THANk YOU! Everyone says "Europeans stole the land from Native Americans, they're illegal immigrants too!". Umm.... you do realize "native american" is just a generic term we called them, they were actually set-up into their own tribes and countries and would often fight over territory and if they had ships capable of crossing the Atlantic I'm sure they would have been in Europe taking land too. Everyone wants to blame the victores for being successful, but where would we be if they hadn't? America would be like most of Africa is now, slave labor mining gold and diamonds for the wealthy superpowers of the world while living in shacks and dying of AIDS
Source? Because I've seen illegals take jobs as cooks, servers, cashiers, maids and lawn mowers and I know plenty of Americans that would love to have those jobs but can't because illegals took them so instead they're still drawing unemployment. Just because we're all very well paid nerds doesn't mean everyone is.
How do you have a 100xxx slashdot ID number and not know the difference between BITS and BYTES? I mean the guy even said "the datarate is only ~30 kbit/s via analog lines"
I just noticed that today: slashdot is completely unusable on the iPhone.
Instead of a nice little column like it was before, the entire page tries to fit in the screen so all of the words are far too small to read. I tried changing settings in options but nothing worked.
IF the new Chinese 5th generation figher is based on 1970's designs then we have nothing to worry about, especially since it won't be released until 2018 and seeing how the Chinese government controls all the media they'll swear the fighter is the most amazing jet in the world even if it never leaves the ground.
FTFA:"When the Mongol hordes invaded Asia, the Middle East, and Europe they left behind a massive body count, depopulating many regions. With less people, large swathes of cultivated fields eventually returned to forests, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. "
Oh? Not awards for Hitler today? But 11 to 17 million less people means less fields needed and more forests, right? Surely with entire towns wiped out they returned to nature and helped the environment, right?
"Nowhere does the law state exactly how much you much have to pay yourself."
Except $24,000 a year is barely enough to afford a decent house and car payment in most US cities. I'm sure when he put down he made $24,000 a year and then wanted to deduct his $1950/mo house payment the IRS became a little suspicious...
"subscriber revenues will continue to increase as Netflix increases the size of its streaming library."
Yep that's where I'm at. I don't have TV cable service, every thing is streamed, but I don't have Netflix because their streaming catalog is very poor, something like 10% of their DVD catalog.
So I don't use Netflix at all. One day they'll stream more movies (or all movies? Seriously why not stream all movies ever made?) but until then I'm not signing up.
"It sounds like the young hire knew something the older professional didn't know, so even if the older person was "intellectually curious", they no longer had the desired qualifications and skills."
Why do you believe that? All it says is "the new grad knew a hot emerging technology that a client wanted". Doesn't even say this is coding related, could be something simple like "Yes I can make iPhone apps" BAM! 30% raise.
Is it fair?... you're kidding, right? If you're coding and english isn't a second language to you than you should thank whatever god you believe in every day you still have a job writing code in the US.
Get out while you can. I went into medicine and suggest my US-based IT brethern do the same. People will continue to get sick, experience is well rewarded rather than punished and it'll never be outsourced.
James Montgomery (#6) doesn't count either. He's a homeless guy with a laptop and... well, that's it. No story, he just has a laptop and surfs the net. Seriously that's all there is, four paragraphs talking about how he's not rich or famous or joining normal society, but he has a laptop and uses the local library's wifi.
I Love how it says: "To give you an idea, it's about 250 hours of web browsing or over 500,000(!) emails."
And that's exactly the example they use on their website to distinguish the $10 100MB "limited" plan from the UNLIMITED:
100mb = 5 hrs web browsing, 10,000 emails without attachments
UNLIMITED = UNLIMITED
are they going to change UNLIMITED to being 250 hours of web browsing and 500,000 emails?
My real problem is these devices are designed for PCs, not cellphones, and how incredibly easy is it to zoom past 5 gigabytes on a PC over broadband? With game downloads and updates measuring in the gigabytes now and the popularity of streaming HD video most users would probably exceed 5GB within their first day and not even notice it.
I understand what they're trying to do but it's not right. They're trying to eliminate the top 10% of customers that actually bought this service for what it's suppose to be, unlimited wireless broadband, and keep the other 90% that never or rarely use 3G data. This is like offering $10 satellite TV and then limiting you to one channel if you watch TV more than an hour a day.
If possession of illicit drugs was decriminalized then there would be far less crime in the US and South America. Maybe the US should decriminalize it and regulate it like cigarettes or alcohol, I'm sure the government could find great uses for all those new tax dollars.
At the rate things are going someday they might require a car with a second seat and a passenger. I doubt they'll ever tow your boat but the technology could possibly be used for a 2-seater daily driver running entirely on solar in the next 10-20 years.
However I still think this "world record" is bogus. Obviously those cars that averaged 102+ km/h over a 3,021 km course did that without running on batteries the whole time so those vehicles should be world's fastest.
"Unexplained things happen every so often, which don't really phase me as a seasoned computer user, but would drive my mom bats."
And this is exactly why I ended up with an iPhone.
It started simply enough, I bought a Motorola Q. Worse... Phone... Ever. Crashed often and nothing worked on it because while it ran Windows Mobile the Q didn't have a touchscreen so I'd have to search for special Windows Mobile programs that didn't require touchscreen input and without a Windows Mobile app store that provided to be almost impossible.
This lead me to upgrade to a HTC Mogul, a touchscreen with sliding keyboard running Windows Mobile. That was better but finding good programs that didn't crash was difficult, there was no Windows Mobile store and it wasn't designed for fingers since it used a stylus.
Next came the BlackBerry Curve. Great phone, amazing email access (better than iPhone), but beyond email it didn't really do anything right, tiny buttons to dial with, phone was slow, offered few apps and the decent apps were pretty expensive ($5-$10+) and there were almost no free apps or demos.
Enter the iPhone. Required a carrier switch but that ended up being a good thing since AT&T turned out to be much better than my previous provider. iOS was amazing, no more crashing, phone functionality was much better than Windows Mobile or Blackberry, and navigation was much easier. Tons of great apps for cheap (99 cents) or free, and most of the paid for apps offer free demos. App store allows real user reviews.
Really it's the apps that make the difference with the iPhone. There's currently over 300,000 apps,63 from EA and even classics like Final Fantasy made by Square Enix. Android just don't have the pull iOS does to bring the big names to the table. I don't care if the iPhone's CPU is 600mhz or 1000mhz, I bought a smartphone for apps, not to brag about my cpu speed.
I have a feeling as soon as the iPhone shows up on Verizon we're going to see a 10% jump or higher. I also think price has a lot to do with it: most the people I know buying Android did so because Android is free while iPhones are $200+, there has never been a free iPhone with contract. But the 3GS is now only $50 so we'll see if that helps, and I know some people are saying "that's the old one, I want the iPhone 4!" but I guess they forgot about the reception issues. I'd buy a 3GS or wait for iPhone 4GS.
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"All of the Garmin Nuvi GPS units I have had have a warning screen that shows every single time that it is turned on saying this."
My TomTom doesn't do that... does that mean Garmin assumes their buyers are stupider or that TomTom isn't worried about being sued?
Anyone else just see a laptop on a roomba or is it just me?
Laptop with webcam = ~$350 cheap roomba = ~$150
Charging $5,000 + $1,200 per year "service contract" for $500 in hardware = PRICELESS
The best part about this story is it took two PhDs in engineering to do what high school kids have been doing for many years ;)
Next story: four PhDs in engineering build pinewood derby car, lose to boy scouts
Think they should mail their diplomas back to whatever website they ordered them from
But the police are powerless with their ball and powder muskets!
THANk YOU! Everyone says "Europeans stole the land from Native Americans, they're illegal immigrants too!". Umm.... you do realize "native american" is just a generic term we called them, they were actually set-up into their own tribes and countries and would often fight over territory and if they had ships capable of crossing the Atlantic I'm sure they would have been in Europe taking land too. Everyone wants to blame the victores for being successful, but where would we be if they hadn't? America would be like most of Africa is now, slave labor mining gold and diamonds for the wealthy superpowers of the world while living in shacks and dying of AIDS
"illegals do jobs that no one else wants."
Source? Because I've seen illegals take jobs as cooks, servers, cashiers, maids and lawn mowers and I know plenty of Americans that would love to have those jobs but can't because illegals took them so instead they're still drawing unemployment. Just because we're all very well paid nerds doesn't mean everyone is.
How do you have a 100xxx slashdot ID number and not know the difference between BITS and BYTES? I mean the guy even said "the datarate is only ~30 kbit/s via analog lines"
I just noticed that today: slashdot is completely unusable on the iPhone.
/. I'd ask for my money back.
Instead of a nice little column like it was before, the entire page tries to fit in the screen so all of the words are far too small to read. I tried changing settings in options but nothing worked.
If I was paying for
I see nothing wrong with this. An anonymous way to provide documents and video to the media would be great.
or rubberbands like airplanes?
That's exactly what I was thinking, even the story is about the plane being shot down in 1999 , and the technology is from the 70s considering the F-117's first flight was 1981 and has already been retired.
IF the new Chinese 5th generation figher is based on 1970's designs then we have nothing to worry about, especially since it won't be released until 2018 and seeing how the Chinese government controls all the media they'll swear the fighter is the most amazing jet in the world even if it never leaves the ground.
Our 5th generation fighter, the Raptor, has been out since 2005 and we're already working on a second, the F-35 Lightning II
Besides, we're already working on unmanned 6th generation fighters, planes that can fly much faster and cost millions less by removing lift support systems and sophisticated instrumentation required for pilots. Seeing how a cheap $150 Kinect can create a 3D map of the real world there's little doubt that unmanned fighters are the future.
FTFA: "When the Mongol hordes invaded Asia, the Middle East, and Europe they left behind a massive body count, depopulating many regions. With less people, large swathes of cultivated fields eventually returned to forests, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. "
Article on how Hitler was History's Second Greenest Conqueror for killing 11+ million people in 3... 2... 1...
Oh? Not awards for Hitler today? But 11 to 17 million less people means less fields needed and more forests, right? Surely with entire towns wiped out they returned to nature and helped the environment, right?
The "Pencil Balancer" video was posted on youtube back in 2008, so yes this is not new
"Nowhere does the law state exactly how much you much have to pay yourself."
Except $24,000 a year is barely enough to afford a decent house and car payment in most US cities. I'm sure when he put down he made $24,000 a year and then wanted to deduct his $1950/mo house payment the IRS became a little suspicious...
"I am pretty sure my F250 would crush it"
Sure you would, if only you didn't have to spend all day filling your 35 gallon gas tank
"subscriber revenues will continue to increase as Netflix increases the size of its streaming library."
Yep that's where I'm at. I don't have TV cable service, every thing is streamed, but I don't have Netflix because their streaming catalog is very poor, something like 10% of their DVD catalog.
So I don't use Netflix at all. One day they'll stream more movies (or all movies? Seriously why not stream all movies ever made?) but until then I'm not signing up.
"It sounds like the young hire knew something the older professional didn't know, so even if the older person was "intellectually curious", they no longer had the desired qualifications and skills."
... you're kidding, right? If you're coding and english isn't a second language to you than you should thank whatever god you believe in every day you still have a job writing code in the US.
Why do you believe that? All it says is "the new grad knew a hot emerging technology that a client wanted". Doesn't even say this is coding related, could be something simple like "Yes I can make iPhone apps" BAM! 30% raise.
Is it fair?
Coding is horribly unfair. Between being overworked, being laid off, and the jobs going to India programming in the US is a complete and utter FAIL.
Get out while you can. I went into medicine and suggest my US-based IT brethern do the same. People will continue to get sick, experience is well rewarded rather than punished and it'll never be outsourced.
i was prepared but then nothing happened. Where's the blown away part?
James Montgomery (#6) doesn't count either. He's a homeless guy with a laptop and... well, that's it. No story, he just has a laptop and surfs the net. Seriously that's all there is, four paragraphs talking about how he's not rich or famous or joining normal society, but he has a laptop and uses the local library's wifi.
I Love how it says: "To give you an idea, it's about 250 hours of web browsing or over 500,000(!) emails."
And that's exactly the example they use on their website to distinguish the $10 100MB "limited" plan from the UNLIMITED:
100mb = 5 hrs web browsing, 10,000 emails without attachments
UNLIMITED = UNLIMITED
are they going to change UNLIMITED to being 250 hours of web browsing and 500,000 emails?
My real problem is these devices are designed for PCs, not cellphones, and how incredibly easy is it to zoom past 5 gigabytes on a PC over broadband? With game downloads and updates measuring in the gigabytes now and the popularity of streaming HD video most users would probably exceed 5GB within their first day and not even notice it.
I understand what they're trying to do but it's not right. They're trying to eliminate the top 10% of customers that actually bought this service for what it's suppose to be, unlimited wireless broadband, and keep the other 90% that never or rarely use 3G data. This is like offering $10 satellite TV and then limiting you to one channel if you watch TV more than an hour a day.
Looks like you're right about Portugal, and it seems successful
If possession of illicit drugs was decriminalized then there would be far less crime in the US and South America. Maybe the US should decriminalize it and regulate it like cigarettes or alcohol, I'm sure the government could find great uses for all those new tax dollars.
"Nor should their citizens need a license to grow a plant."
You do realize every major illegal narcotic comes from "a plant", right? Cocaine is from coca leaf, heroin is from opium.
Are you suggesting that all of these drugs be made legally available to anyone that wants them without even as much as a license?
"Did you even look at the video? You wont be taking their car to the local supermarket at all."
I don't know, they've made a lot of progress in only 15 years, going from 66 km/h in 1987 to 102 in 2005. They got so fast that the support vehicles could not keep up without breaking the speed limit, so new rules were put in place that forced teams to reduce the number of solar panels, require a steering wheel and even add safety equipment.
At the rate things are going someday they might require a car with a second seat and a passenger. I doubt they'll ever tow your boat but the technology could possibly be used for a 2-seater daily driver running entirely on solar in the next 10-20 years.
However I still think this "world record" is bogus. Obviously those cars that averaged 102+ km/h over a 3,021 km course did that without running on batteries the whole time so those vehicles should be world's fastest.
I thought the fastest was 105mph
"Unexplained things happen every so often, which don't really phase me as a seasoned computer user, but would drive my mom bats."
And this is exactly why I ended up with an iPhone.
It started simply enough, I bought a Motorola Q. Worse... Phone... Ever. Crashed often and nothing worked on it because while it ran Windows Mobile the Q didn't have a touchscreen so I'd have to search for special Windows Mobile programs that didn't require touchscreen input and without a Windows Mobile app store that provided to be almost impossible.
This lead me to upgrade to a HTC Mogul, a touchscreen with sliding keyboard running Windows Mobile. That was better but finding good programs that didn't crash was difficult, there was no Windows Mobile store and it wasn't designed for fingers since it used a stylus.
Next came the BlackBerry Curve. Great phone, amazing email access (better than iPhone), but beyond email it didn't really do anything right, tiny buttons to dial with, phone was slow, offered few apps and the decent apps were pretty expensive ($5-$10+) and there were almost no free apps or demos.
Enter the iPhone. Required a carrier switch but that ended up being a good thing since AT&T turned out to be much better than my previous provider. iOS was amazing, no more crashing, phone functionality was much better than Windows Mobile or Blackberry, and navigation was much easier. Tons of great apps for cheap (99 cents) or free, and most of the paid for apps offer free demos. App store allows real user reviews.
Really it's the apps that make the difference with the iPhone. There's currently over 300,000 apps, 63 from EA and even classics like Final Fantasy made by Square Enix. Android just don't have the pull iOS does to bring the big names to the table. I don't care if the iPhone's CPU is 600mhz or 1000mhz, I bought a smartphone for apps, not to brag about my cpu speed.
I have a feeling as soon as the iPhone shows up on Verizon we're going to see a 10% jump or higher. I also think price has a lot to do with it: most the people I know buying Android did so because Android is free while iPhones are $200+, there has never been a free iPhone with contract. But the 3GS is now only $50 so we'll see if that helps, and I know some people are saying "that's the old one, I want the iPhone 4!" but I guess they forgot about the reception issues. I'd buy a 3GS or wait for iPhone 4GS.