Why? Seriously, the web is not public space anymore, that is what you would like it to be and that is how it used to be. Now it is owned by a few very large corporations. Small people still have the ability to post content but generally only with the help of the larger corporation.
Buying a copy of Word doesn't make you a writer, but... writing does make you a writer! That's pure opinion, just because you don't like it doesn't give you the right to say they should write or post to their own web site. If you don't like then don't view it! That's your right.
As for the last statement, "I didn't say it couldn't, I said you shouldn't" (Simpsons)
Sorry, just like the quote. People do a lot of things they shouldn't but that doesn't mean they shouldn't have the option. If no one likes their site then the site will eventually come down. If the opposite is true then why shouldn't they keep posting?
Well here's something to consider about XP and how it's more different from 2k than most people have ever felt like admitting. The OS is natively module based. Removing IE completely is a much simpler task than most people realize. Course, the question is raised if you wish to strip down. What wouldn't you include? Windows XP is first and foremost a desktop, if you are trying to use it for anything else then you are using the wrong tool for the job.
Some would go so far as to play a movie with a tv built into the ceiling. I believe many still do it although I've never had the experience so I could be wrong.
I'm often surprised just as you seem to be. A lot of Athlon boards have capaciters on one side which prevent putting the heatsink on backwards but a lot of them ECS, Tyan, Epox, MSI, and a few boards from across the spectrum place them more intelligently. If you try hard enough you can put it on backwards, I've seen it happen a good couple of dozen times.
But hey, I've also seen someone actually put an agp card in a pci slot.... (fits backwards) So it goes to show, if there is a will you can always find a way!
Well just last night my AMD based laptop shut off on me because it got too hot, something stuck in the fan.
As for the other features you mention. You are comparing Desktop processors and server processors. You might note the lack of the Opteron processor in the third party tests you linked to.
Bout two months ago someone came to me with a motherboard and processor, Athlon XP 2600+. They couldn't get it to boot. I took one look at it and realized the heatsink was on backwards, it shut it self down as soon as it got hot enough. I put the heatsink on correctly and the thing booted right up.
As for the PCI locking its a bit harder to vouch for since I don't see a whole lot of information about it, but I sure do recall seeing tests involving the Opteron, if I could find it right now I would, except I'm on dialup now for the first time in six years and its annoying the hell out of me.
AMD processors have both of those features. AMD has done well at matching Intel feature for feature. Take a look at Opteron for servers. It doesn't help right now that there are a lot of Intel boards that shipped defective. I was replacing backplanes for a solid month just before the New Year. The latest Xeon's really aren't that impressive either. There was a time the Xeon was an incredible processor worthy of running a NOC but now they are hot enough that Opteron and other players look real nice again.
My guess is that you really have a hard time understanding women then since there are always signs that say what is wrong.
Surprise surprise this is just like Windows except you never learned to get such information. You have logs that are just as extensive in Windows if you choose both to activate them and read them. In Windows I can dump all tcp/ip traffic to a text file or database just like I can with Linux, Netware, or BeOS. Its all about knowing what tools are available to you rather than just assuming they don't exist because people don't have the complete source code. The fact is there are plenty of API's that allow for most any task to be performed.
When it comes to the registry you must be smoking something. Its hierarchical! Categorized nicely, most any experienced Windows Admin can mull through the registry and change whatever they need when they need to, then they can push the change out to all their Windows boxes if it is necessary.
Seriously, if you want to bash Windows do it on merit like security, there are valid arguments there.
This is a fine point about Linux. Since its inception its been trying to be both a desktop and a server and ironically this is a big complaint the Linux community has with Windows!
I agree there needs to be seperation. An administrator is quite capable of running man woman while the average user needs to be able to just click an icon and get exactly what he or she wants. I've seen this done with BeOS, Windows, and Lycoris. All three are great desktop OS's in my opinion. Cut out the stuff you don't need and add the stuff to make it more usable.
It appears at though Red Hat has begun to take this approach since Fedora split and now you have Advanced Server and Fedora for OS's from them. Great step in the right direction I think.
hmmmmm, shit, it seems to be contagious eh. I installed it a year ago and never turned back. Never had a more stable Linux box. Now its all Gentoo or nothing for me.
Perhaps you haven't installed Windows in the last ooooo ummmm 4 years? Its been almost six years now since I've had to stick a Windows cd in and actually type anything to get an install. Granted if I want to customize it even further then I would not do an unattended install but these are options that pretty much every OS has in the last ten years.
Plus, does it really matter about the installer? I mean if you are installing an OS should you not know how to configured and operate the OS already? If that's the case then a hard installer is no problem like in my opinion the Gentoo installers.
If you are going to mention Linux and a desktop in the same sentence leave out the installation details as they don't matter. Instead concentrate on KDE and Gnome and the long way they've come towards making it a really user friendly experience despite the often buggy components its built on.
Sorry, but its damned near impossible to have both ease of installation and flexibility. That said Linux has come a long way. Just to get linux to boot I have to add mmap=640k mmap = 512m mmap = 1023 mmap = 2047
That just gets me booted, then I have to add more kernel load options to get the network cards to use tcp/ip properly
Granted my situation is unique, the machine is a quad processor proliant but the situations are real and the person isn't necessarily doing anything wrong. One of the strengths of the linux kernel is that you can pretty well run it on everything. Windows particularly XP has the luxary of being able to install on the latest machines or at least machines that that were made in the last six years. Its really hard to beat the installer for it simply because it does all the hard work for you.
I've had times when I had to configure every little detail (Gentoo custom compiled goodness) I've also had times where I installed and everything just worked. (Mandrake 8.2 RH 6.0 to 9.0) Linux is far from being easy to install but then again, if you are installing an OS you would do well to know the OS you are installing.
From a usability standpoint KDE and Gnome desktops are quite easy to use, mark Firefox icon Internet and most people can get on to check their email or read slashdot just fine.
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hmmm, those numbers still don't add up. I personally had a RAID 5 array with 10 10k rpm drives in it and the psu was rated at 145 watts. Granted this was about five years ago but the 8 dvd-rw tower I built last week still only had a 200 watt psu in it and that includes powering the motherboard and pci cards with the exception of my management card which has an independent power source so I can turn the machine on remotely from a web browser.
It requires 6.7 watts idle and 8.1 watts full power. Types 5 drives and you are not talking about needing anything close to 350 watts.
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My boss is the president of the company;)
I neglected the 1500 minute part because at first I didn't understand where you pulled it from. I said 1500 minutes was business related. These are not all outsges. I have maybe five minutes a month of actual outages, of course, those are planned and done at 3am so I don't get phone calls for them.
The time gets spent because I am building a database for Mercedes that will involve a few thousand end-users(Dealers/Mechanics) We have conference calls because a lot of my time I am required to be elsewhere. Once a plan is laid out my minutes get chewed away because people have little issues, they need me to normalize a database or something. Simple stuff, there's no stress in it, I've been at it eight years now and I do manage to have a life.
I totally agree that life is for living which I spose is why I've made most of the mistakes I have in the past
The last thing that I will inject is that my minutes are paid for my the company. They pay my monthly bill by adding that amount to my check. I will subtract my personal calls and its mainly on the honor system but we are all friends and so it usually works out nicely for everyone. Its a small company and they are quite happy with how they are staffed at the moment.
Thank you for your concern though, My boss is a man that would sell his car to pay his employees salary for another week if the crunch came to that. Fortunately it hasn't despite the rough economy.
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Yes, this is one area where the FCC actually makes sense!
I also have this nagging belief in the foundation for law in the U.S. The fact that one person's freedom does not come at the expense of another. So people should have the right to talk in public since the offended can simply leave the premises. Technology may help this solution along, bone conducting speakers for instance could cut down on ringers. Generally I think people need to stop being so passive aggressive about the whole issue and just politely tell someone in the theater that they are being rude and that you would like them to take it outside. It really works! Then again, I'm an optimist, I believe that deep down most people are not jackasses.
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In the U.S. I can see this happening as my current President has done loads and loads to erode civil liberties. The principal is that you are removing the freedom of another citizen because you find their behavior unacceptable. However, U.S. law allows people to act like jackasses. Whenever you grant a freedom people will abuse it. But I will say flat out that most cell phone users do not use their phones in the theater or at a table at a restaurant. You have no idea how many people around you carry cell phones and do not make it obvious, many people will leave them off and only use them to call out, many people always leave it on vibrate. There are a lot of kinds of cell phone users and the rude people at least in my experience are most definitely in the minority as I have not seen or heard a single person in months talk on a cell phone in a theater, a restaurant is another matter but different people have different ideas about etiquette when eating at a table. For example, growing up I would never have been allowed to talk on the phone during dinner because it is a time to talk with family, or whomever you are eating dinner with.
As for pissing people off around them, well, skinheads piss me off, Bush Jr pisses me off, but you don't see me jamming any of them out of service although I would absolutely love to!
Foundation for law in the U.S. Freedom comes not at the price of another man's freedom. You have the right to not listen to someone on their phone, you do not have the right to force them to stop.
This is all coming from an American perspective. That is how the laws are here, as I understand most modern countries abide by that simple principal.
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Having a cell phone with me in no way forces me to give up my personal life.
Second, they don't rely on just me, there are three core people that make sure the critical servers are run properly. Since you are only talking about on average ten servers you don't need someone there 24/7, it would be a waste of their IT budget would could be better spent expanding their RAID array. It has always worked out well. The design is proper so failures are most commonly caused by a power loss, but there are still the occasional issues, like the fact that I am a sysadmin as well as a database engineer for them. I know both, and I've learned both well, currently they cannot replace me nor do they have plans anywhere in the future, tis one of the advantages of going out with your boss for a beer every Friday.
If someone jams my cell phone the odds are they can get through to one of the other three guys so I'm not terribly worried, its just the solution to the problem seems to be worse since you are removing freedoms instead of adding freedom. I think it would be more intelligent to promote speakers that attach to your skin and use your bones to conduct the sound. This approach is far more discrete and more importantly does not effect anyone else. There are still people that would abuse these technologies and talk in a theater just as people without cell phones will talk in theaters. The solution is not to jam the signals, its to educate the populous and tell them it is not acceptable behavior. There are many people that think its quite alright because no one has ever told them otherwise. So keep that in mind if you ever considering jamming in public. In a private residence its quite alright as long as it doesn't bleed into public domain.
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How is my action in any way selfish? I do not carry on a conversation in a theater, I take my business outside if such an event happens. If I'm at a restaurant I will go to the bathroom or otherwise away from the table. Simple common courtesy that my mother always taught me was right. You don't talk on the phone at the dinner table so why I would talk on the phone at restaurant. Again I ask, what is in any selfish about my actions and how I let other people choose how they prefer to spend their money, I in no way restrict anybody else in any of my actions, that is, unless you can come up with something I have overlooked. If I have, please go ahead and tell me
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Wow, someone else that thinks about this logically!
Congrats to you!
As there are cell phone users who use their phones responsibly there are also jammer uses who would only use it when.... hmmmm, when is it ever necessary?
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You are thinking is myopic at best. Yes lives can be lost, forget the bar and think grocery store, book store, bakery, coffee shop, all places a doctor could perfecly find themselves. Yes they have pagers but sometimes a text message isn't enough, sometimes they call and just need to know the name of another doctor who specializes in something or other. Expand it further still to the world of IT and the seven or so networks I am responsible for. If a network crashes or otherwise has some failure, usually operator abusing their rights or whatever reason then they call me and I either go to the site or login to my machine. Sometimes its automatic, the server will notify me on my cell phone, or sometimes a person is having an issue and needs my help to get their job done. Ultimately I work for them and so they need to be able to contact me. If I'm walking through a mall or eating dinner at a restaurant then they won't be able to contact me and real financial damage can be done.
Now in regards to the so called 99.9% non-emergency calls, why does it matter at all? Besides the fact that maybe 20 minutes a month of my phone are involved in personal calls, the rest, easily 1500 minutes are business related. Besides that it still doesn't matter. I deem it necessary to be available to people with my cell number. Yes, a lot of people will have different criteria they use to determine who should be able to call the phone and some will only call out with their cell phones. They deem is necessary, that's good enough for me, if it causes me a problem in a public place then I will either leave or if enough people around me are bothered I will politely ask them to take their call outside.
Sorry, but the foundation of U.S. is that your personal freedom does NOT infringe on the personal freedom of another citizen. If they are being rude or otherwise inconsiderate you have a few options, walk away to someplace they are not, or you can ask them politely to take the conversation elsewhere, or you can be equally rude and jam their cell phone, you can also take their phone from there or otherwise forcibly stop them from using the phone.
Jamming a cell phone in my mind is completely unacceptable, yes there are assholes that abuse its portability having conversations that you would normally only have in the comfort of you're own home. But there are plenty of people like me who use their cell phones for business. I manage many networks and if a transaction server crashes then a hotel can't do business so its very important they contact me wherever I am to fix the problem.
As for the problem of people seemingly becoming more and more obnoxious, have you ever seen someone confront a cell phone user? I know I have not, no one has publicly said you shouldn't behave in such ways. In theaters here in AZ we have ads that tell people cell phone etiquette and I've never seen someone interupt a movie beyond seeing their phones light up as they get up and walk out the door. The same goes for when I was in VT a month ago. Keep in mind, if you accept it then you have no right to complain about it.
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Sorry but your arrogance is astounding and complete bullshit. There are areas all over the world in every country where you don't receive cellular service. You always have areas where you are surrounded by enough concreate to block reception. If you manage to come across an open area without rception you will have it soon enough when enough people complain about the gap.
In the U.S. they have a terrible problem that there are competing standards that aren't compatible. Top it off the country is 3500 miles wide. Its a huge landscape and is thus a very large network for a single company to build. That means changing standards isn't very likely because of the amount of money already invested. They are doing a great job improving reception. I traveled across the country, yep, 3500 miles and I had cell coverage for all but ten minutes of my journey. The blackout was in Texas but it was a mountainous area so I'm not all that surprised or otherwise annoyed.
Now, in regards to abnormal coverage, you're right. Anywhere you can't get service is considered a problem, you report it to your carrier and if enough people complain then the problem gets fixed. That's how it works in the U.S.
Sorry, but however flawed the originally analogy is yours is even more so since you confuse the word theft.
theft
\Theft\, n. [OE. thefte, AS. [thorn]i['e]f[eth]e, [thorn][=y]f[eth]e, [thorn]e['o]f[eth]e. See Thief.] 1. (Law) The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.
Note: To constitute theft there must be a taking without the owner's consent, and it must be unlawful or felonious; every part of the property stolen must be removed, however slightly, from its former position; and it must be, at least momentarily, in the complete possession of the thief. See Larceny, and the Note under Robbery.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=theft
When you decode their signals they do lose nothing despite your belief that somehow they don't. When they prevent others from receiving the signal then you can make the argument, but this never happens.
I agree its wrong but its important to remember they treat their customers like criminals. I'll refer you to Direct TV and how they fried a bunch of legitimate users cards and forced them into the HU cards. They did that to make it "harder" for people to tap their system but instead they only harmed the people that abide the laws. So what possible reason would someone have to follow a law that provides no protection for themself?
Such laws need to be changed, yes they deserve the right to be compensated for building such a vast and very reliable network which is one reason I still subscribe. Cable goes out a least twice a week here and satellite will only fade when wind blows the dish over.
The last point, try to refrain from making sweeping statements that those who are curious about the system and hack it are just looking for pron, you give them far too little credit considering the amount of effort it takes. Might also mention if I am living in my mom's basement she can open my mail. The law only prevents non-residents from opening the mail while its in transit.
I'd agree with your guess and its nice to see someone else having the same experience as I have.
In my apartment complex we can't bolt anything down, so we bolted it to a bar stool and set it down . Found where it went, placed some marks on the ground, now whenever we need to the move the dish or the wind blows it over we just set it right back and no other form of weather even phases it. There are lot of places to go wrong and the line of sight is really a big deal. We had high 80's and 90's on most transceivers except for a few which has 50's. So we tweaked and go the low signal channels into the 60's and 70's and enjoy great reception once again. Spose its all in the effort and how much thought ya put into it.
Only time I've ever lost reception with my Direct TV dish was when a wind storm blew the dish over. Since I live in an apartment complex we can't bolt anything down so we attacked it to a bar stool and marked on the floor where to put it back. Works nicely.
I also live 5 miles for Phoenix Sky Harbor airport and planes never ruin my reception. Maybe my experience with satellite is rare.
When it comes to DNS I hope more people keep away from defaults. I know that when someone tries to lookup their hostname it will query local dns and never even go out onto the Internet unless it for some reason needs to query and offsite DNS server which is still controlled by me and so no forwarding beyond that point.
In the case of a dialup user their hostname is attached to the DNS suffix of their isp, so if they query their hostname while online they will only query the ISP.
At any rate, my original point was you can theoretically have as many root DNS servers as required. Obviously if you have too many then you start having problems with convergence which you could argue they already due. Every 12 hours they all sync and I think the scheme works. Adding one more will increase capacity so the original issue about root DNS servers not being spread out is still moot. They aren't been spread apart, there are just more of them and like I said before, its a good thing since such things are inherently influenced by the governing body of which they reside. Fortunately the way it is setup is provides a safe scenario where rules of one land don't interfere with DNS of everyone on the Internet. Think China and how much it would suck to have to query the DNS server to get to google.
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Buying a copy of Word doesn't make you a writer, but... writing does make you a writer! That's pure opinion, just because you don't like it doesn't give you the right to say they should write or post to their own web site. If you don't like then don't view it! That's your right.
As for the last statement, "I didn't say it couldn't, I said you shouldn't" (Simpsons)Sorry, just like the quote. People do a lot of things they shouldn't but that doesn't mean they shouldn't have the option. If no one likes their site then the site will eventually come down. If the opposite is true then why shouldn't they keep posting?
Well here's something to consider about XP and how it's more different from 2k than most people have ever felt like admitting. The OS is natively module based. Removing IE completely is a much simpler task than most people realize. Course, the question is raised if you wish to strip down. What wouldn't you include? Windows XP is first and foremost a desktop, if you are trying to use it for anything else then you are using the wrong tool for the job.
Some would go so far as to play a movie with a tv built into the ceiling. I believe many still do it although I've never had the experience so I could be wrong.
But hey, I've also seen someone actually put an agp card in a pci slot .... (fits backwards) So it goes to show, if there is a will you can always find a way!
As for the other features you mention. You are comparing Desktop processors and server processors. You might note the lack of the Opteron processor in the third party tests you linked to.
Bout two months ago someone came to me with a motherboard and processor, Athlon XP 2600+. They couldn't get it to boot. I took one look at it and realized the heatsink was on backwards, it shut it self down as soon as it got hot enough. I put the heatsink on correctly and the thing booted right up.As for the PCI locking its a bit harder to vouch for since I don't see a whole lot of information about it, but I sure do recall seeing tests involving the Opteron, if I could find it right now I would, except I'm on dialup now for the first time in six years and its annoying the hell out of me.
AMD processors have both of those features. AMD has done well at matching Intel feature for feature. Take a look at Opteron for servers. It doesn't help right now that there are a lot of Intel boards that shipped defective. I was replacing backplanes for a solid month just before the New Year. The latest Xeon's really aren't that impressive either. There was a time the Xeon was an incredible processor worthy of running a NOC but now they are hot enough that Opteron and other players look real nice again.
Surprise surprise this is just like Windows except you never learned to get such information. You have logs that are just as extensive in Windows if you choose both to activate them and read them. In Windows I can dump all tcp/ip traffic to a text file or database just like I can with Linux, Netware, or BeOS. Its all about knowing what tools are available to you rather than just assuming they don't exist because people don't have the complete source code. The fact is there are plenty of API's that allow for most any task to be performed.
When it comes to the registry you must be smoking something. Its hierarchical! Categorized nicely, most any experienced Windows Admin can mull through the registry and change whatever they need when they need to, then they can push the change out to all their Windows boxes if it is necessary.Seriously, if you want to bash Windows do it on merit like security, there are valid arguments there.
I agree there needs to be seperation. An administrator is quite capable of running man woman while the average user needs to be able to just click an icon and get exactly what he or she wants. I've seen this done with BeOS, Windows, and Lycoris. All three are great desktop OS's in my opinion. Cut out the stuff you don't need and add the stuff to make it more usable.
It appears at though Red Hat has begun to take this approach since Fedora split and now you have Advanced Server and Fedora for OS's from them. Great step in the right direction I think.hmmmmm, shit, it seems to be contagious eh. I installed it a year ago and never turned back. Never had a more stable Linux box. Now its all Gentoo or nothing for me.
Plus, does it really matter about the installer? I mean if you are installing an OS should you not know how to configured and operate the OS already? If that's the case then a hard installer is no problem like in my opinion the Gentoo installers.
If you are going to mention Linux and a desktop in the same sentence leave out the installation details as they don't matter. Instead concentrate on KDE and Gnome and the long way they've come towards making it a really user friendly experience despite the often buggy components its built on.That just gets me booted, then I have to add more kernel load options to get the network cards to use tcp/ip properly
Granted my situation is unique, the machine is a quad processor proliant but the situations are real and the person isn't necessarily doing anything wrong. One of the strengths of the linux kernel is that you can pretty well run it on everything. Windows particularly XP has the luxary of being able to install on the latest machines or at least machines that that were made in the last six years. Its really hard to beat the installer for it simply because it does all the hard work for you.I've had times when I had to configure every little detail (Gentoo custom compiled goodness) I've also had times where I installed and everything just worked. (Mandrake 8.2 RH 6.0 to 9.0) Linux is far from being easy to install but then again, if you are installing an OS you would do well to know the OS you are installing.
From a usability standpoint KDE and Gnome desktops are quite easy to use, mark Firefox icon Internet and most people can get on to check their email or read slashdot just fine.Here is some figures on a typical scsi drive
It requires 6.7 watts idle and 8.1 watts full power. Types 5 drives and you are not talking about needing anything close to 350 watts.For cross reference sake another manufacturer also uses 8 watts. You can find the info here
I neglected the 1500 minute part because at first I didn't understand where you pulled it from. I said 1500 minutes was business related. These are not all outsges. I have maybe five minutes a month of actual outages, of course, those are planned and done at 3am so I don't get phone calls for them.
The time gets spent because I am building a database for Mercedes that will involve a few thousand end-users(Dealers/Mechanics) We have conference calls because a lot of my time I am required to be elsewhere. Once a plan is laid out my minutes get chewed away because people have little issues, they need me to normalize a database or something. Simple stuff, there's no stress in it, I've been at it eight years now and I do manage to have a life.I totally agree that life is for living which I spose is why I've made most of the mistakes I have in the past
The last thing that I will inject is that my minutes are paid for my the company. They pay my monthly bill by adding that amount to my check. I will subtract my personal calls and its mainly on the honor system but we are all friends and so it usually works out nicely for everyone. Its a small company and they are quite happy with how they are staffed at the moment.Thank you for your concern though, My boss is a man that would sell his car to pay his employees salary for another week if the crunch came to that. Fortunately it hasn't despite the rough economy.
I also have this nagging belief in the foundation for law in the U.S. The fact that one person's freedom does not come at the expense of another. So people should have the right to talk in public since the offended can simply leave the premises. Technology may help this solution along, bone conducting speakers for instance could cut down on ringers. Generally I think people need to stop being so passive aggressive about the whole issue and just politely tell someone in the theater that they are being rude and that you would like them to take it outside. It really works! Then again, I'm an optimist, I believe that deep down most people are not jackasses.
As for pissing people off around them, well, skinheads piss me off, Bush Jr pisses me off, but you don't see me jamming any of them out of service although I would absolutely love to!
Foundation for law in the U.S. Freedom comes not at the price of another man's freedom. You have the right to not listen to someone on their phone, you do not have the right to force them to stop.This is all coming from an American perspective. That is how the laws are here, as I understand most modern countries abide by that simple principal.
Second, they don't rely on just me, there are three core people that make sure the critical servers are run properly. Since you are only talking about on average ten servers you don't need someone there 24/7, it would be a waste of their IT budget would could be better spent expanding their RAID array. It has always worked out well. The design is proper so failures are most commonly caused by a power loss, but there are still the occasional issues, like the fact that I am a sysadmin as well as a database engineer for them. I know both, and I've learned both well, currently they cannot replace me nor do they have plans anywhere in the future, tis one of the advantages of going out with your boss for a beer every Friday.
If someone jams my cell phone the odds are they can get through to one of the other three guys so I'm not terribly worried, its just the solution to the problem seems to be worse since you are removing freedoms instead of adding freedom. I think it would be more intelligent to promote speakers that attach to your skin and use your bones to conduct the sound. This approach is far more discrete and more importantly does not effect anyone else. There are still people that would abuse these technologies and talk in a theater just as people without cell phones will talk in theaters. The solution is not to jam the signals, its to educate the populous and tell them it is not acceptable behavior. There are many people that think its quite alright because no one has ever told them otherwise. So keep that in mind if you ever considering jamming in public. In a private residence its quite alright as long as it doesn't bleed into public domain.How is my action in any way selfish? I do not carry on a conversation in a theater, I take my business outside if such an event happens. If I'm at a restaurant I will go to the bathroom or otherwise away from the table. Simple common courtesy that my mother always taught me was right. You don't talk on the phone at the dinner table so why I would talk on the phone at restaurant. Again I ask, what is in any selfish about my actions and how I let other people choose how they prefer to spend their money, I in no way restrict anybody else in any of my actions, that is, unless you can come up with something I have overlooked. If I have, please go ahead and tell me
Wow, someone else that thinks about this logically! Congrats to you! .... hmmmm, when is it ever necessary?
As there are cell phone users who use their phones responsibly there are also jammer uses who would only use it when
Now in regards to the so called 99.9% non-emergency calls, why does it matter at all? Besides the fact that maybe 20 minutes a month of my phone are involved in personal calls, the rest, easily 1500 minutes are business related. Besides that it still doesn't matter. I deem it necessary to be available to people with my cell number. Yes, a lot of people will have different criteria they use to determine who should be able to call the phone and some will only call out with their cell phones. They deem is necessary, that's good enough for me, if it causes me a problem in a public place then I will either leave or if enough people around me are bothered I will politely ask them to take their call outside.
Simple, is it not?Jamming a cell phone in my mind is completely unacceptable, yes there are assholes that abuse its portability having conversations that you would normally only have in the comfort of you're own home. But there are plenty of people like me who use their cell phones for business. I manage many networks and if a transaction server crashes then a hotel can't do business so its very important they contact me wherever I am to fix the problem.
As for the problem of people seemingly becoming more and more obnoxious, have you ever seen someone confront a cell phone user? I know I have not, no one has publicly said you shouldn't behave in such ways. In theaters here in AZ we have ads that tell people cell phone etiquette and I've never seen someone interupt a movie beyond seeing their phones light up as they get up and walk out the door. The same goes for when I was in VT a month ago. Keep in mind, if you accept it then you have no right to complain about it.In the U.S. they have a terrible problem that there are competing standards that aren't compatible. Top it off the country is 3500 miles wide. Its a huge landscape and is thus a very large network for a single company to build. That means changing standards isn't very likely because of the amount of money already invested. They are doing a great job improving reception. I traveled across the country, yep, 3500 miles and I had cell coverage for all but ten minutes of my journey. The blackout was in Texas but it was a mountainous area so I'm not all that surprised or otherwise annoyed.
Now, in regards to abnormal coverage, you're right. Anywhere you can't get service is considered a problem, you report it to your carrier and if enough people complain then the problem gets fixed. That's how it works in the U.S.theft
\Theft\, n. [OE. thefte, AS. [thorn]i['e]f[eth]e, [thorn][=y]f[eth]e, [thorn]e['o]f[eth]e. See Thief.] 1. (Law) The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.
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When you decode their signals they do lose nothing despite your belief that somehow they don't. When they prevent others from receiving the signal then you can make the argument, but this never happens.
I agree its wrong but its important to remember they treat their customers like criminals. I'll refer you to Direct TV and how they fried a bunch of legitimate users cards and forced them into the HU cards. They did that to make it "harder" for people to tap their system but instead they only harmed the people that abide the laws. So what possible reason would someone have to follow a law that provides no protection for themself?
Such laws need to be changed, yes they deserve the right to be compensated for building such a vast and very reliable network which is one reason I still subscribe. Cable goes out a least twice a week here and satellite will only fade when wind blows the dish over.
The last point, try to refrain from making sweeping statements that those who are curious about the system and hack it are just looking for pron, you give them far too little credit considering the amount of effort it takes. Might also mention if I am living in my mom's basement she can open my mail. The law only prevents non-residents from opening the mail while its in transit.
I'd agree with your guess and its nice to see someone else having the same experience as I have.
In my apartment complex we can't bolt anything down, so we bolted it to a bar stool and set it down . Found where it went, placed some marks on the ground, now whenever we need to the move the dish or the wind blows it over we just set it right back and no other form of weather even phases it. There are lot of places to go wrong and the line of sight is really a big deal. We had high 80's and 90's on most transceivers except for a few which has 50's. So we tweaked and go the low signal channels into the 60's and 70's and enjoy great reception once again. Spose its all in the effort and how much thought ya put into it.
Only time I've ever lost reception with my Direct TV dish was when a wind storm blew the dish over. Since I live in an apartment complex we can't bolt anything down so we attacked it to a bar stool and marked on the floor where to put it back. Works nicely. I also live 5 miles for Phoenix Sky Harbor airport and planes never ruin my reception. Maybe my experience with satellite is rare.
In the case of a dialup user their hostname is attached to the DNS suffix of their isp, so if they query their hostname while online they will only query the ISP.
At any rate, my original point was you can theoretically have as many root DNS servers as required. Obviously if you have too many then you start having problems with convergence which you could argue they already due. Every 12 hours they all sync and I think the scheme works. Adding one more will increase capacity so the original issue about root DNS servers not being spread out is still moot. They aren't been spread apart, there are just more of them and like I said before, its a good thing since such things are inherently influenced by the governing body of which they reside. Fortunately the way it is setup is provides a safe scenario where rules of one land don't interfere with DNS of everyone on the Internet. Think China and how much it would suck to have to query the DNS server to get to google.