I sure hope that Sony continues to make systems that are backwards compatable. I think that really gave Sony a major edge over the Nintendo Game Cube. Games are really expensive and it's nice to be able to continue playing the games on newer systems. Otherwise you either don't play the older games anymore or you have several systems connected in a giant mess to your TV. It might prevent Sony from using media that has more data on it, but I think they would be more successful keeping with a backwards compatable system.
I can't believe this. At the same time the government is trying to stop Microsoft monopoly, they are considering to help support it. How ironic that they would basically give Microsoft a monopoly over this.
You know the thing I really hate about digital cable and satallite...You have to have to rent the converter boxes/pay per box. I am one of those types of people that has a television in every room. I want to have cable on all of those televisions, but I don't want to pay for every single hookup. I would buy the boxes, but as soon as I buy them, the cable company would probably require me to buy new ones.
The other problem happens when I want to tape one show on the VCR and watch another. You just can't do that with one cable box.
It would be nice if there was some kind of standard built into all new televisions/VCRs that could descramble the digital signal so you wouldn't need a box.
Has anyone found a cheap solution for this problem?
If this is truely a bond car, it will have a fold-down bed in the back...with a martini bar. I don't want to know what the government plans to do with that.
Has anyone started using Slash 2.0 yet? It would be nice to go ahead and see what changes we can see from the interface standpoint. I know most of the changes are in the code, but I am sure there are some changes to the look and feel...
Most small ISPs there days seem to either get bought out or more often they just don't make it. It is hard to compete with the Big Boys.
Also there are so many options out there. You need an edge that makes people want to use your service over another. You need to ask yourself...what would make a person want to use my internet service over another service that probably costs less?
I don't think setting up and ISP would bo too difficult. The problem would get in getting enough customers to cover the costs.
I see 3 major problems with our current radio network:
1. Most radio stations play more commercials that actual content.
2. You can't get radio stations outside of major cities. And if you can there isn't much selection.
3. There isn't enough variety available.
I think Satellite radio will help solve all 3 of these problems. Both companies that are going to do this have promised 50 of the 100 channels will be commercial-free. You will be able to get recpetion from anywhere. Also will 100 channels you should have plenty of variety and something for everyone.
The $10 a month may not be worth it for everyone, but I think it is great for anyone that has to spend more than a couple of minutes a day in their car.
Really there are 2 kinds of work. Real work which generates some sort of profit for your company. And at work which is just being in the building.
Most people (including myself) probably are only really usefull to the company a few of hours a week. The rest of the time you are reading email, surfing the web, and dealing with time wasting company burocreacy.
Then there is also recorded hours vs actual hours. Recorded hours is what you put on your timesheet or project tracking system. Actual hours is how many hours you are actualy at work. The difference in these 2 times can be quite different.
It is a shame the the FCC is unable to allocate the 1800 and 900 MHZ bands to GSM like the rest of the world. I guess it would be too costly to move the existing stuff out of those bands. It would be nice to have a single phone that worked everywhere in the world that wasn't like a sextet band phone.
It makes perfect sense that most of these items died.
For example the "Pneumatic Post"...aka air-driven paper communications system. Well I would rather read Slashdot on my computer monitor and not get a piece of paper blown to me every could of minutes. Could you imagine a slashdot discussion using this system. There wouldn't be enough Draino in the world to unclog the pipes...
And why would I use an Amiga today. Yes it was a pretty cool piece of equipment in the 80's, but except for collectors, it doesn't make much sense to use one today...
And I don't even want to respond to why I would rather use a calculator instead of a slide rule...
We need to this again with gifts that are a little less expensive and more practical. There needs to be stuff on this list besides mints that I can give my geek friends...
I don't claim to know anything about foriegn laws, but why can't one of these centralized services like Napster run in a foriegn country that has no real laws that would be broken?
Can anyone who knows more about this comment?
It seems like there will never be a decentralized file sharing service that works as well as Napster or Scour...
I haven't really heared a solution from anyone that will work in my eyes. Whenever they decide to open new TLDs every decent domain name will be once again exhausted by every little person trying to make a little money. Then I see mass amounts of lawsuits happening over domain name copyright problems.
In the end it will just make finding the website you are looking for much harder. Will slashdot be at: slashdot.org, slashdot.com, slashdot.net, slashdot.web, slashdot.xxx, slashdot.thisisrediculous
Does anybody have a solution that will make it easier to find the website you want and not some porn site?
I feel that filtering should all boil down to being a parents responsibility. If parents want to filter websites they should do that. It should not be the government's job to force parents or ISPs to filter what kids are seeing. I personally wouldn't filter the Internet from my kids. But that is just me...
As for public computers...I do not think they should have filtering because the filters don't work. However I do think school computers should have filtering software. Most first ammendment rights already do not apply in schools, and this should also be one of them. Perhaps not have huge filtering software that blocks sites, but have sofisticated software that detects if students are looking at inappropriate material, and then deal with the matter.
Just do what I do...hook the computer up to the stereo, crank the base on the stereo up all the way, and have the whole room shake while you are playing on the computer. And if your stereo is good enough you can shake your neighbors mice as well...
More than likely these gadgets are hollow boxes. Companies love to put these types of pictures out for marketing purposes to try to boost their stock and position. You see this type of stuff all the time with some of the cellphone makers putting out these wild phones with huge displays and massive transfer rates, well where are they? They don't exists except as hollow boxes...
I don't feel that all of the Linux distributions should follow the standards of the most popular. I feel the reason for having different distributions is because people have different needs for Linux. Many people like Redhat because it is easy to use, but other like debian because it is easier for experts to configure it to their liking.
And why should netscape give in to IE's standards. If anything netscape/mozilla is doing to right thing by implementing the standards set by W3C and other standards groups.
It should not be up to the most powerful to declare how things should be done for everyone. Just think...do you want microsoft to start telling the Linux community how to right Linux correctly to meet MS standards?
I have setup SSL for apache on both Linux and WinNT. I found that it was much easier to setup mod_ssl than apache-ssl. Actually if I remember correctly I think I tried using apache-ssl on Linux and WinNT, but I couldn't get it working right. So then I tried mod_ssl and it worked right away the first time...
Slashdot Mirror
I sure hope that Sony continues to make systems that are backwards compatable. I think that really gave Sony a major edge over the Nintendo Game Cube. Games are really expensive and it's nice to be able to continue playing the games on newer systems. Otherwise you either don't play the older games anymore or you have several systems connected in a giant mess to your TV. It might prevent Sony from using media that has more data on it, but I think they would be more successful keeping with a backwards compatable system.
FoonDog
I can't believe this. At the same time the government is trying to stop Microsoft monopoly, they are considering to help support it. How ironic that they would basically give Microsoft a monopoly over this.
FoonDog
You know the thing I really hate about digital cable and satallite...You have to have to rent the converter boxes/pay per box. I am one of those types of people that has a television in every room. I want to have cable on all of those televisions, but I don't want to pay for every single hookup. I would buy the boxes, but as soon as I buy them, the cable company would probably require me to buy new ones.
The other problem happens when I want to tape one show on the VCR and watch another. You just can't do that with one cable box.
It would be nice if there was some kind of standard built into all new televisions/VCRs that could descramble the digital signal so you wouldn't need a box.
Has anyone found a cheap solution for this problem?
Foondawgy
If this is truely a bond car, it will have a fold-down bed in the back...with a martini bar. I don't want to know what the government plans to do with that.
FoonDog
Has anyone started using Slash 2.0 yet? It would be nice to go ahead and see what changes we can see from the interface standpoint. I know most of the changes are in the code, but I am sure there are some changes to the look and feel...
FoonDog
Most small ISPs there days seem to either get bought out or more often they just don't make it. It is hard to compete with the Big Boys.
Also there are so many options out there. You need an edge that makes people want to use your service over another. You need to ask yourself...what would make a person want to use my internet service over another service that probably costs less?
I don't think setting up and ISP would bo too difficult. The problem would get in getting enough customers to cover the costs.
FoonDog
I see 3 major problems with our current radio network:
1. Most radio stations play more commercials that actual content.
2. You can't get radio stations outside of major cities. And if you can there isn't much selection.
3. There isn't enough variety available.
I think Satellite radio will help solve all 3 of these problems. Both companies that are going to do this have promised 50 of the 100 channels will be commercial-free. You will be able to get recpetion from anywhere. Also will 100 channels you should have plenty of variety and something for everyone.
The $10 a month may not be worth it for everyone, but I think it is great for anyone that has to spend more than a couple of minutes a day in their car.
FoonDog
Really there are 2 kinds of work. Real work which generates some sort of profit for your company. And at work which is just being in the building.
Most people (including myself) probably are only really usefull to the company a few of hours a week. The rest of the time you are reading email, surfing the web, and dealing with time wasting company burocreacy.
Then there is also recorded hours vs actual hours. Recorded hours is what you put on your timesheet or project tracking system. Actual hours is how many hours you are actualy at work. The difference in these 2 times can be quite different.
FoonDog
Here is my guess
2001-03-19 15:52:22
FoonDog
It is a shame the the FCC is unable to allocate the 1800 and 900 MHZ bands to GSM like the rest of the world. I guess it would be too costly to move the existing stuff out of those bands. It would be nice to have a single phone that worked everywhere in the world that wasn't like a sextet band phone.
FoonDog
It makes perfect sense that most of these items died.
For example the "Pneumatic Post"...aka air-driven paper communications system. Well I would rather read Slashdot on my computer monitor and not get a piece of paper blown to me every could of minutes. Could you imagine a slashdot discussion using this system. There wouldn't be enough Draino in the world to unclog the pipes...
And why would I use an Amiga today. Yes it was a pretty cool piece of equipment in the 80's, but except for collectors, it doesn't make much sense to use one today...
And I don't even want to respond to why I would rather use a calculator instead of a slide rule...
FoonDog
RC5
This is just another way that these companies can get everyone to buy another CD burner.
Why can't they use existing CD filesystems?
Because if they come up with a new filesystem, they can make everyone buy a new CD burner.
It's all about how to make more money, not how to do it the best way...
FoonDog
We need to this again with gifts that are a little less expensive and more practical. There needs to be stuff on this list besides mints that I can give my geek friends...
FoonDog
I don't claim to know anything about foriegn laws, but why can't one of these centralized services like Napster run in a foriegn country that has no real laws that would be broken?
Can anyone who knows more about this comment?
It seems like there will never be a decentralized file sharing service that works as well as Napster or Scour...
FoonDog
They should run Slash..
FoonDog
I haven't really heared a solution from anyone that will work in my eyes. Whenever they decide to open new TLDs every decent domain name will be once again exhausted by every little person trying to make a little money. Then I see mass amounts of lawsuits happening over domain name copyright problems.
In the end it will just make finding the website you are looking for much harder. Will slashdot be at: slashdot.org, slashdot.com, slashdot.net, slashdot.web, slashdot.xxx, slashdot.thisisrediculous
Does anybody have a solution that will make it easier to find the website you want and not some porn site?
FoonDog
I feel that filtering should all boil down to being a parents responsibility. If parents want to filter websites they should do that. It should not be the government's job to force parents or ISPs to filter what kids are seeing. I personally wouldn't filter the Internet from my kids. But that is just me...
As for public computers...I do not think they should have filtering because the filters don't work. However I do think school computers should have filtering software. Most first ammendment rights already do not apply in schools, and this should also be one of them. Perhaps not have huge filtering software that blocks sites, but have sofisticated software that detects if students are looking at inappropriate material, and then deal with the matter.
FoonDog
There is at least one true sign the world would end shortly...
The day Microsoft develops an Operating System that doesn't crash
FoonDog
Just do what I do...hook the computer up to the stereo, crank the base on the stereo up all the way, and have the whole room shake while you are playing on the computer. And if your stereo is good enough you can shake your neighbors mice as well...
FoonDog
More than likely these gadgets are hollow boxes. Companies love to put these types of pictures out for marketing purposes to try to boost their stock and position. You see this type of stuff all the time with some of the cellphone makers putting out these wild phones with huge displays and massive transfer rates, well where are they? They don't exists except as hollow boxes...
FoonDog
December 2000 - The Sony Abio's come online, all human decisions are removed from daily life.
March 13, 2001, 3:34am - The Sony Abio's become self-aware, humans try to pull the plug but it's too late, The Abio's strikes back.
FoonDog
I don't feel that all of the Linux distributions should follow the standards of the most popular. I feel the reason for having different distributions is because people have different needs for Linux. Many people like Redhat because it is easy to use, but other like debian because it is easier for experts to configure it to their liking.
And why should netscape give in to IE's standards. If anything netscape/mozilla is doing to right thing by implementing the standards set by W3C and other standards groups.
It should not be up to the most powerful to declare how things should be done for everyone. Just think...do you want microsoft to start telling the Linux community how to right Linux correctly to meet MS standards?
FoonDog
I have setup SSL for apache on both Linux and WinNT. I found that it was much easier to setup mod_ssl than apache-ssl. Actually if I remember correctly I think I tried using apache-ssl on Linux and WinNT, but I couldn't get it working right. So then I tried mod_ssl and it worked right away the first time...
Mod_SSL is really easy...The instructions I used made it really easy:
Linux: Installation Guide
WinNT: Installation Guide
FoonDog
I can just see it now...People start filling lawsuits against DoCoMo everytime they get a cramp in their finger.