Continued funding for crime or drug reduction programs have nothing to do with their effectiveness (see MADD, DARE, 12 steps etc). ANY decrease for whatever reason (social, economic or other reasons) will cause the program to 'work' and therefore require more funding to increase their effectiveness, ANY increase for the same reasons will cause the program to be 'underfunded to work' and therefore require more funding to increase their effectiveness. They're just a boondoggle that work well to create political capital when you fund them or are political ammo for when you defund them.
In the mean time crime per capita has been going down at a steady rate across the board even in places without any such programs. The answer is not putting ads on billboards or putting more cops in cars or throwing up some roadblocks and violating the constitution, it's bettering the comparative economic status of everyone in society.
A box or container of postcards would cost you less (per postcard) than a single postcard. It also costs you the same amount of money to send 1 postcard or 5 within an envelope.
The UPU says that each country retains all money collected for international postage so it doesn't cost the Chinese anything to send stuff from China to anywhere in the world once it is beyond their borders.
The postal system in the US and most European countries is funded by the market instead of by the government. When I grew up in Europe, before the postal system became privatized in 2000, you could send a 50kg package across the world for the (inflation adjusted) equivalent of ~USD 15 (and we thought that was barely affordable). Today, sending the same package costs USD 325. There is very few stuff I receive directly from China and if I do, it's usually less than 2 kg in an envelope, they seem to have paid CNY 3.10 for my last package (USD 0.51).
Not even that, they make aftermarket versions of those. Not a single manufacturer makes devices with a Zalman cooler, only casemodders and those that put together their own computer do with the occasional repair or 'noise reduction' DIYer.
Yes but TCP 'fairness' algorithms shouldn't come into play there. Shaping should not prefer one user over the other (which is what Net Neutrality is ACTUALLY about) regardless whether that user uses technical, political or financial means for obtaining said preference. QoS or large numbers of connections (which is probably what you try to imply) should only affect traffic within the individual user's bucket.
You know that IS the whole point of a land mine (or any type of IED) right? Not to kill but to maim, slow down, drive up the expenses and bring down the morale of your enemy.
This is Kansas (or Kentucky or Texas), they are ALLOWED to ask for someone's religious and sexual orientations. The only reason they got revoked certain tax incentives (mind you, they did not get their tax-free status as a church revoked nor did they get revoked their state funding) is because that particular office or contract states that they cannot discriminate. The State still allows them to continue discriminating through any other funding.
NFC transponders in current CC still allow you to get names and full numbers similar to regular stripes. There is plenty of code for reading it online.
I would like to echo this statement that CiviCRM will do everything you require and then some. You can use as much or as little of it as you need and is very flexible if you need to alter things around.
Things like buttons and menus are automatically resized to fit the text (unlike Windows where about a decade or two ago you sometimes had to draw your own buttons).
These days for pretty much any OS: If you follow the design recommendations at least, your UI will be forward compatible. If you use your own or deity forbid use an entirely different API that does require fixed dimensions (eg the way Java does) you may get some weird looking apps.
In mobile, you can invest in newer technologies, more spectrum and better antennae. There is quite a bit of bandwidth available in the licensed spectrum, the spectrum is actually just as big for wireless than for copper and fiber. And precise direction of specific channels is also being worked on.
QoS has nothing to do with net neutrality, it merely signifies what the sender would prefer to be done (when prioritization is necessary) among it's own packets. If I want to prioritize SSH and VoIP, then I'll set the necessary bits so that when I fill the bandwidth with other stuff, those tend to get priority.
QoS is perfectly possible within a neutral framework. The providers treat each customer equally, if the customer wants certain aspects of it's own traffic prioritized, it could do that without impeding the rest of the traffic.
You must have missed the last bubble or you are very naive. Whatever your 'cloud agent' promises you is false. These types of companies go bust and disappear in less than a day, the company will have let the service degrade so far by then that a single hosting company unplugging a system over non-payment topples the entire infrastructure. And the provider itself won't have told anyone it is going bust, most likely it will have stunted with pricing in order to get more customers, loading their systems even more.
And hosting companies don't release data to customers-of-customers, they want their money and these days the cloud providers themselves are renting from other cloud providers; If Dropbox were to stop paying Amazon, AWS would automatically wipe and reassigns the entire system a short period after they shut down the service. Legal action takes years to resolve, not a single provider I have ever worked with will maintain a system for years on their own dime in wait of a legal decision.
This is where the bubble lies. 1TB of raw data storage costs ~$90 these days without power, maintenance, installation, support, data transfer, failover/redundancy/backup... over 3-5 years (the usable life of these drives) at current market prices, you should probably calculate close to $1500 to store and maintain 1TB of data that is properly backed up, redundant and available.
The current cloud providers (Microsoft included) are counting on you NOT using your storage beyond 5-10%. Once everybody starts using more than 15% of their allotted storage (which is inevitable given the increasing amount and sizes of stuff we store) someone will have to pay up.
I do maintain the in-house storage where I work. Even at the lowest market prices and the volume we have (currently ~200TB of usable storage), we are this year looking at a cost of ~$200-300/TB investment just in bare hardware and those prices really haven't dropped over the last 5 years because even though raw storage has dropped somewhat, the hardware to support them has not, replacements for failed disks need to come out of that budget and we need ever more and faster interconnects (larger RAM caches, larger SSD caches, faster SSDs, gigabit to 10g upgrades, SAS interconnects from 3Gbps to 12Gbps) to maintain equally speedy access to all parts of the storage for an increasingly growing and demanding user base.
You can but it is medically pointless. Men can (almost) always produce sperm even when they're 90+ years old. Women run out of eggs somewhere between their late 30's and early 50's.
The "computer you already own" is not a fair comparison. I "already own" a Mac therefore Mac/iOS development to me is free.
If I had to target Windows-specific platforms, I'd need a Visual Studio license ($2000) and a Windows Server license and a Windows SQL Server license ($2000) and a Windows computer ($2000) and then the target device ($1000) and a Windows server ($250/month).
But that is just part of the investment. If one were foolish enough to invest in Microsoft ecosystems, they'd be out more than $1000 on licensing alone and that cost simply gets carried forward to the customer. I grew up with commercial Unix, Microsoft, OS/2 etc ecosystems, $0.99 applications were never the norm.
... so where is the systematic, reliable evidence that not being neutral in the way you treat traffic is somehow better for the future of the Internet? There are two parties: money grubbing corporations looking to maximize profit by double dipping and "the people" that require net neutrality in order to be able to build their future on it. Sure, the party that donates the most money will win.
That is an administrative rule (in order to boost profits) which can easily be broken by impersonating another device. A technical limitation would be some sort of hardware incompatibility.
It's not creepy if it works. It's kind of like real spam - try millions of times and if one works it pays off.
Dick pics/crude messages work for a subset of women as do really well thought out messages. But a really good message costs 30m-1h; a bad one.5 minutes even if the response rate is 10x worse it is still worth it.
Your equipment cannot be incompatible with an unlimited data plan. Data transfer limits are artificial profit boosters, there is absolutely no technical reason they can't give everyone unlimited data transfer.
The great thing about grandfathered plans is that they are contractually obligated to provide the service to you. Don't give it up unless you can move to a more customer-friendly provider that does give you unlimited data.
I've never seen either a Mac or a Linux box suffer from 'decay'. The box will work progressively slower compared to newer, faster systems which you may get used to eg. at your job but I've never seen the box slow down any measurable amount (unless of course, the hard drive is getting close to full etc). Windows on the other hand simply slows down due to updates and antivirus getting heavier and heavier, Windows machines will also fill their own hard drives (I manage some boxes that have been installed when XP first came out, even with minimal user data, the machine has gotten cleaned up multiple times due to a full hard drive (mainly logs, updates and system restore data)
Windows 9x-ME was really Windows 4 all along. 2000 was version 5, XP-10 is version 6.
Most windows versions suck, regardless of version numbering. They suck less when it comes around to having a third service pack but they're still miles behind a real OS. (I haven't used windows computers at home since windows 3.11)
No, it means investing in better antenna equipment, I can get gigabit speeds on an unregulated frequency, a regulated frequency should be much easier. Japan has 100Mbps to individual mobile devices, setting up P2P wireless links is even easier. Even so, the country has paid said regulatory fees to ensure wired access to everyone.
The 'spectrum' or bandwidth of the Internet is virtually unlimited though. You just need to put in bigger pipes and even the smallest of the pipes you can currently get at an IX (1Gbps) can easily carry 1000 simultaneous viewers.
The ISP's only have exclusive rights to the last mile because we (the people) let them. For the most part, "the people" paid over and over again for this last mile as well as all the other miles (both phone and cable) through regulatory fees but either is being monopolized by a single provider. There is no technical reason that several providers couldn't offer you the 'last mile' connection. It's being done in several European countries where you have a pick of providers to offer you the last mile.
Because maintaining the status quo without innovating has worked out well for the consumers (eg. TI calculators)? Because what we need now is what we need in the future is for ISP's only?
You get better battery life AND increased specs to the crappy Nexus. Because your e-mail loads equally fast doesn't mean mine does (I have 10k+ messages in my inbox). Because you use your phone for simple games, doesn't mean I don't use it for viewing 3D brain scans.
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Continued funding for crime or drug reduction programs have nothing to do with their effectiveness (see MADD, DARE, 12 steps etc). ANY decrease for whatever reason (social, economic or other reasons) will cause the program to 'work' and therefore require more funding to increase their effectiveness, ANY increase for the same reasons will cause the program to be 'underfunded to work' and therefore require more funding to increase their effectiveness. They're just a boondoggle that work well to create political capital when you fund them or are political ammo for when you defund them.
In the mean time crime per capita has been going down at a steady rate across the board even in places without any such programs. The answer is not putting ads on billboards or putting more cops in cars or throwing up some roadblocks and violating the constitution, it's bettering the comparative economic status of everyone in society.
A box or container of postcards would cost you less (per postcard) than a single postcard. It also costs you the same amount of money to send 1 postcard or 5 within an envelope.
The UPU says that each country retains all money collected for international postage so it doesn't cost the Chinese anything to send stuff from China to anywhere in the world once it is beyond their borders.
The postal system in the US and most European countries is funded by the market instead of by the government. When I grew up in Europe, before the postal system became privatized in 2000, you could send a 50kg package across the world for the (inflation adjusted) equivalent of ~USD 15 (and we thought that was barely affordable). Today, sending the same package costs USD 325. There is very few stuff I receive directly from China and if I do, it's usually less than 2 kg in an envelope, they seem to have paid CNY 3.10 for my last package (USD 0.51).
Not even that, they make aftermarket versions of those. Not a single manufacturer makes devices with a Zalman cooler, only casemodders and those that put together their own computer do with the occasional repair or 'noise reduction' DIYer.
Yes but TCP 'fairness' algorithms shouldn't come into play there. Shaping should not prefer one user over the other (which is what Net Neutrality is ACTUALLY about) regardless whether that user uses technical, political or financial means for obtaining said preference. QoS or large numbers of connections (which is probably what you try to imply) should only affect traffic within the individual user's bucket.
Please explain where TCP implements fairness that can be exploited by customers on separated links?
You know that IS the whole point of a land mine (or any type of IED) right? Not to kill but to maim, slow down, drive up the expenses and bring down the morale of your enemy.
This is Kansas (or Kentucky or Texas), they are ALLOWED to ask for someone's religious and sexual orientations. The only reason they got revoked certain tax incentives (mind you, they did not get their tax-free status as a church revoked nor did they get revoked their state funding) is because that particular office or contract states that they cannot discriminate. The State still allows them to continue discriminating through any other funding.
NFC transponders in current CC still allow you to get names and full numbers similar to regular stripes. There is plenty of code for reading it online.
I would like to echo this statement that CiviCRM will do everything you require and then some. You can use as much or as little of it as you need and is very flexible if you need to alter things around.
Things like buttons and menus are automatically resized to fit the text (unlike Windows where about a decade or two ago you sometimes had to draw your own buttons).
These days for pretty much any OS: If you follow the design recommendations at least, your UI will be forward compatible. If you use your own or deity forbid use an entirely different API that does require fixed dimensions (eg the way Java does) you may get some weird looking apps.
In mobile, you can invest in newer technologies, more spectrum and better antennae. There is quite a bit of bandwidth available in the licensed spectrum, the spectrum is actually just as big for wireless than for copper and fiber. And precise direction of specific channels is also being worked on.
QoS has nothing to do with net neutrality, it merely signifies what the sender would prefer to be done (when prioritization is necessary) among it's own packets. If I want to prioritize SSH and VoIP, then I'll set the necessary bits so that when I fill the bandwidth with other stuff, those tend to get priority.
QoS is perfectly possible within a neutral framework. The providers treat each customer equally, if the customer wants certain aspects of it's own traffic prioritized, it could do that without impeding the rest of the traffic.
You must have missed the last bubble or you are very naive. Whatever your 'cloud agent' promises you is false. These types of companies go bust and disappear in less than a day, the company will have let the service degrade so far by then that a single hosting company unplugging a system over non-payment topples the entire infrastructure. And the provider itself won't have told anyone it is going bust, most likely it will have stunted with pricing in order to get more customers, loading their systems even more.
And hosting companies don't release data to customers-of-customers, they want their money and these days the cloud providers themselves are renting from other cloud providers; If Dropbox were to stop paying Amazon, AWS would automatically wipe and reassigns the entire system a short period after they shut down the service. Legal action takes years to resolve, not a single provider I have ever worked with will maintain a system for years on their own dime in wait of a legal decision.
This is where the bubble lies. 1TB of raw data storage costs ~$90 these days without power, maintenance, installation, support, data transfer, failover/redundancy/backup... over 3-5 years (the usable life of these drives) at current market prices, you should probably calculate close to $1500 to store and maintain 1TB of data that is properly backed up, redundant and available.
The current cloud providers (Microsoft included) are counting on you NOT using your storage beyond 5-10%. Once everybody starts using more than 15% of their allotted storage (which is inevitable given the increasing amount and sizes of stuff we store) someone will have to pay up.
I do maintain the in-house storage where I work. Even at the lowest market prices and the volume we have (currently ~200TB of usable storage), we are this year looking at a cost of ~$200-300/TB investment just in bare hardware and those prices really haven't dropped over the last 5 years because even though raw storage has dropped somewhat, the hardware to support them has not, replacements for failed disks need to come out of that budget and we need ever more and faster interconnects (larger RAM caches, larger SSD caches, faster SSDs, gigabit to 10g upgrades, SAS interconnects from 3Gbps to 12Gbps) to maintain equally speedy access to all parts of the storage for an increasingly growing and demanding user base.
You can but it is medically pointless. Men can (almost) always produce sperm even when they're 90+ years old. Women run out of eggs somewhere between their late 30's and early 50's.
The "computer you already own" is not a fair comparison. I "already own" a Mac therefore Mac/iOS development to me is free.
If I had to target Windows-specific platforms, I'd need a Visual Studio license ($2000) and a Windows Server license and a Windows SQL Server license ($2000) and a Windows computer ($2000) and then the target device ($1000) and a Windows server ($250/month).
But that is just part of the investment. If one were foolish enough to invest in Microsoft ecosystems, they'd be out more than $1000 on licensing alone and that cost simply gets carried forward to the customer. I grew up with commercial Unix, Microsoft, OS/2 etc ecosystems, $0.99 applications were never the norm.
... so where is the systematic, reliable evidence that not being neutral in the way you treat traffic is somehow better for the future of the Internet? There are two parties: money grubbing corporations looking to maximize profit by double dipping and "the people" that require net neutrality in order to be able to build their future on it. Sure, the party that donates the most money will win.
That is an administrative rule (in order to boost profits) which can easily be broken by impersonating another device. A technical limitation would be some sort of hardware incompatibility.
It's not creepy if it works. It's kind of like real spam - try millions of times and if one works it pays off.
Dick pics/crude messages work for a subset of women as do really well thought out messages. But a really good message costs 30m-1h; a bad one .5 minutes even if the response rate is 10x worse it is still worth it.
Your equipment cannot be incompatible with an unlimited data plan. Data transfer limits are artificial profit boosters, there is absolutely no technical reason they can't give everyone unlimited data transfer.
The great thing about grandfathered plans is that they are contractually obligated to provide the service to you. Don't give it up unless you can move to a more customer-friendly provider that does give you unlimited data.
I've never seen either a Mac or a Linux box suffer from 'decay'. The box will work progressively slower compared to newer, faster systems which you may get used to eg. at your job but I've never seen the box slow down any measurable amount (unless of course, the hard drive is getting close to full etc). Windows on the other hand simply slows down due to updates and antivirus getting heavier and heavier, Windows machines will also fill their own hard drives (I manage some boxes that have been installed when XP first came out, even with minimal user data, the machine has gotten cleaned up multiple times due to a full hard drive (mainly logs, updates and system restore data)
Windows 9x-ME was really Windows 4 all along. 2000 was version 5, XP-10 is version 6.
Most windows versions suck, regardless of version numbering. They suck less when it comes around to having a third service pack but they're still miles behind a real OS. (I haven't used windows computers at home since windows 3.11)
No, it means investing in better antenna equipment, I can get gigabit speeds on an unregulated frequency, a regulated frequency should be much easier. Japan has 100Mbps to individual mobile devices, setting up P2P wireless links is even easier. Even so, the country has paid said regulatory fees to ensure wired access to everyone.
The 'spectrum' or bandwidth of the Internet is virtually unlimited though. You just need to put in bigger pipes and even the smallest of the pipes you can currently get at an IX (1Gbps) can easily carry 1000 simultaneous viewers.
The ISP's only have exclusive rights to the last mile because we (the people) let them. For the most part, "the people" paid over and over again for this last mile as well as all the other miles (both phone and cable) through regulatory fees but either is being monopolized by a single provider. There is no technical reason that several providers couldn't offer you the 'last mile' connection. It's being done in several European countries where you have a pick of providers to offer you the last mile.
Because maintaining the status quo without innovating has worked out well for the consumers (eg. TI calculators)? Because what we need now is what we need in the future is for ISP's only?
You get better battery life AND increased specs to the crappy Nexus. Because your e-mail loads equally fast doesn't mean mine does (I have 10k+ messages in my inbox). Because you use your phone for simple games, doesn't mean I don't use it for viewing 3D brain scans.