I'm just imagining an ultra-generic domain name, and it seems to me that, if your bandwidth is in any way metered, that it'd be a liability. I doubt people looking for info on a hotel are going to be in any way interested in consulting services, so it's not like a whitehouse.com thing, where accidental hits are still positive.
I guess a few things to consider might be:
- How much is the business you get through your website worth?
- How much trouble would you have to go through to let your existing customers know your new website/email addy?
- If you have any sort of reputation attached to the domain, how difficult would it be to rebuild it?
I'm sure a business student would be crunch the numbers better, but at a minimum you'd need to ask for some ammount that equaled your potential revenue from the domain compounded over the time it would take you to get a new domain to that point. I seem to remember something about "future value of money" from a class I took...
The other way to look at it is to do the same type of calculation from the buyer's perspective; how much do they stand to make off of it? Crunching the same numbers could show you how much it's really worth to them.
Some of the above posts mentioned appraisals & domain selling services, if you don't have any better sources, you might want to go through one of them. Few people sell a house without a real-estate agent.
"showstopper flaw"? It affected one part of one program that NOBODY, other than the ppl at SUSE who are building the distro, would ever rationally run under the new kernel. Yes, people upgrade their kernels all the time, but how many of them upgrade before they run the installer?
In any case, this pointed out something awkward that the SUSE installer was doing, and it will probably not do it in the future. I'm sure there are quite a few syscalls in XP that won't work right given a particular set of obscure options. On top of that, when has MS -ever- had a rapid turn-around on bug-fixes?
What I was thinking was to use a notary that had internet access. One of the notaries in town, here, does PO-boxes, shipping, computer repair/sales & notary work. Wouldn't he be able to print out a webpage and mark it as being the contents of that page?
Well, IANAL & I'm a USian, but assuming that the item is relatively small (under $2000 or so?) having a Notary Public/Justice of the Peace mark both the website copy & the cached copy, as well as the modification dates on both, and a copy of your receipt/invoice would probably be more than enough evidence to get things taken care of in small claims court. Actually, the offer of taking them to court to resolve the issue will probably be more than enough to get your way.
As part of the larger picture, contacting a Consumer Rights agency or the Better Business Bureau might be able to adress the business practices of the company as a whole.
As a note, I seem to remember something about unopened, post-marked envelopes being a cheap substitute for a notary stamp, but I could be wrong.
The big problem I see isn't so much file associations, but the way they've gone and claimed.DOC as their own. No other word processor can safely call its own files.DOC, which gives MS some major mindshare...
If you could figure out how to get Linux (actually, NetBSD might be a better choice here) working for it, you could easily impliment this (for the local situation at least) with NFS and a handful of shell/perl scripting.
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Then ya look at some of the minimal ones, notably Blackbox and Sawfish, they both do what they were intended to do. new features aren't in the focus of some of the more minimalistic projects, so anything at this point is bug fixes.
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Which brings up one of the big differences between Free software and Commercial software; Since there is no real revenue stream to maintain, there isn't a long string of marketing dictatated releases after the project reaches maturity. TeX is a notable example, freezing the features, and working towards bugs (and extending the version number towards Pi).
I'm sure everyone here has heard the "release early, release often" mantra/slogan which applies to the early part of the development process, but what universal wisdom about the back-side of the dev. process do we have? We can follow the steps of TeX (as it appears many window managers have), and be happy with a solid, stable program, or we can take the path of feature-bloat, and keep adding things because they're nifty. (Mozilla comes to mind..)
Sometimes I get the impression that one of the main reasons Bush wants the UK to be heavily involved is so that Blair can give speeches from a position of authority. Bush's speeches so far have been full of rhetoric & emotional calls to patriotism, where Blair has spoken from the side of reason & principle. Given the choice, I would much rather listen to a Blair speech than a Bush speech.
Interesting. Some time ago, I emailed sales/customer-service and asked them about CodeWarrior for Linux, and I was told that it was simply a GUI front end for the GNU development tools.
To hell with games. There's been a lot of buzz about big clusters of Linux machines to do scientific number crunching. Stop me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't those people be able to make good use of a good vectorizing compiler?
...and the fact that they've invested in a large computing cluster means they'd be willing to spend good money on a compiler IF it provides a significant performance improvement.
And only two of the "released" ports (ia32 & ppc) of Debian run on hardware that is modern & fast enough to worry about doing sick optimizations on. Not to mention that a compiler is inherently non-portable, and only becomes so through a large amount of work. The more optimizations a compiler does, the less portable it becomes.
And then they sold the PPro owners down the river when they put MMX on the p5, and then moved the P2 over to a slot. No upgrade path was available until recently, when some inovative company released a s370->s8 adaptor, allowing you to place a modern Celeron (oh-boy!) into your old PPro boards.
There are some very widely used technologies on the web, such as Java and Flash, aren't exactly Free and Open. While they're free(beer), they aren't exactly Free(speech). Fortunately, both companies business plans seem to require free software (if Sun were to abandon Java for applets & desktop use, that could change).
I don't know the specifics of the board, but I can tell you that since AGP is defined as a port, not a bus, you are only allowed one connection to it (and IIRC AGP is wired into the system in such a way that only one port is possible), so an off-board AGP card would have to disable the onboard one. As far as a 2nd vid card on the PCI bus goes, unless they've gone out of their way to disable such functionality it should work like any other system.
There are numerous projects out there that compile non-Java languages to Java bytecodes. I see this as being an optimal solution. It alows browser developers to focus on a single, secure system and allows the web developers to interface that system with any language they chose while not requiring the end-user to download and install any specific software or even recognize which language the applet was originally written in.
Let's not forget, also, that a minor revolutionary in Israel caused a ripple effect that eventually brought down the Roman Empire, bringing about the Dark Ages. If anything, the US needs to avoid this possibility.
I've only seen a few screen shots of the new Zelda game, but I just recently got Jet Grind Radio for the Dreamcast and it's cartoony graphics are part of why the game is so captivating. What I've seen of the sequel, to be released on the XBox, I'm tempted to get one just for the game...
Not quite. Even with a digital output, the audio would have still passed through the whole error-correction/filtering process. The significant advantage of doing raw digital audio extraction instead of playing the CD is that your wave data is (hopefully) pulled off exactly as it is on the disk, as opposed to just-good-enough-to-play-it-this-time.
OK, as a recent college grad w/o a job -how- can you be jaded? I can see cynicism from reading too much Slashdot & Dilbert as a possibility, but jaded?
Hrmm... a benchmark you say? If you've read Sun's Java licence, you'll have noticed that several things are forbidden; Use in medical equipment, nuclear power generation, aircraft control systems & publication of Java benchmarks.
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I'm just imagining an ultra-generic domain name, and it seems to me that, if your bandwidth is in any way metered, that it'd be a liability. I doubt people looking for info on a hotel are going to be in any way interested in consulting services, so it's not like a whitehouse.com thing, where accidental hits are still positive.
I guess a few things to consider might be:
- How much is the business you get through your website worth?
- How much trouble would you have to go through to let your existing customers know your new website/email addy?
- If you have any sort of reputation attached to the domain, how difficult would it be to rebuild it?
I'm sure a business student would be crunch the numbers better, but at a minimum you'd need to ask for some ammount that equaled your potential revenue from the domain compounded over the time it would take you to get a new domain to that point. I seem to remember something about "future value of money" from a class I took...
The other way to look at it is to do the same type of calculation from the buyer's perspective; how much do they stand to make off of it? Crunching the same numbers could show you how much it's really worth to them.
Some of the above posts mentioned appraisals & domain selling services, if you don't have any better sources, you might want to go through one of them. Few people sell a house without a real-estate agent.
"showstopper flaw"? It affected one part of one program that NOBODY, other than the ppl at SUSE who are building the distro, would ever rationally run under the new kernel. Yes, people upgrade their kernels all the time, but how many of them upgrade before they run the installer?
In any case, this pointed out something awkward that the SUSE installer was doing, and it will probably not do it in the future. I'm sure there are quite a few syscalls in XP that won't work right given a particular set of obscure options. On top of that, when has MS -ever- had a rapid turn-around on bug-fixes?
What I was thinking was to use a notary that had internet access. One of the notaries in town, here, does PO-boxes, shipping, computer repair/sales & notary work. Wouldn't he be able to print out a webpage and mark it as being the contents of that page?
Well, IANAL & I'm a USian, but assuming that the item is relatively small (under $2000 or so?) having a Notary Public/Justice of the Peace mark both the website copy & the cached copy, as well as the modification dates on both, and a copy of your receipt/invoice would probably be more than enough evidence to get things taken care of in small claims court. Actually, the offer of taking them to court to resolve the issue will probably be more than enough to get your way.
As part of the larger picture, contacting a Consumer Rights agency or the Better Business Bureau might be able to adress the business practices of the company as a whole.
As a note, I seem to remember something about unopened, post-marked envelopes being a cheap substitute for a notary stamp, but I could be wrong.
The big problem I see isn't so much file associations, but the way they've gone and claimed .DOC as their own. No other word processor can safely call its own files .DOC, which gives MS some major mindshare...
If you could figure out how to get Linux (actually, NetBSD might be a better choice here) working for it, you could easily impliment this (for the local situation at least) with NFS and a handful of shell/perl scripting.
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Then ya look at some of the minimal ones, notably Blackbox and Sawfish, they both do what they were intended to do. new features aren't in the focus of some of the more minimalistic projects, so anything at this point is bug fixes.
[/blockquote]
Which brings up one of the big differences between Free software and Commercial software; Since there is no real revenue stream to maintain, there isn't a long string of marketing dictatated releases after the project reaches maturity. TeX is a notable example, freezing the features, and working towards bugs (and extending the version number towards Pi).
I'm sure everyone here has heard the "release early, release often" mantra/slogan which applies to the early part of the development process, but what universal wisdom about the back-side of the dev. process do we have? We can follow the steps of TeX (as it appears many window managers have), and be happy with a solid, stable program, or we can take the path of feature-bloat, and keep adding things because they're nifty. (Mozilla comes to mind..)
Sometimes I get the impression that one of the main reasons Bush wants the UK to be heavily involved is so that Blair can give speeches from a position of authority. Bush's speeches so far have been full of rhetoric & emotional calls to patriotism, where Blair has spoken from the side of reason & principle. Given the choice, I would much rather listen to a Blair speech than a Bush speech.
Interesting. Some time ago, I emailed sales/customer-service and asked them about CodeWarrior for Linux, and I was told that it was simply a GUI front end for the GNU development tools.
To hell with games. There's been a lot of buzz about big clusters of Linux machines to do scientific number crunching. Stop me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't those people be able to make good use of a good vectorizing compiler?
...and the fact that they've invested in a large computing cluster means they'd be willing to spend good money on a compiler IF it provides a significant performance improvement.
And only two of the "released" ports (ia32 & ppc) of Debian run on hardware that is modern & fast enough to worry about doing sick optimizations on. Not to mention that a compiler is inherently non-portable, and only becomes so through a large amount of work. The more optimizations a compiler does, the less portable it becomes.
And then they sold the PPro owners down the river when they put MMX on the p5, and then moved the P2 over to a slot. No upgrade path was available until recently, when some inovative company released a s370->s8 adaptor, allowing you to place a modern Celeron (oh-boy!) into your old PPro boards.
Perhaps the best thing to do would be to write the President and your legislators and demand that they expand the War on Terrorism to cover Spammers.
There are some very widely used technologies on the web, such as Java and Flash, aren't exactly Free and Open. While they're free(beer), they aren't exactly Free(speech). Fortunately, both companies business plans seem to require free software (if Sun were to abandon Java for applets & desktop use, that could change).
As long as you let her play with her battery operated toys, she's out of line complaining in the first place.
Don't you mean :
Man... just imagine a BEOWULF *cough* *cough* of 420s, it'd be, like... WAY COOL, yo..
I don't know the specifics of the board, but I can tell you that since AGP is defined as a port, not a bus, you are only allowed one connection to it (and IIRC AGP is wired into the system in such a way that only one port is possible), so an off-board AGP card would have to disable the onboard one. As far as a 2nd vid card on the PCI bus goes, unless they've gone out of their way to disable such functionality it should work like any other system.
There are numerous projects out there that compile non-Java languages to Java bytecodes. I see this as being an optimal solution. It alows browser developers to focus on a single, secure system and allows the web developers to interface that system with any language they chose while not requiring the end-user to download and install any specific software or even recognize which language the applet was originally written in.
If you're already hitting multiple keys to generate a single 'key press', how do you go about doing multiple 'key press' combinations?
Of course Windows users will love the fact that they can customize the key settings and bind an extended middle finger to Control-Alt-Delete.
*blink*
*blink*
*blink*
Osama bin Laden is the Second Comming?
Where's that put Linus?
Unless the US ecconomy makes a turn for the better, we may not be able to afford such a plan.
I've only seen a few screen shots of the new Zelda game, but I just recently got Jet Grind Radio for the Dreamcast and it's cartoony graphics are part of why the game is so captivating. What I've seen of the sequel, to be released on the XBox, I'm tempted to get one just for the game...
Not quite. Even with a digital output, the audio would have still passed through the whole error-correction/filtering process. The significant advantage of doing raw digital audio extraction instead of playing the CD is that your wave data is (hopefully) pulled off exactly as it is on the disk, as opposed to just-good-enough-to-play-it-this-time.
OK, as a recent college grad w/o a job -how- can you be jaded? I can see cynicism from reading too much Slashdot & Dilbert as a possibility, but jaded?
Hrmm... a benchmark you say? If you've read Sun's Java licence, you'll have noticed that several things are forbidden; Use in medical equipment, nuclear power generation, aircraft control systems & publication of Java benchmarks.