Um, in the US we pay their health care costs too. Hospitals are required to treat regardless of ability to pay. Instead of us paying for it directly with taxes, we pay with higher health care costs / insurance / etc.
I would want the full amount of any H1B tax to fund college education / advanced degrees for US citizens. The companies are claiming that US workers are not qualified - OK, well, let's fix that problem.
And many of us who got into IT because of a passion in life are still in IT. In college, out of a comp sci student population of about 120, I knew 10 who were serious enthusiasts, spending long hours in the Vax lab (the vax that ran BSD, not that system V shit...) Those are the people with a natural knack for how things work that are worth their weight in gold. They will never, ever have a problem getting a job. As for the others? Well, apparently you can graduate without knowing what an interrupt is. My guess is that a large portion of them are mid-level project managers that have been left behind while the tech world evolved around them, stuck in a world of MS Project, Visio, Word and Excel (in other words, hell.)
The crummy old GIF format is still quite useful for generating small files of simplistic graphical content. PNG files of similar content are frequently significantly larger. Maybe the crummy old gif format isn't quite so crummy. Maybe it was very well designed for the time... Maybe it still has life left in it.
This goes right back to the point Linus was making, which is that there is really not all that much truly innovative work being done anymore that is worthy of patent protection (he limited his opinion to operating systems, but it applies to most types of software.) Development today is much more evolutionary than revolutionary. What we are doing is modeling our physical world in software to a much greater extent.
Think about one-click... Now think back to the days (if anyone is old enough to remember) where you "opened an account" with the local grocer, and just said "put it on my account" and paid later, like once a month. How much different is one-click to that really?
Except that the SCOTUS regularly overturns congress on other similar types of issues where congress is "given" the authority in the constitution. The SCOTUS, like congress, is not logical in any way, shape, or form. They are subject to the same personal prejudices and political influences too. The bottom line is that the SCOTUS may or may not decide in favor of congress on anything, for any reason, that meshes or does not mesh with the constitution.
I specifically don't want something I have to worry about keeping track of.
You must have a devil of a time with your cell phone, laptop, keys, etc.
it's cheap and ubiquitous enough for me to be able to pick up and read the folded AM New York someone else left
You wouldn't need to read someone else's copy because you would have your own on your tablet.
Once we have reasonably priced e-ink tablets (and I think they would need to get down in the sub $300 range,) I would hope that tree-killing paper magazines and newspapers go away. Newspapers are horrible. World-wide, there are probably about a half-billion copies printed every day, with only a very small fraction getting recycled. I don't even want to know have many dozens of acres of forest wiped out there are just for newspapers alone. Probably double that for all the catalogs and magazines.
I would like to see these devices have some kind of wireless receivers (maybe on unused TV channels) that can receive digital downloads of this kind of content automatically (for whatever you subscribe to.) No need for wifi or cellphone connection (it's one-way) although I wouldn't mind if it also had wifi / bluetooth.
Well, after all the Internet is just a bunch of tubes that Al Gore invented, right???
Or maybe they were trying to make a reference to the outdated technology of Tube (CRT) televisions... Is anyone (in their right mind) buying CRT televisions anymore?
No, I don't think they do. The point is to be able to create a device that is "portable enough to bring with you literally anywhere" that doesn't require 5kg of batteries to keep it running. It's about high-resolution, low power, persistent image display. Think about a newspaper. Now think about something the size of a pad of paper that can hold every current issue of newspaper and magazine in the world... Try lugging around the paper equivalent... Cost is not an issue since it's not a "disposable" device. You buy it once and use it for YEARS. If it's less expensive than the cost of printing and delivering physical copies of every newspaper and magazine you subscribe to in a year, it has paid for itself. BTW, the cost of printing and mailing / delivering is generally significantly more than the subscription price.
And is that is a truly horrible picture. It's not just highly compressed jpeg, it's blurry. Maybe if they took the picture with a real camera instead of a 2001 camera phone, it would look half-way decent.
No. Patents are not trademarks. MS is free to selectively go after anyone they want, and limit that group to Linux based code. Personally, I think any kind of major attack like this will have the EU go postal on MS's ass...
perhaps sites could have an expiration date on all comments posted, like the X-No-Archive: Yes thing in Usenet.
And if you really think that the X-No-Archive header is honored by more than a very small fraction of sites, I have some dot-com stock from a few years back that you may be interested in...
Furthermore, no solution can be legislated due to the "world wide" nature of the net.
It's kind of like that mythical "right to privacy" we all would like to have.
Peak means daytime. Solar only collects power during the day. The issue is that the panels were not collecting enough power to cover peak usage needs. Hence, there is nothing to store - it's all being used, and you still need to buy more at higher "peak" rates.
The biggest problem here is that solar panels are very expensive. You need a LOT to cover your usage unless you have also done MAJOR energy usage reduction efforts such as LED bulbs, better insulation, appliances, etc. If you don't take all those measures, the panel's don't make sense financially.
There is an AT&T data center in Virginia that was hit by a tornado. Our servers are there. In the part that got hit hardest, water was pouring in and down onto a few racks of servers. The servers were still up, but they powered down that section of the data center for safety reasons. Our servers were fortunate not to be affected, and AT&T kept them running throughout the whole ordeal (power grid was down too, so they were on generator for a couple days.) BTW, that was the "before SBC" AT&T.
This is not true. Many countries don't require everyone to have a passport to enter. In some cases, a drivers license is enough. In fact, the reason you need a passport now to travel to these countries is to get back IN to the US when you return!
No. You didn't. I stand by my opinion, you are free to stand by yours.
This is not about Canada, it's about the US.
I agree that corporate influence has been around a long long time, but I do believe it is accelerating, as is the erosion of civil liberties, privacy, etc. I haven't seen any evidence to the contrary in the 25 years that I have been paying attention to this kind of thing.
Technology also allows for EASY copies. Copying a book used to be a VERY time consuming task. In other words, copying wasn't a problem because copying was unrealistic / expensive. Copyrights also used to be short in duration - now they are effectively forever.
While it is true that it's not purely a problem with Bush / Clinton, the power of lobbying groups and corporations has increased at an accelerated pace under their terms. By not using the power of the Veto, they have allowed congress to run amok destroying our freedoms, civil liberties, etc. Personally, I think Bush has done more of this activity personally rather than congress doing it (which was the case with the DMCA / Bono copyright act), but this wouldn't be a problem unless they were all conspiring together. If congress wants to stop Bush, they have the full power and authority to do so.
I do. I also have it set so that your caller-ID has to be on a whitelist between the hours of 9pm-8am to bypass the "press 5 to speak with us" message. Any anonymous / 800# calls get that 24x7. Blacklisted calls get played a "this number has been disconnected or is no longer in service" message that I recorded from the telco. Then there are numbers in the "asshole" list that get played a Very special message.
I would bet that they don't allow a three digit number - probably the full 10 digit. Depending on their software, something like 911-234-1234 may work. Bet they filter to valid area codes however.
We are talking business use here mainly. Pretty much any reasonably modern (newer than 1999) office copier has the ability to "scan to email/network PDF." Few are actually configured to do it however. A page (which is black and white) works out to about 70K / page at 300 DPI (which is significantly better than a fax), so you should RARELY run into email limits unless you are sending hundreds of pages. I've never heard of a business that blocks PDF files via email. Ever. I've also never seen one that couldn't handle at least a 4M attachment.
If your high-end copier really doesn't have scanning capability, go get yourself a $300 HP all-in-one and a hook it up to an old desktop dedicated to the purpose. All these modern all-in-one's have the "scan to email" capabilities which is no harder to use than a fax machine.
I recently was dealing with a real estate transaction, and was "faxing" back and forth 10 page offer's / counter offers several times a day for a couple weeks. My agent was fully "email aware" and we did everything via scanner / email. The hard part was reading real faxes sent by other agents to my agent that my agent forwarded to me. Usually they were Very hard to read, and in many cases were partially unreadable. Fortunately we were dealing with standardized forms so I could always refer to a master copy.
Real faxing is dead to all but the totally clueless. Set up right (which is EASY to do,) scanning to email is trivial.
Apple, in spite of Palm's better judgment, is going to walk in, unless somebody comes up with something better and more useful.
While I certainly agree that the Apple iPhone UI looks awesome and is probably better than everything else out there, the iPhone won't fly in the enterprise market which has the money for the service plans needed to exploit the full capabilities of these devices. It needs to have an open development platform. The plethora of free and commercial third party apps on palm / WM are what make those devices attractive. For the "just works" crowd, the BB really is hard to beat. Yes, the usability could be better, but it works, is geared towards the enterprise, and has a real keyboard.
If the n800 had a slide out keyboard and cell phone capability....
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Um, in the US we pay their health care costs too. Hospitals are required to treat regardless of ability to pay. Instead of us paying for it directly with taxes, we pay with higher health care costs / insurance / etc.
I would want the full amount of any H1B tax to fund college education / advanced degrees for US citizens. The companies are claiming that US workers are not qualified - OK, well, let's fix that problem.
And many of us who got into IT because of a passion in life are still in IT. In college, out of a comp sci student population of about 120, I knew 10 who were serious enthusiasts, spending long hours in the Vax lab (the vax that ran BSD, not that system V shit...) Those are the people with a natural knack for how things work that are worth their weight in gold. They will never, ever have a problem getting a job. As for the others? Well, apparently you can graduate without knowing what an interrupt is. My guess is that a large portion of them are mid-level project managers that have been left behind while the tech world evolved around them, stuck in a world of MS Project, Visio, Word and Excel (in other words, hell.)
The crummy old GIF format is still quite useful for generating small files of simplistic graphical content. PNG files of similar content are frequently significantly larger. Maybe the crummy old gif format isn't quite so crummy. Maybe it was very well designed for the time... Maybe it still has life left in it.
This goes right back to the point Linus was making, which is that there is really not all that much truly innovative work being done anymore that is worthy of patent protection (he limited his opinion to operating systems, but it applies to most types of software.) Development today is much more evolutionary than revolutionary. What we are doing is modeling our physical world in software to a much greater extent.
Think about one-click... Now think back to the days (if anyone is old enough to remember) where you "opened an account" with the local grocer, and just said "put it on my account" and paid later, like once a month. How much different is one-click to that really?
Except that the SCOTUS regularly overturns congress on other similar types of issues where congress is "given" the authority in the constitution. The SCOTUS, like congress, is not logical in any way, shape, or form. They are subject to the same personal prejudices and political influences too. The bottom line is that the SCOTUS may or may not decide in favor of congress on anything, for any reason, that meshes or does not mesh with the constitution.
I specifically don't want something I have to worry about keeping track of.
You must have a devil of a time with your cell phone, laptop, keys, etc.
it's cheap and ubiquitous enough for me to be able to pick up and read the folded AM New York someone else left
You wouldn't need to read someone else's copy because you would have your own on your tablet.
Once we have reasonably priced e-ink tablets (and I think they would need to get down in the sub $300 range,) I would hope that tree-killing paper magazines and newspapers go away. Newspapers are horrible. World-wide, there are probably about a half-billion copies printed every day, with only a very small fraction getting recycled. I don't even want to know have many dozens of acres of forest wiped out there are just for newspapers alone. Probably double that for all the catalogs and magazines.
I would like to see these devices have some kind of wireless receivers (maybe on unused TV channels) that can receive digital downloads of this kind of content automatically (for whatever you subscribe to.) No need for wifi or cellphone connection (it's one-way) although I wouldn't mind if it also had wifi / bluetooth.
Well, after all the Internet is just a bunch of tubes that Al Gore invented, right???
Or maybe they were trying to make a reference to the outdated technology of Tube (CRT) televisions... Is anyone (in their right mind) buying CRT televisions anymore?
Let the tubes die.
No, because it's not innovative. It's an obvious use of technology, not just to someone in the trade, but to anyone.
No, I don't think they do. The point is to be able to create a device that is "portable enough to bring with you literally anywhere" that doesn't require 5kg of batteries to keep it running. It's about high-resolution, low power, persistent image display. Think about a newspaper. Now think about something the size of a pad of paper that can hold every current issue of newspaper and magazine in the world... Try lugging around the paper equivalent... Cost is not an issue since it's not a "disposable" device. You buy it once and use it for YEARS. If it's less expensive than the cost of printing and delivering physical copies of every newspaper and magazine you subscribe to in a year, it has paid for itself. BTW, the cost of printing and mailing / delivering is generally significantly more than the subscription price.
And is that is a truly horrible picture. It's not just highly compressed jpeg, it's blurry. Maybe if they took the picture with a real camera instead of a 2001 camera phone, it would look half-way decent.
No. Patents are not trademarks. MS is free to selectively go after anyone they want, and limit that group to Linux based code. Personally, I think any kind of major attack like this will have the EU go postal on MS's ass...
10 years? It goes a lot farther than that. I found a bunch of posts that I wrote back in 1987. Comp.sys.amiga lives!!!
perhaps sites could have an expiration date on all comments posted, like the X-No-Archive: Yes thing in Usenet.
And if you really think that the X-No-Archive header is honored by more than a very small fraction of sites, I have some dot-com stock from a few years back that you may be interested in...
Furthermore, no solution can be legislated due to the "world wide" nature of the net.
It's kind of like that mythical "right to privacy" we all would like to have.
Peak means daytime. Solar only collects power during the day. The issue is that the panels were not collecting enough power to cover peak usage needs. Hence, there is nothing to store - it's all being used, and you still need to buy more at higher "peak" rates.
The biggest problem here is that solar panels are very expensive. You need a LOT to cover your usage unless you have also done MAJOR energy usage reduction efforts such as LED bulbs, better insulation, appliances, etc. If you don't take all those measures, the panel's don't make sense financially.
There is an AT&T data center in Virginia that was hit by a tornado. Our servers are there. In the part that got hit hardest, water was pouring in and down onto a few racks of servers. The servers were still up, but they powered down that section of the data center for safety reasons. Our servers were fortunate not to be affected, and AT&T kept them running throughout the whole ordeal (power grid was down too, so they were on generator for a couple days.) BTW, that was the "before SBC" AT&T.
This is not true. Many countries don't require everyone to have a passport to enter. In some cases, a drivers license is enough. In fact, the reason you need a passport now to travel to these countries is to get back IN to the US when you return!
Fixed that for you.
No. You didn't. I stand by my opinion, you are free to stand by yours.
This is not about Canada, it's about the US.
I agree that corporate influence has been around a long long time, but I do believe it is accelerating, as is the erosion of civil liberties, privacy, etc. I haven't seen any evidence to the contrary in the 25 years that I have been paying attention to this kind of thing.
Technology also allows for EASY copies. Copying a book used to be a VERY time consuming task. In other words, copying wasn't a problem because copying was unrealistic / expensive. Copyrights also used to be short in duration - now they are effectively forever.
While it is true that it's not purely a problem with Bush / Clinton, the power of lobbying groups and corporations has increased at an accelerated pace under their terms. By not using the power of the Veto, they have allowed congress to run amok destroying our freedoms, civil liberties, etc. Personally, I think Bush has done more of this activity personally rather than congress doing it (which was the case with the DMCA / Bono copyright act), but this wouldn't be a problem unless they were all conspiring together. If congress wants to stop Bush, they have the full power and authority to do so.
I do. I also have it set so that your caller-ID has to be on a whitelist between the hours of 9pm-8am to bypass the "press 5 to speak with us" message. Any anonymous / 800# calls get that 24x7. Blacklisted calls get played a "this number has been disconnected or is no longer in service" message that I recorded from the telco. Then there are numbers in the "asshole" list that get played a Very special message.
I would bet that they don't allow a three digit number - probably the full 10 digit. Depending on their software, something like 911-234-1234 may work. Bet they filter to valid area codes however.
We are talking business use here mainly. Pretty much any reasonably modern (newer than 1999) office copier has the ability to "scan to email/network PDF." Few are actually configured to do it however. A page (which is black and white) works out to about 70K / page at 300 DPI (which is significantly better than a fax), so you should RARELY run into email limits unless you are sending hundreds of pages. I've never heard of a business that blocks PDF files via email. Ever. I've also never seen one that couldn't handle at least a 4M attachment.
If your high-end copier really doesn't have scanning capability, go get yourself a $300 HP all-in-one and a hook it up to an old desktop dedicated to the purpose. All these modern all-in-one's have the "scan to email" capabilities which is no harder to use than a fax machine.
I recently was dealing with a real estate transaction, and was "faxing" back and forth 10 page offer's / counter offers several times a day for a couple weeks. My agent was fully "email aware" and we did everything via scanner / email. The hard part was reading real faxes sent by other agents to my agent that my agent forwarded to me. Usually they were Very hard to read, and in many cases were partially unreadable. Fortunately we were dealing with standardized forms so I could always refer to a master copy.
Real faxing is dead to all but the totally clueless. Set up right (which is EASY to do,) scanning to email is trivial.
RTFA. The layoff's will be matched with hiring in India / China.
Flamebait? Oh ye of little humor...
Apple, in spite of Palm's better judgment, is going to walk in, unless somebody comes up with something better and more useful.
While I certainly agree that the Apple iPhone UI looks awesome and is probably better than everything else out there, the iPhone won't fly in the enterprise market which has the money for the service plans needed to exploit the full capabilities of these devices. It needs to have an open development platform. The plethora of free and commercial third party apps on palm / WM are what make those devices attractive. For the "just works" crowd, the BB really is hard to beat. Yes, the usability could be better, but it works, is geared towards the enterprise, and has a real keyboard.
If the n800 had a slide out keyboard and cell phone capability....