either the ISPs charge for volume, or they charge for speed. charging for _both_ is the problem.
so, if they want to charge for gigabyte, fine, but every line would have to be the same performance wise. like 100 Mb/s for everyone.
or charge for a tiered speeds (10, 20, 50, 100 Mb/s) with no volume cap.
the examples you gave are just like that. electicity is billed by charge (measured in kWh), gasoline by volume (in liters), fone calls by time (minutes), but there's no cap on how many amperes you can draw from the grid, how many lliters per second you can pump or how many calls per hour you can make.
you play 20 matches, during which they evaluate your skills. this way, from match 21 onwards, you're matched with players on the same skill level, which is great.
now i just have to play a few more games, pass the 20 matches mark and see if it works.
Remember when it was ok to use a "b" tag, and no one scoffed? How about table layouts? It's funny, the new standards aren't always better. This is why a format "of the people" isn't going anywhere. I could teach my grandparents how to edit HTML 10 years ago. Now, not so much. Is that better? I'd argue, no.
yeah, and 25 years ago i could teach my mother how to manually mark blocks and insert formating codes on text edited in an 8-bit computer. technology evolves, things get more complicated, then new tools apear to ease the process. so what if you can't create a good looking site using vi or notepad anymore ? use a goddamn authoring tool.
HTML should be more focused on making layouts easier, and faster. It should not be focused on animation. This is where MS Word has fallen off a cliff. If you want more adoption, focus HTML on what actually is important - layout that's understandable to the masses.
oh, and let animation be the focus of adobe flash ? video to real networks, microsoft or apple ? remember the same 10 years ago, we needed 3 different plugins installed so we could watch video, because you never knew if the site was using real video, ms avi or quicktime ?
people actually _want_ pages with animations, video and sound. people like superfluous eye candy. if not, why even bother with flashy GUIs like those on vista, leopard or kde ? so if eye candy it's gonna make it to the web, better that it's an open standard than another proprietary plugin that'll only be available on mac and windows.
these kind of user tend to bag the hardware and software stack as a single thing. same happens with apps/OS. like a former boss who didn't understand that windows and office versions were different things. in his mind, MS office versions were tied with windows version.
now, when the industry comes with a completelly new form factor (tablets, smartphones, etc.), the user doesn't neccessarily expects it to come with the same software stack. thus, the market is now wide open for iOS and android.
China is not an evil empire. But it has shown a tendency to systematically suppress the lives of the lower classes in favor of the ruling classes for thousands of years. There's little evidence that this is different today.
how is this different from other nations exactly ?
1) buy a retail license; 2) use to test and debug the hardware; 3) once it's ready, ship ip with a very basic linux; 4) advertise heavilly the hardware is "windos ready"; 5) let the users buy windows retail and install on their own.
if they buy a retail license on a store, and the mobile phone have all the hardware needed (right kind of CPU, storage, a working BIOS/EFI, etc.) there's nothing microsoft can do to stop them.
unless microsoft puts some very specific wording on the EULA to veto it. problem is, if they do it, they expose themselves to (more) anti-trust investigations.
i've done some work for EMC a few years ago. some small parts (think the size of a PC motherboard) from their clariion and symetrix systems can cost in excess of US$ 10k. heck, some larger symetrix boxes come with an embeded windows notebook free, so you always have an available machine to act as a management terminal.
so it doesn't take a lot of kit to make a million bucks, considered the price of the parts.
it uses the right side alt and shift keys in clever ways to extend the keyboard, also uses the trackpad's central button as ctrl, so sending ctrl+c or ctrl+d is easy. it can even import a private key from a file and/or generate a key and export the public part to include in an authorized_keys file.
not everything is flowers tho.
i'm still using version r484 from march 2010 because versions after that have a badly broken copy/paste. anything after r484, the only way to copy/paste reliably is using touch, r484 allows use of the trackpad to navigate, mark and copy.
if you logged into you gmail account recently and still have the cookies, google will keep the search history for you, making a drill through the HDD a waste o money and time.
even if you don't. if law enforcement finds the IP address you were using at the time of the search, the can look at google's search history for that IP.
wanna bet your teenager saved $99.99, bought a pre-paid BB s/he's not telling you about ?
what teenager would't like an el cheapo phone his/hers parent's could track ? or do you really thing your child is so trusting as to let you know every phone call/SMS/web page that got accessed ?
it doesn't crash. i did this in my work PC and it works like a charm. no flash crap on my $HOME after i made.adobe read only and owned by a diferent user.
they were the ones who invaded serbia and started the whole thing, germany entered the war a month later, but since by the endo of it germany was the only one still fighting (russia surrendered after the bolshevik revolution, austro-hungarian empire and the ottoman (turkey) both broke appart and left the fight. so germany ended up being blamed by everything, even thought they didn't started it.
you mean, like the US have been doing for the last 60 years ? using economical and military power to force their agenda over everybody else ?
i'm glad that for once it's america getting the short end of the stick.
i lived my whole live seeing my country being humiliated an bullied by the US. now we're big enough, near self sufficient, the US owe us shitloads of money and our relationship with china is good enough we don't have to fear this kind of shit.
so here's my advice: stop being douchebags, and maybe this won't happen again. the american empire is crumbling just like many others before. you're in a fragile position, wich means you hate to be carefull of what you do or risk pissing of someone who can hurt you badly.
why would i waste my time creating a throw away account on reuters when i can just as easily install bugmenot extension on firefox and use a pre-made one from there ?
anonimity will always exist on the internet thanks to resourcefull geeks.
the default browsers on both my old nokia N95 (symbian S60) and my current moto milestone (android 2.1) and opera mobile on the N95 (the full opera, not the mini version) have problems with text box being extremely slugish, and even when i managed to finish the text, after hitting "submit", the site times out and the post is lost.
as the wealth gap between the poorest and the richer becomes wider, the developed nations are moving towards a form of corporate feudalism, where the general population becomes serfs of large conglomerates, subject to their rules, whose objective is to syphon money and power to themselfs, leaving to the people barelly enough to stay alive an feeding the corporate lords.
it's not paranoia or a conspiracy theory, is just how i see it, so feel free to disagree.
my rationale id that big money doesn't like democracy, they like money and power. mostly because power allows them to earn even more money, and both can become an adiction. a well organized democracy, with enlightened voters can be an obstacle to large corporations to earn more money and power, so they try to corrupt it. the result tends to a kind of feudalism.
to avoid this, it takes an educated people to vote for high taxation for large corporations and wealthy citizens. leave them enough to re-invest and create jobs, but not enough to corrupt the sytem. but i don't see this happing anytime soon anywhere in the world.
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either the ISPs charge for volume, or they charge for speed. charging for _both_ is the problem.
so, if they want to charge for gigabyte, fine, but every line would have to be the same performance wise. like 100 Mb/s for everyone.
or charge for a tiered speeds (10, 20, 50, 100 Mb/s) with no volume cap.
the examples you gave are just like that. electicity is billed by charge (measured in kWh), gasoline by volume (in liters), fone calls by time (minutes), but there's no cap on how many amperes you can draw from the grid, how many lliters per second you can pump or how many calls per hour you can make.
choose one form of billing and stick to it.
it's what ID software is doing with quake live.
you play 20 matches, during which they evaluate your skills. this way, from match 21 onwards, you're matched with players on the same skill level, which is great.
now i just have to play a few more games, pass the 20 matches mark and see if it works.
Remember when it was ok to use a "b" tag, and no one scoffed? How about table layouts? It's funny, the new standards aren't always better. This is why a format "of the people" isn't going anywhere. I could teach my grandparents how to edit HTML 10 years ago. Now, not so much. Is that better? I'd argue, no.
yeah, and 25 years ago i could teach my mother how to manually mark blocks and insert formating codes on text edited in an 8-bit computer. technology evolves, things get more complicated, then new tools apear to ease the process. so what if you can't create a good looking site using vi or notepad anymore ? use a goddamn authoring tool.
HTML should be more focused on making layouts easier, and faster. It should not be focused on animation. This is where MS Word has fallen off a cliff. If you want more adoption, focus HTML on what actually is important - layout that's understandable to the masses.
oh, and let animation be the focus of adobe flash ? video to real networks, microsoft or apple ? remember the same 10 years ago, we needed 3 different plugins installed so we could watch video, because you never knew if the site was using real video, ms avi or quicktime ?
people actually _want_ pages with animations, video and sound. people like superfluous eye candy. if not, why even bother with flashy GUIs like those on vista, leopard or kde ? so if eye candy it's gonna make it to the web, better that it's an open standard than another proprietary plugin that'll only be available on mac and windows.
You left out that the Verizon iPhone.. All the Tech Unicorns are now showing up.
not all. the white iphone 4 is still the subject of legend.
there's several erratas on his website, one of those is exactly about MMIX.
site
fascicle 1: MMIX (compressed postscript).
on the site he tells which parts of volume 1 are replaced by the fascicle.
even because sometimes the best song in the albun is not the one that was playing incessantly in the radio. YMMV.
there's a problem with your argument.
they're familiar with windows ON FULL SIZED PCs!
these kind of user tend to bag the hardware and software stack as a single thing. same happens with apps/OS. like a former boss who didn't understand that windows and office versions were different things. in his mind, MS office versions were tied with windows version.
now, when the industry comes with a completelly new form factor (tablets, smartphones, etc.), the user doesn't neccessarily expects it to come with the same software stack. thus, the market is now wide open for iOS and android.
China is not an evil empire. But it has shown a tendency to systematically suppress the lives of the lower classes in favor of the ruling classes for thousands of years. There's little evidence that this is different today.
how is this different from other nations exactly ?
intel can:
1) buy a retail license;
2) use to test and debug the hardware;
3) once it's ready, ship ip with a very basic linux;
4) advertise heavilly the hardware is "windos ready";
5) let the users buy windows retail and install on their own.
if they buy a retail license on a store, and the mobile phone have all the hardware needed (right kind of CPU, storage, a working BIOS/EFI, etc.) there's nothing microsoft can do to stop them.
unless microsoft puts some very specific wording on the EULA to veto it. problem is, if they do it, they expose themselves to (more) anti-trust investigations.
get this: even if windows is better for some stuff, die hard zealots will stick to linux, it's about being open/free source.
ATI contributes code in the open, even if it sucks, it's preferable (for the die hards) than the better working but proprietary nVidia code.
i've done some work for EMC a few years ago. some small parts (think the size of a PC motherboard) from their clariion and symetrix systems can cost in excess of US$ 10k. heck, some larger symetrix boxes come with an embeded windows notebook free, so you always have an available machine to act as a management terminal.
so it doesn't take a lot of kit to make a million bucks, considered the price of the parts.
we dont have "linux PCs", you insentive clod. we have a linux BOXES.
install connectbot on in, and happy SSHing.
it uses the right side alt and shift keys in clever ways to extend the keyboard, also uses the trackpad's central button as ctrl, so sending ctrl+c or ctrl+d is easy. it can even import a private key from a file and/or generate a key and export the public part to include in an authorized_keys file.
not everything is flowers tho.
i'm still using version r484 from march 2010 because versions after that have a badly broken copy/paste. anything after r484, the only way to copy/paste reliably is using touch, r484 allows use of the trackpad to navigate, mark and copy.
if you logged into you gmail account recently and still have the cookies, google will keep the search history for you, making a drill through the HDD a waste o money and time.
even if you don't. if law enforcement finds the IP address you were using at the time of the search, the can look at google's search history for that IP.
shit, we're living in an eternal 1984...
no escaping big brother google, unless a something destroys their data.
gotta start working on that.
wanna bet your teenager saved $99.99, bought a pre-paid BB s/he's not telling you about ?
what teenager would't like an el cheapo phone his/hers parent's could track ? or do you really thing your child is so trusting as to let you know every phone call/SMS/web page that got accessed ?
it doesn't crash. i did this in my work PC and it works like a charm. no flash crap on my $HOME after i made .adobe read only and owned by a diferent user.
they're gonna need, if they want to give malaria shots to all mosquitos all there.
talk about a steady hand and LOTS of pacience.
that would be WWI and austro-hungarian empire.
they were the ones who invaded serbia and started the whole thing, germany entered the war a month later, but since by the endo of it germany was the only one still fighting (russia surrendered after the bolshevik revolution, austro-hungarian empire and the ottoman (turkey) both broke appart and left the fight. so germany ended up being blamed by everything, even thought they didn't started it.
you mean, like the US have been doing for the last 60 years ? using economical and military power to force their agenda over everybody else ?
i'm glad that for once it's america getting the short end of the stick.
i lived my whole live seeing my country being humiliated an bullied by the US. now we're big enough, near self sufficient, the US owe us shitloads of money and our relationship with china is good enough we don't have to fear this kind of shit.
so here's my advice: stop being douchebags, and maybe this won't happen again. the american empire is crumbling just like many others before. you're in a fragile position, wich means you hate to be carefull of what you do or risk pissing of someone who can hurt you badly.
why would i waste my time creating a throw away account on reuters when i can just as easily install bugmenot extension on firefox and use a pre-made one from there ?
anonimity will always exist on the internet thanks to resourcefull geeks.
reading is not my problem. posting is.
the default browsers on both my old nokia N95 (symbian S60) and my current moto milestone (android 2.1) and opera mobile on the N95 (the full opera, not the mini version) have problems with text box being extremely slugish, and even when i managed to finish the text, after hitting "submit", the site times out and the post is lost.
pathetic.
demacracy is failling, that's why.
as the wealth gap between the poorest and the richer becomes wider, the developed nations are moving towards a form of corporate feudalism, where the general population becomes serfs of large conglomerates, subject to their rules, whose objective is to syphon money and power to themselfs, leaving to the people barelly enough to stay alive an feeding the corporate lords.
it's not paranoia or a conspiracy theory, is just how i see it, so feel free to disagree.
my rationale id that big money doesn't like democracy, they like money and power. mostly because power allows them to earn even more money, and both can become an adiction. a well organized democracy, with enlightened voters can be an obstacle to large corporations to earn more money and power, so they try to corrupt it. the result tends to a kind of feudalism.
to avoid this, it takes an educated people to vote for high taxation for large corporations and wealthy citizens. leave them enough to re-invest and create jobs, but not enough to corrupt the sytem. but i don't see this happing anytime soon anywhere in the world.
it wasn't because of firefox you couldn't post. it's mobile slashdot that suck donkey ass.
i tried at least 3 diferent mobile browsers and gave up.
on mobile space, slashdot is just like microsoft. they just don't get it
invest in brasilian markets.
some _conservative_ investments here are paying 1% (one percent) _A MONTH_
the downside is that interest in overdrafted account can be as high as 7% a month (yes, a month)