The thing is that it really is just the cablecos not wanting to compete.
Streaming video means no need for cable (already Hulu.com gets most of the cable I watched).
Netflix/Amazon online rentals mean less PPV.
With the failure (I assume it has failed by now) of Vonage, Verizon's core business does not compete with the internet.
Verizon is happy to have you watch your cable on their service (build out of FiOS may lessen that), but Time Warner wants you to need them for TV. The internet is leaving the phase where it is an add-on in profits, and could start eliminating their core business.
Bandwidth limitations are just an excuse (though in a urban area, there are a couple hours a day where 800-1600kbps appears to be the peak, I generally get 5600+kbps from newsgroups.
I tend to agree that a lot of child labor is done ny children in families that have painfully made the decision to send their children to work so that in the end the children themselves can have a better life.
This has happened in every industrialized nation to some extent, and eventually there is enough prosperity due to people getting those better lives, that the workers themselves stand-up to the conditions, form unions and protests, eventually becoming middle class.
The problem is that in a system where complaining about conditions can get you arrested because the manufacturers have greased the proper palms makes it a much more difficult situation to get out of.
Without even a semblance of a free press, the factory owners are able to exploit (in the sense that the mutual benefits are very asymmetrical) the workers far longer than would be expected in a free system.
Allegedly the Audi diesel that won Le Mans a year or 2 ago was quiet enough that "you could drive it through a suburban neighborhood and no one would call the police".
SPAM already costs $.00032/message. I bet it is profitable enough that quadrupling (.00032 to.00132) the cost won't make too much of a difference.
And will a system to manage such micro-payments be feasible under $.001/transaction? Even if purchases are done $10 at a time, the tracking would probably be difficult.
From what I can tell (based on comments), the code (chromium) is BSD and available from google code. The browser Chrome is licensed differently with a EULA.
Yes, but I usually have far more than 4 tabs open.
Adding a tab with penny-arcade.com (a rather basic layout) added 20MB to RSIZE. Adding a google search, google docs start page, and a simple google spreadsheet I am to 178M.
This is more in-line with what I would think of as a multi-tab session, and I admit to being pleasantly surprised.
It is also the second largest importer (behind the US.
And with a savings rate of nearly 10% (8% I believe, compared to the US -.25%) it also has a very strong long-term economic outlook (Savings + Technology fuel future economic growth).
As a casual observer, it appears VIA is doing this way faster than ATI. This could imply they were actually planning it first, or always had the plan ready as a kind of emergency plan.
So your comparing this to the civil and world wars in danger?
I assume that's what "compared to the dangerous faced with new asymmetrical weapons and tactics." means.
It is hysteria like that which allows the erosion to happen. We had one tragic accident caused by a lazy executive branch, ad then done far more damage to ourselves (financially, and life till wise) in a massive over-reaction.
That is not including the moral cost of killing tens-hundreds of thousands of people in a country not even involved (Iraq).
It is a humorous little diddy, that mentions God. Please stop the radical atheism (Not necessarily you, but there is a strand of intolerant atheists that force me to say I'm agnostic).
The minute men are sad and pathetic (there was a "This American Life" where they followed them). We don't worry about the people who think this country is great because of protectionism.
When I hear otherwise reasoned people complain about illegals I always act confused and say that I am thankful they come, and that I don't want to have to pay so much more for my food and light construction work.
Sometimes I try to explain a brain drain/work drain, but generally greed tends to be the tactic most likely to make people think. They also generally think all the jobs that illegals actually do (with the exception of non-day-labor construction) are below them, or there family. Which I can only assume means they are elitists who think they are better than the typical American.
Illegal immagrents doing migrant labor (such as picking fruit, and construction) get paid far over minimum wage.
Picking tomatos in PA earns about $18/hour (paid by the basket though). The farmers would love to higher Americans/legals for the work, but they can't. The problem is that it is only 2 months of work, it is not a career and barely qualifies as a job. Even at $50 and hour it would not be a particularly good job, only offering 16,000 a year, and leaving you to fend in an area with an otherwise weak job market for 10 months to supplement it.
We should be thrilled that there is a country that is so messed up that people are willing to come here and travel from place to place, season to season and do hard work, even for decent pay.
The restaurant jobs are usually to fill the cracks, or somebody who came here pursuing the dream, and wants to make permanent roots, not being stuck traveling from place to place.
Slashdot Mirror
Apparently not.
The thing is that it really is just the cablecos not wanting to compete.
Streaming video means no need for cable (already Hulu.com gets most of the cable I watched).
Netflix/Amazon online rentals mean less PPV.
With the failure (I assume it has failed by now) of Vonage, Verizon's core business does not compete with the internet.
Verizon is happy to have you watch your cable on their service (build out of FiOS may lessen that), but Time Warner wants you to need them for TV. The internet is leaving the phase where it is an add-on in profits, and could start eliminating their core business.
Bandwidth limitations are just an excuse (though in a urban area, there are a couple hours a day where 800-1600kbps appears to be the peak, I generally get 5600+kbps from newsgroups.
I tend to agree that a lot of child labor is done ny children in families that have painfully made the decision to send their children to work so that in the end the children themselves can have a better life.
This has happened in every industrialized nation to some extent, and eventually there is enough prosperity due to people getting those better lives, that the workers themselves stand-up to the conditions, form unions and protests, eventually becoming middle class.
The problem is that in a system where complaining about conditions can get you arrested because the manufacturers have greased the proper palms makes it a much more difficult situation to get out of.
Without even a semblance of a free press, the factory owners are able to exploit (in the sense that the mutual benefits are very asymmetrical) the workers far longer than would be expected in a free system.
Allegedly the Audi diesel that won Le Mans a year or 2 ago was quiet enough that "you could drive it through a suburban neighborhood and no one would call the police".
I imagine it was quite powerful too.
Forgot my citation
http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb32.html
SPAM already costs $.00032/message. I bet it is profitable enough that quadrupling (.00032 to .00132) the cost won't make too much of a difference.
And will a system to manage such micro-payments be feasible under $.001/transaction? Even if purchases are done $10 at a time, the tracking would probably be difficult.
I am shocked that 1% even make it to an inbox personally.
Do you have a citation that 1% result in a sale?
Only as likely that the Earth is 4.54 billion years old though.
It's not a human disease.
Whatever its primary host is, it can't be as bad as it is to humans.
no, An Idiot.
Aren't they sharing the data it produces though?
Assuming the sensors are good I would assume that the data produced at CERN should be where the greatest physicists turn.
Of course IAAI, so I don't really know.
I guess where the discovery is made can be debatable to.
It won't be long, someone will use the code-base and make a less snooping type browser from it, adding it's new name. Perhaps, all shiny or some such.
From what I can tell (based on comments), the code (chromium) is BSD and available from google code. The browser Chrome is licensed differently with a EULA.
Yes, but I usually have far more than 4 tabs open.
Adding a tab with penny-arcade.com (a rather basic layout) added 20MB to RSIZE. Adding a google search, google docs start page, and a simple google spreadsheet I am to 178M.
This is more in-line with what I would think of as a multi-tab session, and I admit to being pleasantly surprised.
Also, 380 MB for a multi-tab session would be about what I expect.
Firefox will happily use that much RAM.
Currently 4 tabs RSIZE 129M VSIZE 412M on OSX
It is also the second largest importer (behind the US.
And with a savings rate of nearly 10% (8% I believe, compared to the US -.25%) it also has a very strong long-term economic outlook (Savings + Technology fuel future economic growth).
Sounds like what a lot of page layout programs do.
I'm pretty sure some PDF viewers do it too.
As a casual observer, it appears VIA is doing this way faster than ATI. This could imply they were actually planning it first, or always had the plan ready as a kind of emergency plan.
So your comparing this to the civil and world wars in danger?
I assume that's what "compared to the dangerous faced with new asymmetrical weapons and tactics." means.
It is hysteria like that which allows the erosion to happen. We had one tragic accident caused by a lazy executive branch, ad then done far more damage to ourselves (financially, and life till wise) in a massive over-reaction.
That is not including the moral cost of killing tens-hundreds of thousands of people in a country not even involved (Iraq).
I would hardly say that sig promotes religion.
It is a humorous little diddy, that mentions God. Please stop the radical atheism (Not necessarily you, but there is a strand of intolerant atheists that force me to say I'm agnostic).
Of course they end up with a desktop, and that fraction may be improper.
I'm pretty sure you don't get an explicit waiver of liability with public domain.
1) When did SP3 for CP come out?
2) I bet that was like a fee for a recovery disk.
We don't
The minute men are sad and pathetic (there was a "This American Life" where they followed them). We don't worry about the people who think this country is great because of protectionism.
When I hear otherwise reasoned people complain about illegals I always act confused and say that I am thankful they come, and that I don't want to have to pay so much more for my food and light construction work.
Sometimes I try to explain a brain drain/work drain, but generally greed tends to be the tactic most likely to make people think. They also generally think all the jobs that illegals actually do (with the exception of non-day-labor construction) are below them, or there family. Which I can only assume means they are elitists who think they are better than the typical American.
Illegal immagrents doing migrant labor (such as picking fruit, and construction) get paid far over minimum wage.
Picking tomatos in PA earns about $18/hour (paid by the basket though). The farmers would love to higher Americans/legals for the work, but they can't. The problem is that it is only 2 months of work, it is not a career and barely qualifies as a job. Even at $50 and hour it would not be a particularly good job, only offering 16,000 a year, and leaving you to fend in an area with an otherwise weak job market for 10 months to supplement it.
We should be thrilled that there is a country that is so messed up that people are willing to come here and travel from place to place, season to season and do hard work, even for decent pay.
The restaurant jobs are usually to fill the cracks, or somebody who came here pursuing the dream, and wants to make permanent roots, not being stuck traveling from place to place.