I see MS as headed for a cliff as fast as their sales will take them. They're doomed in the same way IBM was doomed back in the late 80's.
Yeah, didn't they (IBM) just break the petaflop barrier?
Guess I can only hope MS takes the same route.... IE, making the gold standard of desktop computing (The PC), the standard (although the linux community just flatly refuses to identify with)of server software for over a decade (NT (based upon OS/2), etc., etc., etc.
OMG, MS is following the demise of IBM 25 years ago.
Anything East of the Rocky Mountains is humid. The farther East you go, the higher up the Barometric pressure goes. Period. It's a fact, you can't argue with it, and that's that.
San Diego, Ca. Best weather in the United States.
I really don't know what I'm talking about, though. Having travelled over a million miles in the US itself, been to every state (in an RV) over a 5 yr period, and have lived up and down the west coast, as well as spent three years (it felt like prison) in Texas.
The weather in Texas is only nice if you have never been west of the rockies. And if you say Texas weather rocks (ANYWHERE), then you are, full, of shit.
Nothing personal, just weather, experience, and someone who knows what he is talking about, speaking against ya.
No they wouldn't. That's utopia and it wouldn't work.
Ma Bell won't go away, they shouldn't have to. Just because YOU want faster internet doesn't mean they have to cease to exist because in YOUR business model they can't make a living.
I mean, I'm all for net neutrality, save-a-hoe, etc., etc., etc.... But c'mon, to expect Ma Bell to just give up infrastructure they put in.... Yeah, right.
Throttling packets to you can increase their ability to provide access to others, since their total upstream capacity is inherently increased by lowering total packets going upstream.
IOW, lower heavy users throughput, and more users can use said pipe.
Not what we are paying for, unless your contract states otherwise, but you are getting the internet, they usually have a loophole like you stated (to the best of their ability, and if lowering 1 persons upstream throughput can increase throughput for 3 to 5 more people (and you know they would spin it higher than that), then they are INCREASING THEIR ABILITY!!)
Really, last-mile networks should be owned and run by the neighbourhoods, or failing that atleast be considered infrastructure, really today a working broadband-connection is basic infrastructure like electric power, water, sewage and roads. (it's not -equally- crucial as those, but it's crucial nevertheless, I doubt a house with -no- telecom-connection of any sort would find many buyers)
The ultimate solution would be to ban last-mile owners from providing any services at all. No voice, no video, no data. They exist to provide copper and/or fiber to subscriber premises, and to operate central offices as colocation facilities. That's all. Nothing else.
Then, anyone who wants to provide services, simply colocates their head end equipment at the central offices in areas where they wish to provide service. At that point it doesn't matter whether they're offering video, voice, data, local or long distance, Internet or private lines, it just doesn't matter because the central office is shared between as many providers as will fit in the building.
We need to separate the last mile land-use monopoly from the services being provided. There should be no such thing as an ILEC.
I was going to reply to the parent, but this would do as well.
I completely can see and agree with both your points, but take this into account:
Do you HONESTLY want ANOTHER point of failure Ma Bell can point to when you can't sync with the DSLAM? I mean, another company for finger pointing to occur?
Fairly cool antenna modeling program, easiest one Ive found that will model nearly everything, instead of the yagi / jpole / ground plane / etc style calculators. Even has quite a few different styles of antennas included as files to get you started.
I mean a quality of service along the lines of "they have to be up and running as much as the phone company does, since they are now, in fact, a phone company".
I couldn't figure out how to word it correctly the first time, so I attempted to borrow a term.
I have RLS as well. Medical MJ works wonders, and if your state supports it, your drug test will be found clean by any member of the testing board in the US. Just passing along some info. Marinol (THC) also.
A. What antenna modeling programs do you use? B. Have you tried MAANA-GAL (I believe that's the name)?
Another fellow radio enthusiast.
--Toll_Free
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Having run Vista32 on this laptop when new, and just recently moved to Vista X64, I agree.
I turned most of the "eye candy" off on 32 bit, but 64 doesn't seem to get bogged down nearly as bad with the eye candy turned on. NOTHING else was changed, only the OS.
Anywho, yes, Vista is fine. Pisses me off that I can't run Win16 apps on Win64 (like, install C&C, for instance), but oh well.
I think I'll try 64 bit linux next.. Never tried a 64 bit rev... Any suggestions? I've always run Slackware since my first install, but it's not always the most "hardware friendly". It's a HP DV2000 based laptop, x64 1 gig ram.
What you needed to do was provide a bit more information in your original post.
Your speaking of the phone not getting AC power. Big difference than the REN.
But, you do bring up a great point. An even better point would be this.
All (that I know of) telephone (land line based) systems still have to respond to pulse dialing. Screw touch tone, just pulse dial by tapping the on/off hook button X amount of times (x being the number dialed, ie, tap it 4 times to dial a 4, 9 times for a 9, etc).
10 taps means 0
Hope this helps. Yes, there was hacking the phone system before touch tones and the Commodore and BOX autodialer:)
Cable companies are now required to provide a QoS the same as land-line based telephones.
This tidbit of information was passed to me while waiting for power lines to be cleared, and wondering WTF a Comcast truck was doing there. The tech helping to guide traffic said that since they provide comcast telephone service, they, legally, have to provide the same type of uptime.
Could have been bullshit, but that was what I was told by Comcast trench person in Silicon Valley.
I am also a subscriber to a wireless broadband company, mostly catering to the Hotel / Hospitality market. They found out that they could make MORE money by providing wifi broadband (802.11 based) to outlying areas in So Calif.
50.00 a month gets me half megabit bidirectional (another 9.99 a month gets me another few hundredK, QOS'ed for Vonage or my VoIP of choice, an external and internal IP (one for VoIP, one NAT), etc.)). I can pay up to 150 a month to get much faster, but a properly positioned Squid box negates the need for that, and fetchmail keeps me happy on the single POP acct. I have left.
It's expensive, it's ideal (I haven't lost signal yet, but I HAVE had latency issues when we had 3 feet of snow in 12 hours.... It still worked, just had a few timeouts). Judicious use of access points and parabolics mandated on each installation means we continue to get service. Our ToS is shittily written (as a consumer, instead of a business acct), but honestly, I haven't had much of an issue.
I back that up with wireless from my cell phone.
I pay much more than I do at my house in Silicon Valley. I pay 19 dollars a month for 1.5 meg DSL, and we all know the drill there.
But, for an always on connection, people in the "sticks" should look to Hotels and their ISP's. It helped me out.
http://www.creative-wireless.net/ is the name of the company that I pay my bill to, but they are NOT the underlying technology. However, at a place that has various peaks and valleys from slightly BELOW sea level to > 7K feet (My house is at 6400 feet ASL), it works GREAT. (I dropped WildBlue satellite when I found these guys).
Alas they never managed to make much money off of UNIX, or any of the other enterprises they started. Technology isn't worth much if you have no business sense.
One more quibble, this time with your definition of "politically motivated". The breakup was driven by justice department civil servants, and actually happened under a pro-business administration. If there was politics involved it was the make the breakup more like the one AT&T wanted.
Actually, Lucent, their arm of hardware, made literally millions off Unix.
Every piece of back-end phone equipment I've used, that had a Lucent label on the front, ran a UNIX or UNIX flavored variant on the back end.
Case in point, the main phone switch in NY was designed by a friend of mine, whom worked for Lucent in Indiana. The problems later found in it where determined to be software, not the major hardware. UNIX was the O/S of choice.
Lots of hardware manufacturers that also own software houses use that software in house to prevent having to outsource (and waste that associated money). Lucent / AT&T / Bell Labs did that exact thing. Everyone else running and using UNIX was just icing (money) on top of the cake (profit).
That, at least, is how it was passed to me by a Hardware Engineer who retired from Lucent in the late 90s after doing his near 30 years with them.... Meaning, he was part of the breakup.
There was a time when Microsoft were the good guys, where people suddenly found that they could write a product for DOS and it would run on almost any computer. That meant it was possible to become a software house with a lot less effort and money than before.
DOS is the interface between the computer, the interpreter and the machine itself.
I believe you meant BASIC... Oh, how I long for the simplicity, graph paper, and long nights of 'peek'ing and 'poke'ing.
And I always wanted not a Mac, I went back to the ][+. The PET was so far of a dream, the C-16 was a decent trash box, but oh, the ][ series of Apples. That, and a HUGE pile (which was what, 4 months) of the old BYTE magazine../end_nostalgia
You mean, Europe, right? The entire continent. Twice.
Yes, our foreign policy sucks. But lately, so does the Eurotrash thumbing their nose at the people that actually fought for THEIR freedom and got them their rights to actually have the rights to talk shit to their own and our government.
Just really shortsighted, while this country is having problems, for the countries that have reaped the benefits of us fighting directly or indirectly for them.
1990 wasn't so fucking long ago. Neither was the Iron Curtain. You think Eastern Europe would like to return to the 70s or 80s?
The internal power supplies chop the voltage to a pulsating DC signal and then move it up or down. Much more efficient than trying to "light" at lower voltages.
It makes us all feel warm and fuzzy at night, knowing that the good old USSA have got the world police looking after us.
Yeah, and the world was a much more place of freedom prior to 1990, right?
I mean, let's be honest with each other. Eastern Europe, Asia, Western Europe, Africa, would ALL be better off had the USSA (as you so lovingly put it) had left all your affairs alone 1900 to 1970, right?
Not trying to troll or be an asshole, but you'd probably be speaking German had it not been for the world police assholes, the USSA. It's not like Europe has ever been able to take care of itself in a post modern world conflict.
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You'd think an 18,000 person company would be able to release a finished project once in a while.
To take that a piece further,
You'd think most Enterprise Class Companies would want to use something that never leaves Beta, too, right? :)
--Toll_Free
I see MS as headed for a cliff as fast as their sales will take them. They're doomed in the same way IBM was doomed back in the late 80's.
Yeah, didn't they (IBM) just break the petaflop barrier?
Guess I can only hope MS takes the same route.... IE, making the gold standard of desktop computing (The PC), the standard (although the linux community just flatly refuses to identify with)of server software for over a decade (NT (based upon OS/2), etc., etc., etc.
OMG, MS is following the demise of IBM 25 years ago.
The stockholders can only hope.
--Toll_Free
I'm sorry, but I have to call FULL OF SHIT.
Anything East of the Rocky Mountains is humid. The farther East you go, the higher up the Barometric pressure goes. Period. It's a fact, you can't argue with it, and that's that.
San Diego, Ca. Best weather in the United States.
I really don't know what I'm talking about, though. Having travelled over a million miles in the US itself, been to every state (in an RV) over a 5 yr period, and have lived up and down the west coast, as well as spent three years (it felt like prison) in Texas.
The weather in Texas is only nice if you have never been west of the rockies. And if you say Texas weather rocks (ANYWHERE), then you are, full, of shit.
Nothing personal, just weather, experience, and someone who knows what he is talking about, speaking against ya.
--Toll_Free
No they wouldn't. That's utopia and it wouldn't work.
Ma Bell won't go away, they shouldn't have to. Just because YOU want faster internet doesn't mean they have to cease to exist because in YOUR business model they can't make a living.
I mean, I'm all for net neutrality, save-a-hoe, etc., etc., etc.... But c'mon, to expect Ma Bell to just give up infrastructure they put in.... Yeah, right.
--Toll_Free
Throttling packets to you can increase their ability to provide access to others, since their total upstream capacity is inherently increased by lowering total packets going upstream.
IOW, lower heavy users throughput, and more users can use said pipe.
Not what we are paying for, unless your contract states otherwise, but you are getting the internet, they usually have a loophole like you stated (to the best of their ability, and if lowering 1 persons upstream throughput can increase throughput for 3 to 5 more people (and you know they would spin it higher than that), then they are INCREASING THEIR ABILITY!!)
C'mon, it's simple lawyerese :)
--Toll_Free
The ultimate solution would be to ban last-mile owners from providing any services at all. No voice, no video, no data. They exist to provide copper and/or fiber to subscriber premises, and to operate central offices as colocation facilities. That's all. Nothing else.
Then, anyone who wants to provide services, simply colocates their head end equipment at the central offices in areas where they wish to provide service. At that point it doesn't matter whether they're offering video, voice, data, local or long distance, Internet or private lines, it just doesn't matter because the central office is shared between as many providers as will fit in the building.
We need to separate the last mile land-use monopoly from the services being provided. There should be no such thing as an ILEC.
I was going to reply to the parent, but this would do as well.
I completely can see and agree with both your points, but take this into account:
Do you HONESTLY want ANOTHER point of failure Ma Bell can point to when you can't sync with the DSLAM? I mean, another company for finger pointing to occur?
--Toll_Free
Sorry, I had the name wrong. Pair of M's in the beginning.
http://mmhamsoft.amateur-radio.ca/mmana/index.htm is the website. They even have a NEC2 plugin for it if you prefer that modeling method.
Fairly cool antenna modeling program, easiest one Ive found that will model nearly everything, instead of the yagi / jpole / ground plane / etc style calculators. Even has quite a few different styles of antennas included as files to get you started.
73
--Toll_Free
Generally I believe these work more like a keygen.
You hit the button, it gives you a computed value.
Simple, just a couple lines of code on an imbeded device.
--Toll_Free
Thanks for the info. Seems Ubuntu is the ::next greatest thing::, or so it would seem.
--Toll_Free
I wasn't talking QoS as an IP based 'thing'...
I mean a quality of service along the lines of "they have to be up and running as much as the phone company does, since they are now, in fact, a phone company".
I couldn't figure out how to word it correctly the first time, so I attempted to borrow a term.
I have RLS as well. Medical MJ works wonders, and if your state supports it, your drug test will be found clean by any member of the testing board in the US. Just passing along some info. Marinol (THC) also.
--Toll_Free
I have a working copy of Windows 1.0
You need to go brush up on your facts.
And to O/P, MS doesn't refer to it in house as NT anymore, I don't believe. I could be wrong, but that's what a little birdie told me.
--Toll_Free
A. What antenna modeling programs do you use?
B. Have you tried MAANA-GAL (I believe that's the name)?
Another fellow radio enthusiast.
--Toll_Free
Having run Vista32 on this laptop when new, and just recently moved to Vista X64, I agree.
I turned most of the "eye candy" off on 32 bit, but 64 doesn't seem to get bogged down nearly as bad with the eye candy turned on. NOTHING else was changed, only the OS.
Anywho, yes, Vista is fine. Pisses me off that I can't run Win16 apps on Win64 (like, install C&C, for instance), but oh well.
I think I'll try 64 bit linux next.. Never tried a 64 bit rev... Any suggestions? I've always run Slackware since my first install, but it's not always the most "hardware friendly". It's a HP DV2000 based laptop, x64 1 gig ram.
--Toll_Free
What you needed to do was provide a bit more information in your original post.
Your speaking of the phone not getting AC power. Big difference than the REN.
But, you do bring up a great point. An even better point would be this.
All (that I know of) telephone (land line based) systems still have to respond to pulse dialing. Screw touch tone, just pulse dial by tapping the on/off hook button X amount of times (x being the number dialed, ie, tap it 4 times to dial a 4, 9 times for a 9, etc).
10 taps means 0
Hope this helps. Yes, there was hacking the phone system before touch tones and the Commodore and BOX autodialer :)
--Toll_Free
Cable companies are now required to provide a QoS the same as land-line based telephones.
This tidbit of information was passed to me while waiting for power lines to be cleared, and wondering WTF a Comcast truck was doing there. The tech helping to guide traffic said that since they provide comcast telephone service, they, legally, have to provide the same type of uptime.
Could have been bullshit, but that was what I was told by Comcast trench person in Silicon Valley.
--Toll_Free
I use Vonage and a UPS to power my Vonage adapter, my WiFi adapter (I get WiFi based Inet), and my WiFi router in the house.
It will last nearly 12 hours... I "pulled the plug" in a blackout test one day... It pulled slightly more than 11 hours.
It, too, was one of those UPS's that was a 'gimme' from a friend.
--Toll_Free
I agree 1000 percent with you.
I am also a subscriber to a wireless broadband company, mostly catering to the Hotel / Hospitality market. They found out that they could make MORE money by providing wifi broadband (802.11 based) to outlying areas in So Calif.
50.00 a month gets me half megabit bidirectional (another 9.99 a month gets me another few hundredK, QOS'ed for Vonage or my VoIP of choice, an external and internal IP (one for VoIP, one NAT), etc.)). I can pay up to 150 a month to get much faster, but a properly positioned Squid box negates the need for that, and fetchmail keeps me happy on the single POP acct. I have left.
It's expensive, it's ideal (I haven't lost signal yet, but I HAVE had latency issues when we had 3 feet of snow in 12 hours.... It still worked, just had a few timeouts). Judicious use of access points and parabolics mandated on each installation means we continue to get service. Our ToS is shittily written (as a consumer, instead of a business acct), but honestly, I haven't had much of an issue.
I back that up with wireless from my cell phone.
I pay much more than I do at my house in Silicon Valley. I pay 19 dollars a month for 1.5 meg DSL, and we all know the drill there.
But, for an always on connection, people in the "sticks" should look to Hotels and their ISP's. It helped me out.
http://www.creative-wireless.net/ is the name of the company that I pay my bill to, but they are NOT the underlying technology. However, at a place that has various peaks and valleys from slightly BELOW sea level to > 7K feet (My house is at 6400 feet ASL), it works GREAT. (I dropped WildBlue satellite when I found these guys).
--Toll_Free
Your history is a little off.
Alas they never managed to make much money off of UNIX, or any of the other enterprises they started. Technology isn't worth much if you have no business sense.
One more quibble, this time with your definition of "politically motivated". The breakup was driven by justice department civil servants, and actually happened under a pro-business administration. If there was politics involved it was the make the breakup more like the one AT&T wanted.
Actually, Lucent, their arm of hardware, made literally millions off Unix.
Every piece of back-end phone equipment I've used, that had a Lucent label on the front, ran a UNIX or UNIX flavored variant on the back end.
Case in point, the main phone switch in NY was designed by a friend of mine, whom worked for Lucent in Indiana. The problems later found in it where determined to be software, not the major hardware. UNIX was the O/S of choice.
Lots of hardware manufacturers that also own software houses use that software in house to prevent having to outsource (and waste that associated money). Lucent / AT&T / Bell Labs did that exact thing. Everyone else running and using UNIX was just icing (money) on top of the cake (profit).
That, at least, is how it was passed to me by a Hardware Engineer who retired from Lucent in the late 90s after doing his near 30 years with them.... Meaning, he was part of the breakup.
Of course, YMMV, LMFAO, IANAL, this is /., etc.
--Toll_Free
All other BSing aside, try CPM. Older, cross platform, and did what you describe quite a few years earlier. Like, half a decade or more.
Anywho, off to bed.... Again. lol.
--Toll_Free
There was a time when Microsoft were the good guys, where people suddenly found that they could write a product for DOS and it would run on almost any computer. That meant it was possible to become a software house with a lot less effort and money than before.
DOS is the interface between the computer, the interpreter and the machine itself.
I believe you meant BASIC... Oh, how I long for the simplicity, graph paper, and long nights of 'peek'ing and 'poke'ing.
And I always wanted not a Mac, I went back to the ][+. The PET was so far of a dream, the C-16 was a decent trash box, but oh, the ][ series of Apples. That, and a HUGE pile (which was what, 4 months) of the old BYTE magazine. ./end_nostalgia
--Toll_Free
Please read 1984 before you talk about 1984. Thank you.
I'd go one farther.
If you didn't LIVE 1984, don't talk about it.
lol, rofl, ymmv, etc. :-o
--Toll_Free
While some places?
You mean, Europe, right? The entire continent. Twice.
Yes, our foreign policy sucks. But lately, so does the Eurotrash thumbing their nose at the people that actually fought for THEIR freedom and got them their rights to actually have the rights to talk shit to their own and our government.
Just really shortsighted, while this country is having problems, for the countries that have reaped the benefits of us fighting directly or indirectly for them.
1990 wasn't so fucking long ago. Neither was the Iron Curtain. You think Eastern Europe would like to return to the 70s or 80s?
--Toll_Free
Thats "switching noise" you hear.
The internal power supplies chop the voltage to a pulsating DC signal and then move it up or down. Much more efficient than trying to "light" at lower voltages.
--Toll_Free
It makes us all feel warm and fuzzy at night, knowing that the good old USSA have got the world police looking after us.
Yeah, and the world was a much more place of freedom prior to 1990, right?
I mean, let's be honest with each other. Eastern Europe, Asia, Western Europe, Africa, would ALL be better off had the USSA (as you so lovingly put it) had left all your affairs alone 1900 to 1970, right?
Not trying to troll or be an asshole, but you'd probably be speaking German had it not been for the world police assholes, the USSA. It's not like Europe has ever been able to take care of itself in a post modern world conflict.
--Toll_Free
Submitted her response via email.
Yeah, via email, on her Blackberry, while driving.
Stupid b17ch.
--Toll_Free