"Bad news - it's not a SIP phone, and therefore not really a converged phone. It doesn't roam calls onto the Internet, or even onto the landline, where they would be cheaper. Wi-Fi or Bluetooth is just an alternative for the first few feet of the call. Takes a few calls off the cell network, but doesn't do a lot for the user, apart from giving you just one phone to lose."
Okay... how is this better than a combined GSM/DECT phone? (They used to make them anyway, do they still?)
I could see the general idea useful in an office which already has a 802.11b/g infrastructure in place to route calls to. But this device doesn't really seem to be aimed at that market. But that could actually be pretty cool if they got some working QoS going and SIP to connect to the central office telephone switch. But this doesn't seem to be it.
Although a real combined 802.11g SIP phone and GSM might just be useful in that respect.
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I think the pull/push disctinction is kinda irrelevant here. After all, they do have ad filters for televisions now -- and television is probably the most pushy medium you're going to find. (In more than one sense of the word.)
Not to mention that if you had some kind of Pointcast-like kind of system, you could very well write a hacked client which would receive the ads but never display them, and nobody would be any the wiser.
But your main point remains. Today we have the technology to ignore/skip some of the content we're sent. It may not be perfect at all times, but it's there, but at the moment, fighting the filters in an arms race is pretty much what site owners can do.
I myself don't really have any business model lined up for the free-of-charge web sites that are ad-supported at the moment, other than some form of subscription-only based service. Sure, micropayments are here, and are probably not that hard to get working, but the problem remains -- why would anybody use micropayments to get content which they can get elsewhere for free using their ad-stripping proxies?
Personally, I don't use any ad-stripping proxies at all. I like to see exactly what I'm being sent, and sometimes ads can even be vaguely relevant to the information I'm looking for. The real challenge, in other words, is making ads that people *want* to see. Google adwords and similar programs are actually pretty damn close. Fight the reason people block ads, not the ad-blocking itself, before it's too late and everybody runs adblock software already.
Without thinking this though properly -- i think that you could just encase the whole setup that would blast the nuclear waste in lead during the procedure. Any energy should then go towards heating up the lead, which in itself is harmless.
Heh. I don't think whatever process they're using will change the half-life of carbon-14. That's a nuclear process, not a chemical one.
It would be cool though, if you could accellerate radioactive decay that easilly. You could just blast your nuclear waste with it and not have to store any more nuclear waste far underground.
I'm sorry, but you're going to have to turn in your gater license on your way out. Don't you remember that General Hammond ordered the quantum mirror destroyed in Point of View? (Season 3, episode 6, iirc.)
I doubt there's 31 kilograms of silver in that cable. (7600 US Dollars worth of silver). And even if there was even 3 kilograms of silver in that cable it's still a pretty ridiculous mark-up.:-)
(Ignoring for the moment the fact that other raw materials and production cost enter into the picture, since by comparison, they're laughably small.)
But then, if they can make these cables and make a profit -- and the guys buying them actually notice a difference and are willing to pay the price, more power to them. Capitalism in action.
Maybe I should start an audio cable company and become filthy rich selling low-fat, low-carb, all-natural, high-fibre 100% oxygen-free clinically tested speaker cables. I guess I'd be fine as long as I'd provide a "money back if not satisfied*" guarantee etc.
*: Money back within 30 business days. (I'd still probably turn a profit just based on the interest of $7400 in the bank for a month.:-)
I vastly prefer the GNAA and friends to moderators with an agenda.
My latest outrageous conspiracy theory (pulled out of my arse at this very moment) is that the high-karma long-time/. members are the same as, or at least support, the/. trolls, in order to maintain their collective grip on censorship. After all, if there were no trolls, who'd want the moderation?
I spent an hour reading Mr McCaulay's mentioned speeches aided by speech synthesizer for the best effect (after all, they were speeches) and I have nothing to say than to repeat what the author of the said web page had to say:
The "oh-so-modern" subject of "electronic piracy" contains no problems which Macaulay didn't already address, at least in essence, more than a century and a half ago.
As they say, those who do not know history are bound to repeat it.
The parent post definitely deserves more credit than it has been given by the moderators -- it is probably one of the most interesting things I have read linked from a slashdot comment for a long time.
A phillips head screw driver (OK OK, it's really JIS in most computers, but let's not nitpick here.)
A wrist strap (a proper one with a resistor in series with yourself, so that you aren't electrocuted quite so efficiently if you touch a live wire with your other hand;-)
What does the name "Slashdot" mean?
"Slashdot" is a sort of obnoxious parody of a URL. When I originally registered the domain, I wanted to make the URL silly, and unpronounceable. Try reading out the full URL to http://slashdot.org and you'll see what I mean. Of course my cocky little joke has turned around and bit me in the butt because now I am called upon constantly to tell people my URL or email address. I can't tell you how many people respond confused "So do I spell out the 'dot' or is that just a period?"
The post was written with an assumptions that EULA's are legitimate and valid. I forgot my disclaimer for that part.:-)
Anyway, you don't buy the software. You buy the installation media and a license to run it -- although the way software is sold today is very confusing.
I don't wnat to get into a discussion of whether EULA's are valid or not here, mainly because I haven't researched this thoroughly enough to have a discussion about it -- still an assumption that they are is valid.
Windows could be ported to PPC, sure, but it still wouldn't run any of those programs which are only compiled for Intel. As you suggest, most people would just buy Windows/Intel anyway, since it's cheaper, so it makes no sense to develop for Windows/PPC.
It is possible to run Windows on an Mac today. I run Virtual PC on my iBook for those rare moments when I need to run Windows-only software. (Not very often). It runs with the performance of a Pentium II 400 MHz, approximately, and I assume one of those Dual G5's would do a pretty good job of emulating a low-end PC.:-)
Virtual PC is far more useful than a port of Windows to PPC could ever be, because it runs Intel software.
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"Bad news - it's not a SIP phone, and therefore not really a converged phone. It doesn't roam calls onto the Internet, or even onto the landline, where they would be cheaper. Wi-Fi or Bluetooth is just an alternative for the first few feet of the call. Takes a few calls off the cell network, but doesn't do a lot for the user, apart from giving you just one phone to lose."
Okay... how is this better than a combined GSM/DECT phone? (They used to make them anyway, do they still?)
I could see the general idea useful in an office which already has a 802.11b/g infrastructure in place to route calls to. But this device doesn't really seem to be aimed at that market. But that could actually be pretty cool if they got some working QoS going and SIP to connect to the central office telephone switch. But this doesn't seem to be it.
Although a real combined 802.11g SIP phone and GSM might just be useful in that respect.
And the tuesday after that.
:-)
Etc.
I wouldn't hold my breath.
I think the pull/push disctinction is kinda irrelevant here. After all, they do have ad filters for televisions now -- and television is probably the most pushy medium you're going to find. (In more than one sense of the word.)
Not to mention that if you had some kind of Pointcast-like kind of system, you could very well write a hacked client which would receive the ads but never display them, and nobody would be any the wiser.
But your main point remains. Today we have the technology to ignore/skip some of the content we're sent. It may not be perfect at all times, but it's there, but at the moment, fighting the filters in an arms race is pretty much what site owners can do.
I myself don't really have any business model lined up for the free-of-charge web sites that are ad-supported at the moment, other than some form of subscription-only based service. Sure, micropayments are here, and are probably not that hard to get working, but the problem remains -- why would anybody use micropayments to get content which they can get elsewhere for free using their ad-stripping proxies?
Personally, I don't use any ad-stripping proxies at all. I like to see exactly what I'm being sent, and sometimes ads can even be vaguely relevant to the information I'm looking for. The real challenge, in other words, is making ads that people *want* to see. Google adwords and similar programs are actually pretty damn close. Fight the reason people block ads, not the ad-blocking itself, before it's too late and everybody runs adblock software already.
Without thinking this though properly -- i think that you could just encase the whole setup that would blast the nuclear waste in lead during the procedure. Any energy should then go towards heating up the lead, which in itself is harmless.
Heh. I don't think whatever process they're using will change the half-life of carbon-14. That's a nuclear process, not a chemical one.
It would be cool though, if you could accellerate radioactive decay that easilly. You could just blast your nuclear waste with it and not have to store any more nuclear waste far underground.
FYI, it is pretty easy to set up a custom keyboard layout in Windows. Take a look at Keyboard Layout Manager Medium.
Now, if I could only find an non-sucky keyboard customization tool for Mac OS X...
Yes. Then imagine.
... ... ... in Japan!
Sony Content sues Sony Electronics over facilitating copyright infringement...
"It could happen!"
Now excuse me while I dodge the rotten tomatoes.
Hey. You know that your comment is a dupe? (Original here.)
I'm sorry, but you're going to have to turn in your gater license on your way out. Don't you remember that General Hammond ordered the quantum mirror destroyed in Point of View? (Season 3, episode 6, iirc.)
I doubt there's 31 kilograms of silver in that cable. (7600 US Dollars worth of silver). And even if there was even 3 kilograms of silver in that cable it's still a pretty ridiculous mark-up. :-)
:-)
(Ignoring for the moment the fact that other raw materials and production cost enter into the picture, since by comparison, they're laughably small.)
But then, if they can make these cables and make a profit -- and the guys buying them actually notice a difference and are willing to pay the price, more power to them. Capitalism in action.
Maybe I should start an audio cable company and become filthy rich selling low-fat, low-carb, all-natural, high-fibre 100% oxygen-free clinically tested speaker cables. I guess I'd be fine as long as I'd provide a "money back if not satisfied*" guarantee etc.
*: Money back within 30 business days. (I'd still probably turn a profit just based on the interest of $7400 in the bank for a month.
$500 for a 6 foot audio cable? Your friend prolly got some cheap low-end swill. :-)
/. thread has a few other interesting examples, including the one above.
Here's the real good stuff. I wish I weren't making this shit up.
This previous
Me? I just hook everything up using lamp cord.
How do you type with boxing gloves on?
Big round thing with holes? Astronomy-related story?
Hmm.
Could this be the perfect time for...? Yes it could.
This remind you of somebody you know?
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Thank you.
You must be new here. I think you misunderstood the concept of a "first post".
Or it might just be that I'm too stupid to see the blazingly, blindingly, and dazzingly obvious attempt at humour you just made, I don't know.
I think you both are too stoned to consider that there might be possible for more than two people to post as anonymous cowards.
You have hereby both lost, cocksmokers.
Well. He did 'stop'.
This is exactly why I browse at -1.
/. members are the same as, or at least support, the /. trolls, in order to maintain their collective grip on censorship. After all, if there were no trolls, who'd want the moderation?
I vastly prefer the GNAA and friends to moderators with an agenda.
My latest outrageous conspiracy theory (pulled out of my arse at this very moment) is that the high-karma long-time
But this, of course, is outrageous. Or is it?
In Soviet Russia, a 5-bit teletype connects YOU to the Internet!
As they say, those who do not know history are bound to repeat it.
The parent post definitely deserves more credit than it has been given by the moderators -- it is probably one of the most interesting things I have read linked from a slashdot comment for a long time.
I quote a part of the
A computer is hardware. Hardware is made by hardware companies. Apple makes computers. Ergo, Apple is a hardware company!
A computer is more than the sum of its parts. You wouldn't say a car company wasn't a car company merely because it used commodity parts?
This is redundant of course, since I posted the exact same argument in this thread in this post.
The post was written with an assumptions that EULA's are legitimate and valid. I forgot my disclaimer for that part. :-)
Anyway, you don't buy the software. You buy the installation media and a license to run it -- although the way software is sold today is very confusing.
I don't wnat to get into a discussion of whether EULA's are valid or not here, mainly because I haven't researched this thoroughly enough to have a discussion about it -- still an assumption that they are is valid.
Not quite.
:-)
Windows could be ported to PPC, sure, but it still wouldn't run any of those programs which are only compiled for Intel. As you suggest, most people would just buy Windows/Intel anyway, since it's cheaper, so it makes no sense to develop for Windows/PPC.
It is possible to run Windows on an Mac today. I run Virtual PC on my iBook for those rare moments when I need to run Windows-only software. (Not very often). It runs with the performance of a Pentium II 400 MHz, approximately, and I assume one of those Dual G5's would do a pretty good job of emulating a low-end PC.
Virtual PC is far more useful than a port of Windows to PPC could ever be, because it runs Intel software.