I've had Time-Warner and AT&T internet service, and Google Fiber is easily the best in terms of speed, uptime, and, importantly, customer service and the customer-facing website that you use to configure the service. As others have stated, Google Fiber has forced the other players in the area (Time-Warner, AT&T, and Grande) to lower their prices and improve their offerings. I've had Google Fiber gigabit Internet now for a couple of years and I haven't contacted tech support even once. So, yeah, Google may be rethinking their strategy, but the actual service is fantastic.
Slowwwwly closing in on Amazon's X1 instance which offers 1952 GiB RAM and 128 vCPUs at ~$13.338 per hour (dynamic pricing). Google may catch up in a year or two.....
The ticketing server for the movies on the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema site is not responding either via the web or their cell phone app. I'm hoping this is just because of Slashdot curiosity and not a denial of service attack or hack of some sort.
I think there's a ton of CDC equipment in Collosus: The Forbin Project. It has a fairly standard "computer takes over the world" plot line but is a bit of fun as well.
"When the executives at Control Data Corporation found out that Universal was planning a major movie featuring a computer, they saw their chance for some public exposure, and they agreed to supply, free of charge, $4.8 million worth of computer equipment and the technicians to oversee its use. Each piece of equipment carried the CDC name in a prominent location. Since they were using real computers - not just big boxes with a lot of flashing lights - the sound stage underwent extensive modifications: seven gas heaters and five specially-constructed dehumidifiers kept any dampness away from the computers, a climate control system maintained the air around the computers at an even temperature, and the equipment was covered up at all times except when actually on camera. Brink's guards were always present on the set, even at night. The studio technicians were not allowed to smoke or drink coffee anywhere near the computers."
Avid Media Suite Pro (circa 1993) was, imho, the first combination of hardware/software that made it truly easy to
stick a board in a PC (well, a Macintosh IIfx) and edit full-frame video in the style of real-time non-linear editing.
The experience was just like using a word processor for text or photoshop for images -- a fluid editing experience
with simple cut and paste of video and audio. You could also easily injest and output your video from tape.
To get up and running, you simply plugged the Nubus board into the IIfx and loaded the software.
Although Avid shipped the Avid/1 in 1988, and Adobe shipped Adobe Premiere 1.0 in 1991, I think Avid's Media Suite
Pro set the original bar for accessible prosumer video editing.
The Netflix chart gives a misleading perception of "ranking." Some of these services are tiered offerings, like TimeWarner Cable and AT&T U-Verse, but you can't tell from the chart what percentage of the customers have subscribed to lower-speed service or higher-speed service. It's possible that a higher ranking ISP just happens to have more customers paying more money for faster access -- that doesn't make them a faster ISP.
In case you were confused by this Slashdot article where Valve talks about Xbox's playing against PC's, what they mean is Xbox's and PCs on the same LAN. There is still no way for an Xbox360 to connect to servers out on the public Internet. They are trapped behind the Windows Live system. Just FYI....(it confused me).
Heh. That's so *not* true. The baritone sax is only, maybe, 8 inches longer than the tenor. Even in the cartoon, the sax is as big as Lisa Simpson. That's the point. Who knows why they made this glaring mistake. Sad, considering the effort they put into the overall detail.
A huge mistake: in the cartoon, as everyone knows, Lisa Simpson plays a BARITONE saxophone. In this real-life adaptation, she's playing a TENOR saxophone. How could they miss that? There must be 100 episodes with a baritone sax in it. Back to the drawing board, mates!
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I've had Time-Warner and AT&T internet service, and Google Fiber is easily the best in terms of speed, uptime, and, importantly, customer service and the customer-facing website that you use to configure the service. As others have stated, Google Fiber has forced the other players in the area (Time-Warner, AT&T, and Grande) to lower their prices and improve their offerings. I've had Google Fiber gigabit Internet now for a couple of years and I haven't contacted tech support even once. So, yeah, Google may be rethinking their strategy, but the actual service is fantastic.
I'm pretty sure I've been doing some of these roles for free. Time to start charging.
I get the Netflix analogy, but, ya know, Netflix is all-in on Amazon Web Services (not Azure).
Slowwwwly closing in on Amazon's X1 instance which offers 1952 GiB RAM and 128 vCPUs at ~$13.338 per hour (dynamic pricing). Google may catch up in a year or two.....
These guys seem to be building on the Kozmo model, but it looks like they're trying to make money this time :-) : Favor Delivery
The ticketing server for the movies on the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema site is not responding either via the web or their cell phone app. I'm hoping this is just because of Slashdot curiosity and not a denial of service attack or hack of some sort.
I think there's a ton of CDC equipment in Collosus: The Forbin Project. It has a fairly standard "computer takes over the world" plot line but is a bit of fun as well.
Note the movie trivia entry at this IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/trivia
"When the executives at Control Data Corporation found out that Universal was planning a major movie featuring a computer, they saw their chance for some public exposure, and they agreed to supply, free of charge, $4.8 million worth of computer equipment and the technicians to oversee its use. Each piece of equipment carried the CDC name in a prominent location. Since they were using real computers - not just big boxes with a lot of flashing lights - the sound stage underwent extensive modifications: seven gas heaters and five specially-constructed dehumidifiers kept any dampness away from the computers, a climate control system maintained the air around the computers at an even temperature, and the equipment was covered up at all times except when actually on camera. Brink's guards were always present on the set, even at night. The studio technicians were not allowed to smoke or drink coffee anywhere near the computers."
The Alamo Drafthouse theaters (now in many major cities and expanding) famously has a very strict no talking and no cell usage policy during all movie showings. Here's an example of their strict policy in action from their corporate blog: http://drafthouse.com/blog/entry/she_texted._we_kicked_her_out
"The tutorial and speech schedule is crazy-dense, with as many as 10 tracks going at once."
Ten tracks seems lightweight compared to conferences like OSCON which often have 18 simultaneous tracks.
Avid Media Suite Pro (circa 1993) was, imho, the first combination of hardware/software that made it truly easy to stick a board in a PC (well, a Macintosh IIfx) and edit full-frame video in the style of real-time non-linear editing. The experience was just like using a word processor for text or photoshop for images -- a fluid editing experience with simple cut and paste of video and audio. You could also easily injest and output your video from tape. To get up and running, you simply plugged the Nubus board into the IIfx and loaded the software. Although Avid shipped the Avid/1 in 1988, and Adobe shipped Adobe Premiere 1.0 in 1991, I think Avid's Media Suite Pro set the original bar for accessible prosumer video editing.
The Netflix chart gives a misleading perception of "ranking." Some of these services are tiered offerings, like TimeWarner Cable and AT&T U-Verse, but you can't tell from the chart what percentage of the customers have subscribed to lower-speed service or higher-speed service. It's possible that a higher ranking ISP just happens to have more customers paying more money for faster access -- that doesn't make them a faster ISP.
I believe that Railo is a scripting language, not a CMS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railo
Adobe based their player on Kaltura's library: http://www.html5video.org/ (also see http://www.kaltura.org/project/HTML5_Video_Media_JavaScript_Library)
In case you were confused by this Slashdot article where Valve talks about Xbox's playing against PC's, what they mean is Xbox's and PCs on the same LAN. There is still no way for an Xbox360 to connect to servers out on the public Internet. They are trapped behind the Windows Live system. Just FYI....(it confused me).
Heh. That's so *not* true. The baritone sax is only, maybe, 8 inches longer than the tenor. Even in the cartoon, the sax is as big as Lisa Simpson. That's the point. Who knows why they made this glaring mistake. Sad, considering the effort they put into the overall detail.
A huge mistake: in the cartoon, as everyone knows, Lisa Simpson plays a BARITONE saxophone. In this real-life adaptation, she's playing a TENOR saxophone. How could they miss that? There must be 100 episodes with a baritone sax in it. Back to the drawing board, mates!