There are other disturbing things like this. I like when state run colleges, using state paid employees and facilities, get a million dollars to do research, and suddenly, we can't see/share the results of that research, because that company owns it. Did they spend $90million on the buildings? Did they buy all the equipment that was used? Did they pay every wage?
now you got me curious.. I'm going to have to install this on the wife's windows PC, and put in photos that have my brothers that are twins, and see what happens. Wonder how long it will take google to update the linux version to 3. (yes, I know its just the windows one with a wine wrapper, but I like it better than f-spot)
We used to.. At least most providers used to give free incoming texts. Now they charge you. They charge you for outgoing too. Several years ago, my texts were 5cents each, with free incoming. Now their 25cents each way..
Really, Cause I was helping out a friends business that had a crappy d-link router.. Chose the cisco 508 router over the linksys. It was utter crap. Would randomly drop its wan connection, and take 10 minutes to reconnect. Tech support were idiots, and said it was the cable modem. Linksys router plugged in, setup in 5 minutes, and hasn't rebooted yet (its been 6 months!)
We have the same feature with our software, (deepfreeze), and since I was the school admin that recommended, purchased, and installed it, let me tell you, for a school, it is the greatest software I have ever purchased. I can now let all students run as local administrator. No longer do have to deal with stupid textbook CD's that are written for windows 95, and require access to the system32 folder. Students can download and install anything they want, browse to any sites they want, etc, and after the computer reboots, it is back to normal. Because of requirements at my school to use some software that required elevated priveleges to run, I had to reimage about 1/5 of our computers in our open lab every week, and go check out machines that were being unresponsive, printing problems, etc. probably a good 5 hours a week. After I installed the software, I spend a grand total of about 2 hours a month in that lab. No spyware, no crap laying around on the system from limewire, etc
Yes, but when there are competitive bids, and the first bid is $x, and the second bid is $0, it takes alot of explaining to elected board members and such why you should spend $x.
My school has 200 pc's, and we spend about $20/pc/year for our campus agreement. Its not actually that much of a cost when you add it up. Its a few thousand dollars of software per pc, if we had to purchase it individually, at market prices. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge advocate of opensource, and have been slowly transitioning to it in as many places as possible, but not becuase of cost to the school. I do it because we have lots of small businesses in the community. If our graduates are used to free alternatives, they will encourage their employers to switch, saving them money.
The nice thing about USB is that it is first and foremost a communication protocol. It would be very nice if when you plugged your device in, it got it's standard 500mA, and then requested from the charger the amount of power it actually needed to charge the quickest. The chargers could actually become smart, and do things like shut off power to ports when not in use, or turn the power way down when the device is charged.
When my unemployment was running out years ago, I took a job at a call center to pay the bills.. When I had to ask a co-worker a question, I often would hit Mute instead of hold after asking them to hold. It was pretty entertaining!
Why would that be bad? It is the selective disruption of "certain" protocols and sites that is the biggest problem with Comcast. If they implemented some sort of FWQ (Fair-Weight Queuing) system like the one that is built into IOS, then it wouldn't care what the traffic was, just that you had emptied your bucket, (sent your allotted amount of packets) and had to wait until everyone else got to do the same until you went again.. That strikes me as being about as fair as you could be. The problem Comcast is going to run into is when they have oversubscribed their service, and users start complaining about they're downloads speeds not being what is advertised, and then moving to a competitor.
I would have no problem with this, just like I would not have a problem with a company saying "You have X you can download a month, then your limited to 512k/s" or something. At least they are not blocking, and at least they are honest, and you can plan for it.
I would really like to see ID focus on team based play a bit more than they have. Most of their games you can easily win with one very good player on your team. I really like the "forced" teamwork that is in the Enemy Territory Series, as they split up into different classes. (both for Quake Wars and Return to Castle Wolfenstein). I'd like to see them expand it a bit more.. Man, ID software's graphics, with the Battlefield series of gameplay (I like the "commander" feature) would be sweet!
Oh, and in case your reading this ID guys, thanks for your linux support, I'm an Ubuntu user, and your one of the few publishers whose games I can play!
Id Games? I've been enjoying Enemy Territory: Quake Wars for a long time on Ubuntu. (although the newest Ubuntu 8.04's pulseaudio seems to have broken the Microphone part of the audio, not Id's fault)
Besides, you can always right your own rendered 3d version of Soduko!
When states have the scanners to count votes, random samples are taken and hand counted, to verify that the numbers are the same as what the machine counted. This ensures accuracy. Also, if the ballot can't be scanned (ie, they didn't fill in the circle dark enough for the scanner) they are usually spit out to a different tray, and hand counted.
measuring the percent of traffic is not very reliable. Thats like saying how much internet traffic is used for Vonage, or Slashdot.
More importantly, how many sites can be reached via IPv6? How many publish AAAA addresses in DNS? How many ISP's can route IPv6? I know that there is tunneling for running over IPv4, how much of that 99.99% of traffic might be doing that?
Do you honestly think that everyone generally looked as good as the painting/statues? Man, I'm scared to think just how ugly Mona Lisa must have actually been in real life!
You have to love cosmetic companies. They have managed to convince a hundreds of millions of women that they are ugly without their products! (I personally hate makeup on women). That is some great marketing over the last few generations!
Actually, your answer to why your car doesn't run on solar yet is rather simple. Because we haven't needed solar power to win a war yet. Nuclear got everything it needed to get off the ground, working, demonstrated, and dropped. It was needed to fight a war. Radio, space ships, etc? Same things. The US Military is just starting to come to the conclusion that half their vehicles exist solely to deliver fuel and supplies to the other half(the fighting half) and that there is a huge risk in running tankers full of Diesel and gas to forward areas, as they become very easy targets. Destroy the supply lines, and those 70Ton M1A tanks become very large, immobile targets. Add to that, the skyrocketing cost of fuel the military has to buy. (not to mention, the huge costs of keeping 50% of your peopled tied up in support roles).
THat is why the military is starting to look at things like solar, small nuclear plants, etc. They are looking at hybrid vehicles that work like a train, the whole powertrain is electric, powered by a generator. Some of these vehicles are pretty cool, they could sit there and idle at the forward CP, and you just plug all your radios and equipment into the truck. No need to lug a generator with you.
I have a feeling things are going to improve quite quickly over the next few years. Nothing improves technology like fat government contracts!
I had a coworker fed up with Vista on his brand new toshiba laptop. He took my recommendation and put Ubuntu 8.04.1 on it. He LOVED the speed difference, and actually found it easier to use. However, Flash crashing all the time was one of the main reasons he got rid of ubuntu. He has a couple of roomates, that watch different shows than him, so he uses Hulu and other websites to watch TV. Having firefox crash so often, and sound issues, made him go find a cracked copy of XP, which was also much faster than vista on his laptop. I had suggested a few fixes, but he was nowhere near a technical user, and I could hardly fault him for not wanting to dive into config files he didn't understand.
Don't forget my favoritte from growing up. My elementry school teachers taught us that the difference between us and them, was that living in East Germany or Russia, you could hear a knock on your door in the middle of the night, and be sent off to a prison camp in the middle of no-where for no reason and nobody (family included) would know where you were!
Now its US Law! Your family can be arrested for mentioning that you were taken away by authorities. They can be arrested for calling a lawyer, telling your employer, etc.
How do you play your games that ran on 5 1/4 inch floppies? DO you piss and moan that the publisher screwed you over, or wasn't forward thinking enough?
There are the kind that are natural leaders, commanding in their presence, and like to help people out.
And there are the ones that were the kids that got picked on in school, that nobody liked or paid attention to, and now its their turn to be asses back to everyone that wronged them.
Unfortunately, the second kind leave a lasting impression.. (kinda like that old saying, give good customer service, the customer will tell a friend, give bad customer service, they'll tell 10). My friend that was a cop said that the first kind actually outnumber the second kind, but they ruin it for everyone, and they have higher ranks, since they stay around forever, and the first kind get fed up and leave.
I back up my important documents to amazon S3. While I really am happy with my 5MB down, the 512k up really, really sucks when I need to backup another couple gigs of photo's. Last backup took about 26 hours, and really, really hurt the downloads I was trying to do, since the upload was saturated. I'm soon going to start doing digital home videos.. (planning on having a family with the wife soon) and I can't even comprehend how much time its going to take to upload those files. Increasing the upload speed will change the course of the internet, as people will stop looking at it as a "one way" communication, where you "browse" the web.
Key to playing with hydrogen is to never play with it in a balloon outdoors. And never, ever try to make a delayed fuse with masking tape. Winds might change, meaning you blow out the windows in a house, and cause a car to wreck, because they got startled at the "gunshots". This can lead to your father coming within an inch or two of going to jail. (come to think of it, this day and age, he would go to jail as a terrorist, that was 20 years ago)
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There are other disturbing things like this. I like when state run colleges, using state paid employees and facilities, get a million dollars to do research, and suddenly, we can't see/share the results of that research, because that company owns it. Did they spend $90million on the buildings? Did they buy all the equipment that was used? Did they pay every wage?
now you got me curious.. I'm going to have to install this on the wife's windows PC, and put in photos that have my brothers that are twins, and see what happens. Wonder how long it will take google to update the linux version to 3. (yes, I know its just the windows one with a wine wrapper, but I like it better than f-spot)
We used to.. At least most providers used to give free incoming texts. Now they charge you. They charge you for outgoing too. Several years ago, my texts were 5cents each, with free incoming. Now their 25cents each way..
Really, Cause I was helping out a friends business that had a crappy d-link router.. Chose the cisco 508 router over the linksys. It was utter crap. Would randomly drop its wan connection, and take 10 minutes to reconnect. Tech support were idiots, and said it was the cable modem. Linksys router plugged in, setup in 5 minutes, and hasn't rebooted yet (its been 6 months!)
We have the same feature with our software, (deepfreeze), and since I was the school admin that recommended, purchased, and installed it, let me tell you, for a school, it is the greatest software I have ever purchased. I can now let all students run as local administrator. No longer do have to deal with stupid textbook CD's that are written for windows 95, and require access to the system32 folder. Students can download and install anything they want, browse to any sites they want, etc, and after the computer reboots, it is back to normal. Because of requirements at my school to use some software that required elevated priveleges to run, I had to reimage about 1/5 of our computers in our open lab every week, and go check out machines that were being unresponsive, printing problems, etc. probably a good 5 hours a week. After I installed the software, I spend a grand total of about 2 hours a month in that lab. No spyware, no crap laying around on the system from limewire, etc
Yes, but when there are competitive bids, and the first bid is $x, and the second bid is $0, it takes alot of explaining to elected board members and such why you should spend $x.
My school has 200 pc's, and we spend about $20/pc/year for our campus agreement. Its not actually that much of a cost when you add it up. Its a few thousand dollars of software per pc, if we had to purchase it individually, at market prices. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge advocate of opensource, and have been slowly transitioning to it in as many places as possible, but not becuase of cost to the school. I do it because we have lots of small businesses in the community. If our graduates are used to free alternatives, they will encourage their employers to switch, saving them money.
The nice thing about USB is that it is first and foremost a communication protocol. It would be very nice if when you plugged your device in, it got it's standard 500mA, and then requested from the charger the amount of power it actually needed to charge the quickest. The chargers could actually become smart, and do things like shut off power to ports when not in use, or turn the power way down when the device is charged.
Not only that, but man, when you guys buy a book published in the US, its always like
$20 US $24 CA
And the Cannadian Currency is worth more than the US dollar now!
When my unemployment was running out years ago, I took a job at a call center to pay the bills.. When I had to ask a co-worker a question, I often would hit Mute instead of hold after asking them to hold. It was pretty entertaining!
Why would that be bad? It is the selective disruption of "certain" protocols and sites that is the biggest problem with Comcast. If they implemented some sort of FWQ (Fair-Weight Queuing) system like the one that is built into IOS, then it wouldn't care what the traffic was, just that you had emptied your bucket, (sent your allotted amount of packets) and had to wait until everyone else got to do the same until you went again.. That strikes me as being about as fair as you could be. The problem Comcast is going to run into is when they have oversubscribed their service, and users start complaining about they're downloads speeds not being what is advertised, and then moving to a competitor.
I would have no problem with this, just like I would not have a problem with a company saying "You have X you can download a month, then your limited to 512k/s" or something. At least they are not blocking, and at least they are honest, and you can plan for it.
I would really like to see ID focus on team based play a bit more than they have. Most of their games you can easily win with one very good player on your team. I really like the "forced" teamwork that is in the Enemy Territory Series, as they split up into different classes. (both for Quake Wars and Return to Castle Wolfenstein). I'd like to see them expand it a bit more.. Man, ID software's graphics, with the Battlefield series of gameplay (I like the "commander" feature) would be sweet!
Oh, and in case your reading this ID guys, thanks for your linux support, I'm an Ubuntu user, and your one of the few publishers whose games I can play!
Id Games? I've been enjoying Enemy Territory: Quake Wars for a long time on Ubuntu. (although the newest Ubuntu 8.04's pulseaudio seems to have broken the Microphone part of the audio, not Id's fault)
Besides, you can always right your own rendered 3d version of Soduko!
When states have the scanners to count votes, random samples are taken and hand counted, to verify that the numbers are the same as what the machine counted. This ensures accuracy. Also, if the ballot can't be scanned (ie, they didn't fill in the circle dark enough for the scanner) they are usually spit out to a different tray, and hand counted.
You didn't read the article.. Only 3 voices cried out in terror!
measuring the percent of traffic is not very reliable. Thats like saying how much internet traffic is used for Vonage, or Slashdot.
More importantly, how many sites can be reached via IPv6? How many publish AAAA addresses in DNS? How many ISP's can route IPv6? I know that there is tunneling for running over IPv4, how much of that 99.99% of traffic might be doing that?
Do you honestly think that everyone generally looked as good as the painting/statues?
Man, I'm scared to think just how ugly Mona Lisa must have actually been in real life!
You have to love cosmetic companies. They have managed to convince a hundreds of millions of women that they are ugly without their products! (I personally hate makeup on women). That is some great marketing over the last few generations!
Actually, your answer to why your car doesn't run on solar yet is rather simple. Because we haven't needed solar power to win a war yet. Nuclear got everything it needed to get off the ground, working, demonstrated, and dropped. It was needed to fight a war. Radio, space ships, etc? Same things. The US Military is just starting to come to the conclusion that half their vehicles exist solely to deliver fuel and supplies to the other half(the fighting half) and that there is a huge risk in running tankers full of Diesel and gas to forward areas, as they become very easy targets. Destroy the supply lines, and those 70Ton M1A tanks become very large, immobile targets. Add to that, the skyrocketing cost of fuel the military has to buy. (not to mention, the huge costs of keeping 50% of your peopled tied up in support roles).
THat is why the military is starting to look at things like solar, small nuclear plants, etc. They are looking at hybrid vehicles that work like a train, the whole powertrain is electric, powered by a generator. Some of these vehicles are pretty cool, they could sit there and idle at the forward CP, and you just plug all your radios and equipment into the truck. No need to lug a generator with you.
I have a feeling things are going to improve quite quickly over the next few years. Nothing improves technology like fat government contracts!
I had a coworker fed up with Vista on his brand new toshiba laptop. He took my recommendation and put Ubuntu 8.04.1 on it. He LOVED the speed difference, and actually found it easier to use. However, Flash crashing all the time was one of the main reasons he got rid of ubuntu. He has a couple of roomates, that watch different shows than him, so he uses Hulu and other websites to watch TV. Having firefox crash so often, and sound issues, made him go find a cracked copy of XP, which was also much faster than vista on his laptop. I had suggested a few fixes, but he was nowhere near a technical user, and I could hardly fault him for not wanting to dive into config files he didn't understand.
Don't forget my favoritte from growing up. My elementry school teachers taught us that the difference between us and them, was that living in East Germany or Russia, you could hear a knock on your door in the middle of the night, and be sent off to a prison camp in the middle of no-where for no reason and nobody (family included) would know where you were!
Now its US Law! Your family can be arrested for mentioning that you were taken away by authorities. They can be arrested for calling a lawyer, telling your employer, etc.
How do you play your games that ran on 5 1/4 inch floppies? DO you piss and moan that the publisher screwed you over, or wasn't forward thinking enough?
There are two kinds of cops in the world...
There are the kind that are natural leaders, commanding in their presence, and like to help people out.
And there are the ones that were the kids that got picked on in school, that nobody liked or paid attention to, and now its their turn to be asses back to everyone that wronged them.
Unfortunately, the second kind leave a lasting impression.. (kinda like that old saying, give good customer service, the customer will tell a friend, give bad customer service, they'll tell 10). My friend that was a cop said that the first kind actually outnumber the second kind, but they ruin it for everyone, and they have higher ranks, since they stay around forever, and the first kind get fed up and leave.
I back up my important documents to amazon S3. While I really am happy with my 5MB down, the 512k up really, really sucks when I need to backup another couple gigs of photo's. Last backup took about 26 hours, and really, really hurt the downloads I was trying to do, since the upload was saturated. I'm soon going to start doing digital home videos.. (planning on having a family with the wife soon) and I can't even comprehend how much time its going to take to upload those files. Increasing the upload speed will change the course of the internet, as people will stop looking at it as a "one way" communication, where you "browse" the web.
Key to playing with hydrogen is to never play with it in a balloon outdoors. And never, ever try to make a delayed fuse with masking tape. Winds might change, meaning you blow out the windows in a house, and cause a car to wreck, because they got startled at the "gunshots". This can lead to your father coming within an inch or two of going to jail. (come to think of it, this day and age, he would go to jail as a terrorist, that was 20 years ago)