>>>If JPGs could be compressed another 90% (which they can't be!)
Actually you can compress JPG further, and my Dialup ISP does it (converts a 50K jpeg to 5K). Just as I squeeze MPG episodes of Penn&Teller down to 10 megabyte size for emailing friends. It's all relative to how much quality you are willing to sacrifice.
>>>Well, then it's still not gonna give you the same user experience as DSL
Now you're just being anal. All I care about is that instead of waiting 2 minutes to load via normal dialup, my compressed service loads in 10 seconds. Same apparent speed as home DSL line.
>>>Umm, NO. Thin slices of the same spectrum are being used by digital TVs
Okay. Here's a list of every channel in my region (mid-atlantic) that is assigned to DTV, protected by the FCC, and therefore NOT available for use by TV Band/whitespace devices. Now tell me. Honestly. Do you see any open channels?
So you expect Lockheed to divide its single factory into ~5 different locations spread all over the Delaware-Maryland-Northern Virginia area? Just so they can be within walking/subway distance of their carfree workers???
That's highly inefficient and I doubt it would work. (You can't divide a single plane-manufacturing factory across 5 different factories.)
Actually BS is a good source of information, because they pointed-out YOU could do the same thing at home (filter the tap water) rather than waste money on bottled.
Bottled water costs about $3 per gallon, whereas my home filter does the same job for only a 1-2 pennies.
>>>So... its unconstitutional for the Chief Executive to issue an Executive Order to Executive Branch agencies, telling them how he thinks they should act
It is. Take as example the recently-passed Healthcare Bill. The executive signed an order forbidding the use of these funds for Abortions. About a month later the Supreme Court ruled that XO to be unconstitutional - that Congressional law overrules it and allows funds for abortions.
>>>that has not been the position of the courts or congress
The courts/congress have also claimed its okay for them to regulate INTRAstate commerce, and tell individual home owners how much corn & wheat they are allowed to grow (the rationing case: Wickard v. Filburn). But anybody with common sense can see the Constitution's 10th Amendment forbids Congress from doing that duty..... that said power is reserved to the States and the People, respectively.
So to assume the courts are the final word is a dangerous doctrine. It would place us under an Oligarchy (rule by 9 unelected men), instead of rule by the Law (the constitution). Plus they are often just flat wrong.
>>>I recall you commented elsewhere that you refuse to see Avatar.
I did eventually download it off the net. I found the story good at the start, but it quickly got ridiculous. Like zombie movies. WE have tanks - zombies have rotting bodies. With our tanks, missiles, and other crap the zombies would be toast. Same with the guys in avatar who I doubt could win the battle against modern weapons.
And even if they did manage to win a single skirmish, the military would just nuke them from orbit and be done with it.
>>>DS9 still regularly dealt with the Star Trek Universe. SGU has a very tiny grasp... basically brush over all the sci-finess of the show and turn it into a soap opera that could be set anywhere
I agree with the grandparent poster, that IMDb shouldn't list a movie that's not released yet from a distributor that has zero prior history. AFTER it's released, then they can list it.
>>>there are more dial-up users on AOL now than there were in 2000. I'm calling BS
It isn't BS. A lot of people bought computers during the 2000s, and lacking high speed internet (like my friend in Uniontown PA), they signed-on to AOL and other Dialup providers. So the total number of Dialup users went UP since 2000. Now there has been a downward trend the last 2-3 years, but overall there were still twice as many dialup customers in 2009 as existed in 2000.
I don't remember ever encountering a busy signal. Of course during that time period (mid-90s) I mostly used the college internet in my dorm, and the AOL at home sat mostly idle so I may have been lucky enough to avoid the busy signals.
My bill circa 2000 was $15 a month, which was about as cheap as you could get back then. Later-on AOL told me about their "new" Netscape ISP for $7, so I took advantage of the bargain. Then about three years ago I got DSL for $15.
>>>>>I don't get to pick the stocks either, but I do get to pick the fund which lists the stocks in it. If there's a particular company I don't want to support, like BP, then I simply don't invest in any fund which contains BP stock. >> >>I call BS on you. Without a prospectus.....
The real thing that matters is not the maximum speed, or the 40 minute travel from city-to-city, but the OVERALL travel time. When I was tasked to fly from Oklahoma to Minnesota for an audit, I decided to drive instead. My coworkers thought that was strange but we all left the office at the same time (7am) and I actually arrived at the hotel 1 hour sooner than they did (4pm and 5pm respectively). See - they had to waste time driving to the port, passing through security, changing from plane 1 to plane 2, locating a rent-a-car at the destination, and then driving to the hotel. It all took an hour longer than simply driving there.
Same with this train. 200 km can be covered by car in less than 1.5 hours. A train requires 40 minutes travel time, plus 30 minutes driving around trying to find a place to park (or 30 minutes walking to the station), plus another 30 minutes at the other end, plus 10-15 minutes on incidental things like buying tickets, finding a seat, waiting for the train to start-up, et cetera. Approximately 1.5 versus 2 hours.
In the end the car is faster than plane or train, unless the trip is extremely long (requiring more than 1 day's drive).
PLUS they didn't get compensated for their travel, whereas I was reimbursed a little over 1000 dollars for mileage (which I pocketed).
hahaha, yes. If a webpage takes 10 seconds to load on my home DSL, and 10 seconds to load on Compressed Dialup, that means the dialup "looks" as fast as the DSL. - The reason why it's faster is because HTML/text is compressed to 5% original size and images are compressed to 10% original size. Sure the images look like crap but so what? They're mostly junk ads anyway.
It doesn't need to make sense. Like that recent Slashhot article about the 2009 Stimulus Bill sending money to Africa to teach men how to wash their penises. Sure it stimulates the economy, but it's AFRICA'S economy that is being stimulated. How about spending that American money in the American homeland, and showing that American moon landing on American soil. Duh.
There was no VHS at the time of the airing of the First, Second, or Third Doctors either.
Nevertheless some of the lost episodes were recovered from VHS or Betamax because that's all we have left. Perhaps some engineer copied the original 1969 tapes over to a VHS collection. Then the originals were erased by an idiot, so all that's left are the backups.
Aside - VHS is a really crummy format for storage. Only ~320 pixels across by 486 scanlines. The original magnetic tapes from 1969 probably offered the full resolution possible with NTSC-I, or about ~640x480. Super VHS can capture that full resolution, but not regular VHS.
>>>>>AOL now has more subscribers in 2010 than they did in 2000. And I'm one of them >> >>This explains... so much.
Yes. It explains that from time-to-time, when I'm on business travel, I don't have access to my home highspeed internet so instead I use my laptop to connect to cheap $7/month dialup (which thanks to compression looks as fast as 500k DSL). Is that a crime? Should I turn myself over to police?;-)
Also I've been a customer of AOL ever since their 1980s Quantum Link days. They've never screwed me over, so I never felt the need to drop them.
>>>Umm, NO. Thin slices of the same spectrum are being used by digital TVs
Okay. Here's a list of every channel in my region (mid-atlantic) that is assigned to DTV, protected by the FCC, and therefore NOT available for use by TV Band/whitespace devices. Now tell me. Honestly. Do you see any open channels?
Also if you don't believe me you can always check the FCC website yourself. It too lists no space for whitespace devices in my location. Actually I take that back - it lists 48 as "open-restricted" meaning it can only be used for a low power in-home wireless. Not for long distance communication/internet.
AOL now has more subscribers in 2010 than they did in 2000. And I'm one of them (Netscape ISP at $7/month). Not sure where you got the idea they are using less IPs than before??? Your comment kinda reminds me of those who say "analog television frequencies aren't being used any more". And then they suggest using them for cellular phones/internet. But the reality is that those frequencies ARE being used: By digital television (channels 2-51) and Emergency Radio (52-59) and cellphones (60-69)(approximately). Every inch of space is assigned.
Just because you BELIEVE something is no longer in use, doesn't mean it's true:-)
Oh and as for the IPv4 to IPv6 transition, it probably won't be a big deal. The government got all excited and bothered over the analog-to-digital transition, and it went off just fine. There were a few problems with people for forgot to upgrade their antennas from small to large, but those were quickly ironed out.
>>>want to work in an environment where people who know less than them... are more highly rewarded?
I'd work there, if only to oversee the operations and make sure the staff are Obeying the Constitution (no searches without warrants) rather than tearing it to shreds. I also find it hard to believe, with 10% unemployment, they can't find engineers/software people who are desperate for jobs. The hiring staff are probably being nitpicky, requiring ALL the skills in every employee, instead of just say 50% of the skills and letting the employee learn the task on the job.
As for your question: What work environment isn't like that? Every place I ever worked the managers were paid more than the competent workers with the actual skills. It simple supply-and-demand, and unfortunately there's a huge supply of workers so that drives down their wages.
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>>>If JPGs could be compressed another 90% (which they can't be!)
Actually you can compress JPG further, and my Dialup ISP does it (converts a 50K jpeg to 5K). Just as I squeeze MPG episodes of Penn&Teller down to 10 megabyte size for emailing friends. It's all relative to how much quality you are willing to sacrifice.
>>>lossy compression on all images?
yes
>>>Well, then it's still not gonna give you the same user experience as DSL
Now you're just being anal. All I care about is that instead of waiting 2 minutes to load via normal dialup, my compressed service loads in 10 seconds. Same apparent speed as home DSL line.
>>>Umm, NO. Thin slices of the same spectrum are being used by digital TVs
Okay. Here's a list of every channel in my region (mid-atlantic) that is assigned to DTV, protected by the FCC, and therefore NOT available for use by TV Band/whitespace devices. Now tell me. Honestly. Do you see any open channels?
VHF-LO - 2,3,4,5,6
VHF-HU - 6,7,8,10,11,12,13
UHF - 14,15,16,17,18,19,20
21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30
31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38
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So you expect Lockheed to divide its single factory into ~5 different locations spread all over the Delaware-Maryland-Northern Virginia area? Just so they can be within walking/subway distance of their carfree workers???
That's highly inefficient and I doubt it would work. (You can't divide a single plane-manufacturing factory across 5 different factories.)
Actually BS is a good source of information, because they pointed-out YOU could do the same thing at home (filter the tap water) rather than waste money on bottled.
Bottled water costs about $3 per gallon, whereas my home filter does the same job for only a 1-2 pennies.
>>>So... its unconstitutional for the Chief Executive to issue an Executive Order to Executive Branch agencies, telling them how he thinks they should act
It is. Take as example the recently-passed Healthcare Bill. The executive signed an order forbidding the use of these funds for Abortions. About a month later the Supreme Court ruled that XO to be unconstitutional - that Congressional law overrules it and allows funds for abortions.
>>>that has not been the position of the courts or congress
The courts/congress have also claimed its okay for them to regulate INTRAstate commerce, and tell individual home owners how much corn & wheat they are allowed to grow (the rationing case: Wickard v. Filburn). But anybody with common sense can see the Constitution's 10th Amendment forbids Congress from doing that duty..... that said power is reserved to the States and the People, respectively.
So to assume the courts are the final word is a dangerous doctrine. It would place us under an Oligarchy (rule by 9 unelected men), instead of rule by the Law (the constitution). Plus they are often just flat wrong.
>>>I recall you commented elsewhere that you refuse to see Avatar.
I did eventually download it off the net. I found the story good at the start, but it quickly got ridiculous. Like zombie movies. WE have tanks - zombies have rotting bodies. With our tanks, missiles, and other crap the zombies would be toast. Same with the guys in avatar who I doubt could win the battle against modern weapons.
And even if they did manage to win a single skirmish, the military would just nuke them from orbit and be done with it.
>>>DS9 still regularly dealt with the Star Trek Universe. SGU has a very tiny grasp... basically brush over all the sci-finess of the show and turn it into a soap opera that could be set anywhere
So basically SGU is like Star Trek Voyager. ;-)
I agree with the grandparent poster, that IMDb shouldn't list a movie that's not released yet from a distributor that has zero prior history. AFTER it's released, then they can list it.
>>>finding qualified, cleared personnel is difficult.
Then hire qualified, uncleared personnel and have them acquire their clearance on the job.
>>>there are more dial-up users on AOL now than there were in 2000. I'm calling BS
It isn't BS. A lot of people bought computers during the 2000s, and lacking high speed internet (like my friend in Uniontown PA), they signed-on to AOL and other Dialup providers. So the total number of Dialup users went UP since 2000. Now there has been a downward trend the last 2-3 years, but overall there were still twice as many dialup customers in 2009 as existed in 2000.
What do you call these then? They look like ISPs to me:
http://free.aol.com/thenewaol/plan_choice.adp
http://www.getnetscape.com/ (AOL owns Netscape ISP)
I don't remember ever encountering a busy signal. Of course during that time period (mid-90s) I mostly used the college internet in my dorm, and the AOL at home sat mostly idle so I may have been lucky enough to avoid the busy signals.
My bill circa 2000 was $15 a month, which was about as cheap as you could get back then. Later-on AOL told me about their "new" Netscape ISP for $7, so I took advantage of the bargain. Then about three years ago I got DSL for $15.
>>>>>I don't get to pick the stocks either, but I do get to pick the fund which lists the stocks in it. If there's a particular company I don't want to support, like BP, then I simply don't invest in any fund which contains BP stock.
>>
>>I call BS on you. Without a prospectus.....
Duh.
I read the prospectus.
PER USUAL:
The real thing that matters is not the maximum speed, or the 40 minute travel from city-to-city, but the OVERALL travel time. When I was tasked to fly from Oklahoma to Minnesota for an audit, I decided to drive instead. My coworkers thought that was strange but we all left the office at the same time (7am) and I actually arrived at the hotel 1 hour sooner than they did (4pm and 5pm respectively). See - they had to waste time driving to the port, passing through security, changing from plane 1 to plane 2, locating a rent-a-car at the destination, and then driving to the hotel. It all took an hour longer than simply driving there.
Same with this train. 200 km can be covered by car in less than 1.5 hours. A train requires 40 minutes travel time, plus 30 minutes driving around trying to find a place to park (or 30 minutes walking to the station), plus another 30 minutes at the other end, plus 10-15 minutes on incidental things like buying tickets, finding a seat, waiting for the train to start-up, et cetera. Approximately 1.5 versus 2 hours.
In the end the car is faster than plane or train, unless the trip is extremely long (requiring more than 1 day's drive).
PLUS they didn't get compensated for their travel, whereas I was reimbursed a little over 1000 dollars for mileage (which I pocketed).
>>>hahaha, no.
hahaha, yes. If a webpage takes 10 seconds to load on my home DSL, and 10 seconds to load on Compressed Dialup, that means the dialup "looks" as fast as the DSL. - The reason why it's faster is because HTML/text is compressed to 5% original size and images are compressed to 10% original size. Sure the images look like crap but so what? They're mostly junk ads anyway.
It's government.
It doesn't need to make sense. Like that recent Slashhot article about the 2009 Stimulus Bill sending money to Africa to teach men how to wash their penises. Sure it stimulates the economy, but it's AFRICA'S economy that is being stimulated. How about spending that American money in the American homeland, and showing that American moon landing on American soil. Duh.
There was no VHS at the time of the airing of the First, Second, or Third Doctors either.
Nevertheless some of the lost episodes were recovered from VHS or Betamax because that's all we have left. Perhaps some engineer copied the original 1969 tapes over to a VHS collection. Then the originals were erased by an idiot, so all that's left are the backups.
Aside - VHS is a really crummy format for storage. Only ~320 pixels across by 486 scanlines. The original magnetic tapes from 1969 probably offered the full resolution possible with NTSC-I, or about ~640x480. Super VHS can capture that full resolution, but not regular VHS.
>>>>>AOL now has more subscribers in 2010 than they did in 2000. And I'm one of them
>>
>>This explains... so much.
Yes. It explains that from time-to-time, when I'm on business travel, I don't have access to my home highspeed internet so instead I use my laptop to connect to cheap $7/month dialup (which thanks to compression looks as fast as 500k DSL). Is that a crime? Should I turn myself over to police? ;-)
Also I've been a customer of AOL ever since their 1980s Quantum Link days.
They've never screwed me over, so I never felt the need to drop them.
>>>Umm, NO. Thin slices of the same spectrum are being used by digital TVs
Okay. Here's a list of every channel in my region (mid-atlantic) that is assigned to DTV, protected by the FCC, and therefore NOT available for use by TV Band/whitespace devices. Now tell me. Honestly. Do you see any open channels?
Also if you don't believe me you can always check the FCC website yourself. It too lists no space for whitespace devices in my location. Actually I take that back - it lists 48 as "open-restricted" meaning it can only be used for a low power in-home wireless. Not for long distance communication/internet.
VHF-LO - 2,3,4,5,6
VHF-HU - 6,7,8,10,11,12,13
UHF -
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>>>cellphones (60-69)(approximately).
Correction:
cellphones (60-83)
>>>they sure aren't using them.
AOL now has more subscribers in 2010 than they did in 2000. And I'm one of them (Netscape ISP at $7/month). Not sure where you got the idea they are using less IPs than before??? Your comment kinda reminds me of those who say "analog television frequencies aren't being used any more". And then they suggest using them for cellular phones/internet. But the reality is that those frequencies ARE being used: By digital television (channels 2-51) and Emergency Radio (52-59) and cellphones (60-69)(approximately). Every inch of space is assigned.
Just because you BELIEVE something is no longer in use, doesn't mean it's true :-)
Oh and as for the IPv4 to IPv6 transition, it probably won't be a big deal. The government got all excited and bothered over the analog-to-digital transition, and it went off just fine. There were a few problems with people for forgot to upgrade their antennas from small to large, but those were quickly ironed out.
>>>want to work in an environment where people who know less than them... are more highly rewarded?
I'd work there, if only to oversee the operations and make sure the staff are Obeying the Constitution (no searches without warrants) rather than tearing it to shreds. I also find it hard to believe, with 10% unemployment, they can't find engineers/software people who are desperate for jobs. The hiring staff are probably being nitpicky, requiring ALL the skills in every employee, instead of just say 50% of the skills and letting the employee learn the task on the job.
As for your question: What work environment isn't like that? Every place I ever worked the managers were paid more than the competent workers with the actual skills. It simple supply-and-demand, and unfortunately there's a huge supply of workers so that drives down their wages.
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