Hola a todos,

A las personas que están pensando contratar algún servicio de Cablevisión que dependa de internet como Cableaccess, OnDemand, o la telefonía digital les recomiendo seriamente que NO LO HAGAN. ¿Por qué?, les explico.

Diariamente a partir de las 11 AM aproximadamente hasta la 1 AM del día siguiente la súper velocidad de transferencia de 1500 Kb/s se reduce a 6Kb/s en promedio, esto equivale a un 0.4% de lo ofrecido, en otras palabras esto quiere decir que si quieren entrar a YouTube para ver un videos tardarán aproximadamente 15 minutos para poder visualizar uno de un minuto de duración.

Si necesitan descargar el service pack de su sistema operativo tardarán días enteros (salvo que lo descarguen después de la 1 AM!!! ahh al fin ni queremos dormir!!).

Si hablan con la gente de “soporte técnico” resulta ofensivo para la inteligencia ya que le dicen a uno semejante cantidad de tonterías sin llegar a ninguna solución. Lo que terminan haciendo es mandar a un “técnico” a que cambie su modem para que siga igual… les dicen que les descontarán la mitad del pago cuando debería ser 99.6% (de acuerdo a que la velocidad de descarga es a 6Kb/s no 1500Kb/s).

Si piensan pagar esa cantidad de dinero por obtener “internet de banda ancha” mejor contraten con Todito para conectarse a Internet por modem ya que su conexión será a la misma velocidad y les costará una tercera parte.

¿Quieren descargar música, videos, o programas utilizando eMule, LimeWire o cualquier otra aplicación P2P (Peer to peer o persona a persona)… ? ¡¡¡¡¡OLVIDENLO!!!!! Con cablevisión ¡¡el acceso a todas estas aplicaciones está bloqueado!! Lograrán conectarse por otros medios pero la velocidad de descarga todavía es menor, hablando de unos 3Kb/s en promedio.

¿Quieren crear un sitio web y publicarlo en su computadora, o quieren entrar vía remota?, olvídenlo!!!! De la misma forma está bloqueado el acceso y si quieren desbloquearlo les cuesta $700.00 pesos mensualmente!!

Si tienen Internet con Prodigy, Avantel, Axtel, o cualquier otro y es malo no se cambien, es una sugerencia bastante seria ya que si migran a Cablevisión se darán cuenta que en comparación su otro proveedor “siempre no era tan malo”.

Sé que no van a creerme nada más porque yo se los digo, para ello me di a la tarea de encontrar algunos de los varios foros y blogs en los que mencionan lo mismo cientos de usuarios, pueden entrar haciendo clic en cualquiera de los siguientes enlaces:

http://opinare.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/cableaccess-apesta/

http://mx.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070306192451AA7kmd8

http://foros.atomix.vg/showthread.php?t=154293

http://www.darkclockers.com/foros/archive/index.php/t-4240.html

http://vivirmexico.com/2007/12/04/telmex-cede-a-cablevision/

http://my-musik.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3917

http://www.cofradia.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=8186

http://www.alconsumidor.org/testimonios.phtml?id=24

http://megaline.wordpress.com/2007/11/16/un-robo-cablevision/

http://thecitylovesyou.com/news/?p=477

Es mas, seguramente conocen a alguna víctima de los timos que esta compañia está realizando, ¡preguntenles ustedes mismos!

Esto es únicamente para el servicio tradicional de internet, la verdad no quiero imaginar la pesadilla que puede ser contar con algún otro servicio que dependa de él.

APROVECHANDO que están leyendo esto, y asumiendo que han comprobado lo que les digo visitando los enlaces que puse, les invito a que alerten a sus familiares, compañeros de trabajo, compañeros de escuela, vecinos y cualquier incauto que se crea la mercadotecnia de Cablevisión a que se retracte. Envíen un enlace a este post o reenvíenlo por correo electrónico a fin de que no vivan la misma pesadilla que estamos viviendo cientos de mexicanos con este “servicio”.

¡Cuidado con cable!, ¡Ellos mismos te loadvierten!

¡Cuidado con cable!, ¡Ellos mismos te lo advierten!

CableAccess apesta

NO SE DEJEN ENGAÑAR

CABLEACCES ES UN ROBO, UN TIMO, UN SERVICIO PATÉTICO

— ACTUALIZADO 19 Septiembre 2008—

Se ha creado un grupo para los “Usuarios de Cablevisión”, la finalidad de este es reunir suficiente gente (usuarios) para organizarnos e ir a la PROFECO a levantar una denuncia masiva contra Cablevisión.

Todos aquellos que se encuentren con este u otros problemas relacionados con dicha compañía son bienvenidos para ingresar al grupo, solo es cuestión de tiempo para reunir una cantidad suficiente de gente para hacernos notar ante la procuraduría y hacer que se actúe como debe ser.

El enlace para acceder es el siguiente:

http://mx.groups.yahoo.com/group/usuarioscablevision/

No olviden invitar a toda la gente que sepan que está viviendo esta situación. Entre más seamos, más haremos notar nuestra inconformidad. Aunque el propósito del grupo es resolver los problemas que tenemos, también son bienvenidos los usuarios de Porquigy Infinitum para que puedan organizarse también.

— ACTUALIZADO 19 Septiembre 2008—

Microsoft Photosynth

August 11, 2007

Microsoft has made one more acquisition, but this is done particularly entertainment to me, is Photosynth.Its a system that analyzes photographies to construct a three-dimensional model of the object in question, recognizing the patterns they are
compared to become a model, with this is possible progressively to show gigabytes of very high quality graphics with a very good speed downloading times, but the things does not finish there, you can make a very good zoom lens to any taken image, obvious the quality will vary according to the quality with which it has been taken.The user interface and general of the system makes me feel as in GoogleEarth but already in third dimension.

But why you will believe on me!? test it by yourself clicking here, you will need to download the required components to work with Photosynth, personally i prefer to use it with Firefox because i feel it faster.

Ive taken few screen shots to see it by yourself, and in the bottom is the video of the presentation.

Look the zoom!

Dots and 3D

Tile view

I have been reading few material about this two phones, and well after so many reviews I’ve decided to put some things on a table to make real comparisons, if some data here is obsolete, old or whatever pls let me know to change it.

N95 vs iPhone 

  Apple iPhone

Apple iPhone

Nokia N95

Nokia N95

Operating system Mac OS X Symbian S60
3G No Yes (HSDPA-enhanced)
Camera resolution 2 megapixels 5 megapixels
Front camera No Yes
Flash No Yes
Browser Safari Nokia Web Browser with Mini map
E-mail Displays HTML-rich; Push IMAP (Yahoo); IMAP/POP3 POP3/SMTP/IMAP
JS, Flash player No Yes
Music player iTunes RealPlayer / Nokia Media Player
GPS No Yes
Chat No Yes
Touchscreen Yes (multi-touch sensors) No
Screen 8.9cm (320×480 pixels) 6.4cm (240×320 pixels)
Weight 136g 120g
Memory 4GB/8GB 160MB internal (expandable up to 8GB)
Processor speed Unknown 330MHz
Expansion slot None microSD
Replaceable battery No Yes
MMS (for sending pictures and video) No Yes
IM (instant messaging) No Yes
Video calling No Yes
Video capture Unknown 640 x 480 (30 frames per second)
VoIP No Yes
YouTube Yes Yes
User can install 3rd-party apps No Yes
Voice dial No Yes
MP3 Ringtones No Yes
Battery life 7 hours of conversation 4 hours
Accelerometer (to change screen orientation when rotated) Yes No
Spell checker Yes No
Ambient light sensor (dims screen in low light) Yes Yes
Proximity sensor (turns screen off when put up to your ear) Yes No
Video output to TV No Yes
Photo slide show to TV No Yes
Barcode Reader (QR) No Yes
MMS (Photo) No, only via email Yes
Visual voicemail Yes No
Threaded SMS Yes No
Browse music by album covers Yes No
Flickr integration No Yes
Supports stereo Bluetooth (A2DP) Unknown Yes
Locked to carrier Yes No
Availability Now Now

 

After all this, I want to share this funny YouTube videos, they are like the Mac VS PC ones:

 After all this, I LOVE MY N95!! :)

(ive got most of the table specs on CNET.au, and ive put other what ive found searching on several websites)

The hotel, location of the forumThe past 14 and 15 of June where the third RAF in México City, this time (my first time there) where focused on S+S (Software plus Services).

The RAF was a high level event which gathered more than 100 key architects of the leading technological industries in the republic.

The introduction text for this where:

“The services are everywhere and they have become into an indispensable artifact of every kind of business’ technical strategies. The global collaboration is directing the organizations to become service providers.

The business applications – software which integrates this into handy processes – are using components of a deeply heterogeneous network and continuously growing of providers. To get the higher provecho of the S + S model we need to answer several fundamental questions about the way of this services should be provided and consumed to reach the objective of our business.”

  • How are the applications which consumes external services and what is what the providers requires?
  • How is managed and governed a portfolio of services which extends beyond the organizations borders?
  • How S+S foments the productivity directed to the peoples and which metamorphosis are suffering the organizations now when the power of this new technologies are available for everyone?

Wednesday 14 of June 2007

The hallThe first conference where of Gianpaolo Carraro, he where talking about the “Next generation software, an Architect’s perspective”.

Alberto Borbolla where talking about the Microsoft ESB Implementation instead of Marty Wasznicky (he had problems in some flight connection and couldn’t be present).

Eduardo Kassner where talking about the “Value of an dynamic infrastructure”, showing us an success case of HSBC México made following the ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library, the most widely accepted approach to IT management) Microsoft’s version “Infrastructure Optimization Model” with their 4 stages of maturity  and the importance of follow guidelines to improve business reliability.

After this we went to eat at the Thai House, when we finished I went to the demonstration session about “New paradigms of the data access and data manipulation for architects” by Gabriel Esparza Romero. There he showed us how easy is to use the new LINQ to make queries in XML and SQL with the visual studio codename Orcas. This have great potential about using this to get a more OO concept of data and manipulation / querying it to get what we need; Right now I have two applications which could be made more easily using DLINQ.

Eduardo Kassner’s next talk where about the Infrastructure Optimization model, the importance of suit every requirement on each stage of the maturity, reason?, simply; You will not be able to suit higher requirements, processes and control if you don’t suit the fist and basics;

“The Infrastructure Optimization Model helps customers realize dramatic cost savings for their IT infrastructure by moving from an unmanaged environment towards a dynamic environment. Security improves from highly vulnerable in a Basic infrastructure to dynamically proactive in a more mature infrastructure.”

Infrastructure Optimization Model

IT infrastructure management changes from highly manual and reactive to highly automated and proactive.

Friday 15 of June 2007

This day the session were shorter but not for that less important, we started with Mark Baciak (is an architect on Microsoft’s Architecture Strategy Team specializing in service orientation and enterprise dynamics) talking about the infrastructure behind a service oriented architecture.

After him Ric Merrifield taked to us about “Getting SOA through Business Value”, unfortunately I couldn’t listen almost anything because I where attending a work call outside the hall.

After this talk, Karthik Ravindran exposed “architecting and implementing user & process centric business applications using the office 2007 system”.

The last session where about “Business architecture to sustenance the competitively of México” by PhD. Ricardo zermeño talking about the current situation of the country against the others in the world and the plan to 15 years to become one of the 20th most important economies of the world by improving the technology and the business governability.

After this, Juan Carlos Lozada closed the event, telling us the statistics and a brief history about the event.

We went to eat at the Thai House again, but I had the luck of being sited with the VIP!, here are the descriptions:

From the left to the right:

Microsoft teamKarthik Ravindran, architect in the strategic architecture focused in business applications (Microsoft).

Gabriel Esparza-Romero, Test lead in the C# team, is in charge right now of the LINQ implementation (Microsoft).

Unknown guy

The VIP of the dot net comunity on mexico cityFrom left to right:

Consultant (nice guy)

Armando Chavez, S. Developer.

And I don’t remember the names of the other 2 guys, but they lead the DOT NET COMMUNITY on the city (INETA).

I’m tired of writing all this, also for searching links to the post, so for a small resume:

This was a great opportunity to have another point of view about Information technology (IT), the perspective about building more efficient, secure, reliable and expandable applications and infrastructure. I got with this a great experience trough sharing and learning from other people and business problems and solutions.

I’m waiting for the next year and be able to give them better feedback and questions regarding architecture and processes.

For those who want to become a business architect AKA software / infrastructure architect, visit the Microsoft’s SKYSCRAPR website, where you will get the introduction and training to become one.

Architecture Resouce CenterAlso to get a subscription to “The Architecture Journal” a publication made by MS to the enterprise architects, or to get more information, go here and suit your needs of knowledge.