Apparently not. I visited NYC and (tried) to take the trains around the city. Wow. No schedule anywhere. At most, we found one route map on a wall in each station, after you pay to get in. I never once saw a schedule. We couldn't even find maps. The NYC train system is apparently not interested in disseminating any of their secret information.
"I didn't realize that Cable TV was such a lucrative market that they could afford to buy a media conglomerate.
If there's so much profit in the market, maybe there isn't enough competition."
Seriously? You didn't realize this? Now, I haven't had TV in 10+ years, so maybe I'm missing something, but for people who want "TV" in the traditional sense, how many options do they have at home for getting "TV"?
Have you ever considered watching it online? It's free AND the companies get real viewership numbers. I haven't had cable/satellite TV in over a decade, and I still watch all of my TV shows.
I'm willing to pay as much as $20K for software for a single store. That's a lot of $$ for software.
Unfortunately, that same $20K wouldn't even get a developer past the architecture phase. Besides, if I *did* spend hundreds of thousands of dollars reinventing the wheel, I certainly wouldn't hand that software to all of my competitors who didn't have to sell their firstborn children to pay for it like I did.
It's been said many, many, many, times before but the average user doesn't have any concept how much bandwidth costs for the circuit to a carrier alone, much less the hardware required to light it.
You're right. I don't. All I know is that my ISPs charge me $xxx for XX MB/s. How much it actually costs them is irrelevant.
I, for one, am sick of hearing about "data compatibility" and "data lock-in" as being a reason that people stay with Windows. Anybody who has even a passing knowledge of PC's knows that this is just false. Virtually any application in existence has at LEAST one alternative way to dump data out of it. Every MS app that I know can do that. "Data compatibility" is simply not a problem, and it's a red herring to say otherwise.
My company is staying with XP because 1. It works 2. There's no reason for us to upgrade and 3. Our APPLICATIONS (not our data) are tied to XP. If I really wanted to, I could dump our data from our XP apps and dump it into comparable apps in Vista or Linux. Data really doesn't hold anybody hostage these days.
In the business world, it's simple. Shut down the corporation, and start another. It's too big to even consider paying, so the company that is being sued will just fold. That's why bars don't get insurance, generally: it's too expensive, and if something goes wrong, it's too expensive to deal with, so the bar's corporation just goes away, and it will generally re-launch under "new ownership". Happens every day.
No, at the very least, Sourceforge, Inc (the owner of Slashdot), is doing it as well.
(From their latest 10-K filing):
We protect our intellectual property through a combination of copyright, trademark, patent and trade secret laws, employee and third-party nondisclosure agreements, and other methods of protection.
Why would ANYBODY think of using a laptop's speakers for sound? That's ridiculously stupid. Get a 1/8" audio cable from Wal-Mart for $1.99 and plug the computer into a real stereo. I've been doing it since SoundBlaster 1.0 was released. It's not any harder than plugging headphones into an iPod, for the love of christ. Guess, what, my laptop IS my home theater system. Has been for about a decade. I just have my $1.99 Wal-Mart wire running from my laptop to my amp.
As far as "surround sound goes", what a crock that is. So you have some stupid action flick that has an explosion that is behind you, and one that's in front. BIG DEAL. It still sounds like crap.
Here's my solution for a home theater system:
1. Plug audio cable from any crappy computer into any halfway decent stereo amp.
2. Enjoy.
Your signature is pretty ironic considering what you posted. Some things are more important than money. The sheer scientific coolness of this achievement is reason enough to keep the project going.
What's the point? MP3's? Welcome to 1990! With storage and processing power as ridiculously cheap as it is, why do people still use MP3's? I don't understand it. I've got my entire music collection stored as FLAC right now on a single half-gig hard drive. I think that in a few years, even that will be pointless, and we'll be back to storing our music as WAV's again. So, why do people still bother with crappy 128 bit MP3's?
Too bad he didn't ask, "How many people have data stored in old word processor formats that they cannot access?". He wouldn't see any hands go up.
It's hysterics. Old file formats are going to stay readable because there's simply no reason to dump the compatibility. I'm not worried that one day, in the distant future, that NO software will exist that can open a Word 97 file. That's just absurdly ridiculous.
Yes, but for a small business, with nobody to rely on at all, I'd really rather trust MS with my data, than either some small consulting company trying to nickel-and-dime me to death, or myself. I would love to have my most important apps hosted. I already switched to hosted Exchange Server and it's great not having to worry about the mail system. I moved my web hosting out of house years ago. The liability and security headaches are left up to somebody who knows more about what they're doing than I do. And, small business IT consultants are crooks, quite honestly.
I'm one of a LOT of people that I know that hasn't had a land line at home for many years. I can't imagine why somebody would want one. Having a phone ringing at my house all the time with telemarketers would be terrible. Why do people still have land lines at home (assuming cell service is available where you live)?
At this point, our best hope would appear to be to hope that someone sensible like Laurence Lessig or William Patry gets appointed
I hope you're kidding. In case you've been asleep for 8 years, the US has gone further and further towards Big Brother to the point where having our rights suspended in a city where there's a Republican National Convention is no longer shocking. Whoever is appointed to this post will be as dumb, vicious, and bloodthirsty as possible. I mean, really, do you think for a second that Dick Cheney and Karl Rove are going to appoint someone like Lessig?
No, they'll pick someone who is about law enforcement and headlines. Somebody who probably works or worked as a lawyer for the MPAA or RIAA. It's going to be a real shitstorm. Expect to see new, harsher mandatory sentence laws passed soon. There's money in prisons and fines!
I suspect there's a flaw in the US cultural system that prevents achievement on the academic front as valuable
You think? Anybody paying any attention to the current presidential election will see the Republican Party attempting to portray education = bad, ignorant= good. (Dumb) people buy it. It's a serious cultural problem in there here United States.
Actually, when it comes to something as important as software, I doubt it's something that any responsible business owner/manager would skimp on. I run a very small business, but there's no way I'd skimp on $$ for software. I'll spend whatever it takes to get the job done (and no, there is no FOSS software that's even close to the big ticket software I'm getting ready to buy).
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Apparently not. I visited NYC and (tried) to take the trains around the city. Wow. No schedule anywhere. At most, we found one route map on a wall in each station, after you pay to get in. I never once saw a schedule. We couldn't even find maps. The NYC train system is apparently not interested in disseminating any of their secret information.
"I didn't realize that Cable TV was such a lucrative market that they could afford to buy a media conglomerate. If there's so much profit in the market, maybe there isn't enough competition." Seriously? You didn't realize this? Now, I haven't had TV in 10+ years, so maybe I'm missing something, but for people who want "TV" in the traditional sense, how many options do they have at home for getting "TV"?
Have you ever considered watching it online? It's free AND the companies get real viewership numbers. I haven't had cable/satellite TV in over a decade, and I still watch all of my TV shows.
Yeah, I've been looking for several years now. They all suck pretty badly.
So, instead of selling dog and cat food, I now have to get into the business of software support? Uuuuh, no thanks.
I'm willing to pay as much as $20K for software for a single store. That's a lot of $$ for software.
Unfortunately, that same $20K wouldn't even get a developer past the architecture phase. Besides, if I *did* spend hundreds of thousands of dollars reinventing the wheel, I certainly wouldn't hand that software to all of my competitors who didn't have to sell their firstborn children to pay for it like I did.
It's been said many, many, many, times before but the average user doesn't have any concept how much bandwidth costs for the circuit to a carrier alone, much less the hardware required to light it.
You're right. I don't. All I know is that my ISPs charge me $xxx for XX MB/s. How much it actually costs them is irrelevant.
Would love to save $$$ with OSS, but the software I need (robust, full-featured POS system) is non-existent. Bummer.
I, for one, am sick of hearing about "data compatibility" and "data lock-in" as being a reason that people stay with Windows. Anybody who has even a passing knowledge of PC's knows that this is just false. Virtually any application in existence has at LEAST one alternative way to dump data out of it. Every MS app that I know can do that. "Data compatibility" is simply not a problem, and it's a red herring to say otherwise.
My company is staying with XP because 1. It works 2. There's no reason for us to upgrade and 3. Our APPLICATIONS (not our data) are tied to XP. If I really wanted to, I could dump our data from our XP apps and dump it into comparable apps in Vista or Linux. Data really doesn't hold anybody hostage these days.
Where can you get a 64 GB SSD for $150? I'd buy about 10 of those right now if I could find 'em.
In the business world, it's simple. Shut down the corporation, and start another. It's too big to even consider paying, so the company that is being sued will just fold. That's why bars don't get insurance, generally: it's too expensive, and if something goes wrong, it's too expensive to deal with, so the bar's corporation just goes away, and it will generally re-launch under "new ownership". Happens every day.
No, at the very least, Sourceforge, Inc (the owner of Slashdot), is doing it as well.
(From their latest 10-K filing):
We protect our intellectual property through a combination of copyright, trademark, patent and trade secret laws, employee and third-party nondisclosure agreements, and other methods of protection.
Uh, why? What does this thing do that a generic computer doesn't?
Why would ANYBODY think of using a laptop's speakers for sound? That's ridiculously stupid. Get a 1/8" audio cable from Wal-Mart for $1.99 and plug the computer into a real stereo. I've been doing it since SoundBlaster 1.0 was released. It's not any harder than plugging headphones into an iPod, for the love of christ. Guess, what, my laptop IS my home theater system. Has been for about a decade. I just have my $1.99 Wal-Mart wire running from my laptop to my amp.
As far as "surround sound goes", what a crock that is. So you have some stupid action flick that has an explosion that is behind you, and one that's in front. BIG DEAL. It still sounds like crap.
Here's my solution for a home theater system:
1. Plug audio cable from any crappy computer into any halfway decent stereo amp.
2. Enjoy.
This interview:
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If he was such a "free" messiah, then he wouldn't have agreed to do this interview.
Your signature is pretty ironic considering what you posted. Some things are more important than money. The sheer scientific coolness of this achievement is reason enough to keep the project going.
What's the point? MP3's? Welcome to 1990! With storage and processing power as ridiculously cheap as it is, why do people still use MP3's? I don't understand it. I've got my entire music collection stored as FLAC right now on a single half-gig hard drive. I think that in a few years, even that will be pointless, and we'll be back to storing our music as WAV's again. So, why do people still bother with crappy 128 bit MP3's?
Too bad he didn't ask, "How many people have data stored in old word processor formats that they cannot access?". He wouldn't see any hands go up.
It's hysterics. Old file formats are going to stay readable because there's simply no reason to dump the compatibility. I'm not worried that one day, in the distant future, that NO software will exist that can open a Word 97 file. That's just absurdly ridiculous.
Yes, but for a small business, with nobody to rely on at all, I'd really rather trust MS with my data, than either some small consulting company trying to nickel-and-dime me to death, or myself. I would love to have my most important apps hosted. I already switched to hosted Exchange Server and it's great not having to worry about the mail system. I moved my web hosting out of house years ago. The liability and security headaches are left up to somebody who knows more about what they're doing than I do. And, small business IT consultants are crooks, quite honestly.
No. The dumb electorate get what they deserve.
I'm one of a LOT of people that I know that hasn't had a land line at home for many years. I can't imagine why somebody would want one. Having a phone ringing at my house all the time with telemarketers would be terrible. Why do people still have land lines at home (assuming cell service is available where you live)?
At this point, our best hope would appear to be to hope that someone sensible like Laurence Lessig or William Patry gets appointed
I hope you're kidding. In case you've been asleep for 8 years, the US has gone further and further towards Big Brother to the point where having our rights suspended in a city where there's a Republican National Convention is no longer shocking. Whoever is appointed to this post will be as dumb, vicious, and bloodthirsty as possible. I mean, really, do you think for a second that Dick Cheney and Karl Rove are going to appoint someone like Lessig?
No, they'll pick someone who is about law enforcement and headlines. Somebody who probably works or worked as a lawyer for the MPAA or RIAA. It's going to be a real shitstorm. Expect to see new, harsher mandatory sentence laws passed soon. There's money in prisons and fines!
I suspect there's a flaw in the US cultural system that prevents achievement on the academic front as valuable
You think? Anybody paying any attention to the current presidential election will see the Republican Party attempting to portray education = bad, ignorant= good. (Dumb) people buy it. It's a serious cultural problem in there here United States.
Actually, when it comes to something as important as software, I doubt it's something that any responsible business owner/manager would skimp on. I run a very small business, but there's no way I'd skimp on $$ for software. I'll spend whatever it takes to get the job done (and no, there is no FOSS software that's even close to the big ticket software I'm getting ready to buy).