There's something I haven't been able to find out about the mod device. If you have an old PS3 that's backwards compatible with PS2 games will the modchip allow you to play PS2 games off a hard drive?
They're not necessarily all trying to be malicious. For a lot of people learning code requires hands-on experience, and if hacking is their interest and primary motivator to improve their coding skills, what better target to experiment on than one of the most hated software companies in all the lands?
And how is this tiny, 2 employee company supposed to defend itself? No matter how right it is, 2 people will be bankrupted in no time. This is the nature of our corporate-owned country, inhabited by masochistic neo conservatives who want giant, faceless institutions with no obligation to anyone to step all over them like cockroaches. With the power of our vote we could use the government as a tool to protect the little guy from those with the resources to do almost anything they want. Instead we have Obama, the most conservative "Democrat" in the history of our country, to lead us to... what exactly?
That's... one of the rationales used to explain the Domino Effect theory. You think people back then made up a pretty name and expected everyone to swallow their dose of anti-communism without protest? They had to explain it with *something*.
Or maybe the cost of starting up a network is insanely high? First you need billions to buy up spectrum at one of the FCC's spectrum auctions. Then you need billions to build out towers and lines, and that's all money you have to pay upfront before you even make a dime. Your special access costs will also be at the whim of AT&T and Verizon, who control the majority of middle mile access points across the US. Do you understand how insanely difficult it is to attract investors in that situation?
This is such an informative comment. Very few people seem to understand how much trouble America causes with its "help". By donating/dumping tons of free food and medical aid to these 3rd world countries (during times of peace) without actually helping them to build the infrastructure to support themselves, they actually crowd out all legitimate means these nations have of supporting themselves. The farmers and doctors can't compete with free, go out of business, and the nation becomes entirely dependent on its benefactors.
I remember reading an article about an African country's president explaining how China's efforts to build up legitimate businesses and infrastructure in his country has done far more to stabilize and promote their country's growth than anything the US did.
It's just a shame that your post was lost in this 1000+ thread and no one modded it up.
You... just repeated the incredibly notorious Domino Effect theory of Communism. It has been much maligned and scorned over the years for its utter stupidity.
As he explained to you previously, your entire understanding of the Constitution is twisted by your biases. Evidence presented to you is ignored with a hand wave. What a pathological ignoramus you have become.
I have to say, after reading this entire argument, you Jane Q. are a complete moron. What was that saying about education simply making idiots more articulate? Whatever it was exactly, you certainly fit the bill.
They're so nasty to each other that they...continually jack up prices and degrade services? AT&T just implemented a ridiculously low 2 GB cap. Verizon has endlessly been hinting towards caps and/or usage based pricing on LTE. "What the market will bare" is a meaningless term when it's a sellers' market, which is exactly what you get when an oligopoly controls almost everything. There are no options for people who want a carrier that doesn't mark up the cost of txt msg's 10000%.
He was being sarcastic... your/s indicator broken or something? Why else would he go out of his way to point out the blatantly hypocritical policies of US conservatives?
I'm sorry but everything you said is based on your brainwashed understanding of the US wireless market. Let's put some things in perspective for you. Very recently France Telecom offered a *quad play* for $60 (45 euro)/month. That's TV, home phone, home internet, and cell phone + data. Free.fr offers triple play for $40/month (30 euro). As for the US, the wireless market is insanely profitable for AT&T and Verizon. That's why Verizon has been dumping landlines in rural markets and shifting to wireless solutions (700 MHz LTE) for those same customers. Their ARPU is ridiculously high, as is their profit margins.
The NY iPhone issue was completely AT&T's fault. They've been cutting capex by billions every year, despite tripling (yes TRIPLING) their profits from $4 billion to $12 billion between 2005 and 2008. As a recent study indicated, Android users actually use significantly more data over 3G than iPhone users, but Verizon has had no such network issues. In Japan, one of the densest areas in the world, especially its cities, 3G has been used as a primary internet connection by millions of people for years. There are no caps here. In fact I'm using 4G WiMax right now in Japan, and despite using 200 GB a month my provider has increased my speeds over the last 4 months.
Didn't you say '16' last time or some other number? Why are you such a ****ing numbskull? Why do you endlessly troll slashdot and how do you ignore the realities people point out to you over and over again? Sigh... why am I bothering.
Despite your fear mongering of what *could* happen, the more likely scenario is that the government would simply impose open access rules on telecom (desperately needed for competition's sake) and quality of service minimum standards (desperately needed for consumers' sake).
Wellbutrin made me go bald. It's not even listed as an official symptom, but if you search google you'll find tons of people who've had the problem. Sigh...
As for being intelligent, it was enough to get me through high school, but once I reached the upper level courses in college it wasn't enough (I'm not *that* smart after all). It drives me nuts that I can only work for a couple hours a day, and even that feels like torture. I took strattera for a while, and it helped me concentrate for about 3 hours a day (after that my productivity would steadily decline). Not sure what to do with myself now. I always wanted to become a doctor, but i hear horror stories about people having to study all day long. I don't even know how that's humanly possible, let alone for someone like me.
Why the devil were you modded troll? This is probably the most insightful and articulate comment in this entire thread. I was thinking this exact same thing, but had no idea how to express it in words, especially in an intelligent manner. Most slashdotters think so little of the professionals who spend their lives dealing with topics covered in articles on this site. It's most obvious when dealing with anti-AGW trolls, but more subjective topics like ADD bring out the worst in the people here as well.
Grrr. There is no such thing as a "free market". Do you even know what the definition of a "free market" even is? No barriers to entry at a minimum you idiotic freak. The internet is a natural monopoly. It doesn't need to be a "right" to see that the government would run it most efficiently, just like roads, water, electricity, PHONE LINES, etc. Conservative fiscal policies are generally stupid and based on logic with loopholes large enough to drive trucks through, and the only part of the world that employs them is the US. It's no wonder our country is slowly falling apart.
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There's something I haven't been able to find out about the mod device. If you have an old PS3 that's backwards compatible with PS2 games will the modchip allow you to play PS2 games off a hard drive?
Don't worry. That's just me checking his reflexes. Whoop whoop whoop! -Dr. Zoidberg
They're not necessarily all trying to be malicious. For a lot of people learning code requires hands-on experience, and if hacking is their interest and primary motivator to improve their coding skills, what better target to experiment on than one of the most hated software companies in all the lands?
I wish I had points to mod you up for the Futurama reference. You should've added a "- Philip J. Fry" at the end so others would recognize it.
Why were you modded redundant? Everything you said is perfectly true...
Boy am I glad I'm Asian... I don't know any girls like that.
And how is this tiny, 2 employee company supposed to defend itself? No matter how right it is, 2 people will be bankrupted in no time. This is the nature of our corporate-owned country, inhabited by masochistic neo conservatives who want giant, faceless institutions with no obligation to anyone to step all over them like cockroaches. With the power of our vote we could use the government as a tool to protect the little guy from those with the resources to do almost anything they want. Instead we have Obama, the most conservative "Democrat" in the history of our country, to lead us to... what exactly?
That's... one of the rationales used to explain the Domino Effect theory. You think people back then made up a pretty name and expected everyone to swallow their dose of anti-communism without protest? They had to explain it with *something*.
Or maybe the cost of starting up a network is insanely high? First you need billions to buy up spectrum at one of the FCC's spectrum auctions. Then you need billions to build out towers and lines, and that's all money you have to pay upfront before you even make a dime. Your special access costs will also be at the whim of AT&T and Verizon, who control the majority of middle mile access points across the US. Do you understand how insanely difficult it is to attract investors in that situation?
This is such an informative comment. Very few people seem to understand how much trouble America causes with its "help". By donating/dumping tons of free food and medical aid to these 3rd world countries (during times of peace) without actually helping them to build the infrastructure to support themselves, they actually crowd out all legitimate means these nations have of supporting themselves. The farmers and doctors can't compete with free, go out of business, and the nation becomes entirely dependent on its benefactors.
I remember reading an article about an African country's president explaining how China's efforts to build up legitimate businesses and infrastructure in his country has done far more to stabilize and promote their country's growth than anything the US did.
It's just a shame that your post was lost in this 1000+ thread and no one modded it up.
You... just repeated the incredibly notorious Domino Effect theory of Communism. It has been much maligned and scorned over the years for its utter stupidity.
As he explained to you previously, your entire understanding of the Constitution is twisted by your biases. Evidence presented to you is ignored with a hand wave. What a pathological ignoramus you have become.
I have to say, after reading this entire argument, you Jane Q. are a complete moron. What was that saying about education simply making idiots more articulate? Whatever it was exactly, you certainly fit the bill.
You're siding with a conservative troll who knows next to nothing about internet topology. Sigh...
They're so nasty to each other that they...continually jack up prices and degrade services? AT&T just implemented a ridiculously low 2 GB cap. Verizon has endlessly been hinting towards caps and/or usage based pricing on LTE. "What the market will bare" is a meaningless term when it's a sellers' market, which is exactly what you get when an oligopoly controls almost everything. There are no options for people who want a carrier that doesn't mark up the cost of txt msg's 10000%.
He was being sarcastic... your /s indicator broken or something? Why else would he go out of his way to point out the blatantly hypocritical policies of US conservatives?
So here you are repeating yourself. I wonder if you have some sort of mental disease?
I'm sorry but everything you said is based on your brainwashed understanding of the US wireless market. Let's put some things in perspective for you. Very recently France Telecom offered a *quad play* for $60 (45 euro)/month. That's TV, home phone, home internet, and cell phone + data. Free.fr offers triple play for $40/month (30 euro). As for the US, the wireless market is insanely profitable for AT&T and Verizon. That's why Verizon has been dumping landlines in rural markets and shifting to wireless solutions (700 MHz LTE) for those same customers. Their ARPU is ridiculously high, as is their profit margins.
The NY iPhone issue was completely AT&T's fault. They've been cutting capex by billions every year, despite tripling (yes TRIPLING) their profits from $4 billion to $12 billion between 2005 and 2008. As a recent study indicated, Android users actually use significantly more data over 3G than iPhone users, but Verizon has had no such network issues. In Japan, one of the densest areas in the world, especially its cities, 3G has been used as a primary internet connection by millions of people for years. There are no caps here. In fact I'm using 4G WiMax right now in Japan, and despite using 200 GB a month my provider has increased my speeds over the last 4 months.
Didn't you say '16' last time or some other number? Why are you such a ****ing numbskull? Why do you endlessly troll slashdot and how do you ignore the realities people point out to you over and over again? Sigh... why am I bothering.
Despite your fear mongering of what *could* happen, the more likely scenario is that the government would simply impose open access rules on telecom (desperately needed for competition's sake) and quality of service minimum standards (desperately needed for consumers' sake).
Wellbutrin made me go bald. It's not even listed as an official symptom, but if you search google you'll find tons of people who've had the problem. Sigh...
As for being intelligent, it was enough to get me through high school, but once I reached the upper level courses in college it wasn't enough (I'm not *that* smart after all). It drives me nuts that I can only work for a couple hours a day, and even that feels like torture. I took strattera for a while, and it helped me concentrate for about 3 hours a day (after that my productivity would steadily decline). Not sure what to do with myself now. I always wanted to become a doctor, but i hear horror stories about people having to study all day long. I don't even know how that's humanly possible, let alone for someone like me.
Why the devil were you modded troll? This is probably the most insightful and articulate comment in this entire thread. I was thinking this exact same thing, but had no idea how to express it in words, especially in an intelligent manner. Most slashdotters think so little of the professionals who spend their lives dealing with topics covered in articles on this site. It's most obvious when dealing with anti-AGW trolls, but more subjective topics like ADD bring out the worst in the people here as well.
Amen.
Grrr. There is no such thing as a "free market". Do you even know what the definition of a "free market" even is? No barriers to entry at a minimum you idiotic freak. The internet is a natural monopoly. It doesn't need to be a "right" to see that the government would run it most efficiently, just like roads, water, electricity, PHONE LINES, etc. Conservative fiscal policies are generally stupid and based on logic with loopholes large enough to drive trucks through, and the only part of the world that employs them is the US. It's no wonder our country is slowly falling apart.
Arrrgh ye matey! And what of it!!!! I'll have yer skin ladled with tar ye blighted muppet! Arrr!