The browser keeps you in Windows?
I'm in windows because of 2 things:
Games and DV.
Playing games is how I relax between projects.
Either running Age of Kings, or Starcraft, or sniping some fools in Rainbow Six, its all about relaxation. Some of the games I play, can be run in linux, unreal tournament for example.
The other, is DV editing on firewire. I can edit in Linux just fine, and as the firewire support becomes more stable, I'll soon be able to drop the MS OS. Its the capture and export to tape that I tend to have problems with in Linux. (side plug for a decent company making a linux port is MainConcept)
I use ICQ primarily, but its becoming huge and bloated.
I run an MSN client just for the office. Why? Was easy to setup instant messages to Nextel phones. Since we use alpha paging in the office, made it a 2 click process for office staff to send messages to techs on the road.
I dont get fake messages from forged address' on msn, unlike icq.
Want to buy our connect and protect plan?
sweet, exra IPS?
No, its nat at the gateway
Unlimited internal address'?
No, only 5 extra.
Hrm, no thank you, think I'll just drop my linux router behind your gateway.
XO claims that we owe them $499 for accumulated service. The interesting thing, is that we have NEVER been an XO customer. An isdn ISP we were with, and left nearly 3 years ago, was bought by concentric/xo. XO has been sending us a $49 bill each month for almost a year now. Call to talk to them, you have to go through some "account cancellation" proceedure. Um, hello? We were NEVER a customer. I'm waiting till its over $500 this coming month, then filing a suit against them for false billing by mail, violation of local collection law. Wonder if they will settle.
I too am a customer of Telocity/DirectTV.
Have been since around February, 2001.
Had some minor problems in the Atlanta area, they built up some vlans to minimize fallout into other circuits if one goes down, or has latency issues. Other than a couple of weeks in April (prior to the network upgrades), the service has been very good. Customer support actually knows what Linux is, and if you ask, you can find one who can help you trouble shoot it if you need it. Here they used a bellsouth circuit, so no worries about covad dying off or something.
Only took them 10 days from the day I placed the order to have the circuit in and running.
I managed to get onto the beta for AO.
I'm glad I did, because it kept me from wasting $50. I tested Asheron's Call, ran like a dream, feedback from the developers was quick and to the point. Funcom shipped AO with bugs that were reported early in the public beta cycle. They werent listening to the testers, they had a timetable, and it shipped.
If we say that the computer, between the artist and his work, seperates the work from fine art, then the brush for a painter, or the knife for a sculptor seperates those artists works from fine art.
Now, what do "I" personally consider to be a fine piece of computer work?
Two things determine that for me.
Is the work something I could have done using a better piece of software? IE: is it the quality of the tools that helped to produce the work, or is it the artists skill?
Is the work something I've thought about before? Or, is it "WOW! I could never have thought of that!"?
Whether 2d graphics, or 3d scenes or animations, or mathematically created fractals, I consider them to be an art form.
If some of your work is available online, post a url.
I would agree. More investigative reporting like this would actually make my hours of news reading more enjoyable.
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I grew up in Pennsylvania.
I watched the Unions put so much pressure on coal mines, that now there are so many unskilled ex-coal miners in Cambria County, sitting on their asses, collecting unemployment, that I'm glad I left.
Yes, that and the fact that no matter how I try to filter out taco, his bloody remarks still show up on my screen. Is this a confirmed bug in the slashcode? Or, is it a "feature"?
Looks more like too much light on the subject (the little boy) Notice that one of the subjects in the middle of the group has a similar flair on her, and at the same angel.
The pictures are gorgeous.
Color photos of a time long forgotten.
I'v always enjoyed looking at old black and whites (black and yellows are more like it) and wondered what the real colors were.
Pictures of Native Americans especially. Knowing the colors used in the artwork that has managed to survive this long, I'm sure the photos would have been terrific.
So, with some prior art, think Kodak will change some of their "history of photography"?
Phone companies pay other phone companies, if that call originates within my network and terminates within your network. THATS why your example doesnt apply here. Jabber isnt paying AOL (reimbursing) for the resources that Jabber clients utilize.
Consulting is not profitable?
Let me call the IRS, tell them to return all I paid them this year out of "consulting" revenue.
Profitibilty implies that your revenues are greater than your costs. The revenues are there. Trust me, its there. COST is where eBiz and many consultancies have the biggest problems.
Consulting can be profitable if you wisely manage your costs. That doesn't mean you stay in dives, or fly Joe Bob's Cargo Express.
Consulting can be profitable if you wisely manage collections. Don't let those clients go too far without paying up. You dont have to offend them, but you worked, and expect to get paid.
Consulting can be profitable if you wisely choose your clients. Just because that client wants you, doesnt mean you want them. If you are talking jobs in the realm of hundreds of thousands and higher, run some credit checks. Get referals. The point at which you begin these kind of checks, will depend on how much you make in a year total. If losing $xxxxxx will hurt you, get some background information.
Consulting can be profitable is you manage your resources well. This includes employees, assets, investments. Train your employees. Retrain your employees. Adapt to market changes.
That all being said, some personal muses:
In regards to law suits by VCs, expect it. You take their money in anticipation of generating profits. They give you money, in anticipation of your generating profits. If you fire some of your best employees, the biggest asset to your organization, it is expected that the VCs would raise an eyebrow or two to it.
On the reverse, VCs need to understand what drives those of us who enjoy open source. Not the open source "movement", but really understand how to make it work, why we do it, and what it offers.
I'll reserve my personal dislike of Phillip Greenspun for another, more relavent topic.
I'll go ahead and add my comments on Telocity.
Was the easiest install ever with a high speed isp. Only took 2 weeks for the circuit to be configed for us. (Bellsouth)
Dedicated IP. Plays VERY nicely with Linux.
I already run my mail off another page, so no experience with that.
News feeds time out regularly, going to end up letting a linux box "suck" news down, so then, it comes in the middle of the night, I can read at leisure.
Ditto on the average 80-90kbs. From Microsoft's download servers on west coast (I'm east coast) I managed over 150kbs in the middle of the day.
Cant comment on customer service, since I havent really had any problems as of yet.
Servers are permitted. Problem, AOL doesnt like mail coming from a telocity IP, but then, AOL is populated by...nm...that wouldnt be nice to say.
Month to month commitment was a big plus in my book too.
Students have a passive roll in this problem.
Ticket buyers are active participants in a process.
Its not like the students said "we want to be censored". The state has decided this for them.
Therefore, regardless of who "purchased" the software, the students will still have rights to protection. I'd be interested to learn if the state was granted a discount (kickbacks?) and knew that info was being sold off.
No, you arent the only one.
The line that got me is this one:
``We have a great deal of knowledge. We can grade embryos, we can do genetic screening, we can do quality control,'' Zavos said.
Grading? Screening? Quality Control? All imply an imperfect creation process. And, on what criteria do we screen? or grade? What passes? No artheritis genes? no alergies? are we just looking for 12 toes? how about weight? we only want the big babies (new studies claim big babies smarter).
Maybe the EFF should read the responses and comments MANY of the folks on slashdot and other forums sent in to the Library of congress back during the beginning of last year. There were many good scenerios submitted as examples.
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I'm in windows because of 2 things: Games and DV.
Playing games is how I relax between projects. Either running Age of Kings, or Starcraft, or sniping some fools in Rainbow Six, its all about relaxation. Some of the games I play, can be run in linux, unreal tournament for example.
The other, is DV editing on firewire. I can edit in Linux just fine, and as the firewire support becomes more stable, I'll soon be able to drop the MS OS. Its the capture and export to tape that I tend to have problems with in Linux. (side plug for a decent company making a linux port is MainConcept)
I use ICQ primarily, but its becoming huge and bloated.
I run an MSN client just for the office. Why? Was easy to setup instant messages to Nextel phones. Since we use alpha paging in the office, made it a 2 click process for office staff to send messages to techs on the road.
I dont get fake messages from forged address' on msn, unlike icq.
Want to buy our connect and protect plan?
sweet, exra IPS?
No, its nat at the gateway
Unlimited internal address'?
No, only 5 extra.
Hrm, no thank you, think I'll just drop my linux router behind your gateway.
XO claims that we owe them $499 for accumulated service. The interesting thing, is that we have NEVER been an XO customer. An isdn ISP we were with, and left nearly 3 years ago, was bought by concentric/xo. XO has been sending us a $49 bill each month for almost a year now. Call to talk to them, you have to go through some "account cancellation" proceedure. Um, hello? We were NEVER a customer. I'm waiting till its over $500 this coming month, then filing a suit against them for false billing by mail, violation of local collection law. Wonder if they will settle.
I too am a customer of Telocity/DirectTV.
Have been since around February, 2001.
Had some minor problems in the Atlanta area, they built up some vlans to minimize fallout into other circuits if one goes down, or has latency issues. Other than a couple of weeks in April (prior to the network upgrades), the service has been very good. Customer support actually knows what Linux is, and if you ask, you can find one who can help you trouble shoot it if you need it. Here they used a bellsouth circuit, so no worries about covad dying off or something.
Only took them 10 days from the day I placed the order to have the circuit in and running.
I managed to get onto the beta for AO.
I'm glad I did, because it kept me from wasting $50. I tested Asheron's Call, ran like a dream, feedback from the developers was quick and to the point. Funcom shipped AO with bugs that were reported early in the public beta cycle. They werent listening to the testers, they had a timetable, and it shipped.
OSDN techs are clueless?
I read Roblimo's account of the downtime with Cisco rotuers. *sigh*
Where they have coverage (and I echo Roblimo's statement on accurate maps) the service is great.
They never stretched far enough south of Atlanta for me to consider putting our techs onto the system.
$70 a month for mobile isdn speeds was VERY reasonable.
Now, if we can only prove that the BSA is manned by Teamsters we got it made....
If we say that the computer, between the artist and his work, seperates the work from fine art, then the brush for a painter, or the knife for a sculptor seperates those artists works from fine art.
Now, what do "I" personally consider to be a fine piece of computer work?
Two things determine that for me.
Is the work something I could have done using a better piece of software? IE: is it the quality of the tools that helped to produce the work, or is it the artists skill?
Is the work something I've thought about before? Or, is it "WOW! I could never have thought of that!"?
Whether 2d graphics, or 3d scenes or animations, or mathematically created fractals, I consider them to be an art form.
If some of your work is available online, post a url.
I would agree. More investigative reporting like this would actually make my hours of news reading more enjoyable.
I grew up in Pennsylvania.
I watched the Unions put so much pressure on coal mines, that now there are so many unskilled ex-coal miners in Cambria County, sitting on their asses, collecting unemployment, that I'm glad I left.
Ask Pittsburg about the steel workers unions.
I like the "wearable" version myself.
I'v always wanted a Star Trekish palm on my wrist with a mini keyboard to match.
poor people get equal protection under the law?
Yes, that and the fact that no matter how I try to filter out taco, his bloody remarks still show up on my screen. Is this a confirmed bug in the slashcode? Or, is it a "feature"?
Looks more like too much light on the subject (the little boy) Notice that one of the subjects in the middle of the group has a similar flair on her, and at the same angel.
The pictures are gorgeous.
Color photos of a time long forgotten.
I'v always enjoyed looking at old black and whites (black and yellows are more like it) and wondered what the real colors were.
Pictures of Native Americans especially. Knowing the colors used in the artwork that has managed to survive this long, I'm sure the photos would have been terrific.
So, with some prior art, think Kodak will change some of their "history of photography"?
Phone companies pay other phone companies, if that call originates within my network and terminates within your network. THATS why your example doesnt apply here. Jabber isnt paying AOL (reimbursing) for the resources that Jabber clients utilize.
Consulting is not profitable?
Let me call the IRS, tell them to return all I paid them this year out of "consulting" revenue.
Profitibilty implies that your revenues are greater than your costs. The revenues are there. Trust me, its there. COST is where eBiz and many consultancies have the biggest problems.
Consulting can be profitable if you wisely manage your costs. That doesn't mean you stay in dives, or fly Joe Bob's Cargo Express.
Consulting can be profitable if you wisely manage collections. Don't let those clients go too far without paying up. You dont have to offend them, but you worked, and expect to get paid.
Consulting can be profitable if you wisely choose your clients. Just because that client wants you, doesnt mean you want them. If you are talking jobs in the realm of hundreds of thousands and higher, run some credit checks. Get referals. The point at which you begin these kind of checks, will depend on how much you make in a year total. If losing $xxxxxx will hurt you, get some background information.
Consulting can be profitable is you manage your resources well. This includes employees, assets, investments. Train your employees. Retrain your employees. Adapt to market changes.
That all being said, some personal muses:
In regards to law suits by VCs, expect it. You take their money in anticipation of generating profits. They give you money, in anticipation of your generating profits. If you fire some of your best employees, the biggest asset to your organization, it is expected that the VCs would raise an eyebrow or two to it.
On the reverse, VCs need to understand what drives those of us who enjoy open source. Not the open source "movement", but really understand how to make it work, why we do it, and what it offers.
I'll reserve my personal dislike of Phillip Greenspun for another, more relavent topic.
I'll go ahead and add my comments on Telocity.
Was the easiest install ever with a high speed isp. Only took 2 weeks for the circuit to be configed for us. (Bellsouth)
Dedicated IP. Plays VERY nicely with Linux.
I already run my mail off another page, so no experience with that.
News feeds time out regularly, going to end up letting a linux box "suck" news down, so then, it comes in the middle of the night, I can read at leisure.
Ditto on the average 80-90kbs. From Microsoft's download servers on west coast (I'm east coast) I managed over 150kbs in the middle of the day.
Cant comment on customer service, since I havent really had any problems as of yet.
Servers are permitted. Problem, AOL doesnt like mail coming from a telocity IP, but then, AOL is populated by...nm...that wouldnt be nice to say.
Month to month commitment was a big plus in my book too.
Equifax offers certs for as little as $79 per server. http://www.equifaxsecure.com/ebusinessid/
Problem with that analogy:
Students have a passive roll in this problem.
Ticket buyers are active participants in a process.
Its not like the students said "we want to be censored". The state has decided this for them.
Therefore, regardless of who "purchased" the software, the students will still have rights to protection. I'd be interested to learn if the state was granted a discount (kickbacks?) and knew that info was being sold off.
No, you arent the only one.
The line that got me is this one:
``We have a great deal of knowledge. We can grade embryos, we can do genetic screening, we can do quality control,'' Zavos said.
Grading? Screening? Quality Control? All imply an imperfect creation process. And, on what criteria do we screen? or grade? What passes? No artheritis genes? no alergies? are we just looking for 12 toes? how about weight? we only want the big babies (new studies claim big babies smarter).
Only a fool doesnt scout his competition.
Glad the almighty CMDR thinks he has better sources for MS information than MS itself.
Maybe the EFF should read the responses and comments MANY of the folks on slashdot and other forums sent in to the Library of congress back during the beginning of last year. There were many good scenerios submitted as examples.