More like $2,950 + airfare + hotel + transportation to facility + tax + missed work + opportunity cost of spending all that money on a temporary experience.
When you have the government limiting the ability for communities to provide broadband to support companies I don't think complaining to them would help.
And it's not just people in rural areas. I can't get anything over three megs and I live less than 5 miles from my state capitol.
An adult has the mental faculties and maturity to approach new things with care, learn before doing and seek help when necessary, without having a total disregard for the rest of people.
In a few hundred years cultural anthropologists will be using blogs to figure out what life was like for regular people "way back when." Imagine if the ancient Greeks or Romans or Egyptians had even an insignificant number of regular people blogging; it would have been a tremendous boon to the knowledge we have about their societies.
So while it looks like pedantic rambling to us, it will be really useful if even a fraction survives. And since it's digital, it's more likely to survive than any other medium.
First, this is slashdot. There's no chance of anyone here getting "lucky" unless you mean using "I'm feeling lucky" on Google.
Second, if a woman doesn't like me because I don't drive a nice car, she's a shallow, high-maintainence bitch who isn't worth my time, no matter how hot she is.
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I once heard a news story where a Chinese government official said that having a car in every garage is the sign of an advanced society.
"That doesn't make any sense, " I thought. "If a society is advanced, a person shouldn't need a car to get around. It should be a luxury purchase."
An advanced society is able to have effective, efficient, and cheap public transportation. The fact that we rely on cars to move people around shows how far we have to go towards an advanced society, not just a rich one.
I would love to give up my car. I'm looking at houses within walking or biking distance of my job, so that I can lose the cost. But right now I have to drive 40 miles to and from work each day. Not because I want to, but because a long time ago a war hero who got elected president decided to cut rail funding in favor of building 30 meter wide swaths of concrete across the countryside. And then wasting my tax dollars on maintaining them.
I just dropped $55 on an inspection and emissions test because I need to drive to and from work. That's $55 I can't spend on a new hard drive or computer. I spend $40 a week (A WEEK!) on gas because there's no way I can commute.
I can't imagine how difficult it would be if I were someone on a limited income trying to hold down a job without a car. Public transportation doesn't go into the suburbs, where the money and jobs are, so I'd be confined to one small area for everything, or paying out the ass for taxis to haul me to and from work.
An outpost from an advanced civilization could survive in Martian conditions using technology that's similar to what a future Mars mission might be using. There's plenty of raw materials on Mars to make liquid water and oxygen.
4.5 year old Power Mac G4 here. Current uptime is 39 days 20:29 minutes, and it's used every day for web, email and word processing. Not bad for a 400MHz machine.
Server software to do this could be written in a weekend in Perl, PHP and MySQL. Take an old PC and turn it into a server and you can share calendars and send invitations and reminders via good ol' IMAP or HTTP.
If I had the time I'd hack one together myself. But I guess that's why one doesn't exist yet.
Sunbird offers calendar sharing. It can subscribe to (.ics formatted) calendars from anywhere on the web, LAN, or local machine. Just put personal calendar files in shared folders on every machine, and have a company one on your server. It's dead simple to share calendars, and you can even edit them remotely if you have permissions.
Controlling permissions is the same as controlling them on any shared folder or file, and you're not paying per-license fees.
Set up a WebDAV server and you can even access them remotely.
Sigs have 120 char limit. If you have a URL that's over 120 chars, you can't put it in your sig. If it's an interesting link that you want in your sig, you use TinyURL.
Even better: Imagine launching skylab-sized pre-made constructing bunkers for building in space, complete with robotic arms and spacesuits and tools and a machine shop. It would make large construction products much cheaper.
The shuttle orbiter weighs in at 99,318 kg fully loaded. I'm not sure how much of that is the engines, but if we weren't busy launching bricks-and-wings into space we'd be able to lift more than 50 metric tons to LEO. For crew return we can use a capsule with an ablative heat shield, and the crew wouldn't have to worry about finding their way out of an exploding craft moving supersonically to eject, just put an escape rocket on the capsule like with early spacecraft.
Something tells me that would be cheaper than the shuttle, and get more done, and be more adaptable.
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More like $2,950 + airfare + hotel + transportation to facility + tax + missed work + opportunity cost of spending all that money on a temporary experience.
And it's not just people in rural areas. I can't get anything over three megs and I live less than 5 miles from my state capitol.
You must be new here.
So while it looks like pedantic rambling to us, it will be really useful if even a fraction survives. And since it's digital, it's more likely to survive than any other medium.
Second, if a woman doesn't like me because I don't drive a nice car, she's a shallow, high-maintainence bitch who isn't worth my time, no matter how hot she is.
"That doesn't make any sense, " I thought. "If a society is advanced, a person shouldn't need a car to get around. It should be a luxury purchase."
An advanced society is able to have effective, efficient, and cheap public transportation. The fact that we rely on cars to move people around shows how far we have to go towards an advanced society, not just a rich one.
I would love to give up my car. I'm looking at houses within walking or biking distance of my job, so that I can lose the cost. But right now I have to drive 40 miles to and from work each day. Not because I want to, but because a long time ago a war hero who got elected president decided to cut rail funding in favor of building 30 meter wide swaths of concrete across the countryside. And then wasting my tax dollars on maintaining them.
I just dropped $55 on an inspection and emissions test because I need to drive to and from work. That's $55 I can't spend on a new hard drive or computer. I spend $40 a week (A WEEK!) on gas because there's no way I can commute.
I can't imagine how difficult it would be if I were someone on a limited income trying to hold down a job without a car. Public transportation doesn't go into the suburbs, where the money and jobs are, so I'd be confined to one small area for everything, or paying out the ass for taxis to haul me to and from work.
Things have got to change.
You must be the guy I see picking his nose every morning in traffic...
Yes, but he repented, so it's cool.
There's a difference, though. You're not at the helm of a 5,000 pound block of of screaming metal doom.
But that's me.
You can't buy profit? Someone better tell Microsoft!
That's funny... that's what they said about Native Americans. And look what happened to them once the land became useful to us.
An outpost from an advanced civilization could survive in Martian conditions using technology that's similar to what a future Mars mission might be using. There's plenty of raw materials on Mars to make liquid water and oxygen.
Anybody know where they sell ethernet adapters for them still?
4.5 year old Power Mac G4 here. Current uptime is 39 days 20:29 minutes, and it's used every day for web, email and word processing. Not bad for a 400MHz machine.
Integration is a synonym for bloat.
With apologies to Ghandi:
First they dismiss you, then they FUD you, then they copy you, then you win.
If I had the time I'd hack one together myself. But I guess that's why one doesn't exist yet.
Sunbird offers calendar sharing. It can subscribe to (.ics formatted) calendars from anywhere on the web, LAN, or local machine. Just put personal calendar files in shared folders on every machine, and have a company one on your server. It's dead simple to share calendars, and you can even edit them remotely if you have permissions.
Controlling permissions is the same as controlling them on any shared folder or file, and you're not paying per-license fees.
Set up a WebDAV server and you can even access them remotely.
Mine's a link to an NPR story.
Just use some of the asteroidal material to make an ablative heat shield.
Wait ten years.
Even better: Imagine launching skylab-sized pre-made constructing bunkers for building in space, complete with robotic arms and spacesuits and tools and a machine shop. It would make large construction products much cheaper.
Energia
Saturn V:
Delta IV Heavy
Something tells me that would be cheaper than the shuttle, and get more done, and be more adaptable.