Even if every citizen of Virginia was a member of the Slashdot Party, and we were leading in the polls, the state of Vriginia still wouldn't organize a primary for us.
Primaries are only organized for parties, and a party is defined as such:
"Party" or "political party" means an organization of citizens of the Commonwealth which, at either of the two preceding statewide general elections, received at least 10 percent of the total vote cast for any statewide office filled in that election.
It's pretty much impossible to get 10% of the vote without being a party. And you can't be a party if you didn't receive 10% of the vote. Typical chicken-egg problem to enforce that there will never be more than two parties.
What's wrong is to have state-sponsored open primaries. That's fundamentally anti-democratic. Why should the state organize primaries for only 2 parties? There are dozens of small parties out there which would like to receive the same treatment.
Parties should organize primaries themselves.
Canada's number one rival in the North isn't Russia. It's another country called the USA. There is a conflict over a part of the sea near the boundary between Alaska and Yukon.
Canada's number two rival isn't Russia either. It's Denmark. Canada and Denmark both claim a tiny island which is on the border between the two countries.
Russia does not claim any territory claimed by Canada.
Peering/Transit is a complex economic topic but it is never free. You have to pay for the hardware.
I can say that everyone is free to peer with me for free. They *only* have to bring a Gigabit Ethernet cable to my basement. By the way, I live on a tiny island away from the civilization. Also, if my 8 ports switch is full, they have to buy me another switch.
The base model with only 4GB RAM and 64GB storage is pretty much useless instead to be used as an expensive tablet.
To replace a laptop, MS knows most people would need 8GB RAM and 128 GB storage... but such option doesn't exist so they are forced to get the $1300 tablet, and then buy a keyboard cover. We are talking about $1400-1500 to replace both a laptop and a tablet. Great device for portability, screen resolution, but expensive.
I understand it's the metric for TelCos, because they care about the amount of paying customers, no matter what phone they use. It's even better for them to have customers paying for a SIM card and not even using it in a phone.
However, to know who's winning the smartphone platform war, we can't rely on that, just like we can't rely on the number of Internet connections to ISPs to determine who's winning the desktop operating system war.
Total adoption is hard to dertermine. Is a phone bought 3 years ago still used? Maybe, maybe not. Maybe it's only used as a remote control for the TV while the same person has a new phone. Does that count? Hard to say.
The telcos also provided rotary home phones at first, and they managed/owned your inside wiring. Things have changed, they should change for cell phones too.
Smartphones are really portable computers that happens to be able to make calls. I don't even have a voice/text plan on mine.
The operator should only provide the SIM card. They are dumb pipes, just like ISPs.
There's actually a good chunk of evidence on myopic behavior (there's a whole branch of economics dedicated to this stuff).
The comparisons in the parent aren't particularly apt. Buying a laptop or a car is a one-time thing. It's not the same as a cell phone service which takes the form of a business relationship over a *prolonged* period of time.
You pay for an internet connection for your laptop. And if you use your car, you probably have to pay for gas.
Should the laptop and the car be sold by the ISP/gas company?
I never had an issue with that cable. It is quite large gage that must help.
I don't have an external, powered, booster. However there is some sort of filter at the TV's end. The cable is not supposed to be reversed.
Wait. You just acknowledge that the VAST majority of malware comes from sideloaded apps and then make a snide comment about iOS because sideloading malware-laden apps isn't an option.
REALLY??
Only on Slashdot is the inability to load malware-riddled apps on your phone viewed as a negative...
Because it is negative. Just like a car limited to 30 km/h is negative, even if it prevents accidents.
You know, with a real car you have the option of staying under 30 km/h if you want to. And with Android you have the walled garden option if you want to. Just don't activate the sideload option. If you are too stupid to activate it and you get malware, you have earned it.
The fact is you can use any XMPP client to send messages to those using Google Hangouts / Google Talk.
If you want to communicate with iMessage users you need an iProduct and a software written by Apple.
So even without the federation, it is much more useful than a proprietary protocol.
Hangouts works on any device connected to the internet, phone, PC, whatever. It uses the open XMPP protocol. It's a shame Google left the federation however.
1. Attend college in Oregon
2. Move to another state/country
3. Profit
Since it's a tax, and not a debt, you don't legally owe anything back and you are free to move elsewhere.
Besides, from what I've read from other posters and sources, it sounds like you can't actually build a superior machine (or even one with the same specs) unless you spend more money than the Apple model.
You are doing it the wrong way. Try building an Apple desktop computer with the same specs as a high end ($1500) custom PC.
You can choose between a Mac mini with a 2.6 GHz CPU, intel graphics, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD and 1TB external hard drive (because there is not enough room inside the box) for $1600
or
Get about the fastest core i7 PC with 32GB RAM, a high end video card, 512GB SSD and two 3TB hard drives in RAID and save money.
Let say a mag safe connector cost an extra $10 and a laptop cost $1000. Is there a 1% chance that I destroy my laptop because of not having a mag safe connector during its life time?
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"Party" or "political party" means an organization of citizens of the Commonwealth which, at either of the two preceding statewide general elections, received at least 10 percent of the total vote cast for any statewide office filled in that election.
It's pretty much impossible to get 10% of the vote without being a party. And you can't be a party if you didn't receive 10% of the vote. Typical chicken-egg problem to enforce that there will never be more than two parties.
What's wrong is to have state-sponsored open primaries. That's fundamentally anti-democratic. Why should the state organize primaries for only 2 parties? There are dozens of small parties out there which would like to receive the same treatment. Parties should organize primaries themselves.
Canada's number one rival in the North isn't Russia. It's another country called the USA. There is a conflict over a part of the sea near the boundary between Alaska and Yukon. Canada's number two rival isn't Russia either. It's Denmark. Canada and Denmark both claim a tiny island which is on the border between the two countries. Russia does not claim any territory claimed by Canada.
Peering/Transit is a complex economic topic but it is never free. You have to pay for the hardware. I can say that everyone is free to peer with me for free. They *only* have to bring a Gigabit Ethernet cable to my basement. By the way, I live on a tiny island away from the civilization. Also, if my 8 ports switch is full, they have to buy me another switch.
The base model with only 4GB RAM and 64GB storage is pretty much useless instead to be used as an expensive tablet. To replace a laptop, MS knows most people would need 8GB RAM and 128 GB storage... but such option doesn't exist so they are forced to get the $1300 tablet, and then buy a keyboard cover. We are talking about $1400-1500 to replace both a laptop and a tablet. Great device for portability, screen resolution, but expensive.
I understand it's the metric for TelCos, because they care about the amount of paying customers, no matter what phone they use. It's even better for them to have customers paying for a SIM card and not even using it in a phone. However, to know who's winning the smartphone platform war, we can't rely on that, just like we can't rely on the number of Internet connections to ISPs to determine who's winning the desktop operating system war.
Some people have more than one SIM. Others use the same SIM in more than one device. Also, a smartphone can still can be usefull without a SIM card.
Total adoption is hard to dertermine. Is a phone bought 3 years ago still used? Maybe, maybe not. Maybe it's only used as a remote control for the TV while the same person has a new phone. Does that count? Hard to say.
The telcos also provided rotary home phones at first, and they managed/owned your inside wiring. Things have changed, they should change for cell phones too.
Smartphones are really portable computers that happens to be able to make calls. I don't even have a voice/text plan on mine. The operator should only provide the SIM card. They are dumb pipes, just like ISPs.
There's actually a good chunk of evidence on myopic behavior (there's a whole branch of economics dedicated to this stuff).
The comparisons in the parent aren't particularly apt. Buying a laptop or a car is a one-time thing. It's not the same as a cell phone service which takes the form of a business relationship over a *prolonged* period of time.
You pay for an internet connection for your laptop. And if you use your car, you probably have to pay for gas. Should the laptop and the car be sold by the ISP/gas company?
Maybe in 1-2 centuries the US will adopt the metric system.
qpscable.com Bought for $44.99 CAD in 2011. However their prices are now much higher, altough their new cables are HDMI 1.4 and mine was probably 1.3.
I never had an issue with that cable. It is quite large gage that must help. I don't have an external, powered, booster. However there is some sort of filter at the TV's end. The cable is not supposed to be reversed.
I have a 75' HDMI cable (bought for arround $45). Works great at 1080p. I tend to avoid converters when I can.
The top 10% is definately rich. The middle class would be from say, 40 to 60%. You know, in the actual middle.
...(something which isn't even an option on iOS).
Wait. You just acknowledge that the VAST majority of malware comes from sideloaded apps and then make a snide comment about iOS because sideloading malware-laden apps isn't an option.
REALLY??
Only on Slashdot is the inability to load malware-riddled apps on your phone viewed as a negative...
Because it is negative. Just like a car limited to 30 km/h is negative, even if it prevents accidents. You know, with a real car you have the option of staying under 30 km/h if you want to. And with Android you have the walled garden option if you want to. Just don't activate the sideload option. If you are too stupid to activate it and you get malware, you have earned it.
The fact is you can use any XMPP client to send messages to those using Google Hangouts / Google Talk. If you want to communicate with iMessage users you need an iProduct and a software written by Apple. So even without the federation, it is much more useful than a proprietary protocol.
Hangouts works on any device connected to the internet, phone, PC, whatever. It uses the open XMPP protocol. It's a shame Google left the federation however.
They do require that you have an existing Intel Mac
Not only that you have an intel mac, but it must be already running OS X, which you bought when you bought your Mac. Therefore it's not free.
Just because Apple includes the price in their PC doesn't mean it's free. It is not free if you want to run OS X on a non-Mac PC.
1. Attend college in Oregon 2. Move to another state/country 3. Profit Since it's a tax, and not a debt, you don't legally owe anything back and you are free to move elsewhere.
The US would never do the same. They always accept when they are the enemy in a video game.
Besides, from what I've read from other posters and sources, it sounds like you can't actually build a superior machine (or even one with the same specs) unless you spend more money than the Apple model.
You are doing it the wrong way.
Try building an Apple desktop computer with the same specs as a high end ($1500) custom PC.
You can choose between a Mac mini with a 2.6 GHz CPU, intel graphics, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD and 1TB external hard drive (because there is not enough room inside the box) for $1600
or
Get about the fastest core i7 PC with 32GB RAM, a high end video card, 512GB SSD and two 3TB hard drives in RAID and save money.
Let say a mag safe connector cost an extra $10 and a laptop cost $1000. Is there a 1% chance that I destroy my laptop because of not having a mag safe connector during its life time?
No. And it's not because I am especially careful.