yes, bill gates is giving away computers running windows w/o giving free updates for life. so he's really just making another future revenue stream, isn't he?
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exactly. what percentage of income earned do they make?
they're not there yet, but it would be nice if they get to the point where they can give back dividends. a tech company giving out dividends. that would be another way for them to stand out.
a huge amount of time that i spend on a computer the display stays static. or at least large parts of it stay static. it certainly doesn't need to refresh a huge amount of time.
saving power can be complemented by better batteries. if i double my battery life *and* cut power usage by a factor of ten, then i get a 20x boost in battery life. if what i described coupled with fuel cells would give me even more than 24 hours, hey, neat!
it's not revolutionary - there have been stories on/. about this for years. revolutionary would be making a laptop using "digital paper" or whatever they're calling it these days. and would they hurry the fsck up?
combine that with a flash disk or some other form of solid state store and a transmeta or via c3 cpu and you've removed the three biggest power draws on a laptop.
essentially, i'd like a laptop that could do 24 hours w/o ac power.
uh, i made a snarky comment to a person about defending their job. i didn't even mention bush. is bush responsible for the policy of pre-emptive invasion to protect the national interest? are american jobs in the national interest?
i don't see how stubbing your toe would be bush's fault. at least not now. after a few years of his voluntary environmental policy you might have a hard time seeing the stairs through the haze of pollution, but by then you'll probably live in a cardboard box since you won't have a job. and as we all know cardboard boxes don't have stairs.
good point. i wonder how the next osama bin laden will express his feelings about america having bases in saudi arabia, kuwait and iraq (which is also occupied by america).
considering that obl's lesser rationalisation resulted in four downed airliners, several demolished buildings (including wtc 1 & 2), severe damage to several more (including the pentagon) and the deaths of nearly 3,000 people.
look muppet, iraq didn't have anything to do with 911. get a fucking clue. when bush wins the next election - and he will - then maybe blair will catch up with the rest of europe and realise that gwb is not the only dangerous american.
this page gives a phone number to call to discuss the linux license. people should ring up 1-800 726-8649 and hear sco out. and *please* remember to write down the details on all linux systems you have. it would be terribly annoying if you forgot a detail like the version of linux or the details for another machine and had to call back.
yes, but since you can outsource i.t. and have your workers be legal and living in an area with a lower cost of living, wtf would you want to hire local illegal immigrant coders?
here in europe we have free movement of labour within the eu. i can go work in germany or france or italy or spain. if language is an issue, i can still work in the uk (i live in ireland). that's a lot closer to a free market then nafta is.
with nafta, as i understand it, goods and capital can move around among canada, the us and mexico easier then before. but labour still can't.
i'm a big fan of personal responsibilty. for instance, how do those immigrants get into california in the first place? who gives them jobs? there are two groups of people breaking the law - and as an added bonus they tend to have money - a lot more then the average illegal immigrant.
who'd be more likely to pay that hospital bill - the smuggler who gets paid by the immigrant and by the employers, the employers who pay bottom dollar for illegal labour (and no taxes on that labour), or the illegal immigrant making piss-poor wages?
send the illegal immigrant back, sure, but you're still left with a hospital bill plus ins costs. gee. brilliant policy there. ever heard the expression, "to cut off your nose to spite your face." do you understand it?
and i suggested that one might look towards employers of illegal immigrants to settle that bill.
i live overseas. thanks to geo-targeting ad servers i see all the ads promoting immigration to the states. and a lot of those ads look pretty iffy to me. smuggling people to work low-wage jobs in the us and europe is big business.
maybe you folks can have your tax burden reduced along with the margins of smugglers and employers of illegal immigrants.
why all this abuse at me? you're the one who wants to deny them medical help. you're the one who seems more interested in punishing the illegal immigrant then in punishing the people bringing them into the country and fining people/companies that employ illegal immigrants.
i find it odd that in california which seeks to legalise drug use, is so keen on beating down on illegal immigrants. well, no, it fits the self-absorbed attitude i see from most california politicians (left and right).
i'm still curious how a country that hypes free trade around the world seems unwilling to allow the free movement of labour into it.
right, so if a person has a heart attack the first thing the paramedics should do is check to see if the person is a citizen. if not, they should just be left to die on the street - after all the immediate treatment of such an event would be tens of thousands of dollars.
right. the person themselves is illegal. now it's all clear.
hm. i suppose putting them in garbage bags and dumping them in the landfill would just use up valuable landfill space. maybe they could just be ground up and used for dog chow.
so prior to receiving emergency medical treatment you should have your citizenship checked? if someone falls off a building or has a heart attack they *must* be treated in the first few minutes or they will die. and the initial treatment costs a lot of money - ambulance, staff, drugs, rooms.
but you think the first thing the paramedics should do is "check their papers."
gee, glad i don't live in america any more.
and you're assuming that *all* illegal immigrants came over the border knowing they were illegal. a fair number of illegal immigrants are brought over with promises of legal immigration and legal jobs. a lot of internet add servers do geo-targeting and they know my ip addresses are outside the states so i see ads everyday advertising companies that will bring me over to work in the states legally (or so they say).
and these are american companies exploiting foreign workers. often in high risk jobs with little regard for osha.
and you favour leaving them bleeding in the streets.
do you spout off stupid platitudes about "the market" and individual rights? or do you actually believe in the concept of "society" and the social, economic and quality of life benefits of a healthy community. do you believe that we should try to build a better society then the one we received? for instance we get free, good quality primary and secondary education - will you work towards free third level education? previous generations invested in roads in california, would your administration do more to invest in public transport? will you work towards better health care with better access? will you continue to inflame the gross xenophobia in california's public discourse, or will you try to have a more sensible discussion about immigrants - for instance nafta allows for the fre-flow of goods and capital amount the us, mexico and canada, but not labour. how is that free trade?
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yes, bill gates is giving away computers running windows w/o giving free updates for life. so he's really just making another future revenue stream, isn't he?
exactly. what percentage of income earned do they make?
they're not there yet, but it would be nice if they get to the point where they can give back dividends. a tech company giving out dividends. that would be another way for them to stand out.
a huge amount of time that i spend on a computer the display stays static. or at least large parts of it stay static. it certainly doesn't need to refresh a huge amount of time.
actually, no, it was deployed in 2000 or 2001 in boston. so it's not even the first real application.
saving power can be complemented by better batteries. if i double my battery life *and* cut power usage by a factor of ten, then i get a 20x boost in battery life. if what i described coupled with fuel cells would give me even more than 24 hours, hey, neat!
and i think fuel cells can be recharged.
combine that with a flash disk or some other form of solid state store and a transmeta or via c3 cpu and you've removed the three biggest power draws on a laptop.
essentially, i'd like a laptop that could do 24 hours w/o ac power.
oh, for older stories on /. about this, see here.
yes it does. but it's not in the default install, and sshd is not on by default even when you install openssh.
fault? sex? responsibility?
uh, i made a snarky comment to a person about defending their job. i didn't even mention bush. is bush responsible for the policy of pre-emptive invasion to protect the national interest? are american jobs in the national interest?
i don't see how stubbing your toe would be bush's fault. at least not now. after a few years of his voluntary environmental policy you might have a hard time seeing the stairs through the haze of pollution, but by then you'll probably live in a cardboard box since you won't have a job. and as we all know cardboard boxes don't have stairs.
muppet.
i like the mature foreign policy. glad i left.
good point. i wonder how the next osama bin laden will express his feelings about america having bases in saudi arabia, kuwait and iraq (which is also occupied by america).
considering that obl's lesser rationalisation resulted in four downed airliners, several demolished buildings (including wtc 1 & 2), severe damage to several more (including the pentagon) and the deaths of nearly 3,000 people.
GO. VOTE. IN. 2004.
look muppet, iraq didn't have anything to do with 911. get a fucking clue. when bush wins the next election - and he will - then maybe blair will catch up with the rest of europe and realise that gwb is not the only dangerous american.
aw, poor baby. maybe you should sign up for the army and invade india. that's the current us policy for solving problems, yes?
niagra mohawk is in upstate new york. you really want them focusing on upstate new york?
people should be fair to sco.
this page gives a phone number to call to discuss the linux license. people should ring up 1-800 726-8649 and hear sco out. and *please* remember to write down the details on all linux systems you have. it would be terribly annoying if you forgot a detail like the version of linux or the details for another machine and had to call back.
yes, but since you can outsource i.t. and have your workers be legal and living in an area with a lower cost of living, wtf would you want to hire local illegal immigrant coders?
here in europe we have free movement of labour within the eu. i can go work in germany or france or italy or spain. if language is an issue, i can still work in the uk (i live in ireland). that's a lot closer to a free market then nafta is.
with nafta, as i understand it, goods and capital can move around among canada, the us and mexico easier then before. but labour still can't.
i'm a big fan of personal responsibilty. for instance, how do those immigrants get into california in the first place? who gives them jobs? there are two groups of people breaking the law - and as an added bonus they tend to have money - a lot more then the average illegal immigrant.
who'd be more likely to pay that hospital bill - the smuggler who gets paid by the immigrant and by the employers, the employers who pay bottom dollar for illegal labour (and no taxes on that labour), or the illegal immigrant making piss-poor wages?
send the illegal immigrant back, sure, but you're still left with a hospital bill plus ins costs. gee. brilliant policy there. ever heard the expression, "to cut off your nose to spite your face." do you understand it?
and i suggested that one might look towards employers of illegal immigrants to settle that bill.
i live overseas. thanks to geo-targeting ad servers i see all the ads promoting immigration to the states. and a lot of those ads look pretty iffy to me. smuggling people to work low-wage jobs in the us and europe is big business.
maybe you folks can have your tax burden reduced along with the margins of smugglers and employers of illegal immigrants.
yes, there are much better things to spend tax dollars on then saving people's lives. particularly illegal people.
as i said, i'm convinced. illegal immigrants who get into hospitals should be sent to factories and turned into dog chow.
why all this abuse at me? you're the one who wants to deny them medical help. you're the one who seems more interested in punishing the illegal immigrant then in punishing the people bringing them into the country and fining people/companies that employ illegal immigrants.
i find it odd that in california which seeks to legalise drug use, is so keen on beating down on illegal immigrants. well, no, it fits the self-absorbed attitude i see from most california politicians (left and right).
i'm still curious how a country that hypes free trade around the world seems unwilling to allow the free movement of labour into it.
right, so if a person has a heart attack the first thing the paramedics should do is check to see if the person is a citizen. if not, they should just be left to die on the street - after all the immediate treatment of such an event would be tens of thousands of dollars.
right. the person themselves is illegal. now it's all clear.
hm. i suppose putting them in garbage bags and dumping them in the landfill would just use up valuable landfill space. maybe they could just be ground up and used for dog chow.
yes, i think that's the way to go.
so prior to receiving emergency medical treatment you should have your citizenship checked? if someone falls off a building or has a heart attack they *must* be treated in the first few minutes or they will die. and the initial treatment costs a lot of money - ambulance, staff, drugs, rooms.
but you think the first thing the paramedics should do is "check their papers."
gee, glad i don't live in america any more.
and you're assuming that *all* illegal immigrants came over the border knowing they were illegal. a fair number of illegal immigrants are brought over with promises of legal immigration and legal jobs. a lot of internet add servers do geo-targeting and they know my ip addresses are outside the states so i see ads everyday advertising companies that will bring me over to work in the states legally (or so they say).
and these are american companies exploiting foreign workers. often in high risk jobs with little regard for osha.
and you favour leaving them bleeding in the streets.
nice.
do you spout off stupid platitudes about "the market" and individual rights? or do you actually believe in the concept of "society" and the social, economic and quality of life benefits of a healthy community. do you believe that we should try to build a better society then the one we received? for instance we get free, good quality primary and secondary education - will you work towards free third level education? previous generations invested in roads in california, would your administration do more to invest in public transport? will you work towards better health care with better access? will you continue to inflame the gross xenophobia in california's public discourse, or will you try to have a more sensible discussion about immigrants - for instance nafta allows for the fre-flow of goods and capital amount the us, mexico and canada, but not labour. how is that free trade?