re: muni water/sewer... agree, totally. It is a trade-off between a higher power bill to run the pump/softener/etc, but then again, many small towns (in Oregon) have a 'base rate' of $60+/mo just to have that water meter piped to their homes, no matter the usage... larger towns are usually $30-$40/mo plus a base consumption level. I'll keep the well, in spite of the maintenance (filters, periodic shocking, etc) and the weird pre-filter smell (Iron sulfide - yay!).
Sewer is okay, as long as (as you've said) you don't screw up the leach field. Costs a few hundred bucks to pump the tank once every decade or so for an empty-nest couple with periodic visitors, but otherwise I don't even notice it outside of insuring septic-safe products when shopping.
As for cell signal, it's more to do with the little valley I live in combined with a lack of towers that reach into it. I could theoretically climb one of the bigger trees (up to 100'-125' tall) and likely get the same results.:)
I use Exede... pricey, but pretty good. Company VPN is rock-solid, webex and VoIP works well enough, and since I do *nix, ssh sessions are almost perfectly smooth.
lets potential partners update and tweak the service to meet a community's needs.
Right, a $100K/yr sysadmin going to want to live at these places to help tweak network bandwidth? Cause with open source, you'll going to need one. Sure, there are smart kids in these rural areas, but you still need a higher education experience to work with open source.
I make well north of $100k (work-from-home), live 50 miles in the sticks outside of Portland, OR, know QoS well enough, and I wouldn't mind helping my neighbors out if it wasn't too much of a burden on time (pop. density in my 'neighborhood' is 14/mile, and I know 12 of them very well). OTOH, Facebook is a privacy-suck, so the answer would be 'no'.
Out here in the Oregon Coastal Range, we actually do have something like that: http://www.coho.net/
Pretty solid local ISP, radio-based (so line-of-sight is a must), and in spite of their no-torrent policy, pretty awesome people to work with. I'm not a customer (I live in a small valley w/ no tower in range or sight), but folks I know who are can't stop saying how good they are.
I *am* a rural Internet user. Yeah, it would be kind of nice to have a high-speed option that doesn't involve satellite lag and bandwidth caps, but damn... I'll make do with what I have if FB is the only other option. Most of us out here feel much the same: Fuck Facebook, and fuck their intrusive monetization plans. We'll do just fine without it, thanks.
Also, a thought for the city-dwellers: the lack of infrastructure such as broadband, non-well water systems, non-septic sewer, etc tends to keep people away from here. Heh - I barely get two bars of cell service on Verizon, none on any other carrier, and only get a signal on Verizon with a new (2015 or better) phone.
I kind of prefer it that way sometimes, since I moved out here to get the frig away from an increasingly overcrowded world of urban hipsters, wannabe gangsters, and McMansion-dwellers. If it means limited Internet, so be it - I'll make do, and I can do pretty well with what I do have. Netflix and Torrents are out of the question here (30 GB bandwidth cap), but that's okay with me.
If Google Fiber (or whatever) showed up tomorrow, I'd definitely look into it, but it's not really a must-have if having it means a loss of privacy.
I think GP was comparing it to the SharePoint strategy - give it away for free, but if you want to use it for reals, it'll cost you for the Enterprise licensing, then the SQL Server and OS licenses (because you ain't gonna run this shiz on a Linux box with Postgres, that's why!). Eventually only HR bothers using it, but since they're entrenched in any given corporation, you're stuck with the cost (and an FTE SharePoint developer) forever...
This is more like when MickeyD's stopped using styrofoam containers for their burgers and instead went with paper containers... still the same crap inside, just a different package on the outside.
I think he meant kidnapping (see also the practice of 'extraditing' former Third Reich fugitives to Israel in the 1950's, 1960's, 1970's... not so much these days, mostly due to attrition).
Could be a new and improved use of Guantanamo Bay, truth be told.
Hell, I'm wondering what would happen if people, like, you know, backed up their shit once in awhile to an external USB drive.
Sure, you'd still have the incidences of getting bit during the backup (while the drive was plugged in), but if you use your head about it, the odds become almost astronomical in your favor.
Take away the civil rights of terrorists and criminals?
...and everyone else, given that the list they're planning to use (the "no fly" list) has no due process, no accountability, no means of exoneration if innocent, and the people on said list likely don't even know they're on it unless/until they try to board an airplane.
But, you know, they must all be criminals and terrorists.
Democrats are sitting on the floor. Republicans are sitting on their hands. That's what democracy looks like in the 21st century.
Actually, given that the vast majority of congressional activity results either in higher taxes or in a loss of individual liberty, I'm inclined to see this inaction as a good thing.
Look at it this way: You can be the world's top meteorologist, know everything there is to know about precipitation (including the 48 different words for it in some tribal language)...
...but you still have to be wise enough to come in out of the rain, no?
Some of the local pubs/resorts (In Oregon: McMenamin's) have theaters where you get to sit in nice-sized comfy seats, you can order-up food and booze before the show (and have them discreetly deliver it to you during the show), and the seats are built and arranged so that every jackass in the place can run their cell phone, but you'll never see it unless someone sitting next to you is playing with one. Oh, and I forgot to mention that you can only seat something like 50 people in the thing, max.
Given the time it takes to actually drive to a movie theater (I live way out in the sticks), This is the only type of movie theater you'll ever see me in anymore.
It goes doubly so for artists that are on indie labels (or their own labels), as well as long-forgotten one-hit-wonders that are on no RIAA catalog (anymore, anyway).
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Well, it's not like they'd lose much... how many Windows Phone users are there in the wild, anyway?
Pretty sure they stretched the definition to allow themselves a view into that conversation...
"Only *we* get to keep all that sweet, sweet, saleable data on you, dammit!"
re: muni water/sewer... agree, totally. It is a trade-off between a higher power bill to run the pump/softener/etc, but then again, many small towns (in Oregon) have a 'base rate' of $60+/mo just to have that water meter piped to their homes, no matter the usage... larger towns are usually $30-$40/mo plus a base consumption level. I'll keep the well, in spite of the maintenance (filters, periodic shocking, etc) and the weird pre-filter smell (Iron sulfide - yay!).
Sewer is okay, as long as (as you've said) you don't screw up the leach field. Costs a few hundred bucks to pump the tank once every decade or so for an empty-nest couple with periodic visitors, but otherwise I don't even notice it outside of insuring septic-safe products when shopping.
As for cell signal, it's more to do with the little valley I live in combined with a lack of towers that reach into it. I could theoretically climb one of the bigger trees (up to 100'-125' tall) and likely get the same results. :)
I see a few FB employees are on /. today with mod points... ;)
I use Exede... pricey, but pretty good. Company VPN is rock-solid, webex and VoIP works well enough, and since I do *nix, ssh sessions are almost perfectly smooth.
lets potential partners update and tweak the service to meet a community's needs.
Right, a $100K/yr sysadmin going to want to live at these places to help tweak network bandwidth? Cause with open source, you'll going to need one. Sure, there are smart kids in these rural areas, but you still need a higher education experience to work with open source.
I make well north of $100k (work-from-home), live 50 miles in the sticks outside of Portland, OR, know QoS well enough, and I wouldn't mind helping my neighbors out if it wasn't too much of a burden on time (pop. density in my 'neighborhood' is 14/mile, and I know 12 of them very well). OTOH, Facebook is a privacy-suck, so the answer would be 'no'.
Out here in the Oregon Coastal Range, we actually do have something like that: http://www.coho.net/
Pretty solid local ISP, radio-based (so line-of-sight is a must), and in spite of their no-torrent policy, pretty awesome people to work with. I'm not a customer (I live in a small valley w/ no tower in range or sight), but folks I know who are can't stop saying how good they are.
I *am* a rural Internet user. Yeah, it would be kind of nice to have a high-speed option that doesn't involve satellite lag and bandwidth caps, but damn... I'll make do with what I have if FB is the only other option. Most of us out here feel much the same: Fuck Facebook, and fuck their intrusive monetization plans. We'll do just fine without it, thanks.
Also, a thought for the city-dwellers: the lack of infrastructure such as broadband, non-well water systems, non-septic sewer, etc tends to keep people away from here. Heh - I barely get two bars of cell service on Verizon, none on any other carrier, and only get a signal on Verizon with a new (2015 or better) phone.
I kind of prefer it that way sometimes, since I moved out here to get the frig away from an increasingly overcrowded world of urban hipsters, wannabe gangsters, and McMansion-dwellers. If it means limited Internet, so be it - I'll make do, and I can do pretty well with what I do have. Netflix and Torrents are out of the question here (30 GB bandwidth cap), but that's okay with me.
If Google Fiber (or whatever) showed up tomorrow, I'd definitely look into it, but it's not really a must-have if having it means a loss of privacy.
"Go ahead - download that iffy software from some random pr0n site advert so you can see your b00bie pictures better... it'll be fine..."
Works on OSX: https://www.skype.com/en/downl...
Now how *well* it works? Well...
and then microsoft purchased it.
I think GP was comparing it to the SharePoint strategy - give it away for free, but if you want to use it for reals, it'll cost you for the Enterprise licensing, then the SQL Server and OS licenses (because you ain't gonna run this shiz on a Linux box with Postgres, that's why!). Eventually only HR bothers using it, but since they're entrenched in any given corporation, you're stuck with the cost (and an FTE SharePoint developer) forever...
So if we pay Slashdot, we get better (yet not perfectly usable) grammar?
This is more like when MickeyD's stopped using styrofoam containers for their burgers and instead went with paper containers... still the same crap inside, just a different package on the outside.
However HIPAA requires EMR, so that's not an option.
Curious as to why that can't be on its own network (or at least a network of VPNs...)
I think he meant kidnapping (see also the practice of 'extraditing' former Third Reich fugitives to Israel in the 1950's, 1960's, 1970's... not so much these days, mostly due to attrition).
Could be a new and improved use of Guantanamo Bay, truth be told.
Agreed with parent. I think I've only seen their website perhaps two times in their entire existence, and both times were accidental.
Hell, I'm wondering what would happen if people, like, you know, backed up their shit once in awhile to an external USB drive.
Sure, you'd still have the incidences of getting bit during the backup (while the drive was plugged in), but if you use your head about it, the odds become almost astronomical in your favor.
Take away the civil rights of terrorists and criminals?
...and everyone else, given that the list they're planning to use (the "no fly" list) has no due process, no accountability, no means of exoneration if innocent, and the people on said list likely don't even know they're on it unless/until they try to board an airplane.
But, you know, they must all be criminals and terrorists.
Democrats are sitting on the floor. Republicans are sitting on their hands. That's what democracy looks like in the 21st century.
Actually, given that the vast majority of congressional activity results either in higher taxes or in a loss of individual liberty, I'm inclined to see this inaction as a good thing.
Well, that's assuming that world+dog suddenly forgets how to make bluetooth-connected headphones...
Look at it this way: You can be the world's top meteorologist, know everything there is to know about precipitation (including the 48 different words for it in some tribal language)...
It's amazing what a slingshot can do to those things if you're particularly good at using one... ;)
Depends on the theater.
Some of the local pubs/resorts (In Oregon: McMenamin's) have theaters where you get to sit in nice-sized comfy seats, you can order-up food and booze before the show (and have them discreetly deliver it to you during the show), and the seats are built and arranged so that every jackass in the place can run their cell phone, but you'll never see it unless someone sitting next to you is playing with one. Oh, and I forgot to mention that you can only seat something like 50 people in the thing, max.
Given the time it takes to actually drive to a movie theater (I live way out in the sticks), This is the only type of movie theater you'll ever see me in anymore.
This - this, right here.
It goes doubly so for artists that are on indie labels (or their own labels), as well as long-forgotten one-hit-wonders that are on no RIAA catalog (anymore, anyway).