I play a similar game. It's called "Real Life". I also spend a lot of time creating social relationshipsand building things. Right now, I've got a ton of friends, several hot girlfriends, and I'm building a business. It's really fucking exciting. The best part of it? I don't even need to sit in front of a computer for 12 hours a day! If anybody wants to try "Real Life", just turn your computer "off". It's very interactive, and very, very realistic.
Alternate vendors for Red Hat? Like who, exactly? An alternative OS isn't going to help a company that was just left in the lurch by Red Hat. They're stuck with either doing an across the board migration (which is NEVER cheap or easy), or they have to hire their own team of developers who do nothing but maintain an OS that they don't even own. Either way, it's a complete quagmire.
That's because they are. Completely and suddenly. It sucks for home users, because $60/year isn't a whole lot more than, say, Windows 2000 Professional over 5-6 years. And yes, it sucks, but the world isn't going to end. The software will still work, but any bugs and security holes, and you're on your own (which OS proponents keep saying is just fine because you can fix the code yourself, right?). Anybody building a business, though, on this software is just a fool. It's one thing to not be able to play MP3's at home because of some bug that you can't fix. It's another thing if payroll quits working. With my business, I'm willing to pay more upfront for equipment, software, etc. from a company that I know will be around and has a good reputation. Red Hat is still just a tiny startup which is just now slowing down it's money hemmoraging. For just my home machine, sure I'd take the risk, but my business? No way.
There's a really, really simple analogy... Somebody steals your car because you left the car unlocked and proceeds to run down pedestrians. Is it the owner's fault for leaving the car unlocked? No way. Yes, the car can be a dangerous weapon, but in no way would anybody consider the owner is to blame.
And let's be reasonable here... the damage that a single computer connected to the Net can do is negligible. Sysadmins are always pissing and moaning about zombies, but c'mon... each machine can only ping so many times. So what would you do, hold each owner of a 10,000 machine zombied attack liable for $1?
In case people have been asleep for the past 5-7 years, Yahoo has this already in place. I have a single login that I use to access my radio stations, my weather, my portfolio, my email, and for all Yahoo shops. The implementation is seamless and is working fine. This isn't breaking news, by any stretch of the imagination, and it certainly won't fly unless a major website (like Yahoo) is behind it.
I am so tired of seeing all of the shortsighted IT people bitching in these comments. They all come down to, "I was getting something really good for free or close to it. I based my company's infrastructure on it. Now it's going away. Waaah!" I personally look forward to reading about rounds of firings due to inane, shortsighted decisions such as these. Let's see... a tiny startup company providing software for free. Yeah! That's who I want to build my company's IT infrastruture around! Here's a little secret that my dad told me, and has been and will eb true for the forseeable future: You get what you pay for. So suck it up, and deal with it. You got a free ride for a few years, and now the ride is over, and you have to deal with the repercussions. Sweet Jesus. Is every IT guy out there this dim-witted?
For example... I have free wireless broadband that my town provides. It's free, and it usually works very well. I do a lot of work on it. BUT, it's FREE, so I don't trust it. I haev a backup that I switch to when it goes down, which does happen. And you know why it doesn't always work, and when it does I can't bitch? I'll give you one guess... IT'S FREE. If one of my managers did the same thing, and decided to run all of our Net connectivity over this connection without any kind of backup just to save a buck, that person would be fired so fucking fast it'd make his head spin.
Gee whiz. You're mad? Well, you were the one who made the decision to base your company's infrastructure on a startup's software, now wasn't it? What in the hell did you expect? There's a reason that people gladly pay for things like W2K, Solaris, AIX, etc. You're bitching because a startup doesn't want to support your $50/machine software anymore. Wow. Sounds like you made a bad decision, and you're now trying to foist it off on Red Hat. But definitely go to an even smaller, less stable company such as Mandrake or SUSE. I predict that you'll be out on the streets looking for a job in no time.
Giving back to the community is a nice thought, but at the end of the day, it doesn't pay the power bills. If OS developers didn't see this coming from day one, then they've either been incredibly naive, or have had their heads up their asses.
Actually, most analysts give RedHat a hold rating, and those are dropping even as we speak. Their profitability has been, quite literally, just a technicality, it's been so small. It would seem like this is a move to achieve true profitability, would be my guess.
And I thought for SURE this said "Hip Clits", which I think would be a really successful products. Little music cards that kids can trade that have pictures of various hip celebrity clits. I'd collect them!
You're saying that today you expect to see Linux on the desktop sooner than you thought a year ago? That doesn't really make any sense a few days following Redhat's little announcement. Of course, I believe that Betamax is going to make a comeback any day now. Now, if I just click my heels together three times...
For all intents and purposes, it is. A good reporter isn't going to go into the minutae of the history of Linux if the article isn't about that. Come out of your cave every now and then. Most of the planet hasn't even heard of Linux, never mind know that it's Unix-y. Hell, my guess is that most of the planet has no clue as to what Unix is.
No, you just need a physical line, connected to a dslam on one side, and a dsl modem on the other.
That may be true, but I've never spoken with a phone company that sells DSL without at least one basic land line. Along those same lines, I've never spoken with a cable company that'll sell cable Net access without basic cable (TV) service. Those are both bullshit, so I decided just to use my town's free wireless, instead.
Hell... any of them. I get offers every day. My rates are even a bit high because I'm locked into one merchant account vendor because I have a special POS terminal. I pay 2.45% + $0.05/transaction for Visa/MC, and I think 1.5% for Discover and I think around 3% for Amex. (I don't have my statements in front of me right now). Either way, there are tons and tons of places that are cheaper, too. I just turned down one guy who was cheaper because it wouldn't integrate in with my POS stations. Take a look at Wells-Fargo to start with. They have a program that integrates with the Intuit QB POS system that's nice and cheap.
You pay them a monthly fee, then when you visit a member page, they pay the page for you.
No, it doesn't work like that. Member pages get paid for convincing somebody to buy a pass, and then get paid for ads inside of their own member sites. We don't get paid anything for just having visitors with say, an "AdultPass" visit our sites.
$500/mo. account fees, $0.07/transaction, and 3.5% fees
What in the HELL are you talking about? This is by far the most expensive CC processing service that I have EVER heard of. That's not even in the ballpark of reality. REAL CC merchant accounts (and yes, I have one) cost about $0.00/transaction + 3.5% to about $0.06/transaction + 2.5% with no monthly fees.
What can be cutting edge about a video card? A video card, well, pushes video to a monitor. What kind of "features" are you looking for? Ideally a video card should be 100% transparent to the user. Personally, I don't want features on my video card. Quite honestly, I don't even want to know it's there.
'For the first time, it seemed, flaws in Microsoft's software were translating into flaws in the company's business model.'
Now, I heard about Red Hat stopping selling it's consumer version OS. I haven't heard about MS dropping any products. So, how are these flaws being "translated"? A $1/2 million bounty? Big fucking deal. That's peanuts. They spend more than that on toilet paper every year.
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Ever try fixing a fucked up rear deraileur on the side of a trail? Or, a twisted chain? I've lost several races due to drivetrain failures.
Is "geek" the new "slut"?
Has been for a few years now. All of the loose hipster chicks all define themselves as "geeks" now.
Just how does LDAP provide Single Sign-On between a variety of applications? Ouch. Sounds like you don't know what the hell you're spewing on about.
Read a book, kid. I could teach you, but my rate is $75/hour. I doubt that your allowance could cover that.
None of my chicks are on there (I don't think). This is for all of the geeks out there without a geek chick of their own.
Girls with glasses, tattoos, and piercings. mmmmmm..... Geeky.....
I play a similar game. It's called "Real Life". I also spend a lot of time creating social relationshipsand building things. Right now, I've got a ton of friends, several hot girlfriends, and I'm building a business. It's really fucking exciting. The best part of it? I don't even need to sit in front of a computer for 12 hours a day! If anybody wants to try "Real Life", just turn your computer "off". It's very interactive, and very, very realistic.
Alternate vendors for Red Hat? Like who, exactly? An alternative OS isn't going to help a company that was just left in the lurch by Red Hat. They're stuck with either doing an across the board migration (which is NEVER cheap or easy), or they have to hire their own team of developers who do nothing but maintain an OS that they don't even own. Either way, it's a complete quagmire.
Redhat seems to be abandoning the low-end market.
That's because they are. Completely and suddenly. It sucks for home users, because $60/year isn't a whole lot more than, say, Windows 2000 Professional over 5-6 years. And yes, it sucks, but the world isn't going to end. The software will still work, but any bugs and security holes, and you're on your own (which OS proponents keep saying is just fine because you can fix the code yourself, right?). Anybody building a business, though, on this software is just a fool. It's one thing to not be able to play MP3's at home because of some bug that you can't fix. It's another thing if payroll quits working. With my business, I'm willing to pay more upfront for equipment, software, etc. from a company that I know will be around and has a good reputation. Red Hat is still just a tiny startup which is just now slowing down it's money hemmoraging. For just my home machine, sure I'd take the risk, but my business? No way.
There's a really, really simple analogy... Somebody steals your car because you left the car unlocked and proceeds to run down pedestrians. Is it the owner's fault for leaving the car unlocked? No way. Yes, the car can be a dangerous weapon, but in no way would anybody consider the owner is to blame.
And let's be reasonable here... the damage that a single computer connected to the Net can do is negligible. Sysadmins are always pissing and moaning about zombies, but c'mon... each machine can only ping so many times. So what would you do, hold each owner of a 10,000 machine zombied attack liable for $1?
You haven't heard of LDAP? Ouch. Sounds like you guys re-invented the wheel.
In case people have been asleep for the past 5-7 years, Yahoo has this already in place. I have a single login that I use to access my radio stations, my weather, my portfolio, my email, and for all Yahoo shops. The implementation is seamless and is working fine. This isn't breaking news, by any stretch of the imagination, and it certainly won't fly unless a major website (like Yahoo) is behind it.
I am so tired of seeing all of the shortsighted IT people bitching in these comments. They all come down to, "I was getting something really good for free or close to it. I based my company's infrastructure on it. Now it's going away. Waaah!" I personally look forward to reading about rounds of firings due to inane, shortsighted decisions such as these. Let's see... a tiny startup company providing software for free. Yeah! That's who I want to build my company's IT infrastruture around! Here's a little secret that my dad told me, and has been and will eb true for the forseeable future: You get what you pay for. So suck it up, and deal with it. You got a free ride for a few years, and now the ride is over, and you have to deal with the repercussions. Sweet Jesus. Is every IT guy out there this dim-witted?
For example... I have free wireless broadband that my town provides. It's free, and it usually works very well. I do a lot of work on it. BUT, it's FREE, so I don't trust it. I haev a backup that I switch to when it goes down, which does happen. And you know why it doesn't always work, and when it does I can't bitch? I'll give you one guess... IT'S FREE. If one of my managers did the same thing, and decided to run all of our Net connectivity over this connection without any kind of backup just to save a buck, that person would be fired so fucking fast it'd make his head spin.
Gee whiz. You're mad? Well, you were the one who made the decision to base your company's infrastructure on a startup's software, now wasn't it? What in the hell did you expect? There's a reason that people gladly pay for things like W2K, Solaris, AIX, etc. You're bitching because a startup doesn't want to support your $50/machine software anymore. Wow. Sounds like you made a bad decision, and you're now trying to foist it off on Red Hat. But definitely go to an even smaller, less stable company such as Mandrake or SUSE. I predict that you'll be out on the streets looking for a job in no time.
Giving back to the community is a nice thought, but at the end of the day, it doesn't pay the power bills. If OS developers didn't see this coming from day one, then they've either been incredibly naive, or have had their heads up their asses.
Actually, most analysts give RedHat a hold rating, and those are dropping even as we speak. Their profitability has been, quite literally, just a technicality, it's been so small. It would seem like this is a move to achieve true profitability, would be my guess.
...thought we were doing quite fine...
If you work for Red Hat, why don't you just ask him yourself?
They're called Hit-Clips by Tiger
And I thought for SURE this said "Hip Clits", which I think would be a really successful products. Little music cards that kids can trade that have pictures of various hip celebrity clits. I'd collect them!
You're saying that today you expect to see Linux on the desktop sooner than you thought a year ago? That doesn't really make any sense a few days following Redhat's little announcement. Of course, I believe that Betamax is going to make a comeback any day now. Now, if I just click my heels together three times...
For all intents and purposes, it is. A good reporter isn't going to go into the minutae of the history of Linux if the article isn't about that. Come out of your cave every now and then. Most of the planet hasn't even heard of Linux, never mind know that it's Unix-y. Hell, my guess is that most of the planet has no clue as to what Unix is.
No, you just need a physical line, connected to a dslam on one side, and a dsl modem on the other.
That may be true, but I've never spoken with a phone company that sells DSL without at least one basic land line. Along those same lines, I've never spoken with a cable company that'll sell cable Net access without basic cable (TV) service. Those are both bullshit, so I decided just to use my town's free wireless, instead.
Hell... any of them. I get offers every day. My rates are even a bit high because I'm locked into one merchant account vendor because I have a special POS terminal. I pay 2.45% + $0.05/transaction for Visa/MC, and I think 1.5% for Discover and I think around 3% for Amex. (I don't have my statements in front of me right now). Either way, there are tons and tons of places that are cheaper, too. I just turned down one guy who was cheaper because it wouldn't integrate in with my POS stations. Take a look at Wells-Fargo to start with. They have a program that integrates with the Intuit QB POS system that's nice and cheap.
You pay them a monthly fee, then when you visit a member page, they pay the page for you.
No, it doesn't work like that. Member pages get paid for convincing somebody to buy a pass, and then get paid for ads inside of their own member sites. We don't get paid anything for just having visitors with say, an "AdultPass" visit our sites.
$500/mo. account fees, $0.07/transaction, and 3.5% fees
What in the HELL are you talking about? This is by far the most expensive CC processing service that I have EVER heard of. That's not even in the ballpark of reality. REAL CC merchant accounts (and yes, I have one) cost about $0.00/transaction + 3.5% to about $0.06/transaction + 2.5% with no monthly fees.
.... it's called LDAP.
What can be cutting edge about a video card? A video card, well, pushes video to a monitor. What kind of "features" are you looking for? Ideally a video card should be 100% transparent to the user. Personally, I don't want features on my video card. Quite honestly, I don't even want to know it's there.
'For the first time, it seemed, flaws in Microsoft's software were translating into flaws in the company's business model.'
Now, I heard about Red Hat stopping selling it's consumer version OS. I haven't heard about MS dropping any products. So, how are these flaws being "translated"? A $1/2 million bounty? Big fucking deal. That's peanuts. They spend more than that on toilet paper every year.