You make a good point. I would argue that ISPs in most places can get similar deals, at least in major cities. Most run their own backbones and peer when possible, so bandwidth usage still shouldn't be expensive. Either way, I think it really comes down to a lack of competition.
That being said, I understand there is a cost to the last mile, so it's unlikely that at-home bandwidth will ever be as cheap as datacenter bandwidth. Still, the incidental cost of additional bandwidth should not be that much compared to the other infrastructure or corporate overhead costs.
Greed and monopoly. If competitors were permitted in cities, I bet you'd see a return to unrestricted access. Where I have my hosting, I get transfer for under $0.01/GB. A TB of transfer is less than $10. Bandwidth is no longer a major cost of doing the ISP business. So why can't I get that at home? Lack of competition. Cities get fat checks for restricting competition, and we all pay for it.
Seen as how I can't dance, It'll be nice to get a grove when I'm dead.
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It looks at data after the fact. That is, who shared it, who diggs it, the frequency it is shared, etc. Thus it couldn't predict where itself would end up, at least not until after it was posted, which would be too late.
It's not like a Slashdot comment that says it will be moderated +5, Informative.
Easily enough. Seducing women is just another social skill to be learned. And because we often have alexithymia (difficulty expressing emotions) we often come across as the strong, silent type, especially if we learn the proper body language. What woman doesn't love a mystery? The issue is maintaining long term relationships. We need a lot of time alone to recharge, and coupled to alexithymia, both can make it difficult to build a relationship. I rarely ever want the closeness a neurotypical woman does, mainly because processing all the emotions is overwhelming and exhausting. It was a big relief when I let go of the idea of wanting to be in a relationship, knowing I won't face those frustrations. If I meet the right woman, it will happen, but I just can't be bothered with it for the most part.
The book is written by probably the world's best expert on Asperger's Syndrome. He will reply to email, too. He's very approachable and friendly, and he "gets" how aspies think.
The key thing to understand is that it's not a limitation, but a difference. Sure, aspies will always struggle with social affairs, but the majority of aspies have high intelligence, often falling into the gifted category (IQ 130+). We also tend to make connections others won't, and we often innate abilities to do complicated mental things. We can also stay focused on our interests for hours/days/months on end, and accomplish great things that most people don't have the dedication for. Since I discovered that I am indeed an aspie, I made a decision to stop trying to be normal. I had always forced myself to be social, but now that I've accepted it's okay to be different a great amount of stress and frustration have disappeared. The best thing about finding out that I'm an aspie is that I finally have a reason for why I experience the problems I do, and why I just don't seem to get better. (And why everyone else seems so slow and stupid! lol)
The character which you describe certainly sounds autistic, although autistic people are creative! AS is basically on the mild end of the autistic spectrum. Some say it's impossible to be a great artist or inventor without being at least somewhat autistic. Wikipedia has a list of well-known people speculated to have been autistic. Here is another. Bram Cohen, the inventor of BitTorrent is an aspie. Isaac Asimov is suspected.
I think living with AS is basically a matter of focusing on your interests and your gifts. You have a talent for prose. Use it!
I suspected it about 7 years ago when facing depression issues. I suggested it to the psychiatrist I was seeing at the time, but he didn't see it. I guess he was looking for someone lower functioning in that regard. Anyway, I moved somewhere sunnier and the depression issues went away, and life went on.
Then I ended up talking to a new friend. We clicked instantly. Being an aspie herself, she totally saw it in me. So I started researching. I read a lot of books. But one book in particular read almost like a biography of myself: The Complete Guide to Asperger Syndrome by Tony Attwood. I never felt so understood or explained in my life. If you suspect you have AS, read the book. If it makes sense, it's pratically certain.
I went through exactly that. Being as smart as I am, people just figured that I shouldn't have problems. But when reading body language and figuring out social boundaries is a strenuous mental exercise, and doesn't come naturally or work subconsciously as it does with most people, it's exhausting, and very frustrating when you keep screwing up, unable to figure out all the rules. The humiliation never completely goes away, but you get used to it after a while.
I'm 28, and I just figured out I have Asperger's Syndrome about a month ago. Not knowing until now has caused me a huge amount of grief. If I had known in kindergarten, it would have helped. Even then, I wasn't relating to the other kids -- and I never knew why I couldn't make friends. It wasn't a lack of trying.
"Well functioning" individuals with autism spectrum disorders can get better. After a while, we build up the "rules" for social interaction. The mental effort never goes away, but like learning to play chess, the basics do come more naturally after a while. It'll never be like riding a bike. To this day, I have trouble continuing a casual conversation. I'll never really connect with anyone that isn't a nerd. I'm okay with that.
In a sense, we are actors, life is a stage, and we do all our own stunts. The biggest problem well functioning individuals on the autistic spectrum face is coming across too normal, so that people attributed our odd behaviours as intentional and not to an innocent lack of understanding. We can learn, but because we usually highly intelligent, it's not obvious we need guidance or help.
Discovering that I am on the spectrum has brought a lot more of the humility I had already begun to learn in an effort to relate to people. My high intelligence made me arrogant as a kid. I used to look down on people if they weren't as smart as I am. It took me a while to recognize they had talents in areas I didn't. Now I know why my abilities are so different than those of a normal person.
I am blogging about being an aspie, too. I'll probably repost this there later.
Walmart does indeed have servers at each store. They cache a lot of stuff such as inventory, pricing, etc., and it's batch communicated on at least a daily basis.
Didn't you read the summary? He's transporting the data in his car. Don't you remember what Reiser does to car seats? It's get them all bloody and ejects them! Didn't you think this through? What if he is driving when the seat gets ejected??
I often enjoy bottled beverages while driving stick in stop and go traffic. It's not that hard. Don't shift violently, and most of the time a single gear is sufficient. I'll never drive in rush hour on the phone though... it will take my concentration off all the skin that comes out in summer.;-)
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Ahh! This is great! I've always wanted to see Hamlet in the original Klingon!
And just what do you hope to achieve by railing against it?
That's going to take some time. None of the other universes have sharks or ill-tempered mutant sea bass to control the lasers.
You make a good point. I would argue that ISPs in most places can get similar deals, at least in major cities. Most run their own backbones and peer when possible, so bandwidth usage still shouldn't be expensive. Either way, I think it really comes down to a lack of competition.
That being said, I understand there is a cost to the last mile, so it's unlikely that at-home bandwidth will ever be as cheap as datacenter bandwidth. Still, the incidental cost of additional bandwidth should not be that much compared to the other infrastructure or corporate overhead costs.
I never would have suspected the GTX480 would have been good at this sorta thing.
Obviously not. I'm certain the Chilean ISPs are still permitted to have acceptable use policies.
Greed and monopoly. If competitors were permitted in cities, I bet you'd see a return to unrestricted access. Where I have my hosting, I get transfer for under $0.01/GB. A TB of transfer is less than $10. Bandwidth is no longer a major cost of doing the ISP business. So why can't I get that at home? Lack of competition. Cities get fat checks for restricting competition, and we all pay for it.
That makes sense. When I eat chile, I never have trouble with traffic flow or port blocking.
2 billion dollars for a bunch of chips and antenna components? I guess we know the true value of an ARM and a leg.
That won't work. Malware is an ecological/economic niche, and someone(s) or something will fill it.
Seen as how I can't dance, It'll be nice to get a grove when I'm dead.
It looks at data after the fact. That is, who shared it, who diggs it, the frequency it is shared, etc. Thus it couldn't predict where itself would end up, at least not until after it was posted, which would be too late.
It's not like a Slashdot comment that says it will be moderated +5, Informative.
My girlfriend told me to kiss her where it stinks, so I took her to New Jersey.
Maybe responsibility isn't a survival trait? Or maybe your offspring will survive better?
It's also not a zero-sum game. You've reproduced yourself.
Whoops! I was on my NVidia box.
I would have had the first post, but I was waiting for my browser window to scroll.
I've found Wellbutrin very helpful with my ADHD-like symptoms. I stay focused better, I'm much calmer, I'm less anxious. It's worth trying.
Personally, I find the biggest burden of AS is the profound sense of loneliness and isolation: I'm surrounded by people, but they're all distant.
Easily enough. Seducing women is just another social skill to be learned. And because we often have alexithymia (difficulty expressing emotions) we often come across as the strong, silent type, especially if we learn the proper body language. What woman doesn't love a mystery? The issue is maintaining long term relationships. We need a lot of time alone to recharge, and coupled to alexithymia, both can make it difficult to build a relationship. I rarely ever want the closeness a neurotypical woman does, mainly because processing all the emotions is overwhelming and exhausting. It was a big relief when I let go of the idea of wanting to be in a relationship, knowing I won't face those frustrations. If I meet the right woman, it will happen, but I just can't be bothered with it for the most part.
The book is written by probably the world's best expert on Asperger's Syndrome. He will reply to email, too. He's very approachable and friendly, and he "gets" how aspies think.
The key thing to understand is that it's not a limitation, but a difference. Sure, aspies will always struggle with social affairs, but the majority of aspies have high intelligence, often falling into the gifted category (IQ 130+). We also tend to make connections others won't, and we often innate abilities to do complicated mental things. We can also stay focused on our interests for hours/days/months on end, and accomplish great things that most people don't have the dedication for. Since I discovered that I am indeed an aspie, I made a decision to stop trying to be normal. I had always forced myself to be social, but now that I've accepted it's okay to be different a great amount of stress and frustration have disappeared. The best thing about finding out that I'm an aspie is that I finally have a reason for why I experience the problems I do, and why I just don't seem to get better. (And why everyone else seems so slow and stupid! lol)
The character which you describe certainly sounds autistic, although autistic people are creative! AS is basically on the mild end of the autistic spectrum. Some say it's impossible to be a great artist or inventor without being at least somewhat autistic. Wikipedia has a list of well-known people speculated to have been autistic. Here is another. Bram Cohen, the inventor of BitTorrent is an aspie. Isaac Asimov is suspected.
I think living with AS is basically a matter of focusing on your interests and your gifts. You have a talent for prose. Use it!
I suspected it about 7 years ago when facing depression issues. I suggested it to the psychiatrist I was seeing at the time, but he didn't see it. I guess he was looking for someone lower functioning in that regard. Anyway, I moved somewhere sunnier and the depression issues went away, and life went on.
Then I ended up talking to a new friend. We clicked instantly. Being an aspie herself, she totally saw it in me. So I started researching. I read a lot of books. But one book in particular read almost like a biography of myself: The Complete Guide to Asperger Syndrome by Tony Attwood. I never felt so understood or explained in my life. If you suspect you have AS, read the book. If it makes sense, it's pratically certain.
I went through exactly that. Being as smart as I am, people just figured that I shouldn't have problems. But when reading body language and figuring out social boundaries is a strenuous mental exercise, and doesn't come naturally or work subconsciously as it does with most people, it's exhausting, and very frustrating when you keep screwing up, unable to figure out all the rules. The humiliation never completely goes away, but you get used to it after a while.
I'm 28, and I just figured out I have Asperger's Syndrome about a month ago. Not knowing until now has caused me a huge amount of grief. If I had known in kindergarten, it would have helped. Even then, I wasn't relating to the other kids -- and I never knew why I couldn't make friends. It wasn't a lack of trying.
"Well functioning" individuals with autism spectrum disorders can get better. After a while, we build up the "rules" for social interaction. The mental effort never goes away, but like learning to play chess, the basics do come more naturally after a while. It'll never be like riding a bike. To this day, I have trouble continuing a casual conversation. I'll never really connect with anyone that isn't a nerd. I'm okay with that.
In a sense, we are actors, life is a stage, and we do all our own stunts. The biggest problem well functioning individuals on the autistic spectrum face is coming across too normal, so that people attributed our odd behaviours as intentional and not to an innocent lack of understanding. We can learn, but because we usually highly intelligent, it's not obvious we need guidance or help.
Discovering that I am on the spectrum has brought a lot more of the humility I had already begun to learn in an effort to relate to people. My high intelligence made me arrogant as a kid. I used to look down on people if they weren't as smart as I am. It took me a while to recognize they had talents in areas I didn't. Now I know why my abilities are so different than those of a normal person.
I am blogging about being an aspie, too. I'll probably repost this there later.
If he is having social troubles at all, then Asperger Syndrome is highly likely. I have it. And I, too, read about string theory in my teens.
Walmart does indeed have servers at each store. They cache a lot of stuff such as inventory, pricing, etc., and it's batch communicated on at least a daily basis.
Of course, payments must be realtime.
Didn't you read the summary? He's transporting the data in his car. Don't you remember what Reiser does to car seats? It's get them all bloody and ejects them! Didn't you think this through? What if he is driving when the seat gets ejected??
I often enjoy bottled beverages while driving stick in stop and go traffic. It's not that hard. Don't shift violently, and most of the time a single gear is sufficient. I'll never drive in rush hour on the phone though... it will take my concentration off all the skin that comes out in summer. ;-)