I don't really have anything to say about the "Ex-boyfriends List" (It's way out of context, so didn't make much sense.), but if you think that the Republican Beliefs text is "stupid bullshit" then you are very blind/have your head far up your ass.
How is any of those thing untrue about Republicans? They are horribly, scarily true.
Nope, I'm talking from experience with a world-wide company with data lines into third world countries that are getting the shit beat out of the data packets because of this VOIP shit.
Sure, on a local network, not a problem. But you go ahead and try to get high-bandwidth connections to places like Panama, the Phillipines, etc. Then tell me which is cheaper in the long run...
You've got fiber, and you're only running 100MB? Also, are you using QOS with your VOIP or just normal prioritization?
PS: The pileups are generally at the router level with packet prioritization, not the pipe level.
Also, the large carriers are using VOIP, no doubt about it. But the big difference is they are using dedicated networks for the VOIP traffic.
My point was that the mixing of VOIP and normal data traffic is horribly abusive towards the normal data packets. You get 50 'normal' data packets, and 50 VOIP packets, the 50 'normal' packets sit at the back of the bus until the 50 VOIP packets are done. Then only if there were no more VOIP packets received while transmitting the first 50 packets will the 'normal' data packets get sent. VOIP is too selfish. If a VOIP packet is received while the normal data packets are being sent, then (bang!) - back to the back of the bus again.
Maybe some kind of shuffling algorythm could save the day (Say 5 out of 100 normal packets get equal QOS as a VOIP packet), but currently it's all or nothing. The VOIP packets always go to the front of the line.
Not much of a problem there, as the video data feed is treated as 'normal' data rather than something needing real-time top-tier QOS prioritization like VOIP needs.
NexTV works just fine as it is buffered a bit before being displayed, so normal network fluxuations don't cause jitter or anything.
Hosted PVR, no problem once again. Stream can be buffered a bit before the video is actually displayed.
Video chat - now we're talking the QOS problem again. Problem with the current prioritization schemes again.
Sure, it's cheaper right now, and needs to happen, just as a lever to get the telecom companies to quit holding back society and actually charge a reasonable fee for small-bandwidth voice communications.
However, it's a trap, and a nasty trap for a lot of networking people. A lot of networking people are going to end up getting 'scapegoated' and losing their jobs before this is over.
Why? The whole QOS thing. All VOIP packets get top-level QOS scheduling on the network, meaning VOIP data packets all get priority over all the other 'normal' data packets. Not a problem when VOIP is less than 10% of your network traffic.
However, all the PHB types see is that VOIP is way cheaper than normal telco methods, and they are starting to want all the phone lines in the company switched over to VOIP to 'save money'.
Problem is, once you get over a threshhold where there's a lot of VOIP traffic, the normal data packets take a huge backseat to the VOIP data. Suddenly you've got packet timeouts happening constantly with 'normal' data (Which the data networks were originally put in place to handle), and data transfer slows to a crawl. Packets are getting dropped all over the place. File transfers start taking 10 times longer than normal, if they don't just fail due to timeouts.
Now the network guys are in all kinds of trouble because critical business functions, which rely on the 'normal' data packets, are not working, or are insanely slow.
So, the network people get bitched out, and turn around with huge cost increases due to needing to massively increase the pipes between locations, and that still doesn't solve the problem in all cases. So you throw in extremely expensive high-performance routers to handle all the packet shuffling and scheduling. Pretty soon, you're back to costs HIGHER than it was to start out with with normal data networks and normal voice/telco connections.
To avoid being burnt, either demand completely separate networks for VOIP and normal data. Or just stay away from VOIP. In the long run, you'll be better off. But in the short term, enjoy explaining this to PHB types who only see the short-term cost savings that they are being force-fed by the VOIP vendors.
Well, maybe it's evidence that Thomas Gold's observations are true - that oil is an abiotic substance constantly "leaking upward" from the Earth's core, that the "oil is decomposed dinosaurs" story is an absurd theory, propagated by the oil companies to trick us into paying more for oil by making us think that it's almost gone, when in fact all the oil fields are constantly refilling:
The biggest conspiracy theory, ever! And just think if it's true. All the X-Files, all the UFO stuff, all the black helicopter stuff is all concocted by the Oil companies to keep us in the dark and disbelieving the "Conspiracy People".
The scariest, most intriguing thing about all the conspiracy theories out there: At least a few of them are true. The question is: Which ones?
Just for the evil fun of it, I just pasted your paragraph about fazzbarns into the middle of some code I am just getting ready to put into production as a comment. (A large data manipulation intranet web app).
Some poor guy in the future is going to come across this explanation (right in the middle of some relatively complicated code) and be like "W in TF???"
Wow, talk about a punk-assed bitch. I'd just knock you in the fucking head if you pulled that shit on me. Coming in with a piece of paper with handcuffs. Can you get more gay? I'd rip it up and spit in your hair. Only a giant pussy would do something so lame.
"Are you doing something 'strange' on the network? Here, have a picture of handcuffs with my number on it. Give me a call when you're done and I'll smoke your cock."
Yes, take it down, just don't trash it. Some of these people will never suspect a problem unless their equipment gets knocked out. They'll then notice, hopefully take a look at some logs, and deduce that they've been messed with, and hopefully do something to fix the problem.
If not, then keep thumping them to keep their infected shit off the net and from bothering others.
No they dont pay by the MB unless they have a really sucky upstream provider. When I ran an ISP (Dial-up and cable modems), our upstream provider charged a flat rate for the data feed, use it or lose it. It varied only by the guaranteed available bandwidth we wanted. (An OC3 connection, to them, and then we paid in a tiered arrangement based on how much "always available" data feed we were guaranteed, such as 10%, 25%, 50%, or 100% of the maximum capacity.)
And once you get up into the major backbone providers, most of them have agreements with each other "We'll let you use our bandwidth if you let use you yours". Pretty much like the cross-licensing agreements the big software companies have with their patent portfolios.
Yes, but they are only one of the largest ISPs in the world if you change the wording to "largest DIAL-UP ISPs". Sure they offer some broadband in some areas, but the lions share of their users are dial-up and they are pretty much getting their ass kicked in the broadband arena, except where they provide Cable TV.
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Yah, we'll get Jay Jay Binks and Silent Darth.
I don't really have anything to say about the "Ex-boyfriends List" (It's way out of context, so didn't make much sense.), but if you think that the Republican Beliefs text is "stupid bullshit" then you are very blind/have your head far up your ass.
How is any of those thing untrue about Republicans? They are horribly, scarily true.
No you didn't know them, you whining sack of shit. You're just a big donkey head who is trying to get attention. Waah for you.
If you did, then fill us in on what they were doing there and why.
Insane delusions of being Boba Fett
Selling low number Slashdot IDs? Interesting.
So what's a 4 digit with excellent karma worth?
Nope, I'm talking from experience with a world-wide company with data lines into third world countries that are getting the shit beat out of the data packets because of this VOIP shit.
Sure, on a local network, not a problem. But you go ahead and try to get high-bandwidth connections to places like Panama, the Phillipines, etc. Then tell me which is cheaper in the long run...
You've got fiber, and you're only running 100MB? Also, are you using QOS with your VOIP or just normal prioritization?
PS: The pileups are generally at the router level with packet prioritization, not the pipe level.
See this article in Wired for more details on how it is created.
Also, the large carriers are using VOIP, no doubt about it. But the big difference is they are using dedicated networks for the VOIP traffic.
My point was that the mixing of VOIP and normal data traffic is horribly abusive towards the normal data packets. You get 50 'normal' data packets, and 50 VOIP packets, the 50 'normal' packets sit at the back of the bus until the 50 VOIP packets are done. Then only if there were no more VOIP packets received while transmitting the first 50 packets will the 'normal' data packets get sent. VOIP is too selfish. If a VOIP packet is received while the normal data packets are being sent, then (bang!) - back to the back of the bus again.
Maybe some kind of shuffling algorythm could save the day (Say 5 out of 100 normal packets get equal QOS as a VOIP packet), but currently it's all or nothing. The VOIP packets always go to the front of the line.
NexTV is a completely different beast than VOIP.
Not much of a problem there, as the video data feed is treated as 'normal' data rather than something needing real-time top-tier QOS prioritization like VOIP needs.
NexTV works just fine as it is buffered a bit before being displayed, so normal network fluxuations don't cause jitter or anything.
Hosted PVR, no problem once again. Stream can be buffered a bit before the video is actually displayed.
Video chat - now we're talking the QOS problem again. Problem with the current prioritization schemes again.
According to WHO?? Oh, Gartner Group. And I wonder which VOIP vendor paid them to 'research' those findings? *snork*
Sure, it's cheaper right now, and needs to happen, just as a lever to get the telecom companies to quit holding back society and actually charge a reasonable fee for small-bandwidth voice communications.
However, it's a trap, and a nasty trap for a lot of networking people. A lot of networking people are going to end up getting 'scapegoated' and losing their jobs before this is over.
Why? The whole QOS thing. All VOIP packets get top-level QOS scheduling on the network, meaning VOIP data packets all get priority over all the other 'normal' data packets. Not a problem when VOIP is less than 10% of your network traffic.
However, all the PHB types see is that VOIP is way cheaper than normal telco methods, and they are starting to want all the phone lines in the company switched over to VOIP to 'save money'.
Problem is, once you get over a threshhold where there's a lot of VOIP traffic, the normal data packets take a huge backseat to the VOIP data. Suddenly you've got packet timeouts happening constantly with 'normal' data (Which the data networks were originally put in place to handle), and data transfer slows to a crawl. Packets are getting dropped all over the place. File transfers start taking 10 times longer than normal, if they don't just fail due to timeouts.
Now the network guys are in all kinds of trouble because critical business functions, which rely on the 'normal' data packets, are not working, or are insanely slow.
So, the network people get bitched out, and turn around with huge cost increases due to needing to massively increase the pipes between locations, and that still doesn't solve the problem in all cases. So you throw in extremely expensive high-performance routers to handle all the packet shuffling and scheduling. Pretty soon, you're back to costs HIGHER than it was to start out with with normal data networks and normal voice/telco connections.
To avoid being burnt, either demand completely separate networks for VOIP and normal data. Or just stay away from VOIP. In the long run, you'll be better off. But in the short term, enjoy explaining this to PHB types who only see the short-term cost savings that they are being force-fed by the VOIP vendors.
It's a scam, nothing is free.
Well, maybe it's evidence that Thomas Gold's observations are true - that oil is an abiotic substance constantly "leaking upward" from the Earth's core, that the "oil is decomposed dinosaurs" story is an absurd theory, propagated by the oil companies to trick us into paying more for oil by making us think that it's almost gone, when in fact all the oil fields are constantly refilling:
See this and this for more info...
The biggest conspiracy theory, ever! And just think if it's true. All the X-Files, all the UFO stuff, all the black helicopter stuff is all concocted by the Oil companies to keep us in the dark and disbelieving the "Conspiracy People".
The scariest, most intriguing thing about all the conspiracy theories out there: At least a few of them are true. The question is: Which ones?
Just for the evil fun of it, I just pasted your paragraph about fazzbarns into the middle of some code I am just getting ready to put into production as a comment. (A large data manipulation intranet web app).
Some poor guy in the future is going to come across this explanation (right in the middle of some relatively complicated code) and be like "W in TF???"
What? You mean the Tall Man from Phantasm? I guess that might work. (Here, you don't like that? Try a silver ball drilling a hole in your head...)
Oh wait, that was Angus Scrimm, not Angus Scrum.
Wow, talk about a punk-assed bitch. I'd just knock you in the fucking head if you pulled that shit on me. Coming in with a piece of paper with handcuffs. Can you get more gay? I'd rip it up and spit in your hair. Only a giant pussy would do something so lame.
"Are you doing something 'strange' on the network? Here, have a picture of handcuffs with my number on it. Give me a call when you're done and I'll smoke your cock."
Yes, take it down, just don't trash it. Some of these people will never suspect a problem unless their equipment gets knocked out. They'll then notice, hopefully take a look at some logs, and deduce that they've been messed with, and hopefully do something to fix the problem.
If not, then keep thumping them to keep their infected shit off the net and from bothering others.
Bull shit on the Constitutional Party - Nothing but a bunch of Theocracists. Same shit we're getting from the Republicans.
I thought that was one of the funniest things in there. Not over the top at all, as far as DNA's writing goes. (In truth, it's ALL over the top)
> Because people can learn. Ever answered a question, and then thought (or said), "oh, wait..."?
But that would be what the clones (republicans) call "flip-flopping" (aka - the ability to think and change opinions based on new data)
No they dont pay by the MB unless they have a really sucky upstream provider. When I ran an ISP (Dial-up and cable modems), our upstream provider charged a flat rate for the data feed, use it or lose it. It varied only by the guaranteed available bandwidth we wanted. (An OC3 connection, to them, and then we paid in a tiered arrangement based on how much "always available" data feed we were guaranteed, such as 10%, 25%, 50%, or 100% of the maximum capacity.)
And once you get up into the major backbone providers, most of them have agreements with each other "We'll let you use our bandwidth if you let use you yours". Pretty much like the cross-licensing agreements the big software companies have with their patent portfolios.
Yes, but they are only one of the largest ISPs in the world if you change the wording to "largest DIAL-UP ISPs". Sure they offer some broadband in some areas, but the lions share of their users are dial-up and they are pretty much getting their ass kicked in the broadband arena, except where they provide Cable TV.
Just need a Ringworld tipped on its side, with the ringfloor scrith facing the gamma blast. This stuff even stops most neutrinos!
Las Vegas was created originally as a water stop for Union Pacific trains.
That's why you should stockpile lots and lots of canned food. Put it next to the all the duct tape you bought a year or so ago.
Maybe the BSG movie can be the first NC-17 movie that breaks the barrier. :)
Nope, that guy stole it too. The original is from the Armchair Anarchist's Almanac