1) Right - my typo (trying to comply to/. standards)
2) Over there, alas in East Asia. Over here would mean Sweden, where telecom companies and ISP's are struggling pretty hard to make 3G and WiFi complementary services.
Interesting stuff, and pretty cool if you travel a lot in these countries, but does this ultimatively mean the end for 3G over there? I don't really know much about 3G activities in Eastern Asia (except for Inode in Japan), so it would be quite nice to see if the telecom companies will continue developing UMTS-like mobile networks. Any tips, comments?
Simple answer: open discussion.
I don't think that there will be that awful lot of flaming around here. In fact, I really like to read the more political discussions on/. because they rather reflect common sense than in other, more "political" weblogs. There you'll mostly meet some polit-snobs who enter the arena with a "I-know-much-more-than-you" attitude. And that actually sucks.
Hack #79 in the book is about Distributed Server Load. The first paragraph has some nice reference to Slashdot:
If you serve a particularly popular site, you will eventually find the wall at which your server simply can't serve any more requests. In the web server world, this is called the Slashdot effect, and it isn't a pretty site (er, sight).
The German left-wing newspaper taz - die tageszeitung has been in financial trouble since I can remember it, and they've been using the "begging for subscriptions" tactics for several years. Until now, they've survived. They even got me as a subscriber some time - slight information overload with two newspapers;-) but as long as it's a good deed... So there might be some hope for Salon if we take this as a reference.
...but I've actually never heard of one single case where MicroBSD was used in an enterprise-critical environment. The other BSD trees are actually quite well-known...
I'd like to see some interesting examples. If there aren't any, well, then it's probably no big loss.
In Germany, the electricity provider RWE just recently stopped its Powerline programme. If I get the numbers correct, they only managed to get about 2000 subscribers in almost three years. Talking about cash burn...
Slashdot Mirror
1) Right - my typo (trying to comply to /. standards)
2) Over there, alas in East Asia. Over here would mean Sweden, where telecom companies and ISP's are struggling pretty hard to make 3G and WiFi complementary services.
Interesting stuff, and pretty cool if you travel a lot in these countries, but does this ultimatively mean the end for 3G over there? I don't really know much about 3G activities in Eastern Asia (except for Inode in Japan), so it would be quite nice to see if the telecom companies will continue developing UMTS-like mobile networks. Any tips, comments?
Simple answer: open discussion. I don't think that there will be that awful lot of flaming around here. In fact, I really like to read the more political discussions on /. because they rather reflect common sense than in other, more "political" weblogs. There you'll mostly meet some polit-snobs who enter the arena with a "I-know-much-more-than-you" attitude. And that actually sucks.
Of course there are. Microsoft has already taken care of this. Cheers to our friends in Redmond!
"Hi, we're a company that produces 'Perfumed, Glowing Cloth. In order to make it glow, we're using 'Thin, Flat LED's'".
What's next? 'Soviet, Russian Beowulf Clusters'? 'Evil, Evil Tractor Beams'?
Are you really sure that it's just the firewall? I'd rather call that "Slashdot effect"...
The German left-wing newspaper taz - die tageszeitung has been in financial trouble since I can remember it, and they've been using the "begging for subscriptions" tactics for several years. Until now, they've survived. They even got me as a subscriber some time - slight information overload with two newspapers ;-) but as long as it's a good deed... So there might be some hope for Salon if we take this as a reference.
...the word "Trustworthy" in a direct connection with "Microsoft"? Wohooo... and I thought that only the Slashdot geeks had a sense of irony...
...but I've actually never heard of one single case where MicroBSD was used in an enterprise-critical environment. The other BSD trees are actually quite well-known... I'd like to see some interesting examples. If there aren't any, well, then it's probably no big loss.
In Germany, the electricity provider RWE just recently stopped its Powerline programme. If I get the numbers correct, they only managed to get about 2000 subscribers in almost three years. Talking about cash burn...