Had you read the article, you would have noticed that the purpose is to generate hydrogen via nuclear instead of coal. So really you would be driving around nuclear powered car.:)
In the short run I can almost guarentee they will stay the same, but as more competition heats up for "call anywhere in the US for a flat rate" plans (from both VoIP like vonage, or large telcos), they are going to have to become more price competitive or lose business.
Sure, it might make it more "real" to the user, but I for one doubt that most people that will be on the interaction end of the robot won't exactly take to this realism.
I believe the software market will always be needed, as long as we still use computers. That being said, that doesn't mean the software market will continue to pay top dollar.
Right now, you have workers demanding huge salaries for programmer positions. Companies see workers salaries as "cost", so they see how they can outsource the work for more than half the salary. Of course they are going to seriously consider sending jobs overseas.
You can't send "all" the programmer jobs overseas, though. Companies retain programmers because they know how the system works, and can provide inhouse support as well as programming. They provide a comfort level of knowing the person doing the job, and in some cases, knowing they have the proper security clearances.
The software industry is anything but dead. Even if certain software giants fall, there will always be a need for programmers. What people need to understand is that they are going to have to expect a more down to earth salary if they want to compete in the market. It's called supply and demand. Between the globe getting smaller, and colleges churning out programmers, the supply is getting large enough for employers to be choosy.
But don't think about restricting freedoms just because it's convenient to do so: that's what DMCA is about, and the Patriot act, and all the dozens of other stupid "anti-terrorist" laws that countries around the world are implementing right now.
So please tell me you're going to vote Libertarian next election?:)
Backing up that much data takes forever no matter what kind of medium you are going to. But are you familiar with the high end tape products at all? Large datacenters backup that sort of data every day. And not over to another disk array.
I don't really see it as being all that predictable.
The benefits of having backup to disk is of course speed. But what happens when you have a disaster? Your SOL, because your backup-on-disk system just got toasted too.
The benefits of having backups on tape is that you can send those tapes anywhere. It might not be as quick as sending a file electronically, but when you are talking hundreds of gigabytes of data, it just isn't economical to do anything but tape.
Tape will never die. Hardware may be cheap and high capacity, but transmission costs keep it from being feasible.
You also need to take a look at space utilization. You can put a tape silo into a footprint that gives you much much more capacity per square foot than disk.
For the same reason, I've always considered my chosen profession to be a "fire fighter". More like a volunteer fire fighter... You don't do it for the money, and people only call you when things start smoking.
This looks pretty interesting. I'm assuming you're using it now?
How does the TV guide work? Does it support being able to record entire sets of programs like the Tivo?
It seems to me that unless you plan on using an existing system, this really would let you save any money. If you build a box specifically for this application, I know you are going to spend at least the $299 going rate of the Tivo. The only item I could see you really saving money is on the monthly fee.
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Isn't that region also known to rain frogs, rocks, and other oddities?
Joking aside... the chance of being in the right place at the right time to get hit by an object falling from a random trajectory is nearly impossibly unlikely, but the bigger that object the more damage it can do. I'm sure few slashdot readers are well read enough to have heard about the downfall of the dinosaurs.:) You don't have to be in the physical path of a meteor to feel its affects.
If they're not making money off of you they they think they should, right or wrong, it's affecting their bottom line.
As you say, right or wrong. I'd say this is wrong. As many have seen lately, companies are using many different tactics to boost their bottom line. Those tactics might be legal-but "immoral" or the more lately broadcasted totally illegal accounting trickery. When their bottom line isn't where it should be, it isn't my problem. It's called business. Sometimes people make wrong guesses on investments.
Perhaps in some fluffy happy-time version of reality, yes. In this world, capitalism = Corporate America, where making money is the name of the game. How you define "earning it" is highly subjective as well.
How I define the difference between making money and earning money isn't THAT subjective. What I mean, and think most people who understood capitalism at all, is in making money the profits are guarrenteed. They aren't. Business is a risk. The right to earn money is that you are allowed to put an investment of time/money/intellect towards the possibility of profit.
Yes, I am not some blind idiot when it comes to corporate america. Greed rules, profits over people, yada yada, is the norm. Just because it is reality doesn't mean we should just shrug it off as "oh thats life". That's bullshit. You may be complacent and not care, but I do. Many do.
First off, it isn't MY logic. However as someone who has spent far too much time in telecommunications and the "capitalist Corporate America" way of life as a cube-farm lackie, I understand very well how the game is actually played. I never said I agree with it, just that this is how it works.
I never meant to say that isn't reality.. only how it should be. Trust me, I have experience in the cube farm world as well. I know how this stuff works. I just don't agree with it and won't play by their rules.
Second, there is no residual income after you buy a CD from a store. This is why they're bitching so much about mp3 downloads, even if it's really a bunch of clouded issues that go both ways. Believe me, if there were a way for record companies to gather up information about you and sell it, they would - and you would be paying to get your name off of that list too.
Ok this is somewhat off topic, but yeah I agree here. Sharing MP3's is illegal and in some ways I agree with the RIAA for going after illegal trading. It is a big gray area though. They make it out as stealing, which is not the case. At any rate, I'll leave this debate for another day.
Telco's have very cleverly devised a way to make more money after the fact, and they do it, like it or not. Your name in a directory listing, vs licensing your purchase of music, are not even close to the same thing. In fact I'm not sure what your point even was. It's your CHOICE to get phone service, however if you do, you agree to their terms. It's also your CHOICE to buy CD's, and you agree to those terms as well - which just happen to be less intrusive.
It is exactly the same, in that they aren't guarrenteed profit. My point is simply that they aren't profitting off of me, which affects their potential bottom line.
Having a home telephone is a modern necessity. It is possible to live a happy and fruitful life in cabin with no running water, electricty, or a telephone. But modern life requires those things. I have no idea how universal this is, but where I live it is legally required to have electricity and water. Telephone service is required in so much as that my apartment building uses the telephone to allow residents to buzz in guests.
Had you not agreed to let them use it when you signed up for your service, that would be true...
When I moved to my curent residence, I called an 800 number and said "I want telephone service at [insert my home address]". Not once was I offered any i
Having a company not make additional money off me DOES NOT equal "costing them money".
Capitalism doesn't mean the right to MAKE money. It is the right to EARN money.
Following your/their logic, members of the RIAA should go ahead and tax me for not buying their music, since by my LEGALLY not listening and/or purchasing to their stuff I'm "costing" them money.
I do realize that technically the telephone company does own the phone number which has been assigned to me. However, publishing my name in relation to that number is a privacy and right to use issue, since its MY name. The rights of individuals should always go before the profits of corporations. Private or otherwise.
"You have 10 new messages" "You have 293 rejected messages"
MSG 1> Increase your breast size! MSG 2> Increase your penis size! MSG 3> Loose weight fast! MSG 4> Re: my naked webcam! MSG 5> Make money advertising on the Internet! MSG 6> Your unclaimed money! MSG 7> Horny babes with horses! MSG 8> Incest rape! W@W! MSG 9> Make millions in Real Estate! MSG 10> Do you hate spam? You need this! Only $29.95!
You bring up a good question. But, should the companies that are selling through these channels be held accountable as well?
Even a porn/viagra website has a indentifiable source. Hosting companies which refuse shut down spammers (Exodus and Verio, to name a few) should be held accountable for the content, just as say, you would arrest a bank employee who let in the actual robber through the back door when nobody was looking.
Since nobody knows jack crap how to read English on here. this is DIRECTLY from the Apple Store webpage for the Airport Extreme Base Station.
5 The AirPort Extreme Base Station defaults to 802.11b compatibility mode when users of AirPort Cards or other Wi-Fi certified 802.11b products join the network. Maximum data rate for AirPort Cards or other Wi-Fi certified 802.11b products is 11Mbps.
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I wrote "See id' on the back of one of my cards a while back. I have NEVER been asked to show ID when using that card.
Had you read the article, you would have noticed that the purpose is to generate hydrogen via nuclear instead of coal. So really you would be driving around nuclear powered car. :)
In the short run I can almost guarentee they will stay the same, but as more competition heats up for "call anywhere in the US for a flat rate" plans (from both VoIP like vonage, or large telcos), they are going to have to become more price competitive or lose business.
Sure, it might make it more "real" to the user, but I for one doubt that most people that will be on the interaction end of the robot won't exactly take to this realism.
Or this?
Ok, so its not a totally dumb terminal, but it would/could be a minimal diskless client...
That's how you know its a real geek's room.
I believe the software market will always be needed, as long as we still use computers. That being said, that doesn't mean the software market will continue to pay top dollar.
Right now, you have workers demanding huge salaries for programmer positions. Companies see workers salaries as "cost", so they see how they can outsource the work for more than half the salary. Of course they are going to seriously consider sending jobs overseas.
You can't send "all" the programmer jobs overseas, though. Companies retain programmers because they know how the system works, and can provide inhouse support as well as programming. They provide a comfort level of knowing the person doing the job, and in some cases, knowing they have the proper security clearances.
The software industry is anything but dead. Even if certain software giants fall, there will always be a need for programmers. What people need to understand is that they are going to have to expect a more down to earth salary if they want to compete in the market. It's called supply and demand. Between the globe getting smaller, and colleges churning out programmers, the supply is getting large enough for employers to be choosy.
So please tell me you're going to vote Libertarian next election?
Have you migrated to 4.5? It gets even better (and weirder).
Backing up that much data takes forever no matter what kind of medium you are going to. But are you familiar with the high end tape products at all? Large datacenters backup that sort of data every day. And not over to another disk array.
What backup software have you used? Most of the stuff you go to a store and pick up is going to be crap.
I've used various backup software, and my favorite is Veritas Netbackup Datacenter. Did I mention I manage backups for a living?
I don't really see it as being all that predictable.
The benefits of having backup to disk is of course speed. But what happens when you have a disaster? Your SOL, because your backup-on-disk system just got toasted too.
The benefits of having backups on tape is that you can send those tapes anywhere. It might not be as quick as sending a file electronically, but when you are talking hundreds of gigabytes of data, it just isn't economical to do anything but tape.
Tape will never die. Hardware may be cheap and high capacity, but transmission costs keep it from being feasible.
You also need to take a look at space utilization. You can put a tape silo into a footprint that gives you much much more capacity per square foot than disk.
For the same reason, I've always considered my chosen profession to be a "fire fighter". More like a volunteer fire fighter... You don't do it for the money, and people only call you when things start smoking.
This looks pretty interesting. I'm assuming you're using it now?
How does the TV guide work? Does it support being able to record entire sets of programs like the Tivo?
It seems to me that unless you plan on using an existing system, this really would let you save any money. If you build a box specifically for this application, I know you are going to spend at least the $299 going rate of the Tivo. The only item I could see you really saving money is on the monthly fee.
Isn't that region also known to rain frogs, rocks, and other oddities?
:) You don't have to be in the physical path of a meteor to feel its affects.
Joking aside... the chance of being in the right place at the right time to get hit by an object falling from a random trajectory is nearly impossibly unlikely, but the bigger that object the more damage it can do. I'm sure few slashdot readers are well read enough to have heard about the downfall of the dinosaurs.
If they're not making money off of you they they think they should, right or wrong, it's affecting their bottom line.
As you say, right or wrong. I'd say this is wrong. As many have seen lately, companies are using many different tactics to boost their bottom line. Those tactics might be legal-but "immoral" or the more lately broadcasted totally illegal accounting trickery. When their bottom line isn't where it should be, it isn't my problem. It's called business. Sometimes people make wrong guesses on investments.
Perhaps in some fluffy happy-time version of reality, yes. In this world, capitalism = Corporate America, where making money is the name of the game. How you define "earning it" is highly subjective as well.
How I define the difference between making money and earning money isn't THAT subjective. What I mean, and think most people who understood capitalism at all, is in making money the profits are guarrenteed. They aren't. Business is a risk. The right to earn money is that you are allowed to put an investment of time/money/intellect towards the possibility of profit.
Yes, I am not some blind idiot when it comes to corporate america. Greed rules, profits over people, yada yada, is the norm. Just because it is reality doesn't mean we should just shrug it off as "oh thats life". That's bullshit. You may be complacent and not care, but I do. Many do.
First off, it isn't MY logic. However as someone who has spent far too much time in telecommunications and the "capitalist Corporate America" way of life as a cube-farm lackie, I understand very well how the game is actually played. I never said I agree with it, just that this is how it works.
I never meant to say that isn't reality.. only how it should be. Trust me, I have experience in the cube farm world as well. I know how this stuff works. I just don't agree with it and won't play by their rules.
Second, there is no residual income after you buy a CD from a store. This is why they're bitching so much about mp3 downloads, even if it's really a bunch of clouded issues that go both ways. Believe me, if there were a way for record companies to gather up information about you and sell it, they would - and you would be paying to get your name off of that list too.
Ok this is somewhat off topic, but yeah I agree here. Sharing MP3's is illegal and in some ways I agree with the RIAA for going after illegal trading. It is a big gray area though. They make it out as stealing, which is not the case. At any rate, I'll leave this debate for another day.
Telco's have very cleverly devised a way to make more money after the fact, and they do it, like it or not. Your name in a directory listing, vs licensing your purchase of music, are not even close to the same thing. In fact I'm not sure what your point even was. It's your CHOICE to get phone service, however if you do, you agree to their terms. It's also your CHOICE to buy CD's, and you agree to those terms as well - which just happen to be less intrusive.
It is exactly the same, in that they aren't guarrenteed profit.
My point is simply that they aren't profitting off of me, which affects their potential bottom line.
Having a home telephone is a modern necessity. It is possible to live a happy and fruitful life in cabin with no running water, electricty, or a telephone. But modern life requires those things. I have no idea how universal this is, but where I live it is legally required to have electricity and water. Telephone service is required in so much as that my apartment building uses the telephone to allow residents to buzz in guests.
Had you not agreed to let them use it when you signed up for your service, that would be true...
When I moved to my curent residence, I called an 800 number and said "I want telephone service at [insert my home address]". Not once was I offered any i
Having a company not make additional money off me DOES NOT equal "costing them money".
Capitalism doesn't mean the right to MAKE money. It is the right to EARN money.
Following your/their logic, members of the RIAA should go ahead and tax me for not buying their music, since by my LEGALLY not listening and/or purchasing to their stuff I'm "costing" them money.
I do realize that technically the telephone company does own the phone number which has been assigned to me. However, publishing my name in relation to that number is a privacy and right to use issue, since its MY name. The rights of individuals should always go before the profits of corporations. Private or otherwise.
The same way everybody else does... Hotmail sold it. :)
Now wait, are we talking about AOL or Slashdot here?
More like...
*bing*You got mail!
"You have 10 new messages"
"You have 293 rejected messages"
MSG 1> Increase your breast size!
MSG 2> Increase your penis size!
MSG 3> Loose weight fast!
MSG 4> Re: my naked webcam!
MSG 5> Make money advertising on the Internet!
MSG 6> Your unclaimed money!
MSG 7> Horny babes with horses!
MSG 8> Incest rape! W@W!
MSG 9> Make millions in Real Estate!
MSG 10> Do you hate spam? You need this! Only $29.95!
I have attempted to watch it, but find the bad acting, bad scripting, and bad content to make me find something else to watch.
You bring up a good question. But, should the companies that are selling through these channels be held accountable as well?
Even a porn/viagra website has a indentifiable source. Hosting companies which refuse shut down spammers (Exodus and Verio, to name a few) should be held accountable for the content, just as say, you would arrest a bank employee who let in the actual robber through the back door when nobody was looking.
Your right, but I think you will see people switch where they are dual MS/Linux users.
Since nobody knows jack crap how to read English on here. this is DIRECTLY from the Apple Store webpage for the Airport Extreme Base Station.
5 The AirPort Extreme Base Station defaults to 802.11b compatibility mode when users of AirPort Cards or other Wi-Fi certified 802.11b products join the network. Maximum data rate for AirPort Cards or other Wi-Fi certified 802.11b products is 11Mbps.
No.. politically correctness would require "Little People".