Well, I do use Netflix, and have had their service non-stop for nearly a decade. I used to have 8 discs at a time, but for the past few years have only used their streaming service. I am outraged at both companies for even considering the peering arrangement. (If your not familiar, google: "netflix comcast deal" they are also working on deals with other ISPs all of which hurt network neutrality. Want to know why? Click my links below!)
Here is some food for thought:
A bunch of cable tv channels were dropped from directv a few times fairly recently during contract disputes. If level 1 providers like cogent and level3 take a card from big cables deck; by offering offending ISPs just had a taste of dark fiber and all customers jumping ship they might change their tune. I'm sure other ISPs could build a decent network with all those new customers. If you hold their customers hostage and they will definitely come to the table or go out of business, either would be good. We can not allow money hungry last mile monopoly to continue to drive internet speeds downward while erasing net neutrality.
If you are a netflix customer I urge you to please: CALL THEM AND DEMAND THEY CANCEL THE COMCAST AND OTHER ISP DEALS. WE CAN NOT STAND FOR THEM HURTING NET NEUTRALITY NOR CAN WE AFFORD TO PAY THEM TO PUT SERVERS IN EVERY SINGLE ISPs DATACENTER. I CALLED AND DEMANDED THAT THEY SEND A MESSAGE TO THEIR CEO TO GOOGLE LEVEL3 http://blog.level3.com/global-... and COGENTs http://www.cnet.com/news/cogen... STANCE ON THE SITUATION.
Spread the word, please, I beg you as a longterm netflix customer and fan who loves this (normally) innovative and forward thinking company.
I couldn't agree more with this comment. If it is OK for netflix to pay network providers for peering/colocation, then we should be able to get reimbursed for hosting a netflix node even as a customer.
Here is some food for thought:
A bunch of cable tv channels were dropped from directv a few times fairly recently. If level 1 providers take a card from big cables deck; by offering offending ISPs just had a taste of dark fiber and all customers jumping ship they might change their tune. I'm sure other ISPs could build a decent network with all those new customers. If you hold their customers hostage and they will definitely come to the table or go out of business, either would be good. We can not allow money hungry last mile monopoly to continue to drive internet speeds downward while erasing net neutrality.
If you are a netflix customer I urge you to please: CALL THEM AND DEMAND THEY CANCEL THE COMCAST AND OTHER ISP DEALS. WE CAN NOT STAND FOR THEM HURTING NET NEUTRALITY NOR CAN WE AFFORD TO PAY THEM TO PUT SERVERS IN EVERY SINGLE ISPs DATACENTER. I CALLED AND DEMANDED THAT THEY SEND A MESSAGE TO THEIR CEO TO GOOGLE LEVEL3 http://blog.level3.com/global-... and COGENTs http://www.cnet.com/news/cogen... STANCE ON THE SITUATION.
Spread the word, please, I beg you as a longterm netflix customer and fan who loves this (normally) innovative and forward thinking company.
The two comments above were exactly my thought on the subject. Level 3 has responded in the comments (on the blog in the second link of the news article) that many of their peering agreements do not have many of the contractual restrictions we assume they do.
A bunch of cable tv channels were dropped from directv a few times. If level 1 providers take a card from big cables deck; by offering offending ISPs just had a taste of dark fiber and all customers jumping ship they might change their tune. I'm sure other ISPs could build a decent network with all those new customers. If you hold their customers hostage and they will definitely come to the table or go out of business, either would be good. We can not allow money hungry last mile monopoly to continue to drive internet speeds downward while erasing net neutrality.
If you are a netflix customer I urge you to please: CALL THEM AND DEMAND THEY CANCEL THE COMCAST AND OTHER ISP DEALS. WE CAN NOT STAND FOR THEM HURTING NET NEUTRALITY NOR CAN WE AFFORD TO PAY THEM TO PUT SERVERS IN EVERY SINGLE ISPs DATACENTER. I CALLED AND DEMANDED THAT THEY SEND A MESSAGE TO THEIR CEO TO GOOGLE LEVEL3 http://blog.level3.com/global-... and COGENTs http://www.cnet.com/news/cogen... STANCE ON THE SITUATION.
Spread the word, please, I beg you as a longterm netflix customer and fan who loves this (normally) innovative and forward thinking company.
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Konqueror is becoming better and better, and is really an alternative to firefox now
Yes, I agree, in windows I use firefox, but on my Linux machines I use konqueror most of the time. It's just better.
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Better = Loads faster, and is more user friendly
Lol, I just said that, but in a nicer way... Firefox use is growing everywhere.. Not in Europe alone. But whatever slashdot.. and these figures are bogus, anyone who reads the article sees in big bold print:
Mozilla has sounded a note of caution over the figures, however
But any growth is good.. and use is increasing, 20% I highly doubt though.
Last I checked, Firefox useage is increasing everywhere, not just in europe... When something makes sense, it grows in use quickly.
Also, downloads don't count all the uses, I know in my work enviroment, we downloaded it once, but its on over 500 machines.
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Yes, they always have been, but they haven't always existed. PHP is at the forefront of web 2.0. Something tells me your not a webdesigner. A windows server to run asp or just licenseing for the dynamic content languages before ment investing in your own private server and paying all kinds of licensing fees to get it operateing at all, then you have to worry about getting visitors. Now with search engines tieing the internet together better then ever you don't have to worry about getting your visitors as much if you have content they will find you. With the invention of free scripting which can produce dynamic content you don't have to pay outrageous licensing fees any longer. It allows small groups to get information out to the masses, like JibJab the overnight hit of a couple flash animators. 5 years ago they wouldn't have been able to get on their feet. Now you can buy hosting cheaper too due to the large number of webpages around hosters can offer cheap hosting and distribute the cost of implementing servers with langauges that have licensing fees.
E-mail is a lot like a webpage actually..
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Moving away from email? Email has absolutely nothing to do with the WWW. It's a completely different service. It sounds more like Internet 2.0. You'd never call an email a webpage.
Actually most e-mail now-a-days is exactly like a webpage. Its just not publicly avaliable (Like a page on a webserver; But not all webservers are publicly avaliable either). You get e-mailed pictures and forms all the time I bet. If you can see the pictures before having to unpack them as an attachment, then its a webpage. Its talking about the move to dynamic content. E-mail used to be flat text, now its all about content, I get e-mail all the time with forms in it, from sweepstakes to mailing lists. Not all e-mail supports the great content yet, so most places are still slow to start useing the non plain text mail, but many places already use it. The difference between the new e-mail and a webpage is the way you retrive it. A webserver (the content source) is either public or password protected and you logon and see a webpage. In e-mail, the server (content source) connects to your e-mail server, and sends you the page, which you then login to, in order to view. It is very similar although e-mail uses a different protocol. I would like to see the release of SSMTP for SSL encrypted e-mail for the web 3.0. These are the kind of improvements we are talking about, the switch to dynamic content and away from flat text.
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He doesn't like web 2.0.
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Web 1.0 is about allowing individuals to create and share ideas.
Web 2.0 is about allowing groups to create and share ideas.
Web 3.0 is about allowing societies to create and share ideas.
Actually it's quite the opposite...
Web 1.0 is about allowing societies to create and share ideas.
Web 2.0 is about allowing groups to create and share ideas.
Web 3.0 is about allowing individuals to create and share ideas.
Yes, from day 1, anyone could put up a simple webpage, but dynamic content, and truely meaningful webpages which can actually get some readers were reserved for only businesses with lots of money. Now today with opensource languages which are free to use, and operate on a free OS, you can run your own webserver with dynamic content for nearly free (the cost of your internet connection).
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Modern problems such as dynamic content used to only be avaliable to the big companys who could afford to license server software to run specialized scripts. Now that there are open source web scripting languages which are even more powerful then the older asp and jsp (such as PHP) the internet has become a completely different place. Now you don't need $1000's of dollars to launch a web based company, you only need to learn a simple easy to learn language and have a couple helping hands with backgrounds in webdesign. Now you can build as you go, instead of having to build a skyscraper to get started. Web 2.0 has issues which need resolved, like the rss vs atom content war. I can't wait to see what will come out of Web 3.0. As a modern webdesigner I can not emphasize enough how important PHP and AJAX have been to me. AJAX opens an entire world of new dynamic content for coders smart enough to make it work on all the browsers:)
Without a camera that translates sign language into spoken language.. This is kinda useless isn't it?
You can talk to the hand, sure but, that doesn't help you read the deaf persons hands..
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In retrospect:...and yes.. I know some deaf people can talk sorta.. So I guess it helps there.
Yes, I would like to see that, I mean, they allowed Chinese characters (well, Chinese isp's added in the functionality..), so why not allow ASCII in domain names? Seems like the next logical step to me. Unless it effects the database they are stored in..
Someone registers/*.*\.com and messes up an entire database of the worlds internets! Oh noes!
Can we have www.google? Thats so much easyer to type then www.google.com
and while were at it... lets get www./
(Worst that can happen, they say no...)
True, but like I said, the ultimate roots are from open source software, I hate when posts like yours get scored 0, that is worthy of something more. I haven't really ever liked macs, and never will. I would have said more about the history, but I have it all memorised myself. -- Anything mac can do AMD can do better, AMD can do anything better then mac =P
If I recall correctly, the original code of the machintosh OS came from BSD 3... (Before they modifyed it extensively for commercial release) Now Opensource is taking the apple standard? This is interesting. Maby Microsoft will see this and include dashboard widgets for windows? It would be nice for once to be able to write something and run it on every os, not just Mac and Linux or Windows and Linux.
Yes, hackers are not destroyers of lives... Idiots in the media make hackers look bad. Ethical hackers are the people doing this security research. Hackers test computer system security, sometimes illegally yes, but they never destroy data or intentionally cause problems. Crackers are the ones making the keyloggers, and breaking into systems on the internet just to abuse them or destroy data. People need to hear this message, and quit frowning upon hackers. --- Ignorance may be bliss, but knowlege is power.
"a technique in which subject's veins are drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution" I think what they have here is the T-Virus from resident evil... They pump em full of it and give the dogs a nice shock.. and walaa! Zombie Doggies, like you see in the picture, all teeth bareing! Eek!
Well at least in the next movie they wont need special effects..
I assume like most academic institutions they run windows on all of the box's that are not servers at least. On the they apparently need internet access note, I reccommend a solution from Kaspersky Labs http://www.kaspersky.com/ called Kaspersky Anti-Hacker, its a great firewall out of the box, and they have corperate licenseing and other things which you would need. Its also great for the home user...Or any NAT should really stop the pcs from becomeing infected..
On the you dont really need internet to use painting programs note... I suggest wirecutters.. The Ultimate Windows Internet Security Solution.
Anyone who has looked at the http://www.westwood.com/ site lately can easily see its forwarded to eagames.com's domain and has pages which are 90% broken, latter rankings dont work, clan management is broke, the Official Renegade site isn't even finished! Its been in this condition for a while now. EA is leaving all their servers for all the older C&C Games in a 'as-is' state. And Renegade falls into this category while the game still has serious bugs to be patched. If they think they are going to sell more titles on their new-trashed westwood they are crazy. EA is starting to join the pool of lazy companys that stops supporting your game 90 days after you buy it. Which I regret to see, as they were one of the good companys to get games from up there in rankings with Blizzard, Volition, and Valve.
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Well, I do use Netflix, and have had their service non-stop for nearly a decade. I used to have 8 discs at a time, but for the past few years have only used their streaming service. I am outraged at both companies for even considering the peering arrangement. (If your not familiar, google: "netflix comcast deal" they are also working on deals with other ISPs all of which hurt network neutrality. Want to know why? Click my links below!)
Here is some food for thought:
A bunch of cable tv channels were dropped from directv a few times fairly recently during contract disputes. If level 1 providers like cogent and level3 take a card from big cables deck; by offering offending ISPs just had a taste of dark fiber and all customers jumping ship they might change their tune. I'm sure other ISPs could build a decent network with all those new customers. If you hold their customers hostage and they will definitely come to the table or go out of business, either would be good. We can not allow money hungry last mile monopoly to continue to drive internet speeds downward while erasing net neutrality.
If you are a netflix customer I urge you to please: CALL THEM AND DEMAND THEY CANCEL THE COMCAST AND OTHER ISP DEALS. WE CAN NOT STAND FOR THEM HURTING NET NEUTRALITY NOR CAN WE AFFORD TO PAY THEM TO PUT SERVERS IN EVERY SINGLE ISPs DATACENTER. I CALLED AND DEMANDED THAT THEY SEND A MESSAGE TO THEIR CEO TO GOOGLE LEVEL3 http://blog.level3.com/global-... and COGENTs http://www.cnet.com/news/cogen... STANCE ON THE SITUATION.
Spread the word, please, I beg you as a longterm netflix customer and fan who loves this (normally) innovative and forward thinking company.
I couldn't agree more with this comment. If it is OK for netflix to pay network providers for peering/colocation, then we should be able to get reimbursed for hosting a netflix node even as a customer.
Here is some food for thought:
A bunch of cable tv channels were dropped from directv a few times fairly recently. If level 1 providers take a card from big cables deck; by offering offending ISPs just had a taste of dark fiber and all customers jumping ship they might change their tune. I'm sure other ISPs could build a decent network with all those new customers. If you hold their customers hostage and they will definitely come to the table or go out of business, either would be good. We can not allow money hungry last mile monopoly to continue to drive internet speeds downward while erasing net neutrality.
If you are a netflix customer I urge you to please: CALL THEM AND DEMAND THEY CANCEL THE COMCAST AND OTHER ISP DEALS. WE CAN NOT STAND FOR THEM HURTING NET NEUTRALITY NOR CAN WE AFFORD TO PAY THEM TO PUT SERVERS IN EVERY SINGLE ISPs DATACENTER. I CALLED AND DEMANDED THAT THEY SEND A MESSAGE TO THEIR CEO TO GOOGLE LEVEL3 http://blog.level3.com/global-... and COGENTs http://www.cnet.com/news/cogen... STANCE ON THE SITUATION.
Spread the word, please, I beg you as a longterm netflix customer and fan who loves this (normally) innovative and forward thinking company.
The two comments above were exactly my thought on the subject. Level 3 has responded in the comments (on the blog in the second link of the news article) that many of their peering agreements do not have many of the contractual restrictions we assume they do. A bunch of cable tv channels were dropped from directv a few times. If level 1 providers take a card from big cables deck; by offering offending ISPs just had a taste of dark fiber and all customers jumping ship they might change their tune. I'm sure other ISPs could build a decent network with all those new customers. If you hold their customers hostage and they will definitely come to the table or go out of business, either would be good. We can not allow money hungry last mile monopoly to continue to drive internet speeds downward while erasing net neutrality.
If you are a netflix customer I urge you to please: CALL THEM AND DEMAND THEY CANCEL THE COMCAST AND OTHER ISP DEALS. WE CAN NOT STAND FOR THEM HURTING NET NEUTRALITY NOR CAN WE AFFORD TO PAY THEM TO PUT SERVERS IN EVERY SINGLE ISPs DATACENTER. I CALLED AND DEMANDED THAT THEY SEND A MESSAGE TO THEIR CEO TO GOOGLE LEVEL3 http://blog.level3.com/global-... and COGENTs http://www.cnet.com/news/cogen... STANCE ON THE SITUATION.
Spread the word, please, I beg you as a longterm netflix customer and fan who loves this (normally) innovative and forward thinking company.
Don't forget to enjoy a Google Gulp, while letting Autopilot respond to your Nigerian business.
Yes, I agree, in windows I use firefox, but on my Linux machines I use konqueror most of the time. It's just better. -- Better = Loads faster, and is more user friendly
But any growth is good.. and use is increasing, 20% I highly doubt though.
Last I checked, Firefox useage is increasing everywhere, not just in europe... When something makes sense, it grows in use quickly.
Also, downloads don't count all the uses, I know in my work enviroment, we downloaded it once, but its on over 500 machines.
Yes, they always have been, but they haven't always existed. PHP is at the forefront of web 2.0. Something tells me your not a webdesigner. A windows server to run asp or just licenseing for the dynamic content languages before ment investing in your own private server and paying all kinds of licensing fees to get it operateing at all, then you have to worry about getting visitors. Now with search engines tieing the internet together better then ever you don't have to worry about getting your visitors as much if you have content they will find you. With the invention of free scripting which can produce dynamic content you don't have to pay outrageous licensing fees any longer. It allows small groups to get information out to the masses, like JibJab the overnight hit of a couple flash animators. 5 years ago they wouldn't have been able to get on their feet. Now you can buy hosting cheaper too due to the large number of webpages around hosters can offer cheap hosting and distribute the cost of implementing servers with langauges that have licensing fees.
He doesn't like web 2.0.
Web 1.0 is about allowing societies to create and share ideas.
Web 2.0 is about allowing groups to create and share ideas.
Web 3.0 is about allowing individuals to create and share ideas.
Yes, from day 1, anyone could put up a simple webpage, but dynamic content, and truely meaningful webpages which can actually get some readers were reserved for only businesses with lots of money. Now today with opensource languages which are free to use, and operate on a free OS, you can run your own webserver with dynamic content for nearly free (the cost of your internet connection).
Modern problems such as dynamic content used to only be avaliable to the big companys who could afford to license server software to run specialized scripts. Now that there are open source web scripting languages which are even more powerful then the older asp and jsp (such as PHP) the internet has become a completely different place. Now you don't need $1000's of dollars to launch a web based company, you only need to learn a simple easy to learn language and have a couple helping hands with backgrounds in webdesign. Now you can build as you go, instead of having to build a skyscraper to get started. Web 2.0 has issues which need resolved, like the rss vs atom content war. I can't wait to see what will come out of Web 3.0. As a modern webdesigner I can not emphasize enough how important PHP and AJAX have been to me. AJAX opens an entire world of new dynamic content for coders smart enough to make it work on all the browsers :)
Without a camera that translates sign language into spoken language.. This is kinda useless isn't it?
...and yes.. I know some deaf people can talk sorta.. So I guess it helps there.
You can talk to the hand, sure but, that doesn't help you read the deaf persons hands..
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In retrospect:
Yes, I would like to see that, I mean, they allowed Chinese characters (well, Chinese isp's added in the functionality..), so why not allow ASCII in domain names? Seems like the next logical step to me. Unless it effects the database they are stored in..
/*.*\.com and messes up an entire database of the worlds internets! Oh noes!
Someone registers
Can we have www.google? Thats so much easyer to type then www.google.com
and while were at it... lets get www./
(Worst that can happen, they say no...)
Oh great, now I have to buy a firewall and anti-virus for each of my nano-implants! ...and I thought medical bills were expensive before.
True, but like I said, the ultimate roots are from open source software, I hate when posts like yours get scored 0, that is worthy of something more. I haven't really ever liked macs, and never will. I would have said more about the history, but I have it all memorised myself.
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Anything mac can do AMD can do better, AMD can do anything better then mac =P
If I recall correctly, the original code of the machintosh OS came from BSD 3... (Before they modifyed it extensively for commercial release) Now Opensource is taking the apple standard? This is interesting. Maby Microsoft will see this and include dashboard widgets for windows? It would be nice for once to be able to write something and run it on every os, not just Mac and Linux or Windows and Linux.
Yes, hackers are not destroyers of lives... Idiots in the media make hackers look bad. Ethical hackers are the people doing this security research. Hackers test computer system security, sometimes illegally yes, but they never destroy data or intentionally cause problems. Crackers are the ones making the keyloggers, and breaking into systems on the internet just to abuse them or destroy data. People need to hear this message, and quit frowning upon hackers.
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Ignorance may be bliss, but knowlege is power.
"a technique in which subject's veins are drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution" I think what they have here is the T-Virus from resident evil... They pump em full of it and give the dogs a nice shock.. and walaa! Zombie Doggies, like you see in the picture, all teeth bareing! Eek!
Well at least in the next movie they wont need special effects..
I assume like most academic institutions they run windows on all of the box's that are not servers at least. On the they apparently need internet access note, I reccommend a solution from Kaspersky Labs http://www.kaspersky.com/ called Kaspersky Anti-Hacker, its a great firewall out of the box, and they have corperate licenseing and other things which you would need. Its also great for the home user. ..Or any NAT should really stop the pcs from becomeing infected..
On the you dont really need internet to use painting programs note... I suggest wirecutters.. The Ultimate Windows Internet Security Solution.
Anyone who has looked at the http://www.westwood.com/ site lately can easily see its forwarded to eagames.com's domain and has pages which are 90% broken, latter rankings dont work, clan management is broke, the Official Renegade site isn't even finished! Its been in this condition for a while now. EA is leaving all their servers for all the older C&C Games in a 'as-is' state. And Renegade falls into this category while the game still has serious bugs to be patched. If they think they are going to sell more titles on their new-trashed westwood they are crazy. EA is starting to join the pool of lazy companys that stops supporting your game 90 days after you buy it. Which I regret to see, as they were one of the good companys to get games from up there in rankings with Blizzard, Volition, and Valve.