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FYI it is now "Basic," not BASIC, it doesn't use line numbers anymore, and actually has control statements other than Goto. Also, the 80s are over and Michael Jackson is now white.
I don't use Basic myself, but it does irritate me to see people repeating misinformation about it.
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Many, most
Not all. The ones I don't become nice learning experiences as people often explain more elegant solutions.
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Wow, some useful and interesting information.
Thanks.
Captcha=captcha
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halarious... dumby... privledge... Too bad I'm not in the mood to comment on spelling.
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LOL. This is hilarious and if I were working for that company - I'd QUIT. This is a totally stupid problem. Most DSL segments are broken up to improve download speeds which means slower upload speeds (since most users don't send that much data). That is all this about.
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Umm... No.
(BTW, The captcha was "enterprisey" :rolleyes: )
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I've got a similar problem with my car. It's driving much slower backwards than forwards. I wonder why this only happens in gear 2 - 5.
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I've got the same issue with my car. It's much faster driving forward than in reverse. Can anybody help me with this?
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Same with Dell, my old AND my new one. The LAN ports on their rear are VERY well-acquianted with my mouse's USB plug.
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Sorry, but great minds think alike.
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That'll be the A in ADSL then. Jeez...
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I really like this site, I do.
But you need to start filtering out the obviously made up crap like this one.
"This is unacceptable and needs to be corrected. Problem only exists
at locations with an asymmetric DSL connection."
Nice try, but there is no way this is real.
This is some IT guys work of fiction. No user would bother to mention that his problems of upload/download speeding being different would mention that this only happens with asymmetric DSL lines, come on give me a break.
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HTML code, posted to the 'Resumé' section of several major jobhunting sites.
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The REAL WTF here (TM) is that there were 100+ responses without anyone calling this post! The line is: "Game Experience May Change During Online Play" which is part of the ESRB rating for a game. A title may be rated T for teen and it is not the fault of the publisher if Bobbie connects to a private hosted game where the players speak in a language that would make the Deadwood staff writers blush. (And if ESRB rated the game based on said language it would receive an AO rating.)
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<FONT face=Arial size=2>I rececently left a "major specialty home furnishings retailer" where this situation wouldn't have been out of the realm of possibility. Our very well paid "support"/engineer staff who handled incoming calls from retail stores would, as this wtf scenario suggests, route calls without ever actually thinking about the issue that was being routed. </FONT>
<FONT face=Arial size=2>In fact, on several, successive occasions, they paged out to my (e-commerce) group with high priority that the website was displaying a message stating "The site is temporarily closed for scheduled maintenance." (Yes, the message was 100% correct. Yes, it was a planned outtage. Yes, they were notified weeks prior)</FONT>
<FONT face=Arial size=2>Oh, and to rant a bit more, this same group was comprised of staff who would immediately leave their desks for bathroom/smoke breaks after a priority page-out to my group. And to make the situation worse, they wouldn't check their voicemail upon return. Instead, they would escalate the issue up to senior management, and the situation would rinse and repeat with them leaving their desks once again. After finally getting a hold of them, their response would be something like "voicemail? I didn't think to check it."</FONT>
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Not actually true; symmetric broadband is far from unusual. For ADSL, though, yep, obviously.
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It's also a bit of a broken language, to be honest, or at least VB6 was.
http://visualbasic.about.com/od/imhoinmyhumbleopinion/a/aaVerityStob1.htm :)
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When it comes to it, the people he's being mean to sell "alternative medicine". They deserve no pity.
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You are probably right.
That was not the reason for his behaviour though.
The reason was that they did not have enough knowledge about tech, and having a hard time understand his explanations.
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Haha that actually made me laugh out loud :D
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Incorrect. Simply measure both upload- and download speed and, when using the operation with the greater one, calculate how long the operation would take with the lesser one, and then sleep until that time once the operation has concluded. Don't let the user know it has - maybe keep sending random data to keep up the appearance of usefull work?
Or list "symmetric Internet connection" as a requirement for the application. Without it, it will still work, but uploads will likely be slower than downloads ;).
There are many solutions to this problem. Education is only one of them.
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<font color="#000000" face="Tahoma">God I hope you are kidding when you suggest the they simply have the client download the file because that wont work and makes no sense.
Upload=sending data
Download=receiving data.
When Im uploading to you, you are downloading from me
When Im downloading from you, you are uploading to me.
So If Im ona 768/128 and you are on 1.5/384
Any file I send you or you download from me will go at my maximum uploade rate 128k
Because that is my maximum rate at which I can send data.
Inversly if I were to download a file from you, I would only be able to achieve 384 as my maximum download rate because that is your maximum upload rate.
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I'm sorry... either you've stolen my Mr.'s retarded bug assigned to him last month or there are identical retards out there filing cases against the genii that engineer service systems everywhere. Odd...
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Hmm, is the whole thread, up to that posting a brilliant example, a kind of solitaire of a WTF...?
isntit?
wbr belef
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Or maybe the rest of the team just decided to pull a practical joke on their collegue?
Who then happily submitted it to this site in order to return the favor?
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First, let me say that I'm not flaming or hounding, just reflecting.
As a workstation specialist, I suddenly both envy and despise all engineers. You bastards making twice-to-three-times-plus my salary are lucky you've got the patience/boredom to stare at code instead of terminating Cat5 cables and swapping HDDs and CD drives until your fingers bleed.
Then again, I tend to forget that not all people know how to work with computers - I'm a biased instance in that I owned my first computer at 9, built my first Linux box from parts at 13, and had completed Cisco CCNA training by 17.
As you noted in your comment, though, you thought to "do a bit of research..." instead of screaming at Tech Support, which is the most important and valuable trait in the world, and one which I wish could be taught to non-IT folk with a 1-hour course instead of physical trauma with blunt objects.
Anyways. End ramble. Cheers.
-Chris
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I'm with rsynott and the first Anonymous:
IF a user actually cares enough to listen, make an effort to comprehend, and tries to learn something from his/her experience, then I am 100% cool with them - I'll teach them anything from SMTP to OSI layers to DIMM speeds to IDE jumper configuration to what does a <p align> tag do.
It's bastards like these shop owners who are all like "<FONT color=#000080>I'm on the internet now, yippee! Now, when I turn my computer off, do all the others turn off too?</FONT>" and "<FONT color=#000080>Let's just give people our web page by buying this $9.95/mo dial-up deal! It's cheap and fast!</FONT>" and things like "<FONT color=#000080>What do you mean my laptop hard drive crashed because it's tiny and moves around a lot and gets bumped and dropped? You did this ON PURPOSE to make me lose my thesis paper!</FONT>" (Third one is a true story from my job).....
I feel no sympathy for these ignorant, stubborn, self-centered pricks. They're lucky that Anonymous is JUST throttling their bandwidth for fun. At the college I work at, when I get fed up with trying to get people to log off their computer when they walk away from it (in public areas - student lounge, chair-side computers in a medical clinic, etc.), I fight back by plugging my USB drive in and moving all the files off of their personal network drive for "temporary archival purposes". They want to get their files back? They'll have to agree to start logging off.
It's computing. Don't give me any of that "omg poor sad non-computr using old hippy peple" stuff. I don't want to hear it. Each and every human has a basic responsibility to help each other - I help students every day, I format their Word documents, I refill their toner, I explain to them for the 1,000th time that we don't allow MP3 downloading on campus, and in exchange, they give me the decency of following the security policies that they signed their name in agreement to at the beginning of the year. If they can't do that much for me, then I can't do anything to help them.
The fact that you could only squeeze out two short sentences, tster, while misspelling ''you're'', just shows how little you care about the issue and how much you really just want to start a fight with people.
-c
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Yes, I am sure it is possible to find an excuse / explanation / defend for any kind of behaviour.
I still find it appalling to sabotage someones setup, especially when you are there to maintain it.
Instead of using your time for sabotage, use it to find your self a job you would be happier with.
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I believe you're referring to the "Game Experience May Change During Online Play" tag on games that support online play. This is supposed to warn buyers that add-on content and the conduct of other online players are not controlled by the developer or the ESRB.
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2>surely upload/download speeds will always be different, because they want you to take a while downloading so that you can read the adverts they charge a fortune for and uploading will be quicker so that they can nick all your private data before you find out...
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Carl should reduce the client's allowed bandwidth downloading until it's less than their DSL's capable upload...that way their upload would be greater. That would solve the problem. ;)
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But then of course they'll request the 5X upload accelerator also.
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We had a similar issued raised by the boss. We needed to connect two remote sites together so he ordered a 4Mb ADSL line to be put into each site. These lines were dedicated solely to site to site traffic.
He wondered why he could't get 4Mb performance.
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Have you even READ C# and VB.NET specifications? Wow... who would have guessed that!? They're the same!! I'm tired of everyone that claims that VB is for babies, or that VB is not powerful enough to build any app you want. True, it's a simple language, and yes, it's very easy to learn the basics of Basic, so those "basic operations" must be all you can do with it, right? In that line of thought, I guess all you can do in C is printf("Hello, World"); But, as it turns out, VB is also EXTENSIBLE, and it can support anything that C# does (being both compiled into .NET's IL). Also, VB is incredibly simpler to build or debug, produces more readable and maintainable code than in any C- or Pascal-derived language, so I'll still use it when I want to build quick / maintainable enterprise apps. Now, if you want an App that is FAST, or that is OPTIMIZED, or that has no DEPENDENCIES, then, please --PLEASE-- don't bring in Java, nor C#. On the other hand, as much as I'm a VB-speaker, I love C syntax, being more elegant than VB, and I don't go to all of C's or Java's sites to btch about the language they use... So, please, don't btch about VB!!
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ADSL has different Up/Down speeds because the bandwidth isn't allocated equally. It's tilted towards Download Speed not because of signal quality, but because most users download far more than they upload.
Crosstalk is a wiring/meatspace issue; It is the same in both directions, unless you're doing something weird with just the upload wires, which is ridiculous.
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This disgruntled tech support act and associated draconian punishment against "stupidity" is definitely getting old and unprofessional. Just because you get frustrated by a lot of users not following your rules, doesn't give you the right to invade their privacy or commit industrial sabotage (in Anonymous' case, throttling his employer's bandwidth), and it doesn't make you any less of an asshole for doing so.
By the way, I'm your car mechanic, and despite my warnings to you to change your oil every 5000 miles, you always tell me you don't want it changed. To teach you a lesson, I've filled your oil canister with sand. Old oil is bad for your car, and now you'll see that since you didn't change your oil, your engine will overheat.
Your job is to provide computing resources to users, not to punish users for using the resources wrong. Any competent administrator would have the "decency" to recognize that people will forget to log out of public machines, and simply set them up to automatically log out after a timeout, or in the case of most universities, have a public account for accessing things like webmail and calendar lookups through a web browser, which resets to a clean state whenever the browser is closed.