This might be insightful if Nintendo wasn't responsible for the standard 4 controller ports, standard analog sticks, standard 'rumble' functions, the huge portable gaming market, yadda yadda yadda.
While a little heavy on the tinfoil, I believe your parent poster's shows some insight, any company is only as 'good' as it's current management. I have nothing to 'prove' that Nintendo will degrade itself with slimy corporate practices, but sometimes a paranoid person is right. Being the third place competitor in a market they once defined may eventually lead them to make the best of that position by maximizing short term profits.
Trouble with the repeaters option is that there is only a certain number of channels and a certain number of connections for each of those channels which a WAP (wireless access point) can address, I don't know the numbers but it's certainly not in tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands which a city the size of Philly would need.
the real problem isn't just the access, it's the handoff, and coordination with other nearby access points. Cellular networks do this already. But what happens when you take a trip down the street with your little handheld PC. You need to get another IP address, those dumb access points won't coordinate with each other to provide service. I believe that is what each of those servers will be intended to do. Sure you could set the DHCP to some very low timeout, but somehow I don't think that would be a great idea. Eventually manufacturers will catch up and build specialized equipment to solve the issues, but I don't believe that any of them have so far (I could be wrong...).
What I think that the submitter is trying to do is to find strategies to minimize 'network churn'. I have a couple of ideas on what is needed, but my lunch hour is almost up and I need to get back (my company block my attempt to post to slashdot a couple of weeks ago and I have been avoiding it at work ever since.)
Again, it take quite a bit of practice to state, "My apologies, I was unavoidably detained." instead of "Sorry I'm late."
Perhaps you were 'unavoidably detained', I, on the other hand, am usually late because I just didn't leave early enough for the anticipated journey. "Sorry, I'm late" shows some acknowledgment of my error without making excuses. Short statements also don't lead easily to additional questions, like "what was so unavoidable about not getting your butt off the couch early enough?".
Also, in America, generally, 'he went to the store' is the functional equivalent of 'he drove to the store'.
Perhaps you say 'Did I convey my dispatch in a manner which was understandable?', rather than "Do you know what I mean?". Personally, I'd say that the latter is both clear and concise, and thus a proper use of the language. Your right that we should endeavor to use language to it's fullest potential, but often I am more concerned with getting the message across than confounding someone who hasn't a vocabulary which matches my cant.
Are there actually people out there that believe this?
Maybe..., but for the vast majority of us this is what's called a "pop culture reference". Of course you don't have to go much further than L. Ron Hubbard to see the convergance of sci-fi and religion.
A super drive is a DVD and CD burner, the new drive with blu-ray support should be called "Ludicrous drive"!
I always love it when people give names to products which whould seem to imply that they are "the greatest" only to surpass them within a year or three.
So does Ohio intend to only apply this to Ohio residents selling to Ohio residents? Otherwise, a pesky little clause in the Consistution will come into play.
Conducting fraudulent auctions with you "good name", buying stuff and then not paying for it with your "good name". Many people depend on seller and buyer ratings and reports for clues as to how much to trust someone. It can be so valuable that some people have set up businesses in Ebay which captalize on their good seller's reputation.
The big difference is that Rambus makes money on IP, SCO just wants to. Rambus created and maintained clear title to their innovative IP. SCO basicly inherited old IP already released under a variety of licenses, which they themselves released themselves as GPL. Big difference.
Kmart and Sears are both strong branded retailers, who have a variety of products, locations and loyal customers. SCO has... well, laywers on contract.
Do you find it even the least bit ironic that your post, rife with spelling and grammatical errors (in a language-related thread, no less), was full of pretentious language and sounded exactly like the whiny blog posts you're complaining about?
Every time there is a featured article which is critical of blogger's writing sytle, you find someone who bitches about poor writing sytle, while commiting grevious errors themselves. I was looking for it, but you beat me to the punch. What really funny is that slashdot is a first cousin of blogs, perhaps even an ancestor, and has many of the same problems which exist here; spelling and grammar errors, factual mistakes, poor research, personal agendas (and I'm just talking about my own posts!).
So, you're saying that in a competitive market with thousands, if not tends of thousands, of suppliers that court cases caused by them all being abusive will lead to regulation?
No, imagine if you could only get food from the town hall and only your town hall, would that make each of those town halls 'competetive'? I think not. What if you lived between communities?
I'm not sure exactly how you can jump to the conclusion that municipalities will be any different than every other ISP...
Have you seen a telephone pole in Beijing?
Odd that you mentioned Beijing, where the government has tight controls over what the internet can an can not be used for. Which is really 'the heart' of my arguement. If I need to explain futher, well then 'you must be new here':). If you want to defend against my arguement you must tell me how and why this would not be misused. Sure eventually these many of these cities would get sued out of the ISP business, and thus leaving a patchwork of connected and unconnected commununities, which is my second point; 'spotty connections and access'.
Have you seen a telephone pole in Beijing? The use of telephones as a "conduit" plus the lax enforcement of requiring notification has resulted in a "rats nest" of wires with some drooping near all the way to the ground.
No I haven't been to Beijing, but then when I step out my door in America, I find neat well ordered telephone poles, which are owned by a private company which charges for their use, repairs and maintaines them. Sure, it is better to dig long trenches and place pipes, many comunities require this (like NYC, which was one of the first).
I'm just entirely sure if it's cheaper to lay down empty conduit now or to rely on replacing lines on telephone wires + the cost of repairing downed lines throughout the year.
Just because you can't see it doesn't mean that and underground conduit doesn't need maintence. However, I do think that it is better long term policy and probally costs less, that's why many communities require underground utilitites on all new construction, or major overhauls. BTW, it is never 'cheaper' to build out something that you are not using. Perhaps some planning is good, and perhaps even purchasing right of way, but laying empty pipe is just a waste. If wireless really takes off the only connections people will need to their doorstep would be power, water, and sewer (heck, if our houses get green enough even those connections might disappear. Then, all that conduit you laid down empty, would just be one more thing to dig up.
Municipalities are fundamentally about group efforts to do things. They're a community, just like the OSS community.
Change that to: Municipalities are fundamentally about group efforts to control things., then you'll see the fundimental difference. Just because two phrases use the same word doesn't mean they are simular in nature. i.e. "prick you finger; finger your prick".
Ie, you're actually stuck to "community standards" on what you can talk about. I agree that the thought of being limited by "community standards" does frightening me a bit,...
It should frighten you alot. I might be 'stuck' to that point, but it's like saying that someone who just fell off of a building is 'stuck' to the pavement, it's just an overwelming fact that cannot be ignored away.
...at the same time I won't just assume that a section of government that's competing against other private businesses
Governments do not compete, they are a monopoly, and need to be heavily regulated. Otherwise an appethetic majority can allow a community to step on the rights of the indivual in order to push the agenda of a vocal minority.
once I had gathered myself together I couldn't persuade them otherwise.
Oh, they know better. Ask them to document those proceedures and then ask 'anyone' to follow their instructions from the documentation alone. I'd bet that the instructions are like "telnet to the server as root, log into the database as 'sa' do then do a complex SQL update affecting at least 3 tables." Keep asking questions until the documentation is complete.
The trouble is that once a system is up and working it's hard to get the authorization to make changes unless there is a critical business need for the update, and someone willing to pay for it. Asking for proper and complete 'idiot' documentation is the least which is needed.
is our friend, it along with other formatting tags allowed to us can make a post much easier to read. Even if you post using text you can make a line break once in a while, but I did read your post and I (surprise , surprise) have a couple of comments.
I'd guess that you could sue the government over the same basis
Make "government" plural, and times it by thousands, if not tens of thousands. Just the costs to the court systems would make the 'case' for regulation.
...just like municipalities providing water hasn't meant an end to bottled water or various soft drinks.
Not everybody is serviced by municipal water and sewer, many need to dig their own wells and/ or install septic tanks.
This is, btw, one reason I believe that municipalities should have laid conduit long ago to let all sorts of companies lay their own wire, avoiding the need to dig up the ground every time a new company comes in to provide a new wire/service.
Have you ever seen a telephone pole? Cable, power, and yes telephone often run over these large outdoor 'conduits'. Most homes have connections directly from them to their house, I don't, but there is a conduit running to my house which the cable line and telephone run though, go outside and check your house's connections out, you might be surprised. Back when cable was just getting up steam many cable companies, to save costs, ran the last 1/4 directly under soil, but that had obvious problems, which directly affected maintenance costs. I don't have the figures, but many communities require conduit as part of their building codes. So perhaps they have been listening to you after all.
It's just like the discussion of forcing proprietary/open source software on government by banning the opponent software.
How? Why? That's like claiming that all the tea in china is a mountain rather than a mole hill! (yes I know that doesn't make any sense). Yes, both acts are grown out of a sense of corporate greed, but the arguements for closed source software don't make any sense, while I believe that the agruments against direct government control of internet access do hold up.
True, for a single decision, but once you multiple that same issue by thousands of communities, you will find abuses, many of them. One other problem with this issue, is what happens to people who are just outside of the community limits? Telcos are 'forced' to provide access to those who aren't in easily reached areas, should we 'force' communities to provide access to the farmer who isn't in their town? Or what about families who live in new subdivisions just out side of town? I believe that implementing massive community portals, could, in effect, prevent people on the edge of them from getting any high-speed access.
If you don't like the terms, pay for your own wireless connection
What if no commercial carrier can find a way to profit off the 10% who are left? Perhaps they wouldn't even find it profiable to have local modem connections, let alone high speed internet.
Yes, the driving force behind the legislation is primarily greed, but in the end it does make some sense.
When I first heard of these 'full profit for telecomm companies' acts, I thought, WOW, how completely self serving of those corporations. While I still think that the legislation is too giving to those companies, I decided to think of what could happen if government controlled Internet access. The community clubs which you speak of carry many restrictions about use, would you like your Internet to work the same way?
I can imagine that in smaller communities and perhaps larger ones, that 'local decency groups' would force local elected officials to censor objectionable content. Since they would be you ISP it would be easy to administer community standards. I can imagine that political hacks in charge of the network creating 'routing problems' which block opposition candidates, or the local rumor mill. Heck the local police could check on your email, or see which sites you visit. While larger communities might have good separation, smaller ones might even have the police dispatcher as the overnight server support!
I think that these laws should be written to include 'fair access' in the same way that local telephone companies are starting to open their own access, sort of a carrot and stick approach.
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I hate to be a jerk, I loved all his negitive comments about Netscape/ Mozilla, and whatever else he works on, but it got old like 6 years ago.
the Rand Corporation, in conjunction with the saucer people under the supervision of the reverse vampires are forcing Apple and Intel to merge!
Perhaps you should just make them come to work in the nude? with a cavity search on the way out the door, aka South African diamond mines.
Of course anyone who could produce work worth stealing probally wouldn't work under those conditions.
Trouble with the repeaters option is that there is only a certain number of channels and a certain number of connections for each of those channels which a WAP (wireless access point) can address, I don't know the numbers but it's certainly not in tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands which a city the size of Philly would need.
What I think that the submitter is trying to do is to find strategies to minimize 'network churn'. I have a couple of ideas on what is needed, but my lunch hour is almost up and I need to get back (my company block my attempt to post to slashdot a couple of weeks ago and I have been avoiding it at work ever since.)
Also, in America, generally, 'he went to the store' is the functional equivalent of 'he drove to the store'.
Perhaps you say 'Did I convey my dispatch in a manner which was understandable?', rather than "Do you know what I mean?". Personally, I'd say that the latter is both clear and concise, and thus a proper use of the language. Your right that we should endeavor to use language to it's fullest potential, but often I am more concerned with getting the message across than confounding someone who hasn't a vocabulary which matches my cant.
hey, that's my number, at least according to Best Buy, and RadioShack!
I always love it when people give names to products which whould seem to imply that they are "the greatest" only to surpass them within a year or three.
So does Ohio intend to only apply this to Ohio residents selling to Ohio residents? Otherwise, a pesky little clause in the Consistution will come into play.
Conducting fraudulent auctions with you "good name", buying stuff and then not paying for it with your "good name". Many people depend on seller and buyer ratings and reports for clues as to how much to trust someone. It can be so valuable that some people have set up businesses in Ebay which captalize on their good seller's reputation.
Kmart and Sears are both strong branded retailers, who have a variety of products, locations and loyal customers. SCO has... well, laywers on contract.
No, imagine if you could only get food from the town hall and only your town hall, would that make each of those town halls 'competetive'? I think not. What if you lived between communities?
Odd that you mentioned Beijing, where the government has tight controls over what the internet can an can not be used for. Which is really 'the heart' of my arguement. If I need to explain futher, well then 'you must be new here' :). If you want to defend against my arguement you must tell me how and why this would not be misused. Sure eventually these many of these cities would get sued out of the ISP business, and thus leaving a patchwork of connected and unconnected commununities, which is my second point; 'spotty connections and access'.
No I haven't been to Beijing, but then when I step out my door in America, I find neat well ordered telephone poles, which are owned by a private company which charges for their use, repairs and maintaines them. Sure, it is better to dig long trenches and place pipes, many comunities require this (like NYC, which was one of the first).
Just because you can't see it doesn't mean that and underground conduit doesn't need maintence. However, I do think that it is better long term policy and probally costs less, that's why many communities require underground utilitites on all new construction, or major overhauls. BTW, it is never 'cheaper' to build out something that you are not using. Perhaps some planning is good, and perhaps even purchasing right of way, but laying empty pipe is just a waste. If wireless really takes off the only connections people will need to their doorstep would be power, water, and sewer (heck, if our houses get green enough even those connections might disappear. Then, all that conduit you laid down empty, would just be one more thing to dig up.
Change that to: Municipalities are fundamentally about group efforts to control things., then you'll see the fundimental difference. Just because two phrases use the same word doesn't mean they are simular in nature. i.e. "prick you finger; finger your prick".
It should frighten you alot. I might be 'stuck' to that point, but it's like saying that someone who just fell off of a building is 'stuck' to the pavement, it's just an overwelming fact that cannot be ignored away.
Governments do not compete, they are a monopoly, and need to be heavily regulated. Otherwise an appethetic majority can allow a community to step on the rights of the indivual in order to push the agenda of a vocal minority.
The trouble is that once a system is up and working it's hard to get the authorization to make changes unless there is a critical business need for the update, and someone willing to pay for it. Asking for proper and complete 'idiot' documentation is the least which is needed.
is our friend, it along with other formatting tags allowed to us can make a post much easier to read. Even if you post using text you can make a line break once in a while, but I did read your post and I (surprise , surprise) have a couple of comments.
Make "government" plural, and times it by thousands, if not tens of thousands. Just the costs to the court systems would make the 'case' for regulation. Not everybody is serviced by municipal water and sewer, many need to dig their own wells and/ or install septic tanks. Have you ever seen a telephone pole? Cable, power, and yes telephone often run over these large outdoor 'conduits'. Most homes have connections directly from them to their house, I don't, but there is a conduit running to my house which the cable line and telephone run though, go outside and check your house's connections out, you might be surprised. Back when cable was just getting up steam many cable companies, to save costs, ran the last 1/4 directly under soil, but that had obvious problems, which directly affected maintenance costs. I don't have the figures, but many communities require conduit as part of their building codes. So perhaps they have been listening to you after all. How? Why? That's like claiming that all the tea in china is a mountain rather than a mole hill! (yes I know that doesn't make any sense). Yes, both acts are grown out of a sense of corporate greed, but the arguements for closed source software don't make any sense, while I believe that the agruments against direct government control of internet access do hold up.Yes, the driving force behind the legislation is primarily greed, but in the end it does make some sense.
I can imagine that in smaller communities and perhaps larger ones, that 'local decency groups' would force local elected officials to censor objectionable content. Since they would be you ISP it would be easy to administer community standards. I can imagine that political hacks in charge of the network creating 'routing problems' which block opposition candidates, or the local rumor mill. Heck the local police could check on your email, or see which sites you visit. While larger communities might have good separation, smaller ones might even have the police dispatcher as the overnight server support!
I think that these laws should be written to include 'fair access' in the same way that local telephone companies are starting to open their own access, sort of a carrot and stick approach.