I'd easily pay $100 for a 10Mb connection. If that is what they sold. However, they sell a 4-6Mb connection for $35-50, that cannot be used to it's full extent despite saying that is what is being sold. I've had home cable, dsl, dialup, done colo, managed hosting, and worked at a tier I backbone as a high level sys admin.
There is simply no reason that those connections could not be run and a profit made at those prices. The *real* choices are direct, indirect, or a lower cost competitor who doesn't make the issues blurry and incurs honest business costs that don't need to be extorted out of the public. Guess which one the geeks/people will create if the businesses assume that the consumer will simply have to pay their fees, directly or indirectly.
Google provides a services which is somewhat hard to do well (search). It makes money by selling ads (mainly) and services around what it does well (search). The more content there is, the harder it will be for google to have competition that will be able to sprout up, due to data glut.
Remove the expensive cost of content tools, and more people can create more content, which they will WANT to search through. At the same time, remove your supposed competitors major source of revenue by fulfilling a need it would not, software that works, is light weight, and is free/cheap (good enough). This isn't just a smart move, it's about a shift in technology to provide people what they want and moving them toward benefiting your business model (designed to make money around what people want).
Want to see another point you may have missed? (major speculation) Telco's limit content in a tiered system, google buys a little more dark fiber and lights it up. Starts a local isp business through techies who don't want a tiered net, and act as partners in a 'mashup' of reselling google network access. Us local techies not liking telco or nsa habits of late, serve as local wifi resellers via mesh networks to solve the 'last mile' problem. All the time, solving our consumer problems and generating ad revenue for google.
Google has smart people doing smart things solving real problems with simple and very obvious solutions. No, I don't work for google, but if their looking... grin.
This `war on terror` has been old for a long time. We are not at war. We are occupying countries in the guise of it though. If a bully hits you day after day and you avoid him... your not running a `war on bullies`, and you certainly can't go to other schools and pre-emptively hit other `bullies`. Especially when the bully is only a big kid, who only gave you a dirty look, and isn't really a threat like you'd like everyone to believe.
Hopefully this will be friendly, but people have to respect intellectual property.
Do we eh? intellectual property is a term thrown around by so many people that want money for anything they create. These people would not be able to say such stupid things, if they were reduced to talking about copyright, trademarks, and patents. I.P. refers to those, not some magical new thing that is going to make you money. We are being out performed by other regions of the world now, and these people are so desperate to try and claim they have a right to thought and design, just because... and that right includes money.
My favorite is when some calls it intelligent property, people need to think about getting stuff done and making the world a better place, not nickle and diming humanity. especially over something as superficial as an interface.
Our right to freedom of speech, is not the freedom to say what we want, when we want, free from consiquence. It is the freedom to not have our speech prevented by the government. Private citizens and organizations are free to do what they like, based on what you say, again... within the law.
Counter strike and Rhino3D keep me dual booting between windows and freebsd. With the latests nvidia drivers though, I'm so close to running cs flawlessly under freebsd I can taste it, and I can run rhino3d although it is permformance leaves a lot wanting.
Both under wine of course. If I could get CS working tonight, I'd blow away my windows partition.... plus this is the only machine I own that does not run solely on an opensource os... and this includes 2 desktops, 1 laptop, and 4 servers...
so, Counter-Strike is my hook, but it's almost out. Even my gf is linux friendly.
After they draw that line, maybe they can sign their death certificate on it. This place is falling apart quickly and these goons are trying to secure the best spot as the house of cards falls.
reguardless of that article, which was VERY biased. I'd like to point out that those who see the world, computer hacking especially, as either black hat or white hat, only see it that way due to the limitations on the dunce hat they already wear.
When I worked for a Tier I isp as a 3rd shift unix admin, it was just a fact of life. You tend to learn other os's quickly due to the urgency.
If it isn't a mission critical shop, then train them and things should go fine, if it is a mission critical shop (~15 min resolution time where I was working) switching to multiple os's requires one ping-pong table per platform, 1 pool table for every 3 architecures. That seemed to keep the crowds happy where I worked.
Software should be inexpensive. It is the people that keep it running that are expensive. No matter how easy/automated software gets someone has to make and keep it that way.
Sorry. I am not buying it anymore. And I think the general business world isn't going to buy it much longer. Either the Internet will be abandoned, or there will be heavy, heavy government regulation of who can connect and how. Sort of like the phone company in the 1950's.
Sounds good to me, get those damn silly companies off the internet and onto private networks.
Willing to place bets that 75% of the sql servers that where there by intent, do not need to be net accessible. The people need to learn by burning thier hands, maybe even torching a few companies.
Magic often masters those who cannot master it...some WoTC magic the gathering card from my childhood.
degree's and cert's don't mean a thing if you are useless.
If you are useful then degree and certs will document how useful you might be.
Write software that showcases your skills and SOLVES problems.
I have no degree, dropped out of college after 2 weeks, no certs either... but solved people's problems and often before they knew they where problems.
Show them that you can hack your way out of a box and do it without anyone knowing and without being prompted, and all of this to their benefit. You will NEVER be without a job. If you want to get hired give them the solutions to problems they haven't yet realized.
Sound like a new market in trafficing illegal games to teens just opened up to those interested
Besides, if my younger bro wanted a game and they wouldn't sell it to him... I'd buy it and give it to him, or buy it and drop it and hope he wouldn't find it. What non-sense... good idea, wrong reason.
Your SSN maybe a good identification number, but in many cases it is also used as a password, which is just foolish, because you can't change it, and it can be stolen.
How is this different than a digital repesentation of retna, or data derived from your retna, or any bioinformation for that matter. You think it's hard to change your ssn, try your retna. Once that is compromised what are you going to do?
This logic is dangerous as it treats bioinformation as symlinks to people, not as identifiers for people. bioinformatoin eq username, username != user, therefore bioinformation != user.
SSN numbers are great for identifiers, but not as authentication methods. Bioinformation make even better identifiers, but not as authentication methods.
This is a great idea. Also, lets make the distribution, mutation, and evolution of DNA illegal, as it could be used to create people who could suspectable and spread real deadly illnesses or genetic imperfections.
So I cannot talk about computer virii but I can create real ones? Only in the America...
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I'd easily pay $100 for a 10Mb connection. If that is what they sold. However, they sell a 4-6Mb connection for $35-50, that cannot be used to it's full extent despite saying that is what is being sold. I've had home cable, dsl, dialup, done colo, managed hosting, and worked at a tier I backbone as a high level sys admin.
There is simply no reason that those connections could not be run and a profit made at those prices. The *real* choices are direct, indirect, or a lower cost competitor who doesn't make the issues blurry and incurs honest business costs that don't need to be extorted out of the public. Guess which one the geeks/people will create if the businesses assume that the consumer will simply have to pay their fees, directly or indirectly.
Google provides a services which is somewhat hard to do well (search). It makes money by selling ads (mainly) and services around what it does well (search). The more content there is, the harder it will be for google to have competition that will be able to sprout up, due to data glut.
Remove the expensive cost of content tools, and more people can create more content, which they will WANT to search through. At the same time, remove your supposed competitors major source of revenue by fulfilling a need it would not, software that works, is light weight, and is free/cheap (good enough). This isn't just a smart move, it's about a shift in technology to provide people what they want and moving them toward benefiting your business model (designed to make money around what people want).
Want to see another point you may have missed? (major speculation) Telco's limit content in a tiered system, google buys a little more dark fiber and lights it up. Starts a local isp business through techies who don't want a tiered net, and act as partners in a 'mashup' of reselling google network access. Us local techies not liking telco or nsa habits of late, serve as local wifi resellers via mesh networks to solve the 'last mile' problem. All the time, solving our consumer problems and generating ad revenue for google.
Google has smart people doing smart things solving real problems with simple and very obvious solutions. No, I don't work for google, but if their looking... grin.
This `war on terror` has been old for a long time. We are not at war. We are occupying countries in the guise of it though. If a bully hits you day after day and you avoid him... your not running a `war on bullies`, and you certainly can't go to other schools and pre-emptively hit other `bullies`. Especially when the bully is only a big kid, who only gave you a dirty look, and isn't really a threat like you'd like everyone to believe.
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Watch these films from the BBC...
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=power+of+ni
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/3755686.stm
kettle, meet pot. pot, meet kettle.
Where you expecting something new and innovative? Same old stuff w/ new locks and gates, that about sums up Microsoft products for the last decade.
Hopefully this will be friendly, but people have to respect intellectual property.
Do we eh? intellectual property is a term thrown around by so many people that want money for anything they create. These people would not be able to say such stupid things, if they were reduced to talking about copyright, trademarks, and patents. I.P. refers to those, not some magical new thing that is going to make you money. We are being out performed by other regions of the world now, and these people are so desperate to try and claim they have a right to thought and design, just because... and that right includes money.
My favorite is when some calls it intelligent property, people need to think about getting stuff done and making the world a better place, not nickle and diming humanity. especially over something as superficial as an interface.
Our right to freedom of speech, is not the freedom to say what we want, when we want, free from consiquence. It is the freedom to not have our speech prevented by the government. Private citizens and organizations are free to do what they like, based on what you say, again... within the law.
Never let the person who says it is impossible, stop the person who is actually doing it.
How about a law making it illegal to pass bills with innocent looking names?
Counter strike and Rhino3D keep me dual booting between windows and freebsd.
With the latests nvidia drivers though, I'm so close to running cs flawlessly under freebsd I can taste it, and I can run rhino3d although it is permformance leaves a lot wanting.
Both under wine of course. If I could get CS working tonight, I'd blow away my windows partition.... plus this is the only machine I own that does not run solely on an opensource os... and this includes 2 desktops, 1 laptop, and 4 servers...
so, Counter-Strike is my hook, but it's almost out. Even my gf is linux friendly.
After they draw that line, maybe they can sign their death certificate on it. This place is falling apart quickly and these goons are trying to secure the best spot as the house of cards falls.
reguardless of that article, which was VERY biased. I'd like to point out that those who see the world, computer hacking especially, as either black hat or white hat, only see it that way due to the limitations on the dunce hat they already wear.
If they wanna trade their freedom, let them. I certainly won't. seems like cult loyality to me.
I'm sure many of the things I do today will be illegal tommorrow.
it's easy to tell when someone unauthorized opens your case, the puslse magnet went off and nothing electronical within 8 feet works.
grin.
When I worked for a Tier I isp as a 3rd shift unix admin, it was just a fact of life. You tend to learn other os's quickly due to the urgency.
If it isn't a mission critical shop, then train them and things should go fine, if it is a mission critical shop (~15 min resolution time where I was working) switching to multiple os's requires one ping-pong table per platform, 1 pool table for every 3 architecures. That seemed to keep the crowds happy where I worked.
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WickedLogic
Software should be inexpensive. It is the people that keep it running that are expensive. No matter how easy/automated software gets someone has to make and keep it that way.
Sorry. I am not buying it anymore. And I think the general business world isn't going to buy it much longer. Either the Internet will be abandoned, or there will be heavy, heavy government regulation of who can connect and how. Sort of like the phone company in the 1950's.
Sounds good to me, get those damn silly companies off the internet and onto private networks.
Willing to place bets that 75% of the sql servers that where there by intent, do not need to be net accessible. The people need to learn by burning thier hands, maybe even torching a few companies.
Magic often masters those who cannot master it...some WoTC magic the gathering card from my childhood.
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WickedLogic
degree's and cert's don't mean a thing if you are useless.
If you are useful then degree and certs will document how useful you might be.
Write software that showcases your skills and SOLVES problems.
I have no degree, dropped out of college after 2 weeks, no certs either... but solved people's problems and often before they knew they where problems.
Show them that you can hack your way out of a box and do it without anyone knowing and without being prompted, and all of this to their benefit. You will NEVER be without a job. If you want to get hired give them the solutions to problems they haven't yet realized.
Sound like a new market in trafficing illegal games to teens just opened up to those interested
Besides, if my younger bro wanted a game and they wouldn't sell it to him... I'd buy it and give it to him, or buy it and drop it and hope he wouldn't find it. What non-sense... good idea, wrong reason.
Your SSN maybe a good identification number, but in many cases it is also used as a password, which is just foolish, because you can't change it, and it can be stolen.
How is this different than a digital repesentation of retna, or data derived from your retna, or any bioinformation for that matter. You think it's hard to change your ssn, try your retna. Once that is compromised what are you going to do?
This logic is dangerous as it treats bioinformation as symlinks to people, not as identifiers for people. bioinformatoin eq username, username != user, therefore bioinformation != user.
SSN numbers are great for identifiers, but not as authentication methods. Bioinformation make even better identifiers, but not as authentication methods.
I usually find management and owners are the biggest threar to security, not employee's. At lease not the tech ones.
When I write code that replaces the need for lower coders, that will make your programming job a dead end. Time to optimize you out of existance.
This is a great idea. Also, lets make the distribution, mutation, and evolution of DNA illegal, as it could be used to create people who could suspectable and spread real deadly illnesses or genetic imperfections.
So I cannot talk about computer virii but I can create real ones? Only in the America...
Those in power will use technology to stay in power.