What I find absolutely frustrating is that I do not have the ability to back up my Gmail account on my home computer as a 300 MB tarball or the like. In order to have my backup, I've got to download a mail client - like Thunderbird, store it in Thunderbird's proprietary format, and wait patiently as Thunderbird downloads my 30,000 messages... 300 messages at a time.
No. Unh-uh.
I really think there needs to be some way to tarball the files and just upload them back into Google's server. Comeon, Googie, why can't you add that?
Here's the thing. Everyone is saying that they need to go to jail.
But this was a civil trial. They broke the law, yes, but it was civil law that they broke. It was a class action suit for financial damages.
The reason they're not facing jail time is because no one went to the local constabulary and said: "I would like to press charges - my computer was hacked, this is how they did it, this is where they admitted to it."
The Sistine Chapel is an advertisement for the Roman Catholic Church.
I agree with many of your points; but calling for the abolishment of any type of speech (even commercial speech) is a road we dare not walk down.
The problem is that of transparency and honesty; I have no problem with an advertisement that honestly states what the solution to a problem you have is (although there's a grey area - see Freakonomics of how Listerine "invented" halitosis in America.)
In the end, my big concern is that advertising works because it appeals to the "reptilian hind-brain" of people. If you want to stop advertising's ill effects, start producing smarter people!
Because blogs are a way to reach audiences that are not reached through traditional marketing outlets, they increase the amount of feedback you receive from your customers, and they provide a way to mine your user base for ideas.
I don't know if you've got full QoS; degrading P2P traffic can usually be done straight in the Cisco router. QoS tends to have a couple more applications; for example, when you have UDP and TCP on the same network at the same time (which is what prompted my original comment.) UDP is designed to expand it's use of bandwidth to the amount available, and dropped packets are just dropped. This is why UDP is usually used for VoIP or videoconferencing; if you're using a VoIP app, having the dropped packet half-a-second late means nothing to you, and you want to have the best quality available, so UDP is the natural choice. TCP views completeness as more important; dropped packets tell the TCP protocol that it needs to slow down to ensure message accuracy.
So, riddle me this. What happens when you have TCP and UDP running on the same line? UDP takes up all the bandwidth NOT in use by TCP. TCP, seeing that the bandwidth is saturated (and dropping packets) throttles down. UDP, seeing that there's suddenly more room for UDP, throttles up. In response, TCP throttles down. In response UDP throttles up.
From what I know about Internet2, it's a TCP/IP based network, which means either they're using TCP/IP for the video presentation (inefficient), OR there's nothing else on that pipe(Internet2 is underutilized), OR they're using a QoS solution.
Isn't that the point of QoS? To prioritize traffic so that it becomes used more effectively before you are required to upgrade your bandwidth?
Don't get me wrong - I realize that, on the Internet, traffic needs to be neutral. But on a business or academic network, some traffic - the business or academically critical traffic - is simply more important than other traffic.
I would say that bandwidth is cheap if you're talking about connecting to the 'net, but if you're talking about a private network, bandwidth upgrades are major, expensive hassles in both manpower and raw cost.
Jokes aside, I wonder if they're prioritizing traffic using some sort of WAN performance solution. And is the traffic on that HD video UDP or TCP? If it's UDP, I'll bet you it's taking up the whole pipe and nothing else is traveling on the network at that time.
This seems very similar to the system used in New Zealand; different size money, raised textures, different colors. There is a bit of problem with the plastic currency sticking together, however, due to static cling.
While it would be sweet, the thing about GMail's POP3 service is, so far as I can tell, only sending about 300-500 e-mails per check. I've got about 30,000 e-mails on Gmail, and I basically have to wait overnight to let my computer download them all. I really would like a data file that I could just download and dump into Thunderbird. It would make it quite a bit easier when I have to reformat.
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What I find absolutely frustrating is that I do not have the ability to back up my Gmail account on my home computer as a 300 MB tarball or the like. In order to have my backup, I've got to download a mail client - like Thunderbird, store it in Thunderbird's proprietary format, and wait patiently as Thunderbird downloads my 30,000 messages... 300 messages at a time. No. Unh-uh. I really think there needs to be some way to tarball the files and just upload them back into Google's server. Comeon, Googie, why can't you add that?
Here's the thing. Everyone is saying that they need to go to jail.
But this was a civil trial. They broke the law, yes, but it was civil law that they broke. It was a class action suit for financial damages.
The reason they're not facing jail time is because no one went to the local constabulary and said: "I would like to press charges - my computer was hacked, this is how they did it, this is where they admitted to it."
Then you might see a criminal trial.
It's the Star of David Shirikun launcher. He's also got a sidekick, the Tasmanian Dreidel.
The bible also tells you that menstruating women are unclean and that you should be put to death for picking up sticks on Saturday.
An insignificant correction to your change to the theory.
New Zealand's rich bird fauna had evolved there because they had little competition from land mammals and orcs.
The Sistine Chapel is an advertisement for the Roman Catholic Church.
I agree with many of your points; but calling for the abolishment of any type of speech (even commercial speech) is a road we dare not walk down.
The problem is that of transparency and honesty; I have no problem with an advertisement that honestly states what the solution to a problem you have is (although there's a grey area - see Freakonomics of how Listerine "invented" halitosis in America.)
In the end, my big concern is that advertising works because it appeals to the "reptilian hind-brain" of people. If you want to stop advertising's ill effects, start producing smarter people!
Because blogs are a way to reach audiences that are not reached through traditional marketing outlets, they increase the amount of feedback you receive from your customers, and they provide a way to mine your user base for ideas.
-- Brian Boyko
-- Professional Blogger.
I don't know if you've got full QoS; degrading P2P traffic can usually be done straight in the Cisco router. QoS tends to have a couple more applications; for example, when you have UDP and TCP on the same network at the same time (which is what prompted my original comment.) UDP is designed to expand it's use of bandwidth to the amount available, and dropped packets are just dropped. This is why UDP is usually used for VoIP or videoconferencing; if you're using a VoIP app, having the dropped packet half-a-second late means nothing to you, and you want to have the best quality available, so UDP is the natural choice. TCP views completeness as more important; dropped packets tell the TCP protocol that it needs to slow down to ensure message accuracy.
So, riddle me this. What happens when you have TCP and UDP running on the same line? UDP takes up all the bandwidth NOT in use by TCP. TCP, seeing that the bandwidth is saturated (and dropping packets) throttles down. UDP, seeing that there's suddenly more room for UDP, throttles up. In response, TCP throttles down. In response UDP throttles up.
From what I know about Internet2, it's a TCP/IP based network, which means either they're using TCP/IP for the video presentation (inefficient), OR there's nothing else on that pipe(Internet2 is underutilized), OR they're using a QoS solution.
Isn't that the point of QoS? To prioritize traffic so that it becomes used more effectively before you are required to upgrade your bandwidth?
Don't get me wrong - I realize that, on the Internet, traffic needs to be neutral. But on a business or academic network, some traffic - the business or academically critical traffic - is simply more important than other traffic.
I would say that bandwidth is cheap if you're talking about connecting to the 'net, but if you're talking about a private network, bandwidth upgrades are major, expensive hassles in both manpower and raw cost.
But - and trying not to be snarky - if the network is practically empty all the time, what's the point of the network?
Jokes aside, I wonder if they're prioritizing traffic using some sort of WAN performance solution. And is the traffic on that HD video UDP or TCP? If it's UDP, I'll bet you it's taking up the whole pipe and nothing else is traveling on the network at that time.
This seems very similar to the system used in New Zealand; different size money, raised textures, different colors. There is a bit of problem with the plastic currency sticking together, however, due to static cling.
-- Brian Boyko -- Network Performance Daily
While it would be sweet, the thing about GMail's POP3 service is, so far as I can tell, only sending about 300-500 e-mails per check. I've got about 30,000 e-mails on Gmail, and I basically have to wait overnight to let my computer download them all. I really would like a data file that I could just download and dump into Thunderbird. It would make it quite a bit easier when I have to reformat.
--Brian Boyko, New Media Comm. Spec., NetQoS
--www.networkperformancedaily.com