Users with broadband connections are under the misimpression that upgrades are free and that everyone should do them. Some of us are still stuck in dialup hell, and downloading an upgrade costs a lot of time.
And besides, the old software is perfectly adequate.
Why not a simpler way to encourage hybrids: You can exchange one current (non-hybrid) medallion for two hybrid medallions. We fill the streets with hybrids, create more competition, and collect more tax revenue.
You left out the most important step! Before reassembling the cube, apply a little vaseline to the joints. Then reassemble. It greatly improves the "feel" of the mechanism.
Whoever said space travel was supposed to be safe?
Of course human space travel is risky! But is it cost effective? What do we get in return for taking the risk?
Over the course of the entire space shuttle program, what has it done for us? Was it worth 14 lives?
I don't accept that we need to send people into space so that we can send people into space. To what end? Maybe we should send men to Mars, but the shuttle makes little contribution to that goal. Maybe we should establish a moonbase, but the shuttle contributes nothing to that goal, either.
Suppose we had decided to stop using the shuttle 5 years ago. Just stop -- cold turkey. None of them had ever been launched and the missions went unperformed. What difference would that make today? Is that difference worth the human risks we took? Could we have done all the truly useful stuff without the shuttle? Could we have redirected the identical budget into better space exploration?
If we compare the amount of science done by Hubble and the amount of science done by the ISS, the conclusion is clear. We should splash the ISS and put the budget money into Hubble.
But we won't.
First reason: most usage of flash is silly and pointless eye candy
Second reason: With a 26.4k modem connection to the web, I never download software without a good reason. It takes too long at 26.4. Maybe if I could get a broadband connection I'd feel different.
Third reason: The download probably introduces a security hole. Which means another monstrous download at slow speed.
Fourth reason: The download may introduce spyware that I do not want.
Bottom line: Flash gives me nothing that I will not live without.
Are they equally resentful that images have "invaded" their text-only HTML world?
I like images that contribute to content. But there are an amazing number of so-called images that are gifs/jpegs containing rendered text. It allows the display of text using "pretty" fonts, 3D effects and/or shadows, but Google would index the site and make it more useful to humanity if it was just plain text.
I always asked the sailors what they did for the Navy. Almost every single one was a shipboard firefighter.
This reminds me of the results of the first census of the city of Seattle. The most common occupation in the city was "seamstress". The mayor thought this was odd, so he did a little study. He discovered that there was not a sewing machine to be found in the city!
Its infringing on someone's IP when the "experience" resulted in a patent being granted on it.
Why do we need to buy your program?
on
Abusing the GPL?
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
OK. Your company does this. Then I buy one copy of your program. And the source code. I cannot read the source code, but I it must be released under the GPL. I build a copy of your program using the source code.
Now I can give away the program I built from GPL'ed source code.
How does your company sell a second copy of the program?
You left out an important group of people! The push for broadband also appeals to hi-tech workers. They like to telecommute or work from home occasionally AND can get their employer to pay for the broadband connection.
Also how many of those 80% have satellite as the only option? Probably half of them! Can we all imagine what satellite service would be like if 40% of the country signed up for it!
While I would really like to see this happen, I do not believe it is slated for the next few years.
It is easy to imagine that a company would put one of these networks in all of its buildings. Or that an academic institution would put one on its campus. This part of your prediction will come true.
But I do not believe that the ability to connect to the internet from almost anywhere will occur. The killer application for wireless access is talking to each other. How many places are there where your cell phone does not work? Mine works everywhere but the most important place -- my house. I therefore have zero confidence that your "wireless broadband connection" will work at my house (which is the most important place that I want it).
Noone has mentioned a building sized UPS with a building sized backup generator. What good is a broadband connection when you don't have the juice to use it?
I'll admit to being one of those with a P2P-is-useless bias. I can imagine a lot of uses for P2P. However, the P stands for peer, and the internet is not made up of peers.
Millions of people may have used Napster, but what percentage of them were solely consumers of other people's files? How many gave as many uploads as they took downloads?
Can you be a first class P2P participant if:
You dial in to the internet for one or two hours a day (that is less than 10% of the time).
And/or your maximum available bandwidth is 28.8K or less
And/or you do not have a fixed internet address.
And/or your service provider does not allow you to be the server side of an IP connection.
My serious problem with JXTA is that all four of those problems apply to me, and I do not see why I should put any intellectual effort into software that I cannot use. And I think that there are a lot of people like me out there.
Those of you with privacy concerns need not worry. According to the manual the user does have the ability to turn the 'Position Location' off. (it will be automatically turned back on when/if an emergency call is made).
Now this worries me.
Exactly how is it determined that an emergency call is being made?
Slashdot Mirror
Users with broadband connections are under the misimpression that upgrades are free and that everyone should do them. Some of us are still stuck in dialup hell, and downloading an upgrade costs a lot of time. And besides, the old software is perfectly adequate.
Why not a simpler way to encourage hybrids: You can exchange one current (non-hybrid) medallion for two hybrid medallions. We fill the streets with hybrids, create more competition, and collect more tax revenue.
You left out the most important step! Before reassembling the cube, apply a little vaseline to the joints. Then reassemble. It greatly improves the "feel" of the mechanism.
Of course human space travel is risky! But is it cost effective? What do we get in return for taking the risk?
Over the course of the entire space shuttle program, what has it done for us? Was it worth 14 lives?
I don't accept that we need to send people into space so that we can send people into space. To what end? Maybe we should send men to Mars, but the shuttle makes little contribution to that goal. Maybe we should establish a moonbase, but the shuttle contributes nothing to that goal, either.
Suppose we had decided to stop using the shuttle 5 years ago. Just stop -- cold turkey. None of them had ever been launched and the missions went unperformed. What difference would that make today? Is that difference worth the human risks we took? Could we have done all the truly useful stuff without the shuttle? Could we have redirected the identical budget into better space exploration?
Firstly, we aren't talking about the government tracking its own equipment. These are independent contractors who supply their own plows.
Secondly, the contract dispute was about many things -- it's a negotiation. According to this news story,
It was a negotiating position.
If we compare the amount of science done by Hubble and the amount of science done by the ISS, the conclusion is clear. We should splash the ISS and put the budget money into Hubble. But we won't.
You write if off and launch another one. It is a simple economic criterion: What is the least expensive thing to do? One of:
(A) Launch Hubble on using the shuttle, and go back two more times to repair it using the shuttle.
(B) Launch three Hubbles using an unmanned launcher.
If you lose a Hubble, it's a bummer. If you lose 7 astronauts, it's a major disaster. Using humans greatly increases the cost of operations.
First reason: most usage of flash is silly and pointless eye candy
Second reason: With a 26.4k modem connection to the web, I never download software without a good reason. It takes too long at 26.4. Maybe if I could get a broadband connection I'd feel different.
Third reason: The download probably introduces a security hole. Which means another monstrous download at slow speed.
Fourth reason: The download may introduce spyware that I do not want.
Bottom line: Flash gives me nothing that I will not live without.
I like images that contribute to content. But there are an amazing number of so-called images that are gifs/jpegs containing rendered text. It allows the display of text using "pretty" fonts, 3D effects and/or shadows, but Google would index the site and make it more useful to humanity if it was just plain text.
Is that a skin cream? Micro-so-soft!
This reminds me of the results of the first census of the city of Seattle. The most common occupation in the city was "seamstress". The mayor thought this was odd, so he did a little study. He discovered that there was not a sewing machine to be found in the city!
I might get excited about 19Mbit on 3G, IF my cell phone actually was usable where I need to use it. Like my house.
Yes, it is an annoying color scheme. But if you highlight a block of text it reverses to a much better green on white (at least in IE).
Its infringing on someone's IP when the "experience" resulted in a patent being granted on it.
Now I can give away the program I built from GPL'ed source code.
How does your company sell a second copy of the program?
Also how many of those 80% have satellite as the only option? Probably half of them! Can we all imagine what satellite service would be like if 40% of the country signed up for it!
--
It is easy to imagine that a company would put one of these networks in all of its buildings. Or that an academic institution would put one on its campus. This part of your prediction will come true.
But I do not believe that the ability to connect to the internet from almost anywhere will occur. The killer application for wireless access is talking to each other. How many places are there where your cell phone does not work? Mine works everywhere but the most important place -- my house. I therefore have zero confidence that your "wireless broadband connection" will work at my house (which is the most important place that I want it).
--
Noone has mentioned a building sized UPS with a building sized backup generator. What good is a broadband connection when you don't have the juice to use it?
Millions of people may have used Napster, but what percentage of them were solely consumers of other people's files? How many gave as many uploads as they took downloads?
Can you be a first class P2P participant if:
My serious problem with JXTA is that all four of those problems apply to me, and I do not see why I should put any intellectual effort into software that I cannot use. And I think that there are a lot of people like me out there.
---
5AM EST: 250 per hour. Wow!
5:30 AM EST: 1000 per hour. A great show!
The government has been known to do turnabouts. Just ask Osama Bin Laden.