It means that when I deployed a new virtual desktop in Azure and specified "East US" as the data center location, services that looked at the IP address thought I was in Brazil or Germany. Which played hell with Google when I started Chrome because it customized the language for the area it thought I was in. That explains a lot.
As background, I used to run a cluster at a Major New England University and got involved in some of the chargeback models that were set up. Some of the money for the cluster came from federal funds so I learned some of the high level rules associated with this.
You take all the charges associated with putting a cluster together - the hardware, software licenses, maintenance, system administrators, storage, storage administrators, network hardware and network administrators, data center floor space/power/cooling, pretty much anything that touches the hardware - and you space that out over the expected life of the hardware (usually 3-5 years). As you can imagine, this winds up being a pretty big number. You then divide by the number of cores and CPU hours to get a per-CPU hour number (or you can do wall time since it's fairly rare when jobs are 100% CPU efficient). Once users start using the service, the queueing system can track usage per job and give you some really detailed information on who used what and for how long. If you know this user ran this job for this amount of time, it's not too difficult to figure out how much money was spent.
Why stuff like this is tracked is somewhat important. If federal funds were used to put together a resource like an HPC, federal funds from e.g. a researcher's grant can't be used to pay for access to the resource - the government would be paying twice for the same resource. There are a few ways around it using direct and indirect costs and making large changes to how the resource is set up and managed. In the case of the system I managed it was more trouble than it was worth.
Now sure how so. I've purchased their 50Mbps tier and regularly get 6MBps downloads from Steam and other locations. I'm quite satisfied with the network performance.
I've backed a bunch of projects on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. A few completed in the time they expected, most didn't. It didn't bother me that they were late, it bothered me they didn't take this kind of stuff into account when setting expections with the backers.
Strange. I actually got a prepaid phone for a few months from TMO so I could try the data and voice connections (I'm in eastern MA). Connections everywhere were great except for a few parts in the western part of the state. In some cases I got better signal than my Verizon phone.
My current Nexus 5 doesn't offer it, but the prepaid phone lets you do phone calls over wifi. Worked pretty well.
I'm sure if I lived in a more rural area I'd go with Verizon for the coverage, but what I have now works good enough for the price I'm paying.
It's all relative. I had Verizon and bailed to T-Mobile a few months ago. Both had okay customer service, though I did have a Verizon person intentionally hang up on me. I had to call T-Mobile on Monday to make changes to my plan - I couldn't make the changes via the web site, nor could I go to a store to do it - I had to call. The person I spoke with was pleasent enough and made the changes quickly.
As you say, they have the best network, highest prices, confusing and awful plans, and terrible ETF/subsidy policies.
Uh, a good portion of the end of his rant was specifically targeted at trolls. They're angry and pissed at everything, so he's just trying to get them to channel their hatred.
That's why it hasn't been killed off yet. There's plenty of alternatives out there but the implementations are either really difficult or aren't open source.
Of course it is. It's Global Positioning System, not GLONASS Points South. Doesn't matter how you know where you are, as long as you know where you are with some accuracy. It's unlikely this method will be as accurate as using an actual satellite-based GPS, but probably good enough for submarines that can stay under for months at a time.
I'm in the healthcare and higher education industry, but my beliefs don't always match that of my employers. While I can understand employees of a company may want to keep their business going, I consider it a far cry from actual lobbyists or company executives doing the same.
Profit != revenue, and in the financial world, both have to be constantly increasing.
While not paying for 54 ESPN channels may help Comcast's profit in the long term, it hurts their revenue stream since those customers for that service no longer exist. They need to recoup that revenue in some manner, and that will likely be increased internet prices.
You've got lots of people just getting Internet to download/watch TV rather than buying it via the cable company. They have to recoup that revenue somehow. It's either going to be data caps or they'll flip the model they currently have and charge $75 for Internet access and $25 for a full cable lineup. Then another $50 in regulatory 'fees' and other BS and you're back to where you started.
I don't mean to say that it's not a serious issue, but to say that something is important because it has 1000 replies when there's only a few people posting, it's very misleading.
Looking at page 100, it looks like this really affects about a dozen people and they just keep posting. Let me know when there's 1000 unique people saying there's a problem.
I wasn't able to get a replacement for myself, but the team was big enough that I was able to 'help' for a while though I mostly just took on the things the rest of the team didn't want to do so they could focus on the important tasks. So I got rather familiar with RT (that's Request Tracker, not Windows RT). In the end, my boss didn't give me the budgeting or hiring repsonsibilities I wanted, and he eventually let me go.
I'm now still quasi-technical, but more like an IT analyst with the ability to simultaneously speak at every level from customer to IT staff to CIO. I no longer get my hands dirty with the finer details of how an account gets created - I just tell someone to do it and it gets done. I miss it a bit, but then I come home and hack away on my home network and stay up to speed on what's going on out there.
I used to have books on bookstore shelves. The publisher generally sold the book to stores for 50% of list.
Which makes sense - the bookstore has to have the property to sell the books, the staff to sell them, the rest of the infrastructure to get the books from a distributor to them along with all the accounting required, and make a profit on top of all that.
All Apple really needs are some hard drives and an Ethernet cable. I realize it's not that simple and maybe that's why they're taking 30% and not 50%, but there's no requirement that companies use Apple's in-app purchases in this manner.
Sure I do. But what's happened over the past 30 years is that the lower class has expanded by population and the upper class has expanded by wealth. What was middle class (which I see as owning one house, maybe two cars, reasonably comfortable, and salaried employment) is getting pushed at both ends. 100 years ago I'd probably be upper class. Now I'm upper middle, but that doesn't mean I'm upper class.
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It means that when I deployed a new virtual desktop in Azure and specified "East US" as the data center location, services that looked at the IP address thought I was in Brazil or Germany. Which played hell with Google when I started Chrome because it customized the language for the area it thought I was in. That explains a lot.
There's no way the editors will go with that - it's true, written in proper English and there are no misspellings.
By many you mean 0 or 1, right?
This. It's not Public Wifi. It's Wifi for Comcast customers.
It's probably not arbitrary.
As background, I used to run a cluster at a Major New England University and got involved in some of the chargeback models that were set up. Some of the money for the cluster came from federal funds so I learned some of the high level rules associated with this.
You take all the charges associated with putting a cluster together - the hardware, software licenses, maintenance, system administrators, storage, storage administrators, network hardware and network administrators, data center floor space/power/cooling, pretty much anything that touches the hardware - and you space that out over the expected life of the hardware (usually 3-5 years). As you can imagine, this winds up being a pretty big number. You then divide by the number of cores and CPU hours to get a per-CPU hour number (or you can do wall time since it's fairly rare when jobs are 100% CPU efficient). Once users start using the service, the queueing system can track usage per job and give you some really detailed information on who used what and for how long. If you know this user ran this job for this amount of time, it's not too difficult to figure out how much money was spent.
Why stuff like this is tracked is somewhat important. If federal funds were used to put together a resource like an HPC, federal funds from e.g. a researcher's grant can't be used to pay for access to the resource - the government would be paying twice for the same resource. There are a few ways around it using direct and indirect costs and making large changes to how the resource is set up and managed. In the case of the system I managed it was more trouble than it was worth.
Now sure how so. I've purchased their 50Mbps tier and regularly get 6MBps downloads from Steam and other locations. I'm quite satisfied with the network performance.
I was doing a bit of streaming over the weekend (BSG) from my Tivo on FIOS and didn't get see any messages nor did I see performance problems.
I've backed a bunch of projects on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. A few completed in the time they expected, most didn't. It didn't bother me that they were late, it bothered me they didn't take this kind of stuff into account when setting expections with the backers.
Strange. I actually got a prepaid phone for a few months from TMO so I could try the data and voice connections (I'm in eastern MA). Connections everywhere were great except for a few parts in the western part of the state. In some cases I got better signal than my Verizon phone.
My current Nexus 5 doesn't offer it, but the prepaid phone lets you do phone calls over wifi. Worked pretty well.
I'm sure if I lived in a more rural area I'd go with Verizon for the coverage, but what I have now works good enough for the price I'm paying.
Both are moving to LTE. By the time it gets approved and implemented we'll have VoLTE and it'll become even less of an issue.
It's all relative. I had Verizon and bailed to T-Mobile a few months ago. Both had okay customer service, though I did have a Verizon person intentionally hang up on me. I had to call T-Mobile on Monday to make changes to my plan - I couldn't make the changes via the web site, nor could I go to a store to do it - I had to call. The person I spoke with was pleasent enough and made the changes quickly.
As you say, they have the best network, highest prices, confusing and awful plans, and terrible ETF/subsidy policies.
Uh, a good portion of the end of his rant was specifically targeted at trolls. They're angry and pissed at everything, so he's just trying to get them to channel their hatred.
That's why it hasn't been killed off yet. There's plenty of alternatives out there but the implementations are either really difficult or aren't open source.
NFS should have been killed off 10 years ago.
Really? I'm the first person to mention this? Before you decide to mod me into oblivion yes, it's on topic. Go watch Machete Kills
Of course it is. It's Global Positioning System, not GLONASS Points South. Doesn't matter how you know where you are, as long as you know where you are with some accuracy. It's unlikely this method will be as accurate as using an actual satellite-based GPS, but probably good enough for submarines that can stay under for months at a time.
I'm in the healthcare and higher education industry, but my beliefs don't always match that of my employers. While I can understand employees of a company may want to keep their business going, I consider it a far cry from actual lobbyists or company executives doing the same.
Profit != revenue, and in the financial world, both have to be constantly increasing.
While not paying for 54 ESPN channels may help Comcast's profit in the long term, it hurts their revenue stream since those customers for that service no longer exist. They need to recoup that revenue in some manner, and that will likely be increased internet prices.
You've got lots of people just getting Internet to download/watch TV rather than buying it via the cable company. They have to recoup that revenue somehow. It's either going to be data caps or they'll flip the model they currently have and charge $75 for Internet access and $25 for a full cable lineup. Then another $50 in regulatory 'fees' and other BS and you're back to where you started.
Kindle: Waah, Amazon can take away my titles at any time!
Navy: Waah, I can't change anything!
I don't mean to say that it's not a serious issue, but to say that something is important because it has 1000 replies when there's only a few people posting, it's very misleading.
Looking at page 100, it looks like this really affects about a dozen people and they just keep posting. Let me know when there's 1000 unique people saying there's a problem.
(and it appears that there's a fix of sorts)
I wasn't able to get a replacement for myself, but the team was big enough that I was able to 'help' for a while though I mostly just took on the things the rest of the team didn't want to do so they could focus on the important tasks. So I got rather familiar with RT (that's Request Tracker, not Windows RT). In the end, my boss didn't give me the budgeting or hiring repsonsibilities I wanted, and he eventually let me go.
I'm now still quasi-technical, but more like an IT analyst with the ability to simultaneously speak at every level from customer to IT staff to CIO. I no longer get my hands dirty with the finer details of how an account gets created - I just tell someone to do it and it gets done. I miss it a bit, but then I come home and hack away on my home network and stay up to speed on what's going on out there.
I used to have books on bookstore shelves. The publisher generally sold the book to stores for 50% of list.
Which makes sense - the bookstore has to have the property to sell the books, the staff to sell them, the rest of the infrastructure to get the books from a distributor to them along with all the accounting required, and make a profit on top of all that.
All Apple really needs are some hard drives and an Ethernet cable. I realize it's not that simple and maybe that's why they're taking 30% and not 50%, but there's no requirement that companies use Apple's in-app purchases in this manner.
Sure I do. But what's happened over the past 30 years is that the lower class has expanded by population and the upper class has expanded by wealth. What was middle class (which I see as owning one house, maybe two cars, reasonably comfortable, and salaried employment) is getting pushed at both ends. 100 years ago I'd probably be upper class. Now I'm upper middle, but that doesn't mean I'm upper class.