rather quickly. Yes, I know that does mean we would get rocks with ammo acids, but sitting waiting for the rocks to come to us seems to be a waste of time.
You don't understand. Davis did not lose 1.8 billion or 3 billion dollars, he lost 34 billon dollars. I would be hard pressed to believe that energy crisis was resposible for that. I think Davis is just using Enron as an excuse to cover his own ass.
California is a Liberal state with a conservitive government in place. We are not going to get any pork. Bush knows he is not going to get California in the next election, so he can send that pork to states that are on the fence.
Starbucks employed the most aggressive expansion strategy in the history of retail.
Okay then, how come they sell millions of their products every day around the world? If you make a crap product that no one wants and you open a million stores, it does not mean anyone is going to buy your product. It is the selling of a consistently good product at all stores, day in and day, that appeals to wide audience is what sells.
What needs to happen is you anti-free market and anti-capitalism wanna be do-gooders need to do is go back to econ 101 and learn that a product sells when people desire it or need it, people know about it and can buy it. In the case of Starbucks, a good, cheap product made quickly and easily accessible.
It might come as a big shock, but any Starbucks, anywhere in the world, is better than 95% of the non-chain Coffee Houses. I know, weird, but they sell a good product.
The only thing worse than living near the stadium in the city that is hosting the Super Bowl is living near the stadium in the city that is hosting the Super Bowl with the Raiders in the Super Bowl.
I use to work for Amazon.com as a Unix Admin and I can tell you Amazon and Alexa are barely related. They are two different companies, it's just that one owns the other. Barely anything between them on the computer system level is intergrated. The main offices for Amazon.com are in Seattle and Alexa offcies are in S.F., Ca.
If someone is making a mistake at Alexa, Amazon.com can not really be held responsible.
For some reason, they keep track of how many, and why people die in this country. Goto their website and it has all kinds of information not relating to Diseases.
When a friend explained it to me, it sounded like a mixture of raid 5 and 0+1. For example, if you replace a disk with a larger one, the extra capacity will be used to duplicate some other part of the array.
It's called AutoRAID and it is found on products like the HP Virtual Array 7100 and 7400. As a person who ran several 6 proc 4 Gig of memory Linux machines in a hardcore development enviroment running on these, they suck. They would stop working under high load, which would require a reset of the whole device. Also, linux does not like it's filesystem to be dynamic, it likes it to be one size that never changes. So you never got to use all the "cool" features of the device.
The problem I saw was that they made something fancy that simple RAID 10 handled just fine. Don't put your data on something that is too complicated.
I just love these information packed articles that Slashdot points to.
Come'on! If your going to put up a topic that is worthy of Slashdot, atleast refer to a story that actually has more information than the subject line!
Has anyone pointed out that releasing a year behind is like a million in computer years?