According to PacBell, this was the reason that DSL was created in the first place. Interesting that it took this long to be used for what is was intended...
Copper is definitely cheaper. For a last mile solution, it will probably be the only feasible solution for the next 10-20 years. But for serious bandwidth, fiber is the way to go.
I don't think there is anything to compare to Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) in the copper world.
Judging from the code in the article, one of the things that would appear to hinder Ruby is its lack of closeness to other languages. Perl, Java, etc have at their heart, C. You can see this in the bracing uses, control structures, etc.
In the end, this may not be a "bad thing" for Ruby....
At my work (an ISP), I tweaked cgi-wrap and run php. The cgi-wrap tweak provides the safety of running as the user, along with other checks (is the php script world writable, is it owned by the user, etc) and it takes out the necessity of putting #!/path/to/php at on every php file.
I work for an isp. In the end, we make more money off a dial-up customer than we do off a dsl customer. To compete with the lecs we have to keep the profit margin on dsl down to a bare minimum. Combine that with the pipe that is necessary to get all the dsl customer's to our router and we end up with a very small profit margin.
If all of our dsl customers went back to dial, we would actually be making more money.
Given MS's loss to Sun with Visual J++ and the knowledge that MS wants to push C#, how many Java developers will actually bother with this one?
Obviously, MS's marketing people have a good track record, but maybe a Java to C# conversion tool would have been a better choice...
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According to PacBell, this was the reason that DSL was created in the first place. Interesting that it took this long to be used for what is was intended...
Copper is definitely cheaper. For a last mile solution, it will probably be the only feasible solution for the next 10-20 years. But for serious bandwidth, fiber is the way to go.
I don't think there is anything to compare to Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) in the copper world.
TV guide named the 1984 Apple superbowl commercial as the best commercial of all time.
I wonder if they have a different opinion on who Big Brother is now??
Maybe the people who spam resumes should start a legitimate company... One that sells viagra or online pr0n, perhaps? :)
Judging from the code in the article, one of the things that would appear to hinder Ruby is its lack of closeness to other languages. Perl, Java, etc have at their heart, C. You can see this in the bracing uses, control structures, etc.
In the end, this may not be a "bad thing" for Ruby....
At my work (an ISP), I tweaked cgi-wrap and run php. The cgi-wrap tweak provides the safety of running as the user, along with other checks (is the php script world writable, is it owned by the user, etc) and it takes out the necessity of putting #!/path/to/php at on every php file.
If you are interested in this, email me.
I work for an isp. In the end, we make more money off a dial-up customer than we do off a dsl customer. To compete with the lecs we have to keep the profit margin on dsl down to a bare minimum. Combine that with the pipe that is necessary to get all the dsl customer's to our router and we end up with a very small profit margin.
If all of our dsl customers went back to dial, we would actually be making more money.
Given MS's loss to Sun with Visual J++ and the knowledge that MS wants to push C#, how many Java developers will actually bother with this one?
Obviously, MS's marketing people have a good track record, but maybe a Java to C# conversion tool would have been a better choice...
I guess we shouldn't have used Microsoft Condom...