The problem with that is I would need to tunnel it through almost 30 miles of National Forest, National Wilderness Area, and across the top of a 10,000+ foot mountain range. That just isn't feasable (or legal).
We recently moved to a small town in Montana, that has less than 400 people. The nearest town is about 25 miles away, and it only has a population of less than 7,000. After that, the next largest town is about 30 miles away from us, and is seperated from us by a mountain range.
Our options here for internet are limited. I can get dialup, but that won't ever connect at more than 26kbps due to the age of the phone lines. I could also get satellite, but for $100/month, and still requiring a dialup connection, I'm not interested. Our only other choice is a small local ISP that offers an 84kbps 802.11b connection for $19/month. They offer up to 1,500kbps, but I'm not willing to pay $100/month for it.
A cheap, extremely fast connection would be great, but it simply isn't feasable in this area (And probably 85% of the rest of America). That's something that I'm willing to live with, in exchange for living in a large valley, without neighbors close enough to hear everything I do.
Something beyond 1-5 stars and some reviews would be nice. Something along the lines of rating the audio quality, how often there are new episodes, how long people stay subscribed on average, etc...
Now I'll get to listen to even more poorly produced podcasts put on by people who have no business behind a microphone.
Some of the podcasts are pretty good (The ones produced by NPR are generally good), but almost all of the other's I've heard I can't stand to listen to for more than a minute or two.
I wish Apple or Yahoo would come up with a way to rate the podcasts, so I know right off which ones to not even bother wasting my time with.
I would think that almost all software vendors would be opposed to software patents. When every obvious method of doing something is patented, no one will be able to do anything.
I don't see them closing iTunes Music Store. If all of the labels backed out, Apple would probably start focusing on indie bands, and put more focus on the podcasts. I can see them allowing indie bands to set their own pricing on their songs, and providing for "premium podcasts" that require either a subscription, or purchase of individual podcasts. In fact, I wouldn't be terribly surprised if they start doing that anyways.
We're using VS2005 for the development of our next gen software here at work (C# though, not C++). VS2005 offers a lot of improvements in the IDE over VS2003, which itself was a huge improvement over the VS6 IDE. Go ahead and try installing VS2005, like the parent poster said, you will likely see large gains in productivity just because of the new IDE and debugging tools available.
From someone living in a rural part of Montana (The city of Emigrant, Population 372)...
The cost to maintain this area is far cheaper than the city we moved from (Long Beach, Ca, population 470,000). Our "expensive" gas and water services that you mentioned are handled by a well and a propane tank on our property. The electricity is provided through a non subsidized power co-op. Trash service is handled by hauling your own trash to dumping stations. The trasportation is handled by a single 2 lane highway that travels between Livingston and Yellowstone. The local communities that live along this highway are mostly connected through unpaved roads that are unplowed during the winter.
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Nice, the site owner probably added it when he added the notice to slashdot readers.
That was "The Counterfit King" episode of Breaking Vegas on the History Channel. It is a series where they highlight different ways that people have cheated casinos out of money.
Now that would be cool. Imagine the entire field, shrunk, and projected in 3d to the middle of your living room. Sort of like a high def, non interactive foosball game.
Players want to get online and play
Not all of us are into multiplayer fps games. When I have time to play, I just want to sit down and play something for a little bit, and I certainly don't want to have to pay a monthly charge to do it.
He was referring to the last time Slashdot posted a story about there being a copy of OSX for x86 on BitTorrent. The disc booted up, into a full screen image of the Goatse guy. So, the GNAA managed to get slashdot to not only post the story, but have an untold number of people spend several hours doing nothing but downloading a goatse picture.
I haven't heard anything about the GNAA trying that again, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did release it again, with the intention of fooling some of the people downloading to download their image again. That's all the grandparent poster was trying to say.
Next time, try Budget Truck Rental. Their trucks are far nicer than U-Hauls. They try to keep the trucks in their fleet no older than 4 years.
I'm looking to move to Montana in a few months, from the Los Angeles area. The one way truck rental from U-Haul was over $5,000 for a 24' truck. The slightly larger truck that Budget offers was a little over half that price. For under $3,000, I could get it will all the moving supplies I need, and an auto trailer so my wife doesn't have to drive behind me.
Not to mention that the customer service at U-Haul sucks. I've never been in there, and not have to wait nearly an hour for the 2-3 people in front of me to be taken care of before they even start renting me something. When I've rented from Budget in the past, I was completely done, and out of there within half an hour.
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the sport you play with your feet
You mean soccer?
The problem with that is I would need to tunnel it through almost 30 miles of National Forest, National Wilderness Area, and across the top of a 10,000+ foot mountain range. That just isn't feasable (or legal).
No kidding...
We recently moved to a small town in Montana, that has less than 400 people. The nearest town is about 25 miles away, and it only has a population of less than 7,000. After that, the next largest town is about 30 miles away from us, and is seperated from us by a mountain range.
Our options here for internet are limited. I can get dialup, but that won't ever connect at more than 26kbps due to the age of the phone lines. I could also get satellite, but for $100/month, and still requiring a dialup connection, I'm not interested. Our only other choice is a small local ISP that offers an 84kbps 802.11b connection for $19/month. They offer up to 1,500kbps, but I'm not willing to pay $100/month for it.
A cheap, extremely fast connection would be great, but it simply isn't feasable in this area (And probably 85% of the rest of America). That's something that I'm willing to live with, in exchange for living in a large valley, without neighbors close enough to hear everything I do.
I live in Emigrant, but commute to Bozeman. On the plus side, I'd have one hell of a show from the front window of my home.
But that still leaves us with 58% of it not coming from the US...
Perhaps mass transit isn't used much in Montana
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Hey, we've got a mass transit system here in Bozeman, Montana. Of course, it's only two busses for the entire city, but it's a start
On that note, what is stopping a young teen from going to 7-11, and paying the $10 fee for one of their prepaid credit cards?
I should have clarified what I meant...
Something beyond 1-5 stars and some reviews would be nice. Something along the lines of rating the audio quality, how often there are new episodes, how long people stay subscribed on average, etc...
Now I'll get to listen to even more poorly produced podcasts put on by people who have no business behind a microphone.
Some of the podcasts are pretty good (The ones produced by NPR are generally good), but almost all of the other's I've heard I can't stand to listen to for more than a minute or two.
I wish Apple or Yahoo would come up with a way to rate the podcasts, so I know right off which ones to not even bother wasting my time with.
I would think that almost all software vendors would be opposed to software patents. When every obvious method of doing something is patented, no one will be able to do anything.
The study, commissioned by in-game ad creators Double Fusion
An advertiser releases a report stating that their method works, and it gets picked up by slashdot?
I don't see them closing iTunes Music Store. If all of the labels backed out, Apple would probably start focusing on indie bands, and put more focus on the podcasts. I can see them allowing indie bands to set their own pricing on their songs, and providing for "premium podcasts" that require either a subscription, or purchase of individual podcasts. In fact, I wouldn't be terribly surprised if they start doing that anyways.
'What if Jobs says 39 cents or 29 cents per download - what then?
Someone is threatening their monopoly.
[ ] Still no cure for cancer
I think your Slashdot EeziPost (TM) MK I is having a conflict with the Fark SquirrelNut Commentator 3000 (TM)
From everything I've heard, the editors never even respond to dupe reports.
And something tells me that he didn't have to spend more than a few seconds "hunting" for the dupe, considering it is still on the front page.
We're using VS2005 for the development of our next gen software here at work (C# though, not C++). VS2005 offers a lot of improvements in the IDE over VS2003, which itself was a huge improvement over the VS6 IDE. Go ahead and try installing VS2005, like the parent poster said, you will likely see large gains in productivity just because of the new IDE and debugging tools available.
From someone living in a rural part of Montana (The city of Emigrant, Population 372)...
The cost to maintain this area is far cheaper than the city we moved from (Long Beach, Ca, population 470,000). Our "expensive" gas and water services that you mentioned are handled by a well and a propane tank on our property. The electricity is provided through a non subsidized power co-op. Trash service is handled by hauling your own trash to dumping stations. The trasportation is handled by a single 2 lane highway that travels between Livingston and Yellowstone. The local communities that live along this highway are mostly connected through unpaved roads that are unplowed during the winter.
Nice, the site owner probably added it when he added the notice to slashdot readers.
That was "The Counterfit King" episode of Breaking Vegas on the History Channel. It is a series where they highlight different ways that people have cheated casinos out of money.
football games
Now that would be cool. Imagine the entire field, shrunk, and projected in 3d to the middle of your living room. Sort of like a high def, non interactive foosball game.
Players want to get online and play Not all of us are into multiplayer fps games. When I have time to play, I just want to sit down and play something for a little bit, and I certainly don't want to have to pay a monthly charge to do it.
Cute kid. He looks a lot like my son. Good luck on your fight.
He was referring to the last time Slashdot posted a story about there being a copy of OSX for x86 on BitTorrent. The disc booted up, into a full screen image of the Goatse guy. So, the GNAA managed to get slashdot to not only post the story, but have an untold number of people spend several hours doing nothing but downloading a goatse picture.
I haven't heard anything about the GNAA trying that again, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did release it again, with the intention of fooling some of the people downloading to download their image again. That's all the grandparent poster was trying to say.
Next time, try Budget Truck Rental. Their trucks are far nicer than U-Hauls. They try to keep the trucks in their fleet no older than 4 years.
I'm looking to move to Montana in a few months, from the Los Angeles area. The one way truck rental from U-Haul was over $5,000 for a 24' truck. The slightly larger truck that Budget offers was a little over half that price. For under $3,000, I could get it will all the moving supplies I need, and an auto trailer so my wife doesn't have to drive behind me.
Not to mention that the customer service at U-Haul sucks. I've never been in there, and not have to wait nearly an hour for the 2-3 people in front of me to be taken care of before they even start renting me something. When I've rented from Budget in the past, I was completely done, and out of there within half an hour.
Maybe I'll buy one if I ever want a Windows key
Nice troll, but those keyboards are available with and without the windows key.
And the old Model M's are nice, but why get a decade old one, when for a reasonable price you can get a brand new one?