Look, I'm not saying that unlimited bandwidth is a good idea. You're taking swipes at me, but I'm not even vaguely where you think I am. All I'm saying is that if you advertise unlimited bandwidth, and your contract doesn't provide for shaping/throttling, then you don't get to engage in shaping/throttling.
I'm not calling for utopia. I'm calling for corporations to honor the contracts they enter into with private citizens, which is a less and less popular idea these days.
The fact that you don't know of any ISP that says take all you can is reflective not of reality but your limited knowledge. You're entitled to your own opinion, but attempting to have your own facts is disgusting.
It's best to keep in mind that, from the standpoint of an ISP, the optimal use pattern is a customer who never even hooks up the modem. They'd rather we used as little bandwidth as possible.
This reminds me of Netflix throttling:
"Here, take all you can!"
*takes all one can*
"NO FAIR!" *throttles*
Interestingly, while MSFT software is sold and supported out of the Robert Bell building, where the CS department is, Apple hardware and software is sold and supported out of the Teacher's College building.
What I see in the cultural shift is a movement away from Christianity and toward whatever's going to replace it- check out the end of the Roman Empire for similar. It's a good thing.
Also, don't be fooled into believing the "The 1950's were a golden age" nonsense that floats about, elements of which I think I see in your posting. We live in a better world than we've lived in for a long time.
It's very true that ideas have consequences- I don't think anyone would argue that. But what you seem to be saying, based on your wholesale dismissal of the parent's point, is that we should be offended, all the time. Here's the thing: Most things about which people get offended are stupid and should be offensive to no reasonable person.
Bart Simpson, South Park, this ad- they're all just little bits of outrage that distract people from the real outrages, that keep people from focusing on the real problems that affect them. As Malcolm McLaren put it, the purpose of pop culture is to soften the blow of real life.
I'm not saying 'don't get offended' and I'm not endorsing the idea that we should take every opportunity to take all the umberage we can carry. We need to be more discerning about what we allow to offend us, and more reasonable about what we let go.
[Something that Apple Fanatics have been saying for years but no one really believed them.]
Well, sure. Up until recently, there was no way to test the hardware and not account for OS differences- have you forgotten "Sure, our chips are half as fast, but our OS does more with it"?
The threat to American citizens is massively overstated- you are far, far more likely to die in an accident, of a disease, or hell, even of a drug overdose than in a terrorist attack. Of all the potential causes of death in this country, terrorist strike is waaaaaay in the back.
You're allowing yourself to be manipulated into being afraid, and allowing them to use your fear to destroy the liberties that make America great. Your fear is contemptible- your capitulation is disgusting.
[alerting terrorists that they are being watched.]
What kind of idiot do you have to be to believe that terrorists don't realise they're being watched? I realise the "Take my rights away, please! They scare me!" crowd overlaps somewhat with the "Those Ay-rabs sure do enjoy having sex with camels!" crowd, but do you honestly believe al-Qaeda is stupid enough to not realise they're being surveilled?
It's funny how people who cowardly value the illusion of safety over the reality of freedom will whore themselves out to Big Brother. "Take my freedoms!" they shout. "Take my rights! Take my liberties! Only make me feel a bit more secure, a bit more safe from the horrible bogeymen you've so kindly invented for me!"
It makes me sick. Are you what the Founding Fathers fought for? Benjamin Franklin decried those who'd sacrifice their freedom for the illusion of security- and now one of the biggest voting blocs in the nation is the "Please, take my rights away and make me feel safe from this inflated threat!"
You, sir, make me sick.
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Not to mention the fact that the button on the back was a trigger button, in a good position for a psuedo-pistolgrip.
The half-a-qwerty idea would fail, imo, simply because most people can't touchtype.
All actions of man are natural. Many are irresponsible, but that does not make them "unnatural".
Unless you want to discuss God, ghosts, magic, etc, nothing is "unnatural". It's nothing more than a stupid slur word.
[It makes migrating to and from a service Very difficult, expensive, and timeconsuming - if you can do it at all.]
Which is totally a coincidence, I'm sure.
Look, I'm not saying that unlimited bandwidth is a good idea. You're taking swipes at me, but I'm not even vaguely where you think I am. All I'm saying is that if you advertise unlimited bandwidth, and your contract doesn't provide for shaping/throttling, then you don't get to engage in shaping/throttling.
I'm not calling for utopia. I'm calling for corporations to honor the contracts they enter into with private citizens, which is a less and less popular idea these days.
The fact that you don't know of any ISP that says take all you can is reflective not of reality but your limited knowledge. You're entitled to your own opinion, but attempting to have your own facts is disgusting.
It's best to keep in mind that, from the standpoint of an ISP, the optimal use pattern is a customer who never even hooks up the modem. They'd rather we used as little bandwidth as possible.
This reminds me of Netflix throttling:
"Here, take all you can!"
*takes all one can*
"NO FAIR!" *throttles*
I never went through a Beatles stage- they always seemed so boring and overrated. And hey, anything's better than a Rand stage. *shudder*
Interestingly, while MSFT software is sold and supported out of the Robert Bell building, where the CS department is, Apple hardware and software is sold and supported out of the Teacher's College building.
You've clearly never interacted with our University bureaucracy...
I go to Ball State and this is the first I've heard of it.
I'll see if I can borrow my folk's digital camera and take pictures.
What I see in the cultural shift is a movement away from Christianity and toward whatever's going to replace it- check out the end of the Roman Empire for similar. It's a good thing. Also, don't be fooled into believing the "The 1950's were a golden age" nonsense that floats about, elements of which I think I see in your posting. We live in a better world than we've lived in for a long time.
DINGDINGDINGDINGDING! You've answered the sixty-four nanodollar question! Congratulations, sir!
I rather like flourescent light. It's not so harsh and yellow.
That wasn't so much irrelevant as it was false advertising. John Romero is entirely bitchless.
It's very true that ideas have consequences- I don't think anyone would argue that. But what you seem to be saying, based on your wholesale dismissal of the parent's point, is that we should be offended, all the time. Here's the thing: Most things about which people get offended are stupid and should be offensive to no reasonable person.
Bart Simpson, South Park, this ad- they're all just little bits of outrage that distract people from the real outrages, that keep people from focusing on the real problems that affect them. As Malcolm McLaren put it, the purpose of pop culture is to soften the blow of real life.
I'm not saying 'don't get offended' and I'm not endorsing the idea that we should take every opportunity to take all the umberage we can carry. We need to be more discerning about what we allow to offend us, and more reasonable about what we let go.
Are we unaware of Captive NTFS?
[Something that Apple Fanatics have been saying for years but no one really believed them.] Well, sure. Up until recently, there was no way to test the hardware and not account for OS differences- have you forgotten "Sure, our chips are half as fast, but our OS does more with it"?
Some places do that, particularly local shops whose proprieters don't want to bother doing the math with every purchase.
I imagine Chris'll buy a copy of GMod. I suspect he'd have done so anyway.
How do you cause five thousand dollars in damages without taking a chainsaw to the boxxen? Is the DoD buying from Alienware now?
Man, that's an easier joke than I thought, I guess.
Anyone else just hear a hideous scream from the direction of China?
The threat to American citizens is massively overstated- you are far, far more likely to die in an accident, of a disease, or hell, even of a drug overdose than in a terrorist attack. Of all the potential causes of death in this country, terrorist strike is waaaaaay in the back. You're allowing yourself to be manipulated into being afraid, and allowing them to use your fear to destroy the liberties that make America great. Your fear is contemptible- your capitulation is disgusting.
[alerting terrorists that they are being watched.]
What kind of idiot do you have to be to believe that terrorists don't realise they're being watched? I realise the "Take my rights away, please! They scare me!" crowd overlaps somewhat with the "Those Ay-rabs sure do enjoy having sex with camels!" crowd, but do you honestly believe al-Qaeda is stupid enough to not realise they're being surveilled?
It's funny how people who cowardly value the illusion of safety over the reality of freedom will whore themselves out to Big Brother. "Take my freedoms!" they shout. "Take my rights! Take my liberties! Only make me feel a bit more secure, a bit more safe from the horrible bogeymen you've so kindly invented for me!" It makes me sick. Are you what the Founding Fathers fought for? Benjamin Franklin decried those who'd sacrifice their freedom for the illusion of security- and now one of the biggest voting blocs in the nation is the "Please, take my rights away and make me feel safe from this inflated threat!" You, sir, make me sick.