First of all, I'm confused by what you mean when you say it's only using 10% of bandwidth. 400Mbps, means you're gonna get something like a max of about 40 Megabytes per sec transfer. (remember, 8 bits per byte, plus some overhead) Are you seriously only getting 4 MB/s?
As far as copying faster. You might want to try robocopy from the Windows 2003 resource kit or xxcopy. I've tried xxcopy and it seems to buffer things well, such that I can do a sustained 25 MB/s or so when backing up files to my 500 Gig USB 2.0 external drive.
The explorer method of copying seems to have a lot of overhead, and doesn't buffer the transfers well. At least not with lot's of small files.
Ok, well besides the fact that I've got 20 years experience, do development and probably get paid 5 times what the kid at geek squad gets...
geek squad charges too much to do what any family nerd can do. install components / software and run malware/virus scans.
I only do this for my parents. Nobody else. I have had friends who come out and want help, and I say sorry, go to the Geek Squad. Or in most cases I just tell them to go buy a new computer for $300, it'll be a lot cheaper.
And most of the time when people come to me asking for help, the computer they have is like a PII-266 and they're complaining about how slow Win98 is. Hello, sorry... buy a new one, it's not worth the time to fix.
I feel sorry for the people who have to take their computers to the Geek Squad, I really do.
It's like I feel sorry for the people who waste their time asking the Best Buy sales reps questions about the stuff in the store. The sales reps don't know any more than you do. Unless the question is, "Where can I find the batteries?", you are wasting your time. Your best bet is to go on the internet and read a review on the product.
My friend does this, I swear just to annoy me. We were in there the other day and he asked the guy about MP3 players and which ones worked with Rhapsody. The Best Buy guy gave him a blank look.
Anyway, I'm glad for things like Geek Squad, because I send people there rather than having them annoy me. If they complain about the cost, I just remind them that I suggested buying a new computer for $300.
I had this happen to me. I was supposed to start a job on monday the day after thanksgiving break.
Wednesday I get a call from the head of HR wanting to know about my felony charge in Rochester, NY. I'd never been to Rochester and had no idea what she was talking about.
In this case, the company doing the background check had not even bothered to verify my social security number and such. Just pulled up the name, which isn't all that unique.
Fortunately the HR head understood that these things are often wrong and verified the information. But still... this can be a real problem.
- If your desk is like mine and has a hard rough melamine finish, the teflon pads on the bottom of the mouse will last maybe 3-4 months before wearing off. - If the desk doesn't have a hard rough melamine finish, the desk itself will end up having the surface worn off it by the mouse.(I'm talking either real wood, or the paper veneer stuff)
Now a granite desk... that's probably a different situation.
But my experience has been using a mouse right on the desk is hard on the mouse.
It seems to me now that Vonage is going to have to start charging some taxes, that I'm really just better off moving to a USWest line. The $5 or so I save each month by using Vonage isn't worth the hassle.
Dell installs so MUCH CRAP on their computers. The first thing I did after getting my new Inspiron was to take out the OS reinstallation CD and wipe it out clean.
I think that many technology choices have to do with the Good enough is good enough. We go through these cycles with technology. Something looks complicated, so it gets reinvented as a stripped down thing which is good enough and then later adds on all the complicated crap the original system had. For the people who had a tough time learning the complicated thing, the progression of new to more complicated is a lot easier, and as you spend time in the depts you start asking the "Man, it'd be nice if it did this" questions.
So this explains why you have PHP coming out and basically promising that if they look a lot more like.NET and Java they'll finally be taken seriously. Not realizing that the simplicity had a benefit, and similarly the developers not realizing that sometimes you can outgrow a particular tool and it's time to move on.
The l33t factor. Yeah, good point. I think it is what is driving the interest in Ruby or Python. That's always going to be a factor, and this influences the groupies. The guys not really smart enough or experienced enough to understand why people might be recommending Ruby, but they read about it on/. and assume that's what they should be working with to be l33t.
This is not a free market! The record industry controls how music is allowed to be released. They restrict the market. If there was a choice between DRM and non-DRM music, everyone would go for the non-DRM stuff.
I think you're confusing Free Market with "I want the Backstreet Boys! WHAAAAA!" That is, you have convinced yourself that the only music worth listening to is the stuff the recording industry has advertised the hell out of. You want *Their* music. And you don't think this is a Free Market, because only *They* control distribution of their music.
But you ignore the thousands upon thousands of artists who don't have recording contracts, don't get played every hour on the radio, and would be more than happy if you listened to their music and even have it available for free off their websites.
Obviously the only reason you want to listen to the Backstreet Boys is because they were created by a recording company who spent millions advertising them. So you're a part of this little game, but you don't want to be.
The question you have to ask yourself, is why do you want to play the game? Why aren't you happy and content with the thousands of other options available out there?
I think the author of the article is right. An example of DRM which failed was DivX.
I refuse to buy music from iTunes because of the DRM issues, same with any of the other channels. I buy CD's. I like CDs. I can rip CDs. When I can't rip CDs, I will not buy CDs.
everyone *knows* there is manipulation going on, but it isn't provable.
The manipulation that is going on with energy prices is out in the open.
It's about Iran, and the sword rattling that's going on. It's got the energy markets spooked. Coupled with our disasterous invasion of Iraq which had shutdown supplies from there, we're in a situation where good old fashioned Econ 101 forces have taken hold.
Do I think they manipulated the market purposefully? No. But I also don't think they care about fixing it because of the profits they are earning.
Oh, I understand the issues quite well. I recognize that what AT&T thinks it wants to do is wrong.
What I also recognize is that we live in a free market economy. If there is competition, there is no way for AT&T to accomplish what they want, because it offers no benefit to the consumers of their service.
I realize that you guys are all shouting and claiming your hair is on fire, but that's no reason for me to turn off my cognitive processes and not be skeptical.
Fine then google redirects you to a page that says "We're sorry. Google.com is not compatible with AT&T Internet service."
You think the customers are going to like that?
No, I'm really not convinced that this is a viable solution for the ISPs to try to introduce. There's nothing they can do to enforce it which can't be circumvented by the content provider or consumer moving to a new provider.
Sure if AT&T does this, AT&T's customers can move to Time Warner. Then what if Time Warner does it, too? Those are the only high-speed internet options I have.
So Google places a banner on their site that says "We recognize you are coming from AT&T, and you must know that this company is giving you piss poor service in an attempt to blackmail us. If you care about that, call 1-800-CALL-ATT" or something.
This whole thing is going to flop just like DivX.
I guess my point is, the big boys are going to fight this cause they sure don't want to pay more. The only way it'd hurt the little guys is if the big boys played along and gave the revenue to AT&T.
I don't mean the idea of net-neutrality, but rather the idea of service providers charging content providers extra.
That is, as long as there is competition in the Internet bandwidth space. I don't know what it's like now, but back in '99 or so there was quite a bit of competition as these companies were fighting to get the business.
So google.com has a internet connections coming in from AT&T, and AT&T says "You have to pay us extra because you are google". What's google going to do? They're going to call around and find someone else to provide the service.
Unless all the ISPs get together and collude on rate structures, which would be illegal, competition is going to solve this problem.
Frankly, it's just about the dumbest idea that the communication companies could have ever come up with. Not only won't it work, but they're giving themselves a black eye by looking greedy.
When you're building a bridge the specs say it needs to handle two lanes of cars and that's what you build to.
With software, the specs may say two lanes of cars, but eventually someone is going to try to land a Boeing 747 on the bridge and then complain when it doesn't work.
I suppose you could look for conspiracy if that's what you choose. In my naivete, I'll just take it at face value -- the foolish rantings of a columnist who is generally only read by people who are already convinced that he's right.
Really? I'll remember that the next time I hear someone ranting about Michael Moore.
The website is a PAC run by Alan Keyes, who was a candidate for the nomination back in 2000, and tried to run for the Senate in 2004. It's the Republican base speaking.
This will work -- for a while. But when you have all the technologies mentioned, copyright infringement that is undetectable will become prevalent -- because you just download 1 GB from your friend via IM, or swap DVDs (or soon HDDVDs), or use IRC and FTP. And it's not like you have to be a technology savvy guy to do these things. My mom can use IM, when she gets broadband, she can swap files.
It's interesting, because P2P was supposed to be undetectable when people began promoting it a few years ago. Granted, it's a bit harder to monitor than a single server, but as evidenced here in Germany you just following the spider web.
The industry recognizes that a certain level of copyright violation is going to occur. Copying a disc from a friend, for example. However that level of piracy doesn't scale so well... or rather it means that you'll at least sell one disc for every say 5 copies.
The only alternative you seem to offer is no enforcement.
What is it that you really want? DVDs that play commercials every 5 minutes, so you can get them for free?
Probably because knee-jerk responses like, "Oh, just kill me now" or some variation thereof sound childish and immature to anybody with a little perspective. However, nobody is stopping him -- or you -- from offing yourselves at the first hint of infirmity. Party on, dude.
I hope you don't mind if I actually respond to your lunacy, besides the fact you didn't respond to a single thing I said, but only extended your own attacks.
Certainly. You know, the best way to help prevent personal attacks is to use your own personal attacks. It's like an anti-missile missile missile system.
I remember around the same time how the phrase "white devil" was exploding among black muslims, and Muslims leaders opining about the world of destruction that white man was causing the black community, and the need for groups like the black panthers to violently rise up against the white man considered "protected by the first amendment".
Yes, which, of course, justifies calling muslims names, and especially blank panthers, because well you know... they're calling us names so we have to do it too otherwise our anti-missile missile missile system will be overpowered.
Wow, that's a nice quote, can you please link the source?
Why I'd love to. Here's me blogging about it Sadly, the news site it was on took it down. It's good to know that even sometimes Republicans realize that their speech is a bit over the top. Like when Vox Day questioned Bush's assertion that we can't deport 11 million immigrants, considering after all the Nazi's got rid of six million Jews in only 4 years. They edited the op-ed over at WorldNetDaily, but plenty of people commented on their enthusiasm for the cause.
As I recall, it was the first Republican President Lincoln that used his executive powers to end slavery. And it was Republicans who were 79% in favor of the Civil Rights act of 1964, and Democrats who opposed it by 63%. Oh, and lets not forget than when Democrats tried to filibuster the bill, it was the 81% of Republicans that could have unilaterally ended the filibuster.
Obviously this proves that Democrats are all racists! HA! LOL! Where do you get this shit? Is there some sort of secret "How to be a moonbat" manual? If so, I'd love to read it.
Hey, you know. Back in 1964 it was a Republican who authored the Civil Rights Act, true. But it only passed with the aid of Democrats like Hubert H. Humphrey, Mike Mansfield, Lyndon B. Johnson and not to mention John F. Kennedy. Obviously, according to you this proves the Democrats were all racists.
But which party did Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond and the other filibusterers switch to later on? And which Republican Presidential candidate campaigned against the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Admittedly Goldwater did later in his life regret his involvement with that. But it's obvious from looking at the map which party opposed Civil Rights that year. The Republican party is no longer the party of Lincoln. It hasn't been since 1964. Abraham Lincoln today would be called a traitor to his country by the members of the modern GOP.:-(
You know for a fact why? Because Google issued a press release, or because the proprietor told you? Because we all know presumanbly political websites have no interest in exposure or fund raising.
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Did you try searching google for 'IE web developer toolbar'?
First of all, I'm confused by what you mean when you say it's only using 10% of bandwidth. 400Mbps, means you're gonna get something like a max of about 40 Megabytes per sec transfer. (remember, 8 bits per byte, plus some overhead) Are you seriously only getting 4 MB/s?
As far as copying faster. You might want to try robocopy from the Windows 2003 resource kit or xxcopy. I've tried xxcopy and it seems to buffer things well, such that I can do a sustained 25 MB/s or so when backing up files to my 500 Gig USB 2.0 external drive.
The explorer method of copying seems to have a lot of overhead, and doesn't buffer the transfers well. At least not with lot's of small files.
Where they differ is over who ought to be protected.
Republicans believe that Business should be protected from Competition.
Democrats believe People should be protected from Business.
This isn't a new thing, this has been the way the Republican party has been for the past century or more.
Ok, well besides the fact that I've got 20 years experience, do development and probably get paid 5 times what the kid at geek squad gets...
geek squad charges too much to do what any family nerd can do. install components / software and run malware/virus scans.
I only do this for my parents. Nobody else. I have had friends who come out and want help, and I say sorry, go to the Geek Squad. Or in most cases I just tell them to go buy a new computer for $300, it'll be a lot cheaper.
And most of the time when people come to me asking for help, the computer they have is like a PII-266 and they're complaining about how slow Win98 is. Hello, sorry... buy a new one, it's not worth the time to fix.
I feel sorry for the people who have to take their computers to the Geek Squad, I really do.
It's like I feel sorry for the people who waste their time asking the Best Buy sales reps questions about the stuff in the store. The sales reps don't know any more than you do. Unless the question is, "Where can I find the batteries?", you are wasting your time. Your best bet is to go on the internet and read a review on the product.
My friend does this, I swear just to annoy me. We were in there the other day and he asked the guy about MP3 players and which ones worked with Rhapsody. The Best Buy guy gave him a blank look.
Anyway, I'm glad for things like Geek Squad, because I send people there rather than having them annoy me. If they complain about the cost, I just remind them that I suggested buying a new computer for $300.
I had this happen to me. I was supposed to start a job on monday the day after thanksgiving break.
Wednesday I get a call from the head of HR wanting to know about my felony charge in Rochester, NY. I'd never been to Rochester and had no idea what she was talking about.
In this case, the company doing the background check had not even bothered to verify my social security number and such. Just pulled up the name, which isn't all that unique.
Fortunately the HR head understood that these things are often wrong and verified the information. But still... this can be a real problem.
Which is why I bid $20.25!
Two things...
- If your desk is like mine and has a hard rough melamine finish, the teflon pads on the bottom of the mouse will last maybe 3-4 months before wearing off.
- If the desk doesn't have a hard rough melamine finish, the desk itself will end up having the surface worn off it by the mouse.(I'm talking either real wood, or the paper veneer stuff)
Now a granite desk... that's probably a different situation.
But my experience has been using a mouse right on the desk is hard on the mouse.
Vonage won't give you the rebate either.
It seems to me now that Vonage is going to have to start charging some taxes, that I'm really just better off moving to a USWest line. The $5 or so I save each month by using Vonage isn't worth the hassle.
Actually the Dell is closer to $2000.
They usually run $750 coupons about every other week, sometimes you can find 40% off coupons also.
Oh yeah, and watch the warranty. Apple only offers you 1 year.
Dell installs so MUCH CRAP on their computers. The first thing I did after getting my new Inspiron was to take out the OS reinstallation CD and wipe it out clean.
Best $10 I ever spent getting that CD from Dell.
If Republicans hated Ann Coulter, they wouldn't buy her books. And if they didn't buy her books, she'd never get on television spouting her nonsense.
Naw... Ann Coulter is representative of the mainstream of modern Republican thought.
She's just stupid enough to say out loud, what all the Republicans are thinking.
I think that many technology choices have to do with the Good enough is good enough. We go through these cycles with technology. Something looks complicated, so it gets reinvented as a stripped down thing which is good enough and then later adds on all the complicated crap the original system had. For the people who had a tough time learning the complicated thing, the progression of new to more complicated is a lot easier, and as you spend time in the depts you start asking the "Man, it'd be nice if it did this" questions.
.NET and Java they'll finally be taken seriously. Not realizing that the simplicity had a benefit, and similarly the developers not realizing that sometimes you can outgrow a particular tool and it's time to move on.
/. and assume that's what they should be working with to be l33t.
So this explains why you have PHP coming out and basically promising that if they look a lot more like
The l33t factor. Yeah, good point. I think it is what is driving the interest in Ruby or Python. That's always going to be a factor, and this influences the groupies. The guys not really smart enough or experienced enough to understand why people might be recommending Ruby, but they read about it on
Such is the way of technology.
This is not a free market! The record industry controls how music is allowed to be released. They restrict the market. If there was a choice between DRM and non-DRM music, everyone would go for the non-DRM stuff.
I think you're confusing Free Market with "I want the Backstreet Boys! WHAAAAA!" That is, you have convinced yourself that the only music worth listening to is the stuff the recording industry has advertised the hell out of. You want *Their* music. And you don't think this is a Free Market, because only *They* control distribution of their music.
But you ignore the thousands upon thousands of artists who don't have recording contracts, don't get played every hour on the radio, and would be more than happy if you listened to their music and even have it available for free off their websites.
Obviously the only reason you want to listen to the Backstreet Boys is because they were created by a recording company who spent millions advertising them. So you're a part of this little game, but you don't want to be.
The question you have to ask yourself, is why do you want to play the game? Why aren't you happy and content with the thousands of other options available out there?
I think the author of the article is right. An example of DRM which failed was DivX.
I refuse to buy music from iTunes because of the DRM issues, same with any of the other channels. I buy CD's. I like CDs. I can rip CDs. When I can't rip CDs, I will not buy CDs.
I'm a proud member of the free market.
everyone *knows* there is manipulation going on, but it isn't provable.
The manipulation that is going on with energy prices is out in the open.
It's about Iran, and the sword rattling that's going on. It's got the energy markets spooked. Coupled with our disasterous invasion of Iraq which had shutdown supplies from there, we're in a situation where good old fashioned Econ 101 forces have taken hold.
Do I think they manipulated the market purposefully? No. But I also don't think they care about fixing it because of the profits they are earning.
Oh, I understand the issues quite well. I recognize that what AT&T thinks it wants to do is wrong.
What I also recognize is that we live in a free market economy. If there is competition, there is no way for AT&T to accomplish what they want, because it offers no benefit to the consumers of their service.
I realize that you guys are all shouting and claiming your hair is on fire, but that's no reason for me to turn off my cognitive processes and not be skeptical.
Fine then google redirects you to a page that says "We're sorry. Google.com is not compatible with AT&T Internet service."
You think the customers are going to like that?
No, I'm really not convinced that this is a viable solution for the ISPs to try to introduce. There's nothing they can do to enforce it which can't be circumvented by the content provider or consumer moving to a new provider.
Sure if AT&T does this, AT&T's customers can move to Time Warner. Then what if Time Warner does it, too? Those are the only high-speed internet options I have.
So Google places a banner on their site that says "We recognize you are coming from AT&T, and you must know that this company is giving you piss poor service in an attempt to blackmail us. If you care about that, call 1-800-CALL-ATT" or something.
This whole thing is going to flop just like DivX.
I guess my point is, the big boys are going to fight this cause they sure don't want to pay more. The only way it'd hurt the little guys is if the big boys played along and gave the revenue to AT&T.
I don't mean the idea of net-neutrality, but rather the idea of service providers charging content providers extra.
That is, as long as there is competition in the Internet bandwidth space. I don't know what it's like now, but back in '99 or so there was quite a bit of competition as these companies were fighting to get the business.
So google.com has a internet connections coming in from AT&T, and AT&T says "You have to pay us extra because you are google". What's google going to do? They're going to call around and find someone else to provide the service.
Unless all the ISPs get together and collude on rate structures, which would be illegal, competition is going to solve this problem.
Frankly, it's just about the dumbest idea that the communication companies could have ever come up with. Not only won't it work, but they're giving themselves a black eye by looking greedy.
Another one...
When you're building a bridge the specs say it needs to handle two lanes of cars and that's what you build to.
With software, the specs may say two lanes of cars, but eventually someone is going to try to land a Boeing 747 on the bridge and then complain when it doesn't work.
I suppose you could look for conspiracy if that's what you choose. In my naivete, I'll just take it at face value -- the foolish rantings of a columnist who is generally only read by people who are already convinced that he's right.
Really? I'll remember that the next time I hear someone ranting about Michael Moore.
The website is a PAC run by Alan Keyes, who was a candidate for the nomination back in 2000, and tried to run for the Senate in 2004. It's the Republican base speaking.
This will work -- for a while. But when you have all the technologies mentioned, copyright infringement that is undetectable will become prevalent -- because you just download 1 GB from your friend via IM, or swap DVDs (or soon HDDVDs), or use IRC and FTP. And it's not like you have to be a technology savvy guy to do these things. My mom can use IM, when she gets broadband, she can swap files.
It's interesting, because P2P was supposed to be undetectable when people began promoting it a few years ago. Granted, it's a bit harder to monitor than a single server, but as evidenced here in Germany you just following the spider web.
The industry recognizes that a certain level of copyright violation is going to occur. Copying a disc from a friend, for example. However that level of piracy doesn't scale so well... or rather it means that you'll at least sell one disc for every say 5 copies.
The only alternative you seem to offer is no enforcement.
What is it that you really want? DVDs that play commercials every 5 minutes, so you can get them for free?
Probably because knee-jerk responses like, "Oh, just kill me now" or some variation thereof sound childish and immature to anybody with a little perspective. However, nobody is stopping him -- or you -- from offing yourselves at the first hint of infirmity. Party on, dude.
When you've got the Republican Party going around these days declaring their ought to be Constutional Amendments to ensure people are kept alive, protecting your rights to minding your own business is no longer a joke.
I hope you don't mind if I actually respond to your lunacy, besides the fact you didn't respond to a single thing I said, but only extended your own attacks.
:-(
Certainly. You know, the best way to help prevent personal attacks is to use your own personal attacks. It's like an anti-missile missile missile system.
I remember around the same time how the phrase "white devil" was exploding among black muslims, and Muslims leaders opining about the world of destruction that white man was causing the black community, and the need for groups like the black panthers to violently rise up against the white man considered "protected by the first amendment".
Yes, which, of course, justifies calling muslims names, and especially blank panthers, because well you know... they're calling us names so we have to do it too otherwise our anti-missile missile missile system will be overpowered.
Wow, that's a nice quote, can you please link the source?
Why I'd love to. Here's me blogging about it Sadly, the news site it was on took it down. It's good to know that even sometimes Republicans realize that their speech is a bit over the top. Like when Vox Day questioned Bush's assertion that we can't deport 11 million immigrants, considering after all the Nazi's got rid of six million Jews in only 4 years. They edited the op-ed over at WorldNetDaily, but plenty of people commented on their enthusiasm for the cause.
Oh, but hey, look at this... I found another person commenting on your friend saying how great it was for Africans to become Americans through slavery.
As I recall, it was the first Republican President Lincoln that used his executive powers to end slavery. And it was Republicans who were 79% in favor of the Civil Rights act of 1964, and Democrats who opposed it by 63%. Oh, and lets not forget than when Democrats tried to filibuster the bill, it was the 81% of Republicans that could have unilaterally ended the filibuster.
Obviously this proves that Democrats are all racists! HA! LOL! Where do you get this shit? Is there some sort of secret "How to be a moonbat" manual? If so, I'd love to read it.
Hey, you know. Back in 1964 it was a Republican who authored the Civil Rights Act, true. But it only passed with the aid of Democrats like Hubert H. Humphrey, Mike Mansfield, Lyndon B. Johnson and not to mention John F. Kennedy. Obviously, according to you this proves the Democrats were all racists.
But which party did Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond and the other filibusterers switch to later on? And which Republican Presidential candidate campaigned against the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Admittedly Goldwater did later in his life regret his involvement with that. But it's obvious from looking at the map which party opposed Civil Rights that year. The Republican party is no longer the party of Lincoln. It hasn't been since 1964. Abraham Lincoln today would be called a traitor to his country by the members of the modern GOP.
You know for a fact why? Because Google issued a press release, or because the proprietor told you? Because we all know presumanbly political websites have no interest in exposure or fund raising.
Because he said so himself on his blog.
Anyway, feel free to call me a lunatic any time.
You can prove me wrong by offering him a choice between death or life-long drug dependence and showing that he chooses death.
That's what he said he choose. Your claiming that you think you know better than him.
Christ, what is it with you people? Why can't you just mind your own fucking business, and let the rest of us well enough alone.