yet, you're sitting there blaming the Republicans. Partisan much?
I am not blaming Republicans. I simply stated that both the summary and the article indicated that it was the Republican leader who didn't want to work on the bill, but the title implied that the Democrats dropped it. I was merely asking why. Jump to conclusions much?
Personally, I am very middle of the road and I don't have a "must be the GOP" bias. GOP does some things right and some things wrong, as do the Dems. But thank you for the additional information about the issue as it does help explain why the bill didn't move forward.
What's up with the title of this post? "Politics: House Democrats Shelve Net Neutrality" sure make it sound like the poster is trying to imply that Democrats were at fault for this bill failing. But the summary and TFA indicate that it was Republicans who blocked efforts to move this bill forward.
I have trouble acknowledging a world where ANYBODY GIVES A FUCK about this "issue".
Perhaps RTFA would help.... "Ever since television caught on in the 1950s, the Federal Communication Commission has been getting complaints about blaring commercials"
Granted, that quote only tells you that yes, people do give a fuck about this issue. If you want better data, a quick 30 second internet search returns several links to.... "The telephone survey of 1,000 TV viewers, conducted for Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS), showed that 89 percent are bothered by the often dramatic variation between regular TV programming and advertising volumes".
According to your logic, it would be ok for a site to serve up kiddie porn because nobody should dictate what the server returns when someone connects a browser to it.
If something is illegal, then it is illegal regardless of whether it is on a computer server or in a brick and mortar store.
It isn't the consipracy theory you make it out to be. A lot of public MS sites are designed and built by external design agencies, and not all of those agencies have Silverlight dev experience. A lot of MS teams will contract out to a design agency and not put a restriction on the technologies used on the website as long as that agency produces good work at a good price.
Until they can get the cost to be lower than the TCO of a cheap server, UPS, and business cable line though, I can't see making the jump for small businesses.
Remember that TCO isn't only hardware (server, UPS, cable). You also have to factor in software licenses, physical building, physical building security, network security, HVAC costs, etc. And these are just the easy to calculate costs.
You also have to think about other costs such as procurement (someone has to order the hardware from Dell, receive it at the shipping dock, unbox it, install the server OS on it, handle warranty repairs, etc), network administration, management overhead, load balancing, etc.
And then what about the 'costs' in terms of business opportunity lost when your service is not able to quickly scale to customer demand. There is a time lag between realizing you need more capacity to actually getting that capacity online.
Also what about the costs of having to build your datacenter scale to the max usage? If your site experiences heavy usage 9-5 M-F, but very little usage during evenings and weekends, then you still have to build your datacenter to that peak usage. With cloud computing you can scale it up and down daily depending on your needs.
Looking at the cost of moving a service to the "cloud" is a lot more than just looking at how much a server costs. It won't make sense for all businesses and scenarios, but the more you research it the more it seems to make sense. And noting your use of the term "small businesses", cloud computing really can pay off for a lot of scenarios. Small businesses usually don't have the budget to properly implement all of the functionality that cloud computing offers (security, network management, redundancy, fault domains, load balancing, scalability, etc) so, while a small business can get a cheap server up and running, it may not actually be cheaper in the long run.
The OP was talking about support lifecycles and how XP has a pretty good support lifecycle compared to a lot of Linux distributions. Can you explain what that has to do with your argument about hundreds of apps coming with a Linux distro?
Win7 sales will taper off. There's a lot of hype about it. That will settle and people will buy it as infrequently as they buy their new computers.
Yes, of course Win7 sales will taper off, just like almost every other product in the world - sales will taper off after the initial launch. But what does that have to do with Win7 sales breaking all previous sales records and being on pace to become a huge revenue and profit generator over the lifetime of the product?
Much of what has been said in defense of Win7 is deserved but for the average person buying a product to fix something that isn't broken is stupid.
From the first half of your post it is clear that you don't like Windows or Microsoft, but to say that it is stupid for the average person to purchase Windows 7 is just being letting your preconceived notions get in the way of critical thinking. You do realize there are a lot of new and useful features in Windows 7 right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_7
And, unfortunately if you remember back to when Vista was released it too was being touted as record breaking, but when you actually got a hold of the numbers clearly that wasn't the case. Microsoft had also done quite a few things to manipulate the market and force consumers into making a choice they didn't want. I'm sure some of that is occurring here.
Right now the only numbers you have regarding sales is what Microsoft provides and there is no way on heaven or earth they should be trusted. Wait for a year or so to go by and look at the official numbers from disinterested third parties.
A quick 2 minute Google search turned up sales and market share figures from the NPD Group, Amazon, DSGi, and NetApplications. All indicating that, yes, Windows 7 is beating all previous OS sales records. I know you have a bias against Microsoft and Windows, but there is no need to come up with conspiracy theories when the evidence is very easy to find.
Windows 7 has been a huge seller and revenue generator for Microsoft, breaking all previous OS sales records (While at the same time reducing support and maintencance costs of Windows XP since it is cheaper to support Windows 7 than Windows XP, so more XP -> 7 conversions = less cost to MS), but according to the article this is somehow running in place? All companies wish to be so lucky...
Parents have been perfectly capable of looking after their children without GPS tracking for millennia... IMHO with a little trust and good parenting, these devices are completely unnecessary.
This is one of those ridiculous straw-man arguments that comes up every time a new device is introduced for children. Parents have also been perfectly capable of looking after their children for millenia without strollers, car seats, baby monitors, cribs, etc. Based on your argument you appear to believe that we would be just as well off without any of those things.
You would be far better off debating the merits of this particular device, and not introducing such a weak argument about how we used to get along just fine before the introduction of child safety equipment.
To get back to this device, why is it such a bad thing? Obviously, as with all things, the parents need to make an educated decision based on their specific circumstances. Granted, not all parents can make an educated decision, but that doesn't necessarily mean that this device is bad. As for the argument that it doesn't allow kids to grow up and learn to take care of themselves, or that it violates their privacy... I would actually argue the opposite. Currently if you are a parent with a young child at a fairground you pretty much have to keep them in your sight the entire time ("Johnny, don't get out of my site." "Johnny, don't go play past that tree." "Johnny, just sit here while I finish eating."). With one of these devices you can be a little more free to let your children play and roam and explore the world (again, obviously the parents have to make an intelligent decision based on their child and situation).
Really? You are going to compromise the structure of your (presumably) expensive house in order to do what? Cool a PC? I can't wait to see this on failblog.
Using a masked password to protect security is useless 99% of the time you are typing in a password. The only time it is useful is if you are in a semi-public environment (classroom, coffee shop, etc). I suppose it might also be useful if you log into highly secure sites and are worried about someone across the street with binoculaurs looking through your window, but then you have other security issues to worry about:)
Perhaps a checkbox, off by default, next to password boxes that will toggle the mask.
Two days ago when I was home for the holidays my Mom asked me to fix something with the TV. I asked her what was wrong and she said that her VCR wouldn't let her record something while she was watching something different.
I would love to bring her out of the 80's, but what other options does a person have who is completely averse to paying for something that they feel they don't need? I would suggest Tivo, but there is a monthly fee. I would suggest a cable set top box w/ DVR, but she is still on basic cable because digital TV costs more.
I guess I will let her keep going with those old VHS tapes. But I better tell her to stock up on blanks before she can't find them anymore:)
Well, just to keep you happy. It would appear M$ is attempting to re-invent LCD style technology while the rest of the industry is moving onto OLED (that's organic light emitting diodes for the backwards looking windrone engineers) style displays. What will M$ engineers come up with next, more efficient CRTs, I mean really, who cares.
Good point. Why do people even try to improve on existing technologies? If there is potentially a new product coming out in a few years then it would take a really stupid company to continue working on ways to improve an existing product. And we all know that every new technology like OLED always lives up to the hype and finds itself in every home and on every desktop...
I wasn't even going to bother posting in this thread until I read your post. If you find the content of/. so upsetting why keep reading it
I am not sure what made you think that I find/. upsetting. Really it is pretty entertaining.
I checked out this article for one reason only... To see how many/.'ers would take even this announcement as an opportunity to bash Microsoft. There may be reasons to not like the company and to criticize some of the things they do, but to use this as just a cheap avenue to continue spewing nonsense? If any Apple or Mitsubishi or any other company had announced this technology there would be nothing but praise about the potential.
Thanks to everyone here for not destroying my image of the typical (not all, by typical)/. zealotry that hatse anything and everything Microsoft does:)
"Initially support is to use MySpace OpenIDs as providers only -- i.e. you cannot logon to MySpace with an OpenID created elsewhere"
Ummm.... Doesn't that sortof defeat the purpose of a single username/password system? You have to create an OpenID for MySpace, and then you have to create a different OpenID for site XYZ. How many other sites are going to require that you create a new OpenID for their site?
This approach is really pretty good (and cheap!), but it has a few problems.
1. The pen has to reflect infrared light back up to the wii. So it has the same problem as Surface - you can't use it in a room with a lot of ambient infrared light like sunlight or incandescent bulbs. But it also has the problem that the pen has to, more or less, be pointed in the same direction so that the light reflects back up towards the wiimote. If you point the pen another direction then the wiimote can't see the pen.
2. Only 4 simulataneous inputs. Surface can have unlimited.
3. No object recognition.
4. What multi-touch? If you notice in the video, the only thing he "multi" touches is some custom and very, very simple app that is specifically designed for it. It is much more difficult to have a generic multi-touch API that can be quickly and easily used by anybody to develop multi-touch apps.
Most of your post is completely wrong. How did you get modded Informative?
- It is not a glass table.
- There is no mirror and nothing similar to a wii remote.
- It does not have to be used in a dark room, you just can't use it in a room with a lot of ambient infrared light such as incandescent bulbs or direct sunlight.
- Who has been selling the same thing for years? The closest thing to this is Perceptive Pixel's media wall, but it has only been being sold for about a year, and for $100k.
In a rural area where broadband isn't available, how often do you think 1/4th of the people will be online at the same time? And when they are online, how often do you think they are using a significant amount of bandwidth?
A rural area like this has far different computer users than even a small town where broadband is available. These are people who only have a computer to check for emails from their friends and relatives and occasionally look at some pictures of grandkids. They are generally online once or twice a day, and when they do get online they download email or browse to a website and then spend some time reading it. They aren't streaming video, playing high-bandwidth games, or downloading the latest Linux ISO.
Yes, I know this is a pretty broad generalization. But having grown up around rural areas I can tell you it is fairly accurate, and certainly more accurate than your 60kbps calculation.
Win2k: if you have less than or equal to 512MB, set min to 1.5 times RAM, max to 2 times RAM. if you have greater than 512mb, set swap min/max to 1.5 times RAM.
If you ever get an "out of virtual memory" error, defrag and add 100mb to min/max.
If you have =/> 2GB RAM, disable swap, unless you are running server, in which case 4GB is the magic number.
The 2 drive swap method just doesn't seem to work as well on Win2k as it did on WinNT; no clue why, but i've tested it repeatedly.
Perhaps you need better testing methodologies. This works the same on Win2K as it did on WinNT.
WinXP Pro: Luser. why are you running the Windows ME of the 21st century? at least you aren't running WinXP home, though. just follow the guidelines for win2k, since that is all WinXP pro is, win2k with add-on crap, no changes to kernel or underlying function.
1. "at least you aren't running WinXP home, though." - And why would running WinXP home be any different for 99% of home users? If you are confused about the difference between Pro and Home you should read http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_hom e_pro.asp. Basically WinXP Home does 100% of what home users need. Pro is in almost all cases only needed in a networked environment (a network other than a home network).
2. "since that is all WinXP pro is, win2k with add-on crap, no changes to kernel or underlying function." - Not sure where you got this information. Perhaps http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/01/12/XPK ernel/ will enlighten you as to the differences between the 2 OSes.
Win2003: No clue.
Vista: Not only have no clue, but I promise you I never will.
Fair enough. Perhaps we can get the True Word from an MCSE who's learning curve has gone past NT4...
In general you should use the techniques from the Technet article in my first link to tune your paging file according to your system's memory usage.
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yet, you're sitting there blaming the Republicans. Partisan much?
I am not blaming Republicans. I simply stated that both the summary and the article indicated that it was the Republican leader who didn't want to work on the bill, but the title implied that the Democrats dropped it. I was merely asking why. Jump to conclusions much?
Personally, I am very middle of the road and I don't have a "must be the GOP" bias. GOP does some things right and some things wrong, as do the Dems. But thank you for the additional information about the issue as it does help explain why the bill didn't move forward.
What's up with the title of this post? "Politics: House Democrats Shelve Net Neutrality" sure make it sound like the poster is trying to imply that Democrats were at fault for this bill failing. But the summary and TFA indicate that it was Republicans who blocked efforts to move this bill forward.
I have trouble acknowledging a world where ANYBODY GIVES A FUCK about this "issue".
Perhaps RTFA would help....
"Ever since television caught on in the 1950s, the Federal Communication Commission has been getting complaints about blaring commercials"
Granted, that quote only tells you that yes, people do give a fuck about this issue. If you want better data, a quick 30 second internet search returns several links to .... "The telephone survey of 1,000 TV viewers, conducted for Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS), showed that 89 percent are bothered by the often dramatic variation between regular TV programming and advertising volumes".
According to your logic, it would be ok for a site to serve up kiddie porn because nobody should dictate what the server returns when someone connects a browser to it.
If something is illegal, then it is illegal regardless of whether it is on a computer server or in a brick and mortar store.
5 Cameras actually. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692114(Surface.10).aspx
It isn't the consipracy theory you make it out to be. A lot of public MS sites are designed and built by external design agencies, and not all of those agencies have Silverlight dev experience. A lot of MS teams will contract out to a design agency and not put a restriction on the technologies used on the website as long as that agency produces good work at a good price.
Until they can get the cost to be lower than the TCO of a cheap server, UPS, and business cable line though, I can't see making the jump for small businesses.
Remember that TCO isn't only hardware (server, UPS, cable). You also have to factor in software licenses, physical building, physical building security, network security, HVAC costs, etc. And these are just the easy to calculate costs.
You also have to think about other costs such as procurement (someone has to order the hardware from Dell, receive it at the shipping dock, unbox it, install the server OS on it, handle warranty repairs, etc), network administration, management overhead, load balancing, etc.
And then what about the 'costs' in terms of business opportunity lost when your service is not able to quickly scale to customer demand. There is a time lag between realizing you need more capacity to actually getting that capacity online.
Also what about the costs of having to build your datacenter scale to the max usage? If your site experiences heavy usage 9-5 M-F, but very little usage during evenings and weekends, then you still have to build your datacenter to that peak usage. With cloud computing you can scale it up and down daily depending on your needs.
Looking at the cost of moving a service to the "cloud" is a lot more than just looking at how much a server costs. It won't make sense for all businesses and scenarios, but the more you research it the more it seems to make sense. And noting your use of the term "small businesses", cloud computing really can pay off for a lot of scenarios. Small businesses usually don't have the budget to properly implement all of the functionality that cloud computing offers (security, network management, redundancy, fault domains, load balancing, scalability, etc) so, while a small business can get a cheap server up and running, it may not actually be cheaper in the long run.
The OP was talking about support lifecycles and how XP has a pretty good support lifecycle compared to a lot of Linux distributions. Can you explain what that has to do with your argument about hundreds of apps coming with a Linux distro?
Win7 sales will taper off. There's a lot of hype about it. That will settle and people will buy it as infrequently as they buy their new computers.
Yes, of course Win7 sales will taper off, just like almost every other product in the world - sales will taper off after the initial launch. But what does that have to do with Win7 sales breaking all previous sales records and being on pace to become a huge revenue and profit generator over the lifetime of the product?
Much of what has been said in defense of Win7 is deserved but for the average person buying a product to fix something that isn't broken is stupid.
From the first half of your post it is clear that you don't like Windows or Microsoft, but to say that it is stupid for the average person to purchase Windows 7 is just being letting your preconceived notions get in the way of critical thinking. You do realize there are a lot of new and useful features in Windows 7 right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_7
And, unfortunately if you remember back to when Vista was released it too was being touted as record breaking, but when you actually got a hold of the numbers clearly that wasn't the case. Microsoft had also done quite a few things to manipulate the market and force consumers into making a choice they didn't want. I'm sure some of that is occurring here.
Right now the only numbers you have regarding sales is what Microsoft provides and there is no way on heaven or earth they should be trusted. Wait for a year or so to go by and look at the official numbers from disinterested third parties.
A quick 2 minute Google search turned up sales and market share figures from the NPD Group, Amazon, DSGi, and NetApplications. All indicating that, yes, Windows 7 is beating all previous OS sales records. I know you have a bias against Microsoft and Windows, but there is no need to come up with conspiracy theories when the evidence is very easy to find.
Windows 7 has been a huge seller and revenue generator for Microsoft, breaking all previous OS sales records (While at the same time reducing support and maintencance costs of Windows XP since it is cheaper to support Windows 7 than Windows XP, so more XP -> 7 conversions = less cost to MS), but according to the article this is somehow running in place? All companies wish to be so lucky...
Parents have been perfectly capable of looking after their children without GPS tracking for millennia... IMHO with a little trust and good parenting, these devices are completely unnecessary.
This is one of those ridiculous straw-man arguments that comes up every time a new device is introduced for children. Parents have also been perfectly capable of looking after their children for millenia without strollers, car seats, baby monitors, cribs, etc. Based on your argument you appear to believe that we would be just as well off without any of those things.
You would be far better off debating the merits of this particular device, and not introducing such a weak argument about how we used to get along just fine before the introduction of child safety equipment.
To get back to this device, why is it such a bad thing? Obviously, as with all things, the parents need to make an educated decision based on their specific circumstances. Granted, not all parents can make an educated decision, but that doesn't necessarily mean that this device is bad. As for the argument that it doesn't allow kids to grow up and learn to take care of themselves, or that it violates their privacy... I would actually argue the opposite. Currently if you are a parent with a young child at a fairground you pretty much have to keep them in your sight the entire time ("Johnny, don't get out of my site." "Johnny, don't go play past that tree." "Johnny, just sit here while I finish eating."). With one of these devices you can be a little more free to let your children play and roam and explore the world (again, obviously the parents have to make an intelligent decision based on their child and situation).
Really? You are going to compromise the structure of your (presumably) expensive house in order to do what? Cool a PC? I can't wait to see this on failblog.
Using a masked password to protect security is useless 99% of the time you are typing in a password. The only time it is useful is if you are in a semi-public environment (classroom, coffee shop, etc). I suppose it might also be useful if you log into highly secure sites and are worried about someone across the street with binoculaurs looking through your window, but then you have other security issues to worry about :)
Perhaps a checkbox, off by default, next to password boxes that will toggle the mask.
but also to get your brain into learning mode again.
You must not be in the IT industry...
Two days ago when I was home for the holidays my Mom asked me to fix something with the TV. I asked her what was wrong and she said that her VCR wouldn't let her record something while she was watching something different.
:)
I would love to bring her out of the 80's, but what other options does a person have who is completely averse to paying for something that they feel they don't need? I would suggest Tivo, but there is a monthly fee. I would suggest a cable set top box w/ DVR, but she is still on basic cable because digital TV costs more.
I guess I will let her keep going with those old VHS tapes. But I better tell her to stock up on blanks before she can't find them anymore
Well, just to keep you happy. It would appear M$ is attempting to re-invent LCD style technology while the rest of the industry is moving onto OLED (that's organic light emitting diodes for the backwards looking windrone engineers) style displays. What will M$ engineers come up with next, more efficient CRTs, I mean really, who cares.
Good point. Why do people even try to improve on existing technologies? If there is potentially a new product coming out in a few years then it would take a really stupid company to continue working on ways to improve an existing product. And we all know that every new technology like OLED always lives up to the hype and finds itself in every home and on every desktop...
I wasn't even going to bother posting in this thread until I read your post. If you find the content of /. so upsetting why keep reading it
I am not sure what made you think that I find /. upsetting. Really it is pretty entertaining.
You should stop wearing odd socks. The plain old white ones work just fine for me. And the occasional dark pair for a nice evening out.
I checked out this article for one reason only... To see how many /.'ers would take even this announcement as an opportunity to bash Microsoft. There may be reasons to not like the company and to criticize some of the things they do, but to use this as just a cheap avenue to continue spewing nonsense? If any Apple or Mitsubishi or any other company had announced this technology there would be nothing but praise about the potential.
Thanks to everyone here for not destroying my image of the typical (not all, by typical) /. zealotry that hatse anything and everything Microsoft does :)
"Initially support is to use MySpace OpenIDs as providers only -- i.e. you cannot logon to MySpace with an OpenID created elsewhere" Ummm.... Doesn't that sortof defeat the purpose of a single username/password system? You have to create an OpenID for MySpace, and then you have to create a different OpenID for site XYZ. How many other sites are going to require that you create a new OpenID for their site?
This approach is really pretty good (and cheap!), but it has a few problems. 1. The pen has to reflect infrared light back up to the wii. So it has the same problem as Surface - you can't use it in a room with a lot of ambient infrared light like sunlight or incandescent bulbs. But it also has the problem that the pen has to, more or less, be pointed in the same direction so that the light reflects back up towards the wiimote. If you point the pen another direction then the wiimote can't see the pen. 2. Only 4 simulataneous inputs. Surface can have unlimited. 3. No object recognition. 4. What multi-touch? If you notice in the video, the only thing he "multi" touches is some custom and very, very simple app that is specifically designed for it. It is much more difficult to have a generic multi-touch API that can be quickly and easily used by anybody to develop multi-touch apps.
Most of your post is completely wrong. How did you get modded Informative?
- It is not a glass table.
- There is no mirror and nothing similar to a wii remote.
- It does not have to be used in a dark room, you just can't use it in a room with a lot of ambient infrared light such as incandescent bulbs or direct sunlight.
- Who has been selling the same thing for years? The closest thing to this is Perceptive Pixel's media wall, but it has only been being sold for about a year, and for $100k.
Why isn't your wife doing the dishes? Oh, right... this is Slashdot. Never mind.
In a rural area where broadband isn't available, how often do you think 1/4th of the people will be online at the same time? And when they are online, how often do you think they are using a significant amount of bandwidth? A rural area like this has far different computer users than even a small town where broadband is available. These are people who only have a computer to check for emails from their friends and relatives and occasionally look at some pictures of grandkids. They are generally online once or twice a day, and when they do get online they download email or browse to a website and then spend some time reading it. They aren't streaming video, playing high-bandwidth games, or downloading the latest Linux ISO. Yes, I know this is a pretty broad generalization. But having grown up around rural areas I can tell you it is fairly accurate, and certainly more accurate than your 60kbps calculation.
Actually Surface can recognize unlimited number of contacts. But the performance is being optimized for 52 simultaneous touches.
Try reading http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/wind
Perhaps you need better testing methodologies. This works the same on Win2K as it did on WinNT.
1. "at least you aren't running WinXP home, though." - And why would running WinXP home be any different for 99% of home users? If you are confused about the difference between Pro and Home you should read http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_ho
2. "since that is all WinXP pro is, win2k with add-on crap, no changes to kernel or underlying function." - Not sure where you got this information. Perhaps http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/01/12/XP
Fair enough. Perhaps we can get the True Word from an MCSE who's learning curve has gone past NT4...
In general you should use the techniques from the Technet article in my first link to tune your paging file according to your system's memory usage.