Not to mention Steam already exists for Android and it could run on Ouya (Android console). At this point the development environments that exist for Android are probably as rich or richer than what is out there specifically for Linux and Android is hardly slowing down.
Well Oracle is suing Google, and Paul Allen is suing everyone, even Apple, who is suing HTC who is suing etc....
I can't imagine where he would get that crazy idea.
It is the quantity of the iPod killers that counts you know. I am not an apple fanboi but I think displacing the iPad is going to be a pretty difficult task.
>>there are parts of the Backbone that are oversold, and it would be physically impossible for every customer to use 100% of the bandwidth at one time and get the speed they were advertised.
>Then that is the problem than needs fixing, not these "abusers".
Your position on this is uninformed. It is actually possible to build a system that would meet 100% of the user demands 100% of the time, it would just cost exponentially more than you are currently paying. Transit bandwidth typically costs ISP's $15-$20 per meg at peak time every month, the difference is they pay based on actual usage rather than potential capacity. If you have 7 meg of capacity and use it at peak time, your ISP pays a transit provider $100-$140 for you that month, not counting their own people and infrastructure required to bring it to the last mile. The system is literally built on the idea that not everyone is using it 100% of the time.
There is an old formula that says even during peak usage, only about 10% of an ISP's customer base is using their connections at the same time. This is how the system works. When you automate the process of using your 100% of your bandwidth, the company loses money on you with the idea that the other users will help make up the difference to pay for some of your bill. It is for lack of a better term, a form of socialism.
It works when a few people are hogging more than is profitable, but as more and more people find youtube, netflix, hulu, and bittorrent etc., the system is forced to raise costs for everyone or collapse on itself.
With that said, the system is designed to support peak usage, when you torrent during peak usage times it is a greater burden then when you do it on off hours and there is capacity to spare.
Their reason for cutting your access sooner than you expected may have been because they are bitter about you leaving or they are concerned that your new position may be a conflict of interest. They could be concerned that you will be mirroring some of the solutions they have in place (scripts, configurations etc.) and bringing them over to the new company.
I say rather than debate with them over the decision, that you do the best you can do for training the other people without access. If they end up face down in the dirt the minute you walk out the door, that was their decision, not yours.
If they call you after you start your new job charge them a consulting fee lol.
While I concede that few in the U.S subscribe wholesale to the theory of evolution, I am not entirely convinced this is due to lack of intellect. I think humans are driven by a handful of psychological conditions that we do not necessarily see as being scientific or rational. People seem to have a fundamental need to feel important, they want the universe to revolve around the earth, they want the (flat) world to exist for sole reason of serving them. People don't want to think that after their life is over, it is "over", so they find comfort in religion. Faith > Logic.
"Us and them" mentality causes people constantly group themselves and others so they can paint them as "bad guy", but this may have been a trait that caused them to survive evolution (or a trait that killed off the free thinkers for being one of "them"). As an intelligent free thinker yourself, you have used your numbers to cast 85% of the US population into a group of people you are better than, and this makes you feel better about yourself.
I know he did not make the claim, I never said he did. Call it poor journalism on the part of the Slashdot submitter.
A for the invention itself, with reservation I'll say I am not that impressed by it. Many of these systems use magnets to achieve their motion (I described a similar concept to my 6th grade science teacher), but how much energy was used to polarize the magnets before setting up the experiment?
Every single device that has ever claimed perpetual motion has been discredited. Many have improved efficiency yes, but why even report "perpetual motion" machines as news unless they have already been tested and determined to be such?
Another reason (there were multiple) may be that they would prefer to move customers to other (Linux based) solutions and ensure OS/2 die a proper death. Perhaps they fear that making OS/2 OSS would also help keep it alive for longer than they want it to be.
Although you do have a good point, I think there is something to be said for working with the nuts and bolts of a language also. When you work with a high level language, you spend a great deal of time interfacing with this or that graphics library that may or may not be obsolete in the next version but certainly will be in the next language. When you look at it from this perspective, working with a high level language that abstracts many important concepts can have a negative impact on education.
It depends who you want to "share" with. You decided to "share" your house so that your girlfriend could use it, but as of right now the share permission you set on your house means all people you have communicated with now have the same access she does to it. Remember that homeless guy you emailed "No"?
I see that your web page gives your name, bio, blog, the company you work for, your linkedin profile etc. This gives some insight on your position, but there are those of us out there that prefer to have some privacy and would prefer this be an individual choice rather than the choice of a 3rd party company. I am your basic Google fanboy, but I still believe they have an obligation to be responsible with peoples data.
And this would be fine if the feature was always this way, but if they are going to change the behavior of the feature to be public to anyone you have had contact with, they should at least give you some warning about it in advance.
Providing instructions to reproduce the problem is not something unique to just fixing software. You take your car to the dealer and say it is making a noise when I ????. The dealer will drive it around for a couple blocks and if they don't hear the noise you are talking about, they do nothing about it. Instructions to reproduce = bug reporting 101.
Many people don't like Opera because the UI was really cluttered back when FF 0.9 really started to become popular. Opera has made some huge improvements since then, but most people don't have the patience to go back and give it a second look.
It is valid though. Current routing protocols mostly calculate the best path, then send 100% of traffic over the best path even if it is congested and there is another unused path. Traffic is only shared when the paths are equal in cost, but if you have 1.3 gig or traffic destined to be sent over a 1 gig link, sending some of the traffic over a second 500 meg link, or sending it through a longer 2 hop path is better than the current practice of dumping the full 1.3 gig onto the gig link. Right now if one link has a cost/metric of 99999 and the other one has a metric of 99998, the one with a metric of 99998 is selected 100% of the time.
Good point, I couldn't afford to donate to every project I use, but I do try to give $10 here and $20 there to the projects that I think are useful. I call it "microfunding".
Laughingsquid posted an update. Best Buy Apologized for the C&D.
It isn't like BB sent it in error though, here is a quote from Laughingsquid's original C&D post:
"One thing I wanted to mention is that before posting this C & D letter, I called the Best Buy attorney who sent it to confirm that they really meant to send it to a blogger who was just reporting on another blog post. They insisted that I was "promoting, not reporting" and that the demand letter was valid."
Neither. If it were a simple problem to solve we wouldn't be talking about it. You can't not arm the police (well not all of them) because they would be out-gunned, and you can't ask armed policemen with 20lbs of gear to go hand to hand 1 on 1 with every idiot that is resisting arrest. There are no cut and dry policies to resolve the situation. There are policies in place now dealing with use of "non lethal" force, but the police are not following them. When someone is pinned down under 6 police officers but is still trying to wiggle around, it does not warrant the use of a tazer.
They also do a great deal of business in the US but I knew before reading the summary that if they are in trouble for it, it is clearly the South Korean government.
In the US bribing the government is not illegal and we havea different term for it: lobbying
I tend to be one of the "same game, different graphics" kind of grieffer. It took just one Saturday for me to beat the game, but it was definitely worth renting. It was one of the few games that left me thinking "man I would like to see this on an HDTV". It felt way more real than many other similar games I have played before it. it certainly sets raises the bar. I don't have time to play the game online, but if I did I would probably buy it.
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Not to mention Steam already exists for Android and it could run on Ouya (Android console). At this point the development environments that exist for Android are probably as rich or richer than what is out there specifically for Linux and Android is hardly slowing down.
Well Oracle is suing Google, and Paul Allen is suing everyone, even Apple, who is suing HTC who is suing etc. ...
I can't imagine where he would get that crazy idea.
It is the quantity of the iPod killers that counts you know. I am not an apple fanboi but I think displacing the iPad is going to be a pretty difficult task.
>Then that is the problem than needs fixing, not these "abusers".
Your position on this is uninformed. It is actually possible to build a system that would meet 100% of the user demands 100% of the time, it would just cost exponentially more than you are currently paying. Transit bandwidth typically costs ISP's $15-$20 per meg at peak time every month, the difference is they pay based on actual usage rather than potential capacity. If you have 7 meg of capacity and use it at peak time, your ISP pays a transit provider $100-$140 for you that month, not counting their own people and infrastructure required to bring it to the last mile. The system is literally built on the idea that not everyone is using it 100% of the time.
There is an old formula that says even during peak usage, only about 10% of an ISP's customer base is using their connections at the same time. This is how the system works. When you automate the process of using your 100% of your bandwidth, the company loses money on you with the idea that the other users will help make up the difference to pay for some of your bill. It is for lack of a better term, a form of socialism.
It works when a few people are hogging more than is profitable, but as more and more people find youtube, netflix, hulu, and bittorrent etc., the system is forced to raise costs for everyone or collapse on itself.
With that said, the system is designed to support peak usage, when you torrent during peak usage times it is a greater burden then when you do it on off hours and there is capacity to spare.
I say rather than debate with them over the decision, that you do the best you can do for training the other people without access. If they end up face down in the dirt the minute you walk out the door, that was their decision, not yours.
If they call you after you start your new job charge them a consulting fee lol.
What have terrorists done to fix the U.S. government?
"Us and them" mentality causes people constantly group themselves and others so they can paint them as "bad guy", but this may have been a trait that caused them to survive evolution (or a trait that killed off the free thinkers for being one of "them"). As an intelligent free thinker yourself, you have used your numbers to cast 85% of the US population into a group of people you are better than, and this makes you feel better about yourself.
Me too.
A for the invention itself, with reservation I'll say I am not that impressed by it. Many of these systems use magnets to achieve their motion (I described a similar concept to my 6th grade science teacher), but how much energy was used to polarize the magnets before setting up the experiment?
Every single device that has ever claimed perpetual motion has been discredited. Many have improved efficiency yes, but why even report "perpetual motion" machines as news unless they have already been tested and determined to be such?
In other news, I have no experience in the medical industry, but antibiotics seem much ado about nothing to me.
Another reason (there were multiple) may be that they would prefer to move customers to other (Linux based) solutions and ensure OS/2 die a proper death. Perhaps they fear that making OS/2 OSS would also help keep it alive for longer than they want it to be.
Although you do have a good point, I think there is something to be said for working with the nuts and bolts of a language also. When you work with a high level language, you spend a great deal of time interfacing with this or that graphics library that may or may not be obsolete in the next version but certainly will be in the next language. When you look at it from this perspective, working with a high level language that abstracts many important concepts can have a negative impact on education.
I see that your web page gives your name, bio, blog, the company you work for, your linkedin profile etc. This gives some insight on your position, but there are those of us out there that prefer to have some privacy and would prefer this be an individual choice rather than the choice of a 3rd party company. I am your basic Google fanboy, but I still believe they have an obligation to be responsible with peoples data.
And all of that is offset by the fact that you still can't sort emails into folders.
And this would be fine if the feature was always this way, but if they are going to change the behavior of the feature to be public to anyone you have had contact with, they should at least give you some warning about it in advance.
Providing instructions to reproduce the problem is not something unique to just fixing software. You take your car to the dealer and say it is making a noise when I ????. The dealer will drive it around for a couple blocks and if they don't hear the noise you are talking about, they do nothing about it. Instructions to reproduce = bug reporting 101.
Many people don't like Opera because the UI was really cluttered back when FF 0.9 really started to become popular. Opera has made some huge improvements since then, but most people don't have the patience to go back and give it a second look.
It is valid though. Current routing protocols mostly calculate the best path, then send 100% of traffic over the best path even if it is congested and there is another unused path. Traffic is only shared when the paths are equal in cost, but if you have 1.3 gig or traffic destined to be sent over a 1 gig link, sending some of the traffic over a second 500 meg link, or sending it through a longer 2 hop path is better than the current practice of dumping the full 1.3 gig onto the gig link. Right now if one link has a cost/metric of 99999 and the other one has a metric of 99998, the one with a metric of 99998 is selected 100% of the time.
I didn't realize this sort of IP scalping is even legal.
Good point, I couldn't afford to donate to every project I use, but I do try to give $10 here and $20 there to the projects that I think are useful. I call it "microfunding".
It isn't like BB sent it in error though, here is a quote from Laughingsquid's original C&D post:
"One thing I wanted to mention is that before posting this C & D letter, I called the Best Buy attorney who sent it to confirm that they really meant to send it to a blogger who was just reporting on another blog post. They insisted that I was "promoting, not reporting" and that the demand letter was valid."
Neither. If it were a simple problem to solve we wouldn't be talking about it. You can't not arm the police (well not all of them) because they would be out-gunned, and you can't ask armed policemen with 20lbs of gear to go hand to hand 1 on 1 with every idiot that is resisting arrest. There are no cut and dry policies to resolve the situation. There are policies in place now dealing with use of "non lethal" force, but the police are not following them. When someone is pinned down under 6 police officers but is still trying to wiggle around, it does not warrant the use of a tazer.
Wrestling down a suspect may be easy, but wrestling a suspect and not letting them grab the gun/tazer etc. from your belt might not be as easy.
In the US bribing the government is not illegal and we havea different term for it: lobbying
I tend to be one of the "same game, different graphics" kind of grieffer. It took just one Saturday for me to beat the game, but it was definitely worth renting. It was one of the few games that left me thinking "man I would like to see this on an HDTV". It felt way more real than many other similar games I have played before it. it certainly sets raises the bar. I don't have time to play the game online, but if I did I would probably buy it.