... what stops a carrier from denying broadband service to an end-user who has cut the cord and uses only a wireless phone? What prevents a carrier from refusing to provide DSL service to a savvy consumer who wants stand-alone broadband only for VoIP?
Nothing.
Why would you think that the FCC cares about the public interest anymore? That line of thought is so old school. Especially when there are corporate interests to protect. And I wouldn't expect the House or Senate leadership to help you out much here - last I heard Billy Tauzin's still cutting deals as a lobbyist for telecom interests on the side (when he's not carrying the bag for pharma or entertainment industries).
Nobody "slashed" the NSF budget, they just didn't increase it as much as you wanted. There is a major difference, and the way that you say it makes a large difference on the perception.
There are two usual cases where the word "slash" is used in budgetary issues.
The first is where one arm of our government proposes a certain level of funding for an activity and another one disagrees. The final outcome is that the funding eventually provided is less than what would have been had the disagreeing party not have disagreed. The later has effectively slashed the funding proposed by the first.
The second case is where the funding is increased at a level not keeping up with inflation. This means that programs that were in progress now need to be cut and the programs have been slashed.
In either case, the flexibility of the English language seems to allow the usage of the term (and, in fact, use of this phrase may be more accurate in terms of implied consequences than any alternative). Your desire to not use this phrase seems to be based in as much political motivation as those who want to use it.
...when all your best talent gets fed up with their 2% raises and quits.
Raises! You got raises?
In my day we felt lucky if we got to keep our jobs. Back then, if you got the job done on time, you were lucky if they didn't just cut off your coffee breaks and up you to twenty hour days. And if you didn't get the job done on time? Well, fourty-six hour days were comoon, if they didn't just kill you.
Pardon me for not knowing, but TSA is mentioned many times in the article write-up and isn't once explained.
I hereby declare sighting of a new Slashdot species, having witnessed it at least five times in the wild:
Acronym Nazi - An individual who engages in Karma Whoring by pointing out in a nauseatingly supercillious or irritating manner that a well-known acronymn (e.g, FAA, NASA, TSA, OSHA, etc.) has not been explained in the article when a simple Google search would suffice to find the answer to his or her lack of generally-known knowledge. It is currently unknown as to how these individuals' posts become modded up, but it is speculated that some form of Karmic Leakage is in play because a post bitching about not being spoon fed acronym meanings would not normally be seen as either insightful, interesting, or (in any way) funny.
... I thought, "What the hell's so hard about becoming a Canadian?" And then I thought, "What the hell's so funny about making someone a Canadian?" And then I re-read the headline and my fun was over...
Companies generally don't do things just to be evil, they do things to make money.
Contract killers generally don't kill people just to be evil, they kill people to make money.
Are you really putting this forward as a valid excuse? After all, Enron was only cooking their books to make money. I could run around sticking pins in people - it's minor enough harm that no one would probably call the cops, but I really shouldn't be doing it in the first place. Harm is harm - even if it is minor or indirect enough that it cannot be made illegal (which is possibly the case here), needless harm should not be sanctioned.
... just because you're smart doesn't mean you have common sense. Or taste, for that matter. I mean, come on... Would you normally hang around with some fat guy in a butterfly suit?
Here's why they are probably wrong... One of more intelligent insights into Google, and it's pleasantly devoid of theories of Google taking over the world.
If they really wanted to take over the world, they'd be smart enough to hide it from you.
In fact, they're so smart, they'd know you'd be thinking they'd hide it from you so they'd come out and say they were going to take over the world so you'd think they weren't really going to.
Actually, they're so very, very smart, they'd know you were thinking that they'd know you'd be thinking they'd hide it from you so they'd come out and say they were going to take over the world so you'd think they weren't really going to, but they wouldn't tell you so you knew that they'd be...
Oh, hell, I'm confused. Is Google planning on taking over the world or not this week? Who has the memo?
Which is why all of their Linux-using customers need to call up their sales reps and ask them about their commitment to Linux, pointing out that they are members of this "Agile Alliance". If enough sales folk get hammered, this nonsense will stop (or at least the only two remaining members will be EDS and Microsoft).
... Agility Alliance, which includes IT heavyweights EDS, Oracle, Cisco, Microsoft, Sun, Dell and EMC.
Agile for dinosaurs, I guess.
EDS, Oracle, Cisco, Microsoft, and EMC are not names I associate with agility. It would be like IBM, Exxon-Mobile, GE, and Wal-Mart getting together and calling themselves the "Lightweight League of Business".
... next time you design a website, try to come up with the haute couture to go with it...
Given the tonsorial splendour of most geeks, I would sincerely request that you not try to do this - the world has enough dirty jeans and tee shirts as it is. Comic Book Guy leaps immediately into my mind here.
A music acquaintance of mine was asking about the meaning of the notational ten. used in a piece of music. Looking in dictionary.com, I found the musical definition easily as an abbreviation of the term tenuto: So as to be held for the full time value; sustained. Used chiefly as a directionI also found about twenty other definitions.
I looked in answers.com under ten and found a lot of stuff about ten but only about six definitions - most of them widely known already and dealing with ten as a number.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I use a dictionary as that - a dictionary - a place to get definitions and usage for words, and the more (and the more unusual) definitions, the better.
In my opinion, the information from answers.com has more vebose information with respect to basic definitions, translations, etc., as well as a lot of eye candy, but has much less depth lexicographically. It doesn't seem as useful qua dictionary as dictionary.com was.
The state transitions, transition functions and accepting states should be stored in tables (2-dimensional arrays) and the entire state machine is then coded in about a dozen lines...
Or, you can write it in a language having a decent macroing system like Lisp and have a fast-running state machine generated for you, obviating the need for the programmer to manually map state numbers to action routines, etc. (and in good Lisp environments, you can even deliver the state machine code with debugger hooks that let you debug at the state machine level, never seeing the underlying code - of course, with the option of drilling down if you need to see the code at that level).
Yes, the cappuccino is small, but its design is bulky and clumsy compared to the Mini. As Apple has consistently proved, its not all about size and speed. Design, user experience and beauty are important, too.
The poster is dead on. And I speak as a person who uses a Cappuccino as his main desktop machine at home (I also have a couple of tower cases under my desk, but that's another story).
In general, the Mini really is a revolutionary design. I am going to get one to hook to my KVM soon. I'll still have the Capp running Linux (BTW, does anyone know why it seems to overheat when I run Windows, but seems to run Linux forever and a day without crashing?), but I think that the Mac will probably become my main desktop machine (and, it will give me a chance to try out Digitool's MCL).
I've always believed within my lifetime, chess would be solved.
For all practical purposes, it already has. Opening books are dozens of moves deep and many endgames have been completely solved and loaded into databases. I doubt that more than a couple dozen of the best Grandmasters could beat the best computer program out there - Kasparov had a heck of a time with Deep Blue.
The days when an average person could walk up to a chess program and beat it are long in the past. For me, that's close enough to call solved. Solution: the computer wins.
Seems they also missed the most obvious color as well, white.
Not really. It's a lot harder to match resin batches for coloration than to make a generic clear and;or metalic that doesn't need an exact match. That's probably why they don't offer one. Most Mac fanatics wouldn't be satisfied with anything less than stylistic perfection, leading to huge numbers of returns because the stand was a half-shade more yellow than the particular machine.
The other BG news out of Davos is that he's short the dollar. He thinks that the trade imbalance is getting too big to sustain with the current (already low) dollar valuation. Of course, you cannot graphologically analyze his spoken words, so it must not be important.
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Nothing.
Why would you think that the FCC cares about the public interest anymore? That line of thought is so old school. Especially when there are corporate interests to protect. And I wouldn't expect the House or Senate leadership to help you out much here - last I heard Billy Tauzin's still cutting deals as a lobbyist for telecom interests on the side (when he's not carrying the bag for pharma or entertainment industries).
There are two usual cases where the word "slash" is used in budgetary issues.
The first is where one arm of our government proposes a certain level of funding for an activity and another one disagrees. The final outcome is that the funding eventually provided is less than what would have been had the disagreeing party not have disagreed. The later has effectively slashed the funding proposed by the first.
The second case is where the funding is increased at a level not keeping up with inflation. This means that programs that were in progress now need to be cut and the programs have been slashed.
In either case, the flexibility of the English language seems to allow the usage of the term (and, in fact, use of this phrase may be more accurate in terms of implied consequences than any alternative). Your desire to not use this phrase seems to be based in as much political motivation as those who want to use it.
Raises! You got raises?
In my day we felt lucky if we got to keep our jobs. Back then, if you got the job done on time, you were lucky if they didn't just cut off your coffee breaks and up you to twenty hour days. And if you didn't get the job done on time? Well, fourty-six hour days were comoon, if they didn't just kill you.
Kids these days have it way too good...
... Netcraft has declared it dead?
OK. It's stupid.
There. Do I win?
I hereby declare sighting of a new Slashdot species, having witnessed it at least five times in the wild:
Acronym Nazi - An individual who engages in Karma Whoring by pointing out in a nauseatingly supercillious or irritating manner that a well-known acronymn (e.g, FAA, NASA, TSA, OSHA, etc.) has not been explained in the article when a simple Google search would suffice to find the answer to his or her lack of generally-known knowledge. It is currently unknown as to how these individuals' posts become modded up, but it is speculated that some form of Karmic Leakage is in play because a post bitching about not being spoon fed acronym meanings would not normally be seen as either insightful, interesting, or (in any way) funny.
... I thought, "What the hell's so hard about becoming a Canadian?" And then I thought, "What the hell's so funny about making someone a Canadian?" And then I re-read the headline and my fun was over...
Like this?
Contract killers generally don't kill people just to be evil, they kill people to make money.
Are you really putting this forward as a valid excuse? After all, Enron was only cooking their books to make money. I could run around sticking pins in people - it's minor enough harm that no one would probably call the cops, but I really shouldn't be doing it in the first place. Harm is harm - even if it is minor or indirect enough that it cannot be made illegal (which is possibly the case here), needless harm should not be sanctioned.
... when they glue it into my cold, dead hands.
... just because you're smart doesn't mean you have common sense. Or taste, for that matter. I mean, come on... Would you normally hang around with some fat guy in a butterfly suit?
If they really wanted to take over the world, they'd be smart enough to hide it from you.
In fact, they're so smart, they'd know you'd be thinking they'd hide it from you so they'd come out and say they were going to take over the world so you'd think they weren't really going to.
Actually, they're so very, very smart, they'd know you were thinking that they'd know you'd be thinking they'd hide it from you so they'd come out and say they were going to take over the world so you'd think they weren't really going to, but they wouldn't tell you so you knew that they'd be...
Oh, hell, I'm confused. Is Google planning on taking over the world or not this week? Who has the memo?
Damn Slashcode and its inability to edit or augment comments!
Which is why all of their Linux-using customers need to call up their sales reps and ask them about their commitment to Linux, pointing out that they are members of this "Agile Alliance". If enough sales folk get hammered, this nonsense will stop (or at least the only two remaining members will be EDS and Microsoft).
Agile for dinosaurs, I guess.
EDS, Oracle, Cisco, Microsoft, and EMC are not names I associate with agility. It would be like IBM, Exxon-Mobile, GE, and Wal-Mart getting together and calling themselves the "Lightweight League of Business".
Given the tonsorial splendour of most geeks, I would sincerely request that you not try to do this - the world has enough dirty jeans and tee shirts as it is. Comic Book Guy leaps immediately into my mind here.
I looked in answers.com under ten and found a lot of stuff about ten but only about six definitions - most of them widely known already and dealing with ten as a number.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I use a dictionary as that - a dictionary - a place to get definitions and usage for words, and the more (and the more unusual) definitions, the better.
In my opinion, the information from answers.com has more vebose information with respect to basic definitions, translations, etc., as well as a lot of eye candy, but has much less depth lexicographically. It doesn't seem as useful qua dictionary as dictionary.com was.
You don't learn Perl - it gets absorbed through the blood-brain barrier. Leads to nasty flashbacks, too...
Or, you can write it in a language having a decent macroing system like Lisp and have a fast-running state machine generated for you, obviating the need for the programmer to manually map state numbers to action routines, etc. (and in good Lisp environments, you can even deliver the state machine code with debugger hooks that let you debug at the state machine level, never seeing the underlying code - of course, with the option of drilling down if you need to see the code at that level).
...an MS in Dumpster Diving followed with a PhD in Urban Camping Technologies.
The poster is dead on. And I speak as a person who uses a Cappuccino as his main desktop machine at home (I also have a couple of tower cases under my desk, but that's another story).
In general, the Mini really is a revolutionary design. I am going to get one to hook to my KVM soon. I'll still have the Capp running Linux (BTW, does anyone know why it seems to overheat when I run Windows, but seems to run Linux forever and a day without crashing?), but I think that the Mac will probably become my main desktop machine (and, it will give me a chance to try out Digitool's MCL).
Because eventually, you need to stop adding features and ship.
For all practical purposes, it already has. Opening books are dozens of moves deep and many endgames have been completely solved and loaded into databases. I doubt that more than a couple dozen of the best Grandmasters could beat the best computer program out there - Kasparov had a heck of a time with Deep Blue.
The days when an average person could walk up to a chess program and beat it are long in the past. For me, that's close enough to call solved. Solution: the computer wins.
Not really. It's a lot harder to match resin batches for coloration than to make a generic clear and;or metalic that doesn't need an exact match. That's probably why they don't offer one. Most Mac fanatics wouldn't be satisfied with anything less than stylistic perfection, leading to huge numbers of returns because the stand was a half-shade more yellow than the particular machine.
The other BG news out of Davos is that he's short the dollar. He thinks that the trade imbalance is getting too big to sustain with the current (already low) dollar valuation. Of course, you cannot graphologically analyze his spoken words, so it must not be important.