I pay $40/month.
No hour limitations, it's always connected.
Static IP address.
Multiple E-mail addresses.
No bandwidth throttling, however the usenet servers have connection limitations -- keeps changing, was 3, now 5, etc...
9700kbps aggregate download bandwidth running 8 simultaneous usenet download streams (sucking feeds from a non-earthlink news server). Don't try THAT with a $40 DSL connection. Besides, do you realize what you're claiming? I have yet to see a residential DSL service that offers 2800kbps(350KB/s) download with 1200kbps (150 KB/s) upstream.
Unless you'd like to share with the class....how you are getting 2.73MBit downstream on DSL for the same price, then I'd have to agree that while DSL does have some advantages (latency sucks, packet loss, etc...) over this particular wireless service, it (the download speed) is unqestionable better than DSL.
Only this isn't about people running THEIR business from home, it's about resident's connecting to an outside business that they happen to be employed by. No hosting. No special service.
Absolutely NOT.
I telecommute when I can, but I am not the business, I am a residential customer trying to save some time and money by not going to work every now and then (75 miles). My company does not sponsor my internet service -- I do. I am a residential customer. My primary use of internet is personal, the only "business" use is not my own business. By and large, the internet itself is comprised of business. So what's next? Amazon.com purchases must be business class usage activity. Because it too is a business, and you are making secure connections to give your credit card number. Well, other than that we're all boycotting them right?:)
There was a time that I would have loved to have cable ISP service. SprintBroadband Sucks Hardcore where I'm at. I MAY get up to 500Kbps downstream (that's a small 'b' as in bits) and usually get less than 30kbps upstream. According to Sprint, that's "acceptable". So I'm stuck with the service or a $200 cancellation fee.
This VPN clause has been around for at least a year-and-a-half now with @home. Nothing new, but they're quickly becoming less and less tempting to switch-over. Hosting a business site, selling Internet Service, or running a home based business with multiple employees using internet service IS business use. Joe Schmoe, checking his e-mail or configuring a server remotely is NOT business use. If anything, I use LESS bandwidth when connected to my employer than I do with personal activity.
It didn't crash mine exactly, but it opened up a DOS window that won't go away no matter what. and I can't log off. Other processes work fine around it though. Just can't move it out of the way. Good to know though. He heh. My co-workers will love the little things popping up on their screens!
Are these devices ferrous? What happens when billy bob goes in for an MRI and comes out a nano-colander? What kind of concentration are we talking about in the system? Hmm....
With all of this talk of impending war, many of us will encounter "Peace
Activists" who will try to convince us that we must refrain from retaliating
against the ones who terrorized us all on September 11, 2001.
These activists may be alone or in a gathering. Most of us do not know
how to react to them. When you come upon one of these people, or one of their
rallies, here are the proper rules of etiquette:
1. Listen politely while this person explains their views. Strike up a
conversation if necessary and look very interested in their ideas. They
will tell you how revenge is immoral, and that by attacking the people who did
this to us; we will only bring on more violence. They will probably use
many arguments, ranging from political to religious to humanitarian.
2. In the middle of their remarks, without any warning, punch them in the
nose.
3. When the person gets up off the ground, they will be very angry and
they may try to hit you so be careful.
4. Very quickly and calmly remind the person that violence only brings
about more violence and remind them of their stand on this matter. Tell them if
they are committed to a nonviolent approach to undeserved attacks, they
will turn the other cheek and negotiate a solution. Tell them they must lead
by example if they really believe what they are saying.
5. Most of them will think for a moment and then agree that you are
correct.
6. As soon as they do that, hit them again. Only this time hit them much
harder. Square in the nose.
7. Repeat steps 2 - 5 until the desired results are obtained and the idiot
realizes how stupid of an argument he/she is making.
There is no difference in an individual attacking an unsuspecting victim
or a group of terrorists attacking a nation of people.
We either strike back, VERY HARD, or we will keep being hit in the nose.
But you're still talking rocket fuel. I think the point was that we need to find a more efficient reusable vehicle for propulsion. Tachyon Drive for example...:)
Aside from the last line, you are absolutely correct, and have pretty much summed up the issue. Although I'm not sure why Metallica is getting into this! The real pirates here, and the only ones that stand to lose any money here are the RIAA. You know the guys with the real money that love to push around all the little guys. The ones that have been prosecuted numerous times for Racketeering. The guys that sued a small rural shop owner for playing a radio in his store while he worked and bankrupted the poor guy. Yep those guys are the REAL problem. If music began distrubiting globally SOLELY through mp3 format, and RIAA was out of the picture, the distributed music would still drive fans to concerts, and the bands would make the money they deserve, and the worthless bastards in the RIAA could all just go to hell where they belong!
Well, you made me check... I only own 2 DVD's and their sizes are: The Matrix (7.89GB) Joan of Arc (7.8GB) Yep, I'm gonna save BIG money by puttin these guys on my hard drive instead of buying em!
That is another subject entirely. Movies taking 300MB to 600MB in size don't even remotely compare to the size and quality of DVD's. There's no way in hell I'm going to be copying my DVD's to my hard disk -- chunking out 4GB of space to save $15. Who are they kidding. That's exactly what this guy said in his article.
"If one visits the sites in question, one will see enticements to 'break encryption and copy a DVD onto your hard drive. Decrypt movies and let them be played off your hard..."
I've seen some of these "WAREZ" movies, and it's pretty crappy quality. Not something that the MPAA should be getting riled up about. If content to watch all your movies recorded with a camcorder and converted to mpeg, chances are, you probably weren't going to the theater anyway.
The only valid fear he presented was the burning of DVD's, I don't have any info on that, but doesn't it seem logical that a bit-for-bit burn is going to work no matter what the encryption is? I imagine that DVD-Writers will be forced to incorporate detection of copy protected media and block copying of said media. If DVD-R devices were created to circumvent the copy-protection, they would constitute a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
"which expressly made it illegal to traffic in 'any technology, product, service, device, component or part thereof that is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner."
Playback does not constitute a primary design of circumventing protection that effectively protect a right of a copyright owner. If I bought the movie, I should be able to play it back on whatever I feel like. Be it a linux box, a Windoze box, or a DVD Player that wasn't on their original buddy list that they gave the keys to.
Sounds to me like another asshole who doesn't know just how bad his shit stinks.
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Looks like we got a crack smoker here. :)
You go right ahead and plug YOUR CAT-5 into 110AC!! I'll just hook it up the right way...
Cat-5 to the Hybrid-Router. Coax from the router to the inline booster, to the antenna.
What are you talking about?
I pay $40/month.
No hour limitations, it's always connected.
Static IP address.
Multiple E-mail addresses.
No bandwidth throttling, however the usenet servers have connection limitations -- keeps changing, was 3, now 5, etc...
How's this for qualification...
9700kbps aggregate download bandwidth running 8 simultaneous usenet download streams (sucking feeds from a non-earthlink news server). Don't try THAT with a $40 DSL connection. Besides, do you realize what you're claiming? I have yet to see a residential DSL service that offers 2800kbps(350KB/s) download with 1200kbps (150 KB/s) upstream.
Unless you'd like to share with the class....how you are getting 2.73MBit downstream on DSL for the same price, then I'd have to agree that while DSL does have some advantages (latency sucks, packet loss, etc...) over this particular wireless service, it (the download speed) is unqestionable better than DSL.
Only this isn't about people running THEIR business from home, it's about resident's connecting to an outside business that they happen to be employed by. No hosting. No special service.
Absolutely NOT. :)
I telecommute when I can, but I am not the business, I am a residential customer trying to save some time and money by not going to work every now and then (75 miles). My company does not sponsor my internet service -- I do. I am a residential customer. My primary use of internet is personal, the only "business" use is not my own business. By and large, the internet itself is comprised of business. So what's next? Amazon.com purchases must be business class usage activity. Because it too is a business, and you are making secure connections to give your credit card number. Well, other than that we're all boycotting them right?
There was a time that I would have loved to have cable ISP service. SprintBroadband Sucks Hardcore where I'm at. I MAY get up to 500Kbps downstream (that's a small 'b' as in bits) and usually get less than 30kbps upstream. According to Sprint, that's "acceptable". So I'm stuck with the service or a $200 cancellation fee.
This VPN clause has been around for at least a year-and-a-half now with @home. Nothing new, but they're quickly becoming less and less tempting to switch-over. Hosting a business site, selling Internet Service, or running a home based business with multiple employees using internet service IS business use. Joe Schmoe, checking his e-mail or configuring a server remotely is NOT business use. If anything, I use LESS bandwidth when connected to my employer than I do with personal activity.
This was filed almost three years ago....
I was thinking of finger-ing her myself.....
Doh! It disappeared on me too. Must set properties to "code" instead of plain text.
#include <stdio.h> I assume.
#include
#include what? I assume.
It didn't crash mine exactly, but it opened up a DOS window that won't go away no matter what. and I can't log off. Other processes work fine around it though. Just can't move it out of the way. Good to know though. He heh. My co-workers will love the little things popping up on their screens!
Are these devices ferrous? What happens when billy bob goes in for an MRI and comes out a nano-colander? What kind of concentration are we talking about in the system? Hmm....
> Also.. what do you mean 'long distance'. Long distance service is not relveant... you get that with any phone line.
Often times, long distance plans have a monthly service fee (usually around $5 even if you don't make any LD calls).
With all of this talk of impending war, many of us will encounter "Peace
Activists" who will try to convince us that we must refrain from retaliating
against the ones who terrorized us all on September 11, 2001.
These activists may be alone or in a gathering. Most of us do not know
how to react to them. When you come upon one of these people, or one of their
rallies, here are the proper rules of etiquette:
1. Listen politely while this person explains their views. Strike up a
conversation if necessary and look very interested in their ideas. They
will tell you how revenge is immoral, and that by attacking the people who did
this to us; we will only bring on more violence. They will probably use
many arguments, ranging from political to religious to humanitarian.
2. In the middle of their remarks, without any warning, punch them in the
nose.
3. When the person gets up off the ground, they will be very angry and
they may try to hit you so be careful.
4. Very quickly and calmly remind the person that violence only brings
about more violence and remind them of their stand on this matter. Tell them if
they are committed to a nonviolent approach to undeserved attacks, they
will turn the other cheek and negotiate a solution. Tell them they must lead
by example if they really believe what they are saying.
5. Most of them will think for a moment and then agree that you are
correct.
6. As soon as they do that, hit them again. Only this time hit them much
harder. Square in the nose.
7. Repeat steps 2 - 5 until the desired results are obtained and the idiot
realizes how stupid of an argument he/she is making.
There is no difference in an individual attacking an unsuspecting victim
or a group of terrorists attacking a nation of people.
We either strike back, VERY HARD, or we will keep being hit in the nose.
But you're still talking rocket fuel. I think the point was that we need to find a more efficient reusable vehicle for propulsion. Tachyon Drive for example... :)
How about harnessing the tachyon for propulsion systems??
Aside from the last line, you are absolutely correct, and have pretty much summed up the issue. Although I'm not sure why Metallica is getting into this! The real pirates here, and the only ones that stand to lose any money here are the RIAA. You know the guys with the real money that love to push around all the little guys. The ones that have been prosecuted numerous times for Racketeering. The guys that sued a small rural shop owner for playing a radio in his store while he worked and bankrupted the poor guy. Yep those guys are the REAL problem. If music began distrubiting globally SOLELY through mp3 format, and RIAA was out of the picture, the distributed music would still drive fans to concerts, and the bands would make the money they deserve, and the worthless bastards in the RIAA could all just go to hell where they belong!
Well, you made me check... I only own 2 DVD's and their sizes are: The Matrix (7.89GB) Joan of Arc (7.8GB) Yep, I'm gonna save BIG money by puttin these guys on my hard drive instead of buying em!
That is another subject entirely. Movies taking 300MB to 600MB in size don't even remotely compare to the size and quality of DVD's. There's no way in hell I'm going to be copying my DVD's to my hard disk -- chunking out 4GB of space to save $15. Who are they kidding. That's exactly what this guy said in his article.
"If one visits the sites in question, one will see enticements to 'break encryption and copy a DVD onto your hard drive. Decrypt movies and let them be played off your hard..."
I've seen some of these "WAREZ" movies, and it's pretty crappy quality. Not something that the MPAA should be getting riled up about. If content to watch all your movies recorded with a camcorder and converted to mpeg, chances are, you probably weren't going to the theater anyway.
The only valid fear he presented was the burning of DVD's, I don't have any info on that, but doesn't it seem logical that a bit-for-bit burn is going to work no matter what the encryption is? I imagine that DVD-Writers will be forced to incorporate detection of copy protected media and block copying of said media. If DVD-R devices were created to circumvent the copy-protection, they would constitute a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
"which expressly made it illegal to traffic in 'any technology, product, service, device, component or part thereof that is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner."
Playback does not constitute a primary design of circumventing protection that effectively protect a right of a copyright owner. If I bought the movie, I should be able to play it back on whatever I feel like. Be it a linux box, a Windoze box, or a DVD Player that wasn't on their original buddy list that they gave the keys to.
Sounds to me like another asshole who doesn't know just how bad his shit stinks.
Pardon the french. (or whatever it was)