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paulWTAMU wrote:Social service style work steals your soul and makes a cynical SOB. If anyone here is thinking of pursuing it, DON'T. I've got applications out in oil and gas companies now. Time to see if I can join the family business (nearly all of us work in oil or pipelines in some way, shape or form).
drfish wrote:The 40Mbps would translate to 5MB/s as Steam displays it (bits vs bytes). So I know I'm really on the 15Mbps plan because my 1.8MB/s ends up being 14.4Mbps if you multiply it by 8. Being on the 30Mbps plan should give me ~3.5MB/s Steam downloads. The rant was about how stupid it is for Charter to cheat on bandwidth tests if they are trying to sell higher speed grades to their customers (burst or no).paulWTAMU wrote:Social service style work steals your soul and makes a cynical SOB. If anyone here is thinking of pursuing it, DON'T. I've got applications out in oil and gas companies now. Time to see if I can join the family business (nearly all of us work in oil or pipelines in some way, shape or form).
I've heard this from a number of friends. I've also know a number of people very happy to be in the gas and oil game.
MadManOriginal wrote:It's not Charter's fault that the burst speed is what the bandwidth test sites like speedtest show...
drfish wrote:MadManOriginal wrote:It's not Charter's fault that the burst speed is what the bandwidth test sites like speedtest show...
What other legitimate reason could there possibly be for "boosting" the speed of the first 20MB of a download?
drfish wrote:MadManOriginal wrote:It's not Charter's fault that the burst speed is what the bandwidth test sites like speedtest show...
What other legitimate reason could there possibly be for "boosting" the speed of the first 20MB of a download?
drfish wrote:MadManOriginal wrote:It's not Charter's fault that the burst speed is what the bandwidth test sites like speedtest show...
What other legitimate reason could there possibly be for "boosting" the speed of the first 20MB of a download?
drfish wrote:I think you guys are missing the point of this being a rant thread. Feel free to rant about my irrational ranting though.
MadManOriginal wrote:This isn't as intense as a rant but something that bothers me...Google getting off relatively scot-free with no slap on the wrist and a wink-wink 'be nice!' in the recent FTC investigation when they are doing things completely analogous to what Microsoft got smashed for in the 90s. We'll see if the DoJ, which did the MS prosecution in the 90s, is any different but I haven't heard anything about a DoJ investigation.
tanker27 wrote:So my rant is managers who fail to understand how to manage. I am always amazed to see incompetence, ignorance, and inability to lead in managers. The biggest thing of this all is those managers who fail to understand "punish in private and praise in public". I cannot tell you how many times on a daily basis I see this broken.
tanker27 wrote:The second biggest thing is I am constantly amazed at how these Piss-poor managers survive and yet they still seem to get the best projects, the promotions, and all the kudos for what their team has done for them.
MadManOriginal wrote:We'll see if the DoJ, which did the MS prosecution in the 90s, is any different but I haven't heard anything about a DoJ investigation.
drfish wrote:WTH Netflix? A content provider imposing restrictions on ISPs? Have you learned nothing???
Edit: ...and another one, WTH won't Charter let me use my existing modem when I upgrade to their 30Mbps plan? Its a perfectly good DOCSIS 3.0 model that I'm sure would work fine. Just turn up the freaking dial and give me more bandwidth!
Edit 2: ...and another one! Those freaking "I love my job, blah, blah, blah" comment SPAM. Why is is nearly everywhere? All of Gawker's sites, Anandtech, RPS, why can't they shut it down?