Traffic shaping from the ISP to the consumers desktop is absolutly a valid option for an ISP. But traffic shaping wholesale access is an entirely different thing. Overselling your pipes is fine, but if you see a trend of usage that is climbing upward then you upgrade your capacity (and adjust prices accordingly) so your ISP clients can continue to do business as they had. Although in our case here in Canada, Bell has both increased prices and degraded services and now they're forcing that stratagy on the 3rd parties as well.
I'm also a Teksavvy subscriber (switched when Bell sympatico was getting rid of it's unlimited plans for good, that and my 5mbit line was only going at ~900kbit) for it's sweet truely unlimited plan. I'm on the capped premium now that the unlimited went up in price and I saw that I never really went over the 200gb limit. But if I did, it's 25/gb and your totals are averaged over 2 months.
Very, very fair in my opinion.
Any cap below 100gb nowadays is crazy, everybody has a month or two where they do some massive downloading, if you're in a house with many people (families with high school age kids) a cap lower than that can get blown in no time
Yes Canada sucks when it comes to data services. Slow speeds on both cable and DSL, cellular data plans that make it cheaper to get a US phone and roam. But there is a big reason for our being behind the times. If you take a look at the customer base for Verison or Comcast, you're looking at a number that is ~60-90% of the ENTIRE canadian population. Those companies have a LOT of cash flowing that makes upgrading the systems to those high speeds a little easier. So a much smaller subscriber base, plus a geographical area that is larger than the US. Not only do they have to beef up their infrastructure in cities, but they also have to beef it up between them as well. We've been very lucky here in Canada that the advancements of the States have been applied here as well, but our market just isn't enough to keep up anymore. We could solve this by letting American companies a piece of our telecom market, but with the 50% canadian ownership rules make it a tough sell to them.
I wish our market could justify FTTH, but it's just not there yet.
However Rogers and Bells decision to roll out the WiMax in the areas where broadband was already availalbe rather then in the places where Dial-up was the only option was just stupid.
My Current Printer is about 15 years old. The one before that 20
Old HP Laserjet printers are amazing and absolutely repairable. It's a shame that more stuff these days are built as solidly as those were. Toner still costs a pretty penny, but then I guess that's why there were build so well, so you'll keep coming back for more.
People aren't buying CDs because the cost of them doesn't justify buying them when you can get them just as good online for free.
Drop the price down to $5-10 (cdn) and I'll start buying cds as often as I did before napster.
Really it all boils down to the fact that I can't afford the music I like these days. Free radio sucks (esp. in my area, Peterborough ON.) CDs are too expensive and satellite radio is another monthly fee I don't need.
I won't pay for cable, but I'll "steal" it if available due to cost vs content. I only want about 10 of the channels, but to pay for it gets me a ton of what I don't want.
Allow me the ability to choose the entertainment I ACTUALLY want and give it to me at a price that someone living paycheque to paycheque could afford (i.e. broken down to individual services as much as possible) and I'll stop pirating.
Although I'm not from the US, I have had my experience with tech support. When I first got high speed through rogers cablesystems (Canada), they flat out refused to support anything other than windows. One time when I calle din and told them I had linux, they told me it wasn't supported and hung up on me. Mainly, I just went along with their instructions and only did the steps that could be applied to a linux box When I switched to Bell Sympatico and told them I had Linux the Tech said "well I guess you know what you're doing then". Too bad their service has gone downhill too.
But thats the result of tech support for a large customer base. I've worked in 2 call centres Apple Tech support and T-mobile customer care. THe big problem with call centres is attrition. The job sucks, 30-80 calls a day, often dealing with very angry people and very little praise for a job well done. Advancement is done purely through your numbers, so it not about being the best service rep, it about being just good enough to look good on paper.
Be nice to those script drones, often they're nice Canadians who only took the job because it's the only one availalbe that paid more than min wage.
Wikipedia has in it the ability to give the source of the information that is being given. Since it's so prone to inaccuracies (depending on the subjuect and when you actually look at the page) those sources are invaluable as proof of accuracy, but still do not make it any more reliable. If I were a teacher I would encourage students to use wikipedia, but when the information is used, to seek the source listed to verify it and use it as the listed reference in their papers.
I agree, the study of physics is interpreting the universe in ways we can understand.
Since we are in the universe and thus part of the system, we may not be able to actually view the universe as it actually is, but in terms that make sense to us.
From what I've read about gulf war syndrome, it's not exposure to the radiation from u238 that caused it, but to the heavy metal itself. u238 was used in armour piercing rounds and the solders were exposed when the moved in after the tanks were busted.
True radiation is a boogyman in todays sociey, but with u238 or any other heavy metals, there is a real health concern outside of any potential radiation.
I agree entirly. What we sense is not the real world but a conciousness that is generated by our brains. Our intelligence in merely the end result of this abstraction of the real world
Headphones are great, but unfortunatly, on the lower end of the frequencies you get into problems as they are more often than not felt rather than heard.
My solution was to hook up only a subwoofer and run the rest through headphones. Little better, but the whole thing felt inelegant and unrefined
There's a big problem with building it at the north pole, the only thing holding the top up there is the rest of the tower. Way too much pressure and stress to deal with.
That's why the plans always are for a tower along the equator, so that the top of the tower could be placed in Geostationary orbit, i.e. it orbits the earth at the same rate it rotates. So the top of the tower has enough momentum to keep it in space with or without the tower. So lower down an extremely resiliant cable (carbon nano-tubes) hook up with a base station, and you have an elevator.
The tower wouldn't continuously bend to the east because the top is moving at the same rate as the rest of the planet. The Biggest stresses would be mainly from the atmosphere constantly blowing the tower around, thus the need for stong building materials.
The availability of broadband in so many areas in Canada has to do with a Federal government initiative to have broadband internet available to 90% of the population in something like ten years.
That combined with the pioneering of cable internet in Canada, along with deals universities made with telecoms requiring broadband availability in the municipalitiy they reside in has made the internet quite fast in most parts of the country
I can understand how you could make that kind of mistake, however the error you made is making a distiction between matter and enery, when in fact, they're both the same. Matter is meerly another form of energy. When matter and anti-matter colide, they convert into what we call pure energy.
True there is a theoretical particle for gravity called the graviton, however if you take a look at quantum physics, there's a theoretical particle for every kind of energy transfer.
Hawking devoted a good chunk of the first chapter of a brief history of time to this.
Since the graviton is a pure force particle, it acts on anyting it comes into contact with. The only way to counter act force particles are with opposite force particles.
So technically anti-gravity could be described as a force that acts against gravity in such a way to negate it's effect. Or simpler jumping.
Well jumping would be short term anti-gravity. Long term would be escape velocity.
He says he wouldn't want to take the cooler to the airport.
Sure he might get hassled a bit, but then he'd have to explain himself.
I mean come on, Sure everyone likes cold beer, but after enough of them, it just doesn't matter anymore.
So the only reason to build this thing, extreme bragging rights, and hassled at the airport? just one more chance and I for one will believe that the customs agents will be quite impressed.
Actually Canada does have a constituational guarantee for free speech.
It's in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/charter
It's considered a fundamental freedom.
Perhaps your thinking of the British north America act of 1867 which was the constitution (basically an extention of the British constitution) originally, however this was changed in 1982 when Canada made it's constitution a piece of it's own legislation rather and a British one.
It is true however that any right within the charter of freedoms can be overuled in law, however such laws must be passed with a 70% and must be re-voted upon every 4 years.
The only time this has happened with the right to freedom of expression, as far as I know, was in Quebec with it's language laws, but those laws were overturned a few years back due to a failed re-vote
Unfortunatly your point in this particular case is moot. DirecTV is not legaly allowed to sell it's services in Canada. Because they constantly broadcast their signal into Canada, it's consistantly an unavoidable finanial loss. So if I were to decrypt their signal, which is so readily available in my yard, I am not taking any resources away from DirecTV, rather I'm taking advantage of resources they are wasting on me.
Actually he's talking about the equipment you BUILD with old parts. you know exactly what's in there so you know what to do when something ain't working
I'm still on the fence with the whole Matrix in a Matrix deal.
Mainly it has to do with Neo shutting down the sentinals in the Real World.
It would seem that Neo was able to stop them with his mind
However the shutdown of the sentinals was very much like an EMP, and, oh wait, a ship shows up right then. Could be that the rescue ship fired off an EMP.
Who knows? I'm waiting for November to make any conclusions. However speculation is fun
The heat will be dissipated into the environment the same way it always has, fans will cool the liquid causing it to condense. Other fans will blow the resulting hot air out into the environment just like they always have and then it's up to your ventilation system and air conditioning to keep the place from turning into an oven.
Sure you could link up your ventilation system to your PC, but that's just overkill.
Perhaps when developing a new system the developers could take some time to study the methodologies that are used in the gaming market. After all Games are highly technical but must be very easy to learn and use to be popular.
If anything they might start thinking more about the end user then they do right now
exactly. The wole premise of the movie had very little to do with politics or patriotism, it had to do with the realities of war. People did and when the first bullet whizzes by your head, politics and patriotism are the first things to goout the window. In battle all that matters is that you try and get as many of your men out alive. I felt this film portrayed this fact admirably. War is hell, and it doesn't matter what war your in or why it's happening, when you're in the heat of battle it all the same.
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Traffic shaping from the ISP to the consumers desktop is absolutly a valid option for an ISP. But traffic shaping wholesale access is an entirely different thing. Overselling your pipes is fine, but if you see a trend of usage that is climbing upward then you upgrade your capacity (and adjust prices accordingly) so your ISP clients can continue to do business as they had.
Although in our case here in Canada, Bell has both increased prices and degraded services and now they're forcing that stratagy on the 3rd parties as well.
I'm also a Teksavvy subscriber (switched when Bell sympatico was getting rid of it's unlimited plans for good, that and my 5mbit line was only going at ~900kbit) for it's sweet truely unlimited plan. I'm on the capped premium now that the unlimited went up in price and I saw that I never really went over the 200gb limit.
But if I did, it's 25/gb and your totals are averaged over 2 months.
Very, very fair in my opinion.
Any cap below 100gb nowadays is crazy, everybody has a month or two where they do some massive downloading, if you're in a house with many people (families with high school age kids) a cap lower than that can get blown in no time
Yes Canada sucks when it comes to data services. Slow speeds on both cable and DSL, cellular data plans that make it cheaper to get a US phone and roam. But there is a big reason for our being behind the times. If you take a look at the customer base for Verison or Comcast, you're looking at a number that is ~60-90% of the ENTIRE canadian population. Those companies have a LOT of cash flowing that makes upgrading the systems to those high speeds a little easier. So a much smaller subscriber base, plus a geographical area that is larger than the US. Not only do they have to beef up their infrastructure in cities, but they also have to beef it up between them as well.
We've been very lucky here in Canada that the advancements of the States have been applied here as well, but our market just isn't enough to keep up anymore.
We could solve this by letting American companies a piece of our telecom market, but with the 50% canadian ownership rules make it a tough sell to them.
I wish our market could justify FTTH, but it's just not there yet.
However Rogers and Bells decision to roll out the WiMax in the areas where broadband was already availalbe rather then in the places where Dial-up was the only option was just stupid.
My Current Printer is about 15 years old. The one before that 20
Old HP Laserjet printers are amazing and absolutely repairable. It's a shame that more stuff these days are built as solidly as those were. Toner still costs a pretty penny, but then I guess that's why there were build so well, so you'll keep coming back for more.
Of course it's because of piracy.
People aren't buying CDs because the cost of them doesn't justify buying them when you can get them just as good online for free.
Drop the price down to $5-10 (cdn) and I'll start buying cds as often as I did before napster.
Really it all boils down to the fact that I can't afford the music I like these days. Free radio sucks (esp. in my area, Peterborough ON.) CDs are too expensive and satellite radio is another monthly fee I don't need.
I won't pay for cable, but I'll "steal" it if available due to cost vs content. I only want about 10 of the channels, but to pay for it gets me a ton of what I don't want.
Allow me the ability to choose the entertainment I ACTUALLY want and give it to me at a price that someone living paycheque to paycheque could afford (i.e. broken down to individual services as much as possible) and I'll stop pirating.
Although I'm not from the US, I have had my experience with tech support. When I first got high speed through rogers cablesystems (Canada), they flat out refused to support anything other than windows. One time when I calle din and told them I had linux, they told me it wasn't supported and hung up on me. Mainly, I just went along with their instructions and only did the steps that could be applied to a linux box
When I switched to Bell Sympatico and told them I had Linux the Tech said "well I guess you know what you're doing then". Too bad their service has gone downhill too.
But thats the result of tech support for a large customer base. I've worked in 2 call centres Apple Tech support and T-mobile customer care. THe big problem with call centres is attrition. The job sucks, 30-80 calls a day, often dealing with very angry people and very little praise for a job well done. Advancement is done purely through your numbers, so it not about being the best service rep, it about being just good enough to look good on paper.
Be nice to those script drones, often they're nice Canadians who only took the job because it's the only one availalbe that paid more than min wage.
Wikipedia has in it the ability to give the source of the information that is being given. Since it's so prone to inaccuracies (depending on the subjuect and when you actually look at the page) those sources are invaluable as proof of accuracy, but still do not make it any more reliable.
If I were a teacher I would encourage students to use wikipedia, but when the information is used, to seek the source listed to verify it and use it as the listed reference in their papers.
I agree, the study of physics is interpreting the universe in ways we can understand.
Since we are in the universe and thus part of the system, we may not be able to actually view the universe as it actually is, but in terms that make sense to us.
From what I've read about gulf war syndrome, it's not exposure to the radiation from u238 that caused it, but to the heavy metal itself. u238 was used in armour piercing rounds and the solders were exposed when the moved in after the tanks were busted.
True radiation is a boogyman in todays sociey, but with u238 or any other heavy metals, there is a real health concern outside of any potential radiation.
I agree entirly. What we sense is not the real world but a conciousness that is generated by our brains. Our intelligence in merely the end result of this abstraction of the real world
Headphones are great, but unfortunatly, on the lower end of the frequencies you get into problems as they are more often than not felt rather than heard.
My solution was to hook up only a subwoofer and run the rest through headphones. Little better, but the whole thing felt inelegant and unrefined
There's a big problem with building it at the north pole, the only thing holding the top up there is the rest of the tower. Way too much pressure and stress to deal with.
That's why the plans always are for a tower along the equator, so that the top of the tower could be placed in Geostationary orbit, i.e. it orbits the earth at the same rate it rotates. So the top of the tower has enough momentum to keep it in space with or without the tower. So lower down an extremely resiliant cable (carbon nano-tubes) hook up with a base station, and you have an elevator.
The tower wouldn't continuously bend to the east because the top is moving at the same rate as the rest of the planet. The Biggest stresses would be mainly from the atmosphere constantly blowing the tower around, thus the need for stong building materials.
In a vacuum this wouldn't be as big of a problem.
The availability of broadband in so many areas in Canada has to do with a Federal government initiative to have broadband internet available to 90% of the population in something like ten years.
That combined with the pioneering of cable internet in Canada, along with deals universities made with telecoms requiring broadband availability in the municipalitiy they reside in has made the internet quite fast in most parts of the country
I can understand how you could make that kind of mistake, however the error you made is making a distiction between matter and enery, when in fact, they're both the same. Matter is meerly another form of energy. When matter and anti-matter colide, they convert into what we call pure energy.
But really energy and matter are the same stuff
True there is a theoretical particle for gravity called the graviton, however if you take a look at quantum physics, there's a theoretical particle for every kind of energy transfer.
Hawking devoted a good chunk of the first chapter of a brief history of time to this.
Since the graviton is a pure force particle, it acts on anyting it comes into contact with. The only way to counter act force particles are with opposite force particles.
So technically anti-gravity could be described as a force that acts against gravity in such a way to negate it's effect. Or simpler jumping.
Well jumping would be short term anti-gravity. Long term would be escape velocity.
However that's not as fun.
He says he wouldn't want to take the cooler to the airport.
Sure he might get hassled a bit, but then he'd have to explain himself.
I mean come on, Sure everyone likes cold beer, but after enough of them, it just doesn't matter anymore.
So the only reason to build this thing, extreme bragging rights, and hassled at the airport? just one more chance and I for one will believe that the customs agents will be quite impressed.
Actually Canada does have a constituational guarantee for free speech.
It's in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/charter
It's considered a fundamental freedom.
Perhaps your thinking of the British north America act of 1867 which was the constitution (basically an extention of the British constitution) originally, however this was changed in 1982 when Canada made it's constitution a piece of it's own legislation rather and a British one.
It is true however that any right within the charter of freedoms can be overuled in law, however such laws must be passed with a 70% and must be re-voted upon every 4 years.
The only time this has happened with the right to freedom of expression, as far as I know, was in Quebec with it's language laws, but those laws were overturned a few years back due to a failed re-vote
Unfortunatly your point in this particular case is moot. DirecTV is not legaly allowed to sell it's services in Canada. Because they constantly broadcast their signal into Canada, it's consistantly an unavoidable finanial loss. So if I were to decrypt their signal, which is so readily available in my yard, I am not taking any resources away from DirecTV, rather I'm taking advantage of resources they are wasting on me.
Actually he's talking about the equipment you BUILD with old parts. you know exactly what's in there so you know what to do when something ain't working
I'm still on the fence with the whole Matrix in a Matrix deal.
Mainly it has to do with Neo shutting down the sentinals in the Real World.
It would seem that Neo was able to stop them with his mind
However the shutdown of the sentinals was very much like an EMP, and, oh wait, a ship shows up right then. Could be that the rescue ship fired off an EMP.
Who knows? I'm waiting for November to make any conclusions. However speculation is fun
After years of experimentation, this also works with:d Floors
TVs
VCRs
Laptops
Pools
Chairs
Carpete
Tile floors
etc..
The heat will be dissipated into the environment the same way it always has, fans will cool the liquid causing it to condense. Other fans will blow the resulting hot air out into the environment just like they always have and then it's up to your ventilation system and air conditioning to keep the place from turning into an oven.
Sure you could link up your ventilation system to your PC, but that's just overkill.
The continuous success of half-life is a perfect example of where something like this works.
Sure you can play the single player game without buying it, but playing online, which we all know is the best part of the game, requires a cd-key.
Perhaps when developing a new system the developers could take some time to study the methodologies that are used in the gaming market. After all Games are highly technical but must be very easy to learn and use to be popular.
If anything they might start thinking more about the end user then they do right now
exactly. The wole premise of the movie had very little to do with politics or patriotism, it had to do with the realities of war. People did and when the first bullet whizzes by your head, politics and patriotism are the first things to goout the window. In battle all that matters is that you try and get as many of your men out alive. I felt this film portrayed this fact admirably. War is hell, and it doesn't matter what war your in or why it's happening, when you're in the heat of battle it all the same.