The issue isn't whether or not it's POSSIBLE to keep the same block of IPs when you switch ISPs. It is possible.
It's also a major pain in the ass, confuses everybody, ans serves no purpose. Not to mention that BOTH ISPs would have to cooperate to make the routing work, which is unlikely.
Anyway, if by some miracle this guy wins his lawsuit and gets to keep his IPs, I hope he's prepared for some giant fucking charges (and long, long delays) from the ISPs involved as they jump through hoops for his dumb ass.
Being able to evenly divide things into thirds and/or fourths is VERY handy in Real Life.
Especially construction.
The metric system is great when you need to do serious number-crunching on your measurements, but for day-to-day use, Imperial measurements are handier.
There's nothing stopping you from keeping your original Xbox when the Xbox 2 comes out.
Use that to play your old games.
The Xbox isn't a Playstation. There aren't that many games, really (and only about 20 or so are GOOD), and backwards comptability isn't going to really expand it's game library that much.
My feeling about backwards comptability is this: If it costs almost nothing to add to the console (which was the case with the PS2), then great. But if it's going to take major re-engineering that will drive the price up...
Well, if the price is going to go up, I'd rather have it be because the console is being made more powerful. Not because of backwards compatability hacks.
Yahoo! and Hotmail should be the FIRST services to go to "verified" email. They have so many users, everyone else would be forced to upgrade their mail servers so they could send mail to them.
Personally, I think the solution isn't JUST encryption. What you need on top of that is some sort of registry for mail servers. You would need to prove that you have your stuff configured correctly, and that you are legit, before you could send mail to anyone. Once you proved that, your servers would go into the database. Much like DNS, actually.
Yes, there would probably be fees involved. Yes, that would keep people from running their own mailservers out of their home. But so what? Very few people actually need to run their own mailserver. Most of the people that are doing it now are doing it so they can filter/stop spam using better methods than their ISP.
They're not EVIL, but of all the big blacklists, SpamCop is the least regulated. The whole idea of letting people submit addresses/domains to a blacklist with little or no verification is crazy.
I'd be happier if Spamhaus was doing this debate. They run things the right way.
A "standard gaming platform" would be nice for consumers, definitely.
But it would be DEATH for Sony's Playstation brand, and it would just about kill Nintendo, also.
Don't forget that the ONLY reason that Sony and Nintendo still make consoles is because they then get to charge licensing fees to EVERY game developer for EVERY game sold. That's where they make their money. Sony in particular, since they don't have the huge-selling first-party titles that Nintendo does.
So, if XNA took off, Sony would have to rely on sales of Sony-developed games for revenue. Sony is not known for their in-house games to any large degree.
Nintendo could almost get away with being nothing but a software company, but if XNA started moving to portables and tapping into their Gameboy sales, they would be in bad, bad shape.
Basically, XNA is a great idea that the Big Boys will never, ever allow. Though an argument could be made that Microsoft is the biggest boy of all, and with enough will (they've got enough money) could make it happen, regardless.
If you want the town to have their very own dedicated TV/phone/data services, that means that you're going to have to provide them.
In other words, you're going to have to start some kind of local utility company to handle all that. It won't be cheap, or easy. And, it won't be profitable, with only 30 subscribers.
In other words, don't build ANYTHING. Let everyone buy their services from the big, mean national companies that can afford it.
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I worked for a school district for a year, doing computer support.
Computers are good for writing papers. And the Internet is good (sort of) for research.
For general "learnin'"? No. If you want to learn about COMPUTERS, then yeah, they're great.
But most educational software is nothing more than an elaborate set of flash cards.
Nintendo and their Gameboys have stayed on top for 2 reasons: lots of games, and long battery life.
None of the other competitors in handhelds have had these 2 things. Yes, there have been more powerful handhelds. But they didn't have games, or the battery-life sucked.
Sony will have the games, no doubt. And from what I've read about the PSP, they'll have good battery-life, too. Not to mention really, really powerful hardware (for a handheld). So Nintendo may be in for a battle.
As far as Nintendo and their flagship titles/characters- Does anyone really care about Mario or Zelda or Pokemon anymore? They're good games, but I think burnout has really set-in for most gamers when it comes to the Nintendo brands.
That said, I love my GBA. Best system Nintendo has had since the original NES, if you ask me.
A coffee shop (or any business, or private party) can't just hook up a cablemodem and resell their bandwidth. Their ISP would have a fucking FIT. It's against their Terms of Service.
Generally, you don't get to resell your cablemodem bandwidth. You might be able to work out a deal with your ISP, but you'll definitely be paying more than $70.
Corporations have teams of lawyers working for them on a full-time basis. They'll just say that they're "legal costs" were next to nothing, since their lawyers are salaried employees who were going to get payed anyway.
Hell, I imagine ALL lawyers would do something similar if a "loser pays" law was put into effect. They'd just find some loophole to change the definition of a "legal fee", and we'd be back to square one.
Are you implying that lowering taxes will create more jobs? That corporations will say "Gee, we're paying less taxes...let's take that money and hire more people!".
Because that's not what they do. At all. Lower taxes for corporations means more profits for them. Not more jobs for anybody.
So, yeah, while I agree that our tax dollars are being wasted, lowering taxes won't help anybody. There will be just as many poor people, and the government programs they use won't have the tax dollars to help them.
Fucking Republicans and their "By making the rich richer, we help EVERYBODY" philosophy.
Yeah, you can backup your games. But unless you are perishingly honest, you won't. You'll rent games, make copies.
On the X-Box, it's even easier, if you've added a bigger hard drive along with the modchip. You just rip the game to the hard drive.
Now, as to the question of how this hurts game sales- let me put it this way:
The only people I know that have modded consoles are myself, and 2 friends who learned how to do it from me.
NO ONE owns modded consoles. At least, it's a statistically insignificant number. It doesn't hurt sales. What hurts sales is the fact that you'd have to be crazy to pay $50 for a game when you can rent it for $6 and finish it in a few days.
People like their space, in the U.S. especially. And we have LOTS of space left. Things are just going to get more and more spread out.
In fact, any kind of revolution in transportation increases this effect. Imagine if we had working teleportation- people could live anywhere they wanted to (well, that had basic utilities). The population of the world would be completely spread out.
p.s.- read Alfred Bester's SF novel "The Stars My Destination", where teleportation and it's effects on society is a major theme. And, it happens to be arguably the best SF novel ever.
They've always done this. They pick one benchmark in which their high-end Mac beats a high-end Dell that costs half as much...
Then it's in all their ads that Macs are faster than PCs.
Which is amusing, because even a $500 eMachine is subjectively faster than the fastest Mac. The GUI is more responsive, web browsing is faster...
The PowerPC is a great processor, but it's hampered by the ridiculously slow GUI of OS X.
The reason they never go back to IE is because they DON'T CARE WHAT BROWSER THEY ARE USING as long as it works.
Which is the same reason everyone uses IE, and why it will remain the market leader indefinitely.
The differences between the browsers are mostly academic to the end user, and in real-life, IE is the most compatible, since everyone has to design to it in one way or another.
I don't know if I would make such a blanket statement about the insecurity of eBay and PayPal.
The people that have been scammed, for the most part, are people that were expecting to get something for (next to) nothing.
A little common sense goes a long way on eBay. Unfortunately, most people have none, especially when a deal "looks too good to be true".
It's really the same kind of gullibility that keeps spammers in business. For some reason, people think that if it's "on the Internet", it's automatically legitimate. When, in fact, the exact opposite is true much of the time.
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The issue isn't whether or not it's POSSIBLE to keep the same block of IPs when you switch ISPs. It is possible.
It's also a major pain in the ass, confuses everybody, ans serves no purpose. Not to mention that BOTH ISPs would have to cooperate to make the routing work, which is unlikely.
Anyway, if by some miracle this guy wins his lawsuit and gets to keep his IPs, I hope he's prepared for some giant fucking charges (and long, long delays) from the ISPs involved as they jump through hoops for his dumb ass.
Exactly.
Being able to evenly divide things into thirds and/or fourths is VERY handy in Real Life.
Especially construction.
The metric system is great when you need to do serious number-crunching on your measurements, but for day-to-day use, Imperial measurements are handier.
There's nothing stopping you from keeping your original Xbox when the Xbox 2 comes out.
Use that to play your old games.
The Xbox isn't a Playstation. There aren't that many games, really (and only about 20 or so are GOOD), and backwards comptability isn't going to really expand it's game library that much.
My feeling about backwards comptability is this: If it costs almost nothing to add to the console (which was the case with the PS2), then great. But if it's going to take major re-engineering that will drive the price up...
Well, if the price is going to go up, I'd rather have it be because the console is being made more powerful. Not because of backwards compatability hacks.
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The open ports, yeah
If they have to un-bundle it, they'll probably just dump it. Sell the DSL business off to some other company.
Contrary to popular belief, DSL service isn't very profitable compated to phone/long-distance. That's why they bundled it in the first place.
Actually, you've got it backwards:
Yahoo! and Hotmail should be the FIRST services to go to "verified" email. They have so many users, everyone else would be forced to upgrade their mail servers so they could send mail to them.
Personally, I think the solution isn't JUST encryption. What you need on top of that is some sort of registry for mail servers. You would need to prove that you have your stuff configured correctly, and that you are legit, before you could send mail to anyone. Once you proved that, your servers would go into the database. Much like DNS, actually.
Yes, there would probably be fees involved. Yes, that would keep people from running their own mailservers out of their home. But so what? Very few people actually need to run their own mailserver. Most of the people that are doing it now are doing it so they can filter/stop spam using better methods than their ISP.
FYI, I got your acronym joke. That was the point of my post.
Did you RTFA? Spreading your BS around here is not OK. So STFU.
Mod this guy OT.
They're not EVIL, but of all the big blacklists, SpamCop is the least regulated. The whole idea of letting people submit addresses/domains to a blacklist with little or no verification is crazy.
I'd be happier if Spamhaus was doing this debate. They run things the right way.
A "standard gaming platform" would be nice for consumers, definitely.
But it would be DEATH for Sony's Playstation brand, and it would just about kill Nintendo, also.
Don't forget that the ONLY reason that Sony and Nintendo still make consoles is because they then get to charge licensing fees to EVERY game developer for EVERY game sold. That's where they make their money. Sony in particular, since they don't have the huge-selling first-party titles that Nintendo does.
So, if XNA took off, Sony would have to rely on sales of Sony-developed games for revenue. Sony is not known for their in-house games to any large degree.
Nintendo could almost get away with being nothing but a software company, but if XNA started moving to portables and tapping into their Gameboy sales, they would be in bad, bad shape.
Basically, XNA is a great idea that the Big Boys will never, ever allow. Though an argument could be made that Microsoft is the biggest boy of all, and with enough will (they've got enough money) could make it happen, regardless.
If you want the town to have their very own dedicated TV/phone/data services, that means that you're going to have to provide them.
In other words, you're going to have to start some kind of local utility company to handle all that. It won't be cheap, or easy. And, it won't be profitable, with only 30 subscribers.
In other words, don't build ANYTHING. Let everyone buy their services from the big, mean national companies that can afford it.
I worked for a school district for a year, doing computer support. Computers are good for writing papers. And the Internet is good (sort of) for research. For general "learnin'"? No. If you want to learn about COMPUTERS, then yeah, they're great. But most educational software is nothing more than an elaborate set of flash cards.
Nintendo and their Gameboys have stayed on top for 2 reasons: lots of games, and long battery life.
None of the other competitors in handhelds have had these 2 things. Yes, there have been more powerful handhelds. But they didn't have games, or the battery-life sucked.
Sony will have the games, no doubt. And from what I've read about the PSP, they'll have good battery-life, too. Not to mention really, really powerful hardware (for a handheld). So Nintendo may be in for a battle.
As far as Nintendo and their flagship titles/characters- Does anyone really care about Mario or Zelda or Pokemon anymore? They're good games, but I think burnout has really set-in for most gamers when it comes to the Nintendo brands.
That said, I love my GBA. Best system Nintendo has had since the original NES, if you ask me.
A coffee shop (or any business, or private party) can't just hook up a cablemodem and resell their bandwidth. Their ISP would have a fucking FIT. It's against their Terms of Service.
Generally, you don't get to resell your cablemodem bandwidth. You might be able to work out a deal with your ISP, but you'll definitely be paying more than $70.
Look, Valenti is a fucker. No doubt about that.
But jumping on him because there's no licensed DVD player for Linux? How is that his fault?
Yes, it sucks that to play DVDs, you have to buy a license. But...so?
There are no licensed DVD players for Linux because no one wants to (or needs to, or would) pay for one. End of story.
Jesus. Someone finally gets a chance to grill Valenti and they blow it.
Still won't work.
Corporations have teams of lawyers working for them on a full-time basis. They'll just say that they're "legal costs" were next to nothing, since their lawyers are salaried employees who were going to get payed anyway.
Hell, I imagine ALL lawyers would do something similar if a "loser pays" law was put into effect. They'd just find some loophole to change the definition of a "legal fee", and we'd be back to square one.
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That was the final episode of the series.
And it really kind of sucked. I'm suprised it got nominated.
Are you implying that lowering taxes will create more jobs? That corporations will say "Gee, we're paying less taxes...let's take that money and hire more people!".
Because that's not what they do. At all. Lower taxes for corporations means more profits for them. Not more jobs for anybody.
So, yeah, while I agree that our tax dollars are being wasted, lowering taxes won't help anybody. There will be just as many poor people, and the government programs they use won't have the tax dollars to help them.
Fucking Republicans and their "By making the rich richer, we help EVERYBODY" philosophy.
Because it doesn't.
No one *has* to use Windows. There are many other operating systems, running on many different kinds of hardware.
Simply being the market leader because doesn't make you a monopolizer.
Yeah, you can backup your games. But unless you are perishingly honest, you won't. You'll rent games, make copies.
On the X-Box, it's even easier, if you've added a bigger hard drive along with the modchip. You just rip the game to the hard drive.
Now, as to the question of how this hurts game sales- let me put it this way:
The only people I know that have modded consoles are myself, and 2 friends who learned how to do it from me.
NO ONE owns modded consoles. At least, it's a statistically insignificant number. It doesn't hurt sales. What hurts sales is the fact that you'd have to be crazy to pay $50 for a game when you can rent it for $6 and finish it in a few days.
Urban sprawl isn't a technological problem.
People like their space, in the U.S. especially. And we have LOTS of space left. Things are just going to get more and more spread out.
In fact, any kind of revolution in transportation increases this effect. Imagine if we had working teleportation- people could live anywhere they wanted to (well, that had basic utilities). The population of the world would be completely spread out.
p.s.- read Alfred Bester's SF novel "The Stars My Destination", where teleportation and it's effects on society is a major theme. And, it happens to be arguably the best SF novel ever.
They've always done this. They pick one benchmark in which their high-end Mac beats a high-end Dell that costs half as much... Then it's in all their ads that Macs are faster than PCs. Which is amusing, because even a $500 eMachine is subjectively faster than the fastest Mac. The GUI is more responsive, web browsing is faster... The PowerPC is a great processor, but it's hampered by the ridiculously slow GUI of OS X.
The reason they never go back to IE is because they DON'T CARE WHAT BROWSER THEY ARE USING as long as it works.
Which is the same reason everyone uses IE, and why it will remain the market leader indefinitely.
The differences between the browsers are mostly academic to the end user, and in real-life, IE is the most compatible, since everyone has to design to it in one way or another.
I don't know if I would make such a blanket statement about the insecurity of eBay and PayPal.
The people that have been scammed, for the most part, are people that were expecting to get something for (next to) nothing.
A little common sense goes a long way on eBay. Unfortunately, most people have none, especially when a deal "looks too good to be true".
It's really the same kind of gullibility that keeps spammers in business. For some reason, people think that if it's "on the Internet", it's automatically legitimate. When, in fact, the exact opposite is true much of the time.