No, there is no need for your ISP to prioritize your VoIP traffic on their end. This should all be done on your home network in your router. QoS needs to improve in home routers & even hacker friendly routers based on OpenWRT like Tomato or DD-WRT have broken QoS implementations. There may be special situations where a higher level service is required, but for the vast majority of consumers hooking up with a decent quality VoIP provider and using a decent router w/ QoS will provide excellent service. Even people without QoS get fine because they never use all their upstream bandwidth. I've never had an issue where I felt Comcast's network latency to my VoIP provider was a problem & if it was, the last thing I would be thinking would be "Boy, I wish I could give Comcast MORE money to fix their crappy network."
Tiered data will only allow for ISPs to gouge customers by lowering the quality of low-tiered services and anytime anything goes wrong they will present the ability to upgrade to a higher-tiered service for $$$. It'll be a great day when the internet is snuffed out because not only will we have bandwidth caps, but we'll have latency floors as well. Need sub 100ms latency? Upgrade to the Xtreme Gamer Package only $15 more? Got a VoIP phone, Voice Express service is only $19.99 for the first 6 months!
I guess when you're floating down a river in a raft towards a waterfall you'll just go "200 years from now this raft will have hover technology", as you plummet to your death. Let me know in 200 years if your rainbow fart power solved problems in the here & now...
Okay then what are future standards going to be & when is this magic fuel or energy source going to be created? There is no fuel or technology in the foreseeable future that would make blasting billions of people into space viable.
If we suddenly find some sort of rainbow unicorn limitless fart power that would let us blast into space, then fine. But that's not very likely & doesn't make sense to be suggesting it as an alternative to conserving energy. Just because you can waste energy, doesn't mean you should.
Right but when is P-RAM going to be available & have the same production and supply chain that NAND has at this point? It's going to take some time going from the 8MB PRAM chips shipping for mobile phone usage to get something similar to the 1TB NAND SSDs we have now. It's similar to OLED displays, where OLED keeps hovering in the background and each year it's poised to replace LCDs, but yet there still aren't any viable consumer level OLEDs on the market.
You're really suggesting shipping people off of Earth really being suggested is a valid alternative to curbing population growth? The amount of energy expended to develop either off-Earth colonies or terraform a planet would be astronomical, then count the energy expended just to leave earth orbit. I am all for off-Earth colonization in the spirit of science and exploration, but suggesting shipping billions of people off the Earth would be viable in the short or long-term is silly. Also it would suggest that we could let earth go to hell and just go use up some other planet.
Which is exactly what he's saying... It's just the option that you want to do it in a controlled fashion or in a freefall? If you don't think that voluntarily curbing population is a good idea, then I guess you're suggesting involuntary(starvation, wars, disease) curbing is the better alternative? That or your suggesting the Earth is infinite and will never be depleted OR you don't really give a shit since Jesus is coming any day now...
The day someone can't quit their job because of the working conditions aren't as bad as someone else's job is the day we all become slaves. Ever quit a really shitty job in the USA? Well you're a pussy, you should go clean 3rd world sewers in India while stuck in a repressive caste system with no chance of ever doing something meaningful or maybe you can go build iPods for 16 hours a day in China. That would teach you to respect that burger flipping job or mind numbing office work...
If we're going to race ourselves to the bottom like that then no one should ever quit their job because they are unhappy with it. The warm thoughts that someone has it a hundred times worse than you should be all the motivation you ever need.
No, nobody will do it because it's morally and ethically reprehensible. Why would you even try to equate that the reason people aren't murdering this child is because they're blind to government waste? That's completely stupid.
I would have to strongly state that researching your illnesses on your own is extremely important, especially if you are dealing with a chronic condition. While there are some hypochondriacs out there, there are also a huge number of mediocre doctors who either have ego problems where they cannot admit they don't know what the issue is or disaffected, disconnected doctors who don't feel like dealing with anyone who has anything more complex than a cold or the flu. Usually the result is that the doctor tells you it's all in your head and to see a shrink. That gets you out the door and hopefully never returning to their office as you'd be a drain on their time, energy & the clinics profits. This can be repeated over and over again, the more esoteric or complex your condition is the higher the noise to signal ratio is going to be as you find out that most docs are akin to India based technical support. I.e: Follow the flowchart, if flowchart doesn't cover it, either disconnect outright or annoy customer so much they disconnect themselves.
Also, try getting the US.mil to take any sort of responsibility for things like no-bid contracts, friendly fire, civilian deaths or even it's own injured vets...
Easier to close your eyes and blame WikiLeaks I guess.
Besides the risk of STDs & possible violence, there is probably a mental toll. Of course there is a mental toll for someone who is in a dead end job going nowhere as well...
A lot of jobs are unhealthy, working on an oil rig with petroleum & noxious gasses flying around is also unhealthy. Being in the military is 'unhealthy'.
Of course this all depends on the person & their circumstances. People can get themselves out of fast-food limbo & move on with their life. Some people do prostitution for a few years and then move on as well, no worse for wear. Ultimately my point was that neither profession can accurately be stated as being healthier than the other, they both carry risks & have demands that can take their toll.
Fastfood work can be just as mentally straining & bad for your body, especially if you're eating where you work because it's cheaper due to your employee discount than fixing food for yourself. If you have anyone else to support or you have flaky hours, you might need another job. Combine the physical nature of the job, the unhealthy environment & food then the mental stress of incompetent or power tripping management, aggressive and selfish customers, anxiety over working so hard yet not having enough money to pay for basic needs & the stigma attached to being a fast-food worker, I could see how it's not a lot better than being a prostitute.
Ultimately it does take a certain mindset to be a prostitute & not all prostitution is equal. Turning tricks under a bridge for $20 so you can go feed your addiction is not the same as someone earning $200 or $300 per visit & does not have an addiction. Also on the outside people will have no clue you're a prostitute, unless you're outed somehow. People will know you work in fast-food and that some how makes you a loser so will be nasty to you while you man the register or they'll heckle you while you're standing at the bus stop after your shift.
A Prius is a Toyota, so it might accelerate you into the garage of your wall.
Besides my example being a snarkey attempt at causing suicide, it can be extrapolated to mean a world where clean air is displaced with carbon monoxide is unlivable. Your example suggests a world where clean air is displaced by water is unlivable. Both situations are equally uninhabitable circumstances, although Kevin Costner might be able to survive your scenario.
If you're not concerned about the environment & pollution here's an experiment you can try. Go into your garage, make sure all doors are closed, turn your car on... wait...
How are they counting one billion hours of run time? Are they counting uptime and multiplying it by each disk or something? One billion hours is 114,079 years... Five-nines for 1 billions hours is 1.14 years... At that rate they should be happy it only took Northrup a week to get things working again.
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No, there is no need for your ISP to prioritize your VoIP traffic on their end. This should all be done on your home network in your router. QoS needs to improve in home routers & even hacker friendly routers based on OpenWRT like Tomato or DD-WRT have broken QoS implementations. There may be special situations where a higher level service is required, but for the vast majority of consumers hooking up with a decent quality VoIP provider and using a decent router w/ QoS will provide excellent service. Even people without QoS get fine because they never use all their upstream bandwidth. I've never had an issue where I felt Comcast's network latency to my VoIP provider was a problem & if it was, the last thing I would be thinking would be "Boy, I wish I could give Comcast MORE money to fix their crappy network."
Tiered data will only allow for ISPs to gouge customers by lowering the quality of low-tiered services and anytime anything goes wrong they will present the ability to upgrade to a higher-tiered service for $$$. It'll be a great day when the internet is snuffed out because not only will we have bandwidth caps, but we'll have latency floors as well. Need sub 100ms latency? Upgrade to the Xtreme Gamer Package only $15 more? Got a VoIP phone, Voice Express service is only $19.99 for the first 6 months!
Yeah but I think Skype now has a bad case of Diaspora...
Vapid meaningless small talk is about is the old timey version of twitter...
Nor does the actual article that was linked!
Haven't you seen Waterworld?
"The Rage Of Sony" sounds like it should be a Playstation game...
I guess when you're floating down a river in a raft towards a waterfall you'll just go "200 years from now this raft will have hover technology", as you plummet to your death. Let me know in 200 years if your rainbow fart power solved problems in the here & now...
Maybe check out Spring RTS?
http://springrts.com/
Okay then what are future standards going to be & when is this magic fuel or energy source going to be created? There is no fuel or technology in the foreseeable future that would make blasting billions of people into space viable.
If we suddenly find some sort of rainbow unicorn limitless fart power that would let us blast into space, then fine. But that's not very likely & doesn't make sense to be suggesting it as an alternative to conserving energy. Just because you can waste energy, doesn't mean you should.
Stop It! You're turning me on with all that dirty Helicopter talk!
Right but when is P-RAM going to be available & have the same production and supply chain that NAND has at this point? It's going to take some time going from the 8MB PRAM chips shipping for mobile phone usage to get something similar to the 1TB NAND SSDs we have now. It's similar to OLED displays, where OLED keeps hovering in the background and each year it's poised to replace LCDs, but yet there still aren't any viable consumer level OLEDs on the market.
You're really suggesting shipping people off of Earth really being suggested is a valid alternative to curbing population growth? The amount of energy expended to develop either off-Earth colonies or terraform a planet would be astronomical, then count the energy expended just to leave earth orbit. I am all for off-Earth colonization in the spirit of science and exploration, but suggesting shipping billions of people off the Earth would be viable in the short or long-term is silly. Also it would suggest that we could let earth go to hell and just go use up some other planet.
Which is exactly what he's saying... It's just the option that you want to do it in a controlled fashion or in a freefall? If you don't think that voluntarily curbing population is a good idea, then I guess you're suggesting involuntary(starvation, wars, disease) curbing is the better alternative? That or your suggesting the Earth is infinite and will never be depleted OR you don't really give a shit since Jesus is coming any day now...
The day someone can't quit their job because of the working conditions aren't as bad as someone else's job is the day we all become slaves. Ever quit a really shitty job in the USA? Well you're a pussy, you should go clean 3rd world sewers in India while stuck in a repressive caste system with no chance of ever doing something meaningful or maybe you can go build iPods for 16 hours a day in China. That would teach you to respect that burger flipping job or mind numbing office work...
If we're going to race ourselves to the bottom like that then no one should ever quit their job because they are unhappy with it. The warm thoughts that someone has it a hundred times worse than you should be all the motivation you ever need.
No, nobody will do it because it's morally and ethically reprehensible. Why would you even try to equate that the reason people aren't murdering this child is because they're blind to government waste? That's completely stupid.
Blind faith can be a dangerous thing...
I would have to strongly state that researching your illnesses on your own is extremely important, especially if you are dealing with a chronic condition. While there are some hypochondriacs out there, there are also a huge number of mediocre doctors who either have ego problems where they cannot admit they don't know what the issue is or disaffected, disconnected doctors who don't feel like dealing with anyone who has anything more complex than a cold or the flu. Usually the result is that the doctor tells you it's all in your head and to see a shrink. That gets you out the door and hopefully never returning to their office as you'd be a drain on their time, energy & the clinics profits. This can be repeated over and over again, the more esoteric or complex your condition is the higher the noise to signal ratio is going to be as you find out that most docs are akin to India based technical support. I.e: Follow the flowchart, if flowchart doesn't cover it, either disconnect outright or annoy customer so much they disconnect themselves.
Maybe you should be more concerned about how the US.mil takes care of it's own informants and translators?
http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2636
Also, try getting the US.mil to take any sort of responsibility for things like no-bid contracts, friendly fire, civilian deaths or even it's own injured vets...
Easier to close your eyes and blame WikiLeaks I guess.
Established Corporation Says: "We just snuffed out another chance at competition, what do we care what you want?"
Besides the risk of STDs & possible violence, there is probably a mental toll. Of course there is a mental toll for someone who is in a dead end job going nowhere as well...
A lot of jobs are unhealthy, working on an oil rig with petroleum & noxious gasses flying around is also unhealthy. Being in the military is 'unhealthy'.
Of course this all depends on the person & their circumstances. People can get themselves out of fast-food limbo & move on with their life. Some people do prostitution for a few years and then move on as well, no worse for wear. Ultimately my point was that neither profession can accurately be stated as being healthier than the other, they both carry risks & have demands that can take their toll.
Fastfood work can be just as mentally straining & bad for your body, especially if you're eating where you work because it's cheaper due to your employee discount than fixing food for yourself. If you have anyone else to support or you have flaky hours, you might need another job. Combine the physical nature of the job, the unhealthy environment & food then the mental stress of incompetent or power tripping management, aggressive and selfish customers, anxiety over working so hard yet not having enough money to pay for basic needs & the stigma attached to being a fast-food worker, I could see how it's not a lot better than being a prostitute.
Ultimately it does take a certain mindset to be a prostitute & not all prostitution is equal. Turning tricks under a bridge for $20 so you can go feed your addiction is not the same as someone earning $200 or $300 per visit & does not have an addiction. Also on the outside people will have no clue you're a prostitute, unless you're outed somehow. People will know you work in fast-food and that some how makes you a loser so will be nasty to you while you man the register or they'll heckle you while you're standing at the bus stop after your shift.
In conclusion neither job is healthy.
Or the wall of your garage, depending on how you're feeling.
A Prius is a Toyota, so it might accelerate you into the garage of your wall.
Besides my example being a snarkey attempt at causing suicide, it can be extrapolated to mean a world where clean air is displaced with carbon monoxide is unlivable. Your example suggests a world where clean air is displaced by water is unlivable. Both situations are equally uninhabitable circumstances, although Kevin Costner might be able to survive your scenario.
If you're not concerned about the environment & pollution here's an experiment you can try. Go into your garage, make sure all doors are closed, turn your car on... wait...
Let me know how it goes...
How are they counting one billion hours of run time? Are they counting uptime and multiplying it by each disk or something? One billion hours is 114,079 years... Five-nines for 1 billions hours is 1.14 years... At that rate they should be happy it only took Northrup a week to get things working again.