So basically, we had one dude getting paid $250k per year to surf pr0n and read/. all day long for 7 years, doing "research", until one day, a week ago, his supervisors remembered what he was there for and told him to report on his findings by today. So he pulled an all-nighter, cooked up "DNS is good" and "we need more TLDs", made liberal use of copy and paste, and published it.
A perfect example of your tax dollars at work. I sure am glad we aren't spending it on education or space exploration or something useful.
A real cache would never have an out-of-date copy in it, because with every request it would check to see if the page had been updated since the previous caching.
By default, most Web browser caches and most proxy server caches are not set up this way by default -- I have had too many instances where I've had to tell end users to "hit refresh" not to know this. They are set to check and/or refresh their caches either on user demand (Web browser) or at a time interval (proxy, Web server cache) by default, not each time a request is made.
I'm not saying they cannot operate in the way you indicated, but in most cases, they are not set up that way by default.
From the article: "Europa's surface is comprised of 8 large land-masses populated entirely by Natalie Portman clones, separated by vast oceans of steamy, bubbling grits."
Just don't read it aloud into a tape recorder, and then leave it at an old cabin in the middle of the woods for a group of college students to discover. For instance.
Indeed, the library's in my city barely have enough income to keep their doors open, and a couple even operate at a loss in the city's budget books and the city has threatened to shut them down due to lack of use, sadly. I wish we had enough money for a project of this scope, but then again the NYPLS has some very weathly benefactors and prestige that allows for things like this to be developed.
Anything worth having is worth paying a reasonable price for, at least enough to offset the costs of whoever is providing it.
When I was a kid, we did not play violent video games (unless you can call Space Invaders and Pac-Man violent), but we did shoot each other with BB guns. And we were thankful for it!
It's actually reverse causality. I can personally attest to the fact that, after playing hundreds of hours of Postal 2 and GTA:SA over the past few months, my weekly ration of mass murders has decreased from 6-8 to just under 3 per week.
I'm sure that many lazy parents are going to be fully in support of the causality link argument, so they can continue to not have to monitor what their children are playing and can point the finger elsewhere and say "it's their fault little Billy burned down the school".
An exaggeration, but still... people need to take some personal responsibility for how their children behave. Linking violence in games to children's actions is beside the point when they should not be playing M-rated titles to begin with.
If a telco refuses to enter a market because it has bigger fish to fry, it is perfectly acceptable for government to step in to fill the need. The government can set this up as a pseudo business so that it can help meet the needs of a subset of it's population without charging all of them for it.
I work for a municpal government in Florida, and our city set up a for-profit gas company that is wholely owned and operated by the city government. The company is only subsized by taxpayer money in a very minimal fashion, and operates primarily based on its own profits. Our city council is OK with this due to the simple fact that no other company is locally offering gas power to our area, and the infrastructure to support this service is easily placed simultaneously with water/sewer/drainage/etc. The city pays far less to implement this service than a private company would, and as such is able to make a profit in doing so.
There is a demand for this service by citizens who want a cheap alternative to the rather expensive corporate electric company that blankets this area, and since no other private enterprise is interested in taking on the expense in setting this up, the city is doing it. The Gas company we run is indirectly competing with the private corporate electric company in the area, but technically, it's a different service.
I see free Wi-Fi as a similar situation. True, there are corporate broadband companies (cable/DSL) in the area with which we would be indirectly competing if we implemented city-wide Wi-Fi, but since it's technically a different service, we could get by with it. The same cost breaks in setting up the infrastructure would hold true in this situation (municipalities normally get breaks on hardware/fiber).
The voters would have to approve of this kind of situation (as they did with the Gas company), but if it's a service they demand, then our responsibility is to provide it to them, assuming we are not interfering with private enterprise in doing so.
Hmmm... nowhere in the summary does it tell what "Ruby on Rails" is, or why I should care about it, and with the server getting hammered, I can't RTFA to find out. How about including a 1-sentence summary of what the topic of any story IS before posting it, for those of us who don't already know everything there is to know about everything.
I thought the Force was always supposed to be available to only a few, hence Darth/ObiWan/Luke always saying the "Force is strong in his family"... I was under the impression that some people were born with stronger force-sensitivity (mitichlorians aside) than others were. Hence, it was always "technical".
I do understand the mystical vs. scientific explanation problem though. It was kinda like when they tried to "explain" where the immortals came from and why they were immortal in Highlander 2... ugh.
Riiight. So I'm going to quit my job, and then lose my house, car, food from my kids' mouths, etc., just because they make me use Windows and IE at work as part of some retarded IT management policy.
You keep your principles and starve if MS pisses you off that much (I hope it works out for you). I'll keep my job, which apart from its asinine "forced" software standarization policies, isn't so bad, really.
I thought that was the whole freaking point of having a strong market position -- to utilize it to make even more money. Likewise, if your subsequent activities cause you to lose your market position and/or money as a result, then it's your own fault.
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Austin: There are 2 things that scare me, and one of them is nuclear war.
Basil: What's the other?
Austin: Excuse me?
Basil: What's the other thing that scares you?
Austin: Carnies. Circus folk. Nomads, you know. Smell like cabbage. Small hands.
So basically, we had one dude getting paid $250k per year to surf pr0n and read /. all day long for 7 years, doing "research", until one day, a week ago, his supervisors remembered what he was there for and told him to report on his findings by today. So he pulled an all-nighter, cooked up "DNS is good" and "we need more TLDs", made liberal use of copy and paste, and published it.
A perfect example of your tax dollars at work. I sure am glad we aren't spending it on education or space exploration or something useful.
They have their uses in pr0n... get creative!
But does your nano-probe normally stay inside of her for days?
Well, since they're dead, I'll take those pesky PC corpses off your hands for you.
A real cache would never have an out-of-date copy in it, because with every request it would check to see if the page had been updated since the previous caching.
By default, most Web browser caches and most proxy server caches are not set up this way by default -- I have had too many instances where I've had to tell end users to "hit refresh" not to know this. They are set to check and/or refresh their caches either on user demand (Web browser) or at a time interval (proxy, Web server cache) by default, not each time a request is made.
I'm not saying they cannot operate in the way you indicated, but in most cases, they are not set up that way by default.
Yes, and it became considerably less interesting after I went back and re-read it the proper way.
Maybe we could build it right next to the bridge to the 21st century, and save on construction costs.
From the article: "Europa's surface is comprised of 8 large land-masses populated entirely by Natalie Portman clones, separated by vast oceans of steamy, bubbling grits."
Just don't read it aloud into a tape recorder, and then leave it at an old cabin in the middle of the woods for a group of college students to discover. For instance.
Indeed, the library's in my city barely have enough income to keep their doors open, and a couple even operate at a loss in the city's budget books and the city has threatened to shut them down due to lack of use, sadly. I wish we had enough money for a project of this scope, but then again the NYPLS has some very weathly benefactors and prestige that allows for things like this to be developed.
Anything worth having is worth paying a reasonable price for, at least enough to offset the costs of whoever is providing it.
Free ass in bare, perhaps?
OH MY GOD GEORGE LUCAS MUST BE STOPPED!!!
I know this was meant to be sarcastic, but it's unfortunately all too true.
Yes, just as Ted Bundy escaped into pornography.
I thought that guy in the latest Jenna J. vid looked familiar! Whassup, Ted. Nice unit.
The Sims
When I was a kid, we did not play violent video games (unless you can call Space Invaders and Pac-Man violent), but we did shoot each other with BB guns. And we were thankful for it!
It's actually reverse causality. I can personally attest to the fact that, after playing hundreds of hours of Postal 2 and GTA:SA over the past few months, my weekly ration of mass murders has decreased from 6-8 to just under 3 per week.
I'm sure that many lazy parents are going to be fully in support of the causality link argument, so they can continue to not have to monitor what their children are playing and can point the finger elsewhere and say "it's their fault little Billy burned down the school".
An exaggeration, but still... people need to take some personal responsibility for how their children behave. Linking violence in games to children's actions is beside the point when they should not be playing M-rated titles to begin with.
If a telco refuses to enter a market because it has bigger fish to fry, it is perfectly acceptable for government to step in to fill the need. The government can set this up as a pseudo business so that it can help meet the needs of a subset of it's population without charging all of them for it.
I work for a municpal government in Florida, and our city set up a for-profit gas company that is wholely owned and operated by the city government. The company is only subsized by taxpayer money in a very minimal fashion, and operates primarily based on its own profits. Our city council is OK with this due to the simple fact that no other company is locally offering gas power to our area, and the infrastructure to support this service is easily placed simultaneously with water/sewer/drainage/etc. The city pays far less to implement this service than a private company would, and as such is able to make a profit in doing so.
There is a demand for this service by citizens who want a cheap alternative to the rather expensive corporate electric company that blankets this area, and since no other private enterprise is interested in taking on the expense in setting this up, the city is doing it. The Gas company we run is indirectly competing with the private corporate electric company in the area, but technically, it's a different service.
I see free Wi-Fi as a similar situation. True, there are corporate broadband companies (cable/DSL) in the area with which we would be indirectly competing if we implemented city-wide Wi-Fi, but since it's technically a different service, we could get by with it. The same cost breaks in setting up the infrastructure would hold true in this situation (municipalities normally get breaks on hardware/fiber).
The voters would have to approve of this kind of situation (as they did with the Gas company), but if it's a service they demand, then our responsibility is to provide it to them, assuming we are not interfering with private enterprise in doing so.
Hmmm... nowhere in the summary does it tell what "Ruby on Rails" is, or why I should care about it, and with the server getting hammered, I can't RTFA to find out. How about including a 1-sentence summary of what the topic of any story IS before posting it, for those of us who don't already know everything there is to know about everything.
I think I'll stick with my Pontiac Sun Fire for now.
This already happened to Mulder and Scully back in '93.
"We are not who we are".
I thought the Force was always supposed to be available to only a few, hence Darth/ObiWan/Luke always saying the "Force is strong in his family"... I was under the impression that some people were born with stronger force-sensitivity (mitichlorians aside) than others were. Hence, it was always "technical".
I do understand the mystical vs. scientific explanation problem though. It was kinda like when they tried to "explain" where the immortals came from and why they were immortal in Highlander 2... ugh.
Keep my mystical powers mystical!
Riiight. So I'm going to quit my job, and then lose my house, car, food from my kids' mouths, etc., just because they make me use Windows and IE at work as part of some retarded IT management policy.
You keep your principles and starve if MS pisses you off that much (I hope it works out for you). I'll keep my job, which apart from its asinine "forced" software standarization policies, isn't so bad, really.
I thought that was the whole freaking point of having a strong market position -- to utilize it to make even more money. Likewise, if your subsequent activities cause you to lose your market position and/or money as a result, then it's your own fault.