I so wish that Sony won't put a hard drive in their boxes. A tiny part of the reason that the PS2 is so successful is because it's a slick, EASY TO USE everything box. Mine runs about 24/7 with either a game, movie, music, etc. A hard drive both complicates things, and leaves another point of failure.
I'd love to say what town this is, but I'd like to keep my anonymity as much as I can. But suffice to say that it's a small, very progressive town in central NC. No big box stores at all. Many educated people. I have a retail store that's been open for about a year and a half, and people are very often surprised when they see that we have good salespeople, good parking, good hours, and prices better than what you can get at those big box stores. Of course, those stores are chomping at the bit to get in here, but the closest they've gotten (and ever will get) is jost over the border, 2 towns away (the neighboring town is the same way). So, really, I live in one of the few remaining places in the US where there are thriving businesses and a real community, and none of that giant commercial crap. Hell, the largest store of any kind in town is a giant gourmet supermarket (not a chain.... this is the only location). Hell, we don't even have Blockbuster video in this town! They try to come in, but they get beaten by the local chain that has better selection, better pricing, and better atmosphere. I *do* love living here!
The small towns stores destroy themselves by not bothering to serve the customers.
Oh, and I don't know if you noticed, but the kind of people who shop at Wal-Mart are the dregs of society. It pulls in about the same clientele as strip clubs and pawn shops. That's not wanted in our town. That's why I live here. We don't have your typical Wal-Mart customers living in this town. Instead of a night out shopping for cheap plastic shit made in Asia that we don't need, we tend to go hear local music, see an art exhibit, or do something that doesn't require spending money on crap, and does require your brain.
Want a USB cable at 9:15 PM? Go to Wal-Mart and get it. If you go downtown, you will find that the stores have already closed about 4 hours ago. They did not even want your business.
No, it's because small retailers such as myself actually pay our employees decent wages, and we can't afford to stay open that late. If I were to pay minimum wage like Wal-Mart does, I could stay open almost 24 hours.
Not if the downtown actually decides it wants customers.
Again, our downtown actually is thriving. We have homes, offices, locally-owned food co-ops, bars, restaurants, etc. Oh yeah, and did I mention free, town-wide wi-fi (what I'm posting with right now)?
Nobody NEEDS a USB cable at 9:00PM. Wait until the next day.
The problem is that they DO destroy small towns. Go to any small town in the South or Midwest. They are all identical, bland wastelands of concrete and Wal-Mart shopping drones. Where I live, big box retailers are not allowed, thus we still have a vibrant downtown where people live, work, shop, eat, hang out, etc. A Wal-Mart would completely obliterate that.
Walmart is a shitty, evil company that makes Microsoft look like Ben & Jerry's. Any way you slice it, Wal-Mart is a shit-hole that carries cheap, shoddy stuff and pays their employees crap, all the while making more and more wonderful giant concrete parking lot. If you think that Wal-Mart is a more reputable company than MS, you've got your head up your ass.
. I think the vast majority of people who own 'modded' consoles have had them modded so they can hire a game from Blockbuster and pirate it.
That's INSANE!! Why pay $$ to rent a movie when you can just download it? Of course, I often have to download my "backups" because my original is unplayable. Um, yeah, that's it.
That's also how the US government "justifies" their argument that marijuana is bad. They say that most criminals tend to smoke pot. What they fail to mention is that most people smoke pot, so it's inevitable that most criminals smoke pot, too. Also, that thing about pot being a "gateway drug" because hard core drug users smoke pot. Again, complete and utter bullshit (I mean, I'm sure it's true, but the "logic" is bullshit)
But the thing is that with Linux, you can always back out to Windows, which in this day and age, is just a fine choice. So if I'm gonna install Linux, then be presented with 13 web browsers, 3 desktops, and 5 office suites, I'm much more likely to throw up my hands and say "fuck it" and re-install windows, then to try to deciper everything in Linux. Each distro should just pick out the best, and leave it at that. Not only do I not need a dozen web browsers, I don't *want* a dozen web browsers. This makes total sense.
I run a retail store. I have a large number of products that cover one particular need. Without help, customers just get overwhelmed and leave. We have to ask them what they need, and help them make a decision. Same thing with Linux, except that there's no help. You install a distro, get 1000's of programs, 95% which are useless to the user, and they get overwhelmed and bail.
Unless some expertise is offered (ie: each distro picks ONE office suite, ONE browser, ONE desktop, etc.), it's just too much to deal with, and completely unnecessary.
So then my machine at home, at which both myself and my girlfriend are logged in, both with completely different environments, both running programs at the same time, is NOT multi-user? Pray tell, what defines a multi-user system then, oh guru of all things computer?
There's versions of Bittorrent that let you throttle your upload to 0
I know. I use ABC. But if you do that, your download speed is going to be similar. That's the beauty behind it. Anti-leech is built right into the protocol, and there's no way around it, no matter what client you use.
I wonder if there are some limitations within the BT protocol.
The limitation isn't the protocl, but the trackers that coordinate all of the pieces moving around. Trackers aren't designed to handle this much traffic, and most will start to go belly up around 2K peers.
Divx is a codec. Saying that a codec contains spyware is like saying that you can get a virus from a ping.
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That's why BT is so great. Paranoid and/or selfish people such as yourself either can't get the file at all, or it could take weeks to download what I can download in half an hour. Long live bit torrent!
Thankfully, it's been quite a while. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Normal people aren't into updating their software weekly. They want something mature that works. IE is mature. It works. End of story. Mozilla is filling a nonexistent hole.
I was rather assuming that you made your money off banners rather than subscriptions.
Oh, I do. Absolutely. But when you get 99% of your surfers from one site never clicking on a banner, it's not really worth the publicity. I can understand why a site would NOT want a link to it.
Most people with something to say dream of being slashdotted. Yes, your server melts and your pipes burn, but it's worth it to get 100,000 geeks talking about your project.
All publicity is not worth it. I have to pay for bandwidth, and if the bandwidth is being eaten up by a souce that isn't likely to make me money, I don't want them on my commercial site. It exists to make me money. I've been kicking around the idea to block all clicks from Slashdot to my porn site because the surfers very rarely if ever become customers. It's a customer base made up of kids and geeks who believe that they're entitled to everything for free. It's not good traffic. It's bad traffic. There IS a difference. The porn industry has been doing this for a LOOONG time. If a surfer is from a country with a long history of credit card fraud (ie: Eastern European of Asian), then they see very different content than Western Europeans or Americans see. Why? Getting 90% chargebacks from surfers from one country ain't worth the hassle and the expense. Throw them to a dialler or some other revenue source that doesn't involve credit cards.
That's my point. That's the basis of a free economy. He can spend his money on hookers and coke for all I care. He's entitled to. If you want to get a $1mil/year job and donate it ALL, that's your perogative.
Godd idea. Then lazy fucks such as yourself can sit on your collective asses while people like Paul Allen pay your way with their hard work while not being properly compensated fot it. Read "Atlas Shrugged", you ignoramus.
So, dickhead... how much have YOU donated to clean water funds? I want to see your personal financial statements for the past 10 years, THEN I'll listen to you bitch about somebody else's charity, you scum-sucking lowlife.
just to back this up... you can read the VA Software SEC filings that state that they are trying to outsource as much as possible and aggressively patent IP and pursue legal action against people who violate their IP (SCO, anyone?). VA Software has been doing this for years. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black...
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I so wish that Sony won't put a hard drive in their boxes. A tiny part of the reason that the PS2 is so successful is because it's a slick, EASY TO USE everything box. Mine runs about 24/7 with either a game, movie, music, etc. A hard drive both complicates things, and leaves another point of failure.
1 GB of email space?
They can afford that because they're moving all of their jobs to India. I, for one, won't be using it.
I'd love to say what town this is, but I'd like to keep my anonymity as much as I can. But suffice to say that it's a small, very progressive town in central NC. No big box stores at all. Many educated people. I have a retail store that's been open for about a year and a half, and people are very often surprised when they see that we have good salespeople, good parking, good hours, and prices better than what you can get at those big box stores. Of course, those stores are chomping at the bit to get in here, but the closest they've gotten (and ever will get) is jost over the border, 2 towns away (the neighboring town is the same way). So, really, I live in one of the few remaining places in the US where there are thriving businesses and a real community, and none of that giant commercial crap. Hell, the largest store of any kind in town is a giant gourmet supermarket (not a chain.... this is the only location). Hell, we don't even have Blockbuster video in this town! They try to come in, but they get beaten by the local chain that has better selection, better pricing, and better atmosphere. I *do* love living here!
The small towns stores destroy themselves by not bothering to serve the customers.
Oh, and I don't know if you noticed, but the kind of people who shop at Wal-Mart are the dregs of society. It pulls in about the same clientele as strip clubs and pawn shops. That's not wanted in our town. That's why I live here. We don't have your typical Wal-Mart customers living in this town. Instead of a night out shopping for cheap plastic shit made in Asia that we don't need, we tend to go hear local music, see an art exhibit, or do something that doesn't require spending money on crap, and does require your brain.
Want a USB cable at 9:15 PM? Go to Wal-Mart and get it. If you go downtown, you will find that the stores have already closed about 4 hours ago. They did not even want your business.
No, it's because small retailers such as myself actually pay our employees decent wages, and we can't afford to stay open that late. If I were to pay minimum wage like Wal-Mart does, I could stay open almost 24 hours.
Not if the downtown actually decides it wants customers.
Again, our downtown actually is thriving. We have homes, offices, locally-owned food co-ops, bars, restaurants, etc. Oh yeah, and did I mention free, town-wide wi-fi (what I'm posting with right now)?
Nobody NEEDS a USB cable at 9:00PM. Wait until the next day.
What's the problem?
The problem is that they DO destroy small towns. Go to any small town in the South or Midwest. They are all identical, bland wastelands of concrete and Wal-Mart shopping drones. Where I live, big box retailers are not allowed, thus we still have a vibrant downtown where people live, work, shop, eat, hang out, etc. A Wal-Mart would completely obliterate that.
Walmart is a shitty, evil company that makes Microsoft look like Ben & Jerry's. Any way you slice it, Wal-Mart is a shit-hole that carries cheap, shoddy stuff and pays their employees crap, all the while making more and more wonderful giant concrete parking lot. If you think that Wal-Mart is a more reputable company than MS, you've got your head up your ass.
. I think the vast majority of people who own 'modded' consoles have had them modded so they can hire a game from Blockbuster and pirate it.
That's INSANE!! Why pay $$ to rent a movie when you can just download it?
Of course, I often have to download my "backups" because my original is unplayable. Um, yeah, that's it.
That's also how the US government "justifies" their argument that marijuana is bad. They say that most criminals tend to smoke pot. What they fail to mention is that most people smoke pot, so it's inevitable that most criminals smoke pot, too. Also, that thing about pot being a "gateway drug" because hard core drug users smoke pot. Again, complete and utter bullshit (I mean, I'm sure it's true, but the "logic" is bullshit)
I dunno, but I wish that I could sue for mental anguish every time some idiot brings a kid out in public.
That's definitely good to know. If I want more, I can install more. Sounds like one worth trying.
But the thing is that with Linux, you can always back out to Windows, which in this day and age, is just a fine choice. So if I'm gonna install Linux, then be presented with 13 web browsers, 3 desktops, and 5 office suites, I'm much more likely to throw up my hands and say "fuck it" and re-install windows, then to try to deciper everything in Linux. Each distro should just pick out the best, and leave it at that. Not only do I not need a dozen web browsers, I don't *want* a dozen web browsers. This makes total sense.
I run a retail store. I have a large number of products that cover one particular need. Without help, customers just get overwhelmed and leave. We have to ask them what they need, and help them make a decision. Same thing with Linux, except that there's no help. You install a distro, get 1000's of programs, 95% which are useless to the user, and they get overwhelmed and bail.
Unless some expertise is offered (ie: each distro picks ONE office suite, ONE browser, ONE desktop, etc.), it's just too much to deal with, and completely unnecessary.
Windows is NOT a multi-user system.
So then my machine at home, at which both myself and my girlfriend are logged in, both with completely different environments, both running programs at the same time, is NOT multi-user? Pray tell, what defines a multi-user system then, oh guru of all things computer?
There's versions of Bittorrent that let you throttle your upload to 0
I know. I use ABC. But if you do that, your download speed is going to be similar. That's the beauty behind it. Anti-leech is built right into the protocol, and there's no way around it, no matter what client you use.
I wonder if there are some limitations within the BT protocol.
The limitation isn't the protocl, but the trackers that coordinate all of the pieces moving around. Trackers aren't designed to handle this much traffic, and most will start to go belly up around 2K peers.
Divx is a codec. Saying that a codec contains spyware is like saying that you can get a virus from a ping.
That's why BT is so great. Paranoid and/or selfish people such as yourself either can't get the file at all, or it could take weeks to download what I can download in half an hour. Long live bit torrent!
I just want to point out that this is one of few small sites that survived a good Slashdotting, and that it's running IIS/ASP
When was the last time IE was updated????
Thankfully, it's been quite a while. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Normal people aren't into updating their software weekly. They want something mature that works. IE is mature. It works. End of story. Mozilla is filling a nonexistent hole.
I was rather assuming that you made your money off banners rather than subscriptions.
Oh, I do. Absolutely. But when you get 99% of your surfers from one site never clicking on a banner, it's not really worth the publicity. I can understand why a site would NOT want a link to it.
Most people with something to say dream of being slashdotted. Yes, your server melts and your pipes burn, but it's worth it to get 100,000 geeks talking about your project.
All publicity is not worth it. I have to pay for bandwidth, and if the bandwidth is being eaten up by a souce that isn't likely to make me money, I don't want them on my commercial site. It exists to make me money. I've been kicking around the idea to block all clicks from Slashdot to my porn site because the surfers very rarely if ever become customers. It's a customer base made up of kids and geeks who believe that they're entitled to everything for free. It's not good traffic. It's bad traffic. There IS a difference. The porn industry has been doing this for a LOOONG time. If a surfer is from a country with a long history of credit card fraud (ie: Eastern European of Asian), then they see very different content than Western Europeans or Americans see. Why? Getting 90% chargebacks from surfers from one country ain't worth the hassle and the expense. Throw them to a dialler or some other revenue source that doesn't involve credit cards.
but hey, its his money.
That's my point. That's the basis of a free economy. He can spend his money on hookers and coke for all I care. He's entitled to. If you want to get a $1mil/year job and donate it ALL, that's your perogative.
Godd idea. Then lazy fucks such as yourself can sit on your collective asses while people like Paul Allen pay your way with their hard work while not being properly compensated fot it. Read "Atlas Shrugged", you ignoramus.
So, dickhead... how much have YOU donated to clean water funds? I want to see your personal financial statements for the past 10 years, THEN I'll listen to you bitch about somebody else's charity, you scum-sucking lowlife.
OSDN also supports Indian outsourcing.
just to back this up... you can read the VA Software SEC filings that state that they are trying to outsource as much as possible and aggressively patent IP and pursue legal action against people who violate their IP (SCO, anyone?). VA Software has been doing this for years. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black...