Posts by Nikerym

Netflix launch brings Australia's biggest ever download deluge

Consistant Growth?

all these graphs and statistics show is that there has been consistant growth, there's no "massive spike" that occured as a result of netflix. sure it's the highest growth in history, but so was nearly every year piror.

The fact that ISPs/providers are complaining just shows they don't understand how to do basic capacity management. Imagine if you had to walk into your clients as a cloud provider one day and say "Sorry, we are getting close to our storage cap.... but instead of increasing it, we are going to instead charge the companies who's software you are using a "premium" to be allowed on our SAN."

Welcome tou Australian Broadband.

According to Netflix, Australia's slowest ISP owns half of Foxtel

interestingly enough, many of the "better" services are wholesaled from Telstra backbone anyway, so we know the Telstra infrastructure can handle higher speeds. My guess is that this calculation includes everything, including places where Telstra is the only option (regional towns etc) Whereas the other companies are only operating in CBD's and high density surburbia where they get better ROI for their efforts, but are also closer to exchanges etc. so get higher "averages" as a result.

Don't get me wrong. 3.3 or whatever it was for TPG is still abysmal. and all Australian ISP's need to lift their game. but without knowing the footprint, the comparison between the two needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

Business is back, baby! Hasta la VISTA, Win 8... Oh, yeah, Windows 9

Re: This is why there was no Win7 SP2

"The only thing it doesn't support is touch, which as predicted turned out to be something few people care about in a laptop and no one cares about in a desktop."

And with cloud being so prevalent now for application development you can build touch into the cloud interface for access from a touch enabled device anyway

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/graphics/toucheffects/

Above is an example of such released by Microsoft. so you don't need the operating system to drive the touch component, it can be driven by the site.

Re: Time to rethink

I disagree with this entirely. Sure you need a certain level of power, but with everything moving to the cloud in general including processing power as long as your local machine can handle the basics such as Office/Web Browsing/other client systems there is no need to increase power within the PC and as such the OS. Back in 95-2005 hardware was still scaling massively, going from 1ghz Pentiums in 95 to 3.5ghz with dual and quad cores etc. in 2005 but since 2005 we have had very little growth in the hardware space, the operating systems that ran then (XP) and their later versions are capable of running all the newer hardware, with windows 7 which was released in 2007 has no problem with all hardware today, 7 years later. there is no way 95 could handle the hardware from 2002.

Hardware doesn't increase as fast as previous, and yet Microsoft continues the same 2-3 year lifecycle for release of products. It's not like 2004 where you could see a noticeable upgrade from windows 98 to XP. there will be little to no performance or productivity gain from a system performance point of view for the average business user from upgrading from windows 7 to anything within the next 2-5 possibly even 10 years (unless they discover and release true quantum computing or something else that leaps us forward again)

With the move to the cloud for most processing this just reinforces the fact that we don't need high performance on the local client desktop anymore. All we need is Windows 7, and a browser that runs on it capable of rendering the served cloud application.