A major telco, or a coalition of the major telcos, will go deep into dept to bid an extremely high price that no one can match, then win, then use their effective monopoly to continue the USA's crappy position in telecommunication quality, and thereby charge high enough prices to pay back the debt from their bid.
From reading the article, the FCC is opening the bid at $10 billion. The previous record for spectrum licensing is $13.x billion, and SOME analysts expect this to go higher. Still, I don't think the FCC will take Google stock as payment - cash only please.
The uses for this spectrum are many. It remains to be seen if anyone will use it in such a way that it profits them, and benefits us as well.
colleague of mine recently discovered a CD image of an old windows 3.11 drive, which had word for windows 2 on it. He put the CD in his Vista box and double clicked on Word and it just ran. That's binary software from 1989 running unmodified on the latest OS. How much mac or linux software could make the same claim? The funny thing about that is I could take that same CD, pop it into my Mac, and run WinWord (remember when we called it that?) 2.0 just as easily. But I can't run any pre-X Macintosh software.
As for whether any of this is good or bad is open for discussion. I don't think anyone wants to run WinWord 2 anymore. I do know people who want to run some OS9.x apps, and have to keep a PPC mac around for doing so.
Then again, OS X doesn't have a ton of badly written legacy code to support WinWord.
Then again, I need to find a job.
"That assumes that everyone is a sysadmin. I am, so the suggestion is usable, but what if I was an accountant? I get a mandatory training film on Sarbanes-Oxley that says "upgrade your quicktime", I click the icon, and my computer turns into a brick."
Um, if you're an accountant then you aren't using After Effects to do video production work. Therefore you're computer isn't a brick. Even if you WERE making videos your computer isn't a brick, it just can't use After Effects to render quicktime movies.
The headline and summary for this one are worse than usual for Slashdot.
"Tollroads always have less traffic than their free counter parts."
Never been to New Jersey, have you?
Seriously though, what if there are no free counterparts? Or if the "free" option is local roads and side streets, thus increasing pollution and accidents in residential areas?
Governments like toll roads because they mostly serve a captive audience. And because they think people are idiots: to wit, this from a NJ state legislator, in reference to a proposed 800% increase in tolls, "most of them use EZ Pass, so they won't notice it anyway."
Actually, many employers use self-funded health plans. These plans are administered by health insurance companies and most employees have no idea that the employer is actually funding the costs. The only time actual insurance kicks in is when a stop-loss figure is hit.
They started it with mandatory licensing. I mean, come on, a license to sell a house? What advanced training does that require? But each group, when it gets big enough, lobbies for this protection of its turf. In NJ you need a license to be an interior decorator.
i stopped somewhere around the paragraph where he was renting a boxing ring. why would slashdot bother promoting this schmuck? i don't often, if ever, comment on the editors' choice of what to post, but this is just a waste of space, bandwidth and consciousness.
...my first Sony Vaio. Ten inch display, no floppy, no cd. Weighed less than three pounds. Went everywhere with me, took multiple beatings and "just worked". It's the only laptop I would get comments on when I used it in public.
I got my daughter an OLPC. I am impressed with what they accomplished with it, and we haven't even scratched the surface of the applications on it. She's just jazzed that she has her own computer and can write and take pictures of herself. She did ask if she could use it to go to "coms", but her internet access will wait a while.
The OLPC is not, however, a good choice for me as a portable computer. Keyboard is made for kid sized hands and has a much different feel than I'm used to. If I ever start working again the ASUS would be my choice for a stow and go computer.
"Too bad Gabe is such a prick. Seriously, not since Theo DeRaadt has the world seen such a total asshole."
Tycho, is that you? Harlan? DivX?
so Gabe kicked your ass at Halo 3. get over it.
Jim Cramer is a lunatic, but probably right
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The big NYC financial houses are already selling themselves to Arab and Chinese investors. This trend will continue. NYC will become a UN of finance, a place where the various world financial powers can meet and make deals. There will be no middle class in NYC. The population will be the uber-wealthy and the low paid service workers they employ. America will still be the place where the rest of the world sells their stuff, but they won't be selling it for US dollars. Americans will be on the dole or working in foreign owned sweatshops, and buying shit on credit. You won't retire, you'll work till you die, if you work at all.
Ex-president Chelsea Clinton's granddaughter will be running for president against a Saudi prince whose last name is Bush. American Idol will still have more voters and generate more interest than the presidential election. Canada and Mexico will complain about US citizens illegaly immigrating to their countries.
The New England Patriots will be working on a 1900 game winning streak, and Bill Belichek's head will be in a jar on the sidelines. Athletes will be grown in axoltl tanks. A new Slashdot ID will be a very large number. Windows 2108 will be late, bloated and buggy. The Linux kernel will still be licensed as GPL v2, and will be at version 2.6.something.
Apple will issue an update to the iPhone that breaks the hacks that let people install third party applications. Time Machine will let you restore files you haven't created yet. My iMac will be getting its 2000th logic board replacement.
This post will have been moderated into oblivion, but my clone will still think it was funny.
"mp3 sounds fine to me i think what matters what is where the sound is coming out from speaker/headphone quality etc."
but the point of the article is that new CDs are being mastered in such a way that mp3s WILL sound just as good as the CD, AND THEY SHOULDN'T. It's like those old Readers Digest abridged novels. If the abridged version is just as good as the original, then the original had something wrong with it.
In this case the original is lacking in the qualities that would distinguish it from a compressed copy. I listen to mp3s mostly, it's easy and convenient to stream them from my Mac to my stereo. But when I pop an older CD into my car stereo I am often thrilled to hear what I've been missing at home. Newer CDs sound just like the mp3s, and I have to play them at a lower volume or they will indeed case aural fatigue.
you made me think of my favorite piece of HP software - New Wave. I was even a New Wave "evangelist" for a while, trying to sell it to corporate users. I even still use my New Wave mousepad.
Microsoft says: "When you use certain programs to edit files on a home computer that uses Windows Home Server, the files may become corrupted when you save them to the home server."
1 - If there is a Home Server somewhere on my network that I save files to, does that make MY computer "a home computer that uses WHS"? 2- Does "edit files on a home computer" mean opening a file that is ON my PC, or merely opening a file WITH my PC? 3 - Is WHS a backup system, or a file server? If it is a file server, then I have an expectation that I can edit files that it serves me.
The summary, indeed the entire article, leaves many unanswered questions.
same situation. the space was large enough to split into two rooms. the door to the server room was in the back of my office. i had them install A/C units in both rooms, telling them if it got too hot in the server room I could open the door and run the second unit. that got me private A/C, and in that building it came in handy.
desk was not in line of sight to the door, so people had to walk in to see if I was there. ran a usb camera to the door so I could see them coming. had the only office with a lockable door, using the same justification as the second A/C. If I had to leave the server room open I would have to lock my door when I left.
.....that were it not for these jokes many people wouldn't even know that he was still alive, or that he even exists at all. Come on now, he sells exercise equipment on infomercials, he doesn't HAVE a "good name" to take advantage of.
....but I was there and I don't remember this at all. Still, I love it when old tech survives - take a peek in my basement window (I always forget to turn off the light).
I did buy a VIC-20 in a supermarket in Florida while this was in production, I don't recall seeing one on the shelf.
I agree, wholeheartedly. Those who write this off as a gimmick are missing the big picture. Once the kids start communicating and learning from each other they will be empowered in a way we can only begin to imagine.
is that cable internet access, if available in a community, is available to everyone. Verizon is cherrypicking neighborhoods to maximize penetration.
I would love to subscribe to FIOS. I was the first on my block to get cable internet from comcast 11 years ago. I was the first to switch to DSL with verizon when it became available (mostly for service issues. while my DSL connection has never gone down, cable routinely failed). Yet from the way things look my little neighborhood isn't going to see FIOS for a long time.
cable won't die. there is an advantage for them in that to win the franchises way back when they had to provide availability to everyone. verizon is building a demographically tiered system, for good or ill.
There is no reason for Apple to want to be able to run Windows executables natively. As others have pointed out, malware alone would be enough reason to say no.
More likely this is related to EFI. Less likely this is something that a developer was playing around with and forgot to delete from his code before checking it in.
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From reading the article, the FCC is opening the bid at $10 billion. The previous record for spectrum licensing is $13.x billion, and SOME analysts expect this to go higher. Still, I don't think the FCC will take Google stock as payment - cash only please.
The uses for this spectrum are many. It remains to be seen if anyone will use it in such a way that it profits them, and benefits us as well.
"intentional interference with another's goods"
if this was intentional it wouldn't be so EASY TO FIX! there were fixes and/or workarounds being posted before the original article was flame-edited.
"That assumes that everyone is a sysadmin. I am, so the suggestion is usable, but what if I was an accountant? I get a mandatory training film on Sarbanes-Oxley that says "upgrade your quicktime", I click the icon, and my computer turns into a brick."
Um, if you're an accountant then you aren't using After Effects to do video production work. Therefore you're computer isn't a brick. Even if you WERE making videos your computer isn't a brick, it just can't use After Effects to render quicktime movies.
The headline and summary for this one are worse than usual for Slashdot.
"Tollroads always have less traffic than their free counter parts."
Never been to New Jersey, have you?
Seriously though, what if there are no free counterparts? Or if the "free" option is local roads and side streets, thus increasing pollution and accidents in residential areas?
Governments like toll roads because they mostly serve a captive audience. And because they think people are idiots: to wit, this from a NJ state legislator, in reference to a proposed 800% increase in tolls, "most of them use EZ Pass, so they won't notice it anyway."
Actually, many employers use self-funded health plans. These plans are administered by health insurance companies and most employees have no idea that the employer is actually funding the costs. The only time actual insurance kicks in is when a stop-loss figure is hit.
Congress will exempt themselves, as they always do. Want to smoke in your office? Get elected to Congress.
The thing to worry about is that this administration doesn't care if it gets legislative approval. They'll implement it anyway.
They started it with mandatory licensing. I mean, come on, a license to sell a house? What advanced training does that require? But each group, when it gets big enough, lobbies for this protection of its turf. In NJ you need a license to be an interior decorator.
i stopped somewhere around the paragraph where he was renting a boxing ring. why would slashdot bother promoting this schmuck? i don't often, if ever, comment on the editors' choice of what to post, but this is just a waste of space, bandwidth and consciousness.
...my first Sony Vaio. Ten inch display, no floppy, no cd. Weighed less than three pounds. Went everywhere with me, took multiple beatings and "just worked". It's the only laptop I would get comments on when I used it in public.
I got my daughter an OLPC. I am impressed with what they accomplished with it, and we haven't even scratched the surface of the applications on it. She's just jazzed that she has her own computer and can write and take pictures of herself. She did ask if she could use it to go to "coms", but her internet access will wait a while.
The OLPC is not, however, a good choice for me as a portable computer. Keyboard is made for kid sized hands and has a much different feel than I'm used to. If I ever start working again the ASUS would be my choice for a stow and go computer.
"Too bad Gabe is such a prick. Seriously, not since Theo DeRaadt has the world seen such a total asshole."
Tycho, is that you? Harlan? DivX?
so Gabe kicked your ass at Halo 3. get over it.
The big NYC financial houses are already selling themselves to Arab and Chinese investors. This trend will continue. NYC will become a UN of finance, a place where the various world financial powers can meet and make deals. There will be no middle class in NYC. The population will be the uber-wealthy and the low paid service workers they employ. America will still be the place where the rest of the world sells their stuff, but they won't be selling it for US dollars. Americans will be on the dole or working in foreign owned sweatshops, and buying shit on credit. You won't retire, you'll work till you die, if you work at all.
Ex-president Chelsea Clinton's granddaughter will be running for president against a Saudi prince whose last name is Bush. American Idol will still have more voters and generate more interest than the presidential election. Canada and Mexico will complain about US citizens illegaly immigrating to their countries.
The New England Patriots will be working on a 1900 game winning streak, and Bill Belichek's head will be in a jar on the sidelines. Athletes will be grown in axoltl tanks. A new Slashdot ID will be a very large number. Windows 2108 will be late, bloated and buggy. The Linux kernel will still be licensed as GPL v2, and will be at version 2.6.something.
Apple will issue an update to the iPhone that breaks the hacks that let people install third party applications. Time Machine will let you restore files you haven't created yet. My iMac will be getting its 2000th logic board replacement.
This post will have been moderated into oblivion, but my clone will still think it was funny.
"mp3 sounds fine to me
i think what matters what is where the sound is coming out from
speaker/headphone quality etc."
but the point of the article is that new CDs are being mastered in such a way that mp3s WILL sound just as good as the CD, AND THEY SHOULDN'T. It's like those old Readers Digest abridged novels. If the abridged version is just as good as the original, then the original had something wrong with it.
In this case the original is lacking in the qualities that would distinguish it from a compressed copy. I listen to mp3s mostly, it's easy and convenient to stream them from my Mac to my stereo. But when I pop an older CD into my car stereo I am often thrilled to hear what I've been missing at home. Newer CDs sound just like the mp3s, and I have to play them at a lower volume or they will indeed case aural fatigue.
you made me think of my favorite piece of HP software - New Wave. I was even a New Wave "evangelist" for a while, trying to sell it to corporate users. I even still use my New Wave mousepad.
Microsoft says: "When you use certain programs to edit files on a home computer that uses Windows Home Server, the files may become corrupted when you save them to the home server."
1 - If there is a Home Server somewhere on my network that I save files to, does that make MY computer "a home computer that uses WHS"?
2- Does "edit files on a home computer" mean opening a file that is ON my PC, or merely opening a file WITH my PC?
3 - Is WHS a backup system, or a file server? If it is a file server, then I have an expectation that I can edit files that it serves me.
The summary, indeed the entire article, leaves many unanswered questions.
same situation. the space was large enough to split into two rooms. the door to the server room was in the back of my office. i had them install A/C units in both rooms, telling them if it got too hot in the server room I could open the door and run the second unit. that got me private A/C, and in that building it came in handy.
desk was not in line of sight to the door, so people had to walk in to see if I was there. ran a usb camera to the door so I could see them coming. had the only office with a lockable door, using the same justification as the second A/C. If I had to leave the server room open I would have to lock my door when I left.
.....that were it not for these jokes many people wouldn't even know that he was still alive, or that he even exists at all. Come on now, he sells exercise equipment on infomercials, he doesn't HAVE a "good name" to take advantage of.
....but I was there and I don't remember this at all. Still, I love it when old tech survives - take a peek in my basement window (I always forget to turn off the light).
I did buy a VIC-20 in a supermarket in Florida while this was in production, I don't recall seeing one on the shelf.
I agree, wholeheartedly. Those who write this off as a gimmick are missing the big picture. Once the kids start communicating and learning from each other they will be empowered in a way we can only begin to imagine.
and I can't wait for mine to get here!
we plan our LIVES around not making left turns.
I can think of a few possible alternatives:
let users run a tab, and bill their card when the tab hits a certain amount.
set up a bank. don't charge yourself for credit card processing.
"We make more money this way."
...can't tell the difference between a dog and your leg.
is that cable internet access, if available in a community, is available to everyone. Verizon is cherrypicking neighborhoods to maximize penetration.
I would love to subscribe to FIOS. I was the first on my block to get cable internet from comcast 11 years ago. I was the first to switch to DSL with verizon when it became available (mostly for service issues. while my DSL connection has never gone down, cable routinely failed). Yet from the way things look my little neighborhood isn't going to see FIOS for a long time.
cable won't die. there is an advantage for them in that to win the franchises way back when they had to provide availability to everyone. verizon is building a demographically tiered system, for good or ill.
There is no reason for Apple to want to be able to run Windows executables natively. As others have pointed out, malware alone would be enough reason to say no.
More likely this is related to EFI. Less likely this is something that a developer was playing around with and forgot to delete from his code before checking it in.