Sheesh. In a 2 or three years it's probably going to be like "you're and old fart if you remember way back when Pete Sampras was actually hitting returns".
Hey, young 'uns, what's your life cycle like? Us, we live to be like 70 or 80...
It is marketroid disinformation - but only just. A laptop is blatantly intended for mobile use, which implies extended battery-mode use. The processor speed should not be advertised assuming that the machine is plugged in to a wall. This is a little bit like advertising a car as 'the safest in the world' and subsequently discovering that they meant 'the safest in the world when standing still in an empty parking lot'. OK, extreme example, but you know what I mean. And to add to another earlier post: OT PS: Yes,/. is real slow today. Dunno why. Taco?
OK, now I know that I don't have to write a single line of code to get my project spalshed across the front page. Good. Now, what was it I was going to write...
(head scratching)
Oh yea. I remember. Hey, Taco, I'm going to invent a perpetual motion machine the day after tomorrow. For real. Not vaporware. Honest! I demand my story submitted.:-)
Well, I'd say that is debatable, whether freedom of speech remains intact over there. But that is beside the point.
I suppose I'd have done well to stick a smiley in the post since it has been moderated funny, overrated, troll, and interesting all at once whereas it was intended to be humorous:-)
In any case, I think this post is a good example of our moderation system breaking down. I'd rather have been moderated straight down to overrated than suffer this travesty of moderator comprehension...
They don't really need to splash out for all this gear just to find aliens. Here, let me save you SETI labcoats some cash.
Take 1 (one) RMS and dangle it in front of one of your telescopes.
Ask it about algorithm patenting, or the Bitkeeper license. Make sure the RMS is dangling mouth to the dish. Doesn't have to be that close. The RMS can actually be dangled from several miles out.
Wait for someone to crunch the WU and get back to you with a positive hit.
Buy new tux for Nobel Prize ceremony.
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Blender Is GPL
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· Score: 5, Interesting
It occurs to me, what with all the debate going on concerning the validity of open source as a business model, that we are missing the bigger lesson from the blender story.
While I know that those 100 k Euros probably did not really cover all the assets of NaN, all the same, it showed it is possible.
What would people say to programming teams picking up desired projects, and then 'holding them ransom' and waiting for some form of corporate sponsorship, perhaps?
Or just doing it the way blender did it, and accepting private donations? That way, the projects that people really deem worthy would be the ones that made it into the open source community. Survival of the most valuable?
You're absolutely right. I too am getting a little sick and tired of all this 'preaching to the converted'.
I'd like to see this story on the front page, for example, if it originated in mainstream media; then, the topic of discussion would have been something more useful like reaching out and getting heard by the unwashed masses.
These articles get posted and people are all "oh how wonderful it would be if Joe Sixpack read that and acknoeledged the truth in it". Bleh, spare me.
Post these things again when the story pops up on NBS or CNN or the beeb.
Just some flamebait here to complement your offtopic, Mr. evilviper.
I get lots of good ideas. I'll even give you some for free. But hire me afterwards, OK?
1. Well, you can charge people less for running at lower resolutions like 640x480. See? It even sounds better than saying 'our higher res clientele will have to pay more'
2. You can also charge extra licensing fees for users that think they might need a mouse. Heck, Linux does it... yes linux does too, since the mouse functionality costs nothing, which is precisely as expensive as the whole OS...
3. You might as well begin to start charging admission fees to all buildings that contain a machine with windows on it. KA-CHING!
That's it. 3 ideas are all you get. Now will you hire me?
Hey, I modded my baby sister! W00t! Strapped the toaster to her bum! Pure mobile functionality man! And see, in the pictures, that casserole on her head? I must admit that's just to make it look cooler. Cyborg man!
Can I have my mod posted on slashdot? Please? I'll even make some pretty HTML pages for the pictures... I have just the tool......clickety click...
Here! Frontpage!
End Sarcasm
Editors, enough silly mods please.
Or I really will strap the toaster to my sister's bum. You've been warned.
Yea, that's right. And for all those folks out there who have been infringing on my own intellectual property, let it be known from now on; I will be requiring licensing fees for anyone using MadFarmAnimalz as a prefix to anything.
This goes too for my other nicks, namely RancidAmoeba and DromedaryOfWar.
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You don't really make money on support targeted at end-users. You make money on corporate support. There will always be a market there.
End user support has nothing to do with any decent revenue model, actually; completely irrelevant.
if I can remember when altavista was king?
Sheesh. In a 2 or three years it's probably going to be like "you're and old fart if you remember way back when Pete Sampras was actually hitting returns".
Hey, young 'uns, what's your life cycle like? Us, we live to be like 70 or 80...
It is marketroid disinformation - but only just. /. is real slow today. Dunno why. Taco?
A laptop is blatantly intended for mobile use, which implies extended battery-mode use. The processor speed should not be advertised assuming that the machine is plugged in to a wall.
This is a little bit like advertising a car as 'the safest in the world' and subsequently discovering that they meant 'the safest in the world when standing still in an empty parking lot'.
OK, extreme example, but you know what I mean.
And to add to another earlier post:
OT PS: Yes,
frontpage /. ads? FRONTPAGE?!? /me whips out nmap
Taco you TURNCOAT.
So THAT'S what that server migration a few days ago was all about...
That's ok.
:-)
I use lynx.
OK, now I know that I don't have to write a single line of code to get my project spalshed across the front page. Good. Now, what was it I was going to write...
:-)
(head scratching)
Oh yea. I remember. Hey, Taco, I'm going to invent a perpetual motion machine the day after tomorrow. For real. Not vaporware. Honest! I demand my story submitted.
Well, I'd say that is debatable, whether freedom of speech remains intact over there. But that is beside the point.
:-)
:-)
I suppose I'd have done well to stick a smiley in the post since it has been moderated funny, overrated, troll, and interesting all at once whereas it was intended to be humorous
In any case, I think this post is a good example of our moderation system breaking down. I'd rather have been moderated straight down to overrated than suffer this travesty of moderator comprehension...
Cheers, dvdeug.
I suppose we're all rooting here on /. for Fritz.
Good thing there's no such thing as the United States of Humanity. We'd all be tried for treason.
And be spared the noose by psychiatric examination.
Folks, I know we like computers and all, but it's worth reminding yourself every now and then that we're humans.
Set up a cron job to remind you if you must.
They don't really need to splash out for all this gear just to find aliens. Here, let me save you SETI labcoats some cash.
Take 1 (one) RMS and dangle it in front of one of your telescopes.
Ask it about algorithm patenting, or the Bitkeeper license. Make sure the RMS is dangling mouth to the dish. Doesn't have to be that close. The RMS can actually be dangled from several miles out.
Wait for someone to crunch the WU and get back to you with a positive hit.
Buy new tux for Nobel Prize ceremony.
It occurs to me, what with all the debate going on concerning the validity of open source as a business model, that we are missing the bigger lesson from the blender story.
While I know that those 100 k Euros probably did not really cover all the assets of NaN, all the same, it showed it is possible.
What would people say to programming teams picking up desired projects, and then 'holding them ransom' and waiting for some form of corporate sponsorship, perhaps?
Or just doing it the way blender did it, and accepting private donations? That way, the projects that people really deem worthy would be the ones that made it into the open source community. Survival of the most valuable?
Good idea? Bad idea? Comments?
You're absolutely right. I too am getting a little sick and tired of all this 'preaching to the converted'.
I'd like to see this story on the front page, for example, if it originated in mainstream media; then, the topic of discussion would have been something more useful like reaching out and getting heard by the unwashed masses.
These articles get posted and people are all "oh how wonderful it would be if Joe Sixpack read that and acknoeledged the truth in it". Bleh, spare me.
Post these things again when the story pops up on NBS or CNN or the beeb.
Just some flamebait here to complement your offtopic, Mr. evilviper.
heh
:)
Listen, that didn't get modded up for its content... Have another look at the nick and then follow the link beside it pointing to a jpg...
A classic case of (alleged) form over function
Snake oil.
Securom has nothing to do with the physical media. Look it up on google if you want.
Does your writer: 1. read and write RAW DAO and sub-channel data?
Does your burning software of choice: 1. write in RAW mode 2. with sub-channel data?
End of story.
This doesn't even need to be cracked... It's below cracking...
I know americans who can get in quite a jiffy over love and pr0n too. And Brits. And Egyptians. and Chinese.
What's the point here? Would this have been modded +4 funny if you s/Chinese/Belgian or something else?
That is, I suspect, a little like thinking that it might be nice to affix Pamela Anderson's knockers to Natalie Portman's front side.
Nice idea, in other words, but perhaps not something modern medicine is up to just yet.
I get lots of good ideas. I'll even give you some for free. But hire me afterwards, OK?
1. Well, you can charge people less for running at lower resolutions like 640x480. See? It even sounds better than saying 'our higher res clientele will have to pay more'
2. You can also charge extra licensing fees for users that think they might need a mouse. Heck, Linux does it... yes linux does too, since the mouse functionality costs nothing, which is precisely as expensive as the whole OS...
3. You might as well begin to start charging admission fees to all buildings that contain a machine with windows on it. KA-CHING!
That's it. 3 ideas are all you get. Now will you hire me?
Is it just me or is this the driest most boring article ever written?
Kudos to the moderators for braving such a dangerously sleep-inducing piece of research for us mere mortals.
And in the end it just tells us that the Linux TCO is lower than the TCO for windows?
What time did you say the movie was?
Begin sarcasm
...clickety click...
Hey, I modded my baby sister! W00t! Strapped the toaster to her bum! Pure mobile functionality man! And see, in the pictures, that casserole on her head? I must admit that's just to make it look cooler. Cyborg man!
Can I have my mod posted on slashdot? Please? I'll even make some pretty HTML pages for the pictures... I have just the tool...
Here! Frontpage!
End Sarcasm
Editors, enough silly mods please.
Or I really will strap the toaster to my sister's bum. You've been warned.
Five monk exchange lumps.. it is magnificent
Umm... what was this story about really? I thought there was a chair with a computer or some such combination.
With lump-exchanging monks, and magnificently so too, I'm thinking I've missed the point here...
I love you carmack, please have my love child
:)
John, this post demands a response along these lines, methinks...
C'mon, give us geeks occasion for joy!
Yea, that's right. And for all those folks out there who have been infringing on my own intellectual property, let it be known from now on; I will be requiring licensing fees for anyone using MadFarmAnimalz as a prefix to anything.
This goes too for my other nicks, namely RancidAmoeba and DromedaryOfWar.
Cease and desist.
Wings? Who needs wings?
500 bucks worth of canned beans oughtta do it.
I've seen the terrible consequences of cryogenics gone wrong one too many times.
Throwing yet another pack of spoilt hamburgers into the trash
Count me out.
Actually, you could technically define fast forwarding through a video tape as 'editing'.
You're manipulating the message of the delivered content.
No more FF and RW buttons on the VCR?