I believe that Science (like many other things) has been hi-jacked by politics.
It has been hijacked by dump people. If I turn on TV right now and switch to Discovery Ill probably see LA Ink, Most Haunted or other REALITY TV crap:(
Direct online bank transfer... in civilized world (read Europe). Its mostly free, takes below one minute to fill online form and money lands on another account same day. In Poland its instant if same bank, 3 transfer sessions a day between all Polish banks through Elixir system.
Im far from genius, and that is my point. Diagnosing mobo/gfx/phone is simple, electronics is not magic. It takes about 10 minutes per item to asses if it can be fixed without the need for 100K equipment, not to mention millions of dollars(*). Only problem is you need knowledge and skill. Maybe thats why its not done in US:).
we didn't have 7 layer PCBs with IC so tight that I would need a million dollar robot to replace.
its a joke, right? I can still replace ATI gpu on x360 with handheld Hot Air. It wont be 100% reliable (without proper alignment and xray to confirm the swap) but it will work and cost me 30 mins + some solder paste. Same goes for motherboards and graphic cards. Everything can be fixed, you just need skill and knowledge.
They're pretty much the only major financial institution to make it through this crisis without falling for the scams and without needing government money.
Thats cos THEY were the ones running scams, GS almost single handedly crushed Polish currency at the beginning of this year.
That analogy only works if the German company was selling them mail order and sending them over to Poland. Polish courts could certainly tell the German company to stop mailing guns to Polish customers residing in Poland.
ah yes, just like US Court telling Canadian citizen not to mail seeds to US?
Nope, EU is not one country, only EU law works in every member state, common law works only on national level.
This ruling has as much merit as Polish court ordering German gun shop to not sell 9mm blank pistols to Polish citizens. Its illegal in poland to own one, but legal in Germany to sell them. Polish court has no jurisdiction in Germany.
That is the ratio of you upload speed to download speed, what does that have to do with how many times they sell the same bandwidth.
oh dear... ISPs dont use asymmetric pipes to the world. Overbooking 50:1 means 50 users share X megabytes download and same X megabytes upload. Now every user has Y download and Y/10 upload. Worst case scenario is X/50 download and X/5 upload. You complained about upload. Either you worked for one of those retarded 100:1 providers, or by "working for ISP"
you meant "I shared ADSL with couple of friends once".
I read your post and understand it. Problem is overbooking ratio. My ISP is near 20:1, and so is the rest of mayor ISPs in my country (except the biggest post national almost a monopoly I will screw you one). I NEVER EVER had a problem with saturating my upload speed. Now upload/download ratio is usually 1:10. That means even with 50:1 overbooking ISP should NEVER run out of upload, that would require every fifth customer to be online and streaming full speed into the world. That never happens.
Problem is some like it in 100:1 region (Virgin Media in UK or some Australian ISPs). Is that customers fault? or the retards running those companies?
"so ISP was overbooking so badly it couldnt handle the traffic, that ISP should upgrade, shrink speeds it sells or just die"
Just to be clear, you really think any ISP is going to be able to afford to have dedicated speed so that every user can max out their connection, all the time?
Residental Internet is nowhere near expensive enough to pay for that.
There is overbooking and there is overbooking. Poster complained about upload. Upload is usually a measly 1/10 of download speed. That means even overbooking 20:1 will let half of your clients stream at full speed into the internet. Even at peak times its rare to see above 50% customers online, and even then below 30% uses their connections extensively.
Yes, shit does hit the fan if you overbook 100:1 and never upgrade your infrastructure.
The reality is that if you do not, then badly configured clients with no upload limit set will saturate whatever bandwidth is available if the user is sharing something popular
you mean they will saturate THEIR upload that they paid for.
In our case that number of requests coming in prevented people from being able to access their webmail so we started traffic shaping based on port.
so ISP was overbooking so badly it couldnt handle the traffic, that ISP should upgrade, shrink speeds it sells or just die
Does this still bother you, even with today's LCDs? I'm currently sitting at the side of my desk, typing this on a laptop, and I can read the text just fine on either of the two Dell 1905FP LCDs at the center of my desk, with one about 40cm away at a 45deg angle and the other about 80cm away at a 70deg angle. Both are displaying 12pt black-on-white antialiased text (PDFs) at 90dpi.
today YES. You are using old LCDs with Samsung PVA panels. Great angles on those. Today almost EVERYTHING is TN and sucks. Only top of the line stuff at 2-3x the price is SPVA/SMVA/SIPS.
Not for twitch games. Take Cod4 hardcore mode for example. Im brilliant when it comes to game mechanics. I know maps well, have memorized every nade spot, all gun stats, every single game timer. I use good headphones and almost always know where the enemy is... yet I still get shot plenty times in the face by 12 year old 0.00001s reflex kid.
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I believe that Science (like many other things) has been hi-jacked by politics.
It has been hijacked by dump people. If I turn on TV right now and switch to Discovery Ill probably see LA Ink, Most Haunted or other REALITY TV crap :(
its just a clone of Golden Axe
Well, he did direct three Spider-Man movies, that has to count for something!
and all you had to do was to unlock and use local SIM
Flights to the moon cost a lot of money and you don't make a penny out of it
Im sure you could make couple of millions on moon rocks alone
reality TV shows, best education Americans can get ...
Direct online bank transfer ... in civilized world (read Europe). Its mostly free, takes below one minute to fill online form and money lands on another account same day. In Poland its instant if same bank, 3 transfer sessions a day between all Polish banks through Elixir system.
Im far from genius, and that is my point. Diagnosing mobo/gfx/phone is simple, electronics is not magic. It takes about 10 minutes per item to asses if it can be fixed without the need for 100K equipment, not to mention millions of dollars(*). Only problem is you need knowledge and skill. Maybe thats why its not done in US :).
(*) http://www.crc-polska.com/ worked there for a while.
we didn't have 7 layer PCBs with IC so tight that I would need a million dollar robot to replace.
its a joke, right? I can still replace ATI gpu on x360 with handheld Hot Air. It wont be 100% reliable (without proper alignment and xray to confirm the swap) but it will work and cost me 30 mins + some solder paste. Same goes for motherboards and graphic cards. Everything can be fixed, you just need skill and knowledge.
Nothing, which is why there is at least one Windows application that does exactly that.
details?
They're pretty much the only major financial institution to make it through this crisis without falling for the scams and without needing government money.
Thats cos THEY were the ones running scams, GS almost single handedly crushed Polish currency at the beginning of this year.
"pot (or mushrooms)" are illegal in Canada so your analogy doesn't work
That analogy only works if the German company was selling them mail order and sending them over to Poland. Polish courts could certainly tell the German company to stop mailing guns to Polish customers residing in Poland.
ah yes, just like US Court telling Canadian citizen not to mail seeds to US?
Too bad thers no PoC or list of vulnerable browsers.
Nope, EU is not one country, only EU law works in every member state, common law works only on national level. This ruling has as much merit as Polish court ordering German gun shop to not sell 9mm blank pistols to Polish citizens. Its illegal in poland to own one, but legal in Germany to sell them. Polish court has no jurisdiction in Germany.
Poland is the next one. You can copy for your friends and family for non commercial use.
Hi Tom Cruise!
hell, I can see it desyncs with no glasses at all, red is all over the place when something moves fast.
Now upload/download ratio is usually 1:10
That is the ratio of you upload speed to download speed, what does that have to do with how many times they sell the same bandwidth.
oh dear... ISPs dont use asymmetric pipes to the world. Overbooking 50:1 means 50 users share X megabytes download and same X megabytes upload. Now every user has Y download and Y/10 upload. Worst case scenario is X/50 download and X/5 upload.
You complained about upload. Either you worked for one of those retarded 100:1 providers, or by "working for ISP" you meant "I shared ADSL with couple of friends once".
I read your post and understand it. Problem is overbooking ratio. My ISP is near 20:1, and so is the rest of mayor ISPs in my country (except the biggest post national almost a monopoly I will screw you one). I NEVER EVER had a problem with saturating my upload speed.
Now upload/download ratio is usually 1:10. That means even with 50:1 overbooking ISP should NEVER run out of upload, that would require every fifth customer to be online and streaming full speed into the world. That never happens.
Problem is some like it in 100:1 region (Virgin Media in UK or some Australian ISPs). Is that customers fault? or the retards running those companies?
"so ISP was overbooking so badly it couldnt handle the traffic, that ISP should upgrade, shrink speeds it sells or just die"
Just to be clear, you really think any ISP is going to be able to afford to have dedicated speed so that every user can max out their connection, all the time?
Residental Internet is nowhere near expensive enough to pay for that.
There is overbooking and there is overbooking.
Poster complained about upload. Upload is usually a measly 1/10 of download speed. That means even overbooking 20:1 will let half of your clients stream at full speed into the internet. Even at peak times its rare to see above 50% customers online, and even then below 30% uses their connections extensively.
Yes, shit does hit the fan if you overbook 100:1 and never upgrade your infrastructure.
The reality is that if you do not, then badly configured clients with no upload limit set will saturate whatever bandwidth is available if the user is sharing something popular
you mean they will saturate THEIR upload that they paid for.
In our case that number of requests coming in prevented people from being able to access their webmail so we started traffic shaping based on port.
so ISP was overbooking so badly it couldnt handle the traffic, that ISP should upgrade, shrink speeds it sells or just die
Does this still bother you, even with today's LCDs? I'm currently sitting at the side of my desk, typing this on a laptop, and I can read the text just fine on either of the two Dell 1905FP LCDs at the center of my desk, with one about 40cm away at a 45deg angle and the other about 80cm away at a 70deg angle. Both are displaying 12pt black-on-white antialiased text (PDFs) at 90dpi.
today YES. You are using old LCDs with Samsung PVA panels. Great angles on those. Today almost EVERYTHING is TN and sucks. Only top of the line stuff at 2-3x the price is SPVA/SMVA/SIPS.
Crazy. Deeply religious people are just crazy.
Not for twitch games. Take Cod4 hardcore mode for example. Im brilliant when it comes to game mechanics. I know maps well, have memorized every nade spot, all gun stats, every single game timer. I use good headphones and almost always know where the enemy is ... yet I still get shot plenty times in the face by 12 year old 0.00001s reflex kid.