Ah yes, Bell. The other Canadian shit provider. The company that decided to throttle all the ISP's that they rent their network too claiming that it was required because the network is at maximum... about a whole week before they launched their web streaming video service. Generally when your network is at the breaking point, you don't fix it by putting a shit load of more data on it.
The really sad part is that they want to sell you a super fast Internet connection but they sure as hell don't want you to use it. Most ISP's are slapping bandwidth caps which are all over the place. I believe comcast has a 250GB cap which is fair but I'm on Rogers (up in Canada) with a shitty low cap of 60 GB's. That's probably fine for most people but I actually use the internet so I need to be careful. It's just more deceit to get you to pay more for less.
If a few users could actually bring the network down with high usage, then the network itself is shit and can't support the product they are selling. During an actual unplanned event like the balloon boy or 9/11 or anything that gathers national attention thousands of people take and upload photos, video and text to website as the events unfold in addition to making actual phone calls about said events. If an actual emergency can prompt the fall of a network preventing me from calling 911 about an emergency, then the said company is endangering lives just to not spend money on network upgrades. This protest won't even be noticed by the network admins let alone be a fraction of a real peak of data usage.
In defense of the Tv shows, how are they supposed to know how loud the show should be? The producers aren't given copies of the commercials beforehand; it's not like they know ahead of time.
Before everyone begins assuming some sinister plot, maybe we should just stop and think a moment. The producers wants everyone to hear the details, so they just aim a bit low, so that it will always be heard among the explosions. It's better than the alternative, where shows are too loud to be appreciated, because then... enough of this stupidity. I hope you get the point of how fucking stupid of an argument you just made is. It's up to the tv networks to normalize the audio of everything it broadcasts, tv show or commercial. We pay millions to subscribe to high quality (signal wise) programing and we are rewarded with more crap thrown at us to get us to buy more shit.
Lots of people have more than 2 or three computers, but hardly anyone sends large files back n forth. Just because you and you Slashdot friends all push gigs of data over your network, doesn't mean everyone does. Most people only use a network so all of their computer can go online, that's it. Some of them will venture into printer sharing and maybe a few for network storage or backup but that is the extent of it. Go hang out in future shop and stand next to the wireless routers and see what regular customers are saying. They are buying N routers because they must be "better" because they are more expensive and they expect the internet to go faster, which it won't. Hardly anyone will say, "I have a media server that I stream from..."
Many companies see the on-call issue as analogous to a fire fighter's job. Most of the time, a fire fighter is off-duty but on call, hanging around the firehouse, cooking, sleeping, or whatever. What that person really gets paid for is the relatively small, but crucial, amount of time he spends walking into a burning building with an ax. A webmaster, likewise, has slow times and busy times.'"
Fire fighters may not be paid over time, but they are given their own fire hall to use. In that they usually have a lot of entertainment like tv's with cable and DVD's to watch. Usually there is a ping pong table or maybe even a pool table or other gaming platforms. They get beds to sleep in and a whole kitchen to use to cook what ever they want.
Now you want your IT guy to be on call 24/7, what exactly have you given him to be happy? What perks do they enjoy for their services?
How many techs are thinking about the vending machine and microwave they have been living on that are wondering if they should have been fire fighters instead?
What a complete waste of time, money and resources. They will spend a few years deciding on parameters, spending money on consultants for a few more years, spend more money building a center somewhere, hiring and training agents, millions on hardware and proprietary software, once it is done, another year to get it to actually work, then when it's running there will be a rash of false alarms and confusion, clarification on when children should use the system, millions spent on an informational campaign educating the public on how to correctly use the system all before the system is scraped entirely and called a big waste of money and a complete failure.
How about taking that $1,000,000,000 and throw it at R&D or buy the hardware to offer a service people actually want instead of just trying to buy customers. If you need to pay your customers to use your services then your services don't offer anything of value.
It's Danger's services that did fail but T-Mobil is selling those services. If your selling it, you think someone in the chain would know how everything works. I'm not talking about a sub system failing like an outsourced payroll company, this is what T-Mobile does. If I pay you for a service, I'm going to damn well know what exactly how your going to provide me with said service, especially if the business depends on it. If they inquired properly and understood the system, T-Mobile could have said, that's not good enough or went with another provider.
Think of it this way, you need to take your kid to daycare, do you just drop them off at the first one you find? The cheapest one? No, You find a good one, you go in and meet the owners and explore the place. If oyu see knifes laying around you don't say, "Well if my kid gets cut it will be their fault."
Generally I'm saying there is plenty of fault to go around.
It could have easily have been prevented. Let me ask why the fuck no data was stored locally??? Why the hell do I need to connect to the network and download a contact that should be stored locally and always accessible regardless if I have a signal or not? You want your data in the cloud? That's fine but that means more than one copy and data synchronization. One copy on your device and one on their servers. That is just poor design or another CEO decision to just use the servers because it's cheaper.
You need an account to submit applications do you not? Just look at how many submissions are made under each account. If the account has lots of titles and no applications or lots of tiny do nothing, similar sized programs, purge and ban.
I regularly pick up supplies at a hardware store and I know just about the entire staff. Most are friendly to a degree except this one guy. He's a surly rough looking bastard but man does he know where everything is. Guess who I go to when I pick up my order. I don't care who is pissing him off that day but all that matters is that I have my order. Nothing more irritating than smiles and apologies as they are trying to figure out where item x is stored even though they have worked there for a few years now and still won't remember the next time I need more. Maybe I prefer that because I pride myself on competence and skill.
This isn't about some gamers buying their way to the top ranks of a game. This is about a business finding ways to stay profitable. People are willing to pay money to play a game because it's fun. If players can buy their way to the top is no longer becomes fun for those that can't or won't pay to compete with them. If a game is no longer fun the the players won't pay any more and leave. And there you go. A business destroyed because a few people need to be at the top to gloat even if they needed to pay to get there.
Well that was disappointing, I was hoping to see images of each version of the Windows logo to show how it evolved, not just a quick description of it with only the latest logo shown. Then the same for Apple and any other company that has gone through years of growth and change. Basically you could have put all the logos on one page and said, "Hey, look at these!" and you would still come away with the same thing.
One big problem is no one asks what they are protecting. I worked at a call center (yes it was shitty) and I had a password to log on to the computer, a password to log into the phone system, a password to log into the call log system, and if I did email support another password for that. All cycled monthly. 4 constantly changing passwords all to prevent someone else from doing my job? What a waste of time. I didn't have access to personal information, no power to authorize free stuff, the only reason someone could have to use my account was to screw me over and try to get me fired. (Which I would have loved by the end of it)
A lot of security could be eliminated if people ask what they are trying to protect and make things a lot easier for those that actually need access.
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Ah yes, Bell. The other Canadian shit provider. The company that decided to throttle all the ISP's that they rent their network too claiming that it was required because the network is at maximum... about a whole week before they launched their web streaming video service. Generally when your network is at the breaking point, you don't fix it by putting a shit load of more data on it.
The really sad part is that they want to sell you a super fast Internet connection but they sure as hell don't want you to use it. Most ISP's are slapping bandwidth caps which are all over the place. I believe comcast has a 250GB cap which is fair but I'm on Rogers (up in Canada) with a shitty low cap of 60 GB's. That's probably fine for most people but I actually use the internet so I need to be careful. It's just more deceit to get you to pay more for less.
If you get rid of the porn, what do you need the internet for?
Depends on the size of stain.
What the hell is that?
It will probably be found, Tiger has been putting it in every hole he can.
If a few users could actually bring the network down with high usage, then the network itself is shit and can't support the product they are selling. During an actual unplanned event like the balloon boy or 9/11 or anything that gathers national attention thousands of people take and upload photos, video and text to website as the events unfold in addition to making actual phone calls about said events. If an actual emergency can prompt the fall of a network preventing me from calling 911 about an emergency, then the said company is endangering lives just to not spend money on network upgrades. This protest won't even be noticed by the network admins let alone be a fraction of a real peak of data usage.
In defense of the Tv shows, how are they supposed to know how loud the show should be? The producers aren't given copies of the commercials beforehand; it's not like they know ahead of time. Before everyone begins assuming some sinister plot, maybe we should just stop and think a moment. The producers wants everyone to hear the details, so they just aim a bit low, so that it will always be heard among the explosions. It's better than the alternative, where shows are too loud to be appreciated, because then... enough of this stupidity. I hope you get the point of how fucking stupid of an argument you just made is. It's up to the tv networks to normalize the audio of everything it broadcasts, tv show or commercial. We pay millions to subscribe to high quality (signal wise) programing and we are rewarded with more crap thrown at us to get us to buy more shit.
I guess the RIAA and MPAA boycott is going really well. Keep it up guys.
Lots of people have more than 2 or three computers, but hardly anyone sends large files back n forth. Just because you and you Slashdot friends all push gigs of data over your network, doesn't mean everyone does. Most people only use a network so all of their computer can go online, that's it. Some of them will venture into printer sharing and maybe a few for network storage or backup but that is the extent of it. Go hang out in future shop and stand next to the wireless routers and see what regular customers are saying. They are buying N routers because they must be "better" because they are more expensive and they expect the internet to go faster, which it won't. Hardly anyone will say, "I have a media server that I stream from..."
Many companies see the on-call issue as analogous to a fire fighter's job. Most of the time, a fire fighter is off-duty but on call, hanging around the firehouse, cooking, sleeping, or whatever. What that person really gets paid for is the relatively small, but crucial, amount of time he spends walking into a burning building with an ax. A webmaster, likewise, has slow times and busy times.'"
Fire fighters may not be paid over time, but they are given their own fire hall to use. In that they usually have a lot of entertainment like tv's with cable and DVD's to watch. Usually there is a ping pong table or maybe even a pool table or other gaming platforms. They get beds to sleep in and a whole kitchen to use to cook what ever they want. Now you want your IT guy to be on call 24/7, what exactly have you given him to be happy? What perks do they enjoy for their services? How many techs are thinking about the vending machine and microwave they have been living on that are wondering if they should have been fire fighters instead?
What a complete waste of time, money and resources. They will spend a few years deciding on parameters, spending money on consultants for a few more years, spend more money building a center somewhere, hiring and training agents, millions on hardware and proprietary software, once it is done, another year to get it to actually work, then when it's running there will be a rash of false alarms and confusion, clarification on when children should use the system, millions spent on an informational campaign educating the public on how to correctly use the system all before the system is scraped entirely and called a big waste of money and a complete failure.
Mmmmm... Pie internets....
How about taking that $1,000,000,000 and throw it at R&D or buy the hardware to offer a service people actually want instead of just trying to buy customers. If you need to pay your customers to use your services then your services don't offer anything of value.
It's Danger's services that did fail but T-Mobil is selling those services. If your selling it, you think someone in the chain would know how everything works. I'm not talking about a sub system failing like an outsourced payroll company, this is what T-Mobile does. If I pay you for a service, I'm going to damn well know what exactly how your going to provide me with said service, especially if the business depends on it. If they inquired properly and understood the system, T-Mobile could have said, that's not good enough or went with another provider. Think of it this way, you need to take your kid to daycare, do you just drop them off at the first one you find? The cheapest one? No, You find a good one, you go in and meet the owners and explore the place. If oyu see knifes laying around you don't say, "Well if my kid gets cut it will be their fault." Generally I'm saying there is plenty of fault to go around.
It could have easily have been prevented. Let me ask why the fuck no data was stored locally??? Why the hell do I need to connect to the network and download a contact that should be stored locally and always accessible regardless if I have a signal or not? You want your data in the cloud? That's fine but that means more than one copy and data synchronization. One copy on your device and one on their servers. That is just poor design or another CEO decision to just use the servers because it's cheaper.
You need an account to submit applications do you not? Just look at how many submissions are made under each account. If the account has lots of titles and no applications or lots of tiny do nothing, similar sized programs, purge and ban.
I regularly pick up supplies at a hardware store and I know just about the entire staff. Most are friendly to a degree except this one guy. He's a surly rough looking bastard but man does he know where everything is. Guess who I go to when I pick up my order. I don't care who is pissing him off that day but all that matters is that I have my order. Nothing more irritating than smiles and apologies as they are trying to figure out where item x is stored even though they have worked there for a few years now and still won't remember the next time I need more. Maybe I prefer that because I pride myself on competence and skill.
And you wish you though of it first.
This isn't about some gamers buying their way to the top ranks of a game. This is about a business finding ways to stay profitable. People are willing to pay money to play a game because it's fun. If players can buy their way to the top is no longer becomes fun for those that can't or won't pay to compete with them. If a game is no longer fun the the players won't pay any more and leave. And there you go. A business destroyed because a few people need to be at the top to gloat even if they needed to pay to get there.
I'm not your guy, friend...
Well that was disappointing, I was hoping to see images of each version of the Windows logo to show how it evolved, not just a quick description of it with only the latest logo shown. Then the same for Apple and any other company that has gone through years of growth and change. Basically you could have put all the logos on one page and said, "Hey, look at these!" and you would still come away with the same thing.
One big problem is no one asks what they are protecting. I worked at a call center (yes it was shitty) and I had a password to log on to the computer, a password to log into the phone system, a password to log into the call log system, and if I did email support another password for that. All cycled monthly. 4 constantly changing passwords all to prevent someone else from doing my job? What a waste of time. I didn't have access to personal information, no power to authorize free stuff, the only reason someone could have to use my account was to screw me over and try to get me fired. (Which I would have loved by the end of it) A lot of security could be eliminated if people ask what they are trying to protect and make things a lot easier for those that actually need access.