Require registration with a credit card number that does only a $1 authorization check with the card company. Most people don't have enough credit cards to survive being banned more than 40 or 50 times. And anyone who has no credit cards should consider themselves uncivilized.
Why doesn't the RIAA charge the artists a dollar a record and then pay us for our time listening to and evaluating and word-of-mouth marketing and filesharing them?
The military loves Iridium and will not let it die until we start hearing about the system they are producing to exceed its capabilities.
The blurb about OS/Comet doesn't really say anything, because Iridium doesn't have the capital to replace something that is a huge part of their infrastructural investment (it'd be like replacing the linux kernel and tcp/ip on your computer without changing any other files and doing it while the machine is running and, oh yeah, you have to write it yourself and nobody else has ever done anything remotely resembling it, including all the ancient, legacied bugs).
The big story would have been if Iridium had told Harris to take a hike, because then we'd get to wonder where Iridium got the "fuck you" money.
They're *nix friendly because AT&T developed UNIX, and all the telecom standards and protocols. Just like any other business, telco people hate to deal with change, and prefer to spend extra on legacy and compatibility. In this case, the legacy extends to special testing done to ensure the reliability of the OS itself, which nobody can do to DOS or Windows but Microsoft, and Microsoft doesn't see telco infrastructure as a significant market because they'd have to supplant all of the ingrained telco systems. But they'll probably take care of that next year.
There's a difference between interference from J. Random PhoneCo's RF signal, and the lack of interference from a tested and certified RF signal.
Someone else posted that commerical planes are basically shielded against all forms of RF disturbance. That may be true, but it's not a certified result, afaik.
They tell you to turn your equipment off during takeoff and landing because that's when there will be insufficient time to respond by telling everyone to turn off their possible sources of interference. At 20k+ feet, you have some time to detect the problem and get on the intercom to correct it.
Boeing, not being pikers, have certified their system for use during flight. That isn't cheap. It's rigorous testing of the sort/.ers never get to see, being stuck in a world of commercial and open-source software. So the service will not be cheap.
I remember when nobody tried to make money off of Linux.
Then these distro companies popped up, trying to profit from something they didn't write (oh, sorry, they only profit from the parts they did write that depend on the parts they got for free from someone else; yeah, right).
And they're surprised that the owners of the only legal license to the original product want a piece of the value they own?
I'm on SCO's side. They paid for UNIX, they own it. When Linux was free, it was just a dilution of SCO's market that they couldn't hope to do anything about. Now Linux is big business and that's directly attributable to the success of UNIX.
$2/cubic meter is $2/1000 liters or about 80 cents per hundred gallons. I pay 17 cents per hundred gallons, and the actual water-usage portion of my water bill is about $5/month (I don't water a lawn or maintain a pool, but I have a dripping faucet).
At 80c/100gal, I'd be paying about $25/mo for water. That's supposed to be "out of reach of most water users"?
Okay, they're talking third-world. Okay. So ship them my 17c/100gal water and I'll pay $25/mo for that. It will still be the cheapest bill in my mailbox every month.
1. Cars are still far more expensive items. For most people, a car is the most expensive item they own (houses are a very close second). You can pay as much for a non-ridiculous repair on a car as your entire computer, software library, and home network cost.
2. Safety is a critical feature of a car. Safety is an almost unknown feature in a home computer. Certifying mechanics to bleed brakes saves lives. Certifying techs to configure IP addresses is a waste of eighty bucks.
Here's what bugs me about "extra dimensions rolled up really small".
If you turn and go in that Nth direction, any distance you go just carries you all the way around the universe in that direction and deposits you back where you are.
So how can they be said to have "dimension" when nothing that traverses them gets anywhere?
Beyond which, the C and C++ standards diverge on the C-ish portions of the language. The head of this thread is right. C++ coders are not C coders. Not many of them are really computer programmers, imo.
The human brain's development is designed to enable our upright posture.
The human femal pelvis is a bowl with a small hole in it, unlike those of our forebears, which are tubes with large holes.
As a result, a large head would block our birth. But if we had small heads, we'd have small brains. But we don't. How does it work?
The human brain is not fully formed at birth. The insulation on the wiring is left out, saving most of the volume the brain will eventually attain. This insulation is called "myelin".
The brain's wires (axons) aren't fully myelinated until about 6 months after we are born. So a human baby can have no coherent cerebral activity at a younger age. It's mostly hardwired activity coordinated by the more primitive portions of the hindbrain.
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Require registration with a credit card number that does only a $1 authorization check with the card company. Most people don't have enough credit cards to survive being banned more than 40 or 50 times. And anyone who has no credit cards should consider themselves uncivilized.
Why doesn't the RIAA charge the artists a dollar a record and then pay us for our time listening to and evaluating and word-of-mouth marketing and filesharing them?
It seems only fair.
Are we supposed to be impressed with a computer that can serve 8 hits and 4 pages per second?
The military loves Iridium and will not let it die until we start hearing about the system they are producing to exceed its capabilities.
The blurb about OS/Comet doesn't really say anything, because Iridium doesn't have the capital to replace something that is a huge part of their infrastructural investment (it'd be like replacing the linux kernel and tcp/ip on your computer without changing any other files and doing it while the machine is running and, oh yeah, you have to write it yourself and nobody else has ever done anything remotely resembling it, including all the ancient, legacied bugs).
The big story would have been if Iridium had told Harris to take a hike, because then we'd get to wonder where Iridium got the "fuck you" money.
They're *nix friendly because AT&T developed UNIX, and all the telecom standards and protocols. Just like any other business, telco people hate to deal with change, and prefer to spend extra on legacy and compatibility. In this case, the legacy extends to special testing done to ensure the reliability of the OS itself, which nobody can do to DOS or Windows but Microsoft, and Microsoft doesn't see telco infrastructure as a significant market because they'd have to supplant all of the ingrained telco systems. But they'll probably take care of that next year.
That's nuts.
There's a difference between interference from J. Random PhoneCo's RF signal, and the lack of interference from a tested and certified RF signal.
/.ers never get to see, being stuck in a world of commercial and open-source software. So the service will not be cheap.
Someone else posted that commerical planes are basically shielded against all forms of RF disturbance. That may be true, but it's not a certified result, afaik.
They tell you to turn your equipment off during takeoff and landing because that's when there will be insufficient time to respond by telling everyone to turn off their possible sources of interference. At 20k+ feet, you have some time to detect the problem and get on the intercom to correct it.
Boeing, not being pikers, have certified their system for use during flight. That isn't cheap. It's rigorous testing of the sort
I remember when nobody tried to make money off of Linux.
Then these distro companies popped up, trying to profit from something they didn't write (oh, sorry, they only profit from the parts they did write that depend on the parts they got for free from someone else; yeah, right).
And they're surprised that the owners of the only legal license to the original product want a piece of the value they own?
I'm on SCO's side. They paid for UNIX, they own it. When Linux was free, it was just a dilution of SCO's market that they couldn't hope to do anything about. Now Linux is big business and that's directly attributable to the success of UNIX.
$2/cubic meter is $2/1000 liters or about 80 cents per hundred gallons. I pay 17 cents per hundred gallons, and the actual water-usage portion of my water bill is about $5/month (I don't water a lawn or maintain a pool, but I have a dripping faucet).
At 80c/100gal, I'd be paying about $25/mo for water. That's supposed to be "out of reach of most water users"?
Okay, they're talking third-world. Okay. So ship them my 17c/100gal water and I'll pay $25/mo for that. It will still be the cheapest bill in my mailbox every month.
1. Cars are still far more expensive items. For most people, a car is the most expensive item they own (houses are a very close second). You can pay as much for a non-ridiculous repair on a car as your entire computer, software library, and home network cost.
2. Safety is a critical feature of a car. Safety is an almost unknown feature in a home computer. Certifying mechanics to bleed brakes saves lives. Certifying techs to configure IP addresses is a waste of eighty bucks.
But it appears two dimensional. It's not "rolled up" so small you can't see it.
Worse, they used to be in the top five in this poll year after year.
One day someone with a strong memory will write the whole story of how one of the greatest companies in America went completely off the track.
Here's what bugs me about "extra dimensions rolled up really small".
If you turn and go in that Nth direction, any distance you go just carries you all the way around the universe in that direction and deposits you back where you are.
So how can they be said to have "dimension" when nothing that traverses them gets anywhere?
--Blair
How does it handle under random load?
People with Cerebral Palsy aren't known for their ability to stay still.
How does this think know the difference between Palsy and a desire to do donuts?
Beyond which, the C and C++ standards diverge on the C-ish portions of the language. The head of this thread is right. C++ coders are not C coders. Not many of them are really computer programmers, imo.
UNIX was lawyer-driven software design.
Waitasec.
What makes any of this different from '70s color-organ technology?
What next? Cases in Avocado and Autumn Gold?
Good thing they make it change colors dynamically, because it starts out fugly.
The human brain's development is designed to enable our upright posture.
The human femal pelvis is a bowl with a small hole in it, unlike those of our forebears, which are tubes with large holes.
As a result, a large head would block our birth. But if we had small heads, we'd have small brains. But we don't. How does it work?
The human brain is not fully formed at birth. The insulation on the wiring is left out, saving most of the volume the brain will eventually attain. This insulation is called "myelin".
The brain's wires (axons) aren't fully myelinated until about 6 months after we are born. So a human baby can have no coherent cerebral activity at a younger age. It's mostly hardwired activity coordinated by the more primitive portions of the hindbrain.
I lived in the BA for a year, and came to an incontrovertible conclusion: the people there are dumb and insane.
It's cold, ugly, overcrowded, and economically upside down. Yet they believe it's the only place to live.
Worrying now about whether they are working for free is a pointless exercise. It was inevitable.
Acme Foil Hat, LLC
You do understand what happens to refundable deposits when the company that took the deposit goes out of business, right?
Just stamp your head "creditor" and go sit in the corner.
DeCSS doesn't crack intellectual property, people do.
I'd think it should be obvious that most habitues of slashdot are already master botters.
Geeks tend to be successful because they know they will be.
Businesses tend to look successful because they have been successful.
1-p is as valid a metric as p.