We like muscle cars. Vehicles that are LOUD that you can't not-notice. Its also expensive to drive because of fuel consumption, which shows that kind of money a guy can spend on a regular basis. Its what impresses the girls and is a key role in the human mating game. Thats a big market, and you can't do that with a fuel efficient hybrid or methane or propane or electrical or hydrogen based car as far as I'm aware. So as long as there's a market for loud vehicles that consume large amounts of fuel that cost a lot of money to own and drive, we're probably just gonna find something thats equivalent to, or worse than, gasoline.
As much as everyone hates Classic ASP, its what I'm good at, so it'd be nice to be able to continue to make a paycheck coding with it. But to my dismay, Microsoft keeps stating that it will eventually discontinue support for it on its server product line. And then there's perfectly good "abandonware" alternatives to IIS such as Halcyon iASP and Chili!Soft who's creators and owners simply shelved their product and don't seem to be interested in making a profit conducting business with it, and yet, they won't release the source code to make it free and open source either (sure would be nice and gracious since they don't seem to care about it anymore). I just don't get why the masses are giving Classic ASP the "cold shoulder". There's tons of websites out there still using it, and business owners don't want to spend the money rewriting their website all over again from scratch. Fortunately PHP is a lot like Classic ASP, so I've been doing PHP work on the side just as a safety net when it does die off like so many others have. At least I'll be useful when they finally make the move to convert.
The comparison assumes that you already have a server on hand. An accurate comparison would be if you were starting from scratch with nothing on hand. Then you'd factor in the cost of the entire server (not just the pidly little 25 dollar upgrade).
Also, the comparison assumes you only need one IP address. With a VPS, you typically can get extra IP addresses for no additional charge. I don't think Comcast or AT&T is going to give me any free extra IP's, or even sell you any for that matter.
And lets not forget that servers need maintenance. Drives gotta get replaced probably at least once a year if you have any real kind of traffic on your site. Your VPS provider isn't going to slap hardware costs on top of your monthly bill.
Ya, Lars Ulrich led the charge against Napster way back in the day and got stomped like a fool for it.
Since then he's wised up and got back to work and today Metallica makes its bones doing bigger and better shows and more touring with more musicians along side them in the big 4 concerts.
The point is: if you aint making money, your music is probably just boring background music and nobody is willing to pay extra to see it live no matter how many times they play it over streaming radio.
Music itself has its own evolution and natural-selection and survival-of-the-fittest kinda thing going on out there. Thats why the harpsichord aint as popular as it used to be.
During World War 2 the Germans had WAY more superior tanks. They had better armor, better accuracy, better range, delivered a more explosive package, plus the soldiers driving them were very well trained in tactics. They even had better camoflauge.
American tanks sucked by comparison. They were easy to spot, they had very poor armor, their accuracy was crap, range was crap, and the soldiers driving them were dunces by comparrison.
But we still overwhelmed them and won with sheer numbers. Our tanks sucked, but we had a crapload of them.
Heck, if we all wear slippery clothing, I guess we don't need the slip and slide anymore. We can just run and jump and hit the ground sliding off into the sunset.
Oh! What about shoe soles? To heck with rolerblades. We can just scoot around on the soles of our shoes!
I like that its small and can be plugged in anywhere and all that jazz. I'm always after ultramobile, so really small and really cheap is getting there, but its not like everybody everywhere is gonna have a flat panel TV that I can just feel free to hookup and use on a whim.
I still am going to need a large WUXGA panel monitor that folds up to be pocket size. Maybe make it elastic and stretchy so that I could use it small and touchpad sized, or else large 17-inch widescreen monitor sized.
You could also build a bluetooth laser mouse into my cell phone, so that'd eliminate one extra device.
And instead of making pocket sized foldable keyboard, maybe improve those laser-projected keyboards so that its keychain-sized and more accurate with its touch response (the one I already bought kinda sucks).
Everything together should weigh no more than 1 to 1.5 lbs (including the power cords).
End goal is that my entire computer is very portable and agile and versatile, and can be fit in my cargo pants without it looking like I'm a shoplifter.
Whats keeping me (and my clients) from using Linux is web development, not games. I ended up coding Classic ASP based websites as a career. Yes, I know all of you hate Classic ASP and feel it should be banished, but the reality is that companies have stuff written in it and they won't be throwing out or rewriting their stuff it anytime soon as long as it still works. And as long as I can't legally redistribute LAMP-server-like version of linux with Chili!Soft or Halcyon pre-installed and pre-configured to just work immediately after installation, I just don't see myself or my clients ever making any real progress towards getting away from it. Nevermind the games; we're just suck-in-the-mud here in Windows-world for business reasons.
From childhood to today, I've heard it asked many times in so many different ways "What would you live if there were no tomorrow?". People say stuff like "I'd party and have fun" or "I'd quit my job and spend time with my family" and all kinds of great stuff. Rubbish! Most people are just gonna find ways to loot whatever is there for the taking, quit acting responsibly, and/or sit around blaming and complaining about the problem.
I won't deny that smoking pot has had its influence in the artistic creative-arts world.
But programming involves thinking-things-through, and being logical, and not being lazy. Pot does not help this at all.
Maybe caffeine and amphetamine based drugs though. That'll perk you up and get you focussed on getting things done, which is required for programming.
All kinds of privacy concerns this could lead to as far as what the carpet home-base-database folks have at their disposal.
Suppose homebase knows all the homes with occupants that are progressively showing signs of getting fatter. They could sell that information to diet pill marketers.
You could also use this to identify other behavior patterns as well. If the subject tends to move from one room to the next more frequently one day, then it could imply that they're doing a lot of pacing because they're nervous about something going on in their lives, and so now they can sell that info to antidepressant marketers.
You could even use it for burglary detection. If floor activity is detected in front of a window without having shown any previous signs of walking around anywhere else in the house, you got yourself a window intrusion detection system. That could be a good thing, but of course, now the homeowner will be getting Brinks home security junk-mail.
So what if two people decide to shag on the floor one day? Or while standing up even? Is that gonna get recorded in the carpet's memory banks and get sent back to home base for further analysis?
If you got some metal washers that fit at your disposal, you could unscrew the bolt, put the washers on it, then start screwing it down. The washers will close the distance from the missing 6 turns. That'll tighten it down adequately until the next mission when you can bring some extra tools out there into space (such as a wire brush perhaps) that you can use to scrape out whatever piece of space dirt is clogging up the threads inside the hole and keeping it from screwing all 16 turns.
I think this would lead to investors actually encouraging, even DEMANDING, that their developers leave a digital paper trail of false claims to stability and features in certain types of software and web development projects. Most likely it would happen to new programmers fresh out of college who haven't learned the ropes out in the real world yet and wouldn't see it coming. They'd be under pressure to send emails making all kinds of claims that they know are false, but, being new to the job market, they're more likely to bend and give in.
If they come out with an operating system to compete with Windows and other windowed environments, it had better be 3d and run on the steam engine. The whole desktop ought to be a virtual 3D desktop, and all office productivity can now be done via gaming joystick. That might be awesome.
They're already all over Wikileaks and doing whatever they can to kill that off.
I'm sure FactCheck.org is next on the chopping block in the years to come.
We can't have the truth out there. Thats not in the govt's best interest!
They'll think of some kinda excuse. Maybe it'll be copyright infringement, or perhaps they'll claim its a bunch of propaganda. Whatever the reason, I'm sure in time they'll find one.
Joyce Ehrlinger from Florida State University is stupid! She has absolutely no idea what she's talking about! Pure rubbish! She should just drop out of the American Psychological Association right now and save us all a bunch of pain and headache! She has no idea what she's talking about! None! Pure bullox!
That might work if you had a dry ice freezer that was full of dry ice while you were doing the recovery. The drive is gonna create heat once it goes into motion, so to keep it cold while doing the work, it'd have to be FRIGGIN cold. Like south-pole cold.
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We like muscle cars. Vehicles that are LOUD that you can't not-notice. Its also expensive to drive because of fuel consumption, which shows that kind of money a guy can spend on a regular basis. Its what impresses the girls and is a key role in the human mating game. Thats a big market, and you can't do that with a fuel efficient hybrid or methane or propane or electrical or hydrogen based car as far as I'm aware. So as long as there's a market for loud vehicles that consume large amounts of fuel that cost a lot of money to own and drive, we're probably just gonna find something thats equivalent to, or worse than, gasoline.
Remember that scene from the first Sherlock Holmes movie where he has those flies in a glass tube and he's plucking a violin?
Perhaps Slayer is a more pure example of creating order out of chaos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yMwJ79IeHk
As much as everyone hates Classic ASP, its what I'm good at, so it'd be nice to be able to continue to make a paycheck coding with it. But to my dismay, Microsoft keeps stating that it will eventually discontinue support for it on its server product line. And then there's perfectly good "abandonware" alternatives to IIS such as Halcyon iASP and Chili!Soft who's creators and owners simply shelved their product and don't seem to be interested in making a profit conducting business with it, and yet, they won't release the source code to make it free and open source either (sure would be nice and gracious since they don't seem to care about it anymore). I just don't get why the masses are giving Classic ASP the "cold shoulder". There's tons of websites out there still using it, and business owners don't want to spend the money rewriting their website all over again from scratch. Fortunately PHP is a lot like Classic ASP, so I've been doing PHP work on the side just as a safety net when it does die off like so many others have. At least I'll be useful when they finally make the move to convert.
The comparison assumes that you already have a server on hand. An accurate comparison would be if you were starting from scratch with nothing on hand. Then you'd factor in the cost of the entire server (not just the pidly little 25 dollar upgrade). Also, the comparison assumes you only need one IP address. With a VPS, you typically can get extra IP addresses for no additional charge. I don't think Comcast or AT&T is going to give me any free extra IP's, or even sell you any for that matter. And lets not forget that servers need maintenance. Drives gotta get replaced probably at least once a year if you have any real kind of traffic on your site. Your VPS provider isn't going to slap hardware costs on top of your monthly bill.
You get what you pay for
Ya, Lars Ulrich led the charge against Napster way back in the day and got stomped like a fool for it.
Since then he's wised up and got back to work and today Metallica makes its bones doing bigger and better shows and more touring with more musicians along side them in the big 4 concerts.
The point is: if you aint making money, your music is probably just boring background music and nobody is willing to pay extra to see it live no matter how many times they play it over streaming radio.
Music itself has its own evolution and natural-selection and survival-of-the-fittest kinda thing going on out there. Thats why the harpsichord aint as popular as it used to be.
During World War 2 the Germans had WAY more superior tanks. They had better armor, better accuracy, better range, delivered a more explosive package, plus the soldiers driving them were very well trained in tactics. They even had better camoflauge.
American tanks sucked by comparison. They were easy to spot, they had very poor armor, their accuracy was crap, range was crap, and the soldiers driving them were dunces by comparrison.
But we still overwhelmed them and won with sheer numbers. Our tanks sucked, but we had a crapload of them.
Crap I forgot....it only repels liquid. Not concrete. Rats.
Heck, if we all wear slippery clothing, I guess we don't need the slip and slide anymore. We can just run and jump and hit the ground sliding off into the sunset.
Oh! What about shoe soles? To heck with rolerblades. We can just scoot around on the soles of our shoes!
Oh my God I'm having an idea-anurism!!
Some billionare company will squish this....just like they did with these other technologies: http://www.trutv.com/conspiracy/in-the-shadows/the-18-most-suppressed-inventions-ever/gallery.all.html
I like that its small and can be plugged in anywhere and all that jazz. I'm always after ultramobile, so really small and really cheap is getting there, but its not like everybody everywhere is gonna have a flat panel TV that I can just feel free to hookup and use on a whim.
I still am going to need a large WUXGA panel monitor that folds up to be pocket size. Maybe make it elastic and stretchy so that I could use it small and touchpad sized, or else large 17-inch widescreen monitor sized.
You could also build a bluetooth laser mouse into my cell phone, so that'd eliminate one extra device.
And instead of making pocket sized foldable keyboard, maybe improve those laser-projected keyboards so that its keychain-sized and more accurate with its touch response (the one I already bought kinda sucks).
Everything together should weigh no more than 1 to 1.5 lbs (including the power cords).
End goal is that my entire computer is very portable and agile and versatile, and can be fit in my cargo pants without it looking like I'm a shoplifter.
Whats keeping me (and my clients) from using Linux is web development, not games. I ended up coding Classic ASP based websites as a career. Yes, I know all of you hate Classic ASP and feel it should be banished, but the reality is that companies have stuff written in it and they won't be throwing out or rewriting their stuff it anytime soon as long as it still works. And as long as I can't legally redistribute LAMP-server-like version of linux with Chili!Soft or Halcyon pre-installed and pre-configured to just work immediately after installation, I just don't see myself or my clients ever making any real progress towards getting away from it. Nevermind the games; we're just suck-in-the-mud here in Windows-world for business reasons.
From childhood to today, I've heard it asked many times in so many different ways "What would you live if there were no tomorrow?". People say stuff like "I'd party and have fun" or "I'd quit my job and spend time with my family" and all kinds of great stuff. Rubbish! Most people are just gonna find ways to loot whatever is there for the taking, quit acting responsibly, and/or sit around blaming and complaining about the problem.
I won't deny that smoking pot has had its influence in the artistic creative-arts world. But programming involves thinking-things-through, and being logical, and not being lazy. Pot does not help this at all. Maybe caffeine and amphetamine based drugs though. That'll perk you up and get you focussed on getting things done, which is required for programming.
There, I fixted it. I'mma real good ass-tro-not!
All kinds of privacy concerns this could lead to as far as what the carpet home-base-database folks have at their disposal. Suppose homebase knows all the homes with occupants that are progressively showing signs of getting fatter. They could sell that information to diet pill marketers. You could also use this to identify other behavior patterns as well. If the subject tends to move from one room to the next more frequently one day, then it could imply that they're doing a lot of pacing because they're nervous about something going on in their lives, and so now they can sell that info to antidepressant marketers. You could even use it for burglary detection. If floor activity is detected in front of a window without having shown any previous signs of walking around anywhere else in the house, you got yourself a window intrusion detection system. That could be a good thing, but of course, now the homeowner will be getting Brinks home security junk-mail.
So what if two people decide to shag on the floor one day? Or while standing up even? Is that gonna get recorded in the carpet's memory banks and get sent back to home base for further analysis?
If you got some metal washers that fit at your disposal, you could unscrew the bolt, put the washers on it, then start screwing it down. The washers will close the distance from the missing 6 turns. That'll tighten it down adequately until the next mission when you can bring some extra tools out there into space (such as a wire brush perhaps) that you can use to scrape out whatever piece of space dirt is clogging up the threads inside the hole and keeping it from screwing all 16 turns.
I think this would lead to investors actually encouraging, even DEMANDING, that their developers leave a digital paper trail of false claims to stability and features in certain types of software and web development projects. Most likely it would happen to new programmers fresh out of college who haven't learned the ropes out in the real world yet and wouldn't see it coming. They'd be under pressure to send emails making all kinds of claims that they know are false, but, being new to the job market, they're more likely to bend and give in.
If they come out with an operating system to compete with Windows and other windowed environments, it had better be 3d and run on the steam engine. The whole desktop ought to be a virtual 3D desktop, and all office productivity can now be done via gaming joystick. That might be awesome.
They're already all over Wikileaks and doing whatever they can to kill that off. I'm sure FactCheck.org is next on the chopping block in the years to come. We can't have the truth out there. Thats not in the govt's best interest! They'll think of some kinda excuse. Maybe it'll be copyright infringement, or perhaps they'll claim its a bunch of propaganda. Whatever the reason, I'm sure in time they'll find one.
Joyce Ehrlinger from Florida State University is stupid! She has absolutely no idea what she's talking about! Pure rubbish! She should just drop out of the American Psychological Association right now and save us all a bunch of pain and headache! She has no idea what she's talking about! None! Pure bullox!
The second rule of geek dresscode is........_you_do_no_speak_about_geek_dress_code_.
That might work if you had a dry ice freezer that was full of dry ice while you were doing the recovery. The drive is gonna create heat once it goes into motion, so to keep it cold while doing the work, it'd have to be FRIGGIN cold. Like south-pole cold.
agreed. i miss the reload button