Seriously, my favorite style of work is 48 hours non-stop (light food only, tons of cofee and good music), finish the deliverable, go get drunk and pass-out. Don't touch any work-activity for next 1-2 days. I get more work done in those 2 days that in regular 2 months of 9to5 work style peppered with meetings and interruptions.
If I have 15 minutes left until a meeting or lunch, I don't even bother starting on a task, its just waste of brain power, it takes me more to enter "the zone".
I think that freeing up brain power from mundane tasks like money, socializing and gossip provides some serious spare capacity that can be used to accomplish things that may seen amazing for "normal" people.
While I never accomplished anything as great as solving Poincaré conjecture, I completely sympathize with Perelman's attitude!
This is not good. Too many tentions arise too fast.
Smells like a new Cold War is starting. The optimist in me hopes that it will stay limited to Internet-based hostilities only.
Mozzila and lately firefox have tried for ages to release a version for mobiles and failed.
Now they come up with sensationalistic claims like that. I don't say Windows Mobile is great, because its not, it really sucks, including 7, but first work your way and do at least one release, then you can go ahead and make a fuss about not releasing something on a specific platform.
Firefox Mobile... Forever?
You are still way off.
I'm not trying to sell you anything, I'm not complaining about anything, and I'm not defending the ISPs.
Just because I told you I used to work at an ISP(as sysadmin) you suddenly identify me with the corporate ISP or with the lies.
The only thing I tried is to be kind enough to explain you how things are working and why. Wake up kiddo, real life is full of lies. You are welcome!
And the conclusion that I try to pin point is that the difference between the advertised bandwidth and the "real" bandwidth is huge. We are talking million times more costly, not about stealing some crappy percents away from you. So this is not just a common marketing/sell problem, but a major technological issue. It’s simply not possible what you are asking.
No, you are not buying apples or any normal "goods" or services. Stop making shitty analogies. Its bandwidth, and its different(for the good) - and it’s the reason(besides porn) why Internet actually got so popular.
Now the only thing I'm "astonished" is who are the retards that are actually keep modding up your clueless trolling.
If you had Basic as your first language 'only' 20 years ago, you probably didn't use the kind of Basic Dijkstra was talking about. His remark about Basic is 35 years old, stuff changed in the 15 years between that.
The basic you used probably wasn't line number based, had constructs like case statements and proper functions with locally scoped variables. Those thing were added, amongst others, because people like Dijkstra insisted they where required.
You assumed wrong. It was on Spectrum, it was line number based, there was no case statements, no local variables.
But besides the obvious dick s... age contest(which sounds wrong anyway:P), what exactly is your point?
...
Also, never underestimate the fact of self-preservation, when encountered in a life threatening situation, people tend to do the right thing and move away from danger. People are self-regulating when it comes to life and death.
And in this spirit, ladies and gentleducks, we proudly present you the 2010 darwin awards.
Good will. It was something I expected from you. I was wrong.
I seriously tried to help you understand how things work, instead of fighting for how it should work in a theoretical situation.
I think the idea that bandwidth HAS to be over-sold got trough, but lets go on with even more practical numbers exercise:
An average user having a 100 Mbps line will do 10 GBytes traffic every month. He pays 100$ for it
You want to be able to do 32,400,000 GBytes traffic(max allowed by the line). That means that your usage pattern will cost ISP A 3.24 milion times than a regular user, while paying the same amount.
Now "ISP A" can change its services and sell you the "truthful" 100 Mbps for 100$ x 3,240,000 = 324 milion $ a month - would you like that?
The other alternative you propose is to advertise it "properly". That would mean what? Instead of saying "100$ for 100 Mbps" in its ads, it should say... "100$ for 100 Mbps if you are lucky, if our exit line is not getting saturated, which happens pretty often, and we can only actually guarantee you 100 Mbps/ 3,240,000 = 31 bps!!!"
How fast you think such ISP would go bankrupt?
Don't get me wrong, I mean I love the truth, and I honestly hate the advertising lies that surrounds us, but in the real world, people don't really buy the truth. I'm only trying to help you understand, I don't apologize for anything/anyone, go burn them if you want:P
Adding some numbers so you get the picture, on a 100 Mbps line you want to do: 12.5 MBytes x 3600 x 24 x 31 = 32400 TeraBytes = 32.4 PetaBytes
of traffic every month? Are you serious?
There is a simple solution to this: Sell only what you have. Or rather, market it correctly. When you sell people 8mbit synchronous, they will expect this to be available to them and they will maybe try to use it. Hoping that they just want to have a fat pipe but won't use it is like hoping that people who buy cars that go 200mph won't drive that fast.
Coming from a guy who worked on an ISP: what you are saying is not a business solution, its just a random dream. Definitely not insightful, unless you are at the end of a bong. According to your mindset, internet access should cost 5000$ per month for 9600bps, ISPs do not exist and there is a central authority that owns the internet.
No. You can't sell only what you have when it’s about bandwidth. It’s not "hope", its statistics. The average internet user uses less than 1% of its bandwidth.
Indeed, bad summary. Its also only one IP address, one that was actually scanning a large amount of devices - a preparation for an attack.
This is not about censorship, its about an attack that was stopped. But yea, try telling that to people, they prefer the flamebait version of the story.
First of all, I believe starting a topic on bullies on slashdot is an obvious flamebait. A damn good flamebait, ofc.
I saw many interesting ideas flying around, but have you ever considered being grateful to the bullies?!
As crazy as it may sound, you started to brush your hair because someone made a cruel joke about your hair, you didn't forgot your keys again after you had to wait 2 hours in front of your house.
We are generically driven by any feedback, but negative feedback is the one driving our learning process. We hate experiencing that shiat so we avoid what it caused it.
What I'm saying is that the fact that you got bullied, and because you were an outcast, it forced you to find alternative ways to dominate them - by developing your intelect.
How much of our capabilities is inherited and how much is learned is unclear, but one thing is sure: none is zero. It's a mix.
"People will love you if you make them think they are thinking, but they will hate you if you really make them think"
I believe its not that mystical or complex.
Its a simple desire to find out more about a phenomenon that has already influenced us.
We already had some inputs in our brain about it, but we don't fully understand it.
Its just the desire to rationalize, to "complete the circle". Its a very basic mind process.
It can be simulated extremely easy in my opinion.
Slashdot Mirror
I just clicked the link in the summary and I'm reading the full article right now.
Seriously, my favorite style of work is 48 hours non-stop (light food only, tons of cofee and good music), finish the deliverable, go get drunk and pass-out. Don't touch any work-activity for next 1-2 days. I get more work done in those 2 days that in regular 2 months of 9to5 work style peppered with meetings and interruptions.
If I have 15 minutes left until a meeting or lunch, I don't even bother starting on a task, its just waste of brain power, it takes me more to enter "the zone".
Streaming multiple 1080p porn. Full Bluray images, 50 GB a pop. If you give me a 1 PetaBps link, I'll find a usage for it in a heartbeat.
I think that freeing up brain power from mundane tasks like money, socializing and gossip provides some serious spare capacity that can be used to accomplish things that may seen amazing for "normal" people.
While I never accomplished anything as great as solving Poincaré conjecture, I completely sympathize with Perelman's attitude!
This is not good. Too many tentions arise too fast.
Smells like a new Cold War is starting. The optimist in me hopes that it will stay limited to Internet-based hostilities only.
Mozzila and lately firefox have tried for ages to release a version for mobiles and failed.
... Forever?
Now they come up with sensationalistic claims like that. I don't say Windows Mobile is great, because its not, it really sucks, including 7, but first work your way and do at least one release, then you can go ahead and make a fuss about not releasing something on a specific platform.
Firefox Mobile
I completely agree, this was a horrible survey, it looks like made by a kid.
How the hell this got on slashdot???
I agree, nothing but a lame PR stunt.
300 nm to 10 nm, while claiming "close" in the summary. Flamebait. Simple.
Can I pay for a Chinese man to power-level me through school?
Yes, its called outsourcing.
Commie.
The performance of full-cloud gaming will never match the games directly run on your machine.Never. 720p with latency on input? Don't make me laugh.
You are still way off.
I'm not trying to sell you anything, I'm not complaining about anything, and I'm not defending the ISPs.
Just because I told you I used to work at an ISP(as sysadmin) you suddenly identify me with the corporate ISP or with the lies.
The only thing I tried is to be kind enough to explain you how things are working and why. Wake up kiddo, real life is full of lies.
You are welcome!
And the conclusion that I try to pin point is that the difference between the advertised bandwidth and the "real" bandwidth is huge. We are talking million times more costly, not about stealing some crappy percents away from you. So this is not just a common marketing/sell problem, but a major technological issue. It’s simply not possible what you are asking.
No, you are not buying apples or any normal "goods" or services. Stop making shitty analogies. Its bandwidth, and its different(for the good) - and it’s the reason(besides porn) why Internet actually got so popular.
Now the only thing I'm "astonished" is who are the retards that are actually keep modding up your clueless trolling.
Your wrong assumption apparently deserved a mod up - my faith in humanity has collapsed. Oh wait, it was never there in the first place.
Now go on and mod me down, it makes perfect sense that anonymous people on the internet people know better about my past than myself.
If you had Basic as your first language 'only' 20 years ago, you probably didn't use the kind of Basic Dijkstra was talking about. His remark about Basic is 35 years old, stuff changed in the 15 years between that. The basic you used probably wasn't line number based, had constructs like case statements and proper functions with locally scoped variables. Those thing were added, amongst others, because people like Dijkstra insisted they where required.
You assumed wrong. It was on Spectrum, it was line number based, there was no case statements, no local variables.
:P), what exactly is your point?
But besides the obvious dick s... age contest(which sounds wrong anyway
Its an easy, or perhaps entertaining test, not good test.
And in this spirit, ladies and gentleducks, we proudly present you the 2010 darwin awards.
I agree, simplicity has prevalence over principles of programming like avoiding gotos or design patterns.
The first step is the hardest - don't strangle newbies with good, but complicated concepts.
I had BASIC as my first programming language 20 years ago and I don't see myself as "mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration".
Good will. It was something I expected from you. I was wrong.
... "100$ for 100 Mbps if you are lucky, if our exit line is not getting saturated, which happens pretty often, and we can only actually guarantee you 100 Mbps/ 3,240,000 = 31 bps!!!"
:P
I seriously tried to help you understand how things work, instead of fighting for how it should work in a theoretical situation.
I think the idea that bandwidth HAS to be over-sold got trough, but lets go on with even more practical numbers exercise:
An average user having a 100 Mbps line will do 10 GBytes traffic every month. He pays 100$ for it
You want to be able to do 32,400,000 GBytes traffic(max allowed by the line). That means that your usage pattern will cost ISP A 3.24 milion times than a regular user, while paying the same amount.
Now "ISP A" can change its services and sell you the "truthful" 100 Mbps for 100$ x 3,240,000 = 324 milion $ a month - would you like that?
The other alternative you propose is to advertise it "properly". That would mean what? Instead of saying "100$ for 100 Mbps" in its ads, it should say
How fast you think such ISP would go bankrupt?
Don't get me wrong, I mean I love the truth, and I honestly hate the advertising lies that surrounds us, but in the real world, people don't really buy the truth. I'm only trying to help you understand, I don't apologize for anything/anyone, go burn them if you want
Adding some numbers so you get the picture, on a 100 Mbps line you want to do:
12.5 MBytes x 3600 x 24 x 31 = 32400 TeraBytes = 32.4 PetaBytes
of traffic every month? Are you serious?
There is a simple solution to this: Sell only what you have. Or rather, market it correctly. When you sell people 8mbit synchronous, they will expect this to be available to them and they will maybe try to use it. Hoping that they just want to have a fat pipe but won't use it is like hoping that people who buy cars that go 200mph won't drive that fast.
Coming from a guy who worked on an ISP: what you are saying is not a business solution, its just a random dream. Definitely not insightful, unless you are at the end of a bong. According to your mindset, internet access should cost 5000$ per month for 9600bps, ISPs do not exist and there is a central authority that owns the internet.
No. You can't sell only what you have when it’s about bandwidth. It’s not "hope", its statistics. The average internet user uses less than 1% of its bandwidth.
Well you are a festizio ! See, I can make up words too, sister.
Indeed, bad summary. Its also only one IP address, one that was actually scanning a large amount of devices - a preparation for an attack. This is not about censorship, its about an attack that was stopped. But yea, try telling that to people, they prefer the flamebait version of the story.
First of all, I believe starting a topic on bullies on slashdot is an obvious flamebait. A damn good flamebait, ofc.
I saw many interesting ideas flying around, but have you ever considered being grateful to the bullies?!
As crazy as it may sound, you started to brush your hair because someone made a cruel joke about your hair, you didn't forgot your keys again after you had to wait 2 hours in front of your house.
We are generically driven by any feedback, but negative feedback is the one driving our learning process. We hate experiencing that shiat so we avoid what it caused it.
What I'm saying is that the fact that you got bullied, and because you were an outcast, it forced you to find alternative ways to dominate them - by developing your intelect.
How much of our capabilities is inherited and how much is learned is unclear, but one thing is sure: none is zero. It's a mix.
"People will love you if you make them think they are thinking, but they will hate you if you really make them think"
True learning is a painful process.
YMMV ofc.
I believe its not that mystical or complex. Its a simple desire to find out more about a phenomenon that has already influenced us. We already had some inputs in our brain about it, but we don't fully understand it. Its just the desire to rationalize, to "complete the circle". Its a very basic mind process. It can be simulated extremely easy in my opinion.