that's not realistic at all. It's true we're going to see massive slowdowns in bandwidth, but those are caused by too many users drawing too much data through the 'tubes'.
Not to mention, this could all be solved if the greedy ISPs and network owners spent some of their damned earnings on upgrading the networks.
seriously though, I'd buy google data crates. one to match each US representative and then I'd place them across the US in those areas, which is the best indicator of population coverage.
Then I'd spend the leftovers on an underground lair.
you're over-analyzing this. It's about money plain and simple.
They don't care what you watch or download, they just want to get paid for it (again).
This is about their networks being saturated, and not wanting to invest the capital to increase capacity.
This is about monopolism. This is actually about neutrality for some.
Comcast, et al, provide their own portals to content. They do not count downloads from these portals towards your cap. They are effectively preventing people from making their own choices as consumers with these restrictions. Interestingly enough, your cable TV uses far more bandwidth than your cable modem. Anyone who watches those free VoD movies that comcast has is effectively getting free bandwidth. They are unlimited after all. Yet, if you convert that bandwidth into TCP/IP all of a sudden, you have limits? Why? Because the content isn't coming from Comcast. You're not watching their advertisers. You're not consuming their services. You're not spending money on them.
This is exactly why it is an issue of network neutrality.
Any network provider who is also a content provider has an extreme conflict of interest to provide un-biased Internet access. They want that money spent on their services in their portals. So they begin to limit you through volume. Yet they don't limit the volume of their content services through volume at all. Think about that.
I certainly do not have an account on any of the social networking sites. If I want to network socially, I'll go outside.
Though I'm glad a company is showing some common sense where privacy is regarded. If your new hire likes to listen to fall out boy and talk about her belly button piercing, that's none of her employers business.
I can hand-make cables which will be twice as good as those belkin makes.
there are a few secrets. First, you want shielded cables. Get shielded cat 6. Get shielded connectors. Get weatherproof goo gel. the same kind used by the phone company for outdoor NIDs. Also, take extreme care when stripping the shielding. The biggest secret of all, take out as few twists as possible from each pair.
and length is also a big factor. the shorter the cable, the higher quality you can make it.
As for terminating in blocks or such, if you can find gold-plated copper terminator blocks, use the goo gel to protect the cables and exposed blocks from oxidation.
The biggest 3 factors are cable and jack quality, jack connection quality, and oxidation over time. I doubt you can find OFC shielded cat 6 though.
Let's be honest though, if it can transmit gigabit, it can transmit 20Mbit. Oxidation is always the factor over time though.
Taser has a right to defend their trademark. On the other hand, it will be interesting to see if they can defend a word that has become synonymous with stun gun.
He missed probably the most important fact. It's not that the audience for hardcore gaming has shrunk, it's that the casual gaming audience has grown massively.
The hardcore crowd is alive and growing.
And there's nothing more hardcore than spending $250 on peripherals to play a game. That IS hardcore.
I was attending university in the late 90's and have recently started again.
I've noticed a huge change. Professors are cramming twice as many sections in as before. The level of actual teaching has gone down greatly.
On the other hand, there are exceptions to that. There are still a few epic teachers in the university system, though few and far between. They are usually teaching courses at the freshman level though.
Higher courses are taught by apparently really busy professors who are so busy they don't have time for their sections, but that's always been the case.
the first time that their database is used in an improper manner, turnitin will look like incompetent fools. The judge who ruled this decision will look like an even bigger fool.
What if I turn in my paper with a digital signature or license agreement? turnitin will eventually mis-use the work.
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then we'll have a cold war of encryption.
the network is not your device.
The network is devices though. And those devices still use memory and CPUs, albeit different than ones we use in our computers.
But everyone treats bandwidth as some sort of amazing and mystical thing.
All bandwidth is, is routers and fiber optic cables.
You buy more routers and fiber, you have more bandwidth.
it's a game. If you're trying to make a living at it, you're a moron.
it's barely a game.
that being said, Linden labs only smiles on the way to the bank every time one of these lawsuits pops up.
as well, wouldn't anything taking place in the "second life" also be subject to the laws of the "second life"?
that's not realistic at all. It's true we're going to see massive slowdowns in bandwidth, but those are caused by too many users drawing too much data through the 'tubes'.
Not to mention, this could all be solved if the greedy ISPs and network owners spent some of their damned earnings on upgrading the networks.
I'm quite impressed with it.
It's a huge step up from vista.
I particularly like the action center.
and yes, they'll play doom.
seriously though, I'd buy google data crates. one to match each US representative and then I'd place them across the US in those areas, which is the best indicator of population coverage.
Then I'd spend the leftovers on an underground lair.
you're over-analyzing this. It's about money plain and simple.
They don't care what you watch or download, they just want to get paid for it (again).
This is about their networks being saturated, and not wanting to invest the capital to increase capacity.
This is about monopolism. This is actually about neutrality for some.
Comcast, et al, provide their own portals to content. They do not count downloads from these portals towards your cap. They are effectively preventing people from making their own choices as consumers with these restrictions. Interestingly enough, your cable TV uses far more bandwidth than your cable modem. Anyone who watches those free VoD movies that comcast has is effectively getting free bandwidth. They are unlimited after all. Yet, if you convert that bandwidth into TCP/IP all of a sudden, you have limits? Why? Because the content isn't coming from Comcast. You're not watching their advertisers. You're not consuming their services. You're not spending money on them.
This is exactly why it is an issue of network neutrality.
Any network provider who is also a content provider has an extreme conflict of interest to provide un-biased Internet access. They want that money spent on their services in their portals. So they begin to limit you through volume. Yet they don't limit the volume of their content services through volume at all. Think about that.
shouldn't they patch the version XP shipped with instead?
I certainly do not have an account on any of the social networking sites. If I want to network socially, I'll go outside.
Though I'm glad a company is showing some common sense where privacy is regarded. If your new hire likes to listen to fall out boy and talk about her belly button piercing, that's none of her employers business.
they are utilizing probably a tenth of their hacking capacity. they are hitting sparse targets for capital gain or espionage.
What would happen if they decided to hit us for real?
I'm pretty sure they don't make AGP motherboards anymore.
everything is PCI-e, with good reason.
The killer XENO pro and Ultra WILL do this while the computer sleeps.
though the device is pci-e and will require a BIOS that supports this function.
I can hand-make cables which will be twice as good as those belkin makes.
there are a few secrets. First, you want shielded cables. Get shielded cat 6. Get shielded connectors. Get weatherproof goo gel. the same kind used by the phone company for outdoor NIDs.
Also, take extreme care when stripping the shielding.
The biggest secret of all, take out as few twists as possible from each pair.
and length is also a big factor. the shorter the cable, the higher quality you can make it.
As for terminating in blocks or such, if you can find gold-plated copper terminator blocks, use the goo gel to protect the cables and exposed blocks from oxidation.
The biggest 3 factors are cable and jack quality, jack connection quality, and oxidation over time. I doubt you can find OFC shielded cat 6 though.
Let's be honest though, if it can transmit gigabit, it can transmit 20Mbit. Oxidation is always the factor over time though.
agreed. trademarks are 'defend it or lose it'
Taser has a right to defend their trademark. On the other hand, it will be interesting to see if they can defend a word that has become synonymous with stun gun.
that's more than they want users to consume.
Who the fuck are they to tell us how much we can use?
They just sell the unlimited access.
I really hope congress introduces legislation to prevent this bullshit in the future.
unlimited means unlimited!
if it can interact just like it was on windows7, will it be just as vulnerable?
will people choose to use that rather than windows 7 all the time?
will it run on top of a hypervisor? ie, can it access the hardware directly?
really? who flew to an interstellar cloud to find them?
He missed probably the most important fact. It's not that the audience for hardcore gaming has shrunk, it's that the casual gaming audience has grown massively.
The hardcore crowd is alive and growing.
And there's nothing more hardcore than spending $250 on peripherals to play a game. That IS hardcore.
even if that's what it costs, shouldn't they charge every subscriber that $6.85 fee so they can double the capacity?
I'd pay a $6.85 fee once to double my bandwidth. I'm sure everyone else would also.
but the truth is this, bandwidth costs nothing once you have the infrastructure in place.
of course you are limited by your equipment though. So the statement actually holds merit.
I would tend to agree with you on this account.
I was attending university in the late 90's and have recently started again.
I've noticed a huge change. Professors are cramming twice as many sections in as before. The level of actual teaching has gone down greatly.
On the other hand, there are exceptions to that. There are still a few epic teachers in the university system, though few and far between. They are usually teaching courses at the freshman level though.
Higher courses are taught by apparently really busy professors who are so busy they don't have time for their sections, but that's always been the case.
the first time that their database is used in an improper manner, turnitin will look like incompetent fools. The judge who ruled this decision will look like an even bigger fool.
What if I turn in my paper with a digital signature or license agreement? turnitin will eventually mis-use the work.
Linux is free :)
and many people actually want to use it.
It will be interesting to see how the operating system fails.
This starter edition is a class-action waiting to happen.
It's crippled. It's not missing features, it's missing functionality.
Millions will be livid when the find out the truth about it's lack of capabilities.
Microsoft will lose their ass on this again. It's a really bad idea.
the problem is the same no matter what sector it's in. The problem is people. People are the weakest link in the security chain.
I would be willing to bet money that it was some high-ranking brass who left the door open.
I would love to know how, though, you can copy terabytes of data without being noticed? seems fishy.
and for open source, the price point is zero.
this gives open source a boost in value instantly.