The problem with public internet access (meaning paid for with tax dollars) is that it becomes a public utility, destroying the hope of last mile competition that wireless promises. For me, the hope in wireless for the last mile is that many service providers might be able to get to me instead of just the telco and the cableco. But if wireless becomes a public utility, then the only offering is going to be from your city government. It may seem free, but it costs tax revenue and without competition, is not likely to be implemented efficiently.
I want to see competition and you're absolutely right: businesses are not owed profitibility. If a business sucks, it should die. A public utility will never die, no matter how much they suck.
There was gold in California. Something tangible that was worth the risk for those taking it. It's not as obvious how going to space benefits the stakeholders (astronauts, politicians, tax payers).
Great idea. We used to do the same thing before letting people vote. Pass a literacy test and you can vote. Of course, it was ripe for abuse and made it easy for the elites to keep the masses down.
Besides, how does passing a test give you responsibility? You might be encouraged to educate yourself, but that doesn't mean you care.
Private businesses does not have the right to a profit, but they do have the right to fair competition. Competing against another tax-payer subsidized entity is not fair competition.
Holy crap! Now that's a reason to buy an LCD! I have a deep desk, 4 feet, and a pair of 19"s. I've ignored LCDs because I'd end up wasting the back 2 feet of desk space behind the LCDs. My wife'll be so happy you gave me this idea. Thanks!
I can think of at least four methods to render them useless offhand, and I'm not even a rocket scientist.
I find it fascinating how you can claim ignorance on a topic and yet imply you have a clue, belittling those that do, all in the same sentence. I bow before you.
If you work for a company that sells weapons, your inventions will be used to kill.
Or defend. It's not really that simple. If we hadn't developed sonar and depth charges, Germany would have ruled the atlantic indefinitely. If we hadn't developed superior aircraft, they would have ruled the skies. If Britain hadn't developed radar, many, many more of their civilians would have died. As long as bad people exist, we need to develop weapons for defense.
you're designing directly weapons, or support devices for ppl that carry weapons to kill
Uh, no. The poster said he's doing research for a defense company. Stuff that may be used for defense, but may also be used for some cool domestic application, like, you know the INTERNET!
Every bit of technology ever developed has at sometime has been applied to the practice of killing people, whether directly or indirectly. Following the sheetmetal example, don't you think the first army to use body armor, shields, and swords had a decisive advantage? Should the scientists and blacksmiths at that time have gone on strike, skipped that overrated "progress" thing, and let themselves be conquered and killed by the barbarians?
IMHO, fixing forgery will go a long ways toward fixing spam. Spammers can not only be anonymous, but they can even spoof legitimate addresses. Remove that anonymity by tying them to a domain, which is registered, and we can hunt them down and have our way with them.
Think about your inbox. Immediately remove the scam mails spoofing banks, etc. Now, bring the ones from known good domains to the front and push known bad domains to the back. Finally, mark the spam and your MUA automatically notifies the domain's registrar that the domain is being used for spam. The registrar could revoke the domain or maintain a signal to noise ratio and let you decide.
Regression testing. Emulation's nice, but it ain't the same as the original hardware. Which means, people will need to regression test. Trick is, the people that know what that old PDP-ll is actually doing retired a long time ago. So who's going to write the test cases?
It won't happen until we find a reason to go. It can't be "just cause" or "because it was there." The best reasons are either economical (e.g. oil, minerals) or national pride (e.g. get to the moon before the russians).
Honestly, what would help us get to Mars the quickest is if the Chinese planted a flag there.
The nitpick is well warranted. I have the correct quote posted at home, but I'm at work. I did a quick search "to get it right" and found many wrongs. Thanks for correcting me.
That's funny. I thought Americans were lard asses because we're fucking lazy.
Oh, wait, I guess that's what you said.
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I disagree that the IRS is filled with idiots. Frankly, it amazes me every year that they can boil that heaping pile of shit known as the tax code into a few pages and a bunch of worksheets. Despite the complexity, it's all there. Sometimes, you have to be a logic expert to follow it, but it's rare to catch a mistake in the 1040.
In my opinion, it's the politicians that pass these tax laws that should be blamed. It's always about the latest feel good give-back, not about simplifying or removing.
Free trade has an advantage beyond economics: Peace. The more countries trade with each other, the more they depend on each other. The more they depend on each other, the less likely they'll want to ruin each other's economies through war.
Don't believe me. Look at history. When economies become intertwined, peoples become intertwined. Suddenly, people don't seem to foreign and going to war feels like cutting of YOUR arm instead of someone else's.
I find it rather ironic that so many people in America, the land of capitalism, hate outsourcing so much.
It's sad, but there aren't too many American capitalists any more. If you want to find good capitalists, look in an emerging third world country such as Taiwan or India. Or look to the immigrants coming into the US looking to WORK for their PAY. Most Americans EXPECT good pay and benefits simply based on who they are (e.g. black or white, rich or poor), not on what they produce.
I'm speaking as an American that's sick of the whining from people unwilling to adapt and instead blame someone else for their problems. Change happens. Deal with it.
You've only considered capital expenses, not operational expenses... like bandwidth. Even if you get a low-end business grade DSL link, you're talking around $100/mon. In the long run, that will dwarve your capital expenditures.
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The problem with public internet access (meaning paid for with tax dollars) is that it becomes a public utility, destroying the hope of last mile competition that wireless promises. For me, the hope in wireless for the last mile is that many service providers might be able to get to me instead of just the telco and the cableco. But if wireless becomes a public utility, then the only offering is going to be from your city government. It may seem free, but it costs tax revenue and without competition, is not likely to be implemented efficiently.
I want to see competition and you're absolutely right: businesses are not owed profitibility. If a business sucks, it should die. A public utility will never die, no matter how much they suck.
There was gold in California. Something tangible that was worth the risk for those taking it. It's not as obvious how going to space benefits the stakeholders (astronauts, politicians, tax payers).
Great idea. We used to do the same thing before letting people vote. Pass a literacy test and you can vote. Of course, it was ripe for abuse and made it easy for the elites to keep the masses down.
Besides, how does passing a test give you responsibility? You might be encouraged to educate yourself, but that doesn't mean you care.
Private businesses does not have the right to a profit, but they do have the right to fair competition. Competing against another tax-payer subsidized entity is not fair competition.
Holy crap! Now that's a reason to buy an LCD! I have a deep desk, 4 feet, and a pair of 19"s. I've ignored LCDs because I'd end up wasting the back 2 feet of desk space behind the LCDs. My wife'll be so happy you gave me this idea. Thanks!
You're kidding right? You're OK with "all you can eat" data transfers, but not OK with a steady 90 kbit/second?
I can think of at least four methods to render them useless offhand, and I'm not even a rocket scientist.
I find it fascinating how you can claim ignorance on a topic and yet imply you have a clue, belittling those that do, all in the same sentence. I bow before you.
If you work for a company that sells weapons, your inventions will be used to kill.
Or defend. It's not really that simple. If we hadn't developed sonar and depth charges, Germany would have ruled the atlantic indefinitely. If we hadn't developed superior aircraft, they would have ruled the skies. If Britain hadn't developed radar, many, many more of their civilians would have died. As long as bad people exist, we need to develop weapons for defense.
you're designing directly weapons, or support devices for ppl that carry weapons to kill
Uh, no. The poster said he's doing research for a defense company. Stuff that may be used for defense, but may also be used for some cool domestic application, like, you know the INTERNET!
Every bit of technology ever developed has at sometime has been applied to the practice of killing people, whether directly or indirectly. Following the sheetmetal example, don't you think the first army to use body armor, shields, and swords had a decisive advantage? Should the scientists and blacksmiths at that time have gone on strike, skipped that overrated "progress" thing, and let themselves be conquered and killed by the barbarians?
IMHO, fixing forgery will go a long ways toward fixing spam. Spammers can not only be anonymous, but they can even spoof legitimate addresses. Remove that anonymity by tying them to a domain, which is registered, and we can hunt them down and have our way with them.
Think about your inbox. Immediately remove the scam mails spoofing banks, etc. Now, bring the ones from known good domains to the front and push known bad domains to the back. Finally, mark the spam and your MUA automatically notifies the domain's registrar that the domain is being used for spam. The registrar could revoke the domain or maintain a signal to noise ratio and let you decide.
800 sq ft == 74.32 sq m
In case some metric users think americans are crazy for calling a 2626 sq ft (244 sq m) house "too small".
Regression testing. Emulation's nice, but it ain't the same as the original hardware. Which means, people will need to regression test. Trick is, the people that know what that old PDP-ll is actually doing retired a long time ago. So who's going to write the test cases?
I know you're joking, but you're right in a way.
It won't happen until we find a reason to go. It can't be "just cause" or "because it was there." The best reasons are either economical (e.g. oil, minerals) or national pride (e.g. get to the moon before the russians).
Honestly, what would help us get to Mars the quickest is if the Chinese planted a flag there.
Ouch. I didn't mean to troll... Just pointing out that one person's feature is another person's appendix.
Some people still haven't figured out that 2 or even 3 buttons can be useful.
The nitpick is well warranted. I have the correct quote posted at home, but I'm at work. I did a quick search "to get it right" and found many wrongs. Thanks for correcting me.
Those willing to give up a little liberty for a little security deserve neither security nor liberty.
- Benjamin Franklin
That's funny. I thought Americans were lard asses because we're fucking lazy.
Oh, wait, I guess that's what you said.
I disagree that the IRS is filled with idiots. Frankly, it amazes me every year that they can boil that heaping pile of shit known as the tax code into a few pages and a bunch of worksheets. Despite the complexity, it's all there. Sometimes, you have to be a logic expert to follow it, but it's rare to catch a mistake in the 1040.
In my opinion, it's the politicians that pass these tax laws that should be blamed. It's always about the latest feel good give-back, not about simplifying or removing.
The tax code needs a refactor not more patches.
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Love the sig.
Steve should already know. NeXT used something similar over 10 years ago. An application was a directory; clicking the directory launched the app.
HP and Novell are putting SUSE on it's desktops and laptops.
Free trade has an advantage beyond economics: Peace. The more countries trade with each other, the more they depend on each other. The more they depend on each other, the less likely they'll want to ruin each other's economies through war.
Don't believe me. Look at history. When economies become intertwined, peoples become intertwined. Suddenly, people don't seem to foreign and going to war feels like cutting of YOUR arm instead of someone else's.
I find it rather ironic that so many people in America, the land of capitalism, hate outsourcing so much.
It's sad, but there aren't too many American capitalists any more. If you want to find good capitalists, look in an emerging third world country such as Taiwan or India. Or look to the immigrants coming into the US looking to WORK for their PAY. Most Americans EXPECT good pay and benefits simply based on who they are (e.g. black or white, rich or poor), not on what they produce.
I'm speaking as an American that's sick of the whining from people unwilling to adapt and instead blame someone else for their problems. Change happens. Deal with it.
You need business grade if you are going to resell it. Also, whether they admit it or not, they are running a business here. It's not home use.
Home use DSL here is around $40-$50 for 1500/768.
You've only considered capital expenses, not operational expenses... like bandwidth. Even if you get a low-end business grade DSL link, you're talking around $100/mon. In the long run, that will dwarve your capital expenditures.