OK... but the blame lies not on the "big telcos", but reality itself. Network effects exist; better to harness them than kvetch about them. What are the big networks supposed to do, pretend they don't exist and screw their customers in the process?
As you are explicitly mentioning reality: The big networks will do both, harness network effects and screw their customers in the progress.
Distribution could be wildly efficient if the users and the network operators were on the "same team." If they wanted to, they could design a bit-torrent variant where chunks are cached by intermediary servers, so that they can always be delivered quickly from a local node.
Something like that was implemented a couple of years ago in some emule-clients. They used the providers caching proxy-servers to greatly speed up download-speed. It was called "webcache" and some information can be found here:
Because if I am on Comcast at home and you have DSL through ATT at home and our homes are within 500' of each other... that means NOTHING with regard to hops and latency between us.
What if your provider and my provider, though being different companies, are just resellers of someone elses infrastructure? I dont know how it is in the USA as I do not live there, but in some other countries there are just a handful of network-owners and lots of resellers, so traffic could be exchanged inside the local network-branch of the network-owner with this technique.
I mean hell, the missile, bullet, DU Penetrator, APFSDF rounds, all of it, its still the same principle of a hurled projectile, spear, sling stone or arrow.
This is not even true if you take an extremely wide approach regarding weaponry based on kinetic energy. What about thermobaric bombs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermobaric_weapon, flamethrowers, tasers,...
There are numeral ways to feed more energy to a body then it can handle.
Yeah, yeah. There are places on the Autobahn that have no posted speed limit. But the thing most people who've never been to Germany don't realize is that if you're going over 100 kph (about 60 mph), and you're in an accident--even if it's clearly, backed-up-by-solid-evidence not your fault-- then your insurance company will not cover damages, and the state/city can find you responsible. The limit is 130 kph (never was 100) and it is a lot more complicated then your statement.
The amount each party has to pay is determined by comparing the operational risk of driving around in cars, which is considered being dangerous in any case. If a crash happens each party gets a certain risk assigned and has to pay the adequate amount of damages. If you drive faster then 130 kph (which is not recommended even with good weather, etc.) then in case of a crash you took a higher part of the operational risk and will have to pay for part of the damages even if you did not cause the crash in the first place.
This has nothing to do with insurance coverage, only with who of the participants of the crash has to pay for which amount of the damages.
Depending on your insurance-contract your insurance will pay for the damage you caused at the others car, it might pay for the damage on your own car fully or partially and it surely will raise your personal insurance rate due to having shown that you are more riskprone then others.
Long story short: If you ever happen to have an accident in Germany, go and get a lawyer. You will need him.
In that case I recommend you NOT get a DELL. The software they ship with the fingerprint reader (http://www.wavesys.com/products/ets) is actually designed as a single-sign-on-solution where you authenticate once when you start up the laptop - and never again during the whole day.
Whoever designed this has so _not_ a clue about what security means, that if you put a timeout on the "personal information assistent" it displays a nag-message when it closes. If you do not put in a timeout it just displays a "auto fill in?" button without asking you for your fingerprint.
When I asked them how they plan to improve security lead to no result - couldn't say I was surprised.
And while I am at it: anyone got a tip on where to get an actually working solution for using a fingerprint-reader + tpm-chip in a latitude with winXP/kubuntu?
This paper-storage-thingy ain't _that_ stupid. Optical and magnetic storage-devices tend to degrade quickly, while paper can last for a very long time. The main problem I would see is if he uses colours for coding since it will change over time.
This could bascially be used as a compression algorithm for books...
I'm not sure I agree that shell users are a dying breed. Being a young developer (25yo) I and most, if not all, my co-workers are using a shell to develop and run unit debug/trace in. I think the amount of computer users in general has gone up so merely the ratio of shell/gui users has gone down.
Your _male_ co-workers... I have yet to see a woman use a shell in a way I would approve of.
With Gmail. It's intelligent filters screen out the quoted text, and by displaying email as threads (aka conversations) instead of just chronologically it makes dealing with a large volume of correspondence much easier. It's not perfect, but it's a damn sight better than any other email system I've used.
If you have a wife that is not merely fantasy but requires real-life-attention you are not part of the target group for 200$ videocards anyway.
On the other hand if you live at your parents basement with no rent and your mom still washing your socks and cooking dinner you will have the money to shell out 700$ on a videocard.
'm sure Microsoft could strip down Vista to something the size of 300 MB or so if only they wanted to remove drivers, icons and other graphics, sounds, media players, web browsers, etc. On the other hand, that would kind of kill the whole purpose of the operating system. To be honest - this would turn vista from bloatware to an operating system. Minesweeper is _not_ necessary to operate a machine, even if some people will disagree.
scnr: Just imagine the installation would give you a dialog where you could choose if you would want to install a "basic system", or to include a "desktop environment" or a "database server" etc. etc. oh wait, then it would be linux.
An even better example is Italy, where Berlusconi controlled the media and clearly (at least for people in foreign countries) used it as an instrument of influencing the public opinion - while keeping the impression of a "free press".
It does not stop at music and video - it has already happened with food, too.
There was study a couple of years ago, where kids in a double-blind test had to guess if "the real thing" or the flavored food tasted more natural. Guess what, many kids thought the taste one gets by mixing aroma with flavour-enhancer was more natural, then just mixing some strawberry with joghurt.
Just try it for yourself, grow some tomato on your balcony and buy some at a store - now compare and you will see, that the store-bought ones basically taste like nothing, compared to the homegrown stuff. Or try some of that convenience-food, it all tastes like compressed cardboard if you compare it to something prepared with fresh ingredients that have not been grown in some industrial-food-production-process.
"Based in Stockholm, The Pirate Bay serves as a massive worldwide hub for copyright infringement but is shielded by its home country's lax copyright laws. The site lives in a comfortable legal loophole, one of many available to Web sites that offer users copyrighted content. Some exploit vagaries in U.S. law, while others depend on their international immunity."
as long as they do not understand that the piratebay is not protected by copyright-laws (because they only aid users that want to exchange material) and does not host any copyrighted content there is no reason to take them serious.
it's not people who grew up with NES and SNES and gameboys and the like. the wii has an audience of players that never played a videogame before - my mom for example. it is fun because it is intuitive, you do not have to learn the functions of complex control-devices with 3124324324 buttons that have to be pressed in a certain order - you just start playing.
...any invention here. split-screen has been around for ages, as well as sharing computing power.
people (and editors...) really need to start thinking for themselves again, repeat with me: - numbers can not be copyrighted, to copyright something there has to be a minimum creative effort - if you sell the right to listen to a piece of music or to watch a movie the hardware where the data to be replayed is saved upon is only a matter of transportation and has nothing to do with copyright. - an invention is when you come up with something an average professional could not have thought up if confronted with the task, not if you just throw together some long existing techniques in a try to pull off more revenue per computer. - legislation should not pass laws protecting a business-model, businesses shall adapt to reality
Funny thing though, Opera had stuff liked tabbed browsing and a lean, standard-conform (well, almost...) engine years ago. Sure, it is always easier to compare two things that are not that much different, but it won't take you anywhere. To get some insight you have to look for stuff that is in the same category, but different - and then you can evaluate if the aspects where it differs are desirable.
"it also makes Firefox and IE easier to compare than say IE and Opera"
this is a bit like "let's compare race cars by taking a look at vw-golf and opel-astra and not compare them to the porsche, because the porsche is so different".
bad example, but without another coffee I can't get up with a better one...
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OK... but the blame lies not on the "big telcos", but reality itself. Network effects exist; better to harness them than kvetch about them. What are the big networks supposed to do, pretend they don't exist and screw their customers in the process?
As you are explicitly mentioning reality: The big networks will do both, harness network effects and screw their customers in the progress.
Distribution could be wildly efficient if the users and the network operators were on the "same team." If they wanted to, they could design a bit-torrent variant where chunks are cached by intermediary servers, so that they can always be delivered quickly from a local node.
Something like that was implemented a couple of years ago in some emule-clients. They used the providers caching proxy-servers to greatly speed up download-speed. It was called "webcache" and some information can be found here:
http://www.amule.org/wiki/index.php/Webcache
(english with pro/con rating, but rather negative mainly due to privacy concerns)
http://www.emule-mods.de/extra/webcache.gif
(graphic)
http://www.emule-mods.de/?feature=57
(german positive)
Because if I am on Comcast at home and you have DSL through ATT at home and our homes are within 500' of each other ... that means NOTHING with regard to hops and latency between us.
What if your provider and my provider, though being different companies, are just resellers of someone elses infrastructure? I dont know how it is in the USA as I do not live there, but in some other countries there are just a handful of network-owners and lots of resellers, so traffic could be exchanged inside the local network-branch of the network-owner with this technique.
I mean hell, the missile, bullet, DU Penetrator, APFSDF rounds, all of it, its still the same principle of a hurled projectile, spear, sling stone or arrow.
...
This is not even true if you take an extremely wide approach regarding weaponry based on kinetic energy. What about thermobaric bombs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermobaric_weapon, flamethrowers, tasers,
There are numeral ways to feed more energy to a body then it can handle.
The amount each party has to pay is determined by comparing the operational risk of driving around in cars, which is considered being dangerous in any case. If a crash happens each party gets a certain risk assigned and has to pay the adequate amount of damages. If you drive faster then 130 kph (which is not recommended even with good weather, etc.) then in case of a crash you took a higher part of the operational risk and will have to pay for part of the damages even if you did not cause the crash in the first place.
This has nothing to do with insurance coverage, only with who of the participants of the crash has to pay for which amount of the damages.
Depending on your insurance-contract your insurance will pay for the damage you caused at the others car, it might pay for the damage on your own car fully or partially and it surely will raise your personal insurance rate due to having shown that you are more riskprone then others.
Long story short: If you ever happen to have an accident in Germany, go and get a lawyer. You will need him.
"1) biometric finger print reader"
In that case I recommend you NOT get a DELL. The software they ship with the fingerprint reader (http://www.wavesys.com/products/ets) is actually designed as a single-sign-on-solution where you authenticate once when you start up the laptop - and never again during the whole day.
Whoever designed this has so _not_ a clue about what security means, that if you put a timeout on the "personal information assistent" it displays a nag-message when it closes. If you do not put in a timeout it just displays a "auto fill in?" button without asking you for your fingerprint.
When I asked them how they plan to improve security lead to no result - couldn't say I was surprised.
And while I am at it: anyone got a tip on where to get an actually working solution for using a fingerprint-reader + tpm-chip in a latitude with winXP/kubuntu?
This paper-storage-thingy ain't _that_ stupid. Optical and magnetic storage-devices tend to degrade quickly, while paper can last for a very long time. The main problem I would see is if he uses colours for coding since it will change over time.
This could bascially be used as a compression algorithm for books...
I'm not sure I agree that shell users are a dying breed. Being a young developer (25yo) I and most, if not all, my co-workers are using a shell to develop and run unit debug/trace in. I think the amount of computer users in general has gone up so merely the ratio of shell/gui users has gone down.
Your _male_ co-workers... I have yet to see a woman use a shell in a way I would approve of.
With Gmail. It's intelligent filters screen out the quoted text, and by displaying email as threads (aka conversations) instead of just chronologically it makes dealing with a large volume of correspondence much easier. It's not perfect, but it's a damn sight better than any other email system I've used.
You don't happen to be working for mediadefender?
If you have a wife that is not merely fantasy but requires real-life-attention you are not part of the target group for 200$ videocards anyway.
On the other hand if you live at your parents basement with no rent and your mom still washing your socks and cooking dinner you will have the money to shell out 700$ on a videocard.
Minesweeper is _not_ necessary to operate a machine, even if some people will disagree.
scnr:
Just imagine the installation would give you a dialog where you could choose if you would want to install a "basic system", or to include a "desktop environment" or a "database server" etc. etc.
oh wait, then it would be linux.
An even better example is Italy, where Berlusconi controlled the media and clearly (at least for people in foreign countries) used it as an instrument of influencing the public opinion - while keeping the impression of a "free press".
It does not stop at music and video - it has already happened with food, too.
There was study a couple of years ago, where kids in a double-blind test had to guess if "the real thing" or the flavored food tasted more natural. Guess what, many kids thought the taste one gets by mixing aroma with flavour-enhancer was more natural, then just mixing some strawberry with joghurt.
Just try it for yourself, grow some tomato on your balcony and buy some at a store - now compare and you will see, that the store-bought ones basically taste like nothing, compared to the homegrown stuff. Or try some of that convenience-food, it all tastes like compressed cardboard if you compare it to something prepared with fresh ingredients that have not been grown in some industrial-food-production-process.
"Based in Stockholm, The Pirate Bay serves as a massive worldwide hub for copyright infringement but is shielded by its home country's lax copyright laws. The site lives in a comfortable legal loophole, one of many available to Web sites that offer users copyrighted content. Some exploit vagaries in U.S. law, while others depend on their international immunity."
as long as they do not understand that the piratebay is not protected by copyright-laws (because they only aid users that want to exchange material) and does not host any copyrighted content there is no reason to take them serious.
it's not people who grew up with NES and SNES and gameboys and the like. the wii has an audience of players that never played a videogame before - my mom for example.
it is fun because it is intuitive, you do not have to learn the functions of complex control-devices with 3124324324 buttons that have to be pressed in a certain order - you just start playing.
in soviet russia eyes track you!
on the other hand, nothing to see hear, wear sunglasses and move along.
ps: oh, and imagine a beowulf cluster of those!
finally an easy question
"Could this help to bring the prices down on DVD games and movies?""
no. nothing will ever bring down prices on DVDs.
...any invention here. split-screen has been around for ages, as well as sharing computing power.
people (and editors...) really need to start thinking for themselves again, repeat with me:
- numbers can not be copyrighted, to copyright something there has to be a minimum creative effort
- if you sell the right to listen to a piece of music or to watch a movie the hardware where the data to be replayed is saved upon is only a matter of transportation and has nothing to do with copyright.
- an invention is when you come up with something an average professional could not have thought up if confronted with the task, not if you just throw together some long existing techniques in a try to pull off more revenue per computer.
- legislation should not pass laws protecting a business-model, businesses shall adapt to reality
Funny thing though, Opera had stuff liked tabbed browsing and a lean, standard-conform (well, almost...) engine years ago. Sure, it is always easier to compare two things that are not that much different, but it won't take you anywhere. To get some insight you have to look for stuff that is in the same category, but different - and then you can evaluate if the aspects where it differs are desirable.
"it also makes Firefox and IE easier to compare than say IE and Opera"
this is a bit like "let's compare race cars by taking a look at vw-golf and opel-astra and not compare them to the porsche, because the porsche is so different".
bad example, but without another coffee I can't get up with a better one...