1) Several months ago I traveled in New Zealand for 10 days, and I found exactly *1* place that offered an Internet connection of the sort that is fairly common in the US: free for customers. Every other access site consisted of several MS-OS boxes and one could purchase a card with an access code - a certain number of minutes, with a bandwidth cap (some of these places offered WiFi, but subject to the same purchase plan). The rates are fairly steep, and the service that cuts off your session *lies about how much traffic you've used*. The consumer is basically screwed, as there's no way to appeal. I fear that a return to metered home-user-level service in the US would result in widespread abuse on the part of the mass-market NSP's. Business-type NSP's sample bandwidth and have a 95% percentile sort of billing arrangement with, say, a frac DS3 customer, but this would be impractical with low-margin high-touch home users at $50/mo.
2) ISP/NSP's oversell because they have to in order to be even remotely competitive -- and by and large it works fine. This is the case whether you have a mass-market DSL link, or a full-rate DS3. Any real NSP constantly monitors traffic over *every* link in their network and manages routing and circuit capacity so that customers generally get what they need. With a PTP sort of access link, there's often an SLA in place regarding bandwidth available to the customer. This is one reason why a 1.5MB/s up/down DS1 costs a whole lot more than an "up to" 3.0/384 DSL. Read the service description for a DSL or cable connection -- they'll say they offer speeds "up to" something but that nothing is guaranteed. They're providing exactly what they promised, using the only provisioning scheme that makes it possible to offer the low $/Mbit of DSL or cable in the US. Being able to break even in a market with high customer service and billing costs per customer requires more aggressive overselling of aggregate capacity than dedicated links, but the majority of DSL/cable customers over a week use a much smaller percentage of the line speed than a typical dedicated customer. If you want all line speed all the time, shell out for a DS1 or frac DS3, or metro ethernet or whatever. Just be prepared to pay for it rather than expecting a business to provide you an unrealistic service that it can't possibly even break even on.
I've had a hysterical buyer submit a fraudulent claim to PayPal and get their $ back *without* following through on her unilateral claim that the item was being shipped back. Did little to improve my views on PayPal and eBay in general. As either a seller or a buyer, one has to plan on being ripped off with little effective recourse a certain percentage of the time.
It probably doesn't hurt that Microcult is in (or near -- I've never been able to find a map for this) Verizon territory - I would expect FIOS penetration on the east side of the lake to be very high.
Seattle unfortunately is in Qwestland. My new place is 11000 feet from the CO, which means that even with Speakeasy the fastest I could get is 3.0/768. I'm going to try Comlast but may end up switching back to a DS1 just to get a usable up-channel.
Note how many DVD releases are simply old SD VHS or LD transfers quickly digitized -- eg., "Aliens", where Fox was kind enough to put the letterbox mattes on the disk rather than doing a proper 16:9 transfer. Perhaps brand-new blockbusters will be properly mastered for Blu-ray, but keep in mind that N years after the DVD came out we still have a significant percentage of titles that aren't mastered to take advantage of the medium. Why would this be any different for Blu-ray?
Back in the day when Fujitsu Eagles (anyone remember SMD?) were typical storage devices, it was entirely reasonable to map around a grown defect or two and keep running the same drive. With more recent disks, though, I've seen that factory error mapping is more reliable, and new defects on a disk presage a more widespread failure, so it's best to replace the whole disk before it crumbles.
Given the way that modern disks have variable sectors/track and are addressed with logical blocks instead of by physical C/H/S, I don't see how it could be possible to avoid using a given head/surface.
Rather than muck with all this added complexity, I'd rather just slap a bunch o disks into some enclosure or something like a Sun x4500, mirror them with SVM, and spend a fraction of the couple hundred grand saved on replacing my 1.6GHz G5 desktop.
There are also the people who think that all domains end with.com. I give them a.net or.org domain and they look at me funny like I Just Don't Understand What It's All About.
That's because male attractiveness is graded on a curve, the curve set by wealth, power, and social position.
Nope. Male attractiveness is *heavily* weighted by height. It takes substantial wealth or celebrity (are there any poor celebrities?) to override this.
I see this all the time. Guys who are total slobs, yet women get all sparkly and gooey as they throw themselves at them because they're 6'5".
Look at *any* dating site and notice what information is right up top: age and height. Anything that would actually correlate with being a good life partner is way down on the list and rarely read.
It all boils down to this: what the iPhone does it does well.
Notably, properly syncing iCal and Addressbook data, which AFAICT *no* other phone does. Admittedly I have to believe the fault lies with iSync for the most part, but in the end I want my phone to have my addresbook and calendar data.
I (well the company) paid for ISDN for the first year or so when I moved to my current place. Analog dialup was way too slow and unreliable for telecommuting, and the group/BU I was in then wouldn't spring for a DS1 (which I have now). Comcrap's cable plant stops about 2 miles away. I'm close enough to Verizon's site that I could get DSL but they can't be bothered to put a DSLAMM in there -- which as we've seen here seems to be standard Verizon policy these days, though there are some areas just as remote as mine (6-7 miles from the state highway with incorporated city).
1) Then why haven't they released the code?
2) I have never installed a single extension yet Firefox bloats like corpse on hot day
3) The vsize growing to 2.5 frickin GB is hardly a "standard feature" and when I navigate back and forth it clearly re-renders pages. But, just for grins let's pretend this makes sense. Where exactly would one find that hidden "stop bloating and crashing" button? I sure don't see it.
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How many of those people who "can't afford" cable TV service smoke or drive cars that get 35mpg? Yeah, that's what I thought.
I can personally verify that this sort of accounting / stats presents a hefty resource load on an NSP.
1) Several months ago I traveled in New Zealand for 10 days, and I found exactly *1* place that offered an Internet connection of the sort that is fairly common in the US: free for customers. Every other access site consisted of several MS-OS boxes and one could purchase a card with an access code - a certain number of minutes, with a bandwidth cap (some of these places offered WiFi, but subject to the same purchase plan). The rates are fairly steep, and the service that cuts off your session *lies about how much traffic you've used*. The consumer is basically screwed, as there's no way to appeal. I fear that a return to metered home-user-level service in the US would result in widespread abuse on the part of the mass-market NSP's. Business-type NSP's sample bandwidth and have a 95% percentile sort of billing arrangement with, say, a frac DS3 customer, but this would be impractical with low-margin high-touch home users at $50/mo. 2) ISP/NSP's oversell because they have to in order to be even remotely competitive -- and by and large it works fine. This is the case whether you have a mass-market DSL link, or a full-rate DS3. Any real NSP constantly monitors traffic over *every* link in their network and manages routing and circuit capacity so that customers generally get what they need. With a PTP sort of access link, there's often an SLA in place regarding bandwidth available to the customer. This is one reason why a 1.5MB/s up/down DS1 costs a whole lot more than an "up to" 3.0/384 DSL. Read the service description for a DSL or cable connection -- they'll say they offer speeds "up to" something but that nothing is guaranteed. They're providing exactly what they promised, using the only provisioning scheme that makes it possible to offer the low $/Mbit of DSL or cable in the US. Being able to break even in a market with high customer service and billing costs per customer requires more aggressive overselling of aggregate capacity than dedicated links, but the majority of DSL/cable customers over a week use a much smaller percentage of the line speed than a typical dedicated customer. If you want all line speed all the time, shell out for a DS1 or frac DS3, or metro ethernet or whatever. Just be prepared to pay for it rather than expecting a business to provide you an unrealistic service that it can't possibly even break even on.
I've had a hysterical buyer submit a fraudulent claim to PayPal and get their $ back *without* following through on her unilateral claim that the item was being shipped back. Did little to improve my views on PayPal and eBay in general. As either a seller or a buyer, one has to plan on being ripped off with little effective recourse a certain percentage of the time.
Density != Distribution
Since when are there are decent, affordable houses within 30 minutes of an NYC job? Only apartments AFAIK.
It probably doesn't hurt that Microcult is in (or near -- I've never been able to find a map for this) Verizon territory - I would expect FIOS penetration on the east side of the lake to be very high. Seattle unfortunately is in Qwestland. My new place is 11000 feet from the CO, which means that even with Speakeasy the fastest I could get is 3.0/768. I'm going to try Comlast but may end up switching back to a DS1 just to get a usable up-channel.
This is true. I bought a 61" DLP set in 2005 and today comparable sets are selling new for 1/3 what I paid.
Note how many DVD releases are simply old SD VHS or LD transfers quickly digitized -- eg., "Aliens", where Fox was kind enough to put the letterbox mattes on the disk rather than doing a proper 16:9 transfer. Perhaps brand-new blockbusters will be properly mastered for Blu-ray, but keep in mind that N years after the DVD came out we still have a significant percentage of titles that aren't mastered to take advantage of the medium. Why would this be any different for Blu-ray?
Back in the day when Fujitsu Eagles (anyone remember SMD?) were typical storage devices, it was entirely reasonable to map around a grown defect or two and keep running the same drive. With more recent disks, though, I've seen that factory error mapping is more reliable, and new defects on a disk presage a more widespread failure, so it's best to replace the whole disk before it crumbles. Given the way that modern disks have variable sectors/track and are addressed with logical blocks instead of by physical C/H/S, I don't see how it could be possible to avoid using a given head/surface. Rather than muck with all this added complexity, I'd rather just slap a bunch o disks into some enclosure or something like a Sun x4500, mirror them with SVM, and spend a fraction of the couple hundred grand saved on replacing my 1.6GHz G5 desktop.
Indeed, the 2.5" SAS enterprise-class disks that Sun ships eg. in an x4100 are pretty sweet.
There are also the people who think that all domains end with .com. I give them a .net or .org domain and they look at me funny like I Just Don't Understand What It's All About.
That's because male attractiveness is graded on a curve, the curve set by wealth, power, and social position. Nope. Male attractiveness is *heavily* weighted by height. It takes substantial wealth or celebrity (are there any poor celebrities?) to override this. I see this all the time. Guys who are total slobs, yet women get all sparkly and gooey as they throw themselves at them because they're 6'5". Look at *any* dating site and notice what information is right up top: age and height. Anything that would actually correlate with being a good life partner is way down on the list and rarely read.
It all boils down to this: what the iPhone does it does well. Notably, properly syncing iCal and Addressbook data, which AFAICT *no* other phone does. Admittedly I have to believe the fault lies with iSync for the most part, but in the end I want my phone to have my addresbook and calendar data.
I (well the company) paid for ISDN for the first year or so when I moved to my current place. Analog dialup was way too slow and unreliable for telecommuting, and the group/BU I was in then wouldn't spring for a DS1 (which I have now). Comcrap's cable plant stops about 2 miles away. I'm close enough to Verizon's site that I could get DSL but they can't be bothered to put a DSLAMM in there -- which as we've seen here seems to be standard Verizon policy these days, though there are some areas just as remote as mine (6-7 miles from the state highway with incorporated city).
Solarinite!
Dude. Don't *make* me invoke Shatner! ;)
You're forgetting Bryan Adams and Celine Dion. Hard to forgive the canucks for those twho.
Hell, the average 27 year old these days is pretty much still a child.
RL02's. Feh. Nothing quite matches a set of RX01's for CLANGBANGCLANGCHOPDICECLANG sheer neighbor-annoying noise.
1) Then why haven't they released the code? 2) I have never installed a single extension yet Firefox bloats like corpse on hot day 3) The vsize growing to 2.5 frickin GB is hardly a "standard feature" and when I navigate back and forth it clearly re-renders pages. But, just for grins let's pretend this makes sense. Where exactly would one find that hidden "stop bloating and crashing" button? I sure don't see it.
*cough* *cough* *cough* JFK *cough*
We'd be in Redmond.
I have an AT&T card on the way and would love to know how to bypass the proxy. Do tell.
Teens don't listen to metal any more. They listen to emo pablum and rap.