There is a fundamental disconnect between the two sides of the Network Neutrality issue. The Telcos fighting NN legislation are arguing that it would prevent them from applying QOS to their networks. Those arguing for NN legislation are trying to prevent broadband providers from extorting content providers for continued access to their customers.
Even when the debaters are not morons, it's difficult to have any rational debate when one side is lying through their teeth about what they really want.
If I (hypothetically) were a minor and committed a major act of vandalism or property crime, my parents would be held liable for the damages because, as a minor, they are responsible for my actions. If, as a minor, I manage to get a credit card by forging my parent's permission and run up a large number of purchases & fail to pay them, my parents would be held liable. If I commit fraud, agree to a EULA that asserts that I am of a given age, why are they no longer responsible for my actions?
This is exactly the kind of story that should be covered in an afterschool special. If the family wants money, sell the story, to hell with the courts.
Personally, I think the family should be told to stuff it and she should be made an example of by the media as the stupid little slut she is. These stupid little girls need to be told, harshly, that trying to manipulate scuzzy guys with sex can very well get them hurt (or even killed). Instead, whenever it happens, the girls are never at fault and are always "good girls" who were unfairly victimized and could never do anything wrong - regardless of how trashy & loose they were.
A great example is this highschool girl from my hometown - she was dating a 30ish drug dealer several cities away for some time. As girls her age are prone to do, she grew tired of him and decided to break up with him. As they are also prone to do, they are petty & vindictive towards ex-boyfriends, and threatened to turn him in. As bigtime drugdealers are prone to do, he kidnapped her, beat her & eventually executed her, burying her body in a shallow grave in the mountains. Media response? Obviously she was pure, innocent & unfairly victimized by a complete monster. Not that she could -ever- have any idea that bad things could happen to her for sleeping with a man twice her age in exchange for meth...
Free market arguments don't work so well when you have (virtual) monopolies operating on a publicly subsidized infrastructure and a market that has massive barriers to entry. The system as it exists today is the direct result of government intervention - the companies involved have more power and influence than they would reasonably ever achieve in its absence.
The government has already created this monster, it needs to keep them in line.
It's not the lack of low-level constructs that makes PHP scary, it's things like placing the entire standard library in the default namespace that make it scary.
If they don't plan on phasing the tech in until 2010 then it doesn't really matter if the new consoles support it. Given the 5-year product cycle that consoles run on, when they start using the flag, it'll be just about time to get the next generation of consoles.
Since the ISP's that get their funding this way will be able to charge their end users less, you'll start to see lower cost (to the consumer) ISP's popping up
No - you'll see the big boys making higher profit margins - this is how Big Business works.
New ISPs won't have the user-base it takes to get a significant ammount of money out of content providers to even try cutting into the marke this way.
It goes back to the whole idea of Linux as an everyday operating system. Anyone who is not a geek, i.e. most of the population, is not going to adopt something that isn't easy to operate. I mean, there's no reason to make a Windows-like GUI for Linux unless you want people to actually think of Linux as an alternative to Windows. And while you might impress the average user with a Windows-like look and feel, unless it's just as easy to use out of the box as their Windows PC is now, there will be no great swell of converts.
Exactly. There is nothing wrong with Linux being an OS for technical users to put on workstations and servers. What is the source of this attitude that Linux will be a complete failure unless is can overtake Windows as the OS of choice for drooling idiots?
They probably use something like Akamai's network of distributed content servers. I'm fuzzy on the exact details but they basically set up caches/mirrors at 'edge' points of the network and use DNS voodoo to make sure you connect to the 'closest' server, transparent to the end user.
I just love how our legislators feel that video games need to be treated differently than movies, books, music or any other form of entertainment. Any argument that can be made for taxing games is going to be equally valid to any other entertainment medium.
I'm not sure if the MOTD is a terribly useful place to put such messages these days. Most everyone's going to be using graphical workstations (either Unix or Windows) which won't show the MOTD on log. For mail they'll be using IMAP/POP/Webmail clients and, again, missing the message.
I'd think that, at most schools, bulk email would be the most effective method of communicating with students. The downside to this is that you manage to create a massive ammount of extra data to deal with.
Arbitrarily changing universal constants can be a bad thing.
I remember one time, in my youth, while partaking of illicit mind-altering substances, looking at a window. More specifically, a small piece of stained-glass hanging from the window. Hanging by a suction cup.
A circular suction cup.
This piece of stained glass had been hanging on that very window for years.
Deep in thought, looking at this stained glass, I thought to myself "You know, if I was God, I'd probably round off pi to a million decimal places or so - it wouldn't really effect anything and it would make things much simpler". At which point, this stained glass, hanging from a circular suction cup, which had been there, unmoving, for years, due to a failure in the circular suction cup, fell to the ground and shattered.
I learned my lesson - don't mess with universal constants.
It's more like "Why would I want to sell out my concert at $100/seat if I can still fill the venue at $250/seat?".
Either way, the article misses the point. Most artists see a very small percentage of revenues from record sales and rely on concerts to make their money.
"I want to learn Linux" is a useless statement - there's very little point in learning an OS, the OS is there to run other software. "I want to learn Linux so I can do web development with LAMP" at least gives them some direction and a definate thing to learn. "I want to learn Linux so I can do desktop stuff" tells me that somebody hasn't even really tried to figure things out on their own. "I want to learn Linux" makes you sound like somebody who just wants to add bullet points to their resume.
You can't expect anyone to provide you free, one-on-one tech support if you can't even be bothered to -try- reading the manuals and solving it yourself. If it doesn't sound like you've even tried to solve a problem yourself, expect to be blown off with a RTFM. "How do I install LAMP?" is not going to give you a response - "Why can't I connect to MySQL from PHP? I've tried X, Y and Z to no avail. Here's the errors/code/logs/configs" will.
The difference is that your accounting intern using Access has probably never even heard of "indexes", "data integrity" or "normal form". Any idiot -could- set up some random tables in Oracle with only a small knowledge of SQL but they'd suck just as much as if they put the table in Access - the only benefit would be that your data wouldn't get corrupted when you had more than 2 users trying to work with it simultaniously.
1) Oracle doesn't care about the desktop - have you looked at Oracle Forms? Hello VB circa 1995.
2) Oracle's not trying to replace Windows servers with this, they're looking to provide a transition from Solaris to low-cost x86 hardware. As for configuring other services, you just don't run other services on your Oracle box. By the same token, being suitable for 'small business' isn't really a concern here.
3) You've got this one - Novell's got their fingers in too many pies, but you're still thinking of them using Linux as a replacement for Windows. People don't run serious Oracle servers on Windows.
All the more interestingly, they "conducted mall research field trips with approximately 700 teens" and Additionally...surveyed another 1,235 students across the country through...the national DECA organization". So they were surveying teens that hang out in malls and members of DECA. Let me check...
How many nerds/geeks/gamers hang out at the mall on a regular basis?
How manay nerds/geeks/gamers would be members of an "international association of high school and college students studying marketing, management and entrepreneurship in business, finance, hospitality and marketing sales and service"?
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You must be new here - nobody ever actually reads the articles.
It's about time that people stopped calling RTSes stratergy games and started refering to them as tactical.
Right... because drum machines & samplers aren't instruments and speaking in complex rythmical patterns is not a vocal skill.
There's a lot of lousy, uninspired rap out there but that doesn't mean the whole genre is devoid of artistic talent.
There is a fundamental disconnect between the two sides of the Network Neutrality issue. The Telcos fighting NN legislation are arguing that it would prevent them from applying QOS to their networks. Those arguing for NN legislation are trying to prevent broadband providers from extorting content providers for continued access to their customers.
Even when the debaters are not morons, it's difficult to have any rational debate when one side is lying through their teeth about what they really want.
It's probably better (for them) that they pay for the bandwidth than to get sued for putting shoddy, insecure, bug-laden software.
If I (hypothetically) were a minor and committed a major act of vandalism or property crime, my parents would be held liable for the damages because, as a minor, they are responsible for my actions. If, as a minor, I manage to get a credit card by forging my parent's permission and run up a large number of purchases & fail to pay them, my parents would be held liable. If I commit fraud, agree to a EULA that asserts that I am of a given age, why are they no longer responsible for my actions?
This is exactly the kind of story that should be covered in an afterschool special. If the family wants money, sell the story, to hell with the courts.
Personally, I think the family should be told to stuff it and she should be made an example of by the media as the stupid little slut she is. These stupid little girls need to be told, harshly, that trying to manipulate scuzzy guys with sex can very well get them hurt (or even killed). Instead, whenever it happens, the girls are never at fault and are always "good girls" who were unfairly victimized and could never do anything wrong - regardless of how trashy & loose they were.
A great example is this highschool girl from my hometown - she was dating a 30ish drug dealer several cities away for some time. As girls her age are prone to do, she grew tired of him and decided to break up with him. As they are also prone to do, they are petty & vindictive towards ex-boyfriends, and threatened to turn him in. As bigtime drugdealers are prone to do, he kidnapped her, beat her & eventually executed her, burying her body in a shallow grave in the mountains. Media response? Obviously she was pure, innocent & unfairly victimized by a complete monster. Not that she could -ever- have any idea that bad things could happen to her for sleeping with a man twice her age in exchange for meth...
Free market arguments don't work so well when you have (virtual) monopolies operating on a publicly subsidized infrastructure and a market that has massive barriers to entry. The system as it exists today is the direct result of government intervention - the companies involved have more power and influence than they would reasonably ever achieve in its absence.
The government has already created this monster, it needs to keep them in line.
It's not the lack of low-level constructs that makes PHP scary, it's things like placing the entire standard library in the default namespace that make it scary.
Actually, if the school or an instructor posted much of anything, you could sue the fuck out of them based on FERPA violations.
If they don't plan on phasing the tech in until 2010 then it doesn't really matter if the new consoles support it. Given the 5-year product cycle that consoles run on, when they start using the flag, it'll be just about time to get the next generation of consoles.
I'll see your complete lack of scale & context and raise you a "the Bush administration is acting just like the Nazis".
No - you'll see the big boys making higher profit margins - this is how Big Business works.
New ISPs won't have the user-base it takes to get a significant ammount of money out of content providers to even try cutting into the marke this way.
...and this is any different from what anyone else is selling?
Exactly. There is nothing wrong with Linux being an OS for technical users to put on workstations and servers. What is the source of this attitude that Linux will be a complete failure unless is can overtake Windows as the OS of choice for drooling idiots?
They probably use something like Akamai's network of distributed content servers. I'm fuzzy on the exact details but they basically set up caches/mirrors at 'edge' points of the network and use DNS voodoo to make sure you connect to the 'closest' server, transparent to the end user.
I just love how our legislators feel that video games need to be treated differently than movies, books, music or any other form of entertainment. Any argument that can be made for taxing games is going to be equally valid to any other entertainment medium.
As an admin, you are very much -not- a normal user, and if you need to read the MOTD to know about impending downtime, something has gone wrong.
I'm not sure if the MOTD is a terribly useful place to put such messages these days. Most everyone's going to be using graphical workstations (either Unix or Windows) which won't show the MOTD on log. For mail they'll be using IMAP/POP/Webmail clients and, again, missing the message.
I'd think that, at most schools, bulk email would be the most effective method of communicating with students. The downside to this is that you manage to create a massive ammount of extra data to deal with.
yes
Arbitrarily changing universal constants can be a bad thing.
I remember one time, in my youth, while partaking of illicit mind-altering substances, looking at a window. More specifically, a small piece of stained-glass hanging from the window. Hanging by a suction cup.
A circular suction cup.
This piece of stained glass had been hanging on that very window for years.
Deep in thought, looking at this stained glass, I thought to myself "You know, if I was God, I'd probably round off pi to a million decimal places or so - it wouldn't really effect anything and it would make things much simpler". At which point, this stained glass, hanging from a circular suction cup, which had been there, unmoving, for years, due to a failure in the circular suction cup, fell to the ground and shattered.
I learned my lesson - don't mess with universal constants.
It's more like "Why would I want to sell out my concert at $100/seat if I can still fill the venue at $250/seat?".
Either way, the article misses the point. Most artists see a very small percentage of revenues from record sales and rely on concerts to make their money.
"I want to learn Linux" is a useless statement - there's very little point in learning an OS, the OS is there to run other software. "I want to learn Linux so I can do web development with LAMP" at least gives them some direction and a definate thing to learn. "I want to learn Linux so I can do desktop stuff" tells me that somebody hasn't even really tried to figure things out on their own. "I want to learn Linux" makes you sound like somebody who just wants to add bullet points to their resume.
You can't expect anyone to provide you free, one-on-one tech support if you can't even be bothered to -try- reading the manuals and solving it yourself. If it doesn't sound like you've even tried to solve a problem yourself, expect to be blown off with a RTFM. "How do I install LAMP?" is not going to give you a response - "Why can't I connect to MySQL from PHP? I've tried X, Y and Z to no avail. Here's the errors/code/logs/configs" will.
The difference is that your accounting intern using Access has probably never even heard of "indexes", "data integrity" or "normal form". Any idiot -could- set up some random tables in Oracle with only a small knowledge of SQL but they'd suck just as much as if they put the table in Access - the only benefit would be that your data wouldn't get corrupted when you had more than 2 users trying to work with it simultaniously.
1) Oracle doesn't care about the desktop - have you looked at Oracle Forms? Hello VB circa 1995.
2) Oracle's not trying to replace Windows servers with this, they're looking to provide a transition from Solaris to low-cost x86 hardware. As for configuring other services, you just don't run other services on your Oracle box. By the same token, being suitable for 'small business' isn't really a concern here.
3) You've got this one - Novell's got their fingers in too many pies, but you're still thinking of them using Linux as a replacement for Windows. People don't run serious Oracle servers on Windows.
All the more interestingly, they "conducted mall research field trips with approximately 700 teens" and Additionally...surveyed another 1,235 students across the country through...the national DECA organization". So they were surveying teens that hang out in malls and members of DECA. Let me check...
...yet they're -still- getting numbers this high?
How many nerds/geeks/gamers hang out at the mall on a regular basis?
How manay nerds/geeks/gamers would be members of an "international association of high school and college students studying marketing, management and entrepreneurship in business, finance, hospitality and marketing sales and service"?