Although it sounds like a good deal for hourly workers, in fact it probably discourages employers from paying people more. They'll just get a part timer to come in and do the extra work, or offshore it, or some such.
So? That's good for part time workers and foreign workers.
The fixed costs are the same no matter how much bandwith we use
That's partly true, but not really. It would be true in a circuit-switched network, like ISDN, where you had 64Kb/s reserved for you and you alone, but even then it was only true for the last mile unless you had a leased line. Most Internet users are very bursty. When sending or receiving email they may spike, when they watch a video it may jump up to using 10-50% of their bandwidth for a bit, but most of the time it's idle and most of the rest of the time it's not using 100% of its capacity.
Explain to me how the burstiness of internet traffic has anything to do with the fixed costs of running a network? You have to pay rent and power on your data center whether your traffic is bursty, saturating, or non-existant.
If anything, the burstiness of most internet traffic implies that you should give bonuses to people who use off peak traffic. If I use a steady 100kB/s up and down 24/7 that's easier to manage than someone who uses needs 10mB/s 1% of the time, especially if that time falls during peak usage.
The fixed costs are the same no matter how much bandwith we use, and any bandwidth we don't use is lost forever.
Are you really sure about that? I got the impression that with the cable TV companies, their network's physical last mile is something like a shared ethernet (think back when you use ethernet hubs instead of switches, or even further back when you had 10base2 if you're old enough to have gone through that), in that when you're talking/listening, someone else has to wait their turn.
That's not my point. Whether two people want to use the last mile at once, or nobody wants to use it, it costs the same to power those routers. The way to minimize those costs per packet is to pass as many packets over the link as possible.
Overcontention is a different issue. That should be solved by building infrastructure. Sure, you might have to raise prices to build the infrastructure but at least then you're charging your customers for something that benefits them, instead of just bleeding them dry.
The great thing about ZSH, is that it greatly expands what you can actually do, without crossing the line into "major shell programming". These are one or two liners here, if you were using Bash you might rightly choose Perl for this stuff, but not if you use ZSH.
The problem is it creates the wrong incentives. Data is not like water or gas where you can save it by not using it. The fixed costs are the same no matter how much bandwith we use, and any bandwidth we don't use is lost forever. This means we should encourage people to use more bandwidth, and if we don't have enough, we should build more infrastructure. Usage based billing encourages us to waste network capacity, and discourages ISPs from building out infrastructure. Why spend money to upgrade the network when you can make money by charging the heavy users instead?
While comparable to Wolfenstein 3D technologically, it acted much more like a primitive survival horror, practically inventing the genre (it came out in '93, a year before Alone in the Dark and 3 years before Resident Evil invented the term).
There is not a perception of civil unrest, there is actual civil unrest. So what if swing voters get scared? They weren't going to vote for change anyway. Voting Obama is no better for the 99% than voting Republican is.
And yes, the occupy protesters look like the people who show up at G20, World Bank, etc meetings because they are the same people, and they've been right all along. The people on the streets on NYC, Seattle, Toronto are now, and have always been better people doing better things than the suits in the board rooms. That is the truly dangerous element.
Meaningless marketing spin should cause controversy and anger among the stockholders. If I'm investing my money in a company, I want to know they have real plans, not just platitudes. Buzzwords are a sign that they have no idea what they're doing. Take your money and run.
How do I get remote shell access if the SSH port isn't open? It might be wise to run SSH on a non-standard port, or to use port knocking, but simply blocking SSH entirely is way too far down the security/convenience tradeoff. You might as well unplug the thing entirely.
This is why it's good to have a background in math, even if you're not employed in an STEM field. All sorts of processes can be described in mathematical terms, knowing what those terms mean helps you understand the world better. People often say "calculus? I'll never use that after high school!". But the truth is, I use my calculus education every single day without ever touching an integral or derivative.
Back in the real world I kill laptop drives at least every 2 years, and desktops every 5.
WTF are you doing to your HDDs? I have about 9 hdds in desktop computers in my home. By your logic I should be suffering a failure about twice a year? I have suffered exactly one hard drive failure in 5 years and that was after I had powered it down and let it sit for a year.
A design patent is look and feel, a utility patent is how you do something.
I should have been more explicit. How is that difference relevant to the reasons stated here that software ideas cannot be copyrighted.
"If it were accepted that a functionality of a computer program can be protected as such, that would amount to making it possible to monopolize ideas, to the detriment of technological progress and industrial development,"
Why does that argument not apply equally to design patents?
It is really quite simple when you quit trying to make it difficult.
Company A should not be able to use Company B's sourcecode should they decompile it (or steal it).
Your opinion stinks. Reverse engineering is protected by copyright law a long history of favorable court decisions. If you sell it to me, I should be able to take it apart and see how it works.
However, it has become PC to dehumanize the Germans and the Wehrmacht particularly, and downplay the fact that many Germans and most of the military weren't fighting for Hitler, or an Aryan nation without Jews, they were fighting for what pretty much every soldier fights for: their family, their country, and their comrades.
This is intentional. If people understand that the Germans were just like us, they would understand that we are subject to the same forces that the Germans were. With that awareness, we might look around us and see what is happening. If we learn that they control us by manipulating our allegiances to family, country, and comrades, then we're less likely to be affected by such manipulation in the future.
It's an uncomfortable truth we have to accept if we're going to stop atrocities. Most people, in the right circumstances are fascists. Consider the Milgram experiment, 65% of people will obey an order to kill a man on the flimsiest of pretexts because of their deference to authority. Or the Stanford prison experiment, where people who took roles of authority became cruel simply by taking that role. We have to be aware of these tendencies in ourselves, and reject them. Do not accept or obey any more authority than is absolutely necessary.
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If you can fit fewer users in the same capacity, then this increases the fixed costs. Why is this hard for you to understand?
Are you using some strange definition of fixed costs? Fixed costs by definition do not change.
Although it sounds like a good deal for hourly workers, in fact it probably discourages employers from paying people more. They'll just get a part timer to come in and do the extra work, or offshore it, or some such.
So? That's good for part time workers and foreign workers.
Yet further proof that the SCOTUS is completly and utterly corrupt. Every tax payer and every voter clearly has standing in such a case.
Explain to me how the burstiness of internet traffic has anything to do with the fixed costs of running a network? You have to pay rent and power on your data center whether your traffic is bursty, saturating, or non-existant.
If anything, the burstiness of most internet traffic implies that you should give bonuses to people who use off peak traffic. If I use a steady 100kB/s up and down 24/7 that's easier to manage than someone who uses needs 10mB/s 1% of the time, especially if that time falls during peak usage.
That's not my point. Whether two people want to use the last mile at once, or nobody wants to use it, it costs the same to power those routers. The way to minimize those costs per packet is to pass as many packets over the link as possible.
Overcontention is a different issue. That should be solved by building infrastructure. Sure, you might have to raise prices to build the infrastructure but at least then you're charging your customers for something that benefits them, instead of just bleeding them dry.
The great thing about ZSH, is that it greatly expands what you can actually do, without crossing the line into "major shell programming". These are one or two liners here, if you were using Bash you might rightly choose Perl for this stuff, but not if you use ZSH.
The problem is it creates the wrong incentives. Data is not like water or gas where you can save it by not using it. The fixed costs are the same no matter how much bandwith we use, and any bandwidth we don't use is lost forever. This means we should encourage people to use more bandwidth, and if we don't have enough, we should build more infrastructure. Usage based billing encourages us to waste network capacity, and discourages ISPs from building out infrastructure. Why spend money to upgrade the network when you can make money by charging the heavy users instead?
While comparable to Wolfenstein 3D technologically, it acted much more like a primitive survival horror, practically inventing the genre (it came out in '93, a year before Alone in the Dark and 3 years before Resident Evil invented the term).
Sweet Home (1989, Japan) deserves that honor.
Of course Marathon was a faux-3D engine with sprites for enemies, much like Doom. Unreal was a fully 3d game.
Ask Ubuntu users who prefer Gnome 2 about that.
Vermicomposting can turn table scraps into soil in a couple weeks, not months. Very easy to do at home too.
If it sucks, it will die.
On what do you base this assumption? History is littered with sucky technologies that became standard because someone important was pushing it.
There is not a perception of civil unrest, there is actual civil unrest. So what if swing voters get scared? They weren't going to vote for change anyway. Voting Obama is no better for the 99% than voting Republican is.
And yes, the occupy protesters look like the people who show up at G20, World Bank, etc meetings because they are the same people, and they've been right all along. The people on the streets on NYC, Seattle, Toronto are now, and have always been better people doing better things than the suits in the board rooms. That is the truly dangerous element.
Or they could just RiffTrax it.
Meaningless marketing spin should cause controversy and anger among the stockholders. If I'm investing my money in a company, I want to know they have real plans, not just platitudes. Buzzwords are a sign that they have no idea what they're doing. Take your money and run.
How do I get remote shell access if the SSH port isn't open? It might be wise to run SSH on a non-standard port, or to use port knocking, but simply blocking SSH entirely is way too far down the security/convenience tradeoff. You might as well unplug the thing entirely.
This is why it's good to have a background in math, even if you're not employed in an STEM field. All sorts of processes can be described in mathematical terms, knowing what those terms mean helps you understand the world better. People often say "calculus? I'll never use that after high school!". But the truth is, I use my calculus education every single day without ever touching an integral or derivative.
Correct. I do not and will not own a cell phone until it is Stallman approved. Which will be never.
Back in the real world I kill laptop drives at least every 2 years, and desktops every 5.
WTF are you doing to your HDDs? I have about 9 hdds in desktop computers in my home. By your logic I should be suffering a failure about twice a year? I have suffered exactly one hard drive failure in 5 years and that was after I had powered it down and let it sit for a year.
And, how is that difference relevant?
A design patent is look and feel, a utility patent is how you do something.
I should have been more explicit. How is that difference relevant to the reasons stated here that software ideas cannot be copyrighted.
Why does that argument not apply equally to design patents?
It is really quite simple when you quit trying to make it difficult.
Everything's simple if you ignore nuance.
My opinion.
Company A should not be able to use Company B's sourcecode should they decompile it (or steal it).
Your opinion stinks. Reverse engineering is protected by copyright law a long history of favorable court decisions. If you sell it to me, I should be able to take it apart and see how it works.
Two questions: What's the difference? And, how is that difference relevant?
This has to be reverse psychology.
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However, it has become PC to dehumanize the Germans and the Wehrmacht particularly, and downplay the fact that many Germans and most of the military weren't fighting for Hitler, or an Aryan nation without Jews, they were fighting for what pretty much every soldier fights for: their family, their country, and their comrades.
This is intentional. If people understand that the Germans were just like us, they would understand that we are subject to the same forces that the Germans were. With that awareness, we might look around us and see what is happening. If we learn that they control us by manipulating our allegiances to family, country, and comrades, then we're less likely to be affected by such manipulation in the future.
It's an uncomfortable truth we have to accept if we're going to stop atrocities. Most people, in the right circumstances are fascists. Consider the Milgram experiment, 65% of people will obey an order to kill a man on the flimsiest of pretexts because of their deference to authority. Or the Stanford prison experiment, where people who took roles of authority became cruel simply by taking that role. We have to be aware of these tendencies in ourselves, and reject them. Do not accept or obey any more authority than is absolutely necessary.