Segmenting is not 'anti-trust'. You'll find that many electronics manufacturers create the same electronics, just disable special features for a product family because it is cheaper to fab one kind of part than it is to manufacture 5 different pieces of electronics with similar function but different features. It is much, much cheaper to 'cripple' hardware by limiting what the software will allow.
I bought a DV camcorder a few years ago that was a model step below the 'premium' one (difference of a few hundred dollars) and hardware-wise it was an exact duplicate, just missing some firmware and drivers. A few clever hacks later, I had the premium camera in hand, along with the money I had saved.
That's where he doesn't get it, counter to his claims to the contrary. There is an unfulfilled need in the marketplace that they could fill, but *refuse* to.
He likens our 'now' mentality as a smash and grab of a closed-after-hours-store, yet obviously there are *tons* of people willing to patronize it if it were open! This isn't justification on the part of the consumer, but his own analogy makes the content owners look dumb for not having an "Open 'Till Midnight Or Later" content distribution model.
I see it this way: The days of jacking over the consumer are over. The Internet has likely been the single biggest opportunity in leveling the playing field between Big Content and the consumer, why can't they get over that?
Funny, eh? I, however, don't need to know the visual aesthetics of the goat.cx dude, which is what I was greeted with when I went to the actual site. Thanks, it was the perfect troll.
The more you allow others to do for you, the more you let others control you.
You already surrendered by using the cable company's DVR in the first place.
Just think of your DVR as an abstraction layer--since they already know *what* you're storing, whether it's stored locally or on a remote system, it matters not.
See everyone thinks that 1984 is about Big Brother, Thought Police, and telescreens. It is not.
Yes, 1984 is about the erosion of self-expression, but those tools are only a means, not the end. The end is the stupification of society through the destruction of language and the altering of history. When you destroy the human faculty of expression through the use of DoubleThink and DoubleSpeak, then you can exercise control of not just the masses, but individuals. Those 'other things' are just a net to cull those who see through the charade.
Look at Big Media. If you're really looking for someone to lynch, it ought to be them. They can feed you bigger lies that stink more than any cockamamie the government can give, if only because we're so willing to feed upon it.
Star Trek was about addressing and commenting on the norms and issues of current society. You go back and watch the original series and it is very obvious--and that's what was so endearing about he series. It wasn't about phasers, proton torpedoes, and teleporters. Those were just a veneer or a vehicle for people to think.
While I don't disagree that people relate better to characters who have flaws, it was also the shining optimism that Star Trek showed us. It showed us that despite our flaws, our societal qualms, we overcame, united as a species, and sprung from the cradle from which we had evolved. Humanity had proven itself master over its environment--we have yet (in our reality) to master ourselves. Star Trek's legacy shows us what we're capable of once we accomplish that.
First item of business on a clean installation is to disable that 'feature', not for security reasons, but because it makes it cumbersome to change file extensions. Guess it has security benefits too.
The main issue is that he's ignoring politics...technology won't make the past go away any more than the advent of the atom bomb made middle ages Islamic mujahadeen go away. Rather it will combine with current political realities to accentuate the ancient political realities of haves and have not that date back to ancient times.
Interesting. We are the undermining factor, then, of our own progression.
The real issue is simply "Ethics", which I fear some are lacking.
It does reveal (in some aspects) the childishness of our society. We have to be so explicit in the "dos and don'ts" and aren't left to our own to think what our actions might really entail. We are left with a "Four legs good, Two legs bad" impression of our world without the understanding of what that really means.
If Wine can run your Windows apps, what do you have to lose by migrating?
Support.
Company X: Hi I'm having problems with your software. Tech support: Sorry to hear that, to start off, can I have the software version and the version of Windows you're using. Company X: Sure. I'm running v3.4.5 and I'm running it on WINE. Tech support: Our product wasn't designed to work while the user is intoxicated. Company X: No, I meant I'm running it on Ubuntu under WINE. Tech support: Do experience this problem when running on Windows? Company X:No. Tech support: I'm sorry, but our software is only officially supported to run on _________.
we have excess wireless capacity, but our wires are filled
And what magic gives network access to the APs?
The marginal cost of the smaller upgrade in APs would be greater than running more line, because as network access demand increases, the additional marginal bandwidth your APs are going to provide won't give you the lift you need.
What the heck are using 1Gps for?! You can't be watching high def content on that wire! You can't be moving multi-GB files in a few minutes, not hours! Luddite!
Ethernet has a long, bright future ahead of it until wireless becomes more secure, less latent, and packs higher throughput. I ran CAT6 copper throughout my house just to do all the above things. Wireless? Just for the Internet connectivity for the lappy.
A company I worked for tried cutting the cord and replacing everything with dumb terminal-like laptops, only to discover that the infrastructure couldn't handle so many simultaneous connections. It was a complete failure because the wireless density and capacity just could not support everyone going wireless.
Besides, what they forget to address is this thing called sunk cost. You've purchased that hardware and infrastructure. You're not going to get any $$$ by replacing everything with wireless anyway.
Not only that, but the USPO should start instigating deep package inspection because I'm sure that these illegal files are causing undue stress on the delivery infrastructure.
Well, it's only following an evolution in documents. Pretty soon, a document reader/creator becomes 'feature complete' in respect to fulfilling those functions, so firms start adding features that enable documents to become, in effect, working applications. End users find them to be terribly effective in what the want as far as functionality goes, but you get with it the standard fair of problems of layering a development environment on the foundations of something that was never intended to be that.
"UP TO" means that they're advertising that speed, but their TOS will say that they don't guarantee that you'll actually get that. I have found with the various ISPs I've had that download is usually 75-90% what they advertise and upload is 40-60%, which is pretty galling, considering I would much more prefer a faster upload than download.
Put on some scrubs, don a white lab coat, and walk around with a clip board and see how long it takes for someone to notice you at a big hospital. Answer: they won't. In this instance you have physical access to both the hard and soft copies. No, the threat here isn't haxors when the physical security is not up to snuff.
My experience has been not the bandwidth, but the processing power of the device itself. Slashdot comes up slower than a PC when even connected via WiFi.
The question on everyone's mind is what is the arbitrary limit here? Looking at my logs I have used over 800GB in the past 12 months. Am I abusing my connection? C'mon, if TWC is going to pull crap like that, they might explain what 'unlimited' is.
Slashdot Mirror
Segmenting is not 'anti-trust'. You'll find that many electronics manufacturers create the same electronics, just disable special features for a product family because it is cheaper to fab one kind of part than it is to manufacture 5 different pieces of electronics with similar function but different features. It is much, much cheaper to 'cripple' hardware by limiting what the software will allow.
I bought a DV camcorder a few years ago that was a model step below the 'premium' one (difference of a few hundred dollars) and hardware-wise it was an exact duplicate, just missing some firmware and drivers. A few clever hacks later, I had the premium camera in hand, along with the money I had saved.
That's where he doesn't get it, counter to his claims to the contrary. There is an unfulfilled need in the marketplace that they could fill, but *refuse* to.
He likens our 'now' mentality as a smash and grab of a closed-after-hours-store, yet obviously there are *tons* of people willing to patronize it if it were open! This isn't justification on the part of the consumer, but his own analogy makes the content owners look dumb for not having an "Open 'Till Midnight Or Later" content distribution model.
I see it this way: The days of jacking over the consumer are over. The Internet has likely been the single biggest opportunity in leveling the playing field between Big Content and the consumer, why can't they get over that?
Who knows, but it certainly gives new meaning to vaporware.
Now, all we need is BoWL, Broadband over Water Lines!
Funny, eh? I, however, don't need to know the visual aesthetics of the goat.cx dude, which is what I was greeted with when I went to the actual site. Thanks, it was the perfect troll.
No, but it got me thinking of the feasibility of a solar powered warp drive!
The more you allow others to do for you, the more you let others control you.
You already surrendered by using the cable company's DVR in the first place.
Just think of your DVR as an abstraction layer--since they already know *what* you're storing, whether it's stored locally or on a remote system, it matters not.
See everyone thinks that 1984 is about Big Brother, Thought Police, and telescreens. It is not.
Yes, 1984 is about the erosion of self-expression, but those tools are only a means, not the end. The end is the stupification of society through the destruction of language and the altering of history. When you destroy the human faculty of expression through the use of DoubleThink and DoubleSpeak, then you can exercise control of not just the masses, but individuals. Those 'other things' are just a net to cull those who see through the charade.
Look at Big Media. If you're really looking for someone to lynch, it ought to be them. They can feed you bigger lies that stink more than any cockamamie the government can give, if only because we're so willing to feed upon it.
...if ST was about anything...
Star Trek was about addressing and commenting on the norms and issues of current society. You go back and watch the original series and it is very obvious--and that's what was so endearing about he series. It wasn't about phasers, proton torpedoes, and teleporters. Those were just a veneer or a vehicle for people to think.
While I don't disagree that people relate better to characters who have flaws, it was also the shining optimism that Star Trek showed us. It showed us that despite our flaws, our societal qualms, we overcame, united as a species, and sprung from the cradle from which we had evolved. Humanity had proven itself master over its environment--we have yet (in our reality) to master ourselves. Star Trek's legacy shows us what we're capable of once we accomplish that.
First item of business on a clean installation is to disable that 'feature', not for security reasons, but because it makes it cumbersome to change file extensions. Guess it has security benefits too.
The main issue is that he's ignoring politics...technology won't make the past go away any more than the advent of the atom bomb made middle ages Islamic mujahadeen go away. Rather it will combine with current political realities to accentuate the ancient political realities of haves and have not that date back to ancient times.
Interesting. We are the undermining factor, then, of our own progression.
The real issue is simply "Ethics", which I fear some are lacking.
It does reveal (in some aspects) the childishness of our society. We have to be so explicit in the "dos and don'ts" and aren't left to our own to think what our actions might really entail. We are left with a "Four legs good, Two legs bad" impression of our world without the understanding of what that really means.
I would try education before legislation.
If Wine can run your Windows apps, what do you have to lose by migrating?
Support.
Company X: Hi I'm having problems with your software.
Tech support: Sorry to hear that, to start off, can I have the software version and the version of Windows you're using.
Company X: Sure. I'm running v3.4.5 and I'm running it on WINE.
Tech support: Our product wasn't designed to work while the user is intoxicated.
Company X: No, I meant I'm running it on Ubuntu under WINE.
Tech support: Do experience this problem when running on Windows?
Company X:No.
Tech support: I'm sorry, but our software is only officially supported to run on _________.
I like it, as I do Twitter, because it forces people to be brief and concise in their communication.
Reminds me of the closing line of Animal Farm, by Orwell:
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
we have excess wireless capacity, but our wires are filled
And what magic gives network access to the APs?
The marginal cost of the smaller upgrade in APs would be greater than running more line, because as network access demand increases, the additional marginal bandwidth your APs are going to provide won't give you the lift you need.
What the heck are using 1Gps for?! You can't be watching high def content on that wire! You can't be moving multi-GB files in a few minutes, not hours! Luddite!
Ethernet has a long, bright future ahead of it until wireless becomes more secure, less latent, and packs higher throughput. I ran CAT6 copper throughout my house just to do all the above things. Wireless? Just for the Internet connectivity for the lappy.
A company I worked for tried cutting the cord and replacing everything with dumb terminal-like laptops, only to discover that the infrastructure couldn't handle so many simultaneous connections. It was a complete failure because the wireless density and capacity just could not support everyone going wireless.
Besides, what they forget to address is this thing called sunk cost. You've purchased that hardware and infrastructure. You're not going to get any $$$ by replacing everything with wireless anyway.
Not only that, but the USPO should start instigating deep package inspection because I'm sure that these illegal files are causing undue stress on the delivery infrastructure.
This should be news when FF3.5 gets to RC or final release status.
Well, it's only following an evolution in documents. Pretty soon, a document reader/creator becomes 'feature complete' in respect to fulfilling those functions, so firms start adding features that enable documents to become, in effect, working applications. End users find them to be terribly effective in what the want as far as functionality goes, but you get with it the standard fair of problems of layering a development environment on the foundations of something that was never intended to be that.
"UP TO" means that they're advertising that speed, but their TOS will say that they don't guarantee that you'll actually get that. I have found with the various ISPs I've had that download is usually 75-90% what they advertise and upload is 40-60%, which is pretty galling, considering I would much more prefer a faster upload than download.
Put on some scrubs, don a white lab coat, and walk around with a clip board and see how long it takes for someone to notice you at a big hospital. Answer: they won't. In this instance you have physical access to both the hard and soft copies. No, the threat here isn't haxors when the physical security is not up to snuff.
My experience has been not the bandwidth, but the processing power of the device itself. Slashdot comes up slower than a PC when even connected via WiFi.
The question on everyone's mind is what is the arbitrary limit here? Looking at my logs I have used over 800GB in the past 12 months. Am I abusing my connection? C'mon, if TWC is going to pull crap like that, they might explain what 'unlimited' is.