It seems that at best raises average out over time to keep you on par with the cost of living and little more. Great -- you got a 4% raise this year! Oh, guess what? Your rent is 5% more.
Not to mention... what percentage of techies make an "hourly wage" anyway?
Create a problem. Solve that problem. Uniquely own that solution in the market. Make everyone need what you have to offer.
Of course, the first step is that these guys need to really convince everyone that the internet is about to implode and that the companies who need the enormous bandwidth and services simply can't or won't make the hardware investment that is necessary.
The real threat to the internet are the legislators and lobbyists who want to nerf the internet so that the only use for it is the commercial enterprises and everything should be nerfed down to a Disney-fied toddler's level. That's an actual legitimate threat.
However, maybe he should peddle the "piracy and torrents are killing the internet and I can save you!" angle. Might work.
I didn't realize virtualization was supposed to be about security. I thought it was supposed to be about simplicity and cutting space, resources and other costs.
The problem is that broadband providers really do have a monopoly. In any given area, you have dial-up (56k), a single cable (8mbps) provider or a single DSL (768kbps to 7mbps) providers. While every city varies, you can usually get dial-up in 100% of the area, cable in perhaps 70% of the area . . . but DSL in only a small percentage of the area. At least if you want speeds that are even remotely comparable. If you don't live down the street from the local CO, you are going to get speeds that are difficult to tolerate. And of course, phone companies have bandwidth and usage concerns, too. They aren't selling you a dedicated service anymore than Comcast or Cox or Shaw is.
What really annoys me is that my tax dollars are used to provide these "utilities" with a limited sanctioned monopoly for the supposed public good, yet they don't offer services that address the whole public. If you really only intend your $65/mo service to be for grandmothers who use the account for email and checking up on their local church and the occasional amazon service, then offer a more expensive account for people who want heavy use and connect to work via VPN, back stuff up to remote servers, connect to colo hosted systems, use bit-torrent, watch lots of streaming videos, etc.
And for people who want to know "how in the hell do you use so much bandwidth?! 30gb should be more than enough!". Well, just downloading a few popular podcasts will do it. Especially now that they're HD quality. Diggnation, Crankygeeks, DL.TV, Totally Rad Show and a couple others downloaded every week at an average of almost 500mb each comes out to about 12gb per month right there. And that's if you aren't acquiring them via bit torrent where you'd have some overhead as well as at least 6gb to 12gb in upward bandwidth. So right there, you're at 24gb. Just to keep up with half a dozen weekly podcasts.
Throw in a couple people at your address listening to a lot of streaming radio. Watching streaming movies and news. Downloading five to ten gigs of demos on Xbox Live and Play Station Network. Perhaps connecting to your office with VPN and VNC to use your desktop. That's quite a lot of bandwidth. For completely legitimate purposes. And we haven't even touched things like using remote backup services that you can find online or downloading linux ISOs or the other streaming services like Vongo, Netflix and Amazon Unboxed.
Yeah, good point. If China is already in space, why should we bother? We'll just let them have space. Who needs space exploration, anyway? That couldn't ever possibly benefit mankind or anything.
I do all of my projects in postgres, because postgres did transactions long before MySQL ever got around to it. It would take a significant bundle of improvements above and beyond anything postgres offers for MySQL to sway me over to their system.
The reason "Generation Y" (currently aged 12 to 22) aren't interested in technology careers is because they see that a significant number of technology jobs are being offshored and the jobs that are not being offshored are being negatively impacted by the low salaries and limited benefits and treatment that the massive offshoring drags the non-offshored into.
Why should people with an entire lifetime ahead of them want to waste their money and education pursuing something with questionable long-term employment and that seems to be turning into more and more of a fast-food service-industry atmosphere with little or no appreciation for it as a professional career?
I'm not particularly excited by Spore. I'll probably buy it and at least something new is being attempted, but it looks like something a lot of people will stick in, play for a few hours or maybe a couple days and then never touch again. I don't care how many times people in the game industry say "it is completely open and free to do whatever you want and design absolutely anything you want", but there are always significant limitations. It's like when Vanguard game out and had "millions upon millions of limitless character customization options" and then it only had like... four hair styles.
It looks like an ambitious game that will be very limited and only captivate you for so long in the game play before one tires of it.
Who in the hell are we to say that we need to take a stand against a country and how it treats the people within it when there are perfectly good Wal-Marts and Kentucky Fried Chickens to be built for further corporate expansion?!
What is the small price of a few lives in return for a higher price on WallStreet for the consumer goods and fast foods sector?! After all, if they were supposed to enjoy freedom, god would'a done born them in the US of A!
Oh, also -- cue everyone who is going to spit out the "spreading capitalism spreads democracy -- just look at all the countries that have Levi Jeans, Coca Cola and Burger Kings" thing.
Yes, I agree that all professional sports suck. Pretty much all collegiate sports that I can think of, too. Maybe if they involved a greater risk of death for the enormous compensation and adoration they receive . . . (I say this as a former jock).
What any of this has to do with "USian football".
None of this detracts, however, from the fact that you're a complete fucking moron.
Oh no! Now people will have to sit in the comfort of their own home and watch a boring game with grown men, a little ball and a stick close-up in HD on their widescreen TV instead of paying through the nose to see the same boring game with grown men, a little ball an a stick from far away in a freezing stadium seat surrounded by mouth-breathers and beer-breath!
With a label, if a musician has some decent pull, they might get $2 on a $20 album.
Without a label, a musician gets $2 on a $2 album.
The consumer/fan saves $18. The musician still makes just as much money. And potentially a lot more, since more people would be likely to pay $2 for an album than $20.
This whole story is moot. If the band gets two dollars for a $20 album and the other $18 goes toward label and distribution -- then they only need to sell the new release at an average of $2 per unit to still come out at least where they would have been with a label. The only difference being that they save each person $18 out of the $20 they would have originally spent.
The modern workplace is like an advanced kindergarten.
If the business world was a lot more like it was back in the day (watch Mad Men on AMC for a really accurate depiction), people would feel a lot better about themselves.
Yes, but he has admitted to previous crimes and plans for future crimes. And we know his name. Seems reasonable enough to arrest him. I don't know about overseas where he has apparently done most of this stuff, but speeding more than about 15mph will get your ass noticed. Especially in long spurts. And once you're noticed, you're going to have cops in every county following you on ground and in the air.
Did you seriously just reference like a 70 year old comic character?!
Anyway, no mario isn't going to save christmas. How is any game that is only around 6 hours to 20 hours (as almost every $65 game is these days) going to "save christmas".
It used to be that a videogame offered you far more content than a movie. For $65, I can buy one game that lasts between 6 and 20 hours. Or I can spend $65 and see about ten movies at an average of two hours each. That's at least twice as much entertainment for the same price.
No value is reasonable in this argument. Realistically, they only lost money if she or anyone she shared the files with would definitely have gone out and BOUGHT the music if they hadn't been able to download it for free. I would say that almost nobody who downloads copyrighted music bothers to go out and buy an album, just because they can't find it online for free.
Additionally, she was sharing DIGITAL copies. So wouldn't it be more appropriate to assume iTunes level fees if you're going to assume any damages at all? So instead of $10k per song or $20 per CD... it should be more like $10 per album.
Now, if she were SELLING and making a profit from this supposed "piracy", that is a different issue. But that isn't what happened here.
By the way, if they're going to seek the full "value" of the songs she shared as damages, does that mean they are going to share the awarded monies with stores and distributors? After all, if you buy music on itunes or buy music at a physical store, the value on that CD includes money that goes to everyone else involved in the production and distribution of that music -- from the truck driver that transports it to the highschool kid working at the cash register that rings you up.
I'd rather they just do away with the ESRB and publishers publish whatever the hell they want. When was the last time you went to buy a book at a bookstore and it said "this has mature content and violence and sex and drugs" and they wouldn't sell it to you if you weren't 17 or older?
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This is the person who was a marketing droid that clearly had no idea what they were talking about when they referenced the games, right?
Oh, so sad. So long marketing tool. *yawn*
It seems that at best raises average out over time to keep you on par with the cost of living and little more. Great -- you got a 4% raise this year! Oh, guess what? Your rent is 5% more.
Not to mention... what percentage of techies make an "hourly wage" anyway?
Create a problem. Solve that problem. Uniquely own that solution in the market. Make everyone need what you have to offer.
Of course, the first step is that these guys need to really convince everyone that the internet is about to implode and that the companies who need the enormous bandwidth and services simply can't or won't make the hardware investment that is necessary.
The real threat to the internet are the legislators and lobbyists who want to nerf the internet so that the only use for it is the commercial enterprises and everything should be nerfed down to a Disney-fied toddler's level. That's an actual legitimate threat.
However, maybe he should peddle the "piracy and torrents are killing the internet and I can save you!" angle. Might work.
I didn't realize virtualization was supposed to be about security. I thought it was supposed to be about simplicity and cutting space, resources and other costs.
The problem is that broadband providers really do have a monopoly. In any given area, you have dial-up (56k), a single cable (8mbps) provider or a single DSL (768kbps to 7mbps) providers. While every city varies, you can usually get dial-up in 100% of the area, cable in perhaps 70% of the area . . . but DSL in only a small percentage of the area. At least if you want speeds that are even remotely comparable. If you don't live down the street from the local CO, you are going to get speeds that are difficult to tolerate. And of course, phone companies have bandwidth and usage concerns, too. They aren't selling you a dedicated service anymore than Comcast or Cox or Shaw is.
What really annoys me is that my tax dollars are used to provide these "utilities" with a limited sanctioned monopoly for the supposed public good, yet they don't offer services that address the whole public. If you really only intend your $65/mo service to be for grandmothers who use the account for email and checking up on their local church and the occasional amazon service, then offer a more expensive account for people who want heavy use and connect to work via VPN, back stuff up to remote servers, connect to colo hosted systems, use bit-torrent, watch lots of streaming videos, etc.
And for people who want to know "how in the hell do you use so much bandwidth?! 30gb should be more than enough!". Well, just downloading a few popular podcasts will do it. Especially now that they're HD quality. Diggnation, Crankygeeks, DL.TV, Totally Rad Show and a couple others downloaded every week at an average of almost 500mb each comes out to about 12gb per month right there. And that's if you aren't acquiring them via bit torrent where you'd have some overhead as well as at least 6gb to 12gb in upward bandwidth. So right there, you're at 24gb. Just to keep up with half a dozen weekly podcasts.
Throw in a couple people at your address listening to a lot of streaming radio. Watching streaming movies and news. Downloading five to ten gigs of demos on Xbox Live and Play Station Network. Perhaps connecting to your office with VPN and VNC to use your desktop. That's quite a lot of bandwidth. For completely legitimate purposes. And we haven't even touched things like using remote backup services that you can find online or downloading linux ISOs or the other streaming services like Vongo, Netflix and Amazon Unboxed.
Yeah, good point. If China is already in space, why should we bother? We'll just let them have space. Who needs space exploration, anyway? That couldn't ever possibly benefit mankind or anything.
I do all of my projects in postgres, because postgres did transactions long before MySQL ever got around to it. It would take a significant bundle of improvements above and beyond anything postgres offers for MySQL to sway me over to their system.
Yes, well done, moderator. I am a troll for making a completely spot-on satirical comment.
Go back to digg.
The reason "Generation Y" (currently aged 12 to 22) aren't interested in technology careers is because they see that a significant number of technology jobs are being offshored and the jobs that are not being offshored are being negatively impacted by the low salaries and limited benefits and treatment that the massive offshoring drags the non-offshored into.
Why should people with an entire lifetime ahead of them want to waste their money and education pursuing something with questionable long-term employment and that seems to be turning into more and more of a fast-food service-industry atmosphere with little or no appreciation for it as a professional career?
I'm not particularly excited by Spore. I'll probably buy it and at least something new is being attempted, but it looks like something a lot of people will stick in, play for a few hours or maybe a couple days and then never touch again. I don't care how many times people in the game industry say "it is completely open and free to do whatever you want and design absolutely anything you want", but there are always significant limitations. It's like when Vanguard game out and had "millions upon millions of limitless character customization options" and then it only had like... four hair styles.
It looks like an ambitious game that will be very limited and only captivate you for so long in the game play before one tires of it.
Who in the hell are we to say that we need to take a stand against a country and how it treats the people within it when there are perfectly good Wal-Marts and Kentucky Fried Chickens to be built for further corporate expansion?!
What is the small price of a few lives in return for a higher price on WallStreet for the consumer goods and fast foods sector?! After all, if they were supposed to enjoy freedom, god would'a done born them in the US of A!
Oh, also -- cue everyone who is going to spit out the "spreading capitalism spreads democracy -- just look at all the countries that have Levi Jeans, Coca Cola and Burger Kings" thing.
Yes, I agree that all professional sports suck. Pretty much all collegiate sports that I can think of, too. Maybe if they involved a greater risk of death for the enormous compensation and adoration they receive . . . (I say this as a former jock).
What any of this has to do with "USian football".
None of this detracts, however, from the fact that you're a complete fucking moron.
Oh no! Now people will have to sit in the comfort of their own home and watch a boring game with grown men, a little ball and a stick close-up in HD on their widescreen TV instead of paying through the nose to see the same boring game with grown men, a little ball an a stick from far away in a freezing stadium seat surrounded by mouth-breathers and beer-breath!
They just want to be able to steer hurricanes so they can direct them away from whitey and into heavily black cities.
Really, it's pretty difficult to explain anything in the world of self-involved, attention-whoring, navel-gazing, self-congratulatory social networks.
Artists already have their own websites. Yes, there is a nominal fee involved in the process of setting up the online music distribution.
Or are you one of those parasites who makes big bucks convincing musicians that they need to hire someone for $150,000 to design a website for them?
Of course they don't need labels.
With a label, if a musician has some decent pull, they might get $2 on a $20 album.
Without a label, a musician gets $2 on a $2 album.
The consumer/fan saves $18. The musician still makes just as much money. And potentially a lot more, since more people would be likely to pay $2 for an album than $20.
Of course, Cedega performance is still miserable.
This whole story is moot. If the band gets two dollars for a $20 album and the other $18 goes toward label and distribution -- then they only need to sell the new release at an average of $2 per unit to still come out at least where they would have been with a label. The only difference being that they save each person $18 out of the $20 they would have originally spent.
The modern workplace is like an advanced kindergarten.
If the business world was a lot more like it was back in the day (watch Mad Men on AMC for a really accurate depiction), people would feel a lot better about themselves.
Yes, but he has admitted to previous crimes and plans for future crimes. And we know his name. Seems reasonable enough to arrest him. I don't know about overseas where he has apparently done most of this stuff, but speeding more than about 15mph will get your ass noticed. Especially in long spurts. And once you're noticed, you're going to have cops in every county following you on ground and in the air.
Underdog.... UNDERDOG...?
Did you seriously just reference like a 70 year old comic character?!
Anyway, no mario isn't going to save christmas. How is any game that is only around 6 hours to 20 hours (as almost every $65 game is these days) going to "save christmas".
It used to be that a videogame offered you far more content than a movie. For $65, I can buy one game that lasts between 6 and 20 hours. Or I can spend $65 and see about ten movies at an average of two hours each. That's at least twice as much entertainment for the same price.
No value is reasonable in this argument. Realistically, they only lost money if she or anyone she shared the files with would definitely have gone out and BOUGHT the music if they hadn't been able to download it for free. I would say that almost nobody who downloads copyrighted music bothers to go out and buy an album, just because they can't find it online for free.
Additionally, she was sharing DIGITAL copies. So wouldn't it be more appropriate to assume iTunes level fees if you're going to assume any damages at all? So instead of $10k per song or $20 per CD... it should be more like $10 per album.
Now, if she were SELLING and making a profit from this supposed "piracy", that is a different issue. But that isn't what happened here.
By the way, if they're going to seek the full "value" of the songs she shared as damages, does that mean they are going to share the awarded monies with stores and distributors? After all, if you buy music on itunes or buy music at a physical store, the value on that CD includes money that goes to everyone else involved in the production and distribution of that music -- from the truck driver that transports it to the highschool kid working at the cash register that rings you up.
Hm, I never ever see one.
I'd rather they just do away with the ESRB and publishers publish whatever the hell they want. When was the last time you went to buy a book at a bookstore and it said "this has mature content and violence and sex and drugs" and they wouldn't sell it to you if you weren't 17 or older?