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Anyhow, 802.11g doesn't cut it. If it doesn't do 5 GHz band, it's not worth it.
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.
But that's exactly my point, which Brits exactly?
Even in Elizabethan England some areas of the country had a hard R, others didn't. The same remains true to this day, if you think the UK has no rhotic accents then you've obviously never heard someone from the South West, Ireland, or Scotland speak.
I didn't say UKdians, I said Brits. You know, the English. You're reaching.
If you've only ever listened to BBC presenters or the Queen speak then you can be forgiven for thinking there are no English accents in the UK that don't pronounce there Rs but that's not representative of even close to the whole population, and that's exactly my point.
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?)
Your comment is strange because we're deploying fiber far faster than in Europe. xDSL seems to be receding.
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.
Only if you live in the US. In Canada, you get almost nothing over the air.
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.
It has TLS, which is a bad idea for chat.
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.
SAP is like an operating system for business intelligence applications. It has that much complexity. It's just further proof that those who do not understand Unix are doomed to reinvent it... poorly.
Despite what people on slashdot like to rant and rave about, many times being behind on updates has nothing to do with being cheap or lazy.
Sure, there's also stupidity and incompetence.
If the system can't be taken down for maintenance, in pieces if necessary and with redundance if necessary, then the initial design was incompetent. And if the system is based on SAP, then whoever made the purchasing decision was not only incompetent, but also stupid. A cursory look around will tell you that everyone with SAP and without billions of dollars is very angry.
When you're messing with software at this scale 95% of the effort goes into making sure that you don't break it, and documentation. Changing the report file probably takes 5 minutes, and then the rest of the time is writing the requirements, reviewing the prototype, having a PM check that it was done on time, writing up the system/acceptance tests, testing that all the other 47 requirements for that report are still met, writing up the install script and updating the install package, scheduling the downtime for the upgrade, updating the servers (likely on a weekend - oh and don't forget you have to do it once for your test instance as well), etc.
You're seriously talking about a graphical change. This would be about fifteen seconds' work on an IBM mainframe, to diddle the format. If it isn't on SAP, then SAP sucks shit and no amount of your apologizing will change it any more than it would change Lotus Notes.
I remember in 1999, a friend of mine converting DVDs, into somewhat lower quality form for VCD use. I also remember during the early HD-DVD blu ray wars, that HD-DVD's were using h.264, while blu-ray was using MPEG-2
Blu-Ray has vastly more storage than a HD-DVD, so they can afford to use higher bitrates. Thus they were able to use MPEG2 until their codecs were stabilized because they had bitrate to burn. It would be best if you understood even the most basic particulars of the technologies involved before commenting on the situation.
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