People are made out of water, CO2, nitrogen and a dash of salt. Your computer, cell phone, etc are metal and sand. The magic isn't in the matter, it's the pattern it's been arranged in to.
Agreed, except that being in a contract prevents this (or forces you to pay stiff penalties). Requiring more transparency in contracts and giving customers more options to cancel when the service doesn't meet their needs/expectations is fine by me.
Now they're going to expose the naquadah to too much radiation and turn it into naquadria and kill us all! Have they learned nothing from Daniel Jackson!?
It's a common misconception when anything gets published about quantum entaglement. *Especially* when the details get distorted and misinterpreted by a reporter. Here's an (admittedly flawed) analogy to give a better idea of what's really going on:
You have two pouches, each has a rock in it. By entangling them, you know that one *must* be white, and the other *must* be black--you just don't know which one until you look inside the pouches. You can send one pouch across the universe to your Aunt Tilly. When you open your pouch and see you have a white rock, you know Aunt Tilly's getting the black rock. If you paint your rock black, Aunt Tilly's rock will not magically turn white. You can't even tell if Aunt Tilly ever bothered to look at her rock.
Because I *so* enjoy being told to bend over and brace myself. As a consumer, I work to get money. Then I hand that money to companies that make things I like. Some of these things are intangible--like music and movies and in some rare cases . . . art. Since it's hard to make money off of intangible things (since media and transmission is relatively cheap) I'll allow laws to grant companies exclusive distribution rights so they can make profit and keep making stuff I like.
#1 & #2 were long since auctioned off. #3 has been rendered imaginary. I still have power over #4, and guess what I'm not shelling out for crap I don't want anymore?
(and why the hell doesn't slashdot have a +1 drunken rant!? Or -1 drunken rant . . . or even Z@!I#NV j60o
I've been in the banking industry for the past 6 years and every bank I've worked at has relied on text-only server side applications that we connect to via various terminal emulators. The workstations are all modern, but we don't use anything more taxing than excel and an e-mail app.
Why have none of them changed beyond a few interface bolt-ons? Well . . . one of them actually did once . . . and it wasn't pretty. Sure it was graphical and point-and-click and more "user friendly" in appearance. But the fact of the matter is that we were a production environment and what could be done with hotkeys in 3 steps was now a 12 step process clicking widgets etc. To be fair, there were still a few hot keys, but they were all different and everyone had to relearn. Productivity never quite got back to what it was under the old system.
Larger companies will kick and scream to avoid "upgrades." Many of them have had horrifying experiences and they just can't risk getting stuck with software worse than what they have now.
CFLs can be made for any wattage desired, it'll just be a lot brighter than an incandescant of the same wattage . . . although I doubt a 100 watt CFL will be all that "compact."
If quality Linux drivers actually materialize and they have a fully open spec, I'll jump ship from nVidia in a heartbeat. An open spec will help a lot with gpgpu projects. I'd love to be able to take full advantage of my otherwise idle GPU while say . . . transcoding video . . .
But the point is that if they used a standard connector, whether USB or one of the cylindrical types like many music players use, you wouldn't need to buy a new charger at all, ever.
Oh, to hell with those "standard" cylindrical connectors. There's nothing standard about them. Endless variations of connector size/shape, the size/shape of the pin hole in the center mean the generics almost never fit right, or you have to buy one of those multiple-bit adapters that fall apart or the bits get lost, and the voltage and amperage can be different . . . *shudders*
Give me USB any day. Standard voltage, size, shape, connectors, all that good stuff.
MS's only real money makers are Windows & Office, so they're trying to diversify the L. Ron Hubbard way and are preparing to start their own religion. That's where the real money is.
Correct. Every retail store I've ever worked at has a strict no-chase policy. If someone's suspected of shoplifting they can be asked to stop or asked to have their bags searched, but employees are not to do anything else to attempt to stop the person. If you really think unpaid merchandise is walking out of the store, call the cops, try to get the license plate number and let them deal with it (it's their job.).
The store's home office would much rather see $100 in merchandise walk out the door than an employee do something stupid and bring down a major lawsuit. My bet is these employees violated company policy, will almost certainly be fired, and maybe even sued personally (tho, if they're just CC employees, they're probably not worth suing). Either way, Circuit City should be ready to cut a large check to keep this guy from suing.
I'd imagine it's in your best interest to uphold the concept of innocent until PROVEN guilty.
Unfortunately (or not, depending on which side of the lawsuit you're on), that's only true for criminal cases. The burden of proof in a civil case is only "a preponderance of evidence" i.e. enough evidence to convince a judge/jury you're probably at fault.
"In all our cases, we seek to follow the facts and be fair and reasonable in resolving pending claims."
No you do not! You demand outrageously overinflated damages and target people with all the accuracy of a drunk stumbling out of a bar. Most importantly, you are extorting money from people who have never used p2p file sharing and violated NONE of your copyrights. You then proceed to rely on scare tactics realizing most of these lawsuits will be settled out of court because the prospect of going toe to toe with a major corporation in the court room is downright terrifying and can financially ruin an individual of far lesser means than you.
You have every right to protect your member organizations' copyrights via the court system. You *do not* have the right to pick people at random, bring financial ruin down on them, and harras them and their families.
I don't have a huge amount of faith in the court systems these days, but you really need to lose. And badly. I'm not talking about $5.00 coupon-for-a-CD settlements. I'd really like to see a judgement so harsh that some of your member organizations are driven to bankruptcy. After all, it's what you've been using the courts to do to people these past few years. Turnabout's fair play.
Is Slashdot ready for all these additional telecommuters?
Goofing off on Slashdot at work vs. goofing off on slashdot at home through while pretending to work via the VPN connection shouldn't affect traffic levels.
No, but a whole lot of the GNU stuff on top of the kernel will be. The operating system "Linux" or "GNU/Linux" or whatever you want to call it will effectively be GPLv3 for the whole shooting match unless you cherry pick just the v2 bits.
If you "forgot" to pay your colocation bill and they turned off your servers, that might work. You could claim you couldn't pay the bill because of all the money you are spending on lawyers.:)
IANAL, but I think you'd still be obligated to at least notify the court of your inability to pay your co-lo bills and the servers will be shut down soon. The court has the authority to order the power company not to disconnect a building during foreclosure proceedings, so I'd imagine they can make similar orders to other service providers.
I get the same impression. If TIVO for instance wishes to use the method to satisfy both their (eventual) GPLv3 obligations *and* content-owner obligations at the same time, then I don't see it violating either the letter or the spirit of GPLv3. An end-user is free to modify the Linux client as they see fit, or to replace the hypervisor alltogether with a bare-metal Linux installation.
The DS web browser is terrible, IMHO. I can only imagine how they'd botch the implementation of a skype cartridge. Also, the built-in mic and speakers aren't ideally situated for a phone call, so you'd pretty much have to plug in a headset. In much the same way that cell phones make for crappy portable game machines, so would the DS make for a really crappy phone.
They GIVE it to you? No. In the case of DSL, it's built into the costs, especially the activation fees. For cable, you rent it or buy it. They don't just give it to you.
They don't GIVE it to you, they "give" it to you. You're missing parent's point--from the customer's perspective, you'll usually pay the same monthly rate with the cable company's equipment. There's no discount for buying your own equipment. So it's "free" only in the sense that your other alternative is paying for the equipment twice.
Minimum spec to run any other OS will be equally poor, does linux still run on a 386 with 2mb?
Sure, as long as you use a kernel optimized for so little memory by today's standards, probably might want to stick to 2.4 or earlier. Forget about a GUI tho. But there's no reason it wouldn't feel as snappy at the command prompt as it would under DOS. There might be an ultra-lightweight GUI out there somewhere, but bear in mind you're talking about a machine that's barely adequate for Windows 3.1.
My DX2/66 could do it in Win95 w/ winamp, but it would take a full minute or two before it would start playing. I could make mix tapes if I loaded up a playlist, and let it go as soon as it finally started playing. Doing anything else while this was happening would of course result in skipping, but I think it was a combination of enough memory and a processor just *barely* able to keep up that made it work.
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People are made out of water, CO2, nitrogen and a dash of salt. Your computer, cell phone, etc are metal and sand. The magic isn't in the matter, it's the pattern it's been arranged in to.
Agreed, except that being in a contract prevents this (or forces you to pay stiff penalties). Requiring more transparency in contracts and giving customers more options to cancel when the service doesn't meet their needs/expectations is fine by me.
Now they're going to expose the naquadah to too much radiation and turn it into naquadria and kill us all! Have they learned nothing from Daniel Jackson!?
It's a common misconception when anything gets published about quantum entaglement. *Especially* when the details get distorted and misinterpreted by a reporter. Here's an (admittedly flawed) analogy to give a better idea of what's really going on:
You have two pouches, each has a rock in it. By entangling them, you know that one *must* be white, and the other *must* be black--you just don't know which one until you look inside the pouches. You can send one pouch across the universe to your Aunt Tilly. When you open your pouch and see you have a white rock, you know Aunt Tilly's getting the black rock. If you paint your rock black, Aunt Tilly's rock will not magically turn white. You can't even tell if Aunt Tilly ever bothered to look at her rock.
Because I *so* enjoy being told to bend over and brace myself. As a consumer, I work to get money. Then I hand that money to companies that make things I like. Some of these things are intangible--like music and movies and in some rare cases . . . art. Since it's hard to make money off of intangible things (since media and transmission is relatively cheap) I'll allow laws to grant companies exclusive distribution rights so they can make profit and keep making stuff I like.
*My airwaves* *My nation's laws* *My consent* *My money*
#1 & #2 were long since auctioned off. #3 has been rendered imaginary. I still have power over #4, and guess what I'm not shelling out for crap I don't want anymore?
(and why the hell doesn't slashdot have a +1 drunken rant!? Or -1 drunken rant . . . or even Z@!I#NV j60o
I've been in the banking industry for the past 6 years and every bank I've worked at has relied on text-only server side applications that we connect to via various terminal emulators. The workstations are all modern, but we don't use anything more taxing than excel and an e-mail app.
Why have none of them changed beyond a few interface bolt-ons? Well . . . one of them actually did once . . . and it wasn't pretty. Sure it was graphical and point-and-click and more "user friendly" in appearance. But the fact of the matter is that we were a production environment and what could be done with hotkeys in 3 steps was now a 12 step process clicking widgets etc. To be fair, there were still a few hot keys, but they were all different and everyone had to relearn. Productivity never quite got back to what it was under the old system.
Larger companies will kick and scream to avoid "upgrades." Many of them have had horrifying experiences and they just can't risk getting stuck with software worse than what they have now.
CFLs can be made for any wattage desired, it'll just be a lot brighter than an incandescant of the same wattage . . . although I doubt a 100 watt CFL will be all that "compact."
If quality Linux drivers actually materialize and they have a fully open spec, I'll jump ship from nVidia in a heartbeat. An open spec will help a lot with gpgpu projects. I'd love to be able to take full advantage of my otherwise idle GPU while say . . . transcoding video . . .
Maybe the big screen plus a mechanical hard drive are too much of a power draw and will require too large a battery?
Just a guess, but I'd prefer the HD as well--Flash just isn't there yet. (it will be, eventually, but not today)
Oh, to hell with those "standard" cylindrical connectors. There's nothing standard about them. Endless variations of connector size/shape, the size/shape of the pin hole in the center mean the generics almost never fit right, or you have to buy one of those multiple-bit adapters that fall apart or the bits get lost, and the voltage and amperage can be different . . . *shudders*
Give me USB any day. Standard voltage, size, shape, connectors, all that good stuff.
It's plain as day.
MS's only real money makers are Windows & Office, so they're trying to diversify the L. Ron Hubbard way and are preparing to start their own religion. That's where the real money is.
Correct. Every retail store I've ever worked at has a strict no-chase policy. If someone's suspected of shoplifting they can be asked to stop or asked to have their bags searched, but employees are not to do anything else to attempt to stop the person. If you really think unpaid merchandise is walking out of the store, call the cops, try to get the license plate number and let them deal with it (it's their job.).
The store's home office would much rather see $100 in merchandise walk out the door than an employee do something stupid and bring down a major lawsuit. My bet is these employees violated company policy, will almost certainly be fired, and maybe even sued personally (tho, if they're just CC employees, they're probably not worth suing). Either way, Circuit City should be ready to cut a large check to keep this guy from suing.
Unfortunately (or not, depending on which side of the lawsuit you're on), that's only true for criminal cases. The burden of proof in a civil case is only "a preponderance of evidence" i.e. enough evidence to convince a judge/jury you're probably at fault.
No you do not! You demand outrageously overinflated damages and target people with all the accuracy of a drunk stumbling out of a bar. Most importantly, you are extorting money from people who have never used p2p file sharing and violated NONE of your copyrights. You then proceed to rely on scare tactics realizing most of these lawsuits will be settled out of court because the prospect of going toe to toe with a major corporation in the court room is downright terrifying and can financially ruin an individual of far lesser means than you.
You have every right to protect your member organizations' copyrights via the court system. You *do not* have the right to pick people at random, bring financial ruin down on them, and harras them and their families.
I don't have a huge amount of faith in the court systems these days, but you really need to lose. And badly. I'm not talking about $5.00 coupon-for-a-CD settlements. I'd really like to see a judgement so harsh that some of your member organizations are driven to bankruptcy. After all, it's what you've been using the courts to do to people these past few years. Turnabout's fair play.
Best Buy and Circuit City are pressuring customers to buy overpriced add ons they don't need? Hogwash!
Correct, latency isn't a problem since quantum entanglement can't transmit information at all. Remember--the speed of light abbreviates to S.O.L.
Goofing off on Slashdot at work vs. goofing off on slashdot at home through while pretending to work via the VPN connection shouldn't affect traffic levels.
No, but a whole lot of the GNU stuff on top of the kernel will be. The operating system "Linux" or "GNU/Linux" or whatever you want to call it will effectively be GPLv3 for the whole shooting match unless you cherry pick just the v2 bits.
IANAL, but I think you'd still be obligated to at least notify the court of your inability to pay your co-lo bills and the servers will be shut down soon. The court has the authority to order the power company not to disconnect a building during foreclosure proceedings, so I'd imagine they can make similar orders to other service providers.
I get the same impression. If TIVO for instance wishes to use the method to satisfy both their (eventual) GPLv3 obligations *and* content-owner obligations at the same time, then I don't see it violating either the letter or the spirit of GPLv3. An end-user is free to modify the Linux client as they see fit, or to replace the hypervisor alltogether with a bare-metal Linux installation.
The DS web browser is terrible, IMHO. I can only imagine how they'd botch the implementation of a skype cartridge. Also, the built-in mic and speakers aren't ideally situated for a phone call, so you'd pretty much have to plug in a headset. In much the same way that cell phones make for crappy portable game machines, so would the DS make for a really crappy phone.
They don't GIVE it to you, they "give" it to you. You're missing parent's point--from the customer's perspective, you'll usually pay the same monthly rate with the cable company's equipment. There's no discount for buying your own equipment. So it's "free" only in the sense that your other alternative is paying for the equipment twice.
No, but you can get something cement-like from it.
I'll get my coat . . .
Sure, as long as you use a kernel optimized for so little memory by today's standards, probably might want to stick to 2.4 or earlier. Forget about a GUI tho. But there's no reason it wouldn't feel as snappy at the command prompt as it would under DOS. There might be an ultra-lightweight GUI out there somewhere, but bear in mind you're talking about a machine that's barely adequate for Windows 3.1.
My DX2/66 could do it in Win95 w/ winamp, but it would take a full minute or two before it would start playing. I could make mix tapes if I loaded up a playlist, and let it go as soon as it finally started playing. Doing anything else while this was happening would of course result in skipping, but I think it was a combination of enough memory and a processor just *barely* able to keep up that made it work.