Bull. The fact is the traffic originates from within their own network. Google isn't pushing the content into their network. It's being requested. If they can't economically handle the amount of traffic being generated by their own network, they need to rethink their internal pricing structure and their peering arrangements. Not try to extort money out of content providers who are already paying for all the traffic coming to their site.
I pay for my network connection. The content providers pay for their network connection.
These connectivity companies now want to start extorting a double payment out of the content providers.
What the fuck is there NOT to understand?
If they fucked up and aren't charging true price for a network connection, that's not our fault, or the content providers'. But this is racketeering, plain and simple.
And everyone knows how stunningly popular the Neo-Geo was....
The problem IS NOT the price of the console in a vacuum.
It's the fact that the console is nearly double the price of it's two competitor products.
It's the fact that you're pretty much going to see ports of the same games on every console.
It's the fact that the console is an absolute BITCH to program for.
It's the fact that Sony is NOT getting the developer kits out fast enough.
It's the fact that the main competitor, the XBox, will have been out nearly a year at the time the PS3 debuts, and will have had that much lead time to lock some solid titles into it's roster. Titles that take excellent advantage of the platform. Most of what will debut with Sony will be little more than technology demos or games that don't take advantage of the platform.
Most cars in Brazil can run on home-grown ethanol so Brazil imports little oil. Why doesn't the U.S. do that and reduce its dependence on the volatile Middle East? Well, there is a lot of inertia in the system. Getting people to change, even to superior practices, is very hard.
Problem 1: Ethanol is a much less energetic fuel on a per-gallon basis. Result? Ethanol has lower MPG vs gasoline. If people's cars are going to suddenly get 25-35% less mileage, they're going to start consuming more. ESPECIALLY in the transportation industry, which is pretty much locked on Diesel.
Problem 2: Drivers in Brazil and the US have VASTLY different auto usage patterns. Take a look. Those who actually own a car do a fraction of the driving that Americans do in a year.
I'm sick and tired of people who don't understand the realities of the "alternative fuel economies" thumping their chests and going "Stupid Americans!" over our fuel economy.
The fact is, in Europe, with it's relatively even population distribution, and close proximities between work and home, they can get away with things like this much more easily than we possibly could in the far-flung population centers of the US.
It doesn't mean the Europeans, or anyone else, are "better". It merely means their requirements are different than those of the US.
Not to mention the fact that, unlike a small country with a couple million people, you don't change the fuel infrastructure of the US (with several hundred million vehicles) overnight, or in a week, month or even a year.
Sorry to go off on a side-rant like this. I'm just REALLY tired of people who offer advice or criticism without understanding the full rammifications of what they're talking about. Sort of the modern day equivallent of "Let them eat cake".
I propose a new class of near-instant messaging clients. They will act just like IM clients, but will have latencies imposed upon them by their ambient network conditions and the conditions of all the hops between the two end points in the chain.
What? How is this different from IM? Because the messaging ISN'T instantaneous SILLY! You've got to wait tens to hundreds of milliseconds for a message to get through.
Moreover, as protection against instant messaging, the user won't be able to see the message text until the person typing it out finishes and actually invokes a SEND action.
See! Foolproof!
Additionally, I propose a new protocol, EV-COIP (Encrypted Verbal-Communication Over IP)...
Oh yeah and one last thing I just have to get out of the way.
Fuck T-Mobile!
When are these crusty cock-knobs going to finally catch Clue #1? The more you restrict your user base, the more you cut your user base!
Thank you George! You, or at least someone with decision-making power understood fan attachment to the originals. And, while the DVDs contain the re-edited versions, you're thrown us a bone and actually used DVD's ability to track across multiple versions to deliver the original as well.
Pick out the lice. Slosh on the hair grease by the gallon. Comb all the knots out. Staunch all the bleeding. Subject them to lethal doses of RDF radiation. Slap them into jeans and a turtleneck. ?!?!?!? Profit?
But I like the Slashdot interface as it is. It's ridiculously simple, eminently readable, and relatively uncluttered. Moreover, it loads incredibly fast.
I can understand wanting a new "look". With enough time you get tired of ANYTHING. However, I, as a reader, feel that the current format already works pretty effin' well.
1: File a patent for "Something that does something" 2: Wait for the inattentive, overworked bastards at the PTO to award it to you. 3: Sue everyone in existence because everything in the universe falls under your patent. 4: Hope someone actually takes you seriously in court. 5: PROFIT!
Okay, I DO understand where you're coming from. However, you totally missed/ignored the points I made.
My point was not any of the following:
The Thinkpad is the fastest thing around.
The Thinkpad is the sexiest thing around.
The Thinkpad is the smallest thing around.
The Thinkpad has the longest battery life around.
My points were:
The Thinkpad is a business laptop. It doesn't require flashy looks or sooper-dooper gaming.
The Thinkpad is one of the TOUGHEST and most rugged non-ruggedized laptops out there. Just about anyone who's used one for an appreciable length of time will agree with the following sentiment. SOLID.
Many business users put their laptops through a certain amount of physical abuse (accidental or not). Do that with a Mac laptop, and you'd better have an AppleCare plan. Because you're going to break something. Thus, you don't see Mac laptops in wide deployment in many business environments (except on TV). The same cannot be said for the Thinkpad.
Sorry, but if you think the Mac laptop offerings (especially the keyboards) are "good", you've evidently lost all feeling below the neck. Their laptop offerings are some of the flimsiest pieces of crap imaginable.
Take the MacBookPro. Pick it up in one hand along an edge. If you can't see the entire damn case flexing, I'll eat my UPS.
I'm not really sure what your experience with Thinkpads was.
My experience was almost universally positive. And the things, while not the greatest gaming systems (Internationa BUSINESS Machines anyone?), were always rock-stable and durable.
Of courst, that COULD just be me. But I pretty much have a circle of friends, co-workers, and colleagues who swear up and down by Thinkpads too. More or less for the identical reasoning.
As for color. I'm not marching in the local GLPP. I'm WORKING on the thing. I don't need neon greeen, or lousy aluminum cases that ding and scratch if I so much as look at the thing. The Thinkpads have a certain stark, no-nonsense style to them, and they definitely make a positive statement about the person using them.
But hey, to each his own. If you want a laptop that looks like it fell out of a box of Fruit Loops, cool.
There's enough problems with standard DVDs and the DRM scheme (with an e, not an a). Yet here people are, ready to rush headlong into FURTHER enshacklement in this new medium.
Wow. Higher resolution. Higher prices. Lower availability. Less rights to fair use.
Hate it. Hate it. HATE IT. Jobs and his RDF can suck my hairy white...nevermind...
But even I understand the reason for BootCamp.
If Apple didn't, someone else would.
Apple is legendary for their death-grip on platform experience.
People were coming up with ugly hacks just to get Windows on their Mac systems. Some resulting in brickified systems (which the user is going to at least TRY to return.
In short, people had hardware that WOULD run Windows. So they're gonna try. Even if it's just to say "I can run both! NYAH!"
So what makes more sense to Apple? To keep processing returns for people who kill their systems fucking around in EFI? Or to release a safe(er) product that'll allow people to get their XP on without murdering their system?
As to why Apple didn't do it in the first place? They wanted to see what the demand was in the early adopters. If nobody tried to put Windows on their systems, Apple doesn't waste time with BootCamp. If they do, Apple releases BootCamp and (because of the frothing fanboyism in the RDF) they're hailed as offering the users a choice (even though they didn't do so from the get-go).
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Have a Shocky-Monkey.
Bull. The fact is the traffic originates from within their own network. Google isn't pushing the content into their network. It's being requested. If they can't economically handle the amount of traffic being generated by their own network, they need to rethink their internal pricing structure and their peering arrangements. Not try to extort money out of content providers who are already paying for all the traffic coming to their site.
Again, this is just extortion. Pure and simple.
I pay for my network connection.
The content providers pay for their network connection.
These connectivity companies now want to start extorting a double payment out of the content providers.
What the fuck is there NOT to understand?
If they fucked up and aren't charging true price for a network connection, that's not our fault, or the content providers'. But this is racketeering, plain and simple.
The problem IS NOT the price of the console in a vacuum.
It's the fact that the console is nearly double the price of it's two competitor products.
It's the fact that you're pretty much going to see ports of the same games on every console.
It's the fact that the console is an absolute BITCH to program for.
It's the fact that Sony is NOT getting the developer kits out fast enough.
It's the fact that the main competitor, the XBox, will have been out nearly a year at the time the PS3 debuts, and will have had that much lead time to lock some solid titles into it's roster. Titles that take excellent advantage of the platform. Most of what will debut with Sony will be little more than technology demos or games that don't take advantage of the platform.
Problem 1: Ethanol is a much less energetic fuel on a per-gallon basis. Result? Ethanol has lower MPG vs gasoline. If people's cars are going to suddenly get 25-35% less mileage, they're going to start consuming more. ESPECIALLY in the transportation industry, which is pretty much locked on Diesel.
Problem 2: Drivers in Brazil and the US have VASTLY different auto usage patterns. Take a look. Those who actually own a car do a fraction of the driving that Americans do in a year.
I'm sick and tired of people who don't understand the realities of the "alternative fuel economies" thumping their chests and going "Stupid Americans!" over our fuel economy.
The fact is, in Europe, with it's relatively even population distribution, and close proximities between work and home, they can get away with things like this much more easily than we possibly could in the far-flung population centers of the US.
It doesn't mean the Europeans, or anyone else, are "better". It merely means their requirements are different than those of the US.
Not to mention the fact that, unlike a small country with a couple million people, you don't change the fuel infrastructure of the US (with several hundred million vehicles) overnight, or in a week, month or even a year.
Sorry to go off on a side-rant like this. I'm just REALLY tired of people who offer advice or criticism without understanding the full rammifications of what they're talking about. Sort of the modern day equivallent of "Let them eat cake".
I expect the lawsuits to collapse, or at least gimp along on two broken legs at that point.
"National Security" has become the new "We Do This For Our Children".
*Stomps away in disgust*
I propose a new class of near-instant messaging clients. They will act just like IM clients, but will have latencies imposed upon them by their ambient network conditions and the conditions of all the hops between the two end points in the chain.
What? How is this different from IM? Because the messaging ISN'T instantaneous SILLY! You've got to wait tens to hundreds of milliseconds for a message to get through.
Moreover, as protection against instant messaging, the user won't be able to see the message text until the person typing it out finishes and actually invokes a SEND action.
See! Foolproof!
Additionally, I propose a new protocol, EV-COIP (Encrypted Verbal-Communication Over IP)...
Oh yeah and one last thing I just have to get out of the way.
Fuck T-Mobile!
When are these crusty cock-knobs going to finally catch Clue #1?
The more you restrict your user base, the more you cut your user base!
Thank you George! You, or at least someone with decision-making power understood fan attachment to the originals. And, while the DVDs contain the re-edited versions, you're thrown us a bone and actually used DVD's ability to track across multiple versions to deliver the original as well.
Pick out the lice.
Slosh on the hair grease by the gallon.
Comb all the knots out.
Staunch all the bleeding.
Subject them to lethal doses of RDF radiation.
Slap them into jeans and a turtleneck.
?!?!?!?
Profit?
Forgive me for possibly being tasteless here.
But I like the Slashdot interface as it is. It's ridiculously simple, eminently readable, and relatively uncluttered. Moreover, it loads incredibly fast.
I can understand wanting a new "look". With enough time you get tired of ANYTHING. However, I, as a reader, feel that the current format already works pretty effin' well.
How many people use Mac as a SERIOUS gaming platform?
And before I get the "B-b-b-but it's PC hardware!". I will answer thus.
Yeah? So what?
We're talking about MacOS here.
And before I get the "BootCamp, you can run Windows" argument.
RTFA. You still need to manually change the clocking.
Yet again, how does Apple get good benchies? Cheat, obfuscate, and lie.
1: File a patent for "Something that does something"
2: Wait for the inattentive, overworked bastards at the PTO to award it to you.
3: Sue everyone in existence because everything in the universe falls under your patent.
4: Hope someone actually takes you seriously in court.
5: PROFIT!
Now hold your breath on this one. ...
It's all the tithes.
To the Kaballah group, Xenu, Joe Pesci, etc.
Besides, given the predatory nature of the recording industry towards artists, most only made money by touring as it was.
Additionally, high-end acts (supergroups, mega pop stars, etc) have always had insane pricing on their appearances anyhow.
So I don't see how something like this is a humongous surprise to anyone with enough neurons to form a synapse.
Well, where you perceive "shock absorbent", I perceive "flimsy".
No, you're not the only one who likes the TrackPoint. I prefer it to touchpads any day.
No. Even in the later days of IBM ownership, they were putting FireGL graphics into their higher end systems.
My A31p had a one.
Gonna make you an offer...you can't lefuse!
Okay, I DO understand where you're coming from. However, you totally missed/ignored the points I made.
My point was not any of the following:
My points were:
Many business users put their laptops through a certain amount of physical abuse (accidental or not). Do that with a Mac laptop, and you'd better have an AppleCare plan. Because you're going to break something. Thus, you don't see Mac laptops in wide deployment in many business environments (except on TV). The same cannot be said for the Thinkpad.
Sorry, but if you think the Mac laptop offerings (especially the keyboards) are "good", you've evidently lost all feeling below the neck. Their laptop offerings are some of the flimsiest pieces of crap imaginable.
Take the MacBookPro. Pick it up in one hand along an edge. If you can't see the entire damn case flexing, I'll eat my UPS.
I'm not really sure what your experience with Thinkpads was.
My experience was almost universally positive. And the things, while not the greatest gaming systems (Internationa BUSINESS Machines anyone?), were always rock-stable and durable.
Of courst, that COULD just be me. But I pretty much have a circle of friends, co-workers, and colleagues who swear up and down by Thinkpads too. More or less for the identical reasoning.
As for color. I'm not marching in the local GLPP. I'm WORKING on the thing. I don't need neon greeen, or lousy aluminum cases that ding and scratch if I so much as look at the thing. The Thinkpads have a certain stark, no-nonsense style to them, and they definitely make a positive statement about the person using them.
But hey, to each his own. If you want a laptop that looks like it fell out of a box of Fruit Loops, cool.
Well no....not really.
There's enough problems with standard DVDs and the DRM scheme (with an e, not an a). Yet here people are, ready to rush headlong into FURTHER enshacklement in this new medium.
Wow. Higher resolution. Higher prices. Lower availability. Less rights to fair use.
Whee!
Color me unenthused.
(Translation: Fuck that noise!)
Hell, I despise Apple.
Hate it. Hate it. HATE IT. Jobs and his RDF can suck my hairy white...nevermind...
But even I understand the reason for BootCamp.
If Apple didn't, someone else would.
Apple is legendary for their death-grip on platform experience.
People were coming up with ugly hacks just to get Windows on their Mac systems. Some resulting in brickified systems (which the user is going to at least TRY to return.
In short, people had hardware that WOULD run Windows. So they're gonna try. Even if it's just to say "I can run both! NYAH!"
So what makes more sense to Apple? To keep processing returns for people who kill their systems fucking around in EFI? Or to release a safe(er) product that'll allow people to get their XP on without murdering their system?
As to why Apple didn't do it in the first place? They wanted to see what the demand was in the early adopters. If nobody tried to put Windows on their systems, Apple doesn't waste time with BootCamp. If they do, Apple releases BootCamp and (because of the frothing fanboyism in the RDF) they're hailed as offering the users a choice (even though they didn't do so from the get-go).
Hey man. What's that encryption on that thing?
Double ROT26.
Woo. That's gonna be TOUGH to crack!
You evidently haven't been in a StarSchmucks lately have you?
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