In 15-20 years, most if not all mass media, e.g newspapers, TV, radio, books, music etc. will probably be distributed over the Internet. I know there are many people with no TV, or no CD player, but there isn't a large proportion of people who close themselves off from almost every form of mass media and have no contact with the world outside their own social group.
huge coincidence whereby this last century gets picked out of 12 others
I wouldn't call a 1/12 chance a "huge coincidence." Anyway, if you RTFA, it mentions that there have been other warm and cool periods in the past 1200 years. This century's warming event isn't completely unprecedented, although it is the warmest.
Unless we factor in human action, in which case it is totally expected.
It's only "totally expected" because our models of how human actions affect climate are designed based on the theory that human actions affect climate. No one predicted global warming before they started noticing the warming. It's more that people have noticed the warming and are trying to find reasons for it, than that it was "totally expected" as a result of human actions.
How is that a troll? It's a good point. It might not be a logical argument with evidence to back it up, and it might be against the general opinion of/.ers, but I think it at least deserves +1 Insightful.
Probably all that will happen is this will get modded -1 Troll also.
I built a Lego Turing Machine out of only one block. (it was a lego mindstorms RCX brick).
But anyway, in soviet russia, lego builds you. Or possibly Turing Machines build you. Or maybe Turing Machines build Lego. Pick a permutation.
I know you were joking, but still, this would be technically impossible.
A Difference Engine is a special-purpose device for evaluating polynomial functions, and would not be able to host a web site.
But the Analytical Engine might be able to, theoretically. It is a more general-purpose machine than the Difference Engine. I'll be very impressed when someone builds one of those out of Lego.
This is very cool. I would be more impressed if someone was able to build a general purpose computer out of Lego, but that would be even more impractical, and possibly require ridiculous amounts of lego.
Of course, it would be impossible to make a computer that was actually useful out of Lego, but something more like the Analytical Engine than the Difference engine would be cool.
I can imagine it now... winding the little Lego handle and watching the Linux kernel messages scroll up the screen...
I agree. A few years in the future, when the majority of phone, TV and all other data is carried over the Internet, the telcos will have nothing to make money from except selling data bandwidth.
But, this could also be an advantage for them. The telcos will be able to completely turn off their old analog networks and focus on only one form of communication, which should (very theoretically) enable them to provide better service for less money.
When large scale wireless Internet networks covering suburbs or whole cities become common, the telcos won't have to spend much on the "last mile" connections anymore. They will also be able to turn off the old 2G mobile phone networks.
So, in about 20 years, the telcos will be charging us shitloads more while running shitloads less services. They have nothing to worry about. They should probably be paying Skype for managing voice communications for them.
This prediction is assuming that Google hasn't taken over the world by that point.
Another example of differential pricing: Some software companies require businesses to purchase a more expensive license than individuals and non-profit organisations, even if the business is only using the product on one computer.
Already happening. Toll roads charge more for trucks and commercial vehicles than for passenger cars, because the commercial vehicles are making money from the transport.
I really don't get what Verizon are trying to do here. Google already pays for Internet connection. If Google is connected through Verizon, they are already paying Verizon, so there's no problem. If Google is connected through a different ISP, Verizon should be negotiating costs for their network connection to that other ISP, and Google should have nothing to do with it.
If I run a web server on my computer, will I have to pay my ISP for my connection, and also every other ISP for letting my customers use their own connections, that they have already paid for, to access my server?
How about if i do "traceroute www.google.com"? Should I have to pay the owner of every computer on that list, for letting my traffic pass through it?
But the servers would have faster connections too, so it would all even out in the end. If home users could afford 100Mbps, hosting providers and web companies could afford much more bandwidth.
A better example would be space junk. Even after thousands of years, I think there still would be some orbiting junk left from an older civilisation, if they developed spaceflight technology.
Though such a civilisation might be able to survive the flood also.
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In soviet russia, soviet russia does YOU!
Don't you mean anti-NAV definitions?
In 15-20 years, most if not all mass media, e.g newspapers, TV, radio, books, music etc. will probably be distributed over the Internet. I know there are many people with no TV, or no CD player, but there isn't a large proportion of people who close themselves off from almost every form of mass media and have no contact with the world outside their own social group.
What we need, is a good dictatorship.
Unfortunately, good dictators are hard to come by...
oh wait...
...which is why you use it.
Score: +5 MS-Bashing
HOLY SHIT...
I saw B8 00 4C CD 21 and knew what it meant...
i need a life...
oh, ok, thanks for the help, you DICK LICKING ASSHOLE :-P
I wouldn't call a 1/12 chance a "huge coincidence." Anyway, if you RTFA, it mentions that there have been other warm and cool periods in the past 1200 years. This century's warming event isn't completely unprecedented, although it is the warmest.
Unless we factor in human action, in which case it is totally expected.
It's only "totally expected" because our models of how human actions affect climate are designed based on the theory that human actions affect climate. No one predicted global warming before they started noticing the warming. It's more that people have noticed the warming and are trying to find reasons for it, than that it was "totally expected" as a result of human actions.
oops, sorry, i clicked the wrong link
I was referring to the post about Jack Thompson, not the troll above it.
How is that a troll? It's a good point. It might not be a logical argument with evidence to back it up, and it might be against the general opinion of /.ers, but I think it at least deserves +1 Insightful.
Probably all that will happen is this will get modded -1 Troll also.
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hard for a good capitalist manager to walk away from
Capitalist? It actually seems a bit communist to me.
I built a Lego Turing Machine out of only one block. (it was a lego mindstorms RCX brick).
But anyway, in soviet russia, lego builds you. Or possibly Turing Machines build you. Or maybe Turing Machines build Lego. Pick a permutation.
I know you were joking, but still, this would be technically impossible.
A Difference Engine is a special-purpose device for evaluating polynomial functions, and would not be able to host a web site.
But the Analytical Engine might be able to, theoretically. It is a more general-purpose machine than the Difference Engine. I'll be very impressed when someone builds one of those out of Lego.
This is very cool. I would be more impressed if someone was able to build a general purpose computer out of Lego, but that would be even more impractical, and possibly require ridiculous amounts of lego.
Of course, it would be impossible to make a computer that was actually useful out of Lego, but something more like the Analytical Engine than the Difference engine would be cool. I can imagine it now... winding the little Lego handle and watching the Linux kernel messages scroll up the screen...
w00t! That means I've already won almost every MMOG, just by not playing!
I agree. A few years in the future, when the majority of phone, TV and all other data is carried over the Internet, the telcos will have nothing to make money from except selling data bandwidth.
But, this could also be an advantage for them. The telcos will be able to completely turn off their old analog networks and focus on only one form of communication, which should (very theoretically) enable them to provide better service for less money.
When large scale wireless Internet networks covering suburbs or whole cities become common, the telcos won't have to spend much on the "last mile" connections anymore. They will also be able to turn off the old 2G mobile phone networks.
So, in about 20 years, the telcos will be charging us shitloads more while running shitloads less services. They have nothing to worry about. They should probably be paying Skype for managing voice communications for them.
This prediction is assuming that Google hasn't taken over the world by that point.
Another example of differential pricing: Some software companies require businesses to purchase a more expensive license than individuals and non-profit organisations, even if the business is only using the product on one computer.
Already happening. Toll roads charge more for trucks and commercial vehicles than for passenger cars, because the commercial vehicles are making money from the transport.
I really don't get what Verizon are trying to do here. Google already pays for Internet connection. If Google is connected through Verizon, they are already paying Verizon, so there's no problem. If Google is connected through a different ISP, Verizon should be negotiating costs for their network connection to that other ISP, and Google should have nothing to do with it.
If I run a web server on my computer, will I have to pay my ISP for my connection, and also every other ISP for letting my customers use their own connections, that they have already paid for, to access my server?
How about if i do "traceroute www.google.com"? Should I have to pay the owner of every computer on that list, for letting my traffic pass through it?
But the servers would have faster connections too, so it would all even out in the end. If home users could afford 100Mbps, hosting providers and web companies could afford much more bandwidth.
A better example would be space junk. Even after thousands of years, I think there still would be some orbiting junk left from an older civilisation, if they developed spaceflight technology.
Though such a civilisation might be able to survive the flood also.