Why would you subject yourself to the rabid zealotry and hateful accusations of the Slashdot crowd, who are more interested in vilifying the company you work for than listening to what you have to say? Not that they'll believe you're telling the truth if they do listen.
> Doesn't it seem like any of us could write
> yahoo, and nearly run it with 4 or 5 people?
That may have been true 6 years ago, but Yahoo! is much too large now to be run by a team that small.
It's not the concept that's difficult, it's the scale of the concept. How long do you think it would take for a team of 5 people to catalog the entirety of the World Wide Web? How much disk is required just to store the URL and categorization of each site? How much server power and bandwidth is necessary to make this info available to anyone who wants to see it? And how quickly does that information become obsolete?
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While there are no "noble" goals for hacking a safe in a jewelry store to steal diamonds and golden rings, I see it as a true hacker's rights, privelege, and duty. Why? Because it's a challenge. Because it proves skill.
I know there's a distinction between hacking an electronic device you've purchased and sneaking into a jewelry store in the middle of the night, but COME ON.
Standalone, dedicated DSP units are cheap and available at every music store in a variety of shapes and sizes - rackmount units, stomp boxes, from all-inclusive multi-effects systems to units that do only one thing but do it incredibly well.
What advantages are there to using a fully programmable processor to do nothing more than emulate a much less expensive piece of hardware?
From what I've seen, the ``dotcom shakeout'' had little to do with the competency of the people working in the server room, and everything to do with the flawed business practices of the suits out in the front office.
If you don't have a valid plan for making profits, it doesn't matter how much you're paying your system administrators, or how clueless they are.
Distribution of binaries is of the utmost importance for platforms like Windows, where a compiler does not come with the operating system, and the compilers that are readily available are often non-free.
Should use of open source software be limited to those with enough programming familiarity to be able to run 'make'? I would hope not -- everyone should be able to reap its benefits, whether they're capable of contributing a bugfix or not.
I've got an HP fixed-frequency display attached to my Win98 box at home, that the degaussing circuitry is finally going bad on. (Considering that the display was built 8 years ago and that for the past year I've been driving it at a frequency it technically doesn't support, I think I've been pretty lucky.)
So now I have 70 lbs of useless lead, glass, and plastic sitting there. What should I do with it?
1) Keep it on the floor in my apartment forever
2) Break out the soldering iron and sci.electronics.repair FAQ's, and hope I don't end up with glass shards sticking out of me
3) For $30, IBM will take care of everything.
Maybe I'm crazy, but option number 3 looks pretty appealing...
> But for your prototype to A: work *all* the time
> in the field, B: and for a competitive price,
> and C: to be compatable with existing standards,
> are the hurdles that kills 99.5% of all new
> technologies. . .
Out of the Obvious Bag, I draw a comment involving "Microsoft", "innovate", and "1 out of 3 ain't bad"...
Performance indexes must be linked to cost. If it costs less to purchase and operate two Apache boxes and load-share them than it does one IIS box, and both configs perform equally well, which one do you think management would go for?
Assume for this problem that management is not focused on becoming an MS Partner, and that there are no restrictions on things like available rackspace.
Can't moderate that as flaimbait -- everyone knows that APPLE created the OS for stupid idiots!
You can mod me flaimbait if you want, but if I had a point it would be that 'user-friendly' OSes and AOL service predated the 'Internet explosion' of the early-mid '90s by several years, so it would be a little specious to claim that Apple, MS, AOL, or any other one company deserves the blame/credit for starting the current trend of everyone being online.
IANAL and you probably aren't either, but it seems to me that copyright can be enforced whether or not the user bothers to read and acknowledge the copyright notice.
If the web site claims copyright, the user is limited in what they can do with the site's content, whether there's an explicit contract or not.
Stuff like this almost makes me wish I could go back in time to the beginning of the century, so I could hunt down all the minimalist composers and kill them.
What will you do for the 50 or so years between the turn of the century and the advent of minimalist composers?
I interviewed for a junior help desk position with boo.com last fall when they were getting their NY office together... I thought the interview went really well and I even fixed the HR Director's Outlook setup. I was told that a second interview would take place when the VP-of-Tech-or-whoever got back from his honeymoon (who takes vacation in the midst of a crucial launch period?)
Naturally, the call never came. I tried to find out what was up through the Pimping Agency I was dealing with, and couldn't get a straight answer. Once the site was formally launched, I looked at it once and was glad not to work there. Apparently fancy LCD desktop displays and posh SoHo loft office space aren't sufficient for running a business
I ended up at a large, well-funded company a couple months later, and boo.com ended up broke. I WIN!
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Why would you subject yourself to the rabid zealotry and hateful accusations of the Slashdot crowd, who are more interested in vilifying the company you work for than listening to what you have to say? Not that they'll believe you're telling the truth if they do listen.
-Poot
> This patent is a claim on a new method of
> polling, not polling itself.
Why yes, yes it is. It even says so in the title of the patent. So what's the problem here? Patents are SUPPOSED to protect methods of doing things.
> This is like claiming to patent the push-button
> telephone after the rotary's been in use.
I don't see a problem with that; the method a push button phone uses to generate a dialing sequence is different than the one a rotary uses.
-Poot
> Doesn't it seem like any of us could write
> yahoo, and nearly run it with 4 or 5 people?
That may have been true 6 years ago, but Yahoo! is much too large now to be run by a team that small.
It's not the concept that's difficult, it's the scale of the concept. How long do you think it would take for a team of 5 people to catalog the entirety of the World Wide Web? How much disk is required just to store the URL and categorization of each site? How much server power and bandwidth is necessary to make this info available to anyone who wants to see it? And how quickly does that information become obsolete?
How much for just the remote? I want one.
This is why I no longer eat popcorn while sitting at the computer.
I know there's a distinction between hacking an electronic device you've purchased and sneaking into a jewelry store in the middle of the night, but COME ON.
-Poot
Standalone, dedicated DSP units are cheap and available at every music store in a variety of shapes and sizes - rackmount units, stomp boxes, from all-inclusive multi-effects systems to units that do only one thing but do it incredibly well.
What advantages are there to using a fully programmable processor to do nothing more than emulate a much less expensive piece of hardware?
-Poot
From what I've seen, the ``dotcom shakeout'' had little to do with the competency of the people working in the server room, and everything to do with the flawed business practices of the suits out in the front office.
If you don't have a valid plan for making profits, it doesn't matter how much you're paying your system administrators, or how clueless they are.
Distribution of binaries is of the utmost importance for platforms like Windows, where a compiler does not come with the operating system, and the compilers that are readily available are often non-free.
Should use of open source software be limited to those with enough programming familiarity to be able to run 'make'? I would hope not -- everyone should be able to reap its benefits, whether they're capable of contributing a bugfix or not.
-Poot
I've got an HP fixed-frequency display attached to my Win98 box at home, that the degaussing circuitry is finally going bad on. (Considering that the display was built 8 years ago and that for the past year I've been driving it at a frequency it technically doesn't support, I think I've been pretty lucky.)
So now I have 70 lbs of useless lead, glass, and plastic sitting there. What should I do with it?
1) Keep it on the floor in my apartment forever
2) Break out the soldering iron and sci.electronics.repair FAQ's, and hope I don't end up with glass shards sticking out of me
3) For $30, IBM will take care of everything.
Maybe I'm crazy, but option number 3 looks pretty appealing...
That's nothing! I've heard that Cat-Detector Van technology has been perfected by the Ministry of Housinge.
(This is a geek site so I don't have to explain the Monty Python reference you you)
> But for your prototype to A: work *all* the time
> in the field, B: and for a competitive price,
> and C: to be compatable with existing standards,
> are the hurdles that kills 99.5% of all new
> technologies. . .
Out of the Obvious Bag, I draw a comment involving "Microsoft", "innovate", and "1 out of 3 ain't bad"...
Which of these matches the price you paid for your diskless PC?
A) (retail cost of PC) - (OEM cost of HDD)
B) (retail cost of PC) - ((OEM cost of HDD) + (OEM cost of Windows license))
I would gesture to say that asking for a PC without a HDD would be the same as asking for a 'Naked PC' to Microsfot.
Regarding being only concerned about performance:
Performance indexes must be linked to cost. If it costs less to purchase and operate two Apache boxes and load-share them than it does one IIS box, and both configs perform equally well, which one do you think management would go for?
Assume for this problem that management is not focused on becoming an MS Partner, and that there are no restrictions on things like available rackspace.
It's a 'ridiculous concept' to want music to be free?
QUIZ TIME!
Art is:
a) a gift
b) a commodity
DING! Put your pencils down now. If you answered 'b', you fail.
I don't write music because I want to be rich and/or famous. I write because I have something special that I want to share with the world.
> Wow, that's much worse than IT Stress at home,
> on the weekends!
You don't carry a pager, do you?
Can't moderate that as flaimbait -- everyone knows that APPLE created the OS for stupid idiots!
You can mod me flaimbait if you want, but if I had a point it would be that 'user-friendly' OSes and AOL service predated the 'Internet explosion' of the early-mid '90s by several years, so it would be a little specious to claim that Apple, MS, AOL, or any other one company deserves the blame/credit for starting the current trend of everyone being online.
I believe Fred Moody is running NullOS on his brain...
If the web site claims copyright, the user is limited in what they can do with the site's content, whether there's an explicit contract or not.
I believe Iomega already holds a patent on the "special head to shred the disk" mechanism. They call it the "Click of Death" feature.
I guess it's a DEK STOPper chip, designed to compete with those DEK Alpha chips...
What will you do for the 50 or so years between the turn of the century and the advent of minimalist composers?
Given the OS preferences of the average /. user, it took me a while to figure out why "not installing windows" was supposed to be a Bad Thing.
Has anyone tried porting Linux to a brick-and-mortar architecture?
I dance a merry jig upon the grave of boo.com.
I interviewed for a junior help desk position with boo.com last fall when they were getting their NY office together... I thought the interview went really well and I even fixed the HR Director's Outlook setup. I was told that a second interview would take place when the VP-of-Tech-or-whoever got back from his honeymoon (who takes vacation in the midst of a crucial launch period?)
Naturally, the call never came. I tried to find out what was up through the Pimping Agency I was dealing with, and couldn't get a straight answer. Once the site was formally launched, I looked at it once and was glad not to work there. Apparently fancy LCD desktop displays and posh SoHo loft office space aren't sufficient for running a business
I ended up at a large, well-funded company a couple months later, and boo.com ended up broke. I WIN!