That's all fine and dandy, except what Comcast was doing wasn't packet shaping. What they were doing was actively manipulating traffic (inserting reset flags onto P2P packets to disrupt connectivity). That's a big no-no that they should suffer for dearly.
Um yea..that's a freak thing. That's like saying because of the way David Koresh acted, all Christians are psychopaths.
The fact of the matter is, when an employer brings someone in-house, they get to select who it is and the person selected will usually have a higher sense of loyalty to the company that they're working for, making it easier to trust said person.
If it's really that important to you, bring it in house. And, word of advice, if you do bring it in house, don't treat the guy like a criminal or he's going to start reading your email.
...just hiring a real network administrator? Honestly, it's an employers market right now. There's lot of people who have been recently laid off who would kill for a job right now...probably even for a below-average salary.
The problem is that the education industry is a ridiculous racket. The textbook industry is merely a subset of the education industry.
I couldn't agree more
Everybody always thinks that the for profit companies charge more for textbooks than the college run bookstores. That is not true, most college run bookstores charge a higher markup than the contractual markup that the for profit companies have (the for profit companies have a contract with the college or university that--among other things--sets the amount of markup the bookstore charges for textbooks over the publisher's price).
Agreed as well. In fact while I was in school and when I managed to get my parents to buy my textbooks, they wouldn't even bother with the local bookstores (including the university ones). Instead they would scour the Internet for them and usually find them for 1/3 of the price. The downside to this, however, is I'd come in with some pretty janky-ass looking books that weren't even allowed to be sold to people in my region, complete with 'NOT FOR SALE IN NORTH AMERICA' disclaimers printed all over the covers. Boy was that a conversation starter for my fellow classmates.
The text book industry is such a ridiculous racket it sickens me. Hopefully this becomes a standard thing across the world that colleges eventually adopt. Honestly, the only times I did open a textbook in high school and college was to do the problems out of the book. The Internet resources were more than enough to service my educational needs, in many cases it was actually far better than the crap in the textbooks.
The only use for this that I could envision is providing read-only access to a Office files (I know I wouldn't have the patience to write Office docs on my phone...writing an email is bad enough). In that case, can't the iPhone already do this?
I guess you've not been car shopping in recent years. All of the American auto makers improved tremendously over the past decade. Ford has done especially well. Notice who has been winning various awards lately? It's no longer a Japanese-or-German-only market for auto quality.
The biggest obstacle any of the U.S. automakers faces is that very attitude: that U.S.-built cars are crap.
It just goes to show how valuable a professional image is and why you shouldn't let yours take a dive like 99% of all US automakers did by allowing themselves to release sub-par products.
I don't give a shit who wins any of these rigged-ass awards. What really is matters is how they're rated in publications like Consumer Reports, and from what I've seen, it's the foreign companies that rock it consistently.
Honda baby!!!! lol, jk. But yea, I'd say Jeeps are the exception to my anti-US car rule...but even they tend to break down more compared to say a Honda or Toyota.
Mark this troll all you want, but after seeing what the US has to offer in the automobile market, I won't ever buy a car from the likes of GM or Ford. I don't care what kind of promises they make. They've proven time after time to produce inefficient, shit-quality cars.
Although I agree it sucks paying more than other countries, I'd imagine the largest reason wireless providers in the US costs more in comparison to the rest of the world is because of the exponential higher cost associated with deploying the infrastructure due to the physical size of the US. Of course, there's probably other more devious things going on that also attribute to the higher costs, but it's not all attributed to evil wheelings and dealings.
My Samsung camera doesn't. Hell, any company other than Sony doesn't. SD cards are pretty much the standard format for expandable flash memory. Any company that wishes to go against that standard is one I don't care to do business with.
And the PS1/2/3 Fanboys? The sheeple that don't know any better? What about blu-ray? Sony is the main backing behind it...
I could give a fuck less about console systems that aren't upgradeable that go obsolete after a year or 2. As far as Blu-Ray...I'll never own one, especially when near-identical rips are available via the x264 codec and the awesome MKV container. I stopped fumbling with physical media once I discovered XBMC.
Well, I've got a Sony camera (P200, point and shoot) which stores images as JPG and videos as MPG and can transfer these to any platform without the need for drivers or software.
And what kind of memory card does this use? Nuff said..
I've also got a sony-ericsson phone which lets me copy any music files I want (i use mp3, not sure what other file types are supported) on to it and listen to them (via the admitedly annoying proprietary headphone adapter)
My point exactly..
Although Sony may use open formats for some of their software, what's exponentially more annoying is their use of proprietary hardware.
This is exactly why I don't buy Sony products, whether it's a computer, camera, music, etc. Consumers have been burned by them enough times with their retarded proprietary formats, lawsuits, rootkits, and just an overall blatent disrespect for consumers that I'm surprised anyone buys their crap anymore.
As long as the students fully disclose that they are doing this for a class requirement, this could be a good thing, for the students, for the school, and for anyone participating in the resulting discussion.
I think one of the desired results of this practice is to get experience handling genuine criticism from others on the opposite side of the spectrum. Disclosing their intentions would do a fair amount of padding said desired result.
The surprise isn't that Microsoft is doing it, but rather that cio.com is the one calling them on it--a site aimed at upper management. This isn't fanboy-complaining, but business-complaining, something that will hit acceptance of Bing in the corporate environment.
Heh, yeah. I figured it would probably result in some negative feedback (especially from those who have no idea whats going on in KDE land). But yea, I installed 4.3 last night, and to my expectations it's quite nice. Keep up the great work KDE devs!
I do think it's rather dumb to sue a company that isn't making any money and has no real prospects for doing so, but that just makes them dumb too; not a patent troll.
It's not so dumb if you consider that they could lose customers if their customers realize they could use Twitter for free as a replacement for their product that they're probably paying lots of money for. Maybe they're simply seeking an injunction to protect their business model? I'm not condoning their actions, as I support the notion that increased competition forces competitors to create better products.
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That's all fine and dandy, except what Comcast was doing wasn't packet shaping. What they were doing was actively manipulating traffic (inserting reset flags onto P2P packets to disrupt connectivity). That's a big no-no that they should suffer for dearly.
Yeah that's just what we need; a legitimate excuse for employers to work people more.
Who the hell is Digsby and why should I care, when there's other perfectly free alternatives available that don't bundle crapware with them.
Um yea..that's a freak thing. That's like saying because of the way David Koresh acted, all Christians are psychopaths.
The fact of the matter is, when an employer brings someone in-house, they get to select who it is and the person selected will usually have a higher sense of loyalty to the company that they're working for, making it easier to trust said person.
If it's really that important to you, bring it in house. And, word of advice, if you do bring it in house, don't treat the guy like a criminal or he's going to start reading your email.
Or worse...
Heh, right on.
...just hiring a real network administrator? Honestly, it's an employers market right now. There's lot of people who have been recently laid off who would kill for a job right now...probably even for a below-average salary.
This contract reminds me of a Mad Libs.
The problem is that the education industry is a ridiculous racket. The textbook industry is merely a subset of the education industry.
I couldn't agree more
Everybody always thinks that the for profit companies charge more for textbooks than the college run bookstores. That is not true, most college run bookstores charge a higher markup than the contractual markup that the for profit companies have (the for profit companies have a contract with the college or university that--among other things--sets the amount of markup the bookstore charges for textbooks over the publisher's price).
Agreed as well. In fact while I was in school and when I managed to get my parents to buy my textbooks, they wouldn't even bother with the local bookstores (including the university ones). Instead they would scour the Internet for them and usually find them for 1/3 of the price. The downside to this, however, is I'd come in with some pretty janky-ass looking books that weren't even allowed to be sold to people in my region, complete with 'NOT FOR SALE IN NORTH AMERICA' disclaimers printed all over the covers. Boy was that a conversation starter for my fellow classmates.
The text book industry is such a ridiculous racket it sickens me. Hopefully this becomes a standard thing across the world that colleges eventually adopt. Honestly, the only times I did open a textbook in high school and college was to do the problems out of the book. The Internet resources were more than enough to service my educational needs, in many cases it was actually far better than the crap in the textbooks.
The only use for this that I could envision is providing read-only access to a Office files (I know I wouldn't have the patience to write Office docs on my phone...writing an email is bad enough). In that case, can't the iPhone already do this?
Yet another damn good reason not to let your kids have free reign on your computer that you also use for banking and filing your taxes.
I guess you've not been car shopping in recent years. All of the American auto makers improved tremendously over the past decade. Ford has done especially well. Notice who has been winning various awards lately? It's no longer a Japanese-or-German-only market for auto quality.
The biggest obstacle any of the U.S. automakers faces is that very attitude: that U.S.-built cars are crap.
It just goes to show how valuable a professional image is and why you shouldn't let yours take a dive like 99% of all US automakers did by allowing themselves to release sub-par products.
I don't give a shit who wins any of these rigged-ass awards. What really is matters is how they're rated in publications like Consumer Reports, and from what I've seen, it's the foreign companies that rock it consistently.
Honda baby!!!! lol, jk. But yea, I'd say Jeeps are the exception to my anti-US car rule...but even they tend to break down more compared to say a Honda or Toyota.
Mark this troll all you want, but after seeing what the US has to offer in the automobile market, I won't ever buy a car from the likes of GM or Ford. I don't care what kind of promises they make. They've proven time after time to produce inefficient, shit-quality cars.
Although I agree it sucks paying more than other countries, I'd imagine the largest reason wireless providers in the US costs more in comparison to the rest of the world is because of the exponential higher cost associated with deploying the infrastructure due to the physical size of the US. Of course, there's probably other more devious things going on that also attribute to the higher costs, but it's not all attributed to evil wheelings and dealings.
Are there any companies that don't do this?
My Samsung camera doesn't. Hell, any company other than Sony doesn't. SD cards are pretty much the standard format for expandable flash memory. Any company that wishes to go against that standard is one I don't care to do business with.
And the PS1/2/3 Fanboys? The sheeple that don't know any better? What about blu-ray? Sony is the main backing behind it...
I could give a fuck less about console systems that aren't upgradeable that go obsolete after a year or 2. As far as Blu-Ray...I'll never own one, especially when near-identical rips are available via the x264 codec and the awesome MKV container. I stopped fumbling with physical media once I discovered XBMC.
Well, I've got a Sony camera (P200, point and shoot) which stores images as JPG and videos as MPG and can transfer these to any platform without the need for drivers or software.
And what kind of memory card does this use? Nuff said..
I've also got a sony-ericsson phone which lets me copy any music files I want (i use mp3, not sure what other file types are supported) on to it and listen to them (via the admitedly annoying proprietary headphone adapter)
My point exactly..
Although Sony may use open formats for some of their software, what's exponentially more annoying is their use of proprietary hardware.
This is exactly why I don't buy Sony products, whether it's a computer, camera, music, etc. Consumers have been burned by them enough times with their retarded proprietary formats, lawsuits, rootkits, and just an overall blatent disrespect for consumers that I'm surprised anyone buys their crap anymore.
Who do these guys think they are, The Fellowship of the Sun?
As long as the students fully disclose that they are doing this for a class requirement, this could be a good thing, for the students, for the school, and for anyone participating in the resulting discussion.
I think one of the desired results of this practice is to get experience handling genuine criticism from others on the opposite side of the spectrum. Disclosing their intentions would do a fair amount of padding said desired result.
The surprise isn't that Microsoft is doing it, but rather that cio.com is the one calling them on it--a site aimed at upper management. This isn't fanboy-complaining, but business-complaining, something that will hit acceptance of Bing in the corporate environment.
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Heh, yeah. I figured it would probably result in some negative feedback (especially from those who have no idea whats going on in KDE land). But yea, I installed 4.3 last night, and to my expectations it's quite nice. Keep up the great work KDE devs!
I do think it's rather dumb to sue a company that isn't making any money and has no real prospects for doing so, but that just makes them dumb too; not a patent troll.
It's not so dumb if you consider that they could lose customers if their customers realize they could use Twitter for free as a replacement for their product that they're probably paying lots of money for. Maybe they're simply seeking an injunction to protect their business model? I'm not condoning their actions, as I support the notion that increased competition forces competitors to create better products.