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Richard Deeming wrote: large parts of the USA don't have that choice; that there's only a single ISP serving each area.
Geographically... yes. Population wise... no. Look at a population map of the US and you see huge concentrations in the cities and along the coasts. It's common to have high speed internet from cable TV providers, telephone providers and independent ISPs in these areas. Google Fiber is expanding to many of the big cities and will continue to do so. If you live in rural Idaho you're probably f***ed.
Don't get me wrong, I don't see Net neutrality as a non-issue. I just prefer we let it play out a bit more before jumping to conclusions and involving the government.
One last point: When (if ever) was the last time you said "Wow! The government did a great job on this. Really nailed it. Exceeded my expectations!" For me the answer is never... not once in 54 years. Yet once or twice a year I can say it about some product or service I buy from a business.
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Mike Mullikin wrote: When (if ever) was the last time you said "Wow! The government did a great job on this. Really nailed it. Exceeded my expectations!"
Have you seen the omnishambles that claims to be the UK government these days? 
Never mind a brewery - this lot couldn't organize a piss-up in a beer festival!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Net neutrality is what we mostly have now, you pay for your connection (and speed) and the ISP has nothing to say about what you do on the net.
This is part reason why small startups can quickly thrive.
Some ISPs, (read the large ones having local defacto monopolies) want to charge money at both ends, and will effectively control what you do or watch if there is no net neutrality. Imagine that your ISP has political opinions and they set the cost differently for CNN or Fox and you end up on the wrong end of your own opinions.
It would be a bit going back to the walled garden of Compuserve if you remember them, but a lot worse.
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All very scary and all very hypothetical.
I'd much prefer we let the free market have a chance before we let the heavy hand of government (which can also show blatant bias) control the internet.
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That's assuming you have a free market. But you hardly have a selection of cable companies to choose from do you?
Do you remember why AT&T we're split up in 11 parts where the most important part was to split service providers from cable providers?
The reason was and still is that the market doesn't work on monopolies.
The cable companies only task is to provide profits to the owners.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: But you hardly have a selection of cable companies to choose from do you?
We're not talking about cable TV - we're talking about ISPs and most American's have choices (from Cable TV providers, wired telephone providers, cellular providers, independent providers, Google Fiber, etc...).
Jörgen Andersson wrote: Do you remember why AT&T we're split up in 11 parts where the most important part was to split service providers from cable providers?
1) They also de-regulated them because government regulation usually sucks.
2) Over the years nearly all the "baby Bells" have merged back together without a fight from the government or the public.
Jörgen Andersson wrote: The cable companies only task is to provide profits to the owners.
And they can do that best by providing superior service to their customers rather than working under a government yoke.
We're going to have to agree to disagree.
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I'm ok with that.
I have personally really bad experience with companies ending up in monopoly situations, so I'm a bit less optimistic.
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No, companies with a large capital base will lock down services on the cloud side of the business and that will be that. The ONLY internet you'll see is the one approved by the telecom industry, which means those who pay, and FB is certainly one that could, so would.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Scary... but only hypothetical.
I prefer we let the free market have a chance before involving a government that is already too involved in our lives. Government regulation has its place but not every place and not all the time.
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I agree, but in this case these are things that have already been attempted by telecom as far back as 2004, which is why those regulations exist today and have existed since that time. These concepts are not hypothetical, but rooted in historic challenges to those regulations.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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I just don't believe we (our budding nanny state) gave the free market economy enough time to sort things out.
History also proves that government regulation can strangle growth and innovation.
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I can't remember that is was debated and are astonished due to what has been published three days ago in several media. Just search for "schneiderman net neutrality":
Today in a press conference, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman elaborated on his office’s efforts to investigate the FCC’s flood of fake anti-net neutrality comments while calling for a delay of the agency’s vital net neutrality vote until the source of the fraudulent comments is identified.
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Print+AltGr, Ctrl+V, snip out, Ctrl+V in the next paint window and so on...
So... does anyone happen to have worked with some "drawing" stuff within C#?
Paint is annoying me and i just thought about coding a bit instead of doing this unnecessary work in 2 paint windows 
I have no clue if there are any Frameworks or so available to do specific things like drawing bars and connecting them or so.
Any experiences or tutorials you guys ran through to get the job done and have you ever done such things?
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(_signature))
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + _signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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If all you are trying to do is capture a small part of the screen, ALT+PrintScreen catches the active window, and WINKEY+SHIFT+S lets you select a rectangular portion of the screen and copies it to the clipboard.
There are also many "snapshot" apps which capture the screen (or active window) to a file automatically (I have used Corel ScreenCap before (but only because it came free with one of the many versions of PaintShop Pro I have bought from them).
I know that PaintShop Pro X9 has a scripting language which might make it easy to automate your tasks (depending on what they are, exactly).
Reinventing the graphics package wheel is a big job for small tasks!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Wow Griff! I didden know the rect grab thing, always used the slightly annoying snipping tool.
A small step for humanity, a giant leap for me.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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First of all Thanks at @OriginalGriff @Rage @User-12818622
for your ideas and words 
It's basically a little bit more complicated, the alt print stuff is waht i currently do instead of being able to create graphics from code. But i don't want to make a programming question out of that here, the rules stay! Therefore i just wanted a bit of ideas how you have or do cope with such requirements.
Just as short info, what i actually would need to do is take datasettype 1 and transfer it to a rectangle according to several parameters, then datasettype 2 to draw a line between two datasettype 1 objects and so on. Think of it like a Gantt chart but without the gantt'ish parts like day displays or so
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(_signature))
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + _signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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What Griff said (especially the "do not reinvent the wheel part", this is a time pit as soon as graphical stuff is involved) + I recommend Screenpresso if you'd go the application way, very good piece of software.
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Sounds like the winforms drawing2d can handle what you need.
I was in a similar situation to you and ended up doing my own line drawings - with 2d you can draw a rectangles & other shapes filled or outline only so it's effectively the same as you need
There's some libraries out there, but unless you need really advanced rendering/shaded 3-d then not necessary and you'd have to invest a lot of time learning just to do simple pics. (im 2d you can do the 3-d simulated, i.e. draw a cube by drawing 4 rectangles (if joined properly the other 2 faces will already be there.)
Find the most basic tutorials - how to draw a box, how to draw a circle, how to rotate the box..., once you have that it's all the same (different shapes, same basic method patterns) - takes at most a few days and a bit of googling to pick it up.
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Some of my website-owning friends worry the hosting cost might get higher if they start to get more visitors. As they have to naturally step up the bandwidth & resources in server.
Does this make any sense? The more popular a site becomes, wouldn't it naturally lead to better ad-revenue ? What are the things to watch out here?
Assume their sites completely depends on the Ad money & they don't offer any other direct service, products to the visitors. Like for example, it's a site that showcases popular videos of the web.
Will one be able to meet up the hosting cost with advertisement money generated by the site?
(I know there are various models- like pay per view, pay per clicks, order completion etc, but just asking by an average stats. Assume you've just hosted Google ads)
The possibility of a site popularity making negative impact on revenue might include these factors:
1. The site exposes more of WebAPIs than visible page content with ads.
(Basically you are hosting APIs as charity) where you cannot host any ad or piggy-back an ad content on API result payload. And it doesn't make any sense to do too.
2. Most visitors are perfectly using Ad-blockers on their browsers
3. If the visitors are uploading large volume files/data like video contents. Naturally this will make the hosting cost overtake the revenue earned by the visitors page views/clicks.
What are the other things that might affect the revenue in negative, despite having a good site popularity?
requesting the service of your wisdom!
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Vunic wrote: Will one be able to meet up the hosting cost with advertisement money generated by the site?
That's impossible to answer without concrete numbers. Without knowing what the hosting cost is, or what ad payment deals are in place, we would just be guessing.
This space for rent
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Hosting cost should be around $150 at the moment.
Ad Payment deals - Google Ads. (I'm not sure what exactly they have opted for in Google Ads, there could be some sub classifications)
Just with Google Ads, one should be able to meet up their demands ? as popularity & visitor counts grow?
OR, these ads based sites actually run in loss first, before they exactly figure out a proper paid-service model?
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Vunic wrote: What are the other things that might affect the revenue in negative, despite having a good site popularity?
The value of ads; there's an overcapacity to show them and distribution is dirt-cheap.
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: The value of ads; there's an overcapacity to show them and distribution is dirt-cheap.
Makes sense.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Gives an indication based on current valuations. Those valuations may change.
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