It's just bad management! Fry's is doing relatively well in most of their locations. Best Buy is doing okay. Circuit City is limping along. Shipping costs negate the whole buying direct thing. Who wants to spend $3 on shipping for a $5 cable? Radio Shack is having similar issues. There are way too many non-Slashdot consumers that like their hands held when purchasing computers and other electronics. Yes, computers are electronics with semi-conductors. Wal-Mart and Target carry common USB cables, blank CD's, etc. IKEA carries powerstrips.
15-20 years ago, the big box discounters were putting the smaller mom and pop retailers out of business. Now, the better managed (Wal-Mart, Target, Fry's, OfficeMax, IKEA, BestBuy) big box stores are putting the lesser managed (K-mart, Toys'R'Us, Circuit City, CompUSA) stores out of business. Retail is obviously still strong for even the smaller players. Apple and HP are doing well with consumers via retail. Dell and Gateway? They are both in a small funk right now.
CompUSA would be better off emulating Fry's. K-mart is one retailer that as proven that one can't shrink it's way back into the hearts of consumers. (Note to those in the Bay Area: The Fry's in Austin, TX actually has competent employees!)
/* Warning Soapbox starting now Is it my imagination, or does this all read as quite a bit elitist saying that if one isn't completely informed to just stay home? I doubt that anyone can absorb the full voting record of any elected representative. Moreover, there is no way anyone can 100% predict which way an official will vote in the future. (Party affiliations and platforms serve as a guidelines not absolute rules!)
I live in Texas. We can vote straight Democratic, straight Republican or straight Libertarian with one mark. There's not even guesswork involved. If one's fairly liberal, conservative, etc., he or she could show up and do that--no mess no fuss.
Honestly, the WORST thing you can do is not vote, since that shows that you don't give a damn about how you are governed or the sacrifices that those before you made to enable your enfranchisement. (If you're part of the 0.25% of Americans that have ALWAYS been rich, white males from prosperous families, then the previous sentence does not apply to you.)
If you live in a state (e.g., Minnesota) where they show the incumbent candidates on the ballot, you can vote for or against the status quo.
A quick online scan of the local paper or a Googling of the candidates will show positions, platforms, etc.
Taxes? There aren't just candidates on the ballots, but referendums, propositions, proposed (state) constitutional amendments that are (sometimes) written in plain English asking do voters if they want to allow the state or local government to raise taxes $0.02/gallon at the pump, $50/yr for a $200K house or 0.5% on every non-food, non-clothing purchase made. One does not have to be informed about a political platform/candidate to say, "No, I don't want to pay more for gas to hire more police!"
I know a guy that told me that he voted against every proposition on the Austin ballot. One of those was for a new library. I asked him what he had against books. He said nothing--he just didn't want to pay more for it. He knew nothing about the propositions, but he knew he didn't want to pay higher property taxes.
Anyone able to vote should vote not just out of civic duty but to show that they informed that they have the right to do so. Those that don't vote simply show that they don't want the right (or responsibility) to do so.
If you register TurboTax or file online, Intuit will barrage you throughout the year with advertisements through (snail) mail. If you're not careful, you'll get e-mails *and* (shudder) phone calls inviting you to take advantage of special offers that'll cost you *more* than retail.
As for the activation stuff, no comment. (To save the troll, no, they don't support Linux, yet.)
They mention VoiceStream. However, it *should* work on Cingular's Calif. network with a little SIM card surgery, right?
I currently use a Nokia 8890 in combination with a Palm V. They look great and cost about the same as the 9290. (My 8890 weights a lot less and gets "compliments" from chicks, but that's OT.)
Is the browsing experience better for the 9290 than it is on a Palm V using my 8890 as a wireless modem ? (Enough to justify spending $600?)
You're mostly right. Most/.'ers went on an anti-Rambus rant and assumed Intel was dropping RDRAM across the entire line.
The EBN article clearly says that the new chipsets are for workstations (graphics, software engineerings, MCAD, etc.). Folks, these are machines that have at least 512MB of RAM. They are not mainstream desktops...
For now, Intel is still pushing RDRAM for mainstream desktops...
Umm... No, The Matrix phone is the 7100 series...
(Who modded you up?)
See http://www.nokiausa.com/beauty/1,2498,68,FF.html
Blech to both phones... I'm happy with my stylish, but pricey 8890... It works in the US *AND* Europe...
It's very difficult to tell the peaks and valleys. However, the rule is to jump in (or out) when the slope (the derivative for you folks taking AP Calc.) of the curve starts to get really, really steep. For example, the best time to sell your investment property was in April 2000 when rents and property values shot waaaaaaaay up. The best time to buy is probably Q2 next year. The tech bottom is right now. However, the real estate will lag about 2 quarters.
It's mostly my opinion, but I predicted a 2001 fallout back in 1997 so don't knock me too badly...
No one bothered to mention one of the most important elements in a historical/period film--costumes.
They made a *BIG* oops... They got the women's skirts, curls, and lacquered nails correct. However, men in the 1940's did *NOT* wear their pants at their waists. Look at your grandfather. He wears his belt at his chest because that was the thing to do back then. In this movie, all the men, both on and off duty have their pants tailored like it's 1999.
Shame... shame... shame...
(I won't discuss the other parts of the plot since well... that's pointless.)
As for the comments on the movie's historical accuracy as far as plot, you're only half right. The movie tried to blend (but still couldn't make it work) lots of random events from history into the movie. When Kate Beckinsdale's character yells "To the hospital!" That's done, of course, so that you can see the savagery of the attack on the hospital. (Yes, it really did happen. See the previous post about the pock-marks.) Mr. Miller was included for the previous reason. The nurse got pregnant because that was something that happened a lot back then. (Although don't tell conservatives that.)
Give them some credit. At least, they never mentioned Stalin, Hirohito or Truman as central figures in the attack.
Although it's not integrated, I'm surprised no one mentioned that most modern Nokia GSM phones (including those in the US) can be used as GSM modems.
No, the two aren't integrated like the bulky Palm/Moto combination. However, a Nokia 8890 combined with a Palm V is smaller and more stylish. (Come on, they even have the same matte Al finish.) I don't even look geeky (well, at least not a geek who can't match) when I put the two together side by side at a coffee bar. I can dial-in, telnet, ftp, ssh, nnrp as I please w/o the bulk of a laptop/ricochet or the clip-on Palm solutions.
In case no one has noticed, the trend towards cell phones is smaller (Those Nokia 8290's are just tiny!) handsets. Fighting this is (well one of many) one of the reasons why Iridium failed miserably.
Don't think Nokia won't fight to preserve its market share by mentioning that a 88xx or an 82xx will work w/ your Palm III/V out of the box.
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It allows you to have voicemail, contacts, etc.
Other than calendaring, I don't see how Palm is improving upon what's already available.
See http://www.pacbellwireless.com/sbc/features/featur es.detail/0,1045,contentId=1441|marketId =SCA|navId=13,00.html and http://www.wildfire.com/consumer_qa.html
"The Crusade" mini-series episodes happened after the Babylon 5 movie A Call to Arms.
/* Warning spoiler statements below. */
However, there was no mention of that in the article. Maybe it's because the series ended rather abruptly unlike the the B5 endings. They didn't find a cure--just a means to the way the virus worked.
/* slightly offtopic */ (Remember, that the first series (in syndication along with "Kung Fu The Legend Returns") ended with the Terran sun growing cold. When it got picked up by TNT, year 5 ended with Sheridan's death.)
Crusade happened in the middle of that. (Chronologically) However, it was the last ever broadcast. Moreover, the cast of "Crusade" included almost none of the original B5 cast members. (FYI, Dr. Stephen wasn't in the original movie but served at CMO throughout the entire series and appeared in the last "Crusade" episode.) (Of course, I won't mention that really bad episode of "V.I.P." on which he also appeared):^P
/* Geek gene off */
So anybody drinking chocolate flavored beer this weekend?
We shut down all (including Linux) of our Intel-based desktops out of (BIOS) rollover and virus concerns. We left our servers, UNIX workstations, settops and Macs running.
I work for a research corporation so fortunately we didn't have any customers with which to deal. We get to spend New Year's Eve with our friends, families or strangers in Union Square.
/*slightly offtopic Early reports indicate few Y2K problems. (Those places that are actually having problems can't really report them--can they?) I'm waiting until it hits Eastern Europe before I sound the all clear. */
How you managed to avoid having your post not moderated to flame-bait is beyond me.
Matrox offers an AGP card with two outputs. It's called the G400. Unlike the V4 and V5, it's already released and available.
Anyway, I'm somewhat off topic. But, I needed to correct this. The issue with PCI is bandwidth and texture swapping. If the card truly can have up to 2GB of RAM, (Yes, there are many simulation visualizations and mappings that can use this.), you'll need more than the 533 MB/s provided by the PCI bus. Even full AGP 4x (w/ RDRAM) has 1.06GB/s. An approximately 2s delay is damn noticeable.
If they can put multiple graphics processors on one card, why can't they put multiple output ports on the same card?
I hope SGI would be smart enough to do this "clean room." If not, SCO (not Sun, not HP, not IBM, not Compaq, not GNU, not AT&T, not Novell) could sue them. SCO owns the UNIX source code.
Let me know (of course you will) if I'm wrong on this.
With pilot-xfer(1), type pilot-xfer -i filename where filename is the name of the file to be installed. It works with multiple files and wildcards, too. So, you can just list a bunch of filenames separated by spaces after the "-i" argument and go to town. I'm not sure how to do it with gpilotd. However, if it's anything like the pilot applications in KDE, you simply choose the applications that you want to install with the installer application (below Memos and Scheduler). There's a simple file browser, you just click after selecting like you would anything else. Hopefully, this helps.
What are you talking about? I live in Mtn View and pay $10/mo. for my DSL connection.
Okay, so Pac Bell made a billing error and forgot to charge me the other $39.
The major Candian cities have access to cheaper Internet because their infrastructure is newer, and they have a concentrated population. It's hard to justify cable (let alone cable modems) in the Wyoming wilderness for the 3 or 4 people that would want it.
However, Toronto and Montreal are by no means tiny cities. See if anyone along the circle in Canada has cheap access to broadband.
Inner cities get hit twice. They have older infrastructure (built when the neighborhoods were mostly blue collar Caucasians), and they have less affluent residents. Thus, the wiring is expensive to upgrade, and you have a lower subscriber rate due to the fact that the residents aren't able to justify the expense.
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Yeah, right... ATMs spewing money in the street due to a Windows worm. Nice.
It's just bad management! Fry's is doing relatively well in most of their locations. Best Buy is doing okay. Circuit City is limping along. Shipping costs negate the whole buying direct thing. Who wants to spend $3 on shipping for a $5 cable? Radio Shack is having similar issues. There are way too many non-Slashdot consumers that like their hands held when purchasing computers and other electronics. Yes, computers are electronics with semi-conductors. Wal-Mart and Target carry common USB cables, blank CD's, etc. IKEA carries powerstrips.
15-20 years ago, the big box discounters were putting the smaller mom and pop retailers out of business. Now, the better managed (Wal-Mart, Target, Fry's, OfficeMax, IKEA, BestBuy) big box stores are putting the lesser managed (K-mart, Toys'R'Us, Circuit City, CompUSA) stores out of business. Retail is obviously still strong for even the smaller players. Apple and HP are doing well with consumers via retail. Dell and Gateway? They are both in a small funk right now.
CompUSA would be better off emulating Fry's. K-mart is one retailer that as proven that one can't shrink it's way back into the hearts of consumers. (Note to those in the Bay Area: The Fry's in Austin, TX actually has competent employees!)
/* Warning Soapbox starting now
Is it my imagination, or does this all read as quite a bit elitist saying that if one isn't completely informed to just stay home? I doubt that anyone can absorb the full voting record of any elected representative. Moreover, there is no way anyone can 100% predict which way an official will vote in the future. (Party affiliations and platforms serve as a guidelines not absolute rules!)
I live in Texas. We can vote straight Democratic, straight Republican or straight Libertarian with one mark. There's not even guesswork involved. If one's fairly liberal, conservative, etc., he or she could show up and do that--no mess no fuss.
Honestly, the WORST thing you can do is not vote, since that shows that you don't give a damn about how you are governed or the sacrifices that those before you made to enable your enfranchisement. (If you're part of the 0.25% of Americans that have ALWAYS been rich, white males from prosperous families, then the previous sentence does not apply to you.)
If you live in a state (e.g., Minnesota) where they show the incumbent candidates on the ballot, you can vote for or against the status quo.
A quick online scan of the local paper or a Googling of the candidates will show positions, platforms, etc.
Taxes? There aren't just candidates on the ballots, but referendums, propositions, proposed (state) constitutional amendments that are (sometimes) written in plain English asking do voters if they want to allow the state or local government to raise taxes $0.02/gallon at the pump, $50/yr for a $200K house or 0.5% on every non-food, non-clothing purchase made. One does not have to be informed about a political platform/candidate to say, "No, I don't want to pay more for gas to hire more police!"
I know a guy that told me that he voted against every proposition on the Austin ballot. One of those was for a new library. I asked him what he had against books. He said nothing--he just didn't want to pay more for it. He knew nothing about the propositions, but he knew he didn't want to pay higher property taxes.
Anyone able to vote should vote not just out of civic duty but to show that they informed that they have the right to do so. Those that don't vote simply show that they don't want the right (or responsibility) to do so.
Ending soapbox */
If you register TurboTax or file online, Intuit will barrage you throughout the year with advertisements through (snail) mail. If you're not careful, you'll get e-mails *and* (shudder) phone calls inviting you to take advantage of special offers that'll cost you *more* than retail.
As for the activation stuff, no comment. (To save the troll, no, they don't support Linux, yet.)
It should work because its tri-band (1900 Mhz was listed)...
Anyone else notice that this Nokia 3650 looks a like like a Palm M130.
Get the color schemes right and the two could match...
Kinda like my '00 era Nokia 8890 and my Palm V.
If you have at least *one* unemployed friend in marketing they can help you determine the needs of a particular customer segment.
(Don't laugh. Folks in marketing do serve a more useful purpose than barbecueing unicorns.)
Once you've built it, find an unemployed sales man (It's not that hard.) to sell it.
I currently use a Nokia 8890 in combination with a Palm V. They look great and cost about the same as the 9290. (My 8890 weights a lot less and gets "compliments" from chicks, but that's OT.)
Is the browsing experience better for the 9290 than it is on a Palm V using my 8890 as a wireless modem ? (Enough to justify spending $600?)
Do you mean NNTP or NNRP? See this page for an explanation of the difference...
You're mostly right. Most /.'ers went on an anti-Rambus rant and assumed Intel was dropping RDRAM across the entire line.
The EBN article clearly says that the new chipsets are for workstations (graphics, software engineerings, MCAD, etc.). Folks, these are machines that have at least 512MB of RAM. They are not mainstream desktops...
For now, Intel is still pushing RDRAM for mainstream desktops...
Umm... No, The Matrix phone is the 7100 series... (Who modded you up?) See http://www.nokiausa.com/beauty/1,2498,68,FF.html Blech to both phones... I'm happy with my stylish, but pricey 8890... It works in the US *AND* Europe...
Will they go after "adult" sites for damages or parody/satire sites?
What about the UCITA states? I believe at least one has passed a law that shrink-wrap licenses are enforceable.
Wait another year...
All of the cyclical markets go up and down...
It's very difficult to tell the peaks and valleys. However, the rule is to jump in (or out) when the slope (the derivative for you folks taking AP Calc.) of the curve starts to get really, really steep. For example, the best time to sell your investment property was in April 2000 when rents and property values shot waaaaaaaay up. The best time to buy is probably Q2 next year. The tech bottom is right now. However, the real estate will lag about 2 quarters.
It's mostly my opinion, but I predicted a 2001 fallout back in 1997 so don't knock me too badly...
The BBC story said that the Bush administration ceased to seek a breakup.
I don't think the president himself could do it because it would be an obstruction of justice. (waaaaay more so than Clinton lying about sex.)
Previous comments about Ashcroft may prove true since the Attorney General does head the Justice Department.
No one bothered to mention one of the most important elements in a historical/period film--costumes.
They made a *BIG* oops... They got the women's skirts, curls, and lacquered nails correct. However, men in the 1940's did *NOT* wear their pants at their waists. Look at your grandfather. He wears his belt at his chest because that was the thing to do back then. In this movie, all the men, both on and off duty have their pants tailored like it's 1999.
Shame... shame... shame...
(I won't discuss the other parts of the plot since well... that's pointless.)
As for the comments on the movie's historical accuracy as far as plot, you're only half right. The movie tried to blend (but still couldn't make it work) lots of random events from history into the movie. When Kate Beckinsdale's character yells "To the hospital!" That's done, of course, so that you can see the savagery of the attack on the hospital. (Yes, it really did happen. See the previous post about the pock-marks.) Mr. Miller was included for the previous reason. The nurse got pregnant because that was something that happened a lot back then. (Although don't tell conservatives that.)
Give them some credit. At least, they never mentioned Stalin, Hirohito or Truman as central figures in the attack.
Yada yada yada.
Although it's not integrated, I'm surprised no one mentioned that most modern Nokia GSM phones (including those in the US) can be used as GSM modems.
No, the two aren't integrated like the bulky Palm/Moto combination. However, a Nokia 8890 combined with a Palm V is smaller and more stylish. (Come on, they even have the same matte Al finish.) I don't even look geeky (well, at least not a geek who can't match) when I put the two together side by side at a coffee bar. I can dial-in, telnet, ftp, ssh, nnrp as I please w/o the bulk of a laptop/ricochet or the clip-on Palm solutions.
In case no one has noticed, the trend towards cell phones is smaller (Those Nokia 8290's are just tiny!) handsets. Fighting this is (well one of many) one of the reasons why Iridium failed miserably.
Don't think Nokia won't fight to preserve its market share by mentioning that a 88xx or an 82xx will work w/ your Palm III/V out of the box.
It allows you to have voicemail, contacts, etc.
r es.detail/0,1045,contentId=1441|marketId =SCA|navId=13,00.html and http://www.wildfire.com/consumer_qa.html
Other than calendaring, I don't see how Palm is improving upon what's already available.
See http://www.pacbellwireless.com/sbc/features/featu
"The Crusade" mini-series episodes happened after the Babylon 5 movie A Call to Arms.
:^P
/* Warning spoiler statements below. */
However, there was no mention of that in the article. Maybe it's because the series ended rather abruptly unlike the the B5 endings. They didn't find a cure--just a means to the way the virus worked.
/* slightly offtopic */
(Remember, that the first series (in syndication along with "Kung Fu The Legend Returns") ended with the Terran sun growing cold. When it got picked up by TNT, year 5 ended with Sheridan's death.)
Crusade happened in the middle of that. (Chronologically) However, it was the last ever broadcast. Moreover, the cast of "Crusade" included almost none of the original B5 cast members. (FYI, Dr. Stephen wasn't in the original movie but served at CMO throughout the entire series and appeared in the last "Crusade" episode.) (Of course, I won't mention that really bad episode of "V.I.P." on which he also appeared)
/* Geek gene off */
So anybody drinking chocolate flavored beer this weekend?
We shut down all (including Linux) of our Intel-based desktops out of (BIOS) rollover and virus concerns. We left our servers, UNIX workstations, settops and Macs running.
I work for a research corporation so fortunately we didn't have any customers with which to deal. We get to spend New Year's Eve with our friends, families or strangers in Union Square.
/*slightly offtopic
Early reports indicate few Y2K problems. (Those places that are actually having problems can't really report them--can they?)
I'm waiting until it hits Eastern Europe before I sound the all clear.
*/
Oops... That should have been 1.6GB/s for AGP 4x.
Standard AGP 2x (what most of you have) is 800MB/s.
PC-133 RAM provides about 1.06GB if I remember correctly.
Sorry about that.
How you managed to avoid having your post not moderated to flame-bait is beyond me.
Matrox offers an AGP card with two outputs. It's called the G400. Unlike the V4 and V5, it's already released and available.
Anyway, I'm somewhat off topic. But, I needed to correct this. The issue with PCI is bandwidth and texture swapping. If the card truly can have up to 2GB of RAM, (Yes, there are many simulation visualizations and mappings that can use this.), you'll need more than the 533 MB/s provided by the PCI bus. Even full AGP 4x (w/ RDRAM) has 1.06GB/s. An approximately 2s delay is damn noticeable.
If they can put multiple graphics processors on one card, why can't they put multiple output ports on the same card?
In order to push that many pixels/texels fast writes will need to be enabled since the current memory bus is just too slow.
Also, is the current PC-133 Mhz standard fast enough (for workstations not gamers) to send 2GB worth of textures?
I don't know. That's why I'm asking you guys...
I hope SGI would be smart enough to do this "clean room." If not, SCO (not Sun, not HP, not IBM, not Compaq, not GNU, not AT&T, not Novell) could sue them. SCO owns the UNIX source code.
Let me know (of course you will) if I'm wrong on this.
With pilot-xfer(1), type pilot-xfer -i filename where filename is the name of the file to be installed. It works with multiple files and wildcards, too. So, you can just list a bunch of filenames separated by spaces after the "-i" argument and go to town. I'm not sure how to do it with gpilotd. However, if it's anything like the pilot applications in KDE, you simply choose the applications that you want to install with the installer application (below Memos and Scheduler). There's a simple file browser, you just click after selecting like you would anything else. Hopefully, this helps.
Does your Pro have an upgradeable Flash ROM like the III? If not, then you probably won't be able to use this upgrade/update.
Sorry.
What are you talking about? I live in Mtn View and pay $10/mo. for my DSL connection.
Okay, so Pac Bell made a billing error and forgot to charge me the other $39.
The major Candian cities have access to cheaper Internet because their infrastructure is newer, and they have a concentrated population. It's hard to justify cable (let alone cable modems) in the Wyoming wilderness for the 3 or 4 people that would want it.
However, Toronto and Montreal are by no means tiny cities. See if anyone along the circle in Canada has cheap access to broadband.
Inner cities get hit twice. They have older infrastructure (built when the neighborhoods were mostly blue collar Caucasians), and they have less affluent residents. Thus, the wiring is expensive to upgrade, and you have a lower subscriber rate due to the fact that the residents aren't able to justify the expense.