Because he wrote it, and you didn't. Regardless of the effort you think went into the article, he at least did something instead of sitting on his ass steling other people's work.
We have a whole fleet of engineers on staff and in the building 24 hours a day for emergencies. They do this sort of thing in the down time between each crisis. No biggie.
While this is a cool accomplishment does it serve any real useful purpose? I have had no need for MS-DOS
So... since YOU don't need it, no one else does, either? OK. I can play that game, too.
I have a Mac, and no use for Windows. Therefore, no one else should have Windows, either.
There. Now we've solved all of the world's problems.
Where I work we have a lot of those scrolling LED display bars. They're all run by DOS boxes. The company that made them has a Windows version of the software, but it's not compatible with the dozens (hundreds?) of light bars we have, and we're not about to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to replace them.
Good to hear. Last time I looked into an Aqua version of OpenOffice you had to pay something like $45 for a compiled version. Is this still the case, or is the binary free now?
I'm beginning to think that most people don't know about the association with Jonestown. Which goes a long way to explaining why the expression is so popular. Still doesn't explain how people who do know about the connection (and there seem to be a lot of them) using mass suicide as a positive metaphor.
It's not meant to be positive. It's meant to illustrate blind, illogical, destructive faith. The fact that you don't know many people who understand its origin does not mean that "most" people don't know about Jonestown; just that the people you know don't know it.
To use your own logic, I asked around at work today and "most" of the people I work with know its real origin and meaning. They're also able to use it correctly and not just repeat phrases they hear other people use because they think it makes them sound cool.
Unlimited GPRS web and e-mail is under $6/month with T-Mobile.
I have unlimited GPRS (no restricted ports) for $15/month through T-Mobile, and I can roam on 3G networks in Europe and Asia, as well (there is a data fee, but I don't remember how much it is, but it was very reasonable. Something like 1 cent per kilobyte).
Over the last 100 years we have dismantled trains and poured money into highways and air
It depends on where you live. Where I live (Chicago), the state subsidises Amtrak runs, and it's rediculously cheap and efficient to travel within 400 miles of of the city without using a plane.
There's a reason why all other nations have kept or expanded their rail service: it's reliability and long term cost efficiency.
Actually, no. The reason is that they're small countries with high population densities. The same reason big American cities have mass transit -- there's enough density to warrant it. Australia, Canada, Russia, and other big countries are the same way -- travel by train takes a long time because of the distances involved. If the United States were only the size of France we'd have trains out the wazoo.
The plane will take off with you on board, even if your checked bags are on the plane to Moscow.
I think that was true until a couple of years ago, but these days its very rare for that large a separation to happen, at least on flights involving the United States. Remember how you used to be able to just walk onto the plane with your boarding pass, and these days it has to be scanned for a bar code, or read by a machine? It's because they're matching the luggage up to the passengers. If there's a bag without a matching passenger on board, it gets pulled off the plane. I've seen several planes delayed because the bags and passengers didn't match. It's one of the reasons the gate agents beg and plead over the PA system for so long trying to locate that one last connecting passenger who snuck off to Starbucks -- because if they don't, they have to unload the whole damned plane and yank out his bag.
I don't know where you fly, but it's sure not Boston, LA, SFO, Dulles, O'Hare, Atlanta, or most other major airports if you only have to wait 10-15.
My last three times into O'Hare my baggage beat me to the carousel. It was there waiting for me by the time I got to baggage claim. If your time is that precious, then maybe you should start flying better airlines.
I was over an hours drive from the airport in the middle of nowhere, so it would have been trouble for them.
Interesting. I think you're right -- it must vary from airline to airline. Northwest delivered a lost bicycle five hours away from Newark airport to the Poconos for me after they lost it.
Because the average citizen is a disinterested party.
You're joking, right? I'd estimate 99% of the replies to this article on Slashdot are people with pre-formed hard-boiled views who are just pushing their side or looking for people who agree with them.
I don't think there has ever been a disinterested populous, except maybe for those who don't vote.
If enough of us take the time to care about the social quality of the candidate,
For those of you too young to remember, that one of the big issues during the 1992 campaign. Republicans said that Clinton didn't have the character to make a good president, and Democrats kept pounding home that, "character doesn't matter," making the Republicans out to be old-fashioned 1950's squares who didn't understand that running the country doesn't take integrity.
Fast-forward to a post-Lewinsky world and neither side seems to give a crap about the integrity of their candidates.
The fact remains (and this is something that many internet bitcasters can't wrap their brains around) that the average radio station pays millions of dollars each year to play music. Even if you're a crappy three kilowatt FM in some medium market, your licensing fee is going to run about a million dollars a year (Could have changed, it's been a few years since I was involved in this).
People on the internet like to pretend that radio stations get their music for free. Yes, the record companies send them free CDs, but the radio stations still have to pay for playing them on the air. And in many cases, even small stations don't rely on free CDs from the record companies any more. They subscribe to libraries of what are essentially mix CDs full of music tailored to their audience. That's another service they pay for.
I got out of radio several years ago, so I can only imagine what internet delivery of playlists has done to all of this. But one thing I'm sure of -- radio stations aren't playing music for free.
I trust Micro Center just about as far as I can pick up and throw one of their trucks. Hell, make that one of their stores. The people who work in there are of approximately the same caliber as the people who work at Fry's - and that caliber is low. (For the one intelligent slashdotter who doesn't have the motivation and self-esteem to quit working there, sorry.)
Your experience with Micro Center appears to be different than mine. Perhaps the one near you is sub-par. I've always had excellent service from their people and they've always come off as very well trained on their products. I guess it's store-to-store. But that doesn't really matter, because it's not Micro Center's warranty. They just sell a third party's assurance, just like just about every other non-OEM store. However, I do agree with you about Fry's.
A warranty served by someone other than the people who made the hardware doesn't interest me.
Then you've worked yourself into a corner. You desire something that doesn't exist. Life is full of compromises, and a statement like the one you made is the equivalent of a three-year-old throwing her peas across the kitchen in a tantrum. It must really suck to be you.
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I call bullshit on that.
You call bullshit on something someone observed and documented? They weren't pulling stuff out of their butts. It was a study.
Regardless, I'm with you -- I always pay attention to shipping, especially for international orders.
What right does the author have to the payment?
Because he wrote it, and you didn't. Regardless of the effort you think went into the article, he at least did something instead of sitting on his ass steling other people's work.
We have a whole fleet of engineers on staff and in the building 24 hours a day for emergencies. They do this sort of thing in the down time between each crisis. No biggie.
To say nothing of giving you the ability to run the best word processor ever written (WordPerfect 5.1) on cast-off hardware. :)
Best. Word. Processor. Ever!
While this is a cool accomplishment does it serve any real useful purpose? I have had no need for MS-DOS
So... since YOU don't need it, no one else does, either? OK. I can play that game, too.
I have a Mac, and no use for Windows. Therefore, no one else should have Windows, either.
There. Now we've solved all of the world's problems.
Where I work we have a lot of those scrolling LED display bars. They're all run by DOS boxes. The company that made them has a Windows version of the software, but it's not compatible with the dozens (hundreds?) of light bars we have, and we're not about to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to replace them.
Good to hear. Last time I looked into an Aqua version of OpenOffice you had to pay something like $45 for a compiled version. Is this still the case, or is the binary free now?
I'm beginning to think that most people don't know about the association with Jonestown. Which goes a long way to explaining why the expression is so popular. Still doesn't explain how people who do know about the connection (and there seem to be a lot of them) using mass suicide as a positive metaphor.
It's not meant to be positive. It's meant to illustrate blind, illogical, destructive faith. The fact that you don't know many people who understand its origin does not mean that "most" people don't know about Jonestown; just that the people you know don't know it.
To use your own logic, I asked around at work today and "most" of the people I work with know its real origin and meaning. They're also able to use it correctly and not just repeat phrases they hear other people use because they think it makes them sound cool.
That's a very logical definition, but I have never heard "drink the Kool-Aid" used that way. It always means "accept a new idea".
You might think that if you're under 30, or poorly educated. But the Jonestown link is the correct one.
I'm still waiting for 3G or GPRS to be affordable
Unlimited GPRS web and e-mail is under $6/month with T-Mobile. I have unlimited GPRS (no restricted ports) for $15/month through T-Mobile, and I can roam on 3G networks in Europe and Asia, as well (there is a data fee, but I don't remember how much it is, but it was very reasonable. Something like 1 cent per kilobyte).
How much more affordable do you want?
Consider the recent case of lead contamination of children's toys. The toys had 5x the amount of lead that is considered safe.
And crazy Americans put cyanide in Tylenol capsules. What was your point?
It wasn't 23 patches: it was 12 patches that covered 23 vulnerabilities.
Oh, good. I feel better now.
Austin, Houston, etc.
Texas is trying this. Google "Trans Texas Corridor"
Over the last 100 years we have dismantled trains and poured money into highways and air
It depends on where you live. Where I live (Chicago), the state subsidises Amtrak runs, and it's rediculously cheap and efficient to travel within 400 miles of of the city without using a plane.
There's a reason why all other nations have kept or expanded their rail service: it's reliability and long term cost efficiency.
Actually, no. The reason is that they're small countries with high population densities. The same reason big American cities have mass transit -- there's enough density to warrant it. Australia, Canada, Russia, and other big countries are the same way -- travel by train takes a long time because of the distances involved. If the United States were only the size of France we'd have trains out the wazoo.
The plane will take off with you on board, even if your checked bags are on the plane to Moscow.
I think that was true until a couple of years ago, but these days its very rare for that large a separation to happen, at least on flights involving the United States. Remember how you used to be able to just walk onto the plane with your boarding pass, and these days it has to be scanned for a bar code, or read by a machine? It's because they're matching the luggage up to the passengers. If there's a bag without a matching passenger on board, it gets pulled off the plane. I've seen several planes delayed because the bags and passengers didn't match. It's one of the reasons the gate agents beg and plead over the PA system for so long trying to locate that one last connecting passenger who snuck off to Starbucks -- because if they don't, they have to unload the whole damned plane and yank out his bag.
I don't know where you fly, but it's sure not Boston, LA, SFO, Dulles, O'Hare, Atlanta, or most other major airports if you only have to wait 10-15.
My last three times into O'Hare my baggage beat me to the carousel. It was there waiting for me by the time I got to baggage claim. If your time is that precious, then maybe you should start flying better airlines.
I was over an hours drive from the airport in the middle of nowhere, so it would have been trouble for them.
Interesting. I think you're right -- it must vary from airline to airline. Northwest delivered a lost bicycle five hours away from Newark airport to the Poconos for me after they lost it.
Very good. I laughed.
Because the average citizen is a disinterested party.
You're joking, right? I'd estimate 99% of the replies to this article on Slashdot are people with pre-formed hard-boiled views who are just pushing their side or looking for people who agree with them.
I don't think there has ever been a disinterested populous, except maybe for those who don't vote.
If enough of us take the time to care about the social quality of the candidate,
For those of you too young to remember, that one of the big issues during the 1992 campaign. Republicans said that Clinton didn't have the character to make a good president, and Democrats kept pounding home that, "character doesn't matter," making the Republicans out to be old-fashioned 1950's squares who didn't understand that running the country doesn't take integrity.
Fast-forward to a post-Lewinsky world and neither side seems to give a crap about the integrity of their candidates.
You are confusing two separate issues.
The fact remains (and this is something that many internet bitcasters can't wrap their brains around) that the average radio station pays millions of dollars each year to play music. Even if you're a crappy three kilowatt FM in some medium market, your licensing fee is going to run about a million dollars a year (Could have changed, it's been a few years since I was involved in this).
People on the internet like to pretend that radio stations get their music for free. Yes, the record companies send them free CDs, but the radio stations still have to pay for playing them on the air. And in many cases, even small stations don't rely on free CDs from the record companies any more. They subscribe to libraries of what are essentially mix CDs full of music tailored to their audience. That's another service they pay for.
I got out of radio several years ago, so I can only imagine what internet delivery of playlists has done to all of this. But one thing I'm sure of -- radio stations aren't playing music for free.
I'd like to transfer them to the video iPod
Try plugging your iPod into your USB port. It happens automagically.
watch it during a rail-commute
Place your iPod in your hand. Get on trin. Sit. Turn on iPod. Select show. Watch.
or plug it into a friends tv for playback.
Attach small end of video cable to headphone jack. Attach other end to friend's TV. Set iPod TV output option to "on." Select video. Press play.
Either you're the dumbest electronics customer in history, or you don't have an iPod and you're just trolling.
...delete select all.
Oh, great. Another graphics card the Wintel people can complain isn't available as a BTO option in a MacBook.
I trust Micro Center just about as far as I can pick up and throw one of their trucks. Hell, make that one of their stores. The people who work in there are of approximately the same caliber as the people who work at Fry's - and that caliber is low. (For the one intelligent slashdotter who doesn't have the motivation and self-esteem to quit working there, sorry.)
Your experience with Micro Center appears to be different than mine. Perhaps the one near you is sub-par. I've always had excellent service from their people and they've always come off as very well trained on their products. I guess it's store-to-store. But that doesn't really matter, because it's not Micro Center's warranty. They just sell a third party's assurance, just like just about every other non-OEM store. However, I do agree with you about Fry's.
A warranty served by someone other than the people who made the hardware doesn't interest me.
Then you've worked yourself into a corner. You desire something that doesn't exist. Life is full of compromises, and a statement like the one you made is the equivalent of a three-year-old throwing her peas across the kitchen in a tantrum. It must really suck to be you.