The demonstrations and riots were reported to have started over unemployment, food inflation, corruption, freedom of speech and poor living conditions.
We got like 3-4 out of those 5 in Egypt right now.
Yes, I see you didn't the sentence immediately preceding the one you quoted:
"It's also why getting personal high-speed internet service over 20 Mbps for general usage is a waste unless you need to share that bandwidth over a large household of users."
I am supposed to be one of the lucky ones with a broadband connection. When I do Internet tests it says my download connection is over 20 Mb/s. Nevertheless I have never had a download that goes faster than 2 Mbit/s.
A file transfer over the internet requires two internet connections: yours, and the connection the server hosting the file is on. Not to mention there's also the limit on how fast the other server chooses to send the file to you. The speed can be artificially limited at either end after all.
This is exactly why you test your Internet speeds on a reputable speed-testing site independent of your ISP, and not judge it from download speeds. It's also why getting personal high-speed internet service over 20 Mbps for general usage is a waste unless you need to share that bandwidth over a large household of users. There is a certain point where web-browsing speed stops being a problem with your connection being slow and becomes "this the fastest the site is going to load from their end".
This is going to lead to situations like : "YouTube recommends ISP X for optimal viewing experience".
Ha. That cuts both ways. Thanks to the duopoly system ISPs have been supporting (because it reduces competition in their designated markets), its not possible for a website to pick a "preferred" ISP without alienating a large geographic region's worth of users that don't have the choice for a provider to begin with.
I should also add: why not just have a service to delete the image automatically from facebook after N days? Encryption is absolutely not needed here and achieves nothing.
It probably gives them something they can file a patent for that doesn't have prior art existing as a chron job.
What would make more sense is people deleting images off Facebook themselves after a few days of them being online so all their friends have a chance to see them, or not uploading potentially embarrassing photos to start with?
It's gone to hell because quality control isn't a requirement anymore in this wonderful new age where everything has updatable operating systems and drivers.
Now they can ship it out "good enough" and make everyone who buys it at the beginning be their bug testers. Then release a firmware patch several months later to fix it. Rinse and repeat until the bugs are all gone or the company has milked all the money they can out of sales and moved on to hyping the newest model.
Back when this wasn't possible they had to do quality testing, because a product that made it to market with a major bug could require an expensive recall to fix.
Google must think mighty highly of their clout in browser share to believe they can dictate what the "key market" is with their whims. I see no demand for WebM video in the marketplace except from Google's boardroom.
Call me crazy here, but wasn't YouTube converted to h264 years ago for compatibility with the Flash-less iPhone? What's Google going to do, release a browser that's incompatible one of their own websites?
I wish that's something we could implement in the US for education reform rather than grading teachers on how effective they are at teaching their kids how to take a specific test.
Except that's all parents really care about. Do they really care if their child learns the material? No, they want high test scores because the test scores are what decides who gets into what college and therefore who gets into higher paying jobs and is (at least by many standards) who's more successful in life.
Have you every met people in top jobs who don't seem to know what they're doing? They didn't learn it in school, but they passed the right tests and sold themselves well enough to the right people. They're doing well in life anyway, so they could care less.
You can't be a king if you kill all your subjects.
If all he wants is a cadre of sycophants he can do that quite easily by just being extremely rich. No need to go to the trouble of playing politics and actually getting elected to an office.
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The end of my sentence was a link to a wikipedia article, maybe it didn't show up as a link on your side due to this stupid new site setup.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%932011_Tunisian_protests
The demonstrations and riots were reported to have started over unemployment, food inflation, corruption, freedom of speech and poor living conditions.
We got like 3-4 out of those 5 in Egypt right now.
wonder if wikileaks was the proverbial flap of a butterfly's wing??
More likely it was inspired by the resignation of the President of Tunisia over a similar situation.
Not to mention italicized text is no longer displaying that way in posts.
Yes, I see you didn't the sentence immediately preceding the one you quoted:
"It's also why getting personal high-speed internet service over 20 Mbps for general usage is a waste unless you need to share that bandwidth over a large household of users."
I am supposed to be one of the lucky ones with a broadband connection. When I do Internet tests it says my download connection is over 20 Mb/s. Nevertheless I have never had a download that goes faster than 2 Mbit/s.
A file transfer over the internet requires two internet connections: yours, and the connection the server hosting the file is on. Not to mention there's also the limit on how fast the other server chooses to send the file to you. The speed can be artificially limited at either end after all.
This is exactly why you test your Internet speeds on a reputable speed-testing site independent of your ISP, and not judge it from download speeds. It's also why getting personal high-speed internet service over 20 Mbps for general usage is a waste unless you need to share that bandwidth over a large household of users. There is a certain point where web-browsing speed stops being a problem with your connection being slow and becomes "this the fastest the site is going to load from their end".
This is going to lead to situations like : "YouTube recommends ISP X for optimal viewing experience".
Ha. That cuts both ways. Thanks to the duopoly system ISPs have been supporting (because it reduces competition in their designated markets), its not possible for a website to pick a "preferred" ISP without alienating a large geographic region's worth of users that don't have the choice for a provider to begin with.
Dammit! I was going to say that. And I don't have mod points now either.
"Applying best practices around the state is not about getting credit but rather uplifting the state for all, Snyder said.
So he wont mention anything about this initiative when he runs for reelection?
I should also add: why not just have a service to delete the image automatically from facebook after N days? Encryption is absolutely not needed here and achieves nothing.
It probably gives them something they can file a patent for that doesn't have prior art existing as a chron job.
What would make more sense is people deleting images off Facebook themselves after a few days of them being online so all their friends have a chance to see them, or not uploading potentially embarrassing photos to start with?
It's gone to hell because quality control isn't a requirement anymore in this wonderful new age where everything has updatable operating systems and drivers.
Now they can ship it out "good enough" and make everyone who buys it at the beginning be their bug testers. Then release a firmware patch several months later to fix it. Rinse and repeat until the bugs are all gone or the company has milked all the money they can out of sales and moved on to hyping the newest model.
Back when this wasn't possible they had to do quality testing, because a product that made it to market with a major bug could require an expensive recall to fix.
Google must think mighty highly of their clout in browser share to believe they can dictate what the "key market" is with their whims. I see no demand for WebM video in the marketplace except from Google's boardroom.
Call me crazy here, but wasn't YouTube converted to h264 years ago for compatibility with the Flash-less iPhone? What's Google going to do, release a browser that's incompatible one of their own websites?
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That's a huge bean!
This UK company's plans must be to combat pirates with the Creature from the Black Legume.
That's no moon! It's a fondue pot!
It just took a little while for the humor to trickle down to you.
In Soviet Russia, government was controlled by YOU.
I wish that's something we could implement in the US for education reform rather than grading teachers on how effective they are at teaching their kids how to take a specific test.
Except that's all parents really care about. Do they really care if their child learns the material? No, they want high test scores because the test scores are what decides who gets into what college and therefore who gets into higher paying jobs and is (at least by many standards) who's more successful in life.
Have you every met people in top jobs who don't seem to know what they're doing? They didn't learn it in school, but they passed the right tests and sold themselves well enough to the right people. They're doing well in life anyway, so they could care less.
I was expecting a link to Dude, Where's My Car? instead of Hackers on that last sentence.
Too bad Toylet is already in use, too. By a company that sells Japanese goods no less.
Are you forgetting that one of the after-effects of orgasm in males is drowsiness?
Considering a DUI conviction leads to your license getting suspended quite often I don't see how this is any different.
"MessiahSat" does.
You can't be a king if you kill all your subjects.
If all he wants is a cadre of sycophants he can do that quite easily by just being extremely rich. No need to go to the trouble of playing politics and actually getting elected to an office.
Might be one way to prevent the Facebook and YouTube watching during lecture. But it would do nothing for DVD watching and gaming.
I especially like this sentence from the G-Wiz article:
A recent Frost and Sullivan survey into electric vehicles noted that when people find out about electric cars, their interest in buying one doubles.
I tend to find my interest in buying something goes up a lot more than 100% when I'm not even aware of its existence beforehand. ;)