Accepting it at face value seems to be just what you're doing. If, instead of doing that, you had investigated the subject, you would have found "best effort" to make perfect sense in this case. I guess it's easier to just call it stupid and be done with it, though.
If we were discussing the perils of switched networking, you'd be absolutely correct. "Best effort" in switched networking parlance means "we'll try our very best to get it there, but there are no guarantees, because this method of switching is inherently unreliable."
"Best effort" in QoS parlance means "we'll try our very best to get it there, but there are no guarantees, because we have to ensure that certain other flows can survive congestion." Not only is that because QoS schemes can be applied to connections with any orientation and reliability, but also because there's no point in letting the caveats associated with external systems affect the terminology of a logical concept, when it is obvious that a prioritisation scheme is only as reliable as the system it operates on.
There's a reason why doctors don't tell terminal patients that "you have six months to live.. unless you get hit by a car or something."
The problem isn't really that content providers can have their applications hosted in end-user service provider networks. The problem is that the TalkTalk representative seems to be open to the idea of content providers paying them money to block out the competition entirely.
"Best effort" in networking terminology is the priority given to traffic that isn't specifically prioritised or limited. There's nothing wrong with what he's saying.
So the relevance is that because you can open both a toaster and a phone, nobody ever does either? So it's a baseless claim you're making to support another baseless claim. Followed up by some arbitrary and false generalisation regarding toasters. This is a waste of my time.
Most toasters I've had came apart to some degree to let you clean them. I'm sorry if I fail to see the relevance of your arguments here. You're comparing apples to oranges, based on unsubstantiated assumptions that aren't even relevant to what you're trying to disprove.
I'm sure that you don't keep your toaster, microwave, range hood or speaker cabinets in your pocket all the time, or take them with you everywhere you go. (I'd hate to see the insides of your toaster or your range hood if you've never taken them apart at least to some degree to clean them.)
Regardless of your personal habits, and your unsubstantiated claims of what is and is not usual for the average user to do, being able to clean out a product that sees substantial wear and exposure is not an unusual expectation. Particularly not when the only obstacle seems to now be the deliberate use of a non-standard screw.
It's true that you shouldn't buy Apple hardware if you desire products that accommodate you as a user, but it's pretty disingenuous to suggest that having the ability to open up ones own product for cleaning and repair is an unusual or unreasonable expectation.
What you're suggesting would work just fine if ISPs actually carried it out without taking a huge dump on the consumer. What ISPs know, and what you should know, too, is that the cost of serving the 5% of users generating 25% of the traffic is minuscule next to the profit generated from overselling "unlimited" connections to people who don't generate more than a gigabyte or two of traffic per month at most. That's why you don't see straight usage based billing, but rather static caps, or caps set relative to the throughput of the connections offered. They want to keep overcharging the 95%, while keeping the 5% from making the ISP eat the cost of their business model.
It's like offering only $100 unlimited* distance cab rides. (* Up to 10 miles or 20 minutes, whichever comes first.) No cab company would have a motivation to return to metered service.
In terms of copyright law, neither seeding nor leeching alone constitute "financial gain" in practice. Copyright infringement of the kind committed while doing either would otherwise be felonious, and seeders and leechers who share without generating profit aren't brought up on criminal charges.
That's absurd. The entire distinction between DOCSIS and FTTH is in the last mile, because they're last mile technologies. You can't just pass the last mile distinctions off as being trivial, when they're the only distinctions to be made. 56k modems on DS0s have dedicated lines to the CO, and that CO likely does optical transport deeper into the network. Does that make them "nearly the same" as DOCSIS and FTTH as well?
Additionally, the idea that shielded conductors somehow make distance trivial is absurd. DOCSIS cable plants are HFC, with fiber pushed as far out as possible. So far out, in fact, that many DOCSIS operators see PON as a natural evolution in their last mile. This isn't done just because fiber is super cool, or because yellow looks better than black. It's done because as soon as you transition to copper, the signal quality goes to absolute crap. In the main neighborhood copper loop after the last fiber node in an HFC plant, you lose as much signal intensity over a dozen feet as you do in a mile of off-the-shelf single mode optical fiber.
"today you have your own dedicated frequencies until the central hub in your area (AKA your personal connection). just like with ADSL."
That is entirely false. Layer 2 in a DOCSIS plant is shared fully amongst every cable modem locked on a given channel. Downstream access is scheduled by the CMTS entirely, while upstream access is requested by cable modems, and scheduled by the CMTS.
Oh, please. So do you propose to form a separate term for the correct singular form as well, or does the issue only present itself from a plural perspective? You don't need to make up words to be able to specifically search for computer viruses or computer virus related material. All you have to do is qualify your search with terms pertinent to your query. It's not like you're going to just search for "virus" or "viruses" if you're in search of anything specific or useful.
Incidentally, this does well to highlight the fact that firefighters aren't "heroes," as some people like to think. They're government employees, and if they aren't getting paid, they won't do anything. It's a job, not heroism.
The concept of dual intent for non-immigrant visas exists mostly to let intending immigrants adjust status after meeting certain conditions that may only be met in the United States. Dual intent covers a lot of non-immigrant visas, most notably K-visas, which, while non-immigrant dual intent by status, are essentially immigrant visas with conditions that must be met before the holder is allowed to petition for adjustment of status. These visas, as you suggest, require the holder to leave the country upon expiration, but only in the event that the conditions on the visa have not been met, or no application for adjustment of status has been submitted to the USCIS.
You are of course right. There are many ways to adjust status under many different conditions, though my post was meant to comment exclusively on which visas permit you to enter with intent to adjust status. Apologies for the ambiguity.
A green card is not a visa, but rather what you get upon successful adjudication of a petition for permanent residence (the card identifying your status that you receive when the status is granted used to be green.) To attain status as a legal permanent resident, you must enter the country on either an immigrant visa, or a dual intent visa, and then apply to adjust status for permanent residence. An H-1B visa is a dual intent visa, just as the K-visas you allude to are.
You don't own the copy of the movie that's on the medium that you purchased. You hold a license to play the movie stored on the medium under certain conditions.
Nowhere to dissipate the heat? I'm not a scientician, but I swear I've heard somewhere that heat rises. It seems to make sense that you push cold air in under the floor, and let the warm air move up on its own accord. Much like it happens everywhere else, except the ambient temperature is lower and fairly steady.
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Accepting it at face value seems to be just what you're doing. If, instead of doing that, you had investigated the subject, you would have found "best effort" to make perfect sense in this case. I guess it's easier to just call it stupid and be done with it, though.
If we were discussing the perils of switched networking, you'd be absolutely correct. "Best effort" in switched networking parlance means "we'll try our very best to get it there, but there are no guarantees, because this method of switching is inherently unreliable."
"Best effort" in QoS parlance means "we'll try our very best to get it there, but there are no guarantees, because we have to ensure that certain other flows can survive congestion." Not only is that because QoS schemes can be applied to connections with any orientation and reliability, but also because there's no point in letting the caveats associated with external systems affect the terminology of a logical concept, when it is obvious that a prioritisation scheme is only as reliable as the system it operates on.
There's a reason why doctors don't tell terminal patients that "you have six months to live.. unless you get hit by a car or something."
The problem isn't really that content providers can have their applications hosted in end-user service provider networks. The problem is that the TalkTalk representative seems to be open to the idea of content providers paying them money to block out the competition entirely.
"Best effort" in networking terminology is the priority given to traffic that isn't specifically prioritised or limited. There's nothing wrong with what he's saying.
So the relevance is that because you can open both a toaster and a phone, nobody ever does either? So it's a baseless claim you're making to support another baseless claim. Followed up by some arbitrary and false generalisation regarding toasters. This is a waste of my time.
Most toasters I've had came apart to some degree to let you clean them. I'm sorry if I fail to see the relevance of your arguments here. You're comparing apples to oranges, based on unsubstantiated assumptions that aren't even relevant to what you're trying to disprove.
I'm sure that you don't keep your toaster, microwave, range hood or speaker cabinets in your pocket all the time, or take them with you everywhere you go. (I'd hate to see the insides of your toaster or your range hood if you've never taken them apart at least to some degree to clean them.)
Regardless of your personal habits, and your unsubstantiated claims of what is and is not usual for the average user to do, being able to clean out a product that sees substantial wear and exposure is not an unusual expectation. Particularly not when the only obstacle seems to now be the deliberate use of a non-standard screw.
It's true that you shouldn't buy Apple hardware if you desire products that accommodate you as a user, but it's pretty disingenuous to suggest that having the ability to open up ones own product for cleaning and repair is an unusual or unreasonable expectation.
Check the "About" section of the app. On the Nexus One, tapping the navigation trackball will ctrl modify the following character.
What you're suggesting would work just fine if ISPs actually carried it out without taking a huge dump on the consumer. What ISPs know, and what you should know, too, is that the cost of serving the 5% of users generating 25% of the traffic is minuscule next to the profit generated from overselling "unlimited" connections to people who don't generate more than a gigabyte or two of traffic per month at most. That's why you don't see straight usage based billing, but rather static caps, or caps set relative to the throughput of the connections offered. They want to keep overcharging the 95%, while keeping the 5% from making the ISP eat the cost of their business model.
It's like offering only $100 unlimited* distance cab rides. (* Up to 10 miles or 20 minutes, whichever comes first.) No cab company would have a motivation to return to metered service.
In terms of copyright law, neither seeding nor leeching alone constitute "financial gain" in practice. Copyright infringement of the kind committed while doing either would otherwise be felonious, and seeders and leechers who share without generating profit aren't brought up on criminal charges.
That's absurd. The entire distinction between DOCSIS and FTTH is in the last mile, because they're last mile technologies. You can't just pass the last mile distinctions off as being trivial, when they're the only distinctions to be made. 56k modems on DS0s have dedicated lines to the CO, and that CO likely does optical transport deeper into the network. Does that make them "nearly the same" as DOCSIS and FTTH as well?
Additionally, the idea that shielded conductors somehow make distance trivial is absurd. DOCSIS cable plants are HFC, with fiber pushed as far out as possible. So far out, in fact, that many DOCSIS operators see PON as a natural evolution in their last mile. This isn't done just because fiber is super cool, or because yellow looks better than black. It's done because as soon as you transition to copper, the signal quality goes to absolute crap. In the main neighborhood copper loop after the last fiber node in an HFC plant, you lose as much signal intensity over a dozen feet as you do in a mile of off-the-shelf single mode optical fiber.
"today you have your own dedicated frequencies until the central hub in your area (AKA your personal connection). just like with ADSL."
That is entirely false. Layer 2 in a DOCSIS plant is shared fully amongst every cable modem locked on a given channel. Downstream access is scheduled by the CMTS entirely, while upstream access is requested by cable modems, and scheduled by the CMTS.
Oh, please. So do you propose to form a separate term for the correct singular form as well, or does the issue only present itself from a plural perspective? You don't need to make up words to be able to specifically search for computer viruses or computer virus related material. All you have to do is qualify your search with terms pertinent to your query. It's not like you're going to just search for "virus" or "viruses" if you're in search of anything specific or useful.
"and limited bandwidth due to over-congested areas are the main problem"
Wait, how is that not a last mile problem, and how is that not a bottleneck?
Oh, you're /that/ kind of person.
Yes, and at the very most, they would've been doing what they were trained and equipped to do.
Yep. If you want a service, you need to pay.
Incidentally, this does well to highlight the fact that firefighters aren't "heroes," as some people like to think. They're government employees, and if they aren't getting paid, they won't do anything. It's a job, not heroism.
The concept of dual intent for non-immigrant visas exists mostly to let intending immigrants adjust status after meeting certain conditions that may only be met in the United States. Dual intent covers a lot of non-immigrant visas, most notably K-visas, which, while non-immigrant dual intent by status, are essentially immigrant visas with conditions that must be met before the holder is allowed to petition for adjustment of status. These visas, as you suggest, require the holder to leave the country upon expiration, but only in the event that the conditions on the visa have not been met, or no application for adjustment of status has been submitted to the USCIS.
You are of course right. There are many ways to adjust status under many different conditions, though my post was meant to comment exclusively on which visas permit you to enter with intent to adjust status. Apologies for the ambiguity.
A green card is not a visa, but rather what you get upon successful adjudication of a petition for permanent residence (the card identifying your status that you receive when the status is granted used to be green.) To attain status as a legal permanent resident, you must enter the country on either an immigrant visa, or a dual intent visa, and then apply to adjust status for permanent residence. An H-1B visa is a dual intent visa, just as the K-visas you allude to are.
You don't own the copy of the movie that's on the medium that you purchased. You hold a license to play the movie stored on the medium under certain conditions.
Nowhere to dissipate the heat? I'm not a scientician, but I swear I've heard somewhere that heat rises. It seems to make sense that you push cold air in under the floor, and let the warm air move up on its own accord. Much like it happens everywhere else, except the ambient temperature is lower and fairly steady.
.. where is Episode 3?