Re:I got modded flame-bait last time I said this
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The whole "make an argument look stupid by changing a couple of the words" thing would work better if you weren't wrong.
It is that I was there myself that I heard these exact words as to why the CD would not catch on. The fact that the arguments were wrong does not change the fact that they were used.
Hell, I even remember arguments as to why the Walkman would never catch on. It was because nobody was so rude as to shut themselves off of the rest of the world. Or why nobody would need a cellphone. Oh and obviously nobody would need a phone where you can see each other. Quadrophonie replacing stereo? Never.
Just like you now are saying that there is no reason, other people have said it of similar products. It could be that you are right, it could be that you are wrong. Only the future will tell and only then can we be certain why something has failed or not. But the arguments that are used have not changed. Sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn't. Could be that the reason it fails is because people think it has something to do with bluetooth and they don't want a dvd player for their mobile phone.
Could be that suddenly there is a movie that comes out and for some reasone everybody want to see it on the new device.
Sounds to me as if there were other reasons and they just used those as an excuse. Pretty lame excuses I will give you that, but most likely they did not wake up and thought "Let's pick a name and fire that person."
I have fired people myself where the final straw might have been pretty lame, but it was a final straw after several warnings.
That said, your point was to never leave people without unemployment benefits. In Belgium (and the rest of Europe) that is a pretty hard thing to do. I can fire you for no reason at all. You will get your 3 months pay and after that you can get your unemployment benefit if you still don't have a job.
If you do something like stealing or are absent for no reason or some other things, you will get fired on the spot without any benefits. Strict laws and not an easy step to take.
Re:I got modded flame-bait last time I said this
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Why would we buy a CD? We have music cassettes players in our cars, we have hand-held cassette players for $99. We have cassette players/recorders in our computers. A cassette is the media we can use where we want to use it.
CDs are expensive, need an expensive player, and can't be used with all our devices.
The only "advantage" beyond new and shiny bling appeal for techy nerds, is dubiously better picture quality on an CD for new music releases.
It isn't good enough to be worth it.
(And yes, I am old enough to have heard the argument and even participated in it. Now get of my lawn)
Theres a lady whos sure All that glitters is gold And shes buying a stairway to heaven. When she gets there she knows If the stores are all closed With a word she can get what she came for. Ooh, ooh, and shes buying a stairway to heaven.
Theres a sign on the wall But she wants to be sure cause you know sometimes words have two meanings. In a tree by the brook Theres a songbird who sings, Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven. Ooh, it makes me wonder, Ooh, it makes me wonder.
Theres a feeling I get When I look to the west, And my spirit is crying for leaving. In my thoughts I have seen Rings of smoke through the trees, And the voices of those who standing looking. Ooh, it makes me wonder, Ooh, it really makes me wonder.
And its whispered that soon If we all call the tune Then the piper will lead us to reason. And a new day will dawn For those who stand long And the forests will echo with laughter.
If theres a bustle in your hedgerow Dont be alarmed now, Its just a spring clean for the may queen. Yes, there are two paths you can go by But in the long run Theres still time to change the road youre on. And it makes me wonder.
Your head is humming and it wont go In case you dont know, The pipers calling you to join him, Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, And did you know Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.
And as we wind on down the road Our shadows taller than our soul. There walks a lady we all know Who shines white light and wants to show How evrything still turns to gold. And if you listen very hard The tune will come to you at last. When all are one and one is all To be a rock and not to roll.
It depends on the amount of users using the binaries. With the amount of binary group, it could be that some groups are not used at all. Maintaining a Usenet server is more expensive the the traffic in most cases.
Some more numbers http://newsgate.news.xs4all.nl/ Almost 4.000GB per day or 120.000GB storage for 30 days retention. When looking at previous numbers, this means some 3GB per day in text or 90GB in text for 30 days retention.
This means that maintaining the binaries is a series of servers. Maintaining text only us much, much cheaper. The bandwith is not the only cost, Maintaining it is.
With text, you have two machines for redundancy and you are done
The main reason that the discussions are of a higher level is that accessing them needs more effort. e.g. a person has to first know it exists, then needs to configure (perhaps even download) a newsreader and know what goes where.
This means that people who have absolutely no knowledge of the medium will seldom get to Usenet. It is a minority who uses it and those are also the people who have some internet experience.
Seldom have I seen people posting that did not know what it was. That is until some 'forums' started to host Usenet and made the access easy.
Google groups started to suck when they changed the interface from DejaNews to the one from Google. From then on it went down to so much that I never use it anymore. Not even to search for solutions.
Also, please no forums and NNTP mix up. NNTP is not a web forum and a webforum is not NNTP. Each and every webforum that has an NNTP interface sucks for either one or the other.
There are plenty of free usenet servers for text groups (and free IPv6 for binaries) that there is no need to use a webinterface. And if you boss does not want you to use Usenet, then do without it. His loss, not yours if he doesn't give you the tools to work with.
Usenet does not need you to answer in 2 minutes. So if you only have a connection during the weekend, that is OK.
Filtered out by the providers. I only filter out trolls. I get perhaps 1 or 2 spam messages per day and that probably because I fetch news every 15 minutes, so the spam filters were not able to pick it up yet and delete it.
slrn is still the way to go for me. Never ever had an issue with the way it thread.
Just block any and all binaries (including HTML, thank you). That will bring down the amount of traffic by so much that it is not even relevant anymore. Also the amount of hardware that is needed is so much less. The only thing you need to do is add a spam filter and you can have it running on a single machine. Retention of 30 days should be enough.
Much depends on where you play the game. Do you play it during the day with a lot of sunlight coming in the room or during the night with only your screen as a light source?
I have seen games so dark that I needed to turn out all lights, otherwise did not see anything, or at least not enough to play a game.
So how hard would it be to include different colour schemes? e.g. you can select how dark you want it. Even make it easy for others to let you import colours. That way people can select whatever they like.
The company should make it unpossible to mix the two. Is that even possible on a technical level, or is that just sloving a social problem with a technical solution?
(Looks in the box) A red stapler to begin with, a desk lamp, 25 CDs with data I burned, 72 pens, business cards, a keyboard, a mouse,...
Well, you get the idea. Everything that is in, on or around my desk. What are they going to do? Fire me? Too much trouble to call the police over it. At least were I am.
Although a great idea, it won't work. Even when you speak to each person individualy, they will not understand the danger unless they are either technicaly savy enough or if they have been abused in some way because of it. And even then they will most likely not care. They clicked on 10.000.000 links so the next one won't be so bad and they have a virus program, so they MUST be safe, right?
It is as if you try to explain to RMS that personal presentation is importand for many people.
If anything, reaction will be slower. I can now imagine what would happen if my parents would have a head ups display.
* Well, officer, there suddenly were these letters in front of me and while I was changing my driving glasses for my reading glasses, I hit the car in front of me. And I was just on my way to my grand-son. Little houghi is now engaged, you know. Lovely girl it is. They will get married next summer in...
At a certain age EVERYTHING becomes a distraction. My parents can't even drive with the radio on anymore. If I tell them to go left or right, I need to tell that WAY in advance and need to repeat it three times. I would not dare to give them a GPS, let alone ask them to handle one.
Voting by fax should be illegal as your vote can be traced back to you.
Voting by mail is ok, as long as you put the ballot in a sealed blank envelope and at the other side people check if the envelope is really blank and closed.
I have done some sit ins in Belgium and votes by mail were opened one at a time. And checked against a list, so that only one vote would be done for that person. If the envelope was not closed or if there were clear recognizable marks on it (somebody even put his name on the envelope) the envelope is destroyed without opening and the vote is not counted.
All the blank envelopes where then placed in one place and then first opened one by one, to see if there were no two ballots in it. Once that was done, the ballots were divided by party and counted.
This all under the watching eye of people who were of said party, but were NOT allowed to tough the ballots. Even with this paper, there was a LOT of overlapping control and about 4 to 5 times more people involved as would actually be needed.
And still that is something I trust more then a machine that counts all that in 2 minutes, instead of us doing it in 6 hours.
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It is that I was there myself that I heard these exact words as to why the CD would not catch on. The fact that the arguments were wrong does not change the fact that they were used.
Hell, I even remember arguments as to why the Walkman would never catch on. It was because nobody was so rude as to shut themselves off of the rest of the world. Or why nobody would need a cellphone. Oh and obviously nobody would need a phone where you can see each other. Quadrophonie replacing stereo? Never.
Just like you now are saying that there is no reason, other people have said it of similar products. It could be that you are right, it could be that you are wrong. Only the future will tell and only then can we be certain why something has failed or not. But the arguments that are used have not changed. Sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn't. Could be that the reason it fails is because people think it has something to do with bluetooth and they don't want a dvd player for their mobile phone.
Could be that suddenly there is a movie that comes out and for some reasone everybody want to see it on the new device.
Sounds to me as if there were other reasons and they just used those as an excuse. Pretty lame excuses I will give you that, but most likely they did not wake up and thought "Let's pick a name and fire that person."
I have fired people myself where the final straw might have been pretty lame, but it was a final straw after several warnings.
That said, your point was to never leave people without unemployment benefits. In Belgium (and the rest of Europe) that is a pretty hard thing to do.
I can fire you for no reason at all. You will get your 3 months pay and after that you can get your unemployment benefit if you still don't have a job.
If you do something like stealing or are absent for no reason or some other things, you will get fired on the spot without any benefits. Strict laws and not an easy step to take.
Why would we buy a CD? We have music cassettes players in our cars, we have hand-held cassette players for $99. We have cassette players/recorders in our computers. A cassette is the media we can use where we want to use it.
CDs are expensive, need an expensive player, and can't be used with all our devices.
The only "advantage" beyond new and shiny bling appeal for techy nerds, is dubiously better picture quality on an CD for new music releases.
It isn't good enough to be worth it.
(And yes, I am old enough to have heard the argument and even participated in it. Now get of my lawn)
Ladder?
Theres a lady whos sure
All that glitters is gold
And shes buying a stairway to heaven.
When she gets there she knows
If the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and shes buying a stairway to heaven.
Theres a sign on the wall
But she wants to be sure
cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook
Theres a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.
Theres a feeling I get
When I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen
Rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who standing looking.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.
And its whispered that soon
If we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn
For those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.
If theres a bustle in your hedgerow
Dont be alarmed now,
Its just a spring clean for the may queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
Theres still time to change the road youre on.
And it makes me wonder.
Your head is humming and it wont go
In case you dont know,
The pipers calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow,
And did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.
And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How evrything still turns to gold.
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.
And shes buying a stairway to heaven.
It depends on the amount of users using the binaries. With the amount of binary group, it could be that some groups are not used at all.
Maintaining a Usenet server is more expensive the the traffic in most cases.
Some more numbers http://newsgate.news.xs4all.nl/ Almost 4.000GB per day or 120.000GB storage for 30 days retention. When looking at previous numbers, this means some 3GB per day in text or 90GB in text for 30 days retention.
This means that maintaining the binaries is a series of servers. Maintaining text only us much, much cheaper. The bandwith is not the only cost, Maintaining it is.
With text, you have two machines for redundancy and you are done
This is a new age. We can do the fights as they did in medieval times, but in a virtual world. We will, rule. RULE! I tell you!
The main reason that the discussions are of a higher level is that accessing them needs more effort.
e.g. a person has to first know it exists, then needs to configure (perhaps even download) a newsreader and know what goes where.
This means that people who have absolutely no knowledge of the medium will seldom get to Usenet. It is a minority who uses it and those are also the people who have some internet experience.
Seldom have I seen people posting that did not know what it was. That is until some 'forums' started to host Usenet and made the access easy.
Google groups started to suck when they changed the interface from DejaNews to the one from Google. From then on it went down to so much that I never use it anymore. Not even to search for solutions.
Also, please no forums and NNTP mix up. NNTP is not a web forum and a webforum is not NNTP.
Each and every webforum that has an NNTP interface sucks for either one or the other.
There are plenty of free usenet servers for text groups (and free IPv6 for binaries) that there is no need to use a webinterface. And if you boss does not want you to use Usenet, then do without it. His loss, not yours if he doesn't give you the tools to work with.
Usenet does not need you to answer in 2 minutes. So if you only have a connection during the weekend, that is OK.
Filtered out by the providers. I only filter out trolls.
I get perhaps 1 or 2 spam messages per day and that probably because I fetch news every 15 minutes, so the spam filters were not able to pick it up yet and delete it.
slrn is still the way to go for me. Never ever had an issue with the way it thread.
Just block any and all binaries (including HTML, thank you). That will bring down the amount of traffic by so much that it is not even relevant anymore. Also the amount of hardware that is needed is so much less.
The only thing you need to do is add a spam filter and you can have it running on a single machine. Retention of 30 days should be enough.
Yes. I like it much better then forums for support.
I hardly ever see any spam. Mainly because it is filtered out.
No, but they are still lawyers.
It's strange that Debian is the only one to feel this problem strong enough to do it
Same difference.
Landfill? Have you any idea what size you are talking about?
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2052/1573558430_f4523e7c8f.jpg?v=0 and http://toolazytofail.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/onfinger.jpg where the blue is the USB sleeve.
Even better would be something like http://www.canadacomputers.com/ProductImages/015995/929.jpg so that you have also the SD card.
They are SMALL and cheap to make. The sleeves will be cheaper then a CD case.
Much depends on where you play the game. Do you play it during the day with a lot of sunlight coming in the room or during the night with only your screen as a light source?
I have seen games so dark that I needed to turn out all lights, otherwise did not see anything, or at least not enough to play a game.
So how hard would it be to include different colour schemes? e.g. you can select how dark you want it. Even make it easy for others to let you import colours. That way people can select whatever they like.
Yes, that apparently looks is more important then gameplay.
The company should make it unpossible to mix the two. Is that even possible on a technical level, or is that just sloving a social problem with a technical solution?
(Looks in the box) ...
A red stapler to begin with, a desk lamp, 25 CDs with data I burned, 72 pens, business cards, a keyboard, a mouse,
Well, you get the idea. Everything that is in, on or around my desk. What are they going to do? Fire me? Too much trouble to call the police over it. At least were I am.
Although a great idea, it won't work. Even when you speak to each person individualy, they will not understand the danger unless they are either technicaly savy enough or if they have been abused in some way because of it. And even then they will most likely not care. They clicked on 10.000.000 links so the next one won't be so bad and they have a virus program, so they MUST be safe, right?
It is as if you try to explain to RMS that personal presentation is importand for many people.
If anything, reaction will be slower. I can now imagine what would happen if my parents would have a head ups display.
* Well, officer, there suddenly were these letters in front of me and while I was changing my driving glasses for my reading glasses, I hit the car in front of me. And I was just on my way to my grand-son. Little houghi is now engaged, you know. Lovely girl it is. They will get married next summer in ...
At a certain age EVERYTHING becomes a distraction. My parents can't even drive with the radio on anymore. If I tell them to go left or right, I need to tell that WAY in advance and need to repeat it three times.
I would not dare to give them a GPS, let alone ask them to handle one.
Loads pretty fast and you still have GUI for other things.
Is this competition or a crossover from myspace and youtube? Because there I already find all the information about campus life.
As if you were talking about Windows releases over the years.
Voting by fax should be illegal as your vote can be traced back to you.
Voting by mail is ok, as long as you put the ballot in a sealed blank envelope and at the other side people check if the envelope is really blank and closed.
I have done some sit ins in Belgium and votes by mail were opened one at a time. And checked against a list, so that only one vote would be done for that person. If the envelope was not closed or if there were clear recognizable marks on it (somebody even put his name on the envelope) the envelope is destroyed without opening and the vote is not counted.
All the blank envelopes where then placed in one place and then first opened one by one, to see if there were no two ballots in it. Once that was done, the ballots were divided by party and counted.
This all under the watching eye of people who were of said party, but were NOT allowed to tough the ballots. Even with this paper, there was a LOT of overlapping control and about 4 to 5 times more people involved as would actually be needed.
And still that is something I trust more then a machine that counts all that in 2 minutes, instead of us doing it in 6 hours.