Data from Comcast to customer is half the bandwidth compared to data from Netflix to Comcast to customer.
Not exactly. Netflix has deals with large CDNs to basicly setup a big server on your network and stream from there. same way as microsoft updates, apple updates, wow updates etc.
Same way as most of the cable company's "ondemand" services work really.
Same here. Verizon DSL has sent me 3 emails (about 2 years ago) where they caught me downloading movies or tv shows. I'm curious what they will do to me next time I'm caught. One thing's for sure:
I'm not going to go out and buy Hollywood's crap, unless it's something I've already seen and liked -- such as Battlestar Galactica. This past year I downloaded about 200 movies and liked almost none of them. TV shows were a little better percentage but not by much.
Instead I'll just read science fiction in books and magazines. Or watch free TV (the 45 channels I get over the antenna). Or free hulu. Or cheap games ($20 for 40+ hours is a good bargain). It makes no sense to buy movie/show DVDs when they have no return policy for the crap, and there are so many other options.
That's a lot of movies in a year. But the ones you did like, did you contribute anything back to them?
If you liked 10 out of the 200 movies, i hope you bought them afterwards.
Just what lawyers need, free software because they don't bill enough to pay for software and the jobs it supplies.
Typical lawyers, want to charge you $$$ (250+ an hour) and yet spend NOTHING on the backend. They do not know the value of other people's time while over-valuing their own.
I do consulting for several lawyer firms, from 1 person to assisting 40 person firms. They do have specialiazed software programs that are $$$$$. Not to mention the online access to case history and trials is a yearly subscription.
Say what you want about lawyers themselves, but the firms do have a lot of backend costs.
Same as most industries really.
The registry used to be a complete festering pile of trash. However you may have noticed those websites refer to PREVIOUS versions of windows, several years out of date.
Software changes.
Get off your high horse, accept that maybe things have changed. 'You can still think windows sucks if you want, but atleast have current information.
I mean, i could rip on all the annoying things about my apple ][e did back in the day and that would be as current as your info.
Microsoft R&D Division is simply fascinating. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Research#Research_projects for a list of some of them, but they have a lot more directly applied items as well. Most of it never sees the light of day in microsoft's products, but they do innovate internally/academically.
Enterprise Linux versions cost money too. Chances are if you're not an experienced sysadmin for any OS, reading through forums and googling vs having paid support will be a necessity.
Or how hour-long TV shows have gone from being ~52 mins long in the 1960's to ~44 mins long today and in the process have alienated so many customers that they now turn to Hulu or pirating, where the profits are less.
But really, i'm pretty sure the production value of the shows have gone up to, allowing more realistic/special effects.
I love the original Star Trek, but even I have to admit the special effects budget could have been bigger.
The reason I mention that - more commercial time pays for the show. You as an individual directly pay what maybe $1/yr towards any show via cable subscription.
If you want talented actors, great sets, good quality tv shows, someone has to pay. Each episode of a popular series costs anywhere from half a million to 5million i believe. commercials suck, but what's the alternative?
i myself am well versed with wsus/autopatcher/RIS/nlite/driverpack programs... but for me, one of the biggest issues is all the OTHER software that needs to be reinstalled.
True, a lot of pcs have standard windows/office/ninite stuff, but there are piles of "one off" programs that need to be reinstalled. Most of those apps unfortunately cannot be done via msi/GP stuff. This also brings us to another issue - reconfiguring on a domain.
A standalone PC or a huge corporate where all the machines are the same are easy. It's the smaller companies (under 100 or 50 pcs surely) which all are different.
Getting the PC to new install state is easy, but reproducing the same effect is annoying.
Intune is basic workstation maintainance really. It's not for home users, it's not for getting rid of Microsoft Office, it's for reducing the need of a helpdesk monkey to do patches and updates etc on machines... more importantly for the road warriors of the companies.
"back in the day", entry level notebooks cost 2K+ (without inflation). Now you can get an entry level notebook for $300 (atom), or an actual dualcore one at $450. Almost as fast as a PC one for $800.
That seems pretty decent for me.
Of course, if you want to play games you will NEVER be happy....
your lack of knowledge about this doesn't mean you're right. It's easy to automate. You dont need third party software, microsoft includes it out of the box. Money should be spent on knowledge not tools.
These pranks of blackpaper, or endless loops worked wonders "back in the day", but by now most large companies have automated faxes. Inbound faxes are delivered to your corporate work email as a nicely readable PDF file.
With the rise of VOIP, a lot of companies have phased out fax machines on the recieving end. Most PBX system natively accept faxing even.
Even a small business can save money by using an old pc and a modem for receiving, nobody likes the flimsy and expensive fax paper.
This would cause more problems for tying up their fax lines than on their fax equipment themselves I'd imagine.
So you want me to have to carry around a second device because some dev is too lazy to isolate the e-mail stored on my phone from everything else?
when you save an attachment, you can save it to other areas of your phone than the default. otherwise you wouldnt be able to do anything with the data itself on your phone.
There is no "work only" section of your phone, hence the entire phone has to treated as potentially storing data
While I agree that that wga is stupid and annoying, it takes less than 5 mins to solve over the phone.
- call them
- type in the authorization id on keypad
- answer their question that it's installed on only 1 pc
- type in key they give you
yeah its a pain once, but pretty sure that 5 mins is less than the time it takes to even find a wga crack and ensure it stays working.
the real problem is that the mfg of notebook customized the windows install and locked it to the bios. the key on the bottom of the notebook is actaully a dummy key,its called SLP keys.
The culprit wasn't microsoft. The motherboard manufacturer took an off the shelf network card (vendor x), modified it slightly and used it on the motherboard (vendor y). When you use the customized motherboard drivers from the cd or their website it works great.
The problem is, microsoft's windows update does a search and says hey that looks like vendor x card, hmmm they have sent us version 2.0 and your drivers say they're version 1.0... do you want to do the update?
Microsoft only organizes drivers that vendors gives them, they dont make any of them. To repeat, Microsoft has NOTHING to do with the drivers listed on Windows Update.
You really should blame either vendor x for giving microsoft crap drivers or vendor y for customizing the drivers.
Also to note, this is a feature that can be disabled entirely or for a specific driver.
As well, there is a VERY easy method to roll back a driver install.
I've had drivers do this before (even from the manufacturer) and you can simply rollback to the previous driver (stored on your computer), reboot and problem solved.
youch, which ISPs are these? I hope not any I use.
Is there a list of what ISPs do this, they should be shamed.
I know some will cut you off if you use waaay too much bandwidth but didn't think they cut you off if you used BT!
Technology is a moving target.
You did your clients a huge disservice by advising them without knowing what you were talking about fully.
Regardless of your personal tastes or your biases you should always advise clients the best course of action for THEM.
If you can't, then say it.
You also might want to keep yourself upto date on current technology - powershell has been been out since 2006 and created quite a buzz by both windows and *nix people.
I feel this is one of the main issues with people in the computer industry charging money for their services.....
It restricts data. It restricts my rights. It does not protect anything.
As the viewer, it restricts you in ways you listed.
But devil's advocate - I would also say it protects content authenticity....and prevents the ability for it to ensure it's legit from the distributors point of view.
Right now this is all about the viewers ability to manipulate the data into other forms.
but pretend you authored a bluray disk.... This encryption ensured that what you created is properly attached to you and hasnt been changed/edited.
Internet Explorer uses msn.com as the default page.... you'd be surprised at how many people dont change it, especially those who would install the alex toolbar (where the generate the stats)
It's not Microsoft that did that. it's the OEM manufacturer themselves. (hp/dell/toshiba/acer etc etc).
They usually use a generic product key that's bios locked to a set of hardware. that's all oem vendor, not microsoft.
Blame the right company:P
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Data from Comcast to customer is half the bandwidth compared to data from Netflix to Comcast to customer.
Not exactly. Netflix has deals with large CDNs to basicly setup a big server on your network and stream from there. same way as microsoft updates, apple updates, wow updates etc. Same way as most of the cable company's "ondemand" services work really.
Lots of VoIP phones support gigabit ethernet pass through, with POE. Middle to higher end models of course, not the entry level ones.
Same here. Verizon DSL has sent me 3 emails (about 2 years ago) where they caught me downloading movies or tv shows. I'm curious what they will do to me next time I'm caught. One thing's for sure:
I'm not going to go out and buy Hollywood's crap, unless it's something I've already seen and liked -- such as Battlestar Galactica. This past year I downloaded about 200 movies and liked almost none of them. TV shows were a little better percentage but not by much.
Instead I'll just read science fiction in books and magazines. Or watch free TV (the 45 channels I get over the antenna). Or free hulu. Or cheap games ($20 for 40+ hours is a good bargain). It makes no sense to buy movie/show DVDs when they have no return policy for the crap, and there are so many other options.
That's a lot of movies in a year. But the ones you did like, did you contribute anything back to them? If you liked 10 out of the 200 movies, i hope you bought them afterwards.
Just what lawyers need, free software because they don't bill enough to pay for software and the jobs it supplies.
Typical lawyers, want to charge you $$$ (250+ an hour) and yet spend NOTHING on the backend. They do not know the value of other people's time while over-valuing their own.
I do consulting for several lawyer firms, from 1 person to assisting 40 person firms. They do have specialiazed software programs that are $$$$$. Not to mention the online access to case history and trials is a yearly subscription. Say what you want about lawyers themselves, but the firms do have a lot of backend costs. Same as most industries really.
weird how an 8 year old software product doesn't support other newer browsers properly eh? :P
The registry used to be a complete festering pile of trash. However you may have noticed those websites refer to PREVIOUS versions of windows, several years out of date. Software changes. Get off your high horse, accept that maybe things have changed. 'You can still think windows sucks if you want, but atleast have current information. I mean, i could rip on all the annoying things about my apple ][e did back in the day and that would be as current as your info.
Microsoft R&D Division is simply fascinating. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Research#Research_projects for a list of some of them, but they have a lot more directly applied items as well. Most of it never sees the light of day in microsoft's products, but they do innovate internally/academically.
Enterprise Linux versions cost money too. Chances are if you're not an experienced sysadmin for any OS, reading through forums and googling vs having paid support will be a necessity.
Or how hour-long TV shows have gone from being ~52 mins long in the 1960's to ~44 mins long today and in the process have alienated so many customers that they now turn to Hulu or pirating, where the profits are less.
But really, i'm pretty sure the production value of the shows have gone up to, allowing more realistic/special effects. I love the original Star Trek, but even I have to admit the special effects budget could have been bigger. The reason I mention that - more commercial time pays for the show. You as an individual directly pay what maybe $1/yr towards any show via cable subscription. If you want talented actors, great sets, good quality tv shows, someone has to pay. Each episode of a popular series costs anywhere from half a million to 5million i believe. commercials suck, but what's the alternative?
Voting is a terrible way to control democracy. It's the wrong way. And it doesn't work.
What does work? If you want to complain and point out why you're right..... can you contribute some working ideas on how to make things better?
i myself am well versed with wsus/autopatcher/RIS/nlite/driverpack programs... but for me, one of the biggest issues is all the OTHER software that needs to be reinstalled. True, a lot of pcs have standard windows/office/ninite stuff, but there are piles of "one off" programs that need to be reinstalled. Most of those apps unfortunately cannot be done via msi/GP stuff. This also brings us to another issue - reconfiguring on a domain. A standalone PC or a huge corporate where all the machines are the same are easy. It's the smaller companies (under 100 or 50 pcs surely) which all are different. Getting the PC to new install state is easy, but reproducing the same effect is annoying.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsintune/what-is-windows-intune.aspx - lists what it is.
Intune is basic workstation maintainance really. It's not for home users, it's not for getting rid of Microsoft Office, it's for reducing the need of a helpdesk monkey to do patches and updates etc on machines... more importantly for the road warriors of the companies.
"back in the day", entry level notebooks cost 2K+ (without inflation). Now you can get an entry level notebook for $300 (atom), or an actual dualcore one at $450. Almost as fast as a PC one for $800.
That seems pretty decent for me.
Of course, if you want to play games you will NEVER be happy....
your lack of knowledge about this doesn't mean you're right. It's easy to automate. You dont need third party software, microsoft includes it out of the box. Money should be spent on knowledge not tools.
These pranks of blackpaper, or endless loops worked wonders "back in the day", but by now most large companies have automated faxes. Inbound faxes are delivered to your corporate work email as a nicely readable PDF file. With the rise of VOIP, a lot of companies have phased out fax machines on the recieving end. Most PBX system natively accept faxing even. Even a small business can save money by using an old pc and a modem for receiving, nobody likes the flimsy and expensive fax paper. This would cause more problems for tying up their fax lines than on their fax equipment themselves I'd imagine.
So you want me to have to carry around a second device because some dev is too lazy to isolate the e-mail stored on my phone from everything else?
when you save an attachment, you can save it to other areas of your phone than the default. otherwise you wouldnt be able to do anything with the data itself on your phone. There is no "work only" section of your phone, hence the entire phone has to treated as potentially storing data
Wow. Everything is about media companies? do they meet in underground parking lots at 3am in the shadows?
- call them
- type in the authorization id on keypad
- answer their question that it's installed on only 1 pc
- type in key they give you
yeah its a pain once, but pretty sure that 5 mins is less than the time it takes to even find a wga crack and ensure it stays working.
the real problem is that the mfg of notebook customized the windows install and locked it to the bios. the key on the bottom of the notebook is actaully a dummy key,its called SLP keys.
Microsoft only organizes drivers that vendors gives them, they dont make any of them. To repeat, Microsoft has NOTHING to do with the drivers listed on Windows Update.
You really should blame either vendor x for giving microsoft crap drivers or vendor y for customizing the drivers.
Also to note, this is a feature that can be disabled entirely or for a specific driver.
As well, there is a VERY easy method to roll back a driver install. I've had drivers do this before (even from the manufacturer) and you can simply rollback to the previous driver (stored on your computer), reboot and problem solved.
youch, which ISPs are these? I hope not any I use. Is there a list of what ISPs do this, they should be shamed. I know some will cut you off if you use waaay too much bandwidth but didn't think they cut you off if you used BT!
Technology is a moving target. You did your clients a huge disservice by advising them without knowing what you were talking about fully. Regardless of your personal tastes or your biases you should always advise clients the best course of action for THEM. If you can't, then say it. You also might want to keep yourself upto date on current technology - powershell has been been out since 2006 and created quite a buzz by both windows and *nix people. I feel this is one of the main issues with people in the computer industry charging money for their services.....
Even Microsoft has admitted that they're rather have somebody pirate MS Office than install a copy of Open Office.
citation needed. i say that in half jest, but i'm actually curious, do you know more about this?
It restricts data. It restricts my rights. It does not protect anything.
As the viewer, it restricts you in ways you listed. But devil's advocate - I would also say it protects content authenticity....and prevents the ability for it to ensure it's legit from the distributors point of view. Right now this is all about the viewers ability to manipulate the data into other forms. but pretend you authored a bluray disk.... This encryption ensured that what you created is properly attached to you and hasnt been changed/edited.
Internet Explorer uses msn.com as the default page.... you'd be surprised at how many people dont change it, especially those who would install the alex toolbar (where the generate the stats)
It's not Microsoft that did that. it's the OEM manufacturer themselves. (hp/dell/toshiba/acer etc etc). They usually use a generic product key that's bios locked to a set of hardware. that's all oem vendor, not microsoft. Blame the right company :P