Well, uh, maybe that project would have been profitable if they'd have let people know about it. I didn't even know that IBM offered laptop support for Linux!
Somebody needs to beat IBM's marketing group over the head... unless, of course, someone wanted that program to fail?
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Douglass Adams wrote one good book. After that it was sequels built on a non-existent greatness. There are great authors that write books and there are mediocre people that write one great book. DA was mediocre aside from his first book.
People who are dependent on ASP are like people who are dependent on VisialBasic or anything else that is inherently Microsoft-centric. I refuse to let myself and my profession get caught in a cycle that is inherently Microsoft. Why would I invest my time and resources to extend the Microsoft Empire?
It appears to me that you have your head up your ASP.
Ack! Vapul's Razor "caught" and redirected my Feb Crypto-Gram! This is NOT funny. I was really happy with Razor until this happened.... now what do I do?
Re:Rejection is one thing...
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Star Trek TNG DVDs
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What's really funny is that you got a score of 2 and I got dinged for "off topic." and lost a karma point.
Hey, I keep wondering my slashcode doesn't tell us who the moderator is that rejects our stories...
Re:Idea after being mugged last year...
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GPS Meets PCS
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Very intersting idea... if the punk had grabbed my left arm and pressed a knife to my ribs, he would have been rewarded with a.40 in diameter, rifled barrel with Federal Hydra-shocks occupying the other end pionting at his face... but a panic button's not totally a bad idea.
so, maybe a voice of reason on/. isn't all that rare -- and you even got moderated to a 4!
woohoo!
could this be an answer to micro payments?
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User agreement: I'll let you access the information on my site at no direct cost to you IF you'll allow me access to your computer (not to exceed specified limitations) in return.
Apparently, this is not for you. It's for me. I've never taken the time or made the effort to read through all 600 PLs, and I'm not enough of a self-starter to do it. What the Quick Ref does for me (and many like me) is give me a starting place. I now have two PLs that I can read through in detail -- or find more commentary on -- other places. If I find that they don't work for me, I can move to the next.
Besides, what part of "Quick Refernce" don't you understand?
Of cource, it's hardly fashionable, but I'm not either.
http://smtp2.thewwwstore.com/filson/32.HTM
It's supposedly a hunting vest, but I carry my Palm V, Sony digital voice recorder, Motorola StarTac, Digital Camera (Aiptek Pen Cam), pens, tiny Swiss pocket knife, extra film for the film camera, extra batteries, and a cigarett lighter for emergencies.
AND, you can get a great hat to go with it:
http://smtp2.thewwwstore.com/filson/315.HTM
Of course, I'm pretty secure about myself, too -- and mostly nobody is away that I'm carrying anythign electronic.
an astroid strike on earth might really not be all that bad -- as long as it hits the right part of the world.... say, New York, Distict of Columbia, or California.
Of course, it would really suck if it missed DC by just enough to hit one of the nuclear power plants in VA....
1) New players could be dropped into SimCity as
a) imigrants with $X and Y goods received from imigration (find a slum lord to rent from, get a job, work your way up)
b) people from another town moving in (find a place to live, buy what you can afford)
c) randomly assigned family/status/$/belongings
2) Game live whenever the server is up. When player is offline, some kind of autopilot runs the "house."
etc.
I have never played The Sims, but I've read about it on/.
well, it looks like we're waiting on hardware to catch up again. We now need bigger floppy-drive-replacements. 1.44 MB won't be big enough for the post-2.4 kernel. the 2.88 MB drives never caught on (can you even find one now?), the SuperDisk is languishing, the Iomega excuses are, well, excuses.
If you can't put it on a removable, bootable disk, there's the question of how practicle it is to use as a kernel....
Hey, all new machines can boot on thier CDs now...
to me, that term makes absolutely no sense. if it's discrimination, it's discrimination. it really doesn't have directions.
it's an aweful lot like racism. asians are historically the most racist people of all (many asian cultures believing themselves to be the descendents of the Sun or Moon or whatever god), however, in America, only White people are considered capable of racism or discrimination. In the same way, only men are capable of discriminating against women.
I have one site that is ad supported. I generate about $3000.00 per year currently, and hope for that to grow. I have another site that I hope to generate revenue from in the future.
Many of us receive "free" tech rags that are fully supported by advertisers. We give them a small bit of information (what we are authorized to buy, how much, how much money our company genrates), and we get a magazine this provides us with useful information at no "real" cost to us. It cost millions of dollars to put these rags together, print and distribute them.
We read these magazines. we mostly ignore the advertising. We don't bitch about it. BUT the advertising works -- or companies wouldn't pay for it, right?
So, how do we put ads in our web pages that a) work and b) are non-offensive to the users?
When I was working as an engineer (before striking out on my own), I was fortunate enough to have been able to set through a couple of SkillPath Seminars (http://www.skillpath.com/) paid for by my employeer. I'm not saying that SkillPath is the only, or the best, but it is one of many organizations that contract with experts in many fields to present classes on all kinds of topics.
As you move from managing computer code (techie) to managing people (management), you're going to find yourself needing a whole new toolbox, and tools to go in that toolbox. SkillPath (and others) can help you fill that toolbox up.
You're going to have to look at the world through different eyes, and these kinds of people can help you do that.
I also suggest one, short, easy to read book to help you get excited about management:
Tom Peters, The Persuit of WOW! This is not a book about theory and schools of management, it's about being great at what you do. It's a glimps into organizations that do what they do very well. It's a fun book to read.
Finally, don't forget to LISTEN. Don't forget that you don't know anything. Don't forget that you're human, falable an error prone. Don't get sucked into up-line butt-kissing. Don't be arrogant. Don't fall into the trap that you're the manager because you're better than the people that work for you. Don't ever stop learning. And... don't stop doing what you love, just cause you're "management" now.
Have fun. If you can't have fun at your job, find a new job that you can have fun at. Management is not a bad place to be. It just very, very different.
Even nuclear reactors must be shutdown, and the core disposed of evetually.
With EVs, you're trading in mobile emissions (cars/trucks/buses) for point emissions (power plants). THEN you have to add on top of that, efficiency losses due to transmitting the power over the power grid, and losses in storing the electricity in the battery (and then again in taking it out).
Check your thermo here -- (3) Entropy is always increasing. (2) You can't get more energy out of something than you put in it. (3 restated) You're going to have losses at every transition -- i.e. You're gonna get less energy out than you put in.
EVs are a net loss for the local environment around the power stations, the greenies don't want us to build the one type of powerstation (with current technology) that minimizes polution -- fission reactors.
Do you ever skip the current latest/greatest because you know what's around the corner?
I never skip the current/latest offerings because I know what's around the corner.
I skip the current/latest-greatest offerings becuase I don't know what's around the corner!
I haven't played games in years, 'cause they current batch of games don't go where I want to go, and RAM costs too much to write the kind of sim I want to play. (With RAM prices coming down, and Linux clustering becoming common place.... drool.) Anyway, I'm still running a little 4MB PCI card fo video, and the last game I sampled was Need for Speed III.
When they release Ultimate RealWorld Sim (or whatever it will be called), I'll think about a new video card.
Intel needs to stop taking niche products and pushing them to everyone as a necessity. How about just focusing on decent processors, okay?
Intel can't keep growing based soley on CPUs. They have to continually expand their offerings (busses, RAM models, networking, hubs, video cams....) in order to continue thier growth, and give a basis for thier stock price.
Interstingly enough, Intel's main purpose in being in business is not to produce processors, or computer components, but to turn a profit for investors.
Asimov's "Laws of Robotics" would be better termed Asimov's "Manifesto of Robotics."
A law is either something inforced by nature (i.e. gravity, thermodynamics, etc.) OR legislation passed by political bodies.
Asimov's "Laws" fit niether of these definitions, and are more closely related to a "manifesto," which is a person or persons wishes.
I always held Asimov in contempt for his arogance at thinking he could state the "laws" of robotics and his ability to make most people think they were valid.
I'm not sure why you're missing, 'cause you're not missing it by much.
MS is a FOR PROFIT company. They keep thier Mac version of Office parrallel to the PC version. Mac owns 10% of the desktop.
Oh, look! Linux owns 10% of the desktop, too! If there's profit to be made on the Mac 10%, and there's no competing product for Linux, that must mean that a profit can also be made on a similar Linux product.
On the back side of that coin, I synically expect a press release from MS any day stating that they have attempted to develop software for Linux but have abandoned the project because Linux is difficult to develop for, and not stable.
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Well, uh, maybe that project would have been profitable if they'd have let people know about it. I didn't even know that IBM offered laptop support for Linux!
Somebody needs to beat IBM's marketing group over the head... unless, of course, someone wanted that program to fail?
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Douglass Adams wrote one good book. After that it was sequels built on a non-existent greatness. There are great authors that write books and there are mediocre people that write one great book. DA was mediocre aside from his first book.
People who are dependent on ASP are like people who are dependent on VisialBasic or anything else that is inherently Microsoft-centric. I refuse to let myself and my profession get caught in a cycle that is inherently Microsoft. Why would I invest my time and resources to extend the Microsoft Empire?
It appears to me that you have your head up your ASP.
Ack! Vapul's Razor "caught" and redirected my Feb Crypto-Gram! This is NOT funny. I was really happy with Razor until this happened.... now what do I do?
What's really funny is that you got a score of 2 and I got dinged for "off topic." and lost a karma point.
Oh, the power of moderators.
but rejection by a fool is cruel...
Hey, I keep wondering my slashcode doesn't tell us who the moderator is that rejects our stories...
Very intersting idea... if the punk had grabbed my left arm and pressed a knife to my ribs, he would have been rewarded with a .40 in diameter, rifled barrel with Federal Hydra-shocks occupying the other end pionting at his face... but a panic button's not totally a bad idea.
thank you!
/. isn't all that rare -- and you even got moderated to a 4!
so, maybe a voice of reason on
woohoo!
User agreement: I'll let you access the information on my site at no direct cost to you IF you'll allow me access to your computer (not to exceed specified limitations) in return.
Click here to agree.
at least under water, you'd have a place to dump the heat from the reaction -- a convenience that you don't have when working in a mine, huh?
I bet you'd like to see some of those aluminum fins and fans on your Draeger like CPUs have, huh?
I think you've missed the point....
Apparently, this is not for you. It's for me. I've never taken the time or made the effort to read through all 600 PLs, and I'm not enough of a self-starter to do it. What the Quick Ref does for me (and many like me) is give me a starting place. I now have two PLs that I can read through in detail -- or find more commentary on -- other places. If I find that they don't work for me, I can move to the next.
Besides, what part of "Quick Refernce" don't you understand?
Of cource, it's hardly fashionable, but I'm not either.
http://smtp2.thewwwstore.com/filson/32.HTM
It's supposedly a hunting vest, but I carry my Palm V, Sony digital voice recorder, Motorola StarTac, Digital Camera (Aiptek Pen Cam), pens, tiny Swiss pocket knife, extra film for the film camera, extra batteries, and a cigarett lighter for emergencies.
AND, you can get a great hat to go with it:
http://smtp2.thewwwstore.com/filson/315.HTM
Of course, I'm pretty secure about myself, too -- and mostly nobody is away that I'm carrying anythign electronic.
an astroid strike on earth might really not be all that bad -- as long as it hits the right part of the world.... say, New York, Distict of Columbia, or California.
Of course, it would really suck if it missed DC by just enough to hit one of the nuclear power plants in VA....
drop The Sims into SimCityX000, and
/.
1) New players could be dropped into SimCity as
a) imigrants with $X and Y goods received from imigration (find a slum lord to rent from, get a job, work your way up)
b) people from another town moving in (find a place to live, buy what you can afford)
c) randomly assigned family/status/$/belongings
2) Game live whenever the server is up. When player is offline, some kind of autopilot runs the "house."
etc.
I have never played The Sims, but I've read about it on
well, it looks like we're waiting on hardware to catch up again. We now need bigger floppy-drive-replacements. 1.44 MB won't be big enough for the post-2.4 kernel. the 2.88 MB drives never caught on (can you even find one now?), the SuperDisk is languishing, the Iomega excuses are, well, excuses.
If you can't put it on a removable, bootable disk, there's the question of how practicle it is to use as a kernel....
Hey, all new machines can boot on thier CDs now...
nevermind.
Please define "reverse discrimination," please.
to me, that term makes absolutely no sense. if it's discrimination, it's discrimination. it really doesn't have directions.
it's an aweful lot like racism. asians are historically the most racist people of all (many asian cultures believing themselves to be the descendents of the Sun or Moon or whatever god), however, in America, only White people are considered capable of racism or discrimination. In the same way, only men are capable of discriminating against women.
?
I have one site that is ad supported. I generate about $3000.00 per year currently, and hope for that to grow. I have another site that I hope to generate revenue from in the future.
Many of us receive "free" tech rags that are fully supported by advertisers. We give them a small bit of information (what we are authorized to buy, how much, how much money our company genrates), and we get a magazine this provides us with useful information at no "real" cost to us. It cost millions of dollars to put these rags together, print and distribute them.
We read these magazines. we mostly ignore the advertising. We don't bitch about it. BUT the advertising works -- or companies wouldn't pay for it, right?
So, how do we put ads in our web pages that a) work and b) are non-offensive to the users?
That is the real problem.
Uh, if you're gonna vote 3rd party, vote for Browne. Nader only wants to imprison the populace in a Green/Red New-Communist state.
think. think. think.
When I was working as an engineer (before striking out on my own), I was fortunate enough to have been able to set through a couple of SkillPath Seminars (http://www.skillpath.com/) paid for by my employeer. I'm not saying that SkillPath is the only, or the best, but it is one of many organizations that contract with experts in many fields to present classes on all kinds of topics.
As you move from managing computer code (techie) to managing people (management), you're going to find yourself needing a whole new toolbox, and tools to go in that toolbox. SkillPath (and others) can help you fill that toolbox up.
You're going to have to look at the world through different eyes, and these kinds of people can help you do that.
I also suggest one, short, easy to read book to help you get excited about management:
Tom Peters, The Persuit of WOW! This is not a book about theory and schools of management, it's about being great at what you do. It's a glimps into organizations that do what they do very well. It's a fun book to read.
Finally, don't forget to LISTEN. Don't forget that you don't know anything. Don't forget that you're human, falable an error prone. Don't get sucked into up-line butt-kissing. Don't be arrogant. Don't fall into the trap that you're the manager because you're better than the people that work for you. Don't ever stop learning. And... don't stop doing what you love, just cause you're "management" now.
Have fun. If you can't have fun at your job, find a new job that you can have fun at. Management is not a bad place to be. It just very, very different.
I think I'll call the local electrical coop and see how long it will take to have another transformer mounted near my house.
Even nuclear reactors must be shutdown, and the core disposed of evetually.
With EVs, you're trading in mobile emissions (cars/trucks/buses) for point emissions (power plants). THEN you have to add on top of that, efficiency losses due to transmitting the power over the power grid, and losses in storing the electricity in the battery (and then again in taking it out).
Check your thermo here -- (3) Entropy is always increasing. (2) You can't get more energy out of something than you put in it. (3 restated) You're going to have losses at every transition -- i.e. You're gonna get less energy out than you put in.
EVs are a net loss for the local environment around the power stations, the greenies don't want us to build the one type of powerstation (with current technology) that minimizes polution -- fission reactors.
Do you ever skip the current latest/greatest because you know what's around the corner?
I never skip the current/latest offerings because I know what's around the corner.
I skip the current/latest-greatest offerings becuase I don't know what's around the corner!
I haven't played games in years, 'cause they current batch of games don't go where I want to go, and RAM costs too much to write the kind of sim I want to play. (With RAM prices coming down, and Linux clustering becoming common place.... drool.) Anyway, I'm still running a little 4MB PCI card fo video, and the last game I sampled was Need for Speed III.
When they release Ultimate RealWorld Sim (or whatever it will be called), I'll think about a new video card.
Intel needs to stop taking niche products and pushing them to everyone as a necessity. How about just focusing on decent processors, okay?
Intel can't keep growing based soley on CPUs. They have to continually expand their offerings (busses, RAM models, networking, hubs, video cams....) in order to continue thier growth, and give a basis for thier stock price.
Interstingly enough, Intel's main purpose in being in business is not to produce processors, or computer components, but to turn a profit for investors.
gotta keep things in perspective here.
Asimov's "Laws of Robotics" would be better termed Asimov's "Manifesto of Robotics."
A law is either something inforced by nature (i.e. gravity, thermodynamics, etc.) OR legislation passed by political bodies.
Asimov's "Laws" fit niether of these definitions, and are more closely related to a "manifesto," which is a person or persons wishes.
I always held Asimov in contempt for his arogance at thinking he could state the "laws" of robotics and his ability to make most people think they were valid.
I'm not sure why you're missing, 'cause you're not missing it by much.
MS is a FOR PROFIT company. They keep thier Mac version of Office parrallel to the PC version. Mac owns 10% of the desktop.
Oh, look! Linux owns 10% of the desktop, too! If there's profit to be made on the Mac 10%, and there's no competing product for Linux, that must mean that a profit can also be made on a similar Linux product.
On the back side of that coin, I synically expect a press release from MS any day stating that they have attempted to develop software for Linux but have abandoned the project because Linux is difficult to develop for, and not stable.
Hey, Halloween is coming!