I worked at Motorola during the pager heyday and we sold the 4 line text pager (Affectionately called The Brick) for over $200 and it cost us $60 to make at it's height of production. It's called a free market economy. Supply and demand and all that stuff. Whatever the market will bear, etc.
I don't understand. The author would rather continue using 60-100 watt bulbs instead of 13 watt CFLs that might actually use 28+ watts because... If I get the same lumens from a 50 watt bulb that is produced by a 60 watt bulb, then I'm using the 50 watt bulb! Where's the controversy? Especially when the power used is still less than half no matter who you believe!
Why would we think that messing around with the environment on any large scale would possibly be beneficial? Haven't we already learned that lesson? What happens when we find out that global warming is just a normal swing in the Earth's billion year climate calendar? Much ado about nothing yet again.
That settles the "humans came from apes" debate. It's the same in the primate world as in the human world: you always end up paying for it one way or another. Primate prostitution. An older profession than we could have even imagined.
I remember taking one of these tests as a teenager for a job at 7/11 and I didn't get the job based on my answers, which were honest and truthful. This made me realize that it didn't pay to be honest when it comes to these things and I never failed another one. You just answer the way you think they want you to and remain consistent with those answers because later questions try to trip you up by asking the same thing in a different way. This was the beginning of my cynicism training and corporations have continued to enhance that training ever since. I'm so cynical now that I don't even believe in my cynicism.
at how amazingly gullible and just plain stupid people can be. First McCain picked Palin and now this. I'm embarrassed by my own species on a constant basis. I wish the super-intelligent aliens would hurry up and come. Oh, that's right, more stupid people think they're already here.
I was a stoner in high school and had a small group of close friends, but ever since I signed up a long time ago to find out about a class reunion I've been getting emails from Classmates.com telling me that people were signing my guestbook and were looking for me. I was never so popular until Classmates.com. If I was lacking any self-esteem at all I'd be thrilled, but I know better and I'm just annoyed. Just another example of marketing at all costs even if it makes your enterprise look ridiculous to all but the most desperate losers.
I'm thankful that as a consumer I ultimately have the final word regarding products that survive in the marketplace. DRM is doomed to fail if only for the simple reason that no one wants it except the producers of it. No product can survive if that's the case. Hell hath no fury towards defective-by-design than a well-informed consumer. Keep spreading the news. DRM is dead.
What a crap story. You OS guys are worse than Apple nuts sometimes. Windows is the Devil's spawn! Windows is the Devil's spawn! Give it a rest for chissake. If Amiga had taken over the market you guys would be railing on them. It's all about which corporate entity is an easy target, and MS is one of the easiest. Without MS this world would be a much suckier place. These kinds of BS stories are why I hate Slashdot sometimes. Now go ahead and say something pithy about me having a mancrush on Bill Gates or something. You guys really gotta just let it go already. Do something productive instead of whining about MS.
In the 21st Century when there are still Amazon tribes living in the stone age who've never seen a white man, people in Africa who still die from hunger, and societies where woman are treated worse than domestic animals; over 1 billion served on the Internet is an encouraging sign. The Internet has had an amazing expansion in it's relatively short life. If we can double it's usage in the NEXT 20 years then the world will be a much different place and a lot of us will still be around to see it. I'm actually encouraged by the numbers.
I'm in southeast Florida and since Comcast bought out Adelphia there literally is no choice in cable companies and since AT&T bought Bellsouth there's no choice in DSL, nevermind FiOS by Verizon. We'll never see that unless Verizon buys out AT&T's interest here. It's as if because we're on this skinny peninsula our options are proportionally "skinnier" as well. I want fiber to my house, but without paying to tap directly into the backbone with my own infrastructure, which is obviously out of the question, I don't see it happening anytime in the near or not-so-near future. We're locked into the non-choices available to us unless legislators step in.
I'll never see Verizon here in Florida since AT&T is the big dog here. They haven't even announced anything about next generation DSL here yet, so Comcast is the only game in town for real high-speed internet. Speaking of which, I downloaded a Quicktime update the other day and peaked at 1500 kbps with an average speed over 1000 kbps for the 23 MB download which took a few seconds to complete. Bash them all you want, but ya gotta love that speed boost for downloads. I'm not sure how it works with bandwidth and streaming, but you can definitely see a real increase in download speeds. Pirates might whine about limits on downloading their music and movies, but legitimate downloads scream. And I HATE Comcast and their crappy HDTV service, but they are the shit when it comes to broadband, at least in my area.
I've got nothing to hide, nor am I doing anything that would be remotely interesting to the Feds, so, in my case, the study is accurate. I couldn't care less about wiretapping. I hope it leads to plenty of busts and convictions of assholes who would do much worse than the govt. keeping tabs on me. It's a non-issue and the only ones squealing about it are the ACLU types who would prefer that the feds didn't listen in on their phone calls to their pot connection. I'm pretty sure that they in turn couldn't care less who those ACLU types are getting their pot from. Now if that pot dealer happens to be funneling that money into fundamentalist Islamic organizations then I say snoop away.
Oh, right...well a reasonable facsimile in regards to His intellect...did you see what I did there? Okay, okay, the point. Right. The point is it turns out that a surprising majority of people are stupid. I live in Florida and I have first hand knowledge that this is indeed a fact, not my opinion. I mean, this person was elected by a majority right? Nuff said.
If someone falls for an email phishing scam in this day and age then they deserve to lose their money. Maybe then they'll just get off the network completely so that the easy targets get fewer and fewer and the rest of us can go about our everyday internet business without needing to worry about this crap. Stop using Safari? That's like saying to stop using your nose because you might smell something bad. God damn over-reactionaries and tech retards - yeah Mary, I said retards - mucking everything up for the rest of us normal people who just want to surf for porn and buy cool toys online in peace.
My girlfriend checks website links routinely in PDF documents as part of her work and her machine is routinely attacked my adware and malware by supposedly innocuous websites that are supposed to be related to educational institutions or professional, technical type organizations hosting white papers, and other such information. (yeah yeah, run on sentence, sue me) I'm guessing some of these sites have been compromised or intentionally corrupted by webmasters for personal gain. In my experience this stuff happens all the time.
From the tone of some of the doomsdayers I think the next satellite they shoot down should be chock full of Thorazine to calm some folks the f*** down. It was a bus sized satellite that didn't work. Shit happens. A large percentage of people can't build a paper football and launch it through someone's upright fingers for chrissake! A lot of you are WAY too cynical and always looking to criticize. I'm with the wonder of it all. Shooting down an object in space from a boat is some cool-ass shit. Give the Navy some props first before you start bashing the CIA and NASA. Then go apply for a job at either and watch them laugh at you and your resume.
Well let me know how that works out for you. Getting back to what the post was about, I see excellent throughput on my Comcast line anytime I need something of bigger than average girth. As a matter of fact, I get slower speeds when I run a speedtest than when I'm actually downloading something. I routinely see speeds upwards of 600 kbps and I even once witnessed a burst of 1350 kbps for an MS download recently. Granted, it throttles back after a short time, but that burst saves a hell of a lot of time. I hate Comcast cable TV (I have HDTV and their signal sucks), but I've loved the poor excuse for broadband. It's been getting better and I imagine it will continue doing so as consumers expect more and better service.
Seriously. I know this will probably be modded redundant, but this is a non-story. Comcast ADVERTISES THIS! Downloads get a temporary speed boost. It's part of the service and it works pretty well, if my software update download speeds are any indication. I'm not going to be a \. basher, but where's the quality control?
Hello! McFly! It's me! The 800 lb. gorilla sitting next to you! You know, the one that gets all your music, movies, and pr0n for free with no DRM hassles. Did you forget about me? Oh, that's right, no one is supposed to talk about me or acknowledge my existence when talking about "legitimate" media download services. Hah! Who's everyone kidding?!? I'm not going away anytime soon so you might as well find a way to either work WITH me or work AROUND me, but I'm going to sit right here next to you and there's nothing you can do about it. Sure Azureus is just a harmless program for legal file sharing. And I'm going on a diet. Shyeah, asif.
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I don't understand. The author would rather continue using 60-100 watt bulbs instead of 13 watt CFLs that might actually use 28+ watts because... If I get the same lumens from a 50 watt bulb that is produced by a 60 watt bulb, then I'm using the 50 watt bulb! Where's the controversy? Especially when the power used is still less than half no matter who you believe!
Why would we think that messing around with the environment on any large scale would possibly be beneficial? Haven't we already learned that lesson? What happens when we find out that global warming is just a normal swing in the Earth's billion year climate calendar? Much ado about nothing yet again.
That settles the "humans came from apes" debate. It's the same in the primate world as in the human world: you always end up paying for it one way or another. Primate prostitution. An older profession than we could have even imagined.
I remember taking one of these tests as a teenager for a job at 7/11 and I didn't get the job based on my answers, which were honest and truthful. This made me realize that it didn't pay to be honest when it comes to these things and I never failed another one. You just answer the way you think they want you to and remain consistent with those answers because later questions try to trip you up by asking the same thing in a different way. This was the beginning of my cynicism training and corporations have continued to enhance that training ever since. I'm so cynical now that I don't even believe in my cynicism.
at how amazingly gullible and just plain stupid people can be. First McCain picked Palin and now this. I'm embarrassed by my own species on a constant basis. I wish the super-intelligent aliens would hurry up and come. Oh, that's right, more stupid people think they're already here.
I was a stoner in high school and had a small group of close friends, but ever since I signed up a long time ago to find out about a class reunion I've been getting emails from Classmates.com telling me that people were signing my guestbook and were looking for me. I was never so popular until Classmates.com. If I was lacking any self-esteem at all I'd be thrilled, but I know better and I'm just annoyed. Just another example of marketing at all costs even if it makes your enterprise look ridiculous to all but the most desperate losers.
I'm thankful that as a consumer I ultimately have the final word regarding products that survive in the marketplace. DRM is doomed to fail if only for the simple reason that no one wants it except the producers of it. No product can survive if that's the case. Hell hath no fury towards defective-by-design than a well-informed consumer. Keep spreading the news. DRM is dead.
I hate Ticketmaster and wish CAPTCHA hacking on them until their head asplode.
What a crap story. You OS guys are worse than Apple nuts sometimes. Windows is the Devil's spawn! Windows is the Devil's spawn! Give it a rest for chissake. If Amiga had taken over the market you guys would be railing on them. It's all about which corporate entity is an easy target, and MS is one of the easiest. Without MS this world would be a much suckier place. These kinds of BS stories are why I hate Slashdot sometimes. Now go ahead and say something pithy about me having a mancrush on Bill Gates or something. You guys really gotta just let it go already. Do something productive instead of whining about MS.
Yes. You've been taken in by a penguin-wing conspiracy to defame Microsoft.
There's no way that's a real memo. Nice try though...well, not really.
In the 21st Century when there are still Amazon tribes living in the stone age who've never seen a white man, people in Africa who still die from hunger, and societies where woman are treated worse than domestic animals; over 1 billion served on the Internet is an encouraging sign. The Internet has had an amazing expansion in it's relatively short life. If we can double it's usage in the NEXT 20 years then the world will be a much different place and a lot of us will still be around to see it. I'm actually encouraged by the numbers.
I was more interested in the 3D gravity game, but it's PC only and I'm on a Mac. :/
This "story" is another perfect example of a troll/flame post. You'd think that this non-story would have been rejected based solely on tone.
I'm in southeast Florida and since Comcast bought out Adelphia there literally is no choice in cable companies and since AT&T bought Bellsouth there's no choice in DSL, nevermind FiOS by Verizon. We'll never see that unless Verizon buys out AT&T's interest here. It's as if because we're on this skinny peninsula our options are proportionally "skinnier" as well. I want fiber to my house, but without paying to tap directly into the backbone with my own infrastructure, which is obviously out of the question, I don't see it happening anytime in the near or not-so-near future. We're locked into the non-choices available to us unless legislators step in.
I'll never see Verizon here in Florida since AT&T is the big dog here. They haven't even announced anything about next generation DSL here yet, so Comcast is the only game in town for real high-speed internet. Speaking of which, I downloaded a Quicktime update the other day and peaked at 1500 kbps with an average speed over 1000 kbps for the 23 MB download which took a few seconds to complete. Bash them all you want, but ya gotta love that speed boost for downloads. I'm not sure how it works with bandwidth and streaming, but you can definitely see a real increase in download speeds. Pirates might whine about limits on downloading their music and movies, but legitimate downloads scream. And I HATE Comcast and their crappy HDTV service, but they are the shit when it comes to broadband, at least in my area.
I've got nothing to hide, nor am I doing anything that would be remotely interesting to the Feds, so, in my case, the study is accurate. I couldn't care less about wiretapping. I hope it leads to plenty of busts and convictions of assholes who would do much worse than the govt. keeping tabs on me. It's a non-issue and the only ones squealing about it are the ACLU types who would prefer that the feds didn't listen in on their phone calls to their pot connection. I'm pretty sure that they in turn couldn't care less who those ACLU types are getting their pot from. Now if that pot dealer happens to be funneling that money into fundamentalist Islamic organizations then I say snoop away.
Oh, right...well a reasonable facsimile in regards to His intellect...did you see what I did there? Okay, okay, the point. Right. The point is it turns out that a surprising majority of people are stupid. I live in Florida and I have first hand knowledge that this is indeed a fact, not my opinion. I mean, this person was elected by a majority right? Nuff said.
If someone falls for an email phishing scam in this day and age then they deserve to lose their money. Maybe then they'll just get off the network completely so that the easy targets get fewer and fewer and the rest of us can go about our everyday internet business without needing to worry about this crap. Stop using Safari? That's like saying to stop using your nose because you might smell something bad. God damn over-reactionaries and tech retards - yeah Mary, I said retards - mucking everything up for the rest of us normal people who just want to surf for porn and buy cool toys online in peace.
My girlfriend checks website links routinely in PDF documents as part of her work and her machine is routinely attacked my adware and malware by supposedly innocuous websites that are supposed to be related to educational institutions or professional, technical type organizations hosting white papers, and other such information. (yeah yeah, run on sentence, sue me) I'm guessing some of these sites have been compromised or intentionally corrupted by webmasters for personal gain. In my experience this stuff happens all the time.
From the tone of some of the doomsdayers I think the next satellite they shoot down should be chock full of Thorazine to calm some folks the f*** down. It was a bus sized satellite that didn't work. Shit happens. A large percentage of people can't build a paper football and launch it through someone's upright fingers for chrissake! A lot of you are WAY too cynical and always looking to criticize. I'm with the wonder of it all. Shooting down an object in space from a boat is some cool-ass shit. Give the Navy some props first before you start bashing the CIA and NASA. Then go apply for a job at either and watch them laugh at you and your resume.
Well let me know how that works out for you. Getting back to what the post was about, I see excellent throughput on my Comcast line anytime I need something of bigger than average girth. As a matter of fact, I get slower speeds when I run a speedtest than when I'm actually downloading something. I routinely see speeds upwards of 600 kbps and I even once witnessed a burst of 1350 kbps for an MS download recently. Granted, it throttles back after a short time, but that burst saves a hell of a lot of time. I hate Comcast cable TV (I have HDTV and their signal sucks), but I've loved the poor excuse for broadband. It's been getting better and I imagine it will continue doing so as consumers expect more and better service.
Seriously. I know this will probably be modded redundant, but this is a non-story. Comcast ADVERTISES THIS! Downloads get a temporary speed boost. It's part of the service and it works pretty well, if my software update download speeds are any indication. I'm not going to be a \. basher, but where's the quality control?
Hello! McFly! It's me! The 800 lb. gorilla sitting next to you! You know, the one that gets all your music, movies, and pr0n for free with no DRM hassles. Did you forget about me? Oh, that's right, no one is supposed to talk about me or acknowledge my existence when talking about "legitimate" media download services. Hah! Who's everyone kidding?!? I'm not going away anytime soon so you might as well find a way to either work WITH me or work AROUND me, but I'm going to sit right here next to you and there's nothing you can do about it. Sure Azureus is just a harmless program for legal file sharing. And I'm going on a diet. Shyeah, asif.