Yeah, pointless post. I'm not seeing a whole lot of bad things about a deal like this. Sun makes servers, StorageTek makes honcho tape libraries. The easier they work together, the better. Less games of "blame the other vendor" when your library starts munching up DLT tapes at 3am.:)
Blogs are cluttering up search engines faster than online poker spammers are. seriously. I would *love* to type in a search and eliminate all blogs from the results. Maybe if the blog wankers would come up with a tag that would allow us to skip blogs in Google searches this wouldn't be a problem, but no, that won't happen because bloggers love the page views.
They're going to launch a bunch of satellites that will take maps every so often.. probably with the same frequency that GoogleBot crawls the web.;)
Now *that* would be pretty cool. Hey, Google is here in Mountain View.. and Moffett Field & Lockheed are right down the street, they could get some stuff goin' on with NASA...
Real time satellite imaging! Imagine being able to zoom in on a baseball game that's in progress. Suh-weeeeet!
Actually, I bet that the "topless beaches in France" would become an immensely popular search...
Chuck E Cheese used to have a location in Concord, CA. It had probably 200 video games in the place, and a 3 story "cheese hole" that kids could climb through. It was great.. they had all the latest games and they kept the old school games around.
Teenagers ruined it. Loser kids with no money and no intention of playing the games would just gather there and 'hang out' and disturb gamers/etc. It got to where there were enough of them that business declined a bit, and then the "family friendly" movement (blah) came around in the mid 90's and the place was remodelled to be more "family friendly" - that usually meant only a few video games, and more lighting and an interior design that wouldn't let your little children out of your sight. (This particular location had 2 stories and was dimly lit)
Modern video games usually *suck* though. I just went to Dave & Busters in Milpitas, CA and they really haven't added any new games. Some of the games have been there since the place opened. I get bored really fast with "House of the Living Dead" games and the car race games. Unfortunately, D&B has *lots* of those. I guess I could play the Ski-Doo game or "American Trucker" - oh, wait. That's just another driving/race game.
Gameworx in Seattle would at least rotate games a little more often, and seeing "Redneck Rampage" on a big screen was classic.
Me neither. I've had the "Install Windows XP, have no network" problem on Dell hardware. Their website gives you a few choices of drivers most of the time because sometimes a certain model ships with a different ethernet chipset.
It's a crapshoot with www.dell.com and after a few hours, you might get lucky!:D
I have fairly new SCSI RAID cards that Fedora Core 3, Gentoo 2005.0, and the brand new Knoppix CDs wouldn't see. MegaRAID Enterprise 1500 (Series 467)
Windows Server 2003 saw the card just fine.
Apparantly (according to a LOT of Googling) to Red Hat's bugzilla, this was some kernel driver changes. It bit a lot of people that upgraded Red Hat/Fedora kernels.. ouch.
(FTR, I was able to use an older Knoppix CD and install Gentoo that way)
But my point is that some hardware works great in Windows but doesn't in Linux, and vice versa.
I couldn't find anything on Earthlink's site about it.. what happens if you sign up for the service, hate it, and want to cancel? What do they do then?
I recall some similar deal with MSN years ago, and if people cancelled their service, they were hit with $300 early termination fees.
So, is this really "Earthlink spreading Linux" or marketing drones saying "Hey, this Linux stuff is a nice and cheap way to lock in more customers!" ?
Sacramento, CA has a lot of coffee shops. Rarely are cute girls seen studying, unless it's at one of the shops right near one of the colleges. The downtown area? It's the bikers. Java City at 18th & Capitol Ave right in downtown used to be a great place, but the groups of motorcycles *thundering* down the street (Really, some of these bikes are just too goddamn loud) and taking up all of the outside tables prevent anyone else from actually getting a seat. They're not a biker gang, but many of them attent a nearby methadone clinic. They have no jobs and nothing to do, so they sit there *all day long* - literally. Thanks to similar folks, Java City cancelled its $0.50 refill policy and got rid of the nice glass dishes as well.
Point is, it's not always the WiFi geeks - people are generally mooches.:P
Looks like they're basically saying "Sorry, EU-MPAA, but we really do have more important issues to tend to than some high school kid that's downloading little bits of "1" and "0" that he can put on his iPod. Besides, he's paid the media tax that you turkeys claimed was necessary to cover the costs of piracy. Now go away."
I think that's the only way one *can* enjoy it. heh.
If I recall correctly, there were cool scenes in the trailer that weren't actually in the movie. Ever see that happen? Seeing a trailer and then seeing a movie and going "Hey, that stuff I saw in the trailer didn't happen!" sucks. heh.
It *was* an Exchange killer before. The SuiteSpot server stuff predates modern Microsoft Exchange. Back in those days, Exchange was only around 5.x and lacked a *lot* of features. Exchange Server 2003 has matured and added POP/IMAP and many other features that the SuiteSpot server packages had way back when.
Things are a lot different than they were back then... even 5 years ago.
I've used OpenLDAP and Netscape Directory Server. NDS is a *very very very* cool product. It's easy to use, scales like there's no tomorrow (it was the backend for a lot of the older Netscape Netcenter sign on functions) and it's nice & documented. (I still have books for it)
Red Hat releasing it under the GPL is a good thing, any way that you look at it. Cool product, "big name company" supporting it, and oodles of applications that can already use many of its functions.
Now, if someone would slurp up Netscape Calendaring Server and release *that* under the GPL.. If the Netscape SuiteSpot Server suite still existed and was under the GPL, there's your Exchange-killer right there.
Hrm. The only thing that might go wrong is.. well, a lot of movies just plain suck, but people don't realize it until they've been suckered into theatres to see it. The trailers sucker them in. Classic example: "Mission to Mars" was HORRIBLE. ONe of the worst movies that I have ever seen. Had I seen a low-res version of it, I'd have *never* spent money to see it in the theatre.
Movie studios probably know this. They count on suckers.:)
(NO, I didn't download it. Friend did and had it on his laptop.)
Bunch of us watched the first 10-15 minutes. Everyone said "Ok, so far it doesn't suck. Let's go see it.".... and off the group went to the next showing.
Remember when Apple let the first 7 minutes of "Chicken Run" loose on their trailer site? Good move, I say. I'm fed up with biased movie reviews and trailers that show the only cool parts of the whole movie. I'm still pissed off that I wasted $30 + 2 hours of my life to see "Mission to Mars" after seeing the trailer. Bastards.
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Yeah, pointless post. I'm not seeing a whole lot of bad things about a deal like this. Sun makes servers, StorageTek makes honcho tape libraries. The easier they work together, the better. Less games of "blame the other vendor" when your library starts munching up DLT tapes at 3am. :)
Sadly, I bet that the "Parents Television Council" would lobby relentlessly to be the ones that deem what is & isn't acceptable for kids.
You KNOW that the Christian right is going to be all over this one in their efforts to "clean up the internet."
Blogs are cluttering up search engines faster than online poker spammers are. seriously. I would *love* to type in a search and eliminate all blogs from the results. Maybe if the blog wankers would come up with a tag that would allow us to skip blogs in Google searches this wouldn't be a problem, but no, that won't happen because bloggers love the page views.
"Incidently, this is also why everyone is against software patents. It will kill our software design industry."
:-(
sadly, there are too many lawyers on the planet that are foaming at the mouth at the thought of being able to patent everything they can think of.
but in the meantime, Google gets cluttered up with the rest of their dishonest blathering.
I liked the internet without blogs just fine.
They're going to launch a bunch of satellites that will take maps every so often.. probably with the same frequency that GoogleBot crawls the web. ;)
Now *that* would be pretty cool. Hey, Google is here in Mountain View.. and Moffett Field & Lockheed are right down the street, they could get some stuff goin' on with NASA...
Real time satellite imaging! Imagine being able to zoom in on a baseball game that's in progress. Suh-weeeeet!
Actually, I bet that the "topless beaches in France" would become an immensely popular search...
I got a block of 4 ads - all but 1 were for "Miss the show? Download it here!" sites.
:P
I bet the MPAA would blow an artery if they saw that.
Friend of mine did it.. not a poor man, but not wealthy by any means. Him, his wife, and kid moved to NZ over a year ago and got citizenship status.
:|
*I* would like to go, but lacking a college degree, I'm apparantly screwed.
Chuck E Cheese used to have a location in Concord, CA. It had probably 200 video games in the place, and a 3 story "cheese hole" that kids could climb through. It was great.. they had all the latest games and they kept the old school games around.
Teenagers ruined it. Loser kids with no money and no intention of playing the games would just gather there and 'hang out' and disturb gamers/etc. It got to where there were enough of them that business declined a bit, and then the "family friendly" movement (blah) came around in the mid 90's and the place was remodelled to be more "family friendly" - that usually meant only a few video games, and more lighting and an interior design that wouldn't let your little children out of your sight. (This particular location had 2 stories and was dimly lit)
Modern video games usually *suck* though. I just went to Dave & Busters in Milpitas, CA and they really haven't added any new games. Some of the games have been there since the place opened. I get bored really fast with "House of the Living Dead" games and the car race games. Unfortunately, D&B has *lots* of those. I guess I could play the Ski-Doo game or "American Trucker" - oh, wait. That's just another driving/race game.
Gameworx in Seattle would at least rotate games a little more often, and seeing "Redneck Rampage" on a big screen was classic.
Sirius isn't, anyway. I've heard rumours of Canadian & Mexican border towns being able to pick it up, but that's not really a surprise.
Me neither. I've had the "Install Windows XP, have no network" problem on Dell hardware. Their website gives you a few choices of drivers most of the time because sometimes a certain model ships with a different ethernet chipset.
:D
It's a crapshoot with www.dell.com and after a few hours, you might get lucky!
It's a two edged sword.
I have fairly new SCSI RAID cards that Fedora Core 3, Gentoo 2005.0, and the brand new Knoppix CDs wouldn't see. MegaRAID Enterprise 1500 (Series 467)
Windows Server 2003 saw the card just fine.
Apparantly (according to a LOT of Googling) to Red Hat's bugzilla, this was some kernel driver changes. It bit a lot of people that upgraded Red Hat/Fedora kernels.. ouch.
(FTR, I was able to use an older Knoppix CD and install Gentoo that way)
But my point is that some hardware works great in Windows but doesn't in Linux, and vice versa.
I couldn't find anything on Earthlink's site about it.. what happens if you sign up for the service, hate it, and want to cancel? What do they do then?
I recall some similar deal with MSN years ago, and if people cancelled their service, they were hit with $300 early termination fees.
So, is this really "Earthlink spreading Linux" or marketing drones saying "Hey, this Linux stuff is a nice and cheap way to lock in more customers!" ?
Dana Street Roasting Company in Mountain View, CA has free wifi, but no power outlets. It does the job quite well. :-)
Sacramento, CA has a lot of coffee shops. Rarely are cute girls seen studying, unless it's at one of the shops right near one of the colleges. The downtown area? It's the bikers. Java City at 18th & Capitol Ave right in downtown used to be a great place, but the groups of motorcycles *thundering* down the street (Really, some of these bikes are just too goddamn loud) and taking up all of the outside tables prevent anyone else from actually getting a seat.
:P
They're not a biker gang, but many of them attent a nearby methadone clinic. They have no jobs and nothing to do, so they sit there *all day long* - literally. Thanks to similar folks, Java City cancelled its $0.50 refill policy and got rid of the nice glass dishes as well.
Point is, it's not always the WiFi geeks - people are generally mooches.
Sheesh, it still hurts from the last time I said that Penny Arcade sucks and I like User Friendly better.
The scars! auuugh!
Looks like they're basically saying "Sorry, EU-MPAA, but we really do have more important issues to tend to than some high school kid that's downloading little bits of "1" and "0" that he can put on his iPod. Besides, he's paid the media tax that you turkeys claimed was necessary to cover the costs of piracy. Now go away."
I think that's the only way one *can* enjoy it. heh.
If I recall correctly, there were cool scenes in the trailer that weren't actually in the movie. Ever see that happen? Seeing a trailer and then seeing a movie and going "Hey, that stuff I saw in the trailer didn't happen!" sucks. heh.
Kind of. From what I heard, the codebase is a little different..
:)
:)
Steltor (CorporateTime) became Oracle Calendar. That's also a cool product.
Also in the calendaring realm is MeetingMaker.
It *was* an Exchange killer before. The SuiteSpot server stuff predates modern Microsoft Exchange. Back in those days, Exchange was only around 5.x and lacked a *lot* of features. Exchange Server 2003 has matured and added POP/IMAP and many other features that the SuiteSpot server packages had way back when.
Things are a lot different than they were back then... even 5 years ago.
I've used OpenLDAP and Netscape Directory Server. NDS is a *very very very* cool product. It's easy to use, scales like there's no tomorrow (it was the backend for a lot of the older Netscape Netcenter sign on functions) and it's nice & documented. (I still have books for it)
Red Hat releasing it under the GPL is a good thing, any way that you look at it. Cool product, "big name company" supporting it, and oodles of applications that can already use many of its functions.
Now, if someone would slurp up Netscape Calendaring Server and release *that* under the GPL..
If the Netscape SuiteSpot Server suite still existed and was under the GPL, there's your Exchange-killer right there.
Hrm. The only thing that might go wrong is.. well, a lot of movies just plain suck, but people don't realize it until they've been suckered into theatres to see it. The trailers sucker them in.
:)
Classic example: "Mission to Mars" was HORRIBLE. ONe of the worst movies that I have ever seen. Had I seen a low-res version of it, I'd have *never* spent money to see it in the theatre.
Movie studios probably know this. They count on suckers.
Dude, my busted ass 1989 Nissan Sentra doesn't even get me the *ugly* chicks.. whatchoo talkin about, $60,000 car? :P
(NO, I didn't download it. Friend did and had it on his laptop.)
.... and off the group went to the next showing.
Bunch of us watched the first 10-15 minutes. Everyone said "Ok, so far it doesn't suck. Let's go see it."
Remember when Apple let the first 7 minutes of "Chicken Run" loose on their trailer site? Good move, I say. I'm fed up with biased movie reviews and trailers that show the only cool parts of the whole movie. I'm still pissed off that I wasted $30 + 2 hours of my life to see "Mission to Mars" after seeing the trailer. Bastards.
"This is pathetic. In such a short time, a community has taken everything despicable about celebrity worship and reimplemented it on the Internet. "
How true it is. How pathetic it is.