Llian - Slashdot User

Time Warner Shelves Plans For Tiered Pricing 210

Posted by timothy on Thursday April 16, 2009 @05:07PM from the meek-will-continue-to-subsidize-the-bold dept.

The FNP writes "Time Warner has postponed their plans to test tiered data caps in Greensboro NC, Rochester NY, San Antonio TX, and Austin TX. This announcement comes shortly after the media started reporting on Eric Massa's opposition and protests planned for this Saturday outside of Time Warner's offices in Greensboro and Rochester." There's also a good piece at Ars on the fall of the current tiered-pricing plans.

Why IT Won't Power Down PCs 576

Posted by timothy on Thursday April 16, 2009 @02:42PM from the sheer-cussedness dept.

snydeq writes "Internal politics and poor leadership on sustainable IT strategies are among the top reasons preventing organizations from practicing proper PC power management — to the tune of $2.8 billion wasted per year powering unused PCs. According to a recent survey, 42 percent of IT shops do not manage PC energy consumption simply because no one in the organization has been made responsible for doing so — this despite greater awareness of IT power-saving myths, and PC power myths in particular. Worse, 22 percent of IT admins surveyed said that savings from PC power management 'flow to another department's budget.' In other words, resources spent by IT vs. the permanent energy crisis appear to result in little payback for IT."

Comment Re:ultimately reduces consumer choice (Score 1) 422

by Llian on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @03:53PM (#26802345) Attached to: Mozilla To Join EU Suit Against Microsoft

Have to agree with this post. People are lazy. IE does the job for them (and some actually like it). Say M$ stops bundling IE with windows, what are they going to use as a web browser if the vendor doesn't pre-install one (and no you cannot assume they will)?

Also, look at the N versions in the EU. They don't sell. It was a useless lawsuit that created a useless product that no one wants. M$ is the EU's cash cow. Nothing more.

Comment Re:When the going gets tough... (Score 1) 749

by Llian on Sunday February 01, 2009 @10:28PM (#26689189) Attached to: Rescued Banks Sought Foreign Help During Meltdown

Maybe that have tried and failed because of a lack of motivation amongst the availiable applicants. I know in some industries people come in with high hopes, don't get them and then end up causing more trouble than they are worth, or just leave.

On the other hand, setup a system like the visa program and ALLOW it to be abused by not protecting those it brings in like they were your own and what can you expect? You get what you deserve.

Comment Re:I want the Upstream (Score 2, Interesting) 299

by Llian on Thursday January 29, 2009 @09:17PM (#26661331) Attached to: Charter Launches 60 Mbps Service

This has nothing to do with it. Only to do with regional areas not having super fast broadband. The telco's just don't want to invest anymore, and with your economy as it is, well.... a large handout would be needed.

As for pop. density, try Oz. Ours sucks even in the populated areas.

Comment When will it end.... (Score 2, Insightful) 137

by Llian on Saturday January 17, 2009 @07:49AM (#26495793) Attached to: Firm Seeks To Ban Mobile Companies' Imports To US

I wonder what else the US citizenry will allow to screw them over. I mean in economic times like these STILL allowing the big boys to LESSEN competition? WTG!!

Drill --> Nose --> Power On --> Push upwards

Comment Re:Ouch (Score 1) 849

by Llian on Thursday January 15, 2009 @05:36AM (#26463231) Attached to: South Carolina Seeking To Outlaw Profanity

<quote><p>add to that:
fucking first amendment baby!</p></quote>

The first amendment was likely not originally intended to be as it is SEEN today. I bet your founding fathers would be aghast to see whats been done with the constitution thingy. Freedom of speech is more meant to be so you cannot be told not to say legitimate things like political or religous crap (ie things that in some countries ARE high censored.).

BMW Introduces GINA Concept Car, Covered In Fabric 347

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday June 11, 2008 @01:29AM from the bend-me-shape-me dept.

smithtuna33 writes "Ever wondered what the metal skin on your car is actually good for? Engineers at BMW have decided that fabric might work just as well. The doors literally peel away from the side of the car, the engine bay opens up down the middle, and pretty much everything (such as headlamps) is hidden until the fabric reveals it. It is a stunning concept that has already been influencing BMW's designs. The video is well worth watching."

Media Dustup Pits Bloggers and Wired Against NYTimes 242

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 10, 2008 @09:45PM from the evidence-please-not-bullet-points dept.

destinyland writes "Wired magazine ran a table listing the scientific effects of prescription drugs (and one illegal drug) — leading to an accusation from the NYTimes that they were 'promoting' drug use. But this routine controversy led to a fierce pushback online from bloggers and from Wired's reporter, who discussed his past drug use on his own blog and called for an honest discussion of scientific evidence and straight talk about medical effects."

Ubuntu Eee Goes Gold 89

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 10, 2008 @08:20PM from the small-screen-big-heart dept.

bjcarne writes in to commend Jon Ramvi and his team, who have delivered their first stable release of Ubuntu Eee, an Ubuntu version customized for the Asus Eee PC. "In December Ubuntu Eee started as a one man project, but [over] the last months several people have joined in on the development. We're trying to achieve something which [hasn't] been successful for any other Linux distribution yet: a OS targeting a single computer which includes the best applications available. This means people can buy this really cheap computer and easily get a great OS on it for free. Ubuntu Eee is just for the Asus Eee. Ubuntu Eee is smaller, faster and we're bringing people the cutting edge of technology (while being stable and free of course)."

The Truth About Last Year's Xbox 360 Recall 255

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 10, 2008 @07:03PM from the value-for-the-money dept.

chrplace forwards an article in which Gartner's Brian Lewis offers his perspective on what led to last year's Xbox 360 recall. Lewis says it happened because Microsoft wanted to avoid an ASIC vendor. "Microsoft designed the graphic chip on its own, cut a traditional ASIC vendor out of the process, and went straight to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., he explained. But in the end, by going cheap — hoping to save tens of millions of dollars in ASIC design costs, Microsoft ended up paying more than $1 billion for its Xbox 360 recall. To fix the problem, Microsoft went back to an unnamed ASIC vendor based in the United States and redesigned the chip, Lewis added. (Based on a previous report, the ASIC vendor is most likely the former ATI Technologies, now part of AMD.)"

TransGaming Launches Mac Game Portal 78

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday June 10, 2008 @06:03PM from the cynics-of-the-world-unite dept.

Gamasutra is reporting that TransGaming, maker of Cedega, has announced the launch of the new Mac video game distribution portal, "GameTree." "GameTree Online hopes to replicate digital distribution offerings for Windows-based PC, enabling consumers to purchase and download Mac games, read gaming news, participate in promotional opportunities, and write game reviews. TransGaming plans to continually add new titles from a mix of genres to its online portal."

Submission + - SeventeenOrBust - another 1 down, 7 to go

Submitted by

tqft

on Sunday May 06, 2007 @01:21AM

tqft writes: "" The 'Seventeen or Bust' distributed computing project today announced the discovery of a massive prime number. The new prime is 3.9 million digits long and stands as the largest non-Mersenne prime ever discovered. It is the fifth largest-known prime overall and the tenth such discovery for the project in its five year history."

http://www.seventeenorbust.com/documents/press-050 507.mhtml

Another one down."

Submission + - Second Life Seeks Sensitive Data About Residents

Submitted by deviantphil on Saturday May 05, 2007 @11:43PM

deviantphil writes: Linden Labs, the company that runs Second Life, is seeking to roll out a new age verification mechanism which among others things may require residents to turn over their Social Security Number, government ID, or other sensitive personally identifying data in order to access content which is "explicitly sexual or excessively violent in nature". This would be equivalent to requiring a person to give out their Social Security Number before purchasing a game rated "M".

Submission + - British authorities are cracking down on "dogg

Submitted by

jimdesade

on Friday March 16, 2007 @09:27AM

jimdesade writes: "Dogging is an extension of "swinging" parties — and involves exhibitionist sex in semi-secluded locations such as car parks or country parks. The location of dogging "events" is now frequently advertised on websites or communicated via mobile phone text message. Those attracted by these messages may simply act as voyeurs — or be invited to participate."

Slashdot Top Deals