I assumed no dishonesty. I'm not a Comcast customer, and I don't pretend to know how good or bad their service is or know what range of services they offer. I have AT&T U-Verse, so I know that the "three fingers pointing back" rule applies if I were to make fun of them or call them liars/cheaters/etc. I simply pointed out that most people are unaware that they are buying "up to" whatever speed is advertised, and that they are not guaranteed to receive that speed at any point in time. In theory, if the scenario I outlined were in fact true, Comcast would not have over promised because there is at least one scenario where that download speed could be achieved.
But if Comcast (the company that forges/injects content into its subscribers packets without their knowledge) were to do that to hook a few extra customers, it shouldn't exactly qualify as a surprise.
All kidding aside, this wouldn't surprise me too much. Comcast (and probably all other providers) are advertising this super-mega-intarweb speed as "up to x mbps." So, theoretically, as long as *one* site can provide data at that rate, their marketing garbage still stands. Even if 99.9% of the other websites top out at 4kbps, if Speakeasy's speed test says it can transfer a file at 15mpbs, technically Comcast is correct. They are giving you "up to 15mbps."
Well, It's Not totally a brick... ThiS could be as good Time A time as you'LL get to Loosen up, Indulge your iNner geek, and Upgrade to something better by niXing Windows altogether...
Leveraging your market position in one product "Exchange/OWA" to gain market position in
another "IE"...simple really
Back when this OWA issue first came about, Firefox (which wasn't even called Firefox at the time, I don't think) was still mostly relegated to the nerdy group. Most people using Firefox as an alternative to IE actually knew about the User Agent, and were rather apt at changing it so they could still access OWA normally.
Fast-forward to today, and more people are using Firefox, but could probably just as easily get around the OWA issue but asking the guy that's been doing it for 5-6 years. It just seems like a lot of extra work relative to whatever gain they may have achieved.
IIRC, Outlook Web Access has done this for at least the past 5-6 years. Load OWA in Firefox (Windows or Linux), and it looks all choppy with bad frames and images and such. Change the User Agent, and it magically looks almost identical to the same page in IE!
I find it funny that Microsoft goes to these ends... what do you gain by doing that? Do they claim it's because other browers don't work?
... the sky is typically blue, the grass is mostly green, and the Pope is Catholic.
I un-installed Vista about 6 months ago and returned to XP. The main reason is because I simply didn't think that the main issues I had with it (some outlined in this article) really could be fixed... at least not with a service pack release or other patches. It seemed to me that the focus with Vista simply had shifted more to the shiny eye candy for end users, and that when you focus on the pretty stuff the necessary stuff will logically be less efficient.
I do have some reasonable high hopes for this new MinWin, but until then, I'll just continue to expect more tests and benchmarks like this one.
I remember reading a blurb in an issue of Nintendo Power (I want to say sometime in the early 90's) that featured a picture of a Game Boy that had supposedly been in a house fire. They were able to fit the Tetris cartridge back into the slot, turn the game on, and actually play it (albeit, with some loss in the pixels) even though the shell of the system was almost completely charred.
Not trolling at all here, but I was rather underwhelmed by the responses.
Basically, the responses given by the Ron Paul campaign carried the tone I expected (more focus on personal liberties and free market) but were truly lacking in depth. For once, it would be nice to get a more detailed response from a politician, and not just the typical buzzword jockeying.
Of all the candidates, this was the one I least expected generalizations and "typical response" muck. Oh well... at least they responded... I guess...
... of what design is picked, I hope it is well thought out and applied, because I for one am greatly looking forward to the possibility of using Firefox on my Motorola Q. I simply cannot stand mobile IE.
On the one hand, there's a potential short-term, albeit unpleasant, cash cow there for someone who wants to take all that VBA garbage and make it work in the "latest and greatest" Microsoft offering.
On the other hand... their "latest and greatest" probably isn't all that much better, and probably will carry a hefty price tag.
I don't believe that the language supporting OOP requires you to write using OOP constructs. Haven't used PHP in a while, so I could very well be wrong.
If the speed is the same for the majority of applications, it maintains all backwards compatibility, and it gets more users to develop in the F/OSS world... why not?
I can verify this. I've owned an eMachines M5312 now for about a year and I've had no problems at all. Difficult finding drivers for the crappy IGP320M chipset that have reasonable 3D acceleration (currently trying the latest Omega drivers... no luck there) but other than that, the laptop works great.
Well... there is the broken DVD/CD-RW... but that is due to a fellow student gratuitously sitting down in the desk next to me just as the drive popped open... *sigh* =[
Hate to argue this, but, no. I've got a T40p, and an R40, and have plugged in all sort's of card/mini-pci based device's into them, and have not had any issue's beyond finding proper driver's for the OS that I'm using at the moment.
Your misuse of apostrophes is making my eyes bleed... Not one of them was needed:-)
Last I checked, the apostrophe for "I'm" is actually necessary. =]
While I think the idea is brilliant, it does have one critical flaw: Out-of-state travel. If there were some way to account for that easily, I think this would be the best solution hands-down.
I honestly can't answer the who... However, PATRIOT is an acronym for "Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism." The "why" is probably along the lines of "this was introduced because of 9/11 and 'Patriot' is the buzzword of the times."
I'll take you a step further and say that is the approach many American "leaders" take nowadays. This is true from government agencies (like our great NASA example here), corporations ("our goal is to raise profits and make more money for the shareholders"), and even religious groups ("our goal is to find more people and convert them to our beliefs"). It may be prevalent in other countries as well (I'm sure it is) but I'm not really an expert on foreign matters.
The fact is, in America it's becoming disgustingly difficult to find someone who is:
innovative enough to come up with a brilliant goal
has the chutzpah to stand behind that goal
has the charisma and leadership necessary to drive others towards that goal
As a generalization, American "leaders" are terribly bland.
However, users have noted that the software is not accurate; 'tagging' virtually every audio or video file it finds based on file extensions.
You don't say? This from the same organization that files bland threats against BitTorrent server ops stating that they (the ops) have to determine what is copyrighted and what is not.
I don't disagree with anything you've said. However, there is a lot of leg-work involved in creating, maintaining, and filling internships. It's very time consuming and costly. In addition to that, some schools have a number of credible candidates for an internship that far exceeds the number of internships actually available. Combine that with having multiple high-quality schools in one metropolitan area and the chances are even more slim.
The spirit of my post (and judging from your response, possibly not the letter =]) is simply that I think it is worth a try. It should not become the norm (which is what I was getting at with my first sentence) but, IMO, virtual experience is better than no experience. Clearly issues like vendor favoritism and up-to-date simulations will need to be dealt with, but I hardly think that's reason to scrap the whole idea.
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I assumed no dishonesty. I'm not a Comcast customer, and I don't pretend to know how good or bad their service is or know what range of services they offer. I have AT&T U-Verse, so I know that the "three fingers pointing back" rule applies if I were to make fun of them or call them liars/cheaters/etc. I simply pointed out that most people are unaware that they are buying "up to" whatever speed is advertised, and that they are not guaranteed to receive that speed at any point in time. In theory, if the scenario I outlined were in fact true, Comcast would not have over promised because there is at least one scenario where that download speed could be achieved.
But if Comcast (the company that forges/injects content into its subscribers packets without their knowledge) were to do that to hook a few extra customers, it shouldn't exactly qualify as a surprise.
Comcast? Dishonest? Say it ain't so!
All kidding aside, this wouldn't surprise me too much. Comcast (and probably all other providers) are advertising this super-mega-intarweb speed as "up to x mbps." So, theoretically, as long as *one* site can provide data at that rate, their marketing garbage still stands. Even if 99.9% of the other websites top out at 4kbps, if Speakeasy's speed test says it can transfer a file at 15mpbs, technically Comcast is correct. They are giving you "up to 15mbps."
Well, It's Not totally a brick... ThiS could be as good Time A time as you'LL get to Loosen up, Indulge your iNner geek, and Upgrade to something better by niXing Windows altogether...
another "IE"...simple really
Back when this OWA issue first came about, Firefox (which wasn't even called Firefox at the time, I don't think) was still mostly relegated to the nerdy group. Most people using Firefox as an alternative to IE actually knew about the User Agent, and were rather apt at changing it so they could still access OWA normally.
Fast-forward to today, and more people are using Firefox, but could probably just as easily get around the OWA issue but asking the guy that's been doing it for 5-6 years. It just seems like a lot of extra work relative to whatever gain they may have achieved.
IIRC, Outlook Web Access has done this for at least the past 5-6 years. Load OWA in Firefox (Windows or Linux), and it looks all choppy with bad frames and images and such. Change the User Agent, and it magically looks almost identical to the same page in IE!
I find it funny that Microsoft goes to these ends... what do you gain by doing that? Do they claim it's because other browers don't work?
... the sky is typically blue, the grass is mostly green, and the Pope is Catholic.
I un-installed Vista about 6 months ago and returned to XP. The main reason is because I simply didn't think that the main issues I had with it (some outlined in this article) really could be fixed... at least not with a service pack release or other patches. It seemed to me that the focus with Vista simply had shifted more to the shiny eye candy for end users, and that when you focus on the pretty stuff the necessary stuff will logically be less efficient.
I do have some reasonable high hopes for this new MinWin, but until then, I'll just continue to expect more tests and benchmarks like this one.
I remember reading a blurb in an issue of Nintendo Power (I want to say sometime in the early 90's) that featured a picture of a Game Boy that had supposedly been in a house fire. They were able to fit the Tetris cartridge back into the slot, turn the game on, and actually play it (albeit, with some loss in the pixels) even though the shell of the system was almost completely charred.
I think that's pretty hardcore.
Not trolling at all here, but I was rather underwhelmed by the responses.
Basically, the responses given by the Ron Paul campaign carried the tone I expected (more focus on personal liberties and free market) but were truly lacking in depth. For once, it would be nice to get a more detailed response from a politician, and not just the typical buzzword jockeying.
Of all the candidates, this was the one I least expected generalizations and "typical response" muck. Oh well... at least they responded... I guess...
Wow, actually, I haven't even heard of Opera mobile. I'll definitely give it a shot, thanks!
... of what design is picked, I hope it is well thought out and applied, because I for one am greatly looking forward to the possibility of using Firefox on my Motorola Q. I simply cannot stand mobile IE.
On the one hand, there's a potential short-term, albeit unpleasant, cash cow there for someone who wants to take all that VBA garbage and make it work in the "latest and greatest" Microsoft offering.
On the other hand... their "latest and greatest" probably isn't all that much better, and probably will carry a hefty price tag.
I am 100% compatible with wine, and I must say that it is a very good thing...
Perhaps they should call it a "Black Eye"?
Considering the timespan between Windows re-formats/re-installations, that isn't really all that unreasonable...
*dons the asbestos underwear*
I don't believe that the language supporting OOP requires you to write using OOP constructs. Haven't used PHP in a while, so I could very well be wrong.
If the speed is the same for the majority of applications, it maintains all backwards compatibility, and it gets more users to develop in the F/OSS world... why not?
I can verify this. I've owned an eMachines M5312 now for about a year and I've had no problems at all. Difficult finding drivers for the crappy IGP320M chipset that have reasonable 3D acceleration (currently trying the latest Omega drivers... no luck there) but other than that, the laptop works great.
Well... there is the broken DVD/CD-RW... but that is due to a fellow student gratuitously sitting down in the desk next to me just as the drive popped open... *sigh* =[
More like Chiaotzu if you ask me. =/
Hate to argue this, but, no. I've got a T40p, and an R40, and have plugged in all sort's of card/mini-pci based device's into them, and have not had any issue's beyond finding proper driver's for the OS that I'm using at the moment.
Last I checked, the apostrophe for "I'm" is actually necessary. =]r0535 R R3d
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While I think the idea is brilliant, it does have one critical flaw: Out-of-state travel. If there were some way to account for that easily, I think this would be the best solution hands-down.
Whose idea was it to use "patriot" and why?
I honestly can't answer the who... However, PATRIOT is an acronym for "Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism." The "why" is probably along the lines of "this was introduced because of 9/11 and 'Patriot' is the buzzword of the times."
This all just seems like a bunch of sound, fury, and wasted money, signifying nothing.
When did the government get involved? =]
I'll take you a step further and say that is the approach many American "leaders" take nowadays. This is true from government agencies (like our great NASA example here), corporations ("our goal is to raise profits and make more money for the shareholders"), and even religious groups ("our goal is to find more people and convert them to our beliefs"). It may be prevalent in other countries as well (I'm sure it is) but I'm not really an expert on foreign matters.
The fact is, in America it's becoming disgustingly difficult to find someone who is:
As a generalization, American "leaders" are terribly bland.
However, users have noted that the software is not accurate; 'tagging' virtually every audio or video file it finds based on file extensions.
You don't say? This from the same organization that files bland threats against BitTorrent server ops stating that they (the ops) have to determine what is copyrighted and what is not.
I don't disagree with anything you've said. However, there is a lot of leg-work involved in creating, maintaining, and filling internships. It's very time consuming and costly. In addition to that, some schools have a number of credible candidates for an internship that far exceeds the number of internships actually available. Combine that with having multiple high-quality schools in one metropolitan area and the chances are even more slim.
The spirit of my post (and judging from your response, possibly not the letter =]) is simply that I think it is worth a try. It should not become the norm (which is what I was getting at with my first sentence) but, IMO, virtual experience is better than no experience. Clearly issues like vendor favoritism and up-to-date simulations will need to be dealt with, but I hardly think that's reason to scrap the whole idea.