any modern ADSL+ modem should be able to negotiate line speed on its own.. and your billing set the max at the dlsam side.. if they have their installers setting things like that on the modems then they have bigger problems.
you are correct on that.. but i think in the terms of Big O.. which means it isn't much of a difference. mainly cause you are banking on both of us having the same service and watching the same thing at the same time.
either way.. i doubt their choke points are near the last mile or even in their internal network for outside connections - it's their actual peer connections and main trunk.
I Boycott all of them EXCEPT TimeWarner Telcom (NOT the phone division of TWC)
http://www.twtelecom.com/ is for leased lines and other stuff they where another company and bought up by the massive TW conglomeration..
unlike the other parts of TW they have yet to turn into greed feed monsters.. we use them at work for PRI's and they provide a quality reliable product at a fair price and have good customer and tech support.
unlike TWCable who when i disconnected service because they where charging me ~125$ a month for basic net and 13 cable channels.. billed me for a month after the service was off - charged me a disconnect fee for the tech coming out and disconnecting it (at the curb) and billed me for "unreturned" equipment when i did not have a cable box and the modem i was using was my own wic card.. (they never provided a modem to start with 10 years ago when i first singed up). then after i called and complained they said it would be "handled" and within two weeks i started getting calls from a collection agency about it.. and TWCable to this day says they didn't send it to collection.. and hell no i didn't pay them.. it took me 3 months to get it cleared up.. and they still won't admit fault.
the credit union here in NC.. charges 1$ per month per account.. 10$ a year for a small safety deposit box and zero ATM fees even on foreign (and they also don't charge fees on outside banks using their ATM's)
they do have the stipulation that you can not run a biz account out of it.
oh just wait.. the Feds are about to say ok to allowing the FCC to change the universal line fee so that net connections count.. and we will all get another 10$ a month in just taxes on our net connections (each of them) - can't wait to see the justification for taxing a smartphone once because it is a phone and again because it can access the net..
while their is a "real" difference it is still very very little.. - unicast to 5 people or multicast to 5 people you are still sending the content down the line to 5 people.. sure you can strip it down and not have a much over head.. but the content is what is the large part and you are still transmitting it..
From TFA: "and that AT&T U-Verse TV service won't count towards the GB cap"
so UVERSE is NOT included in the cap.. this is them using their monopoly to disadvantage competition this is ripe for an antitrust suit..
I'm waiting till i get their letter and the in flyer that still says "unlimited" and get them to put a definition on it and make a daily task to bitch and moan that if they are capping they can't advertise it as unlimited.
for the last time it's not a paywall either.. if you scroll to the bottom you can still see the actual results and answers, use your end key.
it's worth it for me to be able to go to a community with questions and answers in clean well moderated posts - on just about every topic you can think of and even if it isn't you have the option of posting the question to a group of people who are actively wanting to help people... best part.. ZERO spam.... very very very rarely do you see questions go unanswered.
Yes i'm sure you can find everything else where for free.. BUT the amount of extra time is worth more than the cost of a subscription - and even then if you are active in the community and answer peoples questions and help out then you can use the points to cover the subscription.
the people who do nothing but pay to access are leaching from the community - and they are the ones that help pay for the servers and connections and staffing that makes it work very well.
did i mention no spam? that alone is worth paying for.
EE is original and is a good community - if you participate in answering questions it isn't hard to earn points to cover subscription. the paying is really for the people who just want to leach out of it (ask questions without answering others')
and while i agree that most of the stuff you find on EE can be answered else where - because it is actively moderated the answers you do find on EE are of very good quality.
EE is good - scraper sites like fixya are the crap of the net..
a lot of geeks build lasers that can put holes in things.. BUT this is the first one i've seen that is both portable - more than single shot - and does it in ~100ns meaning that it is more or less instant rather than having to hold a steady beam on something.
i point it at society's need for instant gratification.. most kids and people now days don't want to do something that might not work or takes time/energy/brains/effort to complete, when there is something easier to do.
It's not so much being lazy because they are doing something most of the time.. even if it is just playing a game/watching tv/talking/texting/surfing the net.
i can ensure you that where i live Tenure is the least of the issues.. even with it you can still be "fired" but right now everything is the lowest common denominator.. and that is the parents.. right now the teachers hands are so tied that they can't do anything - they are forced to use a different programs each year some that have zero measurable out come - the schools are full of wasteful spending and wasteful use of resources.
They can't discipline a child at all - my wife is a teacher - she isn't allowed to take recess away because the school board decided that it might make the kids view exercise and physical activity in a negative way and we need to ensure that all the children have a good view of physical exercise to fight the obesity epidemic. these are the same people that agreed to put vending machines for candy bars and soda in elementary school cafeteria because they get a cut of the revenue from them.
when i do the math and realize how much we are spending per child in our county.. vs what we are getting. it really makes me want to ***************
ok - so call it a sport on how to "do outrageous looking stuff *without* getting killed" - and give it a name
wrestling is already taken by a legit sport that does not fit that description - so please pick a different name.
when i was in school that was actually the hardest part in recruiting people for wrestling.. no mater how many times you explained it the kids parent(s) would think/envision the fake shit and say "no my son can't participate" we even had some parents try to get the program canceled without even knowing what it really was.
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well one of them does all our shipping and UPS & FedEx's software does not like it.
another does the majority of our printing (books) and the proprietary software for programing the jobs fails worse that UPS..
basically the key pieces out side of e-mail that users does..
too many programs fail at high DPI it isn't just custom ones..
you have any idea how many program UIs fail horribly when you change to a large DPI?
Chrome + IE Tab https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/hehijbfgiekmjfkfjpbkbammjbdenadd
use chrome for everything and use the tab for the crap that wants IE only..
i have several people at work who only run 1024x768... but then again it is either that or get e-mails from them in font 16 or some crap like that.
any modern ADSL+ modem should be able to negotiate line speed on its own.. and your billing set the max at the dlsam side.. if they have their installers setting things like that on the modems then they have bigger problems.
you are correct on that.. but i think in the terms of Big O.. which means it isn't much of a difference. mainly cause you are banking on both of us having the same service and watching the same thing at the same time.
either way.. i doubt their choke points are near the last mile or even in their internal network for outside connections - it's their actual peer connections and main trunk.
I Boycott all of them EXCEPT TimeWarner Telcom (NOT the phone division of TWC)
http://www.twtelecom.com/ is for leased lines and other stuff they where another company and bought up by the massive TW conglomeration..
unlike the other parts of TW they have yet to turn into greed feed monsters.. we use them at work for PRI's and they provide a quality reliable product at a fair price and have good customer and tech support.
unlike TWCable who when i disconnected service because they where charging me ~125$ a month for basic net and 13 cable channels .. billed me for a month after the service was off - charged me a disconnect fee for the tech coming out and disconnecting it (at the curb) and billed me for "unreturned" equipment when i did not have a cable box and the modem i was using was my own wic card.. (they never provided a modem to start with 10 years ago when i first singed up). then after i called and complained they said it would be "handled" and within two weeks i started getting calls from a collection agency about it.. and TWCable to this day says they didn't send it to collection.. and hell no i didn't pay them.. it took me 3 months to get it cleared up.. and they still won't admit fault.
also for fun i boycott Sony as well..
the credit union here in NC.. charges 1$ per month per account .. 10$ a year for a small safety deposit box and zero ATM fees even on foreign (and they also don't charge fees on outside banks using their ATM's)
they do have the stipulation that you can not run a biz account out of it.
oh just wait.. the Feds are about to say ok to allowing the FCC to change the universal line fee so that net connections count.. and we will all get another 10$ a month in just taxes on our net connections (each of them) - can't wait to see the justification for taxing a smartphone once because it is a phone and again because it can access the net..
sadly i just switched to them Because TimeWarner kept raising there rates and it just got completely stupid price wise.
but given what i went through TW will never get another cent from me as long as i live.
actually for my job it isn't a "luxury" it is required. And yes work pays for it.. but the fact still remains.
for 37$ a month my AT&T DSL is 3Mbs/768Kbs they best they have a 6Mbs but that runs ~50$ a month.
while their is a "real" difference it is still very very little.. - unicast to 5 people or multicast to 5 people you are still sending the content down the line to 5 people.. sure you can strip it down and not have a much over head.. but the content is what is the large part and you are still transmitting it..
From TFA: "and that AT&T U-Verse TV service won't count towards the GB cap"
so UVERSE is NOT included in the cap.. this is them using their monopoly to disadvantage competition this is ripe for an antitrust suit..
I'm waiting till i get their letter and the in flyer that still says "unlimited" and get them to put a definition on it and make a daily task to bitch and moan that if they are capping they can't advertise it as unlimited.
for the last time it's not a paywall either.. if you scroll to the bottom you can still see the actual results and answers, use your end key.
it's worth it for me to be able to go to a community with questions and answers in clean well moderated posts - on just about every topic you can think of and even if it isn't you have the option of posting the question to a group of people who are actively wanting to help people... best part.. ZERO spam .... very very very rarely do you see questions go unanswered.
Yes i'm sure you can find everything else where for free.. BUT the amount of extra time is worth more than the cost of a subscription - and even then if you are active in the community and answer peoples questions and help out then you can use the points to cover the subscription.
the people who do nothing but pay to access are leaching from the community - and they are the ones that help pay for the servers and connections and staffing that makes it work very well.
did i mention no spam? that alone is worth paying for.
EE is original and is a good community - if you participate in answering questions it isn't hard to earn points to cover subscription. the paying is really for the people who just want to leach out of it (ask questions without answering others')
and while i agree that most of the stuff you find on EE can be answered else where - because it is actively moderated the answers you do find on EE are of very good quality.
EE is good - scraper sites like fixya are the crap of the net..
a lot of geeks build lasers that can put holes in things .. BUT this is the first one i've seen that is both portable - more than single shot - and does it in ~100ns meaning that it is more or less instant rather than having to hold a steady beam on something.
i point it at society's need for instant gratification.. most kids and people now days don't want to do something that might not work or takes time/energy/brains/effort to complete, when there is something easier to do.
It's not so much being lazy because they are doing something most of the time.. even if it is just playing a game/watching tv/talking/texting/surfing the net.
it's kinda sad really
i can ensure you that where i live Tenure is the least of the issues.. even with it you can still be "fired" but right now everything is the lowest common denominator.. and that is the parents.. right now the teachers hands are so tied that they can't do anything - they are forced to use a different programs each year some that have zero measurable out come - the schools are full of wasteful spending and wasteful use of resources.
They can't discipline a child at all - my wife is a teacher - she isn't allowed to take recess away because the school board decided that it might make the kids view exercise and physical activity in a negative way and we need to ensure that all the children have a good view of physical exercise to fight the obesity epidemic. these are the same people that agreed to put vending machines for candy bars and soda in elementary school cafeteria because they get a cut of the revenue from them.
when i do the math and realize how much we are spending per child in our county.. vs what we are getting. it really makes me want to ***************
correct link
http://mashable.com/2011/03/03/artificial-life-steve-grand/
put your robot on wheels and i will run through the rough uneven woods to get away.. put it on legs like mine and it can go any where i can..
the wheel is wonderful as long as it can maintain contact and traction in its plane and direction of movement - after that it isn't so useful.
Your papers, please. I must see your papers.
*pulls out scissors*
ok - so call it a sport on how to "do outrageous looking stuff *without* getting killed" - and give it a name
wrestling is already taken by a legit sport that does not fit that description - so please pick a different name.
when i was in school that was actually the hardest part in recruiting people for wrestling.. no mater how many times you explained it the kids parent(s) would think/envision the fake shit and say "no my son can't participate" we even had some parents try to get the program canceled without even knowing what it really was.
as someone who was a "real" wrestler growing up.. they shouldn't be allowed to use the word.
i've never ever ever ever understood the draw to that crap..
actual 1 on 1 - 6 min full out .. that is something completely different and by far the hardest sport I've ever competed in.