First comes the well-meaning-but-naive assertion that "there needs to be" this system, then comes the subtle hint that wealthier nations should pay for it, since theirs is the privilege of strength, while others have the right of weakness. All of this culminates in the UN declaring the civilized world to be "stingy", and some knee-jerk reaction by the USian Con-gress to fund it, and 173 miscellaneous pork-barrel projects for midwestern states, all rationalized because its "for the poor".
I, for one, do not welcome our new socialist overlords.
Everyone loves to bash Big Media, and how ??AA is teh suck, but people still queue up and slurp up the latest to be shovelled out of Hollywood. It's now a "well known fact" that current pop music is garbage, but people keep buying it. Its not enough to say "well, I wont buy DRM stuff", because whats still implied is "but I'll buy everything else". Do you really need all of the Sopranos on DVD? Must you watch 3.5 hours of TV per day? Must you buy the latest boy band or cookie cutter post-grunge band CD? While we on Slashdot may seek out entertainment in non traditional ways, on dark alleys of the Internet, or by frequenting local music venues, the majority of people, while they may bitch, continue to shovel money at ??AA. It's the same way the US complains about high oil prices - we THROW money at OPEC, then complain when they charge us more. Who's the bad guy there?
If you want to make sure your resume comes through clean, PDF it. No subtle MS-Office compatibility issues, you can use whatever you want to create it (OO.o, SO, LaTeX, etc).
This is great for people who buy a whitebox 2nd computer, but might actually care about not pirating MS Office. Or for people who get some OEM crippled Office, like Works, which comes with Word and not much else. But how best to evangelize? Perhaps an NYT ad would do the trick - let people know that there's a cheap alternative to Office, with builtin PDF support for instance.
If you bothered to read the submission: "The article doesn't give a 'doomsday' timeframe, when we'll have no better ability to forecast the weather than they did in the 1800s, but that is what they are talking about." then you would have understood my FUD comment. Instead your desire to spew about 22.235 GHz and need to discuss the albedo of the ocean (that term you managed to leave out) kicked in, and you posted without reading. So, please take your oh-so-superior 'rich field of data points' and your 'finite mesh predictor', and shove it up your holier-than-thou, goatse'd ass.
Didn't they just EOL the PA-RISC line, in FAVOR of the Itanium? Who's running HP these days, Willy Wonka? Or are they going to walk the Path of DEC, CA and others, where they actually make nothing, but try to sell services that nobody needs, or could get from the real vendors themselves? Where is HP headed?
Um, when you can SEE the clouds from space, you have a much better view of the weather than they did in the 1800s. Whether or not its raining currently underneath those clouds is perhaps less certain, but if you can see the weather, and you can place a phone call to someone underneath the clouds, you have a good idea of what its doing. Sounds like the article is FUD.
Most people hate the security people, because in most Companies that need security, its typically run by PHBs who hire, you guessed it, Accreditted Security People. People who know that "SNMP is bad" because its cleartext, or that "best practices" dictate that you have 8 letter, "strong" passwords that change daily with no repeats for 90 days, and generally stick their nose in, offer their opinion on, and fsck up every project that anyone tries to do. Good luck. I hope that you like being reviled.
Um, they have that, it's called a phone. Seriously, on a 33.6Kbps link, what kind of quality are you going to get? Speak not to me of codecs - you're too close to the bone bandwidth-wise. Latency and low bandwidth would kill it. VoIP on broadband, like I have here, however, works gre...BUFFERING...
I want to be über-pimp and get an iPod, but I want to be avant-garde, so I bought a Sony, which sucks, compared to the iPod. Did I mention that my wife is Japanese? That gets me gadget-geek points, doesn't it?
[ ] Why does Japan always have the cool gadgets? [ ] In $SCANDANAVIAN_COUNTRY, they can order soda from a vending machine with their cellphones! [ ] Evil corporations are slowing progress in the US [ ] This proves GSM r0xx0rs. [ ] CDMA is teh suck because $TECHNICAL_LONGWINDED_REASON [ ] Great, all I have to do is buy a 1000 Euro phone! [ ] In Soviet North Korea, nobody has cell phones! [ ] I don't have a cellphone, you insensitive clod!
has decreased because TV sucks. While that may sound like a tautology, the long version is that TV lacks good content. Just as the recording industry is putting out more and more cookie-cutter "artists", so is the broadcast TV industry putting out more and more crap, viz. Fear Factor Part XXXIV, Survivor XIX, etc. Broadcast news is generally flat and one-sided. Cable TV still occasionally produces something decent, because the subscription price eliminates the need to advertise, and provides a revenue stream to fund new shows and projects. Maybe Internet use has increased BECAUSE TV has become less useful, not the other way 'round.
Or Linux? Or WinCE? Or CustomWinEmbedded ? Given the remarkable ability of the US Gubmint to screw things up, send bids to the lowest bidder, and the generally crap state of public-sector contracting, combined with the generally crap state of off the shelf computing resources (OSes, VB scripters, and the PHBs who manage them), will this thing just be come a giant fscked up boondogle? Like the famous 'ship powered by WinNT' that had to be towed back to port?
I hear this phrase all the time, and I don't know what it means. Do you mean that "today's" economy is fundamentally different than say, 10 years ago? Are we talking post-Soviet world politics? Post Iraq war? Post dot-bomb bubble? Post New Deal? Post Great Society? When HAVENT people been "working to the point where they don't even know what stress is anymore", unless they had some sinecure union job that only required 20 hours a week?
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When will Slashdot have some News, instead of being just an RSS aggregator with commentary?
First comes the well-meaning-but-naive assertion that "there needs to be" this system, then comes the subtle hint that wealthier nations should pay for it, since theirs is the privilege of strength, while others have the right of weakness. All of this culminates in the UN declaring the civilized world to be "stingy", and some knee-jerk reaction by the USian Con-gress to fund it, and 173 miscellaneous pork-barrel projects for midwestern states, all rationalized because its "for the poor".
I, for one, do not welcome our new socialist overlords.
-1, Troll, -1, Flamebait, whatever, its true.
God I hope I don't have to worry about viruses on my Sybian OS cell phone. Who knows how many people it might infect?
is fristage postage mine?
Everyone loves to bash Big Media, and how ??AA is teh suck, but people still queue up and slurp up the latest to be shovelled out of Hollywood. It's now a "well known fact" that current pop music is garbage, but people keep buying it. Its not enough to say "well, I wont buy DRM stuff", because whats still implied is "but I'll buy everything else".
Do you really need all of the Sopranos on DVD? Must you watch 3.5 hours of TV per day? Must you buy the latest boy band or cookie cutter post-grunge band CD? While we on Slashdot may seek out entertainment in non traditional ways, on dark alleys of the Internet, or by frequenting local music venues, the majority of people, while they may bitch, continue to shovel money at ??AA.
It's the same way the US complains about high oil prices - we THROW money at OPEC, then complain when they charge us more. Who's the bad guy there?
If you want to make sure your resume comes through clean, PDF it. No subtle MS-Office compatibility issues, you can use whatever you want to create it (OO.o, SO, LaTeX, etc).
This is great for people who buy a whitebox 2nd computer, but might actually care about not pirating MS Office. Or for people who get some OEM crippled Office, like Works, which comes with Word and not much else. But how best to evangelize? Perhaps an NYT ad would do the trick - let people know that there's a cheap alternative to Office, with builtin PDF support for instance.
Try using things like capitalization, pronouns, and verbs. This is not IRC, k1dd13.
If you bothered to read the submission: "The article doesn't give a 'doomsday' timeframe, when we'll have no better ability to forecast the weather than they did in the 1800s, but that is what they are talking about." then you would have understood my FUD comment. Instead your desire to spew about 22.235 GHz and need to discuss the albedo of the ocean (that term you managed to leave out) kicked in, and you posted without reading. So, please take your oh-so-superior 'rich field of data points' and your 'finite mesh predictor', and shove it up your holier-than-thou, goatse'd ass.
Didn't they just EOL the PA-RISC line, in FAVOR of the Itanium? Who's running HP these days, Willy Wonka? Or are they going to walk the Path of DEC, CA and others, where they actually make nothing, but try to sell services that nobody needs, or could get from the real vendors themselves? Where is HP headed?
Um, when you can SEE the clouds from space, you have a much better view of the weather than they did in the 1800s. Whether or not its raining currently underneath those clouds is perhaps less certain, but if you can see the weather, and you can place a phone call to someone underneath the clouds, you have a good idea of what its doing.
Sounds like the article is FUD.
as -1, Troll? What does Iraq have to do with anything in the discussion?
Most people hate the security people, because in most Companies that need security, its typically run by PHBs who hire, you guessed it, Accreditted Security People. People who know that "SNMP is bad" because its cleartext, or that "best practices" dictate that you have 8 letter, "strong" passwords that change daily with no repeats for 90 days, and generally stick their nose in, offer their opinion on, and fsck up every project that anyone tries to do.
Good luck. I hope that you like being reviled.
Um, they have that, it's called a phone. Seriously, on a 33.6Kbps link, what kind of quality are you going to get? Speak not to me of codecs - you're too close to the bone bandwidth-wise. Latency and low bandwidth would kill it. VoIP on broadband, like I have here, however, works gre...BUFFERING...
I want to be über-pimp and get an iPod, but I want to be avant-garde, so I bought a Sony, which sucks, compared to the iPod. Did I mention that my wife is Japanese? That gets me gadget-geek points, doesn't it?
6) Profit ???
Choose one or more, for maximum flamebait:
[ ] Why does Japan always have the cool gadgets?
[ ] In $SCANDANAVIAN_COUNTRY, they can order soda from a vending machine with their cellphones!
[ ] Evil corporations are slowing progress in the US
[ ] This proves GSM r0xx0rs.
[ ] CDMA is teh suck because $TECHNICAL_LONGWINDED_REASON
[ ] Great, all I have to do is buy a 1000 Euro phone!
[ ] In Soviet North Korea, nobody has cell phones!
[ ] I don't have a cellphone, you insensitive clod!
has decreased because TV sucks. While that may sound like a tautology, the long version is that TV lacks good content. Just as the recording industry is putting out more and more cookie-cutter "artists", so is the broadcast TV industry putting out more and more crap, viz. Fear Factor Part XXXIV, Survivor XIX, etc. Broadcast news is generally flat and one-sided. Cable TV still occasionally produces something decent, because the subscription price eliminates the need to advertise, and provides a revenue stream to fund new shows and projects. Maybe Internet use has increased BECAUSE TV has become less useful, not the other way 'round.
YHL. HAND.
Or Linux? Or WinCE? Or CustomWinEmbedded ? Given the remarkable ability of the US Gubmint to screw things up, send bids to the lowest bidder, and the generally crap state of public-sector contracting, combined with the generally crap state of off the shelf computing resources (OSes, VB scripters, and the PHBs who manage them), will this thing just be come a giant fscked up boondogle? Like the famous 'ship powered by WinNT' that had to be towed back to port?
What does this do, besides lack any substantial development history, that MythTV doesn't do?
That being said, it seems to be working great on my Xbox, that mighty 733MHz P3 w/no hw MPEG capabi...BUFFERING...
We all know about Soekris, and your alphabet soup paper credentials don't mean squat.
I hear this phrase all the time, and I don't know what it means. Do you mean that "today's" economy is fundamentally different than say, 10 years ago? Are we talking post-Soviet world politics? Post Iraq war? Post dot-bomb bubble? Post New Deal? Post Great Society? When HAVENT people been "working to the point where they don't even know what stress is anymore", unless they had some sinecure union job that only required 20 hours a week?
GNU/FSFE ??