...that a species comes to dominance over its own planet through competitive behavior,...
Your underlying assumption is that life evolved by Darwinian mechanisms here on earth and elsewhere. If on the other hand you assume there is a creator God, he could have used different mechanisms in different worlds. It is quite certain however that any intelligent sentiment creature of his making would reflect his moral character, no matter where it is located.
That of course is assuming that there is only one god, maybe there is one god per planet that created the life on that planet.
This makes no sense. I thought the whole point of this was to stop bundling altogether. Instead during setup of Windows why not offer the choice in the install for the preferred software:
Choose Your Media Player: Windows Media Player 11 VLC Media Player MPlayer
Choose your Email Application: Outlook Express Thunderbird Eudora
Choose your Browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer Firefox Opera Chrome
Now people are aware that they have a choice. The problem with bundling is that it makes it harder for someone to be aware of the fact that choice exists. So whether Windows ships with IE or ships with Firefox, if they aren't made aware that a choice exists between the two, then the whole endeavor was for nothing.
I would think that if they are trying to make something that's supposed to fly around through rooms, they would look at the hummingbird. I've never seen a bat hover, and I don't think I've ever seen a bat fly in a straight line. I have however seen hummingbirds hover, fly in straight lines, and move pretty fast.
I'm already on the phone with my lawyer to start the patent process.
Well, the plethora of video sites that use flash as a successful delivery medium for video care to disagree.
In fact, after seeing Google Video, Metacafe, and Youtube, and then to say "FLASH IS NOT A VIDEO PLAYER" is just a form of technological blindness on your part.
There is nothing wrong with Flash. There is everything wrong with using Flash in stupid ways. Youtube is not a stupid way to use Flash, this slideshow is.
Instead of blaming the gun, blame the person who used it. It's better that way.
I don't know where you live, but I can use electricity any way I want, how ever much I want.
The limitations are not from the electric company, but the buildings own infrastructure. Glass fuses are pretty old school. Probably not a good idea to have 3 computers plugged into the same outlet. But if I decide to run my own mini datacentre with AC and humidity control, in my own apartment, the electric company can not say anything.
A sudden spike in electricity usage is also not grounds for termination, but it can be grounds for a search warrant due to marijuana hydroponics, but that mostly applies to homes. And even then, if police discover you growing tomatoes instead, there is nothing the electric company can do.
Of course, if you're running a hydroponics growing operation, regardless of what you're growing, your electric bill will be pretty high. But hey, if I transfer 500gb of data in a month, my internet bill should be kinda high too.
I think the trick here is to find the right balance between dollars and bits and turn the internet into a utility. $1 / gigabyte is NOT a good balance. $0.10 / gigabyte might be. That's $50 on that month if I downloaded 500gb.
These are numbers pulled out of my ass here, but in my non-expert opinion, $0.10 to $0.20 / gigabyte of data transferred seems like a good rate, maybe ontop of a small set monthly rate for speeds. $5/month for 3mbps, $10/month for 8mbps, + $0.10/gigabyte transferred.
That's equivalent to saying "here is some electricity, but you can only use it to power your stove. If you use it for your air conditioner, you're violating our ToS and we'll cut you off"
It's called a society and there are acceptable and unacceptable behaviors. Being a filthy pirate and hogging all the bandwidth is not nor should be acceptable behavior even though you really like all the free stuff you get from it.
You can't hog all the bandwidth, you can only hog the bandwidth allocated to you.
What you're saying is this:
The ISP gave my neighbourhood 500mbps, and some asshole is using all of it so I can get on the internet, but still paying for it!
The realty is this however:
The ISP gave me personally 10mbps, and the asshole ISP is telling me now I can't use all of it but still expecting me to pay.
You're questioning the morality over paying Amazon to deliver an out of print book in paper form versus paying nothing for the same book in ebook format?
You do realize in both ways, the creator gets nothing. So where exactly is the problem?
That's not so bad. In the stanley cup playoffs for hockey, teams play a series of games in best-of-7 matches, which means that the next team to move up the roster may not be decided for a few weeks because they play all seven games. And besides, the quickest you could move up is in 4 games, 4 straight wins.
Canadian Football is a faster paced version of American Football. I don't like the sport in either variety myself, but just saying, some people like Canadian football more because the plays are longer, there are less downs, and over all it just progresses faster.
If you want to talk about a slow national sport, look at baseball. The sport has immense history in the US, but it is painfully slow.
Soccer football I'm not a fan of either. It is much faster paced, but not as brutal. Never watched rugby, but so far my favorite sport (being canadian and all) is hockey. It has the roughness and strategy of football, powerful history like baseball (even more so in Canada than the US, even EVEN MORE SO since Montreal is home to one of the most famous teams in north american sports history), and ferocious speed and heart stopping plays. Plays can last what seems like an eternity, long enough that players are switched around in mid play.
Personally, while every mainstream sport has passionate fans and players, I think hockey has the most passion, at least in Canada.
I'm still not entirely against the idea of a license for internet use. By "not entirely" I mean my idea of a license would never get used since it'll get abused.
My idea is simply, get a license that says you know about the dangers, and you have demonstrated a basic understanding on how to avoid them. When you sign up for internet service, provide license number and you get an account.
If my idea were taken into consideration though, it'll turn into some sort of spy network eventually.
Nonetheless, PEBKAC remains the most troubling security hazard there is, and the only way to fight it is through education and punishment. Education is most important of course. Punishment is pointless without education FIRST, and the punishment should fit the crime, regardless of how big the victim is.
eg: if someone lets their computer get compromised, then that computer is shown to be used in a DDoS attack that costs CNN $2.2 billion in lost revenue, then the punishment should still be the same if the target was Slashdot and Slashdot lost $2.2 million. Fine the person and be done with it. Use the money to further technological common sense education for the masses.
In my utopian world, everyone has basic understanding. I do not expect anyone know what IP stands for, I do expect everyone to understand the dangers of opening email attachments and being able to tell whether a link is genuine or not.
Slashdot Mirror
like Zeus?
...that a species comes to dominance over its own planet through competitive behavior,...
Your underlying assumption is that life evolved by Darwinian mechanisms here on earth and elsewhere. If on the other hand you assume there is a creator God, he could have used different mechanisms in different worlds. It is quite certain however that any intelligent sentiment creature of his making would reflect his moral character, no matter where it is located.
That of course is assuming that there is only one god, maybe there is one god per planet that created the life on that planet.
This makes no sense. I thought the whole point of this was to stop bundling altogether. Instead during setup of Windows why not offer the choice in the install for the preferred software:
Choose Your Media Player:
Windows Media Player 11
VLC Media Player
MPlayer
Choose your Email Application:
Outlook Express
Thunderbird
Eudora
Choose your Browser:
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Firefox
Opera
Chrome
Now people are aware that they have a choice. The problem with bundling is that it makes it harder for someone to be aware of the fact that choice exists. So whether Windows ships with IE or ships with Firefox, if they aren't made aware that a choice exists between the two, then the whole endeavor was for nothing.
I would think that if they are trying to make something that's supposed to fly around through rooms, they would look at the hummingbird. I've never seen a bat hover, and I don't think I've ever seen a bat fly in a straight line. I have however seen hummingbirds hover, fly in straight lines, and move pretty fast.
I'm already on the phone with my lawyer to start the patent process.
Well, the plethora of video sites that use flash as a successful delivery medium for video care to disagree.
In fact, after seeing Google Video, Metacafe, and Youtube, and then to say "FLASH IS NOT A VIDEO PLAYER" is just a form of technological blindness on your part.
There is nothing wrong with Flash. There is everything wrong with using Flash in stupid ways. Youtube is not a stupid way to use Flash, this slideshow is.
Instead of blaming the gun, blame the person who used it. It's better that way.
I think you meant to say
CRISSE LA SOLEIL TABARN+++NO CARRIER
I don't really have much else to say, but I'm saying something anyways to bypass caps filter since somehow, capitals make you read louder.
Quebec knows what they're talking about.
not to mention that, because of reason 3, it is the most drunk-friendly programming language there is.
VI! Emacs!!!! ummm... little help?
pico, there I helped
Corner Gas?
Yeah, because the internet is only used for discreet, reliable military communication. Forget about maps and mobile devices.
The internet was stared as an AMERICAN GOVERNMENT DEFENSE PROJECT! (I see morons, everywhere!) What do you think DARPA stands for?
It started that way, but it's not ending that way.
The last five years are VERY DIFFERENT from the upcoming five years.
I think it's only a matter of time before Apple is forced to start monetizing their software directly.
Monopolies happen if no one else can compete and is part of the free market system. Yahoo can't compete.
So if Yahoo goes, what happens then? Google's market share will only increase as a result. I don't see the difference here.
The free market that is...
I don't know where you live, but I can use electricity any way I want, how ever much I want.
The limitations are not from the electric company, but the buildings own infrastructure. Glass fuses are pretty old school. Probably not a good idea to have 3 computers plugged into the same outlet. But if I decide to run my own mini datacentre with AC and humidity control, in my own apartment, the electric company can not say anything.
A sudden spike in electricity usage is also not grounds for termination, but it can be grounds for a search warrant due to marijuana hydroponics, but that mostly applies to homes. And even then, if police discover you growing tomatoes instead, there is nothing the electric company can do.
Of course, if you're running a hydroponics growing operation, regardless of what you're growing, your electric bill will be pretty high. But hey, if I transfer 500gb of data in a month, my internet bill should be kinda high too.
I think the trick here is to find the right balance between dollars and bits and turn the internet into a utility. $1 / gigabyte is NOT a good balance. $0.10 / gigabyte might be. That's $50 on that month if I downloaded 500gb.
These are numbers pulled out of my ass here, but in my non-expert opinion, $0.10 to $0.20 / gigabyte of data transferred seems like a good rate, maybe ontop of a small set monthly rate for speeds. $5/month for 3mbps, $10/month for 8mbps, + $0.10/gigabyte transferred.
That seems fair to me.
That's equivalent to saying "here is some electricity, but you can only use it to power your stove. If you use it for your air conditioner, you're violating our ToS and we'll cut you off"
It makes absolutely no sense.
It's called a society and there are acceptable and unacceptable behaviors. Being a filthy pirate and hogging all the bandwidth is not nor should be acceptable behavior even though you really like all the free stuff you get from it.
You can't hog all the bandwidth, you can only hog the bandwidth allocated to you.
What you're saying is this:
The ISP gave my neighbourhood 500mbps, and some asshole is using all of it so I can get on the internet, but still paying for it!
The realty is this however:
The ISP gave me personally 10mbps, and the asshole ISP is telling me now I can't use all of it but still expecting me to pay.
See the difference here?
I don't understand here.
You're questioning the morality over paying Amazon to deliver an out of print book in paper form versus paying nothing for the same book in ebook format?
You do realize in both ways, the creator gets nothing. So where exactly is the problem?
are they playing for 5 days CONTINUOUSLY or are they playing 8 hours a day 5 days a week type of deal?
That's not so bad. In the stanley cup playoffs for hockey, teams play a series of games in best-of-7 matches, which means that the next team to move up the roster may not be decided for a few weeks because they play all seven games. And besides, the quickest you could move up is in 4 games, 4 straight wins.
Canadian Football is a faster paced version of American Football. I don't like the sport in either variety myself, but just saying, some people like Canadian football more because the plays are longer, there are less downs, and over all it just progresses faster.
If you want to talk about a slow national sport, look at baseball. The sport has immense history in the US, but it is painfully slow.
Soccer football I'm not a fan of either. It is much faster paced, but not as brutal. Never watched rugby, but so far my favorite sport (being canadian and all) is hockey. It has the roughness and strategy of football, powerful history like baseball (even more so in Canada than the US, even EVEN MORE SO since Montreal is home to one of the most famous teams in north american sports history), and ferocious speed and heart stopping plays. Plays can last what seems like an eternity, long enough that players are switched around in mid play.
Personally, while every mainstream sport has passionate fans and players, I think hockey has the most passion, at least in Canada.
It needs to be said:
There is no technological defense against PEBKAC.
I'm still not entirely against the idea of a license for internet use. By "not entirely" I mean my idea of a license would never get used since it'll get abused.
My idea is simply, get a license that says you know about the dangers, and you have demonstrated a basic understanding on how to avoid them. When you sign up for internet service, provide license number and you get an account.
If my idea were taken into consideration though, it'll turn into some sort of spy network eventually.
Nonetheless, PEBKAC remains the most troubling security hazard there is, and the only way to fight it is through education and punishment. Education is most important of course. Punishment is pointless without education FIRST, and the punishment should fit the crime, regardless of how big the victim is.
eg: if someone lets their computer get compromised, then that computer is shown to be used in a DDoS attack that costs CNN $2.2 billion in lost revenue, then the punishment should still be the same if the target was Slashdot and Slashdot lost $2.2 million. Fine the person and be done with it. Use the money to further technological common sense education for the masses.
In my utopian world, everyone has basic understanding. I do not expect anyone know what IP stands for, I do expect everyone to understand the dangers of opening email attachments and being able to tell whether a link is genuine or not.