Oh, really? Then I guess there should only be one sentence for someone convicted of murder. I mean, if murder is murder, what is this thing about 2nd or 3rd degree?
Most rational,intelligent people understand that there are some crimes that are more heinous than others. Someone who stalks his girlfriend for 6 months and shoots her in front of her kids deserves a stiffer punishment than some guy who drives drunk, gets into an accident and kills his passenger. The loss of life in either situation is deplorable, but we as a society understand that the person who premeditates murder is much more of a threat.
I hate to say it, and I don't want anyone to think I'm ripping off slashdot, but it's going to be forum-type environment (prefer not to say what the content is....not porn), therefore it's going to be database intensive and web server intensive (lotsa dynamic web pages). I'm not charging for using the services and my clients will be anyone who wants to participate.
I just have an idea that I want to unleash and I'm not really concerned about making an internet million. I have some money to play around with so I'm trying to get feedback on what things to think about before diving into the deep end. Most of my friends are sports nuts and don't have a clue about geeky stuff so slashdot is my best bet on getting some info.
I can't say because I'm not close to releasing to the public yet. Possibly in about 6 months or so. I can say that it's not really in the geek realm. At any rate, it's great in my mind!
I may be alone, but I don't think so, in thinking that I'm working to better society, and not just make money. "Yeah right" some readers are saying, but I wouldn't go to work on "The Campus" (microsoft) if they paid me a 2 million dollar salary.
I commend you on your integrity and I share your conviction.
I was actually thinking about this very subject today. MS obviously has some very talented people working for them who have made tons of money. I wonder if they look back and have any regrets. Yeah, yeah, I know, MS has created some great software. But it appears that their mission is to control all of computingdom (I just invented that word!) Surely, talented people are going to be successful anywhere. The question becomes, what do you define as success. Unfortunately, for a lot of people success = money.
This all boils down to one question: Can you run an httpd on an NT Workstation box using none of the NT Server code implemented by Microsoft that you did not pay to license?
What is the code that differentiates NT Workstation from NT Server? There is none and that is the point Tim O'Reilly made. The only difference was a registry setting.
If MS had said they were charging the extra $800 for the webserver and other related server technologies (DHCP, DNS, etc.) there wouldn't be an issue. I don't think MS was trying to implement a "web tax" as Tim asserted, rather it thought that most users would be too stupid to realize that they were being fleeced. The EULA stipulation that considered web connections as analagous to being a user was their attempt to protect themselves from the Tim O'Reilly's of the world who have half a brain and would figure out what was going on.
Yeah, Signal 11 can be a pain at times. He had the nerve to tell me that slashdot isn't a community. Considering the amount of time that he spends here, his assertion seems odd.
When I read how NT users were fleeced I laugh my head off. I wonder how many of the people that think MS is a benevolent monopoly feel about being ripped off for $800 to have the privilege of running a webserver in the NT enviroment. I can just imagine the board meetings where Bill and gang think up new ways to make billions.
Thank God for BIND, Apache, Perl, Linux, BSD, Emacs, etc.
Please, support Open Source software. Send in a check, buy a product, order a book. They are the only ones out there fighting for us. MS is only fighting for its shareholders.
To all those chalking this fiasco up to a "mistake" on MS' part, check out this article. I believe some of you may be familiar with the "AARD" incident.
I don't know about you guys, but the fact that some MS weenie used this scheme, and on top of that used Pegasus as the key, is funny as hell !!! MS is supposed to be the leading software firm in the world and they have no idea what is going out their door. All I can envision is a bunch of programmers giving clueless managers code that they have no idea how to test.
I, for one, am staying as far away from Win2000 as possible. It's clueless stuff like this fiasco that makes it impossible to trust MS. Without being able to review their code, I will never buy another product from them as long as I live. The sad thing for them is there are going to be a lot of people like me in the next few years who will apply that logic to business purchases as well.
I forget whether Chiba city is a Gibson or Stephenson thing, but when I was growing up, Chiba (cheeba ?) meant weed (yeah, that weed). I would love to see a chiba city;>)
A great philosopher of the 1950's once said that too much "analyzation causes paralyzation". Yogi Berra might not have been talking about the IT industry when he uttered those words, as a matter of fact, historians have not been able to discern what he was talking about at all, but I digress; Actually, I have digressed to the point where I have to log out and regather my thougths. Fare thee well.
Ten years of working on what is arguably the most successful Open Source project ever deserves something. Someone nominate this guy for the FSF 1999 award.
Sony is peeved at MS' overtures into the gaming console market, which comprises about 30% of Sony's profits. They will be aligning themselves with any company that has competing technology against MS. They've recently signed a deal with Sun to foster the spread of Jini in consumer devices.
MS still has not learned how to work with companies outside of the computing environment (Sony is not just a computer company, as we all know). They made the same mistake with the banking industry. They are trying to buy up broadband but that won't work with the consumer device market.
When you have MS as a competitor, 99% is not a safe margin of market share. Case in point, Netscape. I don't think Palm will be resting on its laurels any time soon...not if they want to be around next year.
While I surely meant to disparage Robin, I did not intend to imply that he is running around Andover.net stealing all the new flat monitor displays which use LCD technology. Rather, I meant to imply that he liked to indulge in the quait hippie past-time of taking hits of LSD. I apologize for any harm I may have caused Robin and his family.
I have to agree that Slashdot's response time is not always great. Out of all the websites that I visit regularly, it always seems to come to a crawl during the middle of the day (EST). Invariably I always get a couple of 502's (Server not responding), which I rarely ever get from other high profile website's.
Dude, don't you know Robin is some 60's tree hugging, nature loving, trail mix eating, LCD taking,VW van driving, Gloria Steinem reading, Abbie Hoffman wannabe, draft card burning-cum-internet freak. That guy's brain cells are long gone. One too many hits of acid, I would suspect. If you don't believe me, read some of his posts. The man is clearly gone.
If that's your only revenue stream. Let's face it. Brand is where it's at. Why do you think people shop at The Gap? Because the clothes are of high quality? Nope. We shop there because we'll learn how to dance really cool and sing in a boring, monotone that will annoy the hell out of everyone.
Uh...where was I going. Ah, yes. The Brand. If Miguel creates a strong brand for his company, people may prefer buying it from him so they can say "Hey...look at what I got...I got the Icaza that comes with the poster!"
I don't know about you, but when I was in school note taking was not a process of copying verbatim the professor's words. Rather, it was a process where I listened intently to what the professor said, jotted down key words, phrases, statements, and then later on that day or evening, composed those fragments into a semi-coherent, logically structured grouping of thoughts.
If the kids are doing nothing more than a stenography drop on the website, then of course that isn't right. They are not only doing the professor a disservice, they are doing themselves a greater disservice.
College Professor, as a group, just might be the most out of touch people on the face on the earth. The kids can do whatever they want with their notes.
Slashdot Mirror
Murder is murder?
Oh, really? Then I guess there should only be one sentence for someone convicted of murder. I mean, if murder is murder, what is this thing about 2nd or 3rd degree?
Most rational,intelligent people understand that there are some crimes that are more heinous than others. Someone who stalks his girlfriend for 6 months and shoots her in front of her kids deserves a stiffer punishment than some guy who drives drunk, gets into an accident and kills his passenger. The loss of life in either situation is deplorable, but we as a society understand that the person who premeditates murder is much more of a threat.
Hate crime is a serious issue in any society.
I hate to say it, and I don't want anyone to think I'm ripping off slashdot, but it's going to be forum-type environment (prefer not to say what the content is....not porn), therefore it's going to be database intensive and web server intensive (lotsa dynamic web pages). I'm not charging for using the services and my clients will be anyone who wants to participate.
I just have an idea that I want to unleash and I'm not really concerned about making an internet million. I have some money to play around with so I'm trying to get feedback on what things to think about before diving into the deep end. Most of my friends are sports nuts and don't have a clue about geeky stuff so slashdot is my best bet on getting some info.
Thanks.
Do you have any more information on colocation? I'm not sure how I could use an ISP's bandwith while using my own boxes without having a line run.
Thanks.
I can't say because I'm not close to releasing to the public yet. Possibly in about 6 months or so. I can say that it's not really in the geek realm. At any rate, it's great in my mind!
I may be alone, but I don't think so, in thinking that I'm working to better society, and not just make money. "Yeah right" some readers are saying, but I wouldn't go to work on "The Campus" (microsoft) if they paid me a 2 million dollar salary.
I commend you on your integrity and I share your conviction.
I was actually thinking about this very subject today. MS obviously has some very talented people working for them who have made tons of money. I wonder if they look back and have any regrets. Yeah, yeah, I know, MS has created some great software. But it appears that their mission is to control all of computingdom (I just invented that word!) Surely, talented people are going to be successful anywhere. The question becomes, what do you define as success. Unfortunately, for a lot of people success = money.
This all boils down to one question: Can you run an httpd on an NT Workstation box using none of the NT Server code implemented by Microsoft that you did not pay to license?
What is the code that differentiates NT Workstation from NT Server? There is none and that is the point Tim O'Reilly made. The only difference was a registry setting.
If MS had said they were charging the extra $800 for the webserver and other related server technologies (DHCP, DNS, etc.) there wouldn't be an issue. I don't think MS was trying to implement a "web tax" as Tim asserted, rather it thought that most users would be too stupid to realize that they were being fleeced. The EULA stipulation that considered web connections as analagous to being a user was their attempt to protect themselves from the Tim O'Reilly's of the world who have half a brain and would figure out what was going on.
Yeah, Signal 11 can be a pain at times. He had the nerve to tell me that slashdot isn't a community. Considering the amount of time that he spends here, his assertion seems odd.
When I read how NT users were fleeced I laugh my head off. I wonder how many of the people that think MS is a benevolent monopoly feel about being ripped off for $800 to have the privilege of running a webserver in the NT enviroment. I can just imagine the board meetings where Bill and gang think up new ways to make billions.
Thank God for BIND, Apache, Perl, Linux, BSD, Emacs, etc.
Please, support Open Source software. Send in a check, buy a product, order a book. They are the only ones out there fighting for us. MS is only fighting for its shareholders.
To all those chalking this fiasco up to a "mistake" on MS' part, check out this article. I believe some of you may be familiar with the "AARD" incident.
I don't know about you guys, but the fact that some MS weenie used this scheme, and on top of that used Pegasus as the key, is funny as hell !!! MS is supposed to be the leading software firm in the world and they have no idea what is going out their door. All I can envision is a bunch of programmers giving clueless managers code that they have no idea how to test.
I, for one, am staying as far away from Win2000 as possible. It's clueless stuff like this fiasco that makes it impossible to trust MS. Without being able to review their code, I will never buy another product from them as long as I live. The sad thing for them is there are going to be a lot of people like me in the next few years who will apply that logic to business purchases as well.
MS is in a heap of trouble.
I forget whether Chiba city is a Gibson or Stephenson thing, but when I was growing up, Chiba (cheeba ?) meant weed (yeah, that weed). I would love to see a chiba city ;>)
It's people!!!! It's people!!!!!! Transmeta is people!!!!!!!
A great philosopher of the 1950's once said that too much "analyzation causes paralyzation". Yogi Berra might not have been talking about the IT industry when he uttered those words, as a matter of fact, historians have not been able to discern what he was talking about at all, but I digress; Actually, I have digressed to the point where I have to log out and regather my thougths. Fare thee well.
Ten years of working on what is arguably the most successful Open Source project ever deserves something. Someone nominate this guy for the FSF 1999 award.
Sony is peeved at MS' overtures into the gaming console market, which comprises about 30% of Sony's profits. They will be aligning themselves with any company that has competing technology against MS. They've recently signed a deal with Sun to foster the spread of Jini in consumer devices.
MS still has not learned how to work with companies outside of the computing environment (Sony is not just a computer company, as we all know). They made the same mistake with the banking industry. They are trying to buy up broadband but that won't work with the consumer device market.
When you have MS as a competitor, 99% is not a safe margin of market share. Case in point, Netscape. I don't think Palm will be resting on its laurels any time soon...not if they want to be around next year.
...LCD taking
While I surely meant to disparage Robin, I did not intend to imply that he is running around Andover.net stealing all the new flat monitor displays which use LCD technology. Rather, I meant to imply that he liked to indulge in the quait hippie past-time of taking hits of LSD. I apologize for any harm I may have caused Robin and his family.
I have to agree that Slashdot's response time is not always great. Out of all the websites that I visit regularly, it always seems to come to a crawl during the middle of the day (EST). Invariably I always get a couple of 502's (Server not responding), which I rarely ever get from other high profile website's.
Dude, don't you know Robin is some 60's tree hugging, nature loving, trail mix eating, LCD taking,VW van driving, Gloria Steinem reading, Abbie Hoffman wannabe, draft card burning-cum-internet freak. That guy's brain cells are long gone. One too many hits of acid, I would suspect. If you don't believe me, read some of his posts. The man is clearly gone.
Uh, how booming has their business been. I can't tell what position you're taking on this issue.
If that's your only revenue stream. Let's face it. Brand is where it's at. Why do you think people shop at The Gap? Because the clothes are of high quality? Nope. We shop there because we'll learn how to dance really cool and sing in a boring, monotone that will annoy the hell out of everyone.
Uh...where was I going. Ah, yes. The Brand. If Miguel creates a strong brand for his company, people may prefer buying it from him so they can say "Hey...look at what I got...I got the Icaza that comes with the poster!"
hah! I couldn't have worded it better.
Thanks!
I don't know about you, but when I was in school note taking was not a process of copying verbatim the professor's words. Rather, it was a process where I listened intently to what the professor said, jotted down key words, phrases, statements, and then later on that day or evening, composed those fragments into a semi-coherent, logically structured grouping of thoughts.
If the kids are doing nothing more than a stenography drop on the website, then of course that isn't right. They are not only doing the professor a disservice, they are doing themselves a greater disservice.
College Professor, as a group, just might be the most out of touch people on the face on the earth. The kids can do whatever they want with their notes.
Yeah. Now, A Barry White Christmas is totally understandable.