Eliminating spam somehow probably wouldn't solve much. How many spam e-mails do you get per day? Let's be generous and say that on average you get 1000 spam e-mails per day. How many minutes of video on average (per day) are watched by internet users? I don't have any exact numbers, but I know some people who watch hours of video per day, but the majority of people do not watch any. Let's settle on 3 minutes. Factor in websites, video gaming, VOIP, business VPN, FTP, everything else... 1000 e-mails equates to maybe 3MB of data per day (most of my spam comes in plain text... then again I haven't looked at them in quite some time). So you're looking at 10-15% max. Even if it were 50% it wouldn't change much (it would shift the timeline a few months). These internet backbone "problems" (I personally don't believe anything is going to happen... but let's pretend that they are right) are caused by a very very steep increase in internet usage per year. The amount of data transfered goes up exponentially every year. A few years ago I heard that it doubles every 9 months... I'm not sure if that's still the case... I wouldn't be too surprised if it's rising even faster than that due to the recent increase in video watching, but then again the internet is becoming somewhat mature, so eventually the growth should slow down (not any time soon... but perhaps after we're all streaming HD videos 24/7 to 20 different locations in our homes there will be a peak somewhere...).
I don't think the point of it is for professional/important presentations. Throughout high school I would create my presentation "visuals" as websites. They weren't THAT important, and simple HTML with some images did the job perfectly. (I have never created a presentation with powerpoint, and I'm about halfway through college). The last time I used any type of presentation software was in middle school for my computer class... (I think it was called Hyper Studio or something).
Anyone with half a brain will never use an online presentation tool for anything important, unless you're in a very reliable place that you trust (your office, for example... I would trust the office of my part-time job enough to use an online presentation tool... most of my presentations would involve the internet anyway (I'm a web developer there)). Something like this could be useful if you don't want to carry around your presentations on a CD or flash disc... and if you aren't going to show them through your laptop... also useful if the presentation computer doesn't have the software that you need.
Warn me about what? I've been using Vista for 5 months and haven't had a single problem with it. It has all of the functionality of XP, Linux, and OS X, plus a bit more. I've been nothing but satisfied with Vista.
I have a similar view - only differing by a generation or so. I'm probably a bit younger than the author. In my very humble opinion, games have gone downhill ever since they moved from 2D to 3D. My all time favorite game is Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES version). Ocarina of time was alright, but the games these days are just a little bit too complicated with way too much stuff going on. They're fine if you want to really get into them, but again, they are too complicated, and they just feel different.
Perhaps it's just a generation thing... you love the games you were brought up with... I'm sure that there are plenty of people who feel that games have gone downhill ever since they started using "advanced" graphics (tiles, images, etc... the stuff you see with Zelda, Donkey Kong, Mario, etc... for the SNES and NES), as opposed to a ball and some paddles...
Well, that figure includes fines and stuff... the actual tax rate is probably closer to 100%.
For some odd reason, latin american countries charge a ridiculous amount of tax on electronics. In the Dominican Republic you can expect to pay double or triple the normal price for any and all imported electronics. I tried to have a $300 camera sent to me via DHL, and they wanted $400 to pick it up from customs (13000 pesos).
I call that the opposite of progress... unfortunately many governments can't see beyond "now." "Oh hey... we can just charge a ridiculous amount of money on imports and make money!!! we win!"...... (I understand the tarrifs to help local businesses... but honestly... there aren't any camera manufacturers in any of those countries).
Programming?
Financial Planning?
Craft-building? (a common hobby, plenty of math can be involved if you make stuff from scratch)
Since we're on slashdot, I would imagine that there is a good chance that it might be for programming.
another possibility is that they mixed up bits and bytes... if it were 26 terabits of data it would in fact be somewhat close to 5,000 CDs. (in fact it would be exactly 5,000 of the older CDs that held 650 MB on them).
One thing to consider is that most dinosaurs did not die during extinctions. Most dinosaurs died before then (during the millions of years that they were not yet extinct).
However, I do agree with you. What we know of dinosaurs is that there are many different types of them, and many have adapted to different types of living.
In the summary there isn't really any evidence that this stuff isn't working, especially when the only statistic is this one:
In fact, four out of five of the boroughs with the most cameras have a record of solving crime that is below average
Wouldn't the areas with higher crime-rates have more cameras in the first place? The real question that should be asked is whether or not the crime rate has gone down in those areas. Now, I'll admit that I've only read the summary, but it should be safe to assume that the summary will contain the most important statistics, meaning that it is also safe to assume that the article is full of more statistics just like that one.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't your rights a bit different if you are the one who called the police? or if you are a witness of a crime? This guy called the police, and then when the policeman arrived, he refused to cooperate with him. That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, and I honestly don't believe that this guy will gain anything from this.
Exactly. Everyone I have communicated with who has actually used Vista say that it's great and that they haven't had any problems (including myself. I've been using Vista business for several weeks and haven't had a single problem with drivers, compatibility, or anything else). I doubt businesses are putting this off because they think Vista sucks, but rather because XP works just fine, and it wouldn't make sense to spend money on something that isn't broken.
Um... no. If a bank errors in their favor, they make up for it... unless you can come up with some sort of example of it. There have been plenty of times when an ATM screws up and doesn't give me the cash yet still deducts it from my account, that later on they put that money back in. Why should the opposite be any different?
If you read the other person's problem thingy, it states quite clearly that this is not AT&T's problem, but it is a problem with iTunes and the iPhone.
The only things that are mentioned in this article about the question of whether or not we will change our websites to better suit the iPhone are things that are already present in current mobile devices!
Why do the majority of iPhone related articles on slashdot ignore the fact that it's nothing new?
Sure there is the zoom stuff, that's one difference, but that has nothing to do with me adapting my website for the iPhone and everything to do with the iPhone adapting itself to be able to view the full-version of websites instead of mobile-versions.
15 cents is ridiculous. In the Dominican Republic, 95% of the time, people buy prepaid phone cards for their phones (pretty much no one has plans)... texting costs 1 peso (3 cents)... it's surprising that the main wireless company there (verizon) is the same one that charges 15 cents in and out here in the states... and EVERYTHING that you receive (calls, texts, etc...) is free.
That happened to me once. I figured "oh, at 10 cents per text message, it's no big deal." Then 2 months later my parents saw that I had texted enough to raise the phone bill $200 (mostly thanks to the AIM client that my phone had, which uses a text message for each IM sent and received, as well as another message to connect, and I believe another message to disconnect as well). My parents made me pay for it, of course.
When I first saw the picture of it, I thought that all of the buttons had the icons/letters painted on... and I thought to myself dang... you know what would be cool? If each key had its own display...
Then I kept reading. I will definitely be getting myself one of these!
The media is run by politicians and by people who have political agendas. Does that answer your question? The media has a purpose for propaganda. The military just does what it's told. They don't have to defend their actions on a large scale. (on a small scale, yes, but that involves specific people who are abusive - not the military in general).
This is exactly what I mean. Nobody really has a CLUE what is going on right now in Iraq because the media is doing a horrible job depicting what's happening. Negativity sells, and they know that - especially when it comes to America and Bush and republicans.
If you were to watch any channel other than Fox News during the first part of the war, you would have thought that we were losing - that we were being driven out of the country. Then when the military LIBERATED Iraq from an evil dictator who had murdered thousands upon thousands of people during his life, all of the channels besides Fox News made it seem like we conquered them, like we were raping their women, like we were killing innocent people on purpose.
I'm sorry, I know that everyone here at slashdot disagrees with me, but luckily I have some karma built up, so I can say something like this.
Slashdot Mirror
Eliminating spam somehow probably wouldn't solve much. How many spam e-mails do you get per day? Let's be generous and say that on average you get 1000 spam e-mails per day. How many minutes of video on average (per day) are watched by internet users? I don't have any exact numbers, but I know some people who watch hours of video per day, but the majority of people do not watch any. Let's settle on 3 minutes. Factor in websites, video gaming, VOIP, business VPN, FTP, everything else... 1000 e-mails equates to maybe 3MB of data per day (most of my spam comes in plain text... then again I haven't looked at them in quite some time). So you're looking at 10-15% max. Even if it were 50% it wouldn't change much (it would shift the timeline a few months). These internet backbone "problems" (I personally don't believe anything is going to happen... but let's pretend that they are right) are caused by a very very steep increase in internet usage per year. The amount of data transfered goes up exponentially every year. A few years ago I heard that it doubles every 9 months... I'm not sure if that's still the case... I wouldn't be too surprised if it's rising even faster than that due to the recent increase in video watching, but then again the internet is becoming somewhat mature, so eventually the growth should slow down (not any time soon... but perhaps after we're all streaming HD videos 24/7 to 20 different locations in our homes there will be a peak somewhere...).
I don't think the point of it is for professional/important presentations. Throughout high school I would create my presentation "visuals" as websites. They weren't THAT important, and simple HTML with some images did the job perfectly. (I have never created a presentation with powerpoint, and I'm about halfway through college). The last time I used any type of presentation software was in middle school for my computer class... (I think it was called Hyper Studio or something).
Anyone with half a brain will never use an online presentation tool for anything important, unless you're in a very reliable place that you trust (your office, for example... I would trust the office of my part-time job enough to use an online presentation tool... most of my presentations would involve the internet anyway (I'm a web developer there)). Something like this could be useful if you don't want to carry around your presentations on a CD or flash disc... and if you aren't going to show them through your laptop... also useful if the presentation computer doesn't have the software that you need.
Warn me about what? I've been using Vista for 5 months and haven't had a single problem with it. It has all of the functionality of XP, Linux, and OS X, plus a bit more. I've been nothing but satisfied with Vista.
What did you want to tell me?
I have a similar view - only differing by a generation or so. I'm probably a bit younger than the author. In my very humble opinion, games have gone downhill ever since they moved from 2D to 3D. My all time favorite game is Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES version). Ocarina of time was alright, but the games these days are just a little bit too complicated with way too much stuff going on. They're fine if you want to really get into them, but again, they are too complicated, and they just feel different.
Perhaps it's just a generation thing... you love the games you were brought up with... I'm sure that there are plenty of people who feel that games have gone downhill ever since they started using "advanced" graphics (tiles, images, etc... the stuff you see with Zelda, Donkey Kong, Mario, etc... for the SNES and NES), as opposed to a ball and some paddles...
Well, that figure includes fines and stuff... the actual tax rate is probably closer to 100%.
For some odd reason, latin american countries charge a ridiculous amount of tax on electronics. In the Dominican Republic you can expect to pay double or triple the normal price for any and all imported electronics. I tried to have a $300 camera sent to me via DHL, and they wanted $400 to pick it up from customs (13000 pesos).
I call that the opposite of progress... unfortunately many governments can't see beyond "now." "Oh hey... we can just charge a ridiculous amount of money on imports and make money!!! we win!"...... (I understand the tarrifs to help local businesses... but honestly... there aren't any camera manufacturers in any of those countries).
Programming? Financial Planning? Craft-building? (a common hobby, plenty of math can be involved if you make stuff from scratch) Since we're on slashdot, I would imagine that there is a good chance that it might be for programming.
another possibility is that they mixed up bits and bytes... if it were 26 terabits of data it would in fact be somewhat close to 5,000 CDs. (in fact it would be exactly 5,000 of the older CDs that held 650 MB on them).
One thing to consider is that most dinosaurs did not die during extinctions. Most dinosaurs died before then (during the millions of years that they were not yet extinct).
However, I do agree with you. What we know of dinosaurs is that there are many different types of them, and many have adapted to different types of living.
In the summary there isn't really any evidence that this stuff isn't working, especially when the only statistic is this one:
In fact, four out of five of the boroughs with the most cameras have a record of solving crime that is below average
Wouldn't the areas with higher crime-rates have more cameras in the first place? The real question that should be asked is whether or not the crime rate has gone down in those areas. Now, I'll admit that I've only read the summary, but it should be safe to assume that the summary will contain the most important statistics, meaning that it is also safe to assume that the article is full of more statistics just like that one.
$slashheading =~ s/stuff that matters/bug reports/i;
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't your rights a bit different if you are the one who called the police? or if you are a witness of a crime? This guy called the police, and then when the policeman arrived, he refused to cooperate with him. That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, and I honestly don't believe that this guy will gain anything from this.
under normal driving conditions
Great, and we all know that all accidents occur during normal driving conditions.
Exactly. Everyone I have communicated with who has actually used Vista say that it's great and that they haven't had any problems (including myself. I've been using Vista business for several weeks and haven't had a single problem with drivers, compatibility, or anything else). I doubt businesses are putting this off because they think Vista sucks, but rather because XP works just fine, and it wouldn't make sense to spend money on something that isn't broken.
Um... no. If a bank errors in their favor, they make up for it... unless you can come up with some sort of example of it. There have been plenty of times when an ATM screws up and doesn't give me the cash yet still deducts it from my account, that later on they put that money back in. Why should the opposite be any different?
Look at where the chain is... What if he hit a pebble or something and flew forward?
If you read the other person's problem thingy, it states quite clearly that this is not AT&T's problem, but it is a problem with iTunes and the iPhone.
The only things that are mentioned in this article about the question of whether or not we will change our websites to better suit the iPhone are things that are already present in current mobile devices!
Why do the majority of iPhone related articles on slashdot ignore the fact that it's nothing new?
Sure there is the zoom stuff, that's one difference, but that has nothing to do with me adapting my website for the iPhone and everything to do with the iPhone adapting itself to be able to view the full-version of websites instead of mobile-versions.
When all the data are used,
Let it be noted where the article submitter is from...
15 cents is ridiculous. In the Dominican Republic, 95% of the time, people buy prepaid phone cards for their phones (pretty much no one has plans)... texting costs 1 peso (3 cents)... it's surprising that the main wireless company there (verizon) is the same one that charges 15 cents in and out here in the states... and EVERYTHING that you receive (calls, texts, etc...) is free.
That happened to me once. I figured "oh, at 10 cents per text message, it's no big deal." Then 2 months later my parents saw that I had texted enough to raise the phone bill $200 (mostly thanks to the AIM client that my phone had, which uses a text message for each IM sent and received, as well as another message to connect, and I believe another message to disconnect as well). My parents made me pay for it, of course.
oops... I take that back... sorry... didn't see the price tag... maybe later.
When I first saw the picture of it, I thought that all of the buttons had the icons/letters painted on... and I thought to myself dang... you know what would be cool? If each key had its own display...
Then I kept reading. I will definitely be getting myself one of these!
The media is run by politicians and by people who have political agendas. Does that answer your question? The media has a purpose for propaganda. The military just does what it's told. They don't have to defend their actions on a large scale. (on a small scale, yes, but that involves specific people who are abusive - not the military in general).
This is exactly what I mean. Nobody really has a CLUE what is going on right now in Iraq because the media is doing a horrible job depicting what's happening. Negativity sells, and they know that - especially when it comes to America and Bush and republicans.
If you were to watch any channel other than Fox News during the first part of the war, you would have thought that we were losing - that we were being driven out of the country. Then when the military LIBERATED Iraq from an evil dictator who had murdered thousands upon thousands of people during his life, all of the channels besides Fox News made it seem like we conquered them, like we were raping their women, like we were killing innocent people on purpose.
I'm sorry, I know that everyone here at slashdot disagrees with me, but luckily I have some karma built up, so I can say something like this.
No. It's called responding to the propaganda that has been done by the media for the past 4 years.