that BestBuy has to sell the xbox at the price microsoft tells them to sell it at. It's called price fixing. Microsoft could fine BestBuy for jacking up the price or not selling the xbox unless people were to buy accessories with it. Our BestBuy just had a line outside of people waiting to buy xboxes, and gave out tickets to people, and when they came in, they let the first people buy the xboxes, accessories or no accessories. The only thing is, there is almost no margin on an xbox 360 for the retailers. Same goes for iPods. But when a product is so high in the demand, the retailer has to sell it at that price, or loose customers. Thats why BestBuy will push a Rio Karma or other off whack mp3 player over an iPod/iTunes any day. Napster and BestBuy are making sweet love right now. iPods are used to lure people in, and then they sell you a Rio Karma. The xbox 360 lures you in, and you buy a high margin 3rd party controler. They shouldn't force anything on you, but they can bug the hell out of you about it.
I miss the old school trackballs that my dad had in the late 80's/early 90's with the huge balls in them. I remember pulling them out of the mice, and throwing the ball at his servers when I was little. They were great for KidPix.
I submitted this story last night, and it didn't get posted. One thing I noted was the fact that in the past google would not let chat sites advertise because they could not parse the chat text and bring relevant ads to the page. I used to run an IRC Network that was big into web integration (think AJAX gateway to IRC), and I wanted to implement google ads, but they didn't seem content on any solution for us, no matter what we brought to the table. Maybe now that they have targeted advertising for their chat service, they will allow targeted advertising for other chat services. Either that, or they will want to keep a monopoly with their Gmail + Talk service.
If the project is all open source, what is to keep someone from forking the project, and making a variant with a new and possibly better group of developers. I've watched ReactOS grow from being able to run a few command line apps, to being able to do what it is doing now. I am very impressed. I remember when reading Bill Gates "The Road Ahead" he said the problem with windows is that a third party os could not run windows programs, and that someone needs to build an os that can. Someone needs to take ReactOS, manage it, and call it OpenWindows or OpenDows. orrr oDows. yeah, I like odows for open windows. One of you take ReactOS right now and keep developing it, and take it away from the guy who wants to kill it with the code audit.
A more detailed, accurate version of this story can be found at the national science foundation I saw this yesterday and thought of posting to slashdot, but it didn't seem nerdy/techno-related. Ah well.
You can't take time from your sleep, you can only borrow it. You will make up for it sooner or later whether it be in a few days, or a few years. Your body will start deteriorating as you get more and more reliant on these stimulants to keep yourself awake. The best bet is to do what the parent says, and get off your ass.
I'd watch it though. Some smaller universities don't have very good network/server management. My University wanted me to help with some applications development and maintenance as a student worker for $5.60/hr. I said screw that as I make about $500/week doing webdesign/consulting on the side. The networking and application maintenance is a joke ran by Ph.D's who won't get their head out of their proprietary asses and think that coldfusion is a godsend. The Computer Science department, however is ran by very well rounded individuals that know wtf they are talking about. All the good people end up being teachers, and assholes end up maintaining the backend, and think of you, the user of their servers as dumbasses, and they don't give a flying shit about your data.
I don't know about you guys, but the choice for me is obvious. CowboyNeal is a great contributor to the open source community with all his wisdom and might. He's my personal hero.
I guess I forgot to turn on the sarcasm switch. No one here seems to pick it up automatically anymore, as everything seems to be taken literally. I guess it's just a side effect of hearing things like "RIAA says Making Files Available Breaking the Law". If someone said this ten years ago, people would think they were joking, now days it is reality.
These must be some pretty good scientists, as they were able to get windows to run on a mac (in the background). However, they were only able to get it to run on a PPC mac, and not an Intel Macintosh. So close, but so far.
By that, I meant that the PPC version of NT didn't run on macs. I know that AIX doesn't run on apple hardware. It seems that some people were able to get the PPC version of NT to work on some older PowerMacs though.
... but will somebody please THINK OF THE CHILDREN! I mean come on, google is obviously evil for not complying with the beloved Bush Administration in its holy attempts to protect the children from terrorist pornographers. Heaven forbid the kids learn to masturbate.
In public service areas, the percentage of blacks working at the fire station/police station has to be the same percentage as the number of blacks living in the area. Same goes for women. As a while male who's been a volunteer fireman for two years, and wants to pursue a career in the field, it is almost impossible because right now all they care about is meeting that quota. I remember asking some high up people about it, and they told me I'd either have to turn black or get my penis chopped off, because they won't be hiring any white males anytime soon. They'll hire a black male or woman with no firefighting experience, no physical strength, over someone like me who is certified, experienced, and dedicated to the job. I've forgotten the idea/dream of becoming a paid full time professional firefighter. Good thing I'm going to school for computer science/business administration, something else that I love in which I hope isn't taken away from me because of "reverse racism"
afaik, the PPC version of Windows NT never ran on any macs, and it was for use on IBM's servers that has Power PC's at the time. Windows ran on Power PC's just like IBM's old AIX ran on Macs.
..back in the day, computers came with Netscape and MSIE installed. You'd see infomercials saying, "This computer comes with the two leading internet browsers. Netscape and Internet Explorer, so that you can choose which you'd like to use". It will just start bringing more competition to the table for MSIE. I feel bad because I remember in those days recommending that people uninstall Netscape and use IE.
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..they would learn to embrace this project, and other open source projects. As it stands, this MSN messenger clone is better than the official Mac MSN client as far as feature implementation goes. Since it is written in TCL/TK, it doesn't run very well in terms of speed (I'm on a Mac Mini 1.42 Ghz/512 MB Ram). The official MSN client runs a lot faster than this clone. Of course, if they contributed to this project to expand it's user-base, but it would ultimately mean for them that someone will make a parallel version of the client that stripped out all of Microsoft's advertisements and propaganda.
The area I live in (Western Kentucky), almost everyone uses MSN. They just love the nudges, "winks" (100x100 flash animated movies that pop up over everything, and dance around, etc. Why they are called winks, I will never know), and all the other bs that comes along with it. Almost nobody uses AIM or YIM.
I have no clue what I was talking about when I wrote this article on Priaprism. I wrote a page about myself, and learned that that wasn't a good idea. I figured others would go in and change things for the better on my Priaprism article, but it never happened.
I've started volunteering for my local volunteer fire department, and I think it is the best thing I could have done. I get to help out people in more than one way too. We do all sorts of community service events, and it is a great way to make new friends. You can't go wrong with the good old fashion volunteer FD, and most departments are always open to new help.
As someone who works in the public service area (fire department), for appications like these, the county/city/feds aren't going to throw a lot of things together. Public service departments needs things that are guarenteed to work in mission critical enviroments, and are backed by warrenties because these things are going to break. A proven products is almost always better than a thrown together product, and I can attest to that with experiance in my field. Just because you can put something together with cheap parts and duct tape for less than the manufacturer can, doesn't mean it will be better. The manufacturer can order parts in bulk, and service the products if they go bad. This isn't always the case when you put something together, and the main part goes bad. In the long run, a thrown together project in a harsh mission critical enviroment is going to cost more than one backed by a manufacturer.
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that BestBuy has to sell the xbox at the price microsoft tells them to sell it at. It's called price fixing. Microsoft could fine BestBuy for jacking up the price or not selling the xbox unless people were to buy accessories with it. Our BestBuy just had a line outside of people waiting to buy xboxes, and gave out tickets to people, and when they came in, they let the first people buy the xboxes, accessories or no accessories. The only thing is, there is almost no margin on an xbox 360 for the retailers. Same goes for iPods. But when a product is so high in the demand, the retailer has to sell it at that price, or loose customers. Thats why BestBuy will push a Rio Karma or other off whack mp3 player over an iPod/iTunes any day. Napster and BestBuy are making sweet love right now. iPods are used to lure people in, and then they sell you a Rio Karma. The xbox 360 lures you in, and you buy a high margin 3rd party controler. They shouldn't force anything on you, but they can bug the hell out of you about it.
*Waves from his Paducah house*
Is there an alternative to Slashdot?
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I miss the old school trackballs that my dad had in the late 80's/early 90's with the huge balls in them. I remember pulling them out of the mice, and throwing the ball at his servers when I was little. They were great for KidPix.
I submitted this story last night, and it didn't get posted. One thing I noted was the fact that in the past google would not let chat sites advertise because they could not parse the chat text and bring relevant ads to the page. I used to run an IRC Network that was big into web integration (think AJAX gateway to IRC), and I wanted to implement google ads, but they didn't seem content on any solution for us, no matter what we brought to the table. Maybe now that they have targeted advertising for their chat service, they will allow targeted advertising for other chat services. Either that, or they will want to keep a monopoly with their Gmail + Talk service.
If the project is all open source, what is to keep someone from forking the project, and making a variant with a new and possibly better group of developers. I've watched ReactOS grow from being able to run a few command line apps, to being able to do what it is doing now. I am very impressed. I remember when reading Bill Gates "The Road Ahead" he said the problem with windows is that a third party os could not run windows programs, and that someone needs to build an os that can. Someone needs to take ReactOS, manage it, and call it OpenWindows or OpenDows. orrr oDows. yeah, I like odows for open windows. One of you take ReactOS right now and keep developing it, and take it away from the guy who wants to kill it with the code audit.
A more detailed, accurate version of this story can be found at the national science foundation I saw this yesterday and thought of posting to slashdot, but it didn't seem nerdy/techno-related. Ah well.
You can't take time from your sleep, you can only borrow it. You will make up for it sooner or later whether it be in a few days, or a few years. Your body will start deteriorating as you get more and more reliant on these stimulants to keep yourself awake. The best bet is to do what the parent says, and get off your ass.
I'd watch it though. Some smaller universities don't have very good network/server management. My University wanted me to help with some applications development and maintenance as a student worker for $5.60/hr. I said screw that as I make about $500/week doing webdesign/consulting on the side. The networking and application maintenance is a joke ran by Ph.D's who won't get their head out of their proprietary asses and think that coldfusion is a godsend. The Computer Science department, however is ran by very well rounded individuals that know wtf they are talking about. All the good people end up being teachers, and assholes end up maintaining the backend, and think of you, the user of their servers as dumbasses, and they don't give a flying shit about your data.
I don't know about you guys, but the choice for me is obvious. CowboyNeal is a great contributor to the open source community with all his wisdom and might. He's my personal hero.
I guess I forgot to turn on the sarcasm switch. No one here seems to pick it up automatically anymore, as everything seems to be taken literally. I guess it's just a side effect of hearing things like "RIAA says Making Files Available Breaking the Law". If someone said this ten years ago, people would think they were joking, now days it is reality.
By the sounds of it, they will be free as in beer and speech. The big notch universities tend to set information free like that for the public.
These must be some pretty good scientists, as they were able to get windows to run on a mac (in the background). However, they were only able to get it to run on a PPC mac, and not an Intel Macintosh. So close, but so far.
By that, I meant that the PPC version of NT didn't run on macs. I know that AIX doesn't run on apple hardware. It seems that some people were able to get the PPC version of NT to work on some older PowerMacs though.
... but will somebody please THINK OF THE CHILDREN! I mean come on, google is obviously evil for not complying with the beloved Bush Administration in its holy attempts to protect the children from terrorist pornographers. Heaven forbid the kids learn to masturbate.
In public service areas, the percentage of blacks working at the fire station/police station has to be the same percentage as the number of blacks living in the area. Same goes for women. As a while male who's been a volunteer fireman for two years, and wants to pursue a career in the field, it is almost impossible because right now all they care about is meeting that quota. I remember asking some high up people about it, and they told me I'd either have to turn black or get my penis chopped off, because they won't be hiring any white males anytime soon. They'll hire a black male or woman with no firefighting experience, no physical strength, over someone like me who is certified, experienced, and dedicated to the job. I've forgotten the idea/dream of becoming a paid full time professional firefighter. Good thing I'm going to school for computer science/business administration, something else that I love in which I hope isn't taken away from me because of "reverse racism"
right here (saw link on fark)
afaik, the PPC version of Windows NT never ran on any macs, and it was for use on IBM's servers that has Power PC's at the time. Windows ran on Power PC's just like IBM's old AIX ran on Macs.
CmdrTaco? *ducks*
..back in the day, computers came with Netscape and MSIE installed. You'd see infomercials saying, "This computer comes with the two leading internet browsers. Netscape and Internet Explorer, so that you can choose which you'd like to use". It will just start bringing more competition to the table for MSIE. I feel bad because I remember in those days recommending that people uninstall Netscape and use IE.
..they would learn to embrace this project, and other open source projects. As it stands, this MSN messenger clone is better than the official Mac MSN client as far as feature implementation goes. Since it is written in TCL/TK, it doesn't run very well in terms of speed (I'm on a Mac Mini 1.42 Ghz/512 MB Ram). The official MSN client runs a lot faster than this clone. Of course, if they contributed to this project to expand it's user-base, but it would ultimately mean for them that someone will make a parallel version of the client that stripped out all of Microsoft's advertisements and propaganda.
The area I live in (Western Kentucky), almost everyone uses MSN. They just love the nudges, "winks" (100x100 flash animated movies that pop up over everything, and dance around, etc. Why they are called winks, I will never know), and all the other bs that comes along with it. Almost nobody uses AIM or YIM.
I have no clue what I was talking about when I wrote this article on Priaprism. I wrote a page about myself, and learned that that wasn't a good idea. I figured others would go in and change things for the better on my Priaprism article, but it never happened.
I've started volunteering for my local volunteer fire department, and I think it is the best thing I could have done. I get to help out people in more than one way too. We do all sorts of community service events, and it is a great way to make new friends. You can't go wrong with the good old fashion volunteer FD, and most departments are always open to new help.
As someone who works in the public service area (fire department), for appications like these, the county/city/feds aren't going to throw a lot of things together. Public service departments needs things that are guarenteed to work in mission critical enviroments, and are backed by warrenties because these things are going to break. A proven products is almost always better than a thrown together product, and I can attest to that with experiance in my field. Just because you can put something together with cheap parts and duct tape for less than the manufacturer can, doesn't mean it will be better. The manufacturer can order parts in bulk, and service the products if they go bad. This isn't always the case when you put something together, and the main part goes bad. In the long run, a thrown together project in a harsh mission critical enviroment is going to cost more than one backed by a manufacturer.