Maybe if you actually said anything interesting, and gave some indication that you're likely to say something interesting in the future, people would contribute. Of course people don't want to pay for nothing, but if you have good, unique, original content, and the process is simple enough (paypal is still too much of a pain), people *will* pay.
I think you're wrong. See http://www.goats.com/. (Not at all related to the disgusting goat site -- unfortunate that I have to say that.) They've been running on a voluntary-donation model for several months.
People *like* to pay for good sites that have good content.
I think micropayments would work, too, but $0.01/page is *way* too large -- it should be a tenth of that or less. And of course, it has to be cross-platform and vendor-independent, or else we're back to the days of Compu$erve.
That might help with the spool file, but it still doesn't solve the problem of being unable to deliver into individual mailboxes in a user's home dir. (For example, to sort mailing lists.)
I love postfix, but people wanting to use it on RHL should be aware of this issue with procmail. (And if anyone has a solution, we'd all love to know.)
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Huh. Lookit that. The "boys at Red Hat" put out an update before this story even appeared on Slashdot.
And I think you're seriously underestimating Mr. Torvalds.
A new processor using the new scheme. And there's an important new point, which is that, unlike the Cyrix scheme, the speed rating *isn't* overhyped -- if anything, it's still underrated.
All bugs aren't equal. In addition to the voting, there's various priority and severity levels. There's stuff for tracking bugs which get reported a lot. There's targeting for which bugs should be fixed for what release. There's the "dog food" and "cat food" tags. And more. In my experience, although there are a lot of annoying things that have taken a long time to fix, a lot of really critical things get fixed very very quickly.
Sure, it'd be "nice" to be able to teleport from Moscow to Paris. I didn't say it wouldn't be "nice" -- I said it's currently not feasible. Go ahead and prove me wrong if you like, but swearing ain't gonna change the fact.
Seriously, changing distributions is non-trivial, and always will be. It's a shift to a whole new way of doing things. Computer-translation of human languages has come a long way, but there's no way a computer could translate a good novel, not with present technology and even in the future not without a lot of work. Switching distributions is a smaller problem, but it's still the same issue -- it requires too much *understanding* for current computer science.
I'm not saying IDE sucks, it's just that SCSI still really has some advantages. The large storage devices tend to use custom hardware -- one IDE controller per drive, for example -- and of course since they're dedicated devices the CPU usage isn't a problem.
Sounds like for the systems you're building, SCSI would be a better choice. Not only will you avoid the sort of problems you're describing, but performance will be far better, especially since you're connecting multiple drives.
I don't think the tiny fraction of people blocking banner ads has a significant impact on whether banner ads are working or not. A more important factor is that after a while, everyone just starts to tune them out. The Brunching Shuttlecocks humor site used to make the link to the current day's article be in the form of a banner-sized graphic. It literally took me *months* to notice it, because my brain is totally wired to ignore graphics of that shape at the top of web pages. And I don't think I'm alone, because as you can see from the site, they've change to a larger, more square graphic.
Moral of the story: human brains are good at filtering out junk. The only way they're going to get us to pay attention to ads is either 1) make us have to look at them for thirty seconds before continuing, 2) start asking quizzes about ad content before displaying real content, or 3) make them actually interesting, helpful, and naturally engaging (hah!).
[...] and ensures they can bring out future versions of their OS without breaking stuff.
Huh. If I remember correctly, Apple has been pretty consistant with saying "Oh, that app needs to be updated to run on our new OS" -- not to mention "Oh, our new OS only runs on our newer hardware".
Didja try clearing the memory and reprogramming? I was convinced that it wouldn't learn my DVD player's codes, but it turned out that it just needed its memory reset -- it's worked perfectly since then.
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Maybe if you actually said anything interesting, and gave some indication that you're likely to say something interesting in the future, people would contribute. Of course people don't want to pay for nothing, but if you have good, unique, original content, and the process is simple enough (paypal is still too much of a pain), people *will* pay.
I think you're wrong. See http://www.goats.com/. (Not at all related to the disgusting goat site -- unfortunate that I have to say that.) They've been running on a voluntary-donation model for several months.
People *like* to pay for good sites that have good content.
I think micropayments would work, too, but $0.01/page is *way* too large -- it should be a tenth of that or less. And of course, it has to be cross-platform and vendor-independent, or else we're back to the days of Compu$erve.
Um, maybe it's getting rejected because it was already covered? Yeesh.
(Mark this and its parent as off-topic.)
What's the expected lifetime on a hard disk that spins up and down every 20 mins? About 90 days?
Much longer than that -- lookit laptop hard drives....
yah. And analog is *fast*.
That might help with the spool file, but it still doesn't solve the problem of being unable to deliver into individual mailboxes in a user's home dir. (For example, to sort mailing lists.)
Or, even better -- Lego Mindstorms mixed with Lego Technic.
I'm not sure I understand how that will help -- care to elaborate on exactly what the procedure would do?
I love postfix, but people wanting to use it on RHL should be aware of this issue with procmail. (And if anyone has a solution, we'd all love to know.)
Huh. Lookit that. The "boys at Red Hat" put out an update before this story even appeared on Slashdot.
And I think you're seriously underestimating Mr. Torvalds.
Quadra might be what you want. It's a Tetris-like game with great networking capabilities. Works on Linux and Win32.
Hmmm. That page seems to be full of a lot of "we'll see what happens when OS X is released" comments....
Whatever. Slashdot isn't journalism. And it's certainly never been about being unbiased.
A new processor using the new scheme. And there's an important new point, which is that, unlike the Cyrix scheme, the speed rating *isn't* overhyped -- if anything, it's still underrated.
If the situation changes, if the Appeals court comes down with some ruling, whatever. Microsoft can appeal to the Supreme Court again.
On a new ruling, sure. But not on the findings of fact, which is what the post you're replying to was talking about.
All bugs aren't equal. In addition to the voting, there's various priority and severity levels. There's stuff for tracking bugs which get reported a lot. There's targeting for which bugs should be fixed for what release. There's the "dog food" and "cat food" tags. And more. In my experience, although there are a lot of annoying things that have taken a long time to fix, a lot of really critical things get fixed very very quickly.
Sure, it'd be "nice" to be able to teleport from Moscow to Paris. I didn't say it wouldn't be "nice" -- I said it's currently not feasible. Go ahead and prove me wrong if you like, but swearing ain't gonna change the fact.
This isn't part of the main mozilla project. See the optimoz install page.
It's called "a knowledgable sysadmin".
Seriously, changing distributions is non-trivial, and always will be. It's a shift to a whole new way of doing things. Computer-translation of human languages has come a long way, but there's no way a computer could translate a good novel, not with present technology and even in the future not without a lot of work. Switching distributions is a smaller problem, but it's still the same issue -- it requires too much *understanding* for current computer science.
I'm not saying IDE sucks, it's just that SCSI still really has some advantages. The large storage devices tend to use custom hardware -- one IDE controller per drive, for example -- and of course since they're dedicated devices the CPU usage isn't a problem.
Sounds like for the systems you're building, SCSI would be a better choice. Not only will you avoid the sort of problems you're describing, but performance will be far better, especially since you're connecting multiple drives.
Netcraft isn't stupid.... see netcraft mechanics and how many active sites are there?.
I don't think the tiny fraction of people blocking banner ads has a significant impact on whether banner ads are working or not. A more important factor is that after a while, everyone just starts to tune them out. The Brunching Shuttlecocks humor site used to make the link to the current day's article be in the form of a banner-sized graphic. It literally took me *months* to notice it, because my brain is totally wired to ignore graphics of that shape at the top of web pages. And I don't think I'm alone, because as you can see from the site, they've change to a larger, more square graphic.
Moral of the story: human brains are good at filtering out junk. The only way they're going to get us to pay attention to ads is either 1) make us have to look at them for thirty seconds before continuing, 2) start asking quizzes about ad content before displaying real content, or 3) make them actually interesting, helpful, and naturally engaging (hah!).
[...] and ensures they can bring out future versions of their OS without breaking stuff.
Huh. If I remember correctly, Apple has been pretty consistant with saying "Oh, that app needs to be updated to run on our new OS" -- not to mention "Oh, our new OS only runs on our newer hardware".
Didja try clearing the memory and reprogramming? I was convinced that it wouldn't learn my DVD player's codes, but it turned out that it just needed its memory reset -- it's worked perfectly since then.