Why even bother with TV's anymore. My 24" monitor works great as a TV. I watch everything off of DVD's or downloads now. No commercials, no DVR rental fee, no cable fee.
People who want to watch TV on their couch and/or with other people. Using your monitor for your TV is fine if you are in a college or you live alone, but get a girlfriend or get married and watching TV on your computer becomes unappealing.
Anyone else thinks its a little funny that their flash ad that shows how easy to use their phone has menu items that move around the screen. I hope the guy that designed the ad didn't design the phone.
I inherited a BEFW11S4 from my grandfather (yes I am getting tech hand-me-downs from my grandfather), and it does support WPA. I am not sure if it works out of the box, but with the latest firmware (1.52.02 I think), it works great.
So, what you are saying is competition causes a decrease in price and an increase in product features which benefits the consumer? Looks like the free market is still working.....
ATMs and Internet Banking are incredibly convienient. However the price of ATMs and Internet Banking being available 24hrs/day is that the traditional banking services are going away. Banks use the ATMs as cheap tellers, and to do anything that requires a teller (cashier's check, cashing a check, whatever) is starting to incure a fee. Even calling the bank's 1-800 number and talking to a live person could ding your account with a charge. The article says that each ATM averages losing about 280 a month and they say that they are willing to lose this money in order to keep customers. But really it is so they can hire less tellers, have less branches open and charge fees for anything other than depositing or withdrawing money. ATMs are very great, but they are not free.
That may be true for the average Joe Desktop linux user, but it is certainly not true for business. Much of the inroads linux has made in the business world (both desktop and server) has been based on pure cost. Businesses want a solution that 1) Gets the job done 2) Costs the least amount of money. The CIOs and CFOs of the world don't care about which operating system is the "best", they care about the bottom line. In most cases when Linux beats Windows in the business world it is because it is "free" not because it is "Free".
My favortie Mozilla plug-in is Flash Click to view. It blocks all those annoying flash ads and puts an icon in its place. If you want to view the Flash ad/game/movie whatever, you just click the icon and it loads. It makes browsing the web just a little more bearable.
ia64 is Intel's 64 bit arch (Itanium and Itanium-2). This won't run on AMD64 Cpus. There are a couple of people trying to put together Debian for AMD64 but there is no finished product yet.
Red Hat Professional Workstation is $99 [redhat.com]
Scroll down to the bottom of the page and check out what is not included. Here is the one that make this product useless:
# Renewable Subscriptions -- Customers looking for supported environments or deployments for longer than 1 year should consider Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
So, what are you supposed to do after 1 year? No admin in their right mind would deploy the Workstation product.
Amazon has their "FREE Super Saver Shipping" though (if you spend over $25), so it is a pretty good deal over bn.com. But, you are right. You might be able to find it somewhere else a little bit cheaper:)
[ ] Single [ ] Don't own a couch [ ] In college/high school
I have a feeling you checked all three boxes (well at least two). Take away any of those and my guess is that your setup will become instantly less appealing:)
Omigod, I guess there still are some.com managers on the loose.
Wow.... Somebody on Slashdot used the word "loose" correctly. I had my mental filter on to s/loose/lose/g and your sentance didn't make any sense. There is still hope for slashdot.
I like how their license agreement on the download page [ati.com] is in a text area in a form. I erased all of the text and wrote "ATI will give me one BILLION dollars," and submitted it. And they accepted it!
I don't think they'll be out too much..... ATI is a canadian company. 1 Billion canadian is about $1.25 US, right?
If you are using windows and you haven't installed cygwin yet, you are missing out. It has bash, emacs, etc. That makes windows liveable. And yes they have md5sum.:)
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Why even bother with TV's anymore. My 24" monitor works great as a TV. I watch everything off of DVD's or downloads now. No commercials, no DVR rental fee, no cable fee.
People who want to watch TV on their couch and/or with other people. Using your monitor for your TV is fine if you are in a college or you live alone, but get a girlfriend or get married and watching TV on your computer becomes unappealing.
Anyone else thinks its a little funny that their flash ad that shows how easy to use their phone has menu items that move around the screen. I hope the guy that designed the ad didn't design the phone.
I inherited a BEFW11S4 from my grandfather (yes I am getting tech hand-me-downs from my grandfather), and it does support WPA. I am not sure if it works out of the box, but with the latest firmware (1.52.02 I think), it works great.
Almost always, competition means lower prices. It does not always mean better products...
That's right! And as we all know, monopolies lead to great products!
So, what you are saying is competition causes a decrease in price and an increase in product features which benefits the consumer? Looks like the free market is still working.....
ATMs and Internet Banking are incredibly convienient. However the price of ATMs and Internet Banking being available 24hrs/day is that the traditional banking services are going away. Banks use the ATMs as cheap tellers, and to do anything that requires a teller (cashier's check, cashing a check, whatever) is starting to incure a fee. Even calling the bank's 1-800 number and talking to a live person could ding your account with a charge. The article says that each ATM averages losing about 280 a month and they say that they are willing to lose this money in order to keep customers. But really it is so they can hire less tellers, have less branches open and charge fees for anything other than depositing or withdrawing money. ATMs are very great, but they are not free.
That may be true for the average Joe Desktop linux user, but it is certainly not true for business. Much of the inroads linux has made in the business world (both desktop and server) has been based on pure cost. Businesses want a solution that 1) Gets the job done 2) Costs the least amount of money. The CIOs and CFOs of the world don't care about which operating system is the "best", they care about the bottom line. In most cases when Linux beats Windows in the business world it is because it is "free" not because it is "Free".
My favortie Mozilla plug-in is Flash Click to view. It blocks all those annoying flash ads and puts an icon in its place. If you want to view the Flash ad/game/movie whatever, you just click the icon and it loads. It makes browsing the web just a little more bearable.
2003 FY Defense Budget $355 Billion
1999-2000 School Year expenditures $383 Billion (K-12)
Hmmmm... Iraq war $87 billion or going to the moon 50 billion..... Hmmmmm.... Tough choice.....
ia64 is Intel's 64 bit arch (Itanium and Itanium-2). This won't run on AMD64 Cpus. There are a couple of people trying to put together Debian for AMD64 but there is no finished product yet.
This is false. If you don't enforce trademarks you lose them. Copyrights are maintained by the holder whether they are enforced or not.
You can pick it up at amazon and save a few bucks
If you want to buy it, amazon has it cheaper.
Amazon has their "FREE Super Saver Shipping" though (if you spend over $25), so it is a pretty good deal over bn.com. But, you are right. You might be able to find it somewhere else a little bit cheaper :)
If you want it amazon.com has it cheaper
Here is a little quiz for you:
:)
[ ] Single
[ ] Don't own a couch
[ ] In college/high school
I have a feeling you checked all three boxes (well at least two). Take away any of those and my guess is that your setup will become instantly less appealing
Don't forget the flying cars! What good is one of these "predict the future" pieces of crap without some of those?!?!
For the love of god man! Learn to use the
tag...
Wow.... Somebody on Slashdot used the word "loose" correctly. I had my mental filter on to s/loose/lose/g and your sentance didn't make any sense. There is still hope for slashdot.
I don't think they'll be out too much..... ATI is a canadian company. 1 Billion canadian is about $1.25 US, right?
Below is the budget proposal listed in the first article.
:)
BUDGET PROPOSAL
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BUDGET FISCAL YEAR 2001
Revenues: $162,000
Quarterly dues:
Executive: 100,000 (10)
Associate: 8,000 (4)
Initiation fees:
Executive: 50,000 (10)
Associate: 4,000 (4)
Expenses: $105,000
Accounting/Tax: 1,000
Legal 5,000
Press releases: 12,000
PR Firm: 40,000
Management Firm: 24,000
Promotional: 16,000
Misc Expenses: 4,000
Reserves: $ 57,000
Notice anything funny?
Expenses = 105k
1+5+12+40+24+16+4 = 102k?!?!
I think these guys need to increase their accounting budget.
What's the big deal here? They aren't in violation of the GPL. They have the source available for download. Why is this news again?
If you are using windows and you haven't installed cygwin yet, you are missing out. It has bash, emacs, etc. That makes windows liveable. And yes they have md5sum. :)