this is my biggest problem w/Wi-Fi "hot-spots". There has to be more people than just "business travelers" that want wireless Internet connections...
This is NOT a good business model people. I do NOT want to have to goto the local airport or downtown coffee shop (not my type of place) in order to get connected while I am out of my house.
I want connections EVERYWHERE and ANYWHERE. I want to goto the local bar, sit down w/my NTN Playmaker, my Budweiser, and my 12 Wild Wings, watching Football, and hop on the net to surf, AIM, ssh, etc.
I am NOT a business traveler. I will probably never be one.
Good business models include a LARGE cross-section.
Re:did this author start nothing.net?
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no he watched a lot of Seinfeld though... the show about nothing!
no. are they forcing us to use it? is Google installed on ALL new computers without the option of having another?
there is two reasons I use Google:
1. On my p133 laptop w/Win98 Google loads faster than any other page (I never realized how slow a P133 was until I waited for/. to load as the homepage).
2. It fucking works. Not in the way that Windows "works". It just works. I type in whatever I am looking for (phone numbers, addresses, names, random things) and it comes up w/what I wanted w/o having to search 10000000's of results.
He is a SuSE person, he is not an analyst for MS or some other company. He's not going to be able to give more than a slightly educated guess (of which we have already heard plenty of)
Where will linux gain share
Server market as it has been, and SuSE *hopes* the desktop.
can they foresee an end to the Microsoft Tax
No.
your other questions are irrelevant.
while I appreciate the many formats available...
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the HTML is the only format that I would have clicked on to take a look at. Being EASILY formatted text you would think that at least that version of the document was at least PARTIALLY readable.
The formats were all over the place making for an uncomfortable read. I hope it wasn't made by OpenOffice, that would be yet another reason I would NEVER use that piece of software.
my favorite is that Marijuana use funds terrorism. Funny, most of the Marijuana sold in the US is from farms in KY and TN... Unless Terrorists like to reside in the hills of KY and TN I doubt this is true...
1. I already have a greasy keyboard from eating pizza, steak, burgers, and fries. I also have spilled coke and other random beverages on my keyboard (to respond to another poster).
2. You're right, McD's doesn't have a public pay phone for this exact reason -- no loitering. Does that mean that they don't want to attract more and more people in the sector of business for lunches? If I had WiFi at McD's I might be more inclined to actually eat there (until Boston Market or Wendy's got WiFi).
3. No.
4. It would be an interesting place for a/. Meetup...
does anyone honestly believe that after a great success w/backwards compat. w/the PS1 that the PS3 wouldn't be compatible back to the 1 and 2? Hell, I cannot find a game in a "new video game store" for an N64 but I can find PS1 games... Funny eh?
Other comments about the reason that this isn't going to fly is the rumor that the PS3 would be fitted w/a possible SMP system? I am too lazy to search for the article but I believe that is what they were planning on developing (although it was most likely rumor and happened several months ago).
Never mind, for example, the chunk of the gaming audience that's lost entirely because they don't have access to a credit card. People who have a credit card are wary to give it up. Right now, Walton theorizes, the model works in the United States because it's based off of a packaged goods model - people have already invested $40-50 to buy the box and take it home, so they're more willing to justify that expense by subscribing. "We need other ways to bill people that's more convenient," he explained. (For example, rolling up your MMOG fees into a phone bill, something that's done in places like Korea.)
Oh bullshit. #1, it's not hard to get someone's credit card, they consider that "rolled in". #2, I don't want ANYTHING except my phone charges (services included such as LD and CallerID) in my phone bill. I want a seperate bill for everything. I want to know exactly who to contact for my billing bitches. EVERYONE fucks up billing.
Credit cards are GREAT for fucked up billing. I was getting charged twice a month for something, I told the Credit Card company to deal w/it. It's their responsibility not mine.
these multiplayer games are cropping up all over the place b/c companies realize that people today are fucking stupid and addicts. They see the incredible success of games such as Sims and EQ and they want to cash in.
Dealing w/customers is fucking outsourced to stupid companies like Convergys who have shitty employees w/little or no training (yeah I worked there while attending school).
what about it? We know that people go around on there and post ridiculous numbers of "reviews" for books. They rate them high and they sing their praises. Most of the time it's non-sense.
Let's take a look at some of the items listed on the current list of high-ranking info on IBDb...
I *hated* Hitch Hiker's Guide and I really don't care for Tolkien.
The Internet is full of opinions and sucky ones at that... No matter what, I cannot trust the views of others on the Internet to tell me which movies/books are good (especially MAJOR sites like Amazon and now this one).
Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one, and EVERYONE's stinks like shit.
why shouldn't they be positive? You already know that most of what is posted on here is complete and utter advertising...
People know that this is a free forum where shit-tons of people are going to see it.
We haven't seen the likes of "Katz", who would fucking destroy most movie reviews and glorify others that were utter shit and "we" complained. Now, we have mostly positive reviews and "we" complain.
Are you fuckers ever happy?
Re:Finally something that ISNT a beowulf cluster
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it's actually possibly something that would be decent for one.
How many fucking LCDs, trackballs, etc would you need for a Beowulf cluster?
News flash: this is expected, and desirable, behavior. The Win2k RC can't read the XP registry, so it thinks it is a corrupted Win2k installation. When it can't verify the SAM, it bails out to the console. Administrators want this behavior. If you have an installation on which some third-party driver has hosed the registry, the Recovery Console will allow you to attempt to fix it. That's what "Recovery Console" means.
No recovery console does not mean to bypass the password set by the administrator. It means to recover data that has been lost due to reason "foo".
While I don't see it as being that big of a deal, you could do it w/any OSs bootdisk I suppose (or even a LILO prompt on a Linux machine) I think it is an odd bit of information that should be known.
Using Kazaa to trade completely legal MP3s, AVIs, etc, is what it was created to do. Just b/c its users decided to use it for something illegal doesn't mean anything.
Are cars illegal b/c people use them to traffick drugs? And yes, that is a valid comparison for those of you that are going to flame b/c you think it's apples to oranges.
I was replying to the story. It was about AOL users. I said that I am surprised that AOL would decide to do this when they are comprised of mostly dialup users.
My comments about purchases would be if I was an AOL user and was paying $22.95/mo + $x for downloading. Read, think, reply.
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this is my biggest problem w/Wi-Fi "hot-spots". There has to be more people than just "business travelers" that want wireless Internet connections...
This is NOT a good business model people. I do NOT want to have to goto the local airport or downtown coffee shop (not my type of place) in order to get connected while I am out of my house.
I want connections EVERYWHERE and ANYWHERE. I want to goto the local bar, sit down w/my NTN Playmaker, my Budweiser, and my 12 Wild Wings, watching Football, and hop on the net to surf, AIM, ssh, etc.
I am NOT a business traveler. I will probably never be one.
Good business models include a LARGE cross-section.
no he watched a lot of Seinfeld though... the show about nothing!
but did Google make Apple's OS?
Did Google FORCE Apple to put that widget on there?
Did Google FORCE computer manufactorers to NOT put OTHER search engine widgets on the computers?
No. It's an Internet site that does what it is supposed to and does it well.
sorry, I even did a "preview".
Here's the corrected URL
the fact that it does phone numbers to address/name mapping?
:)
my old address and phone number, and the address is wrong, but that was the phone companies fault
no. are they forcing us to use it? is Google installed on ALL new computers without the option of having another?
/. to load as the homepage).
there is two reasons I use Google:
1. On my p133 laptop w/Win98 Google loads faster than any other page (I never realized how slow a P133 was until I waited for
2. It fucking works. Not in the way that Windows "works". It just works. I type in whatever I am looking for (phone numbers, addresses, names, random things) and it comes up w/what I wanted w/o having to search 10000000's of results.
It's not a monopoly, it's a good product.
nothing like playing your 192k variable rate MP3s on your $15000 audio-phile stereo system that's hooked to your computer...
Use REAL equipment to play REAL music.
Will microsoft lose share, and where
He is a SuSE person, he is not an analyst for MS or some other company. He's not going to be able to give more than a slightly educated guess (of which we have already heard plenty of)
Where will linux gain share
Server market as it has been, and SuSE *hopes* the desktop.
can they foresee an end to the Microsoft Tax
No.
your other questions are irrelevant.
the HTML is the only format that I would have clicked on to take a look at. Being EASILY formatted text you would think that at least that version of the document was at least PARTIALLY readable.
The formats were all over the place making for an uncomfortable read. I hope it wasn't made by OpenOffice, that would be yet another reason I would NEVER use that piece of software.
it was also in Q1. Stupid Dopefish.
Unfortunately there's not much detail in this story. A good read, nonetheless.
A "good read" has lots of details, not media bullshit. Remember that submitters and staff before posting a story please.
my favorite is that Marijuana use funds terrorism. Funny, most of the Marijuana sold in the US is from farms in KY and TN... Unless Terrorists like to reside in the hills of KY and TN I doubt this is true...
+5 Funny for Microsoft and the MPAA!
1. I already have a greasy keyboard from eating pizza, steak, burgers, and fries. I also have spilled coke and other random beverages on my keyboard (to respond to another poster).
/. Meetup...
2. You're right, McD's doesn't have a public pay phone for this exact reason -- no loitering. Does that mean that they don't want to attract more and more people in the sector of business for lunches? If I had WiFi at McD's I might be more inclined to actually eat there (until Boston Market or Wendy's got WiFi).
3. No.
4. It would be an interesting place for a
does anyone honestly believe that after a great success w/backwards compat. w/the PS1 that the PS3 wouldn't be compatible back to the 1 and 2? Hell, I cannot find a game in a "new video game store" for an N64 but I can find PS1 games... Funny eh?
Other comments about the reason that this isn't going to fly is the rumor that the PS3 would be fitted w/a possible SMP system? I am too lazy to search for the article but I believe that is what they were planning on developing (although it was most likely rumor and happened several months ago).
7: Getting a Credit Card from a Customer is Hard
Never mind, for example, the chunk of the gaming audience that's lost entirely because they don't have access to a credit card. People who have a credit card are wary to give it up. Right now, Walton theorizes, the model works in the United States because it's based off of a packaged goods model - people have already invested $40-50 to buy the box and take it home, so they're more willing to justify that expense by subscribing. "We need other ways to bill people that's more convenient," he explained. (For example, rolling up your MMOG fees into a phone bill, something that's done in places like Korea.)
Oh bullshit. #1, it's not hard to get someone's credit card, they consider that "rolled in". #2, I don't want ANYTHING except my phone charges (services included such as LD and CallerID) in my phone bill. I want a seperate bill for everything. I want to know exactly who to contact for my billing bitches. EVERYONE fucks up billing.
Credit cards are GREAT for fucked up billing. I was getting charged twice a month for something, I told the Credit Card company to deal w/it. It's their responsibility not mine.
these multiplayer games are cropping up all over the place b/c companies realize that people today are fucking stupid and addicts. They see the incredible success of games such as Sims and EQ and they want to cash in.
Dealing w/customers is fucking outsourced to stupid companies like Convergys who have shitty employees w/little or no training (yeah I worked there while attending school).
-1 Troll on this guy's article.
what about it? We know that people go around on there and post ridiculous numbers of "reviews" for books. They rate them high and they sing their praises. Most of the time it's non-sense.
Let's take a look at some of the items listed on the current list of high-ranking info on IBDb...
Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the (1979)
J.R.R. Tolkien
Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
I *hated* Hitch Hiker's Guide and I really don't care for Tolkien.
The Internet is full of opinions and sucky ones at that... No matter what, I cannot trust the views of others on the Internet to tell me which movies/books are good (especially MAJOR sites like Amazon and now this one).
Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one, and EVERYONE's stinks like shit.
why shouldn't they be positive? You already know that most of what is posted on here is complete and utter advertising...
People know that this is a free forum where shit-tons of people are going to see it.
We haven't seen the likes of "Katz", who would fucking destroy most movie reviews and glorify others that were utter shit and "we" complained. Now, we have mostly positive reviews and "we" complain.
Are you fuckers ever happy?
it's actually possibly something that would be decent for one.
How many fucking LCDs, trackballs, etc would you need for a Beowulf cluster?
It might be semi-silent and useful as one.
uhh, back in someone else's day they used sticks and dirt.
I see nothing wrong with pantenting the process so long as the patent isn't abused.
Yeah, right.
I hope these people don't find the cure for AIDS. That would be one that would be ethically/morally wrong to abuse.
Since when did morals have anything to do w/the economy?
News flash: this is expected, and desirable, behavior. The Win2k RC can't read the XP registry, so it thinks it is a corrupted Win2k installation. When it can't verify the SAM, it bails out to the console. Administrators want this behavior. If you have an installation on which some third-party driver has hosed the registry, the Recovery Console will allow you to attempt to fix it. That's what "Recovery Console" means.
No recovery console does not mean to bypass the password set by the administrator. It means to recover data that has been lost due to reason "foo".
While I don't see it as being that big of a deal, you could do it w/any OSs bootdisk I suppose (or even a LILO prompt on a Linux machine) I think it is an odd bit of information that should be known.
No, it's not illegal. Please don't be confused.
Using Kazaa to trade completely legal MP3s, AVIs, etc, is what it was created to do. Just b/c its users decided to use it for something illegal doesn't mean anything.
Are cars illegal b/c people use them to traffick drugs? And yes, that is a valid comparison for those of you that are going to flame b/c you think it's apples to oranges.
*you* don't buy them, *I* don't buy them, but that doesn't stop the rest of the world that DOES buy them.
Our personal strikes aren't going to help it. It's going to further the RIAA's cause in showing that sales have declined due to P2P.
Our own "personal strikes" are going to hurt the cause that we are trying to prove.
I was replying to the story. It was about AOL users. I said that I am surprised that AOL would decide to do this when they are comprised of mostly dialup users.
My comments about purchases would be if I was an AOL user and was paying $22.95/mo + $x for downloading. Read, think, reply.
Don't troll again.
are you an AOL user?