Yours seems antiquated. My 4 handset Panasonic system has a shared phonebook - add a number to one, it shows on all instantly. Also it sets its own time off of the phone network.
Step 2 would be to switch to a VOIP provider that can give you all of the call logging and other things you talk about. We have Vonage but any VOIP provider has all that stuff, and more.
And why can't you achieve that using local websites?
IE, no one is going to visit www.smallvilletimes.net except residents of Smallville. Ok, maybe a few more, but not many. So why do you feel justified paying $1,000 for a newspaper ad with circulation of 10K households, but only $100 for an ad on local website with 10K daily impressions? It makes zero sense to me.
Every time I see a story like this I ask the same question to myself, and have yet to hear an appropriate answer.
Why can a newspapers and magazines charge 100 times more for an ad on ink, that reaches a tiny fraction of the people that an online ad reaches? The economics of it make no sense to me. Is there some research that shows people are more likely yo pay attention to print ads than online ads? Because I have never paid attention to a print ad in my life.
Why don't newspaper websites (which are very popular) just charge more for online ads, comperable rates to what they charge for print ads?
What happens when the newspapers and magazines have such low subscribership that they can't justify their high ad prices anymore - will then THEN feel justified to charge more for their online ads?
The way Linux software is distributed, makes it much less likely to get a virus. You know how many applications I have downloaded from random websites in the past 2 years for my Linux system? Maybe, 2. All of the rest are in the centrally managed, (hopefully) certified virus-free application repository, which is free for all.
The idea that a Linux user would download random stuff from a torrent or website is a pretty foreign concept. For me, and moth others, if it isn't in the repository, I don't bother - because there is probably something in the repository that suits my needs just as well or better anyway.
Right. Just like more choices among PC hardware has led to it having the smallest number of available applications, and the Mac platform, with it's more defined hardware base, has more.
Oh wait!
The apps come to the platform. The platform with the most users is going to have the most apps written for it.
If the only way you can tell the difference is in a "controlled environment" by someone with "listening experience" (whatever that means0, then the difference is completely irrelevant, both to the average person and to the marketplace.
....when the sex of the contributor is more often than not completely unknown?
I see a contribution from a "Terry", I have no idea if that is a male or female, and really why would I care? Either the code is god, o rit isn't. Why would sex ever have any bearing at all?
Frankly I really don't even get how a claim of sexism could exist in the FOSS world. It just doesn't translate from meat-space, because frankly, more often than not you have no idea the sex of the person in the first place. And really, that is how it should be.
Any sane admin has their own local apt repository, that they point all production and testing servers at. That repository has both "stable" and "testing" branches, like any apt server. All of the production servers grab off of the "stable", and all of the testing off of "testing".
The trick is, this repository SHOULD NOT be a mirror of the actual debian repository. Rather, the "testing" of your internal server should be a mirror of the "stable" debian tree. Then, weekly or daily or whenever new debian "stable" packages come out, you update your testing boxes, and TEST the packages against your local software. If something breaks, no harm no foul - you wait till the next update.
Once everything is tested OK, you sync those packages over to YOUR "stable" branch, and then that night all of your production servers will automatically get those updates. No fuss, no muss.
The 3 things you cite, gold silver and mac & cheese, have all risen in price the past few years for totally different reasons, none of them having to do with core inflation. Gold and silver has risen as a result of the economic collapse - gold and silver *always* rise during the period before and during a recession, because people want safe places to put their money.
Mac & cheese has risen by 14% because the price of wheat worldwide has risen dramatically during the past few years, due to various shortages that have absolutely nothing to do with the buying power of the dollar.
If you think core inflation is happening right now, then why is the price if energy so low? Why has the price of most consumer goods gone DOWN during the recession?
Google has no interest in controlling the browser market. For one, there is no money in it. For two, Google is not a software company, they are an advertising compan.
The edict has come down from on top at Google, both in private and public many times - what is good for the web, is good for business. The more people use the web to accomplish everyday tasks, they more they will rely on ad-sponsored Google services. Google does not care a lick which browser they use to access those services, as long as the browser is fast and supports all of the web standards they need.
IE is a problem for them because they want to use all these capabilities it doesn't have. This is a way to work around the problem.
With cursive seemingly disappearing faster than the legal system can keep up with it, how do all of today's kids expect to sign documents?
I doubt digital signatures will be valid by the time they are at an age of majority, considering the snail's pace of the legal system. And last I checked you can't print your signature (lest it be trivially forged)
A handwritten note or letter, irrespective of whether it's to a girlfriend you're looking to woo, a boss you want to thank, an interviewer you want to impress, or to a family member with whom you want to share something personal, is far more effective (and meaningful) than a piece of paper spit out of a laserjet printer.
This is simply a cultural thing and this cultural idea will die off as cursive dies off.
It used to be a meaningful and significant gesture to give someone fresh cut flowers as well, as they were both expensive and sometimes hard to come by. Now it is just an everyday thing, something you are expected to do.Times change, what is meaningful to people changes.
I don't know if you realize it or not, but Windows Mobile is a 10+ year old platform. The number of apps available for it dwarf the number of apps for the iPhone, and that is before you subtract the over 90% of iPhone apps that are useless sound makers and/or trial versions of software.
On top of that I can write my own app and have it published on my website without getting Apple, or Microsoft, or anyone else involved or approving it, and people can install it on their phone as simply as a double click on the EXE. Or, if I CHOOSE to, I can publish it to the MS app store as well.
The only people who think the iTunes app store is superior to the windows mobile world are the people who have never had a windows mobile device and thus have no idea what they are missing.
You don't see front page slashdot articles about C64 emulators being rejected from the Windows Mobile app store for two reasons - for one, it's been around since 2004. For two, you don't need any approval to do anything on a windows mobile device, you can write any software you damn well please.
Watch a few episodes of Shark's Tank or Dragon's Den, then you will know what to do.
TO put it simply - go to a VC. License your patent for say 10%. Sit back and collect your cheques while in the beach in Maui - let the VC worry about the infrastructure / marketing / other BS.
I am a programmer. I use a PC 8 hours a day 5 days a week for my job, and probably another 2 hours / day 7 days per week at home. I have been doing so since say 1995?
And I have never been able to "touch type", nor has it affected me in any way, shape, or form. In fact I can use my hunt-and-peck style (which only uses two fingers and my thumbs) faster than many touch-typists I know, because I am so used to it and use the PC so often.
The idea that kids would be taking this useless course instead of something often cut like music or performing arts, or even english or mathematics, disturbs me.
Broadcast television has changed. Digital cable companies do not need Neilsen statistics to estimate who may or may be watching a particular show - they have exact, concrete numbers. Any digital cable company can tell you with percision exactly how many customers are tuned into any given show at any time. Heck, by monitoring use trends over time for each unit, they can probably even guesstimate the age range of the people who use that particular TV!
Yes, you can't do this for digital sat. or for OTA users. But I would think that the number of digital cable users is BY FAR a large enough sample to extrapolate trends across all age groups and demographics.
All of the above is also true for online media like Hulu et. al - you know exactly how many people are watching. If you are broadcasting using YouTube, you even have all of their aggregate Google profile information for age ranges, etc.
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Just bring your laptop and small but great sounding portable speakers into whatever room you want to listen to music in?
That's what we have done for oh, 10 years? Works fine...
Dunno why people always have to over-complicate problems.
Yours seems antiquated. My 4 handset Panasonic system has a shared phonebook - add a number to one, it shows on all instantly. Also it sets its own time off of the phone network.
Step 2 would be to switch to a VOIP provider that can give you all of the call logging and other things you talk about. We have Vonage but any VOIP provider has all that stuff, and more.
And why can't you achieve that using local websites?
IE, no one is going to visit www.smallvilletimes.net except residents of Smallville. Ok, maybe a few more, but not many. So why do you feel justified paying $1,000 for a newspaper ad with circulation of 10K households, but only $100 for an ad on local website with 10K daily impressions? It makes zero sense to me.
Every time I see a story like this I ask the same question to myself, and have yet to hear an appropriate answer.
Why can a newspapers and magazines charge 100 times more for an ad on ink, that reaches a tiny fraction of the people that an online ad reaches? The economics of it make no sense to me. Is there some research that shows people are more likely yo pay attention to print ads than online ads? Because I have never paid attention to a print ad in my life.
Why don't newspaper websites (which are very popular) just charge more for online ads, comperable rates to what they charge for print ads?
What happens when the newspapers and magazines have such low subscribership that they can't justify their high ad prices anymore - will then THEN feel justified to charge more for their online ads?
The thing is, GrandCentral used to work in Canada, before Google bought it.
When Google bought it, for some reason they shut down all the Canadian numbers.
The way Linux software is distributed, makes it much less likely to get a virus. You know how many applications I have downloaded from random websites in the past 2 years for my Linux system? Maybe, 2. All of the rest are in the centrally managed, (hopefully) certified virus-free application repository, which is free for all.
The idea that a Linux user would download random stuff from a torrent or website is a pretty foreign concept. For me, and moth others, if it isn't in the repository, I don't bother - because there is probably something in the repository that suits my needs just as well or better anyway.
Right. Just like more choices among PC hardware has led to it having the smallest number of available applications, and the Mac platform, with it's more defined hardware base, has more.
Oh wait!
The apps come to the platform. The platform with the most users is going to have the most apps written for it.
If the only way you can tell the difference is in a "controlled environment" by someone with "listening experience" (whatever that means0, then the difference is completely irrelevant, both to the average person and to the marketplace.
Voyager never left the galaxy, or got anywhere near the edge, they just went to the other side of it.
Yes, because requiring passports to entry countries stops all terrorism and crime.
....when the sex of the contributor is more often than not completely unknown?
I see a contribution from a "Terry", I have no idea if that is a male or female, and really why would I care? Either the code is god, o rit isn't. Why would sex ever have any bearing at all?
Frankly I really don't even get how a claim of sexism could exist in the FOSS world. It just doesn't translate from meat-space, because frankly, more often than not you have no idea the sex of the person in the first place. And really, that is how it should be.
Any sane admin has their own local apt repository, that they point all production and testing servers at. That repository has both "stable" and "testing" branches, like any apt server. All of the production servers grab off of the "stable", and all of the testing off of "testing".
The trick is, this repository SHOULD NOT be a mirror of the actual debian repository. Rather, the "testing" of your internal server should be a mirror of the "stable" debian tree. Then, weekly or daily or whenever new debian "stable" packages come out, you update your testing boxes, and TEST the packages against your local software. If something breaks, no harm no foul - you wait till the next update.
Once everything is tested OK, you sync those packages over to YOUR "stable" branch, and then that night all of your production servers will automatically get those updates. No fuss, no muss.
Can someone link this this "985 patent"? I can't find it linked in any article on this subject. Why do major media never link to anything?
.... just FYI
The 3 things you cite, gold silver and mac & cheese, have all risen in price the past few years for totally different reasons, none of them having to do with core inflation. Gold and silver has risen as a result of the economic collapse - gold and silver *always* rise during the period before and during a recession, because people want safe places to put their money.
Mac & cheese has risen by 14% because the price of wheat worldwide has risen dramatically during the past few years, due to various shortages that have absolutely nothing to do with the buying power of the dollar.
If you think core inflation is happening right now, then why is the price if energy so low? Why has the price of most consumer goods gone DOWN during the recession?
Google has no interest in controlling the browser market. For one, there is no money in it. For two, Google is not a software company, they are an advertising compan.
The edict has come down from on top at Google, both in private and public many times - what is good for the web, is good for business. The more people use the web to accomplish everyday tasks, they more they will rely on ad-sponsored Google services. Google does not care a lick which browser they use to access those services, as long as the browser is fast and supports all of the web standards they need.
IE is a problem for them because they want to use all these capabilities it doesn't have. This is a way to work around the problem.
Er, I don't think you realize how much the Wii outsells the PS3 and 360.
the Wii could have zero sales for the next two years, and still have sold more total units than the PS3 or 360.
The Wii outsells all 360 and PS3 units COMBINED by a healthy margin quarter after quarter.
With cursive seemingly disappearing faster than the legal system can keep up with it, how do all of today's kids expect to sign documents?
I doubt digital signatures will be valid by the time they are at an age of majority, considering the snail's pace of the legal system. And last I checked you can't print your signature (lest it be trivially forged)
This is simply a cultural thing and this cultural idea will die off as cursive dies off.
It used to be a meaningful and significant gesture to give someone fresh cut flowers as well, as they were both expensive and sometimes hard to come by. Now it is just an everyday thing, something you are expected to do.Times change, what is meaningful to people changes.
I don't know if you realize it or not, but Windows Mobile is a 10+ year old platform. The number of apps available for it dwarf the number of apps for the iPhone, and that is before you subtract the over 90% of iPhone apps that are useless sound makers and/or trial versions of software.
On top of that I can write my own app and have it published on my website without getting Apple, or Microsoft, or anyone else involved or approving it, and people can install it on their phone as simply as a double click on the EXE. Or, if I CHOOSE to, I can publish it to the MS app store as well.
The only people who think the iTunes app store is superior to the windows mobile world are the people who have never had a windows mobile device and thus have no idea what they are missing.
You don't see front page slashdot articles about C64 emulators being rejected from the Windows Mobile app store for two reasons - for one, it's been around since 2004. For two, you don't need any approval to do anything on a windows mobile device, you can write any software you damn well please.
...to just see all these books vanish forever?
Watch a few episodes of Shark's Tank or Dragon's Den, then you will know what to do.
TO put it simply - go to a VC. License your patent for say 10%. Sit back and collect your cheques while in the beach in Maui - let the VC worry about the infrastructure / marketing / other BS.
I am a programmer. I use a PC 8 hours a day 5 days a week for my job, and probably another 2 hours / day 7 days per week at home. I have been doing so since say 1995?
And I have never been able to "touch type", nor has it affected me in any way, shape, or form. In fact I can use my hunt-and-peck style (which only uses two fingers and my thumbs) faster than many touch-typists I know, because I am so used to it and use the PC so often.
The idea that kids would be taking this useless course instead of something often cut like music or performing arts, or even english or mathematics, disturbs me.
The same thing that happens when you go back in time and RTFA before posting that comment.
Broadcast television has changed. Digital cable companies do not need Neilsen statistics to estimate who may or may be watching a particular show - they have exact, concrete numbers. Any digital cable company can tell you with percision exactly how many customers are tuned into any given show at any time. Heck, by monitoring use trends over time for each unit, they can probably even guesstimate the age range of the people who use that particular TV!
Yes, you can't do this for digital sat. or for OTA users. But I would think that the number of digital cable users is BY FAR a large enough sample to extrapolate trends across all age groups and demographics.
All of the above is also true for online media like Hulu et. al - you know exactly how many people are watching. If you are broadcasting using YouTube, you even have all of their aggregate Google profile information for age ranges, etc.