Since most business travellers and tourists will want to keep the phone as long as possible, you can bet they'll be taking them to the airport with them.
Exactly.
Speaking of airport booths, I'm sure the moneychangers would love to give you $20 of your $25 back if you neglected to get rid of the phone elsewhere. Or I'm sure you could donate them by dropping them into the bag your airplane [strike]stewardess[/strike]waitperson brings around for foreign currency donations to the Red Cross/Red Crescent.
I'd say it sounds quite wasteful, even if the phone is recyclable.. (how many will recycle it?)
I've noticed that in Oregon (where I lived last), where there's a mandatory 5 cent deposit per soda bottle or can, people are much more conscientious about returning them than here in Texas, where there is no deposit, stores won't pay you for them, and you have to go find a "can bank" or something to get paid 16 cents a pound, or whatever they give these days.
Now apply that with cell phones. Right now, sometimes providers will give you discounts to trade in your phone, or you can give them back and they supposedly give them to needy causes (though I've heard mostly they give them to outfits that fix and clean them and then sell them to nonprofits), but if you try to show up at the local household hazardous materials reclamation center, they want to charge you to take them!
Imagine if a $25 deposit fee was charged for each phone. Yes, you'd have more people stealing phones, probably. But you'd also have a lot more phones returned instead of winding up in landfills. You could apply a similar deposit fee to phone batteries as well, which are actually more likely to be thrown away.
The latest ATI card isn't going to render text any faster than the 1MB trident card in my old 486...
Funny you should say that. This week I learned first hand what it's like to scale back. My Nvidia Ti 4600 finally was crashing my computer too much, so I had to take it out and use my old 2MB S3 Virge card, while I try to get Visiontek to give me an RMA. (Check my sig for how that's not turning out)
Anyway, bootup seems just the same speed, and most of the time, all the screen elements seem to work about the same speed when I'm just browsing the web or doing email. It's only when I'm trying to load up a database or spreadsheet or something like that that it's really noticeably slower. Of course, I can't play any of the newer games, but I've been playing PS/2 mostly, lately.
Don't even try to convince me that if someone had a gun in those airplanes that they would not have been able to stop a bunch of razor toting fanatics.
So tell me why a couple hundred passengers couldn't stop a few razor-toting fanatics, also? And, in fact, we think that in one case, they did so, though not before they were in a position to crash the plane.
The biggest difference one gun would have made would have been in the diminished personal perception of the likelihood of pain or death to the person intervening, not in its actual stopping power.
Dell gave one of UT's ACES clusters a free Itanium 2. Guess what it's doing? Nothing. This is because it sucks compared to the Power 4 units in real-life work.
Why can't they use it as an X-terminal or something?
He just happened to get exposure on/. because he was fired for posting pictures of Mac equipment on MS grounds.
Actually, no, it wasn't even that he posted pictures:
The picture itself might have been permissible, but because I also mentioned that I worked at the MSCopy print shop, and which building it was in, it pushed me over the line.
The rest of your post is on the mark, though. The temp's a blabbermouth, and who knows what else he's talking about offline, etc., in violation of his NDA? The easiest way to take care of temps who misbehave is to dump them.
Look, if you're a temp, even if you have rapport with your immediate coworkers, you're not really considered part of a company family, so you probably won't get a chance to recover if you screw up. So don't screw up! Play by company rules, keep your mouth shut, and do your work... and be glad you have a job.
A simple software command should never, EVER be able to fry hardware.
What about a command that sets the video card to a really bad scan rate and/or resolution, damaging the CRT? There was an early "hardware" virus that supposedly did this.
What the submission doesn't say is what the core business of the startup is. What do you want to bet they're trying to go into business as a discount virtual host/datacenter?
There are some multi-million dollar data centers out there sitting totally empty and just begging to be bought. Ask commercial real estate agents in any large city - companies like NTT/Verio fully built out quite a few, then dumped them all on the market when the bubble burst.
Since the "key" actually floats under the power pins, it's quite easy. I've done it a couple of times, but never had a power supply or drive fail because of it. My floppy is still the same one I bought in 1991 for my 286:)
...his laptops and phones and pagers were often "disappearing" out of his car, or his apartment when he'd "get lucky" with guys from the bars......not that there's anything wrong with that.:)
With which part? I wasn't commenting on his sexual proclivities, just stating how he'd lose things. And there definitely is a problem with being that irresponsible with gear.
Also, don't forget, these are only the accidents/incidents for machines submitted for recovery. By far the most common way to lose data is probably to lose your laptop in the airport, either forgetting it or having it stolen. I remember reading an article about airport lost and founds getting thousands of these yearly. Considering that few people run encryption, that's an incredible industrial disaster waiting to happen.
Does your company hold people accountable for paying for damage when they do things like this?
One of my former bosses had a convertible, which, according to gossip, would often be parked with the top down when he went bar hopping... his laptops and phones and pagers were often "disappearing" out of his car, or his apartment when he'd "get lucky" with guys from the bars, but I don't think he was ever held responsible for the losses.
Of course, if us engineers damaged equipment while doing actual work, we'd have to worry about our jobs, or at least our paychecks.
He's comparing the response time of his muti-billion-dollar company, with thousands of paid programmers, to a global effort by thousands of volunteers, for the most part. Sure, Red Hat, SuSE, etc. pay their staff, but so many of these packages are completely maintained by volunteers.
You'd expect Microsoft to have a much better response time, even have a 24-hour-a-day emergency response team that has immediate access to all source and a large testbed and the ability to work on a problem and get it fixed immediately, if necessary... but it's the little guy with his little utility or driver for legacy hardware that stays up all night when he gets a single email showing a problem, out of personal pride.
Good response. I'm just complaining, because they do have a ways to go to really be an alternative to the trading networks.
I try to be a good citizen about the whole music sharing thing, and only download when the selections cannot be bought locally. However, those often happen to be the only things I get in my head as wanting to buy. I don't know if you know or like 80s pop music, but the examples I mentioned are standards played everytime radio stations have "retro weekends" - so you'd think that they really aren't that obscure. If the record companies aren't biting at the free hardware and stuff that you said they were offered, they really suck.
In the meantime, I do love the net radio feature, like I said. I'm all over the ambient and electronic stuff right now. Too bad there's not a version for Win98, so I could set it up for my parents, who would also want music gift certificates from me at Christmas-time, I'm sure...
Try finding the artists "Taco" or "Men without Hats" or the song "Amadeus."
Come to think of it, try finding current songs. Found "Omnibus" yet? How about any album by the Chemical Brothers?
This app is cute, and I like the radio feature. However, as an on-demand store, it's not very comprehensive, unless you like Justin Timberlake or whatever else sells a bazillion copies at Wal-Mart.
Where's the obscure stuff? Where's the exclusive, otherwise-out-of-print or not-sold-in-the-U.S. selections that will keep me from going to P2P networks? I'd be happy to pay for these things if I could find them for sale. Anyone listening?
There's no reason to pay anybody more than $12/year to update an Internet TV-Guide. In fact I think that's about how much the paper TV Guide costs.
Funny you should say that. Take a look at the new ReplayTV 5500 series... that's about what it costs yearly, and the first three years are free. Don't forget that the 55xx, like the 4xxx and 5xxx series, also works with open-source third party utilities like DVArchive to let you download content across your network to your PC without any mods to the Replay unit (of course there's a built-in NIC). If you want to expand the capacity, of course, there's another open-source utility called RTVPatch to let you format your own drives for single or dual drive upgrades (which do break the warranty, of course). Oh, did I mention that all recent models of ReplayTV have support for drives bigger than 137GB built in?
Oh, one final thing: if you buy multiple Replays of recent models (5xxx and above, I think) they will all talk to each other, so if one fills up or is already going to record something at one time, you can tell another one to record it instead... and you can access any of your networked Replays to stream a recorded program back to whichever one's by the tv in your current room. And yes, that extends to streaming data off your DVArchive server, if you have one.
Why am I mentioning all these things? So you compare what you can do with an unmodified (or drive-swap modded) ReplayTV, against an unmodified (or drive-swap modded) Tivo, either Series 1 or 2. At a lower overall price, too.
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Exactly.
Speaking of airport booths, I'm sure the moneychangers would love to give you $20 of your $25 back if you neglected to get rid of the phone elsewhere. Or I'm sure you could donate them by dropping them into the bag your airplane [strike]stewardess[/strike]waitperson brings around for foreign currency donations to the Red Cross/Red Crescent.
You know it'll work itself out quite quickly.
I've noticed that in Oregon (where I lived last), where there's a mandatory 5 cent deposit per soda bottle or can, people are much more conscientious about returning them than here in Texas, where there is no deposit, stores won't pay you for them, and you have to go find a "can bank" or something to get paid 16 cents a pound, or whatever they give these days.
Now apply that with cell phones. Right now, sometimes providers will give you discounts to trade in your phone, or you can give them back and they supposedly give them to needy causes (though I've heard mostly they give them to outfits that fix and clean them and then sell them to nonprofits), but if you try to show up at the local household hazardous materials reclamation center, they want to charge you to take them!
Imagine if a $25 deposit fee was charged for each phone. Yes, you'd have more people stealing phones, probably. But you'd also have a lot more phones returned instead of winding up in landfills. You could apply a similar deposit fee to phone batteries as well, which are actually more likely to be thrown away.
Funny you should say that. This week I learned first hand what it's like to scale back. My Nvidia Ti 4600 finally was crashing my computer too much, so I had to take it out and use my old 2MB S3 Virge card, while I try to get Visiontek to give me an RMA. (Check my sig for how that's not turning out)
Anyway, bootup seems just the same speed, and most of the time, all the screen elements seem to work about the same speed when I'm just browsing the web or doing email. It's only when I'm trying to load up a database or spreadsheet or something like that that it's really noticeably slower. Of course, I can't play any of the newer games, but I've been playing PS/2 mostly, lately.
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No, they're probably laughing on their cell phones to their mothers, saying, "and you wanted me to be a doctor..."
Lawyers almost always benefit, no matter which side of a case they're on.
So tell me why a couple hundred passengers couldn't stop a few razor-toting fanatics, also? And, in fact, we think that in one case, they did so, though not before they were in a position to crash the plane.
The biggest difference one gun would have made would have been in the diminished personal perception of the likelihood of pain or death to the person intervening, not in its actual stopping power.
Why can't they use it as an X-terminal or something?
Hey, can I have it?
What, and you don't think you'd be arrested before the auction even closed?
Someone needs to take a skimmer to the gene pool, again...
Actually, no, it wasn't even that he posted pictures:
The rest of your post is on the mark, though. The temp's a blabbermouth, and who knows what else he's talking about offline, etc., in violation of his NDA? The easiest way to take care of temps who misbehave is to dump them.
Look, if you're a temp, even if you have rapport with your immediate coworkers, you're not really considered part of a company family, so you probably won't get a chance to recover if you screw up. So don't screw up! Play by company rules, keep your mouth shut, and do your work... and be glad you have a job.
What about a command that sets the video card to a really bad scan rate and/or resolution, damaging the CRT? There was an early "hardware" virus that supposedly did this.
How do you keep the tablets from becoming a disease vector?
I didn't say all of them were dumped :)
Ask your salesman about them. Ones with people I personally knew who got laid off: the Pittock colo and a colo in a suburb of Seattle.
Or, better yet, try using Google for "colo"+"verio":
"Verio, which last year closed down 25 data centers around the United States, leaving 46 open at the end of 2001, is now planning to shut down all but 10 of its data centers, reducing the count further from the 22 now open.The company also is planning to lay off 650 of its 2,600 workers by the end of this year, according to Verio spokesperson Mona Peloquin."
What the submission doesn't say is what the core business of the startup is. What do you want to bet they're trying to go into business as a discount virtual host/datacenter?
There are some multi-million dollar data centers out there sitting totally empty and just begging to be bought. Ask commercial real estate agents in any large city - companies like NTT/Verio fully built out quite a few, then dumped them all on the market when the bubble burst.
Since the "key" actually floats under the power pins, it's quite easy. I've done it a couple of times, but never had a power supply or drive fail because of it. My floppy is still the same one I bought in 1991 for my 286 :)
With which part? I wasn't commenting on his sexual proclivities, just stating how he'd lose things. And there definitely is a problem with being that irresponsible with gear.
Also, don't forget, these are only the accidents/incidents for machines submitted for recovery. By far the most common way to lose data is probably to lose your laptop in the airport, either forgetting it or having it stolen. I remember reading an article about airport lost and founds getting thousands of these yearly. Considering that few people run encryption, that's an incredible industrial disaster waiting to happen.
Does your company hold people accountable for paying for damage when they do things like this?
One of my former bosses had a convertible, which, according to gossip, would often be parked with the top down when he went bar hopping... his laptops and phones and pagers were often "disappearing" out of his car, or his apartment when he'd "get lucky" with guys from the bars, but I don't think he was ever held responsible for the losses.
Of course, if us engineers damaged equipment while doing actual work, we'd have to worry about our jobs, or at least our paychecks.
He's comparing the response time of his muti-billion-dollar company, with thousands of paid programmers, to a global effort by thousands of volunteers, for the most part. Sure, Red Hat, SuSE, etc. pay their staff, but so many of these packages are completely maintained by volunteers.
You'd expect Microsoft to have a much better response time, even have a 24-hour-a-day emergency response team that has immediate access to all source and a large testbed and the ability to work on a problem and get it fixed immediately, if necessary... but it's the little guy with his little utility or driver for legacy hardware that stays up all night when he gets a single email showing a problem, out of personal pride.
Good response. I'm just complaining, because they do have a ways to go to really be an alternative to the trading networks.
I try to be a good citizen about the whole music sharing thing, and only download when the selections cannot be bought locally. However, those often happen to be the only things I get in my head as wanting to buy. I don't know if you know or like 80s pop music, but the examples I mentioned are standards played everytime radio stations have "retro weekends" - so you'd think that they really aren't that obscure. If the record companies aren't biting at the free hardware and stuff that you said they were offered, they really suck.
In the meantime, I do love the net radio feature, like I said. I'm all over the ambient and electronic stuff right now. Too bad there's not a version for Win98, so I could set it up for my parents, who would also want music gift certificates from me at Christmas-time, I'm sure...
ah, thanks for telling me about that feature, and that it does seem to actually work for you. I'll try it out.
Where's all my favorite 80s songs and groups?
Try finding the artists "Taco" or "Men without Hats" or the song "Amadeus."
Come to think of it, try finding current songs. Found "Omnibus" yet? How about any album by the Chemical Brothers?
This app is cute, and I like the radio feature. However, as an on-demand store, it's not very comprehensive, unless you like Justin Timberlake or whatever else sells a bazillion copies at Wal-Mart.
Where's the obscure stuff? Where's the exclusive, otherwise-out-of-print or not-sold-in-the-U.S. selections that will keep me from going to P2P networks? I'd be happy to pay for these things if I could find them for sale. Anyone listening?
Yes... ignorance of the ReplayTV 55xx series that has free guide for 3 years, and should be less than $12 a year after.
Funny you should say that. Take a look at the new ReplayTV 5500 series... that's about what it costs yearly, and the first three years are free. Don't forget that the 55xx, like the 4xxx and 5xxx series, also works with open-source third party utilities like DVArchive to let you download content across your network to your PC without any mods to the Replay unit (of course there's a built-in NIC). If you want to expand the capacity, of course, there's another open-source utility called RTVPatch to let you format your own drives for single or dual drive upgrades (which do break the warranty, of course). Oh, did I mention that all recent models of ReplayTV have support for drives bigger than 137GB built in?
Oh, one final thing: if you buy multiple Replays of recent models (5xxx and above, I think) they will all talk to each other, so if one fills up or is already going to record something at one time, you can tell another one to record it instead... and you can access any of your networked Replays to stream a recorded program back to whichever one's by the tv in your current room. And yes, that extends to streaming data off your DVArchive server, if you have one.
Why am I mentioning all these things? So you compare what you can do with an unmodified (or drive-swap modded) ReplayTV, against an unmodified (or drive-swap modded) Tivo, either Series 1 or 2. At a lower overall price, too.
Can I have it?
I'm waiting for the footage of his testing to be (posthumously) released.