POTS still requires DMS 500 or some other class 5 switch or whatever it's called. and that means the overpriced cards that can only take a few lines. my employer has a few of these switches and they are huge. the 21st century equivalent is 2 1U rack servers that can outperform 10 of these switches
or the worst download of all, Google Desktop. it will scan your email and kill your Exchange server in the process by constantly indexing whatever is in your mailbox
i've had voip since 2003. my inlaws just got phone via their cable service and i just cancelled vonage in favor of Time Warner. in all cases it's cheaper than landlines. $30 - $35 a month gets you unlimited local and long distance calling and a ton of features like caller ID and conference calling that they nickel and dime you for on POTS
i just moved to cable internet from my SDSL 1500/1500 line and the difference is amazing. DSL is like dial up compared to Time Warner. i'm supposed to have 10mbps service and yet i've tested it to 15mbps a few times. and it tests at 7mbps during peak usage while i'm heavily using it as well
not 100%, but with free virtualization on the desktop and soon on mobile phones a reality keeping old software around for decades to come shouldn't be as hard as say 15 years ago
i've read it, several times. physical book every single time and i don't think it ever changed. even saw the movie.
from what i remember there was no digital distribution system in the book and they simply rewrote paper copies and destroyed old copies of newspapers and whatever. just like today, people throw away the newspaper after reading it so you can change the past in future news. and i don't keep every copy of every newspaper i ever read.
with a digital distribution system it makes "1984" a little harder because you have multiple distributors using different standards. with itunes i like to backup my apps which are just.ipa files so i can use an app if Apple bans it. or if there is change that i don't like. same with ebooks, they are files downloaded locally that you can backup and archive a lot easier than keeping 50 years of old newspapers to make sure the government isn't lying to you about the past
in fact i'm browsing the Steam store now and you are wrong. the content is all DRM'd but publishers like Lucasarts are selling 15 year old PC games there that people loved back in the day and it would be impossible to sell them at retail since sales would be so low. Lucasarts has also released their classics on the iphone. i'm playing Secret of Monkey Island. DRM and electronic distribution lowers the cost of entry for content that would otherwise never see the light of day because the cost of selling physical copies is much higher
with amazon you can have multiple devices on the same account. with apple itunes it's up to 5 computers and i don't know what the limit is for iphones, ipods and apple TV's. wife and I buy an app once and put it on our iphones. no problem.
your theory is flawed since as DRM has increased the amount of art, cinema, music and literature has increased as well. there is simply too much art to take in these days. Hulu is DRM'd and yet they give away the content for free. same with cable TV. the signal is encrypted and yet they put more and more channels on there. i have hundreds of GB of Dora and Spongebob on my Time Warner DVR. and i can get live shows in HD on palladia for free. this week i saw Iron Maiden and Motley Crue. and i have John Fogerty waiting on the DVR along with the Sonicsphere festival. all in HD
iTunes is DRM'd and there is more and more stuff for sale on there every day. latest thing is live show recordings a day after the band plays and HD movies that you can watch at home or on your ipod on the road
say you have a few dozen apps relying on 5 different versions of Oracle BEA weblogic. you can't upgrade every WL box to the latest version since it will break another app on there and you can't upgrade every app since it take months of dev time. so you scale out and have one or a few WL instances on each OS instance. in this case you virtualize it because it reduces server sprawl and it's a stealth way of upgrading the hardware to something an ancient OS like Windows 2000 cant support. HP doesn't support Windows 2000 on it's latest servers. and driver updates for Windows 2000 stopped a few years ago and some things like the newest RAID cards don't have Windows 2000 drivers. but running it on VMWare you can upgrade the hardware
yesterday i also downloaded 100 free kindle books from Amazon. even if i were to buy them the chances of reading a book a second time in the near future after the first reading are slim to none. if the price is lower than physical than buying an electronic DRM'd book is no big deal. by the time my son grows up there will be more books to read so i don't really care if he never reads any of my old Tom Clancy books. besides, how often do kids do the same things as parents?
I tend to agree with him some, but there is simply too much music, art and knowledge out there to take in the old fashioned way. and if you do own the physical media it becomes a clutter and storage nightmare
i don't buy too much ebooks but in the last few weeks i bought a MS SQL T-SQL ebook app on my iphone to read on the train to work and some pdf's from mannning books. and the convenience factor is very nice in not carrying around the extra weight
i think its unlocked out of the box contract or not. it's the crazy ETF you have to pay which is OK since everyone knows people will try to resell this baby on ebay for some quick cash
we're at around 1200 users and around 8 help desk people to support them all. 2 DBA's for 30 some MS SQL servers and 3-5 admins for 200 some windows/^nix servers. some people double by helping users in their office
not in all cases, in NYC some lights are combo ones with the regular lights and turn signals. just like this one. the first three lights from the top are the regular lights and the last two are for turning. I think the combo ones are used when there is no dedicated turning lane
idiot driver should be prosecuted since everyone knows the third light from the top is regular green and not a turn signal. i've seen intersections with broken lights before and people are very careful when they go and make sure the other guy is going to yield.
some people are always in a constant state of hurry and can't seem to wait a few seconds
everyone hated it when it first came out. all the Mac fanboys would make fun of it. so when someone gives me a Mac and I set it up the first thing that pisses me off is typing in the admin password every time i install something. the way the Mac fanboys made it seem is that apple magically protected its OS without me having to do anything
apps like Google desktop became popular so MS put the functionality in Vista. when the crap that is Google desktop slows down your PC it's OK because it's cool when Google organizes your data. when the MS indexing service did it in Vista it was crap because it was Microsoft.
same thing with Apple. when people got viruses pirating some Mac software it was their fault since p2p is dangerous. when people do the same thing on Windows it means MS sucks
i'll probably get a Mac next year just so i can teach my son Unix and reading the Mac forums. Apple has had quality issues lately and a lot of the old time Mac fanboys are noticing and complaining so the cool Apple perception is in danger.
and how will these things do all the things people expect of a normal computer? import photos, family movies, download music and movies, video chat with family, games, etc?
and the major problem with any client/server app is that most of the bugs are in the server piece. when i supported MS Exchange most of the problems were on the server side, not in Outlook or IE. when a developer codes an app today most of the work is in the server side part. When Blizzard releases their new games like SC2 and Diablo 3 most of the maintenance work is going to be in running Battle.Net 2.
the theory that all issues are magically going to vanish when everything is in the cloud is false. in fact it's going to make things more complicated and the it will be harder to cover up bugs. people still use Office 97 and it works with new products like SQL 2005 and SQL 2008, no upgrade issues.
the only reason to put everything in the cloud like Google is doing is to track everything you do so you can mine and sell the data to "partners" for marketing purposes. even hardware wise it's usually more efficient to keep data locally. my iphone stores one copy of the song. if the data was in the cloud you would need several times the raw storage to usable storage for DR purposes. we have EMC and our current raw to usable storage ratio is 5 to 1 for data on the SAN with an offsite DR copy
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POTS still requires DMS 500 or some other class 5 switch or whatever it's called. and that means the overpriced cards that can only take a few lines. my employer has a few of these switches and they are huge. the 21st century equivalent is 2 1U rack servers that can outperform 10 of these switches
maybe my Curve is too small, but it's easier for me to type on my iphone in landscape mode than on my BB Curve
the phone lines worked underwater?
or the worst download of all, Google Desktop. it will scan your email and kill your Exchange server in the process by constantly indexing whatever is in your mailbox
i've had voip since 2003. my inlaws just got phone via their cable service and i just cancelled vonage in favor of Time Warner. in all cases it's cheaper than landlines. $30 - $35 a month gets you unlimited local and long distance calling and a ton of features like caller ID and conference calling that they nickel and dime you for on POTS
who can't get IP?
i just moved to cable internet from my SDSL 1500/1500 line and the difference is amazing. DSL is like dial up compared to Time Warner. i'm supposed to have 10mbps service and yet i've tested it to 15mbps a few times. and it tests at 7mbps during peak usage while i'm heavily using it as well
not 100%, but with free virtualization on the desktop and soon on mobile phones a reality keeping old software around for decades to come shouldn't be as hard as say 15 years ago
i've read it, several times. physical book every single time and i don't think it ever changed. even saw the movie.
from what i remember there was no digital distribution system in the book and they simply rewrote paper copies and destroyed old copies of newspapers and whatever. just like today, people throw away the newspaper after reading it so you can change the past in future news. and i don't keep every copy of every newspaper i ever read.
with a digital distribution system it makes "1984" a little harder because you have multiple distributors using different standards. with itunes i like to backup my apps which are just .ipa files so i can use an app if Apple bans it. or if there is change that i don't like. same with ebooks, they are files downloaded locally that you can backup and archive a lot easier than keeping 50 years of old newspapers to make sure the government isn't lying to you about the past
in fact i'm browsing the Steam store now and you are wrong. the content is all DRM'd but publishers like Lucasarts are selling 15 year old PC games there that people loved back in the day and it would be impossible to sell them at retail since sales would be so low. Lucasarts has also released their classics on the iphone. i'm playing Secret of Monkey Island. DRM and electronic distribution lowers the cost of entry for content that would otherwise never see the light of day because the cost of selling physical copies is much higher
at the rate prices are falling who cares?
with amazon you can have multiple devices on the same account. with apple itunes it's up to 5 computers and i don't know what the limit is for iphones, ipods and apple TV's. wife and I buy an app once and put it on our iphones. no problem.
your theory is flawed since as DRM has increased the amount of art, cinema, music and literature has increased as well. there is simply too much art to take in these days. Hulu is DRM'd and yet they give away the content for free. same with cable TV. the signal is encrypted and yet they put more and more channels on there. i have hundreds of GB of Dora and Spongebob on my Time Warner DVR. and i can get live shows in HD on palladia for free. this week i saw Iron Maiden and Motley Crue. and i have John Fogerty waiting on the DVR along with the Sonicsphere festival. all in HD
iTunes is DRM'd and there is more and more stuff for sale on there every day. latest thing is live show recordings a day after the band plays and HD movies that you can watch at home or on your ipod on the road
say you have a few dozen apps relying on 5 different versions of Oracle BEA weblogic. you can't upgrade every WL box to the latest version since it will break another app on there and you can't upgrade every app since it take months of dev time. so you scale out and have one or a few WL instances on each OS instance. in this case you virtualize it because it reduces server sprawl and it's a stealth way of upgrading the hardware to something an ancient OS like Windows 2000 cant support. HP doesn't support Windows 2000 on it's latest servers. and driver updates for Windows 2000 stopped a few years ago and some things like the newest RAID cards don't have Windows 2000 drivers. but running it on VMWare you can upgrade the hardware
yesterday i also downloaded 100 free kindle books from Amazon. even if i were to buy them the chances of reading a book a second time in the near future after the first reading are slim to none. if the price is lower than physical than buying an electronic DRM'd book is no big deal. by the time my son grows up there will be more books to read so i don't really care if he never reads any of my old Tom Clancy books. besides, how often do kids do the same things as parents?
I tend to agree with him some, but there is simply too much music, art and knowledge out there to take in the old fashioned way. and if you do own the physical media it becomes a clutter and storage nightmare
i don't buy too much ebooks but in the last few weeks i bought a MS SQL T-SQL ebook app on my iphone to read on the train to work and some pdf's from mannning books. and the convenience factor is very nice in not carrying around the extra weight
i think its unlocked out of the box contract or not. it's the crazy ETF you have to pay which is OK since everyone knows people will try to resell this baby on ebay for some quick cash
we're at around 1200 users and around 8 help desk people to support them all. 2 DBA's for 30 some MS SQL servers and 3-5 admins for 200 some windows/^nix servers. some people double by helping users in their office
not in all cases, in NYC some lights are combo ones with the regular lights and turn signals. just like this one. the first three lights from the top are the regular lights and the last two are for turning. I think the combo ones are used when there is no dedicated turning lane
God forbid someone spends an extra 10 seconds waiting. it will ruin their whole day
idiot driver should be prosecuted since everyone knows the third light from the top is regular green and not a turn signal. i've seen intersections with broken lights before and people are very careful when they go and make sure the other guy is going to yield.
some people are always in a constant state of hurry and can't seem to wait a few seconds
i expect a fix in 5 minutes. everyone knows that anything delivered from the cloud is highly secure and easy to fix if problems arise
forgot about the UAC
everyone hated it when it first came out. all the Mac fanboys would make fun of it. so when someone gives me a Mac and I set it up the first thing that pisses me off is typing in the admin password every time i install something. the way the Mac fanboys made it seem is that apple magically protected its OS without me having to do anything
a lot of it is perception
apps like Google desktop became popular so MS put the functionality in Vista. when the crap that is Google desktop slows down your PC it's OK because it's cool when Google organizes your data. when the MS indexing service did it in Vista it was crap because it was Microsoft.
same thing with Apple. when people got viruses pirating some Mac software it was their fault since p2p is dangerous. when people do the same thing on Windows it means MS sucks
i'll probably get a Mac next year just so i can teach my son Unix and reading the Mac forums. Apple has had quality issues lately and a lot of the old time Mac fanboys are noticing and complaining so the cool Apple perception is in danger.
Toshiba just doubled the density of their NAND chips. flash memory prices are plummeting on a per GB basis, just like hard drive prices 10 years ago
and how will these things do all the things people expect of a normal computer? import photos, family movies, download music and movies, video chat with family, games, etc?
and the major problem with any client/server app is that most of the bugs are in the server piece. when i supported MS Exchange most of the problems were on the server side, not in Outlook or IE. when a developer codes an app today most of the work is in the server side part. When Blizzard releases their new games like SC2 and Diablo 3 most of the maintenance work is going to be in running Battle.Net 2.
the theory that all issues are magically going to vanish when everything is in the cloud is false. in fact it's going to make things more complicated and the it will be harder to cover up bugs. people still use Office 97 and it works with new products like SQL 2005 and SQL 2008, no upgrade issues.
the only reason to put everything in the cloud like Google is doing is to track everything you do so you can mine and sell the data to "partners" for marketing purposes. even hardware wise it's usually more efficient to keep data locally. my iphone stores one copy of the song. if the data was in the cloud you would need several times the raw storage to usable storage for DR purposes. we have EMC and our current raw to usable storage ratio is 5 to 1 for data on the SAN with an offsite DR copy