I think I can fill in ??? on this one. From the stories I've heard, expenses from completely different projects can get charged to your film, reducing the profit even farther.
So.... Time till someone makes a post saying how much better Firefox is because it doesn't practice "Security through obscurity?"
Uh, "Security through obscurity" doesn't refer to whether or not existing security vulnerabilities are made public before a fix is available. "Security through obscurity" means that lack of information is the only thing keeping something secure, such as assuming that nobody will ever guess that putting "&admin=true" at the end of a URL will give them administrator access.
Hey! I got a great deal on penis enlargement, breast enhancement, and this greasy stuff you rub all over your body to increase your sexual desirability scent! Works great!
How can you possibly post something like this without giving us a link to where we can buy it.
The problem is that they aren't prioritizing voice/video, they're essentially preventing the use of P2P (and other protocols) by setting their traffic to an arbitrary low bitrate. For example with Bell Canada and torrents downloads are capped to 30kb/s and uploads to 1 kb/s
Yeah, I started realizing that as I read more of the discussion. There's definitely a difference between prioritizing different types of traffic and setting a blanket bandwidth cap for specific protocols, where even if there is available bandwidth that would otherwise sit there and be useless, you still can't use it for downloading your Linux disc image. I'm certainly against arbitrary bandwidth caps that would result in unused bandwidth.
But lying about your product and/or your competitor's product is so much easier than actually improving your product. Don't they teach that in the first semester of business school?
Apparently a lot of moderators give Insightful or Informative instead of Funny, because Funny doesn't improve your karma score. Why they bother doing this for people that are already at Excellent karma, I have no idea.
Heh, I actually meant asking Linux questions. I wish the other people in the IRC channels I hang out on were as polite as the postal carriers in my neighborhood.
Essentially your argument is "You should not be using the full speed your modem provides".
No, that isn't the argument at all. The point of traffic shaping (a.k.a. Quality of Service) is that some kinds of traffic need to arrive in a timely manner, while for other kinds of traffic there won't be any noticeable effect if the packets arrive a second or two later. Voice and video streams become practically useless if there's significant delays or packet loss, while your Linux disc image will work just fine even if the download finishes 15 seconds later than it otherwise would.
As for your arguments about ISP's overselling their bandwidth, well yeah, we all know that, and we all know about the near-universal lack of competition, but those issues are generally separate from Quality of Service and Network Neutrality.
So if that survey is correct, nobody will install Windows 7 after December 31, 2010. Unless Microsoft pulls out an incredible turnaround time on the following version of Windows, I somehow doubt the accuracy of that.
Interesting. I always thought "draconian" was the adjective form of "dragon", which are traditionally thought of as being cruel, terrorizing people, and once in a while eating someone just for fun.
Hamburg Declaration:
"I'll have mine with cheese and bacon."
But are you going to pay for it today or on Tuesday?
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Scratch is great in that it teaches how to "think" like a programmer. However, ends up not really doing you a lot of good in the long run. Python is an easy to use language but it also is very "real" in that knowing Python can get you somewhere. That said, Scratch is very easy to use and you can make decent applications in there, but in the end you have effectively a "toy" language which won't really help you in the long run.
How old is the child that you're giving this to? I'm not a huge fan of Python, but I've seen quite a few languages that are a lot worse (or just plain harder for kids to play with, such as assembly), so I'd say my opinion on it is pretty neutral. Having said that, what are the odds that Python will still be a "hot" language in 15-20 years, when the kid will at all care about "getting somewhere" or "the long run"? 20 years ago, how many people would have said that Java would be popular today (yes, I am aware of when Java was first created; that's kinda the point)? My first programming language was Commodore Basic when I was about 5, followed closely by GWBasic. Neither of those are particularly useful these days, but they still served the purpose of getting me interested in programming and ultimately to a computer science degree.
they can afford to build a nice shiny corporate office with heated sidewalks.
Where's the office? If it's in the northeast or northern mid-west, heated sidewalks are a great idea, since they'd be much more reliable, be safer, and require less human work than having the grounds staff out there with salt, sand, and ice chippers (whether or not they're better environmentally than salt and sand would depend primarily on where the building gets its electricity from). My parents' house has a heater under the front stairs and porch to keep it free of ice in the winter, and I wish the university I went to could move around some of the underground steam pipes to help clear more of the sidewalks; it was funny seeing patches of bare sidewalk in the middle of the winter where the pipes went under them.
As for suing themselves and even hiring a lawyer to defend the lawsuit, well holy shit, that's hilarious.
Are you required to carry your passport with you even when you aren't crossing the border (including international travel at airports)? If not, wouldn't the tracking only show that you're always in your bedroom? And if so, I think that may be a somewhat bigger problem.
What sort of fucked up world do we live in where you can be jailed because some media company accuses you?
I know this may come as a shock to many people around here, but it is possible to have copyright laws without violating due process or restrictions on cruel and unusual punishment.
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I think I can fill in ??? on this one. From the stories I've heard, expenses from completely different projects can get charged to your film, reducing the profit even farther.
Remember that USA hasn't had much wars with mainly Christian nations. (World wars and the independence war excluded)
And I'm a vegetarian (the huge steak I have for dinner every night excluded).
So.... Time till someone makes a post saying how much better Firefox is because it doesn't practice "Security through obscurity?"
Uh, "Security through obscurity" doesn't refer to whether or not existing security vulnerabilities are made public before a fix is available. "Security through obscurity" means that lack of information is the only thing keeping something secure, such as assuming that nobody will ever guess that putting "&admin=true" at the end of a URL will give them administrator access.
Company is also a military term for a medium-sized group of soldiers (Wikipedia says on the order of 100-200).
If I remember correctly, the purpose of those emails is to try to confuse Bayesian filters.
Hey! I got a great deal on penis enlargement, breast enhancement, and this greasy stuff you rub all over your body to increase your sexual desirability scent! Works great!
How can you possibly post something like this without giving us a link to where we can buy it.
The problem is that they aren't prioritizing voice/video, they're essentially preventing the use of P2P (and other protocols) by setting their traffic to an arbitrary low bitrate. For example with Bell Canada and torrents downloads are capped to 30kb/s and uploads to 1 kb/s
Yeah, I started realizing that as I read more of the discussion. There's definitely a difference between prioritizing different types of traffic and setting a blanket bandwidth cap for specific protocols, where even if there is available bandwidth that would otherwise sit there and be useless, you still can't use it for downloading your Linux disc image. I'm certainly against arbitrary bandwidth caps that would result in unused bandwidth.
But lying about your product and/or your competitor's product is so much easier than actually improving your product. Don't they teach that in the first semester of business school?
Apparently a lot of moderators give Insightful or Informative instead of Funny, because Funny doesn't improve your karma score. Why they bother doing this for people that are already at Excellent karma, I have no idea.
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Heh, I actually meant asking Linux questions. I wish the other people in the IRC channels I hang out on were as polite as the postal carriers in my neighborhood.
Essentially your argument is "You should not be using the full speed your modem provides".
No, that isn't the argument at all. The point of traffic shaping (a.k.a. Quality of Service) is that some kinds of traffic need to arrive in a timely manner, while for other kinds of traffic there won't be any noticeable effect if the packets arrive a second or two later. Voice and video streams become practically useless if there's significant delays or packet loss, while your Linux disc image will work just fine even if the download finishes 15 seconds later than it otherwise would.
As for your arguments about ISP's overselling their bandwidth, well yeah, we all know that, and we all know about the near-universal lack of competition, but those issues are generally separate from Quality of Service and Network Neutrality.
When you request the location of your package, it just sneers at you and says "Google is your friend."
Where have you been hanging out that they're that polite? The proper response is "Just fucking Google it."
You are eaten by a grue.
So if that survey is correct, nobody will install Windows 7 after December 31, 2010. Unless Microsoft pulls out an incredible turnaround time on the following version of Windows, I somehow doubt the accuracy of that.
Or maybe you're just plain wrong with your assumption.
Or maybe the cats that reproduce are most often ones owned by breeders, while most cats owned by "normal people" are neutered.
And it's the cats who greet me at the door
That would most likely be because they want food from you.
To a dog, the human owner is the pack leader, who should always be followed and obeyed. To a cat, the human owner is just a convenient source of food.
Interesting. I always thought "draconian" was the adjective form of "dragon", which are traditionally thought of as being cruel, terrorizing people, and once in a while eating someone just for fun.
Hamburg Declaration: "I'll have mine with cheese and bacon."
But are you going to pay for it today or on Tuesday?
Scratch is great in that it teaches how to "think" like a programmer. However, ends up not really doing you a lot of good in the long run. Python is an easy to use language but it also is very "real" in that knowing Python can get you somewhere. That said, Scratch is very easy to use and you can make decent applications in there, but in the end you have effectively a "toy" language which won't really help you in the long run.
How old is the child that you're giving this to? I'm not a huge fan of Python, but I've seen quite a few languages that are a lot worse (or just plain harder for kids to play with, such as assembly), so I'd say my opinion on it is pretty neutral. Having said that, what are the odds that Python will still be a "hot" language in 15-20 years, when the kid will at all care about "getting somewhere" or "the long run"? 20 years ago, how many people would have said that Java would be popular today (yes, I am aware of when Java was first created; that's kinda the point)? My first programming language was Commodore Basic when I was about 5, followed closely by GWBasic. Neither of those are particularly useful these days, but they still served the purpose of getting me interested in programming and ultimately to a computer science degree.
they can afford to build a nice shiny corporate office with heated sidewalks.
Where's the office? If it's in the northeast or northern mid-west, heated sidewalks are a great idea, since they'd be much more reliable, be safer, and require less human work than having the grounds staff out there with salt, sand, and ice chippers (whether or not they're better environmentally than salt and sand would depend primarily on where the building gets its electricity from). My parents' house has a heater under the front stairs and porch to keep it free of ice in the winter, and I wish the university I went to could move around some of the underground steam pipes to help clear more of the sidewalks; it was funny seeing patches of bare sidewalk in the middle of the winter where the pipes went under them.
As for suing themselves and even hiring a lawyer to defend the lawsuit, well holy shit, that's hilarious.
I wish I could get a "punctuationpunditry" tag going on here.
"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
How many astronomers don't know how to use a telescope?
Are you required to carry your passport with you even when you aren't crossing the border (including international travel at airports)? If not, wouldn't the tracking only show that you're always in your bedroom? And if so, I think that may be a somewhat bigger problem.
This is why I oppose copyright.
What sort of fucked up world do we live in where you can be jailed because some media company accuses you?
I know this may come as a shock to many people around here, but it is possible to have copyright laws without violating due process or restrictions on cruel and unusual punishment.