I just tried to DL it with my JHU login, and it said it couldn't verify me as a student...
Maybe its only certain departments at the schools whose students are allowed to download?
Ok, yeah, I weaseled out of that last one. Thats because I didn't really give a whole ton of thought to the question. If I had had a nice cup of coffee, sat down, and actually pondered over what I wanted to ask, it wouldn't have been as much of a little ball of crap as it was.
I honestly didn't even expect it to get posted. I figured that if it did hit the front page, it would draw more questions, and at least some thoughtful, carefully worded replies, like yours.
I certainly don't claim to know how the internet works from end to end. All I know is that there are a lot of people out there, more all the time, who are unsatisfied, for whatever reason, with the state of consumer internet access in America today. I know that the internet content that is in demand today is a lot bigger than the content that was in demand a few years ago. Content is getting bigger and richer all the time, and I hear more and more of this jabbering about how the current system that moves that content from source to sink is becoming strained beyond capacity. I don't know what the question is, or if there should even be a question.
Maybe this is a better question: "I hear there's something wrong with the internet in the US. What is the problem and how do we/they fix it?"
That article seems to be about throttling BT bandwith. Thats not the same thing as over-subscription. Oversubscribing a network is when the service you are providing (say 5Mb DSL), multiplied by the number of clients is greater than the pipe you are feeding it.
Yes, obviously, the article is about throttling BT. Comcast's throttling of BT bandwidth is an indicator that their customers are putting more strain on the existing local infrastructure than they expected - more than it can handle. Even though in this instance, Comcast's TOS allows them to throttle BT at their discretion, the same does not apply to many other upload-hungry applications. I know what oversubscription is.
Why do they do this? Not sure but I'd lay a bet that their cost-model for DSL implementation was based on data from dial-up usage which was a far different behavior pattern than people use today. It could even be that they simply applied a model similar to POTS which is also designed for over-subscription.
Makes sense.
Point here is that over-subscription isn't something new, neither is it a sign of the collapsing internet. It's just the model that telcos adopted because of some assumption about usage patterns. It is a reason to feel ripped-off though, since it's part of the reason you will virtually never get 6Mbps out of your 6Mb DSL line.
It isn't really a model that works anymore, is it? At some point, the size of the junk expanded to fit the size of the pipe.
This article really seems like it's about Cable infrastructure supporting IPTV. This, to me seems to be about the capacity of the cable network - NOT the internet, specifically about upstream traffic.
IPTV = Internet Protocol Television
While the blurb surrounding the article is muddy, I included that because IPTV is very relevant to the concept of expanding bandwidth needs.
It's an interesting question but I don't see how any of the above forces you to wonder it.
Whatever.
The trend I see is that cable companies are trying to give the impression of expanded service without actually improving the service. Yeah, they can promise more bandwidth, but all they are really doing is further overselling their existing termination system technologies.
At some point, the requirement has to be for ISPs to give a better quality product at a lower cost. That is where the earnings increases come from... Thats unbridled idealism, but meh.
There is no revenue growth future in what they are doing--unless they can dig their teeth into a new revenue stream--e.g., by raising the rents of content providers. There will always be a demand for more and more bandwidth though, right?
Elephants are also capable of distinguishing rhythmic and even melodic patterns.
The Thai Elephant Orchestra is a group of elephants who were given musical instruments, and began to play them as a group, copying each other's rhythms, and making use of repeated melodies.
http://mulatta.org/Thaielephantorch.html
Windows' PEAP supplicant is CRAP. It doesn't work right. The only one that works even moderately well is odyssey, by funk software.
M$ says they will make a better supplicant, but i'll believe it when I see it.
If I make murdering someone with a blue knife legal, but murdering someone with a red knife illegal, and 50% of murders are committed with a blue knife, does that mean that the number of legal murders being committed are legal murders? I guess so. Changing the rules makes it real easy to make whatever you want legal or illegal.
The US has begun a targeted campaign against the british government in an attempt to uncover the person who released the so-called "Downing Street Memos"
www.afterdowningstreet.org
I saw this at least a week ago. And it's not politically incorrect, because the only way to study crap like this is to pick a really specific ethnic group. You wouldn't exactly say, OK EVVYBODY LES STUDDY DEM BLACK FOLKS AND SEE IF THEY'S INTELGINCE MAKES EM SICK!
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I just tried to DL it with my JHU login, and it said it couldn't verify me as a student... Maybe its only certain departments at the schools whose students are allowed to download?
Will do, thanks.
Ok, yeah, I weaseled out of that last one. Thats because I didn't really give a whole ton of thought to the question. If I had had a nice cup of coffee, sat down, and actually pondered over what I wanted to ask, it wouldn't have been as much of a little ball of crap as it was.
I honestly didn't even expect it to get posted. I figured that if it did hit the front page, it would draw more questions, and at least some thoughtful, carefully worded replies, like yours.
I certainly don't claim to know how the internet works from end to end. All I know is that there are a lot of people out there, more all the time, who are unsatisfied, for whatever reason, with the state of consumer internet access in America today. I know that the internet content that is in demand today is a lot bigger than the content that was in demand a few years ago. Content is getting bigger and richer all the time, and I hear more and more of this jabbering about how the current system that moves that content from source to sink is becoming strained beyond capacity. I don't know what the question is, or if there should even be a question.
Maybe this is a better question:
"I hear there's something wrong with the internet in the US. What is the problem and how do we/they fix it?"
Better? Worse?
That article seems to be about throttling BT bandwith. Thats not the same thing as over-subscription. Oversubscribing a network is when the service you are providing (say 5Mb DSL), multiplied by the number of clients is greater than the pipe you are feeding it. Yes, obviously, the article is about throttling BT. Comcast's throttling of BT bandwidth is an indicator that their customers are putting more strain on the existing local infrastructure than they expected - more than it can handle. Even though in this instance, Comcast's TOS allows them to throttle BT at their discretion, the same does not apply to many other upload-hungry applications. I know what oversubscription is. Why do they do this? Not sure but I'd lay a bet that their cost-model for DSL implementation was based on data from dial-up usage which was a far different behavior pattern than people use today. It could even be that they simply applied a model similar to POTS which is also designed for over-subscription. Makes sense. Point here is that over-subscription isn't something new, neither is it a sign of the collapsing internet. It's just the model that telcos adopted because of some assumption about usage patterns. It is a reason to feel ripped-off though, since it's part of the reason you will virtually never get 6Mbps out of your 6Mb DSL line. It isn't really a model that works anymore, is it? At some point, the size of the junk expanded to fit the size of the pipe. This article really seems like it's about Cable infrastructure supporting IPTV. This, to me seems to be about the capacity of the cable network - NOT the internet, specifically about upstream traffic. IPTV = Internet Protocol Television While the blurb surrounding the article is muddy, I included that because IPTV is very relevant to the concept of expanding bandwidth needs. It's an interesting question but I don't see how any of the above forces you to wonder it. Whatever.
Hmm... I'm sure I have a bucket of sand around here somewhere...
Nice blog post, very informative.
The trend I see is that cable companies are trying to give the impression of expanded service without actually improving the service. Yeah, they can promise more bandwidth, but all they are really doing is further overselling their existing termination system technologies. At some point, the requirement has to be for ISPs to give a better quality product at a lower cost. That is where the earnings increases come from... Thats unbridled idealism, but meh.
Yes, because Aleister Crowley is the perfect thing to read as a bedtime story to a child. "Magick" is even more of a sham than modern religions.
Who knows what could happen if enough truth got out. Gives me nightmares just thinkin about it.
Elephants are also capable of distinguishing rhythmic and even melodic patterns. The Thai Elephant Orchestra is a group of elephants who were given musical instruments, and began to play them as a group, copying each other's rhythms, and making use of repeated melodies. http://mulatta.org/Thaielephantorch.html
Great, I have a modded Xbox! Now if I could just get rid of that pesky blinking orange light.
This what happens when smart people read books like Dan Brown's Digital Fortress.
Here's the cache. Movie
Windows' PEAP supplicant is CRAP. It doesn't work right. The only one that works even moderately well is odyssey, by funk software. M$ says they will make a better supplicant, but i'll believe it when I see it.
The Cisco callmanager can set up calls to be encrypted end-to-end.
Putting ads in the very medium that people use to escape ads is extremely distasteful.
nt
That would be true if they would let you add things... These days, every enterprise level MS app basically HAS to run on its own box...
chown -r us:us /home/you/base
chown -r us:us /home/you/base
If I make murdering someone with a blue knife legal, but murdering someone with a red knife illegal, and 50% of murders are committed with a blue knife, does that mean that the number of legal murders being committed are legal murders? I guess so. Changing the rules makes it real easy to make whatever you want legal or illegal.
The US has begun a targeted campaign against the british government in an attempt to uncover the person who released the so-called "Downing Street Memos" www.afterdowningstreet.org
Patent Reform= Attempt by Big Software to kill linux once and for all
I saw this at least a week ago. And it's not politically incorrect, because the only way to study crap like this is to pick a really specific ethnic group. You wouldn't exactly say, OK EVVYBODY LES STUDDY DEM BLACK FOLKS AND SEE IF THEY'S INTELGINCE MAKES EM SICK!