Paying for website A despite wanting access to free website Y IS inhibiting your access to website Y. If companies B,C,D, etc. also want to charge you at the ISP level, eventually you will not be able to afford access to website Y, despite the fact that Y never charged you anything. If ISPs had more competition, it may not be the case. Perhaps you have enough choice to be fine here, but we need to defend net neutrality for those who are in a monoploy situation. Else, we all know who will speak up when they finally come for you.
I'd agree with you if there were much competition to go to. Unfortunately for many people if their ISP buys in against their will, they have little they can do. I can understand living without cable, but internet is too vital of a communication and work tool to be so readily affected by one media company. If internet were 100% entertainment, I might agree with you even lacking competition, but Disney has no right trying to charge people more to email their relatives, work from home, or check the weather.
On the subject of legality: is there legislation that makes this illegal? Who do we contact to get a suit in motion (attorney general, FCC..)?
I assume something should make this illegal (or at least I hope), but we need to know what to refer to when submitting complaints to get the government in motion on this.
I am not sure about all ISPs, but I know ATT is required by the federal government to offer basic DSL for cheap. I should think that bundled ESPN != basic, so it would be illegal for ATT to charge for ESPN on this tier. That means either ATT gets no ESPN, or Disney is forced to allow some consumer choice whether to go with this scheme.
I would love to see that happen, and then enough people downgrade to the Disney-free tier that ATT notices the loss in profits, and kills the contract ASAP. I doubt that could happen given how Americans treat sports...
Natal combined with a Sony/Wii controller-based scheme would provide a more complete motion capture. Too bad the competition won't likely allow such a blend for at least a few years yet, but it would be interesting to see the two ideas blended coherently.
I'm all for keeping the government out of the economy as much as possible, but unless you consider a monopoly a good thing, what solution is there besides government intervention to break a monopoly in any realistic fashion?
You clearly don't watch House or you would've understood it right away. I can't believe you would be so unintelligent to not watch such an amazingly realistic account of the practice of medicine! Go and redeem yourself via Hulu before you become truly lost.
The "lied us into war" line is a popular troll, so I like to point out to people how it doesn't really belong in otherwise relevent posts. I make my disagreement rather clear but I don't troll - I'm not posting simply to inflame, yet I get improperly marked troll. I should've removed my karma bonus, and an offtopic mod may have been on target, but an honest response being marked troll just looks like someone disagrees with me (and agrees with the troll I'm pointing out).
You mod people troll if they are likely to detract from the discussion - I was responding to the guy and not trying to start a flame war. Now this post is offtopic, but it is not a troll (look up troll please), as I am not expecting any response. It is not going to harm the conversation as most people are done discussing the story and this is an obscure 1 point comment no one will see unless they're following this conversation, so modding this post up or down would be misuse, as points should be spent on active discussion. I don't troll, yet every time I post something disagreeable to the general crowd, I get modded troll anyways. Thank god I have enough karma. /endrant
I'm not about to praise Bush for anything, but please drop the "lied us into war" nonesense. Intel from multiple countries indicated WMDs and Saddam acted every bit like he had them. People saying Bush knew there were no WMDs sound just like any other conspiracy theorists, given I haven't seen anything beyond speculation. Did Bush want war because of WMDs or oil? I guess you'd have to ask him on that one, but the WMDs were the reason for the coalition. You don't need to stretch facts to make the guy look bad, so why make yourself look bad in the process?
discovered a supernova in a nearby galaxy, making her the youngest person ever to do so
She may be the youngest to find a supernova in another galaxy, but I'll do better yet by watching for the first supernova in our solar sytem. We'll see who's laughing then!
Multiplayer on PC with a bunch of friends over involves everyone bringing a computer and having their own copies of games being played, each staring at their own screen. Console multiplayer involves sitting on the couch and making sure everyone has a controller. I can agree there is little appeal to playing the console version of a single-player game, but PC still lags behind in social multiplayer experience.
Relevent to the story, the Wii epitomizes this experience.
But it means we might only have a billion more years to add to the list of things that could theoretically occur and wipe out mankind. We better hurry - there might be something more imminant or likely out there that could kill us before we think of it.
Please read up on what the DoE does and the research going on at the national labs. If the government isn't funding research, then what do you call Fermi, Los Alamos, Sandia? Who do you think is paying to build another ATLAS detector to be installed in the LHC?
I was an intern at Argonne. Argonne has people working on battery research. I saw some of the hydrogen, hybrid and electric cars scientists here are working on. I saw Blue Gene, the 3rd fastest open-science supercomputer - a new building is going up right now that will house the supercomputer and half the building will be accessible without entering Argonne itself, making research by outside scientists much easier. There are scientists working on nuclear plant technology too, and scientists I have talked to are all in favor of building more nuclear plants.
The government assuredly is funding research. Maybe the budget could use expansion, but at the very least don't start thinking that we don't have scientists still leading groundbreaking research.
If you're submitting code for a supercomputer you better have more than one CS course under your belt. By the time you are worried about efficiency of code, you should have enough courses that you know a few languages, so the first language doesn't have to be modern or practical as long as you learn with it. I think the question here is what do you teach students if they only get a semester of programming experience.
I'm an ME student at Rose-Hulman and we're taught Matlab in two quarters. I've used it for a few other classes, though I've also elected to take a couple of Java courses so I can't say I learned anything from the Matlab courses beyond Matlab syntax.
As for Python, I've never used it, but I've heard it's basically pseudo-code. If Python isn't likely to be used by the students in a real job, I don't see why you'd teach it to them. It makes sense to use for an introductory CS course with the intention of then rapidly teaching students Java or C or something, but if one class is all students will have to prepare them for when an employer asks them to write up a quick program, I'd give them a full immersion with the 'real thing'. In my Matlab courses you have the whole array from students that could just as well be CS majors to those who never feel comfortable with programming. If you teach them Python, only to tell them anything they'd do at work would be more complicated, the latter half of the students would never feel ready to program on the job.
Slashdot Mirror
Paying for website A despite wanting access to free website Y IS inhibiting your access to website Y. If companies B,C,D, etc. also want to charge you at the ISP level, eventually you will not be able to afford access to website Y, despite the fact that Y never charged you anything. If ISPs had more competition, it may not be the case. Perhaps you have enough choice to be fine here, but we need to defend net neutrality for those who are in a monoploy situation. Else, we all know who will speak up when they finally come for you.
I'd agree with you if there were much competition to go to. Unfortunately for many people if their ISP buys in against their will, they have little they can do. I can understand living without cable, but internet is too vital of a communication and work tool to be so readily affected by one media company. If internet were 100% entertainment, I might agree with you even lacking competition, but Disney has no right trying to charge people more to email their relatives, work from home, or check the weather.
On the subject of legality: is there legislation that makes this illegal? Who do we contact to get a suit in motion (attorney general, FCC..)?
I assume something should make this illegal (or at least I hope), but we need to know what to refer to when submitting complaints to get the government in motion on this.
I am not sure about all ISPs, but I know ATT is required by the federal government to offer basic DSL for cheap. I should think that bundled ESPN != basic, so it would be illegal for ATT to charge for ESPN on this tier. That means either ATT gets no ESPN, or Disney is forced to allow some consumer choice whether to go with this scheme.
I would love to see that happen, and then enough people downgrade to the Disney-free tier that ATT notices the loss in profits, and kills the contract ASAP. I doubt that could happen given how Americans treat sports...
Natal combined with a Sony/Wii controller-based scheme would provide a more complete motion capture. Too bad the competition won't likely allow such a blend for at least a few years yet, but it would be interesting to see the two ideas blended coherently.
IMO the point of video games is to escape reality.
Or extend it.
Geeksquad will probably just tell you to replace the whole computer, so are you suggesting your doctor can perform body transplants?
I'm all for keeping the government out of the economy as much as possible, but unless you consider a monopoly a good thing, what solution is there besides government intervention to break a monopoly in any realistic fashion?
I'll probably get modded down for this, but this post is just for experiment.
This post is just for experiment.
You clearly don't watch House or you would've understood it right away. I can't believe you would be so unintelligent to not watch such an amazingly realistic account of the practice of medicine! Go and redeem yourself via Hulu before you become truly lost.
The "lied us into war" line is a popular troll, so I like to point out to people how it doesn't really belong in otherwise relevent posts. I make my disagreement rather clear but I don't troll - I'm not posting simply to inflame, yet I get improperly marked troll. I should've removed my karma bonus, and an offtopic mod may have been on target, but an honest response being marked troll just looks like someone disagrees with me (and agrees with the troll I'm pointing out).
/endrant
You mod people troll if they are likely to detract from the discussion - I was responding to the guy and not trying to start a flame war. Now this post is offtopic, but it is not a troll (look up troll please), as I am not expecting any response. It is not going to harm the conversation as most people are done discussing the story and this is an obscure 1 point comment no one will see unless they're following this conversation, so modding this post up or down would be misuse, as points should be spent on active discussion. I don't troll, yet every time I post something disagreeable to the general crowd, I get modded troll anyways. Thank god I have enough karma.
except there would be some interesting network security articles
If it is a big enough story to be covered everywhere, the whole internet will be slashdotted. THAT is their true plan.
I'm not about to praise Bush for anything, but please drop the "lied us into war" nonesense. Intel from multiple countries indicated WMDs and Saddam acted every bit like he had them. People saying Bush knew there were no WMDs sound just like any other conspiracy theorists, given I haven't seen anything beyond speculation. Did Bush want war because of WMDs or oil? I guess you'd have to ask him on that one, but the WMDs were the reason for the coalition. You don't need to stretch facts to make the guy look bad, so why make yourself look bad in the process?
So those loss calculations are wrong
You have a flawed argument. Numbers out of thin air != calculations.
discovered a supernova in a nearby galaxy, making her the youngest person ever to do so
She may be the youngest to find a supernova in another galaxy, but I'll do better yet by watching for the first supernova in our solar sytem. We'll see who's laughing then!
Multiplayer on PC with a bunch of friends over involves everyone bringing a computer and having their own copies of games being played, each staring at their own screen. Console multiplayer involves sitting on the couch and making sure everyone has a controller. I can agree there is little appeal to playing the console version of a single-player game, but PC still lags behind in social multiplayer experience.
Relevent to the story, the Wii epitomizes this experience.
But it means we might only have a billion more years to add to the list of things that could theoretically occur and wipe out mankind. We better hurry - there might be something more imminant or likely out there that could kill us before we think of it.
Lipidium
Just blow up the sun so it stops swinging these planets at us.
Please read up on what the DoE does and the research going on at the national labs. If the government isn't funding research, then what do you call Fermi, Los Alamos, Sandia? Who do you think is paying to build another ATLAS detector to be installed in the LHC?
I was an intern at Argonne. Argonne has people working on battery research. I saw some of the hydrogen, hybrid and electric cars scientists here are working on. I saw Blue Gene, the 3rd fastest open-science supercomputer - a new building is going up right now that will house the supercomputer and half the building will be accessible without entering Argonne itself, making research by outside scientists much easier. There are scientists working on nuclear plant technology too, and scientists I have talked to are all in favor of building more nuclear plants.
The government assuredly is funding research. Maybe the budget could use expansion, but at the very least don't start thinking that we don't have scientists still leading groundbreaking research.
There's always Maple.
If you're submitting code for a supercomputer you better have more than one CS course under your belt. By the time you are worried about efficiency of code, you should have enough courses that you know a few languages, so the first language doesn't have to be modern or practical as long as you learn with it. I think the question here is what do you teach students if they only get a semester of programming experience.
I'm an ME student at Rose-Hulman and we're taught Matlab in two quarters. I've used it for a few other classes, though I've also elected to take a couple of Java courses so I can't say I learned anything from the Matlab courses beyond Matlab syntax.
As for Python, I've never used it, but I've heard it's basically pseudo-code. If Python isn't likely to be used by the students in a real job, I don't see why you'd teach it to them. It makes sense to use for an introductory CS course with the intention of then rapidly teaching students Java or C or something, but if one class is all students will have to prepare them for when an employer asks them to write up a quick program, I'd give them a full immersion with the 'real thing'. In my Matlab courses you have the whole array from students that could just as well be CS majors to those who never feel comfortable with programming. If you teach them Python, only to tell them anything they'd do at work would be more complicated, the latter half of the students would never feel ready to program on the job.
I'm glad you've found the solution so quickly. I think the Denver airport should be first to be retrofitted.