No, there really isn't much room left for an independent, commercial online publisher. If you want to make money you have to cater to the people willing to give money. You have to represent their interests (ala Fox) and/or entertain them (ala CNN). If you want to do good, independent journalism, go non-profit (ala Wikinews).
Yes that's true, but somewhere in between the mechanic having a look and the police having a look, there should be a warrant. Otherwise, how do you hold people accountable.
Damn do I miss a good simple keyboard. I like to touch a keyboard before bying one, so I don't like to buy online. None of the stores have a simple 104 key USB keyboard that feels right (bonus if it has a mini usb hub for mouse). They have weird layouts, 1000 extra buttons, small buttons, bad feedback, etc.
First of all it would be Wikimedia and not Wikipedia who would announce something like this, and second I don't see the announcement link to the Wikimedia Foundation. Do we have any official announcement here or is it just some editorial fun?
Wasn't destroying the Saturn V blueprints one of the conditions for getting funding for the shuttle (ironically so they wouldn't rely on Saturn V and build a better vehicle)? I very much doubt today's NASA could built a better Saturn V in a cost-effective and safe manner.
This article pretty much illustrates the difference between Apple and Microsoft. Apple tried really hard to come up with a great, user friendly GUI for the Lisa, and in the end sold it for close to $10K to try and quickly recoup costs. Microsoft instead goes and buys a crappy OS (the early DOS) for $80K or whatever it was, sells the crap out of it to IBM and becomes the dominant player. Now Microsoft can afford to sell its OS dirt cheap as it makes up the cost in volume and monopoly practices. Apple still continues to design a great OS and sell it along with hardware at a high premium. Pretty much nothing has changed in the philosophy.
Wow, that was back in 2000 and Amazon continues to pile on lame-ass patents that they themselves recognize as something that shouldn't be patentable. I could see the angle of we're doing it preemptively for our protection if they'd had a legal document saying that they wouldn't sue any company or individual that didn't sue them first.
There is no reason why konqueror should consume 70-80% CPU on PIII 600MHz just moving the mouse on a menu. I strongly wish I had Windows explorer as a file manager. The UI and bloat of konqueror just blows.
Yep it's all supply and demand. You can be a moron and still get a good job and feed your family today. When it takes a good education and actual thinking to make money, you'll see education start to be appreciated again.
The locate me feature sounds pretty cool, too bad I don't run Windows to be able to try it. The IP locator fall back isn't horrible though. I'd like to see Google co-opt this feature with an open WIFI database that others could use (think freedb.org).
Didn't we already know that IE7 would be XP only? Also, why would that boost FF numbers? There are users still using Windows 98 and IE4. Why haven't they switched to FF? Why would those who haven't updated to XP or to FF all of a sudden start using FF when IE7 for XP is released??
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It depends on what you call failure. If failure is losing data, then it's not a SPOF. If the failure is availability, then you wouldn't use RAID to save yourself. You'd use a high-availability cluster. When the controller fails, you fail over to another node with replicated data.
For big databases, doing thousands of transactions per second, generating terrabytes of data per year. If the software they run were any good it could probably be split into clusters of smaller machines, but most are not that simple. Not to mention that it's easier to backup and restore a single behemoth, than coordinate a snapshot across a cluster. They're probably used by banks, warehouses, insurance companies, simulations/modeling at big manufaturers (Chrysler, BP, Lockheed Martin), etc.
HP doesn't just do inkjets, have a look at these, and no you can't just throw some linux blades and get the same thing. HP-UX may be a tad slow, but it's rock solid.
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Anyone else getting a "405: Not Allowed under Gaim?
buffering...*shudder*
No, there really isn't much room left for an independent, commercial online publisher. If you want to make money you have to cater to the people willing to give money. You have to represent their interests (ala Fox) and/or entertain them (ala CNN). If you want to do good, independent journalism, go non-profit (ala Wikinews).
Yes that's true, but somewhere in between the mechanic having a look and the police having a look, there should be a warrant. Otherwise, how do you hold people accountable.
Well, I have Linux on this machine and it works just fine (I can select the FreeBSD boot option in Lilo using this USB keyboard).
Have they fixed the bug where you can't select boot with USB keyboard because you're using a USB keyboard?
P.S. I blame all the typos on this shitty Belkin keyboard :)
Damn do I miss a good simple keyboard. I like to touch a keyboard before bying one, so I don't like to buy online. None of the stores have a simple 104 key USB keyboard that feels right (bonus if it has a mini usb hub for mouse). They have weird layouts, 1000 extra buttons, small buttons, bad feedback, etc.
Can you get free advertising for anything running linux nowadays?
First of all it would be Wikimedia and not Wikipedia who would announce something like this, and second I don't see the announcement link to the Wikimedia Foundation. Do we have any official announcement here or is it just some editorial fun?
Wasn't destroying the Saturn V blueprints one of the conditions for getting funding for the shuttle (ironically so they wouldn't rely on Saturn V and build a better vehicle)? I very much doubt today's NASA could built a better Saturn V in a cost-effective and safe manner.
This article pretty much illustrates the difference between Apple and Microsoft. Apple tried really hard to come up with a great, user friendly GUI for the Lisa, and in the end sold it for close to $10K to try and quickly recoup costs. Microsoft instead goes and buys a crappy OS (the early DOS) for $80K or whatever it was, sells the crap out of it to IBM and becomes the dominant player. Now Microsoft can afford to sell its OS dirt cheap as it makes up the cost in volume and monopoly practices. Apple still continues to design a great OS and sell it along with hardware at a high premium. Pretty much nothing has changed in the philosophy.
This story reminds me of Conan's "If they mated"
I use Slackware. It could be a lot easier, but I've gotten most videos to work on all recent releases of slack.
Wow, that was back in 2000 and Amazon continues to pile on lame-ass patents that they themselves recognize as something that shouldn't be patentable. I could see the angle of we're doing it preemptively for our protection if they'd had a legal document saying that they wouldn't sue any company or individual that didn't sue them first.
There is no reason why konqueror should consume 70-80% CPU on PIII 600MHz just moving the mouse on a menu. I strongly wish I had Windows explorer as a file manager. The UI and bloat of konqueror just blows.
Yep it's all supply and demand. You can be a moron and still get a good job and feed your family today. When it takes a good education and actual thinking to make money, you'll see education start to be appreciated again.
The locate me feature sounds pretty cool, too bad I don't run Windows to be able to try it. The IP locator fall back isn't horrible though. I'd like to see Google co-opt this feature with an open WIFI database that others could use (think freedb.org).
Check out the Fun category, they have a "Ask Yahoo!" link.
/me looks at self for stripes that keep the females away
None of the Windows XP users own Windows XP. Microsoft own Windows XP, some have just purchased the "right" to use it legally.
Didn't we already know that IE7 would be XP only? Also, why would that boost FF numbers? There are users still using Windows 98 and IE4. Why haven't they switched to FF? Why would those who haven't updated to XP or to FF all of a sudden start using FF when IE7 for XP is released??
It depends on what you call failure. If failure is losing data, then it's not a SPOF. If the failure is availability, then you wouldn't use RAID to save yourself. You'd use a high-availability cluster. When the controller fails, you fail over to another node with replicated data.
For big databases, doing thousands of transactions per second, generating terrabytes of data per year. If the software they run were any good it could probably be split into clusters of smaller machines, but most are not that simple. Not to mention that it's easier to backup and restore a single behemoth, than coordinate a snapshot across a cluster. They're probably used by banks, warehouses, insurance companies, simulations/modeling at big manufaturers (Chrysler, BP, Lockheed Martin), etc.
HP doesn't just do inkjets, have a look at these, and no you can't just throw some linux blades and get the same thing. HP-UX may be a tad slow, but it's rock solid.