My first question: Do these companies that are (IPO'ing and) betting on WiMax have good business models? Would they be a good bet for my own bet on WiMax?
But you fail to realize a fundamental thing about/.ers: such objective things as technical specs, benchmarks, pricing, or availability will do nothing to clear our indecision. Our confusion stems from the very discombobulating dichotomy as to whether we hate Microsoft or Sony more.
This illustrates once more the superiority of free enterprise and open markets. India performed the task more efficiently and things got outsourced there. Now we are seeing that while there was temporary pain for American IT workers, in the end it all works out if people are agile enough to adapt. The end net result is better QoL for everyone.
I prefer Bitter Sarcasm (CmdrTaco) for removing stickers from electronics. Furthermore, ever since I spilled a Coke on a keyboard as a kid, the whole idea of sugar (read: sticky) to clean electronics is more than slightly repulsive. Maybe it also has something to (entirely illogically) do with sugar in gas tanks, but I have a very knee-jerk reaction to using sugar on electronics. Sugar is something I would try not to spill on electronics.
How do I make so that it just strips the DRM? So that it doesn't go and make a brand new file? Or alternatively, how can I delete all the old DRM'ed versions in one shot?
It seems odd that you would use chemotherapy described in the article as being something that wipes out your immune system, and then try to use a treatment that relies entirely on your immune system being effective. Maybe thats part of the treatment, but it seems like you would want your immune system at 100% for this process to work.
They need to wipe out your immune system to replace it with the modified immune system that will attack cancer.
Thanks for the encouragement to use BackupPC. I had installed it in the past, but got bogged down in the complexity of the server-side setup. However, due to your encouragement, I found a nice-looking howto and am going to give it another shot. Thanks!
What is a good system to automatically backup (using ssh/rdiff-backup as the underlying tools, perhaps?) a Windows PC to an internet server hard drive? The client-side should have a nice GUI that can schedule backups. The server side should be a Linux RPM that can easily be installed, and run out of the box with a very simple conf file to set username/password hash/directory. The system should backup snapshots so that it can restore to any point.
Surely this need is common enough that an easy-to-use FOSS solution is out there!
The first question is a Windows question. I read a long time ago (in PC World, I think) that the min/max pagefile/vm should be set to the same amount because Windows constantly resizes a swapfile that has a variable size and takes a lot of proc/hd/mem juice while doing so. Is this still true?
The second question is for Windows and Linux. Does having a too-big swap file allocated cut down on performance or is the only downside the excess hd space it uses?
It's hard to take someone's comments seriously when they display such an obvious lack of spelling and grammar.
Perhaps you could make sure your pronoun agrees with your noun. "They" is a plural pronoun which should refer to a plural noun. Try using "he" next time. I suggest the following improvement: It's hard to take someone's comments seriously when he displays such an obvious lack of spelling and grammar.
"Someone's" is not a noun. It's an adjective. The antecedent of "they" is not "someone's", it's "comments". The antecedent noun and pronoun agree in their original form. Your example is proper English, but the grandparent's original is as well. I love the irony!;-)
Now I bet I made some mistake and there will be triple irony... Such is life...
(BTW, you should either change the "which" in your second sentence to a "that", or add a comma.)
"It's a good thing that microsoft has cleaned up it's act then. Oh, wait..."
Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, OpenOffice, GIMP, and Firefox, etc, etc.
"Many markets have natural monopolies because the cost of entry is so very high, and I believe telecommunications is one of them."
I am the CEO/President/Head Honcho of a small telecom firm and we compete and beat the big guys every day. We do better customer service and the market rewards us. We have more business than we can handle.
"I cannot imagine that you or I could build a network and successfully compete against the existing providers, regardless of how they treat their customers."
You need to replace your imagination with the real world. I have several friends who have started very successful, small (2-8 towers) Wi-Fi ISPs.
Here's the letter I sent to my Senators and Representative:
I am writing to strongly discourage you from engaging in regulation or taxation of the internet. The internet has thrived and become a vital force in our economy thanks to its free, unregulated nature. Don't make the internet subject to the ultimate failure of other economic regulation as shown in so many other things that are regulated. The Soviet Union showed us that ordering the economy to work a certain way doesn't work. Please learn that lesson and don't regulate the internet with the so-called "net neutrality" bill. This regulation will only open the door for myriad other regulations on the method, usage, and structure of the internet.
We want net neutrality. But not this way. Legislating net neutrality is very shortsighted. This is bad precedent: the government messing with and regulating the net. The government (GOP or Dem) inevitably manages to screw up regulations and make it stupider than before and in the process demonstrating an utter inability to grasp the issues. Net neutrality WILL occur automatically because even in places where there is only a single broadband provider currently, it's not going to last long (One example of many: http://www.isp-planet.com/cplanet/tech/2006/prime_ letter_060522.html). In today's world of instant information, monopolies can't last while doing malevolent things; competition moves at the speed of light. Providers don't want to risk ticking off their customers (by discriminating against sites or by charging more) because it only LOWERS THE BAR for competitors to come in to their area. If the net had been regulated by the government all along, we'd all be connecting using v.93 modems, paying 13.56% tax on everything, and have an E911 requirement for every IM window.
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My first question: Do these companies that are (IPO'ing and) betting on WiMax have good business models? Would they be a good bet for my own bet on WiMax?
But you fail to realize a fundamental thing about /.ers: such objective things as technical specs, benchmarks, pricing, or availability will do nothing to clear our indecision. Our confusion stems from the very discombobulating dichotomy as to whether we hate Microsoft or Sony more.
Actually, they never made a PS/3--they went directly to USB.
This illustrates once more the superiority of free enterprise and open markets. India performed the task more efficiently and things got outsourced there. Now we are seeing that while there was temporary pain for American IT workers, in the end it all works out if people are agile enough to adapt. The end net result is better QoL for everyone.
Does anyone else find amusing the juxtaposition of XXX and State of the Union in a movie title that has nothing to do with porn or conjugal union?
I prefer Bitter Sarcasm (CmdrTaco) for removing stickers from electronics. Furthermore, ever since I spilled a Coke on a keyboard as a kid, the whole idea of sugar (read: sticky) to clean electronics is more than slightly repulsive. Maybe it also has something to (entirely illogically) do with sugar in gas tanks, but I have a very knee-jerk reaction to using sugar on electronics. Sugar is something I would try not to spill on electronics.
What a shocker!
How do I make so that it just strips the DRM? So that it doesn't go and make a brand new file? Or alternatively, how can I delete all the old DRM'ed versions in one shot?
They need to wipe out your immune system to replace it with the modified immune system that will attack cancer.
This doesn't perform rdiff style snapshots.
Thanks for the encouragement to use BackupPC. I had installed it in the past, but got bogged down in the complexity of the server-side setup. However, due to your encouragement, I found a nice-looking howto and am going to give it another shot. Thanks!
What is a good system to automatically backup (using ssh/rdiff-backup as the underlying tools, perhaps?) a Windows PC to an internet server hard drive? The client-side should have a nice GUI that can schedule backups. The server side should be a Linux RPM that can easily be installed, and run out of the box with a very simple conf file to set username/password hash/directory. The system should backup snapshots so that it can restore to any point.
Surely this need is common enough that an easy-to-use FOSS solution is out there!
The first question is a Windows question. I read a long time ago (in PC World, I think) that the min/max pagefile/vm should be set to the same amount because Windows constantly resizes a swapfile that has a variable size and takes a lot of proc/hd/mem juice while doing so. Is this still true?
The second question is for Windows and Linux. Does having a too-big swap file allocated cut down on performance or is the only downside the excess hd space it uses?
Now I bet I made some mistake and there will be triple irony... Such is life...
(BTW, you should either change the "which" in your second sentence to a "that", or add a comma.)
*whoosh* I know.
This is another dupe story... =)
In capitalist Britain, the car parks you!
True. But like you said, they don't.