I'm trying to illustrate the fact that the parent poster *would* give a shit if slashdot went under. That is why he is a subscriber. OTOH, I am not a subscriber because I, like most other people on the internet, would not give a shit if slashdot (or most any other site) went under.
i.e. - I give a shit = I care or - I don't give a shit = I don't care
Sorry if my original message got lost in the translation.
As a/. subscriber I guess I'm proof positive they will pay.
But you are the wrong demographic. Most people could give a shit if they lost a site because it couldn't pay the bills (for slashdot, that would be me).
IMHO, people will never pay for content unless a system of micropayment is developed and *bundled* with their PC. For example, lets say that Microsoft packaged $10 of micropayment into their next OS... Users would have already paid for it so there would be no reason not to use it. So they would.
And then they would see the content that would be available in a pay-for world. If good enough, then I'm sure that there would be renewal. But you'd have to make that process easy, as well.
What happens when someone creates a SIP client for my PCS-Vision-has-its-own-IP-address phone? What happens when someone creates a SIP bridge for my POTS system at home?
The governments are screaming about the lost tax revenue already...
The door couldn't close completely due to the cat-5 cable, and there was about 6" of "bite marks" along the cable where it had been pinched between the door and the frame.
It doesn't even have to be that obvious.
A large building will "move" based on wind input. It need not be a high-rise skyscraper - just a steel structure with enough surface area to catch a significant amount of wind energy (buildings by a freeway or major road will also be susceptible to movement due to the subsequent shaking of the earth).
The cabling subsystems in the building will eventually tear/fray/rip themselves if the installer is not careful. If you've ever had a network drop lose continuity for not reason, this is likely the cause.
Perhaps what AMD wants is not their CPU, but the stuff that they've integrated in with it to create a single-chip PC.
Well... that is the only logical conclusion. ARM has taken the portable world because X86 compatibility isn't important there. It will be some time before AMD can afford to put an entire Athlon system on a chip but it will eventually happen. Now they just need to buy a graphics chip designer like AMD or nVidia.
Can you imagine the bandwidth between CPU and video? A 2048-bit bus between video and CPU wouldn't be a problem if you put it all on the same chip, not to mention the reduction in latentcy with the memory interface.
Maybe the nVidia/AMD relationship ala NForce is a sign of what is to come?
So... if you have fibers and they are made out of optical, then you can't bend them. It doesn't say anything about fiber optics so I assume that it is safe to bend it.
If users will install random spyware and games on work machines, why wouldn't they do the same for an entire operating system?
Ummm... because they can't "click" to install Linux. Sure, some of the bootable installers are pretty easy and click-able but it generally requires removing the Windows partition.
Users are dumb.
Create a Windows-installable Linux distro that will coexist/dual-boot on NTFS and you will have tens of MILLIONS of Linux installations. Hell... if you could make it install itself with a pop-up active-x applet, you could pull a Gator and install it without most users even knowing.
Here's one for the FOX Network's regional VPs contact information. Email addresses... phone numbers... etc... (its white on white so you have to do a select all in order to view the stuff)
What are you talking about? Beside the hard drive and PCMCIA, there is no standard.
On that note, if a desktop LCD vendor were to buddy up with another LCD vendor and create a chassis and power spec for laptops, then we'd be talking. You can get a 15" LCD for dirt cheap these days. Throw it in an open standard chassis and plug in some power/battery and you've got a dirt cheap laptop. If you spill your beer on it, you can go out and buy a $10 keyboard and $100 mobo instead of getting sucked dry by the vendor.
As a side note, if you break an LCD, the manufacturer will generally want to charge like 5x the normal desktop equivalent value to replace it. You will generally find that, if you are handy with a screwdriver, you can open up the housing and get the make/model info from the panel and replace it for a fraction of the cost. For example, you can buy a 15" IBM LCD monitor for a desktop and then pull the panel out and stick in in a laptop. You'll save about $600 in the process.
In terms of cell phones... some standards would be nice but we'll never see anything beneficial to the end-user without gov't intervention.
do you want to remember my password (uses cookies) (x) yes ( )no
Hardly... Have you *ever* tried to disable cookies altogether? It is difficult to get things done. Most websites will simply refuse navigation without cookies. Microsoft's idea of a "session cookie" that disappears after you leave the site was a good idea but their implentation does not work (it is the same as turning cookies off).
While this isn't a problem for advanced users, I do build and deploy a number of PCs for friends and family. IE is a requirement because many sites are not up to speed on Mozilla yet.
I can see the day when companies like McDonald's or Taco Bell start their own music labels. Walk in and get the latest and greatest boy band hit with a value meal prior to the "official release". Perhaps this is why McDonald's is pioneering wireless at their restaraunts?
For all of the IT jobs that can be moved easily (read programming) it has come down to the lowest common denominator for most low quality projects.
The lowest common denominator applies to other fields as well. Take Dell's foray into technical support - they are ramping some of their call volume into the Phillipines (I believe) and the quality is horse shit. I spent over an hour on the phone trying to get a freaking standard service call in that would have taken IBM or Compaq less than 5 minutes.
After I brought this to management's attention, we've subsequently dumped Dell for another vendor. Hopefully, *someone* will keep smart people on the other end of the horn and end up with good business.
If you don't believe me, call 800-822-8965 option 3 and you'll get a foreign guy trained to speak with a western accent. They all sound nearly the same (with the same static-laden, high-compression VoIP connection noise in the background)...
Projects like OpenOffice, Gimp and Mozilla keep making Linux more and more competitive with Windows on the desktop.
They also make the rest of the Unices more competitive with Windows.
"Linux" != Desktop
X/KDE/Gnome/etc fit that bill. Until someone puts together a collaborative OS that includes *one* desktop, then there will be a competitor for Windows.
Oh, wait... Apple already did that. Now, if they'd release it for commodity hardware, then we'd have something. Until then, I'm waiting for some other deep-pocket giant to put something together.
Slashdot Mirror
These quakes are like, sooooo psychadelic, man
Yeah... but after dropping all that acid, I find myself anticipating earthquakes like, ALL THE TIME, man...
It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't live in Michigan.
I wonder if they really are suckers.
No... they are Microsoft.
Why not simply anonimize the data but leave the potential for anyone and everyone to verify the results?
Use:
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I'm trying to illustrate the fact that the parent poster *would* give a shit if slashdot went under. That is why he is a subscriber. OTOH, I am not a subscriber because I, like most other people on the internet, would not give a shit if slashdot (or most any other site) went under.
i.e. - I give a shit = I care
or - I don't give a shit = I don't care
Sorry if my original message got lost in the translation.
As a /. subscriber I guess I'm proof positive they will pay.
But you are the wrong demographic. Most people could give a shit if they lost a site because it couldn't pay the bills (for slashdot, that would be me).
IMHO, people will never pay for content unless a system of micropayment is developed and *bundled* with their PC. For example, lets say that Microsoft packaged $10 of micropayment into their next OS... Users would have already paid for it so there would be no reason not to use it. So they would.
And then they would see the content that would be available in a pay-for world. If good enough, then I'm sure that there would be renewal. But you'd have to make that process easy, as well.
...then it's doomed already.
But it is based on a standard protocol.
What happens when someone creates a SIP client for my PCS-Vision-has-its-own-IP-address phone? What happens when someone creates a SIP bridge for my POTS system at home?
The governments are screaming about the lost tax revenue already...
The door couldn't close completely due to the cat-5 cable, and there was about 6" of "bite marks" along the cable where it had been pinched between the door and the frame.
It doesn't even have to be that obvious.
A large building will "move" based on wind input. It need not be a high-rise skyscraper - just a steel structure with enough surface area to catch a significant amount of wind energy (buildings by a freeway or major road will also be susceptible to movement due to the subsequent shaking of the earth).
The cabling subsystems in the building will eventually tear/fray/rip themselves if the installer is not careful. If you've ever had a network drop lose continuity for not reason, this is likely the cause.
Perhaps what AMD wants is not their CPU, but the stuff that they've integrated in with it to create a single-chip PC.
Well... that is the only logical conclusion. ARM has taken the portable world because X86 compatibility isn't important there. It will be some time before AMD can afford to put an entire Athlon system on a chip but it will eventually happen. Now they just need to buy a graphics chip designer like AMD or nVidia.
Can you imagine the bandwidth between CPU and video? A 2048-bit bus between video and CPU wouldn't be a problem if you put it all on the same chip, not to mention the reduction in latentcy with the memory interface.
Maybe the nVidia/AMD relationship ala NForce is a sign of what is to come?
minimum bend radius for fiber is nothing that hasn't been obvious to anyone working with the stuff
I've been supplementing my diet with fiber every day now and it has certainly increased the minimum bend radius in my sigmoid colon!
Don't bend your fiber.
Actually, if you read closer, you'll find:
catastrophic for optical fibers
So... if you have fibers and they are made out of optical, then you can't bend them. It doesn't say anything about fiber optics so I assume that it is safe to bend it.
Seriously.
How irresponsible is it for slashdot editors to post a link to a live VNC demo?
Its function is to slow you down so that you don't jam the typewriter.
That is a myth.
If users will install random spyware and games on work machines, why wouldn't they do the same for an entire operating system?
Ummm... because they can't "click" to install Linux. Sure, some of the bootable installers are pretty easy and click-able but it generally requires removing the Windows partition.
Users are dumb.
Create a Windows-installable Linux distro that will coexist/dual-boot on NTFS and you will have tens of MILLIONS of Linux installations. Hell... if you could make it install itself with a pop-up active-x applet, you could pull a Gator and install it without most users even knowing.
Now *that* would be cool...
Here's one for the FOX Network's regional VPs contact information. Email addresses... phone numbers... etc... (its white on white so you have to do a select all in order to view the stuff)
This has worked so well with laptops
What are you talking about? Beside the hard drive and PCMCIA, there is no standard.
On that note, if a desktop LCD vendor were to buddy up with another LCD vendor and create a chassis and power spec for laptops, then we'd be talking. You can get a 15" LCD for dirt cheap these days. Throw it in an open standard chassis and plug in some power/battery and you've got a dirt cheap laptop. If you spill your beer on it, you can go out and buy a $10 keyboard and $100 mobo instead of getting sucked dry by the vendor.
As a side note, if you break an LCD, the manufacturer will generally want to charge like 5x the normal desktop equivalent value to replace it. You will generally find that, if you are handy with a screwdriver, you can open up the housing and get the make/model info from the panel and replace it for a fraction of the cost. For example, you can buy a 15" IBM LCD monitor for a desktop and then pull the panel out and stick in in a laptop. You'll save about $600 in the process.
In terms of cell phones... some standards would be nice but we'll never see anything beneficial to the end-user without gov't intervention.
Toshiba Magnia SG20
Certainly, rolling your own is a learning experience but this is hard to beat. Where to you get a switch to put in a roll-your-own box?
mostly not a problem:
do you want to remember my password (uses cookies) (x) yes ( )no
Hardly... Have you *ever* tried to disable cookies altogether? It is difficult to get things done. Most websites will simply refuse navigation without cookies. Microsoft's idea of a "session cookie" that disappears after you leave the site was a good idea but their implentation does not work (it is the same as turning cookies off).
While this isn't a problem for advanced users, I do build and deploy a number of PCs for friends and family. IE is a requirement because many sites are not up to speed on Mozilla yet.
Argh...
Don't worry...
The mirror was down before the regular site!
I can see the day when companies like McDonald's or Taco Bell start their own music labels. Walk in and get the latest and greatest boy band hit with a value meal prior to the "official release". Perhaps this is why McDonald's is pioneering wireless at their restaraunts?
The litigation is over for now
It shouldn't be. The DOJ should be all over a "deal" between the world's biggest monopoly and the world's biggest ISP.
But democracy and capitalism cannot coexist so nobody ever raised an eyebrow.
For all of the IT jobs that can be moved easily (read programming) it has come down to the lowest common denominator for most low quality projects.
The lowest common denominator applies to other fields as well. Take Dell's foray into technical support - they are ramping some of their call volume into the Phillipines (I believe) and the quality is horse shit. I spent over an hour on the phone trying to get a freaking standard service call in that would have taken IBM or Compaq less than 5 minutes.
After I brought this to management's attention, we've subsequently dumped Dell for another vendor. Hopefully, *someone* will keep smart people on the other end of the horn and end up with good business.
If you don't believe me, call 800-822-8965 option 3 and you'll get a foreign guy trained to speak with a western accent. They all sound nearly the same (with the same static-laden, high-compression VoIP connection noise in the background)...
Projects like OpenOffice, Gimp and Mozilla keep making Linux more and more competitive with Windows on the desktop.
They also make the rest of the Unices more competitive with Windows.
"Linux" != Desktop
X/KDE/Gnome/etc fit that bill. Until someone puts together a collaborative OS that includes *one* desktop, then there will be a competitor for Windows.
Oh, wait... Apple already did that. Now, if they'd release it for commodity hardware, then we'd have something. Until then, I'm waiting for some other deep-pocket giant to put something together.
The article doesn't say anyone was electrocuted. It was a "small electric shock".
The phone ring voltage is 70 - 90 VAC. I found this out when I decided that the phone wire looked puny enough to strip with my teeth.
As you wish...