In all, it probably only actually had a total infrastructure cost of about $15 USD to support every scrap of traffic across every involved SS7 link. (I pulled $15 bucks from my backside, it was likely even less than that) Millions of messages? Billions? Doesn't really matter, these links are up 24/7 anyway, and if they aren't being used then they just idle. Now the phone companies will have you think that every bit is encapsulated in 24 carrot gold, sent through diamond encrusted tubes, and polished brighter than the sun before being given the privilege of hitting the recipients dirty message queue. It very likely cost google a fair chunk of change though, but the phone companies, virtually nothing. SMS is a very tiny and largely insignificant bit of allocated payload riding on the back of the out of band signalling system. What you have here is a cash cow for the telco, nothing more, nothing less. It's pure genius driven by greed.
Free SMS can actually exist, just so long as the basic fee they charge for the service covers the infrastructure cost to run it each month, then end of story. This is likely not going to happen any time soon, remember, greed, uninformed customer base, cash cow.
You're just making stuff up and then using 'the internet' as if the concept of top down mapping had been invented last week. What has actually existed for far longer than just your 37 years is the bog standard hard copy paper based map that looks down at streets in exactly the same way a satellite would see it from directly above. This is not useful to you? Colour me astounded. Overlay that satellite based imagery with street names and such, and you have your same old bog standard map all over again, just with a little more glitz instead of boring old coloured boxes to indicate schools, hospitals, shopping centres, car parks and blah blah. Being computer based can make the whole thing a whole load more convenient.
While you may not see any intrinsic value in this newfangled top down view, quite a chunk of the remaining population have a little bit of a different opinion. This bozo suggesting we blur satellite images is nothing short of delusional. The information still exists, you go to your local newsagent and it's right there on the shelves. I've yet to see a road map that doesn't include schools and a myriad of other interesting things. With a satellite image you might get building positions, but so what, with a car you can just drive there and get even better positional information. Lets just shut the barn doors here while we watch the horses gallop over the horizon.
Wireless internet connectivity implies one or more transmitters and receivers. Your average car radio is an entirely passive device that has no internet connectivity. The real question is what actually defines a 'computer system' these days?
If you leave your system unlocked (accidentally or intentionally) and someone dicks with it, we will fire you immediately, and the other person as soon as we review the cubicle surveillance tapes.
They give no warning they are going to shatter. All you get time for is the loud bang. You briefly wonder WTF it was. Look around, do a perfunctory check to see if your hamster is still in its wheel, and then discover your optical drive had some trouble.
If you are in an office environment and you're at all BOFH inclined, then there are a lot of things that are not necessary, clean as their installation may well be. Instant messaging, bittorrent, games.
6 terabytes in 15 minutes - No, you didn't do that at all. If you are going to post on a geek forum, at least try and do a modicum of research on bandwidth first.
Maybe. Probably a better question is why are we allowing google to continue doing this at all? Shouldn't it be an opt-in service rather than opt-out? Shouldn't it have always been that way?
I can understand indexing web based content that is already on line and publicly accessible, but if I write a book, I want to be in control of where, when, and how it gets presented to the reader, at least initially anyway. I don't mind (or care) what an individual does once it's 'out there' - from format shifting to selling it at a used book store or giving away. I'm not so keen on the idea of google making a copy for the entire world to readily view a large chunk of it all.
Sure google could probably make me more money through exposure that I might not otherwise have, but shouldn't that be my choice?
Pay by the page for what exactly? And how do you know what pages you might need without a comprehensive index - and even then unless you can see what you are getting, how do you know you'll get what you want?
You don't pay for 'part of a song' - likewise, I can think of no logical place you might pay for 'part of a book' either. I'm sure you'll hit me back with a list, but seriously, it's going to be a short one.
You strike me as fitting the stereotype I have of the typical user at my place of work. A service can be running for months (or even years) on end without a single glitch, yet the thing goes down for a little bit and they act like the previous aeons of total reliability never happened. Ever. A good many even go so far as actually saying "insert some service or other" never fucking works, it's always broken! This lie filters up the chain and two days later you're in the big office explaining shit you should never have to explain.
I really doubt more reliable service providers actually exist in any great number for it to matter to you - in a nutshell - you put all your eggs in one basket and you suffered for 24 hours or so. For me the downtime really was just 2 hours 30 minutes, and I'm inclined to believe Google are telling the truth on this - I suspect some of your problems lay elsewhere, I'd start with your ISP.
For better or worse this is exactly what happens. The one musician that sticks his or her hand up and says "Hang on a minute, lets negotiate this contract a little bit" gets quickly shown the door. The big labels really don't care, there's another thousand hopefuls in the queue ready to sell their soul for their 15 minutes.
Here in Asia a similar thing can be said for your typical call centre job, or rather, it was this area of employment that kick started the draconian employment contracts which are now rapidly spreading throughout all spheres.
Indeed you are right, I'm not saying they don't deserve a shot, quite the opposite. I hope they succeed, not only for the competition but because I have a fair amount of money invested in their tech. They've been around a long time now, might be fairly new on the Linux scene, and you are right in that they do respond to email and are quite helpful at times, but their drivers are still woeful in regards to set up and documentation.
You are one of a small percentage of people where the drivers actually work out of the box it would seem. For the rest of us we have to contend with figuring out xorg.conf and the one magical permutation out of thousands that will bring our P.O.S. S3 chip to life. To be sure, once you do figure it out it all works great - Next kernel upgrade and things go back to the shit and you start over again.
VIA, I hope you are reading this, your linux drivers are crap. You guys build the damn chips, so when I type./install - figure your shit out and just make it work already.
I stopped remembering phone numbers in about 1992 when I bought my first cellular, I quite literally do not know my own phone number, and I don't even need to when I can bluetooth it around or send via text, so what makes you think we might need to remember domain names? We have bookmarks and a myriad of search engines for that.
Money grab? Like ICANN is not all that right now? As of today there are roughly 200 million registered domain names, that's a lot of money changing hands no matter how you swing it. Some very rich people living off bits in a database. The entire system costs just a small fraction of the total figure to implement world wide. Greed, if you're not with it, you're just a normal well rounded human being:-)
I don't suppose you know how many Chinese workers it takes to arrange their fingers into the shape of the USB connector? Not a bad gig if you are the kid pouring the boiling plastic, but, you know, it probably sucks a bit to be on the mould team.
Unfortunately with digitally modulated signals, the receive gear can either see the synchronisation pattern, or it can not. There is no room to fit 'degrade gracefully' into this particular binary problem. The advantage here is that you can encode forward error correction on the data stream, meaning that when you do have a picture, it is actually going to look so close to being identical to the original transmission that it wont matter. Perfection here is measured in bit error rates. The lower that number the better.
Your problem, or rather your parents problem, is antenna type and positioning. We can safely skip all the slick marketing crap once we have a grasp of the problem.
Driving a 30 metre satellite dish, you can successfully and reliably pluck good data from a transmission more or less on the noise floor, one or two dB. It's like looking at something through a long narrow tube, you don't see anything other than whatever you are pointing it at. Rabbit ears are more or less the opposite of a nice big sat dish, in this case you have to contend with multipath signals and a very long list of other interference, so your odds of success are far more marginal.
What can your parents, or anyone else do to get perfect reception? Invest in a slightly more expensive antenna system, pay the extra few bucks to get system that is directional - buy an antenna rotator to make life a little easier as well.
Some people hit the sweet spot and only need a bent up coat hanger for perfect reception, others have to put a little extra effort in.
Well that's a bit of a dumb argument. Heroin is illegal in most countries, it demands a high price because it's a rare and difficult to obtain product. It's also distributed by a relatively tiny percentage of the population.
Naturally the cops are going to want to know how you know who has the stuff and what the link is, if any. You make the damaged assumption that possessing or making available some particular piece of knowledge to anyone that asks is automatically a violation of the law.
You: Where can I find some heroin? Me: I don't know, google it.
Am I going to get shit canned because I directed you to a search engine with the exact links to what you seek?
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In all, it probably only actually had a total infrastructure cost of about $15 USD to support every scrap of traffic across every involved SS7 link. (I pulled $15 bucks from my backside, it was likely even less than that) Millions of messages? Billions? Doesn't really matter, these links are up 24/7 anyway, and if they aren't being used then they just idle. Now the phone companies will have you think that every bit is encapsulated in 24 carrot gold, sent through diamond encrusted tubes, and polished brighter than the sun before being given the privilege of hitting the recipients dirty message queue. It very likely cost google a fair chunk of change though, but the phone companies, virtually nothing. SMS is a very tiny and largely insignificant bit of allocated payload riding on the back of the out of band signalling system. What you have here is a cash cow for the telco, nothing more, nothing less. It's pure genius driven by greed.
Free SMS can actually exist, just so long as the basic fee they charge for the service covers the infrastructure cost to run it each month, then end of story. This is likely not going to happen any time soon, remember, greed, uninformed customer base, cash cow.
You're just making stuff up and then using 'the internet' as if the concept of top down mapping had been invented last week. What has actually existed for far longer than just your 37 years is the bog standard hard copy paper based map that looks down at streets in exactly the same way a satellite would see it from directly above. This is not useful to you? Colour me astounded. Overlay that satellite based imagery with street names and such, and you have your same old bog standard map all over again, just with a little more glitz instead of boring old coloured boxes to indicate schools, hospitals, shopping centres, car parks and blah blah. Being computer based can make the whole thing a whole load more convenient.
While you may not see any intrinsic value in this newfangled top down view, quite a chunk of the remaining population have a little bit of a different opinion. This bozo suggesting we blur satellite images is nothing short of delusional. The information still exists, you go to your local newsagent and it's right there on the shelves. I've yet to see a road map that doesn't include schools and a myriad of other interesting things. With a satellite image you might get building positions, but so what, with a car you can just drive there and get even better positional information. Lets just shut the barn doors here while we watch the horses gallop over the horizon.
Wireless internet connectivity implies one or more transmitters and receivers. Your average car radio is an entirely passive device that has no internet connectivity. The real question is what actually defines a 'computer system' these days?
...and for those situations where you wished your tazer could have 'stun' and 'kill' modes, just like the ray guns on TV. :-)
Er, Computer use policy. Section 2.
If you leave your system unlocked (accidentally or intentionally) and someone dicks with it, we will fire you immediately, and the other person as soon as we review the cubicle surveillance tapes.
They give no warning they are going to shatter. All you get time for is the loud bang. You briefly wonder WTF it was. Look around, do a perfunctory check to see if your hamster is still in its wheel, and then discover your optical drive had some trouble.
One man's garbage is another's treasure.
If you are in an office environment and you're at all BOFH inclined, then there are a lot of things that are not necessary, clean as their installation may well be. Instant messaging, bittorrent, games.
Ahhh, well played sir, I'm with you now. :-)
6 terabytes in 15 minutes - No, you didn't do that at all. If you are going to post on a geek forum, at least try and do a modicum of research on bandwidth first.
In NSW, no: http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/htcb/htcb008.html
2 years for possession, 5 years for distribution, both also carry fairly big monetary fines.
Maybe. Probably a better question is why are we allowing google to continue doing this at all? Shouldn't it be an opt-in service rather than opt-out? Shouldn't it have always been that way?
I can understand indexing web based content that is already on line and publicly accessible, but if I write a book, I want to be in control of where, when, and how it gets presented to the reader, at least initially anyway. I don't mind (or care) what an individual does once it's 'out there' - from format shifting to selling it at a used book store or giving away. I'm not so keen on the idea of google making a copy for the entire world to readily view a large chunk of it all.
Sure google could probably make me more money through exposure that I might not otherwise have, but shouldn't that be my choice?
Sorry all, I stand corrected.
If you have to "Email" your stuff to it, it's locked down. Period. Denial is step 1 of the process sir.
Pay by the page for what exactly? And how do you know what pages you might need without a comprehensive index - and even then unless you can see what you are getting, how do you know you'll get what you want?
You don't pay for 'part of a song' - likewise, I can think of no logical place you might pay for 'part of a book' either. I'm sure you'll hit me back with a list, but seriously, it's going to be a short one.
I can tell you what you don't get for your 3 or 6 grand - you don't get a left handed model. This takes me right out of the market segment.
You strike me as fitting the stereotype I have of the typical user at my place of work. A service can be running for months (or even years) on end without a single glitch, yet the thing goes down for a little bit and they act like the previous aeons of total reliability never happened. Ever. A good many even go so far as actually saying "insert some service or other" never fucking works, it's always broken! This lie filters up the chain and two days later you're in the big office explaining shit you should never have to explain.
I really doubt more reliable service providers actually exist in any great number for it to matter to you - in a nutshell - you put all your eggs in one basket and you suffered for 24 hours or so. For me the downtime really was just 2 hours 30 minutes, and I'm inclined to believe Google are telling the truth on this - I suspect some of your problems lay elsewhere, I'd start with your ISP.
For better or worse this is exactly what happens. The one musician that sticks his or her hand up and says "Hang on a minute, lets negotiate this contract a little bit" gets quickly shown the door. The big labels really don't care, there's another thousand hopefuls in the queue ready to sell their soul for their 15 minutes.
Here in Asia a similar thing can be said for your typical call centre job, or rather, it was this area of employment that kick started the draconian employment contracts which are now rapidly spreading throughout all spheres.
I blame HR.
Indeed you are right, I'm not saying they don't deserve a shot, quite the opposite. I hope they succeed, not only for the competition but because I have a fair amount of money invested in their tech. They've been around a long time now, might be fairly new on the Linux scene, and you are right in that they do respond to email and are quite helpful at times, but their drivers are still woeful in regards to set up and documentation.
Thanks for the reply.
You are one of a small percentage of people where the drivers actually work out of the box it would seem. For the rest of us we have to contend with figuring out xorg.conf and the one magical permutation out of thousands that will bring our P.O.S. S3 chip to life. To be sure, once you do figure it out it all works great - Next kernel upgrade and things go back to the shit and you start over again.
VIA, I hope you are reading this, your linux drivers are crap. You guys build the damn chips, so when I type ./install - figure your shit out and just make it work already.
I stopped remembering phone numbers in about 1992 when I bought my first cellular, I quite literally do not know my own phone number, and I don't even need to when I can bluetooth it around or send via text, so what makes you think we might need to remember domain names? We have bookmarks and a myriad of search engines for that.
Money grab? Like ICANN is not all that right now? As of today there are roughly 200 million registered domain names, that's a lot of money changing hands no matter how you swing it. Some very rich people living off bits in a database. The entire system costs just a small fraction of the total figure to implement world wide. Greed, if you're not with it, you're just a normal well rounded human being :-)
It's not flamebait you retards, it's a "JOKE", laugh already. I live in Asia.
I don't suppose you know how many Chinese workers it takes to arrange their fingers into the shape of the USB connector? Not a bad gig if you are the kid pouring the boiling plastic, but, you know, it probably sucks a bit to be on the mould team.
Unfortunately with digitally modulated signals, the receive gear can either see the synchronisation pattern, or it can not. There is no room to fit 'degrade gracefully' into this particular binary problem. The advantage here is that you can encode forward error correction on the data stream, meaning that when you do have a picture, it is actually going to look so close to being identical to the original transmission that it wont matter. Perfection here is measured in bit error rates. The lower that number the better.
Your problem, or rather your parents problem, is antenna type and positioning. We can safely skip all the slick marketing crap once we have a grasp of the problem.
Driving a 30 metre satellite dish, you can successfully and reliably pluck good data from a transmission more or less on the noise floor, one or two dB. It's like looking at something through a long narrow tube, you don't see anything other than whatever you are pointing it at. Rabbit ears are more or less the opposite of a nice big sat dish, in this case you have to contend with multipath signals and a very long list of other interference, so your odds of success are far more marginal.
What can your parents, or anyone else do to get perfect reception? Invest in a slightly more expensive antenna system, pay the extra few bucks to get system that is directional - buy an antenna rotator to make life a little easier as well.
Some people hit the sweet spot and only need a bent up coat hanger for perfect reception, others have to put a little extra effort in.
You purchased the kool-aid clearly enough.
Cloud Computing = Server(s) <--> Client(s) This concept has been around for a lot of years now, you're just picking up on the new buzzword for it.
Well that's a bit of a dumb argument. Heroin is illegal in most countries, it demands a high price because it's a rare and difficult to obtain product. It's also distributed by a relatively tiny percentage of the population.
Naturally the cops are going to want to know how you know who has the stuff and what the link is, if any. You make the damaged assumption that possessing or making available some particular piece of knowledge to anyone that asks is automatically a violation of the law.
You: Where can I find some heroin?
Me: I don't know, google it.
Am I going to get shit canned because I directed you to a search engine with the exact links to what you seek?