We all hate spam, but this is just going to clog the Cali legal system even further with bullshit litigations.
It has no bite against the real spammers, who don't have to answer to californias laws. It will just be used by people to harass each other.
That out of state ex just sent you an email? Have him charged. Not to mention all the bounces with forged headers from email worms.
California is turning into such a joke. Subsidized heroin use to the tune of 300 bucks a month. Free drivers licenses for illegals, no background check of any kind (also handy if you want a fake ID, kids).
It's worth paying extra if you're actually going to use it, which was sort of the point I was going for.
If you're a hardcore gamer who constantly plays games on his PC, a $400 video card makes sense. If you aren't, it's a waste of time.
I let myself get sucked into the whole "man if I had one of those TVs, the family would all get together every night and watch movies, we'd save tons of cash by not going to the theatre, console games would kick ass" thing. Next-gen console marketing of HDTV and digital surround sound sucked me in, being a fan of console games.
It's not so much that I regret it, it's cool to have. I financed the whole rig and it costs me less per month than my cable does. Guests come over and we'll all sit and enjoy a movie, or whatever. But it hasnt revolutionalized my life or my TV viewing habits. I could have replaced the major kitchen appliances instead - that would have shut my wife up for roughly a week or so which would have been money well spent.
For about two months, we'd go to blockbuster every weekend, eager to enjoy our uber-setup. Every weekend we'd realize that there was nothing we wanted to watch.
You're thinking of those goofy 3-in-1 20 dollar jobbers from Best Buy.
There are cool touchscreen based uber-remotes for hundreds of dollars which do exactly what you're talking about. The interface changed for each device, you can program macros (switch tv to component in, adjust home theater to appropriate movie watching settings, start dvd) and do all kinds of wonderful magical shit.
And if you have a puppy, it will just LOVE the taste of it. I've discovered that puppies love to eat remote controls (because they smell people on them).
I bought a 53" widescreen HDTV (not plasma) about eight months ago, after much bribery and pestering of my wife.
It was the greatest thing since sliced bread for a month or two, but now it's just a TV and I wish I still had the 5 grand and say a 30 inch regular tv.
We don't watch any more TV or movies than we ever did. Turns out that the programming is just as lame and pointless with a high def picture and cinematic surround sound. "The Hot Chick" was a retarded movie, even in its full 16:9 progressive scanned format. Who could have imagined such a thing.
While it was cool playing video games on the big screen for awhile, I realize now it just gives me eyestrain and a headache. My consoles have all moved to another room with the displaced 29" set.
I spend more time laying in bed watching the little 17 inch I have in our bedroom. The HDTV is a neat toy that impresses guests, nothing more.
If you gave someone a plasma, but they had no way to know its value, and you told them it was worth 400 bucks instead of 8-10 grand, would they be as impressed?
Their core search engine becomes more and more useless every time I use it. It's now almost like thumbing blindly through the yellow pages, hoping to stumble on what I was looking for.
I used to use it in troubleshooting all the time. I'd type in a verbatim error message, and almost always directly hit a forum post or KB article about that error. Now I get four thousand ebay redirects and amazon links.. bah
Click here, go to photo gallery, next over to the last photo, which is of Hemingway at work on For Whom The Bell Tolls.
He ain't using no carpernters pencil. This is just more legend built around the man, you know, the gruff outdoorsy type who shuns the technological trappings of modern society.
Anyhow, this fella's writing is terrible, you posted two textbook examples of purple prose. Gratuitous overuse of the language simply for its own sake, distracting from the piece rather than adding to it.
However, does any of this matter? Or is it just a longwinded "MS is ghey I like vi better!" troll?
I'm not talking about gnu/linux, just linux, the kernel. Which is monolithic. Which requires a recompile every time theres a significant architecture change. Which requires most real hardware support to be bottlenecked through Linus' selection process. Which is utterly retarded if the goal is a flexible OS.
Zealots flame away, since obviously your beloved linux kernel is beyond criticism. It's still the truth.
We work with these things all the time. You can yank CPUs while its running and it won't even hiccup. You can open the side of the case and take a whiz in it, and the machine will keep chugging. Cool stuff.
They apparently have permission to modify Windows source to make that stuff work, but linux support would be nice.
Then replace the monolithic kernel with something truly modular.
Recompiling because you bought a new mouse or sound card is friggin ridiculous. Compiling in support for every possible device under the sun and winding up with a kernel with bloat that makes Mozilla look optimized is equally ridiculous.
You will plug some cables into a router today. You will complain over a bowl of kraft dinner that you aren't making the 100,000 dollars and up that the radio commercial for MCP certs promised you. You will post grossly wrong information on slashdot to make everyone think you understand and use linux. Noone will notice as they don't know either, and you will get easy "karma" which is absolutely useless in the cosmic sense. You will not get laid, that was a stupid question.
If I didn't CHOOSE to use it, it ain't Free as in anything.
And guess what, I choose to use Windows for most things, because linux is absolutely useless to me.
You're all in love with the Chinese government because they like linux. That's just like being all in love with Hitler because you like to paint landscapes too.
How difficult is this puzzle? "Not very," Sanborn says. Not nearly as difficult as his first encoded sculpture -- a work called "Kryptos" that he created for CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., in 1987. That code, created with the help of a cryptographer, is so hard to break that the CIA "will never figure it out," he says.
So why is this news for anyone not on the UNC campus?
I just wanted to let you know that we've heard that whiney tripe a million times over.
Fact is, MS has nothing to worry about, so long as linux means a marginally useful desktop, characterized by poor documentation, and an arrogant zit-faced userbase. This will not change any time soon.
MS will always own the desktop, because frankly, noone has ever COMPETED with them on TECHNICAL merit. Only on idealogical merit.
China has no copyright/patent/licensing treaties with the rest of the world.
They have as much respect for the GPL as they do the Windows EULA.
You call Bejing and demand that they make they're changes available via CVS. Remember, these are the same guys who ran kids over with tanks in Tiennamin square.
The top 1% of members at my local gym use the equipment well more than twice as much as everyone else combined. There are a couple professional athletes who are literally in there all day, every day.
Noone steps in and says "Sorry, you've already benchpressed your limit for this month"
Ah yes, the old "i cant think how to use it so noone must be able to" argument.
What if I want to send video of my kids school play to my parents, ready for them to burn with their new DVD-R. There's my 3-5 gb of uploading right there.
What if I want to subscribe to divx.com or one of those places that makes movies available for download? Or iTunes or rhapsody or streaming radio, for that matter.
Broadband promises a media-rich experience, there's a ton of legitimate content out there. There'll only be more in the future. I don't pay 40 bucks a month for sporadic web browsing and email.
The problem with most capping policies is that the caps are arbitrary, and will slide lower and lower. Say the top 1% of bandwidth hogs use 30 gbs a month now, after they're gone the top users are using 25 gb a month, then 20, then 15. DirecPC lost a class action lawsuit for similar behavior.
If they cant deliver the service they promise for the price they offer, that's their problem, not mine. Let 'em go bankrupt.
Yeah, but it's all about the money and always has been.
A given "power user" of bandwidth - be it for P2P, VPN to work, streaming porn, whatever - uses more bandwidth than one hundred grandmas who just check e-mail, or maybe buy the odd birthday gift on toys'r'us.com.
So which makes more sense, one user at 40 bucks a month, or 100x40 bucks a month?
Sure, they could upgrade equipment so they could actually deliver the service they advertise - but that costs money, and the name of the game is profits.
It's much more cost effective to draw up a "we can deny you service whenever and for whatever reason we want" clause to the AUP. And redefine "unlimited" to mean "we won't tell you what the limit is until it's too late".
If you knew what the cap was, you could shape your traffic to cap yourself and never go over.
But, there's a light at the end of the tunnel, IMO.
The future of the internet is going to be bandwidth intensive. People will want to stream media, email not just blurry jpegs of the grandkids, but DVD-length files from mom's handycam. Heck, modern online gaming chews up the bandwidth something fierce, compared to the days when doom was playable over a 9600 baud modem. Xbox live with the realtime voice chat and all that jibber jabber..
When the average Joe realizes he's getting jerked around and being denied the service he payed for, watch for legitimate and fair businesses to spring forth and pick up the slack.
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We all hate spam, but this is just going to clog the Cali legal system even further with bullshit litigations.
It has no bite against the real spammers, who don't have to answer to californias laws. It will just be used by people to harass each other.
That out of state ex just sent you an email? Have him charged. Not to mention all the bounces with forged headers from email worms.
California is turning into such a joke. Subsidized heroin use to the tune of 300 bucks a month. Free drivers licenses for illegals, no background check of any kind (also handy if you want a fake ID, kids).
Blech.
Free as in buried in the dorm fees, which go up year by year.
It's neat and all, but dorm fees are so fucking high you'd expect a butler to serve you filet mignon on a silver platter every night.
It's worth paying extra if you're actually going to use it, which was sort of the point I was going for.
If you're a hardcore gamer who constantly plays games on his PC, a $400 video card makes sense. If you aren't, it's a waste of time.
I let myself get sucked into the whole "man if I had one of those TVs, the family would all get together every night and watch movies, we'd save tons of cash by not going to the theatre, console games would kick ass" thing. Next-gen console marketing of HDTV and digital surround sound sucked me in, being a fan of console games.
It's not so much that I regret it, it's cool to have. I financed the whole rig and it costs me less per month than my cable does. Guests come over and we'll all sit and enjoy a movie, or whatever. But it hasnt revolutionalized my life or my TV viewing habits. I could have replaced the major kitchen appliances instead - that would have shut my wife up for roughly a week or so which would have been money well spent.
For about two months, we'd go to blockbuster every weekend, eager to enjoy our uber-setup. Every weekend we'd realize that there was nothing we wanted to watch.
I paid extra for a quality set so that I wouldn't need to worry about burn in, since it'd see more time playing video games than movies.
It also included the surround sound system and stand. The set itself was around 3000.
You're thinking of those goofy 3-in-1 20 dollar jobbers from Best Buy.
There are cool touchscreen based uber-remotes for hundreds of dollars which do exactly what you're talking about. The interface changed for each device, you can program macros (switch tv to component in, adjust home theater to appropriate movie watching settings, start dvd) and do all kinds of wonderful magical shit.
And if you have a puppy, it will just LOVE the taste of it. I've discovered that puppies love to eat remote controls (because they smell people on them).
I bought a 53" widescreen HDTV (not plasma) about eight months ago, after much bribery and pestering of my wife.
It was the greatest thing since sliced bread for a month or two, but now it's just a TV and I wish I still had the 5 grand and say a 30 inch regular tv.
We don't watch any more TV or movies than we ever did. Turns out that the programming is just as lame and pointless with a high def picture and cinematic surround sound. "The Hot Chick" was a retarded movie, even in its full 16:9 progressive scanned format. Who could have imagined such a thing.
While it was cool playing video games on the big screen for awhile, I realize now it just gives me eyestrain and a headache. My consoles have all moved to another room with the displaced 29" set.
I spend more time laying in bed watching the little 17 inch I have in our bedroom. The HDTV is a neat toy that impresses guests, nothing more.
If you gave someone a plasma, but they had no way to know its value, and you told them it was worth 400 bucks instead of 8-10 grand, would they be as impressed?
Their core search engine becomes more and more useless every time I use it. It's now almost like thumbing blindly through the yellow pages, hoping to stumble on what I was looking for.
I used to use it in troubleshooting all the time. I'd type in a verbatim error message, and almost always directly hit a forum post or KB article about that error. Now I get four thousand ebay redirects and amazon links.. bah
Click here, go to photo gallery, next over to the last photo, which is of Hemingway at work on For Whom The Bell Tolls.
He ain't using no carpernters pencil. This is just more legend built around the man, you know, the gruff outdoorsy type who shuns the technological trappings of modern society.
Anyhow, this fella's writing is terrible, you posted two textbook examples of purple prose. Gratuitous overuse of the language simply for its own sake, distracting from the piece rather than adding to it.
However, does any of this matter? Or is it just a longwinded "MS is ghey I like vi better!" troll?
Google seems to be suffering from feature overload of late.
Why is this more useful than just going to yellowpages.com, and maybe mapquest if I need directions?
Jimmy, Alex and I pulled an all-night "hacking" session Thursday night in the hotel room in Ottawa.
Then in the screenshot you'll notice his email ends with assbarn.com
Uhh TMI...
Well, the ability to pee while standing up is a must. So I would doubt most slashbots could replicate my expiriments.
Those are SIMILEs you halfwit.
Simile: comparision using like or as. Eg; Linux is to Windows as dog crap is to filet mignon.
Metaphor: implicit or explicit comparison without using like or as. Eg; Linux is a pile of dogshit.
Your point?
I'm not talking about gnu/linux, just linux, the kernel. Which is monolithic. Which requires a recompile every time theres a significant architecture change. Which requires most real hardware support to be bottlenecked through Linus' selection process. Which is utterly retarded if the goal is a flexible OS.
Zealots flame away, since obviously your beloved linux kernel is beyond criticism. It's still the truth.
Yuk yuk yuk..
We work with these things all the time. You can yank CPUs while its running and it won't even hiccup. You can open the side of the case and take a whiz in it, and the machine will keep chugging. Cool stuff.
They apparently have permission to modify Windows source to make that stuff work, but linux support would be nice.
Usurp Linus.
Then replace the monolithic kernel with something truly modular.
Recompiling because you bought a new mouse or sound card is friggin ridiculous. Compiling in support for every possible device under the sun and winding up with a kernel with bloat that makes Mozilla look optimized is equally ridiculous.
Thank you.
It's just entertainment. Like fortune cookies.
Noone, not even "real astrologers" take them seriously. It's just something to kill another 5 minutes after you already read the comic page.
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You will plug some cables into a router today. You will complain over a bowl of kraft dinner that you aren't making the 100,000 dollars and up that the radio commercial for MCP certs promised you. You will post grossly wrong information on slashdot to make everyone think you understand and use linux. Noone will notice as they don't know either, and you will get easy "karma" which is absolutely useless in the cosmic sense. You will not get laid, that was a stupid question.
Hey, fella.
If I didn't CHOOSE to use it, it ain't Free as in anything.
And guess what, I choose to use Windows for most things, because linux is absolutely useless to me.
You're all in love with the Chinese government because they like linux. That's just like being all in love with Hitler because you like to paint landscapes too.
How difficult is this puzzle? "Not very," Sanborn says. Not nearly as difficult
as his first encoded sculpture -- a work called "Kryptos" that he created for CIA
headquarters in Langley, Va., in 1987. That code, created with the help of a
cryptographer, is so hard to break that the CIA "will never figure it out," he says.
So why is this news for anyone not on the UNC campus?
Hi
I just wanted to let you know that we've heard that whiney tripe a million times over.
Fact is, MS has nothing to worry about, so long as linux means a marginally useful desktop, characterized by poor documentation, and an arrogant zit-faced userbase. This will not change any time soon.
MS will always own the desktop, because frankly, noone has ever COMPETED with them on TECHNICAL merit. Only on idealogical merit.
Thank you for your time.
Who says that they're going to be open source?
China has no copyright/patent/licensing treaties with the rest of the world.
They have as much respect for the GPL as they do the Windows EULA.
You call Bejing and demand that they make they're changes available via CVS. Remember, these are the same guys who ran kids over with tanks in Tiennamin square.
So what?
The top 1% of members at my local gym use the equipment well more than twice as much as everyone else combined. There are a couple professional athletes who are literally in there all day, every day.
Noone steps in and says "Sorry, you've already benchpressed your limit for this month"
So, is capping really THAT bad?
Ah yes, the old "i cant think how to use it so noone must be able to" argument.
What if I want to send video of my kids school play to my parents, ready for them to burn with their new DVD-R. There's my 3-5 gb of uploading right there.
What if I want to subscribe to divx.com or one of those places that makes movies available for download? Or iTunes or rhapsody or streaming radio, for that matter.
Broadband promises a media-rich experience, there's a ton of legitimate content out there. There'll only be more in the future. I don't pay 40 bucks a month for sporadic web browsing and email.
The problem with most capping policies is that the caps are arbitrary, and will slide lower and lower. Say the top 1% of bandwidth hogs use 30 gbs a month now, after they're gone the top users are using 25 gb a month, then 20, then 15. DirecPC lost a class action lawsuit for similar behavior.
If they cant deliver the service they promise for the price they offer, that's their problem, not mine. Let 'em go bankrupt.
Yeah, but it's all about the money and always has been.
A given "power user" of bandwidth - be it for P2P, VPN to work, streaming porn, whatever - uses more bandwidth than one hundred grandmas who just check e-mail, or maybe buy the odd birthday gift on toys'r'us.com.
So which makes more sense, one user at 40 bucks a month, or 100x40 bucks a month?
Sure, they could upgrade equipment so they could actually deliver the service they advertise - but that costs money, and the name of the game is profits.
It's much more cost effective to draw up a "we can deny you service whenever and for whatever reason we want" clause to the AUP. And redefine "unlimited" to mean "we won't tell you what the limit is until it's too late".
If you knew what the cap was, you could shape your traffic to cap yourself and never go over.
But, there's a light at the end of the tunnel, IMO.
The future of the internet is going to be bandwidth intensive. People will want to stream media, email not just blurry jpegs of the grandkids, but DVD-length files from mom's handycam. Heck, modern online gaming chews up the bandwidth something fierce, compared to the days when doom was playable over a 9600 baud modem. Xbox live with the realtime voice chat and all that jibber jabber..
When the average Joe realizes he's getting jerked around and being denied the service he payed for, watch for legitimate and fair businesses to spring forth and pick up the slack.
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