Why not just put it up on sourceforge? Really, if you want to have any hope whatsoever of selling a single copy of your software, it better be damn good. Your average user is quite satisfied with existing software and has no need for new one. Since you can't afford the expensive marketing that would persuade people into thinking that they need your software, user feedback could be a precious help in getting your wares to meet the user demands in that particular field. You've been rather vague in the article, so I'm making some educated guesses here, namely that you've been developing this using a "cathedral" model where the software is your work and not many people actually get to see it until it's released. I think you would help yourself better by revealing a few more details about your product so we could write better informed comments on your article. What with the huge amount of slashdot users reading this article, you'd be getting more advertising than you could ever afford, and free of charge as well. Good luck with your product though! Hope you succeed where many others have failed.
Actually I was taught an 8 kingdom model in high school which is more recent than the 5 kingdom model and widely accepted in the scientific community. (IIRC) It includes Plantae but has a separate Algae kingdom, and also has the standard Fungi and Animalia kingdoms, but the Protista kingdom is separated in two, one for the "plant-like" single-celled organisms, and another for the "animal" ones. The Monera kingdom is also split into two kingdoms, one for "regular" bacteria, and another one for Archaeobacteria.
Ever hear of bpbatch? My college uses it, and you can even delete all the partitions and stuff, it will all be restored from the network upon rebooting. Of course if you dont do something quite as drastic, it will all be restored from the disk cache, much faster.
They will never listen to us. Even if we gave them the most insightful advice possible, they wouldn't follow it. Look at the bible! Does anyone actually care about what's in it? Most "Christians" never even read it, let alone understand it. And yet it could similarly be regarded as advice for future generations. And if we could ever somehow follow the gist of it strictly, as in, love your neighbour, live in peace and harmony, do not kill steal or covet etc. then we would have sort of a utopian, idyllic society. But who cares about the bible or any other religious text? It's only created rivalry between people of different religions, and generated the majority of all wars ever fought. Whatever you tell someone, you'll be lucky if they listen to it. People never learn anything except from their own experience. You may try time and time again to teach them how to properly live their lives, but it would take genetic manipulation to get people to actually learn from each other instead of learning from trial and error. If people would only learn from their elders, we would all have ceased bickering amongst ourselves a long, long time ago, after the first wars were fought. Just look at spain and morocco. They're getting close to a war over some stupid deserted islands that no one ever heard about.Morocco just invaded one of them, and there's nothing there but rocks and sand, what's the point? You might as well send them "frosty piss" and "AYB" messages. They'll shit on them.
I always thought it was just a regular LED. Do optical mice like my Cordless Mouseman have actual lasers? The light spreads so much it does not definitely look like a laser, but i know nothing about hardware, so could anyone enlighten me on this?
Computers cases are not hermetically sealed, so air can easily get out, and if they were it would take one great big mother of a fan to generate enough pressure to blow such a large chunk of steel to pieces.
If you "fix" the sound, by slowing it down those same 16 times and increasing the volume (it is inaudible after the stretching), it is actually a very interesting sound.Frightening, really.It's a popcorn-meets-earthquake kind of sound. Hope you have a good subwoofer, this is very low frequency stuff. If anyone cares to get the "fixed" wav its about 2.5 mb, or just 1 compressed with RAR. No mp3 sorry, it totally mangled the sound when i tried it.
>No more than your post on slashdot places a >financial burden upon slashdot, where slashdot >has NOT consented to undertake that burden. So why did they explicitly set up a place for people to post stuff and why did they explicitly accept my account? As far as I'm concerned I am offering Slashdot a service by providing them content free of charge. They "pay me" by allowing me to read their other content free of charge. If Slashdot had no users there would be nothing here but polls with no votes and Jon Katz articles without replies. We -ARE- Slashdot. >Face it, by putting up an email server, you are >consenting to receive email. I have NOT put up an email server, and I am continually spammed. Does the fact that I have a house ever allow you to enter it? So why does the fact that I have an email account ever allow you to message me? I have never explicitly given my email adress to any corporation that did not explicitly state that they would NOT sell it to marketers. I have always opted out of everything and I get 10 spams a day. If some guy banged on my door 10 times a day after I repeatedly shouted "DO NOT BANG ON MY FUCKING DOOR!!" it would be considered harassment and I could call the cops on him. To tell you the truth I think it is my ISP (!!!) giving out my adress. I'm on my third email adress with this ISP, I've only had it for a few days and it's already out in the spammer's hands, even though I have never used it yet. I didnt give it to anyone, and I didnt even send a message with it.It isn't listed anywhere on the web either. It's gotta be this stupid ISP. Of course webmail companies usually do exactly the same to you so I can't really get an email adress elsewhere and I'm stuck with getting spammed.
So does this mean that Brown Dwarfs are more closely related to planets than to stars? I've always though of them as smallish, lukewarm stars myself, but I'm not a professional astronomer or anything. Does anyone out there have more info on this? What's the most widely accepted theory nowadays? Is it about to change?
Did you even read what I wrote? I said that we could grow plants in special greenhouses or even under artificial lighting. Plus most (farm) animals spend their entire lives indoors, and the others we can do well without. I shudder at the thought that most wildlife would be gone though. But we could always throw some funding at the DNA Noah's Ark project so we could regenerate wildlife afterwards. Does anyone else feel like we're getting pretty close to achieving deity status?
I'm not a rocket scientist, but one would think that if we dont actually go outside we would be unaffected by the lack of an ozone layer. Or if we do need to go outside, we would be unaffected if we wore protective clothing. If this really happened to us, I can see the vast majority of wildlife being bombarded by radiation. But what if we grew all our plants in greenhouses with high-tech sun filters, or even grow them indoors under artificial lighting? Then we could feed them to cows, chicken, etc. We could very well extend the subway system and travel exclusively underground, board up all the windows (grin), and coat our buildings with some sort of shielding. It would be hard to do this for absolutely everyone, but hey even if it blew up today it would take over a century for anything to get here.We have millions of years. Should we really worry?
Im sorry, mine doesnt make any noise. I use a Pentalpha CPU cooler, I have two case fans aside from the PSU fan, my Kyro II card also has a fan... and... I never really understood why people say PCs are noisy. Handy hard drive tip, though, Seagate rox! I have only heard my HD once, but I had to really try and listen to it. And its a 7200 too. I dont know how silent it is where you live, but I have a bus stop below my window and Very Loud Bus Noises start at 6am here and are constant throughout the day. My PC does make a humming sound but it's negligible compared to music and TV etc. Maybe your fans need oiling or something. I dunno. I'm sorry if I got on your nerves:(
Uh, my Linux box starts up in what, 10 seconds? I cant be blamed if you like running MS BloatOS 2002. Why do you turn it off in the first place? MS BloatOS crashes? Use Linux. It really whips the llama's ass.
I dont know anyone by the name of egg-troll, and eggstasy has been my IRC nickname since 1996. Furthermore, I was under the impression that this was/. where ppl came to COMMENT on the news, and so my commentary was that i didnt really see the point of re-releasing shitty 30-year old games, and i DONT.The gaming industry should be thinkiong about moving forward, not backwards. I have a 1-year old computer and pretty much all games still run at full speed, because they all pretty much have shitty graphics. Where's the ambition of these people? It's a really bad sign when shitty consoles have better graphics than a powerful computer.Most software is lagging far behind present hardware capabilities. Give me decent graphics like FFX has, and a reason for ppl to actually want to buy a geforce 4 dammit!
I'm sorry, would someone please enlighten me a bit on this matter? Who on earth wants to play atari 2600 games? They suck. They are OLD. The pixels are huge squares. They already sucked when I was a child. Name one single atari 2600 game that actually has a decent plot, good replayability, long shelflife and non-repetitive gameplay. The text alone for what I would call a decent game wouldn't fit in an atari 2600 cartridge. I dunno much about business management but this is probably aiming at a really small niche market... which isnt really my idea of a profitable venture. But hey, they're Infogrammes, a gaming giant, they can afford being eccentric. This better be damn cheap or it will b-o-m-b.
How can these idiots somehow assume that everyone has a stereo or some form of computer-independent CD player? You wouldnt believe how small a percentage of my friends actually plays their CDs on a stereo. Why, I once foresaw the death of stereos altogether: Why spend a boatload of cash on a huge machine that can do exactly one thing (play CDs - radio sux, tapes are dead, LPs are deader), when you can do the same with your PC? Why have a TV/Stereo/DVD/VCR/whatever when you can have it all in your PC? Ah, wait, if you spend a boatload of cash on huge, clunky, technologically outdated devices such as a TV or a 1x CD player, Big Business is happy. And since the government is just for show and it's actually BB who's running the place, the "consumers" really have no choice - fork over your cash time and time again, or live like a peasant in the Dark Ages, with no comfort at all. I'm sick of this. Where do I point my gun at to get my God-given rights? Since they're all trying to label us as terrorists I say shoot the bastards and earn the title!
I'm not an expert but I think you're worrying too much. How could such small particles like pigments be damaging to your hardware if common dust is getting in it all the time? I have one hell of a dusty house and my aging 2X cdrom works as good as my brand new CDRW. Plus I have opened it several times in the past. There were actual dog hairs in there, hehehe. Also, the weight of the CD should not be that much of a problem. I have successfully used homemade CD-sized stickers which were rather thick, and had no trouble at all. On top of all that, well, is there anything cheaper than a CD-ROM drive, if by means of some mysterious planetary alignment you manage to break something?
Uh, Portugal? I live here and aside from libel and slander and those things that are forbidden in the US as well, we can do whatever we want.
We actually have a legitimate nazi party. They dont call themselves like that of course (they're the Nationalist Renovator Party), but we know very well what they are.They dont get any votes though:)
Actually you have a VERY wrong idea of free speech in the EU. What are you basing your euro-prejudice on anyway? Are you a lawyer? IANAL but my cousin was a well respected attorney (he just retired), and lives on the floor below me.I'd wager it's all a bunch of hear-say and if you really want I could ask him about the free speech laws in various european countries.
All the dictatorships have long been dissolved here. There is no Hitler, Mussolini, Franco or Salazar anymore.They've been dead for ages.
The same thing happened to my girlfriend, and after a lot of investigating I found this proggy called GetDataBack which worked great! Of course you need to boot from another HD with windows installed, and it only works for FAT/NTFS partitions so if you're a l33t linux-only user or something, you're screwed:| Of course if you don't want to fork out 69/129 dollars, depending if it's the FAT/NTFS version, there's a cool trick that i discovered in the free version, where every file you open is actually saved to the temp folder with a screwed up name. If you're pacient you can recover all your files one by one, renaming them manually... or you could also get a crack, but I didn't say this and I wasn't here;)
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Why not just put it up on sourceforge? Really, if you want to have any hope whatsoever of selling a single copy of your software, it better be damn good. Your average user is quite satisfied with existing software and has no need for new one.
Since you can't afford the expensive marketing that would persuade people into thinking that they need your software, user feedback could be a precious help in getting your wares to meet the user demands in that particular field. You've been rather vague in the article, so I'm making some educated guesses here, namely that you've been developing this using a "cathedral" model where the software is your work and not many people actually get to see it until it's released.
I think you would help yourself better by revealing a few more details about your product so we could write better informed comments on your article. What with the huge amount of slashdot users reading this article, you'd be getting more advertising than you could ever afford, and free of charge as well.
Good luck with your product though! Hope you succeed where many others have failed.
Actually I was taught an 8 kingdom model in high school which is more recent than the 5 kingdom model and widely accepted in the scientific community. (IIRC) It includes Plantae but has a separate Algae kingdom, and also has the standard Fungi and Animalia kingdoms, but the Protista kingdom is separated in two, one for the "plant-like" single-celled organisms, and another for the "animal" ones.
The Monera kingdom is also split into two kingdoms, one for "regular" bacteria, and another one for Archaeobacteria.
Ever hear of bpbatch?
My college uses it, and you can even delete all the partitions and stuff, it will all be restored from the network upon rebooting. Of course if you dont do something quite as drastic, it will all be restored from the disk cache, much faster.
They will never listen to us. Even if we gave them the most insightful advice possible, they wouldn't follow it. Look at the bible! Does anyone actually care about what's in it? Most "Christians" never even read it, let alone understand it. And yet it could similarly be regarded as advice for future generations. And if we could ever somehow follow the gist of it strictly, as in, love your neighbour, live in peace and harmony, do not kill steal or covet etc. then we would have sort of a utopian, idyllic society. But who cares about the bible or any other religious text? It's only created rivalry between people of different religions, and generated the majority of all wars ever fought. Whatever you tell someone, you'll be lucky if they listen to it. People never learn anything except from their own experience. You may try time and time again to teach them how to properly live their lives, but it would take genetic manipulation to get people to actually learn from each other instead of learning from trial and error. If people would only learn from their elders, we would all have ceased bickering amongst ourselves a long, long time ago, after the first wars were fought.
Just look at spain and morocco. They're getting close to a war over some stupid deserted islands that no one ever heard about.Morocco just invaded one of them, and there's nothing there but rocks and sand, what's the point?
You might as well send them "frosty piss" and "AYB" messages. They'll shit on them.
Ever hear of OCR?
I always thought it was just a regular LED. Do optical mice like my Cordless Mouseman have actual lasers? The light spreads so much it does not definitely look like a laser, but i know nothing about hardware, so could anyone enlighten me on this?
You can actually still buy 8 inch floppies. I never actually saw one, but I'm googling for it :)
Go to:http://www.athana.com/html/diskette.html
Computers cases are not hermetically sealed, so air can easily get out, and if they were it would take one great big mother of a fan to generate enough pressure to blow such a large chunk of steel to pieces.
If you "fix" the sound, by slowing it down those same 16 times and increasing the volume (it is inaudible after the stretching), it is actually a very interesting sound.Frightening, really.It's a popcorn-meets-earthquake kind of sound.
Hope you have a good subwoofer, this is very low frequency stuff. If anyone cares to get the "fixed" wav its about 2.5 mb, or just 1 compressed with RAR. No mp3 sorry, it totally mangled the sound when i tried it.
>No more than your post on slashdot places a >financial burden upon slashdot, where slashdot >has NOT consented to undertake that burden.
So why did they explicitly set up a place for people to post stuff and why did they explicitly accept my account?
As far as I'm concerned I am offering Slashdot a service by providing them content free of charge.
They "pay me" by allowing me to read their other content free of charge.
If Slashdot had no users there would be nothing here but polls with no votes and Jon Katz articles without replies. We -ARE- Slashdot.
>Face it, by putting up an email server, you are >consenting to receive email.
I have NOT put up an email server, and I am continually spammed.
Does the fact that I have a house ever allow you to enter it?
So why does the fact that I have an email account ever allow you to message me?
I have never explicitly given my email adress to any corporation that did not explicitly state that they would NOT sell it to marketers. I have always opted out of everything and I get 10 spams a day.
If some guy banged on my door 10 times a day after I repeatedly shouted "DO NOT BANG ON MY FUCKING DOOR!!" it would be considered harassment and I could call the cops on him.
To tell you the truth I think it is my ISP (!!!) giving out my adress. I'm on my third email adress with this ISP, I've only had it for a few days and it's already out in the spammer's hands, even though I have never used it yet. I didnt give it to anyone, and I didnt even send a message with it.It isn't listed anywhere on the web either. It's gotta be this stupid ISP. Of course webmail companies usually do exactly the same to you so I can't really get an email adress elsewhere and I'm stuck with getting spammed.
So does this mean that Brown Dwarfs are more closely related to planets than to stars?
I've always though of them as smallish, lukewarm stars myself, but I'm not a professional astronomer or anything.
Does anyone out there have more info on this?
What's the most widely accepted theory nowadays? Is it about to change?
Did you even read what I wrote?
I said that we could grow plants in special greenhouses or even under artificial lighting.
Plus most (farm) animals spend their entire lives indoors, and the others we can do well without.
I shudder at the thought that most wildlife would be gone though. But we could always throw some funding at the DNA Noah's Ark project so we could regenerate wildlife afterwards.
Does anyone else feel like we're getting pretty close to achieving deity status?
I'm not a rocket scientist, but one would think that if we dont actually go outside we would be unaffected by the lack of an ozone layer.
Or if we do need to go outside, we would be unaffected if we wore protective clothing.
If this really happened to us, I can see the vast majority of wildlife being bombarded by radiation.
But what if we grew all our plants in greenhouses with high-tech sun filters, or even grow them indoors under artificial lighting?
Then we could feed them to cows, chicken, etc.
We could very well extend the subway system and travel exclusively underground, board up all the windows (grin), and coat our buildings with some sort of shielding.
It would be hard to do this for absolutely everyone, but hey even if it blew up today it would take over a century for anything to get here.We have millions of years. Should we really worry?
A Jon Katz article that is both interesting and devoid of pointless political pontification! :D
Thank you, and keep up the good work!
Im sorry, mine doesnt make any noise. :(
I use a Pentalpha CPU cooler, I have two case fans aside from the PSU fan, my Kyro II card also has a fan... and... I never really understood why people say PCs are noisy.
Handy hard drive tip, though, Seagate rox! I have only heard my HD once, but I had to really try and listen to it. And its a 7200 too.
I dont know how silent it is where you live, but I have a bus stop below my window and Very Loud Bus Noises start at 6am here and are constant throughout the day. My PC does make a humming sound but it's negligible compared to music and TV etc.
Maybe your fans need oiling or something. I dunno. I'm sorry if I got on your nerves
Uh, my Linux box starts up in what, 10 seconds?
I cant be blamed if you like running MS BloatOS 2002.
Why do you turn it off in the first place? MS BloatOS crashes? Use Linux. It really whips the llama's ass.
I dont know anyone by the name of egg-troll, and eggstasy has been my IRC nickname since 1996. /. where ppl came to COMMENT on the news, and so my commentary was that i didnt really see the point of re-releasing shitty 30-year old games, and i DONT.The gaming industry should be thinkiong about moving forward, not backwards. I have a 1-year old computer and pretty much all games still run at full speed, because they all pretty much have shitty graphics. Where's the ambition of these people? It's a really bad sign when shitty consoles have better graphics than a powerful computer.Most software is lagging far behind present hardware capabilities. Give me decent graphics like FFX has, and a reason for ppl to actually want to buy a geforce 4 dammit!
Furthermore, I was under the impression that this was
I'm sorry, would someone please enlighten me a bit on this matter?
Who on earth wants to play atari 2600 games?
They suck. They are OLD. The pixels are huge squares. They already sucked when I was a child.
Name one single atari 2600 game that actually has a decent plot, good replayability, long shelflife and non-repetitive gameplay.
The text alone for what I would call a decent game wouldn't fit in an atari 2600 cartridge.
I dunno much about business management but this is probably aiming at a really small niche market... which isnt really my idea of a profitable venture.
But hey, they're Infogrammes, a gaming giant, they can afford being eccentric.
This better be damn cheap or it will b-o-m-b.
How can these idiots somehow assume that everyone has a stereo or some form of computer-independent CD player? You wouldnt believe how small a percentage of my friends actually plays their CDs on a stereo. Why, I once foresaw the death of stereos altogether: Why spend a boatload of cash on a huge machine that can do exactly one thing (play CDs - radio sux, tapes are dead, LPs are deader), when you can do the same with your PC?
Why have a TV/Stereo/DVD/VCR/whatever when you can have it all in your PC?
Ah, wait, if you spend a boatload of cash on huge, clunky, technologically outdated devices such as a TV or a 1x CD player, Big Business is happy. And since the government is just for show and it's actually BB who's running the place, the "consumers" really have no choice - fork over your cash time and time again, or live like a peasant in the Dark Ages, with no comfort at all.
I'm sick of this. Where do I point my gun at to get my God-given rights?
Since they're all trying to label us as terrorists I say shoot the bastards and earn the title!
I'm not an expert but I think you're worrying too much. How could such small particles like pigments be damaging to your hardware if common dust is getting in it all the time?
I have one hell of a dusty house and my aging 2X cdrom works as good as my brand new CDRW. Plus I have opened it several times in the past. There were actual dog hairs in there, hehehe.
Also, the weight of the CD should not be that much of a problem. I have successfully used homemade CD-sized stickers which were rather thick, and had no trouble at all.
On top of all that, well, is there anything cheaper than a CD-ROM drive, if by means of some mysterious planetary alignment you manage to break something?
Nope! PP = Partido do Paneleiro
(O Paulo Portas hehehe)
Legalize rape! Oh Briitneeyy... :)
Digital Rights Management
As in THEY manage what YOU can do or not.
Uh, Portugal?
:)
I live here and aside from libel and slander and those things that are forbidden in the US as well, we can do whatever we want.
We actually have a legitimate nazi party. They dont call themselves like that of course (they're the Nationalist Renovator Party), but we know very well what they are.They dont get any votes though
Actually you have a VERY wrong idea of free speech in the EU. What are you basing your euro-prejudice on anyway? Are you a lawyer?
IANAL but my cousin was a well respected attorney (he just retired), and lives on the floor below me.I'd wager it's all a bunch of hear-say and if you really want I could ask him about the free speech laws in various european countries.
All the dictatorships have long been dissolved here. There is no Hitler, Mussolini, Franco or Salazar anymore.They've been dead for ages.
The same thing happened to my girlfriend, and after a lot of investigating I found this proggy called GetDataBack which worked great! Of course you need to boot from another HD with windows installed, and it only works for FAT/NTFS partitions so if you're a l33t linux-only user or something, you're screwed :| ;)
Of course if you don't want to fork out 69/129 dollars, depending if it's the FAT/NTFS version, there's a cool trick that i discovered in the free version, where every file you open is actually saved to the temp folder with a screwed up name. If you're pacient you can recover all your files one by one, renaming them manually... or you could also get a crack, but I didn't say this and I wasn't here