I'm on a farm. The nearest city is about 100kms away. Our wired internet services are pretty much on par with what is available in the cities, speed and price wise. Some farms even have fibre installed to the homes.
The cell providers have HSPA+ rolled out in my area. I honestly do not notice any difference in service quality between home and when I visit the city. If anything, I have found my cell phone's data connection to be more reliable on the farm.
As someone who enjoys using the latest and greatest technologies, I do not feel limited in that way by my choice of residence.
I forgot to mention that the cell providers have rolled out 20Mbps mobile service in the area, so that is another broadband option, if you want to go wireless.
There are farms in my area that have fibre to the home. The plan is to have fibre to all of the farms in the area over the next few years. The worst case, depending on which farm you occupy, you might have to settle for 5Mbps DSL right now.
Maybe you have fibre running to every NYC apartment, but I wouldn't call the rural services crappy. They are pretty close to being on par, if not better than, what is offered in the nearest cities to me.
You are right that it is nothing new. I have been doing my "big-city" software development job from the farm for almost a decade now. We run a cash crop operation on the side. I love the variety of being in front of the computer one day, and out in the tractor the next.
While I have not seen any downtime from my ISP in several years, if by rare chance it did happen, you can jump on another provider's network. These days, many consumers already subscribe to multiple internet services (wired to home, wireless to cell, etc.), and that is not even for business purposes.
While possible, I would trust the abilities of a company whose sole business is providing computer services over the company who picks up the $25,000/year sever admin to secure their local servers.
I don't think "the cloud" is always the answer, but I'm not sure any of those points are a good reason to stay away from it either.
I went a good three-four years without being able to moderate at all, and now I routinely get 15 mod points. Must be allowing me to make up for lost time or something.
There are no posted speed limits where I was talking about. Think: race tracks, private roadways, etc. All places people might want to drive a Volt, without any speed limits.
Where does the law state that you cannot exceed 70MPH? It is true that most public roadways do enforce speed restrictions, however, last time I looked at a map, there were many areas of the world, including the USA, not covered by public roadways.
Native platform independence was already a solved problem through OpenStep. In fact, the web itself was born out of OpenStep.
What is most interesting is that most of the modern web app frameworks (Cappuccino, SproutCore, etc.) are based on the work of OpenStep. Funny how we continually reinvent the wheel.
To be fair, they converted the JPEG images to WebP. In other words, the images were already missing significant amounts of information. Kind of like converting MP3 files to OGG format.
It would be interesting to see them go head to head from a raw source.
It's like people say you can't hear the difference in suitably high-bit rate MP3, but I can - in the cymbals - they're not as bright as CD or FLAC.
Hearing "murky" sounding symbols in MP3 encoded audio, assuming the audio is encoded at a reasonable bitrate, is usually the result of hearing damage. The MP3 format is designed to exploit the particulars of a near-perfect ear.
Windows NT versions 1.0 and 2.0 exist. They went by the name OS/2. When OS/2 3.0 became Windows NT, dropping the version back down to 1.0 would have been marketing driven.
Who was forced to use Xcode? It uses the same build environment found on most modern UNIX systems, so you can use any editor you want, and you can use any build process you want, including the command line.
As you noted in your earlier link, IIS7 has a much better security track record, but we only have to look back a few years when IIS itself (not an app running at a higher level) had a new attack upon it seemingly every week. Apache has never had the same kind of problems.
You can't outsource a file clerk or a plumber or a truck driver to India.
Why not? The technology exists today.
While it is currently more economical to hire someone locally to perform those jobs than shell out for the necessary technology, that does not mean that technology costs will not decrease to the point that the numbers change and it becomes more economical to hire someone in India to drive your truck.
Correlation does not equal causation. It takes determination to find a high paying job. Virtually all college graduates are determined people. That does not mean that all determined people are college graduates.
The numbers you submitted are skewed because they account for everyone, no matter what their personality type. If you eliminate the people who are not passionate about what they do, I think you will find that the degree has no real bearing on income.
Last time I checked SMS did not export events in iCalendar format to ensure that all of my other devices are in sync with the planning. Events is the one thing Facebook does better than standard messaging protocols.
So, why not configure your browser to display the long URL before you click it? In the age of open source browsers and browser extensions, it would be trivial for anyone to add such a feature.
Firefox is the IE6 of modern-day web browsers. It has a large market share, but falls seriously behind in technical advancement. Besides, I thought we were finally past the idea that we need to implement for the lowest common denominator?
If you are using consumer software for mission critical applications, like in medicine, you are doing it wrong.
As a consumer of software I do not want to wait, and more importantly, pay, for software that is strictly engineered. I want whiz-bang features now at a reasonable price, even if that means the software will occasionally crash and that security updates need to be applied once in a while.
The great thing about open standards is that if, for example, a hospital needs to use a web browser in a mission critical application, they can wait until the spec is completely ratified before proceeding with implementation. This allows them to follow strict engineering principles in the software they want to use, without hindering everyone else.
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I'm on a farm. The nearest city is about 100kms away. Our wired internet services are pretty much on par with what is available in the cities, speed and price wise. Some farms even have fibre installed to the homes.
The cell providers have HSPA+ rolled out in my area. I honestly do not notice any difference in service quality between home and when I visit the city. If anything, I have found my cell phone's data connection to be more reliable on the farm.
As someone who enjoys using the latest and greatest technologies, I do not feel limited in that way by my choice of residence.
I forgot to mention that the cell providers have rolled out 20Mbps mobile service in the area, so that is another broadband option, if you want to go wireless.
How do you define crappy internet access?
There are farms in my area that have fibre to the home. The plan is to have fibre to all of the farms in the area over the next few years. The worst case, depending on which farm you occupy, you might have to settle for 5Mbps DSL right now.
Maybe you have fibre running to every NYC apartment, but I wouldn't call the rural services crappy. They are pretty close to being on par, if not better than, what is offered in the nearest cities to me.
You are right that it is nothing new. I have been doing my "big-city" software development job from the farm for almost a decade now. We run a cash crop operation on the side. I love the variety of being in front of the computer one day, and out in the tractor the next.
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I don't think "the cloud" is always the answer, but I'm not sure any of those points are a good reason to stay away from it either.
I went a good three-four years without being able to moderate at all, and now I routinely get 15 mod points. Must be allowing me to make up for lost time or something.
There are no posted speed limits where I was talking about. Think: race tracks, private roadways, etc. All places people might want to drive a Volt, without any speed limits.
Where does the law state that you cannot exceed 70MPH? It is true that most public roadways do enforce speed restrictions, however, last time I looked at a map, there were many areas of the world, including the USA, not covered by public roadways.
GPS + RTK claims 1cm accuracy. Your GPS receiver in your car might not be all that accurate, but that does not mean the technology does not exist.
Native platform independence was already a solved problem through OpenStep. In fact, the web itself was born out of OpenStep.
What is most interesting is that most of the modern web app frameworks (Cappuccino, SproutCore, etc.) are based on the work of OpenStep. Funny how we continually reinvent the wheel.
The JPEG is the reference image. They simply converted the original JPEG image into WebP format.
To be fair, they converted the JPEG images to WebP. In other words, the images were already missing significant amounts of information. Kind of like converting MP3 files to OGG format.
It would be interesting to see them go head to head from a raw source.
Hearing "murky" sounding symbols in MP3 encoded audio, assuming the audio is encoded at a reasonable bitrate, is usually the result of hearing damage. The MP3 format is designed to exploit the particulars of a near-perfect ear.
Windows NT versions 1.0 and 2.0 exist. They went by the name OS/2. When OS/2 3.0 became Windows NT, dropping the version back down to 1.0 would have been marketing driven.
Who was forced to use Xcode? It uses the same build environment found on most modern UNIX systems, so you can use any editor you want, and you can use any build process you want, including the command line.
The point remains that IIS has had more widespread attacks than Apache, despite Apache being a more popular web server.
As you noted in your earlier link, IIS7 has a much better security track record, but we only have to look back a few years when IIS itself (not an app running at a higher level) had a new attack upon it seemingly every week. Apache has never had the same kind of problems.
I am not sure I follow. Theoretical vulnerabilities do not equal real world exploits. Apache has never seen attacks on the scale that IIS has.
Apache is popular, but IIS gets hacked earlier.
Why not? The technology exists today.
While it is currently more economical to hire someone locally to perform those jobs than shell out for the necessary technology, that does not mean that technology costs will not decrease to the point that the numbers change and it becomes more economical to hire someone in India to drive your truck.
Correlation does not equal causation. It takes determination to find a high paying job. Virtually all college graduates are determined people. That does not mean that all determined people are college graduates.
The numbers you submitted are skewed because they account for everyone, no matter what their personality type. If you eliminate the people who are not passionate about what they do, I think you will find that the degree has no real bearing on income.
Last time I checked SMS did not export events in iCalendar format to ensure that all of my other devices are in sync with the planning. Events is the one thing Facebook does better than standard messaging protocols.
So, why not configure your browser to display the long URL before you click it? In the age of open source browsers and browser extensions, it would be trivial for anyone to add such a feature.
Firefox is the IE6 of modern-day web browsers. It has a large market share, but falls seriously behind in technical advancement. Besides, I thought we were finally past the idea that we need to implement for the lowest common denominator?
If you are using consumer software for mission critical applications, like in medicine, you are doing it wrong.
As a consumer of software I do not want to wait, and more importantly, pay, for software that is strictly engineered. I want whiz-bang features now at a reasonable price, even if that means the software will occasionally crash and that security updates need to be applied once in a while.
The great thing about open standards is that if, for example, a hospital needs to use a web browser in a mission critical application, they can wait until the spec is completely ratified before proceeding with implementation. This allows them to follow strict engineering principles in the software they want to use, without hindering everyone else.