Your network is still neutral if it has asymmetrical speeds. But self-hosting is a matter of freedom still deserves to at least not be impeded. But there are still some technical reasons for asymmetrical speeds.
If the Universal Service Fund were expanded to broadband, I'd hope so. Of course with all the fraudulent uses of the money it never did enough good anyway. But if it weren't managed by the phone companies, I'd be all for paying that as a tax.
There are a few carriers that will ONLY put one DSLAM in an a physical building at the center of town. A DSLAM (the box that basically adds Internet to your copper pair) can be installed in an outdoor cabinet very easily. Just requires some fiber to be run and some electricity. The fiber's probably already there, too.
I had AT&T in a small town. The Internet was only available a certain distance from the CO. One day my Internet went down and after an hour on the phone, I found that someone had accidentally physically disconnected my line from the DSLAM. This is why they should be in outdoor cabinets anyway.
I am in a certain part of Southern Illinois - and near enough to have heard of Clearwave. There are at least two towns around here that opted into a competing electric supplier automatically. However, the ISP I was talking about was in my hometown - much further north. This particular CLEC bought out an ISP in Macomb, IL. Surprising, because this ISP was established in '95 as a dial-up provider and managed to stay relevant for years by later adding DSL and wireless Internet.
Mainly because often enough the prices we get charged are higher than the retail price.
Here where I live, the city I'm in as well as another nearby has opted into get group rates from one of these providers. I am saving a couple cents per KwH with really no effort on my part. For that matter, I still get and pay my bill to the provider that owns the lines.
But you're right if you're talking about DSL, for the most part. However, in my old hometown almost everyone was on a nearby CLEC's DSL service when Verizon owned the lines. In fact, I don't think Verizon even wanted to offer DSL - despite having all the equipment installed. When Frontier bought out the area's lines, everyone switched directly to Frontier. Some mainline providers are worse than others.
And by the way, would you really run binary code directly from a web site on your computer? There's a reason you're essentially using a JS virtual machine. Makes sandboxing much easier.
The point is, the problem isn't the compiling. It's the bloat. When your app is built on top of a monstrous framework (jQuery's not even that bad on its own), it's going to be slow. Bad developers are going to make bad code and compiling it will not fix the problem.
Oh, that seems much simpler (/sarcasm)! And of course someone's going to want to save time writing 3 versions, so they'll write in JavaScript and cross-compile to x86 and x64 to save time, increase compatibility, and reduce bugs. Should be easy enough to create a compiler, since we already have JIT compilers on most platforms. And wait...now you're just moving from JIT to pre-compiled and not really changing the status quo.
By the way, fat binaries are great for mobile users on a capped connection.
Except you have to be careful which vendor you do your free e-file with. Some will charge for a PDF copy of the federal. So when you want to do the Illinois return and it asks for line 38 on your 1040, you have to pay up.
PHP's strengths are more for the old-school, non-AJAX web sites
PHP's not bad at encoding JSON either. What else do you need to make it "AJAX-friendly?" (nevermind that the X in AJAX still technically stands for XML - not that that would be useful).
Americans aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer when it comes to taxes; how many people do you know that live paycheck-to-paycheck all year but get four digit refunds?
It's the closest they get to "saving up" for large expenses. If they're not going to even get a savings account at least let them have that.
And if you're filling out a Schedule C because you made $200 doing misc. work for someone, it's not worth paying that. The IRS decides who calls themselves self-employed. The taxes including SE taxes is already about $60 of that.
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Your network is still neutral if it has asymmetrical speeds. But self-hosting is a matter of freedom still deserves to at least not be impeded. But there are still some technical reasons for asymmetrical speeds.
If the Universal Service Fund were expanded to broadband, I'd hope so. Of course with all the fraudulent uses of the money it never did enough good anyway. But if it weren't managed by the phone companies, I'd be all for paying that as a tax.
fifty years overdue....he got it passed
It's still overdue and what was passed does not fix anything. Single payer (best) or private. In-between is useless.
There are a few carriers that will ONLY put one DSLAM in an a physical building at the center of town. A DSLAM (the box that basically adds Internet to your copper pair) can be installed in an outdoor cabinet very easily. Just requires some fiber to be run and some electricity. The fiber's probably already there, too.
I had AT&T in a small town. The Internet was only available a certain distance from the CO. One day my Internet went down and after an hour on the phone, I found that someone had accidentally physically disconnected my line from the DSLAM. This is why they should be in outdoor cabinets anyway.
A state essentially granting a monopoly / exclusive right of way to one company is not free enterprise either. So what exactly is your point?
I am in a certain part of Southern Illinois - and near enough to have heard of Clearwave. There are at least two towns around here that opted into a competing electric supplier automatically. However, the ISP I was talking about was in my hometown - much further north. This particular CLEC bought out an ISP in Macomb, IL. Surprising, because this ISP was established in '95 as a dial-up provider and managed to stay relevant for years by later adding DSL and wireless Internet.
Mainly because often enough the prices we get charged are higher than the retail price.
Here where I live, the city I'm in as well as another nearby has opted into get group rates from one of these providers. I am saving a couple cents per KwH with really no effort on my part. For that matter, I still get and pay my bill to the provider that owns the lines.
But you're right if you're talking about DSL, for the most part. However, in my old hometown almost everyone was on a nearby CLEC's DSL service when Verizon owned the lines. In fact, I don't think Verizon even wanted to offer DSL - despite having all the equipment installed. When Frontier bought out the area's lines, everyone switched directly to Frontier. Some mainline providers are worse than others.
And by the way, would you really run binary code directly from a web site on your computer? There's a reason you're essentially using a JS virtual machine. Makes sandboxing much easier.
The point is, the problem isn't the compiling. It's the bloat. When your app is built on top of a monstrous framework (jQuery's not even that bad on its own), it's going to be slow. Bad developers are going to make bad code and compiling it will not fix the problem.
And that's not mentioning that the desktop client can just as easily push whatever it wants to the cloud, too.
If you're going to e-file at the end anyway, it's a relatively moot point.
Oh, that seems much simpler (/sarcasm)! And of course someone's going to want to save time writing 3 versions, so they'll write in JavaScript and cross-compile to x86 and x64 to save time, increase compatibility, and reduce bugs. Should be easy enough to create a compiler, since we already have JIT compilers on most platforms. And wait...now you're just moving from JIT to pre-compiled and not really changing the status quo.
By the way, fat binaries are great for mobile users on a capped connection.
But of course to make it run faster, you can use a JIT compiler to recompile that to native code....
Except you have to be careful which vendor you do your free e-file with. Some will charge for a PDF copy of the federal. So when you want to do the Illinois return and it asks for line 38 on your 1040, you have to pay up.
Oh well, it's just the current phase in the 10-year thin client sucks/thick client sucks cyclic history repeating itself.
No...this is a new phase. The "It takes a fat client just to run the thin client" phase.
PHP's strengths are more for the old-school, non-AJAX web sites
PHP's not bad at encoding JSON either. What else do you need to make it "AJAX-friendly?" (nevermind that the X in AJAX still technically stands for XML - not that that would be useful).
So much for cross-platform. So even obscure web sites need to compile for: x86, x64, IA-32, ARM, am I missing any?
I watched that movie. I really liked it.
Only the third one was really that bad. As long as you went in expecting a more lighthearted story than LOTR.
That's some expensive milk. Most interest bearing checking accounts are at least 0.1%. That'll get you at least $15 worth of milk.
And before anyone jumps on me for not obscure remembering tax rules, change that $200 to $401.
Americans aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer when it comes to taxes; how many people do you know that live paycheck-to-paycheck all year but get four digit refunds?
It's the closest they get to "saving up" for large expenses. If they're not going to even get a savings account at least let them have that.
Their web app is fine. I run OS X and have used their site for years. Didn't even realize they had a download version.
And if you're filling out a Schedule C because you made $200 doing misc. work for someone, it's not worth paying that. The IRS decides who calls themselves self-employed. The taxes including SE taxes is already about $60 of that.
No such illusion here. But when it's "free" some people forget that everything still costs money and that it's paid from somewhere.