I was once asked to decompile a piece of commercial/non-FOSS software in my workplace.
I reminded my employer that it was very likely illegal to do so. As a result, I was viewed as someone who was not a "can do" employee.
Not suprisingly, I found work elsewhere.
The jokes/reality just write themselves when it comes to M$:
Their newest product line is so sucky that no one wants to pirate it.
Now that's an innovative strategy!
Maybe the larger issue for me is that I am generally suspicious of the value of advertising in general. I certainly have made purchases based on seeing ads for new products that appeal to me. So it obviously worked for me in those cases. Otherwise, it seems like such a waste of money for those involved. In my mind, there's almost a mutual assured destruction attitude among providers of products and services. "We have to advertise or else!"
I'm sure I've seen thousands of ads for Cheer in my life, but I always buy Tide. Probably because that's what we had in my house 45 years ago when I was a kid.
These things ran for $280 in 1980 when my father bought one:
TI-57.
Got me through my mid-80s science curriculum pretty well.
The netbooks will fall in price eventually...just be patient.
Yes and you pay fort that elevated service. That's not the idea of packet shaping. Under their scheme, you pay the same amount for access and THEY decide which traffic (letter content in my analogy) is most important.
Naturally, I'm not talking about bandwidth limits or paying for "preferred" transmission of your packets.
Do you want a postal service to decide how quickly to deliver letters based on their content?
I don't know about you, but that's absolutely horrifying.
Don't forget about the Andrew Window Manager.
It had a process monitor, clock, email alert box and shell that took up the left 1/3 of the screen. Plus gui apps for word processing, email, usenet reader and even a dedicated note-taking application.
I loved it...
It will be interesting to see if Dell takes this same mindset in the next few years. With the market pushing for smaller and cheaper devices, their "alliance" with Ubuntu might be increasingly important. Even if the marginal cost of Windows to the OEM gets pushed to $25, that's still (obviously) a lot higher percentage than Ubuntu: 0%
(Thank God) I am no longer in the web development world and have moved on to more stable/interesting work, but...
This would seem to depend on how many small/medium scale web shops are still out there. Ones that don't actually host, but tend to push their customers to a single/reliable hosting source for AMP setups.
I don't see cloud computing cutting into that market arrangement in the near future, but let's hear from some folks who are slogging away in that end of the biz....It seems like they would know.
Hey, if we put enough of these in here maybe someone will listen...
Please change back to previous formatting. The new one makes me want to visit/. at all.
1980s classmates. Interesting, on the face, but not something I'd like to revisit.
I enjoyed you as youngster dear Bill Gates, but please don't even think about calling me up after all these years because you're down on your luck.
I like the hard drive noises. Lets be honest here, they are soft clicks and chirps, not chainsaw noises. It gives me a non-visual feel of what the computer's up to.
My cable access was out for most of last night as a result of some pretty serious storms in the south eastern US....I dug out an 2000-era PII box running Debian on dialup. (The thing still chugs along nicely on what was last synced with Potato!) For old-times sake, I did an apt-get on something small enough and WHAM!...there was that sound again. The HD alway made a particular sound while doing anything taxing (like running dpkg.)
My apologies to Big Black, who perceptively predicted the unending format escalation by the media/hardware vendors. (And they are the same thing these days.)
Does it really make any sense to run out and buy one of these players and sink a fortune into the discs themselves? Why not just wait for the ubiquity of on-demand HD content? Aside from those of you who insist on "owning" (and we know that is not true) something.
Not from Wal*Mart, but straight from the dealer. I needed to set my Mom up with a new pc with wireless capabilities.
Out of the box, the card didn't work and I had to install Ubuntu to get it on the network. A success story in that it worked as advertised: all of the hardware was Linux-friendly...However, the hacked up E17-based gOS was almost unusable. I had planned to erase it anyway, but wanted to check it out.
I appreciate Enlightenment (and think that E17 is pretty awesome), but their port of it was NOT user friendly.
A first-time Linux user would likely be lost with their "experience"....I'd go with Dell if you really need to verify that everything will work with Linux. (Beyond a completely home-brew machine.)
Easily the most frequently deleted types of articles are spam/advocacy articles, self-bios, and articles about garage bands.
The latter is the area I wanted comment on. I'll spare myself the embarrassment of providing links, but I am listed in multiple band-related Wikipedia pages. A few of them, frankly, really shouldn't be in there. They were bands that we simply awful and not in any way noteworthy.
Even worse are the band pages for groups that self-released a CD that maybe 50 people bought and perhaps only half of them ever listened to more than twice.
There is definitely an unnecessary information glut of information in that area.
- the IT field is one of the hardest hit in case of a recession; this means that when things go bad they go really bad
Which is why, I think, many smart folks pursue IT careers in a non-IT field. For example, I work in systems and programming, but I also happen to be a librarian.
(Which from an education standpoint, means I have an "advanced" degree that was about as challenging as my 8th-grade Social Studies curriculum.)
That extra 12-credits of school has enabled me to forge an interesting, reasonably well-paying and very stable career as a hybrid-librarian. Though there are more and more of us, getting a job in "library systems" is pretty easy and offers a lot well-rested nights in the LT. I am not worried about the bottom following out because my company went for broke and went to market with a doomed AJAX app.
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I was once asked to decompile a piece of commercial/non-FOSS software in my workplace. I reminded my employer that it was very likely illegal to do so. As a result, I was viewed as someone who was not a "can do" employee. Not suprisingly, I found work elsewhere.
The jokes/reality just write themselves when it comes to M$:
Their newest product line is so sucky that no one wants to pirate it.
Now that's an innovative strategy!
Especially with a slimmed down kernel, it smokes anything else I've used.
However, does it really matter?
Oddly, Google Reader has no such option.
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch_feeds?q=comcast&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=utf-8&num=10&output=rss
Maybe the larger issue for me is that I am generally suspicious of the value of advertising in general. I certainly have made purchases based on seeing ads for new products that appeal to me. So it obviously worked for me in those cases. Otherwise, it seems like such a waste of money for those involved. In my mind, there's almost a mutual assured destruction attitude among providers of products and services. "We have to advertise or else!"
I'm sure I've seen thousands of ads for Cheer in my life, but I always buy Tide. Probably because that's what we had in my house 45 years ago when I was a kid.
How many of you have ever actually made a purchase based on seeing a web ad?
I'm pretty sure that I've never done that.
These things ran for $280 in 1980 when my father bought one:
TI-57.
Got me through my mid-80s science curriculum pretty well.
The netbooks will fall in price eventually...just be patient.
Yes and you pay fort that elevated service. That's not the idea of packet shaping. Under their scheme, you pay the same amount for access and THEY decide which traffic (letter content in my analogy) is most important.
Naturally, I'm not talking about bandwidth limits or paying for "preferred" transmission of your packets.
Do you want a postal service to decide how quickly to deliver letters based on their content?
I don't know about you, but that's absolutely horrifying.
His name is Jason Evans
Don't forget about the Andrew Window Manager. It had a process monitor, clock, email alert box and shell that took up the left 1/3 of the screen. Plus gui apps for word processing, email, usenet reader and even a dedicated note-taking application.
I loved it...
It will be interesting to see if Dell takes this same mindset in the next few years. With the market pushing for smaller and cheaper devices, their "alliance" with Ubuntu might be increasingly important. Even if the marginal cost of Windows to the OEM gets pushed to $25, that's still (obviously) a lot higher percentage than Ubuntu: 0%
No I don't.
I can read the GPL just fine without you, Sir.
(Thank God) I am no longer in the web development world and have moved on to more stable/interesting work, but... This would seem to depend on how many small/medium scale web shops are still out there. Ones that don't actually host, but tend to push their customers to a single/reliable hosting source for AMP setups. I don't see cloud computing cutting into that market arrangement in the near future, but let's hear from some folks who are slogging away in that end of the biz....It seems like they would know.
Hey, if we put enough of these in here maybe someone will listen... Please change back to previous formatting. The new one makes me want to visit /. at all.
Chris Anderson recently posted an interesting analysis of the industry's revenues.
Many of your classmates will be the people starting the next Google, Facebook, or FedEx.
Chard Hurley from YouTube went to Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
(I'll give you a second to verify that the place even exists.)
There are lots of smart people everywhere. It's how you think after graduation that really matters.
1980s classmates. Interesting, on the face, but not something I'd like to revisit.
I enjoyed you as youngster dear Bill Gates, but please don't even think about calling me up after all these years because you're down on your luck.
I like the hard drive noises. Lets be honest here, they are soft clicks and chirps, not chainsaw noises. It gives me a non-visual feel of what the computer's up to.
My cable access was out for most of last night as a result of some pretty serious storms in the south eastern US....I dug out an 2000-era PII box running Debian on dialup. (The thing still chugs along nicely on what was last synced with Potato!) For old-times sake, I did an apt-get on something small enough and WHAM!...there was that sound again. The HD alway made a particular sound while doing anything taxing (like running dpkg.)
It was a nice bit of nostalgia.
So the US Postal System should start scanning all packages in case they might contain bootleg DVDs?
That would be a logical extension of the "ISPs must have right/ability to restrict the distribution of pirated material" argument.
My apologies to Big Black, who perceptively predicted the unending format escalation by the media/hardware vendors. (And they are the same thing these days.)
Does it really make any sense to run out and buy one of these players and sink a fortune into the discs themselves? Why not just wait for the ubiquity of on-demand HD content? Aside from those of you who insist on "owning" (and we know that is not true) something.
Not from Wal*Mart, but straight from the dealer. I needed to set my Mom up with a new pc with wireless capabilities. Out of the box, the card didn't work and I had to install Ubuntu to get it on the network. A success story in that it worked as advertised: all of the hardware was Linux-friendly...However, the hacked up E17-based gOS was almost unusable. I had planned to erase it anyway, but wanted to check it out. I appreciate Enlightenment (and think that E17 is pretty awesome), but their port of it was NOT user friendly.
A first-time Linux user would likely be lost with their "experience"....I'd go with Dell if you really need to verify that everything will work with Linux. (Beyond a completely home-brew machine.)
Easily the most frequently deleted types of articles are spam/advocacy articles, self-bios, and articles about garage bands.
The latter is the area I wanted comment on. I'll spare myself the embarrassment of providing links, but I am listed in multiple band-related Wikipedia pages. A few of them, frankly, really shouldn't be in there. They were bands that we simply awful and not in any way noteworthy.
Even worse are the band pages for groups that self-released a CD that maybe 50 people bought and perhaps only half of them ever listened to more than twice.
There is definitely an unnecessary information glut of information in that area.
- the IT field is one of the hardest hit in case of a recession; this means that when things go bad they go really bad
Which is why, I think, many smart folks pursue IT careers in a non-IT field. For example, I work in systems and programming, but I also happen to be a librarian.
(Which from an education standpoint, means I have an "advanced" degree that was about as challenging as my 8th-grade Social Studies curriculum.)
That extra 12-credits of school has enabled me to forge an interesting, reasonably well-paying and very stable career as a hybrid-librarian. Though there are more and more of us, getting a job in "library systems" is pretty easy and offers a lot well-rested nights in the LT. I am not worried about the bottom following out because my company went for broke and went to market with a doomed AJAX app.