Of course the engine is not that great! It's effectively a public beta test for people to use it and give feedback on what they think: This site will be available for a short time. After we have time to incorporate your feedback and add some features it'll be back, new and improved
Give it a little time and then judge it as a finished product against other finished products, it's rather stupid to compare a work in progress to a complete product.
Sorry Microsoft, you need Google's technology to compete with Google.
By that logic then Linux needs Microsoft's technology to compete with Microsoft.
One is entirely server side and is transparent to the client other then the extension in the address bar. The other is a widely supported technology that's well supported on almost every platform with a recent web browser.
First up... I am the poster of #9571933 above, secondly, you have completely misunderstood my point... frankly I'm not surprised.
At no time did I say or even hint at 'support' meaning 'fix'.
Support for a Microsoft product for instance is often easy to get and exists at multiple levels. If you truly need Windows 2003 Server support at 3 am over the phone, you can get it... you just may be paying an arm and a leg for it. However if you are getting an error message which makes little sense to you, a quick search of the Knowledge Base can often resolve it.
Because of some problems I was having today with Linux and kDevelop, I decided to start a blog about my anger. If you read the initial post you'll see a bit about what my gripe is, but I'll say it again here.
In my experience... (note that I say 'my experience', lets not flame me for being too dumb to have a good experience or anything else along those lines), Linux an open source software have an awful support record.
Lately I've had a number of difficult Linux related questions which I could not find answers for. No matter how many Linux 'experts' I'd ask or message board posts or Google searches I'd do... answers were never forthcoming.
Traditionally when you pay for a product, the author of it is more dedicated to it and spends a fair amount of time on it... unlike many open source projects that begin as a hobby or other non professional project.
I have no doubt that there is plenty of good (F)OSS, but in my experience (yes, that term again), a lot of it fails when it comes to documentation and support if the problem does not fall into very narrow bounds.
Yes, there are plenty of "How-To" Linux books in the world, but no matter how many they are, they and all of the other "How-To's" and related documentation and tutorials in the world are worthless to me if they cannot solve my problem.
The moral of my story is "Money = Incentive to (Succeed|Expand)", coupled with "Incentive => Higher Quality", "Higher Quality => Money"
That is to say, paying for a product motivates the author to continue their good work and support the product and make it the best they can. In turn a higher quality has a better chance of having people be willing to pay for it.
In my experience (and only my experience), (F)OSS tends to lack heavily in terms of usability compared to commercial products. With an income related to a product, one can often get better input (often from skilled consultants) on layout and design to ensure the application is as easy to use as possible... thus increasing the potential for further profit!
My iPod is one of my few toys that I actually would like to know more about and might be willing to pay for an added manual for... provided I learn useful things from it.
less chance your inheritance is going to disappear from her bank account.
Or if there is currently little or no inheritance... have her use IE in the hopes that some how her bank account will get extra funds due to the exploit thus creating or increasing your possible inheritance.
Is why I transmit all of my passwords in plain text... not very secure, but a lot less obvious then all of these complicated 'security' or 'encryption' methods.
Next thing you know we'll be taking our postal mailboxes with us.
What a brilliant idea!
*sarcasm* I was planning on moving soon anyway and was planning on going the route of filling out the normal mail-forwarding card with the post office... but why? Why should some new tenant get my address when I've been paying for it for the last year! */sarcasm*
While you are certainly entitled to your belief, I fear that you are wrong, by almost a order of magnitude.
An MSDN Universal subscription from Microsoft runs $2,799 (new subscription)... however they can be had for much less if you look on eBay for instance.
If a Subscription was $375 I'd have one myself instead of using the stripped versions (and cheap) I have been using for side projects.
Horrible I know! And to think, for years we've had to own an NTSC tuner to be able to watch analog tv broadcasts. Same goes for AM and FM radio, free broadcasts provided you can listen.
Are you new here or have you forgotten how technology works? Something new comes out and if sufficiently successful we move to it, even if there is a cost.
Want to replace your VHS tapes? Better be ready to spend money on a DVD player and disks!
Want to replace your LP's? Better invest in a cassette player!!
so they are breaking the law and interfering with email
Do tell, what law are they breaking? I must have missed the one which says that ISP's and other electronic mail carriers must deliver all e-mails passing through their systems.
Hotmail, like Gmail are run on private networks and anyone using said networks are bound by the whims of their owners and operators.
I should be able to play it on what software on whichever OS I choose
That may be true for you; however I would remind you that there are advantages to using an operating system from the Monopoly of Redmond as most of the world uses it too.
Such a breakthrough lab technology makes it to the market and drives down prices to the point it's affordable to the average geek net user... I wont be holding my breath for either part myself.
Remember, we are talking civil law here mostly. There is nothing illegal with someone with enough authority at the {MP|RI}AA coming up with a permission slip giving permission to an enforcer to act on behalf of the company in gathering evidence. In short, effectively deputizing someone to act on behalf of the {MP|RI}AA, effectively making them immune to certain laws.
While it's illegal for you to stop in the shoulder of most roads unless it is an emergency, it is not illegal for a cop to park there and clock people driving by as they are acting under the authority of the city/county/state/etc.
Using such blocks assumes that the {MP|RI}AA are using easy to identify blocks, like those at their corporate headquarters or those of well known underlings. The whole IP blocking strategy fails when they start having their enforcers work from home now and then.
How can you or anyone else tell that the person you are DLing from is not collecting evidence against you? As far as you can tell, they are on a residential connection, how can you tell different?
Yea... but you broadcast your IP all over the place to others on the tracker and basically advertise yourself as a no good pirate to the {MP|RI}AA and their enforcers who are out to keep their content from being pirated.
Even the inventor of BT thinks it's dumb to use it for piracy because it is so non anonymous.
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Of course the engine is not that great! It's effectively a public beta test for people to use it and give feedback on what they think:
This site will be available for a short time. After we have time to incorporate your feedback and add some features it'll be back, new and improved
Give it a little time and then judge it as a finished product against other finished products, it's rather stupid to compare a work in progress to a complete product.
Sorry Microsoft, you need Google's technology to compete with Google.
By that logic then Linux needs Microsoft's technology to compete with Microsoft.
Why?
One is entirely server side and is transparent to the client other then the extension in the address bar. The other is a widely supported technology that's well supported on almost every platform with a recent web browser.
First up... I am the poster of #9571933 above, secondly, you have completely misunderstood my point... frankly I'm not surprised.
At no time did I say or even hint at 'support' meaning 'fix'.
Support for a Microsoft product for instance is often easy to get and exists at multiple levels. If you truly need Windows 2003 Server support at 3 am over the phone, you can get it... you just may be paying an arm and a leg for it. However if you are getting an error message which makes little sense to you, a quick search of the Knowledge Base can often resolve it.
Because of some problems I was having today with Linux and kDevelop, I decided to start a blog about my anger. If you read the initial post you'll see a bit about what my gripe is, but I'll say it again here.
In my experience... (note that I say 'my experience', lets not flame me for being too dumb to have a good experience or anything else along those lines), Linux an open source software have an awful support record.
Lately I've had a number of difficult Linux related questions which I could not find answers for. No matter how many Linux 'experts' I'd ask or message board posts or Google searches I'd do... answers were never forthcoming.
Traditionally when you pay for a product, the author of it is more dedicated to it and spends a fair amount of time on it... unlike many open source projects that begin as a hobby or other non professional project.
I have no doubt that there is plenty of good (F)OSS, but in my experience (yes, that term again), a lot of it fails when it comes to documentation and support if the problem does not fall into very narrow bounds.
Yes, there are plenty of "How-To" Linux books in the world, but no matter how many they are, they and all of the other "How-To's" and related documentation and tutorials in the world are worthless to me if they cannot solve my problem.
The moral of my story is "Money = Incentive to (Succeed|Expand)", coupled with "Incentive => Higher Quality", "Higher Quality => Money"
That is to say, paying for a product motivates the author to continue their good work and support the product and make it the best they can. In turn a higher quality has a better chance of having people be willing to pay for it.
In my experience (and only my experience), (F)OSS tends to lack heavily in terms of usability compared to commercial products. With an income related to a product, one can often get better input (often from skilled consultants) on layout and design to ensure the application is as easy to use as possible... thus increasing the potential for further profit!
My iPod is one of my few toys that I actually would like to know more about and might be willing to pay for an added manual for... provided I learn useful things from it.
less chance your inheritance is going to disappear from her bank account.
Or if there is currently little or no inheritance... have her use IE in the hopes that some how her bank account will get extra funds due to the exploit thus creating or increasing your possible inheritance.
Who says they haven't? Or more appropriately, who says they wont do so and fix it in some way?
Is why I transmit all of my passwords in plain text... not very secure, but a lot less obvious then all of these complicated 'security' or 'encryption' methods.
Next thing you know we'll be taking our postal mailboxes with us.
What a brilliant idea!
*sarcasm*
I was planning on moving soon anyway and was planning on going the route of filling out the normal mail-forwarding card with the post office... but why? Why should some new tenant get my address when I've been paying for it for the last year!
*/sarcasm*
I believe MSDN Universal is only around $375
While you are certainly entitled to your belief, I fear that you are wrong, by almost a order of magnitude.
An MSDN Universal subscription from Microsoft runs $2,799 (new subscription)... however they can be had for much less if you look on eBay for instance.
If a Subscription was $375 I'd have one myself instead of using the stripped versions (and cheap) I have been using for side projects.
Well, assuming you don't care about the recipient
if I had to give anyone anything... I can promise you that I am not going to like them very much.
They might as well have sent them 10,000 AOL CDs.
Don't forget, someone is already working on that
I guess I'm lazy as I'm a pico person... I just can't handle trying to remember the umpteen million possible commands in vi.
Horrible I know! And to think, for years we've had to own an NTSC tuner to be able to watch analog tv broadcasts. Same goes for AM and FM radio, free broadcasts provided you can listen.
Are you new here or have you forgotten how technology works? Something new comes out and if sufficiently successful we move to it, even if there is a cost.
Want to replace your VHS tapes? Better be ready to spend money on a DVD player and disks!
Want to replace your LP's? Better invest in a cassette player!!
Sounds similar... but there is one major fundamental difference...
You can buy a BMW which supports the iPod... while the rest of us (at least me) are still waiting to give their money to Alpine.
I must remind you that:
unfair != illegal
Ex: Life is unfair, does that mean that life is also then illegal?
so they are breaking the law and interfering with email
Do tell, what law are they breaking? I must have missed the one which says that ISP's and other electronic mail carriers must deliver all e-mails passing through their systems.
Hotmail, like Gmail are run on private networks and anyone using said networks are bound by the whims of their owners and operators.
Linux is not their primary business is it?
I should be able to play it on what software on whichever OS I choose
That may be true for you; however I would remind you that there are advantages to using an operating system from the Monopoly of Redmond as most of the world uses it too.
Such a breakthrough lab technology makes it to the market and drives down prices to the point it's affordable to the average geek net user... I wont be holding my breath for either part myself.
Trust me, even though the sun is bright and hot, it won't hurt you
So you say, I know otherwise. As a fair skinned person who once had SECOND DEGREE sunburns... I know just how much hurt the sun can inflict.
a cheap white sheet on the wall
Ahh yes, the redneck big screen!
Remember, we are talking civil law here mostly. There is nothing illegal with someone with enough authority at the {MP|RI}AA coming up with a permission slip giving permission to an enforcer to act on behalf of the company in gathering evidence. In short, effectively deputizing someone to act on behalf of the {MP|RI}AA, effectively making them immune to certain laws.
While it's illegal for you to stop in the shoulder of most roads unless it is an emergency, it is not illegal for a cop to park there and clock people driving by as they are acting under the authority of the city/county/state/etc.
If only drugs were too!
Yea... the free sample is, but it's once you're hooked you want/need them to be free!
Using such blocks assumes that the {MP|RI}AA are using easy to identify blocks, like those at their corporate headquarters or those of well known underlings. The whole IP blocking strategy fails when they start having their enforcers work from home now and then.
How can you or anyone else tell that the person you are DLing from is not collecting evidence against you? As far as you can tell, they are on a residential connection, how can you tell different?
Yea... but you broadcast your IP all over the place to others on the tracker and basically advertise yourself as a no good pirate to the {MP|RI}AA and their enforcers who are out to keep their content from being pirated.
Even the inventor of BT thinks it's dumb to use it for piracy because it is so non anonymous.