Wow if that's true then Teksavvy got a better deal than the isp I worked for did. Bell hooked everything up then came back and told us they couldn't provide high speed links anymore and we would have to go to someone else for the access. On the upside the company we ended up going to sold us bare fiber so they couldn't throttle that even if they wanted to.
The problem with that plan is that Bell has no regulatory requirement to provide access to the "remote co" so they refuse access. That means that anyone too far from the CO will still need to be resold access to bell's DSLAM.
It was a rough job market at the time (not like now where people call me all the time). So it was a matter of wanting to eat and not wanting to go back to the old place which was much worse.
I needed to LART them without losing my ability to eat and pay rent and I seem to have managed that without (much) trouble.
The CD ended up disappearing from the office. It's on a shelf at my place as a testament to stupidity.
The fact that whoever made the list used a scraper and it's full of addresses of technical lists several openprojects.net addresses and a lot of abuse@ and postmaster@ addresses so it didn't take much of that list to succeed in pissing off the ISP. Poisoned doesn't even begin to describe that list.
I had this problem as well. At a place I used to work the girl came into my office with a CD labeled "opt in email addresses" that she bought on ebay that looked like it had been harvested by a web scraper and then not even filtered for postmaster/root/abuse accounts. My objections were overruled even after I found my friend on the list and asked him if he had opted in to anything.
Best I could do was send the email in smaller batches (10 000) that would limit the fallout and just pretend I'd sent the full 500 000 emails in the batch that would be just enough to piss the ISP off and get them to threaten to shut the connection and scare them into not doing it again but not enough to force an immediate termination.
Don't know about that.. Your assuming that the top 2.5% are what goes into engineering instead of just whatever 2.5% are motivated to try.
I've seen some Chinese families push their daughters into programming with somewhat disastrous results. I've also seen some smart girls not even try because the guys they are into don't think smart girls are cute.
I tend to think we lose both on the good and the bad when they don't try at all.
What if the code doesn't match the comments? Is the code correct or the comment?
What if the comment doesn't match what the code does and is obfuscated? Your never going to tell where I screwed up.
There is a lot more to writing readable code than just adding comments. In fact, I've come across a lot of code where the comments weren't any more helpful than the code was in the first place.
Much more important than good comments are: Using descriptive variable names not overusing language shortcuts. Not overusing order of operation. Isolating complicated code into it's own functions and keeping functions short and to the point instead of trying to do 15 things in a function.
Documenting a for loop like that is simply duplicating work for both the writer and whoever gets to read it later.
Comments should not say what the code does but instead what the result should be unless the code is particularly clever and its not obvious at first site what it's trying to do.
Hes constructing home size septic treatment systems for when your not on city sewer and the soil won't take having raw sewage being dumped underground for long. When he has to deliver them it takes the full size of the truck and sometimes a trailer as well.
The rest of the month a smaller CUV would work perfectly.
I was recently talking to my father about exactly this and since he was telling me how much he pays to keep his the pickup truck on the road.
Since he drives an hour and a half to get to most job sites he spends a fortune on gas. I calculated it out and discovered that if he were to scrap the blasted thing he would save enough on gas to lease a smaller car, rent a truck for the two days a month he actually needs one and still save money.
That was several months ago so the numbers have only gotten more in favor of scrapping the pickup since then.
You can just spin the company controlling the last mile off into a corporation that can only break even. Then order them to give the same rates to all of the CLECS.
Beopen.com.. Hired a full staff of reporters with the dream of competing with slashdot.
When it ran out of money a guy I know came back with T-Shirts. Not the cheap ones you get at trade shows but solid fruit of the loom stuff that lasted me 7 years of constant use (I throw shirts out when they get their first hole) as it turns out that was longer than the company lasted in the first place.
If she is seen as reducing Obama's chances in the general election the harm to her reputation and the resulting backlash will keep her from ever having the support needed to try again.
Foraging the number that shows up on the call display isn't much harder since if you have a PRI or better (cheaper for 12 lines or more) the phone company simply trusts you to send the correct info. There are also call display spoofing services available and a number of my friends call me from amusing numbers just to mess with me.
Yeah but as we both know in these days of excessive growth that infrastructure tends to lag behind more visible changes.
I'm sure at one point it was well designed.. but that was, I'm guessing, a few years ago and at a lot lower current and more than a few modifications ago.
That's of course not counting the possibility of contractor stupidity.
I don't know what makes people so freaking stupid when it comes to electricity. But then I'm still annoyed by a roofing contractor having two employee's lives saved in three days by the fact that whatever screw they were using melted before they got electrocuted.
Except it's not two hours.. Bell starts throttling at 4 pm and continues well past midnight.
Also: They are doing this on third party networks those networks pay for guaranteed bandwidth between the customer DSLAM and the ISP's PPPoe Authentication equipment. That's on top of Bell getting half of the cost ($23 wholesale) of the revenue generated by each customer.
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It wasn't a personal reply.. I read it in a news story.
I haven't heard a word from him or anyone else directly about C-61.
As long as your in his riding.. Push for someone else to be nominated. Prenctice is too clueless to work as an MP.
Wow if that's true then Teksavvy got a better deal than the isp I worked for did. Bell hooked everything up then came back and told us they couldn't provide high speed links anymore and we would have to go to someone else for the access. On the upside the company we ended up going to sold us bare fiber so they couldn't throttle that even if they wanted to.
The problem with that plan is that Bell has no regulatory requirement to provide access to the "remote co" so they refuse access. That means that anyone too far from the CO will still need to be resold access to bell's DSLAM.
It's growing yes but its actually a very low margin market. The whole idea of an HPC cluster is saving money.
Somehow I doubt it's the margins so much as the fact that Linux dominates it and they are afraid Linux will use that to gain a foothold elsewhere.
Enough power to run vista.
Jim Prentice is clueless about how free markets operate and really need dump him from cabinet.
His response to the bill C-61 was pretty much word for word the same. "The free markets will decide if DRM gets used or not"
You can compile your windows apps against the wine libs and make a "linux port" that way.
It's a bit bloated but it does work. That's how Corel did their Wordperfect for Linux port.
It was a rough job market at the time (not like now where people call me all the time). So it was a matter of wanting to eat and not wanting to go back to the old place which was much worse.
I needed to LART them without losing my ability to eat and pay rent and I seem to have managed that without (much) trouble.
The CD ended up disappearing from the office. It's on a shelf at my place as a testament to stupidity.
The fact that whoever made the list used a scraper and it's full of addresses of technical lists several openprojects.net addresses and a lot of abuse@ and postmaster@ addresses so it didn't take much of that list to succeed in pissing off the ISP. Poisoned doesn't even begin to describe that list.
I had this problem as well. At a place I used to work the girl came into my office with a CD labeled "opt in email addresses" that she bought on ebay that looked like it had been harvested by a web scraper and then not even filtered for postmaster/root/abuse accounts. My objections were overruled even after I found my friend on the list and asked him if he had opted in to anything.
Best I could do was send the email in smaller batches (10 000) that would limit the fallout and just pretend I'd sent the full 500 000 emails in the batch that would be just enough to piss the ISP off and get them to threaten to shut the connection and scare them into not doing it again but not enough to force an immediate termination.
Bosses can be stupid.
Don't know about that.. Your assuming that the top 2.5% are what goes into engineering instead of just whatever 2.5% are motivated to try.
I've seen some Chinese families push their daughters into programming with somewhat disastrous results. I've also seen some smart girls not even try because the guys they are into don't think smart girls are cute.
I tend to think we lose both on the good and the bad when they don't try at all.
What if the code doesn't match the comments? Is the code correct or the comment?
What if the comment doesn't match what the code does and is obfuscated? Your never going to tell where I screwed up.
There is a lot more to writing readable code than just adding comments. In fact, I've come across a lot of code where the comments weren't any more helpful than the code was in the first place.
Much more important than good comments are: Using descriptive variable names not overusing language shortcuts. Not overusing order of operation. Isolating complicated code into it's own functions and keeping functions short and to the point instead of trying to do 15 things in a function.
Documenting a for loop like that is simply duplicating work for both the writer and whoever gets to read it later.
Comments should not say what the code does but instead what the result should be unless the code is particularly clever and its not obvious at first site what it's trying to do.
Or you can use GIT which is designed for projects with large numbers of employees in a distributed environment.
Hes constructing home size septic treatment systems for when your not on city sewer and the soil won't take having raw sewage being dumped underground for long. When he has to deliver them it takes the full size of the truck and sometimes a trailer as well.
The rest of the month a smaller CUV would work perfectly.
I was recently talking to my father about exactly this and since he was telling me how much he pays to keep his the pickup truck on the road.
Since he drives an hour and a half to get to most job sites he spends a fortune on gas. I calculated it out and discovered that if he were to scrap the blasted thing he would save enough on gas to lease a smaller car, rent a truck for the two days a month he actually needs one and still save money.
That was several months ago so the numbers have only gotten more in favor of scrapping the pickup since then.
You can just spin the company controlling the last mile off into a corporation that can only break even. Then order them to give the same rates to all of the CLECS.
Problem solved.
Beopen.com .. Hired a full staff of reporters with the dream of competing with slashdot.
When it ran out of money a guy I know came back with T-Shirts. Not the cheap ones you get at trade shows but solid fruit of the loom stuff that lasted me 7 years of constant use (I throw shirts out when they get their first hole) as it turns out that was longer than the company lasted in the first place.
If she is seen as reducing Obama's chances in the general election the harm to her reputation and the resulting backlash will keep her from ever having the support needed to try again.
Foraging the number that shows up on the call display isn't much harder since if you have a PRI or better (cheaper for 12 lines or more) the phone company simply trusts you to send the correct info. There are also call display spoofing services available and a number of my friends call me from amusing numbers just to mess with me.
That explains that then. Lets hear it for twisted coincidence.
Yeah but as we both know in these days of excessive growth that infrastructure tends to lag behind more visible changes.
I'm sure at one point it was well designed.. but that was, I'm guessing, a few years ago and at a lot lower current and more than a few modifications ago.
That's of course not counting the possibility of contractor stupidity.
I don't know what makes people so freaking stupid when it comes to electricity. But then I'm still annoyed by a roofing contractor having two employee's lives saved in three days by the fact that whatever screw they were using melted before they got electrocuted.
keenspot for anyone who likes online comics...
It's because Bell started forcing third party ISPs to do it even though they have to pay for dedicated links between Bell's equipment and the ISP.
Except it's not two hours.. Bell starts throttling at 4 pm and continues well past midnight.
Also: They are doing this on third party networks those networks pay for guaranteed bandwidth between the customer DSLAM and the ISP's PPPoe Authentication equipment. That's on top of Bell getting half of the cost ($23 wholesale) of the revenue generated by each customer.
Wrong country. The Tigers rarely disrupt anything outside of Sri Lanka.
And there's the downside of governments trying to fight modern technology.
I bet if Blackberry did as they asked then people would start loading custom firmware on their phones to work around it.