You're right, it is completely useless for on-the-go anything. Which is reasonable because that's not what it was made for. Read the article. No, I mean read it.
Well, it may not be an iPhone killer, but it's also not going to be a Blackberry killer, either. It's just going to be another touchscreen phone that's lost in a sea of touchscreen phones that aren't made by Apple or RIM. After going through the personal agony of owning a few Palm devices (pre-Treo), I, like many others, have given up on Palm. They're big on talk, but that's about it.
On the other hand, since my expectations are pretty damn low, I guess they shouldn't have too much trouble meeting them.
Roads. Fire protection. Police. A thousand other services that make the quality of your life what it is. You don't work for free and neither do the people who do those jobs.
Yours is a typically short-sighted view of taxes, particularly regarding education. If you don't think that you've never benefited from school taxes, ask your doctor where his undergraduate degree came from. Or the pilot of the next plane you fly on. Or the architect who designed your house. Oh, you say, I just meant direct benefits. Well, sorry, pal, we don't differentiate between direct and indirect benefits. You pay to send your neighbor's kid to school and you get the indirect benefit of a more educated citizen. It seems odd that your private education didn't cover the value of benefits such as that.
Now if you want to argue that tax money may not be spent wisely, I might agree with you on that point. Narcissism doesn't really serve us all that well.
I'm no fan of Bush, but even I know that the president isn't the only player in the economy. Not by a long shot. For that matter, the government isn't the only player. You should have paid more attention in your civics class. Assuming that they even teach it anymore.
"Long-term backup media is currently DVD" ha, you got to be kidding, one scratch or a bad player and it is trash. I hope you are not an sys admin for any company.
Not only does everybody think that your idea is stupid, but it's also pretty safe to say that almost anyone entering college as a CS major is getting just a little ahead of himself if he's worried that some professor is going to steal his ideas. Or maybe has been watching too many movies.
DRAM manufacturers have been selling for less than cost for the past 6 or 7 quarters. Commodities prices are not driven by cost of manufacture, they're driven by the market.
You didn't actually listen to or read the interview, did you? Because if you did, you'd know that Griffin does, in fact, believe that global warming is happening.
The fact that he does not believe that the Bible of Global Warming is not the literal word of Al Gore does not make him a heretic - he's just not an evangelical Global Warmer. And that's OK - we welcome any believer into the Church, my brother.
Be sure to tell your employer that your crack team of lawyers from Slashdot is advising you. That'll get their attention. Maybe not in the way that you'd like, but, hey, it's attention, right?
To make matters worse here in CA, only talking on the phone is illegal. Texting is perfectly ok - what were they thinking?
Inattentive driving is still against the law. And in 2004, SB1800 would have banned texting, among other things. I guess it didn't pass.
I'm pretty sure that an inattentive driving citation is a moving violation - worth points against your license. Talking on a cell phone is an infraction. No points.
There are some cases where a regulated monopoly can deliver services more efficiently and cheaper than a free market system can, particularly when there are high infrastructure costs. Consider the water company - the distribution system just doesn't lend itself to a competitive structure. Imagine if you have several competing water companies in your town. They have the choice of creating a massively duplicitous distribution system or cooperating to create a single system, sharing the capacity. In the first case, the distribution system is amortized over a much smaller customer base than a single system and in the second case, the companies effectively create a monopoly.
With a public utility, the company exists in a non-competitive environment in exchange for subjecting itself to strict pricing regulations that limit the company's profits.
I guess that a case could be made for a telephone service-like system, where one water company would own the infrastructure and sell the water to another company who would resell it to the end user, but, like the telephone system, that just seems to introduce a new cost layer into the system. At some point, the product, whether it's water, sewer, telephone or whatever, is provided by a regulated monopoly.
That makes sense for a technology-type service, where the competition from the service providers drives innovation in terms of new services (call waiting and caller ID did not used to be ubiquitous). In other cases, there's only so much that competition can do to make the faucets run and the toilets flush.
As it happens, in my town, the water, sewer and trash are all small companies that service just my town. They've got monopolies, but they're not big corporations. And where my folks live, even the cable company is a small outfit. Not all monopolies are big corporations. And not all monopolies are bad.
And all this time I thought that spam was going to cause the Internet to melt down. Maybe we need new terminology. Instead of "melt down", it should be "Global Internet Change".
I've got a CD-RW in my safe deposit box at the bank. Whenever enough stuff changes, I just take a new one down and bring the old one back. There are instructions on the disc for what to do with the information - who to contact, what passwords go to which accounts, all that stuff. My mom and dad have done the same thing.
One of the best things that you can do for those that you leave behind is to make your passing as easy as possible. Don't die and take the secrets that your family needs to get on with life to your grave. Unless you were a heartless bastard, they'll probably be upset enough that you're gone. No need to make it worse.
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I don't think that World of Warcraft is the target here. Think Second Life. Its currency is convertible into "real money".
This is wonderfull, I get modded troll for firing back at an insult and the parent's "No it isn't" argument is modded +5 insightfull.
Now that's the surest way I know of to garner a nice handful of "-1, Troll" mods. Well played, sir.
You're right, it is completely useless for on-the-go anything. Which is reasonable because that's not what it was made for. Read the article. No, I mean read it.
Or at least reluctantly satisfied!
Well, it may not be an iPhone killer, but it's also not going to be a Blackberry killer, either. It's just going to be another touchscreen phone that's lost in a sea of touchscreen phones that aren't made by Apple or RIM. After going through the personal agony of owning a few Palm devices (pre-Treo), I, like many others, have given up on Palm. They're big on talk, but that's about it.
On the other hand, since my expectations are pretty damn low, I guess they shouldn't have too much trouble meeting them.
Roads. Fire protection. Police. A thousand other services that make the quality of your life what it is. You don't work for free and neither do the people who do those jobs.
Yours is a typically short-sighted view of taxes, particularly regarding education. If you don't think that you've never benefited from school taxes, ask your doctor where his undergraduate degree came from. Or the pilot of the next plane you fly on. Or the architect who designed your house. Oh, you say, I just meant direct benefits. Well, sorry, pal, we don't differentiate between direct and indirect benefits. You pay to send your neighbor's kid to school and you get the indirect benefit of a more educated citizen. It seems odd that your private education didn't cover the value of benefits such as that.
Now if you want to argue that tax money may not be spent wisely, I might agree with you on that point. Narcissism doesn't really serve us all that well.
Oh, the response may be negative, but there's a difference in shrillness. Sort of like the difference between a firecracker and a ton of TNT.
I'm no fan of Bush, but even I know that the president isn't the only player in the economy. Not by a long shot. For that matter, the government isn't the only player. You should have paid more attention in your civics class. Assuming that they even teach it anymore.
Don't worry, it's change we can live with. Change dammit. And hope. Yeah, hope. And stuff.
Oh, and regarding the title of the story, isn't the AG the top DoJ post?
"Long-term backup media is currently DVD"
ha, you got to be kidding, one scratch or a bad player and it is trash. I hope you are not an sys admin for any company.
Now that's funny, right there.
Not only does everybody think that your idea is stupid, but it's also pretty safe to say that almost anyone entering college as a CS major is getting just a little ahead of himself if he's worried that some professor is going to steal his ideas. Or maybe has been watching too many movies.
DRAM manufacturers have been selling for less than cost for the past 6 or 7 quarters. Commodities prices are not driven by cost of manufacture, they're driven by the market.
Mike (global warming is a myth) Griffin
You didn't actually listen to or read the interview, did you? Because if you did, you'd know that Griffin does, in fact, believe that global warming is happening.
The fact that he does not believe that the Bible of Global Warming is not the literal word of Al Gore does not make him a heretic - he's just not an evangelical Global Warmer. And that's OK - we welcome any believer into the Church, my brother.
Pfft, Al Gore got one of those by making a PowerPoint presentation. How tough can it be?
oh the irony of living in a free country
"And the award for worst misuse of the term 'free country' in a /. thread goes to..."
But...are they chocolate pictures? Mmmmm...chocolate universe...
Be sure to tell your employer that your crack team of lawyers from Slashdot is advising you. That'll get their attention. Maybe not in the way that you'd like, but, hey, it's attention, right?
w00h00! The monopoly is broken! Microsoft will never dominate the operating system market like they used to again!
"Ding dong, the witch is dead, the wi..." Wait, 80 what percent? Rats.
To make matters worse here in CA, only talking on the phone is illegal. Texting is perfectly ok - what were they thinking?
Inattentive driving is still against the law. And in 2004, SB1800 would have banned texting, among other things. I guess it didn't pass.
I'm pretty sure that an inattentive driving citation is a moving violation - worth points against your license. Talking on a cell phone is an infraction. No points.
I personally don't like the idea of metrics you can substantially alter by simply borrowing a few hundred billion dollars from China.
It's that damned metric system again. This whole recession thing is probably just a conversion error.
There are some cases where a regulated monopoly can deliver services more efficiently and cheaper than a free market system can, particularly when there are high infrastructure costs. Consider the water company - the distribution system just doesn't lend itself to a competitive structure. Imagine if you have several competing water companies in your town. They have the choice of creating a massively duplicitous distribution system or cooperating to create a single system, sharing the capacity. In the first case, the distribution system is amortized over a much smaller customer base than a single system and in the second case, the companies effectively create a monopoly.
With a public utility, the company exists in a non-competitive environment in exchange for subjecting itself to strict pricing regulations that limit the company's profits.
I guess that a case could be made for a telephone service-like system, where one water company would own the infrastructure and sell the water to another company who would resell it to the end user, but, like the telephone system, that just seems to introduce a new cost layer into the system. At some point, the product, whether it's water, sewer, telephone or whatever, is provided by a regulated monopoly.
That makes sense for a technology-type service, where the competition from the service providers drives innovation in terms of new services (call waiting and caller ID did not used to be ubiquitous). In other cases, there's only so much that competition can do to make the faucets run and the toilets flush.
As it happens, in my town, the water, sewer and trash are all small companies that service just my town. They've got monopolies, but they're not big corporations. And where my folks live, even the cable company is a small outfit. Not all monopolies are big corporations. And not all monopolies are bad.
Yes! Everybody get off the Internet. That way there will be more room for me!
Just to let you know, high schools don't grant degrees.
And never underestimate the value of (social) networking.
And all this time I thought that spam was going to cause the Internet to melt down. Maybe we need new terminology. Instead of "melt down", it should be "Global Internet Change".
I've got a CD-RW in my safe deposit box at the bank. Whenever enough stuff changes, I just take a new one down and bring the old one back. There are instructions on the disc for what to do with the information - who to contact, what passwords go to which accounts, all that stuff. My mom and dad have done the same thing.
One of the best things that you can do for those that you leave behind is to make your passing as easy as possible. Don't die and take the secrets that your family needs to get on with life to your grave. Unless you were a heartless bastard, they'll probably be upset enough that you're gone. No need to make it worse.