because there are places who use more while paying less? Last year, I paid $60 a month for 6mbit (Thats what you get when you don't bundle tv, phone, mail, satellite, or anything and _just_ want internet). Currently $10/mbit is about 7.5 euros. And that's a list from back in 2007. I had *JUST* gotten the upgrade to 6, before that, it was 3mbit. ($20 per mbit).
Although the average user is not aware of this, so its an easy mistake to make...
I know I'm comparing caps to speed, but perhaps companies wouldn't worry about users until they approached tb/month ranges if they had a half modern infrastructure...
I wonder if there will still be a a market for people who wish for non-government ISP's to only have the government filter their packets rather than send their data down pipes, routers, and infrastructure owned and operated by the government. I wonder how many orders of magnitude easier it will be to do that kind of in-depth sniffing on government pipes than on private pipes?
I think that a lot of the early wikipedia contributors came from the non-crap geocities authors. (back when it had more information about the star wars universe than it had about the real life space universe) While we don't miss that time period, (well, i do), I think that the urge to contribute to the internet (via geocities) was the same urge that created and grew wikipedia and web 2.0.
If I had to write Geocities eulogy, it would be: "Geocities paved the way for Web 2.0"
Take from that what you will, a lot of web 2.0 was "Hey! Look at me!" type crap that we equate with myspace, youtube, and Web 2.0, it was the original place where someone could contribute to the internet for free.
I think people have forgotten the difference between government at the township level and government at the state/federal level. The local government is mostly residents who are ignored by lobbyists and do their best to make the town thrive. Yes, I am saying that if it is the people wish that the government should make their lives better, they should be able to use government to make their lives better. (Provided, of course, that they are educated and not being hoodwinked into giving up rights). Also, however, the township should not enforce the monopoly and if a small ISP wants to use the lines to compete with the township, they should have access to the lines. (Perhaps they want to offer 2mbit for $20 a month?)
This situation is similar to the people forming a co-op to provide themselves with network connectivity, only corporations are crying foul because instead of forming a co-op to get things done, the citizens (not subjects in this case) went through existing channels (local government).
This is precisely the kind of grassroots involvement that I LIKE to see because if people believe they can change the local government, they might believe that they don't have to lie down when corporations make their state and federal government steamroll them.
A government should, ideally, stand back and let private citizens do their own thing, but thats not happening, not at the state level, not at the federal level. TWC has lobbyists, the township citizens did not. Until the township has the same pull as TWC, the local government needs to step up and fight fire with fire.
We are well beyond a free market economy, and while its nice to think about what government would look like without the past 233 years of corporate influence, that's not the world we live in. The only way to get a free market economy would be to abolish corporations, abolish the current government, demolish the infrastructure, and start from scratch. Why? Because for every email, vote, and action taken by a citizen, a corporation will pay X dollars to a lobbyist to drip honey in senator's ears. To get a free market economy, you'd have to get rid of lobbying, all of the laws influenced by lobbying, the lobbyists, and all of the senators who were put in place by campaign contributions from corporations.
Besides, as long as there is a system to game, people will game it, why shouldn't the local government game it for the direct benefit of its citizens?
You wanna know a secret? I realize university is not the only place to learn about life, i also realize that people can go far without, but for the majority of people, its a good place to learn about life. Quit putting words in my mouth. I didn't say any of the things that you're contradicting.
A CS degree is not the only place to learn about programming, but its a good place to learn about programming.
Of course I'm not gonna RTFA (Do you know what site this is!?!), and I'm sure that the brief was fired with vitriolic language and attempted to nitpick every sentence they could find a misplaced comma or a shade of meaning that they could use and ignore every valid point in the FSF's document, but from the summary this looks like its high praise coming from the RIAA.
While technically you are correct. If i have a device that remotely heats my dog until it changes the channel for me via a sophisticated cabinet of lights and pull levers, I have a whole lot of overkill to achieve the same functionality as a an infrared remote control, except it doesn't use the infra-red LED or Sensors built in to standard remotes and TV's.
Instead, this device figures out what you're focusing on (looking at in 99/100 cases) flashes without interfacing or reading the eye. If the object of your focus flashes, it picks it up and can figure out that you're looking at the third one down and 2nd from the left. It doesn't track the eyes, but it figures out what letter you're looking at through a sophisticated cabinet or lights, sensors, and pull levers (or just a simple EEG machine).
Eventually it will do more, but as of right now, its just an elaborate way of figuring out what you're looking at. (And some day, I'll get Fido to get me a beer).
I'm glad that I (and most people I know) had a better experience than you did. Hopefully you'll find more happiness and fulfillment in life than you did in college.
So, when the letter being focused on flashes, the EEG picks it up and figures out which row and column are desired...
So it wouldn't work very well for the blind and its not pulling the letters out of the brain, its just a more sophisticated eye tracking device, similar to the goggles in apache helicopters? Why not just fit patients with those for a faster input method?
True, and I'm familiar with that, but it feels like there's so much processing involved to get audible sound out that you should try to listen to the Mona Lisa by taking a high resolution scan, and applying appropriate filters to the data until you find something that suits your ears. Unless they've found out from the phase shifting of the RF that the surface of the sun vibrates like a drum head or a tympani and we can't hear it because of the vacuum and distance, or the electromagnetic field of Jupiter wobbles like a violin string, I'm not buying it. (Or even less musicly than the instrument examples) There's nothing magic about cosmic white noise.
Your tv is sampling at well below the nyquist frequency of the cosmic radiation and outputs a hiss. A rough illustration of the nyquist frequency can be found here so you can see what I'm talking about.
There's a difference between knowing and using. I "Know" how to juggle but I can't do it, haven't practiced it enough yet. Most people "know" how to live on their own, college is where you practice it.
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I wonder if that would taint the raspberry with bitter almonds...
First they had telescopes, which they used to get the sights of space, then they came up with the smell of space, now the taste, so what's next? The sound of space?
When will people learn that you go to college to prepare for life, not just a job or career. You go to learn how to be self sufficient, to go to bed so you're not dead for classes, to show up, and generally learn to be an adult. College is an environment where a lot of people fail at that at first, but most, by the time they graduate, are capable of living on their own and holding some sort of job. College isn't just basic engineering or english or math, its basic life. If their parents can afford it, kids need to be out on their own in a forgiving environment like a dorm or college community where they do their own laundry and feed themselves.
On the other side, merely showing up to classes, paying attention, and doing homework is another large part of being an adult. Meetings and work do not happen "whenever you get to it", I'd be sad to see classes go by the wayside if only because what you learn outside and around the class is just as vital in the long run as what you learn in class.
I'm not familiar with ship to shore and ship to ship communications, but do ships call for help by bouncing signals off of US military satellites? I know that GPS satellites were originally military so there is a precedent for deriving benefit from military satellites.
Its a big deal because the birds are the sole property of the US Navy and they don't like people playing with their toys without permission.
That being said, the satellites are a boon to illegal activity (focus of the article. Lets ignore casual hobbyists, mainstream media has been doing that for years. ref: "Hacker"). If a drug cartel can gain the long reach of communication via our birds, what about the big scary straw-men, like terrorists, communists, and liberals? All of them can communicate via long distance chatter, add encoding into the mix and the US loses the ability to eavesdrop.
In war, being able to communicate effectively may be just as important as those little metal objects that come flying out of guns. Why give the other side that ammo for free?
It'd be interesting to see how they did it, I'd love to be able to try it out, except i suspect that all I might hear would be Portuguese and the sound of black helicopters swooping in...
It took them like 3 years to get the point where you could buy everything. They lost the very large portion of their base that would have bought the unlock everything right after the game was released. By the time they unveiled the option, people had enough time to either grind to unlock everything, unlock the skills that were necessary for what they were doing (farming, basic PVP builds) or didn't care about what skills they had.
The market for the paid unlocks was precisely the people they lost at release. Those people weren't coming back. As a result of losing those people, pvp wasn't as diverse, there are 4 builds and you can play "competitively" in PVP with approximately 60-100 of the 750? (not sure nowadays) skills. That covers all 4 predominant builds. If they hadn't lost the PVP players, I'm willing to wager that there would be more builds, more strategies, and a full use for most of the unlocked skills (and more incentive to pay to unlock everything). Kind of a vicious cycle...
So, they talked about "good" betas and betas that opened miserably and killed a somewhat polished game, (auto assault, IIRC) that was opened too early. What about a game that the beta is BETTER than the released game?
I was part of the open beta of guild wars(i.e. i pre-ordered and was part of the PR wave of beta). It was awesome, everything was fun, it was clear that it wasn't finished, but the missions were OK, the PvE was tolerable, but the PVP was phenomenal. When it was time to release, I fired up my copy and found like 2 skills at the first skill trainer. Approximately 750 in game hours later, it was possible to recreate the PVP experience I had during beta...
750 hours in missions that are only OK and tolerable PvE that turned to miserable at the snails pace that they made you try it. Guildwars isn't a monthly thing based fee, so they gained nothing, absolutely zero, by forcing you to put 750 hours into the original campaign to get back to the fun of the open betas. By then, they had lost a very large portion of their user base and the beta users were not the the majority of the major adopters. If they had released the game we "beta tested", it probably would have been a runaway success instead of the third rate game it is today. Also, because the PVP players left for greener pastures (battlefield 2 so you can have an idea of what that crowd was), current PVP metagame is a pale imitation of what it once was and could be.
For the record, about 2 years after release, they made enough changes so that a new player can jump into that old timey fun.
Did anybody else get a mental of the TV from Idocracy where there's 8 flashing banner type adds taking up 8/9ths of the tv's viewable area and a little picture in the middle?
True, i was contemplating solar panels on my roof, but i can't think of a way to make them face the sun to maximize electricity production without them leaving when the hurricanes hit.
so, assuming that you can keep the windmills running for 8-30 years it takes to break even (using the conversion rate from euro to dollar and factoring in the 1.3 euro/kwh upwards), when do running windmills make sense?
I live in south florida and am without power every other year, so I recognize the benefit of being able to generate electricity for myself, but if i have to own the generators longer than most people own houses to make back a return on investment, I'm probably going to invest in a kitchen renovation or jacuzzi to forgo the energy savings but make the house more enjoyable.
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because there are places who use more while paying less? Last year, I paid $60 a month for 6mbit (Thats what you get when you don't bundle tv, phone, mail, satellite, or anything and _just_ want internet). Currently $10/mbit is about 7.5 euros. And that's a list from back in 2007. I had *JUST* gotten the upgrade to 6, before that, it was 3mbit. ($20 per mbit).
Although the average user is not aware of this, so its an easy mistake to make...
I know I'm comparing caps to speed, but perhaps companies wouldn't worry about users until they approached tb/month ranges if they had a half modern infrastructure...
If only I could mod you down for a lack of a sense of humor...
Those lost game disks were lost in the mail... Heh heh... *hides stack of reported "lost" disks under the couch* Nothing to see here, move along!
I wonder if there will still be a a market for people who wish for non-government ISP's to only have the government filter their packets rather than send their data down pipes, routers, and infrastructure owned and operated by the government. I wonder how many orders of magnitude easier it will be to do that kind of in-depth sniffing on government pipes than on private pipes?
I think that a lot of the early wikipedia contributors came from the non-crap geocities authors. (back when it had more information about the star wars universe than it had about the real life space universe) While we don't miss that time period, (well, i do), I think that the urge to contribute to the internet (via geocities) was the same urge that created and grew wikipedia and web 2.0.
If I had to write Geocities eulogy, it would be: "Geocities paved the way for Web 2.0"
Take from that what you will, a lot of web 2.0 was "Hey! Look at me!" type crap that we equate with myspace, youtube, and Web 2.0, it was the original place where someone could contribute to the internet for free.
A well trained and silent ninja.
I think people have forgotten the difference between government at the township level and government at the state/federal level. The local government is mostly residents who are ignored by lobbyists and do their best to make the town thrive. Yes, I am saying that if it is the people wish that the government should make their lives better, they should be able to use government to make their lives better. (Provided, of course, that they are educated and not being hoodwinked into giving up rights). Also, however, the township should not enforce the monopoly and if a small ISP wants to use the lines to compete with the township, they should have access to the lines. (Perhaps they want to offer 2mbit for $20 a month?)
This situation is similar to the people forming a co-op to provide themselves with network connectivity, only corporations are crying foul because instead of forming a co-op to get things done, the citizens (not subjects in this case) went through existing channels (local government).
This is precisely the kind of grassroots involvement that I LIKE to see because if people believe they can change the local government, they might believe that they don't have to lie down when corporations make their state and federal government steamroll them.
A government should, ideally, stand back and let private citizens do their own thing, but thats not happening, not at the state level, not at the federal level. TWC has lobbyists, the township citizens did not. Until the township has the same pull as TWC, the local government needs to step up and fight fire with fire.
We are well beyond a free market economy, and while its nice to think about what government would look like without the past 233 years of corporate influence, that's not the world we live in. The only way to get a free market economy would be to abolish corporations, abolish the current government, demolish the infrastructure, and start from scratch. Why? Because for every email, vote, and action taken by a citizen, a corporation will pay X dollars to a lobbyist to drip honey in senator's ears. To get a free market economy, you'd have to get rid of lobbying, all of the laws influenced by lobbying, the lobbyists, and all of the senators who were put in place by campaign contributions from corporations.
Besides, as long as there is a system to game, people will game it, why shouldn't the local government game it for the direct benefit of its citizens?
You wanna know a secret? I realize university is not the only place to learn about life, i also realize that people can go far without, but for the majority of people, its a good place to learn about life. Quit putting words in my mouth. I didn't say any of the things that you're contradicting.
A CS degree is not the only place to learn about programming, but its a good place to learn about programming.
Of course I'm not gonna RTFA (Do you know what site this is!?!), and I'm sure that the brief was fired with vitriolic language and attempted to nitpick every sentence they could find a misplaced comma or a shade of meaning that they could use and ignore every valid point in the FSF's document, but from the summary this looks like its high praise coming from the RIAA.
While technically you are correct. If i have a device that remotely heats my dog until it changes the channel for me via a sophisticated cabinet of lights and pull levers, I have a whole lot of overkill to achieve the same functionality as a an infrared remote control, except it doesn't use the infra-red LED or Sensors built in to standard remotes and TV's.
Instead, this device figures out what you're focusing on (looking at in 99/100 cases) flashes without interfacing or reading the eye. If the object of your focus flashes, it picks it up and can figure out that you're looking at the third one down and 2nd from the left. It doesn't track the eyes, but it figures out what letter you're looking at through a sophisticated cabinet or lights, sensors, and pull levers (or just a simple EEG machine).
Eventually it will do more, but as of right now, its just an elaborate way of figuring out what you're looking at. (And some day, I'll get Fido to get me a beer).
I'm glad that I (and most people I know) had a better experience than you did. Hopefully you'll find more happiness and fulfillment in life than you did in college.
So, when the letter being focused on flashes, the EEG picks it up and figures out which row and column are desired...
So it wouldn't work very well for the blind and its not pulling the letters out of the brain, its just a more sophisticated eye tracking device, similar to the goggles in apache helicopters? Why not just fit patients with those for a faster input method?
True, and I'm familiar with that, but it feels like there's so much processing involved to get audible sound out that you should try to listen to the Mona Lisa by taking a high resolution scan, and applying appropriate filters to the data until you find something that suits your ears. Unless they've found out from the phase shifting of the RF that the surface of the sun vibrates like a drum head or a tympani and we can't hear it because of the vacuum and distance, or the electromagnetic field of Jupiter wobbles like a violin string, I'm not buying it. (Or even less musicly than the instrument examples) There's nothing magic about cosmic white noise.
Your tv is sampling at well below the nyquist frequency of the cosmic radiation and outputs a hiss. A rough illustration of the nyquist frequency can be found here so you can see what I'm talking about.
There's a difference between knowing and using. I "Know" how to juggle but I can't do it, haven't practiced it enough yet. Most people "know" how to live on their own, college is where you practice it.
I wonder if that would taint the raspberry with bitter almonds...
First they had telescopes, which they used to get the sights of space, then they came up with the smell of space, now the taste, so what's next? The sound of space?
In space, nobody can hear the sound of Wooosh!
When will people learn that you go to college to prepare for life, not just a job or career. You go to learn how to be self sufficient, to go to bed so you're not dead for classes, to show up, and generally learn to be an adult. College is an environment where a lot of people fail at that at first, but most, by the time they graduate, are capable of living on their own and holding some sort of job. College isn't just basic engineering or english or math, its basic life. If their parents can afford it, kids need to be out on their own in a forgiving environment like a dorm or college community where they do their own laundry and feed themselves.
On the other side, merely showing up to classes, paying attention, and doing homework is another large part of being an adult. Meetings and work do not happen "whenever you get to it", I'd be sad to see classes go by the wayside if only because what you learn outside and around the class is just as vital in the long run as what you learn in class.
I'm not familiar with ship to shore and ship to ship communications, but do ships call for help by bouncing signals off of US military satellites? I know that GPS satellites were originally military so there is a precedent for deriving benefit from military satellites.
Its a big deal because the birds are the sole property of the US Navy and they don't like people playing with their toys without permission.
That being said, the satellites are a boon to illegal activity (focus of the article. Lets ignore casual hobbyists, mainstream media has been doing that for years. ref: "Hacker"). If a drug cartel can gain the long reach of communication via our birds, what about the big scary straw-men, like terrorists, communists, and liberals? All of them can communicate via long distance chatter, add encoding into the mix and the US loses the ability to eavesdrop.
In war, being able to communicate effectively may be just as important as those little metal objects that come flying out of guns. Why give the other side that ammo for free?
It'd be interesting to see how they did it, I'd love to be able to try it out, except i suspect that all I might hear would be Portuguese and the sound of black helicopters swooping in...
It took them like 3 years to get the point where you could buy everything. They lost the very large portion of their base that would have bought the unlock everything right after the game was released. By the time they unveiled the option, people had enough time to either grind to unlock everything, unlock the skills that were necessary for what they were doing (farming, basic PVP builds) or didn't care about what skills they had.
The market for the paid unlocks was precisely the people they lost at release. Those people weren't coming back. As a result of losing those people, pvp wasn't as diverse, there are 4 builds and you can play "competitively" in PVP with approximately 60-100 of the 750? (not sure nowadays) skills. That covers all 4 predominant builds. If they hadn't lost the PVP players, I'm willing to wager that there would be more builds, more strategies, and a full use for most of the unlocked skills (and more incentive to pay to unlock everything). Kind of a vicious cycle...
So, they talked about "good" betas and betas that opened miserably and killed a somewhat polished game, (auto assault, IIRC) that was opened too early. What about a game that the beta is BETTER than the released game?
I was part of the open beta of guild wars(i.e. i pre-ordered and was part of the PR wave of beta). It was awesome, everything was fun, it was clear that it wasn't finished, but the missions were OK, the PvE was tolerable, but the PVP was phenomenal. When it was time to release, I fired up my copy and found like 2 skills at the first skill trainer. Approximately 750 in game hours later, it was possible to recreate the PVP experience I had during beta...
750 hours in missions that are only OK and tolerable PvE that turned to miserable at the snails pace that they made you try it. Guildwars isn't a monthly thing based fee, so they gained nothing, absolutely zero, by forcing you to put 750 hours into the original campaign to get back to the fun of the open betas. By then, they had lost a very large portion of their user base and the beta users were not the the majority of the major adopters. If they had released the game we "beta tested", it probably would have been a runaway success instead of the third rate game it is today. Also, because the PVP players left for greener pastures (battlefield 2 so you can have an idea of what that crowd was), current PVP metagame is a pale imitation of what it once was and could be.
For the record, about 2 years after release, they made enough changes so that a new player can jump into that old timey fun.
Did anybody else get a mental of the TV from Idocracy where there's 8 flashing banner type adds taking up 8/9ths of the tv's viewable area and a little picture in the middle?
True, i was contemplating solar panels on my roof, but i can't think of a way to make them face the sun to maximize electricity production without them leaving when the hurricanes hit.
so, assuming that you can keep the windmills running for 8-30 years it takes to break even (using the conversion rate from euro to dollar and factoring in the 1.3 euro/kwh upwards), when do running windmills make sense?
I live in south florida and am without power every other year, so I recognize the benefit of being able to generate electricity for myself, but if i have to own the generators longer than most people own houses to make back a return on investment, I'm probably going to invest in a kitchen renovation or jacuzzi to forgo the energy savings but make the house more enjoyable.
*cough* Hmm, sounds interesting, but don't current US customers pay 5-20cents per kWh?
I'm just gonna set this down and back away while people flame me for endorsing coal/oil/nuclear based electricity.