The problem is justification. If you have this great fast connection with restrictions that make it useless to most people, then the beancounters are going to notice that you're paying a hefty sum each month for an effectively unused resource. They're going to start demanding their money back so they can spend it on a bigger football stadium or something. By loading the network, even with "unworthy" P2P traffic, you can justify the cost by pointing out that the network is being used and needs to remain.
It's a common problem with publicly funded resources. You _must_ use it or you lose it.
Er, doesn't this seem like a bit of a strech to anyone? Switching to fly-by-wire speeds up wing warping? It's like saying that inventing power windows and door locks will speed up the invention of mass produced flying cars.
That depends. How long does it take you to drive from LA to Switzerland in that station wagon? I hope you remembered to pack your swimming trunks for that drive.
"Properly aimed and focused" only works on flat straight roads! If you're coming up a hill and one of these guys crests the hill in front of you he will blind you way worse than a regular car. Often times I'll loose sight of the road entirely, unlike regular headlights which just cause a lot of glare.
Who gets paper versions of their bills anymore? Even my Mom pays online now. Still, most bills can wait a week if you're turning off the net, and you can just send the funds for the mortgage a week early if you happen to cross a month boundry.
Not reading my email at work for a week would probably not go over very well though, plus it would take me another week to catch up afterward. Ugh.
You must have a lot of time on your hands. Those old Zip100 drives were unbelievably slow, even the SCSI version I had was a total dog. You should try out the new USB2.0 High Speed Flash keys, you'll save yourself 15 minutes of copying time and probably have more space to play with.
I think all of my Zip disks are still alive, not that I've hooked up my Zip drive in the past 3 years. I can't think of any reason at all to use it anymore once I got a 48x CD Burner and some CDRWs. It's not like I enjoyed waiting 10 minutes for the damn thing to send 100MB of data over the SCSI bus.
Honestly, IOmega screwed up the Zip drives in so many ways it's unbelievable. However, first I should mention what they did right: They made a simple easy to use drive with enough storage capacity for the time. They also made it fairly cheap and stylish. However, they screwed up in many ways. First, they way way way overpriced the media. I don't think I know of anybody who bought more than a dozen zip disks ever. Zip had a chance to kill off floppies by giving everybody something with a usable amount of space (1.44MB was getting pretty tight when Zip came on the scene) and a cheap enough reader that you wouldn't have to worry much about compatability. However, given the high cost of the media, nobody ever wanted to give away their disks, it was just too expensive to loose a few. Second, they cut corners on the hardware, lots of corners. This really hurt them in the end. Third, they cut corners on the software. IOmega's software has always been total crap. Fourth, they cut corners on the tech support, which really started to hurt them when their crappy hardware caught up to them. Fifth, they treated their customers like the enemy, and people got the message.
Just think, they were so close to killing off floppies that much earlier and they blew it. You had to suffer with floppies for a few more years while CD Burners came down in price--all because of them. Is it any wonder Slashdotters are unwilling to get burned by IOmega again? Ripping off your customers to bolster your bottom line only works once unless you can get the government to grant you a monopoly, I think it's time someone told IOmega that their time has passed.
You got a check? All I got was a lousy coupon for liek $15 off of my next IOmega purchase. Yeah, I bet a whole lot of those got redeemed. That was the only coupon ever where I started to seriously consider the 1/10 of a cent cash value. At least we can rest easy that some lawyers made several million dollars out of the case.
Obviously you have never known one of those people who never ever call people back. They assume that if you want to talk to them you'll call again later.
Last time I looked for a phone all of the 900Mhz phones were pure crap. It was obvious that 900Mhz is considered a "low end" feature these days and only the cheapest POS phones use it. The vast majority of the phones were 2.4Ghz, although there are more and more 5.8Ghz phones coming out (but they are very expensive). Also, even if you buy a fancy 5.8Ghz phone to avoid conflicting with your network, you need to read the manual carefully. Apparently many "5.8Ghz" phones are actually only 5.8Ghz in one direction (base station to phone), and 2.4Ghz on the phone->base station path.
I ended up buying a 5.8Ghz phone myself because I needed to be able to run multiple phones from a single jack, and none of the 900Mhz phones supported that.
I'd feel comfortable assuming he's not going to convert any of the water's mass directly into energy. Still, an above poster noted that the downstream dam just stores the water in a resivor, so they won't notice the difference from this project.
Well, don't forget that you might have two drives on that ATA chain, both of which have buffers so you don't have to sit on the ATA channel for the entire write cycle. I think it will be very difficult to fully saturate an ATA-100 or ATA-133 controller, but you can probably burst more than ATA-66 can handle.
Of course with all of the caveats you get with ATA, I doubt you'll see any performance improvement either way. Oh well.
Who's talking about datacenter backups? This is about home backups, and the cost of the drive is significant when you're buying it for yourself. There's no way I want to backup a few TB of data on DVDr-s, but I also don't want to spend $60 per tape to backup my personal home directory. It's all about the right technology for the job.
Ok, most of this time this isn't a problem, but have you see how small some of those LEDs are these days? Most people are inexperianced with their iron and are not willing to drop molten metal inside of their several thousand dollar home theature equipment.
Yeah, there's nothing like the great deal you get with sigals. $7.45 for three songs or $9.95 for the whole album...
What made online single great is that they only charge $0.99 (+- a few cents) no matter how popular the track is. Plus, it's not like every track is made into a single, nor are all people's tastes the same. What may be crap filler to you might be the only reason to buy the album to someone else.
Louie Wo looked like a 20 year old (IIRC), but he had a bodybuilder body and bronzed skin (I think). I always pictured him as an old guy in my head though.
Netflix doesn't rent porn-porn, but they do rent movies like Kentucky Fried Movie and Eyes Wide Shut. You may have to sit through some storyline, but they definatly aren't total prudes.
Man, sometimes Slashdot remimdes me of the old Usenet, when the trolls were just emerging and the whole "rant about anything at anytime as long as you make the most tenuous connection to the original topic as possible" syndrome was rampant. Whoops, I'm rambing again...
The "radiation" (EM waves) won't do any of that (resetting your counter to 0 would have to be an extremely freak occurance). What they're avoiding is tiny sparks from the cell phone lighting off any gasoline vapors that happen to be around.
I doubt this has ever happened, but it is theoretically possible (although you'd have to have your cell phone below the level of the gas nozzle, which seems unusual.
Obvously the solution is to expand the legislation to include the content providers as well. Moreso, I think they should further stipulate that buying all of the channels seperately vs. buying them all as a package should not increase the price premium by more than 10%. I know this wil cause an unbelievable amount of bitching and moaning from the whole industry, but I think it is best for them.
Er, are you sure that's pine? It sounds more like the old joists are made of Oak. Also, you may want to invest in a new set of drill bits, it sounds like your old ones may be getting a bit worn out. Don't go for the abolute cheapest bits this time.
I think the low sales might have something to do with never releasing an update for OSX and pretty much letting the software rot on the back shelves for years.
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The problem is justification. If you have this great fast connection with restrictions that make it useless to most people, then the beancounters are going to notice that you're paying a hefty sum each month for an effectively unused resource. They're going to start demanding their money back so they can spend it on a bigger football stadium or something. By loading the network, even with "unworthy" P2P traffic, you can justify the cost by pointing out that the network is being used and needs to remain.
It's a common problem with publicly funded resources. You _must_ use it or you lose it.
Er, doesn't this seem like a bit of a strech to anyone? Switching to fly-by-wire speeds up wing warping? It's like saying that inventing power windows and door locks will speed up the invention of mass produced flying cars.
That depends. How long does it take you to drive from LA to Switzerland in that station wagon? I hope you remembered to pack your swimming trunks for that drive.
"Properly aimed and focused" only works on flat straight roads! If you're coming up a hill and one of these guys crests the hill in front of you he will blind you way worse than a regular car. Often times I'll loose sight of the road entirely, unlike regular headlights which just cause a lot of glare.
Who gets paper versions of their bills anymore? Even my Mom pays online now. Still, most bills can wait a week if you're turning off the net, and you can just send the funds for the mortgage a week early if you happen to cross a month boundry.
Not reading my email at work for a week would probably not go over very well though, plus it would take me another week to catch up afterward. Ugh.
You must have a lot of time on your hands. Those old Zip100 drives were unbelievably slow, even the SCSI version I had was a total dog. You should try out the new USB2.0 High Speed Flash keys, you'll save yourself 15 minutes of copying time and probably have more space to play with.
I think all of my Zip disks are still alive, not that I've hooked up my Zip drive in the past 3 years. I can't think of any reason at all to use it anymore once I got a 48x CD Burner and some CDRWs. It's not like I enjoyed waiting 10 minutes for the damn thing to send 100MB of data over the SCSI bus.
Honestly, IOmega screwed up the Zip drives in so many ways it's unbelievable. However, first I should mention what they did right: They made a simple easy to use drive with enough storage capacity for the time. They also made it fairly cheap and stylish. However, they screwed up in many ways. First, they way way way overpriced the media. I don't think I know of anybody who bought more than a dozen zip disks ever. Zip had a chance to kill off floppies by giving everybody something with a usable amount of space (1.44MB was getting pretty tight when Zip came on the scene) and a cheap enough reader that you wouldn't have to worry much about compatability. However, given the high cost of the media, nobody ever wanted to give away their disks, it was just too expensive to loose a few. Second, they cut corners on the hardware, lots of corners. This really hurt them in the end. Third, they cut corners on the software. IOmega's software has always been total crap. Fourth, they cut corners on the tech support, which really started to hurt them when their crappy hardware caught up to them. Fifth, they treated their customers like the enemy, and people got the message.
Just think, they were so close to killing off floppies that much earlier and they blew it. You had to suffer with floppies for a few more years while CD Burners came down in price--all because of them. Is it any wonder Slashdotters are unwilling to get burned by IOmega again? Ripping off your customers to bolster your bottom line only works once unless you can get the government to grant you a monopoly, I think it's time someone told IOmega that their time has passed.
You got a check? All I got was a lousy coupon for liek $15 off of my next IOmega purchase. Yeah, I bet a whole lot of those got redeemed. That was the only coupon ever where I started to seriously consider the 1/10 of a cent cash value. At least we can rest easy that some lawyers made several million dollars out of the case.
Obviously you have never known one of those people who never ever call people back. They assume that if you want to talk to them you'll call again later.
Last time I looked for a phone all of the 900Mhz phones were pure crap. It was obvious that 900Mhz is considered a "low end" feature these days and only the cheapest POS phones use it. The vast majority of the phones were 2.4Ghz, although there are more and more 5.8Ghz phones coming out (but they are very expensive). Also, even if you buy a fancy 5.8Ghz phone to avoid conflicting with your network, you need to read the manual carefully. Apparently many "5.8Ghz" phones are actually only 5.8Ghz in one direction (base station to phone), and 2.4Ghz on the phone->base station path.
I ended up buying a 5.8Ghz phone myself because I needed to be able to run multiple phones from a single jack, and none of the 900Mhz phones supported that.
I'd feel comfortable assuming he's not going to convert any of the water's mass directly into energy. Still, an above poster noted that the downstream dam just stores the water in a resivor, so they won't notice the difference from this project.
Well, don't forget that you might have two drives on that ATA chain, both of which have buffers so you don't have to sit on the ATA channel for the entire write cycle. I think it will be very difficult to fully saturate an ATA-100 or ATA-133 controller, but you can probably burst more than ATA-66 can handle.
Of course with all of the caveats you get with ATA, I doubt you'll see any performance improvement either way. Oh well.
Who's talking about datacenter backups? This is about home backups, and the cost of the drive is significant when you're buying it for yourself. There's no way I want to backup a few TB of data on DVDr-s, but I also don't want to spend $60 per tape to backup my personal home directory. It's all about the right technology for the job.
6. Throw it away when you realize you broke it.
Ok, most of this time this isn't a problem, but have you see how small some of those LEDs are these days? Most people are inexperianced with their iron and are not willing to drop molten metal inside of their several thousand dollar home theature equipment.
Yeah, there's nothing like the great deal you get with sigals. $7.45 for three songs or $9.95 for the whole album...
What made online single great is that they only charge $0.99 (+- a few cents) no matter how popular the track is. Plus, it's not like every track is made into a single, nor are all people's tastes the same. What may be crap filler to you might be the only reason to buy the album to someone else.
Unmanaged == Cheapo If you can't manage the switch, then you're certainly not going to be assigning mirror ports on it.
Quite frankly, many users are far less sophisticated than their 4 year olds these days.
Louie Wo looked like a 20 year old (IIRC), but he had a bodybuilder body and bronzed skin (I think). I always pictured him as an old guy in my head though.
Netflix doesn't rent porn-porn, but they do rent movies like Kentucky Fried Movie and Eyes Wide Shut. You may have to sit through some storyline, but they definatly aren't total prudes.
Man, sometimes Slashdot remimdes me of the old Usenet, when the trolls were just emerging and the whole "rant about anything at anytime as long as you make the most tenuous connection to the original topic as possible" syndrome was rampant. Whoops, I'm rambing again...
The "radiation" (EM waves) won't do any of that (resetting your counter to 0 would have to be an extremely freak occurance). What they're avoiding is tiny sparks from the cell phone lighting off any gasoline vapors that happen to be around.
I doubt this has ever happened, but it is theoretically possible (although you'd have to have your cell phone below the level of the gas nozzle, which seems unusual.
Obvously the solution is to expand the legislation to include the content providers as well. Moreso, I think they should further stipulate that buying all of the channels seperately vs. buying them all as a package should not increase the price premium by more than 10%. I know this wil cause an unbelievable amount of bitching and moaning from the whole industry, but I think it is best for them.
Er, are you sure that's pine? It sounds more like the old joists are made of Oak. Also, you may want to invest in a new set of drill bits, it sounds like your old ones may be getting a bit worn out. Don't go for the abolute cheapest bits this time.
But it has an itty bitty screen. You'd be constantly scrolling the text.
I think the low sales might have something to do with never releasing an update for OSX and pretty much letting the software rot on the back shelves for years.