I wouldn't say you're stupid, but you're not understanding the problem right. ISPs configure high buffers on low bandwidth links so that the total throughput is higher, at the expense of latency, since, as you say, packets have to wait in queue until they go out when you max out the connection.
This is NOT the right way of doing things, buffers should be smaller, if you max out your connection, your packets will drop, this will cause either TCP (at the protocol level) or the application if there is no support at the protocol level (UDP for example) to back out and lower the transmission rate, WHILE keeping your latency at normal levels.
You'll still have some packet loss, sure, but the overall experience should be better if applications act nice.
And no, QOS is not the solution to this, QOS should work end to end on a connection and that's simply not possible for internet users. What you mean is shaping, or policing, at the interface level, but if you're doing that, you're just avoiding the filling up the buffers, so that you achieve what I described earlier.
What I mean is that the information is not necessary wrong or biased if it was taken from Wikipedia. If they used an argument to make a point, and it was taken as valid, what does it matter where it was taken from if it's valid?, that the ultimate source was wikipedia doesn't make it less valid, and thus, all was said in the trial is still valid if the wikipedia material was well founded, so how is the trial not valid in this case?
I hope the decision was not made just "because it came from wikipedia". I would look up the references, if the references are valid and from a trustful source (who decides that anyway), the jury decision shouldn't change, right?
I've just switched jobs from a very big international corporation to an ISP, and in both places there is strong investment (in both, time and money) to prepare for IPv6 and the feeling is that vendors are behind expectations.
I don't think it's customers not asking for it, maybe you wont find a lot of customers upgrading equipment just for IPv6, but if you are minimally capable on your job you will ask that any new equipment you're willing to buy from a vendor to have IPv6 support at this point. Even if you're not planning to upgrade on the short term.
I'm sorry to have to say this to you like this, but you have no idea what you're talking about. Did you think about the infrastructure where you connect all those PC's?. Take Cisco in the Datacenter for example, current status is:
Routers and switches support IPv6 (excluding Nexus 1000V) Firewalls (ASA) support IPv6 Firewall Service Modules (Cisco's Datacenter firewall solution) don't support IPv6 in transparent mode, don't support failover in IPv6, don't support IPv6 on hardware (which make them useless for real traffic) Load Balancers (ACE), no support WAN optimization, no support Ironport, no support
etc.
And even if this support comes, in most cases it's not just a simple software update, you have to update the hardware and you're talking 10's of thousands of dollars for each. So believe me, it's not that easy, even with the will and the money, in some cases there is no even offering from the vendors at this point, which is shameful.
Well, I see your point, but that doesn't have to do with pirated software per se, but it's (usually dubious) distribution methods. OTOH, the subject of your post was about getting free software, so I replied to that.
What difference does it make for the software companies if a user that wouldn't buy their software in the first place installs Linux or installs pirated software?
There is no lost sale there, and I think it's better for a company like Microsoft that the majority of the people pirates Windows instead of using Linux, I'm sure.
mod up!, thats exactly what I think. Since when is L3 sending traffic to Comcast?, unless it's a DDoS attack or something (sending large amounts of unrequested trafic).
They way I see it, Comcast (it's users) is requesting this huge amount of traffic to be sent to them, so they should pay for the bandwidth.
Given the choice, I would choose to increase my own risk of blowing up in the air by terrorism than going through all this shit.
So, how about offering this as a service?, we already choose to increase our risk of dying in an accident when we choose to use low cost airlines or buses, when we choose to travel by road instead of air, etc... and that's far more probable.
On my early days, mostly Amiga, games were so hard that I almost never finished a game. Games like shadow of the beast are hard to finish today with cheats and everything. Games like monkey island I finished but took almost a year per game. But what I most recall is the frustration that meant to play games, long load times, die in 30 seconds, another long time to see a game over screen... it was ridiculous. Even so I loved that era.
If you think about arcades, it's basically the same, who finished arcade games?
is it illegal to wire tap my own phone? or invade my own privacy?, I think it's the action of using the software in the wrong way what could be illegal, not the software itself...
I thought illegal is the action of doing so, but I could install this app and forward the messages to my other phone or whatever. I don't think the app is illegal at all.
Your reasoning is flawed, there is a reason why industrial and medical equipment costs thousands of dollars against a consumer graded device that is not an alarm clock anyway.
If a power plant critical device failed, that would be news, if they are using iPhones for that, we are doomed...
How much distance I would be traveling with my finger to write a message comparing to a virtual keyboard?, and on top of that I have to be dragging my finger through the screen as opposed to a virtual keyboard.
The problem with hand writing is that I think people is increasingly less used to it (writing notes on a post-it doesn't count). On top of that, I never understood how having to write on a screen, with really big letters could be more effective than writing on a virtual keyboard, even if I was used to hand write.
Granted, but then the iPOD it's an MP3 player and that's it's essential function. Not everything is black and white, but what I'm saying is that all devices have multiple flaws and as a customer, I will choose the manufacturer that produces the best devices, bugs/errors free, etc. I would not expect great precision or anything from the iPODs stopwatch, I use it, but I don't expect anything from it. On the other hand, I'm pissed of when my 2nd gen ipod hangs for a while when I'm browsing songs, since that's a core function and should work.
Really, these stories are starting to be VERY stupid. When did we start being such crying babies?, in the past if X device didn't serve it's purpose, we would use another thing and be done with it...
Yes, I know, devices should work as advertised, blah blah... But the iPhone is not an alarm clock, it HAS an alarm clock function thou. I think the question here is which functions are essential (Phone, for example) and which are just supporting apps and should work as best effort (everything else IMHO). If this weren't the case and the manufacturer was blamed for every little glitch in every application etc etc it wouldn't be possible to market these devices.
Earth is habitable to current living species only because it had a biological evolution that created the atmosphere as it is today, etc. Are we looking for planets that had the same biological evolution of earth (and thus, have life) or are we looking for planets that have the same characteristics as the early earth, and that after billions of years could hold life?
Because I don't think we'll find an earth like, habitable planet without life in it.
I'm on the same situation. I wonder why no one build big fat drives with lots of capacity, I would definitely buy a 5 1/4 bay hard drive of, say, 6 TB or more.
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I wouldn't say you're stupid, but you're not understanding the problem right. ISPs configure high buffers on low bandwidth links so that the total throughput is higher, at the expense of latency, since, as you say, packets have to wait in queue until they go out when you max out the connection.
This is NOT the right way of doing things, buffers should be smaller, if you max out your connection, your packets will drop, this will cause either TCP (at the protocol level) or the application if there is no support at the protocol level (UDP for example) to back out and lower the transmission rate, WHILE keeping your latency at normal levels.
You'll still have some packet loss, sure, but the overall experience should be better if applications act nice.
And no, QOS is not the solution to this, QOS should work end to end on a connection and that's simply not possible for internet users. What you mean is shaping, or policing, at the interface level, but if you're doing that, you're just avoiding the filling up the buffers, so that you achieve what I described earlier.
It's not blaming on the buffers, it's blaming on the practice of configuring high sized buffers instead of having proper network infrastructure.
Have you no sense of humor?, he MUST be kidding...
PS: if he isn't, I'll second you
What I mean is that the information is not necessary wrong or biased if it was taken from Wikipedia. If they used an argument to make a point, and it was taken as valid, what does it matter where it was taken from if it's valid?, that the ultimate source was wikipedia doesn't make it less valid, and thus, all was said in the trial is still valid if the wikipedia material was well founded, so how is the trial not valid in this case?
EVERYTHING has some bias, we are human.
I hope the decision was not made just "because it came from wikipedia". I would look up the references, if the references are valid and from a trustful source (who decides that anyway), the jury decision shouldn't change, right?
I've just switched jobs from a very big international corporation to an ISP, and in both places there is strong investment (in both, time and money) to prepare for IPv6 and the feeling is that vendors are behind expectations.
I don't think it's customers not asking for it, maybe you wont find a lot of customers upgrading equipment just for IPv6, but if you are minimally capable on your job you will ask that any new equipment you're willing to buy from a vendor to have IPv6 support at this point. Even if you're not planning to upgrade on the short term.
I'm sorry to have to say this to you like this, but you have no idea what you're talking about. Did you think about the infrastructure where you connect all those PC's?. Take Cisco in the Datacenter for example, current status is:
Routers and switches support IPv6 (excluding Nexus 1000V)
Firewalls (ASA) support IPv6
Firewall Service Modules (Cisco's Datacenter firewall solution) don't support IPv6 in transparent mode, don't support failover in IPv6, don't support IPv6 on hardware (which make them useless for real traffic)
Load Balancers (ACE), no support
WAN optimization, no support
Ironport, no support
etc.
And even if this support comes, in most cases it's not just a simple software update, you have to update the hardware and you're talking 10's of thousands of dollars for each. So believe me, it's not that easy, even with the will and the money, in some cases there is no even offering from the vendors at this point, which is shameful.
Well, I see your point, but that doesn't have to do with pirated software per se, but it's (usually dubious) distribution methods. OTOH, the subject of your post was about getting free software, so I replied to that.
What difference does it make for the software companies if a user that wouldn't buy their software in the first place installs Linux or installs pirated software? There is no lost sale there, and I think it's better for a company like Microsoft that the majority of the people pirates Windows instead of using Linux, I'm sure.
mod up!, thats exactly what I think. Since when is L3 sending traffic to Comcast?, unless it's a DDoS attack or something (sending large amounts of unrequested trafic). They way I see it, Comcast (it's users) is requesting this huge amount of traffic to be sent to them, so they should pay for the bandwidth.
Given the choice, I would choose to increase my own risk of blowing up in the air by terrorism than going through all this shit. So, how about offering this as a service?, we already choose to increase our risk of dying in an accident when we choose to use low cost airlines or buses, when we choose to travel by road instead of air, etc... and that's far more probable.
On my early days, mostly Amiga, games were so hard that I almost never finished a game. Games like shadow of the beast are hard to finish today with cheats and everything. Games like monkey island I finished but took almost a year per game. But what I most recall is the frustration that meant to play games, long load times, die in 30 seconds, another long time to see a game over screen... it was ridiculous. Even so I loved that era. If you think about arcades, it's basically the same, who finished arcade games?
You care to share projects around this idea?, I found one, but not sure if there are others.
is it illegal to wire tap my own phone? or invade my own privacy?, I think it's the action of using the software in the wrong way what could be illegal, not the software itself...
I thought illegal is the action of doing so, but I could install this app and forward the messages to my other phone or whatever. I don't think the app is illegal at all.
Your reasoning is flawed, there is a reason why industrial and medical equipment costs thousands of dollars against a consumer graded device that is not an alarm clock anyway. If a power plant critical device failed, that would be news, if they are using iPhones for that, we are doomed...
How much distance I would be traveling with my finger to write a message comparing to a virtual keyboard?, and on top of that I have to be dragging my finger through the screen as opposed to a virtual keyboard.
The problem with hand writing is that I think people is increasingly less used to it (writing notes on a post-it doesn't count). On top of that, I never understood how having to write on a screen, with really big letters could be more effective than writing on a virtual keyboard, even if I was used to hand write.
Granted, but then the iPOD it's an MP3 player and that's it's essential function. Not everything is black and white, but what I'm saying is that all devices have multiple flaws and as a customer, I will choose the manufacturer that produces the best devices, bugs/errors free, etc. I would not expect great precision or anything from the iPODs stopwatch, I use it, but I don't expect anything from it. On the other hand, I'm pissed of when my 2nd gen ipod hangs for a while when I'm browsing songs, since that's a core function and should work.
Really, these stories are starting to be VERY stupid. When did we start being such crying babies?, in the past if X device didn't serve it's purpose, we would use another thing and be done with it... Yes, I know, devices should work as advertised, blah blah... But the iPhone is not an alarm clock, it HAS an alarm clock function thou. I think the question here is which functions are essential (Phone, for example) and which are just supporting apps and should work as best effort (everything else IMHO). If this weren't the case and the manufacturer was blamed for every little glitch in every application etc etc it wouldn't be possible to market these devices.
Earth is habitable to current living species only because it had a biological evolution that created the atmosphere as it is today, etc. Are we looking for planets that had the same biological evolution of earth (and thus, have life) or are we looking for planets that have the same characteristics as the early earth, and that after billions of years could hold life? Because I don't think we'll find an earth like, habitable planet without life in it.
I'm on the same situation. I wonder why no one build big fat drives with lots of capacity, I would definitely buy a 5 1/4 bay hard drive of, say, 6 TB or more.
I use Yahoo! Mail Argentina and have the same old interface, I didn't found anyware to change it. Is it really available for everyone?