In Canada, we've had bandwidth caps (much lower, I might add) for some time now.
That's funny, because my searches at some sites seem to indicate otherwise; that there are plenty of DSL ISPs in areas such as Toronto offering UNCAPPED DSL for around $50 per month. Oh yes I've heard of the crappy ISPs that offer a far more restrictive service for the same or a higher price. And they're the Canadian equivalent of NTL.
Australia specialises on these things.. standard for ADSL is 3GB/MONTH.. many places are changing to 6GB/month, but still.. 30GB/month would be nice.
At least Australian ISPs have an excuse, and it's a relatively good one. And that is that Australia's population is miniscule compared to that of Europe and North America, as well as its location being on the other side of the world! this means there is comparitavely very little bandwidth going to the country as a whole (what, mabye an OC3 or two?). In the UK, there is a HUGE amount of bandwidth and it's disgraceful that NTL can't be bothered to get their utterly crap network upgraded to be able to serve their users with what they advertised, and continue to charge them heavily for!
With the DSL and TV (Sky) competition in the UK, there should be *no* knowlegable people using NTL. So the question is, why are you sitting there using NTL's ever-shittier service instead of switching to a half-decent DSL ISP and getting Sky (to replace their cable TV)?
Erm, I have to correct you here... NTL and Telewest are not competing *at all* for *any* markets. They have their own cable franchises, in which they each operate *exclusive* cable services. BT (and resellers of their ADSL), however, are competing with them.
I think the word 'yawn' is similar in sound to the sound of a yawn, so it kind of reminds you of yawning, almost like seeing someone yawning in person. Yes, my yawning rate has gone up after reading these posts too, although it is getting late:-)
Speaking of coughing, ever notice that when somebody with a scratchy voice talks you constantly have to resist the urge to clear your own throat?
Yeah. Or what about when somebody has a bit of food sticking to their lips/face? I always keep licking/rubbing that area of my face because I want their face to be clean, until they clean it off.
No, honestly, I think they did the right thing by focusing more on the comedy and wackiness of The Simpsons. The whole idea is for it to be escapism, and not much like real life. Compare it with King of the Hill. That tries to portray a 'not-so-bright father trying to do his best for the family', and it's totally crap.
Indeed, Quakenet is the largest IRC network. But people don't so much talk about stuff on there as arrange clan matches. And talk about clans. And that's pretty much it. In fact, unelss you're interested in talking about your clan, in which case you'll be fine as pretty much all of the trillion and one clans in existance have a channel on Quakenet, you'll be pretty much stuck for half-interesting conversation on there. Belive me, I've tried it.
You could at least have used EFNET as an example, where there is quite a lot of interesting chat. But there are also filesharing channels. The two uses of the network sit side-by-side, with very few problems.
I know where I get it from. Personal fucking experience. See, along with an adeptness with computers often comes an ineptness to socialize. Not always, but often. It's not that the very fact that people like me like computers that puts women off. It's that we're just plain shit at socializing:-) I can't approach a woman, even when drunk. I dunno, my brain is screwed up. The inhibitions just will not be beaten.
So people like you should STFU about it being so easy to get laid!!
I don't think there's much chance of anything else happening. People will remembe the name Palladium, not whatever MS now calls it, and MS will carry on calling it what they want.
Some of you developers don't actually realise that piracy helps you. A lot. There are many programs that wouldn't have got off the ground if they'd never been pirated. People that did pay for the software wouldn't have heard about it. People who cracked it to try it out for a while, and ended up paying for it because they liked it, wouldnt have done so. And so you people would be poorer. Honestly, some of you developers are just as pathetic as the RIAA. "Save our profits!"
It's no good telling someone to buy a CD from some other artist 'but it's ok because it's the same genre'.
"It's no good telling someone to buy an OS from some other vendor 'but it's ok because it runs the same programs'."
I find it quite hilarious that you're comparing the difference between 2 music artists to the difference between 2 operating systems.
Most mainstream bands sound like at least two other bands on other labels. Sure, some artists such as Aphex Twin have a unique sound, but for every Backstreet Boys, there's always an *NSYNC and a 98 Degrees, and for every Britney Spears, there's a Christina Aguilera and a Jennifer Lopez.
TBH, this is totally irrelevant. Music is a totally different kettle of fish to a service such as, say, food retailing. The former is far less generic a service/product than the latter. Each song, no matter how samey it may be, is unique, and to tell someone that they should just 'replace it with another song' is ludicrous. It's very conceivable that, despite another song being in the same genre, they just don't like it as much. I've listened to many songs in same genres, and there are some I like more than others. Despite the fact that there are other songs that have similar styles.
Are you claiming that substitution is so imperfect, that demand for particular artists is so inelastic, that only 0.1 percent of listeners are willing to discover new music if some bands' albums are less expensive than other bands'?
Almost. I think that listeners will always be prepared to *discover* new music. What I'm saying is that demand for particular artists, or certainly particular songs from particular artists, is so incredibly inelastic, that only 0.1% of listeners would be willing to completely replace it with songs from other artists, yes.
Q: 'Why not listen to PhatCrew instead of Eminem? It's the same genre, is it not a sufficient substitution to prevent you ever wanting to listen to Eminem again?' A: 'No.'
Performers come and go, and listeners will follow their tastes. Look at what happened to fans of Tupac Shakur: when the posthumous flow of albums from Tupac's label slowed down, Eminem popped up, and Tupac fans had a new favorite rapper. Something analogous happened to Nirvana fans when Kurt Cobain died, and the same thing will happen when the Backstreet Boys break up.
But this is very different. People stopped listening to the artists mentioned because they got bored with them. They 'discovered' new artists. They didn't buy from new artists to substitute the work of the previous artists. In fact, many people who bought work from the previous artists still listen to it. They haven't, and will never, fully substitute the work of the previous artists with the work of the new artists, but merely add to their collection.
Global warming is not a problem. Talk to real experts and not loony treehuggers, and you'll hear about the climactic shift that is closely related to global warming. That is a threat to humanity and the planet's ecosystems.
But surely if climatic shift is closely related to (if not caused by) global warming, then the 'treehuggers' are still campaigning against a perfectly legitimate issue. In fact, if global warming is the cause of the problem, they should indeed be campaigning against it, because you need to stop the cause in order to stop the problem.
The absolute alternative to the major labels is small, local labels. And unless you're into Top 40 teen pop, you can find pretty much every genre well-represented on smaller labels.
Genre? Genre??? No, I didn't say favorite genre, I said favorite ARTIST. It's no good telling someone to buy a CD from some other artist 'but it's ok because it's the same genre'. It just isn't the same as buying from your favorite artist. So I ask again: How do you buy an album of your favourite RIAA musician without the record labels? Note that 99.9% of people will require the ability to buy music from their favorite MUSICIAN, not just genre, legally, if they're expected to change their vendor.
Surely the 'materials' are a fixed cost, and although some may occasionally need replacing, you shouldn't be expecting to pay for *all* the materials each time you utilize a recording studio?
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Shame for them that Britain's only cable company can't provide it.
Britain's ONLY cable company? I think Telewest might have something to say about that.
In Canada, we've had bandwidth caps (much lower, I might add) for some time now.
That's funny, because my searches at some sites seem to indicate otherwise; that there are plenty of DSL ISPs in areas such as Toronto offering UNCAPPED DSL for around $50 per month. Oh yes I've heard of the crappy ISPs that offer a far more restrictive service for the same or a higher price. And they're the Canadian equivalent of NTL.
Australia specialises on these things.. standard for ADSL is 3GB/MONTH .. many places are changing to 6GB/month, but still.. 30GB/month would be nice.
At least Australian ISPs have an excuse, and it's a relatively good one. And that is that Australia's population is miniscule compared to that of Europe and North America, as well as its location being on the other side of the world! this means there is comparitavely very little bandwidth going to the country as a whole (what, mabye an OC3 or two?). In the UK, there is a HUGE amount of bandwidth and it's disgraceful that NTL can't be bothered to get their utterly crap network upgraded to be able to serve their users with what they advertised, and continue to charge them heavily for!
Luckily, though, I don't and never will use NTL.
With the DSL and TV (Sky) competition in the UK, there should be *no* knowlegable people using NTL. So the question is, why are you sitting there using NTL's ever-shittier service instead of switching to a half-decent DSL ISP and getting Sky (to replace their cable TV)?
Erm, I have to correct you here... NTL and Telewest are not competing *at all* for *any* markets. They have their own cable franchises, in which they each operate *exclusive* cable services. BT (and resellers of their ADSL), however, are competing with them.
Couldn't the emulation of an entire OS be described as a 'subsystem'?
That leaves the quack medicines whose sales pitches are rarely FDA compliant.
You're forgetting the more hilarious "Wipe out junk eMail forever!" category.
"We'll be meeting the man who's been hiccuping for the last 30 years!"
"[hic] Kill me. [hic] Kill me. [hic] Kill me."
I think the word 'yawn' is similar in sound to the sound of a yawn, so it kind of reminds you of yawning, almost like seeing someone yawning in person. Yes, my yawning rate has gone up after reading these posts too, although it is getting late :-)
Speaking of coughing, ever notice that when somebody with a scratchy voice talks you constantly have to resist the urge to clear your own throat?
Yeah. Or what about when somebody has a bit of food sticking to their lips/face? I always keep licking/rubbing that area of my face because I want their face to be clean, until they clean it off.
What about the one where Homer is flown off in a plane to do missionary work. I love that one.
:-)
"But I don't even BELIEVE in Jeebus!"
"Help me Jeebus!!"
And later it cuts to a Fox phone-a-thon to phone in and pledge money to keep the show on the air, lol
No, honestly, I think they did the right thing by focusing more on the comedy and wackiness of The Simpsons. The whole idea is for it to be escapism, and not much like real life. Compare it with King of the Hill. That tries to portray a 'not-so-bright father trying to do his best for the family', and it's totally crap.
"The fingers you are using to dial are too fat."
:-)
"To obtain a dialling wand, please mash the keypad with your fingers."
Indeed, Quakenet is the largest IRC network. But people don't so much talk about stuff on there as arrange clan matches. And talk about clans. And that's pretty much it. In fact, unelss you're interested in talking about your clan, in which case you'll be fine as pretty much all of the trillion and one clans in existance have a channel on Quakenet, you'll be pretty much stuck for half-interesting conversation on there. Belive me, I've tried it.
You could at least have used EFNET as an example, where there is quite a lot of interesting chat. But there are also filesharing channels. The two uses of the network sit side-by-side, with very few problems.
And you get.... a sentance with pretty much no meaning whatsoever.
EFNET #c :-)
Perhaps the poster is signifying that 'policy' is a rather incorrect word for the new rules; 'act of idiocy' may be a more appropriate phrase.
I don't know where everyone gets this from.
:-) I can't approach a woman, even when drunk. I dunno, my brain is screwed up. The inhibitions just will not be beaten.
I know where I get it from. Personal fucking experience. See, along with an adeptness with computers often comes an ineptness to socialize. Not always, but often. It's not that the very fact that people like me like computers that puts women off. It's that we're just plain shit at socializing
So people like you should STFU about it being so easy to get laid!!
I don't think there's much chance of anything else happening. People will remembe the name Palladium, not whatever MS now calls it, and MS will carry on calling it what they want.
Some of you developers don't actually realise that piracy helps you. A lot. There are many programs that wouldn't have got off the ground if they'd never been pirated. People that did pay for the software wouldn't have heard about it. People who cracked it to try it out for a while, and ended up paying for it because they liked it, wouldnt have done so. And so you people would be poorer. Honestly, some of you developers are just as pathetic as the RIAA. "Save our profits!"
in soviet russia, all your next-generation secure computing base owns YOU! :-D
It's no good telling someone to buy a CD from some other artist 'but it's ok because it's the same genre'.
"It's no good telling someone to buy an OS from some other vendor 'but it's ok because it runs the same programs'."
I find it quite hilarious that you're comparing the difference between 2 music artists to the difference between 2 operating systems.
Most mainstream bands sound like at least two other bands on other labels. Sure, some artists such as Aphex Twin have a unique sound, but for every Backstreet Boys, there's always an *NSYNC and a 98 Degrees, and for every Britney Spears, there's a Christina Aguilera and a Jennifer Lopez.
TBH, this is totally irrelevant. Music is a totally different kettle of fish to a service such as, say, food retailing. The former is far less generic a service/product than the latter. Each song, no matter how samey it may be, is unique, and to tell someone that they should just 'replace it with another song' is ludicrous. It's very conceivable that, despite another song being in the same genre, they just don't like it as much. I've listened to many songs in same genres, and there are some I like more than others. Despite the fact that there are other songs that have similar styles.
Are you claiming that substitution is so imperfect, that demand for particular artists is so inelastic, that only 0.1 percent of listeners are willing to discover new music if some bands' albums are less expensive than other bands'?
Almost. I think that listeners will always be prepared to *discover* new music. What I'm saying is that demand for particular artists, or certainly particular songs from particular artists, is so incredibly inelastic, that only 0.1% of listeners would be willing to completely replace it with songs from other artists, yes.
Q: 'Why not listen to PhatCrew instead of Eminem? It's the same genre, is it not a sufficient substitution to prevent you ever wanting to listen to Eminem again?'
A: 'No.'
Performers come and go, and listeners will follow their tastes. Look at what happened to fans of Tupac Shakur: when the posthumous flow of albums from Tupac's label slowed down, Eminem popped up, and Tupac fans had a new favorite rapper. Something analogous happened to Nirvana fans when Kurt Cobain died, and the same thing will happen when the Backstreet Boys break up.
But this is very different. People stopped listening to the artists mentioned because they got bored with them. They 'discovered' new artists. They didn't buy from new artists to substitute the work of the previous artists. In fact, many people who bought work from the previous artists still listen to it. They haven't, and will never, fully substitute the work of the previous artists with the work of the new artists, but merely add to their collection.
Global warming is not a problem. Talk to real experts and not loony treehuggers, and you'll hear about the climactic shift that is closely related to global warming. That is a threat to humanity and the planet's ecosystems.
But surely if climatic shift is closely related to (if not caused by) global warming, then the 'treehuggers' are still campaigning against a perfectly legitimate issue. In fact, if global warming is the cause of the problem, they should indeed be campaigning against it, because you need to stop the cause in order to stop the problem.
The absolute alternative to the major labels is small, local labels. And unless you're into Top 40 teen pop, you can find pretty much every genre well-represented on smaller labels.
Genre? Genre??? No, I didn't say favorite genre, I said favorite ARTIST. It's no good telling someone to buy a CD from some other artist 'but it's ok because it's the same genre'. It just isn't the same as buying from your favorite artist. So I ask again: How do you buy an album of your favourite RIAA musician without the record labels? Note that 99.9% of people will require the ability to buy music from their favorite MUSICIAN, not just genre, legally, if they're expected to change their vendor.
Surely the 'materials' are a fixed cost, and although some may occasionally need replacing, you shouldn't be expecting to pay for *all* the materials each time you utilize a recording studio?