Some businesses don't have an IT person to set it all up and smaller businesses have a MCP (or less) who is clueless about Linux. Then there is administration, security issues, etc... In the end the TOC is much less using Google. There are other posts which outline the flaws in using google, but it really just depends on the needs of the company. It isn't even close to enterprise worthy, but most businesses are small not enterprise.
You might be right, however, having a piece of paper that labels you an expert does not mean that if you don't have it you can't be an expert. My degree is in Mechanical Engineering, but I work in computer science. OMG! How is it possible!? Well, I'm self taught and I guarantee you I know a hell of a lot more than most of the people with a paper that says they know something about computer science or IT.
The fact is that you can educate yourself about a particular topic and become as knowledgeable or more so than people who studied it formally. All it takes is the will to do so. If you've watched "An Inconvienent Truth", you would know that Gore has actually TALKED to climate scientists. Have you?
Just make sure one (or both) of them are not your wife and/or girlfriend. Trust me.
If you must, then just make sure you've got the rules all worked out ahead of time. You don't want the best 45 minutes of your life to be followed by the worst month of your life.
If we programmers get rid of this burden, then applications and user interfaces will be improved tenfold, as we would not need to spend our times in things we should not supposed to.
Which is exactly what Ruby on Rails did for me. I went perl, java, php, then ruby & RoR. I spend MUCH less time in ROR programming infrastructure.
Everyone runs to Wikipedia to figure out what the hell Web 2.0 is because nobody knows. I'm not sure the people editing know. As far as I can tell it's just AJAX...so why not call it AJAX? There's no damn VERSIONS of the web!
Yeah, so what do I do? I limit their indoor activities and they go outside and my +45 neighbors get all pissed off because my kids are playing in the neighborhood. I live on a cul-de-sac and my kids like to jump their bikes over the curb in the middle circle. I had one neighbor out there yelling that it was his circle and they better never set foot in it again. I told him if he ever talked to my kid like that again I'd put my foot up his ass.
Most people want kids in front of the TV where they can't do any harm.
Every time there is an article about monitoring your kid's internet usage you get all these people saying you are a terrible parent for SPYING on your kids. Then, there is an article about how some kid was victimized or got into trouble using the net and everyone blames it on the terrible parents who weren't standing over their kid's shoulders 24/7. Make up your fuckin' mind. Most of you with these "terrible parent" opinions don't have kids and couldn't get laid in order to reproduce anyway so you have to preach your mad parenting skills on/.
I hope like hell that building your own web services is not seen as "distributing" your app in v3. I think that is the best part of the GPL. You can create something of value and if you aren't selling or distributing the code, you can keep the bits you think are particluarly clever to yourself.
IMHO, Open Source != anti-profit. Of course, there are other reasons to not require "non-distributors" to publish their code. Two that come to mind quickly are embarrasement over your coding skills (or lack thereof) and security through obscurity (yes, I know that 99% of Slashdot thinks this is stupid.) Not everyone can be the best programmer of all time, though they can still create a useful application. Let the flaming begin!
No software is perfect. Any programmer worth their salt knows that there will be bugs no matter how diligent they are. Some things just manifest that are beyond what is reasonably forseeable, especially with the budget that some firms have to work with. Does the Linux kernel ever have any bugs? Oh yeah? Why is that? Linus and Co. aren't perfect? OMFG! NO WAY!
Gimme a break. I don't care how good you are, there will always be bugs with programs with any amount of complexity. You can't crucify the company because of bugs in their software. If they don't do anything about it then they will lose customers and therefore go out of business. If they have a monopoly then sooner or later an OSS version will pop up that will be better.
I've made big purchases (motocross bike for $1800 as well as bikes for my kids) as well as small purchases and also sold quite a few things. Here are some tips for sellers:
1) Change your "buyer requirements" to the following:
Block buyers who: Are registered in countries to which I do not ship Have a feedback score of -1 or lower Have received 2 Unpaid Item strikes in the last 30 days Are currently winning or have bought 1 of my items in the last 10 days and have a feedback score of 0 or lower
2) Cancel bids with 0 feedback
3) Check the buyer's history to see if it could be a hijacked account. You can usually see a trend in the types of things they buy. If they buy nothing but dolls and then suddenly a IBM X330 server it should be a warning flag. Also, a hijacked account usually only has very old transactions. If the user has bought items recently and they are very small things be wary. They do this to get good feedback and then screw you with a chargeback.
4) Use PayPal and ONLY SHIP TO A CONFIRMED PAYPAL ADDRESS USING A TRACKABLE METHOD. I know it sucks, but it is the only way to get seller protection. I state in my auctions that the buyer must have a confirmed paypal address and I only accept paypal. I've had no problems since doing these things.
I tried to sell a motorcycle and the damn auction kept getting "bought now" by a scammer. I stated in the auction that I would not ship and a buyer from the UK bought it. I knew it was fraud immediately and put in a dispute which I won because the buyer unregistered. I tried to sell the bike again with the "I don't ship to other countries" option checked and some A hole from California bought it even though I said I WON'T SHIP!!! I knew it was fraud again. The kicker is that Ebay will only let you relist an item one time after a successful dispute. After this you have to pay the insertion and listing fees again. Ebay SUCKS in this regard but what can you do? They have all the power. Total monopoly. I would love to see them get some competition. I'd jump ship in a second. I can't give up on ebay though because I do make some cash there and also find great deals. It would be heaven if not for the scammers.
I've seen a company who puts out an "auction" that is basically just a public service announcement about scammers who sell items simlilar to theirs. These fuckers hijack an ebay account and put up an auction for $5,000 electronic drums starting at $.01 and when it sells for $1,200 the buyer gets scammed. Ebay totally knows about it and does nothing. The legit business owner who sells these drums puts up the auction just to warn people about the other auctions. What he is doing is great but Ebay sucks for letting the scammers rule the roost.
What!!?? That's like someone telling Edison that artificial light is inherently flawed. LOL Get yer head out of the sand or at least provide some kind of explanation for such a bold statement.
In regard to point 1, you are completely right, and trust me, I will "put up" when the time is right. Until then, my lips are sealed. Yes, "kick ass" is lame and I understand why it sounds like a marketroid buzzwors, but the fact is that this is how I feel about it.
No, I'm not one of those people who love flash etc... In fact, I think the best sites are plain jane...slashdot, paypal, craigslist, apple..the list goes on.
In regard to point 2, if everyone chooses not to view them the site will fail. So, let's just assume for a moment that the marketroid crap is true and the site is great. In this case something of value is lost and everyone would bitch and moan about it but it is because they weren't willing to "put up" or "shut up" with their support.
In regard to point 3, I will ask for user donations, but I've done research on how well this works and the answer is not very. I have donated to open source apps but I think the vast overwhelming majority don't. Funny that you mention bandwidth because I anticipate users will be downloading at least 1.6 GB per day by the end of the first month. Yes, I might be overestimating, but I am one of those "I don't give a crap what the negative people say, this is fantastic and I will work to make it happen." kind of people.
I'm not distributing an open source application so you really don't know what it is the site is for and I am not going to tell you because I don't want to say for the time being. This is part of marketing strategy that you probably don't understand or think is evil and it is called "first to market".
How can you say slashdot hasn't had advertising in a while unless you are blocking it...I see it just fine.
Slashdot Mirror
Some businesses don't have an IT person to set it all up and smaller businesses have a MCP (or less) who is clueless about Linux. Then there is administration, security issues, etc... In the end the TOC is much less using Google. There are other posts which outline the flaws in using google, but it really just depends on the needs of the company. It isn't even close to enterprise worthy, but most businesses are small not enterprise.
am also unable to be objective, as a holder of nearly 4,000 shares of LNUX.
Wow, I hope you didn't buy before 2002! LOL
Thinkers who are taught to problem solve can learn just about anything they put their mind to. Tradespeople can do 1 thing well.
You might be right, however, having a piece of paper that labels you an expert does not mean that if you don't have it you can't be an expert. My degree is in Mechanical Engineering, but I work in computer science. OMG! How is it possible!? Well, I'm self taught and I guarantee you I know a hell of a lot more than most of the people with a paper that says they know something about computer science or IT.
The fact is that you can educate yourself about a particular topic and become as knowledgeable or more so than people who studied it formally. All it takes is the will to do so. If you've watched "An Inconvienent Truth", you would know that Gore has actually TALKED to climate scientists. Have you?
Just make sure one (or both) of them are not your wife and/or girlfriend. Trust me.
If you must, then just make sure you've got the rules all worked out ahead of time. You don't want the best 45 minutes of your life to be followed by the worst month of your life.
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OMG, I wish I had mod points, that should be a 6 LOL.
Which is exactly what Ruby on Rails did for me. I went perl, java, php, then ruby & RoR. I spend MUCH less time in ROR programming infrastructure.
Everyone runs to Wikipedia to figure out what the hell Web 2.0 is because nobody knows. I'm not sure the people editing know. As far as I can tell it's just AJAX...so why not call it AJAX? There's no damn VERSIONS of the web!
Most people want kids in front of the TV where they can't do any harm.
God damn I wish I didn't have to fucking use windows at work.
"The Year 2000 also wants its joke back too when you're done with it."
DOES NOT TRANSLATE TO:
"The Year 2000 also wants it is joke back too when you're done with it."
http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000227.htm
BLAH
Do us all a favor and shut the hell up.
No.....it would make them Martyrs, duh! Bush is stupid but Ahmadinejad is psycho.
IMHO, Open Source != anti-profit. Of course, there are other reasons to not require "non-distributors" to publish their code. Two that come to mind quickly are embarrasement over your coding skills (or lack thereof) and security through obscurity (yes, I know that 99% of Slashdot thinks this is stupid.) Not everyone can be the best programmer of all time, though they can still create a useful application. Let the flaming begin!
Gimme a break. I don't care how good you are, there will always be bugs with programs with any amount of complexity. You can't crucify the company because of bugs in their software. If they don't do anything about it then they will lose customers and therefore go out of business. If they have a monopoly then sooner or later an OSS version will pop up that will be better.
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Just an FYI, at absolute zero all atoms cease to move, so you might want to cool it to just a tad above absolute zero. Glad I could help! :D
I've made big purchases (motocross bike for $1800 as well as bikes for my kids) as well as small purchases and also sold quite a few things. Here are some tips for sellers:
1) Change your "buyer requirements" to the following:
Block buyers who:
Are registered in countries to which I do not ship
Have a feedback score of -1 or lower
Have received 2 Unpaid Item strikes in the last 30 days
Are currently winning or have bought 1 of my items in the last 10 days
and have a feedback score of 0 or lower
2) Cancel bids with 0 feedback
3) Check the buyer's history to see if it could be a hijacked account. You can usually see a trend in the types of things they buy. If they buy nothing but dolls and then suddenly a IBM X330 server it should be a warning flag. Also, a hijacked account usually only has very old transactions. If the user has bought items recently and they are very small things be wary. They do this to get good feedback and then screw you with a chargeback.
4) Use PayPal and ONLY SHIP TO A CONFIRMED PAYPAL ADDRESS USING A TRACKABLE METHOD. I know it sucks, but it is the only way to get seller protection. I state in my auctions that the buyer must have a confirmed paypal address and I only accept paypal. I've had no problems since doing these things.
I tried to sell a motorcycle and the damn auction kept getting "bought now" by a scammer. I stated in the auction that I would not ship and a buyer from the UK bought it. I knew it was fraud immediately and put in a dispute which I won because the buyer unregistered. I tried to sell the bike again with the "I don't ship to other countries" option checked and some A hole from California bought it even though I said I WON'T SHIP!!! I knew it was fraud again. The kicker is that Ebay will only let you relist an item one time after a successful dispute. After this you have to pay the insertion and listing fees again. Ebay SUCKS in this regard but what can you do? They have all the power. Total monopoly. I would love to see them get some competition. I'd jump ship in a second. I can't give up on ebay though because I do make some cash there and also find great deals. It would be heaven if not for the scammers.
I've seen a company who puts out an "auction" that is basically just a public service announcement about scammers who sell items simlilar to theirs. These fuckers hijack an ebay account and put up an auction for $5,000 electronic drums starting at $.01 and when it sells for $1,200 the buyer gets scammed. Ebay totally knows about it and does nothing. The legit business owner who sells these drums puts up the auction just to warn people about the other auctions. What he is doing is great but Ebay sucks for letting the scammers rule the roost.
Here is a link to the warning auction
I'd like to see ebay lose a shitload of money over this stuff in a class action lawsuit. That would be AWESOME.
What!!?? That's like someone telling Edison that artificial light is inherently flawed. LOL Get yer head out of the sand or at least provide some kind of explanation for such a bold statement.
All I know is my SID is KEEP_OUT_BITCH with MAC filtering and WEP.
BTW, if you're not distributing an open source application, why is it that your original post mentioned closed source as an alternative?
My choices are to let the community use the software free from my site or to close it and sell it. It helps if you know what it does, but you don't.
Yes, I knew you were blocking...the point was that you are freeloading.
In regard to point 1, you are completely right, and trust me, I will "put up" when the time is right. Until then, my lips are sealed. Yes, "kick ass" is lame and I understand why it sounds like a marketroid buzzwors, but the fact is that this is how I feel about it.
No, I'm not one of those people who love flash etc... In fact, I think the best sites are plain jane...slashdot, paypal, craigslist, apple..the list goes on.
In regard to point 2, if everyone chooses not to view them the site will fail. So, let's just assume for a moment that the marketroid crap is true and the site is great. In this case something of value is lost and everyone would bitch and moan about it but it is because they weren't willing to "put up" or "shut up" with their support.
In regard to point 3, I will ask for user donations, but I've done research on how well this works and the answer is not very. I have donated to open source apps but I think the vast overwhelming majority don't. Funny that you mention bandwidth because I anticipate users will be downloading at least 1.6 GB per day by the end of the first month. Yes, I might be overestimating, but I am one of those "I don't give a crap what the negative people say, this is fantastic and I will work to make it happen." kind of people.
I'm not distributing an open source application so you really don't know what it is the site is for and I am not going to tell you because I don't want to say for the time being. This is part of marketing strategy that you probably don't understand or think is evil and it is called "first to market".
How can you say slashdot hasn't had advertising in a while unless you are blocking it...I see it just fine.