I've also seen CVs/resumes that have everything and the kitchen sink included and they suck. They are clearly designed to appeal to managers who are crap at recruiting and just look for buzzwords.
Going back on topic, BBC *pays* for the use of bandwidth on their side. In many (all?) cases in the UK the BBC don't pay an ISP because they are connected to the LINX and ISPs peer with them directly directly.
Actually the UK is different to these countries in one major respect - all of them have high density housing (flats) whereas the UK has a lot of individual residences (houses). This makes it much cheaper to provide high bandwidth services than the UK. Of course BT is no help but its not all their fault.
Problem is that the mobile company doesn't just want to be a 'pipe'. They want to have more involvement in the content so they can skim off their cut. Hence the fantastically complicated 3GPP systems now going in. Prediction - no one will want that crap either.
More than your house (unless it's a big fancy one). In fact one linecard is likely to cost more than your house.
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I wasn't commenting on the relative value of Indian versus USAian workers. Having worked for a large US company I can tell you that while the US guys turn up early and go home late they don't do that much in between. I was commenting on the example, but now I reread it I see what the poster was getting at.
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"Sure, you can hire six Indian engineers for the price of an American engineer. But if an American engineer can do the work of six Indian engineers, what's the difference?" Oops. Notice how by the time we get into the second sentence the equality in price gets substituted by equality in productivity. Just because 6 Indian salaries would equal to one American, the author assumes the productivity level is going to stay the same, making the example nonsensical, since why would you outsource if it's the same money and the same productivity?
Hm, my dual CPU (PII 200) box running Debian Unstable, IceWM and Firefox & Thunderbird runs like a three legged dog. Admittedly Win98 isn't much better but it was better...
Having seen the BT spin presentation it's not quite as exciting as it sounds, but I do have confidence that they will do it when they say. As the previous poster said, they have smart people and can move quickly when they want to.
I have to agree. Whilst I would love to stay driving and controlling my car, the amount of other wankers who can't drive is making it too dangerous. I think it's pretty good going if I only have two people try to kill me with their reckless maneovers as I'm driving down the motorway.
At this rate we'll be driving like the Italians or Spanish shortly...
Let's see... High launch power from the CO on the bundle of copper means that the further you get the less dense the cables are and therefore less interference. If you look at it the other way the closer you get to the CO the more cables and the greater the interference. Hence its easier to have assymetic as it matched the physical layer characteristics.
The guy quoted doesn't know his arse from his elbow. The problem is (as was also pointed out) the upstream capacity in the network as most "home" services are assymetric.
Yeah, having worked at the largest dial ISP provider in the UK I can confirm that the Police have free reign to ask for whatever sniffing they like without a hint of protest. Plod justs says "Here's an IP address tell me what's going on" and they fall over themselves to get the information - who needs the RIPA act when corporates have no balls?
You may not have noticed, but telco's are going out of business left, right and centre (British English, not a spelling mistake!). This is because they undercharged for the bandwidth in the first place. Rather than proces going (further artifically down) they are now approaching levels when a reasonable profit can be made. Live with the fact you have been a freeloader for too long...
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I've also seen CVs/resumes that have everything and the kitchen sink included and they suck. They are clearly designed to appeal to managers who are crap at recruiting and just look for buzzwords.
Actually the UK is different to these countries in one major respect - all of them have high density housing (flats) whereas the UK has a lot of individual residences (houses). This makes it much cheaper to provide high bandwidth services than the UK. Of course BT is no help but its not all their fault.
Problem is that the mobile company doesn't just want to be a 'pipe'. They want to have more involvement in the content so they can skim off their cut. Hence the fantastically complicated 3GPP systems now going in. Prediction - no one will want that crap either.
Guilty of what? Dealing drugs - nope.
LMFAO
More than your house (unless it's a big fancy one). In fact one linecard is likely to cost more than your house.
I wasn't commenting on the relative value of Indian versus USAian workers. Having worked for a large US company I can tell you that while the US guys turn up early and go home late they don't do that much in between. I was commenting on the example, but now I reread it I see what the poster was getting at.
Dude, isn't the the author's whole point?
Hm, my dual CPU (PII 200) box running Debian Unstable, IceWM and Firefox & Thunderbird runs like a three legged dog. Admittedly Win98 isn't much better but it was better...
Having seen the BT spin presentation it's not quite as exciting as it sounds, but I do have confidence that they will do it when they say. As the previous poster said, they have smart people and can move quickly when they want to.
I know reading the article is not considered good form, but it might be worth noting that the theatre they are playing at can only hold 11 musicians!
I have to agree. Whilst I would love to stay driving and controlling my car, the amount of other wankers who can't drive is making it too dangerous. I think it's pretty good going if I only have two people try to kill me with their reckless maneovers as I'm driving down the motorway. At this rate we'll be driving like the Italians or Spanish shortly...
Let's see... High launch power from the CO on the bundle of copper means that the further you get the less dense the cables are and therefore less interference. If you look at it the other way the closer you get to the CO the more cables and the greater the interference. Hence its easier to have assymetic as it matched the physical layer characteristics.
The guy quoted doesn't know his arse from his elbow. The problem is (as was also pointed out) the upstream capacity in the network as most "home" services are assymetric.
er, init? Put the service in /etc/inittab.
Just about everything is illegal in the UK (of which London is a part for the geographically challenged).
Land of the free and home of the bullshit...
Yawn. You can't really think anyone is interested in the actual statistics about Wales when the made up ones are funny can you?
Yeah, having worked at the largest dial ISP provider in the UK I can confirm that the Police have free reign to ask for whatever sniffing they like without a hint of protest. Plod justs says "Here's an IP address tell me what's going on" and they fall over themselves to get the information - who needs the RIPA act when corporates have no balls?
You may not have noticed, but telco's are going out of business left, right and centre (British English, not a spelling mistake!). This is because they undercharged for the bandwidth in the first place. Rather than proces going (further artifically down) they are now approaching levels when a reasonable profit can be made. Live with the fact you have been a freeloader for too long...