so you blow the "hook" to keep viewers coming back to the time slot next week.
That's not what Viral Marketing is about. The BBC broadcasts to 50 million folk. A few million of those are interested in Dr Who, but only a few thousand of those would ever spend the time adn effort to download the pilot and watch it. Those folk enjoy it - like most the folk on/. and talk about it to their friends. Other folk read about the leak in the papers which makes it all a bit cool. They ask their geeky friends who assure them it's good and they tune in.
The tiny number that would be downlaoding the file in the UK is insignificant when you measure viewer ratings for the popular shows in the millions. Viral amrketting is about using a small number of people to boost those millions. So far, at least on/. it seems to be working.
You made me think of a recent experience installing an iPod.
Under FC3 I plug it in, the computer automatically recognises an Ipod has been plugged in and makes the folder/media/iPod I type yum install gtkpod and I have a working iPod in under 2 minutes.
Over on Windows - and I'm not sure if this is the same on an Apple - it took about fifteen minutes of copying software from CD, signing up online, agreeing to several licenses, entering the serial number at least two times in different places...
I've had similar experiences with a Samsung laser printer that 'just worked' on linux but took an age to install on windows.
While I'll admit not everything is supported under Linux, of the stuff that is it seems a heck of a lot easier o get it running than with Windows.
For a long time I've thought that a calendar server that integrates with Outlook is the missing killer app for open source. Then we hear Evolution will be ported to windows, and an Outlook replacement is suddenly available. With OpenOffice we'll have a complete open source office and groupware suite.
Of course life is never that simple, and there's a new target for integration - cell phones. PDA sales are declining fast as the cell phone becomes the computer for outside the office. Most rhe big names, Sony, Nokia, Motarola have been offering a calendar for some time and recent ones will happily sync with Outlook. If we can have an open source calendar server that has a good web interface as well as a desktop application like Outlook and a hook into the big name mobile phones, then we'll have all the angles covered.
Actually there are some other MPs and MEPs who are listening. The SNP members in the Parliament have been campaigning against this for some time. See the stuff put out by Prof Neil MacCormick prior to retiring from the European Parliament last year and Ian Hudghton who sits in the European Parliament at present.
Remember also there's probably going to be a general election in May - now's the time to ask prospective candidates questions!
Here's some links to stuff from the SNP one, two and three
Microsoft executives were reported as saying Longhorn will have a single game title available at launch date. "Duke Nukem Forever will define the status of our new operating system amongst gamers" said one exec.
It's probably more Walmart's doing than the manufacturer. Walmart will have said "give us a laptop we can sell below the $500 price point or someone else will." So the manufacturer has to cut costs somewhere. Not that I disagree, 128MB is too little, but you gets what you pays for.
My guess that it uses some sort of flash memory, which is technicially not a 'disk'.
Informitive?!? Actually, the article's informitive:
Movie length can be extended using removable storage cards. The Miniket includes a MultiCard slot that supports Memory Stick and Memory Stick Pro cards. Memory Stick and its faster Pro variant are typically supported by digital cameras and other consumer devices from Sony. Memory Sticks are currently available from SanDisk and Sony in capacities up to 4GB, typically priced slightly higher per megabyte than CompactFlash cards.
The reality is that almost no other commercial software vendor will provide you with updates if you aren't current on maintenance, let alone pirated the software in the first place.
I can think of a couple of big commercial firms that will provide you with updates whether or not you paid for their software. RedHat and Novell Spring to mind.
I know what you were trying to say, but these too are commercial firms, out to make a profit. RedHat through Fedora provide updates for a year, Novell through SuSE desktop / pro provide updates for two years. If you need longer than that, install your own version of RedHat Enterprise Linux through Whitebox Linux or one of the other clones and enjoy RedHat patches for a period of five years.
There's lots of levels of support you won't get from these companies without paying for it, but you will get patches. Frankly it's in no-one's interest for tens of thousands of unpatched computers to be sitting on the internet.
Sip works well, but doesn't like NAT'd connections though it can be made to work. IPv4 and forcing customers to use NAT are the technologies that will continue to be used to keep provision of a lot of these technologies in the hands of the ISP's with the potential to bill customers.
The ability to circumvent NAT is why programs like Skype have such popularity and why Linux users looking for more control have been quick to investigate Asterisk and it's IAX2 protocol.
Open standards are all very well, but for the time being at least, SIP is going to be a good technology so we can connect our computers to big carrriers and interoperate with the POTS. Other technologies have the potential to completely circumnavigate POTS and the big carriers - you cna bet your life they'll do everything they can to make sure they're not adopted.
Let them know that software patents are important enough to deserve a proper discussion in the parliament.
Software Patents have been discussed in the Parilament, and were rejected. The member Govwenments and unelected European Commission are now attempting to circumvent the Parliament's decision.
I personally prefer to fly in a small jet where I can feel less like cattle, screened, and herded into these flying apartment buildings that rather than afford greater space just pack in more and more people so as to struggle to make a profit in what is essentially a state-subsidised market in crisis.
You might like small planes, but these are why the market in the US needs state subsidies. Take a look at the UK / Ireland and their low cost opperations. All the flights are on 737s or their equivalent. The big operators are Easyjet and Ryanair. This is real no frills stuff, but we're flying across Europe for under $100 return while Americans are paying more than that per leg. These airlines are posting profits too ($226 million Euros for Ryanair in 2004). Maybe folk need to ask why the US government is willing to subsidise a business model that is so obviously flawed?
Looking at the pictures - I know this is slashdot and no one will have looked at the pictures yet - the display seems to be mounted on top of a plastic case sorrounding the RAM rather than on the chips themselves. Not that I didn't think it was a con when I openned the article, but this is just a plastic LCD display stuck on top of a RAM module. Why would anyone...
That sounds like a microphone / soundcard / bandwidth or latency problem.
Almsot everyone I call ahs remarked on the quality of the call, not the lack. You don't provide any info but your friend really wants to try locally recording his/her voice to see if the quality there is good. If it's not get a USB headset. If the quality is good they need to look at their net connection and software.
The BBC and others are reporting that it's a done deal. In a merger deal valued at $13.5bn (£7bn) the all-share deal will see Symantec swap 1.1242 shares of common stock for each Veritas share.
You can't preview using the LCD on a digital SLR because there's a mirror between the lens and the sensor that reflects the image from the lens through the eyepiece. When you take a shot this mirror flicks up and the image hits the sensor at the back of the camera as if it were photographic film. It's this action that makes the camera click.
Only with an SLR do you see the actual 'through the lens' image in the eyepiece prior to taking your photo. A side effect is that you can't also see that image on the LCD on the rear of the camera, hence it is there only for adjusting camera settings and reviewing photos after they've been shot.
This is a good point, but seriously do keep up the fight.
If you live in the EU, drop another quick email to your MEP and national parliamentarians. It doesn't have to be a long rant against patents - just point out the massive opposition, the threat to jobs and the duplicity of voting on software patents at an environment or fisheries meeting without even a vote.
In the UK there will likely be a general election next year. Contact your MP now it costs nothing bar a few minutes of your time. You can get contact details for your MEP here.
Like lots of people, I've used PGP for years, but it has never taken off like it should have. I wonder if it really has a future.
Companies can secure their internal email by deploying SSL on their mailservers and enforcing its use. For email outside the company surely S/MIME has captured the market. It's built into most email software, and companies are offering free certificates.
With PGP seeming more complex and requiring a seperate install, what role does it have for today's SMEs?
In a "Godless socialised education" system, there's no incentive to succeed whatsoever. When public schools do bad, they just get more money, and their "customers" have no choice. They are forced to go to them. Monopolies are bad, especially when the Government has them.
With your great education have you even looked at education beyond your own borders? Do you think other governments aren't capable of recognising the place for rewarding success? Do you think governments are incapable of intervening when they see failure?
In the UK there's no obligation to go to your local school, you can pick any as long as you have the grades to get accepted - and others in Europe can pick one of our universities too. Yet in the US if you don't have the necessary cash you may well be forced to stay in state and go to a local school rather than explore the best that should be available to your academic ability.
I would still take a mediocre private education over the best our Government can offer, thanks.
Ever head of Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, Glasgow, Edinburgh? If your government can't offer better perhaps it's time you elect a new government? Free market education determines that access is based as much on wealth as it is on academic ability. That's plain wrong.
In related news, the USPS today announced 1,250 redundancies after a recent analysis suggested a 90% reduction in 2005 postal volume from the Northern Virginia area.
Actually not that difficult - as long as your music is in albums.
1GB, that's what fourteen or fifteen albums of music. You have [+ album -] and [+ track -] buttons. It's usually quite easy to remember which album is which from the first bit of music at the start.
1GB of random MP3s - that's another story altogether.
That blocks their flash adverts. If folk feed me annoying animated gifs then the whole lot will be blocked. I don't mind ads. I do mind adverts that are so animated I can't read the text. To be honest I'd rather see a clickthrough screen followed by an ad free page than a page with blinking flash adverts everywhere.
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That's not what Viral Marketing is about. The BBC broadcasts to 50 million folk. A few million of those are interested in Dr Who, but only a few thousand of those would ever spend the time adn effort to download the pilot and watch it. Those folk enjoy it - like most the folk on /. and talk about it to their friends. Other folk read about the leak in the papers which makes it all a bit cool. They ask their geeky friends who assure them it's good and they tune in.
The tiny number that would be downlaoding the file in the UK is insignificant when you measure viewer ratings for the popular shows in the millions. Viral amrketting is about using a small number of people to boost those millions. So far, at least on /. it seems to be working.
Under FC3 I plug it in, the computer automatically recognises an Ipod has been plugged in and makes the folder /media/iPod I type yum install gtkpod and I have a working iPod in under 2 minutes.
Over on Windows - and I'm not sure if this is the same on an Apple - it took about fifteen minutes of copying software from CD, signing up online, agreeing to several licenses, entering the serial number at least two times in different places...
I've had similar experiences with a Samsung laser printer that 'just worked' on linux but took an age to install on windows.
While I'll admit not everything is supported under Linux, of the stuff that is it seems a heck of a lot easier o get it running than with Windows.
Of course life is never that simple, and there's a new target for integration - cell phones. PDA sales are declining fast as the cell phone becomes the computer for outside the office. Most rhe big names, Sony, Nokia, Motarola have been offering a calendar for some time and recent ones will happily sync with Outlook. If we can have an open source calendar server that has a good web interface as well as a desktop application like Outlook and a hook into the big name mobile phones, then we'll have all the angles covered.
Remember also there's probably going to be a general election in May - now's the time to ask prospective candidates questions!
Here's some links to stuff from the SNP one, two and three
Microsoft executives were reported as saying Longhorn will have a single game title available at launch date. "Duke Nukem Forever will define the status of our new operating system amongst gamers" said one exec.
It's probably more Walmart's doing than the manufacturer. Walmart will have said "give us a laptop we can sell below the $500 price point or someone else will." So the manufacturer has to cut costs somewhere. Not that I disagree, 128MB is too little, but you gets what you pays for.
Does anyone know what's happened to the Helix grant that was supposed to bring VoIP to Jabber last year. https://jabber.helixcommunity.org/
Informitive?!? Actually, the article's informitive:
I can think of a couple of big commercial firms that will provide you with updates whether or not you paid for their software. RedHat and Novell Spring to mind.
I know what you were trying to say, but these too are commercial firms, out to make a profit. RedHat through Fedora provide updates for a year, Novell through SuSE desktop / pro provide updates for two years. If you need longer than that, install your own version of RedHat Enterprise Linux through Whitebox Linux or one of the other clones and enjoy RedHat patches for a period of five years.
There's lots of levels of support you won't get from these companies without paying for it, but you will get patches. Frankly it's in no-one's interest for tens of thousands of unpatched computers to be sitting on the internet.
Just visit google and search for define: phb
Pointy-Haired Boss. A creation of Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame.
The ability to circumvent NAT is why programs like Skype have such popularity and why Linux users looking for more control have been quick to investigate Asterisk and it's IAX2 protocol.
Open standards are all very well, but for the time being at least, SIP is going to be a good technology so we can connect our computers to big carrriers and interoperate with the POTS. Other technologies have the potential to completely circumnavigate POTS and the big carriers - you cna bet your life they'll do everything they can to make sure they're not adopted.
Software Patents have been discussed in the Parilament, and were rejected. The member Govwenments and unelected European Commission are now attempting to circumvent the Parliament's decision.
You might like small planes, but these are why the market in the US needs state subsidies. Take a look at the UK / Ireland and their low cost opperations. All the flights are on 737s or their equivalent. The big operators are Easyjet and Ryanair. This is real no frills stuff, but we're flying across Europe for under $100 return while Americans are paying more than that per leg. These airlines are posting profits too ($226 million Euros for Ryanair in 2004). Maybe folk need to ask why the US government is willing to subsidise a business model that is so obviously flawed?
Looking at the pictures - I know this is slashdot and no one will have looked at the pictures yet - the display seems to be mounted on top of a plastic case sorrounding the RAM rather than on the chips themselves. Not that I didn't think it was a con when I openned the article, but this is just a plastic LCD display stuck on top of a RAM module. Why would anyone...
I suspect they're actually going to sell a rebadged phone from Pulver Innovations (something lots of Vonage competitors already do).
Almsot everyone I call ahs remarked on the quality of the call, not the lack. You don't provide any info but your friend really wants to try locally recording his/her voice to see if the quality there is good. If it's not get a USB headset. If the quality is good they need to look at their net connection and software.
The BBC and others are reporting that it's a done deal. In a merger deal valued at $13.5bn (£7bn) the all-share deal will see Symantec swap 1.1242 shares of common stock for each Veritas share.
Only with an SLR do you see the actual 'through the lens' image in the eyepiece prior to taking your photo. A side effect is that you can't also see that image on the LCD on the rear of the camera, hence it is there only for adjusting camera settings and reviewing photos after they've been shot.
If you live in the EU, drop another quick email to your MEP and national parliamentarians. It doesn't have to be a long rant against patents - just point out the massive opposition, the threat to jobs and the duplicity of voting on software patents at an environment or fisheries meeting without even a vote.
In the UK there will likely be a general election next year. Contact your MP now it costs nothing bar a few minutes of your time. You can get contact details for your MEP here.
Companies can secure their internal email by deploying SSL on their mailservers and enforcing its use. For email outside the company surely S/MIME has captured the market. It's built into most email software, and companies are offering free certificates.
With PGP seeming more complex and requiring a seperate install, what role does it have for today's SMEs?
With your great education have you even looked at education beyond your own borders? Do you think other governments aren't capable of recognising the place for rewarding success? Do you think governments are incapable of intervening when they see failure?
In the UK there's no obligation to go to your local school, you can pick any as long as you have the grades to get accepted - and others in Europe can pick one of our universities too. Yet in the US if you don't have the necessary cash you may well be forced to stay in state and go to a local school rather than explore the best that should be available to your academic ability.
I would still take a mediocre private education over the best our Government can offer, thanks.
Ever head of Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, Glasgow, Edinburgh? If your government can't offer better perhaps it's time you elect a new government? Free market education determines that access is based as much on wealth as it is on academic ability. That's plain wrong.
In related news, the USPS today announced 1,250 redundancies after a recent analysis suggested a 90% reduction in 2005 postal volume from the Northern Virginia area.
Actually not that difficult - as long as your music is in albums. 1GB, that's what fourteen or fifteen albums of music. You have [+ album -] and [+ track -] buttons. It's usually quite easy to remember which album is which from the first bit of music at the start. 1GB of random MP3s - that's another story altogether.
http://*.adcompany.com/*swf*
That blocks their flash adverts. If folk feed me annoying animated gifs then the whole lot will be blocked. I don't mind ads. I do mind adverts that are so animated I can't read the text. To be honest I'd rather see a clickthrough screen followed by an ad free page than a page with blinking flash adverts everywhere.