Here's a few reasons that hate crimes are worse than "normally" motivated crimes:
The world *deeply* hates Hitler. The world hates murderers.
The world *desparately* doesn't want another Hitler. We simply just don't want another murderer.
His motive: Kill everyone who he hates (which was just about anyone non-blye-eyed-aryan [including me... I've got brown eyes]). The general motive of a "sane" murderer: Kill for greed. The difference? Killing for greed doesn't involve me or you, unless you are in some way related to the murderer (even if just by unfortunate time and place). Killing for hate means *you* are already on a hit list.
I say we send an extra-special message to anyone who plans to put me in constant fear of my life. I'm not in constant fear of someone murdering for greed, but I know if there was an anti-WASP in town I'd be shittin' bricks (pardon the expression).
That's why I can't even use Mandrake (at least v 7.2) on one of my machines. I'm was setting it up on a machine and I had two monitors at hand: 640x480 standard VGA and 1280x1024@75 Hz fixed frequency. Their graphical setup runs at 800x600 (or some other resolution that isn't standard VGA). ARGH! And their text installer just didn't install it properly. Wish I knew why.
So I tried RedHat 7.0. I got it on there, but then I find out the compiler is a joke. And I'm on a 24kbps modem connect, so ain't no way I'm spending my life downloading rpms -- I'm already at my wits end downloading 25 MB kernels!
So back to good old reliable, working, Slackware 7.1 again... ho-hum.:-) Been a slacker for 5 years, and I'll probably continue on it. Where did Patrick Volkerding's 386 end up anyways? Or does it still compile the slackware kernels?
Most (older, and I suppose some newer) Sun monitors were Fixed Frequency with Composite Sync. Look up the capitalised words on google for more info than I've given you. If you have a MultiSync monitor none of this applies to you. Oh, and BTW: For some extreme prices, I've heard there are 13w3 to DB-15 adapters can can do most of the hardware modifications below inside the adapter. Your choice (mine's more risky cause I'm not certain what the logic is supposed to be, just do some research for that).
Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to lop off the 13w3, and solder on a DB-15. Then use an X-NOR gate (which is basically an X-OR gate with the output tied to the input A of another X-OR gate with input B tied high -- BTW: I _think_ it is supposed to be X-NOR) to combine Vertical and Horizontal sync.
Your next step is the most fun part: Figure out the exact resolution and sync frequencies for your monitor (check the 'net). Now set up your X server to only run at that frequency (ha... try doing this with windows monitor configuration... yeah right!) Hook it all together, and if its right, you'll get a stable image. If not, well, the worst you'll get is smoke. Probably not though.
BTW: If you choose to do this and hurt yourself / explode your monitor / void your warranty / end up with a non-functioning monitor I will take no responsibility. You've been warned...
I will say that while I haven't been successful with Sun Workstation monitors [yet], I've got a 21" Trinitron Tektronix Sync-On-Green monitor running like a charm right now. And it cost me all of $100 (a friend of mine did all the modifications for me... long story)!
>We had a single NIS+/NFS server with no redundancy
At the prices of this extra support, plus the extra costs involved in buying the machine, couldn't you have, instead, paid for 4 redundant intel/linux systems + labour?
Just wondering...
With that much redundancy I'd say you'd have more than enough time to fix those problems.
I just tried dropping 8 (separated) cylindrical magnets on the floor, one at a time. Don't ask why I would have 8 similar cylindrical magnets lying around. I don't know either. They happen to rest on the side a donut shaped cylindrical magnet (with a hole about the size of the cylindrical magnets). Sigh, no one has yet ever wondered why I don't store the magnets inside the hole...:-)
They ended up forming a column, even when I dropped new magnets right on the side of the column. Feel free to try this at home, away from your computer monitor. I would have tried mixing them in a box, but they are far too clingy to separate with just a shaking.
I don't have spherical magnets to test, and I haven't read enough of this press release to see if the organisms are cylindrical or spherical, but my unofficial test seems to show there is a chance this could happen naturally. Maybe.
>You do pay the radio stations, you listen to the ads and every now and then you pay for a service.
Not on the University and Non-Profit stations. These stations don't pay for their RIAA-brand music, either.
>If you don't then enough other people do that it is paid for.
Not if it's a Non-Profit/University station. There's simply no ads at all.
>The artist DOES get paid by the radio station via ASCAP and BMI fees.
I think playing the music/giving away the CDs is listed as a "promotional cost" for the label (who the artist pays).
>YOU choose to post on a public forum, thus you have no rights to demand payment.
Read the fine print at the bottom of this page:
"Comments are owned by the Poster."
If you own something non-tangible you own copyright on it. So therefore you can tell people what they can/cannot do with it, including charging for it.
>PEOPLE DESERVE TO BE PAID FOR THEIR WORK.
I agree. Heck, I asked to be paid for my work of answering your questions. This seems quite inline with paying a public speaker to comment on a question of yours publically.
I haven't checked my email yet. I'm sure we can work something out though. Thanks.
>Maybe the kid should be made to memorize the Declaration of Independance
I'm not an American, but I thought the Declaration of Independance was there, partially, to protect the people from Governmental tyranny (and to separate America from the UK)?
Most school kids don't deal with the same government you and I do. They deal with the "school administration" government.
How would you like it if your government put you under house arrest for expelling some nasty diatribe against Bush on the internet?
I guess you'd say to yourself that you need to respect the government more; They are not your equals, they are your superiors and therefore everything they say and do is right and if you don't do it then you are an evil person that belongs in jail. You'd just tuck tail and never complain about your government again. All heil leader Bush for he does no wrong! Right?
Rush Limbaugh probably deserves to be sent to live in another country for his crimes of speech against his government. Right?
>Would you like someone to take something you made without compensating you for it at all?
[sarcasm]
Burn the Radio Stations! Not only do they get their music libraries provided for free (without the *direct* consent of the Artist) but they play the music for MILLIONS and MILLIONS to listen to for nothing, all without the *direct* permission or *direct* compenstaion of the artists!
[/sarcasm]
Here's my question of the day:
Why are you letting me "steal" your words by reading them for free right now? I must be one bad dude, breaking all sorts of moral obligations to pay you money for the priviledge of reding your words.
To rest my soul, please tell me where can I send you some cash?
To compensate me, please send me an email and I will discuss terms (I usually charge $0.05 per word, but for you I will give a special 20% discount).
If you think that's bad, you'll LOVE this story...
I live less than 5 minutes from Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada (the same Waterloo with the University of Waterloo). It is considered a Canadian metropolis (btw, people living in the HEART of that city still can't get DSL, never mind my poor story).
I can't get broadband. But, due to Ontario laws, if the school (which is a 1 minute walk away) wants it, the telco has to provide it (at whatever fee they please, though).
So, about 7 or 8 years ago I noticed telco fiber tags (the little flags that the companies put up when you want to dig) a 1/2 mile away. So, I've always wondered why I can't get broadband, or faster than 24k connects, but that's a separate issue.
So this school asks Bell for broadband. Guess how money grabbing Bell is? They ran, I'm told, no joke, 27 km of fiber from God Knows What Town to that school. Why? If you ask me it's because it costs more and, as the Bell worker's union said not so long ago, "Ma Bell is a Cheap Mother".
I still don't have high speed. Hell, cable TV _has_ to run within a few miles (we are situated in the direct middle of a "tri-city" area) and we don't get that. The _gas_ company took until a couple of years ago to care.
The fact is Bell is so tight, they just don't care about anything. I'll refer you to their "high-speed" expressvu satellite internet. $50 a month for 60 hours. You want more than 60 hours? TFB, that'll cost you $2 an hour more! That's INSANE! I could employ a sneakernet at those rates! They won't even let you pay for multiple accounts! They just don't care.
I'll thank God when some other company gets a clue and sez "We could get you DSL for $100 a month, and we can do it now" because that's what I'm willing to pay, even 3x the normal rates...
Other companies have no warranty clauses on physical products (National Semiconductor comes to mind) and seem to get away with their products being used where "they don't belong" (they have no-liability mil-spec chips, for example), so, just make sure your heart monitor is labelled "for educational purposes only".;-)
A review of those "HI-FI" soundsticks is available.
Some quotes:
"you're going to find that this is not a super-high end sound system."
"and even steam-rolls the
inexplicably popular Cambridge 5.1 speaker setup". What a contender. I bet it even beats Bose!
"the
Harman/Kardon SoundSticks......[have a] clear, even and crisp sound system
that should please almost any average Mac user".
"Will the SoundSticks stack up against high-end stereo equipment by leaders in the
industry such as JBL or BOSE? Absolutely not". I was wrong. It is actually worse than bose (what, no mids either?).
I'm not saying the soundsticks are horrible, but I'm willing to bet they don't beat even those mini-system stereos. 20 watts of subwoofer is just not enough for even reproducting a mild fart.:)
Oh, and for fun, you cannot, ever, have your speakers located more than 5 meters away (without a hub) from your sound producing device (using USB). This will make building concert halls really interesting. A computer every 20 m. The network alone would be awesome!
The best computer sound system I've ever heard was a computer hooked into an amplifier with real "tower" style speakers sitting beside it.
I understand there are pitfalls to per-person pricing, but I think (other than by-the-byte charges) this is the fairest method.
Looking at all the things you mentioned (ICQ/AIM/FTP/HTTP/NNTP/VPN/Napster... I'll throw in watching TV over the net) you could comfortably do that all with a 20" monitor and a just one reasonably decent computer. That would cost you a bit, but if you are using the computer _that_ much, well, I'm assuming you have enough money to buy it. And besides, it would be cheaper than multiple reasonably priced machines.
The deal is that I think the cost/computer model breaks down when computers are of widely varying speeds. I believe you'd be hard pressed to max out your connection with a 386/DX40, so why should you have to pay extra to have that email-only box on the line?
I do understand the server limitations most companies providing high speed access impose, they are there to protect the link from abuse (eg: 3l33t w4r3z d00dz). But a better, more compatible approach would be to simply charge by the Meg for outgoing data over a certain limit... (people don't like the idea of paying by the byte much, though, do they?)
Now, if computers were like pagers, where each pager in each price plan is identical in speed and basic options, in that case a cost per computer plan would work well.
I just wonder how much downloading you could do before you'd either run out of space, or just run out of time to check through everything you got.:-) [Note: I've got a 26.4k (on a good day) net connection, so I have no idea]
Unless you have more than two arms, you can only do so many things on the internet at once, even if you own 1000 computers.
I suggest a per-person/per-household cost. ie: 1 person in the household, $20/month. 2 people, $30/month, etc...;-)
This way you can have as many computers as you really want attached, but still pay the same fee (since you should still be using the same bandwidth per person).
That sort of billing would be more in-line with modern cable TV access. A long time ago you had to pay by the television set for cable access. So people bought splitters. Cable co's figured this out and metered lines for resistance (if they really cared enough). So people bought amplifiers. So the smart Cable co's gave up, and simply set the rate per building or household. If you want more than one TV attached to the cable, that becomes your problem.
This is also inline with telephone charges. In some countries you had to rent each phone. Now that phones are readily availible most phone companies have dropped that rule, while raising their per line prices (somewhat) to compensate.
I wrote them an email to remind them that as a commercial site it is in their best interest to be accessible to anyone. They responded that they were thinking about it.
That was a month ago. I just hope they don't build cars like they think...
If BC is anything like Ontario, the best part about the Canadian education system is that you always have a second chance.
If you are willing to go to an "average" University/College, where the admissions people aren't taking 10x their maximum placements, after you've been out of school for a few years, they'll admit you (usually... you'll often need a high-school diploma and some make up courses too, though).
That means you can get a decent education no matter what your level of previous educaiton. I'm in CP/A right now as a "mature student" and enjoying it. I probably wouldn't have made it anywhere in the US (I checked some sample SAT tests, and I know I wouldn't have made it) and would be on the welfare system bleeding the country dry right now otherwise (ok, maybe not... but you never know).
No, please God no! They did that at the Waterloo County Board of Education (WCBE) which is now the Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) and the internet never sucked worse.
It blocked out so much stuff I was surprised that www.disney.com wasn't blocked.
That plus the blocking was done by domain name, not IP. www.anonymizer.com was blocked, but www.anonymiser.com was being allowed.
I remember sites like www.nintendo.com being blocked. Sounds like there's no use for it, until you realize that kids get a lot more interested in education when it applies to them. Eg: English class. Learning how to write essays. How many kids would do a better job of writing an essay on what they enjoy? Most.
Well, none of the students could do it on comparisons of video game systems. Too bad really, since it would be a great opportunity to learn essay writing.
Remember the Chinese proverb:
Tell me and I may forget.
Show me and I may remember.
Involve me and I will understand.
Students can't understand their learning when it doesn't involve them.
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Not that I doubt you or anything, but I just haven't heard of a Canadian law that lets us Canadians do what you suggest...
Could you provide details and/or a link?
Just Curious... Thanks!
Here's a few reasons that hate crimes are worse than "normally" motivated crimes:
The world *deeply* hates Hitler. The world hates murderers.
The world *desparately* doesn't want another Hitler. We simply just don't want another murderer.
His motive: Kill everyone who he hates (which was just about anyone non-blye-eyed-aryan [including me... I've got brown eyes]). The general motive of a "sane" murderer: Kill for greed. The difference? Killing for greed doesn't involve me or you, unless you are in some way related to the murderer (even if just by unfortunate time and place). Killing for hate means *you* are already on a hit list.
I say we send an extra-special message to anyone who plans to put me in constant fear of my life. I'm not in constant fear of someone murdering for greed, but I know if there was an anti-WASP in town I'd be shittin' bricks (pardon the expression).
>VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo IDE
>VIA Technologies VT 82C686 Apollo Super ACPI
That doesn't sound promising... Here's the VIA page about your chipset.
It is a Via Apollo Pro Plus. So you are warned not to install it. Better luck next beta!
Huh? Check this Linux Counter Estimate first next time.
>their whole setup seemed rather "cutesy" to me.
:-) Been a slacker for 5 years, and I'll probably continue on it. Where did Patrick Volkerding's 386 end up anyways? Or does it still compile the slackware kernels?
That's why I can't even use Mandrake (at least v 7.2) on one of my machines. I'm was setting it up on a machine and I had two monitors at hand: 640x480 standard VGA and 1280x1024@75 Hz fixed frequency. Their graphical setup runs at 800x600 (or some other resolution that isn't standard VGA). ARGH! And their text installer just didn't install it properly. Wish I knew why.
So I tried RedHat 7.0. I got it on there, but then I find out the compiler is a joke. And I'm on a 24kbps modem connect, so ain't no way I'm spending my life downloading rpms -- I'm already at my wits end downloading 25 MB kernels!
So back to good old reliable, working, Slackware 7.1 again... ho-hum.
Doom, the movie. I don't see lawsuits flying, do you? :-)
Pay attention. Kernel 2.4 has NFS v3 support.
Which sun monitor?
Most (older, and I suppose some newer) Sun monitors were Fixed Frequency with Composite Sync. Look up the capitalised words on google for more info than I've given you. If you have a MultiSync monitor none of this applies to you. Oh, and BTW: For some extreme prices, I've heard there are 13w3 to DB-15 adapters can can do most of the hardware modifications below inside the adapter. Your choice (mine's more risky cause I'm not certain what the logic is supposed to be, just do some research for that).
Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to lop off the 13w3, and solder on a DB-15. Then use an X-NOR gate (which is basically an X-OR gate with the output tied to the input A of another X-OR gate with input B tied high -- BTW: I _think_ it is supposed to be X-NOR) to combine Vertical and Horizontal sync.
Your next step is the most fun part: Figure out the exact resolution and sync frequencies for your monitor (check the 'net). Now set up your X server to only run at that frequency (ha... try doing this with windows monitor configuration... yeah right!) Hook it all together, and if its right, you'll get a stable image. If not, well, the worst you'll get is smoke. Probably not though.
BTW: If you choose to do this and hurt yourself / explode your monitor / void your warranty / end up with a non-functioning monitor I will take no responsibility. You've been warned...
For more detailed info read this: SOG Repair Faq.
I will say that while I haven't been successful with Sun Workstation monitors [yet], I've got a 21" Trinitron Tektronix Sync-On-Green monitor running like a charm right now. And it cost me all of $100 (a friend of mine did all the modifications for me... long story)!
>We had a single NIS+/NFS server with no redundancy
At the prices of this extra support, plus the extra costs involved in buying the machine, couldn't you have, instead, paid for 4 redundant intel/linux systems + labour?
Just wondering...
With that much redundancy I'd say you'd have more than enough time to fix those problems.
I just tried dropping 8 (separated) cylindrical magnets on the floor, one at a time. Don't ask why I would have 8 similar cylindrical magnets lying around. I don't know either. They happen to rest on the side a donut shaped cylindrical magnet (with a hole about the size of the cylindrical magnets). Sigh, no one has yet ever wondered why I don't store the magnets inside the hole... :-)
They ended up forming a column, even when I dropped new magnets right on the side of the column. Feel free to try this at home, away from your computer monitor. I would have tried mixing them in a box, but they are far too clingy to separate with just a shaking.
I don't have spherical magnets to test, and I haven't read enough of this press release to see if the organisms are cylindrical or spherical, but my unofficial test seems to show there is a chance this could happen naturally. Maybe.
It appears I have been trolled and I never bothered to read the title (my fault, oh well)...
:-)
"Abstract concepts are too hard for shepd"
Personal attacks are an instant sign that you've lost any argument. I will take this victory with my usual grace. [Bow]. (Exit stage left).
HAND
Yeah, I clicked. I guess you won.
But I still don't get it. What do you mean? Does the fact I still don't understand mean your ad was ineffective? 8^/
Dazed and Confused outside of Columbia...
>You do pay the radio stations, you listen to the ads and every now and then you pay for a service.
Not on the University and Non-Profit stations. These stations don't pay for their RIAA-brand music, either.
>If you don't then enough other people do that it is paid for.
Not if it's a Non-Profit/University station. There's simply no ads at all.
>The artist DOES get paid by the radio station via ASCAP and BMI fees.
I think playing the music/giving away the CDs is listed as a "promotional cost" for the label (who the artist pays).
>YOU choose to post on a public forum, thus you have no rights to demand payment.
Read the fine print at the bottom of this page:
"Comments are owned by the Poster."
If you own something non-tangible you own copyright on it. So therefore you can tell people what they can/cannot do with it, including charging for it.
>PEOPLE DESERVE TO BE PAID FOR THEIR WORK.
I agree. Heck, I asked to be paid for my work of answering your questions. This seems quite inline with paying a public speaker to comment on a question of yours publically.
I haven't checked my email yet. I'm sure we can work something out though. Thanks.
>Maybe the kid should be made to memorize the Declaration of Independance
I'm not an American, but I thought the Declaration of Independance was there, partially, to protect the people from Governmental tyranny (and to separate America from the UK)?
Most school kids don't deal with the same government you and I do. They deal with the "school administration" government.
How would you like it if your government put you under house arrest for expelling some nasty diatribe against Bush on the internet?
I guess you'd say to yourself that you need to respect the government more; They are not your equals, they are your superiors and therefore everything they say and do is right and if you don't do it then you are an evil person that belongs in jail. You'd just tuck tail and never complain about your government again. All heil leader Bush for he does no wrong! Right?
Rush Limbaugh probably deserves to be sent to live in another country for his crimes of speech against his government. Right?
>Would you like someone to take something you made without compensating you for it at all?
[sarcasm]
Burn the Radio Stations! Not only do they get their music libraries provided for free (without the *direct* consent of the Artist) but they play the music for MILLIONS and MILLIONS to listen to for nothing, all without the *direct* permission or *direct* compenstaion of the artists!
[/sarcasm]
Here's my question of the day:
Why are you letting me "steal" your words by reading them for free right now? I must be one bad dude, breaking all sorts of moral obligations to pay you money for the priviledge of reding your words.
To rest my soul, please tell me where can I send you some cash?
To compensate me, please send me an email and I will discuss terms (I usually charge $0.05 per word, but for you I will give a special 20% discount).
Thanks for the tip... A&B sells online to people in Eastern Canada, right?
>$18 in eastern Canada
You wish! At one place considered by some to have good CD prices, Future Shop, most CDs (except the top 10 / on sale) are about $20.
Are CDs made in the west and couriered out East? :)
If you think that's bad, you'll LOVE this story...
I live less than 5 minutes from Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada (the same Waterloo with the University of Waterloo). It is considered a Canadian metropolis (btw, people living in the HEART of that city still can't get DSL, never mind my poor story).
I can't get broadband. But, due to Ontario laws, if the school (which is a 1 minute walk away) wants it, the telco has to provide it (at whatever fee they please, though).
So, about 7 or 8 years ago I noticed telco fiber tags (the little flags that the companies put up when you want to dig) a 1/2 mile away. So, I've always wondered why I can't get broadband, or faster than 24k connects, but that's a separate issue.
So this school asks Bell for broadband. Guess how money grabbing Bell is? They ran, I'm told, no joke, 27 km of fiber from God Knows What Town to that school. Why? If you ask me it's because it costs more and, as the Bell worker's union said not so long ago, "Ma Bell is a Cheap Mother".
I still don't have high speed. Hell, cable TV _has_ to run within a few miles (we are situated in the direct middle of a "tri-city" area) and we don't get that. The _gas_ company took until a couple of years ago to care.
The fact is Bell is so tight, they just don't care about anything. I'll refer you to their "high-speed" expressvu satellite internet. $50 a month for 60 hours. You want more than 60 hours? TFB, that'll cost you $2 an hour more! That's INSANE! I could employ a sneakernet at those rates! They won't even let you pay for multiple accounts! They just don't care.
I'll thank God when some other company gets a clue and sez "We could get you DSL for $100 a month, and we can do it now" because that's what I'm willing to pay, even 3x the normal rates...
DVD can hold up to 16 GB (today). Check this link.
So we're at 6 (or so) discs. And 20 discs isn't a big deal. We just bought a family tree maker program that came on (gasp!) 20 CDs...
I think most libraries, and people needing quick USENET archive access could live with that.
Other companies have no warranty clauses on physical products (National Semiconductor comes to mind) and seem to get away with their products being used where "they don't belong" (they have no-liability mil-spec chips, for example), so, just make sure your heart monitor is labelled "for educational purposes only". ;-)
But, IANAL, blah blah blah.
A review of those "HI-FI" soundsticks is available.
Some quotes:
"you're going to find that this is not a super-high end sound system."
"and even steam-rolls the inexplicably popular Cambridge 5.1 speaker setup". What a contender. I bet it even beats Bose!
"the Harman/Kardon SoundSticks... ...[have a] clear, even and crisp sound system
that should please almost any average Mac user".
"Will the SoundSticks stack up against high-end stereo equipment by leaders in the industry such as JBL or BOSE? Absolutely not". I was wrong. It is actually worse than bose (what, no mids either?).
I'm not saying the soundsticks are horrible, but I'm willing to bet they don't beat even those mini-system stereos. 20 watts of subwoofer is just not enough for even reproducting a mild fart. :)
Oh, and for fun, you cannot, ever, have your speakers located more than 5 meters away (without a hub) from your sound producing device (using USB). This will make building concert halls really interesting. A computer every 20 m. The network alone would be awesome!
The best computer sound system I've ever heard was a computer hooked into an amplifier with real "tower" style speakers sitting beside it.
I understand there are pitfalls to per-person pricing, but I think (other than by-the-byte charges) this is the fairest method.
:-) [Note: I've got a 26.4k (on a good day) net connection, so I have no idea]
Looking at all the things you mentioned (ICQ/AIM/FTP/HTTP/NNTP/VPN/Napster... I'll throw in watching TV over the net) you could comfortably do that all with a 20" monitor and a just one reasonably decent computer. That would cost you a bit, but if you are using the computer _that_ much, well, I'm assuming you have enough money to buy it. And besides, it would be cheaper than multiple reasonably priced machines.
The deal is that I think the cost/computer model breaks down when computers are of widely varying speeds. I believe you'd be hard pressed to max out your connection with a 386/DX40, so why should you have to pay extra to have that email-only box on the line?
I do understand the server limitations most companies providing high speed access impose, they are there to protect the link from abuse (eg: 3l33t w4r3z d00dz). But a better, more compatible approach would be to simply charge by the Meg for outgoing data over a certain limit... (people don't like the idea of paying by the byte much, though, do they?)
Now, if computers were like pagers, where each pager in each price plan is identical in speed and basic options, in that case a cost per computer plan would work well.
I just wonder how much downloading you could do before you'd either run out of space, or just run out of time to check through everything you got.
Unless you have more than two arms, you can only do so many things on the internet at once, even if you own 1000 computers.
;-)
I suggest a per-person/per-household cost. ie: 1 person in the household, $20/month. 2 people, $30/month, etc...
This way you can have as many computers as you really want attached, but still pay the same fee (since you should still be using the same bandwidth per person).
That sort of billing would be more in-line with modern cable TV access. A long time ago you had to pay by the television set for cable access. So people bought splitters. Cable co's figured this out and metered lines for resistance (if they really cared enough). So people bought amplifiers. So the smart Cable co's gave up, and simply set the rate per building or household. If you want more than one TV attached to the cable, that becomes your problem.
This is also inline with telephone charges. In some countries you had to rent each phone. Now that phones are readily availible most phone companies have dropped that rule, while raising their per line prices (somewhat) to compensate.
Check out Toyota Canada with mozilla + javascript.
No go.
I wrote them an email to remind them that as a commercial site it is in their best interest to be accessible to anyone. They responded that they were thinking about it.
That was a month ago. I just hope they don't build cars like they think...
If BC is anything like Ontario, the best part about the Canadian education system is that you always have a second chance.
If you are willing to go to an "average" University/College, where the admissions people aren't taking 10x their maximum placements, after you've been out of school for a few years, they'll admit you (usually... you'll often need a high-school diploma and some make up courses too, though).
That means you can get a decent education no matter what your level of previous educaiton. I'm in CP/A right now as a "mature student" and enjoying it. I probably wouldn't have made it anywhere in the US (I checked some sample SAT tests, and I know I wouldn't have made it) and would be on the welfare system bleeding the country dry right now otherwise (ok, maybe not... but you never know).
>Some have proposed using squid to block sites
No, please God no! They did that at the Waterloo County Board of Education (WCBE) which is now the Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) and the internet never sucked worse.
It blocked out so much stuff I was surprised that www.disney.com wasn't blocked.
That plus the blocking was done by domain name, not IP. www.anonymizer.com was blocked, but www.anonymiser.com was being allowed.
I remember sites like www.nintendo.com being blocked. Sounds like there's no use for it, until you realize that kids get a lot more interested in education when it applies to them. Eg: English class. Learning how to write essays. How many kids would do a better job of writing an essay on what they enjoy? Most.
Well, none of the students could do it on comparisons of video game systems. Too bad really, since it would be a great opportunity to learn essay writing.
Remember the Chinese proverb:
Tell me and I may forget.
Show me and I may remember.
Involve me and I will understand.
Students can't understand their learning when it doesn't involve them.