An inkless printer will never be a viable profit-generating product unless it costs many, many thousands of dollars. Printer manufacturers make most of their money from consumables, and a printer which requires no consumables (even the paper is resuable) will never make it to market.
The problem is the size of our country. In South Korea and Switzerland it's easy to string fiber everywhere for cheap, because the whole country is developed. In the U.S. there are miles and miles of wasteland that make it difficult to bring fiber to the curb.
Can it be? More than 60 seconds have passed without someone wailing on Cliff for letting "4 Storey" get posted?
You live in a "4-story" building, zzzreyes.
I wonder how much paper (and, in turn, our tax dollars) would be saved each year if the government decided to use size 12 Times New Roman, or better yet, size 10.
MS already has an automatic update option for those who choose it in the Automatic Updates control panel applet.
Users can choose to be notified when updates are available, they can be notified when they've been downloaded and are ready to install, or they can just have Windows download and install the updates automatically.
Upgradable ROM? How much memory does your device have? Does your Palm device have a CompactFlash slot? I have found CF to be VERY useful for expansion cards that let me use 802.11b networks, listen to FM radio, and even use a PCMCIA hard drive (though I haven't seen a practical use for that last one).
Fact is, as much as we like to hate it, having Windows behind your handheld makes it much easier to expand and communicate when technology changes. Palm OSes will always be one step behind. It's Microsoft who does the innovation in handheld OSes.
Do you think anything productive can emerge from the RIAA suing its user base? Do you think it will actually result in people listening to more music legally?
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Actually, I think stage one goes like this:
Charge $299 for an Palm-based product which has less than half the processing power and half the capabilities of comparable PocketPC devices, and expect people to buy it.
BEDMINSTER, NJ - Taking square aim at the anti-consumer, anti-competitive official position of many of its competitors, Verizon Wireless, operator of the nation's largest and most reliable wireless network, today stood firm in support of wireless customers' ability to keep their mobile phone numbers when switching from one wireless service provider to another. In a filing today, Verizon Wireless urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reject schemes from ALLTEL, AT&T Wireless, Cingular, Nextel and Sprint that would, if allowed, create new barriers to wireless customers who want to change service providers while keeping their mobile numbers with them.
Wireless number portability ("WNP," also known as local number portability "LNP"), scheduled to go into effect in many major U.S. markets beginning November 24, 2003, will allow customers to switch wireless service providers while keeping their mobile phone numbers.
Earlier this month, the "Wireless Carrier Group" (WCG), consisting of ALLTEL, AT&T Wireless, Cingular, Nextel and Sprint, told the FCC that their understanding of number portability will allow them to impose new barriers to switching that do not exist today, effectively derailing number portability.
These barriers could include special one-time porting fees or severely restricted "porting hours," such as from 1:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. They also include requiring a customer to pay an early termination fee and owed balances on his or her account as a condition for keeping a mobile telephone number. Even if a customer disputes the amount owed, these carriers threaten to prevent the customer from porting until he or she pays up. Other carriers are intending to impose restrictions that will frustrate customers who wish to port, such as severely limited porting hours.
"Now, on the verge of achieving wireless LNP, the Commission faces a direct challenge to it that, if not quickly and firmly rejected, will gut the effectiveness of the mandate," Verizon Wireless said in its filing. The WCG carriers ". . . make it clear that they will slow or block a customer's desire to change carriers and keep the same numbers until the customer 'settles up' his account."
In June, Verizon Wireless president and CEO Denny Strigl detailed the Verizon Wireless plan for implementing number portability: no up-front costs to current customers; no special barriers to switching from one service provider to another; fast service; and no hassle. In his presentation, Strigl said, "We will not charge any 'special fees' for customers who want to take their numbers with them. Our plan at Verizon Wireless is to treat porting customers the same way we treat any customer today. No change from today." Once portability is in place, Verizon Wireless may consider recovering operational costs to the tune of no more than 10 to 15 cents per month on customers' bills. Strigl noted that the company's position on number portability is a natural extension of the Verizon Wireless customer-focused "Worry Free Guarantee."
The official position of ALLTEL, AT&T Wireless, Cingular, Nextel and Sprint, however, is that they should be free to impose new costs and erect additional restrictions on their customers who want to switch. The Verizon Wireless filing cautions, "The Commission should not be fooled by the absurd argument that consumers will somehow benefit from porting restrictions."
Verizon Wireless urged the FCC to act quickly - by September 1, 2003 - to make it clear that wireless service providers cannot erect new barriers and hold their customers hostage by making it expensive and difficult, if not impossible, to switch. "Having imposed the LNP mandate," Verizon Wireless noted, "the Commission bears responsibility to ensure that it is implemented effectively so that it can achieve its goals for competition and consumers."
About Verizon Wireless Verizon Wireless is the nation's leading provider of wireless communications. The company has the lar
My question is, what happens to CD prices after the RIAA wins all these lawsuits, as they surely will?
Let's face the music (pun = intended) - distributing copyrighted works IS illegal, and if the RIAA gets its day in court to prove it, some users will lose. And, presumably, file sharing apps will go the way of the dodo.
However, what happens next? Personally, I think the RIAA will realize that they once again have a captive audience, and they'll raise prices to ungodly levels once again...simply because they can!
Here's to the ISPs fighting for their users' cause. They're one of the only lifelines Internet users have left. And that's pretty unfortunate.
And that's a real problem. If BuyMusic.com gooes under, the RIAA will have more 'ammunition' to further their claims that music users are evil. They'll say,
"Well, we started a website where users could LEGALLY buy music, and they shot that down. There's nothing else we can do - we had the perfect solution, and it didn't work. Online music is bad."
What they surely won't realize is that their 'solution' was extremely flawed and poorly thought out. Unfortunately, the problem exists with the distribution, not the user base.
Slashdot Mirror
The real winner (other than Google) will be whichever service provider wins the Gphone contract.
An inkless printer will never be a viable profit-generating product unless it costs many, many thousands of dollars. Printer manufacturers make most of their money from consumables, and a printer which requires no consumables (even the paper is resuable) will never make it to market.
Does less methane in Earth's atmosphere mean that people are farting less?
From Mueller: Deviant sexual acts can be used as blackmail by the Ruskies when they recruit Americans to spy for them.
We must win the Cold War!
...just a fancy car and Tom Cruise's girlfriend.
I guess Google is finally realizing that there's no such thing as a free lunch (even if they provide their employees with one).
The problem is the size of our country. In South Korea and Switzerland it's easy to string fiber everywhere for cheap, because the whole country is developed. In the U.S. there are miles and miles of wasteland that make it difficult to bring fiber to the curb.
Images of a wireless connection? I gotta see this.
You can't just extend an amendment to cover whatever you bloody well please. It's this kind of talk that leads to things like the PATRIOT Act.
...as long as the blood spatters are lifelike when I blow their heads off.
Slashdot needs a grammar check. Weaker, people, not more weak.
Can it be? More than 60 seconds have passed without someone wailing on Cliff for letting "4 Storey" get posted? You live in a "4-story" building, zzzreyes.
I wonder how much paper (and, in turn, our tax dollars) would be saved each year if the government decided to use size 12 Times New Roman, or better yet, size 10.
Mod this up - a firsthand account of the 'carnage!'
See them here: at Staples.
First things first, people - Apple thinks this new chip is great and all, but what is its Photoshop filter performance?
I doubt Linus is fucking anyone, much less his school's prom queen.
It doesn't look all that different from Mac OS X to me.
MS already has an automatic update option for those who choose it in the Automatic Updates control panel applet.
Users can choose to be notified when updates are available, they can be notified when they've been downloaded and are ready to install, or they can just have Windows download and install the updates automatically.
This isn't really news.
Upgradable ROM? How much memory does your device have? Does your Palm device have a CompactFlash slot? I have found CF to be VERY useful for expansion cards that let me use 802.11b networks, listen to FM radio, and even use a PCMCIA hard drive (though I haven't seen a practical use for that last one).
Fact is, as much as we like to hate it, having Windows behind your handheld makes it much easier to expand and communicate when technology changes. Palm OSes will always be one step behind. It's Microsoft who does the innovation in handheld OSes.
*Prepares for karma destruction*
Do you think anything productive can emerge from the RIAA suing its user base? Do you think it will actually result in people listening to more music legally?
Actually, I think stage one goes like this:
Charge $299 for an Palm-based product which has less than half the processing power and half the capabilities of comparable PocketPC devices, and expect people to buy it.
BEDMINSTER, NJ - Taking square aim at the anti-consumer, anti-competitive official position of many of its competitors, Verizon Wireless, operator of the nation's largest and most reliable wireless network, today stood firm in support of wireless customers' ability to keep their mobile phone numbers when switching from one wireless service provider to another. In a filing today, Verizon Wireless urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reject schemes from ALLTEL, AT&T Wireless, Cingular, Nextel and Sprint that would, if allowed, create new barriers to wireless customers who want to change service providers while keeping their mobile numbers with them.
Wireless number portability ("WNP," also known as local number portability "LNP"), scheduled to go into effect in many major U.S. markets beginning November 24, 2003, will allow customers to switch wireless service providers while keeping their mobile phone numbers.
Earlier this month, the "Wireless Carrier Group" (WCG), consisting of ALLTEL, AT&T Wireless, Cingular, Nextel and Sprint, told the FCC that their understanding of number portability will allow them to impose new barriers to switching that do not exist today, effectively derailing number portability.
These barriers could include special one-time porting fees or severely restricted "porting hours," such as from 1:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. They also include requiring a customer to pay an early termination fee and owed balances on his or her account as a condition for keeping a mobile telephone number. Even if a customer disputes the amount owed, these carriers threaten to prevent the customer from porting until he or she pays up. Other carriers are intending to impose restrictions that will frustrate customers who wish to port, such as severely limited porting hours.
"Now, on the verge of achieving wireless LNP, the Commission faces a direct challenge to it that, if not quickly and firmly rejected, will gut the effectiveness of the mandate," Verizon Wireless said in its filing. The WCG carriers ". . . make it clear that they will slow or block a customer's desire to change carriers and keep the same numbers until the customer 'settles up' his account."
In June, Verizon Wireless president and CEO Denny Strigl detailed the Verizon Wireless plan for implementing number portability: no up-front costs to current customers; no special barriers to switching from one service provider to another; fast service; and no hassle. In his presentation, Strigl said, "We will not charge any 'special fees' for customers who want to take their numbers with them. Our plan at Verizon Wireless is to treat porting customers the same way we treat any customer today. No change from today." Once portability is in place, Verizon Wireless may consider recovering operational costs to the tune of no more than 10 to 15 cents per month on customers' bills. Strigl noted that the company's position on number portability is a natural extension of the Verizon Wireless customer-focused "Worry Free Guarantee."
The official position of ALLTEL, AT&T Wireless, Cingular, Nextel and Sprint, however, is that they should be free to impose new costs and erect additional restrictions on their customers who want to switch. The Verizon Wireless filing cautions, "The Commission should not be fooled by the absurd argument that consumers will somehow benefit from porting restrictions."
Verizon Wireless urged the FCC to act quickly - by September 1, 2003 - to make it clear that wireless service providers cannot erect new barriers and hold their customers hostage by making it expensive and difficult, if not impossible, to switch. "Having imposed the LNP mandate," Verizon Wireless noted, "the Commission bears responsibility to ensure that it is implemented effectively so that it can achieve its goals for competition and consumers."
About Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless is the nation's leading provider of wireless communications. The company has the lar
My question is, what happens to CD prices after the RIAA wins all these lawsuits, as they surely will?
Let's face the music (pun = intended) - distributing copyrighted works IS illegal, and if the RIAA gets its day in court to prove it, some users will lose. And, presumably, file sharing apps will go the way of the dodo.
However, what happens next? Personally, I think the RIAA will realize that they once again have a captive audience, and they'll raise prices to ungodly levels once again...simply because they can!
Here's to the ISPs fighting for their users' cause. They're one of the only lifelines Internet users have left. And that's pretty unfortunate.
>> I doubt BuyMusic.com will succeed.
And that's a real problem. If BuyMusic.com gooes under, the RIAA will have more 'ammunition' to further their claims that music users are evil. They'll say,
"Well, we started a website where users could LEGALLY buy music, and they shot that down. There's nothing else we can do - we had the perfect solution, and it didn't work. Online music is bad."
What they surely won't realize is that their 'solution' was extremely flawed and poorly thought out. Unfortunately, the problem exists with the distribution, not the user base.