MttFrog13

For the first time ever, Internet Explorer is the fast browser on my computer. Every now and then, I go and run a few sunspider tests and depending on the scores, and also any new features for each browser, I decide to switch. Here's my Latest results:

IE
332.5ms
333.0ms

Firefox (Beta Channel)
359.7ms
352.1ms

Chrome (Beta Channel)
378.3ms
376.1ms

Opera
367.4ms
366.6ms

Safari
376.4ms
375.5ms

Usually, Chrome is the fastest and IE is the slowest but somehow IE is the fastest and Chrome is the slowest. Is that a pig I just saw fly by my window? Anyway...these sunspider results aren't completely real world. Chrome IMO still is the fastest due to having multiple processes, a feature that was supposed to be coming to Firefox but hasn't materialized yet (although they did give the flash plugin it's own process I think so at least that won't crash the whole browser). Still though, mutiple processes between windows will be needed to get the fastest end user speed. I've been using chrome since 2008, and maybe switch back to FF for a month or two since then. What do you guys think?

I have no hope for any improvement in the US job market for the near future. Not only are things still stagnant, but we aren't even yet going in the right direction to get on the right track and start making progress. The government is still too busy printing money trying to hold of a second recession and Obama just wants to hold things together long enough to win his second term which means printing more money and promoting a stimulus to keep GDP rising.

How are we going to get jobs when gas prices are siphoning the profits of small and mid sized businesses and the currency is getting weaker and weaker everyday we keep printing money. So much money is held up in reserves of the banks and in china's reserves that it's scary to think what would happen if this money starts to actually enter the economy. All this printing of money and meanwhile the average american has less of it. Holding off this recession may be good for Obama's campaign, but the inflation in the long run is going to just hold us back in the future. A politician would argue that the economy is too weak to not print money, or we'd suffer a second, even worse recession or possibly a depression. I'd say he's probably right about a double dip recession, but if we can cut spending and promote long term investments in the economy, like more college grants for engineering programs, it would be worth it.

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I would've thought that although people don't send each other letters anymore unless its business, with online shopping, the usps should be doing better. I rarely buy anything in store now besides food, and I'm thinking about ordering that in bulk on amazon. Why doesn't the USPS just raise its rates, are USPS employees getting paid that much more than fedex or ups employees that they can't afford to raise their rates? Or is their service just so crappy that major companies will use fedex or ups instead. I've never known exactly what the problem was with the ups.

Well I've been on FiOS for a while and overall I'm satisfied. I ran into an unexpected problem though. My wireless G can't keep up with FiOS!   I'm only getting about 19/19 on wireless but I can get 30/30 wired even though I am only signed up for 25/25. After digging around the internet, I'm hearing that wireless g usually starts to bottleneck around 22mb.

I'm not sure what to do about this. My house doesn't have any type of easy way to get an ethernet cable or jack up to my room. Could I use an old cable internet modem as a dumb hub and plug in a coaxial cable to it in order to basically get an ethernet port in my room?

Another question, if I installed a wireless n router, would my wireless g laptop benefit at all or would I also have to buy a wireless n usb adapter?

I'm switching from Cox 15/5 internet and television to FiOS 25/25 internet and their Extreme HD FiOS television this Friday. I can't wait. I'm so tired of cable TV. I mainly switched to get away from cox's cable TV service, not necessarily their internet, but decided it would simpler and cheaper to get their whole package deal, not to mention the increase in speed and the addition of DVR for the same price. I think more ISPs need to switch to FiOS's model of giving symmetrical download/upload speeds. I almost opted for DirecTv satellite, but FiOS seems to be the future, and I am hoping FiOS won't have the same interruptions from bad weather that satellite has. Can anyone attest to that?