That's the American Radio Relay League, or your neighborhood ham radio operator. This is the function hams used to do (and I'm sure, still do--but increasingly, I'm sure their turf is being taken over by wi-fi). The Web and the 'Net are good for more than just free pr0n and Facebook.
Guess what? United did NOT get any government money; their loan application was denied twice. United DID line up a LOT of private financing, because the improved business model it developed and presented to prospective lenders was a lot more sound than the model that took the airline into bankruptcy.
I'm not saying the current model is without flaws, but since emerging from bankruptcy in February 2006, the airline has outperformed almost all of its domestic competitors.
As to the original article: I don't care whether my bags come off first or last, as long as they come off the same aircraft I flew.
Unless you need 10+ people on voice chat, Skype is the single best voice chat program available. Voice quality ranges from FM- to CD-quality, is lossless, and takes considerably less setup time (not to mention, no server costs). Yes, it's a bit of a memory pig, reporting 35,000K in Task Manager (Vista Ultimate 64-bit), but if you have the horsepower for the OS, then Skype's not a problem.
What I find interesting is how overhyped OS-X is. What people seem to forget is the same people building OS-X are also the ONLY people building the computers it runs on.
If Microsoft tried that, how many/.ers wouldn't be crying "MONOPOLY!!"?
Or should MS be dictating hardware standards to manufacturers, telling them their hardware must be 100% compliant with the built-in Vista drivers?
Remember, the first calculators didn't need backlights: They had LEDs--red at first, but then green came into vogue as well.
I was a junior at UCLA when the Student Bookstore first offered the HP calculators. At the time, we all thought aluminum Pickett sliderules were the cat's meow. Besides, who could afford $150 - 300 for a 4- or 6-function calculator??
Imagine how wonderful it would be to have such a system between, say, JFK airport and Grand Central Station. But that makes way too much sense, from almost any view, to ever have a chance of actually happening in my lifetime.
Why in hell is this modded "funny"? It's damned insightful. If you're a businessman, how would you like it if I told you to rewrite your business plan to MY specifications? Not a damned bit, is my guess.
But that's exactly what this suit is trying to do: To hell with free enterprise business models.
As a consumer, I still have the option to ask for it "my way", and if I don't get it "my way" I can take the highway to another provider--or opt out of the market entirely.
Not sure why parent was modded Funny rather than Insightful--it's accurate, at the least.
The problem is, too many people of my generation (Baby Boomer) still think the 'net is a fad, and more of an entertainment device (fewer and fewer of us remember "our first color TV" as a milestone in our lives, for example) than a tool. It's a stretch to call the television a tool; not so much for the telephone, or the Internet (or computer).
And it's those younger Baby Boomers and older Gen Xers who are marveling still about this thing called the Internet, personal computers--not to mention smartphones and MP3 players.
Instead we have a system (the majority of teachers, principals, school boards, regulatory agencies, etc) that doesn't give a shit what the students do so long as they sit still, play nice, and don't cause too much trouble. If that's not a day care I don't know what is.
It didn't used to be this way. But then someone got the bright idea that teachers needed a labor union. And then they needed a day every month of the school year for "in-service training" rather than spend that day teaching. And that would be admirable, if it actually improved the quality of teaching.
Back to the original issue: "Good business" trumps "good policy" every time. When will business figure out that "good policy" makes for "better business"?
Ideally in a civilized society, those commenting on it (such as the parent poster) would know the term "electrocuting" means "killing by means of applying an electrical current". Meyer wasn't electrocuted.
Maybe there's a decimal point missing? 85 million is a third of the US population, all on GSM. I didn't realize cellphones in general had made that deep a penetration in the US--much less GSM all by itself.
MORALITY? So blocking objectionable material--whatever the source, and whatever the possible (negative) consequences for viewing it--is now immoral?
Child porn is immoral. Murder is immoral. Incest is immoral. But exercising freedom of choice in what I view--so long as what I view isn't immoral--is not a question of morality.
liberal/conservative is self-selecting
Oh, really? And you have scientific proof that it's not, perhaps, inherited? Or at least, nurtured? I rather think conservatism or liberalism is a learned behavior; i.e., a conditioned response. But purely self-selected? Prove it.
Slashdot Mirror
Then why, exactly, are you spending time on Slashdot?
...only $20M. How cool.
That's the American Radio Relay League, or your neighborhood ham radio operator. This is the function hams used to do (and I'm sure, still do--but increasingly, I'm sure their turf is being taken over by wi-fi). The Web and the 'Net are good for more than just free pr0n and Facebook.
I'm not saying the current model is without flaws, but since emerging from bankruptcy in February 2006, the airline has outperformed almost all of its domestic competitors.
As to the original article: I don't care whether my bags come off first or last, as long as they come off the same aircraft I flew.
Unless you need 10+ people on voice chat, Skype is the single best voice chat program available. Voice quality ranges from FM- to CD-quality, is lossless, and takes considerably less setup time (not to mention, no server costs). Yes, it's a bit of a memory pig, reporting 35,000K in Task Manager (Vista Ultimate 64-bit), but if you have the horsepower for the OS, then Skype's not a problem.
I doubt the blogger (or anyone else) will ever be arrested for libel: It's a civil action, not criminal.
You forgot "*First astronaut (cosmonaut) killed during a mission" (more than one, in fact, before the Apollo launch pad fire.
So watt?
What I find interesting is how overhyped OS-X is. What people seem to forget is the same people building OS-X are also the ONLY people building the computers it runs on.
/.ers wouldn't be crying "MONOPOLY!!"?
If Microsoft tried that, how many
Or should MS be dictating hardware standards to manufacturers, telling them their hardware must be 100% compliant with the built-in Vista drivers?
Somehow, I think that isn't going to happen.
I thought the review was pretty clear in establishing that this was not a balanced look at the Fed.
Remember, the first calculators didn't need backlights: They had LEDs--red at first, but then green came into vogue as well.
I was a junior at UCLA when the Student Bookstore first offered the HP calculators. At the time, we all thought aluminum Pickett sliderules were the cat's meow. Besides, who could afford $150 - 300 for a 4- or 6-function calculator??
It's "moratorium."
...if the webcam comes with the game? Because the one I have doesn't work under Vista.
Imagine how wonderful it would be to have such a system between, say, JFK airport and Grand Central Station. But that makes way too much sense, from almost any view, to ever have a chance of actually happening in my lifetime.
...that while you need to be intelligent to get into MIT, you don't have to be very smart.
Why in hell is this modded "funny"? It's damned insightful. If you're a businessman, how would you like it if I told you to rewrite your business plan to MY specifications? Not a damned bit, is my guess. But that's exactly what this suit is trying to do: To hell with free enterprise business models. As a consumer, I still have the option to ask for it "my way", and if I don't get it "my way" I can take the highway to another provider--or opt out of the market entirely.
Not sure why parent was modded Funny rather than Insightful--it's accurate, at the least.
The problem is, too many people of my generation (Baby Boomer) still think the 'net is a fad, and more of an entertainment device (fewer and fewer of us remember "our first color TV" as a milestone in our lives, for example) than a tool. It's a stretch to call the television a tool; not so much for the telephone, or the Internet (or computer).
And it's those younger Baby Boomers and older Gen Xers who are marveling still about this thing called the Internet, personal computers--not to mention smartphones and MP3 players.
I'd have modded parent Insightful, not Funny. Or "Sadly True."
Back to the original issue: "Good business" trumps "good policy" every time. When will business figure out that "good policy" makes for "better business"?
Why does his "freedom of speech" trump the others' freedom to peaceably assemble? Why does it trump, say, Kerry's freedom of speech? It doesn't.
Ideally in a civilized society, those commenting on it (such as the parent poster) would know the term "electrocuting" means "killing by means of applying an electrical current". Meyer wasn't electrocuted.
Maybe there's a decimal point missing? 85 million is a third of the US population, all on GSM. I didn't realize cellphones in general had made that deep a penetration in the US--much less GSM all by itself.
So this professional association might be "Professional Information Technologists Association"? PITA, right?
MORALITY? So blocking objectionable material--whatever the source, and whatever the possible (negative) consequences for viewing it--is now immoral? Child porn is immoral. Murder is immoral. Incest is immoral. But exercising freedom of choice in what I view--so long as what I view isn't immoral--is not a question of morality.
liberal/conservative is self-selecting Oh, really? And you have scientific proof that it's not, perhaps, inherited? Or at least, nurtured? I rather think conservatism or liberalism is a learned behavior; i.e., a conditioned response. But purely self-selected? Prove it.