Maybe I'm dense and missed the bus somewhere, but if Akamai didn't exist, wouldn't/couldn't anyone boost their speed to end users by buying more bandwidth and/or servers to compensate? (*not to say that one couldn't do this anyways...) I don't mean the occasional slashdotting, but an overall surge in traffic in general. From what I know, most good network admins design their networks to scale up as demand dictates. Without Akamai, this would still be the case, and as long as a company were willing to spend the money, their presence on the web would be safe.
Additionally, it occurs to me that if we all have to start paying a premium for a faster route to wherever we prefer to go swiftly, any content providers that use Akamai would be charged more by Akamai to host/distribute their content as well rendering this guys philosophy moot, since in my opinion he didn't think that far ahead. Let's not forget that shit rolls downhill.
Am I wrong on this?
I've wondered about this too. I find it hard to believe that the airport authority doesn't have some kind of CC camera system in place monitoring a good portion of the inside and outside of the airport. I would like to know why hasn't anyone asked to see security footage that might possibly show what was or was not out there that night.
I can make my own GH controller now? I was thinking about buying a GH controller and a cheap guitar (something with some actual weight to it) and making my own controller that way. Has anyone else tried this?
I do agree with their point about . Laptop Screen Dimming
Everything else though seems kinda nitpicky. For example, you're going to complain about three different applications looking different? I don't know if it's intentional or not, but I think it's a little better that way. For some it could be that it's easier to spot "on the fly" when switching through applications quickly. I couldn't honestly tell you in that comparison though.. I use Safari, Thunderbird, and iTunes.:P
As far as finding applications and working the dock.... How lazy do you have to be to press shift option A to pull up the applicaions folder and find that rarely used app. The dock was never meant to be cluttered up with every application for you to launch. It was meant for the few apps that you use all the time. I don't recall the exact figure, but I think most of us use around the same 5-6 apps all the time.
Printer installation problems (especially compared to windows)? That's a laugh. I've had a couple of SMALL problems with printers from time to time (jobs stopping or funky drivers) why the jobs stopped, sometimes is a mystery (that's the story of my life though... printers do indeed hate me). Really the only time I've had install problems with a printer, was with HP devices, that you have to dig down through/Library and purge the HP drivers that come pre-installed and install new ones from HP. Can hardly blame Apple (or microsoft) for bad drivers.
As far as Dynamic finder refresh, it's always worked fine for me on local files. Stuff stored across the network, in AFS networked mounts are a different story, but even then it has never really been a problem.
While I think the spirit of this article is well thought out, I think that their usage practices and knowledge of how to operate a mac are a bit lacking.
I feel the same way. It makes me think of a dog that I had. She was chronically ill, and she fought it with everything she had. She just sat next to me and kept fighting to keep her eyes open. There was nothing that oculd be done for her, except take her to the vet. He put her down. Sooo sad. When I moved out of my house, I took some of the dirt where she was buried just so I still have a little bit of her with me.
Hmm.. iTunes/iPod play MP3(and a host of other) files that you can get anywhere. Not just Fairplay encoded music. Further, there's nothing that says you have to use any Apple product or the features they may or may not provide that would keep you locked in.
"I have no doubt that Apple will make a good, compelling product. I just wish that they would get slapped hard with respect to their degree of integration which is rapidly turning into lock in."
Being a mac user myself, I have to disagree. Apple isn't keeping me locked into anything against my will. I choose to use some of their products because I LIKE the products I CHOOSE to use. Besides, they are a hardware company as well as software company, and if they choose to gear their OS to their hardware, that's their business decision. Ultimately the market (you and I) will be the ones making it or breaking it.
Really though, I just wish people would quit whining about being "locked in" to stuff. There are always at least two options. Use it or don't use it.
That's interesting to know. I never really shot much film outside of Black and white in (high school) photography class, so I guess we never even considered white balancing. When digital hit the scene, I had a lot of hopes when I got my first mavica (yes, with the floppy disks) but was extremely disappointed that it wasn't even close to being the same. So, fast forward to now (i've had my D50 since may) and am finding what I was always hoping for with digital.
Anyways, back to the point, as far as consumer level films and stuff that you'd buy at the most convenient place (grocery, gas station, walgreens, etc) I've never noticed any 35mm film saying "best if used in xyz light" other than maybe "best for outdoors." If anything I guess the average Joe probably would never know of white balance, since I would guess that the film/photo processors make the adjustments on the back end.
Thanks for the tip and making me consider it a little more than I otherwise would have.:)
Off topic, but similar to a situation close to me. In the state of indiana, if you file a bad faith claim against an insurance company, the state gets 50% of whatever judgement issued (assuming the insurance company loses and has to pay out).
I like your thinking on this, but sadly the environments that these people operate in won't allow such a sensible thing to occur. Certainly anybody with enough motivation could certainly pirate more music than their "portion" of their hardware du jour has paid for and I don't see the record companies going for it. It would turn into a case of the few that are buying new players supporting the many pirates/sharers and we'd still hear a lot of squawking about "lost profits."
It's been a while since I've shot film, but if I remember correctly, White Balancing was never an issue. I've found that with my D50 I have to realllllllly keep track of how my camera is set in regards to white balancing (even on Auto... I use "Probably" aka Program and Manual unless I hand my camera off to someone so I can be in the photo). The "auto" WB mode does ok for most stuff if I'm using a flash or outdoors. When I move inside though, it becomes apparent how poorly the camera recognizes Incandescent light bulbs or flourecent lighting. Granted when I go do post processing of the RAW images, I have the option to correct these, but if you're just an average guy taking family snaps you could really be disappointed that your 600$ super camera is making Aunt Helen look jaundiced, like an Ooompa Loompa, or a Smurf. With film, what you see has usually been what you get. With digital, it's been my experience that if you don't pay attention, you may not always get what you see.
If they're allergic to dogs, perhaps they shouldn't be
working in a line of work where they're potentially exposed to service animals
in the first place.
While I empathize with your situation, I'd like to know exactly what kind of job doesn't expose someone to the possibility of encountering service animals?
Beyond that though, it's ludicrous to think that someone should have to rethink their career choice (or choose one) based on (the minority) someone else's disability.
I agree with the poster who said this guy is probably just an asshole, but it's not beyond imagination to think that dogs may cause him a severe allergic reaction (to the point of disability?), or maybe he has had bad experiences in the past that causes him to distrust dogs.
In general, your disability isn't my disability, and I/we shouldn't have to be held responsible to, or accountable for it.
Profanity being available to children -- I was really hoping the V-chip (and similar technologies) would get rid of this crap. It's really just a smokescreen to cover the next item
You obviously haven't listend to Commercial FM radio lately have you?
(not that I can blame you)
Well in response to to someone's post about what makes the US more capable than another country to be "in charge" of the internet, my response would be "experience and ownership."
Exactly what is the problem that needs to be solved here? Maybe I should expand the number of sites I visit on a daily basis, but I don't think I've ever been blocked from visiting anything that I wanted to look at. Hell, I don't think I've ever even been blocked from things I DIDN'T want to look at. I fail to see why the current management needs to be ousted or even given this much bullshit in it's general course of business.
I'd like to know where this would lead? I'm assuming that it's really the commercial aspect of the internet they are after control over. Perhaps a UN mandated internet tax of some sort, or even better, an online commerce tax mandated by the UN. Certainly we can't say that the Academic aspects of the internet are wholly owned by the US Government, as it's (unless i'm mistaken) pretty much a multi-naitonal group of researcheres and universities sharing information, who could just go ahead and build their own network anyways.
At best, this is just another attempt by a useless neutered organization to grab at power (and money/tax revenue) it dosn't have. At worst, it's a consortium of poorer and/or angry countries picking on the US for all that we have. It kinda makes me think of those arguments where people say "The United States has xx% of the resources but only has x% of the population," and then proceed to ramble about how it's not fair, and we owe it to the world to be their resource providers for free.
Get real. Build your own network or shut up and be thankful we let you be a part of ours.
Right. You're saying that a bug that occurs once in a million is as serious as one that occurs once in a thousand? That's just nonsense.
I think I agree with the spirit of what you're saying in that line, but to me the flaw in that argument is; "What if I'm that one millionth user?"
Granted everyone on a computer backs their data up everyday, but what if this "one in a million" flaw causes serious problems for that one person? I know that the EULA more than likely prohibits MS from taking any responsibility should this scenario arise, but it's nice to see them being a bit more proactive in fixing things regardless of how unlikely it is to occur.
Regardless, I'll stick to using my mac. I'm only in this thread for the jokes anyways.
I cordially have to disagree with " why authorities have ultimately left it alone, despite it's user's offenses."
While I know there is illicit behaviour on Usenet (at least in terms of illegal pornography, since that was your original reference), it's still fairly minimal compared to the userbase and group as a whole. The lack of accountability and the ability to hide your tracks is what has kept the authorities by and large unable to apprehend the abusers. Add to that the differing laws regarding what is "underage" in different countries and it becomes even more of a mess.
If anything, I'd compare it to the WWW (follow me on this one), because once you strip WWW of flashy graphics and hypertext, that's about all WWW is (a flashy Usenet). It's (relatively) easy for anyone to post content, start their own group, or run their own server. I'd say the main difference is the decentralization of it, in that once something is posted, it's out there across many many servers in relatively short order. Those "features" I think are what has really kept authorities at bay. There's no stopping it. Add to that the hard to trace aspect and differing laws internationally and/or servers without logs, and there you go.
"There are too many examples of systems that did much good for the world that were snuffed out due to a few abusers." (I'll go out on a limb, as I suspect the following is (a sampling of) what you may have in mind with this comment...... if not, apologies:)
BBS' and FIDOmail didn't die because of pedos and warezhounds. The authorities didn't shut them down because of the few illicit BBS' offering kiddy porn and warez. They died because of ubiquitous internet access and easier access to things like Usenet, the web, and email.
Some services that also suffer the same abuses as Usenet:
That's not too bad at all. I've been with giganews for like 2 years (maybe longer) and have always been pleased (though it's around 50/month for unlimited+10 connections). Like you, it maxes out my connection too (though, I'm at 3mbps.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe I'm dense and missed the bus somewhere, but if Akamai didn't exist, wouldn't/couldn't anyone boost their speed to end users by buying more bandwidth and/or servers to compensate? (*not to say that one couldn't do this anyways...) I don't mean the occasional slashdotting, but an overall surge in traffic in general. From what I know, most good network admins design their networks to scale up as demand dictates. Without Akamai, this would still be the case, and as long as a company were willing to spend the money, their presence on the web would be safe. Additionally, it occurs to me that if we all have to start paying a premium for a faster route to wherever we prefer to go swiftly, any content providers that use Akamai would be charged more by Akamai to host/distribute their content as well rendering this guys philosophy moot, since in my opinion he didn't think that far ahead. Let's not forget that shit rolls downhill. Am I wrong on this?
I've wondered about this too. I find it hard to believe that the airport authority doesn't have some kind of CC camera system in place monitoring a good portion of the inside and outside of the airport. I would like to know why hasn't anyone asked to see security footage that might possibly show what was or was not out there that night.
You have obviously not eaten at taco bell very often. Horrible diarrhea comes even without the food poisoning.
Granted, but I was referring to the fact that it's not revolutionary enough, since Taco Bell is still around. ;)
If people are still getting sick.
I can make my own GH controller now? I was thinking about buying a GH controller and a cheap guitar (something with some actual weight to it) and making my own controller that way. Has anyone else tried this?
Thank god. My speed reading isn't so great.
Dickhead.
I do agree with their point about . Laptop Screen Dimming
:P
/Library and purge the HP drivers that come pre-installed and install new ones from HP. Can hardly blame Apple (or microsoft) for bad drivers.
Everything else though seems kinda nitpicky. For example, you're going to complain about three different applications looking different? I don't know if it's intentional or not, but I think it's a little better that way. For some it could be that it's easier to spot "on the fly" when switching through applications quickly. I couldn't honestly tell you in that comparison though.. I use Safari, Thunderbird, and iTunes.
As far as finding applications and working the dock.... How lazy do you have to be to press shift option A to pull up the applicaions folder and find that rarely used app. The dock was never meant to be cluttered up with every application for you to launch. It was meant for the few apps that you use all the time. I don't recall the exact figure, but I think most of us use around the same 5-6 apps all the time.
Printer installation problems (especially compared to windows)? That's a laugh. I've had a couple of SMALL problems with printers from time to time (jobs stopping or funky drivers) why the jobs stopped, sometimes is a mystery (that's the story of my life though... printers do indeed hate me). Really the only time I've had install problems with a printer, was with HP devices, that you have to dig down through
As far as Dynamic finder refresh, it's always worked fine for me on local files. Stuff stored across the network, in AFS networked mounts are a different story, but even then it has never really been a problem.
While I think the spirit of this article is well thought out, I think that their usage practices and knowledge of how to operate a mac are a bit lacking.
I feel the same way. It makes me think of a dog that I had. She was chronically ill, and she fought it with everything she had. She just sat next to me and kept fighting to keep her eyes open. There was nothing that oculd be done for her, except take her to the vet. He put her down. Sooo sad. When I moved out of my house, I took some of the dirt where she was buried just so I still have a little bit of her with me.
Hmm.. iTunes/iPod play MP3(and a host of other) files that you can get anywhere. Not just Fairplay encoded music. Further, there's nothing that says you have to use any Apple product or the features they may or may not provide that would keep you locked in.
"I have no doubt that Apple will make a good, compelling product. I just wish that they would get slapped hard with respect to their degree of integration which is rapidly turning into lock in."
Being a mac user myself, I have to disagree. Apple isn't keeping me locked into anything against my will. I choose to use some of their products because I LIKE the products I CHOOSE to use. Besides, they are a hardware company as well as software company, and if they choose to gear their OS to their hardware, that's their business decision. Ultimately the market (you and I) will be the ones making it or breaking it.
Really though, I just wish people would quit whining about being "locked in" to stuff. There are always at least two options. Use it or don't use it.
That's interesting to know. I never really shot much film outside of Black and white in (high school) photography class, so I guess we never even considered white balancing. When digital hit the scene, I had a lot of hopes when I got my first mavica (yes, with the floppy disks) but was extremely disappointed that it wasn't even close to being the same. So, fast forward to now (i've had my D50 since may) and am finding what I was always hoping for with digital.
:)
Anyways, back to the point, as far as consumer level films and stuff that you'd buy at the most convenient place (grocery, gas station, walgreens, etc) I've never noticed any 35mm film saying "best if used in xyz light" other than maybe "best for outdoors." If anything I guess the average Joe probably would never know of white balance, since I would guess that the film/photo processors make the adjustments on the back end.
Thanks for the tip and making me consider it a little more than I otherwise would have.
Off topic, but similar to a situation close to me. In the state of indiana, if you file a bad faith claim against an insurance company, the state gets 50% of whatever judgement issued (assuming the insurance company loses and has to pay out).
I like your thinking on this, but sadly the environments that these people operate in won't allow such a sensible thing to occur. Certainly anybody with enough motivation could certainly pirate more music than their "portion" of their hardware du jour has paid for and I don't see the record companies going for it. It would turn into a case of the few that are buying new players supporting the many pirates/sharers and we'd still hear a lot of squawking about "lost profits."
Just my two cents.
It's been a while since I've shot film, but if I remember correctly, White Balancing was never an issue. I've found that with my D50 I have to realllllllly keep track of how my camera is set in regards to white balancing (even on Auto... I use "Probably" aka Program and Manual unless I hand my camera off to someone so I can be in the photo).
The "auto" WB mode does ok for most stuff if I'm using a flash or outdoors. When I move inside though, it becomes apparent how poorly the camera recognizes Incandescent light bulbs or flourecent lighting. Granted when I go do post processing of the RAW images, I have the option to correct these, but if you're just an average guy taking family snaps you could really be disappointed that your 600$ super camera is making Aunt Helen look jaundiced, like an Ooompa Loompa, or a Smurf. With film, what you see has usually been what you get. With digital, it's been my experience that if you don't pay attention, you may not always get what you see.
If they're allergic to dogs, perhaps they shouldn't be working in a line of work where they're potentially exposed to service animals in the first place.
While I empathize with your situation, I'd like to know exactly what kind of job doesn't expose someone to the possibility of encountering service animals?
Beyond that though, it's ludicrous to think that someone should have to rethink their career choice (or choose one) based on (the minority) someone else's disability.
I agree with the poster who said this guy is probably just an asshole, but it's not beyond imagination to think that dogs may cause him a severe allergic reaction (to the point of disability?), or maybe he has had bad experiences in the past that causes him to distrust dogs.
In general, your disability isn't my disability, and I/we shouldn't have to be held responsible to, or accountable for it.
I blame Jesus.
(this is just a joke... don't get your panties in a wad)
Profanity being available to children -- I was really hoping the V-chip (and similar technologies) would get rid of this crap. It's really just a smokescreen to cover the next item
You obviously haven't listend to Commercial FM radio lately have you?
(not that I can blame you)
Well in response to to someone's post about what makes the US more capable than another country to be "in charge" of the internet, my response would be "experience and ownership."
Exactly what is the problem that needs to be solved here? Maybe I should expand the number of sites I visit on a daily basis, but I don't think I've ever been blocked from visiting anything that I wanted to look at. Hell, I don't think I've ever even been blocked from things I DIDN'T want to look at. I fail to see why the current management needs to be ousted or even given this much bullshit in it's general course of business.
I'd like to know where this would lead? I'm assuming that it's really the commercial aspect of the internet they are after control over. Perhaps a UN mandated internet tax of some sort, or even better, an online commerce tax mandated by the UN. Certainly we can't say that the Academic aspects of the internet are wholly owned by the US Government, as it's (unless i'm mistaken) pretty much a multi-naitonal group of researcheres and universities sharing information, who could just go ahead and build their own network anyways.
At best, this is just another attempt by a useless neutered organization to grab at power (and money/tax revenue) it dosn't have. At worst, it's a consortium of poorer and/or angry countries picking on the US for all that we have. It kinda makes me think of those arguments where people say "The United States has xx% of the resources but only has x% of the population," and then proceed to ramble about how it's not fair, and we owe it to the world to be their resource providers for free.
Get real. Build your own network or shut up and be thankful we let you be a part of ours.
Apple and certain hardware combinations? Surely you jest..... A better example would have been IBM.
Right. You're saying that a bug that occurs once in a million is as serious as one that occurs once in a thousand? That's just nonsense.
I think I agree with the spirit of what you're saying in that line, but to me the flaw in that argument is; "What if I'm that one millionth user?"
Granted everyone on a computer backs their data up everyday, but what if this "one in a million" flaw causes serious problems for that one person? I know that the EULA more than likely prohibits MS from taking any responsibility should this scenario arise, but it's nice to see them being a bit more proactive in fixing things regardless of how unlikely it is to occur.
Regardless, I'll stick to using my mac. I'm only in this thread for the jokes anyways.
Everyone here on slashdot is smart enough to keep backups anyways, so why is this even a problem?
h aha*
*hahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahhahahaahha
hookers and beer!
I cordially have to disagree with " why authorities have ultimately left it alone, despite it's user's offenses."
:)
While I know there is illicit behaviour on Usenet (at least in terms of illegal pornography, since that was your original reference), it's still fairly minimal compared to the userbase and group as a whole. The lack of accountability and the ability to hide your tracks is what has kept the authorities by and large unable to apprehend the abusers. Add to that the differing laws regarding what is "underage" in different countries and it becomes even more of a mess.
If anything, I'd compare it to the WWW (follow me on this one), because once you strip WWW of flashy graphics and hypertext, that's about all WWW is (a flashy Usenet). It's (relatively) easy for anyone to post content, start their own group, or run their own server. I'd say the main difference is the decentralization of it, in that once something is posted, it's out there across many many servers in relatively short order. Those "features" I think are what has really kept authorities at bay. There's no stopping it. Add to that the hard to trace aspect and differing laws internationally and/or servers without logs, and there you go.
"There are too many examples of systems that did much good for the world that were snuffed out due to a few abusers."
(I'll go out on a limb, as I suspect the following is (a sampling of) what you may have in mind with this comment...... if not, apologies
BBS' and FIDOmail didn't die because of pedos and warezhounds. The authorities didn't shut them down because of the few illicit BBS' offering kiddy porn and warez. They died because of ubiquitous internet access and easier access to things like Usenet, the web, and email.
Some services that also suffer the same abuses as Usenet:
Email
WWW
FTP
Telnet
Postal Mail
That's not too bad at all. I've been with giganews for like 2 years (maybe longer) and have always been pleased (though it's around 50/month for unlimited+10 connections). Like you, it maxes out my connection too (though, I'm at 3mbps.