It says ext2, does it work with ext3? I just installed it, and it seemed to automatically call my 20 GB linux partition on my HD D:, but I can't see a single thing on it. It also shows it as a CD icon not a hard drive. Maybe I'll try a restart.
Was someone just biding their time for mod points to come back days later and mod this down? Especially considering I actually checked to see if someone had made the joke before doing so...
"'They are way ahead of other companies' in terms of supporting developers, says one application builder... 'This a new wave of business,' says [another developer's marketing director]. 'eBay is a supplier, a marketing channel and a competitor. It's a weird arrangement.'
Too bad they didn't support the people who buy merchandise through the site that well.
I had an instructor who used to work in industry. He'd told me about a company he was consulting for. They had a Novell box that they administered remotely. During some remodeling, the small closet/room it was in was sealed with drywall. It was 4 years before the box required maintenance and someone went about trying to find it and realized what had happened.
I don't know if you actually ever visited their boards, but there was a pretty big difference. While most related topics you do get one or two people who bring up the "Riaa/MS/etc" is evil rant, on yahoo that was pretty much all you got, and endless people fueling it over and over. I don't think I ever even saw any attempts at real discussion on any of those topics.
Bingo. They were an absolute mess. Any remote relation to an obscure hot-topic was used as an excuse to rant about god, terrorists, christians, etc. I often wondered why yahoo even had these up.
in short. It sucks for good games. More innovative would have been a console including a multicore/processor machine that had different types of processors for doing different things on. The PS3s processor is handicapped for AI, and since no one wants one, you won't find anyone online to play with it.
Its like putting rubber boots on Asafa Powell. Sure, he's set for rain, but what happens if he has to run a race?
You're the boss, don't forget that. You might consider reading some books on leadership if you're uncomfortable in that role or getting people to do what you ask them, but regardless you're still in charge.
Very simply write a memo detailing the new policies of the department, even stating that this information is required further up the chain, and require they sign it to be sure they understand it.
In the end it is your ass and reflects poorly on you if you can't get the people you're in charge of to do what they are supposed to. Small departments are more difficult because its harder to differentiate between co-worker and boss in that situation, especially when everyone is essentially doing the same work, but handling it properly shows you're ready and capable for larger responsibility.
Don't be afraid to reprimand them if they still won't follow the policy. Keep a paper trail and make sure the reprimand fits the problem.
Why not link to the original story which actually has hard data in it? Rather than some copy which mentions "cragslist" (whatever that is) and uses vague weasel words like "a number of people". 1 is a number, 100 is a number, 0 is a number.
I know WHY they do it, it doesn't make it any less against Ebays ToS though, and yet Ebay still wouldn't do anything in that case because he was a coveted powerseller. Even though they are getting screwed out of fees, they still wouldn't dare risk offending him. Ebay is even willing to take it themselves to keep them around, if they don't care that much about themselves, they care even less than the buyer who they make nothing off.
Ebay's glory days are long since passed. There came a point where they went from being the cool little niche pseudo-yardsale, to being some clearing house for every piece of crap some wholesaler from hong kong can get a hold of.
They do everything they can to screw the buyer, and are surprised when a new initiative fails? Issues I've spotted, reported and gotten bullshit form letters in response to: 1)Sellers charging too much for shipping - They give an example of someone charging $20 to ship a DVD as bad. I found someone charging $60 to ship a USB Thumb drive via the slowest cheapest USPS method possible. 2)Sellers setting their "handling" fee as a percentage of final sale - I found a fellow who'd listed all his auctions stating that the handling fee was 4% of the final sale price or something of that nature. 3)Keyword spamming - How many times have you seen an item listed as: DLink NOT Linksys 4)Misrepresenting items - A linksys befsr41 is not a modem. Funny how that descriptor appeared only in the title and nowhere in the description. 5)Listed multiple entries for the same item - I once came across a seller who had about 30 of the identical item, carbon copy listings, all listed at once all ending at the same time. Their ToS either limits to 5 or 10.
These are just some of the things that I've seen in violation of the ToS, but all from "powersellers". Each time I get a bullshit form letter about how they trust their sellers to do the right thing.
I've also seen numerous examples of abuse of the feedback system. "Powersellers" hold it hostage until you leave yours to ensure they can retaliate if they mess up. I've seen constant entries like this: Buyer leaves: "Item took 3 months to be delivered from 1 state over. Item was broken, not even the the right item and I think the seller urinated on it before sending it. Seller doesn't respond to e-mails." Seller leaves in response: "Bad ebayer stay away!!!!!!!11!!!omg."
Ebay was supposed to be a buyers market, but its turned into a wholesalers market where they rule the roost. More and more people are realizing that and when a solid replacement comes along I think you'll see it pick up quite a bit. Hopefully it won't fall prey to the same issues Ebay did.
Anyone remember the Pepsi/Syringe incident? I remember seeing the video where a woman just happened to be opening a can ever so slightly off camera and WOW there was a syringe in it.
Same shit. The american legal system is a goddam joke.
I was just browsing the site and forum, and I get no sense of their impending doom...at least from the stickys, unless I missed one tucked away. Is there some expected timeline for closure here?
This is the first one of these I've seen on slashdot which actually follows the spirit of the actual joke and isn't some random attempt at karma grabbing.
I've always thought Universities and colleges should do something like this, or users themselves should set up something internally. All the university has to do is set up some big fat pipes around the campus and give internal users the ability to set up internal ftp sites/trackers. One or two people may go outside to get it, but once its on there, there is no reason anyone else has to go outside to get it.
When I installed FC5 on my laptop, everything did work, including the wireless. For every example you can find of a piece of hardware not working "out of the box" with Linux, I can find an example of a piece of hardware that didn't work out of the box on Windows. Took me about 10 seconds to type in the address of my home network printer (Photosmart 2575) and my camera works like a USB drive, so nothing fancy there. On my desktop FC6 supported the network card windows didn't, and I didn't have to do anything to enable acceleration on my x800GT radeon.
I do agree with you though. I hate when people make broad and stupid statements.
Actually many routers have the ability to create firewall rules and filter various things, both inbound and outbound. Hence why it would have been useful to compare their abilities to the various firewalls.
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It says ext2, does it work with ext3? I just installed it, and it seemed to automatically call my 20 GB linux partition on my HD D:, but I can't see a single thing on it. It also shows it as a CD icon not a hard drive. Maybe I'll try a restart.
Was someone just biding their time for mod points to come back days later and mod this down? Especially considering I actually checked to see if someone had made the joke before doing so...
Not the company in question, and as is pointed out, they don't have a lock on this its happened elsewhere.
"'They are way ahead of other companies' in terms of supporting developers, says one application builder... 'This a new wave of business,' says [another developer's marketing director]. 'eBay is a supplier, a marketing channel and a competitor. It's a weird arrangement.'
Too bad they didn't support the people who buy merchandise through the site that well.
Not the same place, so not the first time it happened. I don't think they had to call in Novell to find it.
I had an instructor who used to work in industry. He'd told me about a company he was consulting for. They had a Novell box that they administered remotely. During some remodeling, the small closet/room it was in was sealed with drywall. It was 4 years before the box required maintenance and someone went about trying to find it and realized what had happened.
That's the full catalogue, where do they go from there?
I don't know if you actually ever visited their boards, but there was a pretty big difference. While most related topics you do get one or two people who bring up the "Riaa/MS/etc" is evil rant, on yahoo that was pretty much all you got, and endless people fueling it over and over. I don't think I ever even saw any attempts at real discussion on any of those topics.
Bingo. They were an absolute mess. Any remote relation to an obscure hot-topic was used as an excuse to rant about god, terrorists, christians, etc. I often wondered why yahoo even had these up.
The Wii is probably the only innovative thing on there, they could have been more specific though and talked just about the controllers.
No, I don't want a Cell processor, but thanks for asking.
/ burn_the_house_.html
We'll again point to Chris Hecker's take on the cell processor: http://crystaltips.typepad.com/wonderland/2005/03
in short. It sucks for good games. More innovative would have been a console including a multicore/processor machine that had different types of processors for doing different things on. The PS3s processor is handicapped for AI, and since no one wants one, you won't find anyone online to play with it.
Its like putting rubber boots on Asafa Powell. Sure, he's set for rain, but what happens if he has to run a race?
You're the boss, don't forget that. You might consider reading some books on leadership if you're uncomfortable in that role or getting people to do what you ask them, but regardless you're still in charge.
Very simply write a memo detailing the new policies of the department, even stating that this information is required further up the chain, and require they sign it to be sure they understand it.
In the end it is your ass and reflects poorly on you if you can't get the people you're in charge of to do what they are supposed to. Small departments are more difficult because its harder to differentiate between co-worker and boss in that situation, especially when everyone is essentially doing the same work, but handling it properly shows you're ready and capable for larger responsibility.
Don't be afraid to reprimand them if they still won't follow the policy. Keep a paper trail and make sure the reprimand fits the problem.
Actually its both: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0_(number)#0_as_a_num ber
Why not link to the original story which actually has hard data in it? Rather than some copy which mentions "cragslist" (whatever that is) and uses vague weasel words like "a number of people". 1 is a number, 100 is a number, 0 is a number.
- for-wiis/
http://gigagamez.com/2006/12/22/ps3s-being-traded
And the link was even right in the write up, no searching required.
If they had some evidence they probably should have used it the first time. What were they waiting for? Christmas?
I know WHY they do it, it doesn't make it any less against Ebays ToS though, and yet Ebay still wouldn't do anything in that case because he was a coveted powerseller. Even though they are getting screwed out of fees, they still wouldn't dare risk offending him. Ebay is even willing to take it themselves to keep them around, if they don't care that much about themselves, they care even less than the buyer who they make nothing off.
Ebay's glory days are long since passed. There came a point where they went from being the cool little niche pseudo-yardsale, to being some clearing house for every piece of crap some wholesaler from hong kong can get a hold of.
They do everything they can to screw the buyer, and are surprised when a new initiative fails? Issues I've spotted, reported and gotten bullshit form letters in response to:
1)Sellers charging too much for shipping - They give an example of someone charging $20 to ship a DVD as bad. I found someone charging $60 to ship a USB Thumb drive via the slowest cheapest USPS method possible.
2)Sellers setting their "handling" fee as a percentage of final sale - I found a fellow who'd listed all his auctions stating that the handling fee was 4% of the final sale price or something of that nature.
3)Keyword spamming - How many times have you seen an item listed as: DLink NOT Linksys
4)Misrepresenting items - A linksys befsr41 is not a modem. Funny how that descriptor appeared only in the title and nowhere in the description.
5)Listed multiple entries for the same item - I once came across a seller who had about 30 of the identical item, carbon copy listings, all listed at once all ending at the same time. Their ToS either limits to 5 or 10.
These are just some of the things that I've seen in violation of the ToS, but all from "powersellers". Each time I get a bullshit form letter about how they trust their sellers to do the right thing.
I've also seen numerous examples of abuse of the feedback system. "Powersellers" hold it hostage until you leave yours to ensure they can retaliate if they mess up. I've seen constant entries like this:
Buyer leaves: "Item took 3 months to be delivered from 1 state over. Item was broken, not even the the right item and I think the seller urinated on it before sending it. Seller doesn't respond to e-mails."
Seller leaves in response: "Bad ebayer stay away!!!!!!!11!!!omg."
Ebay was supposed to be a buyers market, but its turned into a wholesalers market where they rule the roost. More and more people are realizing that and when a solid replacement comes along I think you'll see it pick up quite a bit. Hopefully it won't fall prey to the same issues Ebay did.
Anyone remember the Pepsi/Syringe incident? I remember seeing the video where a woman just happened to be opening a can ever so slightly off camera and WOW there was a syringe in it.
Same shit. The american legal system is a goddam joke.
But when you only make $3 per month in the WoW gold farm you work for, that adds up.
I was just browsing the site and forum, and I get no sense of their impending doom...at least from the stickys, unless I missed one tucked away. Is there some expected timeline for closure here?
This is the first one of these I've seen on slashdot which actually follows the spirit of the actual joke and isn't some random attempt at karma grabbing.
I've always thought Universities and colleges should do something like this, or users themselves should set up something internally. All the university has to do is set up some big fat pipes around the campus and give internal users the ability to set up internal ftp sites/trackers. One or two people may go outside to get it, but once its on there, there is no reason anyone else has to go outside to get it.
Thats right, but until you hit that usage cap, there is no reason P2P should be throttled.
When I installed FC5 on my laptop, everything did work, including the wireless. For every example you can find of a piece of hardware not working "out of the box" with Linux, I can find an example of a piece of hardware that didn't work out of the box on Windows. Took me about 10 seconds to type in the address of my home network printer (Photosmart 2575) and my camera works like a USB drive, so nothing fancy there. On my desktop FC6 supported the network card windows didn't, and I didn't have to do anything to enable acceleration on my x800GT radeon.
I do agree with you though. I hate when people make broad and stupid statements.
Actually many routers have the ability to create firewall rules and filter various things, both inbound and outbound. Hence why it would have been useful to compare their abilities to the various firewalls.