Obviously I have not RTFA....but...
Surely the biggest question is what they do with the CO2 they extract. I half expect them to just expel it into the atmosphere but I so hope they don't...
Not being funny, but I thought that the region coding was ceasing to be a problem because a high percentage of the devices you buy now can circumvent it anyways.
What I'd like to see them doing is ending staggered releases worldwide and releasing everywhere on the same day.
Nice. Wonder if they're going to break their word again and distribute yet another patch during december.
Still this seems like a major flaw - For the last 3 months I've been recommending to all my friends and family to start using Mozilla. Not saying it's perfect but there's a lot less flaws than IE.
Seriously, if they can make these things usable I'd be most, most happy:
I've now had 2 or 3 relatively expensive mobiles and every single one has at some stage or other had problems with the keypad - it's gutting to have a nice swanky phone but still take 5 minutes to do the most simple tasks.
Ascend MAX, or Lucent TNTs or whatever are dead cheap now.
As an ex dial engineer from a v.large telco I can tell you that the boxes themselves aren't the cost of running these services - it's the E1s that you have to rent to hook them up. They cost shit loads per month and the provisioning is dead difficult.
Anyways, regarding the overseas stuff, what do you expect ? AOL is a business and due to the shareholders wanting the most $$$ they can get their hands on, they are just doing the most profitable.
There are parallels with industry - in the UK for example our industry has all but gone - because people in Taiwan and elsewhere can just produce it a whole lot cheaper. However the point is that we diversified and that is what the US has to do. (Currently the UK has the best growth rates in the G7) If these jobs can be done elsewhere cheaper, so be it . Just make sure that you diversify. Anyways, the most of the jobs that have been moved overseas are normally call acceptance etc and those jobs suck royally anyways;)
Every time people are round at our house it is always on. The point is that there are a lot of people out there that are uncomfortable with learning how to use a console controller and because with this there is virtually no learning it is a big hit.
Not your typical geek game though because it does actually raise your level of fitness...the first few times I played the kung-foo game or the boxing game the next day I ached so badly...
Can't wait to see what they can do with this - it's the future I'm sure!
What I'd like to see is contacts that implement both a display and an ccd or the equivilant, so that we can zoom in on objects that are in the distance....would be so wicked.....imagine being able to use them like a microscope as well....would be good.
I disagree with the statement that entertainment has never been free.
The concept of someone "owning" a song is relatively new - the idea that someone wrote it is not.
It wasn't all that long ago that artists where happy for people to hear their work, because if it was good enough more people would pay to see them, and that would keep the food on the table.
The mega-stars of the end of the 20th, beginning of this century are a new invention (and a terrible one at that). If you want to see a good reason not to pay people these huge sums, look at what the fortune part of the fame & fortune did to their creativity....but that's another story.
The analogy that springs to mind is that if you go to the public library, they let you borrow a book, only if you let them chain it to your wrist first.
I've got CDs that I burned just 2 years ago, and my CD drive has trouble reading them - no scratches, it just appears that they age waaaay to quick. I know a lot of people who keep photos on CD, I hope they realise that it's not so permanent.
Maybe something good would come of this. I'd actually be willing to pay out $5 to $10 to get a CD that once burned would stick around for a while.
I totally agree that slashdot should close.
and why not use the poll option to confirm that that is what most people want - at last, a meaningful poll!!!
I think you have a valid point. I guess that the obvious response to that viewpoint is that while I agree the main objective of the linux community should not be desktop OS domination, I feel that it happens to be a by-product of a more important goal:
Our goal should be to create a damn fine OS, for ourselves, and for those we know. In my opinion the linux/opensource community really demonstrates the potential that internet-enabled mass cooperation can do for computer using people the world over.
I pray for linux domination on the desktop, because by the time we get there, we're going to have one absolute kick-arse OS. And even if we don't make it - at lease it will force M$ to get their shit together and innovate.
I had a similar problem very recently - more and more projects heaped on me, all with similar end dates and certainly not enough hours in the day to complete them.
In the end, I created a spreadsheet for my boss, that detailed the different stuff I'm working on, and the importance, time required and other details for each project.
At the end of the day, your boss is payed more, _precisely_ to make these sort of decisions. If you put the onus on them to make the decisions, they can't criticise if they've already had prior warning that you've got too much work on.
Slashdot Mirror
Obviously I have not RTFA....but... Surely the biggest question is what they do with the CO2 they extract. I half expect them to just expel it into the atmosphere but I so hope they don't...
Interesting,
:- 4,271,998 Internet users as of Aug./2003, 57.9% penetration, per NielsenNR.
;) and yes, I live in CH too so I am not talking out of my arse.
t tp://www.internetworldstats.com/europa2.htm
But your figures on internet usage are waaay off.
Switzerland
Sweden has the highest in Europe: ( 6,726,808 Internet users as of Sept/2003, 75,8% penetration, per NielsenNR.)
Other countries including the UK and NL are ahead of you as well, with 58.2% and 63.7% respectively.
I'm afraid you're a casuality of Swiss propoganda
FYI the stats came from here:
http://www.internetworldstats.com/europa.htm
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Is actually usable as a dvd ripper in linux.
Uh yeah. But that being for a Cinema release. We're talking about DVDs afaik.
Not being funny, but I thought that the region coding was ceasing to be a problem because a high percentage of the devices you buy now can circumvent it anyways.
What I'd like to see them doing is ending staggered releases worldwide and releasing everywhere on the same day.
Lindows as a name gives the wrong impression about where linux wants to be anyway.
They should concentrate on marketing their product as a decent OS and not a cheap and inferior copy of windows.
That would clearly depend on the colour of hat you're prone to wear....
Nice. Wonder if they're going to break their word again and distribute yet another patch during december.
Still this seems like a major flaw - For the last 3 months I've been recommending to all my friends and family to start using Mozilla. Not saying it's perfect but there's a lot less flaws than IE.
Seriously, if they can make these things usable I'd be most, most happy:
I've now had 2 or 3 relatively expensive mobiles and every single one has at some stage or other had problems with the keypad - it's gutting to have a nice swanky phone but still take 5 minutes to do the most simple tasks.
Ascend MAX, or Lucent TNTs or whatever are dead cheap now.
;)
As an ex dial engineer from a v.large telco I can tell you that the boxes themselves aren't the cost of running these services - it's the E1s that you have to rent to hook them up. They cost shit loads per month and the provisioning is dead difficult.
Anyways, regarding the overseas stuff, what do you expect ? AOL is a business and due to the shareholders wanting the most $$$ they can get their hands on, they are just doing the most profitable.
There are parallels with industry - in the UK for example our industry has all but gone - because people in Taiwan and elsewhere can just produce it a whole lot cheaper. However the point is that we diversified and that is what the US has to do. (Currently the UK has the best growth rates in the G7) If these jobs can be done elsewhere cheaper, so be it . Just make sure that you diversify. Anyways, the most of the jobs that have been moved overseas are normally call acceptance etc and those jobs suck royally anyways
It's a reference to calvin and hobbes methinks
Bought one about a month ago...
Every time people are round at our house it is always on. The point is that there are a lot of people out there that are uncomfortable with learning how to use a console controller and because with this there is virtually no learning it is a big hit.
Not your typical geek game though because it does actually raise your level of fitness...the first few times I played the kung-foo game or the boxing game the next day I ached so badly...
Can't wait to see what they can do with this - it's the future I'm sure!
What I'd like to see is contacts that implement both a display and an ccd or the equivilant, so that we can zoom in on objects that are in the distance....would be so wicked.....imagine being able to use them like a microscope as well....would be good.
Someone with mod points mod this up +funny....
I knew a girl called pandora once.........never saw her box though....
I disagree with the statement that entertainment has never been free.
The concept of someone "owning" a song is relatively new - the idea that someone wrote it is not.
It wasn't all that long ago that artists where happy for people to hear their work, because if it was good enough more people would pay to see them, and that would keep the food on the table.
The mega-stars of the end of the 20th, beginning of this century are a new invention (and a terrible one at that). If you want to see a good reason not to pay people these huge sums, look at what the fortune part of the fame & fortune did to their creativity....but that's another story.
God this sort of stuff pisses me off -
The analogy that springs to mind is that if you go to the public library, they let you borrow a book, only if you let them chain it to your wrist first.
Information was, is and should be free.
Honestly,
I've got CDs that I burned just 2 years ago, and my CD drive has trouble reading them - no scratches, it just appears that they age waaaay to quick. I know a lot of people who keep photos on CD, I hope they realise that it's not so permanent.
Maybe something good would come of this. I'd actually be willing to pay out $5 to $10 to get a CD that once burned would stick around for a while.
More like living in Amsterdam..... ...stayed there 2 years, it added on about 20 years :C
gotta go, late for my doctors appointment.
Yup - they decided to really go for the most hard-core downloaders: They're suing a 71 year old grandad as well....
Check the BBC article out
wow.
How about the fact that a whole load of the linux kernel comes from outside the good ol' us of a.
seriously, think global....isn't that what the internet is about anyways ?
I totally agree that slashdot should close. and why not use the poll option to confirm that that is what most people want - at last, a meaningful poll!!!
I think you have a valid point. I guess that the obvious response to that viewpoint is that while I agree the main objective of the linux community should not be desktop OS domination, I feel that it happens to be a by-product of a more important goal:
Our goal should be to create a damn fine OS, for ourselves, and for those we know. In my opinion the linux/opensource community really demonstrates the potential that internet-enabled mass cooperation can do for computer using people the world over.
I pray for linux domination on the desktop, because by the time we get there, we're going to have one absolute kick-arse OS. And even if we don't make it - at lease it will force M$ to get their shit together and innovate.
I had a similar problem very recently - more and more projects heaped on me, all with similar end dates and certainly not enough hours in the day to complete them.
In the end, I created a spreadsheet for my boss, that detailed the different stuff I'm working on, and the importance, time required and other details for each project.
At the end of the day, your boss is payed more, _precisely_ to make these sort of decisions. If you put the onus on them to make the decisions, they can't criticise if they've already had prior warning that you've got too much work on.
Wow, cool job! Gotta admit that it sounds better than my "code monkey" job I've got right now.....