Along these lines - adopting early could be dangerous as one may invest in hardware that does not conform to the final standard and therefore be useless.
If you're the merchant, you don't want to buy the hardware, you want to lease it. Early adoption doesn't hurt you then.
If you're the consumer, well, my last three cell phones have cost me a total of $0, since I haven't minded signing contracts for my cell service. If the next one costs the same, I won't mind if it's the wrong one.:-)
My thought it that if you sell me a 1.5mb/sec connection then I should be able to use all of it. Other wise sell something smaller.
1.5mbit of bandwidth doesn't cost your ISP $40 a month. Why do you think it should cost you that little?
If you want 1.5mbit of unlimited BANDWIDTH (as opposed to unlimited ACCESS, which is what you're being sold), then pay for it. There's probably a discount for houses of worship, and your connection from the church to your house is local loop only so it's far cheaper than the Internet pipe you'd need from the ISP to the church.
Of course you won't be profitable, if you're buying your bandwidth 1.5mbit at a time you're going to get charged an assload.
In the place where I ran mine, 3mbit cost approximately 10 times as much as 1.5mbit, and that was even with the discount for our company being owned by an Indian tribe. I'm sure things are different there by now, in large part because of the buildup of telco infrastructure that happened when the cable company decided to offer broadband. I dunno, I left the sticks for civilization years ago.
Get a T1 and try being an ISP yourself. You'll understand why they can't make any money if everybody is pulling a full T1 worth of bandwidth for a fraction of a T1 price very quickly.
It's that old addage. Never turn your favorite hobby into your job. It'll stop being your hobby and it'll stop being your favorite thing todo.
Yeah, 'cause look at all those programmers who get a job doing it, then hate programming and quit doing it. Oh, wait, that doesn't happen very often.
Well, look at the kids who love to play football, then wind up in the NFL, hate football and quit playing. Oh, wait, that doesn't happen very often.
Well, look at all the guys who love to fly, then get jobs as commercial pilots, so they hate flying and quit. Oh, wait, that doesn't happen.
Every example I can think of where people turn an avocation into a vocation, it's by and large their dream job.
Wait, I know; what about that guy who started a little geek news web site, then get hired by big software companies to run it and decided he hated it and shut it down.
I can't believe I'm arguing for this ridiculous conspiracy theory, but what the hell.
No, the same argument DOESN'T exist. Intel can't very easily insert a trojan into AMD's processor designs, unless AMD collaborates. However, they do have an economic stake in designing a compiler that appears to function properly on AMD, but produces code that doesn't perform properly.
You want to be paranoid about Intel? Give up -- they control the CPU. They could trojan you much more easily via the proecessor -- no reason to dick around with the compiler.
Probably wouldn't have now, either, if the country hadn't been invaded and plunged into chaos by a foreign power.
That "chaos" is people dancing with joy in the streets because we liberated them from a vicious tyrant, more than anything else. The violence level is on par with California, it's just over-reported.
I think it was phones4all, or some some such company, that recently mandated that no email is to be used interoffice communication, only the phone or face to face.
Don't bother learning the name of the company; it won't be around long enough to matter.
The true potential of the Internet? If jennicam was the true potential of the internet, then it's at 14.9 seconds and counting.
Slashdot is closer to utilizing the potential of the internet than jennicam. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate Jenni's bravery and honesty, and there are certainly far worse things on the internet to which one could become addicted, but give me a break; it was a time waster for people who didn't have a life, and wanted to see what it was like to be somebody who did.
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Be careful; some of them only let you reset the region a finite number of times, and then it's stuck on whatever you landed on.
I stopped renting at Blockbuster because a portion of your money goes toward repealing your Constitutional rights.
Along these lines - adopting early could be dangerous as one may invest in hardware that does not conform to the final standard and therefore be useless.
:-)
If you're the merchant, you don't want to buy the hardware, you want to lease it. Early adoption doesn't hurt you then.
If you're the consumer, well, my last three cell phones have cost me a total of $0, since I haven't minded signing contracts for my cell service. If the next one costs the same, I won't mind if it's the wrong one.
My thought it that if you sell me a 1.5mb/sec connection then I should be able to use all of it. Other wise sell something smaller.
1.5mbit of bandwidth doesn't cost your ISP $40 a month. Why do you think it should cost you that little?
If you want 1.5mbit of unlimited BANDWIDTH (as opposed to unlimited ACCESS, which is what you're being sold), then pay for it. There's probably a discount for houses of worship, and your connection from the church to your house is local loop only so it's far cheaper than the Internet pipe you'd need from the ISP to the church.
OK, so where can I get a warp drive, transporter, replicator, and holodeck?
They're on backorder. If you aren't on the waiting list already, you're gonna REALLY have to wait.
Of course you won't be profitable, if you're buying your bandwidth 1.5mbit at a time you're going to get charged an assload.
In the place where I ran mine, 3mbit cost approximately 10 times as much as 1.5mbit, and that was even with the discount for our company being owned by an Indian tribe. I'm sure things are different there by now, in large part because of the buildup of telco infrastructure that happened when the cable company decided to offer broadband. I dunno, I left the sticks for civilization years ago.
However, it's not a great strategy for them.
Yeah, angry customers are abandoning the broadband providers for good-ol' modem connections left and right. That'll show 'em.
Whine, whine, bitch, bitch, cry, cry.
Get a T1 and try being an ISP yourself. You'll understand why they can't make any money if everybody is pulling a full T1 worth of bandwidth for a fraction of a T1 price very quickly.
Oh, and yes, I have.
No, he's talking about IN the game.
It's that old addage. Never turn your favorite hobby into your job. It'll stop being your hobby and it'll stop being your favorite thing todo.
Yeah, 'cause look at all those programmers who get a job doing it, then hate programming and quit doing it. Oh, wait, that doesn't happen very often.
Well, look at the kids who love to play football, then wind up in the NFL, hate football and quit playing. Oh, wait, that doesn't happen very often.
Well, look at all the guys who love to fly, then get jobs as commercial pilots, so they hate flying and quit. Oh, wait, that doesn't happen.
Every example I can think of where people turn an avocation into a vocation, it's by and large their dream job.
Wait, I know; what about that guy who started a little geek news web site, then get hired by big software companies to run it and decided he hated it and shut it down.
I can't believe I'm arguing for this ridiculous conspiracy theory, but what the hell.
No, the same argument DOESN'T exist. Intel can't very easily insert a trojan into AMD's processor designs, unless AMD collaborates. However, they do have an economic stake in designing a compiler that appears to function properly on AMD, but produces code that doesn't perform properly.
Follow the money.
You want to be paranoid about Intel? Give up -- they control the CPU. They could trojan you much more easily via the proecessor -- no reason to dick around with the compiler.
What if you run an AMD?
The latter will require Bushes head on a paper plate.
Yeah, because the Clinton/Gore plan was REALLY moving that along.
Usama bin Laden's head on a paper plate, and functioning representative democracies in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Amazon's got it, from a guy in New York. Interesting that Miramax doesn't tackle them.
Because killing or capturing you doesn't throw the entire country into chaos and endanger national security.
If anybody can monitor the President's location, that includes the bad guys.
We went in because he's really bad, okay? Just wave your plastic American flag, citizen, go back to bed. All is well. The monitors are your friends.
That's right, Saddam never did anything wrong.
I bet all those Iraqis he would have gone on to murder are grateful for your attempts to prevent their rescue.
Probably wouldn't have now, either, if the country hadn't been invaded and plunged into chaos by a foreign power.
That "chaos" is people dancing with joy in the streets because we liberated them from a vicious tyrant, more than anything else. The violence level is on par with California, it's just over-reported.
...what effect the Dean campaign will have on the political process:
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High bandwidth real time images of other solar systems
Real-time? From where did you get the impression that gravitational lensing == faster than light communications?
Wow, the throw-away, automatically generated hotmail account that the spammer check once and forgot about.
Yes; that he checked once, from an IP address now available by supoena.
I think you meant most secure email client ever,
It certainly has been known to keep many user's data so securely, even they can't get into it.
with workflow built in, and an easily accessible API.
With tools to BUILD workflow built in, via an insane API.
I think it was phones4all, or some some such company, that recently mandated that no email is to be used interoffice communication, only the phone or face to face.
Don't bother learning the name of the company; it won't be around long enough to matter.
Spammer will just send email to himself to make sure relay works.
Yes, and then when all the spamhole users compare the addresses attempted to send through them, they'll have a valid email address for the spammer.
The true potential of the Internet? If jennicam was the true potential of the internet, then it's at 14.9 seconds and counting.
Slashdot is closer to utilizing the potential of the internet than jennicam. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate Jenni's bravery and honesty, and there are certainly far worse things on the internet to which one could become addicted, but give me a break; it was a time waster for people who didn't have a life, and wanted to see what it was like to be somebody who did.