There are issues with micropayments, but I'm sure you can understand that.5% of 3 cents doesn't work, but.5% of 5000 3 cent transactions does. That sort of business model can and will work.
Honestly - Frank Herbert needs to climb out of his own arse if he seriously thought there are more similarities between SW and Dune than SW and a hole host of other films/books etc etc.
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I stand behind my recommendations.
Too many geeklettes get written off because the only programming language they have access to is mircscript.
Access to a nice, well designed scripting language in a easy and friendly environment (Python and PHP count, and [x]chat has python and perl scripting support) is an essential part of that.
These are mostly server orientated - but they're free, and compile on windows:
Apache, PHP and MySQL.
Also a very addictive game called crack attack, which runs on windows and linux, and is under the GPL: Crack Attack
Other things that you should consider include Python and PyGame (don't forget SDL as well!).
[x]Chat runs under windows (native), and is the only irc I'd consider using (beats the hell out of mirc).
Putty is an open source ssh/telnet client. Its possibly the best telnet client for use under windows. Then again, could anything be worse than C:\Windows\Telnet.exe ?
I've probably missed quite a few good ones, but these are things I seriously like.
With Microsoft apparently cooperating with apache for.NET support, I wonder how long it will be before the ''killer'' application for the xBox will become microsoft approved.
xBox doesn't need linux, it needs apache, and great strides have been made in this area.
Get 20 (microsoft subsidied, below cost) xBoxes, a load balancer and a couple replicated MySQL servers, and you have an instant server farm. Put all the webpage content on a disc you stick in the drive of each of the xBoxes, and store all dynamic/changeable content on the MySQL servers.
Volla! You've just created a server farm that can take significantly more load than any of the other solutions you could put together for 4 times the price. It has the added bonus of being fully redundant (just replace the xBox in event of hardware failure), and scaleable (add more DB servers and xBoxen).
(Of course, don't bother ranting about MySQL being unsuitable/only really a spreadsheet with SQL/crappy/non-standard/slow - we're takling about low write load web applications)
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e-gold. Google it up.
.5% of 3 cents doesn't work, but .5% of 5000 3 cent transactions does. That sort of business model can and will work.
Digital money does exist, and is possible.
There are issues with micropayments, but I'm sure you can understand that
Regards,
Stephen Thorne.
Dude, Frank is DEAD.
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The thinking man's rm -rf
Stephen Thorne.
I stand behind my recommendations.
Too many geeklettes get written off because the only programming language they have access to is mircscript.
Access to a nice, well designed scripting language in a easy and friendly environment (Python and PHP count, and [x]chat has python and perl scripting support) is an essential part of that.
Also a very addictive game called crack attack, which runs on windows and linux, and is under the GPL:
Crack Attack
Other things that you should consider include Python and PyGame (don't forget SDL as well!).
[x]Chat runs under windows (native), and is the only irc I'd consider using (beats the hell out of mirc).
Putty is an open source ssh/telnet client. Its possibly the best telnet client for use under windows. Then again, could anything be worse than C:\Windows\Telnet.exe ?
I've probably missed quite a few good ones, but these are things I seriously like.
With Microsoft apparently cooperating with apache for .NET support, I wonder how long it will be before the ''killer'' application for the xBox will become microsoft approved.
xBox doesn't need linux, it needs apache, and great strides have been made in this area.
Get 20 (microsoft subsidied, below cost) xBoxes, a load balancer and a couple replicated MySQL servers, and you have an instant server farm. Put all the webpage content on a disc you stick in the drive of each of the xBoxes, and store all dynamic/changeable content on the MySQL servers.
Volla! You've just created a server farm that can take significantly more load than any of the other solutions you could put together for 4 times the price. It has the added bonus of being fully redundant (just replace the xBox in event of hardware failure), and scaleable (add more DB servers and xBoxen).
(Of course, don't bother ranting about MySQL being unsuitable/only really a spreadsheet with SQL/crappy/non-standard/slow - we're takling about low write load web applications)
Stephen