Its hard to judge content in a systematic way.. i think Google should steal one out of the playbooks of Youtube - let users rate the quality of search results. As more users say "this is a good result", those pages go up. as users say "this is crap" those pages get tossed from the system. just my 2 pennies.
5. Change the labor laws to demand all employers offer flexible hours and/or telecommuting to their employees if feasible, smoothing out peak demand on the roads and taking cars off the highways, increasing employee productivity on and off the job, lessening our dependence on oil, saving a lot of time commuting, and generally making people more happy.
Wow! A simple law change can do all that? You bet.
Why should only workers have to sacrifice to be part of the solution? Everyone, especially corporations and their backwards 9-5 schedules, needs to adapt.
I got the flex setup, and i couldn't tell you how much time i save on the commutes, and how much happier i am and more productive i am.
No its not gouging. its called having more than one price point in order to maximize profits, and its a very smart move. Any reasonable company would want to do this.
Why should joe shmoe, the majority of internet users, whose internet usage is limited to email and occasional airline tickets, pay the same amount as the guy who has P2Ps running 24/7. As a company, you DONT want the p2p jerk, because he's eating into your profits. you DO want joe schmoe, and now you can afford to give joe shmoe a fat discount by overcharging the p2p jerk. You can then sell at a price discount to a larger number of subscribers and not have to worry about infrastructure. "normal" internet users win. Those who are abusing their connections lose. I konw this concept of "conservation" doesnt seem to register in the data world, but there are real costs involved in data transmission.
Cell phone companies do it all the time, i dont see you bitching about that.
This mirrors my rant. In this day and age, when we have complex accounting and banking systems that handle millions of transactions daily, securly, and with pretty much zero error, and we can't even design a reliable "count the number of votes" system? This is absurd and ridiculous. I could pull one out of my butt tomorrow and it would be better than the crap the government uses. Still no web voting? ABSURD!!
We should be outraged at our incompetent government and start writing hate mail, etc. The foundation of any democracy is a fair election.
Because this is a "progressive" site (Score:1, Troll) by Loundry (4143) on Tuesday November 13, @09:36AM (#21335711)
I'm going to get called a "Bush lover" and they'll bring up the war in Iraq and all that. Or I'll just get modded a "troll" for answering your question in the entirely accurate and truthful way. ---------------
The wire is a monopoly, that is, as it should be. The content provider is an example of almost perfect competition (just like the internet). But what is needed is the government to step in to provide such regulation to decouple the wire from the content.
Capitalism doesn't always produce best-of-class services at lowest possible cost. One reason (among many) is that there is a such thing as a 'natural monopoly' in economics theory. This occures whenever long-run average cost decreases as company size increases. You can think of a lot of reasons for this.
For example, is it cheaper for one bloated company to go set up phone lines in a large area, or a bunch of little companies to attempt the same thing? If the market has 100 little 'phone' companies, one will eventually acquire the next becuase it makes economic sense, and you will end up with a monopoly.
Same reasoning for internet connections and cell phone towers. These are all natural monopolies. You don't really want to break up the natural monopoly, because in terms of economics it is most effecient. You do however have to regulate it, or it will set monopoly pricing and exploit the market, producing dead-weight losses.
So don't complain about certain services being a monopoly, complain that they're not fairly-regulated. The government needs to hire more economists.
To./ community and internet community in general: If you've ever complained about your rights being stripped but have not lifted a finger to help - then you are part of the problem.
No, you're not an innocent bystandard, or a spectator, or someone who is "too busy", or "too lazy", or "doesn't care enough", or whatever the excuse. You are all involved and impacted whether you like it or not. Therefore, this is about personal integrity.
I submit to you that you are by now aware of the crises in this country. You are all educated. You are also aware that this is a fixable problem. It may be difficult, but its fixable. To a person of integrity, the choice is clear. Such a person takes action and does her best to be part of the solution. So what have you done to help?
If you refuse to stand up for your own values(which requires action), what good are you?
There is really nothing wrong with IPv4. It should have worked, and should still work, for many years to come. There is something wrong with the way we allocated the IPs. It comes down to human error, once again. IPv6 won't fix THAT part which is broken - the people.
IPv6 will be no better if we make the same mistakes, we'll use up all the IP addresses just as fast.
I love speculation. Lets all try! Go ahead, make claims or deny them! Post fake pictures of it on every forum you find! As with all apple products, random, fruitless speculation is easy and fun!
Here's my go: Since apple has denied it, that's how we know they're lying! Someone who works for someone who knows someone's sister who works at apple said that it will be a holographic display, which will project a 3D interface! LIsten n00bs! It will be slightly larger than an iPhone, but still small enough to be pocket sized. That means it will fit in ur pocket! I hear it will be called the iHolo and will sell for around $900. It will come in black, pink, and bullshit brown. I 3 apple!!!111
Though not quite the same, but in california, regular joe schmoe people can write laws. It's called a proposition. And it needs, oh, 100,000 signatures or something like that to go to ballot.
That sucks i'm sorry. I work at home 2 days a week. The company fully supports it. I think its a wonderful non-financial incentive to get employees to stay put. It's ridiculous to think one needs to show up to a physical office every do to do his or her job. Its just an old-world style management, that will die off slowly as more and more people demand flexibility in their jobs, traffic gets worse, and companies get more distributed and global. "Adapt or die" will rule. I think in the future, most employees will be working 3 days a week at home, and 2 days in an office. I'm working on my MBA now, so you can gaurantee when i'm the manager, flex-time will be law.
Meh. disagree. You're assuming that everyone *wants* to be social. I'm NOT an extrovert. Maybe you are, but i'm not. Lets assume you are for the sake of argument. Because you're extroverted, you're assuming everyone is, or everyone should want to be. Lets face it, there's a huge taboo in (US) society against being introverted. Society has programmed you and me to believe there's something wrong with introverts. But the reality is its perfectly normal for people to have this trait and behave this way. There's a difference between being introverted and antisocial. I'm not going to go into the details, but I encourage you to figure out the difference because your sterotypes are what makes life more difficult for people like me.
An introvert is social too - but picks his moments. He would much rather choose when to be social than have it shoved in his face every day. That said, technology inst making "a large part of society anti-social". It's simply allowing the introverts to behave in a way that is very natural for them.
"That, by the way, is also where the libertarian concept of "only physical force is coercion" falls flat on its face: I can kill you without ever lifting a finger against you if I control some vital resource."
Where the hell did you learn that? What nonsense. There's so much mis-information around slashdot about libertarians. You guys believe whatever garbage is spoon-fed to you.
Here is the basic truth: Libertarians believe in personal liberty and responsibility moreso than any other position on the political spectrum. A libertarian believes, in this case, that it matters not who you are, you're free to buy whatever you want.
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Scientists also discover that space tastes like chicken!
We'll attach that provision to my new happy fluffy kittens bill. I'm certain it will pass. Who would vote against happy fluffy kittens?
Ok, if they work so hard and are so much smarter, why do they have to resort to stealing technology?
Its hard to judge content in a systematic way.. i think Google should steal one out of the playbooks of Youtube - let users rate the quality of search results. As more users say "this is a good result", those pages go up. as users say "this is crap" those pages get tossed from the system. just my 2 pennies.
So you're telling me that flex time or telecommuting would NOT help you out in this situation? have you ever tried it?
i've never encountered a bigger group of naysayers and victims than on /.
How about...
5. Change the labor laws to demand all employers offer flexible hours and/or telecommuting to their employees if feasible, smoothing out peak demand on the roads and taking cars off the highways, increasing employee productivity on and off the job, lessening our dependence on oil, saving a lot of time commuting, and generally making people more happy.
Wow! A simple law change can do all that? You bet.
Why should only workers have to sacrifice to be part of the solution? Everyone, especially corporations and their backwards 9-5 schedules, needs to adapt.
I got the flex setup, and i couldn't tell you how much time i save on the commutes, and how much happier i am and more productive i am.
No its not gouging. its called having more than one price point in order to maximize profits, and its a very smart move. Any reasonable company would want to do this.
Why should joe shmoe, the majority of internet users, whose internet usage is limited to email and occasional airline tickets, pay the same amount as the guy who has P2Ps running 24/7. As a company, you DONT want the p2p jerk, because he's eating into your profits. you DO want joe schmoe, and now you can afford to give joe shmoe a fat discount by overcharging the p2p jerk. You can then sell at a price discount to a larger number of subscribers and not have to worry about infrastructure. "normal" internet users win. Those who are abusing their connections lose. I konw this concept of "conservation" doesnt seem to register in the data world, but there are real costs involved in data transmission.
Cell phone companies do it all the time, i dont see you bitching about that.
This mirrors my rant. In this day and age, when we have complex accounting and banking systems that handle millions of transactions daily, securly, and with pretty much zero error, and we can't even design a reliable "count the number of votes" system? This is absurd and ridiculous. I could pull one out of my butt tomorrow and it would be better than the crap the government uses. Still no web voting? ABSURD!!
We should be outraged at our incompetent government and start writing hate mail, etc. The foundation of any democracy is a fair election.
-J
Because this is a "progressive" site (Score:1, Troll)
by Loundry (4143) on Tuesday November 13, @09:36AM (#21335711)
I'm going to get called a "Bush lover" and they'll bring up the war in Iraq and all that. Or I'll just get modded a "troll" for answering your question in the entirely accurate and truthful way.
---------------
Ha ha!
-Nelson
Good point. I think this fundamentally is another text-book case of a natural monopoly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
The wire is a monopoly, that is, as it should be. The content provider is an example of almost perfect competition (just like the internet). But what is needed is the government to step in to provide such regulation to decouple the wire from the content.
Capitalism doesn't always produce best-of-class services at lowest possible cost. One reason (among many) is that there is a such thing as a 'natural monopoly' in economics theory. This occures whenever long-run average cost decreases as company size increases. You can think of a lot of reasons for this.
For example, is it cheaper for one bloated company to go set up phone lines in a large area, or a bunch of little companies to attempt the same thing? If the market has 100 little 'phone' companies, one will eventually acquire the next becuase it makes economic sense, and you will end up with a monopoly.
Same reasoning for internet connections and cell phone towers. These are all natural monopolies. You don't really want to break up the natural monopoly, because in terms of economics it is most effecient. You do however have to regulate it, or it will set monopoly pricing and exploit the market, producing dead-weight losses.
So don't complain about certain services being a monopoly, complain that they're not fairly-regulated. The government needs to hire more economists.
Have you tried paying your monthly WOW fees to blizzard in cash?
:)
Doesn't work so well..
Huh? If anything, this is a good thing. Constantly increased expectations, wanting it faster, cheaper, better. That's called innovation.
You can go have your stone hut and sense of humility, i'll take my iPhone and double-latte.
you're full *zap* of yourself no *zap* way *zap* *zap* its not *zap* addic*zap*tive.
To ./ community and internet community in general: If you've ever complained about your rights being stripped but have not lifted a finger to help - then you are part of the problem.
No, you're not an innocent bystandard, or a spectator, or someone who is "too busy", or "too lazy", or "doesn't care enough", or whatever the excuse. You are all involved and impacted whether you like it or not. Therefore, this is about personal integrity.
I submit to you that you are by now aware of the crises in this country. You are all educated. You are also aware that this is a fixable problem. It may be difficult, but its fixable. To a person of integrity, the choice is clear. Such a person takes action and does her best to be part of the solution. So what have you done to help?
If you refuse to stand up for your own values(which requires action), what good are you?
There is really nothing wrong with IPv4. It should have worked, and should still work, for many years to come. There is something wrong with the way we allocated the IPs. It comes down to human error, once again. IPv6 won't fix THAT part which is broken - the people.
IPv6 will be no better if we make the same mistakes, we'll use up all the IP addresses just as fast.
I love speculation. Lets all try! Go ahead, make claims or deny them! Post fake pictures of it on every forum you find! As with all apple products, random, fruitless speculation is easy and fun!
Here's my go:
Since apple has denied it, that's how we know they're lying! Someone who works for someone who knows someone's sister who works at apple said that it will be a holographic display, which will project a 3D interface! LIsten n00bs! It will be slightly larger than an iPhone, but still small enough to be pocket sized. That means it will fit in ur pocket! I hear it will be called the iHolo and will sell for around $900. It will come in black, pink, and bullshit brown. I 3 apple!!!111
Though not quite the same, but in california, regular joe schmoe people can write laws. It's called a proposition. And it needs, oh, 100,000 signatures or something like that to go to ballot.
That sucks i'm sorry. I work at home 2 days a week. The company fully supports it. I think its a wonderful non-financial incentive to get employees to stay put. It's ridiculous to think one needs to show up to a physical office every do to do his or her job. Its just an old-world style management, that will die off slowly as more and more people demand flexibility in their jobs, traffic gets worse, and companies get more distributed and global. "Adapt or die" will rule. I think in the future, most employees will be working 3 days a week at home, and 2 days in an office. I'm working on my MBA now, so you can gaurantee when i'm the manager, flex-time will be law.
Meh. disagree. You're assuming that everyone *wants* to be social. I'm NOT an extrovert. Maybe you are, but i'm not. Lets assume you are for the sake of argument. Because you're extroverted, you're assuming everyone is, or everyone should want to be. Lets face it, there's a huge taboo in (US) society against being introverted. Society has programmed you and me to believe there's something wrong with introverts. But the reality is its perfectly normal for people to have this trait and behave this way. There's a difference between being introverted and antisocial. I'm not going to go into the details, but I encourage you to figure out the difference because your sterotypes are what makes life more difficult for people like me.
An introvert is social too - but picks his moments. He would much rather choose when to be social than have it shoved in his face every day. That said, technology inst making "a large part of society anti-social". It's simply allowing the introverts to behave in a way that is very natural for them.
"That, by the way, is also where the libertarian concept of "only physical force is coercion" falls flat on its face: I can kill you without ever lifting a finger against you if I control some vital resource."
Where the hell did you learn that? What nonsense. There's so much mis-information around slashdot about libertarians. You guys believe whatever garbage is spoon-fed to you.
Here is the basic truth:
Libertarians believe in personal liberty and responsibility moreso than any other position on the political spectrum. A libertarian believes, in this case, that it matters not who you are, you're free to buy whatever you want.
Lastly, and i guess this goes to the entire slashdot community - educate yourself.
http://www.mondopolitico.com/ideologies/libertarianism/whatislibertarianism.htm
"The right to swing your fist ends only where someone else's nose begins."
Ok...
:)
So how long is a second?
So this implies we couldn't read as fast with one of our eyes closed? Go try it. I guess i was slowed down a little bit...but not a great deal.
Yes it's a cure. You cant feel constipated when you're dead.