At least flash is multi-platform consistent. It performs poorly everywhere, but it's something I expect. Quicktime and iTunes seem to particularly suck real bad in Windows
Hum... that's the issue. You're providing for a bunch of students that don't have a contractual agreement with you. Now imagine that the company you contracted the 1Gb link to, started shaping your traffic. That eventually comes to you, not receiving the 1Gb you paid for.
I understand you sometimes need to shape the traffic to prioritize services you want to perform better. But these companies are getting their money offering services they don't completely provide: First they charge you for access they can shape. And second, they put a cap just in case you get away with it.
Again, I understand your work case, because if you don't pay for it, normally you tend to abuse it. But if you pay for it, why would they need to mess with your traffic?
The way I see it is, like gas companies, they jack up they prices and see how much people is willing to pay. Since people keeps paying, they don't seem to find a problem. Seems to happen inevery industry. Unluckily, these two are the ones breaking profit records every quarter.
Unless the wired and wireless infrastructure for broadband is made better and tougher.
You probably also want to include "accessible". While your students may or may not have US "broadband", they shouldn't be forced to pay the ISPs an outrageous monthly amount for the service.
They have had security checkpoints in my country for way longer than I can remember. I used to love the US airports because you got to stay with your loved ones until you boarded the plane. Now, you just see them embarrassingly getting rid of their shoes, belts, x-rayed while saying good bye.... how lovely.
It's very interesting that took another source to show the previous summary was wrong (note also, that the previous summary indicated it was Comcast fault).
What seems worrisome is that not many people came out to say that there were problems on other networks too. Does that mean that people in the Comcast network tend to use TPB more? or does it simply mean that Comcast is so big now that everyone around you seems to have a subscription with them. Where were all the Verizon people indicating they had or not problems?
That is actually a one thousandth difference. You're mistakenly confusing it with a 33% "increase". You may as well go ahead an say it was a whole 100% computer.
I don't believe it! I have service with them, and they have done plenty of stuff, but they wouldn't do that. This would make Comcast the worst p+++ CARRIER LOST +++
Hey, even though I hate Apple (for their pricing alienating practices rather than their products) I have to admit that Windows actually runs good on Netbooks because no Apple fan has come up with an Apple netbook. Otherwise, there would be 10 Slashdot stories about rumors, then other 10 about the implementation and then another 10 about how a netbook with MacOS flies and hovers on the air.
No, seriously, there are all kind of people in this forums and I don't expect less, but It seems that it's the editors the ones that should keep an eye on those stories to make the whole thing a little less biased.
This brings a more interesting question. Is it true or are just excuses? I know plenty of people that blame it on the computer when they didn't finish their work on time. Not that it was an actual computer problem, but an excuse many take as valid.
Well, they seem also to handle pretty interesting stuff, you don't want your own people leaking information that was leaked to them. On that side, it's not about trust, it's about ensuring that your contacts/whistle-blowers will trust you because of that. And they're also supposed to help their whistle blowers censor proper parts so they won't be incriminated in further legal battles of stuff such as treason. There's a lot of legal concern in any part of their business and I think they're right to be concerned.
I don't know if your analogy plays well. I'm seeing that caps get lower but we get more and more advertisement. Seems to me that it's more like you're given a limited amount of gas, but that gas may be consumed by a large message board you're required to carry making your fuel efficient car a gas guzzler.
It bothers me that AT&T gives me a $15 200MB plan, but insists on locking the phone so I'm not able to write the host file to avoid annoying advertisement that it's wasting it.
Holy! Not only my bath pipes are waiting at home broken, I was stuck in traffic but now I'm fired and not going to be able to pay for a plumber and the water bill?
Assumptions, assumptions, assumptions.... they're always easy to make.
For a start, flash is fairly good as Adobe has achieve access to many platforms. iOS and Android will probably have their own apps, but YouTube grew and has been standing based on Flash (with variations).
To me, it's the easiest/fastest way to reach massive audience.
On the funny side, Sony already has a precedent that storing data online is not safe. So they may argue that the music files are not safe and prone to be stolen.
Than again, I'll laugh for several minutes when Google shows them how to actually protect on-line content.
Google already has that front covered since they bought GrandCentral. I've been using their service since around the merge and it now has a very good integration with android devices.
That's exactly my point. Those details should be part of an employee training. But as you said companies are not interested in anything other than their short term profit.
If companies are not willing to spend on their employees and gain their loyalty. Why an employee should work for them.
Companies now want recent college graduates with experience to solve their problems and they're not willing to spend anything on their employees, yet they want the people working for them to be loyal to them.
If they don't show interest in their workers, no wonder the current average rotation of people in a job is about 18 months.
You also missed interference. If there's something you don't want is a clown with a jammer bringing all your network down (in addition to having probably a security leak if they patiently listen to your high-demanded service - which brings the topic of extreme overhead in packet transmissions for security reasons).
Not to say that wireless is good and useful. But wired is and always been more reliable since people use switches instead of hubs. But perhaps what this guy is proposing is creating a "wireless switch" that avoids such collisions and interference from the outside world.
Mmmm. No, and No. (repeat as you please). People at school should be doing whatever the hell they like. That's how great mind are unleashed.
I did a bunch of programming since I was 6 and my dad only bought one game for my XL800 and I didn't bother to ask for more as soon as I realize that I was able to do stuff in BASIC. I learned then Pascal, and a bunch of other stuff in school (including hardware and assembly) and then I learned unix scripting (thanks to a little job I had). and PHP because I wanted to do some fun Web stuff
As an Engineer I never learned C/C++ or any other OO Programming language. But I know how to program and I feel I could pick up very fast. However, several companies I had interviews with when I was looking for a job, felt that I needed to know "dark secrets" of particular programming languages in order to land the job, or that I should be able to write code in their language of preference in under certain amount of time.
Hey, I don't care, but if such companies keep looking for the person that "knows" what they know, then that person will make their exact same mistakes. They may have a huge ego to refuse to believe that people that is Language agnostic is more capable of thinking outside the box but by when they realize they made a mistake and need to train everyone else in something else and nobody wants to move to the comfort zone, then they have to go around fishing for "another guy that knows exactly this".
That... of course messes up with your own career development. And I think is wrong.
tl;dr: People should be hired because they can do the JOB not a particular TASK.
That you still need a soundproof wall? So instead of paying for the soundproof wall AND the electronics (and subsequent batteries/electricity). You just pay for the wall?
Well, if it's controllable it would be nice having it on car windows, or if it isolates certain frequencies, you could use those frequencies for emergency vehicles so some @$^!#$% people won't block their way.
See, what baffles me is that they lock Blurays, Consoles, Google TVs, handsets to no point. They know they are not good at it because (except for the GoogleTVs) all of them have been hacked already.
Yet they go around collecting information they know they are not good at protecting.
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At least flash is multi-platform consistent. It performs poorly everywhere, but it's something I expect. Quicktime and iTunes seem to particularly suck real bad in Windows
Hum... that's the issue. You're providing for a bunch of students that don't have a contractual agreement with you. Now imagine that the company you contracted the 1Gb link to, started shaping your traffic. That eventually comes to you, not receiving the 1Gb you paid for.
I understand you sometimes need to shape the traffic to prioritize services you want to perform better. But these companies are getting their money offering services they don't completely provide: First they charge you for access they can shape. And second, they put a cap just in case you get away with it.
Again, I understand your work case, because if you don't pay for it, normally you tend to abuse it. But if you pay for it, why would they need to mess with your traffic?
The way I see it is, like gas companies, they jack up they prices and see how much people is willing to pay. Since people keeps paying, they don't seem to find a problem. Seems to happen inevery industry. Unluckily, these two are the ones breaking profit records every quarter.
I think you missed the whole point. He won't be able to get a drink... because they hid the bar!
I'll be here all week, don't forget to tip your waitress!
Unless the wired and wireless infrastructure for broadband is made better and tougher.
You probably also want to include "accessible". While your students may or may not have US "broadband", they shouldn't be forced to pay the ISPs an outrageous monthly amount for the service.
They have had security checkpoints in my country for way longer than I can remember. I used to love the US airports because you got to stay with your loved ones until you boarded the plane. Now, you just see them embarrassingly getting rid of their shoes, belts, x-rayed while saying good bye.... how lovely.
It's very interesting that took another source to show the previous summary was wrong (note also, that the previous summary indicated it was Comcast fault).
What seems worrisome is that not many people came out to say that there were problems on other networks too. Does that mean that people in the Comcast network tend to use TPB more? or does it simply mean that Comcast is so big now that everyone around you seems to have a subscription with them. Where were all the Verizon people indicating they had or not problems?
That is actually a one thousandth difference. You're mistakenly confusing it with a 33% "increase". You may as well go ahead an say it was a whole 100% computer.
They have dishonored many people. The least they can do is harakiri... at least the executives.
Ah wait, we're talking about the consoles guys, not the music/RIAA execs...
Ah.. meh... pure disappointment!
I don't believe it! I have service with them, and they have done plenty of stuff, but they wouldn't do that. This would make Comcast the worst p+++ CARRIER LOST +++
Hey, even though I hate Apple (for their pricing alienating practices rather than their products) I have to admit that Windows actually runs good on Netbooks because no Apple fan has come up with an Apple netbook. Otherwise, there would be 10 Slashdot stories about rumors, then other 10 about the implementation and then another 10 about how a netbook with MacOS flies and hovers on the air.
No, seriously, there are all kind of people in this forums and I don't expect less, but It seems that it's the editors the ones that should keep an eye on those stories to make the whole thing a little less biased.
This brings a more interesting question. Is it true or are just excuses? I know plenty of people that blame it on the computer when they didn't finish their work on time. Not that it was an actual computer problem, but an excuse many take as valid.
Well, they seem also to handle pretty interesting stuff, you don't want your own people leaking information that was leaked to them. On that side, it's not about trust, it's about ensuring that your contacts/whistle-blowers will trust you because of that. And they're also supposed to help their whistle blowers censor proper parts so they won't be incriminated in further legal battles of stuff such as treason. There's a lot of legal concern in any part of their business and I think they're right to be concerned.
I don't know if your analogy plays well. I'm seeing that caps get lower but we get more and more advertisement. Seems to me that it's more like you're given a limited amount of gas, but that gas may be consumed by a large message board you're required to carry making your fuel efficient car a gas guzzler.
It bothers me that AT&T gives me a $15 200MB plan, but insists on locking the phone so I'm not able to write the host file to avoid annoying advertisement that it's wasting it.
Holy! Not only my bath pipes are waiting at home broken, I was stuck in traffic but now I'm fired and not going to be able to pay for a plumber and the water bill?
Assumptions, assumptions, assumptions.... they're always easy to make.
For a start, flash is fairly good as Adobe has achieve access to many platforms. iOS and Android will probably have their own apps, but YouTube grew and has been standing based on Flash (with variations).
To me, it's the easiest/fastest way to reach massive audience.
On the funny side, Sony already has a precedent that storing data online is not safe. So they may argue that the music files are not safe and prone to be stolen.
Than again, I'll laugh for several minutes when Google shows them how to actually protect on-line content.
Google already has that front covered since they bought GrandCentral. I've been using their service since around the merge and it now has a very good integration with android devices.
That's exactly my point. Those details should be part of an employee training. But as you said companies are not interested in anything other than their short term profit.
If companies are not willing to spend on their employees and gain their loyalty. Why an employee should work for them.
Companies now want recent college graduates with experience to solve their problems and they're not willing to spend anything on their employees, yet they want the people working for them to be loyal to them.
If they don't show interest in their workers, no wonder the current average rotation of people in a job is about 18 months.
You also missed interference. If there's something you don't want is a clown with a jammer bringing all your network down (in addition to having probably a security leak if they patiently listen to your high-demanded service - which brings the topic of extreme overhead in packet transmissions for security reasons).
Not to say that wireless is good and useful. But wired is and always been more reliable since people use switches instead of hubs. But perhaps what this guy is proposing is creating a "wireless switch" that avoids such collisions and interference from the outside world.
Mmmm. No, and No. (repeat as you please). People at school should be doing whatever the hell they like. That's how great mind are unleashed.
I did a bunch of programming since I was 6 and my dad only bought one game for my XL800 and I didn't bother to ask for more as soon as I realize that I was able to do stuff in BASIC. I learned then Pascal, and a bunch of other stuff in school (including hardware and assembly) and then I learned unix scripting (thanks to a little job I had). and PHP because I wanted to do some fun Web stuff
As an Engineer I never learned C/C++ or any other OO Programming language. But I know how to program and I feel I could pick up very fast. However, several companies I had interviews with when I was looking for a job, felt that I needed to know "dark secrets" of particular programming languages in order to land the job, or that I should be able to write code in their language of preference in under certain amount of time.
Hey, I don't care, but if such companies keep looking for the person that "knows" what they know, then that person will make their exact same mistakes. They may have a huge ego to refuse to believe that people that is Language agnostic is more capable of thinking outside the box but by when they realize they made a mistake and need to train everyone else in something else and nobody wants to move to the comfort zone, then they have to go around fishing for "another guy that knows exactly this".
That... of course messes up with your own career development. And I think is wrong.
tl;dr: People should be hired because they can do the JOB not a particular TASK.
Well, yes. BUt can you write a script in WMI that launches a GUI from VB to track an IP address?
That you still need a soundproof wall? So instead of paying for the soundproof wall AND the electronics (and subsequent batteries/electricity). You just pay for the wall?
Well, if it's controllable it would be nice having it on car windows, or if it isolates certain frequencies, you could use those frequencies for emergency vehicles so some @$^!#$% people won't block their way.
See, what baffles me is that they lock Blurays, Consoles, Google TVs, handsets to no point. They know they are not good at it because (except for the GoogleTVs) all of them have been hacked already.
Yet they go around collecting information they know they are not good at protecting.