1000x performance increase? I think somebody is smoking crack. An equivalent would be like setting a goal to put a supercomputer on everybody's desktop.
What in the world could they do with that much computing power? Holodeck?
I think 4x increase would be mind blowing. Although, Bill Gates was once quoted as saying that 640k should be more than anybody will never need.
There already is an activeX wrapper. Unfortunately, it requires a full installation of mozilla in order to function properly. Its a bit of a drawback when it comes time to distribute an app based on the component.
This site has exceeded its limit of 3 Gigabytes of transfer for the month. You may buy extra Gigabytes of transfer by logging in to the user menu and choosing "upgrade".
What happens when your site is smaller than the "over the limit" message? Whats up with bandwidth useage then?
I've made an observation after seeing this article.
Businesses dealing with Linux, whether it be hardware, distros, or whatever, should use better judgement in naming their business and products.
Case in point, "Mission Critical Linux" sounds good as long as the company is successful. However, the name is overly generic, and now that the company is headed for deeper waters, Mission Critical Linux could be mistaken for the concept of mission critical linux.
Now all it will take is a single incompetent journalist to briefly perview the headline, and make the assumption that "Linux" itself is in trouble. Want to take bets on how long it will be before this shows up in E-Week?
Another example would be a product called "Linux On The Desktop". The product gets the death axe, and then it could be misrepresented as "linux on the desktop is dying".
See the point? These companies running around trying to make a few bucks from open source products need to take a deeper look at properly branding their products. Enough said.
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Slashdot already uses gzip'd pages. Considering that the 1st page (366858 bytes) is already compressed, how did you fake the 2nd set of numbers?
Right now, lets be honest about the subscriptions. The only benefit is the lack of advertising on the screen. IMHO, for a subscription of this nature to be of value, the advertising needs to be extremely annoying. Perhaps something along the line of gigantic moving flash ads that obscure the screen, or the infamous "wait here for 1 minute before proceeding" ads.
The current slashdot advertising isn't annoying. Its a little banner ad on the top of the screen. So what!! Once I start scrolling down to the comments where I spend 99.99% of my time on/., I don't see the ads. Hence, the current "subscription" doesn't have much value.
So, here's the deal. Either sell some extremely annoying advertising, or hurry up and ad more value to the subscriptions.
Idea: would it possible for paying subscribers to cash in karma for/. merchandise?
Poor management plagues nearly every industry. Ever pay attention to Dilbert cartoons? Through some fluke of nature, the incompetent and less knowledgeable human beings somehow end up being in management.
The computer industry is exceptionally vulnerable to poor management. The industry moves quickly. A company is likely to go nowhere when under the leadership of incompetent individuals. In my case, I work at software company lead by old gray haired men that literally think DOS is the future. Think my career is going anywhere? And thats just the point. Its not just the company that suffers, but the careers of the individuals at the company that also suffer.
Lets not forget that radio was the ultimate source of creation of the RIAA. I'm sick of hearing about this crap. Streaming audio, and other forms of audio delivery over the internet, is the future of broadcasting. The quality isn't too bad now, and is going to get better over time as the technology improves, just as radio did in its distant past. I'm finally convinced that the RIAA is nothing but a roadblock on the highway of progress.
Will somebody please move these retards out of the way, so we can finally move along?
What about the freedom of information act? IANAL, but it seems that there could be a way to petition state governments to hand the source code over to anybody that wants it. Depending on the circumstances under which the windows source code would be given to the states, this may or may not be possible.
What is a state government going to do with the code? Most likely, they will contract an outside firm to review the code and give a report. I have a lot of experience in dealing with state government as I am the lead developer on a software product that is used throughout the state of Maine by the government. My experience tells me that state governments collectively don't have the technological expertise to be able to analyze software internals! Its plain and simple, they're going to have to contract to external sources in order to analyze the code.
This poses a very dangerous situation for Microsoft. How easily could contractors be persuaded to give the source code to somebody that wants it bad enough? How easily could the code be retrieved through FOIA? These are big issues that Microsoft will have to face if they are forced to hand out the code to state governments.
... Well, this dispells the rumor that you're gay!
Seriously though, congratulations to you both. You've also created yet another classic moment in/. history, so I'm sure we'll be visiting this post sometime in the future.
Futurama is pur genious, all packaged into a 30 minute spot for our consumption. Its an awesome cartoon, with some really deep humor, especially for us geek types.
I can't believe they're canceling it!! Christ, they haven't had it on the air in any regular schedule for the past year! Of course its probably had poor numbers, nobody ever knows when its going to be on!!! Are things not this obvious to the clowns over at Fox?
Believe it or not, PHP might be a good option on a technical level. There are a few really nice IDEs available for PHP, and with the new release of PHPGTK, its really shaping up to be a good all around programming language.
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"SMEAT, its whats for dinner!"
1000x performance increase? I think somebody is smoking crack. An equivalent would be like setting a goal to put a supercomputer on everybody's desktop.
What in the world could they do with that much computing power? Holodeck?
I think 4x increase would be mind blowing. Although, Bill Gates was once quoted as saying that 640k should be more than anybody will never need.
I hope this HUD doesn't have the same problem as old monocrhome monitors with burn-in. That would suck a lot.
Yeah I smoke pot, but this is really fucked up!
There already is an activeX wrapper. Unfortunately, it requires a full installation of mozilla in order to function properly. Its a bit of a drawback when it comes time to distribute an app based on the component.
This site has exceeded its limit of 3 Gigabytes of transfer for the month. You may buy extra Gigabytes of transfer by logging in to the user menu and choosing "upgrade".
What happens when your site is smaller than the "over the limit" message? Whats up with bandwidth useage then?
Did somebody declare a new holiday today without telling me? Is this now "Pick on Google Day"?
yeah, but the Chinese weren't smart enough to loot & pillage the natives and settle the damn place.
I've made an observation after seeing this article.
Businesses dealing with Linux, whether it be hardware, distros, or whatever, should use better judgement in naming their business and products.
Case in point, "Mission Critical Linux" sounds good as long as the company is successful. However, the name is overly generic, and now that the company is headed for deeper waters, Mission Critical Linux could be mistaken for the concept of mission critical linux.
Now all it will take is a single incompetent journalist to briefly perview the headline, and make the assumption that "Linux" itself is in trouble. Want to take bets on how long it will be before this shows up in E-Week?
Another example would be a product called "Linux On The Desktop". The product gets the death axe, and then it could be misrepresented as "linux on the desktop is dying".
See the point? These companies running around trying to make a few bucks from open source products need to take a deeper look at properly branding their products. Enough said.
Slashdot already uses gzip'd pages. Considering that the 1st page (366858 bytes) is already compressed, how did you fake the 2nd set of numbers?
How is this not like the "clear PC" case?
If you want a really invisible case, just lay your mobo and parts out on a table. Then, your PC will be +5 cool.
Right now, lets be honest about the subscriptions. The only benefit is the lack of advertising on the screen. IMHO, for a subscription of this nature to be of value, the advertising needs to be extremely annoying. Perhaps something along the line of gigantic moving flash ads that obscure the screen, or the infamous "wait here for 1 minute before proceeding" ads.
/., I don't see the ads. Hence, the current "subscription" doesn't have much value.
/. merchandise?
The current slashdot advertising isn't annoying. Its a little banner ad on the top of the screen. So what!! Once I start scrolling down to the comments where I spend 99.99% of my time on
So, here's the deal. Either sell some extremely annoying advertising, or hurry up and ad more value to the subscriptions.
Idea: would it possible for paying subscribers to cash in karma for
... why didn't this story slashdot itself recursively?
Poor management plagues nearly every industry. Ever pay attention to Dilbert cartoons? Through some fluke of nature, the incompetent and less knowledgeable human beings somehow end up being in management.
The computer industry is exceptionally vulnerable to poor management. The industry moves quickly. A company is likely to go nowhere when under the leadership of incompetent individuals. In my case, I work at software company lead by old gray haired men that literally think DOS is the future. Think my career is going anywhere? And thats just the point. Its not just the company that suffers, but the careers of the individuals at the company that also suffer.
Lets not forget that radio was the ultimate source of creation of the RIAA. I'm sick of hearing about this crap. Streaming audio, and other forms of audio delivery over the internet, is the future of broadcasting. The quality isn't too bad now, and is going to get better over time as the technology improves, just as radio did in its distant past. I'm finally convinced that the RIAA is nothing but a roadblock on the highway of progress.
Will somebody please move these retards out of the way, so we can finally move along?
got btrieve?
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OH! Sorry, not *that* pervasive
just for the record, this is probably the most fucked up thing I've seen in a while !
gosub 1000
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print "dude, you think thats funny? The company I work for still writes software like that!"
return
What about the freedom of information act? IANAL, but it seems that there could be a way to petition state governments to hand the source code over to anybody that wants it. Depending on the circumstances under which the windows source code would be given to the states, this may or may not be possible.
What is a state government going to do with the code? Most likely, they will contract an outside firm to review the code and give a report. I have a lot of experience in dealing with state government as I am the lead developer on a software product that is used throughout the state of Maine by the government. My experience tells me that state governments collectively don't have the technological expertise to be able to analyze software internals! Its plain and simple, they're going to have to contract to external sources in order to analyze the code.
This poses a very dangerous situation for Microsoft. How easily could contractors be persuaded to give the source code to somebody that wants it bad enough? How easily could the code be retrieved through FOIA? These are big issues that Microsoft will have to face if they are forced to hand out the code to state governments.
HAHAHA!! Thats amazing. I also caught the story on Wired earlier today.
Someday when I propose to somebody, I hope MSNBC will cover the story too.
... Well, this dispells the rumor that you're gay!
/. history, so I'm sure we'll be visiting this post sometime in the future.
Seriously though, congratulations to you both. You've also created yet another classic moment in
Now, go make some mad lovin'!
Futurama is pur genious, all packaged into a 30 minute spot for our consumption. Its an awesome cartoon, with some really deep humor, especially for us geek types.
I can't believe they're canceling it!! Christ, they haven't had it on the air in any regular schedule for the past year! Of course its probably had poor numbers, nobody ever knows when its going to be on!!! Are things not this obvious to the clowns over at Fox?
I don't watch much TV... it sucks anyway.
great idea!! lets slashdot the petition!
Believe it or not, PHP might be a good option on a technical level. There are a few really nice IDEs available for PHP, and with the new release of PHPGTK, its really shaping up to be a good all around programming language.
It all sounds good, until a flock of birds fly by!