Web application developers/promoters seem to think we are living in a utopian society, with free Fiber-like speeds everywhere.
I have news for these people, internet connections go down, servers crash, on-line servers get hacked.
You can't build the future in the present. If I show you a future that you need, the fiber will come. Twenty years ago the lucky ones had 1200 bit per second modems, and paid $12 per hour (on top of any long distance charges) to connect online to bulletin boards, and services like CompuServe, AOL, GEnie and Prodigy. Our "networks" before the popular 'net we know today. Who would have dreamed of multi-megabit connections that are always on, for a cheap, flat monthly fee?
You don't know what tomorrow will bring. Should the innovation stop just because today you don't have the bandwidth?
A guy once asked a king for some ships, in the middle of a war. And he discovered America.
A guy once built a town in the middle of a desert.
Etc.
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I suggest you learn how to use these if you want anyone to actually attempt to read your drivel.
People not doing their jobs, and managers feeling frustrated because they can't sneak up on their employees, look over their shoulders and exclaim "gotcha!".
It has occurred to me recently (and probably to many others before this), that if your job can successfully be performed via telecommute, it can probably successfully be performed in India.
100% true. You'd be surprised at what kinds of services Indians are providing for American firms now. All sorts of back office stuff, from accounting to medical image interpretation.
Kids, Dog, food beer TV are all distractions that make you get absolutly nothing done. I choose to work in an office because you don't have all those distractions.
It's called discipline. The kids have to understand when mom/dad is busy and respect it (and if they're older then they're in school anyway). And YOU have to understand that the beer and the TV are for AFTER work. But if it's too hard for you, then I guess I'll wish you good luck on your daily commute.
not just focus on one because it is more important.
Air force pilots have a saying which keeps them alive:
"Fight the most immediate threat".
It's a survival thing, you know?
Just because a couple dozen grandmothers are upset because their 17 year old (but oh god I remember when he was just 4 doesn't time go by so fast he's still my innocent little baby) plays a violent game, doesn't mean that it's an IMPORTANT issue. It's merely a POLITICAL one, aimed at polarizing the masses and hopefully picking up some votes. Which again shows that politicians don't give a damn about what's RIGHT for the country (the sub prime mess, the falling dollar, our dependence on record high oil, indifference from countries who were once staunch US allies, not to mention the wars (emphasis on the plural)).
If as an individual you are deep in debt, yet allow yourself the luxury of another vacation you can't afford, don't expect sympathy from your creditors. Likewise these electees should not be wasting time on this crap - leave that for when things are going fine (like they were in the 90's when the biggest news was Lewinsky). Right now the US is in deep shit.
I agree. The government is fine with the idea of putting kids' 17+ lives at risk in Iraq and Afghanistan, but GOD FORBID you see any animated violence on a computer at that age!!!
Apple was AT&T, Cingular, T-mobile, Sprint, EIEIO, ROFL, or any other provider.
Damn, I tried signing up with EIEIO for a couple months. My calls would constantly be interrupted by weird animal noises, especially ducks. And I could only get a signal in two places - on my farm and, strangely, at any McDonald's restaurant. Obviously I told them they could shove it.
The most glaring one I can remember was on the morning of September 11, 2001,
Heh, there was an internet brown out? Good thing I missed it. Or considering the fact that I watched the world trade center fall from a bed in intensive care, maybe not.
It's not like anyone's going to go up to a bank and get a check for the trillions of dollars it would take to create a serious competitor to the internet.
They said the same thing about the railroads too at one point. You don't know what the future will bring. Who would have imagined a world covered in asphalt and a car for ever person, 200 years ago - when it was your feet, a horse, or a train? How many trillions have been spent on motor vehicles and all the infrastructure to support them, worldwide? Never say never!
I highly doubt the Internet is headed for a meltdown because, funny thing, as usage grows so does available bandwidth
I agree. I think it was only a couple weeks ago that there was a story on here about some Australian figuring out how to get a 100 to 200 TIMES faster throughput on an ADSL line. I'm too lazy to dig it up. But "Necessity is the mother of Invention" applies to the intertubes, too.
Yeah I thought it would have to be pretty much along those lines - but, but, wouldn't that slow everything down? I mean the whole POINT of using light is that it's faster, etc. But then you need an electronic system to do the switching for you, so it will only be as fast as your electronics and the speed at which you can switch the thing (the material itself).
It would be neat if instead, light and interference patterns or some shit like that could be used instead. But hey what do I know, I'm just a biologist:)
I'm having visions of a circular piece of fiber optic sort of like a "Q" where light is put in at the little straight bit and then travels endlessly in circles...
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He's obviously a professional troll.
I was thinking more along the lines of:
"Yeah we went to the Planetarium, she's a real meat eater. That night she gave me a blow-job back at my place!"
"Companies will pay for the system..."
:)
Okay, that's fucking stupid.
OK so you'd rather have "Clippy" (or his equivalent) pop up with v14gR4 ads every 30 seconds?
Web application developers/promoters seem to think we are living in a utopian society, with free Fiber-like speeds everywhere.
I have news for these people, internet connections go down, servers crash, on-line servers get hacked.
You can't build the future in the present. If I show you a future that you need, the fiber will come. Twenty years ago the lucky ones had 1200 bit per second modems, and paid $12 per hour (on top of any long distance charges) to connect online to bulletin boards, and services like CompuServe, AOL, GEnie and Prodigy. Our "networks" before the popular 'net we know today. Who would have dreamed of multi-megabit connections that are always on, for a cheap, flat monthly fee?
You don't know what tomorrow will bring. Should the innovation stop just because today you don't have the bandwidth?
A guy once asked a king for some ships, in the middle of a war. And he discovered America.
A guy once built a town in the middle of a desert.
Etc.
I suggest you learn how to use these if you want anyone to actually attempt to read your drivel.
Credit cards are handy just because they give perks
What, you think people give stuff away for free? Believe me, you have more than paid for those perks. You just don't realize it.
You know you're on nerd site when a discussion about AT&T and telecommuting turns into an argument about holodecks and warp drives.
Come again with the downside to telecommuting?
People not doing their jobs, and managers feeling frustrated because they can't sneak up on their employees, look over their shoulders and exclaim "gotcha!".
It has occurred to me recently (and probably to many others before this), that if your job can successfully be performed via telecommute, it can probably successfully be performed in India.
100% true. You'd be surprised at what kinds of services Indians are providing for American firms now. All sorts of back office stuff, from accounting to medical image interpretation.
Kids, Dog, food beer TV are all distractions that make you get absolutly nothing done. I choose to work in an office because you don't have all those distractions.
It's called discipline. The kids have to understand when mom/dad is busy and respect it (and if they're older then they're in school anyway). And YOU have to understand that the beer and the TV are for AFTER work. But if it's too hard for you, then I guess I'll wish you good luck on your daily commute.
I agree. I only work 15 hours a week, and people know it. But then again I earn more than many who work 60+ hours a week...
or they too stupid to figure out that they need to actually be on the VPN to access work resources
You could try not hiring stupid people, for a start.
not just focus on one because it is more important.
Air force pilots have a saying which keeps them alive:
"Fight the most immediate threat".
It's a survival thing, you know?
Just because a couple dozen grandmothers are upset because their 17 year old (but oh god I remember when he was just 4 doesn't time go by so fast he's still my innocent little baby) plays a violent game, doesn't mean that it's an IMPORTANT issue. It's merely a POLITICAL one, aimed at polarizing the masses and hopefully picking up some votes. Which again shows that politicians don't give a damn about what's RIGHT for the country (the sub prime mess, the falling dollar, our dependence on record high oil, indifference from countries who were once staunch US allies, not to mention the wars (emphasis on the plural)).
If as an individual you are deep in debt, yet allow yourself the luxury of another vacation you can't afford, don't expect sympathy from your creditors. Likewise these electees should not be wasting time on this crap - leave that for when things are going fine (like they were in the 90's when the biggest news was Lewinsky). Right now the US is in deep shit.
you're obviously not thinking of the children
that's because he's a terrorist
I agree. The government is fine with the idea of putting kids' 17+ lives at risk in Iraq and Afghanistan, but GOD FORBID you see any animated violence on a computer at that age!!!
Apple was AT&T, Cingular, T-mobile, Sprint, EIEIO, ROFL, or any other provider.
Damn, I tried signing up with EIEIO for a couple months. My calls would constantly be interrupted by weird animal noises, especially ducks. And I could only get a signal in two places - on my farm and, strangely, at any McDonald's restaurant. Obviously I told them they could shove it.
and while you're at it, modernize bandwidth prices that were set back in the stone age!
;)
Be careful what you wish for. The telco's ideas of a "modern bandwidth price" is probably not LESS than what they charge today
The most glaring one I can remember was on the morning of September 11, 2001,
Heh, there was an internet brown out? Good thing I missed it. Or considering the fact that I watched the world trade center fall from a bed in intensive care, maybe not.
It's not like anyone's going to go up to a bank and get a check for the trillions of dollars it would take to create a serious competitor to the internet.
They said the same thing about the railroads too at one point. You don't know what the future will bring. Who would have imagined a world covered in asphalt and a car for ever person, 200 years ago - when it was your feet, a horse, or a train? How many trillions have been spent on motor vehicles and all the infrastructure to support them, worldwide? Never say never!
I highly doubt the Internet is headed for a meltdown because, funny thing, as usage grows so does available bandwidth
I agree. I think it was only a couple weeks ago that there was a story on here about some Australian figuring out how to get a 100 to 200 TIMES faster throughput on an ADSL line. I'm too lazy to dig it up. But "Necessity is the mother of Invention" applies to the intertubes, too.
They should be careful, because some of the "big users" you cited will soon be able to afford to buy some of these "telcos".
Or maybe you're just a JERK!
:)
Why don't you just shut the fuck up and let the guy make his point, asshole? Ever since I saw you in your family tree, I've wanted to cut it down.
but I imagine it would be optoelectronic
:)
Yeah I thought it would have to be pretty much along those lines - but, but, wouldn't that slow everything down? I mean the whole POINT of using light is that it's faster, etc. But then you need an electronic system to do the switching for you, so it will only be as fast as your electronics and the speed at which you can switch the thing (the material itself).
It would be neat if instead, light and interference patterns or some shit like that could be used instead. But hey what do I know, I'm just a biologist
Leonardo, is that you?
I'm having visions of a circular piece of fiber optic sort of like a "Q" where light is put in at the little straight bit and then travels endlessly in circles...
Dude, pass the bong.