The PEOPLE set the speed limit? That's the funniest thing I 've seen on/. in a long time. Go out on the road and look. The people set the speed limit by how they drive. That thing on the white signs beside the road is some arbitrary decree by an agency with almost no public accoutability.
Different srtrokes I guess. I've no desire to see any of those programs. I'd love a-la-carte, my satellite bill would be 1/2 or less for the ten or so channels I actually watch.
I guess you never looked at the balance sheet for the Post Office. Bulk business mail pays a lot of the bills and keeps the cost of first class down to reasonable levels. Businesses are willing to pay for access to your mailbox but can't get past your very efficent client side filtering. Why do you get so much unsolicted advertising? It's simple. The system works! It makes more money than it costs. At least thr real world mailers have to pay for each peice so they have an incentive to target their advertising much more closely. With email, there is no reason not to try and sell absoutely everyone enough toner to cover their ever growing penises.
Wow, how many falicies or errors in one message. "Like cable TV" - OK, you can suck anything you want off the internet - only one catch, no uploading! You can't ask for anything in particular. You only get what somebody else decided to send and exactly the same thing your neighbor gets. "number of miles" About 1/3 or more of the price I pay for gasoline is taxes. More miles equals more gasoline equals more taxes. We all do pay by the mile for road use. Pipe vs. water. I'll hook up a real nice, fat data pipe to your house for a small, one-time fee. However, if you happen to want data to flow through that pipe, its going to cost you extra. The dotcom crash happened because nobody actually had a way to make money. The ISP's are just on the tail end of that. They have some revenue stream but nothing to tie income to costs. You'd better be ready to start paying for what you get.
We have a couple of racks of process control computers - 30 or so - and I think not one of them made 2 years before the power supply fans quit. These boxes run under load 24/7. We keep a stack of supplies on the shelf and part of the PM is to see if the fans are turning. P S failures cause about as many problems as everything else put together.
That comment caught me by suprise also. Especially since I am in a building full of Win95 machines and the one I'm sitting at has no trouble with its 6 gig drive.
Lets check the math. Netflix - 3 DVDs at a time. 34 hours per DVD times 3 DVDs = 102 hours = 4 days 6 hours vs 2 to 3 days by USPS. Now, which one is faster? Remember, the post office allows for multiple simultaneous downloads at no loss of speed for each. 9 gigs or 900 - same latency and same total time. Disclaimer: I DO work for the post office.
I think you are confusing the point. This is not censorship. The original is stll readily available to anyone. This is more artistic license - taking a product you own and having it reshaped for your own enjoyment. Not at all unlike colorization.
Why do Europeans put up with per minuite charges on land based phones? I have a dial-up that stays connected 23+ hours a day. The cost? About $15 a month Why should someone else pay to talk to me? The phone (cell or land) is for my convience. If I don't want to pay, I can hang up. It takes an awful lot of 1 minute hang up to put a dent in the 3000 min. packages that are becomming popular here.
Gee, just like our old 1974 vintage hard drives. Yes, they were great. 1 head per track, total capacity - about 2 meg. Were in a sealed metal cylnder about 2 foot on a side. Had to be flushed and pressureized from a helium bottle, took about 2 horsepower. Seek time was pretty good but I don't relish returning to that level of technology.
If it looks like a CD and it fits in a regular CD player, any reasonable person would assume it is a CD. If it then causes damage, it is a deliberate attempt by the producer/vendor/whatever to deceive the user. That is quite illegal. Reasonableness is a big issue in law and there are unreasonable.
I have a '91 Cadillac and part of what's great about it is that I don't have to interact with it very much. I get in, put the key in the ignition, turn same, put the transmission in Drive, and off I go. Other than the essential driving functions, I can totally ignore the car. The radio is right where I left it - a knob with tactical feedback for volume if I need it, the climate control sets the temprature (oh, one button if I need defrost) and the headlights take care of themselves. I can drive my fourty mile round trip and never look inside the car except to check the speedo occasionally, I feel pretty safe in that car because I can pay lots of attention to what's going on around me.
To everybody who complained about this story: I thought it was both informative and funny. Watch out when you ship! I work in a Postal facility that handles most of the larger boxes and the like. I've seen us screw up a few times - T V sets don't belong on our sack sorting machine! - but a lot of ours are more funny than expensive. I helped pry a 60 lb. magnet off the equipmet one night that somebody mailed without a keeper on it. Then there was the night the Mint shipped cases of poorly packaged pennies. It was literally 'pennies from heaven' as they came out of the upper levels. Shipping horror stories are a nice break.
Sounds like your comment has a strong ANTI-PBS bias. Discounting beg-a-thons, PBS does not run commercials. If skipping commercials on regular TV is against the law, (as suggested) then being able to switch to PBS where there are no commercials is clearly an unfair advantage. Of course, under that premiss, you have to stay tuned and watch all the PBS fundraisers also. I guess you choose how you want your ads: 10 min. out of every 30 or 24 hours in a row every month. I must be just about a tratior, I hahdly watch any TV anymore - what with all the commercials and lousy content. DirecTV - 150 channels of nothing worth watching.
O K, the virus writer is responsible for the damage but if I ran a small business and had a database that would cost $50k to $100k to replace. I'd back that sucker up very regularly. If they're putting in hours of changes/updates every day, I'd burn a CD or something EVERY night. That could easily be the kind of problem that could sink a business.
Don't forget the cost of maintenance. A couple of transmitters are far cheaper to maintain than dozens of miles of cable and hundreds of separate amps and such. Backhoes don't interrupt radio signals very often.
A couple of years ago, the hard drive in the city of Lakewood, CO's control computer bit the big one. Lights were still operational but rush hour was a disaster for about 2 weeks. The failed drive was an old, non-standard (8 inch platters, maybe?) one and there were no replacements readily available. The control computers adapt the system to various traffic flows. For example, morning and evening rush hours require different timing for best flow. BTW, Lakewood now has a redundant backup system. For some odd reason, there was suddenly some money available to fix the system more or less right.
This is almost irrelevant considering their market share but if you started opening the latest version of WordPerfect before StarOffice, I'm sure you could write a chapter or two in Star before WP made it. Corel has absoutely destroyed what was my favorite word processor.
You must not support the same Windows that I do. I just spent Friday night and Saturday morning trying to clean up a botched modem install on a W2K laptop. Finding and deleting files manually, searching and editing the regestry for multiple abandoned keys, frequent reboots. It was my father-in-law's machine. He is more computer literate than most but was completely lost. Don't tell me Windows is ready for the desktop. Its there by default in most cases but that doesn't mean its any better than Linux. At work, we have numerous Unix-flavor boxes that just run day in and day out. We keep Ghost images of our Windows workstations on the network because we don't have time to figure out all the problems that crop up. We just give them a fresh working image and walk away.
O K, Win2000 may possibly run all right if you get it running. I just spent a good chunk of my weekend trying to get a modem configured and running on a W2K laptop. I probably rebooted the thing 50 times over 2 days with only limited success. The 2K box behind me appears to be locked up after trying to run a web application. Frankly, so far, I haven't had much better luck with 2K than with '95. Back to taxes - the itemized extras for my long distance were more last month than the actual calls.
Time to pick a nit! There is no such thing as a Caddy Navigator. The Navigator is built by Ford and carries the Lincoln nameplate. Cadillac makes the Escalade and their version of the Chevy Avalanche. On-Star does, however, definitly have that capability. An Escalade was recently stolen out of the owner's driveway in Denver. The owner contacted On-Star who called the police and told them where the vehicle was. Stolen to recovered in about 1/2 hour, IIRC.
Wire cutters may be illegal ( and crude and obvious) but they are talking solid state devices here. It would be a real shame if I happened to shuffle across a few yards of carpet and accidentally discharge myself through a needle into one of those connectors on the black box, wouldn't it? Come to think about it, don't most cars come with a multi-kilovolt, pulsed power supply built right in? As usual, the sheepeople will get caught but the Geeks will maintain a measure of freedom.
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The PEOPLE set the speed limit? That's the funniest thing I 've seen on /. in a long time. Go out on the road and look. The people set the speed limit by how they drive. That thing on the white signs beside the road is some arbitrary decree by an agency with almost no public accoutability.
TOS: A $20 fee will be charged each time the subscriber makes a change to their package ....
I think that would solve that problem quite nicely.
Different srtrokes I guess. I've no desire to see any of those programs. I'd love a-la-carte, my satellite bill would be 1/2 or less for the ten or so channels I actually watch.
I guess you never looked at the balance sheet for the Post Office. Bulk business mail pays a lot of the bills and keeps the cost of first class down to reasonable levels. Businesses are willing to pay for access to your mailbox but can't get past your very efficent client side filtering. Why do you get so much unsolicted advertising? It's simple. The system works! It makes more money than it costs. At least thr real world mailers have to pay for each peice so they have an incentive to target their advertising much more closely. With email, there is no reason not to try and sell absoutely everyone enough toner to cover their ever growing penises.
Maybe he was close to right. Certainly not much of what is being patented today qualifies as real inventions.
Wow, how many falicies or errors in one message.
"Like cable TV" - OK, you can suck anything you want off the internet - only one catch, no uploading! You can't ask for anything in particular. You only get what somebody else decided to send and exactly the same thing your neighbor gets.
"number of miles" About 1/3 or more of the price I pay for gasoline is taxes. More miles equals more gasoline equals more taxes. We all do pay by the mile for road use.
Pipe vs. water. I'll hook up a real nice, fat data pipe to your house for a small, one-time fee. However, if you happen to want data to flow through that pipe, its going to cost you extra.
The dotcom crash happened because nobody actually had a way to make money. The ISP's are just on the tail end of that. They have some revenue stream but nothing to tie income to costs. You'd better be ready to start paying for what you get.
We have a couple of racks of process control computers - 30 or so - and I think not one of them made 2 years before the power supply fans quit. These boxes run under load 24/7. We keep a stack of supplies on the shelf and part of the PM is to see if the fans are turning. P S failures cause about as many problems as everything else put together.
That comment caught me by suprise also. Especially since I am in a building full of Win95 machines and the one I'm sitting at has no trouble with its 6 gig drive.
Lets check the math. Netflix - 3 DVDs at a time. 34 hours per DVD times 3 DVDs = 102 hours = 4 days 6 hours vs 2 to 3 days by USPS. Now, which one is faster? Remember, the post office allows for multiple simultaneous downloads at no loss of speed for each. 9 gigs or 900 - same latency and same total time.
Disclaimer: I DO work for the post office.
I think you are confusing the point. This is not censorship. The original is stll readily available to anyone. This is more artistic license - taking a product you own and having it reshaped for your own enjoyment. Not at all unlike colorization.
Why do Europeans put up with per minuite charges on land based phones? I have a dial-up that stays connected 23+ hours a day. The cost? About $15 a month
Why should someone else pay to talk to me? The phone (cell or land) is for my convience. If I don't want to pay, I can hang up. It takes an awful lot of 1 minute hang up to put a dent in the 3000 min. packages that are becomming popular here.
Gee, just like our old 1974 vintage hard drives. Yes, they were great. 1 head per track, total capacity - about 2 meg. Were in a sealed metal cylnder about 2 foot on a side. Had to be flushed and pressureized from a helium bottle, took about 2 horsepower. Seek time was pretty good but I don't relish returning to that level of technology.
If it looks like a CD and it fits in a regular CD player, any reasonable person would assume it is a CD. If it then causes damage, it is a deliberate attempt by the producer/vendor/whatever to deceive the user. That is quite illegal. Reasonableness is a big issue in law and there are unreasonable.
I have a '91 Cadillac and part of what's great about it is that I don't have to interact with it very much. I get in, put the key in the ignition, turn same, put the transmission in Drive, and off I go. Other than the essential driving functions, I can totally ignore the car. The radio is right where I left it - a knob with tactical feedback for volume if I need it, the climate control sets the temprature (oh, one button if I need defrost) and the headlights take care of themselves. I can drive my fourty mile round trip and never look inside the car except to check the speedo occasionally, I feel pretty safe in that car because I can pay lots of attention to what's going on around me.
To everybody who complained about this story: I thought it was both informative and funny. Watch out when you ship! I work in a Postal facility that handles most of the larger boxes and the like. I've seen us screw up a few times - T V sets don't belong on our sack sorting machine! - but a lot of ours are more funny than expensive. I helped pry a 60 lb. magnet off the equipmet one night that somebody mailed without a keeper on it. Then there was the night the Mint shipped cases of poorly packaged pennies. It was literally 'pennies from heaven' as they came out of the upper levels. Shipping horror stories are a nice break.
Sounds like your comment has a strong ANTI-PBS bias. Discounting beg-a-thons, PBS does not run commercials. If skipping commercials on regular TV is against the law, (as suggested) then being able to switch to PBS where there are no commercials is clearly an unfair advantage. Of course, under that premiss, you have to stay tuned and watch all the PBS fundraisers also. I guess you choose how you want your ads: 10 min. out of every 30 or 24 hours in a row every month. I must be just about a tratior, I hahdly watch any TV anymore - what with all the commercials and lousy content. DirecTV - 150 channels of nothing worth watching.
Hey! I run DOS 2.0 command line utilities from my Windows ME (gasp) system all the time. How's that for long term backwards compatability?
O K, the virus writer is responsible for the damage but if I ran a small business and had a database that would cost $50k to $100k to replace. I'd back that sucker up very regularly. If they're putting in hours of changes/updates every day, I'd burn a CD or something EVERY night. That could easily be the kind of problem that could sink a business.
Don't forget the cost of maintenance. A couple of transmitters are far cheaper to maintain than dozens of miles of cable and hundreds of separate amps and such. Backhoes don't interrupt radio signals very often.
A couple of years ago, the hard drive in the city of Lakewood, CO's control computer bit the big one. Lights were still operational but rush hour was a disaster for about 2 weeks. The failed drive was an old, non-standard (8 inch platters, maybe?) one and there were no replacements readily available. The control computers adapt the system to various traffic flows. For example, morning and evening rush hours require different timing for best flow. BTW, Lakewood now has a redundant backup system. For some odd reason, there was suddenly some money available to fix the system more or less right.
This is almost irrelevant considering their market share but if you started opening the latest version of WordPerfect before StarOffice, I'm sure you could write a chapter or two in Star before WP made it. Corel has absoutely destroyed what was my favorite word processor.
You must not support the same Windows that I do. I just spent Friday night and Saturday morning trying to clean up a botched modem install on a W2K laptop. Finding and deleting files manually, searching and editing the regestry for multiple abandoned keys, frequent reboots. It was my father-in-law's machine. He is more computer literate than most but was completely lost. Don't tell me Windows is ready for the desktop. Its there by default in most cases but that doesn't mean its any better than Linux. At work, we have numerous Unix-flavor boxes that just run day in and day out. We keep Ghost images of our Windows workstations on the network because we don't have time to figure out all the problems that crop up. We just give them a fresh working image and walk away.
O K, Win2000 may possibly run all right if you get it running. I just spent a good chunk of my weekend trying to get a modem configured and running on a W2K laptop. I probably rebooted the thing 50 times over 2 days with only limited success. The 2K box behind me appears to be locked up after trying to run a web application. Frankly, so far, I haven't had much better luck with 2K than with '95. Back to taxes - the itemized extras for my long distance were more last month than the actual calls.
Time to pick a nit! There is no such thing as a Caddy Navigator. The Navigator is built by Ford and carries the Lincoln nameplate. Cadillac makes the Escalade and their version of the Chevy Avalanche. On-Star does, however, definitly have that capability. An Escalade was recently stolen out of the owner's driveway in Denver. The owner contacted On-Star who called the police and told them where the vehicle was. Stolen to recovered in about 1/2 hour, IIRC.
Wire cutters may be illegal ( and crude and obvious) but they are talking solid state devices here. It would be a real shame if I happened to shuffle across a few yards of carpet and accidentally discharge myself through a needle into one of those connectors on the black box, wouldn't it? Come to think about it, don't most cars come with a multi-kilovolt, pulsed power supply built right in? As usual, the sheepeople will get caught but the Geeks will maintain a measure of freedom.