If getting this stuff for.26/mo is possible why aren't more people doing it? Is it because it isn't as easy as Cringley makes it seem?
To quote Cringley, "What's happening in Andrew Greig's neighborhood is going to happen in three to five years in many neighborhoods. The look will be slightly different with technologies like WiMax wireless networking playing a role. Moore's Law, too, is going to have a significant impact on bringing down the cost of implementing this dream. That Starnix thin client needed to drive your TV costs $250 in volume today but three years from now it will cost $70."
I'd like to pay people for MP3s of their shows as well. Unfortunately, this is not always an option.
I have a subscription to Jim Rome's online service. However, they do not allow you to take it with you so I can listen to it at work. I have to go home and sit infront of my PC and listen to it. I wish I could just take an mp3 into work with me the day after. Unfortuantely, it's only streamed.
When this is the case, radioSHARK sounds like a good alternative.
While we're at it. Can anyone suggest a free stream ripping app? I'd be happy to keep paying Jim Rome for the online service, and just rip the show and take it into work.
"That's a meaningless question--LaTeX is essentially a file format, whereas Word is both a GUI editor and a file format."
And there you have it... This is why we have the little borg icon of Billy Boy on Slashdot.
There's a lot of ignorant people that don't understand the difference between "Word" the editor, and "Word" the file format... and that's exactly how Microsoft wants it. How else would they sell all those copies of their crappy editor?
"As an example, Mr. Bhagwati pointed to the often-repeated estimates that, because of the Internet, as many as 300 million well-educated workers, mostly from India and China, could now enter the global work force and compete with Americans for skilled jobs.
In their paper, Mr. Bhagwati and his co-authors write that such an assessment of the education systems of India and China "almost borders on the ludicrous." In an interview, Mr. Bhagwati said, "You have a lot of people, but that doesn't mean they are qualified. That sort of thinking is really generalizing based on the kind of Indian and Chinese people who manage to make it to Silicon Valley."
This may be true, but how many executives that make these type of outsourcing decisions really know if they're getting 'quality' workers? They just know it's cheap, and I bet most of the time, don't care if the quality is not up to par.
How's that saying go again... "You get what you pay for"?;-)
Let me first say that I have not read the book yet, but I have read the 6 Lessons and thought it was a very good read. Thought provoking. So, I have a question. Go figure.
If the current system was better. If it were all the things that Mr. Gatto says it should be... none of the things he says it shouldn't be... would we have enough factory workers?
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This is good to hear. Now, all we need is a do-not-use-IE list.
DO-NOT-USE-IE
The damn form doesn't work unless you use IE. Fools!
- Kevin
Well, it seems the web server hosting the images from the camera has erupted, because I can't see what's going on!
- Kevin
I will say though, that this still seems worth the risk of having somebody move a way. It would not deter me from buying in.
- Kevin
These are some interesting thoughts I had not considered. Somebody mod this up some.
- Kevin
If getting this stuff for
To quote Cringley, "What's happening in Andrew Greig's neighborhood is going to happen in three to five years in many neighborhoods. The look will be slightly different with technologies like WiMax wireless networking playing a role. Moore's Law, too, is going to have a significant impact on bringing down the cost of implementing this dream. That Starnix thin client needed to drive your TV costs $250 in volume today but three years from now it will cost $70."
- Kevin
Do mods that mark comments as redundant look at the timestamps?
- Kevin
As a result, the number of desktop Linux PCs that ship will exceed the actual percentage of Linux machines that get installed in the real world.
What about the number of PCs that were sold with Windows on them that are now running Linux? I'm not saying it's a large number, but I have one.
- Kevin
Ahhhhhh! I'm on fire! Ahhhhhhh!
- Web Server
I'd like to pay people for MP3s of their shows as well. Unfortunately, this is not always an option.
I have a subscription to Jim Rome's online service. However, they do not allow you to take it with you so I can listen to it at work. I have to go home and sit infront of my PC and listen to it. I wish I could just take an mp3 into work with me the day after. Unfortuantely, it's only streamed.
When this is the case, radioSHARK sounds like a good alternative.
While we're at it. Can anyone suggest a free stream ripping app? I'd be happy to keep paying Jim Rome for the online service, and just rip the show and take it into work.
- Kevin
I work at Linux. It's sweet. We have a Foosball table and everything! ;-)
- Kevin
Darth Vader is really Luke's father!
- Kevin
"That's a meaningless question--LaTeX is essentially a file format, whereas Word is both a GUI editor and a file format."
And there you have it... This is why we have the little borg icon of Billy Boy on Slashdot.
There's a lot of ignorant people that don't understand the difference between "Word" the editor, and "Word" the file format... and that's exactly how Microsoft wants it. How else would they sell all those copies of their crappy editor?
- Kevin
Is today September Fools Day in Germany?
- Kevin
I'd attend class under a bridge somewhere before I stepped foot in a building bought by Bill.
Doesn't Microsoft complain when people announce vulnerabilities?
Change has to start somewhere.
- Kevin
"As an example, Mr. Bhagwati pointed to the often-repeated estimates that, because of the Internet, as many as 300 million well-educated workers, mostly from India and China, could now enter the global work force and compete with Americans for skilled jobs.
;-)
In their paper, Mr. Bhagwati and his co-authors write that such an assessment of the education systems of India and China "almost borders on the ludicrous." In an interview, Mr. Bhagwati said, "You have a lot of people, but that doesn't mean they are qualified. That sort of thinking is really generalizing based on the kind of Indian and Chinese people who manage to make it to Silicon Valley."
This may be true, but how many executives that make these type of outsourcing decisions really know if they're getting 'quality' workers? They just know it's cheap, and I bet most of the time, don't care if the quality is not up to par.
How's that saying go again... "You get what you pay for"?
- Kevin
Because it was funny?
- Kevin
Don't they mean the threat of _third party_ storage devices? :-)
- Kevin
Let me first say that I have not read the book yet, but I have read the 6 Lessons and thought it was a very good read. Thought provoking. So, I have a question. Go figure.
If the current system was better. If it were all the things that Mr. Gatto says it should be... none of the things he says it shouldn't be... would we have enough factory workers?
- Kevin
I can see how this has come about, but I'm curious. How often do you guys think about adding new sections? Is there a measuring stick for such things?
Surely, we should have had a goatse.cx.slashdot.org section by now, no?
Then, here's what we need to do...
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1.) Collect underpants.
2.)
3.) Broadband for everyone!
- Kevin
...but isn't 20% of 0 and 33% of 0 the same thing?
- Kevin
Say it ain't so! This is truely disappointing to hear. There has to be something we can do about it?
- Kevin
obfuscated their webserver. :-)
- Kevin