I was being rather facetious in my comment, as it's widely known that there are numerous significant problems with Slashdot moderation, and moderators often appear to take leave of their senses when using their powers (the "cracksmoking moderators" effect).
Not only that. If you have a/48, that gives you 80 variable bits (IPv6 addresses are 128 bits long), which gives you 2^80 IPs (1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176). That's more than enough to give every atom in your house an IP, let alone every appliance.
Several comments in this discussion were modded up when they probably shouldn't have been. Meanwhile others, like yours, have not been modded up because the moderators have wasted their points modding the wrong material.
I am very skeptical of your claims that Slashdot moderators sometimes err in their decisions.
Exactly! I read all the pages on the website, and I can tell that it's Peer-to-Peer, Open Source, uses XML, private/public key crypto, and so on, but I still don't know what it does with all that.
it would mean we might have to set up our own Jabber servers to really get the level of service we want.
So let me get this straight - you're complaining that to get full control over how you use IM, you have to set up your own IM server, while if you use one graciously provided by someone else, you have to play by their rules. What's the problem with that? I don't see why you have some sort of god-given right to use AOL's servers. The only legitimate complaint I see is that AIM already has a huge market share, which makes entry into the field have a high barrier, but if they're going to interoperate with other servers, that removes that argument - all you have to do to use IM how you want is to run the server yourself, rather than leeching off theirs.
While that was some of the degeneration, I think that even in the days of mIRC and pingfloods/winnuke it was still better than now. True, any means available were used to attack individuals, but still nobody would actually attack the servers. I'm not sure if this was due to actual logic (i.e. "i want to take over this channel, but i can't do that if i kill the server") or just due to the fact that DDoS wasn't prevalent enough, and while a T1 could flatten modem users, it couldn't take down a sizable network like EFNet.
Actually it's more often used to justify tax cuts, arguing that the trickle-down effects of a tax cut putting more money into circulation will result in a larger economy and hence the government will actually collect more money in taxes at the lower tax rate.
Of course the fact that this is a university in Berlin conducting the study (which is hosted on a *.de server) might have something to do with the high percentage of German respondents.
The problem is that a pair of channels (one up, one down) is needed for each ISP, to keep their networks from interfering with each other. As there are not an unlimited number of channels, AOL cannot allow an unlimited number of ISPs to use the network. The situation with DSL is much simpler, and does not have these problems.
Which means that AOL was in fact correct in claiming that they could not open up their service to unlimited other ISPs, but only a certain number, and it was michael, not AOL, telling the untruths...
It's not ridiculous for Microsoft to send a letter to OSDN asking them to verify their server licenses, as they do use Microsoft products for their servers. Take a look.
Europeans don't build smaller-engine cars to be more energy efficient, they build them because many EU countries tax engines by the volume they take up. So they make smaller engines but with higher compression ratios, so they end up being about the same in efficiency.
No, DVD-RAM similar to an a competitor to DVD-RW (analogous to a CD-RW). Here "RAM" is used to indicate that random access (reads/writes) is supporter, as opposed to DVD-ROM which only supports reads.
Not anymore, because I've come to determine that X sucks, which is why it's now just a firewall/router box (headless). It used to be an attempt at a Linux workstation before I gave that up...
See I run a Linux router/firewall, and I do that too. 99% of the time it works. X fubared the display? No problem, reboot and it works again. ipfilter stopped forwarding NAT packets for some reason? No problem, restart it and it works again. etc.
But you see the problem is that people *won't* turn away from the conventional media sources. You might not like the pop bands, but the majority of people do.
How can OSDN earn money ?
Web banners ? Ad banners on Slashdot and Freshmeat are all for other OSDN services (valinux, sourceforge, thinkgeek or free software) .
Well to be fair, Thinkgeek does make money off things other than ad banners.
A private company's growth is a direct function of revenue, profit, and cash position. It's growth is a direct result of it's past successes. An IPO creates an unnatural influx of cash that the company didn't "earn" and doesn't necessarily know what to do with. It permits the company to spend money on things they wouldn't DREAM of spending money on if they were still private. In other words, it permits the company to make decisions and do things that are not necessarily good business.
I dunno about this one. An IPO is just securing a round of funding from a good deal of investors; how is this different from a private company securing a round of funding from venture capitalists?
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If you have window.open disabled and so never see the ads, how do they annoy you so much?
I was being rather facetious in my comment, as it's widely known that there are numerous significant problems with Slashdot moderation, and moderators often appear to take leave of their senses when using their powers (the "cracksmoking moderators" effect).
Not only that. If you have a /48, that gives you 80 variable bits (IPv6 addresses are 128 bits long), which gives you 2^80 IPs (1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176). That's more than enough to give every atom in your house an IP, let alone every appliance.
Several comments in this discussion were modded up when they probably shouldn't have been. Meanwhile others, like yours, have not been modded up because the moderators have wasted their points modding the wrong material.
I am very skeptical of your claims that Slashdot moderators sometimes err in their decisions.
Exactly! I read all the pages on the website, and I can tell that it's Peer-to-Peer, Open Source, uses XML, private/public key crypto, and so on, but I still don't know what it does with all that.
it would mean we might have to set up our own Jabber servers to really get the level of service we want.
So let me get this straight - you're complaining that to get full control over how you use IM, you have to set up your own IM server, while if you use one graciously provided by someone else, you have to play by their rules. What's the problem with that? I don't see why you have some sort of god-given right to use AOL's servers. The only legitimate complaint I see is that AIM already has a huge market share, which makes entry into the field have a high barrier, but if they're going to interoperate with other servers, that removes that argument - all you have to do to use IM how you want is to run the server yourself, rather than leeching off theirs.
Yeah, that must be why nobody uses patent-encumbered standards like mp3.
DVD R Drive - $700
20 DVD R disks - $500
total: $1200 for 100gb
20 Toshiba 5gb PCMCIA cards - $8000
total: $8000 for 100gb
It's a Jello Biafra spoken word piece, not a Dead Kennedys song.
While that was some of the degeneration, I think that even in the days of mIRC and pingfloods/winnuke it was still better than now. True, any means available were used to attack individuals, but still nobody would actually attack the servers. I'm not sure if this was due to actual logic (i.e. "i want to take over this channel, but i can't do that if i kill the server") or just due to the fact that DDoS wasn't prevalent enough, and while a T1 could flatten modem users, it couldn't take down a sizable network like EFNet.
Actually it's more often used to justify tax cuts, arguing that the trickle-down effects of a tax cut putting more money into circulation will result in a larger economy and hence the government will actually collect more money in taxes at the lower tax rate.
Of course the fact that this is a university in Berlin conducting the study (which is hosted on a *.de server) might have something to do with the high percentage of German respondents.
The problem is that a pair of channels (one up, one down) is needed for each ISP, to keep their networks from interfering with each other. As there are not an unlimited number of channels, AOL cannot allow an unlimited number of ISPs to use the network. The situation with DSL is much simpler, and does not have these problems.
Which means that AOL was in fact correct in claiming that they could not open up their service to unlimited other ISPs, but only a certain number, and it was michael, not AOL, telling the untruths...
It's not ridiculous for Microsoft to send a letter to OSDN asking them to verify their server licenses, as they do use Microsoft products for their servers. Take a look.
You know, you could always use a modem like the rest of us. It's not like downloading pirated music and porn videos is a necessity.
Only on Slashdot would this even be a question...
Europeans don't build smaller-engine cars to be more energy efficient, they build them because many EU countries tax engines by the volume they take up. So they make smaller engines but with higher compression ratios, so they end up being about the same in efficiency.
No, DVD-RAM similar to an a competitor to DVD-RW (analogous to a CD-RW). Here "RAM" is used to indicate that random access (reads/writes) is supporter, as opposed to DVD-ROM which only supports reads.
So get a yahoomail account. Or hotmail.
Not anymore, because I've come to determine that X sucks, which is why it's now just a firewall/router box (headless). It used to be an attempt at a Linux workstation before I gave that up...
See I run a Linux router/firewall, and I do that too. 99% of the time it works. X fubared the display? No problem, reboot and it works again. ipfilter stopped forwarding NAT packets for some reason? No problem, restart it and it works again. etc.
But you see the problem is that people *won't* turn away from the conventional media sources. You might not like the pop bands, but the majority of people do.
How can OSDN earn money ?
Web banners ? Ad banners on Slashdot and Freshmeat are all for other OSDN services (valinux, sourceforge, thinkgeek or free software) .
Well to be fair, Thinkgeek does make money off things other than ad banners.
TIME TO SELL LOTS AND LOTS OF PENGUIN MINTS !!
A private company's growth is a direct function of revenue, profit, and cash position. It's growth is a direct result of it's past successes. An IPO creates an unnatural influx of cash that the company didn't "earn" and doesn't necessarily know what to do with. It permits the company to spend money on things they wouldn't DREAM of spending money on if they were still private. In other words, it permits the company to make decisions and do things that are not necessarily good business.
I dunno about this one. An IPO is just securing a round of funding from a good deal of investors; how is this different from a private company securing a round of funding from venture capitalists?