I wouldn't count on AT&T to maintain their current pricing all that much longer. I just think they're trying to decide how to charge for different tiers of consumer service.From the Boston.com article:
She said consistent pricing will enable the company to offer future deals to its customers, including the tiering of Internet speeds. She said the tiering of speeds might come as early as this summer, but declined to comment further.
Someone is redirecting people to MacMall through an affiliate link at Commission Junction. I seriously doubt that MacMall is behind this activity. The person who is in control of macslash.com is just redirecting people there because they pay a sales commission and it is a logical affiliate link to push on macslash readers.
I'm sure that the people at Commission Junction and MacMall would like to know that one of their "affiliates" is using a redirect to send them traffic, which probably violates their terms of service. I would really recommend against harassing these people since they didn't do anything other than offer a commission on sales of mac hardware and software that is being abused by the person who now has macslash.com.
They are standardizing on 256k upstream for residential customers. For myself and other former MediaOne customers this means a decrease in our upstream (albeit not by much since we're just going from 300k to 256) with no change in price.
I don't know about the UK, but I am currently listening to the disc. I bought it at a fnac (big chain of music/electronics stores) in Paris the other day. They had hundreds of copies.
and why is sales tax being paid on something that is being sold to the State of California? Do most states charges themselves sales tax (or allow municipal sales taxes to apply to their purchases)?
I seem to recall most governmental agencies I've dealt with not paying it, but I'm not from California.
It is a well-known fact that bicyclists have tans, physical endurance, low fat-weight ratios, and many other characteristics that are totally incompatible with the True Concept of Geekiness!
bullsh*t!
I consider myself a cyclist but I am neither tan nor thin. I seem to find enough time to tinker with my bike and buy new parts, but when it comes time to ride I'm always busy messing around with my computers.
I run an Iogear GCS104U at home and will say that the way it disconnects devices not being used from computers not using them is a bit of a pain.
If I switch back and forth too much between the two computers I have attached to the switch, one of them will eventually crap out on me. It's usually my Win2K box with an error message that I have to click on to reset my usb port, but I can't since the problem is with my usb keyboard and mouse.
no, the problem is the cost of the pipes. While the article is incredibly lacking in detail, it sounds like the African ISPs are paying for their own Internet connections. I hope that they are running their own email servers. The point that the article is trying to make is that nobody is peering with African ISPs, but as others have pointed out, nobody is going to do that unless the traffic is somewhat symmetric and quite significant in volume.
Basically, if you want access to my network, you pay me and you pay for the infrastructure to connect to my network.
If I want access to your network, I pay you, plus I pay for the infrastructure needed to access your network.
If we both want access to each other's networks, then perhaps we can work out a deal where no money changes hands. We'll both share the infrastructure costs.
I'd rather work for someone who believes that strongly in what the company is doing and wants to keep me badly enough to put his house up as collateral than for a company that will drop me like a hot potato if they think layoffs would be looked upon kindly by Wall Street.
Open a pdf in your web browswer and tack on another 20+ until you manually kill the acrobat task.
Ok, so i'm sure this has been discussed elsewhere, but why is this necessary. I've noticed it too and cacn't see why acrobat keeps a process running that consumes a big chunk of RAM even after I'm done looking at a PDF ion my web browswer.
Does anyone know of any public wifi networks in Paris? I am currently on an exteneded business trip in Paris. I have a Wavelan card in my laptop bag and no Internet access outside the office (except for Internet Cafes, which aren't really so bad).
Some Internet cafes (only some) will even let you plug your laptop into their network, which is great. I am currently in Paris and the cost of making local calls out of my hotel is over 6 euros per hour. That cost alone is far more than the hourly rate at many local Internet cafes.
but did they know anything with certainty? What could they have told you to do? Panic some more? There was simply too much uncertainty for anyone to put together a helpful message to send out over EBS.
I agree that it isn't really ripping off, but why would anyone want to run the Mopheus version of Gnucleus? Until they add some new functionality (beyond the ability to show their ads), why should I run their client.
I know that the simple answer is that they are better known than gnucleus. Morpheus users will simply download their version to have something that (kind of) works without realizing that they could have the same thing without Morpheus' ads for free.
Why does it have to be affordable? I can't just fiddle with a $50,000 Sun box because I'm curious (unless I happen to have legitimate access to one or went out and cracked into or simply stole one). I'd like to drive a Porshe, but I drive a Honda instead since that's what I can afford.
There's no reason why someone has to make their products affordable to you. Photoshop sells pretty well at its current price. If you can't afford it there are alternatives, both in the form of cheaper programs that do less (PaintShop Pro comes to mind) as well as in open source alternatives (gimp). I'm sure that the kind people at Adobe have considered the fact that they could sell more licenses if they sold Photoshop for $50, but I'm also pretty sure that they think they wouldn't make as much money that way (which is something that they should be allowed to do).
I definitely agree with number 2. I am watching a domain that expired in December, but I don't want to contact the old owner. They were trying to sell the domain and I am sure that they would ask far more than I would be willing to pay to transfer the name to me.
Not to mention the communities that didn't chase them for money. I can still see traces of that graffiti on the steps to the subway station by my apartment here in Cambridge, MA. As far as I know local authorities never did anything about IBM's graffiti here, but most of it was done on MBTA property, and IBM had tons of paid billboards up in the subways at that point. Not sure if that helped them or if people here just didn't care.
...is that the same people who constantly bitch and moan over "American cultural imperialism" and how American media corporations pollute other cultures with their Hollywood produced "intellectual fast food" and yadda yadda, the same people get up in arms when the same American corporations just want to sell a product and NOT bundle American morals with it. Make up your minds already, people...
No, they're just the same people who will disagree with anything Jon Katz says. While I don't agree with the people who think everything he says is wrong, I'd rather not have Katz writing for Slashdot (yes, I know I can set my prefs to hide his articles). I much prefer the normal quick take on a topic to Katz's longer, even more biased, pieces.
I agree with another poster who pointed out that this is simply someone else's problem. If you have "secret" data that your webserver will give me over the public Internet, then that is your problem.
One major downside to trying to screen out CC numbers is that they are only one type of data that should not be exposed. SSN's, passwords, bank account numbers, and all sorts of other information should also be kept private. Having a search enginge sensor publicly accesible documents that contain such information is a waste of time. The only real solution is to simply make those documents inaccesible to the public.
Does anyone have any experience with the different ditros available for PPC? I have an old 7600 with a G3 in it. I used to run LinuxPPC 2000 on it and I am looking to turn it into a Linux box again. I am planning on going with YDL 2.1, but am curious about other distributions.
I ride my motorcycle through the freezing weather whilst most are driving their cars waiting for their heaters to warm up. Snow, ice? You would be surprised. Its interesting to see them look at me like I'm nuts when I can see their breath in their cars as their frozen hands attempt to grasp the dangerous cup of coffee.
How do you find driving on ice and snow with your motorcycle? I've always been under the impression that it would be very hard to control a motorcycle with a lot of ice on the roads (controlling a car without studded tires is tough on really icy roads, but I run little risk of winding up on the ground beneath my car when that happens).
When you ask questions like "I understand that you do not want to allow any changes to a pay period after the checks have been cut, but then what are we going to do when travelling workers report their hours late?" Management thinks you are being a pain in the ass, but if you don't get it right, your project will fail.
So true. I have found it extremely difficult to explain to people that software is not magic. Phrases like "and so on" and "etc" do not belong in requirements docs. If you have 100 specific cases that you need me to handle, you cannot list three, say "and so on" and then explain to me verbally more or less what you want. I really need that list of every case. Oh, and I'll need time to test every single one of them. Yes, that will take more time than not testing, and no, I'm really not trying to be a pain.
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I wouldn't count on AT&T to maintain their current pricing all that much longer. I just think they're trying to decide how to charge for different tiers of consumer service.From the Boston.com article:
She said consistent pricing will enable the company to offer future deals to its customers, including the tiering of Internet speeds. She said the tiering of speeds might come as early as this summer, but declined to comment further.
Someone is redirecting people to MacMall through an affiliate link at Commission Junction. I seriously doubt that MacMall is behind this activity. The person who is in control of macslash.com is just redirecting people there because they pay a sales commission and it is a logical affiliate link to push on macslash readers.
I'm sure that the people at Commission Junction and MacMall would like to know that one of their "affiliates" is using a redirect to send them traffic, which probably violates their terms of service. I would really recommend against harassing these people since they didn't do anything other than offer a commission on sales of mac hardware and software that is being abused by the person who now has macslash.com.
They are standardizing on 256k upstream for residential customers. For myself and other former MediaOne customers this means a decrease in our upstream (albeit not by much since we're just going from 300k to 256) with no change in price.
-joe
I thought that commenting was only supported to prevent a block of code from being compiled (or even better, dozens of little fragments of code).
What is all this about using comments to document what you are doing?
I don't know about the UK, but I am currently listening to the disc. I bought it at a fnac (big chain of music/electronics stores) in Paris the other day. They had hundreds of copies.
and why is sales tax being paid on something that is being sold to the State of California? Do most states charges themselves sales tax (or allow municipal sales taxes to apply to their purchases)?
I seem to recall most governmental agencies I've dealt with not paying it, but I'm not from California.
MUSCLE - Movement for the Use of Smart Cards in a Linux Environment looks kind of helpful.
And to use a smartcard reader for your login here.
It is a well-known fact that bicyclists have tans, physical endurance, low fat-weight ratios, and many other characteristics that are totally incompatible with the True Concept of Geekiness!
bullsh*t!
I consider myself a cyclist but I am neither tan nor thin. I seem to find enough time to tinker with my bike and buy new parts, but when it comes time to ride I'm always busy messing around with my computers.
I run an Iogear GCS104U at home and will say that the way it disconnects devices not being used from computers not using them is a bit of a pain.
If I switch back and forth too much between the two computers I have attached to the switch, one of them will eventually crap out on me. It's usually my Win2K box with an error message that I have to click on to reset my usb port, but I can't since the problem is with my usb keyboard and mouse.
no, the problem is the cost of the pipes. While the article is incredibly lacking in detail, it sounds like the African ISPs are paying for their own Internet connections. I hope that they are running their own email servers. The point that the article is trying to make is that nobody is peering with African ISPs, but as others have pointed out, nobody is going to do that unless the traffic is somewhat symmetric and quite significant in volume.
Basically, if you want access to my network, you pay me and you pay for the infrastructure to connect to my network.
If I want access to your network, I pay you, plus I pay for the infrastructure needed to access your network.
If we both want access to each other's networks, then perhaps we can work out a deal where no money changes hands. We'll both share the infrastructure costs.
I'd rather work for someone who believes that strongly in what the company is doing and wants to keep me badly enough to put his house up as collateral than for a company that will drop me like a hot potato if they think layoffs would be looked upon kindly by Wall Street.
Open a pdf in your web browswer and tack on another 20+ until you manually kill the acrobat task.
Ok, so i'm sure this has been discussed elsewhere, but why is this necessary. I've noticed it too and cacn't see why acrobat keeps a process running that consumes a big chunk of RAM even after I'm done looking at a PDF ion my web browswer.
Does anyone know of any public wifi networks in Paris? I am currently on an exteneded business trip in Paris. I have a Wavelan card in my laptop bag and no Internet access outside the office (except for Internet Cafes, which aren't really so bad).
Some Internet cafes (only some) will even let you plug your laptop into their network, which is great. I am currently in Paris and the cost of making local calls out of my hotel is over 6 euros per hour. That cost alone is far more than the hourly rate at many local Internet cafes.
-joe
but did they know anything with certainty? What could they have told you to do? Panic some more? There was simply too much uncertainty for anyone to put together a helpful message to send out over EBS.
I agree that it isn't really ripping off, but why would anyone want to run the Mopheus version of Gnucleus? Until they add some new functionality (beyond the ability to show their ads), why should I run their client.
I know that the simple answer is that they are better known than gnucleus. Morpheus users will simply download their version to have something that (kind of) works without realizing that they could have the same thing without Morpheus' ads for free.
-joe
Why does it have to be affordable? I can't just fiddle with a $50,000 Sun box because I'm curious (unless I happen to have legitimate access to one or went out and cracked into or simply stole one). I'd like to drive a Porshe, but I drive a Honda instead since that's what I can afford.
There's no reason why someone has to make their products affordable to you. Photoshop sells pretty well at its current price. If you can't afford it there are alternatives, both in the form of cheaper programs that do less (PaintShop Pro comes to mind) as well as in open source alternatives (gimp). I'm sure that the kind people at Adobe have considered the fact that they could sell more licenses if they sold Photoshop for $50, but I'm also pretty sure that they think they wouldn't make as much money that way (which is something that they should be allowed to do).
The funny part is the line of text at the bottom of that graphic:
"Instant rebate offer expires 1/31/02"
When did they post that graphic? Assuming that it was in response to this article is that date a typo or is there really no rebate?
I definitely agree with number 2. I am watching a domain that expired in December, but I don't want to contact the old owner. They were trying to sell the domain and I am sure that they would ask far more than I would be willing to pay to transfer the name to me.
-Joe
Not to mention the communities that didn't chase them for money. I can still see traces of that graffiti on the steps to the subway station by my apartment here in Cambridge, MA. As far as I know local authorities never did anything about IBM's graffiti here, but most of it was done on MBTA property, and IBM had tons of paid billboards up in the subways at that point. Not sure if that helped them or if people here just didn't care.
-Joe
...is that the same people who constantly bitch and moan over "American cultural imperialism" and how American media corporations pollute other cultures with their Hollywood produced "intellectual fast food" and yadda yadda, the same people get up in arms when the same American corporations just want to sell a product and NOT bundle American morals with it. Make up your minds already, people...
No, they're just the same people who will disagree with anything Jon Katz says. While I don't agree with the people who think everything he says is wrong, I'd rather not have Katz writing for Slashdot (yes, I know I can set my prefs to hide his articles). I much prefer the normal quick take on a topic to Katz's longer, even more biased, pieces.
-joe
I agree with another poster who pointed out that this is simply someone else's problem. If you have "secret" data that your webserver will give me over the public Internet, then that is your problem.
One major downside to trying to screen out CC numbers is that they are only one type of data that should not be exposed. SSN's, passwords, bank account numbers, and all sorts of other information should also be kept private. Having a search enginge sensor publicly accesible documents that contain such information is a waste of time. The only real solution is to simply make those documents inaccesible to the public.
-Joe
Does anyone have any experience with the different ditros available for PPC? I have an old 7600 with a G3 in it. I used to run LinuxPPC 2000 on it and I am looking to turn it into a Linux box again. I am planning on going with YDL 2.1, but am curious about other distributions.
-Joe
I ride my motorcycle through the freezing weather whilst most are driving their cars waiting for their heaters to warm up. Snow, ice? You would be surprised. Its interesting to see them look at me like I'm nuts when I can see their breath in their cars as their frozen hands attempt to grasp the dangerous cup of coffee.
How do you find driving on ice and snow with your motorcycle? I've always been under the impression that it would be very hard to control a motorcycle with a lot of ice on the roads (controlling a car without studded tires is tough on really icy roads, but I run little risk of winding up on the ground beneath my car when that happens).
When you ask questions like "I understand that you do not want to allow any changes to a pay period after the checks have been cut, but then what are we going to do when travelling workers report their hours late?" Management thinks you are being a pain in the ass, but if you don't get it right, your project will fail.
So true. I have found it extremely difficult to explain to people that software is not magic. Phrases like "and so on" and "etc" do not belong in requirements docs. If you have 100 specific cases that you need me to handle, you cannot list three, say "and so on" and then explain to me verbally more or less what you want. I really need that list of every case. Oh, and I'll need time to test every single one of them. Yes, that will take more time than not testing, and no, I'm really not trying to be a pain.