No contract cell phones (your billed like a utility, its not prepay) companies are just emerging in the USA and are relatively unheard of. I am familiar with two from my travel to South Florida and they are MetroPCS that has a flat rate of $40 dollars per month for unlimited calling and use they utilize their own network. The other one is PowerNetGlobal(they are national) and they utilize Sprint's Network and you can stop service any time you feel like and resume the service for $15 dollar reactivation. Great if you have an old sprint phone (for powernet, they even use the sprint cell phone manual in the packaging of their phones) because it uses the same network or if you only need your phone seasonally because of travel but do not like the significant overcharging for a calling area that is highly regional that prepay offers.
Google search no contract and check out which companies are local to you and show the cell phone companies you like it cheap here also!
Comprimises and negotions are open to abuse. Just look at taxes, they always start with a small contribution then over a hundred or so years, they take out a nice chunk. The way people are today, they will make it an ultimatum to utilize any law/regulation ect to their maximal benifiet, and they have the money and resources to do so. It is a multi-billion dollar industry. I say that the position shouldn't be levied at all in there direction, and if anything more leverage should be put on keeping things the way they are or even better, reducing the protection they love to abuse.
Since everybody else is posting the os's of POS systems and there backends, I can't think of a more appropriate place to post the ones I know of(which is only one for myself).
RadioShack: POS: Windows XP Embedded Backend: SCO Unix (I believe its version 5, I might be mistaken).
In fact Microsoft has posted a story on how RadioShack supposedly saved millions of dollars by using windows. I can say personally that is far from the case and Linux would of been the better choice.
That if you switch to the printer friendly version of most websites you can read the full article without switching pages or having to go through tons of advertisements.
If we insert chips under our skin, that brings us one step closer to getting our [insert body part here] chopped off, as many people are willing to point out.
Actually the observatory is the one at UCF run with conjunction of CFAS(Central Florida Astronomical Society). They go out and do dark sky viewing at a community called Harmony in their golf course. Come check it out some time. http://www.cfas.org/Observing/harmony.html
I'm a member of the astronomy club here in Orlando and Disney World about 35 miles away impedes our observations. Any astronomer will tell you that a full moon can ruin observations for the night and any billboard that's as bright as the moon and is in full brightness all the time is going to tick every astronomer off within the viewable region. I feel sorry for any country's astronomers where one of these things get put up.
If life=money could only be acceptable in a theoretical enviroment, because like communism it is suspectable to corruption. While life>money to individuals, money>life to large corporations and shall the the driving force. Not to mention that they can run the numbers to make things go against the plaintiff.
How about tracking employees with this system? Are criminals tracked with this system yet? How about people who might be criminals? Shouldn't everybody be tracked so we can be sure that your not a criminal?
He seemed thrilled in the article when he found bittorrent links with 256 bit encodings. That would mean that the average size of the file on his hardrive could have a value higher then 5MB. So he might of broke the 10TB barrier!
Your point is good and true one, but I'm not sure it is valid in the context of the story. They were not confusing Public Domain and Open Source. When they changed and removed the ascii string "ReactOS" is proof that they knew what they were doing was wrong. Sometimes coorporations are so large or disorginized that an upper management person is misinformed, but after they relieze their mistake, most(there are exceptions) will correct it by releasing source code or discontining product.
Hmm.... (Score:0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 05, @09:50AM (#10438683) If you start blaming the programmers, they will lose there self-esteem and move on to other projects. There is only a small percentage of elite programmers that have rarely if ever made a mistake past the prototype stage. This small percentage of elite are not enough to write the programs for everybody. So if we sue/harass/fire all the non-elite programmers, how are we going to make up the deficit?
I wonder what the sensitivity of these devices are. I also wonder if the people(aliens) on stars far away might of found a way to communicate more effeciently with light then with radiowaves. Wasn't there an article earlier saying we should scan the skies for lasers? I would love to see what kind of data could be collected from this device when we finaly find a way to interface with it. Also purhaps it could have other uses, since it would produce electrical currents that alternate at very high frequencies. I can't think of anything that could effeicnly transmit AC of that type of frequency, but purhaps it might be used with some other device. Its just cool to think of the things we might someday do with large arrays of light attennaes.
Oh No... 9/11 we must wage war with Iraq, Oh No theres dark matter in the universe, we must wage war with Iraq. Oh No... The pioneer spacecraft are drifting of course, we must wage war with Iraq.
I personaly would not want my cubical colors picked based on some testing. Although bieng dignosed that you are productive only when everything is colored black, with a few blue leds for illumination purposes. Could be kinda cool(I know blue LEDS are getting overused, but I like its pretty light). But immangine if you had to work in a cubicle filled with pastels or bright colors. Some people might find it a little difficult.
Maybe I'm mistaken, but aren't there fossils in tar pits? I mean if we process this stuff, could we lose valuable information about previous life forms that would not be found in the other types of oil reserves?
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No contract cell phones (your billed like a utility, its not prepay) companies are just emerging in the USA and are relatively unheard of. I am familiar with two from my travel to South Florida and they are MetroPCS that has a flat rate of $40 dollars per month for unlimited calling and use they utilize their own network. The other one is PowerNetGlobal(they are national) and they utilize Sprint's Network and you can stop service any time you feel like and resume the service for $15 dollar reactivation. Great if you have an old sprint phone (for powernet, they even use the sprint cell phone manual in the packaging of their phones) because it uses the same network or if you only need your phone seasonally because of travel but do not like the significant overcharging for a calling area that is highly regional that prepay offers.
Google search no contract and check out which companies are local to you and show the cell phone companies you like it cheap here also!
God forbid I would have to send an unregistered friend/relative to pick up my child incase of family emergency.
Comprimises and negotions are open to abuse. Just look at taxes, they always start with a small contribution then over a hundred or so years, they take out a nice chunk. The way people are today, they will make it an ultimatum to utilize any law/regulation ect to their maximal benifiet, and they have the money and resources to do so. It is a multi-billion dollar industry. I say that the position shouldn't be levied at all in there direction, and if anything more leverage should be put on keeping things the way they are or even better, reducing the protection they love to abuse.
Gigity Gigity, I'm useing petre dishes!
Since everybody else is posting the os's of POS systems and there backends, I can't think of a more appropriate place to post the ones I know of(which is only one for myself).
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RadioShack:
POS: Windows XP Embedded
Backend: SCO Unix (I believe its version 5, I might be mistaken).
In fact Microsoft has posted a story on how RadioShack supposedly saved millions of dollars by using windows. I can say personally that is far from the case and Linux would of been the better choice.
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/casestudies/Ca
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That if you switch to the printer friendly version of most websites you can read the full article without switching pages or having to go through tons of advertisements.
If we insert chips under our skin, that brings us one step closer to getting our [insert body part here] chopped off, as many people are willing to point out.
Now if only we could get that thing to be a ebook reader, that would be awesome!
Actually the observatory is the one at UCF run with conjunction of CFAS(Central Florida Astronomical Society). They go out and do dark sky viewing at a community called Harmony in their golf course. Come check it out some time.
http://www.cfas.org/Observing/harmony.html
I'm a member of the astronomy club here in Orlando and Disney World about 35 miles away impedes our observations. Any astronomer will tell you that a full moon can ruin observations for the night and any billboard that's as bright as the moon and is in full brightness all the time is going to tick every astronomer off within the viewable region. I feel sorry for any country's astronomers where one of these things get put up.
If life=money could only be acceptable in a theoretical enviroment, because like communism it is suspectable to corruption. While life>money to individuals, money>life to large corporations and shall the the driving force. Not to mention that they can run the numbers to make things go against the plaintiff.
How about tracking employees with this system? Are criminals tracked with this system yet? How about people who might be criminals? Shouldn't everybody be tracked so we can be sure that your not a criminal?
Solutions:
1. LCD Moniters
2. Marijuana
He seemed thrilled in the article when he found bittorrent links with 256 bit encodings. That would mean that the average size of the file on his hardrive could have a value higher then 5MB. So he might of broke the 10TB barrier!
Your point is good and true one, but I'm not sure it is valid in the context of the story. They were not confusing Public Domain and Open Source. When they changed and removed the ascii string "ReactOS" is proof that they knew what they were doing was wrong. Sometimes coorporations are so large or disorginized that an upper management person is misinformed, but after they relieze their mistake, most(there are exceptions) will correct it by releasing source code or discontining product.
Hmm.... (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 05, @09:50AM (#10438683)
If you start blaming the programmers, they will lose there self-esteem and move on to other projects. There is only a small percentage of elite programmers that have rarely if ever made a mistake past the prototype stage. This small percentage of elite are not enough to write the programs for everybody. So if we sue/harass/fire all the non-elite programmers, how are we going to make up the deficit?
I wonder what the sensitivity of these devices are. I also wonder if the people(aliens) on stars far away might of found a way to communicate more effeciently with light then with radiowaves. Wasn't there an article earlier saying we should scan the skies for lasers? I would love to see what kind of data could be collected from this device when we finaly find a way to interface with it. Also purhaps it could have other uses, since it would produce electrical currents that alternate at very high frequencies. I can't think of anything that could effeicnly transmit AC of that type of frequency, but purhaps it might be used with some other device. Its just cool to think of the things we might someday do with large arrays of light attennaes.
Oh No... 9/11 we must wage war with Iraq, Oh No theres dark matter in the universe, we must wage war with Iraq. Oh No... The pioneer spacecraft are drifting of course, we must wage war with Iraq.
The logic of blame...
I personaly would not want my cubical colors picked based on some testing. Although bieng dignosed that you are productive only when everything is colored black, with a few blue leds for illumination purposes. Could be kinda cool(I know blue LEDS are getting overused, but I like its pretty light). But immangine if you had to work in a cubicle filled with pastels or bright colors. Some people might find it a little difficult.
Styrofoam seems to last several million years. Perhaps an alien had a coffee break and left one behind with a message of hope and peace....
So thats how Dr. Doolittle communicated with the rodents.(Ultrasound message follows).
Allright! Concentrate the power so there is only one person to bribe!
Maybe I'm mistaken, but aren't there fossils in tar pits? I mean if we process this stuff, could we lose valuable information about previous life forms that would not be found in the other types of oil reserves?
Sheep trim grass. Goats eat grass roots,(aka the expanding deserts in Africa due to goat herding)!
Full body Aluminum foil get-ups just got more popular.