At one time payphones were the only phones available for a very large number of people, which made them far more valuable.
Even if a person took an incoming call -- without the payphone, that person would have communicated with their relative or friend via mail and the call never would have been made.
Keep in mind that even 30 years ago, phone service was not a universal thing. In the rural New York town where my parents lived, only about 50% of the town outside of the main village had private lines. This is in an area about 2 1/2 hours north of NYC.
If the phone company had to wire apartment buildings, tenaments, and rural areas with 60's and 70's technology, phone service would have been way to cost-prohibitive for anyone to purchase it.
Maybe you don't recall, but the government deregulated telecommunications in the early 90's. 50,000 ripoff payphone providers were one of the many negative results.
Also remember that until the 90's, many rural areas still hadn't upgraded to private line service, so payphones were a way to communicate without the neighbors listening in.
Payphones were very profitable until the government decided to block incoming calls. In many poorer neighborhoods, people used the local payphone for day-to-day calling instead of paying $25/month for landline service.
You are allowed to like or dislike companies... but if you judge Amazon by it's one-click patent, then you should judge Apple and it's LED-on-a-box patent at the same level. Both are inane.
That bastard language is what happens when a java/c programmer becomes a dba, then gets dropped into a large Perl project! My code in real-life isn't nearly as disgusting looking though!
While I may be an idiot, I also happen to be literate. Maybe you should ask your mom to come down to the basement and read to you.
I wasn't referring to Slashbots like yourself, but to the editorial staff. In case you haven't noticed yet, (which is frightening considering your UID) users don't post stories.
Slashdot employs editors who actually post stories submitted by users. Editors tend to post stories in a manner consistent with the algorithim that I noted earlier.
Unfortunately in the US, the shrill cries of "How can you spend billions on space when x seniors are without prescription drugs?" or "We have enough problems here on earth" override the future scientific and economic benefit of space exploration & exploitation.
Fans of a company that has been pimping technology for 2.5x what it is worth since 1984 would probaly pay $500 for a computer case with a red light in it.
Remember that you must check common sense and logic at the door when talking about Apple. Here at Slashdot, where we criticize everything and anything for being non-opensource as evil, OS X (a closed-source BSD variant) is cool.
You're assuming that the town cop whose job is funded by state gov't assistance (which is funded by moving violation state surcharges) with a laser speed gun purchased and donated by GEICO or Allstate gives a shit about your saftey.
You are also assuming that the amateur town judge who runs the local gas station 9-5 knows what the work "telemetry" means and gives a shit whether you were guilty of speeding or not.
The more likely scenario is that the policeman will use radar or laser to prove you were driving 31 mph, and you will plea-bargain to a $100 "disobeying a traffic device" ticket rather than hiring a $500 lawyer to fight a $300 speeding ticket.
The biggest beneficiaries of Vehicle & Traffic laws are insurance companies and municipalities. (Which is why these groups lobby legislatures for more, tougher laws.) These laws have near-zero long-term effects on driver behavior. Most all of the saftey improvements in the last 30 years are a result of federal regulations on the automakers which has led to dramatically safer cars.
In the real world, people tend to call emergency services when a car collides with something and flips.
Yeah, there are accidents on lonely stretches of road. But I'd hazard to guess that that scenario accounts for a very small number of crashes.
The purpose of this technology is to improve the bottom line of auto insurers. Period. Spyware in cars will improve saftey about as well as photo-radar.
70's technology like the Space shuttle and Delta rockets are sending US payloads into space every day. The Soyuz spacecraft is/was providing essential supply replenishment missions to the ISS on a monthly basis.
Dismissing a technology because it is old is a dumb idea -- the technology behind the Soyuz is tested and reliable, and I'm sure that the improvements the Chinese make will modernize the platform further.
If NASA had invested billions in refurbishing the Space Shuttle, rather than squandering billions on a "Space Plane" that does the same thing as the shuttle, we'd probaly have a cheaper, more effective and more efficient space shuttle today.
An exempt employee is an administrative, professional or technical employee with a flexible work schedule. That flexibility is supposed to go both ways. (ie, if you work 60 hrs one week, you might work 30 hours in another). Plenty of employers abuse this, forcing workers to work beyond 40 hours regularly and not allowing a shorter workweek without a charge to PTO.
If that flexibility isn't there, you need to seek other employment.
Specify that perdiem (ie per day) rates are $xxx/day. A normal day is 7 or 8 hours and does not start before 6:30AM or after 7 PM. A maximum of xx extra hours may be worked per week, with reasonable notice.
After-hours rates are $xx/hr and oncall rates are $xx/hr. Payment terms are Net 30 with a 2% discount if paid within 14 days. There will be a 5% fee for invoices not paid within 60 days, and a 1.5% fee per 30 days thereafter.
If they do not agree to a contract like that, they are looking for someone to exploit, and will probaly be slow in producing money.
My advice is to go out and find another place to work.
Check out Tadpole's SPARC notebooks, some of which used to contain SCSI disk.
There is this thing called the internet which, among other things, allows you to run hardware hungry applications on a remote server. Using it might help.
Also, be warned that in order to use a small-form factor desktop like the shuttle, you really need to ship it with bulky and heavy shipping containers. The disks and other components are not going to handle shock well.
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You obviously haven't put enough thought into this.
A scheme like this, where you have to wait for a boot image to traverse a network, kinda defeats the purpose of tablet pcs.
If you are doing this for security, use applications that utilize strong encyrption. Playing games like this at the OS level is not the appropriate place to do this.
Why would you say that? I think of myself as being firmly in the anti-gun control camp.
Gun control laws are both obnoxious and ineffective. The fact that the bulk of gun-related crimes are committed with stolen or black-market weapons in areas with strict anti-gun laws speaks for itself.
Gun control advocates are a shrill bunch of people with an agenda. The only reason any of these laws pass is that urban citizens demonize guns, as they think that only policemen and criminals posses arms. Opportunistic policitians take advantage of this to look like they are "doing something".
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Windows users do have uids that are referred to as SIDs...
For example, the local administrator on NT machines is always user -500.
At one time payphones were the only phones available for a very large number of people, which made them far more valuable.
Even if a person took an incoming call -- without the payphone, that person would have communicated with their relative or friend via mail and the call never would have been made.
Keep in mind that even 30 years ago, phone service was not a universal thing. In the rural New York town where my parents lived, only about 50% of the town outside of the main village had private lines. This is in an area about 2 1/2 hours north of NYC.
If the phone company had to wire apartment buildings, tenaments, and rural areas with 60's and 70's technology, phone service would have been way to cost-prohibitive for anyone to purchase it.
Maybe you don't recall, but the government deregulated telecommunications in the early 90's. 50,000 ripoff payphone providers were one of the many negative results.
Also remember that until the 90's, many rural areas still hadn't upgraded to private line service, so payphones were a way to communicate without the neighbors listening in.
Payphones were very profitable until the government decided to block incoming calls. In many poorer neighborhoods, people used the local payphone for day-to-day calling instead of paying $25/month for landline service.
You are allowed to like or dislike companies... but if you judge Amazon by it's one-click patent, then you should judge Apple and it's LED-on-a-box patent at the same level. Both are inane.
That bastard language is what happens when a java/c programmer becomes a dba, then gets dropped into a large Perl project! My code in real-life isn't nearly as disgusting looking though!
While I may be an idiot, I also happen to be literate. Maybe you should ask your mom to come down to the basement and read to you.
I wasn't referring to Slashbots like yourself, but to the editorial staff. In case you haven't noticed yet, (which is frightening considering your UID) users don't post stories.
Slashdot employs editors who actually post stories submitted by users. Editors tend to post stories in a manner consistent with the algorithim that I noted earlier.
The general tone on Slashdot has been that patents & copyright are bad things -- As long as the patent/copyright holders are from "bad" corporations
If you google for "case mods", you'll find plent of prior art for using LEDs to alter the appearance of a computer.
These are generally the most-rushed, least useful books published on any topic.
The web rendered these books obselete circa 1995.
You are absolutely correct...
Unfortunately in the US, the shrill cries of "How can you spend billions on space when x seniors are without prescription drugs?" or "We have enough problems here on earth" override the future scientific and economic benefit of space exploration & exploitation.
I traded readability for efficency with that code :D
The most pathetic thing is, if Dell did something like this, there would be a front-page rant with 1500 replies to it in 10 minutes.
But Apple is held sacrosanct, because they compete (poorly) with Wintel.
We're talking about apple here.
Fans of a company that has been pimping technology for 2.5x what it is worth since 1984 would probaly pay $500 for a computer case with a red light in it.
Remember that you must check common sense and logic at the door when talking about Apple. Here at Slashdot, where we criticize everything and anything for being non-opensource as evil, OS X (a closed-source BSD variant) is cool.
if ( $org within ("Microsoft"|"Amazon"|"Intel")
&& $topic == "patent" )
{
post.story("Patents are evil, Linux r0x0rZ!");
}
elsif ($org within ("Apple"|"Transmeta"|"VA")
&& $topic == "patent" )
{
post.story("Feature xxx is cool! $org r0x0rZ!");
}
else {
ignore.story();
}
You're assuming that the town cop whose job is funded by state gov't assistance (which is funded by moving violation state surcharges) with a laser speed gun purchased and donated by GEICO or Allstate gives a shit about your saftey.
You are also assuming that the amateur town judge who runs the local gas station 9-5 knows what the work "telemetry" means and gives a shit whether you were guilty of speeding or not.
The more likely scenario is that the policeman will use radar or laser to prove you were driving 31 mph, and you will plea-bargain to a $100 "disobeying a traffic device" ticket rather than hiring a $500 lawyer to fight a $300 speeding ticket.
The biggest beneficiaries of Vehicle & Traffic laws are insurance companies and municipalities. (Which is why these groups lobby legislatures for more, tougher laws.) These laws have near-zero long-term effects on driver behavior. Most all of the saftey improvements in the last 30 years are a result of federal regulations on the automakers which has led to dramatically safer cars.
In the real world, people tend to call emergency services when a car collides with something and flips.
Yeah, there are accidents on lonely stretches of road. But I'd hazard to guess that that scenario accounts for a very small number of crashes.
The purpose of this technology is to improve the bottom line of auto insurers. Period. Spyware in cars will improve saftey about as well as photo-radar.
70's technology like the Space shuttle and Delta rockets are sending US payloads into space every day. The Soyuz spacecraft is/was providing essential supply replenishment missions to the ISS on a monthly basis.
Dismissing a technology because it is old is a dumb idea -- the technology behind the Soyuz is tested and reliable, and I'm sure that the improvements the Chinese make will modernize the platform further.
If NASA had invested billions in refurbishing the Space Shuttle, rather than squandering billions on a "Space Plane" that does the same thing as the shuttle, we'd probaly have a cheaper, more effective and more efficient space shuttle today.
You're a little naive.
An exempt employee is an administrative, professional or technical employee with a flexible work schedule. That flexibility is supposed to go both ways. (ie, if you work 60 hrs one week, you might work 30 hours in another). Plenty of employers abuse this, forcing workers to work beyond 40 hours regularly and not allowing a shorter workweek without a charge to PTO.
If that flexibility isn't there, you need to seek other employment.
Play hardball.
Specify that perdiem (ie per day) rates are $xxx/day. A normal day is 7 or 8 hours and does not start before 6:30AM or after 7 PM. A maximum of xx extra hours may be worked per week, with reasonable notice.
After-hours rates are $xx/hr and oncall rates are $xx/hr. Payment terms are Net 30 with a 2% discount if paid within 14 days. There will be a 5% fee for invoices not paid within 60 days, and a 1.5% fee per 30 days thereafter.
If they do not agree to a contract like that, they are looking for someone to exploit, and will probaly be slow in producing money.
My advice is to go out and find another place to work.
What are you doing to require so much I/O?
Check out Tadpole's SPARC notebooks, some of which used to contain SCSI disk.
There is this thing called the internet which, among other things, allows you to run hardware hungry applications on a remote server. Using it might help.
Also, be warned that in order to use a small-form factor desktop like the shuttle, you really need to ship it with bulky and heavy shipping containers. The disks and other components are not going to handle shock well.
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You obviously haven't put enough thought into this.
A scheme like this, where you have to wait for a boot image to traverse a network, kinda defeats the purpose of tablet pcs.
If you are doing this for security, use applications that utilize strong encyrption. Playing games like this at the OS level is not the appropriate place to do this.
Why are you asking this on Slashdot?
Not only is the battery unavailable, but the software used to control the phone is shipped with a non-Free license.
I find it outrageous that you would even think of asking such a question. Please install the Hurd on your Nokia 8860 then re-sumbit the question.
Only problem is the Sun Blade 100 includes a processor designed for telecom switches.
It's so slow that it can barely run CDE
Government has lots of meetings, and the best app for scheduling meetings is MS Outlook/Exchange
You may not realize this, but companies other than Microsoft develop for the Windows-32 platform.
Using crossover is easier than convincing all of your software vendors to port products.
Why would you say that? I think of myself as being firmly in the anti-gun control camp.
Gun control laws are both obnoxious and ineffective. The fact that the bulk of gun-related crimes are committed with stolen or black-market weapons in areas with strict anti-gun laws speaks for itself.
Gun control advocates are a shrill bunch of people with an agenda. The only reason any of these laws pass is that urban citizens demonize guns, as they think that only policemen and criminals posses arms. Opportunistic policitians take advantage of this to look like they are "doing something".
I'm sorry that you and your church ever had to experience that. Your story is a really sad statement on the ignorance of society.
It is even more frightening when you consider the additional power & responsibility that we are putting on the shoulders of government and the police.