As soon as they try to screw with prices, people drop satellite. I will at the drop of a hat even though I really like it, I won't let them gouge me like cable. My phone can stream from home with Orb or tune Internet radio so I'm definitely not going to be pushed around. With HD radio, at least there's competition in audio quality, but 'll never go back to terrestrial radio again, it's just awful anymore.
Too high in the 1980's? Explain how a $1500 stock Intel machine with a $130 OS is sold for $2800 with no monitor and only a 90-day warranty? That must be some fancy case.
And please, don't use the old "engineering/construction/R&D cost a lot" line, they don't cost $1000 per tower. And most of the R&D is OS X, and it supposedly only costs $130. The problem with vendor lock-in is you're giving them control of prices, and they're running with it. An iPhone sells for twice the cost to make it, that's highway robbery (and really points out who the sucker in the room is).
People could force them to sell for more reasonable prices by GASP! not buying Apple stuff for a while. But they won't, they'll lap it up and Steve will laugh all the way to the bank.
You're cute. You think anyone is going to sink enough money back into a format that just died to bring it back?
You seem to think Sony somehow controls Blu Ray like it's a proprietary format, they don't and it isn't. If HD DVD had won, you wouldn't have been running around yelling how "Toshiba is controlling our movies!!!!" Sony doesn't dictate the price of movies, you know how I know this? No other movie studio would have ever backed BD if Sony got to control their prices.
Take the tinfoil off you moron. All you're seeing is retailers not selling discs and players at a loss anymore. It would have happened with HD DVD too.
That's exactly what happens. You sure can get a great job at Google, but don't expect to work 9 to 5 and go home at the end of the day. You'll be working more like 7 to 6, you get your free breakfast and dinner, and then take some work home to get in a few more hours in before bed.
It's not that they force this upon you at all, they just hire people who love working... a lot. So, if you're not looking for 70-80 hours every week, you might need to shoot a bit lower than "high 5 figures" with a BS straight out of college. It can happen, but it's the exception not the rule by any means.
Screw the auction debt, do you have any idea what it will cost to build out a network for a company that doesn't own a LEC or a backbone? Google would have been crazy to buy that spectrum. It's an economy of scale, Verizon and AT&T own most of the T1's in the US, Google owns approximately zero. So they would have to pay VT&T regardless, so why take on a network build cost, on top of renting T1's, on top of hiring out field engineers, on top of renting tower space? Just let the telcos do the grunt work for you.
If a company shows me "employer loyalty" I would worry about "employee loyalty."
In a time where pensions are being taken away or just non-existent, I think any mention of loyalty should be shot right back in the face of every single corporation so they can eat their own words. I feel insulted that anyone should be expected to care about loyalty when employees are treated as disposable work machines.
You reap what you sow. Faceless corporate America, it's called turnover, it's expensive, and you can just deal with it. My 401k follows me wherever I go, so you'll have to work a bit harder managing something competently or at least offer a compelling reason to stay. Look at it this way, if I leave for a higher salary, roll over my 401k, I win and you lose. If you give me a reasonable retirement plan that I lose if I leave the company and you owe me anyway if you fire me, well then that's something to think about if I have another offer. The way things are, salary and benefits win since you're not willing to do what's needed to keep people from leaving and I'm on my own for retirement. Which makes turning a bad company around even harder because your best people will have the easiest time leaving and you're left with people that are stuck there who probably aren't the best people to turn to in crunch time. But you only really look at the stock price, so layoff another 5% because it takes operating expenses off this quarter's report to the stock holders.
Those other things are true of a lot of IT workers, but the hand holding and disrespect is true of lots of people outside the IT industry as well.
Does IT make the company money? No, not a dime, they're a money sink-hole like electricity and phones. They don't call the shots just like the maintenance man doesn't call the shots. IT departments need to be enablers.
When IT crosses the line from preventing you from installing tons of crap on your desktop to killing the rollout of a platform that generates revenue, someone in management should have been fired on the spot, no questions asked. IT should never dictate a product, only internal policy.
"The other major handset maker -- Apple -- doesn't support Flash on the iPhone and has no plans to do so in the near future."
Since when did the tiny install base of a closed platform start competing with Windows Mobile, S60 or RIM? This is just stupid. The iPhone will never be a major player for businesses as long as Emperor Jobs keeps the platform locked down. It can't even multitask.
"after decades of mobile phones, why do we even still have dropped calls?"
This is just stupid. A dropped call is not the network, it's your phone losing the network. There is absolutely no way to avoid them, none. RF only travels so far and through so many things. I completely understand the article and its merit, but this is just the author being ignorant of their subject or scoring sensationalist points with uninformed readers.
Someone explain to me how a company could possibly cover the entire US, and I mean Wyoming and Montana too (if you want zero dropped calls). Then there the fact that Americans will take a $0 junk heap of a phone with a contract and hope that it will perform well.
Would be saved by turning into what satellite radio already is. Until they cut the commercials, stop censoring music, and get some variety they will continue to watch their audience get smaller.
Ha, ha, Bill Gates [money quantity statement] and [someting about Windows] and then [something about Window's reputation]. Man, that's hilarious. Maybe he should [do something that Jobs has done] or even [clever Linux reference].
Have you heard the one about 640k or a broken CD-ROM cupholder yet? Those are a gas.
Over half of the launch titles are sequels or updated sports titles, I guess your definition of quality means better eye candy. My definition is innovative gameplay, not better tackling animations or race cars that show damage or a new better looking shotgun.
In a few years, you'll get tired of the "Hollywood" flash-over-substance model and you'll say the same thing. But hey, enjoy your underclocked Radeon and the avalanche of sequels at $60/each.
The slimserver is free to download, and so is softsqueeze (bundled with the server). You can run softsqueeze in a browser or as it's own program. It's a Java applet, so it runs on all platforms.
The softsqueeze is basically an emulator of the actual hardware, but not quite as cool. It has SSH tunneling built into the software so you can use it at work very easily. The streaming is very well done so the bandwidth requirements aren't bad at all.
I love this stuff and I don't own any of the hardware.
"The digital camera device, just like iPod and Bluetooth, is a simple digital storage devices."
Just like iPod? You mean an iPod?
Just like Bluetooth? When the hell did Bluetooth become a device?
Is a simple digital storage devices?
Where do these writers come from? College would be a good first stop. Maybe you should stop trying to sound like you know what you're talking about and do some background reading. I'll go check Internet for more stories, or maybe use the Google. Fucking morons.
I would comment on your rampant stupidity but it's obvious that you're a Mac fanboy, and completely immune to facts or reality in any way. You're like the Christians of the computer world.
For god's sake, yes../ we are all now responsible for spreading a new term "infected with DRM." A bad publicity spin is a better way to combat DRM than actaully explaing it to Joe Sixpack. The word infected implies that it's bad, christ I've met people who think viruses are like human viruses (no one makes them they just happen). Leave the tech speak at home, just dumb it down to three words: infected with DRM.
Why do you want to spend all of this money on something like this when the condition of the highways in MO is extremely poor at best. This is a state where road work is 99.9% asphalt patches and 0.1% repaving horrible roads.
As for sophisticated math, 1 car + 1 car + 1 car = 3 cars. That's as good as MO ever got at math anyway.
You can put your tinfoil hats away too, if a private company is doing this there's no way cell providers are going to let them find out what name goes to what number. All they'll end up doing is picking out how many individual signals they pick up over time. Or they could use a lot less money and put those black hose wheel counters down and count the exact traffic volume, or guess using some made-up cell phone calls per car theory, but that would leave spare budget to actually fix a street from time to time.
$2.50 is the charge to buy music over-the-air from Sprint. The phone, which is EVDO capable (think DSL speed), uses SD cards that you can put music on yourself.
And you can use headphones, WTF would you consider using the phone's internal speaker or be stupid enough to think that's how you're supposed to use it? I thought the/. crowd was smart enough to look twice.
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I hope you don't take the comments posted on/. as the F/OSS community's actual opinion. Plus, it's not like the "public" actually reads this site, and by public I mean people who have no idea what OSS is or what the point is.
Oh, and just diable java in OO, that fixes the load times. It's not OO's fault, blame Sun. You will lose the ability to run Java applets in you word processor, but who the crap asked for that feature?
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As soon as they try to screw with prices, people drop satellite. I will at the drop of a hat even though I really like it, I won't let them gouge me like cable. My phone can stream from home with Orb or tune Internet radio so I'm definitely not going to be pushed around. With HD radio, at least there's competition in audio quality, but 'll never go back to terrestrial radio again, it's just awful anymore.
Too high in the 1980's? Explain how a $1500 stock Intel machine with a $130 OS is sold for $2800 with no monitor and only a 90-day warranty? That must be some fancy case. And please, don't use the old "engineering/construction/R&D cost a lot" line, they don't cost $1000 per tower. And most of the R&D is OS X, and it supposedly only costs $130. The problem with vendor lock-in is you're giving them control of prices, and they're running with it. An iPhone sells for twice the cost to make it, that's highway robbery (and really points out who the sucker in the room is). People could force them to sell for more reasonable prices by GASP! not buying Apple stuff for a while. But they won't, they'll lap it up and Steve will laugh all the way to the bank.
You're cute. You think anyone is going to sink enough money back into a format that just died to bring it back? You seem to think Sony somehow controls Blu Ray like it's a proprietary format, they don't and it isn't. If HD DVD had won, you wouldn't have been running around yelling how "Toshiba is controlling our movies!!!!" Sony doesn't dictate the price of movies, you know how I know this? No other movie studio would have ever backed BD if Sony got to control their prices. Take the tinfoil off you moron. All you're seeing is retailers not selling discs and players at a loss anymore. It would have happened with HD DVD too.
That's exactly what happens. You sure can get a great job at Google, but don't expect to work 9 to 5 and go home at the end of the day. You'll be working more like 7 to 6, you get your free breakfast and dinner, and then take some work home to get in a few more hours in before bed. It's not that they force this upon you at all, they just hire people who love working... a lot. So, if you're not looking for 70-80 hours every week, you might need to shoot a bit lower than "high 5 figures" with a BS straight out of college. It can happen, but it's the exception not the rule by any means.
Screw the auction debt, do you have any idea what it will cost to build out a network for a company that doesn't own a LEC or a backbone? Google would have been crazy to buy that spectrum. It's an economy of scale, Verizon and AT&T own most of the T1's in the US, Google owns approximately zero. So they would have to pay VT&T regardless, so why take on a network build cost, on top of renting T1's, on top of hiring out field engineers, on top of renting tower space? Just let the telcos do the grunt work for you.
Boohoo. I guess you can make yourself feel better in your 3 hours of spare time every week rolling in money you made off other peoples' talent.
If a company shows me "employer loyalty" I would worry about "employee loyalty." In a time where pensions are being taken away or just non-existent, I think any mention of loyalty should be shot right back in the face of every single corporation so they can eat their own words. I feel insulted that anyone should be expected to care about loyalty when employees are treated as disposable work machines. You reap what you sow. Faceless corporate America, it's called turnover, it's expensive, and you can just deal with it. My 401k follows me wherever I go, so you'll have to work a bit harder managing something competently or at least offer a compelling reason to stay. Look at it this way, if I leave for a higher salary, roll over my 401k, I win and you lose. If you give me a reasonable retirement plan that I lose if I leave the company and you owe me anyway if you fire me, well then that's something to think about if I have another offer. The way things are, salary and benefits win since you're not willing to do what's needed to keep people from leaving and I'm on my own for retirement. Which makes turning a bad company around even harder because your best people will have the easiest time leaving and you're left with people that are stuck there who probably aren't the best people to turn to in crunch time. But you only really look at the stock price, so layoff another 5% because it takes operating expenses off this quarter's report to the stock holders. Those other things are true of a lot of IT workers, but the hand holding and disrespect is true of lots of people outside the IT industry as well.
It is not your music when it's encrypted with their DRM.
Does IT make the company money? No, not a dime, they're a money sink-hole like electricity and phones. They don't call the shots just like the maintenance man doesn't call the shots. IT departments need to be enablers. When IT crosses the line from preventing you from installing tons of crap on your desktop to killing the rollout of a platform that generates revenue, someone in management should have been fired on the spot, no questions asked. IT should never dictate a product, only internal policy.
"The other major handset maker -- Apple -- doesn't support Flash on the iPhone and has no plans to do so in the near future." Since when did the tiny install base of a closed platform start competing with Windows Mobile, S60 or RIM? This is just stupid. The iPhone will never be a major player for businesses as long as Emperor Jobs keeps the platform locked down. It can't even multitask.
Slashdot the phones over at GoDaddy.
"after decades of mobile phones, why do we even still have dropped calls?" This is just stupid. A dropped call is not the network, it's your phone losing the network. There is absolutely no way to avoid them, none. RF only travels so far and through so many things. I completely understand the article and its merit, but this is just the author being ignorant of their subject or scoring sensationalist points with uninformed readers. Someone explain to me how a company could possibly cover the entire US, and I mean Wyoming and Montana too (if you want zero dropped calls). Then there the fact that Americans will take a $0 junk heap of a phone with a contract and hope that it will perform well.
Would be saved by turning into what satellite radio already is. Until they cut the commercials, stop censoring music, and get some variety they will continue to watch their audience get smaller.
Ha, ha, Bill Gates [money quantity statement] and [someting about Windows] and then [something about Window's reputation]. Man, that's hilarious. Maybe he should [do something that Jobs has done] or even [clever Linux reference].
Have you heard the one about 640k or a broken CD-ROM cupholder yet? Those are a gas.
You mean ask a History major, right?
Over half of the launch titles are sequels or updated sports titles, I guess your definition of quality means better eye candy. My definition is innovative gameplay, not better tackling animations or race cars that show damage or a new better looking shotgun.
In a few years, you'll get tired of the "Hollywood" flash-over-substance model and you'll say the same thing. But hey, enjoy your underclocked Radeon and the avalanche of sequels at $60/each.
The slimserver is free to download, and so is softsqueeze (bundled with the server). You can run softsqueeze in a browser or as it's own program. It's a Java applet, so it runs on all platforms.
The softsqueeze is basically an emulator of the actual hardware, but not quite as cool. It has SSH tunneling built into the software so you can use it at work very easily. The streaming is very well done so the bandwidth requirements aren't bad at all.
I love this stuff and I don't own any of the hardware.
"The digital camera device, just like iPod and Bluetooth, is a simple digital storage devices."
Just like iPod? You mean an iPod?
Just like Bluetooth? When the hell did Bluetooth become a device?
Is a simple digital storage devices?
Where do these writers come from? College would be a good first stop. Maybe you should stop trying to sound like you know what you're talking about and do some background reading. I'll go check Internet for more stories, or maybe use the Google. Fucking morons.
I would comment on your rampant stupidity but it's obvious that you're a Mac fanboy, and completely immune to facts or reality in any way. You're like the Christians of the computer world.
Of course the sales will be slow:
1. Parents won't see a need to buy another X-box for $300-$400, when the current one looks just fine to them.
2. Half of the launch titles are sequels, remakes, or updated sports games. The others look like regular Xbox titles with better graphics.
3. The PS2 will drop to $99 very soon.
For god's sake, yes. ./ we are all now responsible for spreading a new term "infected with DRM." A bad publicity spin is a better way to combat DRM than actaully explaing it to Joe Sixpack. The word infected implies that it's bad, christ I've met people who think viruses are like human viruses (no one makes them they just happen). Leave the tech speak at home, just dumb it down to three words: infected with DRM.
That these people think piracy is where they should spend their money. I would start by making a product worth buying.
Why do you want to spend all of this money on something like this when the condition of the highways in MO is extremely poor at best. This is a state where road work is 99.9% asphalt patches and 0.1% repaving horrible roads.
As for sophisticated math, 1 car + 1 car + 1 car = 3 cars. That's as good as MO ever got at math anyway.
You can put your tinfoil hats away too, if a private company is doing this there's no way cell providers are going to let them find out what name goes to what number. All they'll end up doing is picking out how many individual signals they pick up over time. Or they could use a lot less money and put those black hose wheel counters down and count the exact traffic volume, or guess using some made-up cell phone calls per car theory, but that would leave spare budget to actually fix a street from time to time.
$2.50 is the charge to buy music over-the-air from Sprint. The phone, which is EVDO capable (think DSL speed), uses SD cards that you can put music on yourself.
/. crowd was smart enough to look twice.
And you can use headphones, WTF would you consider using the phone's internal speaker or be stupid enough to think that's how you're supposed to use it? I thought the
I hope you don't take the comments posted on /. as the F/OSS community's actual opinion. Plus, it's not like the "public" actually reads this site, and by public I mean people who have no idea what OSS is or what the point is.
Oh, and just diable java in OO, that fixes the load times. It's not OO's fault, blame Sun. You will lose the ability to run Java applets in you word processor, but who the crap asked for that feature?