Is this another example of selective outrate where it's not what's done that gets people mad, but who's doing it?
It's a balance of who, what, and why. Some 15 year old punk doesn't get up from a bus seat to let an 80 year old invalid sit down, most people would find that rude. Rosa Parks doesn't get up from a bus seat...
RedHat has only been in the black only since 2003.
Didn't that coincide with them no longer giving away their core product? ie: with RHEL, you have to buy it unless you'd be happy using CentOS. Funny how developing and then giving away free operating systems tends to generate little revenue.
Much as I think Sun is doomed no matter what it does, I give kudos to the company for at least trying, as opposed to Microsoft that will NEVER understand what is going on as long as Gates and his henchmen are running the company.
Microsoft's market cap: $300 billion and profitable Sun's market cap: $14 billion and bleeding money
Now look at the balance sheets. I can only assume you have some strange definition of "understanding what's going on" that the rest of the market doesn't use.
I think that Copilot is a good service because it definitely fills a need. Let's say your uncle calls you and says "hey, this program keeps crashing on me" or "I can't figure out how to do stuff in this program". In a minute or two, without prior arrangements, you can tell him to go to a web site, type in a number, download a program and all of a sudden he's got you helping him and controlling the computer.
Even better: uncle pays $X/hour for the time spent to fix the problem. The n * $X in charges at the end of it get split 50/50 between the person helping and the service provider. All those who loathe helping friends and family who abuse their knowledge now have a way to profit from it. Let the helper pick the default base rate, or set it higher. It's a win-win.
Yeah, right, I guess he thought it was in fact the candle he was hauling through-out the store...
It's plausible that he could have thought it was due to a store employee mislabelling an item, and he decided to scoop it up just because it was a bargain. Now a table saw bearing a candle sticker is rather suspicious (though he didn't say if the barcode label also had human-readable text on it), but I could see an employee mislabelling a DeWalt cordless drill with the label for a DeWalt drill bit set, thereby inadvertently creating a bargain which someone might try to snap up even if they have no use for a drill.
Except they didn't actually ask us to trust them anyway, they just went and did it. A feature, you know. Trust us.
Maybe you missed this part in the terms of use:
"In addition, you understand and agree that the Service is provided on an AS IS and AS AVAILABLE basis. Google disclaims all responsibility and liability for the availability, timeliness, security or reliability of the Service. Google also reserves the right to modify, suspend or discontinue the Service with or without notice at any time and without any liability to you."
Distilled down, you do have to trust them because they guarantee nothing. There's no SLAs, no performance guarantees.
The email doesn't belong to them. It belongs to me or to the people who sent it to me.
So have that email delivered to a different address. Nothing's forcing you to choose Google as the carrier and archiver of your content. There are many providers out there who, for $10 a year, will give you raw, unfiltered email.
Providing something for free doesn't automatically free them from criticism.
Criticism is fine, but what prompted my reply is really this sentence in your original post:
Look Google, I don't need you to make those choices for me. I signed up for email, not so you could play games with my mail.
What you seem to not realize is that by using Google under their terms you have chosen to let Google make choices for you. And you didn't sign up for email, you signed up for Google to let you access content which is delivered to their servers on your behalf using an address under their control.
I understand and sympathize with your point, I just disagree with the way in which you've made it.
Google doesn't seem to do that, they just throw away the file. Suppose MY scanner can fix it. I should be allowed to try. Google won't let me. Google won't even tell me that it's deleting the files.
Suppose you stop pissing and moaning about how you don't like how they provide their free service?
I couldn't send a reference manual in CHM format to my own gmail account because Google claims it's an executable. I'm sure Hotmail does weird stuff as well, but they're certainly not unique.
The question I've had for a while is whether or not I can as a distributor legaly hack a linksys router and drop our own distro on it, and give those out to customers.
It's the same question as whether or not you can buy a Dell system with Windows pre-installed, wipe out Windows, and sell it as your own solution. Of course you can. Just don't use Linksys's name to promote it.
The fact that it's close to 24 hours (roughly 20 minutes more, if memory serves) has nothing to do with magnetic fields unless I'm misunderstanding what you meant. A tennis ball could have a 24 hour day if you set it rotating slowly enough.
My focus was more on who would actually call these advertisers...
So you're suggesting instead that businesses are wasting their money with all these phone lines and call centers they have so that customers can reach them? You should let them know... I'm sure they'd be happy to hear some sound marketing advice from a seasoned veteran such as yourself.
I'd be much more excited if I could click on a myspace.com link and call my friend's house right from there. Is that the next step? If so, then yes, very cool.
You can have that right now. Advertise with a unique phrase such as "call wealthychef" and bid $0.01 per click. Provide a phone number. Now your distant friends and family can talk to you all they want and it costs you at most a penny while Google picks up the long distance bill.
1. You must be new around here. 2. "The Moose at Dr. Moz held a gun to his head, and assured Samzenpus, that either this useless marketing or his brains would be on the front page of Slashdot." 3. "Hey, listen, I want somebody good - and I mean very good - to plant that marketing piece. I don't want Samzenpus coming off of his shift with no CDROM in his hands, alright?" 4. "What am I gonna do? What am I gonna do?"... "You can start by posting this sales pitch on your website!" 5. "Samzenpus, I am honored and grateful that you have invited me to hock my wares on the front page of your website. And may your first child be a masculine child." 6. [Slashdot readers] "What the hell is this?" [CmdrTaco] "It's a marketing message. It means Samzenpus sleeps with the salesmen." 7. [Samzenpus] "Someday - and that day may never come - I'll call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this front page posting as gift on my jumping the shark day."
I'm interested in knowing why you think that's a "Pot Kettle Black" situation. I didn't pass judgement on anybody's spelling.
No, but you did say "you should have checked..." and then go on to correct someone while making a mistake yourself. Of course, I assume it was a simple typo and that you did understand the difference between emphatic and empathic so checking wasn't really required.
Were you just really eager to say "Pot, kettle, and all that shit" and couldn't wait for the right moment?
Hey, it was late and I couldn't think of anything less lame to say. I'll do better next time.
Could this be used to sharpen what we see in an x-ray image of a person? Take an x-ray of the whole body and then refocus to concentrate on one particular cross-sectional plane?
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Think longer term than yesterday, why don't you?
What the hell kind of reasoning is that?
Is this another example of selective outrate where it's not what's done that gets people mad, but who's doing it?
It's a balance of who, what, and why. Some 15 year old punk doesn't get up from a bus seat to let an 80 year old invalid sit down, most people would find that rude. Rosa Parks doesn't get up from a bus seat...
RedHat has only been in the black only since 2003.
Didn't that coincide with them no longer giving away their core product? ie: with RHEL, you have to buy it unless you'd be happy using CentOS. Funny how developing and then giving away free operating systems tends to generate little revenue.
Much as I think Sun is doomed no matter what it does, I give kudos to the company for at least trying, as opposed to Microsoft that will NEVER understand what is going on as long as Gates and his henchmen are running the company.
Microsoft's market cap: $300 billion and profitable
Sun's market cap: $14 billion and bleeding money
Now look at the balance sheets. I can only assume you have some strange definition of "understanding what's going on" that the rest of the market doesn't use.
I think they've finally developed a computer which can shave itself.
I think that Copilot is a good service because it definitely fills a need. Let's say your uncle calls you and says "hey, this program keeps crashing on me" or "I can't figure out how to do stuff in this program". In a minute or two, without prior arrangements, you can tell him to go to a web site, type in a number, download a program and all of a sudden he's got you helping him and controlling the computer.
Even better: uncle pays $X/hour for the time spent to fix the problem. The n * $X in charges at the end of it get split 50/50 between the person helping and the service provider. All those who loathe helping friends and family who abuse their knowledge now have a way to profit from it. Let the helper pick the default base rate, or set it higher. It's a win-win.
Yeah, right, I guess he thought it was in fact the candle he was hauling through-out the store...
It's plausible that he could have thought it was due to a store employee mislabelling an item, and he decided to scoop it up just because it was a bargain. Now a table saw bearing a candle sticker is rather suspicious (though he didn't say if the barcode label also had human-readable text on it), but I could see an employee mislabelling a DeWalt cordless drill with the label for a DeWalt drill bit set, thereby inadvertently creating a bargain which someone might try to snap up even if they have no use for a drill.
Except they didn't actually ask us to trust them anyway, they just went and did it. A feature, you know. Trust us.
Maybe you missed this part in the terms of use:
"In addition, you understand and agree that the Service is provided on an AS IS and AS AVAILABLE basis. Google disclaims all responsibility and liability for the availability, timeliness, security or reliability of the Service. Google also reserves the right to modify, suspend or discontinue the Service with or without notice at any time and without any liability to you."
Distilled down, you do have to trust them because they guarantee nothing. There's no SLAs, no performance guarantees.
The email doesn't belong to them. It belongs to me or to the people who sent it to me.
So have that email delivered to a different address. Nothing's forcing you to choose Google as the carrier and archiver of your content. There are many providers out there who, for $10 a year, will give you raw, unfiltered email.
Providing something for free doesn't automatically free them from criticism.
Criticism is fine, but what prompted my reply is really this sentence in your original post:
Look Google, I don't need you to make those choices for me. I signed up for email, not so you could play games with my mail.
What you seem to not realize is that by using Google under their terms you have chosen to let Google make choices for you. And you didn't sign up for email, you signed up for Google to let you access content which is delivered to their servers on your behalf using an address under their control.
I understand and sympathize with your point, I just disagree with the way in which you've made it.
Google doesn't seem to do that, they just throw away the file. Suppose MY scanner can fix it. I should be allowed to try. Google won't let me. Google won't even tell me that it's deleting the files.
Suppose you stop pissing and moaning about how you don't like how they provide their free service?
Google has more information on this vulnerability...
http://www.google.com
If I'm not mistaken it's being received by ##### (Debian) meaning that's his system, not Google's.
I couldn't send a reference manual in CHM format to my own gmail account because Google claims it's an executable. I'm sure Hotmail does weird stuff as well, but they're certainly not unique.
The question I've had for a while is whether or not I can as a distributor legaly hack a linksys router and drop our own distro on it, and give those out to customers.
It's the same question as whether or not you can buy a Dell system with Windows pre-installed, wipe out Windows, and sell it as your own solution. Of course you can. Just don't use Linksys's name to promote it.
The fact that it's close to 24 hours (roughly 20 minutes more, if memory serves) has nothing to do with magnetic fields unless I'm misunderstanding what you meant. A tennis ball could have a 24 hour day if you set it rotating slowly enough.
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My focus was more on who would actually call these advertisers...
So you're suggesting instead that businesses are wasting their money with all these phone lines and call centers they have so that customers can reach them? You should let them know... I'm sure they'd be happy to hear some sound marketing advice from a seasoned veteran such as yourself.
Don't worry -- I'm sure they're running PhoneAssassin.
Not every company has a toll-free number. So now you can talk on the phone with them and not pay long distance charges.
I'd be much more excited if I could click on a myspace.com link and call my friend's house right from there. Is that the next step? If so, then yes, very cool.
You can have that right now. Advertise with a unique phrase such as "call wealthychef" and bid $0.01 per click. Provide a phone number. Now your distant friends and family can talk to you all they want and it costs you at most a penny while Google picks up the long distance bill.
Possible responses:
... "You can start by posting this sales pitch on your website!"
1. You must be new around here.
2. "The Moose at Dr. Moz held a gun to his head, and assured Samzenpus, that either this useless marketing or his brains would be on the front page of Slashdot."
3. "Hey, listen, I want somebody good - and I mean very good - to plant that marketing piece. I don't want Samzenpus coming off of his shift with no CDROM in his hands, alright?"
4. "What am I gonna do? What am I gonna do?"
5. "Samzenpus, I am honored and grateful that you have invited me to hock my wares on the front page of your website. And may your first child be a masculine child."
6. [Slashdot readers] "What the hell is this?"
[CmdrTaco] "It's a marketing message. It means Samzenpus sleeps with the salesmen."
7. [Samzenpus] "Someday - and that day may never come - I'll call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this front page posting as gift on my jumping the shark day."
When baby misbehaves, remember the horse's head we mentioned in Tip #51.
I'm interested in knowing why you think that's a "Pot Kettle Black" situation. I didn't pass judgement on anybody's spelling.
No, but you did say "you should have checked..." and then go on to correct someone while making a mistake yourself. Of course, I assume it was a simple typo and that you did understand the difference between emphatic and empathic so checking wasn't really required.
Were you just really eager to say "Pot, kettle, and all that shit" and couldn't wait for the right moment?
Hey, it was late and I couldn't think of anything less lame to say. I'll do better next time.
Congratulations, you've proposed X-ray computed tomography, which has been used clinically for over 30 years!
Thank you, I'll be here all week. Tomorrow night: using the combustion of petroleum products to produce locomotion!
You really should have checked Wikipedia before making such an empathic statement.
I'm sure that statement had a lot of empathy. Pot, kettle, and all that shit.
Could this be used to sharpen what we see in an x-ray image of a person? Take an x-ray of the whole body and then refocus to concentrate on one particular cross-sectional plane?