Don't forget....those 92,160 customers aren't all using 512k all the time. The cable companies could over subscribe by at least at 2 to 1 ratio and double their monthly income on that DS3.
And they still manage to make a clusterfuck out of it.
How will they tell that someone is using NAT? Are they actually going to examine packets looking for matching source and destination ports??? What if I want to hide my computer behind private IP for security? These boneheads don't want computer savvy people as customers, they want computer dolts that can't keep their machines virus and trojan free and cost them money!
I operate a bunch of computers behind a NAT, SPI firewall on a cable modem connection with anti-virus and my own DNS server! I'm their smallest liablity since I don't stress their DNS servers, I trouble-shoot my own problems (their tech support sucks anyway) and I pay my monthly bill.
They should want more customers like me; not less.
Why becuase I work hard and i'm proud of my accomplishments? Yeah, with that attitude you'll go far.....how much do fry cooks at McDonalds make these days?
Yup, it's a balancing act. You've got to decide what works for you. Some people like contract/temp work, some people don't. (I would rather have a lower paying "permanent" position as well.)
I can see sticking up for the hard laborers of this country they do very valuable things, but don't put down my education, or hard work.
Most of the posts here seem to say that if you went to college you were born in a well funded area of the country that has wonderful schools, and that put you on a so-called "golden elevator".
SCREW YOU! I worked my ass off in high-school taking college prep courses, AP computer science, and Calculus I so that I could do well on my SATs and get college loans!
I paid for college with loans and I am still paying for college. It was hard as hell; I did 3 years in EE before switching to CS. A "golden elevator" didn't give me a high-school diploma, a college degree, or my current job...I HAD TO WORK MY ASS OFF FOR THEM AND SO DID MY CLASSMATES AND CO-WORKERS!
I am offended that because I am successful, some people assume that my parents gave me everything or that I didn't work for it. The path to success isn't a "golden elevator" it's a rickety wooden ladder....you've got to climb it yourself!
Carol the Secretary: My kid is failing all his classes, i'm hoping he'll get a job in computers.
Dilbert: What, carrying them?
Seriously, I know guys who have comp. sci. degrees and they can't find jobs so they applied for admission into masters and doctoral programs at other schools to avoid having to pay back college loans. What's better? A bachelor's degree in comp. sci. and $25,000 debt, or a PhD. and $100,000 debt? I guess either is prefferable to debt with no job at all.
"Q. Does DIVA mp3 player support Microdrives?
A. Compact Flash Card Type I has the same configuration as Compact Flash Card Type II and IBM Microdrive, but they are a little bit thicker, also they have higher power consumption. The current model doesn't support them.
We are under development of a new model that will support CFC II and IBM."
I've got to admit. I don't really like HP PCs but I do like their printers; especially their laserjet and color laserjet lines.
Now Fiorina says she NEEDS Compaq to save its printer business??? HUH? Who else really competes with HP for mid-volume laser printing? I can see wanting to lose that low-margin HP inkjet business (gee, an apollo printer for $49.00 is hurting our margins? I can't imagine why?)
The bottom line is that HP needs to get rid of Fiorina and put an Engineer-CEO in her place. Intel ran into similar problems about 2 years ago when marketing and business people started directing the company instead of engineers. Non-engineers will always have a hard time running a technology company because they don't have the technical ability to concentrate on innovative, high-quality products.
HP board of directors take my advice. Dump Fiorina and sell that stupid aircraft she bought with your money, and put an Engineer in charge of that company.
Ask any pharmaceutical or biotech company what happens when one of their products fails and someone is injured. They'll tell you often times there are criminal as well as civil penalties. If Ford had to make a safe Pinto, why shouldn't software vendors be forced to make secure software?
Many will argue that bad software isn't life threatening, and therefore doesn't require stiff penalites, I say baloney! If the firmware that controls the hydraulic systems on an aircraft fails in flight you probably won't survive. If your database on your e-commerce site gets hacked due to a "buffer overflow" error, and all your credit cards get out on the web, shouldn't someone be held liable for the damages...or are we going to let the insurance industry just mop up the dammage and pay for it with higher premiums.
There has to be some accountablity for negligent behavior.
I used to work for two brothers that were coding (seperately) modules for a project. Their code looked almost identical; variable names the same, data structures and algorithms almost identical...
These two both had the same training, and guess what...their code looked really similar.
Besides, how many different ways can you code "hello world" without failing for using inefficient/bad programming style?
Many people compare the complexity/simplicity of cars and televisions with computers. The problem with this comparison is that single purpose "appliances" are being compared with a general purpose computer. It's very hard to design an "easy to use" computer since the computer maker (and OS designer) does not know what the computer will be used for. Computers are much easier to use than they were 8-10 years ago, but they have a way to go....especially when it comes to securing them.
Now, as I age, I realize that technology does not exist for its own good. People want to accomplish tasks quickly easily and reliably. Computer designs still have not accomplished all three yet. I'm a network administrator and I get paid well...guess why....because computers suck and I know how to secure them and make them work.
Maybe a day will come when average joe can network his whole office and won't need me; but at the rate technology is going, i'll have job security for life.
I like the idea of publicly funded and availible code, but you can't apply this principle to other publicly funded things like law enforcement or the military.
Our tax dollars paid for lots of Humvee's but i'm sure the military won't let me drive one, or take one apart.
"Additionally a local AppleTalk wireless datalink provides wireless connectivity to compatible portable computers used in or within about 100 feet of the crew cab."
I seem to remember a time long ago when wordperfect was the dominant software for word processing. Why doesn't the wordperfect corporation have a monopoly on word processing? Why aren't we sending each other wordperfect docs. You know why.
Wordperfect got pushed aside by word because the majority of people liked it better.
I don't care what word processing software is dominant, I like them all. I do, however, like standards, and so does the business community.
-ted
P.S. I wouldn't hire anyone that didn't have the resources to at least know someone that owns a machine with word.
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George Bush and congress are considering Government incentives to build out nation wide high-speed (whatever they think that is) internet access.
So with our Government on the case we should all have 1.5 Mbps in about 30-40 years.
Don't forget....those 92,160 customers aren't all using 512k all the time. The cable companies could over subscribe by at least at 2 to 1 ratio and double their monthly income on that DS3.
And they still manage to make a clusterfuck out of it.
-ted
How will they tell that someone is using NAT? Are they actually going to examine packets looking for matching source and destination ports??? What if I want to hide my computer behind private IP for security? These boneheads don't want computer savvy people as customers, they want computer dolts that can't keep their machines virus and trojan free and cost them money!
I operate a bunch of computers behind a NAT, SPI firewall on a cable modem connection with anti-virus and my own DNS server! I'm their smallest liablity since I don't stress their DNS servers, I trouble-shoot my own problems (their tech support sucks anyway) and I pay my monthly bill.
They should want more customers like me; not less.
-ted
I wish I could mod this one up. Very Funny.
-ted
I was wiring a 3 phase 220 outlet and I got hit with 220. It thew me clear across the room. I guess this would qualify me as "electrically sensitive".
-ted
Why becuase I work hard and i'm proud of my accomplishments? Yeah, with that attitude you'll go far.....how much do fry cooks at McDonalds make these days?
Yup, it's a balancing act. You've got to decide what works for you. Some people like contract/temp work, some people don't. (I would rather have a lower paying "permanent" position as well.)
Best of luck,
-ted
I'm open to suggestion, please don't include ones that involve crime, or lottery tickets.
P.S. I don't have kids, but some day, if I work hard i'll be able to afford them.
The only difference between Amazon and Enron is that Amazon's debts are actually on the books.
-ted
Now i'm pissed.
I can see sticking up for the hard laborers of this country they do very valuable things, but don't put down my education, or hard work.
Most of the posts here seem to say that if you went to college you were born in a well funded area of the country that has wonderful schools, and that put you on a so-called "golden elevator".
SCREW YOU! I worked my ass off in high-school taking college prep courses, AP computer science, and Calculus I so that I could do well on my SATs and get college loans!
I paid for college with loans and I am still paying for college. It was hard as hell; I did 3 years in EE before switching to CS. A "golden elevator" didn't give me a high-school diploma, a college degree, or my current job...I HAD TO WORK MY ASS OFF FOR THEM AND SO DID MY CLASSMATES AND CO-WORKERS!
I am offended that because I am successful, some people assume that my parents gave me everything or that I didn't work for it. The path to success isn't a "golden elevator" it's a rickety wooden ladder....you've got to climb it yourself!
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Reminds me of a Dilbert comic:
Carol the Secretary: My kid is failing all his classes, i'm hoping he'll get a job in computers.
Dilbert: What, carrying them?
Seriously, I know guys who have comp. sci. degrees and they can't find jobs so they applied for admission into masters and doctoral programs at other schools to avoid having to pay back college loans. What's better? A bachelor's degree in comp. sci. and $25,000 debt, or a PhD. and $100,000 debt? I guess either is prefferable to debt with no job at all.
-ted
From their website:
"Q. Does DIVA mp3 player support Microdrives?
A. Compact Flash Card Type I has the same configuration as Compact Flash Card Type II and IBM Microdrive, but they are a little bit thicker, also they have higher power consumption. The current model doesn't support them.
We are under development of a new model that will support CFC II and IBM."
I've got to admit. I don't really like HP PCs but I do like their printers; especially their laserjet and color laserjet lines.
Now Fiorina says she NEEDS Compaq to save its printer business??? HUH? Who else really competes with HP for mid-volume laser printing? I can see wanting to lose that low-margin HP inkjet business (gee, an apollo printer for $49.00 is hurting our margins? I can't imagine why?)
The bottom line is that HP needs to get rid of Fiorina and put an Engineer-CEO in her place. Intel ran into similar problems about 2 years ago when marketing and business people started directing the company instead of engineers. Non-engineers will always have a hard time running a technology company because they don't have the technical ability to concentrate on innovative, high-quality products.
HP board of directors take my advice. Dump Fiorina and sell that stupid aircraft she bought with your money, and put an Engineer in charge of that company.
-ted
Ask any pharmaceutical or biotech company what happens when one of their products fails and someone is injured. They'll tell you often times there are criminal as well as civil penalties. If Ford had to make a safe Pinto, why shouldn't software vendors be forced to make secure software?
Many will argue that bad software isn't life threatening, and therefore doesn't require stiff penalites, I say baloney! If the firmware that controls the hydraulic systems on an aircraft fails in flight you probably won't survive. If your database on your e-commerce site gets hacked due to a "buffer overflow" error, and all your credit cards get out on the web, shouldn't someone be held liable for the damages...or are we going to let the insurance industry just mop up the dammage and pay for it with higher premiums.
There has to be some accountablity for negligent behavior.
-ted
I used to work for two brothers that were coding (seperately) modules for a project. Their code looked almost identical; variable names the same, data structures and algorithms almost identical...
These two both had the same training, and guess what...their code looked really similar.
Besides, how many different ways can you code "hello world" without failing for using inefficient/bad programming style?
-ted
Many people compare the complexity/simplicity of cars and televisions with computers. The problem with this comparison is that single purpose "appliances" are being compared with a general purpose computer. It's very hard to design an "easy to use" computer since the computer maker (and OS designer) does not know what the computer will be used for. Computers are much easier to use than they were 8-10 years ago, but they have a way to go....especially when it comes to securing them.
-ted
Now, as I age, I realize that technology does not exist for its own good. People want to accomplish tasks quickly easily and reliably. Computer designs still have not accomplished all three yet. I'm a network administrator and I get paid well...guess why....because computers suck and I know how to secure them and make them work.
Maybe a day will come when average joe can network his whole office and won't need me; but at the rate technology is going, i'll have job security for life.
I like the idea of publicly funded and availible code, but you can't apply this principle to other publicly funded things like law enforcement or the military.
Our tax dollars paid for lots of Humvee's but i'm sure the military won't let me drive one, or take one apart.
-ted
I found its one flaw:
"Additionally a local AppleTalk wireless datalink provides wireless connectivity to compatible portable computers used in or within about 100 feet of the crew cab."
Why appletalk?
-ted
I've bought three RIO products in the past 6 months; A RIO receiver, a RIO car, and a RIO PSA play 120.
Support for these products ended within a month of purchase. No new software or bug fixes are availible for any of these products.
Will I buy another Sonic Blue product ever? No way!
-ted
I'm a cablevision customer in NJ.
I routinely get between 4-8mbps down. I don't know what my upload speeds are, but I do know it can flood a T1 (1.5 mbps).
I have family cable (not many premium channels since TV is mostly crap anyway).
I pay $79.99/mo. My telephone bill is roughly $40-$50/mo(verizon NJ). That totals $130.00.
What the hell are these guys going to give me for the extra $100.00? I might pay for static IP and no port blocking for an extra $50.00/mo.
You shouldn't smoke crack. It makes AOLTW $230.00/mo idea look good to wall st.
-ted
Hah! No defense for that. You are right.
-ted
I seem to remember a time long ago when wordperfect was the dominant software for word processing. Why doesn't the wordperfect corporation have a monopoly on word processing? Why aren't we sending each other wordperfect docs. You know why.
Wordperfect got pushed aside by word because the majority of people liked it better.
I don't care what word processing software is dominant, I like them all. I do, however, like standards, and so does the business community.
-ted
P.S. I wouldn't hire anyone that didn't have the resources to at least know someone that owns a machine with word.
I know quite a few ISPs that host on PC powered Solaris machines. Their "big iron" runs on SUN hardware, but little hosting jobs are done on PC boxes, not EXPENSIVE sun boxes.
Looks like a winner for linux and apache!
-ted
This is new technology???
-ted