Disclaimer: I'm a network engineer for a major cable company.
Everyone overlooks the major difference between phone and cable when saying cable should be opened up. That is (I'll prefix this with IN GENERAL, since there may be exceptions to this) cable systems were privately funded while phone systems used tax payer money.
A second difference, although it will become less of one as cable telephony becomes more common is that phone is an utility service while cable is entertainment.
Disclaimer: I'm a network engineer for one of the major cable companies.
I think these types of surveys are really misleading, because the major players are all HUGE companies that typically have completely different management in each area. The major part of the problem is how these companies were formed, by buying out existing companies. Obviously someone needs to still run the business for that area so most/all the employees come with the purchase. What you end up with is a division that doesn't always fit in with the rest of the company and continue to run things the old way. Even if their performance is better than the rest of the purchasing company on average standardization is necessary to ensure quality. Along these same lines I work in a division that is typically 1st or 2nd in the entire company on many measurements. Our customer satisfaction measurements are very high. But I could point to areas in the company that typically very low in general. The opinion of the company by the customer is drastically different in those areas. So I guess what I'm getting at is take these results with a grain of salt. I work very very hard to make sure that every customer is taken care of and just because someone in Kentucky had a bad experience doesn't mean someone in Florida won't have a terrific one with the same company.
If they opensourced their auction code it might be something, but to open source just the search part o f it seems like it would barely benefit the developer and most certainly benefit ebay. Nothing wrong with that I guess, but I don't think the value is their for the developer.
I'm going to give my perspective from my experience managing a network of 90,000 clients. It's virtually impossible for them to tell the difference between legal uses and illegal uses of P2P. All they know and can measure is the bits and bytes being transfered. I don't have any hard numbers but I wouldn't be surprised at all if more than 80% of P2P is used for illegal purposes. The thing about P2P is even if your using it for legal purposes you're still wasting network resources. I guess if you don't like it move out of a dorm.
Why ban cable companies from being able to provide set top boxes? ALLOW customers to have the choice. If they want to buy their own set top box for what ever price they are sold for let them. If they would prefer not to invest a bunch of money into the box then let them lease a cable box.
Once again people fail to understand that timespent equates to lost money lost in some way or other. The big advantage with CMS's is that all the basic functionality is already there for you to access. I can easily create a custom CMS for my own use, but I choose to use Mambo because it less work to harness something that already works and been tested.
Unless you plan to build a better wheel, why bother? (Except for the love of doing it)
Or a better idea is to place your file with passwords in a directory not web accessible and then include the path to it instead.
require_once("/usr/local/src/webapp/dbfuncs.php");
Just in case someone did actually purchase one in the last 10 days Apple does have a policy to trade it back in for the new model.
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And just for the record I switched to an Apple two years ago from using pcs since the 286 all my life and I wonder why I waited so long. If your thinking about switching, do it. OS X really is that great. The only thing that I can honestly say PCs have going for them that is better is the game selection, but all the really good ones do come out for the mac (but it takes a few months usually). But that's why I have a ps2 and a Gamecube.
It works like this:
1 downstream channel @ 35Mbit per cisco cmts blade.
6 upstream channels per blade @ 10Mbit each.
So theoretically a single modem could get a maximum of 35Mbit / 10Mbit assuming it wasn't capped off and nobody else was utilizing the bandwidth.
Few people understand how Cable bandwidth actually works. It all hinges on your QAM modulation and the number of customers combined to the downstreams and upstreams. The max dowstream bandwidth at docsis 1.1 per cmts blade is about 35Mbit and the max upstream is roughly 10Mbit. This is at 256 QAM on the downstream and 16 QAM on the upstream and upstream channel width of 3.2Mhz. Now I manage 18 CMTS in my day job, that average customer count per blade is around 1250. Each blade has it's own downstream channel and 6 upstreams. So now you have 35 Mbit on the downstream shared between 1250 customers and approximately 125 customers sharing 10 Mbit up. You can get more bandwith by reducing the node combining down to a 1:1 ratio where each node has it's own upstream channel but that involves plant redesign work and additional investment in more CMTS's (big $$$$) and by running different frequencies. But the big gain would be to move to docsis 3.0 (2.0 only offers an additional 10Mbit on the upstream) where they say each downstream channel will be able to offer 200Mbit down and 100Mbit up.
And yes I am a RF Network Engineer.
They've been focusing mainly of storage space and not performance. The hard drive is still the bottle neck on most machines. I can barely dent my 240 gig HD. I'd much rather have a 80 gig HD that was 4x as fast. Yes, there are pratical uses for a 400 Gig hd, file server, AV, etc. But for the majority (read: regular consumers, not slashdotters) of people it's just unneeded at this point in time.
The first week can be compiling gentoo and the next three weeks can be compiling open office. They could do it in a sports format yelling out the compiler output playback.
I see two main things.. a loss of it's #1 competitor and the name and shows. The name is now gone, the TechTV people are gone, and while some of the shows remain the content is mostly different.
But at least with G4 I now know how many ways you can frag someone.
How about people start caring about things that really matter in the world, instead of trivial things like whether the software you use is licensed under the GPL or not.
Despite whatever Torvalds or Stallman or the Linux community wants you to think:
IT'S JUST A FREAKING COMPUTER!
If you really want to change the world, do it in your own commmunity. Help out some kids who don't have friends or parents. Donate time/stuff/money to whatever non-profit organization you like the best. You can change the world around you, but writing a uber piece of software regardless of whether you sell it or give it away probably isn't going to change someones quality of life.
Yes they would have to dynamically route the packets otherwise it wouldn't really be a mesh of anything. The beauty of mesh networking is that it dynamically switches to the next closest hop.
I knew Tivo as it originally started was a failed business model. Cool, but doomed. It was priced way too high with the subscription fee or lifetime purchase to really make it. Yes, a lot of people bought Tivos, but a lot more didn't. The competion from Cable companies who offer their own DVR for $10 a month while not as good as Tivo was good enough. Dual tuners, a single box, no serial or IR blaster configuration, replacement boxes if one goes bad, no initial investment in the box itself.
I got the original model for a present for christmas . Yeah it's a toy but it is pretty darn amazing just how many things it can do. The sensors can be programmed to have (i think up to 20?) reflex commands programmed. So you can set it up to wander around and if it hits a wall it turns the other direction and keeps going. Plus anything that scares the cat away never hurts having around.
I find it pretty unusual that both cases caused the machine to stop responding completely. That hasn't happened to me since Windows 98/Me. 2000 and XP have generally been pretty stable theirselves. Individual programs still crash, but they don't usually take the system down with them. I wonder if there was some bad ram or other hardware failure as part of the cause.
Still funny and I'm sure embarrassing all the same.:)
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It's because of poor project managers who don't fully understand the project and the marketing departments that want to change the scope of the project every 15 minutes. Much to the point that a project that had 4 months of work completed and the original project was within a few hours of being 100% completed that it ended up being outsource and later scrapped completely. Read some Dilbert comics, marketing departments can mess things up hardcore sometimes.
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Disclaimer: I'm a network engineer for a major cable company.
Everyone overlooks the major difference between phone and cable when saying cable should be opened up. That is (I'll prefix this with IN GENERAL, since there may be exceptions to this) cable systems were privately funded while phone systems used tax payer money. A second difference, although it will become less of one as cable telephony becomes more common is that phone is an utility service while cable is entertainment.
Disclaimer: I'm a network engineer for one of the major cable companies.
I think these types of surveys are really misleading, because the major players are all HUGE companies that typically have completely different management in each area. The major part of the problem is how these companies were formed, by buying out existing companies. Obviously someone needs to still run the business for that area so most/all the employees come with the purchase. What you end up with is a division that doesn't always fit in with the rest of the company and continue to run things the old way. Even if their performance is better than the rest of the purchasing company on average standardization is necessary to ensure quality.
Along these same lines I work in a division that is typically 1st or 2nd in the entire company on many measurements. Our customer satisfaction measurements are very high. But I could point to areas in the company that typically very low in general. The opinion of the company by the customer is drastically different in those areas.
So I guess what I'm getting at is take these results with a grain of salt. I work very very hard to make sure that every customer is taken care of and just because someone in Kentucky had a bad experience doesn't mean someone in Florida won't have a terrific one with the same company.
That sounds much more interesting. Thanks for clearing that up.
If they opensourced their auction code it might be something, but to open source just the search part o f it seems like it would barely benefit the developer and most certainly benefit ebay. Nothing wrong with that I guess, but I don't think the value is their for the developer.
I'm going to give my perspective from my experience managing a network of 90,000 clients. It's virtually impossible for them to tell the difference between legal uses and illegal uses of P2P. All they know and can measure is the bits and bytes being transfered. I don't have any hard numbers but I wouldn't be surprised at all if more than 80% of P2P is used for illegal purposes. The thing about P2P is even if your using it for legal purposes you're still wasting network resources. I guess if you don't like it move out of a dorm.
Why ban cable companies from being able to provide set top boxes? ALLOW customers to have the choice. If they want to buy their own set top box for what ever price they are sold for let them. If they would prefer not to invest a bunch of money into the box then let them lease a cable box.
Once again people fail to understand that timespent equates to lost money lost in some way or other. The big advantage with CMS's is that all the basic functionality is already there for you to access. I can easily create a custom CMS for my own use, but I choose to use Mambo because it less work to harness something that already works and been tested. Unless you plan to build a better wheel, why bother? (Except for the love of doing it)
Or a better idea is to place your file with passwords in a directory not web accessible and then include the path to it instead. require_once("/usr/local/src/webapp/dbfuncs.php");
1.) You can afford a desktop machine to have it hooked up to.
2.) Your obviously better off than at least 90% of the slashdot crowd so stop bitching.
Should Apple reduce its price on any shipped product within 10 calendar days of shipment, you may contact Apple Sales Support at 1-800-676-2775 to request a refund or credit of the difference between the price you were charged and the current selling price. To receive the refund or credit you must contact Apple within 14 business days of shipment.
And just for the record I switched to an Apple two years ago from using pcs since the 286 all my life and I wonder why I waited so long. If your thinking about switching, do it. OS X really is that great. The only thing that I can honestly say PCs have going for them that is better is the game selection, but all the really good ones do come out for the mac (but it takes a few months usually). But that's why I have a ps2 and a Gamecube.
As long as the worm's hole doesn't have any Klingons around Uranus I'm cool with it.
It works like this: 1 downstream channel @ 35Mbit per cisco cmts blade. 6 upstream channels per blade @ 10Mbit each. So theoretically a single modem could get a maximum of 35Mbit / 10Mbit assuming it wasn't capped off and nobody else was utilizing the bandwidth.
Few people understand how Cable bandwidth actually works. It all hinges on your QAM modulation and the number of customers combined to the downstreams and upstreams. The max dowstream bandwidth at docsis 1.1 per cmts blade is about 35Mbit and the max upstream is roughly 10Mbit. This is at 256 QAM on the downstream and 16 QAM on the upstream and upstream channel width of 3.2Mhz. Now I manage 18 CMTS in my day job, that average customer count per blade is around 1250. Each blade has it's own downstream channel and 6 upstreams. So now you have 35 Mbit on the downstream shared between 1250 customers and approximately 125 customers sharing 10 Mbit up. You can get more bandwith by reducing the node combining down to a 1:1 ratio where each node has it's own upstream channel but that involves plant redesign work and additional investment in more CMTS's (big $$$$) and by running different frequencies. But the big gain would be to move to docsis 3.0 (2.0 only offers an additional 10Mbit on the upstream) where they say each downstream channel will be able to offer 200Mbit down and 100Mbit up. And yes I am a RF Network Engineer.
They've been focusing mainly of storage space and not performance. The hard drive is still the bottle neck on most machines. I can barely dent my 240 gig HD. I'd much rather have a 80 gig HD that was 4x as fast. Yes, there are pratical uses for a 400 Gig hd, file server, AV, etc. But for the majority (read: regular consumers, not slashdotters) of people it's just unneeded at this point in time.
That has to be the absolute worst trailer I've ever seen.
good point, hadn't thought about that angle.
The first week can be compiling gentoo and the next three weeks can be compiling open office. They could do it in a sports format yelling out the compiler output playback.
I see two main things.. a loss of it's #1 competitor and the name and shows. The name is now gone, the TechTV people are gone, and while some of the shows remain the content is mostly different. But at least with G4 I now know how many ways you can frag someone.
How about people start caring about things that really matter in the world, instead of trivial things like whether the software you use is licensed under the GPL or not. Despite whatever Torvalds or Stallman or the Linux community wants you to think: IT'S JUST A FREAKING COMPUTER! If you really want to change the world, do it in your own commmunity. Help out some kids who don't have friends or parents. Donate time/stuff/money to whatever non-profit organization you like the best. You can change the world around you, but writing a uber piece of software regardless of whether you sell it or give it away probably isn't going to change someones quality of life.
Yes they would have to dynamically route the packets otherwise it wouldn't really be a mesh of anything. The beauty of mesh networking is that it dynamically switches to the next closest hop.
I knew Tivo as it originally started was a failed business model. Cool, but doomed. It was priced way too high with the subscription fee or lifetime purchase to really make it. Yes, a lot of people bought Tivos, but a lot more didn't. The competion from Cable companies who offer their own DVR for $10 a month while not as good as Tivo was good enough. Dual tuners, a single box, no serial or IR blaster configuration, replacement boxes if one goes bad, no initial investment in the box itself.
I got the original model for a present for christmas . Yeah it's a toy but it is pretty darn amazing just how many things it can do. The sensors can be programmed to have (i think up to 20?) reflex commands programmed. So you can set it up to wander around and if it hits a wall it turns the other direction and keeps going. Plus anything that scares the cat away never hurts having around.
I find it pretty unusual that both cases caused the machine to stop responding completely. That hasn't happened to me since Windows 98/Me. 2000 and XP have generally been pretty stable theirselves. Individual programs still crash, but they don't usually take the system down with them. I wonder if there was some bad ram or other hardware failure as part of the cause. Still funny and I'm sure embarrassing all the same. :)
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It's because of poor project managers who don't fully understand the project and the marketing departments that want to change the scope of the project every 15 minutes. Much to the point that a project that had 4 months of work completed and the original project was within a few hours of being 100% completed that it ended up being outsource and later scrapped completely. Read some Dilbert comics, marketing departments can mess things up hardcore sometimes.