Remember any of the retarded movies made last year? Or in the past 5 years for that matter?
I don't. Until I go to the movie store and can't find anything worth watching in the New Releases (because 5 year old movies are still considered new releases half the time).
Seems to me, big industries are much more error-prone than the little guys. They can afford to be.
Sure you can set up your own root servers. Peachy for you and me. But what happens when 100 other people set up their own as well. Then we've got 102 completely different slashdot.org pages. Now how do you get to the right one without switching your dns settings around like a mad man?
Please excuse me for being retarded. I was born that way.
I had only touched Photoshop once or twice before I fell into a job where it required me to learn the ins and outs of it. I went from not knowing how to resize a picture or canvas to being able to blend multiple layers of pictures into gigantic collages - vignetted and all - in the space of about 2 weeks. And from there I just kept moving.
Some may say, "well hey, it was your job, that's all you did", and they'd be right, except that I only worked 5 days a week for 2 - 3 hours a day.
So really the learning curve for Photoshop was extremely merciful. If you don't have the time to spend learning to use an awesome piece of software, do what they used to do back in the day when only nerds had computers - pay someone else to do it.
On the other hand, if everyone set up their own root servers DNS would break. There HAS to be top-level root servers in order for DNS to work properly. If everyone didn't use the same root servers, dns would be ambiguous and thus worthless.
No because the cable companies will also be ramping up their speeds to keep competitive. The docsis standards will eventually allow cable internet speeds to reach up into the 100 mpbs range.
As of the current docsis standards, they can allow 30 mpbs on their network without much pain. Once cable goes completely digital they'll be able to ramp up their internet speeds accordingly.
Thus the wars will continue until someone comes up with a true innovation that blows them both away.
Not to be pessimistic but I can't fathom how any large multi-national corporation can survive and be saintly. I think the two are mutually exclusive.
Once you beat the crap out of every opponent and get governments to bend over for you, what would be the point in risking the almighty dollar over a few measly complaints from peons? So you head down that dark lonely path.
You speak in blasphemous terms. Life without internet indeed! I tried it once... lasted 2 months. I traded my sanity in for a so-called "social" life. It wasn't worth it. Nobody, but NOBODY better mess with my interbits.
I disagree. I think a casual gamer is only a few steps from a hardcore gamer. Someone that likes to play games but doesn't dedicate time for it on a regular basis.
Reminds me about the once CEO of Axciom. I read a book about the company which created the tools the police forces all over america, including the fbi and ss use to basically look up any info on anyone and their neighbors and dogs. The guy that created the program was reputedly involved in the Iran-Contra scandal among other things. This struck some of the heads of gov't as a bad thing, but not bad enough to not use his brilliant tools.
I'm not quite sure what YOUR point is Mr. AC. Someone can be a casual gamer and still LIKE the new ultra-gore-supercomputer-requiring-behemoth games that come out. Plus, seems like just another step towards having more kickass games for linux which EVERYONE wants. EVERYONE.
Believe it or not they're working on it. SBC is currently in the process of rolling out fiber to the home in Houston. They plan to have everyone in the city connected up to the new equipment within a couple years. I asked the technician that was out at my house how much they planned on charging for their new "limitless" connection and he said it was going to run the same as what we were currently paying.
I found it hard to believe at first, but now I see they really have no choice. DSL can only go so far, and Time Warner was running them out of the internet biz by ramping up speeds. So in the end everyone will end up with uber-fast fiber connections and pay about the same $40-$60.
Then again, that was Houston. There are quite a few cities nationwide that aren't nearly as cut-throat. Some that have only 1 "high-speed" option, that isn't really even high-speed.
But I'd say, once the word gets out about those new blazing fast connections, EVERYONE is going to want one, and the demand overcome the cost of all the telcos upgrading their lines and equipment.
Sorry ma'am. I wasn't aware that you were a nerd too. Maybe we should date sometime? Is that considered sexual harassment? I'll consider your tracking of my slashdot comments to be stalking and we'll call it even. If not, you pick me up at my cubicle after work and I'll show you what it looks like behind the cafeteria after hours.
My stepdad recently cut off our dsl thru SBC due to a bloody family battle that left him out of the house. I've worked for Houston's Time Warner Cable call center so I know just how unreliable their cable system is. Any given day I'd receive at least 5 calls from customers complaining that their service had been down more than it was up and have had numerous technicians out to "fix" it. So we called SBC back up to get our dsl back, being as how I'd NEVER had an issue with my dsl going down.
The digital phone with TWC is a nightmare and a half. It's taking a technology that ALREADY worked fine and adding all sorts of complications to it. The sad thing is, the only part of it that IS digital is the part that runs from the cable modem to the CO. The rest travels over the same phone network as a regular phoneline.
As for DSL competing with cable's new DOCSIS standards that will eventually allow for 100 mbps connections, I asked an SBC technician what they were planning to do. He told me we don't have to worry about that. They just got the okay from all the beauracrats to roll out fiber to the home. It will hopefully be completed everywhere in Houston within the next couple years. They've already got a couple areas rolled out and are testing.
All this time I wondered what that massive attack campaign that Time Warner had pursued was REALLY all about. Now I know. They were trying to stop SBC from being able to run fiber to the home, and in a sense knocking them out of the internet competition. Bastards.
Interesting point. I wonder if someday we'll have microwave lighters that run on a little button sized battery. Oooh that would just burn the butane industry (obvious punnage).
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Remember any of the retarded movies made last year? Or in the past 5 years for that matter?
I don't. Until I go to the movie store and can't find anything worth watching in the New Releases (because 5 year old movies are still considered new releases half the time).
Seems to me, big industries are much more error-prone than the little guys. They can afford to be.
Sure you can set up your own root servers. Peachy for you and me. But what happens when 100 other people set up their own as well. Then we've got 102 completely different slashdot.org pages. Now how do you get to the right one without switching your dns settings around like a mad man?
Please excuse me for being retarded. I was born that way.
I had only touched Photoshop once or twice before I fell into a job where it required me to learn the ins and outs of it. I went from not knowing how to resize a picture or canvas to being able to blend multiple layers of pictures into gigantic collages - vignetted and all - in the space of about 2 weeks. And from there I just kept moving.
Some may say, "well hey, it was your job, that's all you did", and they'd be right, except that I only worked 5 days a week for 2 - 3 hours a day.
So really the learning curve for Photoshop was extremely merciful. If you don't have the time to spend learning to use an awesome piece of software, do what they used to do back in the day when only nerds had computers - pay someone else to do it.
On the other hand, if everyone set up their own root servers DNS would break. There HAS to be top-level root servers in order for DNS to work properly. If everyone didn't use the same root servers, dns would be ambiguous and thus worthless.
No because the cable companies will also be ramping up their speeds to keep competitive. The docsis standards will eventually allow cable internet speeds to reach up into the 100 mpbs range.
As of the current docsis standards, they can allow 30 mpbs on their network without much pain. Once cable goes completely digital they'll be able to ramp up their internet speeds accordingly.
Thus the wars will continue until someone comes up with a true innovation that blows them both away.
Not to be pessimistic but I can't fathom how any large multi-national corporation can survive and be saintly. I think the two are mutually exclusive.
Once you beat the crap out of every opponent and get governments to bend over for you, what would be the point in risking the almighty dollar over a few measly complaints from peons? So you head down that dark lonely path.
I'll root for google up until the day they become too big for their (b)riches, at which point I'll root for the next underdog.
VIVA AMERICA!
You speak in blasphemous terms. Life without internet indeed! I tried it once... lasted 2 months. I traded my sanity in for a so-called "social" life. It wasn't worth it. Nobody, but NOBODY better mess with my interbits.
Erm.. I dunno. I think I was just too wired up yesterday. It was a long day of work after a long night of partying.
I lub you.
GOD I HATE YOU WHY WONT YOU GO AWAY?!
... I've had too much coffee today.
*cries in hands*
Quit humiliating me!!!
I disagree. I think a casual gamer is only a few steps from a hardcore gamer. Someone that likes to play games but doesn't dedicate time for it on a regular basis.
*shrug*
Reminds me about the once CEO of Axciom. I read a book about the company which created the tools the police forces all over america, including the fbi and ss use to basically look up any info on anyone and their neighbors and dogs. The guy that created the program was reputedly involved in the Iran-Contra scandal among other things. This struck some of the heads of gov't as a bad thing, but not bad enough to not use his brilliant tools.
I'm not quite sure what YOUR point is Mr. AC. Someone can be a casual gamer and still LIKE the new ultra-gore-supercomputer-requiring-behemoth games that come out. Plus, seems like just another step towards having more kickass games for linux which EVERYONE wants. EVERYONE.
Believe it or not they're working on it. SBC is currently in the process of rolling out fiber to the home in Houston. They plan to have everyone in the city connected up to the new equipment within a couple years. I asked the technician that was out at my house how much they planned on charging for their new "limitless" connection and he said it was going to run the same as what we were currently paying.
I found it hard to believe at first, but now I see they really have no choice. DSL can only go so far, and Time Warner was running them out of the internet biz by ramping up speeds. So in the end everyone will end up with uber-fast fiber connections and pay about the same $40-$60.
Then again, that was Houston. There are quite a few cities nationwide that aren't nearly as cut-throat. Some that have only 1 "high-speed" option, that isn't really even high-speed.
But I'd say, once the word gets out about those new blazing fast connections, EVERYONE is going to want one, and the demand overcome the cost of all the telcos upgrading their lines and equipment.
All this IMHO
I was hoping so, but it wasn't clear :) You're right, definate miscommunication goin on there :P
Sorry bout that
It was merely a joke, don't get your panties in such a twist. Sheesh.
It's called Axciom - they know what serial number was on every printer ever purchased by every neighbor you've ever had.
It's fO-ReaL!
Ok Mr. Smarty pants - where is microsoft.slashdot.org?
If you don't mind using Windows but don't want to use Exchange, there's always Lotus Notes for the scheduling as well.
Sorry ma'am. I wasn't aware that you were a nerd too. Maybe we should date sometime? Is that considered sexual harassment? I'll consider your tracking of my slashdot comments to be stalking and we'll call it even. If not, you pick me up at my cubicle after work and I'll show you what it looks like behind the cafeteria after hours.
Since when did slashdot have anything BUT a front page? What is this the New York Times now?
Just imagine a world where all the address space is shared and free... we could go back to not thinking about Alaska *EVER*.
I've seen it a couple times before, but I'm not sure whether or not it was legal.
O BTW : I finally got an office job that I can sit here and waste company time at! KUDOS TO ME!
My stepdad recently cut off our dsl thru SBC due to a bloody family battle that left him out of the house. I've worked for Houston's Time Warner Cable call center so I know just how unreliable their cable system is. Any given day I'd receive at least 5 calls from customers complaining that their service had been down more than it was up and have had numerous technicians out to "fix" it. So we called SBC back up to get our dsl back, being as how I'd NEVER had an issue with my dsl going down.
The digital phone with TWC is a nightmare and a half. It's taking a technology that ALREADY worked fine and adding all sorts of complications to it. The sad thing is, the only part of it that IS digital is the part that runs from the cable modem to the CO. The rest travels over the same phone network as a regular phoneline.
As for DSL competing with cable's new DOCSIS standards that will eventually allow for 100 mbps connections, I asked an SBC technician what they were planning to do. He told me we don't have to worry about that. They just got the okay from all the beauracrats to roll out fiber to the home. It will hopefully be completed everywhere in Houston within the next couple years. They've already got a couple areas rolled out and are testing.
All this time I wondered what that massive attack campaign that Time Warner had pursued was REALLY all about. Now I know. They were trying to stop SBC from being able to run fiber to the home, and in a sense knocking them out of the internet competition. Bastards.
Interesting point. I wonder if someday we'll have microwave lighters that run on a little button sized battery. Oooh that would just burn the butane industry (obvious punnage).