It's not a difficult concept, and I do understand it. It's just that one of the major hooks for the anti-abortion crowd is the sanctity of life, abortion is murder, etc. Capital punishment in murder, too.
Frankly I don't think a fetus is a life anymore than a seed is a tree. It's the potential for life, nothing more, until it's popped out of mama.
That's something that always bothered me about the Star Trek universe. You had, in effect, nothing to really worry about save for the occasional Borg/Klingon/Dominion incursion. You'd never go hungry; hell, thanks to replicators there's pretty much nothing that you couldn't have instantly.
How come they never showed the lazy bums of the future? Surely there were people who thought "Hey, you know... I don't actually *need* a career!" and loafed about for the rest of their lives. There's plenty of people who do that today and we still have to worry about things like rent and food.
Logistically it is far easier to tinker with network settings then get laws passed to this effect on public roads.
Honestly, if they could do stuff like this and get away with it they would have already been doing it by now. "This highway sponsored by Mercedes; enjoy your complimentary Mercedes-only express lane!"
It's no different than buying a "business class" connection. Here in NJ, you can get a (basic) business connection from Optimum Online for roughly twice the monthly cost. You get twice the bandwidth allocation, less bullshit, and better customer service.
The potential for this disparity *already* exists; the UK ISP is just marketing it very, very intelligently.
1. Does prioritizing traffic compromise the spirit and principal behind NN if it does not degrade others service?
Wouldn't prioritizing, by definition, degrade someone else's service?
If your packet and my packet are going somewhere at the same time, but yours gets there first because you have priority, than my service is degraded as a result.
It would be admittedly difficult to make a *truly* neutral system, though. I know there's prioritization based on protocol, location, and the customer's net usage for the health of the overall network (and in many cases, for the health of the ISP's bottom line), and I imagine that it would be difficult to make a system which is truly "fair" that will keep everyone from bitching.
Additionally, this is in a sense a method of cheating, you're putting down extra money to have an in game advantage, It doesn't take a genius to see that it puts pressure on other players to pony up for it as well, whether it would otherwise be necessary or not.
It's no more a method of cheating than:
Having a better computer (better FPS, less choke and/or lag)
Having cable or FIOS instead of DSL
Being geographically closer to a server than your opponent (and thus having a ping advantage)
Having a mouse with higher DPS on the laser, therefore affording me greater accuracy
Is it cheating if we're playing on a NYC server, and I live in New Jersey but you live in Illinois?
Besides, even if it didn't, you're going to encounter one of two situations:
a) The student's computer is either Windows or Mac, and Portal runs on both.
b) The student's computer is Linux, BSD, etc.. Any student sufficiently knowledgeable about a more complex (to install), niche operating system can easily get Windows/Mac running, or WINE in Linux, etc. etc.
Part joke, part truth (the best kind of jokes IMO).
Isn't it kinda funny how the Republican Party goes on and on about "the sanctity of life" in regards to abortion but they have no problem with the death penalty?
Assuming they were classy and used $100 bills (volume: 0.69 cubic inches), it would occupy about 4,427,500 cubic feet. Anyone care to take a swing at the weight? d:
I don't know. I think Jobs rejected Flash on performance and power grounds just as much as on control grounds. After all, if he wanted a bloated, inefficient piece of crap at Apple he would have hired CowboyNeal.
Why don't they make "hobbyist" machines, like Arduinos and bread boards but for pinball machines?
Why should there even be "exotic parts"? Surely in all of mankind's engineering prowess we can figure out how to build a pinball machine with common, pre-machined parts.
Old news, NASA managed to solve this cooling problem. They'll be sending my ex-girlfriend into space to bring the satellite's temperature closer to absolute zero.
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It's not a difficult concept, and I do understand it. It's just that one of the major hooks for the anti-abortion crowd is the sanctity of life, abortion is murder, etc. Capital punishment in murder, too.
Frankly I don't think a fetus is a life anymore than a seed is a tree. It's the potential for life, nothing more, until it's popped out of mama.
If only there were some way to block the RFID signal from being readable when you don't want it to be read.
10 I'm sad.
20 Take antidepressants.
30 Feel better.
40 Stop taking antidepressants.
50 Realize I'm addicted to antidepressants.
60 GOTO 10.
That's something that always bothered me about the Star Trek universe. You had, in effect, nothing to really worry about save for the occasional Borg/Klingon/Dominion incursion. You'd never go hungry; hell, thanks to replicators there's pretty much nothing that you couldn't have instantly.
How come they never showed the lazy bums of the future? Surely there were people who thought "Hey, you know... I don't actually *need* a career!" and loafed about for the rest of their lives. There's plenty of people who do that today and we still have to worry about things like rent and food.
Logistically it is far easier to tinker with network settings then get laws passed to this effect on public roads.
Honestly, if they could do stuff like this and get away with it they would have already been doing it by now. "This highway sponsored by Mercedes; enjoy your complimentary Mercedes-only express lane!"
It's no different than buying a "business class" connection. Here in NJ, you can get a (basic) business connection from Optimum Online for roughly twice the monthly cost. You get twice the bandwidth allocation, less bullshit, and better customer service.
The potential for this disparity *already* exists; the UK ISP is just marketing it very, very intelligently.
1. Does prioritizing traffic compromise the spirit and principal behind NN if it does not degrade others service?
Wouldn't prioritizing, by definition, degrade someone else's service?
If your packet and my packet are going somewhere at the same time, but yours gets there first because you have priority, than my service is degraded as a result.
It would be admittedly difficult to make a *truly* neutral system, though. I know there's prioritization based on protocol, location, and the customer's net usage for the health of the overall network (and in many cases, for the health of the ISP's bottom line), and I imagine that it would be difficult to make a system which is truly "fair" that will keep everyone from bitching.
Additionally, this is in a sense a method of cheating, you're putting down extra money to have an in game advantage, It doesn't take a genius to see that it puts pressure on other players to pony up for it as well, whether it would otherwise be necessary or not.
It's no more a method of cheating than:
Is it cheating if we're playing on a NYC server, and I live in New Jersey but you live in Illinois?
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We had it. It was called PAX.
You can't get fired for not racking up enough speeding tickets in the military.
Besides, even if it didn't, you're going to encounter one of two situations:
a) The student's computer is either Windows or Mac, and Portal runs on both.
b) The student's computer is Linux, BSD, etc.. Any student sufficiently knowledgeable about a more complex (to install), niche operating system can easily get Windows/Mac running, or WINE in Linux, etc. etc.
It's a moot point either way.
Eh, I just Googled volume of a $100 and got 0.69 in^3, which is about as far as I'm willing to go for a joke.
Part joke, part truth (the best kind of jokes IMO).
Isn't it kinda funny how the Republican Party goes on and on about "the sanctity of life" in regards to abortion but they have no problem with the death penalty?
Assuming they were classy and used $100 bills (volume: 0.69 cubic inches), it would occupy about 4,427,500 cubic feet. Anyone care to take a swing at the weight? d:
At the end of the film, Chubby Checker would come on screen and tell us that the fungus is Soylent Green.
Aw crap guys, you got the Security Emo all depressed. Now's he gonna try to cut his wrists with a rusty Zip Disk.
Bad Internet! Bad!
I don't know. I think Jobs rejected Flash on performance and power grounds just as much as on control grounds. After all, if he wanted a bloated, inefficient piece of crap at Apple he would have hired CowboyNeal.
HP printers are already shitty, so I guess 1 out of 3 isn't that bad.
Why don't they make "hobbyist" machines, like Arduinos and bread boards but for pinball machines?
Why should there even be "exotic parts"? Surely in all of mankind's engineering prowess we can figure out how to build a pinball machine with common, pre-machined parts.
The fact is, if you care, just run narrower and harder tires.. Thus giving lower friction and
more economy, duh!
Ah, so that's why my mountain bike uses so little gas. Makes sense!
put them to work at the Canadian equivalent of the NSA.
The NS, eh?
Meteorologists are currently predicting a warm front in my pants. Yeah, baby!
Old news, NASA managed to solve this cooling problem. They'll be sending my ex-girlfriend into space to bring the satellite's temperature closer to absolute zero.
Do a barrel roll!
Do a barrel roll!
Do a barrel roll!
Most of our sex lives are very dependent on high quality streaming video.