As standard spell check has already "corrected" my spelling into sending out requests for dates to my entire department, telling my boss I was flatulent and created numerous marital misunderstandings, I'm not sure I'm at all wanting to use this. Sometimes its best just to leave the typo so the reader can wonder what I meant, and not think I meant what the computer wondered.
US telcos do it to. Although I don't think it's to increase average speed claims. Customers that are too far out to get 1meg service usually have so much noise on the line that they generate a lot of repair calls. If you're getting under 1mb DSL you're also probably going to get dropped service every time there's a storm as well.
If we took our largest radio telescope, made a copy of it, and put it on a planet orbiting the nearest start and started broadcasting back to earth, the single would be too weak for the same telescope to pick up when it got here. Could humans from 100 years ago... or even 50 years ago detect our digital transmissions of today? How about whatever technology we'll be using in 100,000 years? Any civilizations we'd be trying to detect would be at least that much more advanced than us. What's our next big innovation in communication going to be? Quantum entanglement or Gravitons? Both of which we have no way of detecting at the moment (entanglement probably never.) and that's just the technology we'll have in the next couple of hundred years. Just because there are no intelligent civilizations near stars that are directly adjacent to us that are broadcasting in old school radio waves does not mean there are not mean there are no intelligent civilizations. Short of someone pointing a gamma ray burst at us, we simply do not have the technology to detect other civilizations, and I doubt anyone would go to that much effort.
It's not that creationism is inherently stupid. It's that it's a philosophical belief and not a scientific argument. I believe in God, and also believe in evolution, the big bang and just about everything else that science has taught us. In my mind, science is just a way to understand the tools of God. But this is part of my philosophy and not part of my scientific understanding of the world.
More likely that your ISP will setup their own news website... wait they already have one? Neat! Now they just have to give their site priority and set every other news website ultra low... so they barely even load for anyone inside their network and now guess where you get all your news? They're eventually going to use this to close you off from any service that's not directly making them money. A non-neutral internet, is not the internet.
This isn't simply that some websites will load slower than others. It will literally segregate the internet. Sites will load so slowly that you'll no longer be able to visit them at all. ISPs will use this to put companies that compete with them like Netflix, Hulu, Vonage, etc.. out of business. Don't doubt for a second that if your ISP sells phone or TV services that the ONLY phone or TV service that will work adequately on their network will be their own.
The real story is the video remixing:
"EFF also won a groundbreaking new protection for video remix artists currently thriving on Internet sites like YouTube. The new rule holds that amateur creators do not violate the DMCA when they use short excerpts from DVDs in order to create new, noncommercial works for purposes of criticism or comment if they believe that circumvention is necessary to fulfill that purpose. Hollywood has historically taken the view that "ripping" DVDs is always a violation of the DMCA, no matter the purpose."
Just because we don't archive something doesn't mean everyone else wont. Facebook, google, the NSA... It's all going to be around permanently and there's nothing you can do about it, so I'd rather have it out there for everyone to see rather than build some BS system that gives people a false sense of security.
“The Encyclopedia Galactica has much to say on the theory and practice of time travel, most of which is incomprehensible to anyone who hasn’t spent at least four lifetimes studying advanced hypermathematics, and since it was impossible to do this before time travel was invented, there is a certain amount of confusion as to how the idea was arrived at in the first place. One rationalization of this problem states that time travel was, by its very nature, discovered simultaneously at all periods of history, but this is clearly bunk. The trouble is that a lot of history is now quite clearly bunk as well.”
Thats the problem with wireless security, it simply makes people feel safe when they are not. All it does is keep the neighbors from spying on what your doing. Anyone with even the slightest skill and motivation can intercept just about everything you're doing over a wireless connection.
The last mile is ALWAYS saturated. I've been working in the telcom industry for 15years now and watch from the inception of the internet until now. Back in the day it would have been unheard of to oversell a remote, but now it's almost sick what the industry will pull. I've worked for 3 phone companies and they all do the same crap. They'll have 50 people fed out of a remote, they'll sell 5meg connections to most of those people and then the remote will be fed by 2 or 3 T1s. There isn't a SINGLE customer in the remote that can get what they paid for... not a single one!! Then those T1's lead back to the CO, where hundreds more meet and is fed to a backbone that is, yet again, woefully under provisioned. When customers call and complain that they went to some speed test site and they are getting 500k or 1mb instead of their 5mb or 10mb they are paying for, the staff that answer the phone have to read off a script that states they can not guarantee the results from 3rd party sites... who knows whats wrong with those websites right? But oh wait, your ISP has their own speed test site! How great... but guess what, every router from you to that speed test site is QOS's to that IP address, and the website itself is hosted on the ISPs own backbone. Holy crap I hit 4 MB!! Wait... I'm paying for 5... So now the sales contracts have changed... you're not paying for 5mb, you're paying for "Up to 5mb!" yay! "We're upgrading you from your 2mb connection to our new "Up to 5mb!" but oh wait... you never even got 1mb all these years, and that hasn't changed.
My guess is people were choosing Ubuntu without realizing what it was, getting home and fining out they could install anything or transfer their old software to it... then calling up Dell and complaining. Windows makes Dell money while Ubuntu was probably generating a lot of customer service calls. I doubt their support staff even knew how to trouble shoot it.
I'm a solid PC gamer, and hate consoles. But I have to admit that if they got the WIImote to be more accurate and the nunchuck a little more intuitive they would probably surpass the Keyboard/Mouse as far as accuracy. All they'd need to then is get some decent games on the WII... lol
I really, really, want to find out if it's windows. I know someone that works for Microsoft and one of my greatest joys in life is sending him links to things like this... and this would be the best one yet.
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As standard spell check has already "corrected" my spelling into sending out requests for dates to my entire department, telling my boss I was flatulent and created numerous marital misunderstandings, I'm not sure I'm at all wanting to use this. Sometimes its best just to leave the typo so the reader can wonder what I meant, and not think I meant what the computer wondered.
They should definitely not be selling beyond 10,000 feet. There's no equipment that I know of (short of fiber) that can do that without huge problems.
US telcos do it to. Although I don't think it's to increase average speed claims. Customers that are too far out to get 1meg service usually have so much noise on the line that they generate a lot of repair calls. If you're getting under 1mb DSL you're also probably going to get dropped service every time there's a storm as well.
How long until the history channel devotes an entire hour to a bunch of jackasses telling us Nostradamus predicted this?
I want a $35 kindle with a SD slot and not monthly fee. I'd buy that in a heart beat.
Adobe sucks. If I have one more company send me a form in PDF format I'm going to scream.
If we took our largest radio telescope, made a copy of it, and put it on a planet orbiting the nearest start and started broadcasting back to earth, the single would be too weak for the same telescope to pick up when it got here. Could humans from 100 years ago... or even 50 years ago detect our digital transmissions of today? How about whatever technology we'll be using in 100,000 years? Any civilizations we'd be trying to detect would be at least that much more advanced than us. What's our next big innovation in communication going to be? Quantum entanglement or Gravitons? Both of which we have no way of detecting at the moment (entanglement probably never.) and that's just the technology we'll have in the next couple of hundred years. Just because there are no intelligent civilizations near stars that are directly adjacent to us that are broadcasting in old school radio waves does not mean there are not mean there are no intelligent civilizations. Short of someone pointing a gamma ray burst at us, we simply do not have the technology to detect other civilizations, and I doubt anyone would go to that much effort.
That's because you're using a lawless public tracker. Things are different in a darknet.
It's not that creationism is inherently stupid. It's that it's a philosophical belief and not a scientific argument. I believe in God, and also believe in evolution, the big bang and just about everything else that science has taught us. In my mind, science is just a way to understand the tools of God. But this is part of my philosophy and not part of my scientific understanding of the world.
It should be a philosophy class. Then it would make sense.
More likely that your ISP will setup their own news website... wait they already have one? Neat! Now they just have to give their site priority and set every other news website ultra low... so they barely even load for anyone inside their network and now guess where you get all your news? They're eventually going to use this to close you off from any service that's not directly making them money. A non-neutral internet, is not the internet.
This isn't simply that some websites will load slower than others. It will literally segregate the internet. Sites will load so slowly that you'll no longer be able to visit them at all. ISPs will use this to put companies that compete with them like Netflix, Hulu, Vonage, etc.. out of business. Don't doubt for a second that if your ISP sells phone or TV services that the ONLY phone or TV service that will work adequately on their network will be their own.
The real story is the video remixing: "EFF also won a groundbreaking new protection for video remix artists currently thriving on Internet sites like YouTube. The new rule holds that amateur creators do not violate the DMCA when they use short excerpts from DVDs in order to create new, noncommercial works for purposes of criticism or comment if they believe that circumvention is necessary to fulfill that purpose. Hollywood has historically taken the view that "ripping" DVDs is always a violation of the DMCA, no matter the purpose."
Just because we don't archive something doesn't mean everyone else wont. Facebook, google, the NSA... It's all going to be around permanently and there's nothing you can do about it, so I'd rather have it out there for everyone to see rather than build some BS system that gives people a false sense of security.
“The Encyclopedia Galactica has much to say on the theory and practice of time travel, most of which is incomprehensible to anyone who hasn’t spent at least four lifetimes studying advanced hypermathematics, and since it was impossible to do this before time travel was invented, there is a certain amount of confusion as to how the idea was arrived at in the first place. One rationalization of this problem states that time travel was, by its very nature, discovered simultaneously at all periods of history, but this is clearly bunk. The trouble is that a lot of history is now quite clearly bunk as well.”
now if all the web apps I'm required to use at work would work in firefox...
Thats the problem with wireless security, it simply makes people feel safe when they are not. All it does is keep the neighbors from spying on what your doing. Anyone with even the slightest skill and motivation can intercept just about everything you're doing over a wireless connection.
I see a part for him in the next The Royal Tenenbaums / The Life Aquatic...
The last mile is ALWAYS saturated. I've been working in the telcom industry for 15years now and watch from the inception of the internet until now. Back in the day it would have been unheard of to oversell a remote, but now it's almost sick what the industry will pull. I've worked for 3 phone companies and they all do the same crap. They'll have 50 people fed out of a remote, they'll sell 5meg connections to most of those people and then the remote will be fed by 2 or 3 T1s. There isn't a SINGLE customer in the remote that can get what they paid for... not a single one!! Then those T1's lead back to the CO, where hundreds more meet and is fed to a backbone that is, yet again, woefully under provisioned. When customers call and complain that they went to some speed test site and they are getting 500k or 1mb instead of their 5mb or 10mb they are paying for, the staff that answer the phone have to read off a script that states they can not guarantee the results from 3rd party sites... who knows whats wrong with those websites right? But oh wait, your ISP has their own speed test site! How great... but guess what, every router from you to that speed test site is QOS's to that IP address, and the website itself is hosted on the ISPs own backbone. Holy crap I hit 4 MB!! Wait... I'm paying for 5... So now the sales contracts have changed... you're not paying for 5mb, you're paying for "Up to 5mb!" yay! "We're upgrading you from your 2mb connection to our new "Up to 5mb!" but oh wait... you never even got 1mb all these years, and that hasn't changed.
My guess is people were choosing Ubuntu without realizing what it was, getting home and fining out they could install anything or transfer their old software to it... then calling up Dell and complaining. Windows makes Dell money while Ubuntu was probably generating a lot of customer service calls. I doubt their support staff even knew how to trouble shoot it.
No, the real question is, who was more profitable.
I'm a solid PC gamer, and hate consoles. But I have to admit that if they got the WIImote to be more accurate and the nunchuck a little more intuitive they would probably surpass the Keyboard/Mouse as far as accuracy. All they'd need to then is get some decent games on the WII... lol
He works for Microsoft's sales department. He proselytizes like he's the pope or something. Trust me, it's great fun.
I really, really, want to find out if it's windows. I know someone that works for Microsoft and one of my greatest joys in life is sending him links to things like this... and this would be the best one yet.
If it can do word processing, browse the internet and maybe spreadsheets... and its $35, I'll buy one.