Consumers have demanded higher MPG, but not beyond niche groups. The average American consumer when faced with the choice of spending $2-4K more on a car like a Prius (not to mention the added maintenance costs for the batteries) have chosen to pass. This is apparent by the tax credits that the government has implemented to prop up the market for cars like the Prius and other hybrids.
The real question is will the market bear the new regulations? Americans as a nation have obviously NOT demanded higher MPG ratings from their cars or there would be no need for the regulation. How much more will each vehicle cost to use the higher technology needed to achieve the standards? By setting the standards the government may have artificially increased the market price and will thus affect supply and demand. I'm all for environmental policies, but outside of the academic towers, the real world still intervenes and economics will affect well intentioned government mandates.
I have to agree, if you are a law abiding citizen what is wrong with proving who you are? Most of the slashdotters that are having the knee jerk "I am a geek, therefore I must be against things that the ACLU is against" reaction, are probably also system administrators and the like asking their users to produce a password and RSA key to access data because they don't trust that people are who they say they are on a computer.
Am I the only one that's wondering if this much bandwidth for the average home user is a good idea? Perhaps it's time to tie things like egress filters and packet shapers to the new bandwidth to prevent threats from spreading that much faster?
Well considering that I'm not in all 10 of my locations it's nice to be able to call Cisco and have their technician come out since we don't have IT presence everywhere.
Ok, I haven't looked at the performance numbers, but as a network administrator of a medium sized corporate network I could care less. Whether it be Cisco, Juniper, Nortel or 3Com the difference is in the support. When my wan interface or network interface dies at 2am I don't think anyone from the OSS community is going to have a parts depot within 4 hours to fix the problem. I also don't see 24x7 tech support phone numbers manned by volunteers anytime soon. Vendors don't make the money on the hardware, they make it on services and support. I love OSS, but Linux and OSS are not the magic pill for everything.
Because of the shortage of available buglers, a group was formed to help aid the military in properly honoring our veterans. If you need their services, or wish to volunteer, go to the website.
Another non-liberal geek? Nah I must be seeing things. The amount of greenhouse gases that the civilized world has output since the Industrial Revolution is still less than what is output in one major volcanic eruption. SAVE THE EARTH... PLUG A VOLCANOE!!!
Well think of this. If every desktop in a corporation had the ability to serve as a WAP with centrally managed policies for WEP, WPA, and such, companies could save a lot of money when covering their office space with 802.11a/b/g/x. It's just this kind of uber coverage that applications like WiFi VoIP needs to succeed.
Thank you for pointing this out. I was hoping someone had already done that. It's too bad that the general/. community doesn't seem to keep up with the mainstream technology companies as well as they do things that happen to pop up on a google search.
Some of my company's outside sales force went out and got this on their own only to find out that they couldn't connect to our VPN unless they bought the business class service. We were unable to tunnel around this so they're paying twice as much for the same service with VPN enabled.
I've got a nice Targus bag that I bought at thinkgeek. It's very nice to be able to put both straps on and have my hands free for other baggage at the airport. Also this thing has lots of little pockets useful for organizing cables.
Exactly, but the implementation was designed and installed by the Kronos people. Software is more than bits, it's also the people that are sold with it.
My company uses Kronos and it's marketed well, but in our experience poorly implemented. The time clocks are connected to the main system by dial-up modems which means that a computer with a modem has to dial them up every so often to collect the punches. In our case Kronos set this up on a DESKTOP computer. For managers to access the Kronos information, they have to install a client and map a drive to this "server". Unfortunately Windows 2K Professional limits you to 10 concurrent connections which limits how many people can use the Kronos system at once. We've also had problems with it integrating into our Payroll and Accounting systems. I only had 40 hours of vacation this year, but at one point it showed up as me having used 120 hours. As with any system, shop around, get references (and check them).
President Ronald Reagan quoted this poem when talking about the tragic loss of the crew of Orbiter Challenger(1982-1986) and I believe that it is appropriate today as we mourn the loss of Orbiter Columbia (1981-2003).
HIGH FLIGHT
by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
This poem was written by a young American, John Gillespie Magee, Jr., who flew with the Royal Canadian Air Force in England at the Start of WW II. He was killed shohrtly after he composed "High Flight."
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds -- and done a hundred things you have not dreamed of -- wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence.
Hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace where never lark, or even eagle flew.
And while with silent, lifting mind I've trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
I've purchased the Deluxe version of WordPerfect 2000 for Linux and I love it. It is quicker and stabler than Star Office and it is easier to use.
The new font server that comes with it is awesome and has not caused any of my applications to crash. As for people complaining about Netscape, I'm running the netscape binary from netscape and not WP, and it's working just fine with the new TrueType fonts.
Just because a software package is not free, doesn't mean that it can't be benificial to Linux. This mindset is just going to alienate Linux from the mainstream user. Remember too that the Corel Wine team will be making their changes to wine available open source at some point in the near future.
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Looking forward to the Cubs winning the World Series too.
Public transporation doesn't work in rural America.
Consumers have demanded higher MPG, but not beyond niche groups. The average American consumer when faced with the choice of spending $2-4K more on a car like a Prius (not to mention the added maintenance costs for the batteries) have chosen to pass. This is apparent by the tax credits that the government has implemented to prop up the market for cars like the Prius and other hybrids.
The real question is will the market bear the new regulations? Americans as a nation have obviously NOT demanded higher MPG ratings from their cars or there would be no need for the regulation. How much more will each vehicle cost to use the higher technology needed to achieve the standards? By setting the standards the government may have artificially increased the market price and will thus affect supply and demand. I'm all for environmental policies, but outside of the academic towers, the real world still intervenes and economics will affect well intentioned government mandates.
Can I see the original theater version or do I have to watch parodies of the original?
Funny it used to be that no one ever got fired for buying IBM.
I have to agree, if you are a law abiding citizen what is wrong with proving who you are? Most of the slashdotters that are having the knee jerk "I am a geek, therefore I must be against things that the ACLU is against" reaction, are probably also system administrators and the like asking their users to produce a password and RSA key to access data because they don't trust that people are who they say they are on a computer.
Am I the only one that's wondering if this much bandwidth for the average home user is a good idea? Perhaps it's time to tie things like egress filters and packet shapers to the new bandwidth to prevent threats from spreading that much faster?
Well considering that I'm not in all 10 of my locations it's nice to be able to call Cisco and have their technician come out since we don't have IT presence everywhere.
Ok, I haven't looked at the performance numbers, but as a network administrator of a medium sized corporate network I could care less. Whether it be Cisco, Juniper, Nortel or 3Com the difference is in the support. When my wan interface or network interface dies at 2am I don't think anyone from the OSS community is going to have a parts depot within 4 hours to fix the problem. I also don't see 24x7 tech support phone numbers manned by volunteers anytime soon. Vendors don't make the money on the hardware, they make it on services and support. I love OSS, but Linux and OSS are not the magic pill for everything.
Because of the shortage of available buglers, a group was formed to help aid the military in properly honoring our veterans. If you need their services, or wish to volunteer, go to the website.
Another non-liberal geek? Nah I must be seeing things. The amount of greenhouse gases that the civilized world has output since the Industrial Revolution is still less than what is output in one major volcanic eruption. SAVE THE EARTH... PLUG A VOLCANOE!!!
Well think of this. If every desktop in a corporation had the ability to serve as a WAP with centrally managed policies for WEP, WPA, and such, companies could save a lot of money when covering their office space with 802.11a/b/g/x. It's just this kind of uber coverage that applications like WiFi VoIP needs to succeed.
Thank you for pointing this out. I was hoping someone had already done that. It's too bad that the general /. community doesn't seem to keep up with the mainstream technology companies as well as they do things that happen to pop up on a google search.
Some of my company's outside sales force went out and got this on their own only to find out that they couldn't connect to our VPN unless they bought the business class service. We were unable to tunnel around this so they're paying twice as much for the same service with VPN enabled.
I've got a nice Targus bag that I bought at thinkgeek. It's very nice to be able to put both straps on and have my hands free for other baggage at the airport. Also this thing has lots of little pockets useful for organizing cables.
I will second this recommendation. They have a suite of products depending on your needs.
Exactly, but the implementation was designed and installed by the Kronos people. Software is more than bits, it's also the people that are sold with it.
My company uses Kronos and it's marketed well, but in our experience poorly implemented. The time clocks are connected to the main system by dial-up modems which means that a computer with a modem has to dial them up every so often to collect the punches. In our case Kronos set this up on a DESKTOP computer. For managers to access the Kronos information, they have to install a client and map a drive to this "server". Unfortunately Windows 2K Professional limits you to 10 concurrent connections which limits how many people can use the Kronos system at once. We've also had problems with it integrating into our Payroll and Accounting systems. I only had 40 hours of vacation this year, but at one point it showed up as me having used 120 hours. As with any system, shop around, get references (and check them).
President Ronald Reagan quoted this poem when talking about the tragic loss of the crew of Orbiter Challenger(1982-1986) and I believe that it is appropriate today as we mourn the loss of Orbiter Columbia (1981-2003).
HIGH FLIGHT
by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
This poem was written by a young American, John Gillespie Magee, Jr., who flew with the Royal Canadian Air Force in England at the Start of WW II. He was killed shohrtly after he composed "High Flight."
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds -- and done a hundred things you have not dreamed of -- wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence.
Hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace where never lark, or even eagle flew.
And while with silent, lifting mind I've trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
My school district used to be in the same situation. We used Intellicom's VSAT technology.
http://www.intellicom.net/kids.htm
I've purchased the Deluxe version of WordPerfect 2000 for Linux and I love it. It is quicker and stabler than Star Office and it is easier to use.
The new font server that comes with it is awesome and has not caused any of my applications to crash. As for people complaining about Netscape, I'm running the netscape binary from netscape and not WP, and it's working just fine with the new TrueType fonts.
Just because a software package is not free, doesn't mean that it can't be benificial to Linux. This mindset is just going to alienate Linux from the mainstream user. Remember too that the Corel Wine team will be making their changes to wine available open source at some point in the near future.