I've been using gandi for about a year and I am very impressed. They are very cheap, and while slow to respond to e-mail, they eventually do and their contract cannot be beat.
Nolo.com has a nice short primer on Internet taxation issues, with plenty of additional links for more breadth.
As this NYT article suggests, the taxation ban expiring will have little effect in the short to medium term, as the ban itself was really very limited in scope, and no local politician wants to increase taxes, especially to affluent voters who would be primarily affected.
My own experience trying out linux has been disheartening, but I remain hopeful. I'm just an amateur who likes to play around with computers, and occassionally do something productive with them (usually that involves setting them up to do productive things for others to use). I'd love to use something other than windows, because its technical limitations and obtuse design are getting wearing. Hence my investigation of Linux
Slackware 8.0 was admittedly beyond my abilities (though it didn't break anything)
I tried mandrake 8.0 and it was a total disaster. I would consider mandrake to be a dangerous substance that should be regulated by the authorities.
So I'm waiting until linux becomes easier to use (yes, that means a usable gui interface) or until I get better at handling a computer and can hack through a system like slack.
Unfortunately, I believe that usability and stability tend to be mutually exclusive. Windows is so buggy because it has to deal with so much disparate software, but more importantly, really stupid users like myself.
What I really hate about windows is that it is developped without the user first in mind. Microsoft's business goals are the primary objective in designing the system, not the user.
Windows is dislodgeable, but it will take money, mostly for a lot of quality assurance work. The fight should go on, but it may be a while.
When you get down to it, better heatsinks are necessary because the engineering of processors is getting worse vis-a-vis heat production/dissipation.
Only transmeta is approaching processor production with low-power-consumption/heat-production as a priority and they are not shipping in large enough volume to really affect the market, plus their newer chips have manufacturing problems.
Instead of just touting gigahertz, there should be some inverse scale (so that higher is better) showing cool operation being marketed by the chipmakers. I can see the tagline: the hot chip that runs cool.
I'm running a celeron 400 (66 mhz bus) w/12 gig hd , 192 SDRAM and integrated standard graphics and sound card. I have the settings tweaked (running 98) and it's fast enough for most tasks, including large image work.
The fact is nowadays that all the other components, like ram, hd, graphics and especially network connection are the bottleneck.
Sure I think about upgrading, but I don't really need to, and with computers, the longer you wait, the better your final system will be.
What I really would like is some optic fiber coming into my apartment and unlimited bandwidth. Then I could really cause some dameag.:)
Yeah, I think that it really is the $1/print that kills them. Even regular, non-instant film processing is expensive. Even at it's cheapest, Once you factor in processing and film costs regular film is about $0.45/print (figuring 24 exposures: $3/roll, ~$8/processing).
Polaroid's business model was interesting because tha cameras wer real cheap (probably a loss leader) but the film was expensive. In a way that's sorta like the consumer printer market: printers cheap, cartridges expensive.
But when you get down to it, business models be damned, polaroids are more fun that digital cameras.
The digital was untouched and the polaroid took 405 pics before we ran out of film.
Polaroids are instant (no shutter lag), give you a hard, permanent picture within seconds.
Polaroid's current problems are due to a load of debt assumed in 1988 due to a hostile takeover bid.
However, assuming money is not an object, give people at a party a choice between taking polaroids and using a digital and the polaroid will win out.
I just wish that polaroid film was cheaper. It is a superior technology to digital in many ways. Sure it is an "analog" technology versus a digital one, but the world is analog not digital.
BTW, didn't get any good chick pix that I can publish, so don't rub it in.
Reading the HardOCP review, it seems that there are thermal detecting diodes in present and future Athlons but motherboards are still not prepped to utilize them, making them a useless feature until implemented.
I love comments like yours.
So are you suggesting that systems should not have redundant user verification controls before they proceed to make massive data structure changes?
I'm not saying that I didn't make an error.
What I am saying, is that for most users (yourself excluded, obviously, since you have never hit the wrong key by accident in your life) a well designed operating system also considers the possibility of slight human error, and makes sure that there are some controls against careless errors.
Hands down, installing windows 98 is easier and safer than installing mandrake 8.0 . This has been my experience. I imagine it is many other people's experience as well, which explains why linux is still a marginal desktop platform.
Impossible to connect to my dsl line, the hardware detection utility crashed the system worse than anything windoze has ever done.
But the worst part was during the setup, it was so poorly engineered that with one errant button push it started reformatting my entire windows drive (sorry folks, I also need to get serious work done). Fortunately, I was able to recover most data. But jeez, at least with dos fdisk there are redundant controls to protect against such accidents.
I'm sure that people reading this will accuse me of disloyalty to the cause, but sorry, that was my experience. I'll try playing with that distro later maybe, but only after unplugging any drive that may contain important information.
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Terrorists thrive on one thing:
helplessness and stupidity.
Terrorist organizations are brutal outfits of thugs who cloak themselves in romantic populism while often brutalizing worse the people the pretend to represent.
Before Osama Butt Lardass' attack, this country could give in the the namby-pamby argument that terrorism is a result of injustice. With thousands of our countrymen now buried in rubble, we must see terrorism for what it truly is: unexusable evil.
Don't be a dupe and fall for their rhetoric. Look at their actions and ask how they could possibly claim to speak for justice.
Yeah, I've been thinking about the same incident myself.
Probably no connection, but it would be interesting to see if anything was found there. Hopefully someone will follow up, and the story won't get lost in the wake of this disaster. With so much informational overload now, pre-disaster events may be very informative.
Why can't the rest of the world (us (Middle North) Americans included) be as civilized like you Canucks? When we had a secession, hundreds of thousands of lives were lost. You all have a peaceful election and act like adults.
Well, now it's time to get the rest of the world to grow up, whether they like it or not.
< copy of NYT webpage from 01:00 09/12/01 (real link here, but it is a slow load. >
Lower Manhattan to Stay Closed
September 12, 2001
Lower Manhattan is expected to remain cut off from the rest of the city today, and schools and stock exchanges will be closed.
Subways, streets and bridges leading to Lower Manhattan are expected to remain closed today. The city's three airports will be closed at least until 2 p.m. The Lincoln and Holland Tunnels will be closed to all but non-emergency traffic vehicles, officials said, but New Jersey-bound traffic on the George Washington Bridge's upper level will be allowed. Westbound traffic on Staten Island's three bridges will also be allowed.
The Police Department said that no one above 14th Street would be allowed to go south of there. Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani urged people not to come into Manhattan.
Subway trains will not stop at stations south of Canal Street, a transit spokesman, Bob Slovak, said. PATH service will operate, but officials urged commuters to stay home.
The city's public schools chancellor, Harold O. Levy, ordered schools closed, probably through tomorrow. He summoned principals, assistant principals, guidance counselors, social workers and school psychologists to go to work "to prepare plans to respond to the tragedy."
Four downtown colleges -- Pace University, the Borough of Manhattan Community College, the New School University and New York University -- canceled classes today. <end of article copy>
Here's also a very handy link to subway, bus, bridge and other local transportation info in NYC. It's at the official MTA site, so it's reliable. Basically south of Canal St. is shut down, and all bridges are just for outbound traffic, as of this post. I've found the cops at the bridges to be reasonable if you are on foot and have a compelling/official reason to get on the island.
God bless America.
When you look at the numbers, the merged company is now tied with IBM in revenues. Dell is left far behind. I would look for Dell to have to make some acquisitions of its own to stay competitive (Gateway, anyone?).
With this merger HP/Compaq will pretty much own the retail computer market.
Look for mergers in the direct sales market to keep companies like Dell and Gateway viable.
This kind of reminds me when I heard of the petroleum-eating bacteria that would be used to clean up oil spills. I always wondered if they might feast to much on the oil and end up in the actual reserves.
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I've been using gandi for about a year and I am very impressed. They are very cheap, and while slow to respond to e-mail, they eventually do and their contract cannot be beat.
Nolo.com has a nice short primer on Internet taxation issues, with plenty of additional links for more breadth.
As this NYT article suggests, the taxation ban expiring will have little effect in the short to medium term, as the ban itself was really very limited in scope, and no local politician wants to increase taxes, especially to affluent voters who would be primarily affected.
My own experience trying out linux has been disheartening, but I remain hopeful. I'm just an amateur who likes to play around with computers, and occassionally do something productive with them (usually that involves setting them up to do productive things for others to use). I'd love to use something other than windows, because its technical limitations and obtuse design are getting wearing. Hence my investigation of Linux
Slackware 8.0 was admittedly beyond my abilities (though it didn't break anything)
I tried mandrake 8.0 and it was a total disaster. I would consider mandrake to be a dangerous substance that should be regulated by the authorities.
So I'm waiting until linux becomes easier to use (yes, that means a usable gui interface) or until I get better at handling a computer and can hack through a system like slack.
Unfortunately, I believe that usability and stability tend to be mutually exclusive. Windows is so buggy because it has to deal with so much disparate software, but more importantly, really stupid users like myself.
What I really hate about windows is that it is developped without the user first in mind. Microsoft's business goals are the primary objective in designing the system, not the user.
Windows is dislodgeable, but it will take money, mostly for a lot of quality assurance work. The fight should go on, but it may be a while.
When you get down to it, better heatsinks are necessary because the engineering of processors is getting worse vis-a-vis heat production/dissipation.
Only transmeta is approaching processor production with low-power-consumption/heat-production as a priority and they are not shipping in large enough volume to really affect the market, plus their newer chips have manufacturing problems.
Instead of just touting gigahertz, there should be some inverse scale (so that higher is better) showing cool operation being marketed by the chipmakers. I can see the tagline: the hot chip that runs cool.
I'm running a celeron 400 (66 mhz bus) w/12 gig hd , 192 SDRAM and integrated standard graphics and sound card. I have the settings tweaked (running 98) and it's fast enough for most tasks, including large image work.
:)
The fact is nowadays that all the other components, like ram, hd, graphics and especially network connection are the bottleneck.
Sure I think about upgrading, but I don't really need to, and with computers, the longer you wait, the better your final system will be.
What I really would like is some optic fiber coming into my apartment and unlimited bandwidth. Then I could really cause some dameag.
someone tell me more about this pattent infringement suit....
when did it take place? Was it a legitimate suit or did kodak just give in for the sake of expedience.
Find 'em and I'll photograph them in the name of science. maybe....
Ummm....
For the average user like myself, Windows is a superior desktop technology to linux...
Chickmen?
Them's roosters, you dumbass!
Yeah, I think that it really is the $1/print that kills them. Even regular, non-instant film processing is expensive. Even at it's cheapest, Once you factor in processing and film costs regular film is about $0.45/print (figuring 24 exposures: $3/roll, ~$8/processing).
Polaroid's business model was interesting because tha cameras wer real cheap (probably a loss leader) but the film was expensive. In a way that's sorta like the consumer printer market: printers cheap, cartridges expensive.
But when you get down to it, business models be damned, polaroids are more fun that digital cameras.
I'd say that your b-school ananlysis was all wet.
If Kodak's SX-70 technology was such a threat, it would be on the market, not polaroid's "laughable" design.
As you said in the end of your post, the company obviously has legs, or it woulda been gone a long time ago.
Whoops, that's 45 pix taken, not 405. That'll larn me not to proofread.
(On the other hand, if I had taken 405 pix, I imagine I woulda gotten some racier ones eventually)
Had a party last night.
Took polaroids and had a digital:
The digital was untouched and the polaroid took 405 pics before we ran out of film.
Polaroids are instant (no shutter lag), give you a hard, permanent picture within seconds.
Polaroid's current problems are due to a load of debt assumed in 1988 due to a hostile takeover bid.
However, assuming money is not an object, give people at a party a choice between taking polaroids and using a digital and the polaroid will win out.
I just wish that polaroid film was cheaper. It is a superior technology to digital in many ways. Sure it is an "analog" technology versus a digital one, but the world is analog not digital.
BTW, didn't get any good chick pix that I can publish, so don't rub it in.
Reading the HardOCP review, it seems that there are thermal detecting diodes in present and future Athlons but motherboards are still not prepped to utilize them, making them a useless feature until implemented.
I love comments like yours.
So are you suggesting that systems should not have redundant user verification controls before they proceed to make massive data structure changes?
I'm not saying that I didn't make an error.
What I am saying, is that for most users (yourself excluded, obviously, since you have never hit the wrong key by accident in your life) a well designed operating system also considers the possibility of slight human error, and makes sure that there are some controls against careless errors.
Hands down, installing windows 98 is easier and safer than installing mandrake 8.0 . This has been my experience. I imagine it is many other people's experience as well, which explains why linux is still a marginal desktop platform.
And you are a fanboy.
Yeah I went ahead and installed mandrake 8.0 .
What a piece of junk.
Impossible to connect to my dsl line, the hardware detection utility crashed the system worse than anything windoze has ever done.
But the worst part was during the setup, it was so poorly engineered that with one errant button push it started reformatting my entire windows drive (sorry folks, I also need to get serious work done). Fortunately, I was able to recover most data. But jeez, at least with dos fdisk there are redundant controls to protect against such accidents.
I'm sure that people reading this will accuse me of disloyalty to the cause, but sorry, that was my experience. I'll try playing with that distro later maybe, but only after unplugging any drive that may contain important information.
Terrorists thrive on one thing:
helplessness and stupidity.
Terrorist organizations are brutal outfits of thugs who cloak themselves in romantic populism while often brutalizing worse the people the pretend to represent.
Before Osama Butt Lardass' attack, this country could give in the the namby-pamby argument that terrorism is a result of injustice. With thousands of our countrymen now buried in rubble, we must see terrorism for what it truly is: unexusable evil.
Don't be a dupe and fall for their rhetoric. Look at their actions and ask how they could possibly claim to speak for justice.
Yeah, I've been thinking about the same incident myself.
Probably no connection, but it would be interesting to see if anything was found there. Hopefully someone will follow up, and the story won't get lost in the wake of this disaster. With so much informational overload now, pre-disaster events may be very informative.
You bastard,
Now I've gotten all weepy.
Why can't the rest of the world (us (Middle North) Americans included) be as civilized like you Canucks? When we had a secession, hundreds of thousands of lives were lost. You all have a peaceful election and act like adults.
Well, now it's time to get the rest of the world to grow up, whether they like it or not.
< copy of NYT webpage from 01:00 09/12/01 (real link here, but it is a slow load. >
Lower Manhattan to Stay Closed
September 12, 2001
Lower Manhattan is expected to remain cut off from the rest of the city today, and schools and stock exchanges will be closed.
Subways, streets and bridges leading to Lower Manhattan are expected to remain closed today. The city's three airports will be closed at least until 2 p.m. The Lincoln and Holland Tunnels will be closed to all but non-emergency traffic vehicles, officials said, but New Jersey-bound traffic on the George Washington Bridge's upper level will be allowed. Westbound traffic on Staten Island's three bridges will also be allowed.
The Police Department said that no one above 14th Street would be allowed to go south of there. Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani urged people not to come into Manhattan.
Subway trains will not stop at stations south of Canal Street, a transit spokesman, Bob Slovak, said. PATH service will operate, but officials urged commuters to stay home.
The city's public schools chancellor, Harold O. Levy, ordered schools closed, probably through tomorrow. He summoned principals, assistant principals, guidance counselors, social workers and school psychologists to go to work "to prepare plans to respond to the tragedy."
Four downtown colleges -- Pace University, the Borough of Manhattan Community College, the New School University and New York University -- canceled classes today. <end of article copy>
Here's also a very handy link to subway, bus, bridge and other local transportation info in NYC. It's at the official MTA site, so it's reliable. Basically south of Canal St. is shut down, and all bridges are just for outbound traffic, as of this post. I've found the cops at the bridges to be reasonable if you are on foot and have a compelling/official reason to get on the island.
God bless America.
Well, the markets definitely agree with you, as both Compaq and HP stocks are going down
When you look at the numbers, the merged company is now tied with IBM in revenues. Dell is left far behind. I would look for Dell to have to make some acquisitions of its own to stay competitive (Gateway, anyone?).
With this merger HP/Compaq will pretty much own the retail computer market.
Look for mergers in the direct sales market to keep companies like Dell and Gateway viable.
The New York Times article talks about both HP and Compaq devoting resources to the same server OS. Which one is that?
Stanford Dean: Jimmy, we are so pleased with your gift.
Jim Clark: Thanks, babe. It's for a good cause -(beep) hold on, someone's on the other line.
(click)Hello?
Stockbroker: Mr Clark, if you don't come up with some cash, we are going to have to liquidate all your holdings.
Jim Clark: Hold on a second! I got someone on the other line -(click)
Stanford Dean: So Jim, with that money going to stem cell research -
Jim Clark: - Stem CELL research!?! That's ghastly!!! I thought you were doing StemWARE research!
Dean: What?!?
Jim Clark: You know, table settings and what not!
Dean: Mr Clark... I don't understand -
JC: Evidently. you'll get no money from me, you immoral goons. See ya! I gotta take this other call (click)
Stockbroker: Hello?
JC: I just came up with your money, you bloodsuckers.
Stockbroker: Thank you, Mister Clark.
This kind of reminds me when I heard of the petroleum-eating bacteria that would be used to clean up oil spills. I always wondered if they might feast to much on the oil and end up in the actual reserves.
Ever seen gypsy-moths feast on a forest?