This sounds an awful lot like Orbitz.com. When Orbitz was announced, there was a lot of FUD about how it was going to be unfair competition and drive all other online travel services out of business.
Now it's 2 years later, none of that has happened, and Orbitz is just another online travel service.
It would be interesting if you could break down the numbers, N people said negative review, N people said Positive, and X number of units have been sold.
Then your conclusion on its quality will be slightly more accurate.
Are you sure about that? If N people gave negative reviews and N people gave positive reviews, then the negative and positive must always be split 50/50! If it was M and N, however....
To shed a little more light on this, TiVo's suggestions are collaborative; that is, other users' choices figure in to what it records as suggestions for you. That can help explain some of the "inappropriateness" that happens sometimes.
Here's a link to a thread on the TiVo Community Forums that further explains how TiVo's suggestions engine works:
TiVo Community Forum
Does anyone else find it slightly odd that Apple is allowed to make software that only works with their hardware? For instance, I can't ditch my iMac and use my OSX with a Dell PC. Why is this allowed?
OR
Does anyone else find it slightly odd that satellite television companies are allowed to make receivers that only work with their network? For instance, I can't ditch DISH Network and use my DISH receiver with DirecTV service. Why is this allowed?
When I had my Adelphia Powerlink service installed, the technician didn't want to touch my PC -- he asked me to sit down and change the settings (he told me most people don't like for a stranger to touch their computers). Since it already had a NIC, all we had to do was setup the SMTP server in Outlook (which I don't use).
He also forgot to bring a Terms of Service agreement for me to sign (so I never signed one). However, the most recent bill I got from Adelphia says "By paying this bill, you agree to the Terms of Service...". Would that hold up in court?
Not to mention product comercials before a movie you have paid for...
You get those when you watch a movie at home on DVD. I know I can hit Menu, then "Play Movie", but why should I have to do that to skip commercials for other movies I'm probably not even slightly interested in?
Even if/. were to run a poll, that wouldn't tell you squat. Basic psychology: people are *much* more likely to report negative results than positive results, so the poll will show that *all* hard drives are absolute crap.
I believe that software manufacturers simply find the middle to low end in the current marketplace and stick that on their box
I work for a software company, and while I'm not a developer I'm responsible for determining what hardware we tell our customers they need to buy to run our software. That's precisely where I get our requirements from. I go to Dell's website and spec out a low-end PC or server. That's always much more than is needed for the application, but it meets my requirement that the spec must be "realistic" -- that is, the customer must actually be able to purchase what we specify in the current market.
Then our spec always includes a blanket statement something along the lines of "lesser configurations may be sufficient -- please check with us if you wish to use older hardware". That way we're completely covered -- if the customer wants to go out and buy that 2.4GHz P4 they've been eyeing they're free to do so, but our application may only need an 800MHz Celeron.
It's just the slashdot mentality. I *can* get it for free, therefore it should be free. It's not a physical thing, it's only software, therefore it should be free.
Not only that, but I think it's overpriced, so it's OK to steal it.
wow, it seems that most of the home users out there are, in fact, your mom. it always amazes me how computers are "scary" - what's it gonna do, eat you?
This is a true story. My partner's mother called him literally in tears because she was afraid she was in big trouble. Seems she had gone to a website in AOL or something like that on her PC, and had gotten the message "Illegal instruction [blah blah blah]".
She was just sure the FBI would be beating down her door at any moment!
Some Walmart customers soon will be able to sample a new discount item -- Walmart's own brand of wine. The world's largest retail chain is teaming up with E&J Gallo Winery of Modesto, Calif., to produce the spirits at an affordable price; in the $6-8 range.
While wine connoisseurs may not be inclined to throw a bottle of Walmart brand wine into their shopping carts, there is a market for inexpensive wine, said Kathy Micken, professor of marketing at Roger Williams University in Bristol, R.I. She said: "The right name is important."
So, with that in mind, here are the top 12 suggested names for Walmart Wine:
12. Chateau Traileur Doublewide
11. White Trashfindel
10. Big Red Gulp
9. Grape Expectations
8. Domaine Walmart "Merde du Pays"
7. NASCARbernet
6. Chef Boyardeaux
5. Peanut Noir
4. Chateau des Moines
3. I Can't Believe It's Not Vinegar!
2. World Championship Wriesling
And the number 1 name for Walmart Wine...
1. Nasti Spumante
What's the big deal about this? From what I can tell, this is a standard PC platform with VGA, ethernet, PS/2 keyboard, IDE, etc. What made it such a "hack" to install Redhat on it?
This decision, as far as I can tell, is not overturning Sherman Anti-Trust or Clayton Acts. You may have several huge companies with unprecedented control over the media but you would never have one corporation owning everything.
Yah, and 640K ought to be enough memory for anyone. Maybe not *one* corporation owning everything, but I can easily see a future (not too far from now) when all media content and distribution are owned by two or three megacorps. It's already almost that bad.
(As a side note, yes, I'm aware that Bill Gates claims he never made that infamous statement about 640K of RAM).
The company I work for was running NetBSD on an old DEC Alpha three or four years ago. We finally abandoned it because FreeBSD installed on a Pentium 233 MMX was faster.
Is that dreck still on the air? I honestly tried to give it a chance, and watched it 3 or 4 times when it first started -- it simply sucked. It wasn't funny, it just didn't have a point.
It's just a gut feeling, with no real info to back it up, but I'd say in general, Windows holes go unpatched *much* more often than Linux holes (just due to user/sysadmin awareness).
Slashdot Mirror
Cool, then maybe Safari for MacOS X will have it soon! Tabbed browsing is the only reason I still use Mozilla on my iMac at home.
This sounds an awful lot like Orbitz.com. When Orbitz was announced, there was a lot of FUD about how it was going to be unfair competition and drive all other online travel services out of business.
Now it's 2 years later, none of that has happened, and Orbitz is just another online travel service.
I don't think this will be any different.
Are you sure about that? If N people gave negative reviews and N people gave positive reviews, then the negative and positive must always be split 50/50! If it was M and N, however....
To shed a little more light on this, TiVo's suggestions are collaborative; that is, other users' choices figure in to what it records as suggestions for you. That can help explain some of the "inappropriateness" that happens sometimes.
Here's a link to a thread on the TiVo Community Forums that further explains how TiVo's suggestions engine works: TiVo Community Forum
Does anyone else find it slightly odd that Apple is allowed to make software that only works with their hardware? For instance, I can't ditch my iMac and use my OSX with a Dell PC. Why is this allowed?
OR
Does anyone else find it slightly odd that satellite television companies are allowed to make receivers that only work with their network? For instance, I can't ditch DISH Network and use my DISH receiver with DirecTV service. Why is this allowed?
Sheesh!
There's already a very playable PalmOS port of NetHack:
http://nethack-palm.sourceforge.net/
When I had my Adelphia Powerlink service installed, the technician didn't want to touch my PC -- he asked me to sit down and change the settings (he told me most people don't like for a stranger to touch their computers). Since it already had a NIC, all we had to do was setup the SMTP server in Outlook (which I don't use).
...". Would that hold up in court?
He also forgot to bring a Terms of Service agreement for me to sign (so I never signed one). However, the most recent bill I got from Adelphia says "By paying this bill, you agree to the Terms of Service
Imagine the trouble hanging chad would cause in this application....
You get those when you watch a movie at home on DVD. I know I can hit Menu, then "Play Movie", but why should I have to do that to skip commercials for other movies I'm probably not even slightly interested in?
Even if /. were to run a poll, that wouldn't tell you squat. Basic psychology: people are *much* more likely to report negative results than positive results, so the poll will show that *all* hard drives are absolute crap.
I work for a software company, and while I'm not a developer I'm responsible for determining what hardware we tell our customers they need to buy to run our software. That's precisely where I get our requirements from. I go to Dell's website and spec out a low-end PC or server. That's always much more than is needed for the application, but it meets my requirement that the spec must be "realistic" -- that is, the customer must actually be able to purchase what we specify in the current market.
Then our spec always includes a blanket statement something along the lines of "lesser configurations may be sufficient -- please check with us if you wish to use older hardware". That way we're completely covered -- if the customer wants to go out and buy that 2.4GHz P4 they've been eyeing they're free to do so, but our application may only need an 800MHz Celeron.
Not only that, but I think it's overpriced, so it's OK to steal it.
As I read this discussion, I'm amazed at how analagous the UPC barcode situation and the IP address situation are:
She was just sure the FBI would be beating down her door at any moment!
Some Walmart customers soon will be able to sample a new discount item -- Walmart's own brand of wine. The world's largest retail chain is teaming up with E&J Gallo Winery of Modesto, Calif., to produce the spirits at an affordable price; in the $6-8 range.
While wine connoisseurs may not be inclined to throw a bottle of Walmart brand wine into their shopping carts, there is a market for inexpensive wine, said Kathy Micken, professor of marketing at Roger Williams University in Bristol, R.I. She said: "The right name is important."
So, with that in mind, here are the top 12 suggested names for Walmart Wine: 12. Chateau Traileur Doublewide
11. White Trashfindel
10. Big Red Gulp
9. Grape Expectations
8. Domaine Walmart "Merde du Pays"
7. NASCARbernet
6. Chef Boyardeaux
5. Peanut Noir
4. Chateau des Moines
3. I Can't Believe It's Not Vinegar!
2. World Championship Wriesling
And the number 1 name for Walmart Wine...
1. Nasti Spumante
It bothers me greatly. What would be wrong with using a CGI script or at least something server-side for that feature?
Heh, fun-ny!
Wow. He really gets it! I'm proud to say I'm one of his constituents, and I've voted for him several times.
What's the big deal about this? From what I can tell, this is a standard PC platform with VGA, ethernet, PS/2 keyboard, IDE, etc. What made it such a "hack" to install Redhat on it?
He's still pissed off because he was taken in by that lame Canadian April Fool's joke.
Yah, and 640K ought to be enough memory for anyone. Maybe not *one* corporation owning everything, but I can easily see a future (not too far from now) when all media content and distribution are owned by two or three megacorps. It's already almost that bad.
(As a side note, yes, I'm aware that Bill Gates claims he never made that infamous statement about 640K of RAM).
The company I work for was running NetBSD on an old DEC Alpha three or four years ago. We finally abandoned it because FreeBSD installed on a Pentium 233 MMX was faster.
Is that dreck still on the air? I honestly tried to give it a chance, and watched it 3 or 4 times when it first started -- it simply sucked. It wasn't funny, it just didn't have a point.
In my opinion.
It's just a gut feeling, with no real info to back it up, but I'd say in general, Windows holes go unpatched *much* more often than Linux holes (just due to user/sysadmin awareness).