Yeah, and then tomorrow, you'll figure out that you can prank-call Microsoft's 1-800 number, and organize groups of people to do the same thing. Why don't you find something productive to do instead of just wasting your time?
* Q. Did you ever stay all night with this man in New York?
* A. I refuse to answer that question.
* Q. Did you ever stay all night with this man in Chicago?
* A. I refuse to answer that question.
* Q. Did you ever stay all night with this man in Miami?
* A. No.
Man, you are a dumbass. Yeah, let's see, labels in the capitalist US are just lowering prices left and right, and there is no piracy to speak of. Right? Fucktard.
Uh, the US has already lost this war. Let's see, the US have a couple of hundred thousand troops available. Iraq has 26 million people, 40% of whom support attacks on the US troops. Not to mention, the statement "We kill 30 or 40 insurgents/terrorists for each American soldier who dies" is only accurate if you replace "insurgents/terrorists" with "random Iraqis". But hey, feel free to keep playing the denial game. But then, you are sounding increasingly like the Iraqi information minister...
Not a good analogy. The power company has a pretty good idea of how much power you use. They size the wiring, breakers, and transformers appropriately. You should not be able to overload your local stepdown transformer, because the breakers will keep you from doing that. In other words, they don't oversell the service. This is completely different than how broadband providers do it. In all likelihood, there are 100-200 subscribers with "6 Mbps" connections connected to a single T3 line (this is true for both cable and DSL). Obviously, if a large number of people actually try to use the 6 Mbps connection they are sold, the provider's link will saturate and they will clamp down on it.
Yeah, it's all great until someone uses your connection for kiddie porn or kazaa or terrorism or something and you get to go to jail or pay $10,000 to the RIAA, all for the privilege of letting other people use your service. It doesn't sound that likely, until it happens to you. There's a reason every single ISP wants a ton of information about you before they'll let you on their network. I don't think you want to deal with the legal ramifications of being an ISP.
Uh, no. It can go a lot farther than 50 meters. More like a mile. This will be deployed in Fiber to the Node scenarios. Wireless is simply not an option. Let's see, 100 subscribers at 50 megabits each would be what, 5 gigabits? You aren't going to have enough spectrum to do that. As far as expense: yes, it's expensive. That's why we don't have it yet.
If you think you can turn any WRT54g into a $400 router, you are dead wrong. Those things are unstable as hell, even with Linux on them. For one, they just aren't fast enough to satisfy even a couple of users who, say, use BitTorrent or play games or use VoIP. The VxWorks version is downright unusable. And hey, buying the GL version is not much of an option for us poor shmucks who already own these pieces of shit with their shitty little OS.
Americans are soon going to get T3 connections, too. Ever hear of VDSL? Telcos are installing it as we speak. They are planning to provide video services over it. When you are streaming HDTV, even a T3 isn't really enough. Not to mention the whole Qos thing. You can have a T3, but if you have to share the resource with a bunch of BitTorrent users, your Voice/video over IP isn't going to be so hot. The next-gen services are really where network neutrality starts to break down. Certain services are going to need much higher priority than everything else on the wire, or your model simply breaks down.
You are a retard. Linux fucking blows for anyone but a Linux nerd. Even with the latest version of Ubuntu you have to go about hacking text files if you want to, say, use a wireless network (that uses WPA, as almost all of them do). Or how about you try setting up a VPN connection. Or (god forbid) if the installer doesn't detect your display resolution correctly. Or just the procedure for installing videocard drivers (god help you if you have an ATI card). It's a fucking giant pain in the ass, and it's a total piece of shit compared to a Mac.
Serves him right. I have no respect for telemarketers and their equivalents (debt collectors, AOL retention goons, and so on). There are plenty of jobs out there that don't involve being a pest. Maybe he can now do something useful with his life, for a change.
Well, yes, but if you run a 64-bit operating system, it means normal ints are 64 bits. Given that they are generally the most widespread datatype, it does lead to increased memory usage. To be more specific: the 32-bit Ubuntu install uses about 600MB of RAM running Gnome, Firefox, Thunderbird, and a couple of terminal windows. The 64-bit version uses something like 900MB for the same applications, and runs noticeably slower. There is a big difference in memory usage.
The 64-bit version would probably be roughly twice as slow. Remember, kiddies: 64-bits instead of 32 bits means you need 2x the RAM. Not to mention, Athlon 64s seem to perform better in 32-bit mode, anyway. Probably because very few applications actually use 64 bit integers for anything. 32 bits is generally more than enough.
What exactly do you do on the internet? I don't even have an antivirus or a firewall installed on my XP box, and I have never had issues with a single virus or worm. The closest I came was maybe a piece of spyware or two bundled with something. How do you manage to pick up three viruses in 1.5 hours?
Heh... you can improve the efficiency of almost any vehicle quite trivially (running it slightly lean and disabling the emissions equipment). It just won't pass emissions anymore.
Well, the problem is, natural monopolies cannot be avoided. You can't have 10 different companies trying to serve the same house. This just doesn't work, for a variety of reasons -- mainly because this would create a huge mess and cause the entire city to be a construction zone. Not to mention, what if they refuse to terminate competitors' calls? The solution to this problem is tight regulation of those natural monopolies by restricting what they can do. Nationalization is not that great a solution, since it preserves the same monopoly but not necessarily the same level of regulation. Just ask the Brits or the Australians how much they love their state-sponsored telcos.
Even though you are not a Libertarian, you share their main problem: dogmatically declaring that certain laws are bad, while ignoring the history behind their adoption. Without regulation and protected monopolies, the phone system would have looked like American railroad networks of the 19th century, with duplicated routes and competing stations on opposite ends of one town. Competition rendered American railroads extremely inconvenient for passengers, which is why they are now mostly extinct. Lack of competition is the main reason the phone network was built as one entity rather than a bunch of isolated ones.
I think there are a couple of different issues involved here. One is the right of the telcos to offer a low-latency service for, say, video over IP. This is a good thing. If everyone starts using the Internet for real-time HDTV streaming over a 30Mbps connection, things will get clogged up. Badly. In fact, video is much more sensitive to latency and jitter than voice. The same thing applies to voice over IP. If Vonage wants to be able to have guaranteed low latency and jitter, they should have the ability to negotiate a higher priority from the carriers. This is obviously a good thing from everyone's standpoint. As a customer, you'll have video/voice over IP that actually works. As a provider, you will be able to provide a higher quality service. And the telcos will have an incentive to upgrade their networks.
The real issue here becomes how to structure the new regulations. Obviously, it's not desirable to give the telcos the ability to run protection rackets. However, giving them the ability to provide low-latency connections to certain destinations would be desirable. Of course, given the jackasses people manage to elect to Congress, this will almost certainly be fucked up.
Well, the problem is that there are far more people attending college. This devalues college degrees, for obvious reasons. All this is doing is turning colleges into remedial high schools. The first two years of college in the USA are basically remedial education. In many other countries, this stuff is taught in high school.
The solution is to improve high school education, not to lower standards in college. It's already become bad enough. It's possible to get a Ph.D in computer science and not learn a whole lot. Many people go to degree mills like ITT, Devry, or about 20 others, hoping that with a "college" degree they will finally be able to get a decent job. Obviously, nobody would hire a Devry graduate, so they get screwed. The only people that profit are the ones that pocket all the money that the government hands out. Even the real colleges are horrible. Employers pretty much expect a new graduate to spend a few years on the job before they actually learn everything they supposedly learn in college, and the quality of new hires is steadily diminishing. We have a real crisis, and nobody is paying attention.
True Libertarians are generally idiots. Like you. What telco entitlements are you talking about? Have you ever heard the term "natural monopoly"? Oh, wait, I forgot, you're a libertarian. You probably have never even opened an introductory economics textbook.
You are completely, 100% wrong. There is a limited pool of talented and knowledgeable subject matter experts that are fit to be professors. In order to have a workable university system, this pool has to be concentrated at a small number of large and prestigious institutions. By lowering standards, you end up with a large number of mediocre institutions, all of which produce poor-quality product. The US has managed to combine the two approaches: there are a few dozen schools worth going to, and thousands of extremely mediocre ones. The only result of that is that a college education has become an overpriced equivalent of the high school diploma.
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Yeah, and then tomorrow, you'll figure out that you can prank-call Microsoft's 1-800 number, and organize groups of people to do the same thing. Why don't you find something productive to do instead of just wasting your time?
Yeah, that's like that old joke.
* Q. Did you ever stay all night with this man in New York?
* A. I refuse to answer that question.
* Q. Did you ever stay all night with this man in Chicago?
* A. I refuse to answer that question.
* Q. Did you ever stay all night with this man in Miami?
* A. No.
Man, you are a dumbass. Yeah, let's see, labels in the capitalist US are just lowering prices left and right, and there is no piracy to speak of. Right? Fucktard.
The PDA/Smartphone market is not "emerging", it's quite dead.
Heh. There's a good solution to that problem. An angle grinder :)
Uh, the US has already lost this war. Let's see, the US have a couple of hundred thousand troops available. Iraq has 26 million people, 40% of whom support attacks on the US troops. Not to mention, the statement "We kill 30 or 40 insurgents/terrorists for each American soldier who dies" is only accurate if you replace "insurgents/terrorists" with "random Iraqis". But hey, feel free to keep playing the denial game. But then, you are sounding increasingly like the Iraqi information minister...
Sure. The parent post said "who needs this linux shit". I explained why this hack is useful.
Not a good analogy. The power company has a pretty good idea of how much power you use. They size the wiring, breakers, and transformers appropriately. You should not be able to overload your local stepdown transformer, because the breakers will keep you from doing that. In other words, they don't oversell the service. This is completely different than how broadband providers do it. In all likelihood, there are 100-200 subscribers with "6 Mbps" connections connected to a single T3 line (this is true for both cable and DSL). Obviously, if a large number of people actually try to use the 6 Mbps connection they are sold, the provider's link will saturate and they will clamp down on it.
Read the parent post, you fucktard.
Yeah, it's all great until someone uses your connection for kiddie porn or kazaa or terrorism or something and you get to go to jail or pay $10,000 to the RIAA, all for the privilege of letting other people use your service. It doesn't sound that likely, until it happens to you. There's a reason every single ISP wants a ton of information about you before they'll let you on their network. I don't think you want to deal with the legal ramifications of being an ISP.
Uh, no. It can go a lot farther than 50 meters. More like a mile. This will be deployed in Fiber to the Node scenarios. Wireless is simply not an option. Let's see, 100 subscribers at 50 megabits each would be what, 5 gigabits? You aren't going to have enough spectrum to do that. As far as expense: yes, it's expensive. That's why we don't have it yet.
If you think you can turn any WRT54g into a $400 router, you are dead wrong. Those things are unstable as hell, even with Linux on them. For one, they just aren't fast enough to satisfy even a couple of users who, say, use BitTorrent or play games or use VoIP. The VxWorks version is downright unusable. And hey, buying the GL version is not much of an option for us poor shmucks who already own these pieces of shit with their shitty little OS.
Americans are soon going to get T3 connections, too. Ever hear of VDSL? Telcos are installing it as we speak. They are planning to provide video services over it. When you are streaming HDTV, even a T3 isn't really enough. Not to mention the whole Qos thing. You can have a T3, but if you have to share the resource with a bunch of BitTorrent users, your Voice/video over IP isn't going to be so hot. The next-gen services are really where network neutrality starts to break down. Certain services are going to need much higher priority than everything else on the wire, or your model simply breaks down.
You are a retard. Linux fucking blows for anyone but a Linux nerd. Even with the latest version of Ubuntu you have to go about hacking text files if you want to, say, use a wireless network (that uses WPA, as almost all of them do). Or how about you try setting up a VPN connection. Or (god forbid) if the installer doesn't detect your display resolution correctly. Or just the procedure for installing videocard drivers (god help you if you have an ATI card). It's a fucking giant pain in the ass, and it's a total piece of shit compared to a Mac.
Serves him right. I have no respect for telemarketers and their equivalents (debt collectors, AOL retention goons, and so on). There are plenty of jobs out there that don't involve being a pest. Maybe he can now do something useful with his life, for a change.
Well, yes, but if you run a 64-bit operating system, it means normal ints are 64 bits. Given that they are generally the most widespread datatype, it does lead to increased memory usage. To be more specific: the 32-bit Ubuntu install uses about 600MB of RAM running Gnome, Firefox, Thunderbird, and a couple of terminal windows. The 64-bit version uses something like 900MB for the same applications, and runs noticeably slower. There is a big difference in memory usage.
The 64-bit version would probably be roughly twice as slow. Remember, kiddies: 64-bits instead of 32 bits means you need 2x the RAM. Not to mention, Athlon 64s seem to perform better in 32-bit mode, anyway. Probably because very few applications actually use 64 bit integers for anything. 32 bits is generally more than enough.
Avast let 3 Viruses on a system in 1.5 hours,
What exactly do you do on the internet? I don't even have an antivirus or a firewall installed on my XP box, and I have never had issues with a single virus or worm. The closest I came was maybe a piece of spyware or two bundled with something. How do you manage to pick up three viruses in 1.5 hours?
Do you know what a backbone is? No? Well, all your traffic passes through one, and AT&T and other telcos own the vast majority of them.
Heh... you can improve the efficiency of almost any vehicle quite trivially (running it slightly lean and disabling the emissions equipment). It just won't pass emissions anymore.
Well, the problem is, natural monopolies cannot be avoided. You can't have 10 different companies trying to serve the same house. This just doesn't work, for a variety of reasons -- mainly because this would create a huge mess and cause the entire city to be a construction zone. Not to mention, what if they refuse to terminate competitors' calls? The solution to this problem is tight regulation of those natural monopolies by restricting what they can do. Nationalization is not that great a solution, since it preserves the same monopoly but not necessarily the same level of regulation. Just ask the Brits or the Australians how much they love their state-sponsored telcos.
Even though you are not a Libertarian, you share their main problem: dogmatically declaring that certain laws are bad, while ignoring the history behind their adoption. Without regulation and protected monopolies, the phone system would have looked like American railroad networks of the 19th century, with duplicated routes and competing stations on opposite ends of one town. Competition rendered American railroads extremely inconvenient for passengers, which is why they are now mostly extinct. Lack of competition is the main reason the phone network was built as one entity rather than a bunch of isolated ones.
I think there are a couple of different issues involved here. One is the right of the telcos to offer a low-latency service for, say, video over IP. This is a good thing. If everyone starts using the Internet for real-time HDTV streaming over a 30Mbps connection, things will get clogged up. Badly. In fact, video is much more sensitive to latency and jitter than voice. The same thing applies to voice over IP. If Vonage wants to be able to have guaranteed low latency and jitter, they should have the ability to negotiate a higher priority from the carriers. This is obviously a good thing from everyone's standpoint. As a customer, you'll have video/voice over IP that actually works. As a provider, you will be able to provide a higher quality service. And the telcos will have an incentive to upgrade their networks.
The real issue here becomes how to structure the new regulations. Obviously, it's not desirable to give the telcos the ability to run protection rackets. However, giving them the ability to provide low-latency connections to certain destinations would be desirable. Of course, given the jackasses people manage to elect to Congress, this will almost certainly be fucked up.
Well, the problem is that there are far more people attending college. This devalues college degrees, for obvious reasons. All this is doing is turning colleges into remedial high schools. The first two years of college in the USA are basically remedial education. In many other countries, this stuff is taught in high school.
The solution is to improve high school education, not to lower standards in college. It's already become bad enough. It's possible to get a Ph.D in computer science and not learn a whole lot. Many people go to degree mills like ITT, Devry, or about 20 others, hoping that with a "college" degree they will finally be able to get a decent job. Obviously, nobody would hire a Devry graduate, so they get screwed. The only people that profit are the ones that pocket all the money that the government hands out. Even the real colleges are horrible. Employers pretty much expect a new graduate to spend a few years on the job before they actually learn everything they supposedly learn in college, and the quality of new hires is steadily diminishing. We have a real crisis, and nobody is paying attention.
True Libertarians are generally idiots. Like you. What telco entitlements are you talking about? Have you ever heard the term "natural monopoly"? Oh, wait, I forgot, you're a libertarian. You probably have never even opened an introductory economics textbook.
You are completely, 100% wrong. There is a limited pool of talented and knowledgeable subject matter experts that are fit to be professors. In order to have a workable university system, this pool has to be concentrated at a small number of large and prestigious institutions. By lowering standards, you end up with a large number of mediocre institutions, all of which produce poor-quality product. The US has managed to combine the two approaches: there are a few dozen schools worth going to, and thousands of extremely mediocre ones. The only result of that is that a college education has become an overpriced equivalent of the high school diploma.