And you are one of the brainwashed people that think Liberalism is better. Conservatism is much more inline with Christianity. If you haven't noticed, it's only the left wing organizations like the ACLU and liberal atheists trying to stamp out Christianity. Perhaps they have God's best interest at heart?
While this is just dumb on every level, I for once am happy a story of this stupidity is not from the USA. In a twisted way, I'm glad it happens over in Europe too.
So based on this post, which I believe is true, if there is no more spectrum available to handle these speeds with the amount of users, then there appears to be no reason to develop anything past LTE. Consumer demand will only go up, and the technology is already capped before its even available. What would be the point of developing a gigabit wireless standard, right?
Or.... is this true instead?
The spectrum of 3G and 4G is "used" based on how long the data takes to be transferred. So if somebody needs to download a 10Mb file, it would take about 5 times as long on 3G vs 4G. So.... wouldn't that mean your average 4G user (assuming the same behavior) will be using the precious spectrum less often in bursts? And if that was the case, to maintain similar 3G usage levels, wouldn't it be fair for Verizon to offer a 25GB cap on LTE? (assuming a 5x speed improvement, for the sake of argument).
Don't confuse simplistic with bad. No, they weren't as technically proficient as some of their peers (Zeppelin, Cream, Hendrix, etc), but their music was life changing for many. They also knew how to write a melody, which to many is more artistic than being a power player. You can't teach that - you just need that je ne sais quoi, of which they had an abundance.
I find the lack of musicality and melody in today's music horrendous. Playing loud and fast does not make up for that.
No consumer device, whether based on Linux, iOS or any other hardened OS can be totally open or the support calls would be a nightmare. They have to keep some semblance of control or mere mortals would muck it up and demand Verizon/Sprint/Google fix their mistakes.
It looks more like the classic 2000/XP theme than Win7, which I am fine with. I like that better than Win7's GUI anyway (zealots: note I say desktop theme, not engine under the hood, of which Win7 is clearly superior than XP)
As a seasoned IT person, I came up through the PC revolution with DOS, Windows 3.1, Novell IPX, etc and had a good foundation on the basics before the mass virtualization hysteria that we are in 2010. I remember learning about hex addresses, IRQ's, COM ports, SCSI and all that. Then we moved up to servers: Novell, Windows NT, direct attached storage, domains, active directory, etc. Networking with point-to-point, Frame-relay.... now MPLS and VPN.
Am I trying to boast? No. But I want to point out that everything these days (Vmware, SANs LUNs, VLANs) builds on previous knowledge of how standalone servers and networks used to run. I wouldn't expect somebody to come out of College knocking down the intricacies of server virtualization, storage virtualization and network virtualization without first understanding the physical elements that brought us there.
I'm not saying it's impossible, but there is more to learn than most 20 year-olds can handle in a four years of College. Almost everyone I work with who is worth their salt is close to my age. Everybody younger has major gaps of knowledge. Is it required? Maybe.... but like everything else, when the amount of knowledge doubles every year, it's certainly harder to get started.
I have yet to find a single liberal that can point out in detail why their point of view is better than a Conservative pov. In almost every scenario, their lack of understanding of Economics 101 is completely transparent. But they do love to complain.
If that's all it does, I say let Canonical track how many people are using their product. Ubuntu is completely free, so it's not like Microsoft doing it. There are no legal ramifications that I can think of unless it tracks other things (like public IP address, bittorrent use, etc). As long as the job doesn't throw up any error messages when it fails or interfere with any other process during that split second, I say ok.
Diggers digg down conservative posts far more often that liberal. Every political story I've ever read for the last couple years has all the conservative posts in the negative numbers and liberal posts in the positive numbers. It doesn't matter if the conservative post was more truthful or thought out, or the liberal post was garbage, demeaning or incorrect (or vice-versa, I suppose). The mentality of Digg is far left leaning, and by most accounts, ignorant kids.
The art of music is still very much a human endeavor. You could say we have synthesizers these days and the Rap community has embraced them. That doesn't make their work better than the likes of Mozart or Beethoven. I doubt some of them even know what music is. In my view, things like synthesizers are a crutch if it removes the need for you to learn how music works in the first place (ie. calculator vs learning math by hand). And how does the progression of musical instruments over the centuries have anything to do with the removal of the musicians?
Most conservatives don't deny it's happening. We're just realists when we say there is nothing we can do about it. For some reason, the hippie loving tree huggers think they can.
Unless you can convince **everyone** to stop driving their cars, using electricity and become Amish, what pray tell do you suggest? It's just a bunch of complaining with no end in sight.
Nuclear energy is the only viable alternative and can be produced much cheaper. Solar can't even begin to power the needs of a nation, regardless of cost.
"Why are we paying nearly double the cost as other countries?"
Because we're filthy rich Americans that can afford it?:) And per the thousand other posts saying the same thing... because we have to pay for the larger fiber footprint of the whole Internet in the USA.
To be fair, most of the Eastern US states you specified are in Verizon territory and I would suspect FIOS territory which skews the results. FIOS speeds are an anomaly anywhere else in the USA. I'm in Ohio and I'm jealous.
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And you are one of the brainwashed people that think Liberalism is better. Conservatism is much more inline with Christianity. If you haven't noticed, it's only the left wing organizations like the ACLU and liberal atheists trying to stamp out Christianity. Perhaps they have God's best interest at heart?
While this is just dumb on every level, I for once am happy a story of this stupidity is not from the USA. In a twisted way, I'm glad it happens over in Europe too.
I have files since the 1980's. Not the original media of course.
So based on this post, which I believe is true, if there is no more spectrum available to handle these speeds with the amount of users, then there appears to be no reason to develop anything past LTE. Consumer demand will only go up, and the technology is already capped before its even available. What would be the point of developing a gigabit wireless standard, right?
Or.... is this true instead?
The spectrum of 3G and 4G is "used" based on how long the data takes to be transferred. So if somebody needs to download a 10Mb file, it would take about 5 times as long on 3G vs 4G. So.... wouldn't that mean your average 4G user (assuming the same behavior) will be using the precious spectrum less often in bursts? And if that was the case, to maintain similar 3G usage levels, wouldn't it be fair for Verizon to offer a 25GB cap on LTE? (assuming a 5x speed improvement, for the sake of argument).
Don't confuse simplistic with bad. No, they weren't as technically proficient as some of their peers (Zeppelin, Cream, Hendrix, etc), but their music was life changing for many. They also knew how to write a melody, which to many is more artistic than being a power player. You can't teach that - you just need that je ne sais quoi, of which they had an abundance.
I find the lack of musicality and melody in today's music horrendous. Playing loud and fast does not make up for that.
Yah, but Google and Facebook are two of the biggest Liberal tech companies in the world. And they are evading taxes.
No consumer device, whether based on Linux, iOS or any other hardened OS can be totally open or the support calls would be a nightmare. They have to keep some semblance of control or mere mortals would muck it up and demand Verizon/Sprint/Google fix their mistakes.
Apparently you don't work at a corporation that needs it.
When OpenOffice has an Outlook equivalent, it will be a contender.
I didn't realize hot girls had a problem getting geeky guys. I think "hello" is all you need, since most unkempt geeks usually just get ignored.
It looks more like the classic 2000/XP theme than Win7, which I am fine with. I like that better than Win7's GUI anyway (zealots: note I say desktop theme, not engine under the hood, of which Win7 is clearly superior than XP)
As a seasoned IT person, I came up through the PC revolution with DOS, Windows 3.1, Novell IPX, etc and had a good foundation on the basics before the mass virtualization hysteria that we are in 2010. I remember learning about hex addresses, IRQ's, COM ports, SCSI and all that. Then we moved up to servers: Novell, Windows NT, direct attached storage, domains, active directory, etc. Networking with point-to-point, Frame-relay.... now MPLS and VPN.
Am I trying to boast? No. But I want to point out that everything these days (Vmware, SANs LUNs, VLANs) builds on previous knowledge of how standalone servers and networks used to run. I wouldn't expect somebody to come out of College knocking down the intricacies of server virtualization, storage virtualization and network virtualization without first understanding the physical elements that brought us there.
I'm not saying it's impossible, but there is more to learn than most 20 year-olds can handle in a four years of College. Almost everyone I work with who is worth their salt is close to my age. Everybody younger has major gaps of knowledge. Is it required? Maybe.... but like everything else, when the amount of knowledge doubles every year, it's certainly harder to get started.
I have yet to find a single liberal that can point out in detail why their point of view is better than a Conservative pov. In almost every scenario, their lack of understanding of Economics 101 is completely transparent. But they do love to complain.
Oracle 11g, meet MSDOS.
Uh, wut?
If that's all it does, I say let Canonical track how many people are using their product. Ubuntu is completely free, so it's not like Microsoft doing it. There are no legal ramifications that I can think of unless it tracks other things (like public IP address, bittorrent use, etc). As long as the job doesn't throw up any error messages when it fails or interfere with any other process during that split second, I say ok.
Diggers digg down conservative posts far more often that liberal. Every political story I've ever read for the last couple years has all the conservative posts in the negative numbers and liberal posts in the positive numbers. It doesn't matter if the conservative post was more truthful or thought out, or the liberal post was garbage, demeaning or incorrect (or vice-versa, I suppose). The mentality of Digg is far left leaning, and by most accounts, ignorant kids.
New != progression and progression != better.
The art of music is still very much a human endeavor. You could say we have synthesizers these days and the Rap community has embraced them. That doesn't make their work better than the likes of Mozart or Beethoven. I doubt some of them even know what music is. In my view, things like synthesizers are a crutch if it removes the need for you to learn how music works in the first place (ie. calculator vs learning math by hand). And how does the progression of musical instruments over the centuries have anything to do with the removal of the musicians?
So let me get this straight. You'd have no problem seeing a concert with Milli Vanilli? Live or Memorex means nothing to you?
BTW, a real violin and a real trumpet sound very different than a recording, or a synthesizer. No matter how good they make it.
What do the liberals propose? Like I said, they whine. I have not seen anything from them.
Most conservatives don't deny it's happening. We're just realists when we say there is nothing we can do about it. For some reason, the hippie loving tree huggers think they can.
Unless you can convince **everyone** to stop driving their cars, using electricity and become Amish, what pray tell do you suggest? It's just a bunch of complaining with no end in sight.
Nuclear energy is the only viable alternative and can be produced much cheaper. Solar can't even begin to power the needs of a nation, regardless of cost.
Pink? Pink? Well, what's wrong with pink?! Seems you've got a pink kink in your think.
"Why are we paying nearly double the cost as other countries?"
Because we're filthy rich Americans that can afford it? :) And per the thousand other posts saying the same thing... because we have to pay for the larger fiber footprint of the whole Internet in the USA.
To be fair, most of the Eastern US states you specified are in Verizon territory and I would suspect FIOS territory which skews the results. FIOS speeds are an anomaly anywhere else in the USA. I'm in Ohio and I'm jealous.