Why can't Fiber be run along telephone poles, same as power or cable? Fiber is always tagged as expense, but I don't see why it's any different than any other wire that's run to your house. You can combine hundreds or thousands of thin fiber strands into a thicker line that will still fit on a pole.
Only novelists and crackpot linkbait article writers think robots or computers are going to be smarter than humans anytime soon. Most people with a scientific, engineering, or programming background know they're not even close and won't be anytime soon. I doubt it will happen even in the next 50 years. 100 years is so far away anything can happen so all bets are off.
No thanks, companies are already using H-1B workers to fill their positions, cutting out jobs for us American programmers and lowering wages. I keep hearing that companies are desperate for tech workers and there are not enough people to fill positions. Yet my resume gets tossed half the time, and the companies I interview at are very arrogant, acting more like you need them and should feel grateful they are even considering hiring you.
You're right about the tangable products, so no Amazon.com and Newegg impacts. But I think you jumped to conclusions too fast on netflix/hulu. I don't think the App Store policy states that you're only subject to the rule if you allow the actual purchase within the app. Apps that only allow you to sign up or purchase content outside the app may still have to follow this rule. If that were the case, then Sony and Amazon would have an easy out to just direct you to their website to buy books.
The scary part is that the App Store rule that Apple is using to enforce this doesn't specifically say eBooks. It says that any purchase that's available from an app, must also be made available through iTunes in-app purchase. That could apply to any app that allows you to buy anything, including the Amazon.com and Newegg apps. Could you imagine Amazon and Newegg having to put every single product in iTunes and giving Apple a 30% cut? It's even more complicated for Amazon which acts as an intermediary to 3rd party sellers.
No, that's not socialism, that's your typical capitalist, business as usual decision. Now, if he decided to take the money back from the rich board members and executives and give it back to the individual investors, THAT would be socialism.
Common shareholders are the FIRST to get wiped out when a company is in trouble, the company leaders are the LAST to lose their money, that's quite the opposite of socialism.
iPhone applications can retrieve ALL information from your phonebook including names, addresses, and phone numbers. It does not need your permission either, there is no confirmation popup like with the location functions.
NORMAL human beings will not let petty arguments escalate. MOST people have the self control not to pull out a gun.
The problem is there are over 300 Million people in the U.S. (If that's where you are from). Give guns to most people and that small percentage of people that WOULD let things get out of control WILL NOW have an easy time taking it to that level.
I am not a gun control advocate. I'm just pointing out that if you take all of the times that people get heated and out of control in the entire U.S. in a single day, or lets say in a week, think about adding a gun to that equation. You don't think the percentage of shootings would be higher?
Again, that's not a reason to ban guns, I was just making a point. If you want to fight for less gun laws, you shouldn't just completely ignore or refute the point I'm making, but find a way to reduce the number of shootings/killings that occur.
Your comparisons are not accurate. How many times do the police shoot someone because they mistakenly think a person is about to shoot them? They are trained for those instances so how do you think an angry person is going to react when the person they are arguing with starts to pull out their gun? It quickly becomes a life or death situation that comes down to who can pull out their gun faster and shoot, regardless of whether or not the person who first went for their gun intended to use it.
Having a gun right by your side that you can quickly pull out and use is different than looking for a big rock, picking it up, walking back to the person, and beating them to death with it. Running someone down with a car is also not a good comparison (see above paragraph).
I don't agree at all. How many times do people argue and physically fight? It's very difficult to kill someone with your bear hands, unless you really want to. It may not be so hard to get so pissed off you pull out your gun and start shooting before you have time to think about what you're doing.
Think about all the fights you see in HS, College, Bars, Sports events! Try giving all those people guns and then see what happens.
Yeah, an amazing new battery posted on the front page of Slashdot that holds 10 times the power of traditional batteries using nothing other than air as the new ingredient. Hold on while I get the party poppers and start celebrating the automobile and electronics revolution.
Reminds me of the movie Grandma's Boy. It was about a bunch of game programmers and testers. It had the stereotypical genius/crazy/anti-social programmer diva.
Asking the current rich and huge companies to voluntarily give back some of their money is great and all, but the fact that they have huge globs of money to burn shows that the free market is not as free and fair as it should be. The capitalists make sure that employees are not getting paid what their market rate should be, they make sure competing products are eliminated, they buy up or sue the competition. Screwing over your employees and customers to gain enormous profits cannot be forgiven by giving some scraps to random poor countries and people. This has been the philosophy of Gates for a while, close your eyes to how you make your money, but give some of it away to feel kind and generous.
IMO, this is not a win for Apple. They have killed a very pro-Apple website which was read by Apple fans and customers. This was not some site that was trashing them, spreading damaging lies, and promoting non-Apple stuff. They were getting the fans excited and trying to sell more products, which is exactly what Apple is trying to do. If you kill off your friends, you are shooting yourself in the foot.
Also, everyone always says these features for the non-techie and we need to do this so my 50+ grandmother can use it. I think that we forget that even long time Linux users don't want to deal with spending hours getting their own systems to work.
My primary job at work is to maintain Linux servers and development machines. I also have a few Linux PCs and servers at home. I hate it as much as the average non-techie when I try to boot up my nice shiny new Ubuntu CD and it locks up on bootup everytime. Or when I finally get it installed and the screen is all screwed up and there are major soundcard issues and I have to debug it or search forums.
Even if we didn't care about non-tech users, who here on Slashdot enjoys dealing with problems that could have been fixed by good autodetection and clear easy configuration choices.
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Any iPhone owners want to comment on how the iPhone handles a slashdot comments page with a couple hundred comments?
I am away from home a lot and got the iPhone in part to keep up with Slashdot, CNN, etc. It's great if you keep in mind that it's not supposed to replace a laptop or desktop for browsing. The browsing experience in my opinion is far better than other smartphones I have used.
To answer your question about large Slashdot pages, it has some strange behavior when loading any large page. It brings up the page quickly, but then takes an unusually long time to finish loading the page, even on WI-FI. It does let you scroll and zoom while it's loading, but it's terrible. Sometimes it ignores your finger scrolling, and other times it thinks you clicked when you clearly scrolled. You sometimes have to try scrolling 2 or 3 times for it to respond. Double tapping is also not a good idea while it's loading, it mistakes it for a click a lot. If you wait for the page to finish, it works great.
I'm not an iPhone apologist, even though I own one, I know it's flaws and work around them. Before I bought one, I had no ties to Apple and didn't care about the company, only the phone usability. I can say that after spending some time at a Nokia store trying out the N95, N800, working with my Friends' Treo 755p and Blackberry (recent one), I was amazed at the iPhone when I went to the Apple store. I'm just giving my opinion, but I suggest people try one out with an open mind and see it for yourself.
I was disappointed to see that this article appears to be biased to the iPhone. From the very beginning of the article, it doesn't put all the phones on an equal level and just compare them. It puts the iPhone on a pedestal and hypes it up. I would like to see a good unbiased article that really compares the usability, clarity, features, and efficiency of browsing the web on the different phones.
Another reason why LUGs are necessary is because coordinated groups have much more power than single individuals. In my company, the IT department is ALWAYS trying to clamp down on what we can do.
First it was no AIM, then no SSH, then no FTP, then no POP3, then lots of websites blocked including blogs, Linux helpsites, etc. The only thing that prevents them from mandating that everyone has to run Windows is our LUG. They have enough people who go out of their way to work with their managers to make sure we Linux users are important.
Without an organization, it's divide and conquer, on the part of management and IT of companies.
Ok, perhaps we forgot the issue, and your saying I'm regarding it superficially?
First of all, here is the comment from the parent post that I was responding to:
It's no big deal, the only difference is that people now have to log in through Yahooo rather than Flickr maintaning a separate login system just for them. Nothing else has changed, the Flickr experience is identical from that moment onwards.
It was suggesting that this makes ABSOLUTELY NO difference to the users. I believe that I have proven a case where it makes a difference to me. Yes I can complain to my IT department and no they are not blocking it because they want more work done, it's because they have concluded that free webmail is a source of viruses getting into the company network. So all the comments about how I shouldn't be doing it at work in the first place don't justify that this login consolidation has no negative effect at all.
P.S. How are all of you commenting on this during working hours, get back to work!:)
7) My company (like a lot of other companies) bans free web mail services like Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo including their login pages, which now also stops me from logging into Flickr.
They broke their own criteria by listing Duke Nukem Forever. From the beginning of the article:
How about the final spec for 802.11n, the blazing-fast new Wi-Fi? While many hoped to see it finalized this year, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has been saying not to expect anything until January 2007. No false promises, no Vaporware Award.
Then about Duke: The company still has a message on its website saying that the game will be released "when it's done."
It doesn't sound like they're promising anything to me, so it shouldn't be on the list.
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Why can't Fiber be run along telephone poles, same as power or cable? Fiber is always tagged as expense, but I don't see why it's any different than any other wire that's run to your house. You can combine hundreds or thousands of thin fiber strands into a thicker line that will still fit on a pole.
Only novelists and crackpot linkbait article writers think robots or computers are going to be smarter than humans anytime soon. Most people with a scientific, engineering, or programming background know they're not even close and won't be anytime soon. I doubt it will happen even in the next 50 years. 100 years is so far away anything can happen so all bets are off.
"increasing H-1B visas for highly skilled coders"
No thanks, companies are already using H-1B workers to fill their positions, cutting out jobs for us American programmers and lowering wages. I keep hearing that companies are desperate for tech workers and there are not enough people to fill positions. Yet my resume gets tossed half the time, and the companies I interview at are very arrogant, acting more like you need them and should feel grateful they are even considering hiring you.
You're right about the tangable products, so no Amazon.com and Newegg impacts. But I think you jumped to conclusions too fast on netflix/hulu. I don't think the App Store policy states that you're only subject to the rule if you allow the actual purchase within the app. Apps that only allow you to sign up or purchase content outside the app may still have to follow this rule. If that were the case, then Sony and Amazon would have an easy out to just direct you to their website to buy books.
The scary part is that the App Store rule that Apple is using to enforce this doesn't specifically say eBooks. It says that any purchase that's available from an app, must also be made available through iTunes in-app purchase. That could apply to any app that allows you to buy anything, including the Amazon.com and Newegg apps. Could you imagine Amazon and Newegg having to put every single product in iTunes and giving Apple a 30% cut? It's even more complicated for Amazon which acts as an intermediary to 3rd party sellers.
No, that's not socialism, that's your typical capitalist, business as usual decision. Now, if he decided to take the money back from the rich board members and executives and give it back to the individual investors, THAT would be socialism.
Common shareholders are the FIRST to get wiped out when a company is in trouble, the company leaders are the LAST to lose their money, that's quite the opposite of socialism.
iPhone applications can retrieve ALL information from your phonebook including names, addresses, and phone numbers. It does not need your permission either, there is no confirmation popup like with the location functions.
Yep, you summed it up just right.
NORMAL human beings will not let petty arguments escalate.
MOST people have the self control not to pull out a gun.
The problem is there are over 300 Million people in the U.S. (If that's where you are from). Give guns to most people and that small percentage of people that WOULD let things get out of control WILL NOW have an easy time taking it to that level.
I am not a gun control advocate. I'm just pointing out that if you take all of the times that people get heated and out of control in the entire U.S. in a single day, or lets say in a week, think about adding a gun to that equation. You don't think the percentage of shootings would be higher?
Again, that's not a reason to ban guns, I was just making a point. If you want to fight for less gun laws, you shouldn't just completely ignore or refute the point I'm making, but find a way to reduce the number of shootings/killings that occur.
Your comparisons are not accurate. How many times do the police shoot someone because they mistakenly think a person is about to shoot them? They are trained for those instances so how do you think an angry person is going to react when the person they are arguing with starts to pull out their gun? It quickly becomes a life or death situation that comes down to who can pull out their gun faster and shoot, regardless of whether or not the person who first went for their gun intended to use it.
Having a gun right by your side that you can quickly pull out and use is different than looking for a big rock, picking it up, walking back to the person, and beating them to death with it. Running someone down with a car is also not a good comparison (see above paragraph).
I don't agree at all. How many times do people argue and physically fight? It's very difficult to kill someone with your bear hands, unless you really want to. It may not be so hard to get so pissed off you pull out your gun and start shooting before you have time to think about what you're doing.
Think about all the fights you see in HS, College, Bars, Sports events! Try giving all those people guns and then see what happens.
Yeah, an amazing new battery posted on the front page of Slashdot that holds 10 times the power of traditional batteries using nothing other than air as the new ingredient. Hold on while I get the party poppers and start celebrating the automobile and electronics revolution.
Reminds me of the movie Grandma's Boy. It was about a bunch of game programmers and testers. It had the stereotypical genius/crazy/anti-social programmer diva.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmas_Boy
Good question, but it goes far beyond Microsoft.
Asking the current rich and huge companies to voluntarily give back some of their money is great and all, but the fact that they have huge globs of money to burn shows that the free market is not as free and fair as it should be. The capitalists make sure that employees are not getting paid what their market rate should be, they make sure competing products are eliminated, they buy up or sue the competition. Screwing over your employees and customers to gain enormous profits cannot be forgiven by giving some scraps to random poor countries and people. This has been the philosophy of Gates for a while, close your eyes to how you make your money, but give some of it away to feel kind and generous.
IMO, this is not a win for Apple. They have killed a very pro-Apple website which was read by Apple fans and customers. This was not some site that was trashing them, spreading damaging lies, and promoting non-Apple stuff. They were getting the fans excited and trying to sell more products, which is exactly what Apple is trying to do. If you kill off your friends, you are shooting yourself in the foot.
Also, everyone always says these features for the non-techie and we need to do this so my 50+ grandmother can use it. I think that we forget that even long time Linux users don't want to deal with spending hours getting their own systems to work.
My primary job at work is to maintain Linux servers and development machines. I also have a few Linux PCs and servers at home. I hate it as much as the average non-techie when I try to boot up my nice shiny new Ubuntu CD and it locks up on bootup everytime. Or when I finally get it installed and the screen is all screwed up and there are major soundcard issues and I have to debug it or search forums.
Even if we didn't care about non-tech users, who here on Slashdot enjoys dealing with problems that could have been fixed by good autodetection and clear easy configuration choices.
Any iPhone owners want to comment on how the iPhone handles a slashdot comments page with a couple hundred comments?
I am away from home a lot and got the iPhone in part to keep up with Slashdot, CNN, etc. It's great if you keep in mind that it's not supposed to replace a laptop or desktop for browsing. The browsing experience in my opinion is far better than other smartphones I have used.
To answer your question about large Slashdot pages, it has some strange behavior when loading any large page. It brings up the page quickly, but then takes an unusually long time to finish loading the page, even on WI-FI. It does let you scroll and zoom while it's loading, but it's terrible. Sometimes it ignores your finger scrolling, and other times it thinks you clicked when you clearly scrolled. You sometimes have to try scrolling 2 or 3 times for it to respond. Double tapping is also not a good idea while it's loading, it mistakes it for a click a lot. If you wait for the page to finish, it works great.
I'm not an iPhone apologist, even though I own one, I know it's flaws and work around them. Before I bought one, I had no ties to Apple and didn't care about the company, only the phone usability. I can say that after spending some time at a Nokia store trying out the N95, N800, working with my Friends' Treo 755p and Blackberry (recent one), I was amazed at the iPhone when I went to the Apple store. I'm just giving my opinion, but I suggest people try one out with an open mind and see it for yourself.
I was disappointed to see that this article appears to be biased to the iPhone. From the very beginning of the article, it doesn't put all the phones on an equal level and just compare them. It puts the iPhone on a pedestal and hypes it up. I would like to see a good unbiased article that really compares the usability, clarity, features, and efficiency of browsing the web on the different phones.
Another reason why LUGs are necessary is because coordinated groups have much more power than single individuals. In my company, the IT department is ALWAYS trying to clamp down on what we can do.
First it was no AIM, then no SSH, then no FTP, then no POP3, then lots of websites blocked including blogs, Linux helpsites, etc. The only thing that prevents them from mandating that everyone has to run Windows is our LUG. They have enough people who go out of their way to work with their managers to make sure we Linux users are important.
Without an organization, it's divide and conquer, on the part of management and IT of companies.
First of all, here is the comment from the parent post that I was responding to:
It's no big deal, the only difference is that people now have to log in through Yahooo rather than Flickr maintaning a separate login system just for them. Nothing else has changed, the Flickr experience is identical from that moment onwards.
It was suggesting that this makes ABSOLUTELY NO difference to the users. I believe that I have proven a case where it makes a difference to me. Yes I can complain to my IT department and no they are not blocking it because they want more work done, it's because they have concluded that free webmail is a source of viruses getting into the company network. So all the comments about how I shouldn't be doing it at work in the first place don't justify that this login consolidation has no negative effect at all.
P.S. How are all of you commenting on this during working hours, get back to work! :)
7) My company (like a lot of other companies) bans free web mail services like Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo including their login pages, which now also stops me from logging into Flickr.
Answer?
How about the final spec for 802.11n, the blazing-fast new Wi-Fi? While many hoped to see it finalized this year, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has been saying not to expect anything until January 2007. No false promises, no Vaporware Award.
Then about Duke: The company still has a message on its website saying that the game will be released "when it's done."
It doesn't sound like they're promising anything to me, so it shouldn't be on the list.