So a decade ago this developer spent dozens upon dozens of hours building, tearing down, rebuilding and troubleshooting something that's gone to be less reliable than Windows? I can just hear his wife now, "Linus! I just want to play some games. How come the video is all screwy? What's a core dump? Wait! Something just popped up on the screen that says 'kernel panic' what's a kernel panic? LINUSSS!!!" Dude - just buy Windows and you're done. Seriously.
Why not just by a Tivo? At his rate, it would have saved him time and money (assuming he couldn't return the Replay).
Why not just read the article? It would have saved you asking a redundant question which he (rather, his wife) asked and he answers many times throughout the article.
I would have liked to have provided an example, but I couldn't think of an industry/group that can survive with a 90% failure rate for its product choices (other than the government).
This is the difference between hard physical products which can be measured and studied and things like art, which is difficult to predict who will like what. Would you invest into some Spanish dude whose paintings look all distorted? What if that dude's name happened to be Picasso? How can you predict the value people place upon such things?
Your stock broker diversifies your portfolio (I hope) because he can't pick great stocks 100% of the time. You will have some stocks which looked great up front, but which tanked at the end. Hopefully your other stocks make enough of a return to cover the losses by that one stock.
Yes, a 90% failure rate is rather abysmal, but they've done well so far making a business out of it. With all the griping about the RIAA, it's surprising that a bunch of prominent artists haven't gotten together yet to start up their own alternative.
Sounds cool, but how many people will have saved a receipt?
I'm sure this is so that they can check the date on the receipt and make sure it's before the recall date. Otherwise, you might find people buying up cases of this stuff before the retailers pull them off the shelves and starting their own t-shirt business.:)
Folding@Home for your brain, using up that idle processing time.:) Now if only I could figure out a way to install Folding@Home on my brain, it'd keep me warm even if I was butt naked in a snow storm.:D
The real trick is to find out how to install your problem onto other peoples' brains so that when *they* sleep, the problem will flash into *your* mind. If you figure that out, do let me know.:)
I've noticed that I tend to make numerous grammar and spelling errors that I don't notice if I type essays, reports, or slashdot posts when I'm tired. Errors that seemed correct at the time I typed them stand out sore thumbs when I read through them again, especially when I've just woken up in the morning or something.
Also, when you've just written it, you tend to read things as you meant them, not as they're actually written. When you put it down, do something else (sleep, play sports, whatever) and then come back, you're no longer reading it directly from the page/screen rather than partially from memory.
Furthermore a single test with just 60 people is not enough to create a meaningful statistical evaluation of the experiment.
Perhaps it won't be the final word on the matter, but given the disparate percentages reported, it certainly lends weight to the conclusion. At the very least, it should encourage studies of a larger sample population.
Besides, you're doubting their conclusion because of your sample size of only a few people on a non-uniform test?
Yes, the bathroom is a great source for inspiration. I think it boils down to focusing intently on the problem, then going and letting your mind free associate on unrelated matters. Similar results could likely be obtained if the participants went out and played soccer or just took a hike in the woods.
Especially considering that some keyboards, like HP's, can transmit up to 150 meters away... through a couple of walls! Not to fear though, HP has some great advice for users of its products: "don't type anything sensitive".
I remember the "Summer olympics" games back in the days, where the runner ran faster the faster you moved the joystick back and forth. We (me and some friends) picked up an old amiga some months ago, and tried it again.. My arm hurt for weeks after that....
"Back in the day" you were probably 13 and your arm had a bit more... uh, practice.
So is it that BSD users are jealous, or is it that more idiots can now work linux?
Read your average Linux article on Slashdot at -1 and then read the average BSD article at -1. See which has the most anti-OS trolls. I figure that's a good a measure as any of which side slings the most mud -- and yes, both sling mud to some degree... it's just a difference of quantity and what the mud smells like.;-)
Additionally, beta isn't the stage for suggesting ideas. In theory, anyway, the beta stage is for when the product is already feature-complete. In other words, the game already has everything there and mostly working and all that remains is to find and correct the bugs.
If you have some great ideas, you could try joining up one of the many open-source MMORPG projects out there. A search for MMORPG on SourceForge will yield many to choose from. Find one with a bunch of people already which is still open to suggestions and you may have better luck!
Now, granted I didn't RTFA (surprise surprise) but I know that when MP3.com was still up and running, they had a service where members could be compensated directly by people buying their music. Will the artists be compensated in any way whatsoever for this?
Wow, you didn't even read the article summary on Slashdot, let alone click to the linked article. The Slashdot summary says:
"The Register is reporting that Vivendi, who had control over MP3.com's archive of over 1.5 million songs even after the site's sale to CNET, has sold rebroadcasting rights to TruSonic.com, who sell them as piped music to hotels, restaurants and other businesses, passing on royalties along the way."
While speaking of the software ports collection, Debian Troll's Best wrote...
Apple is quite the innovator in ports after all, being a pioneer of both USB and FireWire.
The Debian Troll gets the mods (yet again!) by trolling about hardware ports such as USB and Firewire. Yet another good troll... where did you steal this one from?
Well, Sealand doesn't exactly qualify as a recognized nation in the international scene. For smallest official independent state, I think Vatican City (Holy See) qualifies for that award.
I don't think there's really a reason that it should solely because of a change in ownership. Hong Kong is now part of China (well, in theory) but still has its own.hk TLD. The.nu TLD already had probably thousands of domains per inhabitant as I'm sure other small countries do as well. It would essentially be free revenue for New Zealand, and could offset the $8M/year in aid.
> Heck, if you consider that kind of work to be so beneficial, > how about doing it yourself? It might be very worthwhile.
And how do you know that I'm not? Network communications is one of my main areas of interest, and session initiation in a world of NAT *is* a problem, but there are solutions other than proxy servers or just giving up. That's just plain nihilism.
I guess when he's been doing it for over a decade and given that he's already over 50 years old, the benefits for him no longer justify the cost involved. I also read the announcement over several times, and while there is a certain amount of pining for the old days of 1 machine per IP address, there is also the realization that continued development is no longer his bag. Nihilism though? I think that's reading into it a bit too much.
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So a decade ago this developer spent dozens upon dozens of hours building, tearing down, rebuilding and troubleshooting something that's gone to be less reliable than Windows? I can just hear his wife now, "Linus! I just want to play some games. How come the video is all screwy? What's a core dump? Wait! Something just popped up on the screen that says 'kernel panic' what's a kernel panic? LINUSSS!!!" Dude - just buy Windows and you're done. Seriously.
Why not just by a Tivo? At his rate, it would have saved him time and money (assuming he couldn't return the Replay).
Why not just read the article? It would have saved you asking a redundant question which he (rather, his wife) asked and he answers many times throughout the article.
I would have liked to have provided an example, but I couldn't think of an industry/group that can survive with a 90% failure rate for its product choices (other than the government).
This is the difference between hard physical products which can be measured and studied and things like art, which is difficult to predict who will like what. Would you invest into some Spanish dude whose paintings look all distorted? What if that dude's name happened to be Picasso? How can you predict the value people place upon such things?
Your stock broker diversifies your portfolio (I hope) because he can't pick great stocks 100% of the time. You will have some stocks which looked great up front, but which tanked at the end. Hopefully your other stocks make enough of a return to cover the losses by that one stock.
Yes, a 90% failure rate is rather abysmal, but they've done well so far making a business out of it. With all the griping about the RIAA, it's surprising that a bunch of prominent artists haven't gotten together yet to start up their own alternative.
George W. Bush:
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Yes, those are real 24kt gold flakes in there.
Sounds cool, but how many people will have saved a receipt?
:)
I'm sure this is so that they can check the date on the receipt and make sure it's before the recall date. Otherwise, you might find people buying up cases of this stuff before the retailers pull them off the shelves and starting their own t-shirt business.
Folding@Home for your brain, using up that idle processing time. :) Now if only I could figure out a way to install Folding@Home on my brain, it'd keep me warm even if I was butt naked in a snow storm. :D
:)
The real trick is to find out how to install your problem onto other peoples' brains so that when *they* sleep, the problem will flash into *your* mind. If you figure that out, do let me know.
I've noticed that I tend to make numerous grammar and spelling errors that I don't notice if I type essays, reports, or slashdot posts when I'm tired. Errors that seemed correct at the time I typed them stand out sore thumbs when I read through them again, especially when I've just woken up in the morning or something.
Also, when you've just written it, you tend to read things as you meant them, not as they're actually written. When you put it down, do something else (sleep, play sports, whatever) and then come back, you're no longer reading it directly from the page/screen rather than partially from memory.
Furthermore a single test with just 60 people is not enough to create a meaningful statistical evaluation of the experiment.
Perhaps it won't be the final word on the matter, but given the disparate percentages reported, it certainly lends weight to the conclusion. At the very least, it should encourage studies of a larger sample population.
Besides, you're doubting their conclusion because of your sample size of only a few people on a non-uniform test?
Yes, the bathroom is a great source for inspiration. I think it boils down to focusing intently on the problem, then going and letting your mind free associate on unrelated matters. Similar results could likely be obtained if the participants went out and played soccer or just took a hike in the woods.
Especially considering that some keyboards, like HP's, can transmit up to 150 meters away... through a couple of walls! Not to fear though, HP has some great advice for users of its products: "don't type anything sensitive".
If Darl wants to get support, he'll have to do the same ; strip and get dunked.
Do we really want to see that?
Depends.. how long would they hold him under?
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Clearly this person was only in it for the programming -- if they were a real gamer, they could've TOTALLY strifed out of the way of the feds.
Er, don't you mean strafe? Strife is more like what the guy went through.
Hey boss, I'm heading out for lunch right now. I've been coding all morning and now I'm really Hungarian.
In other news, FBI raided John Lebowski's premises as they heard the hackers were using Reverse Polish Notation.
I remember the "Summer olympics" games back in the days, where the runner ran faster the faster you moved the joystick back and forth. We (me and some friends) picked up an old amiga some months ago, and tried it again.. My arm hurt for weeks after that....
"Back in the day" you were probably 13 and your arm had a bit more... uh, practice.
So is it that BSD users are jealous, or is it that more idiots can now work linux?
;-)
Read your average Linux article on Slashdot at -1 and then read the average BSD article at -1. See which has the most anti-OS trolls. I figure that's a good a measure as any of which side slings the most mud -- and yes, both sling mud to some degree... it's just a difference of quantity and what the mud smells like.
Additionally, beta isn't the stage for suggesting ideas. In theory, anyway, the beta stage is for when the product is already feature-complete. In other words, the game already has everything there and mostly working and all that remains is to find and correct the bugs.
If you have some great ideas, you could try joining up one of the many open-source MMORPG projects out there. A search for MMORPG on SourceForge will yield many to choose from. Find one with a bunch of people already which is still open to suggestions and you may have better luck!
Now, granted I didn't RTFA (surprise surprise) but I know that when MP3.com was still up and running, they had a service where members could be compensated directly by people buying their music. Will the artists be compensated in any way whatsoever for this?
Wow, you didn't even read the article summary on Slashdot, let alone click to the linked article. The Slashdot summary says:
"The Register is reporting that Vivendi, who had control over MP3.com's archive of over 1.5 million songs even after the site's sale to CNET, has sold rebroadcasting rights to TruSonic.com, who sell them as piped music to hotels, restaurants and other businesses, passing on royalties along the way."
now verisign has the ability to erase me.
Please remember me when I'm gone...
Don't worry... you're still in the Google cache, although you haven't been spidered since you were 11 years old.
While speaking of the software ports collection, Debian Troll's Best wrote...
... where did you steal this one from?
Apple is quite the innovator in ports after all, being a pioneer of both USB and FireWire.
The Debian Troll gets the mods (yet again!) by trolling about hardware ports such as USB and Firewire. Yet another good troll
Note that while Sealand IS internationally recognized...
Which countries recognize Sealand as a sovereign nation?
Well, Sealand doesn't exactly qualify as a recognized nation in the international scene. For smallest official independent state, I think Vatican City (Holy See) qualifies for that award.
I don't think there's really a reason that it should solely because of a change in ownership. Hong Kong is now part of China (well, in theory) but still has its own .hk TLD. The .nu TLD already had probably thousands of domains per inhabitant as I'm sure other small countries do as well. It would essentially be free revenue for New Zealand, and could offset the $8M/year in aid.
> Heck, if you consider that kind of work to be so beneficial,
> how about doing it yourself? It might be very worthwhile.
And how do you know that I'm not? Network communications is one of my main areas of interest, and session initiation in a world of NAT *is* a problem, but there are solutions other than proxy servers or just giving up. That's just plain nihilism.
I guess when he's been doing it for over a decade and given that he's already over 50 years old, the benefits for him no longer justify the cost involved. I also read the announcement over several times, and while there is a certain amount of pining for the old days of 1 machine per IP address, there is also the realization that continued development is no longer his bag. Nihilism though? I think that's reading into it a bit too much.