Density helps some, but there are a lot of costs that you just can't cough at. I hear this comment too often to just leave as a fact.
Costs to run a CLEC 1. Administration / Laws / Taxes I am assuming in this example that the pervayors of SK have similar restrictions and tax structures that the US does.
2. Inter-country fiber Once again, one can make the assumption that SK has similar agreements with all 3rd parties for peering one another.
3. Inter-city fiber This is where SK will save a lot of dimes in up front costs, and maybe a little bit over time. For fiber, I bet there aren't many ongoing costs unless they're renting the lines/land from someone else.
3. Intra-city fiber The number doesn't change between KM and the US unless ther population density within cities are greater than that of the US. From reading stats on each country's overall density, it can be said that SK's cities are more dense, hence less cost per capita to deploy broadband (though incremental).
4. Subscriber concentrators For DSL, this will need to be a few KM from each subscriber's home. The units themselves are relational to the number of customers plugging in and have relatively linear price scaling, so a concentrator in a small town of 500 subscribers would be around 1/4 the price of a town with 2000 subscribers.
5. Marketing I could be wrong, but it seems that N.A. carriers spend a hell of a lot marketting their products to consumers. That money could have been better served deploying broadband to more people, or lowering their prices (yeah right). So, the economics of the two countries may make aquiring subscribers in SK cheaper.
I don't think I've ever heard outrage about an optional opt-in 'feature' so far. If you're so averse to a company and their dubious products, don't DL/buy it. If you're forced to through your company, I pity thou.
Wait, there was an opt-in feature. When XP was installed, it told you to install a new passport account. You don't really need to setup MS passport , but most people seeing it thought it was, or were to indifferent to ignore it.
It has a story, go here, now go there, no go back there. Don't you get it? Its shakespearean!
Really though, Story or no, I actually enjoyed playing the game from start to end. Other games like Doom 3 became boring after 30min story or not.
If you want story 'driven' games, you are probably deep in bed with Final fantasies & other dialog heavy games. Not that they're bad, but playability is the key for many ppl.
I say the same thing, but for Windows 2000. I have yet to find a show stopper at home to upgrade to XP. I don't see myself leaving 2000 on my desktop unless its to Linux (Which is already on file server/laptop).
Intel or ATI sells pretty much every server integrated VGA core. They may be based on Rage Pro based generation technologies, but they sell tons of them.
As for the 'other' categories, VIA sells a lot of integrated platforms. I'm sure there are a lot of marginal market players for niche industries. Just think of TIVO's. Who supplies their gfx units? I don't have a clue, but they account for some of this market.
Um, this poster's comments are one reason Americans get dumped on by the world at large. Instead of looking at the Chinese culture from their perspectives, you're looking at them from your corn fed middle-class lifestyle. Not everyone has the same ethics, polictical systems, languages, manner, respect for 'freedom' as you do. I'm sure there are millions if not over a billion quite happy little people living in China enjoying life on their own terms.
They've had a smoking hot economy and I'm sure quality of living is increasing with it. I would be the first to recommend a more free China, but as long as regular citizens have the right to leave the country and practice they're beliefs elsewhere, you can't complain over their chosen lifestyle.
Why aren't you complaining over the overtly regemented Singapore government, or the dozens of other governments that don't allow similar rights to its citizens? Even in America you've had citizens thrown in jail indefinitly. I wouldn't be sitting on that high horse if I was you.
Yup, the same company that came out and made mini-keyboard PDA's popular. Back in 2000 timeframe, RIM's were quite innovative with user interface designs (thumb kb/scroll wheel) when PDAs from Palm, etc.. were still limited to klunky detachable keyboards.
Are there reasons to hate RIM as much as NTP? That's your own call, but personally I think RIM made a positive step in the industry whereas NTP has contributed what exactly to the advencement of middleware systems?? Nothing? Patent lawsuits? Well there you go. I'll bump RIM cause they're Canadian (like me), and because they develop and use what they patent.
Who needs it when you can have a hot failover Linux based solution on hardware 100K cheaper. If you like, you could make a 100x unit failover for the same price:-)
Crypto Accelerators are nothing special to CISCO's, you can buy PCI cards that do the same thing. In fact, many Cisco accelerators ARE PCI based.
Mind you, the Linux alternative isn't as compact as the highly compact Cisco designs, but I'm sure that can be solved in time with demand.
It may not be there today, but there's no reason a well targetted Linux hardware solution couldn't kick Cisco (IOS really, Cisco could adapt) where it hurts.
" ALLOWS YOU TO EXECUTE CODE FROM THE BROWSER YOU ARE COMPETITING WITH?"
This is how Microsoft has won basically every battle it faced in the 90's anyways. IE supported NS extensions, Windows supports Novell, UNIX. Word supports Corel, etc..
Don't you get the game yet? If given the option of Netscape X and IE, you'd choose Netscape X because it can do everything IE does, PLUS Firefox built-in features. If you want to start weaning ppl off IE, its better to attack with a good migration plan.
Hey hey, lets not be too hateful to AOL. They did support the Mozilla development environment for a good many years for like 0 profit. Lets not jump on their a$$es for doing something completely legal and in my eyes, ethical & moral.
If ANYTHING is used to offset the IE juggernaut, then so be it. I don't have a problem with the dual HTML engine technique since many people DO need activex support, at least once and a while.
Excuse me, early adopters are always getting fcked over no matter what.
Think about it like this: WHAT do you want them to do, exactly? Migrate your entire clan to another server transparently?
They have too many people on your server. Now, they've created 88 apprently new servers for people to use, but you begrudgingly want to stick to the server that has horrible performance because you have a 2 day frigging history. If you play the game for more than a month, will it really matter in the long run? Nah. You'll probably end up having characters on other servers anyways to play horde & alliance.
Honestly, you have to stop being stubborn and realize that this problem can't be fixed without people making concessions, and for me, my first server was ItemLaged since day 2. What did I do? I moved to a new server. Problem solved. Alliances are more difficult, but it comes down to the same principle, if you start the game from day 1, expect problems, I don't care how confident you were with pre-open beta (open beta did suck a$$ for item lag, you can't deny that), this is slightly larger scale.
Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ID may not have great games IMHO, but they surely have a lot of in-house talent in developing the engines people actually use.
If you read the wow site, you'd know that that location was where WOW staff were to sign autographs or the such, so there WAS a reason why that store was so insanely busy.
You do have to wonder why people would be so dedicated to get autographs from sweaty geek developers!
Really? When I played Doom3 on the medium difficulty setting, playing through the game seemed like a leveling treadmill. Everything got a little harder as things went along like all games do, but this one just seemed that once you've played the first few levels, the gameplay was exactly the same, kill the mobs, find the key, finish level...
I found HL2 to constantly change the gameplay experience (maybe too often!).
A good game for gameplay progression I thought was Farcry. It seemed like there was always something new to master, but you would still utilize the skills you learned earlier in the game.
Isn't it possible that by the contract with Vivendi, they're forced to do this? I mean they really couldn't care less for the steam downloads, so either they really want to hurt Vivendi, or else its Vivendi mandating the CD check requirement..
I bought my damn TV set and I expected to watch god darned TV programs! Nobody said I'd have to 'subscribe' to a 'cable provider' to get cable! This is an outragous!
In other words, if you don't know what you're buying before you get it, you're the only one too blame. If you don't know, you'd better ask. If there's a hidden trick in their somewhere, you'd better hope that your government is aware of it so that they can mandate that 'in-box' EULA's must be available at the point of sale, or something like that. Don't blame Valve for releasing software with a EULA, blame the the government for allowing this type of activity to occur, if in fact its violating your rights.
You own the media, nobody's taking that away from you, its yours. There aren't FBI swooping down on you to confiscate that 'property' of yours.
As for books, once again its the media that you own. If you illegally reproduce that media, then you can expect to be punished.
For those downloading and installing cracks, etc.. then expect for your account to be banned. If you mod your satilite digital box, expect to get banned, if you uncap your cable modem, expect to get banned.
I am use that you can view every one of these service's EULA's before you buy the them. Hell, I bet that if you ask, they'd even mail a copy to your door.
You can safely assume that those video camera tapes get wiped on a weekly basis or two. They're only really meant to stop internal theft and known events, like some guy robbing the till, or someone breaking into the store after-hours.
IMHO the story is left absent by the motivations of g-man that still escapes us after the end of HL2. He talked about how putting the right person in the wrong place can change everything. To my knowledge, you could be in suspended animation between hl1 and 2. I suppose its all wrapped around the inigma of what / who gman is, and what force does he/you really serve?
Um, wouldn't it be assumed that the Combine was fighting against the current governments of the world? You're fighting 'apparently' for whatever side pays g-man the most. It can be argued that since g-man can defy time/space that he's actully an alien himself, maybe getting bids on changing the future through time & space.
That's idiotic. I've seen more inexperienced programmers get jobs lately than I have friends with industry experience. Why? They're cheap. Why hire a 70k programmer to do a 60k job when you could hire a 40k programmer and spend 10k training them.
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Density helps some, but there are a lot of costs that you just can't cough at. I hear this comment too often to just leave as a fact.
Costs to run a CLEC
1. Administration / Laws / Taxes
I am assuming in this example that the pervayors of SK have similar restrictions and tax structures that the US does.
2. Inter-country fiber
Once again, one can make the assumption that SK has similar agreements with all 3rd parties for peering one another.
3. Inter-city fiber
This is where SK will save a lot of dimes in up front costs, and maybe a little bit over time. For fiber, I bet there aren't many ongoing costs unless they're renting the lines/land from someone else.
3. Intra-city fiber
The number doesn't change between KM and the US unless ther population density within cities are greater than that of the US. From reading stats on each country's overall density, it can be said that SK's cities are more dense, hence less cost per capita to deploy broadband (though incremental).
4. Subscriber concentrators
For DSL, this will need to be a few KM from each subscriber's home. The units themselves are relational to the number of customers plugging in and have relatively linear price scaling, so a concentrator in a small town of 500 subscribers would be around 1/4 the price of a town with 2000 subscribers.
5. Marketing
I could be wrong, but it seems that N.A. carriers spend a hell of a lot marketting their products to consumers. That money could have been better served deploying broadband to more people, or lowering their prices (yeah right). So, the economics of the two countries may make aquiring subscribers in SK cheaper.
I have odds that when he declares war on Korea, he forgets which pole he's attacking, or just omit the geographic element all together.
I don't think I've ever heard outrage about an optional opt-in 'feature' so far. If you're so averse to a company and their dubious products, don't DL/buy it. If you're forced to through your company, I pity thou.
Wait, there was an opt-in feature. When XP was installed, it told you to install a new passport account. You don't really need to setup MS passport , but most people seeing it thought it was, or were to indifferent to ignore it.
It has a story, go here, now go there, no go back there. Don't you get it? Its shakespearean!
Really though, Story or no, I actually enjoyed playing the game from start to end. Other games like Doom 3 became boring after 30min story or not.
If you want story 'driven' games, you are probably deep in bed with Final fantasies & other dialog heavy games. Not that they're bad, but playability is the key for many ppl.
I say the same thing, but for Windows 2000. I have yet to find a show stopper at home to upgrade to XP. I don't see myself leaving 2000 on my desktop unless its to Linux (Which is already on file server/laptop).
Intel or ATI sells pretty much every server integrated VGA core. They may be based on Rage Pro based generation technologies, but they sell tons of them.
As for the 'other' categories, VIA sells a lot of integrated platforms. I'm sure there are a lot of marginal market players for niche industries. Just think of TIVO's. Who supplies their gfx units? I don't have a clue, but they account for some of this market.
Um, this poster's comments are one reason Americans get dumped on by the world at large. Instead of looking at the Chinese culture from their perspectives, you're looking at them from your corn fed middle-class lifestyle. Not everyone has the same ethics, polictical systems, languages, manner, respect for 'freedom' as you do. I'm sure there are millions if not over a billion quite happy little people living in China enjoying life on their own terms.
They've had a smoking hot economy and I'm sure quality of living is increasing with it. I would be the first to recommend a more free China, but as long as regular citizens have the right to leave the country and practice they're beliefs elsewhere, you can't complain over their chosen lifestyle.
Why aren't you complaining over the overtly regemented Singapore government, or the dozens of other governments that don't allow similar rights to its citizens? Even in America you've had citizens thrown in jail indefinitly. I wouldn't be sitting on that high horse if I was you.
Yup, the same company that came out and made mini-keyboard PDA's popular. Back in 2000 timeframe, RIM's were quite innovative with user interface designs (thumb kb/scroll wheel) when PDAs from Palm, etc.. were still limited to klunky detachable keyboards.
Are there reasons to hate RIM as much as NTP? That's your own call, but personally I think RIM made a positive step in the industry whereas NTP has contributed what exactly to the advencement of middleware systems?? Nothing? Patent lawsuits? Well there you go. I'll bump RIM cause they're Canadian (like me), and because they develop and use what they patent.
You could use vtun (http://vtun.sourceforge.net/) to get the job done.
It has VPN functionality, although I don't think it has Windows support, if that's a requirement.
Who needs it when you can have a hot failover Linux based solution on hardware 100K cheaper. If you like, you could make a 100x unit failover for the same price :-)
Crypto Accelerators are nothing special to CISCO's, you can buy PCI cards that do the same thing. In fact, many Cisco accelerators ARE PCI based.
Mind you, the Linux alternative isn't as compact as the highly compact Cisco designs, but I'm sure that can be solved in time with demand.
It may not be there today, but there's no reason a well targetted Linux hardware solution couldn't kick Cisco (IOS really, Cisco could adapt) where it hurts.
" ALLOWS YOU TO EXECUTE CODE FROM THE BROWSER YOU ARE COMPETITING WITH?"
This is how Microsoft has won basically every battle it faced in the 90's anyways. IE supported NS extensions, Windows supports Novell, UNIX. Word supports Corel, etc..
Don't you get the game yet? If given the option of Netscape X and IE, you'd choose Netscape X because it can do everything IE does, PLUS Firefox built-in features. If you want to start weaning ppl off IE, its better to attack with a good migration plan.
Hey hey, lets not be too hateful to AOL. They did support the Mozilla development environment for a good many years for like 0 profit. Lets not jump on their a$$es for doing something completely legal and in my eyes, ethical & moral.
If ANYTHING is used to offset the IE juggernaut, then so be it. I don't have a problem with the dual HTML engine technique since many people DO need activex support, at least once and a while.
Excuse me, early adopters are always getting fcked over no matter what.
Think about it like this: WHAT do you want them to do, exactly? Migrate your entire clan to another server transparently?
They have too many people on your server. Now, they've created 88 apprently new servers for people to use, but you begrudgingly want to stick to the server that has horrible performance because you have a 2 day frigging history. If you play the game for more than a month, will it really matter in the long run? Nah. You'll probably end up having characters on other servers anyways to play horde & alliance.
Honestly, you have to stop being stubborn and realize that this problem can't be fixed without people making concessions, and for me, my first server was ItemLaged since day 2. What did I do? I moved to a new server. Problem solved. Alliances are more difficult, but it comes down to the same principle, if you start the game from day 1, expect problems, I don't care how confident you were with pre-open beta (open beta did suck a$$ for item lag, you can't deny that), this is slightly larger scale.
Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ID may not have great games IMHO, but they surely have a lot of in-house talent in developing the engines people actually use.
If you read the wow site, you'd know that that location was where WOW staff were to sign autographs or the such, so there WAS a reason why that store was so insanely busy.
You do have to wonder why people would be so dedicated to get autographs from sweaty geek developers!
Really? When I played Doom3 on the medium difficulty setting, playing through the game seemed like a leveling treadmill. Everything got a little harder as things went along like all games do, but this one just seemed that once you've played the first few levels, the gameplay was exactly the same, kill the mobs, find the key, finish level...
I found HL2 to constantly change the gameplay experience (maybe too often!).
A good game for gameplay progression I thought was Farcry. It seemed like there was always something new to master, but you would still utilize the skills you learned earlier in the game.
Isn't it possible that by the contract with Vivendi, they're forced to do this? I mean they really couldn't care less for the steam downloads, so either they really want to hurt Vivendi, or else its Vivendi mandating the CD check requirement..
I bought my damn TV set and I expected to watch god darned TV programs! Nobody said I'd have to 'subscribe' to a 'cable provider' to get cable! This is an outragous!
In other words, if you don't know what you're buying before you get it, you're the only one too blame. If you don't know, you'd better ask. If there's a hidden trick in their somewhere, you'd better hope that your government is aware of it so that they can mandate that 'in-box' EULA's must be available at the point of sale, or something like that. Don't blame Valve for releasing software with a EULA, blame the the government for allowing this type of activity to occur, if in fact its violating your rights.
You own the media, nobody's taking that away from you, its yours. There aren't FBI swooping down on you to confiscate that 'property' of yours.
As for books, once again its the media that you own. If you illegally reproduce that media, then you can expect to be punished.
For those downloading and installing cracks, etc.. then expect for your account to be banned. If you mod your satilite digital box, expect to get banned, if you uncap your cable modem, expect to get banned.
I am use that you can view every one of these service's EULA's before you buy the them. Hell, I bet that if you ask, they'd even mail a copy to your door.
Canadian Telecoms/Cable are still regulated, so it could be said that the government regulates the price / service levels to acceptible levels.
Anyways, assuming the american/Canadian dollars are even, its still cheaper to buy into (>2Mbs down) broadband for half the price of US counterparts.
You can safely assume that those video camera tapes get wiped on a weekly basis or two. They're only really meant to stop internal theft and known events, like some guy robbing the till, or someone breaking into the store after-hours.
IMHO the story is left absent by the motivations of g-man that still escapes us after the end of HL2. He talked about how putting the right person in the wrong place can change everything. To my knowledge, you could be in suspended animation between hl1 and 2. I suppose its all wrapped around the inigma of what / who gman is, and what force does he/you really serve?
Um, wouldn't it be assumed that the Combine was fighting against the current governments of the world? You're fighting 'apparently' for whatever side pays g-man the most. It can be argued that since g-man can defy time/space that he's actully an alien himself, maybe getting bids on changing the future through time & space.
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That's idiotic. I've seen more inexperienced programmers get jobs lately than I have friends with industry experience. Why? They're cheap. Why hire a 70k programmer to do a 60k job when you could hire a 40k programmer and spend 10k training them.