Having all channels simulcast for IPTV isn't a good idea anyway. Maybe sending 2 or 3 channels max at a time is all you need. Really, the cable company should be doing this, wasting 100s of megabits of bandwidth just to simulcast to the user is just plain looney.
Isn't the IPTV which they're offering meant to be largely handled by their FIOS service? I understand at some point they have to connect to a larger pipe to serve that, but really, do you expect a company that serves so many users NOT to think of things like this beforehand?
They're just trying to blur the distinction between the two, once you do that, its easy to blur it furthur.
Seriousy, its mostly about getting in the news and saying, "see what happens when you pirate?!?!" Its an attempt to stop the unstoppable. That's why every now and then you'll see a huge drug bust on the news. It doesn't actually stop drug trafficing, it makes it look like the people in government doing the legwork are being productive/useful.
Not because google is handling funding, but that an organization that doesn't have a vested interest in such business persuits is doing the actual work.
PS: I'm waiting for Google to annouce its plan for world peace.
I think both actually have their place. Sometimes, when I'm doing work, all I really want is background noise, and pop hits do that nicely.
When I'm looking to relax or just sit and listen to music, I seek out specific artists (Jazz mostly: Dave Koz, Chris Botti, Soul Ballet, and yes, Kenny G) or genres.
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"When will we see a replacement for the old phone number?"
I'd like a gateway myself, for legacy support.
What most people don't think of though is the advantage of having a new phone system that uses voip. Right now, all voice transmissions are at the rate of 8kbps, which is rather shitty for voice quality. FM is at 64kbps and a cd can be ripped to 320kbps.
Imagine how much easier it would be to discern someone's voice on the phone if they were at FM quality?
Someone did the math on this, most US based phone services have an uptime of about 99.999% which equated to about 6 seconds of down time *a year.* Vonage has an average uptime somewhere around 99.4%, which in this event, is quite a large difference.
Things like that happened where I worked too. I had to upgrade the OS on all the macs in a school system. So naturally, since they were old, they didn't support WOL and I had to go around to every room and physically turn them on.
Well, we're in the middle of checking all the network connections and BAM, about 5 computers go down, all in the same room.
Well, my boss and I rush down there to see a custodian buffing the floor, and had just decided to rip the power strip out of the wall willy-nilly.
I tell you, if you don't know what it is, DON'T TOUCH IT!
No one protected me from it. The first computer that I had sole access to was when I became the system administrator of the whole house. Its not that they didn't care, its that they didn't know. My parents are usually good at their job so maybe they knew I could handle it (very bad pun there, unintended).
Anyway. Nowadays I'm the one protecting my parents from such things, so that they can't browse or read my collection.
Patriotism is a devotion towards one's country, and a country is made of citizens.
Remember this one thing as long as you can: you have a duty to your fellow man, not to your government. If government is hurting you, you owe them treason.
Exactly. Oh, by the way I found a way to add it to a list of exceptions. On the left panel of Norton I think its under view, and it gives you a list of realtime protections like virus and one of them is spyware. You can exclude ardamax from the list of spyware programs. There's 2 signatures, one for the free one and one with.b at the end for the full version.
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It'll stay cool, if it gets too many requests it'll just tell you to piss off.
And if it does go down, hey, its only passed out, and not burning in flame.
What wonderful breakfast conversation.
Anyway, I think I detect an IgNobile prize winner here.
I think its the way its advertised. I don't think google should push it as an internet alternative/replacement, rather as an additional service.
But this goes under the heading of false advertising, not some new and evil thing.
Perhaps, but analog doesn't, and a good amount of people still have that.
Having all channels simulcast for IPTV isn't a good idea anyway. Maybe sending 2 or 3 channels max at a time is all you need. Really, the cable company should be doing this, wasting 100s of megabits of bandwidth just to simulcast to the user is just plain looney.
Isn't the IPTV which they're offering meant to be largely handled by their FIOS service? I understand at some point they have to connect to a larger pipe to serve that, but really, do you expect a company that serves so many users NOT to think of things like this beforehand?
They're just trying to blur the distinction between the two, once you do that, its easy to blur it furthur.
Seriousy, its mostly about getting in the news and saying, "see what happens when you pirate?!?!" Its an attempt to stop the unstoppable. That's why every now and then you'll see a huge drug bust on the news. It doesn't actually stop drug trafficing, it makes it look like the people in government doing the legwork are being productive/useful.
How odd, a classic bash-ism has come true:
why is it so hard to find a good windows font?
bah
what a craptastic os.
you get what you pay for
you mean the copies you buy are better?
I don't know, sex with an oven is a very tricky prospect.
Not to nitpick, but how many engineers say that they were influence to study engineering because of Scotty from Star Trek?
The issue isn't that rolemodels shouldn't be important, its that you should choose your role model wisely.
Not because google is handling funding, but that an organization that doesn't have a vested interest in such business persuits is doing the actual work.
PS: I'm waiting for Google to annouce its plan for world peace.
I wonder if he'll allow Bill Cosby to come on as a guest. :)
Yeah, but everyone knows he did his best work as a zombie.
Maybe a few years, decades, to get us to other planets/stars.
Next stop, cryogenics.
Well, computers have pipelines and |'s.
:)
Coincidence?! I think not!
I think both actually have their place. Sometimes, when I'm doing work, all I really want is background noise, and pop hits do that nicely.
When I'm looking to relax or just sit and listen to music, I seek out specific artists (Jazz mostly: Dave Koz, Chris Botti, Soul Ballet, and yes, Kenny G) or genres.
"When will we see a replacement for the old phone number?"
I'd like a gateway myself, for legacy support.
What most people don't think of though is the advantage of having a new phone system that uses voip. Right now, all voice transmissions are at the rate of 8kbps, which is rather shitty for voice quality. FM is at 64kbps and a cd can be ripped to 320kbps.
Imagine how much easier it would be to discern someone's voice on the phone if they were at FM quality?
"POTS goes out ALL THE TIME"
Huh?
Someone did the math on this, most US based phone services have an uptime of about 99.999% which equated to about 6 seconds of down time *a year.* Vonage has an average uptime somewhere around 99.4%, which in this event, is quite a large difference.
Thank you. I had trouble finding those dates. I knew at the very least that one of 2K's packs came out after XP was releasted.
Microsoft doesn't love releasing service packs for any OS that isn't the latest one.
NT4 service packs ended about the time Win2K came out.
I'm guessing this means Vista will be pushed even further back then Microsoft have been letting on.
Won't someone think of the Network?! (TM)
Things like that happened where I worked too. I had to upgrade the OS on all the macs in a school system. So naturally, since they were old, they didn't support WOL and I had to go around to every room and physically turn them on.
Well, we're in the middle of checking all the network connections and BAM, about 5 computers go down, all in the same room.
Well, my boss and I rush down there to see a custodian buffing the floor, and had just decided to rip the power strip out of the wall willy-nilly.
I tell you, if you don't know what it is, DON'T TOUCH IT!
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No one protected me from it. The first computer that I had sole access to was when I became the system administrator of the whole house. Its not that they didn't care, its that they didn't know. My parents are usually good at their job so maybe they knew I could handle it (very bad pun there, unintended).
Anyway. Nowadays I'm the one protecting my parents from such things, so that they can't browse or read my collection.
Patriotism is a devotion towards one's country, and a country is made of citizens.
Remember this one thing as long as you can: you have a duty to your fellow man, not to your government. If government is hurting you, you owe them treason.
Exactly. Oh, by the way I found a way to add it to a list of exceptions. On the left panel of Norton I think its under view, and it gives you a list of realtime protections like virus and one of them is spyware. You can exclude ardamax from the list of spyware programs. There's 2 signatures, one for the free one and one with .b at the end for the full version.