It is not a true monopoly by any definition - I don't care what a judge says. Monopoly...let us break it down - mono = ONE. There is more then one OS out there and there is more then one popular OS. Let us look: Mac has an OS (a few of them), Linux (has a slew of them)...and those are the more common ones...now we can get BSD, Unix, and more.
Yea MS did some unfair trading practices, but they are nowhere near a monopoly. They shouldn't be forced to give out their source code - they should be forced to stop abusing their vast market share by pressuring companies to sell their product and their product alone.
In all seriousness, would you really blame them for making it ridiculously high priced? I mean, like it or not, Windows is MS' cash cow...when the source code is given to someone it is more prone to being leaked and if people can get the source code for free it becomes that much easier to say "who needs to pay MS, I can compile it myself and give it to people"
Cable's a lot more hit-or-miss than DSL. Good cable, like my parents have and I had under MediaOne, is noticably faster than DSL. Bad cable isn't
I have always had comcast, but lived in different areas (Center city philly, west philadelphia, west chester, springfield, and drexel hill) the cable was always fast...maybe it is because it all belongs to comcast (a monopoly of itself) but definitly better then DSL...worth it for me to pay the extra bucks...especially since I do not keep a landline anyhow (i have a cell).
Congress is the answer. It will not be supply and demand if it is written into law, and that is what the telco's are trying to do. Once they have the law behind them, they can do as they please. So yes, we need Congress to vote our way - against the telcos. This is not an issue about an ISP supplying cheap/fast service, it is about the telco's charging other isps - and in the end that charge will come down on us. This has nothing to do with things like AOL people surfing at 20/month for a 10/month service.
If this law gets passed, what will happen is the companies that can afford to pay the ISP charges (and thusly pass it to their clients - us) will get more market share because the clueless end user will say "hey google is faster then this new guy, so this new guy sucks" where in reality it is the fact the ISPs are favoring google because google can afford to pay. Oh, but in the end, as i said before - google is not paying - we are.
What will you do when the telcos get to regulate and charge the ISPs, then satellite gets to do this, and then cable gets to do this? We gotta stop it here or we are toast.
You mean, like when you call her on her cell phone?
I knew someone would mention that, but that is not applicable.
First, even as the telco's admitted the content providers do pay them for access to the net already. Also, let us say I have cingular and my mom has verizon - Cingular does not charge my mom for the call, verizon charges her per her agreement. In this model - that BellSouth is proposing, Cingular would charge my mom to be able to have a better (well faster speed) conversation with me. Why does Cingular get to charge my mom for a phone call? She didn't sign an agreement with them. And frankly, i pay Cingular for the right to use their lines to call whomever I please.
In the end, the people who will be paying these extra fee's are the users - and probably more (hey if I use twenty website services I will have to pay for twenty sites who now have inflated costs). What BellSouth and the rest shoudl really do is tell their customers "we are raising your rates"...They won't because they will lose more customers to cable internet providers - who althought charge more, offer speeds that are two-five times as fast if not more.
I find it amazing (in a good way) that google is saying "hey if we have to pay, we can afford to, but it is the little upstart guy who won't be able to pay and that sucks"...Congress needs to listen to that - when the big guy says they want the competition.
Meanwhile, on the other side, companies like AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth are lobbying just as hard, saying that they need to find new ways to pay for the expense of building faster, better communication networks. And, they add, because these new networks will compete with those belonging to Comcast, Time Warner and oth er cable companies -- which currently have about
Here is a suggestion - offer me the same speeds U/D'l that comcast offers, at the same convenience (no I do not want to have to log-on, I want to play and play). Offer this at a cheaper price, or offer faster speeds at the same price. Offer me better service. Do these things and you will have my business - do it not, and go fuck yourselves! I use comcast, yea I pay more, but you know what - i get 3 times the speed of verizon DSL - and for a programmer/web designer that is important.
And then, with your lack of service, you dare complain you are losing out? And you think you have the right to charge the content providers? They are not the ones requesting to send their information over the net, I am going to them requesting the information...I paid already, i shouldn't have to pay again - and yes I will have to pay again as Yahoo decides to charge me for email.
I stop using telco-DSL (not that I do, but many people do). This is a bad thing to happen - eventually the telco's will start blocking ISPs who tell them to F off. I am hoping a telco will do something stupid like block Microsoft, Google, yahoo, Ebay, Amazon...block one of the big names and watch how half your business goes down the chute. And let's not forget, this is absolutely ridiculous - the website I go to is not using the telco's lines, I am using telco's lines to retrieve the information...it is like asking my mom to pay for a phone call when I call her - absolutely stupid.
I am not worried about the garbage in space. It's a freaking big place - including just orbit of space. I am more worried about the stuff we could recycle - lots of junk in space means less stuff here. Meh, it is miniscule. We don't have enough stuff on this planet to even come close to making a dent in near earth orbit.
What kind of precedent does this set for other mainstream news sites? What we'd consider a normal day around here has to look fairly intimidating to the average newspaper editor
It is about respect. You can voice your opinions without resorting to disrespectful attitudes (i.e. racism, slander, profanity, etc.). Compared to the rest of the net,/. is pretty tame - yea sometimes we act up, but nothing that major. It is their blog, and if they want to take it down because various bad apples are spreading their poison then so be it. Freedom of speech is paramount - it is tantamount - and in our society it is an absolute right - many even saying it is a divine/natural right....however, given our planet and that some countries do not have this right - we should honor it and respect it. And just because we are allowed to open our mouths and let them flap, does not remove our responsibility from making what we say/write be respectful towards others.
While copper is a resource that can be tied up, it is not a perishible resource (like oil). As such, we just need to, you know, recycle. Also, lets stop the pennies - that has got to help, and it is the most useless piece of currency out there.
I don't have cable, so I can't comment on that show. The woman in my example had just asked where I worked and that was her response to my answer.
Then, as I am sure you already know, she ain't worth the time of day. Thats the kind of girl that I take to bed, and kick her out five minutes after I am done with her - telling her she should try not to embarass herself by calling me again.
Are you saying rape victims should be forced to endure PTSD symptoms for the rest of their lives -
I think my experiences are a part of me, the good the bad and the ugly - they are there and even though they may hurt a lot I want them as a part of my life. I grow from these memories - I like my pain it makes me who I am today. If I could forget any bad part of my life - I would be a smaller person for it. Rape is a tragedy, but yet - it may help if the victim remembered what happend. Like for example "maybe i shouldn't walk on 10th and broad at 3 AM"...or more importantly, "the guy who attacked me looked like....."
OK. What is a leader? The best definition is "The foremost animal, such as a horse or dog, in a harnessed team."
Rock stars are on stage, up higher than everybody else, nobody at the place can speak louder than they can, everybody in the audience faces them, the people cheer them on, the people congregate to see them just as though they were seeing a politician or priest. If thats not what a leader is, I don't know what one is.
The best definition for leader that you could get was that? Since you used dictionary.com, go back to it and look at entries 1, 2, 3(a), 3(b). They are all much better then your horse example. Or you could skip to 9 and use the "a pipe for conducting liquid".
The definition of leader is broad, but being a rock star and in the lime light does not make you a leader...it makes you a rock star.
That's better than "oh, you're too smart for me. good bye".
I don't know any girls who say that, well at least not to me. Maybe if I was smart and arrogant about it? Like the one guy from Beauty and the Geek 2... he was the guy, on the first episode, that won the competition...he became a complete ass....I tell you what, on that show, all those geeks have is the fact they are nice and sympathetic (like a lost puppy):)
Being a rockstar does not make one a leader - not even close. They just happen to play some tunes that some people find enjoyable enough to come and see...entertainers yes, leaders MAYBE, but I would never think of an entertainer as a leader unless they did something extra - like well lead.
I still don't have my 5000 groupie girls who would spread their legs open for me en masse'....however, when I meet girls and i tell them I program they pretty much go "oh wow, you must make a lot of money" and then i snicker to myself in sadness...obviously i don't argue with them (what girl wants a poor guy) but hey:) It is, however, more accepted. I know many hot girls who love places like myspace, AIM, etc.
Come on...there are thousands upon thousands of books, and there are many books for dummies (not to be confused with the "for dummies" books). What you really meant to say is that people can't be bothered to read a paragraph let alone a book (even a slim one).
There are way too many topics to cover in a post, but some
Computer Etiquette
Computer Security
When in doubt --- DON'T DO IT!
Check your plugs to make sure they are attached properly
E-mail tips
Web surfing tips
A cousin/nephew/grand child who is a computer geek.
At least then they are learning something...maybe not much, but something! I wouldn't mind some of our gov't employees reading our comments - maybe it will give them a clue about policy & legislation.
Oh that is easy for Bellsouth to handle "What MR. foreign country ISP...you don't want to pay us? Fine we block your IP". What will the reprucssions be? Well the US is the biggest market so many ISPs will pay - but I hope NONE of them pay...if this happens and the bell's start blocking the big name ISPs who host important sites - well you can imagine them flipping the bird to the Bells...then the Bells lose customers.
I would love for a class action suit to hit Sony regarding this. When I buy a program (i.e. world of warcraft) i know and expect to install stuff on my computer. When I buy music or movies I do not expect for anything to install. Hell when I put a movie in and the Activision (i think that is it) pops up to install itself so it can "play" the movie I just hit the cancel button. It is annoying to see it each time i stick the movie in (actually not really, it doesn't happen that often) but at least they ask me. SONYs rootkit, in all honesty, is starting to sway me to the side of piraters. By installing a program on my computer without my knowledge or permission they have violated my personal property.
I really would like a class action suit which would be for the cost of the CD + damages to computer (say $250-$500 is a fair number).
First thing to note - just because a computer belongs to the military or any other branch of the gov't does not mean it is 1) a secured computer 2) a computer with access to sensitive materials. This computer could be the janitors computer.
What the hell...300,000 people are placing music CDs at work? No wonder our government gets nowhere - they are all busy listening to music and playing games. Get a regular CD player people - they aren't that expensive.
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It is not a true monopoly by any definition - I don't care what a judge says. Monopoly...let us break it down - mono = ONE. There is more then one OS out there and there is more then one popular OS. Let us look: Mac has an OS (a few of them), Linux (has a slew of them)...and those are the more common ones...now we can get BSD, Unix, and more.
Yea MS did some unfair trading practices, but they are nowhere near a monopoly. They shouldn't be forced to give out their source code - they should be forced to stop abusing their vast market share by pressuring companies to sell their product and their product alone.
In all seriousness, would you really blame them for making it ridiculously high priced? I mean, like it or not, Windows is MS' cash cow...when the source code is given to someone it is more prone to being leaked and if people can get the source code for free it becomes that much easier to say "who needs to pay MS, I can compile it myself and give it to people"
Cable's a lot more hit-or-miss than DSL. Good cable, like my parents have and I had under MediaOne, is noticably faster than DSL. Bad cable isn't
I have always had comcast, but lived in different areas (Center city philly, west philadelphia, west chester, springfield, and drexel hill) the cable was always fast...maybe it is because it all belongs to comcast (a monopoly of itself) but definitly better then DSL...worth it for me to pay the extra bucks...especially since I do not keep a landline anyhow (i have a cell).
Congress is the answer. It will not be supply and demand if it is written into law, and that is what the telco's are trying to do. Once they have the law behind them, they can do as they please. So yes, we need Congress to vote our way - against the telcos. This is not an issue about an ISP supplying cheap/fast service, it is about the telco's charging other isps - and in the end that charge will come down on us. This has nothing to do with things like AOL people surfing at 20/month for a 10/month service.
If this law gets passed, what will happen is the companies that can afford to pay the ISP charges (and thusly pass it to their clients - us) will get more market share because the clueless end user will say "hey google is faster then this new guy, so this new guy sucks" where in reality it is the fact the ISPs are favoring google because google can afford to pay. Oh, but in the end, as i said before - google is not paying - we are.
What will you do when the telcos get to regulate and charge the ISPs, then satellite gets to do this, and then cable gets to do this? We gotta stop it here or we are toast.
You mean, like when you call her on her cell phone?
I knew someone would mention that, but that is not applicable.
First, even as the telco's admitted the content providers do pay them for access to the net already. Also, let us say I have cingular and my mom has verizon - Cingular does not charge my mom for the call, verizon charges her per her agreement. In this model - that BellSouth is proposing, Cingular would charge my mom to be able to have a better (well faster speed) conversation with me. Why does Cingular get to charge my mom for a phone call? She didn't sign an agreement with them. And frankly, i pay Cingular for the right to use their lines to call whomever I please.
In the end, the people who will be paying these extra fee's are the users - and probably more (hey if I use twenty website services I will have to pay for twenty sites who now have inflated costs). What BellSouth and the rest shoudl really do is tell their customers "we are raising your rates"...They won't because they will lose more customers to cable internet providers - who althought charge more, offer speeds that are two-five times as fast if not more.
I find it amazing (in a good way) that google is saying "hey if we have to pay, we can afford to, but it is the little upstart guy who won't be able to pay and that sucks"...Congress needs to listen to that - when the big guy says they want the competition.
Meanwhile, on the other side, companies like AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth are lobbying just as hard, saying that they need to find new ways to pay for the expense of building faster, better communication networks. And, they add, because these new networks will compete with those belonging to Comcast, Time Warner and oth er cable companies -- which currently have about
Here is a suggestion - offer me the same speeds U/D'l that comcast offers, at the same convenience (no I do not want to have to log-on, I want to play and play). Offer this at a cheaper price, or offer faster speeds at the same price. Offer me better service. Do these things and you will have my business - do it not, and go fuck yourselves! I use comcast, yea I pay more, but you know what - i get 3 times the speed of verizon DSL - and for a programmer/web designer that is important.
And then, with your lack of service, you dare complain you are losing out? And you think you have the right to charge the content providers? They are not the ones requesting to send their information over the net, I am going to them requesting the information...I paid already, i shouldn't have to pay again - and yes I will have to pay again as Yahoo decides to charge me for email.
I stop using telco-DSL (not that I do, but many people do). This is a bad thing to happen - eventually the telco's will start blocking ISPs who tell them to F off. I am hoping a telco will do something stupid like block Microsoft, Google, yahoo, Ebay, Amazon...block one of the big names and watch how half your business goes down the chute. And let's not forget, this is absolutely ridiculous - the website I go to is not using the telco's lines, I am using telco's lines to retrieve the information...it is like asking my mom to pay for a phone call when I call her - absolutely stupid.
Killjoy.
LOL
I am not worried about the garbage in space. It's a freaking big place - including just orbit of space. I am more worried about the stuff we could recycle - lots of junk in space means less stuff here. Meh, it is miniscule. We don't have enough stuff on this planet to even come close to making a dent in near earth orbit.
What kind of precedent does this set for other mainstream news sites? What we'd consider a normal day around here has to look fairly intimidating to the average newspaper editor
/. is pretty tame - yea sometimes we act up, but nothing that major. It is their blog, and if they want to take it down because various bad apples are spreading their poison then so be it. Freedom of speech is paramount - it is tantamount - and in our society it is an absolute right - many even saying it is a divine/natural right....however, given our planet and that some countries do not have this right - we should honor it and respect it. And just because we are allowed to open our mouths and let them flap, does not remove our responsibility from making what we say/write be respectful towards others.
It is about respect. You can voice your opinions without resorting to disrespectful attitudes (i.e. racism, slander, profanity, etc.). Compared to the rest of the net,
They did what they had to do.
While copper is a resource that can be tied up, it is not a perishible resource (like oil). As such, we just need to, you know, recycle. Also, lets stop the pennies - that has got to help, and it is the most useless piece of currency out there.
I don't have cable, so I can't comment on that show. The woman in my example had just asked where I worked and that was her response to my answer.
Then, as I am sure you already know, she ain't worth the time of day. Thats the kind of girl that I take to bed, and kick her out five minutes after I am done with her - telling her she should try not to embarass herself by calling me again.
Are you saying rape victims should be forced to endure PTSD symptoms for the rest of their lives -
....."
I think my experiences are a part of me, the good the bad and the ugly - they are there and even though they may hurt a lot I want them as a part of my life. I grow from these memories - I like my pain it makes me who I am today. If I could forget any bad part of my life - I would be a smaller person for it. Rape is a tragedy, but yet - it may help if the victim remembered what happend. Like for example "maybe i shouldn't walk on 10th and broad at 3 AM"...or more importantly, "the guy who attacked me looked like
OK. What is a leader? The best definition is "The foremost animal, such as a horse or dog, in a harnessed team." Rock stars are on stage, up higher than everybody else, nobody at the place can speak louder than they can, everybody in the audience faces them, the people cheer them on, the people congregate to see them just as though they were seeing a politician or priest. If thats not what a leader is, I don't know what one is.
The best definition for leader that you could get was that? Since you used dictionary.com, go back to it and look at entries 1, 2, 3(a), 3(b). They are all much better then your horse example. Or you could skip to 9 and use the "a pipe for conducting liquid".
The definition of leader is broad, but being a rock star and in the lime light does not make you a leader...it makes you a rock star.
That's better than "oh, you're too smart for me. good bye".
:)
I don't know any girls who say that, well at least not to me. Maybe if I was smart and arrogant about it? Like the one guy from Beauty and the Geek 2... he was the guy, on the first episode, that won the competition...he became a complete ass....I tell you what, on that show, all those geeks have is the fact they are nice and sympathetic (like a lost puppy)
Computers piss people off
Not always
Plus they are leaders
Being a rockstar does not make one a leader - not even close. They just happen to play some tunes that some people find enjoyable enough to come and see...entertainers yes, leaders MAYBE, but I would never think of an entertainer as a leader unless they did something extra - like well lead.
It looks we are finally beginning to see Google's transition to mainstream media.
What it really looks like is our editors are not, you know editing the posts.
I still don't have my 5000 groupie girls who would spread their legs open for me en masse'....however, when I meet girls and i tell them I program they pretty much go "oh wow, you must make a lot of money" and then i snicker to myself in sadness...obviously i don't argue with them (what girl wants a poor guy) but hey :) It is, however, more accepted. I know many hot girls who love places like myspace, AIM, etc.
Come on...there are thousands upon thousands of books, and there are many books for dummies (not to be confused with the "for dummies" books). What you really meant to say is that people can't be bothered to read a paragraph let alone a book (even a slim one).
There are way too many topics to cover in a post, but some
Computer Etiquette
Computer Security
When in doubt --- DON'T DO IT!
Check your plugs to make sure they are attached properly
E-mail tips
Web surfing tips
A cousin/nephew/grand child who is a computer geek.
As opposed to reading /. ?
At least then they are learning something...maybe not much, but something! I wouldn't mind some of our gov't employees reading our comments - maybe it will give them a clue about policy & legislation.
Oh that is easy for Bellsouth to handle "What MR. foreign country ISP...you don't want to pay us? Fine we block your IP". What will the reprucssions be? Well the US is the biggest market so many ISPs will pay - but I hope NONE of them pay...if this happens and the bell's start blocking the big name ISPs who host important sites - well you can imagine them flipping the bird to the Bells...then the Bells lose customers.
corporal punishment???
They will beat you for playing music on a computer? Hm, I can understand wanting to beat you for playing the Back Street Boys, but just playing music?
In all seriousness - I am pretty sure the military is not allowed to employ coproral punishment on it's soldiers (at least not officially).
I would love for a class action suit to hit Sony regarding this. When I buy a program (i.e. world of warcraft) i know and expect to install stuff on my computer. When I buy music or movies I do not expect for anything to install. Hell when I put a movie in and the Activision (i think that is it) pops up to install itself so it can "play" the movie I just hit the cancel button. It is annoying to see it each time i stick the movie in (actually not really, it doesn't happen that often) but at least they ask me. SONYs rootkit, in all honesty, is starting to sway me to the side of piraters. By installing a program on my computer without my knowledge or permission they have violated my personal property.
I really would like a class action suit which would be for the cost of the CD + damages to computer (say $250-$500 is a fair number).
First thing to note - just because a computer belongs to the military or any other branch of the gov't does not mean it is 1) a secured computer 2) a computer with access to sensitive materials. This computer could be the janitors computer.
What the hell...300,000 people are placing music CDs at work? No wonder our government gets nowhere - they are all busy listening to music and playing games. Get a regular CD player people - they aren't that expensive.