The government is regulating because these utilities plan to do away with business practices (peering, traffic neutrality) that were widely accepted and taken for granted when their respective monopolies were awarded.
Let's hear that again, I think some folks might have missed it.
The government is regulating because these utilities plan to do away with business practices (peering, traffic neutrality) that were widely accepted and taken for granted when their respective monopolies were awarded.
If you still didn't quite get that, allow me to translate: These monopolies intend to re-architect the Internet to suit their profit model, and to prevent others from getting started the way that they did.
Were you even born yet when those paperbacks came out? I was 13 or 14, old enough to buy them with money from my paper route (remember those?) and read them.
If I had thought of it (recently) before reading this story, I would have looked it up. But I've wondered about lots of things for periods measured in years, just not all of them concurrently and continuously.
I use trainchinese on both phone and tablet. A touchscreen is perfect for such things, much more natural than trying to trace characters with a mouse or trackpad.
Google Translate is also fantastic for this--if I see a character I don't know, I can whip out my phone, write it on the screen*, and--hey, presto!--I know I'm on Jade River Avenue and not some other River Avenue, and I can pronounce it correctly for my wife, so she can tell the taxi driver where to bring her to meet me. Thank goodness they started making it possible to store the dictionaries offline, so I now can actually use it in China without worrying whether the local authorities have blocked only www.google.com or all of *.google.com.
Bowling games are pretty good on such devices, too.
However, trying to play a scroller-style shoot-'em-up on a touchscreen makes me feel like I'm getting motion sickness after about 3 minutes.
*Random attempts to trace do not work. You must get the strokes and stroke order reasonably correct. But this is actually a good thing.
I think it's more like, "Might be problematic if you're planning to visit or, even better, *return home* to some country whose authorities regard these as acts worthy of a thousand lashes, afterwards".
The office is on Södermalm, a.k.a. The Isle That Means Style. So of course, I must attempt to be trendy, and this is much more fun than trying to integrate React.js into my workflow.
Our company uses a chip in our employee IDs. I get into our Stockholm office by turning around and banging the scanner with my ass--it's just the right height to read the card in my wallet just fine that way. The fact that the corporate logo is pasted across the front of the card scanner just makes it all the more heartwarming.
We use a separate fob for the outside door (we share the building with several other firms). That works just fine, too, and people seldom if ever come to the office without their house and/or car keys.
That's right--your irrelevant links don't change a thing: Your desire to know who modded you down is motivated by a desire for revenge, pure and simple. (And you're still perma-banned from Ars.)
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The media's job is to find two opposing points of view and present them as equals.
1. You're conflating "journalism" and "media".
2. Your statement is untrue for either. However, it is a standard recipe for "infotainment".
"Punch me in the face so I can call you a bully, dammit!"
The government is regulating because these utilities plan to do away with business practices (peering, traffic neutrality) that were widely accepted and taken for granted when their respective monopolies were awarded.
Let's hear that again, I think some folks might have missed it.
The government is regulating because these utilities plan to do away with business practices (peering, traffic neutrality) that were widely accepted and taken for granted when their respective monopolies were awarded.
If you still didn't quite get that, allow me to translate: These monopolies intend to re-architect the Internet to suit their profit model, and to prevent others from getting started the way that they did.
Give this AC a cigar. And some upmods.
Heh.
Were you even born yet when those paperbacks came out? I was 13 or 14, old enough to buy them with money from my paper route (remember those?) and read them.
If I had thought of it (recently) before reading this story, I would have looked it up. But I've wondered about lots of things for periods measured in years, just not all of them concurrently and continuously.
Which reply would that be? Looks like a pretty good discussion, with valid points from nearly all the participants.
You have a phone with a CD drive?
I use trainchinese on both phone and tablet. A touchscreen is perfect for such things, much more natural than trying to trace characters with a mouse or trackpad.
Google Translate is also fantastic for this--if I see a character I don't know, I can whip out my phone, write it on the screen*, and--hey, presto!--I know I'm on Jade River Avenue and not some other River Avenue, and I can pronounce it correctly for my wife, so she can tell the taxi driver where to bring her to meet me. Thank goodness they started making it possible to store the dictionaries offline, so I now can actually use it in China without worrying whether the local authorities have blocked only www.google.com or all of *.google.com.
Bowling games are pretty good on such devices, too.
However, trying to play a scroller-style shoot-'em-up on a touchscreen makes me feel like I'm getting motion sickness after about 3 minutes.
*Random attempts to trace do not work. You must get the strokes and stroke order reasonably correct. But this is actually a good thing.
Fuck that noise. We demand LBreakout2!
...lack of games like Angry Birds or Candy Crush? Or things like SnapChat or Whatsapp?
That's odd, I'm getting the impression that you speak of this as though it's a *bad* thing.
Um, no. *You* need to realise that not everyone wants to do everything they want to do over the network all the time.
I'm with ganjadude on this one.
Why do we even need native apps anymore?
I don't know the answer to that, but I am mighty glad I can install VLC on my phones and tablet.
In other words, not only have you no dreams, you don't want anyone else to have any, either.
I have been wondering what was behind that note for about 40 years. Thanks for the background on that.
I think it's more like, "Might be problematic if you're planning to visit or, even better, *return home* to some country whose authorities regard these as acts worthy of a thousand lashes, afterwards".
Whereas you exercise perfect control over everyone in the world who happens to know you, I'm sure.
That would explain perfectly why Stockholm has more Thai restaurants than any other city on the planet, aside from Bangkok.
The office is on Södermalm, a.k.a. The Isle That Means Style. So of course, I must attempt to be trendy, and this is much more fun than trying to integrate React.js into my workflow.
Posted by our SRM correspondent in Kärrtorp, no doubt.
Bagarmossen hälsar dig och bjuder dig knullas, fårskalle.
If I forget my wallet, I'm not going to be able to board the train to the city since my transport pass also lives in it.
Our company uses a chip in our employee IDs. I get into our Stockholm office by turning around and banging the scanner with my ass--it's just the right height to read the card in my wallet just fine that way. The fact that the corporate logo is pasted across the front of the card scanner just makes it all the more heartwarming.
We use a separate fob for the outside door (we share the building with several other firms). That works just fine, too, and people seldom if ever come to the office without their house and/or car keys.
Eftersom fisk och potatis bör räcka för alla, naturligtvis. ;P
That's right--your irrelevant links don't change a thing: Your desire to know who modded you down is motivated by a desire for revenge, pure and simple. (And you're still perma-banned from Ars.)
Is that you, APK?
You don't get to see who modded you up, either. I don't hear you mention that you're so eager to thank any of them for it, though.
If you actually wanted to respond to criticism and weren't motivated by a desire to get back at the critic, you wouldn't give a shit.
You also don't get to see who voted for whom in most elections. Ever ask yourself why? See above.