I don't think many people are installing commercial software on these things. Most of them come with a 30 day trial of MS Office 2007, about the only commercial software you would want on a "lightweight cpu" netbook. If you need more power, you're probably going to buy a desktop or full size laptop. My desktop doesn't even have an optical drive -- I borrowed an old drive out of another computer to install the OS, but otherwise the "full size" drive bays continue to be empty on my computer.
It took them FIVE YEARS to design this "new" interface? It still looks worse than craigslist. I think Ebay would best be off licencing the data, and then providing the backend for ebay, and letting third party users plug into their database/backend and provide their own 3rd party front end "officially licenced by ebay". Look how well this works for the National Weather Service. You've got weather.com, weatherunderground, other sites like stormpulse and various other ones, all providing specific things the others don't offer, and in tight, clean packages.
I've always wondered, how is credit history handled internationally for private citizens? Does a UK employer just pull your US credit score, google for what a "good" score is, and base it off that? How does bankruptcy, etc affect your (I assume) nonexistant credit score in the UK/EU? Could you just rack up huge CC bills, declare bankruptcy in the US, and move to the UK without any effect on your credit?
Wether or not people use the new features for their intended uses doesn't bother Apple much. When Mom is at Walmart and is picking out an MP3 player for Billy or Sally and the Nano is $150 and the Samsung equivilent is $89, it's hard to justify the Nano when the Samsung has on it's feature sheet better specs (on paper, at least) and costs less. Mom justifies the higher cost (i.e. perceived value) by saying "Billy and Sally will have so much fun making their own movies with this!" and buys the Nano at almost 2x the cost of the Samsung. An image sensor and a microphone, at iPod Nano volumes, probably cost $1.50 each to the cost of the item, maximum. Probably half that.
Lucas Arts announces an upcomming space sim followup to X Wing and Tie Fighter, lo and behold, someone Named Matt Barton ( http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Matthew/Barton ) who is an online marketing consultant posts a story to the front page of Slashdot, plugging X-Wing (a true nerd would have plugged the fan favorite, TIE-Fighter), thus increasing marketing buzz for the new X-Wing title. Now, two questions for you slashdotters,
1. Am I reverse-psychology marketing you slashdotters for the new Lucas Arts game, and
2. Who will be the first one to find a monetary link between Matt Barton and Lucas Arts?
Most people learn to touch type by age 12. If you don't figure it out by age 18 then it's pretty likely you won't ever need that skill. Driving lessons aren't mandatory, but people who need it learn how to drive anyways. I'm sorry, but this is probably one of the dumbest slashdot articles I've ever seen.
I will play devil's advocate here for a second (though believe me, i think this bill is dumb too) I always hear about the downsides to this, but is there a form you fill out, similar to a tax return, where you can claim your estimated damages? What sort of documentation do you have to provide at that point? Or are you just audited randomly, like with income taxes? Or do artists really not receive any compensation?
The whole program was all kinds of fail. You don't "lease" a subcompact car in 1995 America. The idea of an adult driving a new car like a metro or a caviler was a joke back then. People bought and leased full sized cars based on the cheap cost of gas. People lease a BMW or Mercedes, or at least something that's usually more expensive than joe six pack can buy used on three month's income used. This car looked like a geo metro (face it, it's true), performed about as well (looks like it anyways, this is the important part) and had a high barrier of entry based on relatively new technology (home and office charging stations, etc). Tesla motors has it right this time, build the halo sports car (greatest profit margin), then the sporty, full size family sedan (second highest profit margin) and then follow up with something in the 20K range slightly smaller than a Camry (sustainable profit margin), and never ever a geo metro sized car (sold basically at cost).
GM introduced a small, low profit margin vehicle and attempted(?) to recoup their R&D based on that, failed spectacularly, and, pun intended, pulled the plug on the whole project and wrote it off.
9-5 with health insurance beats an unpredictable schedule, working two jobs because neither wants to give you 40 hours so they can deny you health insurance, graveyard shift and wearing a demeaning uniform. YMMV of course, but I would seriously consider suicide as an alternative to working in the service industry again. In my experience, retail/food service is a euphemism for "indentured servitude", or simply, "slavery". It's almost impossible to claw your way out unless you have brains or an education (it helps to have both).
The Dallas Observer had an article about "NoSchooling", which is a better name, IMO. The kids ended up learning to read so they could figure out cheat codes for their video games. So in practice it can work. Their parents (and resulting so were their kids) were above average in intelligence, so they were able to get away with this. I think the problem with no-schooling children of average intelligence (really, think about this, most slashdotters don't come in contact with truly average intelligence children) end up either doing manual labor or working in the service industry. At least with some formal education, children have a chance at going to college and breaking out of more mundane jobs.
When I was in 5th grade and discovered girls, was about the same time I discovered instant messaging on AOL (back then it was v. 2.5, which only supported plain text - get off my lawn!) and got along just fine. I always wished I had a handheld IM client/device I could use while in front of the TV - with unlimited SMS that's basically what a cell phone is, and the iPhone even displays sms messages in a chat format. Age 11 might be a little late to be introducing your kid to instant messaging/sms (is there really a difference anymore with unlimited sms plans?). Sometime after 1st but well before 5th.
I've never heard it before either. Seems like a SEO-only term. You see it in the head tag, but the marketing dribble doesn't mention it. Server specs for anything coming up "2p" includes 2 processors, but correlation != causation, especially with marketing folk.
Biggest difference is that the $160 Nvidia card has 120mb less ram for nextgen games with lots of high res textures; whereas a 1GB 4870 is $20 cheaper, and runs at 250 watts, whereas the Nvidia card consumes 360 watts, which is a lot of heat to exhaust out of a midsize case.
What is the range on a pair of these, and what would a pair of these cost? How much is a repeater station? Are other states doing things similar to this and what are the key terms I should be googling for to learn more about this?
It's almost double the price and provides features you can only appreciate on a 120hz display. The 9800GT and 8800GT are the same price and the ATI card blows it out of the water. If you're buying cards in the $140 range you may or may not have a 120hz display. I don't know anyone who owns one though.
In other news, ATI is selling their 4870 series cards for $130 on newegg, which are twice as fast as an Nvidia 9800GTS which is the same price (at least on Left 4 Dead, Call of Duty, and any other game that matters). ATI is blowing Nvidia out of the water in terms of performance per dollar and will continue to do so through at least the middle of next year. See here:
I'm forming the Steam Political Alliance to keep the government out of my Steam! I NEED my TF2.:shakes angry fist:
Actually, I'm suprised HAMs haven't created a resiliant point to point civilian network yet. When the physical backbone goes down, I guess there's sattelite, but it's hard to beat point to point optical networks for mobility and reliability and hard to jam "frequencies" (unless it rains, or is cloudy, or...).
We still have some rural public schools writing purchase orders in cursive, by hand. More use typewriters. Many, many schools, districts and what not are still printing on daisy wheel printers, onto carbon copy paper in triplicate. A precious few have upgraded to keeping everything in a database, and printing a single purchase order via laser printer to run through the fax machine or print. It's only the AAA and AAAA-class (and i'm not talking sports AAA rating) school districts like NYC and Chicago Public Schools that are submitting orders via email and paying via ACH wire transfer.
Why upgrade?
Well for starters it's expensive. And it eliminates jobs. In a lot of small towns/communities/counties, schools and prisons are the largest job generators in the area, siphoning in millions of dollars of state and federal funds. You bought a good scheduling system? Fantastic! We'll cut our counciling staff from 4 down to 3. Who do fire? Well, Martha's been here for 30 years, Susanne has been here for 25 years and her husband is disabled. And then there's the twins, Shelly and Deborah. They both started here 22 years ago. I guess we can fire Deborah, even though she has three kids and no supplemental income because she knew she'd always have this job.
It's devastatingly hard to invest in technology that will make someone you've worked with 40+ hours a week for the last 20 years unemployed.
In Prince George's County though, there's no excuse. It's a huge, giant school district, and one of the richest counties (also very populous) in the US.
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I don't think many people are installing commercial software on these things. Most of them come with a 30 day trial of MS Office 2007, about the only commercial software you would want on a "lightweight cpu" netbook. If you need more power, you're probably going to buy a desktop or full size laptop. My desktop doesn't even have an optical drive -- I borrowed an old drive out of another computer to install the OS, but otherwise the "full size" drive bays continue to be empty on my computer.
You must be new here
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/27/0216251
It took them FIVE YEARS to design this "new" interface? It still looks worse than craigslist. I think Ebay would best be off licencing the data, and then providing the backend for ebay, and letting third party users plug into their database/backend and provide their own 3rd party front end "officially licenced by ebay". Look how well this works for the National Weather Service. You've got weather.com, weatherunderground, other sites like stormpulse and various other ones, all providing specific things the others don't offer, and in tight, clean packages.
I've always wondered, how is credit history handled internationally for private citizens? Does a UK employer just pull your US credit score, google for what a "good" score is, and base it off that? How does bankruptcy, etc affect your (I assume) nonexistant credit score in the UK/EU? Could you just rack up huge CC bills, declare bankruptcy in the US, and move to the UK without any effect on your credit?
Wether or not people use the new features for their intended uses doesn't bother Apple much. When Mom is at Walmart and is picking out an MP3 player for Billy or Sally and the Nano is $150 and the Samsung equivilent is $89, it's hard to justify the Nano when the Samsung has on it's feature sheet better specs (on paper, at least) and costs less. Mom justifies the higher cost (i.e. perceived value) by saying "Billy and Sally will have so much fun making their own movies with this!" and buys the Nano at almost 2x the cost of the Samsung. An image sensor and a microphone, at iPod Nano volumes, probably cost $1.50 each to the cost of the item, maximum. Probably half that.
I was gonna say, we should rename this "Nerd Flu"!
How far do you sit from your TV. I have a chart to show you.
You are correct though, 60hz "p" (and eventually 120hz "p") television is the next wave.
Lucas Arts announces an upcomming space sim followup to X Wing and Tie Fighter, lo and behold, someone Named Matt Barton ( http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Matthew/Barton ) who is an online marketing consultant posts a story to the front page of Slashdot, plugging X-Wing (a true nerd would have plugged the fan favorite, TIE-Fighter), thus increasing marketing buzz for the new X-Wing title. Now, two questions for you slashdotters,
1. Am I reverse-psychology marketing you slashdotters for the new Lucas Arts game, and
2. Who will be the first one to find a monetary link between Matt Barton and Lucas Arts?
Most people learn to touch type by age 12. If you don't figure it out by age 18 then it's pretty likely you won't ever need that skill. Driving lessons aren't mandatory, but people who need it learn how to drive anyways. I'm sorry, but this is probably one of the dumbest slashdot articles I've ever seen.
I will play devil's advocate here for a second (though believe me, i think this bill is dumb too) I always hear about the downsides to this, but is there a form you fill out, similar to a tax return, where you can claim your estimated damages? What sort of documentation do you have to provide at that point? Or are you just audited randomly, like with income taxes? Or do artists really not receive any compensation?
NO! Page Rank is not named after webPage. It's named after Larry Page who created it. Arrrgh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Page
The whole program was all kinds of fail. You don't "lease" a subcompact car in 1995 America. The idea of an adult driving a new car like a metro or a caviler was a joke back then. People bought and leased full sized cars based on the cheap cost of gas. People lease a BMW or Mercedes, or at least something that's usually more expensive than joe six pack can buy used on three month's income used. This car looked like a geo metro (face it, it's true), performed about as well (looks like it anyways, this is the important part) and had a high barrier of entry based on relatively new technology (home and office charging stations, etc). Tesla motors has it right this time, build the halo sports car (greatest profit margin), then the sporty, full size family sedan (second highest profit margin) and then follow up with something in the 20K range slightly smaller than a Camry (sustainable profit margin), and never ever a geo metro sized car (sold basically at cost).
GM introduced a small, low profit margin vehicle and attempted(?) to recoup their R&D based on that, failed spectacularly, and, pun intended, pulled the plug on the whole project and wrote it off.
9-5 with health insurance beats an unpredictable schedule, working two jobs because neither wants to give you 40 hours so they can deny you health insurance, graveyard shift and wearing a demeaning uniform. YMMV of course, but I would seriously consider suicide as an alternative to working in the service industry again. In my experience, retail/food service is a euphemism for "indentured servitude", or simply, "slavery". It's almost impossible to claw your way out unless you have brains or an education (it helps to have both).
The Dallas Observer had an article about "NoSchooling", which is a better name, IMO. The kids ended up learning to read so they could figure out cheat codes for their video games. So in practice it can work. Their parents (and resulting so were their kids) were above average in intelligence, so they were able to get away with this. I think the problem with no-schooling children of average intelligence (really, think about this, most slashdotters don't come in contact with truly average intelligence children) end up either doing manual labor or working in the service industry. At least with some formal education, children have a chance at going to college and breaking out of more mundane jobs.
Thanks, my internet is down, I was unable to google that myself.
I am trying to tag this article "birthcontrol" but article tagging is apparently disabled for firefox 3.0 users.
When I was in 5th grade and discovered girls, was about the same time I discovered instant messaging on AOL (back then it was v. 2.5, which only supported plain text - get off my lawn!) and got along just fine. I always wished I had a handheld IM client/device I could use while in front of the TV - with unlimited SMS that's basically what a cell phone is, and the iPhone even displays sms messages in a chat format. Age 11 might be a little late to be introducing your kid to instant messaging/sms (is there really a difference anymore with unlimited sms plans?). Sometime after 1st but well before 5th.
I've never heard it before either. Seems like a SEO-only term. You see it in the head tag, but the marketing dribble doesn't mention it. Server specs for anything coming up "2p" includes 2 processors, but correlation != causation, especially with marketing folk.
Toms Hardware says it's nearly identical
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-geforce-comparison,2007-7.html
Biggest difference is that the $160 Nvidia card has 120mb less ram for nextgen games with lots of high res textures; whereas a 1GB 4870 is $20 cheaper, and runs at 250 watts, whereas the Nvidia card consumes 360 watts, which is a lot of heat to exhaust out of a midsize case.
What is the range on a pair of these, and what would a pair of these cost? How much is a repeater station? Are other states doing things similar to this and what are the key terms I should be googling for to learn more about this?
It's almost double the price and provides features you can only appreciate on a 120hz display. The 9800GT and 8800GT are the same price and the ATI card blows it out of the water. If you're buying cards in the $140 range you may or may not have a 120hz display. I don't know anyone who owns one though.
Here's the L4D comparo, sorry for the wrong link:
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/gaming-graphics-cards-charts-2009-high-quality/Left4Dead,1455.html
The 9800GT and 8800GT are both in the 40-60fps while the 4870 (single processor) is in the 106fps range. It's a pretty staggering difference.
In other news, ATI is selling their 4870 series cards for $130 on newegg, which are twice as fast as an Nvidia 9800GTS which is the same price (at least on Left 4 Dead, Call of Duty, and any other game that matters). ATI is blowing Nvidia out of the water in terms of performance per dollar and will continue to do so through at least the middle of next year. See here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/gaming-graphics-cards-charts-2009-high-quality/benchmarks,62.html
Yeah, I'd be making outrageous statements too if I were Nvidia.
I'm forming the Steam Political Alliance to keep the government out of my Steam! I NEED my TF2. :shakes angry fist:
Actually, I'm suprised HAMs haven't created a resiliant point to point civilian network yet. When the physical backbone goes down, I guess there's sattelite, but it's hard to beat point to point optical networks for mobility and reliability and hard to jam "frequencies" (unless it rains, or is cloudy, or...).
We still have some rural public schools writing purchase orders in cursive, by hand. More use typewriters. Many, many schools, districts and what not are still printing on daisy wheel printers, onto carbon copy paper in triplicate. A precious few have upgraded to keeping everything in a database, and printing a single purchase order via laser printer to run through the fax machine or print. It's only the AAA and AAAA-class (and i'm not talking sports AAA rating) school districts like NYC and Chicago Public Schools that are submitting orders via email and paying via ACH wire transfer.
Why upgrade?
Well for starters it's expensive. And it eliminates jobs. In a lot of small towns/communities/counties, schools and prisons are the largest job generators in the area, siphoning in millions of dollars of state and federal funds. You bought a good scheduling system? Fantastic! We'll cut our counciling staff from 4 down to 3. Who do fire? Well, Martha's been here for 30 years, Susanne has been here for 25 years and her husband is disabled. And then there's the twins, Shelly and Deborah. They both started here 22 years ago. I guess we can fire Deborah, even though she has three kids and no supplemental income because she knew she'd always have this job.
It's devastatingly hard to invest in technology that will make someone you've worked with 40+ hours a week for the last 20 years unemployed.
In Prince George's County though, there's no excuse. It's a huge, giant school district, and one of the richest counties (also very populous) in the US.