a governement's job is to protect the nation's borders, and to uphold the federal constitution such that one person's actions do not infringe on another person's rights. anything else, IMO, is overstepping its bounds.
however annoying it might be, a person or company (do companies have rights under the constitution?) calling someone else on the telephone does not infringe on the callee's basic rights. the same goes for email spamming. they're not stealing your resources, connection time, etc. remember, YOU signed up for an email account which you allow to accept messages from anyone, anywhere.
while i would probably benefit slightly from a phone opt-out list, i don't really think it's the job of the federal government to do. i'm really curious why those legislators are wasting our time with this silly issue. aren't there other things they should be focused on? i prefer a simple and very loud STFU to the AT&T sales represenitives will eventually get the message across. Spamming the spammers is also an interesting tactic to get your name off the list.
with all this fricking legislation, i won't be able to walk up to someone in public and try to carry on a conversation for fear of being arrested for "stealing their precious time without consent".
If Microsoft makes an OS that requires Palladium support from the processor, any chip company whose main segment is PC processors will make processors that support it.
if none of them make the chip w/ palladium support, how will the customers know they need the new OS from Microsoft? i know, i know, someone will always jump ship and the others will have to follow suit. i just find it very odd that the software manufactures are in a position to define low level hardware requirements. hasn't it always been the other way around?
but they still took care of the issue within a few days
a service level guarantee? any cable company that has that type of service degradation and doesn't have it fixed really quick will have customers jumping ship very quickly. cable is attached to the tube, and if i can't watch the games on sunday (all 3), and the monday night game, or the tuesday, wed, thursday hockey games, or the friday (no wait, i don't know what's on fridays), or the saturday NCAA game, or the nascar races, or, or, there's going to be problems. the cable companies know that they're not the only option customers have. if there's not a competing land line, then there's always directTV or whatever the dish companies are these days. i don't believe the calbe companies were established as a utility and as such follow the more natural laws of competition to keep their customers.
...within a few days indeed. was that during the ice storms in carolina?
By 2012, the general mode of information supply of the 20th century--push--will be superseded by pull, where information is sent on demand or filtered by user profiles (0.6 probability).
could someone please translate this? i'm reading it to be email filters on steroids (or viagra perhaps?).
By 2008, retinal imaging and augmented reality will become available in mobile devices (0.6 probability).
i've been on the mobile subway devices of NYC and D.C., and let me tell you... the reality there is extremely augmented. normally, i've found peak augmentation to occur around 4:20 in the afternoon for some reason.
...they should be negotiating (note not suing) with the logging company to develop their replanting and harvesting strategy. If the protesters were more open minded then maybe they could help loggers take trees out of the forest selectively and leave a variety of ages of trees in an area, plus plant new ones.
activists such as this would love to do what you describe. the tree cutting companies don't have the time or resources to sit down and work out a strategy with these "wackos" (perception of the tree cutters). their job is to cut and sell wood. where ever they can get it, how ever they can get it, they're going to cut it and sell it.
It baffles me that the choice is either rape the land, or don't touch it.
this is the current business model that provides a HUGE supply to consumers. you're suggesting a very large change to that model which would drastically increase costs to "produce" that supply. this increased cost would ultimately be passed to the consumers. could the economy handle this impact? housing construction costs, reconstruction costs, furnature costs, etc, etc.
a few months ago granting them literally a pound of flesh from anyone who installed Turbo Pascal Builder.
that's a pretty cheap price for anyone using Turbo Pascal Builder. i would expect you to sign away your soul as the C# development tools (Visual Studio.NET) require.;)
that's quite an interesting theory there about 3rd world workers. how we can purchase goods from a place that has such low qa standards (doh. i sorry, i forgot the OS nearly all PC's have been shipping with for the last 7+ years).
my 386 had tons of HDD troubles. so did my 486. my pII still has no troubles with it's 4.3gb drive, but it's been downgraded to a garage decoration until i can find someone to take it off my hands for a reasonable price. my athlon home build machines have had no HDD troubles per se. for some reason they keep filling up and i find myself buying larger and larger drives. it takes quite some disk space for my dvd archiving activities:).
damn booring sick day. that's just a general guideline, not a "rule" of the language. that's like saying a sentence shouldn't end with a preposition.
"where's the library at?"
"a sentence does not end with a preposition"
"ok. where's the library at, asshole?"
/ i'm not an english major and don't profess to be. i know c, c++, java, etc pretty good. it's pretty silly seeing folks criticize others grammer on a fricking message board.
wow, they have common sense and a fairly reasonable drinking age up north.
i'd be curious how much business oracle, etc does with companies there. business server software is typically you buy it, you eat it. i've always wondered what happened to that software investment when a company goes out of business. are they then aloud to sell off the licenses? i don't think the vendors would go for that, and i imagine their eula's prohibit any transer. ever. under penalty of deat^^^^^becoming a dot com.
I can't wait until we (the generation/group of people that has two braincells to rub together) get into seniority
sounds like something each generation says over and over, yet when they get into a position to really do anything they always manage to fsck it up beyond any belief of the previous generation.
I might be next for something stupid
here between the atlantic and the pacific you don't even need that much.
FUD? i don't see how future savings can be real until they are realized... until then it's just numbers in a project plan. but, at any rate.
i guess i'm a little desktop/small shop centric. Microsoft products aren't the only products the govt's are using. most state systems are on mainframe systems (and are now being integrated into cheap websites). they've also probably got a few licenses for oracle laying around (California has a few cheep ones anyway) or db2, or some other data horse. the microsoft desktop licenses may add up, but the huge costs for the oracle/db2/ibm, etc add up to a large chunk too.
as a state IT manager (read: pencil sharpener), when will my oracle migration project be profitable? i'm to spend $100,000 to chuck a $50,000 software license for software that works for us. it'll cost 10Mill to get off that old mainframe, when will the project be profitable?
note, i'm not a state it manager, and the nubmers are made up. the point is a large migration project costs a lot of money to implement. someone's got to prove there's going to be a big payback and when. you just don't upgrade systems for the sake of a technology migration. there has to be solid numbers to back it up. it has to make sense to do.
i really, really do think that local, state, federal governemtns should be all using open source software and not spending outrageous monies on microsoft or other proprietary software systems. it makes sense to the consumer (taxpayer).
what i don't agree to is the timing. the can't (and shouldn't) spend money they don't have. though some get away with borrowing from the Social Security to pay their pet projects it's not responsible. the states, like a LOT of other business are moving from a time of tons of projects to a time of maintenance. just enough to keep the core running.
Your 'on sale' analogy isn't perfect since buying these things only provides you a one-time savings (not to mention the question of whether the items were needed or not)
i've often questioned that myself. and let me tell you, the items are needed, and there's always much more than a one-time savings.
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it's also a way to spend money they don't have. migrating systems like this costs money.
my wife always tries that one one me when she goes shopping. "it was on sale, so i was actually saving us money". then i look at the checkbook balances and wonder how all those savings are actually debits to the accounts...
the states should have considered open source systems highly 2-3 years ago when they were over inflating their own budgets and spending along with the economies (some were still putting a few dimes away for their rainy day fund which has all been used up by now). open source benefits begin with the initial systems planing and development phase. it would be really hard to justify spending money on migrating systems for future preceived savings.
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Cheap houses, no state income tax.... meth labs in their trailers, etc. Lots of drug runners...
They wouldn't like to take the risk of supplying premium channels if they knew there were no legal sanctions against people pirating it.
then don't give them to me unless i pay for them, simple as that. don't give me something that's kinda hidden and expect that if i find it i won't use it. maybe the pizza company charge for delivery per pizzl. they can't charge you extra for the delivery if they find out you eat the second pizza somehow.
untangables are generally services. say i hire an electrician to install some circuits. he installs some extra circuits on the chance that he can upsell them to me. i'm not interested, but find the extra circuits after the fact and find that i am able to use them just fine. can he now start charging me for the service he performed of installing those? hell, no. he can only charge me for what i contracted him to do which was install x amount of circuits.
this is always a fun topic. cable tv is using a faulty delivery mechanism. it doesn't cost them money to send the signal per se. the signal is always there. they just rake in extra money for decoding it for you (is it really encrypted?). most likely, it costs them money to sell the signal, probably by giving a kickback to HBO for every subscriber they have.
Its illegal to decrypt them without permission the law allows consumers to own their own cable tv decoder box, so it's not illegal to decode a cable tv channel. weather or not its illegal to watch those channels is another thing. what if you record the channel and view it later?
the phone companies either give you a dial tone or they don't (if you haven't purchased the service). from there, you either have long distance or you don't. you subscribe to the services you want, then they provide it to you. call forwarding isn't automatically on the line.
the cable company delivery is like ordering a pizza and then underneath the first pizza is another pizza. you can't eat the second unless you paid for it? wtf? you only ordered one pizza, it's not your fault they brought two (even though the second might be hidden under the first somehow).
Its illegal to decrypt them without permission.
out of curiousity, which law prohibits that? the DMCA probably doesn't apply because the viewer isn't attempting to copy copyright material, and in some cases it's an analog signal that's being decoded (are there digital decoder boxes on the market yet?).
natural? what's natural about their monopoly? the power companies were given their monopoly. i'd call that more unnatural than the microsoft desktop monopoly.
the guy at the supermarket who talks to himself while stacking the oranges
i've always wanted to walk up to and start a conversation with that guy (wow, we must shop at the same store), but I don't want to be rude and interrupt. sometimes i find myself going back to the produce section later just to see if i can get a word in edgewise, never any luck yet. let me know if you make it through, i've got a long list of questions i want to ask.
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my oh my.
a governement's job is to protect the nation's borders, and to uphold the federal constitution such that one person's actions do not infringe on another person's rights. anything else, IMO, is overstepping its bounds.
however annoying it might be, a person or company (do companies have rights under the constitution?) calling someone else on the telephone does not infringe on the callee's basic rights. the same goes for email spamming. they're not stealing your resources, connection time, etc. remember, YOU signed up for an email account which you allow to accept messages from anyone, anywhere.
while i would probably benefit slightly from a phone opt-out list, i don't really think it's the job of the federal government to do. i'm really curious why those legislators are wasting our time with this silly issue. aren't there other things they should be focused on? i prefer a simple and very loud STFU to the AT&T sales represenitives will eventually get the message across. Spamming the spammers is also an interesting tactic to get your name off the list.
with all this fricking legislation, i won't be able to walk up to someone in public and try to carry on a conversation for fear of being arrested for "stealing their precious time without consent".
If Microsoft makes an OS that requires Palladium support from the processor, any chip company whose main segment is PC processors will make processors that support it.
if none of them make the chip w/ palladium support, how will the customers know they need the new OS from Microsoft? i know, i know, someone will always jump ship and the others will have to follow suit. i just find it very odd that the software manufactures are in a position to define low level hardware requirements. hasn't it always been the other way around?
but they still took care of the issue within a few days
...within a few days indeed. was that during the ice storms in carolina?
a service level guarantee? any cable company that has that type of service degradation and doesn't have it fixed really quick will have customers jumping ship very quickly. cable is attached to the tube, and if i can't watch the games on sunday (all 3), and the monday night game, or the tuesday, wed, thursday hockey games, or the friday (no wait, i don't know what's on fridays), or the saturday NCAA game, or the nascar races, or, or, there's going to be problems. the cable companies know that they're not the only option customers have. if there's not a competing land line, then there's always directTV or whatever the dish companies are these days. i don't believe the calbe companies were established as a utility and as such follow the more natural laws of competition to keep their customers.
they will come after you
oh sure, they'll come after you. but when will they actually catch up wtih you?
to add to your mindless extrapolation of the obvious:... "They should identify a clear return on investment before engaging in implementations. "
looks like someone spent a minute or two analyzing the dot com era of the late 90's eh?
By 2012, the general mode of information supply of the 20th century--push--will be superseded by pull, where information is sent on demand or filtered by user profiles (0.6 probability).
could someone please translate this? i'm reading it to be email filters on steroids (or viagra perhaps?).
By 2008, retinal imaging and augmented reality will become available in mobile devices (0.6 probability).
i've been on the mobile subway devices of NYC and D.C., and let me tell you... the reality there is extremely augmented. normally, i've found peak augmentation to occur around 4:20 in the afternoon for some reason.
...they should be negotiating (note not suing) with the logging company to develop their replanting and harvesting strategy. If the protesters were more open minded then maybe they could help loggers take trees out of the forest selectively and leave a variety of ages of trees in an area, plus plant new ones.
activists such as this would love to do what you describe. the tree cutting companies don't have the time or resources to sit down and work out a strategy with these "wackos" (perception of the tree cutters). their job is to cut and sell wood. where ever they can get it, how ever they can get it, they're going to cut it and sell it.
It baffles me that the choice is either rape the land, or don't touch it.
this is the current business model that provides a HUGE supply to consumers. you're suggesting a very large change to that model which would drastically increase costs to "produce" that supply. this increased cost would ultimately be passed to the consumers. could the economy handle this impact? housing construction costs, reconstruction costs, furnature costs, etc, etc.
a few months ago granting them literally a pound of flesh from anyone who installed Turbo Pascal Builder.
.NET) require. ;)
that's a pretty cheap price for anyone using Turbo Pascal Builder. i would expect you to sign away your soul as the C# development tools (Visual Studio
that's quite an interesting theory there about 3rd world workers. how we can purchase goods from a place that has such low qa standards (doh. i sorry, i forgot the OS nearly all PC's have been shipping with for the last 7+ years).
:).
my 386 had tons of HDD troubles. so did my 486. my pII still has no troubles with it's 4.3gb drive, but it's been downgraded to a garage decoration until i can find someone to take it off my hands for a reasonable price. my athlon home build machines have had no HDD troubles per se. for some reason they keep filling up and i find myself buying larger and larger drives. it takes quite some disk space for my dvd archiving activities
You should not start sentences with conjunctions.
damn booring sick day. that's just a general guideline, not a "rule" of the language. that's like saying a sentence shouldn't end with a preposition.
"where's the library at?"
"a sentence does not end with a preposition"
"ok. where's the library at, asshole?"
/ i'm not an english major and don't profess to be. i know c, c++, java, etc pretty good. it's pretty silly seeing folks criticize others grammer on a fricking message board.
wow, they have common sense and a fairly reasonable drinking age up north.
i'd be curious how much business oracle, etc does with companies there. business server software is typically you buy it, you eat it. i've always wondered what happened to that software investment when a company goes out of business. are they then aloud to sell off the licenses? i don't think the vendors would go for that, and i imagine their eula's prohibit any transer. ever. under penalty of deat^^^^^becoming a dot com.
I can't wait until we (the generation/group of people that has two braincells to rub together) get into seniority
sounds like something each generation says over and over, yet when they get into a position to really do anything they always manage to fsck it up beyond any belief of the previous generation.
I might be next for something stupid
here between the atlantic and the pacific you don't even need that much.
Keep in mind, I'm not very intelligent.
:)
that's a pre-req around these parts.
(very intersting points made there btw).
The games are secondary.
oh, man. them's some harsh words there.
if you build the arena, they will come.
FUD? i don't see how future savings can be real until they are realized... until then it's just numbers in a project plan. but, at any rate.
i guess i'm a little desktop/small shop centric. Microsoft products aren't the only products the govt's are using. most state systems are on mainframe systems (and are now being integrated into cheap websites). they've also probably got a few licenses for oracle laying around (California has a few cheep ones anyway) or db2, or some other data horse. the microsoft desktop licenses may add up, but the huge costs for the oracle/db2/ibm, etc add up to a large chunk too.
as a state IT manager (read: pencil sharpener), when will my oracle migration project be profitable? i'm to spend $100,000 to chuck a $50,000 software license for software that works for us. it'll cost 10Mill to get off that old mainframe, when will the project be profitable?
note, i'm not a state it manager, and the nubmers are made up. the point is a large migration project costs a lot of money to implement. someone's got to prove there's going to be a big payback and when. you just don't upgrade systems for the sake of a technology migration. there has to be solid numbers to back it up. it has to make sense to do.
what i don't agree to is the timing. the can't (and shouldn't) spend money they don't have. though some get away with borrowing from the Social Security to pay their pet projects it's not responsible. the states, like a LOT of other business are moving from a time of tons of projects to a time of maintenance. just enough to keep the core running.
Your 'on sale' analogy isn't perfect since buying these things only provides you a one-time savings (not to mention the question of whether the items were needed or not)
i've often questioned that myself. and let me tell you, the items are needed, and there's always much more than a one-time savings.
it's also a way to spend money they don't have. migrating systems like this costs money.
my wife always tries that one one me when she goes shopping. "it was on sale, so i was actually saving us money". then i look at the checkbook balances and wonder how all those savings are actually debits to the accounts...
the states should have considered open source systems highly 2-3 years ago when they were over inflating their own budgets and spending along with the economies (some were still putting a few dimes away for their rainy day fund which has all been used up by now). open source benefits begin with the initial systems planing and development phase. it would be really hard to justify spending money on migrating systems for future preceived savings.
Cheap houses, no state income tax.... meth labs in their trailers, etc. Lots of drug runners ...
/. the state of florida.
way to go,
The real problem is that Slashdot's presentation is fugly, and it doesn't use CSS to set the tag to something less enormous
wouldn't you think the default settings would be more normal?
They wouldn't like to take the risk of supplying premium channels if they knew there were no legal sanctions against people pirating it.
then don't give them to me unless i pay for them, simple as that. don't give me something that's kinda hidden and expect that if i find it i won't use it. maybe the pizza company charge for delivery per pizzl. they can't charge you extra for the delivery if they find out you eat the second pizza somehow.
untangables are generally services. say i hire an electrician to install some circuits. he installs some extra circuits on the chance that he can upsell them to me. i'm not interested, but find the extra circuits after the fact and find that i am able to use them just fine. can he now start charging me for the service he performed of installing those? hell, no. he can only charge me for what i contracted him to do which was install x amount of circuits.
It costs them money to send me signals.
this is always a fun topic. cable tv is using a faulty delivery mechanism. it doesn't cost them money to send the signal per se. the signal is always there. they just rake in extra money for decoding it for you (is it really encrypted?). most likely, it costs them money to sell the signal, probably by giving a kickback to HBO for every subscriber they have.
Its illegal to decrypt them without permission
the law allows consumers to own their own cable tv decoder box, so it's not illegal to decode a cable tv channel. weather or not its illegal to watch those channels is another thing. what if you record the channel and view it later?
the phone companies either give you a dial tone or they don't (if you haven't purchased the service). from there, you either have long distance or you don't. you subscribe to the services you want, then they provide it to you. call forwarding isn't automatically on the line.
the cable company delivery is like ordering a pizza and then underneath the first pizza is another pizza. you can't eat the second unless you paid for it? wtf? you only ordered one pizza, it's not your fault they brought two (even though the second might be hidden under the first somehow).
Its illegal to decrypt them without permission.
out of curiousity, which law prohibits that? the DMCA probably doesn't apply because the viewer isn't attempting to copy copyright material, and in some cases it's an analog signal that's being decoded (are there digital decoder boxes on the market yet?).
natural? what's natural about their monopoly? the power companies were given their monopoly. i'd call that more unnatural than the microsoft desktop monopoly.
what about the sparc III? or maybe that was only FreeBSD?
the guy at the supermarket who talks to himself while stacking the oranges
i've always wanted to walk up to and start a conversation with that guy (wow, we must shop at the same store), but I don't want to be rude and interrupt. sometimes i find myself going back to the produce section later just to see if i can get a word in edgewise, never any luck yet. let me know if you make it through, i've got a long list of questions i want to ask.