They could use a cheaper 3rd party vendor with lower quality standards for productions in China and charge the same amount retail. Same price, lower quality in other words. That's what a lot of companies in other markets are doing right now: same price for a bottle of shampoo, 2 or 3 oz less in the bottle...
all online retailers have to pay at least a $1 for shipping. And $1 for every shipment goes to the state of the customer resides in. That would be a lot less than the customer 8% or whatever it is but it would be something. It would be small enough it probably wouldn't be worth it to figure how to work around it.
Unless you live in California. Then the whole state goes bankrupt because the people don't want to pay taxes.
I don't know where in Cali, or if you do, but if so it's obviously a different part than I live in. In particular the roads: they're all falling apart. I-80 is just barely above gravel. There's giant pot-holes that I would have assumed were unsafe that have been there for at least 10 years. I pay and pay year after year all these taxes and I never see any improvement. Just roads falling further and further into disrepair. So either it's paying for the retired state employee's second boat or the streets on the opposite end of the state are paved with gold because the state certainly doesn't spend a penny where I am (Sacramento region).
Of course there's the 800 lb. gorilla in the room that every one knows is the source of Cali's fiscal issues that no one will acknowledge or talk about. In fact the state would rather literally declare bankruptcy than acknowledge it. Such is the state of politics in a place like Cali.
There was this little event in the 1850s called the "gold rush". You may have heard of it. The surrounding 100 mile radius is where much of the gold was extracted from the mountains. Sacramento is roughly 150 years old.
I'm usually the first one to complain about my local downtown (Sacramento, CA) but I feel the need to some how come to the defense of it here. By even the lowest of standards Sacramento's downtown is the worst (well it could be better than Oakland. blek). There's panhandlers every couple of blocks and if you live there you'll probably have your car broken into regularly. But being shot at? Really?
I never feel "unsafe" and I've never worried about being shot downtown. Actually it isn't really that dilapidated either. Just no parking or convenient public transportation and it's so spread out it's not really pedestrian-friendly so it sucks in that way. Did you get all your ideas of American cities from the movie Sin City or what?
I've been working for weeks toward setting up a test box for Xen (I want to learn it for work). In my research i found the webmin-related product cloudmin which works for both Xen and KVM. Haven't tried it yet, hopefully it's as good as regularly webmin. That'd provide the GUI, not sure about the other stuff.
It's the kind of show that has to "grow on you". It takes a while to really see what it's about. And it's not really about the boys.
If you can make it through the first two season the season 2 finale is like the best episode ever. Really helps if you have the whole history of the different relationships between everybody going in though. Samson in that henchman uniform for instance. I'm laughing just thinking about it.
I worked for SBC before/during the at&t merger as low-level IT grunt albeit. If nothing else I learned about the power and loyalty of the telecom unions (they seemed to be holding up signs in front of the building every other week).
I never see anybody cover this angle but big companies like at&t kind of got both sides covered these days: the corporation lobbying one half of the political spectrum while the union as a separate entity lobbies the other side. if this goes through, I have a feeling it will, it will be largely because it's in the union's best interest as anyone else. Remember when you villainize "the share holder's" you're talking about lots of union members with retirements coming up in the next 10 years tied directly to the value of the at&t stock...
You forgot the part where you pay $600 for phones we're currently paying $100 for. You really think after all this time of free/cheap phones people would just enthusiastically jump to paying $600 for phone? Even if you show them how it would be so much cheaper they'll still take the 2 year thing with a cheap phone. Also, I don't think that many people know what a SIM card is never mind how to take apart a phone and "pop one in" (I know it's easy, it's just beyond most of the population, at least in my experience).
For the record actually can do that: pay several hundred dollars for an unlocked GSM phone and call up PureTalkUSA or Simple Mobile and buy a SIM card. Pop it in and pay month to month. Nothing stopping you now. Details about data plans not with standing of course. The point is if you hate it so much go European now.
It was rumored San Francisco *MIGHT* get a *LITTLE* snow and people took the week off. You'd think what with giant earth quakes of their own SF folks would be able to deal a little more effectively.
This comment may not be of value since I can't remember where I heard/read it but I heard/read some place that there was some cheating going on in some multi-player PS3 titles thanks to that crypto key (whatever) being released. Perhaps that isn't true, just interesting.
I came up with this metaphor at one point:
Consoles are popular commercial networks like Fox or CBS. They have their American Idol (Gears of War) and their CSIs (Various CoDs?) which get all the attention and regularly have millions of players/viewers.
While the PC is like PBS: hardly any viewers from one night to another (not nearly the big sellers as consoles), then a Ken Burns documentary (big PC exclusive) comes out like "The War" (SC2/WoW) and 10s of millions of viewers (players) watch (play) and the PC/PBS is suddenly relevant/existence is acknowledged.
PBS and Fox can live side by side and hopefully PCs and consoles can do the same...
I don't know why I remember this but there was some blurb or comment on a show or something that indicated the Kurt Russel movie "Soldier" was some how in the Blade Runner universe. As confirmed by wikipeida:
Soldier was written by David Peoples, who co-wrote the script for Blade Runner. By his own admission, he considers Soldier to be a "sidequel"/spiritual successor to Blade Runner.[1] It also obliquely references various elements of stories written by Philip K. Dick (who wrote the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, on which Blade Runner is based), or film adaptations thereof. A "Spinner" vehicle from Blade Runner can be seen in the wreckage on a junk planet that features in the film.[2]
There's a skilled modder over at the OCN forums that already did an entire case in some kind of cardboard. Looks like it worked out pretty well from what I can tell.
The summary is probably oddly worded. I think the summary just meant this new SSD will be able to keep up with the sata 6 speeds from a "thunderbolt" interface. I just saw a podcast about "thunderbolt" recently (tekzilla I think?). Looks like the interface will be that of DisplayPort but be able to do video/hdd/network/audio/other peripherals (and power also) whilst daisy chaining a number of devices. Not fiber optic like originally talked about (maybe later) but still fast.
[quote]Saying, "Open a command prompt," is in no way more convenient, faster, or easier than slamming the mouse to the lower left, clicking, and typing cmd.exe. Having it say, "OK, here's a command prompt," afterward would just be annoying[/quote]
I usually use Win+R [Enter]. But then I use cmd.exe an awful lot:-)
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When I was a freshman in high school, ~1992, my English teacher would issue commands to the new [power?] macs. In fact she named the Macs and would talk to and even apologize for interrupting the things ("Sorry Athena!"). But then she was "a bit of an eccentric". No idea what OS version that was. OS 7 or there abouts if I had to guess. I can't believe I remember the name of a Macintosh from an English class in 1992.
well there was that witch lady that told you how to get through the maze...east/east-west/west...i don't really remember...anyway wasn't that her home?
I think the pottery throwing first appeared in the gameboy/SNES version though.
My Verizon contract will be up in ~18 months (July 2012) and by then maybe there will be a decent version of this. Unless I am remembering something else entirely there will a "framework" or whatever that will allow for these ExperiaPlay-whatever games to run on multiple devices. Like a runtime or DRM layer or something, I don't know. Anyway the point is if these things are improved in 18 months and it's still Android that does everything a normal android does I think I might consider one of these. Maybe the gamepad-like button set will also make emulators that much easier to approach. And it will still be subsidized instead of $400 and work as an actual phone I hope...
I think I agree with both you and Mr. Beck: I would prefer not giving Egypt 1 Billion dollars every year and pulling out of South Korea and any of other places where there is no direct threat and/or interest.
But let me play devil's advocate for a moment here:
Perhaps the US propped up the outgoing Egyptian guy for 30 years, perhaps they merely contributed to his propping up but keep in mind the US does directly and indirectly benefit from a stable and peaceful middle east. Egypt has been at peace with Israel for the last 30 years as opposed to on and off wars. That means unmolested oil pipelines, a stable trading partner in Israel, and a number of other benefits. Instability can only make prices go up. So would the price of American gas have gone up if Israel and Egypt were in on again/off again wars the past 30 years? I have no idea. But i don't think it's quite as black and white as you say.
The same could be said for troops on the Korean border: the US, South Korea, Japan and China are essentially keeping North Korea in existence, subsidizing their existence in fact. It's in South Korea's best interest to have a buffer between them and China, as it is in China's best interest. The only alternatives are far less appealing than continuing to prop up North Korea. And why is it American troops instead of a multi-national UN type of force? I suspect that's largely historical and political (and they're still complying with the terms of the cease fire for some reason). Of course even the propping up can't last forever. Eventually it will collapse.
So I guess my point is it's not quite as black and white as you make it seem. Besides if the alternative is China propping up their own dictators in places like Egypt in Chin's interest would anyone be better off?
Okay now I'm confused. No where either in Slashdot's summary or in the article itself does it say anything about ethernet-over-powerlines technology. All it says is that the device is a plug-it-in-and-forget-it "wall wart". I assumed you would run an ethernet cable from your router to the wall wart like the similar arm-based wall warts covered recently. But reading the article again it actually doesn't mention ethernet cabling (and the image of the guy holding the device doesn't seem to show any ports at the one side of the box anyway).
Am i missing something?
Even if it is some how long distance ethernet-over-power, which I doubt, seems like an up-stream provider would be necessary at some point. Right?
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They could use a cheaper 3rd party vendor with lower quality standards for productions in China and charge the same amount retail. Same price, lower quality in other words. That's what a lot of companies in other markets are doing right now: same price for a bottle of shampoo, 2 or 3 oz less in the bottle...
the only one who only thought of the "modified howitzer" line in the one futurama episode?
Wikipedia keeps calling them "customary units" which I had never even heard before. So I guess the name has been changed.
How about this for a solution:
all online retailers have to pay at least a $1 for shipping. And $1 for every shipment goes to the state of the customer resides in. That would be a lot less than the customer 8% or whatever it is but it would be something. It would be small enough it probably wouldn't be worth it to figure how to work around it.
And vote for people who spend them wisely.
Unless you live in California. Then the whole state goes bankrupt because the people don't want to pay taxes.
I don't know where in Cali, or if you do, but if so it's obviously a different part than I live in. In particular the roads: they're all falling apart. I-80 is just barely above gravel. There's giant pot-holes that I would have assumed were unsafe that have been there for at least 10 years. I pay and pay year after year all these taxes and I never see any improvement. Just roads falling further and further into disrepair. So either it's paying for the retired state employee's second boat or the streets on the opposite end of the state are paved with gold because the state certainly doesn't spend a penny where I am (Sacramento region). Of course there's the 800 lb. gorilla in the room that every one knows is the source of Cali's fiscal issues that no one will acknowledge or talk about. In fact the state would rather literally declare bankruptcy than acknowledge it. Such is the state of politics in a place like Cali.
There was this little event in the 1850s called the "gold rush". You may have heard of it. The surrounding 100 mile radius is where much of the gold was extracted from the mountains. Sacramento is roughly 150 years old.
I'm usually the first one to complain about my local downtown (Sacramento, CA) but I feel the need to some how come to the defense of it here. By even the lowest of standards Sacramento's downtown is the worst (well it could be better than Oakland. blek). There's panhandlers every couple of blocks and if you live there you'll probably have your car broken into regularly. But being shot at? Really? I never feel "unsafe" and I've never worried about being shot downtown. Actually it isn't really that dilapidated either. Just no parking or convenient public transportation and it's so spread out it's not really pedestrian-friendly so it sucks in that way. Did you get all your ideas of American cities from the movie Sin City or what?
I've been working for weeks toward setting up a test box for Xen (I want to learn it for work). In my research i found the webmin-related product cloudmin which works for both Xen and KVM. Haven't tried it yet, hopefully it's as good as regularly webmin. That'd provide the GUI, not sure about the other stuff.
It's the kind of show that has to "grow on you". It takes a while to really see what it's about. And it's not really about the boys.
If you can make it through the first two season the season 2 finale is like the best episode ever. Really helps if you have the whole history of the different relationships between everybody going in though. Samson in that henchman uniform for instance. I'm laughing just thinking about it.
I worked for SBC before/during the at&t merger as low-level IT grunt albeit. If nothing else I learned about the power and loyalty of the telecom unions (they seemed to be holding up signs in front of the building every other week).
I never see anybody cover this angle but big companies like at&t kind of got both sides covered these days: the corporation lobbying one half of the political spectrum while the union as a separate entity lobbies the other side. if this goes through, I have a feeling it will, it will be largely because it's in the union's best interest as anyone else. Remember when you villainize "the share holder's" you're talking about lots of union members with retirements coming up in the next 10 years tied directly to the value of the at&t stock...
You forgot the part where you pay $600 for phones we're currently paying $100 for. You really think after all this time of free/cheap phones people would just enthusiastically jump to paying $600 for phone? Even if you show them how it would be so much cheaper they'll still take the 2 year thing with a cheap phone. Also, I don't think that many people know what a SIM card is never mind how to take apart a phone and "pop one in" (I know it's easy, it's just beyond most of the population, at least in my experience).
For the record actually can do that: pay several hundred dollars for an unlocked GSM phone and call up PureTalkUSA or Simple Mobile and buy a SIM card. Pop it in and pay month to month. Nothing stopping you now. Details about data plans not with standing of course. The point is if you hate it so much go European now.
It was rumored San Francisco *MIGHT* get a *LITTLE* snow and people took the week off. You'd think what with giant earth quakes of their own SF folks would be able to deal a little more effectively.
This comment may not be of value since I can't remember where I heard/read it but I heard/read some place that there was some cheating going on in some multi-player PS3 titles thanks to that crypto key (whatever) being released. Perhaps that isn't true, just interesting.
I came up with this metaphor at one point: Consoles are popular commercial networks like Fox or CBS. They have their American Idol (Gears of War) and their CSIs (Various CoDs?) which get all the attention and regularly have millions of players/viewers. While the PC is like PBS: hardly any viewers from one night to another (not nearly the big sellers as consoles), then a Ken Burns documentary (big PC exclusive) comes out like "The War" (SC2/WoW) and 10s of millions of viewers (players) watch (play) and the PC/PBS is suddenly relevant/existence is acknowledged. PBS and Fox can live side by side and hopefully PCs and consoles can do the same...
Soldier was written by David Peoples, who co-wrote the script for Blade Runner. By his own admission, he considers Soldier to be a "sidequel"/spiritual successor to Blade Runner.[1] It also obliquely references various elements of stories written by Philip K. Dick (who wrote the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, on which Blade Runner is based), or film adaptations thereof. A "Spinner" vehicle from Blade Runner can be seen in the wreckage on a junk planet that features in the film.[2]
No, but it's a good start. ;-)
Actually I liked "Total Recall"
There's a skilled modder over at the OCN forums that already did an entire case in some kind of cardboard. Looks like it worked out pretty well from what I can tell.
The summary is probably oddly worded. I think the summary just meant this new SSD will be able to keep up with the sata 6 speeds from a "thunderbolt" interface. I just saw a podcast about "thunderbolt" recently (tekzilla I think?). Looks like the interface will be that of DisplayPort but be able to do video/hdd/network/audio/other peripherals (and power also) whilst daisy chaining a number of devices. Not fiber optic like originally talked about (maybe later) but still fast.
[quote]Saying, "Open a command prompt," is in no way more convenient, faster, or easier than slamming the mouse to the lower left, clicking, and typing cmd.exe. Having it say, "OK, here's a command prompt," afterward would just be annoying[/quote]
I usually use Win+R [Enter]. But then I use cmd.exe an awful lot :-)
When I was a freshman in high school, ~1992, my English teacher would issue commands to the new [power?] macs. In fact she named the Macs and would talk to and even apologize for interrupting the things ("Sorry Athena!"). But then she was "a bit of an eccentric". No idea what OS version that was. OS 7 or there abouts if I had to guess. I can't believe I remember the name of a Macintosh from an English class in 1992.
I guess you know how the "tea baggers" feel now, eh?
well there was that witch lady that told you how to get through the maze...east/east-west/west...i don't really remember...anyway wasn't that her home?
I think the pottery throwing first appeared in the gameboy/SNES version though.
My Verizon contract will be up in ~18 months (July 2012) and by then maybe there will be a decent version of this. Unless I am remembering something else entirely there will a "framework" or whatever that will allow for these ExperiaPlay-whatever games to run on multiple devices. Like a runtime or DRM layer or something, I don't know. Anyway the point is if these things are improved in 18 months and it's still Android that does everything a normal android does I think I might consider one of these. Maybe the gamepad-like button set will also make emulators that much easier to approach. And it will still be subsidized instead of $400 and work as an actual phone I hope...
I think I agree with both you and Mr. Beck: I would prefer not giving Egypt 1 Billion dollars every year and pulling out of South Korea and any of other places where there is no direct threat and/or interest.
But let me play devil's advocate for a moment here:
Perhaps the US propped up the outgoing Egyptian guy for 30 years, perhaps they merely contributed to his propping up but keep in mind the US does directly and indirectly benefit from a stable and peaceful middle east. Egypt has been at peace with Israel for the last 30 years as opposed to on and off wars. That means unmolested oil pipelines, a stable trading partner in Israel, and a number of other benefits. Instability can only make prices go up. So would the price of American gas have gone up if Israel and Egypt were in on again/off again wars the past 30 years? I have no idea. But i don't think it's quite as black and white as you say.
The same could be said for troops on the Korean border: the US, South Korea, Japan and China are essentially keeping North Korea in existence, subsidizing their existence in fact. It's in South Korea's best interest to have a buffer between them and China, as it is in China's best interest. The only alternatives are far less appealing than continuing to prop up North Korea. And why is it American troops instead of a multi-national UN type of force? I suspect that's largely historical and political (and they're still complying with the terms of the cease fire for some reason). Of course even the propping up can't last forever. Eventually it will collapse.
So I guess my point is it's not quite as black and white as you make it seem. Besides if the alternative is China propping up their own dictators in places like Egypt in Chin's interest would anyone be better off?
Okay now I'm confused. No where either in Slashdot's summary or in the article itself does it say anything about ethernet-over-powerlines technology. All it says is that the device is a plug-it-in-and-forget-it "wall wart". I assumed you would run an ethernet cable from your router to the wall wart like the similar arm-based wall warts covered recently. But reading the article again it actually doesn't mention ethernet cabling (and the image of the guy holding the device doesn't seem to show any ports at the one side of the box anyway).
Am i missing something?
Even if it is some how long distance ethernet-over-power, which I doubt, seems like an up-stream provider would be necessary at some point. Right?