There are all the trains in europe where they ban cell phones except in special cars. Knowing this, the last time I spent an inordinate ammount of time on an amtrak, I simply ran up a large bill for text messages so that I could avoid annoying the very annoying woman sitting next to me.
I certainly hope they keep cell phones off of flights...(and even though they work on most flights, they are a HUGE strain on the tower network on the ground which is not designed to deal with calls from airplanes.
Imagine having a bar with a sign out front saying "if you are under the legal age you cannot purchase alcohol here. By entering you are agreeing you are of legal age". You can't just sell alcohol to anyone entering because they agreed they were old enough.
You mean like how they do it at frat parties with a couple of signs thrown up by the bar saying you must be 21 to consume alcohol? Of course that is equally ineffectual...
I can also think of examples where a posting is intended to be read. Areas with posted no tresspassing signs come to mind.
What you describe is price fixing which is a form of (illegal in the US) rent seeking. Someone has a monopoly on a good (whether it be an almost complete monopoly with no high-penetration substitutes like Windows or a specific good with lots of substitutes like a specific CD or a set of CDs from a certain record label). A domain name is more like the latter, there are lots of domain names out there but the squatters have a perfect monopoly on the ones they hold. If they arent using them, the domains are simply factors of production that are going unused and are being prevented from use by anyone else.
The market price on an unused domain is somewhere around $10. Used domains obviously have higher prices (to the point of being completely unsaleable like google or microsoft) but an unused domain whether it is unused because nobody has bought it or unused because a squatter has bought it and not used it is still unused and has no added value. If it is worth more than $10 to the squatter, then that is the value they put on it, but they cant really expect it to sell on the market until there is a buyer with a strange fasciniation with it that places them at a higher point on the demand curve. An example of this would be the domain I recently registered; It is still empty but I have some slight attatchment to it so I probobly wouldnt sell it unless you offered me more like $50. I doubt its going to sell before I decide to use it so its not a problem that the market wont bear that price (on the other hand, I have a domain a registered before it that I decided I dont like, I'd take whatever I could get for that domain, whether it be $5, $10 or $100).
At this point, there is no real way to prosecute the squatters but they are still creating inefficiency in the market. This is the point where a little bit of regulation might be nice (but the question of how to do this is very difficult). In the case of the record companies, it was obvious how to deal with their price fixing and that is why we all got our miniscule checks in the mail. In the case of microsoft, they have some really good lawyers but they still paid. In the case of cybersquatters...what they are doing is certainly a bitch move...and its inefficient...but its not illegal
Of course since it only has one I/O port, it is extremely slow. Basically I let it buffer data for 30 seconds and then switch the plugs and it ouputs the buffer to the switch.
And you can have mods on a nice system if you want it just as well as you can put visual mods on a car with slightly more potential. At the same time you can do mods that do change preformance (like better cooling or overclocking) the same as you can for a car (like a chip, intake, and a bigger exhuast on a car that actually benefits from having one).
When I was rebuilding my cases cooling system with a panel for fan speed control, I decided to expand on the visual mods a bit (they had some stuff REALLY cheap on one of the sites I was buying a heatsink from). I ended up with a lighting control knob that allows no lights, interior lights or interior and exterior lights to be selected. When it is on, combined with the window and the pretty stuff inside the case, it looks pretty good (silver case with mostly blue lights--the bottom ccfl is half red in the area that lights the hdd bays) but I cant remember the last time I actually turned it on. My computer is still powerful where it counts, and I had fun doing the wiring and design of the lighting system. Its even kind of nice to show to people but its never on because it really has no effect on the system.
With the cars, you cant really turn off the visual mods...
Thats exactly what happened with me when I went with CI Host many years back. It was after they became a dirty host but not that long after so there were still a lot of good things floating around as well as their propaganda machine's creations. They had done a good job of surpressing all of the negatives (stuff like replacing the actually negative links spot on search engines with stuff that looked like forum postings of a guy saying these bad things he had heard about them but people replying with "nah, thats just a bad rumor, they are great")
Then I saw dreamhost (link takes $7 off your first bill) in an ask slashdot and we couldnt be happier. $7 a month gets me WAY more stuff than $25 got with CI Host as well as some great (and good humored, if you ever take the time to read some of their postings or newsletters) support.
Instead of trying to identify the bad ones, it seems a lot more efficient to just identify the good ones. There are many ask slashdots about this and often in the low priced area they point to dreamhost. I took the advice and I love it to death with the two domains that I have on it.
They offer great packages and they just keep getting better (without the price going up). If you sign up from this link or use the code 7BACKNOW, you will get $7 back which is basically your first month of:
-20gb storage/1TB transfer
-POP/IMAP/PHP/Mysql
-a whole bunch of other goodies from a team that is really "geek friendly" with their support and service style (even a jabber server if you want).
No offence, I just dont see why you would need to weed out the dishonest hosts when you can just go straight to the good hosts.
Oh yeah...my T23 ran mandriva/mandrake great and runs (k)ubuntu even better.
A girl who lives across the hall also has a T23 (with windows, but live cd's work jsut fine on it) that is equally as old as mine and works just as well...no hardware problems for either of us. A girl down the hall has a T43 which is just a beatiful system and a guy down the hall just got a t60 which is great (and the first model released after the branding switch).
The girl with the T23 just bought a macbook (on release day, they were in stock in the chicago store...she made what might be the largest impulse buy I have seen someone actually make) and it is really really nice...and osx is...kind of like linux. I may buy her T23 off of her just because mine works so well and I have family who I may be able to convince to use it if I give them a preprepared linux laptop that just works (like the thinkpads do). The ebay market has seen a HUGE influx of these machines so the price is way down. They must have just ended a lot of corporate leases or something becasue the price is half what it was a year ago even though other companies similarily specced (albiet crappier because tehy are compaq or dell) machines are more expensive than the T23s.
Because we all know what hi-def content looks like (or at least are capable of figuring it out thanks to apple trailers and the such) but we've never seen it come off a disk that uses a blue laser to show it to us.
Why can't they give me a good phone without a camera.
I really like my black razr that came free after rebate. It's not got the feature set of a smartphone, its internet is slow and useless but as a phone it is great. It is thin but it is actually quite large which makes it nice to talk on, the messaging and voice features do everything I want (after a firmware update to allow multi-letter searches) but that damn camera just sits there. If I do try to use it, it takes such bad pictures that it is useless. When I look at the live disply trying to set up the picture, it doesnt look THAT bad for a camera but when I actually take the picture, I get this ugly thing with wierd interference patterns. Completely useless for any of the arguments they make for cameraphones (like hit and run license plate gathering).
This completely useless and poor feature means my phone cant be with me in certain places but if I want something without the camera, my only options are old phones or new cheaply built poorly featured phones.
I don't really want an 8mp camera on my phone either. What matters more is the quality of the optics and even on the slim cameras with good optics (like the newer canon SDXXX series), the optics take up a lot of space. The smallest camera I have access to (friends with SD450s off of slickdeals)takes good pictures for its size but is larger and heavier than my phone and gets nowhere near the battery life when in use.
That's correct. The copyright holder has to find it.
How would you honestly expect anyone (whether it is a site like youtube or a magazine printing copyrighted photos in ad copy) to know whether submitters held permission to use what they were submitting. It's kind of a pain for small companies that hold a lot of copyrights (like advertising photographers) but when they do find it, the court royalty damages if they dont agree to pay before court are quite good (and they levy the damages on the person who submitted the work, not that means of publication).
Why dont they at least use the government supported ntp servers since then the users probobly still payed for it in taxes.
I currently use the Argonne national lab NTP server most of the time which is probobly government paid though it could be provided by the University of Chicago (though since my connection is on-campus, it makes the most sense).
I suppose the benefit of using CSS is that you could choose to use which ever one you wanted just by telling the site to change stylesheets.
It's true though that the firefox wierdness sucks. It looks like it would be good but it is beyond simple wierdness, it is simply rendered poorly enough to not use it. I'm not sure what kind of person would go so far as to design CSS for slashdot and then not make sure it works in our poster-child browser.
You sure it wasnt just someone who bought a bunch of dell LCD's when they were cheap and on heavy discount and then sold it at a small profit?
The dell LCD's get pretty damn cheap when you have the right set of offers going for you.
Really though, for their computers, the direct model is really all that dell has going for it. You can buy online and get exactly what you want (though you usually pay tax now) delivered to your door for a decent price. The systems arent the quality they were years ago when they used real components but they function well for the price.
Well, in most games when you encounter someone, you kill them.
It doesnt make much sense for them to learn from you since they will be dead before they can apply that knowledge. If other characters get to apply their knowledge (unless we are talking about a hive mind here), then they are just cheating since they dont actually have the experiance. When you kill people outside the building, the unsuspecting guys inside shouldnt have already learned the tactics that you used to kill the outside people.
It could work for longer fights with single enemies but in the time frame of most games its just not plausible that people would have analyized your behavior and retrained their troops to combat you in such a short time.
I personally dont like soy milk at all but here at the university of Chicago, we have a high enough asian population that the corporate-run dining services even make real soy milk available some of the time.
They are expensive but they do have some function.
Take for example Red Bull. It is actually one of the few reasonably priced things in the dining hall run conveinience store on campus (if you buy 3, it is 3 for $5). The taurine stuff is bull shit and you should try not to believe it (search around, nobody knows how taurine would give any significant stimulant effect...it probobly just makes the flavor. What red bull DOES have that makes it far superior and more effective than pop is the fact that there is no high fructose corn syrup. High fructose corn syrup is a complex sugar that allows the soda manufacturers to make their drinks incredibly sweet but it doesnt break down very easily. Red Bull uses glucose and sucrose which break down extremely quicly to give you a fast burst of energy (its like eating an apple) until the sizable hit of caffeine cuts in. It's expensive (but at 3/$5, its not much worse than pop machines that want $1-$1.25 for a mountain dew--and the red bull is certainly healthier).
The problem is when they look at the resume and they say "hey, this person says they are currently working for us but we have no record of them in the system" and they they contact you and discover who you really are (since your contact info probobly matches the info your company has on you).
Even if you do allow others to see it, it makes sense to simply never take it down (and always keep it up to date--so it is ready if you ever do need it). This way if your employer sees it, you can simply explain that your resume is always there (it will be there a week after you got your job and 3 years after you got your job) so it does not mean you are actively searching for a better opportunity. This could also serve to make them realize that they still have to compete with you on the labor market since your open resume could prompt a better offer even though you are not actively seeking it.
Of course, you can take all of that as a grain of salt because, while I do in fact have a resume, I'm just finishing my first year at the University of Chicago and nobody wants to give me a job anyway.
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clearly FSM is going to create more pirates
I certainly hope they keep cell phones off of flights...(and even though they work on most flights, they are a HUGE strain on the tower network on the ground which is not designed to deal with calls from airplanes.
You mean like how they do it at frat parties with a couple of signs thrown up by the bar saying you must be 21 to consume alcohol? Of course that is equally ineffectual...
I can also think of examples where a posting is intended to be read. Areas with posted no tresspassing signs come to mind.
The market price on an unused domain is somewhere around $10. Used domains obviously have higher prices (to the point of being completely unsaleable like google or microsoft) but an unused domain whether it is unused because nobody has bought it or unused because a squatter has bought it and not used it is still unused and has no added value. If it is worth more than $10 to the squatter, then that is the value they put on it, but they cant really expect it to sell on the market until there is a buyer with a strange fasciniation with it that places them at a higher point on the demand curve. An example of this would be the domain I recently registered; It is still empty but I have some slight attatchment to it so I probobly wouldnt sell it unless you offered me more like $50. I doubt its going to sell before I decide to use it so its not a problem that the market wont bear that price (on the other hand, I have a domain a registered before it that I decided I dont like, I'd take whatever I could get for that domain, whether it be $5, $10 or $100).
At this point, there is no real way to prosecute the squatters but they are still creating inefficiency in the market. This is the point where a little bit of regulation might be nice (but the question of how to do this is very difficult). In the case of the record companies, it was obvious how to deal with their price fixing and that is why we all got our miniscule checks in the mail. In the case of microsoft, they have some really good lawyers but they still paid. In the case of cybersquatters...what they are doing is certainly a bitch move...and its inefficient...but its not illegal
Of course since it only has one I/O port, it is extremely slow. Basically I let it buffer data for 30 seconds and then switch the plugs and it ouputs the buffer to the switch.
When I was rebuilding my cases cooling system with a panel for fan speed control, I decided to expand on the visual mods a bit (they had some stuff REALLY cheap on one of the sites I was buying a heatsink from). I ended up with a lighting control knob that allows no lights, interior lights or interior and exterior lights to be selected. When it is on, combined with the window and the pretty stuff inside the case, it looks pretty good (silver case with mostly blue lights--the bottom ccfl is half red in the area that lights the hdd bays) but I cant remember the last time I actually turned it on. My computer is still powerful where it counts, and I had fun doing the wiring and design of the lighting system. Its even kind of nice to show to people but its never on because it really has no effect on the system.
With the cars, you cant really turn off the visual mods...
help a poor college student out here :) (and I honestly wouldnt recommend it if I hadnt had a great experiance with them)
Then I saw dreamhost (link takes $7 off your first bill) in an ask slashdot and we couldnt be happier. $7 a month gets me WAY more stuff than $25 got with CI Host as well as some great (and good humored, if you ever take the time to read some of their postings or newsletters) support.
They offer great packages and they just keep getting better (without the price going up). If you sign up from this link or use the code 7BACKNOW, you will get $7 back which is basically your first month of:
-20gb storage/1TB transfer
-POP/IMAP/PHP/Mysql
-a whole bunch of other goodies from a team that is really "geek friendly" with their support and service style (even a jabber server if you want).
No offence, I just dont see why you would need to weed out the dishonest hosts when you can just go straight to the good hosts.
A girl who lives across the hall also has a T23 (with windows, but live cd's work jsut fine on it) that is equally as old as mine and works just as well...no hardware problems for either of us. A girl down the hall has a T43 which is just a beatiful system and a guy down the hall just got a t60 which is great (and the first model released after the branding switch).
The girl with the T23 just bought a macbook (on release day, they were in stock in the chicago store...she made what might be the largest impulse buy I have seen someone actually make) and it is really really nice...and osx is...kind of like linux. I may buy her T23 off of her just because mine works so well and I have family who I may be able to convince to use it if I give them a preprepared linux laptop that just works (like the thinkpads do). The ebay market has seen a HUGE influx of these machines so the price is way down. They must have just ended a lot of corporate leases or something becasue the price is half what it was a year ago even though other companies similarily specced (albiet crappier because tehy are compaq or dell) machines are more expensive than the T23s.
Yes...go thinkpads!
IIRC they dont ship anything that has any problems with linux that arent easily fixed. Add to that the fact that they are just damn good laptops.
Because we all know what hi-def content looks like (or at least are capable of figuring it out thanks to apple trailers and the such) but we've never seen it come off a disk that uses a blue laser to show it to us.
The difference is that they now set the time themselves off of the signals coming from the antenna.
I really like my black razr that came free after rebate. It's not got the feature set of a smartphone, its internet is slow and useless but as a phone it is great. It is thin but it is actually quite large which makes it nice to talk on, the messaging and voice features do everything I want (after a firmware update to allow multi-letter searches) but that damn camera just sits there. If I do try to use it, it takes such bad pictures that it is useless. When I look at the live disply trying to set up the picture, it doesnt look THAT bad for a camera but when I actually take the picture, I get this ugly thing with wierd interference patterns. Completely useless for any of the arguments they make for cameraphones (like hit and run license plate gathering).
This completely useless and poor feature means my phone cant be with me in certain places but if I want something without the camera, my only options are old phones or new cheaply built poorly featured phones.
I don't really want an 8mp camera on my phone either. What matters more is the quality of the optics and even on the slim cameras with good optics (like the newer canon SDXXX series), the optics take up a lot of space. The smallest camera I have access to (friends with SD450s off of slickdeals)takes good pictures for its size but is larger and heavier than my phone and gets nowhere near the battery life when in use.
How would you honestly expect anyone (whether it is a site like youtube or a magazine printing copyrighted photos in ad copy) to know whether submitters held permission to use what they were submitting. It's kind of a pain for small companies that hold a lot of copyrights (like advertising photographers) but when they do find it, the court royalty damages if they dont agree to pay before court are quite good (and they levy the damages on the person who submitted the work, not that means of publication).
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I currently use the Argonne national lab NTP server most of the time which is probobly government paid though it could be provided by the University of Chicago (though since my connection is on-campus, it makes the most sense).
ottothecow 2008!
It's true though that the firefox wierdness sucks. It looks like it would be good but it is beyond simple wierdness, it is simply rendered poorly enough to not use it. I'm not sure what kind of person would go so far as to design CSS for slashdot and then not make sure it works in our poster-child browser.
The dell LCD's get pretty damn cheap when you have the right set of offers going for you.
Really though, for their computers, the direct model is really all that dell has going for it. You can buy online and get exactly what you want (though you usually pay tax now) delivered to your door for a decent price. The systems arent the quality they were years ago when they used real components but they function well for the price.
It doesnt make much sense for them to learn from you since they will be dead before they can apply that knowledge. If other characters get to apply their knowledge (unless we are talking about a hive mind here), then they are just cheating since they dont actually have the experiance. When you kill people outside the building, the unsuspecting guys inside shouldnt have already learned the tactics that you used to kill the outside people.
It could work for longer fights with single enemies but in the time frame of most games its just not plausible that people would have analyized your behavior and retrained their troops to combat you in such a short time.
I personally dont like soy milk at all but here at the university of Chicago, we have a high enough asian population that the corporate-run dining services even make real soy milk available some of the time.
Take for example Red Bull. It is actually one of the few reasonably priced things in the dining hall run conveinience store on campus (if you buy 3, it is 3 for $5). The taurine stuff is bull shit and you should try not to believe it (search around, nobody knows how taurine would give any significant stimulant effect...it probobly just makes the flavor. What red bull DOES have that makes it far superior and more effective than pop is the fact that there is no high fructose corn syrup. High fructose corn syrup is a complex sugar that allows the soda manufacturers to make their drinks incredibly sweet but it doesnt break down very easily. Red Bull uses glucose and sucrose which break down extremely quicly to give you a fast burst of energy (its like eating an apple) until the sizable hit of caffeine cuts in. It's expensive (but at 3/$5, its not much worse than pop machines that want $1-$1.25 for a mountain dew--and the red bull is certainly healthier).
The problem is when they look at the resume and they say "hey, this person says they are currently working for us but we have no record of them in the system" and they they contact you and discover who you really are (since your contact info probobly matches the info your company has on you).
Of course, you can take all of that as a grain of salt because, while I do in fact have a resume, I'm just finishing my first year at the University of Chicago and nobody wants to give me a job anyway.