It is entirley possible that the 93 % are right, if the worst 7 % are REALLY BAD drivers.
Not even really bad. For instance, if 93% of drivers are 1% above the average in driving skill, then the remaining 7% of drivers only need to be 13.3% below average in driving skill. I've had to avoid drivers who are a lot worse than that. My memory (or confirmation bias) suggests that the worst drivers are found in Audis and invariably have a cellphone stuck to their ear, whether in North America or in Europe.
If you would like to pay for dedicated bandwidth, you can definitely do so, however you are taking advantage of the cost of the pipe being spread among many people with the expectation they won't all max it out at once. Just a hint, your measily 60 bucks a month doesn't come close to covering a dedicated 50 mbps pipe, it doesn't even come close to a dedicated 1.5 mbps pipe.
Just keep sticking it to the man though.
So I guess my euro45/month does not cover the 100/100Mbps fiber link we have at our house? It's a standard domestic service: uncapped, unthrottled, with no blocked ports or other limits. I don't think we've gone past 1TB in a month, but we've certainly exceeded 500GB a few times. Two adults and two teenagers and our own web server add up to a fair amount of traffic. We're not egregious users either, and some others in the area do exceed our throughput. Some ISPs are not as miserly as others, but still manage to make a profit.
"Telco" means TELephone COmpany, so the headline starts, "Telephone Company Company...". At least the summary doesn't mention "ATM machines" or "PIN numbers".
Is it just me, or has the quality of writing on/. fallen off a cliff lately?
Lately? It happened quite a while ago. Not to worry, there are even worse abominations such as "Personal PIN Numbers" lurking in the future.
I wish we had a law saying that you can obtain something for free if the copyright holders refuse to sell it to you. This would keep a lot of this horrible litigation from ever occurring.
So instead of refusing to sell, they can just set the price for dealers/distributors to be absurdly high - it's still available for sale. Example: for extended periods, Disney could set the wholesale price of a licensed copy of a particular movie on DVD/BR to about $200million. Then, for a limited time, the wholesale price could drop to $20, so retailers can sell it for about $30 or so. Problem solved, and largely indistinguishable from the present, where Disney simply refuses to sell particular movies for extended periods to maintain their pricing power.
Indeed, it was sad to see Caldera plummeting into the abyss of incompetent leadership and negative strategy.
I was one of those users of the quite nice Caldera OpenLinux on a 486 back in the last century. I moved thence to SuSE (before Novell purchased it) and subsequently to the *buntu family.
Ah, but Rand's ideas do have value to society. In and of themselves, their social value is strictly negative. As a metaphor, they could serve as a warning of how things can be done utterly wrongly and/or wrong-headedly. In this sense, the book Atlas Shrugged is analogous to books such as 1984 or Brave New World or Fahrenheit 451 or to movies such as Dr. Strangelove or Brazil. Unfortunately, such expositions are instead often an inspiration for the sociopathic leaders of nations and corporations. It goes over their heads, in a way which would draw a Whooosh comment on Slashdot.
Absolutely.
For me, AfterShot Pro (ex Bibble 5), Vuescan (yeah, I paid for a freaking scanner driver, and I love it. Incidentally, Vuescan + Linux is the *only* way to get my old Nikon LS2000 film scanner working. No recent windows version will make it work, even XP was complicated to get support for the U320 SCSI card).
And a truckload (around 200 I guess) of games bought on Steam, Gog, Gamersgate, Amazon and various bundles, that I play mainly on Crossover (that I paid too, with regular updates since 2008 I think).
As a matter of fact, I'm somewhat unsatisfied with Thunderbird as a mail client and I'd pay good money to get a real good commercial PIM suite that runs on Linux. If anyone has ideas...
No paying customers on Linux ? Really ?
Oops, I'd forgotten that I've bought a couple of Humble Bundles as well as the Linux versions of FotoPlayer and Noise Ninja (in addition to Mathematica and Bibble Pro). Probably one or two others as well as some platform-independent stuff (Java-based)...
First of all, the Linux userbase is really small to begin with. Within that small userbase, you have two relatively large groups:
1. The ideologues, who really believe in RMS's idea that proprietary software is unethical.
2. The cheapskates, who aren't going to pay for software.
Considering that I have paid for Linux applications (for my home PCs), and subsequently paid for version upgrades for those applications, I think you need a third category:
3. The people who pay for decent software that fits a particular purpose better than the free options.
In case, you're wondering: Mathematica and Bibble Pro[*]. Both have native Linux versions with excellent support.
[*] Apparently, Bibble Pro was renamed to Corel Aftershot Pro after Corel bought Bibble.
Didn't click TFL (the fucking links). These were certainly the Wikipedia entries about goatse.
So your browser does not tell you what the links are before you click them? Either you're using a lousy browser, or you're incompetent at using a decent browser, or you're a trollish coward as well as an anonymous one.
For your edification, the links were to the Wikipedia articles on (i) the vulva, and (ii) the glans penis.
actually, yeah, most of us would be out on our asses if our employers caught us looking at porn. The reason people tag links NSFW is because you can get fired for even accidentally clicking on non-pornographic nudity.
So these guys might have just been looking at Wikipedia, or perhaps at Wikipedia? Caution, some Wikipedia pages (like those two) might actually be considered NSFW in really incredibly prudish places, simply because they contain photos of human genitalia (but non-prurient photos).
That web site estimates 465 million years for my primary password at home and 27 trillion years for my primary password at work. But what do they mean by "desktop PC" in this case?
The point of forcibly replacing your music with a good-quality one is so they can massively reduce storage. Now they just need one copy of each song.
Which makes it doubly bizarre they're now counting it against your cloud storage -- it's not even stored in your "piece" -- all that's stored are a few bytes of an ID pointing into their song database.
This is the cloud equivalent of the "?????" step between the "Charge money for storage space" step and the "Profit" step.
And the police are on their way to arrest you (and maybe beat you up just a little).
Microsoft stuff can be weird, but I didn't think it would be that blatant...
Serious? In Finland one's rights go even further: it is legal to copyany published material for private consumption, even if it's material obtained from the public library. We already pay a levy on blank writable CD/DVD disks and on all sorts of external media (SD/CF/USB drives, media players, etc.). This levy is distributed to rights holders in lieu of copyright fees or attempts at extortion through the legal system.
In my case, the levy is more than generous enough, considering that my SDHC cards are for my own creations (photos, videos), and most of my external drives are for backup of my main drives or archiving of my created materials. Our CDs and DVDs are ripped to our media server, and we copy stuff without hesitation to our MP3 players. In other words, either we've paid for it once already, or we're actually the creators.
I always found it interesting that they only shut down mp3.com after they started selling artist's music direct to the consumer. A lot of artists used their platform. After mp3.com was shut down with a bombardment of lawsuits no one else tried the model again.
Does mp3million.com have a different model to mp3.com? They are based in Ukraine and claim to be legit. They appear to charge 10cents per track, which might almost be reasonable...
In Italy we already pay the local performing right organization for every hd we purchase to cover the costs of piracy. Would that mean we can put a lil pirate stuff there? nope.
In Finland, we already pay a levy on all external media (SD, CF, USB sticks, external drives, media players, etc.). Does this mean we can legally copy - for private use - any material published in Finland? Hell, yes, of course we can! The levy is distributed among rights holders by a number of copyright societies.
and if routine identity control on the street finds an abstainer then a deep cavity search should performed - who knows what such abstainer can hide there...
His/her privacy, for one (the horror!).
A Facebook abstainer could be a future mass murderer. And so could a Facebook participant.
A Facebook abstainer could be a saint and a scholar. And so could a Facebook participant (OK, that's a bit dodgy).
The whole thesis of judging people by whether they are on Facebook or not is ridiculous.
Out of 7 billion persons on this planet, let's say 4 billion are adults but not yet too decrepit to handle a PC or smartphone - i.e. of suitable age for Facebook. There are less than 1 billion Facebook participants (probably quite a bit less, due to fake accounts, etc.). So by a conservative estimate, 3 billion persons on the planet are Facebook abstainers, and therefore are potential mass murderers or something. Such an intellectually vacuous conclusion can only be reached by digesting utterly absurd bullshit.
Our increase of CO2 is still far below any volcano...
Not surprised you cower behind anonymity when spouting utterly wrong claptrap like that. Hint: try actually finding things out before demonstrating your ignorance in public.
According to the USGS, man-made CO2 emissions are 35 billion tons per year, total volcanic output (from land and under the seas) ranges from 0.13 to 0.44 billion tons per year. Even in a year of abnormally great volcanic activity, volcanic output is tiny in comparison to that of human activity. There are only a few Mount St. Helens scale eruptions per year, but it would take 3500 of them every year to equal current man-made CO2 emissions.
From the same USGS page, in 1900, the annual anthropogenic CO2 output was about 18 times that of volcanism. In 2010 it had increased to about 135 times the annual volcanic output. These ratios are based on the maximum estimate of volcanic CO2 output. So the increase in annual anthropogenic CO2 output dwarfs the annual volcanic CO2 output.
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So what's their problem? Just tell a sysadmin to fix it.
It is entirley possible that the 93 % are right, if the worst 7 % are REALLY BAD drivers.
Not even really bad. For instance, if 93% of drivers are 1% above the average in driving skill, then the remaining 7% of drivers only need to be 13.3% below average in driving skill. I've had to avoid drivers who are a lot worse than that. My memory (or confirmation bias) suggests that the worst drivers are found in Audis and invariably have a cellphone stuck to their ear, whether in North America or in Europe.
If you would like to pay for dedicated bandwidth, you can definitely do so, however you are taking advantage of the cost of the pipe being spread among many people with the expectation they won't all max it out at once. Just a hint, your measily 60 bucks a month doesn't come close to covering a dedicated 50 mbps pipe, it doesn't even come close to a dedicated 1.5 mbps pipe.
Just keep sticking it to the man though.
So I guess my euro45/month does not cover the 100/100Mbps fiber link we have at our house? It's a standard domestic service: uncapped, unthrottled, with no blocked ports or other limits. I don't think we've gone past 1TB in a month, but we've certainly exceeded 500GB a few times. Two adults and two teenagers and our own web server add up to a fair amount of traffic. We're not egregious users either, and some others in the area do exceed our throughput. Some ISPs are not as miserly as others, but still manage to make a profit.
"Telco" means TELephone COmpany, so the headline starts, "Telephone Company Company...". At least the summary doesn't mention "ATM machines" or "PIN numbers". /. fallen off a cliff lately?
Is it just me, or has the quality of writing on
Lately? It happened quite a while ago. Not to worry, there are even worse abominations such as "Personal PIN Numbers" lurking in the future.
Good, Fast, Cheap...Pick Two.
Provided neither of them is "Good".
"Good" is the Pick One choice...
I wish we had a law saying that you can obtain something for free if the copyright holders refuse to sell it to you. This would keep a lot of this horrible litigation from ever occurring.
So instead of refusing to sell, they can just set the price for dealers/distributors to be absurdly high - it's still available for sale. Example: for extended periods, Disney could set the wholesale price of a licensed copy of a particular movie on DVD/BR to about $200million. Then, for a limited time, the wholesale price could drop to $20, so retailers can sell it for about $30 or so. Problem solved, and largely indistinguishable from the present, where Disney simply refuses to sell particular movies for extended periods to maintain their pricing power.
Indeed, it was sad to see Caldera plummeting into the abyss of incompetent leadership and negative strategy.
I was one of those users of the quite nice Caldera OpenLinux on a 486 back in the last century. I moved thence to SuSE (before Novell purchased it) and subsequently to the *buntu family.
There are arguments against your seeming wisdom: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/07/07/sociopathic/ and I, who understand her ideas, don't believe them to be a value to society.
Ah, but Rand's ideas do have value to society. In and of themselves, their social value is strictly negative. As a metaphor, they could serve as a warning of how things can be done utterly wrongly and/or wrong-headedly. In this sense, the book Atlas Shrugged is analogous to books such as 1984 or Brave New World or Fahrenheit 451 or to movies such as Dr. Strangelove or Brazil. Unfortunately, such expositions are instead often an inspiration for the sociopathic leaders of nations and corporations. It goes over their heads, in a way which would draw a Whooosh comment on Slashdot.
I also experience this and it's because most PDF's are horribly designed by people that need to be beaten with the Acrobat manual.
According to a few PDF processing tools that I have, people who wrote Acrobat need in turn to be beaten with the PDF specification document.
You're both right, except they should beat each other with Louisville Sluggers instead of mere sheets of paper.
this is linux, not apple. not everyone focuses on marketing first.
And with good reason. No amount of marketing can improve shoddy work.
Absolutely. For me, AfterShot Pro (ex Bibble 5), Vuescan (yeah, I paid for a freaking scanner driver, and I love it. Incidentally, Vuescan + Linux is the *only* way to get my old Nikon LS2000 film scanner working. No recent windows version will make it work, even XP was complicated to get support for the U320 SCSI card). And a truckload (around 200 I guess) of games bought on Steam, Gog, Gamersgate, Amazon and various bundles, that I play mainly on Crossover (that I paid too, with regular updates since 2008 I think).
As a matter of fact, I'm somewhat unsatisfied with Thunderbird as a mail client and I'd pay good money to get a real good commercial PIM suite that runs on Linux. If anyone has ideas...
No paying customers on Linux ? Really ?
Oops, I'd forgotten that I've bought a couple of Humble Bundles as well as the Linux versions of FotoPlayer and Noise Ninja (in addition to Mathematica and Bibble Pro). Probably one or two others as well as some platform-independent stuff (Java-based)...
First of all, the Linux userbase is really small to begin with. Within that small userbase, you have two relatively large groups:
1. The ideologues, who really believe in RMS's idea that proprietary software is unethical.
2. The cheapskates, who aren't going to pay for software.
Considering that I have paid for Linux applications (for my home PCs), and subsequently paid for version upgrades for those applications, I think you need a third category:
3. The people who pay for decent software that fits a particular purpose better than the free options.
In case, you're wondering: Mathematica and Bibble Pro[*]. Both have native Linux versions with excellent support.
[*] Apparently, Bibble Pro was renamed to Corel Aftershot Pro after Corel bought Bibble.
Didn't click TFL (the fucking links). These were certainly the Wikipedia entries about goatse.
So your browser does not tell you what the links are before you click them? Either you're using a lousy browser, or you're incompetent at using a decent browser, or you're a trollish coward as well as an anonymous one.
For your edification, the links were to the Wikipedia articles on (i) the vulva, and (ii) the glans penis.
actually, yeah, most of us would be out on our asses if our employers caught us looking at porn. The reason people tag links NSFW is because you can get fired for even accidentally clicking on non-pornographic nudity.
So these guys might have just been looking at Wikipedia, or perhaps at Wikipedia? Caution, some Wikipedia pages (like those two) might actually be considered NSFW in really incredibly prudish places, simply because they contain photos of human genitalia (but non-prurient photos).
That web site estimates 465 million years for my primary password at home and 27 trillion years for my primary password at work. But what do they mean by "desktop PC" in this case?
The point of forcibly replacing your music with a good-quality one is so they can massively reduce storage. Now they just need one copy of each song.
Which makes it doubly bizarre they're now counting it against your cloud storage -- it's not even stored in your "piece" -- all that's stored are a few bytes of an ID pointing into their song database.
This is the cloud equivalent of the "?????" step between the "Charge money for storage space" step and the "Profit" step.
I run Windows 8 CP
And the police are on their way to arrest you (and maybe beat you up just a little).
Microsoft stuff can be weird, but I didn't think it would be that blatant...
please tell me you are not serious.
Serious? In Finland one's rights go even further: it is legal to copy any published material for private consumption, even if it's material obtained from the public library. We already pay a levy on blank writable CD/DVD disks and on all sorts of external media (SD/CF/USB drives, media players, etc.). This levy is distributed to rights holders in lieu of copyright fees or attempts at extortion through the legal system.
In my case, the levy is more than generous enough, considering that my SDHC cards are for my own creations (photos, videos), and most of my external drives are for backup of my main drives or archiving of my created materials. Our CDs and DVDs are ripped to our media server, and we copy stuff without hesitation to our MP3 players. In other words, either we've paid for it once already, or we're actually the creators.
I always found it interesting that they only shut down mp3.com after they started selling artist's music direct to the consumer. A lot of artists used their platform. After mp3.com was shut down with a bombardment of lawsuits no one else tried the model again.
Does mp3million.com have a different model to mp3.com? They are based in Ukraine and claim to be legit. They appear to charge 10cents per track, which might almost be reasonable...
In Italy we already pay the local performing right organization for every hd we purchase to cover the costs of piracy. Would that mean we can put a lil pirate stuff there? nope.
In Finland, we already pay a levy on all external media (SD, CF, USB sticks, external drives, media players, etc.). Does this mean we can legally copy - for private use - any material published in Finland? Hell, yes, of course we can! The levy is distributed among rights holders by a number of copyright societies.
and if routine identity control on the street finds an abstainer then a deep cavity search should performed - who knows what such abstainer can hide there...
His/her privacy, for one (the horror!).
A Facebook abstainer could be a future mass murderer. And so could a Facebook participant.
A Facebook abstainer could be a saint and a scholar. And so could a Facebook participant (OK, that's a bit dodgy).
The whole thesis of judging people by whether they are on Facebook or not is ridiculous.
Out of 7 billion persons on this planet, let's say 4 billion are adults but not yet too decrepit to handle a PC or smartphone - i.e. of suitable age for Facebook. There are less than 1 billion Facebook participants (probably quite a bit less, due to fake accounts, etc.). So by a conservative estimate, 3 billion persons on the planet are Facebook abstainers, and therefore are potential mass murderers or something. Such an intellectually vacuous conclusion can only be reached by digesting utterly absurd bullshit.
Our increase of CO2 is still far below any volcano ...
Not surprised you cower behind anonymity when spouting utterly wrong claptrap like that. Hint: try actually finding things out before demonstrating your ignorance in public.
According to the USGS, man-made CO2 emissions are 35 billion tons per year, total volcanic output (from land and under the seas) ranges from 0.13 to 0.44 billion tons per year. Even in a year of abnormally great volcanic activity, volcanic output is tiny in comparison to that of human activity. There are only a few Mount St. Helens scale eruptions per year, but it would take 3500 of them every year to equal current man-made CO2 emissions.
From the same USGS page, in 1900, the annual anthropogenic CO2 output was about 18 times that of volcanism. In 2010 it had increased to about 135 times the annual volcanic output. These ratios are based on the maximum estimate of volcanic CO2 output. So the increase in annual anthropogenic CO2 output dwarfs the annual volcanic CO2 output.
If all the locking down isn't ringing alarm bells with people they need to remove their heads from the sand.
They have sand in their assholes?
No wonder they're squirming...