...and filtering out messages with misspelled words grammar problems. Then again, we wouldn't be able to communicate with other Slashdot users. Hrmm...
One reason for this I can think of: A digital camera is useless with-out a computer. Try useing a digital camera with-out a way to re-charge the batteries!
How are these two related? I have a charger that recharges AA batteries. When the batteries are dead, it doesn't affect the photos as they are stored in non-volatile memory. You can also bring standard smart media chips to places like Walmart to have prints made.
I would actually like to see job posting we can moderate. -1 Vague, -1 Demanding, -1 Wants more years of experience than product has been around, etc...
maybe a 1-1 mappings of the keywords for different human languages, and a veiwer/editor that autoconverts it for your prefered locale, hmmm
According to a professor of mine, they've tried things like this in the past, with poor results. Although I don't know about Far Eastern nations with non-latin based languages, translating the computer languages simply hindered German and French programmers. He made the point that most musical terminology is based off of Italian words and that we haven't bothered to translate them into English.
Because there are only so many people they can fit on a particular frequency at any one point in time. When you max the limit, it causes outages. Since that is more likely to happen during the day than at night, the cell phone providers limit minutes during the day.
If you absolutely must use your cell phone for hours and hours on end everday, you can always upgrade your plan, or pay for the extra time you're using the frequency. Or, instead of yakking on the phone all day, you could actually talk to people in person.
and account status via sms.. that's so 1995's.
Well, you complained about not being able to keep track of used minutes. An SMS isn't good enough for you?
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Besides which, there are many areas that still don't have broadband connections at all. And not just in rural areas. I was staying at a friend's house in suburban St. Louis (Eureka) and not only were they too far out for DSL, they couldn't even get cable tv.
counting 'local' and whatnot minutes is freakking silly too
I haven't seen plans that have 'local' minutes. I have seen a few that don't include long distance, but most of them do. Other than that, it generally breaks down into Daytime, Mobile-To-Mobile, and Night & Weekends. Daytime is usually around 200-500 minutes and the latter two are either in the thousands or unlimited. On Verizon, you can get an account status via text message on demand that shows you how much of each you've used. If you go over your limit, you pay $.xx per minute. Not hard, and not silly.
...to think otherwise would be foolish. They know that most people won't even be aware it's going on, and that aside from the/. crowd, nobody will make any noise about it.
Remember, free speech does *not* mean you can yell fire in a crowded theater. It does not mean you can threaten anyone's life, at least in the state of California, if it is reasonable to suppose that you may carry out the threat and you have the reasonable ability to do so.
Your examples of not-so-free speech come from cases where someone's immediate, personal security is at risk. This is not the case with the NRA site.
-Joe
The way to manage the mediocrity is to publish to a forum, where the readers (listeners) are also the editors or judges. The crap settles to the bottom and the good stuff is listed on the front page.
So Slashdot is high class journalism?
However, isn't sales tax based on the location of the retailer rather than the buyer? For example, if I wanted to buy one of those cheap Linux PCs for $200 on the Web, and they were based in Wisconsin.. then I'd pay $210?
It's based on the location of the buyer. If the buyer and the seller are in the same place, then you pay the local sales tax. If you order something through the mail/Internet/phone, you're supposed to pay your home state's sales tax, although people never do as it's nearly impossible to enforce. So, if you bought the $200 computer from Wisconsin through the mail, but you lived in Pennsylvania (6% sales tax), you should pay $212, but you'd only be charged $200. If you live in Wisconsin and order the machine from the same company, then you will be charged $210.
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What has apple given back to the free software community?
Its not that hard to tell what he was talking about, he just left out a few details. From what he said, we can assume that 1 hour and 40 minutes of wage at whatever rate he's paid at is more than $40.
-Joe
...the school you refer to does not exist. It was orignally described as a school in Maine, but there was a recycling logo from Pennsylvania on there when the article was originally posted on Slashdot. If you look more closely, you can see that it's clearly a hoax.
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Or even an hour and a half to Canton/Akron. (Which in my experience has been even cheaper and less congested than Cleveland.)
Fallacy. 10 Point fallacy.
You must be new here.
Or he just browses at +2.
...and filtering out messages with misspelled words grammar problems. Then again, we wouldn't be able to communicate with other Slashdot users. Hrmm...
One reason for this I can think of: A digital camera is useless with-out a computer. Try useing a digital camera with-out a way to re-charge the batteries!
How are these two related? I have a charger that recharges AA batteries. When the batteries are dead, it doesn't affect the photos as they are stored in non-volatile memory. You can also bring standard smart media chips to places like Walmart to have prints made.
At best you get a 'install disk' that some 14 year old kid hacked up with Visual Basic.
Our local mom-and-pop ISP comes to your house and sets everything up for you, free of charge. No setup fee. YourInter.net
I would actually like to see job posting we can moderate. -1 Vague, -1 Demanding, -1 Wants more years of experience than product has been around, etc...
maybe a 1-1 mappings of the keywords for different human languages, and a veiwer/editor that autoconverts it for your prefered locale, hmmm
According to a professor of mine, they've tried things like this in the past, with poor results. Although I don't know about Far Eastern nations with non-latin based languages, translating the computer languages simply hindered German and French programmers. He made the point that most musical terminology is based off of Italian words and that we haven't bothered to translate them into English.
why the need for having silly minute ceilings?
Because there are only so many people they can fit on a particular frequency at any one point in time. When you max the limit, it causes outages. Since that is more likely to happen during the day than at night, the cell phone providers limit minutes during the day.
If you absolutely must use your cell phone for hours and hours on end everday, you can always upgrade your plan, or pay for the extra time you're using the frequency. Or, instead of yakking on the phone all day, you could actually talk to people in person.
and account status via sms.. that's so 1995's.
Well, you complained about not being able to keep track of used minutes. An SMS isn't good enough for you?
Hmm... sounds exactly like being online.
Well, at least on Slashdot.
Besides which, there are many areas that still don't have broadband connections at all. And not just in rural areas. I was staying at a friend's house in suburban St. Louis (Eureka) and not only were they too far out for DSL, they couldn't even get cable tv.
counting 'local' and whatnot minutes is freakking silly too
I haven't seen plans that have 'local' minutes. I have seen a few that don't include long distance, but most of them do. Other than that, it generally breaks down into Daytime, Mobile-To-Mobile, and Night & Weekends. Daytime is usually around 200-500 minutes and the latter two are either in the thousands or unlimited. On Verizon, you can get an account status via text message on demand that shows you how much of each you've used. If you go over your limit, you pay $.xx per minute. Not hard, and not silly.
...to think otherwise would be foolish. They know that most people won't even be aware it's going on, and that aside from the /. crowd, nobody will make any noise about it.
-Joe
Remember, free speech does *not* mean you can yell fire in a crowded theater. It does not mean you can threaten anyone's life, at least in the state of California, if it is reasonable to suppose that you may carry out the threat and you have the reasonable ability to do so.
Your examples of not-so-free speech come from cases where someone's immediate, personal security is at risk. This is not the case with the NRA site. -Joe
My 8 year old brother has a Visa Check Card through our credit union.
The way to manage the mediocrity is to publish to a forum, where the readers (listeners) are also the editors or judges. The crap settles to the bottom and the good stuff is listed on the front page.
So Slashdot is high class journalism?
-Joe
It's based on the location of the buyer. If the buyer and the seller are in the same place, then you pay the local sales tax. If you order something through the mail/Internet/phone, you're supposed to pay your home state's sales tax, although people never do as it's nearly impossible to enforce. So, if you bought the $200 computer from Wisconsin through the mail, but you lived in Pennsylvania (6% sales tax), you should pay $212, but you'd only be charged $200. If you live in Wisconsin and order the machine from the same company, then you will be charged $210.
Updates to the KHTML group for starters.
Maybe I should move to Canada...
-Joe
My school's filter has blocked the Muzzle Awards under the category of "Pornographic and Recreational Nudity"! -Joe
Ever try to explain wireless networking to a normal person by using the term 802.11b? THAT'S fun.
The last article was blocked by my school's filter!
Its not that hard to tell what he was talking about, he just left out a few details. From what he said, we can assume that 1 hour and 40 minutes of wage at whatever rate he's paid at is more than $40. -Joe
Well, if you'd had a DAB radio in your car (Digital Audio Broadcast) That would be if you live in the UK.
...the school you refer to does not exist. It was orignally described as a school in Maine, but there was a recycling logo from Pennsylvania on there when the article was originally posted on Slashdot. If you look more closely, you can see that it's clearly a hoax.