You would think that people would realize that it is difficult to make money selling hardware. Somebody will always try to sell it for less. Without a decent margin on your equipment, why bother?
And I think that Tivo has shown that there is not a huge market left of people who want to pay a $10/mo subscription for updated channel programming lists.
So how exactly do these guys expect to make money?
"If that's right, I will certainly castigate the offender."
Hm, for a minute there I thought he most definately meant to say castrate. Then I remembered that he wasn't Cmdr. Taco and the probability of spelling skill went through the roof. But wouldn't he have been disappointed to find out that the person he was going to castrate was a woman?
There goes the farm. For some reason I was under the impression that if my current hard drive, some 30 gig jobbie from Western Digital, or Maxtor, or somewhere, were to die a mysterious death, it would be perpetually replaced by the next step in computing technology.
I guess most of us have been living a lie, believing the myth of the 'hard drive fairie' that takes our old 'broken' drives and replaces them with 'slightly used but fixed and larger' versions.
What next, no santa claus?
Good thing I don't let my kids read Slashdot, this hard drive thing would break their hearts.
According to the article, the monochrome version will be available for "under Rs 10,000" and the colour version around Rs 15,000. We are given in the Slashdot post the information about the Monochrome Version being $200 us.
Therefore:
Monochrome = 10,000 Color = 15,000
Or, if:
Monochrome = 10,000 x Y = $200
then Y =.02
And
Color = 15,000 x.02 = 300
So the color version of this handheld will be around $300 US.:-)
Do these folks realize that it is 2002 already?:-)
Don't they have anybody in their marketing department? Any product labeled 2000 is going to look old. It should definitely be Fortran Millenium, or fortran 3000. Something catchy like that.
Microsoft, exercising one of the many holes in IIS must have screwed their machines into oblivion.
That would definately explain the server outage.
I decree that this will now be known as the M$ Effect. A company exploiting their well known software vunlerabilities in order to screw the hell out of somebody that is pissing them off.
I believe that the flat rate for unlimited megabytes turns back into a flat rate for 15 megabytes/month then 3.50 dollars for 1 additional megabyte after 1 year.
Somebody mentioned this in the LAST article about Danger. Not that you bothered to read it.
From this article I get the impression that any Tom, Dick, or Harry can go out, 'perform testing' and give away FIPS certs for money.
They really should have looked into the certification process for the testing companies. I doubt that Uncle Sam lets them in without some sort of compliance standards. I guess these standards will just have to include mandatory testing by engineers instead of software.
If not, then the only thing that software developers will have to spend time guarding against are the specific areas of vulnerability that the testing houses look for.
That kind of defeats the purpose, now, doesn't it?
What kind of legal strength does a EULA have any more?
1. They are on every software product. 2. Nobody reads them. 3. Those who say they read them are lying.
Therefore, one could assume that nobody understands their rights and none of the software companies seem to enforce their stated restrictions. At least that I have seen.
So what good is a EULA these days? Should we be reading them? Are they even valid, considering they 'go into effect' upon opening of an envelope.
Can such an agreement be made without a signature?
Can I just have my minor child open software to relieve me of these obligations to the software company?
These are things I would like to know. I admit that I am ignorant:-)
I find it quite interesting that you assume that any people of note should bother submitting a review to Amazon.com if they have something to say about a book. If I were going to take the time to write a professional review of a book, I'm sure that I would have it published somewhere that I would get good exposure and receive compensation for my time.
And are we talking about Mandrake linux here? Doing a search for mandrake at lindows.com yields no results... so if they are using Mandrake as their base, that would be an interesting fact to know.
Slashdot Mirror
How does it run Doom III?
Well, I can see that it allows blood to drip 2x as fast as my 128 Meg Geforce 4400.
And, wow! You can totally see the eyelids blur as characters blink!!!
What great features in this cool cool engine. I think I can even see the blood polygons underneath the characters' pixelated skin!
Don't even get me started about the quality of reflections in the moving water.
DAAAMN!
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Funny you should choose the IPod icon for this article. That is the tool of choice for all Apple Hackers.
Visit your local Mac friendly store and get a free copies of software! All by dragging it off the disk onto your firewire enabled Ipod!
Talk about user friendly! No wonder they only worry about getting $$$'s for hardware.
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He would probably rate them:
-1 : Troll
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What is their business model. Does anybody know?
You would think that people would realize that it is difficult to make money selling hardware. Somebody will always try to sell it for less. Without a decent margin on your equipment, why bother?
And I think that Tivo has shown that there is not a huge market left of people who want to pay a $10/mo subscription for updated channel programming lists.
So how exactly do these guys expect to make money?
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Why on Earth do you talk like that?
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Badass Pumpkins here
;-)
This guy has way way way too much time on his hands
Wait, so do I.
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News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
(Only a few weeks after MSNBC)
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"If that's right, I will certainly castigate the offender."
Hm, for a minute there I thought he most definately meant to say castrate. Then I remembered that he wasn't Cmdr. Taco and the probability of spelling skill went through the roof. But wouldn't he have been disappointed to find out that the person he was going to castrate was a woman?
That surely would present a problem.
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Who wouldn't 'Switch'?
But this 'action' begs the question. Are they going to act on the other 'testimonials' that are prefaced with stock photo images?
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*sigh*
There goes the farm. For some reason I was under the impression that if my current hard drive, some 30 gig jobbie from Western Digital, or Maxtor, or somewhere, were to die a mysterious death, it would be perpetually replaced by the next step in computing technology.
I guess most of us have been living a lie, believing the myth of the 'hard drive fairie' that takes our old 'broken' drives and replaces them with 'slightly used but fixed and larger' versions.
What next, no santa claus?
Good thing I don't let my kids read Slashdot, this hard drive thing would break their hearts.
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I would say something funny, but then 90% of you wouldn't get it.
Predictable, huh?
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Anybody have this in PDF format yet? I can't find it on Kazaa. :-)
Yes, that was meant to be funny. Go away you self righteous oafs.
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I'm sure that the Russian Mafia will get involved here.
:-)
Who bets that Lance Bass pays them off to 'secure' his contest win. It would probably be easier than doing it the 'right' way
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But I can't see any reference to a shred of proof in these articles.
So why did I read them?
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Until Microsoft really screws up and gets ripped apart by the government?
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According to the article, the monochrome version will be available for "under Rs 10,000" and the colour version around Rs 15,000. We are given in the Slashdot post the information about the Monochrome Version being $200 us.
.02
.02 = 300
:-)
Therefore:
Monochrome = 10,000
Color = 15,000
Or, if:
Monochrome = 10,000 x Y = $200
then Y =
And
Color = 15,000 x
So the color version of this handheld will be around $300 US.
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Do these folks realize that it is 2002 already? :-)
Don't they have anybody in their marketing department? Any product labeled 2000 is going to look old. It should definitely be Fortran Millenium, or fortran 3000. Something catchy like that.
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They're just embarassed because they can't figure out how to get CowboyNeal to get down off of their router.
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HAHAHA!
This is too funny.
Microsoft, exercising one of the many holes in IIS must have screwed their machines into oblivion.
That would definately explain the server outage.
I decree that this will now be known as the M$ Effect. A company exploiting their well known software vunlerabilities in order to screw the hell out of somebody that is pissing them off.
-S
I believe that the flat rate for unlimited megabytes turns back into a flat rate for 15 megabytes/month then 3.50 dollars for 1 additional megabyte after 1 year.
;-)
Somebody mentioned this in the LAST article about Danger. Not that you bothered to read it.
Hidden somewhere in the EULA I would suspect
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From this article I get the impression that any Tom, Dick, or Harry can go out, 'perform testing' and give away FIPS certs for money.
They really should have looked into the certification process for the testing companies. I doubt that Uncle Sam lets them in without some sort of compliance standards. I guess these standards will just have to include mandatory testing by engineers instead of software.
If not, then the only thing that software developers will have to spend time guarding against are the specific areas of vulnerability that the testing houses look for.
That kind of defeats the purpose, now, doesn't it?
-S
What kind of legal strength does a EULA have any more?
:-)
1. They are on every software product.
2. Nobody reads them.
3. Those who say they read them are lying.
Therefore, one could assume that nobody understands their rights and none of the software companies seem to enforce their stated restrictions. At least that I have seen.
So what good is a EULA these days? Should we be reading them? Are they even valid, considering they 'go into effect' upon opening of an envelope.
Can such an agreement be made without a signature?
Can I just have my minor child open software to relieve me of these obligations to the software company?
These are things I would like to know. I admit that I am ignorant
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Does this mean that the guy from last week will now have 38 Operating Systems on 1 PC?
Since the lunar-linux site is probably bogged down at the moment, you can probably grab an ISO from:
DistroWatch
or
LinuxISO.org
I find it quite interesting that you assume that any people of note should bother submitting a review to Amazon.com if they have something to say about a book. If I were going to take the time to write a professional review of a book, I'm sure that I would have it published somewhere that I would get good exposure and receive compensation for my time.
Maybe you would like to take a look at Web Security, Privacy & Commerce, 2nd Edition from OReilly (I have no connection w/ this link or this book).
Or maybe you could figure out where the Web Security zealots hang out. I bet they've talked about the book there, if it has any merit of note.
If you expect anything besides rehashes of the books TOC on the Amazon.com review system, you're going to be disappointed most of the time.
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No, I don't. Nor do I care. I hate the sims.
And are we talking about Mandrake linux here? Doing a search for mandrake at lindows.com yields no results... so if they are using Mandrake as their base, that would be an interesting fact to know.
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