Well, most services coming from US-based companies only support US residents. Most US merchants won't ship outside US - google checkout or not - and many won't accept non-US credit cards even for shipping within the US. Say what? Nearly every US merchant I've come across ships internationally, and I've never come across one who wouldn't accept a non-US credit card. There are two very obvious reasons for this:
1) It would be illegal to do so, and
2) The merchant has neither input nor an interest in whether a credit card is a non-US card.
I love that we're finally getting to true electrics rather than hybrids. I still don't like that every car anyone plans on making still has something that burns fuel, though, be it an engine in the drivetrain or only a charging generator.
What I would be quite interested in, though, is be an small, comfortable, ultra-lightweight rolling chassis with a battery but without a generator that could go 40 miles on a charge. If it had moderate heat and air conditioning, along with a radio, and it wasn't so obscenely overpriced just because it's electric, I would be utterly thrilled. To me, this seems entirely commercially viable for $5,000-$10,000, and it could reduce emissions immensely for those of us with very short commutes. Way fewer parts, far less mass to move, easier to maneuver. Aside from the obvious safety concerns (I wouldn't want to get rammed by an Escalade in one of these), this sort of commuter car would be heaven.
I know these exist, but I wish they were as available as, say, Ford Escape hybrids.
Save your money. You will spend years paying back the "financial aid" and most of the course work is/will be irrelevant. USA model is start putting them in debt right out of high school.
Party with your friends and start a band or something. Just learn to code in C, read a good software engineering book then build a medium-complex application on a linux box, all on your own. I just saved you thousands of dollars.
Believe it.
This is entirely useless drivel. Fresh out of college, your odds of getting a call back from submitting a resume to an online job site or an ad in the paper are extremely slim. Your odds of getting a call back if you don't have any college listed on that resume are not far from 0.
If you're a good student and are willing to do some work during school (yes, it turns out college is actually difficult), you don't have to be in debt for years after you graduate. I went to an $18k/year school for 4 years and graduated debt-free with several thousand dollars in the bank. I paid for it all on my own aside from $10k from my parents; the rest was grants, scholarships and federal work-study and 2 years of being an RA. My parents earned about $60k/year if that gives you any baseline.
I'm now 24 years old. I live in Columbus, Ohio, where the cost of living is below the national average, and I make about as much programming SQL as both my parents make combined working at factories with no college education.
Now, I realize that anecdotal evidence doesn't prove anything, but I don't think there's any question that I wouldn't be where I am now if I hadn't gone to college, and unless you're a superstar, you stand a good change of passing up similar opportunities if you skip out, too.
You don't have to go to an $18k/year school. Hell, you don't strictly even have to go for four years. But even after doling out over $70,000 for my education, I don't regret it for a second.
And as hard as it was, college was the absolute best fucking time of my life.
This makes about as much sense as buying a sufficient quantity of cigarettes to get enough Marlboro Miles for a Harrier jet. Of course it's going to be hard. Of course it's going to be expensive. And of course you would be an idiot for trying to do this if you weren't going to smoke the cigarettes.
This post is grabbing one review for one piece of hardware and comaring it to a completely different review of another piece of hardware? That's just silly. Somebody let me know when there are some side-by-side comparisons of both controllers actually comparing the featuresets and performance of each.
Sorry, man, but this is Slashdot. It's no different than the Slashdot custom of taking one particular quote about MS and one quote about Linux and concluding that MS is evil. And in particular, this article was posted by Zonk, perhaps the absolute king of Slashdot spin.
Heck, if I see something that looks slick I'd avoid it on the simple premise that the product has a value in design as opposed to specifications and/or quality of parts.
I look forward to the money I will save and you will spend on Vista. I look forward to the knowledge I will gain and you will be ignorant of. I look forward to modifying my system and my code to my liking, while you look forward to being locked out, broken apps and slashed features, and unsolvable crashes. (lest I forget the required reboots and reinstalls)
I look forward to saving 10 to 20 hours setting up my OS. I look forward to my applications and drivers working properly out of the box. I look forward to getting professional support and service instead of posting online in a Linux forum to ask for help from condescending 16-year-olds with all the answers who tell the neophytes to STFU and RTFM.
Of course, I can't deny that all the OSS knowledge you'll gain will help you immensely throughout your life. You'll likely also meet lots of women now that you've spent so much time learning Linux; they swoon over that kind of stuff.
Nice to see our government is looking out for the interests of all and protecting the freedom of all to access govt. publications by putting these in a proprietary format like Windows Media Video.
those of us who always thought that the rebates were a scam (or were too lazy to mail in the card) finally get some savings.
Because not everyone will ask for their rebate retailers are able to squeeze more cash out of their customers.
End quote.
The problem with your analysis is you completely overlook all the people (myself included) who diligently mail in their rebates and never receive payment.
I've started taking digital photos of all my packaging, UPCs, rebate forms, and envelopes addressed to the rebate people. I would say that literally the majority of the time I send in a rebate form, I never get the rebate. After about 2 months with no check, I print and mail the digital photos of my rebate stuff, throw in a hint of legal action, and my rebates magically arrive within about 5 business days.
Neither of these formats is going to go anywhere unless there is a way to make backup copies. This so-called "hole" is actually a feature, not a bug.
I predict that this format war will end when one of these two formats finally has a robust backup solution. At that moment in time, the other format will be dead.
It's funny you should say that, because, really, I can't think of anyone I know who keeps backups of their movies unless they pirated the movie in the first place. The only people who care about backups are those who don't pay for the movies. What this means, most importantly, is that the "backupability" of a movie is going to have virtually zero negative impact upon the companies' bottom lines.
Re:Has the survey been credible in the past?
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This is Slashdot. The statistics are only credible when they point out a Microsoft flaw.
Yet another unbiased Slashdot posting...
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Apache down, IIS up
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Statistics are fun to play with, of course, but note that Apache's marketshare is approximately 30% higher than IIS's at the moment.
Has anyone else noticed that Slashdot is pretty much incapable of publishing any story with so much as a tiny semblance of being pro-Microsoft without taking some sort of potshot somewhere in the summary?
But where is your ability to walk into a convenience store, plop down $100 in cash, and buy a temporary debit card with $100 which is not associated with your name? You can buy a phone card in this manner, but where can you buy an anonymous debit card?
By definition, an anonymous debit card cannot exist; that's self-contradictory. Not that I care, since I'm not the one griping about how horrible credit transaction logging is, but you can walk into a store and purchase non-personalized American Express gift cards for yourself in denominations from $25 to $500. I suspect other institutions offer these as well.
You think that cash back comes from nowhere? The prices of all those products have been forced upward to pay for that cash back, so you are not winning one cent here. Your enjoyment of this is enjoyment of a well-structured illusion.
Except that there are hundreds of other cards that don't offer rewards and people are paying for them, and there are millions of people paying millions of dollars in interest on their balances. I'm quite happy to get in on a piece of that. The single most obvious problem with your reasoning is that the best-known credit institution don't charge 5% of the transaction price, and it's at least arguable that credit cards induce spending such that sellers' sale volume increases, which would help preclude sellers' prices from being "forced upward" (your words).
Instead, we have private companies maintaining these databases and the State accesses them when it needs to.
Either way, we have sacrificed true freedom for convenience - and we have done so without ANY meaningful public discourse upon the matter.
I'm not sure who "we" is here. Nobody is forcing you to carry credit cards. Don't want your credit transactions logged? Then use cash. Simple.
I'm slightly more worried about what could happen if somebody didn't log these transactions. There goes my entire statement history and the company's and government's ability to make things right if a financial mistake has been made.
And by the way. I, personally, enjoy my 5% cash back on gasoline, groceries, and drugstore purchases.
As it looks to me,.Net is the "soup of the day" at MS..Net will be replaced in 3-5 years with something else that will require MS customers to re-purchase their development tool chain.
That's funny; this is exactly what a lot of people said about.Net four years ago when it was released...
The computing world has long standardized on C++/Java. Writing to a dead and platform specific technology is not very smart.
You are just wasting time for yourself, or the people who replace you, when your stuff gets migrated to Linux.
This is probably the most ignorant thing I have heard today. Aside from the fact that.NET is neither platform-dependent, nor dead, you have a wonderful post. Oh, except for the part about wasting time, being replacing, and Linux migration.
My 10-man company is making millions this very minute with C#.
Go read a book and consider trolling elsewhere. I would mod you down, however it looks like the others have beaten me to it.
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1) It would be illegal to do so, and
2) The merchant has neither input nor an interest in whether a credit card is a non-US card.
I love that we're finally getting to true electrics rather than hybrids. I still don't like that every car anyone plans on making still has something that burns fuel, though, be it an engine in the drivetrain or only a charging generator.
What I would be quite interested in, though, is be an small, comfortable, ultra-lightweight rolling chassis with a battery but without a generator that could go 40 miles on a charge. If it had moderate heat and air conditioning, along with a radio, and it wasn't so obscenely overpriced just because it's electric, I would be utterly thrilled. To me, this seems entirely commercially viable for $5,000-$10,000, and it could reduce emissions immensely for those of us with very short commutes. Way fewer parts, far less mass to move, easier to maneuver. Aside from the obvious safety concerns (I wouldn't want to get rammed by an Escalade in one of these), this sort of commuter car would be heaven.
I know these exist, but I wish they were as available as, say, Ford Escape hybrids.
We certainly wouldn't expect Slashdot to cover a positive review of the Zune.
Save your money. You will spend years paying back the "financial aid" and most of the course work is/will be irrelevant. USA model is start putting them in debt right out of high school.
Party with your friends and start a band or something. Just learn to code in C, read a good software engineering book then build a medium-complex application on a linux box, all on your own. I just saved you thousands of dollars.
Believe it.
This is entirely useless drivel. Fresh out of college, your odds of getting a call back from submitting a resume to an online job site or an ad in the paper are extremely slim. Your odds of getting a call back if you don't have any college listed on that resume are not far from 0.
If you're a good student and are willing to do some work during school (yes, it turns out college is actually difficult), you don't have to be in debt for years after you graduate. I went to an $18k/year school for 4 years and graduated debt-free with several thousand dollars in the bank. I paid for it all on my own aside from $10k from my parents; the rest was grants, scholarships and federal work-study and 2 years of being an RA. My parents earned about $60k/year if that gives you any baseline.
I'm now 24 years old. I live in Columbus, Ohio, where the cost of living is below the national average, and I make about as much programming SQL as both my parents make combined working at factories with no college education.
Now, I realize that anecdotal evidence doesn't prove anything, but I don't think there's any question that I wouldn't be where I am now if I hadn't gone to college, and unless you're a superstar, you stand a good change of passing up similar opportunities if you skip out, too.
You don't have to go to an $18k/year school. Hell, you don't strictly even have to go for four years. But even after doling out over $70,000 for my education, I don't regret it for a second.
And as hard as it was, college was the absolute best fucking time of my life.
This makes about as much sense as buying a sufficient quantity of cigarettes to get enough Marlboro Miles for a Harrier jet. Of course it's going to be hard. Of course it's going to be expensive. And of course you would be an idiot for trying to do this if you weren't going to smoke the cigarettes.
This post is grabbing one review for one piece of hardware and comaring it to a completely different review of another piece of hardware? That's just silly. Somebody let me know when there are some side-by-side comparisons of both controllers actually comparing the featuresets and performance of each.
Sorry, man, but this is Slashdot. It's no different than the Slashdot custom of taking one particular quote about MS and one quote about Linux and concluding that MS is evil. And in particular, this article was posted by Zonk, perhaps the absolute king of Slashdot spin.
they are a waste of taxpayer dollars
So where do you think the $500K is coming from?
Heck, if I see something that looks slick I'd avoid it on the simple premise that the product has a value in design as opposed to specifications and/or quality of parts.
Attractive outward appearance doesn't preclude quality.
I look forward to the money I will save and you will spend on Vista. I look forward to the knowledge I will gain and you will be ignorant of. I look forward to modifying my system and my code to my liking, while you look forward to being locked out, broken apps and slashed features, and unsolvable crashes. (lest I forget the required reboots and reinstalls)
I look forward to saving 10 to 20 hours setting up my OS. I look forward to my applications and drivers working properly out of the box. I look forward to getting professional support and service instead of posting online in a Linux forum to ask for help from condescending 16-year-olds with all the answers who tell the neophytes to STFU and RTFM.
Of course, I can't deny that all the OSS knowledge you'll gain will help you immensely throughout your life. You'll likely also meet lots of women now that you've spent so much time learning Linux; they swoon over that kind of stuff.
I don't care whether the "true" cost of a gallon of gasoline is $2, $20, or $200. Price fixing is price fixing, whether subsidized or not.
DRAM is cheap as all hell. Couldn't the government spend their resources on a more important bit of price fixing, like, say, automotive fuel?
Oh, right... -grumble-
Nice to see our government is looking out for the interests of all and protecting the freedom of all to access govt. publications by putting these in a proprietary format like Windows Media Video.
Hold on a minute while I get my tiny violin.
...find it strange that we have physicists doing research about news story lifespans? How is this relevant to physics?
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but a scheme.
those of us who always thought that the rebates were a scam (or were too lazy to mail in the card) finally get some savings.
Because not everyone will ask for their rebate retailers are able to squeeze more cash out of their customers.
End quote.
The problem with your analysis is you completely overlook all the people (myself included) who diligently mail in their rebates and never receive payment.
I've started taking digital photos of all my packaging, UPCs, rebate forms, and envelopes addressed to the rebate people. I would say that literally the majority of the time I send in a rebate form, I never get the rebate. After about 2 months with no check, I print and mail the digital photos of my rebate stuff, throw in a hint of legal action, and my rebates magically arrive within about 5 business days.
Neither of these formats is going to go anywhere unless there is a way to make backup copies. This so-called "hole" is actually a feature, not a bug.
I predict that this format war will end when one of these two formats finally has a robust backup solution. At that moment in time, the other format will be dead.
It's funny you should say that, because, really, I can't think of anyone I know who keeps backups of their movies unless they pirated the movie in the first place. The only people who care about backups are those who don't pay for the movies. What this means, most importantly, is that the "backupability" of a movie is going to have virtually zero negative impact upon the companies' bottom lines.
...the sky is blue.
This is Slashdot. The statistics are only credible when they point out a Microsoft flaw.
Statistics are fun to play with, of course, but note that Apache's marketshare is approximately 30% higher than IIS's at the moment.
Has anyone else noticed that Slashdot is pretty much incapable of publishing any story with so much as a tiny semblance of being pro-Microsoft without taking some sort of potshot somewhere in the summary?
But where is your ability to walk into a convenience store, plop down $100 in cash, and buy a temporary debit card with $100 which is not associated with your name? You can buy a phone card in this manner, but where can you buy an anonymous debit card?
By definition, an anonymous debit card cannot exist; that's self-contradictory. Not that I care, since I'm not the one griping about how horrible credit transaction logging is, but you can walk into a store and purchase non-personalized American Express gift cards for yourself in denominations from $25 to $500. I suspect other institutions offer these as well.
You think that cash back comes from nowhere? The prices of all those products have been forced upward to pay for that cash back, so you are not winning one cent here. Your enjoyment of this is enjoyment of a well-structured illusion.
Except that there are hundreds of other cards that don't offer rewards and people are paying for them, and there are millions of people paying millions of dollars in interest on their balances. I'm quite happy to get in on a piece of that. The single most obvious problem with your reasoning is that the best-known credit institution don't charge 5% of the transaction price, and it's at least arguable that credit cards induce spending such that sellers' sale volume increases, which would help preclude sellers' prices from being "forced upward" (your words).
Instead, we have private companies maintaining these databases and the State accesses them when it needs to.
Either way, we have sacrificed true freedom for convenience - and we have done so without ANY meaningful public discourse upon the matter.
I'm not sure who "we" is here. Nobody is forcing you to carry credit cards. Don't want your credit transactions logged? Then use cash. Simple.
I'm slightly more worried about what could happen if somebody didn't log these transactions. There goes my entire statement history and the company's and government's ability to make things right if a financial mistake has been made.
And by the way. I, personally, enjoy my 5% cash back on gasoline, groceries, and drugstore purchases.
As it looks to me, .Net is the "soup of the day" at MS. .Net will be replaced in 3-5 years with something else that will require MS customers to re-purchase their development tool chain.
.Net four years ago when it was released...
That's funny; this is exactly what a lot of people said about
It's, "Happy New Year." Why does nobody understand that it's only one new year? It's not "New Years" or "New Year's" but "New Year."
Moreover, 2759677 has 7 digits, which is prime too! How fun.
The word "seven" has 5 letters, which is prime too! And if you subtract 2 from 5, you get 3, which is also prime!
I can't begin to imagine why.
My favorite thing about Slashdot is that the article summaries are so objective.
The computing world has long standardized on C++/Java. Writing to a dead and platform specific technology is not very smart.
.NET is neither platform-dependent, nor dead, you have a wonderful post. Oh, except for the part about wasting time, being replacing, and Linux migration.
You are just wasting time for yourself, or the people who replace you, when your stuff gets migrated to Linux.
This is probably the most ignorant thing I have heard today. Aside from the fact that
My 10-man company is making millions this very minute with C#.
Go read a book and consider trolling elsewhere. I would mod you down, however it looks like the others have beaten me to it.