If they have the ability to know this much about the individual packets why don't they start charging individuals for improved network performance?
The network neutrality argument seems to be about wanting to charge the content producers more money for better access. Why not just charge the content consumers? If I want better response time, I pay for it. If I can't afford it I can still use the network, it will just go slow. If I want the throughput to stream video in real time I just pay more money. If I am fine with the Slashdot homepage taking 3 minutes to download because of the poor network connection I paid for that's my choice.
Its now a fairly democratic system. Anybody can say anything they want, every body can read it, but if you want to read it fast it will cost you.
I did some brief "googling" for the answer and found that estimates were supposedly given in the paper "Guidelines for a space propulsion device based on Heim's quantum theory." but I haven't found the actual contents of the paper.
Also, anyone know what is the most intense field so far?
The company's hosting provider, Lexiconn, responded by dropping WeaKnees.com as
a client, sending the company to more expensive hosting at RackSpace.com.
Does this make any sense? I can see if your legitimate traffic is exceeding a bandwidth limit that you might get dropped/forced to pay more. But a denial of service attack? Wouldn't most service providers want to help their customer with this kind or problem?
Your missing the point. The point is to produce "THE SAME BABY".
With a previous example, one guy can paint a house in 2 months. So 9 nine guys can paint nine houses in 2 months. Same as your pregnant women example.
What they CAN'T do, is paint 1 house in approximately 6 2/3.
(2 months at 30 days per month is 60/9 = 6 2/3).
The same is true of software. If one programmer can write a certain type of software in a couple of months than 9 programmers should be able to write 9 different copies of that software in a couple of months.
Who cares?
The point is to write only one piece of software in as little time as possible. It just turns out that you can't always throw N people at a project and complete it in 1/N of the original time.
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Today since its free to send everybody defines E-mail to be pretty much the same thing. However what happens when E-mail costs a penny to send? Won't every packet on the internet cost something to send? Otherwise some one can start up an open source project that implements software that provides the same functionality as E-mail but doesn't meet the current definition of e-mail, so its free to send/receive.
Would the new software be E-mail or not? It makes a difference because if it is E-mail it costs money, if it isn't its free.
First, in.NET, developers are no longer defined by the languages they use. While a C++ developer is widely considered more skilled than a Visual Basic programmer,.NET levels the playing field, positioning C# and VB.NET programmers in the same league.
Second, as.NET developers write less code and spend more time "uncovering" components in the framework and mapping those components to business processes, the role of the application developer is changing.
So the language used is supposedly irrelevant, and developers using.NET supposedly have to write little to no code.
Sounds good to me. I can use.NET without learning a new language.
Then the article says:
While all.NET languages are technically on equal footing, VB.NET and C# are widely regarded as the two most popular. Unlike VB 6 and C++, which were at "opposite ends of the world," the differences between VB.NET and C# are minor, said Janacek, who began working with.NET while it was still in beta. "You can code in C# and show that code to a VB.NET programmer, who can read it straight out. The framework controls are identical. The syntax is a little bit different. But catching errors, writing to files--that's the same across languages," he said.
Because VB.NET and C# are so similar, in effect the framework is the language itself, added Janacek. "How you structure an IF statement is minor compared to what that IF statement accomplishes through the framework. The language is deprecated, and the framework is elevated."
So for a framework that could support ALL languages, and that supposedly requires little to no coding, Microsoft created a WHOLE NEW LANGUAGE, that looks a LOT like VB to make using this development environment easier?
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The network neutrality argument seems to be about wanting to charge the content producers more money for better access. Why not just charge the content consumers? If I want better response time, I pay for it. If I can't afford it I can still use the network, it will just go slow. If I want the throughput to stream video in real time I just pay more money. If I am fine with the Slashdot homepage taking 3 minutes to download because of the poor network connection I paid for that's my choice.
Its now a fairly democratic system. Anybody can say anything they want, every body can read it, but if you want to read it fast it will cost you.
package com.vanward.coverage.example01;
public class PathCoverage {
public String pathExample(boolean condition){
String value = null;
if(condition){
value = " " + condition + " ";
}
return value.trim();
}
}
and the code was executed once with condition equal to TRUE. It then reported 100% coverage!
How is that 100% coverage? If condition was FALSE then a completely different path through the instructions would have been executed!
I would think it should have reported it as 50%. There are 2 different paths through the code and only one was executed.
I did some brief "googling" for the answer and found that estimates were supposedly given in the paper "Guidelines for a space propulsion device based on Heim's quantum theory." but I haven't found the actual contents of the paper.
Also, anyone know what is the most intense field so far?
You're kidding right. From the parent post it sounds like it went something like this:
Consultant: Your business idea is stupid.
Customer: We are brighter than you, take our money and do what we say.
Repeat.
At what point does the consultant not become a parasite? He indicated they told the customer it was a dumb idea, multiple times.
Eventually you just have to except the fact that your customer is stupid and you might as well take the money as compared to someone else taking it.
The company's hosting provider, Lexiconn, responded by dropping WeaKnees.com as a client, sending the company to more expensive hosting at RackSpace.com.
Does this make any sense? I can see if your legitimate traffic is exceeding a bandwidth limit that you might get dropped/forced to pay more. But a denial of service attack? Wouldn't most service providers want to help their customer with this kind or problem?
Your missing the point. The point is to produce "THE SAME BABY".
With a previous example, one guy can paint a house in 2 months. So 9 nine guys can paint nine houses in 2 months. Same as your pregnant women example.
What they CAN'T do, is paint 1 house in approximately 6 2/3.
(2 months at 30 days per month is 60/9 = 6 2/3).
The same is true of software. If one programmer can write a certain type of software in a couple of months than 9 programmers should be able to write 9 different copies of that software in a couple of months.
Who cares?
The point is to write only one piece of software in as little time as possible. It just turns out that you can't always throw N people at a project and complete it in 1/N of the original time.
Today since its free to send everybody defines E-mail to be pretty much the same thing. However what happens when E-mail costs a penny to send? Won't every packet on the internet cost something to send? Otherwise some one can start up an open source project that implements software that provides the same functionality as E-mail but doesn't meet the current definition of e-mail, so its free to send/receive. Would the new software be E-mail or not? It makes a difference because if it is E-mail it costs money, if it isn't its free.
First, in .NET, developers are no longer defined by the languages they use. While a C++ developer is widely considered more skilled than a Visual Basic programmer, .NET levels the playing field, positioning C# and VB.NET programmers in the same league.
Second, as .NET developers write less code and spend more time "uncovering" components in the framework and mapping those components to business processes, the role of the application developer is changing.
So the language used is supposedly irrelevant, and developers using .NET supposedly have to write little to no code.
Sounds good to me. I can use .NET without learning a new language.
Then the article says:
While all .NET languages are technically on equal footing, VB.NET and C# are widely regarded as the two most popular. Unlike VB 6 and C++, which were at "opposite ends of the world," the differences between VB.NET and C# are minor, said Janacek, who began working with .NET while it was still in beta. "You can code in C# and show that code to a VB.NET programmer, who can read it straight out. The framework controls are identical. The syntax is a little bit different. But catching errors, writing to files--that's the same across languages," he said.
Because VB.NET and C# are so similar, in effect the framework is the language itself, added Janacek. "How you structure an IF statement is minor compared to what that IF statement accomplishes through the framework. The language is deprecated, and the framework is elevated."
So for a framework that could support ALL languages, and that supposedly requires little to no coding, Microsoft created a WHOLE NEW LANGUAGE, that looks a LOT like VB to make using this development environment easier?
What am I missing?