The only problem with "consumer level" Internet access (with cable modems, DSL, et al) is that you also get consumer-level guarantees. Businesses can get 99%+ uptime guarantees (or similar), but consumer access has no such provisions
That's true, but unless you're running a web server in your apartment, that guarantee often isn't worth the 300% price difference. For my biz, I use our community's free wireless network. It's not 100%, but then again, I am truly bootstrapping my brick & mortar biz.
No. It was $80+ per sticker. I think that we included shipping of said 4"x6" sticker. This one in particular was a warning for the air intake on a fighter jet. Literally. It had like 3 colors, and was a few inches by a few inches. $80+. each.
You're not bootstrapping. "Paper work" for an LLC? You sign a form, send it to the state with a check, and you're done. There is no paper work. VC? That's the exact opposite of bootstrapping.
But of course, based on your lack of reading/writing skills, maybe it takes you several months to sign a form and send it in...
I worked for a label company at one point. By "label", I mean stickers. This company made stickers that you'd put on lawnmowers (Do not put your hands in here, dumbass), cars (the dashboard overlay with the speedo & such), planes (the "Please fasten seat belt" overlays), and everything in between. I was an account manager. The gov't regularly paid $80+ PER STICKER that cost us about $0.10 to make for those "fasten seatbelt" overlays. And, our company won the bid because it was the cheapest, if you can believe that.
That's a very wise decision. I'm sure that sex offenders A. Congregate in the same area(s) B. Do not drive, run, walk, take the bus, or hang glide to other locations C. Molest those people who are closest to them. Gee whiz, you're a smart nut. On top of that, you bought into all of the media created hype. Congratulations on being a good, law-abiding, non-thinking citizen-drone.
Of course it's vaporware. Bombardier is a "real" company that understands that right now, there's zero market for such a toy. They've said that. They're talking 20+ years down the road, which is what any responsible company would do. The Segway is a joke. It's a toy. It's largely a flop. Bombardier wouldn't put themsleves in such a ridiculous situation that Dean Kamen has put himself in. The Segway has clearly failed to revolutionize cities as Kamen has predicted, and as such, he has lost virtually all credibility as an innovator. Bombardier hasn't put themselves out like that. They're still innovating, but more realistically.
Companies with your attitude could be in for a NASTY surprise. Remember, the GPL is a "proprietary" license in intellectual "property" lawyer-speak - ownership IS
And do you have ONE example of legal action to enforce the GPL? Anything at all other than bad PR? Theoretically, it *could* happen, but it hasn't yet, and realistically, it ain't gonna. There's nothing to back it up. Hell, it hasn't even been challenged in any court. As far as a contract goes, I'm still convinced that it's null and void because there's no consideration involved.
And these companies are thinking, "... or else what? A bunch of college kids are going to sue us? Not bloody likely." The GPL is a nice idea, but without some weight behind it, it's only a very simple, largely unenforceable gentlemen's promise, which doesn't mean shit when the bottom line is at stake. My guess is that there's all kinds of GPL'ed stuff out there without complying, but the fact is, most people will never know. GPL is a nice, quaint, friendly idea, but completely and totally unrealistic.
This is inevitable. As people buy more and more stupid gadgets, their lives become geometrically more complicated. Personally, I have a cell phone and I use it for... making telephone calls! No stupid wireless web, messaging, taking pictures, or whatever in the hell people are doing with phones these days. You want the stupid gadgets? You're going to pay for it up front in cash, you're going to pay in time to figure everything out, and you're going to pay in headaches. Rarely are new technologies worth the trouble. A computer is good in it's most basic uses, and a phone is good. All of those stupid ipods/pdas/superphones/etc aren't worth it.
Yes. I need more crap. I need a selection of 50,000 different headsets because damnit, a telephone is just *too* heavy to pick up with my hand. I need to buy some overpriced plastic crap because I'm just that lazy. Really. Sell me some more shit,/. I'm also looking for a device that'll hold my dick while I pee, because I really can't be bothered with that much effort.
Well, maybe/. will post an article about how to nuild your own at-home high speed particle accelerator/collider. Either that, or a "make your own fission reactor" article. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to go have a smoke.
You do realizing that you're posting this on a public message board, immediately after reading about a guy who was threatening the same thing was arrested, don't you?
So downloading and compiling an additional program to try to get accessories to work properly isn't "sub-par"? In this day and age, if I plug a standard device into my PC, and it doesn't work right away, that's sub-par. It would be back at the store *long* before I tried to download some kind of intermediary program. In my mind, that's totally unacceptable.
Now getting the Espon C82 printer to print photos with any sort of colour fidelity was a weekend of build-CUPS-from-scratch HELL - but the camera was a no-brainer.
The RedHat desktop user experience is nowhere near as bad as it is made out to be.
A weekend of trying to make a color printer work properly is "nowhere near as bad as it's made out to be"? Your comments are right in line with my expectations of RedHat (which is why my company doesn't use it).
Hey kid... in a lame attempt to make a cool post, you missed the origin of the fedora by about 80 years. The Fedora was huge in the 1920's, and brought back again by Frank Sinatra into popular culture.
Plenty of people would. Namely, me! A big reason I got out of the industry was the fucking hamster wheel of 'upgrades'. It was ridiculous. I'd just start learning a new technology when it was time to "upgrade" again for no particular reason. Fuck the IT employees. No other employees expect work to be "fun". That attitude was gone when the bubble burst, and any IT guy that still has this attitude is likely to be found in the unemployment line.
And how, exactly, do you propose to tell "the rest of humanity" that "bayesian filtering" exists? People search for "stop spam", and instead, get more spam and scams. It's not that simple.
2. Oracle has been around for much, much longer than any of these new projects.
3. Oracle runs most of the very large, mission critical databases on the planet already, and has been proven.
4. Oracle has a real company behind it providing all kinds of support.
5. A database isn't a commodity (most non-data people don't know that... they seem to think that a database is something that you run "SELECT *..." statements against.
... I counted 17 people employed to develop Mozilla. Wow. Now that IS overwhelming. 17 people scattered across 3 companies (note: "many" companies apparently = 3). That's a fucking landslide of support. Well, I'm convinced. All of my company's apps are now going to be developed around Mozilla since there's such a huge number of developers backing the project.
Yup... My list reads like the Who's Who of the Fortune 500... Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Circuit City, Amazon, B&N, Apple, etc... I stick to buying from local retailers.
Bluetooth is still around? Jesus, how many wireless "standards" are there? Next thing you know, computer will come bristling with 15 antennas just to keep up with every new "standard". There's no room in the consumer market for more than one wireless "standard".
The fact that you know these things (or I'm assuming you do... I have no idea), tells me that you spend too much time in front of your TV. Put down the Twinkies, and back sloowly away from your TV.
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The only problem with "consumer level" Internet access (with cable modems, DSL, et al) is that you also get consumer-level guarantees. Businesses can get 99%+ uptime guarantees (or similar), but consumer access has no such provisions
That's true, but unless you're running a web server in your apartment, that guarantee often isn't worth the 300% price difference. For my biz, I use our community's free wireless network. It's not 100%, but then again, I am truly bootstrapping my brick & mortar biz.
No. It was $80+ per sticker. I think that we included shipping of said 4"x6" sticker. This one in particular was a warning for the air intake on a fighter jet. Literally. It had like 3 colors, and was a few inches by a few inches. $80+. each.
You're not bootstrapping. "Paper work" for an LLC? You sign a form, send it to the state with a check, and you're done. There is no paper work.
VC? That's the exact opposite of bootstrapping.
But of course, based on your lack of reading/writing skills, maybe it takes you several months to sign a form and send it in...
I worked for a label company at one point. By "label", I mean stickers. This company made stickers that you'd put on lawnmowers (Do not put your hands in here, dumbass), cars (the dashboard overlay with the speedo & such), planes (the "Please fasten seat belt" overlays), and everything in between. I was an account manager. The gov't regularly paid $80+ PER STICKER that cost us about $0.10 to make for those "fasten seatbelt" overlays. And, our company won the bid because it was the cheapest, if you can believe that.
That's a very wise decision. I'm sure that sex offenders A. Congregate in the same area(s) B. Do not drive, run, walk, take the bus, or hang glide to other locations C. Molest those people who are closest to them. Gee whiz, you're a smart nut. On top of that, you bought into all of the media created hype. Congratulations on being a good, law-abiding, non-thinking citizen-drone.
Of course it's vaporware. Bombardier is a "real" company that understands that right now, there's zero market for such a toy. They've said that. They're talking 20+ years down the road, which is what any responsible company would do. The Segway is a joke. It's a toy. It's largely a flop. Bombardier wouldn't put themsleves in such a ridiculous situation that Dean Kamen has put himself in. The Segway has clearly failed to revolutionize cities as Kamen has predicted, and as such, he has lost virtually all credibility as an innovator. Bombardier hasn't put themselves out like that. They're still innovating, but more realistically.
Companies with your attitude could be in for a NASTY surprise. Remember, the GPL is a "proprietary" license in intellectual "property" lawyer-speak - ownership IS
And do you have ONE example of legal action to enforce the GPL? Anything at all other than bad PR? Theoretically, it *could* happen, but it hasn't yet, and realistically, it ain't gonna. There's nothing to back it up. Hell, it hasn't even been challenged in any court. As far as a contract goes, I'm still convinced that it's null and void because there's no consideration involved.
you must provide source.
And these companies are thinking, "... or else what? A bunch of college kids are going to sue us? Not bloody likely." The GPL is a nice idea, but without some weight behind it, it's only a very simple, largely unenforceable gentlemen's promise, which doesn't mean shit when the bottom line is at stake. My guess is that there's all kinds of GPL'ed stuff out there without complying, but the fact is, most people will never know. GPL is a nice, quaint, friendly idea, but completely and totally unrealistic.
This is inevitable. As people buy more and more stupid gadgets, their lives become geometrically more complicated. Personally, I have a cell phone and I use it for... making telephone calls! No stupid wireless web, messaging, taking pictures, or whatever in the hell people are doing with phones these days. You want the stupid gadgets? You're going to pay for it up front in cash, you're going to pay in time to figure everything out, and you're going to pay in headaches. Rarely are new technologies worth the trouble. A computer is good in it's most basic uses, and a phone is good. All of those stupid ipods/pdas/superphones/etc aren't worth it.
Yes. I need more crap. I need a selection of 50,000 different headsets because damnit, a telephone is just *too* heavy to pick up with my hand. I need to buy some overpriced plastic crap because I'm just that lazy. Really. Sell me some more shit, /. I'm also looking for a device that'll hold my dick while I pee, because I really can't be bothered with that much effort.
Well, maybe /. will post an article about how to nuild your own at-home high speed particle accelerator/collider. Either that, or a "make your own fission reactor" article. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to go have a smoke.
You do realizing that you're posting this on a public message board, immediately after reading about a guy who was threatening the same thing was arrested, don't you?
so a "cutting edge" OS wishes to associate itself with 80 year old apparel? ok whatever.
Actually, fedoras *are* pretty cool. But then, *nix users wouldn't know cool if it sat on their face and wiggled.
So downloading and compiling an additional program to try to get accessories to work properly isn't "sub-par"? In this day and age, if I plug a standard device into my PC, and it doesn't work right away, that's sub-par. It would be back at the store *long* before I tried to download some kind of intermediary program. In my mind, that's totally unacceptable.
Now getting the Espon C82 printer to print photos with any sort of colour fidelity was a weekend of build-CUPS-from-scratch HELL - but the camera was a no-brainer.
The RedHat desktop user experience is nowhere near as bad as it is made out to be.
A weekend of trying to make a color printer work properly is "nowhere near as bad as it's made out to be"? Your comments are right in line with my expectations of RedHat (which is why my company doesn't use it).
Hey kid... in a lame attempt to make a cool post, you missed the origin of the fedora by about 80 years. The Fedora was huge in the 1920's, and brought back again by Frank Sinatra into popular culture.
Just one note... be careful not to smoke weed *while* you're online. You'll post all kinds of bizarre stuff to message boards and get banned.
Plenty of people would. Namely, me! A big reason I got out of the industry was the fucking hamster wheel of 'upgrades'. It was ridiculous. I'd just start learning a new technology when it was time to "upgrade" again for no particular reason. Fuck the IT employees. No other employees expect work to be "fun". That attitude was gone when the bubble burst, and any IT guy that still has this attitude is likely to be found in the unemployment line.
And how, exactly, do you propose to tell "the rest of humanity" that "bayesian filtering" exists? People search for "stop spam", and instead, get more spam and scams. It's not that simple.
1. Oracle is a better product.
2. Oracle has been around for much, much longer than any of these new projects.
3. Oracle runs most of the very large, mission critical databases on the planet already, and has been proven.
4. Oracle has a real company behind it providing all kinds of support.
5. A database isn't a commodity (most non-data people don't know that... they seem to think that a database is something that you run "SELECT *..." statements against.
... I counted 17 people employed to develop Mozilla. Wow. Now that IS overwhelming. 17 people scattered across 3 companies (note: "many" companies apparently = 3). That's a fucking landslide of support. Well, I'm convinced. All of my company's apps are now going to be developed around Mozilla since there's such a huge number of developers backing the project.
Yup... My list reads like the Who's Who of the Fortune 500... Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Circuit City, Amazon, B&N, Apple, etc... I stick to buying from local retailers.
Bluetooth in cars? What cars? I've never heard of that. That sounds incredibly frivolous.
Bluetooth is still around? Jesus, how many wireless "standards" are there? Next thing you know, computer will come bristling with 15 antennas just to keep up with every new "standard". There's no room in the consumer market for more than one wireless "standard".
The fact that you know these things (or I'm assuming you do... I have no idea), tells me that you spend too much time in front of your TV. Put down the Twinkies, and back sloowly away from your TV.