Having worked for a Tel Co and ISP's.. and having delt with (but never worked for) a number of Cable Co's.. I can say a couple of things.. firstly, Cable Co's don't seem to have the nessecary mind set or infrastructure to provide allways-on service. A Tel Co (at least in Canada) is bound by federal law to have less then a certain amount of down time a year in there Public Switching Network (like 99.8% uptime) and because of this seem to have gotten use to the idea of making things work all the time.. never fail.. or at least never fail to the user. When was the last time you picked up your phone and didn't have dial tone (due to the phone company), when was the last time your cable went out?? Kinda scary..:) I think ISP's and Cable Co's are going to have to learn how to provide services comparable to Tel Co's. Not that I'm saying that Tel Co's are perfect.. but from a service availability stand point.. they seem to have a better track record.. for now.
The day they announced when Star Wars, episode I was opening I asked for the day off from work.. I've since had to change it..:( But.. I plan on lining up for tickets..:) Ted
Why does Intel wants to add a SID to there CPU? They say it's for E-Commerce.. and maybe in some ways it is.. but from my point of view, I think one of the biggest things this SID will be used for is to License software.. Sun/HP/IBM/SGI/DEC all the unix companys have them and use them to aid in the licensing of software. I dunno.. call me crazy.. but I'd be willing to bet this would be the place you'll see it first.. no more dongles.. or stupid license disks.. just s License key, coded to you SID and only your SID.. it's still not perfect.. but much better and cheaper then some other solutions. *shrug* just a thought..
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Having worked for a Tel Co and ISP's.. and having delt with (but never worked for) a number of Cable Co's.. I can say a couple of things.. firstly, Cable Co's don't seem to have the nessecary mind set or infrastructure to provide allways-on service. A Tel Co (at least in Canada) is bound by federal law to have less then a certain amount of down time a year in there Public Switching Network (like 99.8% uptime) and because of this seem to have gotten use to the idea of making things work all the time.. never fail.. or at least never fail to the user. When was the last time you picked up your phone and didn't have dial tone (due to the phone company), when was the last time your cable went out?? Kinda scary.. :) I think ISP's and Cable Co's are going to have to learn how to provide services comparable to Tel Co's. Not that I'm saying that Tel Co's are perfect.. but from a service availability stand point.. they seem to have a better track record.. for now.
The day they announced when Star Wars, episode I was opening I asked for the day off from work.. I've since had to change it.. :( But.. I plan on lining up for tickets.. :) Ted
Why does Intel wants to add a SID to there CPU? They say it's for E-Commerce.. and maybe in some ways it is.. but from my point of view, I think one of the biggest things this SID will be used for is to License software.. Sun/HP/IBM/SGI/DEC all the unix companys have them and use them to aid in the licensing of software. I dunno.. call me crazy.. but I'd be willing to bet this would be the place you'll see it first.. no more dongles.. or stupid license disks.. just s License key, coded to you SID and only your SID.. it's still not perfect.. but much better and cheaper then some other solutions. *shrug* just a thought..
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