Let a private provider offer the service, and have each person have their own individual billing account with the provider - then it is their problem and not yours. Otherwise you are stuck with doing tech support, billing, chasing after people that don't pay and dealing with all the typical thankless customer service BS. Plus your fellow condo mates will probably want you to do all of this coordination for free, and assume your time is worth nothing.
When I was in university, I lived in a lodging house with 10 other students. I ran a communal network with one internet feed, a private network, and collecting money from people for "their share". Never again. A complete pain-in-the-ass thankless job, which was definitely not worth the time/aggravation.
All I ask is that if someone submits a bug report to tell me exactly what I need to do to reproduce the bug, and what you want changed.
A good bug report should have enough information in it so a complete stranger can follow a step by step procedure to produce the "bug" and what I need to be looking for. I figure that if I can't reproduce the bug, it doesn't exist (and therefore I don't need to fix it).
btw, if you are a current Bell customer don't even try calling their tech support to complain or ask how to opt out. I just did and the tech support had no idea what a NX Domain Query was, nor did the Supervisor I was transferred to. I even used small words to explain what Bell was doing and they claimed they had no idea what I was talking about. Go figure.
The crux of the problem is that if an ISP says they are providing a "3MiB/s-down with 300kb/s-up" connection, that is what they should be delivering. You can't sell something as one thing and then not deliver it - this is called fraud.
If they can't deliver at the speed they sell it as, then they shouldn't be allowed sell it as the higher speed.
The fact is that they want to be able to promise one thing and then reneg on the delivering the goods. Why do we let them get away with this?
This is why I hate HD. With old analog TV it is technically impossible to do this compressed signal crap. Haven't you noticed now that since the TV stations have gone to digital broadcasts, you get all kinds of weird problems with signals (pixaltion and chunk-outs) and you get nasty pixel-ish compression artifacts. When you had analog this was unheard. Also with the original CRT televisions the phosphors were round which made for a nice smooth picture - not the chunkly looking edges you get with square pixels and limited colour levels.
With digital there are all kinds of horrible things the broadcasters can do to the signals - compression is just one of them.
I think this just underscores that students should be very careful when considering going to a private college/university. Private institutions do not have to stand up to as much scrutiny as public ones. Doesn't matter where the school is located -- the old "I'm privately funded so I can do whatever the hell I want" mentality is a common problem with private institutions.
Every Canadian University I know of has unfiltered access to the Internet. This US-based universiy obviously has no concept of "academic freedom". How can they expect their academics to be able to do any valuable/legit research if they are censoring what they can read?
who cares? You can already by a 64GB usb drive.
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umm... 16GB usb dongle drive made by Toshiba. big deal.
A company called Kanguru has been making a 64GB USB dongle drive for quite a while now.
Everytime I've worked with wireless technology it's been flakey. It's gotten to the point that if friend of mine calls me up and asks for help with their "wireless network", I show up with a roll of Cat5e, RJ45 plugs and a crimper. For 99% of wireless stuff, I just refuse to spend any time trying to get this technology to work. If I want to set somthing up, I want to be able to set it up ONCE and never have to worry about it again.
I've yet to see any wireless implementation that is reliable as wired. Until that gets fixed wires are here to stay.
In Canada we putting location tracking tags (actually ankle bracelets) on prisoners. We do this to track and punish prisoners who are under house arrest. The US and their concept of "freedom" continues to baffle us.
The main reason I say don't do it is because the hassle of collecting money from people is just not worth it. When you set it up, you'll need to set a fee schedule. You'll have people trying to debate with you that "you are making money at their expense", or that they don't think the service is worth it..even if they have already used a month worth of service already. Or someone that just doesn't feel like paying you that month. The time you spend chasing people to pay money can become very onerous. Think of this in addition to getting roped into doing tech support (aka "Why should I pay for something which doesn't work"...even if the doesn't work part is because their computer doesn't work or is not set up right or they mucked with thier computer). For these reasons, I would not do it. It isn't worth it. I resold/shared a internet connection in a house when I was in College - it was a nightmare and a termendous time sink.
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Apart for the "fair use" and legimate users arguments which have been more than brought forward everyone else, the main reason I can see the RIAA wanting to have a "opt-in" instead of an "opt-out" list is that they don't want to do any work.
it is so much easier to just say "you are not allowed to do anything" than to say "you can do everything except....".
providing a constantly updated list of stuff for the "except" list is a lot of work. The RIAA doesn't want to do any work. they just want to have the courts say Napster is bad and then have a way where they don't have to do anything at all.
The RIAA hates napster. They hate spending any any time, effort, resources in dealing with the "problem". If they can just make it go away and never have to do anything more about, the happier they are. I can only imagine, if the current situation got changed to an "opt-in" list, how easy it would be to get a title put onto this list...
oh yeah, let's not forget, those "fair use" and "legitimate users" arguments are pretty damning just by themselves.
Hi all, I am one of those "gifties" they made take a little test back in middle school and had all sorts of enriched programs as I went through school. I'm probably not even close to as smart as this young "prodigy", as you term him, but one thing I have come to realize is that a lot of technical type people get a lot out of music and enjoy it greatly. From the comments that have been posted so far, I can gather that the general consensus is that people feel this young child should be steered to becoming a rational thinker, with good social skills, who enjoys life and possibly may be steered towards a technical/scientific/computerish life. There is a definate tie between music and technical/mathmatical people. Encourage this kid to take up a musical instrument with a teacher. Music is a wonderful thing that they should be exposed to. Due to the way the brain develops, music had to be introduced early so that musical ability is not lost. Music is also something that becomes pleasurable by doing. It's a little known fact that Mozart was also a mathematical genious. The kid is probably not a Mozart, but music is a great source of pleasure and inspiration for many technical people. Don't believe me? Have a look at your community's Orchestra or band, you'd be surprised who's in it.
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One word: Don't.
Let a private provider offer the service, and have each person have their own individual billing account with the provider - then it is their problem and not yours. Otherwise you are stuck with doing tech support, billing, chasing after people that don't pay and dealing with all the typical thankless customer service BS. Plus your fellow condo mates will probably want you to do all of this coordination for free, and assume your time is worth nothing.
When I was in university, I lived in a lodging house with 10 other students. I ran a communal network with one internet feed, a private network, and collecting money from people for "their share". Never again. A complete pain-in-the-ass thankless job, which was definitely not worth the time/aggravation.
All I ask is that if someone submits a bug report to tell me exactly what I need to do to reproduce the bug, and what you want changed.
A good bug report should have enough information in it so a complete stranger can follow a step by step procedure to produce the "bug" and what I need to be looking for. I figure that if I can't reproduce the bug, it doesn't exist (and therefore I don't need to fix it).
Hello world.
'nuff said.
btw, if you are a current Bell customer don't even try calling their tech support to complain or ask how to opt out. I just did and the tech support had no idea what a NX Domain Query was, nor did the Supervisor I was transferred to. I even used small words to explain what Bell was doing and they claimed they had no idea what I was talking about. Go figure.
Explaining it to 4th graders? Don't you already use the same approach when talking to senior management?
The crux of the problem is that if an ISP says they are providing a "3MiB/s-down with 300kb/s-up" connection, that is what they should be delivering. You can't sell something as one thing and then not deliver it - this is called fraud.
If they can't deliver at the speed they sell it as, then they shouldn't be allowed sell it as the higher speed.
The fact is that they want to be able to promise one thing and then reneg on the delivering the goods. Why do we let them get away with this?
Graham
This is why I hate HD. With old analog TV it is technically impossible to do this compressed signal crap. Haven't you noticed now that since the TV stations have gone to digital broadcasts, you get all kinds of weird problems with signals (pixaltion and chunk-outs) and you get nasty pixel-ish compression artifacts. When you had analog this was unheard. Also with the original CRT televisions the phosphors were round which made for a nice smooth picture - not the chunkly looking edges you get with square pixels and limited colour levels.
With digital there are all kinds of horrible things the broadcasters can do to the signals - compression is just one of them.
Sounds like a case of libel. Making untrue statements about someone in print.
They are essentially tarnishing her good name in print without basis, which is basically the definition of libel.
You can sue a company for libel very easily.
I think this just underscores that students should be very careful when considering going to a private college/university. Private institutions do not have to stand up to as much scrutiny as public ones. Doesn't matter where the school is located -- the old "I'm privately funded so I can do whatever the hell I want" mentality is a common problem with private institutions.
This is disgusting and misguided.
Every Canadian University I know of has unfiltered access to the Internet. This US-based universiy obviously has no concept of "academic freedom". How can they expect their academics to be able to do any valuable/legit research if they are censoring what they can read?
umm... 16GB usb dongle drive made by Toshiba. big deal.
A company called Kanguru has been making a 64GB USB dongle drive for quite a while now.
You can buy it from many places including Tiger Direct ( Kanguru 64GB Flash Max Drive
Everytime I've worked with wireless technology it's been flakey. It's gotten to the point that if friend of mine calls me up and asks for help with their "wireless network", I show up with a roll of Cat5e, RJ45 plugs and a crimper. For 99% of wireless stuff, I just refuse to spend any time trying to get this technology to work. If I want to set somthing up, I want to be able to set it up ONCE and never have to worry about it again.
I've yet to see any wireless implementation that is reliable as wired. Until that gets fixed wires are here to stay.
This story appeared in the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail yesterday.
In Canada we putting location tracking tags (actually ankle bracelets) on prisoners. We do this to track and punish prisoners who are under house arrest. The US and their concept of "freedom" continues to baffle us.
The main reason I say don't do it is because the hassle of collecting money from people is just not worth it. When you set it up, you'll need to set a fee schedule. You'll have people trying to debate with you that "you are making money at their expense", or that they don't think the service is worth it..even if they have already used a month worth of service already. Or someone that just doesn't feel like paying you that month. The time you spend chasing people to pay money can become very onerous. Think of this in addition to getting roped into doing tech support (aka "Why should I pay for something which doesn't work"...even if the doesn't work part is because their computer doesn't work or is not set up right or they mucked with thier computer). For these reasons, I would not do it. It isn't worth it. I resold/shared a internet connection in a house when I was in College - it was a nightmare and a termendous time sink.
One look at the terms of service ought to be enough to scare away any customer (at least one with half a brain):
Have a look at: http://eprovisia.dione.cc/tos.html. An excerpt is below:
Yikes!
For a list of alternative browsers (over 200 in fact) have a look at: www.browserlist.browser.org.
This list is a bit old (it hasn't been updated since June 2000), but it gives you a good idea of what sort of stuff is out there.
it is so much easier to just say "you are not allowed to do anything" than to say "you can do everything except ....".
providing a constantly updated list of stuff for the "except" list is a lot of work. The RIAA doesn't want to do any work. they just want to have the courts say Napster is bad and then have a way where they don't have to do anything at all.
The RIAA hates napster. They hate spending any any time, effort, resources in dealing with the "problem". If they can just make it go away and never have to do anything more about, the happier they are. I can only imagine, if the current situation got changed to an "opt-in" list, how easy it would be to get a title put onto this list... oh yeah, let's not forget, those "fair use" and "legitimate users" arguments are pretty damning just by themselves.
Hi all, I am one of those "gifties" they made take a little test back in middle school and had all sorts of enriched programs as I went through school. I'm probably not even close to as smart as this young "prodigy", as you term him, but one thing I have come to realize is that a lot of technical type people get a lot out of music and enjoy it greatly. From the comments that have been posted so far, I can gather that the general consensus is that people feel this young child should be steered to becoming a rational thinker, with good social skills, who enjoys life and possibly may be steered towards a technical/scientific/computerish life. There is a definate tie between music and technical/mathmatical people. Encourage this kid to take up a musical instrument with a teacher. Music is a wonderful thing that they should be exposed to. Due to the way the brain develops, music had to be introduced early so that musical ability is not lost. Music is also something that becomes pleasurable by doing. It's a little known fact that Mozart was also a mathematical genious. The kid is probably not a Mozart, but music is a great source of pleasure and inspiration for many technical people. Don't believe me? Have a look at your community's Orchestra or band, you'd be surprised who's in it.