I would take a strong exception to 'Carbohydrates not calories'.
We burn the fat we get with a food quickly. We store the carbohydrates as a fat, and burn it afterwords. If we have very low fat high carbo diet, we burn carbo albeit at a lower rate than fat. If we get a mix of fat and carbo (like ice cream), we most certainly burn the fat part and store the carbo part That's the bottom line. I know it quite well, from my own experience. I have a very low methabolism rate, yet this is reduction of carbos in a diet, not fat, which makes me loose the weight quickly. You need fat for energy. The only time you need lots of carbos is when you expect the situation like marathon runner, so you neeed to store some extra calories.
Yes, cable is faster, no doubt. ADSL is really two tin cans and a wire. BUT ADLS is being sold cheaper as well. Also - this is fairly important point - IEEE is currently working on defining DLS version 2, for twice higher distances and of course much lower rates -- but this should give fairly decent coverage to most of the users, don't remember all the details, so the article in EETimes (they have a web site).
So one of the possible scenarios is that when the switch from 64Kbps POTS to VoIP takes place, provider may include cheap low-rate ADLS into the whole package.
Incidently, concerning you remark that DSLAM is full already in your area -- this is what many folks don't understand -- that not only you can oversubscribe cable-based network, but ADSL as well since it is after aggregated at DSLAM. Oh wel... I was one of the early implementers IP over Cable, by the way. Worked for BBNPlanet, and we worked with CableVision (or was it 'Continental CableVision?) on that project. We've used cable modem of a small company which was subsequently purchased by Bay Networks (now part of Nortel). Internally, at BBNPLanet we've also did some ADSL related tests and saw how unreliable ADSL can be compared with Data Over Cable.
On the other hand, if other comments are correct and VoIP takes in fact HIGHER bandwidth than the 64Kbps POTS, things aren't that bad after all. Of course it sounds funny - with potential compression of about 8-10Kbps, how come it takes higher bandwidth overall? Apparently, some protocol overhead. AT least this is what Tolly group claims, and I know Tolly quite well, their tests and conclusions are normally well founded.
So the best case scenario - nothing will happen.We still connect our PCs to the analog voice line, with V92 protocol and get somewhere between 40 to 50Kbps throughput.
The worst case scenario is that we'll get nothing, but then hopefully low-speed ADSL type connection will come down say to $15 a month, so it shouldn't be such a big problem.
I've received e-mail from Cisco:'Answer this questions, and you'll get a Cisco T-Shirt!'.
The questions was something like 'How do you rate Cisco routers', 'how do you rate Cisco switches', how do you rate your cisco sales rep on your site'.
My answers: 'The Cisco routers are the best routers in the world! The Cisco switches switch whatever you feed them!' Our Cisco sales rep is the sexiest sales rep I've ever met. Now PLEEEZE send me that bloody t-shirt, would ya?'
I got my t-shirt and still wear it, as I'm typing this. I has a nice cisco 'bridge' (not the router or switch) logo infront.
considering the fact SCO was selling their own LINUX distribution till recently. Now suddenly Linux = Communism. Stupid slogan, which reminds me the joke I saw somewhere, may be on theonion: 'If you download MP3, you support communism". Is this life immitating art or what?
It's a one thing to point to the product flow ...
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and it's another thing to take advantage of the situation which eventually Sun find itself in. Also please check the latest headlines: 'Sun accuses IBM in taking advantage of Linux'. Funny, eh? Yes, IBM is taking advantage of Linux. The fact is that Sun compaign is simply pathetic. Yes, this is capitalism, too, and SCO is capitalism too. So?
Sun is simply mean-spirited
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I've posted a message to Sun user group (usenet). Told what I think: what Sun was simply mean-spirited, not just 'opportunistic', and if this is the only business plan Sun has, I feel sorry for them.
The fact is that SCO is a mad dog biting everyone in site. What Sun is doing -- saying 'See, this dog hasn't bitten me yet! Good doggy!'.
Reaction on my posting was rather hilarious. Seems like all the responses came from Sun sockpuppets. The most intelligent response was 'Linux is for script kiddies'. In fact I even didn't mention LInux in my posting.
Funny, I have solid Sun experience, starting from Sun/OS 4.1.3 when it was BSD-based, before they move to Solaris 2.x (System V based), and I considered and still consider their product rather solid (Sun/OS 4.1.3 and 4.1.4, and SOlaris 2.5+), but frankly, I believe they've just lost the sense of directions, and unfortunately, taking advantage of current situation *is* the only business plan they apparently have. Sic transit gloria mundi.
what does it say on the influence of cable TV ...
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the challenge is to make this 'better tcp' to co-exist with other versions of tcp currently deployed on Internet, like Tahoe and NewReno.The key point is the notion of 'fairness'. The way TCP (at least the currently deployed versions) are designed is to cooperate (in a sense) as to provide the equal share of bandwidth to competing flows. That's one of the reasons why it is so difficult to introduce TCP-like protocol with radically new design. I believe one of the reasons TCP Vegas (which has a good potential) does not get deployed on a wide scale is that it is not entirely clear how the mix of Tahoe, NewReno and Vegas would perform in terms of fair share.
however from what i've been reading on caltech site, it appears that one of the usages of this protocol would be to download very large file on dedicated pipe (like movie on demand). From movie server to the user through private connection. This makes sense. You can streamline lots of things. OPtimize protocol for a fat pipe. Whatever... I wouldn't call it a 'breakthrough' though.
went to the company site, checked the original sources. It *is* 1.5GB and 1 inch platter. For $60.00 or something like that. My take on it: they should bring the price down. You can get a solid state card (CF format) 1GB for $160 and the prices are coming down rapidly, expect to see 1GB CF for $100 soon. I'm sure Hitachi will bring down the price on their hard drives (CF-form factor) as well, just to stay below the solid state memory, otherwise why bother with hard drive in a first place (yes, it has a higher access speed vs vanilla CF, but the latest versions of CF are about the same). Once again, it's not such a big deal.
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I would take a strong exception to 'Carbohydrates not calories'.
We burn the fat we get with a food quickly. We store the carbohydrates as a fat, and burn it afterwords. If we have very low fat high carbo diet, we burn carbo albeit at a lower rate than fat. If we get a mix of fat and carbo (like ice cream), we most certainly burn the fat part and store the carbo part That's the bottom line. I know it quite well, from my own experience. I have a very low methabolism rate, yet this is reduction of carbos in a diet, not fat, which makes me loose the weight quickly. You need fat for energy. The only time you need lots of carbos is when you expect the situation like marathon runner, so you neeed to store some extra calories.
to search through my pr0n collection ...
Yes, cable is faster, no doubt. ADSL is really two tin cans and a wire. BUT ADLS is being sold cheaper as well. Also - this is fairly important point - IEEE is currently working on defining DLS version 2, for twice higher distances and of course much lower rates -- but this should give fairly decent coverage to most of the users, don't remember all the details, so the article in EETimes (they have a web site).
... I was one of the early implementers IP over Cable, by the way. Worked for BBNPlanet, and we worked with CableVision (or was it 'Continental CableVision?) on that project. We've used cable modem of a small company which was subsequently purchased by Bay Networks (now part of Nortel).
So one of the possible scenarios is that when the switch from 64Kbps POTS to VoIP takes place, provider may include cheap low-rate ADLS into the whole package.
Incidently, concerning you remark that DSLAM is full already in your area -- this is what many folks don't understand -- that not only you can oversubscribe cable-based network, but ADSL as well since it is after aggregated at DSLAM. Oh wel
Internally, at BBNPLanet we've also did some ADSL related tests and saw how unreliable ADSL can be compared with Data Over Cable.
Amen, bro. That was my first thought as well.
On the other hand, if other comments are correct and VoIP takes in fact HIGHER bandwidth than the 64Kbps POTS, things aren't that bad after all. Of course it sounds funny - with potential compression of about 8-10Kbps, how come it takes higher bandwidth overall? Apparently, some protocol overhead. AT least this is what Tolly group claims, and I know Tolly quite well, their tests and conclusions are normally well founded.
So the best case scenario - nothing will happen.We still connect our PCs to the analog voice line, with V92 protocol and get somewhere between 40 to 50Kbps throughput.
The worst case scenario is that we'll get nothing, but then hopefully low-speed ADSL type connection will come down say to $15 a month, so it shouldn't be such a big problem.
or may be we should call it beodog ?
they've treated to nuke them all of they wouldn't develop 'Windows for the communist masses'.
and it's doing a damn good job.
I've received e-mail from Cisco:'Answer this questions, and you'll get a Cisco T-Shirt!'.
The questions was something like 'How do you rate Cisco routers', 'how do you rate Cisco switches', how do you rate your cisco sales rep on your site'.
My answers: 'The Cisco routers are the best routers in the world! The Cisco switches switch whatever you feed them!' Our Cisco sales rep is the sexiest sales rep I've ever met. Now PLEEEZE send me that bloody t-shirt, would ya?'
I got my t-shirt and still wear it, as I'm typing this. I has a nice cisco 'bridge' (not the router or switch) logo infront.
... IBM's finally opened the patent portfolio ...
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like a scene from some James Bond movie. The magic briefcase with poisoned stiletto, submachine gun, rocket launcher and tons of IP rights
Yes, they will be suing Red Hat for 5bln dollars. Expect their stock jump up by 25%.
Zzzzz...
the same panel of experts determined Britney Spears is indeed no longer a virgin.
Can't imagine what our life would be without the panels of experts.
Now what all shoplifters should do is start blaiming that movie on their behavior.
imagine Beowulf of those ...
Tssss... keep this secret ...
no need to do any research ...
Thanks for correction.
considering the fact SCO was selling their own LINUX distribution till recently. Now suddenly Linux = Communism. Stupid slogan, which reminds me the joke I saw somewhere, may be on theonion: 'If you download MP3, you support communism". Is this life immitating art or what?
and it's another thing to take advantage of the situation which eventually Sun find itself in. Also please check the latest headlines: 'Sun accuses IBM in taking advantage of Linux'. Funny, eh? Yes, IBM is taking advantage of Linux. The fact is that Sun compaign is simply pathetic. Yes, this is capitalism, too, and SCO is capitalism too. So?
I've posted a message to Sun user group (usenet). Told what I think: what Sun was simply mean-spirited, not just 'opportunistic', and if this is the only business plan Sun has, I feel sorry for them.
The fact is that SCO is a mad dog biting everyone in site. What Sun is doing -- saying 'See, this dog hasn't bitten me yet! Good doggy!'.
Reaction on my posting was rather hilarious. Seems like all the responses came from Sun sockpuppets. The most intelligent response was 'Linux is for script kiddies'. In fact I even didn't mention LInux in my posting.
Funny, I have solid Sun experience, starting from Sun/OS 4.1.3 when it was BSD-based, before they move to Solaris 2.x (System V based), and I considered and still consider their product rather solid (Sun/OS 4.1.3 and 4.1.4, and SOlaris 2.5+), but frankly, I believe they've just lost the sense of directions, and unfortunately, taking advantage of current situation *is* the only business plan they apparently have. Sic transit gloria mundi.
on Western culture?
The same thing: violence, crime, and drugs use!
The same old, the same old.
just like in 'Dilbert'.
Scott Adams was right!
the challenge is to make this 'better tcp' to co-exist with other versions of tcp currently deployed on Internet, like Tahoe and NewReno.The key point is the notion of 'fairness'. The way TCP (at least the currently deployed versions) are designed is to cooperate (in a sense) as to provide the equal share of bandwidth to competing flows. That's one of the reasons why it is so difficult to introduce TCP-like protocol with radically new design. I believe one of the reasons TCP Vegas (which has a good potential) does not get deployed on a wide scale is that it is not entirely clear how the mix of Tahoe, NewReno and Vegas would perform in terms of fair share.
... I wouldn't call it a 'breakthrough' though.
however from what i've been reading on caltech site, it appears that one of the usages of this protocol would be to download very large file on dedicated pipe (like movie on demand). From movie server to the user through private connection. This makes sense. You can streamline lots of things. OPtimize protocol for a fat pipe. Whatever
went to the company site, checked the original sources. It *is* 1.5GB and 1 inch platter. For $60.00 or something like that. My take on it: they should bring the price down. You can get a solid state card (CF format) 1GB for $160 and the prices are coming down rapidly, expect to see 1GB CF for $100 soon. I'm sure Hitachi will bring down the price on their hard drives (CF-form factor) as well, just to stay below the solid state memory, otherwise why bother with hard drive in a first place (yes, it has a higher access speed vs vanilla CF, but the latest versions of CF are about the same). Once again, it's not such a big deal.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash ... with thousands of hungry north koreans on the other side ...
Yes, they also kill each other when there is a *blackout* in their Internet access (yes, this is a racist joke. Hahaha)