This monopoly, pricing, bandwidth, fairness discourse is just a smoke screen.
The government wants to regulate the Internet so they can control how ISPs operate. The government wants to control "illegal" Internet traffic. The term "legal traffic" and "illegal traffic" is a recurring theme in the various descriptions of the new regulation.
So, say goodbye to websites that serve "illegal traffic." USENET, illegal traffic. Wikileaks, illegal traffic. Gambliing sites, illegal traffic. Porn sites, depends on the jurisdiction.
It will be hard for ISPs to keep track of what is and what isn't legal based on jurisdiction. I think the Department of Homeland Security could help by setting up monitoring at various NAPs so that DHS agents can filter dynamically in real time.
...for a blu ray player so I can put up with unbreakable encryption, crappy region coding, overpriced discs, unskipable ads and propaganda. For what? A bit more detail in the picture? There truly isn't another advantage to the format that even interests me...
All of these incremental improvements in technology are nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt by these big corporations to provide you with better goods and services and make a profit for their investors.
I mean really, was the "The Beverly Hillbillies" that much better in Season 3 when they switched to color? for goodness sakes what's the difference on a 19" Console TV using an antennae with a rotor? The writing wasn't one bit better and to tell you the truth I think the subtle loss of contrast of B&W over Color has hurt the TV industry in the long run.
That is the problem, scared poorly trained seamen. The navies of the world need to set the stage. It needs to be known that pirates in International waters will be dealt with by the use of lethal force.
Once that has been established the insurance companies, in lieu of paying ransom, can use that money to hire trained security consultants that are properly armed.
Several deck mounted M2HB.50 cals should be an adequate deterrent and have way more range than any weapon system that the pirates are able to field.
The mounts could be on all ships protected by that particular company. You would just mount them and unmount them before entering any ports where they were not welcome. That would be part of the allure of this plan. You don't need to have a security consultant or.50 cals on each ship. You just need to have either the weapon or a mock up mounted on all protected vessels.
Hell I am fifty years old and would be glad to take an occasional gulf cruise. Have the captain throw out a few plastic barrels and take turns with the crew seeing who can sink them the fastest. Sounds like a fun afternoon to me.
I have tried almost every major rev since 6.04 waiting for it to be "ready for the desktop." Last month after spending 3 days trying to recover my Windows data after a full Vista reinstall (third time BTW) I loaded up Intrepid.
Then it dawned on me. It is never going to replace Windows. It is going to offer an alternative to Windows. The question is when was I going to be ready?
I know one of the things that has kept me from switching is the thought of losing the thousands of dollars in software and a few "must have apps." Those few must have apps have locked me in to an expensive world of pain requiring ridiculous amounts of system maintenance just to maintain MS Money and Outlook and play a few games (which have versions for my PS3 anyway.)
Sure it took some time to migrate all data and scale the learning curve. But not as much time I have blown reinstalling Windows over the years (since that is the only solution to MANY of Windows problems.)
So the answer is more and more users will be "ready for Linux as a desktop" as more functional versions are released and as they tire of the increasingly "feature" laden fragility of the Microsoft offerings.
As one of my techs told me a long time ago, 'Windows just feels like it is about to break all the time."
They do not want to lose control of the image that they have created and have worked to associate with their copyrighted work. It doesn't have to be a crummy shammy to damage their work. It could actually be a wildly successful product that damages it more.
For the sake of argument let's say a Japanese company makes a wide range of products based on this scary thing called Sacrezilla. They have been successful for many years and as a business it is vital that they retain the right to scare more people in the future. This is how they make a profit on the capital they put at risk.
Another company decides they will make a stuffed animal called Carezilla. The product is packaged with rainbows, stars, and shamrocks and shares shel space with Bearzilla (who is Carezillas BFF.) Later the original makers of Scarezilla make another movie because they need to generate profit to stay in business (since they can't borrow money to stay in business like American businesses do.) The movie tanks because there is no child left on the planet that can be scared by anything with the extension of 'zilla on the name.
Net result, company bankrupt, broke shareholders (who will never invest in another franchise that makes money by scaring people,) and a gaggle of Japanese animators trying to relocate to Seoul so they can work on the new Bearzilla loves Carezilla movie. So there you go, that is just one of the reasons a company might not want another business using a name that is similar to something that they have developed and copyrighted. At least that's my take on it...
A 4+ insightful troll making the fallacious argument that since there is sexual predation in some American prisons that the American people naturally would like to see wild animals mauling inmates as well.
It is a fallacy to assume that because there is sexual predation in some American prisons that the next logical step is to have wild animals maul prisoners for sport. In fact, in US Federal prison it is actually quite unusual. Are you sure that sexual predation is not a problem around the world as well? What about Turkish prisons for instance?
In the case of your argument your anti-American bias is quite clear. However, it does not logically follow that because there is sexual predation in some American prisons that the American people individually or as a nation are concerned one way or another how other countries choose to punish their criminals.
Even though it is moderated as insightful it comes across as a rant that comes to conclusions with fallacious reasoning. I am not sure if that was your intent or not.
Oops. One small problem that invalidates most of what you said.
First, a company is not a "self." Second, a company is run to profit the people that put capital at risk (i.e. the owners of the company.) Those are the "selves" that are being rewarded. Why shouldn't people that put capital at risk be rewarded for their effort? Third, the company is providing a benefit to everyone. They are providing a good product at a fair price. If they weren't, then it wouldn't be a successful company.
I still contend that the basics are no longer taught in school.
It's the best browser that has ever been distributed for the average computer user to use. IE 8 will be better. That's why they use numbers at the end of the name to let you know there is a better one out there.
Firefox may be superior in some respects and not in others. I use both. When IE won't render a page correctly then I go use Firefox. Works well for me.
I am not sure what part of IE 7 is not solid. It never crashes and it displays web pages, media content and downloads files. What more is it supposed to do?
That's what top posting is for, to save you and the reader time while at the same time keeping a reasonable record of the conversation. Unnecessary editing wastes more money than it saves.
There is absolutely no reason not to top post and to ping pong unedited emails around. That may change in the future with the way the economy is going. If wages drop and storage and bandwidth prices rise, and that is still a stretch, it could be a problem. There is a good chance that bandwidth and storage prices rise instead of the steady drop that is taken for granted.
As the dollar inevitably becomes devalued against the yuan the prices of imported hard drives will rise. By that time we will have lost the ability for that industry to quickly ramp up.
It took half a dozen responses before someone asserted that Bush himself ineptly decided, yet deliberately, to blah blah blah.
Do you REALLY think the president had anything to do with how the data from his administration was migrated to archival storage? I can just see him now, calling the Secretary of Education to make sure that the migration of emails concerning the September 2002 NCLB reports for Mississippi get delayed "just until this Iraq thing blows over."
Lost to what? That energy is not lost. If you are reducing the strength of turbulence in the water flow at some point there will be a measurable result. Bototmline is that you are removing energy from one system to place in another system. If you do that indiscriminantly there could be consequences.
Can you give some instances where "libertarians" have supported the dilution of individual liberties? I do not think libertarian means what you think it means.
Where do you think the overhead is at? GUI, mouse, I/O? Do you think Internet Explorer is dragging it down?
My guess is that when it's running 600 GFLOPS that any "OS pissing" is marginal and doesn't matter one bit at all. Besides, doesn't the benchmark score get reported AFTER all of the OS overhead?
Where is the insight here? Just seems like the usual Microsoft bashing, though this time it doesn't even really make sense.
Obvious troll but since it is anti-American it gets modded 4+ insightful. There is no lack of scientific talent in the US. Maybe you are opposed to the disparity between the least and most educated, but that is not what you wrote.
Who is to say that having everyone educated to higher mean is better than having a broader range of education level in the populous? Do you really think everyone needs the same level of education? Isn't it a waste to train a future doctor, lawyer, scientist, auto mechanic, factory worker, and beautician to the same standard in high school?
High school education should be stopped in the 10th grade. Vocational related training, and college prep, and other programs based on the students goals could be a replacement during the last two years. There is more than one way to help education in the US and throwing tax dollars at the problem obviously isn't the answer.
The reason higher education is so expensive is tat there is an educational bubble in the country just like the housing bubble. They were both created by the same politicians by making money available at unsupportable and artificially low interest rates. Whenever you pump money into a system without a core change in demand the price will inflate.
Maybe in winds that are too low to start the blades spinning, but breezy enough to keep the blades turning, they could apply electrical power to spool up the blades in order to overcome any startup inertial forces?
(One long sentence seemed easier than actually writing a paragraph.)
No. They are there to make the most money possible for the shareholder (owners) of the company. You confuse the best methods of maximizing profit with the actual mission of making the most profit. They do not have to justify anything, but they may be held accountable for business decisions that are made.
However, all the things you mention have nothing to do with the real mission. They may at various times choosee to treat the employees poorly or kindly, or treat their customers poorly or to treat them kindly. Whichever method maximizes profit is the correct method. Shifting back and forth in the spectrum of customer and employee relations is done continually as market forces come to bear.
They should maximize profit at the expense of everything including the environment if they can. If regulation and public opinion compel them to have a "green" policy then they will. They are not going to, and shouldn't do it out of altruism. Altruism is the realm of the individual and not the corporation.
This story is a good example of what happens when you try to put your principles and emotions in front of the good of the corporation. You get demoted from CEO to "chief Yahoo."
I clicked on the last 10 years or so and it seems to be dominated by people with the letters USA after their name. I didn't check on your other claims since I had already seen enough to question the validity of all your assertions.
Is it inconceivable that anything good can come from academia and business where profit is the motive? I think not.
I would say you have a country that I have absolutely no interest in ever living in. Anyone can say anything.
Your national health care system uses drugs developed by American drug companies, and your doctors use technology and techniques pioneered in the US. If there is much of any other influence on your medical system it is from France and the UK.
Without a profit motive developments in healthcare will dramatically slow.
I don't agree. I say get the DTV converter and cancel your cable or sattelite TV feed. That would improve the quality and reduce the quantity of what you watch. It would also you leave you a nice monthly surplus to save for retirement or pay down your debt. End result, happier!
Right. Not to mention that you personally don't break the law and therefore have nothing to hide. Anyone that is against this idea probably should have an ankle tracking bracelet applied in the first place.
I think this idea just scratches the surface. Why not collect anonymous stats on everyone. You could still do powerful pattern recognition without knowing the individual identity of the subject.
Perhaps an anonymous person leaves his anonymous significant others (SO) house. He goes to the bar, then he goes to WalMart (which probably should be a crime in and of itself.) The computer checks and sees that someone buys.357 ammo during the same time that anonymous person is shopping. Anonymous person #1 drives around stopping at various liquor stores. Then anonymous driver parks down the street from SO house and just sits. Based on the previous behavior of this anonymous subject the computer is 99.8% certain that a crime is in progress. The police are summoned and a judge signs a warrant withing the 72 hours allowed by the Homeland Traffic and Safety Improvement Act.
That's where you are wrong. We are guaranteed the right to complain by our own Constitution. Perhaps you are the ignorant one.
"My life sucks and I am happy with it. You have so much more yet still want more."
Maybe that is the reason we have so much more. But hey, at least you are not destroying the world.
As far as the silver platter goes, no one gets handed anything buddy. Maybe instead of waiting for someone to hand you something you should dump the complacency and go get what you want. Or not, whatever suits you is okay by me.
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This monopoly, pricing, bandwidth, fairness discourse is just a smoke screen.
The government wants to regulate the Internet so they can control how ISPs operate. The government wants to control "illegal" Internet traffic. The term "legal traffic" and "illegal traffic" is a recurring theme in the various descriptions of the new regulation.
So, say goodbye to websites that serve "illegal traffic." USENET, illegal traffic. Wikileaks, illegal traffic. Gambliing sites, illegal traffic. Porn sites, depends on the jurisdiction.
It will be hard for ISPs to keep track of what is and what isn't legal based on jurisdiction. I think the Department of Homeland Security could help by setting up monitoring at various NAPs so that DHS agents can filter dynamically in real time.
BOHICA
...for a blu ray player so I can put up with unbreakable encryption, crappy region coding, overpriced discs, unskipable ads and propaganda. For what? A bit more detail in the picture? There truly isn't another advantage to the format that even interests me...
All of these incremental improvements in technology are nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt by these big corporations to provide you with better goods and services and make a profit for their investors.
I mean really, was the "The Beverly Hillbillies" that much better in Season 3 when they switched to color? for goodness sakes what's the difference on a 19" Console TV using an antennae with a rotor? The writing wasn't one bit better and to tell you the truth I think the subtle loss of contrast of B&W over Color has hurt the TV industry in the long run.
That is the problem, scared poorly trained seamen. The navies of the world need to set the stage. It needs to be known that pirates in International waters will be dealt with by the use of lethal force.
Once that has been established the insurance companies, in lieu of paying ransom, can use that money to hire trained security consultants that are properly armed.
Several deck mounted M2HB .50 cals should be an adequate deterrent and have way more range than any weapon system that the pirates are able to field.
The mounts could be on all ships protected by that particular company. You would just mount them and unmount them before entering any ports where they were not welcome. That would be part of the allure of this plan. You don't need to have a security consultant or .50 cals on each ship. You just need to have either the weapon or a mock up mounted on all protected vessels.
Hell I am fifty years old and would be glad to take an occasional gulf cruise. Have the captain throw out a few plastic barrels and take turns with the crew seeing who can sink them the fastest. Sounds like a fun afternoon to me.
I am ready to use Ubuntu as my desktop.
I have tried almost every major rev since 6.04 waiting for it to be "ready for the desktop." Last month after spending 3 days trying to recover my Windows data after a full Vista reinstall (third time BTW) I loaded up Intrepid.
Then it dawned on me. It is never going to replace Windows. It is going to offer an alternative to Windows. The question is when was I going to be ready?
I know one of the things that has kept me from switching is the thought of losing the thousands of dollars in software and a few "must have apps." Those few must have apps have locked me in to an expensive world of pain requiring ridiculous amounts of system maintenance just to maintain MS Money and Outlook and play a few games (which have versions for my PS3 anyway.)
Sure it took some time to migrate all data and scale the learning curve. But not as much time I have blown reinstalling Windows over the years (since that is the only solution to MANY of Windows problems.)
So the answer is more and more users will be "ready for Linux as a desktop" as more functional versions are released and as they tire of the increasingly "feature" laden fragility of the Microsoft offerings.
As one of my techs told me a long time ago, 'Windows just feels like it is about to break all the time."
They do not want to lose control of the image that they have created and have worked to associate with their copyrighted work. It doesn't have to be a crummy shammy to damage their work. It could actually be a wildly successful product that damages it more.
For the sake of argument let's say a Japanese company makes a wide range of products based on this scary thing called Sacrezilla. They have been successful for many years and as a business it is vital that they retain the right to scare more people in the future. This is how they make a profit on the capital they put at risk.
Another company decides they will make a stuffed animal called Carezilla. The product is packaged with rainbows, stars, and shamrocks and shares shel space with Bearzilla (who is Carezillas BFF.) Later the original makers of Scarezilla make another movie because they need to generate profit to stay in business (since they can't borrow money to stay in business like American businesses do.) The movie tanks because there is no child left on the planet that can be scared by anything with the extension of 'zilla on the name.
Net result, company bankrupt, broke shareholders (who will never invest in another franchise that makes money by scaring people,) and a gaggle of Japanese animators trying to relocate to Seoul so they can work on the new Bearzilla loves Carezilla movie. So there you go, that is just one of the reasons a company might not want another business using a name that is similar to something that they have developed and copyrighted. At least that's my take on it...
A 4+ insightful troll making the fallacious argument that since there is sexual predation in some American prisons that the American people naturally would like to see wild animals mauling inmates as well.
It is a fallacy to assume that because there is sexual predation in some American prisons that the next logical step is to have wild animals maul prisoners for sport. In fact, in US Federal prison it is actually quite unusual. Are you sure that sexual predation is not a problem around the world as well? What about Turkish prisons for instance?
In the case of your argument your anti-American bias is quite clear. However, it does not logically follow that because there is sexual predation in some American prisons that the American people individually or as a nation are concerned one way or another how other countries choose to punish their criminals.
Even though it is moderated as insightful it comes across as a rant that comes to conclusions with fallacious reasoning. I am not sure if that was your intent or not.
Oops. One small problem that invalidates most of what you said.
First, a company is not a "self." Second, a company is run to profit the people that put capital at risk (i.e. the owners of the company.) Those are the "selves" that are being rewarded. Why shouldn't people that put capital at risk be rewarded for their effort? Third, the company is providing a benefit to everyone. They are providing a good product at a fair price. If they weren't, then it wouldn't be a successful company.
I still contend that the basics are no longer taught in school.
It's the best browser that has ever been distributed for the average computer user to use. IE 8 will be better. That's why they use numbers at the end of the name to let you know there is a better one out there.
Firefox may be superior in some respects and not in others. I use both. When IE won't render a page correctly then I go use Firefox. Works well for me.
I am not sure what part of IE 7 is not solid. It never crashes and it displays web pages, media content and downloads files. What more is it supposed to do?
That's what top posting is for, to save you and the reader time while at the same time keeping a reasonable record of the conversation. Unnecessary editing wastes more money than it saves.
There is absolutely no reason not to top post and to ping pong unedited emails around. That may change in the future with the way the economy is going. If wages drop and storage and bandwidth prices rise, and that is still a stretch, it could be a problem. There is a good chance that bandwidth and storage prices rise instead of the steady drop that is taken for granted.
As the dollar inevitably becomes devalued against the yuan the prices of imported hard drives will rise. By that time we will have lost the ability for that industry to quickly ramp up.
It took half a dozen responses before someone asserted that Bush himself ineptly decided, yet deliberately, to blah blah blah.
Do you REALLY think the president had anything to do with how the data from his administration was migrated to archival storage? I can just see him now, calling the Secretary of Education to make sure that the migration of emails concerning the September 2002 NCLB reports for Mississippi get delayed "just until this Iraq thing blows over."
The election is over give it a rest.
Lost to what? That energy is not lost. If you are reducing the strength of turbulence in the water flow at some point there will be a measurable result. Bototmline is that you are removing energy from one system to place in another system. If you do that indiscriminantly there could be consequences.
Chickens come home to roost. Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it. (I am sure there are more but I feel bad enough using two.)
Not too surprising when people vote based on emotion instead of a knowledge of the issues.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15829.html
Can you give some instances where "libertarians" have supported the dilution of individual liberties? I do not think libertarian means what you think it means.
Where do you think the overhead is at? GUI, mouse, I/O? Do you think Internet Explorer is dragging it down?
My guess is that when it's running 600 GFLOPS that any "OS pissing" is marginal and doesn't matter one bit at all. Besides, doesn't the benchmark score get reported AFTER all of the OS overhead?
Where is the insight here? Just seems like the usual Microsoft bashing, though this time it doesn't even really make sense.
Obvious troll but since it is anti-American it gets modded 4+ insightful. There is no lack of scientific talent in the US. Maybe you are opposed to the disparity between the least and most educated, but that is not what you wrote.
Who is to say that having everyone educated to higher mean is better than having a broader range of education level in the populous? Do you really think everyone needs the same level of education? Isn't it a waste to train a future doctor, lawyer, scientist, auto mechanic, factory worker, and beautician to the same standard in high school?
High school education should be stopped in the 10th grade. Vocational related training, and college prep, and other programs based on the students goals could be a replacement during the last two years. There is more than one way to help education in the US and throwing tax dollars at the problem obviously isn't the answer.
The reason higher education is so expensive is tat there is an educational bubble in the country just like the housing bubble. They were both created by the same politicians by making money available at unsupportable and artificially low interest rates. Whenever you pump money into a system without a core change in demand the price will inflate.
Maybe in winds that are too low to start the blades spinning, but breezy enough to keep the blades turning, they could apply electrical power to spool up the blades in order to overcome any startup inertial forces?
(One long sentence seemed easier than actually writing a paragraph.)
First off the military isn't socially challenged. In fact it probably has one of the most clearly defined and unambiguous social structures possible.
Second, women are given every opportunity to succeed in the military. Sexual harassment is simply not tolerated and is dealt with harshly as needed.
What branch of the military were you in, and how long ago was it, when you made this observation?
No. They are there to make the most money possible for the shareholder (owners) of the company. You confuse the best methods of maximizing profit with the actual mission of making the most profit. They do not have to justify anything, but they may be held accountable for business decisions that are made.
However, all the things you mention have nothing to do with the real mission. They may at various times choosee to treat the employees poorly or kindly, or treat their customers poorly or to treat them kindly. Whichever method maximizes profit is the correct method. Shifting back and forth in the spectrum of customer and employee relations is done continually as market forces come to bear.
They should maximize profit at the expense of everything including the environment if they can. If regulation and public opinion compel them to have a "green" policy then they will. They are not going to, and shouldn't do it out of altruism. Altruism is the realm of the individual and not the corporation.
This story is a good example of what happens when you try to put your principles and emotions in front of the good of the corporation. You get demoted from CEO to "chief Yahoo."
I am glad you are proud of your conutry. That is worth automatic mod points here as long as it isn't posted by an American.
I take exception to your assertion that Denmark is better than the US. Using facts not in evidence only weakens your claim.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/
I clicked on the last 10 years or so and it seems to be dominated by people with the letters USA after their name. I didn't check on your other claims since I had already seen enough to question the validity of all your assertions.
Is it inconceivable that anything good can come from academia and business where profit is the motive? I think not.
I would say you have a country that I have absolutely no interest in ever living in. Anyone can say anything.
Your national health care system uses drugs developed by American drug companies, and your doctors use technology and techniques pioneered in the US. If there is much of any other influence on your medical system it is from France and the UK.
Without a profit motive developments in healthcare will dramatically slow.
I don't agree. I say get the DTV converter and cancel your cable or sattelite TV feed. That would improve the quality and reduce the quantity of what you watch. It would also you leave you a nice monthly surplus to save for retirement or pay down your debt. End result, happier!
Right. Not to mention that you personally don't break the law and therefore have nothing to hide. Anyone that is against this idea probably should have an ankle tracking bracelet applied in the first place.
I think this idea just scratches the surface. Why not collect anonymous stats on everyone. You could still do powerful pattern recognition without knowing the individual identity of the subject.
Perhaps an anonymous person leaves his anonymous significant others (SO) house. He goes to the bar, then he goes to WalMart (which probably should be a crime in and of itself.) The computer checks and sees that someone buys .357 ammo during the same time that anonymous person is shopping. Anonymous person #1 drives around stopping at various liquor stores. Then anonymous driver parks down the street from SO house and just sits. Based on the previous behavior of this anonymous subject the computer is 99.8% certain that a crime is in progress. The police are summoned and a judge signs a warrant withing the 72 hours allowed by the Homeland Traffic and Safety Improvement Act.
What could possibly go wrong?
That's where you are wrong. We are guaranteed the right to complain by our own Constitution. Perhaps you are the ignorant one.
"My life sucks and I am happy with it. You have so much more yet still want more."
Maybe that is the reason we have so much more. But hey, at least you are not destroying the world.
As far as the silver platter goes, no one gets handed anything buddy. Maybe instead of waiting for someone to hand you something you should dump the complacency and go get what you want. Or not, whatever suits you is okay by me.
Maybe because his parents said he was.
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