Why would someone pay $40 for a piece of hardware and then not use it?
I own a PS2 network adapter and have never used it.
My GF gave it to me for Christmas because I am an avid (PC) online gamer and also play PS2 games. But I haven't yet seen an online PS2 game that I wanted to buy, and haven't had the desire to string ethernet cable from my home office to the living room either, so the PS2 adapter has been gathering dust in the back of the closet for 8 months now.
Then again, I suppose the same situation could occur with XBox Live subscriptions. So your argument is correct.:)
You can still get USGS DEMS at the GIS Data Depot.
Originally all the data there was free, but little by little they've been fencing it off into the paid "premium" area. But DEMs are still free to download.
Early humans didn't steal food from predators using steal, they scavenged leftovers using tools.
Our bigger brains allowed us to figure out that we could bang rocks on the femurs of large prey carcasses and crack them open to get at the bone marrow that the tiger couldn't.
You have a very valid point. Corruption is a non-partisan problem with our Congress. Lobbyists pretty much own our government at this point, and both parties are equally disgusting in this regard.
However, for the most part large corporations throw their money at Republicans, not Democrats, because Republicans are usually more eager to hand out tax cuts and other corporate welfare than are Democrats. And there is a corresponding amount of Republican sucking-up to large corporations in response to this phenomenon.
Yeah, I'm just outside the "compound" on New Jersey SE.
I checked out the hotspot description and map on thier website. It's located on the eastern edge of the Capitol grounds opposite the Supreme Court, and they say coverage just barely reaches the Jefferson Building of the LOC next door. So it's pretty much useless unless you're sitting on the steps of the Supreme Court or on the 7 square feet of the Capitol grounds that aren't a huge construction pit.
I guess they picked this location as their first hotspot because it's the "center of democracy" and blah blah blah. But rom a practical standpoint it's not a very useful location. Their #2 hotspot out on the mall will be much more useful.
Try loitering in this neighborhood in a parked car, with some funny/suspicious looking dohicky on the roof, while staring intently at an unseen gizmo in your lap, and you'll get a visit from some armed friends in less time than it takes you to yell "Help, help, I'm being repressed!"
And you should see what they do to the poor saps that accidentally come into the neighborhood in a rented moving van. Hoo boy!
You've got it backwards. The channels that are popular with the masses, like ESPN, CHARGE the cable companies on a per-subscriber basis for the right to carry them. The less popular channels PAY the cable companies on a per-subscriber basis for the privilege of getting carried.
A large part of your cable bill is those fees that your cable company pays to ESPN, MTV etc. for the right to provide that channel to you, whether you want it or not. But if you have a la carte service and do not add ESPN to your service, the cable company doesn't have to pay the ESPN tax on your behalf and (ideally anyway) you don't have to pay the ESPN tax to your cable company.
Oh, and about those fringe channels. There's an economic factor involved that everyone here seems to be overlooking. With a la carte service, everyone who subscribes to a fringe channel will be doing so because they actually watch it, not because it was bundled with the McChannel that the masses are watching. That makes a HUGE difference to advertisers. The fringe channel can charge higher rates for advertising if they can claim 1 million voluntary paid subscribers than if they can claim 10 million potential viewers because of channel bundling. This is how magazine advertising works - ever wonder how Wired can turn a profit offering subscriptions for $10/year? It's because voluntary paid subscribers are who advertisers pay big money to place their ads in front of. The more paid subscribers Wired has, the higher the advertizing revenue they bring in. Paid subscriptions are a much bigger determinant of ad rates than total circulation is in the publication world, and this would also be the case with cable advertizing with a la carte service.
Anyone following investment advice on Slashdot would have to be insane. Case in point: SCO.
Huh? SCO's stock (SCOX) has fallen more than 50% in the last 3 months. Everyone here on Slashdot knew long ago that SCO's claims were bogus and were likely a pump-n-dump scheme by SCO execs. The investing public took much longer to figure that out. Anyone who followed the advice given here has made a very tidy profit on SCOX.
Additionally, the parent post's comment (which has been modded as funny) about shorting MSFT was also sound. MSFT is down almost 2% today.
The best place to find insightful information about tech companies is places where tech-knowledgable people talk. Like Slashdot.
I think I can tell by your post that you used to watch the cable channels you listed but don't actually anymore. Know how? Because you listed TLC as a "guy" channel.
See, I haven't had cable in a few years, but I used to watch The Learning Channel all the time in the mid 90's. It rocked - remember Connections and then Connections 2? THAT was quality TV! That was GUY TV! But lately I've had a few glimpses of today's TLC at a friend's house, and I've been shocked and dismayed at what has become of by beloved Learning Channel.
I mean, Trading Spaces? WTF? TLC is now some kind of hybrid between Better Homes & Gardens and The Real World.
They've even gone all "Kentucky Fried Chicken" with their name - no more mention of "The Learning Channel" at all. They're just "TLC" and they have nothing to do with Learning or education at all.
I'm repeating my reply to another poster, but yes, I misstated in my original post.
Microsoft decreed that they would make only one version of Windows for x86-64 chips.
AMD was the first to create an x86-64 instruction set so that's the one Microsoft used. Microsoft had already made a version of windows for IA-64 chips, but that version will not run on x86-64 chips. So Intel had no choice but to use AMD's x86-64 instructions if they wanted to release an x86-64 chip.
This is Microsoft's doing. They laid down the law and said there would be only ONE 64-bit version of Windows XP, and since AMD's 64-bit instruction set was out first that's the one they used.
Intel had no choice but to use AMD's instructions if they wanted their chips to be Windows-compatible.
No, they're politicians plain and simple. They don't really believe creationism is a valid science, but they need to pander to the ignorant voters that do. Bible-thumpin', science-hatin' fundamentalists are a large part of the Republican base and must be pandered to in order to keep them from voting for Pat Buchanan.
The demo version of Unreal Tournament 2004 is to be released this week. The full retail version is coming soon after.
Download the demo when it comes out and you'll be getting in on the ground floor with a new game that no one else knows any better than you. And there won't be any cheats yet either since it's a new game, although that will most likely not be the case in a few months time.
I too have an email address that starts with "spam", which I started about 4 years ago for public consumption - forums, website registrations, etc. It has never been spammed. Never. I've always been mystified as to why, and I believe this is the answer.
I'll bet it's because of the common practice of inserting the word "spam" in a legitimate email address as a way of defeating email harvesters. You know - if my real address was mapmaker@yahoo.com I'd write mapSPAMmaker@yahoo.com and then say to remove the "spam" to email me. So the harvesters are automatically removing the word "spam" from harvested addresses to get at the real address, but in our cases the "spam" is a legitimate part so they fail!
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I own a PS2 network adapter and have never used it.
My GF gave it to me for Christmas because I am an avid (PC) online gamer and also play PS2 games. But I haven't yet seen an online PS2 game that I wanted to buy, and haven't had the desire to string ethernet cable from my home office to the living room either, so the PS2 adapter has been gathering dust in the back of the closet for 8 months now.
Then again, I suppose the same situation could occur with XBox Live subscriptions. So your argument is correct. :)
Maybe you should have previewed your post in Word and taken advantage of that wonderful grammar checker...
"If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance."
It doesn't, it's the other way around - this CPU has a feature (NX bit) that WinXP will be aware of as of SP2.
You can still get USGS DEMS at the GIS Data Depot. Originally all the data there was free, but little by little they've been fencing it off into the paid "premium" area. But DEMs are still free to download.
Our bigger brains allowed us to figure out that we could bang rocks on the femurs of large prey carcasses and crack them open to get at the bone marrow that the tiger couldn't.
However, for the most part large corporations throw their money at Republicans, not Democrats, because Republicans are usually more eager to hand out tax cuts and other corporate welfare than are Democrats. And there is a corresponding amount of Republican sucking-up to large corporations in response to this phenomenon.
But your point is right on. Sega proved it not once but twice!
Yeah, I'm just outside the "compound" on New Jersey SE.
I checked out the hotspot description and map on thier website. It's located on the eastern edge of the Capitol grounds opposite the Supreme Court, and they say coverage just barely reaches the Jefferson Building of the LOC next door. So it's pretty much useless unless you're sitting on the steps of the Supreme Court or on the 7 square feet of the Capitol grounds that aren't a huge construction pit.
I guess they picked this location as their first hotspot because it's the "center of democracy" and blah blah blah. But rom a practical standpoint it's not a very useful location. Their #2 hotspot out on the mall will be much more useful.
Try loitering in this neighborhood in a parked car, with some funny/suspicious looking dohicky on the roof, while staring intently at an unseen gizmo in your lap, and you'll get a visit from some armed friends in less time than it takes you to yell "Help, help, I'm being repressed!"
And you should see what they do to the poor saps that accidentally come into the neighborhood in a rented moving van. Hoo boy!
A large part of your cable bill is those fees that your cable company pays to ESPN, MTV etc. for the right to provide that channel to you, whether you want it or not. But if you have a la carte service and do not add ESPN to your service, the cable company doesn't have to pay the ESPN tax on your behalf and (ideally anyway) you don't have to pay the ESPN tax to your cable company.
Oh, and about those fringe channels. There's an economic factor involved that everyone here seems to be overlooking. With a la carte service, everyone who subscribes to a fringe channel will be doing so because they actually watch it, not because it was bundled with the McChannel that the masses are watching. That makes a HUGE difference to advertisers. The fringe channel can charge higher rates for advertising if they can claim 1 million voluntary paid subscribers than if they can claim 10 million potential viewers because of channel bundling. This is how magazine advertising works - ever wonder how Wired can turn a profit offering subscriptions for $10/year? It's because voluntary paid subscribers are who advertisers pay big money to place their ads in front of. The more paid subscribers Wired has, the higher the advertizing revenue they bring in. Paid subscriptions are a much bigger determinant of ad rates than total circulation is in the publication world, and this would also be the case with cable advertizing with a la carte service.
I, for one, can't wait for the day I can buy SciFi and Comedy Central without paying the ESPN tax. Or the MTV tax. Or the Fox News tax.
FCC Pollster: Hello? Mrs. Mabel Johnson? Please tell me how you feel about the following words and phrases:
titty-fuck. shit-can. big, floppy donkey dick.
Hello? Hello?
The purpose of that is to make you enable Flash when viewing thier page. That their ads are also Flash based is purely a coincidence...
Huh? SCO's stock (SCOX) has fallen more than 50% in the last 3 months. Everyone here on Slashdot knew long ago that SCO's claims were bogus and were likely a pump-n-dump scheme by SCO execs. The investing public took much longer to figure that out. Anyone who followed the advice given here has made a very tidy profit on SCOX.
Additionally, the parent post's comment (which has been modded as funny) about shorting MSFT was also sound. MSFT is down almost 2% today.
The best place to find insightful information about tech companies is places where tech-knowledgable people talk. Like Slashdot.
I think I can tell by your post that you used to watch the cable channels you listed but don't actually anymore. Know how? Because you listed TLC as a "guy" channel.
See, I haven't had cable in a few years, but I used to watch The Learning Channel all the time in the mid 90's. It rocked - remember Connections and then Connections 2? THAT was quality TV! That was GUY TV! But lately I've had a few glimpses of today's TLC at a friend's house, and I've been shocked and dismayed at what has become of by beloved Learning Channel.
I mean, Trading Spaces? WTF? TLC is now some kind of hybrid between Better Homes & Gardens and The Real World.
They've even gone all "Kentucky Fried Chicken" with their name - no more mention of "The Learning Channel" at all. They're just "TLC" and they have nothing to do with Learning or education at all.
Such as remembering the proper spellings of homonyms. :)
No. And clearly, neither do you. Her current last name, which she got from her first husband, is Heinz.
I have no idea what her maiden name was.
Microsoft decreed that they would make only one version of Windows for x86-64 chips.
AMD was the first to create an x86-64 instruction set so that's the one Microsoft used. Microsoft had already made a version of windows for IA-64 chips, but that version will not run on x86-64 chips. So Intel had no choice but to use AMD's x86-64 instructions if they wanted to release an x86-64 chip.
You're right. What I meant was there is only one x86-64 version of windows. There is also an IA-64 version for Itanic servers.
Intel had no choice but to use AMD's instructions if they wanted their chips to be Windows-compatible.
Heisenberg might of been here.
No, they're politicians plain and simple. They don't really believe creationism is a valid science, but they need to pander to the ignorant voters that do. Bible-thumpin', science-hatin' fundamentalists are a large part of the Republican base and must be pandered to in order to keep them from voting for Pat Buchanan.
Download the demo when it comes out and you'll be getting in on the ground floor with a new game that no one else knows any better than you. And there won't be any cheats yet either since it's a new game, although that will most likely not be the case in a few months time.
I'll bet it's because of the common practice of inserting the word "spam" in a legitimate email address as a way of defeating email harvesters. You know - if my real address was mapmaker@yahoo.com I'd write mapSPAMmaker@yahoo.com and then say to remove the "spam" to email me. So the harvesters are automatically removing the word "spam" from harvested addresses to get at the real address, but in our cases the "spam" is a legitimate part so they fail!
Cool!