Ha Ha! Paying the dough is a hell of a lot more involvement than writing some stupid me too comment on some discussion board. And "support" shouldn't imply that a lot of people think he's actually innocent of the crimes. The support is because they think he's been treated badly. Sorry, you don't get money donated in your name for being treated badly.
Why exactly should I care about an interview with this Larry person if you don't even say who he is? Perhaps it should be mentioned in the blurb that he is the CEO of VA Systems? Maybe some people know these guys by name, but not me.
He's not dedicated, you can buy the points for $0.10 each. So he just had to put up $700,000, which was apparently provided by someone else. It's just Pepsi's dumb ass fault for picking 7 million points, instead of the correct amount.
They could use PHP. But look at it from a business viewpoint:
Stay with Coldfusion: $0 Switch to PHP: $x thousand dollars
It only makes sense if they really think that the amount of sales they're losing is more than $x, and honestly I really doubt it. Only a real zealot is going to care what they're running on.
Get real. Bad programming is bad programming. I've had "politically correct" perl scripts running on Apache servers do the same damn thing. Just because they are running Unix doesn't mean they don't have glitches like the rest of the freaking world.
Doesn't it cost an insane amount for housing there though? With cheaper housing, you can spend your own money on these perks, rather than having to leech off your employer.
While this guy's scam didn't work, the Indians' method did -- they got four players in the starting lineup! And it seems to be due to more than just a good team and sellout crowds. When they handed out the ballots in person at the ballpark, they apparently made no attempt at all to make sure people didn't vote multiple times. To quote, "the ushers came to pick up the All-Star ballots handed out earlier and immediately passed out fresh ones." One guy says he voted 25 times in one game! There aren't many "votes" that allow that kind of abuse.
For more, check out this page on ESPN. You have to scroll down to Monday's entry, but it's very interesting.
One thing that caught my attention was the way that the Macintosh and Windows 1.0 were shown as competing seriously. Windows didn't really catch on until 3.0, right? I thought Macintosh had 5 to 10 years of being the only real GUI that was actually used. Windows was quite late to that market. But in the movie, they make it sound like Windows was a heavy competitor from day one.
It just makes it look, to a naieve viewer, that Macintosh has always been second best, when I don't think that was true for several years.
OK, so this thing is basically made up of laptop components, with the keyboard separate instead of connected, right? Why doesn't anyone take it to the next step? They should make the "monitor" an actual laptop. Have the screen hinge fold backwards and have it stand up like a "V". This way, you get the compactness of this thing when you're at home, but without the normal cramped keyboard. Plus you can take it on the road if you need to.
Well thank goodness they got around to supporting my graphics chip, the i740. So it's proprietary, blah blah blah, but it's what I have.
So is there any place to get this software that isn't at retail price? Not warez, but discounted. Buying directly from the manufacturer tends to be the worst deal around, especially on the Internet, where people will sell at cost just so they can justify their existence.
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"Lets see here a company that has lost money in 3 of the last 5 years"
The funny thing is that this is actually a strength for an Internet company! It has *made* money in 2 of the last 5 years, compared to most of these companies which haven't seen a dime of profit yet (and don't predict any in the near future either). What a crazy world.
I think the problem with that "simple" method was that elements were being discovered separately at relative synchronous times.
In paticular, in Russia and the USA in the early 80's. All the work done then was considered top secret, due to the Cold War. Once one country publicly announced the discovery of an element (with their name), it was no longer considered a secret, and the other country would announce that they actually found it already, and gave it their own name. They may or may not have, but there was no trust between the two nations, so it was irrelevant anyway.
And of course, the names themselves were politically motivated (or at least nationally connected), which caused more problems, since the Russians could not accept e.g. Californium, while the Americans couldn't handle Stalinium (not real). So the researchers in each country kept using their own names, while duking it out in the international science foundations for the ultimate naming rights. Meanwhile, all the research that was being done was written up with different names for the elements, and mass confusion was present.
So the afore-mentioned international science foundations said "screw all of you", and came up with a generic naming convention, and no one got to name the element. The naming became consistent, and neutral scientists danced the happy dance. Then the Cold War ended, scientists everywhere became much more open, and we're left with a silly naming convention.
Quite simple, really.
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The capacity is one of the easiest things to figure out, since mp3 uses a constant bitrate.
Assume it's compressed at 128kbps. That's 16 kB per second. A 4000 million byte hard drive (which isn't really correct, but close enough) can then hold 250,000 seconds of music. Which is 4200 minutes, or 70 hours of music. In general, it's about 1 minute per meg. Assuming an average song is 4.5 minutes, that's around 950 songs. Not bad!
I don't think it would have been a good IPO, even last year (when the world was nuts). The other former search engines -- altavista, yahoo, excite, etc. all have "succeeded" because they became portals. Not because they stayed search engines. And google doesn't even have a revenue model!
The name of the product, written in a standard font, with a slight gradient thrown in, does not a logo make. While Rob's logo is great for Slashdot (it conveys the category perfectly), it would look like crap on a box in a store. And really, it's not "powerful" or "subtle" -- it's a word!
It would have been nice if Debian picked an official symbol (seal, dog, penguin, whatever) and then required the logos to conform to it. Then there would have been more logos that were in the ballpark.
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Designing logos is a real job. Look at any graphic design firm's page on the web and you'll notice that a big part of their portfolio is logo design. And remember that most graphic designers are still Mac users.
To get better, less ugly entries, the qualified people would have had to donate their time and energy (and creativity) to support a project they probably don't even know exists. Debian should be happy with what they get.
Maybe if his job description was "generic programmer" this would have worked. But it seems as if his job was more like "the enlightenment programmer", and that he was the "one". So the only solution (for him) to this management conflict was to have the manager change jobs. Try working that one out -- it probably won't be pretty. I think he made the best choice available.
There is a whole page at MIT about their hacks -- hacks.mit.edu. Very nifty. Other "modifications" to the dome have been a police cruiser at the top and the whole thing done up as a jack-o-lantern.
People seem to be think that this page must be fair because it includes a sampling of three different benchmarks (two in addition to the disputed Mindcraft one). But what about this nice benchmark from Smart Reseller. This is the article that includes the wonderful quote: "According to ZDLabs' results , each of the commercial Linux releases ate NT's lunch." Microsoft included benchmarks by the other ZD magazines -- why did they "forget" to include this one?
It's not as if this guarantee makes it TRUE that the system is up 99% of the time. If there is a severe problem, they may miss their guaranteed uptime. This happens! Then the firm doing the guarantee must pay up to the extents specified in the contract. But the system was still down more than 99%. Microsoft's product has not improved, just the willingness of others to bet their money on said product.
At least, that's what they're implying. Commercial UNIXes cost a lot of money, and compared to them, NT is a good deal. But Linux costs nothing, so grouping it with the other UNIXes is very shady. Linux is surely cheaper than other UNIXes to set up. And NT is cheaper than other UNIXes to set up. But you can't use that information to compare NT and Linux (not that they do directly, but look at the context). It's called a logical fallacy.
Basically, we aren't really going to run out of addresses anytime soon, as long as someone forces companies like Halliburton to use the right address space for their 30k hosts.
(link cross-polinated from Scripting News - www.scripting.com)
The article gives a partial list of the class A allocation holders. The full list is available here: http://staff.elmail.co.uk/~liam/t ech/class-a.html. For some reason, the two lists don't quite match up -- for instance, where's IBM?
(This link was blatantly stolen from Scripting News, but I figured it should be seen)
I don't remember any DOS attacks against Quake 1 servers. Was it just a bitchin' protocol? Or was the net a kinder, gentler place then? Quake 2 did get hard though.
It's kind of sad to see that there is even a need for this kind of bounty. I mean, what kind of loser takes down a game server? It's not like you're gonna get root and be l88T. You're just gonna cause inconvenience to people trying to have fun, and to a company that has a pretty shining record of being all-around good guys.
(although I bet if Romero find a good one he's not going to send it in...:)
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Ha Ha! Paying the dough is a hell of a lot more involvement than writing some stupid me too comment on some discussion board. And "support" shouldn't imply that a lot of people think he's actually innocent of the crimes. The support is because they think he's been treated badly. Sorry, you don't get money donated in your name for being treated badly.
Why exactly should I care about an interview with this Larry person if you don't even say who he is? Perhaps it should be mentioned in the blurb that he is the CEO of VA Systems? Maybe some people know these guys by name, but not me.
He's not dedicated, you can buy the points for $0.10 each. So he just had to put up $700,000, which was apparently provided by someone else. It's just Pepsi's dumb ass fault for picking 7 million points, instead of the correct amount.
They could use PHP. But look at it from a business viewpoint:
Stay with Coldfusion: $0
Switch to PHP: $x thousand dollars
It only makes sense if they really think that the amount of sales they're losing is more than $x, and honestly I really doubt it. Only a real zealot is going to care what they're running on.
Get real. Bad programming is bad programming. I've had "politically correct" perl scripts running on Apache servers do the same damn thing. Just because they are running Unix doesn't mean they don't have glitches like the rest of the freaking world.
Doesn't it cost an insane amount for housing there though? With cheaper housing, you can spend your own money on these perks, rather than having to leech off your employer.
In somewhat related All-star voting news:
While this guy's scam didn't work, the Indians' method did -- they got four players in the starting lineup! And it seems to be due to more than just a good team and sellout crowds. When they handed out the ballots in person at the ballpark, they apparently made no attempt at all to make sure people didn't vote multiple times. To quote, "the ushers came to pick up the All-Star ballots handed out earlier and immediately passed out fresh ones." One guy says he voted 25 times in one game! There aren't many "votes" that allow that kind of abuse.
For more, check out this page on ESPN. You have to scroll down to Monday's entry, but it's very interesting.
One thing that caught my attention was the way that the Macintosh and Windows 1.0 were shown as competing seriously. Windows didn't really catch on until 3.0, right? I thought Macintosh had 5 to 10 years of being the only real GUI that was actually used. Windows was quite late to that market. But in the movie, they make it sound like Windows was a heavy competitor from day one.
It just makes it look, to a naieve viewer, that Macintosh has always been second best, when I don't think that was true for several years.
OK, so this thing is basically made up of laptop components, with the keyboard separate instead of connected, right? Why doesn't anyone take it to the next step? They should make the "monitor" an actual laptop. Have the screen hinge fold backwards and have it stand up like a "V". This way, you get the compactness of this thing when you're at home, but without the normal cramped keyboard. Plus you can take it on the road if you need to.
Well thank goodness they got around to supporting my graphics chip, the i740. So it's proprietary, blah blah blah, but it's what I have.
So is there any place to get this software that isn't at retail price? Not warez, but discounted. Buying directly from the manufacturer tends to be the worst deal around, especially on the Internet, where people will sell at cost just so they can justify their existence.
"Lets see here a company that has lost money in 3 of the last 5 years"
The funny thing is that this is actually a strength for an Internet company! It has *made* money in 2 of the last 5 years, compared to most of these companies which haven't seen a dime of profit yet (and don't predict any in the near future either). What a crazy world.
I think the problem with that "simple" method was that elements were being discovered separately at relative synchronous times.
In paticular, in Russia and the USA in the early 80's. All the work done then was considered top secret, due to the Cold War. Once one country publicly announced the discovery of an element (with their name), it was no longer considered a secret, and the other country would announce that they actually found it already, and gave it their own name. They may or may not have, but there was no trust between the two nations, so it was irrelevant anyway.
And of course, the names themselves were politically motivated (or at least nationally connected), which caused more problems, since the Russians could not accept e.g. Californium, while the Americans couldn't handle Stalinium (not real). So the researchers in each country kept using their own names, while duking it out in the international science foundations for the ultimate naming rights. Meanwhile, all the research that was being done was written up with different names for the elements, and mass confusion was present.
So the afore-mentioned international science foundations said "screw all of you", and came up with a generic naming convention, and no one got to name the element. The naming became consistent, and neutral scientists danced the happy dance. Then the Cold War ended, scientists everywhere became much more open, and we're left with a silly naming convention.
Quite simple, really.
The capacity is one of the easiest things to figure out, since mp3 uses a constant bitrate.
Assume it's compressed at 128kbps. That's 16 kB per second. A 4000 million byte hard drive (which isn't really correct, but close enough) can then hold 250,000 seconds of music. Which is 4200 minutes, or 70 hours of music. In general, it's about 1 minute per meg. Assuming an average song is 4.5 minutes, that's around 950 songs. Not bad!
I don't think it would have been a good IPO, even last year (when the world was nuts). The other former search engines -- altavista, yahoo, excite, etc. all have "succeeded" because they became portals. Not because they stayed search engines. And google doesn't even have a revenue model!
The name of the product, written in a standard font, with a slight gradient thrown in, does not a logo make. While Rob's logo is great for Slashdot (it conveys the category perfectly), it would look like crap on a box in a store. And really, it's not "powerful" or "subtle" -- it's a word!
It would have been nice if Debian picked an official symbol (seal, dog, penguin, whatever) and then required the logos to conform to it. Then there would have been more logos that were in the ballpark.
Designing logos is a real job. Look at any graphic design firm's page on the web and you'll notice that a big part of their portfolio is logo design. And remember that most graphic designers are still Mac users.
To get better, less ugly entries, the qualified people would have had to donate their time and energy (and creativity) to support a project they probably don't even know exists. Debian should be happy with what they get.
Maybe if his job description was "generic programmer" this would have worked. But it seems as if his job was more like "the enlightenment programmer", and that he was the "one". So the only solution (for him) to this management conflict was to have the manager change jobs. Try working that one out -- it probably won't be pretty. I think he made the best choice available.
I'm sorry, but AN/ALQ-T is just an awesome acronym. Did anyone ever pronounce it "anal cutie"? I just got to know! :)
There is a whole page at MIT about their hacks -- hacks.mit.edu. Very nifty. Other "modifications" to the dome have been a police cruiser at the top and the whole thing done up as a jack-o-lantern.
People seem to be think that this page must be fair because it includes a sampling of three different benchmarks (two in addition to the disputed Mindcraft one). But what about this nice benchmark from Smart Reseller. This is the article that includes the wonderful quote: "According to ZDLabs' results , each of the commercial Linux releases ate NT's lunch." Microsoft included benchmarks by the other ZD magazines -- why did they "forget" to include this one?
It's not as if this guarantee makes it TRUE that the system is up 99% of the time. If there is a severe problem, they may miss their guaranteed uptime. This happens! Then the firm doing the guarantee must pay up to the extents specified in the contract. But the system was still down more than 99%. Microsoft's product has not improved, just the willingness of others to bet their money on said product.
At least, that's what they're implying. Commercial UNIXes cost a lot of money, and compared to them, NT is a good deal. But Linux costs nothing, so grouping it with the other UNIXes is very shady. Linux is surely cheaper than other UNIXes to set up. And NT is cheaper than other UNIXes to set up. But you can't use that information to compare NT and Linux (not that they do directly, but look at the context). It's called a logical fallacy.
Here's an old (last summer) article that explains the whole class A fiasco: http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/daily/ 980622a.html
Basically, we aren't really going to run out of addresses anytime soon, as long as someone forces companies like Halliburton to use the right address space for their 30k hosts.
(link cross-polinated from Scripting News - www.scripting.com)
The article gives a partial list of the class A allocation holders. The full list is available here: http://staff.elmail.co.uk/~liam/t ech/class-a.html. For some reason, the two lists don't quite match up -- for instance, where's IBM?
(This link was blatantly stolen from Scripting News, but I figured it should be seen)
I don't remember any DOS attacks against Quake 1 servers. Was it just a bitchin' protocol? Or was the net a kinder, gentler place then? Quake 2 did get hard though.
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It's kind of sad to see that there is even a need for this kind of bounty. I mean, what kind of loser takes down a game server? It's not like you're gonna get root and be l88T. You're just gonna cause inconvenience to people trying to have fun, and to a company that has a pretty shining record of being all-around good guys.
(although I bet if Romero find a good one he's not going to send it in...