While I don't agree with incumbents legislating the competition out of the picture, what's really so wrong with this bill?
#1 - Seems fair that they should follow the rules that everyone else does #2 & #3 - The "company" should support itself. It shouldn't rely on say property taxes of everyone to subsidize the telecommunications fees for some, or any excess telecommunications fees shouldn't be used to say pave roads. If a municipal bond is required for the initial capital, the bond should only be for the project. It shouldn't be an omnibus bond covering all sorts of things. Pricing the service below the cost it provides to run the service is just bad business - government or privately owned. Companies don't do it for long as they go out of business. As governments don't usually go out of business, the service shouldn't be ran in the red. Allowances should be made for the initial roll out as it would be impossible to cover the initial capital expenditures immediately, but within reason I don't think it's a bad idea. If its not economically viable to support itself, I don't think it's wise for teh government to put an additional tax drain on it's citizens. #4 & #5 - Goes along with #1. The city has to pay all the BS fees that TWC, Comcast, etc has to pay. Again, it should follow the same rules everyone else does. #6 - Is it bad for the government to operate transparently? It's a utility, not a business.
It's not as if TWC is saying we don't want the city to run a competition service because we don't want competition although I'm sure they don't. They are just saying if you are going to charge us a franchise fee or tax us, do it to yourself as well. Besides, it's not all the bullshit fees that they tack on to the bill that really makes the service expensive and unable to compete.
Depending on how you want to include in counting the number of libraries, there may be about the same number as McDonalds. If you only consider public and academic (college/university) libraries, they are about equal. However this does exclude nearly 100k school libraries, special libraries (private, medical, law, corporate), or government/military libraries. Source
Those "features" that you're talking about can be e.g. IPv6 support, or the next official IP protocol.
XP already supports IPv6. From this page: "Support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), a new suite of standard protocols for the Network layer of the Internet, is built into the latest versions of Microsoft Windows, which include Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP with Service Pack 2, Windows XP with Service Pack 1, Windows XP Embedded SP1, and Windows CE.NET."
Do you REALLY foresee another "official IP Protocol" coming any time in the next decade? IPv6 has barely has a foot hold around the world and you are already worried about the next version/implementation?
So what if it's a commercial product. The world is ran on commercial products. Not everything has to be developed by individuals, non-commercial organizations, or non-profit foundations. A good portion of Linux was developed, sponsored by, or somehow made possible (either directly or indirectly) by companies with commercial products. Just because it's commercial doesn't mean it can't be open sourced or made freely available. The.NET framework is freely (as in without additional cost) to Windows users which still has a fairly decent installation base in the modern world. There are also free products to develop in VB, C#, ASP.Net, etc.
But to answer your question as to why... Because they can. Because others may be able to take what they've done and make it better. Because they thought that others might find it useful. Because maybe they "saw the light" and realized that keeping it closed wasn't necessarily beneficial to their goals. Because they hope that opening may increase adoption or allow more compatibility with other systems. Because they didn't necessarily need a reason.
Miguel de Icaza seems to be happy about it. You don't necessarily have to be happy about it, but at least it gives people choices and options which is never a bad thing.
If it's being considered child porn, having sex would obviously be considered statutory rape...
not necessarily. It depends on the ages of the parties involved. Check local listings for your area. Most states have a law that forbids sex with anyone under a certain age (usually some where between 12-15 years old). Other states permit sex between two minors presuming both are older then the age previously mentioned. Still more states permit sex with someone under 18 with someone older then 18 if the age difference is within a limited range, 2-5 year age difference for instance.
In Indiana, where I'm at, having sex with someone under 14 is always statutory rape regardless of the age of the other party, and having sex with a 14-16 year old is considered so if the other party is over 18. However if one party is 17 and the other is 19, it's not statutory rape. HOWEVER, child pornography laws say that it's illegal to have pictures/videos/etc of anyone under 18. So a 19 year old can have sex with his 17 year old girlfriend and see her naked, he just can't take a picture of her doing so.
For the same reason that a bomb technician doesn't reset the timer to zero just to see what the bomb does. Sure it may be a dud and do nothing, or it may be huge and blow up in their face.
Accelerators are most useful for people who are on dialup or slower broadband connections to download possible future pages while they are looking at the existing one. It makes their life, as in your [clients|customers|visitors] browsing experience better.
If you don't want accelerators hitting your site, don't have a public site. Or deploy counter measures that block or limit the accelerators. Don't bitch and moan about visitors (or potential visitors) leeching your bandwidth when you put it out there for them to consume.
Don't judge a site based on an extension. I'm a.Net developer, but I do all my development first in Firefox, then check for IE compability. If it doesn't work in Firefox, there is no chance that it will even be tested in IE for the code I develop..Net is just a tool, it doesn't mean that I necessarily have a bias towards Microsoft and more then a site with a.php or.pl extension is biased towards *nix (traditionally speaking, yes I know they can run on Windows servers too).
Friday isn't all that bad for Sci-Fi. The longest running sci-fi show in history, Stargate:SG1, spent most of it's life (if not all) on Friday nights. It's spinoff, Stargate Atlantis, also resided on Friday night as well.
Seamonkey is the only browser with identical rendering across every platform.
There's your problem. HTML is about content, not about appearance. If you want something identical across every platform, use an image.
The sooner you realize that everything isn't going to look identical across every platform, even if you try, with every browser, a lot less stress will be in your life (presuming you are a web developer). Well, a lot less stress if you can get your management and/or clients to understand and accept this as well.
Many times it's not just the CEO that technically holds the purse strings. The CFO, Comptroller, or other high ranking management may be able to also authorize a settlement without further authorization. Temporary authorization could also be granted if a person does not regularly have authorization, but was given so just for this case.
I actually am anxiously awaiting my wiikey2 I just ordered for my Wii for just this very reason. My wife and I have purchased maybe a dozen games for our Wii, most at $40-50/game only to see about a quarter of them rendered unplayable thanks to several scratches my 8, 7, and 6 year olds (and possibly 2 dogs) have ended up creating. We try to watch the kids and make sure that they always put the disc back in their case, but kids are kids and accidents happen. Several of the games that are unplayable have seemingly very light scratches that I'm very surprised actually cause the discs to be unreadable.
I only wish the Wii came with an hard drive like the XBox did where I can just save the disc to the drive and play everything off of that.
I can think of many more ways that would be quite a bit more fun then spending $130k on this. But hey, if you have the money to blow on it, more power to ya.
Interesting. It sounds like Promise's Linux support: they used to publish customized versions of out-of-date versions of Linux patches that re-arranged your drive numbering without telling anyone and coulldn't be applied against any contemporary kernel source tree.
<tongue-in-cheek> That's the advantage of using Linux! Anyone can take that source and update it. You have an entire community to help make sure that it works and to maintain it. Don't blame the manufacturer for lack of community support of their device. </tongue-in-cheek>
Isn't the developer "license" something like $100? Plus, even with a $.99 app at 70%, Apple is still making ~$.30 for providing very little disk space and bandwidth to download it. It all adds up.
The most fundamental mission of schools is to teach people to be good citizens and good neighbors, not just basic facts and useful skills. That should be their agenda and they should make choices commensurate with that agenda.
But when those students get released out on their own and on their resumes what do they put on their resumes as experience in office applications? OpenOffice? Right. Geeks/IT people aside, most people don't know what OpenOffice or Google Spreadsheet is nor care. They just know that the resume doesn't say Microsoft Office, Word, and/or Excel. It may not necessarily eliminate them, but it also doesn't do anything to help them. You do a great disservice to the students when you don't prepare them for the real world. And the real business world is dominated by Microsoft Windows and Office.
Back in 1998-2003 when I was attending the regional campus shared between Indiana and Purdue University, I was able to get most of the usual Microsoft software at $5/disc. Office at the time was 2 discs so $10. 98, ME, 2000, or XP were all $5 each. Visual Studio 6 I believe was 6 discs, but they only charged $20 as two discs were service packs. All of this was possible under the Indiana University "Site License" with Microsoft. In a way yes the software was subsidized with student tuition (or tax payer funds depending on how you look at it) but it wasn't directly subsidized. IU wasn't having to pay full retail or even a fraction of it per copy. They had to pay X dollars per year, per contract duration, whatever and all students could benefit. The University is happy as they don't pay much and get all their servers and workstations licensed, students are happy as they don't have to pay $400 for office, and Microsoft is happy because they get to hook the students to Microsoft products for when they enter the real business world.
The server's unresponsive, but damn it we're still going to link to it. If it had any chance at all to recover, we're going to make sure it stays down for the count. What did the machine do to piss off the slashdot editor?
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While I don't agree with incumbents legislating the competition out of the picture, what's really so wrong with this bill?
#1 - Seems fair that they should follow the rules that everyone else does
#2 & #3 - The "company" should support itself. It shouldn't rely on say property taxes of everyone to subsidize the telecommunications fees for some, or any excess telecommunications fees shouldn't be used to say pave roads. If a municipal bond is required for the initial capital, the bond should only be for the project. It shouldn't be an omnibus bond covering all sorts of things. Pricing the service below the cost it provides to run the service is just bad business - government or privately owned. Companies don't do it for long as they go out of business. As governments don't usually go out of business, the service shouldn't be ran in the red. Allowances should be made for the initial roll out as it would be impossible to cover the initial capital expenditures immediately, but within reason I don't think it's a bad idea. If its not economically viable to support itself, I don't think it's wise for teh government to put an additional tax drain on it's citizens.
#4 & #5 - Goes along with #1. The city has to pay all the BS fees that TWC, Comcast, etc has to pay. Again, it should follow the same rules everyone else does.
#6 - Is it bad for the government to operate transparently? It's a utility, not a business.
It's not as if TWC is saying we don't want the city to run a competition service because we don't want competition although I'm sure they don't. They are just saying if you are going to charge us a franchise fee or tax us, do it to yourself as well. Besides, it's not all the bullshit fees that they tack on to the bill that really makes the service expensive and unable to compete.
Depending on how you want to include in counting the number of libraries, there may be about the same number as McDonalds. If you only consider public and academic (college/university) libraries, they are about equal. However this does exclude nearly 100k school libraries, special libraries (private, medical, law, corporate), or government/military libraries. Source
For the right price, someone will join up with them. If there is one Jack Thompson, there are others that just haven't been identified yet.
XP already supports IPv6. From this page: .NET."
"Support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), a new suite of standard protocols for the Network layer of the Internet, is built into the latest versions of Microsoft Windows, which include Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP with Service Pack 2, Windows XP with Service Pack 1, Windows XP Embedded SP1, and Windows CE
Do you REALLY foresee another "official IP Protocol" coming any time in the next decade? IPv6 has barely has a foot hold around the world and you are already worried about the next version/implementation?
So what if it's a commercial product. The world is ran on commercial products. Not everything has to be developed by individuals, non-commercial organizations, or non-profit foundations. A good portion of Linux was developed, sponsored by, or somehow made possible (either directly or indirectly) by companies with commercial products. Just because it's commercial doesn't mean it can't be open sourced or made freely available. The .NET framework is freely (as in without additional cost) to Windows users which still has a fairly decent installation base in the modern world. There are also free products to develop in VB, C#, ASP.Net, etc.
But to answer your question as to why... Because they can. Because others may be able to take what they've done and make it better. Because they thought that others might find it useful. Because maybe they "saw the light" and realized that keeping it closed wasn't necessarily beneficial to their goals. Because they hope that opening may increase adoption or allow more compatibility with other systems. Because they didn't necessarily need a reason.
Miguel de Icaza seems to be happy about it. You don't necessarily have to be happy about it, but at least it gives people choices and options which is never a bad thing.
not necessarily. It depends on the ages of the parties involved. Check local listings for your area. Most states have a law that forbids sex with anyone under a certain age (usually some where between 12-15 years old). Other states permit sex between two minors presuming both are older then the age previously mentioned. Still more states permit sex with someone under 18 with someone older then 18 if the age difference is within a limited range, 2-5 year age difference for instance.
In Indiana, where I'm at, having sex with someone under 14 is always statutory rape regardless of the age of the other party, and having sex with a 14-16 year old is considered so if the other party is over 18. However if one party is 17 and the other is 19, it's not statutory rape. HOWEVER, child pornography laws say that it's illegal to have pictures/videos/etc of anyone under 18. So a 19 year old can have sex with his 17 year old girlfriend and see her naked, he just can't take a picture of her doing so.
For the same reason that a bomb technician doesn't reset the timer to zero just to see what the bomb does. Sure it may be a dud and do nothing, or it may be huge and blow up in their face.
Accelerators are most useful for people who are on dialup or slower broadband connections to download possible future pages while they are looking at the existing one. It makes their life, as in your [clients|customers|visitors] browsing experience better.
If you don't want accelerators hitting your site, don't have a public site. Or deploy counter measures that block or limit the accelerators. Don't bitch and moan about visitors (or potential visitors) leeching your bandwidth when you put it out there for them to consume.
Don't judge a site based on an extension. I'm a .Net developer, but I do all my development first in Firefox, then check for IE compability. If it doesn't work in Firefox, there is no chance that it will even be tested in IE for the code I develop. .Net is just a tool, it doesn't mean that I necessarily have a bias towards Microsoft and more then a site with a .php or .pl extension is biased towards *nix (traditionally speaking, yes I know they can run on Windows servers too).
And just to clarify, that should be longest running US-based Sci-Fi show in history. Dr. Who has the world record.
Friday isn't all that bad for Sci-Fi. The longest running sci-fi show in history, Stargate:SG1, spent most of it's life (if not all) on Friday nights. It's spinoff, Stargate Atlantis, also resided on Friday night as well.
It's never stopped anyone else...
There's your problem. HTML is about content, not about appearance. If you want something identical across every platform, use an image.
The sooner you realize that everything isn't going to look identical across every platform, even if you try, with every browser, a lot less stress will be in your life (presuming you are a web developer). Well, a lot less stress if you can get your management and/or clients to understand and accept this as well.
Apparently you and I have different definitions of what "exactly" means. Exactly means...well...exactly. No wiggle room or approximation.
Many times it's not just the CEO that technically holds the purse strings. The CFO, Comptroller, or other high ranking management may be able to also authorize a settlement without further authorization. Temporary authorization could also be granted if a person does not regularly have authorization, but was given so just for this case.
I actually am anxiously awaiting my wiikey2 I just ordered for my Wii for just this very reason. My wife and I have purchased maybe a dozen games for our Wii, most at $40-50/game only to see about a quarter of them rendered unplayable thanks to several scratches my 8, 7, and 6 year olds (and possibly 2 dogs) have ended up creating. We try to watch the kids and make sure that they always put the disc back in their case, but kids are kids and accidents happen. Several of the games that are unplayable have seemingly very light scratches that I'm very surprised actually cause the discs to be unreadable.
I only wish the Wii came with an hard drive like the XBox did where I can just save the disc to the drive and play everything off of that.
Or at least better screen shots.
I can think of many more ways that would be quite a bit more fun then spending $130k on this. But hey, if you have the money to blow on it, more power to ya.
<tongue-in-cheek>
That's the advantage of using Linux! Anyone can take that source and update it. You have an entire community to help make sure that it works and to maintain it. Don't blame the manufacturer for lack of community support of their device.
</tongue-in-cheek>
Isn't the developer "license" something like $100? Plus, even with a $.99 app at 70%, Apple is still making ~$.30 for providing very little disk space and bandwidth to download it. It all adds up.
But when those students get released out on their own and on their resumes what do they put on their resumes as experience in office applications? OpenOffice? Right. Geeks/IT people aside, most people don't know what OpenOffice or Google Spreadsheet is nor care. They just know that the resume doesn't say Microsoft Office, Word, and/or Excel. It may not necessarily eliminate them, but it also doesn't do anything to help them. You do a great disservice to the students when you don't prepare them for the real world. And the real business world is dominated by Microsoft Windows and Office.
Back in 1998-2003 when I was attending the regional campus shared between Indiana and Purdue University, I was able to get most of the usual Microsoft software at $5/disc. Office at the time was 2 discs so $10. 98, ME, 2000, or XP were all $5 each. Visual Studio 6 I believe was 6 discs, but they only charged $20 as two discs were service packs. All of this was possible under the Indiana University "Site License" with Microsoft. In a way yes the software was subsidized with student tuition (or tax payer funds depending on how you look at it) but it wasn't directly subsidized. IU wasn't having to pay full retail or even a fraction of it per copy. They had to pay X dollars per year, per contract duration, whatever and all students could benefit. The University is happy as they don't pay much and get all their servers and workstations licensed, students are happy as they don't have to pay $400 for office, and Microsoft is happy because they get to hook the students to Microsoft products for when they enter the real business world.
Carbonite != Belkin, although their business models have some overlapping areas apparently.
The server's unresponsive, but damn it we're still going to link to it. If it had any chance at all to recover, we're going to make sure it stays down for the count. What did the machine do to piss off the slashdot editor?