Here in Chile "calling party pays" applies, so that you never pay for anything received, including SMS. You can even receive calls and SMS after a couple of months without paying your bill (outgoing calls are blocked within days overdue) Same thing goes for prepaid cards. You can receive call up to 6 months since the last time you "reloaded".
Well, AFAIK, and according to a friend that works in the tech department of a BIG telco, they do put a lot of money for network enhancement, that is, voice and data. SMS is never an issue for enhancement, and always a surplus of the system itself.
Remember how at midnight, new year's eve your SMSs didn't used to arrive a few years ago and now they do?
Remember that you couldn't even make a call and now you do?
Ok. There is "some" cost for SMS exhange between carriers, but I bet it doesn't even average to 0.05ct per SMS.
Without art copyright, people will still create art, to show their skill and for pleasure. What is produced would probably be different.
And that would be a very good thing... art driven by art, not by sales numbers, that would give as plot quality in movies, scripts to move you and make you think, not the crappy industrialized same-thing-just-changed-to-look-different production we have today.
No machine that complex (according to the photos) would last 10.000 years. Or they suppose there will always be funding for maintenance for the next 10.000 years? If that's the case, even my Casio digital wrist watch could last that long, with proper care and maintenance. (It's turning 22 years old and still ticking... er... oscillating??)
mmm.... Stargate... is it present? or very near future? .. oops... just missed - when? just now :-D
If I read correctly Sci-Fi doesn't have to do to the fact that many are set in te future... it is Fiction about Science:-). That's why you can still read Jules Verne today, even if it is a "past" sci-fi, about science we already have *or not*.
We have something similar in spanish while driving... "Derecho" (straight) and "Derecha" (right).
Comming to an intersection, it is difficult to tell if they are asking to turn right or just telling you to go ahead. (specially from "back seat drivers")
Also... I know install time matters for administrators, but we are talking about the average user here... something like, one install about every other year.
I don't care to spend 4 hours installing if I will be able to play Crysis at 120fps for the next 2 years.:-)
To every event, there must be "a first"... what if we are the first intelligent civilization on this galaxy???... maybe others will follow in the next couple million years, an then we will have hundreds of interplanetary races, communicating with each other.
It's one of the possibilities... a sad but possible one.
Maybe it's time to start feeding the galaxy with chunks of our DNA... to give a message for future generations (which TNG episode was that???).
Then, how about a government funded antivirus, to be distributed and replicated as a virus? Everybody will then be protected. It's relatively cheap to do and will save millions in loss due to malicious viruses.
Talking about fighting fire with fire.
Sorry to say, but you were fooled (just like all of us).
You could *never* dock a projectile... that's why you never need to aim up/down.
Ceiling effect was done in a similar way.
Doom was just an extension to Wolfenstein, but the rendering was similar, some sort of "ray trace" on a plane.
I insist, try to find *any* map where you could cross under *and* over a bridge.
I build a couple of deathmatch maps on my own, and that's how I remembered it... it's been a while, so I still can be probed wrong. Do John Carmack read/.? He has the "ultimate" answer:-).
Not really a problem, that's Ok because that CO2 is already around here, overall neutral effect for burning biomass. The problem with fossil fuels is that you are introducing *new* CO2 to the atmosphere, that CO2 was buried and not part of the carbon cycle. I like the metaphor of pumping water from a pool into itself... water volume remains the same in the system no matter how hard you pump... on the other hand burning fossil fuels is like pumping water from your neighbor's pool into yours... Overflow is just a matter of time.
I see far more than 12 different models around me.
Anyway... since we are already offtopic... could Kara really be a younger Ellen model???
I thought of that it since Saul said "Ellen... you are the fifth".
5 years of applying Moore's law should have overcome this by now.
Much better/clever implementation than for video conferencing.
Come on... be honest, everyone has done that unconsciously on Counterstrike... even without a webcam;-)
Not really, think about games like Doom, you moved on a plane that happens to be deformed on 3 dimensions. There was no real up/down... you could never pass under a bridge, you could only move on a 2D plane. But this plane was deformed to give you the illusion that you where moving on 3D.. clever!... and, yes, 2.5D.
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Nope...
Jonathan Frakes managed to take the stigma off odd-numbered movies...
Now is on even-numbered... thanks to Nemesis
Here in Chile "calling party pays" applies, so that you never pay for anything received, including SMS.
You can even receive calls and SMS after a couple of months without paying your bill (outgoing calls are blocked within days overdue)
Same thing goes for prepaid cards. You can receive call up to 6 months since the last time you "reloaded".
Remember how at midnight, new year's eve your SMSs didn't used to arrive a few years ago and now they do?
Remember that you couldn't even make a call and now you do?
Ok. There is "some" cost for SMS exhange between carriers, but I bet it doesn't even average to 0.05ct per SMS.
Actually, SMS is like a "stowaway" of a signal your cell must receive from time to time.
So the "real" cost of a SMS is 0.000000.
This is a broadly known fact.
Years ago, here in Chile anyway, SMS where free of charge.
Now is pure profit. (about 8ct/SMS at current exchange)
Without art copyright, people will still create art, to show their skill and for pleasure. What is produced would probably be different.
And that would be a very good thing... art driven by art, not by sales numbers, that would give as plot quality in movies, scripts to move you and make you think, not the crappy industrialized same-thing-just-changed-to-look-different production we have today.
No machine that complex (according to the photos) would last 10.000 years. Or they suppose there will always be funding for maintenance for the next 10.000 years? ... er... oscillating??)
If that's the case, even my Casio digital wrist watch could last that long, with proper care and maintenance. (It's turning 22 years old and still ticking
mmm... No, but might be Transpacific.
:-)
mmm.... Stargate... is it present? or very near future?
:-).
.. oops... just missed
- when?
just now
:-D
If I read correctly Sci-Fi doesn't have to do to the fact that many are set in te future... it is Fiction about Science
That's why you can still read Jules Verne today, even if it is a "past" sci-fi, about science we already have *or not*.
I think he said this words were _after_ his accident.
He was slowly recovering, something that seemed impossible at the beginning.
We have something similar in spanish while driving... "Derecho" (straight) and "Derecha" (right).
Comming to an intersection, it is difficult to tell if they are asking to turn right or just telling you to go ahead. (specially from "back seat drivers")
Also... I know install time matters for administrators, but we are talking about the average user here... something like, one install about every other year. :-)
I don't care to spend 4 hours installing if I will be able to play Crysis at 120fps for the next 2 years.
Just my two cents.
Becomes easier if you distribute the knowledge into several people... better yet, several departments full of qualified personnel in specific areas.
Not everybody needs to be a "rocket scientist".
The only *real* barrier here is funding. And when you have a government with an "Untreatable-Psychotic" leader, I don't think that is a problem.
To every event, there must be "a first"... what if we are the first intelligent civilization on this galaxy???... maybe others will follow in the next couple million years, an then we will have hundreds of interplanetary races, communicating with each other.
It's one of the possibilities... a sad but possible one.
Maybe it's time to start feeding the galaxy with chunks of our DNA... to give a message for future generations (which TNG episode was that???).
Then, how about a government funded antivirus, to be distributed and replicated as a virus? Everybody will then be protected.
It's relatively cheap to do and will save millions in loss due to malicious viruses.
Talking about fighting fire with fire.
Sorry to say, but you were fooled (just like all of us). /.? He has the "ultimate" answer :-).
You could *never* dock a projectile... that's why you never need to aim up/down.
Ceiling effect was done in a similar way.
Doom was just an extension to Wolfenstein, but the rendering was similar, some sort of "ray trace" on a plane.
I insist, try to find *any* map where you could cross under *and* over a bridge.
I build a couple of deathmatch maps on my own, and that's how I remembered it... it's been a while, so I still can be probed wrong.
Do John Carmack read
Not really a problem, that's Ok because that CO2 is already around here, overall neutral effect for burning biomass.
The problem with fossil fuels is that you are introducing *new* CO2 to the atmosphere, that CO2 was buried and not part of the carbon cycle.
I like the metaphor of pumping water from a pool into itself... water volume remains the same in the system no matter how hard you pump... on the other hand burning fossil fuels is like pumping water from your neighbor's pool into yours... Overflow is just a matter of time.
I see far more than 12 different models around me.
Anyway... since we are already offtopic... could Kara really be a younger Ellen model???
I thought of that it since Saul said "Ellen... you are the fifth".
5 years of applying Moore's law should have overcome this by now. ;-)
Much better/clever implementation than for video conferencing.
Come on... be honest, everyone has done that unconsciously on Counterstrike... even without a webcam
Not really, think about games like Doom, you moved on a plane that happens to be deformed on 3 dimensions.
There was no real up/down... you could never pass under a bridge, you could only move on a 2D plane.
But this plane was deformed to give you the illusion that you where moving on 3D.. clever!... and, yes, 2.5D.
Actually I'm Chilean...
Slashdot is US-Centric... read the FAQ
mmm... I see your point, but slashdot is US-Centric, so it's MM/DD/YYYY.
Not DD/MM/YYYY like some of us are used to.
AKA: Dilithium crystals.
nice!
O... M... G... !!!!
mmmm...
How faster will you log into Gmail or Yahoo?
Does 1 mb vs 8 mb make any difference?
I don't think so.
Personally, I think that the problem is server latency on picking the ad to show, rather than the actual transfer rate.
There, calls the Mariner,
./?
...
there comes a ship over the line
But how can she sail with no wind
in her sails and no tide.
(Based on "The rime of the ancient mariner" [1797 - 1798] by Samuel Taylor Coleridge )
Any other Iron Maiden fans out there in
hello?