Just get the $15/mo. package. 500 anywhere minutes, and all calls to other Vonage subscribers are free.
I'm using Vonage, and I love it. The sound quality is not pindrop-clear, but it's good enough for general, everyday phone use. I also like that Vonage emails me all of my voicemail messages, so I know immediately who called my home while I'm at work.
Initially, it was $1. Is it really that big a deal if you pay an extra $2-4 for your motherboard, for a single bus connection that replaces not one but half a dozen other bus connections?
After Intel stoked this "outrage" over Apple's licensing fees, Apple quickly moved to slash the fee by 75%, from $1/port to 25 cents.
You're crazy if you think that Intel wouldn't see Apple as a threat. APPLE CHIPSET REPLACES INTEL CHIPSETS... or, let me reduce it even further for you: AN APPLE REVENUE STREAM REPLACES AN INTEL REVENUE STREAM. how much more of a threat do you need?
Funny you should say that my theory is "borderline paranoid". As Andy Grove would say, "Only the paranoid survive".
Quick, calculate the value of "extremely cheap" times 100 million motherboards. I bet it's more than a dollar.
Yes I did, because Intel said that they would, and also published a bunch of dead 1394-based specs like Device Bay.
Yes, and why are they dead? Because Intel got involved with the project for the specific purpose of engineering their demise. What was it that Machiavelli said? "Keeps your friends close, and your enemies closer." Politics, politics, politics....
All Intel needed was to slow down the adoption of IEEE-1394 for a couple of years while Serial ATA and USB 2.0 got out the door and get established.
Which raises another interesting point... do you even think it the least bit odd that Intel bailed out on IEEE-1394, a shipping product, and trumpeted their own technologies, which were a couple of years away at the time? And don't you think the market can decide for itself if FireWire is too expensive? That cost is simply passed onto the consumer, anyway. There's no technical reason why FireWire, Serial ATA, and USB 2.0 can't all exist on the same motherboard.
As the article suggests, spammers conducting business outside of the US would simply take the "Do Not Spam" list and spam it heavily. After all, it would be a list of verified, active email addresses. Such a list would be of great value to spammers.
That's because Apple essentially torpedoed 1394 adoption -- the cost being one reason Intel dropped it from the chipsets found in 70% of PCs. And now, as/. predicted, USB rules the roost and Firewire is only used in video niches.
What Intel offered up as alternatives to IEEE-1394 were two technologies, Serial ATA and USB 2.0, both of which were developed by Intel and produce a revenue stream for Intel, and neither of which was really a suitable replacement for the superior IEEE-1394.
Besides, do you really think that Intel is going to willingly let Apple get a toehold into the enormous PC motherboard chipset market? I think not...
"By viewing this image, you agree not to hold the website operators or the holding company, Goatse.cx International, liable for bleeding from the eyes, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, or other similar ailments. You further agree that Goatse.cx International is not liable for anyone gouging out their own eyes or for supergluing their own butt cheeks together."
If you can think of a way to store this energy, fantastic, please share. Otherwise, back to the drawing board.
Even a partial solution to a problem is better than no solution at all. If solar can reduce dependence on coal and oil by one quarter to one half, that goes a long way to helping out.
This article from five years ago suggests that, while nanobacteria may not be responsible for the genetic flaw that causes PKD, they may exacerbate the situation and cause the cysts to grow at a much faster rate.
American company with money opens a production facility in Tijuana. The article says the workers were "unskilled Mexican laborers," which would presume two things: 1) their time isn't worth much to begin with (unskilled), and 2) they are "laborers," so they are going to be earning a wage somewhere (hopefully), regardless. If they were school-aged children, that would be another matter, but the article doesn't say that.
If the rates they were paid were too low compared to what other companies in Tijuana were paying, then the company would have been unable to hire anyone in the first place. More likely, the wages were competitive with what was being paid in the region.
Was the company evil for doing this? Well, 24 unskilled Mexican laborors had steady employment that they were compensated for. Not only did the laborers receive compensation, but the money they received was invested into the local economy as they bought goods and services.
Well, maybe the work they were doing was too demanding. Hmmm... sitting in front of a computer, playing a game for eight hours at a stretch. Yeah, sounds like a rough life.
Sorry, I just have to disagree with the author's attempt to cast the company in a further negative light (yeah, they were dirtbags for selling nonexistent computers)... but I have to say, I think this idea is brilliant. It just can't be sustained, though, because the game developers are either going to fight with you and prevent you from building up a meaningful income, or they are going to wise up and compete with you by selling characters and items themselves.
But it looks like there might be a brief window of opportunity right now to make a buck.
Converting platinums directly into US dollars is probably a little tricky, but using the platinums to buy various sought-after weapons and armor and auctioning those off is probably the easiest way to convert platinums to cash.
Though I didn't see the original segment, I am most definitely sure that TechTV is not responsible for the ongoing "vandalism" of Wikipedia. If you are going to fault them for anything, it's that they probably gave Wikipedia more notariety, and with notariety comes the punks who abuse the system.
Come on, it's not like the punks wouldn't have figured that out on their own.
Was that of Marc Levenson. Most of the staff had very amateurish screen personnas (with the exception of Leo and maybe Chris), but Marc was a pretty high-caliber journalist. I was very surprised when he popped up on TechTV.
From his bio: Marc joined TechTV in December 2001, the pinnacle of a 30-year career that includes science reporting stints at CNN, CBS, and New Jersey Public Television. Marc has earned three Emmy Awards, a Cine Golden Eagle, and a reputation for making science and technology entertaining, captivating, and easy to understand.
Among his credits are a groundbreaking inteview with the late Andrei Sakharov for an hour-long documentary on nuclear fusion, and coverage of one of the nation's first robotic heart surgeries.
Somebody mentioned on Leo's board, and this may be true, that the purpose for firing everyone was to kill all of the current contracts and start fresh, meaning that everyone was welcome to reapply for their jobs and renegotiate their compensation. Could be good for a few (like Marc and Leo), but probably a pay cut for most.
you could also say that "driving to the library" assumes you have a car. So for the time to take a bus to the library, add an hour instead.
I would postulate that the intersection of Set A (the people without internet access) and Set B (people without a car) is fairly large, so that the number of people without internet access doesn't significantly skew the average.
An excerpt from "How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life" by Peter Robinson
Chapter One The Pony In the Dung Heap When Life Buries You, Dig Journal Entry, June 2002:
Over lunch today I asked Ed Meese about one of Reagan's favorite jokes. "The pony joke?" Meese replied. "Sure I remember it. If I heard him tell it once, I heard him tell it a thousand times."
The joke concerns twin boys of five or six. Worried that the boys had developed extreme personalities -- one was a total pessimist, the other a total optimist -- their parents took them to a psychiatrist.
First the psychiatrist treated the pessimist. Trying to brighten his outlook, the psychiatrist took him to a room piled to the ceiling with brand-new toys. But instead of yelping with delight, the little boy burst into tears. "What's the matter?" the psychiatrist asked, baffled. "Don't you want to play with any of the toys?" "Yes," the little boy bawled, "but if I did I'd only break them."
Next the psychiatrist treated the optimist. Trying to dampen his out look, the psychiatrist took him to a room piled to the ceiling with horse manure. But instead of wrinkling his nose in disgust, the optimist emitted just the yelp of delight the psychiatrist had been hoping to hear from his brother, the pessimist. Then he clambered to the top of the pile, dropped to his knees, and began gleefully digging out scoop after scoop with his bare hands. "What do you think you're doing?" the psychiatrist asked, just as baffled by the optimist as he had been by the pessimist. "With all this manure," the little boy replied, beaming, "there must be a pony in here somewhere!"
"Reagan told the joke so often," Meese said, chuckling, "that it got to be kind of a joke with the rest of us. Whenever something would go wrong, somebody on the staff would be sure to say, "There must be a pony in here somewhere.'"
I saw the inventor demostrate this on TechTV months ago. As he panned the speaker across the microphone, you could hear the sound fade in and then fade out to total silence as he pointed the speaker away. Very, very cool.
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Just get the $15/mo. package. 500 anywhere minutes, and all calls to other Vonage subscribers are free.
I'm using Vonage, and I love it. The sound quality is not pindrop-clear, but it's good enough for general, everyday phone use. I also like that Vonage emails me all of my voicemail messages, so I know immediately who called my home while I'm at work.
Initially, it was $1. Is it really that big a deal if you pay an extra $2-4 for your motherboard, for a single bus connection that replaces not one but half a dozen other bus connections?
After Intel stoked this "outrage" over Apple's licensing fees, Apple quickly moved to slash the fee by 75%, from $1/port to 25 cents.
You're crazy if you think that Intel wouldn't see Apple as a threat. APPLE CHIPSET REPLACES INTEL CHIPSETS... or, let me reduce it even further for you: AN APPLE REVENUE STREAM REPLACES AN INTEL REVENUE STREAM. how much more of a threat do you need?
Funny you should say that my theory is "borderline paranoid". As Andy Grove would say, "Only the paranoid survive".
Quick, calculate the value of "extremely cheap" times 100 million motherboards. I bet it's more than a dollar.
Yes I did, because Intel said that they would, and also published a bunch of dead 1394-based specs like Device Bay.
Yes, and why are they dead? Because Intel got involved with the project for the specific purpose of engineering their demise. What was it that Machiavelli said? "Keeps your friends close, and your enemies closer." Politics, politics, politics....
All Intel needed was to slow down the adoption of IEEE-1394 for a couple of years while Serial ATA and USB 2.0 got out the door and get established.
Which raises another interesting point... do you even think it the least bit odd that Intel bailed out on IEEE-1394, a shipping product, and trumpeted their own technologies, which were a couple of years away at the time? And don't you think the market can decide for itself if FireWire is too expensive? That cost is simply passed onto the consumer, anyway. There's no technical reason why FireWire, Serial ATA, and USB 2.0 can't all exist on the same motherboard.
As the article suggests, spammers conducting business outside of the US would simply take the "Do Not Spam" list and spam it heavily. After all, it would be a list of verified, active email addresses. Such a list would be of great value to spammers.
Profit had everything to do with it.
/. predicted, USB rules the roost and Firewire is only used in video niches.
That's because Apple essentially torpedoed 1394 adoption -- the cost being one reason Intel dropped it from the chipsets found in 70% of PCs. And now, as
What Intel offered up as alternatives to IEEE-1394 were two technologies, Serial ATA and USB 2.0, both of which were developed by Intel and produce a revenue stream for Intel, and neither of which was really a suitable replacement for the superior IEEE-1394.
Besides, do you really think that Intel is going to willingly let Apple get a toehold into the enormous PC motherboard chipset market? I think not...
buy low, sell high, get out before the crash. ...or, in this case, before the slashdotting.
Great, all the artists need are 10,000 people waving "Freebird" in the air
Yeah, but it sure beats having some drunken, stoned asshole waving an open flame behind your head...
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What if Neo took both pills?
You mean like this?
...it's where I keep all of my stuff!
If you can think of a way to store this energy, fantastic, please share. Otherwise, back to the drawing board.
Even a partial solution to a problem is better than no solution at all. If solar can reduce dependence on coal and oil by one quarter to one half, that goes a long way to helping out.
Really, spyware removal is only four clicks away... double-click AdAware, click Scan Now, click Quarantine.
Come on, install it! It's only one click more!
This article from five years ago suggests that, while nanobacteria may not be responsible for the genetic flaw that causes PKD, they may exacerbate the situation and cause the cysts to grow at a much faster rate.
American company with money opens a production facility in Tijuana. The article says the workers were "unskilled Mexican laborers," which would presume two things: 1) their time isn't worth much to begin with (unskilled), and 2) they are "laborers," so they are going to be earning a wage somewhere (hopefully), regardless. If they were school-aged children, that would be another matter, but the article doesn't say that.
If the rates they were paid were too low compared to what other companies in Tijuana were paying, then the company would have been unable to hire anyone in the first place. More likely, the wages were competitive with what was being paid in the region.
Was the company evil for doing this? Well, 24 unskilled Mexican laborors had steady employment that they were compensated for. Not only did the laborers receive compensation, but the money they received was invested into the local economy as they bought goods and services.
Well, maybe the work they were doing was too demanding. Hmmm... sitting in front of a computer, playing a game for eight hours at a stretch. Yeah, sounds like a rough life.
Sorry, I just have to disagree with the author's attempt to cast the company in a further negative light (yeah, they were dirtbags for selling nonexistent computers)... but I have to say, I think this idea is brilliant. It just can't be sustained, though, because the game developers are either going to fight with you and prevent you from building up a meaningful income, or they are going to wise up and compete with you by selling characters and items themselves.
But it looks like there might be a brief window of opportunity right now to make a buck.
Converting platinums directly into US dollars is probably a little tricky, but using the platinums to buy various sought-after weapons and armor and auctioning those off is probably the easiest way to convert platinums to cash.
The first I heard of "googol' was Back to the Future 3, when Doc Brown says, "She was one in a million... one in a billion... one in a googolplex!"
If they are trying to defend a trademarked word, I don't recall them filing suit at that time, and that was almost 2 decades ago.
...most likely, according to this post and this one on his messageboards.
...clueless users.
Though I didn't see the original segment, I am most definitely sure that TechTV is not responsible for the ongoing "vandalism" of Wikipedia. If you are going to fault them for anything, it's that they probably gave Wikipedia more notariety, and with notariety comes the punks who abuse the system.
Come on, it's not like the punks wouldn't have figured that out on their own.
Was that of Marc Levenson. Most of the staff had very amateurish screen personnas (with the exception of Leo and maybe Chris), but Marc was a pretty high-caliber journalist. I was very surprised when he popped up on TechTV.
From his bio:
Marc joined TechTV in December 2001, the pinnacle of a 30-year career that includes science reporting stints at CNN, CBS, and New Jersey Public Television. Marc has earned three Emmy Awards, a Cine Golden Eagle, and a reputation for making science and technology entertaining, captivating, and easy to understand.
Among his credits are a groundbreaking inteview with the late Andrei Sakharov for an hour-long documentary on nuclear fusion, and coverage of one of the nation's first robotic heart surgeries.
Somebody mentioned on Leo's board, and this may be true, that the purpose for firing everyone was to kill all of the current contracts and start fresh, meaning that everyone was welcome to reapply for their jobs and renegotiate their compensation. Could be good for a few (like Marc and Leo), but probably a pay cut for most.
Have you SEEN the people calling in? I think they would have exhausted the Actors' Guild supply of "nerdy-looking types" a LOOOOOONG time ago.
you could also say that "driving to the library" assumes you have a car. So for the time to take a bus to the library, add an hour instead.
I would postulate that the intersection of Set A (the people without internet access) and Set B (people without a car) is fairly large, so that the number of people without internet access doesn't significantly skew the average.
He didn't count the time it took for him to leave his office and drive to the library. So add another 20 minutes to all of the library times.
An excerpt from "How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life" by Peter Robinson
Chapter One
The Pony In the Dung Heap
When Life Buries You, Dig
Journal Entry, June 2002:
Over lunch today I asked Ed Meese about one of Reagan's favorite jokes. "The pony joke?" Meese replied. "Sure I remember it. If I heard him tell it once, I heard him tell it a thousand times."
The joke concerns twin boys of five or six. Worried that the boys had developed extreme personalities -- one was a total pessimist, the other a total optimist -- their parents took them to a psychiatrist.
First the psychiatrist treated the pessimist. Trying to brighten his outlook, the psychiatrist took him to a room piled to the ceiling with brand-new toys. But instead of yelping with delight, the little boy burst into tears. "What's the matter?" the psychiatrist asked, baffled. "Don't you want to play with any of the toys?" "Yes," the little boy bawled, "but if I did I'd only break them."
Next the psychiatrist treated the optimist. Trying to dampen his out look, the psychiatrist took him to a room piled to the ceiling with horse manure. But instead of wrinkling his nose in disgust, the optimist emitted just the yelp of delight the psychiatrist had been hoping to hear from his brother, the pessimist. Then he clambered to the top of the pile, dropped to his knees, and began gleefully digging out scoop after scoop with his bare hands. "What do you think you're doing?" the psychiatrist asked, just as baffled by the optimist as he had been by the pessimist. "With all this manure," the little boy replied, beaming, "there must be a pony in here somewhere!"
"Reagan told the joke so often," Meese said, chuckling, "that it got to be kind of a joke with the rest of us. Whenever something would go wrong, somebody on the staff would be sure to say, "There must be a pony in here somewhere.'"
I saw the inventor demostrate this on TechTV months ago. As he panned the speaker across the microphone, you could hear the sound fade in and then fade out to total silence as he pointed the speaker away. Very, very cool.