I totally disagree. Even before services like Kazaa came along, the authorities were shutting warez operations down. I remember the fright everybody got into when #warez4cable on Newnet got shut down.:-) Don't remember them making a profit.
-- A busstation is where a bus stops. A trainstation is where a train stops...... I have a workstation. Busses and trains also start at said stations, too.:-)
The MIDI I found didn't really do it justice so I MP3'd it (kudos to FCE Ultra and CoolEdit 2k, both of which rock): http://www.game-point.net/misc/smb2.mp3
I don't know much about WiFi, but 80mph seems pretty darn slow for Internet communication. An electric signal can make it around the world in 50-100ms.
Bleh. I'm not really a Firefox 'nazi' but I must say I find MS's IE popup blocker implementation to be an annoying imitation of others, inferior to Firefox's. The bar that pops up along the top of the screen is highly irritating, and not discreet enough. Combine this with the equally annoying 'IE has blocked active content' message that you CAN'T TURN OFF even if want to, and even if you can't see any active content and you're accessing a local file, and there's not a lot to praise. An inferior product brought late to market.
The EU surely aren't trying to block patents altogether? However, patents should be for a novel, physical device; not a software implementation. It's too much like trying to patent a notion, or a word, or something. It's a great idea to say that you *cannot* have patents for software, only physical devices.
you're assuming that my right to say "jews are inferior" (which I don't believe BTW) somehow infringes upon their "freedom". But which of their freedoms is supposedly infringed? How is saying something like that oppressing anybody? Incitement to racial/religious hatrid? Leading directly to others moving to the same opinion, perhaps violence being carried out on Jews, and ultimately, the tyranny of the majority causing anti-Jew candidates to be elected into government, which opens up a whole new ballpark of oppression...
Slashdot rejected this Ask Slashdot submission, everyone I've talked to says it's an excellent talking point so screw them. Please discuss:
Recently I've been trying to find a good ADSL ISP for my mother to migrate to. Her broadband provider has gone downhill rather nastily, requiring all http requests to be forced through their proxy, and tech support is £1/minute. During recent chats with people, I've mostly been given the conclusion that having ISPs offering uncapped broadband connections is ultimately unsustainable and all will be capped or PAYG in the near future. This is rather depressing, and I'd like Slashdot's thoughts on the matter. What's wrong with averaging out bandwidth costs over all users of an ISP? It seems to work OK for uncapped ISPs at the moment, and people who use the Internet just for e-mail and www don't have a massive problem paying a bit extra - on the contrary, people who use their connections a lot would have big problems if they were expected to cough up 10x more each month. I mean, what's the point in having a 10Mbit/sec connection if you're capped to 1GB/month? You'd have some trouble even streaming decent quality video, let alone doing a plethora of things that would require a lot of transfer. What's the benefit - web pages loading a few seconds faster?
I'm told that this model is unviable, not because ISPs are unable to get uncontended bandwidth from themselves to the Internet, but because of BT's side of the connection (I'm in the UK). BT's network is apparently not sufficient to cope with lots of heavy users, or they are just plain greedy, so they are beginning to charge very high prices for bandwidth. Take a look at this image, and bear in mind BT will be scrapping the 'Standard charging' option for ISPs soon.
Does this mean the best way to go is cable? They don't have the black-box infrastructure costs of BT to deal with as they run their own networks. What's the situation with uncapped ISPs in the US/Canada? Is there really a depressing future in sight where bandwidth (an abundant constantly reusable resource) is charged PAYG just like electricity (coming from scarce non-renewable resources, mainly) and other utilities?
Also, the concept of a Final Value Fee has no justification in my eyes. I can understand eBay charging a variable listing fee (depending on the item visibility & features)
I'm surprised you say that, and feel the opposite.
A well-established online auction site's costs rise very close to zero when they post somebody's auction, a listing fee is ludicrous and they're garnishing money. Want to stop spam? Hire some fecking staff to kick out spammer accounts!
Whilst eBay's final value fees are unsusprisingly high, at least the concept is sound. You get charged when you *sell* the item - the online auction site has done its job, so that's fair enough. Why shouldn't it be variable? If you've sold a $10,000 car, the site should probably be entitled to a bit more of a fee than if you've sold a $10 watch.
It's things like this that keep the word 'almost' in my motto 'I'm almost always proud to be Canadian'.
I presume another of the things is that your government enshrines the right of couples to use Sharia law to solve divorce arbitrations when all parties agree?
I saw him, as it happens, *today*. I was just reinstalling some stuff on my computer, one of which was Microsoft Office 2k; clipps is there by default! Yes, some of us still use that 4 year old piece of software, not seeing any real point in wasting more more money when Office 2k is perfectly good for our needs. What does Office XP add, anyway? Other than a slightly different UI?
I presume you're referring to the loverly Tasha Yar? I disagree, she was one of the best characters in the first season, and they only killed her off beacuse, I believe, she requested to leave. Great shame, and I'll never forgive that black slime...
Insightful?? Hello, what do you think the phrase 'dying from old age' means? It's a generic term to describe dying from one of a number of ailments that commonly kill old people, such as heart attack and liver failure. The parent was either stupid, or trying to be funny... I suspect the latter.
In the begining (1954, according to my O'Reilly poster) What the hell are you doing with that poster in your house? And, are you sure it didn't say that in the beginning was FOX?
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, because a mandatory paid web is superior to an optionally free web, isn't it? Fag.
I totally disagree. Even before services like Kazaa came along, the authorities were shutting warez operations down. I remember the fright everybody got into when #warez4cable on Newnet got shut down. :-) Don't remember them making a profit.
Isn't that a more stupid and complex measurement, not particularly useful for any kind of scientific reference, than just using pure water?
-- ... I have a workstation. :-)
A busstation is where a bus stops. A trainstation is where a train stops...
Busses and trains also start at said stations, too.
The MIDI I found didn't really do it justice so I MP3'd it (kudos to FCE Ultra and CoolEdit 2k, both of which rock):
http://www.game-point.net/misc/smb2.mp3
I don't know much about WiFi, but 80mph seems pretty darn slow for Internet communication. An electric signal can make it around the world in 50-100ms.
1. Incite foreign agency to prosecute price-undercutting music site.
2. Receive bonus from RIAA.
3. Profit!
Yeah, too simple.
Bleh. I'm not really a Firefox 'nazi' but I must say I find MS's IE popup blocker implementation to be an annoying imitation of others, inferior to Firefox's. The bar that pops up along the top of the screen is highly irritating, and not discreet enough. Combine this with the equally annoying 'IE has blocked active content' message that you CAN'T TURN OFF even if want to, and even if you can't see any active content and you're accessing a local file, and there's not a lot to praise. An inferior product brought late to market.
The EU surely aren't trying to block patents altogether? However, patents should be for a novel, physical device; not a software implementation. It's too much like trying to patent a notion, or a word, or something. It's a great idea to say that you *cannot* have patents for software, only physical devices.
you're assuming that my right to say "jews are inferior" (which I don't believe BTW) somehow infringes upon their "freedom". But which of their freedoms is supposedly infringed? How is saying something like that oppressing anybody?
Incitement to racial/religious hatrid? Leading directly to others moving to the same opinion, perhaps violence being carried out on Jews, and ultimately, the tyranny of the majority causing anti-Jew candidates to be elected into government, which opens up a whole new ballpark of oppression...
how significant of a security risk
The 'of' is superfluous and an annoyance. Please don't use it.
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Slashdot rejected this Ask Slashdot submission, everyone I've talked to says it's an excellent talking point so screw them. Please discuss:
Recently I've been trying to find a good ADSL ISP for my mother to migrate to. Her broadband provider has gone downhill rather nastily, requiring all http requests to be forced through their proxy, and tech support is £1/minute. During recent chats with people, I've mostly been given the conclusion that having ISPs offering uncapped broadband connections is ultimately unsustainable and all will be capped or PAYG in the near future. This is rather depressing, and I'd like Slashdot's thoughts on the matter. What's wrong with averaging out bandwidth costs over all users of an ISP? It seems to work OK for uncapped ISPs at the moment, and people who use the Internet just for e-mail and www don't have a massive problem paying a bit extra - on the contrary, people who use their connections a lot would have big problems if they were expected to cough up 10x more each month. I mean, what's the point in having a 10Mbit/sec connection if you're capped to 1GB/month? You'd have some trouble even streaming decent quality video, let alone doing a plethora of things that would require a lot of transfer. What's the benefit - web pages loading a few seconds faster?
I'm told that this model is unviable, not because ISPs are unable to get uncontended bandwidth from themselves to the Internet, but because of BT's side of the connection (I'm in the UK). BT's network is apparently not sufficient to cope with lots of heavy users, or they are just plain greedy, so they are beginning to charge very high prices for bandwidth. Take a look at this image, and bear in mind BT will be scrapping the 'Standard charging' option for ISPs soon.
Does this mean the best way to go is cable? They don't have the black-box infrastructure costs of BT to deal with as they run their own networks. What's the situation with uncapped ISPs in the US/Canada? Is there really a depressing future in sight where bandwidth (an abundant constantly reusable resource) is charged PAYG just like electricity (coming from scarce non-renewable resources, mainly) and other utilities?
Also, the concept of a Final Value Fee has no justification in my eyes. I can understand eBay charging a variable listing fee (depending on the item visibility & features)
I'm surprised you say that, and feel the opposite.
A well-established online auction site's costs rise very close to zero when they post somebody's auction, a listing fee is ludicrous and they're garnishing money. Want to stop spam? Hire some fecking staff to kick out spammer accounts!
Whilst eBay's final value fees are unsusprisingly high, at least the concept is sound. You get charged when you *sell* the item - the online auction site has done its job, so that's fair enough. Why shouldn't it be variable? If you've sold a $10,000 car, the site should probably be entitled to a bit more of a fee than if you've sold a $10 watch.
Yeup. eBay's stranglehold on online auctions needs to be broken. Pretty tough job, though, Walmart doesn't seem to be going away any time soon. :-(
However try to show your support for other, better auction sites, whose only problem is that they need more users. Here's one I like:
eBid US
eBid UK
Better customer service and, more importantly, no greedy-ass listing fees.
Actually, there's a load of this stupidity/'evolution' going on, and we're pretty powerless to stop it. :-)
Some of my personal hates are:
Incorrect: If he would have done something...
Correct: If he had done something...
Incorrect: Due to leaves on the line, there will be a delay...
Correct: Owing to leaves on the line, there will be a delay...
Incorrect: I will tell you if it's correct...
Correct: I will tell you whether it's correct...
... Slashdot is making a bold new move in its use of story formatting.
It's things like this that keep the word 'almost' in my motto 'I'm almost always proud to be Canadian'.
I presume another of the things is that your government enshrines the right of couples to use Sharia law to solve divorce arbitrations when all parties agree?
I saw him, as it happens, *today*. I was just reinstalling some stuff on my computer, one of which was Microsoft Office 2k; clipps is there by default! Yes, some of us still use that 4 year old piece of software, not seeing any real point in wasting more more money when Office 2k is perfectly good for our needs. What does Office XP add, anyway? Other than a slightly different UI?
I presume you're referring to the loverly Tasha Yar? I disagree, she was one of the best characters in the first season, and they only killed her off beacuse, I believe, she requested to leave. Great shame, and I'll never forgive that black slime...
"Hunt and peck" typists? You mean like this?
'Pooned' is another variant.
What do you think Natalie Portman would do if she actually viewed Slashdot some time?
Insightful?? Hello, what do you think the phrase 'dying from old age' means? It's a generic term to describe dying from one of a number of ailments that commonly kill old people, such as heart attack and liver failure. The parent was either stupid, or trying to be funny... I suspect the latter.
In the begining (1954, according to my O'Reilly poster)
What the hell are you doing with that poster in your house? And, are you sure it didn't say that in the beginning was FOX?