That's a big issue with the National Slowband Network in Oz. The resellers aren't buying enough capacity from NBN Co - so everyone experiences "buffering" from 5 - 10pm (or thereabouts).
I'm not going to sign an NBN contract that doesn't guarantee a minimum speed of at least 25MBit/s down - wish me luck.
There's a 5G network being rolled out on the Gold Coast to support the imminent Commonwealth Games - let's see what happens afterwards, shall we? After people have been been able to watch sports in 4K (and lots of people on the Gold Coast can afford 4K TVs), they won't be happy to go back to 4G or 3G performance.
Human activities' effects on ecology isn't new at all. Swathes of forests were clear-felled from medieval times onward - for farmland mostly, but also ship-building. We've been on this path for a long time. I'll grant ignorance to my forbears, up until the industrial revolution. Surely someone saw all that smoke, the industrial air and water pollution and thought "Maybe that's not a good thing"
Gee, I wonder why Australian steel managed to get an exemption. Perhaps it's not bullshit, and never has been, i.e. it doesn't present a "threat to US security".
Yes, Oz steel doesn't represent much of the total, but there are countries other than the USofA who can make good steel. Perhaps you should check out products from Germany and Sweden.
Don't care about firefox - I recently found that streaming audio through VLC sounds a whole lot better than through firefox (probably because VLC has an equaliser), so that one little eeePC running XP will continure to provide audio for my kitchen. I've turned off all other network services, and it sits behind the household firewall, so I'm not worried.
That's right - under the conditions of issue, you never own the card, so you're not allowed to damage it. Fair enough, but really, he met the moral conditions - he paid for a ticket, the transport agency received payment for his travel. f'kin idiots.
I've got a bunch of W10 home laptops to look after. Before anyone tells me to get "Pro", it's an inherited problem and there's no budget to upgrade. These are your entry level lenovo "back-to-school" budget models with adequate memory and HDD, but Celeron processors.
I'm playing a never-ending round of trying to get all these machines to the same OS/patch level before I can block windows update servers at the router firewall. 1709 was a 5GB update over domestic ADSL (~13MBits down), so I tried letting the first one update, then switch on the Delivery Optimisation so that the next laptop I turned on would be able to get the updates locally. I wasn't able to confirm it, but *perhaps* it happened a little faster. It took a week to get them all done.
While that was happening I set about finding and adapting powershell scripts to remove the games and disable cortana, turn off the telemetry, and disable Windows Update. i just needed to get them all to the same level before I activate a ruleset at the router. The script was successful (and fast), so I'll put it into the Task Scheduler to run every logon. When i get the time, I'll investigate disabling the Windows Upgrade Assistant, which appears to not need or use the Windows Update service (or BITS).
It's frustrating, because i shouldn't have to play whack-a-mole with Microsoft.
"why build them with ovaries, or even functional uteruses"
Those organs produce a lot of the hormones that make females look and act like females. Omit them from the development stage and you're making trouble for yourself.
Anyway, I never bought the argument that the 4-year lifespan was an obstacle that Tyrell couldn't overcome. It was a deliberately-introduced "fault". If you're going to genetically engineer combat, work, or pleasure models you're gonna start with a human genome and its normal lifespan, no? So removing breeding abilities, or limiting lifespan, is a "feature" that you have to introduce.
BTW I agree with everything else you said. It's a good film, it could have been a better film with 2 things - less noise, and tighter editing.
I get the impression that you weren't even prepared to give it a chance.
I didn't think a sequel was needed, but if someone was prepared to put up the money, OK. I don't mind Gosling as an actor, but I was concerned he was too pretty for the role - fortunately they roughed him up quite a bit. I didn't have trouble believing his character (and I don't do suspension of disbelief very well at all).
It definitely took too long to tell its story, and the audio FX were just too loud - one of the woofers at the cinema where I saw it had "blown" and it was very jarring. I've just bought the blu-ray and I'm contemplating whether to make some notes about some judicious edits.
Movie makers usually don't muck about when they want you know someone is dead. BR2049 didn't muck about showing the deaths of other characters. There's enough doubt about K's fate that we're arguing about it - so I think the final scene was deliberately ambiguous.
I immediately thought "thery're leaving the door open for another film" when I saw that final scene.
Unfortunately, the retailers buy capacity from the NBNCo. They compete almost solely on price, which means they don't buy enough capacity to cope with peak demand - hence the slowdowns between 4pm and 11pm when everyone's watching Netflix. Speeds are generally much better outside of those times. Retailers should be offering tiered pricing based on actual performance. Discounted rates during peak times, but a big discount from midnight-5am. It would help if Netflix made the download-watch-later option available - that way you download Altered Carbon episodes between 2am and 4am, then watch them that evening.
It shouldn't be difficult to collect stats from the modem. Every day that the connection can't achieve that full speed triggers a discount on the bill, say 1% for each day the speed isn't reached.
Every day the speed can't achieve 67% of that speed triggers an additional discount, say 2%.
Can't get to 50% of that speed? Another discount - this time 5%.
No doubt this will result in much higher monthly bills, to cover the penalty discounts, or it might result in more realistic pricing to provide the service - you know, the ISPs and telcos might put some money into better infrastructure. I'd be happier if my bill was 50% higher, but came with a guaranteed speed.
But that's not going to happen. The clusterfuck here known as NBN means Telstra stopped investment in the landline/broadband services years ago. ADSL2+ here is about 1/3 of the theoretical maximum, but I pay the same as someone in town next door to the exchange getting ~22Mbit. I accept that there are technical limitations on the copper (distance), but why shouldn't my pricing reflect the actual service I receive.
If some ISP put a 4G repeater nearby, I'd be on it like flies on shit.
Your statement reveals that you don't understand it all.
Let me explain it to you - micro-particles of non-digestible or difficult-to-digest stuff gives intestines more to deal with than they should otherwise.
This means they have to work harder, or work less efficiently, or the good work is overpowered by the "dealing-with-shit" stuff. This means that the organism they support doesn't reach its full potential.
TL:DR version: non-digestible input means your guts work less better. Get it?
If that's too difficult for you to cope with, then try supplementing your diet with 20% decomposed plastic bags and get back to us.
People are already taxed on the profits they make from selling bitcoin... Taxes are already levied on the hardware purchased for mining bitcoins, and the power consumed to operate the hardware.
Do you have citations for these claims? Do you have relevant links to icelandic law and policy to support your assertions?
No? Then shut up.
Any extra tax which singles out bitcoin differently from any other legal activity
A government may tax anything it wishes, consistent with its legal framework - so what's your point?
My last upgrade - in order to qualify for the off-grid subsidy, required a quote for the cost to connect to the grid - which ended 600 metres away. AUD$30,000 (yes thirty K) not including tree-clearing costs.
The cost to upgrade our system (6 extra panels, controller, new set of lead-acid batteries, charger, and installation) only came to AUD$22K, so we qualified for the subsidy.
I can't imagine the cost to get the grid connected if you're more than a few km from the nearest pole.
Well, as far as motorbikes are concerned, there's feedback from the engine. It's difficult to explain without the reference of actual riding experience.
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That's a big issue with the National Slowband Network in Oz. The resellers aren't buying enough capacity from NBN Co - so everyone experiences "buffering" from 5 - 10pm (or thereabouts).
I'm not going to sign an NBN contract that doesn't guarantee a minimum speed of at least 25MBit/s down - wish me luck.
There's a 5G network being rolled out on the Gold Coast to support the imminent Commonwealth Games - let's see what happens afterwards, shall we? After people have been been able to watch sports in 4K (and lots of people on the Gold Coast can afford 4K TVs), they won't be happy to go back to 4G or 3G performance.
" People 200 years ago couldn't even really imagine air pollution"
Oh, yes they could.
https://www.londonair.org.uk/L...
Human activities' effects on ecology isn't new at all. Swathes of forests were clear-felled from medieval times onward - for farmland mostly, but also ship-building. We've been on this path for a long time. I'll grant ignorance to my forbears, up until the industrial revolution. Surely someone saw all that smoke, the industrial air and water pollution and thought "Maybe that's not a good thing"
How about a box girder?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Gee, I wonder why Australian steel managed to get an exemption. Perhaps it's not bullshit, and never has been, i.e. it doesn't present a "threat to US security".
Yes, Oz steel doesn't represent much of the total, but there are countries other than the USofA who can make good steel. Perhaps you should check out products from Germany and Sweden.
Don't care about firefox - I recently found that streaming audio through VLC sounds a whole lot better than through firefox (probably because VLC has an equaliser), so that one little eeePC running XP will continure to provide audio for my kitchen. I've turned off all other network services, and it sits behind the household firewall, so I'm not worried.
That's right - under the conditions of issue, you never own the card, so you're not allowed to damage it. Fair enough, but really, he met the moral conditions - he paid for a ticket, the transport agency received payment for his travel. f'kin idiots.
It'll soon be all over the middle kingdom.
Monkey, we need you!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I've got a bunch of W10 home laptops to look after. Before anyone tells me to get "Pro", it's an inherited problem and there's no budget to upgrade. These are your entry level lenovo "back-to-school" budget models with adequate memory and HDD, but Celeron processors.
I'm playing a never-ending round of trying to get all these machines to the same OS/patch level before I can block windows update servers at the router firewall. 1709 was a 5GB update over domestic ADSL (~13MBits down), so I tried letting the first one update, then switch on the Delivery Optimisation so that the next laptop I turned on would be able to get the updates locally. I wasn't able to confirm it, but *perhaps* it happened a little faster. It took a week to get them all done.
While that was happening I set about finding and adapting powershell scripts to remove the games and disable cortana, turn off the telemetry, and disable Windows Update. i just needed to get them all to the same level before I activate a ruleset at the router. The script was successful (and fast), so I'll put it into the Task Scheduler to run every logon. When i get the time, I'll investigate disabling the Windows Upgrade Assistant, which appears to not need or use the Windows Update service (or BITS).
It's frustrating, because i shouldn't have to play whack-a-mole with Microsoft.
"why build them with ovaries, or even functional uteruses"
Those organs produce a lot of the hormones that make females look and act like females. Omit them from the development stage and you're making trouble for yourself.
Anyway, I never bought the argument that the 4-year lifespan was an obstacle that Tyrell couldn't overcome. It was a deliberately-introduced "fault". If you're going to genetically engineer combat, work, or pleasure models you're gonna start with a human genome and its normal lifespan, no? So removing breeding abilities, or limiting lifespan, is a "feature" that you have to introduce.
BTW I agree with everything else you said. It's a good film, it could have been a better film with 2 things - less noise, and tighter editing.
Sooner or later, some developer/s will recognise the need for software to disguise, or even better, poison these data-collecting apps.
Poisoning the well, eh?
I get the impression that you weren't even prepared to give it a chance.
I didn't think a sequel was needed, but if someone was prepared to put up the money, OK. I don't mind Gosling as an actor, but I was concerned he was too pretty for the role - fortunately they roughed him up quite a bit. I didn't have trouble believing his character (and I don't do suspension of disbelief very well at all).
It definitely took too long to tell its story, and the audio FX were just too loud - one of the woofers at the cinema where I saw it had "blown" and it was very jarring. I've just bought the blu-ray and I'm contemplating whether to make some notes about some judicious edits.
"argument from majority"
That kind of pulls the rug out from under the concept of democracy, just sayin'.
" I asked to myself "why?"
Yet it made you ask questions instead of spoon-feeding everything to you.
Movie makers usually don't muck about when they want you know someone is dead. BR2049 didn't muck about showing the deaths of other characters. There's enough doubt about K's fate that we're arguing about it - so I think the final scene was deliberately ambiguous.
I immediately thought "thery're leaving the door open for another film" when I saw that final scene.
Thank you for filling in ;-)
Unfortunately, the retailers buy capacity from the NBNCo. They compete almost solely on price, which means they don't buy enough capacity to cope with peak demand - hence the slowdowns between 4pm and 11pm when everyone's watching Netflix. Speeds are generally much better outside of those times. Retailers should be offering tiered pricing based on actual performance. Discounted rates during peak times, but a big discount from midnight-5am. It would help if Netflix made the download-watch-later option available - that way you download Altered Carbon episodes between 2am and 4am, then watch them that evening.
It shouldn't be difficult to collect stats from the modem. Every day that the connection can't achieve that full speed triggers a discount on the bill, say 1% for each day the speed isn't reached.
Every day the speed can't achieve 67% of that speed triggers an additional discount, say 2%.
Can't get to 50% of that speed? Another discount - this time 5%.
No doubt this will result in much higher monthly bills, to cover the penalty discounts, or it might result in more realistic pricing to provide the service - you know, the ISPs and telcos might put some money into better infrastructure. I'd be happier if my bill was 50% higher, but came with a guaranteed speed.
But that's not going to happen. The clusterfuck here known as NBN means Telstra stopped investment in the landline/broadband services years ago. ADSL2+ here is about 1/3 of the theoretical maximum, but I pay the same as someone in town next door to the exchange getting ~22Mbit. I accept that there are technical limitations on the copper (distance), but why shouldn't my pricing reflect the actual service I receive.
If some ISP put a 4G repeater nearby, I'd be on it like flies on shit.
My daughter has chosen an arts-based path - subjects in music, drama, and visual art.
Arguably, none of these require CS. They might require word processing skills, math skills, etc, even chemistry, but not pure CS.
On the gripping hand, if you really want SJWs to salivate:
http://www.feralcheryl.com.au/
"nature girl Feral Cheryl remains the only doll with a map of Tassie." That's pubic hair for you in the northern hemisphere.
Your statement reveals that you don't understand it all.
Let me explain it to you - micro-particles of non-digestible or difficult-to-digest stuff gives intestines more to deal with than they should otherwise.
This means they have to work harder, or work less efficiently, or the good work is overpowered by the "dealing-with-shit" stuff. This means that the organism they support doesn't reach its full potential.
TL:DR version: non-digestible input means your guts work less better. Get it?
If that's too difficult for you to cope with, then try supplementing your diet with 20% decomposed plastic bags and get back to us.
People are already taxed on the profits they make from selling bitcoin...
Taxes are already levied on the hardware purchased for mining bitcoins, and the power consumed to operate the hardware.
Do you have citations for these claims? Do you have relevant links to icelandic law and policy to support your assertions?
No? Then shut up.
Any extra tax which singles out bitcoin differently from any other legal activity
A government may tax anything it wishes, consistent with its legal framework - so what's your point?
My last upgrade - in order to qualify for the off-grid subsidy, required a quote for the cost to connect to the grid - which ended 600 metres away. AUD$30,000 (yes thirty K) not including tree-clearing costs.
The cost to upgrade our system (6 extra panels, controller, new set of lead-acid batteries, charger, and installation) only came to AUD$22K, so we qualified for the subsidy.
I can't imagine the cost to get the grid connected if you're more than a few km from the nearest pole.
Yes, i was referring to Australia.
Well, as far as motorbikes are concerned, there's feedback from the engine. It's difficult to explain without the reference of actual riding experience.
Ok the group B thing was hyperbole but i was talking about "fun to drive", not performance or anything else.
I guess a group B car would take a lot of work to learn, before it became fun.