Something that bugged me when I was visiting Canada a while back, that.
Over here, the sales tax (VAT) is included in the sticker price. So, if I see an item which says 'Buy me for £20' and I've got a £20 note in my hand, I know I can afford it. I don't have to practice my 1.175 times table to work out prices, or to work out of the shops are cheating me for that matter.
Why on earth are prices across the pond shown pre-tax even when you're charged the tax? Surely you should be shown the price you're charged?
There was an IOCCC entry a few years back that was entirely readable, well formatted code. Except that the algorithm it appeared to be executing wasn't what it actually did. Very clever, and pretty freaky.
Ahh, here we are. http://www.de.ioccc.org/2000/primenum.c htt p://www.de.ioccc.org/2000/primenum.hint
Let's say that the Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt campaign that MS wanted to start from the Halloween document evidence had got the mainstream tech press on its side, so there'd been continual negative press about Linux from ZDNet, CNet et al. _We_ know Slashdot is here, but a decent percentage of our colleagues don't. They'd have seen streams of articles about how Linux wasn't what they wanted, potentially utterly unfounded.
I'm a very long way from convinced I support this but you're assuming we all have equal access to the media. We don't, and when the media isn't being balanced and is instead using its power to suppress an entirely valid argument purely because it can (such as all bar one Murdoch owned paper coming to the same conclusion on the Iraq war and that being in a Muslim country) there is potential value to mandating that opposition groups are provided with access. Otherwise the freedom of speech of the first is being used as an argument to remove the practical ability to exercise equal speech by the unempowered opponent.
What would the want it for? Far cheaper jut to follow Apple's example and use the BSDs.
If there's an MS conspiracy to be had here, it's that they want IT execs to doubt whether Linux will be available in any sensible format long-term, to think that it might be ruled illegal and withdrawn. That way, they'll stop installing it and have to buy Windows licenses instead.
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You probably don't want to anyway. Many modern cars have enough computers that jumpleads aren't a great idea and are a pretty good way of blowing a chip or two.
No, some people have plenty. I've got well over 160 hours of legal CDs (and not the largest CD collection I know, either) and so we're talking well into multiple gigabytes at different bitrates. The big players mean that I can listen to it all at work without dragging round piles of media.
Over here the white box vendors still have a significant price advantage I have to say, but I really can't see MS shareholders wearing that sort of price cut unless there's a clear and present emergency.
Dell maybe, but what about the low-end PC vendors? The local PC shops, the bargain basement machines at PC World or whatever the national equivalent in the given country is?
If Windows gets Office bundled, its price will have to go up significantly. If Windows price - already easily the most significant cost - goes up much, these people will start looking for alternative sources of OS. Whether that is Lindows or a traditional Linux distribution doesn't matter much - the point is that someone will try. After a while, MS then have a problem because at that price point I suspect the consumer (who won't be pushing the machine much anyway) will put up with 95% functionality for 80% price. At which point there's an awful lot of potential for things to snowball.
I was thinking the rest of the world had all decided to follow Nokia's example and use an interface I truly loathe. Delighted to hear that Ericsson have thought about this one;-)
No, that's that you can shortcut through the standard menu structure if you know the numbers.
This is a separate menu that's just got your 9 choices on it, where those 9 can be pretty much anything in the order you choose and you get icons for 6 of them on screen at once. Much more user friendly and can be set up easily around the user's preferences. I barely use the normal multilayered menu system because pretty much everything I actually use is in this simple menu and accessible with two keypresses.
One thing which older Mots do and I haven't seen on any Nokia is a shortcut menu.
In two keys I can read or write text messages or the phone book. I can turn vibrate on, listen to voice memos and set an alarm. Really easy to use, saves a lot of time and I just can't find modern phones that have this! Even though they seem to have developed even more buttons!
Windows OEM license costs what, £80-90? Even the low end Office is double that.
If MS start bundling something 'good enough' for most with all Windows licenses for £20-30 extra then every shareholder out there would complain very loudly. If they put the price of Windows up significantly, the low end market will leave Windows and move to LindowsOS beacuse it's 'good enough' and would then be a really significant saving.
MS aren't that daft. Office isn't getting bundled with Windows any time soon.
No, merely observe that moderation isn't normally that fast so given what I posted it looked awfully like an admin decided they didn't want this discussed.
I've thought about this before. Slashdot continually posts stories linking to NYT with its registration, but never to anywhere else that requires it. It always causes complaints and it's extremely well known amongst the community that other sources are available, or that we can bypass it easily.
Yet, continually, NYT links are used and are to the story that requires registration.
Is it impossible that Slashdot is getting some form of benefit from the NYT? I find it difficult to believe that, given what turns up in the comments, this consistent choice is entirely accidental.
I drive a '98 Mondeo, sold as a Contour in the US. It's got over 96k on the clock and runs fine. Far from unusual, either - when trying to buy it I was constantly tripping over 3-4 year old cars with well clear 100k.
Exactly. And I'll bet you've since bought a decent number of the albums you had taped.
Home taping is mostly by kids who can't afford anything else. If the music's actually remotely good, they'll buy it when they can afford it. I know I had similar stacks of tapes, 99% of which I know own legit CDs for.
Netscape used to do quite nice business by pointing out that their webserver could run very happily on NT Workstation (indeed, in their opinion, better than others on Server) and that the combination of the NTWS and their license was still cheaper than NT Server.
At which point MS change the license and prohibit using NTWS as a server. If you want that, buy NT Server - which is way more expensive and, look, happens to come with a 'free' web server...
If I choose to dig my garden with a teaspoon, that is my right. If I choose to run a removal firm out of a Mini, that is just as much my right. Why, therefore, should it be legal for a software company to prohibit me using something for a purpose they did not intend and do not believe it suitable for? If I'm happy with it, I should be able to.
Not just in the public domain but very recently in the public domain when the Disney versions were released. Now, try doing your own version of this PD software without Disney sueing you for copyright violation on their work...
Music is a noise filter. By putting on background noise that I have heard a thousand times before and can control, I don't have to listen to everyone else walking past, hammering on their keyboards, chatting about the weather.
When I need that complex stuff, the music goes off. Most of the time, though, I've worked it out and am implementing it, or the challenge of working it out is frankly small.
Remove my music and there's more for the brain to listen to, not less.
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Something that bugged me when I was visiting Canada a while back, that.
Over here, the sales tax (VAT) is included in the sticker price. So, if I see an item which says 'Buy me for £20' and I've got a £20 note in my hand, I know I can afford it. I don't have to practice my 1.175 times table to work out prices, or to work out of the shops are cheating me for that matter.
Why on earth are prices across the pond shown pre-tax even when you're charged the tax? Surely you should be shown the price you're charged?
Yes.
t p://www.de.ioccc.org/2000/primenum.hint
There was an IOCCC entry a few years back that was entirely readable, well formatted code. Except that the algorithm it appeared to be executing wasn't what it actually did. Very clever, and pretty freaky.
Ahh, here we are.
http://www.de.ioccc.org/2000/primenum.c
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http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/ you mean?
They've got some other fun interfaces available. List is at http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
Just checked here in IE6 and no, it's only listing MSN. Not helpful!
And how do people find it?
Let's say that the Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt campaign that MS wanted to start from the Halloween document evidence had got the mainstream tech press on its side, so there'd been continual negative press about Linux from ZDNet, CNet et al. _We_ know Slashdot is here, but a decent percentage of our colleagues don't. They'd have seen streams of articles about how Linux wasn't what they wanted, potentially utterly unfounded.
I'm a very long way from convinced I support this but you're assuming we all have equal access to the media. We don't, and when the media isn't being balanced and is instead using its power to suppress an entirely valid argument purely because it can (such as all bar one Murdoch owned paper coming to the same conclusion on the Iraq war and that being in a Muslim country) there is potential value to mandating that opposition groups are provided with access. Otherwise the freedom of speech of the first is being used as an argument to remove the practical ability to exercise equal speech by the unempowered opponent.
What would the want it for? Far cheaper jut to follow Apple's example and use the BSDs.
If there's an MS conspiracy to be had here, it's that they want IT execs to doubt whether Linux will be available in any sensible format long-term, to think that it might be ruled illegal and withdrawn. That way, they'll stop installing it and have to buy Windows licenses instead.
You probably don't want to anyway. Many modern cars have enough computers that jumpleads aren't a great idea and are a pretty good way of blowing a chip or two.
No, some people have plenty. I've got well over 160 hours of legal CDs (and not the largest CD collection I know, either) and so we're talking well into multiple gigabytes at different bitrates. The big players mean that I can listen to it all at work without dragging round piles of media.
Over here the white box vendors still have a significant price advantage I have to say, but I really can't see MS shareholders wearing that sort of price cut unless there's a clear and present emergency.
Dell maybe, but what about the low-end PC vendors? The local PC shops, the bargain basement machines at PC World or whatever the national equivalent in the given country is?
If Windows gets Office bundled, its price will have to go up significantly. If Windows price - already easily the most significant cost - goes up much, these people will start looking for alternative sources of OS. Whether that is Lindows or a traditional Linux distribution doesn't matter much - the point is that someone will try. After a while, MS then have a problem because at that price point I suspect the consumer (who won't be pushing the machine much anyway) will put up with 95% functionality for 80% price. At which point there's an awful lot of potential for things to snowball.
Cool, thanks!
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I was thinking the rest of the world had all decided to follow Nokia's example and use an interface I truly loathe. Delighted to hear that Ericsson have thought about this one
Hmm, how do I justify a new phone to myself...
No, that's that you can shortcut through the standard menu structure if you know the numbers.
This is a separate menu that's just got your 9 choices on it, where those 9 can be pretty much anything in the order you choose and you get icons for 6 of them on screen at once. Much more user friendly and can be set up easily around the user's preferences. I barely use the normal multilayered menu system because pretty much everything I actually use is in this simple menu and accessible with two keypresses.
One thing which older Mots do and I haven't seen on any Nokia is a shortcut menu.
In two keys I can read or write text messages or the phone book. I can turn vibrate on, listen to voice memos and set an alarm. Really easy to use, saves a lot of time and I just can't find modern phones that have this! Even though they seem to have developed even more buttons!
Sorry but this bugs me...
Windows OEM license costs what, £80-90? Even the low end Office is double that.
If MS start bundling something 'good enough' for most with all Windows licenses for £20-30 extra then every shareholder out there would complain very loudly. If they put the price of Windows up significantly, the low end market will leave Windows and move to LindowsOS beacuse it's 'good enough' and would then be a really significant saving.
MS aren't that daft. Office isn't getting bundled with Windows any time soon.
No, merely observe that moderation isn't normally that fast so given what I posted it looked awfully like an admin decided they didn't want this discussed.
(Conspiracy theory...)
That lost 3 points _very_ quickly...
I've thought about this before. Slashdot continually posts stories linking to NYT with its registration, but never to anywhere else that requires it. It always causes complaints and it's extremely well known amongst the community that other sources are available, or that we can bypass it easily.
Yet, continually, NYT links are used and are to the story that requires registration.
Is it impossible that Slashdot is getting some form of benefit from the NYT? I find it difficult to believe that, given what turns up in the comments, this consistent choice is entirely accidental.
Are American made Fords really that unreliable?
I drive a '98 Mondeo, sold as a Contour in the US. It's got over 96k on the clock and runs fine. Far from unusual, either - when trying to buy it I was constantly tripping over 3-4 year old cars with well clear 100k.
Eww! Nasty and almost unreadable. I quite assumed it was a rendering error at first...
:-)
How long has this one been here, and can we turn it off QUICKLY please?
Exactly. And I'll bet you've since bought a decent number of the albums you had taped.
Home taping is mostly by kids who can't afford anything else. If the music's actually remotely good, they'll buy it when they can afford it. I know I had similar stacks of tapes, 99% of which I know own legit CDs for.
Licensing, and this is nasty.
Netscape used to do quite nice business by pointing out that their webserver could run very happily on NT Workstation (indeed, in their opinion, better than others on Server) and that the combination of the NTWS and their license was still cheaper than NT Server.
At which point MS change the license and prohibit using NTWS as a server. If you want that, buy NT Server - which is way more expensive and, look, happens to come with a 'free' web server...
If I choose to dig my garden with a teaspoon, that is my right. If I choose to run a removal firm out of a Mini, that is just as much my right. Why, therefore, should it be legal for a software company to prohibit me using something for a purpose they did not intend and do not believe it suitable for? If I'm happy with it, I should be able to.
I'd love to, even though I'm on NTL cable.
Can you show me where I can get anything other than Sky+ in the UK though?
Not just in the public domain but very recently in the public domain when the Disney versions were released. Now, try doing your own version of this PD software without Disney sueing you for copyright violation on their work...
Someone had to mention it...
:-)
Sorry all
Music is a noise filter. By putting on background noise that I have heard a thousand times before and can control, I don't have to listen to everyone else walking past, hammering on their keyboards, chatting about the weather.
When I need that complex stuff, the music goes off. Most of the time, though, I've worked it out and am implementing it, or the challenge of working it out is frankly small.
Remove my music and there's more for the brain to listen to, not less.