That's why I think the free software community should hire ninja assassins to eliminate the family members of the ATI and NVidia board members, one by one, until they comply with our demands.
Hey, it worked for the Symbionese Liberation Army!
There's a substantial difference between oversubscription and actively harming your customer's traffic. One is an economy of scale. The other is outright malicious. The customers like the first, and despise the second.
No evil genius he! You would think that a "boss of bosses" -- I guess that makes him a middle manager? -- would have at least an administrative assistant who could tell him he's acting dumb. But then, I guess it doesn't work for Donald Trump either.
Really, there should be a new term for this: Disorganized crime.
Get the Nolo Press book. Did I mention that you should get the Nolo Press book? Also, and finally, you really should get the Nolo Press book.
P.S. the first place you need to search is the USPTO web site. the second is a good library, that includes the professional and academic journals relevant to your domain of endeavor. the third is the internet at large. but you can't really stop there, for many cases, well described in.... the Nolo Press book.
Wherever there is competition, when one ISP throttles, the other will be happy to get all their business.
Money talks. Consumers pay the money. What's actually going to happen is that ISPs will realize that they need to offer symmetric bandwidth, and offer it commensurate with their upstream pipe width, or else they lose money.
What is it with this nonsense assumption that P2P traffic is illegitimate? I push out several gigs of scientific data, free software, canned video demos, and live video every day on P2P. Moreover, there is such a thing, in the U.S. at least, as a right to privacy. What occurs under the cover of that right is presumptively legitimate.
Advertise a 5MB pipe for 39.95, and you should provide one. Hiding behind fine print that you had a lawyer write, knowing that 0% of the clients are going to take it to counsel for an interpretation is a slimeball tactic. It's legal, but it is immoral. The real contract is the offer and acceptance. The legal contract is not worth the shit your lawyer has for brains. I know the shit contract is the one the shit courts enforce. That doesn't change the moral picture. When these guys meet the white-throne judgement, they'll all burn in hell.
BT would actually reduce backbone traffic if (1) ISPs would implement multicast or (2) ISPs would deploy BT caches. ISPs are just dumb fucks. I should know, I used to be R&D director at a regional ISP. If I had a dime for every time I could have said "I told you so"....
Not only QoS, but every reasonable BT client allows you to set bandwidth limits. Azureus has a plugin that lets you control bandwidth by time of data. There's really no reason not to enjoy the full responsiveness of your low-latency high-bandwidth pipe for interactive use while you share your scientific preprints and home videos.
The US is actually a carbon sink, because of its extensive forests. The major carbon sources are India and China. There's an economic development phase in which carbon production is required, given prevailing technologies, in order to advance to more a more ecologically sustainable regime. While carbon production can be mitigated, it cannot be avoided, without limiting economic development to a degree which results in massive casualties. Technological advance will gradually change this landscape so that the peak carbon surpluses of developing economies during industrialization phases can be reduced to lower levels, but sustaining human populations without catastrophic reductions (read, mass murder) will always require substantial carbon production -- even after the oil is gone.
That is why the Global Cooling Foundation has been created, to organize an effort to reduce the well-known and understood atmospheric carbon surplus, by using oceanic phytoplankton to sequester atmospheric carbon in the biosphere. This is a feasible technical solution to a technical problem -- one which does not require destroying any national or international economic or political systems, does not require attacking any nation or society on the basis of its means of growth and self-preservation, and does not require one people to subjugate another to control them.
If you wish to take proactive steps to prevent a dystopic future, with the wars, depressions, and ecological catastophes that the most pessimistic scenarios envision, I suggest putting your efforts to a constructive solution by participating in the foundational organization of the GCF.
The problem isn't that you're telecommuting. It's that you're NOT telecommuting. You're just working at home. Telecommuting is all about engaging with your co-workers. I've spent weeks in offices trying to accomplish something, only to be completely destroyed by constant interruptions. That doesn't happen working at home. I've spent hours in conversations only to find that the whole thing was forgotten, or worse, completely misinterpreted. That doesn't happen when there's a record of the interaction. I've spent hours each day commuting to a downtown office, and frankly it's not worth it. I could be productive instead. I could be communicating with my coworkers in a conscious and intentional manner, rather than losing an hour of work because two people walked by chattering about some stupid thing that ate my brain.
Truly, they do manage to find "realism" in the places where real-life sucks the most. Fortunately other elements of the game are more enjoyable, but the sadistic bastards aren't happy just taking your money, they want you to suffer through their notion of a personal growth experience, and enjoy the savor of the crushing disappointment you feel when you realize you've endured all that crap for....nothing.
Whinge, whinge. After I've built up two or three level 60 characters, when I want another one, I'll buy it. I'm here to have fun, not to jump through some anal-retentive moron's hoops repeatedly. Rather than wasting 40 hours of my precious life-blood painfully farming gold, how about if I just lobotomize myself with an ice pick? Would that satisfy your need to make others suffer?
Personally, I'd pay more for less bloat and sabotage. A nicely stripped down version of XP with 3d party software that supports internet standards, interoperable protocols and document formats is worth a lot more to me than the padded cage I'm being told to live in. Actually, I think Windows 2000 SP4 is a much better basis for a usable operating system than is Windows XP, and assuming that the trend is going to continue or accelerate with Vista, the outlook is not good. It's all speed bumps and security doors, ankle chains and dead weights.
If only they would spend more time debugging the device drivers, and less time pissing on the customer, Windows could have been very nice.
And likewise, there's no substantive reason to think he won't. "Excuse me, Prime Minister Fifi, we'd like to take a few of your citizens to the United States, but we won't promise not to torture and kill them, and we won't promise any meaningful trial." That wouldn't fly in any civilized country. But then, this is the UK we're talking about, so the norms of human civilization don't apply.
What, you never heard of the telephone? Yes, Email is not a good vehicle for most working communication. But that's a very weak basis for an argument against a proven working organization. Actually, most of my communication is IRC or Skype, but I get or make at least a couple of concalls in a typical day.
It is easy for anyone to see that your tone is mocking, and your expression implies that you deem your own conclusion to be absurd. Typically, one would infer that you were refuting your correspondent by reductio, but in this case your argument doesn't seem to be responsive to a position expressed by the poster to whom you respond. Since you are not refuting your correspondent by reducing him to absurdity, by a process of exclusion, we can conclude that you are reducing *yourself* to absurdity.
Welcome to the society for creative self-caricature.
There is no substitute for physical presence when the team is centralized. When the team is physically distributed, however, an efficient flow is quickly found, and the productivity of the project increases dramatically.
Attempting to run a team split between a centralized subculture and a distributed subculture is an art which I do not think anyone has yet mastered. But entirely distributed teams routinely operate highly efficiently and productively.
Telecommuting is by far the most efficient way to organize and manage a productive software team. But older managers don't know how to manage distributed groups, so it's not feasible to operate a telecommuting group with a dinosaur at the helm. Moreover, it is a terrible mistake to try to run a mixed group, partially centralized and partially distributed, because it creates a split culture, and nobody can get anything through that impedance mismatch.
I've been telecommuting since 1990, and there's no way I would sacrifice my life and my career for an office job.
Um, because he owns the U.S. economy? You're all working for him, now. As we approach tax time, just think of the percentage of that which is going directly into t-bills owned by the PRC. Think about how many months you spend each year, to prop up the Chinese oligarchy, and send the little Hus and Dengs to Princeton.
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Enforcing the laws of a foreign nation should be impeachable as treason. Never mind "speech" issues. What about "survival"?
That's why I think the free software community should hire ninja assassins to eliminate the family members of the ATI and NVidia board members, one by one, until they comply with our demands.
Hey, it worked for the Symbionese Liberation Army!
There's a substantial difference between oversubscription and actively harming your customer's traffic. One is an economy of scale. The other is outright malicious. The customers like the first, and despise the second.
No evil genius he! You would think that a "boss of bosses" -- I guess that makes him a middle manager? -- would have at least an administrative assistant who could tell him he's acting dumb. But then, I guess it doesn't work for Donald Trump either.
Really, there should be a new term for this: Disorganized crime.
Get the Nolo Press book.
Did I mention that you should get the Nolo Press book?
Also, and finally, you really should get the Nolo Press book.
P.S. the first place you need to search is the USPTO web site. the second is a good library, that includes the professional and academic journals relevant to your domain of endeavor. the third is the internet at large. but you can't really stop there, for many cases, well described in....
the Nolo Press book.
Wherever there is competition, when one ISP throttles, the other will be happy to get all their business.
Money talks. Consumers pay the money. What's actually going to happen is that ISPs will realize that they need to offer symmetric bandwidth, and offer it commensurate with their upstream pipe width, or else they lose money.
What is it with this nonsense assumption that P2P traffic is illegitimate? I push out several gigs of scientific data, free software, canned video demos, and live video every day on P2P. Moreover, there is such a thing, in the U.S. at least, as a right to privacy. What occurs under the cover of that right is presumptively legitimate.
Advertise a 5MB pipe for 39.95, and you should provide one. Hiding behind fine print that you had a lawyer write, knowing that 0% of the clients are going to take it to counsel for an interpretation is a slimeball tactic. It's legal, but it is immoral. The real contract is the offer and acceptance. The legal contract is not worth the shit your lawyer has for brains. I know the shit contract is the one the shit courts enforce. That doesn't change the moral picture. When these guys meet the white-throne judgement, they'll all burn in hell.
BT would actually reduce backbone traffic if (1) ISPs would implement multicast or (2) ISPs would deploy BT caches. ISPs are just dumb fucks. I should know, I used to be R&D director at a regional ISP. If I had a dime for every time I could have said "I told you so"....
Until the advent of filesharing? You mean before HTTP? Before FTP?
The Internet has ALWAYS been used for filesharing. The files used to be smaller. But then the bandwidth was less as well.
Not only QoS, but every reasonable BT client allows you to set bandwidth limits. Azureus has a plugin that lets you control bandwidth by time of data. There's really no reason not to enjoy the full responsiveness of your low-latency high-bandwidth pipe for interactive use while you share your scientific preprints and home videos.
The US is actually a carbon sink, because of its extensive forests. The major carbon sources are India and China. There's an economic development phase in which carbon production is required, given prevailing technologies, in order to advance to more a more ecologically sustainable regime. While carbon production can be mitigated, it cannot be avoided, without limiting economic development to a degree which results in massive casualties. Technological advance will gradually change this landscape so that the peak carbon surpluses of developing economies during industrialization phases can be reduced to lower levels, but sustaining human populations without catastrophic reductions (read, mass murder) will always require substantial carbon production -- even after the oil is gone.
That is why the Global Cooling Foundation has been created, to organize an effort to reduce the well-known and understood atmospheric carbon surplus, by using oceanic phytoplankton to sequester atmospheric carbon in the biosphere. This is a feasible technical solution to a technical problem -- one which does not require destroying any national or international economic or political systems, does not require attacking any nation or society on the basis of its means of growth and self-preservation, and does not require one people to subjugate another to control them.
If you wish to take proactive steps to prevent a dystopic future, with the wars, depressions, and ecological catastophes that the most pessimistic scenarios envision, I suggest putting your efforts to a constructive solution by participating in the foundational organization of the GCF.
The problem isn't that you're telecommuting. It's that you're NOT telecommuting. You're just working at home. Telecommuting is all about engaging with your co-workers. I've spent weeks in offices trying to accomplish something, only to be completely destroyed by constant interruptions. That doesn't happen working at home. I've spent hours in conversations only to find that the whole thing was forgotten, or worse, completely misinterpreted. That doesn't happen when there's a record of the interaction. I've spent hours each day commuting to a downtown office, and frankly it's not worth it. I could be productive instead. I could be communicating with my coworkers in a conscious and intentional manner, rather than losing an hour of work because two people walked by chattering about some stupid thing that ate my brain.
Life is too short. Don't be a sariman.
Now let's see... There's doubleclick.net, and Google, and...
Truly, they do manage to find "realism" in the places where real-life sucks the most.
Fortunately other elements of the game are more enjoyable, but the sadistic bastards
aren't happy just taking your money, they want you to suffer through their notion of
a personal growth experience, and enjoy the savor of the crushing disappointment you
feel when you realize you've endured all that crap for....nothing.
Whinge, whinge. After I've built up two or three level 60 characters, when I want another one, I'll buy it. I'm here to have fun, not to jump through some anal-retentive moron's hoops repeatedly. Rather than wasting 40 hours of my precious life-blood painfully farming gold, how about if I just lobotomize myself with an ice pick? Would that satisfy your need to make others suffer?
Personally, I'd pay more for less bloat and sabotage. A nicely stripped down version of XP with 3d party software that supports internet standards, interoperable protocols and document formats is worth a lot more to me than the padded cage I'm being told to live in. Actually, I think Windows 2000 SP4 is a much better basis for a usable operating system than is Windows XP, and assuming that the trend is going to continue or accelerate with Vista, the outlook is not good. It's all speed bumps and security doors, ankle chains and dead weights.
If only they would spend more time debugging the device drivers, and less time pissing on the customer, Windows could have been very nice.
You do have a whiteboard. And the remaining diminishing returns aren't worth an order-of-magnitude loss of productivity.
And likewise, there's no substantive reason to think he won't. "Excuse me, Prime Minister Fifi, we'd like to take a few of your citizens to the United States, but we won't promise not to torture and kill them, and we won't promise any meaningful trial." That wouldn't fly in any civilized country. But then, this is the UK we're talking about, so the norms of human civilization don't apply.
What, you never heard of the telephone? Yes, Email is not a good vehicle for most working communication. But that's a very weak basis for an argument against a proven working organization. Actually, most of my communication is IRC or Skype, but I get or make at least
a couple of concalls in a typical day.
You quote the argument of the climatological know-nothings:
> "there's no scientific consensus"
My response to this argument is "there's a nutjob in every crowd". And he's usually a full professor at MIT, as the fine article demonstrates.
It is easy for anyone to see that your tone is mocking, and your expression implies that you deem your own conclusion to be absurd. Typically, one would infer that you were refuting your correspondent by reductio, but in this case your argument doesn't seem to be responsive to a position expressed by the poster to whom you respond. Since you are not refuting your correspondent by reducing him to absurdity, by a process of exclusion, we can conclude that you are reducing *yourself* to absurdity.
Welcome to the society for creative self-caricature.
There is no substitute for physical presence when the team is centralized. When the team is physically distributed, however, an efficient flow is quickly found, and the productivity of the project increases dramatically.
Attempting to run a team split between a centralized subculture and a distributed subculture is an art which I do not think anyone has yet mastered. But entirely distributed teams routinely operate highly efficiently and productively.
Telecommuting is by far the most efficient way to organize and manage a productive software team. But older managers don't know how to manage distributed groups, so it's not feasible to operate a telecommuting group with a dinosaur at the helm. Moreover, it is a terrible mistake to try to run a mixed group, partially centralized and partially distributed, because it creates a split culture, and nobody can get anything through that impedance mismatch.
I've been telecommuting since 1990, and there's no way I would sacrifice my life and my career for an office job.
Um, because he owns the U.S. economy? You're all working for him, now. As we approach tax time, just think of the percentage of that which is going directly into t-bills owned by the PRC. Think about how many months you spend each year, to prop up the Chinese oligarchy, and send the little Hus and Dengs to Princeton.