I know Lizardtech as the company that creates a product called Mr sid: a wavelet compression for imagery. They have been in battles with other in which I think they are unjustly going after projects that hit 'a little too close to home, but not right on the mark' when it comes to their technology. See also JPEG2000.
That was about five months ago with Telocity as the DSL reseller. We switched to Road Runner because there were days when we couldn't even check our mail the connection was so bad. But, the IP was static and they were flexible. We were within 1000 feet of the Ameritech (SBC) junction. Service declined rapidly after we signed up and other jumped on the bandwagon.
Road runner is a bit more consistant. It still seems to get a little slow during peak hours. We've seen close to 2Mbps. But, when the power goes out in our neighborhood, they kindly rotate our IP for us. It's a pain.
I work for an institute that is having the exact same problem. We've got work that seems sexy, novel and of benefit to society (heck, even Open Source now!) But we can't compete with even mom-and-pop businesses in terms of pay.
We'd like to find someone who is experienced at many levels of software/hardware dev/maint/manage. Are people who've made their money likely to head out and seek jobs with less tangible bennies?
IMHO,though it's not very effective right now(and less so in the face of increasing performance:cost ratios, free-resources (eg. open source)) at some high level money places a cap on this effect. The same holds true in biology. If I culture organisms in an Eden of sorts (I attempt to remove all limitations) SOME limiting resource always shows up.
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I know Lizardtech as the company that creates a product called Mr sid: a wavelet compression for imagery. They have been in battles with other in which I think they are unjustly going after projects that hit 'a little too close to home, but not right on the mark' when it comes to their technology. See also JPEG2000.
That was about five months ago with Telocity as the DSL reseller. We switched to Road Runner because there were days when we couldn't even check our mail the connection was so bad. But, the IP was static and they were flexible. We were within 1000 feet of the Ameritech (SBC) junction. Service declined rapidly after we signed up and other jumped on the bandwagon. Road runner is a bit more consistant. It still seems to get a little slow during peak hours. We've seen close to 2Mbps. But, when the power goes out in our neighborhood, they kindly rotate our IP for us. It's a pain.
I work for an institute that is having the exact same problem. We've got work that seems sexy, novel and of benefit to society (heck, even Open Source now!) But we can't compete with even mom-and-pop businesses in terms of pay. We'd like to find someone who is experienced at many levels of software/hardware dev/maint/manage. Are people who've made their money likely to head out and seek jobs with less tangible bennies?
IMHO,though it's not very effective right now(and less so in the face of increasing performance:cost ratios, free-resources (eg. open source)) at some high level money places a cap on this effect. The same holds true in biology. If I culture organisms in an Eden of sorts (I attempt to remove all limitations) SOME limiting resource always shows up.