Things like the hobberman ball, the bigger the better. Rubics cube, slinky and those neat little metallic balls that bounce against each other forever and a day. Anything and everything that will fit in your cube and make sure they have lavish colors.
These aren't for you, but those who would come to your cube to make some statement.
Instantly, upon witnessing the toys, they will be drawn to them and their little minds focused.
I can't tell you the number of times my supervisors forgot what they were going to say.
They claim that cd's last much longer then cassette and thus could be resold quite easily and with no loss of quality. Because you can now get the same music, cheaper, and without them making a buck, it must be stopped.
This happened a while ago, I remember garth brookes making comment on how he was losing out because of used cd resellers.
Anyhow, I guess it didn't get to far... unless there is a tax on used cd's and I wasnt aware!
Suddenly, a smile draped across CmdrTaco's beleagured face. Within mere seconds of contemplation, Rob had formed a deceitful plan of treachery and escape formed in the halls of his mind.
Rob quickly began rambling off numbers and techno babble to the poor Anne in a flurry matched by no other geek in this plane of existance. Anne found herself dazed and barely able to speak.
"Have you spoken a word of this to any other?", CmdrTaco ask suspiciously. Anne still recovering from CmdrTaco's flurry of tech speak barely replied, "no, of course not, you wer..."
Images of evil danced over robs face as he cut Anne off and quickly moved to busy her. Rambling, mumbling, and siting bizarre documentation anomalies, he set Anne dazed into a confused state nearing incapacitation.
Rob set off quickly for the NOC. If he reached Anne in time and with a minor changes to some details, no one would knew he had been alerted to the outage. Rob could then be free to continue his devilish pursuits exploring the many sensal wonders of the new Diablo II expansion pack.
Upon entering the NOC he was greeted by three very large slashdot trolls. "Calm yourselves boys, we have work tonight", Rob calmly stated to the trolls. Within moments he was upon Anne who was still looking over numerous statistical information printouts and continued to be held CmdrTaco's spell of techno babble.
CmdrTaco smiled gravely as he spoke to her softly, "Poor Anne, if you were only a tech, you would have easily fended off my gibberish TEK." In a mere flick of his wrist the trolls were upon Anne, quickly petrifying here and soiling her with hot grits.
Just as quickly as he had entered, CmdrTaco had left the noc, and retired to his small 12 node Beowulf of Diablo II.
If you mysteriously break away from your session, pico will create a file.saveXXXX where XXX being a set of random numbers.
I am not aware of what extent this feature will save your data, but it has been fairly useful for me.
Pico has built in jump, word find, and a few other useful functions.
You are correct in your assumption that it is a text editor and not an efficient programmers environment. I do not believe your points were well made towards this idea.
I didn't want to say Trix(tm), I might infringe on someone's intellectual property rights and before I know it, three lawyers show up on my door with a baseball bat and a court summons.
Well, ok, the Subject has nothing to do with what I'm about to say... but I must say... I do feel for the rabbit.
As CmdrTaco always says, if they put it in our hands, someone will find a way to open it up. The same technology used to create the cryptography will be used to tear it down.
Luckily, human error is in our favor, and not of those wishing to keep the data hidden. It takes but one oversight to bring an entire empire down.
So the numbers get larger, the data gets crazy and all the slide rules in the world can't help you now. Its like those damn kids won't let us have the cereal. Who are they? What is just one bowl for one rabbit...
Of course, before ou know it, many rabbits are getting many bowls and the cereal factory closes down. So they would want us to believe! The truth is, many rabbits simply choose to purchase their own box of cereal... it is much simpler then fighting 3 or 4 of those brats on a dailey basis.
So in the end... those who want cereal will get it one way or another... eventually the majority will move onto something better like carrots and coffee.
Signal-To-Noise ratio, as you put it, will simply go up with the popularity of any service/product. As something appeals to the masses, you get exactly that, the masses at large accessing this service. Maybe this is a representation of society as a whole? We can complain til we are blue in the face, but that doesn't cure the problem. The only solution is to be proactive and educate where you can.
Everyone Love Free... it a marketing ploy... nothing is free. You can think of it that way anyway. In some way or another, money is changing hands. Cable television and advertising is probably the best example. Expect to see more "forced viewing" of advertisements. The option of paying straight out dollars will always aleviate most of this forced viewing. GameSpy Arcade is an example of this... as occassionally it does force you to view an add. Everything is being paid for in some aspect... and this of course does produce some economic activity.
Lower bandwidth... eh... simply an inflamatory statment. I merely repoint to my last statement sighting that money does change hands.
Think positvely, embrace change, and simply try to live a happy life... I think...
Sigh... Mostly the comment after the article explanation. Here even in smalltown USA we have seen a serious decline in mom and pop shop ISP's (their last thriving palace).
Having worked for one and now coporate amercia(tm) I really do miss the old times.
I guess all good things are destined to go down this path.
At least I can look forward to being an old man getting to complain about how things used to be.;)
He made some simple source changes to quake and some electrodes that sit on the mouse. There are several ports for arm straps, nipple clips and whatnot.
When you take damage, you take some electricity, it is quite painful. You eventually learn to not fight, but run instead. It really harms your game;)
This was/is his senior project in college.
So, if they apply for a patent, we might have some prior art already.
Still, ocassionally the heart does cry for humor. In a world of ever doubtful stocks, burdened IT workers, and just general scariness of it all;)... it is nice to just laugh at something every once in a while.
And after all, a little break from the way of things is sometimes what we need to regain our focus.
When thinking of the all the talk that has gone on over the.com craze.... I am reminded of something a prominent figure once said, "Bork Bork Bork". The words our beloved Swedish Chef spoke then still carry with them as much validity.
Ok, so I am on crack? No, I am just tired of reading about.com failures or successes. Here on/. we talk so much of how you need to look past the whole internet approach. Still, we fail to realize, this is just another business. Just as some newly patented technology was merely the same old garbage repackaged with some electrons. Amazon is a business, if it does not do the things a business needs to do to survive, it will simply cease.
So, lets not get to excited over a business wanting to make money. It was of course, the logical path to be taken.
Yeah,
I wouldn't consider a neon light to be a great source of rf. Even more so, I believe the ones he is refering to were designed to be inside cases. (ie, run from the 12v lead). (again, the power supply would be have to be designed badly)
Producing RF doesn't necessarily mean its going to interfere with your equipment in the first place. There are many many bands... aka frequencies in the spectrum.
In any event, this is a really idiotic topic and I am of an even greater idiocracy posting. Yes, I am a moron, please moderate me up (kidding, don't waste your points )
Nice to see all that money I pay in taxes is being blown on what amounts to corporate welfare. Eventually we should see some glimmer of these technologies leak into the public sector, but until then, it is in my opinion a wasted effort.
It apparently isn't working for the war on drugs, so I suspect the open source movement will continue right on through like a locomotive without an engineer.
Yes, GPL junkies will be strung out in the streets, whino's will be hitting you up for some blank cdr and pretty soon your little brother will be spending late nights trying to get his fix by installing the latest distro.
Once RedHat moves to Columbia (prefered base of operations) we can start seeing some real thrill rides as smugglers attempt to get 1000's of CD's across the border in a mad dash of excitement.
The United States and participants of the private industry (ie Microsoft) will be spending millions of dollars to stop something that they cannot possibly fathom.
My guess is they settled on a cost for each user. Once the transistion is made, an amount of money is paid based on those who stayed with the service. The purchaser should do their best to make sure churn rate is down (growth vs loss).
Unfortunately churn is always high during these things.
You could possibly find other sites that are having marginal success and simliar problems. At that point you make a collective effort to share costs and profits.
Uh.... I hate to inform you, but most distro's are not comprised of their own material. You have to take this into effect when calculating development costs. Being as how most individuals start from an existing distro and modify up.... the development costs again begin to spiral downward.
Where are you buying your bandwidth for a 100k...
(mirrors reduce this cost, less bandwidth required, less spending, and you reach a greater number of people due to greater availability)
You seem to be thinking fairly large for a no-name distrobution... probably starting from someone elses distro to begin with... and so far... barely any support for your customer base. (but you got a whoppin beast of an internet connection... which will be good cuz your no talent developers who jumped shipped from a failing dot com will need the bandwidth for porn and quake).
Obviously, if you are going to make a major commitement to a product... you will spend a good deal of money and you will have to wait for returns on this product. Being how it is GPL, the customer can pretty much give away your great product to the next guy or improve upon it himself. This is why the model for making money on GNU/Linux is a support oriented one. Yeah, the other guy can give it away all he wants... but your customers are the ones who will be taken care of operations wise.
Selling a product, doesn't just mean selling the distro... its the books, the support, the pretty little inserts and the name.
Trust me, when it gets to this point, the person hardly makes a logical statement. Note the original author on these directions said to be polite and to the point... I cannot remember a time when I recieved a message similar to this.
Hint: boss forwards them back to me... quick reply to boss... delete... issue taken care.
I seriously doubt you had the owners on the phone... unless of course this was 2+ years ago.
Even in that situation, you most likely spoke to management.
You should never get to someone who has AUTHORITY to take care of an issue, unless it is on a call back to clarify the issue.
Frontline support escalates odd/problem issues to those who can deal with it. This is the way it is and trying to go any other route will merely cause more problems. Its always in how you deliver the complaint... throwing jargon or tech speak at someone who has only a vague familiarity with the issue only compounds the problem.
Especially with our people.. they absolutely love to blame the server/hardware... it brings them warmth to escalate an issue out their hands.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh the joy of cube toys.
Things like the hobberman ball, the bigger the better. Rubics cube, slinky and those neat little metallic balls that bounce against each other forever and a day. Anything and everything that will fit in your cube and make sure they have lavish colors.
These aren't for you, but those who would come to your cube to make some statement.
Instantly, upon witnessing the toys, they will be drawn to them and their little minds focused.
I can't tell you the number of times my supervisors forgot what they were going to say.
Trust me, it was never good news anyway.
Proof that security through obscurity works ;)
Damn, don't tell microsoft, they will eat us alive in the next open source debate.
Mundie: And these examples from NASA show we were right!
well, maybe not...
Uh Huh,
;)
You are just trying to mislead us from finding the AC's true identity! You are one of THEM!!!!
Paranoia, paranoia, everyone's coming to get me!
Moderators: This is funny +1 (if you are humorful) or +1 Insightful (if you are paranoid)
They already tried taxing the sale of used CD's.
They claim that cd's last much longer then cassette and thus could be resold quite easily and with no loss of quality. Because you can now get the same music, cheaper, and without them making a buck, it must be stopped.
This happened a while ago, I remember garth brookes making comment on how he was losing out because of used cd resellers.
Anyhow, I guess it didn't get to far... unless there is a tax on used cd's and I wasnt aware!
Suddenly, a smile draped across CmdrTaco's beleagured face. Within mere seconds of contemplation, Rob had formed a deceitful plan of treachery and escape formed in the halls of his mind.
Rob quickly began rambling off numbers and techno babble to the poor Anne in a flurry matched by no other geek in this plane of existance. Anne found herself dazed and barely able to speak.
"Have you spoken a word of this to any other?", CmdrTaco ask suspiciously. Anne still recovering from CmdrTaco's flurry of tech speak barely replied, "no, of course not, you wer..."
Images of evil danced over robs face as he cut Anne off and quickly moved to busy her. Rambling, mumbling, and siting bizarre documentation anomalies, he set Anne dazed into a confused state nearing incapacitation.
Rob set off quickly for the NOC. If he reached Anne in time and with a minor changes to some details, no one would knew he had been alerted to the outage. Rob could then be free to continue his devilish pursuits exploring the many sensal wonders of the new Diablo II expansion pack.
Upon entering the NOC he was greeted by three very large slashdot trolls. "Calm yourselves boys, we have work tonight", Rob calmly stated to the trolls. Within moments he was upon Anne who was still looking over numerous statistical information printouts and continued to be held CmdrTaco's spell of techno babble.
CmdrTaco smiled gravely as he spoke to her softly, "Poor Anne, if you were only a tech, you would have easily fended off my gibberish TEK." In a mere flick of his wrist the trolls were upon Anne, quickly petrifying here and soiling her with hot grits.
Just as quickly as he had entered, CmdrTaco had left the noc, and retired to his small 12 node Beowulf of Diablo II.
You are incorrect concerning point #2.
If you mysteriously break away from your session, pico will create a file.saveXXXX where XXX being a set of random numbers.
I am not aware of what extent this feature will save your data, but it has been fairly useful for me.
Pico has built in jump, word find, and a few other useful functions.
You are correct in your assumption that it is a text editor and not an efficient programmers environment. I do not believe your points were well made towards this idea.
Oh yeah,
I didn't want to say Trix(tm), I might infringe on someone's intellectual property rights and before I know it, three lawyers show up on my door with a baseball bat and a court summons.
Well, ok, the Subject has nothing to do with what I'm about to say... but I must say... I do feel for the rabbit.
As CmdrTaco always says, if they put it in our hands, someone will find a way to open it up. The same technology used to create the cryptography will be used to tear it down.
Luckily, human error is in our favor, and not of those wishing to keep the data hidden. It takes but one oversight to bring an entire empire down.
So the numbers get larger, the data gets crazy and all the slide rules in the world can't help you now. Its like those damn kids won't let us have the cereal. Who are they? What is just one bowl for one rabbit...
Of course, before ou know it, many rabbits are getting many bowls and the cereal factory closes down. So they would want us to believe! The truth is, many rabbits simply choose to purchase their own box of cereal... it is much simpler then fighting 3 or 4 of those brats on a dailey basis.
So in the end... those who want cereal will get it one way or another... eventually the majority will move onto something better like carrots and coffee.
Give it time my friend.
;)
Small ISP's that are getting fat and tastey are great treats for the eat-em-up corporate world.
Of course they can always opt not to sell...
*evil laugh*
Oh well, more reasons to move to canada. Good beer and small town ISP's.
Signal-To-Noise ratio, as you put it, will simply go up with the popularity of any service/product. As something appeals to the masses, you get exactly that, the masses at large accessing this service. Maybe this is a representation of society as a whole? We can complain til we are blue in the face, but that doesn't cure the problem. The only solution is to be proactive and educate where you can.
Everyone Love Free... it a marketing ploy... nothing is free. You can think of it that way anyway. In some way or another, money is changing hands. Cable television and advertising is probably the best example. Expect to see more "forced viewing" of advertisements. The option of paying straight out dollars will always aleviate most of this forced viewing. GameSpy Arcade is an example of this... as occassionally it does force you to view an add. Everything is being paid for in some aspect... and this of course does produce some economic activity.
Lower bandwidth... eh... simply an inflamatory statment. I merely repoint to my last statement sighting that money does change hands.
Think positvely, embrace change, and simply try to live a happy life... I think...
Sigh... Mostly the comment after the article explanation. Here even in smalltown USA we have seen a serious decline in mom and pop shop ISP's (their last thriving palace).
;)
Having worked for one and now coporate amercia(tm) I really do miss the old times.
I guess all good things are destined to go down this path.
At least I can look forward to being an old man getting to complain about how things used to be.
My friend already did this...
;)
He made some simple source changes to quake and some electrodes that sit on the mouse. There are several ports for arm straps, nipple clips and whatnot.
When you take damage, you take some electricity, it is quite painful. You eventually learn to not fight, but run instead. It really harms your game
This was/is his senior project in college.
So, if they apply for a patent, we might have some prior art already.
Still, ocassionally the heart does cry for humor. In a world of ever doubtful stocks, burdened IT workers, and just general scariness of it all ;)... it is nice to just laugh at something every once in a while.
And after all, a little break from the way of things is sometimes what we need to regain our focus.
Microsoft would never stoop so low as to hurt the technological medium with underhanded tactics.
Why just look how netscape...
Hrm...
What about their excellent mail client that is virtually bu...
Hrm....
Still we see an excellent server platform that will bring the internet to much broader horiz...
Well, shit, there goes the planet.
When thinking of the all the talk that has gone on over the .com craze.... I am reminded of something a prominent figure once said, "Bork Bork Bork". The words our beloved Swedish Chef spoke then still carry with them as much validity.
.com failures or successes. Here on /. we talk so much of how you need to look past the whole internet approach. Still, we fail to realize, this is just another business. Just as some newly patented technology was merely the same old garbage repackaged with some electrons. Amazon is a business, if it does not do the things a business needs to do to survive, it will simply cease.
Ok, so I am on crack? No, I am just tired of reading about
So, lets not get to excited over a business wanting to make money. It was of course, the logical path to be taken.
Yeah,
I wouldn't consider a neon light to be a great source of rf. Even more so, I believe the ones he is refering to were designed to be inside cases. (ie, run from the 12v lead). (again, the power supply would be have to be designed badly)
Producing RF doesn't necessarily mean its going to interfere with your equipment in the first place. There are many many bands... aka frequencies in the spectrum.
In any event, this is a really idiotic topic and I am of an even greater idiocracy posting. Yes, I am a moron, please moderate me up (kidding, don't waste your points )
Ouch...
Nice to see all that money I pay in taxes is being blown on what amounts to corporate welfare. Eventually we should see some glimmer of these technologies leak into the public sector, but until then, it is in my opinion a wasted effort.
There are several utilities for accessing NTFS from dos.
d os pro.shtml
A quick searched revealed this product.
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfs
Good News...
It apparently isn't working for the war on drugs, so I suspect the open source movement will continue right on through like a locomotive without an engineer.
Yes, GPL junkies will be strung out in the streets, whino's will be hitting you up for some blank cdr and pretty soon your little brother will be spending late nights trying to get his fix by installing the latest distro.
Once RedHat moves to Columbia (prefered base of operations) we can start seeing some real thrill rides as smugglers attempt to get 1000's of CD's across the border in a mad dash of excitement.
The United States and participants of the private industry (ie Microsoft) will be spending millions of dollars to stop something that they cannot possibly fathom.
That would be the idea.
Vamp up their existing network to handle the load.
Slowly remove all of the legacy systems.
It is a cost based decision. (unless of course the competitor was able to do it better, ie cheaper/more efficient)
Depends really....
My guess is they settled on a cost for each user. Once the transistion is made, an amount of money is paid based on those who stayed with the service. The purchaser should do their best to make sure churn rate is down (growth vs loss).
Unfortunately churn is always high during these things.
You could possibly find other sites that are having marginal success and simliar problems. At that point you make a collective effort to share costs and profits.
Uh....
200k for developers...
Uh.... I hate to inform you, but most distro's are not comprised of their own material. You have to take this into effect when calculating development costs. Being as how most individuals start from an existing distro and modify up.... the development costs again begin to spiral downward.
Where are you buying your bandwidth for a 100k...
(mirrors reduce this cost, less bandwidth required, less spending, and you reach a greater number of people due to greater availability)
You seem to be thinking fairly large for a no-name distrobution... probably starting from someone elses distro to begin with... and so far... barely any support for your customer base. (but you got a whoppin beast of an internet connection... which will be good cuz your no talent developers who jumped shipped from a failing dot com will need the bandwidth for porn and quake).
Obviously, if you are going to make a major commitement to a product... you will spend a good deal of money and you will have to wait for returns on this product. Being how it is GPL, the customer can pretty much give away your great product to the next guy or improve upon it himself. This is why the model for making money on GNU/Linux is a support oriented one. Yeah, the other guy can give it away all he wants... but your customers are the ones who will be taken care of operations wise.
Selling a product, doesn't just mean selling the distro... its the books, the support, the pretty little inserts and the name.
Trust me, when it gets to this point, the person hardly makes a logical statement. Note the original author on these directions said to be polite and to the point... I cannot remember a time when I recieved a message similar to this.
Hint: boss forwards them back to me... quick reply to boss... delete... issue taken care.
I seriously doubt you had the owners on the phone... unless of course this was 2+ years ago.
Even in that situation, you most likely spoke to management.
You should never get to someone who has AUTHORITY to take care of an issue, unless it is on a call back to clarify the issue.
Frontline support escalates odd/problem issues to those who can deal with it. This is the way it is and trying to go any other route will merely cause more problems. Its always in how you deliver the complaint... throwing jargon or tech speak at someone who has only a vague familiarity with the issue only compounds the problem.
Especially with our people.. they absolutely love to blame the server/hardware... it brings them warmth to escalate an issue out their hands.