I agree that proxy use is smart on the part of the ISP to manage their bandwidth usage. Unfortunately, I don't think a proxy server will solve for the bandwidth issue this time. The entertainment companies want their content protected (ala DRM) meaning that each video will be a unique file and serves no purpose being cached on a proxy server. These requirements are at odds with easing network traffic by using cache servers.
While I can agree that a UNIX sys admins skills should not be focused on Word, that is one of the format that companies use. While I bet many of the companies that hire the sys admin might not really care, most recruiters/head hunters want the word doc. They are going to put their header on top of your resume before passing it on to a company. So in the end I don't think it's a waste or unessecary to have a resume in Word that looks presentable.
I am a Veriozon FiOS user and before that I was a DSL user. I prefered the DSL over cable because I think it is easier to saturate the cable than DSL. With that being said I never got near the quoted bandwidth and I chalked it up to the 40+ year old phone lines that went from the house to the telco boxes. It was a limitation of the DSL technology.
So when Verizon came around with FiOS installations, I jumped on board because of the better bandwidth and the new lines they put in my neighborhood. I've done a couple speed tests and I'm a lot closer to the quoted bandwidth than I was with DSL. When I feel a page is slow it is either because of bad HTML or degraded response from the website's server.
I'm still waiting to hear more about TV from Verizon, but I'm pretty sure they are planning to provide that to the FiOS customers only. Though your probably right that the perceived bandwidth with go down at your desktop if your using the FiOS to do downloads for your TV. Yet your probably still getting close to your 5Mb/sec. The flip side to this is the fact that with TV downloads, customers will using their pipes a lot more than just normal internet usage.
Mostly because I wrote the code about 2 years ago and have not paid much attention to SVG since then. A quick google and I found out that I was using the wrong content type in the embed tag. The map should now work just fine in Firefox 1.5.
I developered the IS Atlas and along with help from another keep the data updated.
If you have the SVG plugin, you can see the maps that I made on the site. Similar to those maps, I would like to have the ability to zoom in/out as well making the map point links to the planet's info.
This looks pretty cool. I didn't think you could use alternate maps with the Google Map API. I would love to do something similar for the BattleTech Universe. Would you mind giving pointers on how to get your own map setup for this?
P.S. Any other BTech players interested in trying to develop a Google Map for the Inner Sphere?
Since the site is/.'d, I can't see how my address ranks. For my home network, I use the private IPs from the 10 net. This allows me to have my wedding aniversary as the first 3 octets of the IP address.
I agree sharing does benifit us all. Unfortunately, drug companies seemed to be focused on maximizing the share price for the investors. In that light, does it make sense for a drug company to own part of a drug or all of a drug? Sharing profits on a drug will affect the company's bottom line. I think share holders and stock analysis would look less favorable on those companies. It's not about how better science can drive the drug industry, it's about how money drives the drug industry.
I think you're right that Apple's R&D costs will go down by using mostly intel chipsets. The only downside I can think of is that QA costs might go up. If Apple has/uses more chipsets in their computers, then they may need more computers to test on and take longer to QA releases. Either way I don't think the increase in QA costs will be any where nears the R&D costs savings.
With that being said, I don't that Apple will do more that 4 revisions to a product line in a year. Most likely we will see revisions every 6 months like clockwork.
Back in the 90s, I know Apple had some computers where partial upgrades where decent investments in prolonging the life of your computer. I have a PowerMac 7500, it had a processor slot for the CPU upgrades. I had 3 different CPUs in that computer (a 601, a 604 and a G3). The 7500 also had 8 memory slots and could address about 1GB of memory. Rarely did I take memory out to do the upgrade, you just kept adding.
In the time that has elapsed since then CPU speeds are way out of sync with the speeds of the motherboard. At this point, if you're buying a new CPU, a new motherboard is not far behind with new memory tagging along. It seems upgrades for a computer are down to video card, HD, optical drives and possibly memory. I put memory as a possible, because it seems that motherboards are shipping with less memory slots every year and people put in as much as they can when they get the motherboard.
The Cube is an interesting example and I agree that it is generally considered a failure. When the cube came out my wife's Performa was on it's last legs and we were thinking about an upgrade. The cube was given serious consideration, but the price compared to a regular PowerMac was a better buy to me. If the cube was the same or $100 less than a comparible PowerMac, I would have bought one for her. They tried to price it like it was a portable, when it's just a stripped down desktop. There are some price points even Apple's cool factor won't cover.
Well Farscape was on the Sci-Fi channel and not Fox. Though it seems half the shows I start to watch on Fox get canned. I figured House wouldn't last a season since I liked it and it's on Fox. If I was the creator of a TV show and Fox was interested, I would make sure my contract had a couple of clauses added. 1.) The show will always be aired in it's designated time slot unless approved by me. 2.) The episodes will air in the order I specify. Firefly was screwed by the first one and I feel "The Tick" was screwed by the second one.
I'm a long time mac user and I've had mix experiences at Apple stores. They do tend to get very crowded. When I bought my iBook and later an iPod Photo the experiences were good. I bought a Mac mini and it was painful for me. I went on the weeked (first mistake) and stood in line to buy one, when I get to the front they direct me to a guy on the floor. I didn't need help, that's why I stood in line and told you what I wanted when it was my turn.
I think the Apple Stores are a blessing and a curse. They are great for showing people that an alternative to Windows does exist and is easy for them to use. Since the store have started, the iPod has come out and now people don't need to be sold the kool-aid. I bet 75%+ of people walking into an Apple store for an iPod are already sold on it before they get there. The focus for these sales should be get them in and get them out. Up until this point, I don't think Apple store considered this type of customer.
As many people have pointed out there are a descriptions of why the game got the rating it did. The line between M (17+ years) and AO (18+ years) is pretty thin. That's why I think that game store chains not carring AO title is silly. My only revision to the current rating system would be to make a bigger difference between M and AO or drop M all together.
I want people to vote smarter. When I think of limited voting, I think of Heinlein's Starship Troopers where service in the military grants a person citizenship with the right to vote. No discrimination, as long as your willing to serve your country you get a say in it's direction. I'm not saying all my ideas are great and then one you truly dislike is the one I rejected cause I releasized it was wrong and didn't solve the problem I see. My problem is with greedy WASPs that should be well educated and know better. They vote for candidates that will make sure they can keep as much of their money as possible instead of contributing their fair share. My true suggestion was how to get better people into office by vetting them. At the high levels of government, I feel most are doing the minimum needed to keep them re-elected and grabbing as much power as they can.
I think the population in general is to stupid to govern itself. I thought that limiting the people that could vote would help the system. Unfortunately, I think to many minorities would be excluded and thus discriminating. This led to my second thought to how we elect more responsible representatives to government. All candidates should go through certification courses to indicate that they are qualified for the level of government that are trying to attain. This certification would include accounting and ethics training. To many people are being elected by telling you what you want to hear and not what you need to hear.
Our government is spending more than it takes in and it only looks worse as the baby-boomers get older. Yet the government is trying to make tax cuts permanment. The government either neds to do less or it raises taxes to cover the things it is trying to do.
Compared to the Dodge Intrepid I bought after I got out of college, my Honda Accord is a dream. On the Intrepid, I had to fix the transmission and cyclinder head gaskets within 5 years. Neither of which was cheap to do. In the 5 years I've had my Accord, my biggest expenses has been new tires and a new stereo. I replaced the stereo because I burnt out the laser by playing CDRs. Honda makes reliable cars, their used prices tend to be higher than most cars. I bought new because the warranty seemed to be worth the price difference to me.
Not all the mac clones were cheaper. If I remember correctly, Power Computing was overclocking their PPC chips or matching CPU speed bumps faster than Apple. The photoshop users who would pay for the extra power ended up buying from them instead of Apple. Thus Apple high end sales were also going to the clone makers. The 2nd/3rd gen of the Apple PPC macs were truly solid computers in their day. Those designs where given to the clone makers and they just put in better CPU cards faster than Apple could or would keep up with. The clone maker were eating away at Apple's profit line and the license fees didn't make up for it.
I acknowledge that having all their users hitting gmail every 60 seconds may tax their system a bit more than they would like. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with having some sort of open port on my computer that accepts new mail messages. Isn't this the first step for a new kind of worms/viruses for our computers?
I have a tivo and thought I would click through to see what happens. For me it breaks because I gave TiVo a different email address then I use for my Yahoo login. Changing the primary email on Yahoo to match TiVo, I still couldn't get it.
If only TiVo would release some decent software to run on OS X. The TiVo Desktop won't work under Tiger and haven't seen any hope of getting the TiVoToGo software.
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I agree that proxy use is smart on the part of the ISP to manage their bandwidth usage. Unfortunately, I don't think a proxy server will solve for the bandwidth issue this time. The entertainment companies want their content protected (ala DRM) meaning that each video will be a unique file and serves no purpose being cached on a proxy server. These requirements are at odds with easing network traffic by using cache servers.
Yes, just think about all the people that aren't buying Adobe PhotoShop because MS Paint is bundled with the OS. >;-)
While I can agree that a UNIX sys admins skills should not be focused on Word, that is one of the format that companies use. While I bet many of the companies that hire the sys admin might not really care, most recruiters/head hunters want the word doc. They are going to put their header on top of your resume before passing it on to a company. So in the end I don't think it's a waste or unessecary to have a resume in Word that looks presentable.
I am a Veriozon FiOS user and before that I was a DSL user. I prefered the DSL over cable because I think it is easier to saturate the cable than DSL. With that being said I never got near the quoted bandwidth and I chalked it up to the 40+ year old phone lines that went from the house to the telco boxes. It was a limitation of the DSL technology.
So when Verizon came around with FiOS installations, I jumped on board because of the better bandwidth and the new lines they put in my neighborhood. I've done a couple speed tests and I'm a lot closer to the quoted bandwidth than I was with DSL. When I feel a page is slow it is either because of bad HTML or degraded response from the website's server.
I'm still waiting to hear more about TV from Verizon, but I'm pretty sure they are planning to provide that to the FiOS customers only. Though your probably right that the perceived bandwidth with go down at your desktop if your using the FiOS to do downloads for your TV. Yet your probably still getting close to your 5Mb/sec. The flip side to this is the fact that with TV downloads, customers will using their pipes a lot more than just normal internet usage.
When did the Daily Show get an interview with Bush!?!!??
Mostly because I wrote the code about 2 years ago and have not paid much attention to SVG since then. A quick google and I found out that I was using the wrong content type in the embed tag. The map should now work just fine in Firefox 1.5.
I developered the IS Atlas and along with help from another keep the data updated. If you have the SVG plugin, you can see the maps that I made on the site. Similar to those maps, I would like to have the ability to zoom in/out as well making the map point links to the planet's info.
This looks pretty cool. I didn't think you could use alternate maps with the Google Map API. I would love to do something similar for the BattleTech Universe. Would you mind giving pointers on how to get your own map setup for this?
P.S. Any other BTech players interested in trying to develop a Google Map for the Inner Sphere?
Since the site is /.'d, I can't see how my address ranks. For my home network, I use the private IPs from the 10 net. This allows me to have my wedding aniversary as the first 3 octets of the IP address.
I agree sharing does benifit us all. Unfortunately, drug companies seemed to be focused on maximizing the share price for the investors. In that light, does it make sense for a drug company to own part of a drug or all of a drug? Sharing profits on a drug will affect the company's bottom line. I think share holders and stock analysis would look less favorable on those companies. It's not about how better science can drive the drug industry, it's about how money drives the drug industry.
I think you're right that Apple's R&D costs will go down by using mostly intel chipsets. The only downside I can think of is that QA costs might go up. If Apple has/uses more chipsets in their computers, then they may need more computers to test on and take longer to QA releases. Either way I don't think the increase in QA costs will be any where nears the R&D costs savings.
With that being said, I don't that Apple will do more that 4 revisions to a product line in a year. Most likely we will see revisions every 6 months like clockwork.
Back in the 90s, I know Apple had some computers where partial upgrades where decent investments in prolonging the life of your computer. I have a PowerMac 7500, it had a processor slot for the CPU upgrades. I had 3 different CPUs in that computer (a 601, a 604 and a G3). The 7500 also had 8 memory slots and could address about 1GB of memory. Rarely did I take memory out to do the upgrade, you just kept adding.
In the time that has elapsed since then CPU speeds are way out of sync with the speeds of the motherboard. At this point, if you're buying a new CPU, a new motherboard is not far behind with new memory tagging along. It seems upgrades for a computer are down to video card, HD, optical drives and possibly memory. I put memory as a possible, because it seems that motherboards are shipping with less memory slots every year and people put in as much as they can when they get the motherboard.
The Cube is an interesting example and I agree that it is generally considered a failure. When the cube came out my wife's Performa was on it's last legs and we were thinking about an upgrade. The cube was given serious consideration, but the price compared to a regular PowerMac was a better buy to me. If the cube was the same or $100 less than a comparible PowerMac, I would have bought one for her. They tried to price it like it was a portable, when it's just a stripped down desktop. There are some price points even Apple's cool factor won't cover.
Well Farscape was on the Sci-Fi channel and not Fox. Though it seems half the shows I start to watch on Fox get canned. I figured House wouldn't last a season since I liked it and it's on Fox. If I was the creator of a TV show and Fox was interested, I would make sure my contract had a couple of clauses added. 1.) The show will always be aired in it's designated time slot unless approved by me. 2.) The episodes will air in the order I specify. Firefly was screwed by the first one and I feel "The Tick" was screwed by the second one.
I'm a long time mac user and I've had mix experiences at Apple stores. They do tend to get very crowded. When I bought my iBook and later an iPod Photo the experiences were good. I bought a Mac mini and it was painful for me. I went on the weeked (first mistake) and stood in line to buy one, when I get to the front they direct me to a guy on the floor. I didn't need help, that's why I stood in line and told you what I wanted when it was my turn.
I think the Apple Stores are a blessing and a curse. They are great for showing people that an alternative to Windows does exist and is easy for them to use. Since the store have started, the iPod has come out and now people don't need to be sold the kool-aid. I bet 75%+ of people walking into an Apple store for an iPod are already sold on it before they get there. The focus for these sales should be get them in and get them out. Up until this point, I don't think Apple store considered this type of customer.
As many people have pointed out there are a descriptions of why the game got the rating it did. The line between M (17+ years) and AO (18+ years) is pretty thin. That's why I think that game store chains not carring AO title is silly. My only revision to the current rating system would be to make a bigger difference between M and AO or drop M all together.
I want people to vote smarter. When I think of limited voting, I think of Heinlein's Starship Troopers where service in the military grants a person citizenship with the right to vote. No discrimination, as long as your willing to serve your country you get a say in it's direction. I'm not saying all my ideas are great and then one you truly dislike is the one I rejected cause I releasized it was wrong and didn't solve the problem I see. My problem is with greedy WASPs that should be well educated and know better. They vote for candidates that will make sure they can keep as much of their money as possible instead of contributing their fair share. My true suggestion was how to get better people into office by vetting them. At the high levels of government, I feel most are doing the minimum needed to keep them re-elected and grabbing as much power as they can.
I think the population in general is to stupid to govern itself. I thought that limiting the people that could vote would help the system. Unfortunately, I think to many minorities would be excluded and thus discriminating. This led to my second thought to how we elect more responsible representatives to government. All candidates should go through certification courses to indicate that they are qualified for the level of government that are trying to attain. This certification would include accounting and ethics training. To many people are being elected by telling you what you want to hear and not what you need to hear.
Our government is spending more than it takes in and it only looks worse as the baby-boomers get older. Yet the government is trying to make tax cuts permanment. The government either neds to do less or it raises taxes to cover the things it is trying to do.
Compared to the Dodge Intrepid I bought after I got out of college, my Honda Accord is a dream. On the Intrepid, I had to fix the transmission and cyclinder head gaskets within 5 years. Neither of which was cheap to do. In the 5 years I've had my Accord, my biggest expenses has been new tires and a new stereo. I replaced the stereo because I burnt out the laser by playing CDRs. Honda makes reliable cars, their used prices tend to be higher than most cars. I bought new because the warranty seemed to be worth the price difference to me.
Not all the mac clones were cheaper. If I remember correctly, Power Computing was overclocking their PPC chips or matching CPU speed bumps faster than Apple. The photoshop users who would pay for the extra power ended up buying from them instead of Apple. Thus Apple high end sales were also going to the clone makers. The 2nd/3rd gen of the Apple PPC macs were truly solid computers in their day. Those designs where given to the clone makers and they just put in better CPU cards faster than Apple could or would keep up with. The clone maker were eating away at Apple's profit line and the license fees didn't make up for it.
I acknowledge that having all their users hitting gmail every 60 seconds may tax their system a bit more than they would like. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with having some sort of open port on my computer that accepts new mail messages. Isn't this the first step for a new kind of worms/viruses for our computers?
I guess it just doesn't like me. I get the following message from a page on TiVo's site:
I have a tivo and thought I would click through to see what happens. For me it breaks because I gave TiVo a different email address then I use for my Yahoo login. Changing the primary email on Yahoo to match TiVo, I still couldn't get it.
If that car makes production, it might be an option. Though my wife prefers a convertible that has a back seat for additional passengers.
If only TiVo would release some decent software to run on OS X. The TiVo Desktop won't work under Tiger and haven't seen any hope of getting the TiVoToGo software.