And you justify that position in light of how they are locking down this new console...how?

MS has always been a company that has thrown stuff out to the public and then once it became profitable, locked it down with a vengeance. With the XBone they seem to be just accelerating the processes here a bit.

I live in the boonies. I can see zero other APs at my house. I don't even cook with a microwave. 802.11g works great here, I regularly get real-world speeds over 20Mbps. Well, as regularly as I use a client capable of such speeds. My SEMC Xperia Play struggles to pass 1Mbps for most operations. Possibly part of that is the very slow sdcard.

Speaking as someone who had a //e. And not just any //e mine had a Transwarp, a Cider 10M Hard Drive, a Hayes Modem, and an 1M extended 80 col card. My //e was mackin. Further I learned a lot about computers from that system. However that came from my own personal learning and...

Not from my school which had a room full of //e's that were not used really at all. If you are in a room of computers but your teacher/professor does not let you interact with them, or further teach you anything meaningful about how to further your knowledge about computers then they might as well be door stops.

The idea that you can dump a bunch of hardware on schools and make it relevant has been proven ineffectual. I would venture to say that an industry would have to back it up with TON more of resources to make that investment pay off. That MS is about to have to dump a TON of resources into the XBone to make that even break even makes me wonder if they are going to fight a two front war at this point.

Discussing the requests openly, either within or beyond the walls of an involved company, can violate federal law

Any act of congress that purports to deny our freedom of speech is not a law at all, but a usurpation. Congress has no power to trump the constitution.

-jcr

That really didn't answer the question though. All that says is "you'll need an administrator", without really laying down a framework for figuring out who it should be. It is a certainty that the landlords will be looking for bottom dollar bids on this extra expense that they don't know much about. He'll probably be charged rent for the space the machines take up, as well as power bills and whatnot, making the whole service more expensive than just buying a PC and running it in your apartment/office/etc... Apartments don't have IT departments to fall back on like most people who buy thin client setups.

Is the landlord going to run the server farm? This sounds like a support nightmare to me.

I didn't say UKdians, I said Brits. You know, the English. You're reaching.

Again, the almighty says stop changing the subject and answer the fookin' question

The thing is, you can accomplish everything in your theoretical peanut scenario with interactions between humans if they have adequate organization. But you can't accomplish any of that with SAP if you lack adequate SAP organization. So by spending the effort on SAP, what do you get? Maybe the same results if you're lucky and SAP doesn't explode, and now you get to pay for SAP.

Might as well just buy an AS/400 (can you even still do that?)

The last mile is still as fucked as it has been for the last five years or so. Only in a few major cities are we actually deploying any fiber. I still can't get anything as fast as a decent DSL connection at my home without paying massive fees for something carrier-grade; I would probably have to pay AT&T to run a new strand of fiber into my neighborhood. The copper in my neighborhood has been spliced and respliced, because it was inherited from Pacific Bell, and it is shit.

Useless wireless has become a ubiquitous plague. MK802 series. Ouya, reportedly. Pretty much every cheapass tablet etc. The Wii was the last device I bought without an external antenna which has good reception. My cellphone has moderately adequate reception (SEMC Xperia Play) and will work farther from the antenna than most laptops with a screen antenna, but that's not saying much.

The US and Canada have pretty similar problems in terms of both broadband penetration and television reception, related to population density and basic issues of geography. Where I live in the USA, it used to be possible to almost get four stations in via analog. Now two of them can't be picked up at all any more. I don't know of anyone receiving any DTV here at all.

But that's the point; you don't fill it with people who make the world great. You fill it with people who make the world grate. If the plane crashes, you can then fully comprehend ambivalence.

America's broadband networks led the world in one respect; this is where we got widespread broadband first. We lag in every other regard. Miles of shitty copper used for services it can't really handle is not a metric to brag about.

We get less for our money than almost anyone else, we have poorer penetration than almost anyone else... the former is because of corporate malfeasance, the latter is both because of that and because the USA is big. Nothing to be proud of either way.

If you can otherwise satisfactorily explain why Brits don't pronounce their Rs but Americans do, when Elizabethan English had a very hard R, you will win a small prize. There are numerous other examples. The whole argument does make sense, but you're only looking at one part of it; the logical part. Groups of humans don't work on logic most of the time.

Wait, what? All you need to know with chat is that this message came from the same guy as the last message. TLS is fine for that.