Actually, if there's no method for you to express those feelings, your system is broken. Even worse, not complaining and "sitting" it just supports the fact that you don't care. Therefore, you're supporting the ones you don't like.
My country allows you to mark "blank" on the ballot, in theory, if "blank" wins (thing that never happens due to your same thinking), the election repeats and none of the candidates that were in that election can go to that round.
Hey, It sounds like they are going to test if I learned my lesson on the advertised product. If there's something I don't want to take after finishing my PhD... is more tests.
Actually, I think media is a tool for making people lazy. What would be the purpose of offering media that asks you do things (not paying).
The win-win situation is that people that is annoyed by this, would probably go out and enjoy the world surrounding them. The others will probably pay for the subscription that will allow not to type in.
Yes, this was like the Engineer of the Mayans, which used limited resources to describe the calendar. Now that the resources are almost done (and since no other Mayan Engineer has been able to update the Y2012 bug), then everyone speculates about the mess that this is going to cause.
I wonder if banks are still running on the Mayan calendar or if they updated, last time I checked the Gregorian one was poorly implemented and was about to break, like.. 11 years ago?
Well, by looking at the article, I don't know how to feel about the huge amount of pictures of Steve Jobs. Particularly, when this is supposedly an interview of John Sculley. Is (young) Steve Jobs a sex symbol to attract masses also?
I agree with you. At this point the only advantage an OS has over Linux, seems to me, is gaming and Windows is still far ahead. Other than that, I'd say I'm pretty happy with using Ubuntu in all 5 computers I use frequently.
The success of FB was its origins on exclusivity. MySpace et. al just wanted to make social networks, but failed to see the malicious people and how to keep them from accessing their networks. FB started as a club for a university, then a group of universities, and so on. It took years for FB to open to schools and universities around the world. Then, they went public. They built the idea of exclusivity and the people's feeling of belonging to a selected group of people.
That's where all the others failed. They won the trust of the "selected" and then opened to the public. Otherwise, not everyone would have jumped into his bandwagon.
This is one of the most important comments here. While people is questioning why building the PCs yourself, I (as the parent) question the requirements of the applications that people is running in those systems.
I understand that people want 1G Video cards and tons of HDD space, but I don't think the average application required there requires $1000 worth of hardware. If you're buying the equipment, you should have the authority of questioning the requirements of those systems, and buy something that doesn't exceed by far the expectations.
Since normally, what happens is that people click everywhere and install whatever stuff they want, slowing the systems down, I'd suggest better improve the mechanisms to avoid that behavior in the company (deepfreeze, remove administrative privileges, etc).
I don't think they discourage birth control, what they discourage are unnatural methods, including abortion because of respect to life. While I don't completely share that point of view, it's different to what you're saying, to me their point of view is pretty simple: Sex carries its consequences, if you're up for them, then go for it. If not, try to be more "naturally" careful.
This is a double-edge sword. If Fox blocks users from cablevision is fine, but cablevision blocking Fox is not being neutral. Not a fair fight to me, if you ask.
Well, they may not find that practical, particularly in a country with such regulations. I'd be worried that the people go ahead and sue in another country, so if the people show up there, they have arrest order or something of the like.
I met a person once, she divorced her husband (he was some kind of ass) and moved to the US. She sued him for child support, and since he never was quite informed about the issue (and didn't care that much) he now can't travel to the US, because there's a hell lot of trouble waiting for him.
While I agree with you on the issues that moving to IPv6 can create, by your UID I can imagine that you're in the US. You don't see the problem from other countries where the lack of public IPv4 addresses has caused that ISPs use NAT, causing even more problems to users that have routers using NAT at home, such that you have NAT behind NAT, and of course a huge mess of connectivity issues.
As I have lived in the US for some years now, I see no issues here because US ISPs have lots of public IPv4 addresses, but when ISPs in other places are juggling around with the few they had assigned, I see it more as a broken service.
What do you mean with a "better implementation of TCP". Perhaps changes from within routers may work, or even another reliable transport protocol. The TCP slow start and congestion avoidance algorithms are supposed to converge to a fair bandwidth share. Since torrents open multiple connections to download small chunks of data (not the traditional behavior of FTP), then using 100 flows to download a large file will cause that another flow (such as an HTTP, a youtube video or the like) is greatly impacted because it's sharing the bandwidth with another 100 flows instead of sharing with just one.
I don't see why you're modded interesting, when you should be modded +5 informative.
Some people don't understand the fundamentals of TCP's congestion control/flow control. Bit torrent is a very greedy, selfish, egocentric, abusive (keep going with the adjectives) algorithm. It takes advantage of TCP's mechanism to provide fairness, and use it to abuse the rest of the users. While people is excited about it's performance to selfishly downloading data, the widespread of these type of algorithms may lead to unusable networks. Particularly, because there is no queue management enforced and marking mechanisms are not used by default, therefore, routers will drop packets and the end effect is a large number of retransmitted packets.
As the the parent points out what the grand parent states, the greed of such protocols even degrades the throughput by starving the acknowledgement packets.
I agree with you. I bought a PC for my parents long time ago. It's a P4 running Windows 98. It has been doing the job for them.
Since XP had a really long life span, I'd assume that it will be most likely to remain top for a long time.
Besides: 1. people it's currently using more mobile platforms to browse, which it's likely to mess up with the statistics. And, 2. Some people I know use their powerful systems to work, and leave the old PCs for browsing the web at home (some more afraid that catching something from browsing will get them into trouble), which is likely to mess the statistics up too.
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Actually, if there's no method for you to express those feelings, your system is broken. Even worse, not complaining and "sitting" it just supports the fact that you don't care. Therefore, you're supporting the ones you don't like.
My country allows you to mark "blank" on the ballot, in theory, if "blank" wins (thing that never happens due to your same thinking), the election repeats and none of the candidates that were in that election can go to that round.
Hey, It sounds like they are going to test if I learned my lesson on the advertised product. If there's something I don't want to take after finishing my PhD... is more tests.
Actually, I think media is a tool for making people lazy. What would be the purpose of offering media that asks you do things (not paying).
The win-win situation is that people that is annoyed by this, would probably go out and enjoy the world surrounding them. The others will probably pay for the subscription that will allow not to type in.
Oh, but it is. What you have to think harder is who's the real perpetrator.
The fact is that spammers
spammers can use a huge
number of techniques that the
the human brain may not be aware of.
Including random characters, or
properly repeating words, or simple
thypos [sic]. That makes harder for
spam to be tracked.
Let's say for example that most people
won't notice it says "the the human" up there.
Yes, this was like the Engineer of the Mayans, which used limited resources to describe the calendar. Now that the resources are almost done (and since no other Mayan Engineer has been able to update the Y2012 bug), then everyone speculates about the mess that this is going to cause.
I wonder if banks are still running on the Mayan calendar or if they updated, last time I checked the Gregorian one was poorly implemented and was about to break, like.. 11 years ago?
Well, by looking at the article, I don't know how to feel about the huge amount of pictures of Steve Jobs. Particularly, when this is supposedly an interview of John Sculley. Is (young) Steve Jobs a sex symbol to attract masses also?
I find that disturbing... deeply disturbing.
I agree with you. At this point the only advantage an OS has over Linux, seems to me, is gaming and Windows is still far ahead. Other than that, I'd say I'm pretty happy with using Ubuntu in all 5 computers I use frequently.
I'll take it you're not a woman. What about a sex change?
The success of FB was its origins on exclusivity. MySpace et. al just wanted to make social networks, but failed to see the malicious people and how to keep them from accessing their networks. FB started as a club for a university, then a group of universities, and so on. It took years for FB to open to schools and universities around the world. Then, they went public. They built the idea of exclusivity and the people's feeling of belonging to a selected group of people.
That's where all the others failed. They won the trust of the "selected" and then opened to the public. Otherwise, not everyone would have jumped into his bandwagon.
This is one of the most important comments here. While people is questioning why building the PCs yourself, I (as the parent) question the requirements of the applications that people is running in those systems.
I understand that people want 1G Video cards and tons of HDD space, but I don't think the average application required there requires $1000 worth of hardware. If you're buying the equipment, you should have the authority of questioning the requirements of those systems, and buy something that doesn't exceed by far the expectations.
Since normally, what happens is that people click everywhere and install whatever stuff they want, slowing the systems down, I'd suggest better improve the mechanisms to avoid that behavior in the company (deepfreeze, remove administrative privileges, etc).
I don't think they discourage birth control, what they discourage are unnatural methods, including abortion because of respect to life. While I don't completely share that point of view, it's different to what you're saying, to me their point of view is pretty simple: Sex carries its consequences, if you're up for them, then go for it. If not, try to be more "naturally" careful.
This is a double-edge sword. If Fox blocks users from cablevision is fine, but cablevision blocking Fox is not being neutral. Not a fair fight to me, if you ask.
Maybe, maybe not. As people say, correlation is not causation.
Public as in Free Public WiFi? Perhaps it's not going to work quite well.
Well, if all they want is to squeeze the fibers, why not using bigger and stronger wire ties?
And independently, 10/10/10 is still base 10. I don't see why "thinking" that it's binary for the sole purpose of matching it with the number 42.
Well, they may not find that practical, particularly in a country with such regulations. I'd be worried that the people go ahead and sue in another country, so if the people show up there, they have arrest order or something of the like.
I met a person once, she divorced her husband (he was some kind of ass) and moved to the US. She sued him for child support, and since he never was quite informed about the issue (and didn't care that much) he now can't travel to the US, because there's a hell lot of trouble waiting for him.
While I agree with you on the issues that moving to IPv6 can create, by your UID I can imagine that you're in the US. You don't see the problem from other countries where the lack of public IPv4 addresses has caused that ISPs use NAT, causing even more problems to users that have routers using NAT at home, such that you have NAT behind NAT, and of course a huge mess of connectivity issues.
As I have lived in the US for some years now, I see no issues here because US ISPs have lots of public IPv4 addresses, but when ISPs in other places are juggling around with the few they had assigned, I see it more as a broken service.
Yeah, and just wait for 3D reality shows:
And now on "Cheaters 3D..."
What do you mean with a "better implementation of TCP". Perhaps changes from within routers may work, or even another reliable transport protocol. The TCP slow start and congestion avoidance algorithms are supposed to converge to a fair bandwidth share. Since torrents open multiple connections to download small chunks of data (not the traditional behavior of FTP), then using 100 flows to download a large file will cause that another flow (such as an HTTP, a youtube video or the like) is greatly impacted because it's sharing the bandwidth with another 100 flows instead of sharing with just one.
I don't see why you're modded interesting, when you should be modded +5 informative.
Some people don't understand the fundamentals of TCP's congestion control/flow control. Bit torrent is a very greedy, selfish, egocentric, abusive (keep going with the adjectives) algorithm. It takes advantage of TCP's mechanism to provide fairness, and use it to abuse the rest of the users. While people is excited about it's performance to selfishly downloading data, the widespread of these type of algorithms may lead to unusable networks. Particularly, because there is no queue management enforced and marking mechanisms are not used by default, therefore, routers will drop packets and the end effect is a large number of retransmitted packets.
As the the parent points out what the grand parent states, the greed of such protocols even degrades the throughput by starving the acknowledgement packets.
I agree with you. I bought a PC for my parents long time ago. It's a P4 running Windows 98. It has been doing the job for them.
Since XP had a really long life span, I'd assume that it will be most likely to remain top for a long time.
Besides:
1. people it's currently using more mobile platforms to browse, which it's likely to mess up with the statistics. And,
2. Some people I know use their powerful systems to work, and leave the old PCs for browsing the web at home (some more afraid that catching something from browsing will get them into trouble), which is likely to mess the statistics up too.
It is also important for humanity not to repeat their same mistakes. Justin Beaver recordings NEED to be protected/archived!