I'm not worried about someone bigger stealing my ideas anymore. I also steered a failure startup and crashed it because I wanted to perfect the product untill we had no more money left for marketing. It was an user friendly intrusion detection system without a firewall. Auto config firewall was planned for the 2.0. The network security business was next to none those days and I thought I had something so special that no-one should know about it before I had something to sell.
Small team can develop a product from scratch a lot faster than a corporation. It takes ages for a behemoth company to crank up a new organization and get it going after someone dares to bring up a new idea, for it to travel to upstrairs, back down for comments and an approval. Within this timeframe, if you release a half-assed product you have already perfected it before the corporation makes an announcement that they are developing similiar product. When they actually release, you should have a good foot hold already. If you don't, you were doomed to fail anyway.
PS. My attempt was funded by me and my partner in business with a personal loan. No VC money burned. Everything coded by me. Yes, I am planning to open source it one of these days (or years.. Been planning that since -99 or so...)
And some, minority I must add, are happy to use their existing technology as long as it works. You know, there are _A_LOT_ of people who actually have to save up for such purchases as new media players, computers and other not-so-critical-for-livelyhood appliances. There's no reason to eat less for 6 months to buy a recording DVD-player, if the VHS still can do the timeshift required to see a show you wanna see. And now contemplating on the minority... Is the real situation so that infact majority of our "first world" countries citizens can throw away the cost of a DVD player any time they want?
As of me... I gave my well served TV set which was older than me to a moving guy 10-years ago. Bought a Receiver card for my PC instead. VCR also started acting up, and gave it for free to a friend who had some weird use for it. (He was recording a lot of shows off the air) Just about 6 months ago I finally bought a recording DVD drive for my PC. I also bought some 200 levy-free empty DVD's too, but have actually used something like 20 of them.
Two moths ago I moved and the antenna cable was cut with some quite unorthodox method. I still haven't got around about tidying it up, replacing the connector and taking it into use. I'm actually pretty content without broadcast TV! Now... Losing my 4Mb/s DSL line would be quite a shock thou.
Umm... I don't actually know what the fuck I'm rambling about here. Maybe I had too much to drink already:/
Oh please god no! What are you on? That would make/. look like a gay christmas tree. All of your suggestions are horrible. 1. If you need images, post a link. If you don't have your own webserver or atleast host space to put images on, please hand back your/. UID. 2. Emoticons are plaque of messageboards. I want to strangle someone each time I use MSN after fresh install and haven't turned them off. What ever happened to the good old smileys? 3. Ok, you just have to be trolling...
It looked like a decomissioned military underground hangar. We have those here in Finland mined all over the bedrock. (And F-Secure is a Finnish company)
I didn't see t happening, but last time I saw an exploded truck tire was just yesterday. I see them almost every time I'm on a longer trip on the Finnish roads. The tires are not new. They are re-coated over and over again because they are fricking expensive. Atleast here, I think truck tires aren't competelly discarded unless they are damaged beyong re-covering.
Oh yeah, now that you asked. My house is like 3 meters from a road. There are trucks trafficking next to my house regularly. It was last week when I heard a loud bang and watched out of the window. Truck tire had exploded about 50 meters up the road and it was decelarating with full breaks past my house. I can still see the skid marks when I look out the window.
Crap, only now I read your post more carefully. Delaminate/explode. What's the difference? It's the same thing. When the lamination comes off the tire pretty much explodes.
Guide horse sounds like a weird idea to me. In my experience, horses tend to be very short tempered when it comes to unexpected things. The only vision my imagination lays before me is this: A big truck passes nearby, simultaneously avoiding the blind person and oncoming traffic. To about 100% of horses I have seen, this would be enough to freak them out and make them head for the hills. Now, imagine that one of the tires of the truck exlodes when it is passing you. I would bet couple of euros that the blind person becomes prototype for new Valve ragdoll physics engine.
Also, even thou pointed out that no (for example) restaurant can discriminate against horses, I'd say it would be fucking rude to bring 500kg (minimum) animal with extremely hard hooves on restaurant parquette/fitted carpet.
I personally hate his site because it is 100% fucking bullshit. Lot of hype on/. submissions. If you then proceed to read the crap he has copy&pasted from somewhere else, you find it isn't actually anything interesting. I'd prefer to have him taken behind the sauna and have a blast at his face with shotgun.
What's with USA people's hate toward communism? In theory it was supposed to be utopian community, where everyone participated and all wealth was distributed equally. I don't see anything particularly evil in that. In Russia (or Soviet Union) it failed spectaculously thou...
PS. I wouldn't want to try communism myself thou, being that I'm not a total loser so my standards of living would deteroriate in return. (And because of selfish people like me, communism fails)
He considered all available options very carefully. Monotone was very near what he wanted, but it was just ridiculously slow. But, instead of spending time learning an existing projects codebase to be able to change it for better, he decided to write one of hes own which does the part monotone did well, but faster.
And of course all of this is just speculation based on bits of information I have read, so take it with grain of salt.
I'm sure thou, that Linus's quick hack is better in quality than what 10 random codemonkeys could do in a month.
If you don't want to volunteer, Fine. If you think that the poster doesn't know how to plan the test; go make your own test....With black jack, and hookers.
He specifically said the test methodology will be improved on suggestions on the mailing list. How about contributing there instead of making an uppity jackass of yourself here.
(Would like to post my rant AC, but I don't want you think the GP is responsible for this reply)
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Sorry, I have no idea what those words are
I'm not worried about someone bigger stealing my ideas anymore.
I also steered a failure startup and crashed it because I wanted to perfect the product untill we had no more money left for marketing. It was an user friendly intrusion detection system without a firewall. Auto config firewall was planned for the 2.0. The network security business was next to none those days and I thought I had something so special that no-one should know about it before I had something to sell.
Small team can develop a product from scratch a lot faster than a corporation. It takes ages for a behemoth company to crank up a new organization and get it going after someone dares to bring up a new idea, for it to travel to upstrairs, back down for comments and an approval.
Within this timeframe, if you release a half-assed product you have already perfected it before the corporation makes an announcement that they are developing similiar product.
When they actually release, you should have a good foot hold already. If you don't, you were doomed to fail anyway.
PS. My attempt was funded by me and my partner in business with a personal loan. No VC money burned. Everything coded by me. Yes, I am planning to open source it one of these days (or years.. Been planning that since -99 or so...)
And some, minority I must add, are happy to use their existing technology as long as it works.
:/
You know, there are _A_LOT_ of people who actually have to save up for such purchases as new media players, computers and other not-so-critical-for-livelyhood appliances.
There's no reason to eat less for 6 months to buy a recording DVD-player, if the VHS still can do the timeshift required to see a show you wanna see.
And now contemplating on the minority... Is the real situation so that infact majority of our "first world" countries citizens can throw away the cost of a DVD player any time they want?
As of me... I gave my well served TV set which was older than me to a moving guy 10-years ago. Bought a Receiver card for my PC instead. VCR also started acting up, and gave it for free to a friend who had some weird use for it. (He was recording a lot of shows off the air)
Just about 6 months ago I finally bought a recording DVD drive for my PC. I also bought some 200 levy-free empty DVD's too, but have actually used something like 20 of them.
Two moths ago I moved and the antenna cable was cut with some quite unorthodox method. I still haven't got around about tidying it up, replacing the connector and taking it into use. I'm actually pretty content without broadcast TV!
Now... Losing my 4Mb/s DSL line would be quite a shock thou.
Umm... I don't actually know what the fuck I'm rambling about here. Maybe I had too much to drink already
Hi, Ayn Rand!
...Shoot(foot);
Ah yes, charging money for SDK's is the sure fire way to make your platform popular.
What the hell are they thinking?
Haesta paska suatanan peikko.
Eihä tua näytä suamelta etes murteella.
Perkele.
Insightful!?! Sleep?! *pfffft*
Come on mods. You know that everything you need is a lot of alcohol!
Well, ok, it won't solve the depression problem, but atleast you don't know when exactly did you die of over exhaustion.
Oh please god no! /. look like a gay christmas tree. All of your suggestions are horrible. /. UID.
What are you on? That would make
1. If you need images, post a link. If you don't have your own webserver or atleast host space to put images on, please hand back your
2. Emoticons are plaque of messageboards. I want to strangle someone each time I use MSN after fresh install and haven't turned them off. What ever happened to the good old smileys?
3. Ok, you just have to be trolling...
It looked like a decomissioned military underground hangar. We have those here in Finland mined all over the bedrock. (And F-Secure is a Finnish company)
Hi Steve!
Did you get my memo?
It indicates that MS crap wouldn't be used in "90% of businesses" if school system wouldn't force it down pupils throats.
End of your comment hi-jacked for greater good!
:) ;)
Thanks for my new sig
Sorry, there was no room for attribution. I promise to guide anyone who asks to this comment
I didn't see t happening, but last time I saw an exploded truck tire was just yesterday. I see them almost every time I'm on a longer trip on the Finnish roads.
The tires are not new. They are re-coated over and over again because they are fricking expensive. Atleast here, I think truck tires aren't competelly discarded unless they are damaged beyong re-covering.
Oh yeah, now that you asked. My house is like 3 meters from a road. There are trucks trafficking next to my house regularly. It was last week when I heard a loud bang and watched out of the window. Truck tire had exploded about 50 meters up the road and it was decelarating with full breaks past my house. I can still see the skid marks when I look out the window.
Crap, only now I read your post more carefully. Delaminate/explode. What's the difference? It's the same thing. When the lamination comes off the tire pretty much explodes.
Guide horse sounds like a weird idea to me. In my experience, horses tend to be very short tempered when it comes to unexpected things.
The only vision my imagination lays before me is this: A big truck passes nearby, simultaneously avoiding the blind person and oncoming traffic. To about 100% of horses I have seen, this would be enough to freak them out and make them head for the hills. Now, imagine that one of the tires of the truck exlodes when it is passing you. I would bet couple of euros that the blind person becomes prototype for new Valve ragdoll physics engine.
Also, even thou pointed out that no (for example) restaurant can discriminate against horses, I'd say it would be fucking rude to bring 500kg (minimum) animal with extremely hard hooves on restaurant parquette/fitted carpet.
I personally hate his site because it is 100% fucking bullshit. Lot of hype on /. submissions. If you then proceed to read the crap he has copy&pasted from somewhere else, you find it isn't actually anything interesting.
I'd prefer to have him taken behind the sauna and have a blast at his face with shotgun.
Where's the "-1 WTF?!?"-moderation when you need one?
Except that uranium is so common material, that it would be akin to basing the currency on iron. (or something...)
Ah, yes. Terrorism and pedophilia.
Two boogeymans to allow any kind of invasion of privacy.
What's with USA people's hate toward communism? In theory it was supposed to be utopian community, where everyone participated and all wealth was distributed equally. I don't see anything particularly evil in that.
In Russia (or Soviet Union) it failed spectaculously thou...
PS. I wouldn't want to try communism myself thou, being that I'm not a total loser so my standards of living would deteroriate in return. (And because of selfish people like me, communism fails)
He considered all available options very carefully. Monotone was very near what he wanted, but it was just ridiculously slow.
But, instead of spending time learning an existing projects codebase to be able to change it for better, he decided to write one of hes own which does the part monotone did well, but faster.
And of course all of this is just speculation based on bits of information I have read, so take it with grain of salt.
I'm sure thou, that Linus's quick hack is better in quality than what 10 random codemonkeys could do in a month.
Oh shut up already.
...With black jack, and hookers.
If you don't want to volunteer, Fine.
If you think that the poster doesn't know how to plan the test; go make your own test.
He specifically said the test methodology will be improved on suggestions on the mailing list. How about contributing there instead of making an uppity jackass of yourself here.
(Would like to post my rant AC, but I don't want you think the GP is responsible for this reply)
I would like to own one for short distance travels. I sincerely hope they market it with a different name in Finland thou.
Somehow I feel I would not like to drive in a tiny, pink, electric car that is shaped like a potty. Especially with a name like Reva*.
*) Reva is a very rude name for vagina in Finnish. very much more rude than fuck (vittu) I think.
Shut up, Sir!
It's cool hardware hack. Why it should be useful?