EARLY 1900s. Before all that radio licensing baloney, and pay-to-play nonsense.
The judge is saying today's redtube (and also youtube) are akin to early Shortwave and AM radio - where companies put-up their goods in hopes people will like it and buy it. i.e. The money is made off the backend, not at the point-of-play.
The only Employees who should be fired are the town officials. Immediately. The citizens should hold an emergency election to terminate these Deficient employees with new ones that respect the right of free speech.
And if that don't work --- well I hear the Southern Dixies are well armed. Hell they took-on the whole United States government back a piece. They can handle a few councilmembers who have become too dern uppity.
>>>You want a job with us, you don't badmouth us. That's perfectly reasonable,
It WOULD be reasonable if this was a private employer, but since this is the government, it is bound by the Supreme Law in the Alabama Constitution: "That no law shall ever be passed to curtail or restrain the liberty of speech or of the press; and any person may speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty."
Note that being responsible doesn't mean you can be fired, just because you said the government is wasting taxpayer dollars. It means yelling "fire" in a crowded theater and getting people killed, and therefore getting sued by the next-of-kin.
>>>Think of the precedent it would have set had the plaintiff won.
Only inside California. It doesn't affect me living ~3000 miles on the other side of the continent, and under a totally different set of non-california laws.
- The programmers at Activision and MicroProse like David Crane and Sid Meier (military sims/RPGs) - Engineers Bob Yannes and Jay Miner (Atari, Commodore, Amiga) - Jeff Bezos (amazon) - Sergey Brin and Larry Page (google) - Marc Andreessen (ported the web from Unix to Home Computers via creating Mosaic, then Netscape, and finally Mozilla)
When they ousted Steve in 1985(?) they didn't have any problem finding a replacement. I doubt they'll have a problem finding a replacement when he eventually passes on.
Random Thought: - the visionary men that made computers what they are today: - Nolan Bushnell (gaming & multimedia computing) - Jack Tramel (mass marketed the #1 and #2 best-selling computers - C=64 and A500) - Steve Jobs (obvious) - Bill Gates - probably left some off but those are the ones on top.
My math was simpler: 5.3 kilobytes/second actual throughout * 3600 * 24 * 31 days == over 14,000,000 kilobytes per month.
I spend a lot of time on the road, so I take advantage of the hotel's free electricity and leave my Bittorrent run 24/7 downloading TV episodes, movies, or whatever. The only drawback is my ISP kicks me off every ~10 days or so, but bittorrent just picks up where it was interrupted.
I grab almost two seasons of TV show per 5-day workweek, and watch it on the weekend. - In any case, I get more content via Dialup than if I used a wireless connection like Verizon (5 GB cap).
"Kevin Asshat, chief traffic asshole for the state DOT, and the shitbag who filed a complaint, protested that in trying to have Computer Scientist and Esteemed Citizen David Cox investigated while not licensed as a professional engineer: "I'm not trying to hush him up. I'm just trying to be a tyrant and make his life miserable, because I enjoy acting like Mubarak."
I know this is not a very popular view on/. and will probably get me modded down to (-1) to make my opinion invisible, but I always exercise my Free & Open Source Speech even if people think I'm nuts.
But I do think bandwidth should be metered. Gasoline, electricity, water, phonecalls are all metered (5c/min for long distance). Why not gigabytes? Comcast imposes a 250 GB cap which is more than enough even for people who watch hulu.com every day (like me). I don't have any problem with Comcast charging an extra 10 cents per GB past that cap, since those users are straining the infrastructure, using more electricity, slowing-down service for other users, et cetera.
>>>>>fone calls by time (minutes) >> >>Electricity is charged by volume (watt hours) and peak flow (amperes)
Yep. Likewise my parents have budget billing that charges per call, and per minute. 10 cents a call + 5 cents per minute if it's long distance. (i.e. Dual billing like ISPs do.)
And to reply to others comments:
Your ISP is a Government-created monopoly (or sometimes duopoly). Government deserves the blame for allowing said monopoly to continue, instead of giving us other options (i.e. to quit Comcast and go with AppleTV or MSN or AOL or whatever). Or imposing price-fixing.
Yep. Natural selection is still alive & well - assisted by computers giving bad directions. Reminds me of that Office episode:
GPS: "Turn here." "Michael that's a lake!" "But the GPS said turn here, so I'm turning here." (vroom) - (splash)
When I was in Salt Lake city I tried to take an old road parallel to I-80, but when it started beating my car's suspension said "Screw this" and turned around. You have to use the computer God put in your frakking head!
That's a nice history, but false. When telegraph & phone companies reached-out their lines in the 1800s and early 1900s, they used barbed wire to reach distant ranches and homes. 95% of the nation already had phone service before government ever became involved.
And cable was actually BORN in rural communities, not cities, because television reception was lousy. Therefore bright businessmen set-up giant antennas on mountains & fed the feed to anyone who wanted to hook-up to the cable. Hence the abbreviation CATV - community access television.
Maybe in Canada, but our US Post Office is billions in debt. If it were a company it'd probably go bankrupt soon. - I'd prefer that the US Congress subcontract to a private company such as UPS or FedEx (or both) to handle to-the-door deliveries. At least they know how to operate with a profit.
As for roads, many US bridges are in sorry shape (according to the DOT) and on the verge of collapse like the Minneapolis bridge.
>>>Internet seems like a perfectly natural monopoly
Not really. Internet can run on the width of a hair (fiber optic). There's really no reason why you can't run 50+ companies to each home (as part of 1 centimeter-thick cable), and let the customer decide which one he wants. There's no need for monopoly anymore.
Not always. My parents have budget billing that charges per call. 10 cents a call, unless it's long distance which is 10 cents per call + 5 cents per minute. (Dual billing like ISPs do.)
As for others comments:
It's a Government-created monopoly. Government deserves the blame for allowing said monopoly to continue, instead of giving us other options (i.e. to quit Comcast and go with AppleTV or MSN or AOL or whatever).
>>>you can't make any opensource implementation of AAC
Isn't WinAmp and VLC Player open source? (shrug). Well they're free anyway (zero cost), and they both use HE-AAC so that dismantles your argument that particular MPEG-produced codec cannot be used by Free players or Free browsers like chrome, firefox, etc.
If WinAmp and VLC can include built-in support for MPEG standards, despite the 1 cent per unit cost, so too can other free software.
It's used on most of the sites I visit. Like the homepage I've used for 5+ years and is almost nothing but GIFs - http://isp.netscape.com./ There are a lot of GIFs in other locations as well, all free of patent restrictions and just as open as PNG codec. .
>>>48k is not CD quality in any case because it's lossy
That's true, but listener tests show people can't hear the difference between 48k AACplus and ~1400k lossless CD. Hence the term "CD quality". Perhaps I should have added the word 'perceived' to clarify? In any case, neither MP3 or Theora can match it. They sound like ___ compared to a 48k AACplus stream. .
>>>VP8 is as "pro" as any other codec
That's true but it looks almost as crappy as MPEG2. I simply don't want to use an inferior codec, okay? Am I allowed to make my OWN fucking choice??? (Apparently not, and thus I got modded "idiiot".)
>>>Split price over the entire population, remove private ISPs. Free internet.
Yeah because the government runs their other programs (post office, social security, medicare, military, falling-down bridges, potholed-filled roads,Amtrak,...) so well and profitable! They would do a great job running the internet companies. /end sarcasm
I know this is not a very popular view on/. and will probably get me modded down by Moderators saying, "Make him invisble"
But I do think bandwidth should be metered. Gasoline is metered. Diesel is metered. Electricity is metered. Water is metered. Phonecalls are metered (well mine are- 18c/minute). Why not megabytes?
Comcast imposes a 250 GB cap which is more than enough even for people who watch hulu.com every day (like me). I don't have any problem with Comcast charging an extra 10 cents per GB past that cap, since those users are straining the infrastructure, using more electricity, slowing-down service for other users, et cetera.
Well..... you're wrong. The GPU and Sound PU could do DMA transfers in order to execute graphics-related code - independent of the 68000. The Amiga was designed that way because it was originally intended to be a games console, and prioritized graphics/sound coprocessing ability.
Note that the 68000-based Sega Genesis has similar capability with its GPU and SPU operating independently of then cpu.
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EARLY 1900s. Before all that radio licensing baloney, and pay-to-play nonsense.
The judge is saying today's redtube (and also youtube) are akin to early Shortwave and AM radio - where companies put-up their goods in hopes people will like it and buy it. i.e. The money is made off the backend, not at the point-of-play.
(whispers to mods) Try "funny".
- Oh an obligatory link to my favorite website: http://www.domai.com/ and http://www.goddessnudes.com/
The only Employees who should be fired are the town officials. Immediately. The citizens should hold an emergency election to terminate these Deficient employees with new ones that respect the right of free speech.
And if that don't work --- well I hear the Southern Dixies are well armed. Hell they took-on the whole United States government back a piece. They can handle a few councilmembers who have become too dern uppity.
>>>You want a job with us, you don't badmouth us. That's perfectly reasonable,
It WOULD be reasonable if this was a private employer, but since this is the government, it is bound by the Supreme Law in the Alabama Constitution: "That no law shall ever be passed to curtail or restrain the liberty of speech or of the press; and any person may speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty."
Note that being responsible doesn't mean you can be fired, just because you said the government is wasting taxpayer dollars. It means yelling "fire" in a crowded theater and getting people killed, and therefore getting sued by the next-of-kin.
>>>Think of the precedent it would have set had the plaintiff won.
Only inside California. It doesn't affect me living ~3000 miles on the other side of the continent, and under a totally different set of non-california laws.
>>>right hand might be busy
Really? I use my right hand for my mouse. Gotta navigate somehow through those Google Images.
Okay I'll add a few more, just randomly:
- The programmers at Activision and MicroProse like David Crane and Sid Meier (military sims/RPGs)
- Engineers Bob Yannes and Jay Miner (Atari, Commodore, Amiga)
- Jeff Bezos (amazon)
- Sergey Brin and Larry Page (google)
- Marc Andreessen (ported the web from Unix to Home Computers via creating Mosaic, then Netscape, and finally Mozilla)
When they ousted Steve in 1985(?) they didn't have any problem finding a replacement. I doubt they'll have a problem finding a replacement when he eventually passes on.
Random Thought:
- the visionary men that made computers what they are today:
- Nolan Bushnell (gaming & multimedia computing)
- Jack Tramel (mass marketed the #1 and #2 best-selling computers - C=64 and A500)
- Steve Jobs (obvious)
- Bill Gates
- probably left some off but those are the ones on top.
My math was simpler: 5.3 kilobytes/second actual throughout * 3600 * 24 * 31 days == over 14,000,000 kilobytes per month.
I spend a lot of time on the road, so I take advantage of the hotel's free electricity and leave my Bittorrent run 24/7 downloading TV episodes, movies, or whatever. The only drawback is my ISP kicks me off every ~10 days or so, but bittorrent just picks up where it was interrupted.
I grab almost two seasons of TV show per 5-day workweek, and watch it on the weekend. - In any case, I get more content via Dialup than if I used a wireless connection like Verizon (5 GB cap).
Also the summary is incorrect It should read:
"Kevin Asshat, chief traffic asshole for the state DOT, and the shitbag who filed a complaint, protested that in trying to have Computer Scientist and Esteemed Citizen David Cox investigated while not licensed as a professional engineer: "I'm not trying to hush him up. I'm just trying to be a tyrant and make his life miserable, because I enjoy acting like Mubarak."
Duh. Lots of engineers put-out PE-level work.
>>>Chrome has never been hacked
Impressive. Are there any other browsers that can claim that distinction? SeaMonkey? Opera? Amiga Origyn? Mozilla TimberWolf?
I'd take it. I don't mind non-virgin machines.
random question:
- I'm running the non-google Chromium right now. Any reason to upgrade to Chrome?
I know this is not a very popular view on /. and will probably get me modded down to (-1) to make my opinion invisible, but I always exercise my Free & Open Source Speech even if people think I'm nuts.
But I do think bandwidth should be metered. Gasoline, electricity, water, phonecalls are all metered (5c/min for long distance). Why not gigabytes? Comcast imposes a 250 GB cap which is more than enough even for people who watch hulu.com every day (like me). I don't have any problem with Comcast charging an extra 10 cents per GB past that cap, since those users are straining the infrastructure, using more electricity, slowing-down service for other users, et cetera.
Just my humble opinion.
>>>>>fone calls by time (minutes)
>>
>>Electricity is charged by volume (watt hours) and peak flow (amperes)
Yep. Likewise my parents have budget billing that charges per call, and per minute. 10 cents a call + 5 cents per minute if it's long distance. (i.e. Dual billing like ISPs do.)
And to reply to others comments:
Your ISP is a Government-created monopoly (or sometimes duopoly). Government deserves the blame for allowing said monopoly to continue, instead of giving us other options (i.e. to quit Comcast and go with AppleTV or MSN or AOL or whatever). Or imposing price-fixing.
Yep. Natural selection is still alive & well - assisted by computers giving bad directions. Reminds me of that Office episode:
GPS: "Turn here."
"Michael that's a lake!"
"But the GPS said turn here, so I'm turning here."
(vroom) - (splash)
When I was in Salt Lake city I tried to take an old road parallel to I-80, but when it started beating my car's suspension said "Screw this" and turned around. You have to use the computer God put in your frakking head!
That's a nice history, but false. When telegraph & phone companies reached-out their lines in the 1800s and early 1900s, they used barbed wire to reach distant ranches and homes. 95% of the nation already had phone service before government ever became involved.
And cable was actually BORN in rural communities, not cities, because television reception was lousy. Therefore bright businessmen set-up giant antennas on mountains & fed the feed to anyone who wanted to hook-up to the cable. Hence the abbreviation CATV - community access television.
And now you know..... the rest of the story. ;-)
>>>The post office is self-sufficient
Maybe in Canada, but our US Post Office is billions in debt. If it were a company it'd probably go bankrupt soon. - I'd prefer that the US Congress subcontract to a private company such as UPS or FedEx (or both) to handle to-the-door deliveries. At least they know how to operate with a profit.
As for roads, many US bridges are in sorry shape (according to the DOT) and on the verge of collapse like the Minneapolis bridge.
>>>Internet seems like a perfectly natural monopoly
Not really. Internet can run on the width of a hair (fiber optic). There's really no reason why you can't run 50+ companies to each home (as part of 1 centimeter-thick cable), and let the customer decide which one he wants. There's no need for monopoly anymore.
>>>fone calls by time (minutes)
Not always. My parents have budget billing that charges per call. 10 cents a call, unless it's long distance which is 10 cents per call + 5 cents per minute. (Dual billing like ISPs do.)
As for others comments:
It's a Government-created monopoly. Government deserves the blame for allowing said monopoly to continue, instead of giving us other options (i.e. to quit Comcast and go with AppleTV or MSN or AOL or whatever).
Change providers?
Oh that's right you can't because the GOVERNMENT won't let you. (Government created the monopoly that screws us. Thank you County Council. Grrr.)
>>>you can't make any opensource implementation of AAC
Isn't WinAmp and VLC Player open source? (shrug). Well they're free anyway (zero cost), and they both use HE-AAC so that dismantles your argument that particular MPEG-produced codec cannot be used by Free players or Free browsers like chrome, firefox, etc.
If WinAmp and VLC can include built-in support for MPEG standards, despite the 1 cent per unit cost, so too can other free software.
>>>GIF isn't used all that much.
It's used on most of the sites I visit. Like the homepage I've used for 5+ years and is almost nothing but GIFs - http://isp.netscape.com./ There are a lot of GIFs in other locations as well, all free of patent restrictions and just as open as PNG codec.
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>>>48k is not CD quality in any case because it's lossy
That's true, but listener tests show people can't hear the difference between 48k AACplus and ~1400k lossless CD. Hence the term "CD quality". Perhaps I should have added the word 'perceived' to clarify? In any case, neither MP3 or Theora can match it. They sound like ___ compared to a 48k AACplus stream.
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>>>VP8 is as "pro" as any other codec
That's true but it looks almost as crappy as MPEG2. I simply don't want to use an inferior codec, okay? Am I allowed to make my OWN fucking choice??? (Apparently not, and thus I got modded "idiiot".)
>>>Split price over the entire population, remove private ISPs. Free internet.
Yeah because the government runs their other programs (post office, social security, medicare, military, falling-down bridges, potholed-filled roads,Amtrak,...) so well and profitable! They would do a great job running the internet companies.
/end sarcasm
I know this is not a very popular view on /. and will probably get me modded down by Moderators saying, "Make him invisble"
But I do think bandwidth should be metered. Gasoline is metered. Diesel is metered. Electricity is metered. Water is metered. Phonecalls are metered (well mine are- 18c/minute). Why not megabytes?
Comcast imposes a 250 GB cap which is more than enough even for people who watch hulu.com every day (like me). I don't have any problem with Comcast charging an extra 10 cents per GB past that cap, since those users are straining the infrastructure, using more electricity, slowing-down service for other users, et cetera.
Just my humble opinion.
Well..... you're wrong. The GPU and Sound PU could do DMA transfers in order to execute graphics-related code - independent of the 68000. The Amiga was designed that way because it was originally intended to be a games console, and prioritized graphics/sound coprocessing ability.
Note that the 68000-based Sega Genesis has similar capability with its GPU and SPU operating independently of then cpu.