Actually some of those ISP's listed are huge. Optus and iPrimus would be amongst our largest ISP's over here. Do your research BEFORE you comment please.
Or you could RTFA yourself: "Optus refused to comment".
And secondly, how exactly would one make a profit from downloading a song?
Resale of something you got free, ie. radio-copied mixtapes, bootleg cd/dvds, hosting files on a private pay access ftp, etc.
Yeah, there are HUGE profits from selling radio copied mix tapes. (Especially if you use the new 8-track format.)
Really, these are things you literally couldn't give away. Anyone who wants these and isn't fussed about copyright has no problem downloading it himself, or swapping with a friend.
how in the hell is an evil vilian going to test each exploit and assemble their master plan without the other side catching on
That was (one of the many) plot holes in Die Hard 4.0. The Super Villain hires a bunch of l33t haxx0rs to create exploits for every important utilty, bank, telecom, etc. And they all finish them on time, on the same day. And they all work flawlessly, the first time.
He doesn't need to break the banks to become a billionaire if he can do that.
But I've been a database programmer for 20 years. Data doesn't belong in (30 different copies of) a spreadsheet; it belongs in a database.
Of course not "30 different copies of a spreadsheet". That would be idiotic. It was never stated how or why this data would be used, I just assumed records for accounting purposes. If it needed to be interactive, it's another ball game.
And if you're a database programmer, you wouldn't even be asking the question, you'd just code it in 10 minutes.
As I post, there are only 31 comments. Yet it still took THIRTY FUCKING SECONDS before the hourglass turned into a cursor and I could scroll the fucking page. During which time I notice the CPU usage going to 100%. WHAT THE FUCK IS SLASHDOT DOING????
A couple of years ago Slashdot was bearable, especially as I could turn it to the "low tech" preference, which has now disappeared, and that even let me see it in my default font and not the sans font I do now. Now I have a later browser, twice as much RAM, and the site is dropping lower and lower in my favorite list, not just because of the dumb stories, but because when there is a good story it takes SO FUCKING LONG to open a comment page. Sometime I just skim the front page, check any interesting links, and avoid the tarpit of the comment pages.
Once in Excel it can be exported to any kind of database, or HTML table, should that become necessary -- I'm assuming it is just flat data, basically read only, no macros and such.
Not that I have any love of Excel, but it's ubiquitous and easy to throw a small table of data like this in and get it out if you need it.
The post I was origally replying to said "From an economic standpoint, 1000 deaths a year is a small price to pay for the productivity gains had by communicating while in transit.".
So I asked what are these PRODUCTIVITY GAINS. You are talking about something else entirely.
... But that isn't a factor in my argument.
It should be.
You keep equating cost and benefit. That's not a given. Particularly, the cost to the cell phone user (almost zero) is nothing to do with the cost to the family of the person they kill, which will be met by the family, or the government or an insurance company (same thing these days).
You still fail to say what are the economic benefits. "Willingness to pay" is another thing entirely. Anyway, they don't pay anythng extra to use their cell in a car, so this is specious.
People rarely factor in the costs of being involved in an accident, they just believe they are smarter and better drivers than everyone else.
Not worth the hassle of implementing some high tech solution. The data sound like stuff that changes rarely if ever, stuff you need for accounting reports or such once a year, not stuff you need on a moment's notice. So I'd just use:
That's the COST. What are the BENEFITS? And those killing people negligently because of using cell phones are not going to come up with the 5 million. It's society as a whole that will pay the bills.
I can't find the article, but it turns out that the rational reaction is to allow people talking, as they value that more than they value the (small) decrease in the risk of getting killed.
Not rational at all. People are very poor at assessing risk. More importantly, the risks are not only to the person using the phone. They KILL OTHER PEOPLE. They run over pedestrians. They go through red lights.
For the same reason (and this is a very close analogy) we don't allow people to drive drunk, even though drunk drivers are quite willing to accept the risk to themselves.
From an economic standpoint, 1000 deaths a year is a small price to pay for the productivity gains had by communicating while in transit.
What "productivity gains"? You speak as if you have quantified it. What economic value do mobile phone calls have? The great majority are just socialising.
It seems to me anyone that waits for a word to be official to use is just behind on the times as many people had to use it first for it to be noticed.
"Unreplaceable" is not a new word (like , say "blogosphere"), that expresses a new idea and will take a while to be documented properly. It is just a mistaken generalisation of a rule.
First you talk about logic, now you talk about usage. By usage, "irreplaceable" is clearly the preferred form.
It's not a "rule made by a group", it's deduced from how (most) people actually speak.
The "ir" prefix is used before words starting with R, because it's easier to say. As "il" before L. Or I suppose you'd prefer to say "unlegal".
Go ahead and make up your own rules. Good luck with communicating with the rest of us. People will probably guess what you mean (e.g., I suppose "logical scene" meant "logical sense"), but people will assume you're uneducated, though probably won't actually say so to your face. If your job involves language or communication, this could be a problem.
And longer-term, a big question is whether consumers will want to deal with the hassle of optimizing household appliance energy usage themselves, or be willing to relinquish monitoring and control to utility companies with a concomitant loss of privacy. After all, losing one's copy of 1984 is one thing losing one's lights and refrigerator is another thing altogether."
What them hell? The link for "losing one's lights and refrigerator" has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS. It's about a woman who through an account screw up of a previous tenant could not get her power connected. This kind of thing has been happening for about a century.
As for "loss of privacy"? The idea is that the power company signals your system when the power is cheaper. They know how much power you're using (as again, they have for the last century), but not what you're doing with it.
For the last 40 years or so my father has had an off-peak hot water heater. It switches on late at nigh, heats up the insulated water tank. Saves him money, smooths out the demand. No one has to run around to "optimize household energy usage". Set and forget.
This article is, as usual for kdawson, a load of sensationalist crap.
It all boils down to never having had any kind of revolution or defining moment. Most "modern" countries have had some kind of defining moment where they laid down the values and ideas on which they define themselves
You realize that exporting a registry branch is both very easy, and produces an easily-read plain text file, right?
Yes, I've done that. But doing it between different versions of Windows is not such a great idea, for the reasons mentioned. (Though it's not actually easy to determine exactly which registry branch(es) are associated with an application, and which affect multiple apps. Especially when the makers use cryptic names, say referring to old versions, the company name, their zodiac sign, whatever, as they are not expected to be read by users.)
Also, to do that and create a correct reg file for every application would be a lot more tedious than just using their own settings menu.
But it might be useful in some cases. I have used this to move applications beween PCs and cloning settings.
You're assuming what O is turning our country into resembles anything like Capitalism. Just like Soviet Russia, we're moving towards Socialism.
Obama might seem like a "socialist" by comparison with the neocons there before, but in no other country in the world would the US Democratic Party be described as "socialist".
Just wait till the consumer finds out it was their illustrious elected officials that made them try to download a browser via command line FTP.
Of course not. The OEMS will bundle a browser. They have no problem including a lot of crapware already. (Mostly "trials" of all kinds of useless garbage.) Sadly, most will probably just bundle IE, but at least some might include Firefox or Opera.
There was really no reason for them not to be able to bundle their own software in their own OS. Why isn't Apple being told not to include Safari and iTunes and iCal and iWhateverthefuck in their OS?
Of course there's "no reason". The EU just Hates Freedom.
Or perhaps it's because Microsoft has a monopoly on desktop OSes. Similarly, Apple has a monopoly on downloaded music services. And so Apple has been ordered to open up iTunes in France, at least. Not Zune, because in that market, MS is not a monopoly.
If Microsoft were a sole proprietorship and I was the sole proprietor, I would certainly tell the EU to fuck off
Sure you would. And write off billions of dollars in annual sales. I suppose you say "sole proprietorship" because if it was a public company you'd be sued by the shareholders for doing such a boneheaded thing.
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Or you could RTFA yourself: "Optus refused to comment".
It wasn't dead when they started beating it. Should MS be rewarded for using obstructive delaying tactics that have taken the best part of a decade?
Resale of something you got free, ie. radio-copied mixtapes, bootleg cd/dvds, hosting files on a private pay access ftp, etc.
Yeah, there are HUGE profits from selling radio copied mix tapes. (Especially if you use the new 8-track format.)
Really, these are things you literally couldn't give away. Anyone who wants these and isn't fussed about copyright has no problem downloading it himself, or swapping with a friend.
That was (one of the many) plot holes in Die Hard 4.0. The Super Villain hires a bunch of l33t haxx0rs to create exploits for every important utilty, bank, telecom, etc. And they all finish them on time, on the same day. And they all work flawlessly, the first time.
He doesn't need to break the banks to become a billionaire if he can do that.
Of course not "30 different copies of a spreadsheet". That would be idiotic. It was never stated how or why this data would be used, I just assumed records for accounting purposes. If it needed to be interactive, it's another ball game.
And if you're a database programmer, you wouldn't even be asking the question, you'd just code it in 10 minutes.
A couple of years ago Slashdot was bearable, especially as I could turn it to the "low tech" preference, which has now disappeared, and that even let me see it in my default font and not the sans font I do now. Now I have a later browser, twice as much RAM, and the site is dropping lower and lower in my favorite list, not just because of the dumb stories, but because when there is a good story it takes SO FUCKING LONG to open a comment page. Sometime I just skim the front page, check any interesting links, and avoid the tarpit of the comment pages.
Not that I have any love of Excel, but it's ubiquitous and easy to throw a small table of data like this in and get it out if you need it.
No, you're not.
Anyway I bow out here, having said my piece.
So I asked what are these PRODUCTIVITY GAINS. You are talking about something else entirely.
It should be.
You keep equating cost and benefit. That's not a given. Particularly, the cost to the cell phone user (almost zero) is nothing to do with the cost to the family of the person they kill, which will be met by the family, or the government or an insurance company (same thing these days).
You still fail to say what are the economic benefits. "Willingness to pay" is another thing entirely. Anyway, they don't pay anythng extra to use their cell in a car, so this is specious. People rarely factor in the costs of being involved in an accident, they just believe they are smarter and better drivers than everyone else.
Not worth the hassle of implementing some high tech solution. The data sound like stuff that changes rarely if ever, stuff you need for accounting reports or such once a year, not stuff you need on a moment's notice. So I'd just use:
Loose leaf binder.
Text file.
Or, if I could be bothered, Excel worksheet.
That's the COST. What are the BENEFITS? And those killing people negligently because of using cell phones are not going to come up with the 5 million. It's society as a whole that will pay the bills.
Not rational at all. People are very poor at assessing risk. More importantly, the risks are not only to the person using the phone. They KILL OTHER PEOPLE. They run over pedestrians. They go through red lights. For the same reason (and this is a very close analogy) we don't allow people to drive drunk, even though drunk drivers are quite willing to accept the risk to themselves.
What "productivity gains"? You speak as if you have quantified it. What economic value do mobile phone calls have? The great majority are just socialising.
"Unreplaceable" is not a new word (like , say "blogosphere"), that expresses a new idea and will take a while to be documented properly. It is just a mistaken generalisation of a rule.
First you talk about logic, now you talk about usage. By usage, "irreplaceable" is clearly the preferred form.
Dictionaries base their usage data on much broader sources than that.
The Words that make it into the dictionary are not brand new word made up by some language committee but words that are already in the culture.
Of course. And no "committee" made "irreplaceable" in preference to "unreplaceable". It was the "culture". You have it exactly backwards.
Go ahead and make up your own rules. Good luck with communicating with the rest of us. People will probably guess what you mean (e.g., I suppose "logical scene" meant "logical sense"), but people will assume you're uneducated, though probably won't actually say so to your face. If your job involves language or communication, this could be a problem.
Well, I do, which is I why I commented. If I replied to every topic I didn't care about to say so, I would be very busy.
Is "unreplaceable" even a word? Try "irreplaceable".
What them hell? The link for "losing one's lights and refrigerator" has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS. It's about a woman who through an account screw up of a previous tenant could not get her power connected. This kind of thing has been happening for about a century.
As for "loss of privacy"? The idea is that the power company signals your system when the power is cheaper. They know how much power you're using (as again, they have for the last century), but not what you're doing with it.
For the last 40 years or so my father has had an off-peak hot water heater. It switches on late at nigh, heats up the insulated water tank. Saves him money, smooths out the demand. No one has to run around to "optimize household energy usage". Set and forget.
This article is, as usual for kdawson, a load of sensationalist crap.
Magna Carta, 1215.
English Civil War, 1641.
Yes, I've done that. But doing it between different versions of Windows is not such a great idea, for the reasons mentioned. (Though it's not actually easy to determine exactly which registry branch(es) are associated with an application, and which affect multiple apps. Especially when the makers use cryptic names, say referring to old versions, the company name, their zodiac sign, whatever, as they are not expected to be read by users.)
Also, to do that and create a correct reg file for every application would be a lot more tedious than just using their own settings menu.
But it might be useful in some cases. I have used this to move applications beween PCs and cloning settings.
Obama might seem like a "socialist" by comparison with the neocons there before, but in no other country in the world would the US Democratic Party be described as "socialist".
Of course not. The OEMS will bundle a browser. They have no problem including a lot of crapware already. (Mostly "trials" of all kinds of useless garbage.) Sadly, most will probably just bundle IE, but at least some might include Firefox or Opera.
Of course there's "no reason". The EU just Hates Freedom.
Or perhaps it's because Microsoft has a monopoly on desktop OSes. Similarly, Apple has a monopoly on downloaded music services. And so Apple has been ordered to open up iTunes in France, at least. Not Zune, because in that market, MS is not a monopoly.
If Microsoft were a sole proprietorship and I was the sole proprietor, I would certainly tell the EU to fuck off
Sure you would. And write off billions of dollars in annual sales. I suppose you say "sole proprietorship" because if it was a public company you'd be sued by the shareholders for doing such a boneheaded thing.