Won't happen because if they put ads on those pages, then the sites that were cached would probably sue.
If they can't make money off a page, then it won't be made available. It would essentially have to be completely free to avoid litigation...which would be be giving away bandwidth (eating into profit magins).
So, while it'ld be great, it's not gonna happen on here. Now, someone could create a bot like AlterSlash is/was? that caches the pages before they are slammed...but, of course, we know how they feal about that.
But then, you don't run out to your auto store to build a Jaguar.
I don't think this analogy ever worked...here's why...
1) It is a proven fact that an automobile as a whole is much cheaper than all of the parts...meaning that if you went out to buy a V8, Frame, Body, Radio, etc and then put em all together to make a new Jaguar, it'ld be at least double the cost of a new jaguar.
2) The trend in the automobile industry is to keep the technology out of the hands of the consumer (ever wonder why noone uses RS-232 for access to the computer anymore?)...the situation in the hardware industry is the exact opposite. Most ppl wouldn't touch their fuel injectors in their vehicle, but it is common for someone (even those that don't build their own system) to switch things such as printers, CD-ROMs, CD-RWs, and DVD-ROMs...even adding memory and harddrives.
3) The reason for all of this is that (and you just inadvertently strengthened my argument) automobile manufacturers manufacture their own replacement parts. If they sold parts at cost, then someone would come along and make a cheaper/better Jaguar. This is exactly where the problem of a closed architecture is apparent.
As a former Amiga user, I can say that the single thing holding the Mac down is its hardware...not that the hardware is bad (far from it), but it's the closed architecture.
It's true that a closed architecture can have a signifigant advantage (I won't go over that argument), but the Mac is close enough to the PC in its price range and target audience that the comparison to PeeCee hardware is valid.
If a potential Mac user doesn't fit into a mold of what Apple has designed a system for, then that user will not find "value" in the Mac.
As well, hardware manufacturers (in general) have always treated non-PC hardware as an afterthought. I know there have been some advances here as well, but the fact still remains that support is generally less than stellar for anything not wintel.
There is also the problem of percieved cost with Mac vs. PC. Alot of ppl look at a cheap Mac and say, but this PC is so much cheaper. Apple has attempted to fix that with the iMac, but I don't see it happening...
Don't get me wrong, the Mac has a great OS, and I personally belive that the 68k and PPC processors are superior to x86 based processors, but this is the problem that Apple & the Mac community as a whole should be addressing.
Maybe, but is that really necessary? If you think about it, throughout history, the older members of society have resisted technological change. But, with all dure respect, it doesn't really matter what they do, as long as the youth are accepting the technology.
Don't get me wrong, they would probably find it useful, and they still matter to society, but they do not matter as far as long-term technological acceptance is concerned.
Look at the Amish...they prove that you can still live without modern technology, it's just not as "easy"...
I agree to a point, but there are other ways of getting weather, news, traffic, etc (Radio, Newspaper, Public Alert Systems)...and while those documentaries might be nice to watch, I don't know where I could use some of the knowledge gained from them (Mummies, Salvaging Shipwrecks, etc)
But in the case of your TV, there is no way to pay your bills over the TV. All the knowledge gained from your TV has to be used in some other way...
However, I will agree that utility is really an opinion...Who am I to say that your television doesn't provide utility...
As for me most of those uses you mentioned, I find online...
First, why do we need studies for this kind of crap? I mean, who can't realize that. Many ppl have already begun paying bills online. Even ppl that don't pay bills online can do their taxes online or even access bank account online.
And, this now means that the old analogy of the internet and television don't hold quite as true anymore. More like the automobile. You might enjoy your television, but it does not provide utility.
The last question is, does this then mean that we will now see ISPs regulated as utilities (like water and electric)... I doubt it.
If they start screwing around with their customers, they will leave for DSL/Wireless/etc. The larger cable companies have to realize that if they stop giving their customers their moneys worth, they will go elsewhere.
Many places are no longer limited in how they can choose to get their broadband access. Most places can get Wireless broadband, and many can get some sort of DSL.
Personally, I don't see this decision having any real long term impact...
That's my point...I don't think NewTek will actually do it until they have everyone asking for it. I know what they said, but the question is did they mean it?
Yes, I too enjoyed the Apple store experience. It was friendly to everyone. You didn't seem to be rushed at all. You were almost encouraged to browse and play. And to show you how bad BestBuy is about their Macs, I didn't even know BestBuy had a Mac section:)
But, it's painfully obvious that this is the reason why Apple is pushing their own stores more than the retail chains.
I would figure that they will start to shaft some of the smaller Mom & Pop (PC & Mac) operations first, just to see if everything goes well... (you know the ones...the store that carries an iMac in the corner in case someone asks for one)
The last stores to go (if at all) would have to be the Mac only stores.
Retail stores will be left to sell software and accessories.
The Mac has always been a niche market. Those that own a Mac have their reasons, and Apple realizes that Mac sales aren't going to suddenly be hoisted above PC sales.
M$ knows this as well and this is the main reason they develop for the Mac.
It looks to me as if Apple is trying to go the way Tandy/IBM did. Take em out of stores and sell direct.
There are alot of advantages to selling only direct. For starters, it will mean less returns that were due to user error or negligence. Another thing is that they decide on how much customer service to give. Should we accept a return on this Mac if it only needs a new drive, or maybe we can give free OS X training to new users. It's worth noteing that the local CompUSA barely even acnowledges their Apple section (you get the idea you are on your own if you buy a Mac from them).
I'm sure if it looks like they are "stiffing" retailers, it's probably for a pretty good reason.
It's just one comment, but it's a start. I have personally seen this. NTFS will trust a bad journal and try to recover based on that bad journal rather than doing a full filesystem check.
That's because NTFS is not a complete JFS implementation.
One way you have an MP3 player costing double what it should.
But, on the other hand, you are paying for a right to store whatever you want on there (mainly copyrighted music).
As a matter of fact, if you own one of these devices, the way I see it, they are saying that it is your duty to use it to store copyrighted music on it, because if you used it for something else, then you'ld get no return on your tax dollars.
Then again, just buy a Rio Volt...it only stores ~1/2 GB, but it is on a CD...
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Damn, I hate when that happens...check my reply to the origonal comment:)
That's the idea though. If a whole bunch of geocities pages link to your page, it doesn't increase your ranking...
A publisher links to the web page of a product, that shouldn't increase the rating,
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Why not simply check who registered the domain. If the same person/people regestered the domains, then that should only count as one link.
You could even go further, how about lowering the "value" of a link the more often it appears...so, for example where as 3 links to the same page might be worth (1 +.5 +.25) 1.75. It makes it much more dificult for a page to get higher rankings.
I'm sure they can write a few lines of code to do this and once it's integrated, sites will try another way to get higher ratings...but it only serves to make it a better system. This also serves the purpose of keeping companies that link to divisions from inadvertently increasing there rankings.
Not all of those live action anime movies have really sucked...lets see.
The Matrix Blade Runner (inspired BGC)
All of those super hero movies/TV Shows were based on "drawn art"...they included
X-Men Superman Incredible Hulk Spiderman Batman
All of those sentai shows (Power Rangers) were essentially live action anime.
Need I go on...it all depends on how you look at it...not all live action anime sucks for the same reason that Anime is not a cartoon!
A famous anime director was quoted (I'm paraphrasing)..."It's cheaper to blow up Tokyo every week in an animation than it is to do it with special effects".
The ones that were mentioned as sucking, sucked because they tried to do a movie with the same budget as the anime.
It's not a curse. Almost every movie starts from drawn art (storyboards).
You didn't actually say, but I would assume that you are not using EIDE or have a relatively high amount of RAM (512M+) in these systems. Otherwise, have you recomplied the kernel to have only what you need? Compressing the swap partition probably wouldn't give anymore performance (as it would be wasted on CPU Time.
Actually, a magnet is generally not so destructive to data as you would expect.
Back in the old C=64 days, the club newsletters would swap stories alot, one of these stories happened to be from a club treasurer who had a few disks that were duplicates. The guy took a 5 1/4 floppy and did everything to try and destroy it.
He put a strong speaker magnet to it, left it in the back of his car on a hot (100+ degrees) day, stuck it in the microwave, ran over it with his car, stuck it in the freezer, and besides having to replace the case that held the media because it warped so bad when he put it in the back seat of his car, the data was pretty much recoverable...he finally destroyed it by letting his dog chew on it:) And that was a 5 1/4 disk with little or no protection. Harddisks have metal enclosing the media and newer drives (like my Quantum AS Plus 60) suspend the media in a liquid. All of this helps to make the drives more reliable and less succeptable to damage.
For those that don't know, the incomplete Tabbed Browser feature of Mozilla was copied from Multizilla...as a matter of fact, some code from Multizilla has actually made it into Mozilla...
When Mozilla hasn't broken its functionality, Multizilla is a much better interface than Mozilla's tabbed browser. Many of the features that are buggy or incomplete in Mozilla's implementation are working and have been enhanced in Multizilla.
But not to fear, we should start to see alot more reliability with the 1.0 release...
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Won't happen because if they put ads on those pages, then the sites that were cached would probably sue.
If they can't make money off a page, then it won't be made available. It would essentially have to be completely free to avoid litigation...which would be be giving away bandwidth (eating into profit magins).
So, while it'ld be great, it's not gonna happen on here. Now, someone could create a bot like AlterSlash is/was? that caches the pages before they are slammed...but, of course, we know how they feal about that.
They only have to give the source to you if you buy it...
They are not obligated to give binaries to anyone who hasn't purchased their distribution...
But then, you don't run out to your auto store to build a Jaguar.
I don't think this analogy ever worked...here's why...
1) It is a proven fact that an automobile as a whole is much cheaper than all of the parts...meaning that if you went out to buy a V8, Frame, Body, Radio, etc and then put em all together to make a new Jaguar, it'ld be at least double the cost of a new jaguar.
2) The trend in the automobile industry is to keep the technology out of the hands of the consumer (ever wonder why noone uses RS-232 for access to the computer anymore?)...the situation in the hardware industry is the exact opposite. Most ppl wouldn't touch their fuel injectors in their vehicle, but it is common for someone (even those that don't build their own system) to switch things such as printers, CD-ROMs, CD-RWs, and DVD-ROMs...even adding memory and harddrives.
3) The reason for all of this is that (and you just inadvertently strengthened my argument) automobile manufacturers manufacture their own replacement parts. If they sold parts at cost, then someone would come along and make a cheaper/better Jaguar. This is exactly where the problem of a closed architecture is apparent.
As a former Amiga user, I can say that the single thing holding the Mac down is its hardware...not that the hardware is bad (far from it), but it's the closed architecture.
It's true that a closed architecture can have a signifigant advantage (I won't go over that argument), but the Mac is close enough to the PC in its price range and target audience that the comparison to PeeCee hardware is valid.
If a potential Mac user doesn't fit into a mold of what Apple has designed a system for, then that user will not find "value" in the Mac.
As well, hardware manufacturers (in general) have always treated non-PC hardware as an afterthought. I know there have been some advances here as well, but the fact still remains that support is generally less than stellar for anything not wintel.
There is also the problem of percieved cost with Mac vs. PC. Alot of ppl look at a cheap Mac and say, but this PC is so much cheaper. Apple has attempted to fix that with the iMac, but I don't see it happening...
Don't get me wrong, the Mac has a great OS, and I personally belive that the 68k and PPC processors are superior to x86 based processors, but this is the problem that Apple & the Mac community as a whole should be addressing.
Maybe, but is that really necessary? If you think about it, throughout history, the older members of society have resisted technological change. But, with all dure respect, it doesn't really matter what they do, as long as the youth are accepting the technology.
Don't get me wrong, they would probably find it useful, and they still matter to society, but they do not matter as far as long-term technological acceptance is concerned.
Look at the Amish...they prove that you can still live without modern technology, it's just not as "easy"...
I agree to a point, but there are other ways of getting weather, news, traffic, etc (Radio, Newspaper, Public Alert Systems) ...and while those documentaries might be nice to watch, I don't know where I could use some of the knowledge gained from them (Mummies, Salvaging Shipwrecks, etc)
But in the case of your TV, there is no way to pay your bills over the TV. All the knowledge gained from your TV has to be used in some other way...
However, I will agree that utility is really an opinion...Who am I to say that your television doesn't provide utility...
As for me most of those uses you mentioned, I find online...
First, why do we need studies for this kind of crap? I mean, who can't realize that. Many ppl have already begun paying bills online. Even ppl that don't pay bills online can do their taxes online or even access bank account online.
... I doubt it.
And, this now means that the old analogy of the internet and television don't hold quite as true anymore. More like the automobile. You might enjoy your television, but it does not provide utility.
The last question is, does this then mean that we will now see ISPs regulated as utilities (like water and electric)
I'll go with clueless...
Because NetCraft says their site is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000 and it even detects a switch FROM Linux sometime in mid-late 2001.
If they start screwing around with their customers, they will leave for DSL/Wireless/etc. The larger cable companies have to realize that if they stop giving their customers their moneys worth, they will go elsewhere.
Many places are no longer limited in how they can choose to get their broadband access. Most places can get Wireless broadband, and many can get some sort of DSL.
Personally, I don't see this decision having any real long term impact...
That's my point...I don't think NewTek will actually do it until they have everyone asking for it. I know what they said, but the question is did they mean it?
Try LightWave. Right now you can only run the Windoze version using WINE, but you might be able to talk to NewTek about bringing LightWave to Linux.
Yes, I too enjoyed the Apple store experience. It was friendly to everyone. You didn't seem to be rushed at all. You were almost encouraged to browse and play. And to show you how bad BestBuy is about their Macs, I didn't even know BestBuy had a Mac section :)
But, it's painfully obvious that this is the reason why Apple is pushing their own stores more than the retail chains.
I would figure that they will start to shaft some of the smaller Mom & Pop (PC & Mac) operations first, just to see if everything goes well... (you know the ones...the store that carries an iMac in the corner in case someone asks for one)
The last stores to go (if at all) would have to be the Mac only stores.
Retail stores will be left to sell software and accessories.
The Mac has always been a niche market. Those that own a Mac have their reasons, and Apple realizes that Mac sales aren't going to suddenly be hoisted above PC sales.
M$ knows this as well and this is the main reason they develop for the Mac.
It looks to me as if Apple is trying to go the way Tandy/IBM did. Take em out of stores and sell direct.
There are alot of advantages to selling only direct. For starters, it will mean less returns that were due to user error or negligence. Another thing is that they decide on how much customer service to give. Should we accept a return on this Mac if it only needs a new drive, or maybe we can give free OS X training to new users. It's worth noteing that the local CompUSA barely even acnowledges their Apple section (you get the idea you are on your own if you buy a Mac from them).
I'm sure if it looks like they are "stiffing" retailers, it's probably for a pretty good reason.
What about This and This.
Interesting that the natural progression in this would mean that you hide behind AC? Does this mean that you aren't so sure now?
Try Here.
It's just one comment, but it's a start. I have personally seen this. NTFS will trust a bad journal and try to recover based on that bad journal rather than doing a full filesystem check.
That's because NTFS is not a complete JFS implementation.
One way you have an MP3 player costing double what it should.
But, on the other hand, you are paying for a right to store whatever you want on there (mainly copyrighted music).
As a matter of fact, if you own one of these devices, the way I see it, they are saying that it is your duty to use it to store copyrighted music on it, because if you used it for something else, then you'ld get no return on your tax dollars.
Then again, just buy a Rio Volt...it only stores ~1/2 GB, but it is on a CD...
Damn, I hate when that happens...check my reply to the origonal comment :)
That's the idea though. If a whole bunch of geocities pages link to your page, it doesn't increase your ranking...
A publisher links to the web page of a product, that shouldn't increase the rating,
Why not simply check who registered the domain. If the same person/people regestered the domains, then that should only count as one link.
.5 + .25) 1.75. It makes it much more dificult for a page to get higher rankings.
You could even go further, how about lowering the "value" of a link the more often it appears...so, for example where as 3 links to the same page might be worth (1 +
I'm sure they can write a few lines of code to do this and once it's integrated, sites will try another way to get higher ratings...but it only serves to make it a better system. This also serves the purpose of keeping companies that link to divisions from inadvertently increasing there rankings.
NTFS was supposed to keep the OS from ever corrupting your files, but it was flawed in a most obvious way.
It didn't check that its journal was correct. So, if your journal gets corrupted, it actually destroys your data.
Let me guess, this new file system will also have "security measures" that keep other operating systems (like Linux) from reading its partitions...
Not all of those live action anime movies have really sucked...lets see.
The Matrix
Blade Runner (inspired BGC)
All of those super hero movies/TV Shows were based on "drawn art"...they included
X-Men
Superman
Incredible Hulk
Spiderman
Batman
All of those sentai shows (Power Rangers) were essentially live action anime.
Need I go on...it all depends on how you look at it...not all live action anime sucks for the same reason that Anime is not a cartoon!
A famous anime director was quoted (I'm paraphrasing)..."It's cheaper to blow up Tokyo every week in an animation than it is to do it with special effects".
The ones that were mentioned as sucking, sucked because they tried to do a movie with the same budget as the anime.
It's not a curse. Almost every movie starts from drawn art (storyboards).
You didn't actually say, but I would assume that you are not using EIDE or have a relatively high amount of RAM (512M+) in these systems. Otherwise, have you recomplied the kernel to have only what you need? Compressing the swap partition probably wouldn't give anymore performance (as it would be wasted on CPU Time.
What are the system specs?
Actually, a magnet is generally not so destructive to data as you would expect.
:) And that was a 5 1/4 disk with little or no protection. Harddisks have metal enclosing the media and newer drives (like my Quantum AS Plus 60) suspend the media in a liquid. All of this helps to make the drives more reliable and less succeptable to damage.
Back in the old C=64 days, the club newsletters would swap stories alot, one of these stories happened to be from a club treasurer who had a few disks that were duplicates. The guy took a 5 1/4 floppy and did everything to try and destroy it.
He put a strong speaker magnet to it, left it in the back of his car on a hot (100+ degrees) day, stuck it in the microwave, ran over it with his car, stuck it in the freezer, and besides having to replace the case that held the media because it warped so bad when he put it in the back seat of his car, the data was pretty much recoverable...he finally destroyed it by letting his dog chew on it
What really sucks is that the lead developer of Multizilla has been gone and the newer builds of Mozilla have broken the plugin.
For those that don't know, the incomplete Tabbed Browser feature of Mozilla was copied from Multizilla...as a matter of fact, some code from Multizilla has actually made it into Mozilla...
When Mozilla hasn't broken its functionality, Multizilla is a much better interface than Mozilla's tabbed browser. Many of the features that are buggy or incomplete in Mozilla's implementation are working and have been enhanced in Multizilla.
But not to fear, we should start to see alot more reliability with the 1.0 release...
I understand...that wasn't the point of my post...
It would be a native language edition of a "base" site...kinda like Slashdot Japan.