The pellets are supposedly around $10-15 each, and each pellet can provide roughly the equivalent of 1 gallon of gas. With fuel prices so high, how are we going to pay for it?
"I have this credit card. It's called a hose and a breath mint."
Something I posted previously concerning Linux laptops...
If laptop manufacturers would make more laptops with LESS built into it, I think people would have a much better time with Linux. Build me a laptop without an integrated modem, ethernet, and wireless network and just give me a bunch of usb and PCMCIA slots so I can choose my own accessories, much like I do with my desktop. That way I can spend less on a laptop because it doesn't "come with everything" and I can expand it with exactly the hardware I want.
I have an old Digital HiNote VP 700 with no built in modem or ethernet card. I poked around online to see what PCMCIA devices are supported by my favorite flavor of Linux, and I bought those items. Machine runs slow as shit with a 133 mhz processor and Red Hat 9, but at least all my hardware works because I found the modem, ethernet, and wireless cards that work well with what I want to run. I am also happy using generic video drivers as long as I get the resolution I want.
To compare, I have a Toshiba Tecra with built in Ethernet, Modem, and Wireless. First off, Fedora Core 3 locks up on bootup, so I put RH9 on this one too. Wouldn't ya know it, the modem doesn't work, the 10/100 ethernet adaptor is detected but doesn't work, and I haven't even attempted the built in wireless. But I still have these cards I know work cause I researched them and picked them out myself, so I just shove em in and I'm good to go. Although RH9 was able to correctly determine my video and audio chipsets, I would be just as happy using generic video/audio drivers if I had to.
Sell me a laptop without everything built in so I can expand it myself...that's the way to make a Linux compatiable laptop.
If I rent, I can watch anytime, pause, stop, come back the next day if I want. If the movie is really good, I can watch it a second time for free. I physically have the media in my hand. If it streams, how long can I pause it for?
With ondemand, you can get the movie when you want (as long as it's listed), pause, rewind, and fastforward. Pause lasts for 24 hours, so if you want to watch the movie again pause it at the end, then rewind and play when you want to watch it again (as long as it is in the 24 hour period).
Same stuff happens in corporate America, why should teachers be exempt?
Because teachers have unions and tenure...in NJ if teachers don't get contracts with guaranteed raises and bonuses every year they strike. After teaching for a few years they get tenure, which basically means they can't get fired for jack shit unless they fsck one of their students or something...
That is the benchmark I would use. Commercial, proprietary hardware and software is tested time and time again with focus groups of all sorts of demographics. I visit this guy once a week who is 80 years old. He uses the internet via cable modem, has a scanner, printer, and digital camera all attached to a laptop that he can pack up and take with him on vacation if he wishes. He has Windows everything + AOL despite the cable connection. It all does exactly what he wants it to do for him.
I'm sure Bill Gates and Co. go through endless rounds of focus group testing, developing their products around each group's results. Successful software is designed as close to your target market or user base's requirements as possible.
Now why in God's name would anyone add the cost of AOL on top of broadband? Ask my 80 year old client how wonderful it is that AOL puts everything right in front of him. He doesn't have to go digging to find the function he wants to use, there are pretty buttons and animations to guide him. Anything he would want to use the internet for is packaged right into AOL's software. And guess what, AOL's software is FREE (yes I know its useless without AOL service, but still). So here we have an example of a corporation that publishes software for FREE that is so popular that despite already having an internet connection, millions of people subscribe to AOL just to use the software on a CD they give away in every post office across the United States.
What kind of resources do AOL and Microsoft pour into researching what their user base wants to see in their software? Now compare that to the research some dude living in their parents' basement does on their target market or user base before posting their code on freshmeat or sourceforge. Which one do you think is going to win over a huge population of non-geek users? When's the last time an Open Source vendor sat me down in front of a computer in one of their offices and said "Here's what we came up with, now here is a survey. Please stay for the group discussion afterwards." When did they do that with grandma and grandpa, or a classroom of fifth graders? Even if they did, did they listen to grandma and grandpa or the fifth graders and implement their comments, ideas, and needs into the next release of their product?
Now tell me how a person or organization can accomplish market research and focus studies on the level of AOL, Microsoft, or any large vendor that the average Slashdotter love to hate? That's right people, they are capitalist, money hungry corporations that jump at any chance they get to make an extra dime off of John and Jane Doe, cause some percentage of that extra dime is going into really high level market research and a shitload of developers to churn out a response to that research.
In the real world all a product really needs to be is what your target market wants at the price they're willing to pay (or free, for that matter). Doesn't matter if it's software or chicken shit.
If laptop manufacturers would make more laptops with LESS built into it, I think people would have a much better time with Linux. Build me a laptop without an integrated modem, ethernet, and wireless network and just give me a bunch of usb and PCMCIA slots so I can choose my own accessories, much like I do with my desktop. That way I can spend less on a laptop because it doesn't "come with everything" and I can expand it with exactly the hardware I want.
I have an old Digital HiNote VP 700 with no built in modem or ethernet card. I poked around online to see what PCMCIA devices are supported by my favorite flavor of Linux, and I bought those items. Machine runs slow as shit with a 133 mhz processor and Red Hat 9, but at least all my hardware works because I found the modem, ethernet, and wireless cards that work well with what I want to run. I am also happy using generic video drivers as long as I get the resolution I want.
To compare, I have a Toshiba Tecra with built in Ethernet, Modem, and Wireless. First off, Fedora Core 3 locks up on bootup, so I put RH9 on this one too. Wouldn't ya know it, the modem doesn't work, the 10/100 ethernet adaptor is detected but doesn't work, and I haven't even attempted the built in wireless. But I still have these cards I know work cause I researched them and picked them out myself, so I just shove em in and I'm good to go. Although RH9 was able to correctly determine my video and audio chipsets, I would be just as happy using generic video/audio drivers if I had to.
Sell me a laptop without everything built in so I can expand it myself...that's the way to make a Linux compatiable laptop.
You'd actually be amazed. I fried a Sun system a couple of years ago by leaving the side plate off it. In a 68 degree room. Next to an upvent in the floor.
But that's not what I'm trying to suggest...I'm thinking more along the lines of an "air irrigation" system where air is aimed directly into or at server components. Who cares about airflow if a constant supply of forced cool air is being shot at or into the components/boards/etc? Would the system still fry if I had a hose running from an HVAC system right into the server?
...having a data center with completely open air racks/systems? No panels or doors on racks, and eliminate or greatly reduce the case of each server itself. Run some sort of ducts or conduit between each set of racks that directs air onto the boards of each server from the room's cooling system. I'm sure it would reduce the cost of manufacturing each server and rack, and the machines get all the cold air from controlling the temperature of the room and air gently blowing onto the components themselves via the network of ducts distributed throughout each rack.
RTFP, this is hardware for an industrial environment, the POS floppy drive that you get in Radio Shack or CompUSA won't last a week in that machine...there's a reason that floppy drive costs $150
What? You want the cable company to know where you watch tv, as well as what and when? If you go to your friend's house and plug in the card, now the cable company knows who your friends are too...
Inflammation of the foreskin
reminds me of your smile
I've had ballanital chancroids
for quite a little while
I gave my heart to NSU
that lovely night in June
I ache for you my darling
and I hope you get well soon.
My penile warts, your herpes
my syphilitic sores
Your moenelial infection
how I miss you more and more
You dobie's itch, my scrumpox
our lovely gonorrhea
At least we both were lying
when we said that we were clear
Our syphilitic kisses
sealed the secret of our tryst
You gave me scrotal pustules
with a quick flickof your wrist
Your trichovaginitis
sent shivers down my spine
I got snail tracks in my anus
when your spirochetes met mine.
Gonococcal urethritis, streptococcal ballinitis,
Meningo myelitis, diplococcal cephalitis,
Epididimitis, interstitial keratitis,
Syphalitic choroiditis, and anterior u-ve-i-tis.
My clapped out genetalia
is not so bad for me
As the complete and utter failure
every time I try to pee.
My doctor says my buboes
are the worst he's ever seen
My scrotum's painted orange
and my balls are turning green.
My heart is very tender
though my parts are awful raw
You might have been infected
but you never were a bore
I'm dying of your love my love
I'm your spirochaetal clown
I've left my body to science
but I'm afraid they've turned it down.
Gonococcal urethritis, streptococcal ballinitis,
Meningo myelitis, diplococcal cephalitis,
Epididimitis, interstitial keratitis,
Syphalitic choroiditis, and anterior u-ve-i-tis.
This means that not only will I be able to store 16 billion billion times more Libraries of Congress, I will be able to read/write them soooooo much faster than I am now...
The store will also be in beta mode, lacking some of the featured that will be added later...
You mean just like their OS? You'd think they would realize by now that it's not a good idea to put a product on the market before it is completely ready...
I work for a major wireless company. I pay next to nothing on my personal cell phone with the company's service, plus I have a rim/good/blackberry device on which I have my office email and calendar plus instant messaging. They do not pay for our home internet access, however I have a company provided laptop with dialup internet access. If I am on call, a special phone is handed to me for "Official Use Only" for that time period - usually one week. Other employees are not given my personal contact information, but my manager can contact me at home or via cell in an absolute emergency if he has no other way to reach me first.
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The pellets are supposedly around $10-15 each, and each pellet can provide roughly the equivalent of 1 gallon of gas. With fuel prices so high, how are we going to pay for it?
"I have this credit card. It's called a hose and a breath mint."
...so come on, tell us - how many?
Will the robots be pink?
If they eventually come to kill us, will Yoshimi be ready? Has she in fact taken her vitamins?
"Keyboards good, mouses bad!"
Something I posted previously concerning Linux laptops... If laptop manufacturers would make more laptops with LESS built into it, I think people would have a much better time with Linux. Build me a laptop without an integrated modem, ethernet, and wireless network and just give me a bunch of usb and PCMCIA slots so I can choose my own accessories, much like I do with my desktop. That way I can spend less on a laptop because it doesn't "come with everything" and I can expand it with exactly the hardware I want. I have an old Digital HiNote VP 700 with no built in modem or ethernet card. I poked around online to see what PCMCIA devices are supported by my favorite flavor of Linux, and I bought those items. Machine runs slow as shit with a 133 mhz processor and Red Hat 9, but at least all my hardware works because I found the modem, ethernet, and wireless cards that work well with what I want to run. I am also happy using generic video drivers as long as I get the resolution I want. To compare, I have a Toshiba Tecra with built in Ethernet, Modem, and Wireless. First off, Fedora Core 3 locks up on bootup, so I put RH9 on this one too. Wouldn't ya know it, the modem doesn't work, the 10/100 ethernet adaptor is detected but doesn't work, and I haven't even attempted the built in wireless. But I still have these cards I know work cause I researched them and picked them out myself, so I just shove em in and I'm good to go. Although RH9 was able to correctly determine my video and audio chipsets, I would be just as happy using generic video/audio drivers if I had to. Sell me a laptop without everything built in so I can expand it myself...that's the way to make a Linux compatiable laptop.
God I hope they don't include an image search...that could be worse than goatse...
With ondemand, you can get the movie when you want (as long as it's listed), pause, rewind, and fastforward. Pause lasts for 24 hours, so if you want to watch the movie again pause it at the end, then rewind and play when you want to watch it again (as long as it is in the 24 hour period).
Because teachers have unions and tenure...in NJ if teachers don't get contracts with guaranteed raises and bonuses every year they strike. After teaching for a few years they get tenure, which basically means they can't get fired for jack shit unless they fsck one of their students or something...
That is the benchmark I would use. Commercial, proprietary hardware and software is tested time and time again with focus groups of all sorts of demographics. I visit this guy once a week who is 80 years old. He uses the internet via cable modem, has a scanner, printer, and digital camera all attached to a laptop that he can pack up and take with him on vacation if he wishes. He has Windows everything + AOL despite the cable connection. It all does exactly what he wants it to do for him.
I'm sure Bill Gates and Co. go through endless rounds of focus group testing, developing their products around each group's results. Successful software is designed as close to your target market or user base's requirements as possible.
Now why in God's name would anyone add the cost of AOL on top of broadband? Ask my 80 year old client how wonderful it is that AOL puts everything right in front of him. He doesn't have to go digging to find the function he wants to use, there are pretty buttons and animations to guide him. Anything he would want to use the internet for is packaged right into AOL's software. And guess what, AOL's software is FREE (yes I know its useless without AOL service, but still). So here we have an example of a corporation that publishes software for FREE that is so popular that despite already having an internet connection, millions of people subscribe to AOL just to use the software on a CD they give away in every post office across the United States.
What kind of resources do AOL and Microsoft pour into researching what their user base wants to see in their software? Now compare that to the research some dude living in their parents' basement does on their target market or user base before posting their code on freshmeat or sourceforge. Which one do you think is going to win over a huge population of non-geek users? When's the last time an Open Source vendor sat me down in front of a computer in one of their offices and said "Here's what we came up with, now here is a survey. Please stay for the group discussion afterwards." When did they do that with grandma and grandpa, or a classroom of fifth graders? Even if they did, did they listen to grandma and grandpa or the fifth graders and implement their comments, ideas, and needs into the next release of their product?
Now tell me how a person or organization can accomplish market research and focus studies on the level of AOL, Microsoft, or any large vendor that the average Slashdotter love to hate? That's right people, they are capitalist, money hungry corporations that jump at any chance they get to make an extra dime off of John and Jane Doe, cause some percentage of that extra dime is going into really high level market research and a shitload of developers to churn out a response to that research.
In the real world all a product really needs to be is what your target market wants at the price they're willing to pay (or free, for that matter). Doesn't matter if it's software or chicken shit.
If laptop manufacturers would make more laptops with LESS built into it, I think people would have a much better time with Linux. Build me a laptop without an integrated modem, ethernet, and wireless network and just give me a bunch of usb and PCMCIA slots so I can choose my own accessories, much like I do with my desktop. That way I can spend less on a laptop because it doesn't "come with everything" and I can expand it with exactly the hardware I want.
I have an old Digital HiNote VP 700 with no built in modem or ethernet card. I poked around online to see what PCMCIA devices are supported by my favorite flavor of Linux, and I bought those items. Machine runs slow as shit with a 133 mhz processor and Red Hat 9, but at least all my hardware works because I found the modem, ethernet, and wireless cards that work well with what I want to run. I am also happy using generic video drivers as long as I get the resolution I want.
To compare, I have a Toshiba Tecra with built in Ethernet, Modem, and Wireless. First off, Fedora Core 3 locks up on bootup, so I put RH9 on this one too. Wouldn't ya know it, the modem doesn't work, the 10/100 ethernet adaptor is detected but doesn't work, and I haven't even attempted the built in wireless. But I still have these cards I know work cause I researched them and picked them out myself, so I just shove em in and I'm good to go. Although RH9 was able to correctly determine my video and audio chipsets, I would be just as happy using generic video/audio drivers if I had to.
Sell me a laptop without everything built in so I can expand it myself...that's the way to make a Linux compatiable laptop.
You'd actually be amazed. I fried a Sun system a couple of years ago by leaving the side plate off it. In a 68 degree room. Next to an upvent in the floor.
But that's not what I'm trying to suggest...I'm thinking more along the lines of an "air irrigation" system where air is aimed directly into or at server components. Who cares about airflow if a constant supply of forced cool air is being shot at or into the components/boards/etc? Would the system still fry if I had a hose running from an HVAC system right into the server?
...having a data center with completely open air racks/systems? No panels or doors on racks, and eliminate or greatly reduce the case of each server itself. Run some sort of ducts or conduit between each set of racks that directs air onto the boards of each server from the room's cooling system. I'm sure it would reduce the cost of manufacturing each server and rack, and the machines get all the cold air from controlling the temperature of the room and air gently blowing onto the components themselves via the network of ducts distributed throughout each rack.
RTFP, this is hardware for an industrial environment, the POS floppy drive that you get in Radio Shack or CompUSA won't last a week in that machine...there's a reason that floppy drive costs $150
In Soviet Russia, Sputnik gives birth to YOU!!!
Probably not, the RIAA would sue you for an "unauthorized public performance" of their intellectual property...
What? You want the cable company to know where you watch tv, as well as what and when? If you go to your friend's house and plug in the card, now the cable company knows who your friends are too...
Inflammation of the foreskin reminds me of your smile I've had ballanital chancroids for quite a little while I gave my heart to NSU that lovely night in June I ache for you my darling and I hope you get well soon. My penile warts, your herpes my syphilitic sores Your moenelial infection how I miss you more and more You dobie's itch, my scrumpox our lovely gonorrhea At least we both were lying when we said that we were clear Our syphilitic kisses sealed the secret of our tryst You gave me scrotal pustules with a quick flickof your wrist Your trichovaginitis sent shivers down my spine I got snail tracks in my anus when your spirochetes met mine. Gonococcal urethritis, streptococcal ballinitis, Meningo myelitis, diplococcal cephalitis, Epididimitis, interstitial keratitis, Syphalitic choroiditis, and anterior u-ve-i-tis. My clapped out genetalia is not so bad for me As the complete and utter failure every time I try to pee. My doctor says my buboes are the worst he's ever seen My scrotum's painted orange and my balls are turning green. My heart is very tender though my parts are awful raw You might have been infected but you never were a bore I'm dying of your love my love I'm your spirochaetal clown I've left my body to science but I'm afraid they've turned it down. Gonococcal urethritis, streptococcal ballinitis, Meningo myelitis, diplococcal cephalitis, Epididimitis, interstitial keratitis, Syphalitic choroiditis, and anterior u-ve-i-tis.
Padme: Anakin, I am your mother...
Anakin: EWW!!! I just farked my mom!!!!!!!!!
Padme: Don't be upset, I have some great news!
Anakin: What's that?
Padme: No, I just saved a bunch of money on my speeder insurance by switching to GEICO!!!!!
This means that not only will I be able to store 16 billion billion times more Libraries of Congress, I will be able to read/write them soooooo much faster than I am now...
The store will also be in beta mode, lacking some of the featured that will be added later...
You mean just like their OS? You'd think they would realize by now that it's not a good idea to put a product on the market before it is completely ready...
I work for a major wireless company. I pay next to nothing on my personal cell phone with the company's service, plus I have a rim/good/blackberry device on which I have my office email and calendar plus instant messaging. They do not pay for our home internet access, however I have a company provided laptop with dialup internet access. If I am on call, a special phone is handed to me for "Official Use Only" for that time period - usually one week. Other employees are not given my personal contact information, but my manager can contact me at home or via cell in an absolute emergency if he has no other way to reach me first.
1) Build thermonuclear weaponry
2) Collect American communications satellites
3) ???
4) PROFIT
In Soviet Russia, the nuke launches YOU!!!
Nope, goatse is the artwork on the album cover...
I prefer copy and paste. That way I won't lose the original data if I happen to screw it up.
...beowulf cluster...