Sorry, but I already pay for CDs in stores, which I convert to MP3 using iTunes, then read them on my iPod. Don't want to pay a tax for something I already paid. I sometimes buy individual tunes from the Apple store when I know the album is not good except for one or two songs.
I never download pirated content, and I don't want to pay for all those who do.
OK, during the last 10 years, my cap limit got from 10Gb to 25Gb. At the same time, the price of my link got from 50$/month to 65$ per month. So it got from 5$ per GB to 2.6$ per GB. Taking a yearly increase of 2% of the price to take inflation into account, I should be paying 6.09$ per GB, but I pay 2.60$ per GB. A 42% price drop.
In this 10 years time, the capacity of the Internet in general has increased by what, 10 folds? 100 folds? Sure the numbers are not proportionnal between router speed / price per GB.
Didn't verify your info, but 3x the speed is still a huge step when you are at that scale! [Car reference here] Going from 1mph to 3mph is not a huge improvement. Going from 10mph to 30mph is a correct improvement. But going from 100mph to 300mph is the hell of an improvement!
So (I don't know the real numbers) going from 10Mbps to 30Mbps is a not too bad improvement, but from 1Tbps to 3Tbps, damn, that's great!
But hey, before this actually results in having 1080p videos streamed directly to your computer, the price per downloaded Gb will have to lower a lot. At least here in Canada. You imagine, I am currently capped at 25Gb per month with my current ISP, and it costs me 65$ per month for my Internet access.
So I still rather go at the Blockbuster to rent a BluRay than download or stream the movie.
Up here in Canada, we already have HSPA+ in urban areas... strange that we are so much in advance, we are known to usually adopt technologies well after the US...
Yes, I second that. AFAIK, Core2Duo Intel with model numbers ending with xx50 support hardware virtualisation (for support of 64bit VMs), but make sure it supports Intel VT, along with the MB which must support it too.
I know this because I've had to change my PC recently, but damn, it's so much more complicated than it was with PII, PIII and PIV! You had the Celeron that was the cheap one, and the Px which was high end. Now the market got all segmented. Atom and Core i3 are cheap, Core2 and Core I5 are middlerange, Core2Extreme and Core I7 are high end. But it does not tell what functionnalities are supported...
And what about the "burial" part of the concept? Will you bury it under your keyboard, monitor or mousepad? Just asking... because if your raid last really long, it may stink for a while...
Or could it be that the products were at some extent manufactured in China, and that the Chinese may have wanted to add some resources to their corporate spying force?
This reminds me of a case in Canada, where Passport Canada (the agency responsible for passport emission) was "hacked" by changing some numbers in the URL to get from one passport request details to the other, making very confidential information available to even the most basic hackers.
However, no one was accused here, except the developpers of the solutions who were blamed. Now, Passport Canada still processes online passport requests, but applicants are no more able to view the details and advancement of their application online.
What a great way to collect "taxes". Did anyone ever questionned the fact that these groups may be funded by the government to deter false "patent pending" claims?
I mean, I don't think this is so bad that they are funded by the USPTO, but at least, they could be more transparent and simply say what they are.
And since I'm pretty sure that no money go in the pockets of those groups when they deter a false "patent pending" claim, I'm also pretty sure that they do not have a dime to fund their research. So who would do this job for free?
It's obviously not random, except if we fell on the 1 chance in a 1.51e10^36 that this comment is totally random, considering a choice of 28 characters over 25 characters long (considering "space" and "." in the charspace), and not considering the chances that the comment may have been randomly longer or shorter.
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Sorry, but I already pay for CDs in stores, which I convert to MP3 using iTunes, then read them on my iPod. Don't want to pay a tax for something I already paid. I sometimes buy individual tunes from the Apple store when I know the album is not good except for one or two songs.
I never download pirated content, and I don't want to pay for all those who do.
OK, during the last 10 years, my cap limit got from 10Gb to 25Gb. At the same time, the price of my link got from 50$/month to 65$ per month. So it got from 5$ per GB to 2.6$ per GB. Taking a yearly increase of 2% of the price to take inflation into account, I should be paying 6.09$ per GB, but I pay 2.60$ per GB. A 42% price drop.
In this 10 years time, the capacity of the Internet in general has increased by what, 10 folds? 100 folds? Sure the numbers are not proportionnal between router speed / price per GB.
Depends what you call "rural area". I live in Quebec City. 700 000 buddys.
Didn't verify your info, but 3x the speed is still a huge step when you are at that scale! [Car reference here] Going from 1mph to 3mph is not a huge improvement. Going from 10mph to 30mph is a correct improvement. But going from 100mph to 300mph is the hell of an improvement!
So (I don't know the real numbers) going from 10Mbps to 30Mbps is a not too bad improvement, but from 1Tbps to 3Tbps, damn, that's great!
God, I had a good laugh with your comment! Wish I had mod points for you!
But hey, before this actually results in having 1080p videos streamed directly to your computer, the price per downloaded Gb will have to lower a lot. At least here in Canada. You imagine, I am currently capped at 25Gb per month with my current ISP, and it costs me 65$ per month for my Internet access.
So I still rather go at the Blockbuster to rent a BluRay than download or stream the movie.
You should use HALOGEN light for that purpose, those can be dimmed...
Damn, those first Internet geeks are not like today's geeks!
Up here in Canada, we already have HSPA+ in urban areas... strange that we are so much in advance, we are known to usually adopt technologies well after the US...
Let me have some doubts about anything that boasts more than 10% economy. All those fuel saving devices are usually scams.
I'd like it to be real, but please, have some critical thought before posting a story like this...
No, didn't RTFA.
Yes, I second that. AFAIK, Core2Duo Intel with model numbers ending with xx50 support hardware virtualisation (for support of 64bit VMs), but make sure it supports Intel VT, along with the MB which must support it too.
I know this because I've had to change my PC recently, but damn, it's so much more complicated than it was with PII, PIII and PIV! You had the Celeron that was the cheap one, and the Px which was high end. Now the market got all segmented. Atom and Core i3 are cheap, Core2 and Core I5 are middlerange, Core2Extreme and Core I7 are high end. But it does not tell what functionnalities are supported...
What a headache it has become.
And what about the "burial" part of the concept? Will you bury it under your keyboard, monitor or mousepad? Just asking... because if your raid last really long, it may stink for a while...
Or could it be that the products were at some extent manufactured in China, and that the Chinese may have wanted to add some resources to their corporate spying force?
he has a computer powerful enough to get pop-up ads while running Norton Anti-Virus?
No, he's got a supercomputer.
Some "stolen" letters that René Descartes was using and that the English language is not using:
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We call these caracters "caractère accentués" in French.
Damned, the URL of the article I was trying to post
This reminds me of a case in Canada, where Passport Canada (the agency responsible for passport emission) was "hacked" by changing some numbers in the URL to get from one passport request details to the other, making very confidential information available to even the most basic hackers.
However, no one was accused here, except the developpers of the solutions who were blamed. Now, Passport Canada still processes online passport requests, but applicants are no more able to view the details and advancement of their application online.
What a great way to collect "taxes". Did anyone ever questionned the fact that these groups may be funded by the government to deter false "patent pending" claims?
I mean, I don't think this is so bad that they are funded by the USPTO, but at least, they could be more transparent and simply say what they are.
And since I'm pretty sure that no money go in the pockets of those groups when they deter a false "patent pending" claim, I'm also pretty sure that they do not have a dime to fund their research. So who would do this job for free?
It's obviously not random, except if we fell on the 1 chance in a 1.51e10^36 that this comment is totally random, considering a choice of 28 characters over 25 characters long (considering "space" and "." in the charspace), and not considering the chances that the comment may have been randomly longer or shorter.
Depends on the scope. If you want a random "comment", the scope of characters used is alphanumeric, with some punctuation.
If you want a random binary sequence, the ASCII result would less likely be readable.
If you want a random number, chances are you'll get only digits.
Just half random: The title isn't.
Yeah, but shouldn't they pass on their research work to another, more appropriate Department? Just asking...
Oh, maybe it is some kind of budget issue, and they have to put the expense on the budget of the DoE?
What does the Department of Energy has to do with the development of an artificial retina?