The maximum temperature in Brussels during summer reaches 66 to 71 degrees,
Holy crap! And I thought it got hot around here when it hit 39 last year! I always thought Belgium was in northern Europe.. 66 degrees sounds more like the tropics to me!
Bullshit. Show me where Cox says their oversubscription rate (hint: they don't.) Show me in the TOS where they state how fast their backhaul is. They don't - not even relative to the number of subscribers on a given segment.
It totally makes sense to throttle bandwidth for some applications and make a few customers unhappy rather than spend millions upgrading the network for a negative ROI.
You're either a fucking moron or a corporate shill.
Re-read what I posted. At 1%, it wouldn't matter if Bell blocked P2P traffic - they'd still be oversubscribed. And thus they're engaging in fraud.
be sure and state in your business plan how you're going to make money by selling bandwidth to power users cheaper than you can create it.
Until such time as it's shown that they have a monopoly in online music distribution [...] I see the motivation for Apple - they are basically the only game in town when it comes to mp3
Wow - that was quick! Apparently they went from "until it's proven" to "it's proven" before you finished writing your post!
Seriously though, if Apple were smart, they wouldn't wait for the courts to do something about it - they'd allow Palm (and others) to access itunes. This would do two things:
1.) Increase the sales (and thus usage) of Itunes. 2.) pre-emptively cut off any government interference with their business.
I wonder how much of the boot slowdown has to do with architectural change
None of it - at least not the architecture you're meaning (ROM vs. HD loading)
The post above yours talked about an A1200 that booted in 3 seconds - from hard drive.
I had an A3000 that booted from HD in 6 seconds - and it was only that slow because it loaded up drivers for my network card, set up TCP/IP, initialized the (additional) display card, and a bunch of other things (desktop customization.)
You may think that assigning the value of 1% to "z" somehow wrong. OK, fine, let's fix that. But how? I see only two ways to address the issue: increase capacity of the network or lower some of the other variables. One of those requires a huge hardware investment, the costs of which will have to borne by all consumers.
No. If you need to assign a value of 1% to "z", then you're oversubscribed to the point that you are engaging in fraud. It means that even if all the other values are not changed, that your pipe is completely saturated, and nobody is getting what they're paying for.
THe "huge hardware investment" is a bullshit line from corporate shills - Bell is making money by selling something they can't provide - their existing infrastucture is insufficient to supply their customers, and they need to upgrade their network.
Bell's silly contention is that P2P somehow causes severe bandwidth issues. [...] The real issue here is that Bell vastly oversells its bandwidth.
Precisely. Think about what's going on here.. According to the summary, Bell throttled P2P down to as little as 1.5% of the stated speed... think about that - if they're doing it to improve the speed of other traffic, that means that their pipe is saturated, and everything else is taking up the other 98.5% of their bandwidth.. they're not just oversubscribed - they're engaging in fraud!
Actually, I think that would be Ruby/Apache/KDE/QT/X.org/GNU/Linux or PHP/Apache/KDE/QT/X.org/GNU/Linux - but depending on whether they're using it for backend or desktop service (sorry, too lazy to RTFA) I'd think that either [Ruby|PHP]/Apache/GNU/Linux, or OO.org/[KDE|GNOME|XFCE]/[QT]/X.org/GNU/Linux would be more appropriate... but if they're using it for both desktop and server, that would make it
Cats do have a strong independent streak. While they are often trainable, it does have a fair bit to do with them being willing to be trained. If they are willing or neutral about the activity being trained, they will be fairly receptive. If they dislike the activity being trained it can be difficult to impossible to train them.
Everything you said there can be applied to dogs too. It's the exact same elitist claptrap generalization that the GP was spewing.
Domesticated dogs and horses take their instructions from human masters. Cats, as a rule, don't.
Only becase their owners can't be bothered or are too stupid to realize it's quite easy.
I've owned five cats in my life, and three dogs, and as a general rule there's nothing preventing you from training a cat to "take instruction" (although it's possible to find untrainable cats, just like you can find untrainable dogs.)
A dog is a social animal. His whole life is focused around *you*. A cat is altogether a different beast.
No. Cats form sophisticated social structures similar to, but distinct from dogs. They are social creatures. Just because the majority of cat owners are elitist asses who don't want to acknowledge this doesn't make it false.
A cat does what it wants, when it wants. You can try to teach it stuff, but as a rule the cat doesn't cooperate, so you can never really be sure what it's learned and what it hasn't.
*sigh* Could you please provide some scientific backing for your claims?
So why is it shenaningans when the copyright holder wants to protect their information but legitimate when a file sharer wants to protect his or her information?
Any combination of algorithms in software is itself an algorithm. Knuth isn't arguing obviousness or novelty; he's arguing that software isn't patentable subject matter at all, no matter how non-obvious or novel it may be.
<tounge-in-cheek> But that's absurd! How will mathematicians have motivation to pursue their business if they can't patent the results!?!?!?! </tounge-in-cheek>
I wouldn't trust my iPhone GPS for realtime directions when I'm traveling 50 miles per hour. The iPhone's GPS can't deliver updates fast enough to make quick decisions. Sure, it will sometimes, but all it takes is one delayed direction in 10 million to cause an accident.
As the GPS doesn't actually drive the vehicle, this seems like a non-issue to me.
If someone is stupid enough to be watching the GPS instead of the road and other vehicles around them, the best GPS in the world won't prevent the accident that will inevitably follow. (And yes, it actuallyhappens)
In china, India and other countries motorcycles and scooters outnumber cars 20 to 1.
And as we all know, motorcycle and scooter riders in China and India are the #1 people who purchase GPS units, right?
Or are you one of those that ignore the rest of the planet as a figment of someone else's imagination?
No, I'm the type of guy who ignores irrelevant information in the context of a specific discussion.
But if the only way you can make yourself feel good is to nitpick someone's post because you don't want to admit they're right, then you go right ahead.
No smartphone is waterproof and can be easily read in direct sun while mounted to a motorcycle handlebar.
First of all, motorcycle riders are a minority, so this is pretty much a non-issue. Most people drive cars, which don't need their GPS to be waterproof, and there are smartphones (such as my G1) that is just as readable in direct sunlight as any modern (color) GPS unit.
I ride a 1979 XS11. I'd never dream of attaching my GPS to it (not even my old iFinder) - when I ride, I want to *ride*, not watch a readout of where I'm going. If I need to verify my location, I stop and pull out my handheld.
No smartphone can do what my field guide GPS can do. (Give me elevation maps... oh the iphone cant do that? sowwwy.)
So, because something isn't available right now on the iphone, that means that no other phone manufacturer will ever be able to do it?
No smartphone can work well on a boat at 55mph across the water and it does not interface to my autohelm.
Why can't a smartphone work "well" on a boat? If it's a problem with cell signal, there are offline mapping apps available. And again, just because something doesn't exist right now doesn't mean that it will never be available.
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that smartphones can't be programmed to work exactly like your existing GPS unit - I'm just wondering why you think that?
Only a utterly complete fool would think the standalone GPS is going the way of the DoDo bird.
No, only a complete and utter fool would think it's impossible for new technology to replace old technology.
Urea is a product of amino acid metabolization, in other words, protein breakdown. Somehow I think it'd take quite a lot of energy to provide the protein to provide the urea.
Egads, you're right!
Now that we know this, every mammal on the planet will stop producing urea because it's inefficient!
A man and a woman get into an elevator and press the button for the top floor. Halfway up, the elevator stops. The man picks up the emergency phone, and is told that they'll be stuck for at least an hour.
The woman looks at him slyly and says "want to make me feel like a woman?"
"Sure", the man says, immediately taking off his shirt.
That reminds me, who is going to sue Google for distributing their OS without choice of browser... United States vs Microsoft
Yeah, because that case wasn't really about a monopolist illegally leveraging their monopoly in one market to gain a monopoly in a second market, right? It was solely because of the US law stating that you have to provide an alternative browser with your OS!
I learned that RPG's are nothing more than fancy statistical simulations that have as much to do with simulating anything as the order of playing blackjack.
I'd trade my current 6MB connection and today's web sites, email, blogs, etc for the 300 baud modem I had in the 70s/80s and the BBSs, news groups, talk/chat, and useful information on the other end.
People knew how to put lots of information in a few sentences or at most a couple of paragraphs.
You aren't insightul, you are forgetful.
BBS's didn't have wikipedia. 99% of your BBS buddies were local.
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The maximum temperature in Brussels during summer reaches 66 to 71 degrees,
Holy crap! And I thought it got hot around here when it hit 39 last year! I always thought Belgium was in northern Europe.. 66 degrees sounds more like the tropics to me!
(and speaking as a customer of Cox, it is)
Bullshit. Show me where Cox says their oversubscription rate (hint: they don't.) Show me in the TOS where they state how fast their backhaul is. They don't - not even relative to the number of subscribers on a given segment.
It totally makes sense to throttle bandwidth for some applications and make a few customers unhappy rather than spend millions upgrading the network for a negative ROI.
You're either a fucking moron or a corporate shill.
Re-read what I posted. At 1%, it wouldn't matter if Bell blocked P2P traffic - they'd still be oversubscribed. And thus they're engaging in fraud.
be sure and state in your business plan how you're going to make money by selling bandwidth to power users cheaper than you can create it.
Your straw man is on fire.
Until such time as it's shown that they have a monopoly in online music distribution [...] I see the motivation for Apple - they are basically the only game in town when it comes to mp3
Wow - that was quick! Apparently they went from "until it's proven" to "it's proven" before you finished writing your post!
Seriously though, if Apple were smart, they wouldn't wait for the courts to do something about it - they'd allow Palm (and others) to access itunes. This would do two things:
1.) Increase the sales (and thus usage) of Itunes.
2.) pre-emptively cut off any government interference with their business.
Doesn't make them any less dickish
Also doesn't make them any less stupid.
I wonder how much of the boot slowdown has to do with architectural change
None of it - at least not the architecture you're meaning (ROM vs. HD loading)
The post above yours talked about an A1200 that booted in 3 seconds - from hard drive.
I had an A3000 that booted from HD in 6 seconds - and it was only that slow because it loaded up drivers for my network card, set up TCP/IP, initialized the (additional) display card, and a bunch of other things (desktop customization.)
Loading off disk isn't the issue.
You may think that assigning the value of 1% to "z" somehow wrong. OK, fine, let's fix that. But how? I see only two ways to address the issue: increase capacity of the network or lower some of the other variables. One of those requires a huge hardware investment, the costs of which will have to borne by all consumers.
No. If you need to assign a value of 1% to "z", then you're oversubscribed to the point that you are engaging in fraud. It means that even if all the other values are not changed, that your pipe is completely saturated, and nobody is getting what they're paying for.
THe "huge hardware investment" is a bullshit line from corporate shills - Bell is making money by selling something they can't provide - their existing infrastucture is insufficient to supply their customers, and they need to upgrade their network.
Bell's silly contention is that P2P somehow causes severe bandwidth issues. [...] The real issue here is that Bell vastly oversells its bandwidth.
Precisely. Think about what's going on here.. According to the summary, Bell throttled P2P down to as little as 1.5% of the stated speed... think about that - if they're doing it to improve the speed of other traffic, that means that their pipe is saturated, and everything else is taking up the other 98.5% of their bandwidth.. they're not just oversubscribed - they're engaging in fraud!
Ruby/Apache/X.org/KDE/GNU/Linux
Actually, I think that would be Ruby/Apache/KDE/QT/X.org/GNU/Linux or PHP/Apache/KDE/QT/X.org/GNU/Linux - but depending on whether they're using it for backend or desktop service (sorry, too lazy to RTFA) I'd think that either [Ruby|PHP]/Apache/GNU/Linux, or OO.org/[KDE|GNOME|XFCE]/[QT]/X.org/GNU/Linux would be more appropriate... but if they're using it for both desktop and server, that would make it
And as soon as RSF starts calling it that, I'll start calling it GNU/Linux :)
Cats do have a strong independent streak. While they are often trainable, it does have a fair bit to do with them being willing to be trained. If they are willing or neutral about the activity being trained, they will be fairly receptive. If they dislike the activity being trained it can be difficult to impossible to train them.
Everything you said there can be applied to dogs too. It's the exact same elitist claptrap generalization that the GP was spewing.
Thing is, cats *aren't* domesticated. They only pretend to be when it suits their purposes.
Of course they're domesticated. Don't be an ass.
Domesticated dogs and horses take their instructions from human masters. Cats, as a rule, don't.
Only becase their owners can't be bothered or are too stupid to realize it's quite easy.
I've owned five cats in my life, and three dogs, and as a general rule there's nothing preventing you from training a cat to "take instruction" (although it's possible to find untrainable cats, just like you can find untrainable dogs.)
A dog is a social animal. His whole life is focused around *you*. A cat is altogether a different beast.
No. Cats form sophisticated social structures similar to, but distinct from dogs. They are social creatures. Just because the majority of cat owners are elitist asses who don't want to acknowledge this doesn't make it false.
A cat does what it wants, when it wants. You can try to teach it stuff, but as a rule the cat doesn't cooperate, so you can never really be sure what it's learned and what it hasn't.
*sigh* Could you please provide some scientific backing for your claims?
So why is it shenaningans when the copyright holder wants to protect their information but legitimate when a file sharer wants to protect his or her information?
Because a corporation is not a person.
The 'C' in NIC stands for 'Controller', not 'Card'.
some people, including 3Com and Cisco, disagree with you.
It has to be an "ATM Machine" to in order to be able to enter a "PIN number".
I wonder - how much RAM memory those is in those ATM machines to be able to hold all those PIN numbers?
And what kind of NIC card do they have?
Anyone want a peanut? :)
Any combination of algorithms in software is itself an algorithm. Knuth isn't arguing obviousness or novelty; he's arguing that software isn't patentable subject matter at all, no matter how non-obvious or novel it may be.
<tounge-in-cheek>
But that's absurd! How will mathematicians have motivation to pursue their business if they can't patent the results!?!?!?!
</tounge-in-cheek>
I wouldn't trust my iPhone GPS for realtime directions when I'm traveling 50 miles per hour. The iPhone's GPS can't deliver updates fast enough to make quick decisions. Sure, it will sometimes, but all it takes is one delayed direction in 10 million to cause an accident.
As the GPS doesn't actually drive the vehicle, this seems like a non-issue to me.
If someone is stupid enough to be watching the GPS instead of the road and other vehicles around them, the best GPS in the world won't prevent the accident that will inevitably follow. (And yes, it actually happens)
In china, India and other countries motorcycles and scooters outnumber cars 20 to 1.
And as we all know, motorcycle and scooter riders in China and India are the #1 people who purchase GPS units, right?
Or are you one of those that ignore the rest of the planet as a figment of someone else's imagination?
No, I'm the type of guy who ignores irrelevant information in the context of a specific discussion.
But if the only way you can make yourself feel good is to nitpick someone's post because you don't want to admit they're right, then you go right ahead.
every GPS-App relies on GPRS/UMTS/EVDO to download routes and maps; you cannot use them outside of cell-coverage
WRONG
It's all hype.
I disagree.
No smartphone is waterproof and can be easily read in direct sun while mounted to a motorcycle handlebar.
First of all, motorcycle riders are a minority, so this is pretty much a non-issue. Most people drive cars, which don't need their GPS to be waterproof, and there are smartphones (such as my G1) that is just as readable in direct sunlight as any modern (color) GPS unit.
I ride a 1979 XS11. I'd never dream of attaching my GPS to it (not even my old iFinder) - when I ride, I want to *ride*, not watch a readout of where I'm going. If I need to verify my location, I stop and pull out my handheld.
No smartphone can do what my field guide GPS can do. (Give me elevation maps... oh the iphone cant do that? sowwwy.)
So, because something isn't available right now on the iphone, that means that no other phone manufacturer will ever be able to do it?
No smartphone can work well on a boat at 55mph across the water and it does not interface to my autohelm.
Why can't a smartphone work "well" on a boat? If it's a problem with cell signal, there are offline mapping apps available. And again, just because something doesn't exist right now doesn't mean that it will never be available.
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that smartphones can't be programmed to work exactly like your existing GPS unit - I'm just wondering why you think that?
Only a utterly complete fool would think the standalone GPS is going the way of the DoDo bird.
No, only a complete and utter fool would think it's impossible for new technology to replace old technology.
Urea is a product of amino acid metabolization, in other words, protein breakdown. Somehow I think it'd take quite a lot of energy to provide the protein to provide the urea.
Egads, you're right!
Now that we know this, every mammal on the planet will stop producing urea because it's inefficient!
A man and a woman get into an elevator and press the button for the top floor. Halfway up, the elevator stops. The man picks up the emergency phone, and is told that they'll be stuck for at least an hour.
The woman looks at him slyly and says "want to make me feel like a woman?"
"Sure", the man says, immediately taking off his shirt.
"Iron this for me!"
So if the OS is the browser and it strongly guides the users to your applications what's the functional difference?
Are you familiar with the phrase "you're missing the forest for the trees"?
Google doesn't have an OS monopoly, so therefore any comparison to the MS antitrust trial is completely irrelevant.
That reminds me, who is going to sue Google for distributing their OS without choice of browser... United States vs Microsoft
Yeah, because that case wasn't really about a monopolist illegally leveraging their monopoly in one market to gain a monopoly in a second market, right? It was solely because of the US law stating that you have to provide an alternative browser with your OS!
I learned that RPG's are nothing more than fancy statistical simulations that have as much to do with simulating anything as the order of playing blackjack.
Do I hear the sound of a FASA player griping? :)
you can't beat a Corley!
Unless your name is Ripburger, and you do it with your cane. :)
What exactly is a partial liver transplant? Did you only replace a part of the liver?
No, it's where you get to the part where you take the old one out, but don't bother to finish.
I'd trade my current 6MB connection and today's web sites, email, blogs, etc for the 300 baud modem I had in the 70s/80s and the BBSs, news groups, talk/chat, and useful information on the other end.
People knew how to put lots of information in a few sentences or at most a couple of paragraphs.
You aren't insightul, you are forgetful.
BBS's didn't have wikipedia. 99% of your BBS buddies were local.
I think you just proved his point for him. :)