This very same thing happened to me today. I showed someone OO.o and they are going home to download it *today*. I showed them Firefox and they are going to download it *now*. People want open source, but they don't know enough about it. And once they get used to it, they'll tell their friends who will tell their friends who will tell their friends. And these people are the ones who think Microsoft invented the computer.
It only seems right that FOSS should use open source advertising: word of mouth.
This man has it right. If they provide bad service and customer support individually it will only get worse when they merge. Case in point: AT&T says they're going to charge for roaming, since their network covers 95% of the US. Try getting your money back for living in the other 5% of the US and getting an AT&T phone because it offered free roaming. Just try.
1) We signed a contract for them to provide me with service. Yeah, it said they don't guarantee service indoors, but where the hell else am I going to use the phone? Right now I have to go outside to get any signal (T-Mobile, SE-T610). Granted, I live in a walk-out basement, but everyone in the area has horrible service, even outside. Don't they owe it to us at least *making an effort* to provide service indoors, or using technnology to provide an alternative to a wired connection or external antenna? I mean, it's not like we signed a contract or pay them hundreds of dollars a year, right?
2) Bi-directional amplifier repeaters cost upwards of $600. I'm trying to build a passive repeater, but there's no guarantee it'll even work. The only problem is that I've been moving around so much that the only number people can reliably contact me on is my cell, and I'm charged for call forwarding (and the only landline in the house isn't mine, it's shared, so if they're on the phone upstairs nobody can get through). Why should I pay for service if I can't get reception at the two places I spend 70% of my time? (Home and work.)
Maybe it's time for a new billing strategy: You're billed for the amount of time you're visible on their network. If you have one bar all month, you pay 100% of the fee. That would be a great incentive for them to improve service.
Damn thing is underproducing, maybe they should fertilize it so Big Mac can get back on the top of the supercomputer ranking.
I don't see how you can have closed-source life
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How can you have closed-source life when the life itself copies the code. Wouldn't every cell in the plant be a decryption device? It reads the code patented by some company and reproduces it uncontrollably.
Unless you can stop plants from breeding, there is no way you could keep the code inside one plant. And since we eat the fruits of most of our food plants, we *need* them to breed. Well, at least the big three (wheat, corn, and soy).
In that case we'd just have to randomly fluctuate the field harmonics while flooding the deck with theta radiation and subjecting the processor to a stream of chroniton particles in reverse polarity. That's so simple an ensign could do it!
He's the most normal man in America! And since most people are like him and enjoy watching mindless drivel about stuff they can relate to, it will be a hit for the ages!
The earth is (almost) a sphere, so a plane cannot be parallel to the surface, which is very bumpy. However, lines can be tangential to it, so a better definition would be "any plane defined by lines tangential to the mean surface of the earth." "Mean surface" being the surface if all the bumps were taken out.
Forgot a couple things:
1) Durable, so they don't fall apart. No little knobs or antennas sticking out so you can slip it into your pocket and go.
2) Good reception. Make it work everywhere. Guarantee coverage in urban areas in buildings. Last time I checked most people like to use phones *inside*.
3) Software that can detect random keypresses and stop input, so that if you put it in your pocket and forget to lock the keys, you won't end up calling your parents from the strip club. Uh... not that that happens to me a lot.
Museum... now that's an idea. I just think it would be wasteful to let perfectly good materials burn up in the atmosphere. The trusses are useful structural elements.
The whole "war between worlds" thing strikes me as unlikely. If they have the power to wage a war between worlds, why not simply travel to an uncolonized star? It would be vastly more efficient, because you wouldn't need to build weapons or heavily shielded ships. And since our solar system (widely declared 'average'), could support trillions of individuals (think ringworld or dyson sphere), there's no reason to fight amongst each other; the amount of resources in space is huge.
Really, the only reason anyone would fight anyone in space is if they were members of a cult bent on converting everyone or destroying heathens. A multi-stellar society's greatest threat is religion.
Pheonix has a smog problem, and all those idiots with their pools and lush, green lawns make it really humid. And I hate other people. Mars is just far enough away that I don't have to deal with them.
It's the Dustball. I'd rather be somewhere without bugs and humidity, as anyone who's suffered through 23 years of Mid-Atlantic summers can agree with.
What if we made a solar-windbreak that went before mars in its orbit, to block most of the solar wind and keep it from hitting Mars?
A large nuclear reactor could simply run a dynamo that would provide a magnetic field to block most of the charged particles. This would slow the rate of atmospheric leakage to a very tiny amount.
hydrogen peroxide is extremely dangerous and unstable in its pure form. Even the stuff Armadillo Aerospace is using is only 97% pure. Every bottle of hydrogen peroxide I've found in a drug store was 3%. Could a fuel cell operate on mostly water?
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Yes, but Sweden is a very small country compared to the US. I doubt I'll ever see a 25Mbps DSL line in my neighborhood, being 17,000 feet from the CO.
They might be competing for service in your area, but when my only other options are dialup or 512k DSL, there's not much competition.
Almost all phones can use GSM. That's a standard. I was talking about being able to get reception everywhere. That's my big beef.
It only seems right that FOSS should use open source advertising: word of mouth.
This man has it right. If they provide bad service and customer support individually it will only get worse when they merge. Case in point: AT&T says they're going to charge for roaming, since their network covers 95% of the US. Try getting your money back for living in the other 5% of the US and getting an AT&T phone because it offered free roaming. Just try.
2) Bi-directional amplifier repeaters cost upwards of $600. I'm trying to build a passive repeater, but there's no guarantee it'll even work. The only problem is that I've been moving around so much that the only number people can reliably contact me on is my cell, and I'm charged for call forwarding (and the only landline in the house isn't mine, it's shared, so if they're on the phone upstairs nobody can get through). Why should I pay for service if I can't get reception at the two places I spend 70% of my time? (Home and work.)
Maybe it's time for a new billing strategy: You're billed for the amount of time you're visible on their network. If you have one bar all month, you pay 100% of the fee. That would be a great incentive for them to improve service.
Filthy pirateses. Evil nasty pirateses. The stoles our movies and we wants them! [/gollum]
Damn thing is underproducing, maybe they should fertilize it so Big Mac can get back on the top of the supercomputer ranking.
Unless you can stop plants from breeding, there is no way you could keep the code inside one plant. And since we eat the fruits of most of our food plants, we *need* them to breed. Well, at least the big three (wheat, corn, and soy).
Two networks with SSIDs of linksys and NETGEAR. How much do you want to bet we already know their admin passwords?
Nah, too easy.
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He's the most normal man in America! And since most people are like him and enjoy watching mindless drivel about stuff they can relate to, it will be a hit for the ages!
Sorry to nitpick.
Forgot a couple things:
1) Durable, so they don't fall apart. No little knobs or antennas sticking out so you can slip it into your pocket and go.
2) Good reception. Make it work everywhere. Guarantee coverage in urban areas in buildings. Last time I checked most people like to use phones *inside*.
3) Software that can detect random keypresses and stop input, so that if you put it in your pocket and forget to lock the keys, you won't end up calling your parents from the strip club. Uh... not that that happens to me a lot.
Museum... now that's an idea. I just think it would be wasteful to let perfectly good materials burn up in the atmosphere. The trusses are useful structural elements.
Yeah, I know it's from Riddick, but it's been postulated before by Asimov and Clarke.
Really, the only reason anyone would fight anyone in space is if they were members of a cult bent on converting everyone or destroying heathens. A multi-stellar society's greatest threat is religion.
Pheonix has a smog problem, and all those idiots with their pools and lush, green lawns make it really humid. And I hate other people. Mars is just far enough away that I don't have to deal with them.
It's the Dustball. I'd rather be somewhere without bugs and humidity, as anyone who's suffered through 23 years of Mid-Atlantic summers can agree with.
A large nuclear reactor could simply run a dynamo that would provide a magnetic field to block most of the charged particles. This would slow the rate of atmospheric leakage to a very tiny amount.
Nope, I'm *hoping* that the $3K I dropped for it will keep it reasonably capable for 10 years.
I think if you're touching stewardesses like that, you're probably already too excited.
hydrogen peroxide is extremely dangerous and unstable in its pure form. Even the stuff Armadillo Aerospace is using is only 97% pure. Every bottle of hydrogen peroxide I've found in a drug store was 3%. Could a fuel cell operate on mostly water?
I like my pubic hair, thankyouverymuch.
But seriously, will this be available in time for current computers (like my brand-new Powerbook) to be able to upgrade to a fuel cell power source?