The counterpoint to this is that comcast had exceptional problems providing netflix which cleared up literally instantly when netflix signed a payment agreement.
I.e. comcast already had the required capacity and was disabling it for netflix traffic.
I forget the exact reason but essentially they find a way to put in extra costs which they can refund to themselves. Another way... they set a high cost for line upkeep and they perform the line upkeep so the essence for them is taking money out of the left pocket and putting it back in the right pocket while the cost is unprofitably high for everyone else.
You basically need an iron wall between bandwidth and content providers. Separate companies with separate employees and entirely separate management.
The last few years can be miserable and suicide is more common among the elderly.
While some desperately cling to life the loss of function, increasing pain, and loss of dignity takes the joy out of life for many.
There are two cases..
My grandmother, who was religious, who was basically unable to move and had to be wheeled out to the sun area of the nursing home every day, who suffered fear and pain for her last 8 years wanted to live until the end.
My mother, who was religious, basically decided to go at 72 after 2 years of being in and out of the hospital.
The loneliness can be pretty crushing too. It's one reason people don't retire.
Page 4. 4 Fig 1. John B. Calhoun in rodent Universe 133
and page 18.
Calhounâ(TM)s rodent experiments (note that "universe 133" was actually a mouse experiment, but it is as ever with reference to rats that the work is recalled)
And I hate the lack of ability to edit combined with Slashdot's poor treatment of unicode quote marks!
Mouse experiments John Calhoun with mice experiment.
In the early 1960s, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) acquired property in a rural area outside Poolesville, Maryland. The facility that was built on this property housed several research projects, including those headed by Calhoun. It was here that his most famous experiment, the mouse universe, was created.[1] In July 1968 four pairs of mice were introduced into the Utopian universe. The universe was a 9-foot (2.7 m) square metal pen with 54-inch-high (1.4 m) sides. Each side had four groups of four vertical, wire mesh âoetunnelsâ. The âoetunnelsâ gave access to nesting boxes, food hoppers, and water dispensers. There was no shortage of food or water or nesting material. There were no predators. The only adversity was the limit on space. John Calhoun meeting Pope Paul VI on 27 September 1973.
Initially the population grew rapidly, doubling every 55 days. The population reached 620 by day 315, after which the population growth dropped markedly. The last surviving birth was on day 600. This period between day 315 and day 600 saw a breakdown in social structure and in normal social behavior. Among the aberrations in behavior were the following: expulsion of young before weaning was complete, wounding of young, inability of dominant males to maintain the defense of their territory and females, aggressive behavior of females, passivity of non-dominant males with increased attacks on each other which were not defended against. After day 600, the social breakdown continued and the population declined toward extinction. During this period females ceased to reproduce. Their male counterparts withdrew completely, never engaging in courtship or fighting. They ate, drank, slept, and groomed themselves â" all solitary pursuits. Sleek, healthy coats and an absence of scars characterized these males. They were dubbed âoethe beautiful onesâ.
The conclusions drawn from this experiment were that when all available space is taken and all social roles filled, competition and the stresses experienced by the individuals will result in a total breakdown in complex social behaviors, ultimately resulting in the demise of the population.
Calhoun saw the fate of the population of mice as a metaphor for the potential fate of man. He characterized the social breakdown as a âoesecond deathâ, with reference to the âoesecond deathâ mentioned in the Biblical book of Revelation 2:11 [1] His study has been cited by writers such as Bill Perkins as a warning of the dangers of the living in an "increasingly crowded and impersonal
This was true for me when the modem they gave to me failed to bootstrap. I was charged for the guy to come out, debug the problem, and then swap the modem because it was defective from the factory.
But my only other internet option is AT&T and that's it.
So basically a duonopoly in a city with millions of people.
We need the city to lay the lines and then allow the cable companies to compete for customers on those lines like we do for our electric lines.
But you have to compare it to what they would otehr wise be doing.
If you pay them $50 an hour but this sucks out of their water cooler time, then no loss. If you pay them $50 an hour but this sucks out of "figuring out where the hell the command I always use went on the new ribbon system" then no loss.
Seriously, Ribbons cost me well over 10 hours of time figuring out how to do what I'd always done.
If you *really* want to talk silly tho... the front page of Yahoo is about 200k (plus images). 98,000 characters were space characters! Why on earth are we transmitting spaces for html source code? Isn't there some way to suppress them?
100mb in a half hour is 100mb/1800s is 1mb per 1.8s is under 1m/s.
I've played multiple videos, played minecraft and done over 12 hours of browsing, streamed music and I've hit 471MB in 27 hours since I rebooted which is a lot lower than 100m/1800s.
Unless you are downloading distros or movies/tv shows or expect sub second response for every page you visit, you don't "need" that kind of speed.
Slashdot Mirror
Depends on the cost.
If an extra building would add $1 to each ticket-- might be worth it.
But if it adds $20 to every ticket and it happens once per 20 years.. probably not worth it.
No good information in this case to make a decision on.
Take the goat and cabbage across the river in the boat.
Leave the wolf behind.
Why the heck were you traveling with a wolf to begin with?
(ob xkcd I think).
You guys are missing the point.
They have a google photo showing you have a pool or addon and you show them there isn't a pool or addon.
Leaves them scratching their head.
Sure... it would cost you some time-- but ALL good pranks do.
Would drive them crazy after a while.
I thought the messed up street with gravel looked real.
The stairs and most of the rest looked "close... but not real".
Plus, it replaces artists with
a) on site camera requirements.
b) site licensing fees and gaining permission to "film".
Yea, I kinda want a 20x30 rollup "roof" or "pool" that I can put out on poles or roll out on the ground.
Then put them away after google shows I've added a room or pool.
he he.
Actually several coal seam fires have rendered similar areas larger than fukishima uninhabitable.
So it's both diffuse (4000 deaths a year.. every year.. last i read) and also has large centralized points of destruction as well.
Nice little existing conversation about startpage, ixquick, ddg, and others here:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/...
Along this line, make sure you have good dental hygiene. I've known good programmers who didn't.
See also
https://startpage.com/
The counterpoint to this is that comcast had exceptional problems providing netflix which cleared up literally instantly when netflix signed a payment agreement.
I.e. comcast already had the required capacity and was disabling it for netflix traffic.
The rental idea has been tried but doesn't work.
I forget the exact reason but essentially they find a way to put in extra costs which they can refund to themselves. Another way... they set a high cost for line upkeep and they perform the line upkeep so the essence for them is taking money out of the left pocket and putting it back in the right pocket while the cost is unprofitably high for everyone else.
You basically need an iron wall between bandwidth and content providers. Separate companies with separate employees and entirely separate management.
Aye,
Other issues like abortion, taxation levels, foreign affairs are much more significant to voting than net neutrality.
dang it... they were 27.. .and he's 57.
I hate slashdot editing restrictions.
Except they were 37 and he's 57.
Most people are dead by 82 anyway (about 87%).
And almost everyone is dead by 90 (98.4%).
The last few years can be miserable and suicide is more common among the elderly.
While some desperately cling to life the loss of function, increasing pain, and loss of dignity takes the joy out of life for many.
There are two cases..
My grandmother, who was religious, who was basically unable to move and had to be wheeled out to the sun area of the nursing home every day, who suffered fear and pain for her last 8 years wanted to live until the end.
My mother, who was religious, basically decided to go at 72 after 2 years of being in and out of the hospital.
The loneliness can be pretty crushing too. It's one reason people don't retire.
Basically Yelp isn't a neutral observer and can't be trusted.
So I can't see valuing their opinions on restaurants and other businesses in the future.
If you feel you are being complacent and it bugs you, then don't be complacent.
Start looking for an engaging job which will expand your skillset.
Inability to breed while miserable is just another selective pressure.
It's in a book on his experiments...
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/22514...
Page 4.
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Fig 1. John B. Calhoun in rodent Universe 133
and page 18.
Calhounâ(TM)s rodent experiments (note that "universe 133" was actually a mouse experiment, but it is as ever with reference to rats that the work is recalled)
And I hate the lack of ability to edit combined with Slashdot's poor treatment of unicode quote marks!
I must be misremembering the universe #.
Here's a link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...
and a quote...
Mouse experiments
John Calhoun with mice experiment.
In the early 1960s, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) acquired property in a rural area outside Poolesville, Maryland. The facility that was built on this property housed several research projects, including those headed by Calhoun. It was here that his most famous experiment, the mouse universe, was created.[1] In July 1968 four pairs of mice were introduced into the Utopian universe. The universe was a 9-foot (2.7 m) square metal pen with 54-inch-high (1.4 m) sides. Each side had four groups of four vertical, wire mesh âoetunnelsâ. The âoetunnelsâ gave access to nesting boxes, food hoppers, and water dispensers. There was no shortage of food or water or nesting material. There were no predators. The only adversity was the limit on space.
John Calhoun meeting Pope Paul VI on 27 September 1973.
Initially the population grew rapidly, doubling every 55 days. The population reached 620 by day 315, after which the population growth dropped markedly. The last surviving birth was on day 600. This period between day 315 and day 600 saw a breakdown in social structure and in normal social behavior. Among the aberrations in behavior were the following: expulsion of young before weaning was complete, wounding of young, inability of dominant males to maintain the defense of their territory and females, aggressive behavior of females, passivity of non-dominant males with increased attacks on each other which were not defended against. After day 600, the social breakdown continued and the population declined toward extinction. During this period females ceased to reproduce. Their male counterparts withdrew completely, never engaging in courtship or fighting. They ate, drank, slept, and groomed themselves â" all solitary pursuits. Sleek, healthy coats and an absence of scars characterized these males. They were dubbed âoethe beautiful onesâ.
The conclusions drawn from this experiment were that when all available space is taken and all social roles filled, competition and the stresses experienced by the individuals will result in a total breakdown in complex social behaviors, ultimately resulting in the demise of the population.
Calhoun saw the fate of the population of mice as a metaphor for the potential fate of man. He characterized the social breakdown as a âoesecond deathâ, with reference to the âoesecond deathâ mentioned in the Biblical book of Revelation 2:11 [1] His study has been cited by writers such as Bill Perkins as a warning of the dangers of the living in an "increasingly crowded and impersonal
The portion of the population which breeds under given circumstances will come to dominate the population.
It might be expressed as a particular religion, simple horniness combined with resistance to using birth control, or myriad other ways.
But that part of the population will be a larger percentage over time and finally come to dominate the population.
There is an exception-- a universe 133 scenario. The population in those experiments collapsed and did not recover.
This was true for me when the modem they gave to me failed to bootstrap. I was charged for the guy to come out, debug the problem, and then swap the modem because it was defective from the factory.
But my only other internet option is AT&T and that's it.
So basically a duonopoly in a city with millions of people.
We need the city to lay the lines and then allow the cable companies to compete for customers on those lines like we do for our electric lines.
But you have to compare it to what they would otehr wise be doing.
If you pay them $50 an hour but this sucks out of their water cooler time, then no loss.
If you pay them $50 an hour but this sucks out of "figuring out where the hell the command I always use went on the new ribbon system" then no loss.
Seriously, Ribbons cost me well over 10 hours of time figuring out how to do what I'd always done.
Bwah bow chicky bow bow, bwah bow chicky bow bow!
(alternatively, "Hey baby, I'm excited! Let's share some electrons and get covalent!")
If you *really* want to talk silly tho... the front page of Yahoo is about 200k (plus images).
98,000 characters were space characters! Why on earth are we transmitting spaces for html source code? Isn't there some way to suppress them?
100mb in a half hour is 100mb/1800s is 1mb per 1.8s is under 1m/s.
I've played multiple videos, played minecraft and done over 12 hours of browsing, streamed music and I've hit 471MB in 27 hours since I rebooted which is a lot lower than 100m/1800s.
Unless you are downloading distros or movies/tv shows or expect sub second response for every page you visit, you don't "need" that kind of speed.
I agree it's NICE to have.
Heck, this entire page is only 40k.