This concept doesn't quite work with what we have here. When you use someone elses Internet Connection, they are forced to sharing their bandwidth with you. I.e. you download a large file while they download a large file, their file downloads slower because the capacity of the connection is limited. Go back to the water analogy, and the only point that you could use that water is once it has left the persons property, making it non-recoverable by the owner (At least, not easily nor cheaply recoverable).
Shared Bandwidth is not the same as Leftovers. Parallel vs Serial.;)
Still susceptible to man in the middle attacks. Anything not encrypted/signed/trusted can be modified, including the hash. HTTPS would better from a security standpoint.
But the question is: when you have a cookie, what can you do with it? Can you steal important data? Can you turn that cookie into a breach? Good web sites that use them also tie cookies to your IP address, which means that if you steal my cookie, you got nothing but crumbs. In an aside to the main point, Good web sites take into account transparent proxies at an ISP level which might result in the user appearing to come from multiple IP Addresses (as the ISP might load balance requests to various proxies without binding a particular user to a particular proxy). This is a situation that I've come across with a website of mine.
I imagine a few dedicated people will attempt a poor mans multi link and have multiple connections to the wifi network. Just set up a load balancing virtual IP as your gateway and hey presto. Would boost their speed quite nicely (Sure, you won't get more than 300kb/s on a single connection, but if you use a download manager then it wouldn't matter).
Seeing as it has its base in Interbase, I would be running away as quick as possible.
Interbase/Firebird(?) has a SWEEP process (read: Vacuum), however it was far more sluggish than Postgres. Also, the MVCC has a transaction count limit on Interbase where you hit ~2 billion transactions you MUST do a backup/restore -- a simple sweep won't cut it. I was working with a database that eventually required bi-monthly restores and each restore took over 12 hours. I also always found it funny that Interbase's row version was stored as a signed int (hence 2 billion version), rather than an unsigned int (giving 4 billion versions).
When we moved to Postgres, on the same hardware, the backup went from over 12 hours to under 50 minutes. This is also due in part to the better tweaking capabilities available in postgres. Interbase is designed to be an easy to use/setup database system, which works fine for small cases, but when you start dealing with tens of millions of transactions per day, it becomes more work than it is worth.
So if Falcon is anywhere like Interbase/Firebird, I'd be keeping well clear of it.
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XML was intended to be easy to PARSE, not easy to read. From the Origin and Goals of XML: XML documents should be human-legible and reasonably clear.
True, their primary purpose isn't to be read by human beings, but comparatively it is superior to non-ASCII binary formats by what I would say a significant amount.
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if something, anything, is intended to be primarily parsed by machine, use xml
xml is a b**ch to read Don't forget what we used to use... binary is even worse. XML was designed with people in mind, which is why it's easier for people to read and manipulate than your traditional binary file format.
All the companies I've worked for have either used a large/dominant Telecom or a well established, large customer base ISP. You won't get the cheapest deals in the world (far from it), but they do have the infrastructure to provide for your needs. Especially if you are using them for business critical systems.
Will Xbox Live finally provide Microsoft with a iTunes competing platform for selling music? (And lets face it, there is no iTunes competitor that is even remotely in the league of iTunes).
Big companies should include IT issues as a KPI, to encourage staff against relying too much on the IT department to fix their stupidity.
Of course, this could just drive people away from using the department at all for fear of getting a bad performance review and thus drive down productivity.
I could envision pranksters trying to sneak in false information just before the DVD release...
But that's the benefit of the DVD... you can do some better quality checking before the publication which ensures that (less) silly/false articles make it in.
It also means that organisations don't waste bandwidth visiting Wikipedia all the time. Imagine a school of several thousand students, and the bandwidth used if they use the Wikipedia heaps. The school won't like it. Alternatively, the school can for the same price as a movie ticket get a complete copy for local use.
What will they search now?
I can't see many sites, especially shopping sites, powering their interfaces this way. Suddenly they'd lose all their search engine hits and PageRank becomes that much less useful.
Sure it's good for the likes of email sites and interactive maps, where the data wouldn't be indexed much anyway.
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This concept doesn't quite work with what we have here. When you use someone elses Internet Connection, they are forced to sharing their bandwidth with you. I.e. you download a large file while they download a large file, their file downloads slower because the capacity of the connection is limited. Go back to the water analogy, and the only point that you could use that water is once it has left the persons property, making it non-recoverable by the owner (At least, not easily nor cheaply recoverable). Shared Bandwidth is not the same as Leftovers. Parallel vs Serial. ;)
Still susceptible to man in the middle attacks. Anything not encrypted/signed/trusted can be modified, including the hash. HTTPS would better from a security standpoint.
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I imagine a few dedicated people will attempt a poor mans multi link and have multiple connections to the wifi network. Just set up a load balancing virtual IP as your gateway and hey presto. Would boost their speed quite nicely (Sure, you won't get more than 300kb/s on a single connection, but if you use a download manager then it wouldn't matter).
Seeing as it has its base in Interbase, I would be running away as quick as possible. Interbase/Firebird(?) has a SWEEP process (read: Vacuum), however it was far more sluggish than Postgres. Also, the MVCC has a transaction count limit on Interbase where you hit ~2 billion transactions you MUST do a backup/restore -- a simple sweep won't cut it. I was working with a database that eventually required bi-monthly restores and each restore took over 12 hours. I also always found it funny that Interbase's row version was stored as a signed int (hence 2 billion version), rather than an unsigned int (giving 4 billion versions). When we moved to Postgres, on the same hardware, the backup went from over 12 hours to under 50 minutes. This is also due in part to the better tweaking capabilities available in postgres. Interbase is designed to be an easy to use/setup database system, which works fine for small cases, but when you start dealing with tens of millions of transactions per day, it becomes more work than it is worth. So if Falcon is anywhere like Interbase/Firebird, I'd be keeping well clear of it.
xml is a b**ch to read
Don't forget what we used to use... binary is even worse. XML was designed with people in mind, which is why it's easier for people to read and manipulate than your traditional binary file format.
All the companies I've worked for have either used a large/dominant Telecom or a well established, large customer base ISP. You won't get the cheapest deals in the world (far from it), but they do have the infrastructure to provide for your needs. Especially if you are using them for business critical systems.
Will Xbox Live finally provide Microsoft with a iTunes competing platform for selling music? (And lets face it, there is no iTunes competitor that is even remotely in the league of iTunes).
Key Performance Indicator.
Big companies should include IT issues as a KPI, to encourage staff against relying too much on the IT department to fix their stupidity. Of course, this could just drive people away from using the department at all for fear of getting a bad performance review and thus drive down productivity.
Dreamweaver comes with a function explicitly for dealing with Word goodness (Clean Word HTML IIRC). Also, perhaps try HTML Tidy?
I could envision pranksters trying to sneak in false information just before the DVD release... ... you can do some better quality checking before the publication which ensures that (less) silly/false articles make it in.
But that's the benefit of the DVD
It also means that organisations don't waste bandwidth visiting Wikipedia all the time. Imagine a school of several thousand students, and the bandwidth used if they use the Wikipedia heaps. The school won't like it. Alternatively, the school can for the same price as a movie ticket get a complete copy for local use.
What will they search now? I can't see many sites, especially shopping sites, powering their interfaces this way. Suddenly they'd lose all their search engine hits and PageRank becomes that much less useful. Sure it's good for the likes of email sites and interactive maps, where the data wouldn't be indexed much anyway.