It's crap.   99.9999999999% of all 'content' on the Internet is worth exactly what we are currently paying for it.   Slashdot, Fuckedcompany and others are often entertaining, but would you subscribe to a newspaper that contains nothing but 'Letters to the Editor' and publishes everything it receives, regardless of content or relevance?   I don't think so.
I am already 'paying for content' -- 2 daily newspapers, 4 monthly magazines and cable TV.   Why
would I go on the Internet and pay for 'content' that's inferior to what I'm already paying for?
With 'content' there's a lot of flexibility in personal preferences and choices -- it's not as simple and cut and dried as "I like that so I'll pay for it".   X might not be exactly the same (or as good) as Y, but it's close enough -- especially since I've already paid for X.   I might find your online comic strip funny, but I'm unlikely to pay you because I'm already paying for a daily newspaper that gives me 20 comics every day.
I have to deal with Network Computing every day at work and it is a major pain in the ass. When the server goes down - guess what. Not only am I unable to send or receive e-mail (which you expect), I also cannot access any e-mail messages that I have previously sent or received - or the documents attached to them. Because.... they're all on the server!!
NC blows.
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I like Red Hat and wish them well, but this is pure Spin Doctoring. Their "profit" is the result of creative juggling (all perfectly legal, but juggling nonetheless) and at the end of the day, the reality is that they they lost 26 million dollars.
Over the past 4 quarters, RH has lost a combined total of around $60 million and their stock is barely able to stay above $5.
Don't break out the champagne and party hats just yet.
Over the past year or so, a lot of websites that used Real Player for streaming video changed to Windows Media Player because the software/licensing for WMP is cheaper than Real Player.
They don't like to talk about about it, but big corporations are already making lots of money from pr0n.
A recent study shows that 50% of people staying in major hotels rent at least 1 pr0n movie. Direct TV which carries several pr0n channels is owned by Hughes Aircraft (a division of General Motors).
But Real Player does compete with Windows Media Player. The issue isn't the existing audio/video files. The issue is encoding new material. Because of Microsoft's "we must dominate everything" mindset, they don't want *ANY* audio or video to be encoded in any format other than their own.
of why the movie and TV industries are idiots. How long have the Simpsons been on TV? And they're just now releasing the first season on DVD? This should have been done long ago.
Oh wait. No. That would be a bad idea. A very bad idea that would hurt the TV industry's profits.
After all we know that putting movies on Video Cassette just a few months after their theatrical release has hurt the movie industry terribly.
Yes, the enconomy in general is slowing down. That's nothing new -- it happens in regular cycles about every 9 - 10 years. ('73 - '82 - '92 - '01).
The dot-com bust was over due. Billions of dollars spent and nothing to show for it. Eventually, investors get tired of burning money and bail out.
Even if the economy was much stronger right now, the dot-com bubble would have burst anyway. The overall economic slow-down simply hastened the inevitable.
This has been going on for forever. When times are good and there's plenty of money, companies hire loads of people they don't really need. This is a direct result of management ego - it's much more prestigious (and looks better on the resume) to be the boss of 500 people rather than 50.
As a result, some people get lucky. They get a nice cushy job with a six figure salary and lots of perks. But then, when things go sour, they are the first to get canned and then they learn the awful truth -- the rest of the world is wise to the scam and knows that you aren't really worth $100k a year.
The whole dot-com boom threw everything totally out of wack. Now there were hundreds of new companies with billions of VC dollars to burn. Lots of people, many of them young with little maturity or life expericence, and just barely qualified to work at Burger Barn, were landing high paying jobs. And just like the rube who wins the lottery, they immediately dove head-first into a new lavish lifestyle that's way overboard, even for their inflated salary level.
And why shouldn't they. After all, this is the "new economy" -- things have changed and this is the way it's going to be forever. Not to mention all those stock options that will be worth millions in a couple of years.
Since 1995, I've used Windows 95,98 and now Windows 2000. I've never used Microsoft's web browser. I've always used Netscape, up till a few months ago when I switched to Opera (and occasionally Mozilla).
Since the "old days" of DOS, every time Microsoft releases a new version of their OS, everyone predicts the death of other software vendors due to all the new stuff built that Microsoft has built in, but it never happens, because the apps built into Windows almost always suck and are inferior to the ones made by other companies.
You might not be able to uninstall the add-ons you don't want (Windows 2000 won't even let you delete IE or Windows Media Player - they come right back if you do) but that doesn't mean you have to use them. And most people don't.
Even cluless newbies are (eventually) able to figure out why the aisles at Best Buy are full of programs to do all the things that are already built into Windows.
Right. Intel tried to sue AMD over the use of "386", however the Patent and Trademark Office ruled that a number by itself is not a legitimate trademark. By the time the ruling was made, the 486 was already out. So the 586 became "Pentium".
Which would mean:
Pentium Pro = 686
Pentium II = 786
Pentium III = 886
Pentium IV = 986
When will Intel finally be clever enough to think up a new name? "Pentium" was a good name as a successor to the 486, but, since then we've had the Pentium Pro and the Pentium 2,3,4.
Is Intel really so lame they can't think up another name? Will we have a Pentium 5,6,7,8,9?
Slashdot Mirror
"...ads that pop up between you and the page you're trying to read are the most effective."
This is absolutely true. Ads that pop up are extremely effective at pissing me off and making me never visit that website again.
It's crap.   99.9999999999% of all 'content' on the Internet is worth exactly what we are currently paying for it.   Slashdot, Fuckedcompany and others are often entertaining, but would you subscribe to a newspaper that contains nothing but 'Letters to the Editor' and publishes everything it receives, regardless of content or relevance?   I don't think so.
I am already 'paying for content' -- 2 daily newspapers, 4 monthly magazines and cable TV.   Why would I go on the Internet and pay for 'content' that's inferior to what I'm already paying for?
With 'content' there's a lot of flexibility in personal preferences and choices -- it's not as simple and cut and dried as "I like that so I'll pay for it".   X might not be exactly the same (or as good) as Y, but it's close enough -- especially since I've already paid for X.   I might find your online comic strip funny, but I'm unlikely to pay you because I'm already paying for a daily newspaper that gives me 20 comics every day.
I have to deal with Network Computing every day at work and it is a major pain in the ass. .... they're all on the server!!
When the server goes down - guess what. Not only am I unable to send or receive e-mail
(which you expect), I also cannot access any e-mail messages that I have previously
sent or received - or the documents attached to them. Because
NC blows.
I like Red Hat and wish them well, but this is pure Spin Doctoring. Their "profit" is the result of creative juggling (all perfectly legal, but juggling nonetheless) and at the end of the day, the reality is that they they lost 26 million dollars.
Over the past 4 quarters, RH has lost a combined total of around $60 million and their stock is barely able to stay above $5.
Don't break out the champagne and party hats just yet.
Over the past year or so, a lot of websites that used Real Player for streaming video changed to Windows Media Player because the software/licensing for WMP is cheaper than Real Player.
They don't like to talk about about it, but big corporations are already making lots of money from pr0n.
A recent study shows that 50% of people staying in major hotels rent at least 1 pr0n movie. Direct TV which carries several pr0n channels is owned by Hughes Aircraft (a division of General Motors).
But Real Player does compete with Windows Media Player. The issue isn't the existing audio/video files. The issue is encoding new material. Because of Microsoft's "we must dominate everything" mindset, they don't want *ANY* audio or video to be encoded in any format other than their own.
Use Mozilla. It's not so bloated and full of crap that you don't want or need,
of why the movie and TV industries are idiots. How long have the Simpsons been on TV? And they're just now releasing the first season on DVD? This should have been done long ago.
Oh wait. No. That would be a bad idea. A very bad idea that would hurt the TV industry's profits.
After all we know that putting movies on Video Cassette just a few months after their theatrical release has hurt the movie industry terribly.
D'OH!!
Yes, the enconomy in general is slowing down. That's nothing new -- it happens in regular cycles about every 9 - 10 years. ('73 - '82 - '92 - '01).
The dot-com bust was over due. Billions of dollars spent and nothing to show for it. Eventually, investors get tired of burning money and bail out.
Even if the economy was much stronger right now, the dot-com bubble would have burst anyway. The overall economic slow-down simply hastened the inevitable.
This has been going on for forever. When times are good and there's plenty of money, companies hire loads of people they don't really need. This is a direct result of management ego - it's much more prestigious (and looks better on the resume) to be the boss of 500 people rather than 50.
As a result, some people get lucky. They get a nice cushy job with a six figure salary and lots of perks. But then, when things go sour, they are the first to get canned and then they learn the awful truth -- the rest of the world is wise to the scam and knows that you aren't really worth $100k a year.
The whole dot-com boom threw everything totally out of wack. Now there were hundreds of new companies with billions of VC dollars to burn. Lots of people, many of them young with little maturity or life expericence, and just barely qualified to work at Burger Barn, were landing high paying jobs. And just like the rube who wins the lottery, they immediately dove head-first into a new lavish lifestyle that's way overboard, even for their inflated salary level.
And why shouldn't they. After all, this is the "new economy" -- things have changed and this is the way it's going to be forever. Not to mention all those stock options that will be worth millions in a couple of years.
As Homer Simpsom would say. DOH!!
What a lame piece of crap. Is David Duchovny really that hard up for work?
Since 1995, I've used Windows 95,98 and now Windows 2000. I've never used Microsoft's web browser. I've always used Netscape, up till a few months ago when I switched to Opera (and occasionally Mozilla).
Since the "old days" of DOS, every time Microsoft releases a new version of their OS, everyone predicts the death of other software vendors due to all the new stuff built that Microsoft has built in, but it never happens, because the apps built into Windows almost always suck and are inferior to the ones made by other companies.
You might not be able to uninstall the add-ons you don't want (Windows 2000 won't even let you delete IE or Windows Media Player - they come right back if you do) but that doesn't mean you have to use them. And most people don't.
Even cluless newbies are (eventually) able to figure out why the aisles at Best Buy are full of programs to do all the things that are already built into Windows.
Right. Intel tried to sue AMD over the use of "386", however the Patent and Trademark Office ruled that a number by itself is not a legitimate trademark. By the time the ruling was made, the 486 was already out. So the 586 became "Pentium".
Which would mean:
Pentium Pro = 686
Pentium II = 786
Pentium III = 886
Pentium IV = 986
When will Intel finally be clever enough to think up a new name? "Pentium" was a good name as a successor to the 486, but, since then we've had the Pentium Pro and the Pentium 2,3,4. Is Intel really so lame they can't think up another name? Will we have a Pentium 5,6,7,8,9?