Electricity is charged for by the amount of energy delivered because it costs money to produce energy. It doesn't cost money to produce electrons. Electricity providers are charging for what costs money to produce.
Bandwidth is charged for by data rate because it costs money to produce bandwidth. It doesn't cost money to produce bytes. Internet providers are already charging for what costs money to produce.
Ars has ~internet service 301~ for a really detailed look at the absurdity of some of the parent post's premises.
The irony is that the last thing the corporate retail isp's want is to have bandwidth charged for as the commodity it is. It's what they're desperately trying to escape.
The FOX network has that trick patented. Just substitute their mockery of reason for goatse and the "all the time" crowd for robots. It's not so very different.
there's going to be such a delay in fixing the TCP/IP issue
Yeah, the real nasty part is it isn't a TCP issue really.
Forcing anomalies in session behavior causes the receiving system to dedicate resources to recovery tracking, and in host systems built by the insufficiently professional those resources are limited, provisioned to handle ~plausible~ loads.
These guys say they got Windows to bork itself so hard a reboot wouldn't fix it. Different OS's are apparently vulnerable to different attacks — Windows, Linux and OS X all have different vulnerability sets — but they can DoS them all at well under 100 pps.
I remember crashing UNIX by flooding the system with screen-refresh requests from a Tektronix storage-tube terminal that took a second or so to finish a screen erase. Really: you could crash the system from any shell prompt, in seconds, without ever running a command. This was thirty years ago. It seems similar bugs still survive in some form in all the bitty-box OS's.
The longer I live, the more Greg Bear's story "Hardfought" bothers me.
Here, it's the "mandate" in the story: iirc, every warship (and they're all warships) is required to carry all of mankind's digital knowledge on board to ensure that everyone has access to facts and reason to back their arguments.
It's time for government-run digital timestamp services that will sign any hashcode-sized number and return it to you via email, and to require that any assertion of copyright over digital material include a timestamped signature for its hash.
Leave it, as a last resort, to the courts to decide whether an allegedly infringing copy is similar enough, but make the copyright precedence if they are so a simple matter of comparing timestamps.
All BIOSes are supposed to do the same things; it's the point of having one. All the hardware they run on is made to support doing those things. The functions you are required to perform differently on different hardware are very, very few.
The functions you could perform differently for a measurable speed boost don't make nearly enough difference to outweigh the benefits of implementing only the required parts and then typing "make" to get your shiny new hardware working.
You want assembly when some human is waiting long enough for your results to take them out of the zone, you already have the best algorithm to produce those results, nobody has already built a hand-tuned library to do it and your compiler can't be made to understand.
You don't actually need assembly until all of the above apply and the results are late enough to cause damage.
I believe that, until very recently, much of the world's population was religious...
Stalin starved twenty million of his own. Getting people to buy into any social hierarchy then taking over the hierarchy is the usual trick. Hierarchy is a dangerous tool.
Blaming evil on religion is, quite simply, scapegoating. It's blaming other people for the worst parts of human nature, pretending not to share those parts.
I think the difference is he's found a far simpler transformation that's close enough to accurate that your eyes will do the rest. His algorithm fits in a 30-40fps CPU-only rendering pipeline for e.g. Quake II.
His Springtime Through the Branches and one of his larger water lily paintings "popped" for me this way: after looking for a while, I suddenly felt I was looking into the paintings.
And the way it happened sounds similar: I had heard that de-focusing on his paintings would make them different but equally beautiful.
The water lily painting (huge, done in dark colors, in a traveling impressionist exhibition that included works from private collections, at the LACMA in the 1980's, I can't recall anything more) just didn't look all that good to me, almost muddy-looking, so I figured there must be some reason it was there and tried that trick. A minute maybe, then, bam.
Ever since, I've tagged him as "the puzzle" because he was doing something your eye needs to figure out with eye-logic
No, no, no, see, it's the rich people's job to decide which deserving poor will receive the trickle. Letting government give it to just anybody is bad. Letting people who focus on extracting cash rather than creating wealth judiciously do their duty will produce a rising tide that lifts all boats.
They've been doing this for twenty of the last twenty-eight years, and you can see how much better off everyone is for it, rich and poor and nation alike, right? Their entire argument, the whole basis on which they sold their economic plan, has been resoundingly vindicated, and George H.W. Bush's term for it (that would be "voodoo economics") has been utterly refuted, by the growing prosperity shared by all.
The pay version of Acrobat puts a "save as PDF" button on the toolbar. MS giving users that for free was probably not popular with Adobe's financial guys.
The observation is at least as old as western civilization, and generally rendered as "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty".
We can agree that you still have your rights, protected or not.
We can even agree that everyone has a right to have their rights protected. We're supposed to watch out for each other as well as ourselves.
But if grownups aren't going to do the protecting, who were you proposing as ultimately, long-term responsible for doing it? The government? I cite the entire history of the human race as a counterargument.
So which of the emumerated powers in the U.S. Constitution give Federal Government the power to redistribute individual wealth, provide for individual education, provide for individual welfare and security?
So, the power to levy taxes to provide for the common defense and general welfare somehow doesn't include taking any particular individual's money, or spending it on education or food or protection for any actual people?
C'mon. You can't be that stupid. Something's got your brain shut off.
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Electricity is charged for by the amount of energy delivered because it costs money to produce energy. It doesn't cost money to produce electrons. Electricity providers are charging for what costs money to produce.
Bandwidth is charged for by data rate because it costs money to produce bandwidth. It doesn't cost money to produce bytes. Internet providers are already charging for what costs money to produce.
Ars has ~internet service 301~ for a really detailed look at the absurdity of some of the parent post's premises.
The irony is that the last thing the corporate retail isp's want is to have bandwidth charged for as the commodity it is. It's what they're desperately trying to escape.
The FOX network has that trick patented. Just substitute their mockery of reason for goatse and the "all the time" crowd for robots. It's not so very different.
there's going to be such a delay in fixing the TCP/IP issue
Yeah, the real nasty part is it isn't a TCP issue really.
Forcing anomalies in session behavior causes the receiving system to dedicate resources to recovery tracking, and in host systems built by the insufficiently professional those resources are limited, provisioned to handle ~plausible~ loads.
These guys say they got Windows to bork itself so hard a reboot wouldn't fix it. Different OS's are apparently vulnerable to different attacks — Windows, Linux and OS X all have different vulnerability sets — but they can DoS them all at well under 100 pps.
I remember crashing UNIX by flooding the system with screen-refresh requests from a Tektronix storage-tube terminal that took a second or so to finish a screen erase. Really: you could crash the system from any shell prompt, in seconds, without ever running a command. This was thirty years ago. It seems similar bugs still survive in some form in all the bitty-box OS's.
I'd be interested to know how IBM's OSes bear up.
The longer I live, the more Greg Bear's story "Hardfought" bothers me.
Here, it's the "mandate" in the story: iirc, every warship (and they're all warships) is required to carry all of mankind's digital knowledge on board to ensure that everyone has access to facts and reason to back their arguments.
It's time for government-run digital timestamp services that will sign any hashcode-sized number and return it to you via email, and to require that any assertion of copyright over digital material include a timestamped signature for its hash.
Leave it, as a last resort, to the courts to decide whether an allegedly infringing copy is similar enough, but make the copyright precedence if they are so a simple matter of comparing timestamps.
As if that would be the only effect.
Please, before telling Microsoft's lies for them again, get the facts.
All BIOSes are supposed to do the same things; it's the point of having one. All the hardware they run on is made to support doing those things. The functions you are required to perform differently on different hardware are very, very few.
The functions you could perform differently for a measurable speed boost don't make nearly enough difference to outweigh the benefits of implementing only the required parts and then typing "make" to get your shiny new hardware working.
You want assembly when some human is waiting long enough for your results to take them out of the zone, you already have the best algorithm to produce those results, nobody has already built a hand-tuned library to do it and your compiler can't be made to understand.
You don't actually need assembly until all of the above apply and the results are late enough to cause damage.
Yeah, I don't think screenshots will do it. Maybe even a full-sized print, I don't know. I do know the water lilies one was _huge_.
Thanks for the link, Wade.
I believe that, until very recently, much of the world's population was religious...
Stalin starved twenty million of his own. Getting people to buy into any social hierarchy then taking over the hierarchy is the usual trick. Hierarchy is a dangerous tool.
Blaming evil on religion is, quite simply, scapegoating. It's blaming other people for the worst parts of human nature, pretending not to share those parts.
As long as they don't kill kittens or put kids in sweat shops or something like that
Do some research.
I think the difference is he's found a far simpler transformation that's close enough to accurate that your eyes will do the rest. His algorithm fits in a 30-40fps CPU-only rendering pipeline for e.g. Quake II.
His Springtime Through the Branches and one of his larger water lily paintings "popped" for me this way: after looking for a while, I suddenly felt I was looking into the paintings.
And the way it happened sounds similar: I had heard that de-focusing on his paintings would make them different but equally beautiful.
The water lily painting (huge, done in dark colors, in a traveling impressionist exhibition that included works from private collections, at the LACMA in the 1980's, I can't recall anything more) just didn't look all that good to me, almost muddy-looking, so I figured there must be some reason it was there and tried that trick. A minute maybe, then, bam.
Ever since, I've tagged him as "the puzzle" because he was doing something your eye needs to figure out with eye-logic
Lovely.
Yes.
Nobody said TCP is optimal, just that it's had 30 years of tweaking based on real-world experience.
In California at least, the legal description of contracts made like that matches the moral one. It's "unconscionable".
This in spite of the flat commandment against presuming to speak with His authority.
Obama doesn't pander with it, doesn't use it for votes. But watch Obama's 2006 speech on the proper role of religion in public life.
I think that fully answers both the parent's point and about a quarter of the people in Texas.
No, no, no, see, it's the rich people's job to decide which deserving poor will receive the trickle. Letting government give it to just anybody is bad. Letting people who focus on extracting cash rather than creating wealth judiciously do their duty will produce a rising tide that lifts all boats.
They've been doing this for twenty of the last twenty-eight years, and you can see how much better off everyone is for it, rich and poor and nation alike, right? Their entire argument, the whole basis on which they sold their economic plan, has been resoundingly vindicated, and George H.W. Bush's term for it (that would be "voodoo economics") has been utterly refuted, by the growing prosperity shared by all.
right?
right?
Vote.
By those rules, taking candy from a baby isn't unethical.
The pay version of Acrobat puts a "save as PDF" button on the toolbar. MS giving users that for free was probably not popular with Adobe's financial guys.
So, what, governments are somehow immune to Sturgeon's law?
You personally get to decide what promotes the general welfare of the United States, and all those people we elected to do that job don't?
Public education is "individual", as if the ED is about tutors?
The observation is at least as old as western civilization, and generally rendered as "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty".
We can agree that you still have your rights, protected or not.
We can even agree that everyone has a right to have their rights protected. We're supposed to watch out for each other as well as ourselves.
But if grownups aren't going to do the protecting, who were you proposing as ultimately, long-term responsible for doing it? The government? I cite the entire history of the human race as a counterargument.
So which of the emumerated powers in the U.S. Constitution give Federal Government the power to redistribute individual wealth, provide for individual education, provide for individual welfare and security?
So, the power to levy taxes to provide for the common defense and general welfare somehow doesn't include taking any particular individual's money, or spending it on education or food or protection for any actual people?
C'mon. You can't be that stupid. Something's got your brain shut off.