Not exactly. They will fight a good fight, and fail on their first attempt,
but learn from their mistakes. They will fail again on their second attempt,
but learn from their mistakes. They will be about equal on their third attempt and continue to work on improving. By the forth attempt, they surpass the competition and beat them at their own game.
At least, that's how they've operated in the past.
Okay, but what kinds of programs would you need to write that require intimate
knowledge of the protocol that handles your OS' particular flavor of network
shares? What I'm looking is for practical uses that a developer would be
interested in or are these just code examples to illustrate how it works under
the hood simply for educational purposes?
No, they wouldn't automatically lower their prices, but they would as soon
as one of their competitors started to steal their business with their lower
prices.
Ah, but that's where your ignorance of supply and demand shines through.
As long as people are willing to pay a premium for a product, no matter how low
it costs, the providers will continue to charge that regardless of the competition.
Unless you believe that prices eventually stabilize in the marketplace to be the
bare minimum that every company can scrape by a profit and any
miscalculation sends the entire market into bankruptcy. Yeah right.
Just like the music industry charges more for CDs than tapes even though they're
cheaper to produce. Cost driven, my ass.
The Internet cannot be run like the local phone company. I'm sure they
would LIKE all data to be bursty (like voice calls) so they can keep
multiplexing tens or hundreds of users on the same pipe. However,
that's NOT how people WANT to use the Internet. Don't like it? Buy
more pipes!
As in any business, you have to balance your input costs vs. the price you
charge for your product. ISP's do NOT use a model where everyone is going to use
their maximum bandwidth at all times. If they did then the cost would go up
quite a bit.
Baloney. Prices are only partially based on the costs. Prices are
more directly linked with demand and unbiased competition. Who decided
that ISPs should make a certain percentage profits while other business work on
much larger and smaller margins? The reason we pay what we do for
broadband is because that's what the market will bear. If ISPs discovered
a way to cut their costs by 10%, do you honestly think they're going to pass
that savings on to you? Hell no.
Could someone please explain what kind of code examples the book covers? I thought the whole point of modern OSes was to "abstract" everything for the user, including the method of networking.
The days of PC specific titles are gone. With three, count 'em, three home consoles out there, any game that can't be ported (and be profitable) to at least one of the home consoles is gonna be canned. Yeah, you probably could use a controller to play a graphic adventure instead of a mouse, but I'm sure it would get tedious after a while.
While Napster is far behind RealNetworks' Rhapsody service, AOL's MusicNet, and others, it's taking the lead again in the old Napster's stomping ground: college campuses.
Wow! I never knew there were so many ways to use your hard earned money to buy poorly encoded music. BTW, are the college campuses they speak of from the days of the free and illegal Napster or the new and legit one?
Where the heck does this huge disparity in the price quoted in these kinds of articles come from? What part of the network is doing the gouging? Or is it really just an unspoken agreement between the phone companies (DSL) and cable companies to charge what they do?
Alan Moore is probably best known as the writer of some of the best
graphic novels of all time - Watchmen, From Hell, and The
League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, to name but three.
Finally. A review that doesn't assume we're all super sci-fi geeks and
explains who the person is and why we should care about them.
Now that's a good idea. On top of that, they already have spy cams and engine monitors in those vehicles put there by the employers to monitor their drivers anyway.
This is going to be installed in municipal vehicles and police cars, not your vehicle. Relax everyone.
Good luck figuring out traffic patterns by putting this in police cars. The police by me are either sitting by the side of the road looking for speeders and HOV lane violators, or they're cutting through traffic in the disabled vehicle lane.
Wrong. There are newer hacks that implement LBA48 so 300GB and above drives are possible. With a mod chip, the additional partitions are used to store games copied from DVD or homebrew apps. The XBOX running with the mod chip turned off doesn't see the additional partitions used to store the copied games and apps, so as far as it's concerned, it still a 8 GB drive.
If it qualifies as parody, then it can't be libelous. Perhaps the person who created will say, "I only sent that to a couple of friends. I never meant it to get out." Yadda yadda.
If the "culprit" is caught, I could understand him being sued for libel. However, all that aside, isn't this a derivative work protected under the Fair Use clause? The perp could say "I was making a politcal parody like those pcitures of Bush next to Saddam or Osama." Didn't we already have a Surpreme Court ruling about this kind of stuff thanks to Larry Flynt?
Yeah, but it subtitled in Chinese and it's very low quality.
I rememeber this from...
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Donald in Mathmagic Land. It was a great little video Disney produced back in 1959 with Donald Duck. The narrator goes off the topic at times, but the overall animated descriptions of the golden ratio and its related golden values were awesome. Unfortunately, this Disney short is not available on VHS or DVD currently. Look to eBay to find a long lost copy of it.
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Not exactly. They will fight a good fight, and fail on their first attempt, but learn from their mistakes. They will fail again on their second attempt, but learn from their mistakes. They will be about equal on their third attempt and continue to work on improving. By the forth attempt, they surpass the competition and beat them at their own game.
At least, that's how they've operated in the past.
So in other words, hardly anyone.
No kidding. So what kinds of programs would a developer need to use these code snippets for?
Okay, but what kinds of programs would you need to write that require intimate knowledge of the protocol that handles your OS' particular flavor of network shares? What I'm looking is for practical uses that a developer would be interested in or are these just code examples to illustrate how it works under the hood simply for educational purposes?
No, they wouldn't automatically lower their prices, but they would as soon as one of their competitors started to steal their business with their lower prices.
Ah, but that's where your ignorance of supply and demand shines through. As long as people are willing to pay a premium for a product, no matter how low it costs, the providers will continue to charge that regardless of the competition. Unless you believe that prices eventually stabilize in the marketplace to be the bare minimum that every company can scrape by a profit and any miscalculation sends the entire market into bankruptcy. Yeah right. Just like the music industry charges more for CDs than tapes even though they're cheaper to produce. Cost driven, my ass.
The Internet cannot be run like the local phone company. I'm sure they would LIKE all data to be bursty (like voice calls) so they can keep multiplexing tens or hundreds of users on the same pipe. However, that's NOT how people WANT to use the Internet. Don't like it? Buy more pipes!
As in any business, you have to balance your input costs vs. the price you charge for your product. ISP's do NOT use a model where everyone is going to use their maximum bandwidth at all times. If they did then the cost would go up quite a bit.
Baloney. Prices are only partially based on the costs. Prices are more directly linked with demand and unbiased competition. Who decided that ISPs should make a certain percentage profits while other business work on much larger and smaller margins? The reason we pay what we do for broadband is because that's what the market will bear. If ISPs discovered a way to cut their costs by 10%, do you honestly think they're going to pass that savings on to you? Hell no.
Could someone please explain what kind of code examples the book covers? I thought the whole point of modern OSes was to "abstract" everything for the user, including the method of networking.
The days of PC specific titles are gone. With three, count 'em, three home consoles out there, any game that can't be ported (and be profitable) to at least one of the home consoles is gonna be canned. Yeah, you probably could use a controller to play a graphic adventure instead of a mouse, but I'm sure it would get tedious after a while.
Don't you remember the plot to the third installment? The Mr. Fusion worked, but they were out of gasoline.
While Napster is far behind RealNetworks' Rhapsody service, AOL's MusicNet, and others, it's taking the lead again in the old Napster's stomping ground: college campuses.
Wow! I never knew there were so many ways to use your hard earned money to buy poorly encoded music. BTW, are the college campuses they speak of from the days of the free and illegal Napster or the new and legit one?
I think it's in the same passage when Jesus denounced same-sex marriages:
And lo, union between a man and another man or woman and another woman shall yield a union as lifeless as Mars.
Bob 3:16
No need to go to mars. Just get the water from the polar icecaps. In fact, there are companies who do this already.
Where the heck does this huge disparity in the price quoted in these kinds of articles come from? What part of the network is doing the gouging? Or is it really just an unspoken agreement between the phone companies (DSL) and cable companies to charge what they do?
Alan Moore is probably best known as the writer of some of the best graphic novels of all time - Watchmen, From Hell, and The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, to name but three.
Finally. A review that doesn't assume we're all super sci-fi geeks and explains who the person is and why we should care about them.
Now that's a good idea. On top of that, they already have spy cams and engine monitors in those vehicles put there by the employers to monitor their drivers anyway.
This is going to be installed in municipal vehicles and police cars, not your vehicle. Relax everyone.
Good luck figuring out traffic patterns by putting this in police cars. The police by me are either sitting by the side of the road looking for speeders and HOV lane violators, or they're cutting through traffic in the disabled vehicle lane.
Other than a remake of Robotron, what other games did he make? I can't find any references in the article.
Wrong. There are newer hacks that implement LBA48 so 300GB and above drives are possible. With a mod chip, the additional partitions are used to store games copied from DVD or homebrew apps. The XBOX running with the mod chip turned off doesn't see the additional partitions used to store the copied games and apps, so as far as it's concerned, it still a 8 GB drive.
If it qualifies as parody, then it can't be libelous. Perhaps the person who created will say, "I only sent that to a couple of friends. I never meant it to get out." Yadda yadda.
If the "culprit" is caught, I could understand him being sued for libel. However, all that aside, isn't this a derivative work protected under the Fair Use clause? The perp could say "I was making a politcal parody like those pcitures of Bush next to Saddam or Osama." Didn't we already have a Surpreme Court ruling about this kind of stuff thanks to Larry Flynt?
Yeah, but it subtitled in Chinese and it's very low quality.
Donald in Mathmagic Land. It was a great little video Disney produced back in 1959 with Donald Duck. The narrator goes off the topic at times, but the overall animated descriptions of the golden ratio and its related golden values were awesome. Unfortunately, this Disney short is not available on VHS or DVD currently. Look to eBay to find a long lost copy of it.
Wow! You've got a ton of porn on there!
Remote desktop on Linux? Uh, sure.
kay, give us the IP address of your BSD box while I patch my Linux kernel.