I currently work for a ticketing company in Australia,
We recently did a gig where Vodaphone were using this technology, as cool as it is, we all noticed it was also remarkably unreliable.
Out of the 60 people on his list... He had to do 30 manual lookups because 'It couldn't read the codes properly'. Unfortunately I'm not sure if it was the custom phone covers, cracked screens or just simple incompatabilities with the phone screens. So until they can over come all the variables involved in getting atleast a 95% success rate which is very important especially when you have 10,000 people standing in line then I think this concept/technology will be a gymick for a long time.
I find the concept of 'free' music quite interesting; I mean most music available at record shops is popular mainly due to marketing. Very few people will buy a cd for $20+ of a band they've never heard; even if it's for one song they've only sorta heard. But it get's a bit of press or marketing hype and there sold.
There are 100's to 1000's of great bands out there but the majority that i've worked with (Which is quite a few) really only care about 2 thing's getting laid and making money.
Until these act's start relizing that money's not everything then we could see a huge industry change.
Why does every single 'small/unknown' band with anyform of a recording want to charge for it? Covering costs? I hardly think so. $10 (AUD) for some local bands EP's is kind of rediculous. If they really wanted to be heard they would either sell it at cost or make it freely available.
But until musician's stop caring about the bottom line free music will probably never become a reality. I hope it does. But we've all got to eat. And unlike the open source world of computers most musicians' would be quite angered if you hacked up one there songs and re-released it on the net.
(Sorry that doesn't make but you get my point even if it is kina offtopic)
------------ As we become simpler; so do our tastes.
Although if you look at windows 2000 server it's what 5 years old and still in production. I mean we won't see the next windows server till atleast 2007 which sorta makes debian look reasonably good with it's current release cycles.
I mean the windows world and the linux world are two totally different beast's and i will admit other distro's really have taken two steps forward in the stable branches compared to debian woody but the basis is still the same and IMO debian really does the same job better then a few other current distributions.
In the server world I really only rely on Debian for the mission critical stuff and you know what? So far so good....
Why is this under BSD???
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I guess it's back to lurking in the shadows of the ee-ter-net waiting for another slashdot story the come out in which I have some cunning or slightly witty comment to comment about...
I went to a novell conference thing in the city today and I have to say I'm greatly impressed with there current suite of software and the like, I think the're on the right track not only development wise but also this ms stuff and the way there business is run..
I've found a problem with my packbot 2004 shotgun edition.
We bought 2 of these packbots but it seems the firing mechanism is controlled by RM radio stations.. It quite a problem because welcome to the jungle is on right now and the shit has hit the fan....
Can you imaging your on a packed overnight flight and some jerks phone starts blaring out the batman theme, it's hard enough to sleep on a plane let alone sleep on a plane with some loud mouth two seats behind you saying at the top of his voice "Sorry I can't hear you your brea...."
I think all this patenting is actually a bad move on m$'s behalf..
Think about it, if they keep patenting little stupid things like this as an attempt to cripple and slow down alternate desktops such as X from advancing in the market place then this in the long run is probably a bad move,
As it's already been proved many times that if you make something not possible for someone they will work out a compromise and at least 70% of the time come up with something better and more efficient.
Obviously the desktop war is far from over but the industry needs innovation (Even if it has to be forced into it)
Sco have the image of the bad guy that just keeps comming back.. again and again and again..
You think there out of the pictures and they just conjour up another evil plan. There just as annoying as most hollywood sequals they just get less less interesting over time and rather frustrating.. kind of like the halloweens or friday the 13ths.
All honesty is bad when IBM get involved and you know your in trouble if Novell has it in for you but Sun?
Personally for there own sake when will they just call it a day. All there doing is destroying their "reputation" and basically eliminating anysort of customer or industry trust.
But Software is already free and even better open source, and hardware these days is pretty cheap too.
Really software should be free but solutions (There's a big difference between the two) is where the money should be spent. Although on the other hand a brothers gotta eat.
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I currently work for a ticketing company in Australia,
We recently did a gig where Vodaphone were using this technology, as cool as it is, we all noticed it was also remarkably unreliable.
Out of the 60 people on his list... He had to do 30 manual lookups because 'It couldn't read the codes properly'. Unfortunately I'm not sure if it was the custom phone covers, cracked screens or just simple incompatabilities with the phone screens. So until they can over come all the variables involved in getting atleast a 95% success rate which is very important especially when you have 10,000 people standing in line then I think this concept/technology will be a gymick for a long time.
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion....
I'm not going to believe this till I see it on TV....
Read the article,
All he purchased was the scope, the only thing he did was attach it to a webcam and a pc,
Read outside the box and you might learn something
It's not totally bad... I mean at least it is trying to do the average joe some kind of favour:
n c/data/w32.zotob.d.html%5D
Kind of anyway:
[http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/ve
Searches for the following files and folders to delete the files and the contents of folders:
%SYSTEM%\pnpsrv.exe
%SYSTEM%\winpnp.exe
%SYSTEM%\csm.exe
%SYSTEM%\botzor.exe
%PROGRAMFILES%\MyWebSearch
%PROGRAMFILES%\MyWebSearch\*.exe
%PROGRAMFILES%\Hotbar
%PROGRAMFILES%\Hotbar\*.exe
%PROGRAMFILES%\MyWay
%PROGRAMFILES%\MyWay\*.exe
%PROGRAMFILES%\180Solutions
%PROGRAMFILES%\180Solutions\*.exe
%PROGRAMFILES%\Common Files\WinTools
%PROGRAMFILES%\Common Files\WinTools\*.exe
%PROGRAMFILES%\Toolbar
%PROGRAMFILES%\Toolbar\*.exe
%PROGRAMFILES%\CxtPls
%PROGRAMFILES%\NavExcel
%PROGRAMFILES%\AutoUpdate
%PROGRAMFILES%\AutoUpdate\AutoUpdate.exe
%PROGRAMFILES%\EbatesMoeMoneyMaker
%PROGRAMFILES%\eZula
%PROGRAMFILES%\eZula\mmod.exe
%PROGRAMFILES%\Common Files\GMT
%PROGRAMFILES%\Common Files\GMT\GMT.exe
%PROGRAMFILES%\Common Files\CMEII
I can just hear it....
Number 5 is alive!!
Number 5 is alive!!!!
I find the concept of 'free' music quite interesting; I mean most music available at record shops is popular mainly due to marketing. Very few people will buy a cd for $20+ of a band they've never heard; even if it's for one song they've only sorta heard. But it get's a bit of press or marketing hype and there sold.
There are 100's to 1000's of great bands out there but the majority that i've worked with (Which is quite a few) really only care about 2 thing's getting laid and making money.
Until these act's start relizing that money's not everything then we could see a huge industry change.
Why does every single 'small/unknown' band with anyform of a recording want to charge for it? Covering costs? I hardly think so. $10 (AUD) for some local bands EP's is kind of rediculous. If they really wanted to be heard they would either sell it at cost or make it freely available.
But until musician's stop caring about the bottom line free music will probably never become a reality. I hope it does. But we've all got to eat. And unlike the open source world of computers most musicians' would be quite angered if you hacked up one there songs and re-released it on the net.
(Sorry that doesn't make but you get my point even if it is kina offtopic)
------------
As we become simpler; so do our tastes.
Wow that was quick... Already /.ed...
And there's no posts yet... ouch... i bet ya the box has already been bsoded...
And these People are happy with just a name change like that...
Geez...
Although if you look at windows 2000 server it's what 5 years old and still in production. I mean we won't see the next windows server till atleast 2007 which sorta makes debian look reasonably good with it's current release cycles.
I mean the windows world and the linux world are two totally different beast's and i will admit other distro's really have taken two steps forward in the stable branches compared to debian woody but the basis is still the same and IMO debian really does the same job better then a few other current distributions.
In the server world I really only rely on Debian for the mission critical stuff and you know what? So far so good....
Why is this story under BSD???
Always leave it to a slashdoter to find and poke a stick at something wrong with some post, sometime, somewhere...
You beat me to that comment..
I guess it's back to lurking in the shadows of the ee-ter-net waiting for another slashdot story the come out in which I have some cunning or slightly witty comment to comment about...
Ahhh he'll be hurtin in prison...
I suppose all the "action" he's gonna get in prison means he won't wanna "sit" at the computer anymore...
Wow...
This is all TV's fault....
I went to a novell conference thing in the city today and I have to say I'm greatly impressed with there current suite of software and the like, I think the're on the right track not only development wise but also this ms stuff and the way there business is run..
Go the big red N
hmmmm security/bugzilla entry:
I've found a problem with my packbot 2004 shotgun edition.
We bought 2 of these packbots but it seems the firing mechanism is controlled by RM radio stations.. It quite a problem because welcome to the jungle is on right now and the shit has hit the fan....
Like Hell it Will!
God , this will make traveling a nightmare!
Can you imaging your on a packed overnight flight and some jerks phone starts blaring out the batman theme, it's hard enough to sleep on a plane let alone sleep on a plane with some loud mouth two seats behind you saying at the top of his voice "Sorry I can't hear you your brea...."
Hey never know it's probably still in google cache!
The page looks fine in links to me though...
I think all this patenting is actually a bad move on m$'s behalf..
Think about it, if they keep patenting little stupid things like this as an attempt to cripple and slow down alternate desktops such as X from advancing in the market place then this in the long run is probably a bad move,
As it's already been proved many times that if you make something not possible for someone they will work out a compromise and at least 70% of the time come up with something better and more efficient.
Obviously the desktop war is far from over but the industry needs innovation (Even if it has to be forced into it)
Sco have the image of the bad guy that just keeps comming back.. again and again and again..
You think there out of the pictures and they just conjour up another evil plan. There just as annoying as most hollywood sequals they just get less less interesting over time and rather frustrating.. kind of like the halloweens or friday the 13ths.
All honesty is bad when IBM get involved and you know your in trouble if Novell has it in for you but Sun?
Personally for there own sake when will they just call it a day. All there doing is destroying their "reputation" and basically eliminating anysort of customer or industry trust.
But Software is already free and even better open source, and hardware these days is pretty cheap too.
Really software should be free but solutions (There's a big difference between the two) is where the money should be spent. Although on the other hand a brothers gotta eat.
I agree, the only reason my "fast" machine runs XP primarily is Photoshop, Dreamweaver MX, .Net.
.net's a good tool for making money in ms only environments which i'm stuck in 70% of the time.
Although things like mono exist
But when 3D studio max gets ported then i'll be happy & definatelly impressed!