It doesn't take an MBA to figure out what it actually costs to supply a single continuous 1Mbit slice of bandwidth delivered via DSL, EXCLUDING factoring replacement of the routers, the power that feeds it, the air conditioning it takes to cool it, the rent or mortgage it takes to house it, the fractional percentage of the salaries it takes to administer it, support it, support you, bill you, collect your money (assuming you pay on time), the taxes, the Universal Service Fund fees or any of the other overheads that goes along with just operating a business, is about $168/month.
So please, convince me that your $30-50/month Internet Service bill is too high.
If we follow your logic to the extreme, it wouln't be entirely unfair that an ISP could start to sell services based on protocol - http/https/ftp is standard, and anything beyond that costs extra. Is that where we want to see ISPs headed?
Absolutely -- in fact not everyone's Internet usage is the same -- some clients prize OUTBOUND bandwidth while most prefer INBOUND. We have clients that have us prioritize their VPN protocols in a balanced approach, and dial down FTP.
The days of the "all you can eat" bandwidth are numbered. Internet service will be priced like electricity. This is good for the consumer, in that they will not be penalized for paying for higher "last mile bandwidth potential" like they are now.
There has to be an equitable transfer of value for value.
my "case in point" has everything to do with contract law -- if you don't like something, and you care enough to read the fine print, you should get something changed.
your assumption that I "hate god" is really off base -- having not met or experienced the diety first hand, i have really no opinion whatsoever as to my reaction to said entity.
and if its so "pointless", why have it included in the contract in the first place? stop contributing to dead-tree-society needs by removing it
my "Freedom of Speech" is excercised when I choose to commit my name and thus legaly bind myself to a contract
again sparky, this is ABOUT MONEY -- and most business are "for profit" -- and those businesses will continue to do things that help them hunt and gather more of the "profit"
if you're willing to accept without challenge any contract that is put in front of you to sign, then you get what you deserve
Having worked as an Independent consultant for over a decade, I've amassed a veritable treasure chest of technology and methods on my own dime.
If you have something of worth, propose licensing it to them for a small percentage -- if its something that you're passionate about, then forget the royalty, and get paid as part of your regular work to improve it
Even better, make it open source, and encourage them to take 'ownership' in it, thus providing a marketing/advertising channel for them (via sponsorship)
But yes, its always better to make/request the changes up front.
Make no mistake, this is a business, and most businesses are about money.
Case in point: I refuse to sign any contract that has "acts of god" in them, unless the company can guarantee that they can produce one for me to cross-examine should i need to. Whenever I get push-back from an agent "this is a standard contract.....I don't know if we can change this....blah blah blah" -- I just tell them I will be happy to pay another firm that is less theological in their approach to contract law -- it usually requires an extra day, but it always comes back with "force majeure" or something less offensive;)
First off, I need to state that I'm a HUGE smalltalk fan/user/zealot....but....
Its a 'monolithic kernel' architecture.
There is of course the "stripping" process to pare down the image size, but frankly it still comes out pretty large
Of course, with the price of memory these days, its not so much of a concern anymore;)
Seriously though, there was at one point some discussion of an embedded 'cpu', much like the BasicStamp system that would allow smalltalk on 'anything', not sure if it went anywhere
The other problem is one of Education! Very few (and i haven't checked recently) schools offer any educational courses that focus, let along USE Smalltalk.
Text books frequently use banking examples to attempt to show the advantages of using pure objects -- unfortunately banking requires near real-time performance, and traditionally most interpreted systems do not perform. Of course we have bigger badder processors to make up for that;)
Also, the track-record for large-scale systems hasn't been what i'd call complimentary: Having spent some time working on "!ntegrator" for QWEST (then USWEST), I can tell you that the approach taken was next to dismal in terms of results after three years. Much of which is or has been replaced with either Web-based systems or J2EE.
Objective-C is a great migration/hybrid -- NeXT, and now hopefully Apple will show that.
Now, to its credit, and not to denigrate it any, I kind of see Smalltalk as a "LOGO for Adults" -- seems to be a good sort of tool for instruction.
Its safe to play (sandbox), responsive, and teaches some very important principals (like THINKING before you code;)
Wow, I feel like any loyalty and good will I had toward Sun just went out the window!
I don't care if its for their shitty Intel version of Solaris, which just doesn't perform -- and doesn't have the widespread driver support -- the earlier post was correct : They could have obtained it from linux
After graduating I insisted on Sun hardware in the newco I started.
After this, I can assure you when our Enterprise Server dies, it will be replaced with an army of FreeBSD boxes (which we already run for other servers)
Good job sun -- you've soiled yourselves with the stink of the new pariah
The enemy of your enemy in this case was not your friend
I hope IBM buys your sorry assets out, because we're done with you
Is that where that behemoth ended up? At windriver?
I used Zinc in the early 90's to do some very light-weight cross platform toys, but that was about it -- it was a jack of all trades, master of none when it came down to it -- like most of the class of tools under the umbrella of CASE
In fact today, using AWT in Java reminds me of that experience
Agreed -- having submitted over a dozen stories, many of which admittedly turned out to be a dupe, it would be nice to have it either DELETE the freaking things from the profile -- otherwise, its like an albatross around my neck everytime I go in -- perhaps its meant to stop me from submitting, but my percentage accepted is better then 10%:)
Seriously though, either having a REASON why it was rejected, and then recycle the bits, *OR* have an overflow page that just has all the rejections as you've suggested -- that way one might scan the list PRIOR to going through the effort composing a story complete with hyper-link
CNW migrations suck suck suck
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That wasn't our experience, they just hit the switch on our LD...
Their move to primus left us without inbound 800 service, and the people at Primus were less than helpful/clueful -- CNW totally dropped the ball,a nd Primus could not even find it to pick it up.
We've been a CNW ISP client since last year, not migrated to newedge, and our rep is still pitching bandwidth as CNW today
SkyPhone, and the related private pilot versions use a different network -- the antennas are fewer and are pointed upward. Cell towers on the ground negotiate which one is going to handle your traffic -- and when you're cruising along at 300+ mph you're moving between normal cells at a good clip.
Furthermore, ever notice how a cellphone disrupts your monitor or your speakers on your desktop?
As a pilot you WANT the guys up front to have a crystal clear communication -- hell buzzing around the shoreview towers in minneapolis cause the radios to go wonky, so what do i know?
You're absolutely right about how the traditional indie gets things going
Follow the money trail though and you'll see how the system perpetuates it:
$ 49.95 retail title subtract the $ 20.00+ retailer profit (or simply assume that the distributor paid 1/2 face value or less -- how else can they deep discount titles?) which means they paid distributor somewhere between $8-15 subtract the "COGS" or Cost of Goods Sold (ie the CD, jewel case, box art, manual et al), with an average weighing in around $3, and that leaves the publisher and developer to split about $8
don't forget to subtract that advance they gave you, and of course the 'reserve' they hold to handle all the returns the store is going to push back if the game doesn't sell -- oh yeah, and the fact that they hold the money for nearly 90+ days.....and the 'comps' the store gets to sell essentially free for full face value, otherwise known as the 'grease' factor...
this isn't even specific to Software, its the exact same game that the music industry is doing to artists all the time
For every title you see on that precious retail shelf-space, there are a dozen that didn't make it there
the salvation? internet connected consoles -- get ready and start focusing your efforts here....
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Do a google search on it, or check out the funky aquarium at:
http://www.pugetsystems.com/submerged.php
This is just another arms race in the making. We've seen this with the Cable Boxes, then Satelite TV, DVD, XBOX's
:)
The more complex the systems get, the more opportunities to circumvent.
After all, the Death Star was brought down by a snot-nosed-wombat-shooting-hick from the backwaters of the galaxy
All it takes is motivation and a lot of free time....
It doesn't take an MBA to figure out what it actually costs to supply a single continuous 1Mbit slice of bandwidth delivered via DSL, EXCLUDING factoring replacement of the routers, the power that feeds it, the air conditioning it takes to cool it, the rent or mortgage it takes to house it, the fractional percentage of the salaries it takes to administer it, support it, support you, bill you, collect your money (assuming you pay on time), the taxes, the Universal Service Fund fees or any of the other overheads that goes along with just operating a business, is about $168/month.
So please, convince me that your $30-50/month Internet Service bill is too high.
Absolutely -- in fact not everyone's Internet usage is the same -- some clients prize OUTBOUND bandwidth while most prefer INBOUND. We have clients that have us prioritize their VPN protocols in a balanced approach, and dial down FTP.
The days of the "all you can eat" bandwidth are numbered. Internet service will be priced like electricity. This is good for the consumer, in that they will not be penalized for paying for higher "last mile bandwidth potential" like they are now.
There has to be an equitable transfer of value for value.
Its called the Elevator algorithm....
my "case in point" has everything to do with contract law -- if you don't like something, and you care enough to read the fine print, you should get something changed.
your assumption that I "hate god" is really off base -- having not met or experienced the diety first hand, i have really no opinion whatsoever as to my reaction to said entity.
and if its so "pointless", why have it included in the contract in the first place? stop contributing to dead-tree-society needs by removing it
my "Freedom of Speech" is excercised when I choose to commit my name and thus legaly bind myself to a contract
again sparky, this is ABOUT MONEY -- and most business are "for profit" -- and those businesses will continue to do things that help them hunt and gather more of the "profit"
if you're willing to accept without challenge any contract that is put in front of you to sign, then you get what you deserve
Having worked as an Independent consultant for over a decade, I've amassed a veritable treasure chest of technology and methods on my own dime.
;)
If you have something of worth, propose licensing it to them for a small percentage -- if its something that you're passionate about, then forget the royalty, and get paid as part of your regular work to improve it
Even better, make it open source, and encourage them to take 'ownership' in it, thus providing a marketing/advertising channel for them (via sponsorship)
But yes, its always better to make/request the changes up front.
Make no mistake, this is a business, and most businesses are about money.
Case in point: I refuse to sign any contract that has "acts of god" in them, unless the company can guarantee that they can produce one for me to cross-examine should i need to. Whenever I get push-back from an agent "this is a standard contract.....I don't know if we can change this....blah blah blah" -- I just tell them I will be happy to pay another firm that is less theological in their approach to contract law -- it usually requires an extra day, but it always comes back with "force majeure" or something less offensive
if you really want to teach them, start even simpler -- RPN arithmatic is pretty much all you need to know about pushing and popping :)
Remember folks, the NSA is all about building a reference version of Secure Linux
I'd love to see Darl and crew send nasty-grams to the NSA...
This was THE compiler to use with RTLINK/plus to build protected mode video games -- okay, protected mode anything
and the only reason we used protected mode?
BIG RAM BABY
thanks to the (in)famous 640k 'barrier'
though to some extent i'm not sure how relevant the toolset is today....
Quit cold-turkey, and substitute apple juice in the morning -- it will help take the edge off it
At the height of my addiction I was three extra large skim latte's a day, and coffee right before i would go to bed
I share your pain -- I too was a "slave to the bean"
Except you're not going far enough!
This is the classic "razors and razor blades model"
I'd like to see some "compatible" Mach-3 cartridges....
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/shore/
its Value Added Server architecture would lend itself quite nicely to this effort
you're right, its probably not extortion, but it certainly may come under Federal Mail Fraud charges
OOOOOH! I hope they send some to Minnesota!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!
I know Attorney General Mike Hatch is looking for another bich to slap
First off, I need to state that I'm a HUGE smalltalk fan/user/zealot....but....
;)
;)
;)
Its a 'monolithic kernel' architecture.
There is of course the "stripping" process to pare down the image size, but frankly it still comes out pretty large
Of course, with the price of memory these days, its not so much of a concern anymore
Seriously though, there was at one point some discussion of an embedded 'cpu', much like the BasicStamp system that would allow smalltalk on 'anything', not sure if it went anywhere
The other problem is one of Education! Very few (and i haven't checked recently) schools offer any educational courses that focus, let along USE Smalltalk.
Text books frequently use banking examples to attempt to show the advantages of using pure objects -- unfortunately banking requires near real-time performance, and traditionally most interpreted systems do not perform. Of course we have bigger badder processors to make up for that
Also, the track-record for large-scale systems hasn't been what i'd call complimentary: Having spent some time working on "!ntegrator" for QWEST (then USWEST), I can tell you that the approach taken was next to dismal in terms of results after three years. Much of which is or has been replaced with either Web-based systems or J2EE.
Objective-C is a great migration/hybrid -- NeXT, and now hopefully Apple will show that.
Now, to its credit, and not to denigrate it any, I kind of see Smalltalk as a "LOGO for Adults" -- seems to be a good sort of tool for instruction.
Its safe to play (sandbox), responsive, and teaches some very important principals (like THINKING before you code
Wow, I feel like any loyalty and good will I had toward Sun just went out the window!
I don't care if its for their shitty Intel version of Solaris, which just doesn't perform -- and doesn't have the widespread driver support -- the earlier post was correct : They could have obtained it from linux
After graduating I insisted on Sun hardware in the newco I started.
After this, I can assure you when our Enterprise Server dies, it will be replaced with an army of FreeBSD boxes (which we already run for other servers)
Good job sun -- you've soiled yourselves with the stink of the new pariah
The enemy of your enemy in this case was not your friend
I hope IBM buys your sorry assets out, because we're done with you
Is that where that behemoth ended up? At windriver?
I used Zinc in the early 90's to do some very light-weight cross platform toys, but that was about it -- it was a jack of all trades, master of none when it came down to it -- like most of the class of tools under the umbrella of CASE
In fact today, using AWT in Java reminds me of that experience
it ends with "So there."
for those of us like to own contraband ;)
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Agreed -- having submitted over a dozen stories, many of which admittedly turned out to be a dupe, it would be nice to have it either DELETE the freaking things from the profile -- otherwise, its like an albatross around my neck everytime I go in -- perhaps its meant to stop me from submitting, but my percentage accepted is better then 10% :)
Seriously though, either having a REASON why it was rejected, and then recycle the bits, *OR* have an overflow page that just has all the rejections as you've suggested -- that way one might scan the list PRIOR to going through the effort composing a story complete with hyper-link
That wasn't our experience, they just hit the switch on our LD...
Their move to primus left us without inbound 800 service, and the people at Primus were less than helpful/clueful -- CNW totally dropped the ball,a nd Primus could not even find it to pick it up.
We've been a CNW ISP client since last year, not migrated to newedge, and our rep is still pitching bandwidth as CNW today
Bizarre to say the least
And someone has to be responsible for paying the ISP connect charges.
;)
Are you going to factor it into association fees?
Or were you going to volunteer to handle it in GNUCash in your copious spare time
SkyPhone, and the related private pilot versions use a different network -- the antennas are fewer and are pointed upward. Cell towers on the ground negotiate which one is going to handle your traffic -- and when you're cruising along at 300+ mph you're moving between normal cells at a good clip.
Furthermore, ever notice how a cellphone disrupts your monitor or your speakers on your desktop?
As a pilot you WANT the guys up front to have a crystal clear communication -- hell buzzing around the shoreview towers in minneapolis cause the radios to go wonky, so what do i know?
they're hoping to use 'free labor' to submit bug fixes :)
and seriously, what the world fixes for free in CE, is probably indicative of a root error in the original code base
You're absolutely right about how the traditional indie gets things going
Follow the money trail though and you'll see how the system perpetuates it:
$ 49.95 retail title subtract the $ 20.00+ retailer profit (or simply assume that the distributor paid 1/2 face value or less -- how else can they deep discount titles?)
which means they paid distributor somewhere between $8-15 subtract the "COGS" or Cost of Goods Sold (ie the CD, jewel case, box art, manual et al), with an average weighing in around $3, and that leaves the publisher and developer to split about $8
don't forget to subtract that advance they gave you, and of course the 'reserve' they hold to handle all the returns the store is going to push back if the game doesn't sell -- oh yeah, and the fact that they hold the money for nearly 90+ days.....and the 'comps' the store gets to sell essentially free for full face value, otherwise known as the 'grease' factor...
this isn't even specific to Software, its the exact same game that the music industry is doing to artists all the time
For every title you see on that precious retail shelf-space, there are a dozen that didn't make it there
the salvation? internet connected consoles -- get ready and start focusing your efforts here....