I'd take David Hewlett for the ad any day....but not playing the McKay persona. I actually (may be reading too much into this) get the feeling he's not good at playing self-centered charactors, his acting in the few times when McKay is a generous, loving person (The Shrine, alternate universe McKay, etc) seems far better to me than his normal McKay role.
His sister (same on air and in real life) would also be a good choice but I'd rather have him.
or Wikipedia and linux releases. I actually think nearly all of my bandwidth is legal stuff these days*. Anyway, the real benefit here to the ISPs is they:
@ Remove competition from their own on-demand, etc services. ISPs and the MAFIAA are a lot more chummy then you might think, even more than the MAFIAA and the US congress:/ This can often let them negotiate more favorable rates with the MAFIAA for licensing their content, etc. This is why the companies that control the tubes and the ones that control the content NEED to not be the same or colluding. @ Potentially get to keep charging the people they ban if they are locked into a contract for the duration of the contract.
* In my jurisdiction. Police states like the UK and China might disagree with my opportunistic email encryption and occasional exercise of free speech rights.
Recent industry estimates show that over 9000% of network traffic is piracy. As much as ignorant liberals want to believe otherwise, even they can't argue with those clearly unbiased figures. Who better to guard the henhouse than a starving kleptomaniac fox?
end_sarcasm
Seriously though, I have to say that my download and upload speed on Comcrap have basically doubled since they enacted these new limits. And I have downloaded wikipedia several times this month and still not come close to the 250 GB limit.
I wish it were technically easy to give people a quota (25 GB or so) of "fast" traffic per month, plus an unlimited amount of "slow" traffic that gets prioritized down. The user gets to choose what's what. Of course if we did this the "slow" traffic would slow to Comcast's RST-hell unusuable crawl, not to mention the software changes necessary to allow this.
You fool, people are downloading movies, music, unlicensed compilers, and EVEN ENTIRE BOOKS! All this content is slowing it down for the rest of us. The internet isn't a big truck you can just keep dumping things on, it's a series of tubes.
How else can we make way for legitimate, low-bandwidth services like Comcast OnDemand if we keep allowing this onslaught of unapproved content?
I seem to recall something about if you EVER monitor what goes on it can become your RESPONSIBILITY to do so across the board...this could actually be a flaw, not a feature.
A treacherous platform module can make it pretty damn difficult. Assuming there's nothing on the machine (data-wise) they want, they will eventually win.
'Sides, getting crazy locked down laptops is kind of a waste of your time and money.
I've never used a computer with filtering in any of my schools or jobs and it's been very convenient. Generally you want to just adjust the monitor so it's visible from the hall. Solves a lot of problems.
So since the US taxpayers paid for that cable that means we should get to say how it's used. I agree with you.
It wasn't just the telecoms that now "own" it that paid into its construction cost you know.
We had a huge hubub about telephone lines some time back and THANK GOD we can actually choose our long distance providers now or else we'd be in a libertarian nightmare of monopolies and high prices.
Straight out of political science, one way you can be fairly sure someone's promise is trustworthy is if he tells you something that could in no way improve your opinion of him.
Textbook example: Mondale's promise to raise taxes. I believe he would have done it. Saying it only hurt his electability.
ummmm did you really believe that post was serious? OOXML is a TERRIBLE standard from a technical perspective, plus it's patented, no one supports it, the spec doesn't parse as valid XML*, it's riddled with incompatible likeword tags, etc.
I'm so sick of XML zombies thinking that just because you use XML as your format it's interoperable. I CAN IMPLEMENT BINARY AS XML!
We have an XML open standard: Office Open XML. The free software community just refuses to implement it because they hate innovation and enjoy kicking puppies.
I remember a few weeks ago I get an email from the computer science cluster admin yelling at me for going way over quota. I wrote back, puzzled, because I hadn't used the account for much of anything in years.
Turns out it was some "beagle" thing they were using, it had, over the years, continually indexed my home dir until eventually it bumped me over quota (I was at about 50% after I deleted all the beagle shit, so at least it plausibly had something to index)
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I'd take David Hewlett for the ad any day....but not playing the McKay persona. I actually (may be reading too much into this) get the feeling he's not good at playing self-centered charactors, his acting in the few times when McKay is a generous, loving person (The Shrine, alternate universe McKay, etc) seems far better to me than his normal McKay role.
His sister (same on air and in real life) would also be a good choice but I'd rather have him.
Watch more Faux 2 News. You'll learn all sorts of new things. They also eat babies.
The Weather Underground wasn't an approved political party, the Democrats were and are.
There's an old saying...in Soviet Russia there was one party; in America there are two.
Or charge by the byte, possibly past a certain "free" allowance. Net neutrality (yes I know it's not law) just means all bytes are treated equally.
I'd be more ok with that than current setups. They could just charge $1 per byte or something;)
or Wikipedia and linux releases. I actually think nearly all of my bandwidth is legal stuff these days*. Anyway, the real benefit here to the ISPs is they:
@ Remove competition from their own on-demand, etc services. ISPs and the MAFIAA are a lot more chummy then you might think, even more than the MAFIAA and the US congress:/ This can often let them negotiate more favorable rates with the MAFIAA for licensing their content, etc. This is why the companies that control the tubes and the ones that control the content NEED to not be the same or colluding.
@ Potentially get to keep charging the people they ban if they are locked into a contract for the duration of the contract.
* In my jurisdiction. Police states like the UK and China might disagree with my opportunistic email encryption and occasional exercise of free speech rights.
Recent industry estimates show that over 9000% of network traffic is piracy. As much as ignorant liberals want to believe otherwise, even they can't argue with those clearly unbiased figures. Who better to guard the henhouse than a starving kleptomaniac fox?
end_sarcasm
Seriously though, I have to say that my download and upload speed on Comcrap have basically doubled since they enacted these new limits. And I have downloaded wikipedia several times this month and still not come close to the 250 GB limit.
I wish it were technically easy to give people a quota (25 GB or so) of "fast" traffic per month, plus an unlimited amount of "slow" traffic that gets prioritized down. The user gets to choose what's what. Of course if we did this the "slow" traffic would slow to Comcast's RST-hell unusuable crawl, not to mention the software changes necessary to allow this.
by cheating:-)
To be fair, you can usually get a bit of extra performance out of the windows version of superpi by running it in linux under wine than in windows.
Unrelated, but amusing.
You fool, people are downloading movies, music, unlicensed compilers, and EVEN ENTIRE BOOKS! All this content is slowing it down for the rest of us. The internet isn't a big truck you can just keep dumping things on, it's a series of tubes.
How else can we make way for legitimate, low-bandwidth services like Comcast OnDemand if we keep allowing this onslaught of unapproved content?
We had an understanding. We didn't steal or break any computers at the school, and we could do whatever we wanted with the laptops.
But it was OS 9 so that wasn't much. I really find it hard to believe /anyone/ used macs before OS X.
Oh man, I wish I ahd mod points for this. Sad but true.
I seem to recall something about if you EVER monitor what goes on it can become your RESPONSIBILITY to do so across the board...this could actually be a flaw, not a feature.
A treacherous platform module can make it pretty damn difficult. Assuming there's nothing on the machine (data-wise) they want, they will eventually win.
'Sides, getting crazy locked down laptops is kind of a waste of your time and money.
I've never used a computer with filtering in any of my schools or jobs and it's been very convenient. Generally you want to just adjust the monitor so it's visible from the hall. Solves a lot of problems.
I'm remembering the Ford Pinto and laughing at how much less serious this is.
Protip for those of us a bit south of canada
Never buy music CDs. The MAFIAA gets a cut. Always buy "data" CDs. They're the same physical thing.
So since the US taxpayers paid for that cable that means we should get to say how it's used. I agree with you.
It wasn't just the telecoms that now "own" it that paid into its construction cost you know.
We had a huge hubub about telephone lines some time back and THANK GOD we can actually choose our long distance providers now or else we'd be in a libertarian nightmare of monopolies and high prices.
Straight out of political science, one way you can be fairly sure someone's promise is trustworthy is if he tells you something that could in no way improve your opinion of him.
Textbook example: Mondale's promise to raise taxes. I believe he would have done it. Saying it only hurt his electability.
Merry Christmas and a bottle of rum! But seriously, combined with economic downturn, more and more people will just pirate it.
How do they rationalize it to the consumer, I'm kind of curious, given that they phrase it as a "downgrade"
I don't see how it'd be any worse than the current corporate monopolies. The inefficiency would be equivalent to what we'd lose to profit anyway.
What we really need is /competition/. But until we transition away from a government controlled by the corporations that's sadly quite unlikely.
Hehehe so even Microsoft is supporting ODF before OOXML. I suppose they'll just XXX it anyway; it's a better standard from a technical standpoint.
ummmm did you really believe that post was serious? OOXML is a TERRIBLE standard from a technical perspective, plus it's patented, no one supports it, the spec doesn't parse as valid XML*, it's riddled with incompatible likeword tags, etc.
I'm so sick of XML zombies thinking that just because you use XML as your format it's interoperable. I CAN IMPLEMENT BINARY AS XML!
[xml...]...[byte value="de" /][byte value="ad" /][byte value="be" /][byte value="ef" /][/xml]
* May not be true in the version that passed, it was in the initial one
We have an XML open standard: Office Open XML. The free software community just refuses to implement it because they hate innovation and enjoy kicking puppies.
I remember a few weeks ago I get an email from the computer science cluster admin yelling at me for going way over quota. I wrote back, puzzled, because I hadn't used the account for much of anything in years.
Turns out it was some "beagle" thing they were using, it had, over the years, continually indexed my home dir until eventually it bumped me over quota (I was at about 50% after I deleted all the beagle shit, so at least it plausibly had something to index)
Proposal: merge indexing and backup service;)
They'll want to be spun up every so often (6mo or so).
Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mundays!