And at some point it's going to hurt folks with a real idea. I remember being burned by iwantsandy, I can understand needing to find revenue sources to pay for the cost of providing the service, but not giving the community a chance to pay or even giving any indication that he was about to fold operations was damaging to future attempts at doing that sort of thing. What's worse is that at the time of notice there wasn't an export utility nor were there any promises of one until folks raised a stink about it.
Which is only the case if you've got incompetent MBAs running the place. But I repeat myself, only an MBA would think that way, which is why if I ever own a company I'm not going to be hiring any of those incompetent jack asses to help manage the place.
Tech products are a bit tricky because often times they're completely useless if they don't hit critical mass, cue cat anybody? However, those sorts of products are generally easily spotted, for things that don't depend upon having a large install base to function there's no particular reason to pull the plug so quickly.
That being said, for things like MS' Kin which only sold about 5k units, if that's all you're managing to sell in even a week end, especially following an ad blitz, it's probably best not to waste money on something that's failed. Best to just take the lessons learned and try again.
No, you can't. If you've ever dealt with somebody with any of those diagnoses you'd realize how incorrect that notion is. None of the conditions that have been joined into the ASD are mild by any reasonable stretch of the imagination.
And that's ignoring the fact that "mild autism" isn't a diagnosis to begin with, not in the past and not at present.
I disagree, for a site like this, we don't need fatter pipes. But if you're trying to stream Netflix movies on a 1.5mpbs or slower connection, it's going to be painful. Even at 5mbps I have to disable things that I leave running ordinarily in order to not spend hours on end buffering.
The complicated bit is that there are typically already a couple ISPs in most areas and they'll stone wall any city council that tries it. I know that because 6 years ago when Seattle was thinking about putting all our dark fiber to use, Comcast wouldn't comment and Qwest claimed that they were planning to do it, and neither wanted any interference. Fastward half a decade and Qwest explicitly admits that certain neighborhoods are going to be stuck at 1.5 mbps. I can only imagine how much longer the city can go without being upgraded. The connection in my neighborhood hasn't changed in a decade.
That's fucked up. I live in Seattle and the connection in my neighborhood tops out at 5mbps, there's other neighborhoods where it tops out at 1.5mbps. And we're within a few miles of an IXP.
Just goes to show that Qwest sucks. Hopefully now that Century link owns them we'll see some improvements, but it's been pretty offensive to know that we're paying basically the same rates as those that are on fiber even though we're getting only a fraction of that speed.
Nobody thinks that and nobody really cares. They've never promised to give the technology away, they've always been pretty clear about the fact that they'll ultimately be charging for the connection. Granted they weren't clear about how much, but they are going to be making money on the proposition.
That's really not the problem you seem to think that it is. We've got plenty of capacity, or we would if ISPs would upgrade their capacity with currently available technology. In many parts of the world it's common to have connections that kick the ass of my 5mbps DSL line.
Ultimately, the assumption that the use is just going to spiral out of control forever ultimately neglects to take into account the fact that at some point it becomes good enough. I'm not sure when that's going to be, but it will happen. By the time we can stream Bluray quality video in real time we'll have hit the point where there's little benefit for most folks in bigger pipes.
It's inevitable, provided that some technical limitation doesn't prevent it, we've got finite resolving power from both our eyes and ears, we've got a finite space on which to display the images or to play the sounds back, at some point it does indeed stop increasing.
They're not practically a gatekeeper of the web. I switched to Bing for a while and found that I was getting the same quality that Google was providing if slightly less fresh. And then I switched to duckduckgo which was a bit better than both.
The only reason to use Google is if you demand the absolute most recent results, which in most cases aren't going to differ significantly from the slightly less recent results from the competition.
This is like a town where there are two stores that have high prices and poor service and a new store moving in with better prices and better service.
Google doesn't want to set up networks all across the country, what they do want is to shame the ISPs into doing what they should have been doing years ago. And if shame doesn't work, there's a stick in the form of them making the ISPs obsolete. It's absolutely inexcusable that one can live in a major city and be restricted from any bandwidth faster than 1.5mbps because the ISP doesn't feel like upgrading capacity.
Could be, but more likely they'll profit as a result of the increased number of pages that we'd be viewing in a given length of time. That and that we wouldn't need to block ads to get decent speed. I've noticed a ridiculous number of times when a page won't load that it's spending all its time contacting a slow ad server.
The problem with it was that there wasn't any sort of bounds placed on the estimates. They also didn't take into account that type of transfer IIRC, if you're copying to a network share the estimates would be calculated the same way as if it was disk to disk or on the same disk.
Ultimately it's not that simple to solve in any reasonable way. At least not without knowing more about the transfer than the file size and the current and past transfer rates. And it would regularly be thrown way off if it needed user interaction during the process.
Presently, I don't think there is, I can't imagine why we would have one at present. But ultimately there kind of would have to be otherwise this would be a really stupid idea.
Personally, I would hope so and so long as the forces recognized our right to self governance afterwards and put us back on the road to democracy the military personnel would be greeted as liberators.
That being said, it's unlikely to happen just because it would require a virtual WWW III to take down the US military and the dictator would have nukes.
I've got no problem with it. The War Powers Act was unconstitutional and I have yet to see anybody try to sue the President or the Federal Government for violating it. The President doesn't have grounds for a lawsuit as he can't demonstrate grounds without violating it.
This isn't like those improperly declared wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, requiring the President to get approval for an operation of this type would significantly weaken the President's role as Commander and Chief which really requires a constitutional amendment.
Remember that particular legislation was enacted during the 70s as a reaction to the Vietnam conflict, it was not written considering the possibility that in the future the President would have the capability to be engaged in hostilities from afar that wouldn't involve nuclear weapons.
Beyond that Clinton ignored it as Obama is and Bush didn't need to ignore it because he was granted carte blanche to engage in his favorite wars without getting them properly signed off on.
Yes and the cook at the bar my dad goes to from time to time is Jesus as well. It's not really very useful to suggest that somewhere there was a man who had the same name and whose father had the correct name. I'm sure there's any number of individuals running around today for whom this would apply as well.
Probably because it's not true. Sure if you completely refrain you're in the clear, but the population would plummet and ultimately being careful is in general sufficient to avoid the problems that have become linked with sex.
This is an easier project, assuming that they choose a sensible design. The main issue is going to be cost, but if they're able to do it for $65bn then they shouldn't have too much trouble paying it back over time. Between freight and passengers I'd be shocked if in the long run it didn't end up paying for itself.
I can't wait until I can take a train from Moscow to Moscow.
If they can pull this off, I think it would be amazing. What I'm wondering about is how far they're going to have to go. The last time I took the train we ended up spending the night just outside Havre, MT, because the train wasn't able to handle the cold. Granted it would have been a different story had it been properly winterized, but still, given how much nothing there is out there during winter.
I think at this point we're recognizing the rebels as the legitimate governing power of the Libyan people. And yes, these things do get confusing, civil wars tend to get that way.
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And at some point it's going to hurt folks with a real idea. I remember being burned by iwantsandy, I can understand needing to find revenue sources to pay for the cost of providing the service, but not giving the community a chance to pay or even giving any indication that he was about to fold operations was damaging to future attempts at doing that sort of thing. What's worse is that at the time of notice there wasn't an export utility nor were there any promises of one until folks raised a stink about it.
Which is only the case if you've got incompetent MBAs running the place. But I repeat myself, only an MBA would think that way, which is why if I ever own a company I'm not going to be hiring any of those incompetent jack asses to help manage the place.
Tech products are a bit tricky because often times they're completely useless if they don't hit critical mass, cue cat anybody? However, those sorts of products are generally easily spotted, for things that don't depend upon having a large install base to function there's no particular reason to pull the plug so quickly.
That being said, for things like MS' Kin which only sold about 5k units, if that's all you're managing to sell in even a week end, especially following an ad blitz, it's probably best not to waste money on something that's failed. Best to just take the lessons learned and try again.
No, you can't. If you've ever dealt with somebody with any of those diagnoses you'd realize how incorrect that notion is. None of the conditions that have been joined into the ASD are mild by any reasonable stretch of the imagination.
And that's ignoring the fact that "mild autism" isn't a diagnosis to begin with, not in the past and not at present.
I disagree, for a site like this, we don't need fatter pipes. But if you're trying to stream Netflix movies on a 1.5mpbs or slower connection, it's going to be painful. Even at 5mbps I have to disable things that I leave running ordinarily in order to not spend hours on end buffering.
The complicated bit is that there are typically already a couple ISPs in most areas and they'll stone wall any city council that tries it. I know that because 6 years ago when Seattle was thinking about putting all our dark fiber to use, Comcast wouldn't comment and Qwest claimed that they were planning to do it, and neither wanted any interference. Fastward half a decade and Qwest explicitly admits that certain neighborhoods are going to be stuck at 1.5 mbps. I can only imagine how much longer the city can go without being upgraded. The connection in my neighborhood hasn't changed in a decade.
That's fucked up. I live in Seattle and the connection in my neighborhood tops out at 5mbps, there's other neighborhoods where it tops out at 1.5mbps. And we're within a few miles of an IXP.
Just goes to show that Qwest sucks. Hopefully now that Century link owns them we'll see some improvements, but it's been pretty offensive to know that we're paying basically the same rates as those that are on fiber even though we're getting only a fraction of that speed.
Nobody thinks that and nobody really cares. They've never promised to give the technology away, they've always been pretty clear about the fact that they'll ultimately be charging for the connection. Granted they weren't clear about how much, but they are going to be making money on the proposition.
That's really not the problem you seem to think that it is. We've got plenty of capacity, or we would if ISPs would upgrade their capacity with currently available technology. In many parts of the world it's common to have connections that kick the ass of my 5mbps DSL line.
Ultimately, the assumption that the use is just going to spiral out of control forever ultimately neglects to take into account the fact that at some point it becomes good enough. I'm not sure when that's going to be, but it will happen. By the time we can stream Bluray quality video in real time we'll have hit the point where there's little benefit for most folks in bigger pipes.
It's inevitable, provided that some technical limitation doesn't prevent it, we've got finite resolving power from both our eyes and ears, we've got a finite space on which to display the images or to play the sounds back, at some point it does indeed stop increasing.
They're not practically a gatekeeper of the web. I switched to Bing for a while and found that I was getting the same quality that Google was providing if slightly less fresh. And then I switched to duckduckgo which was a bit better than both.
The only reason to use Google is if you demand the absolute most recent results, which in most cases aren't going to differ significantly from the slightly less recent results from the competition.
That's a really, really bad analogy.
This is like a town where there are two stores that have high prices and poor service and a new store moving in with better prices and better service.
Google doesn't want to set up networks all across the country, what they do want is to shame the ISPs into doing what they should have been doing years ago. And if shame doesn't work, there's a stick in the form of them making the ISPs obsolete. It's absolutely inexcusable that one can live in a major city and be restricted from any bandwidth faster than 1.5mbps because the ISP doesn't feel like upgrading capacity.
No, but it will help with latency and probably come with a better modem. Plus, I doubt very much that those ad servers are really that slow.
Could be, but more likely they'll profit as a result of the increased number of pages that we'd be viewing in a given length of time. That and that we wouldn't need to block ads to get decent speed. I've noticed a ridiculous number of times when a page won't load that it's spending all its time contacting a slow ad server.
Pssh, I was hating Facebook before it became popular to hate Facebook. Poseurs.
Mildly autistic isn't a technical term as far as I know. Autism is a very well defined diagnosis and you can't be just a little autistic.
But isn't the plural of anecdote data?
The problem with it was that there wasn't any sort of bounds placed on the estimates. They also didn't take into account that type of transfer IIRC, if you're copying to a network share the estimates would be calculated the same way as if it was disk to disk or on the same disk.
Ultimately it's not that simple to solve in any reasonable way. At least not without knowing more about the transfer than the file size and the current and past transfer rates. And it would regularly be thrown way off if it needed user interaction during the process.
Presently, I don't think there is, I can't imagine why we would have one at present. But ultimately there kind of would have to be otherwise this would be a really stupid idea.
Personally, I would hope so and so long as the forces recognized our right to self governance afterwards and put us back on the road to democracy the military personnel would be greeted as liberators.
That being said, it's unlikely to happen just because it would require a virtual WWW III to take down the US military and the dictator would have nukes.
I've got no problem with it. The War Powers Act was unconstitutional and I have yet to see anybody try to sue the President or the Federal Government for violating it. The President doesn't have grounds for a lawsuit as he can't demonstrate grounds without violating it.
This isn't like those improperly declared wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, requiring the President to get approval for an operation of this type would significantly weaken the President's role as Commander and Chief which really requires a constitutional amendment.
Remember that particular legislation was enacted during the 70s as a reaction to the Vietnam conflict, it was not written considering the possibility that in the future the President would have the capability to be engaged in hostilities from afar that wouldn't involve nuclear weapons.
Beyond that Clinton ignored it as Obama is and Bush didn't need to ignore it because he was granted carte blanche to engage in his favorite wars without getting them properly signed off on.
For the same reason that somebody would put melamine in milk. They're cheap and incompetent.
Yes and the cook at the bar my dad goes to from time to time is Jesus as well. It's not really very useful to suggest that somewhere there was a man who had the same name and whose father had the correct name. I'm sure there's any number of individuals running around today for whom this would apply as well.
Probably because it's not true. Sure if you completely refrain you're in the clear, but the population would plummet and ultimately being careful is in general sufficient to avoid the problems that have become linked with sex.
This is an easier project, assuming that they choose a sensible design. The main issue is going to be cost, but if they're able to do it for $65bn then they shouldn't have too much trouble paying it back over time. Between freight and passengers I'd be shocked if in the long run it didn't end up paying for itself.
I can't wait until I can take a train from Moscow to Moscow.
If they can pull this off, I think it would be amazing. What I'm wondering about is how far they're going to have to go. The last time I took the train we ended up spending the night just outside Havre, MT, because the train wasn't able to handle the cold. Granted it would have been a different story had it been properly winterized, but still, given how much nothing there is out there during winter.
I think at this point we're recognizing the rebels as the legitimate governing power of the Libyan people. And yes, these things do get confusing, civil wars tend to get that way.