the ones I've seen in the UK are all rebranded versions of the same backend
Not entirely true. Napster UK is a completely different WMA shop heavily into DRMed WMA that works with the Creative gear. There is also tescodownloads.com which gives 192 kbit encoding for a similar price; and we know not to rule out Tesco when it comes to market dominance.
If you must use one of the OD2.com resellers, use bignoisemusic.com whose profit goes to Oxfam.
A cell phone makes chatter with the nearest cell antenna to register itself in a cell. Not to mention the 2-way traffic involved in receiving SMS messages and calls.
The concern is that children have less skull bone to shield their brains (adults are more thick-skulled!), and that those brains have more active cell growth and cell division. This is because lab research shows unshielded growing tissue is vulnerable to such non-ionizing radiation.
I do take your point though, and I have (seriously) stopped carrying my phone in my fron trouser pocket. Of course I have it out of my pocket while making calls.
The downside is that the vibrate function is less fun.
Agreed: executives will continue to get stock options - they like it that way. Also, as you say, the value (expense) of stock options is slippery at best. If the company fails to perform they expense at zero, otherwise they are a real expense. I'm glad my tax isn't worked out like this.
Another aspect of stock options is that companies need to buy stock to feed the schemes which may well inflate share price.
If stock options are accounted for as expenses, then they are less "attractive" as rewards for staff - prima facie.
But will it really change the packages on offer? I guess that everyone from CEO down wants to retain stock options. They will just look more expensive to investers i.e. they will get a better view of a firm's financial behavior.
The relevance to slashdotters, is of course that tech companies have had the growth profile and preferred this "cool" way of rewarding directors and staff.
/joelethan
-- In Sri Lanka they aren't worrying about their STOCK OPTIONS being underwater. --
I believe that it is important and relevant that the bumblebee is apocryphal, and that one should first learn the tale, then the rebuttal. It's a great model for the human learning process.
I just hope no-one ever discovers something awful about Santa Claus.
Now, Wikipedia could hold this kind of dialogue in the discussion pages for your "average factual article", it would indeed be valuable
I was going to reply to an individual thread but nearly all of them are the same: invitations to recount the "Four Yorkshiremen" skit from Monty Python.
"When I was young, we only had BASIC"
"You were lucky! We had to chip bits out of the RAM with a chisel."
"RAM? Luxury!"
There's being a geek, and there's being a boring geek.
Today's computer kids are like today's young motorists: they only want to drive 'em and drive 'em fast. The technology is advanced enough to get some other poor human to program it for you. Oh. That'd be us then.
"You have to PROGRAM it?" Say that to kids today and they don't believe you.
Well, being human, I understand the Gregorian calendar and the coding algorithms are done to death. That's why we have computers: to handle the boring yet strangely stuff.
Besides, it's always entertaining to smugly point out somebody else's software got the date-coding wrong. As if I would ever code a bug?
I am still amazed how many/.ers fail to spot irony and/or flamebait in a post. Perhaps I should have put my tongue in my cheek.
Cell phones in flight would be just one more reason to stay at home.
As for smoking, I have no problem with anyone smoking as long as they take reasonable steps to prevent sharing their cigarette with me. After all, smokers pay more to UK tax than they draw from the Health Service.
The UK Civil Aviation Autority did some tests in the 70s-80s on the effect of consumer electronic items on avionics.
They concluded that there was little ill-effect - if you discount the fact that the avionics was so badly-screened that it screwed up some of the passengers' hand-held kit.
O2 is not owned by O2. They sold this for a decent profit. O2 seems to have been improving since that time (strange that).
BT now have BT Mobile, having gone out of the market once.
This could all look like typical BT anti-competitiveness, but surely it can't be?;-)
Just see the way that BT Wholesale is the dominant DSL trunk carrier. Most UK ISPs have to buy this wholesale product and get their retail price squeezed by BT's retail product.
Welcome to the monolith that is BT!
/joelethan
-- Why is there only one Monopolies commission?
Now THAT is funny. Mod up parent someone!
Of course SPAM.com will work.
The Hornel copyright page also reminds us that a trademark like SPAM is an adjective, so should always be followed by a suitable noun, e.g. luncheon meat.
Agreed, the UI point was disingenuous, but Globus have taken some wrong directions which they are now backtracking. I still find parts of the OGSA hard to accept as genuinely useful. Globus may be the only show in town at the moment but in most instances it's a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
Yes, I do think that external mega-grids are all about bringing cpu power to bear on an occasional problem (more appropriate to poorly-funded academia) and they are a security nightmare. Also internal grids are unwieldy, giving poor return on the complexity of deployment and administration.
In the computer room I am all for the virtualisation of resources: storage, data, processing; but the only part of the grid where I see any return from where I sit in industry is storage, plus some load-balancing of application servers etc. Database clusters and true app-server grids are not yet delivering.
The OGSA is immature and may not be the best way of gridding up our IT resources.
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Like many virtual communities, BXers like to meet in Real Life sometime. Now no-one is going to stump up a monthly fee. Ah well.
Free your books at Bookcrossing.com
>:-D
The girls always go for John Travolta, not Poindexter
Do a little dance, make a little love - get down tonight!
Not entirely true. Napster UK is a completely different WMA shop heavily into DRMed WMA that works with the Creative gear. There is also tescodownloads.com which gives 192 kbit encoding for a similar price; and we know not to rule out Tesco when it comes to market dominance.
If you must use one of the OD2.com resellers, use bignoisemusic.com whose profit goes to Oxfam.
I do take your point though, and I have (seriously) stopped carrying my phone in my fron trouser pocket. Of course I have it out of my pocket while making calls. The downside is that the vibrate function is less fun.
Another aspect of stock options is that companies need to buy stock to feed the schemes which may well inflate share price.
But will it really change the packages on offer? I guess that everyone from CEO down wants to retain stock options. They will just look more expensive to investers i.e. they will get a better view of a firm's financial behavior.
The relevance to slashdotters, is of course that tech companies have had the growth profile and preferred this "cool" way of rewarding directors and staff.
-- In Sri Lanka they aren't worrying about their STOCK OPTIONS being underwater. --
I just hope no-one ever discovers something awful about Santa Claus.
Now, Wikipedia could hold this kind of dialogue in the discussion pages for your "average factual article", it would indeed be valuable
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"When I was young, we only had BASIC"
"You were lucky! We had to chip bits out of the RAM with a chisel."
"RAM? Luxury!"
There's being a geek, and there's being a boring geek.
Today's computer kids are like today's young motorists: they only want to drive 'em and drive 'em fast. The technology is advanced enough to get some other poor human to program it for you. Oh. That'd be us then.
"You have to PROGRAM it?"
Say that to kids today and they don't believe you.
I just realised that I keep my cell phone a little too close to my gonads! :-O
From now on it's the window sill for you Mr,. Nokia.
Besides, it's always entertaining to smugly point out somebody else's software got the date-coding wrong. As if I would ever code a bug?
Happy 5th of Newton!
I am still amazed how many /.ers fail to spot irony and/or flamebait in a post. Perhaps I should have put my tongue in my cheek.
Cell phones in flight would be just one more reason to stay at home.
As for smoking, I have no problem with anyone smoking as long as they take reasonable steps to prevent sharing their cigarette with me. After all, smokers pay more to UK tax than they draw from the Health Service.
They concluded that there was little ill-effect - if you discount the fact that the avionics was so badly-screened that it screwed up some of the passengers' hand-held kit.
Great minds think a like and fools seldom differ!
BT now have BT Mobile, having gone out of the market once.
This could all look like typical BT anti-competitiveness, but surely it can't be? ;-)
Just see the way that BT Wholesale is the dominant DSL trunk carrier. Most UK ISPs have to buy this wholesale product and get their retail price squeezed by BT's retail product.
Welcome to the monolith that is BT!
-- Why is there only one Monopolies commission?
Typing: make love
got the answer: What? Not war!
-- sig fatigue...
Mind you, it really wasn't worth reading.
And the only person laughing at the election results is Hillary Clinton: looking forward to be your next President from 2008!
Of course SPAM.com will work.
The Hornel copyright page also reminds us that a trademark like SPAM is an adjective, so should always be followed by a suitable noun, e.g. luncheon meat.
Maybe SPAMluncheonmeat.com would be good?
See also SPAM and the Internet for their take on UCE.
Hornel's page on their SPAM trademark reads very humorously to the Netizen's eye. I recommend it.
OT: I fancy marketing a delicious processed meat called SLASHDOT.
Yes, I do think that external mega-grids are all about bringing cpu power to bear on an occasional problem (more appropriate to poorly-funded academia) and they are a security nightmare. Also internal grids are unwieldy, giving poor return on the complexity of deployment and administration.
In the computer room I am all for the virtualisation of resources: storage, data, processing; but the only part of the grid where I see any return from where I sit in industry is storage, plus some load-balancing of application servers etc. Database clusters and true app-server grids are not yet delivering.
The OGSA is immature and may not be the best way of gridding up our IT resources.