The taxpayers will own your TV set in 2009 if you are still watching OTA Broadcast.
Yay for the continued fleecing of Americans over this shift all of which benefits the coffers of the government when they resell the spectrum for billions.
've dual-booted for a long time, but it's only been recently that I started spending more time in Linux than in Windows. (And the shift was both dramatic and quick. In a single day, I went from less than 20% of my time spent in Linux to over 80%.)
And OTOH I used Linux exclusively from 1997 through 2002 as my main desktop OS. I then switched to XP on my daily use machines because Linux application support sucked.
While I am still a Linux advocate, it's not for it being run on the desktop. In fact, I would steer *ANYONE* and *EVERYONE* away from it just as I would suggest they do with Vista.
I'm in 100% agreement. It might not do anything for energy consumption but it sure does make me a happier camper! I work from 9:30 to 6 and while for the last three weeks there has been some light when I'm driving home, it's going to be REALLY nice to have an entire trip with daylight. Not only do I feel better and happier during the light hours, I also feel safer because everyone else around me is driving in the daylight too.
I take a camping trip at the end of March every year and it will be SO nice to have that extra hour of daylight to get camp setup, cook dinner, and enjoy the park.
While I don't agree with nearly everything Bush has done, even though it's possibly for the wrong reason, this one is a good thing.
For those of us who still do our taxes by hand, it wouldn't really be any riskier, and might not be any more trouble, just to run through the software once, check it by hand, and send in bug reports.
This isn't a troll but a simple question. Why are you still doing your taxes by hand? Isn't it worth the $38 to buy TurboTax or TaxCut and have it whip through your taxes in 25 minutes?
I know that most people don't realize, at this point, that having the physical media is an advantage. Wait till iTunes has been the primary purchasing point for people at around the time when hardware failure starts to take a toll.
When these people lose their entire music collection and have no way to restore it, then we'll see what they think about their past choices.
Does anyone honestly think that The Shins would be so popular without iTune's help?
Wow. It's not like The Shins didn't get first rate exposure in Garden State. It's not like they are experiencing great radio play on just about every alternative radio station.
Just because iTunes plays them doesn't mean it's their only avenue to success. Perhaps Wincing the Night Away was their most "mainstream" album (it was IMHO as it sucks compared to their others).
Because those 'stupid' enough to go out and buy those stocks give the spammers incentive to continue. Spamming people like you and I who don't buy the crap.
Some people might be playing the penny market and could be oblivious to the fact that one particular stock is being pumped and dumped by the spammers. I know someone that invested several million shares in one of these companies only to find it frozen for the next 10 days while the SEC investigates.
Just because we wouldn't buy the stock after seeing the e-mail doesn't mean other people wouldn't buy it because they are playing in the market.
That said, plenty of people (possibly like Slashdotters) see the spams and buy those stocks knowing that it's going to be used as a pump and dump.
People ALWAYS say this and it's crap. That's not how the real world works.
I've worked in both and I'm currently working in the public sector. It DOES NOT work the same way in the private sector as it does in the public. People here do absolutely nothing but wander around complaining how busy they are. As I've said twice in recent memory including on the last thread about this topic, the only thing that the vast majority of public sector workers are good at is pretending they're busy.
These people would not survive for 10 minutes where I've worked in the private sector. They would fucking die if they had a 30 minute lunch break and two 15s that were mandated by schedule. They would seriously break down in tears if they were evaluated on hard data instead of gut feeling about their success rates. "Oh wow, I only converted 8%? It really felt like 80%. Something must be wrong there with that data."
As of January 1, 2007, 2.4 billion of those [IPv4 addresses] were in (some kind of) use. 1.3 billion were still available and about 170 million new addresses are given out each year. So at this rate, 7.5 years from now, we'll be clean out of IP addresses; faster if the number of addresses used per year goes up. Are you ready for IPv6?"
As of January 1, 2007 too many IP addresses were in (some kind of) use by Apple and MIT who have entire class As but don't need that kind of address space. In 7 years when we are approaching what this particular author believes will be the end of the road for IPv4, those two (and anyone else with too many unused addresses) should be mandated to give them up so that everyone else can use them.
IPv6 won't be in wide use until the ISPs drop their ridiculous additional IP charges. They make a good bit of money through that so I assume they will be the absolute last people to switch over. Because most residential connections are on Comcast and other providers that don't want anything to do w/making less money, there's no way that this will happen w/o a fight.
Why would anyone seriously consider his claims on this topic?
Two reasons:
1. He's the richest man in America and plenty of people world wide reading this are saying, "well he didn't get to be where he is because he's stupid."
2. They believe whatever they see in the media w/o thinking about what it really means.
The whole thing is free. There's a large-scale Beta trial beginning in April of this year, with the service launching in Fall of this year.
So is Second Life until you buy shit.
Every avatar has a private apartment, an opportunity to make a statement in the world and a place to hang out with friends. Everything is customizable, and more furniture/wallpaper is downloadable. Unsurprisingly, some will be for-purchase. More interestingly, everything is physics based.
So you will be purchasing stuff in this.
Why do we need a $600 device to play what's already available to anyone that has a computer? It's not like the target audience of the PS3 are computerless individuals. I don't see the point.
I'm not concerned with brand-name anything. Businesses are.
The irony is that you have it backwards, it's the small companies who fill the niches, take away business from the large ones because they provide services that people are willing to pay for, they grow into medium sized companies.
Uhh, you're missing the entire point. Dell is well known and businesses trust them. If they start pushing out pre-installed Linux, others will trust them as well based on name recognition alone.
The simple fact of the matter is that EfficientPC is some no-name company that no one trusts. For whatever reason, at least here in the US, Dell is seen as a good name brand computer. People won't put faith in something delivered by a company that insists on a horrible color scheme and poor web design.
Dell is a big name in the PC business and by having them push out pre-installed Linux machines it shows the rest of the industry (aside from the ever so unsightly EfficientPCs) that it should also hop on the bandwagon. I just wish the Linux userbase wasn't such a bunch of self-absorbed fuckers when it comes to accepting new people or companies.
I want to know if that 12.5 million dollars is going to be used to fund programs that the FCC shouldn't be in charge of in the first place -- like indecency. Their job is to control dividing up the spectrum, not what is or isn't acceptable to put on it.
if the distribution companies lower their rates to theaters, it could conceivably make it possible for theaters to offer more movies without raising their operating costs.
Just what I want. *More* shit movies taking up screen real estate in the theaters so that the MPAA can claim that they are losing money due to piracy and not because they are producing more garbage than ever.
A central tenet of the school pay system appears to be their main stumbling block
That's a stumbling block of *all* unionized workplaces. Instead of paying people based on their performance they pay everyone based on their years in.
This type of reward system creates an environment that's filled with indifference. "Why should I work hard and come up with new and exciting lesson plans when I'm going to be paid exactly the same as Bob Smith who sits on his tenured ass and doesn't engage the students at all?"
It's a real problem where I used to work and it was compounded with supervisors that have limited budgets and individuals used to receiving their yearly raises and not looking for upward advancement. So you have people that do nothing more than the bare minimum, don't have any goals, and are just happy to be great at making themselves look busier than they really are while complaining that Joe is working hard and making them look bad.
Or I'm to materialistic and prefer the tangible product in my hand compared to some stuff on a harddrive somewhere which is (imho) prone to higher levels of control or loss due to failure..
People think it's better until 52GB of their music collection vanishes from their system because they forgot to de-authorize their computers, their music player HD crashes, and they don't have any other backup medium.
People think it's better because EVERYONE else tells them it is. Yay, having an iPod is cool. Ooh, shiny store that, for most of the general public, requires you to use iTunes or an iPod to listen to their wares!
I'm all for downloadable content. The stuff that's free and lets me redownload it when I need to. Not something that ties me to one player, one piece of hardware, and links me to a group of people I can't stand while paying an arm and a leg for it while being told it's inexpensive.
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The taxpayers will own your TV set in 2009 if you are still watching OTA Broadcast.
Yay for the continued fleecing of Americans over this shift all of which benefits the coffers of the government when they resell the spectrum for billions.
've dual-booted for a long time, but it's only been recently that I started spending more time in Linux than in Windows. (And the shift was both dramatic and quick. In a single day, I went from less than 20% of my time spent in Linux to over 80%.)
And OTOH I used Linux exclusively from 1997 through 2002 as my main desktop OS. I then switched to XP on my daily use machines because Linux application support sucked.
While I am still a Linux advocate, it's not for it being run on the desktop. In fact, I would steer *ANYONE* and *EVERYONE* away from it just as I would suggest they do with Vista.
heh!
You aren't the target market in the least so I'm not really sure what your point is.
The website is already suspended. Another notch in the Slashdot gun.
The server runs on solar power. Unfortunately it's cloudy and their reserve ran out w/all the Slashdot traffic.
I'm in 100% agreement. It might not do anything for energy consumption but it sure does make me a happier camper! I work from 9:30 to 6 and while for the last three weeks there has been some light when I'm driving home, it's going to be REALLY nice to have an entire trip with daylight. Not only do I feel better and happier during the light hours, I also feel safer because everyone else around me is driving in the daylight too.
I take a camping trip at the end of March every year and it will be SO nice to have that extra hour of daylight to get camp setup, cook dinner, and enjoy the park.
While I don't agree with nearly everything Bush has done, even though it's possibly for the wrong reason, this one is a good thing.
For those of us who still do our taxes by hand, it wouldn't really be any riskier, and might not be any more trouble, just to run through the software once, check it by hand, and send in bug reports.
This isn't a troll but a simple question. Why are you still doing your taxes by hand? Isn't it worth the $38 to buy TurboTax or TaxCut and have it whip through your taxes in 25 minutes?
I know that most people don't realize, at this point, that having the physical media is an advantage. Wait till iTunes has been the primary purchasing point for people at around the time when hardware failure starts to take a toll.
When these people lose their entire music collection and have no way to restore it, then we'll see what they think about their past choices.
Does anyone honestly think that The Shins would be so popular without iTune's help?
Wow. It's not like The Shins didn't get first rate exposure in Garden State. It's not like they are experiencing great radio play on just about every alternative radio station.
Just because iTunes plays them doesn't mean it's their only avenue to success. Perhaps Wincing the Night Away was their most "mainstream" album (it was IMHO as it sucks compared to their others).
Because those 'stupid' enough to go out and buy those stocks give the spammers incentive to continue. Spamming people like you and I who don't buy the crap.
Some people might be playing the penny market and could be oblivious to the fact that one particular stock is being pumped and dumped by the spammers. I know someone that invested several million shares in one of these companies only to find it frozen for the next 10 days while the SEC investigates.
Just because we wouldn't buy the stock after seeing the e-mail doesn't mean other people wouldn't buy it because they are playing in the market.
That said, plenty of people (possibly like Slashdotters) see the spams and buy those stocks knowing that it's going to be used as a pump and dump.
People ALWAYS say this and it's crap. That's not how the real world works.
I've worked in both and I'm currently working in the public sector. It DOES NOT work the same way in the private sector as it does in the public. People here do absolutely nothing but wander around complaining how busy they are. As I've said twice in recent memory including on the last thread about this topic, the only thing that the vast majority of public sector workers are good at is pretending they're busy.
These people would not survive for 10 minutes where I've worked in the private sector. They would fucking die if they had a 30 minute lunch break and two 15s that were mandated by schedule. They would seriously break down in tears if they were evaluated on hard data instead of gut feeling about their success rates. "Oh wow, I only converted 8%? It really felt like 80%. Something must be wrong there with that data."
As of January 1, 2007, 2.4 billion of those [IPv4 addresses] were in (some kind of) use. 1.3 billion were still available and about 170 million new addresses are given out each year. So at this rate, 7.5 years from now, we'll be clean out of IP addresses; faster if the number of addresses used per year goes up. Are you ready for IPv6?"
As of January 1, 2007 too many IP addresses were in (some kind of) use by Apple and MIT who have entire class As but don't need that kind of address space. In 7 years when we are approaching what this particular author believes will be the end of the road for IPv4, those two (and anyone else with too many unused addresses) should be mandated to give them up so that everyone else can use them.
IPv6 won't be in wide use until the ISPs drop their ridiculous additional IP charges. They make a good bit of money through that so I assume they will be the absolute last people to switch over. Because most residential connections are on Comcast and other providers that don't want anything to do w/making less money, there's no way that this will happen w/o a fight.
Why would anyone seriously consider his claims on this topic?
Two reasons:
1. He's the richest man in America and plenty of people world wide reading this are saying, "well he didn't get to be where he is because he's stupid."
2. They believe whatever they see in the media w/o thinking about what it really means.
The whole thing is free. There's a large-scale Beta trial beginning in April of this year, with the service launching in Fall of this year.
So is Second Life until you buy shit.
Every avatar has a private apartment, an opportunity to make a statement in the world and a place to hang out with friends. Everything is customizable, and more furniture/wallpaper is downloadable. Unsurprisingly, some will be for-purchase. More interestingly, everything is physics based.
So you will be purchasing stuff in this.
Why do we need a $600 device to play what's already available to anyone that has a computer? It's not like the target audience of the PS3 are computerless individuals. I don't see the point.
Thanks for pointing out that I should have been hitting Preview instead of getting First Post :)
1000GB = 0.9765625 TB, not 1TB.
One terabyte is equivalent to 1,000 gigabytes.
Uhh, no it isn't. It's really 0.9765625 terabytes.
I'm not concerned with brand-name anything. Businesses are.
The irony is that you have it backwards, it's the small companies who fill the niches, take away business from the large ones because they provide services that people are willing to pay for, they grow into medium sized companies.
Uhh, you're missing the entire point. Dell is well known and businesses trust them. If they start pushing out pre-installed Linux, others will trust them as well based on name recognition alone.
Why does it have to be Dell?
Because, "Dude, you've got a Dell!"
The simple fact of the matter is that EfficientPC is some no-name company that no one trusts. For whatever reason, at least here in the US, Dell is seen as a good name brand computer. People won't put faith in something delivered by a company that insists on a horrible color scheme and poor web design.
Dell is a big name in the PC business and by having them push out pre-installed Linux machines it shows the rest of the industry (aside from the ever so unsightly EfficientPCs) that it should also hop on the bandwagon. I just wish the Linux userbase wasn't such a bunch of self-absorbed fuckers when it comes to accepting new people or companies.
I want to know if that 12.5 million dollars is going to be used to fund programs that the FCC shouldn't be in charge of in the first place -- like indecency. Their job is to control dividing up the spectrum, not what is or isn't acceptable to put on it.
How is this different to say wireshark or any other traffic analyzer?
This one is feature poor and buggy.
if the distribution companies lower their rates to theaters, it could conceivably make it possible for theaters to offer more movies without raising their operating costs.
Just what I want. *More* shit movies taking up screen real estate in the theaters so that the MPAA can claim that they are losing money due to piracy and not because they are producing more garbage than ever.
Will my ISP rates increase to pay for all of that disk space?
No, of course not. Any law or regulation that the government comes up with doesn't have any hidden costs.
A central tenet of the school pay system appears to be their main stumbling block
That's a stumbling block of *all* unionized workplaces. Instead of paying people based on their performance they pay everyone based on their years in.
This type of reward system creates an environment that's filled with indifference. "Why should I work hard and come up with new and exciting lesson plans when I'm going to be paid exactly the same as Bob Smith who sits on his tenured ass and doesn't engage the students at all?"
It's a real problem where I used to work and it was compounded with supervisors that have limited budgets and individuals used to receiving their yearly raises and not looking for upward advancement. So you have people that do nothing more than the bare minimum, don't have any goals, and are just happy to be great at making themselves look busier than they really are while complaining that Joe is working hard and making them look bad.
Or I'm to materialistic and prefer the tangible product in my hand compared to some stuff on a harddrive somewhere which is (imho) prone to higher levels of control or loss due to failure..
People think it's better until 52GB of their music collection vanishes from their system because they forgot to de-authorize their computers, their music player HD crashes, and they don't have any other backup medium.
People think it's better because EVERYONE else tells them it is. Yay, having an iPod is cool. Ooh, shiny store that, for most of the general public, requires you to use iTunes or an iPod to listen to their wares!
I'm all for downloadable content. The stuff that's free and lets me redownload it when I need to. Not something that ties me to one player, one piece of hardware, and links me to a group of people I can't stand while paying an arm and a leg for it while being told it's inexpensive.
Most young people I meet today not only haven't a clue how a piano works, they seem to have no familiarity with the bill of rights, either.
You misspelled "The President of the United States".