The only reason they're going cross-platform is that the tools are written in Java, which is already cross-platform.
Perhaps this is true, though I have never been a big fan of Java anyway. Seems silly to load Java libraries, files and stuff, just to install a non-Java dependent application. Silly really and a bit irritating.
As I started coding PHP Model - View - Controllers (MVCs) it seems that the model itself is less efficient than PHP code + HTTP, but I have to do some testing before I can be sure. Seems that the MVC unnecessarily recreates features built into HTTP and PHP. My guess is that tests will show a PHP MVC to be less efficient than PHP + HTTP, but that is just a hypothesis at this point. I wonder if performance will take enough of a hit that result in the server running the MVC to be able to host fewer connections, pages, etc...
As for cross-platform, in my experience only if you develop in Linux are your cross platfrom compatible with other operating systems. Since Microsoft does so many "unique" things in a non standards compliant way (leave you to discuss why as I already have an opinion based on experience in the industry) if you develop on a Microsoft platform you almost invariably create something that is incompatible with other operating systems.
Very one sided. Thus experience teaches you, avoid a Microsoft development environment if you want to port your application to any other operating system environment. If you only cater to Microsoft Operating systems this does not apply.
To date, Microsoft has only hampered open source, open data formats, Linux, Unix and FOSS at every step of the way. So I do not believe it, can not believe it, will not believe it (words ~ FUD) until I see a 7 year positive track record with respects to anything non-Microsoft.
When they have shown by their actions, over seven years, that they have changed, than and only than will I consider purchasing Microsoft products again.
For each violation, I reset my 7 year clock from that day. Just reset it this week.
Basing my purchase decisions on their actions ONLY and not their marketing FUD, is the only way I can be sure not to ever be vendor locked-in ever again. So much time and money has been wasted by me, my friends, my family and other IT professionals over the last 20+ years...wasteful and unnecessary.
I will believe it when I see it. To date it has always been FUD!
[...] but start getting people out of office that are more interested in taking corporate/lobbyist money than helping Americans. [...]
Shit, that's everyone in office right now, you'll never get them all out, just like anyone (else) not involved in politics everyone is out for themselves.
Never say never, though I agree with you that we can not get rid of all the BAD players in politics. With that said, apathy is definitely not helping us and working in the favor of the two party system that is slowly tearing America apart. .
While we can NOT get rid of them all, we can get rid of the ones on the committees preventing good ideas from coming to the floor of the House of Representatives and the floor of the Senate for a public vote that can be held up and used for/against politicians that are hurting America.
Best example, the Fairtax, first proposed in 1996, but prevented from coming out of committee for a floor vote. Anyone and everyone who runs in a local election AGAINST the Fairtax LOSSES the local election. Because its simple, easy to understand and FAIR to EVERYONE!
Whether you like the Fairtax or not is NOT THE POINT in this current discussion. Here is an idea, the Fairtax, that got invented by individuals (read NO PARTY AFFILIATION), whose name came from a focus group where a person said, wow, this is fair to everyone...or something like that, thus the name the Fairtax was born. First proposed in 1996! 13 years ago and still has not been voted on even once in either the Senate or the House of Representatives. Is that a system that is working? I think not.
Pelosi actually told all Democrats NOT to support the Fairtax...party politics. Party politics that we can no longer live with.
I am 100% positive there are other equally good examples, legislation, that does not have its genesis in either the Democrat party or the Republican party, proposed, all the i's dotted and t's crossed, yet it NEVER comes out of committee for a floor vote? Come on already. I honestly wish I had a list of them all, there has to be well over 50 great ideas that have never come out of those partisan lobbyist controlled committees. So get rid of the obstructionists in the committees, get the stuff to the floor for a vote and give Americans something they can look at that defines a candidates actions. Then Americans can vote for/against a candidate based on their record.
There is a reason most politicians that are seeking higher offices, avoid certain votes. Thus are system is broken. When a minority of Americans can control a politician based on their votes on a single issue or just a few issues, good people can not take their oath of office and attempt to fix it.
We can stop voting along party lines. Vote based on the person's record, actions only.
Get lobbyist (and corporate money) out of politics. Companies are NOT people, never should be, anyone who is pushing for individual rights for corporations needs to resign immediately for violating their oath of office. This is a domestic agenda gone awry for sure.
Find small business friendly communities, start your businesses there establish a strong foundation and then expand nationwide, than worldwide. Introduce competition to all the companies that are only interested in sending American dollars overseas. If they can only compete on price, that is a losing strategy long term always.
Innovate or Die!
Currently most large corporations spend more money lobbying politicians than improving their products and services. These companies can NOT compete against honest Americans with good ideas providing honest to goodness customer service. I would not be surprised that the politicians supporting this type of legislation are all Republicans. Prove me wrong...
Re-establish a trade policy that prevents companies from leaving America for cheaper labor only to send less expensive (and usually of lesser quality
You and I both know that they do not intend to go to court, ever. They only hope to intimidate and get their way through FEAR, look at tomtom and many others.
I hope they pick on a little guy who can get his legal fees handled by others so they can once again be put in their place. I too agree there is so much prior art that they do not have a leg to stand on. But stand and intimidate they try...cowards.
I will check the date they released this and if more recent, I will set my 7 year clock from that date. (For seven years from the date of the reset, I will NOT purchase anything Microsoft. If after 7 years of good behavior their actions dictate they are worthy of being considered again for my hard earned $$$$, I will once again consider Microsoft products...just not for seven years from the date of the infraction.)
If enough people follow suit, perhaps it will be too costly for a business to choose to mess them over, perhaps.
I respect that he managed to get the funding to get Zynga off the ground in these economic conditions, that is something. In fact for anything.com to get off the ground since the.com bust is very impressive. I respect that.
guess it depends on what you mean by "respect." Perhaps you can like a hypothetical cleaned up game of MafiaWars despite it's seedy origins. It's hard to see what else you might "respect" about him or his company though (and a cleaned up version of MafiaWars doesn't exist, so you can't really respect that either).
Not really into Mafia wars, but if I were, I would check out www.treadon.us per this person's post. While I am sure it does not meet your definition of "cleaned up" by and stretch of the imagination, they supposedly do not have any of the nasty Zynga stuff mentioned in the article.
Ah, the ends justify the means. That is certainly one way of looking at the world.
Your words, not mine. For the record I do not agree with that.
To clarify further, in spite of my bad grammar, I can respect what a person is able to create, do and/or accomplish whether I personally like them, their religious beliefs, their actions, etc... Here is a simple example, I have many religious family members that do not approve of Madonna, her lifestyle, etc... based on Religious values alone. They can not look past their own religious beliefs to appreciate how she invented/created herself, not just once but at least twice. I guess they can not hate the sin and love the sinner.... There are so many more examples, that is just the one that came to mind.
Another is Bush, pretty much despise the fact that he stole the election, as history has taught us, after the fact. Hard to ignore the videos, news stories and first hand eye witness accounts all over Florida that came out later that proved the Republicans effectively stole the election. The fact that the Democrats gave it to them, tells anyone with half a brain that they would have done likewise if they felt they could get away with it. Based on reports around the country, both parties do this crap, yet some Americans refuse to acknowledge these facts. In spite of my obvious disgust for Republicans and their zeal at killing Americans in unnecessary wars (even more to despise is when they prevent a quick closure/end to the war by getting rid of Obama, when they had him in their sights...someone high up on the food chain has left that jerk live more than once, I will leave you to speculate as to why? My favorite two are Oil/Saudi Family and US Oil Company relations or to continue the military industrial complex for a longer period of time...); I can respect how they (the Republicans) could push through their political agenda against all odds and in spite of the fact that it is not only damaging to Americans at that time, but now and for the foreseeable future to our kids future.
This is not why my ancestors died protecting our freedom...they disgust me personally and make life of American sacrifice since our countries founding. If an American gives their life, it needs to be for something more than business, that simply does not cut it..
Look at how, with the help of the Federal Reserve, they got Americans to buy into the FEAR part of their FUD so effectively that in spite of overwhelming objections by the majority of Americans (Republicans and Democrats) they gave Billions of American tax dollars to the Federal Reserve, banks, financial institutions. Amazingly effective in retrospect. Hate what he did, but respect that he pulled it off. It obviously worked.
Which some of that money would have trickled down to actual Americans, but the banks were able to simply hold onto the cash and not lend. In fact they are actively hanging on to Real Estate, refusing to close with purchasers...and there can only be one reason, to increase their profit. Follow the money.
Do the ends justify the means, not in my book. But Americans need to start showing up with actions. I honestly hope that more Americans will wake up to not only NEVER elect a Republican ever again, but start getting people out of office that are more interested in taking corporate/lobbyist money than helping Americans.
Yours and my actions now, dictate whether their ends justify their means. As for my part, I have started a list of companies that I will try NOT to do business with ever again. When I have enough cash flow, I hope to actively create competing business models to help put them out of business. Without actions on our part, they win! You do not have to have much of an imagination to see how you could exploit their business models to the benefit of Americans and to their detriment. Hint: Banking; Fiber/Telcos/TCP/IP Packet passing/Wireline/Wireless; Health & Hospitals; Insurance (Auto, Home, Hea
That's the problem with venture capital vs angel investors... With VC, they almost always ask for 51% ownership, so they can control it. Angel Investors will rarely if ever ask for more than 50% of any business as they are only interested helping the business owners grow and stay in control.
The only way to tell VCs from AIs is in the wording of the contract. Read it carefully, if you see something you do not like, strike it out and replace it with something you can live with. The best contracts allow for the owners to buy out the investors with future profits. At a profit to the investors of course.
dopewares,... He told us we would remain in control of the product and in the end he took over, killed dopewars and forced everyone on to his crappy port (mafia wars) www.treadon.us is where you can find the original version
How much, or how little, did you and your developer friends sell out for, in order for him to do that to you? Are you set for life now, he sure is?
Here is a duh moment for everyone...want to blow 99.99% of Face Book games out of the water, easy, DON'T USE FLASH.
Most of the problems the Face book games are having is because they continue to develop by the seat of their pants, they probably believe they are following agile principals, but in my experience companies only pay lip service to Agile and do not implement Agile and/or Agile/Scrum 100% effectively, but that is another topic.
All of the syncing problems, most slow play problems and limitations on what they can and can not do are related to their dependence on Flash.
There are other better solutions that have absolutely nothing to do with Flash, look into it and blow all these games out of the water, no brain-er, your welcome.
I don't place mafia wars and my facebook isn't hidden from any facebook user. Why? Because aside from my first name, no other info on there is real.. oh, except that I'm single.
So Facebook forces you to violate their terms of service in order to protect your privacy and personal information. I consider this a huge FAIL!
You understand of course that they could cancel you in a heartbeat if they found out and decided to enforce their terms of service which stipulates only real names can be used.
BTW, I think that is very smart of you, not to put real information in your profile, but it would suck to get a decent following and friends list and have it all ripped away when they canceled you.
My son works for a company owned 7-11 that pays him this way. Each card has an account dedicated to it. Not sure what the benefit from the company perspective is. Probably some kickback on the percentage the card issuing company collects on purchase and maybe ATM fees.
The lovely "VCom" machines in most 7-11s, especially the company owned ones. 7-11 employees are allowed to use them for FREE, no fees. As of 2007, 7-11 would direct deposit into your bank account, you would get a paper copy of your check and/or check stub statement. With the VCom card, you could withdraw money, no limits, up to and including your entire paycheck if you wanted too. Those VCom machines are convenient if you do not have a supermarket near you. Most supermarkets (grocery stores) will allow you to get between $200 - $1000 at the register with your purchase if you have taken the time to fill out one of their cards.
They are very convenient if you are in a town where you do not have a bank branch, as there is probably a 7-11 somewhere. So you have access to one more ATM network. Worth having in my opinion.
My preferred financial institution (they allow me to invest in stocks and bonds and are NOT just a bank) will cover any and all debit related fees when you use other company ATM machines. While I like that and its nice of them, I prefer to go to the grocery store when I need money as they do not charge a fee there. And I usually need something from the store anyway, so its a win - win - win.
The fine print in the information pamphlet they handed out: one free transaction a month. After that, $2 fee for using the debit card for anything.
What a rip off, solution, in one transaction, move your entire paycheck from account to another bank account, thus avoiding the $2.00 fees for additional transactions related to the cards.
Of course they would then put in an artificially low maximum that would prevent you from transferring / withdrawing your account in one transaction.
Why should public money go to yet another private company?...bailout mentality is such bullshit... These damn NSF bureaucrats should spend a month or two working a real job for ordinary working class wages; maybe then they would better appreciate the real value of the money they so frivolously spend.
I could not agree more, with your quotes and especially the last couple of lines. The fact that the Republicans dug Americans a very DEEP financial hole is enough of a reason never to see them ever elected to office again as they put party politics ahead of the citizens they take an oath to serve and protect. Hypocrisy. And do not get me started on lying to start unnecessary wars killing Americans, makes me sick. Profanes the sacrifice that many in my family have made serving in our US military. As far as I am concerned, they violated their oath of office and if they had a soul worth a darn, would resign in shame!
With that said, the Democrats went along with it (bail outs), in spite of the public out cry against them, and are just as guilty of playing party politics. So they are not much better, however I am willing to give them another 4 years while we build a viable 3rd party in this country.
We need a 3rd party focused ONLY on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, period without all the extraneous and decisive issues used by both parties to continue their party political BS and divide Americans. Hard core Republicans amount to less than 9% and hard core Democrats are less than 18%; the rest of Americans (approx 73%) are somewhere in between, being distracted by a variety of issues (brought up by both parties to divide us), especially religion. They do not even realize they jeopardize "freedom of religion" for all of us by focusing on any one religion and/or making any religious based laws. They need to wake up before they do something that can NOT be undone and hurts us all.
Everything we need to control both parties and save America is in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. When a politician takes money and or votes in such a way that their actions go against either of those two documents, they should be removed from office for violating their oath of office.
As for Public Money being spent...has already happened in many areas via American Tax dollars, one area very close to the heart of this article is tax money + fees + money given to telcos to build out Fiber networks across America AND OVER THE LAST MILE to our homes. The American telcos have received in excess of $200 Billion since the 1990s to build Fiber. Yet they perpetuate the scarcity myth, do not build out fiber offerings as fast as they could for fear of being ONLY an TCP/IP packet passing company (the only way most of my friends and I view them anymore, whether they like it or not!) simply to charge us higher and higher fees each month with no regards to the economy or economics that would dictate prices should fall unless being artificially held up and increased as they have been for the last two decades.
They have taken our money and our parents money, given debt, our children's money....Where's the Fiber? (think 1980 Wendy's commercial "Where's the Beef" and you have the right idea)
Perhaps you are right, perhaps a real job working for what most of us get paid in wages would serve as a wake up call, perhaps...
And if you give your phone a cookie, it's going to ask for a glass of milk. One thing will lead to another, and soon it will want your social security number.
Then it will want your first born's social security number,
The guy is pretty much bragging about how and what he did to start his company. I can respect what he is created and still not like the method he used to do it.
Anything that exposes additional personal information on us to the web is bad IMO. All personal info, should be OFF by default anything less is unacceptable. If I choose to click a box and expose personal info, it should only be by my choice, not to agree to a TOS.
The guy even admits that the polls were BS, just collecting a user's personal information for selling to advertisers to generate revenue.
Go up to your girlfriend or wife and tell her you look at porn.
I don't care who it is, if they think you're serious they won't take it lightly, and even if you can get her to agree, she won't like it.
My quote:
Nothing could replace her being with me, fortunately for me she enjoys laughing at porn as much as I do...too many women create their own misery.
What part of her watching it with me don't you understand? And guys, she is not the only woman who is NOT threatened by playboy, penthouse, videos, porn, etc...
My point is simple, if you love someone and they love you...they know you and you know them....nothing will come between you, not even porn...some people just need to grow up. There are many much more serious issues in the world and porn does not even make the list.
If they are threatened by porn today, what kind of crap are they going to be threatened by tomorrow and thus doom a normal healthy relationship?
"I wish Verizon offered FIOS in my neighborhood. Or at least would tell me when I can expect it here! I'm so damned eager to dump..."name of your cable company here
I too am sick of the Cable Scam....they promise much, deliver much less. It's FRAUD! Marketing says up to 8MB or 14MB or 16MB (when downstream is not limiting factor to streaming media and they know this)
With the DD-WRT software you can monitor your status / bandwidth in real time 24 X 7 and when that video stutters or you have to wait for buffering before you can watch a video or whatever streaming media via the Internet...you will see that your Cable bandwidth is being throttled back to less than 100Kbs upstream, likely, very likely as low as 30Kbps or 40Kbps. (This is my friends experience and he is paying for TWC's highest tier of service that they promise will work with streaming content...hint it does NOT work, avoid them if you are smart!)
You mention that you have DSL in your area. You would probably be better off with DSL service giving you 1500Kbps downstream and 384Kbps upstream than any Cable service that promises up to xxMB. They will NOT GUARANTEE you a MINIMUM BANDWIDTH, which would guarantee that you can stream content because they want you to purchase more expensive TV, Video and Movie service through them. Its all BS.
Do yourself a favor, until you get Greenlight ($100 for 100Mbps / 100Mbps) (the best Fiber option, currently only available in Wilson N.C.) or Verizon FIOS Fiber ($119 for 50Mbps / 5Mbps) , dump your cable and switch to DSL. Time to send the Cable companies a message about customer service and quality bandwidth guarantees!
Are there any other Fiber (over the last mile to your home) providers in the USA today besides FIOS or Greenlight?
If you look at Bourbon, the history is very interesting in Kentucky, yet many counties in Kentucky are dry counties. Having known friends who lived in a dry county, all it does it force drunks on the road when they go across the bridge (to an adjoining county) or county line, buy, drink, whatever and than drive home. So that county loses tax revenue. Real intelligent NOT.
Even that history above, leaves out important facts; when Washington threatened PA, courts & judges in PA ordered the Bourbon distillers to pay the additional tax immediately... hard to do when you do much of your business in trade and not for cash. In Kentucky, the Governor was allot more sensible and protected Bourbon makers from the tax for a full year, thus many PA Bourbon Distillers moved from PA to KY in order to simply survive. That next season when they took their bourbon to New Orleans down the Mississippi, they took payment in at least enough cash to cover taxes they knew they would have to pay when they returned and not just in trade. Funny that specific history does not mention that the US governments taxation combined with PA legislature insistence on instant payment drove businesses from PA to KY...that was HUGE!
Its good to see Louisville known for something other than the Slugger!
Average joe is not going to be installing a custom OS firmware on his "intanet box"
Then Average Joe is going to pay way too much for too little access for the Internet.
My friend has been trying to work with his Cable company to get streaming content and they are refusing to open up the upstream bandwidth so that the content will stream successfully. He even decided to pay the extra protection more bandwidth fee to increase his tier of service to their highest available tier.
The service he is paying over $50 per month for markets up to 16000Kbps downstream and 2000Kbps upstream!
I told him he was a fool. They first tried to blame his firewall/router and the DD-WRT software as the limiting factor to his bandwidth, but he was not as stupid as the Cable company hoped he would be.
Why do Cable companies think Average Joe will accept that the Speed Tests are gospel. They ARE NOT!
His Speed Test varies from 9000Kbps to 25000Kbps downstream and 930Kbps to 990Kbps downstream. Interesting how the Speed Test never goes above 1000Kbps to the promised 2000Kbps upstream! Can you say scam, I knew you could. That is JUST THE ignorant, only valid in that second, SPEED TEST via www.speakeasy.net. What a waste of time.
How is this NOT FRAUD?
Thanks to the Status / Bandwidth monitor via his DD-WRT software he sees the Speed go up with the speed test, however as soon as the speed test finishes he is once again throttled to less than 300Kbps downstream and 40Kbps upstream. Other than the speed test, his upstream bandwidth never exceeds 100Kbps.
We are guessing a sustained 200Kbps or 300Kbps upstream would give steady consistent streaming of video and IP content. But that is a guess as the Cable provider has never let him have over 100Kbps. Even though he is paying over $50 per month for the Highest tier of Internet Only service that the cable provider swears and markets as allowing the customer to watch IP TV, movies and videos. The three tiers below that for Internet Only service DO NOT state specifically that you can watch streaming content at all.
His only solution is probably DSL, his location, based on distance will give him 1.5Mbps down and 384Kbps upstream...so its half the price of Cable, for him, and it will allow him to stream content.
Having two DSL providers would cost just as much as he is now paying for 1 cable provider...redundancy, thanks to DD-WRT and VLANs he feels he would be better off and is looking forward to switching...
So if Average Joe fails to utilize the DD-WRT software, his provider can screw him over, make lame BS excuses, never admitting the real reason he is being restricted its because they want to via Bandwidth Shaping software.
Note to others, when you connect your PC directly to the cable modem, check your DNS server IP addresses, if you upgrade your service; these DNS servers change. However to get higher bandwidths, the Cable company MUST set up the software to allow you to have more bandwidth. They have flatly refused to do this for my friend.
Also if you check www.RipoffReports.com you will find multiple complaints that customers were paying for the higher tier of service from their provider but they were not getting it until they complained and the Cable company flipped the-bandwidth-switch to allow for it.
Seriously why not Japan, or most European countries?
Great post, says it all. In 2007 there were 13 other industrialized countries with faster access and more bandwidth, I think all of them had lower fees per month for consumers as well but would have to go back and look to be sure, than the United States. Heck we are still back in the dark ages with a definition of broadband of only 768Kbps. Please, they had 100Mb/100MB in Japan in 2000 and thanks to fiber to homes, they were able to increase each consumer's bandwidth to 1 Gbps / 1 Gbps by 2006. Oh and the cost, even better, from less than $55 per month in 2000 to less than $52 per month by 2006. Unlike the United States, the markets are actually working in Japan, Korea and other countries in that area.
In the US, only Greenlight (and only in Wilson N.C.) offers 100MB / 100MB synchronous bandwidth via fiber to customers homes for $100 per month. The next best player in the fiber internet market is FIOS with only 50Mbps/5Mbps for $119 per month.
Did the telcos / Cable companies step up their game and compete with Greenlight in North Carolina, of course not. They spent lobby money last year and plan to spend more lobbyist money this upcoming session of the North Carolina legislature in order to prevent Greenlight from expanding to other areas. They are also seeking to prevent any other companies or individuals from offering fiber to consumers. It can only be them and they do not want to offer Fiber to us. Of course they do not want Americans to remember that they (telcos) promised (and received our tax dollars for the promise) back in the 1990s to provide fiber to American homes...all the way to the home, not just to the general area or neighborhood and from their bandwidth limiting coaxial cable...its all a sham, and should be a crime!
In this instance, President Obama should not be looking down under and instead should be looking towards the rising sun!
All our politicians need to stop lining their pockets with lobbyist money and provide us with Fiber.
Who is with me, give me fiber or give me death! A bit extreme...perhaps, but we honestly need fiber!
We also need guaranteed minimum SUSTAINED bandwidths, say the FCC definition to start....768Kbps upstream and downstream sustained 99.99% of the time or the service can NOT, should NOT and SHALL NOT advertise itself as broadband.
I bet they would start putting Fiber over the last mile then!
. It's because we want to isolate functionality to minimize the risk of getting hacked. It's well known that connecting a Windows computer directly to the Internet will result in it getting P0wned in almost no time. And *nix computers, while better, can still be vulnerable.
You said it.
I still get burned up with the Cable company when they want me to jump through hoops to troubleshoot my cable connection, because they are artificially restricting my access via software and do not want to admit that simple fact, and the first thing they want you to do is pull out/turn off your firewall/router (hardware device) or shutdown your router software only solution and connect directly up to their cable modem. Makes me want to SCREAM and churn!
Even more offensive when you did not have any problems for years, all the same hardware and software until they (the cable company), in their infinite wisdom, rolled out new software to your area to enhance/improve your service, right, not. (Bandwidth Shaping, throttling, Deep Packet Inspection, who knows what); all you know is they installed something new between you and the Internet and the end result is your service is now providing you a fraction of the bandwidth you use to get. And before, you would have been better off with DSL instead of a Cable modem from a bandwidth perspective specifically. Now even more so.
Does DSL throttle back service, for instance if you are told that they can provide 384K up and 1.5Mbps down, do you get 100% of that or only a fraction? Please no replies that are ONLY OPINIONS, someone with the DD-WRT software running on a hardware firewall/router that has DSL service (anyone), please check your status / bandwidth windows and tell me what you see happening as I need to know if I would be better off to switch away from cable. (I.e my cable Speed test is phenomenal; their service marketing promise is good (up to 8MB, 10MB, 12MB or 14MPB) also; however the reality sucks. I do not consistently get better than 40Kbps upstream and 100Kbps downstream. I am talking consistent, constant steady, no drops, no rises, service..... Note: if you are NOT using the DD-WRT software that shows this in REAL TIME, 24 X 7 or you are not running a commercial router ($600 - $2000 per), whose software will show this in real time; you HONESTLY DO NOT KNOW. Of course they do NOT shape, throttle the Speed Test, hint, hint.
And years after its proven beyond any doubt that a hardware firewall/router is superior to software running on a PC; they are suggesting that this type of software router is gaining market share or becoming more popular, I certainly hope not as that means people are getting dumber....I do not believe that. I do not want to believe that people are getting dumber....
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The only reason they're going cross-platform is that the tools are written in Java, which is already cross-platform.
Perhaps this is true, though I have never been a big fan of Java anyway. Seems silly to load Java libraries, files and stuff, just to install a non-Java dependent application. Silly really and a bit irritating.
As I started coding PHP Model - View - Controllers (MVCs) it seems that the model itself is less efficient than PHP code + HTTP, but I have to do some testing before I can be sure. Seems that the MVC unnecessarily recreates features built into HTTP and PHP. My guess is that tests will show a PHP MVC to be less efficient than PHP + HTTP, but that is just a hypothesis at this point. I wonder if performance will take enough of a hit that result in the server running the MVC to be able to host fewer connections, pages, etc...
As for cross-platform, in my experience only if you develop in Linux are your cross platfrom compatible with other operating systems. Since Microsoft does so many "unique" things in a non standards compliant way (leave you to discuss why as I already have an opinion based on experience in the industry) if you develop on a Microsoft platform you almost invariably create something that is incompatible with other operating systems.
Very one sided. Thus experience teaches you, avoid a Microsoft development environment if you want to port your application to any other operating system environment. If you only cater to Microsoft Operating systems this does not apply.
When they have shown by their actions, over seven years, that they have changed, than and only than will I consider purchasing Microsoft products again.
For each violation, I reset my 7 year clock from that day. Just reset it this week.
Basing my purchase decisions on their actions ONLY and not their marketing FUD, is the only way I can be sure not to ever be vendor locked-in ever again. So much time and money has been wasted by me, my friends, my family and other IT professionals over the last 20+ years...wasteful and unnecessary.
I will believe it when I see it. To date it has always been FUD!
[...] but start getting people out of office that are more interested in taking corporate/lobbyist money than helping Americans. [...] Shit, that's everyone in office right now, you'll never get them all out, just like anyone (else) not involved in politics everyone is out for themselves.
Never say never, though I agree with you that we can not get rid of all the BAD players in politics. With that said, apathy is definitely not helping us and working in the favor of the two party system that is slowly tearing America apart. .
While we can NOT get rid of them all, we can get rid of the ones on the committees preventing good ideas from coming to the floor of the House of Representatives and the floor of the Senate for a public vote that can be held up and used for/against politicians that are hurting America.
Best example, the Fairtax, first proposed in 1996, but prevented from coming out of committee for a floor vote. Anyone and everyone who runs in a local election AGAINST the Fairtax LOSSES the local election. Because its simple, easy to understand and FAIR to EVERYONE!
Whether you like the Fairtax or not is NOT THE POINT in this current discussion. Here is an idea, the Fairtax, that got invented by individuals (read NO PARTY AFFILIATION), whose name came from a focus group where a person said, wow, this is fair to everyone...or something like that, thus the name the Fairtax was born. First proposed in 1996! 13 years ago and still has not been voted on even once in either the Senate or the House of Representatives. Is that a system that is working? I think not.
Pelosi actually told all Democrats NOT to support the Fairtax...party politics. Party politics that we can no longer live with.
I am 100% positive there are other equally good examples, legislation, that does not have its genesis in either the Democrat party or the Republican party, proposed, all the i's dotted and t's crossed, yet it NEVER comes out of committee for a floor vote? Come on already. I honestly wish I had a list of them all, there has to be well over 50 great ideas that have never come out of those partisan lobbyist controlled committees. So get rid of the obstructionists in the committees, get the stuff to the floor for a vote and give Americans something they can look at that defines a candidates actions. Then Americans can vote for/against a candidate based on their record.
There is a reason most politicians that are seeking higher offices, avoid certain votes. Thus are system is broken. When a minority of Americans can control a politician based on their votes on a single issue or just a few issues, good people can not take their oath of office and attempt to fix it.
We can stop voting along party lines. Vote based on the person's record, actions only.
Get lobbyist (and corporate money) out of politics. Companies are NOT people, never should be, anyone who is pushing for individual rights for corporations needs to resign immediately for violating their oath of office. This is a domestic agenda gone awry for sure.
Find small business friendly communities, start your businesses there establish a strong foundation and then expand nationwide, than worldwide. Introduce competition to all the companies that are only interested in sending American dollars overseas. If they can only compete on price, that is a losing strategy long term always.
Innovate or Die!
Currently most large corporations spend more money lobbying politicians than improving their products and services. These companies can NOT compete against honest Americans with good ideas providing honest to goodness customer service. I would not be surprised that the politicians supporting this type of legislation are all Republicans. Prove me wrong...
Re-establish a trade policy that prevents companies from leaving America for cheaper labor only to send less expensive (and usually of lesser quality
Sadly that is all I could think of as well...
You and I both know that they do not intend to go to court, ever. They only hope to intimidate and get their way through FEAR, look at tomtom and many others.
I hope they pick on a little guy who can get his legal fees handled by others so they can once again be put in their place. I too agree there is so much prior art that they do not have a leg to stand on. But stand and intimidate they try...cowards.
I will check the date they released this and if more recent, I will set my 7 year clock from that date. (For seven years from the date of the reset, I will NOT purchase anything Microsoft. If after 7 years of good behavior their actions dictate they are worthy of being considered again for my hard earned $$$$, I will once again consider Microsoft products...just not for seven years from the date of the infraction.)
If enough people follow suit, perhaps it will be too costly for a business to choose to mess them over, perhaps.
I respect that he managed to get the funding to get Zynga off the ground in these economic conditions, that is something. In fact for anything .com to get off the ground since the .com bust is very impressive. I respect that.
guess it depends on what you mean by "respect." Perhaps you can like a hypothetical cleaned up game of MafiaWars despite it's seedy origins. It's hard to see what else you might "respect" about him or his company though (and a cleaned up version of MafiaWars doesn't exist, so you can't really respect that either).
Not really into Mafia wars, but if I were, I would check out www.treadon.us per this person's post. While I am sure it does not meet your definition of "cleaned up" by and stretch of the imagination, they supposedly do not have any of the nasty Zynga stuff mentioned in the article.
Ah, the ends justify the means. That is certainly one way of looking at the world.
Your words, not mine. For the record I do not agree with that.
To clarify further, in spite of my bad grammar, I can respect what a person is able to create, do and/or accomplish whether I personally like them, their religious beliefs, their actions, etc... Here is a simple example, I have many religious family members that do not approve of Madonna, her lifestyle, etc... based on Religious values alone. They can not look past their own religious beliefs to appreciate how she invented/created herself, not just once but at least twice. I guess they can not hate the sin and love the sinner.... There are so many more examples, that is just the one that came to mind.
Another is Bush, pretty much despise the fact that he stole the election, as history has taught us, after the fact. Hard to ignore the videos, news stories and first hand eye witness accounts all over Florida that came out later that proved the Republicans effectively stole the election. The fact that the Democrats gave it to them, tells anyone with half a brain that they would have done likewise if they felt they could get away with it. Based on reports around the country, both parties do this crap, yet some Americans refuse to acknowledge these facts. In spite of my obvious disgust for Republicans and their zeal at killing Americans in unnecessary wars (even more to despise is when they prevent a quick closure/end to the war by getting rid of Obama, when they had him in their sights...someone high up on the food chain has left that jerk live more than once, I will leave you to speculate as to why? My favorite two are Oil/Saudi Family and US Oil Company relations or to continue the military industrial complex for a longer period of time...); I can respect how they (the Republicans) could push through their political agenda against all odds and in spite of the fact that it is not only damaging to Americans at that time, but now and for the foreseeable future to our kids future.
This is not why my ancestors died protecting our freedom...they disgust me personally and make life of American sacrifice since our countries founding. If an American gives their life, it needs to be for something more than business, that simply does not cut it..
Look at how, with the help of the Federal Reserve, they got Americans to buy into the FEAR part of their FUD so effectively that in spite of overwhelming objections by the majority of Americans (Republicans and Democrats) they gave Billions of American tax dollars to the Federal Reserve, banks, financial institutions. Amazingly effective in retrospect. Hate what he did, but respect that he pulled it off. It obviously worked.
Which some of that money would have trickled down to actual Americans, but the banks were able to simply hold onto the cash and not lend. In fact they are actively hanging on to Real Estate, refusing to close with purchasers...and there can only be one reason, to increase their profit. Follow the money.
Do the ends justify the means, not in my book. But Americans need to start showing up with actions. I honestly hope that more Americans will wake up to not only NEVER elect a Republican ever again, but start getting people out of office that are more interested in taking corporate/lobbyist money than helping Americans.
Yours and my actions now, dictate whether their ends justify their means. As for my part, I have started a list of companies that I will try NOT to do business with ever again. When I have enough cash flow, I hope to actively create competing business models to help put them out of business. Without actions on our part, they win! You do not have to have much of an imagination to see how you could exploit their business models to the benefit of Americans and to their detriment. Hint: Banking; Fiber/Telcos/TCP/IP Packet passing/Wireline/Wireless; Health & Hospitals; Insurance (Auto, Home, Hea
The only way to tell VCs from AIs is in the wording of the contract. Read it carefully, if you see something you do not like, strike it out and replace it with something you can live with. The best contracts allow for the owners to buy out the investors with future profits. At a profit to the investors of course.
dopewares, ... He told us we would remain in control of the product and in the end he took over, killed dopewars and forced everyone on to his crappy port (mafia wars) www.treadon.us is where you can find the original version
How much, or how little, did you and your developer friends sell out for, in order for him to do that to you? Are you set for life now, he sure is?
Here is a duh moment for everyone...want to blow 99.99% of Face Book games out of the water, easy, DON'T USE FLASH.
Most of the problems the Face book games are having is because they continue to develop by the seat of their pants, they probably believe they are following agile principals, but in my experience companies only pay lip service to Agile and do not implement Agile and/or Agile/Scrum 100% effectively, but that is another topic.
All of the syncing problems, most slow play problems and limitations on what they can and can not do are related to their dependence on Flash.
There are other better solutions that have absolutely nothing to do with Flash, look into it and blow all these games out of the water, no brain-er, your welcome.
I don't place mafia wars and my facebook isn't hidden from any facebook user. Why? Because aside from my first name, no other info on there is real .. oh, except that I'm single.
So Facebook forces you to violate their terms of service in order to protect your privacy and personal information. I consider this a huge FAIL!
You understand of course that they could cancel you in a heartbeat if they found out and decided to enforce their terms of service which stipulates only real names can be used.
BTW, I think that is very smart of you, not to put real information in your profile, but it would suck to get a decent following and friends list and have it all ripped away when they canceled you.
My son works for a company owned 7-11 that pays him this way. Each card has an account dedicated to it. Not sure what the benefit from the company perspective is. Probably some kickback on the percentage the card issuing company collects on purchase and maybe ATM fees.
The lovely "VCom" machines in most 7-11s, especially the company owned ones. 7-11 employees are allowed to use them for FREE, no fees. As of 2007, 7-11 would direct deposit into your bank account, you would get a paper copy of your check and/or check stub statement. With the VCom card, you could withdraw money, no limits, up to and including your entire paycheck if you wanted too. Those VCom machines are convenient if you do not have a supermarket near you. Most supermarkets (grocery stores) will allow you to get between $200 - $1000 at the register with your purchase if you have taken the time to fill out one of their cards.
They are very convenient if you are in a town where you do not have a bank branch, as there is probably a 7-11 somewhere. So you have access to one more ATM network. Worth having in my opinion.
My preferred financial institution (they allow me to invest in stocks and bonds and are NOT just a bank) will cover any and all debit related fees when you use other company ATM machines. While I like that and its nice of them, I prefer to go to the grocery store when I need money as they do not charge a fee there. And I usually need something from the store anyway, so its a win - win - win.
The fine print in the information pamphlet they handed out: one free transaction a month. After that, $2 fee for using the debit card for anything.
What a rip off, solution, in one transaction, move your entire paycheck from account to another bank account, thus avoiding the $2.00 fees for additional transactions related to the cards.
Of course they would then put in an artificially low maximum that would prevent you from transferring / withdrawing your account in one transaction.
Why should public money go to yet another private company?...bailout mentality is such bullshit... These damn NSF bureaucrats should spend a month or two working a real job for ordinary working class wages; maybe then they would better appreciate the real value of the money they so frivolously spend.
I could not agree more, with your quotes and especially the last couple of lines. The fact that the Republicans dug Americans a very DEEP financial hole is enough of a reason never to see them ever elected to office again as they put party politics ahead of the citizens they take an oath to serve and protect. Hypocrisy. And do not get me started on lying to start unnecessary wars killing Americans, makes me sick. Profanes the sacrifice that many in my family have made serving in our US military. As far as I am concerned, they violated their oath of office and if they had a soul worth a darn, would resign in shame!
With that said, the Democrats went along with it (bail outs), in spite of the public out cry against them, and are just as guilty of playing party politics. So they are not much better, however I am willing to give them another 4 years while we build a viable 3rd party in this country.
We need a 3rd party focused ONLY on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, period without all the extraneous and decisive issues used by both parties to continue their party political BS and divide Americans. Hard core Republicans amount to less than 9% and hard core Democrats are less than 18%; the rest of Americans (approx 73%) are somewhere in between, being distracted by a variety of issues (brought up by both parties to divide us), especially religion. They do not even realize they jeopardize "freedom of religion" for all of us by focusing on any one religion and/or making any religious based laws. They need to wake up before they do something that can NOT be undone and hurts us all.
Everything we need to control both parties and save America is in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. When a politician takes money and or votes in such a way that their actions go against either of those two documents, they should be removed from office for violating their oath of office.
As for Public Money being spent...has already happened in many areas via American Tax dollars, one area very close to the heart of this article is tax money + fees + money given to telcos to build out Fiber networks across America AND OVER THE LAST MILE to our homes. The American telcos have received in excess of $200 Billion since the 1990s to build Fiber. Yet they perpetuate the scarcity myth, do not build out fiber offerings as fast as they could for fear of being ONLY an TCP/IP packet passing company (the only way most of my friends and I view them anymore, whether they like it or not!) simply to charge us higher and higher fees each month with no regards to the economy or economics that would dictate prices should fall unless being artificially held up and increased as they have been for the last two decades.
They have taken our money and our parents money, given debt, our children's money....Where's the Fiber? (think 1980 Wendy's commercial "Where's the Beef" and you have the right idea)
Perhaps you are right, perhaps a real job working for what most of us get paid in wages would serve as a wake up call, perhaps...
And if you give your phone a cookie, it's going to ask for a glass of milk. One thing will lead to another, and soon it will want your social security number.
Then it will want your first born's social security number,
Anything that exposes additional personal information on us to the web is bad IMO. All personal info, should be OFF by default anything less is unacceptable. If I choose to click a box and expose personal info, it should only be by my choice, not to agree to a TOS.
The guy even admits that the polls were BS, just collecting a user's personal information for selling to advertisers to generate revenue.
It does not matter what any of the other Virus scanning software makers do anymore as Microsoft has killed this market; as so many others before them.
Go up to your girlfriend or wife and tell her you look at porn. I don't care who it is, if they think you're serious they won't take it lightly, and even if you can get her to agree, she won't like it.
My quote:
Nothing could replace her being with me, fortunately for me she enjoys laughing at porn as much as I do...too many women create their own misery.
What part of her watching it with me don't you understand? And guys, she is not the only woman who is NOT threatened by playboy, penthouse, videos, porn, etc...
My point is simple, if you love someone and they love you...they know you and you know them....nothing will come between you, not even porn...some people just need to grow up. There are many much more serious issues in the world and porn does not even make the list.
If they are threatened by porn today, what kind of crap are they going to be threatened by tomorrow and thus doom a normal healthy relationship?
Good point, what was I thinking...or not thinking.
"I wish Verizon offered FIOS in my neighborhood. Or at least would tell me when I can expect it here! I'm so damned eager to dump ..."name of your cable company here
I too am sick of the Cable Scam....they promise much, deliver much less. It's FRAUD! Marketing says up to 8MB or 14MB or 16MB (when downstream is not limiting factor to streaming media and they know this)
Get a router/firewall that supports the DD-WRT software and see first hand what is REALLY being provided to you by cable. The SPEED TESTs are useless BS marketing FUD.
With the DD-WRT software you can monitor your status / bandwidth in real time 24 X 7 and when that video stutters or you have to wait for buffering before you can watch a video or whatever streaming media via the Internet...you will see that your Cable bandwidth is being throttled back to less than 100Kbs upstream, likely, very likely as low as 30Kbps or 40Kbps. (This is my friends experience and he is paying for TWC's highest tier of service that they promise will work with streaming content...hint it does NOT work, avoid them if you are smart!)
You mention that you have DSL in your area. You would probably be better off with DSL service giving you 1500Kbps downstream and 384Kbps upstream than any Cable service that promises up to xxMB. They will NOT GUARANTEE you a MINIMUM BANDWIDTH, which would guarantee that you can stream content because they want you to purchase more expensive TV, Video and Movie service through them. Its all BS.
Do yourself a favor, until you get Greenlight ($100 for 100Mbps / 100Mbps) (the best Fiber option, currently only available in Wilson N.C.) or Verizon FIOS Fiber ($119 for 50Mbps / 5Mbps) , dump your cable and switch to DSL. Time to send the Cable companies a message about customer service and quality bandwidth guarantees!
Are there any other Fiber (over the last mile to your home) providers in the USA today besides FIOS or Greenlight?
If they had not paid, I would never, ever go back there again.
Even that history above, leaves out important facts; when Washington threatened PA, courts & judges in PA ordered the Bourbon distillers to pay the additional tax immediately... hard to do when you do much of your business in trade and not for cash. In Kentucky, the Governor was allot more sensible and protected Bourbon makers from the tax for a full year, thus many PA Bourbon Distillers moved from PA to KY in order to simply survive. That next season when they took their bourbon to New Orleans down the Mississippi, they took payment in at least enough cash to cover taxes they knew they would have to pay when they returned and not just in trade. Funny that specific history does not mention that the US governments taxation combined with PA legislature insistence on instant payment drove businesses from PA to KY...that was HUGE!
Its good to see Louisville known for something other than the Slugger!
The problem, however, is that the underlying structure on which monogamy is built is still corrupted.
Solution, date only women that will look online with you and do not feel threatened by a picture, article, magazine, movie, video, etc...
Nothing could replace her being with me, fortunately for me she enjoys laughing at porn as much as I do...too many women create their own misery.
They shut down on their men and complain when they seek porn instead of cheating on them...silly gurls!
Average joe is not going to be installing a custom OS firmware on his "intanet box"
Then Average Joe is going to pay way too much for too little access for the Internet.
My friend has been trying to work with his Cable company to get streaming content and they are refusing to open up the upstream bandwidth so that the content will stream successfully. He even decided to pay the extra protection more bandwidth fee to increase his tier of service to their highest available tier.
The service he is paying over $50 per month for markets up to 16000Kbps downstream and 2000Kbps upstream!
I told him he was a fool. They first tried to blame his firewall/router and the DD-WRT software as the limiting factor to his bandwidth, but he was not as stupid as the Cable company hoped he would be.
Why do Cable companies think Average Joe will accept that the Speed Tests are gospel. They ARE NOT!
His Speed Test varies from 9000Kbps to 25000Kbps downstream and 930Kbps to 990Kbps downstream. Interesting how the Speed Test never goes above 1000Kbps to the promised 2000Kbps upstream! Can you say scam, I knew you could. That is JUST THE ignorant, only valid in that second, SPEED TEST via www.speakeasy.net. What a waste of time.
How is this NOT FRAUD?
Thanks to the Status / Bandwidth monitor via his DD-WRT software he sees the Speed go up with the speed test, however as soon as the speed test finishes he is once again throttled to less than 300Kbps downstream and 40Kbps upstream. Other than the speed test, his upstream bandwidth never exceeds 100Kbps.
We are guessing a sustained 200Kbps or 300Kbps upstream would give steady consistent streaming of video and IP content. But that is a guess as the Cable provider has never let him have over 100Kbps. Even though he is paying over $50 per month for the Highest tier of Internet Only service that the cable provider swears and markets as allowing the customer to watch IP TV, movies and videos. The three tiers below that for Internet Only service DO NOT state specifically that you can watch streaming content at all.
His only solution is probably DSL, his location, based on distance will give him 1.5Mbps down and 384Kbps upstream...so its half the price of Cable, for him, and it will allow him to stream content.
Having two DSL providers would cost just as much as he is now paying for 1 cable provider...redundancy, thanks to DD-WRT and VLANs he feels he would be better off and is looking forward to switching...
So if Average Joe fails to utilize the DD-WRT software, his provider can screw him over, make lame BS excuses, never admitting the real reason he is being restricted its because they want to via Bandwidth Shaping software.
So no DD-WRT software and Average Joe is like a mushroom, do not be stupid, do not be average; Only purchase /routers that support DD-WRT software!
Note to others, when you connect your PC directly to the cable modem, check your DNS server IP addresses, if you upgrade your service; these DNS servers change. However to get higher bandwidths, the Cable company MUST set up the software to allow you to have more bandwidth. They have flatly refused to do this for my friend.
Also if you check www.RipoffReports.com you will find multiple complaints that customers were paying for the higher tier of service from their provider but they were not getting it until they complained and the Cable company flipped the-bandwidth-switch to allow for it.
Here is a post from 2006 ("Port 4 on Separate VLAN with DHCP"), so they have been around for some time.
Seriously why not Japan, or most European countries?
Great post, says it all. In 2007 there were 13 other industrialized countries with faster access and more bandwidth, I think all of them had lower fees per month for consumers as well but would have to go back and look to be sure, than the United States. Heck we are still back in the dark ages with a definition of broadband of only 768Kbps. Please, they had 100Mb /100MB in Japan in 2000 and thanks to fiber to homes, they were able to increase each consumer's bandwidth to 1 Gbps / 1 Gbps by 2006. Oh and the cost, even better, from less than $55 per month in 2000 to less than $52 per month by 2006. Unlike the United States, the markets are actually working in Japan, Korea and other countries in that area.
In the US, only Greenlight (and only in Wilson N.C.) offers 100MB / 100MB synchronous bandwidth via fiber to customers homes for $100 per month. The next best player in the fiber internet market is FIOS with only 50Mbps/5Mbps for $119 per month.
Did the telcos / Cable companies step up their game and compete with Greenlight in North Carolina, of course not. They spent lobby money last year and plan to spend more lobbyist money this upcoming session of the North Carolina legislature in order to prevent Greenlight from expanding to other areas. They are also seeking to prevent any other companies or individuals from offering fiber to consumers. It can only be them and they do not want to offer Fiber to us. Of course they do not want Americans to remember that they (telcos) promised (and received our tax dollars for the promise) back in the 1990s to provide fiber to American homes...all the way to the home, not just to the general area or neighborhood and from their bandwidth limiting coaxial cable...its all a sham, and should be a crime!
In this instance, President Obama should not be looking down under and instead should be looking towards the rising sun!
All our politicians need to stop lining their pockets with lobbyist money and provide us with Fiber.
Who is with me, give me fiber or give me death! A bit extreme...perhaps, but we honestly need fiber!
We also need guaranteed minimum SUSTAINED bandwidths, say the FCC definition to start....768Kbps upstream and downstream sustained 99.99% of the time or the service can NOT, should NOT and SHALL NOT advertise itself as broadband.
I bet they would start putting Fiber over the last mile then!
. It's because we want to isolate functionality to minimize the risk of getting hacked. It's well known that connecting a Windows computer directly to the Internet will result in it getting P0wned in almost no time. And *nix computers, while better, can still be vulnerable.
You said it.
I still get burned up with the Cable company when they want me to jump through hoops to troubleshoot my cable connection, because they are artificially restricting my access via software and do not want to admit that simple fact, and the first thing they want you to do is pull out/turn off your firewall/router (hardware device) or shutdown your router software only solution and connect directly up to their cable modem. Makes me want to SCREAM and churn!
Even more offensive when you did not have any problems for years, all the same hardware and software until they (the cable company), in their infinite wisdom, rolled out new software to your area to enhance/improve your service, right, not. (Bandwidth Shaping, throttling, Deep Packet Inspection, who knows what); all you know is they installed something new between you and the Internet and the end result is your service is now providing you a fraction of the bandwidth you use to get. And before, you would have been better off with DSL instead of a Cable modem from a bandwidth perspective specifically. Now even more so.
Does DSL throttle back service, for instance if you are told that they can provide 384K up and 1.5Mbps down, do you get 100% of that or only a fraction? Please no replies that are ONLY OPINIONS, someone with the DD-WRT software running on a hardware firewall/router that has DSL service (anyone), please check your status / bandwidth windows and tell me what you see happening as I need to know if I would be better off to switch away from cable. (I.e my cable Speed test is phenomenal; their service marketing promise is good (up to 8MB, 10MB, 12MB or 14MPB) also; however the reality sucks. I do not consistently get better than 40Kbps upstream and 100Kbps downstream. I am talking consistent, constant steady, no drops, no rises, service..... Note: if you are NOT using the DD-WRT software that shows this in REAL TIME, 24 X 7 or you are not running a commercial router ($600 - $2000 per), whose software will show this in real time; you HONESTLY DO NOT KNOW. Of course they do NOT shape, throttle the Speed Test, hint, hint.
And years after its proven beyond any doubt that a hardware firewall/router is superior to software running on a PC; they are suggesting that this type of software router is gaining market share or becoming more popular, I certainly hope not as that means people are getting dumber....I do not believe that. I do not want to believe that people are getting dumber....