I agree with the 90%/10% ratio of bandwidth usage for people who are using it for file sharing versus more legitimate means, However, that doesn't say that I agree with limiting the available resources to students. In an ideal educational setting, I see that resources are just an afterthought to the main purpose of experimenting and creating new ideas and frontiers. What about those few hackers that are sitting at terminals, thinking of ways to bring high quality content to the masses? Intertwining video with embedded code? Watermarking audio to encapsulate neilson-esque ratings? These sorts of ideas need high bandwidth to experiment with because you never know what the future will hold if you allow the resources to be there for them.
I'm going to a hockey game that happens every year on this night. We (the Portland Winterhawks http://www.winterhawks.com ) always play our arch rivals, the Seattle Thunderbirds, and recently they've taken to broadcasting the home games for the winterhawks online. If you're web surfing, and want to see some excellent Major/Minor (WHL) hockey, feel free to stop by tonight (7:30 pm PST) and check out the webcast!
There's also a similiar initiative in Seattle, WA (of course) where apartments are being outfitted with dedicated 100Mbit connections, VOD setups and multiple OC3's to the apartment complex's.
of course the majority of the network doesn't exist in the US.. since it's a european network.. it's like saying that China doesn't exist in the US.. it doesn't, except for the embassies and the spies..
but what were those two US connections I saw on the GEAN network (sorry I don't have that funny looking G on it.. I'm too lazy to hit my character map to copy and paste it) US1 and US2? looks like someone's leeching off of my adsl.. funny, there's a 10GB/s backbone growing out of my dsl connection!
Look at what you do for fun, and find a profession in that. I've always messed with computers during all my life, and that's what I quickly realized I should get into once I reached college and I realized that I could get a bit of money doing what I enjoyed.
Maybe it'll be made like the game in that move "The Last Starfighter" and if you score really high, big black suburbans will swoop down on your home
and they'll whisk you away to become the next virtual war commander. I can see it now, some 15 year old behind a monitor barking orders to our military.
I have run into the a similar problem with Dell's tech support. My parents just gave me one of their old laptops to do development on, and yes, it is out of warranty. However, I upgraded the machine to a new OS and it stopped supporting an extra battery that I had for it. So I contacted their tech support.
The person contacted me back and pointed me to a BIOS update to use in Win95 (I was running Win98SE on the machine), and thinking that updating a BIOS is just the same as on a desktop, I ran the util. Lo and behold, it fried the BIOS and the computer now refuses to boot. (My guess is that the BIOS update util had something tweaked for the specific OS, and the update util didn't work correctly in Win98).
Anyways, I contacted Dell support again, and told the guy what happened, he told me to use a different BIOS update utility (this one was for Win98), but didn't understand that my computer refused to even acknowledge the BIOS its self anymore and needed to have the chip replaced.
I emailed him back about the discrepency between the emails, noted that yes, a BIOS update shouldn't be dependent on the OS involved, HOWEVER, when I used the first util he directed me to (and in his first response he said he totally understood my email) it ruined my BIOS and the computer wasn't functional anymore. He then said that I could send the computer in for repairs and since it wasn't under warranty, it'd cost $900 to repair. (the computer is probably worth $300, citing EBay auctions). I coughed and said no, this was their issue since they misdirected me to a wrong utility and it had ruined my computer, it didn't matter if it was under warranty or not.
I keep emailing them at least 3 times a week forwarding my last response, and they don't answer back anymore. I'm wondering if there are many others in this predicament, many enough to where we can slap a class action for undersupporting their products?
no.. but it's one application of all the skills I have gathered, other than you to hide behind a mask and hurl insults. That takes no balls and 1 second to do.
That's why they make post-bacc degrees and courses. A 4 year degree gives you a basis, the following studies will give you a good focus. Overall, a 4 year university degree will outweigh a technical school education (ITT) or AA degree and such. With a full university degree, you are exposed to many more situations and surroundings than if you just focused on one topic. Now, I don't know about you, but for those people whom went to ITT to get that "web developer" certificate, and has now joined the ranks of the dot.gone, they either a) have to go back for a different degree in another specialized field b) or else go for the full fledged thing c) or work at Starbucks.
I did my 4 years, and another 2 years on post-bacc work in my field (Comp Sci), and right now I am working for a medical billing company taking their whole application from DOS based to a winblows based application, all through black-box exposure. I can say that all facets of my education are being put to the test, analytical, quanitative and communication in all aspects.
If all I knew was how to make the mouse hit the button, it'd take a miracle for anything to coalesce. So no, I don't think that my 4+ years were a waste, because I know that if this job disappears from me, I have the necessary background to traverse many different fields of work.
An addenum to this utility suggestion of yours would be an interesting research project to see which ip's are generally used and for what purpose, and what others are usually kept vacant by networks. Could help in the protection of networks and also help hackers:/
While I'm on this trip remembering the AppleII and all, Oregon Trail was another good one. RPG type game about hitting the trail out to Oregon. Simple Graphics, simple text, easy for a child to learn and pretty entertaining.. heh
Try the old appleII game called "Rocky's Boots" yes.. I was a geek child, but my dad put me infront of that game (GUI based and it teaches logic, with some fun puzzles) and it sure payed off when I was taking discrete structures in college..;]
Not like this is really an "ingenious" thought.. it's just a jscript timer and a category for each page that's present on the page, and keeping track on when that page is on top or not.
oh, and about another comment concerning keyboard shortcuts.. that can be defeated by either a) the programmer disabling the shortcut for the page or b) keeping track on when the page is entered/left and doing a popup or redirection then..
programming isn't that difficult, it's the brains behind the code that matters
My parents and my older sister all have Anthro work areas.. They are definitely of high quality and great design, albeit a big expensive. (my older sister got a main desk and a raiser and another component for just under $1gUSD (ugh)) But delivery was fast, and the people there are very amiable. I also reccomend these people if you have some cash to blow.
At least MTV had the chutzpah to follow up on incidents like this with a PSA of somekind or a show addressing the issues. Just like typical big networks.. instead of doing a responsible thing, they tuck their tails and hide behind a lawyers words.
I just recently held this discussion with a friend on IRC.. basically he made a comment on how he doesn't mind paying for access to some of ign's features, due to the fact that better quality is offered to him. For example, 640x480 game trailers and the ilk.. to me, that makes more sense... Pay for higher quality, not quantity.
The high school I went to (Benson Polytechnic High School) actually gave me a lot of motivation in a different way. It was a "magnet" high school where we had to choose a major subject to persue during the last 2 years of high school. The first of these years I spent in Computer Science.
When I was in high school I also worked on the side 20 hours/week and was busy with playing soccer for the high school, so a lot of free extracurricular time was put towards those, and unlike the others in the CS major, I didn't put that time towards the many science clubs that were available after school. My teacher didn't like this, and basically told me that I would never be good at computers, and if I wanted to achieve decent grades, I should vacate his class. (which I did, went into architecture and got A's in there instead).
But this is the kicker, I've been using computers since I was about 4 (I'm 24 now), and computers were just natural to me. So once I went into college, I persued my CS degree in spite of that previous high school teacher.
I graduated with a BS in CS and am right now persuing my Masters in CS at Oregon State University. I made it a point all through my collegiate experience to make a trip at least once a year back to that teacher to let him know how I'm progressing.:] I've always been that type of person though.. tell me I can't do it.. I'll prove you wrong.
How are they connecting now to the internet? If the modem users are already using the telephone lines, isn't that already being taken care of by the TelCo? Why charge again when they're already paying once for the modem connection?
I totally agree with that.. management does put on pressure to get products out the door, which in turn is pressured by marketing.. or lack thereof.. IMHO it tends to always be a case of not clear communication between pertinant(sp?) parties which leads to the ultimate demise of a lot of products.
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Another example of this is at:
http://www.internetcds.com/afn/
Ashland, OR is doing that very thing, bringing fibre access to everyone in the community at very attractive prices.
Sounds like an FCC problem to me, not Phillips.
I agree with the 90%/10% ratio of bandwidth usage for people who are using it for file sharing versus more legitimate means, However, that doesn't say that I agree with limiting the available resources to students. In an ideal educational setting, I see that resources are just an afterthought to the main purpose of experimenting and creating new ideas and frontiers. What about those few hackers that are sitting at terminals, thinking of ways to bring high quality content to the masses? Intertwining video with embedded code? Watermarking audio to encapsulate neilson-esque ratings? These sorts of ideas need high bandwidth to experiment with because you never know what the future will hold if you allow the resources to be there for them.
I'm going to a hockey game that happens every year on this night. We (the Portland Winterhawks http://www.winterhawks.com ) always play our arch rivals, the Seattle Thunderbirds, and recently they've taken to broadcasting the home games for the winterhawks online. If you're web surfing, and want to see some excellent Major/Minor (WHL) hockey, feel free to stop by tonight (7:30 pm PST) and check out the webcast!
Over clock the bi*ch
There's also a similiar initiative in Seattle, WA (of course) where apartments are being outfitted with dedicated 100Mbit connections, VOD setups and multiple OC3's to the apartment complex's.
of course the majority of the network doesn't exist in the US.. since it's a european network.. it's like saying that China doesn't exist in the US.. it doesn't, except for the embassies and the spies..
but what were those two US connections I saw on the GEAN network (sorry I don't have that funny looking G on it.. I'm too lazy to hit my character map to copy and paste it) US1 and US2? looks like someone's leeching off of my adsl.. funny, there's a 10GB/s backbone growing out of my dsl connection!
Look at what you do for fun, and find a profession in that. I've always messed with computers during all my life, and that's what I quickly realized I should get into once I reached college and I realized that I could get a bit of money doing what I enjoyed.
Maybe it'll be made like the game in that move "The Last Starfighter" and if you score really high, big black suburbans will swoop down on your home
and they'll whisk you away to become the next virtual war commander. I can see it now, some 15 year old behind a monitor barking orders to our military.
I have run into the a similar problem with Dell's tech support. My parents just gave me one of their old laptops to do development on, and yes, it is out of warranty. However, I upgraded the machine to a new OS and it stopped supporting an extra battery that I had for it. So I contacted their tech support.
The person contacted me back and pointed me to a BIOS update to use in Win95 (I was running Win98SE on the machine), and thinking that updating a BIOS is just the same as on a desktop, I ran the util. Lo and behold, it fried the BIOS and the computer now refuses to boot. (My guess is that the BIOS update util had something tweaked for the specific OS, and the update util didn't work correctly in Win98).
Anyways, I contacted Dell support again, and told the guy what happened, he told me to use a different BIOS update utility (this one was for Win98), but didn't understand that my computer refused to even acknowledge the BIOS its self anymore and needed to have the chip replaced.
I emailed him back about the discrepency between the emails, noted that yes, a BIOS update shouldn't be dependent on the OS involved, HOWEVER, when I used the first util he directed me to (and in his first response he said he totally understood my email) it ruined my BIOS and the computer wasn't functional anymore. He then said that I could send the computer in for repairs and since it wasn't under warranty, it'd cost $900 to repair. (the computer is probably worth $300, citing EBay auctions). I coughed and said no, this was their issue since they misdirected me to a wrong utility and it had ruined my computer, it didn't matter if it was under warranty or not.
I keep emailing them at least 3 times a week forwarding my last response, and they don't answer back anymore. I'm wondering if there are many others in this predicament, many enough to where we can slap a class action for undersupporting their products?
no.. but it's one application of all the skills I have gathered, other than you to hide behind a mask and hurl insults. That takes no balls and 1 second to do.
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That's why they make post-bacc degrees and courses. A 4 year degree gives you a basis, the following studies will give you a good focus. Overall, a 4 year university degree will outweigh a technical school education (ITT) or AA degree and such. With a full university degree, you are exposed to many more situations and surroundings than if you just focused on one topic. Now, I don't know about you, but for those people whom went to ITT to get that "web developer" certificate, and has now joined the ranks of the dot.gone, they either a) have to go back for a different degree in another specialized field b) or else go for the full fledged thing c) or work at Starbucks.
I did my 4 years, and another 2 years on post-bacc work in my field (Comp Sci), and right now I am working for a medical billing company taking their whole application from DOS based to a winblows based application, all through black-box exposure. I can say that all facets of my education are being put to the test, analytical, quanitative and communication in all aspects.
If all I knew was how to make the mouse hit the button, it'd take a miracle for anything to coalesce. So no, I don't think that my 4+ years were a waste, because I know that if this job disappears from me, I have the necessary background to traverse many different fields of work.
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An addenum to this utility suggestion of yours would be an interesting research project to see which ip's are generally used and for what purpose, and what others are usually kept vacant by networks. Could help in the protection of networks and also help hackers :/
*boop* It just went off the radar.. Hello? Echelon? Are you listening?
While I'm on this trip remembering the AppleII and all, Oregon Trail was another good one. RPG type game about hitting the trail out to Oregon. Simple Graphics, simple text, easy for a child to learn and pretty entertaining.. heh
Try the old appleII game called "Rocky's Boots" yes.. I was a geek child, but my dad put me infront of that game (GUI based and it teaches logic, with some fun puzzles) and it sure payed off when I was taking discrete structures in college.. ;]
Not like this is really an "ingenious" thought.. it's just a jscript timer and a category for each page that's present on the page, and keeping track on when that page is on top or not.
oh, and about another comment concerning keyboard shortcuts.. that can be defeated by either a) the programmer disabling the shortcut for the page or b) keeping track on when the page is entered/left and doing a popup or redirection then..
programming isn't that difficult, it's the brains behind the code that matters
My parents and my older sister all have Anthro work areas.. They are definitely of high quality and great design, albeit a big expensive. (my older sister got a main desk and a raiser and another component for just under $1gUSD (ugh)) But delivery was fast, and the people there are very amiable. I also reccomend these people if you have some cash to blow.
I'm just saying at least they have the juevos to address real world problems.. CBS just whores themselves out
At least MTV had the chutzpah to follow up on incidents like this with a PSA of somekind or a show addressing the issues. Just like typical big networks.. instead of doing a responsible thing, they tuck their tails and hide behind a lawyers words.
I just recently held this discussion with a friend on IRC.. basically he made a comment on how he doesn't mind paying for access to some of ign's features, due to the fact that better quality is offered to him. For example, 640x480 game trailers and the ilk.. to me, that makes more sense... Pay for higher quality, not quantity.
maybe they'll build in a cool feature that will make a pair of them act like a defibrillator in case of emergency
When I was in high school I also worked on the side 20 hours/week and was busy with playing soccer for the high school, so a lot of free extracurricular time was put towards those, and unlike the others in the CS major, I didn't put that time towards the many science clubs that were available after school. My teacher didn't like this, and basically told me that I would never be good at computers, and if I wanted to achieve decent grades, I should vacate his class. (which I did, went into architecture and got A's in there instead).
But this is the kicker, I've been using computers since I was about 4 (I'm 24 now), and computers were just natural to me. So once I went into college, I persued my CS degree in spite of that previous high school teacher.
I graduated with a BS in CS and am right now persuing my Masters in CS at Oregon State University. I made it a point all through my collegiate experience to make a trip at least once a year back to that teacher to let him know how I'm progressing. :] I've always been that type of person though.. tell me I can't do it.. I'll prove you wrong.
How are they connecting now to the internet? If the modem users are already using the telephone lines, isn't that already being taken care of by the TelCo? Why charge again when they're already paying once for the modem connection?
I totally agree with that.. management does put on pressure to get products out the door, which in turn is pressured by marketing.. or lack thereof.. IMHO it tends to always be a case of not clear communication between pertinant(sp?) parties which leads to the ultimate demise of a lot of products.