Nosir - I blamed Sony tech mgmt. Outsourcing can work if well managed. Sony obviously writes the smallest check they can get away with and then expects valid solutions to appear. Without even testing these cheap solutions, they foist them onto an unsuspecting public.
My harangue is over companies that undervalue research, development and testing.
Nielsen are the guys that keep TV programming dumbed down by reporting that all consumers want to see is dancing poodles, reruns of sit-coms and bad news.
Don't believe anything you hear from Nielsen. Their studies are unscientific bunk. To the extent they are given credibility, they will dumb down the internet too.
This is correct. Win Update does NOT automatically start on a fresh install. The user is forced through a few reboots and repeat visits to Win Update before even having an option to download SP2.
Obvious to anyone who has dealt with end users: they will stop performing maintenance work the very moment they are capable of surfing the web. As soon as an installation is "good enough", they stop.
Obvious to anyone who has ever actually performed this sort of work: Digrieze is an astroturfing liar.
Why in Gods Name do they need to open up TCP port 8541 to give me control over my own songlists when winamp is sitting there staring me in the face?
The uninstall did NOT work. I had to find the.dll in my plugins directory and manually delete it. Only "Black Jesus" knows where else this thing installed itself in my system.
I felt SO stupid for spending time on this. "Brain" is either some very bad engineering or it's a latent trojan.
Mesh tech won't solve this and preserve your 11 megabits. The routing protocols eat bandwidth leaving you with a pittance of what you once had. Look for maybe 2 megabits under ideal conditions.
Another problem with this lilypad approach is that any mobile device on the network has a very tenuous connection to the Internet. This connection has many single points of failure and no support process/mechanism. How could an innovator, in good faith, roll out a new service on such a fragile and uncoordinated medium?
You get what you pay for. I'd rather pay for a reliable 14.4 than receive an iffy 11 Megs at no cost. If you answer to clients (and care), you'll agree.
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Nosir - I blamed Sony tech mgmt. Outsourcing can work if well managed. Sony obviously writes the smallest check they can get away with and then expects valid solutions to appear. Without even testing these cheap solutions, they foist them onto an unsuspecting public.
My harangue is over companies that undervalue research, development and testing.
Sony outsources to the cheapest bidder. Apple carefully shepherded their technology and it shows.
Sony would kill a goose for a chance at a single golden blastula. Meanwhile Apple sports a nice margin on golden eggs at the moment.
Nielsen are the guys that keep TV programming dumbed down by reporting that all consumers want to see is dancing poodles, reruns of sit-coms and bad news.
Don't believe anything you hear from Nielsen. Their studies are unscientific bunk. To the extent they are given credibility, they will dumb down the internet too.
This is correct. Win Update does NOT automatically start on a fresh install. The user is forced through a few reboots and repeat visits to Win Update before even having an option to download SP2.
Obvious to anyone who has dealt with end users: they will stop performing maintenance work the very moment they are capable of surfing the web. As soon as an installation is "good enough", they stop.
Obvious to anyone who has ever actually performed this sort of work: Digrieze is an astroturfing liar.
Why in Gods Name do they need to open up TCP port 8541 to give me control over my own songlists when winamp is sitting there staring me in the face?
.dll in my plugins directory and manually delete it. Only "Black Jesus" knows where else this thing installed itself in my system.
The uninstall did NOT work. I had to find the
I felt SO stupid for spending time on this. "Brain" is either some very bad engineering or it's a latent trojan.
I don't know. The whole thing just seems sort of rickety to me.
Mesh tech won't solve this and preserve your 11 megabits. The routing protocols eat bandwidth leaving you with a pittance of what you once had. Look for maybe 2 megabits under ideal conditions.
Another problem with this lilypad approach is that any mobile device on the network has a very tenuous connection to the Internet. This connection has many single points of failure and no support process/mechanism. How could an innovator, in good faith, roll out a new service on such a fragile and uncoordinated medium?
You get what you pay for. I'd rather pay for a reliable 14.4 than receive an iffy 11 Megs at no cost. If you answer to clients (and care), you'll agree.
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