once all ads move to HTML5 I don't think there'll be that much of a difference.
It might be even worse. Flash is a separate think you can enable/disable on a case-by-case basis. With HTML5, the fancy resource-hogging stuff will just be part of the page.
I would agree it's not all sunshine and roses, but let's at least look a little more closely.
There are some disturbing regressions in there, although keep in mind other improvements (such as moving to a journalling filesystem) may come at a cost to performance, which may be justified.
Better
Apache Compilation: 40% less time
Disk Transactions: 50% less time
Worse
GnuPG File Encryption: 60% more time
time to transfer 10GB via the TCP network loop-back: 100% more time
Apache static web page serving: 50% more time
IOZone Writes - 20% more time
Same
CAMELLIA256-ECB cipher
OpenSSL
NASA's NPB
TTSIOD 3D rendere
C-Ray multi-threaded ray-tracing
Crafty, an open-source chess engine
MAFFT multiple-sequence alignment test that deals with a molecular biology
That's really not what you want. The cost of bandwidth at the wholesaler level has been going down for years, it's the ISPs that don't pay for enough of it to cover the need that are the problem.
They don't? I use netflix streaming on my Comcast account frequently, and it works well. I upgraded from Comcast's cheapest 1mbit service to the more expensive 6mbit service for no other reason than to get better video quality on netflix. Comcast is getting their money and hasn't complained about my watching netflix, netflix is getting their money, I am getting my movies, everybody is happy. I don't see what this story is about.
Cable, Telephone are monopolies because people in government have no clue how to manage natural monopolies (utilities). City should own the INFRASTRUCTURE and auction the lease off to the utility company for 5, 10, 15, or 25 years (depending on type) and define the proper "service level agreement" they want for their citizens.
I think that sounds good. It's not what I would have called libertarian, but if it is, I guess I'm more "libertarian" than I thought.
Actually I work for a government-owned lab that is operated by a for-profit company. And the company with the current management contract has had no compunction about slashing the pension, vacation, health care, and severance benefits, plus delaying raises, to stay competitive with industry, so I guess it's fairly efficient.
Well, it's not as if anybody is proposing to simply nationalize all the assets of these companies. I think the list of things the companies should NOT be allowed to do in the name of net neutrality is actually rather short.
Here is a different question, how do you feel about the 1984 breakup of Ma Bell? And forcing the carriers to let people connect privately owned telephones and modems?
Libertarians think everything is the government's fault, even blaming them for monopolies. But the fact is, this is a natural monopoly. You are not going to have half a dozen companies laying competing fiber networks do your door. (And without the government imposing eminent domain, you won't even have ONE). The choice isn't between a government-regulated monopoly vs a thriving marketplace, it's between a government-regulated monopoly vs. an unregulated monopoly. Free markets are great for most things, but the government must be involved with infrastructure at some level. Maybe better wireless technology will help the situation, one day.
Nobody said they were hammered "because of" their support for net neutrality. That in itself was obviously not a big issue. But this election was a lurch to the right, which does not believe limiting corporations (e.g. net neutrality as a small example) serves a greater good.
Sean Parker was a co-founder of Facebook, and also Napster, so I guess he knows something about legal issues. Napster was sued and ruled out of existence as much as any company can be (I'm sure total value of infringing content on Napster was more than the gross product of the entire universe for all time, using RIAA math) yet its founders came out just fine and went on to do bigger and better things, somehow.
I make 25% less as a System Administrator in a small remote town than were I working in downtown Toronto. But my house costs $200,000 as opposed to $1,000,000 for a house or condo in Toronto.
While you have a good point, remember this: around the end of your career, you will own a home worth about $200,000, whereas that counterpart in Toronto will own a home worth $1M. He can move to your neighborhood and buy the whole block if he wants, or retire on a ranch. Where I live, it is Californians who are well known for coming into town with truckloads of cash from selling out of expensive markets. Then they take over.
Ah, the OSI model (circa 1978), the polar opposite of Cookies - a spec so glorious, it's still commonly cited - yet so useless it's a 30 year old virgin, having never been implemented!
What I find amazing is how much better RC helicopters have become in just a few short years. In the 1980's, they cost upwards of $1000 and were incredibly difficult to learn and fly. People would spend months just learning to hover a couple feet off the ground (no exaggeration). And the radios were so prone to interference, that could crash you at any time.
Now, for $30 you can buy one that's much smaller, much lighter, yet much easier to fly (which is surprising since tiny craft are normally unstable). But the really small cheap ones fly for around 30 seconds. To fly for 12 hours isn't just a little better, it's a drastic improvement, about 100 times longer than even a hobby-quality helicopter.
That said, the FAA tends to frown on shooting powerful lasers into the sky for fear of blinding pilots. Perhaps they wouldn't worry about that in a warzone; then again usually all the aircraft above a warzone are our own.
I've noticed most of the politcal ads this season say the opponent's policies will "cost jobs," no matter what policy it is.
"Costing jobs" is simply today's language for "do not want," exactly like "terrorism" last decade. Whatever the current bad thing is, that's what will happen if I don't get what I want.
Note: I am not defending the California bill. I have no idea what might be in it. I followed the two links from this article and they are completely devoid of any actual factual content. Next time give us some actual information to debate.
The only thing I ever needed Silverlight for was to watch Netflix streaming, and Moonlight didn't help any there. It's like Mono to run.net, or Wine to run Win32; you'll get a little ways with it, just not enough to be very useful. Microsoft simply does not do cross-platform (not even to the point of releasing and then following their own standards so others can make compatible implementations). If they say they are going to, it's a ploy. Sorry to have to repeat slashdot dogma, but it happens to be true in this case.
Actually making one doesn't matter. What matters is that as people find more precise ways to measure mass, they are all converging on the same ideal standard.
I just hope all the same people who say "throwing more money at education won't fix it" realize the same is true for intelligence. We'll see. I happen to think intelligence *is* the main ingredient to defending against terrorism, since hiding is their only defense, whereas sending massive conventional forces to invade nations was a stupendous blunder. Then again, the Iraq invasion was due to intelligence errors - the cause of which was cultural, not lack of resources.
That's what's really interesting and new about this story to me - this wasn't done by the usual characters from CMU or Stanford who have won the DARPA driving challenges in the past (the google car is from that same lineage also). Whether developed independently or replicated, the technology is getting more widespread.
Some of us, and many of our parents, were born into a world where no man had ever set foot on Everest. It was only climbed in 1953! The first without oxygen not until 1978.
Now, everybody and their dog is doing it. Helicopters land on it. Discovery Channel had a reality show about it. The mountain is heavily littered with garbage. And now you can surf the web from your iPhone up there. I realize this is all inevitable eventually with better technology. But I am a little jealous of our forebearers, for whom there existed unknown frontiers. And solitude is extinct.
No, because you normally don't pit-stop at home for 6 minutes at a time. At home you would charge it at night, likely from a 220v source like your dryer and stove use. What the fast charge is for is to also enable the car to make long trips by having special chargers at gas stations.
Computer displays (gaming in particular, as you implied yourself) are the tough case... latency and compression artifacts are not welcome there.
Video-only latency also desynchronizes the audio (e.g. playing though a surround system). I suppose nice stereo receivers should (or already do?) have programmable latency to account for latency in wireless speakers and displays, but it's one more thing to go wrong.
I agree HTPCs are gradually being edged out, but the general functionality of a computer still comes in handy over time as things change. Heck, I haven't even found a way to capture ATSC (broadcast digital TV) under linux such that my DLNA TV can actually decode it; only mplayer can play it. This should all be pretty easy, it just isn't.
Increasingly, whether you're a consumer or an enterprise, you care not about reaching thousands of different Web sites. You care about the 20 social networking, cloud vendor and partner sites that you do business with."... The Arbor Networks' data points to a future where Internet traffic consolidates on the networks of a handful of carriers and content providers - what Arbor calls "hyper giants."
If this is true, the Internet is headed for massive consolidation, until it is in the grip of just a few power-broker companies, and being an online entrepreneur will become next to impossible. I sure hope not. Somehow a few college kids have been able to overthrow seemingly entrenched leaders like yahoo and myspace. I would like to see a future where this is still possible. However, what I see instead is a lot of consolidation, with centralized websites displacing distributed services like usenet and roll-your-own homepages. Granted, there are good reasons those died, but it's sad to see the virtual world turn out pretty much like the real one.
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Otherwise we'll end up with a tyranny of the majority.
The bigger problem now is backsliding to the natural state collective of human affairs - tyranny by the minority. The rich get richer until they have all the power, individual rights are equated with capitalism so only the rich actually have them, and free enterprise boils down to "choosing" whether to slave away for a monopoly, or starve.
Ah the good old days, when 60 million people were killed in 5 years. I pine for those special times too. If only more people would subscribe to your newsletter.
Oscar: "Look, it doesn't take a genius to know that any organization thrives when it has two leaders. Go ahead, name a country that doesn't have two presidents. A boat that sets sail without two captains. Where would Catholicism be without the popes?"
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It might be even worse. Flash is a separate think you can enable/disable on a case-by-case basis. With HTML5, the fancy resource-hogging stuff will just be part of the page.
Better
Worse
Same
They don't? I use netflix streaming on my Comcast account frequently, and it works well. I upgraded from Comcast's cheapest 1mbit service to the more expensive 6mbit service for no other reason than to get better video quality on netflix. Comcast is getting their money and hasn't complained about my watching netflix, netflix is getting their money, I am getting my movies, everybody is happy. I don't see what this story is about.
I think that sounds good. It's not what I would have called libertarian, but if it is, I guess I'm more "libertarian" than I thought.
Actually I work for a government-owned lab that is operated by a for-profit company. And the company with the current management contract has had no compunction about slashing the pension, vacation, health care, and severance benefits, plus delaying raises, to stay competitive with industry, so I guess it's fairly efficient.
Here is a different question, how do you feel about the 1984 breakup of Ma Bell? And forcing the carriers to let people connect privately owned telephones and modems?
Libertarians think everything is the government's fault, even blaming them for monopolies. But the fact is, this is a natural monopoly. You are not going to have half a dozen companies laying competing fiber networks do your door. (And without the government imposing eminent domain, you won't even have ONE). The choice isn't between a government-regulated monopoly vs a thriving marketplace, it's between a government-regulated monopoly vs. an unregulated monopoly. Free markets are great for most things, but the government must be involved with infrastructure at some level. Maybe better wireless technology will help the situation, one day.
Nobody said they were hammered "because of" their support for net neutrality. That in itself was obviously not a big issue. But this election was a lurch to the right, which does not believe limiting corporations (e.g. net neutrality as a small example) serves a greater good.
Sean Parker was a co-founder of Facebook, and also Napster, so I guess he knows something about legal issues. Napster was sued and ruled out of existence as much as any company can be (I'm sure total value of infringing content on Napster was more than the gross product of the entire universe for all time, using RIAA math) yet its founders came out just fine and went on to do bigger and better things, somehow.
While you have a good point, remember this: around the end of your career, you will own a home worth about $200,000, whereas that counterpart in Toronto will own a home worth $1M. He can move to your neighborhood and buy the whole block if he wants, or retire on a ranch. Where I live, it is Californians who are well known for coming into town with truckloads of cash from selling out of expensive markets. Then they take over.
Ah, the OSI model (circa 1978), the polar opposite of Cookies - a spec so glorious, it's still commonly cited - yet so useless it's a 30 year old virgin, having never been implemented!
Now, for $30 you can buy one that's much smaller, much lighter, yet much easier to fly (which is surprising since tiny craft are normally unstable). But the really small cheap ones fly for around 30 seconds. To fly for 12 hours isn't just a little better, it's a drastic improvement, about 100 times longer than even a hobby-quality helicopter.
That said, the FAA tends to frown on shooting powerful lasers into the sky for fear of blinding pilots. Perhaps they wouldn't worry about that in a warzone; then again usually all the aircraft above a warzone are our own.
Note: I am not defending the California bill. I have no idea what might be in it. I followed the two links from this article and they are completely devoid of any actual factual content. Next time give us some actual information to debate.
The only thing I ever needed Silverlight for was to watch Netflix streaming, and Moonlight didn't help any there. It's like Mono to run .net, or Wine to run Win32; you'll get a little ways with it, just not enough to be very useful. Microsoft simply does not do cross-platform (not even to the point of releasing and then following their own standards so others can make compatible implementations). If they say they are going to, it's a ploy. Sorry to have to repeat slashdot dogma, but it happens to be true in this case.
Actually making one doesn't matter. What matters is that as people find more precise ways to measure mass, they are all converging on the same ideal standard.
I just hope all the same people who say "throwing more money at education won't fix it" realize the same is true for intelligence. We'll see. I happen to think intelligence *is* the main ingredient to defending against terrorism, since hiding is their only defense, whereas sending massive conventional forces to invade nations was a stupendous blunder. Then again, the Iraq invasion was due to intelligence errors - the cause of which was cultural, not lack of resources.
That's what's really interesting and new about this story to me - this wasn't done by the usual characters from CMU or Stanford who have won the DARPA driving challenges in the past (the google car is from that same lineage also). Whether developed independently or replicated, the technology is getting more widespread.
Now, everybody and their dog is doing it. Helicopters land on it. Discovery Channel had a reality show about it. The mountain is heavily littered with garbage. And now you can surf the web from your iPhone up there. I realize this is all inevitable eventually with better technology. But I am a little jealous of our forebearers, for whom there existed unknown frontiers. And solitude is extinct.
No, because you normally don't pit-stop at home for 6 minutes at a time. At home you would charge it at night, likely from a 220v source like your dryer and stove use. What the fast charge is for is to also enable the car to make long trips by having special chargers at gas stations.
Video-only latency also desynchronizes the audio (e.g. playing though a surround system). I suppose nice stereo receivers should (or already do?) have programmable latency to account for latency in wireless speakers and displays, but it's one more thing to go wrong.
I agree HTPCs are gradually being edged out, but the general functionality of a computer still comes in handy over time as things change. Heck, I haven't even found a way to capture ATSC (broadcast digital TV) under linux such that my DLNA TV can actually decode it; only mplayer can play it. This should all be pretty easy, it just isn't.
If this is true, the Internet is headed for massive consolidation, until it is in the grip of just a few power-broker companies, and being an online entrepreneur will become next to impossible. I sure hope not. Somehow a few college kids have been able to overthrow seemingly entrenched leaders like yahoo and myspace. I would like to see a future where this is still possible. However, what I see instead is a lot of consolidation, with centralized websites displacing distributed services like usenet and roll-your-own homepages. Granted, there are good reasons those died, but it's sad to see the virtual world turn out pretty much like the real one.
It's also available used, starting at $199.47.
The bigger problem now is backsliding to the natural state collective of human affairs - tyranny by the minority. The rich get richer until they have all the power, individual rights are equated with capitalism so only the rich actually have them, and free enterprise boils down to "choosing" whether to slave away for a monopoly, or starve.
Ah the good old days, when 60 million people were killed in 5 years. I pine for those special times too. If only more people would subscribe to your newsletter.
Oscar: "Look, it doesn't take a genius to know that any organization thrives when it has two leaders. Go ahead, name a country that doesn't have two presidents. A boat that sets sail without two captains. Where would Catholicism be without the popes?"