I would like to note that I find almost all supermodels to be too boney and skinny. When I think of the ideal female figure I see someone who is of average weight and size. Not someone of whome I can see the outlines of their pelvis through clothing.
The CGI model was of a good size... Ideal in proportions, firm in the right areas. Whomever did the model, has the same taste as I.
If these guys are giving you complete control over the site then all the power to you.
For the twit that thinks that the Suits will take over. Wake up.. Bandwidth costs big bucks... and running a business requires time. Taco and Hemos need to get lives other then slashdot and it would be selfish to assume that everyone else would pick up the slack. This would require a lot of trust on their part and in the business world trust can prove to be expensive when given to the wrong person of whom you thought was the right person.
Guys, you have brought/. as far as you can go on your limited resources. I hate to use it as an example, but Microsoft wouldn't be where it is without its original investors. Billy boy didn't do it all himself. Corrupt or not, M$ is a perfect example of what good decisions can do monitarily for you and/. needs cash in order to broaden its audience.
I'm no Linux guru and will be the first to admit that I am just a few notches over the knowledge level of a windows 9* luser... But is Samba not mostly for use in connecting Linux boxes to Windows shares? If your serving up a bunch of pages wouldn't it make much more sense to use NFS or something that is more native to the operating system for sharing between machines on a LAN? Again... I'm no Linux Guru.. just a mildly advanced user. (very mildy advanced).
You all make good points, but sorry. They did "HELP" make it a buzzword. I guess I kinda forgot that I am speaking to people who have been dealing with and interested in the internet for years... Turn your mind around and think (Drop to the "steriotypical" blue collar workers level) like joe public who just finished watching Clinton and Gore praising technology on 20/20 and heard something about their bank putting up a website. That is when Good ol Bill and IBM got on the bandwagon with a million commercials/ads (ie. the goofy little unich guys jabbering about the web with subtitles). As for the Internet -not- being the Information Superhighway, BAH. Sorry my friends, they are one in the same in the eyes of joe public. Sorry for not using the EXACT term; it hadn't come to mind at the time of my original post. As for a BuzzWord being a bad thing. I think not. All it takes is for the important people (programmers/commercial software companies) to hop on the Open Source bandwagon. Joe Public doesn't really matter too much on that one because they will always have their precompiled binaries for WP or Word or whatever they need as that need will never go away (I pitty some of my clients attempting to figure out why make install didn't work properly for them on the first try, and I pitty the poor tech on the other end of the line even more for having to try explaining to this poor schmuck why they need to open up the makefile and put a quote in a statement somewhere). My point being; Open Source isn't for the mainstream audience that seem to require that little "log onto internet" button that Compaq seems to be putting on their cases as of late. Its for you, me and "joe programmer" who can figure out for themselves that the program's author forgot to put a quote in a statement somewhere in the makefile (thus fixing it and then recompiling).
!Xabbu
"It compiled? The startup screen came up? SHIP IT!" - Bill Gates
Gore didn't invent the internet... true... can you deny that he helped make the internet what it is now? No. The Gore and Clinton campaigns made the Internet a BUZZWORD. If he keeps up this Open Source stuff, he may help contribute to it becoming a BUZZWORD. If he can do that, it can only be good for us. So don't put it down -yet-.
... ability to block that ID from getting out. Windoze users ma have a problem getting the software to do this, but Linux users are almost guarenteed that there will be some parinoid little hacker that will program a patch for the kernal.
This is a great thing for anti software piracy people.. I can see its use.. I just don't like it though..:)
!Xabbu has spoken (and chances are no-one) will hear.
Heh... The same kind of loser that try as he may can't seem to spend it on a real woman.. or someone who is just into latex?
When I checked that site out I had to say that I was impressed.. if you read about the whole manufacturing process and how lifelike these things are supposta be its hard not to. As for the price... its reasonable.. even if it would equal about 8 grand up here in Canada.
Hmmm.. wonder what my wife would have to say about a threesome with one of those..
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I would like to note that I find almost all supermodels to be too boney and skinny. When I think of the ideal female figure I see someone who is of average weight and size. Not someone of whome I can see the outlines of their pelvis through clothing.
The CGI model was of a good size... Ideal in proportions, firm in the right areas. Whomever did the model, has the same taste as I.
!Xabbu
If these guys are giving you complete control over the site then all the power to you.
/. as far as you can go on your limited resources. I hate to use it as an example, but Microsoft wouldn't be where it is without its original investors. Billy boy didn't do it all himself. Corrupt or not, M$ is a perfect example of what good decisions can do monitarily for you and /. needs cash in order to broaden its audience.
For the twit that thinks that the Suits will take over. Wake up.. Bandwidth costs big bucks... and running a business requires time. Taco and Hemos need to get lives other then slashdot and it would be selfish to assume that everyone else would pick up the slack. This would require a lot of trust on their part and in the business world trust can prove to be expensive when given to the wrong person of whom you thought was the right person.
Guys, you have brought
I'm no Linux guru and will be the first to admit that I am just a few notches over the knowledge level of a windows 9* luser... But is Samba not mostly for use in connecting Linux boxes to Windows shares? If your serving up a bunch of pages wouldn't it make much more sense to use NFS or something that is more native to the operating system for sharing between machines on a LAN? Again... I'm no Linux Guru.. just a mildly advanced user. (very mildy advanced).
!Xabbu
"It compiled? The startup screen came up? SHIP IT!" - Bill Gates
Gore didn't invent the internet... true... can you deny that he helped make the internet what it is now? No. The Gore and Clinton campaigns made the Internet a BUZZWORD. If he keeps up this Open Source stuff, he may help contribute to it becoming a BUZZWORD. If he can do that, it can only be good for us. So don't put it down -yet-.
!Xabbu
... ability to block that ID from getting out. Windoze users ma have a problem getting the software to do this, but Linux users are almost guarenteed that there will be some parinoid little hacker that will program a patch for the kernal.
:)
This is a great thing for anti software piracy people.. I can see its use.. I just don't like it though..
!Xabbu has spoken
(and chances are no-one) will hear.
Heh... The same kind of loser that try as he may can't seem to spend it on a real woman.. or someone who is just into latex?
When I checked that site out I had to say that I was impressed.. if you read about the whole manufacturing process and how lifelike these things are supposta be its hard not to. As for the price... its reasonable.. even if it would equal about 8 grand up here in Canada.
Hmmm.. wonder what my wife would have to say about a threesome with one of those..