If you think the web is good enough by itself then your living in a dream world.
No, a website doesn't make you money... everyone learned that lesson 3 years ago. You get the word out about your music the old fashioned way... YOU TOUR. But now, instead of your fans just chatting amoung themselves and trading show tapes, people email all of their friends with links to the website, concerts are available for download via the file sharing networks, and you open yourself up to a much broader audiance. You can sell CD's off of your website, either by shipping them or offering the ISO image at a discount, and make money through performances. After all, once all the overhead of a record company is accounted for, artists make mere pennies on the reported sales of their CDs, and that number is usually much less than what were actually sold.
But when someone buys a gun off the street, he won't know whether or not the gun has ever been registered.
Once someone has bought a gun off of the street, it is as good as unregistered; and it goes a little something like this:
Spent casing or round recovered at crime scene; ballistics compared to National Database to find gun manufacturer.
Gun manufacturer reports who distributed it.
Distributor reports what Federally regulated dealer purchased it.
Dealer reports which Citizen in Good Standing purchased it (after waiting 3 days for a background check).
Citizen reports that gun was stolen and produces a police report verifying that fact.
Now, how many times has that gun changed hands since it was last tracked? Even if the original criminal was caught, who knows where the crime weapon ended up.
Excessive data storage shouldn't be a problem; this is an SMB lan where everyone has there own computers and storage, not one user taking up all of the scratch space on NIUVAX or the university UNIX box.
Further, about the network bandwidth: what is the difference between his program doing this, and sitting up all night surfing the LAN? Before the WWW took off, my floormates and myself spent many a late night running through fellow student's computers looking for pron,.wav's, text files... anything interesting. File sizes were seldom the more than half a megabyte, but it was also on thinnet coax, and I'm sure bandwidth was much less than even 10mb/s.
As an example, there's a small, general "technology" company is S. E. Michigan that faxes large technical drawings to India, where the cheap but educated labor produces electronic copies in various CAD packages. The involved telecom & foreign labor costs are a fraction of what it would cost to have the drawings produced state-side.
And we've all read the articles on how technical support centers are largely out-sorced abroad.
At least you can compensate for that behavior by adding a www.bhsx DNS entry... as I've found I've had to do for all of my subdomains.
The real problem arises with my mom, who not only pre-pends "www." to everything, she'll also add a ".com" if the URL isn't to a.com site... now, that you can't compensate for...
Hey... has anyone registered "org.com" & "net.com"?
bigger faster better more, the endless pursuit "just because we can."
First, there's nothing wrong with "bigger and better" for its own sake; where would we be if CPU advances stopped with 386s? Or if cars were never faster or more reliable than a Ford Model T?
And second,.11a has a big advantage over.11b: less "line" noise. Late at night, I get a very strong signal between my laptop & access point from anywhere in the apartment. However, during the day my signal varies from "OK" to absolute shit; sometime TCP won't even work without rebooting the computer or access point. The only thing I can think of is neighbor's wireless phones & microwaves are causing the problem. I wish I had known about the advantage of.11a's 5 Ghz frequency over.11b's 900 Mhz, I gladly would have spent the extra money for the more reliable equipment.
You are coding for a CPU, not another human. It can be the ugliest piece of no-white spaced spagheti code, but as long as it compiles, the computer will gladly do what it's told. You've just got to make sure you told it what you meant to (and following a bracing/indent style might help you do that).
But if the point is to communicate to another human (or, on a broader scale, all of humanity), and an Educated Elder doesn't comprehend your writing, then you're not getting your point accross. Save the '1337 speak for/. & the megatokyo forums.
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That is an increadibly good point... one of the first things I do with any software package I install is remove the "Quick Launch" program from my Start Up folder; I tend to run older computers, and don't need the overhead of of a dozen little programs running in the background so that Word or Mozilla may load a wee bit faster, if I decide to run either on that day.
By not running Palm's HotSync, PGP, Office's Fast Start, Mozilla's Fast start, the AOL system tray, and various printer programs on startup I reclaim about 25% of the resources (as reported by Resource Meter) on my PC (Dell Optiplex P200 64MB RAM).
I think it will prove important in the future, if only beacuse it helps people make their complexity quota,
Funny, I thought that C# was supposed to reduce complexity.
Although pronouncing it "C-sharp" is a little counter intuitive; my first thoughts are always "C-pound". The maybe the first `Obfuscated C#' contests can center on it's name.
I could never get over the command completion in VMS... get the first three chars of the command correct, and it would usually run. Sometimes I'd swear I only got the first three letters of my password correct, and it would let me in.
Then there was the campus gripe about the "longest email addresses on the internet": @sitvax.stevens-tech.edu. My gripe is I started too late to get a bang path address...
Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police recommends "the establishment of a national database" with personal information about all Canadian Internet users. "The implementation of such a database would presuppose that service providers are compelled to provide accurate and current information," the draft says.
Well, dammit, if they want to violate my privacy on the Turnpike and at the airport, they may as well do something to eliminate spam, too.
My recent patent application can be summarized thusly:
"Bipedal motion, in which Ped One (1) is thrust in the direction of desired travel, followed by the retrieval and, if necessary, forward thrusting of Ped Two (2)."
Any by that I mean something that will globally (in the very *literal* sense) find and replace every instance of Comic Sans MS in the world.
And this got me thinking... I've got enough friends who like to use comic sans & other unreadable fonts in emails & instant messages... what if I copied fonts that are actually readable, and renamed them Comic Sans and the like? When others chose Comic Sans, will it display on my PC in the replacement font?
I've never played Scrabble on paper; I imagine it would be hard to read the letters drawn over the "triple word bonus" square, for example. How would you "draw" your letters, with a pencil? "Hey, look, I drew Z, Q, J, and K again!" (worth 10, 10, 8, and 5 points respectivly).
uhm, no. Why would a commie want to help purify you?
"I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids." -- General Jack D. Ripper, Dr. Strangelove.
Blockbuster is not within its right to edit the film it offers to its customers, because that interferes with the creator's artistic vision.
"Artistic Vision"? Please... the article didn't mention Citizen Kane, or even Dr. Strangelove; instead, it talked about Jerry McGuire and Titanic, and the only vision the creators of that pulp had was of dollar signs.
Wow, that's odd... maybe it was just documentation differences, but I took to OpenBSD much quicker than FreeBSD. I recomend OpenBSD to just about everyone looking to learn UNIX these days, the "intro email" and man afterboot provide all you need to get started playing with it.
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No, a website doesn't make you money... everyone learned that lesson 3 years ago. You get the word out about your music the old fashioned way... YOU TOUR. But now, instead of your fans just chatting amoung themselves and trading show tapes, people email all of their friends with links to the website, concerts are available for download via the file sharing networks, and you open yourself up to a much broader audiance. You can sell CD's off of your website, either by shipping them or offering the ISO image at a discount, and make money through performances. After all, once all the overhead of a record company is accounted for, artists make mere pennies on the reported sales of their CDs, and that number is usually much less than what were actually sold.
Once someone has bought a gun off of the street, it is as good as unregistered; and it goes a little something like this:
Now, how many times has that gun changed hands since it was last tracked? Even if the original criminal was caught, who knows where the crime weapon ended up.
So, if I type:
Why f'in bother, everyone knows that BSD is dying IF NOT DEAD, why don't those developers all move to Linux already?
will I get a "Troll" mod or a "Funny" mod? Let's find out...
Excessive data storage shouldn't be a problem; this is an SMB lan where everyone has there own computers and storage, not one user taking up all of the scratch space on NIUVAX or the university UNIX box.
Further, about the network bandwidth: what is the difference between his program doing this, and sitting up all night surfing the LAN? Before the WWW took off, my floormates and myself spent many a late night running through fellow student's computers looking for pron, .wav's, text files... anything interesting. File sizes were seldom the more than half a megabyte, but it was also on thinnet coax, and I'm sure bandwidth was much less than even 10mb/s.
As an example, there's a small, general "technology" company is S. E. Michigan that faxes large technical drawings to India, where the cheap but educated labor produces electronic copies in various CAD packages. The involved telecom & foreign labor costs are a fraction of what it would cost to have the drawings produced state-side.
And we've all read the articles on how technical support centers are largely out-sorced abroad.
At least you can compensate for that behavior by adding a www.bhsx DNS entry... as I've found I've had to do for all of my subdomains.
The real problem arises with my mom, who not only pre-pends "www." to everything, she'll also add a ".com" if the URL isn't to a .com site... now, that you can't compensate for...
Hey... has anyone registered "org.com" & "net.com"?
Brain fart... I was thinking of the interference from 900Mhz phones. Thanks for the correction :-)
First, there's nothing wrong with "bigger and better" for its own sake; where would we be if CPU advances stopped with 386s? Or if cars were never faster or more reliable than a Ford Model T?
And second, .11a has a big advantage over .11b: less "line" noise. Late at night, I get a very strong signal between my laptop & access point from anywhere in the apartment. However, during the day my signal varies from "OK" to absolute shit; sometime TCP won't even work without rebooting the computer or access point. The only thing I can think of is neighbor's wireless phones & microwaves are causing the problem. I wish I had known about the advantage of .11a's 5 Ghz frequency over .11b's 900 Mhz, I gladly would have spent the extra money for the more reliable equipment.
But why do you assume that they're white guys?
I prefer my red hat... I don't have to shave, all the white hats respect and revere me, and I can get it on with Smurfette.
Uhm, no.
You are coding for a CPU, not another human. It can be the ugliest piece of no-white spaced spagheti code, but as long as it compiles, the computer will gladly do what it's told. You've just got to make sure you told it what you meant to (and following a bracing/indent style might help you do that).
But if the point is to communicate to another human (or, on a broader scale, all of humanity), and an Educated Elder doesn't comprehend your writing, then you're not getting your point accross. Save the '1337 speak for /. & the megatokyo forums.
That is an increadibly good point... one of the first things I do with any software package I install is remove the "Quick Launch" program from my Start Up folder; I tend to run older computers, and don't need the overhead of of a dozen little programs running in the background so that Word or Mozilla may load a wee bit faster, if I decide to run either on that day.
By not running Palm's HotSync, PGP, Office's Fast Start, Mozilla's Fast start, the AOL system tray, and various printer programs on startup I reclaim about 25% of the resources (as reported by Resource Meter) on my PC (Dell Optiplex P200 64MB RAM).
Is this really an entire thread pushing non-Open Source apps & OSes on Slashdot? Or did I end up on Bizaro Slash?
Funny, I thought that C# was supposed to reduce complexity.
Although pronouncing it "C-sharp" is a little counter intuitive; my first thoughts are always "C-pound". The maybe the first `Obfuscated C#' contests can center on it's name.
I could never get over the command completion in VMS... get the first three chars of the command correct, and it would usually run. Sometimes I'd swear I only got the first three letters of my password correct, and it would let me in.
Then there was the campus gripe about the "longest email addresses on the internet": @sitvax.stevens-tech.edu. My gripe is I started too late to get a bang path address...
Well, dammit, if they want to violate my privacy on the Turnpike and at the airport, they may as well do something to eliminate spam, too.
My recent patent application can be summarized thusly:
"Bipedal motion, in which Ped One (1) is thrust in the direction of desired travel, followed by the retrieval and, if necessary, forward thrusting of Ped Two (2)."
ph3@r.
And this got me thinking... I've got enough friends who like to use comic sans & other unreadable fonts in emails & instant messages... what if I copied fonts that are actually readable, and renamed them Comic Sans and the like? When others chose Comic Sans, will it display on my PC in the replacement font?
uhm, no. Why would a commie want to help purify you?
"I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids." -- General Jack D. Ripper, Dr. Strangelove .
isn't that the DEA's fault?
First the lawyers go after after the domain name, now his hosting company/ISP is going to get tweaked about the bandwidth-using slashdotting....
Wow, that's odd... maybe it was just documentation differences, but I took to OpenBSD much quicker than FreeBSD. I recomend OpenBSD to just about everyone looking to learn UNIX these days, the "intro email" and man afterboot provide all you need to get started playing with it.