Don't forget restaurants. You can go to a seafood restaraunt and get steak, and vice versa.
But I'd like to point out, the way the tech industry does it is different than a restauant. The restaurant is actually branching into other food genre's, whereas some of the tech industries just liscense and partner with other companies and brand it as their own.
ISP's are very competitive in the US, and there is a huge push to add values and services to screw^H^H^H^H^H provide the customer more value, and thus rape^H^H^H^H extract more money from them. For example, the crappy "broadband speeds over dialup" service, where they cache everything and recompress the images for faster transfer, also adding antivirus and spyware applications, and also ANTI-spyware applications.
"Things people on the fringe are doing now, those things are going to be more popular. The industry is fragmented into MP3, AAC, WMA, and we don't like that, and we think people won't like that in the future, so we, um, we think there will be some convergence.
Oh, those fringe things we were talking about. Podcasting. PVR/DVR (PAR?). Wireless stuff. YEah, we know all this exists now, but we think it will be important in the future.
Also, I want to see the lyrics on my player, because there aren't enough USELESS features already, and I'm too lazy to just look it up on google.
We think that in the future, sound quality will improve! I know it's hard to believe. People keep talking about this Moore's Law thing, but we don't understand it. Some about data density and storage and stuff, it's all greek to us.
Oh, and we think audio players should have the ability to wirelessly beam music between each other, because we don't really care that there is a crisis in copyright-theft, and the REASON the RIAA has been so slow to react is because they want to avoid this. "
Worst. Article. Evaaaar!
I like how they end it. "Digital audio has led to an era of freedom for our music." They want to talk about the FUTURE of radio, but they talk about what has led up to the present.
I'm not really an authority on this, but from my recollection, the P2 started at 233mhz (or was it 266?) on the Slot 1 form factor. The first were models with a 66mhz bus, then there were a few with 100mhz busses, going up to 450mhz. P3's came in at that speed as well, and after a few iterations of slot chips, they switched back to the socket370. I'm not sure about the celerons. I know the early ones started at 266 and 300 with no cache, then the ones with less cache than a P2 came out, and I lost track after that. AMD was better by then.
You should run Linux on it (if you aren't already) and check/proc/cpuinfo and see what it reports the CPU as.
My guess is that it is in the worng case or the sticker was switched. Pentium I's went from 75mhz-233mhz, so that seems more logical.
The next time you're buying a pair of sneakers, think about how the store selling them to you makes more from that one sale than the young sweatshop labourer who made them makes in a quarter. Then think about how much those shoes would cost if she and everyone else in the labour chain was paid a fair wage.
And what are you implying with this? That it is OK to buy overpriced shoes because they would be even more expensive if employers were ethical?
The fact is this: you ignore the jump in logic that could include India and China under the same ethic-damaged umbrella, but you are willing to make the jump in logic that the OP is saying India IS China.
This has to be the stupidest argument I have EVER had on/.
Read the grandparent post again. Nobody said that China was India. The poster said not to BUY from either of those countries, but only listed reasons for China. The reasons for india, I assume, are that they are also taking jobs from the US, many tech jobs. India also does not have the same worker and environment protections.
Maybe you should have said "Sorry, but it's this sort of ignorance of the highest magnitude - no RTFA, maing myself look stupid on slashdot"
You are the only one making dumb assumptions here.
So basically you want the US to become like Haiti or some other Carribean country with poor buiilding code. Over 3000 people died just from hurricane Jeane this year.
Allowing dangerous building codes will also stress our emergency system. Now we are going to have to rescue your dumb ass because you wanted to skimp on building codes.
I'm sorry, your stupid libertarian policies just don't work. Not everyone is a building contractor, so someone has to set a few standards. I'm not saying there aren't some problems with it, but advocating NO STANDARD is just assinine.
You talk about this cob house and what if it lost it's roof. What if you have a cob house next to mine, your roof comes off and smashes into my house? Your below-code house has now become a liability. Your irresponsibility cause others to suffer.
Libertarianism is a utopian fantasy at best, and an irresponsible, dangerous, and ignorant ideology at worst.
I live in florida. I don't find it unreasonable that buildings have to meet a wind requirement, especially after 4 major hurricanes in one season. A Minimum standard for one state won't work in another. California houses need some resistance to earthquakes. Not in florida. Florida is all wind and rain. Up north, you have to deal with extreme temperatures, going from warm in the summer, to freezing in the winter.
My point is that a corporation can afford to delegate authority to someone who may not know better. Said button pusher just pushes the button. Decisions were made, advised was ignored in the Bhopal situation. There was a large chain of failures that led up to Bhopal, you are suggesting that responsibility start and end with the weakest, most insignificant link in the chain. You don't see something wrong in that logic? Basically you are saying that if I hire a hitman to off you, I have no responsibility. We have laws against conspiracy, you know.
They were warned beforehand that there were safety issues. There is no excuse for ignoring them. Management makes the policies, not laborers on strike.
Uh, no. What if it was some $6.16/hr button pusher that was ordered by the officers of the company? It is the corporate policy, and more specifically the culture of money-above-everything that is to blame.
The Cyanide Canary for a good US reference. The recent deaths of 166 miners in China as another. The mine shafts were not ventilated properly becuase it would cut down on production, and then management would miss out on their $50,000 bonus for beating the production estimates. Now 166 people are dead. Granted this is China, which is still starting out in it's industrial revolution.
Few make the connection, but we promote moving backward. Buying all this junk from China and other places that have few worker protections and benefits.
The corporations don't understand shit. They understand that government is more powerful than they are, and that if they want to do business, there are laws that must be followed, or ignored and the evidence buried. As long as we promote money above all else, this will continue, and de-regulation will make it worse.
I think the point is more that there were improper safety measures in place for such dangerous manufacturing, and not enough oversight. Actually, in this case, there was oversight, it was just ignored by management.
Same thing looks to have happened to the 166 miners that died in the China mines recently.
See the book "The Cyanide Canary" for similar happenings in the US.
This is a two way street. Yes, people do make money off fixing this stuff, but think of the productivity and downtime lost due to this stuff. That is money that could be going to expanded operations and better wages (read: CEO bonus).
"Please fix things so I can give you money" is different than "please give us back our features that we don't pay your for, and you make no money off of".
Perhaps we have our reason right there. Google+ accounts anyone?
Not as important as having some kind of experience. Have you tried looking at job requirements these days? They expect you to have written every program since the dawn of time.
Not that my CS degree from UCF is all that prestigious.
I think you meant to say "those who value all human life, except those people that are actually ALIVE and trying to SURVIVE, rather than a little clump of microscopic cells."
Republicans in general, and more specifically those who call themselves "compassionate conservatives" have a way of screwing over people. If Bush was really part of the "culture of life" he talks about, why are we dropping bombs in Iraq? There are wild estimates of 30,000-100,000+ casualties in Iraq, but we won't know for certain because this administration tries to cover up the truth. Trying to abolish welfare, limiting overtime pay, supporting corporate welfare at the expense of employees. I could go on and on. It seems that to them, you are more important in the womb, but once you get out, you're on your fucking-own, and don't come asking for any handouts.
These stupid christians (not all of them, jsut the hypocrits) seem to come out of the woodwork to protect embryos that have NO CHANCE at life (many are discarded as part of fertility treatment). But do you see them out protesting the war? No. They claim to value human life, but they do not.
Funny, California is in debt, but so are SO MANY other states, again, because of the failed conservative policies of this administration. If you haven't noticed, there is a pending crisis in most states for their own funding.
It makes me wonder what the CAMERA looks like. I'm picturingh a sort of X shape with flashes sticking out about a foot from the camera. Kind of unwieldly. Obviously, the further out you move the flashes from the camera, the more pronounced the shadow, but I wonder what the effective distance of this is.
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I recommend the state of Oklahome for the site of the giant trash dump.
:) I've been there and it was pretty boring though.
No offense to Oklahomans
Don't forget restaurants. You can go to a seafood restaraunt and get steak, and vice versa.
But I'd like to point out, the way the tech industry does it is different than a restauant. The restaurant is actually branching into other food genre's, whereas some of the tech industries just liscense and partner with other companies and brand it as their own.
ISP's are very competitive in the US, and there is a huge push to add values and services to screw^H^H^H^H^H provide the customer more value, and thus rape^H^H^H^H extract more money from them. For example, the crappy "broadband speeds over dialup" service, where they cache everything and recompress the images for faster transfer, also adding antivirus and spyware applications, and also ANTI-spyware applications.
Don't bother RTFA, I'll sum it for you:
"Things people on the fringe are doing now, those things are going to be more popular. The industry is fragmented into MP3, AAC, WMA, and we don't like that, and we think people won't like that in the future, so we, um, we think there will be some convergence.
Oh, those fringe things we were talking about. Podcasting. PVR/DVR (PAR?). Wireless stuff. YEah, we know all this exists now, but we think it will be important in the future.
Also, I want to see the lyrics on my player, because there aren't enough USELESS features already, and I'm too lazy to just look it up on google.
We think that in the future, sound quality will improve! I know it's hard to believe. People keep talking about this Moore's Law thing, but we don't understand it. Some about data density and storage and stuff, it's all greek to us.
Oh, and we think audio players should have the ability to wirelessly beam music between each other, because we don't really care that there is a crisis in copyright-theft, and the REASON the RIAA has been so slow to react is because they want to avoid this. "
Worst. Article. Evaaaar!
I like how they end it. "Digital audio has led to an era of freedom for our music." They want to talk about the FUTURE of radio, but they talk about what has led up to the present.
funny how no one damns Saddam as a pollutor but hammmer on GWB
I hate GWB as much as the next person, but I think his record speaks for itself, I don't need to compare him to Saddam.
Many child posters noted this is possible and tolerable with tweaking.
see TweakXP on how to do this.
I'm not really an authority on this, but from my recollection, the P2 started at 233mhz (or was it 266?) on the Slot 1 form factor. The first were models with a 66mhz bus, then there were a few with 100mhz busses, going up to 450mhz. P3's came in at that speed as well, and after a few iterations of slot chips, they switched back to the socket370. I'm not sure about the celerons. I know the early ones started at 266 and 300 with no cache, then the ones with less cache than a P2 came out, and I lost track after that. AMD was better by then.
/proc/cpuinfo and see what it reports the CPU as.
You should run Linux on it (if you aren't already) and check
My guess is that it is in the worng case or the sticker was switched. Pentium I's went from 75mhz-233mhz, so that seems more logical.
And what are you implying with this? That it is OK to buy overpriced shoes because they would be even more expensive if employers were ethical?
The fact is this: you ignore the jump in logic that could include India and China under the same ethic-damaged umbrella, but you are willing to make the jump in logic that the OP is saying India IS China.
This has to be the stupidest argument I have EVER had on
Read the grandparent post again. Nobody said that China was India. The poster said not to BUY from either of those countries, but only listed reasons for China. The reasons for india, I assume, are that they are also taking jobs from the US, many tech jobs. India also does not have the same worker and environment protections.
Maybe you should have said "Sorry, but it's this sort of ignorance of the highest magnitude - no RTFA, maing myself look stupid on slashdot"
You are the only one making dumb assumptions here.
So basically you want the US to become like Haiti or some other Carribean country with poor buiilding code. Over 3000 people died just from hurricane Jeane this year.
Allowing dangerous building codes will also stress our emergency system. Now we are going to have to rescue your dumb ass because you wanted to skimp on building codes.
I'm sorry, your stupid libertarian policies just don't work. Not everyone is a building contractor, so someone has to set a few standards. I'm not saying there aren't some problems with it, but advocating NO STANDARD is just assinine.
You talk about this cob house and what if it lost it's roof. What if you have a cob house next to mine, your roof comes off and smashes into my house? Your below-code house has now become a liability. Your irresponsibility cause others to suffer.
Libertarianism is a utopian fantasy at best, and an irresponsible, dangerous, and ignorant ideology at worst.
I live in florida. I don't find it unreasonable that buildings have to meet a wind requirement, especially after 4 major hurricanes in one season. A Minimum standard for one state won't work in another. California houses need some resistance to earthquakes. Not in florida. Florida is all wind and rain. Up north, you have to deal with extreme temperatures, going from warm in the summer, to freezing in the winter.
One size does not fit all.
My point is that a corporation can afford to delegate authority to someone who may not know better. Said button pusher just pushes the button. Decisions were made, advised was ignored in the Bhopal situation. There was a large chain of failures that led up to Bhopal, you are suggesting that responsibility start and end with the weakest, most insignificant link in the chain. You don't see something wrong in that logic? Basically you are saying that if I hire a hitman to off you, I have no responsibility. We have laws against conspiracy, you know.
Ownership of the plant changes nothing, it just adds another guilty party, and brings up questions of corruption and bribery.
They were warned beforehand that there were safety issues. There is no excuse for ignoring them. Management makes the policies, not laborers on strike.
Uh, no. What if it was some $6.16/hr button pusher that was ordered by the officers of the company? It is the corporate policy, and more specifically the culture of money-above-everything that is to blame.
Uh, sure. Whatever.
The Cyanide Canary for a good US reference. The recent deaths of 166 miners in China as another. The mine shafts were not ventilated properly becuase it would cut down on production, and then management would miss out on their $50,000 bonus for beating the production estimates. Now 166 people are dead. Granted this is China, which is still starting out in it's industrial revolution.
Few make the connection, but we promote moving backward. Buying all this junk from China and other places that have few worker protections and benefits.
The corporations don't understand shit. They understand that government is more powerful than they are, and that if they want to do business, there are laws that must be followed, or ignored and the evidence buried. As long as we promote money above all else, this will continue, and de-regulation will make it worse.
I think the point is more that there were improper safety measures in place for such dangerous manufacturing, and not enough oversight. Actually, in this case, there was oversight, it was just ignored by management.
Same thing looks to have happened to the 166 miners that died in the China mines recently.
See the book "The Cyanide Canary" for similar happenings in the US.
This is a two way street. Yes, people do make money off fixing this stuff, but think of the productivity and downtime lost due to this stuff. That is money that could be going to expanded operations and better wages (read: CEO bonus).
What would the cost of computer components be like w/o everyone and their dog owning a PC? What would the job market be like?
"Please fix things so I can give you money" is different than "please give us back our features that we don't pay your for, and you make no money off of".
Perhaps we have our reason right there. Google+ accounts anyone?
Disclaimer: I know nothing about Google groups.
I'm holding out till they add the Zerg.
Oh. Wow. Small picture. I completely missed it. I'd imagine you need the flashes further apart the farther you get away from the subject material.
Not as important as having some kind of experience. Have you tried looking at job requirements these days? They expect you to have written every program since the dawn of time.
Not that my CS degree from UCF is all that prestigious.
those who value all human life.
I think you meant to say "those who value all human life, except those people that are actually ALIVE and trying to SURVIVE, rather than a little clump of microscopic cells."
Republicans in general, and more specifically those who call themselves "compassionate conservatives" have a way of screwing over people. If Bush was really part of the "culture of life" he talks about, why are we dropping bombs in Iraq? There are wild estimates of 30,000-100,000+ casualties in Iraq, but we won't know for certain because this administration tries to cover up the truth. Trying to abolish welfare, limiting overtime pay, supporting corporate welfare at the expense of employees. I could go on and on. It seems that to them, you are more important in the womb, but once you get out, you're on your fucking-own, and don't come asking for any handouts.
These stupid christians (not all of them, jsut the hypocrits) seem to come out of the woodwork to protect embryos that have NO CHANCE at life (many are discarded as part of fertility treatment). But do you see them out protesting the war? No. They claim to value human life, but they do not.
Funny, California is in debt, but so are SO MANY other states, again, because of the failed conservative policies of this administration. If you haven't noticed, there is a pending crisis in most states for their own funding.
It makes me wonder what the CAMERA looks like. I'm picturingh a sort of X shape with flashes sticking out about a foot from the camera. Kind of unwieldly. Obviously, the further out you move the flashes from the camera, the more pronounced the shadow, but I wonder what the effective distance of this is.
Was I the only one who read that as porn queen?