Just counting down to the moment an Apple fanboy comes on here and tells us this isn't ridiculously stupid and wasteful but rather a radical design advancement for billing and its not Apple's fault if us non-designer pedestrians are too low-brow to 'get' it.
Can't defend AT&Ts actions here, but I would say all those things above if they sent your bill electronically to your iPhone and allowed you to flip through all 104 pages of it using coverflow... : p
The thing that I find even more disturbing than the $3000 bill is this: "I'm a web developer as part of my career and I couldn't even tell you how many KB the average web page is, no less a text message to my son, an e-mail with a photo to my mother, or a quick check of Google Maps." I can only assume that optimization isn't in this guy's vocabulary.
[Pile of self-important ravings culminating in...]When I die, it'll be a tragedy too, not because I'm interesting, but because there will always be beer I didn't drink, women I didn't bed, and places I haven't seen.
And yet you still miss the entire point of the post. Sure it'll be a tragedy, but only to you. All of the rest of us won't give a shit that you didn't do those things...
That's a feature of the television/tuning device so that people don't have to watch/hear static. I've had a few VCRs and whatnot where you could disable the blue screen and watch/listen to as much static as you wanted.
Anyway, I say the whole broadcast TV thing needs to just die anyway. Seriously, how many people do you know personally who don't have satellite or cable? I know of one person, but that's it.
I think this is the first time I've seen someone on slashdot advocating the elimination of the FREE option and requiring people to pay money for something.
Now indie snobs will have a genuine reason to gripe when their favorite dreary crap picks up a larger audience! It'll actually cost them money instead of just snobbery rights about how they were fans before whatever single got radio play...
Funny, for those of use who like to see bands play live, this is exactly what we have to deal with as a band gets bigger. There are more than a few bands that I've seen for free in small clubs or coffeeshops in their early days, only to see their popularity take off to the point where I'd have to pay 25-30 bucks or more to see them in some sports arena.
It's become too difficult? I think it's always been difficult and he's just now beginning to realize how far off the mark his books have been. Don't get me wrong, I love his stuff and will continue to read his books, but saying it's become too difficult is just silly. As for his new book being set in the past, why does that seem to ring a bell? Anyone know of any other cyberpunk novelists that have gone that route?
So, you guys think that by making documentation that's already difficult to read even more difficult to read, that you'll get more people to read it? Can I have some of whatever you're smoking?
No doubt. And you can see this on NYTimes.com; I emailed them. How long do you think they will take to correct this?
Why would they correct something that they didn't get wrong? Just because a few slashdotters don't feel that the number cited is correct, you're going to tell them that they're wrong? How about doing three minutes of research to find out for yourself first? Let's hear it for "Citizen Journalism", where truthiness is more important than facts.
And for those of you playing at home, the relevent passage from the MIT study (press release here)(actual study here) [PDF warning] is this: Based on growing markets in the United States for clean, base-load capacity, the panel thinks that with a combined public/private investment of about $800 million to $1 billion over a 15-year period, EGS
technology could be deployed commercially on a timescale that would produce more than 100,000
MWe or 100 GWe of new capacity by 2050. This amount is approximately equivalent to the total R&D
investment made in the past 30 years to EGS internationally, which is still less than the cost of a
single, new-generation, clean-coal power plant.
Reading through the comments here, the general solution from slashdotters appears to be some form of "Just throw more money at it" (buy another TiVo, get a second Netflix account, get more hard drives). Whatever happened to actually talking with the other person and trying to work out a solution to the problem? It seems that many times, just accumulating more "his" and "her" stuff doesn't get to the root of the issue, which is that the two of you supposedly share a life now.
Slashdot Mirror
Then they'll have to start working on a cure for the uncommon cold...
Just counting down to the moment an Apple fanboy comes on here and tells us this isn't ridiculously stupid and wasteful but rather a radical design advancement for billing and its not Apple's fault if us non-designer pedestrians are too low-brow to 'get' it.
Can't defend AT&Ts actions here, but I would say all those things above if they sent your bill electronically to your iPhone and allowed you to flip through all 104 pages of it using coverflow... : p
The thing that I find even more disturbing than the $3000 bill is this: "I'm a web developer as part of my career and I couldn't even tell you how many KB the average web page is, no less a text message to my son, an e-mail with a photo to my mother, or a quick check of Google Maps." I can only assume that optimization isn't in this guy's vocabulary.
Holy shit! If you're receiving bills every month for -$846.52 I think you need to sick a collections agency on their ass!
Wonder how he's going to address the creation of the lions?
I'd guess it'll be stolen (and possibly modified) alien technology.
[Pile of self-important ravings culminating in...]When I die, it'll be a tragedy too, not because I'm interesting, but because there will always be beer I didn't drink, women I didn't bed, and places I haven't seen.
And yet you still miss the entire point of the post. Sure it'll be a tragedy, but only to you. All of the rest of us won't give a shit that you didn't do those things...
Not to mention that they give you a free application or game every few months (or at least they used to). (And yes, I know it's not really "free").
Fine. Editors, please correct this typo. It should read: "Is this to expensive for what their offering."
By virtue of being a price comparison/deals website, CAG attracts more "principled" and informed consumers.
Others might argue that CAG attracts some, well, cheapasses.
Because the things that happen in those regions have an affect on the rest of us on this planet.
I bet you were standing right next to Orville whispering "It's gonna crash..ssss.." right in his ear.
Yet he still made a damn good bowl of popcorn...
That's a feature of the television/tuning device so that people don't have to watch/hear static. I've had a few VCRs and whatnot where you could disable the blue screen and watch/listen to as much static as you wanted.
Anyway, I say the whole broadcast TV thing needs to just die anyway. Seriously, how many people do you know personally who don't have satellite or cable? I know of one person, but that's it.
I think this is the first time I've seen someone on slashdot advocating the elimination of the FREE option and requiring people to pay money for something.
WTF? What's with the pony craze on slashdot?
Screenshot of Slashdot on April 1 2006.
Now indie snobs will have a genuine reason to gripe when their favorite dreary crap picks up a larger audience! It'll actually cost them money instead of just snobbery rights about how they were fans before whatever single got radio play...
Funny, for those of use who like to see bands play live, this is exactly what we have to deal with as a band gets bigger. There are more than a few bands that I've seen for free in small clubs or coffeeshops in their early days, only to see their popularity take off to the point where I'd have to pay 25-30 bucks or more to see them in some sports arena.
It's usually pretty obvious when your screen turns into an ad.
Yes. I've found that seeing "slashdot.org" in the address bar is usually a pretty good indicator... ; )
That might be why the author wrote "In the meanwhile, NoScript is your friend ;)" in his blog.
What? No vinegar?
What do you mean? It appears twice in the article. Or maybe you meant to say "I could have read a little more closely before making a stupid comment."
But is it backwards compatible with Web 1.0?
Yes, but I've heard that it does it via software emulation, so you may want to avoid it.
And before anyone points out that he's done that in the past, yes, I've read The Difference Engine.
It's become too difficult? I think it's always been difficult and he's just now beginning to realize how far off the mark his books have been. Don't get me wrong, I love his stuff and will continue to read his books, but saying it's become too difficult is just silly. As for his new book being set in the past, why does that seem to ring a bell? Anyone know of any other cyberpunk novelists that have gone that route?
So, you guys think that by making documentation that's already difficult to read even more difficult to read, that you'll get more people to read it? Can I have some of whatever you're smoking?
No doubt. And you can see this on NYTimes.com; I emailed them. How long do you think they will take to correct this?
Why would they correct something that they didn't get wrong? Just because a few slashdotters don't feel that the number cited is correct, you're going to tell them that they're wrong? How about doing three minutes of research to find out for yourself first? Let's hear it for "Citizen Journalism", where truthiness is more important than facts.
And for those of you playing at home, the relevent passage from the MIT study (press release here) (actual study here) [PDF warning] is this:
Based on growing markets in the United States for clean, base-load capacity, the panel thinks that with a combined public/private investment of about $800 million to $1 billion over a 15-year period, EGS technology could be deployed commercially on a timescale that would produce more than 100,000 MWe or 100 GWe of new capacity by 2050. This amount is approximately equivalent to the total R&D investment made in the past 30 years to EGS internationally, which is still less than the cost of a single, new-generation, clean-coal power plant.
Reading through the comments here, the general solution from slashdotters appears to be some form of "Just throw more money at it" (buy another TiVo, get a second Netflix account, get more hard drives). Whatever happened to actually talking with the other person and trying to work out a solution to the problem? It seems that many times, just accumulating more "his" and "her" stuff doesn't get to the root of the issue, which is that the two of you supposedly share a life now.