Well, that's a little bit childish when expressed that way, even if the sentiment is true.
They need revenue to pay for the upgrades. The problem is there's no direct correlation between the bandwidth used by a single customer (or even an average aggregate group of customers) and those upgrades.
No one's disputing the fact that these guys need money, it's their desire to bill you for usage which creates a situation that effectively stifles innovation and adoption of new services that's in dispute here.
To your point, though, they are exploiting a monopoly that they've historically had and that, of course, is exactly governments have historically broken up monopolies.
It's not going to change the fact that in virtually every market *except Toronto* you're buying your connection from your phone company or your cable company directly. Toronto seems to be the only city with the critical mass and regulatory structure to allow third party providers to survive and flourish. It hasn't happened here in Vancouver.
You're not expecting the CRTC to have a thorough, comprehensive technical understanding of the industry they're regulating, are you? Seriously: let me know how that works out for you.
Frankly, Usage Based Billing is a secondary concern to Net Neutrality. Every internet service provider in Canada was built on a monopoly granted to them by the Government of the day (literally or in essence) to provide services that can *now* be replaced by online IP based services. They all have a vested interest in retaining those monopolies and the additional bills you incur as a result.
I get my connection from the *only* cable provider in the mega-city I live in. They could easily start throttling streaming video and impede the technical growth of 1.7 million people.
The CRTC seems like not much more than a cabal run by the large telecoms these days. They're supposed to be an advocate FOR CANADIANS not for the businesses. When they start doing that, I'll have hope.
if the people who responded to this actually had some knowledge about the United Kingdom's legal structure.
Probably not going to happen.
In Canada, the Security Guard's case would be dubious. While a shopping mall is private property it's not "private" private property. They could legitimately ask you to leave, but not confiscate your property.
This, of course, has nothing whatsoever to do with the case in the United Kingdom.
Rght..so they designed a port that has multiple charging pins, av in and out data connections for more than one bus and a variety of other features based on "make it this wide and this thin--even though that other port did none of it."
Right...
Sheesh. D people seriously just post random brain matter up here and see what sticks?
Lucas uses the Shakespearean interpretation argument on occasion. I don't buy it: it's not someone else interpreting, it's his senile mind changing.
The problem is people keep buying the damn movies. Remember when Coke changed their formula and what happened then? Yeah: if people stopped buying the releases, the originals would be back.
Bulldog clips that you can buy at Staples or Office Depot are genius for home. Run the cables Turku the wings and clip them somewhere. I use them to manage drive and power cables. Recently did the same for my mother's printer and camera cables and she no longer drops them.
Good support. It seems obvious to me, but anyway....
I had two Movable Type sites hosted at two different companies At the first one suddenly my PHP includes broke. I went back and forth with them for a week with them denying any knowledge or problems, and ended up having to rewrite the includes. No matter how many times I explained to them that I'd made no changes, the answer was the same...
A couple of months later the same thing happened at the second one. Five minutes after emailing support they told me the default on allow_url_include had changed, and they reactivated it for my install.
The difference was astonishing. A one week argument versus a five minute fix.
(Yes, I generally try to avoid URL Includes these days, though I still like them because they make code portable..)
Sure, but that's the whole point...Apple's market share is comparatively small.
Filing an anti-trust suit against your local book store for selling self-published works by local authors wouldn't make any sense; filing one against Chapters/Borders/Amazon might.
I'm not saying that if I were The Steve this is a decision I would have made...but Apple's got no more obligation to provide support for "universal" hardware than any other software vendor.
My iPhone won't run Windows Mobile: is that Microsoft's fault? Just because the Atom's instruction set is substantially similar to a standard Intel CPU doesn't mean supporting it is required.
Really? Bonuses for individual employees that do great work are more important to you than the greater social good that is potentially created by a fair and balanced taxation system? Universal medicare for example?
I'm not opposed to the concept of bonuses, but to argue that they're "more important" than taxes is to ignore any history of benefits that you may have gained or may in the future gain from the common social contract.
There's a reason we organize into political structures, the common good is one of the key ones. When the individual becomes MORE important than the collective you're standing on the precipice of a slippery slope.
There is of course a flip side, but don't give me some bullshit Soviet Union/Cuba/China communism argument. In all of these cases an elite group of individuals *espoused* the importance of the collective good, while simultaneously protecting their own selfish interests.
So...maybe you think your taxes are already fair, but it *seems* like Microsoft is trying to have their cake and eat it too, and Washington state is being left on the hook.
Frankenstein. Alice in Wonderland. The Time Machine. 20,000 Leagues. Neuromancer (a great example of how science fiction is of its moment...Neuromancer has no cell phones, as they were rare and Gibson hadn't imagined them.
I'd include some Phillip K. Dick and a work by Robert Heinlein as well. The former because I like to screw kids up mentally as much as I can, the latter because while I've never liked much Heinlein its place in history is undoubted.
There have been quite a few gutless cars manufactured with standard gasoline engines too. My mother buys Chrysler products, so I'm intimately familiar with this thanks to a steady progression of K-cars, Shadows, Neons, SX 2.0s and finally the pinnacle represented by the Dodge Kaliber.
It's not a Leica lens. It's a Leica *designed* lens. There's a BIG difference there.
Leica lenses are made with better glass.
It's probably not going to make a difference to 99% of people, but the way that Leica's diluted their name is just...well...the name used to mean something. Now it's just a name.
That might be the Greatest Game of All Time but that's the Crappiest Wikipedia Article Ever Written. There's so many typos and grammatical errors, it reads like an article from a Wired blog circa 2008/2009.
It would pay off for sure, but it wouldn't pay off "pretty soon."
I've actually been waiting for the tech to stabilize too: I've been shooting the same film bodies for 7 years now, and I can easily rationalize something like a Canon 5D over a 10 year timeframe (though it front loads a TONNE of cash, so that's quite a difference vs. trickling it out) but until recently the tech was moving so quickly that things were going to need replacing before then.
That 7 year body is nothing, btw. My FTBql's still shoot beautifully and they're 30 years old. My Bronica medium format camera was manufactured in 1964. I should get the shutter retimed, but it's only two speeds so I just shoot around them. Is my Canon 6d going to last 40+ years?
The tech seems to be stabilizing, prices are continuing to decline (albeit slowly) and things are coalescing. The time may be next year for me.
Old Velvia was 50ASA which was insanely slow, and hard to shoot with. Wonderful with tripod but handheld was hard. I actually found it a bit over saturated, though that's a matter of opinion.
Kodachrome's death wasn't so much caused by the continuing move to digital caused by the lowering of prices on Digital SLRs....that was certainly a factor, and continues to be so. Kodachrome was a unique film with a unique developing process and there was only one lab in the world still doing it. It was always a pain in the butt to use because of the process anyway: even in Toronto my film had to be shipped to a specific lab to get developed, or mailed to Kodak directly. I hated doing that...film gets lost in transition more than any other way, and the wait was long sometimes.
Fujichrome film could be processed in a standard E-6 process, and that was readily available in even small communities not so long ago. I switched to Provia a long time ago, and never looked back.
I'm going to go buy some tonight, actually, and it's going to cost a lot less than the $1,300 for the Canon 50D, plus it doesn't have that stupid crop factor that turns my ultra wide 20mm lens into an unimpressive relatively "normal" 32mm lens.
I'm waiting for an affordable full frame digital SLR before I move. Some will argue that the 5D is it, but I would certainly NOT argue that $3,000 is affordable. In the meantime, I scan slides.
We really need to solve the damn dust problem as well, though most people tell me it's overblown. Batteries can also be an issue for those of us who like to photograph off the grid.
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Shit. I thought we already changed everything. I'm not buying anything else until we stop changing things!
Well, that's a little bit childish when expressed that way, even if the sentiment is true.
They need revenue to pay for the upgrades. The problem is there's no direct correlation between the bandwidth used by a single customer (or even an average aggregate group of customers) and those upgrades.
No one's disputing the fact that these guys need money, it's their desire to bill you for usage which creates a situation that effectively stifles innovation and adoption of new services that's in dispute here.
To your point, though, they are exploiting a monopoly that they've historically had and that, of course, is exactly governments have historically broken up monopolies.
It's not going to change the fact that in virtually every market *except Toronto* you're buying your connection from your phone company or your cable company directly. Toronto seems to be the only city with the critical mass and regulatory structure to allow third party providers to survive and flourish. It hasn't happened here in Vancouver.
You're not expecting the CRTC to have a thorough, comprehensive technical understanding of the industry they're regulating, are you? Seriously: let me know how that works out for you.
Frankly, Usage Based Billing is a secondary concern to Net Neutrality. Every internet service provider in Canada was built on a monopoly granted to them by the Government of the day (literally or in essence) to provide services that can *now* be replaced by online IP based services. They all have a vested interest in retaining those monopolies and the additional bills you incur as a result.
I get my connection from the *only* cable provider in the mega-city I live in. They could easily start throttling streaming video and impede the technical growth of 1.7 million people.
The CRTC seems like not much more than a cabal run by the large telecoms these days. They're supposed to be an advocate FOR CANADIANS not for the businesses. When they start doing that, I'll have hope.
Apple pulled this from Mail with Lion for that reason. Spammers don't really care if your email is real or not. At least not much.
if the people who responded to this actually had some knowledge about the United Kingdom's legal structure.
Probably not going to happen.
In Canada, the Security Guard's case would be dubious. While a shopping mall is private property it's not "private" private property. They could legitimately ask you to leave, but not confiscate your property.
This, of course, has nothing whatsoever to do with the case in the United Kingdom.
Rght..so they designed a port that has multiple charging pins, av in and out data connections for more than one bus and a variety of other features based on "make it this wide and this thin--even though that other port did none of it."
Right...
Sheesh. D people seriously just post random brain matter up here and see what sticks?
Lucas uses the Shakespearean interpretation argument on occasion. I don't buy it: it's not someone else interpreting, it's his senile mind changing.
The problem is people keep buying the damn movies. Remember when Coke changed their formula and what happened then? Yeah: if people stopped buying the releases, the originals would be back.
Never gonna happen, sadly.
Heh. Damn iPad keyboard. Sorry!
So it's OK to add things unless you think the additions are bad? Who the fuck are you: Irwin Kirshner?
Uh, no. Your cell phone does not produce better footage than a 335mm film camera.
The film stock might have aged badly due to poor preservation, but that is not the same thing at all.
Bulldog clips that you can buy at Staples or Office Depot are genius for home. Run the cables Turku the wings and clip them somewhere. I use them to manage drive and power cables. Recently did the same for my mother's printer and camera cables and she no longer drops them.
Good support. It seems obvious to me, but anyway....
I had two Movable Type sites hosted at two different companies At the first one suddenly my PHP includes broke. I went back and forth with them for a week with them denying any knowledge or problems, and ended up having to rewrite the includes. No matter how many times I explained to them that I'd made no changes, the answer was the same...
A couple of months later the same thing happened at the second one. Five minutes after emailing support they told me the default on allow_url_include had changed, and they reactivated it for my install.
The difference was astonishing. A one week argument versus a five minute fix.
(Yes, I generally try to avoid URL Includes these days, though I still like them because they make code portable..)
Sure, but that's the whole point...Apple's market share is comparatively small.
Filing an anti-trust suit against your local book store for selling self-published works by local authors wouldn't make any sense; filing one against Chapters/Borders/Amazon might.
I'm not saying that if I were The Steve this is a decision I would have made...but Apple's got no more obligation to provide support for "universal" hardware than any other software vendor.
My iPhone won't run Windows Mobile: is that Microsoft's fault? Just because the Atom's instruction set is substantially similar to a standard Intel CPU doesn't mean supporting it is required.
modern women had sex with neanderthals.
Really? Bonuses for individual employees that do great work are more important to you than the greater social good that is potentially created by a fair and balanced taxation system? Universal medicare for example?
I'm not opposed to the concept of bonuses, but to argue that they're "more important" than taxes is to ignore any history of benefits that you may have gained or may in the future gain from the common social contract.
There's a reason we organize into political structures, the common good is one of the key ones. When the individual becomes MORE important than the collective you're standing on the precipice of a slippery slope.
There is of course a flip side, but don't give me some bullshit Soviet Union/Cuba/China communism argument. In all of these cases an elite group of individuals *espoused* the importance of the collective good, while simultaneously protecting their own selfish interests.
So...maybe you think your taxes are already fair, but it *seems* like Microsoft is trying to have their cake and eat it too, and Washington state is being left on the hook.
Frankenstein.
Alice in Wonderland.
The Time Machine.
20,000 Leagues.
Neuromancer (a great example of how science fiction is of its moment...Neuromancer has no cell phones, as they were rare and Gibson hadn't imagined them.
I'd include some Phillip K. Dick and a work by Robert Heinlein as well. The former because I like to screw kids up mentally as much as I can, the latter because while I've never liked much Heinlein its place in history is undoubted.
There have been quite a few gutless cars manufactured with standard gasoline engines too. My mother buys Chrysler products, so I'm intimately familiar with this thanks to a steady progression of K-cars, Shadows, Neons, SX 2.0s and finally the pinnacle represented by the Dodge Kaliber.
Well, clearly you're NOT a code because if you were you would have titled that post "Response 2.1.1 Beta Relase. Do not read on production systems!"
What hath man wrought?
This seems likely to lend new fervor to the "Mac SE 30 was the best Mac ever" argument, one that I've been tired of every since...well...colour.
It's not a Leica lens. It's a Leica *designed* lens. There's a BIG difference there.
Leica lenses are made with better glass.
It's probably not going to make a difference to 99% of people, but the way that Leica's diluted their name is just...well...the name used to mean something. Now it's just a name.
That might be the Greatest Game of All Time but that's the Crappiest Wikipedia Article Ever Written. There's so many typos and grammatical errors, it reads like an article from a Wired blog circa 2008/2009.
It would pay off for sure, but it wouldn't pay off "pretty soon."
I've actually been waiting for the tech to stabilize too: I've been shooting the same film bodies for 7 years now, and I can easily rationalize something like a Canon 5D over a 10 year timeframe (though it front loads a TONNE of cash, so that's quite a difference vs. trickling it out) but until recently the tech was moving so quickly that things were going to need replacing before then.
That 7 year body is nothing, btw. My FTBql's still shoot beautifully and they're 30 years old. My Bronica medium format camera was manufactured in 1964. I should get the shutter retimed, but it's only two speeds so I just shoot around them. Is my Canon 6d going to last 40+ years?
The tech seems to be stabilizing, prices are continuing to decline (albeit slowly) and things are coalescing. The time may be next year for me.
Old Velvia was 50ASA which was insanely slow, and hard to shoot with. Wonderful with tripod but handheld was hard. I actually found it a bit over saturated, though that's a matter of opinion.
Kodachrome's death wasn't so much caused by the continuing move to digital caused by the lowering of prices on Digital SLRs....that was certainly a factor, and continues to be so. Kodachrome was a unique film with a unique developing process and there was only one lab in the world still doing it. It was always a pain in the butt to use because of the process anyway: even in Toronto my film had to be shipped to a specific lab to get developed, or mailed to Kodak directly. I hated doing that...film gets lost in transition more than any other way, and the wait was long sometimes.
Fujichrome film could be processed in a standard E-6 process, and that was readily available in even small communities not so long ago. I switched to Provia a long time ago, and never looked back.
I'm going to go buy some tonight, actually, and it's going to cost a lot less than the $1,300 for the Canon 50D, plus it doesn't have that stupid crop factor that turns my ultra wide 20mm lens into an unimpressive relatively "normal" 32mm lens.
I'm waiting for an affordable full frame digital SLR before I move. Some will argue that the 5D is it, but I would certainly NOT argue that $3,000 is affordable. In the meantime, I scan slides.
We really need to solve the damn dust problem as well, though most people tell me it's overblown. Batteries can also be an issue for those of us who like to photograph off the grid.
you forgot lacrosse scores, and Igloo building instructions.
Oh wait...you also left out "how to run a banking system that doesn't collapse under its own incompetence."