Simple, because the government paid a large percent of the share of the cost of the infrastructure, the telecoms didn't really own it until the telecommunications bill in the late 90s let the telecoms have free reign of the system with a promise they would use that to built the network of the future by 2000. Well they lied, no surprise there. But in effect the government needs to take back control of what it gave away to private industry that what the taxpayers mainly paid for in the first place. Sure in general governments giving then taking it back isn't good, but imagine if they governments had done the same to the roads or other common use property and the companies that got them ignored the initial use agreements for them.
What I mean is plain english often has multiple meanings. Take a look at our constitution, its a GREAT document but thinkgs like the 4th amendment are constantly argued about because its not written to be exact its written for the common reader of the time. Maybe our laws should be like that, but they would lead to multiple interpretations by multiple courts.
Note cellphone service prices have risen with inflation they aren't really more expensive than they were ten years ago. Personally I use T-Mobile prepaid $100 buys me 1000 minutes that last a year (I generally get go through them in about 3-4 months though that breaks down to the mystical $10 for 100 minutes). Thing I hate is customer service treats me like scum because they assume I don't qualify for a regular plan.
Imagine if the law was simple, unambiguous, and concise, understandable by any normal human being
Those requirements are impossible to meet, the law is hard to read because it is unambiguous and concise. Sure sometimes lawyers purposefully make the law confusing. But if laws were written in plain English there would be multiple interpretations of them leading to more confusion. Though I do agree all laws should include an English translation.
Exactly, though its a given that if an alien civilization more advanced than use WANTED to be found they would use multiple technologies radio being one of those. Radio would most likely be a baseline technology that any advanced civilization capable of interstellar communication would have already reached.
Only if you redefine c. Theoretically c can be increased in some special situations such as extremely high gravity fields and other things. But in general traveling faster than c reverses cause and effect, which can't happen. Though one may eventually figure out how to jump from one side of the universe it wouldn't be traveling per say.
Quote from Boing Boing article "This means that at the moment, not a single record company releases CDs that are protected against making digital copies, says the international industry-magazine 'Billboard'."
So apparently they all have. But this is one of the few to be talking about making it "official".
As a current CS student and Network Admin I'd have to disagree about the teaching a technology rather than a skill set. This was true for a small period of time, most University CS degrees nowadays are heavily theory based and not just based on a very current technologies. Unfortunately there are many places that aren't, and I'm frequently surprised at the stupidity of several of the younger professors who seem to have gotten their Masters in the last 90s
Well no one really teaches software design do they.
You can go to school to learn to be a bridge builder and come out of it knowing all the exact specifications to build a bridge and probably design a fairly good bridge, or with a bit of creativity and some extra architectural skills a really cool bridge. Software design isn't really taught in this manor, sure your taught how all the bridge building tools work, and even a lot of the engineering specifications. But I have yet to see the software design school that covered more than a class or two into truly how to design software. Then again, we've been building bridges for thousands of years, and designing software systems for a few decades. It does take time for these things to really get figured out.
^^ Note some of this is truly free software, most of it is only free with the "AMD LIVE" PC. Though it does look like once you have a subscription you can install most of it on other computers to share your Media Center experience across the household.
Actually there is long term gain from this though. The people willing to spend extra money on these SUVs (and people are willing to spend a lot on SUVs). Will help support the development on these technologies. Realistically you simply are going to have to wait for the technology to mature before you see them in smaller cars more often. There are many rumors that the Prius actually cost more to produce than it sells for. You won't find many manufactures willing to do this atleast not in the more popular models. More and more SUVs are starting to have features like Hybrid drives and cylindar management simply because people will pay for them.
They don't have to. The idea is you have a turbine that can be switched on or off to charge the batteries. This turbine is in no way hooked to the drive train. The car then runs purly in electrical mode all the time. The turbine can be run at peak efficiency.
And yes running all electric this way is actually very efficient, several modders have disconnected the drive train on their prius and showed gas miliage improvements.
No, because Office is designed with end-users in mind. Not developers, and average Joe does NOT handle change well. I figured out the new office interface quickly, but I am NOT moving my office to it, we simply don't have the time for the training that would be required. Hell I'm still annoyed at the forced track changes shit in 2003.
I just messaged all my recent buyers and sellers with my email address and told them that I am closing my ebay account. And ask them to do the same and pass on the message.
The only way to get off the ebay crack is to get everyone else off it too.
Yea its gonna hurt me, but its better than the alternative.
And yes I did cancel my account, though ebay has a 180 day wait... Blah. Sadly it will cancel my half.com account too, which I actually like.
I think ultimately our laws concerning treatment of humans come out of a need for an orderly society. Obviously if you could kill any other human at will at any time you could not have an ordered society (people would kill to steal stuff from each other and whatnot, though people would simply form groups for protection and we'd be right back to where we are now). Now the killing of babies is another matter. I think if people were able to kill and dispose of babies it would have an obviously significant effect on society. Some would say it would cause mass devaluing of human life which would lead to other abuses. Either way ultimately its probably best we keep the laws the way they are, whither there is moral reason or not. As to harming animals its a similar equation, and actually seems to be enforced as such. In rural society it is much more acceptable to harm an animal, and honestly in such a setting it probably is safer as well. Harming animals in a urban society upsets neighbors and generally causes unrest, which is why urban police heavily prosecute people who abuse animals... strange hu...
Most aren't even capable of understanding the damage walmart as a hole does to the country (wage depression which leads to manufacturing outsourcing which leads to more wage depression)
But ultimately that is exactly where we should be heading. As more products are purchased overseas more Americans are able to afford more stuff with less and less actual work. Its the same theory as with robotics. Your not replacing workers with robots (or people from china) your allowing us to get stuff cheaper and those workers to move to more knowledge based work.:)
Slashdot Mirror
Simple, because the government paid a large percent of the share of the cost of the infrastructure, the telecoms didn't really own it until the telecommunications bill in the late 90s let the telecoms have free reign of the system with a promise they would use that to built the network of the future by 2000. Well they lied, no surprise there. But in effect the government needs to take back control of what it gave away to private industry that what the taxpayers mainly paid for in the first place. Sure in general governments giving then taking it back isn't good, but imagine if they governments had done the same to the roads or other common use property and the companies that got them ignored the initial use agreements for them.
Which is why I've love to see a system that took a variety of passwords and provided you with a fake UI :)
What I mean is plain english often has multiple meanings. Take a look at our constitution, its a GREAT document but thinkgs like the 4th amendment are constantly argued about because its not written to be exact its written for the common reader of the time. Maybe our laws should be like that, but they would lead to multiple interpretations by multiple courts.
Oh trust me Cingular heavily subsidized the price of this phone, at least by a good $200 or more.
Note cellphone service prices have risen with inflation they aren't really more expensive than they were ten years ago. Personally I use T-Mobile prepaid $100 buys me 1000 minutes that last a year (I generally get go through them in about 3-4 months though that breaks down to the mystical $10 for 100 minutes). Thing I hate is customer service treats me like scum because they assume I don't qualify for a regular plan.
Imagine if the law was simple, unambiguous, and concise, understandable by any normal human being
Those requirements are impossible to meet, the law is hard to read because it is unambiguous and concise. Sure sometimes lawyers purposefully make the law confusing. But if laws were written in plain English there would be multiple interpretations of them leading to more confusion. Though I do agree all laws should include an English translation.
WHAT?
Thats obviously not what I said, and there is no way you can interpret what I said.
iPhone cost $599 after you sign a 2 year contract with Cingular.
Without a contract I am guessing it will be $799 which is a difference $200 though maybe not.
Thats $599 WITH a 2 year Cingular contract.
ARG thats insane. Probably $899 by itself if even available.
Exactly, though its a given that if an alien civilization more advanced than use WANTED to be found they would use multiple technologies radio being one of those. Radio would most likely be a baseline technology that any advanced civilization capable of interstellar communication would have already reached.
Only if you redefine c. Theoretically c can be increased in some special situations such as extremely high gravity fields and other things. But in general traveling faster than c reverses cause and effect, which can't happen. Though one may eventually figure out how to jump from one side of the universe it wouldn't be traveling per say.
Quote from Boing Boing article "This means that at the moment, not a single record company releases CDs that are protected against making digital copies, says the international industry-magazine 'Billboard'."
So apparently they all have. But this is one of the few to be talking about making it "official".
Also meant to say that the Ford comments almost made me spew my Dew.
HAHA, I totally meant bridge designing not building. Thanks for the correction.
As a current CS student and Network Admin I'd have to disagree about the teaching a technology rather than a skill set. This was true for a small period of time, most University CS degrees nowadays are heavily theory based and not just based on a very current technologies. Unfortunately there are many places that aren't, and I'm frequently surprised at the stupidity of several of the younger professors who seem to have gotten their Masters in the last 90s
Well no one really teaches software design do they.
You can go to school to learn to be a bridge builder and come out of it knowing all the exact specifications to build a bridge and probably design a fairly good bridge, or with a bit of creativity and some extra architectural skills a really cool bridge. Software design isn't really taught in this manor, sure your taught how all the bridge building tools work, and even a lot of the engineering specifications. But I have yet to see the software design school that covered more than a class or two into truly how to design software. Then again, we've been building bridges for thousands of years, and designing software systems for a few decades. It does take time for these things to really get figured out.
Looks like this "AMD LIVE" is a generic PC that comes with a bunch of Free software.
http://www2.amdlive.com/us-en/free_downloads.aspx
^^ Note some of this is truly free software, most of it is only free with the "AMD LIVE" PC.
Though it does look like once you have a subscription you can install most of it on other computers to share your Media Center experience across the household.
Ever been to those websites that have the 3D panorama view. Thats basically VRML with buttons you can click on that take you to other sites.
Honestly it might work today, but its its day the average persons net connection was too slow for anything meaningful.
No he gets paid to program. How is a program running on YOUR computer any less real than a program running within a multi-user game?
Actually there is long term gain from this though. The people willing to spend extra money on these SUVs (and people are willing to spend a lot on SUVs). Will help support the development on these technologies. Realistically you simply are going to have to wait for the technology to mature before you see them in smaller cars more often. There are many rumors that the Prius actually cost more to produce than it sells for. You won't find many manufactures willing to do this atleast not in the more popular models. More and more SUVs are starting to have features like Hybrid drives and cylindar management simply because people will pay for them.
They don't have to. The idea is you have a turbine that can be switched on or off to charge the batteries. This turbine is in no way hooked to the drive train. The car then runs purly in electrical mode all the time. The turbine can be run at peak efficiency.
And yes running all electric this way is actually very efficient, several modders have disconnected the drive train on their prius and showed gas miliage improvements.
You are in the wrong industry then.
No, because Office is designed with end-users in mind. Not developers, and average Joe does NOT handle change well. I figured out the new office interface quickly, but I am NOT moving my office to it, we simply don't have the time for the training that would be required. Hell I'm still annoyed at the forced track changes shit in 2003.
I just messaged all my recent buyers and sellers with my email address and told them that I am closing my ebay account. And ask them to do the same and pass on the message.
The only way to get off the ebay crack is to get everyone else off it too.
Yea its gonna hurt me, but its better than the alternative.
And yes I did cancel my account, though ebay has a 180 day wait... Blah.
Sadly it will cancel my half.com account too, which I actually like.
BS! Almost every time I goto an R rated movie, some dumb parent has brought their 5 years olds with them.
I think ultimately our laws concerning treatment of humans come out of a need for an orderly society. Obviously if you could kill any other human at will at any time you could not have an ordered society (people would kill to steal stuff from each other and whatnot, though people would simply form groups for protection and we'd be right back to where we are now). Now the killing of babies is another matter. I think if people were able to kill and dispose of babies it would have an obviously significant effect on society. Some would say it would cause mass devaluing of human life which would lead to other abuses. Either way ultimately its probably best we keep the laws the way they are, whither there is moral reason or not. As to harming animals its a similar equation, and actually seems to be enforced as such. In rural society it is much more acceptable to harm an animal, and honestly in such a setting it probably is safer as well. Harming animals in a urban society upsets neighbors and generally causes unrest, which is why urban police heavily prosecute people who abuse animals... strange hu...
Most aren't even capable of understanding the damage walmart as a hole does to the country (wage depression which leads to manufacturing outsourcing which leads to more wage depression)
:)
But ultimately that is exactly where we should be heading. As more products are purchased overseas more Americans are able to afford more stuff with less and less actual work. Its the same theory as with robotics. Your not replacing workers with robots (or people from china) your allowing us to get stuff cheaper and those workers to move to more knowledge based work.