Ugh. The flip side of this is that the ISPs in question will be bogged down by a million calls from 75 year old grandparents who can't check their grandkids' Facebook pages for pictures of the family BBQ, and trying to talk them through it.
In essence, the ISP becomes free (but encumbered) technical support, trying to talk nontechnical people through virus/trojan removal over the phone, with the cost of failure being a cancelled account ("since you guys won't let me go online").
Okay - I've spent a stupid amount of time on this, and it really, really, REALLY bothers me that I'm not intelligent enough to get a "Dukes of Hazzard" reference.
Does anyone understand this "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose" line?!
It's honestly not as hard as people make it out to be.
I usually come across 3 types of FAQ:
1) The funny one. The guy thinks he's the most hilarious person on the planet, and asks questions (of himself) like "Are you a devil-worshipper?". Pointless waste of time.
2) The honest one. The guy probably hasn't been asked many questions, so the FAQ is sparse and useless.
3) The "substitution for a manual" one. The guy either thinks his software (or website) is so incredibly complex that NOBODY will ever figure ANYTHING out... or they don't think the user will read a manual.
The bottom line is - you get a couple of people to use (whatever it is) for an hour or so. Anything there, you put in. The rest, you let run. Stop annoying us with 50 page FAQs for some stupid blog website, ok?!
Man, lots of people who think this won't work...
1) System stability.
He's probably got APs (and you-name it) on standby. Nobody (let alone a high quality geek of this calibre!) ever designs a network without minimal failovers at least. Hell - he's probably doing some AP meshing or something.
2) Cash is king. Want failover 911 service in case your neighbour's house gets hit by a meteor? Okay... keep your basic phone service. You're still way under what you were paying for phone + cable.
(Oh, by the way - in Canada (Ontario at least), any company who wants to resell phone services CAN - they wholesale it out from Bell Canada. What's to stop him from doing that?)
3) Yes, you can definitely store hundreds and hundreds of 30 minute shows on hard disk. He'll be using TV-quality, not the super-extreme-videophile quality that people mindlessly use for their old Tick reruns (yes, I like Tick).
Ease up on the "big corporations will never allow this", by the way. To be so defeatist is to withdraw any claim to the title of "Geek" - and, as such, you should not be reading Slashdot.
Just finished reading more Israel/Palestine stuff, and I have to ask:
Theoretically, if someone launched a few mortars at the volcano cap... would that be enough to make it erupt?
Guys, they're talking about people buying machines from OEMs (like Dell) for less money that are sold "with Linux" and then installing Windows on them to get around paying the Windows Tax on all the new machines.
It's not about Linux users wanting to pirate Windows.
She's getting slammed on her site with all kinds of traffic, just gave birth to a baby boy, and just wants to be left alone, and the best suggestion you can come up with?
Seriously, though - how in the hell is a P2P network sharing data from a computer which is switched off? Are they referring to a password screensaver or something?!...and how is it a "violation of privacy" that a software vendor needs to correct just because people don't know how to use the software and share their entire hard drive?
Incredible. Under those kinds of terms, Microsoft and every other OS vendor could be sued. If you misconfigure *ANY* OS, you're opening yourself up.
Don't the editors know better than to post this?
I mean.. this story is just custom-made as a troll to Slashdot users. Are you going to get anything other than a bunch of "Crashing because Windows sucks" replies?
Other than this one, that is.
Back in '01, running an AIX server with a 2-disk OS mirror and 5-disk RAID 5 array.
One OS disk died, so I broke the mirror, and decided to plug in a tape drive and take a mksysb before rebooting - just in case. (No, you're not supposed to - but you CAN and I had before..).
Plugged the tape device into the array controller, and blew the backplane AND 2 of the RAID drives. Fortunately, the 2 drives were the hotspare and one of the array disks, so no data lost.
This was back in my "Bah - I'll back up when I feel like it" days, so it cured me right quick.
That's ludicrous.
Bums steal books from the public library, so you charge for the library in the future. That way, the bums don't go into the library, and all is well?
Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
??
Your drive clicked (you think) so you stopped using it and IBM owes you.
How's that work, Skippy?
You experienced no failures at all. You read an article, heard something (real or imagined) and made a decision not to use the product.
Quite honestly, that's an old and flawed argument.
Just because Apple wouldn't be making any money directly (eg. by the sale of their DVD writer drive itself), doesn't mean that other Apple-related purchases would be made. For example, RAM upgrades, etc.
Besides which, the case for the domination of the PC (which, by far, certainly wasn't been the most powerful hardware platform to have competed in the '80s) shows easily that it's all about convenience and sheer weight of numbers. Anything that allows Apple to sell more machines that run on their OSs only increases the probability that better applications will be written for them by third-parties - which increases the likelihood that people will be drawn to those machines in the future.
An even more obvious analogy is VHS vs. Betamax. The latter was a superior standard, but the number of installed VHS machines made it win the market race.
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Ugh. The flip side of this is that the ISPs in question will be bogged down by a million calls from 75 year old grandparents who can't check their grandkids' Facebook pages for pictures of the family BBQ, and trying to talk them through it. In essence, the ISP becomes free (but encumbered) technical support, trying to talk nontechnical people through virus/trojan removal over the phone, with the cost of failure being a cancelled account ("since you guys won't let me go online").
Okay - I've spent a stupid amount of time on this, and it really, really, REALLY bothers me that I'm not intelligent enough to get a "Dukes of Hazzard" reference.
Does anyone understand this "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose" line?!
It's honestly not as hard as people make it out to be. I usually come across 3 types of FAQ: 1) The funny one. The guy thinks he's the most hilarious person on the planet, and asks questions (of himself) like "Are you a devil-worshipper?". Pointless waste of time. 2) The honest one. The guy probably hasn't been asked many questions, so the FAQ is sparse and useless. 3) The "substitution for a manual" one. The guy either thinks his software (or website) is so incredibly complex that NOBODY will ever figure ANYTHING out... or they don't think the user will read a manual. The bottom line is - you get a couple of people to use (whatever it is) for an hour or so. Anything there, you put in. The rest, you let run. Stop annoying us with 50 page FAQs for some stupid blog website, ok?!
Their Taepodong-2 series:
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/dprk/missile/td-2.ht m
Man, lots of people who think this won't work... 1) System stability. He's probably got APs (and you-name it) on standby. Nobody (let alone a high quality geek of this calibre!) ever designs a network without minimal failovers at least. Hell - he's probably doing some AP meshing or something. 2) Cash is king. Want failover 911 service in case your neighbour's house gets hit by a meteor? Okay... keep your basic phone service. You're still way under what you were paying for phone + cable. (Oh, by the way - in Canada (Ontario at least), any company who wants to resell phone services CAN - they wholesale it out from Bell Canada. What's to stop him from doing that?) 3) Yes, you can definitely store hundreds and hundreds of 30 minute shows on hard disk. He'll be using TV-quality, not the super-extreme-videophile quality that people mindlessly use for their old Tick reruns (yes, I like Tick). Ease up on the "big corporations will never allow this", by the way. To be so defeatist is to withdraw any claim to the title of "Geek" - and, as such, you should not be reading Slashdot.
Just finished reading more Israel/Palestine stuff, and I have to ask: Theoretically, if someone launched a few mortars at the volcano cap... would that be enough to make it erupt?
Guys, they're talking about people buying machines from OEMs (like Dell) for less money that are sold "with Linux" and then installing Windows on them to get around paying the Windows Tax on all the new machines. It's not about Linux users wanting to pirate Windows.
Excellent work, Slashdotters.
She's getting slammed on her site with all kinds of traffic, just gave birth to a baby boy, and just wants to be left alone, and the best suggestion you can come up with?
Turn katie.com into a porn site.
*Sigh*...
Seriously, though - how in the hell is a P2P network sharing data from a computer which is switched off? Are they referring to a password screensaver or something?! ...and how is it a "violation of privacy" that a software vendor needs to correct just because people don't know how to use the software and share their entire hard drive?
Incredible. Under those kinds of terms, Microsoft and every other OS vendor could be sued. If you misconfigure *ANY* OS, you're opening yourself up.
Don't the editors know better than to post this? I mean.. this story is just custom-made as a troll to Slashdot users. Are you going to get anything other than a bunch of "Crashing because Windows sucks" replies? Other than this one, that is.
Back in '01, running an AIX server with a 2-disk OS mirror and 5-disk RAID 5 array. One OS disk died, so I broke the mirror, and decided to plug in a tape drive and take a mksysb before rebooting - just in case. (No, you're not supposed to - but you CAN and I had before..). Plugged the tape device into the array controller, and blew the backplane AND 2 of the RAID drives. Fortunately, the 2 drives were the hotspare and one of the array disks, so no data lost. This was back in my "Bah - I'll back up when I feel like it" days, so it cured me right quick.
*Sound of crickets*
That's ludicrous. Bums steal books from the public library, so you charge for the library in the future. That way, the bums don't go into the library, and all is well? Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
?? Your drive clicked (you think) so you stopped using it and IBM owes you. How's that work, Skippy? You experienced no failures at all. You read an article, heard something (real or imagined) and made a decision not to use the product.
Quite honestly, that's an old and flawed argument.
Just because Apple wouldn't be making any money directly (eg. by the sale of their DVD writer drive itself), doesn't mean that other Apple-related purchases would be made. For example, RAM upgrades, etc.
Besides which, the case for the domination of the PC (which, by far, certainly wasn't been the most powerful hardware platform to have competed in the '80s) shows easily that it's all about convenience and sheer weight of numbers. Anything that allows Apple to sell more machines that run on their OSs only increases the probability that better applications will be written for them by third-parties - which increases the likelihood that people will be drawn to those machines in the future.
An even more obvious analogy is VHS vs. Betamax. The latter was a superior standard, but the number of installed VHS machines made it win the market race.