Hopefully their $150 phone and $300 ipod will wear out or break at about the time that their current cell phone contract is expiring. Depending on some circumstances (current provider, urban/rural location, and nothing else that I can think of off the top of my head), the confluence of events necessary to justify that kind of purchase might be a bit hard to come by.
And actually, the internet is a series of tubes, in the sense that a tube is a conduit through which things travel. It's just that the tubes are really huge right now. So you could make a case that the internet is a series of huge tubes that you use by putting your data in big trucks and sending them down the gigantic tubes.
Yeah, I absolutely believe that your scenario is much more likely than the one that I posed. I just worry that enforcing net neutrality from the get go will necessarily preclude IPTV efforts from being started in the first place, simply because an ISP won't be able to guarantee enough bandwidth for that signal when it's mixed in with the other traffic in your connection. I'm not trying to rehash the tubes vs. trucks argument for the general internet, but when you look at nodes on the edge of the network, e.g., me in my house with my cable modem, you really are looking at one connection with limited bandwidth and applications and protocols that are greedy and don't necessarily play fair with each other with regard to the capacity of the connection. So it's going to take some kind of effort to make sure that constant bandwidth applications are ensured a certain amount of bandwidth. A reasonable person could make the argument that if an ISP is giving a benefit to some packets originating at their premesis, then there's an inequity that makes their data arrive more slowly, and makes their service appear slower to the user. And they'd be right.
So you're saying that if an ISP gave priority to their own VOIP or IPTV packets, which necessarily means that all the other packets are at a detriment, then the senders of the other packets wouldn't have a legitimate gripe with the ISP?
Fine, your idea of quality of service is different than mine. Let's not debate semantics. (At least, not until I say so...:))
Yeah, it's strange that the government these days has basically told the world that divestiture was just a joke and that we were only kidding. I wonder what the endgame of all the old RBOCs is going to look like. We're down to the new AT&T, Verizon, and Qwest from the original 8 (7 RBOCs and one long distance provider).
How does the idea of net neutrality affect possible quality of service efforts needed to make IPTV and VOIP solid and usable? I mean, what if an ISP actually wanted to make it easy for you to use VOIP providers for phone service. Bell South already has test IPTV service for really really special people in Atlanta, so obviously, they're looking into how to roll that out en masse. It'll be important to be able to ensure that enough bandwidth is available on the pipe for an uninterrupted IPTV signal to be feasible.
So, as long as net neutrality doesn't preclude those QoS efforts, it can work. But besides that, why is it the government's place to dictate that kind of stuff? I mean, ideally, competition in the marketplace would be the determining factor of whether a non-neutral policy of charging for priority is a workable model for data access, right? I guess there isn't a whole lot of competition among high speed internet access providers, but I'd think that between cable modems, ILEC DSL, Earthlink DSL, and satellite connections, we'd be able to see this thing shake out in the marketplace.
Well, following what he said and assuming that what you prognosticate is true. I mean, if you're wrong about that, then what he said is 100% correct, right?
The MD5 of their material probably wouldn't help that much, as most of the copyrighted videos are analog TV recordings and videos of kids lipsynching. I mean, there are tons of StepMania videos that are reasonably close to authentic reproductions, except that they're recorded on an awful digital camcorder and have obnoxious keyboard clacking sounds all through it (http://youtube.com/watch?v=KTAYjpunO5E&mode=relat ed&search=). How's an MD5 gonna help identify the stuff then?
It is likely that the customs agency of the country that the automobile is being imported to would not allow that automobile into the country, i.e., it couldn't get through customs, unless the customs agency was satisfied that the automobile met the relevant safety and quality standards that are required of automobiles entering that country. In other words, the person doing the importing would have all of the responsibility of meeting whatever demands customs puts on the importation, including fees based on the declared value of the automobile, prior to being allowed to import the automobile into the country.
I mean, if I make a glass of pink lemonade and give it to you, who am I to tell you not to take it to Zaire. You do with it whatever you want.
Rape isn't about the act, it's about the power to make someone do something that they really don't want to do. Even though there exist heterosexual men and women in the world, they don't all want to fuck each other all the time, and thus, the idea of rape is defined.
I have a Snapstream Firefly RF remote, and it's the bees knees. By which I mean, it's totally awesome. I find myself getting pissed off when I have to use other remotes and actually aim them. It works fine with LIRC and seems to have most of the buttons nicely labeled for MythTV operation.
Another benefit of RF remotes in general is that you don't have to worry about finding an HTPC case with a built in IR receiver, or where to put the external receiver so that it won't look tacky. Just stick the RF receiver on the back of the thing and be done. The range is excellent (at least 40 feet and through walls).
No way is that illegal. Only in certain cases, like advertising, and being/faking a doctor or a cop is it particularly illegal. And if you use a confidence scam to take property or money from someone, that's also illegal. But some dude with a web site fooling people into thinking that some fake email corresponding is real, for the purpose of having fun in the internets? No problem at all, even if he's just in it for the google ad revenue.
I totally agree with you. If there are a couple of clear winners in the enterprise Linux market, then the opportunity cost of maintaining support for a bunch of loser distros (in that market, shut up Debian fanboys) is probably not high enough to justify going after.
It seems like support for MySQL on a particular distro is vastly different than simple support for the db itself. In that case, you can't just tell a customer, "Hey, you figure out why the db log is eating all your disk space and crashing your server." Now, you have to know about default log rotating and clearing policies on that distro and version, and how to modify the policies to fit a client's needs. Which is way more work than just supporting the db itself.
I like the idea of MySQL AB only supporting distro specific stuff on the most popular ones, or maybe none at all, and a strong, maybe localized 3rd party army that resells the support contract and provide a value add for support on a particular disto.
As far as I can tell, sole proprietorships and partnerships are still valid corporate structures in all 50 states, so for one DBA who has enough time to support enough clients, absolutely, organize a company around it.
But even before you challenged my nonexistant assertion that there already are companies offering 3rd party support contracts, I went looking to see if there were actually any. And there don't seem to be many. Why is that?
1. The business plan just isn't workable for a small company that isn't profitable in other areas.
Could be. I don't know nearly enough about the market to speak authoritatively on the subject.
2. MySQL AB was eating all the customers that 3rd party support companies would have been able to serve to survive.
Well, this is no longer an issue, because the biggest MySQL support company, MySQL AB is no longer supporting them. So this certainly opens up the possibility that the business of being a 3rd party MySQL support company is viable.
P.S. I bet it felt good to type "Doh, you lost that bet." Come on, you can tell us, it felt good, didn't it?
1. Make character levelling model human development.
In childhood, all sorts of really basic skills are learned at ridiculous speeds (walking/motor control, language/speech/reading, arithmetic). In adolescence, a smaller number of more specialized skills are learned (social skills, better math, another language, brute strength, dexterity). In adulthood, few skills are learned and only slowly (how to spot good stocks or analyze companies, how to hit a 90 mph baseball over a fence, how to repair an automobile).
Do that, only with game skills, so that the first 10% of the game is spent getting skill levels to a baseline usable level, the next 30% of the game is spent taking half of those up to good proficiency, and the rest specializes the crap out of maybe a third of those.
2. Maintain real time gameplay until you're in a combat situation, then take it to turn based combat. Have some rules about other players entering or fleeing combat since that play is necessarily slowed down and would allow all sorts of other people to show up from long distances and interfere (which could work), or prevent faction based play altogether (which doesn't seem feasible).
3. What if the game is about fighting back against the people who started the social experiment in the first place? Or about the struggle to rebuild society or something. Other than that, I can't really help you there.
Yeah, it's great for name recognition that the two are named the same, but for getting information out like this, it's really confusing to have then named the same. You have to play stupid word games like saying, "The MySQL Project," and "The MySql Company," or something equally inane.
MySQL just said, 'We don't think that your business is profitable to us,' for whatever reason they might have. Well, I'm willing to bet that MySQL support for Debian in the enterprise setting is plenty profitable for some other people.
The only thing that really happened is that MySQL cleaved off a part of their business and gave it away for free to anyone who wants it. And I'll bet plenty of people do.
Was that in response to Osty? Because none of those are very useful for developing for the XBox or 360, right? I think his point was that, sure there are tons of toolkits and libraries for games and 3d graphics on the PC, but there hasn't been a tool like this that allows developers to target both platforms simultaneously and easily.
Wow, and the buyer's ebay handle is a 10 digit number. You think that's a phone number? I normally wouldn't think so necessarily, but this person did pay $900 for three of the original Sony Playstation. Now that's dumb.
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Regarding the CPU in the phone, in the keynote, Jobs said that it's an Intel chip, I think.
Hopefully their $150 phone and $300 ipod will wear out or break at about the time that their current cell phone contract is expiring. Depending on some circumstances (current provider, urban/rural location, and nothing else that I can think of off the top of my head), the confluence of events necessary to justify that kind of purchase might be a bit hard to come by.
Yeah, I'm sure they forgot to give you the option to turn the phone off.
And actually, the internet is a series of tubes, in the sense that a tube is a conduit through which things travel. It's just that the tubes are really huge right now. So you could make a case that the internet is a series of huge tubes that you use by putting your data in big trucks and sending them down the gigantic tubes.
Think, Die Hard: With a Vengeange.
Yeah, I absolutely believe that your scenario is much more likely than the one that I posed. I just worry that enforcing net neutrality from the get go will necessarily preclude IPTV efforts from being started in the first place, simply because an ISP won't be able to guarantee enough bandwidth for that signal when it's mixed in with the other traffic in your connection. I'm not trying to rehash the tubes vs. trucks argument for the general internet, but when you look at nodes on the edge of the network, e.g., me in my house with my cable modem, you really are looking at one connection with limited bandwidth and applications and protocols that are greedy and don't necessarily play fair with each other with regard to the capacity of the connection. So it's going to take some kind of effort to make sure that constant bandwidth applications are ensured a certain amount of bandwidth. A reasonable person could make the argument that if an ISP is giving a benefit to some packets originating at their premesis, then there's an inequity that makes their data arrive more slowly, and makes their service appear slower to the user. And they'd be right.
So you're saying that if an ISP gave priority to their own VOIP or IPTV packets, which necessarily means that all the other packets are at a detriment, then the senders of the other packets wouldn't have a legitimate gripe with the ISP?
:))
Fine, your idea of quality of service is different than mine. Let's not debate semantics. (At least, not until I say so...
Yeah, it's strange that the government these days has basically told the world that divestiture was just a joke and that we were only kidding. I wonder what the endgame of all the old RBOCs is going to look like. We're down to the new AT&T, Verizon, and Qwest from the original 8 (7 RBOCs and one long distance provider).
How does the idea of net neutrality affect possible quality of service efforts needed to make IPTV and VOIP solid and usable? I mean, what if an ISP actually wanted to make it easy for you to use VOIP providers for phone service. Bell South already has test IPTV service for really really special people in Atlanta, so obviously, they're looking into how to roll that out en masse. It'll be important to be able to ensure that enough bandwidth is available on the pipe for an uninterrupted IPTV signal to be feasible.
So, as long as net neutrality doesn't preclude those QoS efforts, it can work. But besides that, why is it the government's place to dictate that kind of stuff? I mean, ideally, competition in the marketplace would be the determining factor of whether a non-neutral policy of charging for priority is a workable model for data access, right? I guess there isn't a whole lot of competition among high speed internet access providers, but I'd think that between cable modems, ILEC DSL, Earthlink DSL, and satellite connections, we'd be able to see this thing shake out in the marketplace.
Well, following what he said and assuming that what you prognosticate is true. I mean, if you're wrong about that, then what he said is 100% correct, right?
Yeah, by "friendly", I think the GP means "not friendly". Because a lot of recent cameras can't use cards with FAT32 filesystems.
The MD5 of their material probably wouldn't help that much, as most of the copyrighted videos are analog TV recordings and videos of kids lipsynching. I mean, there are tons of StepMania videos that are reasonably close to authentic reproductions, except that they're recorded on an awful digital camcorder and have obnoxious keyboard clacking sounds all through it (http://youtube.com/watch?v=KTAYjpunO5E&mode=relat ed&search=). How's an MD5 gonna help identify the stuff then?
It is likely that the customs agency of the country that the automobile is being imported to would not allow that automobile into the country, i.e., it couldn't get through customs, unless the customs agency was satisfied that the automobile met the relevant safety and quality standards that are required of automobiles entering that country. In other words, the person doing the importing would have all of the responsibility of meeting whatever demands customs puts on the importation, including fees based on the declared value of the automobile, prior to being allowed to import the automobile into the country.
I mean, if I make a glass of pink lemonade and give it to you, who am I to tell you not to take it to Zaire. You do with it whatever you want.
Never thought I'd say this, but, thank God for the relative sanity of Slashdot's userbase.
Rape isn't about the act, it's about the power to make someone do something that they really don't want to do. Even though there exist heterosexual men and women in the world, they don't all want to fuck each other all the time, and thus, the idea of rape is defined.
I have a Snapstream Firefly RF remote, and it's the bees knees. By which I mean, it's totally awesome. I find myself getting pissed off when I have to use other remotes and actually aim them. It works fine with LIRC and seems to have most of the buttons nicely labeled for MythTV operation.
Another benefit of RF remotes in general is that you don't have to worry about finding an HTPC case with a built in IR receiver, or where to put the external receiver so that it won't look tacky. Just stick the RF receiver on the back of the thing and be done. The range is excellent (at least 40 feet and through walls).
Well, if the guy can't win in court, then maybe he can sue in internet court. Though, if he wins, he'll only get paid in internet money.
No way is that illegal. Only in certain cases, like advertising, and being/faking a doctor or a cop is it particularly illegal. And if you use a confidence scam to take property or money from someone, that's also illegal. But some dude with a web site fooling people into thinking that some fake email corresponding is real, for the purpose of having fun in the internets? No problem at all, even if he's just in it for the google ad revenue.
I totally agree with you. If there are a couple of clear winners in the enterprise Linux market, then the opportunity cost of maintaining support for a bunch of loser distros (in that market, shut up Debian fanboys) is probably not high enough to justify going after.
It seems like support for MySQL on a particular distro is vastly different than simple support for the db itself. In that case, you can't just tell a customer, "Hey, you figure out why the db log is eating all your disk space and crashing your server." Now, you have to know about default log rotating and clearing policies on that distro and version, and how to modify the policies to fit a client's needs. Which is way more work than just supporting the db itself.
I like the idea of MySQL AB only supporting distro specific stuff on the most popular ones, or maybe none at all, and a strong, maybe localized 3rd party army that resells the support contract and provide a value add for support on a particular disto.
As far as I can tell, sole proprietorships and partnerships are still valid corporate structures in all 50 states, so for one DBA who has enough time to support enough clients, absolutely, organize a company around it.
But even before you challenged my nonexistant assertion that there already are companies offering 3rd party support contracts, I went looking to see if there were actually any. And there don't seem to be many. Why is that?
1. The business plan just isn't workable for a small company that isn't profitable in other areas.
Could be. I don't know nearly enough about the market to speak authoritatively on the subject.
2. MySQL AB was eating all the customers that 3rd party support companies would have been able to serve to survive.
Well, this is no longer an issue, because the biggest MySQL support company, MySQL AB is no longer supporting them. So this certainly opens up the possibility that the business of being a 3rd party MySQL support company is viable.
P.S. I bet it felt good to type "Doh, you lost that bet." Come on, you can tell us, it felt good, didn't it?
1. Make character levelling model human development.
In childhood, all sorts of really basic skills are learned at ridiculous speeds (walking/motor control, language/speech/reading, arithmetic). In adolescence, a smaller number of more specialized skills are learned (social skills, better math, another language, brute strength, dexterity). In adulthood, few skills are learned and only slowly (how to spot good stocks or analyze companies, how to hit a 90 mph baseball over a fence, how to repair an automobile).
Do that, only with game skills, so that the first 10% of the game is spent getting skill levels to a baseline usable level, the next 30% of the game is spent taking half of those up to good proficiency, and the rest specializes the crap out of maybe a third of those.
2. Maintain real time gameplay until you're in a combat situation, then take it to turn based combat. Have some rules about other players entering or fleeing combat since that play is necessarily slowed down and would allow all sorts of other people to show up from long distances and interfere (which could work), or prevent faction based play altogether (which doesn't seem feasible).
3. What if the game is about fighting back against the people who started the social experiment in the first place? Or about the struggle to rebuild society or something. Other than that, I can't really help you there.
Yeah, it's great for name recognition that the two are named the same, but for getting information out like this, it's really confusing to have then named the same. You have to play stupid word games like saying, "The MySQL Project," and "The MySql Company," or something equally inane.
MySQL just said, 'We don't think that your business is profitable to us,' for whatever reason they might have. Well, I'm willing to bet that MySQL support for Debian in the enterprise setting is plenty profitable for some other people.
The only thing that really happened is that MySQL cleaved off a part of their business and gave it away for free to anyone who wants it. And I'll bet plenty of people do.
Was that in response to Osty? Because none of those are very useful for developing for the XBox or 360, right? I think his point was that, sure there are tons of toolkits and libraries for games and 3d graphics on the PC, but there hasn't been a tool like this that allows developers to target both platforms simultaneously and easily.
Wow, and the buyer's ebay handle is a 10 digit number. You think that's a phone number? I normally wouldn't think so necessarily, but this person did pay $900 for three of the original Sony Playstation. Now that's dumb.
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Yeah, that one's necessary.