I can't speak for the USA, but in Canada they're paid around $20 cdn/hr.. although I believe these are the people who actually oversee the elections (hand out ballots, cross names off the list, etc).
We had a municipal election just the other day actually. You're given a large, 8 1/2" x 11" ballot with categories from which you pick one (one for Mayor, one for Alderman, and one for christian school board something or other I don't care about). This ballot is then put into a "privacy sleeve", which is basically 2 8 1/2" x 11" pieces of paper stuck together to make a little folder which you can stick your ballot in so nobody can see it. When you're done voting, you give your ballot with sleeve to the attendant, and you watch (you have to watch, they make you stay) as it goes into something resembling a giant laser printer (scan-tron machine?) which quickly pulls your ballot out of the privacy sleeve, and then gives either a Green light (vote OK) or Red light (something went wrong, vote again).
Results can be had instantly, but a paper trail remains for a re-count.. seems to work great (other then the fact that the capitalist pig won for mayor, but that's becuase we have a STUPID populace that doesn't realize the most conveinent choice has dire envorimental consequences).
Yes, there's plenty of sites that YOU would gladly pay for, but what about average joe internet user? Many users are underage, and don't have access to credit cards or other methods of payment.
Advertising was great because it doesn't actually cost you anything to support your favorite site, other then a few kb of bandwidth and a small piece of your screen (this was back when layouts were made with a space for a 468x60 banner). This means that anyone, in any country, without any money, could support their favorite site just by visiting and clicking an ad or two once in a while.
I realise things are different these days, with banners becoming larger, and more intrusive, and I do agree that it pushes advertising into the realm of the annoying, but I don't think we will ever get rid of advertisements. In the.com days ads went for $3-$5 CPM (1000 impressions); this was when popular sites cashed in. Now it's something like $0.10 - $0.15 CPM, and most sites are fighting just to stay alive.
Webmasters aren't trying to stuff anything down your throat. They want to provide you free content usually because it's their hobby, it's what they like to do. Unfortunately, the economics of the matter dictate that they'd quickly go broke if they were to rely on their own finances, or even 'contributions' (I use the term loosely) from select few dedicated users with credit cards such as yourself.
That last comment about adapting or dying out almost made me think you were a troll...
Exactly which model do you propose that folks running free sites should switch to? Someone has to pay for the hosting and bandwidth of running the site.. it has been advertisers for a long time.
This is NOT THE SAME PROBLEM *AAs have. They're trying to force an overpriced product down people's throat. Webmasters are just trying to _break even_ while providing the public a service that they charge nothing for (their website). It's totally within their rights to block acess to their content if you block their ads.. all they ask in return for you viewing the content is that you view their ads, and is that REALLY so much to ask for?
I, and you too, hope that webmasters don't "die out".. or all we'd have are commercial sites left.
BT is still evolving technology.. ways to do things "Better" continously come up. It's hard enough to get people to upgrade their clients as it is.. I can only imagine how bad it would be if people had to upgrade their browsers as well!
Bank of Montreal is much, much worse in my opinion.
I'd had an account with them for many years, but I never really started using it until last year (damn paycheques).. anyways.. These mysterious charges kept appearing on my bank statements, so I asked the teller.
She said I was going over my 20 transtions per month limit. The next month, I was -very- careful. Again, 3 mysterious charges appear. I ask the teller, AGAIN, where the hell these are coming from.
Apparently, because of the account type I was on, I had to pay to use the teller's services. Nobody let me know of this, I had to drag it out of them.
I've been with CIBC ever since.. they're cheap ($2/mo for me, since I'm a student), which includes 12 transactions, teller-assisted onces included [so depositing 5 cheques, and withdrawing $100, is 1 transaction, not 6 like bank of montreal], and online banking, as well as nice overdraft protection for when I really need some cash quick. I'm rather happy with them..
Even in the P2P world, the distributer and receiver are easily defined.
In modern p2p implementations, (like BitTorrent) all clients are both distributer and receiver, and there's no way [short of hacking the source yourself] to prevent your clients from sending.
OSS w/Service translates to custom tailored software to the needs of you and your company. Even _if_ you have to pay more for it (and this is a rather large if), the return you get from increased productivity (as your users are using software made and tailored for their needs; if their needs change, their software can too, quickly) far outweighs the costs associated with the software itself.
This is what I try to explain to all my consulting clients, and the overwhelming majority of them get it (or go somewhere else).
Commercial software simply cannot be customized. Two, or three comercial packages cannot be combined (easily; you can sometimes hack your way around it, but an elegant solution is often not possible). It either does what you want it to, or it doesn't.
I keep hearing about these magical folks who take care of their systems, but I've yet to find an "Average Joe" without a system full of Spyware..
It's not about being quick or slow to change your computer, it's just that sometimes epople click 'Yes', accidentally, without thinking, and that's all it takes.
Actually, OSR2 (Win95B) still required a patch to gain full USB support.. it was OSR2.5 (aka Win95C, the one which said "with USB support" on the CD) which came ready out of the box.
Every single old floppy of mine that I've picked up has been damaged, some to the point where they no longer format (Track 0 bad - Media Unusuable).
The ones that do work, and manage to make it through a format, have at least 100kb of bad sectors on them and usually fail upon insertion to the target floppy drive.
Maybe I just used to buy cheap disks, and now I'm paying for it..
The variety of content that Napster (and AudioGalaxy following it) once had was unbeatable. I was able once to find very rare electronic tracks that I haven't seen anywhere since (I lost a few CDs) easily..
Newsgroups are nice and all, but what's there is what someone else decides needs to be put there.. and you have to pay for decent access without missing parts all the time.
People in countries other then yours commonly use a , instead of a . to seperate their "dollars" from their "cents"... whenever you see something like $ 350,00 (particuarly when this figure is quoted in the foreign media) and it doesn't make any sense to you, simply replace the offending , with an .
Not possible with the 1.x series of bursts.. as they're simply a wrapper around a hacked console-mode BT client.
I'm currently working on burst 2, which will allow (at the very least) combined outgoing bandwidth throttling... incoming is a much different beast as you can't control the rate at which packets come in... and WinSock will start to dro packets if you don't retreive them quick enough *sigh*
I'm a developer of a BT client, so I know what I'm talking about here.. and I must defend BT:)
Pretty much the entire analysis of k2b vs BT is wrong. Hell, even the diagram for how BT propagates is wrong.. it isn't a bunch of trees, it's a mesh (check the official BT site)! Everyone is connected to everyone.
BT splits a file into smaller bite-size chunks (256kb - 1MB in size), and then sends these chunks arond. So Alice, instead of sending the whole 512MB file to Bob, only sends him the first 256kb chunk. Then, Alice proceeds to send the second chunk to Joe, who's already downloading the first part from Bob..
This (almost) guarantees that once Alice has sent out 1 full 512MB file, it's already well spread throughout the network and there are MULTIPLE complete sources, not just 1. And if someone leaves/crashes, they can jump right back in.
With BT, you can launch a.torrent, and the file will start coming in right away from many sources at once.. with k2b, -one- of the people who has the file needs to decide that they want to send it to you.
The only "benifit" k2b has is that it's push instead of pull.. and the benifits of that are greatly debatable...
Yes, there is a guarantee that game writers will use GPU-specific optimizations.. why wouldn't they? I'm sure ATI does it too..
NVIDIA works closely with developers to optimize games for GeForceFX. These optimizations (including shader optimizations) are the result of the co-development process. This is the approach NVIDIA would have preferred also for 3DMark03.
That being said.. I'm still having trouble understanding how not rendering parts of the scene could possibly be an "application specific optimization" when the purpose of the application is to figure out how well a card can render a scene..
I have thought about this exact same thing.. I plan on integrating something like it into the next version of burst!, provided that I can co-ordinate with Bram on the protocol extension..
A tracker is more then willing to send you as many IPs as you'd like, that are currently downloading any one file. This makes it -extremely- easy to track you down.
Don't use BT for illegal files, that is not what it was meant for!
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I also neglected to mention that when you show up to vote, they give you a [manditory] demonstration of how to fill in the bubbles properly.
If you wanted to change your vote.. I think all it would take is to fill in 2 bubbles, the machine would fail on it, and you get another voting card..
I can't speak for the USA, but in Canada they're paid around $20 cdn/hr .. although I believe these are the people who actually oversee the elections (hand out ballots, cross names off the list, etc).
We had a municipal election just the other day actually. You're given a large, 8 1/2" x 11" ballot with categories from which you pick one (one for Mayor, one for Alderman, and one for christian school board something or other I don't care about). This ballot is then put into a "privacy sleeve", which is basically 2 8 1/2" x 11" pieces of paper stuck together to make a little folder which you can stick your ballot in so nobody can see it. When you're done voting, you give your ballot with sleeve to the attendant, and you watch (you have to watch, they make you stay) as it goes into something resembling a giant laser printer (scan-tron machine?) which quickly pulls your ballot out of the privacy sleeve, and then gives either a Green light (vote OK) or Red light (something went wrong, vote again).
Results can be had instantly, but a paper trail remains for a re-count.. seems to work great (other then the fact that the capitalist pig won for mayor, but that's becuase we have a STUPID populace that doesn't realize the most conveinent choice has dire envorimental consequences).
Yes, there's plenty of sites that YOU would gladly pay for, but what about average joe internet user? Many users are underage, and don't have access to credit cards or other methods of payment.
.com days ads went for $3-$5 CPM (1000 impressions); this was when popular sites cashed in. Now it's something like $0.10 - $0.15 CPM, and most sites are fighting just to stay alive.
Advertising was great because it doesn't actually cost you anything to support your favorite site, other then a few kb of bandwidth and a small piece of your screen (this was back when layouts were made with a space for a 468x60 banner). This means that anyone, in any country, without any money, could support their favorite site just by visiting and clicking an ad or two once in a while.
I realise things are different these days, with banners becoming larger, and more intrusive, and I do agree that it pushes advertising into the realm of the annoying, but I don't think we will ever get rid of advertisements. In the
Webmasters aren't trying to stuff anything down your throat. They want to provide you free content usually because it's their hobby, it's what they like to do. Unfortunately, the economics of the matter dictate that they'd quickly go broke if they were to rely on their own finances, or even 'contributions' (I use the term loosely) from select few dedicated users with credit cards such as yourself.
That last comment about adapting or dying out almost made me think you were a troll...
Exactly which model do you propose that folks running free sites should switch to? Someone has to pay for the hosting and bandwidth of running the site.. it has been advertisers for a long time.
This is NOT THE SAME PROBLEM *AAs have. They're trying to force an overpriced product down people's throat. Webmasters are just trying to _break even_ while providing the public a service that they charge nothing for (their website). It's totally within their rights to block acess to their content if you block their ads.. all they ask in return for you viewing the content is that you view their ads, and is that REALLY so much to ask for?
I, and you too, hope that webmasters don't "die out".. or all we'd have are commercial sites left.
BT is still evolving technology.. ways to do things "Better" continously come up. It's hard enough to get people to upgrade their clients as it is.. I can only imagine how bad it would be if people had to upgrade their browsers as well!
Bank of Montreal is much, much worse in my opinion.
I'd had an account with them for many years, but I never really started using it until last year (damn paycheques).. anyways.. These mysterious charges kept appearing on my bank statements, so I asked the teller.
She said I was going over my 20 transtions per month limit. The next month, I was -very- careful. Again, 3 mysterious charges appear. I ask the teller, AGAIN, where the hell these are coming from.
Apparently, because of the account type I was on, I had to pay to use the teller's services. Nobody let me know of this, I had to drag it out of them.
I've been with CIBC ever since.. they're cheap ($2/mo for me, since I'm a student), which includes 12 transactions, teller-assisted onces included [so depositing 5 cheques, and withdrawing $100, is 1 transaction, not 6 like bank of montreal], and online banking, as well as nice overdraft protection for when I really need some cash quick. I'm rather happy with them..
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I rest my case...
Even in the P2P world, the distributer and receiver are easily defined.
In modern p2p implementations, (like BitTorrent) all clients are both distributer and receiver, and there's no way [short of hacking the source yourself] to prevent your clients from sending.
I know this is a troll, but I'll bite.
OSS w/Service translates to custom tailored software to the needs of you and your company. Even _if_ you have to pay more for it (and this is a rather large if), the return you get from increased productivity (as your users are using software made and tailored for their needs; if their needs change, their software can too, quickly) far outweighs the costs associated with the software itself.
This is what I try to explain to all my consulting clients, and the overwhelming majority of them get it (or go somewhere else).
Commercial software simply cannot be customized. Two, or three comercial packages cannot be combined (easily; you can sometimes hack your way around it, but an elegant solution is often not possible). It either does what you want it to, or it doesn't.
Well I, for one, welcome our old, pixelated overlords.
You just want to show off your TB array.
:)
Or maybe you don't even have a TB array, and you just want to show off.
(Can you tell I want a TB array too?
I keep hearing about these magical folks who take care of their systems, but I've yet to find an "Average Joe" without a system full of Spyware..
It's not about being quick or slow to change your computer, it's just that sometimes epople click 'Yes', accidentally, without thinking, and that's all it takes.
Actually, OSR2 (Win95B) still required a patch to gain full USB support.. it was OSR2.5 (aka Win95C, the one which said "with USB support" on the CD) which came ready out of the box.
Where are the mod points when you need them.. amen brother.
I've always wondered if this is actually true or not.. I have yet to see any actual evidence to back up this claim.
It doesn't really matter how fast the reading laser moves along the media, so why would it matter how fast the recording laser moves?
Every single old floppy of mine that I've picked up has been damaged, some to the point where they no longer format (Track 0 bad - Media Unusuable).
The ones that do work, and manage to make it through a format, have at least 100kb of bad sectors on them and usually fail upon insertion to the target floppy drive.
Maybe I just used to buy cheap disks, and now I'm paying for it..
My tuition is up 12% this year .. I think they just raise it because they can.
The variety of content that Napster (and AudioGalaxy following it) once had was unbeatable. I was able once to find very rare electronic tracks that I haven't seen anywhere since (I lost a few CDs) easily..
Newsgroups are nice and all, but what's there is what someone else decides needs to be put there.. and you have to pay for decent access without missing parts all the time.
People in countries other then yours commonly use a , instead of a . to seperate their "dollars" from their "cents"... whenever you see something like $ 350,00 (particuarly when this figure is quoted in the foreign media) and it doesn't make any sense to you, simply replace the offending , with an .
Not possible with the 1.x series of bursts.. as they're simply a wrapper around a hacked console-mode BT client.
I'm currently working on burst 2, which will allow (at the very least) combined outgoing bandwidth throttling... incoming is a much different beast as you can't control the rate at which packets come in... and WinSock will start to dro packets if you don't retreive them quick enough *sigh*
I'm a developer of a BT client, so I know what I'm talking about here.. and I must defend BT :)
.torrent, and the file will start coming in right away from many sources at once.. with k2b, -one- of the people who has the file needs to decide that they want to send it to you.
Pretty much the entire analysis of k2b vs BT is wrong. Hell, even the diagram for how BT propagates is wrong.. it isn't a bunch of trees, it's a mesh (check the official BT site)! Everyone is connected to everyone.
BT splits a file into smaller bite-size chunks (256kb - 1MB in size), and then sends these chunks arond. So Alice, instead of sending the whole 512MB file to Bob, only sends him the first 256kb chunk. Then, Alice proceeds to send the second chunk to Joe, who's already downloading the first part from Bob..
This (almost) guarantees that once Alice has sent out 1 full 512MB file, it's already well spread throughout the network and there are MULTIPLE complete sources, not just 1. And if someone leaves/crashes, they can jump right back in.
With BT, you can launch a
The only "benifit" k2b has is that it's push instead of pull.. and the benifits of that are greatly debatable...
To print to a windows-shared printer on the same network?
I have thought about this exact same thing.. I plan on integrating something like it into the next version of burst!, provided that I can co-ordinate with Bram on the protocol extension..
If I had some mod points, I'd Mod parent up!
BT users are EXTREMELY easy to track!
A tracker is more then willing to send you as many IPs as you'd like, that are currently downloading any one file. This makes it -extremely- easy to track you down.
Don't use BT for illegal files, that is not what it was meant for!