Well that's cool, because people in California are so much smarter than the rest of us Americans. At least that's what Cartman said in the "Smug alert" episode. Get all of you hippies in one spot where you can hug each other, leave the rest of us alone to let the market sort things out.
in Vista they were too interested in providing features that consumers did not care about, such as drm and copyright protection, and not enough benefits above XP.
Why stop at XP? I run Win2000 at home, and when I sit down at an XP machine (work laptop runs XP) I have a hard time telling what new and improved features are.
So go ahead and block all of the content -- I have a hard time finding anything on TV worth watching. I used to think that it was because I was busy etc and just that the shows were not on at the time that I was around to watch TV.
Then I got a TiVo and even with timeshifting I still can't find more than 20 minutes of watchable "content", which IMO is more like something put up to fill the deadspace between commercials.
I got a refurbed 2-tuner 80G/80Hr TiVo box a month or so ago for $50, and the prepaid service for 1 year is $150. So your $200 is right on the money. And it took longer to fish the video cables thru the entertainment center than it did to set up/configure the box. Definitely money well spent in my opinion.
Why buy into the HD content if we can just download it all for free?
Somehow I doubt that the studios will create better content for HD - it will all be just higher resolution crap. Just like spending 2x or 5x on a TV doesn't really get you any better programming, it is all garbage just a bigger or brighter view of it.
I believe that this is already being done in some cities. Cops drive along, and their cars automatically scan parked cars' plates for ones that have parking tickets, or are stolen, etc. There was a news article a few months ago that touted how great this was since they could catch stolen cars, then sit and wait for the thieves to show up.
Uh, sorry, but I own the intellectual property rights to much of that virtualization technology you speak of. Covered by patents 12345XYZ-23456XXX. My company would be happy to work out a licensing arrangement. Please send real money (virtual money is covered by somebody else's IP) to me. IANAL, but my lawyer is.
So therein lies the issue. Airlines in the US have been slow to take up the service for one reason or another. The airlines are not jumping on the bandwagon, they would have to make expensive upgrades to their planes (the link to land is $$$$$.)
Well, let me see, could it be PROFIT DISGUISED AS A TAX? The telecom companies are incredibly skilled at coming up with "such and such official-sounding name that you would think is a tax".
That's the same way that MCI could sell you $49.99 unlimited phone service, but by the time your bill came it would be in excess of $75. That is where all of their profits were.
There is also a big difference in caffeine levels between Arabica and Robusto beans. Robusto is the cheaper bean, but more bitter, and the big companies of course went for cost reductions, thus a pretty good bet that your Maxwell House is Robusto. (They'd be making a big deal out of Arabica on the label if they used it.)
Starbucks, going the quality route, brings the Arabica bean to the masses.
For the network operator this becomes an opportunity to pitch "value added" features like QoS and their own VoIP solutions. Vonage and everything else all gets lumped together as best-effort data, and it works while the network is lightly loaded. Bring on the p2p hogs and Vonage should break. Then your cable network just has to advertise: "Vonage broken? You can use our phone-over-cable service (which we prioritize over all data), or you can pay us extra to have your Vonage traffic take priority over your neighbors' goat-porn bittorrents."
To take it one step farther, the companies want the ability to have different service levels, it is the way to squeeze extra revenue out of its subscriber base. Think about Platinum, Gold, and Standard data plans, where as a Platinum subscriber your data gets assigned a QoS priority higher than what the Gold and Standard users get. If the network gets bad enough then everybody pays extra to get upgraded back to where they should be.
Great points. In my business classes (I'm an MBA student at 37) there have been a couple of students that have tried to use laptops, and they're so busy interacting with that stupid box, trying to capture everything into word or powerpoint, trying to annotate the instructor's ppt slides, that they do not have any spare cycles to interact with the rest of the class. It is like they are physically there but mentally they are not present.
In fact their grades and work were some of the worst in the class. They forfeited their in-class participation grades, and they didn't learn/retain anything from the discusssions that they missed out on (but were physically present for.) Eventually they got weeded out!
My read on that statement is that their "workaround" is not a very good alternative to the NTP solution. Like it could even be a bluff or a "duct tape/elmer's glue" sort of solution.
If their "workaround" worked at all, then it seems that they wouldn't need NTP any more, and would not need to keep trying to bargain with them. They are trying to strengthen their alternatives as part of their bargaining strategy, and in doing so are trying to bring NTP back to the bargaining table.
While you are paying for the electricity delivered to the inside of your apartment, hopefully for you there are outlets in the common areas (hallways, outside patio, etc) that the landlord provides! So go get a space heater and an extension cord. Or anything and an extension cord. Plug it into the hallway outlet, and your landlord is heating your apartment. I knew guys that did this their last year in school here in the US and they got away with it.
In a lot of the code I've seen there is also definitely a difference between what the code does and what the comments say the code does. Poor programming backed up by mistaken comments is possibly more confusing than no comments at all!
but when some kiddie wants your IP to hack into your system you'll have to give him something other than "127.x.y.z". You'll have to make up a much longer number.
I disagree: Apple needs to come out with a low-cost machine to defend against people en masse hacking OS X to run on a POS eMachines or Dell or whitebox computer. Its the economic term called substitutions, either by Windoze or by whiteboxes.
If I can't buy an Apple for less than a grand it gives me almost 700 reasons ($$$) to get it running on a whitebox. If they drop the price to $500 (like the mini) then it just about makes it easier to go buy the whole deal from Apple.
This isn't just a game player issue: I already have this problem with my VCR, and my DVD players. My VCR is about 2/3rds size, and the cheapo DVD player we got for 35 bucks from Sam's is even smaller, like 1/2 size.
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Well then, taking the battery out of it would guarantee that it was "OFF". Ahh but that isn't possible with the iphone, is it?
Wrap it in tin foil so the RF doesn't get through, but then that will just drain the battery, at which point it will really be OFF.
Well that's cool, because people in California are so much smarter than the rest of us Americans. At least that's what Cartman said in the "Smug alert" episode. Get all of you hippies in one spot where you can hug each other, leave the rest of us alone to let the market sort things out.
in Vista they were too interested in providing features that consumers did not care about, such as drm and copyright protection, and not enough benefits above XP.
Why stop at XP? I run Win2000 at home, and when I sit down at an XP machine (work laptop runs XP) I have a hard time telling what new and improved features are.
So go ahead and block all of the content -- I have a hard time finding anything on TV worth watching. I used to think that it was because I was busy etc and just that the shows were not on at the time that I was around to watch TV.
Then I got a TiVo and even with timeshifting I still can't find more than 20 minutes of watchable "content", which IMO is more like something put up to fill the deadspace between commercials.
I got a refurbed 2-tuner 80G/80Hr TiVo box a month or so ago for $50, and the prepaid service for 1 year is $150. So your $200 is right on the money. And it took longer to fish the video cables thru the entertainment center than it did to set up/configure the box. Definitely money well spent in my opinion.
So now we just need our time machines. Take modern medicine back to Lincoln to save him. Yeah that would do it.
Wait, I just had another idea. Why not take that same time machine back to Lincoln, only 5 minutes earlier in time. Earlier enough to just yell "DUCK!
What the hell am I supposed to do with any of this information? Does this even qualify as news?
In other news - the productivity of the country just doubled. Nobody wasting time on GooTube.
Why buy into the HD content if we can just download it all for free? Somehow I doubt that the studios will create better content for HD - it will all be just higher resolution crap. Just like spending 2x or 5x on a TV doesn't really get you any better programming, it is all garbage just a bigger or brighter view of it.
Oh yeah and this one too: "Never understimate the power of stupid people in large groups" http://despair.com/idiocy.html
Obligatory demotivator reference: "None of us is as dumb as all of us" http://despair.com/meetings.html
Look for the people wearing t-shirts that say "guns don't kill people, I DO."
I believe that this is already being done in some cities. Cops drive along, and their cars automatically scan parked cars' plates for ones that have parking tickets, or are stolen, etc. There was a news article a few months ago that touted how great this was since they could catch stolen cars, then sit and wait for the thieves to show up.
Uh, sorry, but I own the intellectual property rights to much of that virtualization technology you speak of. Covered by patents 12345XYZ-23456XXX. My company would be happy to work out a licensing arrangement. Please send real money (virtual money is covered by somebody else's IP) to me. IANAL, but my lawyer is.
So therein lies the issue. Airlines in the US have been slow to take up the service for one reason or another. The airlines are not jumping on the bandwagon, they would have to make expensive upgrades to their planes (the link to land is $$$$$.)
Come and hack me. I'm at 127.10.69.123. Bring it on biyotch.
Well, let me see, could it be PROFIT DISGUISED AS A TAX?
The telecom companies are incredibly skilled at coming up with "such and such official-sounding name that you would think is a tax".
That's the same way that MCI could sell you $49.99 unlimited phone service, but by the time your bill came it would be in excess of $75. That is where all of their profits were.
There is also a big difference in caffeine levels between Arabica and Robusto beans. Robusto is the cheaper bean, but more bitter, and the big companies of course went for cost reductions, thus a pretty good bet that your Maxwell House is Robusto. (They'd be making a big deal out of Arabica on the label if they used it.)
Starbucks, going the quality route, brings the Arabica bean to the masses.
So drink up!
For the network operator this becomes an opportunity to pitch "value added" features like QoS and their own VoIP solutions. Vonage and everything else all gets lumped together as best-effort data, and it works while the network is lightly loaded. Bring on the p2p hogs and Vonage should break.
Then your cable network just has to advertise: "Vonage broken? You can use our phone-over-cable service (which we prioritize over all data), or you can pay us extra to have your Vonage traffic take priority over your neighbors' goat-porn bittorrents."
To take it one step farther, the companies want the ability to have different service levels, it is the way to squeeze extra revenue out of its subscriber base. Think about Platinum, Gold, and Standard data plans, where as a Platinum subscriber your data gets assigned a QoS priority higher than what the Gold and Standard users get. If the network gets bad enough then everybody pays extra to get upgraded back to where they should be.
Great points. In my business classes (I'm an MBA student at 37) there have been a couple of students that have tried to use laptops, and they're so busy interacting with that stupid box, trying to capture everything into word or powerpoint, trying to annotate the instructor's ppt slides, that they do not have any spare cycles to interact with the rest of the class. It is like they are physically there but mentally they are not present. In fact their grades and work were some of the worst in the class. They forfeited their in-class participation grades, and they didn't learn/retain anything from the discusssions that they missed out on (but were physically present for.) Eventually they got weeded out!
My read on that statement is that their "workaround" is not a very good alternative to the NTP solution. Like it could even be a bluff or a "duct tape/elmer's glue" sort of solution.
If their "workaround" worked at all, then it seems that they wouldn't need NTP any more, and would not need to keep trying to bargain with them. They are trying to strengthen their alternatives as part of their bargaining strategy, and in doing so are trying to bring NTP back to the bargaining table.
While you are paying for the electricity delivered to the inside of your apartment, hopefully for you there are outlets in the common areas (hallways, outside patio, etc) that the landlord provides! So go get a space heater and an extension cord. Or anything and an extension cord. Plug it into the hallway outlet, and your landlord is heating your apartment. I knew guys that did this their last year in school here in the US and they got away with it.
In a lot of the code I've seen there is also definitely a difference between what the code does and what the comments say the code does. Poor programming backed up by mistaken comments is possibly more confusing than no comments at all!
but when some kiddie wants your IP to hack into your system you'll have to give him something other than "127.x.y.z". You'll have to make up a much longer number.
I disagree: Apple needs to come out with a low-cost machine to defend against people en masse hacking OS X to run on a POS eMachines or Dell or whitebox computer. Its the economic term called substitutions, either by Windoze or by whiteboxes. If I can't buy an Apple for less than a grand it gives me almost 700 reasons ($$$) to get it running on a whitebox. If they drop the price to $500 (like the mini) then it just about makes it easier to go buy the whole deal from Apple.
This isn't just a game player issue: I already have this problem with my VCR, and my DVD players. My VCR is about 2/3rds size, and the cheapo DVD player we got for 35 bucks from Sam's is even smaller, like 1/2 size.