I am OK with municipal utilities, I think it is inappropriate to make it free. If there is a need among the low-income, offer discounts or make it free for them on a need basis. Having your users pay by default would more likely pay for the setup.
I am no fan of the DSL / cable duopoly, but not giving them or other commercial interests a chance would be a disservice to tax payers due to the potential for waste and stifles competition from viable alternatives.
Was it a criminal lawsuit? Then, in the US, you can get legal representation provided for you if you can't afford it. I don't think this applies for civil lawsuits.
The XM reciever unit alone costs at least $250 of the $350, subtracting all the accessiries. Its battery only lasts five hours on a charge. It is already wider, taller, thicker and heavier than the heaviest currently selling iPod. Yeah, if Apple wants a big clunky device larger than even the large Nomad Zen, they'd go for it. I'm not sure if it requires an external antenna to work well, but MyFi has such a jack to attach one.
I'm sure Apple can make a better device than MyFi. Maybe not for a price that people want to pay, their pricing seems to be the #1 target of complaints. I'm not convinced it would be as sleek in size as anything in their current line.
The simpler answer is that Roland has figured out what Slashdot editors, and thereby basically the Slashdot readers, like.
Can't say much for the readers, but I still think there's the strong possibility that he's figured out the Slashdot editors like a little cash under the table. Why else would Slashdot editors continue to post all of his submissions despite protests?
I thought fuel injection and turbo charging was developed or majorly hurried because of WWII.
Heliarc(TM) welding was invented here, known as Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW) a.k.a. Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG). It was needed to speed up construction of aluminum airplanes.
The space programs of the US and USSR got a massive kick start once the rocket engineers left (or were taken from) Germany after the war.
Maybe you shouldn't jump on people for having the nerve to state the truth, even if it may be politically incorrect to do so?
I don't like Bush's policies but Kim's policies are far worse, some estimates suggest that nearly two million of his own people died of famines at the end of the '90s.
A lot of those resolutions were, in the end, basically anti-semitic.
They had a resolution against Israel's oppression of women but Israel had a female prime minister before that resolution, but the neighboring countries never have. IIRC, there aren't any resolutions condemning any nation for not banning female genital mutulation. There is a program against FGM but it does nothing.
because people who won't spend more than a thousand dollars on a projector won't drop three hundred bucks every year or so on a new bulb.
I call bullshit. I've owned a projector for three years now and I am only two thirds of the way through the bulb. And I use it maybe a couple hours every night.
Now, if it was used nearly six hours a night, then it the bulb really will need replacement every year.
The bulb cost is high, but once figured in a cost per hour basis, it really isn't so bad, for me, never more than the cost of a can Pepsi an evening.
I think it is amusing and sad that in a few weeks the was constructed to replace an instrument that someone spent a couple decades of their lives to make.
I guess sometimes ingenuity requires a tough problem to solve.
Maybe when the project started, there wasn't a way to do this with the terrestrial equipment?
Stop pretending that killing Alpha and PA-RISC was a bad idea. Itanium needs to go away too, but maintaining three heavy iron architectures is a waste.
Ok, classic x86 is cramped and the CPU does a lot of register renaming to get around it. I don't agree that more registers would actually do that much good.
It does. Take a look at x86-64. The 98% reason 64 bit x86 code is faster when you are using less than 4 gigs of RAM is the fact it has double the registers. With the same number of registers, 64 bit code normally slows things down measurably because the pointer size doubled. The instruction word length doesn't change.
256 registers goes a bit far unless half of them are predication bits.
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USB is bootable. IIRC, the only problem is that there is no standard defining how a BIOS can determin the USB drive's "geometry", being cylinders, heads and sectors.
My Compaq laptop has a PDF available that explains how to boot it from a USB key. That is where I got the info above.
me group of people who berate the US for our dependence on mideast oil, while at the same time vehemently protesting any movement down any path that might actually allow us to realistically release ourselves from some of that dependence, e.g., new nuclear plants.
Very little if US electricity production is derived from oil. Check it out from the Depertment of Energy if you like.
Currently, I work kind of cheap, $20 an hour (including drive time) for home or small business. It's a lot for just some monkey work done as a favor, but I figure that if it's going to becomee a day job, I want to keep it above the radar legally, which includes taxes. Basically, that rate just keeps gas in the car and pays for a meal and other goodies.
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I think not, because it's down now. It might have helped, too.
Nothing new, and not necessarily geeky. I have seen Compaqs, Dells and Digtal (DEC) computers with ducting. The DEC I have was assembled in 1997. The Compaqs I have were made in 1998, 2001 and 2002, they have ducts in one form or another.
Having to have that little switch deal is cheaping out now, IMO.
I have a six year old Compaq workstation that autoswitches. I have bought their successor models, and they too autoswitch. Not all my electronics are that way but they are gradually moving that way.
The story seems odd in other ways. I mean the rep calling your boss? How did the rep get the information on who to call?
Your hypothetical response seems to be pretty decently measured. Apart from a possible ethics or overtime issue, I don't tell my boss what I will and won't do, I'll tell him what I think is the best way to do it, but the final call on what to do is his call, not mine.
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I am OK with municipal utilities, I think it is inappropriate to make it free. If there is a need among the low-income, offer discounts or make it free for them on a need basis. Having your users pay by default would more likely pay for the setup.
I am no fan of the DSL / cable duopoly, but not giving them or other commercial interests a chance would be a disservice to tax payers due to the potential for waste and stifles competition from viable alternatives.
Was it a criminal lawsuit? Then, in the US, you can get legal representation provided for you if you can't afford it. I don't think this applies for civil lawsuits.
I've heard of it.
Here are what I think is wrong with it:
The XM reciever unit alone costs at least $250 of the $350, subtracting all the accessiries. Its battery only lasts five hours on a charge. It is already wider, taller, thicker and heavier than the heaviest currently selling iPod. Yeah, if Apple wants a big clunky device larger than even the large Nomad Zen, they'd go for it. I'm not sure if it requires an external antenna to work well, but MyFi has such a jack to attach one.
I'm sure Apple can make a better device than MyFi. Maybe not for a price that people want to pay, their pricing seems to be the #1 target of complaints. I'm not convinced it would be as sleek in size as anything in their current line.
The simpler answer is that Roland has figured out what Slashdot editors, and thereby basically the Slashdot readers, like.
Can't say much for the readers, but I still think there's the strong possibility that he's figured out the Slashdot editors like a little cash under the table. Why else would Slashdot editors continue to post all of his submissions despite protests?
I thought fuel injection and turbo charging was developed or majorly hurried because of WWII.
Heliarc(TM) welding was invented here, known as Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW) a.k.a. Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG). It was needed to speed up construction of aluminum airplanes.
The space programs of the US and USSR got a massive kick start once the rocket engineers left (or were taken from) Germany after the war.
Come on! A cardboard door is not a vulnerability until someone figures out how to get it wet?!
I wouldn't get excited unless the dip is into the double digit percents. It would be nice to see them become penny stock though.
Maybe you shouldn't jump on people for having the nerve to state the truth, even if it may be politically incorrect to do so?
I don't like Bush's policies but Kim's policies are far worse, some estimates suggest that nearly two million of his own people died of famines at the end of the '90s.
A lot of those resolutions were, in the end, basically anti-semitic.
They had a resolution against Israel's oppression of women but Israel had a female prime minister before that resolution, but the neighboring countries never have. IIRC, there aren't any resolutions condemning any nation for not banning female genital mutulation. There is a program against FGM but it does nothing.
Yeah, they've been doing this for the couple decades.
Add one step where they occasionally lob a missle over Japan or something just to scare people into concessions.
because people who won't spend more than a thousand dollars on a projector won't drop three hundred bucks every year or so on a new bulb.
I call bullshit. I've owned a projector for three years now and I am only two thirds of the way through the bulb. And I use it maybe a couple hours every night.
Now, if it was used nearly six hours a night, then it the bulb really will need replacement every year.
The bulb cost is high, but once figured in a cost per hour basis, it really isn't so bad, for me, never more than the cost of a can Pepsi an evening.
Also, I liked the idea of having a window and UV cathode tubes illuminating the internals...
Yeah, because a light and windows makes the computer internals sooo much better.
"in a few weeks the was constructed"
should be:
"in a few weeks the data was constructed"
I think it is amusing and sad that in a few weeks the was constructed to replace an instrument that someone spent a couple decades of their lives to make.
I guess sometimes ingenuity requires a tough problem to solve.
Maybe when the project started, there wasn't a way to do this with the terrestrial equipment?
Stop pretending that killing Alpha and PA-RISC was a bad idea. Itanium needs to go away too, but maintaining three heavy iron architectures is a waste.
Hey knucklehead, how about actually providing specs if you know them? Until then, I will consider it a baby beast.
Ok, classic x86 is cramped and the CPU does a lot of register renaming to get around it. I don't agree that more registers would actually do that much good.
It does. Take a look at x86-64. The 98% reason 64 bit x86 code is faster when you are using less than 4 gigs of RAM is the fact it has double the registers. With the same number of registers, 64 bit code normally slows things down measurably because the pointer size doubled. The instruction word length doesn't change.
256 registers goes a bit far unless half of them are predication bits.
Is spam killing junk mail?
USB is bootable. IIRC, the only problem is that there is no standard defining how a BIOS can determin the USB drive's "geometry", being cylinders, heads and sectors.
My Compaq laptop has a PDF available that explains how to boot it from a USB key. That is where I got the info above.
me group of people who berate the US for our dependence on mideast oil, while at the same time vehemently protesting any movement down any path that might actually allow us to realistically release ourselves from some of that dependence, e.g., new nuclear plants.
Very little if US electricity production is derived from oil. Check it out from the Depertment of Energy if you like.
Currently, I work kind of cheap, $20 an hour (including drive time) for home or small business. It's a lot for just some monkey work done as a favor, but I figure that if it's going to becomee a day job, I want to keep it above the radar legally, which includes taxes. Basically, that rate just keeps gas in the car and pays for a meal and other goodies.
I think not, because it's down now. It might have helped, too.
Nothing new, and not necessarily geeky. I have seen Compaqs, Dells and Digtal (DEC) computers with ducting. The DEC I have was assembled in 1997. The Compaqs I have were made in 1998, 2001 and 2002, they have ducts in one form or another.
Having to have that little switch deal is cheaping out now, IMO.
I have a six year old Compaq workstation that autoswitches. I have bought their successor models, and they too autoswitch. Not all my electronics are that way but they are gradually moving that way.
Not that I've bought a computer from overseas.
The story seems odd in other ways. I mean the rep calling your boss? How did the rep get the information on who to call?
Your hypothetical response seems to be pretty decently measured. Apart from a possible ethics or overtime issue, I don't tell my boss what I will and won't do, I'll tell him what I think is the best way to do it, but the final call on what to do is his call, not mine.