I just wanted to set the record straight and say that I did learn about this in public school in Texas when I was a child. And this is not something new or secret, I had several childrens space books too that had the Luna missions in them. While I agree the education system in the US is junk it isn't as bad as the author of this letter states. So please mister author don't make blanket statements about people in the US, you just end up making the rest of us who are in the "know" look the fool too.
Who is this guy? Rewrites done properly and for the correct reasons are great. One would think after seeing everything Microsoft spews out that people would realize heaping code on top of code isn't good. For starters it is unlikely that you have the same programmers working on a codebase after more then a year or two and most code isn't exactly well documented. So you see dupplications. As for getting read of tweaks? Huh? Where does he get this stuff?!?!? Then again if you read the artcile he still uses Netscape 4.08, WTF? it has known bugs out the yingyang.
So back to my first question, who the hell is this guy?
Your girlfriend isn't complaining about the clicking per se. In my opnion she is probably complaining because you are on the computer. So even if you find a quieter mouse she will complain about something else. Pay more attention to her and she won't care about the sound your mouse makes.
Hmmm, I remember preformatted floppies never really seller much better then unformatted, most consumers really seemed savvy enough to save the few cents differance.
Or possibly the hardware will simply detect an unformatted media and format it (a la MacOS).
It sounds more like the printing company you are using is doing something wrong. I would look into why they are getting artifacts and you aren't. Are the images you are using simply not hi-res enough for what your print company is duplicating (if this is the case simply buy a cheap hi-res inkjet)? Or is it the fact that the print company is doing something differnt?
Got a 7 disk double speed CD changer from about 94/95 and a HP Scanjet 2c/ADF from probably a year before that. Both SCSI attached, both work great under Linux and both were built to last. Gotta love old hardware, course it sucks power like a mother but it will probably run forever.
5 or 6 years ago during the tech boom I used to "tutor" a couple C*O types from some local large companies. Got to be pretty nerve racking, seeing as I have no patience and these types usually have no buissness touching computers;)
Why is it that everytime some threatens to change the status-quo people like this come out of the wood work and talk about how millions of people will be unemployed, blah blah blah blah. Get freaking real, times changes, nations change, sure there are people displaced but all the damn horse and buggy makers moved on to other things when the automobile was developed. Same thing with McDonalds employees.
My wife is an artist and owns a PowerBook, but being a laptop and a PowerBook it is a little problem prone. So I would say if you plan on using the computer for more then a year (the base warrenty) then buy AppleCare, but wait until your warrenty period is almost finished, then extend for 3 years (assuming you still like the laptop).
While duct tape has it uses, I prefer this stuff, JB Weld, lightyears more useful. I have used it on everything from solar panels, to shoes, glasses, radiators and just about anything that needs to be stuck together.
Batteries have a finite number of charge discharge cycles before they are rendered chemically inactive. So unless they replace the electrolyte you only can discharge the battery whatever remaining cycles it has. So think on that little bit of info before buying a "refurb" battery.
Actually if you really want to pay 200-500 bucks to use a Tivo like a 49 dollar VCR you are more then welcome to, I mean it isn't my money you will be flushing;)
I am a Tivo owner and have been since day one, and yes I have been accused of being "brainwashed" or being a walking Tivo advert. But people really don't understand what it is like till they own one. You never have to rush home to see a show, you don't have to sit through commercials, if you want a hard to find movie or show you just have the Tivo look for it. Hell my wife was skeptical when we got married but now even she is hooked. If you like TV, or even if you really just like a couple things Tivo is great.
"We're not doing anything for them. They just fund us to do what we do," said Mr. de Raadt
Is Theo really that niave to belive that DARPA is simply "giving" him money to do with what he wishes and to think the US military/government doesn't have some,as of yet, unseen motive. Theo is so silly sometimes.
I meant to say Net Income, suffice to say if you can't read a balance sheet (which it seems a good many Slashdoters can't) then my explaining is pointless, but I will try. Think of Gross Profit as what you make on your paycheck, your Net Income is what your get after taxes and paying all your bills and crap, your Net Income is what you are left with. And if you look at the bottom of the balance sheet they had only made a profit ONCE that year, and it was only about 2 million, if you add that to the losses, the last line on the bottom with the BIG numbers in between the (), you see they lost a LOT of money.
So to sum it up they were about 150 million in the red (meaning loss) for the year.
Uh no take a look at the balance sheet there, at the line that says "Net Profit", the numbers in paranthesises(sic) mean they are NOT making money. So last year they LOST, as in didn't make money, about 150-160 MILLION dollars, doesn't look like a good balance sheet to me.
1. How do you measure effectiveness of their online retail environment? They aren't turning a profit are they?
2. Recommending books other people have bought isn't exactly innovative, it is nice, but nothing more then what a real life retail sales person would do (oh yeah the last person in here bought this product too).
3. A scalable environment supporting thousands of products? What are you reading this out of their Annual Report? Sounds like marketing hoopla to me.
4. They didn't pioneer customer reviews, we had this in the BBS days for files, in the 80's, this is far from new.
5. New and Used books combined, hmmm there are other stores that do this, granted they are doing it online. Sort this is the closest I have seen to innovation, still not a new idea.
6. What new model is this they created? Any bookstore can generally order ANY piece of media, which is all Amazon does, they just do it online.
In summation if they are so effective and innovative why aren't they making money hand over fist like eBay? Why aren't all the brick and mortar bookstores out of business? Hmmmm, maybe Amazon isn't as good as they appear to be, maybe they are answering a question that was never asked. Just seems like something is really not right if they can't turn a profit consistently after all this time. Amazon will probably end up like the Spruce Goose, they got off the ground for a little while and then never were up again.
As I posted further down, I think Amazon.com have been very innovative and inventive, and they deserve credit for that.
How have they exactly been "innovative and inventive", they sell books online (which isn't really new) and and they seem to have diffuculty making money at it. I guess I just don't see them really doing anything new or differnt and their "innvoation" doesn't seem to have made them any money yet. About all I have seen Amazon do is spend investor capital like crazy and patent what seem to be very obvious buissness methods and "license" them.
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I just wanted to set the record straight and say that I did learn about this in public school in Texas when I was a child. And this is not something new or secret, I had several childrens space books too that had the Luna missions in them. While I agree the education system in the US is junk it isn't as bad as the author of this letter states. So please mister author don't make blanket statements about people in the US, you just end up making the rest of us who are in the "know" look the fool too.
I also learned about how the CCCP had sample return missions and successfully landed probes on Venus (of course the US dropped probes on Venus too, just not landers).
Is that the guy from "Life goes on", Corky? Man he is in IT now too? WHOA!!!!!
Who is this guy? Rewrites done properly and for the correct reasons are great. One would think after seeing everything Microsoft spews out that people would realize heaping code on top of code isn't good. For starters it is unlikely that you have the same programmers working on a codebase after more then a year or two and most code isn't exactly well documented. So you see dupplications. As for getting read of tweaks? Huh? Where does he get this stuff?!?!? Then again if you read the artcile he still uses Netscape 4.08, WTF? it has known bugs out the yingyang.
So back to my first question, who the hell is this guy?
Your girlfriend isn't complaining about the clicking per se. In my opnion she is probably complaining because you are on the computer. So even if you find a quieter mouse she will complain about something else. Pay more attention to her and she won't care about the sound your mouse makes.
Hmmm, I remember preformatted floppies never really seller much better then unformatted, most consumers really seemed savvy enough to save the few cents differance.
Or possibly the hardware will simply detect an unformatted media and format it (a la MacOS).
Oh well, all this will lead to is media coming unformatted, no worries.
I thought Digital Research was the company that had developed the FAT system?
It sounds more like the printing company you are using is doing something wrong. I would look into why they are getting artifacts and you aren't. Are the images you are using simply not hi-res enough for what your print company is duplicating (if this is the case simply buy a cheap hi-res inkjet)? Or is it the fact that the print company is doing something differnt?
Got a 7 disk double speed CD changer from about 94/95 and a HP Scanjet 2c/ADF from probably a year before that. Both SCSI attached, both work great under Linux and both were built to last. Gotta love old hardware, course it sucks power like a mother but it will probably run forever.
5 or 6 years ago during the tech boom I used to "tutor" a couple C*O types from some local large companies. Got to be pretty nerve racking, seeing as I have no patience and these types usually have no buissness touching computers ;)
Heck I remember having dialup BBS software that had this feature 10 years before MS filed for this.
Why is it that everytime some threatens to change the status-quo people like this come out of the wood work and talk about how millions of people will be unemployed, blah blah blah blah. Get freaking real, times changes, nations change, sure there are people displaced but all the damn horse and buggy makers moved on to other things when the automobile was developed. Same thing with McDonalds employees.
This would be the fifth plane they have launched, read the website:
#1. Crashed due to a steering servo issue
#2. Fuel system problem
#3. Bad weather
#4. LOST
My wife is an artist and owns a PowerBook, but being a laptop and a PowerBook it is a little problem prone. So I would say if you plan on using the computer for more then a year (the base warrenty) then buy AppleCare, but wait until your warrenty period is almost finished, then extend for 3 years (assuming you still like the laptop).
While duct tape has it uses, I prefer this stuff, JB Weld, lightyears more useful. I have used it on everything from solar panels, to shoes, glasses, radiators and just about anything that needs to be stuck together.
Batteries have a finite number of charge discharge cycles before they are rendered chemically inactive. So unless they replace the electrolyte you only can discharge the battery whatever remaining cycles it has. So think on that little bit of info before buying a "refurb" battery.
There are programs at many universities that will help you get into the gaming industry. Guidehall is one of them. Check it out.
Actually if you really want to pay 200-500 bucks to use a Tivo like a 49 dollar VCR you are more then welcome to, I mean it isn't my money you will be flushing ;)
I am a Tivo owner and have been since day one, and yes I have been accused of being "brainwashed" or being a walking Tivo advert. But people really don't understand what it is like till they own one. You never have to rush home to see a show, you don't have to sit through commercials, if you want a hard to find movie or show you just have the Tivo look for it. Hell my wife was skeptical when we got married but now even she is hooked. If you like TV, or even if you really just like a couple things Tivo is great.
"We're not doing anything for them. They just fund us to do what we do," said Mr. de Raadt
,as of yet, unseen motive. Theo is so silly sometimes.
Is Theo really that niave to belive that DARPA is simply "giving" him money to do with what he wishes and to think the US military/government doesn't have some
If a phreaker biege boxes your home phone and runs up a huge bill who eats that cost?
The answer should equate to who should eat the cost of a DoS trojon.
I meant to say Net Income, suffice to say if you can't read a balance sheet (which it seems a good many Slashdoters can't) then my explaining is pointless, but I will try. Think of Gross Profit as what you make on your paycheck, your Net Income is what your get after taxes and paying all your bills and crap, your Net Income is what you are left with. And if you look at the bottom of the balance sheet they had only made a profit ONCE that year, and it was only about 2 million, if you add that to the losses, the last line on the bottom with the BIG numbers in between the (), you see they lost a LOT of money.
So to sum it up they were about 150 million in the red (meaning loss) for the year.
Uh no take a look at the balance sheet there, at the line that says "Net Profit", the numbers in paranthesises(sic) mean they are NOT making money. So last year they LOST, as in didn't make money, about 150-160 MILLION dollars, doesn't look like a good balance sheet to me.
1. How do you measure effectiveness of their online retail environment? They aren't turning a profit are they?
2. Recommending books other people have bought isn't exactly innovative, it is nice, but nothing more then what a real life retail sales person would do (oh yeah the last person in here bought this product too).
3. A scalable environment supporting thousands of products? What are you reading this out of their Annual Report? Sounds like marketing hoopla to me.
4. They didn't pioneer customer reviews, we had this in the BBS days for files, in the 80's, this is far from new.
5. New and Used books combined, hmmm there are other stores that do this, granted they are doing it online. Sort this is the closest I have seen to innovation, still not a new idea.
6. What new model is this they created? Any bookstore can generally order ANY piece of media, which is all Amazon does, they just do it online.
In summation if they are so effective and innovative why aren't they making money hand over fist like eBay? Why aren't all the brick and mortar bookstores out of business? Hmmmm, maybe Amazon isn't as good as they appear to be, maybe they are answering a question that was never asked. Just seems like something is really not right if they can't turn a profit consistently after all this time. Amazon will probably end up like the Spruce Goose, they got off the ground for a little while and then never were up again.
As I posted further down, I think Amazon.com have been very innovative and inventive, and they deserve credit for that.
How have they exactly been "innovative and inventive", they sell books online (which isn't really new) and and they seem to have diffuculty making money at it. I guess I just don't see them really doing anything new or differnt and their "innvoation" doesn't seem to have made them any money yet. About all I have seen Amazon do is spend investor capital like crazy and patent what seem to be very obvious buissness methods and "license" them.