It's real easy to not be greedy when you don't have any cash. People always talk about how "indie" labels don't screw over their artists, and about how the music is so much better. While this may be true in some respects, look at the other side.
The local band I can't sing but my tits are great, are more than willing to accept the major label money when it is offered to steal them away from the local record label, based out of Bobs garage. ("It doesn't pay well, but we love making music") The label then dishes out tons of cash to promote this shit band, who would never get any publicity outside of the leaflets they plaster all over their local, BoonFuck, Iowa clubs. The label also gives tons of free swag to the big DJ's in the major markets to get them to play the first single off their record. They take off, become multi-millionaires, and all of a sudden complain of mistreatment from their label.
Again, this is just my opinion, but when Sheryl Crowe cries, I just keep thinking "Go back to stripping, Honey."
The $1.3 billion (fiscal-year 2002 sales) supercomputer maker wants to explore ways to make a Star Bridge system work with a Silicon Graphics machine
On a related note: Star Bridge is in talks with Banyan and SGI to create a new SUPER-Dee-DUPER OS and Network Stack that will rival those of the mid 1990's. No word yet on who in the hell would be interested in such a thing.
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Slow day today I guess. Maybe someone should triple post the IP header article again. Troll? FlameBait? Yeah maybe. Like I said... booooring.
I had been using the 1.3 beta for weeks before the release version. "Yes, this is junk, I am going to mark it as such and then sit here and laugh at you." I felt so... impotent I guess. All of these naked women, and nothing I could do about it. But yeah, since 1.3 came out, I am laying more pipe than Charlie Sheen in his heyday, and not with hookers either.
To Internet users who complain that their e-mail inboxes are crammed with ads for products and services they would never purchase, Childs' response is, "Quit your whining. I'm asking you, how stressful is it to push the delete button? We have become a nation of crybabies."
I am sorry, smack me down if you must, but...
Aaaahhhhhhhh!!!! Die Spammer, Die! Friggin White Trash sonsabitchin spammers.
I feel slightly better now. Ready for Karma extraction.
So when can we look forward to xciv2? What about the next version of 'googly eyes that follow your pointing device around the desktop'? I sure hope we continue that great Linux tradition that is 'xdaliclock'! (Ok, not really a game, granted)
Here's to the hope that we can get a decent, native Linux game going.
This is a truly great statement. I am morally obligated to give away my code? Please my Lord, Oh thou who defines my morals, which church might I attend this week?
This is content people are already paying for, mind you. This is the "premium" content that for some reason, people feel the need to shell out money for. Don't get me wrong, I don't necessarily think it's a good idea for AOLTW. But if you have 35 million people a day looking at your content, I don't think they are shooting themselves in the foot on this one.
(insert typical "why the hell can't anyone write a decent cross browser page/app?" rant here)
I never understand why companies don't do things right the first time, or at least make an attempt to get it right the first time. First off, it sounds like they did next to no testing on this thing since the hardware support is so crappy. Second, why shouldn't I be able to take this music that I paid for with my money and play it anywhere I want to? Maybe that would be on my friends computer for shits sake. When I buy a CD from the store, I don't have to worry about that sort of BS, why should this be any different? What, because it came to me digitally (yeah yeah, maybe you can argue getting a CD at the record store gets to you digitally as well since the clerk uses his fingers to hand it to you, but get your digits out of your stank hole and stay with me here!) it is treated different? Good Hell, when are these companies going to get a friggin' clue about the world we live in today?
This sounds exactly like Republicans and Dems bitching about the Green/Nader/Libertarian Parties taking away votes from them. They know they ain't gonna win, so why bother voting for them? I don't know, but I imagine it's up to the people voting/developing Boa what they want to do.
But what about some compatibility with other vendors? We run a different calendaring solution corporate wide where I work (no, not exchange). The only way to tie into iCal on my Mac is to do a daily dump of my entries in standard format(forget what it is offhand), and then an import into an iCal server. I suppose I could live with it, except that when you the import it just doubles up any entries you have existing already, and doesn't do any checks for duped entries and what not. Seems very shoddy. I guess iCal is fine if you only have iCal, but what about tying it into other Calendaring products? I know, I know. Apple and coexistence with other vendors are mutually exclusive. I'll take it elsewhere. BAH!
The problem that Ransom solves is that many open source developers work very hard on their software projects, and usually end up giving their work away, due to the nature of open source That nature being what? A lot of OSS developers do it in their free time, of their own free will and with their own resources. In a perfect world, yeah they would get paid, but holding the code until they get paid? Doesn't seem like the best way to go about it. What if their code sucks? No one will use it and they won't get paid. What if it is a cool app? Still no guarantee they are gonna get paid. Why would I throw money in their direction, in the hopes that the code gets released? What if it never does? What if they never hit their magic number? Can I get a refund? The cool thing about OSS is that the cool apps seem to rise to the top, people become interested and contribute their free time, thus enhancing the project. Money Grubbing doesn't enter into it as much. Why would anyone help out on a project where the code may never get released? I say ransom blows.
When was the last time a company had the nerve to attempt a worldwide introduction of an all-new desktop computer with dedicated OS? Well, SGI had a neat little thing going there for a couple of years. Look where they are now. "But their machines are still used for rendering blah blah blah" Yeah and Hasselhoff is big in Germany, your point? It runs MorphOS, a PPC OS based on the Quark microkernel.
Don't know too mych about Morph, isn't it designed to play ROMS for amiga games or something fairly niche like that?
I don't really think this is big news. What is the target market for this thing? How far could it even go? Linux can't even make a dent in the windows marketplace, and look at all the muscle they have behind them. (take it easy now folks, Linux is great and I pray to the penguin every night, just demonstrating how far this thing will or will not go) Down boy!
I go to the library fairly often. I rarely see anyone using the computers for anything other than research. The porn fiends in my town obviously don't hang out at the library for free porn. What problem are we even solving? To my knowledge, there isn't a line of kids going out the front double doors of the library waiting to see some nip (sorry to those of you of asian descent, this is slang for "nipple") on the libraries computer. Is it that some poor unsuspecting kid just might see something naughty on the computer? Cmon now. Do you allow your kids to leave the house? Then their gonna see some abbhorent things at some point. Granted, DP you don't see on the corner, but the theory is sound. We need to stop trying to police every aspect of every thing that might just be a problem at some point.
I am thinking/hoping/praying/sacrificing live chickens in the hopes that I heard you wrong. More likely, you said one thing and meant another. You don't typically start a cable company. Maybe you meant you wanted to be a high speed ISP. In which case, yeah, go wireless. If not wireless, consider this. It is very hard to make money being an ISP in general. The telcos squeeze out the small guys. A guy I worked with started his own. Lots of capital required to start up. A lot of overhead, you have to consider... office space, AC, and of course the biggy for an ISP, circuits. It can be done, but don't expect to get rich doing it. If you are looking to make money, RUN, don't walk, away from the ISP business.
does this mean perfectly good and working applications must be abandoned only because they are client/server, or do they still have a useful role to play?
Depends on where you work and how much influence you have. If management where I work had a say, yea we would get rid of our client/server apps that work perfectly well and go to the newest buzzword compliant kid on the block. (Mind you, we would also go without a pilot or any load testing either, because that's all unnecessary you see, according to management). I still think that you use the best tool for the job, regardless. The end user doesn't give a crap how he gets his info, as long as it's fast and reliable. If you can fit into that model, then more power to a client/server app.
Of course, they also don't give a crap about scalability, but that's because they don't have to deal with it either.
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Exactly. Read an article about a week ago that said M$ has lost some insane amount of cash on the XBOX project so far. The more they sell, the better off they are, period. They can spin this any way they want to after the fact. Modded or not, an Xbox sold is an Xbox sold.
Speaking of NetBios ports... the latest spam tactic I saw at one day while booted into windows for some strange reason, is to it to do what amounts to a "net send" that uses windows messenger service. I actually got a friggin "net send" message popping up on my desktop telling me how to enlarge my penis! Windows sucks sometimes. And how the hell did they know my penis was small?
Every year or so our company brings in some consultants, who have never done our (IT Staff) job but somehow know how to do it better than us. One of the things they invariably tell us, it that we need a DR site. They always say something like "What if there is a major disaster such as an earthquake or a fire?" My answer was always, "If there is a disaster of that magnitude, the last place I am going to be is work."
Whether I would have that luxury or not I hope I never have to find out, but I agree with you. What the hell are these guys thinking as everything is going up in flames? Not cool.
On a side note, our datacenter almost went up when a huge disk array caught on fire. The pipes got flooded but luckily the sprinklers didn't go on and hose down all the servers. (No, we didn't have halon at that point.) You'd be more scared if I actually said the name of the company. Sad but true.
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It's real easy to not be greedy when you don't have any cash. People always talk about how "indie" labels don't screw over their artists, and about how the music is so much better. While this may be true in some respects, look at the other side.
The local band I can't sing but my tits are great, are more than willing to accept the major label money when it is offered to steal them away from the local record label, based out of Bobs garage. ("It doesn't pay well, but we love making music") The label then dishes out tons of cash to promote this shit band, who would never get any publicity outside of the leaflets they plaster all over their local, BoonFuck, Iowa clubs. The label also gives tons of free swag to the big DJ's in the major markets to get them to play the first single off their record. They take off, become multi-millionaires, and all of a sudden complain of mistreatment from their label.
Again, this is just my opinion, but when Sheryl Crowe cries, I just keep thinking "Go back to stripping, Honey."
Just popped up on software update. Link to doc is Here
The $1.3 billion (fiscal-year 2002 sales) supercomputer maker wants to explore ways to make a Star Bridge system work with a Silicon Graphics machine
On a related note: Star Bridge is in talks with Banyan and SGI to create a new SUPER-Dee-DUPER OS and Network Stack that will rival those of the mid 1990's. No word yet on who in the hell would be interested in such a thing.
Slow day today I guess. Maybe someone should triple post the IP header article again.
Troll? FlameBait? Yeah maybe. Like I said... booooring.
I had been using the 1.3 beta for weeks before the release version. "Yes, this is junk, I am going to mark it as such and then sit here and laugh at you." I felt so... impotent I guess. All of these naked women, and nothing I could do about it. But yeah, since 1.3 came out, I am laying more pipe than Charlie Sheen in his heyday, and not with hookers either.
1.3 kicks ass.
I smell a challenge.
I am sorry, smack me down if you must, but... Aaaahhhhhhhh!!!! Die Spammer, Die! Friggin White Trash sonsabitchin spammers. I feel slightly better now. Ready for Karma extraction.
Here's to the hope that we can get a decent, native Linux game going.
It never does fail,
The rule is 'I' before 'E',
Except after 'C'.
This is a truly great statement. I am morally obligated to give away my code? Please my Lord, Oh thou who defines my morals, which church might I attend this week?
This is content people are already paying for, mind you. This is the "premium" content that for some reason, people feel the need to shell out money for. Don't get me wrong, I don't necessarily think it's a good idea for AOLTW. But if you have 35 million people a day looking at your content, I don't think they are shooting themselves in the foot on this one.
(insert typical "why the hell can't anyone write a decent cross browser page/app?" rant here)
I never understand why companies don't do things right the first time, or at least make an attempt to get it right the first time. First off, it sounds like they did next to no testing on this thing since the hardware support is so crappy. Second, why shouldn't I be able to take this music that I paid for with my money and play it anywhere I want to? Maybe that would be on my friends computer for shits sake. When I buy a CD from the store, I don't have to worry about that sort of BS, why should this be any different? What, because it came to me digitally (yeah yeah, maybe you can argue getting a CD at the record store gets to you digitally as well since the clerk uses his fingers to hand it to you, but get your digits out of your stank hole and stay with me here!) it is treated different? Good Hell, when are these companies going to get a friggin' clue about the world we live in today?
Damnit, I think I just gave myself shingles.
This sounds exactly like Republicans and Dems bitching about the Green/Nader/Libertarian Parties taking away votes from them. They know they ain't gonna win, so why bother voting for them? I don't know, but I imagine it's up to the people voting/developing Boa what they want to do.
But what about some compatibility with other vendors? We run a different calendaring solution corporate wide where I work (no, not exchange). The only way to tie into iCal on my Mac is to do a daily dump of my entries in standard format(forget what it is offhand), and then an import into an iCal server. I suppose I could live with it, except that when you the import it just doubles up any entries you have existing already, and doesn't do any checks for duped entries and what not. Seems very shoddy. I guess iCal is fine if you only have iCal, but what about tying it into other Calendaring products? I know, I know. Apple and coexistence with other vendors are mutually exclusive. I'll take it elsewhere. BAH!
The problem that Ransom solves is that many open source developers work very hard on their software projects, and usually end up giving their work away, due to the nature of open source
That nature being what? A lot of OSS developers do it in their free time, of their own free will and with their own resources. In a perfect world, yeah they would get paid, but holding the code until they get paid? Doesn't seem like the best way to go about it. What if their code sucks? No one will use it and they won't get paid. What if it is a cool app? Still no guarantee they are gonna get paid. Why would I throw money in their direction, in the hopes that the code gets released? What if it never does? What if they never hit their magic number? Can I get a refund? The cool thing about OSS is that the cool apps seem to rise to the top, people become interested and contribute their free time, thus enhancing the project. Money Grubbing doesn't enter into it as much. Why would anyone help out on a project where the code may never get released? I say ransom blows.
When was the last time a company had the nerve to attempt a worldwide introduction of an all-new desktop computer with dedicated OS?
Well, SGI had a neat little thing going there for a couple of years. Look where they are now. "But their machines are still used for rendering blah blah blah" Yeah and Hasselhoff is big in Germany, your point?
It runs MorphOS, a PPC OS based on the Quark microkernel.
Don't know too mych about Morph, isn't it designed to play ROMS for amiga games or something fairly niche like that?
I don't really think this is big news. What is the target market for this thing? How far could it even go? Linux can't even make a dent in the windows marketplace, and look at all the muscle they have behind them. (take it easy now folks, Linux is great and I pray to the penguin every night, just demonstrating how far this thing will or will not go) Down boy!
I go to the library fairly often. I rarely see anyone using the computers for anything other than research. The porn fiends in my town obviously don't hang out at the library for free porn. What problem are we even solving? To my knowledge, there isn't a line of kids going out the front double doors of the library waiting to see some nip (sorry to those of you of asian descent, this is slang for "nipple") on the libraries computer. Is it that some poor unsuspecting kid just might see something naughty on the computer? Cmon now. Do you allow your kids to leave the house? Then their gonna see some abbhorent things at some point. Granted, DP you don't see on the corner, but the theory is sound. We need to stop trying to police every aspect of every thing that might just be a problem at some point.
I am thinking/hoping/praying/sacrificing live chickens in the hopes that I heard you wrong. More likely, you said one thing and meant another. You don't typically start a cable company. Maybe you meant you wanted to be a high speed ISP. In which case, yeah, go wireless. If not wireless, consider this. It is very hard to make money being an ISP in general. The telcos squeeze out the small guys. A guy I worked with started his own. Lots of capital required to start up. A lot of overhead, you have to consider... office space, AC, and of course the biggy for an ISP, circuits. It can be done, but don't expect to get rich doing it. If you are looking to make money, RUN, don't walk, away from the ISP business.
does this mean perfectly good and working applications must be abandoned only because they are client/server, or do they still have a useful role to play?
Depends on where you work and how much influence you have. If management where I work had a say, yea we would get rid of our client/server apps that work perfectly well and go to the newest buzzword compliant kid on the block. (Mind you, we would also go without a pilot or any load testing either, because that's all unnecessary you see, according to management). I still think that you use the best tool for the job, regardless. The end user doesn't give a crap how he gets his info, as long as it's fast and reliable. If you can fit into that model, then more power to a client/server app.
Of course, they also don't give a crap about scalability, but that's because they don't have to deal with it either.
Exactly. Read an article about a week ago that said M$ has lost some insane amount of cash on the XBOX project so far. The more they sell, the better off they are, period. They can spin this any way they want to after the fact. Modded or not, an Xbox sold is an Xbox sold.
...AGP8X. I guess that was a limitation of the Intel i845 chipset though. Can't have it all in that little box I guess. Overall, not too shabby.
The next rev is going to have a bagel toaster in it as well I hear.
Speaking of NetBios ports... the latest spam tactic I saw at one day while booted into windows for some strange reason, is to it to do what amounts to a "net send" that uses windows messenger service. I actually got a friggin "net send" message popping up on my desktop telling me how to enlarge my penis! Windows sucks sometimes. And how the hell did they know my penis was small?
Was it the one where the fix was to turn off recursion?
Every year or so our company brings in some consultants, who have never done our (IT Staff) job but somehow know how to do it better than us. One of the things they invariably tell us, it that we need a DR site. They always say something like "What if there is a major disaster such as an earthquake or a fire?" My answer was always, "If there is a disaster of that magnitude, the last place I am going to be is work." Whether I would have that luxury or not I hope I never have to find out, but I agree with you. What the hell are these guys thinking as everything is going up in flames? Not cool. On a side note, our datacenter almost went up when a huge disk array caught on fire. The pipes got flooded but luckily the sprinklers didn't go on and hose down all the servers. (No, we didn't have halon at that point.) You'd be more scared if I actually said the name of the company. Sad but true.
The only calculations you're doing are the ones that pertain to how much bud you can pack into your pipe.