After having been with Telus for many years, I made the switch to Shaw two weeks ago. Just their regular packages (i.e, not lite, not x-treme). I regularly get download speeds in excess of of 500 KBytes/sec compared to the 170 KBytes/sec I got with Telus. Latency is better too. And no blocked ports with Shaw!
Where is the money for unworked time supposed to come from?
It's built into your charge-out rate like any other overhead cost and profit margin. I would expect a "very large defense-contractor type" company to charge out at a hefty rate. Making you work during your lunch hour is just is just greed. They'd rather sacrifice your personal time than eat into their profit margin.
That's why it shouldn't be a civil matter. Although I am against excessive government regulation of the Internet, governmental traffic cops may be the answer. The Internet, for all intents and purposes, is a public infrastructure. The conduct of behavior on the internet should be enforced just as the rules of the road are enforced by the police.
No vendor wants to support a multitude of platforms. The cost of porting the software and creating distributions for a fragmented market is high. The sales channel faces similar difficulties. However, a combined market that encompasses all Linux distributions and *BSD can be very attractive to a vendor. The goal should be to homogenize these OSes sufficiently to allow a single binary software distribution to serve all. This would require a consistent binary interface in addition to an abstraction of the file system layout. I believe that this could be done without jeopardizing the uniqueness of any of these OSes. As GPB pointed out in an earlier post, FreeBSD already provides binary compatibility with Linux rather than an emulation of Linux.
I agree whole-heartedly. Case and point is Corel WordPerfect. I have been running the Linux distribution on my FreeBSD box for several months now. I have had no problems with the emulation. The installation process was also painless thanks to the ports collection.
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After having been with Telus for many years, I made the switch to Shaw two weeks ago. Just their regular packages (i.e, not lite, not x-treme). I regularly get download speeds in excess of of 500 KBytes/sec compared to the 170 KBytes/sec I got with Telus. Latency is better too. And no blocked ports with Shaw!
Where is the money for unworked time supposed to come from?
It's built into your charge-out rate like any other overhead cost and profit margin. I would expect a "very large defense-contractor type" company to charge out at a hefty rate. Making you work during your lunch hour is just is just greed. They'd rather sacrifice your personal time than eat into their profit margin.
That's why it shouldn't be a civil matter. Although I am against excessive government regulation of the Internet, governmental traffic cops may be the answer. The Internet, for all intents and purposes, is a public infrastructure. The conduct of behavior on the internet should be enforced just as the rules of the road are enforced by the police.
No vendor wants to support a multitude of platforms. The cost of porting the software and creating distributions for a fragmented market is high. The sales channel faces similar difficulties. However, a combined market that encompasses all Linux distributions and *BSD can be very attractive to a vendor. The goal should be to homogenize these OSes sufficiently to allow a single binary software distribution to serve all. This would require a consistent binary interface in addition to an abstraction of the file system layout. I believe that this could be done without jeopardizing the uniqueness of any of these OSes. As GPB pointed out in an earlier post, FreeBSD already provides binary compatibility with Linux rather than an emulation of Linux.
I agree whole-heartedly. Case and point is Corel WordPerfect. I have been running the Linux distribution on my FreeBSD box for several months now. I have had no problems with the emulation. The installation process was also painless thanks to the ports collection.