To be perfectly fair US telecos are heavily subsidized (or at least were at some point) by the US Government, on top of that I'd imagine that with the raging population differences between teh two countries there is more a profit in bulk rates (for flate fees) in the US then there would be in Sweden.
On a side note, it's nice to see that racism, xenophobia, and blind chest thumping nationalism are alive an well on the slashdot forums.
I believe that you actually want friction in your prophelatic devices, unless you're one of those types where your partner just wants it over and done with as quickly as possible.
They'd be too busy fighting off the robot ninjas to worry about us, plus the average joe isn't affected, aftera all if you kill for money you don't just go around and kill people who weren't employing you before just because you're in a Union. No you just shut down non-union contracts and all of that sort of stuff, the average person will be much better off with Ninjas unionized as there will no longer be a need for collateral damage in hits, because ninjas can get anyone at any time and not even be noticed. I mean, mobsters would plant a bomb in your car or something, doing lots of damage not just to you, but to surrounding cars, infrastructure and any bystanders.
I really don't recall cartoons from 1986, being that I was very young, I do however recall cartoons from the early 90s and all I have to say is, "Hamma, hammah man, hammah, hammah man."
What that has to do with robots, nothing, but I repeat ninjas = wicked scary, robots = evil, therefore robots+ninjas= wicked scary and evil.
I know that it really scares the hell out of me, those robots are creepy, and ninjas. Of course the advantage of that is that they can only do so much, I mean that's why there aren't any ninja robots (well good ones) I mean, robocop can beat up ninja robots, if they were real ninjas on the other hand, robocop wouldn't have stood a chance.
I think Ninjas need to unionize to keep robots out of the stealth assassin business.
I for one welcome our new genetically altered overlords.
So, I really don't see the point and for once i'm agreeing with congress. Then again I'm pretty sure that a bunch of scientists would probably be selecting against the jocks (imagine committing a form of genocide just because you weren't cool in High School). Okay, it probably won't go that far, but people are going to start to want to peer into the genetic code and see what's going on, and from that point some people are going to ressurect the eugenics argument.
To refute that, evolution is a continuing process that takes a while to reach its perfection (well, to adapt toward its potential, things change to much for perfection) sleecting based on characteristics that we feel are the best and most desirable may not work the best idea, since it will probably promote genetic homogeny and make us fairly vulnerable to diseases and all sorts of things. Whatever I say, I really like the variety that we have right now, it's great stuff, the dynamics keep us on our toes and what not. I've really gone off topic, have a happy celebration of the rape and muder of the Arrowaks and eventual slaughter of most of the native peoples of this country (well, meant in good fun, was much as that staement when following the preceeding statement can be done).
Well i was mentioning that in more that it isn't really part of our East Coast sort of culture, that I'm one of hte most klutzy people on the planet. Again, show how much I know about surfing, I blame Point Break, damn you Keanu Reeves.
I thoguth surfing was about acheiving a oneness with the wave and the ocean through the act. I mean, the whole appeal is amstering the skill and then riding upon the waves as if you were a part of that wave yourself.
To strap youself to a machine and try to ride that wave is simply to try and conquer it just like everything else in this world. To surf and several other activities, are to relax and achieve a state of exhiliration and calm (at least in theory, I'm a nerd on the east coast).
For those that care, college has really put me into this sort of mindset. And the girl that I've been jonesing to ask out has started to play Halo.
My state shouldn't have the right to choose what sort of software it uses? That sounds pretty stupid. Keep your filthy hate mongering hands off my state, and what the hell is a council for citizens. Seriously, if we wanted someone to tell us that switching to something that was cheaper was waste then I'd do it myself.
Except that the SCOs claims to the Linux kernel are dubious at best, and their suits smack of extortion to prop up an ailing company. Meanwhile, the RIAA is malicously attacking a private network and slandering it in the media causing it to lose business.
Aren't we all writers, christ, it seems that everyone who's ever put pen to paper fancies themselves a writer. I fancy myself a pedant, and that's really what matters, honesty.
Personally, I write with anything on hand, at times this has included crayons and placemats, for the most part it is either mechnical pencils (or pen) in some notebook (any notebook) or on computer. The thing is that my handwriting is terrible, so I try to restrict myself to the computer only.
Being that I am not a tech-geek, I use Windows and Word works just fine, just like every other writing progam that has ever existed since the beginning of time, you type something in on the keyboard and it outputs it on the screen.
Sure, sometimes I have problems with the automatic formatting, but it is easily turned off, and if I really want to spell check and edit a document I just print it out and go over it, because no matter what some people might say, it's easier that way.
Sign up for lots of free porn I guess. Put your address out there and keep trying, maybe you could sell it to some of those directories and make a little money on the side.
Because you can get things at the library for free, you can find things that are quite entertaining by total accident. And it's overall a rather pleasant experience.
The internet has really only been effective at delivering pornography and as a place for people to bitch and sound off about what they think about various subjects (such as libraries). It has yet to become a reasonable ammalgamation of the whole of human knowledge that comes within a more convineien tform than your local library.
Also, the laws regarding the lending policies of libraries in regards to the books and intellectual peroperties they provide for public consumption are typically very clear and fall in favor of libraries. I feel that as institutions they are hardly outdated at all, because free is good.
Even though the Dewey Decimal system is the most counterintuitive and idiotic system in the world. Seriously, any time I go to a library (which used to be a lot since during high school my bus dropped me off at the library about ten miles from my house, until i could drive to school and then I moved away to college). If I needed to research something I would look through the subject on the search computers (which were ancient but they worked and they had all the books in there categorized). Then I would scratch my head at the Dewey Numbers, and go down the aisle and look through the alphabetical by author organization and find the book.
Seriously, that system is utterly useless beyond the overall categories it places books into, and even those are inelegant and I'm pretty sure tha tmy library (MIddleboro Public) breaks them up ijnto liitle bits, like European History, further from the Broad Dewey system categories.
That's really all that needs to be done, post up some stickers that show what the subject of the book is on a given set of shelves, and throw them in alphabetically by author, maybe give them a UPC and number those roughly in order, based on the library's preference.
Isn't half of the attraction of these sports cars, the big throaty sounds that they pour forth from their engines. Expressing the neanderthal grunts and maons that we would like to while showing off style and sophistication (okay, money, lots of money).
I don't think the spread of electric/hybrid cars has been due to the lack of sportiness, but a general lack of push from the media, from the companies (who are making all their money of SUVs), or from the government, I mean, after all which would you rather have, the $18,000 Hummer (thanks to an $80,000 tax rebate, okay so you have to have money to pull it in the first place), as opposed to the $21,000 hybrid ($19,000 or so after your $2,000 tax rebate).
Unfortunately for the hardware manufacturers their products diplay the standard decimal prefixes, e.g. GB and not GiB. This is very much on purpose on their part because all of those extra little numbers tend to get into the way more often then not, and who wants to buy an 18.6 GiB HD, wouldn't you rather have a nice 20 GB HD?
That's marketing for you, fortunately we have choice words for people who come up with practices like this, weasels. Seriously, you either inform the consumer what sort of measurement you are using or you match the actual capabilities of your hardware to what you are advertising, otherwise you are commiting a civil offense known as Consumer Fraud.
The easiest solution would be to go the way of soda bottles and advertise the more familiar measurement in big letters, and then right under it (in a much smaller type face) print what the actual capacity is in computer terms with your GiBs and your MiBs.
Yeah, I remembered that it had USB capabilities halfway into the mix, I would think that they would pretty much only have the drivers for their stuff on it and some sort of software that would be cracked in about a week to keep such devices off of it.
Then again the thing is targeted (so they say) to the same peole as the Nokia N-Gage, so I doubt they'll try to hack it. But I know that some wondeful entrepeneur will drop Linux on it.
So, they're selling a computer where you can only get games from them. In order to get those games you have to pay a monthly subscription fee, boy does it sound like a great idea, think about it.
There are no media drives (beyond the HDD) wher eyou could import software garner through a third party onto it (with the exception of USB drives, I seem to recall it having USB capability). Now, since the only way you can get games is through your dedicated broadband connection to their servers, they can really charge whatever they want for the software, heck they could even charge more than SRV if they wanted to, because you can't just go out to the store and buy Pong if you want to play it on your phantom, you have to buy it through them.
From teh standpoint of a greedy corporate entity, this isn't a very hard thing to do, hire some cheap labor to screw in pieces. Get some technicians to 'help' people install their console and proceed to make a good deal of money thanks to their total control over what the product can do (by controlling what software you can put onto the product).
Of course the fact remains that the person who runs it, at least as described by Penny-Arcade, and every article that they've been linking to, is totally sketch. It also remains that their listed office is a PO box in Mailboxes Etc.
In all seriousness, if you want your company to be treated like an adult you have to have an least the veneer of legitimacy, because unles you've established yourself in the market you're after, you can't go around making big claims and then not back them up with some demos (which wouldn't be that hard to fix up throw a couple of units at some EBs, give them some top-shelf games and let the kiddies play till their brains explode). After all, they're just selling a computer.
I dont' know, about four hours ago we had a Proff that was telling us about her research into some random gene (nhlh2 or something) and how the Grads got to watch the resulatant mice Knockout and Wild Type mice sit around and either have or not have sex for two hours.
On top of that they were genetically engineering the poor mice to have low energy levels and small genitals, forever making them the fat and unattractive ones (the mice).
Actually a lot of what they said was that we would pull a Germany, blitz in an hold the city. What a lot of other people were saying was that this was going to end up like Vietnam and apparetnly both sides have been wrong. As Bush declared the major fighitng over in like March or May in that big stunt of his, there has been a guerilla war being waged against US forces.
The point was that Bush implied that by removing Sadaam from power that the Iraqi people would be brought liberty immediately. Yet there are still places withj poor food, water, and power distribution and the Iraqi people have no say in the current regime (aside from some exiles picked out by the Pentagon).
The way the war was sold was that we would come in with 'da quickness' and turn things over to the Iraqis with equal speed. After all since Afghanistan we know that a long term and eep comitment means a year.
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To be perfectly fair US telecos are heavily subsidized (or at least were at some point) by the US Government, on top of that I'd imagine that with the raging population differences between teh two countries there is more a profit in bulk rates (for flate fees) in the US then there would be in Sweden.
On a side note, it's nice to see that racism, xenophobia, and blind chest thumping nationalism are alive an well on the slashdot forums.
Yeah, but how the hell are you going to sit on it?
I believe that you actually want friction in your prophelatic devices, unless you're one of those types where your partner just wants it over and done with as quickly as possible.
They'd be too busy fighting off the robot ninjas to worry about us, plus the average joe isn't affected, aftera all if you kill for money you don't just go around and kill people who weren't employing you before just because you're in a Union. No you just shut down non-union contracts and all of that sort of stuff, the average person will be much better off with Ninjas unionized as there will no longer be a need for collateral damage in hits, because ninjas can get anyone at any time and not even be noticed. I mean, mobsters would plant a bomb in your car or something, doing lots of damage not just to you, but to surrounding cars, infrastructure and any bystanders.
I am pro-Ninja Union and proud.
Come on, just imagine it... Besides video, and server type applications, isn't this getting a little outrageous?
I really don't recall cartoons from 1986, being that I was very young, I do however recall cartoons from the early 90s and all I have to say is, "Hamma, hammah man, hammah, hammah man."
What that has to do with robots, nothing, but I repeat ninjas = wicked scary, robots = evil, therefore robots+ninjas= wicked scary and evil.
I know that it really scares the hell out of me, those robots are creepy, and ninjas. Of course the advantage of that is that they can only do so much, I mean that's why there aren't any ninja robots (well good ones) I mean, robocop can beat up ninja robots, if they were real ninjas on the other hand, robocop wouldn't have stood a chance.
I think Ninjas need to unionize to keep robots out of the stealth assassin business.
I for one welcome our new genetically altered overlords.
So, I really don't see the point and for once i'm agreeing with congress. Then again I'm pretty sure that a bunch of scientists would probably be selecting against the jocks (imagine committing a form of genocide just because you weren't cool in High School). Okay, it probably won't go that far, but people are going to start to want to peer into the genetic code and see what's going on, and from that point some people are going to ressurect the eugenics argument.
To refute that, evolution is a continuing process that takes a while to reach its perfection (well, to adapt toward its potential, things change to much for perfection) sleecting based on characteristics that we feel are the best and most desirable may not work the best idea, since it will probably promote genetic homogeny and make us fairly vulnerable to diseases and all sorts of things. Whatever I say, I really like the variety that we have right now, it's great stuff, the dynamics keep us on our toes and what not. I've really gone off topic, have a happy celebration of the rape and muder of the Arrowaks and eventual slaughter of most of the native peoples of this country (well, meant in good fun, was much as that staement when following the preceeding statement can be done).
Amherst and the South Shore, of Massachusetts, I don't really know anyone who surfs. Except for some people from California.
Well i was mentioning that in more that it isn't really part of our East Coast sort of culture, that I'm one of hte most klutzy people on the planet. Again, show how much I know about surfing, I blame Point Break, damn you Keanu Reeves.
I thoguth surfing was about acheiving a oneness with the wave and the ocean through the act. I mean, the whole appeal is amstering the skill and then riding upon the waves as if you were a part of that wave yourself.
To strap youself to a machine and try to ride that wave is simply to try and conquer it just like everything else in this world. To surf and several other activities, are to relax and achieve a state of exhiliration and calm (at least in theory, I'm a nerd on the east coast).
For those that care, college has really put me into this sort of mindset. And the girl that I've been jonesing to ask out has started to play Halo.
My state shouldn't have the right to choose what sort of software it uses? That sounds pretty stupid. Keep your filthy hate mongering hands off my state, and what the hell is a council for citizens. Seriously, if we wanted someone to tell us that switching to something that was cheaper was waste then I'd do it myself.
As in UMass Amherst, now if we could only get money for things like professors.
Except that the SCOs claims to the Linux kernel are dubious at best, and their suits smack of extortion to prop up an ailing company. Meanwhile, the RIAA is malicously attacking a private network and slandering it in the media causing it to lose business.
Aren't we all writers, christ, it seems that everyone who's ever put pen to paper fancies themselves a writer. I fancy myself a pedant, and that's really what matters, honesty.
Personally, I write with anything on hand, at times this has included crayons and placemats, for the most part it is either mechnical pencils (or pen) in some notebook (any notebook) or on computer. The thing is that my handwriting is terrible, so I try to restrict myself to the computer only.
Being that I am not a tech-geek, I use Windows and Word works just fine, just like every other writing progam that has ever existed since the beginning of time, you type something in on the keyboard and it outputs it on the screen.
Sure, sometimes I have problems with the automatic formatting, but it is easily turned off, and if I really want to spell check and edit a document I just print it out and go over it, because no matter what some people might say, it's easier that way.
Sign up for lots of free porn I guess. Put your address out there and keep trying, maybe you could sell it to some of those directories and make a little money on the side.
Because you can get things at the library for free, you can find things that are quite entertaining by total accident. And it's overall a rather pleasant experience.
The internet has really only been effective at delivering pornography and as a place for people to bitch and sound off about what they think about various subjects (such as libraries). It has yet to become a reasonable ammalgamation of the whole of human knowledge that comes within a more convineien tform than your local library.
Also, the laws regarding the lending policies of libraries in regards to the books and intellectual peroperties they provide for public consumption are typically very clear and fall in favor of libraries. I feel that as institutions they are hardly outdated at all, because free is good.
Even though the Dewey Decimal system is the most counterintuitive and idiotic system in the world. Seriously, any time I go to a library (which used to be a lot since during high school my bus dropped me off at the library about ten miles from my house, until i could drive to school and then I moved away to college). If I needed to research something I would look through the subject on the search computers (which were ancient but they worked and they had all the books in there categorized). Then I would scratch my head at the Dewey Numbers, and go down the aisle and look through the alphabetical by author organization and find the book.
Seriously, that system is utterly useless beyond the overall categories it places books into, and even those are inelegant and I'm pretty sure tha tmy library (MIddleboro Public) breaks them up ijnto liitle bits, like European History, further from the Broad Dewey system categories.
That's really all that needs to be done, post up some stickers that show what the subject of the book is on a given set of shelves, and throw them in alphabetically by author, maybe give them a UPC and number those roughly in order, based on the library's preference.
Isn't half of the attraction of these sports cars, the big throaty sounds that they pour forth from their engines. Expressing the neanderthal grunts and maons that we would like to while showing off style and sophistication (okay, money, lots of money).
I don't think the spread of electric/hybrid cars has been due to the lack of sportiness, but a general lack of push from the media, from the companies (who are making all their money of SUVs), or from the government, I mean, after all which would you rather have, the $18,000 Hummer (thanks to an $80,000 tax rebate, okay so you have to have money to pull it in the first place), as opposed to the $21,000 hybrid ($19,000 or so after your $2,000 tax rebate).
No, why don't you explain it to us Mr. Wizard?
Unfortunately for the hardware manufacturers their products diplay the standard decimal prefixes, e.g. GB and not GiB. This is very much on purpose on their part because all of those extra little numbers tend to get into the way more often then not, and who wants to buy an 18.6 GiB HD, wouldn't you rather have a nice 20 GB HD?
That's marketing for you, fortunately we have choice words for people who come up with practices like this, weasels. Seriously, you either inform the consumer what sort of measurement you are using or you match the actual capabilities of your hardware to what you are advertising, otherwise you are commiting a civil offense known as Consumer Fraud.
The easiest solution would be to go the way of soda bottles and advertise the more familiar measurement in big letters, and then right under it (in a much smaller type face) print what the actual capacity is in computer terms with your GiBs and your MiBs.
Yeah, I remembered that it had USB capabilities halfway into the mix, I would think that they would pretty much only have the drivers for their stuff on it and some sort of software that would be cracked in about a week to keep such devices off of it.
Then again the thing is targeted (so they say) to the same peole as the Nokia N-Gage, so I doubt they'll try to hack it. But I know that some wondeful entrepeneur will drop Linux on it.
So, they're selling a computer where you can only get games from them. In order to get those games you have to pay a monthly subscription fee, boy does it sound like a great idea, think about it.
There are no media drives (beyond the HDD) wher eyou could import software garner through a third party onto it (with the exception of USB drives, I seem to recall it having USB capability). Now, since the only way you can get games is through your dedicated broadband connection to their servers, they can really charge whatever they want for the software, heck they could even charge more than SRV if they wanted to, because you can't just go out to the store and buy Pong if you want to play it on your phantom, you have to buy it through them.
From teh standpoint of a greedy corporate entity, this isn't a very hard thing to do, hire some cheap labor to screw in pieces. Get some technicians to 'help' people install their console and proceed to make a good deal of money thanks to their total control over what the product can do (by controlling what software you can put onto the product).
Of course the fact remains that the person who runs it, at least as described by Penny-Arcade, and every article that they've been linking to, is totally sketch. It also remains that their listed office is a PO box in Mailboxes Etc.
In all seriousness, if you want your company to be treated like an adult you have to have an least the veneer of legitimacy, because unles you've established yourself in the market you're after, you can't go around making big claims and then not back them up with some demos (which wouldn't be that hard to fix up throw a couple of units at some EBs, give them some top-shelf games and let the kiddies play till their brains explode). After all, they're just selling a computer.
I dont' know, about four hours ago we had a Proff that was telling us about her research into some random gene (nhlh2 or something) and how the Grads got to watch the resulatant mice Knockout and Wild Type mice sit around and either have or not have sex for two hours.
On top of that they were genetically engineering the poor mice to have low energy levels and small genitals, forever making them the fat and unattractive ones (the mice).
Actually a lot of what they said was that we would pull a Germany, blitz in an hold the city. What a lot of other people were saying was that this was going to end up like Vietnam and apparetnly both sides have been wrong. As Bush declared the major fighitng over in like March or May in that big stunt of his, there has been a guerilla war being waged against US forces.
The point was that Bush implied that by removing Sadaam from power that the Iraqi people would be brought liberty immediately. Yet there are still places withj poor food, water, and power distribution and the Iraqi people have no say in the current regime (aside from some exiles picked out by the Pentagon).
The way the war was sold was that we would come in with 'da quickness' and turn things over to the Iraqis with equal speed. After all since Afghanistan we know that a long term and eep comitment means a year.