I work for Charter Communications as a cable internet support technician (gotta pay the bills somehow). We also are rolling out VoIP to our customers, in some areas (I believe St. Louis and Los Angles the service is already available). We were testing this service out of my call center in Fond Du Lac. Unfortunetly, we found with the conditions of the lines in these areas that the service was unreliable with the current hardware we have available. However, we still plan to offer these services as soon we can. (Gotta use up those fiber optic backbones one way or the other.)
Point is, don't plan on seeing these services everywhere immediately, we have been working on deploying them for atleast a year now.
Just my $0.02
If it's illegal to post the virus code, how can someone who might be interested in developing a virus scanning program learn? Source code is a great resource for learning about code. If it's illegal to view the source code publicly then the only way people will be able to get access to such code is through contracts/license agreements which probably would be pretty costly for the average person/student.
Well to be honest I work for Charter Comm. as a tech support and we support IE. If we have any problems with IE, we have them go to the add/repair options under add/remove programs and all problems are resolved in most scenarios. Granted NS/Mozilla are also easy to work with but I don't have any issues with any of them.
Ok so AOL now uses mozilla rendering engine, while that's all great and dandy. Consider this, an open source project that is being used in a extrememly commercialized product, not only that but AOL is considered by many if not most the scum of the internet. While I'm aware that most everyone that reads slashdot hates Microsoft I fail to see how this effects hardly anyone here beyond the fact that websites they create will now have less IE visitors. AOL uses Mozilla because it owns netscape, not because IE sucks, in reality its a very decent web browser despite the fact that microsoft made it. Mod me flamebait.
Say what you want about Microsoft but the fact is that each time they release a new operating system. They are encouraging growth in the market. Open source groups have more reasons to make something thats a free equal (or better than) to Windows, while they are also imposing higher system requirements forcing hardware companies to sell more hardware and make faster parts. The fast parts yield more complex applications do to the fact that since Windows has higher minimum requirements the software users will already have faster systems that can run the software quicker. I don't know about you guys but I can do a lot more with my PC now than I could back when it was a 486dx2 with 8 megs of ram.
I've never been to Europe so I'm not familiar with what the majority of computers run for operating systems, but I guess I've never though OS/2 was still that popular that a european company would produce a product for it. Anyone care to enlighten me? Maybe this product will be sucessful in europe, but I can't imagine it making that much money in North America.
The problem with this is that it still requires an additional computer anyways. Yes it is cool and I find it interesting as I used to develop gameboy color stuff, but I'm having trouble seeing it as pratical or useful. It's great that he took the time to do it but I'm not gonna use it only gba. Feel free to mod me down.
Because the FCC requires phone companies to have 99.9(% reliability. Imagine if 911 didn't work when you needed it, on the other hand your DSL or cable internet is not such a high priority (at this time).
Joel's says that there's never a reason to rewrite something that works... What a load of crap. There are reasons to redo things that work, and that involves a little foresight. If a system becomes difficult to manage, expensive, slow, etc are all reasons to replace it. As a system ages it starts to cost more money to maintain it. Sure, it costs a lot of money to implement and develop a new system but in the long run it's gonna last many more years with out the high maintence costs that you have to support a 'legacy' system. You will also be able to add new features that add productivity to the system that wasn't possible before all the while saving money. Let's say that I have a order processing system that while still can do the job, is slow, unreliable at best, and often needs manpower to keep things running smoothly. This is an ideal system to replace because you will be able to add reliability, reduce manpower, increase system performance, and add new features such as checking system status via the web or sending a email/page to a cellphone when something goes wrong. Technology changes for a reason, we shouldn't limit ourselves to staying inside the rut of the last truck.
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I work for Charter Communications as a cable internet support technician (gotta pay the bills somehow). We also are rolling out VoIP to our customers, in some areas (I believe St. Louis and Los Angles the service is already available). We were testing this service out of my call center in Fond Du Lac. Unfortunetly, we found with the conditions of the lines in these areas that the service was unreliable with the current hardware we have available. However, we still plan to offer these services as soon we can. (Gotta use up those fiber optic backbones one way or the other.) Point is, don't plan on seeing these services everywhere immediately, we have been working on deploying them for atleast a year now. Just my $0.02
If it's illegal to post the virus code, how can someone who might be interested in developing a virus scanning program learn? Source code is a great resource for learning about code. If it's illegal to view the source code publicly then the only way people will be able to get access to such code is through contracts/license agreements which probably would be pretty costly for the average person/student.
Well to be honest I work for Charter Comm. as a tech support and we support IE. If we have any problems with IE, we have them go to the add/repair options under add/remove programs and all problems are resolved in most scenarios. Granted NS/Mozilla are also easy to work with but I don't have any issues with any of them.
Ok so AOL now uses mozilla rendering engine, while that's all great and dandy. Consider this, an open source project that is being used in a extrememly commercialized product, not only that but AOL is considered by many if not most the scum of the internet. While I'm aware that most everyone that reads slashdot hates Microsoft I fail to see how this effects hardly anyone here beyond the fact that websites they create will now have less IE visitors. AOL uses Mozilla because it owns netscape, not because IE sucks, in reality its a very decent web browser despite the fact that microsoft made it. Mod me flamebait.
Say what you want about Microsoft but the fact is that each time they release a new operating system. They are encouraging growth in the market. Open source groups have more reasons to make something thats a free equal (or better than) to Windows, while they are also imposing higher system requirements forcing hardware companies to sell more hardware and make faster parts. The fast parts yield more complex applications do to the fact that since Windows has higher minimum requirements the software users will already have faster systems that can run the software quicker. I don't know about you guys but I can do a lot more with my PC now than I could back when it was a 486dx2 with 8 megs of ram.
I've never been to Europe so I'm not familiar with what the majority of computers run for operating systems, but I guess I've never though OS/2 was still that popular that a european company would produce a product for it. Anyone care to enlighten me? Maybe this product will be sucessful in europe, but I can't imagine it making that much money in North America.
The problem with this is that it still requires an additional computer anyways. Yes it is cool and I find it interesting as I used to develop gameboy color stuff, but I'm having trouble seeing it as pratical or useful. It's great that he took the time to do it but I'm not gonna use it only gba. Feel free to mod me down.
Because the FCC requires phone companies to have 99.9(% reliability. Imagine if 911 didn't work when you needed it, on the other hand your DSL or cable internet is not such a high priority (at this time).
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Joel's says that there's never a reason to rewrite something that works... What a load of crap. There are reasons to redo things that work, and that involves a little foresight. If a system becomes difficult to manage, expensive, slow, etc are all reasons to replace it. As a system ages it starts to cost more money to maintain it. Sure, it costs a lot of money to implement and develop a new system but in the long run it's gonna last many more years with out the high maintence costs that you have to support a 'legacy' system. You will also be able to add new features that add productivity to the system that wasn't possible before all the while saving money. Let's say that I have a order processing system that while still can do the job, is slow, unreliable at best, and often needs manpower to keep things running smoothly. This is an ideal system to replace because you will be able to add reliability, reduce manpower, increase system performance, and add new features such as checking system status via the web or sending a email/page to a cellphone when something goes wrong. Technology changes for a reason, we shouldn't limit ourselves to staying inside the rut of the last truck.
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