Ooooh. I'm impressed! Two whole weeks! I guess the BSD boxes that have been up for over 4 years need to learn something from you, huh?
Yeah, wahtever. The point is, for home users OS crashes on XP are few and far between. Linux/BSD no longer has a meaningful advantage for the desktop user in avoiding OS crashes, unlike the advantage it held over 95/98/ME and Mac OS 9.
Yes, well. That's a little out of my range I'm afraid.
Consider an apartment building or neighborhood, however. $1000/month divided by 50 or 100 gives you dial-up level pricing, but evenly divded 1-2Mbit/second connectivity, more if shared and not constantly used.
Heck, your home site might not even get slashdotted...
Gotta read more carefully, as you said, cut the credits. And if it's an insider, making a little extra by releasing the screener, it would be impossible to catch them. I think there's a perception that it really isn't making much difference to movie sales, as Spider-Man et al don't seem to have suffered.
Likewise, every time we hear about a new gadget of some sort, we get comments suggesting it would be better if we tried cross-breeding it with a laptop.
Ok, but in my case the gadget I want doesn't exist. I want a device like a Sharp CL-760, except with the hard drive like an iPod and the ability to act like an external hard drive, and to receive photos from my digital camera.
Ah, of course. The bi-directional requirements would also double the price, as you'd need the same equipment on both ends, yeesh. Still, we can hope!
The Pelican G3 Controller does bidirectional wireless; that way it can support rumble (handy for games like Zelda.) I just got one to give my son for his birthday (shh!) It's no more expensive than the Wavebird.
What I want is a device that allows controllers to work with multiple players. I have USB joysticks, gamepads, steering wheels, etc.; give me a device I can plug them into that speaks GameCube and/or PS2 and/or PC.
I believe this sums it all up "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."--Douglas Adams
The problem is that sure, it saves space on the board, but it takes up more space overall.
If, and only if, you need an RS-232 connector. I haven't used one in nigh-on 10 years, and I bet that 98%+ or more of the computing world hasn't used one in a long time either. You have specialized needs, don't blame the rest of the world for not wanting to pay for something they don't use just to save you a couple of cables. Heck, this thing doesn't even include the keyboard and mouse connectors still on most PCs sold.
Now what you could call for is a teeny connector (say, the size of the plugs digital cameras have) to which a break-out box with an RS-232 connection can be added, which allows you to skip the USB conversion, boot from it, yadda yadda.
And a quick note for the "$1 per song is too much", I'm sorry if you take this personally
I don't, but I have some knowledge of economics. Price is not a moral issue. The optimal price is the one that brings in the most profit, where the increased sales of a lower price would be more than offset by the reduced profit per sale, and vice-versa. While in some circumstances, $1/song may be reasonable, in many others they are not; and in the quantity of songs most of us would like, it's way beyond the optimal price/track. They should not lock in a price, but allow the prices to float like everything else in the market.
If Giganews can provide me a gig of news for $8, and lower prices per gig for higher volume, then the bandwidth cost for a downloadable song is $0.04 or less. Anything beyond that is almost pure profit. Compare this to CDs, where the distributor and retailer take a significant cut, where production and shipping take a cut, etc. The optimal price for an electronic version of anything will be lower because the marginal cost (cost to create a new sellable item) is much lower, thus upping the profit per item, thus shifting the profit for a given price curve.
"I can't afford $1 after buying my $300 iPod!"
No, I can't afford $10,000 for a decent song library after buying a $300 iPod. It's not the one song, it's the hundreds or thousands that a person might want.
Furthermore, this whole myth that Bush lost the popular vote is a bunch of hogwash, since many states simply stopped counting votes once a sufficient victory margin was reached (lead > votes remaining).
Excuse me? Each precinct counts individually. And without counting, how would they know how many votes are remaining. Your statement is a lie.
There are at least two reasons why you want secret balloting, one of them rather subtle. The obvious one is to prevent voter intimidation; the other is to keep people from being able to bring evidence that they voted for a particular candidate outside the confines of the voting booth.
Actually, the latter also prevents voter intimidation, as you can't then threaten to abuse someone if they come out of the voting booth with evidence of having voted the "wrong" way.
The connectors may not fit into the socket in more than one way, but the mouse and the keyboard connector are identical, making it possible to switch them and make the computer unhappy.
USB helps with this, as the sockets are not device-specific.
No, but thanks to crony capitalism, I won't get as much value from my stock as I should. CEO compensation is a buddy system scam, where CEOs are each other's boards and set the high level exec compensation far beyond any reasonable level for their job performance. (See NYSE's Grasso for just the latest of these.)
Al Gore was a master at these, the guy failed out of grad school, he didn't quit, he got booted out and told not to come back
Evidence? The guy graduated cum laude from Harvard, and claims to have quit Vanderbilt Law School to run for Congress. google shows no sites that claim otherwise in the first 100 or so results.
Ask the families of the crews of Challenger and Columbia.
Even with lax maintenance, the controlled explosions that will take me home from work are far less likely to fireball than a rocket with a maintenance team of hundreds.
Apple mice use one button because their research indicates that non-professional computer users never know what to do with a second mouse button anyway.
So why don't they sell to professional computer users?
Apple could silence the critics simply by making multi-button mice an option when you buy a new system, rather than forcing you to pay for a mouse you don't like and won't use, and then buying another mouse.
I was at Apple for a developer's get-together a little while ago, and the development machines they provided were single buttoners. I wished I'd brought my own mouse...
What I want is a Mac keyboard that allows me to use the numeric keypad as a quick navigation tool just like PC keyboards do. Having up/down/left/right/pg up/pg down/home/end all in one little 3x3 square is by far the most efficient local navigation system I've ever used. (I have an iKey keyboard with my Mac, which has a Num Lock key, but the Mac ignores it.)
This also traps all mail sent TO a non-existent domain.
Actually, that's kind of handy.
I have a temporary e-mail address for my domain that was getting nothing but spam, so I wanted to route e-mail to it to a black hole. I ended up using an address some company said was a black hole address. It would be much better if I could dump it on Verisign instead.
You mean like Boeing and Sealaunch? Not to mention Ariane
Are any of these doing anything significant space-wise that isn't part of a government contract? Seems to me these companies are interested in space because the gov't is funding it.
I am a US citizen and my company had to get a work Permit to send me to England.
The English Premiereship football club Tottenham Hotspur offered a contract to an American player on the order of $1.2 million/year, compared to the ~$100,000 he was making in the MSL. The UK gov't refused him a work permit on the grounds that he was not an international-calibre player.
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Ooooh. I'm impressed! Two whole weeks! I guess the BSD boxes that have been up for over 4 years need to learn something from you, huh?
Yeah, wahtever. The point is, for home users OS crashes on XP are few and far between. Linux/BSD no longer has a meaningful advantage for the desktop user in avoiding OS crashes, unlike the advantage it held over 95/98/ME and Mac OS 9.
Yes, well. That's a little out of my range I'm afraid.
Consider an apartment building or neighborhood, however. $1000/month divided by 50 or 100 gives you dial-up level pricing, but evenly divded 1-2Mbit/second connectivity, more if shared and not constantly used.
Heck, your home site might not even get slashdotted...
Gotta read more carefully, as you said, cut the credits. And if it's an insider, making a little extra by releasing the screener, it would be impossible to catch them. I think there's a perception that it really isn't making much difference to movie sales, as Spider-Man et al don't seem to have suffered.
Really now, any solution has to be so complex that it either renders the movie unwatchable, is defeated easily digitally, or doesn't work.
It'd be a bitch to implement, but you could change the order of the people in the credits.
Likewise, every time we hear about a new gadget of some sort, we get comments suggesting it would be better if we tried cross-breeding it with a laptop.
Ok, but in my case the gadget I want doesn't exist. I want a device like a Sharp CL-760, except with the hard drive like an iPod and the ability to act like an external hard drive, and to receive photos from my digital camera.
Ah, of course. The bi-directional requirements would also double the price, as you'd need the same equipment on both ends, yeesh. Still, we can hope!
The Pelican G3 Controller does bidirectional wireless; that way it can support rumble (handy for games like Zelda.) I just got one to give my son for his birthday (shh!) It's no more expensive than the Wavebird.
What I want is a device that allows controllers to work with multiple players. I have USB joysticks, gamepads, steering wheels, etc.; give me a device I can plug them into that speaks GameCube and/or PS2 and/or PC.
No, it's those damned things actually working! I'm like a tripod now!
I believe this sums it all up "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."--Douglas Adams
I have half a mind to run for president myself.
Unfortunately, that means I'm overqualified.
The problem is that sure, it saves space on the board, but it takes up more space overall.
If, and only if, you need an RS-232 connector. I haven't used one in nigh-on 10 years, and I bet that 98%+ or more of the computing world hasn't used one in a long time either. You have specialized needs, don't blame the rest of the world for not wanting to pay for something they don't use just to save you a couple of cables. Heck, this thing doesn't even include the keyboard and mouse connectors still on most PCs sold.
Now what you could call for is a teeny connector (say, the size of the plugs digital cameras have) to which a break-out box with an RS-232 connection can be added, which allows you to skip the USB conversion, boot from it, yadda yadda.
You have to give them credit, they can spin anything and get it out quickly.
I haven't seen spinning this revolting since "The Exorcist."
And a quick note for the "$1 per song is too much", I'm sorry if you take this personally
I don't, but I have some knowledge of economics. Price is not a moral issue. The optimal price is the one that brings in the most profit, where the increased sales of a lower price would be more than offset by the reduced profit per sale, and vice-versa. While in some circumstances, $1/song may be reasonable, in many others they are not; and in the quantity of songs most of us would like, it's way beyond the optimal price/track. They should not lock in a price, but allow the prices to float like everything else in the market.
If Giganews can provide me a gig of news for $8, and lower prices per gig for higher volume, then the bandwidth cost for a downloadable song is $0.04 or less. Anything beyond that is almost pure profit. Compare this to CDs, where the distributor and retailer take a significant cut, where production and shipping take a cut, etc. The optimal price for an electronic version of anything will be lower because the marginal cost (cost to create a new sellable item) is much lower, thus upping the profit per item, thus shifting the profit for a given price curve.
"I can't afford $1 after buying my $300 iPod!"
No, I can't afford $10,000 for a decent song library after buying a $300 iPod. It's not the one song, it's the hundreds or thousands that a person might want.
Furthermore, this whole myth that Bush lost the popular vote is a bunch of hogwash, since many states simply stopped counting votes once a sufficient victory margin was reached (lead > votes remaining).
Excuse me? Each precinct counts individually. And without counting, how would they know how many votes are remaining. Your statement is a lie.
Joe Voter calculates the hash himself and looks for it in the list. If it's not there, someone is playng games.
But that wstill makes it nigh-impossible to figure out if there are fraudulent ballots from the dead or non-existent people.
There are at least two reasons why you want secret balloting, one of them rather subtle. The obvious one is to prevent voter intimidation; the other is to keep people from being able to bring evidence that they voted for a particular candidate outside the confines of the voting booth.
Actually, the latter also prevents voter intimidation, as you can't then threaten to abuse someone if they come out of the voting booth with evidence of having voted the "wrong" way.
The connectors may not fit into the socket in more than one way, but the mouse and the keyboard connector are identical, making it possible to switch them and make the computer unhappy.
USB helps with this, as the sockets are not device-specific.
No, but thanks to crony capitalism, I won't get as much value from my stock as I should. CEO compensation is a buddy system scam, where CEOs are each other's boards and set the high level exec compensation far beyond any reasonable level for their job performance. (See NYSE's Grasso for just the latest of these.)
Al Gore was a master at these, the guy failed out of grad school, he didn't quit, he got booted out and told not to come back
Evidence? The guy graduated cum laude from Harvard, and claims to have quit Vanderbilt Law School to run for Congress. google shows no sites that claim otherwise in the first 100 or so results.
What's so bad about explosions?
Ask the families of the crews of Challenger and Columbia.
Even with lax maintenance, the controlled explosions that will take me home from work are far less likely to fireball than a rocket with a maintenance team of hundreds.
Apple mice use one button because their research indicates that non-professional computer users never know what to do with a second mouse button anyway.
So why don't they sell to professional computer users?
Apple could silence the critics simply by making multi-button mice an option when you buy a new system, rather than forcing you to pay for a mouse you don't like and won't use, and then buying another mouse.
I was at Apple for a developer's get-together a little while ago, and the development machines they provided were single buttoners. I wished I'd brought my own mouse...
What I want is a Mac keyboard that allows me to use the numeric keypad as a quick navigation tool just like PC keyboards do. Having up/down/left/right/pg up/pg down/home/end all in one little 3x3 square is by far the most efficient local navigation system I've ever used. (I have an iKey keyboard with my Mac, which has a Num Lock key, but the Mac ignores it.)
Wow! SCO's stock is at 19.17 WTF!!
I think I'd better buy some. That'll guarantee it'll drop like a rock...
Beyond satellite launches, however, there doesn't seem to be any commercial interest in space.
This also traps all mail sent TO a non-existent domain.
Actually, that's kind of handy.
I have a temporary e-mail address for my domain that was getting nothing but spam, so I wanted to route e-mail to it to a black hole. I ended up using an address some company said was a black hole address. It would be much better if I could dump it on Verisign instead.
You mean like Boeing and Sealaunch? Not to mention Ariane
Are any of these doing anything significant space-wise that isn't part of a government contract? Seems to me these companies are interested in space because the gov't is funding it.
I am a US citizen and my company had to get a work Permit to send me to England.
The English Premiereship football club Tottenham Hotspur offered a contract to an American player on the order of $1.2 million/year, compared to the ~$100,000 he was making in the MSL. The UK gov't refused him a work permit on the grounds that he was not an international-calibre player.
As a dutchman it's also not possible for me to relocate to the USA.
I thought you guys could fly?