PONs sound very interesting (I just googled). I could see someone jamming a PON however! with light at the same frequency:) - again, if anyone understands DSL - (what the US uses mostly) they would understand it can't reach everywhere and there are holes in the service area because of the distances in neighbourhoods from the CO.
Basically - if the telcos can make money - they would deploy the networks. It's that simple.
You have a high-density population - in addition, that ADSL2 install was recent. I am generalizing - as that is all I can do. For the most part I am correct. By the way 1 to 10 megs is all the same to me. We're talking about people who barely have 56k. Read between the lines please.
I do not know what a PON is. I have a 155 OC3 connection at my office - the bandwidth is here, jut not everyone can get their hands on it.
In canada and US FTTH has almost the same build costs as ADSL. Rural areas will not get this service. Areas where there are holes in high-density populations (like UK) and metropolitan areas in US and Canada will get this eventually - that is not the problem. We're talking about people who barely get 56k! Not people who can get 1Meg.
You have a high-density population - in addition, that ADSL2 install was recent. I am generalizing - as that is all I can do. For the most part I am correct. By the way 1 to 10 megs is all the same to me. We're talking about people who barely have 56k. Read between the lines please.
Has anyone tried the high-speed in england? - generally people have 1 Meg connections not 3 to 10 meg in the states and canada. I understand the article is about penetration.
Rural areas do not have enough subscriber density for the telcos to spend $$$$ on deploying networks. Most of the networks are DSL based which are very distance sensitive, problematic for deployments of high-speed in low population densities . Networks are a city thing generally speaking - if you're living in the country to get away from the city - network access will be something you are getting away from! Same with loud neighbours, pollution, crime, etc, etc. I'm not saying that rural communities shouldn't have high-speed, but business is business. Why would a telco spend a bunch of money for no return? It doesn't add up. I know rural areas don't even have cable tv sometimes - no one seems to complain about that. Coax cable is an excellent medium for low densities as signals travel 10 to 20 times farther down the same lineage when compared with twisted pair.
My previous comments should be written up as insightful. Anyone listening to the show can tell you more about the Sirius/XM merger. XM is in trouble, not Sirius. Get it straight.
Sirius growth rate is much higher than XM. Sirius is looking good. Sirius is a success. All the experts said that Sirius needs about 1 1/2 million subscribers to be a success - they have 6 or 7 million. The company is doing well - out of the red.
Many people in here are complaining, saying they won't buy Sirius because of Stern - They don't know what the fuck they are talking about. They are just pissed off that he is off the 'free' air - now they have to pay to listen to him. Not buying a satellite system because of one of the channels? What about cable TV? There are porn channels if you want them! There are a lot of people here that think porn is a sin and will have nothing to do with it, yet they still PAY a cable company for service (a company who makes money off porn). This is totally on-topic --- can't you read between the lines?
The Howard Stern channels (100 and 101) are two of about 160+ channels available on Sirius satellite.
If you don't like Stern - don't listen!
Actually, his show is far better on satellite then it ever was on terrestrial radio.
If you buy satellite radio (Sirius) I guarantee that you'll tune in to his channel one day, and something on his show will make you laugh. I used to be anti-Stern as well, but really the show is quite entertaining. All the challenging/serious computer work all day can make you want to listen to some fun trash talk. His show can be a de-stresser for me at times. Sometimes the show is dull / sometimes it is absolutely hilarious! Now that it's on satellite, give it a try. I think you can subscribe just to the on-line radio (Sirius has an internet feed). Try it for a month before you buy the hardware.
I go on long drives often (500km-1100km) - it's nice not having to hunt for radio stations while you're driving. Satellite has really changed the way I listen to music while driving. iPod - I have one of those. I'm a busy professional and don't have time to dink around downloading songs or bothering with DRM.
Don't like Stern? Don't listen to him. Besides, he's already been paid up. You're not giving him money. It's long history. The subscribership of Sirius paid stern off 8 months ago. He has a contract with Sirius for 5 years - he's been paid.
This happens because we are all human. The larger the group the more difficult things are to manage. Not a heck of a lot that can be done about it. Some times teams can get things running really quickly, sometimes - not so much. Let's face it, computer programs are machines in some fashion - the bigger/newer the machine -- it's gonna take a while. I don't think this is a Microsoft-specific case here.
Don't buy Dell than. There are plenty of ways to buy a computer with out an OS. Funny - I like GM cars (performance, exterior), but I don't like the interiors - Too bad I can't buy a GM Trailblazer vehicle with a Porsche Cayenne interior. Time to get pissed off at GM I guess! Buy a clone from a computer store - have them not load Windows.
Most computer shoppers use either Windows or OS/X - Linux users are a smaller user base in comparison.... Give the public the option to buy a computer with Linux or Windows - guess what? I bet 95% of them will buy Windows. The other 5% will want Linux because 1) they actually use linux or 2) They will opt for Linux because it's free then load the machine with a pirated version of Linux.
Linux users are a small number compared to OS/X / Windows - Deal with it - buy a computer elsewhere - send a message to the big companies. Why support the big companies anyway? They support MS! Seems kind of strange to me that you have such a burning desire to buy from Dell - I don't consider their machines as 'nice' as you think they are. Buy a customized clone system to better suit your needs. you can get beautiful computers customized to better suit your needs - you don't NEED to buy Dell.
I hate NTP (the company) because of the lawsuit against RIM. But to make matters worse for myself - my mind has since associated NTP the company with NTP the time protocol. Everytime I have to setup a NTP connection to a server I think of RIM. However when I think of RIM, I think of a RIM job. No, not a job a RIM.
Yes this is off-topic - but I had to get this off my chest.
I remeber seeing this Mahir guy - never thought he was funny - just a moron.
Borat is hilarious totally americanized but he pulls off the foreign characters with such brilliance. A lot of material that Mahir guy never had, and way more exposure. I do not think Borat/(the AliG guy) used this Mahir guy for a model at all.
Just my two bits. I don't watch a lot of TV anymore so I could be missing something. I guess it's safe to say stuff like this upsets me a little. People suing people with little to go on just to get a buck 'cause they couldn't make a few bucks on their own. I noticed ikissyou.org is unavailable - maybe I should check out archive.org - From what I recall ikissyou.org sucks.
Apple has persuaded too many straight males into buying MacBooks - The white model, not the black one, not because it's cheaper either - it's just 'more cute'. Guys are turning into sissies.
I when I reply to messages on slashdot - I have to do a lot of explaining myself because people don't get the general message (the overall message) - When I do spend 25 to 35 minutes composing a very complete reply, I find that I'm way down in the list of comments - people don't read thru everything and miss on points that I had defended myself in. - You're right - thinking for your self is the way to go - even if people vote you down. Seems i've done well on this round - I got 5/interesting - thanks for your post.
OS/X pretty nice - but I can't listen to Sirius Satellite radio on it because there is no windows media player support for the Intel Macs! Any ideas????
I use on a daily basis: Mac OS/X Tiger, Ubuntu, Fedora Core and Windows XP Pro. I consider myself an advanced user and a very good sysadmin on many platforms. I still prefer Windows.... - why? I'm not sure myself! (No I do not work for Microsoft). I've been trying to switch to OS/X as a primary OS admitting that it's driven mostly because of peer pressure - it's just not happening for me. I don't feel that compelled to switch - I don't see a good reason and I'm being opening minded about it, I feel like it's much more trouble than it's worth. Is there anyone else that feels the same way? I feel alone!
if they are serious, then it's time to calculate how much elecrical energy cost it takes to generate the light (almost nothing I'm sure) they can then tax that if they want--- not worth chasing ~5 cents of power per connection per year if you ask me.
I'd say a lot of office users use the same password all over the place (although they shouldn't). IBM's finger print reader on the notebooks gets rid of the shoulder surfing password issue to some degree. This helps reduce casual password 'lifting' I'm sure. Does the fingerprint reader count as a tactile interface?
Cable can move data nearly error free. The distance (in the analog domain) between your telephone and you telephone company is the amount of lineage between your phone and your coax to telephone modem/router box. There are a few different schemes a company can use to transport audio information down a digital line. Lossless audio/lossy audio - full frame synced data transfer and asynchronous data / transmit contention / token / multiplex / etc. Codecs/PCM/etc... The cable infrastructure in Canada sounds better than traditional phone - as long as you call cable phone to another cable phone. If you call a land line from a cable phone it's only as good as the landline(*) - however that being said, the audio quality still has a better chance than analog to analog phone. There are a lot of variables -- it really depends on the implementation. (Slightly off topic but relevant): For instance, I know a lot of people that complain that their cable internet is slow or intermittent (we all know there could be several reasons for this) but that being said, the most common one I've found is cheap cable splitters or garbage old tv cable in the house degrading the cable modem signals.
Back to the phones: I have asked telephone techs and cable techs. The telephone system can run off their battery banks for a week or so, the cable guys say 2 days tops. The cable company here offers two telephony services: CableTelephone, or VoIP telephone over their high-speed cable service. The VoIP option is half the price.
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Basically - if the telcos can make money - they would deploy the networks. It's that simple.
I do not know what a PON is. I have a 155 OC3 connection at my office - the bandwidth is here, jut not everyone can get their hands on it.
In canada and US FTTH has almost the same build costs as ADSL. Rural areas will not get this service. Areas where there are holes in high-density populations (like UK) and metropolitan areas in US and Canada will get this eventually - that is not the problem. We're talking about people who barely get 56k! Not people who can get 1Meg.
You have a high-density population - in addition, that ADSL2 install was recent. I am generalizing - as that is all I can do. For the most part I am correct. By the way 1 to 10 megs is all the same to me. We're talking about people who barely have 56k. Read between the lines please.
there are spots - even here in canada - but usually the cable company solves that problem, not the phone company. We seem to have options.
Rural areas do not have enough subscriber density for the telcos to spend $$$$ on deploying networks. Most of the networks are DSL based which are very distance sensitive, problematic for deployments of high-speed in low population densities . Networks are a city thing generally speaking - if you're living in the country to get away from the city - network access will be something you are getting away from! Same with loud neighbours, pollution, crime, etc, etc. I'm not saying that rural communities shouldn't have high-speed, but business is business. Why would a telco spend a bunch of money for no return? It doesn't add up. I know rural areas don't even have cable tv sometimes - no one seems to complain about that. Coax cable is an excellent medium for low densities as signals travel 10 to 20 times farther down the same lineage when compared with twisted pair.
Not trying to start flame... WiFi down AGAIN? - My cheap-o Linksys has been running for 3 years straight - not a blip.
Sirius growth rate is much higher than XM. Sirius is looking good. Sirius is a success. All the experts said that Sirius needs about 1 1/2 million subscribers to be a success - they have 6 or 7 million. The company is doing well - out of the red.
Many people in here are complaining, saying they won't buy Sirius because of Stern - They don't know what the fuck they are talking about. They are just pissed off that he is off the 'free' air - now they have to pay to listen to him. Not buying a satellite system because of one of the channels? What about cable TV? There are porn channels if you want them! There are a lot of people here that think porn is a sin and will have nothing to do with it, yet they still PAY a cable company for service (a company who makes money off porn). This is totally on-topic --- can't you read between the lines?
If you don't like Stern - don't listen!
Actually, his show is far better on satellite then it ever was on terrestrial radio.
If you buy satellite radio (Sirius) I guarantee that you'll tune in to his channel one day, and something on his show will make you laugh. I used to be anti-Stern as well, but really the show is quite entertaining. All the challenging/serious computer work all day can make you want to listen to some fun trash talk. His show can be a de-stresser for me at times. Sometimes the show is dull / sometimes it is absolutely hilarious! Now that it's on satellite, give it a try. I think you can subscribe just to the on-line radio (Sirius has an internet feed). Try it for a month before you buy the hardware.
I go on long drives often (500km-1100km) - it's nice not having to hunt for radio stations while you're driving. Satellite has really changed the way I listen to music while driving. iPod - I have one of those. I'm a busy professional and don't have time to dink around downloading songs or bothering with DRM.
Don't like Stern? Don't listen to him. Besides, he's already been paid up. You're not giving him money. It's long history. The subscribership of Sirius paid stern off 8 months ago. He has a contract with Sirius for 5 years - he's been paid.
Using DWDM is using more than one channel. The german researchers transfered 107G on one channel.
That being said, I really think the SSL authorities should REALLY check out who they are giving certs too.
This happens because we are all human. The larger the group the more difficult things are to manage. Not a heck of a lot that can be done about it. Some times teams can get things running really quickly, sometimes - not so much. Let's face it, computer programs are machines in some fashion - the bigger/newer the machine -- it's gonna take a while. I don't think this is a Microsoft-specific case here.
Most computer shoppers use either Windows or OS/X - Linux users are a smaller user base in comparison.... Give the public the option to buy a computer with Linux or Windows - guess what? I bet 95% of them will buy Windows. The other 5% will want Linux because 1) they actually use linux or 2) They will opt for Linux because it's free then load the machine with a pirated version of Linux.
Linux users are a small number compared to OS/X / Windows - Deal with it - buy a computer elsewhere - send a message to the big companies. Why support the big companies anyway? They support MS! Seems kind of strange to me that you have such a burning desire to buy from Dell - I don't consider their machines as 'nice' as you think they are. Buy a customized clone system to better suit your needs. you can get beautiful computers customized to better suit your needs - you don't NEED to buy Dell.
E-nuff already - just buy what you like!
I hate NTP (the company) because of the lawsuit against RIM. But to make matters worse for myself - my mind has since associated NTP the company with NTP the time protocol. Everytime I have to setup a NTP connection to a server I think of RIM. However when I think of RIM, I think of a RIM job. No, not a job a RIM. Yes this is off-topic - but I had to get this off my chest.
It's very simple:
Borat = funny
Mahir, not so much.
I remeber seeing this Mahir guy - never thought he was funny - just a moron.
Borat is hilarious totally americanized but he pulls off the foreign characters with such brilliance. A lot of material that Mahir guy never had, and way more exposure. I do not think Borat/(the AliG guy) used this Mahir guy for a model at all.
Just my two bits. I don't watch a lot of TV anymore so I could be missing something. I guess it's safe to say stuff like this upsets me a little. People suing people with little to go on just to get a buck 'cause they couldn't make a few bucks on their own. I noticed ikissyou.org is unavailable - maybe I should check out archive.org - From what I recall ikissyou.org sucks.
Apple has persuaded too many straight males into buying MacBooks - The white model, not the black one, not because it's cheaper either - it's just 'more cute'. Guys are turning into sissies.
Agreed - anonymous writer - did anyone check this? It's like SlashDot is just creaming their pants hoping that this is true - Anti MS people!
Seems to work well (properly) for me
I when I reply to messages on slashdot - I have to do a lot of explaining myself because people don't get the general message (the overall message) - When I do spend 25 to 35 minutes composing a very complete reply, I find that I'm way down in the list of comments - people don't read thru everything and miss on points that I had defended myself in. - You're right - thinking for your self is the way to go - even if people vote you down. Seems i've done well on this round - I got 5/interesting - thanks for your post.
OS/X pretty nice - but I can't listen to Sirius Satellite radio on it because there is no windows media player support for the Intel Macs! Any ideas????
I use on a daily basis: Mac OS/X Tiger, Ubuntu, Fedora Core and Windows XP Pro. I consider myself an advanced user and a very good sysadmin on many platforms. I still prefer Windows.... - why? I'm not sure myself! (No I do not work for Microsoft). I've been trying to switch to OS/X as a primary OS admitting that it's driven mostly because of peer pressure - it's just not happening for me. I don't feel that compelled to switch - I don't see a good reason and I'm being opening minded about it, I feel like it's much more trouble than it's worth. Is there anyone else that feels the same way? I feel alone!
if they are serious, then it's time to calculate how much elecrical energy cost it takes to generate the light (almost nothing I'm sure) they can then tax that if they want--- not worth chasing ~5 cents of power per connection per year if you ask me.
I'd say a lot of office users use the same password all over the place (although they shouldn't). IBM's finger print reader on the notebooks gets rid of the shoulder surfing password issue to some degree. This helps reduce casual password 'lifting' I'm sure. Does the fingerprint reader count as a tactile interface?
Back to the phones: I have asked telephone techs and cable techs. The telephone system can run off their battery banks for a week or so, the cable guys say 2 days tops. The cable company here offers two telephony services: CableTelephone, or VoIP telephone over their high-speed cable service. The VoIP option is half the price.