Most ISP's purchase bandwidth from a tier 1 or tier 2 or tier 3 provider for a set monthly rate that allows a certain amount of traffic each month and for a specified bandwidth. If the ISP doesn't utilize all of the bandwidth it doesn't rollover, and if they go over they either get charged a premium or the traffic don't go through. ISPs will generally attempt to become tier 2 or even tier 1 through peering with other ISP to reduce costs. How much any bit costs varies depending on how much or if they pay a tier 1 or 2 for bandwidth and how efficiently they use the bandwidth. Transferring a 1/2 GB at 3 or 4 am is probably at no additional cost for the ISP because the bandwidth would just be going down the drain anyways, but the same amount at 7 or 8 pm could be at premium rates and very expensive for the ISP because that's when everybody is online; in short even the ISP don't really know what a given byte costs to transfer, they just know the averages.
The biggest conflict here is that the ISP's especially Comcast are encouraging the comsumers with advertisements suggesting high speed, unlimited internet access and the consumers are taking them at their word and behaving as if they are a tier 1 provider giving them a pipe capable of pumping 7Mbs down and 256kBs up 24/7/365 when in reality they are an under-provisioned tier 3. They are getting by simply because they are the best of the worst and can pick off less than mainstream protocols like bittorrent to take up the slack; but sooner or later there are going to be too many Grandmas pissed off because they can't use their "Unlimited Hi-Speed" to connect their high Definition webcam to their grandchildren, then you'll see the fur fly.
As a consumer, I want my internet experience to be as fast as possible. The last thing I want slowing my internet service down are Dallas Mavericks owner freeloaders, so to improve my internet experience I uninstalled flash, which lets the official website of the mavericks load a hell of a lot faster and I don't get " slow script in Flash movie" warnings!
Mark Cuban owns a NBA basketball team and has a flashcraptic web site that distributes video clips. These Pro sports owners think if you pay $50 bucks to sit in the stadium and take a picture of the game you infringing on their copyrights; he'd gladly sacrifice the ability of 100 starving artists to make a buck so his team could get an 8 cent advertising impression. A profession sports team owner is hardly an unbiassed opinion on P2P and network utilization.
No what I'm saying is two people who are fed the same number of excess calories, the person who does the weight bearing exercise will not gain as much fat and the second person. The conventional wisdom has always been 3500 Kcal = one pound of fat, and that anyone who consumes 3500 Kcals more than they burn will gain one pound of fat, and it doesn't matter what kind of food the calories come from because a Kcal is a Kcal.
I've found in most fields conventional wisdom isn't, wisdom that is. Conventional wisdom is usually a mish-mash of wife's tales, invalid logic and a modicum of faulty statistics and usually spouted by intelligent and learned people who should otherwise know better but stick to unproven dogma.
Here's some unconventional wisdom for you, in order to get fat, it takes insulin to move the glucose from your blood to inside the adipose tissues, if you are doing weight bearing exercises (anything from walking to weight-lifting), your muscles become more sensitive to the insulin and your body requires less to maintain a proper blood-sugar levels and less insulin means less fat! That's why you've lost the weight and why calorie restricted diets normally fail. Sure you can lost weight on a "diet" but it always seems to come back if the dieter isn't exercising.
So when did we ever really eat like a predator? Who has the best chance for harvesting some prey, some Neanderthals hunting with obsidian spear and arrow heads mounted on crooked wooden shafts or me with my high carbon steel broad heads sharpened to razor sharpness, mounted on perfectly straight carbon composite shafts shot with a 100 pound, hi-let-off compound bow at prey attracted to my bait with pheromone based sex attractants? Damned straight I'm more likely to harvest a Deer and you know what, I still get skunked some years and there are a hell of a lot more deer in the woods and farmlands now that the wolves and saber-toothed tigers are gone Meat was a luxury, roots, tubers, berries and other veggies were the staples.
The best defense is an active defense, I periodically check my name, my screen names, and my passwords against Google to see it what says. My passwords is in there but not as a password nor in English, but the md5sum isn't, my name is in there and there is an international registry of people with my name, and everything that comes up in my/. user-name is mine except one is a quotation of one of my posting in someones PhD thesis, boy how hard-up is that?
TFA was really hard to read, in one part they made it sound like we might run out of backbone capacity, but most of it sounded like the problem would be in the ISP's network! I'm not sure the article is coherent. I think it was too much cut and paste and not enough editing. But anyways I'm sure if Comcast, AT&T or Verizon told a tier 1 that they wanted another couple OC738's of backbone into their data-centers it would happen PDQ.
So you're suggesting that the judge is corrupt and prejudicial and that this case was not decided on its merits. that's the Verdict Coming For "Penis Pump" Judge, it gives "meet me in chambers" a whole new meaning.
I'd think all of those sites would be big-time enough to handle their own adserver and sales; in fact I'm amazed that MLB allows anyone else a cut of the action when they don't have to.
I may have stumbled across a couple yesterday, after following a link, opera crashed like it was pole-axed! I went back in firefox and the same thing happened. Then my computer started to become unresponsive so I opened up system-guard and the linker was running 2 instances and sucking up 95% of the CPU, memory and swap space. I killed it manually and regained my machine, no proof but the timing makes me believe that it was something on the websites that crashed my browsers that was doing it. Normally I don't block ads because I figure it's an easy way to "pay" for my content, but if the "ads" keep attacking, they're going to get bitchslapped.
yeah that would be how I know that comcast aren't blocking, sealing off the ports the bittorrent protocal communicates blocking, what they are really doing is far more nefarious.
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It's not the glaring bugs, they're easy to trip over, but the subtle ones, or even worst the ones that aren't really bugs but assumptions and approximations that could have been made better. When the proof is made using assumptions, and the assupmtions change we need to re-evaluate the proof, in order to do that we need to have the source code for the programs used.
Ctrl-Alt-Delete operates in the same way as under XP. it doesn't work the same on all of our XP machines on some it brings up task manager on others it brings up a choice screen and the default is lock computer. The second is cool because you can Ctrl-Alt-Delete enter and the machine is locked.
Results 1 - 10 of about 162,000,000 for windows problems. (0.16 seconds) Results 1 - 10 of about 101,000,000 for linux problems. Results 1 - 10 of about 95,000 for windows "sucks ass" Results 1 - 10 of about 44,000 for linux "sucks ass". Results 1 - 10 of about 32,300,000 for vista problems. (0.13 seconds) Results 1 - 10 of about 1,220,000 for RHEL problems. (0.15 seconds So What's your point?
Dude I so agree with you just the other day I downloaded some windows software and saved it on my desktop. Next I right clicked it and then left clicked "run as" admin, The freakin computer told me that admin didn't have permission to open a file on a users desktop! In Linux the superuser root can go anywhere and do anything, in windows the superuser admin is pretty lame! Oh wait your talking about Linux, I thought you were talking about windows DOH.
Wait a minute, why would a newbie user want to transfer a file between different partitions for? Separate Partitions are pretty advanced concepts for a newbie, well outside the default installation parameters.
A lot times a business selects the app, the vertical sells them the hardware and OS , no unapproved software to be installed, and no unapproved updates. The computer and OS is purchased to run the app not the other way around.
XP was quite serviceable upgrade for the desktop segment of business users, sure there were a lot of problems getting legacy software to run properly in an environment where there was an attempt at limited user accounts, but once the vendors got their heads around LUA things were very stable. I don't see what vista brings to the table, it's just the same problems as upgrading to XP but without any obvious benefits. The biggest change in vista is DRM and that only benefits the *IAA's, then they throw in some eye-candy as an afterthought. No reason for business user's to buy into that foolishness.
With Arch Linux I had to poke around in the wiki and do some configuring to get my camera recognized as a usb drive, then it was good for all the cameras and thumb drives I've tried.
I've been using arch linux and upgrades have been boring well other than changing from DevFS to Udev that was exciting. I've been through three major os level upgrades and except for installing Udev they've been non-events.
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Most ISP's purchase bandwidth from a tier 1 or tier 2 or tier 3 provider for a set monthly rate that allows a certain amount of traffic each month and for a specified bandwidth. If the ISP doesn't utilize all of the bandwidth it doesn't rollover, and if they go over they either get charged a premium or the traffic don't go through. ISPs will generally attempt to become tier 2 or even tier 1 through peering with other ISP to reduce costs. How much any bit costs varies depending on how much or if they pay a tier 1 or 2 for bandwidth and how efficiently they use the bandwidth. Transferring a 1/2 GB at 3 or 4 am is probably at no additional cost for the ISP because the bandwidth would just be going down the drain anyways, but the same amount at 7 or 8 pm could be at premium rates and very expensive for the ISP because that's when everybody is online; in short even the ISP don't really know what a given byte costs to transfer, they just know the averages.
The biggest conflict here is that the ISP's especially Comcast are encouraging the comsumers with advertisements suggesting high speed, unlimited internet access and the consumers are taking them at their word and behaving as if they are a tier 1 provider giving them a pipe capable of pumping 7Mbs down and 256kBs up 24/7/365 when in reality they are an under-provisioned tier 3. They are getting by simply because they are the best of the worst and can pick off less than mainstream protocols like bittorrent to take up the slack; but sooner or later there are going to be too many Grandmas pissed off because they can't use their "Unlimited Hi-Speed" to connect their high Definition webcam to their grandchildren, then you'll see the fur fly.
As a consumer, I want my internet experience to be as fast as possible. The last thing I want slowing my internet service down are Dallas Mavericks owner freeloaders, so to improve my internet experience I uninstalled flash, which lets the official website of the mavericks load a hell of a lot faster and I don't get " slow script in Flash movie" warnings!
Mark Cuban owns a NBA basketball team and has a flashcraptic web site that distributes video clips. These Pro sports owners think if you pay $50 bucks to sit in the stadium and take a picture of the game you infringing on their copyrights; he'd gladly sacrifice the ability of 100 starving artists to make a buck so his team could get an 8 cent advertising impression. A profession sports team owner is hardly an unbiassed opinion on P2P and network utilization.
it's not the money, it's the groupies, who cares about money when there is sex involed. Why do yopu think the record label leacher attach so easy?
Yeah that sums it up pretty well, and that's why I have my BT client seeding some CC NCSA music right now.
I don't know, and anybody who says they do is probably guessing.
I used to get all the email addressed to qwerty@poiuyt.com, now that was interesting, I'd get "lost" passwords for every site imaginable.
No what I'm saying is two people who are fed the same number of excess calories, the person who does the weight bearing exercise will not gain as much fat and the second person. The conventional wisdom has always been 3500 Kcal = one pound of fat, and that anyone who consumes 3500 Kcals more than they burn will gain one pound of fat, and it doesn't matter what kind of food the calories come from because a Kcal is a Kcal.
I've found in most fields conventional wisdom isn't, wisdom that is. Conventional wisdom is usually a mish-mash of wife's tales, invalid logic and a modicum of faulty statistics and usually spouted by intelligent and learned people who should otherwise know better but stick to unproven dogma.
Here's some unconventional wisdom for you, in order to get fat, it takes insulin to move the glucose from your blood to inside the adipose tissues, if you are doing weight bearing exercises (anything from walking to weight-lifting), your muscles become more sensitive to the insulin and your body requires less to maintain a proper blood-sugar levels and less insulin means less fat! That's why you've lost the weight and why calorie restricted diets normally fail. Sure you can lost weight on a "diet" but it always seems to come back if the dieter isn't exercising.
So when did we ever really eat like a predator? Who has the best chance for harvesting some prey, some Neanderthals hunting with obsidian spear and arrow heads mounted on crooked wooden shafts or me with my high carbon steel broad heads sharpened to razor sharpness, mounted on perfectly straight carbon composite shafts shot with a 100 pound, hi-let-off compound bow at prey attracted to my bait with pheromone based sex attractants? Damned straight I'm more likely to harvest a Deer and you know what, I still get skunked some years and there are a hell of a lot more deer in the woods and farmlands now that the wolves and saber-toothed tigers are gone Meat was a luxury, roots, tubers, berries and other veggies were the staples.
The best defense is an active defense, I periodically check my name, my screen names, and my passwords against Google to see it what says. My passwords is in there but not as a password nor in English, but the md5sum isn't, my name is in there and there is an international registry of people with my name, and everything that comes up in my /. user-name is mine except one is a quotation of one of my posting in someones PhD thesis, boy how hard-up is that?
TFA was really hard to read, in one part they made it sound like we might run out of backbone capacity, but most of it sounded like the problem would be in the ISP's network! I'm not sure the article is coherent. I think it was too much cut and paste and not enough editing. But anyways I'm sure if Comcast, AT&T or Verizon told a tier 1 that they wanted another couple OC738's of backbone into their data-centers it would happen PDQ.
So you're suggesting that the judge is corrupt and prejudicial and that this case was not decided on its merits.
that's the Verdict Coming For "Penis Pump" Judge, it gives "meet me in chambers" a whole new meaning.
I'd think all of those sites would be big-time enough to handle their own adserver and sales; in fact I'm amazed that MLB allows anyone else a cut of the action when they don't have to.
I may have stumbled across a couple yesterday, after following a link, opera crashed like it was pole-axed! I went back in firefox and the same thing happened. Then my computer started to become unresponsive so I opened up system-guard and the linker was running 2 instances and sucking up 95% of the CPU, memory and swap space. I killed it manually and regained my machine, no proof but the timing makes me believe that it was something on the websites that crashed my browsers that was doing it. Normally I don't block ads because I figure it's an easy way to "pay" for my content, but if the "ads" keep attacking, they're going to get bitchslapped.
yeah that would be how I know that comcast aren't blocking, sealing off the ports the bittorrent protocal communicates blocking, what they are really doing is far more nefarious.
It's not the glaring bugs, they're easy to trip over, but the subtle ones, or even worst the ones that aren't really bugs but assumptions and approximations that could have been made better. When the proof is made using assumptions, and the assupmtions change we need to re-evaluate the proof, in order to do that we need to have the source code for the programs used.
Thanks, I'm and old Linux guy and Windows can throw me sometimes.
Ctrl-Alt-Delete operates in the same way as under XP.
it doesn't work the same on all of our XP machines on some it brings up task manager on others it brings up a choice screen and the default is lock computer. The second is cool because you can Ctrl-Alt-Delete enter and the machine is locked.
Results 1 - 10 of about 162,000,000 for windows problems. (0.16 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 101,000,000 for linux problems.
Results 1 - 10 of about 95,000 for windows "sucks ass"
Results 1 - 10 of about 44,000 for linux "sucks ass".
Results 1 - 10 of about 32,300,000 for vista problems. (0.13 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,220,000 for RHEL problems. (0.15 seconds
So What's your point?
Dude I so agree with you just the other day I downloaded some windows software and saved it on my desktop. Next I right clicked it and then left clicked "run as" admin, The freakin computer told me that admin didn't have permission to open a file on a users desktop! In Linux the superuser root can go anywhere and do anything, in windows the superuser admin is pretty lame! Oh wait your talking about Linux, I thought you were talking about windows DOH.
Wait a minute, why would a newbie user want to transfer a file between different partitions for? Separate Partitions are pretty advanced concepts for a newbie, well outside the default installation parameters.
A lot times a business selects the app, the vertical sells them the hardware and OS , no unapproved software to be installed, and no unapproved updates. The computer and OS is purchased to run the app not the other way around.
XP was quite serviceable upgrade for the desktop segment of business users, sure there were a lot of problems getting legacy software to run properly in an environment where there was an attempt at limited user accounts, but once the vendors got their heads around LUA things were very stable. I don't see what vista brings to the table, it's just the same problems as upgrading to XP but without any obvious benefits. The biggest change in vista is DRM and that only benefits the *IAA's, then they throw in some eye-candy as an afterthought. No reason for business user's to buy into that foolishness.
With Arch Linux I had to poke around in the wiki and do some configuring to get my camera recognized as a usb drive, then it was good for all the cameras and thumb drives I've tried.
I've been using arch linux and upgrades have been boring well other than changing from DevFS to Udev that was exciting. I've been through three major os level upgrades and except for installing Udev they've been non-events.