Are there that many Windows systems that need tape backup that it makes more sense to do Windows first and Linux/Unix second? I thought servers with high data requirements were still predominantly Unix boxes, though perhaps they aren't targetting servers. Who is their target market then?
Sad reality that Linux people like to avoid is that there are a LOT of NT boxes out there. Yes yes, we know you don't like NT, but the fact of the matter is, even if Linux is winning the server war or whatever, there's still this percentage out there that actually runs NT, whether you like it or not. So there's one market.
Why are they targetting the Windows market?
Users, baby! The other targer market is end-users who think they're power users. I mean, besides Intranets and shit, what does Joe Desktop need one of these for? Hell, what do I need one for? Still, it's cheap and it's sexy. Why not? I've got a credit card! Why target Windows? End users use Windows. Another reality.
Yeah kids, I know you think Linux is great, but there's still a very large market of people who use Windows and spend money.
Right, and I'm annoyed a little too, cause I was the first one that mentioned the Onstream drives the other day, and have been a few other times. I have a few friends that support them, and I think they'd be great for temporary space relief on my hard drive, I could store my MP3s on them... (I do understand though that spooling MP3s off them is an iffy proposition.)
(All Hail Linux! To criticise Linux is to risk the wrath of thousands of high school students and other sociopaths who can't spell!)
Note to previous poster: I believe this was something Woods himself was saying, not a Woods quote of Katz. Personally, it made me laugh out loud. One of the funniest and truest things I've seen lately. And all too pointed in the Slashdot direction. (I mean, come on - it's almost like Communism or religion here with the Open Source, Linux, and "gimme free music, artists should all sit around and eat ramen while they make me the MP3s I deserve".)
That being said, I don't object to the presence of Katz so much, though Woods makes some terribly good points. I don't read much Katz, but I find that a humanizing effect on this site would be useful, if Katz were to do so. If he's really fixated on his book, then he really doesn't need to be around.
Moving on, Rob... I, like many others, found Woods' criticism terribly interesting to read and plan to go hunt out more of his posts when I get the chance. Why not make it easier on all of us and add him to the contributors here? Granted, he slammed Slashdot quite badly, but what better way to put things right in his own manner than to have a hand in the content? Barring his being too busy, I think he'd actually accept the offer.
(One other note. Rob: I recently got something I did picked apart in a public forum, so I'm sure you were pretty pissed about the "functional illiterate" crack. But I can't say I disagree, and the point has been raised before. You're attracting a lot of attention with this site. Upgrade yourself. You'll take the criticism hard at first, but if you can realize the criticism and that it's not unfounded... add that to your resolve and work harder to provide a good thing. Make sense?)
Get a broker and you can have a piece of that pie. I think this one will actually be the first where I make sure to buy stock day of IPO and turn it around. I'm tired of hearing about the IPOs afterwards and not making any money off them.
An anonymous reader proved what happens when you combine to of mankind's greatest achievements (Legs Mindstorm and Star Wars)...
I'm a geek, but damn... you guys really need to get out more.
MP3s and their magical effects?
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Hmm. I still find there are too many people willing to pirate music solely for stupid reasons - "buying music on CDs is so old - MP3s are the future" is actually something someone I know from IRC said once.
Sonic Therapy has MP3s from both its artists available, be we don't seem to be getting a groundswell of support yet. Heck, you can even order our current releases online. Ah well. Maybe we'll see the magical effects of the MP3 bonanza eventually. I know it's not cause our music sucks.
Who knows, maybe if you hit the right combination of buttons at just the right time, the players strip down and have an orgy on the field. Or something.
>Console games have bugs too... Geeze, look at >Super Mario Bros... It had some weird ones... >Coins that would sporadically fall from the sky, >springboards that would stop working... Most of >these games have (at the very least) small >glitches. They usually do not get fixed either.
Really? That's the first I've heard of any of those bugs. Are you sure you're not getting secondhand crack fumes from sen"death of the software industry"gan?
One easy way to avoid spam is to not publish your address on websites? Geez, that's kinda lame. How do you make an easy mailto: for customers or potential contacts on a webisite? Sorry, I don't think so.
I also use my real address in newsgroups and everywhere else. I'd rather be easy for people to contact (good and bad) than be a pain to contact. I know other people who munge their addresses to newsgroups, and I always forget to change their addresses before mailing them. So I get bounce messages back. I hate that.
But I've been on the net 6 years now, so I remember the good old days pre Canter and Seigel.
Other odd things: I get a few pieces of spam now and then from a GTE mail account that I don't think I've ever publicized the address on. The spams all have a very similar format in the subject field.
Then of course, there was the time Mute (the record label) spammed some people with a 2 meg attachment or some such. I use Unix, so I just deleted it easily. I can't even imagine what it must have been like for PPP users.
I'm on a call, so I'm about two steps from being incoherent.
But geez guys, do you mind? I just started a record label. I want to release real records, not stupid sound files.
Orbital Shirt? (it most certainly is)
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That definitely is an Orbital shirt. I got it at their show in Dallas back in 97 (? I think).
I also have a Spring Heel Jack shirt, they opened. I saw them later on and bought the shirt then.
I didn't know the shirts were available through CDNow. I get this question a lot, I'll put some text on my page about it, maybe with a link to CDNow so I can cash in.:)
Have I mentioned I have great taste in music?:) Check out the link to my record label's website (www.sonictherapy.com).
There's a guy on the IDM mailing list by the nickname of Solenoid who apparently modified his Furby to produce random digital noise, ala EAR's Speak n Spell experiments.
He said something about shorting between 8 and 9 on the PCB while it's talking.
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Why are they targetting the Windows market?
We'll get back to that in a minute.
Are there that many Windows systems that need tape backup that it makes more sense to do Windows first and Linux/Unix second? I thought servers with high data requirements were still predominantly Unix boxes, though perhaps they aren't targetting servers. Who is their target market then?
Sad reality that Linux people like to avoid is that there are a LOT of NT boxes out there. Yes yes, we know you don't like NT, but the fact of the matter is, even if Linux is winning the server war or whatever, there's still this percentage out there that actually runs NT, whether you like it or not. So there's one market.
Why are they targetting the Windows market?
Users, baby! The other targer market is end-users who think they're power users. I mean, besides Intranets and shit, what does Joe Desktop need one of these for? Hell, what do I need one for? Still, it's cheap and it's sexy. Why not? I've got a credit card! Why target Windows? End users use Windows. Another reality.
Yeah kids, I know you think Linux is great, but there's still a very large market of people who use Windows and spend money.
Right, and I'm annoyed a little too, cause I was the first one that mentioned the Onstream drives the other day, and have been a few other times. I have a few friends that support them, and I think they'd be great for temporary space relief on my hard drive, I could store my MP3s on them... (I do understand though that spooling MP3s off them is an iffy proposition.)
Some friends of mine support a 15 gig (uncompressed) tape drive that starts at $300, $39 for the tapes.
http://www.onstream.com if you wanna know more.
I prefer the term "honkey" myself.
(All Hail Linux! To criticise Linux is to
risk the wrath of thousands of high school students and other sociopaths who can't spell!)
Note to previous poster: I believe this was something Woods himself was saying, not a Woods quote of Katz. Personally, it made me laugh out loud. One of the funniest and truest things I've seen lately. And all too pointed in the Slashdot direction. (I mean, come on - it's almost like Communism or religion here with the Open Source, Linux, and "gimme free music, artists should all sit around and eat ramen while they make me the MP3s I deserve".)
That being said, I don't object to the presence of Katz so much, though Woods makes some terribly good points. I don't read much Katz, but I find that a humanizing effect on this site would be useful, if Katz were to do so. If he's really fixated on his book, then he really doesn't need to be around.
Moving on, Rob... I, like many others, found Woods' criticism terribly interesting to read and plan to go hunt out more of his posts when I get the chance. Why not make it easier on all of us and add him to the contributors here? Granted, he slammed Slashdot quite badly, but what better way to put things right in his own manner than to have a hand in the content? Barring his being too busy, I think he'd actually accept the offer.
(One other note. Rob: I recently got something I did picked apart in a public forum, so I'm sure you were pretty pissed about the "functional illiterate" crack. But I can't say I disagree, and the point has been raised before. You're attracting a lot of attention with this site. Upgrade yourself. You'll take the criticism hard at first, but if you can realize the criticism and that it's not unfounded... add that to your resolve and work harder to provide a good thing. Make sense?)
If we don't see something that makes it obvious we're a moderator, then we aren't one? :( Poop! I could swear I got marked up once or twice...
> Wouldn't mind a piece of that pie.
Get a broker and you can have a piece of that pie. I think this one will actually be the first where I make sure to buy stock day of IPO and turn it around. I'm tired of hearing about the IPOs afterwards and not making any money off them.
Gotta just give a quick recommendation on his stuff... didn't know he was up on MP3.com now, I'll have to go snatch me some MP3s.
An anonymous reader proved what happens when you combine to of mankind's greatest achievements (Legs Mindstorm and Star Wars)...
I'm a geek, but damn... you guys really need to get out more.
Hmm. I still find there are too many people willing to pirate music solely for stupid reasons - "buying music on CDs is so old - MP3s are the future" is actually something someone I know from IRC said once.
Sonic Therapy has MP3s from both its artists available, be we don't seem to be getting a groundswell of support yet. Heck, you can even order our current releases online. Ah well. Maybe we'll see the magical effects of the MP3 bonanza eventually. I know it's not cause our music sucks.
Who knows, maybe if you hit the right combination of buttons at just the right time, the players strip down and have an orgy on the field. Or something.
>Console games have bugs too... Geeze, look at >Super Mario Bros... It had some weird ones... >Coins that would sporadically fall from the sky, >springboards that would stop working... Most of >these games have (at the very least) small >glitches. They usually do not get fixed either.
Really? That's the first I've heard of any of those bugs. Are you sure you're not getting secondhand crack fumes from sen"death of the software industry"gan?
One easy way to avoid spam is to not publish your address on websites? Geez, that's kinda lame. How do you make an easy mailto: for customers or potential contacts on a webisite? Sorry, I don't think so.
I also use my real address in newsgroups and everywhere else. I'd rather be easy for people to contact (good and bad) than be a pain to contact. I know other people who munge their addresses to newsgroups, and I always forget to change their addresses before mailing them. So I get bounce messages back. I hate that.
But I've been on the net 6 years now, so I remember the good old days pre Canter and Seigel.
Other odd things: I get a few pieces of spam now and then from a GTE mail account that I don't think I've ever publicized the address on. The spams all have a very similar format in the subject field.
Then of course, there was the time Mute (the record label) spammed some people with a 2 meg attachment or some such. I use Unix, so I just deleted it easily. I can't even imagine what it must have been like for PPP users.
Very cool, worth calling for a laugh. And it's on the bad guy's bill. :)
This post feels way too much like an urban legend.
I read the Dallas Observer every week, living near Dallas. I read that article this week and laughed and laughed and laughed.
3d first person shooters are boring, how many of them do you need? Half-Life is pretty, but it's the cream of a dull crop.
John Romero may be a very good programmer, but he's not very creative.
I'm on a call, so I'm about two steps from being incoherent.
But geez guys, do you mind? I just started a record label. I want to release real records, not stupid sound files.
That definitely is an Orbital shirt. I got it at their show in Dallas back in 97 (? I think).
:)
:) Check out the link to my record label's website (www.sonictherapy.com).
I also have a Spring Heel Jack shirt, they opened. I saw them later on and bought the shirt then.
I didn't know the shirts were available through CDNow. I get this question a lot, I'll put some text on my page about it, maybe with a link to CDNow so I can cash in.
Have I mentioned I have great taste in music?
There's a guy on the IDM mailing list by the nickname of Solenoid who apparently modified his Furby to produce random digital noise, ala EAR's Speak n Spell experiments.
He said something about shorting between 8 and 9 on the PCB while it's talking.