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  1. Escalate your trouble ticket on Ask Slashdot: What Is an Acceptable Broadband Latency? · · Score: 1

    Request an escalation of your trouble ticket. No reasonable person would expect 300ms latency as the norm.

  2. Herman Miller Aeron on Ask Slashdot: Ergonomic Office Environment? · · Score: 1

    Herman Miller Aeron still the best?

  3. /ignore until load time is reduced on Firefox 8.0 Beta Available · · Score: 1

    Firefox was eventually replaced because it loaded so slow. I went searching and found Chrome. If Firefox could load as fast as Chrome does, I might switch back.

  4. We will lose. on Kilobots — Cheap Swarm Robots Out of Harvard · · Score: 1

    You could kill a robot. Maybe even 10. But, in the thousands, even if they are tiny and weak, you will lose.

  5. Re:Age of impact on Antarctic Blast Made Australia, Room For Dinosaurs · · Score: 1

    Have a URL to the joke by chance? My search came up short.

  6. Re:Some things I've found. on ISPs Offer Faster Speeds, Why Don't We Get Them? · · Score: 1

    Most modern DSL implementations look like this:

    DSL Modem <-> DSLAM <-> ATM Network <-> Aggregate Router

    The advertised speed, (3072/384) is the speed your DSL modem trains into your DSLAM.  If you are not training to the full speed, check your margins and attenuation.  Margin needs to be atleast 6db with attenuation no more than 45db.  Once you're training to full speed, the bottleneck is no longer at your curb.  Your DSLAM will be feed with a few T1s or possibly subtended with other DSLAMs and connected to a DS3.  From there you get into the ATM network (53 byte cells, 5 byte header, 48 byte payload but still not a concern).  The actual aggregate router that authenticates your session will be your first upstream hop with an IP address.

    As you can see, there are quite a few places you could be running short on bandwidth before you ever reach the Internet.  Contact your service provider and do a download speed test from their servers.  This will help you narrow down where the problem might be.

  7. Re:A school project on Faking a Company · · Score: 1

    Assets = Owners Equity - Liabilities

  8. Re:Internet2 the internet of the future certa 1996 on Internet2 Gets a New Backbone · · Score: 1

    Also keep in mind the Internet2 is strictly a breeding ground for new technologies to be developed and then later migrated into other internetworks.

  9. Yes on HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray - Is It All in the Name? · · Score: 1

    Yes.

  10. Re:Qualities for an intern on Qualifications for Summer Internships? · · Score: 1

    5. All the above.

  11. Re:Could be worse on Invasion of the Body Snatchers · · Score: 1
    Provider error '80004005'
     
    Unspecified error
     
    /ct/content.asp, line 161
  12. Angel Investors on What's the Best Way to Write a Business Plan? · · Score: 1

    Once you have used up all available equity of your own, the next step is to bring in Angel Investors. After that comes the Venture Capitalists.

  13. One word. on Low Cost Webcast Optimizations? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Multicast.

  14. Slight error in late night math on Explosion on Moon Spreads Moondust · · Score: 1

    Yes, sorry about that.. slight miscalculation.

  15. Re:USB on Scientists Produce Fearless Mice · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. -- Plato

  16. Re:You would have thought....... on Third 'Space Tourist' Blasts Off Into Space · · Score: 1
    Still, this story hits the front page about 17 hours after the launch.

    Just wait a few months and you can comment how old this will be on the second, third, fourth and fifth time the story hits our frontpage.

    In the 6 years I've been here, I'm pretty sure this is the first time a story was actually posted within 24-hours of the event.

  17. Sure, I've got an example of an obsolete format. on Examples of Obsolete File Formats? · · Score: 1

    .exe

  18. Re:Like I'm gonna click that link on Strong Emotions May Cause Temporary Blindness · · Score: 1

    Our hearts go out to the 13 victims of the recent Internet tragedy.

  19. Pencil and Paper on Best PDA for College? · · Score: 1

    Trade the PDA dream for a pencil and paper. Pencil, Paper + a girl is so much better than just the PDA.

    No, you can't have both.

  20. Re:Amateur Radio vs. Internet on FCC Proposes Abolishing Morse Code Requirement · · Score: 2, Interesting

    However, keep in mind that during a real emergency, we're allowed to transmit on any band as needed.

  21. Re:Humanoid vs task-specific robots on Humanoid Robot HR-2 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Especially once it was a orderable as a realdoll upgrade.

    Now that would be worth money.

  22. Re:the answer lies with him... on Gates On Future of CS Education · · Score: 1

    Healthcare.

    I'd like to see them try outsourcing that =)

  23. Re:Culture is for Bacteria. on AI Allowed to Create Their Own Culture · · Score: 1

    Not when it's controlled by my wife.

  24. MCAD, read the article on Microsoft's 10-year-old Certified Professional · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Everyone seems to be missing the fact that she earned her MCAD, not some silly test on Microsoft Word.

    MCAD Requirements and Training Resources

  25. Re:Big deal. on Microsoft's 10-year-old Certified Professional · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What a worthless comment.

    The article was an insightful look at life through the eyes of a very brave young woman growing up in a society that does not offer many opportunities for women.

    Having written a calculator and a sorting program in C# along with earning her MCAD, I consider Arfa a computer programmer by any definition.

    Arfa has demonstrated considerable creativity, imagination, hard work and considerable drive. I'll gladly give up your job for her to find good work =p