I'm sorry, but I have to say that. Don't be offended, please - sooner or later you will look at your submission and laugh really hard, but for now you need to realise that you said something very, very silly. A few people already politely pointed out that 1000 visitors a day is nothing - but seriously, it's such a great magnitude of nothingness that, if you make such a gross misintepretation of your expected traffic, you need to reconsider if you really are the right person for the job *right now* and maybe gain some more experience before trying to spend other people's money on a ton of hardware that will just sit there, idle and consume huge amounts electricity (also paid by other people's money).
Unless his main objective is actual high availability and not processing power.
A single server with a single upstream provider is no way to house mission critical data/transactions, even if the server is sitting at 99% idle.
I would rather get 2 servers running Xen with two haproxy VM's setup with linux-ha, two apache VM's and 2 database VM's replicated than I would throw everything on one server and hope and pray it stays online 24x7x365.
Microsoft did not connect billions. They did not create TCP/IP, SMTP, the Web, or much of anything else.
No, but they did introduce a very large number of people to these protocols.
(I'm typing this from a Linux computer, but saying they connected billions doesn't mean they invented the technology to connect billions).
I know this is blasphemy here on/., but frankly, I don't have that much faith in open source and don't think MS, by and large, has anything to worry about. With the noteable exception of Firefox, I've found almost all OSS to be buggy, poorly supported, laughably poorly documented, confusing, and haphazard. Even when OSS project show some potential, they inevitably fork over some bullshit tussle between developers. 90% of consumers would never put up with these shortcomings. Right. I mean, Microsoft's not losing ANY servers to Linux/BSD.
Talk about a narrow minded view on what OSS is. You probably have NO IDEA how much open source software powers the sites/servers/computers you use every day.
But the more time I spend learning about it, the more it looks like KDE4.1 should have been KDE4.0. KDE4.0 isn't a stable release. KDE4.1 is meant to be the finished product.
The family of Ronald Goldman was awarded $8.5 million [cnn.com]. Does this mean Ronald Goldman's life is worth less than 6 CD's?
When will the RIAA realize that their tactics (along with stale "talent") are what's preventing consumers from purchasing, not file sharing? I know myself I'm done buying from Sony, EMI, Virgin, and others who head up the association. Local artists and indies for me.
While I loathe DRM on music I buy, does anyone really expect anything different from a subscription service? Does anyone expect to be able to pay $5/month and purchase a quantity of songs that is only limited by the amount of available bandwidth? Does anyone have an expectation of that business model?
I purchase music, and I do and will complain when that is DRM'd. However I also subscribe to a subscription service, and am not enraged when that is encrypted. I don't own this music, I don't pretend to own this music, and I understand that the minuscule amount I pay is to listen to the music, not own the music.
That's not why napster's failing. In fact, I've found their DRM to work better than the competitors. I don't have a huge problem with DRM in subscription services, because I haven't purchased this music, nor is that my intent.
I run linux all the time now, but my previous job required we use XP. I ran it for nearly 2 years in a non-admin user fine. Right click + run as can get most of what you need accomplished, and really isn't all that big of an inconvenience.
that anyone who thinks that CLI usage is not a feature of Linux think again? This topic is 12 minutes old and three post have already suggested we bury the command line; part of what makes Linux so fast, flexible and customizable is access to virtually every setting from a text editor. This is not something that needs to be changed, instead change your mindset that this is not Windows. You should always have the ability to drop to a command line. Editing files by hand should always be an OPTION. However, being able to do all day to day tasks via an interface should be an obtainable goal, as long as it doesn't limit the functionality and ability to drop to a command line. You should always be able to drop to a command line, but it should very rarely be necessary.
The author compares social networking with DRM encrypted music. When you purchase music, you don't purchase the medium it comes on, but the music itself. Encryption inhibits the value of the product you have purchased. For social networking sites, their main gain is the number of users they have and the interaction between those users on their site specific, not the data's interoperability with other competitors. It's nice to live in a utopia to think everything should work with everything else, but a business entity does need to protect it's assets as well.
Maybe if the author had argued there could be more interoperability between social networking sites and things like, say, youtube to add value added services, I could agree. But complaining because he has to actually register to view someone's data? bleh. Doesn't facebook have an API available?
"I'd like to take the opportunity to completely disagree with Soren on the point of No-CD cracks and anti-piracy measures to insure high sales."
Agree completely. Civ's one of those games I'll take with my laptop to play on long train rides and such. It's such a PITA to carry the CD around, and it typically gets scratched. Even though I paid my $50, it almost always leads me to finding an illegitimate No-CD. I have no interest in pirating the game, i'm just looking at it from a convenience perspective.
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I'm sorry, but I have to say that. Don't be offended, please - sooner or later you will look at your submission and laugh really hard, but for now you need to realise that you said something very, very silly. A few people already politely pointed out that 1000 visitors a day is nothing - but seriously, it's such a great magnitude of nothingness that, if you make such a gross misintepretation of your expected traffic, you need to reconsider if you really are the right person for the job *right now* and maybe gain some more experience before trying to spend other people's money on a ton of hardware that will just sit there, idle and consume huge amounts electricity (also paid by other people's money).
Unless his main objective is actual high availability and not processing power. A single server with a single upstream provider is no way to house mission critical data/transactions, even if the server is sitting at 99% idle. I would rather get 2 servers running Xen with two haproxy VM's setup with linux-ha, two apache VM's and 2 database VM's replicated than I would throw everything on one server and hope and pray it stays online 24x7x365.
Microsoft did not connect billions. They did not create TCP/IP, SMTP, the Web, or much of anything else.
No, but they did introduce a very large number of people to these protocols. (I'm typing this from a Linux computer, but saying they connected billions doesn't mean they invented the technology to connect billions).
The family of Ronald Goldman was awarded $8.5 million [cnn.com]. Does this mean Ronald Goldman's life is worth less than 6 CD's? When will the RIAA realize that their tactics (along with stale "talent") are what's preventing consumers from purchasing, not file sharing? I know myself I'm done buying from Sony, EMI, Virgin, and others who head up the association. Local artists and indies for me.
While I loathe DRM on music I buy, does anyone really expect anything different from a subscription service? Does anyone expect to be able to pay $5/month and purchase a quantity of songs that is only limited by the amount of available bandwidth? Does anyone have an expectation of that business model?
I purchase music, and I do and will complain when that is DRM'd. However I also subscribe to a subscription service, and am not enraged when that is encrypted. I don't own this music, I don't pretend to own this music, and I understand that the minuscule amount I pay is to listen to the music, not own the music.
That's not why napster's failing. In fact, I've found their DRM to work better than the competitors. I don't have a huge problem with DRM in subscription services, because I haven't purchased this music, nor is that my intent.
I run linux all the time now, but my previous job required we use XP. I ran it for nearly 2 years in a non-admin user fine. Right click + run as can get most of what you need accomplished, and really isn't all that big of an inconvenience.
The author compares social networking with DRM encrypted music. When you purchase music, you don't purchase the medium it comes on, but the music itself. Encryption inhibits the value of the product you have purchased. For social networking sites, their main gain is the number of users they have and the interaction between those users on their site specific, not the data's interoperability with other competitors. It's nice to live in a utopia to think everything should work with everything else, but a business entity does need to protect it's assets as well. Maybe if the author had argued there could be more interoperability between social networking sites and things like, say, youtube to add value added services, I could agree. But complaining because he has to actually register to view someone's data? bleh. Doesn't facebook have an API available?
I agree. I'm MUCH more of a dual monitor person myself. a 30" monitor at a ridiculous price doesn't entice me all that much.
"I'd like to take the opportunity to completely disagree with Soren on the point of No-CD cracks and anti-piracy measures to insure high sales."
Agree completely. Civ's one of those games I'll take with my laptop to play on long train rides and such. It's such a PITA to carry the CD around, and it typically gets scratched. Even though I paid my $50, it almost always leads me to finding an illegitimate No-CD. I have no interest in pirating the game, i'm just looking at it from a convenience perspective.
(besides slashdot readers have to deal with (palm/rim)job jokes):
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Great little program that got me through 2 years of Treo use.