ForresterInc - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Speed vs Bandwidth (Score 1) 115

by ForresterInc on Thursday April 21, 2011 @03:08PM (#35898050) Attached to: Virgin Media Demos World's Fastest Internet Service In the UK

Seriously? If 20 cars travel down the freeway in one second, in a single file, then they are traveling 20 times as fast as those 20 cars in parallel, if they travel the same distance in that same second. The only way you could speed up this caravan to the degree you refer to would be to have 20 high speed lanes (i.e. 20 network cables plugged into you monster of a NIC.

Comment Re:southern hemisphere note! (Score 1) 179

by ForresterInc on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @03:40AM (#34401436) Attached to: Aussie Government Gives PDF the Thumbs Down

It's a Monty Python reference... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f_p0CgPeyA

How to Heartlessly Arbitrage Used Books With a PDA 445

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 16, 2010 @08:03AM from the have-you-ever-seen-such-cruelty? dept.

Pickens writes "Michael Savitz writes at Salon how he makes a living armed with a laser bar-code scanner fitted to a Dell PDA. Savitz haunts thrift stores and library book sales to scan hundreds of used books a day and instantly identify those that will get a good price on Amazon Marketplace. 'My PDA shows the range of prices that other Amazon sellers are asking for the book in question,' writes Savitz. 'Those listings offer me guidance on what price to set when I post the book myself and how much I'm likely to earn when the sale goes through.' Savitz writes that on average, only one book in 30 will have a resale value that makes it a "BUY" but that he goes through enough books to average about 30 books sold per day. 'If I can tell from a book's Amazon sales rank that I'll be able to sell it in one day, I might accept a projected profit of as little as a dollar. The more difficult a book will be to sell, the more money the sale needs to promise.' Savitz writes that people scanning books sometimes get kicked out of thrift stores and retail shops and that libraries are beginning to advertise that no electronic devices are allowed at their sales. 'If it's possible to make a decent living selling books online, then why does it feel so shameful to do this work?' concludes Savitz."

Comment Conspiracy (Score 1) 408

by ForresterInc on Friday November 18, 2005 @06:49PM (#14067214) Attached to: Geneticists Claim Aging Breakthrough

It's gonna get real crowded in the world if we're all immortal.

No no, see, it's a very elaborate plot. This kind of treatment will only be available to the very rich. They'll pay through the nose for it. And then, when they're immortal, the state can tax them, for a very, very long time, thus taking away all of their money.

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