According to the CEA, 50% of households have a digital TV. I would venture a guess that 80-90% of those were bought in the last 6 years. That would put most of the country on track with replacing their TV in the last 6 years. I don't think most people have TV manufactured in the 80s (or even the 90s) anymore.
I'm a big fan of credit cards for most of the reasons you lay out above. However, credit cards generally don't make the user wealthier. However, they do make the banks wealthier. Every time you buy something on your credit card, a x% fee gets charged to the merchant, for the privilege of accepting a credit card. This costs the merchant, who in turn has to change his prices and charge you more. (Yes, I know that they can't charge different rates for different payments, but overall, the price is inflated for this operational cost the merchant endures.) What you're doing is actually transferring wealth from you to the credit card companies.
Now, for the reasons you've laid out, society has decided (and we're along for the ride) that this is a fair trade. I like carrying almost unlimited amounts of buying power in my pocket with little risk of theft. I'm not complaining, certainly. However, to say that we're wealthier because of credit cards is a bit misguided.
They can't, they don't care. They use the ActionTec router because it provides the kind of high throughput needed for 30 Mbps. The last I heard, you could replace their router with your router if you could simulate the settings on the ActionTec.
Without actually taking the time to do any calculations, shouldn't this chip be a little weak to be powering PVRs and other media devices? With the proliferation of HD, I see more and more people (thankfully) going to h.264 to reduce their file sizes. However, to play a 720p file that is encoded with h.264, you need some serious punch in the processing realm. Recording/encoding to h.264 is a level far beyond that. I don't have the specs in front of me, but even the most minimal player is going to require more than 500 MHz. Now, if you're talking about a few of these in one system you may be on the right track. Anyone have more experience than me in this kind of thing and can comment further?
Agreed, but it's less about security and more about speed and troubleshooting, I would think. Sure, my home datacenter (a NAS and a Xbox360) might like to use wireless, but tell that to a guy trying to get 10-40Gbps out of his servers. I don't think that 15 Gbps is going to do it across his datacenter.
"Apple's AirPort introduced a mainstream audience to WiFi wireless networking."
I'm sorry, what? I would wager that 80% of people using WiFi today have never seen an AirPort or used one knowingly. What percentage of the home WiFi (not to mention business) access points are Linksys (Cisco) or Netgear? Is Apple AirPort even in the top 5 behind Belkin, D-Link and the other two big guys?
Rant aside, is Windows or OS X (is that oh ess ex or os ess ten?) really more catchy or easy to remember than BSD or Linux?
Seriously? Windows? It's the product I use every day to let air into my house. It describes the biggest features of the OS -- I open my web browser in a window, I open a folder in a window. Yes, Windows is non-dorky and non-intimidating. It's not about catchy or easy to remember -- Linux is pretty easy to remember if you ask me -- but it still sounds dorky and is difficult to pronounce if you've never seen it before. What the grandparent is saying (I think) is that if you want to get your OS out there, use a name that people can pronounce, understand and spell easily. There's a reason people out there say they have TiVo when they really have a DVR from their cable company. TiVo makes sense (sounds like TV) and it a powerful brand. DVR is three useless letters that a large portion of the population can't define. In other words, Ubuntu isn't exactly doing itself any favors.
Someone else already answered the OS X question, I'll paraphrase: No one buys OS X -- they buy a Mac or an Apple.
I sure hope they stop targeting ads all-together. I would hate to be watching a baseball game and see ads for merchandise or tickets. I'd much rather see ads for something completely random like American Idol or adult videos.
Do what I did, get a Ma href="http://www.qnap.com.tw/pro_detail_feature.as p?p_id=67">QNAP TS-101. It supports UPnP which the Xbox 360 also supports. I had to convert my movies to WMV, but with this update, looks like I can use a couple of different formats. I've got a great setup now, all the Seinfeld, Entourage, Arrested Development, Office and SATC episodes. All at the click of a button! Took a while to convert to WMV, but it works.
Disclaimer: I don't work for QNAP, but I do work for a company that competes with their products, even though it's not my part of the business. If that's not a solid endorsement, I don't know what is.
Nobody runs IPv6 -- yeah, like your rinky-dink corporate network. You know, no one, except the federal government and the 3 of the 4 largest service providers supporting them. Networx deal.
Next time you go to work (if you work a standard 9-5 job) think about your 15 minute breaks and hour lunch, Teachers don't get that. One half hour lunch and an hour of "prep Time" when students aren't in your room... but this time is used for getting more work done, it's not a break. That's a Full hour a day of "time off" regular full time employees get that teacher's don't, so every 8 days is almost another full day of "work". Over the course of a year is almost 30 days of "work time".
I think you're pretty far off-base. Teachers do get little breaks throughout the day. Kids switch classes, sometimes teachers have a "free" period just like their students. For elementary schools, this is less pronounced, but what teachers do you know that don't give students "in-class" work that requires no intervention from the teacher? No? Did you ever take a test? Quiz? Reading assignment? Group project? What are teachers doing during that time? Sitting at their desks grading, or possibly taking a mental break.
I used to have a math teacher that would teach for 10-20 minutes until everyone understood the concept and then she let us work on our homework. She assigned a lot of homework, but if you were fast/good, you could get somewhere between 50% and 100% of it done in class. I used to think it was great. Now, thinking back on it, what was she doing during the other 25-35 minutes in class? Grading our homework! Brilliant! This way, she could probably blow through 10-15 of the assignments in that time.
The point is, teachers work from 7ish to 3ish, roughly an 8 hour day. However, a lot more work as coaches, after school mentors, good role models for students, prepare great plans, head departments, develop teaching plans that can be applied to other teachers classes etc. Why don't we reward the teachers that do go above and beyond? Companies give raises to their top performers every year. If you're a employee, who works hard and pleases management, you should get promoted to a higher level, even if it means doing the same job, you get more money and more responsibility. Why can't we do this with teachers? We have teachers that are making 75K+ who do a crappy job just because they've been around forever. We have young, enthusiastic teachers who are making 30K, because they haven't put their time in. Promote the good teachers! Give them pay raises that aren't scheduled by a calendar.
What's that? Oh, there's a union involved? Forget everything I just said. Until you break the union, you're screwed from both ends. The union protects itself as an entity and no one else.
AL East: New York Yankees
AL Central: Cleveland Indians
AL West: Los Angeles Angels
AL wildcard: either the Boston Red Sox, the Toronto Blue Jays or the Minnesota Twins
OK, so he managed to choose division winners and then say that the Wild card would come from one of THREE other teams. I don't think there's much math or stats going on here. Shouldn't he be able to pick ONE team and say they're going to win the Wild Card? This sounds more like a baseball fans prediction than a mathematical prediction.
Your mileage may vary... I also live in the New York Area and get 30/5 Mbps from a cable modem (it varies, actually topping out around 22/4 Mbps and usually around 15-20 downtream) for only $29.95. I get a discount because I also sign up for Video service, but completely unbundled, it costs something like $45-50. This is because FiOS is offered in my area so Cablevision has to compete and has put together a really great package deal. I would go to FiOS, but because I'm in an apartment, they can't get to me. Regardless, I'm impressed with Cablevision's offer and that they almost deliver on their speeds.
Also, I agree with an earlier poster who said that they really don't need more speed. While I do want more speed (30 Mbps all the time, for instance) it certainly doesn't appear to help me out. I can't get websites to go any faster and downloading large files from even the biggest websites caps out at about 600 KB/s. Occasionally, I hit a mirror site or something that ramps up to 1000 KB/s, but it's rare. What I really need is for the other side of the Internet to allow faster downloads.
(For the record, the CIR is actually 1.6Mbps, because I've called to complain when it dropped to 5 Mbps during busy hours and they told me they only have to deliver 1.6 Mbps.)
"In the 2005 energy bill, Congress calls on the department to report whether energy consumption drops, as hoped, after the early start of DST. If not, the bill has a provision for the country to return to the old daylight savings calendar. Under the previous law, standardized in 1986, DST began on the first Sunday in April."
Wow. We can spin our wheels again on this, again, if it doesn't work? That's incredibly shortsighted.
On a personal note, I think daylight saving time starting earlier is better - at least for me. I don't usually get up until after 7:30 AM on weekdays and I live in the New York area (which is in the far East part of the timezone). All of this means that even today, I didn't get up to darkness. Works for me!
Frankly, shouldn't we extend DST to be year round? Don't you want 100% of people up during the daylight? Considering the small percentage of people that get up after 10 AM, they're always getting up after dawn. Also, there's basically no one that goes asleep before 4-5 PM when it gets dark in the winter*. Assuming we only have 8 hours of daylight a day in the winter, shouldn't it be the 8 hours that the highest percentage of people are awake? I don't know when that is, but I'm assuming it's not 7AM-4PM like we currently have it in the winter.
*Obviously we need to exclude the people that intentionally sleep during the day because they work the "night shift"
the routers aren't gaining capacity to route packets as quickly as the number of packets to route is rising.
No amount of extra fiber will help if the routers can't keep up. Setting up more routers in the same interconnect centers will bring either bigger routing tables or higher latencies depending on how they're connected to one another.
Exactly how fast do you need your router to go? Cisco and Juniper both have routers that can route at 40Gbps and have a massive amount of ports on them. The CRS-1 from Cisco can expand to 1152 slots each doing 40 Gbps. Drop a couple of those around and you've got a backbone that's going to handle the next 10-15 years. Juniper has the T640, pretty soon the T1280 that can expand to a multi-shelf design.
In the mean time, I did a normal 9-5 and achieved quite a bit. I then biked home at a civilised hour and played with the kids etc. Came back the next morning fresh and ready to engage!
You hit the nail on the head. You see this especially with college students (I was no better when I was in college). But I see it with the people I work with now, too. Your situation is a bit drastic, but you can see it with people that work the weekends. I have worked both days in a weekend (8-10 hour days) in the past and it sucks. Granted, I did it for personal gain not actually for the company's own good (big multi-thousand dollar bonus if I achieved my goal). After working those weekends, by Tuesday of the next week, I would be out of it and wishing for the weekend*. As a result, I really had to push myself to get going for Tuesday-Friday. I work with people that work EVERY weekend. I don't know why, there's not that big of a need, but they do. From what I can tell many of them have poor social lives and don't want to have a work/life balance because their life isn't that exciting. I can't imagine not taking at least 24-48 hours to decompress on the weekend.
Generally now I work 8-9 hours a day, then come home, eat dinner, check email afterwards, clean up any mess (or flag it for tomorrow). I try not to spend more than 30 minutes on any email that comes in late. If an email comes in after 6-7 and requires more than 30 minutes of work, I usually tell the person they can expect a response tomorrow. On the weekends, I'll check my Blackberry a few times a day (I also have personal email forwarded to it) and if I see anything that looks interesting and I'm just sitting around watching TV or something, I'll load up the laptop email. If I'm busy (with family, at a show) then I don't open email until Monday unless something is flagged as urgent. This happens maybe one day every other weekend. Again, I try not to spend too long on email during the weekend. Maybe 1 hour tops. Occasionally, on Sunday during the day, I'll put in 1-2 hours to set up my Monday (this is not so email intensive and generally involves arranging a spreadsheet and trying to figure out where to fit in meetings). This only happens once a month or so, because I try to do this on Friday. However, if I cut out early on Friday, I don't get a chance to do this. In my current state, I'm extremely happy with my work/life balance. Sometimes I feel guilty that I'm not doing enough but at the end of the week, my current tasks are all done and everyone is saying that things are going along smoothly. I don't know what I would do if I stayed at work longer or worked weekends.
Disclaimer, I'm not a sysadmin or anything close to it. I do work with technology, but not in the support realm.
*Over my project, my schedule was basically work 5 days a week 10-12 hours and then put in 8-10 on each weekend day, then do the same for the week, then run a short day on Friday like 4-6 hours and take the weekend off until 9 AM on Monday
Good luck! I live in an apartment building. All you'll get is 3 little windows that face the street. You won't see all the innards (ie, the good stuff!) When I go to buy an apartment, I sure won't use this service, because who cares what the outside looks like?
I was just making an offhand comment about how they always measure speeds in bits (as is customary around the industry) but they measured the CIR in bytes. I made an extra point of making sure he was talking bytes not bits when he said 250Kilobytes Per Second, to avoid the whole.02 cents thing.
What I really want is a CIR (committed information rate) or Minimum rate I can pass data. If I truly had that and it was say 6Mb then I might be happy for a while.
Check into your ISP, I bet you have a CIR. I have Cablevision 15 Mbps/2 Mbps service and I generally get around 10 Mbps / 2 Mbps which I consider pretty close to what they're selling. A couple times, the connection dropped to 3-4 Mbps and I called them up. They informed me that the CIR is actually 2 Mbps (even though for whatever reason they measured it as 250 KBps*). I am therefore officially allowed to get 2 Mbps and anything else is butter. Most ISPs offer some kind of CIR, although not all (Time Warner in Syracuse comes to mind - at least in 2001).
*I made him clarify multiple times that this was not 250Kbps
This happens to Time Warner every year. It recently happened to me at Cablevision. What's the point?
I used to have service from Time Warner Syracuse and it was a disaster getting an HD DVR anytime of year from them. Shouldn't the article be renamed: Cable Companies have shitty customer service?
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According to the CEA, 50% of households have a digital TV. I would venture a guess that 80-90% of those were bought in the last 6 years. That would put most of the country on track with replacing their TV in the last 6 years. I don't think most people have TV manufactured in the 80s (or even the 90s) anymore.
I agree. Although now they have QNAP TS-109 which ups the RAM a bit. The key here is to back up everything as often as possible.
I'm a big fan of credit cards for most of the reasons you lay out above. However, credit cards generally don't make the user wealthier. However, they do make the banks wealthier. Every time you buy something on your credit card, a x% fee gets charged to the merchant, for the privilege of accepting a credit card. This costs the merchant, who in turn has to change his prices and charge you more. (Yes, I know that they can't charge different rates for different payments, but overall, the price is inflated for this operational cost the merchant endures.) What you're doing is actually transferring wealth from you to the credit card companies.
Now, for the reasons you've laid out, society has decided (and we're along for the ride) that this is a fair trade. I like carrying almost unlimited amounts of buying power in my pocket with little risk of theft. I'm not complaining, certainly. However, to say that we're wealthier because of credit cards is a bit misguided.
Gigascope Project by AT&T Labs.
They can't, they don't care. They use the ActionTec router because it provides the kind of high throughput needed for 30 Mbps. The last I heard, you could replace their router with your router if you could simulate the settings on the ActionTec.
Without actually taking the time to do any calculations, shouldn't this chip be a little weak to be powering PVRs and other media devices? With the proliferation of HD, I see more and more people (thankfully) going to h.264 to reduce their file sizes. However, to play a 720p file that is encoded with h.264, you need some serious punch in the processing realm. Recording/encoding to h.264 is a level far beyond that. I don't have the specs in front of me, but even the most minimal player is going to require more than 500 MHz. Now, if you're talking about a few of these in one system you may be on the right track. Anyone have more experience than me in this kind of thing and can comment further?
Agreed, but it's less about security and more about speed and troubleshooting, I would think. Sure, my home datacenter (a NAS and a Xbox360) might like to use wireless, but tell that to a guy trying to get 10-40Gbps out of his servers. I don't think that 15 Gbps is going to do it across his datacenter.
Sorry, I had to stop reading when I read this:
"Apple's AirPort introduced a mainstream audience to WiFi wireless networking."
I'm sorry, what? I would wager that 80% of people using WiFi today have never seen an AirPort or used one knowingly. What percentage of the home WiFi (not to mention business) access points are Linksys (Cisco) or Netgear? Is Apple AirPort even in the top 5 behind Belkin, D-Link and the other two big guys?
Rant aside, is Windows or OS X (is that oh ess ex or os ess ten?) really more catchy or easy to remember than BSD or Linux?
Seriously? Windows? It's the product I use every day to let air into my house. It describes the biggest features of the OS -- I open my web browser in a window, I open a folder in a window. Yes, Windows is non-dorky and non-intimidating. It's not about catchy or easy to remember -- Linux is pretty easy to remember if you ask me -- but it still sounds dorky and is difficult to pronounce if you've never seen it before. What the grandparent is saying (I think) is that if you want to get your OS out there, use a name that people can pronounce, understand and spell easily. There's a reason people out there say they have TiVo when they really have a DVR from their cable company. TiVo makes sense (sounds like TV) and it a powerful brand. DVR is three useless letters that a large portion of the population can't define. In other words, Ubuntu isn't exactly doing itself any favors.
Someone else already answered the OS X question, I'll paraphrase: No one buys OS X -- they buy a Mac or an Apple.
I know it's Slashdot, where big companies are always wrong (unless it's Google), but could we please tone down the bias in the article summary? Wow.
I sure hope they stop targeting ads all-together. I would hate to be watching a baseball game and see ads for merchandise or tickets. I'd much rather see ads for something completely random like American Idol or adult videos.
Do what I did, get a Ma href="http://www.qnap.com.tw/pro_detail_feature.as p?p_id=67">QNAP TS-101. It supports UPnP which the Xbox 360 also supports. I had to convert my movies to WMV, but with this update, looks like I can use a couple of different formats. I've got a great setup now, all the Seinfeld, Entourage, Arrested Development, Office and SATC episodes. All at the click of a button! Took a while to convert to WMV, but it works.
Disclaimer: I don't work for QNAP, but I do work for a company that competes with their products, even though it's not my part of the business. If that's not a solid endorsement, I don't know what is.
You are indeed correct. JetBlue landing gear mishap.
Nobody runs IPv6 -- yeah, like your rinky-dink corporate network. You know, no one, except the federal government and the 3 of the 4 largest service providers supporting them. Networx deal.
Next time you go to work (if you work a standard 9-5 job) think about your 15 minute breaks and hour lunch, Teachers don't get that. One half hour lunch and an hour of "prep Time" when students aren't in your room... but this time is used for getting more work done, it's not a break. That's a Full hour a day of "time off" regular full time employees get that teacher's don't, so every 8 days is almost another full day of "work". Over the course of a year is almost 30 days of "work time".
I think you're pretty far off-base. Teachers do get little breaks throughout the day. Kids switch classes, sometimes teachers have a "free" period just like their students. For elementary schools, this is less pronounced, but what teachers do you know that don't give students "in-class" work that requires no intervention from the teacher? No? Did you ever take a test? Quiz? Reading assignment? Group project? What are teachers doing during that time? Sitting at their desks grading, or possibly taking a mental break.
I used to have a math teacher that would teach for 10-20 minutes until everyone understood the concept and then she let us work on our homework. She assigned a lot of homework, but if you were fast/good, you could get somewhere between 50% and 100% of it done in class. I used to think it was great. Now, thinking back on it, what was she doing during the other 25-35 minutes in class? Grading our homework! Brilliant! This way, she could probably blow through 10-15 of the assignments in that time.
The point is, teachers work from 7ish to 3ish, roughly an 8 hour day. However, a lot more work as coaches, after school mentors, good role models for students, prepare great plans, head departments, develop teaching plans that can be applied to other teachers classes etc. Why don't we reward the teachers that do go above and beyond? Companies give raises to their top performers every year. If you're a employee, who works hard and pleases management, you should get promoted to a higher level, even if it means doing the same job, you get more money and more responsibility. Why can't we do this with teachers? We have teachers that are making 75K+ who do a crappy job just because they've been around forever. We have young, enthusiastic teachers who are making 30K, because they haven't put their time in. Promote the good teachers! Give them pay raises that aren't scheduled by a calendar.
What's that? Oh, there's a union involved? Forget everything I just said. Until you break the union, you're screwed from both ends. The union protects itself as an entity and no one else.
AL East: New York Yankees
AL Central: Cleveland Indians
AL West: Los Angeles Angels
AL wildcard: either the Boston Red Sox, the Toronto Blue Jays or the Minnesota Twins
OK, so he managed to choose division winners and then say that the Wild card would come from one of THREE other teams. I don't think there's much math or stats going on here. Shouldn't he be able to pick ONE team and say they're going to win the Wild Card? This sounds more like a baseball fans prediction than a mathematical prediction.
6Gb/s.... Wow indeed.
Your mileage may vary... I also live in the New York Area and get 30/5 Mbps from a cable modem (it varies, actually topping out around 22/4 Mbps and usually around 15-20 downtream) for only $29.95. I get a discount because I also sign up for Video service, but completely unbundled, it costs something like $45-50. This is because FiOS is offered in my area so Cablevision has to compete and has put together a really great package deal. I would go to FiOS, but because I'm in an apartment, they can't get to me. Regardless, I'm impressed with Cablevision's offer and that they almost deliver on their speeds.
Also, I agree with an earlier poster who said that they really don't need more speed. While I do want more speed (30 Mbps all the time, for instance) it certainly doesn't appear to help me out. I can't get websites to go any faster and downloading large files from even the biggest websites caps out at about 600 KB/s. Occasionally, I hit a mirror site or something that ramps up to 1000 KB/s, but it's rare. What I really need is for the other side of the Internet to allow faster downloads.
(For the record, the CIR is actually 1.6Mbps, because I've called to complain when it dropped to 5 Mbps during busy hours and they told me they only have to deliver 1.6 Mbps.)
From the article:
"In the 2005 energy bill, Congress calls on the department to report whether energy consumption drops, as hoped, after the early start of DST. If not, the bill has a provision for the country to return to the old daylight savings calendar. Under the previous law, standardized in 1986, DST began on the first Sunday in April."
Wow. We can spin our wheels again on this, again, if it doesn't work? That's incredibly shortsighted.
On a personal note, I think daylight saving time starting earlier is better - at least for me. I don't usually get up until after 7:30 AM on weekdays and I live in the New York area (which is in the far East part of the timezone). All of this means that even today, I didn't get up to darkness. Works for me!
Frankly, shouldn't we extend DST to be year round? Don't you want 100% of people up during the daylight? Considering the small percentage of people that get up after 10 AM, they're always getting up after dawn. Also, there's basically no one that goes asleep before 4-5 PM when it gets dark in the winter*. Assuming we only have 8 hours of daylight a day in the winter, shouldn't it be the 8 hours that the highest percentage of people are awake? I don't know when that is, but I'm assuming it's not 7AM-4PM like we currently have it in the winter.
*Obviously we need to exclude the people that intentionally sleep during the day because they work the "night shift"
the routers aren't gaining capacity to route packets as quickly as the number of packets to route is rising. No amount of extra fiber will help if the routers can't keep up. Setting up more routers in the same interconnect centers will bring either bigger routing tables or higher latencies depending on how they're connected to one another.
Exactly how fast do you need your router to go? Cisco and Juniper both have routers that can route at 40Gbps and have a massive amount of ports on them. The CRS-1 from Cisco can expand to 1152 slots each doing 40 Gbps. Drop a couple of those around and you've got a backbone that's going to handle the next 10-15 years. Juniper has the T640, pretty soon the T1280 that can expand to a multi-shelf design.
Cisco CRS-1
Juniper T640
In the mean time, I did a normal 9-5 and achieved quite a bit. I then biked home at a civilised hour and played with the kids etc. Came back the next morning fresh and ready to engage!
You hit the nail on the head. You see this especially with college students (I was no better when I was in college). But I see it with the people I work with now, too. Your situation is a bit drastic, but you can see it with people that work the weekends. I have worked both days in a weekend (8-10 hour days) in the past and it sucks. Granted, I did it for personal gain not actually for the company's own good (big multi-thousand dollar bonus if I achieved my goal). After working those weekends, by Tuesday of the next week, I would be out of it and wishing for the weekend*. As a result, I really had to push myself to get going for Tuesday-Friday. I work with people that work EVERY weekend. I don't know why, there's not that big of a need, but they do. From what I can tell many of them have poor social lives and don't want to have a work/life balance because their life isn't that exciting. I can't imagine not taking at least 24-48 hours to decompress on the weekend.
Generally now I work 8-9 hours a day, then come home, eat dinner, check email afterwards, clean up any mess (or flag it for tomorrow). I try not to spend more than 30 minutes on any email that comes in late. If an email comes in after 6-7 and requires more than 30 minutes of work, I usually tell the person they can expect a response tomorrow. On the weekends, I'll check my Blackberry a few times a day (I also have personal email forwarded to it) and if I see anything that looks interesting and I'm just sitting around watching TV or something, I'll load up the laptop email. If I'm busy (with family, at a show) then I don't open email until Monday unless something is flagged as urgent. This happens maybe one day every other weekend. Again, I try not to spend too long on email during the weekend. Maybe 1 hour tops. Occasionally, on Sunday during the day, I'll put in 1-2 hours to set up my Monday (this is not so email intensive and generally involves arranging a spreadsheet and trying to figure out where to fit in meetings). This only happens once a month or so, because I try to do this on Friday. However, if I cut out early on Friday, I don't get a chance to do this. In my current state, I'm extremely happy with my work/life balance. Sometimes I feel guilty that I'm not doing enough but at the end of the week, my current tasks are all done and everyone is saying that things are going along smoothly. I don't know what I would do if I stayed at work longer or worked weekends.
Disclaimer, I'm not a sysadmin or anything close to it. I do work with technology, but not in the support realm.
*Over my project, my schedule was basically work 5 days a week 10-12 hours and then put in 8-10 on each weekend day, then do the same for the week, then run a short day on Friday like 4-6 hours and take the weekend off until 9 AM on Monday
Good luck! I live in an apartment building. All you'll get is 3 little windows that face the street. You won't see all the innards (ie, the good stuff!) When I go to buy an apartment, I sure won't use this service, because who cares what the outside looks like?
I was just making an offhand comment about how they always measure speeds in bits (as is customary around the industry) but they measured the CIR in bytes. I made an extra point of making sure he was talking bytes not bits when he said 250Kilobytes Per Second, to avoid the whole .02 cents thing.
What I really want is a CIR (committed information rate) or Minimum rate I can pass data. If I truly had that and it was say 6Mb then I might be happy for a while.
Check into your ISP, I bet you have a CIR. I have Cablevision 15 Mbps/2 Mbps service and I generally get around 10 Mbps / 2 Mbps which I consider pretty close to what they're selling. A couple times, the connection dropped to 3-4 Mbps and I called them up. They informed me that the CIR is actually 2 Mbps (even though for whatever reason they measured it as 250 KBps*). I am therefore officially allowed to get 2 Mbps and anything else is butter. Most ISPs offer some kind of CIR, although not all (Time Warner in Syracuse comes to mind - at least in 2001).
*I made him clarify multiple times that this was not 250Kbps
This happens to Time Warner every year. It recently happened to me at Cablevision. What's the point?
I used to have service from Time Warner Syracuse and it was a disaster getting an HD DVR anytime of year from them. Shouldn't the article be renamed: Cable Companies have shitty customer service?