This seems awfully familiar. I think I recall reading something similar on wikipedia:
"Embrace" AOL's IM protocol [or Google browser]. "Extend" the standard with proprietary Microsoft addons which added new features but broke compatibility with AOL's [or Google's] software. Gain dominance since Microsoft had 95% OS share and their MS Messenger was provided for free. And finally, "extinguish" and lockout AOL's IM [or Google's VP8] software, since AOL was unable to use the modified MS-patented protocol.
I just checked Bell-Canada's profit. They were LOSING money for almost two years (2009-10), which basically disproves your claim that they are rolling-around in cash. .
>>>without competitors (which is what this ruling essentially removed from the marketplace), what's a consumer supposed to do?
Complain to your local City or County Council that the monopoly needs to be broken (or price-fixed), because they are raping the customers. The politicians are supposed to be there to represent you, and they have the power to fix the problem.
Of course I'm only paying $15/month for my internet so I have little to complain about, but I can see I'm one of the lucky few. My situation is not the norm.
>>>If you're wondering why I'm calling you an idiot
People who resort to name-calling ("dumb" "idiot" "racist" etc), merely demonstrate they don't know how to act like adults. We should be able to disagree on various ideas, and yet still be friendly to one another. I used to go-round name-calling people online, until I realized that all it does is make me look like a fool, so I stopped.
And internet costs nothing to provide? REALLY? You mean the servers don't use electricity? The cables don't cost millions of dollars? Labor to dig-up and repair those cables doesn't cost anything either? Wow I did not know that. ----- In reality, the more you download the more you cost the ISP. Clearly Grandma downloading 1 gigabyte of email per month is not incurring as much electricity, labor, and gradual-but-incipient damage to the cable/server (i.e. overall cost) as Bitorrent Dude grabbing 300 GB per month.
- No I don't know how much incremental cost there is between 1 and 300 GB, but to claim it's nothing or almost-nothing is clearly not true.
Then what?
- That still doesn't mean we have to have an Internet monopoly on those roadside right-of-ways. We can still have 50+ companies sharing a single 1 cm-thick fiber optic bundle.
I honestly don't understand why folks (like you) insist we HAVE to have a monopoly when we don't. I don't have a monopoly on my phone company, nor my electric provider, nor my natural gas supplier (although the pipes are owned by government). Neither do we need one for the ISP with modern optical technology which enables 50 companies to fit in the space of a centimeter cable. Most europeans don't have ISP monopolies, and neither do we need that hear in North America.
Isn't that usually considered a good thing? The ladies seem to like it. (shrug) I'm certain that was not Google's intent when they accused MS Explorer of spying-on the Google Search Addon. They meant their research report to be a negative thing - like a rectal prolapse.;-)
>>>to seriously acknowledge Bing...is still a big step.
Are there any other GOOD (keyword) search engines besides Google and Bing? I've tried a couple but keep returning to these two, because the competition is woefully inadequate.
>>>>>to charge 10c/GB since those users exceeded the 250GB cap, and are straining the infrastructure, using more electricity, slowing-down service for other users, et cetera. Just my humble opinion. >> >>Will this outbreak of common sense continue on/.?
Nope. C64_love has already been modded down and as a result, has negative karma and can't post anymore (dropped from 25 to 2 posts/day). Free speech on slashdot? Nah it's more like egypt.
BTW tiered pricing (rather than unlimited) saves me a bundle on my cellphone. Instead of paying ~$50/month or ~$700 a year on an unlimited plan, I have a metered plan that costs me $0.00 per month. Sweet.
People who resort to name-calling ("dumb" "idiot" "racist" the N-word and other slurs), merely demonstrate they haven't left the teeny-bopper stage yet. There's simply no reason to not act like an adult, even if you disagree with someone.
And internet is free? REALLY? You mean the servers don't use electricity? The cables don't cost millions of dollars? Labor to dig-up and repair those cables doesn't cost anything either? You couldn't be any more wrong than if your name was Wrong W. Wrongenstien.
BTW my IQ is 135 and I have two (soon to be three) college degrees in physics/engineering, so any claim that I am an idiot or "dumb" is as untrue as claiming France is a member state of the US.
Multiple passengers have been fondled, with the Brownshirt SA sticking their hands down men's pants or up women's blouses. One woman, who is filing a lawsuit, had her breast exposed and groped. Later an SA agent commented, "You have nice ones - wish I had been the one touching you."
Well in MY class-action suits, the court required actual cash be handed to the customer by Paypal and the CD Companies respectively. I took the check and put it in the bank.
>>>They could fix it by quoting this in MB. Nobody is going to say $2/mb wrong
That's what Sprint/ VirginMobile does for me. $1 per megabyte, rather than $0.001 per kilobyte. The fact Verizon has never fixed this suggests they WANT confusion at the Cell Rep level, so customers think they are getting a cheap deal (point-zero-zero-1 cents) when they are not.
"INTRAstate commerce" aka Commerce INSIDE the states. It is reserved, by amendment 10, to the Member State Legislatures/parliaments. The Union government has no business to interfere with local businesses that only transfer money from in-state customers.
Is it? I thought it was a Patented standard like Bluray, DVD, VHS, et cetera. They let you use it for free, but only if you make less than ~1 million dollars, else there's a ~10 cent per unit fee.
>>>VLC media player plugin which...lets you view that format in IE and Firefox.
random question - Why does VLC refuse to play Audible files? I thought it was supposed to support that codec. Seems very odd the Windows Media player can play something VLC cannot.
Yes it is, but I think HE-AAC (plus SBR) is more useful. It can provide CD quality as low as 48k and AM quality as low as 12k. Give it a try: http://www.radiojackie.com/listennowpage.asp
Neither MP3 or Theora can touch it. And yes I have to pay an extra penny or whatever for my AACplus player, but the better sound quality for small files is worth it. (Same reasoning goes for why I prefer MPEG4 video over VP8 or MPEG2.)
This seems awfully familiar. I think I recall reading something similar on wikipedia:
""Embrace" AOL's IM protocol [or Google browser]. "Extend" the standard with proprietary Microsoft addons which added new features but broke compatibility with AOL's [ror Google's] software. Gain dominance since Microsoft had 95% OS share and their MS Messenger was provided for free. And finally, "extinguish" and lockout AOL's IM [or Google's VP8] software, since AOL was unable to use the modified MS-patented protocol."
BTW I wrote this paragraph two years ago. Thank you.:-)
You think Franklin would be In Favor of shutting-down the internet, having women's breasts & men's penises fondled at airports, and other anti-freedom measures that make people feel like Slaves instead of free human beings?
If so, you know nothing of the man. All it requires is some READING (old concept but still valid) to realize where Franklin stood on these issues - "Anybody who would give us *essential* liberty for *temporary* security, deserve neither." He was also the one who went to Britain to broker a peace, had insults hurled at him by the parliament, and came back and said, "Revolt," in order to regain the British Rights that had been taken-away from the colonists. i.e. He loved liberty so much, he advised civil war.
Well..... you're wrong. The GPU and Sound PU could do DMA transfers in order to execute graphics-related code - independent of the 68000.
The Amiga was designed that way because it was originally intended to be a games console, and prioritized graphics/sound coprocessing ability. Note that the 68000-based Sega Genesis has similar capability with its GPU and SPU.
But he was a Newspaper man. Had he lived in today's world, he would have been publishing Blogs and News articles online, and objected to the concept that he is not allowed to do so. Internet == freedom of the press. And speech.
No government has a right to stick a muzzle in your mouth & prevent you from exercising your Nature-given right to express yourself (or share the thoughts running through your brain).
Comcast execs are sons of silly persons. Thpppppt! Thppt! Thppt!
I don't wanna get your $80/month bills no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in thy general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries! Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time-a! Stupid Comcast-men.
>>>If they can make it less effort to stream or download than it is to pirate
Perhaps, but I still prefer to own games. That way I can convert them back to cash when finished with them. As example: I bought Final Fantasy 13 for $45 sale price, beat it, and then sold to to some guy on ebay for $53.
Made a nice profit. That happens with most of my games where I sell them for a few dollars more than I originally paid, so overall I am making money by owning (versus a $5 rental which I never get back).
Actually the internet falls under Amendment 10: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution..... are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." In other words neither the Union Congress, the President, nor the Supreme Court were ever delegated the power to turn-off the internet.
That power is reserved to the Member States in perpetuity, until such time as they amend the Constitution to give that power to the central government. Which has not happened.
The power to turn-off the net remains in the hands of your Local Legislature, which is where it should be - close to the people. (My legislator lives on the same street as me - if he ever turned off my internet, I and my neighbors would probably toilet paper the house.)
I actually had a classmate tell me, "Internet is not an essential liberty" in response to my facebook post about Egypt's censorship. And he calls himself a Republican and quotes Benjamin Franklin's essential liberty phrase on his page.
He then unfriended me. Jackass. Why are people so foolish that they think they don't have the right to free speech? (Or travel, or privacy in their homes, et cetera.)
On the other hand, ATT could claim they are not responsible for Phones sending data, and the user should have checked into that prior to signing-up. Just like the old Dialup ISPs said they are not responsible for long-distance charges incurred.
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>>>"here Google, we fixed your browser for you".
This seems awfully familiar. I think I recall reading something similar on wikipedia:
"Embrace" AOL's IM protocol [or Google browser]. "Extend" the standard with proprietary Microsoft addons which added new features but broke compatibility with AOL's [or Google's] software. Gain dominance since Microsoft had 95% OS share and their MS Messenger was provided for free. And finally, "extinguish" and lockout AOL's IM [or Google's VP8] software, since AOL was unable to use the modified MS-patented protocol.
>>>Bell pockets the fees
I just checked Bell-Canada's profit. They were LOSING money for almost two years (2009-10), which basically disproves your claim that they are rolling-around in cash.
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>>>without competitors (which is what this ruling essentially removed from the marketplace), what's a consumer supposed to do?
Complain to your local City or County Council that the monopoly needs to be broken (or price-fixed), because they are raping the customers. The politicians are supposed to be there to represent you, and they have the power to fix the problem.
Of course I'm only paying $15/month for my internet so I have little to complain about, but I can see I'm one of the lucky few. My situation is not the norm.
>>>If you're wondering why I'm calling you an idiot
People who resort to name-calling ("dumb" "idiot" "racist" etc), merely demonstrate they don't know how to act like adults. We should be able to disagree on various ideas, and yet still be friendly to one another. I used to go-round name-calling people online, until I realized that all it does is make me look like a fool, so I stopped.
And internet costs nothing to provide? REALLY? You mean the servers don't use electricity? The cables don't cost millions of dollars? Labor to dig-up and repair those cables doesn't cost anything either? Wow I did not know that. ----- In reality, the more you download the more you cost the ISP. Clearly Grandma downloading 1 gigabyte of email per month is not incurring as much electricity, labor, and gradual-but-incipient damage to the cable/server (i.e. overall cost) as Bitorrent Dude grabbing 300 GB per month.
- No I don't know how much incremental cost there is between 1 and 300 GB, but to claim it's nothing or almost-nothing is clearly not true.
Then what?
- That still doesn't mean we have to have an Internet monopoly on those roadside right-of-ways. We can still have 50+ companies sharing a single 1 cm-thick fiber optic bundle.
I honestly don't understand why folks (like you) insist we HAVE to have a monopoly when we don't. I don't have a monopoly on my phone company, nor my electric provider, nor my natural gas supplier (although the pipes are owned by government). Neither do we need one for the ISP with modern optical technology which enables 50 companies to fit in the space of a centimeter cable. Most europeans don't have ISP monopolies, and neither do we need that hear in North America.
>>>the "Google reach around".
Isn't that usually considered a good thing? The ladies seem to like it. (shrug) I'm certain that was not Google's intent when they accused MS Explorer of spying-on the Google Search Addon. They meant their research report to be a negative thing - like a rectal prolapse. ;-)
>>>to seriously acknowledge Bing...is still a big step.
Are there any other GOOD (keyword) search engines besides Google and Bing? I've tried a couple but keep returning to these two, because the competition is woefully inadequate.
I'm confused.
Is Lukaru copyrighted or not? If "yes" then how can someone else make money off YOUR copyrighted work?
>>>>>to charge 10c/GB since those users exceeded the 250GB cap, and are straining the infrastructure, using more electricity, slowing-down service for other users, et cetera. Just my humble opinion. /.?
>>
>>Will this outbreak of common sense continue on
Nope. C64_love has already been modded down and as a result, has negative karma and can't post anymore (dropped from 25 to 2 posts/day). Free speech on slashdot? Nah it's more like egypt.
BTW tiered pricing (rather than unlimited) saves me a bundle on my cellphone. Instead of paying ~$50/month or ~$700 a year on an unlimited plan, I have a metered plan that costs me $0.00 per month. Sweet.
People who resort to name-calling ("dumb" "idiot" "racist" the N-word and other slurs), merely demonstrate they haven't left the teeny-bopper stage yet. There's simply no reason to not act like an adult, even if you disagree with someone.
And internet is free? REALLY? You mean the servers don't use electricity? The cables don't cost millions of dollars? Labor to dig-up and repair those cables doesn't cost anything either? You couldn't be any more wrong than if your name was Wrong W. Wrongenstien.
BTW my IQ is 135 and I have two (soon to be three) college degrees in physics/engineering, so any claim that I am an idiot or "dumb" is as untrue as claiming France is a member state of the US.
>>>Fondled != frisked.
Multiple passengers have been fondled, with the Brownshirt SA sticking their hands down men's pants or up women's blouses. One woman, who is filing a lawsuit, had her breast exposed and groped. Later an SA agent commented, "You have nice ones - wish I had been the one touching you."
>>>"$10 off your next iPhone"
Well in MY class-action suits, the court required actual cash be handed to the customer by Paypal and the CD Companies respectively. I took the check and put it in the bank.
>>>They could fix it by quoting this in MB. Nobody is going to say $2/mb wrong
That's what Sprint/ VirginMobile does for me. $1 per megabyte, rather than $0.001 per kilobyte. The fact Verizon has never fixed this suggests they WANT confusion at the Cell Rep level, so customers think they are getting a cheap deal (point-zero-zero-1 cents) when they are not.
2 words:
"INTRAstate commerce" aka Commerce INSIDE the states. It is reserved, by amendment 10, to the Member State Legislatures/parliaments. The Union government has no business to interfere with local businesses that only transfer money from in-state customers.
>>>H.264 is an open standard
Is it? I thought it was a Patented standard like Bluray, DVD, VHS, et cetera. They let you use it for free, but only if you make less than ~1 million dollars, else there's a ~10 cent per unit fee.
>>>VLC media player plugin which...lets you view that format in IE and Firefox.
random question - Why does VLC refuse to play Audible files? I thought it was supposed to support that codec. Seems very odd the Windows Media player can play something VLC cannot.
>>>Theora is also quite useful
Yes it is, but I think HE-AAC (plus SBR) is more useful. It can provide CD quality as low as 48k and AM quality as low as 12k. Give it a try: http://www.radiojackie.com/listennowpage.asp
Neither MP3 or Theora can touch it. And yes I have to pay an extra penny or whatever for my AACplus player, but the better sound quality for small files is worth it. (Same reasoning goes for why I prefer MPEG4 video over VP8 or MPEG2.)
>>>"here Google, we fixed your browser for you".
This seems awfully familiar. I think I recall reading something similar on wikipedia:
""Embrace" AOL's IM protocol [or Google browser]. "Extend" the standard with proprietary Microsoft addons which added new features but broke compatibility with AOL's [ror Google's] software. Gain dominance since Microsoft had 95% OS share and their MS Messenger was provided for free. And finally, "extinguish" and lockout AOL's IM [or Google's VP8] software, since AOL was unable to use the modified MS-patented protocol."
BTW I wrote this paragraph two years ago. Thank you. :-)
You think Franklin would be In Favor of shutting-down the internet, having women's breasts & men's penises fondled at airports, and other anti-freedom measures that make people feel like Slaves instead of free human beings?
If so, you know nothing of the man.
All it requires is some READING (old concept but still valid) to realize where Franklin stood on these issues - "Anybody who would give us *essential* liberty for *temporary* security, deserve neither." He was also the one who went to Britain to broker a peace, had insults hurled at him by the parliament, and came back and said, "Revolt," in order to regain the British Rights that had been taken-away from the colonists. i.e. He loved liberty so much, he advised civil war.
Well..... you're wrong. The GPU and Sound PU could do DMA transfers in order to execute graphics-related code - independent of the 68000.
The Amiga was designed that way because it was originally intended to be a games console, and prioritized graphics/sound coprocessing ability. Note that the 68000-based Sega Genesis has similar capability with its GPU and SPU.
But he was a Newspaper man. Had he lived in today's world, he would have been publishing Blogs and News articles online, and objected to the concept that he is not allowed to do so. Internet == freedom of the press. And speech.
No government has a right to stick a muzzle in your mouth & prevent you from exercising your Nature-given right to express yourself (or share the thoughts running through your brain).
Comcast execs are sons of silly persons. Thpppppt! Thppt! Thppt!
I don't wanna get your $80/month bills no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in thy general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries! Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time-a! Stupid Comcast-men.
>>>If they can make it less effort to stream or download than it is to pirate
Perhaps, but I still prefer to own games. That way I can convert them back to cash when finished with them. As example: I bought Final Fantasy 13 for $45 sale price, beat it, and then sold to to some guy on ebay for $53.
Made a nice profit. That happens with most of my games where I sell them for a few dollars more than I originally paid, so overall I am making money by owning (versus a $5 rental which I never get back).
On the other hand I might end-up like this guy, and
just go back to rentals: "Author Falls in Love with E-reader"
http://www.analogsf.com/2011_04/altview.shtml
Actually the internet falls under Amendment 10: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution..... are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." In other words neither the Union Congress, the President, nor the Supreme Court were ever delegated the power to turn-off the internet.
That power is reserved to the Member States in perpetuity, until such time as they amend the Constitution to give that power to the central government. Which has not happened.
The power to turn-off the net remains in the hands of your Local Legislature, which is where it should be - close to the people. (My legislator lives on the same street as me - if he ever turned off my internet, I and my neighbors would probably toilet paper the house.)
I actually had a classmate tell me, "Internet is not an essential liberty" in response to my facebook post about Egypt's censorship. And he calls himself a Republican and quotes Benjamin Franklin's essential liberty phrase on his page.
He then unfriended me. Jackass. Why are people so foolish that they think they don't have the right to free speech? (Or travel, or privacy in their homes, et cetera.)
On the other hand, ATT could claim they are not responsible for Phones sending data, and the user should have checked into that prior to signing-up. Just like the old Dialup ISPs said they are not responsible for long-distance charges incurred.
Reminds me of this story - Verizon Can't Do Math - The operator quoted "point zero zero two cents per kilobyte" * 35,500 KB == 71 cents
Verizon charged 71 dollars.
http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know-dollars-from-cents.html