The problem with this plan is that it doesn't scale out. It's subject to the Windmill effect, where it's contesting with other uses for land, and eventually, it will be a source of clutter on the landscape.
We need to move our solar power generation to space. Something along the lines of this:
However, if we modified the satellite to act as a go-between rather than as a primary collector, and placed our solar panels in orbit around the sun rather than in orbit around the earth, that would scale out indefinitely. By the time we ran out of room to grow, we'd have a Dyson sphere and be capturing the radiant energy output of the entire sun.
This is what we should do. If we could build such, it would herald a new golden age of mankind.
It's a giant library where you browse a vast list of free programs and install them with a click. She understands it a hell of a lot easier than running D:/setup.exe.
Ubuntu is easier to use than Windows, not less. It's also easier to install. You can install all that crapware that grandma likes through Synaptic without having to spend a dime.
I love it when people pull out Russia as an example of a failed socialist economy, all the while, ignoring the fact that they never had a moment of peace that whole time, because of us and our allies.
It'll be great fun to see how much better capitalism does when the shoe is on the other foot.
MySQL has lax enforcement of constraints. Which is a big black eye, and makes it totally unsuitable for a number of important tasks for which people are willing to pay good money.
However, when you've already made the choice that you're going to compromise on your constraints and referential integrity, it makes multi-master clustering a lot easier.
This is the niche in which MySQL fits.
That said, I don't like it, and use Postgres for my own projects.
Give it a rest. This horseshit was tired when you started parroting it, and it's well past its sell-by date now. Crap like this is why people think Linux users are paranoid morons.
Suck my dick. Make sure you rub it all over your face while you do it, I like that.
There's no real class system here. The comments about low UIDs are a JOKE, okay? It's really more of a meritocracy. If you are tactful, humble, erudite, and most of all, well informed on the subject you are posting about, you will be respected and modded up, even if the view is unpopular and you have a seven digit UID. If you are an asshole or an idiot, you will be modded down. As a general rule. There are exceptions.
It's true. I'm an asshole, and I get modded up all the time.
Vista is slow because their first priority was implementing DRM and Trusted Computing, and everything else came second to that. Vista was all about selling the install base to the various industries that generate their revenue by leveraging intellectual property. That being the case, it's not very likely to be ported to a lightweight device that doesn't have hardware support for TC.
You sound like a faggot or a feminist. Human rights activist maybe?
The fact that right and wrong are subjective doesn't mean that they're just some airy-fairy thing that you can pull out of your ass as some opinion that came to you in a dream.
It means that right and wrong varies depending on the environment and situation.
Where the environment and situation are the same, right and wrong are the same.
When you're talking about societies, the first pillar of right and wrong is, does this allow us to continue to exist, does it prevent us from continuing to exist.
Democracy only works when the participants care about their society and it's continued existence. If the participants do not care about the life of the society, but only about their own narrow little view, it's wrong for a society to allow them to have a voice.
The evidence that it is wrong is that such societies destroy themselves within the span of a few generations.
A society is to a person as a person is to a cell.
It is moral and right for a cell to attempt to live.
It is not moral and right for me to be prevented from diving out of the way of an oncoming car because that action would scrape the cell off my knee.
There is a difference between tolerating those who are too weak and broken to be good and enshrining them as an example of what good is.
When those who are too weak and broken to be good attempt to subvert the larger society, they move from being tolerable to being a threat to society.
It is still be good from their perspective to attempt to defend their own existence, but it's also good from a larger perspective to attempt to prevent them by any means necessary.
If you're not capable of thinking about the world from this perspective, then you're not mature enough to be talking about what right and wrong mean.
You're right. I don't know how many of my old school chums living in South Korea are complaining about that exact situation. Probably something like, oh, zero?
The society they are operating in will turn into a ghost town, all the businesses would leave for greener pastures, there will be no tax revenue, and everything will collapse into chaos.
Good and cheap communication and information infrastructure gives the entire nation a competitive advantage and makes currently accepted levels of productivity per man hour possible.
Yeah, I'm sure the standards of government competence and honesty in China, India and Russia easily outstrip those in backward countries like the USA.
I don't personally know anyone who would disagree with that statement. You've pretty much hit the nail on the head. Though, to be fair, they've been catching up fast.
Douglas Adams' phrase "First up against the wall when the revolution comes" comes to mind. The thieves, con artists and liars running Sony, Microsoft, Comcast, and all the big companies that got their money the hard way (stealing it) are going to get their come uppance.
My fear is that they will get it through armed revolution.
Man, I'm looking forward to it. I don't know if I'll be actively participating or just eating popcorn, but I'm going to enjoy it either way.
You are against movie theaters charging per movie as well?
No, but I'm against movie theaters that seat 100 people creating a monthly service that guarantees you a seat and signing 1000 people up for that service.
Unfortunate thing is, some other countries actually bit the bullet and invested in building that infrastructure that is so unreasonable, and now companies are going there instead and bringing their capital investment with them. South Korea comes to mind.
You can make all the noise you want about how unreasonable it is to build ten lane highways, it doesn't change the fact that the infrastructure hasn't seen adequate investment by the big telecommunication monopolies, not just by some absolute measure pulled out of the sky, but relative to other nations. They have, however, been making record profits, year after year.
Excuses work great when you're the only game in town. Not so good when your neighbour is delivering instead of making excuses.
It doesn't matter if I rent it to someone with a family of 2, or a family of 5, it still costs me the same amount of annual maintenance, because I only have one house.
It doesn't matter if you're never home, or never leave, it still costs me the same amount of annual maintenance.
Line costs are like a house. You add up the capacity, you divide it by the amount of capacity you promise people, that's how many people you can support on your service. You divide your annual costs by that number, add a percentage for profit, and that is how you should price your services.
Now, as far as adding capacity, that's like building another house. It lets you get more customers, it doesn't make your existing customers more expensive to service.
The reason that the ISPs are having trouble is because their business model is based on fraud.
The fact that this fraud is normalized to the point that people consider it business as usual doesn't change the fact that they were fraudulently selling capacity they didn't have to deliver.
At the end of the day, they were renting the house out to several people at once, in the hopes that they would all be business travelers who are hardly ever home and there would always be an empty house when they needed it.
Now, all those business travelers are retiring all at once, and the fraud is being revealed.
This is the current ISPs business model. This is why they are throwing a fit.
When you get right down to it, it shouldn't be the responsibility of the public to eat the cost of their line improvements. They've been making large profits on false pretenses, and it should be those profits that are used to build the lines and rectify the situation.
Absolutely right. I've often wondered why we don't treat internet service like any other utility. If I use more water, I get a larger water bill. Same goes for electricity. Why don't we do the same thing for ISP's? A lot of people bristle at the idea of this, but I kindof like it. That way people that only use the internet for email and light web surfing are charged less than people who troll Youtube all day.
The reason we shouldn't do the same thing for ISPs is because it's not in sync with the way their costs are determined, and because it acts as an artifical barrier, keeping those who most need access to information to better themselves furthest away from it.
The real costs for ISPs are not variable with use. They have a fixed cost to maintain the infrastructure, and capital investments to build new infrastructure. That's it, that's all. I don't want the massive numbers of ignorant poor people to be discouraged from learning and remain stupid, poor and of limited usefulness, and I don't want to participate in business relationships with organizations that do want that. Do you?
I wrote something like this 5 years ago, so we could have a chat meeting with some clients who were behind a corporate firewall. It wasn't that pretty, but it did pretty much the same thing, and it only took a couple of hours to write.
I would be ashamed to put something so trivial out into the community and charge people money for it.
Wish my girlfriend bent over as quickly and easily as Google.
So, when will Google be taking down every other service offering they have besides search? Everything they offer outside of Search and Google Earth are "me-too" products when you get right down to it.
You're crazy to think that this was a waste of time and that we should more emulate China and India with rote memorization of equations. Give me an engineer who can build something any day of the week.
Easy to say that when you're not responsible for actually delivering those engineers that can build something. If you were, you would have already spent enough time trying and failing in the local market and you would know why it's necessary to go elsewhere. People who need to retreat to the meaningless and inane to find satisfaction in their work aren't the best people to have on your project. They have a tendency to retreat from reality.
Your 15 minutes of fame are here. If you would like to capitalize on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, I would suggest you contact our agency immediately. We have companies lined up, looking for advertising space, and if you act RIGHT NOW, we can offer you a lucrative advertising contract. We have excellent rates available for both rooftop and curtain based advertising.
Clearly, you didn't bother reading the essay I wrote, in which I break all this down for you. You just want to talk trash. I don't have time to waste on trash, sorry. Try a trailer park.
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The problem with this plan is that it doesn't scale out. It's subject to the Windmill effect, where it's contesting with other uses for land, and eventually, it will be a source of clutter on the landscape.
We need to move our solar power generation to space. Something along the lines of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_satellite
Except that this, too, does not scale.
However, if we modified the satellite to act as a go-between rather than as a primary collector, and placed our solar panels in orbit around the sun rather than in orbit around the earth, that would scale out indefinitely. By the time we ran out of room to grow, we'd have a Dyson sphere and be capturing the radiant energy output of the entire sun.
This is what we should do. If we could build such, it would herald a new golden age of mankind.
It's a giant library where you browse a vast list of free programs and install them with a click. She understands it a hell of a lot easier than running D:/setup.exe.
Face it. Microsoft are dead. Move on.
Ubuntu is easier to use than Windows, not less. It's also easier to install. You can install all that crapware that grandma likes through Synaptic without having to spend a dime.
I love it when people pull out Russia as an example of a failed socialist economy, all the while, ignoring the fact that they never had a moment of peace that whole time, because of us and our allies.
It'll be great fun to see how much better capitalism does when the shoe is on the other foot.
MySQL has lax enforcement of constraints. Which is a big black eye, and makes it totally unsuitable for a number of important tasks for which people are willing to pay good money.
However, when you've already made the choice that you're going to compromise on your constraints and referential integrity, it makes multi-master clustering a lot easier.
This is the niche in which MySQL fits.
That said, I don't like it, and use Postgres for my own projects.
Give it a rest. This horseshit was tired when you started parroting it, and it's well past its sell-by date now. Crap like this is why people think Linux users are paranoid morons.
Suck my dick. Make sure you rub it all over your face while you do it, I like that.
There's no real class system here. The comments about low UIDs are a JOKE, okay? It's really more of a meritocracy. If you are tactful, humble, erudite, and most of all, well informed on the subject you are posting about, you will be respected and modded up, even if the view is unpopular and you have a seven digit UID. If you are an asshole or an idiot, you will be modded down. As a general rule. There are exceptions.
It's true. I'm an asshole, and I get modded up all the time.
Vista is slow because their first priority was implementing DRM and Trusted Computing, and everything else came second to that. Vista was all about selling the install base to the various industries that generate their revenue by leveraging intellectual property. That being the case, it's not very likely to be ported to a lightweight device that doesn't have hardware support for TC.
You sound like a faggot or a feminist. Human rights activist maybe?
The fact that right and wrong are subjective doesn't mean that they're just some airy-fairy thing that you can pull out of your ass as some opinion that came to you in a dream.
It means that right and wrong varies depending on the environment and situation.
Where the environment and situation are the same, right and wrong are the same.
When you're talking about societies, the first pillar of right and wrong is, does this allow us to continue to exist, does it prevent us from continuing to exist.
Democracy only works when the participants care about their society and it's continued existence. If the participants do not care about the life of the society, but only about their own narrow little view, it's wrong for a society to allow them to have a voice.
The evidence that it is wrong is that such societies destroy themselves within the span of a few generations.
A society is to a person as a person is to a cell.
It is moral and right for a cell to attempt to live.
It is not moral and right for me to be prevented from diving out of the way of an oncoming car because that action would scrape the cell off my knee.
There is a difference between tolerating those who are too weak and broken to be good and enshrining them as an example of what good is.
When those who are too weak and broken to be good attempt to subvert the larger society, they move from being tolerable to being a threat to society.
It is still be good from their perspective to attempt to defend their own existence, but it's also good from a larger perspective to attempt to prevent them by any means necessary.
If you're not capable of thinking about the world from this perspective, then you're not mature enough to be talking about what right and wrong mean.
Do you really think the government could build the internet, when neither the Census nor the FBI can even order computers?
Not without some major changes. Stick em up against the wall.
You're right. I don't know how many of my old school chums living in South Korea are complaining about that exact situation. Probably something like, oh, zero?
You know what will happen if ISPs do that?
The society they are operating in will turn into a ghost town, all the businesses would leave for greener pastures, there will be no tax revenue, and everything will collapse into chaos.
Good and cheap communication and information infrastructure gives the entire nation a competitive advantage and makes currently accepted levels of productivity per man hour possible.
It's not a luxury item.
Yeah, I'm sure the standards of government competence and honesty in China, India and Russia easily outstrip those in backward countries like the USA.
I don't personally know anyone who would disagree with that statement. You've pretty much hit the nail on the head. Though, to be fair, they've been catching up fast.
Douglas Adams' phrase "First up against the wall when the revolution comes" comes to mind. The thieves, con artists and liars running Sony, Microsoft, Comcast, and all the big companies that got their money the hard way (stealing it) are going to get their come uppance. My fear is that they will get it through armed revolution.
Man, I'm looking forward to it. I don't know if I'll be actively participating or just eating popcorn, but I'm going to enjoy it either way.
You are against movie theaters charging per movie as well?
No, but I'm against movie theaters that seat 100 people creating a monthly service that guarantees you a seat and signing 1000 people up for that service.
Would you be in favour of such a service?
Yeah, that's the conventional logic.
Unfortunate thing is, some other countries actually bit the bullet and invested in building that infrastructure that is so unreasonable, and now companies are going there instead and bringing their capital investment with them. South Korea comes to mind.
You can make all the noise you want about how unreasonable it is to build ten lane highways, it doesn't change the fact that the infrastructure hasn't seen adequate investment by the big telecommunication monopolies, not just by some absolute measure pulled out of the sky, but relative to other nations. They have, however, been making record profits, year after year.
Excuses work great when you're the only game in town. Not so good when your neighbour is delivering instead of making excuses.
Here's an illustration:
I have a house. I rent it out.
It doesn't matter if I rent it to someone with a family of 2, or a family of 5, it still costs me the same amount of annual maintenance, because I only have one house.
It doesn't matter if you're never home, or never leave, it still costs me the same amount of annual maintenance.
Line costs are like a house. You add up the capacity, you divide it by the amount of capacity you promise people, that's how many people you can support on your service. You divide your annual costs by that number, add a percentage for profit, and that is how you should price your services.
Now, as far as adding capacity, that's like building another house. It lets you get more customers, it doesn't make your existing customers more expensive to service.
The reason that the ISPs are having trouble is because their business model is based on fraud.
The fact that this fraud is normalized to the point that people consider it business as usual doesn't change the fact that they were fraudulently selling capacity they didn't have to deliver.
At the end of the day, they were renting the house out to several people at once, in the hopes that they would all be business travelers who are hardly ever home and there would always be an empty house when they needed it.
Now, all those business travelers are retiring all at once, and the fraud is being revealed.
This is the current ISPs business model. This is why they are throwing a fit.
When you get right down to it, it shouldn't be the responsibility of the public to eat the cost of their line improvements. They've been making large profits on false pretenses, and it should be those profits that are used to build the lines and rectify the situation.
Absolutely right. I've often wondered why we don't treat internet service like any other utility. If I use more water, I get a larger water bill. Same goes for electricity. Why don't we do the same thing for ISP's? A lot of people bristle at the idea of this, but I kindof like it. That way people that only use the internet for email and light web surfing are charged less than people who troll Youtube all day.
The reason we shouldn't do the same thing for ISPs is because it's not in sync with the way their costs are determined, and because it acts as an artifical barrier, keeping those who most need access to information to better themselves furthest away from it.
The real costs for ISPs are not variable with use. They have a fixed cost to maintain the infrastructure, and capital investments to build new infrastructure. That's it, that's all. I don't want the massive numbers of ignorant poor people to be discouraged from learning and remain stupid, poor and of limited usefulness, and I don't want to participate in business relationships with organizations that do want that. Do you?
I wrote something like this 5 years ago, so we could have a chat meeting with some clients who were behind a corporate firewall. It wasn't that pretty, but it did pretty much the same thing, and it only took a couple of hours to write.
I would be ashamed to put something so trivial out into the community and charge people money for it.
Wish my girlfriend bent over as quickly and easily as Google.
So, when will Google be taking down every other service offering they have besides search? Everything they offer outside of Search and Google Earth are "me-too" products when you get right down to it.
You're crazy to think that this was a waste of time and that we should more emulate China and India with rote memorization of equations. Give me an engineer who can build something any day of the week.
Easy to say that when you're not responsible for actually delivering those engineers that can build something. If you were, you would have already spent enough time trying and failing in the local market and you would know why it's necessary to go elsewhere. People who need to retreat to the meaningless and inane to find satisfaction in their work aren't the best people to have on your project. They have a tendency to retreat from reality.
Smarts, maybe. Wisdom, definitely not. What a stupid thing to waste so much time on. I bet they're big video game players too.
Signs, signs, everywhere signs
Blocking out the scenery, breaking my mind
Do this, don't do that... can't you read the signs?
Dear Mr and Mrs McKee,
Your 15 minutes of fame are here. If you would like to capitalize on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, I would suggest you contact our agency immediately. We have companies lined up, looking for advertising space, and if you act RIGHT NOW, we can offer you a lucrative advertising contract. We have excellent rates available for both rooftop and curtain based advertising.
Sincerely,
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My kid has her own PC. Doesn't stop her from using her Speak and Spell, her LeapPad or her Etch-a-Sketch.
Just because new toys come along with technology that makes geeks go "Gee-whiz that's cool' doesn't mean the old tools suddenly become garbage.
Hell, half the time the new tools are the garbage, just takes you a little while after purchase to find out.
Clearly, you didn't bother reading the essay I wrote, in which I break all this down for you. You just want to talk trash. I don't have time to waste on trash, sorry. Try a trailer park.