The bandwidth you get then should be proportional to the size of the pipe vs how many other people are trying to use it at this moment though.. not based on what protocol you are using!
The routers should be configured such that when 100 users are moving data at a given moment then each user's data moves through the link at the lesser of 1/100th of total speed of the link or the greatest speed at which the link feeding the user's data into this one is sending it. (Actually, when you consider the links that some of the other 99 users's data is coming in at are probably not coming in at 1/100th the speed of this link the others can be sped up to greater than 1/100th to take advantage of this) Anyway, the point is why aren't these routers smart enough to route fairly yet? Why is it even possible for one user to "hog" the pipe? This seems like yet another case of attempting to solve a technological problem with policy.
There is no reason why a specific protocol should be targeted for throttling. That just makes an incentive for somebody to come up with a new protocol whose only advantage is that it doesn't look like the old one to the traffic shaping software. Then that one can get throttled too. So the cycle repeats. The likely result is that the ISPs throttle any data that is between two residential connections as opposed to a residential connection downloading a page from some commercial site (if they aren't doing this already). Then the only way you can get a decent presence on the internet is to buy into some corporate host. Thus the internet becomes less an open network and more just a media tool like AOL was.
Somebody has their shit together SO WELL that their greatest regret is not being able to watch some online TV. And there is even a solution for that! Albeit one that is obvious and not very newsworthy. Imagine having your life that well together. He can't be human! Yes... there is news here...
I doubt that. Any corporation is going to charge the most they can get away with before they lose enough customers that they would bring in more money charging less. Then they are going to provide the least expensive service (in this case, approve the fewest claims) that they can get away with, also before losing enough customers (or getting sued) that they would bring in more money by paying out more. If they could get away with rejecting a claim, therefore keeping more money then why wouldn't they already be doing so regardless of if they are being fined or not? Remember, in the eyes of the executive business is only numbers, there are no people and there is no right or wrong.
Then they make less profit. If they can save money (to pay fines) by not providing as good of service or if they can make money (to pay fines) by charging more then they would be already doing so in order to make more profit. That's how corporations work!
I doubt that. Any corporation is going to charge the most they can get away with before they lose enough customers that they would bring in more money charging less. Then they are going to provide the least expensive service (in this case, approve the fewest claims) that they can get away with, also be
Between Insurance company rackets (in-netowork vs out of network coverage) and government enforced monopolies (drug patents, procedure patents, etc...) and the simple economics of geography (few people in NY are going to doctors in CA for an extreme example) there really aren't many choices if any at all for most people.
Stop slapping companies on the wrist and start slapping individuals into prison. That is the only way to solve the problem.
Of course it's a knee jerk reaction to not liking something about Windows or Microsoft! I'd love to finally see 'the year of the Linux desktop' about as much as anyone but I can still be realistic. Almost all of their market either gave in and switched to Windows or always ran Windows in the first place years ago! While there are still plenty of us out there who would love to see Linux gaming take off most would still just keep Windows around if the games only ran on it.
When I compared running WoW using OpenGL on Linux vs Windows I didn't see any difference in content at all! Just a faster FPS in Linux. When I compared OpenGL on either to DirectX on Windows I did see it looked different. It seemed more "cartooney" to me in Direct X. I couldn't decide if either way looked objectively better or worse than the other, just different. I prefered the OpenGL look but that may just be because I was used to it. Later I found that WoW actually would run in DirectX mode on my copy of Wine. I didn't know DirectX was in there! I didn't run it enough to see if anything was missing. It was way too slow!
Whose fault is it that we have so many old reactors on our planet? Why do we have so many reactors using old designs when we know how to make safer ones? Why so many aging power plants?
Maybe if we didn't have so many anti-anything nuclear protesters we would have new, safer ones and these things would have been torn down years ago.
Yup, we are all armed to the teeth over here. See that old lady over there? That's an uzi in her bag. That guy on the corner has a Peacemaker in his coat. That baby, with the cute little toy... the toy is actually a grenade.
Ah, but I didn't say any of those things. Racists would be making statements that are against the newcomer of the different race. They would be automatically assuming the newcomer isn't worthy of being there and want him/her to leave. The things they might say would be direct attacks aimed at knocking the person down.
A bunch of guys used to saying things that might be offensive to the new girl aren't really saying anything against the new girl. They are just saying things she might not feel comfortable hearing. For example, a woman might not want to hear she has nice tits from some guy she has no interest in, is not attracted to, etc... I'm sure there are several who will disagree with me but that does not make it demeaning. The reason is that there is nothing exclusive about 'having nice tits' that prevents a woman from also being intelligent, a hard worker, strong or having any other positive trait. (except maybe fitting through really tight spaces sideways... j/k)
Or, maybe the things they talk about don't have anything to do with her at all... let me tell you about this girl I took home last night... type stuff. Really not her business at all but maybe it's what they talk about... I don't know.
Unfortunately in a lawsuit the law is likely to side with the one workplace killing personality. Don't get me wrong, there has to be a limit. You shouldn't be able to just harass somebody so that they can't be happy or have to leave. I suppose that is why the law is the way it is, because that limit is so subjective it is easier to just make the line zero tolerance. I get what people say about just growing up and being mature in the workplace but you have to remember, most of us today spend more waking hours in the workplace than anywhere else. If we can't just be ourselves (within reason) at work then this really isn't a healthy society to live in.
Ultimately we aren't going to fix this problem until it is way too late and something drastic is requires for us to survive. Most likely... bombing Antarctica just enough to produce a 'mild' nuclear winter. Don't worry about Antarctica's wildlife though.. they will be long since dead from the climate change anyway at that point.
Alternatively.... those who can afford to will move to Antarctica while the rest of the continents become to hot to survive and everyone else dies. Then when it starts to become too hot even there they can bomb the now de-populated old continents. So... you see... bombing Antarctica is actually an optimistic view on the future compared to what else might happen.
" Technology must now work for everyone, not just 'computing enthusiasts.'"
Which is exactly why advanced features should be hidden away in 'advanced' menus but not eliminated entirely. If technology ceases to work for it's enthusiasts then it in fact DOES NOT WORK for "everyone". In fact, when technology does not work for enthusiasts it does not work for the people who are most likely to innovate, it becomes stale and that benefits no one.
It's more than just not appreciating quality. It's the throwaway society. I think people would look at your hand rubbed finish oak bookcase and appreciate it. But they wouldn't buy it. It doesn't make sense to spend money on something nice if you throw everything away and replace it in a year or two. People don't hold onto stuff anymore, they always expect everything to be fresh and new. Give an average person some free time, maybe a day off work or something and what are they likely to do? They will probably go shopping and buy something. (Even though they can't afford to). Then when they get it home something else has to go to the curb. This is a generation of very well trained consumers.
Yeah, wood has gotten rediculous. I almost bought a premade workbench because of it. I asked some of my older, handy relatives where they suggested I buy one. They thought I was nuts. And then I correctly pointed out that I had already priced the wood and it was going to cost more to do it myself! In the end I still did build one because I wanted it my way, a specific height, size with shelves in specific places. Still... more money to do the work myself? Come on!
And how many people get the flu vs Hep C? More people die of heart disease than gunshots each year too but I wouldn't call a cheesburger more deadly than a bullet!
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The bandwidth you get then should be proportional to the size of the pipe vs how many other people are trying to use it at this moment though.. not based on what protocol you are using!
That's stupid!
The routers should be configured such that when 100 users are moving data at a given moment then each user's data moves through the link at the lesser of 1/100th of total speed of the link or the greatest speed at which the link feeding the user's data into this one is sending it. (Actually, when you consider the links that some of the other 99 users's data is coming in at are probably not coming in at 1/100th the speed of this link the others can be sped up to greater than 1/100th to take advantage of this) Anyway, the point is why aren't these routers smart enough to route fairly yet? Why is it even possible for one user to "hog" the pipe? This seems like yet another case of attempting to solve a technological problem with policy.
There is no reason why a specific protocol should be targeted for throttling. That just makes an incentive for somebody to come up with a new protocol whose only advantage is that it doesn't look like the old one to the traffic shaping software. Then that one can get throttled too. So the cycle repeats. The likely result is that the ISPs throttle any data that is between two residential connections as opposed to a residential connection downloading a page from some commercial site (if they aren't doing this already). Then the only way you can get a decent presence on the internet is to buy into some corporate host. Thus the internet becomes less an open network and more just a media tool like AOL was.
Somebody has their shit together SO WELL that their greatest regret is not being able to watch some online TV. And there is even a solution for that! Albeit one that is obvious and not very newsworthy. Imagine having your life that well together. He can't be human! Yes... there is news here...
I doubt that. Any corporation is going to charge the most they can get away with before they lose enough customers that they would bring in more money charging less. Then they are going to provide the least expensive service (in this case, approve the fewest claims) that they can get away with, also before losing enough customers (or getting sued) that they would bring in more money by paying out more. If they could get away with rejecting a claim, therefore keeping more money then why wouldn't they already be doing so regardless of if they are being fined or not? Remember, in the eyes of the executive business is only numbers, there are no people and there is no right or wrong.
Then they make less profit. If they can save money (to pay fines) by not providing as good of service or if they can make money (to pay fines) by charging more then they would be already doing so in order to make more profit. That's how corporations work!
I doubt that. Any corporation is going to charge the most they can get away with before they lose enough customers that they would bring in more money charging less. Then they are going to provide the least expensive service (in this case, approve the fewest claims) that they can get away with, also be
Bullshit back at you.
Between Insurance company rackets (in-netowork vs out of network coverage) and government enforced monopolies (drug patents, procedure patents, etc...) and the simple economics of geography (few people in NY are going to doctors in CA for an extreme example) there really aren't many choices if any at all for most people.
Stop slapping companies on the wrist and start slapping individuals into prison. That is the only way to solve the problem.
If you will pay shipping (or come pick them up) I'll give you a bunch of them!!!!
I wouldn't know about that but too bad they don' t do the same for iOS.
Of course it's a knee jerk reaction to not liking something about Windows or Microsoft! I'd love to finally see 'the year of the Linux desktop' about as much as anyone but I can still be realistic. Almost all of their market either gave in and switched to Windows or always ran Windows in the first place years ago! While there are still plenty of us out there who would love to see Linux gaming take off most would still just keep Windows around if the games only ran on it.
When I compared running WoW using OpenGL on Linux vs Windows I didn't see any difference in content at all! Just a faster FPS in Linux. When I compared OpenGL on either to DirectX on Windows I did see it looked different. It seemed more "cartooney" to me in Direct X. I couldn't decide if either way looked objectively better or worse than the other, just different. I prefered the OpenGL look but that may just be because I was used to it. Later I found that WoW actually would run in DirectX mode on my copy of Wine. I didn't know DirectX was in there! I didn't run it enough to see if anything was missing. It was way too slow!
Yeah, that was my experience too.
Whose fault is it that we have so many old reactors on our planet? Why do we have so many reactors using old designs when we know how to make safer ones? Why so many aging power plants?
Maybe if we didn't have so many anti-anything nuclear protesters we would have new, safer ones and these things would have been torn down years ago.
"Some generations have figured that out in the past, often the next one undid the progress, but like I said, it can be done."
If so then they must have been too self absorbed in their own progress to teach their children. Anyway... care to name those generations?
The difference is one way takes a lot of time, tons of skill and years of experience.
The other requires downloading a file and pushing a button.
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Yup, we are all armed to the teeth over here. See that old lady over there? That's an uzi in her bag. That guy on the corner has a Peacemaker in his coat. That baby, with the cute little toy... the toy is actually a grenade.
Ah, but I didn't say any of those things. Racists would be making statements that are against the newcomer of the different race. They would be automatically assuming the newcomer isn't worthy of being there and want him/her to leave. The things they might say would be direct attacks aimed at knocking the person down.
A bunch of guys used to saying things that might be offensive to the new girl aren't really saying anything against the new girl. They are just saying things she might not feel comfortable hearing. For example, a woman might not want to hear she has nice tits from some guy she has no interest in, is not attracted to, etc... I'm sure there are several who will disagree with me but that does not make it demeaning. The reason is that there is nothing exclusive about 'having nice tits' that prevents a woman from also being intelligent, a hard worker, strong or having any other positive trait. (except maybe fitting through really tight spaces sideways... j/k)
Or, maybe the things they talk about don't have anything to do with her at all... let me tell you about this girl I took home last night... type stuff. Really not her business at all but maybe it's what they talk about... I don't know.
Unfortunately in a lawsuit the law is likely to side with the one workplace killing personality. Don't get me wrong, there has to be a limit. You shouldn't be able to just harass somebody so that they can't be happy or have to leave. I suppose that is why the law is the way it is, because that limit is so subjective it is easier to just make the line zero tolerance. I get what people say about just growing up and being mature in the workplace but you have to remember, most of us today spend more waking hours in the workplace than anywhere else. If we can't just be ourselves (within reason) at work then this really isn't a healthy society to live in.
Ultimately we aren't going to fix this problem until it is way too late and something drastic is requires for us to survive. Most likely... bombing Antarctica just enough to produce a 'mild' nuclear winter. Don't worry about Antarctica's wildlife though.. they will be long since dead from the climate change anyway at that point.
Alternatively.... those who can afford to will move to Antarctica while the rest of the continents become to hot to survive and everyone else dies. Then when it starts to become too hot even there they can bomb the now de-populated old continents. So... you see... bombing Antarctica is actually an optimistic view on the future compared to what else might happen.
" Technology must now work for everyone, not just 'computing enthusiasts.'"
Which is exactly why advanced features should be hidden away in 'advanced' menus but not eliminated entirely. If technology ceases to work for it's enthusiasts then it in fact DOES NOT WORK for "everyone". In fact, when technology does not work for enthusiasts it does not work for the people who are most likely to innovate, it becomes stale and that benefits no one.
Oh, man, that's like $10 a minute! Bring the car to me, I can take 10 minutes of cold!
It's more than just not appreciating quality. It's the throwaway society. I think people would look at your hand rubbed finish oak bookcase and appreciate it. But they wouldn't buy it. It doesn't make sense to spend money on something nice if you throw everything away and replace it in a year or two. People don't hold onto stuff anymore, they always expect everything to be fresh and new. Give an average person some free time, maybe a day off work or something and what are they likely to do? They will probably go shopping and buy something. (Even though they can't afford to). Then when they get it home something else has to go to the curb. This is a generation of very well trained consumers.
Yeah, wood has gotten rediculous. I almost bought a premade workbench because of it. I asked some of my older, handy relatives where they suggested I buy one. They thought I was nuts. And then I correctly pointed out that I had already priced the wood and it was going to cost more to do it myself! In the end I still did build one because I wanted it my way, a specific height, size with shelves in specific places. Still... more money to do the work myself? Come on!
And how many people get the flu vs Hep C? More people die of heart disease than gunshots each year too but I wouldn't call a cheesburger more deadly than a bullet!
Your honor, I didn't steal the wallet, he left it out in plain sight on the table! It was begging to be taken!