DirecWay is a lot more up front about their limit than anyone else. They always had an Acceptable Usage Policy, or at least for the last three years.
I really don't think that's the problem though, their problem is that the service itself is quite unreliable, I'd get patches of time five minutes each where the "loading" logo just spins and nothing comes through, and sometimes it does if I reload. I've switched to something else, though EV-DO is just not an option where I am. Sprint tried to sell it to me but they weren't up front on whether I'm in the areas that support high speed, as far as I can tell, I'm not.
I keep both iWork (06) and NeoOffice. I gave OpenOffice the boot because it required X11. I'll give iWork '08 a shot eventually, but I'm trying to avoid spending money for the moment. It's cheap enough, but then, it's something I don't have to have right now.
And if anyone is surprised that a publicity stunt / Advertising trick that intrudes on what many college students think of as their "hallowed ground" of friend networking backfired in such a way that it's incredibly embarrassing, they must be either silly or don't know what they are doing.
A monopoly, whether government owned (e.g. the US Post Office) or government granted (e.g. AT&T and the Baby Bells in the US, before cellphones, cable company phone service, etc.), is not required to innovate and improve to retain customers, like a free-market business is. Because of this they will tend to deliver a lower quality product at a higher price
Will tend to.
Still, in the case of mail, I don't know of any company that can even come close to the price of USPS for what they do. Most of the time, it's better in price and service than UPS, DHL or FedEx. I think it's ridiculously cheap, even more so in the case of international packages, which I've seen the commercial services costing twice as much for the same package, say $150 vs $300 for something in the 20lb range.
AMD still seems to be doing good design but their fabbing lags Intel by a year. I think it's Intel's fab technology that carried them through despite their other technology misdirections. I hope that the results of the ATI merger become a long term positive, it seems to be holding them down in the short term. Betting on on-die GPU is quite a serious bet, quite a bit more serious than an on-die memory controller in my opinion, especially when they go into major debt to acquire another large company just to pull that off. I hope it works out for them.
I think it definitely needs to be investigated. Two batteries in 17,000 randomly failing is one thing (and probably not a bad rate, assuming none of the other 17,000 only failed), but starting fires is another issue altogether.
The Chinese, who probably make a lot of the circuit boards and sub systems for our military, would happily sell them their 100% original design...that just happens to look amazingly like ours. Heeeey.
I'll have to ask around, but I don't think this is true. Just because consumer electronics is generally made in China doesn't mean that the avionics are. A lot of avionics are designed in the US, using domestic manufacturing. Because of national security concerns, I don't think that much military-specific work is let out of the country, they don't even let non-citizens work on the projects, even if they are here legally. One local company will only hire US citizens as a result of these policies, period, no green cards, no visas or whatnot.
I don't see the point in dogmatically upholding a rule for its own sake. If a rule doesn't always make sense, then change it. An RFC for RFC's sake doesn't do us any good unless the principles in it are still a good idea. Having said that, I think RFCs in general a bit baffling, harder to comprehend then legislation.
There are always going to be a lot of potential failure points in any product, and stuff eventually does break, but I've not had things break very often, so the truism is more hypothetical than something that's necessary concern.
I also don't see the market for discrete devices as mutually exclusive of integrated devices. Just because integrated devices are made doesn't mean that discrete devices are going away. This is true, even cell phones. People seem to whine a lot that there aren't any that aren't just a phone, I think they just aren't looking because they are still available and fairly easy to find.
Seriously, though. I like having discrete devices because stuff breaks
Then you get an equipment rack like mine, which easily has ten devices in it.
How often does your stuff break? I know asking people to take care of their stuff or asking them to not buy garbage is hard. I couldn't convince my sister to NOT buy an APEX DVD player, she bought one and it died a year later, even with vent holes added to keep it cool. Maybe in the last ten years, I've had one of my AV components die on me.
I don't think the comparison to real estate is very apt. There are enough differences such that we can't randomly apply parts of the real estate paradigm to it without thinking it through. This type of "real estate" doesn't have clearly defined neighbors, aaa.com can be a gawdy site and still not hurt aab.com because almost nobody would think to assocate the two as neighbors.
I also think that while being anonymous has some problems, having your information out there where anyone can get it can invite trouble. Upset the wrong person with a certain message on your site and you might get a stalker or worse.
If your HDD isn't louder than your fans, your data's at risk. The only drives I've killed, and most of the drives I've seen die, were in boxes that were poorly-ventilated in the name of being beautifully quiet... quiet, that is, except for the screams of the users.
I think you have that stated wrong. If your fans are quieter than your hard drives, then maybe your data is at risk due to overheating, meaning that if your hard drive is louder than your fans, then your data is at risk.
That's probably true when stated properly. Even my quietest system, I hear a very gentle flow of air but not the drives.
Unless you are exceptionally sensitive to noise, I really don't hear you. People think I'm nuts when I complain about machine noise and I just don't have a problem with any current notebook hard disk drive. I also don't have any problems with Seagate's fluid bearing desktop drives. I even have four of them in my HTPC and I just don't hear them.
I really don't remember my last hard drive failure.
Some cars have a system where there is no mechanical key. MB & MBW have it, I hear Toyota has some too, presumably Lexus too. Basically, you have a card or fob in your pocket and you press a button to start the car.
The problem is that the amount of energy to meet escape velocity is staggering. Being able to expend that much energy in a certain amount of time is just difficult.
The principles of aircraft, in comparison, can almost run on human power, and in a few cases, it does work on such little power.
The writable formats is a totally different game though. Obviously they can coexist, but I don't think as cheaply as the DVD writables.
China's EVD and HVD are duds. I considered them last year but without titles that at least had English subs, the player may as well be a boat anchor to me. I don't think anything non-Chinese was ever released for them either.
Microsoft sells an HD-DVD player add-on for XBox 360, and likely hopes to see game titles released in the future utilizing it.
A buddy of mine has the XB360 and the HD add-on. Right now, it can't be used to play games through the add-on drive. I think that's fixable in firmware, but I don't know if games through an add-on has ever been a successful platform either.
I'm not going to be replacing my DVDs with HD versions, but I don't see any point to continue buying DVDs either. No one is telling you that you have to upgrade your entire collection, and you don't have to have a homogeneous collection either.
'm not buying many HD movies until there's a clear format verdict, I'm just going through Netflix and enjoying fantastic picture quality at the same price. Right now, I have six titles and I don't have any short term plans to expand.
but the difference and enhancements are not enough to warrant an upgrade.
That sounds familiar. There were people that said black and white was fine and they wouldn't buy a color TV. There were people that said VHS was fine and wouldn't buy DVD.
Actually, that's not the problem. If you knew the history of what they have been doing, you'd know that they've found that racial profiling doesn't help. Not only that, but placing suspicions on all arabs by fiat is impractical by scale. Not every arab is an extremist jihadist either, very few are. They've been victim of non-Arab terrorists so they can't just conveniently group people by race.
That's not a very good argument in that I'd say that the grandparent post has an implied meaning that the "sharer" of the copyrighted material has no permission to do it. Trading in Linux files is probably a negligible fraction of the file copying going on.
I agree with this. It's kind of an arms race. Ads get ignored, so they get irritating. Irritating ads get ignored, then they get more irritating, ads get blocked and they try to find ways to bypass them. Bypassing doesn't work so they'll just not serve the site to people that won't look at them. That's the way to die though.
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DirecWay is a lot more up front about their limit than anyone else. They always had an Acceptable Usage Policy, or at least for the last three years.
I really don't think that's the problem though, their problem is that the service itself is quite unreliable, I'd get patches of time five minutes each where the "loading" logo just spins and nothing comes through, and sometimes it does if I reload. I've switched to something else, though EV-DO is just not an option where I am. Sprint tried to sell it to me but they weren't up front on whether I'm in the areas that support high speed, as far as I can tell, I'm not.
I keep both iWork (06) and NeoOffice. I gave OpenOffice the boot because it required X11. I'll give iWork '08 a shot eventually, but I'm trying to avoid spending money for the moment. It's cheap enough, but then, it's something I don't have to have right now.
I think that makes sense, isn't Facebook specifically targeted at college students? It seems like MySpace is a hit with the high school crowds.
And if anyone is surprised that a publicity stunt / Advertising trick that intrudes on what many college students think of as their "hallowed ground" of friend networking backfired in such a way that it's incredibly embarrassing, they must be either silly or don't know what they are doing.
"Hallowed ground"? It's a web site!
A monopoly, whether government owned (e.g. the US Post Office) or government granted (e.g. AT&T and the Baby Bells in the US, before cellphones, cable company phone service, etc.), is not required to innovate and improve to retain customers, like a free-market business is. Because of this they will tend to deliver a lower quality product at a higher price
Will tend to.
Still, in the case of mail, I don't know of any company that can even come close to the price of USPS for what they do. Most of the time, it's better in price and service than UPS, DHL or FedEx. I think it's ridiculously cheap, even more so in the case of international packages, which I've seen the commercial services costing twice as much for the same package, say $150 vs $300 for something in the 20lb range.
It's unfortunate that this post got marked down as a troll.
I never "got" Bloom County either. It just wasn't my kind of thing, I guess.
Who/what the hell is ESR???
a nobody that pretends to be somebody. Move along, nothing to see here.
AMD still seems to be doing good design but their fabbing lags Intel by a year. I think it's Intel's fab technology that carried them through despite their other technology misdirections. I hope that the results of the ATI merger become a long term positive, it seems to be holding them down in the short term. Betting on on-die GPU is quite a serious bet, quite a bit more serious than an on-die memory controller in my opinion, especially when they go into major debt to acquire another large company just to pull that off. I hope it works out for them.
I think it definitely needs to be investigated. Two batteries in 17,000 randomly failing is one thing (and probably not a bad rate, assuming none of the other 17,000 only failed), but starting fires is another issue altogether.
The Chinese, who probably make a lot of the circuit boards and sub systems for our military, would happily sell them their 100% original design...that just happens to look amazingly like ours. Heeeey.
I'll have to ask around, but I don't think this is true. Just because consumer electronics is generally made in China doesn't mean that the avionics are. A lot of avionics are designed in the US, using domestic manufacturing. Because of national security concerns, I don't think that much military-specific work is let out of the country, they don't even let non-citizens work on the projects, even if they are here legally. One local company will only hire US citizens as a result of these policies, period, no green cards, no visas or whatnot.
I don't see the point in dogmatically upholding a rule for its own sake. If a rule doesn't always make sense, then change it. An RFC for RFC's sake doesn't do us any good unless the principles in it are still a good idea. Having said that, I think RFCs in general a bit baffling, harder to comprehend then legislation.
There are always going to be a lot of potential failure points in any product, and stuff eventually does break, but I've not had things break very often, so the truism is more hypothetical than something that's necessary concern.
I also don't see the market for discrete devices as mutually exclusive of integrated devices. Just because integrated devices are made doesn't mean that discrete devices are going away. This is true, even cell phones. People seem to whine a lot that there aren't any that aren't just a phone, I think they just aren't looking because they are still available and fairly easy to find.
Seriously, though. I like having discrete devices because stuff breaks
Then you get an equipment rack like mine, which easily has ten devices in it.
How often does your stuff break? I know asking people to take care of their stuff or asking them to not buy garbage is hard. I couldn't convince my sister to NOT buy an APEX DVD player, she bought one and it died a year later, even with vent holes added to keep it cool. Maybe in the last ten years, I've had one of my AV components die on me.
I don't think the comparison to real estate is very apt. There are enough differences such that we can't randomly apply parts of the real estate paradigm to it without thinking it through. This type of "real estate" doesn't have clearly defined neighbors, aaa.com can be a gawdy site and still not hurt aab.com because almost nobody would think to assocate the two as neighbors.
I also think that while being anonymous has some problems, having your information out there where anyone can get it can invite trouble. Upset the wrong person with a certain message on your site and you might get a stalker or worse.
If your HDD isn't louder than your fans, your data's at risk. The only drives I've killed, and most of the drives I've seen die, were in boxes that were poorly-ventilated in the name of being beautifully quiet... quiet, that is, except for the screams of the users.
I think you have that stated wrong. If your fans are quieter than your hard drives, then maybe your data is at risk due to overheating, meaning that if your hard drive is louder than your fans, then your data is at risk.
That's probably true when stated properly. Even my quietest system, I hear a very gentle flow of air but not the drives.
Unless you are exceptionally sensitive to noise, I really don't hear you. People think I'm nuts when I complain about machine noise and I just don't have a problem with any current notebook hard disk drive. I also don't have any problems with Seagate's fluid bearing desktop drives. I even have four of them in my HTPC and I just don't hear them.
I really don't remember my last hard drive failure.
Some cars have a system where there is no mechanical key. MB & MBW have it, I hear Toyota has some too, presumably Lexus too. Basically, you have a card or fob in your pocket and you press a button to start the car.
The problem is that the amount of energy to meet escape velocity is staggering. Being able to expend that much energy in a certain amount of time is just difficult.
The principles of aircraft, in comparison, can almost run on human power, and in a few cases, it does work on such little power.
The writable formats is a totally different game though. Obviously they can coexist, but I don't think as cheaply as the DVD writables.
China's EVD and HVD are duds. I considered them last year but without titles that at least had English subs, the player may as well be a boat anchor to me. I don't think anything non-Chinese was ever released for them either.
Microsoft sells an HD-DVD player add-on for XBox 360, and likely hopes to see game titles released in the future utilizing it.
A buddy of mine has the XB360 and the HD add-on. Right now, it can't be used to play games through the add-on drive. I think that's fixable in firmware, but I don't know if games through an add-on has ever been a successful platform either.
I'm not going to be replacing my DVDs with HD versions, but I don't see any point to continue buying DVDs either. No one is telling you that you have to upgrade your entire collection, and you don't have to have a homogeneous collection either.
'm not buying many HD movies until there's a clear format verdict, I'm just going through Netflix and enjoying fantastic picture quality at the same price. Right now, I have six titles and I don't have any short term plans to expand.
but the difference and enhancements are not enough to warrant an upgrade.
That sounds familiar. There were people that said black and white was fine and they wouldn't buy a color TV. There were people that said VHS was fine and wouldn't buy DVD.
Actually, that's not the problem. If you knew the history of what they have been doing, you'd know that they've found that racial profiling doesn't help. Not only that, but placing suspicions on all arabs by fiat is impractical by scale. Not every arab is an extremist jihadist either, very few are. They've been victim of non-Arab terrorists so they can't just conveniently group people by race.
That's not a very good argument in that I'd say that the grandparent post has an implied meaning that the "sharer" of the copyrighted material has no permission to do it. Trading in Linux files is probably a negligible fraction of the file copying going on.
I agree with this. It's kind of an arms race. Ads get ignored, so they get irritating. Irritating ads get ignored, then they get more irritating, ads get blocked and they try to find ways to bypass them. Bypassing doesn't work so they'll just not serve the site to people that won't look at them. That's the way to die though.
"Its not my fault your business model doesnt work."
How is it not your fault if you are deliberately trying to break it?