If this was happening to the New York Times, we'd be up in arms and this would be under "Your Rights Online" or "Censorship."
Advertisers pull their ads when they don't like the content all the time. Even from the New York Times. Why should Bell be forced to advertise on a site the disapprove of?
All in all, the difference really boils down to the fact that one is a "business class" service, and one is not, businesses can justify more expense for their IP service if it makes them money, and therefore, providers figure that they can make more money off it, so they charge more.
Amazingly, you managed to write that sentence, the first half of which is false, and the second half of which is exactly correct.
"Businesses can justify more expense for their IP service if it makes them money, and therefore, providers figure that they can make more money off it, so they charge more."
That's the whole story.
Some phone companies have figured out that the can actually make more money (sell more circuits) by lowering the price without increasing their costs all that much. Check out Verizon's business Fios. Half the cost of a T1, rapid downtime response, and four times the upstream bandwidth. They've been available in the town I live & work in for just over a year, and they've already installed more than four times the number of them than they had T1s before. Many businesses upgraded from (much cheaper) business DSL, and the cost is now in the range justifiable for a home office. When a tree hits the lines they've got to splice all the wires anyway, so maintenance of the system as a whole is a fixed expense, and the fiber is more reliable than the copper was. The only variable cost is bandwidth.
Except that Vonage then goes out of business because all you can call are other Vonage customers.
First of all, that makes no sense in the context of my comment. So Vonage goes out of business... Sign up with somebody else afterward.
Vonage counts on the existing telephone service being there and working for all non-Vonage customers. This was never about putting the existing tariffed telecoms out of business, it was about reselling their services with a different wrapper.
That's absurd. First of all, if everybody switched to Vonage, it wouldn't matter that you could only contact other Vonage customers. Second, it doesn't rely on the existing switched voice infrastructure at all. It would work *even better* if everybody else went VoIP too. This is not about reselling the existing services. This is about the move from circuit switched to packet switched technology; a move that the phone companies already made behind the scenes, and Vonage and the like are just bringing the cost savings of that move to the end user. They don't have to put the existing carriers out of business to do it either, as they can continue to do business selling data access instead of telephone circuits.
There are always special circumstances... I don't think the Wii is one, as the lines for the pre-orders were just as bad as the lines for the consoles, but some (few) things are worth pre-ordering.
A big-budget "planned hit" game isn't one of them. The big name stores (Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, etc...) always stock enough. The ones you have to worry about are the cult hit imports that they expect to flop...
Ghirardelli is actually from the US. The company was started in San Fransisco, and it still is located in California. At one point it was owned by Quaker Oats. It's just another big-manufacturer chocolate company that happens to have an expensive sounding name. They probably had good chocolate back in the day, but now...
The problem with Hershey's isn't that it's bad, but that it's inconsistent. Some bars are really good, most bars are just below mediocre, and some bars are awful. There are websites where people trade lot-codes of the good bars, but I guess I'm not frugal enough for that... A little more money and you can get a sure thing.
Unfortunately many techies read way too much into the situation and assume that you get sub-par E911 service on your Vonage phone. It's just plain not true. The only additional complication is that you need a UPS for your router so you can call 911 when the power is out.
especially the non-technical ones who don't even understand the 911 and VoIP thing
Given that many "technical" people still don't get the 911 thing (and claim it's way worse than it actually is), maybe it's for the best...
It wouldn't be the end of the world if your phone company went out of business and you had to sign up with a new one. Especially in the age of number portablilty.
I think businesses will be concerned with how it integrates with the things they need/do. Will it be able to open Office files? Will it be able to synchronize with Outlook? Does it make phone calls?
For the original Blackberry, the answer to all of those questions was "No".
Why eat shitty chocolate when you can have good stuff?
I know this may sound like blasphemy to a dark chocolate buff, but Valrhona Grand Cru Jivara Lactée is one of my favorite consumable substances on the planet. It's easily available at a local grocer. So why would I eat chocolate that, in comparison, is sub-standard? Easy: Cost. The Valrhona costs $11/lb on sale. Local producers make acceptable product for less than half the cost. Sure, I'll buy the good stuff and treat myself now and then, but I can't afford to eat the good stuff exclusively. I don't drink $50+ bottles of wine with dinner, or make Filet Mignon every time we have steak either.
You don't have to stoop to shitty chocolate. One step above shitty on the cost scale can get you significantly higher quality. (You have to be careful though... It can just get you marketing and shittier chocolate. I'll take Hershey's over Ghirardelli any day.)
Yes, but as I said, it is easy (for me, at least) to think I have the focus of one window (because it's the only one visible, for example), and yet I reaYes, but as I said, it is easy (for me, at least) to think I have the focus of one window (because it's the only one visible, for example), and yet I really have the focus of some invisible window - in which case, keyboard short cuts screw you up pretty badly.lly have the focus of some invisible window - in which case, keyboard short cuts screw you up pretty badly.
That's a pretty poor criticism of MacOS considering that the same is true in Windows, KDE, and Gnome.
but that's just as annoying, since I now have to click twice to change windows, even when it's darned obvious what I really want to do.
Call me when you figure out how to implement "Focus follows thought". I'll be your first customer.
I guarantee BestBuy, Circuit City, and Comp USA had sold more XP systems from 2001 to 2003 many times over than all the Fortune 100 companies put together.
While I find your claim dubious and unlikely, what would you think the same if you included the top, say, 2,000 businesses? What about all businesses with over 50 employees?
I guarantee that there were more home systems running 98, ME, or 2000 until well after the corporate switch was complete. Vista didn't really catch on anywhere in great numbers until SP2.
The MIDI issue seems to be getting actively worked around with third party software (a new development that I was unaware of until I went to get you a link), but the source is the Vista README file itself.
There are thousands of articles about downscaling for non-HDCP monitors on the web, including a few on Slashdot. Here's the first one from Google:
Which functionality is taken away? IIRC, the only DRM in Vista is there to enable playback of DRM-enabled media. (I.e. HD-DVD/BluRay) It's not as if it infects all your AVI files with some vicious DRM scheme.
Tried to use your MIDI port under Vista? Display High-Def content to a non-HDCP enabled display? Use speech to text software (echo cancellation doesn't work anymore, because you can't capture the digital output stream for feedback)?
To those unfortunate individuals who have already reserved the game awaiting its release, I can sympathize with you.
More like: To all those impatient individuals who have already reserved the game, maybe that will teach you not to do that anymore. The good games are always available on or near release day, and all you're doing by reserving early is relieving yourself of access to that $5-$60 for some unspecified period of time.
Hard drive magnets are super-strong rare-earth magnets... Some of the strongest you'll find commercially available. No sense in wasting them by sending them to the land fill. They're useful for all sorts of things. Just don't pinch your skin between them, because they *can* draw blood.
I actually agree with the court here. It's not unreasonable to do a search. If you're actually innocent the search won't turn anything up.
If your infrastructure was used to commit a crime, it is perfectly reasonable to search said infrastructure. Even if you didn't do it, the search could turn up information (logs, MACs, whatever) that leads to the real culprit.
I also disagree that running an open access point should get the owner "b*tch slapped". There's nothing wrong with running an open access point if you are aware of the potential dangers and accept the risk.
It looks like the argument was that since this guy (who was actually guilty but was trying to have evidence suppressed) had an open access point, the cops had no probable cause to search, since it could have been anybody using his connection.
The article, and the summary falsely conclude that having an open access point gives the authorities probable cause to search your premises and systems. In reality, what this means is that having an open access point doesn't mean the cops can't search, since "it remain[s] likely that the source of the transmissions [is] inside that residence".
You just made me really worried about something...
I have boxes and boxes of hard drives. The accumulate from the resale of surplus machines, upgrades, repairs, etc... I don't know where half of them came from and I don't know what's on probably 75% of them. If the RIAA ever showed up at my house, who knows what they'd find on those drives. I hat to throw working hardware away, but I think it may be time for a mass hard drive disposal...
Actual PS2s (new ones) can't play all PS2 games. They dropped some compatibility to be able to drop the price......which seems 1000x better than what Microsoft had to do. (Kill the original Xbox ASAP so they would stop losing money on it.)
. What would you expect a marketing company to do? Market the hell out of the backwards compatibility, then when you finally get them to buy the product, you slow the porting waaaaaaaay down, to just enough so you can say "we're working hard to get these games playable".
It's been 18 months since the system came out. How much slower do you want them to go?
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Advertisers pull their ads when they don't like the content all the time. Even from the New York Times. Why should Bell be forced to advertise on a site the disapprove of?
Amazingly, you managed to write that sentence, the first half of which is false, and the second half of which is exactly correct.
"Businesses can justify more expense for their IP service if it makes them money, and therefore, providers figure that they can make more money off it, so they charge more."
That's the whole story.
Some phone companies have figured out that the can actually make more money (sell more circuits) by lowering the price without increasing their costs all that much. Check out Verizon's business Fios. Half the cost of a T1, rapid downtime response, and four times the upstream bandwidth. They've been available in the town I live & work in for just over a year, and they've already installed more than four times the number of them than they had T1s before. Many businesses upgraded from (much cheaper) business DSL, and the cost is now in the range justifiable for a home office. When a tree hits the lines they've got to splice all the wires anyway, so maintenance of the system as a whole is a fixed expense, and the fiber is more reliable than the copper was. The only variable cost is bandwidth.
It shouldn't be too surprising that the GPU would be the most energy hungry component... That's how it is in PCs too.
First of all, that makes no sense in the context of my comment. So Vonage goes out of business... Sign up with somebody else afterward.
That's absurd. First of all, if everybody switched to Vonage, it wouldn't matter that you could only contact other Vonage customers. Second, it doesn't rely on the existing switched voice infrastructure at all. It would work *even better* if everybody else went VoIP too. This is not about reselling the existing services. This is about the move from circuit switched to packet switched technology; a move that the phone companies already made behind the scenes, and Vonage and the like are just bringing the cost savings of that move to the end user. They don't have to put the existing carriers out of business to do it either, as they can continue to do business selling data access instead of telephone circuits.
There are always special circumstances... I don't think the Wii is one, as the lines for the pre-orders were just as bad as the lines for the consoles, but some (few) things are worth pre-ordering.
A big-budget "planned hit" game isn't one of them. The big name stores (Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, etc...) always stock enough. The ones you have to worry about are the cult hit imports that they expect to flop...
Ghirardelli is actually from the US. The company was started in San Fransisco, and it still is located in California. At one point it was owned by Quaker Oats. It's just another big-manufacturer chocolate company that happens to have an expensive sounding name. They probably had good chocolate back in the day, but now...
The problem with Hershey's isn't that it's bad, but that it's inconsistent. Some bars are really good, most bars are just below mediocre, and some bars are awful. There are websites where people trade lot-codes of the good bars, but I guess I'm not frugal enough for that... A little more money and you can get a sure thing.
While I'm a big fan of focus follows mouse, I'm a bigger fan of not using the mouse at all.
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I had assumed you didn't use focus follows mouse, since you said "since it takes the first click away to change the window focus
Actually, apparently you do get it.
Unfortunately many techies read way too much into the situation and assume that you get sub-par E911 service on your Vonage phone. It's just plain not true. The only additional complication is that you need a UPS for your router so you can call 911 when the power is out.
Given that many "technical" people still don't get the 911 thing (and claim it's way worse than it actually is), maybe it's for the best...
It wouldn't be the end of the world if your phone company went out of business and you had to sign up with a new one. Especially in the age of number portablilty.
For the original Blackberry, the answer to all of those questions was "No".
I know this may sound like blasphemy to a dark chocolate buff, but Valrhona Grand Cru Jivara Lactée is one of my favorite consumable substances on the planet. It's easily available at a local grocer. So why would I eat chocolate that, in comparison, is sub-standard? Easy: Cost. The Valrhona costs $11/lb on sale. Local producers make acceptable product for less than half the cost. Sure, I'll buy the good stuff and treat myself now and then, but I can't afford to eat the good stuff exclusively. I don't drink $50+ bottles of wine with dinner, or make Filet Mignon every time we have steak either.
You don't have to stoop to shitty chocolate. One step above shitty on the cost scale can get you significantly higher quality. (You have to be careful though... It can just get you marketing and shittier chocolate. I'll take Hershey's over Ghirardelli any day.)
That's a pretty poor criticism of MacOS considering that the same is true in Windows, KDE, and Gnome.
Call me when you figure out how to implement "Focus follows thought". I'll be your first customer.
While I find your claim dubious and unlikely, what would you think the same if you included the top, say, 2,000 businesses? What about all businesses with over 50 employees?
I guarantee that there were more home systems running 98, ME, or 2000 until well after the corporate switch was complete. Vista didn't really catch on anywhere in great numbers until SP2.
This article indicates that at the end of 2003 overall XP adoption was only 6.6%: http://www.betanews.com/article/Windows_XP_Adopti
The MIDI issue seems to be getting actively worked around with third party software (a new development that I was unaware of until I went to get you a link), but the source is the Vista README file itself.
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There are thousands of articles about downscaling for non-HDCP monitors on the web, including a few on Slashdot. Here's the first one from Google:
http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2006/12/vistas-c
Again, there are thousands of articles online about the inability to do automatic echo cancelation on Vista. Here's the first result from Google:
PC World - Vista crippled by content protection
Tried to use your MIDI port under Vista? Display High-Def content to a non-HDCP enabled display? Use speech to text software (echo cancellation doesn't work anymore, because you can't capture the digital output stream for feedback)?
People buying PCs out of the box don't drive adoption of OS's. Businesses that buy hundreds of PCs do.
More like: To all those impatient individuals who have already reserved the game, maybe that will teach you not to do that anymore. The good games are always available on or near release day, and all you're doing by reserving early is relieving yourself of access to that $5-$60 for some unspecified period of time.
Hard drive magnets are super-strong rare-earth magnets... Some of the strongest you'll find commercially available. No sense in wasting them by sending them to the land fill. They're useful for all sorts of things. Just don't pinch your skin between them, because they *can* draw blood.
The kids in my neighborhood all hand out fliers for lawn mowing services.
Perhaps you're one of those city folk?
I actually agree with the court here. It's not unreasonable to do a search. If you're actually innocent the search won't turn anything up.
If your infrastructure was used to commit a crime, it is perfectly reasonable to search said infrastructure. Even if you didn't do it, the search could turn up information (logs, MACs, whatever) that leads to the real culprit.
I also disagree that running an open access point should get the owner "b*tch slapped". There's nothing wrong with running an open access point if you are aware of the potential dangers and accept the risk.
It looks like the argument was that since this guy (who was actually guilty but was trying to have evidence suppressed) had an open access point, the cops had no probable cause to search, since it could have been anybody using his connection.
The article, and the summary falsely conclude that having an open access point gives the authorities probable cause to search your premises and systems. In reality, what this means is that having an open access point doesn't mean the cops can't search, since "it remain[s] likely that the source of the transmissions [is] inside that residence".
You just made me really worried about something...
I have boxes and boxes of hard drives. The accumulate from the resale of surplus machines, upgrades, repairs, etc... I don't know where half of them came from and I don't know what's on probably 75% of them. If the RIAA ever showed up at my house, who knows what they'd find on those drives. I hat to throw working hardware away, but I think it may be time for a mass hard drive disposal...
Actual PS2s (new ones) can't play all PS2 games. They dropped some compatibility to be able to drop the price... ...which seems 1000x better than what Microsoft had to do. (Kill the original Xbox ASAP so they would stop losing money on it.)
It's been 18 months since the system came out. How much slower do you want them to go?
The article claims to have a software implementation of DirectX 10 Geometry Shaders, so no, you wouldn't.