First off, I had no idea Uma Thurman was a slashdot reader. Welcome Uma! That was me, a few years back, that waved hello as you and Ethan walked your child around in SoHo.
Anyway, let's think about the size-increase issue in a different way. Let's imagine we double the processor size... yielding a processing power 100-fold of what was originally possible. Distribute that power to 50 users. You've just doubled the processing power of each of those users, but the size of their "share" of the CPU has actually decreased to 1/50th of the original size.
I don't see increasing the processor size as a downside if you think of it in a distributed sense.
Video killed the radio star... Broadband killed the dialup generation... But then reality TV killed MTV... Ya gotta figure something will come along and wipe out broadband. My bet is on litigation...
Right... but people jump at the chance to contest all of those arguments. Do you have a quote from Google contesting his statement? Unless they're bound by a NDA (which I doubt they are since Gates made a statement regarding the relationship between the two companies) I would think they'd contradict a statement he made if it wasn't an accurate representation of the relationship between their two companies.
I feel like a kid on Christmas eve waiting for tomorrow. Not only will I be able to switch carriers while hanging onto my number, but I can't wait to see the consumers finally regain some of the power over mobile phone companies. Customer service has gone to shit, but starting tomorrow, companies will be forced to be accountable for how they treat the customer, the quality of service they provide, and the overall price of what they offer. Only a few hours to go... Monday can't get here soon enough.
Now they've got the house AND the senate lined up against them! If SCO ran their company, they'd be suing everyone and their brother for trademark infringement.
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So let me get this straight... I have to leave a note that family members will find, then have them send that note and a notarized copy of my death certificate to this company (if it still exists by then) so that they can email whoever I want to get a message once I'm dead... in the hope that they haven't changed their email addresses since I last checked the system. Wouldn't it be a whole lot easier, and a whole lot cheaper to just leave notes for each of these people and instructions to distribute these notes upon my death? I like technology and all, but something tells me a family member would cherish a hand-written note over some email (that would probably get filtered as spam anyway) after my death.
It's interesting to see so many people respond that this is a bad thing. How is this any different than people that hack their XBOXs to run Linux? You're essentially using a device differently than its intended use, and depriving the manufacturer of an expected revenue stream. What's the difference? I'm not saying that people shouldn't have the right to do whatever they want with something they buy... I do... but there seems to be a big difference in how the slashdot community interprets two very similar situations.
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They were calling to sell me broadband access... but they made sure to preface their call with "you recently purchased a laptop from us". As this Do Not Call thing swings into use I forsee the value of knowing who companies sell their products to significantly more valuable than it's ever been. It used to be that only Radio Shack asked who you were... get used to EVERYONE doing it... because they'll be able to partner with other retailers and cross-sell products using that loophole in the Do-Not-Call law.
"I mean, my thesis that I and a friend wrote, a full years work (half year x 2) was 2.2 megabyte, including front page, illustrations, graphs and tables."
Sure hope you checked your thesis for grammar better than your slashdot posts. It should be 'a friend and I wrote.'
"should anyone feel moved to make small donation, whether through the PayPal link or by using the Amazon banner on my site to go shopping, I certainly wouldn't complain in the least."
So he violates the terms of his employment, and now he cashes in. Lesson learned I'm sure....
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First off, I had no idea Uma Thurman was a slashdot reader. Welcome Uma! That was me, a few years back, that waved hello as you and Ethan walked your child around in SoHo.
... yielding a processing power 100-fold of what was originally possible. Distribute that power to 50 users. You've just doubled the processing power of each of those users, but the size of their "share" of the CPU has actually decreased to 1/50th of the original size.
Anyway, let's think about the size-increase issue in a different way. Let's imagine we double the processor size
I don't see increasing the processor size as a downside if you think of it in a distributed sense.
Video killed the radio star...
Broadband killed the dialup generation...
But then reality TV killed MTV...
Ya gotta figure something will come along and wipe out broadband. My bet is on litigation...
Right ... but people jump at the chance to contest all of those arguments. Do you have a quote from Google contesting his statement? Unless they're bound by a NDA (which I doubt they are since Gates made a statement regarding the relationship between the two companies) I would think they'd contradict a statement he made if it wasn't an accurate representation of the relationship between their two companies.
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I feel like a kid on Christmas eve waiting for tomorrow. Not only will I be able to switch carriers while hanging onto my number, but I can't wait to see the consumers finally regain some of the power over mobile phone companies. Customer service has gone to shit, but starting tomorrow, companies will be forced to be accountable for how they treat the customer, the quality of service they provide, and the overall price of what they offer. Only a few hours to go... Monday can't get here soon enough.
Now they've got the house AND the senate lined up against them! If SCO ran their company, they'd be suing everyone and their brother for trademark infringement.
What world do these people live in?
I thought that's what USA Today was for. Some days, reading that paper is like reading a comic book.
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It's interesting to see so many people respond that this is a bad thing. How is this any different than people that hack their XBOXs to run Linux? You're essentially using a device differently than its intended use, and depriving the manufacturer of an expected revenue stream. What's the difference? I'm not saying that people shouldn't have the right to do whatever they want with something they buy ... I do ... but there seems to be a big difference in how the slashdot community interprets two very similar situations.
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Man, and here I thought silicon felt weird.
"There are no solar flares in space. None. Never! God will roast their stomaches in hell at the hands of sunscreen!"
Somebody go wheel that Steven Hawkings guy out and see what his speak-and-spell has to say about all of this....
They were calling to sell me broadband access... but they made sure to preface their call with "you recently purchased a laptop from us". As this Do Not Call thing swings into use I forsee the value of knowing who companies sell their products to significantly more valuable than it's ever been. It used to be that only Radio Shack asked who you were ... get used to EVERYONE doing it ... because they'll be able to partner with other retailers and cross-sell products using that loophole in the Do-Not-Call law.
65,000 processors at $650 per CPU to license the SCO portion of Linux comes out to $42,250,000.
I'll take two!
Microsoft announced their plans to introduce their own device in the coming year. More devices = more competition = lower prices.