Playing devils advocate here (literally?): The roaming charge isn't so unusual. They notice the same user logging in from two different regions. Mostly I think its their way of saying. "We know you're all using one account against our AUP, but we'll let it go if you kick in another 4 bucks.. mmkay?"
And the unlimited refers to 'hours connected per month' and nothing else. They've always had the roam thing, if you want to connect up from somewhere else than your 'home' computer/number/area you get dinged with the extra charge. If you change location for good you just update your address and the roaming doesn't apply anymore.
What's the big deal? Same thing, but now Google can ask somebody to pay more money for the same add because they want it to be.. "more" relevant than the other adds.
At least it isn't like.. *ahem* some other search engines who provide links for paying customers first, then the rest of the "riff-raff". Frankly I thought the add links were already quite relevant. Of course, I don't even click on these adds, but I appreciate that they keep out of my way when I'm searching for something! I'll keep on appreciating it as long as Google realizes that they have something truely golden in their search engine itself and don't sell out like the other guys.
The Google Appliance is an example of a great idea, and a good way to keep the money rolling in.:) Considering the price..:P While not completely selling out to the pop-under and flash adds that everyone else is peddling.
It doesn't matter what the Jury is like as long as the lawyers make their case well enough. That is, instruct the jury enough to know what is what and why Be has a case.
I think even the casual computer user knows or has heard about the on-going anti-trust lawsuit against MS. They already have at least an inkling of 'evil empire' in their thoughts about the company. It might not take as much as you think to tip somebody against Microsoft.
Of course I could be completely wrong... I do tend to be a bit of an optimist.
I want one! I've loved this movie since I was a little kid. It's kind of what started me into the world of geekdom. Though I guess I was always a geek, this was just the coolest thing I ever saw and I knew I wanted to be involved in something that looked that COOL!
Just curious your views on the implications of a back-door (supposedly) available to only government authorities? Considering the distributed.net-type projects aimed at how safe would internet commerce be if there existed a key that unlocked all messages?
Maybe the Karma thing could go both ways. Part of the system might include some manner of tracking Karma for an add and for an advertiser. Maybe some combination of Click-rate, a poll (in the extended add system), or whatever else. Then that add gets more play, and when its Karma goes back down it gets less and less play. New adds from that same advertiser would automatically get an alotment of Karma to start with and have more views initially.
I like this idea and frankly I'd like to see something like it spread to more than just OSDN.
Probably one of the first web sites of this type would have been the wikiwikiweb. Anybody remember that? I think there's still an incarnation of it around somewhere Granted, it probably isn't as interesting as Slashdot or Everything but I know its been around for a loooong time!
Worked on a project recently that used all open-source.
There's a company by the name of F5. They have a box called BigIP which will do load balancing and failover. It will even failover an active telnet (ssh) session!
Pretty sweet, and you don't have to have two cards chained together as one and whatnot. Each box has its own, and you have one live and one hot-backup, or you can load-balance between the two, whatever.
The bigip boxes are based on BSD so that's deffinitely a plus.
-Diggem
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e^i(pi) + 1 = 0
I think I have that right.. E, Euler's number to the power i (square root of negative 1) + 1 is exactly equal to zero.
I ride a normal train at least once a week. There are always tracks criss-crossing one-another. I'm not sure how they plan to handle cross tracks or routing, for that matter. Unless they plan to build mondo amounts of tracks and over/underpasses with existing forms of transportation.. eventually Japan could be one big spaghetti jumble of railways. At least with a normal track/train you can do some routing between different tracks. Where's the savings if you need a single track for each route for each train? You spent your environmental savings building all those tracks. Not to mention how WIDE those tracks have to be to accomodate the train + wings.
Yes, it's using symlinks, they didn't even state that the symlinks were their invention. It's the idea that the system automaticaly creates the symlinks when it finds another file exactly like the one you're trying to store.
I've noticed more and more that if somebody finds a piece of "anti<your favorite evil entity(tm)>" And with what seems like very little checking, the article is posted with sensational claims by the editor who posted. No, Mr. Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda doesn't have the monopoly on bad posts, I see others doing it too. Could it be that this new corporate take-over is killing slashdot? <conspiracy theory="Perhaps Mr. Malda and his cohorts are secretly trying to destroy Slashdot so that they can rebuild it later under an open, uncommercial, user supported system">
Power to the people! Hackers of the World Unite! Go Rob Go!
They're about as close to an "everywhere" ISP as anyone I can think of. If you're heading down route 66, there will be plenty of podunk (little) towns along the way, and hardly any of them with more than a bank of local AOL modems. How you change where you're calling from each time, I don't know.
If using AOL makes you kinda queasy, you might just opt for a cell modem at least while you're here in the States.
And yes, I would bet that most hotels have a regular phone jack somewhere that you could plug into. You might want to double check with the hotel staff before plugging in though. Some hotels have digital lines throughout.
My sentiments exactly! I started reading the original post and thought: "Okay, what planet are you from!?"
I currently am working for a company which is getting heavier into creating Java Applications and Applets to take care of core business logic. The management types are gladly willing to take a very slight performance hit to get the benefits of write once run anywhere. PC, Mainframe, Unix server, NT Server, WHATEVER. They also like hearing all about the benefits of object oriented re-use! I think Java is only going to get bigger and better as time passes. Eventually I can see that its originally intended use might come back around, but for now, businesses are seeing great value in its flexibility, and are only beginning to think of ways to use it.
Actually, I saw this program in action well before Jurasic Park came out. A friend of mine worked for the Geom center at the U of M. They had a whole bunch of slick SGI boxes, for math and geometry visualization, and most of them had this program where you can fly about over your file system, height showed size, color showed last access. You could spotlight one of them, I think, and see more detail about it. It was a very cool program, but seemed like it was mostly a play thing. If you wanted to get anything done you'd use the command line.:)
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... so the answer really IS 42 eh?
Don't Panic!
Playing devils advocate here (literally?):
The roaming charge isn't so unusual. They notice the same user logging in from two different regions. Mostly I think its their way of saying. "We know you're all using one account against our AUP, but we'll let it go if you kick in another 4 bucks.. mmkay?"
And the unlimited refers to 'hours connected per month' and nothing else. They've always had the roam thing, if you want to connect up from somewhere else than your 'home' computer/number/area you get dinged with the extra charge. If you change location for good you just update your address and the roaming doesn't apply anymore.
Yep.. I aint upgrading my 350Mhz box till they come out with the 12 Exehertz chips n boards.
You mean sorta like all those pr0n sites? :)
What's the big deal? Same thing, but now Google can ask somebody to pay more money for the same add because they want it to be.. "more" relevant than the other adds.
:) Considering the price.. :P While not completely selling out to the pop-under and flash adds that everyone else is peddling.
At least it isn't like.. *ahem* some other search engines who provide links for paying customers first, then the rest of the "riff-raff". Frankly I thought the add links were already quite relevant. Of course, I don't even click on these adds, but I appreciate that they keep out of my way when I'm searching for something! I'll keep on appreciating it as long as Google realizes that they have something truely golden in their search engine itself and don't sell out like the other guys.
The Google Appliance is an example of a great idea, and a good way to keep the money rolling in.
It doesn't matter what the Jury is like as long as the lawyers make their case well enough. That is, instruct the jury enough to know what is what and why Be has a case.
I think even the casual computer user knows or has heard about the on-going anti-trust lawsuit against MS. They already have at least an inkling of 'evil empire' in their thoughts about the company. It might not take as much as you think to tip somebody against Microsoft.
Of course I could be completely wrong... I do tend to be a bit of an optimist.
I want one! I've loved this movie since I was a little kid. It's kind of what started me into the world of geekdom. Though I guess I was always a geek, this was just the coolest thing I ever saw and I knew I wanted to be involved in something that looked that COOL!
Is it advertising? Mebbe, do I care? Not really.
Mr. Zimmerman,
Just curious your views on the implications of a back-door (supposedly) available to only government authorities? Considering the distributed.net-type projects aimed at how safe would internet commerce be if there existed a key that unlocked all messages?
Thanks!
D. G. Meyer
Maybe the Karma thing could go both ways. Part of the system might include some manner of tracking Karma for an add and for an advertiser. Maybe some combination of Click-rate, a poll (in the extended add system), or whatever else. Then that add gets more play, and when its Karma goes back down it gets less and less play. New adds from that same advertiser would automatically get an alotment of Karma to start with and have more views initially.
I like this idea and frankly I'd like to see something like it spread to more than just OSDN.
Probably one of the first web sites of this type would have been the wikiwikiweb. Anybody remember that? I think there's still an incarnation of it around somewhere Granted, it probably isn't as interesting as Slashdot or Everything but I know its been around for a loooong time!
There's a company by the name of F5. They have a box called BigIP which will do load balancing and failover. It will even failover an active telnet (ssh) session!
Pretty sweet, and you don't have to have two cards chained together as one and whatnot. Each box has its own, and you have one live and one hot-backup, or you can load-balance between the two, whatever.
The bigip boxes are based on BSD so that's deffinitely a plus.
-Diggem
e^i(pi) + 1 = 0
I think I have that right.. E, Euler's number to the power i (square root of negative 1) + 1 is exactly equal to zero.
Cool.. interesting and weird..
-diggem
I ride a normal train at least once a week. There are always tracks criss-crossing one-another. I'm not sure how they plan to handle cross tracks or routing, for that matter. Unless they plan to build mondo amounts of tracks and over/underpasses with existing forms of transportation.. eventually Japan could be one big spaghetti jumble of railways. At least with a normal track/train you can do some routing between different tracks. Where's the savings if you need a single track for each route for each train? You spent your environmental savings building all those tracks. Not to mention how WIDE those tracks have to be to accomodate the train + wings.
Yes, it's using symlinks, they didn't even state that the symlinks were their invention. It's the idea that the system automaticaly creates the symlinks when it finds another file exactly like the one you're trying to store.
I've noticed more and more that if somebody finds a piece of "anti<your favorite evil entity(tm)>" And with what seems like very little checking, the article is posted with sensational claims by the editor who posted. No, Mr. Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda doesn't have the monopoly on bad posts, I see others doing it too. Could it be that this new corporate take-over is killing slashdot? <conspiracy theory="Perhaps Mr. Malda and his cohorts are secretly trying to destroy Slashdot so that they can rebuild it later under an open, uncommercial, user supported system">
Power to the people! Hackers of the World Unite! Go Rob Go!
... but I digress
They're about as close to an "everywhere" ISP as anyone I can think of. If you're heading down route 66, there will be plenty of podunk (little) towns along the way, and hardly any of them with more than a bank of local AOL modems. How you change where you're calling from each time, I don't know.
If using AOL makes you kinda queasy, you might just opt for a cell modem at least while you're here in the States.
And yes, I would bet that most hotels have a regular phone jack somewhere that you could plug into. You might want to double check with the hotel staff before plugging in though. Some hotels have digital lines throughout.
-Diggem
My sentiments exactly! I started reading the original post and thought: "Okay, what planet are you from!?"
I currently am working for a company which is getting heavier into creating Java Applications and Applets to take care of core business logic. The management types are gladly willing to take a very slight performance hit to get the benefits of write once run anywhere. PC, Mainframe, Unix server, NT Server, WHATEVER. They also like hearing all about the benefits of object oriented re-use! I think Java is only going to get bigger and better as time passes. Eventually I can see that its originally intended use might come back around, but for now, businesses are seeing great value in its flexibility, and are only beginning to think of ways to use it.
-Diggem
Actually, I saw this program in action well before Jurasic Park came out. A friend of mine worked for the Geom center at the U of M. They had a whole bunch of slick SGI boxes, for math and geometry visualization, and most of them had this program where you can fly about over your file system, height showed size, color showed last access. You could spotlight one of them, I think, and see more detail about it. It was a very cool program, but seemed like it was mostly a play thing. If you wanted to get anything done you'd use the command line. :)