> it would require a hole that is 44 miles on each side and 120 feet deep. This is a mere one-tenth of 1 percent of the land area of the continental United States. As the report concludes, "there is sufficient land available to continue [our] reliance on landfills."
Way to totally miss the point, Mr. Article! Clearly a 44mi x 44mi hole in the ground is possible (I nominate somewhere in Utah) but the fact is that in our large cities, we have nowhere to put the trash. NYC is a great example of this. We recycle because it's something else to do with the trash besides truck the sh*t to some inland landfill. In other words:
There is no more room, convenient to the cities where most people live (and therefore most trash is generated), for our trash to be dumped. This means either (A) urban/suburban residents paying the garbage company [no, not SCO, the other kind of garbage company] exorbitant amounts of money to haul garbage in a truck to someplace like Utah, or (B) reducing our trash output by whatever means is possible.
Hmmm, so a "leech" == someone who doesn't like the current US regime and overall conservative political climate.
I don't think that means what you think it does.
Who says he doesn't pay taxes? Who says he's taking handouts from the government? I can say proudly that I wish this nation would collapse tomorrow, but that does not make me a "leech." I pay my taxes, every April and at the point of sale every time I buy a shirt or a techie gadget. Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't make him a "leech."
Oh, come on. Does that type of inaccuracy really degrade the meaning of the post?
It's people like you who'd kill someone for saying "PIN number."
Sorry, the popular term for a PIN is "PIN number" because a pin is a small tack-like fastener. And the popular term for the WWW is "the Internet" because "world wide web" is too long to write out, "WWW" is nine syllables, and a "web" is where spiders live. Neither term is correct, and that fact makes no difference in either case.
The moral of the story: "World Wide Web" is a stupid term and nobody uses if for that precise reason. Even its acronym is the longest three-letter acronym (in syllables) you could possibly have.
Oh, and "Worldwide" is one word. So it be "ww," not "www."
Well, great. The US oil industry was beginning to get bored supressing conventional non-polluting technology such as solar and wind power. This will be some much-needed fun for them.
You're right; I admit that equating GD with VS was a stretch. VS has clearly proven they are deliberately evil, while I've heard good things about GD too.
They took my money, had a problem transferring the domain, and told me when I called them that it was their standard policy to keep your money regardless of whether they provide the f**** service you paid for (transferring my domain). I said, "So you're not going to transfer the domain." "That's right. "And you're not going to give my money back either. "It's your problem."
Needless to say, I'm with DirectNIC now. GoDaddy is a bunch of slimeballs like VeriSign.
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> three different types of cell networks out here (CDMA, TDMA, Sprint PCS, and now GSM).
Clearly, that is a list of four, not three, but SprintPCS* uses CDMA just like VZW.
Anyway, you were right with the number, but wrong about SprintPCS.
------- *Not that you asked, but the difference, and it's a key difference, is that SprintPCS is one of those "Don't leave the huge metro areas, because we have no coverage there" networks*. In other words, it's useless if you ever leave the city (or God forbid, if you don't even live in the city). If you don't believe me, look at this map. Those light-green areas? The ones comprising about the whole continent? Yeah, that's roaming. The kind you have to pay n cents per minute for.
Newsflash: Cingular's network is a piece of crap (as I once pointedout on the "Major Problems with Cingular Network" thread) even in areas where they claim to have coverage. You'll know if you're on their network, because you'll feel like the Verizon Test Guy's evil twin every time you try to talk on your phone.
"Can you hear me now? Now? N-N-Now? Now? Now? HOW ABOUT IF I SCREAM? NO? STILL NOT? GOD DAMN YOU CINGULAR! Thank God for number portability, I'm switching!"
If your provider adds that network to the PRL, it will probably do more harm than good.
Perhaps, but I doubt it won't have a proprietary PPP client.
However, if this could be cracked like NetZero's old client was ages ago (the hack involved encoding the username and password a certain way and using standard PPP; I'm pretty sure it doesn't work anymore), it would make for an excellent solution, assuming your area didn't have a reputation of having its AOL POPs overloaded (leading to busy signals). Since your average geek has his own domain and knows how to operate a web browser, you don't need A. ISP e-mail, B. webspace, and C. proprietary content a la AOL or MSN. Therefore, a so-called "stripped down" ISP is all you need.
In my experience, while AOL's pushy salespeople who try to convince you not to cancel the service when you explicitly call to cancel was the only part that caused me aggravation. The few times I used AOL over dial-up, I had no issues with busy signals. I'm sure many do have problems with this, and I assume it varies from market to market.
And while SSH exploits and the like exist, the many Linux servers in use don't seem to be the ones going down in a big way every time an exploit comes out, causing disruption to important services and business. The reason being that it's harder for someone to create a widely-distributed self-replicating worm on a Unix-based platform. That is what causes Windows exploits to be much more damaging.
So this is why Linux doesn't cause as much aggravation, worms, and assorted headaches as Windows does.
Windows Zealots: Note I did not claim that any OS is 100% secure.
True, but I've got two 7200's in my case, and I don't even need a fan on the case (this excludes the obligatory CPUfan and PS fan). My point being that in a normal situation, even the 7200's heat output is "within spec."
In one of those mini-cases by Shuttle, now, that would be a different story.
More like dual 120s or 160s for sanity reasons. I would never use a 5400RPM drive for a desktop or a server. Is there any significant advantage to one 300GB drive over two 160s? If space is one, just get a bigger case.
I hate Loews at the Metreon because the employees treat the customers like criminals.
They hassled us last week about carrying our leftovers from a Thai restaurant into the theater after I had spent $12 there on drinks and candy. As if I'm going to sit in the movie eating Thai food with my hands and somehow shrink their profit margins. I just wanted to fucking take it home instead of having to throw it away (it was expensive and good food), which is what they made me do.
Bottom line is, I've never been so offended by the treatment at any other theater, and I won't voluntarily go to a movie at that shitty place again. Or maybe I will but next time I will just smuggle my own food and drinks in and avoid being gouged for soda and snacks.
I mean, if it's what they assume I'm trying to do anyway, then maybe I should do it.
So to anyone reading this: Stay away from Loews, especially at Metreon!
No, because all the claims raised in the question are true:
Microsoft users are getting fed up. They're battered by worms, viruses , security patches and increasing enterprise licensing costs. Aggravation has users talking about switching from Microsoft software to something else. We're trying to figure out how much of that talk is just talk, and how much is serious action. Do you seriously plan to dump Microsoft software?
The claims in your Wal-Mart analogy are obviously false. That's the difference.
2. Microsoft didn't technically lose in the antitrust trial. They settled, without admitting any wrongdoing.
Ay, yi yi! Enough of this silly argument!
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Why don't we just adopt an official policy that a post of a google cache or similar useful content should be modded +1, Funny? IIRC "Funny" doesn't add to Karma, but it does allow useful (although trivial to obtain,) pieces of information to be more highly visible to someone with a higher threshold.
I've been thinking about it for a while, and I like the idea, so does anyone see a problem with it?
For the most part, they are!
All you have to do is pay the retail price on the phone. One company isn't going to pay for your phone if you can just take it down to the next company and use it on their network.
Go down to your PCS company and ask them to unlock the subsidy code. They'll charge you, for about the difference between what you paid them for the phone (probably $0-$50) and the MSRP of the phone (probably $300-500) and they'll unlock it so you can use it on any other company's network that supports the phone (of course, you can't go GSM <->CDMA or anything, but that's obvious).
Another way to do it would be to get someone "underground" to unlock your phone for you. That would cost much less. Some phones are easier to unlock than others.
I'm on the side of the telcos on this one. If I get my phone for free or $50, I understand that it's only "complimentary" to be used with their service. If I wanted a phone that I could use with any network I wanted, I'd buy an unlocked one.
It's not like that at all. Here's the analogy you should have given:
If Wal-Mart suddenly started charging 5 times what everything was worth to the average consumer, but most consumers had no real stores to shop at that weren't Wal-Marts, and in addition if the quality of most products unpredictably shot below even Wal-Mart standards...
Some shoppers might start going into the store and think, gee, that bag of chips costs $25, but I have little confidence that it doesn't suck. I think I'll eat some right here in the store before I take a chance of wasting that much money. Once a few people started doing it, lots of people might start doing it. When Wal-Mart executives found out this was going on, they might call the police and have thousands of people arrested for shoplifting. But even though shoplifting is wrong, and can be enforced, putting many of the people who might shop in your stores in jail (or in the RIAA's case, the poorhouse) won't do anything to fix this hypothetical Wal-Mart's flawed business model. It would eventually make people scared to "sample" the products, but it would also represent the last straw for most of them, who aren't about to sit back quietly and pay $25 for a bag of chips of dubious quality. Even though in this analogy they didn't have a nearby competitor, that wouldn't protect them forever. The shoppers will eventually seek out a competitor and take their business there. The competitor in the RIAA's case is independent music. Customers will eventually quit buying RIAA music altogether and shift to listening to excellent bands from smaller, independent labels like Vagrant or Kung Fu Records. Labels like these just give away MP3's on their websites. No, not WMA's or some RealPlayer format. They give the fans lots of free music to sample and they know that one way or another, the fans will support the bands they love. And they do.
Either all RIAA music has to suddenly become undeniably friggin' amazing, or the fscking prices have to come down. The way it stands people won't pay that much for music that's that mediocre. They'll listen to it for free, sure, but I for one would not have paid much of anything for most of the MP3s and AAC's I downloaded from Napster, KL, and Gnutella.
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> it would require a hole that is 44 miles on each side and 120 feet deep. This is a mere one-tenth of 1 percent of the land area of the continental United States. As the report concludes, "there is sufficient land available to continue [our] reliance on landfills."
Way to totally miss the point, Mr. Article! Clearly a 44mi x 44mi hole in the ground is possible (I nominate somewhere in Utah) but the fact is that in our large cities, we have nowhere to put the trash. NYC is a great example of this. We recycle because it's something else to do with the trash besides truck the sh*t to some inland landfill. In other words:
There is no more room, convenient to the cities where most people live (and therefore most trash is generated), for our trash to be dumped. This means either (A) urban/suburban residents paying the garbage company [no, not SCO, the other kind of garbage company] exorbitant amounts of money to haul garbage in a truck to someplace like Utah, or (B) reducing our trash output by whatever means is possible.
I'll take B.
Hmmm, so a "leech" == someone who doesn't like the current US regime and overall conservative political climate.
I don't think that means what you think it does.
Who says he doesn't pay taxes? Who says he's taking handouts from the government? I can say proudly that I wish this nation would collapse tomorrow, but that does not make me a "leech." I pay my taxes, every April and at the point of sale every time I buy a shirt or a techie gadget. Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't make him a "leech."
And by "it be" I mean "it should be."
Oh, come on. Does that type of inaccuracy really degrade the meaning of the post?
It's people like you who'd kill someone for saying "PIN number."
Sorry, the popular term for a PIN is "PIN number" because a pin is a small tack-like fastener. And the popular term for the WWW is "the Internet" because "world wide web" is too long to write out, "WWW" is nine syllables, and a "web" is where spiders live. Neither term is correct, and that fact makes no difference in either case.
The moral of the story: "World Wide Web" is a stupid term and nobody uses if for that precise reason. Even its acronym is the longest three-letter acronym (in syllables) you could possibly have.
Oh, and "Worldwide" is one word. So it be "ww," not "www."
> Apple gets 1$ per song
Actually, the record labels take a lot of that money.
Would you argue that everything the US Military does is then invalidated and it should stop all such action now and in the future?
Yes.
Well, great. The US oil industry was beginning to get bored supressing conventional non-polluting technology such as solar and wind power. This will be some much-needed fun for them.
ExxonMobil lobbyists, call your congressmen!
Who says she loves her PC? My ex-girlfriend wants to throttle her Compaq laptop.
The wife will probably thank him.
Some people, I guess, just have better luck than me.
Oh wait, make that "All people."
You're right; I admit that equating GD with VS was a stretch. VS has clearly proven they are deliberately evil, while I've heard good things about GD too.
They took my money, had a problem transferring the domain, and told me when I called them that it was their standard policy to keep your money regardless of whether they provide the f**** service you paid for (transferring my domain). I said, "So you're not going to transfer the domain." "That's right. "And you're not going to give my money back either. "It's your problem."
Needless to say, I'm with DirectNIC now. GoDaddy is a bunch of slimeballs like VeriSign.
> three different types of cell networks out here (CDMA, TDMA, Sprint PCS, and now GSM).
Clearly, that is a list of four, not three, but SprintPCS* uses CDMA just like VZW.
Anyway, you were right with the number, but wrong about SprintPCS.
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*Not that you asked, but the difference, and it's a key difference, is that SprintPCS is one of those "Don't leave the huge metro areas, because we have no coverage there" networks*. In other words, it's useless if you ever leave the city (or God forbid, if you don't even live in the city). If you don't believe me, look at this map. Those light-green areas? The ones comprising about the whole continent? Yeah, that's roaming. The kind you have to pay n cents per minute for.
Contrast.
Newsflash: Cingular's network is a piece of crap (as I once pointed out on the "Major Problems with Cingular Network" thread) even in areas where they claim to have coverage. You'll know if you're on their network, because you'll feel like the Verizon Test Guy's evil twin every time you try to talk on your phone.
"Can you hear me now? Now? N-N-Now? Now? Now? HOW ABOUT IF I SCREAM? NO? STILL NOT? GOD DAMN YOU CINGULAR! Thank God for number portability, I'm switching!"
If your provider adds that network to the PRL, it will probably do more harm than good.
Perhaps, but I doubt it won't have a proprietary PPP client.
However, if this could be cracked like NetZero's old client was ages ago (the hack involved encoding the username and password a certain way and using standard PPP; I'm pretty sure it doesn't work anymore), it would make for an excellent solution, assuming your area didn't have a reputation of having its AOL POPs overloaded (leading to busy signals). Since your average geek has his own domain and knows how to operate a web browser, you don't need A. ISP e-mail, B. webspace, and C. proprietary content a la AOL or MSN. Therefore, a so-called "stripped down" ISP is all you need.
In my experience, while AOL's pushy salespeople who try to convince you not to cancel the service when you explicitly call to cancel was the only part that caused me aggravation. The few times I used AOL over dial-up, I had no issues with busy signals. I'm sure many do have problems with this, and I assume it varies from market to market.
> If...the "Netscape" client software will be "Internet Explorer." That would be a tragedy.
No, that would be irony.
Oh please yourself.
"Increased licensing fees"+linux would only turn up:
SCO Intellectual Property License for Linux
And while SSH exploits and the like exist, the many Linux servers in use don't seem to be the ones going down in a big way every time an exploit comes out, causing disruption to important services and business. The reason being that it's harder for someone to create a widely-distributed self-replicating worm on a Unix-based platform. That is what causes Windows exploits to be much more damaging.
So this is why Linux doesn't cause as much aggravation, worms, and assorted headaches as Windows does.
Windows Zealots: Note I did not claim that any OS is 100% secure.
True, but I've got two 7200's in my case, and I don't even need a fan on the case (this excludes the obligatory CPUfan and PS fan). My point being that in a normal situation, even the 7200's heat output is "within spec."
In one of those mini-cases by Shuttle, now, that would be a different story.
> dual 120s or 160s for price reasons
More like dual 120s or 160s for sanity reasons. I would never use a 5400RPM drive for a desktop or a server. Is there any significant advantage to one 300GB drive over two 160s? If space is one, just get a bigger case.
> metreon...is actually a great theatre.
I hate Loews at the Metreon because the employees treat the customers like criminals.
They hassled us last week about carrying our leftovers from a Thai restaurant into the theater after I had spent $12 there on drinks and candy. As if I'm going to sit in the movie eating Thai food with my hands and somehow shrink their profit margins. I just wanted to fucking take it home instead of having to throw it away (it was expensive and good food), which is what they made me do.
Bottom line is, I've never been so offended by the treatment at any other theater, and I won't voluntarily go to a movie at that shitty place again. Or maybe I will but next time I will just smuggle my own food and drinks in and avoid being gouged for soda and snacks.
I mean, if it's what they assume I'm trying to do anyway, then maybe I should do it.
So to anyone reading this: Stay away from Loews, especially at Metreon!
No, because all the claims raised in the question are true: Microsoft users are getting fed up. They're battered by worms, viruses , security patches and increasing enterprise licensing costs . Aggravation has users talking about switching from Microsoft software to something else. We're trying to figure out how much of that talk is just talk, and how much is serious action. Do you seriously plan to dump Microsoft software? The claims in your Wal-Mart analogy are obviously false. That's the difference.
1. Why are so many Wal-Mart analogies popping up these days? (See my Wal-Mart RIAA analogy.)
2. Microsoft didn't technically lose in the antitrust trial. They settled, without admitting any wrongdoing.
Why don't we just adopt an official policy that a post of a google cache or similar useful content should be modded +1, Funny? IIRC "Funny" doesn't add to Karma, but it does allow useful (although trivial to obtain,) pieces of information to be more highly visible to someone with a higher threshold. I've been thinking about it for a while, and I like the idea, so does anyone see a problem with it?
For the most part, they are! All you have to do is pay the retail price on the phone. One company isn't going to pay for your phone if you can just take it down to the next company and use it on their network. Go down to your PCS company and ask them to unlock the subsidy code. They'll charge you, for about the difference between what you paid them for the phone (probably $0-$50) and the MSRP of the phone (probably $300-500) and they'll unlock it so you can use it on any other company's network that supports the phone (of course, you can't go GSM <->CDMA or anything, but that's obvious). Another way to do it would be to get someone "underground" to unlock your phone for you. That would cost much less. Some phones are easier to unlock than others. I'm on the side of the telcos on this one. If I get my phone for free or $50, I understand that it's only "complimentary" to be used with their service. If I wanted a phone that I could use with any network I wanted, I'd buy an unlocked one.
How in the name of all that is righteous was that flamebait??
Suddenly there's a huge pro-spammer cabal out here in Slashdotland?
Who would feel compelled to flame me for this sentiment?
And, Christ, it was a joke anyway!
It's not like that at all. Here's the analogy you should have given:
If Wal-Mart suddenly started charging 5 times what everything was worth to the average consumer, but most consumers had no real stores to shop at that weren't Wal-Marts, and in addition if the quality of most products unpredictably shot below even Wal-Mart standards...
Some shoppers might start going into the store and think, gee, that bag of chips costs $25, but I have little confidence that it doesn't suck. I think I'll eat some right here in the store before I take a chance of wasting that much money. Once a few people started doing it, lots of people might start doing it. When Wal-Mart executives found out this was going on, they might call the police and have thousands of people arrested for shoplifting. But even though shoplifting is wrong, and can be enforced, putting many of the people who might shop in your stores in jail (or in the RIAA's case, the poorhouse) won't do anything to fix this hypothetical Wal-Mart's flawed business model. It would eventually make people scared to "sample" the products, but it would also represent the last straw for most of them, who aren't about to sit back quietly and pay $25 for a bag of chips of dubious quality. Even though in this analogy they didn't have a nearby competitor, that wouldn't protect them forever. The shoppers will eventually seek out a competitor and take their business there. The competitor in the RIAA's case is independent music. Customers will eventually quit buying RIAA music altogether and shift to listening to excellent bands from smaller, independent labels like Vagrant or Kung Fu Records. Labels like these just give away MP3's on their websites. No, not WMA's or some RealPlayer format. They give the fans lots of free music to sample and they know that one way or another, the fans will support the bands they love. And they do.
Either all RIAA music has to suddenly become undeniably friggin' amazing, or the fscking prices have to come down. The way it stands people won't pay that much for music that's that mediocre. They'll listen to it for free, sure, but I for one would not have paid much of anything for most of the MP3s and AAC's I downloaded from Napster, KL, and Gnutella.