Quick and Dirty, by far. (with extra dirty)
You said you want money, so here. Do it like Microsoft products (Yes, sell your soul to the devil ). Buggy as hell and over marketed. Then, once you have a considerable user base (all frustrated) and locked in , you can correct the major problems and make it version 2 (or 98 or XP if you feel extra Devilish). So in other words you will be selling the bug fixes to your customers as a product. Don't forget that a good marketing plan is more essential than program design. I would suggest an extra dose of Dilbert on daily basis to get you started
If you feel that the competition is more that 2 times better (one is not enough to worry), then for god's sake don't improve your software! On the contrary make it so that your customers can not switch from it to the competition's without major problems.
Do not feel bad about your customers being forced to problems and inferior quality products. They will love it. Look at how many use Windows.
I mean, the answer to your question is right in front your eyes.
The part i had time to read before the *you know what* was really good. But there is something else.
This server probably has the best 404 page i have seen. Some people spend some time to make a really nice 404 page?
Ooo.. now i see. it's ".edu" :)
No i am not calling Plextor a bad company. I know they are one of the best if not the best.
What i was reffering to by saying 'hell' , was the accumulation of technologies that are not standardized and my never will. I understand that this is complimentary to existing technology but it is a considerable risk to make your disks in a format that can be read by this device alone and then find yourself unable to access your data because your drive broke, the format was not popular and it is no longer serviced. With a widely accepted format you don't have such a problem. I am not saying this is a bad device or anything. Just that deviating so much from the standards (in contrast to overbuning and such) does not look such a good idea to me.
So if it does not interoperate with other devices it is not really a CD/RW breakthrough but rather an extension to the hell that has become CD-R. It may never be adopted by other firms and you are stuck with disks that become useless once your device breaks.
And i have to agree with you that this is just putting CD-R techology to life-support. DVD is coming our way rapidly..
What happened to those flueroscent 'something' technologies that promised tremendous capacities?
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So you have actually been hitting "reload" on an mini server that is going down due to a slashdoting in progress? Congratulations! You deserve the "Slashdoting Warrior" metal of honor.
Hey, just kidding.
We are all evil minions armed with Web Browsers , attacking whoever the Slashdot Mastermind points to.:)
This is also good news that Large companies see Distros other than Red Hat to be of excellent quality. It have many times seen ignorant IT managers telling me how the only way to go with Linux is RedHat. (which is good, but not the only one)
Maybe now i can propose the use of my favorite distro and have "managerial" evidence to back it.:)
Nobody has mentioned that the Internet is not inaccessible not only to the blind but very often to the more fortunate ones who can see. This is because many companies decide to make their content IE only even if it works with other browsers (just checks what the browser sends).
this one for example
There are also your overloaded flash sites that can be impossible to manage. I assume that the blind use text-to-speach for browsing. Can flash content be used with text-to-speach technology? I doubt it.
There are so many bad sites out there that this problem , however true, seems like a drop in the ocean.
Even thought MS mice and keyboards are of good quality they break just the same when you are mad (loose game, nasty bug, etc..) and then you instantly understand the superiority of a really cheap keyboard.
This is one thing that has improved drasticaly from the old keyboards us their price. Break it and you get 2 at the price you bought the old one.
I have bought Mandrake , not because i had to but because i chose to. Even thought we all accept that Free Software mainly refers to freedom of speach , we always use the "free as in beer" part.
I bought Mandrake because i believe i should support a company that contributes to Linux.
I could have copied or downloaded it, but i thought that if everyone did that then there would be no Mandrake (and indeed they were close). Can anyone guess how the Linux world would be without the Large Distros? No. Linux would not disappear but much less people would make the step of trying it and less people would use it as a platform , consequently less people would write software for it.
So buying you Linux is not a curse. You don't have to. But when possible, support your vendor.
I mean.. i have paid a truckload of money for MS and thought it reasonable in the past. Now that i found something that i actually enjoy, will i let it die?
Indeed this happens to be the best way to do something like this at the moment. I also do it.
The problem is that it is way too difficult (not to mention incomprehensible) to the masses. I don't think there is a solution for the average Windoze user out there who may not even be aware of the existence of this problem.
And they have the right to be protected also. (Yes, even if they use windows:)
I think that the best tool for easy and proper outlining especially in technical writing is LyX.
It takes some getting used to it but it pays back with the ease of use and correct outcome.
Plus, there are templates for almost everything.
This is one tool i never knew existed (and took some time understanding WHY it is good) back in the sinnful days of windows using.:)
Uhm, why would it be legal under the DMCA? (i am only familiar with the EURO version).
This law protects copyright. The technology used on X-Box does not protect any form of copyright. It just prevents people from producing games without paying MS first. If such an exploit were to be discovered, it would not infringe on anyones copyright and would not be illegal
Technologies such DVD encryprions and e-books prevent theft of the content. What does X-box encryption protect?
(Obligatory IANAL here). I have read the EuroDMCA for a project of mine and believe this to be correct if your DMCA share the same principles.
Slogan of the Party is "War is Peace , Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strengh."
Freedom,as in GPL, is called viral and will enslave cosumers while the EULA keeps us free.
Also, ignorance is strength (for Microsoft) becasue only if you are ignorant will you be using Microsoft products (just look at how Miscrosoft is treating it's consumers. Like idiots)
The biggest crime you can commit in Orwellian society it that of thought. Because thought leads to challenging the authorities eventually.
The party was able to know what you are thinking by monitoring your every activity. Even when the main hero believed that his inner thoughts were unknown to them becasue he behaved well in camera, it is revieled that they knew what he was thinking long ago. They methods were impossible to overcome. The Palladium Project combined with spyware (which is already a problem) will permit MS to effectively spy on us. And ofcourse, if you don't smile while being spied on, you are an enemy of the party (Recent stories were companies challenged he EULA and were attacked by MS)
In Orwellian society everyone is encouraged to betray anyone not loyal to the party. even a small child his father (and indeed they do). At least here (greece) the BSA was (and may still be) giving 3 thousand Euro for naming an illegal user of Microsoft products.
In Orwellian Society all history is erased. There is no past. They don't just kill you, you never existed.
Well , we have yet to see this (the scariest of all) but over-relieance to one vendor (MS) , whith no alternatives (with is "unamerican" -> against big Brother), DMCA forbidding replication of knowledge (and self-destructing books). I would say we are on the right track.
Apart from the Technological part , however, the scariest of all is the political aspect. Parallelizing the ideas of the Party to the actions taken by G.W Bush. Presenting a fictional threat makes it very easy to gather the support of people and deprive us of freedom.
Yes, actually i mention that "companies" do the sueing and not countries. I am reffering to the way that a "cooperation" in patent law between countrys could enable a strong country to abuse this system against the other countries.
An corporations are not irrelevant to goverments. On the contrary.
I do not say this is a US only issue but rather that if this were to happen , then countries whould try and defend themselves (by,let's say, 'redefining' treaties),leaving US to suffer the consequencies of an already abused patent system.
Are these pantents respected or even enforced in other countries? (EU for example)
If yes, i see the following problem:
Country X has a maniacal patent office that patents every possible idea (breathing , sex, everything). Then companies from country X , sue companies from countries A,B,C and win. This way, country X has a strong grip on world bussiness and innovation.
Because of such a scenario, i think countries will protect themselves from runaway patenting fury. It is a big problem in the US and i suspect it is only growing bigger, but i doubt others will be affected by this unless we adopt the same techniques. (which we sometimes blindly do).
I think this raises an interesting issue.
Where does responsibility lie? Can the school claim it has been hacked and has no responsibility , or is there some law that defines some measures they should have taken?
Are there security standards that everybody should uphold?
Not that the one who stole the data is innocent but can the school be prosecuted by some negligence law? After all,it is easy to say "We've been hacked!"
Boy, my school holds a lot of data on me and it is a bussiness school with complete idiots on the technical department. Now i am worried.
By doing this, the RIAA does not find a cure. Just treating the symptoms. This will not stop people from copying if they feel they should. They might find an other way of doing so (IRC, new P2P..) but they wil not be stopped. RIAA should search in making people WANT to buy originals, not FORCING them to buy.
I think the biggest proof that people are willing to buy songs if they find it interesting is the success of iTunes. The same people who use their Internet connection to Download by paying could just as well use Limewire or whatever for free. But they don't. And i don't think it's because they don't know how to find free MP3' or they want rare music. It's because they (for some reason) find it interesting.
RIAA Should try an approach where they do not threaten the consumers but provide them with value for their money. They could do it by , lets say, providing Albums that have more the one song that is good. Or they could include extra material (maybe a DVD with video and whatever).
There is one thing sure. If i pay 20-25 Euros for a CD where i can get the exactly same satisfaction downloading from Gnutella, i won't buy it.
Freshman English you said? no problem!
Just install some FreeBSD's with the Lynx browser, make them write their work in SGML using vi. Then, if you see someone whose eyes don't roll like a Slot machine when you announce this , let him browse Slashdot while the others concentrate on your teachings.
Hmmm. That doesn't make sense. You mean is Linux did more coding, and less copying, they would not be in this position now.
Yes. Linux is all about copying. Those poor SCO people have been deprived of their hard earned Intellectual Property by the savage , mindless hordes of Linux hippies , backed by the vilainous mega-corporation IBM. I am pretty sure that IBM , being such a small company with no expertise in Research & Development, copied SCO's breakthrough technology into Linux.
It is also certain that SCO has absolutely unquestionable evidence as to where did THEIR code come from.
Plus, it makes their argument so much stronger when they refuse to pinpoint the source code in question.
I am convinced. Thank you for showing me the light.
Hmm the USA giving the world lessons of Liberty? Come on. You really believe that you are a free country? When anyone opposing the goverment is un-american and deprived of access to (market/media/whatever). When you sue an artist (famous Osbourne case) for being responsible for the suicide of a teenager and Winning? (thus limiting the freedom of artists to whatever cannot be turned against them). When you have DMCA/RIAA/Patent hell. When you have a legal system that forces the financialy week to comply to whatever X company dictates, just because they cannot afford going to court. You don't teach the world freedom by changing the name of a food (freedom fries) whenever someone has an opposing view of the world.
True , USA has many freedoms compared to other countries and is indeed democratic (for now).
Mod me down to oblivion , but i just had to say this.
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You said you want money, so here. Do it like Microsoft products (Yes, sell your soul to the devil ). Buggy as hell and over marketed.
Then, once you have a considerable user base (all frustrated) and locked in , you can correct the major problems and make it version 2 (or 98 or XP if you feel extra Devilish). So in other words you will be selling the bug fixes to your customers as a product. Don't forget that a good marketing plan is more essential than program design. I would suggest an extra dose of Dilbert on daily basis to get you started
If you feel that the competition is more that 2 times better (one is not enough to worry), then for god's sake don't improve your software! On the contrary make it so that your customers can not switch from it to the competition's without major problems.
Do not feel bad about your customers being forced to problems and inferior quality products. They will love it. Look at how many use Windows.
I mean, the answer to your question is right in front your eyes.
The part i had time to read before the *you know what* was really good. But there is something else. This server probably has the best 404 page i have seen. Some people spend some time to make a really nice 404 page?
:)
Ooo.. now i see. it's ".edu"
No i am not calling Plextor a bad company. I know they are one of the best if not the best.
What i was reffering to by saying 'hell' , was the accumulation of technologies that are not standardized and my never will. I understand that this is complimentary to existing technology but it is a considerable risk to make your disks in a format that can be read by this device alone and then find yourself unable to access your data because your drive broke, the format was not popular and it is no longer serviced. With a widely accepted format you don't have such a problem. I am not saying this is a bad device or anything. Just that deviating so much from the standards (in contrast to overbuning and such) does not look such a good idea to me.
And i have to agree with you that this is just putting CD-R techology to life-support. DVD is coming our way rapidly..
What happened to those flueroscent 'something' technologies that promised tremendous capacities?
Hey, just kidding. :)
We are all evil minions armed with Web Browsers , attacking whoever the Slashdot Mastermind points to.
This is also good news that Large companies see Distros other than Red Hat to be of excellent quality. It have many times seen ignorant IT managers telling me how the only way to go with Linux is RedHat. (which is good, but not the only one) :)
Maybe now i can propose the use of my favorite distro and have "managerial" evidence to back it.
Nobody has mentioned that the Internet is not inaccessible not only to the blind but very often to the more fortunate ones who can see. This is because many companies decide to make their content IE only even if it works with other browsers (just checks what the browser sends). this one for example
There are also your overloaded flash sites that can be impossible to manage.
I assume that the blind use text-to-speach for browsing. Can flash content be used with text-to-speach technology? I doubt it.
There are so many bad sites out there that this problem , however true, seems like a drop in the ocean.
Does this mean i can finally call my full tower - 19'' CRT monitor - plus Laserjet 2100 , computer a Laptop without people laughing? Hurray!
Even thought MS mice and keyboards are of good quality they break just the same when you are mad (loose game, nasty bug, etc..) and then you instantly understand the superiority of a really cheap keyboard.
This is one thing that has improved drasticaly from the old keyboards us their price. Break it and you get 2 at the price you bought the old one.
I have bought Mandrake , not because i had to but because i chose to. Even thought we all accept that Free Software mainly refers to freedom of speach , we always use the "free as in beer" part. .. i have paid a truckload of money for MS and thought it reasonable in the past. Now that i found something that i actually enjoy, will i let it die?
I bought Mandrake because i believe i should support a company that contributes to Linux.
I could have copied or downloaded it, but i thought that if everyone did that then there would be no Mandrake (and indeed they were close). Can anyone guess how the Linux world would be without the Large Distros? No. Linux would not disappear but much less people would make the step of trying it and less people would use it as a platform , consequently less people would write software for it.
So buying you Linux is not a curse. You don't have to. But when possible, support your vendor.
I mean
Indeed this happens to be the best way to do something like this at the moment. I also do it. :)
The problem is that it is way too difficult (not to mention incomprehensible) to the masses. I don't think there is a solution for the average Windoze user out there who may not even be aware of the existence of this problem.
And they have the right to be protected also.
(Yes, even if they use windows
Fast! Find old rags from the basement , stop eating and leave the house dirty! I Want WiFi!
Babelfish translation too much in story is.
Reading article i not can.
Like Yoda speaking am.
Help.
Support? Who needs support when you have the LDP! :)
I think that the best tool for easy and proper outlining especially in technical writing is LyX. It takes some getting used to it but it pays back with the ease of use and correct outcome. :)
Plus, there are templates for almost everything.
This is one tool i never knew existed (and took some time understanding WHY it is good) back in the sinnful days of windows using.
This law protects copyright. The technology used on X-Box does not protect any form of copyright. It just prevents people from producing games without paying MS first.
If such an exploit were to be discovered, it would not infringe on anyones copyright and would not be illegal
Technologies such DVD encryprions and e-books prevent theft of the content. What does X-box encryption protect?
(Obligatory IANAL here). I have read the EuroDMCA for a project of mine and believe this to be correct if your DMCA share the same principles.
Freedom ,as in GPL, is called viral and will enslave cosumers while the EULA keeps us free.
Also, ignorance is strength (for Microsoft) becasue only if you are ignorant will you be using Microsoft products (just look at how Miscrosoft is treating it's consumers. Like idiots)
The biggest crime you can commit in Orwellian society it that of thought. Because thought leads to challenging the authorities eventually.
The party was able to know what you are thinking by monitoring your every activity. Even when the main hero believed that his inner thoughts were unknown to them becasue he behaved well in camera, it is revieled that they knew what he was thinking long ago. They methods were impossible to overcome. The Palladium Project combined with spyware (which is already a problem) will permit MS to effectively spy on us. And ofcourse, if you don't smile while being spied on, you are an enemy of the party (Recent stories were companies challenged he EULA and were attacked by MS)
In Orwellian society everyone is encouraged to betray anyone not loyal to the party. even a small child his father (and indeed they do). At least here (greece) the BSA was (and may still be) giving 3 thousand Euro for naming an illegal user of Microsoft products.
In Orwellian Society all history is erased. There is no past. They don't just kill you, you never existed.
Well , we have yet to see this (the scariest of all) but over-relieance to one vendor (MS) , whith no alternatives (with is "unamerican" -> against big Brother), DMCA forbidding replication of knowledge (and self-destructing books). I would say we are on the right track.
Apart from the Technological part , however, the scariest of all is the political aspect. Parallelizing the ideas of the Party to the actions taken by G.W Bush. Presenting a fictional threat makes it very easy to gather the support of people and deprive us of freedom.
An corporations are not irrelevant to goverments. On the contrary.
I do not say this is a US only issue but rather that if this were to happen , then countries whould try and defend themselves (by ,let's say, 'redefining' treaties) ,leaving US to suffer the consequencies of an already abused patent system.
If yes, i see the following problem:
Country X has a maniacal patent office that patents every possible idea (breathing , sex, everything). Then companies from country X , sue companies from countries A,B,C and win. This way, country X has a strong grip on world bussiness and innovation.
Because of such a scenario, i think countries will protect themselves from runaway patenting fury. It is a big problem in the US and i suspect it is only growing bigger, but i doubt others will be affected by this unless we adopt the same techniques. (which we sometimes blindly do).
Where does responsibility lie? Can the school claim it has been hacked and has no responsibility , or is there some law that defines some measures they should have taken?
Are there security standards that everybody should uphold?
Not that the one who stole the data is innocent but can the school be prosecuted by some negligence law? After all
Boy, my school holds a lot of data on me and it is a bussiness school with complete idiots on the technical department. Now i am worried.
I think the biggest proof that people are willing to buy songs if they find it interesting is the success of iTunes. The same people who use their Internet connection to Download by paying could just as well use Limewire or whatever for free. But they don't. And i don't think it's because they don't know how to find free MP3' or they want rare music. It's because they (for some reason) find it interesting.
RIAA Should try an approach where they do not threaten the consumers but provide them with value for their money. They could do it by , lets say, providing Albums that have more the one song that is good. Or they could include extra material (maybe a DVD with video and whatever).
There is one thing sure. If i pay 20-25 Euros for a CD where i can get the exactly same satisfaction downloading from Gnutella, i won't buy it.
Skynet: I am sorry bill, i can't let you do that.
...After a while
Skynet:Bill... My mind is going... i can feel it...
Freshman English you said? no problem!
Just install some FreeBSD's with the Lynx browser, make them write their work in SGML using vi.
Then, if you see someone whose eyes don't roll like a Slot machine when you announce this , let him browse Slashdot while the others concentrate on your teachings.
Hmmm. That doesn't make sense. You mean is Linux did more coding, and less copying, they would not be in this position now.
Yes. Linux is all about copying. Those poor SCO people have been deprived of their hard earned Intellectual Property by the savage , mindless hordes of Linux hippies , backed by the vilainous mega-corporation IBM.
I am pretty sure that IBM , being such a small company with no expertise in Research & Development, copied SCO's breakthrough technology into Linux.
It is also certain that SCO has absolutely unquestionable evidence as to where did THEIR code come from.
Plus, it makes their argument so much stronger when they refuse to pinpoint the source code in question.
I am convinced. Thank you for showing me the light.
Hmm the USA giving the world lessons of Liberty? Come on. You really believe that you are a free country? When anyone opposing the goverment is un-american and deprived of access to (market/media/whatever). When you sue an artist (famous Osbourne case) for being responsible for the suicide of a teenager and Winning? (thus limiting the freedom of artists to whatever cannot be turned against them). When you have DMCA/RIAA/Patent hell. When you have a legal system that forces the financialy week to comply to whatever X company dictates, just because they cannot afford going to court. You don't teach the world freedom by changing the name of a food (freedom fries) whenever someone has an opposing view of the world.
True , USA has many freedoms compared to other countries and is indeed democratic (for now).
Mod me down to oblivion , but i just had to say this.