...markets are served by multiple broadband vendors (Cable, Satellite, wireless, fiber)
Multiple vendors? Cable, check; Satellite--nobody who has other options uses satellite, performance doesn't compare to DSL or cable. It's OK if there's no other options (out in the sticks), but it's not a "competitor". Wireless--not available where I live, probably not in most places. If you live in Philadelphia, you're lucky--boy, never thought I'd say that! Fiber--you've got to be kidding, you can get fiber to your door for less than a king's ransom?
Face it, in 90% of America it's cable or DSL, which makes a duopoly, a far cry from a free market, which is why it's grossly over priced.
I see Wimax as our only hope for breaking this up, but I'm sure Comcast & Co. will bribe our legislatures to either outlaw it or give them an exclusive monopoly on it.
...if that Marine could've incapacitated that child instead of killing him, then the Marine can go home knowing that he completed his mission and didn't have to shoot a child, and that child can go home alive.
So the child goes home alive, then gets another gun and comes after you tomorrow? Or do you throw the kid in prison, until he learns to love those who have invaded his country?
I have tremendous respect for our armed forces, but let's face it, Bush and Co have put them in an impossible situation. If Arabs invaded the US to share the benefits of Islamic law with us, how much would we welcome them?
First off, let me just say I hate, I hate, I HATE floppy disks. Nothing would make me happier than to see them all burn in hell. But it aint happening soon.
I manage computer labs at a large university, and the friggin floppy is still the storage medium of choice of a large percentage of our students. Until generation Y--or are we up to Z yet--realizes that they suck, we'll have to keep supporting the damn things, and fishing the metal covers out of the drive when they break off the disk. We tried buying computers without internal floppies and just getting a few external drives, but they didn't take the hint. We're replacing those this year, and the new machines will all have floppies.
Contrary to popular belief, most kids are not very tech-savvy. They may know how to operate MP3 players and Playstations, but that's about it. Certainly there are exceptions, but they're a minority.
I suggest that you also require that Annheuser-Busch (HQ in St. Louis) start producing real beer. And pay some sort of restitution for the decades they've been brewing and marketing swill to an unsuspecting public.
Cassette use declining is NEWS? Give me a break! A couple weeks ago I submitted an interesting column by Cringely describing a way to fight back against phishers, instead they posted an article that had already been on/. twice. And now they post this drivel?
How about the part where Walmart's wages are so low that their employees qualify for public assistance...food stamps, etc? That's right, build a Walmart, watch your tax base shrink and your demand for taxpayer funded services rise. May not be evil, but it's pretty damned close.
Can't predict what it will be called, but it definitley won't have the word Tablet in it. Because Steve doesn't want to be seen as following Bill's (or anyone else's) lead, and tablet's been done. Think Different, remember?
There's a Dungeon Seige version of Ultima V--search for Lazarus on download.com, and I believe there's a NWN version of Ultima IV. Haven't tried them myself.
Maybe he is stoned. I thought the book was pretty good. Didn't finish it, but that's because it got lost during my wife's latest reorginization of the house. Hopefully it will hsow up soon. I think Stoll's point that "teaching computers" consumes time and resources that could be better used to teach the 3 R's, especially to pre-highschool kids, is valid.
That's quite a stretch. There's a very limited number of seats available at a press conference, and the White House has a duty to restrict access based on legitimate criteria. I wouldn't include being a GOP schill as legitimate criteria. Call me old fashioned.
There is no limit to the number of journalists that can operate in the US/world, so government has no business determining who is or is not a journalist.
I just don't get the fascination with ringtones. Iwas meeting with a sales rep last week and his phone erupted into AC/DC about 5 times, I found it annoying as hell. Does that qualify me for Stodgy Old Bastardhood? If so, send me my membership card. And buy a belt, you low-riding punk!
The private sector has had decades to set up something but they've failed to even take notice.
Uh, most people hadn't even heard of the internet 10 years ago, and certainly not broadband. I agree with your point, but be careful how you support it.
I've recently installed Epson scanners on OS-X and Win2K and had none of permissions problems you mention. The HP scanners that they replaced, on the other hand, dwelled in Permissions Hell on both platforms.
Go to MS' website and find the page where you can download ALL the critical patches for XP. Actually, don't bother, becasue it doesn't exist.
So if I install XP fresh and want to patch it, I can go to Windows Update and hope that the patches download and install before my box gets owned...and I've seen freshly-imaged PCs get compromised after being on the network for less than two minutes. Or I can use a patched machine to hunt through the MS website and download all the patches one by one. Ridiculous!
Service Packs are not sufficently up to date, and don't get me started on SP2. Why don't they have ONE page to download all the security patches so I can then burn them to CD? If such a page does exist, they do a great job of hiding it, which supports my point.
"Unlike private corporations governments have incredible methods of ignoring laws and worse writing new ones"
You ever hear of Enron? Or how about Comcast, who pushed through a law in Penssylvania making it illegal for cities to set up WiFi networks (they gave Philly an exemption to get the law passed).
Your distrust of government is warrented, my friend, but to suggest that corporations are any more trustworthy is ludicruous. Remember, politicians are motivated by desire for power, CEOs by power AND greed.
Yeah, call me cynical.
I'm surprised no one has brought up this article, considering it was mentioned on Slashdot yesterday. Much cheaper to go WiFi than running fibre to every home, and easier to upgrade. Probably not the best solution for rural areas, but that's a tiny fraction of the US population.
I always thought the tweezers on my little Swissy were pretty pathetic, until I needed to extract an errant screw lodged in my motherboard. One of those things I don't use often, but does come in handy and it looks like it would have been easy to include.
While they're at it, they should throw in the plastic toothpick!
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...markets are served by multiple broadband vendors (Cable, Satellite, wireless, fiber)
Multiple vendors? Cable, check; Satellite--nobody who has other options uses satellite, performance doesn't compare to DSL or cable. It's OK if there's no other options (out in the sticks), but it's not a "competitor". Wireless--not available where I live, probably not in most places. If you live in Philadelphia, you're lucky--boy, never thought I'd say that! Fiber--you've got to be kidding, you can get fiber to your door for less than a king's ransom?
Face it, in 90% of America it's cable or DSL, which makes a duopoly, a far cry from a free market, which is why it's grossly over priced.
I see Wimax as our only hope for breaking this up, but I'm sure Comcast & Co. will bribe our legislatures to either outlaw it or give them an exclusive monopoly on it.
...if that Marine could've incapacitated that child instead of killing him, then the Marine can go home knowing that he completed his mission and didn't have to shoot a child, and that child can go home alive.
So the child goes home alive, then gets another gun and comes after you tomorrow? Or do you throw the kid in prison, until he learns to love those who have invaded his country?
I have tremendous respect for our armed forces, but let's face it, Bush and Co have put them in an impossible situation. If Arabs invaded the US to share the benefits of Islamic law with us, how much would we welcome them?
First off, let me just say I hate, I hate, I HATE floppy disks. Nothing would make me happier than to see them all burn in hell. But it aint happening soon. I manage computer labs at a large university, and the friggin floppy is still the storage medium of choice of a large percentage of our students. Until generation Y--or are we up to Z yet--realizes that they suck, we'll have to keep supporting the damn things, and fishing the metal covers out of the drive when they break off the disk.
We tried buying computers without internal floppies and just getting a few external drives, but they didn't take the hint. We're replacing those this year, and the new machines will all have floppies. Contrary to popular belief, most kids are not very tech-savvy. They may know how to operate MP3 players and Playstations, but that's about it. Certainly there are exceptions, but they're a minority.
I suggest that you also require that Annheuser-Busch (HQ in St. Louis) start producing real beer. And pay some sort of restitution for the decades they've been brewing and marketing swill to an unsuspecting public.
Cassette use declining is NEWS? Give me a break! A couple weeks ago I submitted an interesting column by Cringely describing a way to fight back against phishers, instead they posted an article that had already been on /. twice. And now they post this drivel?
If I had a subscription, I'd cancel it.
you'd have seen that the device includes an emergency air supply for those situations.
How about the part where Walmart's wages are so low that their employees qualify for public assistance...food stamps, etc? That's right, build a Walmart, watch your tax base shrink and your demand for taxpayer funded services rise. May not be evil, but it's pretty damned close.
Can't predict what it will be called, but it definitley won't have the word Tablet in it. Because Steve doesn't want to be seen as following Bill's (or anyone else's) lead, and tablet's been done. Think Different, remember?
There's a Dungeon Seige version of Ultima V--search for Lazarus on download.com, and I believe there's a NWN version of Ultima IV. Haven't tried them myself.
Sorry to be a stickler, but c'mon, democratic isn't that hard to get right, Mr. Berra.
How the hell is saying "I just don't get his humor" insightful?
Bottom line - there is no shortcut to learning. If you take one, you're not learning.
F****ing Brilliant! Amen!
Maybe he is stoned. I thought the book was pretty good. Didn't finish it, but that's because it got lost during my wife's latest reorginization of the house. Hopefully it will hsow up soon. I think Stoll's point that "teaching computers" consumes time and resources that could be better used to teach the 3 R's, especially to pre-highschool kids, is valid.
That's quite a stretch. There's a very limited number of seats available at a press conference, and the White House has a duty to restrict access based on legitimate criteria. I wouldn't include being a GOP schill as legitimate criteria. Call me old fashioned. There is no limit to the number of journalists that can operate in the US/world, so government has no business determining who is or is not a journalist.
I just don't get the fascination with ringtones. Iwas meeting with a sales rep last week and his phone erupted into AC/DC about 5 times, I found it annoying as hell. Does that qualify me for Stodgy Old Bastardhood? If so, send me my membership card. And buy a belt, you low-riding punk!
The private sector has had decades to set up something but they've failed to even take notice.
Uh, most people hadn't even heard of the internet 10 years ago, and certainly not broadband. I agree with your point, but be careful how you support it.
I've recently installed Epson scanners on OS-X and Win2K and had none of permissions problems you mention. The HP scanners that they replaced, on the other hand, dwelled in Permissions Hell on both platforms.
Go to MS' website and find the page where you can download ALL the critical patches for XP. Actually, don't bother, becasue it doesn't exist. So if I install XP fresh and want to patch it, I can go to Windows Update and hope that the patches download and install before my box gets owned...and I've seen freshly-imaged PCs get compromised after being on the network for less than two minutes. Or I can use a patched machine to hunt through the MS website and download all the patches one by one. Ridiculous!
Service Packs are not sufficently up to date, and don't get me started on SP2. Why don't they have ONE page to download all the security patches so I can then burn them to CD? If such a page does exist, they do a great job of hiding it, which supports my point.
I'll believe it when I see it.
"Unlike private corporations governments have incredible methods of ignoring laws and worse writing new ones"
You ever hear of Enron? Or how about Comcast, who pushed through a law in Penssylvania making it illegal for cities to set up WiFi networks (they gave Philly an exemption to get the law passed).
Your distrust of government is warrented, my friend, but to suggest that corporations are any more trustworthy is ludicruous. Remember, politicians are motivated by desire for power, CEOs by power AND greed.
Yeah, call me cynical.
I feel your pain. The puppet episode was priceless.
Try getting the patch without using Windows Update. Can be done, but they don't make it easy. No help here
Update's too slow over dial up, and Comcast and Qwest already get too much of my money.
I'm surprised no one has brought up this article, considering it was mentioned on Slashdot yesterday. Much cheaper to go WiFi than running fibre to every home, and easier to upgrade. Probably not the best solution for rural areas, but that's a tiny fraction of the US population.
I always thought the tweezers on my little Swissy were pretty pathetic, until I needed to extract an errant screw lodged in my motherboard. One of those things I don't use often, but does come in handy and it looks like it would have been easy to include.
While they're at it, they should throw in the plastic toothpick!
With the nx5000, you need to change the access point and WEP settings separately for each location.
It's been a while since I've run Linux on a laptop--it was, uh, interesting--but surely they can do better than the client mentioned in the article?