Comcast has already almost doubled my bill from what it was about 8 years ago. Yeah, I am still waiting for all those tax breaks and subsidies they were supposed to use to keep their infrastructure up to date. I can't help notice they are still over selling their data capped "unlimited" internet service.
the internet existed long before any porn dollars started rolling in
You said:
First, he specified the Web and not the entire Internet
Also note I did not refute or contradict his claim entirely, I only modified it to make it more accurate. I have no doubt porn has shaped the way the internet is today, yet still stand by my original statements
I sure wish you anonymous cowards would work on your reading comprehension issues prior to posting. It would dramatically improve the signal-to-noise ratio.
Yeah becasue getting groups of strangers who have nothing in common but a geographic location to agree and decide how to spend thousands of dollars in collective money seems like it wouldn't cause any problems at all. Ever lived in a rural area? Just being able to talk on my grandmother's party line telephone was challenging enough at times.
I hate to break it to you, but the internet existed long before any porn dollars started rolling in. The internet may not exist as it does today without porn, but it would certainly exist.
If "the free market" was allowed to decide, no areas outside major cities would have telephones or internet services. Unless they were willing to pay the thousands of dollars to run all the phone/cable lines to their house. The government paid phone/cable/utilities companies, through subsidies and tax breaks, to string lines even where it wasn't immediately profitable. The mythical unregulated "free market" would not have done allowed this to happen. Sometimes the "free market" does not offer choices unless forced to by regulation.
Netflix has more customers than Comcast does. So I would guess out of the homes that do streaming movies currently, Netflix is the most likely leading company. Google isn't going to be able to get a customer base that large that fast. Also, is has been estimated that Netflix accounts for up to 20% of peak internet traffic - which is about twice what YouTube does. I am not saying impossible, but any competing streaming service has an uphill struggle.
I won't use the term "too big to fail", but Netflix does have more customers than Comcast does. Anybody else getting into the game now would need to build an equal customer base to effectively compete. And I really don't see anyone doing that this late in the game...
Are you seriously dismissing "it just feels good" as a motivator to do something? I would say that doing things becasue they make you feel good is probably one of the strongest human motivators that exists. Why do humans consume drugs and alcohol, even though they know these things can be unhealthy? Why do people make anonymous donations to charities? Why do people help little old ladies across the street? Why do people donate money to charities for other countries? Why do people cheat on their partners? Why doesn't the morbidly obese person stop eating double bacon cheeseburgers? All of these questions can be answered "becasue it just feels good".
No, but they are barren of people claiming there is no way you could possibly be having that issue, because mine works just fine - then ridiculing you for even bringing it up.
Just have Infocom write the parser. Not only could you use multiple phrases to accomplish the same task, it would also be funny as hell to use, especially when it only understands part of what you want.
Re:administering networks-
Really, how much has TCP/IP or DNS changed significantly (with the possible exception of IP6 actually starting to be used) in the last 20 years?
No, but if you read my entire post, I also say they are sold to the 20% of people who may open/modify their systems.
You do realize that if 80% of desktops have not been opened/modified, that means that 20% have been. That is who the separate CPUs are sold for. That and the big desktop manufacturers
You do realize that if 80% of desktops have not been opened/modified, that means that 20% have been. That is who the separate CPUs are sold for. That and the big desktop manufacturers - Dell, HP, etc. who could not possibly afford to replace the entire desktop on a warrantied system, and will actually replace the components that fail. Sometimes these are CPUs. (Don't fall into the Slashdot trap thinking that the general public likes to actively mess around inside the guts of their computer systems.)
You must have missed the part where you can only get sued under this if your company makes over $50 million a year. But don't let a simple fact get in the way of your Microsoft bashing - this IS Slashdot after all...
Yeah, pretty sure I have a couple of Quark dongles laying around in a drawer as well. Ah, the 1990s. Now off to get a 6 pack of Zima and watch some Melrose Place!
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Slaughterhouse Five is considered to be SciFi? Besides the time traveling aspect, I don't really see it.
Comcast has already almost doubled my bill from what it was about 8 years ago. Yeah, I am still waiting for all those tax breaks and subsidies they were supposed to use to keep their infrastructure up to date. I can't help notice they are still over selling their data capped "unlimited" internet service.
Without porn there would be no internet.
I said:
the internet existed long before any porn dollars started rolling in
You said:
First, he specified the Web and not the entire Internet
Also note I did not refute or contradict his claim entirely, I only modified it to make it more accurate. I have no doubt porn has shaped the way the internet is today, yet still stand by my original statements
I sure wish you anonymous cowards would work on your reading comprehension issues prior to posting. It would dramatically improve the signal-to-noise ratio.
Yeah becasue getting groups of strangers who have nothing in common but a geographic location to agree and decide how to spend thousands of dollars in collective money seems like it wouldn't cause any problems at all. Ever lived in a rural area? Just being able to talk on my grandmother's party line telephone was challenging enough at times.
I hate to break it to you, but the internet existed long before any porn dollars started rolling in. The internet may not exist as it does today without porn, but it would certainly exist.
If "the free market" was allowed to decide, no areas outside major cities would have telephones or internet services. Unless they were willing to pay the thousands of dollars to run all the phone/cable lines to their house. The government paid phone/cable/utilities companies, through subsidies and tax breaks, to string lines even where it wasn't immediately profitable. The mythical unregulated "free market" would not have done allowed this to happen. Sometimes the "free market" does not offer choices unless forced to by regulation.
Discovered does not have the same meaning as invented. Neither Currie "invented" radioactivity.
China will probably get some of the tech - after all they are the ones that paid for it by borrowing the US the money in the first place.
Oh, you must mean old crazy Ben Laden Kenobi.
"Ben" Laden? I thought Obama's dad was Kenyan. Is Ben a common name there?
Yeah, and it looked pretty badass with all those Hyundais with tinted windows parked out back...
Netflix has more customers than Comcast does. So I would guess out of the homes that do streaming movies currently, Netflix is the most likely leading company. Google isn't going to be able to get a customer base that large that fast. Also, is has been estimated that Netflix accounts for up to 20% of peak internet traffic - which is about twice what YouTube does. I am not saying impossible, but any competing streaming service has an uphill struggle.
I won't use the term "too big to fail", but Netflix does have more customers than Comcast does. Anybody else getting into the game now would need to build an equal customer base to effectively compete. And I really don't see anyone doing that this late in the game...
Mothers Against Drunks, Duh.
MADD has always been about total prohibition of alcohol. Nothing "now" about that.
Are you seriously dismissing "it just feels good" as a motivator to do something? I would say that doing things becasue they make you feel good is probably one of the strongest human motivators that exists. Why do humans consume drugs and alcohol, even though they know these things can be unhealthy? Why do people make anonymous donations to charities? Why do people help little old ladies across the street? Why do people donate money to charities for other countries? Why do people cheat on their partners? Why doesn't the morbidly obese person stop eating double bacon cheeseburgers? All of these questions can be answered "becasue it just feels good".
That really isn't that much in a span of over 20 years - especially when dealing with technology.
No, but they are barren of people claiming there is no way you could possibly be having that issue, because mine works just fine - then ridiculing you for even bringing it up.
Just have Infocom write the parser. Not only could you use multiple phrases to accomplish the same task, it would also be funny as hell to use, especially when it only understands part of what you want.
SAY PLUGH
Re:administering networks-
Really, how much has TCP/IP or DNS changed significantly (with the possible exception of IP6 actually starting to be used) in the last 20 years?
You do realize that if 80% of desktops have not been opened/modified, that means that 20% have been. That is who the separate CPUs are sold for. That and the big desktop manufacturers
You do realize that if 80% of desktops have not been opened/modified, that means that 20% have been. That is who the separate CPUs are sold for. That and the big desktop manufacturers - Dell, HP, etc. who could not possibly afford to replace the entire desktop on a warrantied system, and will actually replace the components that fail. Sometimes these are CPUs. (Don't fall into the Slashdot trap thinking that the general public likes to actively mess around inside the guts of their computer systems.)
So the scenario describes is not even possible. Moron. I wasn't condoning anything, just pointing out facts.
You must have missed the part where you can only get sued under this if your company makes over $50 million a year. But don't let a simple fact get in the way of your Microsoft bashing - this IS Slashdot after all...
Yeah, pretty sure I have a couple of Quark dongles laying around in a drawer as well. Ah, the 1990s. Now off to get a 6 pack of Zima and watch some Melrose Place!