I do this all the time. I give them a note to please recycle it due to the fact my apartment complex does not have a recycling system. I used to fill the envelope with cheese that is just starting to mold, but due to Sept. 11th I decided to stop. In a few years I'll start doing that again. Chase Bank was the worst. They sent me a new thing every week for like a year. I even started putting rocks in it to increase the weight (and hopefully the cost to them). I was thinking glueing the envelope to a brick, but never tried it.
You want to be safe in your car, right? You want an airbag, no problem! $1000, Seatbelts? $100 per seat, anti-locking breaks? $500. Windsheilds that don't shatter into pieces when a tiny rock hits them? $5000.
Microsoft
You want your company to be safe? Just pay $500 for our OS, $500 for these patches that should have been in the OS. And if you don't want hackers, we recommend the $5000 security package that includes all the security features we ripped out because we decided we could charge you money! Oh and if we find more security problems in the future we need to ensure you are on our license which includes a $5000 fee for the first year, and $500 each year thereafter for each machine you have, even if you don't run Windows, we have to charge you in case you change your mind later, it is just easier that way.
Linux
Security? Yeah we just discovered that bug, it'll be fixed shortly, oh look, they just released the fix (okay not really, but most bugs are fixed in 24 hours of report).
This is a perfect example of why Slashdot has jumped the shark.....watch it continue on a spiral down the drain. Half the articles here I've read before they're here....so much for a 'good' news...
Shows like John Edwards are cheaper for them to make, hell they could probably SELL tickets to John Edwards... SciFi channel has become WAY too commercialized over the past few years. I remember when it first started, I watched it all the time, it always had something to suprise you. Of course this was WAY before they had any original content. But then it was an ENTERTAINMENT channel. Rather than commercials to make money they would play short scifi like commercials about the future. Now, its all about the benjamins, bastards, I hope SciFi channel dies off from a loss of viewership. I know I sure won't be watching it anymore without shows like Farscape. I cannot stand John Edwards, and I'm sure they only reason they keep it, is because its cheap. Hell they moved it from 9pm to like 11pm, it can't be doing THAT good, but its probably so cheap to produce.
I think I had one class that was really interesting and taught me anything technical (damn Purdue!). The retention bonus is pretty good acctually. It's given every six months, and only require us to stay another six months to not have to repay it back. And we get the bonus every 6 months til we leave the company.
I've been programming since I was 8 (of course it was an Apple ][e's Apple Soft Basic). I've had a paying techie job since the first day of high school (~13 yrs old), and a non-paying job all through jr. high school (~10 yrs old). I'm now 23, and am still in the technical field of course I wasted 4 years and did the whole college thing, but worked techie jobs the entire time, and now work on really cool stuff, that I never even dreamed of in hs..well I did...but figured 'I never could do that'. And I get paid better than I would have though too:) I'm acctually being paid a retention bonus every 6 months to STAY at the company....
Remember your monthly maintance on your Windows box, reinstall it monthly....most people don't....so they are saving money by NOT...viruses are a method to force users into submission of reinstalling Windows.
NASA isn't the only one planning Moon/Mars missions, I think that a mission to either one will be better played out if it were in the commercial sector. NASA will only use it as a strategic measure, and will never be able to do it in there budget. There are a lot of small/medium/large start-ups whose goal is manned missions to the moon or Mars, I think those will be more successful than a NASA mission
My Porsche 911 would use so much power that I'd have to refill a fuel cell every 20 minutes! I'de rather pay $3.00/gallon and be able to go 180mph in my Porsche than be limited to 90mph (not that I do go over 115 that often [if you are a police officer, I only go 5 under the speed limit]).
I'de love to see you do any hard work with 8 486's with an average of 3mb ram, no video cards, an 40-80mb harddrives, try getting a decent install of any OS in under 40. It was a great setup to fool around with beowulf, but its all going to the garbage dumps now.
If Power Source is paying 500,000 to LinuxOne, couldn't they atleast spend maybe $200 to get a real web page, and get a real email address, not a hotmail one?
A refund on every copy of Windows 95/98 wouldn't bankrupt the company. Lets say that there are 100 million copies of windows 95/98 out there, at 100$ each lets say. Thats only 10 billion dollars. Bill can give that up and still have 90 billion dollars.
Where it would run into problems is the fact that most investers might pull out....and then their stock would crumble taking most of the market with them.
This is why I wish Paul Allen was in Bill Gates' shoes. Paul does something to give back to technology much more often than Bill does. Paul has supported dozens of smaller companies to promote their growth, and not just so Microsoft can steal from them. Bill just gives money most of the time as a thing called 'Microsoft'.
Dude, IE is free haven't you heard what Microsoft says. Your paying 40$ for new bugs, and security exploits never before dreamed up by anyone but Microsoft.
I don't think them "opening" the source would do much. Do you know what it takes to compile Windows in its entirety? It is not just 'make', let it run for an hour and come back. It takes a few hours on a VERY fast computer. I wouldn't doubt it if Microsoft had 5 or even 10 computers compiling the source code away. Don't forget Windows is not just an operating system, it is the Kernel, GUI, user tools that they package, Internet Explorer.
It would be like compiling all the standard apps for a Linux box, with one big foul swoop. You can do it, but you'de be crazy
Purdue's Administrators are pretty dumb. They don't know much when it comes to computers. They don't have any rights to the domain PurdueOnline.ANYTHING. They do not have a patent/trademarks on "Purdue". "Purdue" is a proper name. It would be like me trademarking the name "Jason", and suing everyone that has the name Jason for $10 each.
About the only thing they could do anything about is it they own the information contained inside the site, which they do not own. There are numerous other sites that allow you to POP off anothers mail server. If they went after that I'de hate to see any other site that allows you to POP off any other server for mail....every ISP could sue them. And then every ISP could then sue Microsoft for OutShit, and AOL for Netscape Mail
We live in a world where we sue for power. Do you know where your 'su' is?
Slashdot Mirror
I do this all the time. I give them a note to please recycle it due to the fact my apartment complex does not have a recycling system. I used to fill the envelope with cheese that is just starting to mold, but due to Sept. 11th I decided to stop. In a few years I'll start doing that again. Chase Bank was the worst. They sent me a new thing every week for like a year. I even started putting rocks in it to increase the weight (and hopefully the cost to them). I was thinking glueing the envelope to a brick, but never tried it.
You want to be safe in your car, right? You want an airbag, no problem! $1000, Seatbelts? $100 per seat, anti-locking breaks? $500. Windsheilds that don't shatter into pieces when a tiny rock hits them? $5000.
Microsoft
You want your company to be safe? Just pay $500 for our OS, $500 for these patches that should have been in the OS. And if you don't want hackers, we recommend the $5000 security package that includes all the security features we ripped out because we decided we could charge you money! Oh and if we find more security problems in the future we need to ensure you are on our license which includes a $5000 fee for the first year, and $500 each year thereafter for each machine you have, even if you don't run Windows, we have to charge you in case you change your mind later, it is just easier that way.
Linux
Security? Yeah we just discovered that bug, it'll be fixed shortly, oh look, they just released the fix (okay not really, but most bugs are fixed in 24 hours of report).
This is a perfect example of why Slashdot has jumped the shark.....watch it continue on a spiral down the drain. Half the articles here I've read before they're here....so much for a 'good' news...
Shows like John Edwards are cheaper for them to make, hell they could probably SELL tickets to John Edwards... SciFi channel has become WAY too commercialized over the past few years. I remember when it first started, I watched it all the time, it always had something to suprise you. Of course this was WAY before they had any original content. But then it was an ENTERTAINMENT channel. Rather than commercials to make money they would play short scifi like commercials about the future. Now, its all about the benjamins, bastards, I hope SciFi channel dies off from a loss of viewership. I know I sure won't be watching it anymore without shows like Farscape. I cannot stand John Edwards, and I'm sure they only reason they keep it, is because its cheap. Hell they moved it from 9pm to like 11pm, it can't be doing THAT good, but its probably so cheap to produce.
After all...the richest man in the world could help the open source movement more than anyone!
I think I had one class that was really interesting and taught me anything technical (damn Purdue!). The retention bonus is pretty good acctually. It's given every six months, and only require us to stay another six months to not have to repay it back. And we get the bonus every 6 months til we leave the company.
I've been programming since I was 8 (of course it was an Apple ][e's Apple Soft Basic). I've had a paying techie job since the first day of high school (~13 yrs old), and a non-paying job all through jr. high school (~10 yrs old). I'm now 23, and am still in the technical field of course I wasted 4 years and did the whole college thing, but worked techie jobs the entire time, and now work on really cool stuff, that I never even dreamed of in hs..well I did...but figured 'I never could do that'. And I get paid better than I would have though too :) I'm acctually being paid a retention bonus every 6 months to STAY at the company....
I ran the website for under $6000 for 2.5 years. We did this buy building our own server out of parts we found cheap listed on . We even upgradted the server TWICE (memory and went to dual processors). The $6000 included our colocation fees for the 2.5 years as well! Now if all the .com's could have done that! They'de still be around!
Remember your monthly maintance on your Windows box, reinstall it monthly....most people don't....so they are saving money by NOT...viruses are a method to force users into submission of reinstalling Windows.
ahhhhh science fiction....we're atleast 50 years away from this!
So does this page mean I owe them $300?
eh....i have enough to keep me going for a while, like i said money isn't a big thing.
Hey, I lost 75,000$ because I stopped paying attention to the market for a while, whoops! Oh well, it is only money I guess.
NASA isn't the only one planning Moon/Mars missions, I think that a mission to either one will be better played out if it were in the commercial sector. NASA will only use it as a strategic measure, and will never be able to do it in there budget. There are a lot of small/medium/large start-ups whose goal is manned missions to the moon or Mars, I think those will be more successful than a NASA mission
My Porsche 911 would use so much power that I'd have to refill a fuel cell every 20 minutes! I'de rather pay $3.00/gallon and be able to go 180mph in my Porsche than be limited to 90mph (not that I do go over 115 that often [if you are a police officer, I only go 5 under the speed limit]).
sounds more like user stupidity, who the hell does something on windows, then doesn't save?!?
I'de love to see you do any hard work with 8 486's with an average of 3mb ram, no video cards, an 40-80mb harddrives, try getting a decent install of any OS in under 40. It was a great setup to fool around with beowulf, but its all going to the garbage dumps now.
Acctually they also have the 126 node Intel Paragon with the nifty little lighted display that shows the interprocess communication, and memory links.
I made a 8 node cluster of Linux boxes, cost $250. I spent more money on a liquid cooling system for it, I was drunk, theres not much to do at Purdue.
If Power Source is paying 500,000 to LinuxOne, couldn't they atleast spend maybe $200 to get a real web page, and get a real email address, not a hotmail one?
Where it would run into problems is the fact that most investers might pull out....and then their stock would crumble taking most of the market with them.
Jason
This is also why Paul Allen richer than Bill.
my 5 cents.
Dude, IE is free haven't you heard what Microsoft says. Your paying 40$ for new bugs, and security exploits never before dreamed up by anyone but Microsoft.
It would be like compiling all the standard apps for a Linux box, with one big foul swoop. You can do it, but you'de be crazy
About the only thing they could do anything about is it they own the information contained inside the site, which they do not own. There are numerous other sites that allow you to POP off anothers mail server. If they went after that I'de hate to see any other site that allows you to POP off any other server for mail....every ISP could sue them. And then every ISP could then sue Microsoft for OutShit, and AOL for Netscape Mail
We live in a world where we sue for power. Do you know where your 'su' is?
Jason