A few issues:
If the stations are a mile apart, then that means that the maximum distance to a station is 1/2 mile, not 2 miles. The average distance would be even lower than that. While i'm a little skeptical of their ability to do this in any major city, that would be sufficient to replace taxis for all but the most urgent applications.
I agree that buses are more economical to install, but look at their quoted operating costs. After a while they'll pay for themselves relative to buses.
Come on. I could pull a more esoteric website than this out of my large intestine. This is obviously some university biology website. You're surprised that there's a website on the functions and anatomy of the large intestine? have you ever seen Rotten.com?
This assumes that all the machines in GP's environment are exactly the same. This also assumes that he wants to ghost all the machines himself. In his original post, he mentioned being able to show others how to install Fedora.
Is this really a troll? offtopic maybe, but did whoever moderated it as troll even read it? It's partially in jest but there are some interesting facts contained in it. i'd like this to be read by others. Please moderate underrated.
The only way to do that is to produce exact copies of the original CD or DVD, but such copies are a rarity on the P2P networks.
I disagree. Exact DVD copies are all over Emule and Bittorrent. Check out Suprnova. Right now there are two dvd iso torrents on the front page, and countless more on the movies page. It's becoming feasable to send uncompressed DVDs around the internet. Granted this cannot be done with movies that are newly out, but it's pretty scary fron the movie industry's viewpoint that even a casual pirate can reproduce exactly what they're selling - for free.
Once Firefox reaches a critical mass, it will too have these problems.
As of 1.0PR, firefox will only install software from update.mozilla.org. Also, even if malware authors find a way to circumvent this, firefox has an active development team, and is actually devoted to fixing these kind of problems. I believe the next version of IE won't even be available to users of any windows' but XP.
eh, i didn't really read your post. I failed to realize that you were talking about applications. i retract anything negative. mods, feel free to blast me into oblivion.
The discussion is not about emulation. That is already possible, albeit, as you state, very slow. This is about the fanciful and rediculous hypothetical situation in which microsoft decided to release a version of windows that ran on PPC, i.e. the binaries would be compiled for macs. This would be fairly trivial if you had the source, but will never happen
Bell's has a beer called java stout. As with every bell's, it is fantastic, if a little heavy. It tastes like about half coffee. They also have a porter called mocha porter that does not have coffee in it, but tastes like it. Anyone in the midwest who has not tried bell's, you're missing out on a fantastic beermaker.
What's the big deal? They disabled the ability to use the pre-installed chipset as an access point. This is just a cheap, consumer grade chipset for people who want wireless to come with the laptop they buy. anyone who needs to use their laptop as an access point will know about this and buy a different laptop, or just use a different Wifi card.
Our analysis has proved that though Media Center Edition 2004 is a boxed package that is easy to set up and configure, it looks amazingly beautiful, has great features such as On-Demand content, and is fully supported by Microsoft. However, for the enthusiast, MythTV takes the gold for its greater support for a variety of hardware and software codecs.'"
So their review, which is nothing more than an opinion about these products, constitutes a proof? Their analysis didn't prove jack, except for the fact that Anandtech thinks a little highly of itself.
You should review the meaning of the terms "digital" and "random access". CDs are both.
WRONG. Random Access entails being able to access any location on the media In the same amount of time. Since CDs have a moving head containing the laser, and moving to the end of the cd takes more time than staying in one place, CDs are not at all random-access.
'colour' vs. 'colour' is a regional thing. It's spelled 'color' in the US. Since slashdot is so US-centric, your karma got burned because you went against the majority opinion on how that word should be spelled. However, 'visa versa' is just incorrect. There is a difference between pointing out misspellings, and complaining that your regional spellings are not used on an american website.
That's why so many people ignore all the free porn on the internet and pay for, essentially, a resolution upgrade. Speak for yourself, man. I want my porn as high res as possible.
What's wrong with including two authoratative sources in an article? MS is a software leader and Apple is (sort of) a hardware and software leader. MS cannot make any kind of authorative action to abandon floppy disks, besides to stop supporting the hardware, which is rediculous. I know I'm going to get modded down for this, but MS still has the lion's share of the OS market, and Bill Gates' opinion on these matters is at least somewhat relevant.
T-mobile offers unlimited data for 4.95, it's ok for email, but it's slow as balls browsing the web. Their customer service is also among the best i've dealt with. If you get good reception in your area, I highly reccomend them.
RTFA. According to Verizon's Corporate Handset Marketing person:
Q. Do you foresee that OBEX/OPP will be enabled anytime in the near future?
A. No.
They did not "release it before it was ready," they delibarately crippled features that are available, in order to increase their profits by selling you things that you now "need."
Heinlen knows how well that idea went. Everyone got pissed off and jealous and killed eachother. Then the bastard child of one of the illicit relationships was raised by martains.
A pirated copy of windows usually consists of a legitimate copy that is using a pitared key. it's not difficult to get the media, it's the keys that are distributed.
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A few issues: If the stations are a mile apart, then that means that the maximum distance to a station is 1/2 mile, not 2 miles. The average distance would be even lower than that. While i'm a little skeptical of their ability to do this in any major city, that would be sufficient to replace taxis for all but the most urgent applications.
I agree that buses are more economical to install, but look at their quoted operating costs. After a while they'll pay for themselves relative to buses.
Come on. I could pull a more esoteric website than this out of my large intestine. This is obviously some university biology website.
You're surprised that there's a website on the functions and anatomy of the large intestine? have you ever seen Rotten.com?
This assumes that all the machines in GP's environment are exactly the same. This also assumes that he wants to ghost all the machines himself. In his original post, he mentioned being able to show others how to install Fedora.
Is this really a troll? offtopic maybe, but did whoever moderated it as troll even read it? It's partially in jest but there are some interesting facts contained in it. i'd like this to be read by others. Please moderate underrated.
I disagree. Exact DVD copies are all over Emule and Bittorrent. Check out Suprnova. Right now there are two dvd iso torrents on the front page, and countless more on the movies page. It's becoming feasable to send uncompressed DVDs around the internet. Granted this cannot be done with movies that are newly out, but it's pretty scary fron the movie industry's viewpoint that even a casual pirate can reproduce exactly what they're selling - for free.
isn't groklaw devoted to sco stuff only? what does this have to do with sco?
As of 1.0PR, firefox will only install software from update.mozilla.org. Also, even if malware authors find a way to circumvent this, firefox has an active development team, and is actually devoted to fixing these kind of problems. I believe the next version of IE won't even be available to users of any windows' but XP.
That was grandparent's signature and was not related to the content of his post.
eh, i didn't really read your post. I failed to realize that you were talking about applications. i retract anything negative. mods, feel free to blast me into oblivion.
The discussion is not about emulation. That is already possible, albeit, as you state, very slow. This is about the fanciful and rediculous hypothetical situation in which microsoft decided to release a version of windows that ran on PPC, i.e. the binaries would be compiled for macs. This would be fairly trivial if you had the source, but will never happen
Bell's has a beer called java stout. As with every bell's, it is fantastic, if a little heavy. It tastes like about half coffee. They also have a porter called mocha porter that does not have coffee in it, but tastes like it. Anyone in the midwest who has not tried bell's, you're missing out on a fantastic beermaker.
What's the big deal? They disabled the ability to use the pre-installed chipset as an access point. This is just a cheap, consumer grade chipset for people who want wireless to come with the laptop they buy. anyone who needs to use their laptop as an access point will know about this and buy a different laptop, or just use a different Wifi card.
So their review, which is nothing more than an opinion about these products, constitutes a proof? Their analysis didn't prove jack, except for the fact that Anandtech thinks a little highly of itself.
WRONG. Random Access entails being able to access any location on the media In the same amount of time. Since CDs have a moving head containing the laser, and moving to the end of the cd takes more time than staying in one place, CDs are not at all random-access.
'colour' vs. 'colour' is a regional thing. It's spelled 'color' in the US. Since slashdot is so US-centric, your karma got burned because you went against the majority opinion on how that word should be spelled. However, 'visa versa' is just incorrect. There is a difference between pointing out misspellings, and complaining that your regional spellings are not used on an american website.
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That's why so many people ignore all the free porn on the internet and pay for, essentially, a resolution upgrade. Speak for yourself, man. I want my porn as high res as possible.
So the poison in her tea didn't work, then, eh?
I disagree. Many modern BIOSes allow you to boot from a usb flash drive
What's wrong with including two authoratative sources in an article? MS is a software leader and Apple is (sort of) a hardware and software leader. MS cannot make any kind of authorative action to abandon floppy disks, besides to stop supporting the hardware, which is rediculous. I know I'm going to get modded down for this, but MS still has the lion's share of the OS market, and Bill Gates' opinion on these matters is at least somewhat relevant.
T-mobile offers unlimited data for 4.95, it's ok for email, but it's slow as balls browsing the web. Their customer service is also among the best i've dealt with. If you get good reception in your area, I highly reccomend them.
Heinlen knows how well that idea went. Everyone got pissed off and jealous and killed eachother. Then the bastard child of one of the illicit relationships was raised by martains.
A pirated copy of windows usually consists of a legitimate copy that is using a pitared key. it's not difficult to get the media, it's the keys that are distributed.