Are you sure that the louvers weren't designed to act in a manner similar to cowl hoods (e.g, heat extraction via induction)? What sense would it make to continiously force air into the engine compartment unless it also had a proper flow path out? Nevermind the effect on aerodynamics. The cowl design would have been easier and cheaper to use.
I dunno about you but I'm guessing that the vast majority of purchasers will only be using this two minutes at a time. It is made for one-handed operation, right?
I use the Google Deskbar and have custom shortcuts set-up to everything2.com and wikipedia.com (amoung others). I just type in a term into the textbox on my taskbar and hit Ctrl+E, for example. Since it's so convenient, I use both on an almost daily basis.
My two cents: I find myself going to E2 if I'm looking for a more informal, pop culture-ish term (street slang, latest meme, etc.). Wikipedia is where I head when I'm looking for content more consistent with a traditional encyclopedia. I know that Wikipedia also has the pop culture terms as well, but I feel that the more informal nature of E2 makes it superior in that realm.
I consider this a good thing. Too many websites try to be an über swiss army knife. Probably a carry-over from the portal wars in the late 90's.
Why do people continously quote the price of a new CD at ~$18? Seriously, where are you shopping? Walk into any Best Buy, Media Play, or heck... Amazon, and CDs are typically in the ~$12 range. If you're buying all your music at the shopping mall then you have no right to complain.
+5 Funny on Slashdot. If this were a post on a CIO new site, it would probably be +5 Insightful. I like seeing SCO get kicked in the nuts as much as the next geek. However, understand that to the vast majority of people who only mentally process buzzwords "SCO", "Linux" and "legal problems" are mentally interlinked. This is not a good thing for GNU/Linux any way you slice it.
Geeks should be praying for this SCO thing to go away quietly, not for them to be flogged in the town square.
This topic has been trodden to death for many, many years in philosophy. I doubt that anything overly insightfully new is going to appear in a/. thread. However, because at least you and your +1 moderator thought this was Insightful, I'll nibble a bit: Who's going to make the descision who lives and who dies? You're talking about allowing a select group of people to consciously dictate the evolutionary path of the entire human species. Good luck trying to convince this crowd of the nobility of that; here people get pissed off when they can't watch DVDs on Linux. Go read your Kant...
I know this is modded as Funny. I also know that someone is bound to do something like this. However, I've gotta ask: How does anyone win at this game when people have attitudes like this? Damned if you use DRM, damned if you don't. $10 for a digital recording of a concert I just attended is a very reasonable price to me. I think they have the right price point here; at $15, I would consider it somewhat expensive.
I'm not trolling here; I really would be interested in some/. opinions here. Because digital media can be pirated at near zero cost, all it takes is a couple of people to completely destroy a new technology. Personally, I think this is a really cool idea and would hate to see it sunk this way. It sucks to admit, but DRM is inevitable. The innate greed within people will always exist (both the suits who want to squeeze every penny and the vast majority of the public who wants everything for free, ethics be damned).
I recommend Weather Watcher if you'd like a system tray weather icon. It's free (beer), spyware-free, lightweight and does everything I'd want it to do.
How did this make the front page on Slashdot? This is neither news, nor of interest to nerds. What it is, is a bunch of fundimentalists seeking to "prove" a biblical parable; these aren't scientists.
All this is going to turn into is a religious flame war. Nothing to see here, move along...
Man, I've worked construction. You'd pry my ergonomic mouse from my cold, pastey hand before I went back. You're just laborer, paid to break your body for someone else. The mentallity of your supervisors and coworkers is worlds apart from IT. It's a mind-numbing and spirit-crushing existance. I've been used and abused in IT too, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't even compare.
Your talk of 6-figure incomes is BS. I've know only handful of people who have done that well; it's only because they work more overtime than should be humanly possible. Every single one is an alcholic who has to pause a moment to recall how old his own kids are.
PC power supplies have a +12VDC lead. Car alarms operate on 12VDC. Coincidence? Mix, stir, and a pinch of "latching switch" and a bit of "enclosed office" for a good time.
One of my jobs is to plug holes like this when they pop up. I know that I can keep watch on SecurityFocus, NTBugTraq, etc., but does anyone know of a service that I can subscribe to that will proactively send me security alerts? I'd like to be able to pick the products/vendors that I support and get timely and relavant notices.
At the depth these things are designed to be used nitrogen narcosis isn't going to be an issue.
Having said that, anyone who does go to a depth where safety is a concern should already be dive certified and gotten their advice from someplace other than/. That's the whole point of certification.
A year ago I was part of a.com that did advertising via Google AdWords and Overture's partner sites. For our advertising dollar, AdWords was the most effective search-engine. (There were other, more-effective forms, but I'm sticking with search engines for this discussion). We'd easily drop $2k/mo into Google's coffers. If we hadn't throttled our campaign, we would have gotten double that. The people who clicked on our ads a) were specifically looking for something that we offered and b) were fully aware of the fact that they were (gasp!) responding to a paid-for advertising.
What I cannot fathom is why marketing people seem to all believe that people have to be tricked. Ad agencies are tripping over themselves to come up with the next "killer" stealth technique. Why? Can someone please provide some insight into this? Why is more effort put into convincing a large audience that they need what you're selling instead of finding the people who are knowingly seeking your products/services?
A licensing fee may not have been paid, but I think I can safely say that silicon doesn't spontaniously sprout OSS. Someone was paid to intergrate the OS into this device. Odds are that cost was passed onto the end-user. Additionally, I'd like to clarify another point: free != good.
I'm a consultant who runs my own network management biz. I support the networks of small businesses that can't afford a fulltime geek. Nothing special 'bout me--everyone and their brother does what I do. I'm 26 and have been doing this kind of work since HS. I'm an NT 4.0 MCSE, along Novell, Citrix and some CompTIA ones.
I'm hardly an MS tool, but you have to understand the practicalities of things. When I take over an account, my customers already have MS solutions. Everyone uses Windows at home. I cut my teeth on MS-DOS 3.3, then Win 3.11, 95, et al. Like any normal geek, I've toyed around with Linux but I'm no expert with it. I haven't had the time to invest in learning Linux because I need to stay ontop of all the stuff in the MS world, plus I'd like to have some semblence of a life.
I'd *love* to move my customers over to OS alternatives purely for personal idealogical reasons. However, I can't ethically push OS on my customers for that reason. So, my question to/.ers like Yoda2 is... how exactly do I go about switching them over? I'm attaching this missive to his posting because what I need is a plan like his, but obviously more thought out. I need to make a business case out of it. My plan *has* to save my customer money. And most importantly, it *has* to work with a minimal amount of hassle--if I'm going to be rolling this stuff out, I need time to get up to speed with it. My customers love me because I know my shit when it comes to Windows; I make things work. If I screw up, my rep suffers, I lose accounts and then I find a night job stocking grocery stories.
To all the people who flame MCSEs to a crispy cinder, understand: this is how I earn my living. Businesses run MS software and need someone to make it work. That's as simple as it gets.
I've used InstantSSL. It works, no question about that. However, I was able to get it without really doing anything more than providing a credit card number. I hate Verisign with a passion, but I have to admit that their SSL certs mean a hell of a lot more to the end-user. An applicant has to jump through a lot of hoops to get a cert with them. I've had to fax them business verification paperwork and other ID. They then take the time to verify that this paperwork is kosher by cross-referencing it with state records. (At least this is how it was a few years ago--maybe things have changed). Verisign should market this aspect of their certs to the general internet-using public more. Or better yet, a less evil CA should enforce a strict verification process and then market it like crazy.
We apologize for the inconvenience but currently the NetMusic Media Player only works with the Windows operating system, Windows Media Player, and Internet Explorer 5.5+.
I find it odd that there are more ducks in Florida than the number of gas stations in Alaska.
In other words, your correlation is neither significant nor "interesting". I'm no fan of the RIAA, but your attempt to invoke an emotional reaction by somehow creating a mental link between tne RIAA and several hundred dead US soldiers is juvenille, grandiose and insulting.
You might be onto something here, but... the biggest problem I see is that many communites cannot really co-exist; they are either totally unrelated or other times even completely at odds with each other (religious/politic messageboards). This would break your idea of a shared reputation. For example, I'm a Washington Capitals fan despite living in Detroit. In this town, people take their hockey *very* seriously. Using your system, if I posted something in a local-Detroit messageboard about liking the Caps, my karma at/. would also suffer. Am I misunderstanding your system?
I imagine that YMMV considerably, depending on your industry. A year ago I was working for a.com that sold automotive accessories online. We experimented with the same service rackspace has, Groopz. We also tried PHP Chat and LivePerson. Groopz was the best, in our experience, do to the right combination of functionality vs. price.
However, we ended up scrapping the live chat thing all together eventually. We had people who would pop in, ask a random question and then close the chat session. It was very difficult to carry on meaningful conversation that would actually lead to a sale. It's much more difficult for a shopper to do this to a sales guy in person or over the phone because you have their undivided attention.
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Are you sure that the louvers weren't designed to act in a manner similar to cowl hoods (e.g, heat extraction via induction)? What sense would it make to continiously force air into the engine compartment unless it also had a proper flow path out? Nevermind the effect on aerodynamics. The cowl design would have been easier and cheaper to use.
I dunno about you but I'm guessing that the vast majority of purchasers will only be using this two minutes at a time. It is made for one-handed operation, right?
I use the Google Deskbar and have custom shortcuts set-up to everything2.com and wikipedia.com (amoung others). I just type in a term into the textbox on my taskbar and hit Ctrl+E, for example. Since it's so convenient, I use both on an almost daily basis.
My two cents: I find myself going to E2 if I'm looking for a more informal, pop culture-ish term (street slang, latest meme, etc.). Wikipedia is where I head when I'm looking for content more consistent with a traditional encyclopedia. I know that Wikipedia also has the pop culture terms as well, but I feel that the more informal nature of E2 makes it superior in that realm.
I consider this a good thing. Too many websites try to be an über swiss army knife. Probably a carry-over from the portal wars in the late 90's.
Why do people continously quote the price of a new CD at ~$18? Seriously, where are you shopping? Walk into any Best Buy, Media Play, or heck... Amazon, and CDs are typically in the ~$12 range. If you're buying all your music at the shopping mall then you have no right to complain.
+5 Funny on Slashdot. If this were a post on a CIO new site, it would probably be +5 Insightful. I like seeing SCO get kicked in the nuts as much as the next geek. However, understand that to the vast majority of people who only mentally process buzzwords "SCO", "Linux" and "legal problems" are mentally interlinked. This is not a good thing for GNU/Linux any way you slice it.
Geeks should be praying for this SCO thing to go away quietly, not for them to be flogged in the town square.
This topic has been trodden to death for many, many years in philosophy. I doubt that anything overly insightfully new is going to appear in a /. thread. However, because at least you and your +1 moderator thought this was Insightful, I'll nibble a bit: Who's going to make the descision who lives and who dies? You're talking about allowing a select group of people to consciously dictate the evolutionary path of the entire human species. Good luck trying to convince this crowd of the nobility of that; here people get pissed off when they can't watch DVDs on Linux.
Go read your Kant...
I know this is modded as Funny. I also know that someone is bound to do something like this. However, I've gotta ask: How does anyone win at this game when people have attitudes like this? Damned if you use DRM, damned if you don't. $10 for a digital recording of a concert I just attended is a very reasonable price to me. I think they have the right price point here; at $15, I would consider it somewhat expensive.
I'm not trolling here; I really would be interested in some /. opinions here. Because digital media can be pirated at near zero cost, all it takes is a couple of people to completely destroy a new technology. Personally, I think this is a really cool idea and would hate to see it sunk this way. It sucks to admit, but DRM is inevitable. The innate greed within people will always exist (both the suits who want to squeeze every penny and the vast majority of the public who wants everything for free, ethics be damned).
I recommend Weather Watcher if you'd like a system tray weather icon. It's free (beer), spyware-free, lightweight and does everything I'd want it to do.
How did this make the front page on Slashdot? This is neither news, nor of interest to nerds. What it is, is a bunch of fundimentalists seeking to "prove" a biblical parable; these aren't scientists.
All this is going to turn into is a religious flame war. Nothing to see here, move along...
Man, I've worked construction. You'd pry my ergonomic mouse from my cold, pastey hand before I went back. You're just laborer, paid to break your body for someone else. The mentallity of your supervisors and coworkers is worlds apart from IT. It's a mind-numbing and spirit-crushing existance. I've been used and abused in IT too, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't even compare.
Your talk of 6-figure incomes is BS. I've know only handful of people who have done that well; it's only because they work more overtime than should be humanly possible. Every single one is an alcholic who has to pause a moment to recall how old his own kids are.
Choose wisely.
+4 Informative?
I'm guessing we have more coders than sys admins modding today.
PC power supplies have a +12VDC lead. Car alarms operate on 12VDC. Coincidence? Mix, stir, and a pinch of "latching switch" and a bit of "enclosed office" for a good time.
Not to threadjack, but...
One of my jobs is to plug holes like this when they pop up. I know that I can keep watch on SecurityFocus, NTBugTraq, etc., but does anyone know of a service that I can subscribe to that will proactively send me security alerts? I'd like to be able to pick the products/vendors that I support and get timely and relavant notices.
At the depth these things are designed to be used nitrogen narcosis isn't going to be an issue.
Having said that, anyone who does go to a depth where safety is a concern should already be dive certified and gotten their advice from someplace other than /. That's the whole point of certification.
A year ago I was part of a .com that did advertising via Google AdWords and Overture's partner sites. For our advertising dollar, AdWords was the most effective search-engine. (There were other, more-effective forms, but I'm sticking with search engines for this discussion). We'd easily drop $2k/mo into Google's coffers. If we hadn't throttled our campaign, we would have gotten double that. The people who clicked on our ads a) were specifically looking for something that we offered and b) were fully aware of the fact that they were (gasp!) responding to a paid-for advertising.
What I cannot fathom is why marketing people seem to all believe that people have to be tricked. Ad agencies are tripping over themselves to come up with the next "killer" stealth technique. Why? Can someone please provide some insight into this? Why is more effort put into convincing a large audience that they need what you're selling instead of finding the people who are knowingly seeking your products/services?
Just in case... here's a mirror. Always glad to lend a hand.
Read the ingredient list sometime on the sides of Gatorade or the ilk. I wouldn't excatly say it's "well made"--it's just KoolAid with salt.
I'm a consultant who runs my own network management biz. I support the networks of small businesses that can't afford a fulltime geek. Nothing special 'bout me--everyone and their brother does what I do. I'm 26 and have been doing this kind of work since HS. I'm an NT 4.0 MCSE, along Novell, Citrix and some CompTIA ones.
I'm hardly an MS tool, but you have to understand the practicalities of things. When I take over an account, my customers already have MS solutions. Everyone uses Windows at home. I cut my teeth on MS-DOS 3.3, then Win 3.11, 95, et al. Like any normal geek, I've toyed around with Linux but I'm no expert with it. I haven't had the time to invest in learning Linux because I need to stay ontop of all the stuff in the MS world, plus I'd like to have some semblence of a life.
I'd *love* to move my customers over to OS alternatives purely for personal idealogical reasons. However, I can't ethically push OS on my customers for that reason. So, my question to /.ers like Yoda2 is... how exactly do I go about switching them over? I'm attaching this missive to his posting because what I need is a plan like his, but obviously more thought out. I need to make a business case out of it. My plan *has* to save my customer money. And most importantly, it *has* to work with a minimal amount of hassle--if I'm going to be rolling this stuff out, I need time to get up to speed with it. My customers love me because I know my shit when it comes to Windows; I make things work. If I screw up, my rep suffers, I lose accounts and then I find a night job stocking grocery stories.
To all the people who flame MCSEs to a crispy cinder, understand: this is how I earn my living. Businesses run MS software and need someone to make it work. That's as simple as it gets.
Citrix CALs run about $300 per seat. Windows XP Pro is about $300. Kinda defeats the purpose.
I've used InstantSSL. It works, no question about that. However, I was able to get it without really doing anything more than providing a credit card number. I hate Verisign with a passion, but I have to admit that their SSL certs mean a hell of a lot more to the end-user. An applicant has to jump through a lot of hoops to get a cert with them. I've had to fax them business verification paperwork and other ID. They then take the time to verify that this paperwork is kosher by cross-referencing it with state records. (At least this is how it was a few years ago--maybe things have changed). Verisign should market this aspect of their certs to the general internet-using public more. Or better yet, a less evil CA should enforce a strict verification process and then market it like crazy.
I find it odd that there are more ducks in Florida than the number of gas stations in Alaska.
In other words, your correlation is neither significant nor "interesting". I'm no fan of the RIAA, but your attempt to invoke an emotional reaction by somehow creating a mental link between tne RIAA and several hundred dead US soldiers is juvenille, grandiose and insulting.
You might be onto something here, but... the biggest problem I see is that many communites cannot really co-exist; they are either totally unrelated or other times even completely at odds with each other (religious/politic messageboards). This would break your idea of a shared reputation. For example, I'm a Washington Capitals fan despite living in Detroit. In this town, people take their hockey *very* seriously. Using your system, if I posted something in a local-Detroit messageboard about liking the Caps, my karma at /. would also suffer. Am I misunderstanding your system?
I imagine that YMMV considerably, depending on your industry. A year ago I was working for a .com that sold automotive accessories online. We experimented with the same service rackspace has, Groopz. We also tried PHP Chat and LivePerson. Groopz was the best, in our experience, do to the right combination of functionality vs. price.
However, we ended up scrapping the live chat thing all together eventually. We had people who would pop in, ask a random question and then close the chat session. It was very difficult to carry on meaningful conversation that would actually lead to a sale. It's much more difficult for a shopper to do this to a sales guy in person or over the phone because you have their undivided attention.