Could it be that MS Office (#1 on this list) just isnt popular with the slashdot crowd and that is why the first several posts are denouncing PC World as paid Microsoft shills?
No, for me it weas the gushing reviews of products (with links to their sales sites) that just didn't seem to be anything more than gloss ads. Nothing at all to do with Microsoft in particular.
Can this article please be re-labeled as an advertorial?
I'd like to see advertising revenue figures from 2006 for the featured items' companies on PCWorlds financials... I wonder how closely they'd tie in to the rank of the products.
I'm sure it's part of their sales strategy (I work in print publishing... you can bet advertisers get preferential treatment in editorial content).
All members of Congress should be paid the average wage of the U. S.
Not the average, the median. The distribution is skewed too high to the top earners.
Median household income in the US in 2004 was around 45,000.
OTOH, the point of paying legislators well is that then the will (supposedly) be less susceptible to bribes. Bribes now, however, aren't about personal lifestyle, they are about getting re-elected. If the positions available paid less, then there would be fewer bribes^D^D^D^D^D^Dcorporate campaign contributions.
The original experiment showed that the vast majority of people will kill others if they are told to do so by someone in authority.
Umm, no. Not at all. Milgram's experiment was designed to help determine why people would kill when told to do so by authority figures. It showed that some people would cause harm (not kill) another person when instructed to do so by an authority figure.
John Dean (former aide to Nixon) treats this, and more, in his book "Conservatives Without Conscience", where he helps explain the reasons so many people blindly follow authority (and why some people so like to be blindly followed). Milgram's work was seminal in the study of authoritarian followers, and you do it no justice by blatantly misrepresenting it.
At any ate, the point of this study is that some people do not emotionally differentiate between virtual actions and real actions.
Missed killing Reagan by about an inch. We had to wait in suspense to see if he would survive or not.
No offense, but I recall it a bit differently. It wasn't until much after the fact that we knew his life was in serious danger... all the networks said was that he had been shot (and of course we at first thought the worst) but then the news programs said it was a minor wound. At first, no one knew Reagan had been injured at all, since the bullet entered 'inconspicuously' through the armpit.
Not until much later did the surgeons divulge how close the bullet came to Reagan's heart, we all thought it was not a big deal until then.
If you want to show the systems that really drove the home PC adoption market
Very true. And if you want to show the system that first tapped into the home computer market, borrow a PET2001 (C64 predecessor). I sold my last one recently for several times your budget, but you should be able to find one for loan.
Because MS's proprietary formats mean that the vulnerabilities in their code preclude easy backup plans should a new exploit like this come out.
I would say that MORE businesses need to be crippled by the threat of infection via Word. Maybe then the powers-that-be in those companies will start looking long and hard at alternatives to Word and software with other proprietary formats. Advise the PHBs: "Well, look, you can either take the risk of $HORRIBLE_WORM_ATTACK or you can deal with not being able to send/receive word files. Your choice -- but going foward, we wouldn't be facing this dilemma if we weren't locked into a single provider for word processing."
I know it's not that simple -- but the question being asked is a direct result of proprietary formats being used without consideration of the risks.
If you absolutely must have 24x7x100% utilisation then pay them for their unmetered 'business' accounts
I do. But the history of false claims by a lot of ISPs is disturbing. Before I switched to the business account, I never got even 25% of the "up to" speeds I signed up for.
Under common carrier status, the ISPs could still shape traffic, but it would have to be independent of content or source. One easy way to differentiate would be tiered pricing (like Fedex uses - pay more for quicker delivery). I think that if anyone wants their p2p sharing to happen quickly, they should be able to pay for that privilege.
Oh, I know there are a ton of problems with tiered pricing (like the eventual domination of the backbones by big business traffic), but there are other ways of shaping traffic that have nothing to do with pricing, and would not violate common-carrier status.
Yup. Heaven forbid that their customers actually use all the bandwidth they pay for -- if that happened... the cost of my broadband connection would quadruple.
Unless, of course, you downsized your plan bandwidth by 75% (which is about what you're getting anyway).
Rise up my fellow nerds for this is the day we always waited for, when we will be hailed as the new cool!
Ah, the epitome of nerd-dom. Nerds were the new cool a few years ago, but like true nerds, we all missed the trend. Brooklyn hipsters, even Manhattan hipsters, wore ill-fitting shirts, thick-rim glasses, etc. Messy hair, pale skin, all the easily identifiable nerd looks.
Cool-in-an-ironic-way, like the ironic mullet that some hipsters sported until last year or so.
Yahoo! didn't get the.com and.net, as far as I can tell. You would think they'd have thought of that before announcing the name of their new online currency...
Yahoo! isn't announcing a new online currency. You'd think that people would bother to read TFS (or TFA, but who am I kidding?) before posting something like that.
It's an internal currency used to represent favors owed. It's used to enhance collaboration, and to help resolve differences between people who lack the social skills, desire, or time to compromise within a group.
But management did not want to do this, because they thought it would fill their bandwidth up with video, which they didn't want.
Yup. Heaven forbid that their customers actually use all the bandwidth they pay for -- if that happened, how could they oversell their capacity?
At the time, traffic shaping and billing technology was not really up to speed, people were still used to how NSFnet did things to some extent. So instead of multicasting, people did p2p, which is less efficient.
The summary (and TFA) mentions that p2p can actually be more efficient than multicast, since it utilizes both the up- and downstream capacities of clients.
Which is precisely why it won't happen - we don't live in some federated decentralized anarchist council structure, we live in an imperialist, capitalist society where capital is centralized in a few hands, along with the media, political power for the most part, and so on.
You're right, of course. But that's tangential, it simply provides the mechanism by which monied interests can make sure they get their way.
The issue I see is that the content distributors and the bandwidth providers can work together to get a lock on high profits for both. We're all familiar with the DMCA. But with the right tools (like what the author has created a company to do) the bandwidth providers can lock out the last competing method of distribution.
The best solution I see is to designate bandwidth providers as common carriers, so that it will be illegal for them to discriminate between packets. Then again, that's government interference, so I'm sure a lot of the libertarians and anarchists here will disagree...
So, the next time you toss out ridiculous accusations and/or stereotype all slashdot users, keep in mind that you have no fricking clue of what you're talking about.
It isn't like they calculate up the costs of building a PS3 and don't count it until they sell it.
They sure do wait to state the per-unit expenses until the period in which they state their sales. It's a basic principle of accounting known as the Matching Principle. Until they do record the sales (or write off the unsold inventory) the expenses are stated as deferred expenses, which is an asset account. They will remain in the asset account until they are used up, expired, or matched with revenues.
"OK, we sold 200k PS3's this quarter, so write down $12 million in the 4th quarter revenue box and $16 million in the expenses box"
Close -- what they would say is "OK, we sold 200k PS3 units, record $12MM revenue and expense $16MM from the deferred production costs account. This will net a $4MM loss on the PS3 P&L this quarter"
Ditto for R&D. R&D specific to a certain product will be expensed according to a schedule of projected sales over the expected sale life of the product.
Is it really that difficult for you to give credit where credit is due, Zonk? Not only did you take the exact same title as my journal entry, you put the submission down to an anonymous reader. Throw in that you kept the exact same first line I used and your bias shows through.
You do know, of course, that it's possible to submit other people's journal entries as stories, right? That any user could have ripped off your journal entry?
Assign blame where blame is due... and until you know for sure that no one else could have possibly ripped off your entry, don't blame Zonk. I suggest looking at your fans list as the prime list of suspects, since they are the people most likely to read your journal.
Or do you think that Zonk spends his day combing through journal entries looking for entries he can rip off without attribution as stories?
In a statement, communications boss David Karraker said the top five retailers in North America were reporting a week-by-week rise in PS2 hardware sales of more than 115 per cent over the Thanksgiving period. Sales of PSP units, meanwhile, were up by 280 per cent.
That is not over the past year; that is a week-to-week increase.
Two reasons: (1) Almost every entertainment good sees a rise in sales post-Thanksgiving; (2) As others have pointed out, those who could not get PS3 may have opted to get PSP instead (hence the huge rise in sales, rather than the small bump for the PS2).
Newsflash: Company says its products are selling better in the US during the holiday shopping season.
Well, ultrasound is used to create the field... but the emitter that produces the waves for levitation has waves of much, much longer wavelength (and therefore much lower frequency). I think instead of at the molecular level, the concern would be at the macro level... that is, can animal tissue deal with rapid mechanical manipulation from the soundwaves?
And is it possible for animals to have cavities or structures with a resonant frequency equal to that of the emitted waves? That's where the real danger lies, I think.
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Can this article please be re-labeled as an advertorial?
I'd like to see advertising revenue figures from 2006 for the featured items' companies on PCWorlds financials... I wonder how closely they'd tie in to the rank of the products.
I'm sure it's part of their sales strategy (I work in print publishing... you can bet advertisers get preferential treatment in editorial content).
Median household income in the US in 2004 was around 45,000.
OTOH, the point of paying legislators well is that then the will (supposedly) be less susceptible to bribes. Bribes now, however, aren't about personal lifestyle, they are about getting re-elected. If the positions available paid less, then there would be fewer bribes^D^D^D^D^D^Dcorporate campaign contributions.
John Dean (former aide to Nixon) treats this, and more, in his book "Conservatives Without Conscience", where he helps explain the reasons so many people blindly follow authority (and why some people so like to be blindly followed). Milgram's work was seminal in the study of authoritarian followers, and you do it no justice by blatantly misrepresenting it.
At any ate, the point of this study is that some people do not emotionally differentiate between virtual actions and real actions.
Not until much later did the surgeons divulge how close the bullet came to Reagan's heart, we all thought it was not a big deal until then.
And why is that?
Because MS's proprietary formats mean that the vulnerabilities in their code preclude easy backup plans should a new exploit like this come out.
I would say that MORE businesses need to be crippled by the threat of infection via Word. Maybe then the powers-that-be in those companies will start looking long and hard at alternatives to Word and software with other proprietary formats. Advise the PHBs: "Well, look, you can either take the risk of $HORRIBLE_WORM_ATTACK or you can deal with not being able to send/receive word files. Your choice -- but going foward, we wouldn't be facing this dilemma if we weren't locked into a single provider for word processing."
I know it's not that simple -- but the question being asked is a direct result of proprietary formats being used without consideration of the risks.
Maybe you're looking for this?
Pistols at noon.
I would submit that burns work as well as shock, maybe MS could put Sony batteries in their wireless mice?
Under common carrier status, the ISPs could still shape traffic, but it would have to be independent of content or source. One easy way to differentiate would be tiered pricing (like Fedex uses - pay more for quicker delivery). I think that if anyone wants their p2p sharing to happen quickly, they should be able to pay for that privilege.
Oh, I know there are a ton of problems with tiered pricing (like the eventual domination of the backbones by big business traffic), but there are other ways of shaping traffic that have nothing to do with pricing, and would not violate common-carrier status.
Unless, of course, you downsized your plan bandwidth by 75% (which is about what you're getting anyway).
Your failure to see the wisdom does not mean there is no wisdom present. See other posters for a history of the term (hint: it's Y + utils).
In essence, yootles are a way for Yahoo! employees to communicate to others how important something is to them.
Cool-in-an-ironic-way, like the ironic mullet that some hipsters sported until last year or so.
It's an internal currency used to represent favors owed. It's used to enhance collaboration, and to help resolve differences between people who lack the social skills, desire, or time to compromise within a group.
You're right, of course. But that's tangential, it simply provides the mechanism by which monied interests can make sure they get their way.
The issue I see is that the content distributors and the bandwidth providers can work together to get a lock on high profits for both. We're all familiar with the DMCA. But with the right tools (like what the author has created a company to do) the bandwidth providers can lock out the last competing method of distribution.
The best solution I see is to designate bandwidth providers as common carriers, so that it will be illegal for them to discriminate between packets. Then again, that's government interference, so I'm sure a lot of the libertarians and anarchists here will disagree...
Well, overly critical guy, your moniker fits.
I've never pirated anything in my life.
So, the next time you toss out ridiculous accusations and/or stereotype all slashdot users, keep in mind that you have no fricking clue of what you're talking about.
Carmack quite graciously denied the code was his and helped direct the author closer to the true source.
Close -- what they would say is "OK, we sold 200k PS3 units, record $12MM revenue and expense $16MM from the deferred production costs account. This will net a $4MM loss on the PS3 P&L this quarter"
Ditto for R&D. R&D specific to a certain product will be expensed according to a schedule of projected sales over the expected sale life of the product.
Assign blame where blame is due... and until you know for sure that no one else could have possibly ripped off your entry, don't blame Zonk. I suggest looking at your fans list as the prime list of suspects, since they are the people most likely to read your journal.
Or do you think that Zonk spends his day combing through journal entries looking for entries he can rip off without attribution as stories?
Grow up.
That is not over the past year; that is a week-to-week increase.
Two reasons:
(1) Almost every entertainment good sees a rise in sales post-Thanksgiving;
(2) As others have pointed out, those who could not get PS3 may have opted to get PSP instead (hence the huge rise in sales, rather than the small bump for the PS2).
Newsflash: Company says its products are selling better in the US during the holiday shopping season.
Nothing to see here, please move along.
Screw that. I'll just lie down (it's a directional field, right?) and then the wavelength only needs to be around two or three feet.
Well, ultrasound is used to create the field... but the emitter that produces the waves for levitation has waves of much, much longer wavelength (and therefore much lower frequency). I think instead of at the molecular level, the concern would be at the macro level... that is, can animal tissue deal with rapid mechanical manipulation from the soundwaves?
And is it possible for animals to have cavities or structures with a resonant frequency equal to that of the emitted waves? That's where the real danger lies, I think.
It's even easier to get fish to levitate in water if you never feed them.