The Apple Stores are much more end-user/switcher-friendly.
They're 'switcher' friendly because all they can sell you is a Mac.
At CompUSA or Frys, on the other hand, they can listen to you describe your need and sell you whatever brand computer the two of you (customer and salesperson) decide is most suited to your needs.
Here's what the people who want heightened police powers can do:
They simply say "A guy named Pharmboy on slashdot said I am already stopped a couple times a month and have to show my DL at road blocks, in the country side."
The public respond "That sounds like a good idea."
A popular hardware project years ago for people into home-built radio projects was a radio with two tuning sections. The first tuning section is used to tune in the most powerful radio station on the band, and rectify a portion of it's power. Said power is then used to amplify the signal of the smaller signal that you'd rather listen to.
When I first read of said project, which has been implemented more than once, I noted it as an excellent example of a clever hardware hack.
Rewriting an application from scratch is the worst thing you could possibly do.
Furthermore, a lot of the worst issues with Microsoft's IE involve 'ActiveX'. Won't that be totally replaced and junked with Longhorn? So they can just pull out and scrap lots of the most troublesome code in IE for the port to Longhorn.
My ISP is Sprint, through the Sprint/Local networking. Sprint actually offers local telephone service in various markets, and they sell DSL on the service I use here. We have Sprint/Local for our phone company specifically because we're in a rural setting, and out here in the country the big bad-news telephone company the people in town have to endure isn't the operator of the telephone network.
So at least in our current setup here in a rural location, we get DSL in the country. Not that far in the country, mind you, but we're out in the boonies where there isn't even cable for Television strung.
There are often chickens on the road that I have to slow down for on my way to work. My wife sometimes encounters small herds of sheep on the same road. We're country, alright.
Because the only justification the power companies have for joining the internet services market is that they have those wires going everywhere.
How can anybody reasonable claim this to be true?
What the power companies have that should be invaluable in joining the internet services market is a right-of-way for cables. They should be able to run a strand or fifty of coax on the same poles they run AC power across. It means additional wires on the pole, but the poles are in place, wires are already routed, etc.
we had to solder it all together, with bad, carcinogenic lead-based solder, making sure EACH and EVERY SOLDER point was perfect.
An old-timer friend of mine tells the story of someone he knew who was troubleshooting a Heathkit Color Television that a friend had just assembled. It turned out that this fellow had decided to be slick, and instead of regular solder, he had used 'liquid steel' (basically a metallic looking epoxy cement that is non-conductive) to do the soldering, instead of a soldering iron and regular metal solder. The guy troubleshooting the TV took a long time to figure it out, because 'liquid steel' looks like an excellent soldering joint. ..
Anyway, enough actual hardware-geek banter. This is Slashdot. Back to arguing about politics and legal stuff.
If I lived near a broadcast tower, I would seriously consider building an antenna and tuned tank circuit to gather and store some of the broadcast RF energy. If they're radiating 50,000 watts, they probably won't notice me tapping off a few hundred of it. And such a circuit would be all passive, which means I'm not actively interfering with their signal.
Are you saying that people are _expected_ to have cell phones?
We appear to be getting there. I don't have one, and am not at all perturbed that I am unreachable for a significant amount of each day. There are people who fly into a panic at the very idea however.
Yes, but if Nuclear power became widespread, and breeder reactors made it, finally, 'too cheap to meter', automobiles and transportation could become electric, either directly or through hydrogen-based engines. In a 'too cheap to meter' economy, any other form of energy would immediately become 'too expensive to be worth it.' All those oil-producing regions would become immediately irrelevant, etc.
Not sure if it's worth wide adoption of breeder reactors, though, at least not today.
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Naw. We got satellite, and the old antenna mast wasn't working well anyway. I yanked the mast last summer and now there is a nest of birds living in the small hole in the roof eave where the mast ran through.
At least I think they are birds. They might be flying mind-ray antennas.
The bloodletting by the French was so much more subtle. Their assistant, Saddam, kept it more concealed, and it had long since ceased being fashionable for journalists to write about it.
They were definitely into the drawing of blood. In a big way.
Why don't you save your tired anti-anti-French stereotypes for when someone is actually playing that game, dude.
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The Apple Stores are much more end-user/switcher-friendly.
They're 'switcher' friendly because all they can sell you is a Mac.
At CompUSA or Frys, on the other hand, they can listen to you describe your need and sell you whatever brand computer the two of you (customer and salesperson) decide is most suited to your needs.
It's farely useful in the 86 version, but Minix 386 is far better.
Here's what the people who want heightened police powers can do:
They simply say "A guy named Pharmboy on slashdot said I am already stopped a couple times a month and have to show my DL at road blocks, in the country side."
The public respond "That sounds like a good idea."
Clearly you there in Norway are halfway down the slippery slopes to a total loss of your freedom!!
(please read above as sarcasm)
And that's the reason why. For voting.
Not so you can post nekkid pictures of your sister on Usenet.
but someone not knowing it is in there is the best protection short of taking it with you every time you get out of the car.
Somebody not knowing if it is there is an excellent reason for them to smash the side window and crowbar open the glove compartment.
In case it's there. No loss but a little extra work for the thief if it's not there.
Will BMW soon start offering transparent glovebox doors for people tired of replacing windows and clawed up dashboard components?
Yes, and it appears BMW's market is the 'top end' of the same mentality whose bottom end buys the flashy crap in the checkout aisles at Kroeger.
My SE/30 is one hell of a machine, and it's about as un-fashionable as you can get.
Not necessarily. There are a lot of wannabes up to their ears in credit card bills driving low-end beemers.
Poor deluded suckers.
A new VW is not a vintage VW. It's offensive even hearing someone make that implication.
If the engine isn't in the back and air-cooled it's just a crummy Rabbit in drag.
You think the owner of a beautiful German-engineered BMW wants a crappy knock-off American engineered iPod velcro'd to the dashboard?
I own the only copies of said photographs. If someone wants to step forward and claim them, they'd better have a copy to prove it is theirs.
I don't have to prove they are mine. My ownership is proof of that.
A popular hardware project years ago for people into home-built radio projects was a radio with two tuning sections. The first tuning section is used to tune in the most powerful radio station on the band, and rectify a portion of it's power. Said power is then used to amplify the signal of the smaller signal that you'd rather listen to.
When I first read of said project, which has been implemented more than once, I noted it as an excellent example of a clever hardware hack.
Rewriting an application from scratch is the worst thing you could possibly do.
Furthermore, a lot of the worst issues with Microsoft's IE involve 'ActiveX'. Won't that be totally replaced and junked with Longhorn? So they can just pull out and scrap lots of the most troublesome code in IE for the port to Longhorn.
My ISP is Sprint, through the Sprint/Local networking. Sprint actually offers local telephone service in various markets, and they sell DSL on the service I use here. We have Sprint/Local for our phone company specifically because we're in a rural setting, and out here in the country the big bad-news telephone company the people in town have to endure isn't the operator of the telephone network.
So at least in our current setup here in a rural location, we get DSL in the country. Not that far in the country, mind you, but we're out in the boonies where there isn't even cable for Television strung.
There are often chickens on the road that I have to slow down for on my way to work. My wife sometimes encounters small herds of sheep on the same road. We're country, alright.
Because the only justification the power companies have for joining the internet services market is that they have those wires going everywhere.
How can anybody reasonable claim this to be true?
What the power companies have that should be invaluable in joining the internet services market is a right-of-way for cables. They should be able to run a strand or fifty of coax on the same poles they run AC power across. It means additional wires on the pole, but the poles are in place, wires are already routed, etc.
Why do they need to route it on the same wires?
we had to solder it all together, with bad, carcinogenic lead-based solder, making sure EACH and EVERY SOLDER point was perfect.
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An old-timer friend of mine tells the story of someone he knew who was troubleshooting a Heathkit Color Television that a friend had just assembled. It turned out that this fellow had decided to be slick, and instead of regular solder, he had used 'liquid steel' (basically a metallic looking epoxy cement that is non-conductive) to do the soldering, instead of a soldering iron and regular metal solder. The guy troubleshooting the TV took a long time to figure it out, because 'liquid steel' looks like an excellent soldering joint. .
Anyway, enough actual hardware-geek banter. This is Slashdot. Back to arguing about politics and legal stuff.
The only AMD processors I still have around here are old K5, K6, and various 486 variants. I hope to one day contrive belt buckles out of them.
A bathroom floor or countertop tiled with them would be cool, too.
Oh, I probably have some AMD 8088 and 8086 processors, too. Good old AMD!
If I lived near a broadcast tower, I would seriously consider building an antenna and tuned tank circuit to gather and store some of the broadcast RF energy. If they're radiating 50,000 watts, they probably won't notice me tapping off a few hundred of it. And such a circuit would be all passive, which means I'm not actively interfering with their signal.
Are you saying that people are _expected_ to have cell phones?
We appear to be getting there. I don't have one, and am not at all perturbed that I am unreachable for a significant amount of each day. There are people who fly into a panic at the very idea however.
An even more foolish woman wraps her feet in them.
Ah, but when she treads on you with those spike heels, you'd best not call her foolish.
Yes, but if Nuclear power became widespread, and breeder reactors made it, finally, 'too cheap to meter', automobiles and transportation could become electric, either directly or through hydrogen-based engines. In a 'too cheap to meter' economy, any other form of energy would immediately become 'too expensive to be worth it.' All those oil-producing regions would become immediately irrelevant, etc.
Not sure if it's worth wide adoption of breeder reactors, though, at least not today.
Naw. We got satellite, and the old antenna mast wasn't working well anyway. I yanked the mast last summer and now there is a nest of birds living in the small hole in the roof eave where the mast ran through.
At least I think they are birds. They might be flying mind-ray antennas.
The original copyright holder is dead. The only copies of his slides were sold to me at auction.
Do you have proof of where I acquired the photos? Are you the dead dude, and you've hired an attorney?
The bloodletting by the French was so much more subtle. Their assistant, Saddam, kept it more concealed, and it had long since ceased being fashionable for journalists to write about it.
They were definitely into the drawing of blood. In a big way.
Why don't you save your tired anti-anti-French stereotypes for when someone is actually playing that game, dude.