All ISPs oversell, with our without Sandvine's products. Your ISP tells you you're getting a certain amount of bandwidth, but you aren't, at least not 24/7. This has always been the case from day one.
Sure the label said that our can of beer contained 18oz. But it actually contains just 6oz - we were expecting you to fall asleep while drinking it and not notice.
...how many applications will state "Designed for Windows XP, Vista, and Wine 1.0" as a supported platform. Are you sure the "Designed for Windows Vista" program allows you to mention Microsoft competitors on the packaging?
What is the U.S. Army doing to protect U.S. sensitive information from the frequent number of cyber-attacks originating from inside the People's Republic of China? Buying and installing routers from there?;)
It all sounds so easy when there are only a few calls per day.
When it becomes anything like regular spam, you'd be receiving 20 calls per minute continuously from automated processes (e.g. perhaps from other broadband users running Windows, including your family, colleagues, and business contacts) - then it would take a lot more effort to block everything correctly
Would it be ok for the USPS, FedEx, UPS, and DHL to all practice opening your packages and throwing out stuff to make it easier (cheaper) to deliver your package?
They already do charge by weight to make stuff easier and cheaper to deliver However, they don't yet forge your friend's handwriting to include advertising in a letter from them, which would be the USPS equivalent of Phorm.
Neither do they scan your letters and send copies to a marketing organisation, which is what DPO is really all about (i.e. the leaking of huge amounts of personal information gathered via illegal wiretaps)
Living here in The Netherlands it's almost hard to imagine how it can be so bad over there in the US.
For me bandwidth has been un-metered, un-throttled, un-shaped, unlimited and un-restricted in all senses of the word for the last decade or so. Is that just because you get the (apparently quite good) XS4ALL ISP there?
"The author is highlighting the fact that GPLv3 is largely incompatible with proprietary software."
Not really - most of the text seems to be claiming that it's incompatible with commercial use, which is the opposite of most peoples' interpretation.
(this is achieved in the article by suggesting that commercial anything requires placing restrictions on other peoples' software)
There are plenty of clues that this article differs substantially from the plain language of the GPL, for example suggestions that you could be sued for merely using the software (what does freedom 0 say again?)
TFA is not saying that "giving a vendor time to fix an issue" is unreasonable
The vendor had plenty of time to fix the issue when they wrote the software
And again when they tested it.
And again when they did their pre-release security audit of the software
So why, after the software has been released and widely-installed for years, is it necessary to start another arbitrary clock for them to make it secure? Their patch is already overdue by time()-releasedate, and they need to explain their previous installation of insecure software to anyone whose machines they left compromised since the install date.
How is it unethical to use your own checkout system? When you have a monopoly in the auction market and wish to extend this to a monopoly in the electronic payments market?
The logical progression is of course to ban children. If we don't have any children, then they can't possibly be abused and will therefore be safe. I think this proposed law shows quite clearly that children aren't even tangentially related to what this government considers child abuse
For me, GMail equals unprofessional. It equals Mom and Pop.
It means you can't even afford to run your own mail server or have someone do it for you. More to the point, it gives the impression that you can't setup your own server to accurately delete the 99.96% of your emails that are spam?
I think that describes most people, even professional programmers...
Rembmer, Asimov's laws of robotics are science fiction. They are relevant in same way as the laws of the old testament: both are prominent literary works...of fiction.
Asimov's laws are a philosophical choice between humanitarian robots and military robots.
Without such a choice, the structure of governments tends towards the 'military robots only' being a default option (as seen here, and in UAVs)
Asimov showed what robots could be, if we had higher moral expectations of them
"Absolutely right. I've often wondered why we don't treat internet service like any other utility. If I use more water, I get a larger water bill. Same goes for electricity. Why don't we do the same thing for ISP's?"
Because when the internet was first invented, people used to pay per unit usage (1p/minute dial-up) and the number of people who were horrified by the resulting phone bills and vowed never to buy another 'blank check' internet package again...
Seriously, there were an awful lot of parents who got a phone bill 20x or 50x normal for the first quarter after getting dial-up, and they will never again buy connectivity that isn't priced per-month instead of per GB.
you trailed off before you came up with a suitable alternative to VisualStudio
What about Photoshop?
I'm sure that you can come up with all sorts of programs which justify keeping Windows. ("well I *must* run microsoft office")
I'm sure you can come up with all sorts of features which prevent you from using free alternatives. ("a fully-featured graphics editor? that's no use; it doesn't support CMYK natively")
I'm sure that no matter what the free software world provides for you, you'll be able to find some fault with it.
And that's fine. You can stick with your current supplier and hope that it all works out okay.
This article is about their next-generation OS being unusable though, and about the end-of-life for the OS which everyone uses. Still feel confident about keeping all your computing tasks tied to that supplier?
The answer isn't to respond to every offer of free software with "well it doesn't do x, therefore I'll pour scorn on its authors and remain with a homogenous Microsoft solution to everything". A more sensible approach would be to start moving what you can to free platforms while you still have a chance.
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All ISPs oversell, with our without Sandvine's products. Your ISP tells you you're getting a certain amount of bandwidth, but you aren't, at least not 24/7. This has always been the case from day one.
Sure the label said that our can of beer contained 18oz. But it actually contains just 6oz - we were expecting you to fall asleep while drinking it and not notice.
...how many applications will state "Designed for Windows XP, Vista, and Wine 1.0" as a supported platform. Are you sure the "Designed for Windows Vista" program allows you to mention Microsoft competitors on the packaging?I reckon just "$4.58/gal" would make a good t-shirt for a cyclist ;)
Actually, that's probably a very good question to start the interview with...Personally, I would have phrased it this way: "Please tell us everything you're up to. (It's ok. We're cool.)"
It all sounds so easy when there are only a few calls per day.
When it becomes anything like regular spam, you'd be receiving 20 calls per minute continuously from automated processes (e.g. perhaps from other broadband users running Windows, including your family, colleagues, and business contacts) - then it would take a lot more effort to block everything correctly
They already do charge by weight to make stuff easier and cheaper to deliver However, they don't yet forge your friend's handwriting to include advertising in a letter from them, which would be the USPS equivalent of Phorm.
Neither do they scan your letters and send copies to a marketing organisation, which is what DPO is really all about (i.e. the leaking of huge amounts of personal information gathered via illegal wiretaps)
For me bandwidth has been un-metered, un-throttled, un-shaped, unlimited and un-restricted in all senses of the word for the last decade or so. Is that just because you get the (apparently quite good) XS4ALL ISP there?
like horse-racing, where the racers continuously upload GPS? (statistics being created mid-race for use by late betters)
"The author is highlighting the fact that GPLv3 is largely incompatible with proprietary software."
Not really - most of the text seems to be claiming that it's incompatible with commercial use, which is the opposite of most peoples' interpretation.
(this is achieved in the article by suggesting that commercial anything requires placing restrictions on other peoples' software)
There are plenty of clues that this article differs substantially from the plain language of the GPL, for example suggestions that you could be sued for merely using the software (what does freedom 0 say again?)
TFA is not saying that "giving a vendor time to fix an issue" is unreasonable
The vendor had plenty of time to fix the issue when they wrote the software
And again when they tested it.
And again when they did their pre-release security audit of the software
So why, after the software has been released and widely-installed for years, is it necessary to start another arbitrary clock for them to make it secure? Their patch is already overdue by time()-releasedate, and they need to explain their previous installation of insecure software to anyone whose machines they left compromised since the install date.
UML as whole can be cumbersome and difficult to manage. A smart manager will...
stop there -- finishing the sentence won't add any information
It means you can't even afford to run your own mail server or have someone do it for you. More to the point, it gives the impression that you can't setup your own server to accurately delete the 99.96% of your emails that are spam?
I think that describes most people, even professional programmers...
(Orion programme if my memory isn't failing) see a talk about it at:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/221
other than Wikipedia? As textbooks go, that's pretty good
How does that work if the bear can chase a million victims at once, like botnets can with PC vulnerabilities?
Or distribute encrypted patches over the course of a day, then when you publish the key everyone can update
Rembmer, Asimov's laws of robotics are science fiction. They are relevant in same way as the laws of the old testament: both are prominent literary works...of fiction.
Asimov's laws are a philosophical choice between humanitarian robots and military robots.
Without such a choice, the structure of governments tends towards the 'military robots only' being a default option (as seen here, and in UAVs)
Asimov showed what robots could be, if we had higher moral expectations of them
"I'm typing this from a MacBook and its 1280px horizontal size is NOT ENOUGH for some sites."
So get firefox 3 and scale the website...
or are you still using a browser that displays images original-size and wondering why you need so much screen space?
"Absolutely right. I've often wondered why we don't treat internet service like any other utility. If I use more water, I get a larger water bill. Same goes for electricity. Why don't we do the same thing for ISP's?"
Because when the internet was first invented, people used to pay per unit usage (1p/minute dial-up) and the number of people who were horrified by the resulting phone bills and vowed never to buy another 'blank check' internet package again...
Seriously, there were an awful lot of parents who got a phone bill 20x or 50x normal for the first quarter after getting dial-up, and they will never again buy connectivity that isn't priced per-month instead of per GB.
you trailed off before you came up with a suitable alternative to VisualStudio
I'm sure that you can come up with all sorts of programs which justify keeping Windows. ("well I *must* run microsoft office")What about Photoshop?
I'm sure you can come up with all sorts of features which prevent you from using free alternatives. ("a fully-featured graphics editor? that's no use; it doesn't support CMYK natively")
I'm sure that no matter what the free software world provides for you, you'll be able to find some fault with it.
And that's fine. You can stick with your current supplier and hope that it all works out okay.
This article is about their next-generation OS being unusable though, and about the end-of-life for the OS which everyone uses. Still feel confident about keeping all your computing tasks tied to that supplier?
The answer isn't to respond to every offer of free software with "well it doesn't do x, therefore I'll pour scorn on its authors and remain with a homogenous Microsoft solution to everything". A more sensible approach would be to start moving what you can to free platforms while you still have a chance.