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Comment Re:this just encourages them (Score 1) 262

by troubbble (#34183698) Attached to: T-Mobile G2 'Permaroot' Achieved

I think you're misusing the term "free market". A (truly) free market is a market without regulation. This has nothing to do with the level of competition in the market, unless you incorrectly believe that a free market necessarily implies competition.

I think the term you're looking for is more along the lines of "competitive market".
Government

Pentagon Aims To Buy Up Book 347

Posted by samzenpus from the sorry-we're-all-out dept.
jamie writes "Operation Dark Heart, a book about the adventures and frustrations of an Army officer who served in Afghanistan, has ruffled some feathers at the Pentagon. From the article: 'The Defense Department is attempting to buy the entire first printing — 10,000 copies — of a memoir by a controversial former Defense Intelligence Agency officer so that the book can be destroyed, according to military and other sources."

Comment Re:Meh. (Score 0) 240

by troubbble (#32458592) Attached to: AMD's Fusion Processor Combines CPU and GPU

I think you might be doing your math wrong:

1. The failure rate calculation you use should be 1-N*(probability of survival of one component).

2. In your signature, what is it about 1=-1 that implies 1=0? Anyway, I think 1=-1 is a good enough conclusion by itself.

Comment Why specifically tax electronics? (Score 0) 381

by troubbble (#32450036) Attached to: FTC Staff Discuss a Tax on Electronics To Support the News Business
One thing, of the many things, that bugs me about this is the idea that the electronics market should bear the burden of news print's failure. I could imagine reasons (if I really cared) for subsidizing newspapers, but that subsidy should come from a general fund.\n\n First, there's the obvious fact that a tax on electronics hinders the consumption of electronics goods. Screw that. But the second reason that really gets me is that the FTC is basically _blaming_ electronic print for the death of news (and newspapers). Not only has the internet done wonderful things for the availability of news in general, but the death of newspapers is at most the fault of newspapers for not being desirable enough. It's just how a functioning economy is supposed to work.\n\n So, in summary, this is ridiculous.\n\n By the way, how the hell do I separate paragraphs???

Comment My experience with btrfs (Score 0) 269

by troubbble (#32216792) Attached to: Btrfs Could Be the Default File System In Ubuntu Meerkat
I've been using btrfs with compression for my root partition with kernel 2.6.33 for about 3 months now. As far as I can tell, it's been rock solid. I haven't noticed any significant changes in speed compared to XFS, so maybe it's not worth the risk. However, I do like the fact that it's so easy to create separate subvolumes for /usr, /var, etc. (not /etc) in the same partition. Not that I'd necessarily recommend other people take the plunge at this point...
Businesses

Garage Startup Develops "Personal Computer" 80

Posted by timothy from the doomed-from-the-start dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "In the summer of 1980, MIT graduates Donald Faber and Peter Haberle moved into an empty two-car garage and started work building the first-ever 'personal home computer.' Now almost 30 years later, what began as a humble two-man operation has since grown into an even more humble, even more cramped computer company, based out of an even smaller single-car garage. According to Faber and Haberle, a lot has changed since Xalaga was first founded. What was once a struggling $7,500-a-year business with only a dozen or so paying customers is now a desperate $6,400-a-year business with only a half dozen or so paying customers. Faber, who turned down a promising position with GE in order to start Xalaga, a decision he now says he regrets each and every waking day, told reporters that he knew almost immediately that his company had something not-at-all special on its hands. 'We sold only one computer that first year, then the following year it was three computers, then suddenly 10 computers, then just as suddenly five computers, then back down to three computers again, and finally only one or two machines every other year for pretty much the next decade,' said Faber, standing up from the plastic milk crate that now serves as his desk. 'Had someone told us when we first started that we'd be here today, operating out of a much smaller, somehow less expensive garage, we probably would have laughed right in their face.'"

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