Some businessman is going to get smacked in the face by a foul line drive, and sue the ball park because he was using his laptop on their wi-fi connection and didn't see it coming.
Think of it in more generic terms instead of television. What about the fact that Cox (which they are, BTW) in my area is the only high-speed Internet provider. I HAVE to buy cable TV from them to get the bandwidth I need. Why? I really want this a la carte!
but you TV-addicts are the ones fueling the market
I am really sorry I enjoy watching movies, TLC, TechTV, etc. I wish I could be cool and liberated like you, Anonymous Coward. Sorry if I get a flamebait outa that. I just couldn't get through Sunday without my Simpsons/Sopranos fix.
Why should the government force this? Let the market decide.
Uh, huh huh. It is a government-sanctioned monopoly. There is no free market, so the market is probably not going to be able to decide. I totally agree with the article - lets force them to innovate, or make them give up their monopoly!
A couple of the Dell Direct stores I have been to only sell the machines. In other words, you do not get the machine then, but later like ordering through the web site or by phone.
That is a really good point. At some point I want to move closer to home, which means back to a rural area with less technology. This is the very reason I am still going to school. I hope to have a PhD by then (years away), so I can teach programming in some community college.
...would be one requiring that all electronic voting systems be open source to ensure accountability. Let Diebold sell the equipment, and let us write the software.
...that Apple usually paves the road for others. Mac exists in that 2% of the Bell Curve that is on the cutting edge. Look at the GUI? While they have have "copied" the idea from Zerox, they certainly made is useful and popular. And then Windows came along... the same is happening with the iPod.
Most harddrive based MP3 players from a year or two ago were bulky, heavy, and difficult to use while performing other tasks (like working out, running, etc). The iPod is small, easy to use, and sexy. But wait, now there are many other MP3 players coming to the market that are arguably just as easy to use and bulkless as the iPod, and much cheaper. See history repeating itself, anyone?
While I do not believe that Apple will ever establish anything close to market dominance in the PC world, they do a good job in their niche. I really doubt they are going out of business. The article does say that they made a profit, even though the profit is down. I will start worrying when they have gone several quarters in the red.
I really don't mean to be a troll, but Colorado Springs and Omaha are not rural areas by any means. I haven't been to the others.
If you are looking at a truly rural area (more that 2 hours from a city) you will have some bandwidth issues. My parents live in a town in Wyoming (pop: 20,000) that is 3 hours from Billings (pop: 131,622) and 5 hours from the next closest city, Denver (pop: ~1.5 million including suburbs). The cheapest home broadband connection is $55/month. If you are outside of city limits, the only option is satellite with terrible latency.
My best advice if you do decide to work in a really rural area is to check for broadband availability before you move in. This will keep your telecommuting options open. I live in the suburbs of Austin (a big tech center in the sw) and even here I made sure that broadband access was guaranteed in the contract to purchase my home.
If you do find yourself in a rural area with no broadband, all I can say is good luck. The options get expensive fast. There is usually ISDN anywhere, or you can force the telco to condition the lines and provide it because they probably told the federal gov in 2000 that all of their lines were broadband (128k) certified. However, ISDN is expensive as you are paying you ISP for each dial-up, and paying the telco for a connection (phone line(s)) to the ISP. Prices run as high as $100/month for dual channel.
A creative solution a friend in a rural area came up with was to get a T1 connection to his house. He then sublets the bandwidth out to neighbors for $20/month using a Cisco wireless device and professional antennae. He runs a small Linux server that runs proxy, mail, dns, etc. I think he just covers enough cost to make it affordable, plus pay back equipment costs.
"As the Supreme Court notes in Saenz v Roe, the Constitution does not contain the word "travel" in any context, let alone an explicit right to travel. The presumed right to travel, however, is firmly established in U.S. law and precedent. In U.S. v Guest, the Court noted, "It is a right that has been firmly established and repeatedly recognized." In fact, in Shapiro v Thomson, Justice Stewart noted in a concurring opinion that "it is a right broadly assertable against private interference as well as governmental action. Like the right of association,... it is a virtually unconditional personal right, guaranteed by the Constitution to us all."
"There have been several film and television versions of the novel"
Tom Cruise is more than a bit strange, but I have to admit he was really good in "The Last Samurai". However, I do have complete faith in "The Man" Steven Spielberg. I am sure he will do justice to the tale. But I am sure the tinfoil hat and Original Battlestar Galactica types will deride the film on./ then turn around and throw down the $7 to see it.
This is a good example of how far behind MySQL really is. I don't want to degrade the db; I have used it on several PHP/MySQL driven sites. However, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, Sybase and others have had transactions for many years. I have only been developing professionally for about 7 years (circa 97), but I started out on SQL Server 6.5 which had full support for transactions. SQL Server 7.0 had support (via MTS) for distrubuted transactions (across multiple databases).
If MS had this back in 1997, you know Oracle had it before then.
As a card carrying member of the FSF, I wish I could have learned of this a couple of months in advance. There, I got my griping in ahead of the meeting.
Wow, that is a really uniformed opinion. All of the early astronauts participated (to a greater or lesser extent) in the actual engineering and planning of the missions. Please note that in addition to being a pilot, Glenn is an engineer. I found the below facts just from a simple Google search:
He attended Muskingum College in New Concord and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering.....
When astronauts were given special assignments to ensure pilot input into the design and development of spacecraft, Glenn specialized in cockpit layout and control functioning, including some of the early designs for the Apollo Project.
Thanks for the link. I have been looking for a solution like this for my sat rec. Dish charges me $5/mo for not having a landline. Time to set up one of my old PCs with the internet phone jack!
XML is awesome when you are looking for interoperability between different applications/systems. I would think that when the Internet community agrees upon whatever protocol, it should be a common standard and will not need the benefits of XML. Indeed, XML would actually be a bad choice, as the extra market will just use more bandwidth. Sounds like MS should just bow its head, say thanks to SPF, and adopt it. If they want XML on their side, then let them right an internal API/converter so those developing with Exchange or Outlook will have access to an XML version. By leave it off the pipe!
And I say this as a guy who works with XML everyday and enjoys the benefits it provides my company.
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Now if they would just open up software in a similar way, we would have a real movement on our hands!
Some businessman is going to get smacked in the face by a foul line drive, and sue the ball park because he was using his laptop on their wi-fi connection and didn't see it coming.
but you TV-addicts are the ones fueling the market
I am really sorry I enjoy watching movies, TLC, TechTV, etc. I wish I could be cool and liberated like you, Anonymous Coward. Sorry if I get a flamebait outa that. I just couldn't get through Sunday without my Simpsons/Sopranos fix.
Uh, huh huh. It is a government-sanctioned monopoly. There is no free market, so the market is probably not going to be able to decide. I totally agree with the article - lets force them to innovate, or make them give up their monopoly!
and several of the albums are only offered in an edited format. I can imagine other albums are the same. Sorry Walmart, no business from me.
I just saw that NOVA is running "The Elegant Universe" this evening.
I think they are looking for a cheap laptop...
A couple of the Dell Direct stores I have been to only sell the machines. In other words, you do not get the machine then, but later like ordering through the web site or by phone.
That is a really good point. At some point I want to move closer to home, which means back to a rural area with less technology. This is the very reason I am still going to school. I hope to have a PhD by then (years away), so I can teach programming in some community college.
...would be one requiring that all electronic voting systems be open source to ensure accountability. Let Diebold sell the equipment, and let us write the software.
...that Apple usually paves the road for others. Mac exists in that 2% of the Bell Curve that is on the cutting edge. Look at the GUI? While they have have "copied" the idea from Zerox, they certainly made is useful and popular. And then Windows came along... the same is happening with the iPod.
Most harddrive based MP3 players from a year or two ago were bulky, heavy, and difficult to use while performing other tasks (like working out, running, etc). The iPod is small, easy to use, and sexy. But wait, now there are many other MP3 players coming to the market that are arguably just as easy to use and bulkless as the iPod, and much cheaper. See history repeating itself, anyone?
While I do not believe that Apple will ever establish anything close to market dominance in the PC world, they do a good job in their niche. I really doubt they are going out of business. The article does say that they made a profit, even though the profit is down. I will start worrying when they have gone several quarters in the red.
I really don't mean to be a troll, but Colorado Springs and Omaha are not rural areas by any means. I haven't been to the others. If you are looking at a truly rural area (more that 2 hours from a city) you will have some bandwidth issues. My parents live in a town in Wyoming (pop: 20,000) that is 3 hours from Billings (pop: 131,622) and 5 hours from the next closest city, Denver (pop: ~1.5 million including suburbs). The cheapest home broadband connection is $55/month. If you are outside of city limits, the only option is satellite with terrible latency. My best advice if you do decide to work in a really rural area is to check for broadband availability before you move in. This will keep your telecommuting options open. I live in the suburbs of Austin (a big tech center in the sw) and even here I made sure that broadband access was guaranteed in the contract to purchase my home. If you do find yourself in a rural area with no broadband, all I can say is good luck. The options get expensive fast. There is usually ISDN anywhere, or you can force the telco to condition the lines and provide it because they probably told the federal gov in 2000 that all of their lines were broadband (128k) certified. However, ISDN is expensive as you are paying you ISP for each dial-up, and paying the telco for a connection (phone line(s)) to the ISP. Prices run as high as $100/month for dual channel. A creative solution a friend in a rural area came up with was to get a T1 connection to his house. He then sublets the bandwidth out to neighbors for $20/month using a Cisco wireless device and professional antennae. He runs a small Linux server that runs proxy, mail, dns, etc. I think he just covers enough cost to make it affordable, plus pay back equipment costs.
"As the Supreme Court notes in Saenz v Roe, the Constitution does not contain the word "travel" in any context, let alone an explicit right to travel. The presumed right to travel, however, is firmly established in U.S. law and precedent. In U.S. v Guest, the Court noted, "It is a right that has been firmly established and repeatedly recognized." In fact, in Shapiro v Thomson, Justice Stewart noted in a concurring opinion that "it is a right broadly assertable against private interference as well as governmental action. Like the right of association, ... it is a virtually unconditional personal right, guaranteed by the Constitution to us all."
Of which 199 million got online just so they could sell and/or buy lawn trolls on eBay.
Austin, and I guess it was $7.75 after checking the web site.
"There have been several film and television versions of the novel"
./ then turn around and throw down the $7 to see it.
Tom Cruise is more than a bit strange, but I have to admit he was really good in "The Last Samurai". However, I do have complete faith in "The Man" Steven Spielberg. I am sure he will do justice to the tale. But I am sure the tinfoil hat and Original Battlestar Galactica types will deride the film on
Thanks for making me feel young ;-)
They aren't going to sell that many if they only take orders on Monday.
This is a good example of how far behind MySQL really is. I don't want to degrade the db; I have used it on several PHP/MySQL driven sites. However, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, Sybase and others have had transactions for many years. I have only been developing professionally for about 7 years (circa 97), but I started out on SQL Server 6.5 which had full support for transactions. SQL Server 7.0 had support (via MTS) for distrubuted transactions (across multiple databases). If MS had this back in 1997, you know Oracle had it before then.
As a card carrying member of the FSF, I wish I could have learned of this a couple of months in advance. There, I got my griping in ahead of the meeting.
From His NASA Bio Page
He attended Muskingum College in New Concord and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering.....
When astronauts were given special assignments to ensure pilot input into the design and development of spacecraft, Glenn specialized in cockpit layout and control functioning, including some of the early designs for the Apollo Project.
Jesse James, Autozone's new spokesman. They will probably find all their tires slashed and the doors to SCO headquarters welded shut tomorrow morning.
Thanks for the link. I have been looking for a solution like this for my sat rec. Dish charges me $5/mo for not having a landline. Time to set up one of my old PCs with the internet phone jack!
An iPod running Windows 95a, with Personal Web Server.
XML is awesome when you are looking for interoperability between different applications/systems. I would think that when the Internet community agrees upon whatever protocol, it should be a common standard and will not need the benefits of XML. Indeed, XML would actually be a bad choice, as the extra market will just use more bandwidth. Sounds like MS should just bow its head, say thanks to SPF, and adopt it. If they want XML on their side, then let them right an internal API/converter so those developing with Exchange or Outlook will have access to an XML version. By leave it off the pipe! And I say this as a guy who works with XML everyday and enjoys the benefits it provides my company.