i don't see any difference. given the typical behavior of corporations, net neutrality will never exist unless it is legally enforced. even if some providers decides not to throttle anything, their NSP can decide to throttle something or someone else down the line does, the providers policy is meaningless. for network neutrality to work, EVERYONE needs to follow, which doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell without legislation.
no, if a failure in terms of a clogged fuel line happens, it is not going to be when we expect it, unlike the known-and-planned-for "out of gas" failure, thus will definitely be worse.
maybe a better idea of that would be to work with a VM rather than with a true liveCD. that would provide the best of both worlds, removing the reboot, but also making the software environment standard.
OTOH, that brings up the obvious problems of performance and leveraging available features on the real hardware through the virtual hardware (look how rare even 3D acceleration is among VM's), though OTTH, if someone decided to put adequate resources towards this idea, it should be possible to overcome those issues.
well, definitely lots of bandwidth (a steamer loaded with magtape would kick the crap out of the proverbial station wagon), though the latency might be a bit high.
as i stated, it basically specifies that systems W, X and Y have to give off less than N emissions, but system Z has to give off no emissions whatsoever, where W, X, Y, and Z are all specified.
It can't be because of your traffic-throttling happy ISPs only some of them (rogers, shaw, mostly the cable companies, though DSL providers aren't innocent either).
i find that Sasktel is pretty much a shining beacon of hope in this mess. BT (or anything else for that matter) is not trottled in any manner (though the 2wire gateway does have some known out-of-memory issues if you don't limit the number of connections to less than 300 or so. lower if you have the digital TV or multiple computers.), bandwidth is what you are sold (give or take a few percent), decent prices, no caps period.
"partially zero" means it produces zero emissions from certain systems in the vehicle (zero evaporative emissions, in this case), but it produces emissions in other systems, thus "partially" zero emissions. isn't the English language wonderful?
PZEV is a super-set of SULEV (Super Ultra Low Emissions). a PZEV meets SULEV standards, has zero evaporative emissions, and has a long (15 years/150,000 mile) warranty on the emissions control systems.
it's quite common for stores to force you to show a receipt before they'll let you leave. Wal-Mart, most "wholesale clubs," many big-box stores, and an increasing number of electronics retailers do it.
i've never seen that happen here. they only ask for the receipt if the anti-theft thingy goes off. seems to happen to me at least every other time i go shopping.
or is it only under certain conditions that weren't met this time?
presumablely her heart just needed a reduction in workload to allow it to heal, so they used this neat gadget to temporarily assist it until it was fully functional again.
though the main source of outage in the article is he got info from the phone company saying "yes, we provide DSL service there" before he bought the land, then he actually tried to get the service "i'm sorry, sir. you are outside our service area".
and having previously been on dial up for 9 years, i can attest that most of the Internet is almost unusable without high-speed. trying to do even simple things like filling an accident report with the insurance company (their office hours don't mesh with my work/class hours) takes many times longer than it should, as everyone loves flash and other such extraneous crap. not to mention things like video lectures or other such inherently bandwidth-intensive things that are increasingly becoming necessary in everyday life.
fortunately, i finally got off that and have my wireless broadband, as DSL is never coming here as it's simply not feasible to put in a DSLAM cabinet for a village of less than 100 people.
the phone companies receive money from the government to provide such services to rural areas and the phone companies seem to say "nah. we don't feel like doing that." and just walk off with the money.
sounds like the terrestrial microwave broadband i get. it's a system built on DOCSIS 1.0 and gives nice range (I'm 25 miles away and my signal strength is right at the top of the DOCSIS spec) if you have a clear line of sight to the tower.
initial cost is $250 for the equipment (cable modem, antenna (either a panel antenna or a 24dB grid dish), transceiver assembly, mounting hardware (a tripod or a satellite-like arm mount), and and 100' of RG-6 coax) and a variable amount for the setup if you can't do it yourself, then $60 per month. speed is 2m/256k.
same basic idea as satellite, minus the latency (latency averages 100ms).
there's a higher business-class version of it that gives 3m/512k for $300/month, but it also comes with a 24/7 4-hour service level agreement. if you call in an outage at 2am on Sunday, it will be fixed by 6am or they get hit with heavy contractual penalties.
service is pretty damn reliable, barring stuff happening on my end and the service skates through wind, rain, and hail. only thing i found that trips it up so far is heavy fog, which knocks my signal strength down a fair bit, but it is still perfectly usable. dunno how it will hold up in the winter, but I'll find out in a couple months.
all the equipment for it is just added onto existing cell towers, so the setup costs aren't exactly astronomical. each tower can cover for an area of about 4000 square miles, if not more.
seems slightly similar to what the local cable company does. they have an "offical" cap of 100 gigs, but i know people who can blow that away and regularly go over 500 without a peep, whereas others hit 101 and they get called on it.
i'm 99% certain it's due to their digital cable services being affected by the high bandwidth use, though either QoS is hard to impliment on their system, or they're idiots.
Business plans tend to be the same level as Residential except you pay 5-10x more. And maybe you get a static IP if they feel like it.
"business" here means "service level agreement".
The business-class version of the connection i use (It's a terrestrial microwave broadband system built on DOCSIS 1.0. it's used for rural areas where DSL isn't feasible, like farms and small communities.) costs 5x what i pay ($300 vs. $60), provides a little more bandwidth (3m/512k vs. 2m/256k), and comes with a 24/7 4-hour SLA, meaning the service isn't down for more than 4 hours without a very good reason and hefty contractual penalties. If you call in an outage at 2am on Sunday, it will be back up by 6am or it costs them a sizable chunk of cash.
Nicely, there's some guy on my sector of the system that has that service, so i get the same service level without paying for it.:)
This certainly doesn't have much to do with Comcast's arbitrary bandwidth limits, but the wise moderators have failed to mark any of this discussion as "Off Topic".
the off-topic moderation option bugs me. the off-topic discussion is often as interesting as the on-topic discussion, if not more so.
I think it's obvious that this technique is just plain cool and has great potential for beneficial use, even if it might be used for ill. what do you expect? it's technology. technology works to the highest bidder, not the people with the highest morals.
though i think the proper term would be sony fanboi and sony anti-fanboi, the former has pretty much existed since sony entered the console wars and the latter has been gaining steam since sony decided that putting a rootkit on their music CDs was a good idea, especially due to the words/actions they took after they were discovered.
i would presume that is is computationally expensive for digital signals as opposed to analog signals. or maybe it is only computationally expensive to do it correctly.
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i don't see any difference. given the typical behavior of corporations, net neutrality will never exist unless it is legally enforced. even if some providers decides not to throttle anything, their NSP can decide to throttle something or someone else down the line does, the providers policy is meaningless. for network neutrality to work, EVERYONE needs to follow, which doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell without legislation.
no, if a failure in terms of a clogged fuel line happens, it is not going to be when we expect it, unlike the known-and-planned-for "out of gas" failure, thus will definitely be worse.
RTS's are non-geeky?
though keep in mind that the 48GB might really be 49 or 50* to provide spare sectors in the same manner hard drives do.
*numbers not necessarily based on any factual information.
maybe a better idea of that would be to work with a VM rather than with a true liveCD. that would provide the best of both worlds, removing the reboot, but also making the software environment standard.
OTOH, that brings up the obvious problems of performance and leveraging available features on the real hardware through the virtual hardware (look how rare even 3D acceleration is among VM's), though OTTH, if someone decided to put adequate resources towards this idea, it should be possible to overcome those issues.
well, definitely lots of bandwidth (a steamer loaded with magtape would kick the crap out of the proverbial station wagon), though the latency might be a bit high.
as i stated, it basically specifies that systems W, X and Y have to give off less than N emissions, but system Z has to give off no emissions whatsoever, where W, X, Y, and Z are all specified.
though i do agree the naming is stupid.
i find that Sasktel is pretty much a shining beacon of hope in this mess. BT (or anything else for that matter) is not trottled in any manner (though the 2wire gateway does have some known out-of-memory issues if you don't limit the number of connections to less than 300 or so. lower if you have the digital TV or multiple computers.), bandwidth is what you are sold (give or take a few percent), decent prices, no caps period.
"partially zero" means it produces zero emissions from certain systems in the vehicle (zero evaporative emissions, in this case), but it produces emissions in other systems, thus "partially" zero emissions. isn't the English language wonderful?
PZEV is a super-set of SULEV (Super Ultra Low Emissions). a PZEV meets SULEV standards, has zero evaporative emissions, and has a long (15 years/150,000 mile) warranty on the emissions control systems.
it's quite common for stores to force you to show a receipt before they'll let you leave. Wal-Mart, most "wholesale clubs," many big-box stores, and an increasing number of electronics retailers do it.
i've never seen that happen here. they only ask for the receipt if the anti-theft thingy goes off. seems to happen to me at least every other time i go shopping.
then again, this is up in canada.
nope. sounds perfectly sensible to me also, speaking as a livejournal user myself.
though it remains to be seen if they will actually follow what their policy says.
does it particularly matter who dies first if the entire planet goes up in mushroom clouds?
and i personally wonder how much use first strike capability would be given the number of nukes we're talking about.
or is it only under certain conditions that weren't met this time?
presumablely her heart just needed a reduction in workload to allow it to heal, so they used this neat gadget to temporarily assist it until it was fully functional again.
though the main source of outage in the article is he got info from the phone company saying "yes, we provide DSL service there" before he bought the land, then he actually tried to get the service "i'm sorry, sir. you are outside our service area".
and having previously been on dial up for 9 years, i can attest that most of the Internet is almost unusable without high-speed. trying to do even simple things like filling an accident report with the insurance company (their office hours don't mesh with my work/class hours) takes many times longer than it should, as everyone loves flash and other such extraneous crap. not to mention things like video lectures or other such inherently bandwidth-intensive things that are increasingly becoming necessary in everyday life.
fortunately, i finally got off that and have my wireless broadband, as DSL is never coming here as it's simply not feasible to put in a DSLAM cabinet for a village of less than 100 people.
why would you expect to find broadband?
because we pay the fucking phone companies to provide it.
ever heard of the Universal Service Fund?
the phone companies receive money from the government to provide such services to rural areas and the phone companies seem to say "nah. we don't feel like doing that." and just walk off with the money.
sounds like the terrestrial microwave broadband i get. it's a system built on DOCSIS 1.0 and gives nice range (I'm 25 miles away and my signal strength is right at the top of the DOCSIS spec) if you have a clear line of sight to the tower.
initial cost is $250 for the equipment (cable modem, antenna (either a panel antenna or a 24dB grid dish), transceiver assembly, mounting hardware (a tripod or a satellite-like arm mount), and and 100' of RG-6 coax) and a variable amount for the setup if you can't do it yourself, then $60 per month. speed is 2m/256k.
same basic idea as satellite, minus the latency (latency averages 100ms).
there's a higher business-class version of it that gives 3m/512k for $300/month, but it also comes with a 24/7 4-hour service level agreement. if you call in an outage at 2am on Sunday, it will be fixed by 6am or they get hit with heavy contractual penalties.
service is pretty damn reliable, barring stuff happening on my end and the service skates through wind, rain, and hail. only thing i found that trips it up so far is heavy fog, which knocks my signal strength down a fair bit, but it is still perfectly usable. dunno how it will hold up in the winter, but I'll find out in a couple months.
all the equipment for it is just added onto existing cell towers, so the setup costs aren't exactly astronomical. each tower can cover for an area of about 4000 square miles, if not more.
seems slightly similar to what the local cable company does. they have an "offical" cap of 100 gigs, but i know people who can blow that away and regularly go over 500 without a peep, whereas others hit 101 and they get called on it.
i'm 99% certain it's due to their digital cable services being affected by the high bandwidth use, though either QoS is hard to impliment on their system, or they're idiots.
Business plans tend to be the same level as Residential except you pay 5-10x more. And maybe you get a static IP if they feel like it.
:)
"business" here means "service level agreement".
The business-class version of the connection i use (It's a terrestrial microwave broadband system built on DOCSIS 1.0. it's used for rural areas where DSL isn't feasible, like farms and small communities.) costs 5x what i pay ($300 vs. $60), provides a little more bandwidth (3m/512k vs. 2m/256k), and comes with a 24/7 4-hour SLA, meaning the service isn't down for more than 4 hours without a very good reason and hefty contractual penalties. If you call in an outage at 2am on Sunday, it will be back up by 6am or it costs them a sizable chunk of cash.
Nicely, there's some guy on my sector of the system that has that service, so i get the same service level without paying for it.
This certainly doesn't have much to do with Comcast's arbitrary bandwidth limits, but the wise moderators have failed to mark any of this discussion as "Off Topic".
the off-topic moderation option bugs me. the off-topic discussion is often as interesting as the on-topic discussion, if not more so.
though i think the proper term would be sony fanboi and sony anti-fanboi, the former has pretty much existed since sony entered the console wars and the latter has been gaining steam since sony decided that putting a rootkit on their music CDs was a good idea, especially due to the words/actions they took after they were discovered.
in which case an interested party can merely find a less-than-satisfied American citizen and wave a stack of green paper in his general direction.
The most important of which is non-citizens can be deported.
which i believe is still supposed to require due process in the form of a deportation hearing.
as for the hijackers, as i said, i wasn't sure without references. thanks for correcting.
i would presume that is is computationally expensive for digital signals as opposed to analog signals. or maybe it is only computationally expensive to do it correctly.