As a matter of fact a one of the companies in my ity did that! 40$ Buys you a cell phone with UNLIMITED local area code #s, anytime anywhere, plus you can sign up for any long distance providers like your old telco. Basically it is pretty much identical to the telco were on, witht the exception it costs 8$ more...but again, that is a small price to pay for such a nice,. convenient method of communication. The plan is called "FIDO-CITY" and witll probably be availlable in most cities throught US-Canada soon. Here is more info:
Most cable companies nowdays have a little clause in contract that allows them to CUT OFF your cable (1 warning, 2 warning, 3 3day cable cutoff, 4 1month curoff...), if you break their "Acceptible Usage Policy" or whatever buzzwords your local Cable ISP uses. That is when AUP (Acceptable Usage Policy department) starts harrassing you with those warnings, happened to my friend, and another guy who was running his office through cable (why he did it is even beyound me).
So if we are to follow that line of reasoning they may start selling laptops at a loss just to get you to buy their overpriced cartriges? That could be another business strategy. (Although i have a feeling that most/.'ers will mod theirs the moment they get them).:)
In most of the cases THEY are not the ones paying for the bandwidth that they take up and the loss of productivity that they cause. If they were to pay me for my bandwidth, my company for letting me browse the herbal viagra ad, and compensate me for reading all that crap...i would not be so adamantly against them....
Seriously, fates of so many people rest in the hands of SysAdmins, so why not call them by what we really are Bastard Operators From Hell. (The younger ones can be called PFY's).
If you think im flamin or dont know what im talking about, here is a little funny reading material down @ register:)
straight. You are actually condoning violence JUST to get M$ out of the way? Why? Suppose OSS did suceed by employing such tactics. Well guess what, you have just set a precedent. That means that ANYONE else can do the same thing, empoy your ex-employees to write viruses against you (or in OS case band a bunch of devs to dot he job just so their distro could win), and so in a viscious circle it will go. That is why Nazis DIDN't use poison gas during WWII, they knew that if they did they would also have to pay the price, and both sides had huge, and extremely effective quantaties of poison gas/chemichals. Same with US and USSR, they both had nukes, and yet they havent used them, that is because of MAD (mutually assured destruction). NO, the ony way to unseat microsoft is to actually organize, band together, and stand up. Make products that are superior in every way, cheap and yet simple to use. That is the only way to slay the beast that is now M$. Yeah i realize that this sounds kind of paranoid, but just think about it, say a group does form a little "cyberterrorist alliance" (no i dont mean the anti_US crap, i mean anti M$, so say they do a whole lot of attacks, and largely suceed in bringing down windoze boxen, then what M$ has 80 Billion$ in the bank, what makes you think that they couldnt hire just as much, if not even more people and do the same thing to us? Somehow i dont think (for example) a whole building full of hindu programmers actually care for "open source". Pay them money, tell them what to do, and voila you've got war on your hands. Ok i have ranted enough:) these are all what-if scenarios, not accurate (probably), but i hope that they have at least got something that even remotely resembles a shred of a point across.
Will you let me know what happens with this order? I'm extremely curious about whether or not they honor it - and I'd be willing to buy one off you for an appropriate price:D</i>
I am also extremely interested wether such large transnational companies will honor such a request. Oh and if you end up having a couple left over, i would also be willing to get one off'ya for an appropriate price:P
Wasn't there an article on slashdot approximatley 3 months ago about a Japanese scientist who could fool 95% of ALL fingerprint sensors (even those that require heat/heartbeat)? According to him all one would have to do is lift a fingerprint, make a PCB mould out of it, pour Jell-o(?) and glue it to his finger, and voila, the owner could get framed for anything. I see no way one could make fool-proof guns these days, as retinal scan or DNA sampling would take too long to authenticate, and in case of emergency, chances are the user would be loong dead/injured/unconcous/kidnapped/tied up... to get any use out of it. I say it is a noble idea, but other than for the army (set a 12 hr timeout so that the gun will work for while soldier is doing his 10 hour patrol or whatnot...) i can see no useful uses.
We'll switch the chips with M$-approved valves, they may be bulky, heavy, hot, requte 200 MW generator strapped to your back, explode for no apparent reason whatsoever, but they sure as hell are immune to EMP pulse Untill the gun BSOD's). Which brings me to a more serious note...why do you thing some of the Russian tanks had (and still have?) vaves in them; we used to make fun of them before but with advent of "E-Bombs" they sure seem useful again (valves should be EMP-proof).
Well you dont have to..the article never mentioned this but what is the lifetime of the batteries? I mean you may have just bought the gun and by the time you bring it home just the GPS would have drained it a bit...then your clone will have to buy a Microsoft(R) Kwik-E-Charger:)
I mean USSR built at least 3 operational(?) craft that had higher carrying capacity, and that were considerably better designed; oh and they didn't have to haul them for 7 days on a platform (space shuttles have to be moved on a vehicle with 17(?) drivers from hangar to launch pad, thus increasing costs and time. I heard something about Putin saying that he will reactivate the program, and i was wondering, why doesent NASA just simply go into partnership with them?
I always found Nvidea to have the best drivers, and ATI ti have the best-engineered cards, both in preformance/capabilities AND in thermal solution arena.
ExtremeTech best put the noise issue in this ending sentence:
If you've already got enough fans getting air in and out of your CPU case to power a wind farm, then the GeForceFX will be right at home in your rig.
McClure indicated that last week's announcement of a cessation of hostilities between the music industry and a pair of tech lobby groups would not change the coalition's strategy
McLure? Troy McLURE? What next? Dr. Nick Riviera as health advisor? No wonder they are trying to stop him!
That is why a majority of P2P apps have a preview button, so that you can see what you are downloading. I believe that the majority of people who do indeed go onto P2P networks have some sort of broadband, which means that once you search for a song, all one would have to do is download multiple files at once and preview them periodically (deleting the SCUM files), and hence there would be little or no time loss (unless the person you are downloading from takes his/her sweet time or ques you). Also i saw on sourceforge a gnutella project that will allow you to "blacklist" certain users, dont know how exactly that would work (wather it blacklists IP or user or file).
Or the geeks will now be forced to get fake ID's as well, not to drink but to play games, and all the best Buy counters will have that "wont sell games/tobacco/liquor/guns to anyone under 18" Would be a funny one to enforce as well, since mosto fe the employees at best buy are only likw 17.
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Ummm did tey get their article shlashdotted? That is what you get when you brag!/. r00lz!
On the more serious note i find it very interesting that the other article gave an average load of 21% whereas now they are somewhere in oblivion. Could this have anything to do with the timr that the article is posted? (IE: If they post it 9:00 PST or when majority os slahdotters are online and the first article they saw was this one?)
Alien Technology won't reveal how it charges for each tag, but industry estimates hover around 25 cents. The company does predict that in quantities of 1 billion, RFID tags will approach 10 cents each, and in lots of 10 billion, the industry's holy grail of 5 cents a tag.
Now, didnt gilette order something like half a billion of RFID's for only something ~7.5 each? That is pretty close to their holy grail of 5, which means that any consortium or any company with high production output could attain the RFID's for something like ~9-12. Which brings me to another question, why does the reporter quote higher prices?
There are a lot of rogue WAP servers out there, and if you know where to go you can download the tones for free, the only thing you have to pay for is airtime, which would be ~30sec-1min (or you can download them to your PC and then PC-Link it to the phone). Also Nokia introduced a MIDI phone about 6 months ago, some of my friends have it and have set up their own WAP servers with MIDI from which they uploaded the song (apparently the PC link to that phone doesent seem to work). But i must admit that the sound is cool! (Ever seen heads turn as someone's phone starts ringing Zelda theme in full MIDI at the top of its digital lungs?)
Dude you really need to get your geography right! We are insulted that you think the great people's Russian workers union and slavedrivers guild would buy such a substandard car like Yugo. Yugo was made in Former republic of Yugoslavia, (now Serbia) and from what i heard it is a fairly resillient car (some guys have had it for over 30 years and other than some rust and a whole boatload of spare parts it is apparently still ticking:) ) Next time if you wanna go witht "IN SOVIET RUSSIA"[SIC.] Use OUR "national brand" Lada.:) (which apparently came with it's toolkit (since breakdowns were so common).
I'm sorry what downtime are you talking about?:) That must be due to static electricity generated by the friction between your HDD motor and platters, it's all your fault. I think more money and funds are needed to further research this...inconvenience...after all you would'nt want to loose all your backups:) More info on BOFHhere.
Now M$ is IBM's biatch! That is if they still want the support for x86-M$ platforms. It would be very interesting to see weather IBM will continiue its current trend or put more emphasis in R&D on AIX/Linux platforms....plus if M$ screws it up, and they loose the support it will cost them quite a bit to develop their own version, at least ?2? years, and a couple of billion down the drain. (The non fiber-optic version that is:)
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As a matter of fact a one of the companies in my ity did that! 40$ Buys you a cell phone with UNLIMITED local area code #s, anytime anywhere, plus you can sign up for any long distance providers like your old telco. Basically it is pretty much identical to the telco were on, witht the exception it costs 8$ more...but again, that is a small price to pay for such a nice,. convenient method of communication. The plan is called "FIDO-CITY" and witll probably be availlable in most cities throught US-Canada soon. Here is more info:
Most cable companies nowdays have a little clause in contract that allows them to CUT OFF your cable (1 warning, 2 warning, 3 3day cable cutoff, 4 1month curoff...), if you break their "Acceptible Usage Policy" or whatever buzzwords your local Cable ISP uses. That is when AUP (Acceptable Usage Policy department) starts harrassing you with those warnings, happened to my friend, and another guy who was running his office through cable (why he did it is even beyound me).
So if we are to follow that line of reasoning they may start selling laptops at a loss just to get you to buy their overpriced cartriges? That could be another business strategy. (Although i have a feeling that most /.'ers will mod theirs the moment they get them). :)
In most of the cases THEY are not the ones paying for the bandwidth that they take up and the loss of productivity that they cause. If they were to pay me for my bandwidth, my company for letting me browse the herbal viagra ad, and compensate me for reading all that crap...i would not be so adamantly against them....
Only in a perfect world.....
Seriously, fates of so many people rest in the hands of SysAdmins, so why not call them by what we really are Bastard Operators From Hell. (The younger ones can be called PFY's).
:)
If you think im flamin or dont know what im talking about, here is a little funny reading material down @ register
straight. You are actually condoning violence JUST to get M$ out of the way? Why? Suppose OSS did suceed by employing such tactics. Well guess what, you have just set a precedent. That means that ANYONE else can do the same thing, empoy your ex-employees to write viruses against you (or in OS case band a bunch of devs to dot he job just so their distro could win), and so in a viscious circle it will go. That is why Nazis DIDN't use poison gas during WWII, they knew that if they did they would also have to pay the price, and both sides had huge, and extremely effective quantaties of poison gas/chemichals. Same with US and USSR, they both had nukes, and yet they havent used them, that is because of MAD (mutually assured destruction). NO, the ony way to unseat microsoft is to actually organize, band together, and stand up. Make products that are superior in every way, cheap and yet simple to use. That is the only way to slay the beast that is now M$. Yeah i realize that this sounds kind of paranoid, but just think about it, say a group does form a little "cyberterrorist alliance" (no i dont mean the anti_US crap, i mean anti M$, so say they do a whole lot of attacks, and largely suceed in bringing down windoze boxen, then what M$ has 80 Billion$ in the bank, what makes you think that they couldnt hire just as much, if not even more people and do the same thing to us? Somehow i dont think (for example) a whole building full of hindu programmers actually care for "open source". Pay them money, tell them what to do, and voila you've got war on your hands. Ok i have ranted enough :) these are all what-if scenarios, not accurate (probably), but i hope that they have at least got something that even remotely resembles a shred of a point across.
Will you let me know what happens with this order? I'm extremely curious about whether or not they honor it - and I'd be willing to buy one off you for an appropriate price :D</i>
:P
I am also extremely interested wether such large transnational companies will honor such a request. Oh and if you end up having a couple left over, i would also be willing to get one off'ya for an appropriate price
I can just see it now, the kids, being sick of having to drag their gear can just build a panzer, complete with a potato gun!
Wasn't there an article on slashdot approximatley 3 months ago about a Japanese scientist who could fool 95% of ALL fingerprint sensors (even those that require heat/heartbeat)? According to him all one would have to do is lift a fingerprint, make a PCB mould out of it, pour Jell-o(?) and glue it to his finger, and voila, the owner could get framed for anything. I see no way one could make fool-proof guns these days, as retinal scan or DNA sampling would take too long to authenticate, and in case of emergency, chances are the user would be loong dead/injured/unconcous/kidnapped/tied up... to get any use out of it. I say it is a noble idea, but other than for the army (set a 12 hr timeout so that the gun will work for while soldier is doing his 10 hour patrol or whatnot...) i can see no useful uses.
NO PROBLEM!
We'll switch the chips with M$-approved valves, they may be bulky, heavy, hot, requte 200 MW generator strapped to your back, explode for no apparent reason whatsoever, but they sure as hell are immune to EMP pulse Untill the gun BSOD's). Which brings me to a more serious note...why do you thing some of the Russian tanks had (and still have?) vaves in them; we used to make fun of them before but with advent of "E-Bombs" they sure seem useful again (valves should be EMP-proof).
Well you dont have to..the article never mentioned this but what is the lifetime of the batteries? I mean you may have just bought the gun and by the time you bring it home just the GPS would have drained it a bit...then your clone will have to buy a Microsoft(R) Kwik-E-Charger :)
I mean USSR built at least 3 operational(?) craft that had higher carrying capacity, and that were considerably better designed; oh and they didn't have to haul them for 7 days on a platform (space shuttles have to be moved on a vehicle with 17(?) drivers from hangar to launch pad, thus increasing costs and time. I heard something about Putin saying that he will reactivate the program, and i was wondering, why doesent NASA just simply go into partnership with them?
Anyone know more about this?
Did anyone notice that the icon for gimp is ANIMATED (his eys move) is this me, or is this the FIRST animated gif on slashdot??
I always found Nvidea to have the best drivers, and ATI ti have the best-engineered cards, both in preformance/capabilities AND in thermal solution arena.
ExtremeTech best put the noise issue in this ending sentence:
If you've already got enough fans getting air in and out of your CPU case to power a wind farm, then the GeForceFX will be right at home in your rig.
McClure indicated that last week's announcement of a cessation of hostilities between the music industry and a pair of tech lobby groups would not change the coalition's strategy
:)
McLure? Troy McLURE? What next? Dr. Nick Riviera as health advisor? No wonder they are trying to stop him!
It's a joke people
That is why a majority of P2P apps have a preview button, so that you can see what you are downloading. I believe that the majority of people who do indeed go onto P2P networks have some sort of broadband, which means that once you search for a song, all one would have to do is download multiple files at once and preview them periodically (deleting the SCUM files), and hence there would be little or no time loss (unless the person you are downloading from takes his/her sweet time or ques you). Also i saw on sourceforge a gnutella project that will allow you to "blacklist" certain users, dont know how exactly that would work (wather it blacklists IP or user or file).
Or the geeks will now be forced to get fake ID's as well, not to drink but to play games, and all the best Buy counters will have that "wont sell games/tobacco/liquor/guns to anyone under 18" Would be a funny one to enforce as well, since mosto fe the employees at best buy are only likw 17.
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Ummm did tey get their article shlashdotted? That is what you get when you brag!
On the more serious note i find it very interesting that the other article gave an average load of 21% whereas now they are somewhere in oblivion. Could this have anything to do with the timr that the article is posted? (IE: If they post it 9:00 PST or when majority os slahdotters are online and the first article they saw was this one?)
only a 21% average
:)
Aaaah, the one that got away
Alien Technology won't reveal how it charges for each tag, but industry estimates hover around 25 cents. The company does predict that in quantities of 1 billion, RFID tags will approach 10 cents each, and in lots of 10 billion, the industry's holy grail of 5 cents a tag.
Now, didnt gilette order something like half a billion of RFID's for only something ~7.5 each? That is pretty close to their holy grail of 5, which means that any consortium or any company with high production output could attain the RFID's for something like ~9-12. Which brings me to another question, why does the reporter quote higher prices?
There are a lot of rogue WAP servers out there, and if you know where to go you can download the tones for free, the only thing you have to pay for is airtime, which would be ~30sec-1min (or you can download them to your PC and then PC-Link it to the phone). Also Nokia introduced a MIDI phone about 6 months ago, some of my friends have it and have set up their own WAP servers with MIDI from which they uploaded the song (apparently the PC link to that phone doesent seem to work). But i must admit that the sound is cool! (Ever seen heads turn as someone's phone starts ringing Zelda theme in full MIDI at the top of its digital lungs?)
Here is the link to ONE of the MIDI phones.
(remember the Yugo?)
:) ) Next time if you wanna go witht "IN SOVIET RUSSIA"[SIC.] Use OUR "national brand" Lada. :) (which apparently came with it's toolkit (since breakdowns were so common).
Dude you really need to get your geography right! We are insulted that you think the great people's Russian workers union and slavedrivers guild would buy such a substandard car like Yugo. Yugo was made in Former republic of Yugoslavia, (now Serbia) and from what i heard it is a fairly resillient car (some guys have had it for over 30 years and other than some rust and a whole boatload of spare parts it is apparently still ticking
I'm sorry what downtime are you talking about? :) That must be due to static electricity generated by the friction between your HDD motor and platters, it's all your fault. I think more money and funds are needed to further research this...inconvenience...after all you would'nt want to loose all your backups :) More info on BOFHhere.
Now M$ is IBM's biatch! That is if they still want the support for x86-M$ platforms. It would be very interesting to see weather IBM will continiue its current trend or put more emphasis in R&D on AIX/Linux platforms....plus if M$ screws it up, and they loose the support it will cost them quite a bit to develop their own version, at least ?2? years, and a couple of billion down the drain. (The non fiber-optic version that is :)
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