the physical *medium* consumer DSL uses (copper POTS lines) sure as hell isn't going to support a 9Gbps connection
Sure, and the earth is flat. Did anyone believe that you could go faster than 56k before they unleashed DSL? Now that DLS is out, why couldn't they come up with another technology that would go 6k times faster?
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If you can set up a blah blah blah, you would be richer than Bill Gates.
Will you ever learn? Technical superiority of a product has never, ever lead to a commercial success. It might help a bit, I concede, but it is never the main reason for a commercial success.
If someone gets the killer product you're talking about, here are the possible outcome: 1. He'll be ripped off by MS, IBM, etc... 2. He'll lock it and will not make a cent out of it because of bad management/marketing/sales or more generally, lack of a proper understanding of the business. 3. He'll build a company around it and will be rich as hell. Not likely to happen.
So last week java.sun.com was down for three full days and nothing (even though I submitted a story). Now hotmail goes down for 4 hours we get a story on the front page. Wow.
Well, the good thing if you want to represent nose is to get a set of pictures that has only that in common! One white male nose, one black male nose, one potato head nose, etc....
There was also one about toothbrushes which was easy except for the fact that one of the pictures would show a guy in a suit, totally unrelated. If you looked closely, you can see a toothbrush in his shirt pocket. It is about 1 pixel big!!!
Another one about boat, you just see the deck of a cruiser, not even the sea. How are you supposed to know it's a boat??
This system - while promising on the paper - is just not working. You see 6 pictures of mouth and the answer is "nose". There is even a couple of pictures in the set that doesn't contain noses!
Plus, it is all black people! How do I know if I should have typed in: Blac people nose!?!
My ISP never has a word with me, even if my bandwidth it at least 50% busy most of the time. I gues you just have to choose a good ISP (If you can of course).
Of course. The original site has some dynamic content - hence a CPU usage higher than the second one which probably contains just HTML rips of the original one.
Works like a charm, you scale better, you don't do the content. You just have a wget running on the background every 10 minutes to update your site!
I do, and they don't. It's an educational problem here. Of course letting your kid watch TV for 12+ hours/day must feel like vacation. Spending some time playing and interact with him/her might be best though.
If you can't rip the CD, you can record it through the line-in jack on the back (or front) of your machine. Quality is going to be pretty good, trust me.
You know how french people are! They would say "Fuck off" faster than you can think and M$ would just loose the french market. You can't take a whole country as hostage. Everyone (in other countries) would think: "Ummm, I should be more carerul, these MS guys really are supidier than I thought. I'll get some Linux just in case..."
I'm glad you're reading slashdot, that means you're not an executive. Your company would fail in no time with such tactics;-)
It might be interesting to have some usability folks do an eye movement analysis
Well, since https is flawed in its mere design (As the story says) I'd say save the trouble of doing an analysis and just forget about the whole thing.
The thing with DVDs is that you're supposed to play them on a "registered" DVD player, which is a piece of [soft|hard]ware that has paid the MPAA tax, to get a valid CSS decryption license. I don't think (hope) that would really hold in court, but that is the idea for now.
Of course, that is all assuming that Linux will cool down the CPU when it's idle. Giving the amounts this guy is talking about (2 1/2 hours vs 1hour), that may very well be the problem.
How was WinWord TECHNICALLY the worst Slower, less features, more complex to use, most buggy. Will that be enough?
Windows wasn't competing with MacOS Agreed. That's why I did add a question mark to the MacOS one. Confusing though.
you dolt Need to flame eh?
VHS vs. Betamax, had a lot to do (in 1976) to VHS having a 2 hour recording time vs. the betamax recording time of one hour Did I say or implied anything else? The guy I was replying to is saying: XBox is better than PS/2 because it has a better image quality. I am just showing to him that picture quality is not all.
VHS had a huge advantage there Exactly my point: the quality of the picture was not in question, or at least, was not the main argument.
So, think, before speaking Well, as I think we are on the same page, I have trouble understanding this statement. Just an urge to flame I guess.
they didn't used to be a small company You don't need to be a small company so suck ass with your product. Look at IBM with OS/2!
Personally the XBox in comparison to PS2 is much better Technical merit of the product has very little to do with it commercial potential success. Look at some of the great battle of technology:
1. VHS vs Betamax vs V2000: VHS won, technically the worst of all three 2. WordPerfect vs WinWord vs AmiPro: WinWord won, technically the worst of all three competitors 3. Windows vs OS/2 vs MacOS?: Windows won, technically the worst (by faaaaaaaar, remember it was Windows 3.1 at the time!) of all three competitors.
Well, enough said. The fact that XBox is better than PS/2 will weight very little in the final market trend.
That's the point: The more they sell - or throw away - Linux licenses, the more they can claim: "See, more than 1000 fortune 1500 companies acquired Linux licenses, that has to mean something!"
Well, slightly offtopic, this points out why MS are where they are.
1. They usually fight a good fight 2. Against a good adversary, they'll get their ass kicked 3. Most of their battles were won against very poor competitors (Netscape, OS/2, WordPerfect, Apple were all but competitive in one or more crucial areas)
So if they are at the top of the software stack right now, that is just because all their competitors sucked ass. So we can see now:
1. On a new market, against a strong competitor (Sony), they stand very little chance, even though they fight bravely 2. On an established market (Servers), against a strong competitor (Linux), they loose ground.
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Yes, you are right. The earth is flat.
the physical *medium* consumer DSL uses (copper POTS lines) sure as hell isn't going to support a 9Gbps connection
Sure, and the earth is flat. Did anyone believe that you could go faster than 56k before they unleashed DSL? Now that DLS is out, why couldn't they come up with another technology that would go 6k times faster?
Open up!
I pay $30 a month for DSL thats 1024/256 Mb/s
You meant Kb/s, right?
If you can set up a blah blah blah, you would be richer than Bill Gates.
Will you ever learn? Technical superiority of a product has never, ever lead to a commercial success. It might help a bit, I concede, but it is never the main reason for a commercial success.
If someone gets the killer product you're talking about, here are the possible outcome:
1. He'll be ripped off by MS, IBM, etc...
2. He'll lock it and will not make a cent out of it because of bad management/marketing/sales or more generally, lack of a proper understanding of the business.
3. He'll build a company around it and will be rich as hell. Not likely to happen.
So last week java.sun.com was down for three full days and nothing (even though I submitted a story). Now hotmail goes down for 4 hours we get a story on the front page. Wow.
I didn't even look at the URL. I stopped reading at the "The operation timed out ..." :)
:P
Sorry if I have offended you. It was just a humoristic comment
Cory Doctorow has taken a two-second break
Maybe he should have taken a 4-seconds break. He could then have used the two extra seconds to get a decent hosting service.
Well, the good thing if you want to represent nose is to get a set of pictures that has only that in common! One white male nose, one black male nose, one potato head nose, etc....
There was also one about toothbrushes which was easy except for the fact that one of the pictures would show a guy in a suit, totally unrelated. If you looked closely, you can see a toothbrush in his shirt pocket. It is about 1 pixel big!!!
Another one about boat, you just see the deck of a cruiser, not even the sea. How are you supposed to know it's a boat??
Nah. Concept: A+. Implementation: F.
This system - while promising on the paper - is just not working. You see 6 pictures of mouth and the answer is "nose". There is even a couple of pictures in the set that doesn't contain noses!
Plus, it is all black people! How do I know if I should have typed in: Blac people nose!?!
My ISP never has a word with me, even if my bandwidth it at least 50% busy most of the time. I gues you just have to choose a good ISP (If you can of course).
Well, from a little testing, it may fix IE5.5 and IE6, but it breaks pretty bad IE5.0. I guess there is no perfect solution to this problem...
Of course. The original site has some dynamic content - hence a CPU usage higher than the second one which probably contains just HTML rips of the original one.
Works like a charm, you scale better, you don't do the content. You just have a wget running on the background every 10 minutes to update your site!
I do, and they don't. It's an educational problem here. Of course letting your kid watch TV for 12+ hours/day must feel like vacation. Spending some time playing and interact with him/her might be best though.
Guess what format can be read by any OS, with any Media Player? MPEG.
Sucks, but works.
If you can't rip the CD, you can record it through the line-in jack on the back (or front) of your machine. Quality is going to be pretty good, trust me.
You know how french people are! They would say "Fuck off" faster than you can think and M$ would just loose the french market. You can't take a whole country as hostage. Everyone (in other countries) would think: "Ummm, I should be more carerul, these MS guys really are supidier than I thought. I'll get some Linux just in case..."
;-)
I'm glad you're reading slashdot, that means you're not an executive. Your company would fail in no time with such tactics
It might be interesting to have some usability folks do an eye movement analysis
Well, since https is flawed in its mere design (As the story says) I'd say save the trouble of doing an analysis and just forget about the whole thing.
The thing with DVDs is that you're supposed to play them on a "registered" DVD player, which is a piece of [soft|hard]ware that has paid the MPAA tax, to get a valid CSS decryption license. I don't think (hope) that would really hold in court, but that is the idea for now.
In this regard, all the rest is illegal.
Of course, that is all assuming that Linux will cool down the CPU when it's idle. Giving the amounts this guy is talking about (2 1/2 hours vs 1hour), that may very well be the problem.
Do you really think thay are not going to sue something like this? I would be surprised considering iPod is their main product now ;-)...
How was WinWord TECHNICALLY the worst
Slower, less features, more complex to use, most buggy. Will that be enough?
Windows wasn't competing with MacOS
Agreed. That's why I did add a question mark to the MacOS one. Confusing though.
you dolt
Need to flame eh?
VHS vs. Betamax, had a lot to do (in 1976) to VHS having a 2 hour recording time vs. the betamax recording time of one hour
Did I say or implied anything else? The guy I was replying to is saying: XBox is better than PS/2 because it has a better image quality. I am just showing to him that picture quality is not all.
VHS had a huge advantage there
Exactly my point: the quality of the picture was not in question, or at least, was not the main argument.
So, think, before speaking
Well, as I think we are on the same page, I have trouble understanding this statement. Just an urge to flame I guess.
they didn't used to be a small company
You don't need to be a small company so suck ass with your product. Look at IBM with OS/2!
Personally the XBox in comparison to PS2 is much better
Technical merit of the product has very little to do with it commercial potential success. Look at some of the great battle of technology:
1. VHS vs Betamax vs V2000: VHS won, technically the worst of all three
2. WordPerfect vs WinWord vs AmiPro: WinWord won, technically the worst of all three competitors
3. Windows vs OS/2 vs MacOS?: Windows won, technically the worst (by faaaaaaaar, remember it was Windows 3.1 at the time!) of all three competitors.
Well, enough said. The fact that XBox is better than PS/2 will weight very little in the final market trend.
That's the point: The more they sell - or throw away - Linux licenses, the more they can claim: "See, more than 1000 fortune 1500 companies acquired Linux licenses, that has to mean something!"
Well, slightly offtopic, this points out why MS are where they are.
1. They usually fight a good fight
2. Against a good adversary, they'll get their ass kicked
3. Most of their battles were won against very poor competitors (Netscape, OS/2, WordPerfect, Apple were all but competitive in one or more crucial areas)
So if they are at the top of the software stack right now, that is just because all their competitors sucked ass. So we can see now:
1. On a new market, against a strong competitor (Sony), they stand very little chance, even though they fight bravely
2. On an established market (Servers), against a strong competitor (Linux), they loose ground.
The future is not that dark after all!
From the story: Playstation 3 Already Won and The Informa Media Group predicts...
So you don't need to actually fight battles anymore, just be predicted to win and you are declared as having "Already Won" ?
I know what my next job will be...