The energy it costs to deliver it to you is negligible, as is the required energy to properly dispose of it. (hit delete)
Actually, if you add up all the energy that was ever used by computers and networks to send and receive spam, I'm sure it would probably involve a fair amount of pollution and wasted energy. What percentage of a random sample of internet packets travelling through an ISPs backbone is going to be spam related? Probably quite a lot..
Haven't you heard? Global warming means that the north pole is already booked for rainforest plantation next year. Though superconducting maglev rides do sound fun..
Nothing wrong with giving the customers more options, and letting them decide. Most customers wouldn't say "hey, can you work on superfast ray tracing please, I want my Monsters Inc game to look just like the real thing!". Most people wouldn't know the difference between ray tracing and rasterisation if it hit them in the face (and bounced off at an angle of reflection equal but opposite to the angle of incidence).
Very good point. Raytracing is obviously quite parralelisable from what you are saying, so it doesn't take a breakthrough in technology so much as just a whole bunch of appropriately raytracing oriented graphics cards chained together if you want to play raytraced games:P Rasterised graphics are good enough for me at the moment anyway, if it were between rasterised graphics or paying £2000 for photorealistic graphics, I'm not sure I'd be wanting to pony up the cash.. meh.. who am I kidding, I'd be all over it..
The limits are the same - driving recklessly is a completely different charge. If you can't stop within the distance that you see to be clear then that's basically quite reckless, and stopping distances in snow.. they're probably 4-6 times that of a clear dry road.
Yep. The annoying thing was that the office who stopped me didn't think I was driving recklessly, but he had to write me up anyway just because my speed was about 40% over the motorway limit. It was of course my own fault for ignoring the law and leaving myself open to the possible consequences of breaking the law. The fact is that I know I've not done anything 'bad' - but will still probably end up with a criminal record because of it. Whoopee!
Whitehouse? What's a Whitehouse? *nudges some more rubble under the gigantic rug* ooooh THE Whitehouse? That's a couple of blocks down the road, you can't miss it.
As this time machine was developed while under the influence of science enhancing drugs, I'm afraid we're going to have to discount the research and destroy the machine. Unfortunately now that I have made this statement the creator of the machine has just gone back in time to kill me, so I'm not sure that this ruling will have any effect.
I don't agree with it particularly either, but the fact remains that some people consider something right while other people may consider the same thing wrong (polygamy, capital punishment, abortin..)
One can be cynical and simply say that this is because our legislators aren't very good at their jobs. Both from the standpoint of making good law in the first place, and also in the sense that they seem to be almost incapable of admitting they made a mistake and taking bad law off the books. Personally, I think it's because they're not very good at liberty â" and very good indeed at lawmaking. I get pissed off at speed limit laws, when people act like as soon as you break the speed limit then you're going to kill someone (maybe just yourself, but the idea is there that as long as you're within the speed limit you're driving "safely"). Of course I realise that a speed limit of 70mph on a motorway is a good level for a learner driver as it means even with unrefined steering technique and poorer observational skills then they're more likely to drive within their limits, but drivers with more training (for example police drivers) get taught how to drive at up to speeds of 160mph on these same roads (when conditions are suitable). Having just been caught speeding recently I am not looking forward to going to court. I accept I was breaking the law but most of me is just annoyed how hypocritical the system is when police are allowed to do 160mph. There isn't really any way of being able to easily identify which drivers are more highly trained or experienced though so the only limit that can be practically enforced is the lowest common denominator. A lot of the law is probably like that, as you are seeing. Not everyone can be 'trusted' to make sensible choices about the use of drugs. People have varying metabolisms so what is a sensible use for one person may not be for another and so on, but in order to protect people from themselves, a law is put in place. I don't like it, but I can't think of any better way to do things. If speed limits were removed on motorways.. hmm well Germany manages it I guess, so obviously some governments are happy to do it as long as it's on a road which has been designed for high speed. I guess I have no point to make:P
$3 for Ubuntu is a bargain..? Not the best way to make your point:P I'd pay those small amounts for open source software if it was of use to me. The summary in this article is quite pathetic though, asking whether the customer or the content provider should be paying for the improvements in the networks - it should be the ISPs job to manage the costs and infrastructure, ultimately funded by the consumer, but if the ISPs just advertised sensibly in the first place then nobody would have a right to complain, and I'd have a lot more sympathy for their plight.
If it's an accident then it's a mistake. If it's purposely tring to make someone believe, or knowingly let someone believe something you know to be a lie, then it's deceit.
Actually I know nothing about comcast, I live in the UK. I've seen ads on bus stops and the like for 'unlimited' blah blah blah that is only 15GB a month or so.
I was actually thinking of the use of the word "Unlimited" and Comcast's invisible caps. That is the most heinous of them all. Especially when it comes to mobile data. I could probably work myself into a serious rage at how companies can get away with things like calling 15GB a month 'unlimited', though I personally have never had to deal with problems arising from excessive usage, so I don't think about it very often.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, if you add up all the energy that was ever used by computers and networks to send and receive spam, I'm sure it would probably involve a fair amount of pollution and wasted energy. What percentage of a random sample of internet packets travelling through an ISPs backbone is going to be spam related? Probably quite a lot..
Haven't you heard? Global warming means that the north pole is already booked for rainforest plantation next year. Though superconducting maglev rides do sound fun..
Good thing you weren't able to look down towards your knees
Is it NSFW? I don't need to get caught viewing a dominatrix crater being penetrated by a fist sized lump of rock
Lego Turing Machine
:D
Lego Difference Engine
Nothing wrong with giving the customers more options, and letting them decide. Most customers wouldn't say "hey, can you work on superfast ray tracing please, I want my Monsters Inc game to look just like the real thing!". Most people wouldn't know the difference between ray tracing and rasterisation if it hit them in the face (and bounced off at an angle of reflection equal but opposite to the angle of incidence).
Very good point. Raytracing is obviously quite parralelisable from what you are saying, so it doesn't take a breakthrough in technology so much as just a whole bunch of appropriately raytracing oriented graphics cards chained together if you want to play raytraced games :P Rasterised graphics are good enough for me at the moment anyway, if it were between rasterised graphics or paying £2000 for photorealistic graphics, I'm not sure I'd be wanting to pony up the cash.. meh.. who am I kidding, I'd be all over it..
Was it a plane? Was it a joke? No, it was irony! That, or superman.
The limits are the same - driving recklessly is a completely different charge. If you can't stop within the distance that you see to be clear then that's basically quite reckless, and stopping distances in snow .. they're probably 4-6 times that of a clear dry road.
Yep. The annoying thing was that the office who stopped me didn't think I was driving recklessly, but he had to write me up anyway just because my speed was about 40% over the motorway limit. It was of course my own fault for ignoring the law and leaving myself open to the possible consequences of breaking the law. The fact is that I know I've not done anything 'bad' - but will still probably end up with a criminal record because of it. Whoopee!
Doesn't sound like the kind of idea you get when you have a job tbh :P
Whitehouse? What's a Whitehouse? *nudges some more rubble under the gigantic rug* ooooh THE Whitehouse? That's a couple of blocks down the road, you can't miss it.
AMBAR ALERT! Ur Zippar r FLYIN LOW!! Yes, I know caps are like yelling.
As this time machine was developed while under the influence of science enhancing drugs, I'm afraid we're going to have to discount the research and destroy the machine. Unfortunately now that I have made this statement the creator of the machine has just gone back in time to kill me, so I'm not sure that this ruling will have any effect.
Your space bar is broken.
Some people do. It must be subjective. Hmm :p
I don't agree with it particularly either, but the fact remains that some people consider something right while other people may consider the same thing wrong (polygamy, capital punishment, abortin..)
$3 for Ubuntu is a bargain..? Not the best way to make your point :P I'd pay those small amounts for open source software if it was of use to me. The summary in this article is quite pathetic though, asking whether the customer or the content provider should be paying for the improvements in the networks - it should be the ISPs job to manage the costs and infrastructure, ultimately funded by the consumer, but if the ISPs just advertised sensibly in the first place then nobody would have a right to complain, and I'd have a lot more sympathy for their plight.
If it's an accident then it's a mistake. If it's purposely tring to make someone believe, or knowingly let someone believe something you know to be a lie, then it's deceit.
Actually I know nothing about comcast, I live in the UK. I've seen ads on bus stops and the like for 'unlimited' blah blah blah that is only 15GB a month or so.
We also don't have 'kool aid' over here so shh
haha :D *lives in Scotland* unfortunately I think that's just a pipe dream
megabit >_>
Hopefully nobody tried to finger the host first.