it's like looking at files on a Windows desktop, where no matter what you name the file the first letter always ends up capitalized.
You can turn that off. I discovered that a while back. Of course, given MS's various customization methods, i'm not sure I could find that option again... ___
Customers using Motorola two-way radios are less than enthusiastic about having their
proprietary business information bandied about. Ken Silverman, operations manager at
AR Fuels, a Brooklyn oil distributor, said he has already notified his local dealer that
he will sue if information about the business is shared.
"I don't want any information relative to anything I do shared with anyone. Our
business is our business. I don't want anyone to know what equipment I use, when I
use it and how I use it," said Silverman, whose company uses the radios to dispatch
trucks.
... monopolies (and the equivalent, collusive behavior by competitors) invariably lead to unfair pricing. Make them all illegal and people... will be better off.
Wouldn't this mean you couldn't be the first in the market to offer a new service? Or if you want to, you need to help set up someone to compete with you before the FTC will allow you to start business? It seems like that would promote collusion. ___
Tired of having to pay attention to your Aibo? Give it something else to bother! The new Aibo Companion will keep your robotic pet occupied, so you can spend time on more important stuff. ___
Will Carnivore allow anyone to read my mail without a warrant signed by a judge?
Unless it contacts a central warrant server and verifies the appropriate information before allowing an FBI agent to log in, or has an OCR warrant scanner to activate it, then yes. ___
some people just won't clean up their own yard without the intervention of external forces. That's why entities such as homeowners associations have proliferated.
While I understand your point, I'm not a big fan of your example. Of all the things unnecessary for the smooth functioning of civilization, clean yards and homeowners associations are near the top. ___
If it can survive on the outside of a space installation, it may be able to survive reentry (or at least the bits inside might be able to survive the heat that makes it into the station). Then we'd have bacteria on Earth that eats our infrastructure.
Then the Puppeteers appear, to set up trade agreements. ___
Before the race, food was everywhere (To grow it to size). They then put food at the two ends of the maze, and all of the dead end pseudopodia withdrew or died? It just sounds like "grow where the food is..." A skill microscopic life has had for quite a while. ___
...each packet is carved from only the finest oak by third-generation master craftsmen in rural Vermont and comes with a signed certificate of authenticity
"In the final text, it will let recipients know that you have a new email address and shares how they can use that to communicate with you," she said. For example, a message may tell recipients that they can send messages through Hotmail and MSN Messenger.
Or maybe they could use whatever program they are using to read that message. ___
A friend of mine, my parents, and I all have Bell Atlantic - er - Verizon ADSL. Service is extremely variable. I have (almost) no complaints, but that is less true for the others.
I live about 3 blocks from a Verizon building, and got in early enough to get a static IP. I have noticed that any individual download is maxed out at 50Kbps, but that may be what a server is willing to send at. I am able to get multiple 50Kbps downloads at once. As another poster mentioned, upload speed is abysmal, but I guess that's what ADSL is, and if I have to trade upload speed for download speed, that's the trade I'm willing to make. It does go out occasionally, but seldom for more than an hour or two.
My friend lives a mile or two from the same building, and his experience is essentially the same as mine, except it takes about 10 minutes for the connection to 'warm up' when he turns his computer on, for some reason. He also has a static IP, but occasionally he has had to have them change it, when it randomly stops working.
My parents had the worst experience. They live slightly closer to the Verizon building than does my friend, and have a shorter 'warm up' time. They have a dynamic IP, and thus have to log on to the internet. Their worst experience was the install. They were mailed a new internal DSL modem (My friend and I have external modems hooked up to an ethernet card). One Bell Atlantic (at the time) installer came, and installed the extra phone jack, and left. Another installer came, and put the card into the computer. He stayed at the house for most of the day, but was unable to get it to even connect. In fact, their driver software interfered with the video driver, and forced the display to run at 640x480x16. Over the next couple weeks, many phone calls, and a couple more visits, no progress was made. Finally, they were forced to send a tech who actually was a tech, rather than an installer who only knew how to follow the step by step process. This teck admitted to us that the internal DSL modem HAS A 40% FAILURE RATE!!!!! Sorry for the yelling, but that really annoyed me. Apparently Bell Atlantic had a contract with this company, and was unwilling to drop a crappy product. The tech installed an external modem, and everything worked fine.
Well, that's my experience with Bell Atlantic/Verizon.
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Each congress person should be paid the average income of their state (or the country) to force them to better the state of the nation.
Be more specific - I'd say the median income rather than the mean. If it was the mean, it would be much easier to increase the income of the ultra-wealthy by a lot than it would be to increase everyone's income some. With median, the goal would be to increase the income of the lower half, and provide a moving (upward) target. Hmm. That would probably exacerbate the progressive tax system beyond any reasonable amount, ending with everyone making the same salary. I guess there's no easy answer. So much for armchair governing... ___
I would have liked to have read it.. but either I'm having routing problems at my ISP or it's been/.ed.
They're getting a slashDOS? Kinda ironic... ___
Slashdot Mirror
Isn't there already a Klingon summer school?
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You can turn that off. I discovered that a while back. Of course, given MS's various customization methods, i'm not sure I could find that option again...
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If you don't hsve to admit a mistake, you have no incentive to avoid (or repair) it. Witness Microsoft (and government).
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Still not as cool as a BA in Magic. (Awarded to Isaac Bonewits by the University of California, Berkley)
Somehow, it seems as if that should be a BS...
(Abbreviation-wise)
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And very little money.
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"My, you're looking bloated today!"
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"I don't want any information relative to anything I do shared with anyone. Our business is our business. I don't want anyone to know what equipment I use, when I use it and how I use it," said Silverman, whose company uses the radios to dispatch trucks.
Um, whoops!
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Wouldn't this mean you couldn't be the first in the market to offer a new service? Or if you want to, you need to help set up someone to compete with you before the FTC will allow you to start business? It seems like that would promote collusion.
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Tired of having to pay attention to your Aibo? Give it something else to bother! The new Aibo Companion will keep your robotic pet occupied, so you can spend time on more important stuff.
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Unless it contacts a central warrant server and verifies the appropriate information before allowing an FBI agent to log in, or has an OCR warrant scanner to activate it, then yes.
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I look fine in my BSOD (Blue Shirt of Death).
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While I understand your point, I'm not a big fan of your example. Of all the things unnecessary for the smooth functioning of civilization, clean yards and homeowners associations are near the top.
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Then the Puppeteers appear, to set up trade agreements.
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I think that on the second day of x-mas, slashdot gave to you an infinite loop.
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Before the race, food was everywhere (To grow it to size). They then put food at the two ends of the maze, and all of the dead end pseudopodia withdrew or died? It just sounds like "grow where the food is..." A skill microscopic life has had for quite a while.
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Am I admitting too much when I say that she is on "Monster Rancher," not Pokemon? Or am I just admitting that I don't watch Pokemon?
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But are they numbered? I want packet 31337.
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Or maybe they could use whatever program they are using to read that message.
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Guns don't kill people! People kill people! We should investigate all people!
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I live about 3 blocks from a Verizon building, and got in early enough to get a static IP. I have noticed that any individual download is maxed out at 50Kbps, but that may be what a server is willing to send at. I am able to get multiple 50Kbps downloads at once. As another poster mentioned, upload speed is abysmal, but I guess that's what ADSL is, and if I have to trade upload speed for download speed, that's the trade I'm willing to make. It does go out occasionally, but seldom for more than an hour or two.
My friend lives a mile or two from the same building, and his experience is essentially the same as mine, except it takes about 10 minutes for the connection to 'warm up' when he turns his computer on, for some reason. He also has a static IP, but occasionally he has had to have them change it, when it randomly stops working.
My parents had the worst experience. They live slightly closer to the Verizon building than does my friend, and have a shorter 'warm up' time. They have a dynamic IP, and thus have to log on to the internet. Their worst experience was the install. They were mailed a new internal DSL modem (My friend and I have external modems hooked up to an ethernet card). One Bell Atlantic (at the time) installer came, and installed the extra phone jack, and left. Another installer came, and put the card into the computer. He stayed at the house for most of the day, but was unable to get it to even connect. In fact, their driver software interfered with the video driver, and forced the display to run at 640x480x16. Over the next couple weeks, many phone calls, and a couple more visits, no progress was made. Finally, they were forced to send a tech who actually was a tech, rather than an installer who only knew how to follow the step by step process. This teck admitted to us that the internal DSL modem HAS A 40% FAILURE RATE!!!!! Sorry for the yelling, but that really annoyed me. Apparently Bell Atlantic had a contract with this company, and was unwilling to drop a crappy product. The tech installed an external modem, and everything worked fine.
Well, that's my experience with Bell Atlantic/Verizon.
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Be more specific - I'd say the median income rather than the mean. If it was the mean, it would be much easier to increase the income of the ultra-wealthy by a lot than it would be to increase everyone's income some. With median, the goal would be to increase the income of the lower half, and provide a moving (upward) target. Hmm. That would probably exacerbate the progressive tax system beyond any reasonable amount, ending with everyone making the same salary. I guess there's no easy answer. So much for armchair governing...
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When the average person gets significantly fatter.
So we should be seeing them here in the US pretty soon, then?
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I would have liked to have read it.. but either I'm having routing problems at my ISP or it's been /.ed.
They're getting a slashDOS? Kinda ironic...
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Interesting typo. It was a typo, right? Hard to tell.
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Baldur's Gate! Also relevant for people who dual-boot for games. But yeah, there aren't too many.
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