Not having the ability to surf for pr0n is one thing. However, lots of people use their connections for business uses. It supports their livelihood. When you consider that, it sounds a little more important.
What a person does on the net (as long as its legal ) is entirely his/her "business", and should not concern the rest of us.
and two.
Right now it's just being able to check your email. But as we depend on bandwidth more and more in the future it becomes more important. Consider that.
It is already much more then E-mail (even though for some E-mail literaly is life ) and like you say it wont be "very long" before things in your house wont run unless they can update from the server (ping household-kitchen-appliance.net........ping timeout. sorry no service available for stove/toaster/coffee machine)
"sorry I cant come to work today, my door doesn't recognise my voice" or "when I was a boy, we had store's where we bought our food instead of having the fridge order it for us....... blast it all, Im hungry"
this Site looks to be very entertaining. (god know's I'm always looking for some way to kill some more of my time) as long as they can keep issues coming out at a rate to keep people coming back often and soon. I dont think they will have a problem.
Retireing the Hubble before sending up a replacement, just seams, well, like people really arnt all that interested in learning about space anymore.
There is so much sky that if the observers spent from now untill they die without stopping, they still would not cover more then a fraction.
When I was a kid the only thing I thought would be more exciting then living in the past to watch discoveries be made, was to live in the future after many more had been made. I wanted to learn to my brain exploded.
Everyone I knew was like that. There was a time when the people of america all were behind the space projects. Now we all hear about the money being spent as though investing in the human race isn't cost effective.
This is true, the Article dosn't state that a breakup is the only option being researched. It says posible breakup.
Other options vary greatly, one being that Microsoft be forced to release the code to windows, or remove it from the shelf. Being as they are a "Monopoly", when it comes to OS's.
On the breakup side though, its kinda scary to think that there might be four different Distro's of Windoze in the mix.
I've been system security guy #5 in a couple of different company's and the first step in teaching a new person the security proccess was to ask them what there password was, and if they told me I would slap them.
Understand that these people deserved what ever I dished out, the most common complaint at these jobs was that there monitor wouldnt work after they had poured two liters of Orange Crush in the back of it.
Security was maintained by limiting everones access and making them strickly responsible for there own actions, sharing your password with another employee was a flogging offense. If your were to write it somewhere and leave it where it could be found, you would be thrown from a fourth floor window.
The only security measures that where purchased, was a smart card swipe at the front door, and big dude named Machette that would growl at you on a regular basis.
Its possible that a percentage of costumers WILL have cheaper access, as this kind of charging system will discourage most people from using the internet to a large amount. When my mother first obtained an Internet account, she got a 15 hour account and would get on, download mail, upload mail visit a couple of sites that friends had verbally told her about, and then log off. This she would do only every couple of days, thus never even using all 15 hours she had availible. I explained how much she was missing, and conviced her that unlimited account is well worth its weight in gold, and that I would pay twice what Im paying now for an unlimited account. And of course now she averages about 200 hours a month.
My point is this, if you break down the cost in to increments, you run the risk of people expending less increments. Whether it be time units or packet units. How ever if you have a (pretty much) flat cost people will use it as much as they want. For some (like me and everyone I work with) this would mean that several computers would never go down, for others they will continue to use there 25-30 minutes a day, being as this is all they desire, to use.
Slashdot Mirror
No kidding.
Shoot I need to get one of these devices next to my bed. Maybe as an add-on module for my alarm clock.
"Good Morning the time is 09:00 am and the FSC is
a = 0.00729735253300000002542561784
a**-1 =137.035999765368605156268595"
or maybe as a an add-on for my bathroom scale (also talking)
"jeez your mass/volume ratio is high today, you overcharged mass of electrons"
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two points.
Not having the ability to surf for pr0n is one thing. However, lots of people use their connections for business uses. It supports their livelihood. When you consider that, it sounds a little more important.
What a person does on the net (as long as its legal ) is entirely his/her "business", and should not concern the rest of us.
and two.
Right now it's just being able to check your email. But as we depend on bandwidth more and more in the future it becomes more important. Consider that.
It is already much more then E-mail (even though for some E-mail literaly is life ) and like you say it wont be "very long" before things in your house wont run unless they can update from the server (ping household-kitchen-appliance.net........ping timeout. sorry no service available for stove/toaster/coffee machine)
"sorry I cant come to work today, my door doesn't recognise my voice" or "when I was a boy, we had store's where we bought our food instead of having the fridge order it for us....... blast it all, Im hungry"
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and we call CNET doomsayers'
this Site looks to be very entertaining. (god know's I'm always looking for some way to kill some more of my time) as long as they can keep issues coming out at a rate to keep people coming back often and soon. I dont think they will have a problem.
Retireing the Hubble before sending up a replacement, just seams, well, like people really arnt all that interested in learning about space anymore.
There is so much sky that if the observers spent from now untill they die without stopping, they still would not cover more then a fraction.
When I was a kid the only thing I thought would be more exciting then living in the past to watch discoveries be made, was to live in the future after many more had been made. I wanted to learn to my brain exploded.
Everyone I knew was like that. There was a time when the people of america all were behind the space projects. Now we all hear about the money being spent as though investing in the human race isn't cost effective.
This kinda makes you wonder about ground stabality in places with lots of Grond Water dirrectly underneath.
This is true, the Article dosn't state that a breakup is the only option being researched. It says posible breakup.
Other options vary greatly, one being that Microsoft be forced to release the code to windows, or remove it from the shelf. Being as they are a "Monopoly", when it comes to OS's.
On the breakup side though, its kinda scary to think that there might be four different Distro's of Windoze in the mix.
This is a Good point.
I've been system security guy #5 in a couple of different company's and the first step in teaching a new person the security proccess was to ask them what there password was, and if they told me I would slap them.
Understand that these people deserved what ever I dished out, the most common complaint at these jobs was that there monitor wouldnt work after they had poured two liters of Orange Crush in the back of it.
Security was maintained by limiting everones access and making them strickly responsible for there own actions, sharing your password with another employee was a flogging offense. If your were to write it somewhere and leave it where it could be found, you would be thrown from a fourth floor window.
The only security measures that where purchased, was a smart card swipe at the front door, and big dude named Machette that would growl at you on a regular basis.
Its possible that a percentage of costumers WILL have cheaper access, as this kind of charging system will discourage most people from using the internet to a large amount.
When my mother first obtained an Internet account, she got a 15 hour account and would get on, download mail, upload mail visit a couple of sites that friends had verbally told her about, and then log off. This she would do only every couple of days, thus never even using all 15 hours she had availible.
I explained how much she was missing, and conviced her that unlimited account is well worth its weight in gold, and that I would pay twice what Im paying now for an unlimited account.
And of course now she averages about 200 hours a month.
My point is this, if you break down the cost in to increments, you run the risk of people expending less increments.
Whether it be time units or packet units.
How ever if you have a (pretty much) flat cost people will use it as much as they want.
For some (like me and everyone I work with) this would mean that several computers would never go down, for others they will continue to use there 25-30 minutes a day, being as this is all they desire, to use.