So they could charge 10 times the amount they are charging now and still not make a dollar.
Of course, 10 * 0 is still 0, so I say raise the price to 10 million times the current price! It's bound to impress market analysts and other creatures of the night
Oh sure, I'm just not sure that's the time to be a full out geek is all... Maybe it's just cause my GF is a body piercer and has access to sharp needles needles should I be too distracted by shiny objects...
uhm, just a second...you have a girlfriend(a), she has a vibrator(b). And when you use a and b together you want to play music by using the exact right pressure... Is it just me, or is that a very wrong time to play with geeky toys?
Just curious, what would one reply after finally succeding at the Star Wars theme and she asks what you're giggling at? Commit suicide by proxy by telling the truth? Just run? hmm
Right now they're subpoenaing purchase records regarding a specific customer, how long before they demand a list of customers who have bought a certain book or books from a certain author?
And does anyone really think they're not already doing that?
Paranoia yes, but I'll just keep paying cash thank you
I thought it was standard procedure to moderate Troll/Flamebait/Redundant/Overrated when you don't agree with the poster or you simply don't get it?
And, when the poster makes a long comment using words with mul-ti-ple syll-a-bles, moderate it to +5 interesting/Insightful no matter how incorrect or buzzword packed it is, have I misunderstood the purpose of moderation totally?
"As a reference, getting 1024 kbps (that's kilobits) download and 200 kbps upload from Telia currently costs 295 SEK (around $30)."
I pay 275sek (~$27) for my Telia ADSL 512/768. But then, I haven't had to pay it for 5 months because the service has been terrible, only recently did I get a good working connection after some ~50 calls to Telia...
Problem in Sweden is, if Telia raises the price to $100 a month, if you want DSL, that's basically your only option unless you live in one of the major cities. Skanova (owned by Telia) owns the physical carriers, Telia Internet Services leases them from Skanova at a high cost, Skanova makes a lot of money for their dear mother Telia, Internet Services makes a LOT less, but hey, Telia as a corp makes enough to keep it afloat. Daughter companies exchange money back and forth basically.
However, enter 3rd party ISP, if they want to provide DSL they HAVE to lease carriers from Skanova, unless they want to dig down their own. Skanova eats the profit, smaller ISP makes barely enough to get by, if even that, Telia is happy, consumer is told to bend over, spread, and smile.
Yes, you can, you just have to pay for it. IIRC you get free help for 2 incidents, after that, better get a nightjob if you need to call a lot...
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Nono, you misunderstood, more little black things means more pictures at once I think, and if they're big and cube shaped it's one of them there new 3d cards. My gfx card even has a propeller to push the pictures down that pipe to my screen faster!
Well, some games you play for kills, some for points, still others you play for "money". Slashdot you play for karma, so yup, sounds like a game. First one to 51 wins!
Here ya go, it's not much, but it's somthing for those of you who can't speak a civilized tongue:-)
Får man lägga till nya headers i sina e-post-meddelanden som gör att de meddelanden som man skickar inte kan läsas av de som använder Outlook Express eller läser brev med WebTV?
Frågan har väckts i samband med att Nick Moffitt har skickat just sådana meddelanden på Tron-listan. Microsoft-användarna är inte nöjda med Moffitts beteende medan Moffitt hänvisar till att mottagarnas e-post-program är problemet och inte hans X-headers.
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Is it ok to add new headers to your e-mail messages which makes them impossible to read by those using MSOE or WebTV?
The matter has been brought up with Nick Moffitt sending such messages on the Tron-list. The Microsoft users aren't happy with his behavior while he claims that the problem lies with their mail readers and not with his headers.
Hey, this is kinda cool. Maybe I'll do something special for my 10-Gigasecond day, due to occur sometime in December, 2002. What about the rest of you?
Let's see, 10 Gigaseconds, 10 000 000 000 seconds, divide with 60, 166666666,66~ minutes, divide with 60 again, 2777777,77~ hours, divide by 24, 115740,74~ days, divide by 365 and you get 317 years, holy crap slashdot has some true IT dinosaurs!
I dunno what the content is on the CD of PC mags in the US, but here (Sweden) the "common user" mags tend to have a lot of the necessary software needed for everyday stuff. MSIE, NS, Opera, WinZip, directX etc, the textual content would be stuff like changing desktop themes, installing a printer or some other plug-in hardware and so on. This appeals the common user since they can get some guidance on how to use their PC at their own level.
To these users, I'm not so sure it would matter if the OEM reseller asked them what browser they'd like installed with their OS.
Tech:Ok sir, just about done, now, what browser would you like with your computer?
Customer:Uhm, what options is there?
Tech:Well, there's Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Explorer, and Opera by a norweigan company.
Customer:Microsoft? That's what comes with my puter right? So it should work well together, I'll take the Microsoft one...
That kind of user will most likely not care what browser is on his machine as long as it can download the internet.:-)
If a user/customer doesn't know what the options are or what they mean, he'll go for the easiest or most familiar option, all it takes is seing some puter magazine with content that is of interest to him, and he'll have a CD with a wider selection of browsers and he'll know that they exist.
Not really, to the casual user Linux = "Some strange hacking tool of some sort." and RedHat = "What?"
I fail to see how AOL buying RH would be a bad thing for Linux as an OS, if the masses love it, great, if the nerds hate it, what's different from todays situation Linux vs Windows? The Linux users with know-how will simply pick another distro if RH becomes too AOLidized. (Look, I invented a word)
There is of course a risk that RH under AOL control will fail miserably and go under, but then, I doubt that risk would increase even the slightest from the current situation.
And, as someone pointed out in the previous discussion, Linus Torvalds owns the Linux trademark and various other legal rights. If RedHat would stray too far from what he has in mind he'll just ask them to stop calling it RedHat Linux, Linux is safe, and the world is a happy place once again.
Yes, I am aware that it is not fully correct, however, I sacrificed accuracy for the sake of just plain old feel to the phrase.
"Remember that (slightly less than) 50% of a statistically represantative sample of the general population taking a standardized intelligence test will score lower than the median score." doesn't have quite the same ring now does it?
And, with 5 billion people in the world I think you'll find that average and median tend to converge to a fairly close number.
And from the article, I thus quote: Kazerooni expects partial versions will hit the market first. "A factory worker might have just a pair of enhanced arms," he says. "There will be many job-specific applications for arms alone or legs alone."
This is providing of course that said worker is strong enough to carry and support the enhanced arms, I can't help but wonder... If a man screams in agony in an empty factory after having his arms ripped from their sockets, will there be a sound?
This is bad news for anyone dabbling in software development, you make a piece of software to do something (in your opinion) useful, release it on your website where a few dozen download it, it spreads a bit more, and suddenly, someone somewhere does something that provokes your app to crash, or be used, in a nasty way taking out their box and the boxes on that network.
Now you suddenly find yourself with a fresh lawsuit in your mail claiming you're responsible for the couple hundred thousand dollars worth of damage done to a company in some remote place you've never heard of...
This sounds like an excellent way to deter anyone from ever releasing anything that's not tested and tested again, meaning development for a hobby will be a lot tougher.
I see a suggestion like this working only after a developer clearly states and guarantees that his software will not in any way harm the users equipment, or, very gross neglect from the developer and failing to provide even rudimentary security.
Oh, but my invention is nothing like the wheel. Granted they are similar in appearance and function, but my whe...ehr, Circular locomotion device holds unique qualities that'll bring a revolution to the way we travel and transport goods, in fact, whole cities will be built around it!
Now, I'll just lean back and wait for the investors to call...
Oh, and should it fail, I'll go for my other patent, a "Method of constructing a symmetrical geometric shape and deriving its exact measurments and proportions due to the relationship between the circumference of said geometrical shape and the constant Pi." Let's see them make their so called wheel after that!
Personally, I like reading books like Sams to get an overview of something new, then I at least have an idea of what it's all about. I can then pick up a real brick and learn in-depth. And, since I have a decent idea of what I can do with it I feel it's easier to learn how and why to do it.
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Oh that's easy to solve, they'll just have to start...selling...ads...hmm
Of course, 10 * 0 is still 0, so I say raise the price to 10 million times the current price! It's bound to impress market analysts and other creatures of the night
Oh sure, I'm just not sure that's the time to be a full out geek is all... Maybe it's just cause my GF is a body piercer and has access to sharp needles needles should I be too distracted by shiny objects...
uhm, just a second...you have a girlfriend(a), she has a vibrator(b). And when you use a and b together you want to play music by using the exact right pressure...
Is it just me, or is that a very wrong time to play with geeky toys?
Just curious, what would one reply after finally succeding at the Star Wars theme and she asks what you're giggling at? Commit suicide by proxy by telling the truth? Just run? hmm
Not to mention Kathleen would probably be very surprised and Taco very pissed off if Katz had posted the same thing...
"Moderation Totals: Troll=1, Informative=5, Overrated=1, Total=7."
Troll? Overrated?! Man, slashdot moderators are TOUGH!
Congrats you two, best of luck!
Right now they're subpoenaing purchase records regarding a specific customer, how long before they demand a list of customers who have bought a certain book or books from a certain author?
And does anyone really think they're not already doing that?
Paranoia yes, but I'll just keep paying cash thank you
I thought it was standard procedure to moderate Troll/Flamebait/Redundant/Overrated when you don't agree with the poster or you simply don't get it?
And, when the poster makes a long comment using words with mul-ti-ple syll-a-bles, moderate it to +5 interesting/Insightful no matter how incorrect or buzzword packed it is, have I misunderstood the purpose of moderation totally?
I pay 275sek (~$27) for my Telia ADSL 512/768. But then, I haven't had to pay it for 5 months because the service has been terrible, only recently did I get a good working connection after some ~50 calls to Telia...
Problem in Sweden is, if Telia raises the price to $100 a month, if you want DSL, that's basically your only option unless you live in one of the major cities. Skanova (owned by Telia) owns the physical carriers, Telia Internet Services leases them from Skanova at a high cost, Skanova makes a lot of money for their dear mother Telia, Internet Services makes a LOT less, but hey, Telia as a corp makes enough to keep it afloat. Daughter companies exchange money back and forth basically.
However, enter 3rd party ISP, if they want to provide DSL they HAVE to lease carriers from Skanova, unless they want to dig down their own. Skanova eats the profit, smaller ISP makes barely enough to get by, if even that, Telia is happy, consumer is told to bend over, spread, and smile.
Yes, you can, you just have to pay for it. IIRC you get free help for 2 incidents, after that, better get a nightjob if you need to call a lot...
Nono, you misunderstood, more little black things means more pictures at once I think, and if they're big and cube shaped it's one of them there new 3d cards. My gfx card even has a propeller to push the pictures down that pipe to my screen faster!
Well, some games you play for kills, some for points, still others you play for "money".
Slashdot you play for karma, so yup, sounds like a game. First one to 51 wins!
Here ya go, it's not much, but it's somthing for those of you who can't speak a civilized tongue :-)
[Translation]Is it ok to add new headers to your e-mail messages which makes them impossible to read by those using MSOE or WebTV?
The matter has been brought up with Nick Moffitt sending such messages on the Tron-list. The Microsoft users aren't happy with his behavior while he claims that the problem lies with their mail readers and not with his headers.
[/Translation]Let's see, 10 Gigaseconds, 10 000 000 000 seconds, divide with 60, 166666666,66~ minutes, divide with 60 again, 2777777,77~ hours, divide by 24, 115740,74~ days, divide by 365 and you get 317 years, holy crap slashdot has some true IT dinosaurs!
I dunno what the content is on the CD of PC mags in the US, but here (Sweden) the "common user" mags tend to have a lot of the necessary software needed for everyday stuff. MSIE, NS, Opera, WinZip, directX etc, the textual content would be stuff like changing desktop themes, installing a printer or some other plug-in hardware and so on. This appeals the common user since they can get some guidance on how to use their PC at their own level.
To these users, I'm not so sure it would matter if the OEM reseller asked them what browser they'd like installed with their OS.
Tech:Ok sir, just about done, now, what browser would you like with your computer?
Customer:Uhm, what options is there?
Tech:Well, there's Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Explorer, and Opera by a norweigan company.
Customer:Microsoft? That's what comes with my puter right? So it should work well together, I'll take the Microsoft one...
That kind of user will most likely not care what browser is on his machine as long as it can download the internet. :-)
If a user/customer doesn't know what the options are or what they mean, he'll go for the easiest or most familiar option, all it takes is seing some puter magazine with content that is of interest to him, and he'll have a CD with a wider selection of browsers and he'll know that they exist.
I think the latest NS, MSIE and Opera have been distributed with just about any $5 PC magazine for the past 7 years or so...
"And what hooligan on the street do you know who plays chess"
The guys hanging out at the pawn-shop?
/me runs before the groans become too loud
Not really, to the casual user Linux = "Some strange hacking tool of some sort." and RedHat = "What?"
I fail to see how AOL buying RH would be a bad thing for Linux as an OS, if the masses love it, great, if the nerds hate it, what's different from todays situation Linux vs Windows? The Linux users with know-how will simply pick another distro if RH becomes too AOLidized. (Look, I invented a word)
There is of course a risk that RH under AOL control will fail miserably and go under, but then, I doubt that risk would increase even the slightest from the current situation.
Hate to break it you, but Linux != RedHat.
And, as someone pointed out in the previous discussion, Linus Torvalds owns the Linux trademark and various other legal rights. If RedHat would stray too far from what he has in mind he'll just ask them to stop calling it RedHat Linux, Linux is safe, and the world is a happy place once again.
Yes, I am aware that it is not fully correct, however, I sacrificed accuracy for the sake of just plain old feel to the phrase.
"Remember that (slightly less than) 50% of a statistically represantative sample of the general population taking a standardized intelligence test will score lower than the median score." doesn't have quite the same ring now does it?
And, with 5 billion people in the world I think you'll find that average and median tend to converge to a fairly close number.
And from the article, I thus quote:
Kazerooni expects partial versions will hit the market first. "A factory worker might have just a pair of enhanced arms," he says. "There will be many job-specific applications for arms alone or legs alone."
This is providing of course that said worker is strong enough to carry and support the enhanced arms, I can't help but wonder... If a man screams in agony in an empty factory after having his arms ripped from their sockets, will there be a sound?
This is bad news for anyone dabbling in software development, you make a piece of software to do something (in your opinion) useful, release it on your website where a few dozen download it, it spreads a bit more, and suddenly, someone somewhere does something that provokes your app to crash, or be used, in a nasty way taking out their box and the boxes on that network.
Now you suddenly find yourself with a fresh lawsuit in your mail claiming you're responsible for the couple hundred thousand dollars worth of damage done to a company in some remote place you've never heard of...
This sounds like an excellent way to deter anyone from ever releasing anything that's not tested and tested again, meaning development for a hobby will be a lot tougher.
I see a suggestion like this working only after a developer clearly states and guarantees that his software will not in any way harm the users equipment, or, very gross neglect from the developer and failing to provide even rudimentary security.
Oh, but my invention is nothing like the wheel. Granted they are similar in appearance and function, but my whe...ehr, Circular locomotion device holds unique qualities that'll bring a revolution to the way we travel and transport goods, in fact, whole cities will be built around it!
Now, I'll just lean back and wait for the investors to call...
Oh, and should it fail, I'll go for my other patent, a "Method of constructing a symmetrical geometric shape and deriving its exact measurments and proportions due to the relationship between the circumference of said geometrical shape and the constant Pi." Let's see them make their so called wheel after that!
How would a "Circular locomotion device intended to aid transport or travel" do?
Personally, I like reading books like Sams to get an overview of something new, then I at least have an idea of what it's all about. I can then pick up a real brick and learn in-depth. And, since I have a decent idea of what I can do with it I feel it's easier to learn how and why to do it.