You have to use currency conversion in order to make that work.
Assuming an exchange rate of $10 to one chicken (the cost in the store, live chickens may be less, chicks SIGNIFICANTLY less.) The game industry would only be contributing a whopping 380 million chickens.
Now imaging batering in crickets. Crickets cost only $0.10! That would work out to 38 BILLION crickets. Now that is ALOT.
You could also go crazy and barter with something that has no value at all, like dog shit. Now you get an INFINATE amount of dog shit that you can bater with.
I think it's just you. I think that I can speak for most of us here when I say that the word "silicon" is mentally associated with "sexy" things. Things like my xbox 360, CPLDs, diodes, LEDs... I should stop there... I'm turning myself on... Oh baby... TTL chips, CMOS... Good 'ol CMOS never say no when you call her late at night.
You must be new here... Half the fun of slashdot is being shocked at the stories, then after you actually read them, you become shocked at either:
a) How the editor missed that spelling mistake.
b) Why this is even news
c) How blatently misleading the title is.
d) the fact that now you have nothing to read at work, and have to wait for the next misleading post.
I wonder how much this really has to do with the carrier. Personally, I would think that it has more to do with the phone manufacturer. I know that my cell phone (LG Chocolate flip) makes a sound when you dial 911.
I'm pretty sure that when the phone companies make a contract with a carrier, they just slap some crappy branding all over it, and (for me on Telus anyways) disable every feature that they possibly can, then charge you to use thier "service" (ie. disabling bluetooth file transfer so that you can't put ring tones on without paying them; Making it so that mp3's you store on the memory card cannot be copied to the phone internal memory, again so that they can bend you over for $3.00 + download fee for a ring tone.) I fucking HATE Telus.
If you want to set up WinXP on a RAID array, you need to use a floppy disk, as the drivers are not contained on the CD. I think that SATA is the same way, but could be wrong. (I have SATA drives in a RAID array, only needed the one disk).
As a side note, it took a lot to find the floppy disk. I called BestBuy, and Future Shop (Canada only), Staples, and none of them had floppys. I had to go to my mom's house and scavange my old stuff. Out of a box of ~25 floppies, only 2 would sill format.
I agree with you. I have an XBMC and my XBOX is on 24/7. Best way to spend $150 and an afternoon, hands down. My G/F loves it and can use it without me home(!).
For all you people that have tons of video and don't want to watch it on the computer, XBMC is the way to go.
My Bit-Torrent test was clocking at 0.3k. Dial-up is faster on a modem. Using a mirror was 2 orders of magnitude faster.
So that would be what, 1.2k? Break-neck speeds.
I find it hard to believe that if you actually downloaded the torrent that your speed would only be 0.3k
There is a program for Xbox1, I assume that it works for xbox 360 as well. What it did was basically make a LAN party over the internet. You would join a channel with other players, and this software that ran on your PC would make a virtual private lan with the other parties.
I can't remember the name of the program offhand though..
'While our friends at Intel, Google and Microsoft may find system errors, computer glitches and dropped calls tolerable, broadcasters do not.'"
I would bet dollars to doughnuts that google has a higher uptime then their tv station. How many times have you been watching the TV and there is dead air for like 30 secs? How about watching a news broadcast and one of the mics isn't turned on.
But more closely related to the article, I'm sure that the Broadcasters would oppose this even if it didn't screw with thier signals at all. Noone solely boradcasts anymore, they also sell thier service to cable companies and satellite. The cable company doesn't want a free wireless setup to compete with thier current duopoly. Therefore it is in the intrest of the broadcaster to help the cable company do well so it buys it's product.
I'm guessing that is the operating temperature for the chips. The north pole will never reach 120 degrees, but maybe it'll get to 70 degrees and the computer might warm up to 120.
Why people are arguing over an article that is written by someone that doesn't know how to capitalize letters and confuses "lose" and "loose" is boyond me.
punishing people for owning infestable technology is like punishing Pinto [wikipedia.org] owners for buying a car that tends to explode
Personally, I think that just driving a pinto is punishment enough, but if you throw in the added possibility of a freak explosion, then that punishment increases. So in a way, you do get punished for buying a pinto.
I have calculated that a fair price for true unlimited access would be ~$150/month: rent for ~1/300th of an OC48 + other operating/service costs and profit./blockquote.
Wouldn't that include 10mbps upload too though??
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You have to use currency conversion in order to make that work.
Assuming an exchange rate of $10 to one chicken (the cost in the store, live chickens may be less, chicks SIGNIFICANTLY less.) The game industry would only be contributing a whopping 380 million chickens.
Now imaging batering in crickets. Crickets cost only $0.10! That would work out to 38 BILLION crickets. Now that is ALOT.
You could also go crazy and barter with something that has no value at all, like dog shit. Now you get an INFINATE amount of dog shit that you can bater with.
I think it's just you. I think that I can speak for most of us here when I say that the word "silicon" is mentally associated with "sexy" things. Things like my xbox 360, CPLDs, diodes, LEDs... I should stop there... I'm turning myself on... Oh baby... TTL chips, CMOS... Good 'ol CMOS never say no when you call her late at night.
Ahh, the good 'ol times... When a cell phone LITERALLY weighed as much as a brick, and yet the charge still lasted only a day.
You must be new here... Half the fun of slashdot is being shocked at the stories, then after you actually read them, you become shocked at either:
a) How the editor missed that spelling mistake.
b) Why this is even news
c) How blatently misleading the title is.
d) the fact that now you have nothing to read at work, and have to wait for the next misleading post.
I wonder how much this really has to do with the carrier. Personally, I would think that it has more to do with the phone manufacturer. I know that my cell phone (LG Chocolate flip) makes a sound when you dial 911.
I'm pretty sure that when the phone companies make a contract with a carrier, they just slap some crappy branding all over it, and (for me on Telus anyways) disable every feature that they possibly can, then charge you to use thier "service" (ie. disabling bluetooth file transfer so that you can't put ring tones on without paying them; Making it so that mp3's you store on the memory card cannot be copied to the phone internal memory, again so that they can bend you over for $3.00 + download fee for a ring tone.) I fucking HATE Telus.
which is all fine and dandy until you get a flat tire...
I believe that they may be addmitted as hearsay. IANAL
If you want to set up WinXP on a RAID array, you need to use a floppy disk, as the drivers are not contained on the CD. I think that SATA is the same way, but could be wrong. (I have SATA drives in a RAID array, only needed the one disk).
As a side note, it took a lot to find the floppy disk. I called BestBuy, and Future Shop (Canada only), Staples, and none of them had floppys. I had to go to my mom's house and scavange my old stuff. Out of a box of ~25 floppies, only 2 would sill format.
I agree with you. I have an XBMC and my XBOX is on 24/7. Best way to spend $150 and an afternoon, hands down. My G/F loves it and can use it without me home(!).
For all you people that have tons of video and don't want to watch it on the computer, XBMC is the way to go.
Thank you for correcting me. I always thought that orders of magnitude (Earthquakes and the like) were double, not 10x. Now I know.
My Bit-Torrent test was clocking at 0.3k. Dial-up is faster on a modem. Using a mirror was 2 orders of magnitude faster. So that would be what, 1.2k? Break-neck speeds. I find it hard to believe that if you actually downloaded the torrent that your speed would only be 0.3k
And that is one of many reasons we are all still running XP
I'm blocked too :( Can anyone get the coral cache address?
Here we go:
www.xbconnect.com
It is NOT a xbox live alternitive, although you can play multiplayer. It does not use the xbox live option in the game, but rather the LAN setting)
There is a program for Xbox1, I assume that it works for xbox 360 as well. What it did was basically make a LAN party over the internet. You would join a channel with other players, and this software that ran on your PC would make a virtual private lan with the other parties.
I can't remember the name of the program offhand though..
Hmm... Then maybe you can help me here. I can't find where the batteries go, and once we get that going, how do you load Pimpquest?
Maybe if you let yourself loosen up and played some games you wouldn't be such a 1930's history nazi.
Good Eye
I'm guessing that is the operating temperature for the chips. The north pole will never reach 120 degrees, but maybe it'll get to 70 degrees and the computer might warm up to 120.
No because we are all running pirated versions already, and yet Vista is here!
Why people are arguing over an article that is written by someone that doesn't know how to capitalize letters and confuses "lose" and "loose" is boyond me.
If they just attach 'freaking' laser beams to the dogs, you can have a hybrid, with the best of both worlds.