Well the site's administrator COULD put on a custom error page. What I never really understood about IIS overloading is that if the webserver does not have time to process your request, how does it have time to create a fancy error page.
I saw that IMAX film at the space center in Huntsville. The screen there was even bigger than a regular IMAX. It was great, it made you feel like you were actually going down that rope.
The last IMAX film was kinda slow and boring. It was something about caves. Why can't they put interesting MOVIES in IMAX format? It would be cool if they had filmed like the Matrix 2 in 35mm AND the IMAX format.
Hmm, that makes an interesting points. Light poles are everywhere, and they obviously provide a source of electricity. Maybe if somebody came up with a really cheap 802.11a & b access point/router they could start strapping them on to light poles or even building them into new ones. Light poles are just the right height to provide access to people on the ground and in their homes.
Maybe they could have a dual band solution where routing is done mesh style; cell to cell on 802.11a and access is provided on 802.11b. 802.11a works best with line of sight since it uses a 5Ghz frequency,and most light poles, in cities at least, are in line of sight with an adjacent pole. The higher frequency could also cut down on interference by devices that down play well. A crappy microwave might interrupt service in a cell, but it wouldn't affect the routing of the rest of the network. The extra bandwith of 802.11a would also help in routing by reducing bandwidth saturation.
I think there's a reason for underetimation in those cases...it's called safety and reliability. Would you want to get on an elevator loaded with 39 people when on the door it says 20 people max? Manufacturers calculate downwards on capacity to take into account variations in material tolerances. Sure the elevator might support all those people, but what if the day the spun the cables for it they happened to use some slightly weaker cable. It might have been within in the manufacturers specified tolerances, but it might reduce the load capacity.
The specifications manufacturers provide are generally that capacity at which they gaurantee their product to perform. Sure, some product samples may perform beyond those specs, but then others may fail immediatly after they are exceeded. Just because of variations in manufacturing.
The point is that laptops are beginning to move from bare essentials for work on the road to real desktop replacement. The buyer of this laptop will buy it replace his desktop computer, so it will more often than not be stationary on some desk. Portability is just a feature. The point is that laptops are finally offering everything desktops can, large displays, hot performance, PLUS portability when you need it. This is why the days of the desktop as we know it are numbered.
While it is true that access providers oversell their services based on a formula that depends on normal usage habits, the problem is that that kind of service is not what they advertise. They advertise continuous connections and highspeeds, with no disclaimer that that does not mean highspeed continuous connection. They should either revise their advertising, or their terms of service to reflect what they are really selling.
As a side note, the justification for restricting usage by saying that providers oversell their services is really sort of off base. If enough people are 'overusing' the service that service degrades, that should indicate that the formula they use to calculate the amount by which they can oversell is in need of adjustment. If they do so and discover they can't oversell as much and are unable to break even on service costs and revenue, then they need to adjust their pricing in accordance with what they find.
I think that is the plan. The W3C will whine about no one using their standards until people start to implement them more fully, and then the W3C will start charging for them--well at least for further revisions of those standards. It seems like a typical bait and switch type of business move.
OMG, I thought that was one of those "Steven King, Dead at 66" type of messages with a link to goatse.cx. But no, it's true! Although, I didn't see the part about the drano.
I find the regenerating kidney far more interesting than the anti-biotic resistant bacteria. The implications of being able to duplicate the cause of the regeneration would be staggering.
This has already been done. I saw it on tv ages ago. They had a full size prototype. The only problem they said they ahd was with zippers, buttons, etc. Metallic objects caused scorch marks on the fabric.
Bill Gates the developer is still Bill Gates--King of Microsoft. It's not like Joe the programmer down the hall is going to his boss and saying they need to scrap the whole code base. This is THE big guy admitting that the old stuff is "crummy" and needs to be replaced not renovated.
However they like to portray Bill Gates, don't forget that what he says goes at Microsoft. Balmer is just the robot that does all the work to get things done.
It's quite lovely. However with such attention to detail in the system, they should have spent a little more on room it is housed in. Just look at that lighting scheme! Where's the trendy halogen spot downlights? Where's the accent lighting around the round thing in middle of the room? My god man, how can they expect engineers to slave in such conditions! Oh the humanity! Flourescent row lighting! And you just know they make the buzzing sound...
God, why is everyone trying to apply the P2P paradigm to everything? Somethings just work better in a base-remote configuration. And I would guess that cell phones would be one of them. The only use I could see for this would be as a secondary mode for a phone to switch into to if it is losing the signal to a cell tower. All the phones would be in passive mode all the time, listening, and if a phone began to lose signal it could switch to a promiscuous mode to route calls over near by phones to get to the closest tower.
Wal-Mart is an evil corporation. Those dirt cheap prices you pay have a price elsewhere. There is an excellent story about Wal-mart on Alternet. How Wal-Mart is Remaking our World
Well I am getting tired of not just a buzzword, but the letter X. Everything has to have an X in it these days. XML (and all the X's in it's thread), OS X, XP, eXtreme Programming. X is the new e for the post dot-bomb economy. In fact, I blame the rise of X near the end of the internet bubble for it's collapse. With the usurpation of 'e' (as in eBusiness, eTailors, etc.) suddenly investors were aghast to find that thier latest schemes did not include the latest buzz letter! And thus the loss of confidence in the 'e' economy.
I predict that Q will soon rise and topple X as king of the buzzletters.
I think the problem with that is that because of regulation, a few mammoth companies have emerged that would totally unbalance a deregulated market. To deregulate with the situation as it is now would not result in the consumer driven market where anyone enterprising soul can enter and start something up to meet a need. I think instead, we would only see mergers on top of merger until there was only one mega company controlling all the assets. It would be like corporate communism, if you don't like the service they provide...tough.
I think if we are serious about deregulation, we are going to have to break up some of these companies into smaller peices first so they don't have enough capital to cannibalize each other.
Not anymore bucko! Now you can get two way Hughes' DirecWay service or Echostar's StarBand (Echostar/Microsoft/Gillat). Two way satellite, expensive, kinda slow. Very high latency, what with having to go 23,000 miles out of the way in both directions.
The way I read it, it seems to me that their will not be one repeater in a neighborhood, but one on each house. And it would be more than a router, but rather something to convert and route their non-standard flavor of 802.11b to regular 802.11b for use inside a person's house.
I dunno, there is something that feels off to me. Their website is so sparse, and where it's not it's full of buzzwords. It reminds me of those SEC scam pages designed to educate consumers.
Satellite as it is now SUCKS. There is major latency just due to physics and the fact that the satellite is in geosyncronous orbit. And beyond that, it's just not very fast. My experience with DirecPC (when it was one way, maybe different now, doubt it though) was about 200kbps most of the time. And then there was the fair access policy that slowed the downstream speed to about 20kbps if you downloaded more than 120mb in any 60 minute period. And let's not forget that if it rained hard, it was GUARANTEED to disconnect.
It's also expensive. My DirecPC was $49/mo but I also had to have a phoneline and a dial-up internet connection so the real cost was closer to about $100. (They also had a deal where you could use their crappy isp service for $59, but you would still need the phoneline.) The 2-way satellite internet services online right now are $69/mo. Or at least they where a year ago back when I was looking at them.
No, satellite is not a viable alternative in my opinion. At least not in it's current incarnation. Someday, when there are constellations of low earth orbit communications satellites then just MAYBE satellite will have a better chance. But I wouldn't even want to guess on the expense of such a system.
There is a difference. When dealing with airspace and national waters, you are dealing with a zone of territorial ownership and control that has at least one physical boundry. In space, however, territorial bounderies will be virtual on all sides.
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Well the site's administrator COULD put on a custom error page. What I never really understood about IIS overloading is that if the webserver does not have time to process your request, how does it have time to create a fancy error page.
what planet have you been on? tnn is no longer a country music format channel. they play star trek twice a night. they have bay watch. it is good.
I saw that IMAX film at the space center in Huntsville. The screen there was even bigger than a regular IMAX. It was great, it made you feel like you were actually going down that rope.
The last IMAX film was kinda slow and boring. It was something about caves. Why can't they put interesting MOVIES in IMAX format? It would be cool if they had filmed like the Matrix 2 in 35mm AND the IMAX format.
Hmm, that makes an interesting points. Light poles are everywhere, and they obviously provide a source of electricity. Maybe if somebody came up with a really cheap 802.11a & b access point/router they could start strapping them on to light poles or even building them into new ones. Light poles are just the right height to provide access to people on the ground and in their homes.
Maybe they could have a dual band solution where routing is done mesh style; cell to cell on 802.11a and access is provided on 802.11b. 802.11a works best with line of sight since it uses a 5Ghz frequency,and most light poles, in cities at least, are in line of sight with an adjacent pole. The higher frequency could also cut down on interference by devices that down play well. A crappy microwave might interrupt service in a cell, but it wouldn't affect the routing of the rest of the network. The extra bandwith of 802.11a would also help in routing by reducing bandwidth saturation.
Wow, it must suck to be so insecure that you had to take an apple sticker off your car because you thought it might make you look gay.
I think there's a reason for underetimation in those cases...it's called safety and reliability. Would you want to get on an elevator loaded with 39 people when on the door it says 20 people max? Manufacturers calculate downwards on capacity to take into account variations in material tolerances. Sure the elevator might support all those people, but what if the day the spun the cables for it they happened to use some slightly weaker cable. It might have been within in the manufacturers specified tolerances, but it might reduce the load capacity.
The specifications manufacturers provide are generally that capacity at which they gaurantee their product to perform. Sure, some product samples may perform beyond those specs, but then others may fail immediatly after they are exceeded. Just because of variations in manufacturing.
How hot would the surface of ones clothing/body become while traveling at mach 1.68 due to friction with the air?
The point is that laptops are beginning to move from bare essentials for work on the road to real desktop replacement. The buyer of this laptop will buy it replace his desktop computer, so it will more often than not be stationary on some desk. Portability is just a feature. The point is that laptops are finally offering everything desktops can, large displays, hot performance, PLUS portability when you need it. This is why the days of the desktop as we know it are numbered.
While it is true that access providers oversell their services based on a formula that depends on normal usage habits, the problem is that that kind of service is not what they advertise. They advertise continuous connections and highspeeds, with no disclaimer that that does not mean highspeed continuous connection. They should either revise their advertising, or their terms of service to reflect what they are really selling.
As a side note, the justification for restricting usage by saying that providers oversell their services is really sort of off base. If enough people are 'overusing' the service that service degrades, that should indicate that the formula they use to calculate the amount by which they can oversell is in need of adjustment. If they do so and discover they can't oversell as much and are unable to break even on service costs and revenue, then they need to adjust their pricing in accordance with what they find.
I think that is the plan. The W3C will whine about no one using their standards until people start to implement them more fully, and then the W3C will start charging for them--well at least for further revisions of those standards. It seems like a typical bait and switch type of business move.
OMG, I thought that was one of those "Steven King, Dead at 66" type of messages with a link to goatse.cx. But no, it's true! Although, I didn't see the part about the drano.
I find the regenerating kidney far more interesting than the anti-biotic resistant bacteria. The implications of being able to duplicate the cause of the regeneration would be staggering.
This has already been done. I saw it on tv ages ago. They had a full size prototype. The only problem they said they ahd was with zippers, buttons, etc. Metallic objects caused scorch marks on the fabric.
Bill Gates the developer is still Bill Gates--King of Microsoft. It's not like Joe the programmer down the hall is going to his boss and saying they need to scrap the whole code base. This is THE big guy admitting that the old stuff is "crummy" and needs to be replaced not renovated.
However they like to portray Bill Gates, don't forget that what he says goes at Microsoft. Balmer is just the robot that does all the work to get things done.
It's quite lovely. However with such attention to detail in the system, they should have spent a little more on room it is housed in. Just look at that lighting scheme! Where's the trendy halogen spot downlights? Where's the accent lighting around the round thing in middle of the room? My god man, how can they expect engineers to slave in such conditions! Oh the humanity! Flourescent row lighting! And you just know they make the buzzing sound...
wow, that's the first "'insert name' is dying!!!" post I have ever seen that is legitimate. interesting.
God, why is everyone trying to apply the P2P paradigm to everything? Somethings just work better in a base-remote configuration. And I would guess that cell phones would be one of them. The only use I could see for this would be as a secondary mode for a phone to switch into to if it is losing the signal to a cell tower. All the phones would be in passive mode all the time, listening, and if a phone began to lose signal it could switch to a promiscuous mode to route calls over near by phones to get to the closest tower.
Wal-Mart is an evil corporation. Those dirt cheap prices you pay have a price elsewhere. There is an excellent story about Wal-mart on Alternet.
How Wal-Mart is Remaking our World
Well I am getting tired of not just a buzzword, but the letter X. Everything has to have an X in it these days. XML (and all the X's in it's thread), OS X, XP, eXtreme Programming. X is the new e for the post dot-bomb economy. In fact, I blame the rise of X near the end of the internet bubble for it's collapse. With the usurpation of 'e' (as in eBusiness, eTailors, etc.) suddenly investors were aghast to find that thier latest schemes did not include the latest buzz letter! And thus the loss of confidence in the 'e' economy.
I predict that Q will soon rise and topple X as king of the buzzletters.
I think the problem with that is that because of regulation, a few mammoth companies have emerged that would totally unbalance a deregulated market. To deregulate with the situation as it is now would not result in the consumer driven market where anyone enterprising soul can enter and start something up to meet a need. I think instead, we would only see mergers on top of merger until there was only one mega company controlling all the assets. It would be like corporate communism, if you don't like the service they provide...tough.
I think if we are serious about deregulation, we are going to have to break up some of these companies into smaller peices first so they don't have enough capital to cannibalize each other.
Not anymore bucko! Now you can get two way Hughes' DirecWay service or Echostar's StarBand (Echostar/Microsoft/Gillat). Two way satellite, expensive, kinda slow. Very high latency, what with having to go 23,000 miles out of the way in both directions.
The way I read it, it seems to me that their will not be one repeater in a neighborhood, but one on each house. And it would be more than a router, but rather something to convert and route their non-standard flavor of 802.11b to regular 802.11b for use inside a person's house.
I dunno, there is something that feels off to me. Their website is so sparse, and where it's not it's full of buzzwords. It reminds me of those SEC scam pages designed to educate consumers.
Satellite as it is now SUCKS. There is major latency just due to physics and the fact that the satellite is in geosyncronous orbit. And beyond that, it's just not very fast. My experience with DirecPC (when it was one way, maybe different now, doubt it though) was about 200kbps most of the time. And then there was the fair access policy that slowed the downstream speed to about 20kbps if you downloaded more than 120mb in any 60 minute period. And let's not forget that if it rained hard, it was GUARANTEED to disconnect.
It's also expensive. My DirecPC was $49/mo but I also had to have a phoneline and a dial-up internet connection so the real cost was closer to about $100. (They also had a deal where you could use their crappy isp service for $59, but you would still need the phoneline.) The 2-way satellite internet services online right now are $69/mo. Or at least they where a year ago back when I was looking at them.
No, satellite is not a viable alternative in my opinion. At least not in it's current incarnation. Someday, when there are constellations of low earth orbit communications satellites then just MAYBE satellite will have a better chance. But I wouldn't even want to guess on the expense of such a system.
Hmmm, I guess they are even trying to teach the English courses over this broken network.
There is a difference. When dealing with airspace and national waters, you are dealing with a zone of territorial ownership and control that has at least one physical boundry. In space, however, territorial bounderies will be virtual on all sides.