Consider yourself lucky that your betters can understand and will eventually spoon feed it to you in a series of books featuring an anthropomorphic anmal.
History does not bode well for the broadband providers on this. If one recalls back in the day, the Telco (MA-Bell/AT&T) user to tack on an additional charge for every actual receiver (that you were forced to rent from them) on the phone line. For those who know POTS (plain old telephone system) an extension can be added but just tapping a wire onto the existing wire in the house. However when MA-bell got broken up in the 70s(?) I believe they did away with this foofah, and you paid for the telephone *service*
CATV (cable) used to be the same way.. you day to pay extra for each TV. And then they stopped doing that and you paid for *service* of the signal.
Now here is where it gets tricky, unlike POTS and analog CATV the line is hot or its not (so to speak), broadband you actually have discrete data you are passing around. This should be the *service*. However it could end up being a pay as you go service (bad for the users, good for the money grubbers) or a limited throughput 'unlimited' service (which is mostly how it is now). Currently I don?t see a metered usage model flying right now and this is why:
Everyone that adopted broadband early wanted it (and could get it) go it. Dialup services are cheap and unlimited. If you start charging for broadband based on usage you aren?t not very attractive to those people you want to take away from dialup who are complacent and will cope with what they have. A metered service is not (in consumers minds) a *NOT* better value than an unmetered service.
As we know there is a mega glut of fiber, broadband should be getting cheaper rather than more expensive.. but that?s another article. Its going to be hard to justify metering people when there is so much capacity unused. (hopefully supply and demand will work out here).
Now this is what is going to happen, when a critical mass of people stop using dialup, and then modems stop coming standard in computers, and then the broadband guys think they have a captive audience they will get everyone in the cartel on board and raise rates and meter usage. What?s worse is that they will claim there is a lack of long haul bandwidth, which probably wont be true, because as the broadband market picks up they will still be doing expansion of the network because of the expectation of even larger amounts of growth.
Conclusion, this are probably good for the short term, *VERY* bad for the long term.
PS the document was spell checked for those with delicate constitutions.
The music in nemeis was really poor. Go back and watch kahn and *listen* to the music.. it drives the some of the scenes. its subtle but important things like that that berman misses.
I totally agree, Rick Berman is really star trek's problem, not its solution. Nemesis wasnt 'bad' per se.. but i jut plain wasnt blown away by it. I am not gonan review ithere.. but its was no wrath of Kahn.
Other berman blunders, Look at the finale of Voyager, the last scene was a bunch of guys totally uninstrested staring at a green screen. There was no directing at all going on there. It woudl have been better with a cardboard cutouts and subtitles.
This whole thing is assuming this this is the cause of the ddosing. The typical of IRC server being DDoSed is because the long litany of abuses by the irc ops. DALnet is dreaming if they think this is goign to make any difference at all. In fact if this is really being caused by 'file traders' they are about to get the irc equivalent of nuclear armageddon.
Apple has a little known utility that will play qucktime movies thru an ascii renderer (or something) and into the terminal app. Its only on monochrome, but watching movie trailers thru it is just wild.
This is what i heard about non-intel versions of windows NT. (including the alpha) If you wanted a port of windows NT you had to license the suourcec code port it yourself (the company dec or motorola) and then give it back to MS for distro or something. We have seens Motorola's track record (the slow devlopment of the PPC) is there little wonder if died.. they didnt want to keep paying MS. I thinktheonly reason DEC kept going was they actually had customers and sold a lot of their alpha NT units,and thus needed it to keep going.
ok this is mr fantasy talking.. but how about this.. what if everyone just stopped downloading all music for like 3 months.. and then when no one actually hear anymusic they have never heard before and donest go out and buymusic becuase they arent gonan spend 20 bucks on some crap they dontknow what it is.. and the RIAA hemmorages a spleen for a quarter and Hillary ODs because the master plan fails....yaddya yadda yadda...
Well anyone who is paying attention could tell you that dialup is slowing down in the US. The PC market is saturated, fewer new users every year. (my perception). People are moving from modems to broadband and arent being replaced at the same rate... this really should be a suprise to no one.
They are asking that people not harass NWLink. Sound like to me that NWLink needs a good set of pissed off user harassment. If it is in fact true that DDoS for 3 weeks caused outages on their network then they need to harden their network. Do they really think that pulling 1 host is going to bestow on them magic fairy power to keep away bad people?
I went to look at the 12" PB the other day iand it smaller than the old PB duos.. nice thing.. Howver the screen is high res for its size... but its also a small screen. at some point we are gonn a have ultra tiny hi res screens we cant read:)
Over dinner, after my last post, i was thining about how the MPAA could actually implement such a decision. Quite frankly i dont see how one could write a license to cover this and not screw up everything else..
Let us postulate for a moment, the MPAA doenst want to alloe players that can skip over parts of a movie based on content the viewer might not want to see (for whatever reason of tgw week [sex violence etc]). Ok how do you word that?
"The licencee is not allow to view the movie out of order because of percieved objectionable content as it violates the artistic vision of the producers."???
Ok, I suppose this allows you to skip. FF, rewind for any other reason other than it being "ojbectionable" (as being ojbectionale is the reason why ppl are making these things). Thing is The mpaa has no right to tell you you *have* to watch a particualr portion of a work... not only is it unenforceable, bit really way out of bounds.
If we assume they dont grant a CSS license to anyone making a dvd player that can skip predetermined content, that realy donest stop someone from making software for a dvd-rom on a computer from doing it.
Basically this is about dictating patterns of consumption. Thats really none of their business. This is a differnet issue than 3rd parties released 'clean' versions of a movie, thats clear copyright violation. Are we going to need to worry about (more) restictions on how we choose to consume a work?
from the article :
But telemarketers say 27 existing state do-not-call lists and a voluntary national list run by the Direct Marketing Association trade group should provide consumers enough protection.
If it gives enough protection why did this plan get 50000 letters in support of it? Clearly these guys call ppl who dont want to be called.
I had a terrible time removing "search and browse" from my Gf's computer. it hijacked the autosearch function of the browser. Evil critter it was, adaware and spybot couldnt get rid of it. I did finally find it but it was an obscure registry entry. But thats not what im getting at here.
There is a setting in the intenet CP for disallow any third party 'add-ins' from running under IE (6?). I suggest you turn it on it will cut down on the crap that self installs.
If anyone is intrested in the searchandbrowse thing, get in touch with me and i'll try to look it up for you. It took me hours and hours to find.
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well in this case its not like they dont/shouldnt own i. BTW as for being an american.. i suggest you lookup 'eminent domain'
Umm cant parliment as the govt just pass a law stating they are the owner?
Consider yourself lucky that your betters can understand and will eventually spoon feed it to you in a series of books featuring an anthropomorphic anmal.
wanker
History does not bode well for the broadband providers on this. If one recalls back in the day, the Telco (MA-Bell/AT&T) user to tack on an additional charge for every actual receiver (that you were forced to rent from them) on the phone line. For those who know POTS (plain old telephone system) an extension can be added but just tapping a wire onto the existing wire in the house. However when MA-bell got broken up in the 70s(?) I believe they did away with this foofah, and you paid for the telephone *service*
CATV (cable) used to be the same way.. you day to pay extra for each TV. And then they stopped doing that and you paid for *service* of the signal.
Now here is where it gets tricky, unlike POTS and analog CATV the line is hot or its not (so to speak), broadband you actually have discrete data you are passing around. This should be the *service*. However it could end up being a pay as you go service (bad for the users, good for the money grubbers) or a limited throughput 'unlimited' service (which is mostly how it is now). Currently I don?t see a metered usage model flying right now and this is why:
Everyone that adopted broadband early wanted it (and could get it) go it. Dialup services are cheap and unlimited. If you start charging for broadband based on usage you aren?t not very attractive to those people you want to take away from dialup who are complacent and will cope with what they have. A metered service is not (in consumers minds) a *NOT* better value than an unmetered service.
As we know there is a mega glut of fiber, broadband should be getting cheaper rather than more expensive.. but that?s another article. Its going to be hard to justify metering people when there is so much capacity unused. (hopefully supply and demand will work out here).
Now this is what is going to happen, when a critical mass of people stop using dialup, and then modems stop coming standard in computers, and then the broadband guys think they have a captive audience they will get everyone in the cartel on board and raise rates and meter usage. What?s worse is that they will claim there is a lack of long haul bandwidth, which probably wont be true, because as the broadband market picks up they will still be doing expansion of the network because of the expectation of even larger amounts of growth.
Conclusion, this are probably good for the short term, *VERY* bad for the long term.
PS the document was spell checked for those with delicate constitutions.
The music in nemeis was really poor. Go back and watch kahn and *listen* to the music.. it drives the some of the scenes. its subtle but important things like that that berman misses.
I totally agree, Rick Berman is really star trek's problem, not its solution. Nemesis wasnt 'bad' per se.. but i jut plain wasnt blown away by it. I am not gonan review ithere.. but its was no wrath of Kahn. Other berman blunders, Look at the finale of Voyager, the last scene was a bunch of guys totally uninstrested staring at a green screen. There was no directing at all going on there. It woudl have been better with a cardboard cutouts and subtitles.
This whole thing is assuming this this is the cause of the ddosing. The typical of IRC server being DDoSed is because the long litany of abuses by the irc ops. DALnet is dreaming if they think this is goign to make any difference at all. In fact if this is really being caused by 'file traders' they are about to get the irc equivalent of nuclear armageddon.
(joke first then comment)
They just assumed everyone was gonan piss on it anyway;)
</this commentis not pro-microsoft>
Apple has a little known utility that will play qucktime movies thru an ascii renderer (or something) and into the terminal app. Its only on monochrome, but watching movie trailers thru it is just wild.
yeah i read '1986' hollywood was ou of idea so theymade a sequel:)
This is what i heard about non-intel versions of windows NT. (including the alpha) If you wanted a port of windows NT you had to license the suourcec code port it yourself (the company dec or motorola) and then give it back to MS for distro or something. We have seens Motorola's track record (the slow devlopment of the PPC) is there little wonder if died.. they didnt want to keep paying MS. I thinktheonly reason DEC kept going was they actually had customers and sold a lot of their alpha NT units,and thus needed it to keep going.
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ok this is mr fantasy talking .. but how about this.. what if everyone just stopped downloading all music for like 3 months.. and then when no one actually hear anymusic they have never heard before and donest go out and buymusic becuase they arent gonan spend 20 bucks on some crap they dontknow what it is.. and the RIAA hemmorages a spleen for a quarter and Hillary ODs because the master plan fails....yaddya yadda yadda...
woah baby now i can set def [...] faster then ever!
Well anyone who is paying attention could tell you that dialup is slowing down in the US. The PC market is saturated, fewer new users every year. (my perception). People are moving from modems to broadband and arent being replaced at the same rate... this really should be a suprise to no one.
I dont know if i would call the pre-merger AOL evil.. per se.. I mean can 1 million clueless guys on modems really be evil?
They are asking that people not harass NWLink. Sound like to me that NWLink needs a good set of pissed off user harassment. If it is in fact true that DDoS for 3 weeks caused outages on their network then they need to harden their network. Do they really think that pulling 1 host is going to bestow on them magic fairy power to keep away bad people?
I think an idiot check is in order over there.
darn you i wanted to post about flash crowds. hey we were kinda working toward the same goal but i dont know you;)
i hear that brother.. i put jagon my old g3 desktop butwith an old 640x480 monitor.. its.. umm... hard to use... to put it mildly.
i dont own one of those either
I went to look at the 12" PB the other day iand it smaller than the old PB duos.. nice thing.. Howver the screen is high res for its size... but its also a small screen. at some point we are gonn a have ultra tiny hi res screens we cant read:)
Over dinner, after my last post, i was thining about how the MPAA could actually implement such a decision. Quite frankly i dont see how one could write a license to cover this and not screw up everything else.. Let us postulate for a moment, the MPAA doenst want to alloe players that can skip over parts of a movie based on content the viewer might not want to see (for whatever reason of tgw week [sex violence etc]). Ok how do you word that? "The licencee is not allow to view the movie out of order because of percieved objectionable content as it violates the artistic vision of the producers."??? Ok, I suppose this allows you to skip. FF, rewind for any other reason other than it being "ojbectionable" (as being ojbectionale is the reason why ppl are making these things). Thing is The mpaa has no right to tell you you *have* to watch a particualr portion of a work... not only is it unenforceable, bit really way out of bounds. If we assume they dont grant a CSS license to anyone making a dvd player that can skip predetermined content, that realy donest stop someone from making software for a dvd-rom on a computer from doing it. Basically this is about dictating patterns of consumption. Thats really none of their business. This is a differnet issue than 3rd parties released 'clean' versions of a movie, thats clear copyright violation. Are we going to need to worry about (more) restictions on how we choose to consume a work?
from the article : But telemarketers say 27 existing state do-not-call lists and a voluntary national list run by the Direct Marketing Association trade group should provide consumers enough protection. If it gives enough protection why did this plan get 50000 letters in support of it? Clearly these guys call ppl who dont want to be called.
I had a terrible time removing "search and browse" from my Gf's computer. it hijacked the autosearch function of the browser. Evil critter it was, adaware and spybot couldnt get rid of it. I did finally find it but it was an obscure registry entry. But thats not what im getting at here. There is a setting in the intenet CP for disallow any third party 'add-ins' from running under IE (6?). I suggest you turn it on it will cut down on the crap that self installs. If anyone is intrested in the searchandbrowse thing, get in touch with me and i'll try to look it up for you. It took me hours and hours to find.