I don't see any carpenters bitching about do-it-yourself manuals. Why not, when pretty much all the information someone needs to make their own furniture, even pieces that are exactly like those in catalogs, is freely available?
Because most people don't want to make their own furniture, even if it's just following directions. Only a few people who are really into carpentry will build their own. The vast majority of people will go ahead and pay to have someone else do it rather than get their hands dirty.
BeOS lives, technically, but in an incredibly small niche market of hobbyists. It's like the tree that keeps getting cut down to three feet tall because it's growing up in the hedge...It'll never be great, but it won't completely die for a long time. I still have a BeOS partition that I screw around with occasionally or boot up to show to a computer geek friend, but I seriously doubt it's going to take the Desktop market by storm.
The leaders are well-educated professionals with money and degrees. The people who actually blow themselves up are the ones who aren't good for much else.
Wasn't there a ruling just a few weeks back that the FCC didn't have the authority to regulate the Internet, which would include things like VoIP? Did that get overturned at some point?
That's because almost any non-specific opponent that's defeated will rise again, except in a few cases where the reason for their opposition is removed by their defeat. If a city eliminates every criminal inside its walls, they still won't eliminate crime. If a civilization eliminated money, they still wouldn't eliminate the desire for power and influence.
This is why the "wars" on drugs, terror, and poverty can never end.
Yeah, if you're going to charge for access, two or two fifty an hour makes more sense, especially if (like most coffeeshops I've seen) your clientele is composed largely of college students who probably get paid about that much an hour at work.
Instead of a solid time limit, you could just reserve the right to kick out people who haven't made a purchase in the last thirty/fourty minutes or so.
If I end up on the internet for an extended period of time at a coffeeshop/cafe, I generally make it a practice to keep buying drinks. It generally keeps the people running the place happy.
If you're going to try to convince someone to offer free WiFi, make sure they know that they might be liable for things customers use it for if they don't take the proper steps beforehand.
Well, technically we don't know whether it's so yet. It's just a temporary order until they get everything worked out. Of course, the year will be pretty much over by that time, so it might as well be so, even if it isn't.
...Wouldn't an "Apple fanboy" probably already have a Mac running OS X? I could see a curious person that didn't want to spend several hundred dollars on a Mac to try out a new OS doing that, but not a "fanboy". This guy admits that he used computers from Apple in the past, but he hardly seems fanboy material.
>>The fact that you value inanimate objects over human life
Yes, I value not having to go through all sorts of crap and lose what I've earned because of a criminal more than I value that criminal's well-being. Your statement's an unrealistic sweeping generalization equating that with caring more about objects than people on the whole. People like you just end up encouraging criminals by giving them good targets.
If someone's stealing something of value from me and they won't surrender it when I produce a gun, they're going to get shot (and the court will almost definitely decide in my favor, at least here). If possible, I might've tried to take his leg out instead of killing him, but I wouldn't lose sleep at night if I did. I guess I'm not normal.
That's made even funnier by the fact that there's a can of it right next to my computer...It protects my data by ensuring that there aren't any roaches to crawl in any open expansion slots and fry my board.
And if the US goes bankrupt, so does China and the rest of the world that isn't still locked in tribal warfare with itself. All the crap between China and the US is posturing, at the moment.
Also, I think that all the US debt to China wouldn't really matter if the two ended up going to war or even cancelling relations with each other...You don't normally return money to someone when you're trying to kill each other.
I think that might be the editors' intention- to let people that missed an article the first time around have a shot at reading and commenting on it. Now, perhaps if they would post and LET PEOPLE KNOW that that was their intention, repeat articles wouldn't get flooded by 100 "It's a dupe" posts.
Slashdot public opinion seems to be moving a bit in favor of the "It's a dupe!" crowd...Not that they're the majority, but where I saw -1 Redundant on all of the "dupe" posts a few months back, I'm seeing not only positive, but +4 and +5 moderations. If the editors are posting repeats with a plan in mind, they should say something, because it's obvious that a lot of people are regarding it as a problem.
Sometimes they admit that the story was "previously posted on Slashdot". I don't know if this only happens after everyone cries "Dupe!", but it's possible that they're deliberately reposting the article (or posting a different news carrier's story of it) for people who miss the first. Or maybe they just want to piss off the people who complain about dupes, but that's kinda doubtful.
Seeing as that number of dupe-callers is increasing, and the posts are getting modded up to +5 Funny or +5 Informative instead of -1 Redundant or Offtopic like they used to be, I'd say enough Slashdotters with mod points are getting miffed that they might want to get a handle on all the repeats. If they've been deliberately reposting stories with benevolent intentions, they need to come forward and say so.
$800 is a LOT of money to some people (we're talking a month's wages). Yes, even to people in the US. If you think the only reason that someone wouldn't have eight hundred dollars free to spend on a computer is that they've wasted it on a new car or gambling, you're delusional. I'm sure that there is the odd well-off person who just doesn't get it, but the assumption you seem to have made is ridiculous.
For the people who truly can't afford a new computer, cranking the last bit of juice from that k6-2 or PII 350 gives them a year or so to save up , after which they'll probably buy a $500 desktop.
55% of them "claim" they understand the interface better. The real number is probably off in one direction or another.
During any given time, at least 55% of people in the US probably claim that they could do a better job at governing the country than the Government. People tend to think they know better than "the other person".
Diaries are meant to be private...I've never seen a "diary column", but it doesn't seem like it's a diary in the original sense of the word.
Blogs are meant to be public, and the fact that they're online gives the author the feeling that it *just might* be read by thousands of people. Yes, the diary columns you're talking about are essentially the same thing on a local level (though a true diary isn't).
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I think it testifies more to the fact that geeks like to do interesting or amusing random stuff with computers that no one else has done before.
I don't see any carpenters bitching about do-it-yourself manuals. Why not, when pretty much all the information someone needs to make their own furniture, even pieces that are exactly like those in catalogs, is freely available?
Because most people don't want to make their own furniture, even if it's just following directions. Only a few people who are really into carpentry will build their own. The vast majority of people will go ahead and pay to have someone else do it rather than get their hands dirty.
$310? Hardly. A true white trash coffee table goes for twenty bucks at Goodwill, tops.
BeOS lives, technically, but in an incredibly small niche market of hobbyists. It's like the tree that keeps getting cut down to three feet tall because it's growing up in the hedge...It'll never be great, but it won't completely die for a long time. I still have a BeOS partition that I screw around with occasionally or boot up to show to a computer geek friend, but I seriously doubt it's going to take the Desktop market by storm.
The leaders are well-educated professionals with money and degrees. The people who actually blow themselves up are the ones who aren't good for much else.
Wasn't there a ruling just a few weeks back that the FCC didn't have the authority to regulate the Internet, which would include things like VoIP? Did that get overturned at some point?
That's because almost any non-specific opponent that's defeated will rise again, except in a few cases where the reason for their opposition is removed by their defeat. If a city eliminates every criminal inside its walls, they still won't eliminate crime. If a civilization eliminated money, they still wouldn't eliminate the desire for power and influence.
This is why the "wars" on drugs, terror, and poverty can never end.
Yeah, if you're going to charge for access, two or two fifty an hour makes more sense, especially if (like most coffeeshops I've seen) your clientele is composed largely of college students who probably get paid about that much an hour at work.
Instead of a solid time limit, you could just reserve the right to kick out people who haven't made a purchase in the last thirty/fourty minutes or so.
If I end up on the internet for an extended period of time at a coffeeshop/cafe, I generally make it a practice to keep buying drinks. It generally keeps the people running the place happy.
If you're going to try to convince someone to offer free WiFi, make sure they know that they might be liable for things customers use it for if they don't take the proper steps beforehand.
If the freedom that was surrendered is found in court to be too great, contracts can get rendered null and void.
Frankly, I think people should be held to their word and just think before they say or sign something, but the Law can go either way.
Well, technically we don't know whether it's so yet. It's just a temporary order until they get everything worked out. Of course, the year will be pretty much over by that time, so it might as well be so, even if it isn't.
I think I'm thinking too hard.
...Wouldn't an "Apple fanboy" probably already have a Mac running OS X? I could see a curious person that didn't want to spend several hundred dollars on a Mac to try out a new OS doing that, but not a "fanboy". This guy admits that he used computers from Apple in the past, but he hardly seems fanboy material.
>>The fact that you value inanimate objects over human life
Yes, I value not having to go through all sorts of crap and lose what I've earned because of a criminal more than I value that criminal's well-being. Your statement's an unrealistic sweeping generalization equating that with caring more about objects than people on the whole. People like you just end up encouraging criminals by giving them good targets.
If someone's stealing something of value from me and they won't surrender it when I produce a gun, they're going to get shot (and the court will almost definitely decide in my favor, at least here). If possible, I might've tried to take his leg out instead of killing him, but I wouldn't lose sleep at night if I did. I guess I'm not normal.
That's made even funnier by the fact that there's a can of it right next to my computer...It protects my data by ensuring that there aren't any roaches to crawl in any open expansion slots and fry my board.
And if the US goes bankrupt, so does China and the rest of the world that isn't still locked in tribal warfare with itself. All the crap between China and the US is posturing, at the moment.
Also, I think that all the US debt to China wouldn't really matter if the two ended up going to war or even cancelling relations with each other...You don't normally return money to someone when you're trying to kill each other.
You make me want a Grammar Fuhrer.
I think that might be the editors' intention- to let people that missed an article the first time around have a shot at reading and commenting on it. Now, perhaps if they would post and LET PEOPLE KNOW that that was their intention, repeat articles wouldn't get flooded by 100 "It's a dupe" posts.
Slashdot public opinion seems to be moving a bit in favor of the "It's a dupe!" crowd...Not that they're the majority, but where I saw -1 Redundant on all of the "dupe" posts a few months back, I'm seeing not only positive, but +4 and +5 moderations. If the editors are posting repeats with a plan in mind, they should say something, because it's obvious that a lot of people are regarding it as a problem.
Sometimes they admit that the story was "previously posted on Slashdot". I don't know if this only happens after everyone cries "Dupe!", but it's possible that they're deliberately reposting the article (or posting a different news carrier's story of it) for people who miss the first. Or maybe they just want to piss off the people who complain about dupes, but that's kinda doubtful.
Seeing as that number of dupe-callers is increasing, and the posts are getting modded up to +5 Funny or +5 Informative instead of -1 Redundant or Offtopic like they used to be, I'd say enough Slashdotters with mod points are getting miffed that they might want to get a handle on all the repeats. If they've been deliberately reposting stories with benevolent intentions, they need to come forward and say so.
$800 is a LOT of money to some people (we're talking a month's wages). Yes, even to people in the US. If you think the only reason that someone wouldn't have eight hundred dollars free to spend on a computer is that they've wasted it on a new car or gambling, you're delusional. I'm sure that there is the odd well-off person who just doesn't get it, but the assumption you seem to have made is ridiculous.
For the people who truly can't afford a new computer, cranking the last bit of juice from that k6-2 or PII 350 gives them a year or so to save up , after which they'll probably buy a $500 desktop.
55% of them "claim" they understand the interface better. The real number is probably off in one direction or another.
During any given time, at least 55% of people in the US probably claim that they could do a better job at governing the country than the Government. People tend to think they know better than "the other person".
Diaries are meant to be private...I've never seen a "diary column", but it doesn't seem like it's a diary in the original sense of the word.
Blogs are meant to be public, and the fact that they're online gives the author the feeling that it *just might* be read by thousands of people. Yes, the diary columns you're talking about are essentially the same thing on a local level (though a true diary isn't).
It was a jest. People in the US joke about invasions from and into Canada and Mexico all the time.
Don't worry. They have wizards, but RMS could probably count on the aid of the avatar of a god.