I'd lived in Vancouver most of my life and moved to Bay area about 3 years ago.
Vancouver is rather quaint compared to Bay area and is lovely when the weather cooperates, which is about 6 weeks out of the year.
Depite being in high tax California, I still pay less in taxes as percentage of my income compared to BC, even after more than doubling my income in Bay area. Granted, SF is literally a filled with human feces everywhere and not as nice and clean as Vancouver, but I can put up with that with all the extra dough rolling into the bank account.
Housing cost is about twice the cost in Vancouver, which is on par with the increase in pay.
As for healthcare, it's a moot point since almost all workers are covered by their employer. Another interesting anecdote, I met a retired physician from Manitoba that moved to Portland in the 90's. He worked in both Manitoba's provincial health system and in Kaiser Permanente in Oregon. He told me in no uncertain term that Kaiser's quality of care is far superior to Manitoba's.
I believe the intolerants are now almost exclusively on SJW's side, with high profile cases to proof it from Jordan Peterson, Lindsay Shepherd to Gad Saad. The scary part is the intolerance has state backing in Canada with the soy boy in-chief.
You're missing out.
I moved down to Bay area and easily double my pay, weather is great, politics are entertaining and watching SJWs lose their mind is a plus.
But good for Canada, eh? Keep advancing the science, for peoplekind!
Vancouver is not massive at all for tech, compared to Seattle, only 2h due South by car. And if you go further south to Bay area, then it's a whole other world of massive. I know because I've lived in those places. Note that everything is at least twice as expensive in Bay area compared to Vancouver, including the pay.
Just clean up Tenderloin and build high rises there. It's a natural extension of FiDi and Downtown. You solve the homeless and housing problem in 1 shot., Win-win.
Try the Miband 2 from Xiaomi. It was conceived as a "smart" activity tracker but has slowly morphed into a basic "smart" watch through several iterations. At around $25, I can't really complain about anything. It's water proof and has basic display for time, notification from the phone, steps, etc. One charge lasts around 3-4 weeks. Oh, it has heart rate sensor as well.
Where do you imagine that these homes are going to be placed?
Just level down the whole Tenderloin and build up there. There would be plenty of land to build 25-35 stories apartment buildings and the housing problem will be solved in under 5 years.
I have anecdote the other way. My rental unit was promised 200Mbps by Webpass and I can attest that I can get 500Mbps up and down easily.
One thing to remember is that those older wireless routers such as the venerable WRT54G or even the Linksys WRT610/E3xxx CANNOT handle such high speed. It's likely the router that is the bottleneck. I just realized this a while ago and had to get a higher end AC wireless router and voila, 500 Mbps without any problem, whereas previously the older wireless routers tops up at 150-200 Mbps.
There is a setting I believe (I've only seen the screenshots - I didn't install iOS6) that enables iOS to use 3G if it detects the WiFi is bad. Could this be the case - your device has a terrible/slow/laggy WiFi connection and it decides using 3G would at least lead to a more stable internet connection?
I'll check for this setting. However, I don't think the WiFi connection is slow at all. The WiFi goes to a corporate network with 100 Mbps dedicated connection to the Internet both up and down. Something is definitely amiss. Btw, iOS 6.0.1 does not fix this issue.
Probably this is a different issue with the reported issue, but I have noticed that iOS is bypassing the wifi network and flip to cellular data network every so often (and flips back again). This happens probably a handful of times in 1 hour. This is easy to check if you have a wifi AP with tcpdump or wireshark running on it. It's especially bad when you're running VoIP app that needs to register properly so that calls can be routed to the proper IP address.
I too like Moblin on my Acer Aspire One. It feels much better for a netbook than XP or Fedora which are also installed on the netbook. My only gripe is the media player doesn't come with proprietary codec support and I can't find any repo that provides those ala rpmfusion. Oh, that and no adblock for the moblin browser.
My own anecdote, everytime I'm doing heavy transfer with 802.11, my wireless keyboard and mouse get wonky. Mind you, this is with my HTPC and the keyboard and mouse(pad) is a bit far away, but they both work flawlessly as soon as I throw in good ol' ethernet cable to the HTPC.
So yeah, wired ethernet will be here for a while.
VoIP need to be clarified here. Does it mean Voice that comes from IP network and terminates to PSTN? Or simply voice packets that travels through IP network and never touches PSTN?
Honestly, I don't see how any country can outlaw voice that never terminates to PSTN. Some countries might have national PSTN monopoly but if the packets never crosses to PSTN realm, how can you outlaw it? Voice packets are almost the same as any other IP packets. Heck, a SIP proxy can be set up in no time at all and most can support TLS connection these days. Couple with some SRTP and voila.. encrypted voice packets.
Not necessarily. A client (or an app on the client machine) can issue a DHCP UPDATE in order to find out specific DHCP Option response. The DHCP server in this case will answer with DHCP ACK containing the answer to the Option or simply ignore it (depends on the configuration). At least that's how dhcpd works.
Sounding underwater, robotic etc is result of concealment. The cause of this, you guessed it, packet loss or huge latency that forces the jitter buffer to treat it as packet loss.
There are already wideband and ultra-wideband codecs that sample at 16Khz and 32Khz respectively. The only limitation with VoIP is the receiver (your handset) that is limited to 4Khz audio reproduction. If you use VoIP on computer (with headset) and calling another computer, assuming both of you use wideband codecs, you already have "HD" audio quality, whatever that means. Any cheapo mic has enough dynamic range to sample frequency up to 16Khz anyway.
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I'd lived in Vancouver most of my life and moved to Bay area about 3 years ago.
Vancouver is rather quaint compared to Bay area and is lovely when the weather cooperates, which is about 6 weeks out of the year.
Depite being in high tax California, I still pay less in taxes as percentage of my income compared to BC, even after more than doubling my income in Bay area. Granted, SF is literally a filled with human feces everywhere and not as nice and clean as Vancouver, but I can put up with that with all the extra dough rolling into the bank account.
Housing cost is about twice the cost in Vancouver, which is on par with the increase in pay.
As for healthcare, it's a moot point since almost all workers are covered by their employer. Another interesting anecdote, I met a retired physician from Manitoba that moved to Portland in the 90's. He worked in both Manitoba's provincial health system and in Kaiser Permanente in Oregon. He told me in no uncertain term that Kaiser's quality of care is far superior to Manitoba's.
I believe the intolerants are now almost exclusively on SJW's side, with high profile cases to proof it from Jordan Peterson, Lindsay Shepherd to Gad Saad. The scary part is the intolerance has state backing in Canada with the soy boy in-chief.
You're missing out.
I moved down to Bay area and easily double my pay, weather is great, politics are entertaining and watching SJWs lose their mind is a plus.
But good for Canada, eh? Keep advancing the science, for peoplekind!
Is Obama going to be indicted in UK for tampering with Brexit vote?
Are we going to talk about the abomination called Mother! ? Is that horror too?
Remember WhatsApp copying Blackberry Messenger? And all the iterations of IM app from ICQ, AIM, etc?
Vancouver is not massive at all for tech, compared to Seattle, only 2h due South by car. And if you go further south to Bay area, then it's a whole other world of massive. I know because I've lived in those places. Note that everything is at least twice as expensive in Bay area compared to Vancouver, including the pay.
It's free and perpetually in Beta!
Just clean up Tenderloin and build high rises there. It's a natural extension of FiDi and Downtown. You solve the homeless and housing problem in 1 shot., Win-win.
Try the Miband 2 from Xiaomi. It was conceived as a "smart" activity tracker but has slowly morphed into a basic "smart" watch through several iterations. At around $25, I can't really complain about anything. It's water proof and has basic display for time, notification from the phone, steps, etc. One charge lasts around 3-4 weeks. Oh, it has heart rate sensor as well.
Where do you imagine that these homes are going to be placed?
Just level down the whole Tenderloin and build up there. There would be plenty of land to build 25-35 stories apartment buildings and the housing problem will be solved in under 5 years.
I have anecdote the other way. My rental unit was promised 200Mbps by Webpass and I can attest that I can get 500Mbps up and down easily.
One thing to remember is that those older wireless routers such as the venerable WRT54G or even the Linksys WRT610/E3xxx CANNOT handle such high speed. It's likely the router that is the bottleneck. I just realized this a while ago and had to get a higher end AC wireless router and voila, 500 Mbps without any problem, whereas previously the older wireless routers tops up at 150-200 Mbps.
Why not use IPv6? Webpass has already supported IPv6 for a while and I can verify that it works well.
Google Hangout?
Try Oneplus One. Oneplus Two will come out this year, so you can probably grab Oneplus One at firesale price.
I think Dilbert covers this: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2013-05-03/
There is a setting I believe (I've only seen the screenshots - I didn't install iOS6) that enables iOS to use 3G if it detects the WiFi is bad. Could this be the case - your device has a terrible/slow/laggy WiFi connection and it decides using 3G would at least lead to a more stable internet connection?
I'll check for this setting. However, I don't think the WiFi connection is slow at all. The WiFi goes to a corporate network with 100 Mbps dedicated connection to the Internet both up and down. Something is definitely amiss. Btw, iOS 6.0.1 does not fix this issue.
Probably this is a different issue with the reported issue, but I have noticed that iOS is bypassing the wifi network and flip to cellular data network every so often (and flips back again). This happens probably a handful of times in 1 hour. This is easy to check if you have a wifi AP with tcpdump or wireshark running on it. It's especially bad when you're running VoIP app that needs to register properly so that calls can be routed to the proper IP address.
Has anyone else notice this issue?
So, if you lose money, you're "rogue". But if you win money, you're "managing director"?
I trust this guy's review. It's absolutely true
I too like Moblin on my Acer Aspire One. It feels much better for a netbook than XP or Fedora which are also installed on the netbook. My only gripe is the media player doesn't come with proprietary codec support and I can't find any repo that provides those ala rpmfusion. Oh, that and no adblock for the moblin browser.
My own anecdote, everytime I'm doing heavy transfer with 802.11, my wireless keyboard and mouse get wonky. Mind you, this is with my HTPC and the keyboard and mouse(pad) is a bit far away, but they both work flawlessly as soon as I throw in good ol' ethernet cable to the HTPC. So yeah, wired ethernet will be here for a while.
VoIP need to be clarified here. Does it mean Voice that comes from IP network and terminates to PSTN? Or simply voice packets that travels through IP network and never touches PSTN?
Honestly, I don't see how any country can outlaw voice that never terminates to PSTN. Some countries might have national PSTN monopoly but if the packets never crosses to PSTN realm, how can you outlaw it? Voice packets are almost the same as any other IP packets. Heck, a SIP proxy can be set up in no time at all and most can support TLS connection these days. Couple with some SRTP and voila.. encrypted voice packets.
Not necessarily. A client (or an app on the client machine) can issue a DHCP UPDATE in order to find out specific DHCP Option response. The DHCP server in this case will answer with DHCP ACK containing the answer to the Option or simply ignore it (depends on the configuration). At least that's how dhcpd works.
Sounding underwater, robotic etc is result of concealment. The cause of this, you guessed it, packet loss or huge latency that forces the jitter buffer to treat it as packet loss.
There are already wideband and ultra-wideband codecs that sample at 16Khz and 32Khz respectively. The only limitation with VoIP is the receiver (your handset) that is limited to 4Khz audio reproduction. If you use VoIP on computer (with headset) and calling another computer, assuming both of you use wideband codecs, you already have "HD" audio quality, whatever that means. Any cheapo mic has enough dynamic range to sample frequency up to 16Khz anyway.