Actually, I'm not complaining at all... I'm very happy with my $40 T1-speed downloads.
I can't really include my cable TV bill in with my Cable internet bill because #1: I could get the Inet without the TV and #2: I use my TiVo to watch all the TV I can fit in =)
Which begs the question... why is telephone service more expensive in rural areas?
For arguements sake:
You have 100 people living in a city, that city is 1 square mile. The cable it run and more drops in a smaller area requiring less cable and less repeaters etc.
To get to the same 100 poeple in a rural area you have perhaps 10 square miles.
Same amount of possible customers but a larger initial capital investment and ongoing upkeep.
As if I don't pay enough for my cable modem already ($40)
In my Area, $40 is just about the cost it would be for me to get another phone line and an internet account. So it is very much worth it to me to pay the $40 for a cable modem.
As for the FEE proposed, it would almost certainly be lower than the 9.1% listed, but I don't think it will go through in it's current state.
The FCC would have to reclassify cable access or the measure would give a broad scope of who pays the new fee, all the way down to people who use an ATM machine.
You can have mine as soon as I'm done with it. That should be in about 4-5 years.
Sounds very much like what Id Software is doing with their Game Engines... 4-5 years later they open source them because they are done with them. Are they evil for making the money they do during the time that the code is not open sourced?
Because someone doesn't want to give things away for free doesn't give you the right to go and force them to do that. You are willing to give away your TV in 4-5 years. But the program I want to watch on it is on this Sunday, so I think I'll just take your TV earlier than you wanted me to...
Because the houses are on the Ocean, Pirates have access to them for Pirating. You would think Pirates would like to Pirate all the homes they can, but they can only get to 1 out of every 100 homes to pirate. But because they wanted to get to 99 out of 100 homes, the piracy rate is 99%.
Mirror available here.
Please do not mod this up, and go gently, also once you've seen it please mirror somewhere else, this is only a T1 for gods sake! =)
Re:But Gentoo?
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Doom 4? No problem, our "Way-Forward Machine" will handle that.
Red Alert 7? Childs Play, the "Way-Forward Machine" has that too.
Duke Nukem Forever? Sorry, we're still waiting ourselves...
Re:No, End NASA-controlled Manned Space Flight.
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Given the huge amount of private-sector activity in the suborbital market currently, and NASA's pitiful track record in developing new launch vehicles, it's not at all unlikely that simply getting NASA out of the way will yield an economically feasable set of replacement vehicles in a shorter time frame for less money.
I doubt that this is true... shutdown NASA and you have alot of unemployed Rocket scientists, so you start up "WINN" (Winn Is Not Nasa) and you get alot of the same people in WINN as there were in NASA just from the fact that they are the people who know things about space exploration.
The big shakeup needs to come in Management and the philosophy. Open space up to more commercialism at a lower price. NASA has the technology to offer Suborbital flights as well as the capability to do orbital flights as well. Get the price down to something that your average BigWig in business will be able to afford, and start making some money to go towards development.
Do I think this will happen? No, not with NASA, but these new commercial ventures that are starting out are showing that it truely is possible to get inexpensive launch vehicles built and working.
Lets just hope it is inexpensive enough that I can afford a ride someday. =)
The problem with that is that you are still wasting bandwidth on the popup. Not really an issue for residential broadband users, but people who pay for bandwidth or are on limited supply (dialup) still have half the problem.
Show your boss how easy it is to ind online troubleshooting documentation for the various software packages you are proposing to use, as well as documenting the entire install so a monkey could reinstall the software if something breaks.
Your company wants to make sure that anyone who might administer those servers has access to the information they need to fix any problems that come up if the person who initially installed the software falls off the earth.
A 24hour support line is one method of getting that support, you just have to show that there are other less expensive support routes that are just as viable.
If need be remind your boss that it is your ass on the line if something goes wrong with the servers and you'll be the one showing up to work at 4AM on a Sunday to fix the issue.
Thats fine, so you allow popups for the 10 seconds it takes to start the download. In opera it's as easy as pressing F12, in other browsers like mozilla you can set it to allow popups for specific sites.
Although a pain in the ass, you can make it so you don't lose any fuctionality of sites that require popups.
Re:There's a simpler way...
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Why doesn't he just cut through all the crap and patent the very idea of being a complete and utter asshole?
Way too much prior art...
Since when has this stopped the USPO from issuing patents?
If this guy can start charging people for using popups then these webpages won't pay and popups will start dying off. While a patent like this is mostly a bad thing, the side effects are good!
Of course I use mozilla with popup filtering enabled, so it's not really that much of an issue to me. =)
While this will cut your spam down to virtually nothing, you are limited in that the method you describe is accepting only messages that you whitelist. You will lose e-mail from anyone who you havn't whitelisted, even if it is a legitimate message.
Without further working this would make most mailing lists be filtered into spam, as well as anyone who was trying to contact you for the first time.
I've found that using something like SpamBouncer or MailScanner is much better in regards to not losing AS MUCH legitimate e-mail than a pure whitelist is. Of course you add a whitelist beyond using the various spam filters, but a whitelist alone is way too restrictive to use in a corporate (or even personal IMO) environment.
Too drastic? I don't think so. This is something that is off by default, and needs to be turned on by the user. That user can also pre-approve e-mail addresses from his address book and mailing lists that he is on so that the challange never reaches those people.
This is just an added feature that users can use if they choose to.
As for the automated systems: It is the users responcibility to add those addresses to the accept list when (s)he signs up for the services.
Since this challange responce system has to be turned on by the user, it is only the user's fault if (s)he forgets to whitelist the address of places (s)he gives his e-mail account out to.
All in all it's definately a good option to have, but it's also a good thing that it is off by default, with the option to turn it on left upto the user.
OTOH, my phono record collection dates back to 1949.
[lame humour attempt]
If you bought everything in your phono collection new maybe you should start worrying about preserving yourself for another 20 years instead of your music... [/lame humour attempt]
Am I wrong in thinking that this "One transfer of owenership allowed, no copying" clause would be fufilled when you buy the software?
I.E. -> You are buying it from $retailer, which technically is a transfer of license. So you actually can not transfer the license to anyone else after you purchase the software.
I wonder how this clause would affect people who buy direct from microsoft?
You can get your own IPs directly from ARIN. But I guess others know that too because you were modded to 5 when I started writing this post, and when I posted it you were back to 4. There really needs to be a "-1 incorrect information" moderation.
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Actually, I'm not complaining at all... I'm very happy with my $40 T1-speed downloads.
I can't really include my cable TV bill in with my Cable internet bill because #1: I could get the Inet without the TV and #2: I use my TiVo to watch all the TV I can fit in =)
Which begs the question... why is telephone service more expensive in rural areas?
For arguements sake:
You have 100 people living in a city, that city is 1 square mile. The cable it run and more drops in a smaller area requiring less cable and less repeaters etc.
To get to the same 100 poeple in a rural area you have perhaps 10 square miles.
Same amount of possible customers but a larger initial capital investment and ongoing upkeep.
As if I don't pay enough for my cable modem already ($40)
In my Area, $40 is just about the cost it would be for me to get another phone line and an internet account. So it is very much worth it to me to pay the $40 for a cable modem.
As for the FEE proposed, it would almost certainly be lower than the 9.1% listed, but I don't think it will go through in it's current state.
The FCC would have to reclassify cable access or the measure would give a broad scope of who pays the new fee, all the way down to people who use an ATM machine.
You can have mine as soon as I'm done with it. That should be in about 4-5 years.
Sounds very much like what Id Software is doing with their Game Engines... 4-5 years later they open source them because they are done with them. Are they evil for making the money they do during the time that the code is not open sourced?
Because someone doesn't want to give things away for free doesn't give you the right to go and force them to do that. You are willing to give away your TV in 4-5 years. But the program I want to watch on it is on this Sunday, so I think I'll just take your TV earlier than you wanted me to...
If you go to the trouble to write software, what the hell gives you the right to not release it under a public licence in the first place?
No person is an island. All the fruits of all human endeavour belong to all humankind.
Can I have your TV, mine is getting a little old.
Because the houses are on the Ocean, Pirates have access to them for Pirating. You would think Pirates would like to Pirate all the homes they can, but they can only get to 1 out of every 100 homes to pirate. But because they wanted to get to 99 out of 100 homes, the piracy rate is 99%.
Excellent logic no?
Seriously, pull up "top" or something and tell me if bittorrent actually uses nontrivial CPU. I could be wrong, but I'd be very surprised.
16573 binestar 15 0 13444 11m 9132 S 4.7 2.4 5:06.27 btdownloadheadless.py
4.7% of my Athlon 1800+ and 2.4% of my 512MB of ram. I don't notice a problem, but I don't think this is going to be running on a 486 all that well =)
Grand theft auto seems like an innovative game to me... although it was follow up game to gta1 and two...
Grand Theft Auto 1 was an innovative game.
Grand Theft Auto 3 is a evolutionary game in that it built on the framework of the GTA franchize.
(Hell of a good game though, I've got over 8 hours of play time in GTA Vice City and I'm only 23% though)
Try again... just restarted apache, and the load seems to be letting down a bit.
Well, the server is handling it, but the T1 is showing signs of strain.
My log file is moving so fast it's just a blur on a tail -f =)
Mirror available here. Please do not mod this up, and go gently, also once you've seen it please mirror somewhere else, this is only a T1 for gods sake! =)
Doom 4? No problem, our "Way-Forward Machine" will handle that.
Red Alert 7? Childs Play, the "Way-Forward Machine" has that too.
Duke Nukem Forever? Sorry, we're still waiting ourselves...
Given the huge amount of private-sector activity in the suborbital market currently, and NASA's pitiful track record in developing new launch vehicles, it's not at all unlikely that simply getting NASA out of the way will yield an economically feasable set of replacement vehicles in a shorter time frame for less money.
I doubt that this is true... shutdown NASA and you have alot of unemployed Rocket scientists, so you start up "WINN" (Winn Is Not Nasa) and you get alot of the same people in WINN as there were in NASA just from the fact that they are the people who know things about space exploration.
The big shakeup needs to come in Management and the philosophy. Open space up to more commercialism at a lower price. NASA has the technology to offer Suborbital flights as well as the capability to do orbital flights as well. Get the price down to something that your average BigWig in business will be able to afford, and start making some money to go towards development.
Do I think this will happen? No, not with NASA, but these new commercial ventures that are starting out are showing that it truely is possible to get inexpensive launch vehicles built and working.
Lets just hope it is inexpensive enough that I can afford a ride someday. =)
Problem with his math is that he can't divide properly.
There have been 113 total flights, The true destruction odds are: 1:56.5 not 1:62.5
With his math we'll be safe to send up shuttles another 12 time before worrying about the odds again.
The problem with that is that you are still wasting bandwidth on the popup. Not really an issue for residential broadband users, but people who pay for bandwidth or are on limited supply (dialup) still have half the problem.
Show your boss how easy it is to ind online troubleshooting documentation for the various software packages you are proposing to use, as well as documenting the entire install so a monkey could reinstall the software if something breaks.
Your company wants to make sure that anyone who might administer those servers has access to the information they need to fix any problems that come up if the person who initially installed the software falls off the earth.
A 24hour support line is one method of getting that support, you just have to show that there are other less expensive support routes that are just as viable.
If need be remind your boss that it is your ass on the line if something goes wrong with the servers and you'll be the one showing up to work at 4AM on a Sunday to fix the issue.
Thats fine, so you allow popups for the 10 seconds it takes to start the download. In opera it's as easy as pressing F12, in other browsers like mozilla you can set it to allow popups for specific sites.
Although a pain in the ass, you can make it so you don't lose any fuctionality of sites that require popups.
Why doesn't he just cut through all the crap and patent the very idea of being a complete and utter asshole?
Way too much prior art...
Since when has this stopped the USPO from issuing patents?
If this guy can start charging people for using popups then these webpages won't pay and popups will start dying off. While a patent like this is mostly a bad thing, the side effects are good!
Of course I use mozilla with popup filtering enabled, so it's not really that much of an issue to me. =)
While this will cut your spam down to virtually nothing, you are limited in that the method you describe is accepting only messages that you whitelist. You will lose e-mail from anyone who you havn't whitelisted, even if it is a legitimate message.
Without further working this would make most mailing lists be filtered into spam, as well as anyone who was trying to contact you for the first time.
I've found that using something like SpamBouncer or MailScanner is much better in regards to not losing AS MUCH legitimate e-mail than a pure whitelist is. Of course you add a whitelist beyond using the various spam filters, but a whitelist alone is way too restrictive to use in a corporate (or even personal IMO) environment.
Too drastic? I don't think so. This is something that is off by default, and needs to be turned on by the user. That user can also pre-approve e-mail addresses from his address book and mailing lists that he is on so that the challange never reaches those people.
This is just an added feature that users can use if they choose to.
As for the automated systems: It is the users responcibility to add those addresses to the accept list when (s)he signs up for the services.
Since this challange responce system has to be turned on by the user, it is only the user's fault if (s)he forgets to whitelist the address of places (s)he gives his e-mail account out to.
All in all it's definately a good option to have, but it's also a good thing that it is off by default, with the option to turn it on left upto the user.
OTOH, my phono record collection dates back to 1949.
[lame humour attempt]
If you bought everything in your phono collection new maybe you should start worrying about preserving yourself for another 20 years instead of your music...
[/lame humour attempt]
Am I wrong in thinking that this "One transfer of owenership allowed, no copying" clause would be fufilled when you buy the software?
I.E. -> You are buying it from $retailer, which technically is a transfer of license. So you actually can not transfer the license to anyone else after you purchase the software.
I wonder how this clause would affect people who buy direct from microsoft?
You can get your own IPs directly from ARIN. But I guess others know that too because you were modded to 5 when I started writing this post, and when I posted it you were back to 4. There really needs to be a "-1 incorrect information" moderation.
Was a site specificly for stupid ideas like that =).
If only i could remember where =)
I think you are thinking of Slashdot.
=)