You skipped it because you're already well aware of Firefox. Someone who isn't may be more interested in what's being advertised.
And people do pore over ads - like crazy. Years ago when I had a paper route I'd hate having to deliver flyers. You'd be surprised at the number of people who call in to complain when their flyers weren't delivered.
I would think far fewer people pay attention to ads on websites than in news papers. And I think part of the idea was to look outside the target market.
A business person for example most likely uses IE at work. When browsing at work, it's generally business only. They won't see a web ad for firefox during the course of their day. But I bet when they're reading the paper at lunch, they'll see the ad. Maybe a CEO or CIO will see it, look into it, then decide to implement Firefox as the corporate wide browser.
There's far more to this than just a communal wanking, ya wanker.
"You can afford it because your country is probably not always engaging itself in some expensive overseas military adventure the was the USA always seems to be doing. Oh and your country probably does not blow billions of dollars every year on the Drug War the way in which the USA does."
Heh, that's exactly what I was going to say. Most European countries (and Canada:) aren't dropping all their money into rediculous military/defense systems and research.
Just who is the US defending themselves from anyway?? The cold war is over! I don't see any other country racing to build super-sophisticated war machines and technology. The US is over-defending themselves against nothing. The rest of the world just wants to get on with life.
I bought a gig of ram from Crucial a little over 3 years ago - 4 x 256MB modules. Coincedentally, the third of four just went bad today.
I was talkin on the phone, and alluvasudden my system spontaneously rebooted. Did it again while booting up. I ran memtest86 and saw a torrent of errors.
I was wondering if it was me causing the problem or what - having read many of the threads here, I guess not.
That lifetime warantee sure kicks ass. The ram I bought has doubled in price since.
How about live shows. Or DJ mixing sessions. Anything from BBC's essential mix - Daft Punk's '97 session takes a full two CDs. Essential selections are about an hour long too.
I've got heaps of stuff over an hour long.
Or what about one of the radio shows you record with the RCA device itself?
The last time I used OO.org, I lost hours of work from a crash. I found it horribly slow on a 1.4ghz system with half a gig of ram. And as mentioned in the first post, "Menus are unintuitive, user interface design is lacklustre."
I would not recommend OO over Microsoft Word, and that's a bummer because I hate still having to rely on Windows just for word processing (fortunately, however, I don't do a lot of word processing.)
I realize it's free software, and being what it is, they've certainly come a long way. However, I often see comments along the line of people suggesting average users should/could start replacing Windows with Linux and OO.org.
AFAIC, it's a great project, but it's just not ready for prime time yet.
Have you ever tried to destroy a Fisher Price toy? My buddy and I began referring to the plastic as "Fisher Price" plastic, because it was some kind of rediculously resilient material, high above all other plastics.
Seriously. That stuff is hard to break. These days though, a company is more likely to make it easy to break, so you have to keep buying replacements.
If you're looking for a silent system, try the VIA micro-itx formfactor with 1ghz cpu. Not only can you build a very quiet system, but you can build a really small one too. 17cmx17cm full-featured motherboard.
I think the current trends are moving towards small and silent. Personally I'm tired of seeing big box computers. Shoebox (even a bit smaller) size is where it's at.
"So in the case of poker it shouldn't concern a casino in the slightest other than the fact they might attract less players to their site."
Uh, yeah. Less players means less playing, fewer bids, less money going into pots of which the Casino gets a cut.
It affects the Casino's bottom line, which is the what the Casino is there for - money. They damn well better be concerned because if a Casino gets a bad rap for having a lot of bots, they could lose enough business to put them out of business.
"Besides, it's not like we're pouring the money down a rat hole, the defense industry produces lots of jobs and lots of tax revenue to support the costs."
That's the problem right there dumbass. The US economy relies on war and the associated industry that it generates.
You should watch the movie "Canadian Bacon" in which the US president starts a fictional war with Canada because the economy (among other things) is going to shit. The movie was made in the 80s I think, and after having watched it recently I had to laugh because it still applied to the US today.
The US needs to find another way to create jobs and tax revenue. You think that's a good way to generate those things? What a crock of shit. It's like a hungry surgeon - he'll operate on anything! Just like the US will use any excuse (fictional or otherwise) to start a goddamned war.
HAH! $50?? I paid $160 CDN for my kryptonite lock and chain (the whole thing must weight close to 20lbs) and because I bought it before Sept. 2002 I'm not entitled to a free replacement. I get a "sizeable" discount on purchase of a new product.
Fuck that. What difference does it make if I bought the damned thing a week ago or three years ago? I'm callin 'em on monday and giving them an earful about this.
Chris Anderson replied with the following in regard to ignoring standards.
Interestingly enough, we never "ignored" standards. We spent a huge amount of time understanding and evaluating the existing standards. SVG and CSS both were passed on because they weren't adaquate to meet our needs. WinFX is a platform for the next decade or longer - we can't start with a base that doesn't meet our needs.
What a load of shit. That mentality is where the "embrace and extend" came from. It might not meet Microsoft's needs, but CSS and SVG are the bloody standards that people are using! What do they know about the coming decade that we don't?
What Chris said pretty much flies in the face of the entire paragraph that Miguel wrote! Look:
I understand why someone would invent their own version of SVG or their own version of CSS: those standards can be difficult to implement, and growing your own version is a lot simpler than having to adapt an existing model to a new model.
I would have probably done the same if I had been in their position: its easy. But I would think that Microsoft has a higher responsibility towards the developer base that must create tools that interop with third party components: creating a new standard for graphics just because its `easy' is not really a good answer.
Implementing SVG might have problems and limitations, but the advantages outweight these problems: there are plenty of tools today to produce and consume it and it fits better with the rest of the industry. A benefit that Avalon users will not have and will just partition the industry again for a fairly poor reason.
Standards are there for a reason. If Microsoft doesn't like them they can see figure 1. I have a feeling that Microsoft may not dislike the standards themselves, they just don't like the fact that they're not their standards.
I had a motherboard that caused CPUs to burn out. I went through 2 CPUs before sending the motherboard back. It was tested and found faulty. I got no compensation for my CPUs though.
And the particular VISA I used to purchase the equipment was the only one that didn't have warantee protection.
Anyone else find these security measures at the Statue of "Liberty" ironic?
The terrorists have been winning for a while now - with all the bullshit laws and rights violations that have been going on in the US for the last few years. This has been their goal all along! They're not trying to destroy the US - what's the point? They're trying to destroy freedom in the US!
Each little step like this is just another blow to your so called "freedom".
Someone should setup a radio station with Rage Against the Machine's "Wake Up" looping. And another for "Know your Enemy".. might as well make it the whole album.
My initial reaction to this was.. well, not good, to put it mildly.
I've got to wonder if the "war on piracy" will ever end. I strongly believe that the majority of pirated music and software are sales that wouldn't have existed in the first place. Someone who isn't interested enough in whatever they're pirating to go out and pay for it, but have the opportunity to get it for free, so they do. Or someone who just can't afford it anyway. Now, neither of these are good excuses for receiving the benefit of a product that was never paid for.
This is where the BSA plan is gonna come up and bite 'em all in the ass.
The kids are "brainwashed" into feeling remorse for pirating software. So in the case where they need some software but can't afford it, hopefully they'll think to themselves "well, I can't afford this, and I'm certainly not going to pirate it. Maybe I'll try the free and open source alternative instead."
So a generation of children is inadvertently turned into a generation of open source users.
It's wishful thinking, and even if it were to happen, I still wouldn't want it at the price of my child's education.
Probably because Italy has a smaller market, which will equate to a smaller user-base for this new system.
The smaller user-base will make it much easier to recover from a product failure (failure meaning the product doesn't do well, or the product has a lot of problems.) Also, if something does go wrong the news won't be as big since it's in Italy and not the US.
There may also be more demand in Italy. Personally, I'd predict the US being the last country on earth where we'll really see the Linux desktop succeed.
I imagine Dell evaluated all of their options and found that Linspire was the most suitable solution. Besides, it's a good thing they picked a small player - it brings someone new to the market.
Though I'm a Gentoo user, for its target market Linspire looks pretty nice to me. Have a look at their flash demo.
At the moment there's a bug in Linux kernel 2.4.26 that causes the remote compiling systems to encounter a kernel panic (and crash.)
It's a known bug and has been discussed on the lkml. The bug is also discussed on the gentoo bugzilla. A patch is also available, though the patch program didn't work for me so I had to apply it manually.
The patch seems to be holding up, too. If you're using distcc on systems with vanilla 2.4.26 kernels, I'd suggest patching them.
Do you use sa-learn to teach SA about new spam? I have spam tagged email dumped to a Spam folder on my imap server so I can go through it and make sure there aren't any false-negatves. I then move all the spam to a shared folder and run an sa-learn script on it nightly.
Currently I have amassed 3681 spams totalling 76 megs. I should probably empty that directory sometime:P
sa-learn makes a big difference though. Helps with the misspellings and random junk. Havn't seen a Nigerian scam come through either. In fact, I think I might see 2 spams a month or something - when the spammers figure out a new technique I guess, but just feed it through sa-learn and all subsequent spams are toast.
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You skipped it because you're already well aware of Firefox. Someone who isn't may be more interested in what's being advertised.
And people do pore over ads - like crazy. Years ago when I had a paper route I'd hate having to deliver flyers. You'd be surprised at the number of people who call in to complain when their flyers weren't delivered.
I would think far fewer people pay attention to ads on websites than in news papers. And I think part of the idea was to look outside the target market.
A business person for example most likely uses IE at work. When browsing at work, it's generally business only. They won't see a web ad for firefox during the course of their day. But I bet when they're reading the paper at lunch, they'll see the ad. Maybe a CEO or CIO will see it, look into it, then decide to implement Firefox as the corporate wide browser.
There's far more to this than just a communal wanking, ya wanker.
"You can afford it because your country is probably not always engaging itself in some expensive overseas military adventure the was the USA always seems to be doing. Oh and your country probably does not blow billions of dollars every year on the Drug War the way in which the USA does."
:) aren't dropping all their money into rediculous military/defense systems and research.
Heh, that's exactly what I was going to say. Most European countries (and Canada
Just who is the US defending themselves from anyway?? The cold war is over! I don't see any other country racing to build super-sophisticated war machines and technology. The US is over-defending themselves against nothing. The rest of the world just wants to get on with life.
Check out Semaview Inc. who's making a business of RDF. They've already got one good product out. They're somewhat OSS friendly, too.
Personally, I think eventSherpa is pretty neat.
(Disclaimer: I know the CEO.)
I bought a gig of ram from Crucial a little over 3 years ago - 4 x 256MB modules. Coincedentally, the third of four just went bad today.
I was talkin on the phone, and alluvasudden my system spontaneously rebooted. Did it again while booting up. I ran memtest86 and saw a torrent of errors.
I was wondering if it was me causing the problem or what - having read many of the threads here, I guess not.
That lifetime warantee sure kicks ass. The ram I bought has doubled in price since.
And I'm wondering if it's still possible to send in a donation?
How about live shows. Or DJ mixing sessions. Anything from BBC's essential mix - Daft Punk's '97 session takes a full two CDs. Essential selections are about an hour long too.
I've got heaps of stuff over an hour long.
Or what about one of the radio shows you record with the RCA device itself?
The last time I used OO.org, I lost hours of work from a crash. I found it horribly slow on a 1.4ghz system with half a gig of ram. And as mentioned in the first post, "Menus are unintuitive, user interface design is lacklustre."
I would not recommend OO over Microsoft Word, and that's a bummer because I hate still having to rely on Windows just for word processing (fortunately, however, I don't do a lot of word processing.)
I realize it's free software, and being what it is, they've certainly come a long way. However, I often see comments along the line of people suggesting average users should/could start replacing Windows with Linux and OO.org.
AFAIC, it's a great project, but it's just not ready for prime time yet.
Have you ever tried to destroy a Fisher Price toy? My buddy and I began referring to the plastic as "Fisher Price" plastic, because it was some kind of rediculously resilient material, high above all other plastics.
Seriously. That stuff is hard to break. These days though, a company is more likely to make it easy to break, so you have to keep buying replacements.
Or.. OR! You could get wifi support built into this one, and when it DOES change, you can go buy a new SDIO card for the new standard.
Now there's a concept, eh?
Dude.. I think that's one of the best things I've ever read. I couldn't agree more with that rant!
Thanks!
I agree with what you say 100%.
If you're looking for a silent system, try the VIA micro-itx formfactor with 1ghz cpu. Not only can you build a very quiet system, but you can build a really small one too. 17cmx17cm full-featured motherboard.
I think the current trends are moving towards small and silent. Personally I'm tired of seeing big box computers. Shoebox (even a bit smaller) size is where it's at.
Heh, my first computer was an MPC. Made by Philips. They actually made PCs.
Anywho.. I still have most of the original components. The only thing that went bad was the hard drive. The system is about 11 years old now.
"So in the case of poker it shouldn't concern a casino in the slightest other than the fact they might attract less players to their site."
Uh, yeah. Less players means less playing, fewer bids, less money going into pots of which the Casino gets a cut.
It affects the Casino's bottom line, which is the what the Casino is there for - money. They damn well better be concerned because if a Casino gets a bad rap for having a lot of bots, they could lose enough business to put them out of business.
"Besides, it's not like we're pouring the money down a rat hole, the defense industry produces lots of jobs and lots of tax revenue to support the costs."
That's the problem right there dumbass. The US economy relies on war and the associated industry that it generates.
You should watch the movie "Canadian Bacon" in which the US president starts a fictional war with Canada because the economy (among other things) is going to shit. The movie was made in the 80s I think, and after having watched it recently I had to laugh because it still applied to the US today.
The US needs to find another way to create jobs and tax revenue. You think that's a good way to generate those things? What a crock of shit. It's like a hungry surgeon - he'll operate on anything! Just like the US will use any excuse (fictional or otherwise) to start a goddamned war.
HAH! $50?? I paid $160 CDN for my kryptonite lock and chain (the whole thing must weight close to 20lbs) and because I bought it before Sept. 2002 I'm not entitled to a free replacement. I get a "sizeable" discount on purchase of a new product.
Fuck that. What difference does it make if I bought the damned thing a week ago or three years ago? I'm callin 'em on monday and giving them an earful about this.
Hah.. if you don't fix the dishwasher, I don't think your mom will be the one washin' 'em manually!
Chris Anderson replied with the following in regard to ignoring standards.
Interestingly enough, we never "ignored" standards. We spent a huge amount of time understanding and evaluating the existing standards. SVG and CSS both were passed on because they weren't adaquate to meet our needs. WinFX is a platform for the next decade or longer - we can't start with a base that doesn't meet our needs.
What a load of shit. That mentality is where the "embrace and extend" came from. It might not meet Microsoft's needs, but CSS and SVG are the bloody standards that people are using! What do they know about the coming decade that we don't?
What Chris said pretty much flies in the face of the entire paragraph that Miguel wrote! Look:
I understand why someone would invent their own version of SVG or their own version of CSS: those standards can be difficult to implement, and growing your own version is a lot simpler than having to adapt an existing model to a new model.
I would have probably done the same if I had been in their position: its easy. But I would think that Microsoft has a higher responsibility towards the developer base that must create tools that interop with third party components: creating a new standard for graphics just because its `easy' is not really a good answer.
Implementing SVG might have problems and limitations, but the advantages outweight these problems: there are plenty of tools today to produce and consume it and it fits better with the rest of the industry. A benefit that Avalon users will not have and will just partition the industry again for a fairly poor reason.
Standards are there for a reason. If Microsoft doesn't like them they can see figure 1. I have a feeling that Microsoft may not dislike the standards themselves, they just don't like the fact that they're not their standards.
I had a motherboard that caused CPUs to burn out. I went through 2 CPUs before sending the motherboard back. It was tested and found faulty. I got no compensation for my CPUs though.
;)
And the particular VISA I used to purchase the equipment was the only one that didn't have warantee protection.
When it rains, it pours
You're right. We don't have the RIAA in Canada. Instead, we've got the CRIA! (Canadian Recording Industry Association)
I'm sure they'd love to sue the pants off Scott MacLean too, fortunately our judicial system is a little more sane.
The stuff the RIAA gets away with in the US just wouldn't fly in Canada.
Anyone else find these security measures at the Statue of "Liberty" ironic?
The terrorists have been winning for a while now - with all the bullshit laws and rights violations that have been going on in the US for the last few years. This has been their goal all along! They're not trying to destroy the US - what's the point? They're trying to destroy freedom in the US!
Each little step like this is just another blow to your so called "freedom".
Someone should setup a radio station with Rage Against the Machine's "Wake Up" looping. And another for "Know your Enemy".. might as well make it the whole album.
My initial reaction to this was.. well, not good, to put it mildly.
I've got to wonder if the "war on piracy" will ever end. I strongly believe that the majority of pirated music and software are sales that wouldn't have existed in the first place. Someone who isn't interested enough in whatever they're pirating to go out and pay for it, but have the opportunity to get it for free, so they do. Or someone who just can't afford it anyway. Now, neither of these are good excuses for receiving the benefit of a product that was never paid for.
This is where the BSA plan is gonna come up and bite 'em all in the ass.
The kids are "brainwashed" into feeling remorse for pirating software. So in the case where they need some software but can't afford it, hopefully they'll think to themselves "well, I can't afford this, and I'm certainly not going to pirate it. Maybe I'll try the free and open source alternative instead."
So a generation of children is inadvertently turned into a generation of open source users.
It's wishful thinking, and even if it were to happen, I still wouldn't want it at the price of my child's education.
Probably because Italy has a smaller market, which will equate to a smaller user-base for this new system.
The smaller user-base will make it much easier to recover from a product failure (failure meaning the product doesn't do well, or the product has a lot of problems.) Also, if something does go wrong the news won't be as big since it's in Italy and not the US.
There may also be more demand in Italy. Personally, I'd predict the US being the last country on earth where we'll really see the Linux desktop succeed.
Something wrong with the small distros?
I imagine Dell evaluated all of their options and found that Linspire was the most suitable solution. Besides, it's a good thing they picked a small player - it brings someone new to the market.
Though I'm a Gentoo user, for its target market Linspire looks pretty nice to me. Have a look at their flash demo.
At the moment there's a bug in Linux kernel 2.4.26 that causes the remote compiling systems to encounter a kernel panic (and crash.)
It's a known bug and has been discussed on the lkml. The bug is also discussed on the gentoo bugzilla. A patch is also available, though the patch program didn't work for me so I had to apply it manually.
The patch seems to be holding up, too. If you're using distcc on systems with vanilla 2.4.26 kernels, I'd suggest patching them.
Do you use sa-learn to teach SA about new spam? I have spam tagged email dumped to a Spam folder on my imap server so I can go through it and make sure there aren't any false-negatves. I then move all the spam to a shared folder and run an sa-learn script on it nightly.
:P
Currently I have amassed 3681 spams totalling 76 megs. I should probably empty that directory sometime
sa-learn makes a big difference though. Helps with the misspellings and random junk. Havn't seen a Nigerian scam come through either. In fact, I think I might see 2 spams a month or something - when the spammers figure out a new technique I guess, but just feed it through sa-learn and all subsequent spams are toast.