i think this is exactly what the poster needed. i was going to suggest some sort of homebrew system like this, but it would probably take way too much time/difficulty to set up. nice.
coffee shops are much different than resturants in that you want more of a social atmosphere. i think they want to keep their coffee shop as full as possible, while keeping returning customers, and still have room for new people as they come in.
if the job makes nearly three times as much, then you could work for a year and spend the following two finishing your degree. having a degree AND experience as an executive manager is a lot nicer on a resume than having the same degree many other candidates have. if you take the executive manager position, you keep your options open for what you want to do later down the line. if you dont, you may never get the option again.
who knows, you may actually enjoy the job. *shrug*
i really think exeem has the same problems that plagued kazaa and edonkey and such. it has spyware, its possible to put fake files onto the network even with the comment system, and it even has a central server you have to connect to before you get onto their decentralized network. while it has a better file downloading system based on the bittorrent protocol, i really think its relying on the bittorrent and suprnova names to be effective enough.
i think any p2p app has to have a few major features to be effective: anonymity when needed, multi-source file downloading, and a way to verify files are legit before you download them. ive been working on a p2p app like this for a bit, but... im lazy.:-P
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i think this persons "study" was just based on how many times someone said something that seemed to be "illegal" or "legal" based on keywords in what they have to say. of course, the top 60 channels are warez channels, because warez channels tend to be as large as possible (1000+ users). when is the last time youve had a conversation with 1000 of your closest friends?
people just sit idle in warez channels, letting bots run, stuff like that. if this study used the smallest 60 channels, i think the results would be the opposite. its like judging the crime rate of the entire nation by taking the average of the largest several cities.
i run a cheapo $25 350watt power supply, always on. my hard drive actually makes more noise, and i can barely hear that. and ive had the same "totally unreliable" $15 case for several years, and everything always fits perfectly. and it really doesnt need a case fan at all, but to each their own.
last time i upgraded my machine, i only spent about 300 bucks total. if im going to spend over 500 on upgrades, ill just build a new system thatll be faster.
macs really target a different audience. they cater to sleekness and ease-of-use, while PCs cater to power and control. i wish people would stop comparing them.
this is probably one of those ideas that fit well in the ideal hydrogen economy. harness energy out in deserts, where there is little whether to deal with but still high winds at such high alltitudes, then transfer the hydrogen created by it back to population centers. not to say i think the idea is the greatest, but they used to say that a space elevator was stupid, and a lot of people are changing their minds about that. *shrug*
well, most stores will actually send back those items for repackaging. but thats not why i thought the figure was unfair.
one of the security officer said "this thing is worth more than $30 bucks. my nephew got one the other day and paid $50 for it." they essentially try to inflate the price as much as possible, because you have to pay back X times the item price, depending on your state. they also try to force you to try to sign a confession on the spot, keeping you in fear because "you got caught". one of the guys even put my arm in that painful behind-the-back twist move.
stealing is in no way right, but some of the things the security in those major department stores do i think is morally worse.
also, a lot of products actually have new UPC stickers over top of their old ones. this will happen when a manufacturer makes a "10% more free" type of promotion, or something additional added into the packaging, or whatever other reason you can think of.
an average of just over a hundred bucks a day per person. shouldnt be too hard, espically once you get your shit together, to keep up that type of scam rate.
also, you have to figure in the fact that any loss prevention team is going to quote any damage estimate at as high as possible. when i was younger, me and some friends tried to rip off walmart in the same way, except we just cut the UPC from one product and put it on another. trust me when i say the cashiers could really care less. however, we were busted by some undercover shoppers in the process. we put a $20 UPC on a $30 product, but the police report quoted $50 worth of stolen property.
cost: the article says something like a $20 million initial cost, then every 18 months you have to service it. so im guessing theyll have two, one up at all times and one down. considering they can cover an area the size of texas, thats a lot of users to share the cost.
speed: satellite is so slow because its so extreamly far away, and because most people have to use a landline to upload. this is able to solve both of those problems, so i expect it to be about as fast as any broadband. all youre doing is sending a signal into the sky for a few hundred miles, at whatever speed they travel at. (speed of light? do radio transmissions travel slower?) expect your connection to go to hell on cloudy days though.:O
reliability: im sure theyve worked out all the engineering numbers on this. its eally easy to suspend an air balloon at that high, because theres so little wind to deal with. its really just physics anyways: you have X tons of equipment, X mass of helium will raise that weight. people didnt trust boats made of metal at first either.:-P
the way i see it, if they cant get the numbers to work, they they lose money, not me. if it comes out and its really nice, maybe ill sign up, maybe not. but if it sucks, i havent wasted any money on it.
i really have to disagree to most of that, unfortunately. i usually spend about 2 minutes total looking for a new piece of software on the internet, and that includes being able to see screenshots and features and what not on the sites homepage. and the last time i downloaded something with a virus in it from a website was in the mid-90 when i was an AOL fiend, new to the internet.
this is all just my opinion though. a central location for all your downloads and installs probably works great for a ton of people. its just not what id prefer, is all, and theres a whole lot of people in my category.
youll probably get a slew of comments saying things like "it only took like four days of configging to get this one game running," when in reality a ton of games dont even support linux at all. theres always wine, but thats a bitch to configure everything too.
so, if you want both linux and windows, your only real option is to dual boot. simple solution, espically if you have two hard drives, and you can just use windows when you need it, and use linux whenever else you want.
"You don't have to search the web to find it, you just fire up the gui and search."
a lot of people are really confused by this concept. they see a file on a webpage a friend showed them, and they say "hey, i want that." they want to get it right then from right there, not from some other program/location. and they usually just "run from location" instead of saving to disk. i dont know if IE offers that option anymore, i havent used it in a year, but its what i always did for installs when i used it.
essentially, non-techie people need that option by default, or else theyll get confused. one central installer program is great for updating and uninstalling, and for doing batch installs (like on a clean system, for which i use a custom-burned CD for right now). but windows users mainly want that "download file, run, program installed" process.
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i think this is exactly what the poster needed. i was going to suggest some sort of homebrew system like this, but it would probably take way too much time/difficulty to set up. nice.
coffee shops are much different than resturants in that you want more of a social atmosphere. i think they want to keep their coffee shop as full as possible, while keeping returning customers, and still have room for new people as they come in.
who knows, you may actually enjoy the job. *shrug*
ugh, i hate when i forget to seperate paragraphs with html. :-P
i really think exeem has the same problems that plagued kazaa and edonkey and such. it has spyware, its possible to put fake files onto the network even with the comment system, and it even has a central server you have to connect to before you get onto their decentralized network. while it has a better file downloading system based on the bittorrent protocol, i really think its relying on the bittorrent and suprnova names to be effective enough. i think any p2p app has to have a few major features to be effective: anonymity when needed, multi-source file downloading, and a way to verify files are legit before you download them. ive been working on a p2p app like this for a bit, but... im lazy. :-P
people just sit idle in warez channels, letting bots run, stuff like that. if this study used the smallest 60 channels, i think the results would be the opposite. its like judging the crime rate of the entire nation by taking the average of the largest several cities.
i run a cheapo $25 350watt power supply, always on. my hard drive actually makes more noise, and i can barely hear that. and ive had the same "totally unreliable" $15 case for several years, and everything always fits perfectly. and it really doesnt need a case fan at all, but to each their own.
macs really target a different audience. they cater to sleekness and ease-of-use, while PCs cater to power and control. i wish people would stop comparing them.
i always thought vorbis sounded good. but then again, i always thought mp3 sounded stupid. *shrug*
this is probably one of those ideas that fit well in the ideal hydrogen economy. harness energy out in deserts, where there is little whether to deal with but still high winds at such high alltitudes, then transfer the hydrogen created by it back to population centers. not to say i think the idea is the greatest, but they used to say that a space elevator was stupid, and a lot of people are changing their minds about that. *shrug*
what, like windows? :-P proprietary does not equal secure.
one of the security officer said "this thing is worth more than $30 bucks. my nephew got one the other day and paid $50 for it." they essentially try to inflate the price as much as possible, because you have to pay back X times the item price, depending on your state. they also try to force you to try to sign a confession on the spot, keeping you in fear because "you got caught". one of the guys even put my arm in that painful behind-the-back twist move.
stealing is in no way right, but some of the things the security in those major department stores do i think is morally worse.
also, a lot of products actually have new UPC stickers over top of their old ones. this will happen when a manufacturer makes a "10% more free" type of promotion, or something additional added into the packaging, or whatever other reason you can think of.
an average of just over a hundred bucks a day per person. shouldnt be too hard, espically once you get your shit together, to keep up that type of scam rate.
also, you have to figure in the fact that any loss prevention team is going to quote any damage estimate at as high as possible. when i was younger, me and some friends tried to rip off walmart in the same way, except we just cut the UPC from one product and put it on another. trust me when i say the cashiers could really care less. however, we were busted by some undercover shoppers in the process. we put a $20 UPC on a $30 product, but the police report quoted $50 worth of stolen property.
CDex
ABC BitTorrent
FilZip
Ventrilo
Trillian
Filezilla
Kerio Personal Firewall
NOD32 AntiVirus (or does "ReminderWare" not count?)
having to pay additional money for support for a product you already pay a monthly subscription on would definately frustrate a lot of people.
my first, first. gotta wait 20 seconds though. :-P
speed: satellite is so slow because its so extreamly far away, and because most people have to use a landline to upload. this is able to solve both of those problems, so i expect it to be about as fast as any broadband. all youre doing is sending a signal into the sky for a few hundred miles, at whatever speed they travel at. (speed of light? do radio transmissions travel slower?) expect your connection to go to hell on cloudy days though. :O
reliability: im sure theyve worked out all the engineering numbers on this. its eally easy to suspend an air balloon at that high, because theres so little wind to deal with. its really just physics anyways: you have X tons of equipment, X mass of helium will raise that weight. people didnt trust boats made of metal at first either. :-P
the way i see it, if they cant get the numbers to work, they they lose money, not me. if it comes out and its really nice, maybe ill sign up, maybe not. but if it sucks, i havent wasted any money on it.
this is all just my opinion though. a central location for all your downloads and installs probably works great for a ton of people. its just not what id prefer, is all, and theres a whole lot of people in my category.
so, if you want both linux and windows, your only real option is to dual boot. simple solution, espically if you have two hard drives, and you can just use windows when you need it, and use linux whenever else you want.
a lot of people are really confused by this concept. they see a file on a webpage a friend showed them, and they say "hey, i want that." they want to get it right then from right there, not from some other program/location. and they usually just "run from location" instead of saving to disk. i dont know if IE offers that option anymore, i havent used it in a year, but its what i always did for installs when i used it.
essentially, non-techie people need that option by default, or else theyll get confused. one central installer program is great for updating and uninstalling, and for doing batch installs (like on a clean system, for which i use a custom-burned CD for right now). but windows users mainly want that "download file, run, program installed" process.
even if the ROI is incredibly small, its still more than zero, which is the ROI of ads that never get displayed on your computer.
i think they have they Doors greatest hits in DVD-audio 5.1 surround. i could be wrong though.
many gamers sometimes feel the mouse wire gets in the way. this eliminates the wire. it may be targeted towards them, but im not sure.
not sure if youre being sarcastic, but if youre not: these are floodlights, for outside your house. i tend not to use my heating for that area much.