Your post is too rational, this is Slashdot, we are into conspiracy theories here.
Like how Road Runner is using the DNS redirection to:
1) Destroy Net Neutrality 2) Enable censorship 3) Help Microsoft take over the world 4) Harm open source 5) Destroy P2P/aid the RIAA/MPAA/BSA 6) Break the Internet 7) Allow the aliens to eat our brains
Now if you go and fix your DNS search order, you'll be all good!:)
(if it was correct, roadrunner's IP wouldn't override your internal host entries. You could be in for a load of fun problems if a machine in your first searched domain conflicts with one of your own machine names, otherwise).
It should also be mandatory to declare any contention up front too, like "you have an 8mb link to a 800mb backbone, which has up to 200 users so you're connection could drop to 4mb during busy periods".
Ha ha. If only. How about "you have an 8 MB link to a 1 GB backbone, which has up to 20000 users so you're connection could drop to 50 K during busy periods".
Play with axes? I wouldn't trust most adults with that.
As for looking at the sun, people go blind during eclipses and there is the case of the people tripping on LSD who went blind from staring at the sun, they claimed they were "having a religious conversation" with it.
Worse, it turns law abiding people trying to make fair use of content into criminals simply because they did something the developers programmed the computer not to allow until fixed, and fixing intentional bugs allowing you to use content is a Federal felony.
Things are so up in the air, I'd expect volatility, in possibly either direction.
I wouldn't keep all my eggs in one basket, but wouldn't go shorting lots of stocks either.
A lot depends on if the politicians screw things up even more, or if the mortgage crisis, oil prices, have already done their damage and things are going to rebound.
It just needs a server to host a Bit Torrent seed and use P2P to distribute it, if one can't afford the download bandwith for the source files themselves.
Those selling complementary products, like IBM, might well cut back. They likely invest a fixed portion of their profits in open source development and if their profits drop then so will this investment. They may increase it to try to spend their way out of the recession, but it's unlikely. The fact that they aren't the only people paying for the development might well mean that they consider that they can cut back a lot and still retain good open source products to build solutions on top of.
If they are smart and able to they would spend their way through the recession.
Yeah, it would cost money, and profits would be low, perhaps they'd even lose money.
But they'd get an even bigger slice of the shrinking pie, and even as the pie shrinks, their percentage gets bigger.
Other companies would be more likely to fail, especially if they have less reserves.
Then, when the recession ends, the pie gets bigger, they've had a high percentage, and now a high percentage of a bigger pie means more and more profits, in a market with less competition, which even as it increases is going to have to catch up.
Plus their investment was cheap because prices are low in a recession. Buy low, sell high, comes into play here. The money they'd lost they'd get back many times over. Whether they could justify losing money in the short term is another story, but an IBM type company has more long-term institutional investors vs speculators compared to most companies, so perhaps they could pull it off.
They have more vision now, having been burned by short-sightedness before (MCA bus, remember that? Perhaps not - look it up) so they might try to look more at long term economic realities rather than short ones. Don't overlook the forest for the trees.
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Your post is too rational, this is Slashdot, we are into conspiracy theories here.
:)
Like how Road Runner is using the DNS redirection to:
1) Destroy Net Neutrality
2) Enable censorship
3) Help Microsoft take over the world
4) Harm open source
5) Destroy P2P/aid the RIAA/MPAA/BSA
6) Break the Internet
7) Allow the aliens to eat our brains
etc, etc.
Now if you go and fix your DNS search order, you'll be all good! :)
(if it was correct, roadrunner's IP wouldn't override your internal host entries. You could be in for a load of fun problems if a machine in your first searched domain conflicts with one of your own machine names, otherwise).
Switch to an upstream provider that support IPv6.
Anybody can use Linux for routing, or if they need something better, they use Cisco.
Both support IPv6.
When IPv4 runs critically short of addresses, give people a NAT'd IPv4 address and a real IPv6 address.
They can switch to IPv6 if they want/need to, and they won't have a leg to stand on if they don't like it.
I didn't know George Bush posted here! :)
It should also be mandatory to declare any contention up front too, like "you have an 8mb link to a 800mb backbone, which has up to 200 users so you're connection could drop to 4mb during busy periods".
Ha ha. If only. How about "you have an 8 MB link to a 1 GB backbone, which has up to 20000 users so you're connection could drop to 50 K during busy periods".
We can't directly observe radio waves, but we can observe their effects.
We can't (yet) directly observe God, but we can observe His effects.
I'd rather have someone who just gets the work done rather than goofing off compiling kernels, installing ReiserFS.
:)
But ReiserFS is a KILLER app!
That buzzing sound in your ears is the alarms from millions of irony detectors, all over the world.
:)
Except in NYC, where you need a license to have one.
Or a complex anxiety disorder.
Your atheism has no basis in actual reality.
Play with axes? I wouldn't trust most adults with that.
As for looking at the sun, people go blind during eclipses and there is the case of the people tripping on LSD who went blind from staring at the sun, they claimed they were "having a religious conversation" with it.
Well she shaved her hair, was committed, and many people hate her music, so all she has to do now is gain weight. :)
Worse, it turns law abiding people trying to make fair use of content into criminals simply because they did something the developers programmed the computer not to allow until fixed, and fixing intentional bugs allowing you to use content is a Federal felony.
And you'll have 5 years of Federal Government provided living arrangements thanks to the DMCA.
You should use Gentoo. Incrementally upgrade, and you can downgrade easily if something breaks.
And the DMCA allows politics by programmers.
I.E. If a copy is blocked, it is illegal. Fixing bugs (defective by design) is illegal.
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Good question.
Things are so up in the air, I'd expect volatility, in possibly either direction.
I wouldn't keep all my eggs in one basket, but wouldn't go shorting lots of stocks either.
A lot depends on if the politicians screw things up even more, or if the mortgage crisis, oil prices, have already done their damage and things are going to rebound.
The election will make a big difference.
Especially since Microsoft is far less sue happy than their big competitor which is named after a fruit.
Public universities are required to follow the First Amendment.
The recession started BEFORE 9/11, which just made it worse.
I know, I got out of the stock market earlier that year, after losing a bit in the first drop. I figured it was time to get out. And I was right.
Even if you got out on 9/10/2001, you'd lost quite a bit.
It just needs a server to host a Bit Torrent seed and use P2P to distribute it, if one can't afford the download bandwith for the source files themselves.
Those selling complementary products, like IBM, might well cut back. They likely invest a fixed portion of their profits in open source development and if their profits drop then so will this investment. They may increase it to try to spend their way out of the recession, but it's unlikely. The fact that they aren't the only people paying for the development might well mean that they consider that they can cut back a lot and still retain good open source products to build solutions on top of.
If they are smart and able to they would spend their way through the recession.
Yeah, it would cost money, and profits would be low, perhaps they'd even lose money.
But they'd get an even bigger slice of the shrinking pie, and even as the pie shrinks, their percentage gets bigger.
Other companies would be more likely to fail, especially if they have less reserves.
Then, when the recession ends, the pie gets bigger, they've had a high percentage, and now a high percentage of a bigger pie means more and more profits, in a market with less competition, which even as it increases is going to have to catch up.
Plus their investment was cheap because prices are low in a recession. Buy low, sell high, comes into play here. The money they'd lost they'd get back many times over. Whether they could justify losing money in the short term is another story, but an IBM type company has more long-term institutional investors vs speculators compared to most companies, so perhaps they could pull it off.
They have more vision now, having been burned by short-sightedness before (MCA bus, remember that? Perhaps not - look it up) so they might try to look more at long term economic realities rather than short ones. Don't overlook the forest for the trees.
2. It escapes from the atmosphere. So, once it's out of the container it goes into outer space and is gone forever.
[citation needed]