We abandon our shopping carts because we have no way of seeing the total, final price plus shipping until we reach the end of the checkout phase. Some sites are nice and display a running total each time you update your cart, so there are no surprises come checkout time. Most sites do not, and I can only assume they do not because they are hoping for compulsive shoppers who so deeply want what's in their shopping carts that they are willing to overlook the brutal, surprise shipping fees.
Netflix rules! Blockbuster blows chunks. When you compare them based on solely economic factors, you miss the heart of the issue. Netflix will win because that's the way it should be.
Clearly, "informing and underpinning" does not mean that it will, as you say, "take the debate out of the hands of the people who know what they're talking about." The premise of your argument is a non-sequitur.
Anyway, ultimately, the debate must be a public one. Do you really want to give the final authority to a bunch of eggheads who spend all of their waking hours in a lab?
It sure took me an extra 10 days beyond the estimate I gave to my CTO, to build that 64-bit 10g Oracle RAC on brand new Dell 2850's running SLES-9. And I tried to blame the delay on Oracle and Dell and Suse not playing nice together in the 64-bit sandbox, and it's true. But my CTO didn't buy it, and blamed the delay on me instead.
My only solace is that, like most CTO's, he's largely clueless about IT.
The overabundance of new software patent stories on/. shows me that many people are not seeing the big picture. The only thing that all of these worthless patents achieve is to confuse the legal ownership of software concepts to the point at which eventually not even the smartest judge can figure out who owns how much of which idea. Soon no software patent will be defensible in court. This is not necessarily a good thing for us legitimate software developers. But it is a far cry from actually stifling any creativity.
Then again, perhaps I should RTFA. But I'm just so sick of all these software patent rant articles spamming/.
Unless these are 1/2U servers, I cannot figure out how one can fit 168 cpu's into a 42U rack. At 2 CPU's per server, a rack of 1U servers would hold only 84 cpu's.
Is this "football", as in American football with pigskins and tackling, etc. Or do the Canucks refer to soccer as "football"? I am ignorant. Please help.
Red Hat has to do something. They failed to corner the enterprise Linux market. And they even failed to corner the Linux-on-Oracle market, despite being partially owned by Mr. Ellison. As an Oracle DBA, I will go with Suse over Red Hat, every time.
There is absolutely no way that Google, now a publicly traded company, would do such a thing. It would divert millions of page views away from their mammoth cash cow. No way.
Sooner or later I'm going to have to find a better search engine for doing technical research. Google just ain't cuttin' it anymore.
I read the author's article, and I have to say, it's time to short Tivo stock. My TWC DVR does all of the things listed in the article that I care about.
actually, liebniz published his own version of calculus just ahead of newton. but, since newton was head of the royal academy at the time, he managed to bully his colleagues into accepting, without clear evidence, that liebniz had plagiarized the great Sir Newton. this not only banished liebniz' calculus into the depths of obscurity, but also got poor liebniz drummed out of the royal academy.
at least that's how one my professors explained it to me, a long time ago on a college campus far, far away.
this one's easy. all that nk had to do was teach some nk teenager decent english, and then smuggle him into the states as a foreign exchange student from sk. in the states, he'll hang out with the hackers at school, infiltrate their "clubs", and learn the tricks of the hacker trade.
when this spy returns to nk, he teaches a few classes on what he learned in the states, and voila, 600 "trained" nk hackers.
or, teach a bunch of nk teenagers english, and let them loose on the uncensored internet. let them cruise the chat rooms where the hackers hang out. they can learn a lot just by making a few choice contacts on the internet. they can also learn a lot just by studying the materials currently available on the internet. like/. for example!
or, maybe the ion drive doesn't have to be disposable. since we're dreaming here, why not have the drive detach itself once the trash achieves the necessary trajectory, and then return itself home to the space station! brilliant!
strap a tiny ion drive to the trash bin, gently nudge it away from the space station (simultaneously compensating with a short burst of one of the station's attitude jets or something), then light the ion drive and gently accelerate the trash into a retrograde orbit! simple!
so, anyone know how to build cheap, disposable ion drives?
I think that the government needs to be able to wiretap internet connections, just as easily as they now wiretap phone lines. I also think that very strong safeguards need to be in place to prevent abuse of internet wiretaps.
The opportunities for misusing a wiretapped internet connection are orders of magnitude greater than those offered by traditional phone taps. An internet wiretap is therefore a more grave intrustion than a simple phone tap, and should have commensurately stronger restrictions.
it's just getting ridiculous. i think we all grossly underestimate both the tech we will soon have, and how soon we will have it. i sure do. my feeble imagination is boggled.
We, the citizens of the U.S., have needed outside monitoring for a long time now. How else can we say to citizens of the international community, such as those in Iraq, that outside observation is a good thing? We must practice what we preach.
So even if you feel that the U.S. does not need it, or that it is insulting or some such, please keep in mind that, as Beacons Of Democracy, all free nations ought to welcome international inspection of their electoral processes.
the announcement is step 0. step 1 involves clearing all of the government obstacles. but according to popular/. opinion, that is the one thing that sir branson is obviously quite good at.
if they succeed with step 1, then us geeks can get excited in earnest. step 2 will be development and testing. should be no problem given the monies involved. then of course, in step 3 we'll see many, very rich people fulfilling their lifelong dreams. the rest of us will watch with unbridled envy.
but i fear that step 4 will be sudden bankruptcy, when they quickly exhaust the very small number of adventurers rich enough to afford the still hideously expensive ticket.
i priced-out a nice new rig on newegg.com, and it came to $520 total, inc. shipping, no monitor. the video card was around $125. and it was a middle-of-the-road video card, not bad, but nowhere near as good as the $200 jobs described in the article.
It has everything I'm looking for, except of course, Linux compatibility. If not for that one, enormous failing, I would buy one today.
I can live with the cellphone keypad. I'd use it primarily as a cellphone and organizer. The only texting I do is late night party-activity coordination. I don't really need the internet features, but they're nice to have, and I'd probably start using them if the interface is nice enough.
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We abandon our shopping carts because we have no way of seeing the total, final price plus shipping until we reach the end of the checkout phase. Some sites are nice and display a running total each time you update your cart, so there are no surprises come checkout time. Most sites do not, and I can only assume they do not because they are hoping for compulsive shoppers who so deeply want what's in their shopping carts that they are willing to overlook the brutal, surprise shipping fees.
Netflix rules! Blockbuster blows chunks. When you compare them based on solely economic factors, you miss the heart of the issue. Netflix will win because that's the way it should be.
Anyway, ultimately, the debate must be a public one. Do you really want to give the final authority to a bunch of eggheads who spend all of their waking hours in a lab?
My only solace is that, like most CTO's, he's largely clueless about IT.
Then again, perhaps I should RTFA. But I'm just so sick of all these software patent rant articles spamming /.
Unless these are 1/2U servers, I cannot figure out how one can fit 168 cpu's into a 42U rack. At 2 CPU's per server, a rack of 1U servers would hold only 84 cpu's.
Add to that the zesty irony of using Linux to rescue Windoze, and the result is nothing less than harmonic convergence.
Is this "football", as in American football with pigskins and tackling, etc. Or do the Canucks refer to soccer as "football"? I am ignorant. Please help.
Red Hat has to do something. They failed to corner the enterprise Linux market. And they even failed to corner the Linux-on-Oracle market, despite being partially owned by Mr. Ellison. As an Oracle DBA, I will go with Suse over Red Hat, every time.
Sooner or later I'm going to have to find a better search engine for doing technical research. Google just ain't cuttin' it anymore.
I read the author's article, and I have to say, it's time to short Tivo stock. My TWC DVR does all of the things listed in the article that I care about.
or it could be vladivostok, which is their industrial center, and home to one of their huge-ass naval bases.
at least that's how one my professors explained it to me, a long time ago on a college campus far, far away.
we computer guys think we're geeky, but these stargazers make us look like a bunch of high school jocks.
when this spy returns to nk, he teaches a few classes on what he learned in the states, and voila, 600 "trained" nk hackers.
or, teach a bunch of nk teenagers english, and let them loose on the uncensored internet. let them cruise the chat rooms where the hackers hang out. they can learn a lot just by making a few choice contacts on the internet. they can also learn a lot just by studying the materials currently available on the internet. like /. for example!
or, maybe the ion drive doesn't have to be disposable. since we're dreaming here, why not have the drive detach itself once the trash achieves the necessary trajectory, and then return itself home to the space station! brilliant!
so, anyone know how to build cheap, disposable ion drives?
so then how about injecting billions of tons of o2 into the upper atmosphere? won't that vastly accelerate the o3 replacement?
The opportunities for misusing a wiretapped internet connection are orders of magnitude greater than those offered by traditional phone taps. An internet wiretap is therefore a more grave intrustion than a simple phone tap, and should have commensurately stronger restrictions.
it's just getting ridiculous. i think we all grossly underestimate both the tech we will soon have, and how soon we will have it. i sure do. my feeble imagination is boggled.
So even if you feel that the U.S. does not need it, or that it is insulting or some such, please keep in mind that, as Beacons Of Democracy, all free nations ought to welcome international inspection of their electoral processes.
the announcement is step 0. step 1 involves clearing all of the government obstacles. but according to popular /. opinion, that is the one thing that sir branson is obviously quite good at.
if they succeed with step 1, then us geeks can get excited in earnest. step 2 will be development and testing. should be no problem given the monies involved. then of course, in step 3 we'll see many, very rich people fulfilling their lifelong dreams. the rest of us will watch with unbridled envy.
but i fear that step 4 will be sudden bankruptcy, when they quickly exhaust the very small number of adventurers rich enough to afford the still hideously expensive ticket.
i priced-out a nice new rig on newegg.com, and it came to $520 total, inc. shipping, no monitor. the video card was around $125. and it was a middle-of-the-road video card, not bad, but nowhere near as good as the $200 jobs described in the article.
are they using bots or not? the article is inconclusive. and very sparse on the facts.
I can live with the cellphone keypad. I'd use it primarily as a cellphone and organizer. The only texting I do is late night party-activity coordination. I don't really need the internet features, but they're nice to have, and I'd probably start using them if the interface is nice enough.