They tried something similar with Divx and found their customer base wasn't there. So having tried innovation and market appeal they fall back to their normal business model -- legislation.
No. As long as you leave a credit card on file or pay in advance they're all pretty accommodating. Most will turn down the covers at night, leave chocolate on the pillows and bring clean towels in the morning. The Canadians sighed a bit more than usual in the '60s when a bunch of unwashed draft dodgers showed up but even then they didn't ask many questions.
There's another group of people who prefer the OTA signal: those of us who like quality of broadcast HD more than the over-compressed signal coming from the cable companies. And let's not forget those of us who don't want to pay for premium service that has as many commercials as the advertising-sponsored OTA broadcast of the same show.
Sure, there are some folks out there who don't understand the issues and might complain. But there are groups who not only understand the issues but have made conscious decisions to eschew cable, dish and IPTV-subscription services (e.g., U-Verse) in favor of OTA, DVDs, internet-based VOD or some combination of the three.
They aren't native and unfortunately in Texas there aren't any natural predators to the fire ant (such as the ant eater).
Not true. We have Spectracide. Spectracide includes petrochemicals. Texas has oil which we process into industrial chemicals to make Spectracide. We take the Spectracide out the backdoor and pour it on the ground where the worker fire ants pick it up and feed it to the queen. Colony gone.
So Texans are natural predators to fire ants. Fire ants and liberal carpet baggers that is.
So, we went from $250M/year in sales to $25M/year in sales in 12 months. Our division was decimated. I have never seen anything, short of last Octobers stock market, fall so hard and so fast.
This isn't a dig at you. You're using decimate the way most people understand it. Nevertheless, the word we really need to describe a drop by 90 percent is nonumate from the non-existent Latin nonumare.
Go ahead, centesimate me as a lesson to others for my off-topic reply.;-)
The Dr and Rose appear on a spaceship cunningly disguised as a planet only to find there's a mysterious disease that's killing spectacularly low numbers of people who all happen to live in the same city. Normally he wouldn't worry about it but Rose manages to get infected so the Dr raises the threat level to OMG. He works night and day to find a cure only to be forced to infect himself, die from the disease, but not really as his seemingly magic, but really explainable in materialistic terms, Time Lord powers cause him to regenerate in the form of Tom Baker.
He draws some of his own blood with his sonic screwdriver and, treats Rose, who makes a full recovery. As a gesture of good will, and for the episode to end on a relative high note (despite Tom Baker's haggard appearance), he takes the TARDIS into a low "earth" orbit and sprays the serum into the jet stream, thus curing and inoculating most of the world. The Dr and Rose leave for better times.
Just moments later the Vogons appear and destroy the world to make way for hyperspace bypass.
"fair use," a not clearly defined defense, meaning you get sued and have to prove you didn't infringe. Copyright holders got life + 50 years and no need to file.
Imagine living in L.A. or San Francisco with no electricity for a week.
Good point but not big enough. Immediately following Hurricane Ike most of Houston and surrounding the area were without electricity. Large swaths of the city were without electricity for a week. Many areas for more than a week. Some for several weeks. It was a pain but we got through it.
We got through it, though, because Austin, Dallas and other nearby cities still had functioning infrastructure. Many people evacuated to those cities but more importantly, because of they were functioning and because businesses like Home Depot, HEB and Wal-Mart could pre-stage trucks in those cities, critical supplies could still get here...including gasoline which many, though still a very small percentage, used to run home generators.
You need to talk in terms of the entire west coast and perhaps most of the southwest shutting down to really be talking catastrophe that would make living in LA or SF truly unbearable.
I'm quite happy with the current system, warts and all -- we pay the journals to do the insanely laborious task of filtering through all the submissions and providing us with a reasonable subset that represent (with some measurement error) the most salient works.
Which also means that if the journal in question has turned into an echo chamber or more simply isn't sufficiently open to new ideas then good, new but different research is overlooked because it doesn't meet the current criteria for "good, new research". Which means we have to find it ourselves, rely on the reviews and recommendations of others at open access sites or both.
I'm not ready to scrap the peer-review publication process but the current system allowing the journal publishers to retain exclusive control of publication of the research for what often amounts to the life of the copyright is too high a price to pay for their services. Open Access requirements are a case of the pendulum swinging the opposite way to correct a situation in which too much of the value of research publication had accreted to the benefit of publishers.
We'll eventually find our way back to a middle ground that will likely look a lot like what NIH require. And that will be good for all of us.
This *is* slashdot. You can pretend to be anything you want -- including a geek -- while working your day job. God knows most of us pretend to be lawyers while we're coding.
The aforementioned wikipedia article explains it ingreater detail:
According to Every Vote Equal, although Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution requires interstate compacts receive the consent of Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in Virginia v. Tennessee, 148 U.S. 503 (1893), and several more recent cases, that such consent is not necessary except where a compact encroaches on federal supremacy.[44]
Some legal scholars and experts, however, believe that the NPVIC would impact the federal system in such a way that it requires Congressional approval. For example, Derek Muller argues that the compact affects non-compacting states in that it takes away their right to allocate their electors as they see fit (more precisely, it makes their allocation meaningless), and that it is therefore unconstitutional without the consent of Congress.[45] Constitutionality
Wiring a room to support it could easily cost $300 (you still need atleast one network drop to the room, and mount the transmitter).
Sure, but only until they release the 802.11n-enabled light emitters. Then you'll be able to backhaul the data using another band of the EM spectrum thus preserving the wireless nature of the technology.
Of course they'll have to encrypt the radio transmissions to keep the data secure end to end.
Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah." --Monty Python: Four Yorkshiremen
Been waiting all of 2 years and change for your precious bug fix, 'ave you? You almost had my eyes tearing up there I tell ya: 25 Year Old BSD Bug.
Anyone on/. who finds this surprising should hand in their geek cards. How many admins out there have told users to reboot when they came kvetching about network being slow? Or told them to resend that lost email? It's really just helping people manage the day-to-day quirks of life.
We even have our own hypochondriacs and an analog to prescribing an unneeded antibiotic when users complain about insufficient disk space. A BOFH first offers self help: "try deleting some unused files". And then when annoyed, responds with:
# cd ~$complainer/random_dir # rm -Rf * There you go. 500MB free.
And let's not forget that like most admins, doctors have a god complex. Nope, not much difference between IT admins and doctors.
Perhaps he also missed section 10 of the Constitution:
Article. V. - Amendment
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
IOW, there are tools for regulating civilian use and ownership of handguns: amend the Constitution. We've done it before on other issues where the states or the Federal government needed authority it didn't already have, e.g., income taxation (16th Amendment), or to remind the States that certain rights may not be infringed or abridged, e.g., voting (15th and 19th Amendments).
Good point and while this is a Linux-related thread, those of us who run OpenBSD or some other free OS only have this option for sending a message: "We want reliable hardware with open-spec components so we can use them as we want."
You'll hear your mother or someone from the older generation talk about the dangers of chemicals.
You don't know my mother. The woman's a walking advertisement for modern pharmacology and never met a chemical cleaning substance she wouldn't use to clean, sanitize or remove varnish with.
I prefer a broadband connection at home and a combination of T-Mobile's hotspot service and free wifi for when I'm out. If you're a T-Mo customer and don't need everywhere connectivity, it's a nice solution. T-Mobile's Hotspot service is available at Starbucks, Borders Books, Kinkos and a lot of Airports for an extra $20/month in the US. They also have roaming agreements in Europe with companies like Vodafone Orange.
There are also a number of places, like Panera and many public libraries, that have free wifi for those times when you a) just can't stomach another carmel machiatto, or b) can't find one. Try a wifi locator to find places in your city. I just found out all the Hooters here in Texas have free wifi. Why am I not surprised.;-)
With the recent announcement that AT&T is taking over the hotspots at Starbucks ADSL from AT&T will give you free access at Starbucks, that is if you can live with AT&T and their supposed monitoring agreement with the NSA. If you're a T-Mo customer you'll still be able to use Starbucks since they just announced that an agreement with AT&T that lets their customers continue to use the Starbucks hotspots.
You said you and your wife are out a lot. If you have a choice as to where you're out to, then keep the broadband at home. If you're a consultant who's in a different office or hotel every day of the week, then the 3G cards makes more sense. I still wouldn't sacrifice the home broadband either way.
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Thanks for that! This tip solves 98% of my reluctance to use vi (it works in regular vi as well -- at least vi on OpenBSD). Why is the esc key so far away on most keyboards?
Like others around here I found the $400 price tag a bit steep but after thinking about it decided that for the wireless access and being able to carry multiple books with me it might work. While carrying literature with me is nice I also want to be able to carry reference books as well, or a book on whatever topic I'm studying. So, what's available? Lots of stuff. Checkout the Kindle library. 91,000+ books! Wow!
Now, start browsing. Yes, New-York-Times bestsellers are $9.99 or lower. Sadly few of the books in the Computers and Internet section are significantly cheaper than the physical versions: Fred Brook's Mythical Man Month - $25.91 in eBook format. Martin Fowler's Refactoring - $35.87. Joshua Block's Effective Java - $39.99. To be fair, not all computer-science books cost that much but $25+ for an eBook is too much for me.
So while the overall selection is good and the prices on a lot of large-print-run books are great, it looks to me like the publishers are sticking with the view that books with low print runs must be priced higher, even when electronic. Too bad. I was hoping Amazon eBooks would let me carry more of the stuff that interests me beyond literature.
According to our account manager at RackSpace they do have multiple power lines coming in. When the transformer was damaged everything, including the chillers, seamlessly switched over to the generators. Once all that was working RS moved two of their chillers over to the redundant power line. The local power company then cut power to that line.
According to RS, even though that line was separate from the transformer the power company had to shutdown power to it to safely remove the driver of the truck from truck/power-supply mess. The chillers went down, and has other have noted, the chillers can't be restarted multiple times sequentially. They had to be allowed to reset. In that time heat was escalating fast. Their only choice was to begin taking down servers.
Obviously the decision to move the two chillers over to the secondary power line was premature, but in all likelihood the techs in the building didn't know the power company was going to cut the other power line. Sadly they got caught in an almost "perfect storm" of events.
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You got the gist of the quote but the original is much better. And it came from Ben Franklin.
They tried something similar with Divx and found their customer base wasn't there. So having tried innovation and market appeal they fall back to their normal business model -- legislation.
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No. As long as you leave a credit card on file or pay in advance they're all pretty accommodating. Most will turn down the covers at night, leave chocolate on the pillows and bring clean towels in the morning. The Canadians sighed a bit more than usual in the '60s when a bunch of unwashed draft dodgers showed up but even then they didn't ask many questions.
What he should have written instead of "Well-designed market..." is "Markets free from government intervention..."
There's another group of people who prefer the OTA signal: those of us who like quality of broadcast HD more than the over-compressed signal coming from the cable companies. And let's not forget those of us who don't want to pay for premium service that has as many commercials as the advertising-sponsored OTA broadcast of the same show.
Sure, there are some folks out there who don't understand the issues and might complain. But there are groups who not only understand the issues but have made conscious decisions to eschew cable, dish and IPTV-subscription services (e.g., U-Verse) in favor of OTA, DVDs, internet-based VOD or some combination of the three.
Not true. We have Spectracide. Spectracide includes petrochemicals. Texas has oil which we process into industrial chemicals to make Spectracide. We take the Spectracide out the backdoor and pour it on the ground where the worker fire ants pick it up and feed it to the queen. Colony gone.
So Texans are natural predators to fire ants. Fire ants and liberal carpet baggers that is.
This isn't a dig at you. You're using decimate the way most people understand it. Nevertheless, the word we really need to describe a drop by 90 percent is nonumate from the non-existent Latin nonumare.
Go ahead, centesimate me as a lesson to others for my off-topic reply. ;-)
The Dr and Rose appear on a spaceship cunningly disguised as a planet only to find there's a mysterious disease that's killing spectacularly low numbers of people who all happen to live in the same city. Normally he wouldn't worry about it but Rose manages to get infected so the Dr raises the threat level to OMG. He works night and day to find a cure only to be forced to infect himself, die from the disease, but not really as his seemingly magic, but really explainable in materialistic terms, Time Lord powers cause him to regenerate in the form of Tom Baker.
He draws some of his own blood with his sonic screwdriver and, treats Rose, who makes a full recovery. As a gesture of good will, and for the episode to end on a relative high note (despite Tom Baker's haggard appearance), he takes the TARDIS into a low "earth" orbit and sprays the serum into the jet stream, thus curing and inoculating most of the world. The Dr and Rose leave for better times.
Just moments later the Vogons appear and destroy the world to make way for hyperspace bypass.
"fair use," a not clearly defined defense, meaning you get sued and have to prove you didn't infringe. Copyright holders got life + 50 years and no need to file.
Faust got a better deal.
Good point but not big enough. Immediately following Hurricane Ike most of Houston and surrounding the area were without electricity. Large swaths of the city were without electricity for a week. Many areas for more than a week. Some for several weeks. It was a pain but we got through it.
We got through it, though, because Austin, Dallas and other nearby cities still had functioning infrastructure. Many people evacuated to those cities but more importantly, because of they were functioning and because businesses like Home Depot, HEB and Wal-Mart could pre-stage trucks in those cities, critical supplies could still get here...including gasoline which many, though still a very small percentage, used to run home generators.
You need to talk in terms of the entire west coast and perhaps most of the southwest shutting down to really be talking catastrophe that would make living in LA or SF truly unbearable.
Which also means that if the journal in question has turned into an echo chamber or more simply isn't sufficiently open to new ideas then good, new but different research is overlooked because it doesn't meet the current criteria for "good, new research". Which means we have to find it ourselves, rely on the reviews and recommendations of others at open access sites or both.
I'm not ready to scrap the peer-review publication process but the current system allowing the journal publishers to retain exclusive control of publication of the research for what often amounts to the life of the copyright is too high a price to pay for their services. Open Access requirements are a case of the pendulum swinging the opposite way to correct a situation in which too much of the value of research publication had accreted to the benefit of publishers.
We'll eventually find our way back to a middle ground that will likely look a lot like what NIH require. And that will be good for all of us.
This *is* slashdot. You can pretend to be anything you want -- including a geek -- while working your day job. God knows most of us pretend to be lawyers while we're coding.
Sure, but only until they release the 802.11n-enabled light emitters. Then you'll be able to backhaul the data using another band of the EM spectrum thus preserving the wireless nature of the technology.
Of course they'll have to encrypt the radio transmissions to keep the data secure end to end.
Been waiting all of 2 years and change for your precious bug fix, 'ave you? You almost had my eyes tearing up there I tell ya: 25 Year Old BSD Bug.
Anyone on /. who finds this surprising should hand in their geek cards. How many admins out there have told users to reboot when they came kvetching about network being slow? Or told them to resend that lost email? It's really just helping people manage the day-to-day quirks of life.
We even have our own hypochondriacs and an analog to prescribing an unneeded antibiotic when users complain about insufficient disk space. A BOFH first offers self help: "try deleting some unused files". And then when annoyed, responds with:
And let's not forget that like most admins, doctors have a god complex. Nope, not much difference between IT admins and doctors.
IOW, there are tools for regulating civilian use and ownership of handguns: amend the Constitution. We've done it before on other issues where the states or the Federal government needed authority it didn't already have, e.g., income taxation (16th Amendment), or to remind the States that certain rights may not be infringed or abridged, e.g., voting (15th and 19th Amendments).
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Article5Sweet!
Good point and while this is a Linux-related thread, those of us who run OpenBSD or some other free OS only have this option for sending a message: "We want reliable hardware with open-spec components so we can use them as we want."
I prefer a broadband connection at home and a combination of T-Mobile's hotspot service and free wifi for when I'm out. If you're a T-Mo customer and don't need everywhere connectivity, it's a nice solution. T-Mobile's Hotspot service is available at Starbucks, Borders Books, Kinkos and a lot of Airports for an extra $20/month in the US. They also have roaming agreements in Europe with companies like Vodafone Orange.
There are also a number of places, like Panera and many public libraries, that have free wifi for those times when you a) just can't stomach another carmel machiatto, or b) can't find one. Try a wifi locator to find places in your city. I just found out all the Hooters here in Texas have free wifi. Why am I not surprised. ;-)
With the recent announcement that AT&T is taking over the hotspots at Starbucks ADSL from AT&T will give you free access at Starbucks, that is if you can live with AT&T and their supposed monitoring agreement with the NSA. If you're a T-Mo customer you'll still be able to use Starbucks since they just announced that an agreement with AT&T that lets their customers continue to use the Starbucks hotspots.
You said you and your wife are out a lot. If you have a choice as to where you're out to, then keep the broadband at home. If you're a consultant who's in a different office or hotel every day of the week, then the 3G cards makes more sense. I still wouldn't sacrifice the home broadband either way.
Thanks for that! This tip solves 98% of my reluctance to use vi (it works in regular vi as well -- at least vi on OpenBSD). Why is the esc key so far away on most keyboards?
Now, start browsing. Yes, New-York-Times bestsellers are $9.99 or lower. Sadly few of the books in the Computers and Internet section are significantly cheaper than the physical versions: Fred Brook's Mythical Man Month - $25.91 in eBook format. Martin Fowler's Refactoring - $35.87. Joshua Block's Effective Java - $39.99. To be fair, not all computer-science books cost that much but $25+ for an eBook is too much for me.
So while the overall selection is good and the prices on a lot of large-print-run books are great, it looks to me like the publishers are sticking with the view that books with low print runs must be priced higher, even when electronic. Too bad. I was hoping Amazon eBooks would let me carry more of the stuff that interests me beyond literature.
According to our account manager at RackSpace they do have multiple power lines coming in. When the transformer was damaged everything, including the chillers, seamlessly switched over to the generators. Once all that was working RS moved two of their chillers over to the redundant power line. The local power company then cut power to that line.
According to RS, even though that line was separate from the transformer the power company had to shutdown power to it to safely remove the driver of the truck from truck/power-supply mess. The chillers went down, and has other have noted, the chillers can't be restarted multiple times sequentially. They had to be allowed to reset. In that time heat was escalating fast. Their only choice was to begin taking down servers.
Obviously the decision to move the two chillers over to the secondary power line was premature, but in all likelihood the techs in the building didn't know the power company was going to cut the other power line. Sadly they got caught in an almost "perfect storm" of events.