I enjoy Linux as much as the next guy (maybe even more) but I don't think Torvalds is worthy of being regarded as the only Linus. Maybe if he were to win two Nobel prizes I would be more impressed. Though perhaps he could be considered the head of a religion?
Money will be given to the telcos et.al. with the stipulation that fiber be ran to areas with little to no demand or interest in broadband.
I recall hearing that the money planned by the government is not on its own enough to cover the planned broadband development, which implies that the telcos will have to front some cost on their own if they want to participate in the roll-out.
Hence those companies would not likely bring broadband to places where they do not expect to be able to make money selling it. The infrastructure plans are not supposed to be "dig a hole and then fill it back in" types of projects. If you have information to support your claim that the money is intended to bring broadband where it is not wanted, please provide it.
P.s. you should add Capitalism to your signature as well
Capitalism is not a political belief, it is an economic principle that has been warped into something masquerading as one.
dont' do anything stupid like try to get the federal government to pay for it.
I could be mistaken, but my understanding is that the federal money for broadband was to help with the costs of broadband roll-out to areas that are underserved. I don't recall seeing anything about the government paying for people to be able to access it, rather the government is going to help the providers with their projects to lay fibre and other high-speed cabling for the infrastructure.
Well obviously they wouldn't object to getting it for free
Technically they probably wouldn't object to getting it for free, but that doesn't mean they would use it, even if it was free. Remember there are plenty of people in this country who do not have computers, and do not want computers. You could give them the fastest connection possible and it would not be used because they do not want it anyways.
In short there are people for whom a connection to the internet has no value.
Remember there are still plenty of people in this country who don't own (and don't want to own) a computer or any other type of internet-connected device. They aren't necessarily opposed to computers, they just don't care to own one. I know plenty of people who fit that demographic, and even if you gave them broadband for free they still wouldn't be interested.
I never thought Russia to be that big into licensing and copyrights.
There is the official Russian stance for the international community, and the understood stance of some people who live there (and what they think of copyright and licensing).
Careful not to confuse the two. This statement on developing a national operating system came from the government, which knows it needs to at least outwardly appear to play by the rules of the rest of the international community. Conversely this likely won't mean squat to the spammers who are offering you dirt-cheap "windows downloads".
I would contend that for the average user, spam is essentially a non-issue nowadays.
Just because they don't see it doesn't mean it doesn't cost them. The users have to pay (indirectly) for the cost of the spam traversing the internet, the CPU time for their spam filter to identify and dispose of it, the server space to store it, and the IT employees to refine the filters to acceptable levels of false positives and false negatives.
Just because the users don't see the spam in their inbox doesn't mean it has no impact on them.
What has been done over the past 5 years to prevent spam from being sent? Nothing, really.
As I've said before, spam is an economic problem. It won't go away until you remove the economic incentive to send it. Spam is sent out because people can make money by sending it, plain and simple. If something meaningful was done to remove the incentive to send spam, then it would go away.
But never before then. And you can forget about filters. We have seen ever since the first bayesian filters that spammers will keep finding ways to outsmart filters; you are only starting a game of whack-a-mole with that strategy. On top of that, filtered spam still has real costs in internet traffic and server storage space.
My computer doubles as the music streamer I listen to at work. It also doubles as the router my family uses to access the internet. It also doubles as a file server.
So it quadruples?
He doubled three times, there. 2*2*2 = 8. I'm afraid it actually octuples.
Hardly a charitable act. Do you really think the providers were going to miss an opportunity like this? They'd have pretty much been guaranteed 100% utilization of equipment that often stands relatively idle.
An excellent point, and I never really thought of it as something the companies were doing out of the kindness of their own hearts, anyways. It really was more a game of one-upmanship for them, to see whose network could handle the most volume that day. I'm surprised the providers haven't put those numbers out yet to try to declare whose network was the best that day.
Granted I was over 300 miles away from Washington DC when the inauguration happened, but it just occurred to me I didn't even make a call that day until late in the evening. I have no idea if the network my phone is on was effected by inauguration traffic or not.
You do want your TV to respond to your remote control
I don't know where you have your TV, but I know mine is easily in a place where I could press the power button on my own and then do everything else by remote to save on power consumption.
download it's clock-setting and other background data
I don't own a TV that downloads its own clock setting. Though I haven't bought a TV in a while...
And what background data does a TV need anyways?
and be ready to boot up in a timely manner?
I've never really considered the boot up time to be that terrible for TVs that I have turned on manually in the past. I don't consider TV that important that the difference between 2-3 seconds (LCD) and maybe 20-30 (old CRT) is at all important.
Being as you are moving from a version of Microsoft Office that is coming on 9 years old, you should be using mostly files whose formats are (mostly) well understood. Taking documents, macros, and the like from that old version should be fairly straightforward. If you were instead looking to move from a brand new version of MS Office to the latest Open Office your chances would likely be much slimmer.
It wasn't that long ago that someone declared the storm botnet had been cracked wide open, from which some people made the extremely erroneous extrapolation that botnets would become a thing of the past.
Well, I guess that almost held for two weeks. Maybe someday people will consider addressing the underlying cause of these problems instead of the symptoms.
I'm wondering if you got stuck with clueless support personnel, or it was a special case, or what.
Perhaps it was a special case - I felt that I was getting a pretty special degree of abuse, especially after having to wait on hold for over a half hour just to talk to Raj.
They take your credit card details as insurance (otherwise an unscrupulous person would use this method to steal a hard drive by pretending theirs is bad) but that's acceptable.
I could completely understand that policy, and told them that while on the phone. I told them I would be willing to put a deposit on my credit card (funny they didn't mention that when calling me "extremely irate" in their note) but that did not get me anywhere in the conversation.
To make it even better, when I first called them (before the call where Raj told me he could "make an exception" and cross-ship), they had referred me to a website where I could buy their clamshell cases and foam rubber for shipping. What an awesome deal that would have been, as I would have then had to buy those materials (from some non-seagate and of course non-local company), pay to have them sent to me (time and money), then pack my drive into that container and ship it to them (time and money) with return shipping costs paid for them to send it back to me (more money). And as I recall they wanted me to do all of that in less than 2 weeks or I would have to get a new RMA number, which of course meant I would have to pay for faster (more expensive) shipping for either the empty box to me or the box with the drive to seagate.
The last time I had to replace a Seagate drive (about 3 years ago) I discovered that they had changed the way they replace drives. Years prior when I was a fan of their products, their replacement policy was to send the replacement drive to you first, so you could get your data off the failing drive and then send it back and have only a very minimal amount of downtime.
However, this replacement for me was the opposite process, only worse. They also had a list of other things I had to comply with in order to get a replacement for a drive that failed when only 2 months old:
It had to be packed in their anti-static clamshell case
The case had to be in at least 2 inches of foam (no packing peanuts or bubble wrap allowed)
The box had to meet a prescribed standard
I had to pay for insured shipping both ways
Needless to say, I wasn't happy with that. I spent some time on the phone with them, after spending two days running around town trying to find shipping materials that would comply with their asinine requirements (they stated they would void the warranty on my drive if I failed to comply with the packing requirements). Eventually I convinced the person on the phone - we'll call him Raj - to talk to his manager about the situation. Raj then was able to to get his manager to eventually approve of sending the drive first, so I would have the proper packing materials to send my drive back in.
And then when the replacement arrived, there was a copy of a note that Raj had written while on the phone with me where he described me as "extremely irate". If I ever have to deal with them again, they'll see what irate really is when it comes from me...
Only matching a competitor's price (and not beating the price) meant they were basically forcing their customers to do their job, i.e. price shop their competition.
I'm not sure which products in particular you were looking for, but as I recall there were some areas where the retailers worked with the manufacturers to make price matching impossible (fridges and TVs come to mind).
For example there may be a 32" HDTV from brand XYZ at one store for price A. Same size and brand of HDTV with matching specs may be less at the other store, but getting a price match, even with an ad, was often nearly if not completely impossible, even if the TV really was the same between the two retailers. The reason for this was that when the manufacturer sent the TV to one retailer, it was given model number ABC12345, whereas the same TV for the other retailer was given model number ABCD1234.
So the price matching problem was not entirely the fault of the retailer in some cases.
That said, I was never a big fan of circuit city anyways.
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I've noticed when i preface my technical explanation with the words 'service oriented architecture' i am immediately rewarded with funding approval.
That has to be the most useful piece of information on SOA I have seen yet.
Still not understanding the "republicans" tag attached to this article. Is there another architecture that's better suited to democrats? What should libertarians and greens use?
I think people are just randomly tagging articles "democrats" or "republicans". Not sure that there is any rhyme or reason to which tag ends up on which article, other than just whichever tag was applied by more people.
Wait a few more minutes and the tag will go away as it gets replaced by ones that actually mean something for the article.
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Because of the context used, I think it's completely reasonable to refer to him by his first name.
I argue that the title is short enough that they could have easily opted instead to say "Linus Torvalds Switches From KDE to GNOME".
Apparently there are no other people named Linus?
I enjoy Linux as much as the next guy (maybe even more) but I don't think Torvalds is worthy of being regarded as the only Linus. Maybe if he were to win two Nobel prizes I would be more impressed. Though perhaps he could be considered the head of a religion?
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'nuff said
Money will be given to the telcos et.al. with the stipulation that fiber be ran to areas with little to no demand or interest in broadband.
I recall hearing that the money planned by the government is not on its own enough to cover the planned broadband development, which implies that the telcos will have to front some cost on their own if they want to participate in the roll-out.
Hence those companies would not likely bring broadband to places where they do not expect to be able to make money selling it. The infrastructure plans are not supposed to be "dig a hole and then fill it back in" types of projects. If you have information to support your claim that the money is intended to bring broadband where it is not wanted, please provide it.
P.s. you should add Capitalism to your signature as well
Capitalism is not a political belief, it is an economic principle that has been warped into something masquerading as one.
dont' do anything stupid like try to get the federal government to pay for it.
I could be mistaken, but my understanding is that the federal money for broadband was to help with the costs of broadband roll-out to areas that are underserved. I don't recall seeing anything about the government paying for people to be able to access it, rather the government is going to help the providers with their projects to lay fibre and other high-speed cabling for the infrastructure.
Well obviously they wouldn't object to getting it for free
Technically they probably wouldn't object to getting it for free, but that doesn't mean they would use it, even if it was free. Remember there are plenty of people in this country who do not have computers, and do not want computers. You could give them the fastest connection possible and it would not be used because they do not want it anyways.
In short there are people for whom a connection to the internet has no value.
Remember there are still plenty of people in this country who don't own (and don't want to own) a computer or any other type of internet-connected device. They aren't necessarily opposed to computers, they just don't care to own one. I know plenty of people who fit that demographic, and even if you gave them broadband for free they still wouldn't be interested.
I never thought Russia to be that big into licensing and copyrights.
There is the official Russian stance for the international community, and the understood stance of some people who live there (and what they think of copyright and licensing).
Careful not to confuse the two. This statement on developing a national operating system came from the government, which knows it needs to at least outwardly appear to play by the rules of the rest of the international community. Conversely this likely won't mean squat to the spammers who are offering you dirt-cheap "windows downloads".
I would contend that for the average user, spam is essentially a non-issue nowadays.
Just because they don't see it doesn't mean it doesn't cost them. The users have to pay (indirectly) for the cost of the spam traversing the internet, the CPU time for their spam filter to identify and dispose of it, the server space to store it, and the IT employees to refine the filters to acceptable levels of false positives and false negatives.
Just because the users don't see the spam in their inbox doesn't mean it has no impact on them.
What has been done over the past 5 years to prevent spam from being sent? Nothing, really.
As I've said before, spam is an economic problem. It won't go away until you remove the economic incentive to send it. Spam is sent out because people can make money by sending it, plain and simple. If something meaningful was done to remove the incentive to send spam, then it would go away.
But never before then. And you can forget about filters. We have seen ever since the first bayesian filters that spammers will keep finding ways to outsmart filters; you are only starting a game of whack-a-mole with that strategy. On top of that, filtered spam still has real costs in internet traffic and server storage space.
My computer doubles as the music streamer I listen to at work. It also doubles as the router my family uses to access the internet. It also doubles as a file server.
So it quadruples?
He doubled three times, there. 2*2*2 = 8. I'm afraid it actually octuples.
something else, like sleep or bathe...
You must be new here.
Are you sure that is what the white powder is?
Hardly a charitable act. Do you really think the providers were going to miss an opportunity like this? They'd have pretty much been guaranteed 100% utilization of equipment that often stands relatively idle.
An excellent point, and I never really thought of it as something the companies were doing out of the kindness of their own hearts, anyways. It really was more a game of one-upmanship for them, to see whose network could handle the most volume that day. I'm surprised the providers haven't put those numbers out yet to try to declare whose network was the best that day.
Granted I was over 300 miles away from Washington DC when the inauguration happened, but it just occurred to me I didn't even make a call that day until late in the evening. I have no idea if the network my phone is on was effected by inauguration traffic or not.
Seriously, the Cell on Wheels installations were part of what made it possible to handle the extra traffic.
You do want your TV to respond to your remote control
I don't know where you have your TV, but I know mine is easily in a place where I could press the power button on my own and then do everything else by remote to save on power consumption.
download it's clock-setting and other background data
I don't own a TV that downloads its own clock setting. Though I haven't bought a TV in a while...
And what background data does a TV need anyways?
and be ready to boot up in a timely manner?
I've never really considered the boot up time to be that terrible for TVs that I have turned on manually in the past. I don't consider TV that important that the difference between 2-3 seconds (LCD) and maybe 20-30 (old CRT) is at all important.
Being as you are moving from a version of Microsoft Office that is coming on 9 years old, you should be using mostly files whose formats are (mostly) well understood. Taking documents, macros, and the like from that old version should be fairly straightforward. If you were instead looking to move from a brand new version of MS Office to the latest Open Office your chances would likely be much slimmer.
It wasn't that long ago that someone declared the storm botnet had been cracked wide open, from which some people made the extremely erroneous extrapolation that botnets would become a thing of the past.
Well, I guess that almost held for two weeks. Maybe someday people will consider addressing the underlying cause of these problems instead of the symptoms.
I'm wondering if you got stuck with clueless support personnel, or it was a special case, or what.
Perhaps it was a special case - I felt that I was getting a pretty special degree of abuse, especially after having to wait on hold for over a half hour just to talk to Raj.
They take your credit card details as insurance (otherwise an unscrupulous person would use this method to steal a hard drive by pretending theirs is bad) but that's acceptable.
I could completely understand that policy, and told them that while on the phone. I told them I would be willing to put a deposit on my credit card (funny they didn't mention that when calling me "extremely irate" in their note) but that did not get me anywhere in the conversation.
To make it even better, when I first called them (before the call where Raj told me he could "make an exception" and cross-ship), they had referred me to a website where I could buy their clamshell cases and foam rubber for shipping. What an awesome deal that would have been, as I would have then had to buy those materials (from some non-seagate and of course non-local company), pay to have them sent to me (time and money), then pack my drive into that container and ship it to them (time and money) with return shipping costs paid for them to send it back to me (more money). And as I recall they wanted me to do all of that in less than 2 weeks or I would have to get a new RMA number, which of course meant I would have to pay for faster (more expensive) shipping for either the empty box to me or the box with the drive to seagate.
Yeah, what an excellent deal.
However, this replacement for me was the opposite process, only worse. They also had a list of other things I had to comply with in order to get a replacement for a drive that failed when only 2 months old:
Needless to say, I wasn't happy with that. I spent some time on the phone with them, after spending two days running around town trying to find shipping materials that would comply with their asinine requirements (they stated they would void the warranty on my drive if I failed to comply with the packing requirements). Eventually I convinced the person on the phone - we'll call him Raj - to talk to his manager about the situation. Raj then was able to to get his manager to eventually approve of sending the drive first, so I would have the proper packing materials to send my drive back in.
And then when the replacement arrived, there was a copy of a note that Raj had written while on the phone with me where he described me as "extremely irate". If I ever have to deal with them again, they'll see what irate really is when it comes from me...
Radioshack and (if you're on the West coast) Frys still sell niche components
I haven't seen a niche component in stock at a Radioshack in years. Unless you consider a Sprint phone to be a Niche component, anyways.
As far as I have seen, the days of going to Radioshack for circuit boards and resistors for home hobby projects are long gone.
Only matching a competitor's price (and not beating the price) meant they were basically forcing their customers to do their job, i.e. price shop their competition.
I'm not sure which products in particular you were looking for, but as I recall there were some areas where the retailers worked with the manufacturers to make price matching impossible (fridges and TVs come to mind).
For example there may be a 32" HDTV from brand XYZ at one store for price A. Same size and brand of HDTV with matching specs may be less at the other store, but getting a price match, even with an ad, was often nearly if not completely impossible, even if the TV really was the same between the two retailers. The reason for this was that when the manufacturer sent the TV to one retailer, it was given model number ABC12345, whereas the same TV for the other retailer was given model number ABCD1234.
So the price matching problem was not entirely the fault of the retailer in some cases.
That said, I was never a big fan of circuit city anyways.
I've noticed when i preface my technical explanation with the words 'service oriented architecture' i am immediately rewarded with funding approval.
That has to be the most useful piece of information on SOA I have seen yet.
You really should put that in a book and sell it.
Still not understanding the "republicans" tag attached to this article. Is there another architecture that's better suited to democrats? What should libertarians and greens use?
I think people are just randomly tagging articles "democrats" or "republicans". Not sure that there is any rhyme or reason to which tag ends up on which article, other than just whichever tag was applied by more people.
Wait a few more minutes and the tag will go away as it gets replaced by ones that actually mean something for the article.
Can someone explain why this story was tagged 'republicans'?