omg .. did youtube get /.ed?

SkyNet> Segmentation fault, core dumped ++ LOST CARRIER

is the solution to all our problems.

Taking a purely logical approach
Google [good] + Microsoft [Evil] = Neutral

Which reminds me, changing business plans doesn't necessarily mean screwing your customer. There's the uplink providers, and content provider (like hulu and netflix) in the value chain whom they can work deals with to make everyone more profitable without changing cost on customer.
Lets face it, this is not the time to try and get more from the customer. They could negotiate lower prices with uplink providers, or better yet, why not negotiate with hulu and netflix to have their servers hosted more closer to the user!. this way everyone would be happy, and they don't have to pay the uplink providers for extra bandwidth!

they can't afford it? How would you explain then having to pay a premium if you dont get TV service? even though there is more cost to them with TV services? why would they continue to market higher bandwidth packages if they can't afford bandwidth from uplink?
I sure would like to change my cable provider, but I couldn't find anyone here besides charter. Seems to me like price gauging.
I am all for agility and changing business plans, but it shouldn't be at the expense of the customer. If you set a certain expectation from the customer and have a contract with him, then see it through, don't flip the switch on him. After all, they don't pay per glass like jamba juice.
The way I see it, they would like to treat their customers like wireless carriers and are taking us slowly there.

I think 101.1a protocol is proprietary. You need to pay a license fee to use it.

could wimax be the solution?

might this qualify as price gauging? They have been offering the services for a long time now without caps. So they cant claim they can't maintain it. I wouldn't have a problem with it if they instead offered an alternative package wit caps, with a lowered price, to entice people to switch instead of just flipping the switch on current subscribers. If they took their cue from wireless carriers, then I think they will charge users on usage beyond the cap.

developer mindshare and market share You dont have to stop work on other distros to get a winning distribution. If you like one, just stick to it and as much as you can to get it better.
I really don't buy the idea that pooling resources will make things better. As I would expect most people on /. read the mythical man month, it would be unreasonable to expect that a distro will get better by pooling programmer resources. As for monetary resources, they will eventually follow the best amongst all these distros.

Would your desktop get a VAgena if you install VMWare?

fiber to make a good dump

Before a spelling nazi comments about the typo in the title ..
Note the sig, I only speak it very best

Skynet> Segmentation fault, Core dumped++CARRIER LOST++

I second that. If you are visualizing graphs be sure to get the igraph package which can be used with R, Python, C, or Ruby.
http://cneurocvs.rmki.kfki.hu/igraph/
Processing is another package that is geared towards data visualization which java developers might find easier use
http://www.processing.org/