That would make sense if you are comparing the first phone I ever bought with the newest one, but the phone I bought last year (which is a newer model than other people using my current provider are using) shouldn't fall into this category. A one to two year old phone should be usable for any provider. I understand that there are technical issues involved, but the majority of the problem isn't a technical one, it is the phone companies trying to force people to stay with them through extortion rather than giving good service. If I had kept the same provider all of these years, I doubt I would have to have switched phones anyway.
I was happy with the first phone I got about 9 years ago. I was also happy with the second, and third, and fourth, and even the current one I have. The problem isn't that people want the latest phone (although there are some people so motivated). The problem is that if you switch providers, your phone won't work anymore. I have several perfectly good phones sitting around my house because whatever provider I was with ticked me off enough to go to a different company. I don't believe there is any reason that a universal phone couldn't be made that would work with any provider (you can roam most places). The reason we will have 500 million cell phones that need to be discarded by the end of 2005 is mostly due to the greed of the cellphone providers.
"Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)" Hero He"ro, n.; pl. Heroes. F. h'eros, L. heros, Gr. ?.
1. (Myth.) An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules.
2. A man of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger, or fortitude in suffering; a prominent or central personage in any remarkable action or event; hence, a great or illustrious person.
Each man is a hero and oracle to somebody. --Emerson.
3. The principal personage in a poem, story, and the like, or the person who has the principal share in the transactions related; as Achilles in the Iliad, Ulysses in the Odyssey, and AEneas in the AEneid.
The shining quality of an epic hero --Dryden.
I think this fits #2 ("...a prominent or central personage in any remarkable action or event; hence, a great or illustrious person....")
Pop-Up windows which steal focus immediately from whatever task has focus
This kind of thing isn't just limited to computers. I was checking the voicemail on my cellphone earlier. A friend had called on his cell phone and left the number to his new office (he just got a new job). Right in the part where he was saying the number I got a text message on the phone, so it beeps telling me there is a new text message. So, I have to listen to the message again. But there were more text messages, so it kept beeping as more messages were received. I had to listen to the voicemail about eight times to finally get the number. And you can't just listen to the end. No, you have to start over from the beginning. Why do I need to be told I have a new text message when I'm on the phone? Can't that wait until I hang up?
I can see it now. You click on a "grayed-out" option and you get another window that pops up saying:
Wanted to try the grayed out option but thought it was way too expensive for you? You can do that now! Grayed out option at only $1.90 per use. Your best deals are HERE You have enjoyed other options and wish for a different effect? Grayed out option can make it happen. UNBELIEVABLE! GRAYED OUT OPTION AT ONLY $1.90 PER USE Say NO! to all those other options and your disappointment after "a messed up use". You don't have to be content with the standard results of a regular option. Get GRAYED OUT OPTION now to ensure the whole day of joyful computing. You should at least give it a try. Especially when we offer large discounts for bulk orders and make incredible deals for returning customers. Get grayed out option now!!!
1) Get a job which needs a security clearance. 2) Apply for a security clearance. 3) Realize that you can't get past #1 until you
have completed #2. 4) Apply for a job delivering pizza's
I think you are missing the point. If the FBI can just go around willy-nilly looking into your financial affairs without oversight they can also go around willy-nilly making purchases FOR you. If they have access to your bank info, they can then use that info to buy the 2300 rounds of ammunition, etc. and have it delivered to your home. In addition to the lack of judicial review on tapping your phone/internet connection the PATRIOT act gives them, they can easily make it appear that it came from your house to boot. This is a great way of getting rid of people or groups they don't like.
You can say that this type of thing won't happen, but I say it is human nature that it will happen (power corrupts). Even scarier than this is that they could do the same thing to a Congressman or Senator they don't like, thus totally disrupting the political process.
The checks and balances that were put in place by the Constitution were done so for a reason. Throwing them to the wind is a slap in the face for every American that died defending freedom.
I'm not sure I would consider a drop from $30.6 billion to $28.2 billion during that time period as very indicative of long term trends. You are going from the height of the DotCom boom to the bottom of the bust.
From a strictly business perspective, a potential customer of IBM's would have been much better off buying hardware from a failed ISP than buying new hardware from IBM. The price per CPU cycle was much lower for the abundant used machines that were flooding the market as failed businesses tried to get some of the money they had spent back. This is the reason the entire IT industry was affected by the failed internet companies. They were offloading their equipment meaning manufacturers couldn't be competitive.
The trend is only now starting to go the other way as faster machines are being built which have a competitive advantage over the older slower machines for industries or businesses that need large computing resources. Since there isn't a current glut in the market of these faster machines, I believe this is the trend that will continue over the short and long term.
The need for faster computers will always be an upward trend. It may dip slightly from one year to the next, but it will never go down over the long term provided there isn't some kind of global catastrophic event.
IBM has even said themselves that their reason for promoting Linux is so they can provide their hardware at a more competitive price. Currently the price of their hardware includes the cost to produce their software. If they can reduce this cost, they can lower hardware prices and at the same time increase profitability. IBM believes that Linux is the right answer to do this.
I wasn't there, but I was somewhere in the vicinity, and I can assure you that the entire accident was caused by the fumbling of John Kerry. He had rubbed his hand along a desk and got a very small metal splinter in his finger. He was running around in circles screaming, "Mommy, Mommy, I got a boo boo" waving his splintered finger in the air, when he ran smack dab into the reactor's self-destruct button. The rest we all know.
Of course, the whole incident could have been avoided entirely if George W. Bush hadn't called in sick with, "...vomiting, a headache, and the inability to open [his] eyes to bright light." Prompting Kerry come to work on his day off.
Of course, Kerry's later attempts to blame the other reactor employees shouldn't go without notice either.
Nuclear reactors will NEVER be "de-regulated enough for the companies". The difference between a nuclear powerplant and a conventional powerplant is that you can't make an ICBM out of depleated coal or natural gas (at least not a very effective one). With the heightened security concerns since 9/11 I wouln't be at all supprised if the government took over all nuclear powerplants.
That was my point. But I can't imagine someone from Hong Kong paying $50 for it when he can get it for $1 either. Copyright isn't seen the same way in a lot of asian countries. They see it not as buying a licence to use the software, but as buying a shiny plastic disk. What is on that disk doesn't really matter.
My car must be psycopathic. I've found my way home thousands of times, and I never told my car where I live.
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That would make sense if you are comparing the first phone I ever bought with the newest one, but the phone I bought last year (which is a newer model than other people using my current provider are using) shouldn't fall into this category. A one to two year old phone should be usable for any provider. I understand that there are technical issues involved, but the majority of the problem isn't a technical one, it is the phone companies trying to force people to stay with them through extortion rather than giving good service. If I had kept the same provider all of these years, I doubt I would have to have switched phones anyway.
I was happy with the first phone I got about 9 years ago. I was also happy with the second, and third, and fourth, and even the current one I have. The problem isn't that people want the latest phone (although there are some people so motivated). The problem is that if you switch providers, your phone won't work anymore. I have several perfectly good phones sitting around my house because whatever provider I was with ticked me off enough to go to a different company. I don't believe there is any reason that a universal phone couldn't be made that would work with any provider (you can roam most places). The reason we will have 500 million cell phones that need to be discarded by the end of 2005 is mostly due to the greed of the cellphone providers.
"Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)"
Hero He"ro, n.; pl. Heroes. F. h'eros, L. heros, Gr. ?.
1. (Myth.) An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules.
2. A man of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger, or fortitude in suffering; a prominent or central personage in any remarkable action or event; hence, a great or illustrious person.
Each man is a hero and oracle to somebody. --Emerson.
3. The principal personage in a poem, story, and the like, or the person who has the principal share in the transactions related; as Achilles in the Iliad, Ulysses in the Odyssey, and AEneas in the AEneid.
The shining quality of an epic hero --Dryden.
I think this fits #2 ("...a prominent or central personage in any remarkable action or event; hence, a great or illustrious person....")
Pop-Up windows which steal focus immediately from whatever task has focus
This kind of thing isn't just limited to computers. I was checking the voicemail on my cellphone earlier. A friend had called on his cell phone and left the number to his new office (he just got a new job). Right in the part where he was saying the number I got a text message on the phone, so it beeps telling me there is a new text message. So, I have to listen to the message again. But there were more text messages, so it kept beeping as more messages were received. I had to listen to the voicemail about eight times to finally get the number. And you can't just listen to the end. No, you have to start over from the beginning. Why do I need to be told I have a new text message when I'm on the phone? Can't that wait until I hang up?
I can see it now. You click on a "grayed-out" option and you get another window that pops up saying:
Wanted to try the grayed out option but thought it was way too expensive for you?
You can do that now! Grayed out option at only $1.90 per use.
Your best deals are HERE
You have enjoyed other options and wish for a different effect? Grayed out option can make it happen.
UNBELIEVABLE! GRAYED OUT OPTION AT ONLY $1.90 PER USE
Say NO! to all those other options and your disappointment after "a messed up use". You don't have to be content with the standard results of a regular option. Get GRAYED OUT OPTION now to ensure the whole day of joyful computing.
You should at least give it a try. Especially when we offer large discounts for bulk orders and make incredible deals for returning customers. Get grayed out option now!!!
Oops, "my" should be "me" . . . Guess that covers tomorrow as well.
Please forgive my (that was my one mistake for the day) and laugh anyway.
The procedure is:
1) Get a job which needs a security clearance.
2) Apply for a security clearance.
3) Realize that you can't get past #1 until you
have completed #2.
4) Apply for a job delivering pizza's
Savvio Cheetah 10K.6
MTBF 1,400,000 hours 1,200,000 hours
According to the article they are MORE reliable.
(MTBF == Mean Time Between Failure)
I think you are missing the point. If the FBI can just go around willy-nilly looking into your financial affairs without oversight they can also go around willy-nilly making purchases FOR you. If they have access to your bank info, they can then use that info to buy the 2300 rounds of ammunition, etc. and have it delivered to your home. In addition to the lack of judicial review on tapping your phone/internet connection the PATRIOT act gives them, they can easily make it appear that it came from your house to boot. This is a great way of getting rid of people or groups they don't like.
You can say that this type of thing won't happen, but I say it is human nature that it will happen (power corrupts). Even scarier than this is that they could do the same thing to a Congressman or Senator they don't like, thus totally disrupting the political process.
The checks and balances that were put in place by the Constitution were done so for a reason. Throwing them to the wind is a slap in the face for every American that died defending freedom.
I'm not sure I would consider a drop from $30.6 billion to $28.2 billion during that time period as very indicative of long term trends. You are going from the height of the DotCom boom to the bottom of the bust.
From a strictly business perspective, a potential customer of IBM's would have been much better off buying hardware from a failed ISP than buying new hardware from IBM. The price per CPU cycle was much lower for the abundant used machines that were flooding the market as failed businesses tried to get some of the money they had spent back. This is the reason the entire IT industry was affected by the failed internet companies. They were offloading their equipment meaning manufacturers couldn't be competitive.
The trend is only now starting to go the other way as faster machines are being built which have a competitive advantage over the older slower machines for industries or businesses that need large computing resources. Since there isn't a current glut in the market of these faster machines, I believe this is the trend that will continue over the short and long term.
The need for faster computers will always be an upward trend. It may dip slightly from one year to the next, but it will never go down over the long term provided there isn't some kind of global catastrophic event.
IBM has even said themselves that their reason for promoting Linux is so they can provide their hardware at a more competitive price. Currently the price of their hardware includes the cost to produce their software. If they can reduce this cost, they can lower hardware prices and at the same time increase profitability. IBM believes that Linux is the right answer to do this.
I wasn't there, but I was somewhere in the vicinity, and I can assure you that the entire accident was caused by the fumbling of John Kerry. He had rubbed his hand along a desk and got a very small metal splinter in his finger. He was running around in circles screaming, "Mommy, Mommy, I got a boo boo" waving his splintered finger in the air, when he ran smack dab into the reactor's self-destruct button. The rest we all know.
Of course, the whole incident could have been avoided entirely if George W. Bush hadn't called in sick with, "...vomiting, a headache, and the inability to open [his] eyes to bright light." Prompting Kerry come to work on his day off.
Of course, Kerry's later attempts to blame the other reactor employees shouldn't go without notice either.
Nuclear reactors will NEVER be "de-regulated enough for the companies". The difference between a nuclear powerplant and a conventional powerplant is that you can't make an ICBM out of depleated coal or natural gas (at least not a very effective one). With the heightened security concerns since 9/11 I wouln't be at all supprised if the government took over all nuclear powerplants.
You mean straight men.
If your father is head of the CIA, you can get any grades you want.
I heard they combined the ME, NT and CE versions and made a new product...
Windows CEMENT.
That was my point. But I can't imagine someone from Hong Kong paying $50 for it when he can get it for $1 either. Copyright isn't seen the same way in a lot of asian countries. They see it not as buying a licence to use the software, but as buying a shiny plastic disk. What is on that disk doesn't really matter.
They'll still make no money. Now there will just be two things to pirate, the full os and Windows OSux.
Actually I think $50 is about $99,950 too much. They would have to pay me to use it.
OK, How can a comment that has NEVER been rated be overrated? Please explain because I'm confused.
Ashcroft has a boot fetish? Do you have a link?
The /. ID for Jesus is 2559
Don't know if the number itself is significant, but that is what it is.
Damn, I meant telepathic. But the mistake was probably more acurate....
Statistics show that there are more feline fatalities between floors 3-10 then[sic] there are after 10.
I bet statistics also show that there are more buildings with top floors between 3-10 than there are buildings > 10. But what do I know?
My car must be psycopathic. I've found my way home thousands of times, and I never told my car where I live.
The main thing I have learned from the slashdot moderation system is that the difference between funny and flamebait is the degree of clueness of the moderator.