my cap here in columbus, ohio (wideopenwest) is 500k, and i'm paying 50$ per month including the cable tv. roughly25$ per month each. they have a 1.5mb plan too, but i didn't recall seeing too many downloads over 350-400kb/s when i was on RoadRunner and that was fast enough for me. to me the fact that it is always on is the best feature.
It is a root hub system, nearly all buses go to downtown, then you transfer to what ever bus goes out from downtown to the part of the city you want to travel to.
that's a big turn off on most transit systems. if you live in the 'burbs and work downtown, they're great, but if you live in the southwest 'burbs, and work in the southeast 'burbs you gotta go thru downtown then back down to the southeast to get where you're going.
i don't understand why transit systems can't follow the freeway systems; all of them. mass transit systems are a GOOD THING, but they need to be convenient and easy to use. i've used the transit systems around NY/Manhattan, DC and Toronto, and they all work nicely. i'm not sure if they're modeled after the "highways", but they get you where you want to go, safely and cheeply.
i would love to see the M.A.D.D. folks get some support for more mass transit systems all around the states. the way those emotional mothers can get legislation passed is pheonominal. i guess they usually have large insurance companies riding on their tails (or the other way around) so it's not likely to happen.
another issue that doesn't seem to be solved across the board is what's a fair way to fund the transport system? city sales tax? that only hurts the city. city income tax? funded completely by fare prices won't get it since it would be too expensive and people wouldn't ride. i think the state should be responsible for mass transit in all its major cities, and the federal gov't should be responsible for transport between the states. to get if funded, they could stop spending money on research to show how they can drill up all over Alaska, and put money to better causes.
i guess that's where personal morals come into play. there are plenty of laws out there on the books that just don't make sense (unlimited copyright?), so people are able to make their own choices and take the chances against the laws. for instance, in my city (Cols, OH), it's illegal to work on a car other than your own in your garage (can't change your friends oil/brakes). it's also required by local code here in the buckeye city to keep your house at 70F during the winter. while that might be the common comfort zone, there are those who prefer and can withstand temperatures indoors down to a fridgid 65F.
i agree with your other points, but is getting HBO for free really stealing? stealing what? a signal that you didn't ask them to send to you anyway? sure, your getting something without paying the normal price for it, but they're sending the signal to your house and you didn't even ask for it. it's not your fault they have a flawed delivery mechanism.
you've always gotta throw an analogy in, so here goes. if i order just a side of eggs in a resturant, and they bring out the whole breakfast complete with hashbrowns, toast and sausage, i just might pick up the fork from the table and eat everything on the plate (yep, i'm pretty sure i would). but i'll be damned if i'm going to pay for anything more than the side of eggs that i ordered though.
it wasn't brought up, but i don't think the DMCA comes into play at all here since with cable descrambling you're not copying anything, and it's not encrypted/scrambled to protect copying, only viewing.
great theory... until someone else comes along and rips out that damn annoying marketing crap and re-releases it for free because they're just a pre-college student with nothing better to do.
open source is about as anti-marketing as you can get. as soon as someone trys to sell it, there's always someone else willing to give it away.
i don't think i get it. do you first huff a little line of powder to see exactly what it is you're telling your kids not to do? do you first take a litte stroll into the diva dance club just to see what it is you're not going to see every weekend? i don't know all about this sims/McD's issue, but if the sims game has a rep for having lots of McD's ads everywhere, i'm sure the PETA folks won't be buying the game. they're probably not going to buy a copy just to make sure, they'll take your word for it.
Our dev cost is very low or is 10% to.Net workshop.
whooo there... take it easy on the FUD will ya?.. generally, the bulk of development cost is labor hours, not the tools. the tools help to reduce the labor hours. Sure java and linux may be the future, but.. microsoft software isn't that much cheaper to develop than java/open source software. the biggest development costs are in the hours spent doing analysis, designing, building, and testing. your 800$ pc with 3000$ of software on it is chump change in comparison to the 6 man months put into the project. also, considering the biggest risk in a project (what can fsck it up), is also those 6 man months.
oh wait, you said internal project. sorry. didn't catch that. most companies are ok using MS Access for internal projects. you'll be hard pressed to find anyone willing to invest a dime on software tools for an internal project. and if full time people are assigned work to an interenal project in this day and age, i would be slightly curious when the pink slip might come my way.
you really Kontradict yourself there. you state that XP makes better code and in less time, but you don't like working with other people "directly". then you say, well my code doesn't have that many bugs.
in my experience, people who don't work well directly with other people work on software maintenance, not software development. that's where it's easier to not product bugs because there's hopefully slews of regression test suites left over from the guys who put it together.
i'll admit that working on a team project with lots of people doesn't leave much time for reading/., but are you really missing much? to me the day is much more fulfilling...
one key thing that i've noticed that is missing lately, and the reviewer mentioned it, is team leadership. team leaders have started jumping on this project management kick, and there's really no leadership for the teams. everyone wants to manage, manage, manage. i'm of the thought that a little leadership and the project will manage itself (though the teamwork).
a few years back, when a corporate name on your software really mattered to those CxO's, people implemented ASP/IIS. after all, noone got fired for implementing a Microsoft Solution.
PHP and Perl are nice, but they're not quite mainstream. these days ASP needs to beat out JSP and Tomcat. and at least the J in the Jsp is slightly backed by someone. that might give the CxO's a pseudo warm and fuzzy even if their business plan isn't worth the paper it's printed on.
I have been reduced to teaching MS Office at a local junior college
it's not necessarilly reduced. sounds like more a career advancement/adjustment to me. you might have the opportunity to be more productive than in a cube farm where you can't sneeze on a project that's been scoped by management guestament figures, obtained 35 AFE signatures, and is already late and over budget.
these days, if you're an application developer you have 2 main choices. you can learn.NET, or you can learn java. general java is good, but you'll be the one doing the hunting. if you have very solid j2ee experience under your belt, you'll probably be sought out. (conversely, if you've got 9 months development experience using.NET you'll probably be sought as well as people are starting to flirt with the devil on this technology front.).
in most other software development fronts, c/c++ are still the languages of choice, and your edge is in knowing how to use certain api's (visual c++, com+, unix threads, rdbms, etc) within those languages.
isn't/. holding up its end of the bargin and providing plenty of interesting reading material between the "idle" times at the office? comon, we were recently enlightened about a spanish book about neanderthals
interesting point. this could conclude that folks would be willing to purchase their online goods for foreign countries where the tax isn't required (say canada). shipping is usually a little more from those places, but i'm sure they'll be able to make a business model out of it.
they are guaranteeing this "crisis". maybe not directly, but they're the ones releasing it in a standard home format. it's either the producers or the mpaa. they go out and release a pre-screening DVD video. they know the technology is out there to rip the dvd in 30 minutes, and turn it into a (s)vcd in a few hours. the producers could certainly do themselves a favor and release it on good old fashioned reel-to-reel tape or better yet, DON'T RELEASE IT UNTIL YOU WANT PEOPLE TO SEE IT.
people can't copy somthing that's not available yet. if the movie is only released when it's ready for the theater, and it's released to the theater to display (in theater medium), then there's not going to be much copying. sure some people might visually record what they're seeing with a home video camera, but arguably, that's their production, not the movie studio's. the fact that they probably smuggled the video camera into the theater is a separate issue.
bottom line. if the studios are going to release a work in a home format, it's going to find its way into the homes.
sounds like either way you've got to have an admin around. i'd rather have one on hand that can fix the problem should one arise, not someone who has to figure out the simple "adminisration tools".
The overhead to pay MS for software and support is less than hiring Senior UNIX Admins, and that's basically what it all comes down to.
really? why can't a jr. unix admin handle the linux box? you're all set on using a jr. microsoft admin for the job, why does it have to be a sr. unix admin for the linux web server?
the cold fact is that most companies still like having a name behind all their software. not that i've ever seen any of those companies show up (except for DEC) when there was a system problem. apache may be the most widely used webserver out there on the net, but mainstream commercial sites are not the most widely found sites on the net either. ahh the joys of corporate america.
perhaps the license fees are small enough they can still sell them for 22$. maybe they kick back 1$ per unit. it's more than atari/nintendo are making from those games today anyway.
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my cap here in columbus, ohio (wideopenwest) is 500k, and i'm paying 50$ per month including the cable tv. roughly25$ per month each. they have a 1.5mb plan too, but i didn't recall seeing too many downloads over 350-400kb/s when i was on RoadRunner and that was fast enough for me. to me the fact that it is always on is the best feature.
Oh, when the Homeland Security Office kicks in they probably won't need even court orders anymore.
and their motto: "all your activities r belong to us". and in the name of terrorism, people will just let it happen.
It is a root hub system, nearly all buses go to downtown, then you transfer to what ever bus goes out from downtown to the part of the city you want to travel to.
that's a big turn off on most transit systems. if you live in the 'burbs and work downtown, they're great, but if you live in the southwest 'burbs, and work in the southeast 'burbs you gotta go thru downtown then back down to the southeast to get where you're going.
i don't understand why transit systems can't follow the freeway systems; all of them. mass transit systems are a GOOD THING, but they need to be convenient and easy to use. i've used the transit systems around NY/Manhattan, DC and Toronto, and they all work nicely. i'm not sure if they're modeled after the "highways", but they get you where you want to go, safely and cheeply.
i would love to see the M.A.D.D. folks get some support for more mass transit systems all around the states. the way those emotional mothers can get legislation passed is pheonominal. i guess they usually have large insurance companies riding on their tails (or the other way around) so it's not likely to happen.
another issue that doesn't seem to be solved across the board is what's a fair way to fund the transport system? city sales tax? that only hurts the city. city income tax? funded completely by fare prices won't get it since it would be too expensive and people wouldn't ride. i think the state should be responsible for mass transit in all its major cities, and the federal gov't should be responsible for transport between the states. to get if funded, they could stop spending money on research to show how they can drill up all over Alaska, and put money to better causes.
i guess that's where personal morals come into play. there are plenty of laws out there on the books that just don't make sense (unlimited copyright?), so people are able to make their own choices and take the chances against the laws. for instance, in my city (Cols, OH), it's illegal to work on a car other than your own in your garage (can't change your friends oil/brakes). it's also required by local code here in the buckeye city to keep your house at 70F during the winter. while that might be the common comfort zone, there are those who prefer and can withstand temperatures indoors down to a fridgid 65F.
i agree with your other points, but is getting HBO for free really stealing? stealing what? a signal that you didn't ask them to send to you anyway? sure, your getting something without paying the normal price for it, but they're sending the signal to your house and you didn't even ask for it. it's not your fault they have a flawed delivery mechanism.
you've always gotta throw an analogy in, so here goes. if i order just a side of eggs in a resturant, and they bring out the whole breakfast complete with hashbrowns, toast and sausage, i just might pick up the fork from the table and eat everything on the plate (yep, i'm pretty sure i would). but i'll be damned if i'm going to pay for anything more than the side of eggs that i ordered though.
it wasn't brought up, but i don't think the DMCA comes into play at all here since with cable descrambling you're not copying anything, and it's not encrypted/scrambled to protect copying, only viewing.
great theory... until someone else comes along and rips out that damn annoying marketing crap and re-releases it for free because they're just a pre-college student with nothing better to do.
open source is about as anti-marketing as you can get. as soon as someone trys to sell it, there's always someone else willing to give it away.
hey now. thoughts like this could lead to boycotting Quake 3 arena, and ... well... we just won't have any of that around this here.
i don't think i get it. do you first huff a little line of powder to see exactly what it is you're telling your kids not to do? do you first take a litte stroll into the diva dance club just to see what it is you're not going to see every weekend? i don't know all about this sims/McD's issue, but if the sims game has a rep for having lots of McD's ads everywhere, i'm sure the PETA folks won't be buying the game. they're probably not going to buy a copy just to make sure, they'll take your word for it.
Our dev cost is very low or is 10% to .Net workshop.
whooo there... take it easy on the FUD will ya?.. generally, the bulk of development cost is labor hours, not the tools. the tools help to reduce the labor hours. Sure java and linux may be the future, but.. microsoft software isn't that much cheaper to develop than java/open source software. the biggest development costs are in the hours spent doing analysis, designing, building, and testing. your 800$ pc with 3000$ of software on it is chump change in comparison to the 6 man months put into the project. also, considering the biggest risk in a project (what can fsck it up), is also those 6 man months.
oh wait, you said internal project. sorry. didn't catch that. most companies are ok using MS Access for internal projects. you'll be hard pressed to find anyone willing to invest a dime on software tools for an internal project. and if full time people are assigned work to an interenal project in this day and age, i would be slightly curious when the pink slip might come my way.
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you really Kontradict yourself there. you state that XP makes better code and in less time, but you don't like working with other people "directly". then you say, well my code doesn't have that many bugs.
/., but are you really missing much? to me the day is much more fulfilling...
in my experience, people who don't work well directly with other people work on software maintenance, not software development. that's where it's easier to not product bugs because there's hopefully slews of regression test suites left over from the guys who put it together.
i'll admit that working on a team project with lots of people doesn't leave much time for reading
one key thing that i've noticed that is missing lately, and the reviewer mentioned it, is team leadership. team leaders have started jumping on this project management kick, and there's really no leadership for the teams. everyone wants to manage, manage, manage. i'm of the thought that a little leadership and the project will manage itself (though the teamwork).
a few years back, when a corporate name on your software really mattered to those CxO's, people implemented ASP/IIS. after all, noone got fired for implementing a Microsoft Solution.
PHP and Perl are nice, but they're not quite mainstream. these days ASP needs to beat out JSP and Tomcat. and at least the J in the Jsp is slightly backed by someone. that might give the CxO's a pseudo warm and fuzzy even if their business plan isn't worth the paper it's printed on.
I have been reduced to teaching MS Office at a local junior college
it's not necessarilly reduced. sounds like more a career advancement/adjustment to me. you might have the opportunity to be more productive than in a cube farm where you can't sneeze on a project that's been scoped by management guestament figures, obtained 35 AFE signatures, and is already late and over budget.
these days, if you're an application developer you have 2 main choices. you can learn .NET, or you can learn java. general java is good, but you'll be the one doing the hunting. if you have very solid j2ee experience under your belt, you'll probably be sought out. (conversely, if you've got 9 months development experience using .NET you'll probably be sought as well as people are starting to flirt with the devil on this technology front.).
in most other software development fronts, c/c++ are still the languages of choice, and your edge is in knowing how to use certain api's (visual c++, com+, unix threads, rdbms, etc) within those languages.
Read the article?
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bite your vile tongue!
psst. that's a completely different site you must be thinking of
developers are getting ripped off
/. holding up its end of the bargin and providing plenty of interesting reading material between the "idle" times at the office? comon, we were recently enlightened about a spanish book about neanderthals
isn't
ripped off indeed.
interesting point. this could conclude that folks would be willing to purchase their online goods for foreign countries where the tax isn't required (say canada). shipping is usually a little more from those places, but i'm sure they'll be able to make a business model out of it.
yep. then we can see matrix type shots on skin-a-max. wh00t! wh00t!
they are guaranteeing this "crisis". maybe not directly, but they're the ones releasing it in a standard home format. it's either the producers or the mpaa. they go out and release a pre-screening DVD video. they know the technology is out there to rip the dvd in 30 minutes, and turn it into a (s)vcd in a few hours. the producers could certainly do themselves a favor and release it on good old fashioned reel-to-reel tape or better yet, DON'T RELEASE IT UNTIL YOU WANT PEOPLE TO SEE IT.
people can't copy somthing that's not available yet. if the movie is only released when it's ready for the theater, and it's released to the theater to display (in theater medium), then there's not going to be much copying. sure some people might visually record what they're seeing with a home video camera, but arguably, that's their production, not the movie studio's. the fact that they probably smuggled the video camera into the theater is a separate issue.
bottom line. if the studios are going to release a work in a home format, it's going to find its way into the homes.
sounds like either way you've got to have an admin around. i'd rather have one on hand that can fix the problem should one arise, not someone who has to figure out the simple "adminisration tools".
The overhead to pay MS for software and support is less than hiring Senior UNIX Admins, and that's basically what it all comes down to.
really? why can't a jr. unix admin handle the linux box? you're all set on using a jr. microsoft admin for the job, why does it have to be a sr. unix admin for the linux web server?
the cold fact is that most companies still like having a name behind all their software. not that i've ever seen any of those companies show up (except for DEC) when there was a system problem. apache may be the most widely used webserver out there on the net, but mainstream commercial sites are not the most widely found sites on the net either. ahh the joys of corporate america.
perhaps the license fees are small enough they can still sell them for 22$. maybe they kick back 1$ per unit. it's more than atari/nintendo are making from those games today anyway.
Maybe you ought to tear yourself away from Slashdot
bite your tounge! we don't need any talk like that around here. we get it from our managers/sysadmins enough as it is.
maybe once they find out that there is a 2.4 series kernel, it'll be a lot easier for them. i won't tell if you don't.