Heh, or try that new M9x51-2-USB device. You know the one that looks for the power on pin x instead of pin y and bursts into flames when you connect it to your P38Y1N3-192-USB port?
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"So the next time you are talking to a manager and he or she tells you that you have to use something "because it is a standard", push back. Ask why only standards can be used. Ask if the standard has actually been implemented, or if the standard will really solve the problem under discussion. For that matter, ask if the manager really knows what the standard is. If any of these questions can't be clearly answered, may the standard isn't the way you should approach your problem."
2. demand you use something different
3. be sure to tidy up your desk for the new graduate they will hire to implement the standard.
Standards allow us to communicate with each other with a common medium. Without HTML being standard you wouldn't be reading this.
And wouldn't people be more inclined to argue about which tech to use if there wern't standards? How would we feel if our boss came in and said we had to use the new internet protocol his 13 year old son came up with.
Oh, didn't you get the memo, we are on the 1000%=1 system now.
The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time...The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.
--Tom Cargill
"The continuous searches, all the broken or incomplete downloads, not even to speak of the overhead."
Hmm, you sure you aren't talking about me trying to find those linux drivers for my wireless network card last week? Lots of searching, lots of broken links, downloading files that didn't work.....
The fuel i put in my automobile is a finite quantity, as i burn it it is removed from the tank and i must return to obtain more. When i download my ISP is passing electrons or photons through a cable that is already in place down to my house. Bandwidth is limited to the equipment used, and the price per month is used to maintain the equipment. Who is to decide how much a meg costs? Service fees now go to maintain those connections and to upgrade equipment, charging me by the byte would still be an arbitrary price made up by some marketing exec somewhere with a business model that says charge the most our users will pay and provide the least they will put up for. Having worked for an ISP for 2 years i personally have seen alot of money wasted on junk that does not provide the end user with squat. I.E. matching lexus SUV's for top level management. It costs only electricity for my copy of RH9 to pass over your switches so why shoudl you be able to charge me more for it. Instead estimate the costs of providing the service and charge fee's based on that goal.
That and a good discount for those of us who dont call tech support, i still can't believe people paid money for me to put a "connect" icon on thier desktop, geez.
60% does sound like an aweful round number. Must be company policy -- whatever we are talking about today, thats 60% of our bandwidth.
Ummm, oh online gaming? yeah, thats about 60% of our bandwidth just like p2p sharing, spam, windows update, ftp, irc, -insert useful internet activity here-, today everything 60%.
And maby im wrong, but isn't bandwidth meant to be used? Methinks they would be happier to charge people for broadband and have them use as much bandwidth as dialup.
"Personally I hope they do go metereed bandwidth.. because them myself and 99.99% of the net users out there will likely see their bill drop..."
Hmmm... You know i can't think of the last time a company changed my bill plan in such a way that it dropped my payments. I suspect we would be paying the same rate we are now for some sort of "basic" service with the option of paying more for unlimited bandwidth.
I for one will be back to my dialup, i have yet to find anything on the net worth the 600+ dollars a year its costing me now.....
Now where did i put that ISA 56k.... Honey, that is not a coaster!
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Heh, or try that new M9x51-2-USB device. You know the one that looks for the power on pin x instead of pin y and bursts into flames when you connect it to your P38Y1N3-192-USB port?
1. "So the next time you are talking to a manager and he or she tells you that you have to use something "because it is a standard", push back. Ask why only standards can be used. Ask if the standard has actually been implemented, or if the standard will really solve the problem under discussion. For that matter, ask if the manager really knows what the standard is. If any of these questions can't be clearly answered, may the standard isn't the way you should approach your problem."
2. demand you use something different
3. be sure to tidy up your desk for the new graduate they will hire to implement the standard.
Standards allow us to communicate with each other with a common medium. Without HTML being standard you wouldn't be reading this.
And wouldn't people be more inclined to argue about which tech to use if there wern't standards? How would we feel if our boss came in and said we had to use the new internet protocol his 13 year old son came up with.
Oh, didn't you get the memo, we are on the 1000%=1 system now.
The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time...The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time. --Tom Cargill
"The continuous searches, all the broken or incomplete downloads, not even to speak of the overhead."
Hmm, you sure you aren't talking about me trying to find those linux drivers for my wireless network card last week? Lots of searching, lots of broken links, downloading files that didn't work.....
The fuel i put in my automobile is a finite quantity, as i burn it it is removed from the tank and i must return to obtain more. When i download my ISP is passing electrons or photons through a cable that is already in place down to my house. Bandwidth is limited to the equipment used, and the price per month is used to maintain the equipment. Who is to decide how much a meg costs? Service fees now go to maintain those connections and to upgrade equipment, charging me by the byte would still be an arbitrary price made up by some marketing exec somewhere with a business model that says charge the most our users will pay and provide the least they will put up for. Having worked for an ISP for 2 years i personally have seen alot of money wasted on junk that does not provide the end user with squat. I.E. matching lexus SUV's for top level management. It costs only electricity for my copy of RH9 to pass over your switches so why shoudl you be able to charge me more for it. Instead estimate the costs of providing the service and charge fee's based on that goal.
That and a good discount for those of us who dont call tech support, i still can't believe people paid money for me to put a "connect" icon on thier desktop, geez.
60% does sound like an aweful round number. Must be company policy -- whatever we are talking about today, thats 60% of our bandwidth.
Ummm, oh online gaming? yeah, thats about 60% of our bandwidth just like p2p sharing, spam, windows update, ftp, irc, -insert useful internet activity here-, today everything 60%.
And maby im wrong, but isn't bandwidth meant to be used? Methinks they would be happier to charge people for broadband and have them use as much bandwidth as dialup.
"Personally I hope they do go metereed bandwidth.. because them myself and 99.99% of the net users out there will likely see their bill drop..."
Hmmm... You know i can't think of the last time a company changed my bill plan in such a way that it dropped my payments. I suspect we would be paying the same rate we are now for some sort of "basic" service with the option of paying more for unlimited bandwidth.
I for one will be back to my dialup, i have yet to find anything on the net worth the 600+ dollars a year its costing me now.....
Now where did i put that ISA 56k.... Honey, that is not a coaster!