So your clients want you to bear the costs of overhead, administration, hosting, etc. while all they have to do is maintain ie6, which is probably what they had to do anyway? I can empathize with your resistance to pursue that path but economically, it makes perfect sense why your company is pursuing that. You could come up with 100 million technical reasons to NOT do it over the web, but the only language that counts for businesses to do/not do something is: money.
The only reason I buy new games is so I can trade them in within 6-12 months and get a good amount back for them. Sometimes gamestop, etc. has a special with their membership + quantity of games that blows anything like the hassle of shipping them to ebay purchasers out of the water. I am willing to pay 50-60 bucks because I know I can re-coup more than half that when I trade them back in. If they start taking that value away, then my new game budget goes down dramatically.
Of course, I generally only buy games getting 8+ or higher on all reviews, which is incredibly helpful for overall worth when trading them back in because most are not shitfests like the latest excuse for a spiderman game.
The remainder of the money I "lost" can be attributed to the premium I paid to get the game close to/on release date, and the fact that companies have to make a profit - which I'm OK with seeing as they wouldn't be investing the amount of effort it takes into getting an 8+ game out the door without the good chance of them making a buck.
That's a pretty heavy accusation you're making - that ISPs turn over that content without warrants. IIRC, such evidence collection violates the 4th amendment and is likely not admissible in court. If, OTOH, you're using a gov't network to do said transferring of files, it's not a question of evidence collection - you performed the action over gov't property.
Your presupposition is that one of them WOULD have recommended such a course.
However, anybody even close to sane that followed that school wouldn't have said such a thing, because the roots of the issue go deeper than just "not doing anything about the crisis". Things as everyday as minimum wage, to regulation, to state-sponsored monopolies, to forced-mortgage giving, to forced asset-loan ratios to fixed int(er|ra)-bank loan rates to stock markets being only daylight hours, to high US import tariffs, to the treasury's ability to print money at will all AFFECT the market in substantial ways.
The austrian principle (laissez-faire) is not a half-assed method, it requires full cooperation.
This, and because they have a different definition of value that's subjective, is generally why they're called farcical - they're unable to make any scientific-like predictions.
I paid off my car a few months ago but up until then I paid for loan-lease gap coverage. It covers the remaining 30% you quote.
For my car, which I purchased used and @ a pretty good discount, I didn't need it initially because it was probably worth about what I owed. Unfortunately, this turned for the worse when the car was hailed on 60 days (While I was at the DMV, getting plates - no shit) after my purchase and caused BB value to plummet (This was exacerbated by the ways loans work during the first two years or so of my loan). I think it did 14k damage and I bought the car for 15.5. From that day, until I paid it off, I purchased the gap coverage and I think it cost me maybe $4-5/month.
Let's see if we can get Nataline Sarkisyan on the line - you know - the 17 year old girl with Leukemia whose insurance company denied coverage to? Oh wait. She's dead. Sorry, no insurance, no live.
Do your libertarian friends subscribe to the idea that any person can manipulate, trade, lie, cheat and steal in the free market as they see fit, up to and including the infringement of the rights of others (i.e. dog eat dog), or was your capitalization of ANY a mistake?
I get this too with Intrepid 8.10 alpha6 on a core 2 duo w/ 4gb of ram. I can get it 100% of the time w/ S3Fox. Point is - it's certainly nothing related to lack of horsepower, since this machine isn't exactly old school. It's also extremely frustrating and made me all but abandon s3fox.
I ran XBMC on my gen 1 xbox many years ago. Recently I got a nice HTPC w/ elisa running - and elisa was nice. A few months ago I switched back to XBMC on my htpc, and it's well ahead of elisa. So many awesome things I don't have time to write here, but I'll name a few:
#1. 2 click IMDB scanning and automated from thereon #2. When you "stop" something from playing, and come back to it later and press play it asks you if you want to start from the beginning or resume (This is a "little thing" but really shows how much work has been put in). #3. ISO support #4. Configurable audio/subtitle delay #5. Amazing codec support. I've never found a file it won't play.
Oh it's not limited to gamer chips. One week after the July 2nd announcement, my Latitude D630 with a quadro 135M was intermittently showing two screens. Both the laptop and the card are business line. Fortunately, dell didn't offer much resistance to a replacement and had a tech out the next day.
Also you need to factor in whether *more* bandwidth is available. If all the ISPs in your area have only the same upstream provider(s), the UPs will quickly converge on organically stable rates and all UPs will likely offer the same rates to all ISPs. When you start getting a lot more UPs in the area, you can watch the costs fall appreciably.
You can use regulated companies and artificially limited competition for proving that profits abound all day long, but it doesn't change the fact that when it boils down to a (in this case a semi-free) market and competition is widespread, profits shrink. I've worked for several mom-and-pop ISPs in several (US) states (and a couple monsterous, regulated, competition-free ones) - and in every mom and pop bandwidth (and latency) was the #1 area that our customers used to gauge our service. When we could offer lower bandwidth costs in lieu of better email service, in-house gaming servers, one telephone-ring tier 2 tech support, and other "valued added services" our customers were happier (and more numerous).
Comcast used to be able to sell unlimited until p2p came along. Then they started using sandvine and other mitigating tactics to still make it 'unlimited' while continuing to make a profit. Since the FCC has now disapproved of this, Comcast has no choice but to start measuring and capping, since there's no other way to provide unlimited service. Now they've started putting 250GB monthly caps in place, which is exactly what you want. I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that soon we will see more tiers available.
Other ISPs will probably soon follow suite - especially mom and pops since it's extraordinarily expensive to do anything remotely close to traffic shaping without ungodly amounts of money for hardware. A lot of these mom and pops are going in the red in bandwidth because of p2p. Since comcast has set a precedent, they will either adapt so they can control costs, or go away.
My wording was wrong - I did understand your paragraph and was merely trying to point that JS could be very helpful when doing SS'ing since it has native Dom parsers and methods. Indeed, there are many things in JS that lend itself well to being able to "read itself" - see Douglas Crockford's comments on JSLint, for instance.
JS isn't a class based OOP language, it's prototype based OOP language - the two are _very_ different. I can understand why it's a pain in the neck. It's also a pain in the neck to force a square peg into a round hole, but is the blame on the person who made the square peg or on the person whom thinks that the square peg should indeed be able to be put in the round hole?
How in the hell is this hate speech? There are black pride movements, asian pride movements and latino movements that bear those literal names. Is that hate speech?
You're mistaking one mission named "Apollo" for the entire space program. Apollo's mission was the moon - before that many other attempts were made for human, primate and no organism spaceflight. (Gemini, Mercury, etc)
Once you factor in the accidents, cost, and time for everything, and not just the most successful leg I believe you will find that your conclusions need to be reconsidered.
The problem that we see now is NOT caused by this violation. In fact, if even if they hadn't violated the spec, the problem would still exist.
Now, as the admin for servers pushing 50M emails a day before spam, I say "Fuck You, pay for my bandwidth, servers and personnel to manage the support for forges", to all of those who whine about the spec and wanting to receive a bounce.
It might have been acceptable 10 years ago, but I assure you the spec wasn't designed at a time where you receive orderS of magnitude more spam than legit messages.
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So your clients want you to bear the costs of overhead, administration, hosting, etc. while all they have to do is maintain ie6, which is probably what they had to do anyway?
I can empathize with your resistance to pursue that path but economically, it makes perfect sense why your company is pursuing that. You could come up with 100 million technical reasons to NOT do it over the web, but the only language that counts for businesses to do/not do something is: money.
The only reason I buy new games is so I can trade them in within 6-12 months and get a good amount back for them. Sometimes gamestop, etc. has a special with their membership + quantity of games that blows anything like the hassle of shipping them to ebay purchasers out of the water. I am willing to pay 50-60 bucks because I know I can re-coup more than half that when I trade them back in. If they start taking that value away, then my new game budget goes down dramatically.
Of course, I generally only buy games getting 8+ or higher on all reviews, which is incredibly helpful for overall worth when trading them back in because most are not shitfests like the latest excuse for a spiderman game.
The remainder of the money I "lost" can be attributed to the premium I paid to get the game close to/on release date, and the fact that companies have to make a profit - which I'm OK with seeing as they wouldn't be investing the amount of effort it takes into getting an 8+ game out the door without the good chance of them making a buck.
That's a pretty heavy accusation you're making - that ISPs turn over that content without warrants. IIRC, such evidence collection violates the 4th amendment and is likely not admissible in court. If, OTOH, you're using a gov't network to do said transferring of files, it's not a question of evidence collection - you performed the action over gov't property.
The gov't controlled line that ISPs use in the interconnect will also be subject to gov't snooping and content filtering.
Why can't we do this stuff for already EXISTING hand outs? Foodstamps, low interest college loans, medic(aid|are), etc.
Instead of randomly switching between my user and root, I selected all the backup folders and changed their permissions to allow everything.
And somehow this is Linux's fault? Note: You have total ability to do this on just about any other modern OS too.
PS Chmod does NOT follow symlinks. Were you using the gnome file browser? Maybe that does, which I would consider a bug.
It does make ssh connections, at least on the newest ubuntus with pub keys set up.
Well for the strippers at least - right next to the beer volcano!
Your presupposition is that one of them WOULD have recommended such a course.
However, anybody even close to sane that followed that school wouldn't have said such a thing, because the roots of the issue go deeper than just "not doing anything about the crisis". Things as everyday as minimum wage, to regulation, to state-sponsored monopolies, to forced-mortgage giving, to forced asset-loan ratios to fixed int(er|ra)-bank loan rates to stock markets being only daylight hours, to high US import tariffs, to the treasury's ability to print money at will all AFFECT the market in substantial ways.
The austrian principle (laissez-faire) is not a half-assed method, it requires full cooperation.
This, and because they have a different definition of value that's subjective, is generally why they're called farcical - they're unable to make any scientific-like predictions.
Fortunately, evidence DOES exist that removing government controls can be wildly successful, but at a high human cost:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balcerowicz_Plan
All the references you need are right there. Look at inflation from '89-'93. 640% to 38%?
I paid off my car a few months ago but up until then I paid for loan-lease gap coverage. It covers the remaining 30% you quote.
For my car, which I purchased used and @ a pretty good discount, I didn't need it initially because it was probably worth about what I owed. Unfortunately, this turned for the worse when the car was hailed on 60 days (While I was at the DMV, getting plates - no shit) after my purchase and caused BB value to plummet (This was exacerbated by the ways loans work during the first two years or so of my loan). I think it did 14k damage and I bought the car for 15.5. From that day, until I paid it off, I purchased the gap coverage and I think it cost me maybe $4-5/month.
Let's see if we can get Nataline Sarkisyan on the line - you know - the 17 year old girl with Leukemia whose insurance company denied coverage to? Oh wait. She's dead. Sorry, no insurance, no live.
Do your libertarian friends subscribe to the idea that any person can manipulate, trade, lie, cheat and steal in the free market as they see fit, up to and including the infringement of the rights of others (i.e. dog eat dog), or was your capitalization of ANY a mistake?
I get this too with Intrepid 8.10 alpha6 on a core 2 duo w/ 4gb of ram. I can get it 100% of the time w/ S3Fox. Point is - it's certainly nothing related to lack of horsepower, since this machine isn't exactly old school. It's also extremely frustrating and made me all but abandon s3fox.
I ran XBMC on my gen 1 xbox many years ago. Recently I got a nice HTPC w/ elisa running - and elisa was nice. A few months ago I switched back to XBMC on my htpc, and it's well ahead of elisa. So many awesome things I don't have time to write here, but I'll name a few:
#1. 2 click IMDB scanning and automated from thereon
#2. When you "stop" something from playing, and come back to it later and press play it asks you if you want to start from the beginning or resume (This is a "little thing" but really shows how much work has been put in).
#3. ISO support
#4. Configurable audio/subtitle delay
#5. Amazing codec support. I've never found a file it won't play.
Oh it's not limited to gamer chips. One week after the July 2nd announcement, my Latitude D630 with a quadro 135M was intermittently showing two screens. Both the laptop and the card are business line. Fortunately, dell didn't offer much resistance to a replacement and had a tech out the next day.
Also you need to factor in whether *more* bandwidth is available. If all the ISPs in your area have only the same upstream provider(s), the UPs will quickly converge on organically stable rates and all UPs will likely offer the same rates to all ISPs. When you start getting a lot more UPs in the area, you can watch the costs fall appreciably.
You can use regulated companies and artificially limited competition for proving that profits abound all day long, but it doesn't change the fact that when it boils down to a (in this case a semi-free) market and competition is widespread, profits shrink. I've worked for several mom-and-pop ISPs in several (US) states (and a couple monsterous, regulated, competition-free ones) - and in every mom and pop bandwidth (and latency) was the #1 area that our customers used to gauge our service. When we could offer lower bandwidth costs in lieu of better email service, in-house gaming servers, one telephone-ring tier 2 tech support, and other "valued added services" our customers were happier (and more numerous).
Comcast used to be able to sell unlimited until p2p came along. Then they started using sandvine and other mitigating tactics to still make it 'unlimited' while continuing to make a profit. Since the FCC has now disapproved of this, Comcast has no choice but to start measuring and capping, since there's no other way to provide unlimited service. Now they've started putting 250GB monthly caps in place, which is exactly what you want. I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that soon we will see more tiers available.
Other ISPs will probably soon follow suite - especially mom and pops since it's extraordinarily expensive to do anything remotely close to traffic shaping without ungodly amounts of money for hardware. A lot of these mom and pops are going in the red in bandwidth because of p2p. Since comcast has set a precedent, they will either adapt so they can control costs, or go away.
Got a link for the mysql thing you mentioned?
My wording was wrong - I did understand your paragraph and was merely trying to point that JS could be very helpful when doing SS'ing since it has native Dom parsers and methods. Indeed, there are many things in JS that lend itself well to being able to "read itself" - see Douglas Crockford's comments on JSLint, for instance.
If you took the time to learn JS well, you may find it's actually extremely well suited for screen scraping with.
OOP !== Class based OOP
JS isn't a class based OOP language, it's prototype based OOP language - the two are _very_ different. I can understand why it's a pain in the neck. It's also a pain in the neck to force a square peg into a round hole, but is the blame on the person who made the square peg or on the person whom thinks that the square peg should indeed be able to be put in the round hole?
How in the hell is this hate speech? There are black pride movements, asian pride movements and latino movements that bear those literal names. Is that hate speech?
OMG TEH HAET
You're mistaking one mission named "Apollo" for the entire space program. Apollo's mission was the moon - before that many other attempts were made for human, primate and no organism spaceflight. (Gemini, Mercury, etc)
Once you factor in the accidents, cost, and time for everything, and not just the most successful leg I believe you will find that your conclusions need to be reconsidered.
The problem that we see now is NOT caused by this violation. In fact, if even if they hadn't violated the spec, the problem would still exist.
Now, as the admin for servers pushing 50M emails a day before spam, I say "Fuck You, pay for my bandwidth, servers and personnel to manage the support for forges", to all of those who whine about the spec and wanting to receive a bounce.
It might have been acceptable 10 years ago, but I assure you the spec wasn't designed at a time where you receive orderS of magnitude more spam than legit messages.