In other words, if you are not a programmer, does it mean that:
a) you are not protected?
or
b) you can sue because you can't understand the source code and they should accomodate you?
Remember the visually impaired suing websites?
Sorry. this makes absolutely no sense. It brings everything back to the elitist idea that normal people should not install their own software. It's like buying a car and finding a disclaimer that says "everything this car can do can be determined by examining the engine." I mean, a car is an open source system, all you need is a wrench.
I can see a whole new market for people just to read source code.
It is a long whitstanding argument that in a perfect society communism would make a perfect system.
Would it? Why would a system that rewards mediocrity and punish independence and make a perfect system? What incentive does a communist system give for the advancement of science, arts, and humanities? It is in human nature to profit from his own work, and yet communism tells you that you may not profit more than your brother who sits home and does nothing.
The working class? In an ideal capitalist society, the "working class" would have as much opportunity as all the other classes. They can choose to rise themselves from the slums and become financially independent. It is in the interest of a capitalist society to reward those who work hard and make something of themselves. A capitalist society will not reward you for just being born, true. But it will reward you greatly if you work hard.
Ideal capitalism IS the ideal system. It is the only system that fits in with human nature, and it is the only system that can provide for the advancement of the human race, the discarding of useless elements in our society, and the propagation of beneficial ones. Communism gets in the way of progress, because it goes against human nature. Humans are selfish by nature, and yet cannot gratify their selfishness without being rewarded by other humans. That is our greatest strength.
The word "We" is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the grey of it. It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages.
What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me? What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and the impotent, are my masters? What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree and to obey?
Oh please... you try to get a newbie to install KDE3.0 on a KDE2.0 system. Last count I had to uninstall something like 12 packages and go through a ton of dependencies. It was not as simple as you stated it. In fact, it was a massive PAIN IN THE BUTT!!!
And why should five commands be needed when one click can do? Linux users is what hurts linux the most. What the hell is this all about, job security? Many people do not care about the source! Many people wouldn't know what to do with the source. MOST people just rm -rf the source when they are done going through the pain of compiling it.
Please understand: I do not care about the source if I'm not installing it on a development system. I could care less about the source for apache. If i do care, I will get it separately. But 9/10 times, I just want the freaking web server up and running.
I am afraid that there is one use for Linux source code however: make up for laziness and piss poor documentation out there. Too many times people will say "read the code, stupid!" in lieu of providing goood documentation. Comments in source code should never be substitute for good documentation.
I have found that many people do not agree with me here. Poor linux. It could be so much farther along, if it wasn't for all the geeks who want to be masters of their domain and relish the arcane processes they can hold over the heads of their less techy counterparts.
Legacy doom also had simplified controls. You could pick it up in a few minutes. You could do just as well with the keyboard as you could do with the mouse. Starting with Quake, things got progressively more complicated. Playing with just the keyboard gives you a disadvantage.
This is what I miss most about Doom -- ease of play. Back, forward, left, right, run, strafe key, jump, shoot, change weapon. You could concentrate on mayhem and have fun. Heretic later managed to add the z-axis and inventory without too much trouble.. but after that, it went downhill.
I really do believe that the technology has advanced past the controllers.
This was hardly news. It's a "PC compatible". Chances are, Linux will work. Nothing in this article that the average reader wouldn't have figured out in the first five minutes.
This whole thing was an ad for linux and Walmart PCs. Technical importance == nil. What self respecting geek would want to be seen with a Walmart PC anyway?
You are not going to get a better bang for the buck by building your systems yourself. You can negotiate a large lot of systems down significantly from one of the big makers (Compaq, HP, etc..)
You are also spending assembly time. That is significantly more expensive than shipping costs (which are usually free and part of the deal, actually)
You are missing all the management features which are indeed nice. Remember, the big guys have built the systems based on what enterprise customers have been asking for years for. Case-opening detection, remote bios flash, easy access to components, etc.
Also, you are missing tech support. Worth it or not, if a computer is fried, it's not your fault. If you put the computers together, you are responsible.
And the big one -- replacement parts. You may be able to make your cool PC and all, but are you going to guarantee that all the parts you put in there will be available a year from now? The large manufacturers will take care of you in that respect. Mom & pop assemblers will always try to sell you the latest and greatest. This is not what you want; you want stable and consistent for an enterprise platform.
I strongly recommend to do this professionally. Buy from the big guys (anything but Dell, since I hate the dude on the commercials)
I disagree. SFF has its place.. for example, if you have a minimalistic layout for your office (think IKea), the last thing you want is a blocky tower or desktop. A small form factor coupled with a LCD panel looks a lot better.
That said, THIS PARTICULAR ONE IS UGLY! I would end up putting it under my desk and use it as a foot rest. It looks somewhat like my UPS. Their market research people (if they have any) should be shot.
Honestly, it depends on your resume. I don't think it's that bad. I even (believe it or not) had a bite on monster.com last week, someone wanted to bring me in for an interview. I even forgot I had a resume there.:) Leaving work for school was probably a mistake. Plenty of people work full time and go to school part time. I worked full time and took 18 hrs/semester for a year to finish my degree. Going to school full time would've bored me to tears. On the other hand, many companies I know cannot function properly with the hiring freeze they are under, and they will have to give in sooner or later. So, hang in there.
I only have a BS, and it's not even in CS or related, but I also have 6-7 years of industry experience, most of them as a team lead of various teams (development, qa, network, etc). I can easily claim on my resume an impact of 10s of millions of dollars towards the bottom line of my company. And that is what employers like to see.
You know, I would've applied for the Coast Guard position (which was mentioned in a different thread) but... well.. they insist on certain degrees. I think it would've been fun. Anyone knows if they consider equivalent work experience?
"If you're serious about trying out the software and would seriously consider purchasing it, giving them an e-mail so a representative can contact you for support makes sense."
Come on. When was the last time someone used the email you provided to contact you for more than a sales pitch? Support is initiated by the customer, not be the publisher. This is non-sense.
Let's say I find your IP and want to play a joke on you.. Can I ping-flood you enough to put you over the treshold? or, if I can find some sort of open port that is willing to talk to me, even better.. If they meter at L2 instead of L3, even better, even an attempted/failed connection would count..
Would RR be responsible for spam mail? if one week I'm put over the limit by spam mail, I'm complaining.
Next time a Code Blue or whatever happens, do we get charged? I remember when Code Blue hit, my modem light was continuosly flashing from all the ARP lookups...
I am fine with charging if:
1. they only charge for traffic initiated by me. I don't want to be responsible for junk mail or the latest cool worm wandering the net. DNS queries don't count. ARP requests don't count.
2. the rates would be different based on time of day. If you are downloading 1G at 9:30 pm, it should cost more than 5G at 4 am.
3. They make it easy for me to monitor my bandwidth usage.
On the other hand, I could care less.. I'm probably moving soon and will not go with TW just because of this limit.. I may never hit the limit, but just because it exists, I would not transfer my service. I am sure they will not miss my $40 all that much. On the other hand, if I don't get their cable modem, I will also not take their cable tv.. so that's $120 or so per month they will not be getting from me anymore.
let's see.. exploited by the techno elite. Hmm.. sounds familiar. Isn't this something that Marx said a while back?
Poor people. Damn elite. Let's hate them because they are smarter or richer. Because being smarter and richer is bad. Everyone should be as dumb and poor as us, that will make us feel better about ourselves. The sentiments in this article may be relevant, but the way it is phrased makes me sick.
I am sorry.. i can't understand this whine. People can and should help themselves. It matters not the color of your skin, your income group, etc. There are enough opportunities that if you want to, you can learn. However some people prefer to go frog gigging or play basketball to learn about technology. It is their choice, and I am not going to shed a tear for them. In the end, who is to say they are not happier than me?
I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers,
but such as each of them shall deserve
of me. And to earn my love, my brothers
must do more than to have been born.
I do not grant my love without reason, nor
to any chance passer-by who may wish to
claim it. I honor men with my love.
But honor is a thing to be earned.
-Ayn Rand, "Anthem"
Let me guess.. a student lab would probably need to run Microsoft Office. You can run some linux office tool, but I'd rather have my students go out of school with experience on Microsoft Office rather than StarOffice. Call me biased... but i want everyone that graduates to be able to use Word, Excel and Powerpoint, because their employers will expect it... yep, I can hear the blood boil, but I couldn't care less about/. opinion, I care about the students.
So, bye bye linux solution.
Terminal services is fairly expensive. The advantage is that they students don't lose much functionality.
There are gotchas, so the smart thing to do is to pilot the project in a single lab, and see how things go. You may even be able to convince the M$ rep to fund the pilot lab for free, with the promise that if it works out, you buy a lot more licenses. It's done all the time.
Again.. requirements! What are they? What software will you run? What will your students expect? If the computers will be used by students who need to compile their programs for C++ class, thin clients may not be a smart idea. If all they do is surf and use office, it may work.
a) Google is a single-task system. It runs custom software. You can afford to hand pick the software. They are just file servers.
b) if you think that the google servers are put together with parts from CompUSA by a couple of geeks in a basement, you are sorely mistaken. They are standardized and manufactured by two companies. Small profile machines are especially hard to design off the shelf due to cooling requirements.
c) Some companies do not have the rackspace to mount 20 pizzaboxes, they'd rather do with a 3U, 4-way or 8-way CPU.
d) If you are running a bank and have to do millions of transactions per minute, and your local linux guru tries to convince you to run mySQL on one hundred boxes he purchased at the swap meet, run! There is a reason why people pay a lot of money for servers like Himalaya. Same for telecom servers, etc. Not everything is a web or file server these days.
That is simply a stupid statement. Linux as easy as Windows? Please. How many freaking configuration files are in Linux?? Which service is harder to start/autostart, Windows 2000 or Linux?
Linux is a wonderful operating system. Misrepresenting its strengths is not going to help it. It may be easy to install, but it's not easy to configure once installed.
saying that "su -c './configure && make && make install" is easy is stupid. If I sit down at a linux workstation and don't know what 'su' is and what the hell./configure is, and that I have to make install, how do I find out what I'm trying to do?? On windows, I have a setup.exe, I am probably going to get the hint.
Consider three-tiered architecture where security and game rules (business rules, if you will) is enforced in the middle tier.. the client providing the user interface. This has a number of advantages, including better scalability, security, and modular design. If it's an internet game, you can do creative stuff with multiple middle-tier layers distributed based on geographic location.
Stuff like "How can I make the networking code as transparent as possible so I don't have to write SendUpdate() after every assignment?" we can't answer. I mean, it's all events, and there are hundreds of ways to write this. There are countless examples. GUIs are event driven, for example.
A long time ago I wrote a multi-user game. It wasn't anything fancy, but it did the basics of what you are trying to do. It turned out that calling SendUpdate() wasn't the problem -- that's easily done with proper design (inheritance, etc). Heck, you can encapsulate the whole message in a class and let the constructor/destructor take care of it, if you want... The main problem was scheduling time to clients, especially when one client was slower than another. For example, it would be unfair for a fast client to send 10 move messages in the same time that a slow client would send one.
Another distinction you need to figure out is what needs to be real-time and what doesn't. For example, if the program supports inter-user messaging, you can implement "soon-enough" delivery rather than "just-in-time" delivery. It all depends what it is used for. That can be done with a MQ type setup rather than a real-time connection, and it can be sent from client directly to another client.
I wish I could work on such a project again.. open sourced, closed source, I don't care, just not commercial. But the internet is littered with the graves of abandoned open sourced programs, which tells me a little about how much commitment people are willing to put into these things.
Honestly, I believe that the one thing that has hurt shareware most is all those people who think that they need to charge money for every little piece of crappy software they write. I swear, in many shareware programs, the nag/registration code is 90% ofthe actual code!
People are just greedy. They write 10 lines of code and think they can charge money, then slap a nag screen..
This is not to take away from such great shareware such as Paintshop, WinZip, etc. But I mean.. heck, the other day i was looking for a clock utility so I can time a process. Out of the 15 I downloaded, 10 were crappy shareware that weren't worth the download time, let alone the $10-$25 they were asking for them. The one I actually used was "Postcardware".
Let me see... they are telling us that if we put together enough off-the-shelf hard drives with off-the-shelf raid controller, we get a terrabyte. Maybe it's a math question? I don't see the "innovation."
I guess it has a "wow" factor, but as far as innovation or news? Nah. If you can show me how I can put together a 1TB raid10 array of 10k SCSI drives for under $5k, now that's interesting!
Where would you use it? In a business environment? Maybe for file storage, because the IDE drives are useless for database or other heavy work. In the home? If you have a separate room just for the setup, otherwise the hard drive noise and especially the cooling fans will drive you crazy. Anybody who's been around a real drive array knows what types of fans it takes to cool down an array, and how loud they are!
That is bullshit. Microsoft did not invest all their money in IE. It does not take billions of dollars to make a great browser. Look at Opera. Look at konqueror. They are both ahead of where Netscape is!
Netscape dropped the ball. Pure and simple. Whining won't change the fact.
NEW YORK (AP) - America Online Inc. is raising prices 50 percent for customers who reach its service via other Internet providers, a move analysts say could wind up herding more business over to AOL and hurting smaller service providers.
In March AOL will raise its monthly fee from $9.95 to $14.95 for its ``Bring Your Own Access'' service, which gives a million or so AOL users access via a separate Internet account.
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In other words, if you are not a programmer, does it mean that:
a) you are not protected?
or
b) you can sue because you can't understand the source code and they should accomodate you?
Remember the visually impaired suing websites?
Sorry. this makes absolutely no sense. It brings everything back to the elitist idea that normal people should not install their own software. It's like buying a car and finding a disclaimer that says "everything this car can do can be determined by examining the engine." I mean, a car is an open source system, all you need is a wrench.
I can see a whole new market for people just to read source code.
It is a long whitstanding argument that in a perfect society communism would make a perfect system.
Would it? Why would a system that rewards mediocrity and punish independence and make a perfect system? What incentive does a communist system give for the advancement of science, arts, and humanities? It is in human nature to profit from his own work, and yet communism tells you that you may not profit more than your brother who sits home and does nothing.
The working class? In an ideal capitalist society, the "working class" would have as much opportunity as all the other classes. They can choose to rise themselves from the slums and become financially independent. It is in the interest of a capitalist society to reward those who work hard and make something of themselves. A capitalist society will not reward you for just being born, true. But it will reward you greatly if you work hard.
Ideal capitalism IS the ideal system. It is the only system that fits in with human nature, and it is the only system that can provide for the advancement of the human race, the discarding of useless elements in our society, and the propagation of beneficial ones. Communism gets in the way of progress, because it goes against human nature. Humans are selfish by nature, and yet cannot gratify their selfishness without being rewarded by other humans. That is our greatest strength.
Oh please... you try to get a newbie to install KDE3.0 on a KDE2.0 system. Last count I had to uninstall something like 12 packages and go through a ton of dependencies. It was not as simple as you stated it. In fact, it was a massive PAIN IN THE BUTT!!!
And why should five commands be needed when one click can do? Linux users is what hurts linux the most. What the hell is this all about, job security? Many people do not care about the source! Many people wouldn't know what to do with the source. MOST people just rm -rf the source when they are done going through the pain of compiling it.
Please understand: I do not care about the source if I'm not installing it on a development system. I could care less about the source for apache. If i do care, I will get it separately. But 9/10 times, I just want the freaking web server up and running.
I am afraid that there is one use for Linux source code however: make up for laziness and piss poor documentation out there. Too many times people will say "read the code, stupid!" in lieu of providing goood documentation. Comments in source code should never be substitute for good documentation.
I have found that many people do not agree with me here. Poor linux. It could be so much farther along, if it wasn't for all the geeks who want to be masters of their domain and relish the arcane processes they can hold over the heads of their less techy counterparts.
And this is creative.... why?
Legacy doom also had simplified controls. You could pick it up in a few minutes. You could do just as well with the keyboard as you could do with the mouse. Starting with Quake, things got progressively more complicated. Playing with just the keyboard gives you a disadvantage.
This is what I miss most about Doom -- ease of play. Back, forward, left, right, run, strafe key, jump, shoot, change weapon. You could concentrate on mayhem and have fun. Heretic later managed to add the z-axis and inventory without too much trouble.. but after that, it went downhill.
I really do believe that the technology has advanced past the controllers.
I agree.
This was hardly news. It's a "PC compatible". Chances are, Linux will work. Nothing in this article that the average reader wouldn't have figured out in the first five minutes.
This whole thing was an ad for linux and Walmart PCs. Technical importance == nil. What self respecting geek would want to be seen with a Walmart PC anyway?
You are not going to get a better bang for the buck by building your systems yourself. You can negotiate a large lot of systems down significantly from one of the big makers (Compaq, HP, etc..)
You are also spending assembly time. That is significantly more expensive than shipping costs (which are usually free and part of the deal, actually)
You are missing all the management features which are indeed nice. Remember, the big guys have built the systems based on what enterprise customers have been asking for years for. Case-opening detection, remote bios flash, easy access to components, etc.
Also, you are missing tech support. Worth it or not, if a computer is fried, it's not your fault. If you put the computers together, you are responsible.
And the big one -- replacement parts. You may be able to make your cool PC and all, but are you going to guarantee that all the parts you put in there will be available a year from now? The large manufacturers will take care of you in that respect. Mom & pop assemblers will always try to sell you the latest and greatest. This is not what you want; you want stable and consistent for an enterprise platform.
I strongly recommend to do this professionally. Buy from the big guys (anything but Dell, since I hate the dude on the commercials)
By the time you are done setting up your jukebox, might as well buy one of
these.
Oooh..
:)
A mystery is solved. Now I know who Saab makes cars for!
Come on. The thing looks like the back end of an oscilloscope.
I disagree. SFF has its place.. for example, if you have a minimalistic layout for your office (think IKea), the last thing you want is a blocky tower or desktop. A small form factor coupled with a LCD panel looks a lot better.
That said, THIS PARTICULAR ONE IS UGLY! I would end up putting it under my desk and use it as a foot rest. It looks somewhat like my UPS. Their market research people (if they have any) should be shot.
I mean, why can't we just use two LCD panels and glue them together?
:)
Okay, I am starting my own company.
Honestly, it depends on your resume. I don't think it's that bad. I even (believe it or not) had a bite on monster.com last week, someone wanted to bring me in for an interview. I even forgot I had a resume there. :) Leaving work for school was probably a mistake. Plenty of people work full time and go to school part time. I worked full time and took 18 hrs/semester for a year to finish my degree. Going to school full time would've bored me to tears. On the other hand, many companies I know cannot function properly with the hiring freeze they are under, and they will have to give in sooner or later. So, hang in there.
I only have a BS, and it's not even in CS or related, but I also have 6-7 years of industry experience, most of them as a team lead of various teams (development, qa, network, etc). I can easily claim on my resume an impact of 10s of millions of dollars towards the bottom line of my company. And that is what employers like to see.
You know, I would've applied for the Coast Guard position (which was mentioned in a different thread) but... well.. they insist on certain degrees. I think it would've been fun. Anyone knows if they consider equivalent work experience?
Yeah right:
"If you're serious about trying out the software and would seriously consider purchasing it, giving them an e-mail so a representative can contact you for support makes sense."
Come on. When was the last time someone used the email you provided to contact you for more than a sales pitch? Support is initiated by the customer, not be the publisher. This is non-sense.
Let's say I find your IP and want to play a joke on you.. Can I ping-flood you enough to put you over the treshold? or, if I can find some sort of open port that is willing to talk to me, even better.. If they meter at L2 instead of L3, even better, even an attempted/failed connection would count..
Would RR be responsible for spam mail? if one week I'm put over the limit by spam mail, I'm complaining.
Next time a Code Blue or whatever happens, do we get charged? I remember when Code Blue hit, my modem light was continuosly flashing from all the ARP lookups...
I am fine with charging if:
1. they only charge for traffic initiated by me. I don't want to be responsible for junk mail or the latest cool worm wandering the net. DNS queries don't count. ARP requests don't count.
2. the rates would be different based on time of day. If you are downloading 1G at 9:30 pm, it should cost more than 5G at 4 am.
3. They make it easy for me to monitor my bandwidth usage.
On the other hand, I could care less.. I'm probably moving soon and will not go with TW just because of this limit.. I may never hit the limit, but just because it exists, I would not transfer my service. I am sure they will not miss my $40 all that much. On the other hand, if I don't get their cable modem, I will also not take their cable tv.. so that's $120 or so per month they will not be getting from me anymore.
Poor people. Damn elite. Let's hate them because they are smarter or richer. Because being smarter and richer is bad. Everyone should be as dumb and poor as us, that will make us feel better about ourselves. The sentiments in this article may be relevant, but the way it is phrased makes me sick.
I am sorry.. i can't understand this whine. People can and should help themselves. It matters not the color of your skin, your income group, etc. There are enough opportunities that if you want to, you can learn. However some people prefer to go frog gigging or play basketball to learn about technology. It is their choice, and I am not going to shed a tear for them. In the end, who is to say they are not happier than me?
I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I do not grant my love without reason, nor to any chance passer-by who may wish to claim it. I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned.
-Ayn Rand, "Anthem"
Let me guess.. a student lab would probably need to run Microsoft Office. You can run some linux office tool, but I'd rather have my students go out of school with experience on Microsoft Office rather than StarOffice. Call me biased... but i want everyone that graduates to be able to use Word, Excel and Powerpoint, because their employers will expect it... yep, I can hear the blood boil, but I couldn't care less about /. opinion, I care about the students.
So, bye bye linux solution.
Terminal services is fairly expensive. The advantage is that they students don't lose much functionality.
There are gotchas, so the smart thing to do is to pilot the project in a single lab, and see how things go. You may even be able to convince the M$ rep to fund the pilot lab for free, with the promise that if it works out, you buy a lot more licenses. It's done all the time.
Again.. requirements! What are they? What software will you run? What will your students expect? If the computers will be used by students who need to compile their programs for C++ class, thin clients may not be a smart idea. If all they do is surf and use office, it may work.
a) Google is a single-task system. It runs custom software. You can afford to hand pick the software. They are just file servers.
b) if you think that the google servers are put together with parts from CompUSA by a couple of geeks in a basement, you are sorely mistaken. They are standardized and manufactured by two companies. Small profile machines are especially hard to design off the shelf due to cooling requirements.
c) Some companies do not have the rackspace to mount 20 pizzaboxes, they'd rather do with a 3U, 4-way or 8-way CPU.
d) If you are running a bank and have to do millions of transactions per minute, and your local linux guru tries to convince you to run mySQL on one hundred boxes he purchased at the swap meet, run! There is a reason why people pay a lot of money for servers like Himalaya. Same for telecom servers, etc. Not everything is a web or file server these days.
That is simply a stupid statement. Linux as easy as Windows? Please. How many freaking configuration files are in Linux?? Which service is harder to start/autostart, Windows 2000 or Linux?
./configure is, and that I have to make install, how do I find out what I'm trying to do?? On windows, I have a setup.exe, I am probably going to get the hint.
Linux is a wonderful operating system. Misrepresenting its strengths is not going to help it. It may be easy to install, but it's not easy to configure once installed.
saying that "su -c './configure && make && make install" is easy is stupid. If I sit down at a linux workstation and don't know what 'su' is and what the hell
At least the female ferengi programmers would be fun to work with.
Wonder where they'd hang their pagers.
One more thing...
Consider three-tiered architecture where security and game rules (business rules, if you will) is enforced in the middle tier.. the client providing the user interface. This has a number of advantages, including better scalability, security, and modular design. If it's an internet game, you can do creative stuff with multiple middle-tier layers distributed based on geographic location.
Stuff like "How can I make the networking code as transparent as possible so I don't have to write SendUpdate() after every assignment?" we can't answer. I mean, it's all events, and there are hundreds of ways to write this. There are countless examples. GUIs are event driven, for example.
A long time ago I wrote a multi-user game. It wasn't anything fancy, but it did the basics of what you are trying to do. It turned out that calling SendUpdate() wasn't the problem -- that's easily done with proper design (inheritance, etc). Heck, you can encapsulate the whole message in a class and let the constructor/destructor take care of it, if you want... The main problem was scheduling time to clients, especially when one client was slower than another. For example, it would be unfair for a fast client to send 10 move messages in the same time that a slow client would send one.
Another distinction you need to figure out is what needs to be real-time and what doesn't. For example, if the program supports inter-user messaging, you can implement "soon-enough" delivery rather than "just-in-time" delivery. It all depends what it is used for. That can be done with a MQ type setup rather than a real-time connection, and it can be sent from client directly to another client.
I wish I could work on such a project again.. open sourced, closed source, I don't care, just not commercial. But the internet is littered with the graves of abandoned open sourced programs, which tells me a little about how much commitment people are willing to put into these things.
Honestly, I believe that the one thing that has hurt shareware most is all those people who think that they need to charge money for every little piece of crappy software they write. I swear, in many shareware programs, the nag/registration code is 90% ofthe actual code!
People are just greedy. They write 10 lines of code and think they can charge money, then slap a nag screen..
This is not to take away from such great shareware such as Paintshop, WinZip, etc. But I mean.. heck, the other day i was looking for a clock utility so I can time a process. Out of the 15 I downloaded, 10 were crappy shareware that weren't worth the download time, let alone the $10-$25 they were asking for them. The one I actually used was "Postcardware".
Let me see... they are telling us that if we put together enough off-the-shelf hard drives with off-the-shelf raid controller, we get a terrabyte. Maybe it's a math question? I don't see the "innovation."
I guess it has a "wow" factor, but as far as innovation or news? Nah. If you can show me how I can put together a 1TB raid10 array of 10k SCSI drives for under $5k, now that's interesting!
Where would you use it? In a business environment? Maybe for file storage, because the IDE drives are useless for database or other heavy work. In the home? If you have a separate room just for the setup, otherwise the hard drive noise and especially the cooling fans will drive you crazy. Anybody who's been around a real drive array knows what types of fans it takes to cool down an array, and how loud they are!
That is bullshit. Microsoft did not invest all their money in IE. It does not take billions of dollars to make a great browser. Look at Opera. Look at konqueror. They are both ahead of where Netscape is!
Netscape dropped the ball. Pure and simple. Whining won't change the fact.
NEW YORK (AP) - America Online Inc. is raising prices 50 percent for customers who reach its service via other Internet providers, a move analysts say could wind up herding more business over to AOL and hurting smaller service providers.
In March AOL will raise its monthly fee from $9.95 to $14.95 for its ``Bring Your Own Access'' service, which gives a million or so AOL users access via a separate Internet account.
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