The real question is what temperature it runs at under full load. If it runs at 50C under normal load how hot does it get under max load. Say playing QuakeIII?
Would'nt it be funny if the only reason Steve Jobs introduced the cube was to make fools of anyone copying the idea? I wonder of Cobalt is gonna sue because Apple is stealing their idea?
Hmmm, from what I read it would appear accessible as a function call from any client-side application. So the question should be,"can you call Tux from a java app?" The answer should be yes.
I think its fair to assume from the number of retail sites i've seen made from nothing but static FrontPage generated webpages that asking JoBlo to write his own GGI is asking too much. Not to mention that JoBlo becomes locked into that Merchant vendor after expending so much effort hooking into their API.
The cube is supposed to be silent. It has no internal fan. The Redeon requires a fan to keep it cool. Thus, there never were plans to put the Raedon in the Cube. Most likely the announcement was for a Raedon option for the high end Imacs. Someone misquoted the origional stoies for dramatic effect. Stating to be more and more common here at/. read yesterdays nVidia game cheater story. Another misquote. ASUS modified the drivers for cheating---NOT nVidia.
For those who haven't tried running a retail business online, here is a basic description of how it usually works.
Customer clicks link to add item to shopping basket.
When order is complete customer submits order to CGI based program for processing. This could include adding tax or shipping. This may also pass them to a secured gateway. Personal information, shipping information and credit card info is entered.
Customer hits the final order button and the order is processed through the secure gateway.
Request is sent by the CGI program to the merchant services and order details sent to your company.
You process the order, when ready for shipping you contact the Merchant Services and "Batch" or process the credit transaction to recieve funds. In most cases you should not charge the account until order is shipped. Most merchant services require you to batch nightly or they will charge you extra/ charge you a extra fee.
For you, the retailer, there are many important issues involved. You have the shopping basket application, secure CGI gateway, Merchant services, order processing and tracking, inventory and payment/order integration into your backend accounting package. This amounts to a lot of work especially for a smaller retail operation. There is a lot of responsibility involved (read liability) in handling credit card information. There is a lot of somewhat difficult programming involved integrating your frontend into the merchant account backend and providing a secure ordering environment. And last, but certainly not least, entering the transactions and inventory changes into your accounting/inventory software.
When looking for a good merchant services company there are many things to consider besides what fees are involved. Many merchant companies are adding extra value by providing extra services that make things easier for you. Maintaining your website, filling orders, maintaining inventory and keeling you accounting books current is quite a bit of work. Messing with CGI and worrying about order security are somthing you should look to your merchant services provider for.
With all that said, the best, easiest system I've been thus far is GoEmerchant. They provide the secure payment gateway and merchant services. They can even host your website with little extra charge. They will custom format emailed sales reports so you can easily import them into your accounting package backend. This product is realted to Cybercash. No, I'm not a salesman, but I've done a lot of research after having tried it the hard way with traditional merchant services. Just check these guys out along with the other services that are appearing to make life easier for Online retailers.
What is really special about GOEmerchant is the ease of use. No CGI Programming. It is a product related to Cybercash so no cheesy user support. the system is so simple all the user has to do is copy links and past them into their website HTML. Further, they are very willing to format emails sales reports to suit the user. Say you wanted them in a format for importing into your favorite Accounting package--no problem. Most of the offers you see advertized are BS scams with little or no user support and without focusing on intenet sales only. They can't hope to compete for support.
These guys Go-Emerchant have the cheapest and easiest system I've seen so far. $40/month gets you a merchant account and secure payment gateway. There are several configuration options available. They charge $40/month plus 2.49% plus 30 cents per transaction. No mus, no fuss, no liablilty for losing someones credit card info. They click on a link on your website and the item is added to their shopping cart. You can even add the link to emails and they can click on the email link to order. Tier $50 plan even hosts our website.
Frankly, I didn't get into comics until after highschool. Wolverine is probably my favorite character. This made the movie very enjoyable. I've always liked characters like Batman, Punisher and DareDevil because they were somewhat more believable. Cyclops and other spandex heros always turned me off. Give me a gritty character with real motivation. I'd still buy comics but they just got too expensive. For the same $7.00 buying two comics I can get a book that lasts more than 30 min.
LinuxAve has been doing this for a long time. Previosly they were called LinuxBox but merged with another company and switched names. I've been with them a couple of years. New accounts will have to wait for full domain hosting (if ever like SourceForge). Not the fastest server but a great place to put your stuff and excellent, commercial grade user support.
Other notable projects include SourceForge and Frestmeat's Area51.
Put a basic copyright disclaimer that lets someone read the code but refer to the GPL for everything else. The Copyright owner can use whatever Licence or licences they choose. For instance, much of PHP is distributed under the GPL and PHP licences.
You transfer some money to an offshore account of some other form of virtual money,securly log on to a foreign gambling website and gamble? Could the government use the fact that you logged into their IP as cause to break your encryption and prosecute you? Would this be considered money laundering?
As to the main question, government likes to play vice lord so they can tightly control business prone to corruption. Gambling, liquor and drugs. Unfortunately government is just a succeptable to corruption. See the FLA lotto where the government lied and told their constituents that money derived through the lotto would be used to bolster public education, not as a tool to cut school budgets. A year later they cut the education budget claiming the lottery revenue more than made up the difference. ex: Taxes->Education Taxes+Lotto->Better education and what really happened Newtaxes=(Oldtaxes-Lotto)+Lotto->Same old education
Legislators count on the public being stupid and gullible. Same thing has happened in many states. Can't wait till they go after lotto like they did tobacco. Talk about addiction. Stop by 7-11 sometime and wait in line behind the 20 people lined up to buy lotto tickets with the money they got by cashing
What would make the 3D GUI productive is a 3D input device to with it. Somthing like a special glove or fingerpads that transverses the 3D world. I.E. Push the orange ball out of the way so you can punch the red cube and run Excel.
The flip side of this is that there has been essentially no breakthroughs in monitor development either. every couple of month some new story about reasonably priced flat panel monitors or 3D monitors appears, only to fade into obscurity. Maybe when desktop realestate gets bigger than 17" diagonal and more than 2d we'll see some novel approaches. In the end though "form follows function". Just as the shortest distance between two points is a straigt line.
What is really depressing is that the area I'm in seems deviod of any Linux presence. Just a single Unix users group down in Virginia Beach and a few ads mentioning Linux in the local free computer mag that usually trashed Linux. The nearest show was done in North Carolina. Probably because of the stong RedHat presence. From a logistical standpoint its not too convenient to get to from the NorthEast (no convenient rout down the East Coast past Virginia Beach).
I think Richmond Virginia would be an ideal location. Not as expensive as DC but within a two hour commute from DC and Tidewater Virginia (Newport News+Norfolk +Vieginia Beach). having never organized anything like this before I wouldn't know where to start. If I had big IPO bucks to spend I know I'd jump on a tradeshow in Richmond. This area is huge as far as govermnment and Military is concerned. If you even managed to talk a few ranking military leaders into shifting 10% of their stuff to Linux it would be a major coup. I know personally that many of these recent VBS bugs have practically shut down smaller military installations. Agruing for diversity in computer platforms wouldn't be a tough sell either.
I chose MySQL for its lack of "features". I think it is stupid that 90% of the criticisms of MYSQL talk about features that are seldom used. Transactions my butt. MYSQL is simple.
Generally you expect at least a decent plot, especially after having many years and numerous books to draw inspiration from. And I hate to say it, but Liam Neeson didn't seem too enthusiastic about doing the flick. Pretty bad when the lead character can't stay awake enough to act.
have they released the Win32 version under the GPL also? If so this could really open the floodgates since this is the only database with a free/GPL JDBC driver.
I think to really be able to participate in the decision making that gets made in the community it would take much more than a few hours a month. City council meetings, school board meetings, state level legislation you name it. These things have much more impact on out daily lives than national elections. Participation is also very difficult. With three kids and a fulltime job I'm pretty much running from 6AM til 9PM just to keep up. By making information more available and participation more flexible I would be able to spend the time once my kids were asleep. So don't tell me that i don't deserve representation just because I have a life. I say that if the tools are there to make participation easier, then they should be used.
I for one think this could be the start of a great equalizer. People working long or odd shift hours can have a voice. No longer will petitioning be limited to the unemployed. I think this has been one of my biggest worries for the future of our country. How can we survive where the hardest working have no access to a voice. No longer will bs legislation pass because the onbly people who voted on it were the ones with the ability to get down to the voting station in the middle of the afternoon on a workday.
My origional point was that by letting people register meaningful words as domains you made domains a rare commodity. The DNS system could easily have restricted allowable characters to a fixed length string of numbers.
If portability is the only real issue for finding a solution to get us out of this mess, then how about two IP's a static and virtual one. The virtual one is portable. I'm not sure someone should have exclusive rights to Love.com anyhow. How is anyone supposed to compete in a mainstream intenet if entire companies are devoted to sucking up the best domains and extorting people who have valid uses. Ditch the name issue entirely. Then again, I'm pretty sure a better solution will come along someday. I just hope that too much money doesn't get tied up in current domains to kill the evolution.
Maybe they should have left everything as numbers. Domain names have becoem hot-commodity property. If they had simply used numbers then 126.125.10.154 could have been called whatever the user wanted to call it. Browsing the web and indexing it would be based on content alone. No easy nobrainer whitehouse.com stuff to snare unsuspecting newbys. It sucks , but at least we wouldn't have all these squatting issues. How would you like it if someone is squatting on you family name as a domain name? Or worse yet, you get sued for using your family name as a domain name? Its happened.
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The real question is what temperature it runs at under full load. If it runs at 50C under normal load how hot does it get under max load. Say playing QuakeIII?
Would'nt it be funny if the only reason Steve Jobs introduced the cube was to make fools of anyone copying the idea? I wonder of Cobalt is gonna sue because Apple is stealing their idea?
You can also charge a premium for including binaries. 99.9% of users either don't know how to compile or don't want the inconvenience of compiling.
Hmmm, from what I read it would appear accessible as a function call from any client-side application. So the question should be,"can you call Tux from a java app?" The answer should be yes.
I think its fair to assume from the number of retail sites i've seen made from nothing but static FrontPage generated webpages that asking JoBlo to write his own GGI is asking too much. Not to mention that JoBlo becomes locked into that Merchant vendor after expending so much effort hooking into their API.
The cube is supposed to be silent. It has no internal fan. The Redeon requires a fan to keep it cool. Thus, there never were plans to put the Raedon in the Cube. Most likely the announcement was for a Raedon option for the high end Imacs. Someone misquoted the origional stoies for dramatic effect. Stating to be more and more common here at /. read yesterdays nVidia game cheater story. Another misquote. ASUS modified the drivers for cheating---NOT nVidia.
For those who haven't tried running a retail business online, here is a basic description of how it usually works.
For you, the retailer, there are many important issues involved. You have the shopping basket application, secure CGI gateway, Merchant services, order processing and tracking, inventory and payment/order integration into your backend accounting package. This amounts to a lot of work especially for a smaller retail operation. There is a lot of responsibility involved (read liability) in handling credit card information. There is a lot of somewhat difficult programming involved integrating your frontend into the merchant account backend and providing a secure ordering environment. And last, but certainly not least, entering the transactions and inventory changes into your accounting/inventory software.
When looking for a good merchant services company there are many things to consider besides what fees are involved. Many merchant companies are adding extra value by providing extra services that make things easier for you. Maintaining your website, filling orders, maintaining inventory and keeling you accounting books current is quite a bit of work. Messing with CGI and worrying about order security are somthing you should look to your merchant services provider for.
With all that said, the best, easiest system I've been thus far is GoEmerchant. They provide the secure payment gateway and merchant services. They can even host your website with little extra charge. They will custom format emailed sales reports so you can easily import them into your accounting package backend. This product is realted to Cybercash. No, I'm not a salesman, but I've done a lot of research after having tried it the hard way with traditional merchant services. Just check these guys out along with the other services that are appearing to make life easier for Online retailers.
What is really special about GOEmerchant is the ease of use. No CGI Programming. It is a product related to Cybercash so no cheesy user support. the system is so simple all the user has to do is copy links and past them into their website HTML. Further, they are very willing to format emails sales reports to suit the user. Say you wanted them in a format for importing into your favorite Accounting package--no problem. Most of the offers you see advertized are BS scams with little or no user support and without focusing on intenet sales only. They can't hope to compete for support.
These guys Go-Emerchant have the cheapest and easiest system I've seen so far. $40/month gets you a merchant account and secure payment gateway. There are several configuration options available. They charge $40/month plus 2.49% plus 30 cents per transaction. No mus, no fuss, no liablilty for losing someones credit card info. They click on a link on your website and the item is added to their shopping cart. You can even add the link to emails and they can click on the email link to order. Tier $50 plan even hosts our website.
Frankly, I didn't get into comics until after highschool. Wolverine is probably my favorite character. This made the movie very enjoyable. I've always liked characters like Batman, Punisher and DareDevil because they were somewhat more believable. Cyclops and other spandex heros always turned me off. Give me a gritty character with real motivation. I'd still buy comics but they just got too expensive. For the same $7.00 buying two comics I can get a book that lasts more than 30 min.
LinuxAve has been doing this for a long time. Previosly they were called LinuxBox but merged with another company and switched names. I've been with them a couple of years. New accounts will have to wait for full domain hosting (if ever like SourceForge). Not the fastest server but a great place to put your stuff and excellent, commercial grade user support.
Other notable projects include SourceForge and Frestmeat's Area51.
Put a basic copyright disclaimer that lets someone read the code but refer to the GPL for everything else. The Copyright owner can use whatever Licence or licences they choose. For instance, much of PHP is distributed under the GPL and PHP licences.
You transfer some money to an offshore account of some other form of virtual money,securly log on to a foreign gambling website and gamble? Could the government use the fact that you logged into their IP as cause to break your encryption and prosecute you? Would this be considered money laundering?
As to the main question, government likes to play vice lord so they can tightly control business prone to corruption. Gambling, liquor and drugs. Unfortunately government is just a succeptable to corruption. See the FLA lotto where the government lied and told their constituents that money derived through the lotto would be used to bolster public education, not as a tool to cut school budgets. A year later they cut the education budget claiming the lottery revenue more than made up the difference. ex:
Taxes->Education
Taxes+Lotto->Better education
and what really happened
Newtaxes=(Oldtaxes-Lotto)+Lotto->Same old education
Legislators count on the public being stupid and gullible. Same thing has happened in many states. Can't wait till they go after lotto like they did tobacco. Talk about addiction. Stop by 7-11 sometime and wait in line behind the 20 people lined up to buy lotto tickets with the money they got by cashing
Are there any plans for or existing features in Tux that allow for adding custom modules such as WebDav? How about custom protocols?
What would make the 3D GUI productive is a 3D input device to with it. Somthing like a special glove or fingerpads that transverses the 3D world. I.E. Push the orange ball out of the way so you can punch the red cube and run Excel.
The flip side of this is that there has been essentially no breakthroughs in monitor development either. every couple of month some new story about reasonably priced flat panel monitors or 3D monitors appears, only to fade into obscurity. Maybe when desktop realestate gets bigger than 17" diagonal and more than 2d we'll see some novel approaches. In the end though "form follows function". Just as the shortest distance between two points is a straigt line.
I think Richmond Virginia would be an ideal location. Not as expensive as DC but within a two hour commute from DC and Tidewater Virginia (Newport News+Norfolk +Vieginia Beach). having never organized anything like this before I wouldn't know where to start. If I had big IPO bucks to spend I know I'd jump on a tradeshow in Richmond. This area is huge as far as govermnment and Military is concerned. If you even managed to talk a few ranking military leaders into shifting 10% of their stuff to Linux it would be a major coup. I know personally that many of these recent VBS bugs have practically shut down smaller military installations. Agruing for diversity in computer platforms wouldn't be a tough sell either.
I chose MySQL for its lack of "features". I think it is stupid that 90% of the criticisms of MYSQL talk about features that are seldom used. Transactions my butt. MYSQL is simple.
Generally you expect at least a decent plot, especially after having many years and numerous books to draw inspiration from. And I hate to say it, but Liam Neeson didn't seem too enthusiastic about doing the flick. Pretty bad when the lead character can't stay awake enough to act.
have they released the Win32 version under the GPL also? If so this could really open the floodgates since this is the only database with a free/GPL JDBC driver.
I think to really be able to participate in the decision making that gets made in the community it would take much more than a few hours a month. City council meetings, school board meetings, state level legislation you name it. These things have much more impact on out daily lives than national elections. Participation is also very difficult. With three kids and a fulltime job I'm pretty much running from 6AM til 9PM just to keep up. By making information more available and participation more flexible I would be able to spend the time once my kids were asleep. So don't tell me that i don't deserve representation just because I have a life. I say that if the tools are there to make participation easier, then they should be used.
I for one think this could be the start of a great equalizer. People working long or odd shift hours can have a voice. No longer will petitioning be limited to the unemployed. I think this has been one of my biggest worries for the future of our country. How can we survive where the hardest working have no access to a voice. No longer will bs legislation pass because the onbly people who voted on it were the ones with the ability to get down to the voting station in the middle of the afternoon on a workday.
My origional point was that by letting people register meaningful words as domains you made domains a rare commodity. The DNS system could easily have restricted allowable characters to a fixed length string of numbers.
If portability is the only real issue for finding a solution to get us out of this mess, then how about two IP's a static and virtual one. The virtual one is portable. I'm not sure someone should have exclusive rights to Love.com anyhow. How is anyone supposed to compete in a mainstream intenet if entire companies are devoted to sucking up the best domains and extorting people who have valid uses. Ditch the name issue entirely. Then again, I'm pretty sure a better solution will come along someday. I just hope that too much money doesn't get tied up in current domains to kill the evolution.
Maybe they should have left everything as numbers. Domain names have becoem hot-commodity property. If they had simply used numbers then 126.125.10.154 could have been called whatever the user wanted to call it. Browsing the web and indexing it would be based on content alone. No easy nobrainer whitehouse.com stuff to snare unsuspecting newbys. It sucks , but at least we wouldn't have all these squatting issues. How would you like it if someone is squatting on you family name as a domain name? Or worse yet, you get sued for using your family name as a domain name? Its happened.