In other words that's about twice as expensive as $20 for 2GB that I pay to my cell phone company.
Your calculation is wrong, but even if your calculation was right, it would certainly not be the case. People don't use up to their limit all the time. $20 for 2GB, $10 for 1GB or $5 for 500MB or $1 for 100MB are certainly not the same plan. I would be super happy to have a $1 for 100MB, pretty upset with $10 for 1GB and feel ripped off with $100 for 10GB.
They haven't learned the lesson from Flock, have they?
I just want a goddamn browser, without any of the facebook twitter buttons and toolbars and shit. When I want to update my facebook status, I will get there.
As a person who had to teach myself, had to deal with a broken higher education system in my country (Vietnam) and is currently attending a university in the U.S, I agree with you. There are more than just what is taught in the course, for example the professors, the atmosphere, the connections with other students, and courses that you don't even know that you need -- they can only be found when one attends college. IMHO colleges do a better job with teaching general concepts such as physics, philosophy, art; and online materials do better job teaching specific subjects (especially in Computer Science) -- one can go very deep on a subject matter that they finds interesting. Good thing is online materials and colleges are not mutually exclusive: One can have both. I still learn from online materials everyday.
That said, I always think that I'm extremely lucky to be able to attend and afford college in the U.S. For people those do not have money (students in third world countries), sure online materials cannot deliver the experiences of MIT, but they are still way better than listening to crap they have to listen to everyday (in most colleges).
Bill's statement might not hold water for colleges in the US but it's already true in many parts of the world.
I met a girl who sang the blues And I asked her for some happy songs, But she just smiled and turned away. I went down to the music store Where I'd heard the music years before, But the man there said the music wouldn't play.
And in the streets: the children screamed, The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed. But not a word was spoken; The church bells all were broken. And the three men I admire most: The father, son, and the holy ghost, They caught the last train for the coast The day the music died.
And they were singing, "bye-bye, miss american pie." Drove my chevy to the levee, But the levee was dry. And them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye Singin', "this'll be the day that I die. "this'll be the day that I die."
There is no alternative platform, despite what others may say about Android, it's immature and their app store(s) are a wild west nightmare. It really is Apple's way or the highway...
There is no alternative girl. Although as of lately, she dumped me and fucked my ass, she is the only one. It really is my ex-girlfriend, or the highway.
I was young
And in love
I gave you everything
But it wasn't enough
And now you wanna communicate (You know it's just too little too late)
Go find someone else
In letting you go
I'm loving myself
You got a problem
But don't come asking me for help
'Cause you know...
It's just too little too late
a little too wrong...
I went on a vodka bender last night, and this was on my screen when I woke up.
I've had that happen to me a few times. It's a bit unsettling, I assure you.
What's even more unsettling is waking up with a full plate of hash browns and eggs next to my bed, and having no recollection of ever making them. It did make for a nice breakfast, though. Perhaps I should do it more often.
What's even more unsettling is waking up with a naked girl on my bed, and having no recollection of ever doing anything with her. It did make for a nice breakfast, though. Perhaps I should do it more often.
I'm not a nig fan of url shortening services, but sometimes it makes sense.
Sometimes I just want to send a link to my friends with my dumb phone. The problem is that I don't want to type the whole stupid url and I don't want my friends to ask me if it's an Oh or a Zero. In that case, SocuteURL rocks!
That was what happened with me too. Being impressed by DD-WRT and successfully hacked a bunch of Linksys before, I bought the previous version of the Netgear "opensource" router although it was more expensive with the intention to put dd-wrt or tomato on it (and to promote companies that actually support opensource). Guess what? The standard dd-wrt didn't work on their router! You have to download their own dd-wrt or tomato firmware "distro". And that's not all. After flashing the thing with their provided tomato distro, it totally bricked the router (and I was not the only one). And there is no way to recover the thing, unless you have a 3.3v serial cable to do the JTAG (and they say that's hacker-friendly?).
Ultimately I returned to Newegg, for a restocking and shipping fee. Nice lesson anyway. Don't. Be. Fooled. By. That. Crap. Period. Buy something like an ASUS or a Linksys. FYI Two days ago I was able to put DD-WRT on my friend's Linksys WRT54GS even v7.2 with full SSH + PPPoE support.
... if Google Chrome will become something like this or this some day? I mean, it will expose all cookies, history and stuff including all your pr0n when people use IE to surf Google?
We do what we must
because we can.
For the good of all of us.
Except the ones who are dead.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake.
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
And the Science gets done.
And you make a neat gun.
For the people who are still alive.
Although faster is better and will be every Slashdotter's wet dream, but I'd rather have power-efficient laptops rather than a gazillion Ghz laptop. I don't get why an average Joe needs a Core 2 Duo laptop for Word processing and surfing the web, which is what most people have and what most people do now. And now they're going to put i7 on the laptops. There will be some people who needs it, but not the majority of casual laptop users, who don't do video encoding or kernel compilation (which should be the work of a desktop IMHO).
I have two atom powered laptops and I even sold my laptops because I was so in love with those machines, which wouldn't burn my lap and my balls whenever I have to sit them on my laps. Other than the pitiful 950 graphics, I have nothing to complain about.
And I heard they fixed it with the Z5x0 chipset - on Windows at least, but as I don't have one, I can't verify it.
I must be dreaming, to have both Google's Android and Maemo available on what is historically the most closed computing platform in recent history (cell phones). It seems it will be possible to install both on their new phones.
Will you put your cell phone into a dual boot configuration?
Socuteurl sounds ridiculous but it works, when I need to text some url to my friends, so I don't have to type all the stupid nonsense characters and numbers (it is slow typing the numbers for most phones,) and either they or I will make some mistakes retyping the urls once more.
BTW -- It works with phone calls, too. Socuteurl-dot-com-slash-huggie-buggie-bear or something like that - sweet!
Unless they decided to dump the DRM, why would anyone on Slashdot want to buy these?
It looks like you don't follow Sony very well. Recently Sony has so many surprise moves towards open standards. I own a Walkman player and a Sony reader and I have nothing to complain.
The Sony PRS-505 Reader I'm owning right now is nothing like the Kindle. It reads txt, *ePub* and PDF natively and even plays MP3 and AAC files, and it even has two memory slots -- one of which is SD-HC -- to put your e-books into the device, on-the-fly.
There is a killer software that goes very well with that reader, that is Calibre. The program downloads XKCD, The Register and even Slashdot and puts all of them neatly to my reader every time I connect it to my computer.
So just want to let you know that Sony products now, are much better than the popular choices such as the iPod and the Kindle.
Slashdot Mirror
2 megawatts can't melt steel beams.
I doðY(TM)
In other words that's about twice as expensive as $20 for 2GB that I pay to my cell phone company.
Your calculation is wrong, but even if your calculation was right, it would certainly not be the case. People don't use up to their limit all the time. $20 for 2GB, $10 for 1GB or $5 for 500MB or $1 for 100MB are certainly not the same plan. I would be super happy to have a $1 for 100MB, pretty upset with $10 for 1GB and feel ripped off with $100 for 10GB.
They haven't learned the lesson from Flock, have they?
I just want a goddamn browser, without any of the facebook twitter buttons and toolbars and shit. When I want to update my facebook status, I will get there.
As a person who had to teach myself, had to deal with a broken higher education system in my country (Vietnam) and is currently attending a university in the U.S, I agree with you. There are more than just what is taught in the course, for example the professors, the atmosphere, the connections with other students, and courses that you don't even know that you need -- they can only be found when one attends college. IMHO colleges do a better job with teaching general concepts such as physics, philosophy, art; and online materials do better job teaching specific subjects (especially in Computer Science) -- one can go very deep on a subject matter that they finds interesting. Good thing is online materials and colleges are not mutually exclusive: One can have both. I still learn from online materials everyday.
That said, I always think that I'm extremely lucky to be able to attend and afford college in the U.S. For people those do not have money (students in third world countries), sure online materials cannot deliver the experiences of MIT, but they are still way better than listening to crap they have to listen to everyday (in most colleges).
Bill's statement might not hold water for colleges in the US but it's already true in many parts of the world.
You should consider creating a samba share. If you don't have a server a NAS appliance or a el heapo old PC would handle the job very well.
There is no alternative girl. Although as of lately, she dumped me and fucked my ass, she is the only one. It really is my ex-girlfriend, or the highway.
Yeah, well, that's just like... your opinion, man. You have every right to live in the fucking past.
Kid, you're growing up waaaaaaaaaaaay too fast.
Or set your network speed to 10Mbit. You may have to suffer for a while but you don't have to really touch anything else than your own computer :-)
How have other Slashdot users punished their phones without actually killing them completely?
It survived after being slashdotted... I got Apache installed on it.
If you don't know exactly what an update touches, just reboot.
Gonna be O.K,
Dah dah duh duh,
Just reboot!
The kernel babe,
Duh duh duh duh
Just reboot!
Re-re-re-re-boot...
Buying an Apple and expecting freedom is like
OS X is not locked down BLAH
Yeah. OS X is not locked down until you try to write a wifi (airport?) driver for it.
They really need to ship JooJoo with this song of JoJo.
I went on a vodka bender last night, and this was on my screen when I woke up.
I've had that happen to me a few times. It's a bit unsettling, I assure you.
What's even more unsettling is waking up with a full plate of hash browns and eggs next to my bed, and having no recollection of ever making them. It did make for a nice breakfast, though. Perhaps I should do it more often.
What's even more unsettling is waking up with a naked girl on my bed, and having no recollection of ever doing anything with her. It did make for a nice breakfast, though. Perhaps I should do it more often.
I'm not a nig fan of url shortening services, but sometimes it makes sense.
Sometimes I just want to send a link to my friends with my dumb phone. The problem is that I don't want to type the whole stupid url and I don't want my friends to ask me if it's an Oh or a Zero. In that case, SocuteURL rocks!
That was what happened with me too. Being impressed by DD-WRT and successfully hacked a bunch of Linksys before, I bought the previous version of the Netgear "opensource" router although it was more expensive with the intention to put dd-wrt or tomato on it (and to promote companies that actually support opensource). Guess what? The standard dd-wrt didn't work on their router! You have to download their own dd-wrt or tomato firmware "distro". And that's not all. After flashing the thing with their provided tomato distro, it totally bricked the router (and I was not the only one). And there is no way to recover the thing, unless you have a 3.3v serial cable to do the JTAG (and they say that's hacker-friendly?).
Ultimately I returned to Newegg, for a restocking and shipping fee. Nice lesson anyway. Don't. Be. Fooled. By. That. Crap. Period. Buy something like an ASUS or a Linksys. FYI Two days ago I was able to put DD-WRT on my friend's Linksys WRT54GS even v7.2 with full SSH + PPPoE support.
... if Google Chrome will become something like this or this some day? I mean, it will expose all cookies, history and stuff including all your pr0n when people use IE to surf Google?
We do what we must
because we can.
For the good of all of us.
Except the ones who are dead.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake.
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
And the Science gets done.
And you make a neat gun.
For the people who are still alive.
Although faster is better and will be every Slashdotter's wet dream, but I'd rather have power-efficient laptops rather than a gazillion Ghz laptop. I don't get why an average Joe needs a Core 2 Duo laptop for Word processing and surfing the web, which is what most people have and what most people do now. And now they're going to put i7 on the laptops. There will be some people who needs it, but not the majority of casual laptop users, who don't do video encoding or kernel compilation (which should be the work of a desktop IMHO).
I have two atom powered laptops and I even sold my laptops because I was so in love with those machines, which wouldn't burn my lap and my balls whenever I have to sit them on my laps. Other than the pitiful 950 graphics, I have nothing to complain about.
And I heard they fixed it with the Z5x0 chipset - on Windows at least, but as I don't have one, I can't verify it.
goodluckwiththat
I must be dreaming, to have both Google's Android and Maemo available on what is historically the most closed computing platform in recent history (cell phones). It seems it will be possible to install both on their new phones.
Will you put your cell phone into a dual boot configuration?
Socuteurl sounds ridiculous but it works, when I need to text some url to my friends, so I don't have to type all the stupid nonsense characters and numbers (it is slow typing the numbers for most phones,) and either they or I will make some mistakes retyping the urls once more. BTW -- It works with phone calls, too. Socuteurl-dot-com-slash-huggie-buggie-bear or something like that - sweet!
Unless they decided to dump the DRM, why would anyone on Slashdot want to buy these?
It looks like you don't follow Sony very well. Recently Sony has so many surprise moves towards open standards. I own a Walkman player and a Sony reader and I have nothing to complain. The Sony PRS-505 Reader I'm owning right now is nothing like the Kindle. It reads txt, *ePub* and PDF natively and even plays MP3 and AAC files, and it even has two memory slots -- one of which is SD-HC -- to put your e-books into the device, on-the-fly. There is a killer software that goes very well with that reader, that is Calibre. The program downloads XKCD, The Register and even Slashdot and puts all of them neatly to my reader every time I connect it to my computer. So just want to let you know that Sony products now, are much better than the popular choices such as the iPod and the Kindle.
That- that's about it.