Ok... winning? Have we all of a sudden picked sides? I'm sorry, my friend, but I'm on the side of cheap, fast, unhindered broadband (i.e. the best product). There are no sides therefore there is no winning other than in the very individualistic sense.
Right now the cable BB is much better than DSL: the service is more consistent, it is faster, and price is comparable. Now what happens if everybody in my complex jumps on Roadrunner? Well then switiching over to DSL might be an opprotune move.
Actually the only people who I can say are winning are e-businesses. Wasn't one of the roots of the dot-bomb the lack of sufficient average internet speed? The faster, more persistent the connection is, the more likely consumers will browse which is important for that Impulse Buying thing.
"Ohhh! They released Hoop Dreams on DVD! Gotta pick that up!"*
*Note: the commie bastards still haven't released Hoop Dreams on DVD.
I thought the root of Moore's Law wasn't the technology involved but the drive for improvement in computation. So that the chips may not improve beyond a certain point but then making a massively parallel system on a 2"x 2" card would still go into Moore's Law. It is hardware independent.
I'd never put a limitation on this since somebody's going to come up with an idea to eek out more clocks.
[Kicks first man in balls] First Man [falls over]: "AAAAAHH!" Me: "Human." [Kicks second man in balls] Second Man [falls over]: "Gffffff-!" Me: "Human." [Kicks third man in balls] Third Man [falls over]: "..." Me: "He's the robot! Get 'im!!!"
The main problem with enforcing standards on the web is twofold. First, the web is very ad hoc. It isn't like television or telephone which is regulated by the government and maintained by singular utilities. Also it is inherently multimedia which means you can get some far out web designs that, although interesting in an art-installation sort of way, are in no ways easy to use.
Second is that the web is considered a secondary or tertiary source of information at best. I mean unless you are using it for periodicals or the like, the web is a lot of free-floating crap and ego-stroking. We all know that web access is a privelige and broadband is outright rare (beyond the geek-centric). Outside of Amazon and a few others, what companies actually do a bulk (or even a significant minority... say 10%) of their business online?
Of course some other natures of the Web make it perfect for the disabled: it is pull-media and electronic information that can be parsed (unlike say reading a newspaper or getting info at a mall kiosk).
But until internet access is as common as asphalt roads (which don't exist on probably 50% of inhabited areas) making demands of this fledgling tech is a bit much. Now should demands be made? Definitely. But can you expect reasonable results? Probably not.
Personally I'd rather see the government spend money on stemming the tide of AIDS and easily curable diseases in the 3rd world instead of worrying if memepool.com is standards compliant.
and how that is different than other entertainment media: money the industry spends (contracts, studio time, etc) is spent on future returns on this investment. So the idea is that you can spend half a million on a band with the hope that you will reap many fold over this.
Everyone mentions Britney Spears but also notice that her music is not what the record industry hopes for. What is best for them? Pink Floyd, Journey, etc. Remember that these old rock acts are not on the Billboard 200. Why? Because decades old music would represent 75% of the chart! These are the records that go quadruple diamond and will continue to sell... forever. Britney/N'Sync are good right now, but do you think those albums will be constant sellers in a decade?
So not only is trading cutting into these longterm sellers, the industry knows that if they don't sell Britney et al now, that is money that won't come around in the future.
[In an Economic view] Now this industry is making all these investments and their market is bottoming out. All their speculation tools are useless (since, as others have said, they don't know where to spend their money).
The big difference between the record companies and economic speculators is that the record industry can't invest more in mainstays! I mean there are only so many Zeppelin and Beatles hits comps they can release a year.
"Well they should only release good music!" Yeah, and when has that ever happened in any product industry? Software? Automobiles? Fast Food? Pffff. Pipedream justification.
I don't think so. Traffic was a bit more of a socio-political picture where Leonard's work is more criminology rap. So I would agree: Out of Sight, Oceans 11 and one you forgot to mention, The Limey are all in that vein. Traffic though was less of a wacky picture and more about social content.
Well I guess the problem is statistical round-off error (i.e. as the number of values multiplied together increases, the error also is going up, so you have to round down as it is no longer accurate to that number of places). What I was taught:
When multiplying a*b = c, the place of c is the lesser place value of a OR b MINUS one.
So no matter what, to be accurate/not cheat, you are slowly losing granularity as you churn out the calculations.
If there is a God, I hope that he DOES have Pi out to some ludicrous number of digits. I don't want to see the round off error of those calculations;)
chosen Linux to provide it with more secure and powerful computer systems.
Powerful? In what way? Maybe it's just me but "powerful" == hardware-esque performance. This is like that article a couple of days ago that said you could tweak old gaming systems to outperform newer but untweaked ones.
Of course you could say that powerful refers to utility/robustness/security... but why not say that instead? It is such a nebulous/marketing term that makes it seem that you could drop Linux on your UltraSPARC III workstation and get a twenty-fold performance increase.
Careful, captain. Some of us are still using Pine.
Of course I'm not surprised by the reaction. My mother saw me sshing to my box once and said "Oh God, that brings back horrible memories..." Who says that UI has nothing to do with End User acceptance? Me personally: I love it. But to most people its like "Why do you go out hunting with a bow and arrow when we can get perfectly good meat down at the Kroger?"
Pine Users: the Ted Nugents of the Computing World!
Sweet! Autogenerate a message to my rep with an easy to use web interface. Only if all legislation would be so simple, we'd be onto something here. Too often the steps needed to follow up on something like this are a) unspecified b) much more difficult than this. Kudos EFF.
Reminds me of what happened to my Dad (heh, don't take it as an insult;)). Of course his issue was slightly different as he is a PhD in organic chem. The chemistry field has been heading down the lou for a while his problems were the same as many: too "old", too educated, too "white" (which sums up as to too expensive in business talk).
Is the IT field heading in the same direction? Moving all jobs south/east/out-of-country? I know, Indian programmers, but at least most of the firms in the US are still US companies.
This is the sort of stuff that makes me wish that/. was a user-only-post site. The only use for Anonymous Coward seems to be this shit. It only seems to get in the way of good dialogue any more. If someone wants to truly go anonymous they should just create a new account and troll with that...
Why are you taking this lamer post out on me? I know you probably won't believe me but I didn't post it.You and I may not agree, fine, but I don't drop to lame AC flames. And to top it off the asshole can't even string a coherent sentence together.
I can understand why you would be upset. Shit and I apologize for the twats who think an argument begins with "fucking" and ends with "asshole!" But ask me before you you decide to give me both barrels next time.
Will it contain the extreme violence and nudity, or will that be censored?
Hmmm. One thing I noticed was that I have IFC on my Digi-cable and it is uncensored: nipples and cursing in Aimee u. Jaguar and the great violence in Zatoichi.
But I don't know if that counts as premium or not (is the HBO/Sinemax/Showtime triumvirate the only premium channels?).
And then I don't know how appropriate it is since US censors seem to think that cartoon == for-children exclusively.
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Ok... winning? Have we all of a sudden picked sides? I'm sorry, my friend, but I'm on the side of cheap, fast, unhindered broadband (i.e. the best product). There are no sides therefore there is no winning other than in the very individualistic sense.
Right now the cable BB is much better than DSL: the service is more consistent, it is faster, and price is comparable. Now what happens if everybody in my complex jumps on Roadrunner? Well then switiching over to DSL might be an opprotune move.
Actually the only people who I can say are winning are e-businesses. Wasn't one of the roots of the dot-bomb the lack of sufficient average internet speed? The faster, more persistent the connection is, the more likely consumers will browse which is important for that Impulse Buying thing.
"Ohhh! They released Hoop Dreams on DVD! Gotta pick that up!"*
*Note: the commie bastards still haven't released Hoop Dreams on DVD.
I thought the root of Moore's Law wasn't the technology involved but the drive for improvement in computation. So that the chips may not improve beyond a certain point but then making a massively parallel system on a 2"x 2" card would still go into Moore's Law. It is hardware independent.
I'd never put a limitation on this since somebody's going to come up with an idea to eek out more clocks.
[Kicks first man in balls]
First Man [falls over]: "AAAAAHH!"
Me: "Human."
[Kicks second man in balls]
Second Man [falls over]: "Gffffff-!"
Me: "Human."
[Kicks third man in balls]
Third Man [falls over]: "..."
Me: "He's the robot! Get 'im!!!"
Unproved assertion
Assertion of original post: music industry works via investment on future returns.
Since I thought this was "known" I didn't have to prove it. Read an example on how this works.
Supporting metaphor: market bottoming out. Not primary assumption.
Your counterpoint: take non-central point, simplify argument to that, gesture authoritatively, ignore.
The main problem with enforcing standards on the web is twofold. First, the web is very ad hoc. It isn't like television or telephone which is regulated by the government and maintained by singular utilities. Also it is inherently multimedia which means you can get some far out web designs that, although interesting in an art-installation sort of way, are in no ways easy to use.
Second is that the web is considered a secondary or tertiary source of information at best. I mean unless you are using it for periodicals or the like, the web is a lot of free-floating crap and ego-stroking. We all know that web access is a privelige and broadband is outright rare (beyond the geek-centric). Outside of Amazon and a few others, what companies actually do a bulk (or even a significant minority... say 10%) of their business online?
Of course some other natures of the Web make it perfect for the disabled: it is pull-media and electronic information that can be parsed (unlike say reading a newspaper or getting info at a mall kiosk).
But until internet access is as common as asphalt roads (which don't exist on probably 50% of inhabited areas) making demands of this fledgling tech is a bit much. Now should demands be made? Definitely. But can you expect reasonable results? Probably not.
Personally I'd rather see the government spend money on stemming the tide of AIDS and easily curable diseases in the 3rd world instead of worrying if memepool.com is standards compliant.
and how that is different than other entertainment media: money the industry spends (contracts, studio time, etc) is spent on future returns on this investment. So the idea is that you can spend half a million on a band with the hope that you will reap many fold over this.
Everyone mentions Britney Spears but also notice that her music is not what the record industry hopes for. What is best for them? Pink Floyd, Journey, etc. Remember that these old rock acts are not on the Billboard 200. Why? Because decades old music would represent 75% of the chart! These are the records that go quadruple diamond and will continue to sell... forever. Britney/N'Sync are good right now, but do you think those albums will be constant sellers in a decade?
So not only is trading cutting into these longterm sellers, the industry knows that if they don't sell Britney et al now, that is money that won't come around in the future.
[In an Economic view] Now this industry is making all these investments and their market is bottoming out. All their speculation tools are useless (since, as others have said, they don't know where to spend their money).
The big difference between the record companies and economic speculators is that the record industry can't invest more in mainstays! I mean there are only so many Zeppelin and Beatles hits comps they can release a year.
"Well they should only release good music!" Yeah, and when has that ever happened in any product industry? Software? Automobiles? Fast Food? Pffff. Pipedream justification.
Is the first War-Pantsing going to occur?
"Woah, I sure hope that's a 802.11b antenna poking into my backside!"
I don't think so. Traffic was a bit more of a socio-political picture where Leonard's work is more criminology rap. So I would agree: Out of Sight, Oceans 11 and one you forgot to mention, The Limey are all in that vein. Traffic though was less of a wacky picture and more about social content.
Well I guess the problem is statistical round-off error (i.e. as the number of values multiplied together increases, the error also is going up, so you have to round down as it is no longer accurate to that number of places). What I was taught:
;)
When multiplying a*b = c, the place of c is the lesser place value of a OR b MINUS one.
So no matter what, to be accurate/not cheat, you are slowly losing granularity as you churn out the calculations.
If there is a God, I hope that he DOES have Pi out to some ludicrous number of digits. I don't want to see the round off error of those calculations
It would be much more sensible to create a domain of non-kid-"safe" content.
It's called Soylent dot com. Home of Rotten.com, Bonzai Kitten, Gaping Maw, Boners, Brutal, and Jerk City... i.e. all the good stuff.
chosen Linux to provide it with more secure and powerful computer systems.
Powerful? In what way? Maybe it's just me but "powerful" == hardware-esque performance. This is like that article a couple of days ago that said you could tweak old gaming systems to outperform newer but untweaked ones.
Of course you could say that powerful refers to utility/robustness/security... but why not say that instead? It is such a nebulous/marketing term that makes it seem that you could drop Linux on your UltraSPARC III workstation and get a twenty-fold performance increase.
Careful, captain. Some of us are still using Pine.
Of course I'm not surprised by the reaction. My mother saw me sshing to my box once and said "Oh God, that brings back horrible memories..." Who says that UI has nothing to do with End User acceptance? Me personally: I love it. But to most people its like "Why do you go out hunting with a bow and arrow when we can get perfectly good meat down at the Kroger?"
Pine Users: the Ted Nugents of the Computing World!
Until somebody steals it and then you have that 5k dream.
That the best online strips are Jerkcity, Leisure Town, and God's gift to man: Pokey The Penguin.
Those three have done some very interesting and unique things with the media other than just being print comics in cyberspace.
What are you saying? Some profit is better than zero profit? Are you on crack?!? We all know this from Geek Economics 101:
1. Free Web Services.
2. ?????
3. Profit!
Q: "How many PhD's does it take to screw in a lightbulb?"
P: "Two. One to screw it in, the other to pull the chair out from under him."
That's about as clean as I get. I usually take to more *ahem* cynical jokes (ex: "What do you say to a woman with two black eyes?").
"Hmmm, neat let me open up these images here..." *Click* "Ahhh! My Eyes!!!!!!"
Sweet! Autogenerate a message to my rep with an easy to use web interface. Only if all legislation would be so simple, we'd be onto something here. Too often the steps needed to follow up on something like this are a) unspecified b) much more difficult than this. Kudos EFF.
Reminds me of what happened to my Dad (heh, don't take it as an insult ;)). Of course his issue was slightly different as he is a PhD in organic chem. The chemistry field has been heading down the lou for a while his problems were the same as many: too "old", too educated, too "white" (which sums up as to too expensive in business talk).
Is the IT field heading in the same direction? Moving all jobs south/east/out-of-country? I know, Indian programmers, but at least most of the firms in the US are still US companies.
This is the sort of stuff that makes me wish that /. was a user-only-post site. The only use for Anonymous Coward seems to be this shit. It only seems to get in the way of good dialogue any more. If someone wants to truly go anonymous they should just create a new account and troll with that...
Why are you taking this lamer post out on me? I know you probably won't believe me but I didn't post it.You and I may not agree, fine, but I don't drop to lame AC flames. And to top it off the asshole can't even string a coherent sentence together.
I can understand why you would be upset. Shit and I apologize for the twats who think an argument begins with "fucking" and ends with "asshole!" But ask me before you you decide to give me both barrels next time.
Parrapa the Rappa or, for those of us born pre-'90, Simon. Same thing, different package.
It seems that there have been and will be only four types of games... ever. And I think one of them is drinking.
Would we sacrifice our stand against crappy patent law in an attempt to get Microsoft any way possible?
(Personally I'm against such a hypocritical move. The law should apply to all of us or it applies to none of us).
Will it contain the extreme violence and nudity, or will that be censored?
Hmmm. One thing I noticed was that I have IFC on my Digi-cable and it is uncensored: nipples and cursing in Aimee u. Jaguar and the great violence in Zatoichi.
But I don't know if that counts as premium or not (is the HBO/Sinemax/Showtime triumvirate the only premium channels?).
And then I don't know how appropriate it is since US censors seem to think that cartoon == for-children exclusively.