I'd be surprised if that was the case. Technically, "office" broadband and "home" broadband is usually identical, to the ISP. It all happens lower down the chain, at BT.
Which makes them even less likely to be the exact same group that have adopted something else. It's easy to find 50 people who like pie. Finding 50 people who like pie and also work in your 50-worker pie company is harder.
Just because a single device can't access content does not mean that a user can't access it.
A couple of studies have validated what most of us already knew: that users spend a few seconds judging whether a website is useful to them, and if it's not, they move on. That doesn't allow a lot of time for realising your iphone isn't doing the job, going back home or back to work, booting the PC, entering the identical URL or retracing your browsing steps, and using that instead;)
I'd be highly surprised if it's right. Getting 99% of any population to adopt ANYTHING is pretty near impossible.
For one thing, iPhones couldn't handle youtube, last time I checked. They have some fake version of youtube by default, but if you cancel that and go to the real youtube site, it won't work.
If linking "jonesday.com" (and presumably "Jones Day" or similar) to their site address is OK, then that's absolutely fine. Hyperlinks are supposed to describe what they link to, so unless they're abusing the standards, that's not a problem.
I've always been fascinated how the Debian (and derivatives) releases have functioned. Each branch is like a chamber in a revolver; as it reaches 'stable', it aligns itself with the barrel ready to be fired off to the masses.
Indeed. Also, apt-get is like a giant inflatable bouncy castle for starfish that swing into port, get wasted, screw our women, and then abandon them as they're lured away again by the call of the sea.
Seriously, I know what you meant, and agree. But the flowery language only obscured your point:)
There's an interesting point: Why the need to buy games at launch?
Many people seem to be unaware of the fact that games, music, films, etc. are all part of popular culture -- a talking point amongst friends, a common thing to bond around, etc. There's a (certainly ignorable, but nonetheless real) need to buy these things at the same time as everyone else, if you want to share the experience.
And yes, this is part of why information should be free to all, if it can be copied at no cost.
Whoever modded this troll is an idiot. The parent has a very good point (albeit said elsewhere too). How many coders who document their own stuff know about information design, for instance?
The obvious way is Business Process Management (BPM), such as implemented by ProcessMaker and Microsoft's Sharepoint.
I'm really surprised this stuff hasn't caught on more; it's perfect for managing processes in open source teams, like how to file bug reports, or how to install some plugin.
This, btw, is in my opinion the real reason AMD bought ATI. AMD wanted to work toward having a solution for that high volume market, and seemed to think they needed to own ATI to do it.
Almost, but I think the real issue is that even traditional business desktops are beginning to need 3D, just for window compositing and "downloading..." animations. With Vista rating the entire computer based on the lowest score of a number of tests, and one of those tests being 3D performance, Intel were forced to up their game. Granted, Vista tanked, but probably not clearly before Intel made this decision (can't be bothered checking that though). Presumably Windows 7 does the same, and certainly OS X and now Linux need 3D, too.
Every "expert" I have met that has been infected was downloading and using warez unsafely. Every regular use I have met that was infected simply clicked yes to every dialog box they did not want to bother reading and understanding.
For the most part, I agree with you, but the other side of this is that studies have shown Windows machines being owned within 40 minutes of being connected to the net, and I've seen people browsing the web with IE suddenly being infected malware without even realising it. They might well have clicked on something they shouldn't in recent cases -- admittedly, IE seems more secure than it once was --, but the OS should make it clear when something is a webpage, and when something is a native OS dialog, for instance.
Well, if the theory includes any sort of number of those particles that would be required for it to fit the problem that the theory was trying to solve, and you have other theories that fit with less things observed previously, then no, it's fairly sensible to quote the odds.
Yeah, this was my first thought as well. It seems clear that the internet, while designed to route traffic through all sorts of alternate links, is almost certainly being routed through single, centralised listening posts at various intervals.
No, the only thing you can reasonably do if you don't understand it is to start researching until you do. Anything ELSE is bonkers, reactionary, and arrogant.
Now let's say people download it on TPB and not Magnatune. That is a loss of revenue for me, correct?
No. Who says those people would buy if they couldn't download? I mostly download stuff because I just want to see what the latest crap is that people are talking about. I check it out because it's free information, like googling "price of bread moscow", and downloading the resultant HTML pages. Doesn't mean I want to fly over to moscow and buy their bread. Information is just information. Charging any more for that than the price of the network link and bandwidth is ridiculous, false scarcity.
There's got to be some country that can run a tracker that people can't touch.
Maybe, once upon a time. Every time we let modern trailblazers like these get convicted for "crimes", or let our countries enact new laws to satisify greedy corporations, another free country disappears off the map. Sweden actually has a pirate party, and they're still being hunted. How many free countries do you think we have left? It's really time people started using encrypted, anonymous p2p. Otherwise, it'll be the familiar old, "They came for the jews, and I was not a jew, so I did nothing... then they came for me."
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I'd be surprised if that was the case. Technically, "office" broadband and "home" broadband is usually identical, to the ISP. It all happens lower down the chain, at BT.
In fact, it's likely to make the problem worse, since we're now blocking decent people from seeing what's really going on, and figuring out why.
You don't need to re-route around them; you need to tunnel through them.
Which makes them even less likely to be the exact same group that have adopted something else. It's easy to find 50 people who like pie. Finding 50 people who like pie and also work in your 50-worker pie company is harder.
Except that in this case, the thugs are the virtual equivalents of the local sheriff, and he things you're the bad guy in town.
A couple of studies have validated what most of us already knew: that users spend a few seconds judging whether a website is useful to them, and if it's not, they move on. That doesn't allow a lot of time for realising your iphone isn't doing the job, going back home or back to work, booting the PC, entering the identical URL or retracing your browsing steps, and using that instead ;)
I'd be highly surprised if it's right. Getting 99% of any population to adopt ANYTHING is pretty near impossible.
For one thing, iPhones couldn't handle youtube, last time I checked. They have some fake version of youtube by default, but if you cancel that and go to the real youtube site, it won't work.
If linking "jonesday.com" (and presumably "Jones Day" or similar) to their site address is OK, then that's absolutely fine. Hyperlinks are supposed to describe what they link to, so unless they're abusing the standards, that's not a problem.
So essentially this is about deep linking.
Indeed. Also, apt-get is like a giant inflatable bouncy castle for starfish that swing into port, get wasted, screw our women, and then abandon them as they're lured away again by the call of the sea.
Seriously, I know what you meant, and agree. But the flowery language only obscured your point :)
Yes, crazy people. I bet they type a letter, find the wordprocessor annoying, and then have the nerve to want to that, too! ;)
Many people seem to be unaware of the fact that games, music, films, etc. are all part of popular culture -- a talking point amongst friends, a common thing to bond around, etc. There's a (certainly ignorable, but nonetheless real) need to buy these things at the same time as everyone else, if you want to share the experience.
And yes, this is part of why information should be free to all, if it can be copied at no cost.
Please, no more veiled hippie references.
A big advert saying that the other advertising company sucks?
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Whoever modded this troll is an idiot. The parent has a very good point (albeit said elsewhere too). How many coders who document their own stuff know about information design, for instance?
The obvious way is Business Process Management (BPM), such as implemented by ProcessMaker and Microsoft's Sharepoint.
I'm really surprised this stuff hasn't caught on more; it's perfect for managing processes in open source teams, like how to file bug reports, or how to install some plugin.
Almost, but I think the real issue is that even traditional business desktops are beginning to need 3D, just for window compositing and "downloading..." animations. With Vista rating the entire computer based on the lowest score of a number of tests, and one of those tests being 3D performance, Intel were forced to up their game. Granted, Vista tanked, but probably not clearly before Intel made this decision (can't be bothered checking that though). Presumably Windows 7 does the same, and certainly OS X and now Linux need 3D, too.
Is the GPU a commodity yet? No.
What about the CPU? Probably.
But I do think nvidia are reaching a bit on this one.
For the most part, I agree with you, but the other side of this is that studies have shown Windows machines being owned within 40 minutes of being connected to the net, and I've seen people browsing the web with IE suddenly being infected malware without even realising it. They might well have clicked on something they shouldn't in recent cases -- admittedly, IE seems more secure than it once was --, but the OS should make it clear when something is a webpage, and when something is a native OS dialog, for instance.
Well, if the theory includes any sort of number of those particles that would be required for it to fit the problem that the theory was trying to solve, and you have other theories that fit with less things observed previously, then no, it's fairly sensible to quote the odds.
That's "Duck Tape".
Yeah, this was my first thought as well. It seems clear that the internet, while designed to route traffic through all sorts of alternate links, is almost certainly being routed through single, centralised listening posts at various intervals.
No, the only thing you can reasonably do if you don't understand it is to start researching until you do. Anything ELSE is bonkers, reactionary, and arrogant.
No. Who says those people would buy if they couldn't download? I mostly download stuff because I just want to see what the latest crap is that people are talking about. I check it out because it's free information, like googling "price of bread moscow", and downloading the resultant HTML pages. Doesn't mean I want to fly over to moscow and buy their bread. Information is just information. Charging any more for that than the price of the network link and bandwidth is ridiculous, false scarcity.
Since your comment was wrong, I fixed it for you, like a good wikipedia editor ;)
Maybe, once upon a time. Every time we let modern trailblazers like these get convicted for "crimes", or let our countries enact new laws to satisify greedy corporations, another free country disappears off the map. Sweden actually has a pirate party, and they're still being hunted. How many free countries do you think we have left? It's really time people started using encrypted, anonymous p2p. Otherwise, it'll be the familiar old, "They came for the jews, and I was not a jew, so I did nothing... then they came for me."