Quick quibble: shareholders are already in control (and always are) they're just different shareholders with different goals than would be the case if Google went public.
While without that internal battery your phone is no doubt less functional, why on earth are you considering throwing it away? Do you need to remove the battery often or do you frequenty run the charge down to zero?
Maybe a larger capacity battery and some extra battery chargers lying about (work/car/home etc) would help keep it constantly with charge.
I have had 3 nokia phones (2190/5190/3390) and with each one I kept them on 24/7 with moderate to high usage, generally charging while I sleep. If I'm using it more than normally, I'll plug it in for an hour or two during the day when I get a chance. In 5 years I can only think of 2 or 3 occaisons where I was getting so low on charge that I needed to turn it off to conserve power, and only once where I actually managed to drain the battery and lose power. In addition, even if the battery no longer has enough charge to power the phone and it shuts off, I'd bet there's still enough charge to run the phone memory.
Failing that, is the battery specific to the 8860? It looks awfully similar to the one in my 5190 - could you buy a cheap used 51xx and canibalize it?
I don't see a big conspiracy here... just two groups of people that don't quite agree with the technical points raised by the other side, and a number of issues that need more study before everyone will be happy.
omg - someone pinch me - I think I just encountered rational thought. Is that allowed on/.? Or anywhere? Am I the only one who feels overwhelmed by "everything is a conspiracy" propaganda spouted by would-be social and political commentators at every water cooler?
Keep this up and next you'll be telling us that you don't think the US is the root cause of all evil in the world, past, present and future. Seriously, I am waiting for the day when I will hear, "I just stubbed by big toe on my table and wouldn't you know it - the table was made in the USA - those damn americans - I knew they were out to get me!"
I hate to tell you this, but science has been advancing the state of weaponry since the dawn of humanity. If that makes it unpure, the it never was pure to begin with.
Oh and patents are legal instruments, worthless without the backing of government which is elected by the people. (or it would be if people would stop bitching and get out and vote) Corporations may lobby all they want for increased intellectual property protections but at the end of the day it will be the people *we* voted for (if we voted) who write them into law. If you haven't expressed your opinion to your representitive then you've nothing to complain about. Blaming everything on corporations is just a cop-out.
Capitalistic motivations are dry and unpersonal. If you want to know what's going on, you can always follow the money. This not to say that there will be no interference - no system can guarantee that - but that we all know what's motivating the capitalists and we can act accordingly. Political motivations are decidedly murkier.
For instance, imagine there is a public debate about a new environmental regulation to be enacted. Imagine two main camps come to shape the debate. One is a large company that may be adversely affected financially by the rule. The other is a local environmental lobby group.
We all know what motivates the large company - the are afraid of having to deal with higher costs.
Can we say the same about the lobby group? It might be safe to say all it's members want a cleaner environment. But doesn't everyone?
The lobby group will be portrayed as pure and honest because, you do like children don't you? But like the industrial, they will only advance arguments that support their case and have just as much bias as the industrial. The only difference is that we don't know why they fight or how much bias and we feel guilt bound to support them, because you do like children, don't you? In the absence of any direct threat to their wellbeing (i.e. toxic waste in their front yard) how do you know why they are fighting?
Maybe they read a convincing paper in a prestigious science journal that convinced them of a real danger.
Maybe they watched a competent investigative report that convinced them to act.
Maybe they read their horoscope and deduced that they should fight.
The second failure in 25 launches. That's a success rate of 92%? That's also a 1 in 13 chance of failure with multi-million dollar equipment.
Yes, 23 out 25 is 92%.
No, it's 1 in 12.5 chance of failure.
No, the cost of the equipment has no bearing whatsoever on how you calculate the chance of success or failure. It's the same whether the equipment costs $0.25 or $25e9
That is: Instead of 2.4GB here, 4.6GB there, 5GB hither, 5BG tither, and 6 GB yon, I would like this storage space to appear to any computer I designate a 'client' to see and use this storage space as one large (in the case above 23GB) volume.
You see, instead of 2.4 GB hyah, 4.6 GB nyah, 5 GB over hyah, and 6 GB over nyah...
This means that if I read a message, it will automatically be moved from the inbox to the read-messages folder upon quitting. This keeps my inbox clean as I used to have a bad habit of letting things pile up. I also have it set to automatically archive sent and read messages. So I read each email, respond if necessary, delete if trivial and not worthy or archiving. Pine does the rest and my inbox stays neat and clean!!
ObPine-Worship: I have used pine on and off for several years and now it is my client of choice for my primary email account. As many readers have mentioned, I love it's speed and simplicity.
If you want those things, it's simple: vote with your dollars. If everyone stopped buying into these semi-annual incremental upgrades, and insisted on real, substanstial improvement, you'd change the industry overnight.
The "swap" you mention was an outright purchase. Telus ponied up some $6 billion (that's 6e9 for you brits) for Clearnet (which had about a million customers at that point) Leaving aside the issue of whether $6,000 / customer is a good price to pay when the average customer bill then was somewhere near $40/month ($480/yr) and the company was (and still is) unprofitable, I heard about some of the difficulties clearnet customers had w/Telus and new phones or phone upgrades and such at the time.
Oh come on, that's what they all say. Diversifying and selling before the bottom falls out look the same to you & me, so how would you know? His, "diversifying", looks an awful lot like cashing in, given that he's sold off almost all shares he had, and has filed the intent to sell most of the rest.
And what does it matter that inflated market cap VA once had? Profits are what matter, and VA's never had any of them, so what on earth are management getting paid for?/.?
While no one can predict the fate of any given company, it's certainly interesting that VA Systems (/. owner) Chairman Larry Augustin has been cashing out big time over the last year:
He got paid $201,000 for 2001, a year in which, like all the rest, VA lost money. If that wasn't enough, he's been cashing out the stock all the way down:
Too much competition results in prices to low to sustain healthy businesses, which results in rashes of bankruptcy. Less competition results in prices high enough to sustain healthy companies for the long term. No competition results in the highest prices and will sustain a company long after it has ceased to be useful to the world.
As in all things, balance is key.
Your metaphor is also flawed because freedom and democracy are not zero sum games. If you have more freedom, you don't need to get it at someone else's expense. But if you pay less money for a product or service, that person that provides that product or service earns less. If you earn more money for a product or service, the customers who buy it must pay more.
As in all things, balance is key.
Oh, I forgot, this is/. and whatever the issue, it's always the corporation's fault.
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Holy shit, I had no idea - thanks! (mod parent UP)
The issue illustrated by the EQ example is not that the user/pass combination is $x/y bits. As many have pointed out, the actual data you gain access to is much more than the bits in the user/pass, *however* the real issue is - what the most valuable data you've ever seen, protected by the least amount of entropy?
My money would be on nuclear launch codes, although I have no idea how long they are, so I could be wrong, but holding life or death for billions in a string of numbers is pretty impressive.
You forget that the biggest reason people paint or repaint is because they're bored of the colour - the pain my last 200 years, but the fashion for any particular shade will not.
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Quick quibble: shareholders are already in control (and always are) they're just different shareholders with different goals than would be the case if Google went public.
While without that internal battery your phone is no doubt less functional, why on earth are you considering throwing it away? Do you need to remove the battery often or do you frequenty run the charge down to zero?
Maybe a larger capacity battery and some extra battery chargers lying about (work/car/home etc) would help keep it constantly with charge.
I have had 3 nokia phones (2190/5190/3390) and with each one I kept them on 24/7 with moderate to high usage, generally charging while I sleep. If I'm using it more than normally, I'll plug it in for an hour or two during the day when I get a chance. In 5 years I can only think of 2 or 3 occaisons where I was getting so low on charge that I needed to turn it off to conserve power, and only once where I actually managed to drain the battery and lose power. In addition, even if the battery no longer has enough charge to power the phone and it shuts off, I'd bet there's still enough charge to run the phone memory.
Failing that, is the battery specific to the 8860? It looks awfully similar to the one in my 5190 - could you buy a cheap used 51xx and canibalize it?
Good luck.
omg - someone pinch me - I think I just encountered rational thought. Is that allowed on /.? Or anywhere? Am I the only one who feels overwhelmed by "everything is a conspiracy" propaganda spouted by would-be social and political commentators at every water cooler?
Keep this up and next you'll be telling us that you don't think the US is the root cause of all evil in the world, past, present and future. Seriously, I am waiting for the day when I will hear, "I just stubbed by big toe on my table and wouldn't you know it - the table was made in the USA - those damn americans - I knew they were out to get me!"
Please provide documentation of George Soros' "ruthless" ventures.
I hate to tell you this, but science has been advancing the state of weaponry since the dawn of humanity. If that makes it unpure, the it never was pure to begin with.
Oh and patents are legal instruments, worthless without the backing of government which is elected by the people. (or it would be if people would stop bitching and get out and vote) Corporations may lobby all they want for increased intellectual property protections but at the end of the day it will be the people *we* voted for (if we voted) who write them into law. If you haven't expressed your opinion to your representitive then you've nothing to complain about. Blaming everything on corporations is just a cop-out.
That's exactly his point.
Capitalistic motivations are dry and unpersonal. If you want to know what's going on, you can always follow the money. This not to say that there will be no interference - no system can guarantee that - but that we all know what's motivating the capitalists and we can act accordingly. Political motivations are decidedly murkier.
For instance, imagine there is a public debate about a new environmental regulation to be enacted. Imagine two main camps come to shape the debate. One is a large company that may be adversely affected financially by the rule. The other is a local environmental lobby group.
We all know what motivates the large company - the are afraid of having to deal with higher costs.
Can we say the same about the lobby group? It might be safe to say all it's members want a cleaner environment. But doesn't everyone?
The lobby group will be portrayed as pure and honest because, you do like children don't you? But like the industrial, they will only advance arguments that support their case and have just as much bias as the industrial. The only difference is that we don't know why they fight or how much bias and we feel guilt bound to support them, because you do like children, don't you? In the absence of any direct threat to their wellbeing (i.e. toxic waste in their front yard) how do you know why they are fighting?
Maybe they read a convincing paper in a prestigious science journal that convinced them of a real danger.
Maybe they watched a competent investigative report that convinced them to act.
Maybe they read their horoscope and deduced that they should fight.
Who knows?
But we *know* why the company is fighting.
As the man said, dry and unpersonal.
If you read your contract you'll likely see language to the effect that either party may cancel the contract on 30 days notice.
Mods on crack indeed - I can understand redundant or overrated but troll??
Shouldn't people also start thing(sic) about not buying bloated products?
You see, instead of 2.4 GB hyah, 4.6 GB nyah, 5 GB over hyah, and 6 GB over nyah...
FYI regarding chaning sent-mail.
This is a config option - you can turn the asking on or off and make the archival process automatic or not, including the deletion of past months.
For myself, I have it automatically archive sent and read messages, month by month and to *never* delete old months to make room. Works for me!
I use:
read-message-folder = read-messages
[X] auto-move-read-msgs
This means that if I read a message, it will automatically be moved from the inbox to the read-messages folder upon quitting. This keeps my inbox clean as I used to have a bad habit of letting things pile up. I also have it set to automatically archive sent and read messages. So I read each email, respond if necessary, delete if trivial and not worthy or archiving. Pine does the rest and my inbox stays neat and clean!!
ObPine-Worship: I have used pine on and off for several years and now it is my client of choice for my primary email account. As many readers have mentioned, I love it's speed and simplicity.
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If you want those things, it's simple: vote with your dollars. If everyone stopped buying into these semi-annual incremental upgrades, and insisted on real, substanstial improvement, you'd change the industry overnight.
Minor financial market quibble:
The "swap" you mention was an outright purchase. Telus ponied up some $6 billion (that's 6e9 for you brits) for Clearnet (which had about a million customers at that point) Leaving aside the issue of whether $6,000 / customer is a good price to pay when the average customer bill then was somewhere near $40/month ($480/yr) and the company was (and still is) unprofitable, I heard about some of the difficulties clearnet customers had w/Telus and new phones or phone upgrades and such at the time.
Oops.. you're right.. I misread the question.
Why not just run an NTP client on the box? Then you get accurate time and spring/fall time changes automatically.
Oh come on, that's what they all say. Diversifying and selling before the bottom falls out look the same to you & me, so how would you know? His, "diversifying", looks an awful lot like cashing in, given that he's sold off almost all shares he had, and has filed the intent to sell most of the rest.
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And what does it matter that inflated market cap VA once had? Profits are what matter, and VA's never had any of them, so what on earth are management getting paid for?
While no one can predict the fate of any given company, it's certainly interesting that VA Systems (/. owner) Chairman Larry Augustin has been cashing out big time over the last year:
/.'s future?
He got paid $201,000 for 2001, a year in which, like all the rest, VA lost money. If that wasn't enough, he's been cashing out the stock all the way down:
http://us.biz.yahoo.com/t/86/43.html
What does that tell you about
uh... no.
/. and whatever the issue, it's always the corporation's fault.
Too much competition results in prices to low to sustain healthy businesses, which results in rashes of bankruptcy. Less competition results in prices high enough to sustain healthy companies for the long term. No competition results in the highest prices and will sustain a company long after it has ceased to be useful to the world.
As in all things, balance is key.
Your metaphor is also flawed because freedom and democracy are not zero sum games. If you have more freedom, you don't need to get it at someone else's expense. But if you pay less money for a product or service, that person that provides that product or service earns less. If you earn more money for a product or service, the customers who buy it must pay more.
As in all things, balance is key.
Oh, I forgot, this is
Holy shit, I had no idea - thanks! (mod parent UP)
The issue illustrated by the EQ example is not that the user/pass combination is $x/y bits. As many have pointed out, the actual data you gain access to is much more than the bits in the user/pass, *however* the real issue is - what the most valuable data you've ever seen, protected by the least amount of entropy?
My money would be on nuclear launch codes, although I have no idea how long they are, so I could be wrong, but holding life or death for billions in a string of numbers is pretty impressive.
60W * 1KW/1000W * 24h * 30days/1Month = 43.2 KWh/Month
43.2 KWh/Month * C$0.08/KWh = $3.456/Month
Nice try.
You forget that the biggest reason people paint or repaint is because they're bored of the colour - the pain my last 200 years, but the fashion for any particular shade will not.