Well, I decided to purchase the Clear 4g Home Modem last week after being advised not to by one of the best buy employees in the cell phone department. But, I (like a dumbas) went against my better judgment and sign a contract with clear after the sales person showed me 10+ Mbits/sec on her Speedtest.net Test.
When I initially starting using the device everything was great. I was getting about 9 Mbits on average in download speeds. then about 3 days later it was down to half of that. Then I decided to download a 1gb Application that I needed for my programming class at school and suddenly my connection was being throttled to a ridiculously low speed. 0.5 Mbits!!!!!! WTF!! I can tether my iphone to my laptop and get speeds better than that!!!
So, I decided to call customer support about my speeds and the retarded sounding outsourced worker tells me that there is “Network Congestion”….. at 1 in the morning. I proceeded to tell her that her answer was highly unlikely to be the case. Then she tells me that it’s because of some “management system” that throttles “Heavy Users” so that the network can remain stable. As if the system was magically implemented and they can’t do anything to change it. She then tells me that I should stop watching youtube videos and basically stop using the service that I’m PAYING FOR. After that, she tells me that I have to Unplug my modem for 24 hours then plug it back to get my speeds back to normal.
Well… after about 36 hours I plug it back in and test the speeds and i’m still getting 0.2 – 0.6 Mbits per second. I will be canceling the service today. I refuse to put up with this unacceptable service. At $54 per month that they charge, I shouldn’t have a problem w/ throttling or “network congestion”. This is as much as a fucking broadband cable bill. And while I didn’t expect broadband speeds exactly, I did expect it to be consistent with semi-decent speeds. But this was not at all the case.
There is a tower is placed just outside of my university, so there is no excuse for the poor speeds or “network congestion”. I feel like the company is only here to take advantage of kids who are at my university who are desperate for an alternative to the horrible internet that the school provides them. If you’re desperate like I was in needing an internet solution that’s mobile…. DO NOT CHOOSE CLEAR! Save yourself the time and frustration and avoid this company at all costs. This is absolutely the WORST ISP I’ve ever had to deal with. You know it’s bad when there’s a whole website dedicated to how much they suck! —> http://clearwiresucks.com/blog/
So, I was bored tonight with no work to do, so I decided to make a completely new theme for my night time tumblr blog. The tumblr theme is time sensitive so you’ll only see this layout at night.
So…. Rockstar will release a trailer for Grand Theft Auto 5 in November… the date can’t come fast enough for me. If you know me, you know I’m the BIGGEST Grand Theft Auto fan… I haven’t been excited for a game like this since I was in middle school.
And to all of those who are speculating the location based on the logo… you’re all wrong. The “five” is representative of the five dollar bill. Quit jumping to conclusions and wait for the trailer in November.
I was able to finish bignotch.com 2.0. I decided to go with wordpress as my CMS and the entire website was coded and designed by ME (of course ). It was truly a learning experience working with php and javascript to create the site. I think i’ve gained some valuable knowledge over the months while working on this.
After drawing up this concept, I thought there was NO WAY that i would be able to get this as a working WP theme:
After that I finished the concept and created a day/night variation. So I could later program a script that switched the banners depending on the time of day. Here are the two finished concepts:
And then came the long and tedious process of converting these layouts into a fully functioning E-Commerce Website. Click the Link below to see the result:
Enjoyed the Trip to the Bay Area. Shouout to all of my Friend and Fam for showing me love while I was out there. Shoutout to all of the Artist that linked up with me while I was out there. You guys made the trip worth it.
I love my 2010 iMac. However, when it comes to professional work, my iMac just doesn’t hack it. My workload is increasing and the demands are getting higher for 3D Motion Graphic work. C4D takes FOREVER to render projects (and these are simple animations).
I considered buying a Mac Pro, but i’m not sure if this is a good decision based on the current state of apple. Here are some gripes I have with Apple at the moment.
Apple Seem to be catering towards the consumer and pushing away developers and professionals
Every piece of software they update actually takes it a step backwards (ie FCPX)
Most plug-ins for Photoshop, After Effects, VSTS, etc ….they are available for windows first & some of them don’t even get ported over to the mac at all
Apple waits to long to update their hardware line (ie. Mac Pro) and when they do update their hardware, it’s still behind. I miss the days when apple was really “Cutting-Edge” in regards to hardware.
In short, apple has the consumer market mastered. But they have a long ways to go in the professional realm. For me, it’s time to upgrade to a professional solution. I would like to know how you guys feel about apple and their current attention to the professional market.
So, you had to know that I was going to put that 3D logo to use right? I finally got it completed. Everything from the Logo to the Layout took about a day to complete.
The purpose of me creating this website was the was to consolidate the tons of links that I wanted to give people. Now I just have this one page that represents my current skill level. And if people want to delve further into my creative world, they can. The tumblr page url has changed to notchtheguru.tumblr.com.
So check out the website and LIKE or TWEET the page.
). It was truly a learning experience working with php and javascript to create the site. I think i’ve gained some valuable knowledge over the months while working on this.
