Okay, I can only assume that twenty years ago, Jon Katz was living in a cave withing walking distance of a small cinema.
Having been in the target demographic of the original merchanising blitz, I can assure you that every six-year old at the time HAD to have the Milleneum Falcon and AT-AT walker, or risked being a social outcast. I happily munched away on my C3PO's breakfast cereal, enjoyed a stack of Star Wars coloring books, had to have all the Ewok collector's glasses from Burger King, bawled my little heart out when my mother accedentally threw away my Han Solo action figure.
Many people view the past with nostalgic rose-colored glasses, and I can't see this as being any exception. This is almost as disgusting as baby boomers who look down their noses at modern "slacker" youth for not having such a morally excellent counterculture as hippiedom.
Star Wars is a big Hollywood movie phenomenon. It is made to entertain and rake in cash. If you demand something more profound, read a book.
I encourage everyone with a sense of humor to go vote for RFC 2324. If you don't know why, go read it.:) By far, the most useful I've seen, and AFAIK, no one has even implemented it yet.
Water simply can't compete with Pepsi Cola. I mean, water has no cental point of control, causing water to vary in quality from city to city; with Pepsi you are assured to get the Pepsi experience. Pepsi has considerably more to spend on advertising and support. Water has no flavor, and is not available from commercial vendors. Despite the hype, the "free beverage" market is going nowhere. Most users simply don't care whether or not they have the chemical source code for their beverage.
We have numerous statistics showing Pepsi has generated significantly more revenue than water. This obviously means that Pepsi is more popular than water.
Therefore, we see water becoming competition in the student and hobbyist market, but it simply doesn't stand a chance as a beverage in the corporate market. Besides, why take the chance of losing your job installing a water cooler?
I know Rob refuses to do so, but Slashdot should really eliminate Anonymous Coward posts. The vast bulk of the mindless junk posts and are written by Anonymous Cowards. I know sometimes AC is nice if you can't remember your password or what not, but privileges can only exist so long as they are not abused, and the privilege of anonymous posting has been pushed well beyond the point of abuse.
It's fine if you want to flame away at Mr. Katz, but at least have the guts to sign a name to it. It can even be a pseudonym for goodness sake.
For what it's worth, Jaz drives are quite prone to data destruction. My internal Jaz drive is a total piece of garbage. I've had around 4 partitions destroyed, and two cartridges physically go bad. The drive broke down once under warranty, and it was serviced by Iomega; lately it sounds funny and I've just stopped relying on the thing.
SyQuest's tech support was MUCH better than Iomega's. In order to get an RMA for my defective drive, I had to call long distance and wait on hold for half an hour. Iomega's website is a cute promotional thing with lousy tech help. SyQuest's website was chock full of info. Once when trying to resolve a problem with my Jaz and SCSI adapter, I found the information I was looking for not on Iomega's website, not on Adaptec's website, but on SyQuest's website!
But anyway, fixed storage has gotten so cheap now that my opinion is to hell with removable magnetic storage, flaky media, and funny cartridges that go obsolete in months. It's easier and cheaper just to buy a new hard disk.
And so it seems that SyQuest goes down as the next in a long line of computer companies to make excellent products, and to be completely incompetantly marketed.
(Yes I had an Amiga, and we're all still bitter.:P )
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Okay, I can only assume that twenty years ago, Jon Katz was living in a cave withing walking distance of a small cinema.
Having been in the target demographic of the original merchanising blitz, I can assure you that every six-year old at the time HAD to have the Milleneum Falcon and AT-AT walker, or risked being a social outcast. I happily munched away on my C3PO's breakfast cereal, enjoyed a stack of Star Wars coloring books, had to have all the Ewok collector's glasses from Burger King, bawled my little heart out when my mother accedentally threw away my Han Solo action figure.
Many people view the past with nostalgic rose-colored glasses, and I can't see this as being any exception. This is almost as disgusting as baby boomers who look down their noses at modern "slacker" youth for not having such a morally excellent counterculture as hippiedom.
Star Wars is a big Hollywood movie phenomenon. It is made to entertain and rake in cash. If you demand something more profound, read a book.
I encourage everyone with a sense of humor to go vote for RFC 2324. If you don't know why, go read it. :) By far, the most useful I've seen, and AFAIK, no one has even implemented it yet.
Water simply can't compete with Pepsi Cola. I mean, water has no cental point of control, causing water to vary in quality from city to city; with Pepsi you are assured to get the Pepsi experience. Pepsi has considerably more to spend on advertising and support. Water has no flavor, and is not available from commercial vendors. Despite the hype, the "free beverage" market is going nowhere. Most users simply don't care whether or not they have the chemical source code for their beverage.
We have numerous statistics showing Pepsi has generated significantly more revenue than water. This obviously means that Pepsi is more popular than water.
Therefore, we see water becoming competition in the student and hobbyist market, but it simply doesn't stand a chance as a beverage in the corporate market. Besides, why take the chance of losing your job installing a water cooler?
I actually had this book when I was a child!!!
(Clearly, it was subtle impressioning which would lead me towards Unix in the future.)
I think they key matter is that you have a recent enough version of LILO. 0.20 works just fine for me. Possible some ancient lilos won't work.
I know Rob refuses to do so, but Slashdot should really eliminate Anonymous Coward posts. The vast bulk of the mindless junk posts and are written by Anonymous Cowards. I know sometimes AC is nice if you can't remember your password or what not, but privileges can only exist so long as they are not abused, and the privilege of anonymous posting has been pushed well beyond the point of abuse.
It's fine if you want to flame away at Mr. Katz, but at least have the guts to sign a name to it. It can even be a pseudonym for goodness sake.
For what it's worth, Jaz drives are quite prone to data destruction. My internal Jaz drive is a total piece of garbage. I've had around 4 partitions destroyed, and two cartridges physically go bad. The drive broke down once under warranty, and it was serviced by Iomega; lately it sounds funny and I've just stopped relying on the thing.
:P )
SyQuest's tech support was MUCH better than Iomega's. In order to get an RMA for my defective drive, I had to call long distance and wait on hold for half an hour. Iomega's website is a cute promotional thing with lousy tech help. SyQuest's website was chock full of info. Once when trying to resolve a problem with my Jaz and SCSI adapter, I found the information I was looking for not on Iomega's website, not on Adaptec's website, but on SyQuest's website!
But anyway, fixed storage has gotten so cheap now that my opinion is to hell with removable magnetic storage, flaky media, and funny cartridges that go obsolete in months. It's easier and cheaper just to buy a new hard disk.
And so it seems that SyQuest goes down as the next in a long line of computer companies to make excellent products, and to be completely incompetantly marketed.
(Yes I had an Amiga, and we're all still bitter.
www.mackido.com is not accepting http connections at the moment...
CERT needs to issue an advisory about the dreaded Slashdot DOS attack, which is initiated by being linked to from slashdot.org