But they're NOT taking it down: they're sending back false positives. In the mail world false positives are WAY worse than false negatives. Basically they're screwing those who trusted them as a "free service." They could just take down the service, block certain people from using it, or like mentioned above, just send everything as a (false) negative. All of which are more responsible and appropriate responses to their situation.
ORDB is just being plain irresponsible. They're obviously not admins themselves;)
Wireless Internet is desperately necessary. WiMAX and 3G are well on their way. And once you have reliable wireless Internet access, suddenly your costs are going to go down. It's just like what happened with cable and satellite TV. Before satellite, cable companies used to make you wait home all day for their technician to decide to show up or not. Now they've got it down to about an hour.
And anyway it makes sense: the Internet is a shared resource, and there are a lot more opportunities for competition through the air than there are laying cables. Laying cables to every location in the US is costly and a huge barrier to entry for competitors. It's a horrible system from a market standpoint because we realize that not every cable company can come along and lay their own version. So, instead we let companies bid on who gets to control those lines, and to prevent them from having a monopoly we have artificial impositions like requiring Verizon to provide a basic message rate so that other companies can resell their DSL. Speakeasy, roadrunner, aol, etc. don't all have their own phone lines running to your house. They have to share that part.
Wireless Internet access is the logical step we need to connect people better.
Yes... and no... I'm sure I have whatever qualities it takes to be classified with ADD. My attention span is short. But it's really no excuse, and I've never considered myself as having a "problem." I don't think you can just explain away ADD in its entirety to "bad parenting," but I do think we make too much of a big deal about it, and do think that it doesn't require medication to deal with.
Hmmm, so with SETI we're trying to pick up alien signals without even knowing what their design might possibly be, but we have to keep around legacy hardware just to hear something that we already know the protocol and build for?
How about we just pretend like those are alien probes?
It's like trying to find a particular bacterium on the earth somewhere. Yeah, maybe we'll have the technology one day to find each and every microbe on the planet and investigate it through some method of detection. But:
This is a problem that really bothers me too. I agree, and I am outraged, at the amount of money I have to pay for the level of service I get. What are my options though? No matter which company I turn to, it's about the same. Does anyone have suggestions on how to get better Internet access?
Of course... the media pretends to be retarded in the name of "neutrality." No one really believes that there's any merit to what the companies are saying. And if there were, why not deal with that problem when we get to it? I love the argument that "this MIGHT cause that, so we better not." I don't think we can pass laws (or not passed them) based on anything that has the remote possibility of happening.
They might be predicting some competition from the solid state drives in the future. One of the things that consumers might like about solid state drives is that they're quieter. I've always noticed the noise from the fans and not so much the hard drive, but this way they get to claim a large amount of space along with a quiet operation.
I'm not sure how well this can take off though: I'd be willing to bet that most of the hard drive money is in selling to companies like Dell and Gateway, not in selling to the end-user. So are those companies going to choose to buy this kind of hard drive?
Good, so at least you're as uninformed as I am. Mozilla is not either the FSF or Linux.
My first experience with tabbed browsing was with Mozilla. That's why I brought it up. But since you're sure that no one in open source has come up with anything new, I MUST be a "fanboy" of whatever you dislike.
Yes, it's very inefficent for every single company to lay down their own lines. I wouldn't see that as a benefit anyway. That's why we have to treat it like what it is: a shared resource. It's similar to the road system.
That's only a problem if you're looking at as if an entire country has to be priced the same. So sure, the US is a bigger country. But some areas of the US are just as densely populated as parts of Europe. So why don't certain states, for example, enjoy a $20 per month high speed internet charge?
"What also troubles me is that Linux, GNU, and Open Source tend to react to technologies instead of really developing new technological ideas. We see that feature such and such has been created and that is often reproduced, though maybe in a superior way."
Like browser tabs (Firefox), or 3D Desktops? I don't know... I think sometimes it does accomplish this, but yes a lot of time needs to be spent being compatible with hardware, and "catching up" to the other OS. But then again, I don't know what counts as an "innovation."
I tend to agree. I don't think there's anything conceptually or architecturally new here. If there is anything to this, it's an improved algorithm for parallel processing.
Yes, but I'm not sure it's expensive enough at 1/4 cent. That kind of price sort of sounds like they're hoping the spammers use them so they can make a lot of money. Not that they're going to help prevent spam.
So you're saying that tech savvy people are more likely to buy a Mac? I'm sure there are some very tech savvy Mac users out there, but most of the Mac users I know got a Mac because they didn't want to be too tech savvy;) They weren't idiots about computers either, but all the hardcore tech savvy people I know are more into building their own PC's anyway. Which is just something you don't get to do with a Mac.
I think the cool part isn't that you can transfer energy without wires--the sun does that all the time. We can do that. What we have a hard time doing is transfering energy through people without hurting them, so that the energy can get to the device. That's where this is going.
I don't doubt that this is the next type of cache which will make things faster, but you just have to love the way they make it sound like something new: "actually learn your habits to provide better system response!"
The only interest I have in this is to make myself more compatible with MS Office. For 90% of the stuff I want to do OpenOffice.org is fine, but sometimes at work it just doesn't do the job. For example, does SoftMaker have VB support like VLOOKUP() in excel?
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But they're NOT taking it down: they're sending back false positives. In the mail world false positives are WAY worse than false negatives. Basically they're screwing those who trusted them as a "free service." They could just take down the service, block certain people from using it, or like mentioned above, just send everything as a (false) negative. All of which are more responsible and appropriate responses to their situation.
;)
ORDB is just being plain irresponsible. They're obviously not admins themselves
Thanks God we can do it right!
Wireless Internet is desperately necessary. WiMAX and 3G are well on their way. And once you have reliable wireless Internet access, suddenly your costs are going to go down. It's just like what happened with cable and satellite TV. Before satellite, cable companies used to make you wait home all day for their technician to decide to show up or not. Now they've got it down to about an hour.
And anyway it makes sense: the Internet is a shared resource, and there are a lot more opportunities for competition through the air than there are laying cables. Laying cables to every location in the US is costly and a huge barrier to entry for competitors. It's a horrible system from a market standpoint because we realize that not every cable company can come along and lay their own version. So, instead we let companies bid on who gets to control those lines, and to prevent them from having a monopoly we have artificial impositions like requiring Verizon to provide a basic message rate so that other companies can resell their DSL. Speakeasy, roadrunner, aol, etc. don't all have their own phone lines running to your house. They have to share that part.
Wireless Internet access is the logical step we need to connect people better.
Yes... and no... I'm sure I have whatever qualities it takes to be classified with ADD. My attention span is short. But it's really no excuse, and I've never considered myself as having a "problem." I don't think you can just explain away ADD in its entirety to "bad parenting," but I do think we make too much of a big deal about it, and do think that it doesn't require medication to deal with.
... Microsoft gets sued (again) for anti-competitive practices.
Wouldn't it be better for them to just not make the Linux version "as good" or spend as much time on it?
I think YHBT ... ;)
Hmmm... I don't consider #1 to be under the category of "faith." I think the word "faith" must involve some belief without evidence.
Hmmm, so with SETI we're trying to pick up alien signals without even knowing what their design might possibly be, but we have to keep around legacy hardware just to hear something that we already know the protocol and build for?
How about we just pretend like those are alien probes?
The age argument doesn't really hold up.
It's like trying to find a particular bacterium on the earth somewhere. Yeah, maybe we'll have the technology one day to find each and every microbe on the planet and investigate it through some method of detection. But:
1) Would we bother?
2) Would the bacterium know what we were doing?
This is a problem that really bothers me too. I agree, and I am outraged, at the amount of money I have to pay for the level of service I get. What are my options though? No matter which company I turn to, it's about the same. Does anyone have suggestions on how to get better Internet access?
Of course... the media pretends to be retarded in the name of "neutrality." No one really believes that there's any merit to what the companies are saying. And if there were, why not deal with that problem when we get to it? I love the argument that "this MIGHT cause that, so we better not." I don't think we can pass laws (or not passed them) based on anything that has the remote possibility of happening.
They might be predicting some competition from the solid state drives in the future. One of the things that consumers might like about solid state drives is that they're quieter. I've always noticed the noise from the fans and not so much the hard drive, but this way they get to claim a large amount of space along with a quiet operation.
I'm not sure how well this can take off though: I'd be willing to bet that most of the hard drive money is in selling to companies like Dell and Gateway, not in selling to the end-user. So are those companies going to choose to buy this kind of hard drive?
Good, so at least you're as uninformed as I am. Mozilla is not either the FSF or Linux.
My first experience with tabbed browsing was with Mozilla. That's why I brought it up. But since you're sure that no one in open source has come up with anything new, I MUST be a "fanboy" of whatever you dislike.
Aren't they not supposed to believe in Pangea anyway? Tectonic plate motion moves way too slowly for YEC.
Yes, it's very inefficent for every single company to lay down their own lines. I wouldn't see that as a benefit anyway. That's why we have to treat it like what it is: a shared resource. It's similar to the road system.
That's only a problem if you're looking at as if an entire country has to be priced the same. So sure, the US is a bigger country. But some areas of the US are just as densely populated as parts of Europe. So why don't certain states, for example, enjoy a $20 per month high speed internet charge?
"What also troubles me is that Linux, GNU, and Open Source tend to react to technologies instead of really developing new technological ideas. We see that feature such and such has been created and that is often reproduced, though maybe in a superior way."
Like browser tabs (Firefox), or 3D Desktops? I don't know... I think sometimes it does accomplish this, but yes a lot of time needs to be spent being compatible with hardware, and "catching up" to the other OS. But then again, I don't know what counts as an "innovation."
I tend to agree. I don't think there's anything conceptually or architecturally new here. If there is anything to this, it's an improved algorithm for parallel processing.
Doesn't RH own JBoss?
JBoss has teamed up with MS...
http://today.java.net/pub/n/3397
Yes, but I'm not sure it's expensive enough at 1/4 cent. That kind of price sort of sounds like they're hoping the spammers use them so they can make a lot of money. Not that they're going to help prevent spam.
Kind of like how they put "no cash value" on coupons huh? I think there's something illegal about creating your own tender or money in the US.
So you're saying that tech savvy people are more likely to buy a Mac? I'm sure there are some very tech savvy Mac users out there, but most of the Mac users I know got a Mac because they didn't want to be too tech savvy ;) They weren't idiots about computers either, but all the hardcore tech savvy people I know are more into building their own PC's anyway. Which is just something you don't get to do with a Mac.
I think the cool part isn't that you can transfer energy without wires--the sun does that all the time. We can do that. What we have a hard time doing is transfering energy through people without hurting them, so that the energy can get to the device. That's where this is going.
I don't doubt that this is the next type of cache which will make things faster, but you just have to love the way they make it sound like something new: "actually learn your habits to provide better system response!"
The only interest I have in this is to make myself more compatible with MS Office. For 90% of the stuff I want to do OpenOffice.org is fine, but sometimes at work it just doesn't do the job. For example, does SoftMaker have VB support like VLOOKUP() in excel?