Or maybe the missing $500 million is going to something else? I suppose the question is, "what?"
Oh, and about the money already spent on equipment for addon... that's a sunk cost. It really doesn't matter from an economic point of view. Right now it would be an issue of "what's the next best alternative for that money?" It best be something important.
None of this is to say I don't think it should be saved, just that there's more (and less) to the situation than meets the eye.
I like the idea of the bundled remote too. I don't know about this "near-TV" thing though. How can that be? The whole deal sounds pretty nice for $2500.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_a post.html "Don't use apostrophes for possessive pronouns or for noun plurals."
A great site for this sort of thing. I was warned (sadly not too long ago) about my own problems with "its / it's". I don't know how I picked up that bad habit but I'm glad someone pointed it out nicely.:)
"Your recent litigation made slashdot.org headlines. Your shameful exercise of the DMCA has been broadcast to one of the largest tech communities in the entire world. The result is, you have generated extraordinary negative publicity targeted at the very people in charge of purchasing your products and services, worldwide. Way to go."
Check out Knoppix (from www.knoppix.org). It's a bootable distro that you can install.
Just don't actually install it. Well, not if you're a recent convert and you ever plan on updating your distro. Knoppix is great to give people the feel real quick, but it's god awful as a permanent solution. The only benefit is that it has broad hardware support all worked out.
Actually, I'm thinking the people studying it will be bottling it and selling it for $200 a bottle to the same people who don't realize that bottled water is often worse for you than what comes out of the tap. Microbes be damned.
Maybe I'm missing something, or I read this wrong. But what I get from this is, if you purchased a copy you would be required to read the EULA before you open the envelopes with the CDs (like MS soft). If you disagree, don't open the cd envelope, and take it back for a refund. If you agreed, opened it, and the media is damaged... take it back within 30 days.
I see a million posts on/. about how people try to migrate their parents over to diffent software, but I usually try not to change anything on my folks. They're very shaky when it comes to seeing something different.
However, this time my parents came to ME. They spend alot of time in the car (to and from work) listening to AM radio, and with the most recent spike in IE problems they started getting nervous. Rightfully so. They asked if there are any better options that they should be using, and I was happy to provide them with one.
I also have to say, Firefox was far-and-away the least painful switch my parents have ever had to make. I just installed the browser on their three machines, let the firstrun import their bookmarks, changed the shortcut name from Mozilla Firefox to "Internet", and never heard another word from them about it. For me, that's a very successful switch-out.
Next might be Thunderbird, though the idea scares me a little. I DO expect a few phone calls from my mother on that one, but they'll appreciate the spam filtering and not having to worry about worms quite so much.
"Sensors on refrigerator doors that automatically notify staff when residents are up and active each day, replacing older methods such as "check-in" buttons or paper cards on doorknobs."
I hope when I'm that old I'll still keep bizarre hours. It'll keep the staff on their toes.
...Walmart is interested. They should license/resolve this pretty quickly. They can afford to. Then, it doesn't matter what the outcome of litigation is. The largest retailer in the world will be using them.
I think you get to keep your customizations, like a giant version of roaming profiles.
The problem I see is trying to get ISPs to play ball. Try getting anything to work with the firewall-from-hell DSL connection I have here at school. ):
ingrammicro.com
One of (if not THE) largest distributors of computer hardware and software in the entire world.
The opening page works fine in IE and mozilla, the first search works ok... after that, real time pricing and other things all just don't work.
Considering the thing is probably a gigantic solid state storage farm in a shelter somewhere near the center of the earth, using scavenged alien technology for preemptive disaster recovery... I doubt they considered they'd ever have to worry about it.
The trouble is that the ice on the water is constantly shifting from the currents under the water. Over time, this exerts staggering amounts of pressure on fixed objects. Ice-breaking pylons would need to be sturdy enough to withstand thousands of tons of shearing forces from a variety of angles--a pretty tall order.
Yeah... they actually did this somewhere where they have lots of floating ice, for a huge bridge. I wish I could remember where, for sure. Anyway, they did a history channel special about how they developed a bridge and pylons specifically to deal with ice propelled by water current. Indeed, a tall order.
As for the moving ice... I suppose you'd just keep digging horizontally and relocating your modular lift. Or maybe the climate control could have one open wall to constantly melt one wall away, and the other walls could redirect heat in the same direction. Then you just keep shifting the lab and let the bilge pumps do the rest. Eh, maybe I wasn't born to be an engineer/architect.:)
Slashdot Mirror
Or maybe the missing $500 million is going to
something else? I suppose the question is, "what?"
Oh, and about the money already spent on equipment
for addon... that's a sunk cost. It really doesn't
matter from an economic point of view. Right now
it would be an issue of "what's the next best
alternative for that money?" It best be something
important.
None of this is to say I don't think it should be saved,
just that there's more (and less) to the situation
than meets the eye.
I like the idea of the bundled remote too. I don't know about this "near-TV" thing though. How can that be? The whole deal sounds pretty nice for $2500.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_a post.html
:)
"Don't use apostrophes for possessive pronouns or for noun plurals."
A great site for this sort of thing. I was warned (sadly not too long ago) about my own problems with "its / it's". I don't know how I picked up that bad habit but I'm glad someone pointed it out nicely.
Yeah, my bad. I clicked html instead of plaintext.
Old System: 5 x Apple IIes 1 x Dumptruck full of floppies 3 x Teams of disk-swapping runners
All the simplicity of Unix.
:)
All the stability of Windows.
Didn't somebody at Microsoft think to reverse things?
Yeah, but then it'd be OSX.
"Your recent litigation made slashdot.org headlines. Your shameful exercise of the DMCA has been broadcast to one of the largest tech communities in the entire world. The result is, you have generated extraordinary negative publicity targeted at the very people in charge of purchasing your products and services, worldwide. Way to go."
Check out Knoppix (from www.knoppix.org). It's a bootable distro that you can install.
Just don't actually install it. Well, not if you're a recent convert and you ever plan on updating your distro. Knoppix is great to give people the feel real quick, but it's god awful as a permanent solution. The only benefit is that it has broad hardware support all worked out.
Actually, I'm thinking the people studying it will be bottling it and selling it for $200 a bottle to the same people who don't realize that bottled water is often worse for you than what comes out of the tap. Microbes be damned.
Maybe I'm missing something, or I read this wrong. But what I get from this is, if you purchased a copy you would be required to read the EULA before you open the envelopes with the CDs (like MS soft). If you disagree, don't open the cd envelope, and take it back for a refund. If you agreed, opened it, and the media is damaged... take it back within 30 days.
I see a million posts on /. about how people try to migrate their parents over to diffent software, but I usually try not to change anything on my folks. They're very shaky when it comes to seeing something different.
However, this time my parents came to ME. They spend alot of time in the car (to and from work) listening to AM radio, and with the most recent spike in IE problems they started getting nervous. Rightfully so. They asked if there are any better options that they should be using, and I was happy to provide them with one.
I also have to say, Firefox was far-and-away the least painful switch my parents have ever had to make. I just installed the browser on their three machines, let the firstrun import their bookmarks, changed the shortcut name from Mozilla Firefox to "Internet", and never heard another word from them about it. For me, that's a very successful switch-out.
Next might be Thunderbird, though the idea scares me a little. I DO expect a few phone calls from my mother on that one, but they'll appreciate the spam filtering and not having to worry about worms quite so much.
"Sensors on refrigerator doors that automatically notify staff when residents are up and active each day, replacing older methods such as "check-in" buttons or paper cards on doorknobs."
I hope when I'm that old I'll still keep bizarre hours. It'll keep the staff on their toes.
Because I want a robot army.
Have fun programming a billion dollars worth of those things.
function dstry_enmy($target) { send_fire_signal(adj_arms(eyes_loc($target))); }
I'm thinking this:
Cellphone w/ RSS feeds + Little parsing app + Text-to-gif + goofy shirt = Slashdot headlines on your sleeve.
Oh dear lord.
Out, but not in. So if I'm somewhere else....?
Oh dear lord, I hope your employer reads slashdot. I'd shit-can you so fast your head would spin.
I think you get to keep your customizations, like a giant version of roaming profiles. The problem I see is trying to get ISPs to play ball. Try getting anything to work with the firewall-from-hell DSL connection I have here at school. ):
It appears they only ship RedHat Enterprise now. As other poster mentioned, doesn't appear they sell the desktop version anymore.
A step in the right direction might be 24 or 48 hour mandatory expirations.
Or he could put a even prettier window manager on a linux box from 1991 and never have to worry about virii or spyware. Uh, for free.
:)
Sorry, had to.
ingrammicro.com One of (if not THE) largest distributors of computer hardware and software in the entire world. The opening page works fine in IE and mozilla, the first search works ok... after that, real time pricing and other things all just don't work.
They're not that efficient when 90% of the time there's a five car pileup in the middle of them. Engineering ignoring reality.
Considering the thing is probably a gigantic solid state storage farm in a shelter somewhere near the center of the earth, using scavenged alien technology for preemptive disaster recovery... I doubt they considered they'd ever have to worry about it.
The trouble is that the ice on the water is constantly shifting from the currents under the water. Over time, this exerts staggering amounts of pressure on fixed objects. Ice-breaking pylons would need to be sturdy enough to withstand thousands of tons of shearing forces from a variety of angles--a pretty tall order.
:)
Yeah... they actually did this somewhere where they have lots of floating ice, for a huge bridge. I wish I could remember where, for sure. Anyway, they did a history channel special about how they developed a bridge and pylons specifically to deal with ice propelled by water current. Indeed, a tall order.
As for the moving ice... I suppose you'd just keep digging horizontally and relocating your modular lift. Or maybe the climate control could have one open wall to constantly melt one wall away, and the other walls could redirect heat in the same direction. Then you just keep shifting the lab and let the bilge pumps do the rest. Eh, maybe I wasn't born to be an engineer/architect.