// So Google did get to the front doors of all the people in Kansas City, and Charter and AT&T couldn't stop them, because the city agreed to it.//
As a Kansas City-area resident, I'm afraid this is not the case. I don't know anyone that lives in Kansas City, KS that currently has access to Google Fiber services, or that has seen any trucks or workers in their neighborhood.
Google has been very short on public details with this entire project, and this launch that the article is referring to has to refer to a very limited and localized deployment.
'A Google spokeswoman would not say whether the announcement actually means somebody in Kansas City will finally get a light-speed connection next week.
I don't disagree with what you are saying at all, but I am curious:
Who is going to do the educating, exactly, and how? It's not like you can force people to learn things they don't want to learn. You don't need a license to use a computer or the Internet.
Make no mistake, there are actively, willfully ignorant users all over the place. They know what they need to do to learn more - use the computer more. But they don't want to, because using the system is not an enjoyable, rewarding experience. It's more like they approach it with a sense of dread -- "I could click or do something wrong and just ruin the damn thing!" Consider also that even the cheapest pc still costs a few hundred dollars, which is a lot of money for some folks.
They'd rather just have someone that already knows how to use a computer fix their issue for them, thereby separating the world into the haves and have nots (or in this case, know and know nots) that we have today.
Very interesting stuff. David is a very smart guy and has been there and done that in the music biz, from all sides of the equation. He interviews several folks in the industry as well.
It won't let you create an account (even for testing purposes) using servers and settings that it can't "probe".
Working at a tech support firm as I do, the new account wizard that was implemented with TB3 is an absolute nightmare for users. I like TB better than MS mail clients in general, but they make us and our users' lives far more difficult than need be.
Do away with the "autoconfiguration" crap and just let people specify what they want, or at least make it optional to have TB "autodetect" everything, for cripes' sake. What's wrong with letting the end-user configure an account using any settings they want?
So how you wanna kick it? Gonna kick it root down! So how we gonna kick it? Gonna kick it root down! So how we gonna kick it? Gonna kick it root down! Break it on down, gonna kick it root down
It's not a putdown, I put my foot down And then I'm makin' some love, I put my root down Like 'Sweetie Pie' by the Stone Alliance Everybody knows I'm known for droppin' science
Beasties -- ahead of their time AND helping save Admins everywhere the trouble of statically configuring ARIN’s trust anchors.
On the other hand, there is a website know where you can enter the MAC address of a router, and it will give you the location of that router, based on data on Google's servers.
Is that this site? I'm sure there are more, but this one only took about a minute to find (via Google of course):
Exactly what I was going to say. It's almost as if Google chose an economically depressed but large city on purpose, to show what effects just having ultra-fast Internet will have on economic, business and educational development in a metropolitan area, to point to and say "Look what we did here, we turned this city around completely."
And even though I wholeheartedly agree that there are lots of parts in Wyandotte County that I would fear to even drive through, there is also Village West and all the new development out there to take into account.
The more I think about it, the more this starts to make sense. And I have to look on the bright side, eventually it has to be built out to the entire Greater KC area...right?
When I say wireless, I don't mean cellular and I don't mean wifi, it's some local provider for some corner of our county delivering wireless internet on a licensed spectrum.
Until it can deliver the beer at the optimum serving temperature for the style, remove a cork & cage, choose the right type of glass and pour it leaving the sediment in the bottom of the bottle (if there is any), not interested.
I work for a tech support firm in the US, supporting a number of different ISPs, and at least a handful of them actively enforce a "three strikes" rule, once they are notified by media watchdog companies that a certain IP address that's assigned to them is guilty of copyright infringement.
It goes first strike - cut off service till you contact the main office and sign a document to indicate that you've removed the copyrighted material from your pc. Second strike - same deal, except you lose your service for 3-7 days. Third strike, they cancel your service permanently.
I'm kinda surprised this story is making/.
"When Hiro hit the switch, I was dreaming of Paris, dreaming of wet, dark streets in winter. The pain came oscillating up from the floor of my skull, exploding behind my eyes in a wall of blue neon; I jackknifed up out of the mesh hammock, screaming. I always scream; I make a point of it. Feedback raged in my skull. The pain switch is an auxiliary circuit in the bonephone implant, patched directly into the pain centers, just the thing for cutting through a surrogate's barbiturate fog. It took a few seconds for my life to fall together, icebergs of biography looming through the fog: who I was, where I was, what I was doing there, who was waking me. Hiro's voice came crackling into my head through the bone-conduction implant. 'Damn, Toby. Know what it does to my ears, you scream like that?'"
Definitely not alone in this. I've played a hell of a lot of NWN/NWN2 and have therefore grown quite accustomed to flexible camera control options in my top-down RPGs published by Bioware. The fact that Dragon Age doesn't support this is extremely frustrating.
Sweet! How long before I can ditch my meat eyes and spend my hard-earned ¥ on some Zeiss models with integrated lowlight, thermographic and flare compensation? I got Essence to burn!!
Yep, I just bought a factory overclocked 8800GT (ZOTAC Amp! Edition, to be specific) for $117 a couple of weeks ago. It does indeed run Crysis, COD4, Assassin's Creed, etc. at very high quality and framerates. And NVIDIA just released driver update 178.13 today, with the following changes:
# WHQL-certified driver for GeForce 6-series, 7-series, 8-series, 9-series, and 200-series GPUs, including the newly released GeForce 9800 GTX+, 9800 GT, 9500 GT, and 9400 GT GPUs. # Adds support for NVIDIA PhysX acceleration on all GeForce 8-series, 9-series and 200-series GPUs with a minimum of 256MB dedicated graphics memory (this driver package installs NVIDIA PhysX System Software v8.09.04). # Experience GPU PhysX acceleration in several full games and demos today by downloading the GeForce Power Pack. # Adds support for 2-way NVIDIA SLI technology with GeForce GTX 200-series GPUs on Intel® D5400XS motherboards. # Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI(TM) technology* on DirectX 9 and OpenGL. # Supports CUDA(TM). # Supports Folding@home distributing computing application. Download the high performance client for NVIDIA GPUs here and join the NVIDIA team: #131015. # Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software. # Includes several 3D application performance improvements. The following are examples of improvements measured with v178.13 WHQL versus v175.19 WHQL driver:
* Single GPU increases up to 11% in 3DMark Vantage (performance preset)
* Single GPU increases up to 11% in Assassin's Creed DX10
* Single GPU increases up to 15% in Bioshock DX10
* Single GPU increases up to 15% in Call of Duty 4
* Single GPU increases up to 8% in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
* 2-way SLI increases up to 7% in Bioshock DX10
* 2-way SLI increases up to 10% in Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts DX10
* 2-way SLI increases up to 12% in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
* 2-way SLI increases up to 10% in World in Conflict DX10
# Includes numerous 3D application compatibility fixes. Please read the release notes for more information on product support, features, driver fixes and known compatibility issues.
The developers of Firefox removed the option to disable third party cookies in Firefox 2.0 and later, stating the reason that it was not possible to block all third party cookies with this function.
There are basically two options to disable third party cookies in Firefox 2 versions.
The first would be to disable it manually by opening about:config from the address bar. Search for network.cookie.cookieBehavior and take a look a the value. If it is set to 0 you accept all cookies, 1 means you only accept cookies from the same server, 2 means you disable all cookies. Setting it to 1 has the same effect that the option in the old firefox browsers had: it disables third party cookies.
You could install an add-on as well that blocks third party cookies. One of the many extensions that does that is called CookieSafe. This one makes it possible to disable all cookies and allow them only for specific sites (whitelist).
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// So Google did get to the front doors of all the people in Kansas City, and Charter and AT&T couldn't stop them, because the city agreed to it. //
As a Kansas City-area resident, I'm afraid this is not the case. I don't know anyone that lives in Kansas City, KS that currently has access to Google Fiber services, or that has seen any trucks or workers in their neighborhood.
Google has been very short on public details with this entire project, and this launch that the article is referring to has to refer to a very limited and localized deployment.
Keep in mind that physical installation did not even begin until this past February: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytjn-5_li-I
'A Google spokeswoman would not say whether the announcement actually means somebody in Kansas City will finally get a light-speed connection next week.
"We're excited to announce more information Google Fiber next week," said Jenna Wandres. "We haven't elaborated on what arriving means."'
http://www.kansascity.com/2012/07/18/3711326/google-fiber-to-make-july-26-announcement.html#storylink=misearch
I'll be curious to eventually find out who has access to it, exactly, and how long it'll be before any significant portions of the city are lit up.
Especially the stories of Elric of Melnibone / Stormbringer series -- very good fantasy series.
It's a reference to this SNL commercial, I think:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/2340/saturday-night-live-old-glory
...not to drop it.
I don't disagree with what you are saying at all, but I am curious:
Who is going to do the educating, exactly, and how? It's not like you can force people to learn things they don't want to learn. You don't need a license to use a computer or the Internet.
Make no mistake, there are actively, willfully ignorant users all over the place. They know what they need to do to learn more - use the computer more. But they don't want to, because using the system is not an enjoyable, rewarding experience. It's more like they approach it with a sense of dread -- "I could click or do something wrong and just ruin the damn thing!" Consider also that even the cheapest pc still costs a few hundred dollars, which is a lot of money for some folks.
They'd rather just have someone that already knows how to use a computer fix their issue for them, thereby separating the world into the haves and have nots (or in this case, know and know nots) that we have today.
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-01/ff_byrne?currentPage=all
Very interesting stuff. David is a very smart guy and has been there and done that in the music biz, from all sides of the equation. He interviews several folks in the industry as well.
It won't let you create an account (even for testing purposes) using servers and settings that it can't "probe".
Working at a tech support firm as I do, the new account wizard that was implemented with TB3 is an absolute nightmare for users. I like TB better than MS mail clients in general, but they make us and our users' lives far more difficult than need be.
Do away with the "autoconfiguration" crap and just let people specify what they want, or at least make it optional to have TB "autodetect" everything, for cripes' sake. What's wrong with letting the end-user configure an account using any settings they want?
...I don't have a facebook/myspace/twitter/socialnetworkingsiteofthemonth account.
Can't find what's not there!
So how you wanna kick it?
Gonna kick it root down!
So how we gonna kick it?
Gonna kick it root down!
So how we gonna kick it?
Gonna kick it root down!
Break it on down, gonna kick it root down
It's not a putdown, I put my foot down
And then I'm makin' some love, I put my root down
Like 'Sweetie Pie' by the Stone Alliance
Everybody knows I'm known for droppin' science
Beasties -- ahead of their time AND helping save Admins everywhere the trouble of statically configuring ARIN’s trust anchors.
On the other hand, there is a website know where you can enter the MAC address of a router, and it will give you the location of that router, based on data on Google's servers.
Is that this site? I'm sure there are more, but this one only took about a minute to find (via Google of course):
http://www.samy.pl/mapxss/
Exactly what I was going to say. It's almost as if Google chose an economically depressed but large city on purpose, to show what effects just having ultra-fast Internet will have on economic, business and educational development in a metropolitan area, to point to and say "Look what we did here, we turned this city around completely."
And even though I wholeheartedly agree that there are lots of parts in Wyandotte County that I would fear to even drive through, there is also Village West and all the new development out there to take into account.
The more I think about it, the more this starts to make sense. And I have to look on the bright side, eventually it has to be built out to the entire Greater KC area...right?
Speaking as someone who lives 10 miles away from KCK, I would just like to say
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
So close! And yet so far.
When I say wireless, I don't mean cellular and I don't mean wifi, it's some local provider for some corner of our county delivering wireless internet on a licensed spectrum.
The actual term for this is "fixed wireless".
The More You Know
It seems in this modern age, we've forgotten about the evil villain Mr. Coffee Nerves!
http://www.lileks.com/comics/coffnerv/coff1/index.html
Until it can deliver the beer at the optimum serving temperature for the style, remove a cork & cage, choose the right type of glass and pour it leaving the sediment in the bottom of the bottle (if there is any), not interested.
As far as I'm aware, zero.
I've even talked to end-users myself who had no knowledge of file-sharing (i.e., they were elderly), and the telco treated them no differently.
The user did, however, have an unsecured wireless router in place. I helped them secure it.
I work for a tech support firm in the US, supporting a number of different ISPs, and at least a handful of them actively enforce a "three strikes" rule, once they are notified by media watchdog companies that a certain IP address that's assigned to them is guilty of copyright infringement. It goes first strike - cut off service till you contact the main office and sign a document to indicate that you've removed the copyrighted material from your pc. Second strike - same deal, except you lose your service for 3-7 days. Third strike, they cancel your service permanently. I'm kinda surprised this story is making /.
Shift into neutral. I haven't seen this anywhere as part of the many Toyota-related discussions around the world, so figured I'd mention it.
"When Hiro hit the switch, I was dreaming of Paris, dreaming of wet, dark streets in winter. The pain came oscillating up from the floor of my skull, exploding behind my eyes in a wall of blue neon; I jackknifed up out of the mesh hammock, screaming. I always scream; I make a point of it. Feedback raged in my skull. The pain switch is an auxiliary circuit in the bonephone implant, patched directly into the pain centers, just the thing for cutting through a surrogate's barbiturate fog. It took a few seconds for my life to fall together, icebergs of biography looming through the fog: who I was, where I was, what I was doing there, who was waking me. Hiro's voice came crackling into my head through the bone-conduction implant. 'Damn, Toby. Know what it does to my ears, you scream like that?'"
Definitely not alone in this. I've played a hell of a lot of NWN/NWN2 and have therefore grown quite accustomed to flexible camera control options in my top-down RPGs published by Bioware. The fact that Dragon Age doesn't support this is extremely frustrating.
Sweet! How long before I can ditch my meat eyes and spend my hard-earned ¥ on some Zeiss models with integrated lowlight, thermographic and flare compensation? I got Essence to burn!!
Yep, you're right. I have a single 19" LCD that maxes out at 1280 X 1024.
Yep, I just bought a factory overclocked 8800GT (ZOTAC Amp! Edition, to be specific) for $117 a couple of weeks ago. It does indeed run Crysis, COD4, Assassin's Creed, etc. at very high quality and framerates. And NVIDIA just released driver update 178.13 today, with the following changes:
# WHQL-certified driver for GeForce 6-series, 7-series, 8-series, 9-series, and 200-series GPUs, including the newly released GeForce 9800 GTX+, 9800 GT, 9500 GT, and 9400 GT GPUs.
# Adds support for NVIDIA PhysX acceleration on all GeForce 8-series, 9-series and 200-series GPUs with a minimum of 256MB dedicated graphics memory (this driver package installs NVIDIA PhysX System Software v8.09.04).
# Experience GPU PhysX acceleration in several full games and demos today by downloading the GeForce Power Pack.
# Adds support for 2-way NVIDIA SLI technology with GeForce GTX 200-series GPUs on Intel® D5400XS motherboards.
# Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI(TM) technology* on DirectX 9 and OpenGL.
# Supports CUDA(TM).
# Supports Folding@home distributing computing application. Download the high performance client for NVIDIA GPUs here and join the NVIDIA team: #131015.
# Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software.
# Includes several 3D application performance improvements. The following are examples of improvements measured with v178.13 WHQL versus v175.19 WHQL driver:
* Single GPU increases up to 11% in 3DMark Vantage (performance preset)
* Single GPU increases up to 11% in Assassin's Creed DX10
* Single GPU increases up to 15% in Bioshock DX10
* Single GPU increases up to 15% in Call of Duty 4
* Single GPU increases up to 8% in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
* 2-way SLI increases up to 7% in Bioshock DX10
* 2-way SLI increases up to 10% in Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts DX10
* 2-way SLI increases up to 12% in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
* 2-way SLI increases up to 10% in World in Conflict DX10
# Includes numerous 3D application compatibility fixes. Please read the release notes for more information on product support, features, driver fixes and known compatibility issues.
The developers of Firefox removed the option to disable third party cookies in Firefox 2.0 and later, stating the reason that it was not possible to block all third party cookies with this function.
There are basically two options to disable third party cookies in Firefox 2 versions.
The first would be to disable it manually by opening about:config from the address bar. Search for network.cookie.cookieBehavior and take a look a the value. If it is set to 0 you accept all cookies, 1 means you only accept cookies from the same server, 2 means you disable all cookies. Setting it to 1 has the same effect that the option in the old firefox browsers had: it disables third party cookies.
You could install an add-on as well that blocks third party cookies. One of the many extensions that does that is called CookieSafe. This one makes it possible to disable all cookies and allow them only for specific sites (whitelist).
If you consider SMTP to be part of the Internet, I highly disagree.
SMTP was never designed to do what it does today, and must be replaced as quickly as possible. It's been obsolete for a long while now.