I thought it was only me! It's goofy that slashdot maxes out my cpu and freezed my browser every time I open an article in a new tab. You'd think for a geek website they'd figure this out.
Reading slashdot causes my laptop fan to go b/c of all the gook javascript. Everytime I open an article in a new window the whole computer goes nuts and browser bogs down for about 10 seconds. Grumble. (This is latest version of FF on a reasonably new Toshiba laptop). It also happens on my thinkpad. Just me?
Indeed. We could use another analogy (cars of course). If I turn the headlights off on my car at the exact same time (to an observer) as someone in China turns on their lights, we wouldn't say that the "headlights" moved faster than light, moving from my car to his car. Ditto for a laser pointer moving around on the moon.
Probably you'd need to put the wireless network onto a different interface to the Windows DHCP server and serve a different set of data to that interface. I haven't used Win DHCP server in a while though, so it's possible it can handle other strategies too.
I search Google all the time and get MS knowledge base articles coming up frequently as well as links to other parts of their site. So, no, MS is not blocking Google from their site. Your search probably just had more relevant first page links from other sites, for whatever reasons.
"I'm looking forward to an Android-powered toaster oven any day now... This is the most benign [item] on this list, and it's only here because now everyone and their brother is going to make a new "Android-powered" device."
It doesn't sound like a serious gripe to me. It sounds like you're referring to his gripe #8 "Platform Fragmentation" -- that is a serious gripe and makes the argument you describe.
My experience is that junior coders are not aware of all the environmental resources they have available, and so they tend to write it themselves, not to prove mad skillz, but b/c they don't know about all the tools they can leverage in their environment (be it windows, unix or whatever).
I've been approached by vendors on the floor of many trade shows - not while at their booth but while looking at another product. It's a good way to find people who might be interested in your stuff. And I've also been invited to attend off-site events while on the floor of a convention.
I agree that a lot of vendors also take advantage of their customers and potential customers all being in the same place at the same time, to convene them at after-hours parties and events, with invitations issued ahead of time.
CES doesn't have the moral right to kick you out of your hotel room - but it appears that they have sufficient influence to do so. I'm not saying it was right - but it appears they did it, and unless big media picks the story up, they'll probably get away with it.
These vendors are probably registered at CES as customers rather than getting a booth. They probably have staff wandering around on the floor picking up clients and taking them back to their hotel room. Kind of like high-tech hookers, I guess.
CES doesn't like customers stealing other customers - they want those customers on the floor looking at the booths that bigger vendors paid big dollars for.
That's like arguing that tech companies are getting a "free ride" by basing themselves in Silicon Valley. Or that retail stores are getting a free ride by opening shops on Main St alongside all the other stores.
The problem in the story is that CES didn't establish and publicize a policy that "satellite events" were not permitted in hotels they were booking. Why didn't they publicize this? Because it's terrible publicity of course. But they seem happy to enforce it - and other than slashdot this will probably get very little play, so it is probably a smart strategy.
Exactly. Mod parent up! This is similar to something Vegas should understand well: the pre-games for the World Series of Poker - people who don't have $10k to stake on the main event, play a satellite tournament in advance with a $1k stake, and if they win, they get their $10k stake for the big time..
I agree, but remember this is Vegas. Normally to get kicked out of a hotel room, there is a "guests bill of right" which you list pretty effectively.
But Vegas runs by Vegas' rules. I think the concept that a Vegas hotel will ask a business or person to leave the premises b/c a more important patron doesn't want them there is time honored. Regardless of whether the first party is a customer or not. In that sense I don't think this story is new information on the underlying problem, but it's still aggravating.
Why does HughesNet have to limit traffic for their existing (very limited) customerbase if a single sat could support nationwide traffic for hundreds of millions of customers? Is it a spectrum issue - if a single sat were given more spectrum to downlink, it could support more users?
How many satellites would you need to support this kind of national bandwidth? Plus, who wants 2mbs sat bandwidth? It blows. 500ms minimum ping time? Ugh.
It's not hard for them to grasp. They understand it all too well. The problem is while it's a macro-economically positive force, it means higher levels of competition and lower margins for individual players. So they fight regulation to keep their margins high, even though it's at the expense the larger marketplace.
Having the gov't run the network would be a nightmare. They could sub it out, but then what's the point? FCC estimated in Sept 09 that it could cost as much as $350M to build out fiber to home across the US.
Your idea is actually well supported in the public record comments on the Broadband plan (see particularly Public Notice #15 for the Broadband plan on the FCC website) (no link b/c I'm lazy). They might just do something like you describe for schools. And incidentally libraries already permit this, but they don't have enough bandwidth to satisfy customers.
Congress funded this as part of ARRA and put a hard deadline on it in the legislation. As it turns out, having a hard deadline is a good thing, b/c it forces all the political monkeys to do their craziness within a fixed window of time. Political monkeys will swing from the branches, chatter and eat bananas for as long as you let them, so a deadline is really valuable for this type of work.
You have no idea how close you are. The FCC building in DC had a very slow connection up until about a month ago. Now it's a relatively zippy 8mbs (same as home cable service mind you). But it was sub 1-mbps before that which was a joke for downloading even moderately sized PDF's.
Besides the ad's, using a PC means they can reduce the complexity/cost of the femotcell device. Making it dumber and offloading work to the PC means fewer components and cheaper to fab.
This minijack-to-FM transmitters operate at a low enough power rating so as not qualify as a true FM transmitter. That's why you can't pick up their signal much more than 6-10 feet away.
This product appears to be different from the late night "Magic Jack!" product you're referring to. This is a femtocell "mini-tower" that allows cell phones to connect to the VOIP provider on the other end of the magic jack tower - so you wouldn't be limited to land lines with this new product.
I had a strange experience recently. I installed a scratch copy of Chrome and tried to load my Gmail account. The thing hangs. I updated to the latest beta, still hangs. Firefox loads my account fine. I was already to switch (adthwart seemed good enough, and there's a mouse gestures app that works well enough), but strangely chrome won't run my gmail account. I have no idea what's wrong. And my experience with Google support is that there isn't any: "Try the forums" is all you get (along with a link to groups.google.com)..
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I thought it was only me! It's goofy that slashdot maxes out my cpu and freezed my browser every time I open an article in a new tab. You'd think for a geek website they'd figure this out.
Reading slashdot causes my laptop fan to go b/c of all the gook javascript. Everytime I open an article in a new window the whole computer goes nuts and browser bogs down for about 10 seconds. Grumble. (This is latest version of FF on a reasonably new Toshiba laptop). It also happens on my thinkpad. Just me?
Indeed. We could use another analogy (cars of course). If I turn the headlights off on my car at the exact same time (to an observer) as someone in China turns on their lights, we wouldn't say that the "headlights" moved faster than light, moving from my car to his car. Ditto for a laser pointer moving around on the moon.
Probably you'd need to put the wireless network onto a different interface to the Windows DHCP server and serve a different set of data to that interface. I haven't used Win DHCP server in a while though, so it's possible it can handle other strategies too.
I search Google all the time and get MS knowledge base articles coming up frequently as well as links to other parts of their site. So, no, MS is not blocking Google from their site. Your search probably just had more relevant first page links from other sites, for whatever reasons.
Huh?
"I'm looking forward to an Android-powered toaster oven any day now... This is the most benign [item] on this list, and it's only here because now everyone and their brother is going to make a new "Android-powered" device."
It doesn't sound like a serious gripe to me. It sounds like you're referring to his gripe #8 "Platform Fragmentation" -- that is a serious gripe and makes the argument you describe.
fwiw.
My experience is that junior coders are not aware of all the environmental resources they have available, and so they tend to write it themselves, not to prove mad skillz, but b/c they don't know about all the tools they can leverage in their environment (be it windows, unix or whatever).
He was using irony on that point, and a few others. The article isn't as horrible as you might think.
I've been approached by vendors on the floor of many trade shows - not while at their booth but while looking at another product. It's a good way to find people who might be interested in your stuff. And I've also been invited to attend off-site events while on the floor of a convention.
I agree that a lot of vendors also take advantage of their customers and potential customers all being in the same place at the same time, to convene them at after-hours parties and events, with invitations issued ahead of time.
CES doesn't have the moral right to kick you out of your hotel room - but it appears that they have sufficient influence to do so. I'm not saying it was right - but it appears they did it, and unless big media picks the story up, they'll probably get away with it.
These vendors are probably registered at CES as customers rather than getting a booth. They probably have staff wandering around on the floor picking up clients and taking them back to their hotel room. Kind of like high-tech hookers, I guess.
CES doesn't like customers stealing other customers - they want those customers on the floor looking at the booths that bigger vendors paid big dollars for.
That's like arguing that tech companies are getting a "free ride" by basing themselves in Silicon Valley. Or that retail stores are getting a free ride by opening shops on Main St alongside all the other stores.
The problem in the story is that CES didn't establish and publicize a policy that "satellite events" were not permitted in hotels they were booking. Why didn't they publicize this? Because it's terrible publicity of course. But they seem happy to enforce it - and other than slashdot this will probably get very little play, so it is probably a smart strategy.
Exactly. Mod parent up! This is similar to something Vegas should understand well: the pre-games for the World Series of Poker - people who don't have $10k to stake on the main event, play a satellite tournament in advance with a $1k stake, and if they win, they get their $10k stake for the big time..
I agree, but remember this is Vegas. Normally to get kicked out of a hotel room, there is a "guests bill of right" which you list pretty effectively.
But Vegas runs by Vegas' rules. I think the concept that a Vegas hotel will ask a business or person to leave the premises b/c a more important patron doesn't want them there is time honored. Regardless of whether the first party is a customer or not. In that sense I don't think this story is new information on the underlying problem, but it's still aggravating.
Why does HughesNet have to limit traffic for their existing (very limited) customerbase if a single sat could support nationwide traffic for hundreds of millions of customers? Is it a spectrum issue - if a single sat were given more spectrum to downlink, it could support more users?
How many satellites would you need to support this kind of national bandwidth? Plus, who wants 2mbs sat bandwidth? It blows. 500ms minimum ping time? Ugh.
It's not hard for them to grasp. They understand it all too well. The problem is while it's a macro-economically positive force, it means higher levels of competition and lower margins for individual players. So they fight regulation to keep their margins high, even though it's at the expense the larger marketplace.
Having the gov't run the network would be a nightmare. They could sub it out, but then what's the point? FCC estimated in Sept 09 that it could cost as much as $350M to build out fiber to home across the US.
Your idea is actually well supported in the public record comments on the Broadband plan (see particularly Public Notice #15 for the Broadband plan on the FCC website) (no link b/c I'm lazy). They might just do something like you describe for schools. And incidentally libraries already permit this, but they don't have enough bandwidth to satisfy customers.
Congress funded this as part of ARRA and put a hard deadline on it in the legislation. As it turns out, having a hard deadline is a good thing, b/c it forces all the political monkeys to do their craziness within a fixed window of time. Political monkeys will swing from the branches, chatter and eat bananas for as long as you let them, so a deadline is really valuable for this type of work.
The FCC will deliver a plan before March 18th - this isn't something they can delay more than once, given the direct Congressional oversight on this.
You have no idea how close you are. The FCC building in DC had a very slow connection up until about a month ago. Now it's a relatively zippy 8mbs (same as home cable service mind you). But it was sub 1-mbps before that which was a joke for downloading even moderately sized PDF's.
Besides the ad's, using a PC means they can reduce the complexity/cost of the femotcell device. Making it dumber and offloading work to the PC means fewer components and cheaper to fab.
This minijack-to-FM transmitters operate at a low enough power rating so as not qualify as a true FM transmitter. That's why you can't pick up their signal much more than 6-10 feet away.
This product appears to be different from the late night "Magic Jack!" product you're referring to. This is a femtocell "mini-tower" that allows cell phones to connect to the VOIP provider on the other end of the magic jack tower - so you wouldn't be limited to land lines with this new product.
I had a strange experience recently. I installed a scratch copy of Chrome and tried to load my Gmail account. The thing hangs. I updated to the latest beta, still hangs. Firefox loads my account fine. I was already to switch (adthwart seemed good enough, and there's a mouse gestures app that works well enough), but strangely chrome won't run my gmail account. I have no idea what's wrong. And my experience with Google support is that there isn't any: "Try the forums" is all you get (along with a link to groups.google.com)..