Slashdot is trying to increase the advertising revenue by passing the CPM rates to YOU instead of the advertiser. So now instead of getting $3.00 per thousand adds slashdot will be getting $5.00 per thousand "adds" from you by removing the adds.
I'm sure instead of adds for services i may actually use, it will be new adds saying "refill your time, increase your level, buy this new feature, subscribe to this partner site, choose this system over someone elses". Atleast with slashdot the adds were targeted and somewhat of use to the general slashdot consumer.
The simple fact it isn't a monthly, yearly, quarterly subscription is very dissapointing. I bet this will be posted as add revenue to increase your overall CPM rate and not a subscription revenue.
I agree, todays music is so processed and milked out of the same ol' it just SUCKS.
I don't think the RIAA realized it was still cheaper to spend 11.99 on a cd at best buy for most people then to acquire a decent cd burner, a decent cd burner software package and a stack of cd's very affordably.
Heck, it was hard enough, and still is hard enough to find good quality, complete songs. Now that my choices are limited more i don't discover new artists or new releases since i can't even bother.
They made purchasing and hearing new music just that much harder, and most people who buy cd's and spend TONS of money on music aren't the typical Nstink or britney spears fan.
Personally the only thing i'm awaiting from Britney spears is her playboy appearence.
I hope the RIAA continues to loose money, they had the largest FREE advertising
What kind of performance do you get throwing it over the gigabit network? How long does it take you to dump that much data?
I put in a PO to have a seperate server doing the backups through a gigabit network, but not necessarily to dump the data locally. Just to offload the cpu from the production environment since in reality it is a hot backup i'm working with and the 2 hour window is the only time i have where there are not batch processes running that could really kill my backup times.
The Database data is on an EMC system connected to some Sun machines (E3000's and V880's). I have BCV volumes setup to mirror the data, but the problem is the mirror is already used to establish database replication and clone the database to a development instance. Not enough time during the night to do this, backup and do nightly transactions and whot not.
I can add 32 more drives into the EMC and setup an addition BCV pair to mirror on and then backup from the broken mirror, but the cost is just about the same as buying a 4 drive, 20 slot changer.
This is financial data responsible for nearly a billion dollars of revenue a year so using extra disks to offload before the backups are an option, simply not using a tape solution isn't an option.
Unless you buy your tickets at the ticket window or do your own complete reservations, usually your whole itinerary is published, sold and marketed. What is wrong with throwing some security behind it?
It isn't racial profiling or segmenting out certain people, just tracking patterns of who does what.
Hell, even in small as Lancaster PA of a population of 300,000 at most, they profile. They profile segments of town to track population, growth, crime and variations in all of the segments. If they see a crime "Wave" moving through they have an idea of where it originates and they can attack it from the source.
You aren't aware of it, you aren't being racially profile or magically segmented out, people are just using what is known to track, monitor and predict many fascets of normal everyday life which just so happens to include the threat of terrorism.
Your aren't loosing any liberties when people use information already available. They're not going to do anything unless your being suspicious.
If you fly 3 different airlines across the us constantly scoping out different airports and have the abilities to rackup miles, rewards, points and member benifits, but don't then that should raise a flag, especially if your paying cash for tickets or full price. As the typical person no matter if a business or personall trip will try and get all the benifets and perks of flying including saving money on advanced purchases, hotel rewards, point sharing rewards and predicting and scheduling their plans.
The people being evavisive for a reason will have another reason to fear flying. Either way you won't loose your liberties unless your TRYING TO.
The US has laws and rules to protect your rights, you don't loose them unless you express through actions or words you understanding of the loss of these rights.
I don't see a single legit american being held, all the people being held without release right now are people overstaying visa's or using education visa's for other purposes. The country they come from can get them extradited, but they don't. Is it wrong for Americans to protect themselves because other countries could care less about there own citizens?
These aren't people who merely stole a candy bar from 711 who are going to be held, and i'm sorry but a visa infraction is a SERIOUS crime. Your over staying your legal visit in a country and your stated purpose is no longer binding. Your going to pay the price and you were told simply the cost of your actions when you came to this country.
So don't consider it PROFILING, consider it being rational and using the numbers just like everything else is done. If you county has a high traffic accident rate you pay a higher insurance premium because they came up with a rational way of handling the problems of that area, they profiled the population and didn't hand all the expenses to black people, white people, chinese or japanese, but you know if that WHOLE DAMN AREA IS BLACK, WHITE OR CHINESE THEN IT IS THAT POPULATION THAT HAS TO ACCEPT THAT PROBLEM AND FIX IT. There are plenty of other BLACK, WHITE, CHINESE,INDIAN areas that DON'T have that problem.
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So why should they Allow Netscape Browsers to run on their OS? Why should they allow AOL to be installed on their OS?
Why should ISP's provide the bandwidth that AOL uses with there "proprietary application"?
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So with your regards it is fine for microsoft to have its own OS, its own Browser and not let anyone else add one because it is theirs and they can so who gets what.
This is like the turnpike denying fords because they only want GM's driving down the roads.
So ISP's should filter AIM because AOL isn't paying for the bandwidth the software they own uses.
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Well, almost.
Trillian is a simple, small and pretty customizeable app that takes my start bar from 5 icons down to one and manages my history, chats and everything with one app.
It will be AOL's loss if they get rid of a chunk of people on the network. How it can be a security risk is beyond me. You have to signup the same way and access the same network, is AOL just so inept it doesn't know how to write a secure im client?
Oh well. Maybe it is time to sue AOL for having a monopoly and waiving its monopolostic powers over IM technology. Don't they own ICQ, don't they Own AIM? Doesn't owning that much marketshare and preventing other users from using such technology constitute a monopoly using its powers to prevent other business from competing in the market?
Oh well. trillian is great, i wish them the best of luck sneaking around IM's / AOL's policies.
I used to run my mutiline wildcat on this. Believe it or not it was a 2 node wildcat system on Desqview running on a 286. I upgraded two Desqview/386 with QEMM when i got my hellah fast 386DX40 from AMD.
Nothing like the day of tweaking fossile drivers, setting priority and multitasking in DOS.
Then came along OS/2:) haha. Believe it or not i was the first OS/2 bbs carying GNU linux for download on my 19.2 softmodem.
If you can find it on google it was the "Linux BBS List". You can see my lowly bored as the one that was "long distance to some areas".. I couldn't afford the metro line fees on my lowly 12 year old allowance.
Thats odd you say that. In Windows i have complete transparency. Infact on my laptop no matter what network i pluginto my vpn logs me in to work and seemlessly integrates me with the directory server, allows me single signon with every custom application and database and then mounts my shares, printers, and synchronizes my Handheld with notes, email and more custom apps.
I also have the infamous Cygwin kit, which includes every GNU is not Unix application i could ever want to use. I run an XDisplay to two 6500's i manage and also use the kick ass SecureCRT all day long.
And then when i get home i play some UT, Surf the web, jam to Winamp, watch some videos, and enjoy life.
All of this is under WindowsXP. I don't have any less functionality, infact i have more. I have harnessed the best of both worlds.
And frankly, linux can do that just as well. You can boot windows inside linux to get your job done. Just in todays market linux isn't really linux when you can get all the benifet of linux within your exisitng platform (be it Windows, Solaris, HPUX and whatnot).
So in all reality, linux isn't an OS, it is a kernel. Everything that runs under that kernel seems to run great under every other kernel i have ran it under. (NT, Solaris, HPUX, BSDI, blah.. blah). There are ofcourse some exceptions to every "rule".
Windows for unix? havn't you ever seen everything from Wine, to the PC Plugins for Sparcs to Lindows and all the bazillions of variations of remote windows terminals?
Incase you don't remember Netscape was one of "Those IPO's" that you HAD to have. Netscape had so much money coming out of there ass it wasn't even funny.
Infact is Netscape had any brain they would have given away the browser to begin with and focused on the then lucrative server market that meant MILLIONS in licensing revenues and NO headaches. It is alot easier to sell a 25,000.00 application server and 60,000.00 in 5 year support contract then it is to sell the 1 million shelve copies of netscape to make that much money.
I think netscape saw pointcast and spent way to much money on the shortlived, buggy and defunct Netcaster and then tried to play catchup and even at one point tried to break HTML with netscape proprietary tags.
Now IE did its share, but IE usually supported whatever Mosaic did at the time, and nowadays IE supports everything long before netscape and ofcourse netscape is going proprietary with XUL and such when there are already plenty of pluginable programming interfaces pretty standard on both ends of the http request.
My quam isn't with a company making money off a solid product, my quam is a company spending a few bucks to buy the rights to sue someone else.
Just like the dumb asses who sued mcd's because the coffee was too hot, they should have been shot. People who sue to justify there own means should be put to rest. People who sue to protect there rights are doing justice. AOL lost no rights, they lost on there failling merger and they lost on there bleeding cash out of every seem so lets so.
This is like Rambus all over again on a different scale.
Whats your point. When i go to the store they force me to pay with the american dollar, even though i have canadian, pesos and libres and some other change to pay for.
When i go to get gas i cant fillup on alcohol, everything is pretty much regular, or some advanced fuel.
I don't load my propane tanks with heating oil.
I don't drive a car on the wrong side of the road...
somet things just make sense.. and a browser is a part of the OS. Should i sue IBM for Including WebExplorer in OS/2. It was afterall OS/2 Connect that was the first to include internet applications in a consumer OS, so if anyone got screwed it was IBM as netscape was a glimmer in Windows 3.1 and barely a beast in Windows 95 days.
Hell, it took 5 versions before IE was worth anything, so people had MANY MANY Years to adjust to Internet explorer.
And it is UTTER BS about "too lazy to download netscape". Every damn computer i have had, i've had to download 60 megs of updates to keep current, so it doesn't matter if it was netscape or microsoft, they both took alot of work to stay ontop of. Atleast microsoft had windows update.. Netscape's smart update was too little, too late and too commercial for anything. (who wants to have adds shoved down there face for updating software that costed money in the first place.. and even when it was free shoved MORE adds down your face).
I just don't feel like ever using ICQ, Aim, or Netscape anymore. Hell, i'd be pissed if AOL got a single penny from Microsfot as they have gotten MILLIIONS in free development from the entire "open source" community.
I'll use Trillian for my IM client, and stick with Opera for Browsing.
If Opera were filling suit, this would be a different story. They are effectively the same company that competed against Microsoft in the begining. AOL didn't own netscape until WAYYYY after the browser war was lost.
And frankly, it isn't Microsoft's Problem that Netscape 6.x has been a horrible piece of crap in the stability department up until 6.21.
Lemme guess, if they win the suit then they announce the real acquistion of RedHat because they would have broken the microsoft grip and then 5 years from now everything will be AOL'ized instead of Microsoft. I'd really hate to see Aol Box's everywhere.
I'd hate to see Consoles licensed to people, after all it is the development kits and software that is licensed. We would be back in PC hell if there was a choice of which game ran on what version or manufactures specific console.
It would mean AOL could sponser community effort, and multiple developers rather then a single person. Sure the -AC tree has some nice patches, but imagine what could be done with Linux in a company who has money to produce a product as well as a HUGE market share of people to capitalize on already! AOL-Hat 8.0 will be free with Cereal, Movie Rentals, Magazines and everything else.
Its not like Microsoft has Bill coding the kernel all day long all by himself, and they sure as hell don't have one person making fixes.
I'm sure of AOL buys up redhat, they could afford to do what they wish. Infact I bet the AOL purchase would force Alan Cox out to begin with. I can't imagine a company of such keeping someone onboard who hates the companies idealogies 100%. I hope Alan quites and starts his own company or goes over to Mandrake.
"If an application crashes, it's the developer's fault. Period. End of story. It is NEVER the user's fault. "
Oh yes, That is really how the world works.
How about when LyX is such a painfull program to work with that i throw my PC out the window, can i blame that on YOU and the developers since it ISN'T my fault?
How about when i can't read a sign because there is glare and i crash run over a few school children, it isn't my fault but the construction firms fault because they dind't angle the sign right and i have the right to be ignorant because i'm a user.
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Slashdot is trying to increase the advertising revenue by passing the CPM rates to YOU instead of the advertiser. So now instead of getting $3.00 per thousand adds slashdot will be getting $5.00 per thousand "adds" from you by removing the adds.
I'm sure instead of adds for services i may actually use, it will be new adds saying "refill your time, increase your level, buy this new feature, subscribe to this partner site, choose this system over someone elses". Atleast with slashdot the adds were targeted and somewhat of use to the general slashdot consumer.
The simple fact it isn't a monthly, yearly, quarterly subscription is very dissapointing. I bet this will be posted as add revenue to
increase your overall CPM rate and not a subscription revenue.
i say bah humbug to that.
oh well. slashdot was fun while it lasted.
I agree, todays music is so processed and milked out of the same ol' it just SUCKS.
I don't think the RIAA realized it was still cheaper to spend 11.99 on a cd at best buy for most people then to acquire a decent cd burner, a decent cd burner software package and a stack of cd's very affordably.
Heck, it was hard enough, and still is hard enough to find good quality, complete songs. Now that my choices are limited more i don't discover new artists or new releases since i can't even bother.
They made purchasing and hearing new music just that much harder, and most people who buy cd's and spend TONS of money on music aren't the typical Nstink or britney spears fan.
Personally the only thing i'm awaiting from Britney spears is her playboy appearence.
I hope the RIAA continues to loose money, they had the largest FREE advertising
What are the real world numbers? I don't even see much info on usenet or anywhere other then typical sales bs.
What type of performance do you get on AIT-2? (gig per hour)
What kind of performance do you get throwing it over the gigabit network? How long does it take you to dump that much data?
:) hehe
I put in a PO to have a seperate server doing the backups through a gigabit network, but not necessarily to dump the data locally. Just to offload the cpu from the production environment since in reality it is a hot backup i'm working with and the 2 hour window is the only time i have where there are not batch processes running that could really kill my backup times.
Boy do i hate 24/7 systems
geez, 1 gig an hour? i need 100 gigs an hour :)
We try and use RMAN for nightly backups, and it doesn't work well with the filesystem snapshot concept.
We do this on week end/month end backups though as we can shutdown the applications and have a clean backup.
The Database data is on an EMC system connected to some Sun machines (E3000's and V880's). I have BCV volumes setup to mirror the data, but the problem is the mirror is already used to establish database replication and clone the database to a development instance. Not enough time during the night to do this, backup and do nightly transactions and whot not.
I can add 32 more drives into the EMC and setup an addition BCV pair to mirror on and then backup from the broken mirror, but the cost is just about the same as buying a 4 drive, 20 slot changer.
This is financial data responsible for nearly a billion dollars of revenue a year so using extra disks to offload before the backups are an option, simply not using a tape solution isn't an option.
hope that helps heh
Yes, medium has to be tape. We have to follow standards set upon us by governement and other standards bodies.
:)
The safety deposit box we use for month end tapes is just the right size for 3 rows of 12 tapes as well
Unless you buy your tickets at the ticket window or do your own complete reservations, usually your whole itinerary is published, sold and marketed. What is wrong with throwing some security behind it?
It isn't racial profiling or segmenting out certain people, just tracking patterns of who does what.
Hell, even in small as Lancaster PA of a population of 300,000 at most, they profile. They profile segments of town to track population, growth, crime and variations in all of the segments. If they see a crime "Wave" moving through they have an idea of where it originates and they can attack it from the source.
You aren't aware of it, you aren't being racially profile or magically segmented out, people are just using what is known to track, monitor and predict many fascets of normal everyday life which just so happens to include the threat of terrorism.
Your aren't loosing any liberties when people use information already available. They're not going to do anything unless your being suspicious.
If you fly 3 different airlines across the us constantly scoping out different airports and have the abilities to rackup miles, rewards, points and member benifits, but don't then that should raise a flag, especially if your paying cash for tickets or full price. As the typical person no matter if a business or personall trip will try and get all the benifets and perks of flying including saving money on advanced purchases, hotel rewards, point sharing rewards and predicting and scheduling their plans.
The people being evavisive for a reason will have another reason to fear flying. Either way you won't loose your liberties unless your TRYING TO.
The US has laws and rules to protect your rights, you don't loose them unless you express through actions or words you understanding of the loss of these rights.
I don't see a single legit american being held, all the people being held without release right now are people overstaying visa's or using education visa's for other purposes. The country they come from can get them extradited, but they don't. Is it wrong for Americans to protect themselves because other countries could care less about there own citizens?
These aren't people who merely stole a candy bar from 711 who are going to be held, and i'm sorry but a visa infraction is a SERIOUS crime. Your over staying your legal visit in a country and your stated purpose is no longer binding. Your going to pay the price and you were told simply the cost of your actions when you came to this country.
So don't consider it PROFILING, consider it being rational and using the numbers just like everything else is done. If you county has a high traffic accident rate you pay a higher insurance premium because they came up with a rational way of handling the problems of that area, they profiled the population and didn't hand all the expenses to black people, white people, chinese or japanese, but you know if that WHOLE DAMN AREA IS BLACK, WHITE OR CHINESE THEN IT IS THAT POPULATION THAT HAS TO ACCEPT THAT PROBLEM AND FIX IT. There are plenty of other BLACK, WHITE, CHINESE,INDIAN areas that DON'T have that problem.
So why should they Allow Netscape Browsers to run on their OS? Why should they allow AOL to be installed on their OS?
Why should ISP's provide the bandwidth that AOL uses with there "proprietary application"?
Double standards R us
So with your regards it is fine for microsoft to have its own OS, its own Browser and not let anyone else add one because it is theirs and they can so who gets what.
This is like the turnpike denying fords because they only want GM's driving down the roads.
So ISP's should filter AIM because AOL isn't paying for the bandwidth the software they own uses.
Well, almost.
Trillian is a simple, small and pretty customizeable app that takes my start bar from 5 icons down to one and manages my history, chats and everything with one app.
It will be AOL's loss if they get rid of a chunk of people on the network. How it can be a security risk is beyond me. You have to signup the same way and access the same network, is AOL just so inept it doesn't know how to write a secure im client?
Oh well. Maybe it is time to sue AOL for having a monopoly and waiving its monopolostic powers over IM technology. Don't they own ICQ, don't they Own AIM? Doesn't owning that much marketshare and preventing other users from using such technology constitute a monopoly using its powers to prevent other business from competing in the market?
Oh well. trillian is great, i wish them the best of luck sneaking around IM's / AOL's policies.
Nothing like the day of tweaking fossile drivers, setting priority and multitasking in DOS.
Then came along OS/2
If you can find it on google it was the "Linux BBS List". You can see my lowly bored as the one that was "long distance to some areas".. I couldn't afford the metro line fees on my lowly 12 year old allowance.
hahaha
Thats odd you say that. In Windows i have complete transparency. Infact on my laptop no matter what network i pluginto my vpn logs me in to work and seemlessly integrates me with the directory server, allows me single signon with every custom application and database and then mounts my shares, printers, and synchronizes my Handheld with notes, email and more custom apps.
I also have the infamous Cygwin kit, which includes every GNU is not Unix application i could ever want to use. I run an XDisplay to two 6500's i manage and also use the kick ass SecureCRT all day long.
And then when i get home i play some UT, Surf the web, jam to Winamp, watch some videos, and enjoy life.
All of this is under WindowsXP. I don't have any less functionality, infact i have more. I have harnessed the best of both worlds.
And frankly, linux can do that just as well. You can boot windows inside linux to get your job done. Just in todays market linux isn't really linux when you can get all the benifet of linux within your exisitng platform (be it Windows, Solaris, HPUX and whatnot).
So in all reality, linux isn't an OS, it is a kernel. Everything that runs under that kernel seems to run great under every other kernel i have ran it under. (NT, Solaris, HPUX, BSDI, blah.. blah). There are ofcourse some exceptions to every "rule".
Windows for unix? havn't you ever seen everything from Wine, to the PC Plugins for Sparcs to Lindows and all the bazillions of variations of remote windows terminals?
Incase you don't remember Netscape was one of "Those IPO's" that you HAD to have. Netscape had so much money coming out of there ass it wasn't even funny.
Infact is Netscape had any brain they would have given away the browser to begin with and focused on the then lucrative server market that meant MILLIONS in licensing revenues and NO headaches. It is alot easier to sell a 25,000.00 application server and 60,000.00 in 5 year support contract then it is to sell the 1 million shelve copies of netscape to make that much money.
I think netscape saw pointcast and spent way to much money on the shortlived, buggy and defunct Netcaster and then tried to play catchup and even at one point tried to break HTML with netscape proprietary tags.
Now IE did its share, but IE usually supported whatever Mosaic did at the time, and nowadays IE supports everything long before netscape and ofcourse netscape is going proprietary with XUL and such when there are already plenty of pluginable programming interfaces pretty standard on both ends of the http request.
My quam isn't with a company making money off a solid product, my quam is a company spending a few bucks to buy the rights to sue someone else.
Just like the dumb asses who sued mcd's because the coffee was too hot, they should have been shot. People who sue to justify there own means should be put to rest. People who sue to protect there rights are doing justice. AOL lost no rights, they lost on there failling merger and they lost on there bleeding cash out of every seem so lets so.
This is like Rambus all over again on a different scale.
Whats your point. When i go to the store they force me to pay with the american dollar, even though i have canadian, pesos and libres and some other change to pay for.
When i go to get gas i cant fillup on alcohol, everything is pretty much regular, or some advanced fuel.
I don't load my propane tanks with heating oil.
I don't drive a car on the wrong side of the road...
somet things just make sense.. and a browser is a part of the OS. Should i sue IBM for Including WebExplorer in OS/2. It was afterall OS/2 Connect that was the first to include internet applications in a consumer OS, so if anyone got screwed it was IBM as netscape was a glimmer in Windows 3.1 and barely a beast in Windows 95 days.
Hell, it took 5 versions before IE was worth anything, so people had MANY MANY Years to adjust to Internet explorer.
And it is UTTER BS about "too lazy to download netscape". Every damn computer i have had, i've had to download 60 megs of updates to keep current, so it doesn't matter if it was netscape or microsoft, they both took alot of work to stay ontop of. Atleast microsoft had windows update.. Netscape's smart update was too little, too late and too commercial for anything. (who wants to have adds shoved down there face for updating software that costed money in the first place.. and even when it was free shoved MORE adds down your face).
oh well
It isn't illegal to give away a product.
Geezus, AOL gives away 2,000 hours or free months, whats the diff? In the end you still pay for it.
I'll use Trillian for my IM client, and stick with Opera for Browsing.
If Opera were filling suit, this would be a different story. They are effectively the same company that competed against Microsoft in the begining. AOL didn't own netscape until WAYYYY after the browser war was lost.
And frankly, it isn't Microsoft's Problem that Netscape 6.x has been a horrible piece of crap in the stability department up until 6.21.
Lemme guess, if they win the suit then they announce the real acquistion of RedHat because they would have broken the microsoft grip and then 5 years from now everything will be AOL'ized instead of Microsoft. I'd really hate to see Aol Box's everywhere.
What temp is making $75,000 a year may i ask? 10.00 an hour is about 11-12,000 a year, not 75k.
I'd hate to see Consoles licensed to people, after all it is the development kits and software that is licensed. We would be back in PC hell if there was a choice of which game ran on what version or manufactures specific console.
:)
Thank god for standards on the consoles
Its not like Microsoft has Bill coding the kernel all day long all by himself, and they sure as hell don't have one person making fixes.
I'm sure of AOL buys up redhat, they could afford to do what they wish. Infact I bet the AOL purchase would force Alan Cox out to begin with. I can't imagine a company of such keeping someone onboard who hates the companies idealogies 100%. I hope Alan quites and starts his own company or goes over to Mandrake.
Capitalism.
What the hell are you talking about?
I never have to read another MS settlement/court case on slashdot again.
"If an application crashes, it's the developer's fault. Period. End of story. It is NEVER the user's fault. "
Oh yes, That is really how the world works.
How about when LyX is such a painfull program to work with that i throw my PC out the window, can i blame that on YOU and the developers since it ISN'T my fault?
How about when i can't read a sign because there is glare and i crash run over a few school children, it isn't my fault but the construction firms fault because they dind't angle the sign right and i have the right to be ignorant because i'm a user.
bug off