The issue is that when you purchase an item, and also an extended warranty/service plan, almost all of these have a "no lemon policy" I think that's probably not what Dell is honoring in this case. Best buy/Circut city do this: If you buy a "performance service plan", they will fix a defective product three times. If it breaks a fourth time, they will replace it. There are always hangups with this kind of system, but, at least at best buy, if you by an EMachine computer, its basically a guarateed upgrade policy=)
You can't say that because you've had your laptop working a majority of the time that you've had it that you should be satisfied. If dell advertises a functional laptop, and their repeated attemps to fix the problem lead to no solution, then they should make good on the claim that they told you two years ago that they were selling you a working notebook.
Course, on the flip side, don't expect to get a brand new notebook of the same price you paid for yours. If you're being reasonable, you should expect a notebook of comparable featuers. If you bought a $5500 notebook 2 years ago, you can't expect them to give you the latest and greatest. Don't stress, however, even a quote-unquote lower end notebook of today will far outperform the top of the line 2 years ago. Just make sure if you had a pentium processor, DVD drive, TFT screen, and integrated modem/ethernet that they get you the same thing.
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No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
And why does everything have to be wireless? I don't understand this.
1.) plug firewire cable into the back of your computer 2.) bring other end of cable on to desktop 3.) plug in MP3 player when needed
I don't get how this makes life easier. By adding a wireless recieving unit in the thing, it would be bigger, weigh more, and cost more. Probably be more complicated, slower, and use more batteries, too. Or to cut costs you could put an IrDA port in it, although I think less people own an IrDA port for their desktop than firewire, and it would be sitting there transfering data wirelessly so long, you might as well have taken the 4 seconds to plug it in. Why is this a good idea?
I guess i'm just not getting it. Mabey i'm too practical from a monatary standpoint, but i wouldn't spend $400 on a wireless setup for my apartment when i can run $6 worth of cat 5 myself anywhere it wants to go in the apartment. Wireless is for cell phones and possibly for laptops at how much it costs right now, and i can't even afford it at that. Beyond that its just extra gadgets.
I was just tryin to help the guy out. I mean, he wanted the anti side of OSS, and that was all i could think of.
I also think that its great that the/. community is so well versed in all of the arguements for and against open source software. Its almost religious in the way we are "trained" i guess in how to respond in these situations. We all know that the majority of anti-OSS arguements don't hold much water, and we know exactly where the chinks in the armor are and how to argue our points articulately.
I honestly think the only anti-oss arguements that can be made are standards and gaming. Your boss, your mom, and your 7 year old daughter can all open a.doc word file. Its the standard. If you gave the same three people a star office document, they wouldn't know what to do with this. And saying that some open office product or another can save to.doc is not an argument, in that it proves that.doc is the standard. And you can't play many games on open source os's.
Oh, and no one's written a great open source web browser yet. Not a flame. I really think IE is the best comprimise of ease of use and functionality and asthetics in a web browser. Konqueror's close, opera's damn good, and mozilla is going to get there soon, but IE is still the best redmond-ware out there.
yeah, don't tell anyone, but that was half facination with the fact that i stumbled onto that page with the detailed discription of the plotlines side by side, and fealt the need to share, and 1/2 just plain karma whoreing.
Well, i dunno, i really did find that article fascinating, and figured a lot of people would be kinda blown away by it, i mean i told my friend about it and he was like in shock how much alike they were.
and i realized that after i posted, i got the names wrong. I think i'm burnt. thanks, dude =) i'll keep on the toes. ~Z
oh, and i saw 20000leagues, read that book, and saw atlantis. i think i slept thru most of atlantis, but i didn't want to ask my girl about the movie details i missed, cause i don't think she knows i slept. Haven't seen nadia. meaning to do that.
I also thought of another reason a donation system would be a good idea...
If you have a donation drive like twice a year, like a telethon, only the crippled kids are the servers, and the old guys tapdancing are rob and jeff, i think it would go over great. Why? Because with a donation system, you're not REQUIRED to pay. You can slack and not pay. But since its voluntary, i think you'll get more generous response. Only people who want to pay for it will pay for it, but they'll pay for themselves and others on principle. AND they'll kind of have this inner satisfaction that they are helping save slashdot. If its not the monthy bill, instead a donation, it makes it seem so much more noble, and even the geeks here can appreciate that.
In general though, if it has to be a subscription, i won't pay it if its month to month. I want to pay once a year, like $50 or whatever. Get it all out of the way at once, so i only bitch about it once, and then forget it for the other 11 1/2 months.
Also, if i'm required to pay for it, i want to make sure i can be logged in at all times. It's been happening lately that i can't log in, i try and it just redirects me to the home page, and then i have no ability to change the threashold on the comments.
But, see? I've just proved my point. People who pay a fee that are required to pay it are in a position to make demands, they want higher quality service and more privilages. People that donate, they just feel content that they've helped keep it alive.
For instance: If we were required to pay for the Jerry Lewis telethon, if it was required for citizenship, then we'd all start to wonder where the hell the cure was for these kids was, even if we only paid $2 a year. Since its a donation basis, we just go and pay our $10, and say "i'm helping out, and that feels good. Poor kids."
subscription is the fastest way to get a demanding and critical audience that actually has the power they threaten they have.
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another thing to consider is that there are no deadlines or date accountability in open source software. There's no "i have to get Emacs21 out by the end of july". It's done when its done. If its not done when you need it, then you just have to wait, there's not anyone you can call and complain. (course some people would say the same about commercial software: Diakatana, anyone?) The negative side of this is that if you're waiting for features, you could be waiting a while, unlike microsoft: when they say they're gonna have windows XP out by a certain date, they may push it back a coupla months, but if they say october 12th, its going on sale october 12th. If they said it was going to have a CD burning program, email client, voice recognition software, image-editing software, and a new media player, they may be bad, but damnit they're there. In open source, you get a lot of "well we meant to include it, but... it didn't make the code freeze, sorry, mabey next version.
Another downside, as mentioned, is tech support. You can call microsoft and get tech support, but a lot of OSS companies are doing that now, also - when i bought Mandrake 7.2 from best buy, i got a card in the box that said that i had 30 days of help for free, from the date of install, and that was in the $30 version.
Of course, i have no right to complain, as i don't actually program, beyond "hello world"
Here at virginia tech, there are some successful classes and some less so.
If you want to take a look at the Math class i'm taking (math 1015 - algebra/trig/calc intro), click on the lesson pages link. The lessons are fantastic. They can be learned at your own pace, and are accessible from anywhere.
If you wish to, you can go to the Math Emporium, a place off campus that's open 24 hours a day, and has something like 600 Mac G3's/G4's. (they can also boot into windows 2000.) If you go there during appointed times, i.e. 9AM-2PM, one of several teachers for the math course will be there to answer questions for you, and there are grad students on duty 8AM-7PM to answer general questions. It's a great place to do work in general, remove yourself from the noise of life, and to get help.
A not so successful example, however, is CS 1604, intro to the internet. It was created when the internet was the cool new thing, and never revised. The quizzes have questions about Gopher, how to use search engines (looking for allen touring? type Allen AND Touring - as opposed to today's "allen touring"), questions about webpages that don't exist, things related to adobe acrobat 1, the list of grievences goes on and on.
In general, though, computers are ABSOLUTELY necessacary to my education here. My humanities homeworks, due every thursday, are submitted to a "digital drop box", all my teachers respond to email within 24 hours, many times less, my Econ teacher sends out the homework on the listserv, 2 years ago, all my C++ was submitted online, and graded by an automatic grader. It's virtually impossible to get anything done around here w/out a computer. But, if by some chance, mine is broken or gone or whatever, I can always use the emporium.
Fair use is a valid law. 17 USC 107. ... Cries of fair use do not render copyright obsolete, fair use coexists with copyright. Fair use does not coexist with sledgehammer-like copyright enforcement tactics, as fair use is the first thing to get trampled on.
Speaking of 802.11 antenna's, my friends and i at one point had a plan to get an uncapped ("business class") cable modem, and to share it out w/ wireless
The antenna we decided on was the SMCANT-DI135 (warning PDF). It has a 4.5 mile signal thru a 45 degree arc, 7 mile point to point, is 10 inches long, and weighs less than 20oz. We figured it could be put on the side of a house and hidden from view fairly easily, and with 3 of them, we could have wireless access throughout most of our city (it wasn't that big)
Course we never did it, i moved to college, and we're lacking money, but...
Particularly in the case of Microsoft, you must continue to rent the software
This is the part that troubles me the most. No one seems to be talking about it. If you get any magazines that have windows XP features, they will sit and gripe about passport and about activation, and then go on to talk about the amazing new multimedia features, but the fact is that no one is remembering that when you buy windowsXP, after a year, it ceases to work, and you have to pay for it again. The press uses vague terms like.NET, but the average consumer seems to not make the connection that they will be paying for windows AGAIN in a year.
Seems like amazing marketing on the part of microsoft, if you ask me.
that's not gonna work from a bandwidth standpoint. You're forgetting Kbps versus kbps - while that would be over 200kbps, think of it this way:
On a typical 56K modem you get between 4.5 and 6 K a second (that's Kbps). So with 4 modems, you'd get somewhere between 18 and 30 Kbps. Not really fantastic bandwidth for even one computer, much less splitting up amoung 40 or 50.
Add to that the fact that your upload stream would be 28.8 X 4, or about 10-15 K a second, and you have a picture of why this wouldn't work. $130 a month for 30K max down and 15K max up is no bargain, and not sutable for splitting into a school network.
I live in blacksburg (go hokies!!), and let me report on the state of broadband...
if you live on the va tech campus, you obviously have bandwidth, OC-3 i believe, but i think its been fairly saturated this year.
Some apartments (college park, some foxridge) have ethernet jacks in the walls, which are wired into the campus system
I live on lee st, 10 minutes (walking) from campus, and less than a three minute walk from the Verizon office (you can see the cell phone tower from my apartment). And the ONLY OPTION for me is adelphia cable.
Verizon is not offering any more DSL, even though i'm 2 blocks up and one block over from the office.
To make matters worse, adelphia isn't even offering two way cable modems, i'm using a DIAL RETURN cable modem, i get at best 60K download, and 28.8 modem upload. And i get kicked off after being on for about 6 hours. Without fail. And adelphia's pulling the "two way service will be available in"current_month+2.
For the most wired small town in america, this sucks. Course i think that claim was made on per-capita that use the internet on a regular basis, its over 60%.
Anyway, go hokies!
~Zero.
It'll be a cold day in december before Virgnia Tech beats Miami.
You also have a valid point, but there are less invasive ways of target marketing than individual profiling
For example: The ads on slashdot. The people who run the site know what we look for in ads - first, no annoying javascripts or whavever else - the purpose of the site is to make the viewers happy, first and foremost, and you don't want to lose audience based on your ads. (For reference, see this piece in the FAQ 2nd, the/. ads are targeted for things i want. Rounded IDE cables, geek t-shirts, caffene fixes, webhosting, linux-ready hardware, etc. Great example of excellent target audience marketing. Now for a not so good example:
The "NEW" TNN! - i was thrilled to death last week when they showed Star Trek TNG episodes from like 10 am to 3 am. I think i failed a chem test because i watched too much star trek (see my most recent comment under my user profile). HOWEVER, i just could NOT watch the commercials. They were not targeted at me. TNN didn't realize the demographic that would be watching star trek - instead they put up ads for Miss Cleo (call me naw) and NASCAR, etc.
You don't have to get invasive to have effective marketing.
I'd still say that Methane (CH4 (g)) is your best source of hydrogen - a lot of houses already have natural gas pumped into them, its relatively cheap, its found everywhere in nature, etc. Plus, It also has the highest ration of carbon-hydrogen in emperical form, as far as i know, and the C-H bonds are single covalent bonds (methane is a tetrahedron) should be relatively easy to break, as opposed to a C=C triple bond.
Acetic acid (CH3COOH) might be also a posibility, since, by definition, its an acid and all acids give off H+ ions in water. The carboxal group at the end - i doubt you'd be able to get the hydrogen out of that, but whatever.
Course, i could be way off base, i'm only in 3rd semester chemistry:
I honestly don't have references to back this up, but as far as I know most athletic programs *lose* money for the school
This certainly isn't true. Sports are one of the biggest money makers for division one schools, second only to parking fines (sarcasm, and disgust). Take a look at this article:
During the 1996-1997 season, the University of Michigan earned $2.1 million for the television rights to its games, $1 million for the radio rights, $13.5 million in ticket sales from home games, $450,000 from concessions, $125,000 from program sales, $65,000 from merchandising, and $950,000 from bowl game participation. When all of its revenues were counted, the Wolverines grossed $21.3 million and cleared $10.6 million at the end of the season, which went to fund non-revenue producing sports at the university.
... A survey of 111 Division I-A schools conducted by the College Football Association in 1996 showed that the group grossed $628 million with $328 million in expenses during the 1995-1996 season. In addition, the CFA reported $216 million in alumni and booster donations to athletic departments that year.
Trust me, sports makes money. I go to Va Tech. When we went to the big dance in New Orelands 2 years ago, we got some rediculous amount of money just for making it that far - 11 million, i believe. Then you have to think also: add revenue from tickets/TV/Radio/merchandise (most university bookstores basically launder money)/grants/alumni contributions/athletic boosters/etc.
The jewish people were there first. Look, if you're gonna go back 40 years, why not go back a little further. The jewish people have been shit on by everyone on the fucking planet for years, and no one sticks up for them. Starting with egyptian exile, moving thru assyrian and babylonian invasion, then on to greek and roman occupation, byzantine occupation, turkish/ ottaman occupation, midevil mistrust because of banking practices, renassiance mistrust because of just plain not being christian, and persecution from 25 years of german/nazi ideology.
The jewish people aren't the cause of this, don't bring them in to this. The jewish people may have killed thousands of people, but in the past 35 centuries, probably close to a billion jews have been killed. 6 MILLION ALONE in the 1930's and 40's.
Its not an atack on Islam. And there's nothing wrong about supporting the jews. If you think we're wrong, go live somewhere else. Fuck off.
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i think its funny that this comment is moderated as informative.
i guess its informative that i have an ipod in my pocket
~z
The issue is that when you purchase an item, and also an extended warranty/service plan, almost all of these have a "no lemon policy"
I think that's probably not what Dell is honoring in this case. Best buy/Circut city do this: If you buy a "performance service plan", they will fix a defective product three times. If it breaks a fourth time, they will replace it. There are always hangups with this kind of system, but, at least at best buy, if you by an EMachine computer, its basically a guarateed upgrade policy=)
You can't say that because you've had your laptop working a majority of the time that you've had it that you should be satisfied. If dell advertises a functional laptop, and their repeated attemps to fix the problem lead to no solution, then they should make good on the claim that they told you two years ago that they were selling you a working notebook.
Course, on the flip side, don't expect to get a brand new notebook of the same price you paid for yours. If you're being reasonable, you should expect a notebook of comparable featuers. If you bought a $5500 notebook 2 years ago, you can't expect them to give you the latest and greatest. Don't stress, however, even a quote-unquote lower end notebook of today will far outperform the top of the line 2 years ago. Just make sure if you had a pentium processor, DVD drive, TFT screen, and integrated modem/ethernet that they get you the same thing.
~z
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
And why does everything have to be wireless? I don't understand this.
1.) plug firewire cable into the back of your computer
2.) bring other end of cable on to desktop
3.) plug in MP3 player when needed
I don't get how this makes life easier. By adding a wireless recieving unit in the thing, it would be bigger, weigh more, and cost more. Probably be more complicated, slower, and use more batteries, too. Or to cut costs you could put an IrDA port in it, although I think less people own an IrDA port for their desktop than firewire, and it would be sitting there transfering data wirelessly so long, you might as well have taken the 4 seconds to plug it in. Why is this a good idea?
I guess i'm just not getting it. Mabey i'm too practical from a monatary standpoint, but i wouldn't spend $400 on a wireless setup for my apartment when i can run $6 worth of cat 5 myself anywhere it wants to go in the apartment. Wireless is for cell phones and possibly for laptops at how much it costs right now, and i can't even afford it at that. Beyond that its just extra gadgets.
~z
I was just tryin to help the guy out. I mean, he wanted the anti side of OSS, and that was all i could think of.
/. community is so well versed in all of the arguements for and against open source software. Its almost religious in the way we are "trained" i guess in how to respond in these situations. We all know that the majority of anti-OSS arguements don't hold much water, and we know exactly where the chinks in the armor are and how to argue our points articulately.
.doc word file. Its the standard. If you gave the same three people a star office document, they wouldn't know what to do with this. And saying that some open office product or another can save to .doc is not an argument, in that it proves that .doc is the standard. And you can't play many games on open source os's.
I also think that its great that the
I honestly think the only anti-oss arguements that can be made are standards and gaming. Your boss, your mom, and your 7 year old daughter can all open a
Oh, and no one's written a great open source web browser yet. Not a flame. I really think IE is the best comprimise of ease of use and functionality and asthetics in a web browser. Konqueror's close, opera's damn good, and mozilla is going to get there soon, but IE is still the best redmond-ware out there.
~z
yeah, don't tell anyone, but that was half facination with the fact that i stumbled onto that page with the detailed discription of the plotlines side by side, and fealt the need to share, and 1/2 just plain karma whoreing.
Well, i dunno, i really did find that article fascinating, and figured a lot of people would be kinda blown away by it, i mean i told my friend about it and he was like in shock how much alike they were.
and i realized that after i posted, i got the names wrong. I think i'm burnt.
thanks, dude =) i'll keep on the toes.
~Z
oh, and i saw 20000leagues, read that book, and saw atlantis. i think i slept thru most of atlantis, but i didn't want to ask my girl about the movie details i missed, cause i don't think she knows i slept. Haven't seen nadia. meaning to do that.
I also thought of another reason a donation system would be a good idea...
If you have a donation drive like twice a year, like a telethon, only the crippled kids are the servers, and the old guys tapdancing are rob and jeff, i think it would go over great. Why? Because with a donation system, you're not REQUIRED to pay. You can slack and not pay. But since its voluntary, i think you'll get more generous response. Only people who want to pay for it will pay for it, but they'll pay for themselves and others on principle. AND they'll kind of have this inner satisfaction that they are helping save slashdot. If its not the monthy bill, instead a donation, it makes it seem so much more noble, and even the geeks here can appreciate that.
In general though, if it has to be a subscription, i won't pay it if its month to month. I want to pay once a year, like $50 or whatever. Get it all out of the way at once, so i only bitch about it once, and then forget it for the other 11 1/2 months.
Also, if i'm required to pay for it, i want to make sure i can be logged in at all times. It's been happening lately that i can't log in, i try and it just redirects me to the home page, and then i have no ability to change the threashold on the comments.
But, see? I've just proved my point. People who pay a fee that are required to pay it are in a position to make demands, they want higher quality service and more privilages. People that donate, they just feel content that they've helped keep it alive.
For instance: If we were required to pay for the Jerry Lewis telethon, if it was required for citizenship, then we'd all start to wonder where the hell the cure was for these kids was, even if we only paid $2 a year. Since its a donation basis, we just go and pay our $10, and say "i'm helping out, and that feels good. Poor kids."
subscription is the fastest way to get a demanding and critical audience that actually has the power they threaten they have.
~z
nite robin =)
~z
If disney wants to discuss IP, they'd better take a look at This site.
Basically, Disney ripped their latest fiasco, Lost city of Atlantis, straight from Nadia, queen of the see, a terriffic anime job.
And they say they had never heard of Nadia... Take a look and see what you think.
~z
We already have plenty of laws to land computer criminals in jail, and many have already been convicted and are currently serving time.
Some would say the laws we already have in place to do this are too harsh.
Exhibits:
Number one
Number two
Number three
Number four
~z
another thing to consider is that there are no deadlines or date accountability in open source software. There's no "i have to get Emacs21 out by the end of july". It's done when its done. If its not done when you need it, then you just have to wait, there's not anyone you can call and complain. (course some people would say the same about commercial software: Diakatana, anyone?) The negative side of this is that if you're waiting for features, you could be waiting a while, unlike microsoft: when they say they're gonna have windows XP out by a certain date, they may push it back a coupla months, but if they say october 12th, its going on sale october 12th. If they said it was going to have a CD burning program, email client, voice recognition software, image-editing software, and a new media player, they may be bad, but damnit they're there. In open source, you get a lot of "well we meant to include it, but... it didn't make the code freeze, sorry, mabey next version.
Another downside, as mentioned, is tech support. You can call microsoft and get tech support, but a lot of OSS companies are doing that now, also - when i bought Mandrake 7.2 from best buy, i got a card in the box that said that i had 30 days of help for free, from the date of install, and that was in the $30 version.
Of course, i have no right to complain, as i don't actually program, beyond "hello world"
~z
Here at virginia tech, there are some successful classes and some less so.
If you want to take a look at the Math class i'm taking (math 1015 - algebra/trig/calc intro), click on the lesson pages link. The lessons are fantastic. They can be learned at your own pace, and are accessible from anywhere.
If you wish to, you can go to the Math Emporium, a place off campus that's open 24 hours a day, and has something like 600 Mac G3's/G4's. (they can also boot into windows 2000.) If you go there during appointed times, i.e. 9AM-2PM, one of several teachers for the math course will be there to answer questions for you, and there are grad students on duty 8AM-7PM to answer general questions. It's a great place to do work in general, remove yourself from the noise of life, and to get help.
A not so successful example, however, is CS 1604, intro to the internet. It was created when the internet was the cool new thing, and never revised. The quizzes have questions about Gopher, how to use search engines (looking for allen touring? type Allen AND Touring - as opposed to today's "allen touring"), questions about webpages that don't exist, things related to adobe acrobat 1, the list of grievences goes on and on.
In general, though, computers are ABSOLUTELY necessacary to my education here. My humanities homeworks, due every thursday, are submitted to a "digital drop box", all my teachers respond to email within 24 hours, many times less, my Econ teacher sends out the homework on the listserv, 2 years ago, all my C++ was submitted online, and graded by an automatic grader. It's virtually impossible to get anything done around here w/out a computer. But, if by some chance, mine is broken or gone or whatever, I can always use the emporium.
~Z
Freakin' campers. Now you can't even go to the movies. They're everywhere.
jeez, just used to be that you couldn't get to the quad damage.
~z
Fair use is a valid law. 17 USC 107.
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Cries of fair use do not render copyright obsolete, fair use coexists with copyright. Fair use does not coexist with sledgehammer-like copyright enforcement tactics, as fair use is the first thing to get trampled on.
you're missing the point, dude
He's being sarcastic. Saying that its illegal to Download this file.
He's linking to the file as many times as is possible in order to get the point across that while the post he wrote says he discourages cracking MS DRM, he clearly is advocating that is ok to download the file.
see?
its a joke
~z
Speaking of 802.11 antenna's, my friends and i at one point had a plan to get an uncapped ("business class") cable modem, and to share it out w/ wireless
The antenna we decided on was the SMCANT-DI135 (warning PDF). It has a 4.5 mile signal thru a 45 degree arc, 7 mile point to point, is 10 inches long, and weighs less than 20oz. We figured it could be put on the side of a house and hidden from view fairly easily, and with 3 of them, we could have wireless access throughout most of our city (it wasn't that big)
Course we never did it, i moved to college, and we're lacking money, but...
~z
Particularly in the case of Microsoft, you must continue to rent the software
This is the part that troubles me the most. No one seems to be talking about it. If you get any magazines that have windows XP features, they will sit and gripe about passport and about activation, and then go on to talk about the amazing new multimedia features, but the fact is that no one is remembering that when you buy windowsXP, after a year, it ceases to work, and you have to pay for it again. The press uses vague terms like
Seems like amazing marketing on the part of microsoft, if you ask me.
~z
At the bottom of the buglist we see Bug #100309
Description:
Opened: 2001-09-18 08:55
we need preparation as well as a good place to have the biggest & coolest party
ever!
that's a good bug to have
~z
jesus H christ. that's funny. I was wondering if anyone was going to notice that 6.02e23 was avagadro's number.
Good work, if i had any mod points, i'd mod you up mad crazy.
If anyone out there sees this with moderator points left, mod my parent post up.
~Z
that's not gonna work from a bandwidth standpoint. You're forgetting Kbps versus kbps - while that would be over 200kbps, think of it this way:
On a typical 56K modem you get between 4.5 and 6 K a second (that's Kbps). So with 4 modems, you'd get somewhere between 18 and 30 Kbps. Not really fantastic bandwidth for even one computer, much less splitting up amoung 40 or 50.
Add to that the fact that your upload stream would be 28.8 X 4, or about 10-15 K a second, and you have a picture of why this wouldn't work. $130 a month for 30K max down and 15K max up is no bargain, and not sutable for splitting into a school network.
~Z
I live in blacksburg (go hokies!!), and let me report on the state of broadband...
if you live on the va tech campus, you obviously have bandwidth, OC-3 i believe, but i think its been fairly saturated this year.
Some apartments (college park, some foxridge) have ethernet jacks in the walls, which are wired into the campus system
I live on lee st, 10 minutes (walking) from campus, and less than a three minute walk from the Verizon office (you can see the cell phone tower from my apartment). And the ONLY OPTION for me is adelphia cable.
Verizon is not offering any more DSL, even though i'm 2 blocks up and one block over from the office.
To make matters worse, adelphia isn't even offering two way cable modems, i'm using a DIAL RETURN cable modem, i get at best 60K download, and 28.8 modem upload. And i get kicked off after being on for about 6 hours. Without fail. And adelphia's pulling the "two way service will be available in"current_month+2.
For the most wired small town in america, this sucks. Course i think that claim was made on per-capita that use the internet on a regular basis, its over 60%.
Anyway, go hokies!
~Zero.
It'll be a cold day in december before Virgnia Tech beats Miami.
You also have a valid point, but there are less invasive ways of target marketing than individual profiling
/. ads are targeted for things i want. Rounded IDE cables, geek t-shirts, caffene fixes, webhosting, linux-ready hardware, etc.
For example: The ads on slashdot. The people who run the site know what we look for in ads - first, no annoying javascripts or whavever else - the purpose of the site is to make the viewers happy, first and foremost, and you don't want to lose audience based on your ads. (For reference, see this piece in the FAQ
2nd, the
Great example of excellent target audience marketing. Now for a not so good example:
The "NEW" TNN! - i was thrilled to death last week when they showed Star Trek TNG episodes from like 10 am to 3 am. I think i failed a chem test because i watched too much star trek (see my most recent comment under my user profile). HOWEVER, i just could NOT watch the commercials. They were not targeted at me. TNN didn't realize the demographic that would be watching star trek - instead they put up ads for Miss Cleo (call me naw) and NASCAR, etc.
You don't have to get invasive to have effective marketing.
~Z
I'd still say that Methane (CH4 (g)) is your best source of hydrogen - a lot of houses already have natural gas pumped into them, its relatively cheap, its found everywhere in nature, etc.
Plus, It also has the highest ration of carbon-hydrogen in emperical form, as far as i know, and the C-H bonds are single covalent bonds (methane is a tetrahedron) should be relatively easy to break, as opposed to a C=C triple bond.
Acetic acid (CH3COOH) might be also a posibility, since, by definition, its an acid and all acids give off H+ ions in water. The carboxal group at the end - i doubt you'd be able to get the hydrogen out of that, but whatever.
Course, i could be way off base, i'm only in 3rd semester chemistry:
while (ochem) {
pound_forehead(book);
fail(test);
cry();
}
~Z
This certainly isn't true. Sports are one of the biggest money makers for division one schools, second only to parking fines (sarcasm, and disgust). Take a look at this article:
Trust me, sports makes money. I go to Va Tech. When we went to the big dance in New Orelands 2 years ago, we got some rediculous amount of money just for making it that far - 11 million, i believe. Then you have to think also: add revenue from tickets/TV/Radio/merchandise (most university bookstores basically launder money)/grants/alumni contributions/athletic boosters/etc.
Sports make money for colleges.
~Z
Listen, fucking asshole:
The jewish people were there first. Look, if you're gonna go back 40 years, why not go back a little further. The jewish people have been shit on by everyone on the fucking planet for years, and no one sticks up for them. Starting with egyptian exile, moving thru assyrian and babylonian invasion, then on to greek and roman occupation, byzantine occupation, turkish/ ottaman occupation, midevil mistrust because of banking practices, renassiance mistrust because of just plain not being christian, and persecution from 25 years of german/nazi ideology.
The jewish people aren't the cause of this, don't bring them in to this. The jewish people may have killed thousands of people, but in the past 35 centuries, probably close to a billion jews have been killed. 6 MILLION ALONE in the 1930's and 40's.
Its not an atack on Islam. And there's nothing wrong about supporting the jews. If you think we're wrong, go live somewhere else.
Fuck off.
~z
What the hell, its only karma, eh?
Corperates response was protecting 2.2 users from viruses...
Sounds like windows update.
~z