Provided I don't need 3D Video support and native hardware drivers, I'll just run:
Windows XP Pro Windows Vista Home Premium Windows 7.0
In Virtual Machines under whatever OS I choose to use that works best with my laptop or desktop.
Aero special effects are stupid and I am better off without them and other geegaws that slow down the system.
Just put in a huge amount of RAM on my laptop or desktop so the virtual machine has enough RAM to run the OSes in emulation.
Microsoft is trying to push Microsoft Virtual Server as a solution to IT shops who need different versions of Windows to run legacy applications and serve virtual machines from a server. The PC becomes another "Dumb Terminal" using the Virtual Server clients which can even be run from a web page using ActiveX or Java controls to run the client.
Well this has been an intelligent and interesting conversation. I have to check to make sure it is still Slashdot.:)
Anyway Wookieepedia is all about Star Wars, don't forget Wiki sites. Like a book, they have content and sometimes covers the secret history of Star Wars the same as a commercial book would. I cannot verify that the Wiki site covers the same material as that book as I didn't buy that book, but I am sure it is interesting.
I am trying to write my own book based on computer history to try to find out what went wrong in the industry. It is hard to write, and I read Stephen King's "On Writing" book and I am 75% finished with it. I have to make the book fiction to avoid being sued by the companies I mention in it. Like when IBM sold computers to Nazi Germany and they were used in the Holocaust, or all of the blunders that Microsoft and Apple make. I found that if I cannot get a publisher that Lulu.com will help me self-publish the book as an eBook and paper book and for $100 more list it on Amazon.com for sale. I thought I'd mention that an eBook helps people like me get published better by self-publishing my book through Lulu.com or some other web site. I have a lot of web links, so eBook is preferred over paper as one cannot click the links in paper format.
Well you may have a point there when it comes to eBooks; however, I must ask how did the paper book market sales project after the e-Book market was created in the year 2000?
Many eBooks are given away for free as part of some web site with advertising on it. Your publishers.org data is not going to be able to record the free eBooks given away on a web site that has advertising pay for the eBook instead of the purchase price.
That, after all, was my whole argument, to release the media as free and have advertising pay for it.
"NOTE: All sales figures cited in this release are domestic net sales"
They do not cover the free eBooks sold via advertising on the web site.
It also hardly takes into account information read for free on web pages showcased in Slashdot and other web sites as sources for free information. Why buy the book when you can get the same information from web sites for free?
If Bill Gates cannot even figure out how to install Movie Maker and XP Plus Pack to his Windows XP system, then how is the average user going to figure out how to do it?
The Windows usability model started to break with Windows 95, the 16 bit Windows used to run most Windows programs without requiring OS updates and external libraries be added to the system and programs ran independent of most external libraries. In fact most Windows 3.X programs could copy the Program folder they were in and run on another copy of Windows 3.X without installing many external libraries or updating the registry. With Windows 95 came the need for a registry, that could be corrupted and not work properly and OS updates that need to be installed (OSR2, Internet Explorer 5.0, Media Player, etc) in order to run most modern software.
Ironically Bill Gates would have had an easier time downloading from a pirate BitTorrent web site the Movie Maker and XP Plus Pack and have it install with one EXE program than go through the Microsoft.com site and download it and download all of the updates, etc. That is because the Pirates create their own install programs that check for the OS updates and additional programs and if they are not there, install them, even without a reboot. It is so ironic that maybe Bill Gates needs to fire his employees who screwed things up so badly and hire the Internet Pirates to make buying, downloading, and installing additional Microsoft software easier and cleaner.
When Microsoft created DotNET it got even worse, as now many programs require DotNET 2.0 or 3.5 before they will install. Which means older versions of Windows that don't support the newer DotNET libraries won't be able to use the new modern software and be shut out. Also if DotNET is not updated to the latest service pack, usability of the operating system gets worse as well.
Case in point with Vista, the major operating system files that XP used, got radically changed in Vista so much that it broke about 85% of the programming development software for Windows, which makes it hard to port from XP to Vista for most software developers. They'll have to rewrite the code in a programming language that Vista supports. That takes time, years for example, by the time the Vista version is released, Microsoft will have moved on to Windows 7.0 that is if the Vista version is rewritten in time for a Windows 7.0 launch.
Hey Microsoft how about licensing Apt-Get, SYNAPTICS, or even Linspire/Freespire CNR because the Linux installers and updater programs run a lot better than the Microsoft Windows versions.
I am working on an open sourced business plan to create customized applications for various niche markets (I won't list them here, for someone else will compete with me and get a head start on me) for platforms that lack certain types of applications be they open sourced or commercial.
Then use those open sourced projects as templates to create customized versions of them that are tailored to the client's needs. Each client has different needs and commercial off the shelf software does not always fill those needs or may never fill those needs as they are mostly "one size fits all" projects that either have things the client doesn't need and doesn't want to pay for, or lacks the things they need but cannot be modified to include them.
Systems Integration will also be part of the business plan. For if these customized programs cannot work with other already designed programs, what good are they?
The business plan is to earn money off selling the services to customize the open source programs or build new ones and the client can pay money to release their code fork from open source to closed source and pay for service and support and customized programming. Each forked version will become a different version of the software, but have elements in common so that data can be migrated if one client buys out or merges with another client.
I've gotten tired of writing customized programs for big companies and small companies and not being paid what my IP is worth. I eventually became the disposable employee of migrating someone else's code and database and debugging and rewriting them so they crash less and run faster, only to be terminated after the projects are finished, then hired by another employer and repeat the cycle. The IP I had invented and created for them can be measured in the millions, and they got rid of the goose that laid the golden egg, all I am saying is that we should start to create our own IP and then sell our own golden eggs instead of being employed and being paid peanuts of a small salary for laying golden eggs only to be terminated after the projects are over or as soon as the company starts losing money whichever comes first.
I am not just another el cheapo code monkey with an IT degree, I get results, damn amazingly great results, commercial quality results, while the average code monkey will crank out "crap" sloppy code that crashes the system 12 times a day and runs really slow. I beg to differ by the quality of my code, compared to the "dime a dozen" programmers who only wish they can write code like I and a few others can. Offshore the programming jobs all they want, but when they want it done right and want it done the correct way they can call me in and pay me as a high priced consultant cleaning up the broken code and sloppy code and legacy issues with all of the old code so it runs better and rewriting it so it runs faster and crashes the system hardly ever.
I really don't need the Microsoft training, but I'll take it if they offer it for free. I'll also develop in Java, C++, Pascal, Python, PHP, and many other languages as well, because I know over 30 of them.
The media businesses will stay in business as long as they learn to adapt to new trends like the Internet.
Hulu was developed when too many TV shows got captured and posted on Youtube for free and hosted via file sharing networks. The videos got pulled from Youtube and Hulu.com hosts the old TV shows and some movies for free, with limited interruption advertising.
Hulu.com makes money off of advertising added to the videos, plus advertising on the web site to view the videos, all while providing free videos to its users. There is no need to pirate those TV Shows or host them on Youtube and violate copyrights.
The same with music, one can create a music station like last.fm or Yahoo Launchcast Music that plays free Internet music via a radio-like broadcast system catered to the listener's likes and dislikes. Inbetween songs can be put in commercials.
The same with books, after so many pages of reading, there are a few advertising spots before the next few pages are displayed, the same with newspapers. Along with advertising on those web sites that have the electronic version of books and newspapers and magazines.
Plus it allows people to get into the media business by themselves by starting up their own web site or use free resources to start their own media site for free. Then pay for putting in Google AdSense or some other advertising system on their paid or free web site to bring in the revenue.
Of course there will always be free and open source web sites for free and open source media. Be it Wikis, or CMS forums like Slashdot or CNet, blogs, other forums, or just web site with content on it.
Print is dead, but ePrint replaced it.
Newspapers are dead, but eNewspapers, Blogs, Forums, Wiki sites, etc replaced them.
The Music industry is dead, but the eMusic industry that sells songs via files or pays for them via advertising have replaced them.
The movie industry is dead, but Hulu.com, Netflicks, Blockbuster, etc replaced them.
Learn to adapt to changes in technology or die like the dinosaurs did. Grow, evolve, change, whatever it takes to modify your business model and technology to take advantage of new trends and new technology and new media containers.
I don't really see it as all that different from when we went from Color TV, to VHS video tapes, to DVD video, to Blu-Ray and HD-DVD Video, to Video files over the Internet. It is the same product, just different technology. In the case of the media file it is a pattern of bits which can be easily duplicated for pennies on the dollar instead of being a physical media container which costs more. So in theory, a media company putting their content on files, instead of a physical container, would save a lot of money by just selling files instead of audio CDs, Video DVDs, Paper Books, Paper Newspapers, etc.
The only issue is how to combat piracy when the media is in a format that is easier to copy than the physical matter format. One way to do that is keep prices low, another way is to offer it for free with advertsing ala Hulu.com and other web sites.
This is not brain surgery, this is really really simple. Ask any of us Computer Geeks how to create a file of information and host it on a web site with advertising, etc. Most of us are out of work and need jobs creating the new web sites for the media companies anyway, it is a win-win situation.
Yeah I guess you are right, leave everything running and let the managers try and figure it out.
"Gee I wonder what FDISK does?" down goes the file server.
I recall managers from my former jobs used to get their workstations infected with worms that sent out infected email to everyone on their Outlook address book. I knew something was up when the Vice President of IS sent me 24 messages all with the subject "I Love You!" on them.:)
Nah my way is better, they'll be forced to do everything with pen and paper. It will be good for them. The Amish call that idleness which is a sin one should be shunned for by the community.:)
"And don't expect me to take down my hospital for ANY reason."
Er The Three Stooges and Bugs Bunny, not the Street Stooges, which sounds like some kind of Gansta Rap group.
Horrible images in our minds from childhood, Bugs Bunny and The Three Stooges were written for adults, but they shown them on Network TV for us kids to grow up and emulate. Back then they really did have paddling for public school discipline. Old Hickey was the name of the paddle and they drilled holes in it so it hurt us more when they used it.
I blame Hollywood and TV shows for all of the violence they show as solutions to just about every problem. We grew up on Bugs Bunny and The Street Stooges.
They used to allow beating children in European countries, maybe they still do in the Eastern European countries today as far as I know.
If you ever saw "The Wall" videos of "Pink Floyd" they used to beat kids in the UK schools. "Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone!" "How can you have your pudding when you don't eat you meat? Stand still laddie!" Apparently they beat kids who didn't eat their meat before their pudding.
now they will start to put captchas on EULA to make sure a cat or robot (I am sure some Slashdot readers know how to build a robot to push the OK button) doesn't just press the button and a person able to type the captcha and then press the OK button.
I am sure that parents will ask their child to come over and click the "OK" or "I AGREE" button because a contract is not valid if a minor signs it.
Other countries usually have the sort of discipline that hits students when they don't behave. When our public school system used to have a paddle there was no discipline problems like that. After the vice principal paddled the kid, their parents would show up and paddle them. Then the bad behavior never happened again, least the kid get paddled again.
In foreign nations, especially Asia nations, a teacher is to be respected and disrespect of a teacher by a child causes their parents to be greatly upset and might paddle or hit the child. In the USA the teacher gets no respect and we have to call in the police to search the child for contraband or remove them from the school. Problem children keep repeating the problems over and over again, and if the school does anything to them the parents will sue at the drop of a hat.
For example if a bully picks on a student and that student knows martial arts and breaks the bully's arm after the bully tried to punch him/her, the bully's parents sue the school and parents of the martial arts using child. In the good old days, we could fight back and use martial arts, and whomever threw the first punch ended up on suspension. But we didn't break arms, we hit nerves or knocked the wind out of the bully so he'd stop fighting until a Vice Principal could break up the fight.
A lot of web sites have a ToS that say they can use anything you post on it for their own purposes.
For example things I post on Slashdot get reposted on other web sites, proof of this and does Linuxworld have a connection to Slashdot to repost what I type here on their own web site?
You cannot prove that you have degrees on the subject, but many list PHDs even if they never earned any of them. Wikipedia's staff had many members that got exposed as frauds.
When you cite a reference, they can quickly dismiss it by saying the source is not a reliable source. For example if it was not a liberal web site like the Huffington Post but rather the CATO institute, chances are the citation will be removed as well as the text that explains it. The same way for technical articles, apparently an OS/2 fan base is not a trusted source on OS/2 but IBM got rid of their OS/2 pages to base OS/2 history on. Luckily I was able to find a Unix Programming book that cited OS/2 2.0 used Amiga technology in exchange for Amiga using REXX technology. The IBM pages that talked about the exchange of technology are gone, and no web site mentions it anymore. But it is important history to learn that IBM licensed the Amiga technology to make OS/2 2.0 and above.
But anyway yeah people watching articles like a hawk and then instantly reverting it, even if the points are valid and have a reliable citation are but one of the many problems that Wikipedia suffers from. I call them as "Armchair Experts" because they lack knowledge, wisdom, and an education on the subject (no college courses or degrees on the subject) and act as an expert from their armchairs using their computers to bully and bash and revert their way into the articles.
I call such people as the Thought Police who accuse us of Thought Crimes and quickly revert the articles even if it was a valid edit that cited reliable sources and had a neutral point of view.
Windows ME was an upgrade from Windows 95/98 and used basically the same driver model and same kernel but updated.
There were a lot of Windows 2000 systems that could not run Windows XP even if they used the same driver model and updated kernel.
Part of the problem of Windows Vista was hardware companies refusing to make Vista compatible drivers. For example, even if my old Compaq Laptop was listed as "Vista Ready" neither Microsoft nor Compaq made Vista drivers for it I was lucky to have the ATI Mobile graphic chip supported, but no audio, no wireless, no modem, and it had problems running on my laptop and I had to use the XP recovery disks to go back to XP.
My current Compaq laptop says it is Windows 7.0 ready, but Compaq and Microsoft have not yet released the drivers I need for it. The Vista drivers cause lockups on my current Vista Home Edition and neither Microsoft nor Compaq have any fixes for it, if I didn't downgrade to XP, I'd have a Vista laptop that locks up randomly. Windows 7.0 Beta refuses to install on my laptop and blue screens instead of completing the install.
Which is, of course, lots and lots of experience on this subject. I know that I am not alone in this matter and that others out there are suffering just as I am.
but Participatory Management, the likes of which are taught at the University of Phoenix.
You need to change how management works and how management interacts with the employees.
This is not so simple, and employs new ideas like stewardship, empowerment, servant leadership, dynamic work teams, synergy, management participation, rewards for meeting deadlines and good suggestions that save money. When a suggestion saves money you usually give the employee who suggested it 10% of the amount of saved money. That is a very good motivator if it saves tens of thousands or hundred thousands, and makes the employees share the wealth. It also weeds out all of the "crap" ideas because employees want that 10% reward so they will try their best.
Also evaluate each team and do a 360 degree review with other employees reviewing their coworkers.
Servant Leadership, participatory management, and Building Dynamic Work Teams are a must! This is reinventing the corporation and reinventing management and empowering the employees to make their own decisions that concern their job so the managers are free to make management decisions to support the employees.
I was promised a free Vista upgrade when I bought my Windows XP laptop. But I think it was Compaq who promised the Vista upgrade. When I got Vista Home Premium I didn't have drivers for my system and with only 512M of RAM it ran slow, and the graphics card didn't support AERO.
I recall Microsoft was sued over the "Vista Ready" computers that couldn't run Vista. I'll bet the Windows 7.0 ready computers that come with Vista will have the same problems.
Oh ho ho, I always try to stay one Windows version behind now so I don't get burned again. Retrocomputing is great that way!:)
Our satellites are supposed to have lasers on them to knock down any missile or satellite that tries to knock ours out?
Maybe Putin is trying to play a game of "Space Chess" with Obama? Russian satellite takes out USA satellite, check, Comrade!
Maybe it was a test to see if the SDI "Star Wars" defense system really existed or not? "I'll send my satellite towards theirs and see what happens."
Looks like Ronald Reagan played too many Atari "Missile Command" games and all of those trillions spent for SDI program was for nothing. If SDI did exist, it would have detected a Russian satellite coming too near a USA satellite and shot it down.
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Provided I don't need 3D Video support and native hardware drivers, I'll just run:
Windows XP Pro
Windows Vista Home Premium
Windows 7.0
In Virtual Machines under whatever OS I choose to use that works best with my laptop or desktop.
Aero special effects are stupid and I am better off without them and other geegaws that slow down the system.
Just put in a huge amount of RAM on my laptop or desktop so the virtual machine has enough RAM to run the OSes in emulation.
Microsoft is trying to push Microsoft Virtual Server as a solution to IT shops who need different versions of Windows to run legacy applications and serve virtual machines from a server. The PC becomes another "Dumb Terminal" using the Virtual Server clients which can even be run from a web page using ActiveX or Java controls to run the client.
Well this has been an intelligent and interesting conversation. I have to check to make sure it is still Slashdot. :)
Anyway Wookieepedia is all about Star Wars, don't forget Wiki sites. Like a book, they have content and sometimes covers the secret history of Star Wars the same as a commercial book would. I cannot verify that the Wiki site covers the same material as that book as I didn't buy that book, but I am sure it is interesting.
I am trying to write my own book based on computer history to try to find out what went wrong in the industry. It is hard to write, and I read Stephen King's "On Writing" book and I am 75% finished with it. I have to make the book fiction to avoid being sued by the companies I mention in it. Like when IBM sold computers to Nazi Germany and they were used in the Holocaust, or all of the blunders that Microsoft and Apple make. I found that if I cannot get a publisher that Lulu.com will help me self-publish the book as an eBook and paper book and for $100 more list it on Amazon.com for sale. I thought I'd mention that an eBook helps people like me get published better by self-publishing my book through Lulu.com or some other web site. I have a lot of web links, so eBook is preferred over paper as one cannot click the links in paper format.
Well you may have a point there when it comes to eBooks; however, I must ask how did the paper book market sales project after the e-Book market was created in the year 2000?
Many eBooks are given away for free as part of some web site with advertising on it. Your publishers.org data is not going to be able to record the free eBooks given away on a web site that has advertising pay for the eBook instead of the purchase price.
That, after all, was my whole argument, to release the media as free and have advertising pay for it.
"NOTE: All sales figures cited in this release are domestic net sales"
They do not cover the free eBooks sold via advertising on the web site.
e-Books sell for a fraction of the cost of a paper book and have almost no impact of the sales of the paperback book when given away for free, based on O'Reilly.
You can see in this chart that eBook sales passed up paper book sales by 2007 for Asterisks Books. Please note that the paperback version sales dipped slightly.
It also hardly takes into account information read for free on web pages showcased in Slashdot and other web sites as sources for free information. Why buy the book when you can get the same information from web sites for free?
If Bill Gates cannot even figure out how to install Movie Maker and XP Plus Pack to his Windows XP system, then how is the average user going to figure out how to do it?
The Windows usability model started to break with Windows 95, the 16 bit Windows used to run most Windows programs without requiring OS updates and external libraries be added to the system and programs ran independent of most external libraries. In fact most Windows 3.X programs could copy the Program folder they were in and run on another copy of Windows 3.X without installing many external libraries or updating the registry. With Windows 95 came the need for a registry, that could be corrupted and not work properly and OS updates that need to be installed (OSR2, Internet Explorer 5.0, Media Player, etc) in order to run most modern software.
Ironically Bill Gates would have had an easier time downloading from a pirate BitTorrent web site the Movie Maker and XP Plus Pack and have it install with one EXE program than go through the Microsoft.com site and download it and download all of the updates, etc. That is because the Pirates create their own install programs that check for the OS updates and additional programs and if they are not there, install them, even without a reboot. It is so ironic that maybe Bill Gates needs to fire his employees who screwed things up so badly and hire the Internet Pirates to make buying, downloading, and installing additional Microsoft software easier and cleaner.
When Microsoft created DotNET it got even worse, as now many programs require DotNET 2.0 or 3.5 before they will install. Which means older versions of Windows that don't support the newer DotNET libraries won't be able to use the new modern software and be shut out. Also if DotNET is not updated to the latest service pack, usability of the operating system gets worse as well.
Case in point with Vista, the major operating system files that XP used, got radically changed in Vista so much that it broke about 85% of the programming development software for Windows, which makes it hard to port from XP to Vista for most software developers. They'll have to rewrite the code in a programming language that Vista supports. That takes time, years for example, by the time the Vista version is released, Microsoft will have moved on to Windows 7.0 that is if the Vista version is rewritten in time for a Windows 7.0 launch.
Hey Microsoft how about licensing Apt-Get, SYNAPTICS, or even Linspire/Freespire CNR because the Linux installers and updater programs run a lot better than the Microsoft Windows versions.
I am working on an open sourced business plan to create customized applications for various niche markets (I won't list them here, for someone else will compete with me and get a head start on me) for platforms that lack certain types of applications be they open sourced or commercial.
Then use those open sourced projects as templates to create customized versions of them that are tailored to the client's needs. Each client has different needs and commercial off the shelf software does not always fill those needs or may never fill those needs as they are mostly "one size fits all" projects that either have things the client doesn't need and doesn't want to pay for, or lacks the things they need but cannot be modified to include them.
Systems Integration will also be part of the business plan. For if these customized programs cannot work with other already designed programs, what good are they?
The business plan is to earn money off selling the services to customize the open source programs or build new ones and the client can pay money to release their code fork from open source to closed source and pay for service and support and customized programming. Each forked version will become a different version of the software, but have elements in common so that data can be migrated if one client buys out or merges with another client.
I've gotten tired of writing customized programs for big companies and small companies and not being paid what my IP is worth. I eventually became the disposable employee of migrating someone else's code and database and debugging and rewriting them so they crash less and run faster, only to be terminated after the projects are finished, then hired by another employer and repeat the cycle. The IP I had invented and created for them can be measured in the millions, and they got rid of the goose that laid the golden egg, all I am saying is that we should start to create our own IP and then sell our own golden eggs instead of being employed and being paid peanuts of a small salary for laying golden eggs only to be terminated after the projects are over or as soon as the company starts losing money whichever comes first.
I am not just another el cheapo code monkey with an IT degree, I get results, damn amazingly great results, commercial quality results, while the average code monkey will crank out "crap" sloppy code that crashes the system 12 times a day and runs really slow. I beg to differ by the quality of my code, compared to the "dime a dozen" programmers who only wish they can write code like I and a few others can. Offshore the programming jobs all they want, but when they want it done right and want it done the correct way they can call me in and pay me as a high priced consultant cleaning up the broken code and sloppy code and legacy issues with all of the old code so it runs better and rewriting it so it runs faster and crashes the system hardly ever.
I really don't need the Microsoft training, but I'll take it if they offer it for free. I'll also develop in Java, C++, Pascal, Python, PHP, and many other languages as well, because I know over 30 of them.
The media businesses will stay in business as long as they learn to adapt to new trends like the Internet.
Hulu was developed when too many TV shows got captured and posted on Youtube for free and hosted via file sharing networks. The videos got pulled from Youtube and Hulu.com hosts the old TV shows and some movies for free, with limited interruption advertising.
Hulu.com makes money off of advertising added to the videos, plus advertising on the web site to view the videos, all while providing free videos to its users. There is no need to pirate those TV Shows or host them on Youtube and violate copyrights.
The same with music, one can create a music station like last.fm or Yahoo Launchcast Music that plays free Internet music via a radio-like broadcast system catered to the listener's likes and dislikes. Inbetween songs can be put in commercials.
The same with books, after so many pages of reading, there are a few advertising spots before the next few pages are displayed, the same with newspapers. Along with advertising on those web sites that have the electronic version of books and newspapers and magazines.
Plus it allows people to get into the media business by themselves by starting up their own web site or use free resources to start their own media site for free. Then pay for putting in Google AdSense or some other advertising system on their paid or free web site to bring in the revenue.
Of course there will always be free and open source web sites for free and open source media. Be it Wikis, or CMS forums like Slashdot or CNet, blogs, other forums, or just web site with content on it.
Print is dead, but ePrint replaced it.
Newspapers are dead, but eNewspapers, Blogs, Forums, Wiki sites, etc replaced them.
The Music industry is dead, but the eMusic industry that sells songs via files or pays for them via advertising have replaced them.
The movie industry is dead, but Hulu.com, Netflicks, Blockbuster, etc replaced them.
Learn to adapt to changes in technology or die like the dinosaurs did. Grow, evolve, change, whatever it takes to modify your business model and technology to take advantage of new trends and new technology and new media containers.
I don't really see it as all that different from when we went from Color TV, to VHS video tapes, to DVD video, to Blu-Ray and HD-DVD Video, to Video files over the Internet. It is the same product, just different technology. In the case of the media file it is a pattern of bits which can be easily duplicated for pennies on the dollar instead of being a physical media container which costs more. So in theory, a media company putting their content on files, instead of a physical container, would save a lot of money by just selling files instead of audio CDs, Video DVDs, Paper Books, Paper Newspapers, etc.
The only issue is how to combat piracy when the media is in a format that is easier to copy than the physical matter format. One way to do that is keep prices low, another way is to offer it for free with advertsing ala Hulu.com and other web sites.
This is not brain surgery, this is really really simple. Ask any of us Computer Geeks how to create a file of information and host it on a web site with advertising, etc. Most of us are out of work and need jobs creating the new web sites for the media companies anyway, it is a win-win situation.
I thought I told you guys not to stalk me over the Internet anymore.
First you tell me to leave K5, and when I do, I get told to go back to K5. Make up your minds, do you want me back at K5 or away from it?
Every time I try to get out... they pull me back in!
Yeah I guess you are right, leave everything running and let the managers try and figure it out.
"Gee I wonder what FDISK does?" down goes the file server.
I recall managers from my former jobs used to get their workstations infected with worms that sent out infected email to everyone on their Outlook address book. I knew something was up when the Vice President of IS sent me 24 messages all with the subject "I Love You!" on them. :)
Nah my way is better, they'll be forced to do everything with pen and paper. It will be good for them. The Amish call that idleness which is a sin one should be shunned for by the community. :)
"And don't expect me to take down my hospital for ANY reason."
Yes sir, Dr. Gregory House, MD, sir!
Er The Three Stooges and Bugs Bunny, not the Street Stooges, which sounds like some kind of Gansta Rap group.
Horrible images in our minds from childhood, Bugs Bunny and The Three Stooges were written for adults, but they shown them on Network TV for us kids to grow up and emulate. Back then they really did have paddling for public school discipline. Old Hickey was the name of the paddle and they drilled holes in it so it hurt us more when they used it.
I blame Hollywood and TV shows for all of the violence they show as solutions to just about every problem. We grew up on Bugs Bunny and The Street Stooges.
They used to allow beating children in European countries, maybe they still do in the Eastern European countries today as far as I know.
If you ever saw "The Wall" videos of "Pink Floyd" they used to beat kids in the UK schools. "Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone!" "How can you have your pudding when you don't eat you meat? Stand still laddie!" Apparently they beat kids who didn't eat their meat before their pudding.
now they will start to put captchas on EULA to make sure a cat or robot (I am sure some Slashdot readers know how to build a robot to push the OK button) doesn't just press the button and a person able to type the captcha and then press the OK button.
I am sure that parents will ask their child to come over and click the "OK" or "I AGREE" button because a contract is not valid if a minor signs it.
Other countries usually have the sort of discipline that hits students when they don't behave. When our public school system used to have a paddle there was no discipline problems like that. After the vice principal paddled the kid, their parents would show up and paddle them. Then the bad behavior never happened again, least the kid get paddled again.
In foreign nations, especially Asia nations, a teacher is to be respected and disrespect of a teacher by a child causes their parents to be greatly upset and might paddle or hit the child. In the USA the teacher gets no respect and we have to call in the police to search the child for contraband or remove them from the school. Problem children keep repeating the problems over and over again, and if the school does anything to them the parents will sue at the drop of a hat.
For example if a bully picks on a student and that student knows martial arts and breaks the bully's arm after the bully tried to punch him/her, the bully's parents sue the school and parents of the martial arts using child. In the good old days, we could fight back and use martial arts, and whomever threw the first punch ended up on suspension. But we didn't break arms, we hit nerves or knocked the wind out of the bully so he'd stop fighting until a Vice Principal could break up the fight.
Make a National IT Walkout day.
#1 Change the root or administrative password and don't give it to any managers.
#2 Change the PIN number to enter the server room and don't give it to any managers.
#3 Shut down all servers in the server room before going home.
#4 Turn off all cell phones and pagers, and put your home phones off the hook.
#5 Let management go one day without an IT department and see what happens.
That'll teach them to nail innocent admins for things managers with admin or root access have done.
A lot of web sites have a ToS that say they can use anything you post on it for their own purposes.
For example things I post on Slashdot get reposted on other web sites, proof of this and does Linuxworld have a connection to Slashdot to repost what I type here on their own web site?
But Hulu is an alien plot to turn our brains into mush so Alex Baldwin can eat them. :)
Yes I did read your post, and pointed out your fallacies in my post.
If you don't understand my post, you might have mental retardation or lack critical thinking skills to comprehend it.
Please that web site was not updated since the 1990's and even mentions Usenet and other outdated technology. They have been since redefined.
What qualifies someone to be an expert?
You cannot prove that you have degrees on the subject, but many list PHDs even if they never earned any of them. Wikipedia's staff had many members that got exposed as frauds.
When you cite a reference, they can quickly dismiss it by saying the source is not a reliable source. For example if it was not a liberal web site like the Huffington Post but rather the CATO institute, chances are the citation will be removed as well as the text that explains it. The same way for technical articles, apparently an OS/2 fan base is not a trusted source on OS/2 but IBM got rid of their OS/2 pages to base OS/2 history on. Luckily I was able to find a Unix Programming book that cited OS/2 2.0 used Amiga technology in exchange for Amiga using REXX technology. The IBM pages that talked about the exchange of technology are gone, and no web site mentions it anymore. But it is important history to learn that IBM licensed the Amiga technology to make OS/2 2.0 and above.
But anyway yeah people watching articles like a hawk and then instantly reverting it, even if the points are valid and have a reliable citation are but one of the many problems that Wikipedia suffers from. I call them as "Armchair Experts" because they lack knowledge, wisdom, and an education on the subject (no college courses or degrees on the subject) and act as an expert from their armchairs using their computers to bully and bash and revert their way into the articles.
I call such people as the Thought Police who accuse us of Thought Crimes and quickly revert the articles even if it was a valid edit that cited reliable sources and had a neutral point of view.
Experience, lots and lots of experience.
Windows ME was an upgrade from Windows 95/98 and used basically the same driver model and same kernel but updated.
There were a lot of Windows 2000 systems that could not run Windows XP even if they used the same driver model and updated kernel.
Part of the problem of Windows Vista was hardware companies refusing to make Vista compatible drivers. For example, even if my old Compaq Laptop was listed as "Vista Ready" neither Microsoft nor Compaq made Vista drivers for it I was lucky to have the ATI Mobile graphic chip supported, but no audio, no wireless, no modem, and it had problems running on my laptop and I had to use the XP recovery disks to go back to XP.
My current Compaq laptop says it is Windows 7.0 ready, but Compaq and Microsoft have not yet released the drivers I need for it. The Vista drivers cause lockups on my current Vista Home Edition and neither Microsoft nor Compaq have any fixes for it, if I didn't downgrade to XP, I'd have a Vista laptop that locks up randomly. Windows 7.0 Beta refuses to install on my laptop and blue screens instead of completing the install.
Which is, of course, lots and lots of experience on this subject. I know that I am not alone in this matter and that others out there are suffering just as I am.
but Participatory Management, the likes of which are taught at the University of Phoenix.
You need to change how management works and how management interacts with the employees.
This is not so simple, and employs new ideas like stewardship, empowerment, servant leadership, dynamic work teams, synergy, management participation, rewards for meeting deadlines and good suggestions that save money. When a suggestion saves money you usually give the employee who suggested it 10% of the amount of saved money. That is a very good motivator if it saves tens of thousands or hundred thousands, and makes the employees share the wealth. It also weeds out all of the "crap" ideas because employees want that 10% reward so they will try their best.
Also evaluate each team and do a 360 degree review with other employees reviewing their coworkers.
Servant Leadership, participatory management, and Building Dynamic Work Teams are a must! This is reinventing the corporation and reinventing management and empowering the employees to make their own decisions that concern their job so the managers are free to make management decisions to support the employees.
Run it in a virtual machine first. It does not support all hardware yet.
It is the basics of any OS that a user needs as the bare minimum, without the bloated features of major operating systems.
I was promised a free Vista upgrade when I bought my Windows XP laptop. But I think it was Compaq who promised the Vista upgrade. When I got Vista Home Premium I didn't have drivers for my system and with only 512M of RAM it ran slow, and the graphics card didn't support AERO.
I recall Microsoft was sued over the "Vista Ready" computers that couldn't run Vista. I'll bet the Windows 7.0 ready computers that come with Vista will have the same problems.
Oh ho ho, I always try to stay one Windows version behind now so I don't get burned again. Retrocomputing is great that way! :)
Our satellites are supposed to have lasers on them to knock down any missile or satellite that tries to knock ours out?
Maybe Putin is trying to play a game of "Space Chess" with Obama? Russian satellite takes out USA satellite, check, Comrade!
Maybe it was a test to see if the SDI "Star Wars" defense system really existed or not? "I'll send my satellite towards theirs and see what happens."
Looks like Ronald Reagan played too many Atari "Missile Command" games and all of those trillions spent for SDI program was for nothing. If SDI did exist, it would have detected a Russian satellite coming too near a USA satellite and shot it down.