The earlier use of this mentioned in the article used some weird dye that was on the surface of the disc. After the laser hit it, it started a slow process of becoming opaque, and in a few days it was unreadable. Some college students discovered that a product called "soap" mixed with a catalyst "water" removed the dye and made the CD readable again.
This uses a dye in the middle of the disc, between layers. If air can get in, why can't another solvent? Wouldn't the same technique be true of these discs as well as the previous attempt?
While the future of non-returnable DVDs is dead in my mind, I'm glad to see that the RIAA is finally looking into "value added", giving me a reason to buy the CD instead of download it.
Every time I post a question about clustering, I get a fury of posts about how I should "imagine a beowulf cluster of these". Sould I take this personally? Are these posters doubting my ability to visualize clustering technology? And what do Natalie Pr0tman and hot grits have to do with anything?
I hate all TCO studies. I don't care who does it or what they're testing.
TCO needs to be analyzed on a case by case basis. There is no magic number. Let's look at two companies.
My company Software:
Wordperfect Lotus Internet Explorer IBM Client Access (for AS/400) Groupwise Access
Those are the core apps found on most machines. It's the web based apps and the custom apps that are killers. For instance, we have an 8 way contract with company A to develop an application. It needs SQL Server 2000 to run. That's a lot of cost, but it's split 8 ways. Now, let's get that same app to run on Linux and access a Postgres server. Crap... WE have to foot the cost. No other software, free or otherwise, does what this app needs to do. It needs to be custom. To move out company to a linux environment would be costly. VERY costly. Training and app development would cost us way more than getting screwed by MS.
Friends's company:
MS Office/Outlook/IE Semi-custom Access program for accounting 1 NT server, does file and print sharing
Here we go, linux would be cheaper! This company already is playing with Openoffice and Mozilla, in fact most users have MS Office just to do file conversions occasionally. They want to add a 7th workstation to their domain. They have a 5 user license, so currenly only 5 can be logged in simultaneously. The 6th rotates around, and they make it work. Their accounting app only runs on one computer, so at the very least we'd leave 1 Windows machine untouched. The rest are ready for linux. The PDC becomes a samba server, 6 of the 7 workstations are linux, the 7th just sits running Office and the accounting app as needed. There you have it, zero software cost and they're migrated to open source in a weekend.
a move to OSS can be done cheaply, or it can be done at a huge cost. Anylize YOUR SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS, you and only you can determine whether OSS is right for your business.
I'm wopndering.. are most monitor problems the result of sitting to close to it? If I sit 16" from my 17" CRT, I get eye strain because of the protons pounding my eyes. If I sit back a few feet, the image becomes smaller but my eyes feel more comfortable.
Could it be said that a 20" flat panel mounted to the wall above my desk would give me the same results as the 17" CRT without the strain? It'd be 2 ft away, that seems reasonable.
"In other news today, the launch of Microsoft's new conceptual OS, 'Longhorn', was brought to a screetching halt. A band of rebel hackers known only as 'slashdot' has taken measures to stop this OS from ever seeing the light of day. By using advanced DDoS techniques, the rebels have brought the server to its knees, preventing further interest from the public."
Without even so much as asking, they just deleted my account with no backup of my inbox. Because of MSN/Hotmail, I've now lost these amazing oppurtunities to:
Enlarge my penis Enlarge my breasts Meet Singles in my area Meet Sexy singles in my area Meet my former classmates all over again Refinance my house at a low, low interest rate Consolodate my debt Copy DVDs Lose weight while I sleep Work from Home Accept written guarantees of hundreds, if not thousands of dollars Get my.BIZ or.INFO domain while it's still available.
Watch out Bill Gates... I've got about 100 million dollars in lost oppurtunity because of you, and I'm going to come and get it!
We're in the process of discussing a move to thin client. We have roughly 500 users. The maintenance costs of wandering around to 500 desks is tremndous. We're looking at going to a central cluster solution. Rather than each department buying a PC for their desks, we simply bill them for their CPU cycles. Those that use more cycles owe us more when it comes time to cluster in more machines. Cost effective in the long run, and a LOT less work for us admins.
I realize that's not what IBM is proposing here, but the idea of charging for CPU cycles is quite intriguing, especially when it comes time to upgrade your $40,000 box. If you can bill the users for their usage, your upgrade costs go down considerably.
Yes, but he continues to say that he's using a C library function to END the program, with is how he knocked off 2K+ of space when he wrote it in assembly, forcing incompatibility with othe platforms.
Basically what the other is saying is that by default, C is somewhat bloated (you need to include massive libraries just to use one function). Writing system level calls in assembly can replace the unnecesary bloat of a library that's only being used by one function.
I remember this trick wehn I was learning x86 assembly. I wrote a hello world program in assembly. Assembled, it came to something like 35 bytes. In C++, it took over 10K.
Now, also see the statement that he is abandoning portability, because he's using linux-specific system calls. So, in a nutchell, C++ makes big code that's portable, assembly makes tiny code that's static.
Did I miss something or was this a long winded article about why assembly is better than C++?
Are these the same folks who were trying to start a game show on the same premise, but the grand prize was a trip to MIR? The show idea got tabled after MIR started growing space fungus and they ditched the thing in the ocean, but it sounds like the exact same thing./. posted a story on it at the time, I can't seem to find the link.
This thing is pretty impressive. Truly, I only see one flaw.
It's BUTT UGLY.
The antequated Palm III that/. uses for an icon is trendier than this beige/off-white case that this thing uses.
I'm still waiting for a PDA that comes in a titanium cae. Yes, I know I can buy one for $100 or so and put my PDA in it, but seriously... why make a geek toy that looks so ugly?
Do you understand the word "redundant"? DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE WORD MEANS??!?!?!???
Redundant means that it's been posted before. There are posts about the comment that linux started off bankrupt, but none of them share the same ideas as mine. Therefore, my comment is unique, not redundant.
IF YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT I HAVE TO SAY, AT LEAST MODERATE IT INTELLIGENTLY!!!!!! Mod me down as a troll, falmebait, overrated, or off-topic. To mod me down with the wrong attribute shows your lack of understanding for the moderation system. It also shows me that you have no business moderating posts on Slashdot, if you don't even know what the term means.
If you don't like my comment, that's fine. I used humor to express my opinion that MS in morally bankrupt. If you don't agree with that opinion, don't just wildly moderate me down. That shows that you just don't like what I have to say, and can't think of a real reason why. If that's the case, just leave it alone. Someone with a real opinion either positive or negative will moderate me appropritely. By moderating me as redundant when it's the only post of its kind makes me think you're too stupid to be given moderator priveledges.
"OMFG!" implies that it's a complete shock to me. "OMFG!" is my way of using sarcasm(n). It was meant to imply that the the 16 yr old girls who apparently run the RIAA these days have just, like, totally figured out the obvious.
Imagine that the record companies are supposedly finding success in what we've wanted all along.
The answer has not been to stomp out the P2P networks. They will always be a fact of life, especially as consumer bandwidth gets faster. The answer is to look at this new technology and figure out how to embrace it as a business model.
P2P networks have flaws. Most kiddes can't label their MP3s correctly. Inevitably, The 1 person who has the song you're really looking for is on dialup. It goes on and on, but with P2P, you get what you pay for. Having a centralized pay for download service overcomes these issues. By paying a hosting company to host your MP3s, you're almost guaranteed good download speeds and properly labeled MP3s.
Now, if they RIAA had listened back in 1998 when people were telling them this, maybe they wouldn't be so hated.
Slashdot Mirror
Going from memory here.
The earlier use of this mentioned in the article used some weird dye that was on the surface of the disc. After the laser hit it, it started a slow process of becoming opaque, and in a few days it was unreadable. Some college students discovered that a product called "soap" mixed with a catalyst "water" removed the dye and made the CD readable again.
This uses a dye in the middle of the disc, between layers. If air can get in, why can't another solvent? Wouldn't the same technique be true of these discs as well as the previous attempt?
While the future of non-returnable DVDs is dead in my mind, I'm glad to see that the RIAA is finally looking into "value added", giving me a reason to buy the CD instead of download it.
Every time I post a question about clustering, I get a fury of posts about how I should "imagine a beowulf cluster of these". Sould I take this personally? Are these posters doubting my ability to visualize clustering technology? And what do Natalie Pr0tman and hot grits have to do with anything?
Amiga.. the only way a /.'er can get a chick.
I hate all TCO studies. I don't care who does it or what they're testing.
TCO needs to be analyzed on a case by case basis. There is no magic number. Let's look at two companies.
My company
Software:
Wordperfect
Lotus
Internet Explorer
IBM Client Access (for AS/400)
Groupwise
Access
Those are the core apps found on most machines. It's the web based apps and the custom apps that are killers. For instance, we have an 8 way contract with company A to develop an application. It needs SQL Server 2000 to run. That's a lot of cost, but it's split 8 ways. Now, let's get that same app to run on Linux and access a Postgres server. Crap... WE have to foot the cost. No other software, free or otherwise, does what this app needs to do. It needs to be custom. To move out company to a linux environment would be costly. VERY costly. Training and app development would cost us way more than getting screwed by MS.
Friends's company:
MS Office/Outlook/IE
Semi-custom Access program for accounting
1 NT server, does file and print sharing
Here we go, linux would be cheaper! This company already is playing with Openoffice and Mozilla, in fact most users have MS Office just to do file conversions occasionally. They want to add a 7th workstation to their domain. They have a 5 user license, so currenly only 5 can be logged in simultaneously. The 6th rotates around, and they make it work. Their accounting app only runs on one computer, so at the very least we'd leave 1 Windows machine untouched. The rest are ready for linux. The PDC becomes a samba server, 6 of the 7 workstations are linux, the 7th just sits running Office and the accounting app as needed. There you have it, zero software cost and they're migrated to open source in a weekend.
a move to OSS can be done cheaply, or it can be done at a huge cost. Anylize YOUR SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS, you and only you can determine whether OSS is right for your business.
I'm wopndering.. are most monitor problems the result of sitting to close to it? If I sit 16" from my 17" CRT, I get eye strain because of the protons pounding my eyes. If I sit back a few feet, the image becomes smaller but my eyes feel more comfortable.
Could it be said that a 20" flat panel mounted to the wall above my desk would give me the same results as the 17" CRT without the strain? It'd be 2 ft away, that seems reasonable.
"In other news today, the launch of Microsoft's new conceptual OS, 'Longhorn', was brought to a screetching halt. A band of rebel hackers known only as 'slashdot' has taken measures to stop this OS from ever seeing the light of day. By using advanced DDoS techniques, the rebels have brought the server to its knees, preventing further interest from the public."
Without even so much as asking, they just deleted my account with no backup of my inbox. Because of MSN/Hotmail, I've now lost these amazing oppurtunities to:
.BIZ or .INFO domain while it's still available.
Enlarge my penis
Enlarge my breasts
Meet Singles in my area
Meet Sexy singles in my area
Meet my former classmates all over again
Refinance my house at a low, low interest rate
Consolodate my debt
Copy DVDs
Lose weight while I sleep
Work from Home
Accept written guarantees of hundreds, if not thousands of dollars
Get my
Watch out Bill Gates... I've got about 100 million dollars in lost oppurtunity because of you, and I'm going to come and get it!
We're in the process of discussing a move to thin client. We have roughly 500 users. The maintenance costs of wandering around to 500 desks is tremndous. We're looking at going to a central cluster solution. Rather than each department buying a PC for their desks, we simply bill them for their CPU cycles. Those that use more cycles owe us more when it comes time to cluster in more machines. Cost effective in the long run, and a LOT less work for us admins.
I realize that's not what IBM is proposing here, but the idea of charging for CPU cycles is quite intriguing, especially when it comes time to upgrade your $40,000 box. If you can bill the users for their usage, your upgrade costs go down considerably.
Can MPEG really replace VHS? I know, VHS is pretty crappy too, but MPEG seems lossier than VHS.
I use VCDs quite often, so I'm not dissing MPEG format by any means. I just don't see the attraction of replacing magnetic tape with a lossy format.
The real solution is cheap DVD-RW.
Liquid Nitrogen Beats Air Cooling
Sorry, but this is high school physics.
Yes, but he continues to say that he's using a C library function to END the program, with is how he knocked off 2K+ of space when he wrote it in assembly, forcing incompatibility with othe platforms.
Basically what the other is saying is that by default, C is somewhat bloated (you need to include massive libraries just to use one function). Writing system level calls in assembly can replace the unnecesary bloat of a library that's only being used by one function.
I remember this trick wehn I was learning x86 assembly. I wrote a hello world program in assembly. Assembled, it came to something like 35 bytes. In C++, it took over 10K.
Now, also see the statement that he is abandoning portability, because he's using linux-specific system calls. So, in a nutchell, C++ makes big code that's portable, assembly makes tiny code that's static.
Did I miss something or was this a long winded article about why assembly is better than C++?
Are these the same folks who were trying to start a game show on the same premise, but the grand prize was a trip to MIR? The show idea got tabled after MIR started growing space fungus and they ditched the thing in the ocean, but it sounds like the exact same thing. /. posted a story on it at the time, I can't seem to find the link.
This thing is pretty impressive. Truly, I only see one flaw.
/. uses for an icon is trendier than this beige/off-white case that this thing uses.
It's BUTT UGLY.
The antequated Palm III that
I'm still waiting for a PDA that comes in a titanium cae. Yes, I know I can buy one for $100 or so and put my PDA in it, but seriously... why make a geek toy that looks so ugly?
More importantly, was the mature content filter off? :-)
At the very least it's virii, or viruses.
As have I. I'm surprised that anyone still reads him at all.
I have installed Gentoo. I've also used the Gentoo Live CD. HOW THE HELL IS THAT FUNNY?????
Dude, you have issues.
Google hasn't sold out. They sell ad space, but it doesn't affect the ranking. That's not selling out. Altavista sold out, I'm still pissed at them.
To whomever moderated me down as "redundant":
Do you understand the word "redundant"? DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE WORD MEANS??!?!?!???
Redundant means that it's been posted before. There are posts about the comment that linux started off bankrupt, but none of them share the same ideas as mine. Therefore, my comment is unique, not redundant.
IF YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT I HAVE TO SAY, AT LEAST MODERATE IT INTELLIGENTLY!!!!!! Mod me down as a troll, falmebait, overrated, or off-topic. To mod me down with the wrong attribute shows your lack of understanding for the moderation system. It also shows me that you have no business moderating posts on Slashdot, if you don't even know what the term means.
If you don't like my comment, that's fine. I used humor to express my opinion that MS in morally bankrupt. If you don't agree with that opinion, don't just wildly moderate me down. That shows that you just don't like what I have to say, and can't think of a real reason why. If that's the case, just leave it alone. Someone with a real opinion either positive or negative will moderate me appropritely. By moderating me as redundant when it's the only post of its kind makes me think you're too stupid to be given moderator priveledges.
Microsoft will crush you too
All my base already belong to Microsoft, so it wouldn't really be a change, would it?
Dude, that was the point :-)
"OMFG!" implies that it's a complete shock to me. "OMFG!" is my way of using sarcasm(n). It was meant to imply that the the 16 yr old girls who apparently run the RIAA these days have just, like, totally figured out the obvious.
Imagine that the record companies are supposedly finding success in what we've wanted all along.
The answer has not been to stomp out the P2P networks. They will always be a fact of life, especially as consumer bandwidth gets faster. The answer is to look at this new technology and figure out how to embrace it as a business model.
P2P networks have flaws. Most kiddes can't label their MP3s correctly. Inevitably, The 1 person who has the song you're really looking for is on dialup. It goes on and on, but with P2P, you get what you pay for. Having a centralized pay for download service overcomes these issues. By paying a hosting company to host your MP3s, you're almost guaranteed good download speeds and properly labeled MP3s.
Now, if they RIAA had listened back in 1998 when people were telling them this, maybe they wouldn't be so hated.
If they stomped BSD, then where could they get code from?
Linux will always be financially bankrupt.
Microsoft will always be morally bankrupt.
So, "in a way", hasn't Microsoft always been bankrupt?