Just like when MS started to say "Open Source is Nazi-ware blah blah" they lost. Done. Finished
Goddamn, Microsoft died?
Someone please inform Bill Gates, because he mistakenly feels they still have 40 billion in cash and complete dominance of the desktop OS market (among other things).
If Slashdot did a good job of publishing information on who to vote into/out-of office (based on geek issues), then they wouldn't be able to post stories bitching about how much proposed bill yadda-yadda-yadda sucks for geeks. And then we wouldn't be able to read the dozens of responses posted bitching about slashdot not doing anything to harness their readership in politically.
ARGHHHHHH. This question gets asked every time a new "laser shoots something that flies out of the air" story appears on slashdot. (Strangely enough these stories are quite regular.)
The answer I've seen most often is that even the best mirrors don't reflect 100% light, and any laser light that gets "through" will quickly degrade the mirror from the inside out, allowing even more light through.
But for even more info... try a slashdot search for laser stories, and then search the comments for the word "mirror."
Same thing with the dryers and washers. Europe in Japan goes for making them more energy efficient and smaller (due to space constraints, mainly), where here in the US we dont see much of a move away from the full sized washers.
Let's see, do I want to do 50 loads of wash, or three... hmmm, tough choice.
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This book IS the definitive word on the use of patterns, I have used it and will vouch for it.
Well, if an AC is going to vouch for it, what else is there to say!
Were these stampeding lions attacking each other with weapons, choosing which combatants to fight against, oh nevermind that have you even seen LOTR 2 yet? If not -- SHUT UP AND WAIT.
Why are people still buying these devices if they don't offer the features they want or expect out of the box?
Weird, I didn't see "HACK YOUR TIVO WITH AWESOME BACKDOOR CODES" printed on my TiVo box anywhere.
These are perks, above and beyond what was advertised or claimed, and fun hacks that people have done. My TiVo would still kick ass without any backdoor crap. In fact, since the 3.0 software update, I haven't bothered to enter the backdoor.
Nobody succeeds with a razor and blades business model (the Tivo subscription) when there is a cheaper option flat fee.
1. Who's this competition giving away the service for free? I hope you don't mean ReplayTV, where the cost is built-in up-front, do you? (Likewise, you can get a TiVo with lifetime service for about the same as the ReplayTV of similar stature.)
2. You are assuming all things are equal. If the service is better, people may pay more for it. Consider the Mach3 razorblades -- far more expensive than the other brands, and far more popular! Why is that? Because the perceived quality is higher and people are willing to pay for it.
But every time we have a Tivo story the Tivo heads rush in to explain why everyone should pay twice the going rate for the technology.
Honestly, what the fuck are you talking about?
There is an interesting port on the back of my DishPlayer PVR, anyone know what it does?
I'm not familiar with the DP PVR, but if it was as popular as TiVo, you'd probably already know what that port does.
At first I thought this post was supposed to be a joke (seeing the +3 Funny and all). But then I took a look at this guy's other posts... he really is a religious nutball, folks!
Adam, why don't you just download the amazing NetAccountability software, so your friends and fellow church-goers can help you insure you never look at pornography again.
Nah, it can't be vulnerable. Online betting is trustworthy. Why, as soon as I get my bonus back from the Nigerian Petroleum Company, I'm going online to bet on the ponies!
This isn't "online betting." Autotote is the electronic system used to place bets all across the country. You could be at an OTB (off-track-betting) center placing a bet on a race getting ready to run at Saratoga in a few seconds.
And it's not like people normally get screwed out of their winnings. This guy is getting put on hold because of suspicious circumstances. It has nothing to do with how he placed the bet or betting "online."
If going on the pool table in your local bar is a humiliating experience then help is at hand.
Yes, I hate it when I urinate on the pool table...::blush::.
This reminds me of a Howie Mandell joke. (You know, that guy with the blown-up glove on his head.)
He likes to party, so one night he's at a club, dancing the night away. He literally does not stop dancing all night long, except to drink copious amounts of alcohol. Eventually, many hours later, his friends are amazed at his stamina, drinking skills, and RETENTION skills. They ask him, "Dude, you are amazing! Do you EVER go to the bathroom?"
The biggest problem I can see for Palm is that the world and his dog is expecting what OS 6 will deliver today.
By the time they actually get around to delivering it, the goalposts will have changed (by the likes of Symbian and Microsoft) and Palm will have to play catch up again.
That's what they said about Netscape vs. Microsoft. Netscape can never catch up to Microsoft's browser quality and feature-set.
Now with Mozilla 1.2, who is behind, in terms of the features and innovation on the browser front?
get a bunch of talented developers, innovations will follow.
The innovations already happened at Be, that's why they acquired that company and employees. They are competent engineers with a background in a multimedia-oriented, modern OS. Sounds like a good plan to me.
On the other hand, i am interested to know if 6.0 would have any backward compatibility & run the apps i currently have
If you'd read the article past the second sentence, you'd have seen this:
Mace stressed the diversity of the potential market for PalmOS, so the developers are covering as many bases as possible. Meanwhile older applications will run alongside the new applications written to the new APIs:-
"The emulation layer will be around for a long time," Mace told us. "OS 4.0 and 5.0 will co-exist."
All the replies to this thread so far have echoed a common perception of unions: they exist to enforce mediocrity and prop up the lowest common denominator. Question for those who hold such a view: where did you get it? From the newspaper? From TV? From a series of reports on-line?
No... from friends and family who have worked in unions, and around others who are in unions. Some of the biggest horror stories I've heard are from my cousin, who is a LAN manager at a large phone company in the northeast. The IT guys are not union. The rest of the company is.
Unions prop up the dregs. A free market economy does not require a union, in MOST cases.
Hmmm... imagine that... the mainstream media, controlled by the same few large corporations, presents a largely negative view of unions to the U.S. public. It's occured to me that perhaps they have a bias.
My older sister is pretty high up in the USPS union, and she talks about it a fair amount, so I am informed.
Ahhh, so you're getting your info from an equally biased source.
Whine about the ineptitude of organized labor all you want. When you find yourself paying $4.00 a gallon for gasoline to a giant oil conglomorate, you will be doing so because there was no powerful force like organized labor to counterbalance the power of oil company campaign contributions.
Trust me -- a free market could combat $4 per gallon gasoline, without the need of unions. Remember when gas prices skyrocketed in the 70's. What happened? The japanese came in and showed us how to create cars with better fuel mileage. Free market prevails. No union required.
and all you see is the Enrons, Microsofts, and all these other coopertions who do everything they can to screw the consumer and their employees to make an extra penny.
Bad news sells.
Of course you don't hear about the plethora of companies that do good things, act humanely, have scruples, etc... they do exist, and I'd wager they outnumber the enrons of the world.
Slashdot Mirror
Just like when MS started to say "Open Source is Nazi-ware blah blah" they lost. Done. Finished
Goddamn, Microsoft died?
Someone please inform Bill Gates, because he mistakenly feels they still have 40 billion in cash and complete dominance of the desktop OS market (among other things).
"Gnutella2, which is really a revised Gnutella protocol..."
If Slashdot did a good job of publishing information on who to vote into/out-of office (based on geek issues), then they wouldn't be able to post stories bitching about how much proposed bill yadda-yadda-yadda sucks for geeks. And then we wouldn't be able to read the dozens of responses posted bitching about slashdot not doing anything to harness their readership in politically.
I mean what fun would that be?
ARGHHHHHH. This question gets asked every time a new "laser shoots something that flies out of the air" story appears on slashdot. (Strangely enough these stories are quite regular.)
The answer I've seen most often is that even the best mirrors don't reflect 100% light, and any laser light that gets "through" will quickly degrade the mirror from the inside out, allowing even more light through.
But for even more info... try a slashdot search for laser stories, and then search the comments for the word "mirror."
Same thing with the dryers and washers. Europe in Japan goes for making them more energy efficient and smaller (due to space constraints, mainly), where here in the US we dont see much of a move away from the full sized washers.
Let's see, do I want to do 50 loads of wash, or three... hmmm, tough choice.
This book IS the definitive word on the use of patterns, I have used it and will vouch for it.
Well, if an AC is going to vouch for it, what else is there to say!
Were these stampeding lions attacking each other with weapons, choosing which combatants to fight against, oh nevermind that have you even seen LOTR 2 yet? If not -- SHUT UP AND WAIT.
because he's a hobbit?
A new repost record, I do believe...
We are losing our humanity with our silly toys, and we need to get back to real feelings of love and joy.
Who says you can't own an AIBO *and* a real pet?
Give me a break!
How much is one of these frontpage /. ads?
/. account cost?
How much does one anonymous
AF1 has to communicate with NORAD, the Pentagon, the White House, not to mention being capable of patching into the conventional phone network.
Not to mention being capable of opening all garage doors in North America. I mean, that's CRUCIAL.
How else could they park that sucker?
Why are people still buying these devices if they don't offer the features they want or expect out of the box?
Weird, I didn't see "HACK YOUR TIVO WITH AWESOME BACKDOOR CODES" printed on my TiVo box anywhere.
These are perks, above and beyond what was advertised or claimed, and fun hacks that people have done. My TiVo would still kick ass without any backdoor crap. In fact, since the 3.0 software update, I haven't bothered to enter the backdoor.
Nobody succeeds with a razor and blades business model (the Tivo subscription) when there is a cheaper option flat fee.
1. Who's this competition giving away the service for free? I hope you don't mean ReplayTV, where the cost is built-in up-front, do you? (Likewise, you can get a TiVo with lifetime service for about the same as the ReplayTV of similar stature.)
2. You are assuming all things are equal. If the service is better, people may pay more for it. Consider the Mach3 razorblades -- far more expensive than the other brands, and far more popular! Why is that? Because the perceived quality is higher and people are willing to pay for it.
But every time we have a Tivo story the Tivo heads rush in to explain why everyone should pay twice the going rate for the technology.
Honestly, what the fuck are you talking about?
There is an interesting port on the back of my DishPlayer PVR, anyone know what it does?
I'm not familiar with the DP PVR, but if it was as popular as TiVo, you'd probably already know what that port does.
At first I thought this post was supposed to be a joke (seeing the +3 Funny and all). But then I took a look at this guy's other posts... he really is a religious nutball, folks!
Adam, why don't you just download the amazing NetAccountability
software, so your friends and fellow church-goers can help you insure you never look at pornography again.
After all, every time you masturbate, God kills a kitten.
Nah, it can't be vulnerable. Online betting is trustworthy. Why, as soon as I get my bonus back from the Nigerian Petroleum Company, I'm going online to bet on the ponies!
This isn't "online betting." Autotote is the electronic system used to place bets all across the country. You could be at an OTB (off-track-betting) center placing a bet on a race getting ready to run at Saratoga in a few seconds.
And it's not like people normally get screwed out of their winnings. This guy is getting put on hold because of suspicious circumstances. It has nothing to do with how he placed the bet or betting "online."
In any case, I'm surprised that ANYONE has the access to modify bets. Shouldn't that info be encrypted or protected or something
Yeah, but then how would the employees be able to go in and create winning tickets after the fact?
I mean, that's a perk for working at autotote, like stock options.
WHy not just hit them up for several thou a week?
Maybe because it's not a simple matter of hacking into the system to change a ticket, assuming he actually did that?
If going on the pool table in your local bar is a humiliating experience then help is at hand.
::blush::.
Yes, I hate it when I urinate on the pool table...
This reminds me of a Howie Mandell joke. (You know, that guy with the blown-up glove on his head.)
He likes to party, so one night he's at a club, dancing the night away. He literally does not stop dancing all night long, except to drink copious amounts of alcohol. Eventually, many hours later, his friends are amazed at his stamina, drinking skills, and RETENTION skills. They ask him, "Dude, you are amazing! Do you EVER go to the bathroom?"
"Depends."
The biggest problem I can see for Palm is that the world and his dog is expecting what OS 6 will deliver today.
By the time they actually get around to delivering it, the goalposts will have changed (by the likes of Symbian and Microsoft) and Palm will have to play catch up again.
That's what they said about Netscape vs. Microsoft. Netscape can never catch up to Microsoft's browser quality and feature-set.
Now with Mozilla 1.2, who is behind, in terms of the features and innovation on the browser front?
Where there's a will, there's a way.
It's like 1990 on your PDA.
The innovations already happened at Be, that's why they acquired that company and employees. They are competent engineers with a background in a multimedia-oriented, modern OS. Sounds like a good plan to me.
On the other hand, i am interested to know if 6.0 would have any backward compatibility & run the apps i currently have
If you'd read the article past the second sentence, you'd have seen this:
All the replies to this thread so far have echoed a common perception of unions: they exist to enforce mediocrity and prop up the lowest common denominator. Question for those who hold such a view: where did you get it? From the newspaper? From TV? From a series of reports on-line?
... imagine that ... the mainstream media, controlled by the same few large corporations, presents a largely negative view of unions to the U.S. public. It's occured to me that perhaps they have a bias.
No... from friends and family who have worked in unions, and around others who are in unions. Some of the biggest horror stories I've heard are from my cousin, who is a LAN manager at a large phone company in the northeast. The IT guys are not union. The rest of the company is.
Unions prop up the dregs. A free market economy does not require a union, in MOST cases.
Hmmm
My older sister is pretty high up in the USPS union, and she talks about it a fair amount, so I am informed.
Ahhh, so you're getting your info from an equally biased source.
Whine about the ineptitude of organized labor all you want. When you find yourself paying $4.00 a gallon for gasoline to a giant oil conglomorate, you will be doing so because there was no powerful force like organized labor to counterbalance the power of oil company campaign contributions.
Trust me -- a free market could combat $4 per gallon gasoline, without the need of unions. Remember when gas prices skyrocketed in the 70's. What happened? The japanese came in and showed us how to create cars with better fuel mileage. Free market prevails. No union required.
Turn on the news
There's your first problem... you watch the news.
and all you see is the Enrons, Microsofts, and all these other coopertions who do everything they can to screw the consumer and their employees to make an extra penny.
Bad news sells.
Of course you don't hear about the plethora of companies that do good things, act humanely, have scruples, etc... they do exist, and I'd wager they outnumber the enrons of the world.
Bad news sells.