The problem with counting requests like that is that there is not a lot of follow through. I'd say that half or less of those people requesting will actually purchase the game. I myself bought a copy of Neverwinter Nights 1 as well as UT2004, Quake 3, Doom 3, Sim City 3000 and a few other games that work under Linux. Provided that I would have enough time(have a daughter now) I will buy a copy of NWN2 if they make a Linux client. But from what I've seen and heard from many people in the past, a lot of gamers talk talk talk and don't buy. Its easy to say "Me too", but most can't or don't pony up. Then again, there are probably a lot of people who don't say anything, but end up buying a copy to use for Linux. They need a better metric for counting the number of used Linux clients.
It could be that the price of the units make them more of a commonity. Some people might have been counting on selling the units at a 400% profit and when they couldn't, getting pretty angry. $250 profit is a lot less than $2000.
It might also have nothing to do with money and more to do with personality and character. PS3's and Wii's probably attract different kinds of people, but each attract a certain type of person. Back in the 90s I did a study of people using browsers by first blocking IE and allowing Netscape users in, allowing that to happen for a couple months and then switching it around so that Netscape users where blocked and IE users where allowed in. The site was a fan site for a musician and so people visiting had a strong desire to see the content. In each case, when I blocked a certain browser, I would receive angry emails from the people that were blocked. Maybe about 25-50 for each browser. I found that IE users on average would use poor grammar, make more spelling mistakes and generally shorter words than Netscape users. I also found that most Netscape users would send longer emails while several IE users would be very short and frank with me. The same effect is most likely the case with gaming consoles, computers, operating systems and everything else.
I don't know what Bill's views are really but let's say he's on the democratic ticket. Wouldn't that be funny if he ended up running against Arnold Schwarzenegger (assuming if the law were to be changed). Now that would be an interesting election.
World's richest man vs. World's strongest man. Begin!
I think the biggest problem with the whole climate change debate, is that the common man can't easily do all the research to come to their own good conclusion. So they have to believe whoever in the media has the best song and dance show. This is the case with a lot of things though so there you go.
No one ever went out of business by assuming people are inherently ignorant and lazy.
Wanna bet?
Customers eventually wise up and take their business elsewhere. Why else would there be consumer reviews and people switching between providers. I get customers like that all the time who come from companies like GoDaddy or iPowWeb, fed up with their poor service and tricking customers. Companies have simply learned how to do a better job of hiding the fact that they think their customers are dumb.
I believe in people. Sometimes it is hard to, but for the most part I believe that people can be smart or become smart. They are just not given the oppurtunity to be. Companies like Microsoft usually don't try to allow people be smart, in fact its usually the case that these companies develop a business model based around people being ignorant and lazy. You can tell by how they word their agreements, marketing material and by what they leave out.
The unix way (besides do one thing and do it well) however is to allow beginners and experts in, and help them leverage themselves so that they can be intelligent and productive in how they work. I don't care if everyone adopts Linux, but I do care if the people who want to work intelligently and are willing to be intelligent are shut out of it. I encounter people all the time who want to learn Linux for the sake of learning it. These are open minded people who want to be smart. Maybe they are smart, maybe they aren't. But honestly that doesn't matter, if they have the will, then Linux will probably work fine for them.
This comment is not meant to "save the world" or anything so grandious. It is only meant as a retort to jackass e-zine writers who don't have the desire to give it a try and have no faith in the concept of community.
Actually, after analyzing this a bit more, I can see that there is an upward trend overall and in the last couple months. But I would still like to make the point that there have been many times in the past when spam has reached this point.
Honestly, it was past time to start worrying about 2 years ago. Two years ago I was had the feeling that the rising amount of spam was going to cause significant problems to the point where mail servers would no longer be maintainable and the internet may become unuseable. But now here we are, nothing truely significant. More spam taking more space and driving the load up a bit on servers, but not necessarily cripling everything as we expected.
I also haven't really noticed this increase that people have talked about lately. On average I receive over 11,000 spam messages a month to my primary email account. Here is the count per month for the past two and a half years:
You're probably right. I still have this theory that we may be heading for a single gender species. I'm misappropriately applying this finding to back it up. Probably not a good thing since I'm no biologist.
1. Testosterone drops in males. 2. More females born as a result. 3. Evolution in females to ensure survival. 4. Single gender species results.
I've thought about this since I first saw that STTNG episode with the single gender species.
In some ways I think that homosexuality may be some evolutionary precursor to this.
Interestingly enough, I just had a baby girl last month. I've also noticed that almost all of my co-workers have daughters. This is of course anecdotal evidence, so it should be taken with a grain of salt.
It was, however, not a very smart move unless he was willing to do time in order to bring this to light.
I'm glad that you don't think he should be punished. But I think you are not understanding something here. Most people who make a difference in this world do things without caring what it means for themselves. They care more about what it will mean for everyone. Chris may have put himself into an immediate inconvience and potentially will have to unjustly do time for his actions. But in the long term, the public wins. If his actions can make it so there is one less flaw that those who are being malicious can utilize to do harm, then Chris has done everyone a service and should be praised for it. He has done what most people are unwilling to do (especially those in the information industry), risk their own life and livelyhood to take a chance for the sake of others.
This guy is not a terrorist, he's a security researcher. I live in Bloomington as well and work with a guy who is taking a cryptographic protocols class with Chris. He says that Chris is a decent guy, which is probably the case. I for one commend Chris for releasing this kind of information to the public. Even if he had released it to the FAA or Northwest Airlines, its doubtful that the public would have ever known. He is simply doing what most security researchers do, its just that his research coincides with current hot topics in politics and public interest.
They seem to conveniently ignore the fact that with Oracle 10g RAC, Red Hat GFS, Red Hat Cluster Suite are irrelevant. 10g's built in cluster software (CRS) and filesystem (ASM) do away with the need for vendor clustering.
So then what you are saying is that Oracle's support definately is ONLY for database servers.
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Cause you know that god kills an angel everytime you lie
Does that prove that god and angels don't exist?
The problem with counting requests like that is that there is not a lot of follow through. I'd say that half or less of those people requesting will actually purchase the game. I myself bought a copy of Neverwinter Nights 1 as well as UT2004, Quake 3, Doom 3, Sim City 3000 and a few other games that work under Linux. Provided that I would have enough time(have a daughter now) I will buy a copy of NWN2 if they make a Linux client. But from what I've seen and heard from many people in the past, a lot of gamers talk talk talk and don't buy. Its easy to say "Me too", but most can't or don't pony up. Then again, there are probably a lot of people who don't say anything, but end up buying a copy to use for Linux. They need a better metric for counting the number of used Linux clients.
You must be an IE user :)
Ta dit boom. Har har.
One thing that can be said about a lot of slashdot users is that they take a lot of cheap shots at people just to boost their ego.
s/commonity/commodity/
It could be that the price of the units make them more of a commonity. Some people might have been counting on selling the units at a 400% profit and when they couldn't, getting pretty angry. $250 profit is a lot less than $2000.
It might also have nothing to do with money and more to do with personality and character. PS3's and Wii's probably attract different kinds of people, but each attract a certain type of person. Back in the 90s I did a study of people using browsers by first blocking IE and allowing Netscape users in, allowing that to happen for a couple months and then switching it around so that Netscape users where blocked and IE users where allowed in. The site was a fan site for a musician and so people visiting had a strong desire to see the content. In each case, when I blocked a certain browser, I would receive angry emails from the people that were blocked. Maybe about 25-50 for each browser. I found that IE users on average would use poor grammar, make more spelling mistakes and generally shorter words than Netscape users. I also found that most Netscape users would send longer emails while several IE users would be very short and frank with me. The same effect is most likely the case with gaming consoles, computers, operating systems and everything else.
I don't know what Bill's views are really but let's say he's on the democratic ticket. Wouldn't that be funny if he ended up running against Arnold Schwarzenegger (assuming if the law were to be changed). Now that would be an interesting election.
World's richest man vs. World's strongest man. Begin!
I guess nobody really got my joke related to the subject line.
What? No kitty cat?
They want you to pee in a corvette?
I thought they said that 2 cores would be enough for the desktop for the foreseeable future
*Studio Audience laughs*
I think the biggest problem with the whole climate change debate, is that the common man can't easily do all the research to come to their own good conclusion. So they have to believe whoever in the media has the best song and dance show. This is the case with a lot of things though so there you go.
No one ever went out of business by assuming people are inherently ignorant and lazy.
Wanna bet?
Customers eventually wise up and take their business elsewhere. Why else would there be consumer reviews and people switching between providers. I get customers like that all the time who come from companies like GoDaddy or iPowWeb, fed up with their poor service and tricking customers. Companies have simply learned how to do a better job of hiding the fact that they think their customers are dumb.
I believe in people. Sometimes it is hard to, but for the most part I believe that people can be smart or become smart. They are just not given the oppurtunity to be. Companies like Microsoft usually don't try to allow people be smart, in fact its usually the case that these companies develop a business model based around people being ignorant and lazy. You can tell by how they word their agreements, marketing material and by what they leave out.
The unix way (besides do one thing and do it well) however is to allow beginners and experts in, and help them leverage themselves so that they can be intelligent and productive in how they work. I don't care if everyone adopts Linux, but I do care if the people who want to work intelligently and are willing to be intelligent are shut out of it. I encounter people all the time who want to learn Linux for the sake of learning it. These are open minded people who want to be smart. Maybe they are smart, maybe they aren't. But honestly that doesn't matter, if they have the will, then Linux will probably work fine for them.
This comment is not meant to "save the world" or anything so grandious. It is only meant as a retort to jackass e-zine writers who don't have the desire to give it a try and have no faith in the concept of community.
But that's the thing, botnets are not all that new. They've been using them for at least a year now.
Actually, after analyzing this a bit more, I can see that there is an upward trend overall and in the last couple months. But I would still like to make the point that there have been many times in the past when spam has reached this point.
Honestly, it was past time to start worrying about 2 years ago. Two years ago I was had the feeling that the rising amount of spam was going to cause significant problems to the point where mail servers would no longer be maintainable and the internet may become unuseable. But now here we are, nothing truely significant. More spam taking more space and driving the load up a bit on servers, but not necessarily cripling everything as we expected.
I also haven't really noticed this increase that people have talked about lately. On average I receive over 11,000 spam messages a month to my primary email account. Here is the count per month for the past two and a half years:
2004-07: 9088
2004-08: 9057
2004-09: 8990
2004-10: 14318
2004-11: 9910
2004-12: 11521
2005-01: 11251
2005-02: 9381
2005-03: 10843
2005-04: 10084
2005-05: 11785
2005-06: 10987
2005-07: 10505
2005-08: 9333
2005-09: 9704
2005-10: 12329
2005-11: 12394
2005-12: 14934
2006-01: 13764
2006-02: 13235
2006-03: 14562
2006-04: 11946
2006-05: 14204
2006-06: 13801
2006-07: 9671
2006-08: 10395
2006-09: 11373
2006-10: 12221
You're probably right. I still have this theory that we may be heading for a single gender species. I'm misappropriately applying this finding to back it up. Probably not a good thing since I'm no biologist.
1. Testosterone drops in males.
2. More females born as a result.
3. Evolution in females to ensure survival.
4. Single gender species results.
I've thought about this since I first saw that STTNG episode with the single gender species.
In some ways I think that homosexuality may be some evolutionary precursor to this.
Interestingly enough, I just had a baby girl last month. I've also noticed that almost all of my co-workers have daughters. This is of course anecdotal evidence, so it should be taken with a grain of salt.
It was, however, not a very smart move unless he was willing to do time in order to bring this to light.
I'm glad that you don't think he should be punished. But I think you are not understanding something here. Most people who make a difference in this world do things without caring what it means for themselves. They care more about what it will mean for everyone. Chris may have put himself into an immediate inconvience and potentially will have to unjustly do time for his actions. But in the long term, the public wins. If his actions can make it so there is one less flaw that those who are being malicious can utilize to do harm, then Chris has done everyone a service and should be praised for it. He has done what most people are unwilling to do (especially those in the information industry), risk their own life and livelyhood to take a chance for the sake of others.
This guy is not a terrorist, he's a security researcher. I live in Bloomington as well and work with a guy who is taking a cryptographic protocols class with Chris. He says that Chris is a decent guy, which is probably the case. I for one commend Chris for releasing this kind of information to the public. Even if he had released it to the FAA or Northwest Airlines, its doubtful that the public would have ever known. He is simply doing what most security researchers do, its just that his research coincides with current hot topics in politics and public interest.
Maybe that's why slashdot has labeled it nerdcore.
That cake looks like it was made on a PC.
They seem to conveniently ignore the fact that with Oracle 10g RAC, Red Hat GFS, Red Hat Cluster Suite are irrelevant. 10g's built in cluster software (CRS) and filesystem (ASM) do away with the need for vendor clustering.
So then what you are saying is that Oracle's support definately is ONLY for database servers.
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I literally just installed FC5 on a machine this morning.