I think we're only talking about 4G broadband caps, aren't we? My home ISP does not cap, but my cell phone provider does. Which providers are doing the capping?
What's the real bottleneck for 4G broadband? I've heard that the cell towers have only so much bandwidth, and that any one cluster of towers is usually shared by all providers of that area. If that's the case then they have to do some sort of throttling or shaping or whatever you call it.
Two weeks ago, while streaming "The Riches" via Netflix (great show, untimely demise), my T-Mobile 4G broadband connection dropped out and, almost simultaneously, I received a text message from T-Mobile that reads, "Free T-Mobile MSG: You have used over 5GB of data this month. Your data speed has been reduced for the rest of your billing cycle per the terms of your plan." They throttled me down to 50 Kb/s, dial-up modem speed. The internet suddenly became unusable.
The salesrep who had signed me up told me that the data plan was unlimited. So I called them and complained. The service rep to whom I was talking said it is in fact "unlimited" because despite the throttling I could still use the service. I tried to argue that I could not in fact use the service because it took forever to load any of my favorite web sites (even with ABP enabled, mind you). She continued to argue her definition of "unlimited". When I threatened to sue them, she promptly hung up. Apparently that's roughly equivalent to using foul language.
Another lie was when the T-Mobile salesrep told me that I would get 10-15 Mb/s in my zip code. He was "absolutely certain". I never got anywhere near those speeds. Most days I got 1.5 Mb/s, and sometimes less than half a megabit. So I plan to cancel my T-Mobile 4G broadband service.
I trialed Sprint's 4G broadband. It was superfast (10+ Mb/s), but super unstable. It would quite frequently drop my connection, and quite often would drop down to very slow speed, around 100-200 Kb/s. I canceled and returned the phone.
What I need is a mobile 4G broadband provider that I can use both at home for Netflix and on the road for work. I need a service that does not throttle, delivers quality service, and charges me a fair price.
I'm trying Clear now. So far it's not bad. Not great, but just barely this side of not sucking. I get about 1.5 Mb/s, sometimes better. Sometimes it drops me while streaming Netflix, but a simple reload of the web page restores my viewing experience. Sometimes it horks my office VPN connection, and that can be more than a little annoying if I'm in the middle of a production issue.
I think Netflix is planning to do exactly what they claim they're not going to do. It's common practice for companies to make deceptive public statements regarding corporate strategy.
Perhaps not in the short-term, but down the road when conditions are more favorable, when the net is more neutral and the pace of cable revenue decline begins to accelerate, then Netflix will pounce and crush the cable companies. And I for one welcome in advance our future media overlords.
I already ditched cable. Netflix rocks. Hulu is OK but not quite really good yet. And everything else I want to see I can stream directly from the content providers' websites. It won't be long. Soon it will be time to short the cable companies.
I think you missed the point. He's saying that if you're an entry-level programmer fresh out of school, then it would be really good if you have some sort of working code which you wrote and that you can show off at an interview. He's also saying that with today's technology it's really easy to write a small app, so there's no excuse for the entry-level programmers to arrive at an interview empty-handed.
As always it's a confluence of factors, with a single flashpoint event that starts the ball rolling. The Wikileaks revelations added fuel to the fire. (Crass puns fully intended.)
I live in NYC and I have a new MyTouch 4G from T-Mobile. I get decent service, fairly reliable, but not so much bandwidth. On a good day I get about 1.2 Mbps. On a bad day half that.
So I called T-Mobile sales and pretended to be interested in opening a new account and spoke to the sales rep about their hot new 4G mobile broadband service. I finally got around to getting him to claim that their new service in my neighborhood provides "up to 20 Mbps" (I had to explain to him that the little "b" means bits not bytes.) I said, "'up to' as in the maximum but I should expect less on average?" He assured me that it should be anywhere from 10-20 Mbps consistently, and he even narrowed it down to the block where I live. So I told him thanks-I'll think-about-it.
I hung up on the sales guy and called customer service and got myself quickly transferred to the tech department, and I explained my bandwidth dilemma. The tech person reiterated the sales guy's bandwidth claim and assured me they would do everything they can to remedy the situation. We went through a lengthy troubleshooting session during which we checked all of the settings on my phone and bounced it, but still no speedy. So she opened a trouble ticket and dispatched technicians to my zone and asked me to check back in 72 hours.
Five days later I called them back and told them still no speedy. The tech rep told me that the "engineers" still had not gotten around to checking my zone but they would do so very soon, and she opened a Service Request in which she fabricated my complete lack of signal and zero bandwidth and non-working broadband, all of which she claims would expedite my Service Request.
Three days later their "engineer" called me to tell me they had been to my zone and checked all their equipment and could I please check my bandwidth. I did but still blah. 0.67 Mbps. The "engineer" seemed perplexed and opened his own Service Request and assured me that they would fix it forthwith. That was two days ago.
I live in an affluent neighborhood in NYC, and I am currently testing two different mobile carrier's latest 4G wifi hotspot phones. Sprint's is really fast one minute, and then horribly slow the next minute. Overall it's very unstable, even when I'm getting a decent 4G signal. T-Mobile's is much more stable and lower latency, but only gives me around 1Mbps. I wonder how much bandwidth and reliability we'll have when 98% of America is using mobile broadband.
It means that they don't have to disclose how they will be making their money, which I'm sure will involve deep data mining of user data and relationships.
I use FB sparingly, for fun. I don't get all wrapped up in it, and I keep my privacy settings locked down. I log on once a day and see what my crazy friends are up to, which is usually nothing much.
I did use it two years ago to reconnect with an old friend, and that was crucial because last year he passed away. There is tremendous social value in FB, if you want it.
I agree. Why for instance are they trying so hard to remain a privately financed company? Because they do not want the public to know how they really make their money. The only way they can be valued at $50B is if they are selling their users' data to the highest bidders.
I agree with the (un)conscious pressure factor, but I disagree with its direction. I think that by the time someone is trying to reproduce someone else's results, they are usually trying to refute the original study. They have their own agenda, which introduces a different bias to show a diminished effect.
Other posters above touched on this subject by writing about how important negative results are. Negative results are good science too. Negative results represent the very rigor of The Scientific Method. So when you try to reproduce another's results, you are in effect hoping to disprove them.
Several of the posters are correct in thinking that Russia's latest move towards Linux is a reaction against Microsoft, but it's not about license fees. It's about free speech; it's about politics. Recall that Microsoft recently dealt a major blow to Russia's attempts to suppress non-profit organizations who criticize the Kremlin. Case in point:
This issue concerns me because I want to ditch cable for one of those hot new 4G cell phones with WiFi tethering. I don't watch much TV anyway, and anything I want to see is already on the internet. If the cable companies buy up all the good content, I'll be stuck paying $120 per month for a bunch of crap that I'll never watch.
My diabolical plan includes buying a digital antenna so I can get my football games. I also need some way to record those games so I can watch them at my leisure and skip the commercials. Does anyone have any suggestions for how I might do that? A TV tuner card and a big-ass hard drive?
If the database analogy which you presented is correct, then what you describe is called connection pooling. Would that be the "different methodology" used in Europe? But connection pooling happens on the client side, so it's not something fixed by an infrastructure upgrade.
You need to use package signatures to help you quickly compare environments. For example you can hash your jar files, and then simply compare the hash values to confirm or deny that your environments match. The db is a bit trickier, but it's also possible to compare databases.
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I'm ignorant. And old. Back in the day I remember that a BIOS could be compromised by a virus. Is that still the case with newer computers?
I think we're only talking about 4G broadband caps, aren't we? My home ISP does not cap, but my cell phone provider does. Which providers are doing the capping?
What's the real bottleneck for 4G broadband? I've heard that the cell towers have only so much bandwidth, and that any one cluster of towers is usually shared by all providers of that area. If that's the case then they have to do some sort of throttling or shaping or whatever you call it.
Two weeks ago, while streaming "The Riches" via Netflix (great show, untimely demise), my T-Mobile 4G broadband connection dropped out and, almost simultaneously, I received a text message from T-Mobile that reads, "Free T-Mobile MSG: You have used over 5GB of data this month. Your data speed has been reduced for the rest of your billing cycle per the terms of your plan." They throttled me down to 50 Kb/s, dial-up modem speed. The internet suddenly became unusable.
The salesrep who had signed me up told me that the data plan was unlimited. So I called them and complained. The service rep to whom I was talking said it is in fact "unlimited" because despite the throttling I could still use the service. I tried to argue that I could not in fact use the service because it took forever to load any of my favorite web sites (even with ABP enabled, mind you). She continued to argue her definition of "unlimited". When I threatened to sue them, she promptly hung up. Apparently that's roughly equivalent to using foul language.
Another lie was when the T-Mobile salesrep told me that I would get 10-15 Mb/s in my zip code. He was "absolutely certain". I never got anywhere near those speeds. Most days I got 1.5 Mb/s, and sometimes less than half a megabit. So I plan to cancel my T-Mobile 4G broadband service.
I trialed Sprint's 4G broadband. It was superfast (10+ Mb/s), but super unstable. It would quite frequently drop my connection, and quite often would drop down to very slow speed, around 100-200 Kb/s. I canceled and returned the phone.
What I need is a mobile 4G broadband provider that I can use both at home for Netflix and on the road for work. I need a service that does not throttle, delivers quality service, and charges me a fair price.
I'm trying Clear now. So far it's not bad. Not great, but just barely this side of not sucking. I get about 1.5 Mb/s, sometimes better. Sometimes it drops me while streaming Netflix, but a simple reload of the web page restores my viewing experience. Sometimes it horks my office VPN connection, and that can be more than a little annoying if I'm in the middle of a production issue.
Is shaping the same as throttling?
I think Netflix is planning to do exactly what they claim they're not going to do. It's common practice for companies to make deceptive public statements regarding corporate strategy.
Perhaps not in the short-term, but down the road when conditions are more favorable, when the net is more neutral and the pace of cable revenue decline begins to accelerate, then Netflix will pounce and crush the cable companies. And I for one welcome in advance our future media overlords.
I already ditched cable. Netflix rocks. Hulu is OK but not quite really good yet. And everything else I want to see I can stream directly from the content providers' websites. It won't be long. Soon it will be time to short the cable companies.
I think you missed the point. He's saying that if you're an entry-level programmer fresh out of school, then it would be really good if you have some sort of working code which you wrote and that you can show off at an interview. He's also saying that with today's technology it's really easy to write a small app, so there's no excuse for the entry-level programmers to arrive at an interview empty-handed.
As always it's a confluence of factors, with a single flashpoint event that starts the ball rolling. The Wikileaks revelations added fuel to the fire. (Crass puns fully intended.)
I live in NYC and I have a new MyTouch 4G from T-Mobile. I get decent service, fairly reliable, but not so much bandwidth. On a good day I get about 1.2 Mbps. On a bad day half that.
So I called T-Mobile sales and pretended to be interested in opening a new account and spoke to the sales rep about their hot new 4G mobile broadband service. I finally got around to getting him to claim that their new service in my neighborhood provides "up to 20 Mbps" (I had to explain to him that the little "b" means bits not bytes.) I said, "'up to' as in the maximum but I should expect less on average?" He assured me that it should be anywhere from 10-20 Mbps consistently, and he even narrowed it down to the block where I live. So I told him thanks-I'll think-about-it.
I hung up on the sales guy and called customer service and got myself quickly transferred to the tech department, and I explained my bandwidth dilemma. The tech person reiterated the sales guy's bandwidth claim and assured me they would do everything they can to remedy the situation. We went through a lengthy troubleshooting session during which we checked all of the settings on my phone and bounced it, but still no speedy. So she opened a trouble ticket and dispatched technicians to my zone and asked me to check back in 72 hours.
Five days later I called them back and told them still no speedy. The tech rep told me that the "engineers" still had not gotten around to checking my zone but they would do so very soon, and she opened a Service Request in which she fabricated my complete lack of signal and zero bandwidth and non-working broadband, all of which she claims would expedite my Service Request.
Three days later their "engineer" called me to tell me they had been to my zone and checked all their equipment and could I please check my bandwidth. I did but still blah. 0.67 Mbps. The "engineer" seemed perplexed and opened his own Service Request and assured me that they would fix it forthwith. That was two days ago.
Still, no speedy.
The only thing hot in the many data centers I toured were the saleswomen. Every single one of them, young, female and HOT! No exceptions.
I live in an affluent neighborhood in NYC, and I am currently testing two different mobile carrier's latest 4G wifi hotspot phones. Sprint's is really fast one minute, and then horribly slow the next minute. Overall it's very unstable, even when I'm getting a decent 4G signal. T-Mobile's is much more stable and lower latency, but only gives me around 1Mbps. I wonder how much bandwidth and reliability we'll have when 98% of America is using mobile broadband.
It means that they don't have to disclose how they will be making their money, which I'm sure will involve deep data mining of user data and relationships.
Yes that is certainly true. But that's the whole point behind connecting to people. Missing them when they're gone is an unavoidable side effect.
Only if the have more than 500 investors.
I use FB sparingly, for fun. I don't get all wrapped up in it, and I keep my privacy settings locked down. I log on once a day and see what my crazy friends are up to, which is usually nothing much.
I did use it two years ago to reconnect with an old friend, and that was crucial because last year he passed away. There is tremendous social value in FB, if you want it.
I agree. Why for instance are they trying so hard to remain a privately financed company? Because they do not want the public to know how they really make their money. The only way they can be valued at $50B is if they are selling their users' data to the highest bidders.
I agree with the (un)conscious pressure factor, but I disagree with its direction. I think that by the time someone is trying to reproduce someone else's results, they are usually trying to refute the original study. They have their own agenda, which introduces a different bias to show a diminished effect.
Other posters above touched on this subject by writing about how important negative results are. Negative results are good science too. Negative results represent the very rigor of The Scientific Method. So when you try to reproduce another's results, you are in effect hoping to disprove them.
Several of the posters are correct in thinking that Russia's latest move towards Linux is a reaction against Microsoft, but it's not about license fees. It's about free speech; it's about politics. Recall that Microsoft recently dealt a major blow to Russia's attempts to suppress non-profit organizations who criticize the Kremlin. Case in point:
http://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/10/17/2241228/MS-Gives-Free-Licenses-To-Oppressed-Nonprofits
This issue concerns me because I want to ditch cable for one of those hot new 4G cell phones with WiFi tethering. I don't watch much TV anyway, and anything I want to see is already on the internet. If the cable companies buy up all the good content, I'll be stuck paying $120 per month for a bunch of crap that I'll never watch.
My diabolical plan includes buying a digital antenna so I can get my football games. I also need some way to record those games so I can watch them at my leisure and skip the commercials. Does anyone have any suggestions for how I might do that? A TV tuner card and a big-ass hard drive?
Use tinyurl.com to provide the link.
If the database analogy which you presented is correct, then what you describe is called connection pooling. Would that be the "different methodology" used in Europe? But connection pooling happens on the client side, so it's not something fixed by an infrastructure upgrade.
Wow. The instructions for disabling Autorun are hideous: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967715. Is this really how one disables it?
This one looks slightly less hideous: http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-020A.html.
I apologize in advance for the noob question.
It's "For all INTENTS AND purposes".
You need to use package signatures to help you quickly compare environments. For example you can hash your jar files, and then simply compare the hash values to confirm or deny that your environments match. The db is a bit trickier, but it's also possible to compare databases.
How do you restart DG after opening the standby read/write and updating its data? The SCN's will no longer match.