There are 47,000 people in the city (who are on the hook for the bill). Of those 47,000, only 5,400 have chosen to get the service. The remaining people, who chose not to get the service, are the overwhelming majority.
You don't have to read minds, you can read TFA. Most citizens have chosen not to get the service.
There's a flaw in your logic here - you are quoting 'people in the city' in one breath and then comparing it to 'households' in the next breath. Exactly how many house holds would you expect to see have more than one subscriber?
I'm not sure exactly what the average household size is to use for this, but assuming that's 4 (2.5 kids and all that) then the uptake is more like 45%. That's a pretty good number even compared to top commercial offerings. (How many are rented and not allowed by landlord or stuck in other contracts?)
Far more worryingly than a CDN in the exchange which people might *gasp* be expected to pay for, the page promoting it http://www.contentconnect.bt.com/ Seems to include clips of "Elephants Dream" which is CC-BY licensed without any attribution anywhere that I can see.
I'm rather inclined to agree with your analysis here, but my reasons for not publishing the full source code to my work (other than the bits which are generally applicable) is twofold:
1) I'm willing to share my code with anyone who's interested. I actually rather like talking to people who are sufficiently interested in emailing me though - this can foster collaborations and both parties gain from a discussion of interests 2) Some chunks of my code make the whole lot totally undistributable. I use implementations of algorithms from books which state "you may not distribute electronic copies of this code". I don't have the time or inclination to work around this myself, it doesn't win publications. I have however structured my source tree such that it's easy enough for me to distribute the remainder and someone with relevant background can find replacements.
Most of the datasets I use are *huge* and again I'm willing to share with anyone, but they need to be serious enough about it to contact me first.
Finally there's things in my code which aren't broken per say, but are massive hacks designed to shortcut some of the original design in order to meet some crazy deadline I forgot all about. Rather embarrassing really if I've not had time/inclination to fix it.
world wide web is just one of many applications which sits upon the Internet (note capital I), along with email, ssh and all the other 100s of applications
I guess their idea of accountable is "who ignores emails about bugs you send them for months upon end?" in which case I can do a pretty good job filling that role for any software projects that need it:-)
It all depends how you interpret the "/" in the term TCP/IP, and is largely irrelivant compared to the real issue at discussion here. If you interpret the / as meaning "running on top of" then clearly it is wrong, however if you consider it more like a comma (ie tcp,ip,udp,icmp suite)
Win 2k installed and ran on my p133 fine (bar the extreme ammounts of swapping to disk needed with 48megs of ram, and having to find an atapi cdrom drive since it didn't support my weird no atapi one).
I'm sure the quake3 test used to run on said p133 with a voodoo banshee at about 10-14 frames per second as well. (With windows 95/98 original)
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There are 47,000 people in the city (who are on the hook for the bill).
Of those 47,000, only 5,400 have chosen to get the service.
The remaining people, who chose not to get the service, are the overwhelming majority.
You don't have to read minds, you can read TFA. Most citizens have chosen not to get the service.
There's a flaw in your logic here - you are quoting 'people in the city' in one breath and then comparing it to 'households' in the next breath. Exactly how many house holds would you expect to see have more than one subscriber?
I'm not sure exactly what the average household size is to use for this, but assuming that's 4 (2.5 kids and all that) then the uptake is more like 45%. That's a pretty good number even compared to top commercial offerings. (How many are rented and not allowed by landlord or stuck in other contracts?)
Far more worryingly than a CDN in the exchange which people might *gasp* be expected to pay for, the page promoting it http://www.contentconnect.bt.com/ Seems to include clips of "Elephants Dream" which is CC-BY licensed without any attribution anywhere that I can see.
And he would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for those pesky kids...
See also: http://ktetch.blogspot.com/2010/09/acs-treated-like-criminals-by.html when the glove is on the other hand.
Probably kept forgetting where he put them!
These are not the injection moldings you are looking for....
I'm rather inclined to agree with your analysis here, but my reasons for not publishing the full source code to my work (other than the bits which are generally applicable) is twofold:
1) I'm willing to share my code with anyone who's interested. I actually rather like talking to people who are sufficiently interested in emailing me though - this can foster collaborations and both parties gain from a discussion of interests
2) Some chunks of my code make the whole lot totally undistributable. I use implementations of algorithms from books which state "you may not distribute electronic copies of this code". I don't have the time or inclination to work around this myself, it doesn't win publications. I have however structured my source tree such that it's easy enough for me to distribute the remainder and someone with relevant background can find replacements.
Most of the datasets I use are *huge* and again I'm willing to share with anyone, but they need to be serious enough about it to contact me first.
Finally there's things in my code which aren't broken per say, but are massive hacks designed to shortcut some of the original design in order to meet some crazy deadline I forgot all about. Rather embarrassing really if I've not had time/inclination to fix it.
TFL = Transport for London, not Tube. It covers buses, Docklands Light Railway (DLR) and some overground services amongst other things.
The previous event which was just run generated quite a lot of media interest including:
BBC News -- includes a video
The Register
UWA press release
Do it in one weekend? That's loads of time - this is "Extreme Programming"
The thing I don't get is how exactly they expect this to be any more loud and obnoxious than all these damn ringtones are already!
No.
I believe what you are refering to is this:
Timetrack
LOAD_DATA + SAVE_DATA == DESTROY_DATA??
(Yes, that's compiler implementation specific, I know...)
Alan
this sounds rather like old news to me: transputer
internet != world wide web
world wide web is just one of many applications which sits upon the Internet (note capital I), along with email, ssh and all the other 100s of applications
You sterotyping berk! I half-inched my mates computer to have a butchers at this article and I think its bloomin marvellous!
I believe the word you're looking for is abdicate.
I guess their idea of accountable is "who ignores emails about bugs you send them for months upon end?" in which case I can do a pretty good job filling that role for any software projects that need it :-)
Also remember that originaly half-life required you had the cd in the drive to play. Some patch (I forget which) removed this requirement.
Alan
for cheap uk delivery see www.play.com. When I preordered it was £26.99 :-)
It all depends how you interpret the "/" in the term TCP/IP, and is largely irrelivant compared to the real issue at discussion here. If you interpret the / as meaning "running on top of" then clearly it is wrong, however if you consider it more like a comma (ie tcp,ip,udp,icmp suite)
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Win 2k installed and ran on my p133 fine (bar the extreme ammounts of swapping to disk needed with 48megs of ram, and having to find an atapi cdrom drive since it didn't support my weird no atapi one).
I'm sure the quake3 test used to run on said p133 with a voodoo banshee at about 10-14 frames per second as well. (With windows 95/98 original)