Er, why? If I'm paying $50/month for internet access, and you're paying $50/month for the same access, why does your traffic (I don't play on-line games or use VOIP) deserve higher priority than mine? Now, if you, as a user, don't want to pay extra to your ISP so your games/VOIP get a better QoS, why should I, as a user, accept a much lower QoS on my p2p apps? And, as I noted elsewhere on this topic, Rogers, my Canadian ISP, throttles p2p to 1-2 kbps, making it virtually useless.
i didn't say anything about throttling, which i don't approve of. i said in terms of prioritation. your data still gets transmitted at the same rate, it just gets send a few milliseconds later, as it makes nearly no differance when the data gets sent (within reasonable limits), so long as it gets sent.
such is not the case with VOIP, games, etc. the data needs to get where it is going in a timely manner or things don't work right (lag in games, unreasonable delay in a conversation, etc.)
look up "Spanish flu". with the recent study of the virus, it is currently suspected that it was an avian flu that mutated and became human-to-human transmissible. and also, it didn't originate in Spain. it came from east Asia, most likely China.
spanish flu killed about 50 to 100 million people back in 1918. imagine how many it would kill with modern transportation allowing to to spread much further and faster.
the "no discrimination based on origin/destination" part is by all means a good idea, but "no discrimination on type" might be iffy, at least in terms of packet prioritization.
http, ftp, bittorrent, et all, typically aren't particularly sensitive to latency, but some things, VOIP and online games, in particular, are rather sensitive to latency, so those time-critical things should be given priority over the bulk traffic.
it's a complex issue, and IMO, it really shouldn't be being decided on by government (i know several guys who do technology work for parliament (they're practically the IT dept for the house of commons) and on the average, they, [the MPs] have pretty minimal knowledge of technology and certainly not as much as they should have if they are to be deciding on such issues), but rather it should be laid out in standards (RFCs preferably), which should then be enforced by the government.
though the "vote with your wallet" isn't always an option. the free market doesn't always work in the manner its proponents say it does.
and without enforcing line neutrality (not allowing ISPs to hold a monopoly on phonelines, cable service, wireless, etc.), then things will tend towards a monopoly/oligopoly.
This is of no value. If it was, we wouldn't have Bank robberies (there are laws against it too). As long as there's money in it, and the technology supports it, it'll sadly continue.
if consequences + chance-of-getting-caught gain from act, don't perform the act
heavy consequences + enforcement of the law = act not performed nearly as often.
I can ensure that my car moves faster than yours if I ensure that your car moves slower than mine.
only if you're considering them relatively.
if both sites a and b load in 2 seconds, you can double the speed of a in two ways
1. leave a alone, but make b load in 4 seconds (relatively faster, though a still takes the same time)
2. leave b alone, but make a load in 1 second (absolutely faster, as a takes less actual time)
it's a pretty fundamental differance and i personally consider method 2 the only acceptable one for the "b doesn't pay the companies for faster (really the same as before, rather than restricted) access, but a doesn't" example.
OK, I'll bite. How is Vista's UAC not the former? How do you conclude that it's only for show?
AFAIK, it just gives an "allow/deny" prompt, by default anyway. users will simply treat it as a click-through and it will have basically no effect.
what they should have done is have it prompt for the password (similar to what ubuntu does). it makes them (some of them anyway) think for a moment before giving their password.
granted, there is an option for the latter, but it should do that be default.
1. agreed. i would plan on using such a device in normal-book situations, meaning i need loooong battery life.
2. how much do you plan on reading? plain ASCII test consumes 1 byte per character, so 1 gig would give you 1,000,000,000 characters of space.
according to Guinness, the world's longest book (Marcel Proust's "À la recherche du temps perdu") is 9,609,000 characters long. you could fit 104 copies of that in 1 gig, WITHOUT COMPRESSION.
i can find 16GB flash cards and ACSII text is very compressable, so this i think is a non-issue.
3. from what i've heard, "digital ink" is very good at visability
4. my pet peeve on this too.
5. i would personally prefer a good "paperback" size.
6. i don't particularly care what the actual resolution is. if it is good and readable (laser-print output), it's fine for me.
7. i don't really need it, and you mention that, so no further comment is needed.
Thanks for that, Captain Obvious. If the board is old enough that it doesn't support usb booting, it probably comes equipped with a floppy drive.
which may have failed and now needs replacement, hence the problem.
i still need floppies as the dimwits at some of the schools here insist on still using floppies if students need to bring stuff home for fear that the students will "install viruses" if they're able to flash drives. and these people hold more sway over technology policy than the IT dept. does.
maybe, just maybe, this will convince^W force them to rethink.
This bill is absolutely needed, because the internet has been completely destroyed by evil corporations since the problem of INTERNET NEUTRALITY was discovered by brave Democrats last year!
it was not a problem until a year ago as ISPs (DSL providers anyway) fell under the same regulations as phone companies. the courts ruled that they are not an "information service", thus they are subject to different, less stringent, regulations.
net neutrality is returning the former regulations and standardizing them to ALL isps, regardless of means, be it DSL, cable, satalite, wireless or whathaveyou.
It also has the benefit of making the coins lighter.
which creates issues with vending machines. a lot of those things are so bloody sensitive that they're reject a coin on just the weight change from the change of the picture. the new image of the queen on the back of the quarter, for example will make a bunch of slightly older machines (pre-2004) reject the coin.
half the instructors in my collage course got taken in by that, until one of them tried to buy it. if you click the "add to cart" button, it sends you to a page informing you it is a joke.
put a glass of water in the microwave. it boils after a couple minutes. now remember that your body (and the bird's too) is mostly water and the radars are many times more powerful than your oven. also keep in mind that you don't need the water to boil to kill what the water is in.
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how did he get trolled? he replied to the post about WW1 biplanes, not the anna nicole post.
and the semi-stealth properties of wood is why the mosquito is my favorite WW2 plane
Er, why? If I'm paying $50/month for internet access, and you're paying $50/month for the same access, why does your traffic (I don't play on-line games or use VOIP) deserve higher priority than mine? Now, if you, as a user, don't want to pay extra to your ISP so your games/VOIP get a better QoS, why should I, as a user, accept a much lower QoS on my p2p apps? And, as I noted elsewhere on this topic, Rogers, my Canadian ISP, throttles p2p to 1-2 kbps, making it virtually useless.
i didn't say anything about throttling, which i don't approve of. i said in terms of prioritation. your data still gets transmitted at the same rate, it just gets send a few milliseconds later, as it makes nearly no differance when the data gets sent (within reasonable limits), so long as it gets sent.
such is not the case with VOIP, games, etc. the data needs to get where it is going in a timely manner or things don't work right (lag in games, unreasonable delay in a conversation, etc.)
but such software would also make it easy to design bioweapons.
and it would also make it easy to develop cures for said bioweapons.
look up "Spanish flu". with the recent study of the virus, it is currently suspected that it was an avian flu that mutated and became human-to-human transmissible. and also, it didn't originate in Spain. it came from east Asia, most likely China.
spanish flu killed about 50 to 100 million people back in 1918. imagine how many it would kill with modern transportation allowing to to spread much further and faster.
every related bank account and transactional mechanism shut down or siezed.
three words : off-shore accounts
the "no discrimination based on origin/destination" part is by all means a good idea, but "no discrimination on type" might be iffy, at least in terms of packet prioritization.
http, ftp, bittorrent, et all, typically aren't particularly sensitive to latency, but some things, VOIP and online games, in particular, are rather sensitive to latency, so those time-critical things should be given priority over the bulk traffic.
it's a complex issue, and IMO, it really shouldn't be being decided on by government (i know several guys who do technology work for parliament (they're practically the IT dept for the house of commons) and on the average, they, [the MPs] have pretty minimal knowledge of technology and certainly not as much as they should have if they are to be deciding on such issues), but rather it should be laid out in standards (RFCs preferably), which should then be enforced by the government.
though the "vote with your wallet" isn't always an option. the free market doesn't always work in the manner its proponents say it does.
and without enforcing line neutrality (not allowing ISPs to hold a monopoly on phonelines, cable service, wireless, etc.), then things will tend towards a monopoly/oligopoly.
This is of no value. If it was, we wouldn't have Bank robberies (there are laws against it too). As long as there's money in it, and the technology supports it, it'll sadly continue.
if consequences + chance-of-getting-caught gain from act, don't perform the act
heavy consequences + enforcement of the law = act not performed nearly as often.
I can ensure that my car moves faster than yours if I ensure that your car moves slower than mine.
only if you're considering them relatively.
if both sites a and b load in 2 seconds, you can double the speed of a in two ways
1. leave a alone, but make b load in 4 seconds (relatively faster, though a still takes the same time)
2. leave b alone, but make a load in 1 second (absolutely faster, as a takes less actual time)
it's a pretty fundamental differance and i personally consider method 2 the only acceptable one for the "b doesn't pay the companies for faster (really the same as before, rather than restricted) access, but a doesn't" example.
and i can count on one hand the number of users i know who actually bothered to read that.
OK, I'll bite. How is Vista's UAC not the former? How do you conclude that it's only for show?
AFAIK, it just gives an "allow/deny" prompt, by default anyway. users will simply treat it as a click-through and it will have basically no effect.
what they should have done is have it prompt for the password (similar to what ubuntu does). it makes them (some of them anyway) think for a moment before giving their password.
granted, there is an option for the latter, but it should do that be default.
1. agreed. i would plan on using such a device in normal-book situations, meaning i need loooong battery life.
2. how much do you plan on reading? plain ASCII test consumes 1 byte per character, so 1 gig would give you 1,000,000,000 characters of space.
according to Guinness, the world's longest book (Marcel Proust's "À la recherche du temps perdu") is 9,609,000 characters long. you could fit 104 copies of that in 1 gig, WITHOUT COMPRESSION.
i can find 16GB flash cards and ACSII text is very compressable, so this i think is a non-issue.
3. from what i've heard, "digital ink" is very good at visability
4. my pet peeve on this too.
5. i would personally prefer a good "paperback" size.
6. i don't particularly care what the actual resolution is. if it is good and readable (laser-print output), it's fine for me.
7. i don't really need it, and you mention that, so no further comment is needed.
they are kind of loud....
and when around something loud for a sustained period of time, people who care about their hearing are wearing earplugs or similar.
my dad's 1995 F-350 (with the 7.3L powerstroke diesel) gets about 17MPG (unloaded) going around town.
it might drop down to that 10MPG hauling the boat and camper in start-and-stop traffic, but i don't think most people keep that on the truck all year.
Thanks for that, Captain Obvious. If the board is old enough that it doesn't support usb booting, it probably comes equipped with a floppy drive.
which may have failed and now needs replacement, hence the problem.
i still need floppies as the dimwits at some of the schools here insist on still using floppies if students need to bring stuff home for fear that the students will "install viruses" if they're able to flash drives. and these people hold more sway over technology policy than the IT dept. does.
maybe, just maybe, this will convince^W force them to rethink.
this is most intelligent comment I've seen in this story.
too bad such regulations will never be passed. they're too sensible.
This bill is absolutely needed, because the internet has been completely destroyed by evil corporations since the problem of INTERNET NEUTRALITY was discovered by brave Democrats last year!
it was not a problem until a year ago as ISPs (DSL providers anyway) fell under the same regulations as phone companies. the courts ruled that they are not an "information service", thus they are subject to different, less stringent, regulations.
net neutrality is returning the former regulations and standardizing them to ALL isps, regardless of means, be it DSL, cable, satalite, wireless or whathaveyou.
So does the DMCA apply?
that depends, does he travel to or through the US?
Since recent research strongly suggests that this is all about a birth defect caused by womb conditions
show me peer-reviewed articles or i call BS.
It also has the benefit of making the coins lighter.
which creates issues with vending machines. a lot of those things are so bloody sensitive that they're reject a coin on just the weight change from the change of the picture. the new image of the queen on the back of the quarter, for example will make a bunch of slightly older machines (pre-2004) reject the coin.
half the instructors in my collage course got taken in by that, until one of them tried to buy it. if you click the "add to cart" button, it sends you to a page informing you it is a joke.
yes. due to heating, not radiation poisoning.
put a glass of water in the microwave. it boils after a couple minutes. now remember that your body (and the bird's too) is mostly water and the radars are many times more powerful than your oven. also keep in mind that you don't need the water to boil to kill what the water is in.
I swear if the dinosaurs were as resilient as them, they would still be the dominant species.
the asteriod is coming. they may be launching rockets and nukes at it, but it is still coming.
We are probably going to find out that posting a 32 byte encryption key for a movie on your website does count as a DMCA violation
which is why a smart man does this from outside the US.
If it can't allow fair use while blocking unlawful reproduction then it must allow both.
or (at least try to) block both
Why shouldn't I be able to watch my dvd/hd movie on my ipod OR computer OR TV.
they're wanting you to be able to do so, but only after having bought a seperate copy for each.