The guy in the original post thinks that every cable modem user is entitled to pull as much data as they want. I was demonstrating that if people did that costs would be much, much higher. And I know that T1s are overpriced, I was just trying to keep it simple.
The point is: Do you really think that it is economically feasible to charge $40/month to a couple hundred jerkwads running 24/7 warez repositories? If you do, don't bother responding because you'll be wasting my time.
I'm sick of seeing companies changing the price model for bandwidth. Once you have an OC-192, what the hell does it matter if you fill it, or not.
You're a moron. Bandwidth costs money - and right now it costs a lot of money. The going rate for a T1 and Internet connection in my town is about $500/month. Do you know how many cable modem users you could fit on a T1? Hint: about 1 (yes I know they're asymmetric).
So extrapolate those numbers and tell me how the hell an ISP is supposed to stay in business with a couple hundred teenagers like you running public warez and porn repositories 24/7?
Sorry for being such a prick about this, but I've had my fill of clueless network admins who insist on fighting what their users really want.
I can assure you that changes like this don't come from the netadmins - they come from accounting.
Unix is soooo hard...
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Does anyone know of a website or anything that could perhaps show me the way out?
Sell [Open Source software]. Why is this so hard to grasp?
Because very few people pay for something that is freely available. If your Open Source strategy is based entirely on selling software, then you are essentially relying on donations for income.
I say IBM starts making commercials full of BSoD's and says explicitly: "You will never see a blue screen of death with Unix".
Microsoft can be a pretty nasty bedfellow. Unless IBM wants to find themselves paying double what everyone else is for Windows licenses, I doubt you'll be seeing any blatant anti-Windows ads.
When I once asked a linguist friend about this on an unrelated topic, he leaned over the table and put his thumb and index finger on the outer corners of my lower lip, and then pinched them together to immobilize it. "Speak," he said. It was wierd but I sounded near normal in less than three words.
[If it isn't as full-featured as OfficeXP,] then it's not an Office killer. Don't get your hopes up.
All it would take to kill Office is to break its strangle-hold on the document interchange formats. The reason that MS Office is the standard is because 95% of the people in the world use it. Are these people using anywhere near all of the features of Office? No - most people are using only its basic word processing and spreadsheet capability.
So how do you figure that you can't kill OfficeXP with a less full-featured product when hardly anybody is using all of Office's features in the first place?
I hope she made you pay that $400 bill. The last thing we need is to bring up yet another generation on the idea that they can weasel out of any obligation they find inconvinient.
No she didn't make me pay. And considering that BMG's entire business plan is based on bilking people for shit they forgot to tell you they don't want, I can understand why. There's a reason that minors are not able to legally enter into a contract - they're fucking irresponsible. And surprise - I acted irresponsibly.
BMG's membership plan is framed on deception. I don't feel particularly guilty about it since as a 13 year-old, they duped me into signing up.
P.S. - I find it ironic that someone whose handle is "Weasel Boy" is lecturing me on the principles of integrity.
Wow - this reminded me of my underage contract story. You all have one right?
When I was 13 years old I had a paper route. And let me tell you, $25 a week was "pimp city" for a 13 year old back then. Anyway, I signed up with BMG under my own name and everything. You know the routine: 8 CDs for the price of 1 gets you in, and then each month unless you explicitly tell them not to, they send you a CD.
I was doing pretty good for the first couple months. But alas, ADD (self-diagnosed) got the better of me and soon I was forgetting to send in the "no CD this month" responses. I ended up with a $400 bill and about 25 shit CDs that I wouldn't give to my worst enemy.
I blew them off until I started getting nasty letters from a collection agency (I'm surprised I never woke up with a horse's head in my bed). At this point I panicked and confessed to my mom. She promptly wrote a letter to the collection agency explaining that I was 13 years old and therefore couldn't be constrained by the contract. Sure enough, they completely dropped it.
Interestingly (depending on how bored you are), the minute I turned 18 I started receiving a shitload of solicitations from BMG. It was like the 8th year after filing bankruptcy.
I don't want to remember that it's just a game, and not being able to do simple actions like swimming and climbing rip me right out of the fantasy, and plop me down in reality.
Am I the only one here that actually wants to see this bill go through? [Whoa - put down those torches and hear me out.]
Remember the CDA of 1996 (Communications Decency Act)? Do you remember how absurdly censored web sites were until that bill was overturned? It was such a patently unconstitutional bill that the Supreme Court did their job and overturned the sucker.
That is what needs to happen here. If this bill gets voted down. Hollings (or the media's next shill) will rewrite it, rename it, (maybe lighten it up at bit) and send it in again. And they'll do this until it passes.
But what we've got here is so disgustingly unconstitutional that I want it to get passed. The IT industry will go fucking bananas; chaos will ensue. It will get challenged and the Supreme Court will have no choice but to strike it down.
The idea was to help sites that GET linked to BY Slashdot. [...] This network would allow viewers of the site to download the images from EACH OTHER instead of from the main server.
I may be incorrect, but couldn't this scenario be remedied by FreeNet? Doesn't FreeNet distribute and cache popular content all over the place?
If the Slashdotters won't support FreeNet, nobody will.
Obvious to those of us who play GTA3 regularly but still manage to overcome the urge to plough over pedestrains on the way to work in the morning
[This isn't a troll, but it sure is going to sound like one.]
My brother has GTA3 (and ironically, he's also a cop). We've both played it and come to the same conclusion - it's just too damn violent.
Don't get me wrong - I do not think it should be censored. I just have to question what is going on in your head when it takes shit like GTA3 to entertain you. It's like watching an animated Faces of Death.
I enjoy games with violence as much as the next guy. Games like CounterStrike or HALO where violence is an effect of realistic gameplay, and it's not done in a gratuitous fashion. It's the pointless violence like beating old ladies to death in GTA3 that I find a little disturbing.
So tell me - what are you GTA fans thinking when you watch blood pool around a dead bystander's head in GTA3? Is it really necessary for the game to be THAT violent? How does it make the experience more enjoyable?
I sure hope it's not just me getting old, because I'm gonna get a hell of lot older than 24.
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Truly your intellect is dizzying.
The guy in the original post thinks that every cable modem user is entitled to pull as much data as they want. I was demonstrating that if people did that costs would be much, much higher. And I know that T1s are overpriced, I was just trying to keep it simple.
The point is: Do you really think that it is economically feasible to charge $40/month to a couple hundred jerkwads running 24/7 warez repositories? If you do, don't bother responding because you'll be wasting my time.
I'm sick of seeing companies changing the price model for bandwidth. Once you have an OC-192, what the hell does it matter if you fill it, or not.
You're a moron. Bandwidth costs money - and right now it costs a lot of money. The going rate for a T1 and Internet connection in my town is about $500/month. Do you know how many cable modem users you could fit on a T1? Hint: about 1 (yes I know they're asymmetric).
So extrapolate those numbers and tell me how the hell an ISP is supposed to stay in business with a couple hundred teenagers like you running public warez and porn repositories 24/7?
Sorry for being such a prick about this, but I've had my fill of clueless network admins who insist on fighting what their users really want.
I can assure you that changes like this don't come from the netadmins - they come from accounting.
Does anyone know of a website or anything that could perhaps show me the way out?
You're high right now - right?
This is probably just a way to boost her sales.
I know that the only Celine Dion CD that I would ever buy is one that doesn't play.
Music Industry Piracy Investigations spokesman Michael Speck said illegal copying already cost the Australian industry $70 million a year.
I'd really like to know the source of this number.
Well, it probably includes $65 million worth of legal fees.
Sell [Open Source software]. Why is this so hard to grasp?
Because very few people pay for something that is freely available. If your Open Source strategy is based entirely on selling software, then you are essentially relying on donations for income.
- Phase 1: Write Open Source software
- Phase 2: ?
- Phase 3: Profit
[Apologies to the Underpants Gnomes.]I say IBM starts making commercials full of BSoD's and says explicitly: "You will never see a blue screen of death with Unix".
Microsoft can be a pretty nasty bedfellow. Unless IBM wants to find themselves paying double what everyone else is for Windows licenses, I doubt you'll be seeing any blatant anti-Windows ads.
When I once asked a linguist friend about this on an unrelated topic, he leaned over the table and put his thumb and index finger on the outer corners of my lower lip, and then pinched them together to immobilize it. "Speak," he said. It was wierd but I sounded near normal in less than three words.
Wow - your friend is a pretty cunning linguist.
[If it isn't as full-featured as OfficeXP,] then it's not an Office killer. Don't get your hopes up.
All it would take to kill Office is to break its strangle-hold on the document interchange formats. The reason that MS Office is the standard is because 95% of the people in the world use it. Are these people using anywhere near all of the features of Office? No - most people are using only its basic word processing and spreadsheet capability.
So how do you figure that you can't kill OfficeXP with a less full-featured product when hardly anybody is using all of Office's features in the first place?
If you saw a Britney Pepsi commercial followed by a Britney Coke commerical, would either endorsement be effective?
Hell yeah! Now that you mention it, I think we should get to see Britney in EVERY commercial.
Oh wait, you meant effective at advertising. Yeah - I guess you're right.
I hope she made you pay that $400 bill. The last thing we need is to bring up yet another generation on the idea that they can weasel out of any obligation they find inconvinient.
No she didn't make me pay. And considering that BMG's entire business plan is based on bilking people for shit they forgot to tell you they don't want, I can understand why. There's a reason that minors are not able to legally enter into a contract - they're fucking irresponsible. And surprise - I acted irresponsibly.
BMG's membership plan is framed on deception. I don't feel particularly guilty about it since as a 13 year-old, they duped me into signing up.
P.S. - I find it ironic that someone whose handle is "Weasel Boy" is lecturing me on the principles of integrity.
Wow - this reminded me of my underage contract story. You all have one right?
When I was 13 years old I had a paper route. And let me tell you, $25 a week was "pimp city" for a 13 year old back then. Anyway, I signed up with BMG under my own name and everything. You know the routine: 8 CDs for the price of 1 gets you in, and then each month unless you explicitly tell them not to, they send you a CD.
I was doing pretty good for the first couple months. But alas, ADD (self-diagnosed) got the better of me and soon I was forgetting to send in the "no CD this month" responses. I ended up with a $400 bill and about 25 shit CDs that I wouldn't give to my worst enemy.
I blew them off until I started getting nasty letters from a collection agency (I'm surprised I never woke up with a horse's head in my bed). At this point I panicked and confessed to my mom. She promptly wrote a letter to the collection agency explaining that I was 13 years old and therefore couldn't be constrained by the contract. Sure enough, they completely dropped it.
Interestingly (depending on how bored you are), the minute I turned 18 I started receiving a shitload of solicitations from BMG. It was like the 8th year after filing bankruptcy.
Of note, MS Exchange 2000 has a nice HTTP interface to it as well, works wonderfully in Galeon.
;-)
Jeebus - the poor guy had to post the story as an Anonymous Coward just so he could say something nice about Exchange. You guys should be ashamed.
I don't want to remember that it's just a game, and not being able to do simple actions like swimming and climbing rip me right out of the fantasy, and plop me down in reality.
You can't swim or climb in reality?
Am I the only one here that actually wants to see this bill go through? [Whoa - put down those torches and hear me out.]
Remember the CDA of 1996 (Communications Decency Act)? Do you remember how absurdly censored web sites were until that bill was overturned? It was such a patently unconstitutional bill that the Supreme Court did their job and overturned the sucker.
That is what needs to happen here. If this bill gets voted down. Hollings (or the media's next shill) will rewrite it, rename it, (maybe lighten it up at bit) and send it in again. And they'll do this until it passes.
But what we've got here is so disgustingly unconstitutional that I want it to get passed. The IT industry will go fucking bananas; chaos will ensue. It will get challenged and the Supreme Court will have no choice but to strike it down.
And then it will be dead.
Why is it that when Windows XP came out, all we heard from /.ers is:
"Ugh, it's so candy-coated I can't stand it."
But when a KDE theme does it 6 months later it's:
"Oooh pretty. It is going to be a bright, bright future."
I'm no Microsoft apologist, but come on people, make up your minds.
I know, and you are correct. I was just kidding around.
I prefer to see books deal with the overall scope of a topic, rather than focusing down on a specific product.
;-)
I dunno - I think I'd freak out if my doctor told me, "Well, I really don't worry about the details. I'm more of a 'mammal specialist'."
For those who are still wondering about CPRM on the Serial ATA spec, these documents may be of some use.
The idea was to help sites that GET linked to BY Slashdot. [...] This network would allow viewers of the site to download the images from EACH OTHER instead of from the main server.
I may be incorrect, but couldn't this scenario be remedied by FreeNet? Doesn't FreeNet distribute and cache popular content all over the place?
If the Slashdotters won't support FreeNet, nobody will.
I guess that pixie dust IBM uses isn't so magical after all.
Because he [my friend] changes his PGP keys every week.
Wow - every week, huh? Does your friend wear a tinfoil hat and worry about Major League Baseball spying on him with a satellite, too?
Obvious to those of us who play GTA3 regularly but still manage to overcome the urge to plough over pedestrains on the way to work in the morning
[This isn't a troll, but it sure is going to sound like one.]
My brother has GTA3 (and ironically, he's also a cop). We've both played it and come to the same conclusion - it's just too damn violent.
Don't get me wrong - I do not think it should be censored. I just have to question what is going on in your head when it takes shit like GTA3 to entertain you. It's like watching an animated Faces of Death.
I enjoy games with violence as much as the next guy. Games like CounterStrike or HALO where violence is an effect of realistic gameplay, and it's not done in a gratuitous fashion. It's the pointless violence like beating old ladies to death in GTA3 that I find a little disturbing.
So tell me - what are you GTA fans thinking when you watch blood pool around a dead bystander's head in GTA3? Is it really necessary for the game to be THAT violent? How does it make the experience more enjoyable?
I sure hope it's not just me getting old, because I'm gonna get a hell of lot older than 24.