The problem isn't that people don't click through, it's that they are counting the click throughs. There are all these outragous statistics that say the internet doesn't work for this or that. Like 60% of web shoppers abandon items in their shopping cart and don't complete the sale. How many shoppers in the real world walk into a store and don't buy something after picking it up and looking at it? How many TV viewers go buy a Coke after the ad is on TV? The click through statistics have no perspective. They have no idea how well they build brand recognition or anything. How many click throughs is considered succesful? According to the guy who wrote the article, 1% wouldn't be good enough. I think 1% would be an incredible success. Banner ad execs put themselves out of business by selling statistics that don't look good even when they are good.
I doubt you're still reading this thread, but if you are I have a question for you. Is every human who chooses a mate a sinner? Every, and I'm not willing to change my postion on this because you won't be able to provide me with an example otherwise, every relationship is based on an initial superficial estimation. There is no other way for an initial interest to be formed. Now, who makes the estimation, or what superficial quality is estimated is another story.
Another question: What does the fourth commandment have to do with this? First off, a superficial discrimination isn't nessicarily "body worship". Secondly, there isn't nessicarily any coveting going on here; you can have an opinion on the attractivness of an individual without "wanting" them. And finally, a large percentage of the world population does not believe in the tenants of religions based in judiasim. Just because they don't agree with you doesn't make them wrong.
Your/. nick also bothers me. How can you claim to know about ethics other than your own? There are infinite viewpoints. You cannot even begin to comprehend all of the possibilities.
None of KDE, QT, or Konqueror are in memory when I load it the first time.
It loads faster than mozilla.
It loads faster than netscape.
I'm not a KDE zealot or a Konqueror zealot... Hell, I even hate QT; I think the widgets are unnecissarily large and ugly, too much stuff responds to mouse overs, and there is a general bubbliness about it that just bothers me. Konqueror gets the job done better then netscape and mozilla though. Konqueror gets the job done faster. The only thing that is faster is table rendering in mozilla, but everything else is so slow that it's an overall beast.
Sure slashdot is all well and good, but it has a pretty low eyeball count. Chances are you'll get ignored, but you shoud send this as a story to major news outlets in your area/CA in general. Most newspapers have a section on the internet these days that is printed once a week; E-mail the editor. Also good would be the editors of business sections. Try the wall street journal. This is the only way other spammers may see this. It's not much more effort then you've already gone through, and besides, if it get's published you've gotten to brag to so many more people!
I use konquerer full time, as it is much better then netscape and mozilla right now. There are some complaints that I have about it though.
- It has no history
- The AA fonts are cool, but it's not quite ready yet, and it makes the fonts harder to read. Truetype fonts make it so I don't want AA anymore anyway...
- There seem to be some fonts that aren't configureable. Sometimes it chooses a font that is completely unreadable at any scaled size and then makes it smaller or larger.
- When you follow a JavaScript link the little gear doesn't spin, so you don't know it's working.
- It takes forever to use backspace in the Location bar and text entry fields, no matter what your repeat rate is.
- It doesn't support https on PowerPC (Nitpick: the ppclinux kernel is called ppclinux, not linuxppc linuxppc is that shitty redhat based distribution that hardly anyone uses.)
- When you add mime types it forgets them
- When a document is the result of a POST operation the mime type is ignored altogether. (Even though they keep telling me this is fixed in the latest versions. I'm running the latest versions!)
Still dreaming of a essentially featured (not full featured.. I don't want most of 'em) browser for linux that has a standard interface. Sigh.
While I agree that this would be the best bet for full hardware compatibility under linux, how do you propose he run Windows and Solaris on this? Please don't tell me you want him to try to use VirtualPC. That would be a nightmare.
These days the up front cost of a Mac isn't much higher then the price of a name brand PC. Macs, however, use much less power in part because they are PowerPC based. They save power with the lower wattage CPU, by not needing active cooling, and they also have a more mature set of power management features then PCs do. If you don't need Windows in a lab, Macs would be a great way to save power. They can still open MSword documents under MacOS, and they run debian just as well as PCs do.
My experience is that the inverter for the backlight will die far sooner then the backlight itself. Some poorly designed laptops are more prone to this then others. Turning the laptop on is usually what kills the inverter, but since you can replace the inverter for cheaper then the screen, you may want to turn off the display when not in use... I'm not aware that power cycling actually damages the backlight itself any...
You are not their customer in the proper sense. Perhaps you buy a few drives. That's nothing. The commodity PC hardware market is not lucrative enough for HDD manufacturers right now. Prices are rock bottom. They want to sell boatloads of drives to appliance makers(*), and they need an edge in the market. The value add is the feature alot of hardware+software companies are asking for: copy-protection. This is why you see alot of OEMs in the against column, and software vendors in the for column. I'm suprised to see maxtor in the against column, as their website along with quantum's website menition being able to provide this in the future. They must be holding out for a more flexable solution.
(*) - I'm not necissarily talking consumer appliances when I say appliances either. Think routers, arcade games, groupware servers, server apliances in general... All these manufacturers have a vested intrest in preventing people/competitors from seeing how their device works. That's hard to do with a device made from general purpose components.
The more mp3s I can distribute fairly or not, the more 250 Meg Zip disks people will be buying, it would seem.
The less secure your media the less software vendors will distribute on it. Even with these features, you'll still be able to use the disk as you please if you have access to the content you want to put on it.
Or do they own sizable software subsidies? Last I checked IBM had one of the worlds largest...
You should e-mail someone higher up at SGI. There is a reasonable chance that the SGI legal department is doing this without the knowledge of the higher-ups. The people who started this may not necissarily have any understanding of the relationship of your products. There is a slight chance that if you bring this to the attention of the right person at SGI the problem will be taken care of.
The problem is that there is no recourse for when you spent time and money to prove that you didn't do anything wrong. In any other fascet of life in the US, this is illegal. You know, the whole innocent until proven guilty thing? And when you're wrongly sued or wrongly charged, you can sue for the costs. You have to keep in mynd that MOST of the people that get audited didn't do anything wrong. Most companies that know their ass from their elbow play by the rules.
Hah! I've worked for a 5 person company that got audited! You're never to small. Just let the boss piss off one of your employees, and someone can "turn you in" anonymously for fun. Even if you aren't doing anything wrong.
Most of these audits come from these anonymous "tips"
Wow, you mean I'll still know my system configuration after an upgrade?
Wow, you mean the whims of a large corporate distributor won't change my filesystem layout each upgrade?
Wow you mean that they have a set of ideals and they actually stick to them?
Wow, you mean if I like it I don't have to worry about it going away?
Where do I sign up? Oh, wait, I already have...
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Then who cares really? Just store them on their original media. Unless you want to do streaming, and then hard drives are your best bet. As another poster pointed out, you can set up a streaming server (For your lan... you'd need a pretty sexy pipe to stream over the 'net) and the storage would cost $10/movie. The random access would be much easier that way; you wouldn't need a tape robot to not have to get off the sofa. That would be cool.
If you really want to pirate movies (as long as DVDs stay cheap, why would you? They're cheaper then mucic CDs!), are you sure a public forum is the best place to discuss it? The MPAA has more money then the Church of Scientology...
Bandwith prices remained steady from the early 80's to the late 90's. Just beacuse there was one sharp drop (which I'll admit had a steeper slope the the drop in processor prices), what makes you think that the price of bandwidth won't stay exactly where it is for another 15-20 years? Unless something radical happens (act of congress. Literally) then nothing is getting cheeper anytime soon. I'll even go out on a limb and say that the *average* price per megabit to the consumer will almost double in the next 1.5 years.
Also, since all of this new last mile bandwith is exactly that, new, what makes you think that you'll still get the bandwith at the moment when the internet becomes more popular? The bandwith at the ISP hasn't really gone down in price much, and you can bet that your neighborhood network of cable modems isn't backed up by anything larger a few megabits. That pipe won't be getting any larger if things stay the way they are.
Sure there are all these great things that more bandwith could be used for, and I'd love to have it too, but unfortunatly we're not going to get it the way things are regulated right now.
Grrr. Damn companies trying to trick everyone into thinking that the web is the only reason to use the internet. The web could go away, and I'd be happy with just ssh and SMTP.
Linux is the best operating system for the people who write it. Don't bitch and moan about it not being friendly or some such nonesense. If you don't understand how it works, or you don't want to, then you have one of three options:
- Make it do what you want by writing some code.
- Pay someone to make it do what you wantfor you.
- Go run windows and shut the hell up.
Seriously, I'm not trying to be a dick or anything. The interface to linux is perfect... for the *nix geeks that use it. It's also great for knowledgable system administrators that understand how the system works. Who cares about everyone else? Not me. I'm me, not them. I wish people would stop promising that linux is going to be this great general purpose desktop OS, because the people claiming this aren't the ones writing the software, and most of the people writing the software won't like an interface "for the rest of them."
It's not the end of the world if linux doesn't "take over the world." There is no reason that there cannot be multiple successful operating systems out there. If linux only does well in the server space then that's fine. I'll even be able to keep my job in that case:) People who want to have a touchy feely hold your hand GUI and don't mind paying for it should go buy MacOS X or Windows ME. They'll be happier, and I'll be happier because I won't have to worry about them or have any dumb animated widgets getting in my way. I most certainly won't be upset that someone chose Microsoft or Apple over linux. If that's their choice then so be it.
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I think he was saying that Windows was farther along other operating systems.
:).
Man, I swear that people figure every Ask Slashdot like this is trolling for windows biggots. He's on your side this time
The problem isn't that people don't click through, it's that they are counting the click throughs. There are all these outragous statistics that say the internet doesn't work for this or that. Like 60% of web shoppers abandon items in their shopping cart and don't complete the sale. How many shoppers in the real world walk into a store and don't buy something after picking it up and looking at it? How many TV viewers go buy a Coke after the ad is on TV? The click through statistics have no perspective. They have no idea how well they build brand recognition or anything. How many click throughs is considered succesful? According to the guy who wrote the article, 1% wouldn't be good enough. I think 1% would be an incredible success. Banner ad execs put themselves out of business by selling statistics that don't look good even when they are good.
Yeah, I use it all the time, but it's not helpful unless you want to delete the whole line. It also doesn't help in text boxes :(
I doubt you're still reading this thread, but if you are I have a question for you. Is every human who chooses a mate a sinner? Every, and I'm not willing to change my postion on this because you won't be able to provide me with an example otherwise, every relationship is based on an initial superficial estimation. There is no other way for an initial interest to be formed. Now, who makes the estimation, or what superficial quality is estimated is another story.
/. nick also bothers me. How can you claim to know about ethics other than your own? There are infinite viewpoints. You cannot even begin to comprehend all of the possibilities.
Another question: What does the fourth commandment have to do with this? First off, a superficial discrimination isn't nessicarily "body worship". Secondly, there isn't nessicarily any coveting going on here; you can have an opinion on the attractivness of an individual without "wanting" them. And finally, a large percentage of the world population does not believe in the tenants of religions based in judiasim. Just because they don't agree with you doesn't make them wrong.
Your
I don't run KDE.
I run Konqueror.
None of KDE, QT, or Konqueror are in memory when I load it the first time.
It loads faster than mozilla.
It loads faster than netscape.
I'm not a KDE zealot or a Konqueror zealot... Hell, I even hate QT; I think the widgets are unnecissarily large and ugly, too much stuff responds to mouse overs, and there is a general bubbliness about it that just bothers me. Konqueror gets the job done better then netscape and mozilla though. Konqueror gets the job done faster. The only thing that is faster is table rendering in mozilla, but everything else is so slow that it's an overall beast.
Schweet. Thanks for the tip.
As for the speed and stability, I couldn't agree more. I don't know why I'd ever go back to mozilla.
Also posted with Konqueror. (I don't run the rest of KDE though.)
Why 6/7/89 wasn't good enough for you?
Sure slashdot is all well and good, but it has a pretty low eyeball count. Chances are you'll get ignored, but you shoud send this as a story to major news outlets in your area/CA in general. Most newspapers have a section on the internet these days that is printed once a week; E-mail the editor. Also good would be the editors of business sections. Try the wall street journal. This is the only way other spammers may see this. It's not much more effort then you've already gone through, and besides, if it get's published you've gotten to brag to so many more people!
Get the word out!
I use konquerer full time, as it is much better then netscape and mozilla right now. There are some complaints that I have about it though.
- It has no history
- The AA fonts are cool, but it's not quite ready yet, and it makes the fonts harder to read. Truetype fonts make it so I don't want AA anymore anyway...
- There seem to be some fonts that aren't configureable. Sometimes it chooses a font that is completely unreadable at any scaled size and then makes it smaller or larger.
- When you follow a JavaScript link the little gear doesn't spin, so you don't know it's working.
- It takes forever to use backspace in the Location bar and text entry fields, no matter what your repeat rate is.
- It doesn't support https on PowerPC (Nitpick: the ppclinux kernel is called ppclinux, not linuxppc linuxppc is that shitty redhat based distribution that hardly anyone uses.)
- When you add mime types it forgets them
- When a document is the result of a POST operation the mime type is ignored altogether. (Even though they keep telling me this is fixed in the latest versions. I'm running the latest versions!)
Still dreaming of a essentially featured (not full featured.. I don't want most of 'em) browser for linux that has a standard interface. Sigh.
While I agree that this would be the best bet for full hardware compatibility under linux, how do you propose he run Windows and Solaris on this? Please don't tell me you want him to try to use VirtualPC. That would be a nightmare.
People should be saying "These are all huge planets we could never live there." Who's to say nothing else can?
These days the up front cost of a Mac isn't much higher then the price of a name brand PC. Macs, however, use much less power in part because they are PowerPC based. They save power with the lower wattage CPU, by not needing active cooling, and they also have a more mature set of power management features then PCs do. If you don't need Windows in a lab, Macs would be a great way to save power. They can still open MSword documents under MacOS, and they run debian just as well as PCs do.
My experience is that the inverter for the backlight will die far sooner then the backlight itself. Some poorly designed laptops are more prone to this then others. Turning the laptop on is usually what kills the inverter, but since you can replace the inverter for cheaper then the screen, you may want to turn off the display when not in use... I'm not aware that power cycling actually damages the backlight itself any...
Their customers want this.
You are not their customer in the proper sense. Perhaps you buy a few drives. That's nothing. The commodity PC hardware market is not lucrative enough for HDD manufacturers right now. Prices are rock bottom. They want to sell boatloads of drives to appliance makers(*), and they need an edge in the market. The value add is the feature alot of hardware+software companies are asking for: copy-protection. This is why you see alot of OEMs in the against column, and software vendors in the for column. I'm suprised to see maxtor in the against column, as their website along with quantum's website menition being able to provide this in the future. They must be holding out for a more flexable solution.
(*) - I'm not necissarily talking consumer appliances when I say appliances either. Think routers, arcade games, groupware servers, server apliances in general... All these manufacturers have a vested intrest in preventing people/competitors from seeing how their device works. That's hard to do with a device made from general purpose components.
The more mp3s I can distribute fairly or not, the more 250 Meg Zip disks people will be buying, it would seem.
The less secure your media the less software vendors will distribute on it. Even with these features, you'll still be able to use the disk as you please if you have access to the content you want to put on it.
Or do they own sizable software subsidies?
Last I checked IBM had one of the worlds largest...
You should e-mail someone higher up at SGI. There is a reasonable chance that the SGI legal department is doing this without the knowledge of the higher-ups. The people who started this may not necissarily have any understanding of the relationship of your products. There is a slight chance that if you bring this to the attention of the right person at SGI the problem will be taken care of.
The problem is that there is no recourse for when you spent time and money to prove that you didn't do anything wrong. In any other fascet of life in the US, this is illegal. You know, the whole innocent until proven guilty thing? And when you're wrongly sued or wrongly charged, you can sue for the costs. You have to keep in mynd that MOST of the people that get audited didn't do anything wrong. Most companies that know their ass from their elbow play by the rules.
Hah! I've worked for a 5 person company that got audited! You're never to small. Just let the boss piss off one of your employees, and someone can "turn you in" anonymously for fun. Even if you aren't doing anything wrong.
Most of these audits come from these anonymous "tips"
Wow, you mean I'll still know my system configuration after an upgrade?
Wow, you mean the whims of a large corporate distributor won't change my filesystem layout each upgrade?
Wow you mean that they have a set of ideals and they actually stick to them?
Wow, you mean if I like it I don't have to worry about it going away?
Where do I sign up? Oh, wait, I already have...
Then who cares really? Just store them on their original media. Unless you want to do streaming, and then hard drives are your best bet. As another poster pointed out, you can set up a streaming server (For your lan... you'd need a pretty sexy pipe to stream over the 'net) and the storage would cost $10/movie. The random access would be much easier that way; you wouldn't need a tape robot to not have to get off the sofa. That would be cool.
If you really want to pirate movies (as long as DVDs stay cheap, why would you? They're cheaper then mucic CDs!), are you sure a public forum is the best place to discuss it? The MPAA has more money then the Church of Scientology...
Disclaimer: Only applies in the US.
Bandwith prices remained steady from the early 80's to the late 90's. Just beacuse there was one sharp drop (which I'll admit had a steeper slope the the drop in processor prices), what makes you think that the price of bandwidth won't stay exactly where it is for another 15-20 years? Unless something radical happens (act of congress. Literally) then nothing is getting cheeper anytime soon. I'll even go out on a limb and say that the *average* price per megabit to the consumer will almost double in the next 1.5 years.
Also, since all of this new last mile bandwith is exactly that, new, what makes you think that you'll still get the bandwith at the moment when the internet becomes more popular? The bandwith at the ISP hasn't really gone down in price much, and you can bet that your neighborhood network of cable modems isn't backed up by anything larger a few megabits. That pipe won't be getting any larger if things stay the way they are.
Sure there are all these great things that more bandwith could be used for, and I'd love to have it too, but unfortunatly we're not going to get it the way things are regulated right now.
I bet it's an intel machine.
I bet you think that intel machines are the only ones that run Linux.
-John
Think, then post
Grrr. Damn companies trying to trick everyone into thinking that the web is the only reason to use the internet. The web could go away, and I'd be happy with just ssh and SMTP.
You know, that's great, but so what?
:) People who want to have a touchy feely hold your hand GUI and don't mind paying for it should go buy MacOS X or Windows ME. They'll be happier, and I'll be happier because I won't have to worry about them or have any dumb animated widgets getting in my way. I most certainly won't be upset that someone chose Microsoft or Apple over linux. If that's their choice then so be it.
Begin selfish bastard rant mode:
Linux is the best operating system for the people who write it. Don't bitch and moan about it not being friendly or some such nonesense. If you don't understand how it works, or you don't want to, then you have one of three options:
- Make it do what you want by writing some code.
- Pay someone to make it do what you wantfor you.
- Go run windows and shut the hell up.
Seriously, I'm not trying to be a dick or anything. The interface to linux is perfect... for the *nix geeks that use it. It's also great for knowledgable system administrators that understand how the system works. Who cares about everyone else? Not me. I'm me, not them. I wish people would stop promising that linux is going to be this great general purpose desktop OS, because the people claiming this aren't the ones writing the software, and most of the people writing the software won't like an interface "for the rest of them."
It's not the end of the world if linux doesn't "take over the world." There is no reason that there cannot be multiple successful operating systems out there. If linux only does well in the server space then that's fine. I'll even be able to keep my job in that case
End rant; Brace for karma loss.
I don't. Notice I said "limits chipping". Doesn't make it impossible, just much harder.
Actually, no the name really is "Moon". See my comment here. Where do people get these strange ideas?