The problem is that people keep talking about how clean NG is to burn over things like coal, but from what others have posted and some seem not to want to read is that NG takes much more energy to extract from the ground, and is causing many more problems. Just because it burns cleaner does not make it better if it takes you ruining water suppies and polluting the air to get it out of the ground! you just end up hiding the problems.
I work for a big ISP, and bandwidth is not a issue on the backbone, we do more bandwidth in VOD video to the home than internet service will come close to for a long time. The amount of bandwidth in the last mile has always been the real issue, but for home internet service that problem is getting much better and I would says both cable and dsl services have been able to provide over 100mb services to a house for awhile now, but there is a cost of upgrading equipment, and you will need more equipment (dslams,cmts) since you will be able to put a smaller amount of customers on a device. But these are just money issues, not technical ones, and these companies make lots of money, they are VERY profitable. This goes for Verison also, it is very cheap for these companies to use several fiber rings around a city to get fairly cheap bandwidth, more bandwidth than they could ever use for cell phone back haul (10 gigabit ethernet between towers) but I would have to assume the bottleneck is the tower to the phone. I do not know much about this equipment works really, I am not sure if this equipment is limited by the amount of connections on the tower or the bandwidth of each connection, but I would assume that this is a issue that can be solved by spending money on more or better equipment. I have a hard time listening to these companies whine about bandwidth, when they are making a killing, you can not even get attention in a Verison store where I live the demand is so high you get a number like you are at the DMV. The number one highest growing market is cell phone service, these companies know these very well. So having to upgrade equipment should not be a issue, it should be what they do, what they provide us, its a good problem to have!
Now about the unlimited plan thing, for most customers that buy a unlimited plan, it is not about having lots of bandwidth, its about insurance, or piece of mind! This allows them to let someone play with the phone with out counting pennies, or that little johnny did not get a hold of my phone and run up a big bill by mistake, it lets you play with the phone with out counting minutes, but I guarantee for every 1 person that uses allot of bandwidth, you get 20 that do not use much bandwidth at all but want the unlimited option to make them feel protected from 1 bill that they are not ready for.
I have played with Dynamips before a couple years ago, and was wondering when someone would write a nice GUI for it, this is pretty awsome, this is exactly what the poster needs to use.
"I refuse to give money to Time Warner" I belive that Time Warner owns some of Clear Wire along with some other big companies. Time Warner also resells Clearwire service labled as Road Runner Mobile.
Any reason you could not just crush the pipe, kinda pinch it like a straw? maybe leave whatever device pinches it on here to help hold the presure? I am sure its lots of presure, but I am asumeing that a oil rig is able to stop the flow of oil under normal workking conditions if it wants to?
"I am not a networking wiz and I don't even like networking issues" So you tried to setup basic RIP and you are amazed the internet works at all huh. Well this artical is pure BS, sure you packets go between multiple backbone ISP's and a couple smaller isps on the edge maybe, but the guys that run the bigger ISP's do have rules that govern how they BGP peer with other backbones and peers. They enforce strict BGP filtering, to keep the smaller compaines from causing major issues. Sure every once in a awhile someone might fat finger some shit and mess something up that will effect 1 of the main backbones, but with more automated tools this happens way less than it used to. Most big backbone ISP's use router hierarchy and pure core routers are protected from anyone configuring them much at all once setup. I think the system runs well, I am sure it could be made better in many ways, but the issues made here are non issues, the backbones one security would be the main factor here, and that should get only better over time. Its better there is no central routing authority on the internet. Each company has it in thier best interest that it has the best routes to get to a centain network, and if that company messes its routes up, others should be protected by proper BGP filering. BGP filtering can get pretty complex, on ciscos this can be with prefix based ACL's and also with BGP AS number based ACL's, you can also use BGP communities to keep things nice and neat. If done correctly it can be pretty rock solid, if a rookie does the filtering you can have holes and issues, but a big company like LEVEL3 for instance, should have standards and all this stuff pretty hardened and worked out. This internet sky is not falling.
"If law enforcement sees some kind of behavior that incurs the legal standard of "resonable suspicion"... yes" I keep hearing these terms "some kind of behavior" etc.. can you give us a couple of actual real life examples of these things? I am curious to hear what they are!
"You're obviously an open-borders zealot because, and this is a wild guess, you're a silly liberal that hates white people" Yes and ill take your response to mean yes you are a white person.
"Yeah, because I couldn't just, oh, show them my drivers license. Because it's so unusual for police to ask for some identification during an investigation" I guess you missed the part where a drivers license is not proof of citizenship?
"I have the same question for you that I posed to another gentleman; just what solution to illegal immigration would you propose? Just what would you do about it, including border security, and existing illegal aliens. Be specific" Well I would start actually cracking down on companies that hire undocumented workers allot more, if you make it more costly for people to use them, maybe they would not be able to find work here, then they would not bother coming here in the first place? you do not think they come here just cause they love the fresh air do you? Stopping people who look like a non us citizen and checking papers sounds unconstitutional to me, but if you require proper papers to hire anyone even for day work, and fine anyone that hires them enough to scare them and not make it worth while financialy, maybe you could get the amount of people that cross the border down to a number that you could actully start policing, then the chance that anyone you caught crossing the border would actually be someone trying to do harm to the US not just coming across to get some money and a job.
Not at alcohol checkpoints all over my city, thats not how it works, you are stoped and checked to be ok, then let to pass if they cen not find a reason to hold you, or god forbid you give them any lip.
At least the something he is doing is to benifit people that vote, and not a company that puts money in pockets. I think this is a actually a bigger issue and could be a warning to other companies that allot of the games they are using to get people on free sites then changing the rules later to make bigger profits off the data is not ok, but oh well.
Not sure about battery life, but I used to watch TV and movies on a Windows Mobile phone years ago with the mobile slingbox app at the time. This is no different, it would test your conenction first to send the correct bit rate, over 3G this should not be a issue.
I think the DB-9 connector is a little big for what its doing though, I mean even a DB-15 monitor type connector is duplo size for 15 pins. Maybe I just like Cisco to much, but it would be nice to have everyone just use the Cisco RJ-45 spec for serial connections, I hate when other router/switch vendors use RJ45 but the pins-outs are totally different so you have to find that special DB9 to RJ45 adapter for that 1 piece of gear, instead of using 1 of the Cisco adapters that you have laying everywhere. Even if on the back of laptops they used RJ45 for serial and marked they would keep it around longer? the DB9 connector seems to big realistate wise to me I guess. Then you could just use a regular RJ45 cable to connect between the 2, no need for some non-standard cable.
Also for those of you that use console servers allot, I still think the older Cisco access servers that many use for console servers now a days are better than any of the Linux server type solutions I have tried. The Cisco access devices supports telnet to each port, a real routing table that supports multiple gateways via static or even routing protocols like OSPF etc... also Tacacs+ auth if you need that.
Looking at old catalogs? haha this is a great example of someone that needs to be marked down because they spoke when they obviously have no real world knowledge of routers of switches and serial ports. Any high end manufacture of routers and switches or anything similar (Cisco, Juniper, Foundry etc...) has a serial port on it. do not let the RJ45 port marked console fool you. You got to serial in to any of these devices to setup the basic IP information before you can telnet to the thing, and in most cases of a failure, you will need that serial port.
At first glance, I thought it read "the sound of KISS" would have been better anyway, you do not want the aliens to think we are pussies do you! You wanted the best and you got it! KISS! (DEUCE)
I am not sure what is unusual about this, this is the type of thing you see when you watch a big firewall's logs, I used to parse through a big checkpoint firewall's logs with all kind of trending software all the time, and you always see strange trends like this. There could be all kinds of reason why a certain counties accesses your network or webpages at a certain time of day everyday, not to mention botnet activity or really just servers scanning for open ports etc... The vertical stripes would mean that all countries accessed your network more on one day that the day before or after for some reason (there could be real reasons that would happen) you mentioned "Over a hundred packets a hour" that is small really, nothing to unusual. This reminds me of many times we would sell customers a PIX and the first thing they do is start asking why the logs have red alarms denying packets in it... And even have customer get made because we sold them a internet connection with traffic that is coming in from all these places and getting denied. I would just explain that is why you bought this firewall, feel goos its here blocking this stuff. I do agree its interesting, but if you really want to figure out what this stuff is you can always sniff it and see what they are doing I guess.
I do not see a issue with this at all, it makes sense to pay more for a movie when its newer to me. I think the reason NetFlix streaming is only on older titles is because of this, you can not expect to be able to watch as much as you want 24/7 for 8.99 a month and it include newly released to DVD movies also. What I hate more than anything is the fact I can not just watch movies on VOD Cable or Netflix streamed when the movie first comes out on DVD, but I can rent it at a store or threw the mail. These movies are never available on the first Firiay night everyone wants them, but it could be streamed easily. I find myself more likely to download stuff when I can not seem to rent it anywhere, and I never just buy a movie I have not seen before. A service like Netflix needs to change to a watch all older movies for standard monthly free, but pay for each new release you watch. This is more like cable VOD where you have lots of monthly fee VOD (HBO, SHO etc...) that you can watch all you want 24/7, but you also have to for each newer movie. Problem is only rarely does cable VOD have a movie at the same time as its released on DVD, so that makes me want to download it for free. I have no problem paying 5$ for a new release and less for older movies. I really wish they were released straight to VOD, and could still go see big titles in the theater if you wanted to, but you also had the choice to watch it at home, for maybe 15-20$ (maybe more) for a first run movie, it would still be cheaper than going to the theater for me and my wife anyway.
I agree that it is responsible, to not sell more of something when you can not support the customers. But AT&T simply has not kept up with their network while making tons of money off the iPhone. After working for several Telecoms and Cable companies I will tell you infrastructure costs are not as high as they like you to think "if it is built well the first time" but just like roads they build for today and throw more at it later, then they cry cause it cost so much later, while engineers pull their hair out. These companies need to put money back in the network instead of their pockets more than likely. If AT&T can not keep up with the demand they know is coming, with such a big push in the mobile market, then they should be held responsible by their customers. What of people who travel to NYC and expect usable service.
"Games addiction requires just as much bottoming out and is just as devastating." You got to be kidding me man, I have had friends OD and fucking DIE on drugs, if you watch a friend that is hooked on crack or heroin or even alcohol to the point it is ruining them, but they just cannot stop. They cannot stop stealing money to get more, they cannot stop lying to friends and family, and seriously abusing sometimes violently the ones closest to them, and you compare that to what? Some guy just has to keep playing a video game? Please tell me you are not serious! I have smoked cocaine and I can tell you feeling you get when you stop, and then try to find more to the point you do shit you never thought you would be doing ever in your life is fucked up. And my friends that have shot heroine say that it makes crack feel like nothing, you will never go back to cocaine, heroin is so bad I have friends that still have to go to methadone clinics all the time, and feel like they can never shake it. I am sorry my wanting to play video games really badly just is not in the same ball park, it's not in the same planet or even the same galaxy dude!
I am sorry, I love video games as much as the next guy, I was way in to EQ1 back in the day, but life caught up with me. it will do the same for your friend. The term Gaming Addiction is a joke, help a friend get off cocaine, crack or heroin, then tell me your buddy is addicted to video games again, you must be fucking kidding me! Playing games like he is doing is harmful and not a good thing, but probably stems from other things wrong or missing in his life, he is getting something out of the video game he does not get in real life. It may just be excitement, or a false sense of being important, leadership or just friendship in the game. I played way to much back when I was younger and could kepp up with those kind of hours in a game, Back then all my buddies were playing at the same time, now most my friends have moved on to other things (Married/Kids), some still play WOW too much. But when we stopped no one got the shakes and just HAD to play another game or they would die! There was no intervention! We all just moved on. You can call it a psychocological addiction if you want, but it is not the same thing, it's just an excuse to do what you want to and that is fine, sometimes people just want to do what they want to do. Even if they know damn well it's a waste of time! If you really want to help him, get him to go out sometime, get him a girlfriend, plan something interesting, but physically forcing him to quit makes no sense to me. It always the dude who gets caught smoking the weed, and it scared to death of his parents and whatever enforcement he may be in trouble with that he is addicted to weed, he just could not stop himself! The drugs made him do it! This is much the same thing, do not call it an addiction, much like pot is not addictive (but that is a whole other comment) You ruin the true meaning of the word addiction, when you use it in this way.
We currently have the equipment/modems to do DOCSIS3 but we do not have the bandwidth on the cable to the home, we have a issue where we do not want to turn off the old analog channels that eat up so much bandwidth because some users do not want to pay for a digital box or do not own a tv that will use a cable card etc... They may not have these kind of issues in Japan. Running lines and installing equipment has got to be easier in a much higher density area like Japan. Also just because someone puts a line in your home that is a 1Bgit connection to the telco does not mean you get that much bandwidth to the internet, I would be curious how much bandwidth they get out all the way out to popular internet websites etc...
I agree somewhat with what you say on this, the politics here are crazy, and when you start talking about the government regulation It gets fuzzy for me. From a technical point of view I have to side with the Cable and Telco companies, for years they have been moving all their service to TCP/IP for many good reasons that make things more affordable and also easier to manage, this also opens up new services from combining the different services (caller id on the TV, Internet on TV etc) Moving all these services that used to have their own transport medium and also different protocols to IP packets let them migrate all service to IP routers and bigger fiber transport, this took money and sounded like a great idea, but only if you use technologies like standard QoS or MPLS Traffic Engineering Tunnels to create virtual connections for different types of traffic and treat each differently. IP routers have become much more virtual, you can have virtual routing tables and virtual point to point layer2/layer3 tunnels that have different QoS levels, but in reality these are all the same packets over the same fiber with different mechanisms (Can be tags or source destination QoS based) to treat them differently. I can not see going backward now and making them treat all packets on a transport medium the same, since yes, Internet packets are also on that same medium, this is just a slippery slope to start messing with, and where I am normally not for letting the market place work these things out, in this case it may be best unless we see specific attempts for Telco and Cable companies purposely harming certain Internet traffic.
I do not believe that is so, at least on the system we run at my work that is not so, the MTA data is the same as the Internet data, except it get better QoS. Personally I do not see a issue with this, but whatever.
Obama is going to raise taxes on anyone making over 250,000 (more or less rolling back the Bush tax cuts for anyone making over 250,000 a year) the republicans are quick to try to burn him for that everyday, they point out that his is raising taxes, they try to make it sound as if it is for everyone. But somehow you missed that? This is a good step to a good fiscal policy, this is how Cliton did it before when things were good, and it should be the first thing done to fix the debit now.
BTW Obama did say he would go threw and remove program and speading that he thought was not needed, but that he would not just kill all programs across the board.
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The problem is that people keep talking about how clean NG is to burn over things like coal, but from what others have posted and some seem not to want to read is that NG takes much more energy to extract from the ground, and is causing many more problems.
Just because it burns cleaner does not make it better if it takes you ruining water suppies and polluting the air to get it out of the ground! you just end up hiding the problems.
I work for a big ISP, and bandwidth is not a issue on the backbone, we do more bandwidth in VOD video to the home than internet service will come close to for a long time.
The amount of bandwidth in the last mile has always been the real issue, but for home internet service that problem is getting much better and I would says both cable and dsl services have been able to provide over 100mb services to a house for awhile now, but there is a cost of upgrading equipment, and you will need more equipment (dslams,cmts) since you will be able to put a smaller amount of customers on a device. But these are just money issues, not technical ones, and these companies make lots of money, they are VERY profitable.
This goes for Verison also, it is very cheap for these companies to use several fiber rings around a city to get fairly cheap bandwidth, more bandwidth than they could ever use for cell phone back haul (10 gigabit ethernet between towers) but I would have to assume the bottleneck is the tower to the phone. I do not know much about this equipment works really, I am not sure if this equipment is limited by the amount of connections on the tower or the bandwidth of each connection, but I would assume that this is a issue that can be solved by spending money on more or better equipment.
I have a hard time listening to these companies whine about bandwidth, when they are making a killing, you can not even get attention in a Verison store where I live the demand is so high you get a number like you are at the DMV. The number one highest growing market is cell phone service, these companies know these very well. So having to upgrade equipment should not be a issue, it should be what they do, what they provide us, its a good problem to have!
Now about the unlimited plan thing, for most customers that buy a unlimited plan, it is not about having lots of bandwidth, its about insurance, or piece of mind!
This allows them to let someone play with the phone with out counting pennies, or that little johnny did not get a hold of my phone and run up a big bill by mistake, it lets you play with the phone with out counting minutes, but I guarantee for every 1 person that uses allot of bandwidth, you get 20 that do not use much bandwidth at all but want the unlimited option to make them feel protected from 1 bill that they are not ready for.
I have played with Dynamips before a couple years ago, and was wondering when someone would write a nice GUI for it, this is pretty awsome, this is exactly what the poster needs to use.
"I refuse to give money to Time Warner"
I belive that Time Warner owns some of Clear Wire along with some other big companies. Time Warner also resells Clearwire service labled as Road Runner Mobile.
Any reason you could not just crush the pipe, kinda pinch it like a straw? maybe leave whatever device pinches it on here to help hold the presure?
I am sure its lots of presure, but I am asumeing that a oil rig is able to stop the flow of oil under normal workking conditions if it wants to?
"I am not a networking wiz and I don't even like networking issues" So you tried to setup basic RIP and you are amazed the internet works at all huh.
Well this artical is pure BS, sure you packets go between multiple backbone ISP's and a couple smaller isps on the edge maybe, but the guys that run the bigger ISP's do have rules that govern how they BGP peer with other backbones and peers. They enforce strict BGP filtering, to keep the smaller compaines from causing major issues.
Sure every once in a awhile someone might fat finger some shit and mess something up that will effect 1 of the main backbones, but with more automated tools this happens way less than it used to. Most big backbone ISP's use router hierarchy and pure core routers are protected from anyone configuring them much at all once setup.
I think the system runs well, I am sure it could be made better in many ways, but the issues made here are non issues, the backbones one security would be the main factor here, and that should get only better over time.
Its better there is no central routing authority on the internet. Each company has it in thier best interest that it has the best routes to get to a centain network, and if that company messes its routes up, others should be protected by proper BGP filering. BGP filtering can get pretty complex, on ciscos this can be with prefix based ACL's and also with BGP AS number based ACL's, you can also use BGP communities to keep things nice and neat. If done correctly it can be pretty rock solid, if a rookie does the filtering you can have holes and issues, but a big company like LEVEL3 for instance, should have standards and all this stuff pretty hardened and worked out.
This internet sky is not falling.
"If law enforcement sees some kind of behavior that incurs the legal standard of "resonable suspicion"... yes"
I keep hearing these terms "some kind of behavior" etc.. can you give us a couple of actual real life examples of these things? I am curious to hear what they are!
"You're obviously an open-borders zealot because, and this is a wild guess, you're a silly liberal that hates white people"
Yes and ill take your response to mean yes you are a white person.
"Yeah, because I couldn't just, oh, show them my drivers license. Because it's so unusual for police to ask for some identification during an investigation"
I guess you missed the part where a drivers license is not proof of citizenship?
"I have the same question for you that I posed to another gentleman; just what solution to illegal immigration would you propose? Just what would you do about it, including border security, and existing illegal aliens. Be specific"
Well I would start actually cracking down on companies that hire undocumented workers allot more, if you make it more costly for people to use them, maybe they would not be able to find work here, then they would not bother coming here in the first place? you do not think they come here just cause they love the fresh air do you?
Stopping people who look like a non us citizen and checking papers sounds unconstitutional to me, but if you require proper papers to hire anyone even for day work, and fine anyone that hires them enough to scare them and not make it worth while financialy, maybe you could get the amount of people that cross the border down to a number that you could actully start policing, then the chance that anyone you caught crossing the border would actually be someone trying to do harm to the US not just coming across to get some money and a job.
Not at alcohol checkpoints all over my city, thats not how it works, you are stoped and checked to be ok, then let to pass if they cen not find a reason to hold you, or god forbid you give them any lip.
At least the something he is doing is to benifit people that vote, and not a company that puts money in pockets.
I think this is a actually a bigger issue and could be a warning to other companies that allot of the games they are using to get people on free sites then changing the rules later to make bigger profits off the data is not ok, but oh well.
Not sure about battery life, but I used to watch TV and movies on a Windows Mobile phone years ago with the mobile slingbox app at the time.
This is no different, it would test your conenction first to send the correct bit rate, over 3G this should not be a issue.
I think the DB-9 connector is a little big for what its doing though, I mean even a DB-15 monitor type connector is duplo size for 15 pins.
Maybe I just like Cisco to much, but it would be nice to have everyone just use the Cisco RJ-45 spec for serial connections, I hate when other router/switch vendors use RJ45 but the pins-outs are totally different so you have to find that special DB9 to RJ45 adapter for that 1 piece of gear, instead of using 1 of the Cisco adapters that you have laying everywhere.
Even if on the back of laptops they used RJ45 for serial and marked they would keep it around longer? the DB9 connector seems to big realistate wise to me I guess.
Then you could just use a regular RJ45 cable to connect between the 2, no need for some non-standard cable.
Also for those of you that use console servers allot, I still think the older Cisco access servers that many use for console servers now a days are better than any of the Linux server type solutions I have tried. The Cisco access devices supports telnet to each port, a real routing table that supports multiple gateways via static or even routing protocols like OSPF etc... also Tacacs+ auth if you need that.
Looking at old catalogs? haha this is a great example of someone that needs to be marked down because they spoke when they obviously have no real world knowledge of routers of switches and serial ports.
Any high end manufacture of routers and switches or anything similar (Cisco, Juniper, Foundry etc...) has a serial port on it. do not let the RJ45 port marked console fool you.
You got to serial in to any of these devices to setup the basic IP information before you can telnet to the thing, and in most cases of a failure, you will need that serial port.
At first glance, I thought it read "the sound of KISS" would have been better anyway, you do not want the aliens to think we are pussies do you!
You wanted the best and you got it! KISS! (DEUCE)
I am not sure what is unusual about this, this is the type of thing you see when you watch a big firewall's logs, I used to parse through a big checkpoint firewall's logs with all kind of trending software all the time, and you always see strange trends like this. There could be all kinds of reason why a certain counties accesses your network or webpages at a certain time of day everyday, not to mention botnet activity or really just servers scanning for open ports etc... The vertical stripes would mean that all countries accessed your network more on one day that the day before or after for some reason (there could be real reasons that would happen) you mentioned "Over a hundred packets a hour" that is small really, nothing to unusual.
This reminds me of many times we would sell customers a PIX and the first thing they do is start asking why the logs have red alarms denying packets in it... And even have customer get made because we sold them a internet connection with traffic that is coming in from all these places and getting denied. I would just explain that is why you bought this firewall, feel goos its here blocking this stuff. I do agree its interesting, but if you really want to figure out what this stuff is you can always sniff it and see what they are doing I guess.
I do not see a issue with this at all, it makes sense to pay more for a movie when its newer to me.
I think the reason NetFlix streaming is only on older titles is because of this, you can not expect to be able to watch as much as you want 24/7 for 8.99 a month and it include newly released to DVD movies also.
What I hate more than anything is the fact I can not just watch movies on VOD Cable or Netflix streamed when the movie first comes out on DVD, but I can rent it at a store or threw the mail. These movies are never available on the first Firiay night everyone wants them, but it could be streamed easily.
I find myself more likely to download stuff when I can not seem to rent it anywhere, and I never just buy a movie I have not seen before.
A service like Netflix needs to change to a watch all older movies for standard monthly free, but pay for each new release you watch. This is more like cable VOD where you have lots of monthly fee VOD (HBO, SHO etc...) that you can watch all you want 24/7, but you also have to for each newer movie. Problem is only rarely does cable VOD have a movie at the same time as its released on DVD, so that makes me want to download it for free. I have no problem paying 5$ for a new release and less for older movies.
I really wish they were released straight to VOD, and could still go see big titles in the theater if you wanted to, but you also had the choice to watch it at home, for maybe 15-20$ (maybe more) for a first run movie, it would still be cheaper than going to the theater for me and my wife anyway.
I agree that it is responsible, to not sell more of something when you can not support the customers. But AT&T simply has not kept up with their network while making tons of money off the iPhone. After working for several Telecoms and Cable companies I will tell you infrastructure costs are not as high as they like you to think "if it is built well the first time" but just like roads they build for today and throw more at it later, then they cry cause it cost so much later, while engineers pull their hair out. These companies need to put money back in the network instead of their pockets more than likely. If AT&T can not keep up with the demand they know is coming, with such a big push in the mobile market, then they should be held responsible by their customers. What of people who travel to NYC and expect usable service.
Might have been sitting around smoking on a bong and thought hmmmmm
Yes! cause that is what we need is to lock more non violent criminals in jail in the US!
I could go on, but what is the point.
"Have you ever known an addict?"
YES
"Games addiction requires just as much bottoming out and is just as devastating."
You got to be kidding me man, I have had friends OD and fucking DIE on drugs, if you watch a friend that is hooked on crack or heroin or even alcohol to the point it is ruining them, but they just cannot stop. They cannot stop stealing money to get more, they cannot stop lying to friends and family, and seriously abusing sometimes violently the ones closest to them, and you compare that to what? Some guy just has to keep playing a video game? Please tell me you are not serious!
I have smoked cocaine and I can tell you feeling you get when you stop, and then try to find more to the point you do shit you never thought you would be doing ever in your life is fucked up.
And my friends that have shot heroine say that it makes crack feel like nothing, you will never go back to cocaine, heroin is so bad I have friends that still have to go to methadone clinics all the time, and feel like they can never shake it.
I am sorry my wanting to play video games really badly just is not in the same ball park, it's not in the same planet or even the same galaxy dude!
I am sorry, I love video games as much as the next guy, I was way in to EQ1 back in the day, but life caught up with me. it will do the same for your friend.
The term Gaming Addiction is a joke, help a friend get off cocaine, crack or heroin, then tell me your buddy is addicted to video games again, you must be fucking kidding me!
Playing games like he is doing is harmful and not a good thing, but probably stems from other things wrong or missing in his life, he is getting something out of the video game he does not get in real life. It may just be excitement, or a false sense of being important, leadership or just friendship in the game.
I played way to much back when I was younger and could kepp up with those kind of hours in a game, Back then all my buddies were playing at the same time, now most my friends have moved on to other things (Married/Kids), some still play WOW too much. But when we stopped no one got the shakes and just HAD to play another game or they would die! There was no intervention! We all just moved on. You can call it a psychocological addiction if you want, but it is not the same thing, it's just an excuse to do what you want to and that is fine, sometimes people just want to do what they want to do. Even if they know damn well it's a waste of time!
If you really want to help him, get him to go out sometime, get him a girlfriend, plan something interesting, but physically forcing him to quit makes no sense to me.
It always the dude who gets caught smoking the weed, and it scared to death of his parents and whatever enforcement he may be in trouble with that he is addicted to weed, he just could not stop himself! The drugs made him do it!
This is much the same thing, do not call it an addiction, much like pot is not addictive (but that is a whole other comment)
You ruin the true meaning of the word addiction, when you use it in this way.
We currently have the equipment/modems to do DOCSIS3 but we do not have the bandwidth on the cable to the home, we have a issue where we do not want to turn off the old analog channels that eat up so much bandwidth because some users do not want to pay for a digital box or do not own a tv that will use a cable card etc... They may not have these kind of issues in Japan.
Running lines and installing equipment has got to be easier in a much higher density area like Japan.
Also just because someone puts a line in your home that is a 1Bgit connection to the telco does not mean you get that much bandwidth to the internet, I would be curious how much bandwidth they get out all the way out to popular internet websites etc...
I agree somewhat with what you say on this, the politics here are crazy, and when you start talking about the government regulation It gets fuzzy for me.
From a technical point of view I have to side with the Cable and Telco companies, for years they have been moving all their service to TCP/IP for many good reasons that make things more affordable and also easier to manage, this also opens up new services from combining the different services (caller id on the TV, Internet on TV etc)
Moving all these services that used to have their own transport medium and also different protocols to IP packets let them migrate all service to IP routers and bigger fiber transport, this took money and sounded like a great idea, but only if you use technologies like standard QoS or MPLS Traffic Engineering Tunnels to create virtual connections for different types of traffic and treat each differently. IP routers have become much more virtual, you can have virtual routing tables and virtual point to point layer2/layer3 tunnels that have different QoS levels, but in reality these are all the same packets over the same fiber with different mechanisms (Can be tags or source destination QoS based) to treat them differently. I can not see going backward now and making them treat all packets on a transport medium the same, since yes, Internet packets are also on that same medium, this is just a slippery slope to start messing with, and where I am normally not for letting the market place work these things out, in this case it may be best unless we see specific attempts for Telco and Cable companies purposely harming certain Internet traffic.
Just my 2cents
I do not believe that is so, at least on the system we run at my work that is not so, the MTA data is the same as the Internet data, except it get better QoS.
Personally I do not see a issue with this, but whatever.
Why is paying a girl for sex illegal, but if you film it to make a porno movie it is not illegal, so all you have to do is film it to make it legal?
Obama is going to raise taxes on anyone making over 250,000 (more or less rolling back the Bush tax cuts for anyone making over 250,000 a year) the republicans are quick to try to burn him for that everyday, they point out that his is raising taxes, they try to make it sound as if it is for everyone.
But somehow you missed that?
This is a good step to a good fiscal policy, this is how Cliton did it before when things were good, and it should be the first thing done to fix the debit now.
BTW Obama did say he would go threw and remove program and speading that he thought was not needed, but that he would not just kill all programs across the board.