I was talking to a friend of mine earlier and it sounded like the Cable Broadband was about ready to do what Phone companies had to do years ago. Is it feasible, or even proper for each phone company to have it's own phone lines for it to use? If that were true, then every house would have 3 or more phone lines for the different companies your phones are on. That is worse than the current state where we have more phone numbers than people in the house.
So, there was one phone company that owned all the phone lines, and then the government saw this as a monopoly and opened it up so we could afford to have more phones than people.
Broadband, there has been one company that made all physical wiring, and only uses 10% of it and chokes out any competition. So the government will have to intervene and make it possible for companies to compete.
It has sort of been discussed, but I did not see anyone mention the most devastating effect BitTorrent has on my university.
In our system we have a PacketShaper that prioritizes bandwidth so our internet and chat and games go really fast and our file sharing is really slow. There is also the 4 Mb allotment solely for file sharing, and BitTorrent is in that allotment. Not blocked, just on a low priority. The problem lies with the number of connections each user has with just 1 Torrent. Go ahead and check for yourself, open a Torrent and then open up the command prompt and type in "netstat". The normal user may have several connections open, 1 per website and maybe another few for ICQ or something. With BitTorrent, each of our 3000 people on campus are capable of having 11,000 connections at the same time. It doesn't matter how little bandwidth is going through, the PacketShaper is unable to cope with such a large load, which is when our higher priorities slow down to a crawl.
Yeah, that sounds a bit like my point of view, except that I decided to actively avoid TV altogether. Then I turned my computer into my alarm clock. At one point I had an aggressive ad-blocker and lived a relatively ad-free life.
The other problem I had with TV was the strict time schedules. I am a bit too obsessive-compulsive or something, so if I missed just one episode, I couldn't watch the next one until I got "caught up". The other problem I had was that my University did not have the Sci-Fi channel.
Hmmm, so if girls check google on their guys... Say, how does one go about getting their webpage put in the top of Google? I was thinking of trying to register http://www.heisthebest.com/ and of course, put my name all over it. I see no flaws in my plan.
I think it could be one of the best inventions if it will help prevent teenagers from getting Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in their 20's. Otherwise, they may be using one of these. Though they don't look too bad, I wonder what it would do to your FPS performance?
I agree with your point, though, I wonder about its effectiveness.
The ads will be fully downloaded before the "skip" button is available. How will the advertisers know you hit the "skip" button? They will more than likely log the amount of bandwidth they have used and know how many commercials people have downloaded, but will there be any tool at their disposal to let them know that 75% of those downloaded were skipped?
As much as I want us back on the moon, there are some issues that need to be addressed. How many mistakes has NASA made? Most of them caused by Metric -> US conversions.
Mistakes happen, but what have we done to correct these mistakes? I heard that in the 1970's, NASA was an organization that tried really hard to change us from the Imperial measurement system to the Metric system. The lumber industry was unwilling to make the switch from 2x4's to 5x10's. The lumber industry apparently won in the choice of our measurement system.
Now, with 30 years
of technology development since the last time we had a man on the moon, it shouldn't be as difficult, especially the way a "new" piece of technology goes out-of-date in 9 months... or is that estimate out-of-date as well?
I still think it great that a game made originally in 8-bits 15 years ago, is now capable of being played on one of the most modern consoles (PS2). Not only does the game still exist, and still have some of the odd quirks, or secrets, and a bit of originality, but it has now become a greatest hit.
As for Anthology, I still think FFVI was is the best in the series. When it came out on the PS1, I liked the cinematic sequences, the art, and the cancel button doubling your walking speed. But I was annoyed with the loading time involved. I wonder why the SNES was able to show Sabin's Bum Rush attack with enough FPS to almost put someone in Epileptic shock, yet on the PS1, you barely notice the flashing...
Though I am concerned about one thing, one of the greatest things was the music CD that came with the original Anthology. I wonder if the Greatest Hits version will have the audio CD?
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I was talking to a friend of mine earlier and it sounded like the Cable Broadband was about ready to do what Phone companies had to do years ago. Is it feasible, or even proper for each phone company to have it's own phone lines for it to use? If that were true, then every house would have 3 or more phone lines for the different companies your phones are on. That is worse than the current state where we have more phone numbers than people in the house. So, there was one phone company that owned all the phone lines, and then the government saw this as a monopoly and opened it up so we could afford to have more phones than people. Broadband, there has been one company that made all physical wiring, and only uses 10% of it and chokes out any competition. So the government will have to intervene and make it possible for companies to compete.
It has sort of been discussed, but I did not see anyone mention the most devastating effect BitTorrent has on my university. In our system we have a PacketShaper that prioritizes bandwidth so our internet and chat and games go really fast and our file sharing is really slow. There is also the 4 Mb allotment solely for file sharing, and BitTorrent is in that allotment. Not blocked, just on a low priority. The problem lies with the number of connections each user has with just 1 Torrent. Go ahead and check for yourself, open a Torrent and then open up the command prompt and type in "netstat". The normal user may have several connections open, 1 per website and maybe another few for ICQ or something. With BitTorrent, each of our 3000 people on campus are capable of having 11,000 connections at the same time. It doesn't matter how little bandwidth is going through, the PacketShaper is unable to cope with such a large load, which is when our higher priorities slow down to a crawl.
Yeah, that sounds a bit like my point of view, except that I decided to actively avoid TV altogether. Then I turned my computer into my alarm clock. At one point I had an aggressive ad-blocker and lived a relatively ad-free life. The other problem I had with TV was the strict time schedules. I am a bit too obsessive-compulsive or something, so if I missed just one episode, I couldn't watch the next one until I got "caught up". The other problem I had was that my University did not have the Sci-Fi channel.
Hmmm, so if girls check google on their guys... Say, how does one go about getting their webpage put in the top of Google? I was thinking of trying to register http://www.heisthebest.com/ and of course, put my name all over it. I see no flaws in my plan.
If that doesn't work, then try Alt-F4.
I think it could be one of the best inventions if it will help prevent teenagers from getting Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in their 20's. Otherwise, they may be using one of these. Though they don't look too bad, I wonder what it would do to your FPS performance?
I agree with your point, though, I wonder about its effectiveness.
The ads will be fully downloaded before the "skip" button is available. How will the advertisers know you hit the "skip" button? They will more than likely log the amount of bandwidth they have used and know how many commercials people have downloaded, but will there be any tool at their disposal to let them know that 75% of those downloaded were skipped?
As much as I want us back on the moon, there are some issues that need to be addressed. How many mistakes has NASA made? Most of them caused by Metric -> US conversions. Mistakes happen, but what have we done to correct these mistakes? I heard that in the 1970's, NASA was an organization that tried really hard to change us from the Imperial measurement system to the Metric system. The lumber industry was unwilling to make the switch from 2x4's to 5x10's. The lumber industry apparently won in the choice of our measurement system. Now, with 30 years of technology development since the last time we had a man on the moon, it shouldn't be as difficult, especially the way a "new" piece of technology goes out-of-date in 9 months... or is that estimate out-of-date as well?
I still think it great that a game made originally in 8-bits 15 years ago, is now capable of being played on one of the most modern consoles (PS2). Not only does the game still exist, and still have some of the odd quirks, or secrets, and a bit of originality, but it has now become a greatest hit. As for Anthology, I still think FFVI was is the best in the series. When it came out on the PS1, I liked the cinematic sequences, the art, and the cancel button doubling your walking speed. But I was annoyed with the loading time involved. I wonder why the SNES was able to show Sabin's Bum Rush attack with enough FPS to almost put someone in Epileptic shock, yet on the PS1, you barely notice the flashing... Though I am concerned about one thing, one of the greatest things was the music CD that came with the original Anthology. I wonder if the Greatest Hits version will have the audio CD?