And his article isn't THAT compelling, but he does bring up a point that telcos and cablecos would like us to forget: their physical plant makes use of public roadways and rights of way to route their wiring to their customers. If they refuse to invest sufficiently in their networks to provide adequate service to all their customers without traffic shaping shenanigans, then government should replace them with someone else who will.
I think telco and cableco ISPs are classic examples of "gatekeeper" organizations who feel entitled to a cushy income by merely existing and having the power to exact that income. In Michael Heller's recent book "The Gridlock Economy" (highly recommended reading for anyone interested in the harm that "gatekeeper" organizations and their sense of entitlement can do to the economy) he relates the history of the so-called "robber baron" castles along the Rhine River in Europe who exacted heavy tolls on all river traffic. There were so many castles and so many tolls to pay that river commerce became largely uneconomical. The economy of the time suffered until the advent of railroads which could bypass the river toll collectors.
Telcos and cablecos are by no means the only gatekeepers who hold back the economy - there are many other good examples. Net neutrality legislation is a good way for us to cut down the power wielded by these modern robber barons and freeing the Internet economy from their tolls.
... so, presumably, this isn't really about improving the speed but is instead a desperate attempt to get an actual full day's use out of the G1 before it has to be recharged. Reach for those stars, boys.:)
...they had no Flash, no animated GIF, or any other obnoxious animations to attract attention to themselves. I wouldn't block ads as a matter of course if I could be sure they all stuck to my "nothing moving" requirement. And it only takes one offender to ruin things. If Palant carries through with his unblock idea, I hope he imposes similar requirements on sites and ads wishing to be unblocked. Otherwise, I hope someone forks Adblock Plus and does away with the unblock free pass.
I don't get it. This is a super-expensive product and the extra screen and digitizer tablet, combined with the high end processors and GPUs available, would aim it squarely at graphics professionals, and successful wealthy ones at that. But isn't that whole industry using Macs anyway? I don't see a graphics art type abandoning his Mac for this. (And yes, I agree with the previous posters that the slideout screen is on the wrong side for most users, who tend to keep tool palettes on the left side.)
One thing about creative types is how appreciative they are of attractive industrial design. I think that's part of the reason these people gravitate to Macs in the first place. But this computer seems to be continuing the old Thinkpad tradition of butt-ugliness. Any creative guy buying it is going to make himself a laughingstock among his colleagues.
AFAIK Slackware itself is still only 32-bit, but there is a project called BluewWhite 64 (http://www.bluewhite64.com) which is an unofficial port to 64 bit. They should have a 12.2 of their own within a few weeks.
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And his article isn't THAT compelling, but he does bring up a point that telcos and cablecos would like us to forget: their physical plant makes use of public roadways and rights of way to route their wiring to their customers. If they refuse to invest sufficiently in their networks to provide adequate service to all their customers without traffic shaping shenanigans, then government should replace them with someone else who will.
I think telco and cableco ISPs are classic examples of "gatekeeper" organizations who feel entitled to a cushy income by merely existing and having the power to exact that income. In Michael Heller's recent book "The Gridlock Economy" (highly recommended reading for anyone interested in the harm that "gatekeeper" organizations and their sense of entitlement can do to the economy) he relates the history of the so-called "robber baron" castles along the Rhine River in Europe who exacted heavy tolls on all river traffic. There were so many castles and so many tolls to pay that river commerce became largely uneconomical. The economy of the time suffered until the advent of railroads which could bypass the river toll collectors.
Telcos and cablecos are by no means the only gatekeepers who hold back the economy - there are many other good examples. Net neutrality legislation is a good way for us to cut down the power wielded by these modern robber barons and freeing the Internet economy from their tolls.
... so, presumably, this isn't really about improving the speed but is instead a desperate attempt to get an actual full day's use out of the G1 before it has to be recharged. Reach for those stars, boys. :)
...they had no Flash, no animated GIF, or any other obnoxious animations to attract attention to themselves. I wouldn't block ads as a matter of course if I could be sure they all stuck to my "nothing moving" requirement. And it only takes one offender to ruin things. If Palant carries through with his unblock idea, I hope he imposes similar requirements on sites and ads wishing to be unblocked. Otherwise, I hope someone forks Adblock Plus and does away with the unblock free pass.
I don't get it. This is a super-expensive product and the extra screen and digitizer tablet, combined with the high end processors and GPUs available, would aim it squarely at graphics professionals, and successful wealthy ones at that. But isn't that whole industry using Macs anyway? I don't see a graphics art type abandoning his Mac for this. (And yes, I agree with the previous posters that the slideout screen is on the wrong side for most users, who tend to keep tool palettes on the left side.)
One thing about creative types is how appreciative they are of attractive industrial design. I think that's part of the reason these people gravitate to Macs in the first place. But this computer seems to be continuing the old Thinkpad tradition of butt-ugliness. Any creative guy buying it is going to make himself a laughingstock among his colleagues.
AFAIK Slackware itself is still only 32-bit, but there is a project called BluewWhite 64 (http://www.bluewhite64.com) which is an unofficial port to 64 bit. They should have a 12.2 of their own within a few weeks.