Here where I live in Illinois, Vonage connects me to my local 911 call center, but the call comes in on an outside line. When I tested a 911 call, the operator was surprised to get a call that way, but as long as the call went through I was satisfied.
Speaking of the word "niggardly," there are people who get uptight if you're playing cards and you say that someone "renigged." (Okay it's actually spelled "reneged," but people pronounce it "renig" here in the Midwest.)
So if you can renege and it's a bad thing, is it a good thing if you just nege?
I find your absolute faith in Moore's "Law"...disconcerting.
What Gordon Moore originally said was the underwhelming
The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year (see graph on next page). Certainly over the short term this rate can be expected to continue, if not to increase.
By Moore's statement we should be seeing chips with IC counts of 70 trillion (10^13), but the latest Pentium D has a transistor count of "only" 230 million (10^8). Moore was wrong by a factor of 10^5. That's not a law, or barely even an observation. That's horribly wrong even in astronomical terms!
Moore's law has been taken to mean everything from your local Best Buy rep telling you "megahurtz are doubling every year, man" to the Intel spin doctors saying "transistor counts increase annually." I guess Moore's Law falls somewhere in the middle.
The idea that we're marching exponentially towards infinite chip speeds with infinite transistor counts (infinitely small, no less) is just foolish. The fact is that we will eventually hit some limit. Once processor innovation stabilizes, software will have to as well. People will start looking for more innovative solutions in software than the current level of bloat, and that will be a good thing in my opinion.
I wish everyone who didn't at least have a very strong chemistry background would just shut up about it. [...]
I don't know. I'm not one of those chemistry guys.
Interesting analogy, but let me make a small change: the men aren't sailing, they're rowing.
Now for every man that you take off the oars to bail, you lose a rower. Assuming that they're rowing for land (safety) where they can tar the keel and fix the leaks, which option would you choose?
The captain has to have some measure of how fast the water is rising so he can make a decision whether to row or bail, or how many do one or the other. (Maybe the leak is getting worse, in which case bailing would be futile.)
Back in real life, our "captain" has already made his decision. 49% of the rowers might not like it, but it doesn't really matter. We're still all in the same boat.
I was at Logan last Fall and tried to get a wifi signal. They wanted something like $19.95 (I think) to connect for a few hours. At those prices I doubt that mAssport would be losing very much business...
Many news sources reported on President Bush's recent semi-endorsement of 'intelligent design', the politically correct version of creationism that is currently in vogue among groups of conservative Christians in the U.S.
If that isn't a biased leader I don't know what is. How about some unbiased reporting on the issue for once? If the theory of evolution is so solid that its position is irrefutable and the theory of intelligent design is just a "passing fad" with right-wing Christian nut jobs, then why can't evolution stand on its on merit in a fair piece of reporting?! What's with the constant need to denigrate and pooh-pooh the other side?
So instead of expensive, short-life OLEDs, why don't they use inexpensive, grayscale LCD or monochrome LED displays?
The images are cool, but anyone who's worth their salt on a keyboard spends very little time looking at the individual keys. The idea that the keys can be transposed is much more important than using the fanciest display technology. (And then you wouldn't have to have a "key-saver"--what a foolish idea.)
I'd rather pay $100 for a monochrome keyboard of the same type than see them come out with a $500 pie-in-the-sky version.
So MTBE has been found to pollute water supplies. Now Ethanol (according to Cornell and Berkeley) is a net negative energy. What additive are we supposed to use?
Oh wait...is this one of those 1 in 3 studies that's later shown to be false?
Would your viewpoint change if Google were to split 10 to 1, bringing down the price to around $30?
Ahh, Slashdot, where the blind moderate the blind.
If Google stock split 10 to 1 then earnings, which are usually measured PER SHARE, would be diluted by the same factor. Thus the P/E ratio would stay consistent through the split.
The worst part of your ignorance isn't just your ignorance, it's that you're posting it as fact and people read it, factor in the "+5, Informative," and believe it. Next time please do some simple fact checking before you bang on your keyboard.
Somehow this post reminds me of the apologists who came up with wild explanations to explain the equally wild stock valuations of the.com companies in the 90's. What was it called, the "new" economy?
The Google bubble, like any bubble, is unsutainable and at some point the stock will retreat to realistic levels, and maybe even fall below Google's intrinsic value by disenchanted investors. That's when I'll buy GOOG.
WinXP Embedded (SP2) already has this feature. It's called Hibernate Once, Resume Many, or as MS engineers call it, HORM. However, using it requires EWF-enabled* volumes, which is why you haven't seen it in mainstream Windows yet.
The name "Ogg Vorbis" isa huge handicap to overcome.
Hear, hear!
As a proof to that I submit the "why is it named ogg vorbis" question from vorbis.com's FAQ:
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What do all the names mean? Ogg
Ogg is the name of Xiph.org's container format for audio, video, and metadata.
Vorbis
Vorbis is the name of a specific audio compression scheme that's designed to be contained in Ogg. Note that other formats are capable of being embedded in Ogg such as FLAC and Speex.
---
What the... Was this written by someone who has no desire to see the format succeed?!
Hey, what's your cable company and DVR? We get Comcast around here, and I don't think they offfer anything like that... Does it require a "digital cable" package?
I haven't seen anyone actually mention the amount of this collaboration. IIRC from TFA, it's less than $2 million, which is next to nothing in this kind of research.
Before everyone gets in a huff over the shift of aviation dominance from the US, consider what France and Japan have actually agreed to: not much. It's a start, and it may or may not pan out. I'd venture to guess that there's a pretty good reason why Boeing isn't pursuing supersonic aircraft. If that reason changes, you can be sure that they'll jump on board for a crack at some supersonic profits.
Please mod parent down for being a numnuts dimwit. +5 Informative, indeed! If he would've RTFA'd (chart included) he would've seen that both options were over 5%.
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As a back up, we have two cell phones.
So if you can renege and it's a bad thing, is it a good thing if you just nege?
FWIW, E=mc^2 was a pretty good book on the subject and a very enjoyable read.
Looks like you recycled one of your typos, too.
What Gordon Moore originally said was the underwhelming
(Don't believe me? Read it here instead.)By Moore's statement we should be seeing chips with IC counts of 70 trillion (10^13), but the latest Pentium D has a transistor count of "only" 230 million (10^8). Moore was wrong by a factor of 10^5. That's not a law, or barely even an observation. That's horribly wrong even in astronomical terms!
Moore's law has been taken to mean everything from your local Best Buy rep telling you "megahurtz are doubling every year, man" to the Intel spin doctors saying "transistor counts increase annually." I guess Moore's Law falls somewhere in the middle.
The idea that we're marching exponentially towards infinite chip speeds with infinite transistor counts (infinitely small, no less) is just foolish. The fact is that we will eventually hit some limit. Once processor innovation stabilizes, software will have to as well. People will start looking for more innovative solutions in software than the current level of bloat, and that will be a good thing in my opinion.
That's because they can make up all that loss with their sheer volume. It's a like totally new business model now on the internet.
I believe the OP was referring to the US policy on global warming vs. the policy of the Kyoto signees. I was continuing the analogy on the US side.
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I don't know. I'm not one of those chemistry guys.
Mr. Pot, meet Mrs. Kettle.
Now for every man that you take off the oars to bail, you lose a rower. Assuming that they're rowing for land (safety) where they can tar the keel and fix the leaks, which option would you choose?
The captain has to have some measure of how fast the water is rising so he can make a decision whether to row or bail, or how many do one or the other. (Maybe the leak is getting worse, in which case bailing would be futile.)
Back in real life, our "captain" has already made his decision. 49% of the rowers might not like it, but it doesn't really matter. We're still all in the same boat.
While I can say with certainty that at my company we still use Windows because everyone knows it, I can only say it with about $29 of certainty.
I was at Logan last Fall and tried to get a wifi signal. They wanted something like $19.95 (I think) to connect for a few hours. At those prices I doubt that mAssport would be losing very much business...
If that isn't a biased leader I don't know what is. How about some unbiased reporting on the issue for once? If the theory of evolution is so solid that its position is irrefutable and the theory of intelligent design is just a "passing fad" with right-wing Christian nut jobs, then why can't evolution stand on its on merit in a fair piece of reporting?! What's with the constant need to denigrate and pooh-pooh the other side?
I'm curious as to why you think this? Personal experience? Personal philosophy?
Great suggestions! One more thing: read in light mode (in Homepage preferences). It's far superior to normal Slashdot UI ugliness.
If only we could find the duping bug on Slashdot.
The images are cool, but anyone who's worth their salt on a keyboard spends very little time looking at the individual keys. The idea that the keys can be transposed is much more important than using the fanciest display technology. (And then you wouldn't have to have a "key-saver"--what a foolish idea.)
I'd rather pay $100 for a monochrome keyboard of the same type than see them come out with a $500 pie-in-the-sky version.
Oh wait...is this one of those 1 in 3 studies that's later shown to be false?
Ahh, Slashdot, where the blind moderate the blind.
If Google stock split 10 to 1 then earnings, which are usually measured PER SHARE, would be diluted by the same factor. Thus the P/E ratio would stay consistent through the split.
The worst part of your ignorance isn't just your ignorance, it's that you're posting it as fact and people read it, factor in the "+5, Informative," and believe it. Next time please do some simple fact checking before you bang on your keyboard.
The Google bubble, like any bubble, is unsutainable and at some point the stock will retreat to realistic levels, and maybe even fall below Google's intrinsic value by disenchanted investors. That's when I'll buy GOOG.
* Enhanced Write Filter
Hear, hear!
As a proof to that I submit the "why is it named ogg vorbis" question from vorbis.com's FAQ:
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What do all the names mean?
Ogg
Ogg is the name of Xiph.org's container format for audio, video, and metadata.
Vorbis
Vorbis is the name of a specific audio compression scheme that's designed to be contained in Ogg. Note that other formats are capable of being embedded in Ogg such as FLAC and Speex.
---
What the... Was this written by someone who has no desire to see the format succeed?!
Hey, what's your cable company and DVR? We get Comcast around here, and I don't think they offfer anything like that... Does it require a "digital cable" package?
Just what you needed to turn your tape collection into MP3s: http://plusdeck.com/englishsite/product_01.html
Before everyone gets in a huff over the shift of aviation dominance from the US, consider what France and Japan have actually agreed to: not much. It's a start, and it may or may not pan out. I'd venture to guess that there's a pretty good reason why Boeing isn't pursuing supersonic aircraft. If that reason changes, you can be sure that they'll jump on board for a crack at some supersonic profits.
Please mod parent down for being a numnuts dimwit. +5 Informative, indeed! If he would've RTFA'd (chart included) he would've seen that both options were over 5%.