OK, here's a scenario for you. You're in an urban area surrounded by a (possibly hostile) crowd of civilians. Suddenly, someone in the crowd starts shooting at you. You don't want to continue to take fire. You don't want to fire into the crowd. So you use this device. Result - individuals in the crowd are angry at you. Shooter gets away. But, 1) you didn't kill any civilians, and 2) insurgents can no longer meld into crowds and attack effectively.
>> Roughly speaking, a Ponzi scheme is one in which the perpetrators make false claims in >> order to lure investors. Once they have some investors coming in, they begin to pay back >> the earliest investors in order to create hype and garner more investors. People make >> money in ponzi schemes, but only by being at the top of the pyramid.
I agree with the posters that the Big Mac index is a much better metric for purchasing price parity. But I don't think an Ipod index is worthless. I suspect it correlates well with the competitiveness of the local retail market as well as government regulation and taxation. If you adjusted the price for PPP (i.e. apply the Big Mac index), the resulting metrics could be a measure of local market efficiency (competitiveness and degree of govt. interference).
> rom TFA: "CPI now finds itself in a District Court battle against the agency, which is being > supported by AT&T, Verizon, and the three major industry trade groups: NCTA (cable), CTIA > (wireless), and USTA (telephone)."
Stockholm syndrome - FCC staff spend so much time with the people they are regulating, that they've forgotten they're supposed to be working for us.
I've bought stocks for any number of reasons. For instance, buying stock in DRAM makers when a new version of Windows was about to be released (but not this time). Anyway, I can't imagine investing in a stock on the recommendation of some spammer. You've got to figure that at some point, the spammers will exhaust the pool of fools with cash.
I see you're new to Slashdot. Here's how it works:
Republican elected == FRAUD
Democrat elected == FAIR ELECTION
Cuyahoga County is run entirely by Democratic machine politics. But here at Slashdot, we ignore any facts that conflict with our preconceived notions. Hope that was helpful to you.
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."
>> People can get a secretary to use Microsoft Office to do what you were programming in 1982
> I seriously doubt that. In 1982, I was part of a team working on a CCIS (Command and Control > Information System) for the Danish Navy.
No, the first guy is right:
Clippy: I see you are about to be torpedoed. Do you want to deploy counter-measures?
Seriously, I was programming in '82 as well. I worked on systems that monitored telephone switching systems. Hardware has gotten far faster, cheaper, and smaller since then. Languages have gone OO. UI's have gotten far more sophisticated. And software has gotten more complex and in many cases more obese and more sloppy.
> S-Video cables are that difficult to use? Every computer I've owned in the past 5 years has had an S-Video TV-out on it.
My (low-end LCD) TV has several S-Video inputs. It also has a VGA input - that's the one my PC is plugged into. I've had to use WiFi on the PC, since my wife objected to my throwing a CAT6 cable over the loft railing into the living room. I've found a decent remote (bluetooth) presentation mouse. Just wish there was a DECENT wireless keyboard available (I've already got several crappy wireless keyboards).
I don't like DRM per se. But I'd be willing to buy a product with DRM as long as it didn't get in my way. This means, I can play the music / video on any device I own. I want to make my own mixes on a CD for my car, etc. Basically, I'd put up with DRM that doesn't interfere in any way with my fair use rights to the media. And doesn't require special software, dongles, replacing existing devices, etc. That said, I've yet to encounter a DRM system that fulfills these requirements.
I used to buy a lot of music to listen to in my car during my commute. The first time I bought a CD I couldn't rip (and couldn't return) that was the end of that. Thank goodness for podcasts and TWiT.
Bingo. My original home server (about 6 years ago) ran Red Hat and had 60 GB (mirrored) of storage. It acted as a file server / print server. The current incarnation runs Fedora Core 4 (soon will switch to Ubuntu) and has 60 GB for OS, and 420 GB (mirrored) for files. It's accessible via the home wired / wifi LAN from all the other machines including the PVR connected to the TV.
> No, it actually makes our food and housing industries possible.
Not really - after the raid on the Swift meat-packing plant, there was a huge line of people applying for the positions vacated by the 1,282 illegal immigrants. So, I guess Bush was wrong - they weren't "doing jobs Americans won't do". Many of the illegals were also committing ID theft.
Big employers like illegal immigration cause they can pay low wages, and if the illegals complain about poor working conditions - out they go. Illegals like it, cause they make more money than they would at home, and can send much of it back to relatives. Their home countries like it cause it reduces unemployment, increases their foreign income, and reduces the need for the (foreign) government to actually be responsive to their citizens. So everyone's happy - except for US citizens and legal immigrants.
Talk to an American citizen or legal resident who's in construction or manufacturing. Ask what's happened to employment and wages the past few years.
I've got no problem with LEGAL immigration - it's a good thing, and has brought untold benefits to this nation. I'm just opposed to the chaos on our borders and uncontrolled illegal immigration.
In addition to the $52 there's the cost of customer care staff that the author had to argue with. Customer care costs can add up (even outsourced customer care). If enough people did this, Dell would have to either offer a no OS option, or may simply refuse to offer any refunds under any condition.
Dell has always seemed ambivalent about Linux. I recently bought a E521 desktop. I set it up dual-boot (hence I will NOT apply for a refund) with XP and Ubuntu. Ubuntu installed fine, but then the mouse cursor would lock up roughly every 5 minutes (USB mouse). I just assumed I screwed up the install and retried it. Same thing. Then I looked on various Dell & Ubuntu web forums. I was not the only one with the problem. It also effected Dell C521 machines as well. Dell claimed it was a Ubuntu problem. Oh, and anyway, they didn't support Linux on these machines.
Dell quietly released a BIOS upgrade on January 2, 2007. I upgraded my machine, booted in Ubuntu and viola - the problem was gone.
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OK, here's a scenario for you. You're in an urban area surrounded by a (possibly hostile) crowd of civilians. Suddenly, someone in the crowd starts shooting at you. You don't want to continue to take fire. You don't want to fire into the crowd. So you use this device. Result - individuals in the crowd are angry at you. Shooter gets away. But, 1) you didn't kill any civilians, and 2) insurgents can no longer meld into crowds and attack effectively.
> would make everyone undress, give them an orange jump suit and send
> all their things on a cargo plane to meet them.
Yeah, I've flown that airline.
> Possibly medicate them into a stupor.
Only, if you get the upgrade to first class.
China's building a giant pipe-cleaner in order to clean out the series of tubes. But they won't need a truck wash.
>> Roughly speaking, a Ponzi scheme is one in which the perpetrators make false claims in
>> order to lure investors. Once they have some investors coming in, they begin to pay back
>> the earliest investors in order to create hype and garner more investors. People make
>> money in ponzi schemes, but only by being at the top of the pyramid.
> So, you mean like the stock market?
No, more like 'Social Security'.
I agree with the posters that the Big Mac index is a much better metric for purchasing price parity. But I don't think an Ipod index is worthless. I suspect it correlates well with the competitiveness of the local retail market as well as government regulation and taxation. If you adjusted the price for PPP (i.e. apply the Big Mac index), the resulting metrics could be a measure of local market efficiency (competitiveness and degree of govt. interference).
> rom TFA: "CPI now finds itself in a District Court battle against the agency, which is being
> supported by AT&T, Verizon, and the three major industry trade groups: NCTA (cable), CTIA
> (wireless), and USTA (telephone)."
Stockholm syndrome - FCC staff spend so much time with the people they are regulating, that they've forgotten they're supposed to be working for us.
> They can sell upgrades to the dead.
If the dead can vote (at least in Chicago), why shouldn't they be allowed to buy upgrades?
> How'd that work out for you?
Pretty well. I avoided doing it this time, cause of the current memory glut.
I've bought stocks for any number of reasons. For instance, buying stock in DRAM makers when a new version of Windows was about to be released (but not this time). Anyway, I can't imagine investing in a stock on the recommendation of some spammer. You've got to figure that at some point, the spammers will exhaust the pool of fools with cash.
I see you're new to Slashdot. Here's how it works:
Republican elected == FRAUD
Democrat elected == FAIR ELECTION
Cuyahoga County is run entirely by Democratic machine politics. But here at Slashdot, we ignore any facts that conflict with our preconceived notions. Hope that was helpful to you.
"Jack, you realize what this means!!"
..."
"Yes, the terrorists have a mole in CTU. It can only be
WARNING YOUR HDTV IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH HDCP!!
"... Paris Hilton. Tonight, on NEWS at 11"
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."
- Robert Heinlein, "Life Line", 1939
>> People can get a secretary to use Microsoft Office to do what you were programming in 1982
> I seriously doubt that. In 1982, I was part of a team working on a CCIS (Command and Control
> Information System) for the Danish Navy.
No, the first guy is right:
Clippy: I see you are about to be torpedoed. Do you want to deploy counter-measures?
Seriously, I was programming in '82 as well. I worked on systems that monitored telephone switching systems. Hardware has gotten far faster, cheaper, and smaller since then. Languages have gone OO. UI's have gotten far more sophisticated. And software has gotten more complex and in many cases more obese and more sloppy.
Yes! Bill Gates was so surprised that he dropped his monocle onto his white cat.
I WANT ONE! (The other 10% are holding out for the 64 megajoule model).
So Sony's got a wii problem with their next-gen console.
> S-Video cables are that difficult to use? Every computer I've owned in the past 5 years has had an S-Video TV-out on it.
My (low-end LCD) TV has several S-Video inputs. It also has a VGA input - that's the one my PC is plugged into. I've had to use WiFi on the PC, since my wife objected to my throwing a CAT6 cable over the loft railing into the living room. I've found a decent remote (bluetooth) presentation mouse. Just wish there was a DECENT wireless keyboard available (I've already got several crappy wireless keyboards).
I don't like DRM per se. But I'd be willing to buy a product with DRM as long as it didn't get in my way. This means, I can play the music / video on any device I own. I want to make my own mixes on a CD for my car, etc. Basically, I'd put up with DRM that doesn't interfere in any way with my fair use rights to the media. And doesn't require special software, dongles, replacing existing devices, etc. That said, I've yet to encounter a DRM system that fulfills these requirements.
I used to buy a lot of music to listen to in my car during my commute. The first time I bought a CD I couldn't rip (and couldn't return) that was the end of that. Thank goodness for podcasts and TWiT.
Bingo. My original home server (about 6 years ago) ran Red Hat and had 60 GB (mirrored) of storage. It acted as a file server / print server. The current incarnation runs Fedora Core 4 (soon will switch to Ubuntu) and has 60 GB for OS, and 420 GB (mirrored) for files. It's accessible via the home wired / wifi LAN from all the other machines including the PVR connected to the TV.
Wouldn't give much credence to anything published by that site. They're the 'Rush Limbaugh' of the left.
> Interesting - someone else, higher up in the thread, has conflated private property rights and immigration in the same way.
No one's asking for your property (yet) - your tax dollars will do just fine (for now).
> No, it actually makes our food and housing industries possible.
Not really - after the raid on the Swift meat-packing plant, there was a huge line of people applying for the positions vacated by the 1,282 illegal immigrants. So, I guess Bush was wrong - they weren't "doing jobs Americans won't do". Many of the illegals were also committing ID theft.
Big employers like illegal immigration cause they can pay low wages, and if the illegals complain about poor working conditions - out they go. Illegals like it, cause they make more money than they would at home, and can send much of it back to relatives. Their home countries like it cause it reduces unemployment, increases their foreign income, and reduces the need for the (foreign) government to actually be responsive to their citizens. So everyone's happy - except for US citizens and legal immigrants.
Talk to an American citizen or legal resident who's in construction or manufacturing. Ask what's happened to employment and wages the past few years.
I've got no problem with LEGAL immigration - it's a good thing, and has brought untold benefits to this nation. I'm just opposed to the chaos on our borders and uncontrolled illegal immigration.
Not to mention if you spill gas (with ethanol) on your hands while fueling your vehicle.
> There was music? Or do you mean "voila!"? Believe me, when the #%$@##! mouse freeze problem was finally fixed - there was music!
In addition to the $52 there's the cost of customer care staff that the author had to argue with. Customer care costs can add up (even outsourced customer care). If enough people did this, Dell would have to either offer a no OS option, or may simply refuse to offer any refunds under any condition.
Dell has always seemed ambivalent about Linux. I recently bought a E521 desktop. I set it up dual-boot (hence I will NOT apply for a refund) with XP and Ubuntu. Ubuntu installed fine, but then the mouse cursor would lock up roughly every 5 minutes (USB mouse). I just assumed I screwed up the install and retried it. Same thing. Then I looked on various Dell & Ubuntu web forums. I was not the only one with the problem. It also effected Dell C521 machines as well. Dell claimed it was a Ubuntu problem. Oh, and anyway, they didn't support Linux on these machines.
Dell quietly released a BIOS upgrade on January 2, 2007. I upgraded my machine, booted in Ubuntu and viola - the problem was gone.