"posts" from folks like Roland are getting more and more common. It's often a stretch to come here, as it is. I find as my respect for/. lessens, I come here less often.
So how much DO you have to pay to get your dumb post onto slashdot's front page? Seriously.
The thing that annoys me about most hosting plans is that they scale up disk space and bandwith together--as if one inevitably follows the other. For example, I have a miniscule website that hosts a ~200 meg game download. So I need a whopping ~300 megs of disk space. But when I get a spike of downloads, I can hit several gigs of bandwith per day. But I would have to purchase additional "disk space" along with bandwidth if I were going with a traditional hosting plan.
It's all fine then, since after all I have the option of simply terminating my internet service with Comcast if I don't like the new Terms of Service, which have been posted conveniently to Slashdot for my perusal.
So I'll just have to go with my other option, AT & fucking T DSL, and I'm sure their much more civilised terms, eh? You think that's what they've got, some decent terms of service? Do you?
It does seem to me that my last two ISP's, Time-Warner and Comcast, despite all their numerous faults, do a pretty good job of keeping worms in check on their networks.
Mind you...I could be deluded. But for various games I cannot get to work through my router I have to run XP without it, and even with my balls hanging out there I haven't had any trouble..that I know of. I do run Ethereal that way from time to time and it seems pretty trafficless except for ARP's and such.
You know, I gotta say, there's a difference between Good and Bad piracy, in my mind. It seems to me that as long as you aren't making money off it, even indirectly, it's okay.
And yes, I know the Pirate Bay may well be making bank. But I still bought one of their t-shirts. We're in a war, you know!
Well I know if I was a Dish Network customer, I'd be real super pleased with Tivo if they got my DVR shut down. I'd be fucking screaming to become one of their customers as fast as possible.
In the last year or two, I can't tell you how many times people have asked me where they could get a good deal on MS Office, only to have me mention OpenOffice as a free alternative and had it eagerly siezed upon.
It's strange, really. I'm like "You must need to open that spreadsheet file?" and they're like "It's an *.xls!" "Yess...why don't you try this out?" "It can open this file!?" "Probably" and then so far it's always been fine and they're quite elated not to have had to buy MS Office. I mean, it's not like they LIKE it, they're just USED to it.
I think it is only an issue for a relatively small percentage of users who used more advanced features that most people (including myself!) never, ever use.
I view it as an electronic pantomime, now. So do most thinking people.
See, these days, they don't even have to have the appearance of propriety. Witness Dick Cheney giving his Halliburton shares to charity when he became VP...or did he?
This reminds me of how I learned to hit a golf ball. For years, every time I tried it, it would just wizzle (is that a word?) along the ground for 15 or 20 feet.
Finally, one day, in frustration, I hit upon the answer--just think of it as a very low pitch baseball. I knew how to hit a baseball. Right then, I knew I had it and I tured to my friends and said, "watch this"--and sure enough it went flying.
The major carriers clearly have a gentleman's agreement to keep prices high. Why would anyone want to rain on the parade by charging a fair rate?
The way I see it, a single second of voice is equivalent to about 10,000 SMS messages, so I'm doing them a favor by using SMS instead of voice. Naturally, they charge me out the ass for it.
I recently bought my first ever digital music...because I couldn't find it anywhere else, and it was cheaper than buying the cd. I bought it from Amazon because there is no way I would ever buy DRM'ed music, of course.
But if I wanted to buy the whole album, I had to use their downloader...you know...the specific reason I don't want to buy DRM'd music, installing someone's random crappy software on my delicate Windows box.
So I had to download and buy each track individually.
We're almost out of Stupidland, but not quite yet.
Slashdot Mirror
I bet Slashdot.org could possibly find some bloggers that would be more than happy to receive that traffic!
"posts" from folks like Roland are getting more and more common. It's often a stretch to come here, as it is. I find as my respect for /. lessens, I come here less often.
So how much DO you have to pay to get your dumb post onto slashdot's front page? Seriously.
hehehe so naive...as if anyone here actually reads the articles.
The thing that annoys me about most hosting plans is that they scale up disk space and bandwith together--as if one inevitably follows the other. For example, I have a miniscule website that hosts a ~200 meg game download. So I need a whopping ~300 megs of disk space. But when I get a spike of downloads, I can hit several gigs of bandwith per day. But I would have to purchase additional "disk space" along with bandwidth if I were going with a traditional hosting plan.
Annoying.
It's all fine then, since after all I have the option of simply terminating my internet service with Comcast if I don't like the new Terms of Service, which have been posted conveniently to Slashdot for my perusal.
So I'll just have to go with my other option, AT & fucking T DSL, and I'm sure their much more civilised terms, eh? You think that's what they've got, some decent terms of service? Do you?
By being greedy for lockin one also increases the difficulty of getting the initial sale.
What on earth does "user specific data" have to do with system performance? I mean, what is it actually doing?
There is no "U" in "Satanic Federates"
Try Mucinex DM sometime. It's a freaking miracly for anything in your chest, and over the counter (and not behind the counter)
It does seem to me that my last two ISP's, Time-Warner and Comcast, despite all their numerous faults, do a pretty good job of keeping worms in check on their networks.
Mind you...I could be deluded. But for various games I cannot get to work through my router I have to run XP without it, and even with my balls hanging out there I haven't had any trouble..that I know of. I do run Ethereal that way from time to time and it seems pretty trafficless except for ARP's and such.
I agree...but my position is that it is merely neutral.
The rantings of the other side notwithstanding.
You know, I gotta say, there's a difference between Good and Bad piracy, in my mind. It seems to me that as long as you aren't making money off it, even indirectly, it's okay.
And yes, I know the Pirate Bay may well be making bank. But I still bought one of their t-shirts. We're in a war, you know!
Even MS can't be serious about this deal. Note that they haven't actually done it, yet.
I think maybe they just wanted to yank everybody's chains.
Well I know if I was a Dish Network customer, I'd be real super pleased with Tivo if they got my DVR shut down. I'd be fucking screaming to become one of their customers as fast as possible.
not.
Actually, there have been hijacking's since 9/11 where the passengers did not fight back. I know there was one in Turkey, for example.
God knows why.
In the last year or two, I can't tell you how many times people have asked me where they could get a good deal on MS Office, only to have me mention OpenOffice as a free alternative and had it eagerly siezed upon.
It's strange, really. I'm like "You must need to open that spreadsheet file?" and they're like "It's an *.xls!" "Yess...why don't you try this out?" "It can open this file!?" "Probably" and then so far it's always been fine and they're quite elated not to have had to buy MS Office. I mean, it's not like they LIKE it, they're just USED to it.
I think it is only an issue for a relatively small percentage of users who used more advanced features that most people (including myself!) never, ever use.
But who has copyright on the torrent file? :-)
But what, they have the right to read all your emails to see if you're violating their TOS? Are you out of your mind?
So they can censor the datacenter's contents to the Chinese government's satisfaction.
I view it as an electronic pantomime, now. So do most thinking people.
See, these days, they don't even have to have the appearance of propriety. Witness Dick Cheney giving his Halliburton shares to charity when he became VP...or did he?
This reminds me of how I learned to hit a golf ball. For years, every time I tried it, it would just wizzle (is that a word?) along the ground for 15 or 20 feet.
Finally, one day, in frustration, I hit upon the answer--just think of it as a very low pitch baseball. I knew how to hit a baseball. Right then, I knew I had it and I tured to my friends and said, "watch this"--and sure enough it went flying.
It's all in the head.
The major carriers clearly have a gentleman's agreement to keep prices high. Why would anyone want to rain on the parade by charging a fair rate?
The way I see it, a single second of voice is equivalent to about 10,000 SMS messages, so I'm doing them a favor by using SMS instead of voice. Naturally, they charge me out the ass for it.
Kinda like PC banking in the 90's.
Yes but...why do we need a downloader at all?
I recently bought my first ever digital music...because I couldn't find it anywhere else, and it was cheaper than buying the cd. I bought it from Amazon because there is no way I would ever buy DRM'ed music, of course.
But if I wanted to buy the whole album, I had to use their downloader...you know...the specific reason I don't want to buy DRM'd music, installing someone's random crappy software on my delicate Windows box.
So I had to download and buy each track individually.
We're almost out of Stupidland, but not quite yet.
Interesting how you plan to "own" a string of bytes.
Get the price down to, say, around four cents a song, and I'll pay every time I download it...for the service, not the mp3.
Too late for me...I'm far too pissed off to ever give them money again.
ahoy matey.