You don't like it leave. Its that simple. Maybe if Comcast customers started leaving in drones, Comcast would re-think their insane policy.
Do let us be realistic.
The cable companies have tens of millions of customers who would be out there cheering if the Geek's gigabyte traffic in ISOs were put on the back burner, the graveyard shift.
Because if they advertise that, knowing that they intentionally force lower speeds for some kinds of traffic, that sounds like fraud.
You share the service with others. If BT degrades the experience for others it will be throttled back. If you want max speed schedule your gigabyte downloads for off-peak hours. This is not rocket science.
and that in one line tells you why no one is cutting Rockstar any slack.
the voluntary ratings system in the states wouldn't last six months if a developer was caught leaking AO content to the net.
you could kiss goodbye any tolerance the console manufacturers might have had for home-brewed content that wasn't licensed and distributed through portals like XBox Live!
I am a great fan of Irving Berlin. He would probably be upset if he knew that ASCAP would sue you for singing "Happy Birthday" in public! Yessir, that's what I'm talking about right here, see...
If you know Irving Berlin, you should also also know that he was a charter member of ASCAP in 1914.
Dues $10 a year for writers. $50 for publishers.
ASCAP took public performance rights to the U.S. Supreme Court and won in a decision by written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: "If music did not pay, it would be given up. Whether it pays or not, the purpose of employing {it for profit is enough.]
Even if I had a screen big enough to enjoy the real benefit of HD, why the fuck would I want a locked down platform that goes out of its way to restrict my usage?
Here is one example: The big game recorded off-air in pristine digital HD. Looks damn good in large screen projection - better than DVD video - even with the constraint token enabled.
No MythBox to assemble. 2-Way CableCard support. Begin the build-up to the match with a good console sports game.
In this beer and pizza border town that is not a tough sell.
I guess dead people don't put all that much emphasis on money loss due to copyright violation.
The living do put a value on estate planning.
Does it ever occur to the eternally-adolescent geek that a man may want to leave something more to his kids and grandkids than a mortgage in the suburbs and a clapped-out '87 Toyota? Something of his own creation?
Wouldn't they rather want for their work to be as widespread as possible, that many people would enjoy their music?
Irving Berlin [1888-1989] wrote 3,000 songs, 17 film scores and 21 Broadway scores. There are about 800 CDs of his work available through Amazon.com. 22 DVDs. 4,000 collections of his sheet music.
Damn telcos took public infrastructure bought and paid for and built up over years
I posted on this the other day, but it will bear repeating.
Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated his telephone at the Centennial Exhibition - our first World's Fair - in 1876. The year Custer died at The Little Big Horn.
AT&T was incorporated in 1877 and privately financed from day one. The first Bell telephone exchange opened in 1878. The Bell system was offering long-distance services before the invention of the vacuum tube.
There have been rural co-op telcos in the states, some city-owned public utilities. But they are not significant in the evolution of the technology, they are not insignificant in terms of capital investment in infrastructure.
The privatization of infrastructure in the United States is a recurrent theme throughout our history.
There have been titanic political struggles over education, medicine, housing, agriculture, industrial development, roads, bridges, canals, railways, flood control, power generation, broadcasting - - -
Vonage has had two chances to frame a defense that would be persuasive to a judge and jury - and failed in both. The reasonable conclusion is that it doesn't have a defense.
That's a violation of common carrier status isn't it? To say what information can and can not travel along the lines?
Your message will get there when it gets there.
That is all Western Union promised your great-granddad in the days when telegrams cost ten cents a word. Traffic shaping, load balancing, whatever you chose to call it, isn't new, it just takes different forms in different eras.
In The Naked Sun, robots were used to commit by proxy:
1. A robot may not [knowingly} injure a human being or, through inaction, [knowingly] allow a human being to come to harm.
The killer an engineer motivated by sexual jealously and a desire to introduce robots into combat. His insight was that the machines would not be able to connect the dots.
What with this and the releases of Gutsy Gibbon and Leopard, this is turning out to be a bad month for furniture.
for the hammering Microsoft takes on Slashdot, we all know what Microsoft's next quarterly financial report is going to look like. we all know why "Apple' is no longer "Apple Computer." Apple sells a half dozen or so configurations of the Mac that either meet your needs or they don't. that is a profitable strategy, but it is not a strategy that dramatically increases your market share.
The logical solution then is to order Firefox be preinstalled on all copies of Windows, OEM or otherwise.
Tell me why the "logical solution" is Firefox and not any other competitive browser.
I can't help thinking that for all the Geek's talk of "freedom of choice" for the user that choice disappears when anything other than "free and open source" is available.
What is, to us, a distributed and self-replicating system of nodes to distribute information (in the form of text "articles") worldwide is, to a judge, a website that sells access to copyrighted materials and refuses to remove them. It's the same sort of roadblock torrent sites run into: computer illiteracy.
The computer literate does not pretend that binary content cannot be encoded as text. That "articles" cannot be quickly and easily combined and decoded as movies, mp3s, etc.
What the judge sees when he opens a USENET client is a connection to a unique USENET service. Each service has its own policies concerning what groups will be carried, data retention and so on.
This is not so far distant from the management of a website as a geek would like to think.
In this case Usenet.com is the host and Usenet.com is a commercial enterprise advertising ready access to pirated content as a way of attracting subscribers.
Interesting. The fact that the armed men are cops, doesn't change that? Is there an expectation that cops should shoot someone?
It was called "the felony murder rule" when I first heard of it years ago.
It means, simply, that you are responsible for any deaths, from any cause, that were set in motion by your criminal misconduct. You abduct a child who suffocates in your closet, or a woman who goes into a diabetic coma.
It is reckless endangerment, raised to the n(th) power.
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Do let us be realistic.
The cable companies have tens of millions of customers who would be out there cheering if the Geek's gigabyte traffic in ISOs were put on the back burner, the graveyard shift.
You share the service with others. If BT degrades the experience for others it will be throttled back. If you want max speed schedule your gigabyte downloads for off-peak hours. This is not rocket science.
"The Publisher for the International Building Transportation Industry" has a web page, of course: Elevator World.com
Just for fun, you'll find fifty years of elevator-geek humor in cartoon form. Collections
and that in one line tells you why no one is cutting Rockstar any slack.
the voluntary ratings system in the states wouldn't last six months if a developer was caught leaking AO content to the net.
you could kiss goodbye any tolerance the console manufacturers might have had for home-brewed content that wasn't licensed and distributed through portals like XBox Live!
If you know Irving Berlin, you should also also know that he was a charter member of ASCAP in 1914.
Dues $10 a year for writers. $50 for publishers.
ASCAP took public performance rights to the U.S. Supreme Court and won in a decision by written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: "If music did not pay, it would be given up. Whether it pays or not, the purpose of employing {it for profit is enough.]
As Irving Berlin, Inc., Berlin owned [or purchased] the rights to every song he ever wrote. Always: A singer's journey through the life of Irving Berlin
Here is one example: The big game recorded off-air in pristine digital HD. Looks damn good in large screen projection - better than DVD video - even with the constraint token enabled.
No MythBox to assemble. 2-Way CableCard support. Begin the build-up to the match with a good console sports game.
In this beer and pizza border town that is not a tough sell.
The living do put a value on estate planning.
Does it ever occur to the eternally-adolescent geek that a man may want to leave something more to his kids and grandkids than a mortgage in the suburbs and a clapped-out '87 Toyota? Something of his own creation?
Wouldn't they rather want for their work to be as widespread as possible, that many people would enjoy their music?
Irving Berlin [1888-1989] wrote 3,000 songs, 17 film scores and 21 Broadway scores. There are about 800 CDs of his work available through Amazon.com. 22 DVDs. 4,000 collections of his sheet music.
The w3Schools stats track close to those you will find elsewhere:
Operating System Market Share By Net Applications {October 20, 2007]
The September OS stats from w3Schools are out and make interesting reading:
Vista 4.5% Up From O% in January 07 Up 0.5% since August 07
There has been a roughly 5% drop in XP and W2K combined since January 07.
OSX 3.8% Back to where it was in December 06
Linux 3.4% Up from 3% in May 04
Windows users upgrade within the Windows family, Mac users within the Mac family. Linux users stay where they are. News at eleven.
The obvious choice is to stay with Windows and keep your hardware and software.
Migration to the alternative OS has much appeal to the average user as root canal. That is why Apple needs Boot Camp.
I posted on this the other day, but it will bear repeating.
Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated his telephone at the Centennial Exhibition - our first World's Fair - in 1876. The year Custer died at The Little Big Horn.
AT&T was incorporated in 1877 and privately financed from day one. The first Bell telephone exchange opened in 1878. The Bell system was offering long-distance services before the invention of the vacuum tube.
There have been rural co-op telcos in the states, some city-owned public utilities. But they are not significant in the evolution of the technology, they are not insignificant in terms of capital investment in infrastructure.
The privatization of infrastructure in the United States is a recurrent theme throughout our history.
There have been titanic political struggles over education, medicine, housing, agriculture, industrial development, roads, bridges, canals, railways, flood control, power generation, broadcasting - - -
Vonage has had two chances to frame a defense that would be persuasive to a judge and jury - and failed in both. The reasonable conclusion is that it doesn't have a defense.
The questions that come to mind:
1 How often is the game patched and how big are the patches?
2 How are the downloads scheduled? Off-peak hours?
3 If patches are downloaded in the background does it matter to the player whether the downloads take two hours or two weeks?
I see nothing time-critical here.
These aren't messages in any ordinary meaning of the word. They are traffic control signals used to manage their network.
Your message will get there when it gets there.
That is all Western Union promised your great-granddad in the days when telegrams cost ten cents a word. Traffic shaping, load balancing, whatever you chose to call it, isn't new, it just takes different forms in different eras.
If 3D killed Grim Fandango I can't think of a better way to die.
In The Naked Sun, robots were used to commit by proxy:
1. A robot may not [knowingly} injure a human being or, through inaction, [knowingly] allow a human being to come to harm.
The killer an engineer motivated by sexual jealously and a desire to introduce robots into combat. His insight was that the machines would not be able to connect the dots.
for the hammering Microsoft takes on Slashdot, we all know what Microsoft's next quarterly financial report is going to look like. we all know why "Apple' is no longer "Apple Computer." Apple sells a half dozen or so configurations of the Mac that either meet your needs or they don't. that is a profitable strategy, but it is not a strategy that dramatically increases your market share.
Tell me why the "logical solution" is Firefox and not any other competitive browser.
I can't help thinking that for all the Geek's talk of "freedom of choice" for the user that choice disappears when anything other than "free and open source" is available.
It's a typo. So sue me. Bell's patent was issued in 1876 and the telephone was a big hit that year at the Centennial Expo in Philadelphia.
The computer literate does not pretend that binary content cannot be encoded as text. That "articles" cannot be quickly and easily combined and decoded as movies, mp3s, etc.
What the judge sees when he opens a USENET client is a connection to a unique USENET service. Each service has its own policies concerning what groups will be carried, data retention and so on.
This is not so far distant from the management of a website as a geek would like to think.
In this case Usenet.com is the host and Usenet.com is a commercial enterprise advertising ready access to pirated content as a way of attracting subscribers.
It was called "the felony murder rule" when I first heard of it years ago.
It means, simply, that you are responsible for any deaths, from any cause, that were set in motion by your criminal misconduct. You abduct a child who suffocates in your closet, or a woman who goes into a diabetic coma.
It is reckless endangerment, raised to the n(th) power.
Most of the intelligent people I know--self included--found something of merit in series like The Sopranos and Deadwood. Lost. Heroes.
I did not think my time was wasted in watching last week's Monday Night Football match-up with the Bills.
Usenet.com is a host, not a carrier. It advertises easy access to pirated content. It is Usenet.com that may be going down, like Grokster.