Kent Ertugrul, chief executive, of Phorm, told BBC News: "We have not had the chance to describe to Tim Berners-Lee how the system works and we look forward to doing that.
You think you need to explain how your tracker works to the father of the internet, and that once you do, he'll be ok with it. Boy, if that ain't arrogance right there, I don't know what is.
Sure, get them on the plane faster. Then instead of sitting in the boarding lounge for an hour and then another three on the tarmac, they can spend all four hours on the tarmac.
The fifth layer is a bum who skirts the windshield with a windex bottle filled with gutter water, wipes it with a clothe he found, and then you hand him some change from your pocket....
I'm happy to pay them *not* to crap up my windshield.
I've seen that before and maybe I live in some very specialized area (LA area) but I have oodles and scads of choices here. The hard part was choosing one, not finding a zillion.
That's exactly why I said "most people", and not "everyone".
When people claim that they have only one or two choices I'm always curious how they determined that. Are you sure you don't have many more choices? Says who? What kind of research did you do? What web-pages did you look at? Who did you ask?
In my specific case, I know the location and name of the CO that terminates my copper and who owns the DSLAM equipment as well as the type and capabilities. I also know who owns the fiber hut I'm attached to. I know what cable companies service me (just one) and I know what wireless options are available to me.
At the time I was looking to build my house (in the Indianapolis area), I researched all of these things and came to the conclusion that, at least in this area, there are not "oodles and scads" of choices. In virtually every area of the city, there are, at most, three realistic choices. Doing further research after the fact has lead me to the conclusion that the vast majority of Americans (in other words, those who do not live in "specialized areas" or major metropolitan areas) have very little choice for low-cost high-bandwidth service. Not everyone lives in New York or San Francisco. Some of us actually live in the heartland.
Just to clarify, Covad DSL isn't "resold" in the way most people probably think of. Covad operates the DSL connection between your house and your ISP of choice (essentially leasing your phone line from the local telephone company to do so), so Covad sets the speed of your connection, but every other aspect of your service really does come from the ISP you choose: the connection to the Internet, the terms of service, IP address allocation, port blocking, whether you use PPPoE or not, tech support/customer service/billing, etc. etc. If SBC can offer you 6Mbps DSL, Covad should be able to do the same, unless for some reason Covad doesn't have the appropriate equipment in your CO.
You're right, but that wasn't relevant to my point so I didn't include it in my comment. As a matter of fact, I have different speeds available to me specifically because SBC has the equipment but Covad does not. The best I can get from Covad (via Speakeasy) is IDSL (or a full T1), both of which are ridiculously expensive. I was stuck with IDSL for two years until SBC happened to move me to a fiber hut within 3000 feet and installed their own DSLAM equipment there. At the time, I was paying $120/month for 512k.
Perhaps it's time people stopped using major ISPs.
I have never used a major ISP
Unfortunately, most people in the U.S. don't have the luxury of a choice in internet providers. They generally have one or maybe two options (if they're lucky). I have three "options", myself. I can either get Comcast (see story above), Covad DSL (resold by a number of companies, but limited to 512k and never cheaper than $100/month), or SBC DSL at 6Mb.
Owning a gun isn't just legal, it was encouraged by those who wrote the Constitution, and protected by it. Owning a handgun should provide zero suspicion of any other action.
You're not the only person who's noticed that Hollywood vilifies gun ownership while at the same time zealously worshiping it.
Leaving aside the guilt of the person in the movie, this kind of database trolling is exactly why gun registration is a bad thing. Fortunately, my state (and many others) do not require gun registration.
to fine Comcast $195,000 for every affected subscriber
*sigh* Well, I guess I can expect my cable fees to go up again. I wonder if this will be called a "Federal cost recovery fee" as a line item on my bill.
If only there were some sort of multi-media-enabled information sharing platform available so that everyone could see the visualizations for themselves. Oh well.
I bought an FXS way-back-when, I believe it was that same card. I may be mistaken, it's been some time. The quality of it was horrendous (and later confirmed by numerous postings on Asterix forums).
I tried messing with it a few times, even with the live CD's. The biggest single hurdle I faced was simply with hardware. I couldn't get a straight answer on what to use to interface with my POTS line. There were a lot of chipset suggestions, which doesn't help when buying hardware. The only actual hardware recommendations I could find were for things that hadn't been produced or sold in years, or if they *were* still available cost several hundred (sometimes several thousand) dollars.
Ultimately, what I wanted to do was a home PBX, running inbound calls over POTS and outbound over VOIP. I found it to be WAY more trouble than it was worth. I don't know if anyone's come out with a newbie-friendly guide to go along with the live CD's since I originally tried it, but if not, it would be REALLY NICE.
You know, it sure sounds like they were thinking "It's better to beg forgiveness than to ask permission". I'm not impressed by their apology. It was a douchebag thing to do and a simple apology is insufficient.
FTFA:
it totally sucks that Ken Levine didn't get to speak after making such a fantastic game
Yes. It does totally suck, so don't you think some act of contrition, other than empty words, would be appropriate?
It sounds fun, but I don't understand how shaking a phone is functionally superior to simply looking at the screen to gauge battery life or messages.
You're new here, aren't you?
Show me anything in the world that a geek won't want to tinker with and hack in odd ways. It's this kind of thing that will eventually lead to Star Trek tech. It takes a hundred or a thousand "useless little hacks" to filter out the one gem that will be the killer hack. And sometimes, you can take a piece of one useless hack and a piece of another useless hack and put them together to make something awesome.
Yes, this may not be the most useful modification in the world, but think of what it could lead to...
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Kent Ertugrul, chief executive, of Phorm, told BBC News: "We have not had the chance to describe to Tim Berners-Lee how the system works and we look forward to doing that.
You think you need to explain how your tracker works to the father of the internet , and that once you do, he'll be ok with it. Boy, if that ain't arrogance right there, I don't know what is.
Worse... grammar... ever.
:-)
"Worst", actually.
Sure, get them on the plane faster. Then instead of sitting in the boarding lounge for an hour and then another three on the tarmac, they can spend all four hours on the tarmac.
DO NOT CLICK THE ABOVE LINK
/shiny red CANDY button...
Yeah. That oughta do it.
The fifth layer is a bum who skirts the windshield with a windex bottle filled with gutter water, wipes it with a clothe he found, and then you hand him some change from your pocket....
I'm happy to pay them *not* to crap up my windshield.
And yet, somehow it's still just as ugly as every other Thinkpad.
I've seen that before and maybe I live in some very specialized area (LA area) but I have oodles and scads of choices here. The hard part was choosing one, not finding a zillion.
That's exactly why I said "most people", and not "everyone".
When people claim that they have only one or two choices I'm always curious how they determined that. Are you sure you don't have many more choices? Says who? What kind of research did you do? What web-pages did you look at? Who did you ask?
In my specific case, I know the location and name of the CO that terminates my copper and who owns the DSLAM equipment as well as the type and capabilities. I also know who owns the fiber hut I'm attached to. I know what cable companies service me (just one) and I know what wireless options are available to me.
At the time I was looking to build my house (in the Indianapolis area), I researched all of these things and came to the conclusion that, at least in this area, there are not "oodles and scads" of choices. In virtually every area of the city, there are, at most, three realistic choices. Doing further research after the fact has lead me to the conclusion that the vast majority of Americans (in other words, those who do not live in "specialized areas" or major metropolitan areas) have very little choice for low-cost high-bandwidth service. Not everyone lives in New York or San Francisco. Some of us actually live in the heartland.
Just to clarify, Covad DSL isn't "resold" in the way most people probably think of. Covad operates the DSL connection between your house and your ISP of choice (essentially leasing your phone line from the local telephone company to do so), so Covad sets the speed of your connection, but every other aspect of your service really does come from the ISP you choose: the connection to the Internet, the terms of service, IP address allocation, port blocking, whether you use PPPoE or not, tech support/customer service/billing, etc. etc. If SBC can offer you 6Mbps DSL, Covad should be able to do the same, unless for some reason Covad doesn't have the appropriate equipment in your CO.
You're right, but that wasn't relevant to my point so I didn't include it in my comment. As a matter of fact, I have different speeds available to me specifically because SBC has the equipment but Covad does not. The best I can get from Covad (via Speakeasy) is IDSL (or a full T1), both of which are ridiculously expensive. I was stuck with IDSL for two years until SBC happened to move me to a fiber hut within 3000 feet and installed their own DSLAM equipment there. At the time, I was paying $120/month for 512k.
Perhaps it's time people stopped using major ISPs.
I have never used a major ISP
Unfortunately, most people in the U.S. don't have the luxury of a choice in internet providers. They generally have one or maybe two options (if they're lucky). I have three "options", myself. I can either get Comcast (see story above), Covad DSL (resold by a number of companies, but limited to 512k and never cheaper than $100/month), or SBC DSL at 6Mb.
Owning a gun isn't just legal, it was encouraged by those who wrote the Constitution, and protected by it. Owning a handgun should provide zero suspicion of any other action.
You're not the only person who's noticed that Hollywood vilifies gun ownership while at the same time zealously worshiping it.
Leaving aside the guilt of the person in the movie, this kind of database trolling is exactly why gun registration is a bad thing. Fortunately, my state (and many others) do not require gun registration.
Note, no solar panels.
The flat, rectangular bits on the top and bottom in that first link sure look like solar panels to me.
So, release the mosquitoes in 3 years, 2011, which puts us on track for the end of the world in 2012 (according to the Mayan calendar).
WARNING - - - Cat-like typing detected.
to fine Comcast $195,000 for every affected subscriber
*sigh* Well, I guess I can expect my cable fees to go up again. I wonder if this will be called a "Federal cost recovery fee" as a line item on my bill.
How come these designers never realize that many of their target audience have poor eyesight? These types of things never fit right over glasses.
Mirror of image here: o.
Alright, you owe me a new keyboard.
If only there were some sort of multi-media-enabled information sharing platform available so that everyone could see the visualizations for themselves. Oh well.
the "advanced" complexities of logging in, clicking on subjects to read messages, clicking on buttons to reply or delete
In all fairness, for 99% of users, that *is* advanced. It's damned-near rocket science.
I bought an FXS way-back-when, I believe it was that same card. I may be mistaken, it's been some time. The quality of it was horrendous (and later confirmed by numerous postings on Asterix forums).
I tried messing with it a few times, even with the live CD's. The biggest single hurdle I faced was simply with hardware. I couldn't get a straight answer on what to use to interface with my POTS line. There were a lot of chipset suggestions, which doesn't help when buying hardware. The only actual hardware recommendations I could find were for things that hadn't been produced or sold in years, or if they *were* still available cost several hundred (sometimes several thousand) dollars.
Ultimately, what I wanted to do was a home PBX, running inbound calls over POTS and outbound over VOIP. I found it to be WAY more trouble than it was worth. I don't know if anyone's come out with a newbie-friendly guide to go along with the live CD's since I originally tried it, but if not, it would be REALLY NICE.
You know, it sure sounds like they were thinking "It's better to beg forgiveness than to ask permission". I'm not impressed by their apology. It was a douchebag thing to do and a simple apology is insufficient.
FTFA:
it totally sucks that Ken Levine didn't get to speak after making such a fantastic game
Yes. It does totally suck, so don't you think some act of contrition, other than empty words, would be appropriate?
It sounds fun, but I don't understand how shaking a phone is functionally superior to simply looking at the screen to gauge battery life or messages.
You're new here, aren't you?
Show me anything in the world that a geek won't want to tinker with and hack in odd ways. It's this kind of thing that will eventually lead to Star Trek tech. It takes a hundred or a thousand "useless little hacks" to filter out the one gem that will be the killer hack. And sometimes, you can take a piece of one useless hack and a piece of another useless hack and put them together to make something awesome.
Yes, this may not be the most useful modification in the world, but think of what it could lead to...
Great, I want to focus on the multiplayer aspect and allow people to throw cake.
There never was any cake. You might even say that particular confection was a prevarication of some sort.
FTA: "But he's getting a little bit more into punk now, so I'm trying to turn him on to Nirvana."
So, Nirvana is punk now? I must have missed the memo.
Yeah, I'm hoping someone (Valve or someone else) will at least release some more maps for Portal.
You may be interested in Portal: The Flash Version. 2D side-scroller, lacking the GLaDOS AI, but the gameplay is similar and has dozens of puzzles.