Until your ISP drops you like a rock. If enough users utilize their connections like you do, don't be surprised to see either bills in the mail, or reduced bandwidth caps.
Bandwidth is not as cheap as you seem to think it is.
Except it is no longer property.. the property, the content, is owned by the music company. Users are sold a license, a contract. Contracts cannot be transferred to others, a new contract must be created. At best, a "bridging" contract (such as a sub-lease) can be made.
The physical property you have, the media file, can be sold, but it cannot be played by the receiving party without a valid license.
The reason for our low speed limits are not for safety concerns, but for gas usage. Congress passed a law in 1973 due to the Oil Crisis that limited the maximum speed to 55mph. The reason we've seen those limits increase over the last decade is because that law was lifte, the oil companies have gained power in government, and of course, the will of the people. This is all in lieu of the fact that we are again facing an oil crisis.
I think it would be great if we could lower the speed limit back to 55mph and allow vehicles using alternative energy to use the 'car pool' lanes at 85mph.
If the retailers were sued, they would stop carrying Sony merchandise, or at least none with such issues. They would stop selling all merchandise with such problems, or from such companies. The companies themselves would be hurt, because the retail stores would stop carrying their merchandise.
With current laws, the retailers are the ones hurt the most. They get stuck with thousands of units of merchandise that nobody wants to buy and the manufacturer won't refund. While the manufacturer won't move as many units as they would have liked, they certainly haven't lost money (unless they didn't ship enough units to offset their investments).
One could argue that in the second example, the retailer would still stop selling that type of product, or products from that manufacturer. However, it doesn't work out because the losses in that situation are less than the losses that they would incur from lawsuits and/or criminal charges. Plus, there are sometimes tax advantages of having unmovable merchandise -- at the very least, they will throw it into a bargin bin.
However, if the retailer was held responsible, they would need to purchase some heavy insurance against this type of thing...
Yeah.. if your fortune to have that disability affecting your left hand and not your right one. While Logitech has left-handed mice, their higher-end mice are always right-handed.
The vi editor is an essential tool, imho. This is a "cheap command line text editor" as you call it. Personally, I simply can't imagine working without it.
However, you're right in the idea that IDEs *do* offer something that the commandline doesn't. This is why, if I am to use an IDE, I use Eclipse with the ViPlugin.
You're assuming that people don't work a day job, go to school, run a side business, read books, and attend martial arts classes.. plus have time for the wife and kids. I see that things like slashdot and cd ripping really fit into that equation.
As others have suggested, you need to have local servers for caching web traffic, dns, etc. You can also block content such as advertisements and flash files.
However, assuming that has all failed, you can still setup an extranet proxy. The advantage of this is that the machine in your extranet can be run at much lower monthly rates in an area of cheap bandwidth (such as the US), and then COMPRESS the data before it hits your own pipe.
Essentially, use the following steps: 1. Purchase a dedicated server with adequate bandwidth. You can easily get this for less than $200/mo. 2. Install caching proxy and dns software on the dedicated server 3. Configure your local proxy and dns servers to pull from the extranet proxy.
(use SSL for encryption, gzip for compression... or build a tunnel)
You will need to make sure that the overhead of encryption doesn't outway the benefit of compression.
On a single machine we can easily fit 25-50 users, each with their own dedicated web server processes. Its less expensive than virtual dedicated servers, with some of the same benefits. Also, Apache isn't our only supported web server.
As someone who has owned several used cars, and has spent a fair share of time and money at the mechanic, I'm done dealing with older cars.
Yes, you can buy a car for $5000. For what you get, it will seem like a great deal, until you need to replace a ball-joint or a head gasket.
The absolute best bang-for-your-buck with cars might infact be those around $1500 or less. You can buy one until it dies and replace it. If you can manage to buy less than a car a year, you will spend less than $15000 over ten years. Compare that to ~$15000 for a new Honda Civic.... but then there is the quality of life issue. Do you really want to replace your car that frequently? Will your boss like you taking off when the car dies? etc... Do you want to pull upto your $500,000 house in an off-color Dodge Aries?
Depreciation also hits used cars. The car doesn't get any newer, the longer you have it off the lot. It gets older and older.
The phenomeon that has happened with low interest rates is that cars which have already depreciated (aka.. used) cost the consumer more than new cars. Yes, the new car will also depreciate, but in the end, it costs less money and won't depreciate any more than the used car will. Plus, again, the new car has a warranty, less liklihood of mechanical failure, and known history.
The times when buying a used car is less expensive is when you buy it outright instead of financing (assuming a 6-8 point spread), the financing options are indifferent, or there is a large difference in price between the new and used cars (which simply isn't reality for most 1-2 year old vehicles).
What matters are the following questions: A) how much you pay a month, and B) how much you pay through the lifetime of the loan.
Not necessarily. You assume that price is the only cost of a new car. When I bought my 2004 Honda Civic, I found that it would have been more expensive for me to purchase a pre-owned car, and I wouldn't have had a warranty. Why? Financing.
While the cost of a pre-owned car will be lower, financing rates are higher. At least in 2004, when interest rates were between 0-2% for a new car, and 8-11% for a pre-owned car, it really mattered. The new car was more money, but with lower interest, cost less a month; plus, it was newer and carried a warranty, potentially saving money at the mechanic. Finally, a new car will potentially holds it's value longer; While cars are not an investment, its best to lose as little as possible.
Of course, to quality for decent financing, one obviously needs to have good credit.
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Until your ISP drops you like a rock. If enough users utilize their connections like you do, don't be surprised to see either bills in the mail, or reduced bandwidth caps.
Bandwidth is not as cheap as you seem to think it is.
Except it is no longer property.. the property, the content, is owned by the music company. Users are sold a license, a contract. Contracts cannot be transferred to others, a new contract must be created. At best, a "bridging" contract (such as a sub-lease) can be made.
The physical property you have, the media file, can be sold, but it cannot be played by the receiving party without a valid license.
To disprove your assumption that 1 byte == 2 digits, I only need to point to 0xFF which is 255, clearly 3 decimal digits.
However, you are right, a 10 digit phone number would use 5 bytes.. beginner's luck, I suppose.
The reason for our low speed limits are not for safety concerns, but for gas usage. Congress passed a law in 1973 due to the Oil Crisis that limited the maximum speed to 55mph. The reason we've seen those limits increase over the last decade is because that law was lifte, the oil companies have gained power in government, and of course, the will of the people. This is all in lieu of the fact that we are again facing an oil crisis.
I think it would be great if we could lower the speed limit back to 55mph and allow vehicles using alternative energy to use the 'car pool' lanes at 85mph.
Well, as long as your boss doesn't say anything about it... besides, you can always get your coworkers ear plugs.
Personally, I don't think the Model:M is that loud-- but maybe I'm ust used to it.
I can't agree more -- typing this post on my Model M Space Saver!
If the retailers were sued, they would stop carrying Sony merchandise, or at least none with such issues. They would stop selling all merchandise with such problems, or from such companies. The companies themselves would be hurt, because the retail stores would stop carrying their merchandise.
With current laws, the retailers are the ones hurt the most. They get stuck with thousands of units of merchandise that nobody wants to buy and the manufacturer won't refund. While the manufacturer won't move as many units as they would have liked, they certainly haven't lost money (unless they didn't ship enough units to offset their investments).
One could argue that in the second example, the retailer would still stop selling that type of product, or products from that manufacturer. However, it doesn't work out because the losses in that situation are less than the losses that they would incur from lawsuits and/or criminal charges. Plus, there are sometimes tax advantages of having unmovable merchandise -- at the very least, they will throw it into a bargin bin.
However, if the retailer was held responsible, they would need to purchase some heavy insurance against this type of thing...
You're so vain, you probably think this story is about you, don't you? Don't you?
Yeah.. if your fortune to have that disability affecting your left hand and not your right one. While Logitech has left-handed mice, their higher-end mice are always right-handed.
The vi editor is an essential tool, imho. This is a "cheap command line text editor" as you call it. Personally, I simply can't imagine working without it.
However, you're right in the idea that IDEs *do* offer something that the commandline doesn't. This is why, if I am to use an IDE, I use Eclipse with the ViPlugin.
You're assuming that people don't work a day job, go to school, run a side business, read books, and attend martial arts classes.. plus have time for the wife and kids. I see that things like slashdot and cd ripping really fit into that equation.
Not everyone has the free time you do.
Yet still, that wouldn't integrate with the window manager..
The beautiful thing about such an extension would be that each "tab" could be made visible via something like expose.
I agree, I've been waiting for something like that for a long time. Unfortunately, I expect that I'll be waiting for a long time yet.
As others have suggested, you need to have local servers for caching web traffic, dns, etc. You can also block content such as advertisements and flash files.
However, assuming that has all failed, you can still setup an extranet proxy. The advantage of this is that the machine in your extranet can be run at much lower monthly rates in an area of cheap bandwidth (such as the US), and then COMPRESS the data before it hits your own pipe.
Essentially, use the following steps:
1. Purchase a dedicated server with adequate bandwidth. You can easily get this for less than $200/mo.
2. Install caching proxy and dns software on the dedicated server
3. Configure your local proxy and dns servers to pull from the extranet proxy.
(use SSL for encryption, gzip for compression... or build a tunnel)
You will need to make sure that the overhead of encryption doesn't outway the benefit of compression.
For that matter, a useless use of xargs. Here is a version with only one command not a bash built-in (sort):
for x in $( YourFile); do echo $x; done | sort -u
Slashdot hid what looked like HTML, lets try that again:
xargs -n1 echo < TheBook.txt | sort | uniq > dictionary.txt
I was thinking the same thing. Perhaps grab some books from the Gutenburg project and just feed them to the following:
xargs -n1 echo dictionary.txt
> In older text editors, and in certain arcane and obscure OSs of yesteryear ^W (ctrl-w)
> deleted a word, unlike ^H, which deleted a character
You mean most (all?) Unix and Unix-like (Linux) OS?
Open up a Unix terminal (xterm will do), type a few things and try Ctrl-h or Ctrl-w. Don't be too surprised to see the result.
If your terminal settings are broken you might just see the ^H and ^W printed to the screen, rather than being interpreted by the terminal.
On a single machine we can easily fit 25-50 users, each with their own dedicated web server processes. Its less expensive than virtual dedicated servers, with some of the same benefits. Also, Apache isn't our only supported web server.
Don't laugh, there is at least one provider doing this. Cheers.
Sorry -- I come from a lineage of car salesmen. My great grandfather, his boys, and his boy's boys, they're all car salesmen.
> "and put more money towards your 5.9% mortgage, or invest in a 6% GIC, or add more to those
> mutual funds that are returning 8% to 12%."
Yes, this was another point I wanted to make.. Having a lower interest rate on your car can free more liquid assets to invest.
On the topic of insurance, I believe that the rates are also lower for new cars. Insurance companies know that older cars are more likely to break.
As someone who has owned several used cars, and has spent a fair share of time and money at the mechanic, I'm done dealing with older cars.
Yes, you can buy a car for $5000. For what you get, it will seem like a great deal, until you need to replace a ball-joint or a head gasket.
The absolute best bang-for-your-buck with cars might infact be those around $1500 or less. You can buy one until it dies and replace it. If you can manage to buy less than a car a year, you will spend less than $15000 over ten years. Compare that to ~$15000 for a new Honda Civic.... but then there is the quality of life issue. Do you really want to replace your car that frequently? Will your boss like you taking off when the car dies? etc... Do you want to pull upto your $500,000 house in an off-color Dodge Aries?
Depreciation also hits used cars. The car doesn't get any newer, the longer you have it off the lot. It gets older and older.
The phenomeon that has happened with low interest rates is that cars which have already depreciated (aka.. used) cost the consumer more than new cars. Yes, the new car will also depreciate, but in the end, it costs less money and won't depreciate any more than the used car will. Plus, again, the new car has a warranty, less liklihood of mechanical failure, and known history.
The times when buying a used car is less expensive is when you buy it outright instead of financing (assuming a 6-8 point spread), the financing options are indifferent, or there is a large difference in price between the new and used cars (which simply isn't reality for most 1-2 year old vehicles).
What matters are the following questions:
A) how much you pay a month, and
B) how much you pay through the lifetime of the loan.
Not necessarily. You assume that price is the only cost of a new car. When I bought my 2004 Honda Civic, I found that it would have been more expensive for me to purchase a pre-owned car, and I wouldn't have had a warranty. Why? Financing.
While the cost of a pre-owned car will be lower, financing rates are higher. At least in 2004, when interest rates were between 0-2% for a new car, and 8-11% for a pre-owned car, it really mattered. The new car was more money, but with lower interest, cost less a month; plus, it was newer and carried a warranty, potentially saving money at the mechanic. Finally, a new car will potentially holds it's value longer; While cars are not an investment, its best to lose as little as possible.
Of course, to quality for decent financing, one obviously needs to have good credit.