And yes, thats my point - all broadband company's should start to use a usage fee, perhaps after a threshold. To my mind its fair that you pay for what you use.
You're talking about raw kilobits per month where I am talking about buying kilobits per second. It makes no difference on how you want to break it down; you want more bandwidth you buy a bigger k or mbits/s.
Put it another way mbits/sec = (mbits/month)/(60*60*24*30). If you want more mbits per month then you raise the mbits per second. If you sell bandwidth and cant handle the capacity, then you are selling something with false pretenses.
I guess you would only want to use the broadband a % of the month then you should only have to pay for the % of usage a month. I only use broadband say 15 days out of the month; therefore my bill should be 50% of someone that uses it 30/30 days? Well consumers have never like paying for anything per minute of usage; cell phones have succeeded by not charging you per minute but allowing you to buy blocks of minutes like ~800 and you use them every month. The consumers probably pay more per month but that is what people like (I read this somewhere about long distance charges). So the usage charge wouldn't fly very well unless a bunch of people saw a significant savings on the broadband. SBC has (from what I remember) 128k dsl for 15 bucks a month or something ridiculously cheap. I buy 5mbits (b or B?) cable broadband for 40 a month and happy at that price. I feel that I paid for the entire month so I use it all I can; kind of like that blockbuster month rental must watch more movies - I paid for them. So I would actually use less Internet per month in this scheme. I wouldn't mind saving money but I doubt it would work out like that.
You speak of bandwidth as if it was a resource that can be reclaimed. Once bandwidth is gone it can't be recovered; you use 100% it has the same allocation as 1%.
Your analogy about the power company is flawed - power is a resource that can be recovered by lowering the power output of the Power station and conserving the fuel, water or whatever used to produce the electricity. You should have equated bandwidth with cable TV by hooking up 500 TVs. Now if the cable company runs their lines properly, you won't affect any one else. You would then see how the debate about bandwidth the customer paid for is flawed. My Cable TV is paid for, if I want to somehow use 500 TVs in my home then I should be able to. If a company offers me DSL at some Bits/sec then I paid for that allocation. If the rate isn't fair then raise let the DSL rates rise and see how fast customer flock to cable broadband.
yet know they can't raise rates on telephone services (thanks to regulation)
Hmm, if the telcos could raise rates, wouldn't that make the transition to VOIP faster? The unregulated market would allow them to "figure-out" what the real value of their service is. Raise the rates and watch customer bail; lower the rates and watch the customer bail a little slower. I say less regulation and let the companies figure out how to do their own business.
I would have to say that the saving grace of speech is p2p networks and with that in conjuction with OSS will prevent censorship - don't think it can happen then look what happened to DVD Decrypter.
I wish more web pages were simple some what like good ole/. I can read all I want at work and it looks like I am busy. I have people drop by saying you work so hard take a break. Yeah but I read pleanty to keep Up to Date. If/. had an alternative viwer capablility like lynx I would use that. I am only reading text. Big banner images makes it look like I am (actually) goofing off. Therefore, the less adds people see me seeing the better off I am. I use google for the same reason, small text adds makes it look like I am reading real stuff.
My only question is that stuff in the brackets after CRM (c u s t o m e r...? What's going on here, the first time I know one of those buzz words and the editors have to blow all my fun. I was going to laugh at people that aren't in the click that they don't know that single piece terminology and look far superior in one mighty stroke.
Most consumers thought 3Com was stupid for spinning off such a profitable business. What I recall is that it sold for 300 times earnings and a bunch of investing consultants warned of such a pricey model for such a small niche product. End result is usually the same with PE ratio being to high. The OS isn't really that important, they should make it free to run anywhere and try selling the hardware; yeah exactly opposite of what has been said by some big OS makers.
TFA Grab a standard American business card. Now, get a pair of scissors and trim the long side of the card by 20%. That's all the space you need...
Don't you just love those 2 dimensional comparisons unless of course the standard business card is now 0.27" thick. Maybe cut and stack 30 or so cards and then you get Oranges size comparison.
All right, lets use a crazy analogy. People use browsers on the internet as people use cars on the highways. One piece of information will let you complete your task or not. Lets say my car has to have seat belts to drive down the toll road; cars may not have had seat belts in the 50's. Ok so I have an old car, how do you know I didn't put seat belts in myself; just ask me and I will tell if I did. Please, don't ASSUME the required information.
The User-Agent header is important for working around actual browser bugs, e.g. not being able to cope with compressed content correctly despite claiming to do so.
I think coding the web to support browser bugs is the whole problem. If the problem continues then we are all locked into the most dominate player. If every website in the world said enough, I read the specs and the browser should comply then the problem of the browser would be solved in a very short time. Is this a realist approach - of course not but it is a pragmatic approach.
one that could be fixed by editing one lne of code
I think the problem and solution may not be related. Hang with me on this one. We are asking the browser to the website what brand of browser it is and then the website determines what you can and cannot see simply based on that one piece of information. It should be a little different, the web site asks, can you handle JavaScript and a reply of yes from the browser. The website will now send you JavaScript info. Can you handle frames, DHTML, CSS and the list goes on as new technologies are added. So your browser would have an XML sheet of the response it should give to questions. Don't like JavaScript edit it to NO and the website should handle the request properly anyway.
I really think that the User Agent string should be abandoned to prevent poor coupling and cohesion of website and browsers. This User Agent string should be replaced with a list of browser capabilities.
And now this one Pornified!!! All right so we have failed to distinguish life from machine, the machine has become sexually provocative, and now we can't have technology without a driver. With the quote from Bender Stay away from our women. You've got metal fever, boy. Metal fever. is Futuram is it science fiction or science fact?
All right choose the favorable law in this scenario:
Some guy lives in France that doesn't allow hate speech from the stuff that happened in WWII; the guy reads the hate speech deemed illegal in France posited by someone that lived in Russia and the server resides some place in China.
Ok, so we go after that bad guy and got him shutdown (I don't know which bad it was but it is done).
Now the same guy that lives in Russia has very strict pornography laws. He then reads the web site of the guy that read the hate speech (whom is a museum curator) and it has liberal pictures of nudity deemed art in France. However, in Russia it is pornography (just say). Now whom do we go after? Ok so now we have a guy in Russia and a guy in France incarcerated; soon this launches WWIII due to the mess and the world is doomed - problem solved?
The Internet is not your personal stump to beat up people
What makes you think your law applies in my country? I know that US law may like to be extended to every reach of the world but those countires own their internet too which would apply to their laws.
shouldn't we be thinking about redundant power systems (or perhaps energy efficiency) instead
Who said you were the target audience for this product? I am sure if you want to buy one enermax won't say, nah you're goofy for spending money on this everyone knows that a 250 watt compusa generic brand works for just as good. This is, just maby, a stab at a *server* or it will be required for the next high end Nvidia card. I just hope that the goofs at work don't come in boasting about their new 1000 watt(!) power supply staring the next arms race right after the mega hertz debacle has ended.
Blockbuster online rental has TV shows and that is all I rent. I watched 3 years worth of 24 in month or two. I dont like 2 hour movies anymore. I like the long series where there is more character building and not a big rush to a dramatic kaboom.
I think you typed the reply fast. Are you saying that the government is conspiring against it's self or that the security agencies unwarrantedly and illegally monitor communication channels? (yes I can read it but I am trying to get your core message)
Either way when you talk about high-ranking politicians, there are different rules to play by - they're mistakes are cover-ups. As for some goofy shmuck getting caught releasing government secrets via a blue tooth line is someone you'll never hear about again. For the high level politics, I know that a lot of info isn't released and it is hard to understand the 'how' let alone the 'why' of some leaks. I speculate that most of the time is a simple political maneuver to gain power over a rival.
Do you think a simple goverment employee will risk 20 years in bang me in the a$$ federal prison talking to a girlfriend about this cool laser they they're working on that happens to be attached to a shark.
No if there is a leak, odds are it is a way to flush out moles or some covert attempt to see where the information is going and how the public reacts to it (aka more money for some security agency).
Your title Top Secret info, then anyone that has that kind of clearance know that you cant talk on an unsecured line in an unsecured environment. If you mean getting caught talking nasty to your intern on a cell phone then all bets are off.
You should have read the last part of his sentence. See the "that's what AMD tells you". The 2.2GHz in an Athlon64 3400+ dosn't mean that my 2.4Ghz P4 can calculate more then the Athlon64. Each clock cycle can execute a certain numbe of instruction "steps" so the calculation the grandparent is good enough for a rough estimate.
Since cable internet isn't a telecommunication service then I bet that the Voice over IP providers will favor cable. The E911 is mandated for voice lines and there have been a few state cases where internet phone providers have been sued. This ruling then (should in theory) alleviates the necessity of E911 for cable internet and lets the market decide if E911 is worth the cost. I just wonder if VOIP becomes widely used then will Cable Internet become re-classified as phone service?
Other than adds, what else could fund 'free' services online?
I don't know but I think wiki Foundation has an answer. You could also read up on what the asterisk next to peoples name means - you'll discover many a few ways online can survive. If they're good enough, they will, if not then that is the free market speaking.
Slashdot Mirror
The order is alphabetical!
I am going to start an initiative to recommend that Firefox immediately change the name to Airfox making it the #1 browser on the net.
4. Netscape = 0.26 %
.77% below .26%. Talk about making the number look like you want huh?
5. Opera = 0.77 %
I don't think I would trust statistics from someone that puts
And yes, thats my point - all broadband company's should start to use a usage fee, perhaps after a threshold. To my mind its fair that you pay for what you use.
You're talking about raw kilobits per month where I am talking about buying kilobits per second. It makes no difference on how you want to break it down; you want more bandwidth you buy a bigger k or mbits/s.
Put it another way mbits/sec = (mbits/month)/(60*60*24*30). If you want more mbits per month then you raise the mbits per second. If you sell bandwidth and cant handle the capacity, then you are selling something with false pretenses.
I guess you would only want to use the broadband a % of the month then you should only have to pay for the % of usage a month. I only use broadband say 15 days out of the month; therefore my bill should be 50% of someone that uses it 30/30 days? Well consumers have never like paying for anything per minute of usage; cell phones have succeeded by not charging you per minute but allowing you to buy blocks of minutes like ~800 and you use them every month. The consumers probably pay more per month but that is what people like (I read this somewhere about long distance charges). So the usage charge wouldn't fly very well unless a bunch of people saw a significant savings on the broadband. SBC has (from what I remember) 128k dsl for 15 bucks a month or something ridiculously cheap. I buy 5mbits (b or B?) cable broadband for 40 a month and happy at that price. I feel that I paid for the entire month so I use it all I can; kind of like that blockbuster month rental must watch more movies - I paid for them. So I would actually use less Internet per month in this scheme. I wouldn't mind saving money but I doubt it would work out like that.
You speak of bandwidth as if it was a resource that can be reclaimed. Once bandwidth is gone it can't be recovered; you use 100% it has the same allocation as 1%.
Your analogy about the power company is flawed - power is a resource that can be recovered by lowering the power output of the Power station and conserving the fuel, water or whatever used to produce the electricity. You should have equated bandwidth with cable TV by hooking up 500 TVs. Now if the cable company runs their lines properly, you won't affect any one else. You would then see how the debate about bandwidth the customer paid for is flawed. My Cable TV is paid for, if I want to somehow use 500 TVs in my home then I should be able to. If a company offers me DSL at some Bits/sec then I paid for that allocation. If the rate isn't fair then raise let the DSL rates rise and see how fast customer flock to cable broadband.
yet know they can't raise rates on telephone services (thanks to regulation)
Hmm, if the telcos could raise rates, wouldn't that make the transition to VOIP faster? The unregulated market would allow them to "figure-out" what the real value of their service is. Raise the rates and watch customer bail; lower the rates and watch the customer bail a little slower. I say less regulation and let the companies figure out how to do their own business.
I would have to say that the saving grace of speech is p2p networks and with that in conjuction with OSS will prevent censorship - don't think it can happen then look what happened to DVD Decrypter.
I wish more web pages were simple some what like good ole /. I can read all I want at work and it looks like I am busy. I have people drop by saying you work so hard take a break. Yeah but I read pleanty to keep Up to Date. If /. had an alternative viwer capablility like lynx I would use that. I am only reading text. Big banner images makes it look like I am (actually) goofing off. Therefore, the less adds people see me seeing the better off I am. I use google for the same reason, small text adds makes it look like I am reading real stuff.
My only question is that stuff in the brackets after CRM (c u s t o m e r...? What's going on here, the first time I know one of those buzz words and the editors have to blow all my fun. I was going to laugh at people that aren't in the click that they don't know that single piece terminology and look far superior in one mighty stroke.
the first one where that dude's head explodes!
/.ers were old enough to remember that one?
I can see why you posted that anonymously. Scanners (1981) - I wonder what percentage of
Most consumers thought 3Com was stupid for spinning off such a profitable business. What I recall is that it sold for 300 times earnings and a bunch of investing consultants warned of such a pricey model for such a small niche product. End result is usually the same with PE ratio being to high. The OS isn't really that important, they should make it free to run anywhere and try selling the hardware; yeah exactly opposite of what has been said by some big OS makers.
TFA Grab a standard American business card. Now, get a pair of scissors and trim the long side of the card by 20%. That's all the space you need...
Don't you just love those 2 dimensional comparisons unless of course the standard business card is now 0.27" thick. Maybe cut and stack 30 or so cards and then you get Oranges size comparison.
All right, lets use a crazy analogy. People use browsers on the internet as people use cars on the highways. One piece of information will let you complete your task or not. Lets say my car has to have seat belts to drive down the toll road; cars may not have had seat belts in the 50's. Ok so I have an old car, how do you know I didn't put seat belts in myself; just ask me and I will tell if I did. Please, don't ASSUME the required information.
The User-Agent header is important for working around actual browser bugs, e.g. not being able to cope with compressed content correctly despite claiming to do so.
I think coding the web to support browser bugs is the whole problem. If the problem continues then we are all locked into the most dominate player. If every website in the world said enough, I read the specs and the browser should comply then the problem of the browser would be solved in a very short time. Is this a realist approach - of course not but it is a pragmatic approach.
one that could be fixed by editing one lne of code
I think the problem and solution may not be related. Hang with me on this one. We are asking the browser to the website what brand of browser it is and then the website determines what you can and cannot see simply based on that one piece of information. It should be a little different, the web site asks, can you handle JavaScript and a reply of yes from the browser. The website will now send you JavaScript info. Can you handle frames, DHTML, CSS and the list goes on as new technologies are added. So your browser would have an XML sheet of the response it should give to questions. Don't like JavaScript edit it to NO and the website should handle the request properly anyway.
I really think that the User Agent string should be abandoned to prevent poor coupling and cohesion of website and browsers. This User Agent string should be replaced with a list of browser capabilities.
How I Failed the Turing Test - Sex Bots
Relism vs. Style: the Zelda Debate - investigating sexuality in gaming cultures.
And now this one Pornified!!! All right so we have failed to distinguish life from machine, the machine has become sexually provocative, and now we can't have technology without a driver. With the quote from Bender Stay away from our women. You've got metal fever, boy. Metal fever. is Futuram is it science fiction or science fact?
Microsoft's Ballmer Threatened To 'Kill' Google
All right choose the favorable law in this scenario:
Some guy lives in France that doesn't allow hate speech from the stuff that happened in WWII; the guy reads the hate speech deemed illegal in France posited by someone that lived in Russia and the server resides some place in China.
Ok, so we go after that bad guy and got him shutdown (I don't know which bad it was but it is done).
Now the same guy that lives in Russia has very strict pornography laws. He then reads the web site of the guy that read the hate speech (whom is a museum curator) and it has liberal pictures of nudity deemed art in France. However, in Russia it is pornography (just say). Now whom do we go after? Ok so now we have a guy in Russia and a guy in France incarcerated; soon this launches WWIII due to the mess and the world is doomed - problem solved?
The Internet is not your personal stump to beat up people
What makes you think your law applies in my country? I know that US law may like to be extended to every reach of the world but those countires own their internet too which would apply to their laws.
shouldn't we be thinking about redundant power systems (or perhaps energy efficiency) instead
Who said you were the target audience for this product? I am sure if you want to buy one enermax won't say, nah you're goofy for spending money on this everyone knows that a 250 watt compusa generic brand works for just as good. This is, just maby, a stab at a *server* or it will be required for the next high end Nvidia card. I just hope that the goofs at work don't come in boasting about their new 1000 watt(!) power supply staring the next arms race right after the mega hertz debacle has ended.
Blockbuster online rental has TV shows and that is all I rent. I watched 3 years worth of 24 in month or two. I dont like 2 hour movies anymore. I like the long series where there is more character building and not a big rush to a dramatic kaboom.
I think you typed the reply fast. Are you saying that the government is conspiring against it's self or that the security agencies unwarrantedly and illegally monitor communication channels? (yes I can read it but I am trying to get your core message)
Either way when you talk about high-ranking politicians, there are different rules to play by - they're mistakes are cover-ups. As for some goofy shmuck getting caught releasing government secrets via a blue tooth line is someone you'll never hear about again. For the high level politics, I know that a lot of info isn't released and it is hard to understand the 'how' let alone the 'why' of some leaks. I speculate that most of the time is a simple political maneuver to gain power over a rival.
Do you think a simple goverment employee will risk 20 years in bang me in the a$$ federal prison talking to a girlfriend about this cool laser they they're working on that happens to be attached to a shark.
No if there is a leak, odds are it is a way to flush out moles or some covert attempt to see where the information is going and how the public reacts to it (aka more money for some security agency).
Zero.
Your title Top Secret info, then anyone that has that kind of clearance know that you cant talk on an unsecured line in an unsecured environment. If you mean getting caught talking nasty to your intern on a cell phone then all bets are off.
You should have read the last part of his sentence. See the "that's what AMD tells you". The 2.2GHz in an Athlon64 3400+ dosn't mean that my 2.4Ghz P4 can calculate more then the Athlon64. Each clock cycle can execute a certain numbe of instruction "steps" so the calculation the grandparent is good enough for a rough estimate.
Since cable internet isn't a telecommunication service then I bet that the Voice over IP providers will favor cable. The E911 is mandated for voice lines and there have been a few state cases where internet phone providers have been sued. This ruling then (should in theory) alleviates the necessity of E911 for cable internet and lets the market decide if E911 is worth the cost. I just wonder if VOIP becomes widely used then will Cable Internet become re-classified as phone service?
Other than adds, what else could fund 'free' services online?
I don't know but I think wiki Foundation has an answer. You could also read up on what the asterisk next to peoples name means - you'll discover many a few ways online can survive. If they're good enough, they will, if not then that is the free market speaking.