If we're so close, then wouldn't this be an opertune time to take the next step in human exploration of space
Actually, orbital mechanics are a bit more complicated than just being 'close'. Going to mars is not a straight-line shot, as it might seem. It involves more of a elliptical shape originating at the earth. Remeber, when you want to go to mars, you have to aim at where the planet will be in 18 months when you get there, not aim at where it is when you leave. If your in a moving car with a pumpkin and happen to be coming upon your ex's mailbox, do you throw the pumpkin at where the mailbox is when you release it, or where the mailbox will be when the pumpkin gets there.
No, Im not a professor or anything, and no I have no links to prove my point, and Im sure a little googling would turn up a better answer, with some pretty pics too. Maybe I just watched Mechanical Universe too much as a child
There is no proof that Columbus, nor any of the men in his three vessels, had ever crossed the Atlantic and landed in North America
Its funny, but in your sarcasm you are actually right, there is indeed no evidence that points to Columbus or any of his three vessels landing on the north american continent. More likely he came ashore on the bahamas, or cuba. My memory is as good as shit without a link, so take it as you will, but I do think it to be correct.
Hmm, I never knew that neutrons were the raw building blocks of matter. Last I checked, they were just baryons (a class that also includes protons), and are themselves composed of constituent parts known as quarks (down and up quarks in this case).
I can understand your need to nit pick, but actually, neutrons ARE raw building blocks of matter. Correct that they arent the ONLY raw building blocks of matter, but never the less they are a portion.
This just goes to show the amount of science illiteracy that exists in our society
how about conceptual illiteracy? An analogy was being used to describe the homogenous physical makup of this star, being neutrons, to identical blocks that compose it.
besides, for 90% of people reading this article, the information and analogy presented expresses the concept just fine.
I used to enjoy these obvious baited questions by some corporate lackey. But now they are just about as irritating as a summer mosquito.
You think that data is important to you?...then guess what...YOU can be the one controlling how it gets used. The second you hand over that resbonsibility to someone else your screwed
Enjoy your technocratic society otherwise....its what you wanted, right?
Do you generate a 'one-time' number for every purchase you make offline? Say at a local store down the street? Because you do realize that even though you dont hear it, a credit card machine uses a modem to connect to a central server, which more often than not WILL travel across the internet anyway.
You dont like this? Awww...use cash or deal with it. Or if you simply have so much money that you think nobody can ever steal it all, continue with your head in the sand.And spare me the arguement of "I cant use cash for my order of nipple shaped salt and pepper shakers from a mail order company"
Why is it when materialism gets all its wonderfull flaws pointed out, everything BUT materialism is to blame? STOP BUYING SO MUCH USELESS SHIT!
only here can a service that was started up for fun, and used to trade items with no money changing hands, end up being bought and sold to put it out of business....
its nonsense? I wonder if you have ever tried to learn another language, now imagine trying to learn english. English is the most ass-backward language you will come across. Look how these words are spelled; 'knife, phoenetic, sugar, neighbor, weigh, albiet' Oh yea, theres that wonderful 'i before e' rule....oh and that 'k' in knife is silent, you dont actually say it.
Are you actually saying that the phraseology of 'b4' is more complicated to you than a 'mostly valid' rule of placing the letters i and e in a word, or adding letters that dont even exist in the word as it is spoken? 'rendezvous. only 4 letters out of 26 are not used as silent letters in various words
Sure why not, at one point the earth was flat because the king and queen told you so in order to control your movements...I suppose this could be seen as true to those same kinds of personalities...enjoy
Frankly, none of those things really concern me. Im 'grown up' enough to make decisions based on realities around me. If ACME airline co, cant secure their own computers against attack, why would I choose to fly on them, or fly at all?
I dont really care if your stock portfolio goes down because of some over blown 'cyberattack' on any infrastructure, perhaps you should take your own advice...grow up, there are much more important things in this world than money or computers.
As far as police go, what dilusional system do you live under where you think all police databases are somehow interconnected so much they wouldnt survive if they werent? Is that why a known murderer in one state one day could just get let go after a simple traffic stop in another state the same day? The state I live in has no idea what my driving record was in local municipaliteis in other states.
Are you afraid of what you would do if your computer went away that much? Are you that much of a bitch of the system? You seem to call yourself so enlightened, why are you behaving like the husband whos wife just turned off the TV in the middle of the big game? You still are making such broad statements that its beyond difficult to take anything you say seriously. I wonder what side you would have been on during the live broadcast of 'War of the worlds"... would you have been the one freaking out because you heard some made up story that someone else was telling?
Please, do not fall to the falicy that seems so prevelant these days. NO BUSINESS IS GAURANTEED THE RIGHT TO EXIST! If they cant keep themselves running as a biz, its no concern of mine. Another person will fill the hole left from someone elses incompetence, thats the wonder of capitalism. Dont fear change, welcome it, its going to happen anyway.
why dont you offer any faith in the ability of people to rise to a challenge? perhaps you dont, or cant, but do not extend your fear outward into what you see the world as.
actually this seems like some strange deja vu of three years ago. When all those 'experts' were warning of meltdowns and planes dropping out of the sky on jan 1, 2000. They all used broad scenarios with zero facts, but a pile of emotional fear-mongering from here to the moon. Its ok to be afraid of technology, or anything that you dont understand. But you must be careful how you react to that fear
see what happens when I stay up all night working...I string on an arguement with someone I dont even know prolly half way around the globe...hehe
Seriously, you making vague job references, and refering to government sites doesnt have a direct correlation to your knowledge any more than someone who has an MSCE is automatically a better computer engineer.
First off, I dont understand how you claim a site being DoS'ed and taken down is the end of the world. If your site gets corrupted, why are you actually planning to be so majorly impacted? Since you seem to be the expert here, why arent you implementing redundancies and protocols to handle what you seem to think is inevitable? Use redundant servers, some of which are never on a network physically until actually needed. If your sites are under threat from such minimal dangers, its no wonder you werent specific as to the company you run.
In my state, Illinois, there is not a single nuclear power plant who has an internal network even connected to the internet. The only way to do it would be to send a high pulse of signals, I mean REALLY HIGH, over a network cable to induce a similar voltage in any nearby electrical cables which would then carry it until it came close enough to the internal network cables to also induce a current and then propagate over the network. And even that half-ass, convoluted method would at best, be only a one way connection. Id like to see you open my garage door because my computer in my house is connected to the internet.Technically, but not logisticly, its possible.
To be honest, from personal experience it only affects performance when you are doing it for someone else. If you can picture youself coding on all hours of the night because your so involved in what you are doing for personal reasons, it will not suffer nearly as much as when you realize all your back breaking and eye straining is going to make someone else rich.
Im sure weve all had the asshole boss like this before, I remember one of mine dcwi.com told me to "hurry up with making those damn network cables". At whuich point he came back and started telling me to just throw on the ends and not follow my 'stupid pattern'. Later that day when all of HIS cables came back because they didnt work, I cut the ends off, put them in a clear plastic bag and stapled them to the wall with a sign to always remind me "RESULTS OF A RUSHED JOB"
No, I dont work there anymore, I like making myself rich, not my boss
After being operational for less than 10 months and already having over 136,000 subscribers
I wouldnt call that 'very few people'. Unless the amount of people living in; Bern, Switzerland Evansville,IN Savannah, GA or Humboldt county, where Eureka,CA is located is 'very few people' as you state. In fact thats a 1.3 million dollar revenue stream/year at 10 bucks a pop, and thats only after 10 months
Dont misunderstand me, I have no intention of promoting this type of ideal. Im just fully aware that it exists, and am able to minimize the results of everyone trying to 'own' everything I do or say.
I think the back lash of angry users adn whatnot will squelch this quickly, surely they dont' think people will actually pay after it's been free for so many years
Of course they expect people to pay after its been free for so many years. Welcome to comsumer economics.
Odds are your parents didnt pay for TV as you may now(cable & sat). Or that they didnt pay every time they turned on the radio(XMRadio). I wonder just how many people realize EXACTLY where it is their money is going.
Never underestimate business' ability to underestimate the average person.
Your city's moon-rocket launching capabilities are in shambles too.
"In the article, it said it was saving us $100 million. Except that New Orleans doesn't have $100 million to spend"
the article also states a recent contract for $1.5 million was cancelled on the basis of determining it could be done for $100,000. Perhaps new orleans should be better able to control the cash it does have fisrt, before resulting to such a 'saving grace'. It may be the reason you dont have 100$ million to spend to begin with...
So I need my audience to please be a *paying* audience
If thats what you want, get a job with a paycheck every week. Since your an artist, I dont think you are creating for money. and if you are...well more power to you. But my feeling would be your creating to satisy an inner drive, so lets just attach money to it because that the only thing you see in the external world that validates your work? Im sorry, I feel no pity for you. It doesnt take as much balls to say your an artist as it does to actually be one.
Create because its who you are, not because you want to get money for doing it
You wont see anything unless the contellation Perseus is above your horizon, or at least very close to it. You may have a chance of catching some really cool earth-grazing ones...but if the radiant is below your horizon, your out of luck.
If cour curious, the radiant(the result of parallax making it seem to come from one point in the sky) is halfway between perseus and cassiopia(thats the 'W' Shaped one).
I've watched this shower for going on 20 years now, and it never dissapoints.
Perhaps its just flame-bait, but the statements you just made, while interesting, are completely wrong..
weight, is the result of acceleration, not mass, although technically at VERY high speeds mass is related a bit closer to acceleration.
but weight does not = mass
antimatter is only different than normal matter in the respect that the particles composing it have an opposite charge than their matter counterpart. so anti-matter does not mean anti-gravity. just because the prefix of the word is the same, doesnt mean the concept for it being there is identical.
After all does anti-perspirant result in anti-gravity?
and since your mangling facts so badly, why didnt you just say you could walk in this 'spaceship'
To start off, let me say I am not a professor in celestial mechanics, just a backyard amatuer astronomer. However, you bring up an interesting point not addressed at all in the artice.
Although it sounds strange that the solar system 'passes through' arms of the galaxy, the motion that is being referrerd to is not contained within the same 2-D plane. The actual path that has been 'guessed' more resembles a sine wave oscillating in 3-D. In doing so the earth can 'pass through' the central plane of the galaxy several times, without being in danger of hitting anything
Well, finally...an old-school hacker gets some credit. Some guy working in a factory, invents such an important device for modern society...bravo Mr. Carrier
I have noticed similar results here in the chicagoland metro area. I used to have service through AT&T broadband(joke), then for numerous reasons I switched to DSL. The main reason was AT&T would not allow 'web servers' to run, and I figured why do I want the company Im paying for service decide what I can and cannot run?
So the switch to DSL. I can u/l and d/l my max limit with no problem on DSL all day if I want. The posts claiming ACK packets will slow transfers down, while correct, are horribly inaccurate. If Im transfering bi-directionally then the miniscule packet size of an ACK is dwarfed by my MTU packet size. Sure there may be a.05% drop in 'actual' data transfer, but I see no NOTICABLE speed change in a d/l.
And to repeat my experience with the 2 technologies and what each one said to me:
Cable - "All we do is provide web access and mail service, anything else is not in your contract"
DSL - "All we provide is the pipe, any network services are your responsibility"
For the comparable price, Ill take the non-motherly approach to my internet service...
you can also use your kitchen sink as a toilet...
This is basic electronics, perhaps an article should be run that the earth really isnt flat...Boring
Why is the quality reporting going down the 'kitchen sink'?
First, I used to subscribe to Cable internet in the Chicagoland area. I say used to because even though I never experienced any 'problems' related to port blocking. I noticed in the agreement that I can not run any 'servers'. This bothered my greatly because I have recently began providing (legitimate) web hosting to people. After explaining this to a rep of the cable company I was told "All we do is provide web browser access and mail access. Nothing more is gauranteed. And servers are against the agreement altogether." At this point I quickly changed my service to DSL where the response was "All we do is provide the pipe, any network services are your responsibility". Now, those two attitudes are GREATLY divergent. And its no wonder I am currently a DSL subscriber, in fact have bumped up to biz class after an expansion. So cable wants to just continue to shove 'their paid for' content down your throat where DSL continues to look at itself as just a transport media.
SECOND - this rediculous banter about bandwidth metering is an absolute joke. I pay for T1 speeds whether I use it or not, and if you find me an ISP who doesnt, it is at (what I would hope) are greatly discounted prices for fractional usage.
Last but not least, am I to understand those up at thecorporate level who daily widen the pay gap between worker and executive are actually complaining that 10% of 'column a' are using 90% of 'column b'. These actions better be though over a little more completely, after all 10% of the people 'use' 90% of the money....
I think you may have misunderstood my view on this. That being that if you are to sign a binding contract, you better damn well read it and not just gloss over it and then disply suprise when something clearly written into the contract is upheld.
As you are well aware, attempting to negotiate terms of a corporate contract are...well pointless. But to change the method of accomplishing the same desired result, as in driving to the location instead of flying, and renting a car, is far from being the behavior of a lunatic
Rarely are such contracts read - how many contracts have you agreed to without reading?
And perhaps it is this attitude that allows questionable practices to continue. Do not come complaining to anyone with the statement "Well, I didnt read the contract". I have no pity for such lathargy. If you are to 'busy' to read something you agree to involving the bottom line, hire an attorney. Otherwise RTFM!
You can whine and bitch about tracking mechanisms all day, the fact remains it is stated in your contract. If you find ANY part of the contract questionable...DONT SIGN IT! But you say, I need a rental car to conduct my business, well my friend perhaps its time to find another way of doing business. If you think its to much of a hassle to drive to your location instead of fly and get a rental car and being railroaded into such practices...well then thats your choice. If you would prefer to do it a different way...decide, nobody is going to do it for you, and its becoming obvious what happens when someone wants to decide for you
I find it rather disturbing that this needs to be told to people again and again. Most of us just sit around and watch bad business practices and wait for government to make a decision instead of altering the way we would interact with the business world
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If we're so close, then wouldn't this be an opertune time to take the next step in human exploration of space
Actually, orbital mechanics are a bit more complicated than just being 'close'. Going to mars is not a straight-line shot, as it might seem. It involves more of a elliptical shape originating at the earth. Remeber, when you want to go to mars, you have to aim at where the planet will be in 18 months when you get there, not aim at where it is when you leave. If your in a moving car with a pumpkin and happen to be coming upon your ex's mailbox, do you throw the pumpkin at where the mailbox is when you release it, or where the mailbox will be when the pumpkin gets there.
No, Im not a professor or anything, and no I have no links to prove my point, and Im sure a little googling would turn up a better answer, with some pretty pics too. Maybe I just watched Mechanical Universe too much as a child
-SiliconFoolThere is no proof that Columbus, nor any of the men in his three vessels, had ever crossed the Atlantic and landed in North America
Its funny, but in your sarcasm you are actually right, there is indeed no evidence that points to Columbus or any of his three vessels landing on the north american continent. More likely he came ashore on the bahamas, or cuba. My memory is as good as shit without a link, so take it as you will, but I do think it to be correct.
-SiliconFoolI can understand your need to nit pick, but actually, neutrons ARE raw building blocks of matter. Correct that they arent the ONLY raw building blocks of matter, but never the less they are a portion.
This just goes to show the amount of science illiteracy that exists in our society
how about conceptual illiteracy? An analogy was being used to describe the homogenous physical makup of this star, being neutrons, to identical blocks that compose it.
besides, for 90% of people reading this article, the information and analogy presented expresses the concept just fine.
-SiliconFoolI used to enjoy these obvious baited questions by some corporate lackey. But now they are just about as irritating as a summer mosquito.
You think that data is important to you?...then guess what...YOU can be the one controlling how it gets used. The second you hand over that resbonsibility to someone else your screwed
Enjoy your technocratic society otherwise....its what you wanted, right?
is this some wierd form of recursion or what?
Plays Games = Has No Life
Real Life is a game that never stops
Make up your mind already....or is real life a game of having no life?
here's your soapbox back...
Do you generate a 'one-time' number for every purchase you make offline? Say at a local store down the street? Because you do realize that even though you dont hear it, a credit card machine uses a modem to connect to a central server, which more often than not WILL travel across the internet anyway.
You dont like this? Awww...use cash or deal with it. Or if you simply have so much money that you think nobody can ever steal it all, continue with your head in the sand.And spare me the arguement of "I cant use cash for my order of nipple shaped salt and pepper shakers from a mail order company"
Why is it when materialism gets all its wonderfull flaws pointed out, everything BUT materialism is to blame? STOP BUYING SO MUCH USELESS SHIT!
-PhreakOfTimeonly here can a service that was started up for fun, and used to trade items with no money changing hands, end up being bought and sold to put it out of business....
its nonsense? I wonder if you have ever tried to learn another language, now imagine trying to learn english. English is the most ass-backward language you will come across. Look how these words are spelled; 'knife, phoenetic, sugar, neighbor, weigh, albiet' Oh yea, theres that wonderful 'i before e' rule....oh and that 'k' in knife is silent, you dont actually say it.
Are you actually saying that the phraseology of 'b4' is more complicated to you than a 'mostly valid' rule of placing the letters i and e in a word, or adding letters that dont even exist in the word as it is spoken? 'rendezvous. only 4 letters out of 26 are not used as silent letters in various words
Sure why not, at one point the earth was flat because the king and queen told you so in order to control your movements...I suppose this could be seen as true to those same kinds of personalities...enjoy
Frankly, none of those things really concern me. Im 'grown up' enough to make decisions based on realities around me. If ACME airline co, cant secure their own computers against attack, why would I choose to fly on them, or fly at all?
I dont really care if your stock portfolio goes down because of some over blown 'cyberattack' on any infrastructure, perhaps you should take your own advice...grow up, there are much more important things in this world than money or computers.
As far as police go, what dilusional system do you live under where you think all police databases are somehow interconnected so much they wouldnt survive if they werent? Is that why a known murderer in one state one day could just get let go after a simple traffic stop in another state the same day? The state I live in has no idea what my driving record was in local municipaliteis in other states.
Are you afraid of what you would do if your computer went away that much? Are you that much of a bitch of the system? You seem to call yourself so enlightened, why are you behaving like the husband whos wife just turned off the TV in the middle of the big game? You still are making such broad statements that its beyond difficult to take anything you say seriously. I wonder what side you would have been on during the live broadcast of 'War of the worlds"... would you have been the one freaking out because you heard some made up story that someone else was telling?
Please, do not fall to the falicy that seems so prevelant these days. NO BUSINESS IS GAURANTEED THE RIGHT TO EXIST! If they cant keep themselves running as a biz, its no concern of mine. Another person will fill the hole left from someone elses incompetence, thats the wonder of capitalism. Dont fear change, welcome it, its going to happen anyway.
why dont you offer any faith in the ability of people to rise to a challenge? perhaps you dont, or cant, but do not extend your fear outward into what you see the world as.
actually this seems like some strange deja vu of three years ago. When all those 'experts' were warning of meltdowns and planes dropping out of the sky on jan 1, 2000. They all used broad scenarios with zero facts, but a pile of emotional fear-mongering from here to the moon. Its ok to be afraid of technology, or anything that you dont understand. But you must be careful how you react to that fear
see what happens when I stay up all night working...I string on an arguement with someone I dont even know prolly half way around the globe...hehe
Stupid eh? Im rubber and your glue....
Seriously, you making vague job references, and refering to government sites doesnt have a direct correlation to your knowledge any more than someone who has an MSCE is automatically a better computer engineer.
First off, I dont understand how you claim a site being DoS'ed and taken down is the end of the world. If your site gets corrupted, why are you actually planning to be so majorly impacted? Since you seem to be the expert here, why arent you implementing redundancies and protocols to handle what you seem to think is inevitable? Use redundant servers, some of which are never on a network physically until actually needed. If your sites are under threat from such minimal dangers, its no wonder you werent specific as to the company you run.
In my state, Illinois, there is not a single nuclear power plant who has an internal network even connected to the internet. The only way to do it would be to send a high pulse of signals, I mean REALLY HIGH, over a network cable to induce a similar voltage in any nearby electrical cables which would then carry it until it came close enough to the internal network cables to also induce a current and then propagate over the network. And even that half-ass, convoluted method would at best, be only a one way connection. Id like to see you open my garage door because my computer in my house is connected to the internet.Technically, but not logisticly, its possible.
Your just making things up now
To be honest, from personal experience it only affects performance when you are doing it for someone else. If you can picture youself coding on all hours of the night because your so involved in what you are doing for personal reasons, it will not suffer nearly as much as when you realize all your back breaking and eye straining is going to make someone else rich.
Im sure weve all had the asshole boss like this before, I remember one of mine dcwi.com told me to "hurry up with making those damn network cables". At whuich point he came back and started telling me to just throw on the ends and not follow my 'stupid pattern'. Later that day when all of HIS cables came back because they didnt work, I cut the ends off, put them in a clear plastic bag and stapled them to the wall with a sign to always remind me "RESULTS OF A RUSHED JOB"
No, I dont work there anymore, I like making myself rich, not my boss
Ok...Ok...lets use facts rather than odds...
After being operational for less than 10 months and already having over 136,000 subscribers
I wouldnt call that 'very few people'. Unless the amount of people living in; Bern, Switzerland Evansville,IN Savannah, GA or Humboldt county, where Eureka,CA is located is 'very few people' as you state. In fact thats a 1.3 million dollar revenue stream/year at 10 bucks a pop, and thats only after 10 months
Dont misunderstand me, I have no intention of promoting this type of ideal. Im just fully aware that it exists, and am able to minimize the results of everyone trying to 'own' everything I do or say.
so please, never underestimate...
I think the back lash of angry users adn whatnot will squelch this quickly, surely they dont' think people will actually pay after it's been free for so many years
Of course they expect people to pay after its been free for so many years. Welcome to comsumer economics.
Odds are your parents didnt pay for TV as you may now(cable & sat). Or that they didnt pay every time they turned on the radio(XMRadio). I wonder just how many people realize EXACTLY where it is their money is going.
Never underestimate business' ability to underestimate the average person.
Your city's moon-rocket launching capabilities are in shambles too.
"In the article, it said it was saving us $100 million. Except that New Orleans doesn't have $100 million to spend"
the article also states a recent contract for $1.5 million was cancelled on the basis of determining it could be done for $100,000. Perhaps new orleans should be better able to control the cash it does have fisrt, before resulting to such a 'saving grace'. It may be the reason you dont have 100$ million to spend to begin with...
So I need my audience to please be a *paying* audience
If thats what you want, get a job with a paycheck every week. Since your an artist, I dont think you are creating for money. and if you are...well more power to you. But my feeling would be your creating to satisy an inner drive, so lets just attach money to it because that the only thing you see in the external world that validates your work? Im sorry, I feel no pity for you. It doesnt take as much balls to say your an artist as it does to actually be one.
Create because its who you are, not because you want to get money for doing it
You wont see anything unless the contellation Perseus is above your horizon, or at least very close to it. You may have a chance of catching some really cool earth-grazing ones...but if the radiant is below your horizon, your out of luck.
If cour curious, the radiant(the result of parallax making it seem to come from one point in the sky) is halfway between perseus and cassiopia(thats the 'W' Shaped one).
I've watched this shower for going on 20 years now, and it never dissapoints.
Perhaps its just flame-bait, but the statements you just made, while interesting, are completely wrong..
weight, is the result of acceleration, not mass, although technically at VERY high speeds mass is related a bit closer to acceleration. but weight does not = mass
antimatter is only different than normal matter in the respect that the particles composing it have an opposite charge than their matter counterpart. so anti-matter does not mean anti-gravity. just because the prefix of the word is the same, doesnt mean the concept for it being there is identical.
After all does anti-perspirant result in anti-gravity?
and since your mangling facts so badly, why didnt you just say you could walk in this 'spaceship'
To start off, let me say I am not a professor in celestial mechanics, just a backyard amatuer astronomer. However, you bring up an interesting point not addressed at all in the artice.
Although it sounds strange that the solar system 'passes through' arms of the galaxy, the motion that is being referrerd to is not contained within the same 2-D plane. The actual path that has been 'guessed' more resembles a sine wave oscillating in 3-D. In doing so the earth can 'pass through' the central plane of the galaxy several times, without being in danger of hitting anything
Oh good...more people disgusted about what Im doing. Isnt that what brought about the whole mess your talking about?
Touche...
Well, finally...an old-school hacker gets some credit. Some guy working in a factory, invents such an important device for modern society...bravo Mr. Carrier
I have noticed similar results here in the chicagoland metro area. I used to have service through AT&T broadband(joke), then for numerous reasons I switched to DSL. The main reason was AT&T would not allow 'web servers' to run, and I figured why do I want the company Im paying for service decide what I can and cannot run? .05% drop in 'actual' data transfer, but I see no NOTICABLE speed change in a d/l.
So the switch to DSL. I can u/l and d/l my max limit with no problem on DSL all day if I want. The posts claiming ACK packets will slow transfers down, while correct, are horribly inaccurate. If Im transfering bi-directionally then the miniscule packet size of an ACK is dwarfed by my MTU packet size. Sure there may be a
And to repeat my experience with the 2 technologies and what each one said to me:
Cable - "All we do is provide web access and mail service, anything else is not in your contract"
DSL - "All we provide is the pipe, any network services are your responsibility"
For the comparable price, Ill take the non-motherly approach to my internet service...
you can also use your kitchen sink as a toilet... This is basic electronics, perhaps an article should be run that the earth really isnt flat...Boring Why is the quality reporting going down the 'kitchen sink'?
A few points to be made here.
First, I used to subscribe to Cable internet in the Chicagoland area. I say used to because even though I never experienced any 'problems' related to port blocking. I noticed in the agreement that I can not run any 'servers'. This bothered my greatly because I have recently began providing (legitimate) web hosting to people. After explaining this to a rep of the cable company I was told "All we do is provide web browser access and mail access. Nothing more is gauranteed. And servers are against the agreement altogether." At this point I quickly changed my service to DSL where the response was "All we do is provide the pipe, any network services are your responsibility". Now, those two attitudes are GREATLY divergent. And its no wonder I am currently a DSL subscriber, in fact have bumped up to biz class after an expansion. So cable wants to just continue to shove 'their paid for' content down your throat where DSL continues to look at itself as just a transport media.
SECOND - this rediculous banter about bandwidth metering is an absolute joke. I pay for T1 speeds whether I use it or not, and if you find me an ISP who doesnt, it is at (what I would hope) are greatly discounted prices for fractional usage.
Last but not least, am I to understand those up at thecorporate level who daily widen the pay gap between worker and executive are actually complaining that 10% of 'column a' are using 90% of 'column b'. These actions better be though over a little more completely, after all 10% of the people 'use' 90% of the money....
just some fat to chew on.
I think you may have misunderstood my view on this. That being that if you are to sign a binding contract, you better damn well read it and not just gloss over it and then disply suprise when something clearly written into the contract is upheld.
As you are well aware, attempting to negotiate terms of a corporate contract are...well pointless. But to change the method of accomplishing the same desired result, as in driving to the location instead of flying, and renting a car, is far from being the behavior of a lunatic
And perhaps it is this attitude that allows questionable practices to continue. Do not come complaining to anyone with the statement "Well, I didnt read the contract". I have no pity for such lathargy. If you are to 'busy' to read something you agree to involving the bottom line, hire an attorney. Otherwise RTFM!
You can whine and bitch about tracking mechanisms all day, the fact remains it is stated in your contract. If you find ANY part of the contract questionable...DONT SIGN IT! But you say, I need a rental car to conduct my business, well my friend perhaps its time to find another way of doing business. If you think its to much of a hassle to drive to your location instead of fly and get a rental car and being railroaded into such practices...well then thats your choice. If you would prefer to do it a different way...decide, nobody is going to do it for you, and its becoming obvious what happens when someone wants to decide for youI find it rather disturbing that this needs to be told to people again and again. Most of us just sit around and watch bad business practices and wait for government to make a decision instead of altering the way we would interact with the business world
nuff said