The sad fact is you are probably not far from the bullseye on that one.
How many of the people that downloaded a crappy cam rip and could bear to sit through it told a bunch of their friends what a great movie it was, and not only went out to see it on the big screen, but brought a bunch of friends with them?
What a great guerilla marketing campaign that would be for Hollywood to pre-release a "cam" version of the film on Pirate Bay--poor video quality, lousy sound, shakes and wobbles, popcorn rustling!
Thanks for the clarification. I though the sandwich planning board was a slab of wood that sat between my sandwich and counter-top graven with various condimentary flow-charts and cold-cut layering strategies.
Chinese factories turn out stuff like this all the time. I have traveled to the South Pacific and you can get a basic smart phone for $20--made in china. They won't sell in the western world for that because they can sell the same piece of junk for $120, or "bundle" it for $20 with a term contract. In most countires in Africa where average household expenditure is less than $300, cell phones are prolific--this certainly is not because people are spending a years worth of wages to buy a phone. Companies will charge what the market will bear.
These capping policies are as American as it gets. America is all about corporate geed and that is what data caps amount to. Making people pay for services they use doesn't sound like a particularly harmful idea unless you are all about communism, and we all know how well that works out.
Bandwidth is as theoretically unlimited as energy is, so maybe the power company should just charge everyone a flat rate. They could take the entire operating costs for the month, divide that by the number of users, add a reasonable margin for profit, to cover the expenses for future growth, R&D, unexpected maintenance (ie, tornado damage, etc.), and then charge each user for their "fair share" Except that really wouldn't be a very FAIR share, would it. What about That Guy living next door that always leaves every light on in the house, has four old "beer fridges" out in the garage (each with two cans of MGD) and leaves the A/C on with every window open. That Guy uses 10 times the amount of power You do. Why should he pay the same amount?
I am probably one of the first people to jump up and rally against corporate greed, and I really believe that usage rates are usually pretty outrageous (especially mobile operators). But what is truly the American ideal, is opportunity. If you think these fees and rates are so completely outrageous, why don't you start an ISP and charge more reasonable rates, then you can start looking at the very real expenses of installing and maintaining metropolitan area networks and the assiciated services as well as trans-continental fiber-lines. Once you have done that, please, let me know how you feel about giving away the service for free so other people's ideas can blossom and profit.
don't forget that with ebooks, the publisher's distribution costs are practically nothing, there is no printing cost, and no worries of over/under printing, but despite that, the books are still the same price (more or less) than the paper equivalent!
I would be curious if the right to modify the data stored in the phone is covered under the contract. After all, you own the phone. Is this not a criminal violation? Did you explicitly grant them permission to access your compter and modify the data within? If that is not explicitly mentioned in the contract, could this not be seen as unauthorized computer access and subject to criminal prosecution under all sorts of "hacking" laws?
The whole idea of "push" media spawned back around 1995 with Pointcast, Marimba, BackWeb and others. It was The Next Big Thing(TM) and it was going to change the way we used the internet. Of course at the time most people were still using 28.8K dialup at home and didn't want to wait for an hour while all your new content downloaded as soon as you connected.
Most of this was much more general than just pushing podcasts, but the whole idea of subscribing to a "channel" that updates you and automatically downloads when new content is available is what push media was all about. I could go on, but Wired Magazine headlined this in their March '97 issue, or just google it.
yes, because people regularly break into my NOC, pull the drives out of my backup servers and practice juggling. Tapes are rubbish. Tape is expensive and unreliable. Anyone that tells you otherwise is selling the stuff.
Hard drives have replaced tapes around here. For decades we juggled tapes in a vain attempt to maintain useful backups only to find that EVERY SINGLE TIME we needed critical data from backup, the data was unrecoverable.
For the past few years now, we have been backing up all of our critical data to a low powered server with TB drives in mirrored arrays. Security on this server is exteremly high. The only service it runs is SSH, backups are all done as pulls from the servers, has no untrusted local users and sits on an extremely restriced network segment.
With the thousands we have saved not replacing tape media and drives (not to mention the amount of overtime not wasted screwing around in the middle of the night trying to find a working tape to restore from) we are adding a mirror for this archive offsite.
I was going to say I have yet to encounter a java application that works correctly cross-platform, but I then realized that I have yet to encounter a java application that works correctly on any platform.
...kill more people every year than a couple of crached planes. If the same amount of funding and resources went into preventing drunk driving we would all be a whole lot happier (and probably healthier because no one we be able to drive anywhere...)
Look at the state of fear people live in now. Terrorists don't have to crash planes into buildings anymore. They have already won by subverting the government propaganda machine into cultivating an environment of terror.
We operate over 50 sites North of 60, with our own uplink facility in Southern Canada. I can tell you satellite bandwidth is EXPENSIVE! Face it, it costs a lot of money to get those things floating around the planet and keep them up there.
There are a few options available to lower the cost, which tend to lead to the 3 options.
The one thing that Infosat does is use KU band. This is cheaper because is has a much greater suck factor. The main problem is the impact of rain-fade. This becomes especially significant in the high north becuase, being on the edge of the footprint (lower gain) and having much more atmosphere to pass through, plus lower elevation angles on the antenna lead to higher noise from terrestrial radiation. (we used infosat links for a number of years, and had the same problems you talk about) The other option is to use C-Band. It has a better footprint in the north and rain fade is a fairly negligible factor. It is also significantly more expensive. Telesat now has KA band as well, but I'm not that familiar with how it performs, or is priced. There are some issues with KA band, as well because it uses spot beams, so you cannot have a direct link between the East and West without a downlink in the middle somewhere. Most providers that are offering a "cheap" solution will also provide shared bandwidth solutions. This works well up to a point, as it allows you to make use of extra space when other users aren't using it (commonly called "burst" speeds), but the main problems with this are that everyone tends to want to use it at the same time (more or less) and it is easy for the provider to oversubscribe the link. You may be able to talk to your provider about traffic shaping options to see if they can prioritize voip, although I suppose that is not a very PC remark these days:)
If you use the service mostly within the communities, there is a last mile broadband solution available for most places in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut (www.qiniq.com / www.airware.ca) using MCS (Clearwire).
The only difference between c-band and ku-band dishes is in the feed-horn. because KU band is a much higher frequency, the aperture is much smaller, and thus a different sizing WG fitting is required to mate with the LNB. Of course, there is always the issue of polarity as well, linear and circular polarized feeds have different setups.
The dish itself is just a big surface area to collect signal and bounce it into the middle. You can get c band ku band l band, and pretty much all microwave frequencies (hence the polularity for ISM hack-jobs)
There are plenty of other TLDs that would be happy to have your money. You could always register a.tw domain for $40/year or a.cn for only $20. I think you can have a.ki domain for a measly $5,000 per anum. It just so happens that Verisign has the one you want--the glorious.com. That's a bit like whining about Intel having a monopoly on the Pentium processor or Mattel having a monopoly on the Barbie Doll.
Maybe you should go back to playing with your Barbies and let the grownups talk.
Doing something different from what you are used to is ALWAYS more difficult. Get over it.
That's a commonly propagated misconception. For anyone that has a basic understanding of what they are trying to do, good interface design should make things simple, regardless of what you are used to.
I have worked through various versions of DOS, Windows, Solaris, Linux and other Unices, and Mac OS, as well as various Commodore products in the last 30 some years.
There is always a learning curve when switching to a new UI, but there are some well accepted principals of good interface design that will determine how steep that curve is.
About once every two years (for that past 15) I have taken a look at the latest Linux distro to see how far it has come(I think I stall have my original Slackware1.0 release around somewhere). It's come a long way, but there are still lots of things that are awkward or nonsensical, and I certainly wouldn't try and give it to my mom. But I can say the same thing about Windows Vista---in fact Vista probably looses that debate by a far stretch, it just has more momentum behind it.
The "get over it" attitude is really the problem. About a year ago I switched to OSX with no small amount of trepidation. Within hours I was comfortably maneuvering and within a couple of days, I was able to use the interface more efficiently that anything else I had ever worked with.
Good user interface design is sadly lacking in most sectors of the computer industry (and most sectors of the electronics industry in general.)
Don't forget the bureaucracy that will be required to administrate all of this will require it's own department on both the federal and provincial levels, as well as tie-ins at the municipal level for the validation of permits and licensing of the ISP's, which will, of course, result in an increase in all other existing taxes.
A pox on them all. I hope we re-write our app in mySQL.
If more people share this attitude it will become "profitable" for Microsoft to fix this.
If not, well, you will have a secure app anyway, and MS can bugger off and die in a gutter somewhere, and all the dumb bastards that decided to rely on a free piece of software from a company with a horrible reputation for customer support and secure coding practices get what they deserve!
Slashdot Mirror
The sad fact is you are probably not far from the bullseye on that one.
How many of the people that downloaded a crappy cam rip and could bear to sit through it told a bunch of their friends what a great movie it was, and not only went out to see it on the big screen, but brought a bunch of friends with them?
What a great guerilla marketing campaign that would be for Hollywood to pre-release a "cam" version of the film on Pirate Bay--poor video quality, lousy sound, shakes and wobbles, popcorn rustling!
Wouldn't this count as Fraud, entitling FedFlix to damages, real and possibly punitive?
Thanks for the clarification. I though the sandwich planning board was a slab of wood that sat between my sandwich and counter-top graven with various condimentary flow-charts and cold-cut layering strategies.
Chinese factories turn out stuff like this all the time. I have traveled to the South Pacific and you can get a basic smart phone for $20--made in china. They won't sell in the western world for that because they can sell the same piece of junk for $120, or "bundle" it for $20 with a term contract. In most countires in Africa where average household expenditure is less than $300, cell phones are prolific--this certainly is not because people are spending a years worth of wages to buy a phone. Companies will charge what the market will bear.
hulu, pandora, netflix, amazon mp3 download all block HSS IP's
Or have your display panels upholstered with this stuff:
http://www.lessemf.com/fabric.html
These capping policies are as American as it gets. America is all about corporate geed and that is what data caps amount to. Making people pay for services they use doesn't sound like a particularly harmful idea unless you are all about communism, and we all know how well that works out.
Bandwidth is as theoretically unlimited as energy is, so maybe the power company should just charge everyone a flat rate. They could take the entire operating costs for the month, divide that by the number of users, add a reasonable margin for profit, to cover the expenses for future growth, R&D, unexpected maintenance (ie, tornado damage, etc.), and then charge each user for their "fair share" Except that really wouldn't be a very FAIR share, would it. What about That Guy living next door that always leaves every light on in the house, has four old "beer fridges" out in the garage (each with two cans of MGD) and leaves the A/C on with every window open. That Guy uses 10 times the amount of power You do. Why should he pay the same amount?
I am probably one of the first people to jump up and rally against corporate greed, and I really believe that usage rates are usually pretty outrageous (especially mobile operators). But what is truly the American ideal, is opportunity. If you think these fees and rates are so completely outrageous, why don't you start an ISP and charge more reasonable rates, then you can start looking at the very real expenses of installing and maintaining metropolitan area networks and the assiciated services as well as trans-continental fiber-lines. Once you have done that, please, let me know how you feel about giving away the service for free so other people's ideas can blossom and profit.
don't forget that with ebooks, the publisher's distribution costs are practically nothing, there is no printing cost, and no worries of over/under printing, but despite that, the books are still the same price (more or less) than the paper equivalent!
I would be curious if the right to modify the data stored in the phone is covered under the contract. After all, you own the phone. Is this not a criminal violation? Did you explicitly grant them permission to access your compter and modify the data within? If that is not explicitly mentioned in the contract, could this not be seen as unauthorized computer access and subject to criminal prosecution under all sorts of "hacking" laws?
The whole idea of "push" media spawned back around 1995 with Pointcast, Marimba, BackWeb and others. It was The Next Big Thing(TM) and it was going to change the way we used the internet. Of course at the time most people were still using 28.8K dialup at home and didn't want to wait for an hour while all your new content downloaded as soon as you connected.
Most of this was much more general than just pushing podcasts, but the whole idea of subscribing to a "channel" that updates you and automatically downloads when new content is available is what push media was all about. I could go on, but Wired Magazine headlined this in their March '97 issue, or just google it.
yes, because people regularly break into my NOC, pull the drives out of my backup servers and practice juggling. Tapes are rubbish. Tape is expensive and unreliable. Anyone that tells you otherwise is selling the stuff.
Hard drives have replaced tapes around here. For decades we juggled tapes in a vain attempt to maintain useful backups only to find that EVERY SINGLE TIME we needed critical data from backup, the data was unrecoverable.
For the past few years now, we have been backing up all of our critical data to a low powered server with TB drives in mirrored arrays. Security on this server is exteremly high. The only service it runs is SSH, backups are all done as pulls from the servers, has no untrusted local users and sits on an extremely restriced network segment.
With the thousands we have saved not replacing tape media and drives (not to mention the amount of overtime not wasted screwing around in the middle of the night trying to find a working tape to restore from) we are adding a mirror for this archive offsite.
I was going to say I have yet to encounter a java application that works correctly cross-platform, but I then realized that I have yet to encounter a java application that works correctly on any platform.
you need to forward the email from the naughty girl to the nerd
If anything can be read of the review, I think it is that is perfectly mirrors the mood of the book itself: inane and pointless.
...kill more people every year than a couple of crached planes. If the same amount of funding and resources went into preventing drunk driving we would all be a whole lot happier (and probably healthier because no one we be able to drive anywhere...)
Look at the state of fear people live in now. Terrorists don't have to crash planes into buildings anymore. They have already won by subverting the government propaganda machine into cultivating an environment of terror.
Pick 2.
We operate over 50 sites North of 60, with our own uplink facility in Southern Canada. I can tell you satellite bandwidth is EXPENSIVE! Face it, it costs a lot of money to get those things floating around the planet and keep them up there.
There are a few options available to lower the cost, which tend to lead to the 3 options.
The one thing that Infosat does is use KU band. This is cheaper because is has a much greater suck factor. The main problem is the impact of rain-fade. This becomes especially significant in the high north becuase, being on the edge of the footprint (lower gain) and having much more atmosphere to pass through, plus lower elevation angles on the antenna lead to higher noise from terrestrial radiation. (we used infosat links for a number of years, and had the same problems you talk about) :)
The other option is to use C-Band. It has a better footprint in the north and rain fade is a fairly negligible factor. It is also significantly more expensive.
Telesat now has KA band as well, but I'm not that familiar with how it performs, or is priced. There are some issues with KA band, as well because it uses spot beams, so you cannot have a direct link between the East and West without a downlink in the middle somewhere.
Most providers that are offering a "cheap" solution will also provide shared bandwidth solutions. This works well up to a point, as it allows you to make use of extra space when other users aren't using it (commonly called "burst" speeds), but the main problems with this are that everyone tends to want to use it at the same time (more or less) and it is easy for the provider to oversubscribe the link. You may be able to talk to your provider about traffic shaping options to see if they can prioritize voip, although I suppose that is not a very PC remark these days
If you use the service mostly within the communities, there is a last mile broadband solution available for most places in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut (www.qiniq.com / www.airware.ca) using MCS (Clearwire).
Wrongo!
The only difference between c-band and ku-band dishes is in the feed-horn. because KU band is a much higher frequency, the aperture is much smaller, and thus a different sizing WG fitting is required to mate with the LNB. Of course, there is always the issue of polarity as well, linear and circular polarized feeds have different setups.
The dish itself is just a big surface area to collect signal and bounce it into the middle. You can get c band ku band l band, and pretty much all microwave frequencies (hence the polularity for ISM hack-jobs)
foreach file ( a* )
echo $file
end
There are plenty of other TLDs that would be happy to have your money. You could always register a .tw domain for $40/year or a .cn for only $20. I think you can have a .ki domain for a measly $5,000 per anum. It just so happens that Verisign has the one you want--the glorious .com. That's a bit like whining about Intel having a monopoly on the Pentium processor or Mattel having a monopoly on the Barbie Doll.
Maybe you should go back to playing with your Barbies and let the grownups talk.
Doing something different from what you are used to is ALWAYS more difficult. Get over it.
That's a commonly propagated misconception. For anyone that has a basic understanding of what they are trying to do, good interface design should make things simple, regardless of what you are used to.
I have worked through various versions of DOS, Windows, Solaris, Linux and other Unices, and Mac OS, as well as various Commodore products in the last 30 some years.
There is always a learning curve when switching to a new UI, but there are some well accepted principals of good interface design that will determine how steep that curve is.
About once every two years (for that past 15) I have taken a look at the latest Linux distro to see how far it has come(I think I stall have my original Slackware1.0 release around somewhere). It's come a long way, but there are still lots of things that are awkward or nonsensical, and I certainly wouldn't try and give it to my mom. But I can say the same thing about Windows Vista---in fact Vista probably looses that debate by a far stretch, it just has more momentum behind it.
The "get over it" attitude is really the problem. About a year ago I switched to OSX with no small amount of trepidation. Within hours I was comfortably maneuvering and within a couple of days, I was able to use the interface more efficiently that anything else I had ever worked with.
Good user interface design is sadly lacking in most sectors of the computer industry (and most sectors of the electronics industry in general.)
Get over that.
Don't forget the bureaucracy that will be required to administrate all of this will require it's own department on both the federal and provincial levels, as well as tie-ins at the municipal level for the validation of permits and licensing of the ISP's, which will, of course, result in an increase in all other existing taxes.
wouldn't that just be mousterbation?
A pox on them all. I hope we re-write our app in mySQL.
If more people share this attitude it will become "profitable" for Microsoft to fix this.
If not, well, you will have a secure app anyway, and MS can bugger off and die in a gutter somewhere, and all the dumb bastards that decided to rely on a free piece of software from a company with a horrible reputation for customer support and secure coding practices get what they deserve!
Shouldn't you keep backups?
yeah killed, as in kill -1