ISP Comparison Chart

I hate pretty much all ISP's. I'm waiting for Google to turn on its dark fiber network and create teh interwebs 3.11 for workgroups. But I'm moving and have to figure out the best internet service provider for the occasion. We're currently (20090425) on u-verse, but the residential gateway doesn't support UPNP, and torrents are routinely killed outright, aaaaand apparently they're about to roll out bandwidth caps.

I wanted a comparison chart but couldn't find one. Here's a stab at homemade.



Explanations:

Comcast Throttling:

"Sustained use of 70% of your up or downstream throughput triggers the Best Effort state (as opposed to the Priority Best-Effort State), at which point you'll find your traffic priority lowered until your usage drops to 50% of your provisioned upstream or downstream bandwidth for "a period of approximately 15 minutes." A throttled Comcast user being placed in a BE state "may or may not result in the user's traffic being delayed or, in extreme cases, dropped before PBE traffic is dropped."

So you can never use 100% of what you paid for? I'm so confused by this.

I'll update the chart as I get more info or as things change. Remember, I'm in SF area so speeds, whatever blablabla could be different in your area.

AdSense video units to be retired

Check out the video adsense units while they're still there. Underneath the Netflix queue on the right side bar.

Hi,

We're writing to let you know that we'll be retiring AdSense video units at the end of April. After reviewing this feature, we've found that it hasn't been performing as well as we had hoped, so we've decided to focus our efforts on other opportunities to help publishers monetize their sites.

We recommend that you begin removing the video unit code from your pages as soon as possible, to ensure that you can take advantage of the available ad space on your pages. At the end of April, any remaining Leaderboard or Skyscraper video units will begin directing users to YouTube.com, while other video unit sizes will automatically be changed to standard embedded YouTube players. These standard video players will display top YouTube videos, but you won't generate earnings from them once this change occurs.

If you'd still like to display free video content from YouTube, you can do so through YouTube.com directly: visit any specific video page for the embed code, or sign in to your YouTube account to create a playlist. For more information about embedding YouTube videos, please visit http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=57788. Alternatively, if you have less than three ad units on your page, you may prefer to replace your video unit with a regular ad unit.

Although video units are being retired, other video offerings within AdSense aren't affected. Video ads may still appear on your pages and AdSense for video is still available for eligible publishers. If you'd like more information about the retiring of video units, please visit our Help Center at https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/topic.py?topic=12182.

Thanks for your support of video units in the past, and we appreciate your patience and cooperation.

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If I torrent something that I can get from Netflix...

is that still illegal?

sqldeveloper and tnsnames.ora on a mac

pop a working tnsnames.ora in /etc
it's that easy