Run DD-WRT instead of the Sveasoft crap. I've been running DD-WRT for several weeks on my 15/2 connection without issue and have been getting full speed.
Verizon isn't doing PON or GPON currently. They are doing BPON. They are looking into GPON though. And you are right that they aren't going to give out 50mbit connections for $50. They do however give you 30/5 mbit connections for $55 in select markets.
Verizon FiOS currently doesn't block anything except incoming port 80 and 25 in some areas. Many people happily use a variety of VoIP services with FiOS without issue. Now tomorrow may be a different story, but you can't guarantee it won't be with any service.
can they update their hardware to accommodate multiple concurrent IPTV QoS-based streams at HD raster/frame/color levels? No.
Sure they can. They are already looking at converting over to GPON instead of BPON. That would require changing out the ONT (consumer end) and OLT (Verizon's end). They also obviously would have some backbone changes to utilize the increased bandwidth. Looking into the future adding even more bandwidth required adding an additional lambda to the existing 3 running across the fiber.
Currently, the only thing that is IPTV is VoD. Even with running multiple HD streams there is sufficient bandwidth available for most nodes as not everyone is streaming mutliple HD feeds at the same time nor fully utilizing their internet connection.
The FiOS rollouts have been mostly in suburbs of larger cities. You don't want to tackle NY, DC, or Dallas as your first city implemented, but you also don't want to do do some town with a population of 3. My town and surrounding communities (Fort Wayne/New Haven, Indiana) was one of the first dozen or so locations for FiOS deployment. We I beleive were the smallest metroplex, but we also were one of the paths of least resistance. Originally we were not likely to be deployed early on, but we actively lobbied Verizon to use us early on. We, as a community, went out of our way to make the process easy for them. While other communities were digging in trying to fight back by way of franchise agreements and building permits, we were preapproving those permits and working with Verizon for a smooth rollout. The fact that we are also home to one of 3 call centers and a variety of other services for Verizon probably didn't hurt either.
Do any providers guarantee coverage anywhere? Most contracts I've ever had have had provisions that explicitly say that coverage was not guaranteed anywhere.
You mean to say that your users boot up a Windows system for the sole purpose of accessing another Windows system? Oh well, given today's do everything with a PC [slashdot.org] mentality, that's not too suprising. But you have to admit it's a little weird.
Well, what exactly do you expect? The thin client has to run something, no matter how minimal it might be, in order to start up what ever type of terminal service, be it VNC, X11, RDP, etc. It may not be a full featured OS, but it will be an OS. If it didn't, it wouldn't be a thin client, it would be a dumb terminal.
Windows CE is one of the verision of Windows to run on minimalistic systems, such as PDAs or other embedded systems such as Thin Clients. It wouldn't be a whole lot different then having a pared down Linux (or some other *nix) kernel to run the thin client, only to connect to a more full featured *nix server.
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Our revenues were $18.7 million in 2003, $79.7 million in 2004, $269.2 million in 2005 and $118.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2006. While our revenues have grown rapidly, we have experienced increasing net losses, primarily driven by our increase in marketing expenses. For the period from inception through March 31, 2006, our accumulated deficit was $467.4 million. For 2005 and the three months ended March 31, 2006, our net loss was $261.3 million and $85.2 million, respectively and our marketing expenses were $243.4 million and $88.3 million, respectively.
Sounds just like a.com of yesteryear winner with expenses nearly 2x the revenue.
No publicity is bad publicity...or something like that. However, if I were a company executive, I'm not sure if I would like my company being in the news because I went after a former employee for pointing out a security flaw in my software. It draws attention to the fact that my software had a flaw in it, that our policies aren't keeping confidental information confidental, etc.
Lately I've just been drinking a lot of water. I reuse a 20oz bottled water container and just fill it up with tap water. Then I use the little drink packets to add some flavor. Crystal Light has a variety of flavors and dissolve the best, but are the most expensive. I usually just go with the generic "Great Value" brand ones from Wal-Mart but Target also has some variety other then the lemonade, orange, rasberry common ones that Crystal Light and Wal-mart sell.
2. Waiting for 10 hours to DL the thing (plus cost for bandwidth if you're not on a flat, which is quite rare here).
Depends on what your and their bandwidth supports. My FiOS connection could download a 4.9GB DVD in under an hour. Presuming that all the bells and whistles didn't come with it and you just got the video and AC3 audio stream, download times are even less.
Most of my movies that I've ripped from my DVDs are in the 1-1.5GB range with AC3 audio. A 3mbit connection is fast enough to download and watch in real time if the file format supported it.
Pay the tax at time of purchase. Solves your problem of scrounging for old equipment that is past some company's useful life but still works for yourself.
If you want to encourage recycling, charge a larger amount that is mostly refunded once the machine is dropped off at arecycling center. Many states already do something similar for food recyclables, just extend the program for electronic equipment.
The clock in the lower left starts at 48:17 and the car drives away around 50:54. The total length of the video is 53 seconds. However, if nothing is changing on the screen, the time jumps considerably. That, along with the chopyness, makes me beleive it's some type of a security camera that takes a reduced framerate to allow longer record times. So I think you are right that the framerate is low as well as it is sped up.
I think his point is it's not that much different with a luxury car then it is with a more traditional car. If you know what you are doing, it only takes a minute or two to steal a car. Here's a video of some amaturish appearing kids stealing a car in about 2 minutes. A minute of that was working the lock and about 40 seconds was working the ignition wires. If it's a quite area, just breaking the window takes a second or two.
In reality the only differences between the two types of theft is the amount of money spent on the vehicle, and the amount of time no one notices (or cares about) someone working on it. 20 minutes or 2 minutes, either way your car is gone.
I look at the other end of the spectrum. WebVan may have burned through $1b on a flawed business model. But BlueMountain.com was able to sell their site for $780m. They are a fricking electronic greeting card company.
In that case, while the damage could obviously already be done, at least the continued effects can start to be minimized. If the attacker changed the account's password, it would immediately be identified. I would say that is significantly better then if the attacker was allowed to continued to log in undetected for months or years on end without anyone being the wiser.
SCO has an operating system. MySQL has a database product. MySQL needs operating systems to run it's databases. Just because MySQL has certified that it runs on SCO OpenServer and that SCO says MySQL runs fine, doesn't necessarily one supports all the actions of the other.
I find it funny that you don't want to use MySQL because of their business practices in partnership with SCO, Yet you inquire about MSFT which could have even shadier business practices with SCO, and even excluding SCO, has a track record of being less then friendly to the open source community.
Good point. I mean, how on earth can anyone survive on just $32.5m a year. While I'm sure that I could burn through it, I honestly don't think I could spend that much in a lifetime without really wasting it on things.
Now only if other people/groups patent murder, taking performance enhancing drugs for sports, and annoying jingles used in ads, the world would be a better place.
18, 48, and 70? In San Francisco? I would have guessed that number to be several times that.
Hmm...actually, for 2004, there was nearly 5 times as many murders as there were laptop thefts. Moral of the story is that if you carry a laptop, you are 5 times less likely to be murdered!
It's not the first time that D-Link's crappy programming has affected a service. DynDNS.com last year started blocking all update requests that match a user-agent of client/1.0, beleived primarily to be several D-Link routers. D-Link has been mum on a response last I heard.
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Run DD-WRT instead of the Sveasoft crap. I've been running DD-WRT for several weeks on my 15/2 connection without issue and have been getting full speed.
Verizon isn't doing PON or GPON currently. They are doing BPON. They are looking into GPON though. And you are right that they aren't going to give out 50mbit connections for $50. They do however give you 30/5 mbit connections for $55 in select markets.
Verizon FiOS currently doesn't block anything except incoming port 80 and 25 in some areas. Many people happily use a variety of VoIP services with FiOS without issue. Now tomorrow may be a different story, but you can't guarantee it won't be with any service.
Currently, the only thing that is IPTV is VoD. Even with running multiple HD streams there is sufficient bandwidth available for most nodes as not everyone is streaming mutliple HD feeds at the same time nor fully utilizing their internet connection.
I pay $39.95/month for 15/2 service, and that is not with a phone line. It was just the special DSL customers received and bundling was not required.
The FiOS rollouts have been mostly in suburbs of larger cities. You don't want to tackle NY, DC, or Dallas as your first city implemented, but you also don't want to do do some town with a population of 3. My town and surrounding communities (Fort Wayne/New Haven, Indiana) was one of the first dozen or so locations for FiOS deployment. We I beleive were the smallest metroplex, but we also were one of the paths of least resistance. Originally we were not likely to be deployed early on, but we actively lobbied Verizon to use us early on. We, as a community, went out of our way to make the process easy for them. While other communities were digging in trying to fight back by way of franchise agreements and building permits, we were preapproving those permits and working with Verizon for a smooth rollout. The fact that we are also home to one of 3 call centers and a variety of other services for Verizon probably didn't hurt either.
Then don't download it. For the thousands of us who already downloaded it for another program, it's not that big of a deal.
Ah, to be young. I remember when I was you age. I was an idealist too. Once you get out in the real world and reality sinks in, that will change.
Do any providers guarantee coverage anywhere? Most contracts I've ever had have had provisions that explicitly say that coverage was not guaranteed anywhere.
Windows CE is one of the verision of Windows to run on minimalistic systems, such as PDAs or other embedded systems such as Thin Clients. It wouldn't be a whole lot different then having a pared down Linux (or some other *nix) kernel to run the thin client, only to connect to a more full featured *nix server.
No publicity is bad publicity...or something like that. However, if I were a company executive, I'm not sure if I would like my company being in the news because I went after a former employee for pointing out a security flaw in my software. It draws attention to the fact that my software had a flaw in it, that our policies aren't keeping confidental information confidental, etc.
Lately I've just been drinking a lot of water. I reuse a 20oz bottled water container and just fill it up with tap water. Then I use the little drink packets to add some flavor. Crystal Light has a variety of flavors and dissolve the best, but are the most expensive. I usually just go with the generic "Great Value" brand ones from Wal-Mart but Target also has some variety other then the lemonade, orange, rasberry common ones that Crystal Light and Wal-mart sell.
Most of my movies that I've ripped from my DVDs are in the 1-1.5GB range with AC3 audio. A 3mbit connection is fast enough to download and watch in real time if the file format supported it.
Pay the tax at time of purchase. Solves your problem of scrounging for old equipment that is past some company's useful life but still works for yourself.
If you want to encourage recycling, charge a larger amount that is mostly refunded once the machine is dropped off at arecycling center. Many states already do something similar for food recyclables, just extend the program for electronic equipment.
The clock in the lower left starts at 48:17 and the car drives away around 50:54. The total length of the video is 53 seconds. However, if nothing is changing on the screen, the time jumps considerably. That, along with the chopyness, makes me beleive it's some type of a security camera that takes a reduced framerate to allow longer record times. So I think you are right that the framerate is low as well as it is sped up.
I think his point is it's not that much different with a luxury car then it is with a more traditional car. If you know what you are doing, it only takes a minute or two to steal a car. Here's a video of some amaturish appearing kids stealing a car in about 2 minutes. A minute of that was working the lock and about 40 seconds was working the ignition wires. If it's a quite area, just breaking the window takes a second or two.
In reality the only differences between the two types of theft is the amount of money spent on the vehicle, and the amount of time no one notices (or cares about) someone working on it. 20 minutes or 2 minutes, either way your car is gone.
I look at the other end of the spectrum. WebVan may have burned through $1b on a flawed business model. But BlueMountain.com was able to sell their site for $780m. They are a fricking electronic greeting card company.
In that case, while the damage could obviously already be done, at least the continued effects can start to be minimized. If the attacker changed the account's password, it would immediately be identified. I would say that is significantly better then if the attacker was allowed to continued to log in undetected for months or years on end without anyone being the wiser.
SCO has an operating system. MySQL has a database product. MySQL needs operating systems to run it's databases. Just because MySQL has certified that it runs on SCO OpenServer and that SCO says MySQL runs fine, doesn't necessarily one supports all the actions of the other.
I find it funny that you don't want to use MySQL because of their business practices in partnership with SCO, Yet you inquire about MSFT which could have even shadier business practices with SCO, and even excluding SCO, has a track record of being less then friendly to the open source community.
Good point. I mean, how on earth can anyone survive on just $32.5m a year. While I'm sure that I could burn through it, I honestly don't think I could spend that much in a lifetime without really wasting it on things.
Now only if other people/groups patent murder, taking performance enhancing drugs for sports, and annoying jingles used in ads, the world would be a better place.
18, 48, and 70? In San Francisco? I would have guessed that number to be several times that.
Hmm...actually, for 2004, there was nearly 5 times as many murders as there were laptop thefts. Moral of the story is that if you carry a laptop, you are 5 times less likely to be murdered!
I too use a WRT54GS with the latest (or at least the latest as of a month a go or so) and have had zero issues.
It's not the first time that D-Link's crappy programming has affected a service. DynDNS.com last year started blocking all update requests that match a user-agent of client/1.0, beleived primarily to be several D-Link routers. D-Link has been mum on a response last I heard.