It has been shown that it's nearly impossible to build enough roadway in high traffic areas because as soon as you add more roadway it gets filled to capacity *immediately*.
I think it's even worse than that as it says 30% of the content has to be local for *each* country!
That's insanely ridiculous as if they show their entire catalog in just 3 countries than 90% of their content would have to come from those 3 countries which only leaves 10% from elsewhere.
They will *have* to reduce their catalogs across all of europe and have separate catalogs for each specific country.
Microsoft in Redmond now runs their own fleet of buses that go all over the greater seattle area for their workers. With built in WiFi even if IIRC so you can work on the bus during your commute and have it counted towards your hours or whatever.
Lenovo had a laptop that did exactly that at one time - had a 2nd 10" screen that slid out from behind the main display screen.
They don't make it anymore though as far as I know.. https://www.wired.com/2009/01/...
EIther way what I said still applies - doesn't matter who is calling whom - it is normal practice to generate ringtone back to the caller (no matter who they are or who they are calling) before the called numbers side connects and starts generating their own ringtone.
This is a bit disconcerting - I suppose in this case they were fined because they were doing this in order to cover up their spotty coverage. As in it was malicious.
But still a bit disconcerting as this is very common practice in telecom. I work with telecom VOIP gateways and almost all calls are SIP now and the protocols have methods that allow gateways to generate the ringing you hear before the other end connects and starts to generate the ring from the far side. This is so the caller doesn't just hear empty silence or a series of beeps or whatever while we wait for the far end to connect. Now once the far end does connect we stop and play whatever media we are receiving so it generally doesn't happen for more than a ring or two but it can and has happened for 4-5 rings which is enough for impatient people to just hang up and think the other person is not answering.
I don't think you are an outlier at all I just think people tend to have narrow views of what is happening based on what they work on and what they see.
And I happen to agree with you and I'm not a MS fanboi at all...
I work for an IT consulting company and have worked on projects for hundreds of companies and yes often (but not always) their web servers, app servers, etc are linux and they may have a few other linux servers here and there but from what I have seen that usually is only about 10-20% of their servers total. The other 80-90% are Windows servers.
Windows servers running Exchange, IIS, Sharepoint, Lync, Skype for Business, MS SQL, Active Directory, Print servers, File shares, Office Web Apps (or Office Online Server as it's now called), WAP, Azure Sync and now even running Azure.
And with the *huge* increase of companies moving to Office 365 now the number of Windows servers is only growing. MS won't be IBM any time soon with their VERY strong position for cloud services all related to Office. And now as previously mentioned you can now run the Azure stack in house on your very own Windows Servers those numbers will only keep growing.
Because if you work in a large company with thousands of users and multiple locations you don't want to go to every new persons computer and manually install all their local printers for them and then do it again if they happen to be visiting another office and then revert those changes when they come back.
If you have print servers running on Windows servers with Active Directory you can put in Group Policies so that every time your user logs in they get automatically get access to the printers they need and only the ones they need.
Also if you need to update the print driver you just have to do it on the print server instead of going around doing it on every fracking workstation.
There are many other benefits as well (such as it offloads the actual print process to the server) but the ones above are probably the main ones.
Many apartment buildings have this and I suppose some neighbor duplicating keys could be an issue.
That also makes me wonder though about those keys that say "Do not duplicate" on them and those machines I've seen in stores that let's you make duplicate keys with no interaction of a person - do these machines have some way of detecting that a key is not supposed to be duplicated?
First those aren't technological problems - they are social and political problems.
Second - there are technologies around that easily circumvent all of those things and there always will be.
Government moves at a snails pace when compared to technological changes.
You would be very wrong. There are many towns that have a walmart that killed local businesses when they moved in that were under 10k people. Including my hometown where I grew up in which was at about 6k people when they opened and is at about 7k people now. One independent grocery store has survived but only out of loyalty of the hispanic population.
Self studied and then paid a modest amount for some classes to obtain my first IT Certification in 1999.
Used that to get a support position in 2000.
Continued working my way up the ladder in IT jobs for the next 17 years.
Now making a 6 figure income
At least half the people I work with have gone a similar route and the company I work for even has an apprenticeship program for paid work/study position for one year and then advance them into an actual position and they will even take people with no computer skills as long as they have the right personality and drive to succeed in IT.
I believe within that 100 years, if we don't nuke ourselves, we will have the capability to digitize our brains and become immortal pieces of code. At that point I think it's likely flesh and blood human populations will shrink considerably. And even if it doesn't those individuals who have chosen to be digitized can now leave this planet and explore the universe without the need for all that stuff required to support fleshy life.
If that does occur then humanity will live forever - just not in its current form.
I have *never* paid for cable service and have always had some kind of DSL except once when I lived somewhere I could get fiber to my house.
Was an early adopter of netflix and have never had an issue streaming from them or any other streaming service I have used - and that's even in times when I had slow DSL (6 down / 1.5 up).
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I so *wish* I had mod points for you right now.
It has been shown that it's nearly impossible to build enough roadway in high traffic areas because as soon as you add more roadway it gets filled to capacity *immediately*.
I think it's even worse than that as it says 30% of the content has to be local for *each* country!
That's insanely ridiculous as if they show their entire catalog in just 3 countries than 90% of their content would have to come from those 3 countries which only leaves 10% from elsewhere.
They will *have* to reduce their catalogs across all of europe and have separate catalogs for each specific country.
Microsoft in Redmond now runs their own fleet of buses that go all over the greater seattle area for their workers. With built in WiFi even if IIRC so you can work on the bus during your commute and have it counted towards your hours or whatever.
I'm in my mid-40's and am one of those people that has never paid for cable TV service.
I didn't even ever own a TV until about 10 years ago.
Bought my first new TV 4 years ago.
Who watches TV with commercial anymore?
How about get a phone that supports wireless charging then physically destroy the usb port.
Lenovo had a laptop that did exactly that at one time - had a 2nd 10" screen that slid out from behind the main display screen.
They don't make it anymore though as far as I know..
https://www.wired.com/2009/01/...
EIther way what I said still applies - doesn't matter who is calling whom - it is normal practice to generate ringtone back to the caller (no matter who they are or who they are calling) before the called numbers side connects and starts generating their own ringtone.
This is a bit disconcerting - I suppose in this case they were fined because they were doing this in order to cover up their spotty coverage. As in it was malicious.
But still a bit disconcerting as this is very common practice in telecom. I work with telecom VOIP gateways and almost all calls are SIP now and the protocols have methods that allow gateways to generate the ringing you hear before the other end connects and starts to generate the ring from the far side. This is so the caller doesn't just hear empty silence or a series of beeps or whatever while we wait for the far end to connect. Now once the far end does connect we stop and play whatever media we are receiving so it generally doesn't happen for more than a ring or two but it can and has happened for 4-5 rings which is enough for impatient people to just hang up and think the other person is not answering.
My wife has an iPhone and has not been able to update it for several months because she doesn't have enough space on it to install the update.
She can't even update most of her apps (of which she doesn't have that many) due to the limited amount of space she has on her phone.
> And yet the vast majority of the world's email travels though Linux servers.
Actually the vast majority of email travels through end user windows machines infected with botnets.
I don't think you are an outlier at all I just think people tend to have narrow views of what is happening based on what they work on and what they see.
And I happen to agree with you and I'm not a MS fanboi at all...
I work for an IT consulting company and have worked on projects for hundreds of companies and yes often (but not always) their web servers, app servers, etc are linux and they may have a few other linux servers here and there but from what I have seen that usually is only about 10-20% of their servers total. The other 80-90% are Windows servers.
Windows servers running Exchange, IIS, Sharepoint, Lync, Skype for Business, MS SQL, Active Directory, Print servers, File shares, Office Web Apps (or Office Online Server as it's now called), WAP, Azure Sync and now even running Azure.
And with the *huge* increase of companies moving to Office 365 now the number of Windows servers is only growing. MS won't be IBM any time soon with their VERY strong position for cloud services all related to Office. And now as previously mentioned you can now run the Azure stack in house on your very own Windows Servers those numbers will only keep growing.
Because if you work in a large company with thousands of users and multiple locations you don't want to go to every new persons computer and manually install all their local printers for them and then do it again if they happen to be visiting another office and then revert those changes when they come back.
If you have print servers running on Windows servers with Active Directory you can put in Group Policies so that every time your user logs in they get automatically get access to the printers they need and only the ones they need.
Also if you need to update the print driver you just have to do it on the print server instead of going around doing it on every fracking workstation.
There are many other benefits as well (such as it offloads the actual print process to the server) but the ones above are probably the main ones.
Many apartment buildings have this and I suppose some neighbor duplicating keys could be an issue.
That also makes me wonder though about those keys that say "Do not duplicate" on them and those machines I've seen in stores that let's you make duplicate keys with no interaction of a person - do these machines have some way of detecting that a key is not supposed to be duplicated?
http://splinternews.com/amazon...
LG just recently changed the warranty on their G6 from one year to two years.
So there is at least one manufacturer that offers a >1 year warranty.
First those aren't technological problems - they are social and political problems.
Second - there are technologies around that easily circumvent all of those things and there always will be.
Government moves at a snails pace when compared to technological changes.
You would be very wrong. There are many towns that have a walmart that killed local businesses when they moved in that were under 10k people. Including my hometown where I grew up in which was at about 6k people when they opened and is at about 7k people now. One independent grocery store has survived but only out of loyalty of the hispanic population.
It's 250k for an individual and 500k for a couple.
Dictionaries are descriptive and NOT proscriptive.
Self studied and then paid a modest amount for some classes to obtain my first IT Certification in 1999.
Used that to get a support position in 2000.
Continued working my way up the ladder in IT jobs for the next 17 years.
Now making a 6 figure income
At least half the people I work with have gone a similar route and the company I work for even has an apprenticeship program for paid work/study position for one year and then advance them into an actual position and they will even take people with no computer skills as long as they have the right personality and drive to succeed in IT.
I believe within that 100 years, if we don't nuke ourselves, we will have the capability to digitize our brains and become immortal pieces of code. At that point I think it's likely flesh and blood human populations will shrink considerably. And even if it doesn't those individuals who have chosen to be digitized can now leave this planet and explore the universe without the need for all that stuff required to support fleshy life.
If that does occur then humanity will live forever - just not in its current form.
Article says "on premise" when they meant "on premises."
I had to stop reading right there..
I have *never* paid for cable service and have always had some kind of DSL except once when I lived somewhere I could get fiber to my house.
Was an early adopter of netflix and have never had an issue streaming from them or any other streaming service I have used - and that's even in times when I had slow DSL (6 down / 1.5 up).
Currently my DSL is 80down/10up.