Not all spammers spam for their own business, it only takes one individual to set it up, calling it 'marketing' making stupid little banners and spamming them all over the world then sitting back and taking their fee via PayPal or some other means of money transfer and never reporting it on their taxes. Makes me sick, I once knew someone who spammed for a living, making supposely a ton of money off annoying individuals and the bandwidth, storage of service providers. Same individual also set up an mp3 site and used University bandwidth while making people go through the whole click-thrus to gain access and make a small amount of money.
I beg to differ on your point of computer science maturing, it already has to a point... end users are seeing the benefit of 40 years of computer research, to grasp ALL of it seems beyond anyone. Sure, one could generally know almost all of it but mainly people have specialized into specific fields, example: computer graphics.
I thought I knew alot about computers before going to college when I was 16-18 and I suppose I did at the 'end user' level. As discussed here before, computer science is mostly theory and inner workings... but that IS computer science... what some 15 year olds know is MIS (nothing more than high level end user knowledge).
As mentioned, the reason is revenue sharing...
I believe however, that channels would be forced to put on better programming if companies such as DirecTV, cable company, DishNet, etc. offered channels a la cart... if they can't put decent programming on that people want to watch... the channel will go away... and what is left behind is decent programming people are willing to watch.
Not to mention on top of paying for cable or satellite service we have to watch commercials as well. DirecTV service was better when it was seperated into USSB (movies) and DirecTV (network channels, etc.)
I've given up watching network channels (channels with commercials)... I'm willing to pay for channels without interruption and with the article yesterday about Tivo I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one... however we're getting stuck with packages that have'em and companies working to force commercials down our throats with no workaround.
It's obvious, the Japanese are working toward...
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Roujin Z!!! soon all of Japan will have automated beds with ederly people going on a rampage!
Does the public _really_ need to go to space? I think a few too many people have watched Star Trek and thought "WOA, space is just great!" But would it really benefit our lives in anyway other than the entertainment value? Why not consider personally exploring the rest of the world before leaving it?
Beyond the media impact of the AOL-Time Warner merger. Like more useless AOL discs coming in every single Time Warner owned magazine. And the increase in AOL commercials on Time Warner channels and "spots" on CNN. AOL is all for "open" access only to save their asses... that's obvious...(there are 5+ free ISPs but in the past they've underestimated market conditions such as the mistake of going "unlimited" without the necessary amount of lines. Them grabbing up Road Runner (since they couldn't get @Home) will probably end up in rapid degraded service of what I've heard is good Road Runner speed in some places. It'll probably only take a month or two after AOL starts promoting AOL's Road Runner or renaming it all together to AOL. Couple this with growing broadband demand (in ADSL/Cable) and we're bound to get speeds _ALOT_ slower then now or months ago. My opinion is that AOL / Time Warner won't have the necessary bandwidth or the bar on what they consider "fast" will far below what we would like to see, say (30k/s) bah... Surely they will cap... there's no question they won't, running servers will of course NEVER be allowed. Since AOL makes up a heavy amount of Internet traffic use other ISPs will suffer in speed (perhaps).. And a/s/l will continue to be spammed in AOL chat rooms only now it'll be 10 times faster... I myself have been waiting for Road Runner access... but not now I suppose...
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Not all spammers spam for their own business, it only takes one individual to set it up, calling it 'marketing' making stupid little banners and spamming them all over the world then sitting back and taking their fee via PayPal or some other means of money transfer and never reporting it on their taxes. Makes me sick, I once knew someone who spammed for a living, making supposely a ton of money off annoying individuals and the bandwidth, storage of service providers. Same individual also set up an mp3 site and used University bandwidth while making people go through the whole click-thrus to gain access and make a small amount of money.
Did you ever drop the SOAP?
Simple Object Access Protocol, that is.
I could've sworn I saw something like this in a Dr. Seuss book!?!
Just another useless article that nobody should read... bad non-fiction
I beg to differ on your point of computer science maturing, it already has to a point... end users are seeing the benefit of 40 years of computer research, to grasp ALL of it seems beyond anyone. Sure, one could generally know almost all of it but mainly people have specialized into specific fields, example: computer graphics. I thought I knew alot about computers before going to college when I was 16-18 and I suppose I did at the 'end user' level. As discussed here before, computer science is mostly theory and inner workings... but that IS computer science... what some 15 year olds know is MIS (nothing more than high level end user knowledge).
As mentioned, the reason is revenue sharing... I believe however, that channels would be forced to put on better programming if companies such as DirecTV, cable company, DishNet, etc. offered channels a la cart ... if they can't put decent programming on that people want to watch... the channel will go away... and what is left behind is decent programming people are willing to watch.
Not to mention on top of paying for cable or satellite service we have to watch commercials as well. DirecTV service was better when it was seperated into USSB (movies) and DirecTV (network channels, etc.)
I've given up watching network channels (channels with commercials) ... I'm willing to pay for channels without interruption and with the article yesterday about Tivo I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one... however we're getting stuck with packages that have'em and companies working to force commercials down our throats with no workaround.
Roujin Z!!! soon all of Japan will have automated beds with ederly people going on a rampage!
Does the public _really_ need to go to space? I think a few too many people have watched Star Trek and thought "WOA, space is just great!" But would it really benefit our lives in anyway other than the entertainment value? Why not consider personally exploring the rest of the world before leaving it?
Beyond the media impact of the AOL-Time Warner merger. Like more useless AOL discs coming in every single Time Warner owned magazine. And the increase in AOL commercials on Time Warner channels and "spots" on CNN. AOL is all for "open" access only to save their asses... that's obvious...(there are 5+ free ISPs but in the past they've underestimated market conditions such as the mistake of going "unlimited" without the necessary amount of lines. Them grabbing up Road Runner (since they couldn't get @Home) will probably end up in rapid degraded service of what I've heard is good Road Runner speed in some places. It'll probably only take a month or two after AOL starts promoting AOL's Road Runner or renaming it all together to AOL. Couple this with growing broadband demand (in ADSL/Cable) and we're bound to get speeds _ALOT_ slower then now or months ago. My opinion is that AOL / Time Warner won't have the necessary bandwidth or the bar on what they consider "fast" will far below what we would like to see, say (30k/s) bah ... Surely they will cap ... there's no question they won't, running servers will of course NEVER be allowed. Since AOL makes up a heavy amount of Internet traffic use other ISPs will suffer in speed (perhaps).. And a/s/l will continue to be spammed in AOL chat rooms only now it'll be 10 times faster... I myself have been waiting for Road Runner access... but not now I suppose...