B.S. Please provide a link to back that up. Just because a warranty is 1 year, or 3 years, doesn't meant the device is only designed to last that long. I have hard-drives ranging from as little as 6GB that I've had for 6 years that have been in use almost every day since I bought them that are still in perfect working condition with no errors.
Oh, in that case, Toyota trucks never, ever fail. I've had mine for 6 years without a problem. Glad you cleared that up for me.
So then the Mirra gives you exactly one copy on volatile media... not the best solution, if you ask me. Sounsd like DVD's would be a better solution. Either that, or several hard drives. Once that hard drive in the Mirra goes, you're toast. Hard drives are only designed to last *one year* whereas DVD's and CD's have an unknown life span )obviously much more than one year). Plus, if you have a fire, all of your data is gone. For important stuff, off-site backups are very important.
From the article: Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to automatically back up your valuable data, share files, and roll back to older versions? Now there is. It's called "Mirra."
I thought it was called a "CD burner". Soon to be called a "DVD burner". Simple, permanent, easy to share, easy to have multiple versions, etc. It's not automatic, but personally, I don't want "automatic" backups overwriting other backups I have on the same hard drive. Besides, CD's and DVDs are much longer lasting than hard drives.
when we have high-schoolers shooting each other on school grounds, something needs to be done about the violence that kids get exposed to.
1. There are not that many kids killing each other.
2. Nobody has ever come to the conclusion that the amount of violence kids are exposed to has anything to do with how violent they are in real life.
3. How are potentially violent kids my problem? I don't have kids. I don't even like kids. I have pretty much zero interaction with kids. If I want to buy a video game that says "Kill the motherfucking Haitans", I should be able to. I'm an adult.
Yeah, the last thing a porn site wants is traffic.:)
The only thing is that Slashdot is shit traffic. It's some of the worst I've ever seen. I guess it makes sense... OSS people, kids... nobody with any money. Some of us were even thinking of banning anyone with a/. referrer since it's just a waste of bandwidth.
...And while we're at it, let's get a law passed that will tell me how to think. I think that's about the only one you missed. After all, laws are the solution to *everything*, right?
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I don't open attachments unless I have a good reason to. Email is a PITA compared to a good, solid fax machine (note previous/. article yesterday or the day before). Besides, I rarely get any junk fax, and a quick call to my lawyer shuts them down real quick.
It's a pet peeve of mine... As a business geek, anybody thinks that they know how to run a business. Really, it's infinitely more complex than people think (I have a relatively simple brick & mortar retail store). It'd be like me saying, "I think that Linus should make the Linux kernel 5K large and incorporate instant messaging, an email server, and a database in it." Not only is it not feasable, but I don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to the Linux kernel, and I wouldn't presume to. So when somebody says, "Microsoft should do this", it really gets under my skin. Other than Sam Walton, I can't think of a more successful entrepreneur in history than Bill Gates and his team. They might not always be as big as they are, but I think they have a pretty good grasp on their business.
I have no idea what the right answer is. I don't presume to. My business is doing well, but not *THAT* well. I was in IT as recently as 3 years ago, but even I'd have to do a LOT of research before I start "suggesting" what MS does. I know enough to know that I don't know what they're doing as well as they do.
My point is, business advice, they don't need. They're one of the most successful companies in history. As far as feedback from users... I'm sure that they take it, and make a business decision as to whether or not to do it. You don't grow a company from $0 to one of the largest in the planet in a span of 30 years by making stuff that people don't want. It's that simple. Nobody's holdign a gun to any of their customers' heads, so somebody (try tens of millions) must be happy with what they do.
Now if I was Microsoft right now, I would have to be asking myself this question:
And you don't think that they've done that? Every time some "news" about MS is reported, some wiseass has to give his expert opinion. I propose a rule... unless you own a company that's worth at least $100M, you should keep your suggestions about what MS should do to yourself. It's pointless, and it just makes the poster of such comments look absolutely ridiculous. Unless your name is Warren Buffet or Jack Welch or somebody of similar importance, you have no idea what you're talking about when it comes to Microsoft's business strategy.
OK, now I lent out my copy to a co-worker years and years ago and never got it back. Anyone who worked the call center at IBM in RTP, NC in '96-'98 who borrowed it... you want to return it? I've solely missed hearing his rendition of "Mister Tambourine Man" and "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" for several years now.
I've heard this many, many times before. When I was a web developer, every other article I read was about the NEW REVOLUTIONARY way of writing web apps that would replace HTML/JS/CSS on the client side. Every one of them has flopped. Trotting out the old "W3C" recommendation is a joke, really. When will people learn that the W3C doesn't really have anything to do with the web today? I don't care what whiz-bang technology they endorse; it's going to be dead in the water until users, web developers, and web browsers support it, which at this stage in the game, is a lot of different people. This is getting filed away as yet another cute, yet stillborn web technology.
You really have no idea how far out there you are, do you? Who the fuck knows what those acronyms are? I sure as hell don't. And no paper documents? You obviously have *never* been in any kind of office, have you?
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Nah, porn biz is just a little thing on the side. I have a real brick & mortar retail biz that's completely unrelated.
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I completely agree. As a rabid business geek, I want to hit people who suggest openign their own comapny because they can code. A business is no more writing code than selling cars is making a sandwich. I don't care what you make/do/sell... there's a LOT more to any successful business than non-business people(note: you writing OSS projects that never see the light of day in your bedroom is NOT a business). I actually had one chick tell me a few months ago that my business is successsful because "I got lucky". That was the closest I ever came to hitting a woman.
especially when you consider there's one good song on an album and 12 other terrible songs.
Have you ever considering listening to music that you didn't hear on a Clear Channel radio station? When I hear people say, "one good song on a CD", I instantly think some pop shit that has one song with a catchy tune. If you buy an artists's CD and most of it sucks, then maybe you're not listening to the right music.
Personally, I don't run very many processor intensive machines, but on the ones that I do, stability is more important than performance. I've never had good luck with AMD + Windows 2000. So even if I can get the same performance for half the price, it still isn't worth it to me if my web server crashes all of the time. Screw fastest, anyway. I just buy the cheapest Intel boxes that I can find, and they're always more than I need.
Now before all of you green geeks flame me, the county stopped collecting paper, ever since the price dropped. They had a scandal when it was exposed that they were dumping sorted recycle paper in the landfill with regular garbage.
What all of the environmental nutbags fail to mention is that in this day and age, recycling to more expensive and more resource intensive than creating new material. Most municipalities have to *pay* to have their stuff recycled. In the case of paper, it's cheaper to make/buy new paper than it is to recycle it.
Oracle has had this functionality since 8.x. Java is *very* fast inside of Oracle, and is more efficient than PL/SQL in a few cases. Again, OSS is playing catch up.
While that's true, I don't think that Vegas would want it. Comdex is the worst couple of weeks in Vegas for business there, since all of the geeks take up space, but spend nothing. As a Vegas regular, I can tell you that NONE of the people working there like Comdex. All of the attendees seem to be cheap bastards who don't know how to have fun. Now, could you imagine COMDEX with only open source people? Jesus Christ. That'd be terrible. It's cheap to get and stay there with the expectation that normal people (such as myself) blow their wad on food, shopping, shows, gambling, etc.
is pretty sad that you don't care about your data being locked into ONE vendor, I sure do. That is why NOTHING important to me or the fortune 500 company I am a Senior developer at is locked into MS Office. All of our critical data is in an Oracle DB...
Ah, so since when has PL/SQL been available in DB/2, Informix, SQL Server, etc.? I mean, I haven't been a PL/SQL developer for a while, but this is really big news!!
A. I didn't say that OO didn't have COM objects. I just said that MS has good ones which makes writing apps quick and cheap.
B. I said the API is open. I don't give two shits about the doc formats. That's another discussion. But good attempt at a troll.
C. When I write VBA apps, I generally do use RTF and CSV, thank you. I didn't say that I didn't. But the format has nothing to do with this discussion.
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B.S. Please provide a link to back that up. Just because a warranty is 1 year, or 3 years, doesn't meant the device is only designed to last that long. I have hard-drives ranging from as little as 6GB that I've had for 6 years that have been in use almost every day since I bought them that are still in perfect working condition with no errors.
Oh, in that case, Toyota trucks never, ever fail. I've had mine for 6 years without a problem. Glad you cleared that up for me.
So then the Mirra gives you exactly one copy on volatile media... not the best solution, if you ask me. Sounsd like DVD's would be a better solution. Either that, or several hard drives. Once that hard drive in the Mirra goes, you're toast. Hard drives are only designed to last *one year* whereas DVD's and CD's have an unknown life span )obviously much more than one year). Plus, if you have a fire, all of your data is gone. For important stuff, off-site backups are very important.
From the article:
Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to automatically back up your valuable data, share files, and roll back to older versions? Now there is. It's called "Mirra."
I thought it was called a "CD burner". Soon to be called a "DVD burner". Simple, permanent, easy to share, easy to have multiple versions, etc. It's not automatic, but personally, I don't want "automatic" backups overwriting other backups I have on the same hard drive. Besides, CD's and DVDs are much longer lasting than hard drives.
when we have high-schoolers shooting each other on school grounds, something needs to be done about the violence that kids get exposed to.
1. There are not that many kids killing each other.
2. Nobody has ever come to the conclusion that the amount of violence kids are exposed to has anything to do with how violent they are in real life.
3. How are potentially violent kids my problem? I don't have kids. I don't even like kids. I have pretty much zero interaction with kids. If I want to buy a video game that says "Kill the motherfucking Haitans", I should be able to. I'm an adult.
Yeah, the last thing a porn site wants is traffic. :)
/. referrer since it's just a waste of bandwidth.
The only thing is that Slashdot is shit traffic. It's some of the worst I've ever seen. I guess it makes sense... OSS people, kids... nobody with any money. Some of us were even thinking of banning anyone with a
...And while we're at it, let's get a law passed that will tell me how to think. I think that's about the only one you missed. After all, laws are the solution to *everything*, right?
90 Death to fax machines Send us an attachment instead.
/. article yesterday or the day before). Besides, I rarely get any junk fax, and a quick call to my lawyer shuts them down real quick.
I don't open attachments unless I have a good reason to. Email is a PITA compared to a good, solid fax machine (note previous
It's a pet peeve of mine... As a business geek, anybody thinks that they know how to run a business. Really, it's infinitely more complex than people think (I have a relatively simple brick & mortar retail store). It'd be like me saying, "I think that Linus should make the Linux kernel 5K large and incorporate instant messaging, an email server, and a database in it." Not only is it not feasable, but I don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to the Linux kernel, and I wouldn't presume to. So when somebody says, "Microsoft should do this", it really gets under my skin. Other than Sam Walton, I can't think of a more successful entrepreneur in history than Bill Gates and his team. They might not always be as big as they are, but I think they have a pretty good grasp on their business.
I have no idea what the right answer is. I don't presume to. My business is doing well, but not *THAT* well. I was in IT as recently as 3 years ago, but even I'd have to do a LOT of research before I start "suggesting" what MS does. I know enough to know that I don't know what they're doing as well as they do.
My point is, business advice, they don't need. They're one of the most successful companies in history. As far as feedback from users... I'm sure that they take it, and make a business decision as to whether or not to do it. You don't grow a company from $0 to one of the largest in the planet in a span of 30 years by making stuff that people don't want. It's that simple. Nobody's holdign a gun to any of their customers' heads, so somebody (try tens of millions) must be happy with what they do.
Now if I was Microsoft right now, I would have to be asking myself this question:
And you don't think that they've done that? Every time some "news" about MS is reported, some wiseass has to give his expert opinion. I propose a rule... unless you own a company that's worth at least $100M, you should keep your suggestions about what MS should do to yourself. It's pointless, and it just makes the poster of such comments look absolutely ridiculous. Unless your name is Warren Buffet or Jack Welch or somebody of similar importance, you have no idea what you're talking about when it comes to Microsoft's business strategy.
OK, now I lent out my copy to a co-worker years and years ago and never got it back. Anyone who worked the call center at IBM in RTP, NC in '96-'98 who borrowed it... you want to return it? I've solely missed hearing his rendition of "Mister Tambourine Man" and "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" for several years now.
I agree. I see the same thing with Apple. Every time I buy a Macintosh, I have the hardest time getting W2K to run on them. Damn lock in.
I've heard this many, many times before. When I was a web developer, every other article I read was about the NEW REVOLUTIONARY way of writing web apps that would replace HTML/JS/CSS on the client side. Every one of them has flopped. Trotting out the old "W3C" recommendation is a joke, really. When will people learn that the W3C doesn't really have anything to do with the web today? I don't care what whiz-bang technology they endorse; it's going to be dead in the water until users, web developers, and web browsers support it, which at this stage in the game, is a lot of different people. This is getting filed away as yet another cute, yet stillborn web technology.
But you're not running a webserver with dynamic content and top ranks on Google for... probably thousands of semi-common queries.
1. I already do that.
2. I've never seen a "wikipedia" link in any of *my * Google searches. I don't know what you're searching for.
3. My server is paid for every month like clockwork.
4. $20K?? That's insane. With $20K, I could handle... hmm... at least 1.2m hits a day for a year.
You really have no idea how far out there you are, do you? Who the fuck knows what those acronyms are? I sure as hell don't. And no paper documents? You obviously have *never* been in any kind of office, have you?
Nah, porn biz is just a little thing on the side. I have a real brick & mortar retail biz that's completely unrelated.
I completely agree. As a rabid business geek, I want to hit people who suggest openign their own comapny because they can code. A business is no more writing code than selling cars is making a sandwich. I don't care what you make/do/sell... there's a LOT more to any successful business than non-business people(note: you writing OSS projects that never see the light of day in your bedroom is NOT a business). I actually had one chick tell me a few months ago that my business is successsful because "I got lucky". That was the closest I ever came to hitting a woman.
especially when you consider there's one good song on an album and 12 other terrible songs.
Have you ever considering listening to music that you didn't hear on a Clear Channel radio station? When I hear people say, "one good song on a CD", I instantly think some pop shit that has one song with a catchy tune. If you buy an artists's CD and most of it sucks, then maybe you're not listening to the right music.
Personally, I don't run very many processor intensive machines, but on the ones that I do, stability is more important than performance. I've never had good luck with AMD + Windows 2000. So even if I can get the same performance for half the price, it still isn't worth it to me if my web server crashes all of the time. Screw fastest, anyway. I just buy the cheapest Intel boxes that I can find, and they're always more than I need.
Now before all of you green geeks flame me, the county stopped collecting paper, ever since the price dropped. They had a scandal when it was exposed that they were dumping sorted recycle paper in the landfill with regular garbage.
What all of the environmental nutbags fail to mention is that in this day and age, recycling to more expensive and more resource intensive than creating new material. Most municipalities have to *pay* to have their stuff recycled. In the case of paper, it's cheaper to make/buy new paper than it is to recycle it.
Oracle has had this functionality since 8.x. Java is *very* fast inside of Oracle, and is more efficient than PL/SQL in a few cases. Again, OSS is playing catch up.
While that's true, I don't think that Vegas would want it. Comdex is the worst couple of weeks in Vegas for business there, since all of the geeks take up space, but spend nothing. As a Vegas regular, I can tell you that NONE of the people working there like Comdex. All of the attendees seem to be cheap bastards who don't know how to have fun. Now, could you imagine COMDEX with only open source people? Jesus Christ. That'd be terrible. It's cheap to get and stay there with the expectation that normal people (such as myself) blow their wad on food, shopping, shows, gambling, etc.
is pretty sad that you don't care about your data being locked into ONE vendor, I sure do. That is why NOTHING important to me or the fortune 500 company I am a Senior developer at is locked into MS Office. All of our critical data is in an Oracle DB...
Ah, so since when has PL/SQL been available in DB/2, Informix, SQL Server, etc.? I mean, I haven't been a PL/SQL developer for a while, but this is really big news!!
A. I didn't say that OO didn't have COM objects. I just said that MS has good ones which makes writing apps quick and cheap.
B. I said the API is open. I don't give two shits about the doc formats. That's another discussion. But good attempt at a troll.
C. When I write VBA apps, I generally do use RTF and CSV, thank you. I didn't say that I didn't. But the format has nothing to do with this discussion.