Newegg has the 280 in stock now for the staggering price of 650-700 depending on the model... the 9800/9800+ will represent an amazing value in light of this.
I'm sorry, but I'm afraid your trolling simply doesn't measure up to the high standards we have here at slashdot. You see, unlike at digg or fark, we here at slashdot have a rich tradition of truly great trolling, and because of this we attract only the best and brightest of the trolling community. Our trolls gone on to lead very rich and lucrative careers in exciting and rewarding fields such as shills for Microsoft and Comcast management. Who do you think came up with the "Vista Capable" program? That's right, a former slashdot troll!
So please, in the future put more care and thought into your trolling. Remember that you are walking the path blazed by such luminaries as the GNAA and that you stand beside such greats as the shit eater troll and the ASCII goatse guy. So in the future try to remember the greats that came before you along with your trolling peers and live up to their high standards. Thank you for your time and may you have a successful career trolling here at slashdot!
This strong sort of reaction should be saved for something important. Drug testing at LANL is not unreasonable. Every job I have considered over the last 15 years has required random drug testing.
Citigroup is rolling out a network of biometric automatic cash machines aimed at illiterate Indian slum dwellers, using the latest technology to woo the country's millions of "unbanked" poor.
The machines will recognise account holders' thumbprints, eliminating the need for a personal identification number, and will have colour-coded screen instructions and voiceovers to help guide them through transactions.
Citigroup has already installed two biometric automatic teller machines, one near a slum district in Bandra, a neighbourhood of Mumbai, India's financial capital, and the other in Hyderabad, south-east India.
It says it aims to expand the network to 25-35 machines within 18 months with a target customer base of about 50,000.
"This is the first time we have used biometric technology for this segment of customers," said PS Jayakumar, a Citigroup business manager in India. "We see this as having the potential for global application in countries that are similar to India."
The venture by the world's largest financial group comes as banks start to appreciate the enormous market potential of India's lower income groups and also begin to target the poor in big emerging market countries such as Brazil and Indonesia.
Though India's population exceeds 1bn, Citigroup estimates that there are only about 300m bank accounts in the country. However, loan repayment rates among the poorest borrowers in micro-finance schemes are about 98 per cent - among the highest in the banking sector.
ICICI, India's largest private sector bank, is leading the push towards banking the country's poor with a rural banking scheme using biometric cards and portable devices to allow illiterate farmers to perform transactions in remote areas.
Until now, most micro-finance initiatives aimed at the lower income groups had emphasised lending, rather than savings accounts, leading low-income earners to keep most of their money under their beds.
Ventures catering for India's poorest are likely to remain marginal earners for the banks for many years.
Mr Jayakumar said Citigroup's scheme aimed to make a profit but he gave no timeframe. "It's not a philanthropic exercise," he said. "For it to be sustainable, we should break even and make a little bit of money."
Krishnan Sitaraman, head of financial sector ratings at Crisil, the domestic credit agency, said Citigroup's biometric ATM network would not be easy to replicate beyond India's urban areas because of the lack of electricity and other facilities in rural areas.
This is actually a very well known theory of copyright. An example: One cannot copyright factual data, but if one takes the factual data and arranges them in a novel enough way as to satisfy the "originality" requirement of copyright law, then that "author" can have a copyright over the selection and arrangement of the factual data. The data itself is not protected(anyone can put the same data in his own work), but that particular selection and way of arranging it is protected.
The copyright will normally be a "thin" copyright, meaning that for someone to be infringing he or she must have produced something nearly identical to whatever is protected. The data does not have to be factual data. A compilation of classical music now in the public domain is an example of something that might also be protected. This avenue is often used to try to protect computer databases where one entity has gone through a lot of trouble to collect a bunch of data and arrange it in a computer database, and someone else comes along and just copies it all.
Courts have held that things like the white pages (and in many cases the yellow pages) do not have sufficient originality to qualify for a compilation copyright.
In my opinion compilation and similar "data arrangement" copyrights are not a very good way to protect data (one reason is that you're attempting to protect "sweat of the brow" work through copyright, which is an idea that was rejected long ago).I feel that works of this type are better protected through tort law under the "unfair business practices" doctrine.
I always did wonder how, in the U.S., blind people dealt with money. I ended up meeting a friend of my father's who was blind, so I asked him. He told me that he has someone (someone who can see, obviously) fold his money a certain way -- singles get folded in half, 5's got folded into an L-shape, 10's got folded another way and so on so that he always knew what denomination of money he was taking out of his wallet.
I know I've been gone for awhile and I know this chap's nae is BadAnalogyGuy, but a score of 2 for questioning the pluralization of "anus", assuming that aliens sodomize humans, and being a general dumbass? What has Slashdot become?
I work in IT every day, and I'm really getting a hoot out of all these posts. You slashdotters think you are experts on everything, but trust me, you're not. You don't have the faintest clue what you are talking about. So next time, think before you post, because some people will believe anything they hear...
I'm not an activist, and I'm not a cynic. I'm just a person who wants to build a society in which people have a sense of permanence and stability, not chaos and uncertainty. With this letter, I hope to disabuse ScuttleMonkey of the notion that honor counts for nothing. But first, I would like to make the following introductory remark: If you've read this far, then you probably either agree with me or are on the way to agreeing with me. A study of loathsome twits indicates broad political and ideological agreement on the use of force combined with a set of simple tactics to achieve their immediate goal: to curry favor with impertinent ogres using a barrage of flattery, especially recognition of their "value", their "importance", their "educational mission", and other diabolic nonsense.
It seems that no one else is telling you that I know some pertinacious schizophrenics who think they once overheard ScuttleMonkey say, "I want to paralyze any serious or firm decision and thereby become responsible for the weak and half-hearted execution of even the most necessary measures in a lustrum or two". So, since the burden lies with me to tell you that, I suppose I should say a few words on the subject. To begin with, I can't possibly believe ScuttleMonkey's claim that the few of us who complain regularly about his policies are simply spoiling the party. If someone can convince me otherwise, I'll eat my hat. Heck, I'll eat a whole closetful of hats. That's a pretty safe bet because if natural selection indeed works by removing the weakest and most genetically unfit members of a species, then ScuttleMonkey is clearly going to be the first to go. I can unmistakably suggest how ScuttleMonkey ought to behave. Ultimately, however, the burden of acting with moral rectitude lies with ScuttleMonkey himself.
ScuttleMonkey seizes every opportunity to incite young people to copulate early, often, and indiscriminately. I cannot believe this colossal clownishness. Any sane person knows that ScuttleMonkey's intent is to prevent us from asking questions. He doesn't want the details checked. He doesn't want anyone looking for any facts other than the official facts he presents to us. I wonder if this is because most of his "facts" are false. If he can one day disguise the complexity of color, the brutality of class, and the importance of religion and sexual identity in the construction and practice of propagandism, then the long descent into night is sure to follow. And that's it. ScuttleMonkey's ethics are obstreperous in their impact, soulless in their aspirations, unconscionable in their political deviousness, and delirious in their flagitious philosophies.
Oil prices hit $71/barrel because of Nigerian supply disruptions. If only there were some way to ASSIST IN EXPORTATION OF GOODS PRESENTLY TRAPPED IN NIGERIA!
I don't work in IT. I work for a public utility. We have our 'computer guy' who rigs up the internet, updates software, and other stupid shit. He sucks at his job and coworkers are always whispering at me to 'come fix what fred did'.
Slashdot Mirror
Newegg has the 280 in stock now for the staggering price of 650-700 depending on the model... the 9800/9800+ will represent an amazing value in light of this.
I'm sorry, but I'm afraid your trolling simply doesn't measure up to the high standards we have here at slashdot. You see, unlike at digg or fark, we here at slashdot have a rich tradition of truly great trolling, and because of this we attract only the best and brightest of the trolling community. Our trolls gone on to lead very rich and lucrative careers in exciting and rewarding fields such as shills for Microsoft and Comcast management. Who do you think came up with the "Vista Capable" program? That's right, a former slashdot troll!
So please, in the future put more care and thought into your trolling. Remember that you are walking the path blazed by such luminaries as the GNAA and that you stand beside such greats as the shit eater troll and the ASCII goatse guy. So in the future try to remember the greats that came before you along with your trolling peers and live up to their high standards. Thank you for your time and may you have a successful career trolling here at slashdot!
YOU are a JAGOFF. MAnY PENISBIRDS in your SOUP, FRiEND! LoL!!
Funny you say that, it almost perfectly resembles a comment posted over at the sour patch, here
This strong sort of reaction should be saved for something important. Drug testing at LANL is not unreasonable. Every job I have considered over the last 15 years has required random drug testing.
Just in case...
Citigroup is rolling out a network of biometric automatic cash machines aimed at illiterate Indian slum dwellers, using the latest technology to woo the country's millions of "unbanked" poor.
The machines will recognise account holders' thumbprints, eliminating the need for a personal identification number, and will have colour-coded screen instructions and voiceovers to help guide them through transactions.
Citigroup has already installed two biometric automatic teller machines, one near a slum district in Bandra, a neighbourhood of Mumbai, India's financial capital, and the other in Hyderabad, south-east India.
It says it aims to expand the network to 25-35 machines within 18 months with a target customer base of about 50,000.
"This is the first time we have used biometric technology for this segment of customers," said PS Jayakumar, a Citigroup business manager in India. "We see this as having the potential for global application in countries that are similar to India."
The venture by the world's largest financial group comes as banks start to appreciate the enormous market potential of India's lower income groups and also begin to target the poor in big emerging market countries such as Brazil and Indonesia.
Though India's population exceeds 1bn, Citigroup estimates that there are only about 300m bank accounts in the country. However, loan repayment rates among the poorest borrowers in micro-finance schemes are about 98 per cent - among the highest in the banking sector.
ICICI, India's largest private sector bank, is leading the push towards banking the country's poor with a rural banking scheme using biometric cards and portable devices to allow illiterate farmers to perform transactions in remote areas.
Until now, most micro-finance initiatives aimed at the lower income groups had emphasised lending, rather than savings accounts, leading low-income earners to keep most of their money under their beds.
Ventures catering for India's poorest are likely to remain marginal earners for the banks for many years.
Mr Jayakumar said Citigroup's scheme aimed to make a profit but he gave no timeframe. "It's not a philanthropic exercise," he said. "For it to be sustainable, we should break even and make a little bit of money."
Krishnan Sitaraman, head of financial sector ratings at Crisil, the domestic credit agency, said Citigroup's biometric ATM network would not be easy to replicate beyond India's urban areas because of the lack of electricity and other facilities in rural areas.
Copyright 2006 Financial Times
This is actually a very well known theory of copyright. An example: One cannot copyright factual data, but if one takes the factual data and arranges them in a novel enough way as to satisfy the "originality" requirement of copyright law, then that "author" can have a copyright over the selection and arrangement of the factual data. The data itself is not protected(anyone can put the same data in his own work), but that particular selection and way of arranging it is protected.
The copyright will normally be a "thin" copyright, meaning that for someone to be infringing he or she must have produced something nearly identical to whatever is protected. The data does not have to be factual data. A compilation of classical music now in the public domain is an example of something that might also be protected. This avenue is often used to try to protect computer databases where one entity has gone through a lot of trouble to collect a bunch of data and arrange it in a computer database, and someone else comes along and just copies it all.
Courts have held that things like the white pages (and in many cases the yellow pages) do not have sufficient originality to qualify for a compilation copyright.
In my opinion compilation and similar "data arrangement" copyrights are not a very good way to protect data (one reason is that you're attempting to protect "sweat of the brow" work through copyright, which is an idea that was rejected long ago).I feel that works of this type are better protected through tort law under the "unfair business practices" doctrine.
I always did wonder how, in the U.S., blind people dealt with money. I ended up meeting a friend of my father's who was blind, so I asked him. He told me that he has someone (someone who can see, obviously) fold his money a certain way -- singles get folded in half, 5's got folded into an L-shape, 10's got folded another way and so on so that he always knew what denomination of money he was taking out of his wallet.
I know I've been gone for awhile and I know this chap's nae is BadAnalogyGuy, but a score of 2 for questioning the pluralization of "anus", assuming that aliens sodomize humans, and being a general dumbass? What has Slashdot become?
kdawson isn't a troll, right?
ie is better bc u know it loads sights better and flash works on it. lol y would u wanna use modzilla when u cant even watch a movies? its so gay.
JIZZbombs are exploding over ISRAEL, with good reason. MY ArAbiC seed is being DISPERSED RAPIDLY and the juden sleep.
News at 11.
Just like sleeping with a dog, you will awaken with a flea, if you sleep with a nigger, you will wake up with AIDS.
That you are an AIDS infected negro. Stay away from our women.
I work in IT every day, and I'm really getting a hoot out of all these posts. You slashdotters think you are experts on everything, but trust me, you're not. You don't have the faintest clue what you are talking about. So next time, think before you post, because some people will believe anything they hear...
Smells like roses.
I'm not an activist, and I'm not a cynic. I'm just a person who wants to build a society in which people have a sense of permanence and stability, not chaos and uncertainty. With this letter, I hope to disabuse ScuttleMonkey of the notion that honor counts for nothing. But first, I would like to make the following introductory remark: If you've read this far, then you probably either agree with me or are on the way to agreeing with me. A study of loathsome twits indicates broad political and ideological agreement on the use of force combined with a set of simple tactics to achieve their immediate goal: to curry favor with impertinent ogres using a barrage of flattery, especially recognition of their "value", their "importance", their "educational mission", and other diabolic nonsense.
It seems that no one else is telling you that I know some pertinacious schizophrenics who think they once overheard ScuttleMonkey say, "I want to paralyze any serious or firm decision and thereby become responsible for the weak and half-hearted execution of even the most necessary measures in a lustrum or two". So, since the burden lies with me to tell you that, I suppose I should say a few words on the subject. To begin with, I can't possibly believe ScuttleMonkey's claim that the few of us who complain regularly about his policies are simply spoiling the party. If someone can convince me otherwise, I'll eat my hat. Heck, I'll eat a whole closetful of hats. That's a pretty safe bet because if natural selection indeed works by removing the weakest and most genetically unfit members of a species, then ScuttleMonkey is clearly going to be the first to go. I can unmistakably suggest how ScuttleMonkey ought to behave. Ultimately, however, the burden of acting with moral rectitude lies with ScuttleMonkey himself.
ScuttleMonkey seizes every opportunity to incite young people to copulate early, often, and indiscriminately. I cannot believe this colossal clownishness. Any sane person knows that ScuttleMonkey's intent is to prevent us from asking questions. He doesn't want the details checked. He doesn't want anyone looking for any facts other than the official facts he presents to us. I wonder if this is because most of his "facts" are false. If he can one day disguise the complexity of color, the brutality of class, and the importance of religion and sexual identity in the construction and practice of propagandism, then the long descent into night is sure to follow. And that's it. ScuttleMonkey's ethics are obstreperous in their impact, soulless in their aspirations, unconscionable in their political deviousness, and delirious in their flagitious philosophies.
POONTANG FOR FIRST POOSTERS! bitch whore sluts. go fiddle with your lutes.
I'm not dead you corksucking mongrels!
Oil prices hit $71/barrel because of Nigerian supply disruptions. If only there were some way to ASSIST IN EXPORTATION OF GOODS PRESENTLY TRAPPED IN NIGERIA!
I don't work in IT. I work for a public utility. We have our 'computer guy' who rigs up the internet, updates software, and other stupid shit. He sucks at his job and coworkers are always whispering at me to 'come fix what fred did'.
First post.
keep banning me for 24 hours, cowboy!
i'm downloading and uploading so many gigsof torrents that MY INTERNET is slow.
That you SMELL LIKE GARGAMEL!!!!111
also, for posts like these, dont use so many caps, it's like yelling.