I don't see anything free about the American education system. Universities exchage information with each other in order help each other sell seats in their classrooms.
Orders meaning two or more as in 1,000,000 times or more, or is it just a geeky way to sound smart? Wouldn't a "megashitload more" be just as accurate as your pseudo intellectual mathmatics usage?
The article: [..] Four trams derailed in the process injuring a number of passengers. The boy is now looking at 'charges at a special juvenile court [..]
Part of your response: [..] hope) this kid's imagination and curiosity somehow gets channeled rather than squashed. He actually sounds like he could be a contributor. [..]
I realize this is SlashDot and sometimes it is hard for some of you to hang onto reality. So let me put this in tems you might understand.
What would Spiderman or Superman do if there was an evil genius running around the metropolis derailing trains and injuring (potentially killing) people? The answer is not "channel him so he can be a contributor."
Go buy an HDTV with an HDMI input. While at the same store, buy a DVD player with an HDMI output. Take an HDMI cable, you can get it at the same place you bought everything else, and plug it into both devices. Don't worry about which end goes yo which device, it doesn't matter.
All set. I bet it doesn't take you nearly as much time as you have spent on Slashdot reading about it.
Infrant/Netgear NV/NV Plus is bare bones? What more would you want it to do for goodness sakes? It is ROCK solid as long when using componenets off of their supported components list (if you aren't don't bother calling them for suoort, which is excellent BTW.) It's one of the few "computer" based appliances I have ever used that works perfect, every time, all of the time.
Rsync, CIFS, NFS, FTP, PNP, NTP, automated firmware upgrades, X-RAID (expandible RAID), SAMBA authentication, User/Group authentication, Slim server, TwonkyMedia, uPnP server, Apple network support, Gigabit ethernet, Jumbo frames, etc. The list goes on.
You don't even have to solder up something to make it "redboot."
I have found their reviews to be blatently biased. What else do you call it when the manipulation of weighting of obviously trivial features brings a certain product to the top of the list?
Let's not give them rice that they need because their government will stel it. Let's give them computers that they don't neeed becuase one way or another someone has to make money off this.
No one on this list has any idea of how useful or not this data collection effort will be. Comments from the peanut gallery are literally useless. However, I do know for a fact that any method that you would perosnally use to stop terroism would be utterly and completely ineffective.
How do you know what is the way to go for Amazon? Did you run the numbers? Hmm, I bet Amazon spends a lot of money and employs a lot of smart people to figure out ways to lose money.
Yeah that's what they do, and I can accurately base this conclusion on a few sentences in a slahdot post.
What they are really doing is using a model to predict who will positively respond to more expensive (ie faster) shipping positively while at the same time identifying the shoppers to whom more expensive shipping doesn't matter.
Fancy semantics. If the founding fathers wanted to guarantee you health care it would have been written into the constitution. They had doctors then. They could have formed an anti-disease department. They didn't. Why? Because the governed people of the time would have never stood for it. They were independent and self sufficient.
They didn't yet have the entitlement mentality bred into them by the government. Why does the government want to provide more and more "services" to the people. To secure their votes, to secure their money, and to secure the power that comes with the wealth redistribution system of socialism.
How do they do it? They sell it to the public on one hand by creating a state of fear while on the other hand providing the easy remedy. Trade your freedom for "safety."
Health care is certainly not a right. I want an XJ8 but I can't afford it so I have a Jetta. If you can't afford all the health care that you want then you will have to settle for less. It is just like everything else that you have to buy.
Here is another shocker. Most of the health care that you pay for provides no evidence based benefit whatsoever. When you go in for your sore throat and your doctor does a strep test which is negative, and then decide to treat you with an antibiotic anyway, there was $40 down the drain. I could have given you 10 days worth of placebo and it would have had the same benefit to you at almost no cost. Here's the kicker, it would have been much safer for you as well. You are going to in expecting something that can cause allergic reactions and contribute to antibiotic resistance with absolutely no change for any benefit to you.
The reason you need so much health care is because it has been sold to you. Just like all the other crap in your life that you have to have because it is sold to you. So when you are buying things you don't need don't complain about not being able to afford them.
Then once the artificial demand for unnecessary medical services is lessened, the price will go down because of oversupply. At that point people who really need the care will be better able to afford it.
Don't go to the doctor unless you need to. Expect to pay for the things you want. Understand you can't have everything you want or need.
Before I buy the insightful mod, I have one question. What resolution does your main TV output? I think that will tell all about your post.
Joe six-pack wants the best picture he can afford. He knows that all that crap doesn't matter because he only has $500 to spend. I have $5500 to spend and I want the best picture I can afford too. I also want a TV that will play future formats, and look good in my lighting at home. I care a lot about what inputs the TV has because I plan on outputting my laptop to the TV and I would like to have 1080P so I can watch blu-ray movies in case I get a blu-ray player.
blah, blah, blah except the blah blah matters to me and not to you. So get a clue and come back.
I will use an analogy that the average Slashdot reader can relate to. I bet you use Linux and the fact that you can't run Microsoft Money doesn't matter to you. In fact anyone that it does matter to is an idiot, because since YOU personally don't need it then why would anyone else need it? If it can't be done on Linux it is only because it is not important in the first place.
Wouldn't that be more like "...find out you could only put 46L in the tank."? In the big scheme of things not being able to do math is a much bigger problem than losing $32 worth of advertised disk space (assuming a TB drive costs $400 that is.)
I find this all quite ridiculous. The reason that the drives are advertised this way in the first place is that the VAST majority of people either can't do the math or don't have enough of a computer background to know the difference. The drive manufactures did it to make it simple for these people to understand it all in the first place.
Evey one knows a billion has only 1s and 0s in it for goodness sakes. Maybe we should get some legislation going that makes them advertise what the consumer is really getting. Then we all could tell are friends, "hey I just got a new 2.14748 × 10^9 bit hard drive for my laptop."
Yes, as long as you don't need to watch DVDs, or view content protected with DRM, or play games, or use personal financial software or share Office documents, then Linux will be fine. For the other 80% of the world they will probably continue to spend billions of dollars on the worst line of OS ever created.
Linux users are so smart, Windows users are so dumb. Linux is free, Windows is not. If I can't do it on Linux that means it really isn't important.
Excuse me I need to go play Call of Duty and then use Outlook to read my email. After that I will use Microsoft Money to settle the trades I did Thursday. Then I will probably read some of the new policies from work (sent in Word format.) Then I will rip my Good Eats DVDs and convert them to DivX. Then I will use the worst browser ever created to check the weather before we go to the Rockies game.
That's what I do on the computer. I should probably get Linux, oh yeah I would have to dual boot.
I have loaded up the latest, greatest distro in VMWare twice a year for the last 5 years. Every time I get done I say to myself, "now what?" Then I delete it all and go play MechWarrior or whatever.
Ciao.
P.S. Everything I wrote above is wrong because maybe I could use Open Office to read the Word documents I mentioned.
I agree. I would only pay $100 to see the Stones, the Who, Led Zepplin, Eric Clapton (but not $300, sorry Eric), maybe one or two others. $75, no way unless it was Van Halen, Ozzy, Black Sabbath, Rush. No way would I pay $60 unless it was Scorpions, Def Leppard. I see your point, I think?
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I don't see anything free about the American education system. Universities exchage information with each other in order help each other sell seats in their classrooms.
The war is over, we lost. We need to start having babies.
Orders meaning two or more as in 1,000,000 times or more, or is it just a geeky way to sound smart? Wouldn't a "megashitload more" be just as accurate as your pseudo intellectual mathmatics usage?
Q: Why did the Canadian cross the road?
A: To get to the middle.
I like suburban sprawl.
The article:
[..] Four trams derailed in the process injuring a number of passengers. The boy is now looking at 'charges at a special juvenile court [..]
Part of your response:
[..] hope) this kid's imagination and curiosity somehow gets channeled rather than squashed. He actually sounds like he could be a contributor. [..]
I realize this is SlashDot and sometimes it is hard for some of you to hang onto reality. So let me put this in tems you might understand.
What would Spiderman or Superman do if there was an evil genius running around the metropolis derailing trains and injuring (potentially killing) people? The answer is not "channel him so he can be a contributor."
Get a frigging grip.
Here I can help you with that.
Go buy an HDTV with an HDMI input. While at the same store, buy a DVD player with an HDMI output. Take an HDMI cable, you can get it at the same place you bought everything else, and plug it into both devices. Don't worry about which end goes yo which device, it doesn't matter.
All set. I bet it doesn't take you nearly as much time as you have spent on Slashdot reading about it.
Not much of an imagination? or just a trusting soul?
Infrant/Netgear NV/NV Plus is bare bones? What more would you want it to do for goodness sakes? It is ROCK solid as long when using componenets off of their supported components list (if you aren't don't bother calling them for suoort, which is excellent BTW.) It's one of the few "computer" based appliances I have ever used that works perfect, every time, all of the time.
Rsync, CIFS, NFS, FTP, PNP, NTP, automated firmware upgrades, X-RAID (expandible RAID), SAMBA authentication, User/Group authentication, Slim server, TwonkyMedia, uPnP server, Apple network support, Gigabit ethernet, Jumbo frames, etc. The list goes on.
You don't even have to solder up something to make it "redboot."
I have found their reviews to be blatently biased. What else do you call it when the manipulation of weighting of obviously trivial features brings a certain product to the top of the list?
Why doesn't Linux work correctly with a USB drive that has a power saving feature? Does this mean Linux has a larger carbon footprint than Windows?
Let's not give them rice that they need because their government will stel it. Let's give them computers that they don't neeed becuase one way or another someone has to make money off this.
Perhaps this is the time for you to start up a non-profit organization with the mission to provide pay phone service to underserved areas.
No one on this list has any idea of how useful or not this data collection effort will be. Comments from the peanut gallery are literally useless. However, I do know for a fact that any method that you would perosnally use to stop terroism would be utterly and completely ineffective.
How do you know what is the way to go for Amazon? Did you run the numbers? Hmm, I bet Amazon spends a lot of money and employs a lot of smart people to figure out ways to lose money.
Yeah that's what they do, and I can accurately base this conclusion on a few sentences in a slahdot post.
What they are really doing is using a model to predict who will positively respond to more expensive (ie faster) shipping positively while at the same time identifying the shoppers to whom more expensive shipping doesn't matter.
What proof do you have that drivers using radar detectors are dangerous? Or is that just your unqualified bullshit opinion?
Agreed. Here's an idea. Nuclear fission to produce electricity. That would generate all kinds of carbon credits, right?
Fancy semantics. If the founding fathers wanted to guarantee you health care it would have been written into the constitution. They had doctors then. They could have formed an anti-disease department. They didn't. Why? Because the governed people of the time would have never stood for it. They were independent and self sufficient.
They didn't yet have the entitlement mentality bred into them by the government. Why does the government want to provide more and more "services" to the people. To secure their votes, to secure their money, and to secure the power that comes with the wealth redistribution system of socialism.
How do they do it? They sell it to the public on one hand by creating a state of fear while on the other hand providing the easy remedy. Trade your freedom for "safety."
Do you feel safe yet?
Health care is certainly not a right. I want an XJ8 but I can't afford it so I have a Jetta. If you can't afford all the health care that you want then you will have to settle for less. It is just like everything else that you have to buy.
Here is another shocker. Most of the health care that you pay for provides no evidence based benefit whatsoever. When you go in for your sore throat and your doctor does a strep test which is negative, and then decide to treat you with an antibiotic anyway, there was $40 down the drain. I could have given you 10 days worth of placebo and it would have had the same benefit to you at almost no cost. Here's the kicker, it would have been much safer for you as well. You are going to in expecting something that can cause allergic reactions and contribute to antibiotic resistance with absolutely no change for any benefit to you.
The reason you need so much health care is because it has been sold to you. Just like all the other crap in your life that you have to have because it is sold to you. So when you are buying things you don't need don't complain about not being able to afford them.
Then once the artificial demand for unnecessary medical services is lessened, the price will go down because of oversupply. At that point people who really need the care will be better able to afford it.
Don't go to the doctor unless you need to. Expect to pay for the things you want. Understand you can't have everything you want or need.
Before I buy the insightful mod, I have one question. What resolution does your main TV output? I think that will tell all about your post.
Joe six-pack wants the best picture he can afford. He knows that all that crap doesn't matter because he only has $500 to spend. I have $5500 to spend and I want the best picture I can afford too. I also want a TV that will play future formats, and look good in my lighting at home. I care a lot about what inputs the TV has because I plan on outputting my laptop to the TV and I would like to have 1080P so I can watch blu-ray movies in case I get a blu-ray player.
blah, blah, blah except the blah blah matters to me and not to you. So get a clue and come back.
I will use an analogy that the average Slashdot reader can relate to. I bet you use Linux and the fact that you can't run Microsoft Money doesn't matter to you. In fact anyone that it does matter to is an idiot, because since YOU personally don't need it then why would anyone else need it? If it can't be done on Linux it is only because it is not important in the first place.
Wouldn't that be more like "...find out you could only put 46L in the tank."? In the big scheme of things not being able to do math is a much bigger problem than losing $32 worth of advertised disk space (assuming a TB drive costs $400 that is.) I find this all quite ridiculous. The reason that the drives are advertised this way in the first place is that the VAST majority of people either can't do the math or don't have enough of a computer background to know the difference. The drive manufactures did it to make it simple for these people to understand it all in the first place. Evey one knows a billion has only 1s and 0s in it for goodness sakes. Maybe we should get some legislation going that makes them advertise what the consumer is really getting. Then we all could tell are friends, "hey I just got a new 2.14748 × 10^9 bit hard drive for my laptop."
to not post the first part of your paragraph as the subject line?
I don't believe what you say.
Yes, as long as you don't need to watch DVDs, or view content protected with DRM, or play games, or use personal financial software or share Office documents, then Linux will be fine. For the other 80% of the world they will probably continue to spend billions of dollars on the worst line of OS ever created.
Linux users are so smart, Windows users are so dumb. Linux is free, Windows is not. If I can't do it on Linux that means it really isn't important.
Excuse me I need to go play Call of Duty and then use Outlook to read my email. After that I will use Microsoft Money to settle the trades I did Thursday. Then I will probably read some of the new policies from work (sent in Word format.) Then I will rip my Good Eats DVDs and convert them to DivX. Then I will use the worst browser ever created to check the weather before we go to the Rockies game.
That's what I do on the computer. I should probably get Linux, oh yeah I would have to dual boot.
I have loaded up the latest, greatest distro in VMWare twice a year for the last 5 years. Every time I get done I say to myself, "now what?" Then I delete it all and go play MechWarrior or whatever.
Ciao.
P.S. Everything I wrote above is wrong because maybe I could use Open Office to read the Word documents I mentioned.
I agree. I would only pay $100 to see the Stones, the Who, Led Zepplin, Eric Clapton (but not $300, sorry Eric), maybe one or two others. $75, no way unless it was Van Halen, Ozzy, Black Sabbath, Rush. No way would I pay $60 unless it was Scorpions, Def Leppard. I see your point, I think?