When I lived in NY I wasn't into the New Years Eve thing either. It was fun however to stick my head out the window right before midnight and hear the background noise of the city get a little louder.
Here's exactly how he'll do it: He'll piss off enough people with Windows that they will be driven to Apple, where they will be watching TV shows purchased on iTunes on their iPod, iPhone, computer, or iTV. People will laugh at more than just "what we had..."
Back when Australia had a war-draft, and the drinking age was 21, a number of people complained. The complaint was that young men could be asked by their country to go to a different country, and be shot at, yet when they got home, they couldn't go and have a beer with their mates. The proposition was to raise the draft age to 21, or lower the drinking age to 18.
Young men in Australia have been drinking in pubs from age 18 for a good long while now...
I highly suggest you take a look at this presentation from Philip Rosedale to get a better idea of what their vision is. The founders aren't going anywhere.
Also, it's painfully obvious that a large part of the SL grid is devoted to shopping, but look around -- it's a reflection of the real world. I would guess that the spending ratios between things like clothing, toys, gadgets, education, real estate, and investment may be very similar between the two worlds.
And the spending reflects the amount of activities as well. It's easy to walk around NYC for the first time and think all people do is eat and shop, but after a little time, knowing where to look, you can find serious things to do that don't involve shopping. Same with Second Life - coffee shop listening to live streaming music with others, discussion groups, classes (both SL-related and not), art shows, poetry..
Oh and that "You Suck" shirt costed roughly $1 real-life money. 250L is a pretty high price for what sounds like a cheap T-shirt, so you were kind of ripped off.
I'll reiterate what a few other posters have said -- small business customers are much better.
In my experience there are less surprises, less household-like drama (pets, kids, smokers..), and less likely to balk at high price of professional service (or if they do, they calm down when you remind them how much they play for plumbing or roof repair or other critical business needs).
Business customers are more likely to have updated systems, and (most important to me) they typically have at least one person like an office admin who can do routine tasks like check if mal-ware updates are up to date, or change backup tapes.
We all try to follow the rule: "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." IT follows a similar rule: "if it ain't broke but fixing it justifies my job, we'll fix it."
My mother was stricken with Polio in the early 50's, just a few years before the vaccine was approved.
Although I've never seen any literature that support this, she says Polio was known as a Middle-class disease, since the middle-class were more likely to have cleaner houses (thus not exposing babies to as many germs and developing healthy immune systems). The fact that her mother was a clean-freak before and after my mother was born may be coincidental to her contracting Polio, but I like to think they're related.
I do believe there's a Bender joke in there somewhere.
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It's the laws of supply and demand, and with anything that's infinitely duplicatable at near zero cost, the supply outpaces the demand fairly soon; there are only so many hours per day to listen to music, and it's not a resource that needs repeated production (while touring and performing music actually is, which makes it vastly more suitable to make money from in a market economy).
It's not only the supply and demand of copies of the music work, but supply and demand of the artists. There are millions of talented musicians out there, but only a tiny handful that the record company decides to promote, creating small supply, big demand.
Unfortunately for the RIAA/CRIA/etcIA and a few major acts that manage to squeeze some money out of the deal, the internet is creating alternative forms of promotion & distribution, severely screwing with both the artist and duplication supply/demand. Not that I'm sympathetic to these associations that refuse to change with the times and accept different business models.
Funny, that was actually closer to my real scenario. I was BT'ing some large Linux ISOs, while downloading some large files in Safari. I was throttling Azureus traffic down to 33% of my bandwidth, but couldn't do the same with my Safari downloads. Maybe this could be implemented on a per-client basis, but what a pain for developers to have to implement their own. At the very least, throttling should be a part of the networking C libs.
This brings up a good point. CPU isn't the only limited resource. I've often ran applications that saturate IO busses or network interfaces, or eat up a ton of memory, but only used a fraction of CPU time.
In the first case, a large simple parsing app or file compression/decompression can saturate an IO bus. While performing such operations, other user-sensitive tasks like opening an application or checking mail. Granted most users don't do a lot of IO-flooding apps, but what's more prevalent are network-flooding operations. Just recently, while I was downloading some linux ISOs via HTTP, my web browsing was slow the whole time. Sure QoS can help some of these issues, like putting a higher priority on Game network traffic, but probably wouldn't help web browsing while downloading large files.
It would be nice (no pun intended) to be able to restrict or throttle other resources besides CPU. i.e.:
If you understand the technology well, you might to search out a local user's group, go hang out, and propose it. i.e.: if you decided Ruby on the Rails, look for a local rails group. If there aren't, maybe a Linux users group.
A keyboard/LCD combination in the same form-factor as a laptop, with all the laptop trimmings like a trackpad, speakers, DVD-Rom, USB ports, etc, but without the motherboard, battery, harddrive.. I do most of my work on a laptop on the couch, but I really could use the power of a real desktop. VNC and a normal laptop would be an option, but would restrict the use of video, 3D acceleration. Tethered using real DVI & USB connections would be much better, or multiple video signals could even be multiplexed over a signal to do picture-in-picture (i.e.: watching an inset HD HDMI video from a cable box while).
There would be other uses as well: Network and server facility engineers could use it for a portable console while working on equipment. It may have field use. It could also be useful for folks confined to a wheelchair.
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When I lived in NY I wasn't into the New Years Eve thing either. It was fun however to stick my head out the window right before midnight and hear the background noise of the city get a little louder.
Trust me, we're encouraging those two "alternative" forms of payment wherever possible.
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I live in a first-world country where we have HD sunglasses.
VirtualBox.
Here's exactly how he'll do it: He'll piss off enough people with Windows that they will be driven to Apple, where they will be watching TV shows purchased on iTunes on their iPod, iPhone, computer, or iTV. People will laugh at more than just "what we had..."
Old jokes never tire on Slashdot, you insensitive clod!
In Soviet Russia, old jokes tire of you!
Back when Australia had a war-draft, and the drinking age was 21, a number of people complained. The complaint was that young men could be asked by their country to go to a different country, and be shot at, yet when they got home, they couldn't go and have a beer with their mates. The proposition was to raise the draft age to 21, or lower the drinking age to 18.
Young men in Australia have been drinking in pubs from age 18 for a good long while now...
So Fosters won the war I take it?
Part of the SQL better include something like "... WHERE OCCUPATION IS NOT 'politician' " otherwise there's be total anarchy.
April fools. /me looks at calendar.
Oh wait-
I highly suggest you take a look at this presentation from Philip Rosedale to get a better idea of what their vision is. The founders aren't going anywhere.
Also, it's painfully obvious that a large part of the SL grid is devoted to shopping, but look around -- it's a reflection of the real world. I would guess that the spending ratios between things like clothing, toys, gadgets, education, real estate, and investment may be very similar between the two worlds.
And the spending reflects the amount of activities as well. It's easy to walk around NYC for the first time and think all people do is eat and shop, but after a little time, knowing where to look, you can find serious things to do that don't involve shopping. Same with Second Life - coffee shop listening to live streaming music with others, discussion groups, classes (both SL-related and not), art shows, poetry..
Oh and that "You Suck" shirt costed roughly $1 real-life money. 250L is a pretty high price for what sounds like a cheap T-shirt, so you were kind of ripped off.
I'll reiterate what a few other posters have said -- small business customers are much better.
In my experience there are less surprises, less household-like drama (pets, kids, smokers..), and less likely to balk at high price of professional service (or if they do, they calm down when you remind them how much they play for plumbing or roof repair or other critical business needs).
Business customers are more likely to have updated systems, and (most important to me) they typically have at least one person like an office admin who can do routine tasks like check if mal-ware updates are up to date, or change backup tapes.
The shocking part of the story: there are 23,000 Seqway's out there?
We all try to follow the rule: "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." IT follows a similar rule: "if it ain't broke but fixing it justifies my job, we'll fix it."
My mother was stricken with Polio in the early 50's, just a few years before the vaccine was approved.
Although I've never seen any literature that support this, she says Polio was known as a Middle-class disease, since the middle-class were more likely to have cleaner houses (thus not exposing babies to as many germs and developing healthy immune systems). The fact that her mother was a clean-freak before and after my mother was born may be coincidental to her contracting Polio, but I like to think they're related.
I do believe there's a Bender joke in there somewhere.
It's the laws of supply and demand, and with anything that's infinitely duplicatable at near zero cost, the supply outpaces the demand fairly soon; there are only so many hours per day to listen to music, and it's not a resource that needs repeated production (while touring and performing music actually is, which makes it vastly more suitable to make money from in a market economy).
It's not only the supply and demand of copies of the music work, but supply and demand of the artists. There are millions of talented musicians out there, but only a tiny handful that the record company decides to promote, creating small supply, big demand.
Unfortunately for the RIAA/CRIA/etcIA and a few major acts that manage to squeeze some money out of the deal, the internet is creating alternative forms of promotion & distribution, severely screwing with both the artist and duplication supply/demand. Not that I'm sympathetic to these associations that refuse to change with the times and accept different business models.
Funny, that was actually closer to my real scenario. I was BT'ing some large Linux ISOs, while downloading some large files in Safari. I was throttling Azureus traffic down to 33% of my bandwidth, but couldn't do the same with my Safari downloads. Maybe this could be implemented on a per-client basis, but what a pain for developers to have to implement their own. At the very least, throttling should be a part of the networking C libs.
This brings up a good point. CPU isn't the only limited resource. I've often ran applications that saturate IO busses or network interfaces, or eat up a ton of memory, but only used a fraction of CPU time.
In the first case, a large simple parsing app or file compression/decompression can saturate an IO bus. While performing such operations, other user-sensitive tasks like opening an application or checking mail. Granted most users don't do a lot of IO-flooding apps, but what's more prevalent are network-flooding operations. Just recently, while I was downloading some linux ISOs via HTTP, my web browsing was slow the whole time. Sure QoS can help some of these issues, like putting a higher priority on Game network traffic, but probably wouldn't help web browsing while downloading large files.
It would be nice (no pun intended) to be able to restrict or throttle other resources besides CPU. i.e.:
nice -n-19 wget http://example.com/linux.iso
nice -i-19 gzip bighugefile.csv
This probably exists in Linux already.
I prefer to see screenshots in motion, like Ruby on Rails for example.
Oh I was wondering why there was such a push but the government to block illegal immigration lately.
They would have 100,001 players if they had a Mac OSX client :(
If you understand the technology well, you might to search out a local user's group, go hang out, and propose it. i.e.: if you decided Ruby on the Rails, look for a local rails group. If there aren't, maybe a Linux users group.
Just like the subject says: I'm an independant musician; how do I get my cut?
A keyboard/LCD combination in the same form-factor as a laptop, with all the laptop trimmings like a trackpad, speakers, DVD-Rom, USB ports, etc, but without the motherboard, battery, harddrive.. I do most of my work on a laptop on the couch, but I really could use the power of a real desktop. VNC and a normal laptop would be an option, but would restrict the use of video, 3D acceleration. Tethered using real DVI & USB connections would be much better, or multiple video signals could even be multiplexed over a signal to do picture-in-picture (i.e.: watching an inset HD HDMI video from a cable box while).
There would be other uses as well: Network and server facility engineers could use it for a portable console while working on equipment. It may have field use. It could also be useful for folks confined to a wheelchair.