An HD broadcast requires a big transmitter to be setup once, and then broadcast over the area. Big initial cost, then basically free (there are still some upgrades, power bill, etc) To show HD on the internet, your talking about Multiple Megabit connections for EACH viewer. The costs of that are astronomical. I guess, it would be similar to the differences between Multicast (transmit that 2GB file once to 100 machines), and unicast (transmit that 2GB file 100 times!).
I can't stand watching them on TV, because they will show one heat of a swimming event, then cut over to the 5000meter run for a few laps, then go to curling, etc. I want to watch the freaking event. Maybe if they stream all of it, I'll actually watch the events I want to. (I don't necessarly just want to watch the media's favoritte American's compete.. Thats not the point of the olympics)
Which doesn't make any sense, since when you do see one, they are always hounded by a dozen geeks who want to help them with their homework and studying.
In my county in OR, 60% of the land is Public owned. Some is state (although not much) most is forest service, and BLM. Makes it real fun when you try to pay for infrastructure when 60% of your land doesn't pay taxes.. If you need more than a dozen acres, you either buy out a ranch, and figure out how to get it rezoned (and the tree huggers coming down from PDX to protest it, even though its much better for the environment that Cattle farming) or, you try to lease some land from the FED's. Either way, you have to deal with the fed's, because of water restrictions, access, building any kind of structures within a certain amount of distance from their land, routing power distribution lines, etc..
Keep in mind, one of PETA's VP's is a Diabetic.. So its a little funny to be arguing against animal testing when your alive BECAUSE of research done on animals.. (go look up penn and tellers "bullshit" episode on PETA)
I bet if you looked further into it, you would find the small group of vocal protesters probably lived near the bridge location, and didn't want increased traffic, or something blocking their view.. A huge windfarm spent years getting approval in new england, because some rich people didn't want to see them from their houses, or when out on their yachts, so they came up with every environmental excuse they could find. It sounds so much better to say "im trying to save the environment" than "not im my back yard!"
I can see where people look at the $10/month they pay for dialup ($120 a year) and compare it to the cost of broadband; cable internet in my area is at least $45/month ($540 a year, or add $10/month on top if you don't have cable TV service!) so they would pay an extra $420 a year to have the same access, but faster.. Come to think of it, thats kind of depressing that I pay that much a year for internet! If I was living on a low fixed income, cable and internet would be among the lowest priorities. Some of you will laugh at me, and call me a phony geek, but have you ever gone a week eating only 1 cup of nooldes a day because you couldn't afford to eat? I have, it changes your priorities pretty quickly!
Don't most antivirus software companies scan emails by acting as a "proxy" to the imap/pop server, downloading the message, then relaying it to the mail client?
Seems it would be much smarter to have the anti-virus just load a small proxy server on the machine, and configure the browser to use that proxy. Then it could scan the traffic, and then pass it on to the browser, and intercept bad stuff before it hits the browser..
Amazon will fix this, as soon as they have an incentive to do so. IE, if enough blocklists start adding their IP's, customers will threaten to take their business elsewhere, as their legitimate emails are not going through.. then, and only then, will amazon act (and only if the cost benefit to fix are less than the development time, and income from spammers). Would you expect a corporation to do differently?
I have a couple relatives with unlimited texting plans. I don't. I pay per message, cause I only send maybe 2 a month. My cousin will send me 3 or 4 in a row, I pay $0.80 for them to relay information that they could have relayed in 10 seconds over the phone.
What really pisses me off, is that I have to pay for recieving texts. When its a phone call, I can decide if I want to answer the phone, and use minutes, nor not answer it. With texting, I either have to disable everyone, or enable everyone. (makes me miss US Cellular, where incoming texts were free).
Because in the article (I know, I know) they say that they also documented spyware, popup software, and general machine slowdowns from clicking on all the popup ads. That was kinda the point of the excersise.
I work for a college. You would be shocked at the sheer number of textbooks that have CD's that have to run as Administrator to work. Things like using incrediably old versions of Macromedia authorware, which tries to copy files into windows\system32 before the program loads.. (i've tried manually coping them there, it doesn't check first!). Call the publishers, and they test it on windows 98, and WinXP home edition. Thank good for deepfreeze, so I can allow all users to run as a local administrator, but were not talking about old software, some textbooks we just got the newest version of during the winter break have this same problem.. The software works fine on students home computers, since they usually run as administrator, but not all students have PC's at home, so they come try to use the software in the labs..
The single largest folder inside my "%windows% folder on my work machines is the one that holds all the patches and rollbacks. If they had a VM, they wouldn't need all those updates to it. They could just update the firewall rules that the VM has to use to communicate.
My uncle bought one. His shop he uses for his business has 6 RV sized garage doors across the front, plus office and storage space. I'd guess about 150' long total. Front and back have gutters. He mentioned that the $100 tool saved him money on the first day. There are oak trees all around his shop. (it only took 2 hours the first time.. now its down to 30 minutes or so) because of the height of the gutters (about 20 feet off the ground) its a royal pain to move that big of a ladder.. Now he puts the ladder at one end, sets the robot in the gutter, and moves the ladder to the end to collect it..
Wow, the cluelessness of some people is scary. Solar power plants don't have to produce power at night. Look at energy consumption graphs. Strangely enough, Most of our power is used during the day (when we are awake) and factories and businesses are running. Its almost as if there was a huge ball of fire warming the earth when it is above us, and we want to cool back down!
Solar is not the answer, wind is not the answer, nuclear is not the answer. A combination of multiple different types of power generation IS the answer. What are the chances that the sky's will be too cloudy, with no wind, and after a super heavy drought has drained all our lakes... By spreading out multiple sources of power generation, you lessen the "risk" of things like cloudy days. Solar just seems ideal in that it produces the most power at peak usage times.
Right, but if you read deeper, it sets a cookie on your browser to not display targeted ads. It still tracks your behavior, just doesn't show the ads. Charters privacy policy also states that they will turn over any and all information to law enforcement or a subpoena. Also, if you ever clear your cookies (as many, many people do, and tools like spy-bot do) you will have to remember to fill out that form again.
I know everyone is different, but I have used an excercise ball at home, and really like it. It forces good posture, (one of the biggest problems with back pain) and even works the abs and back muscles to stay sitting up straight. At a former company I worked at, I had a pretty cool chair with no back (until we hired somebody with an acutal medical back problem, and they gave it to him), it had 2 "pads" one was lower, for your knees, and the upper pad was for sitting on. It worked similar to the excercise ball.
Ahh, your using the old method of science, with facts backing up assumptions. If you use the new scientific method, (intelligent design) you get to make huge logical leaps without facts to back them up. (ie, something must have created all this complexity, it must be [insert diety])
I'm 6'5". I continually find it amazing that I can never seem to fit into an American car. My Fiance has a Chevy S10. Flat out can't fit. Every time I let the clutch out, I bump the blinker with my knee. My Dodge Dakota pickup, I can fit in, but only because I recline the seats. I don't even fit in full-size ford pickups. (the rounded shape of the sides on the top gets in the way of my big head). However, for years, I drove a 92 Honda Civic. May have looked funny getting in and out, and nobody could sit in the seat behind me, but I fit!. I like smaller cars, and the better efficiency they offer, i just cannot literally fit in them. Most people say they can't fit and need an SUV. Their fat bellies rub the steering wheel. Mine is a different type of size problem entirely.
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An HD broadcast requires a big transmitter to be setup once, and then broadcast over the area. Big initial cost, then basically free (there are still some upgrades, power bill, etc) To show HD on the internet, your talking about Multiple Megabit connections for EACH viewer. The costs of that are astronomical. I guess, it would be similar to the differences between Multicast (transmit that 2GB file once to 100 machines), and unicast (transmit that 2GB file 100 times!).
I can't stand watching them on TV, because they will show one heat of a swimming event, then cut over to the 5000meter run for a few laps, then go to curling, etc. I want to watch the freaking event. Maybe if they stream all of it, I'll actually watch the events I want to. (I don't necessarly just want to watch the media's favoritte American's compete.. Thats not the point of the olympics)
So true.. so many hippies forget that solar power is the resultant product of a very large nuclear reaction...
Which doesn't make any sense, since when you do see one, they are always hounded by a dozen geeks who want to help them with their homework and studying.
In my county in OR, 60% of the land is Public owned. Some is state (although not much) most is forest service, and BLM. Makes it real fun when you try to pay for infrastructure when 60% of your land doesn't pay taxes.. If you need more than a dozen acres, you either buy out a ranch, and figure out how to get it rezoned (and the tree huggers coming down from PDX to protest it, even though its much better for the environment that Cattle farming) or, you try to lease some land from the FED's. Either way, you have to deal with the fed's, because of water restrictions, access, building any kind of structures within a certain amount of distance from their land, routing power distribution lines, etc..
Keep in mind, one of PETA's VP's is a Diabetic.. So its a little funny to be arguing against animal testing when your alive BECAUSE of research done on animals.. (go look up penn and tellers "bullshit" episode on PETA)
I bet if you looked further into it, you would find the small group of vocal protesters probably lived near the bridge location, and didn't want increased traffic, or something blocking their view.. A huge windfarm spent years getting approval in new england, because some rich people didn't want to see them from their houses, or when out on their yachts, so they came up with every environmental excuse they could find. It sounds so much better to say "im trying to save the environment" than "not im my back yard!"
I can see where people look at the $10/month they pay for dialup ($120 a year) and compare it to the cost of broadband; cable internet in my area is at least $45/month ($540 a year, or add $10/month on top if you don't have cable TV service!) so they would pay an extra $420 a year to have the same access, but faster.. Come to think of it, thats kind of depressing that I pay that much a year for internet! If I was living on a low fixed income, cable and internet would be among the lowest priorities. Some of you will laugh at me, and call me a phony geek, but have you ever gone a week eating only 1 cup of nooldes a day because you couldn't afford to eat? I have, it changes your priorities pretty quickly!
Don't most antivirus software companies scan emails by acting as a "proxy" to the imap/pop server, downloading the message, then relaying it to the mail client? Seems it would be much smarter to have the anti-virus just load a small proxy server on the machine, and configure the browser to use that proxy. Then it could scan the traffic, and then pass it on to the browser, and intercept bad stuff before it hits the browser..
Amazon will fix this, as soon as they have an incentive to do so. IE, if enough blocklists start adding their IP's, customers will threaten to take their business elsewhere, as their legitimate emails are not going through.. then, and only then, will amazon act (and only if the cost benefit to fix are less than the development time, and income from spammers). Would you expect a corporation to do differently?
What really pisses me off, is that I have to pay for recieving texts. When its a phone call, I can decide if I want to answer the phone, and use minutes, nor not answer it. With texting, I either have to disable everyone, or enable everyone. (makes me miss US Cellular, where incoming texts were free).
Because in the article (I know, I know) they say that they also documented spyware, popup software, and general machine slowdowns from clicking on all the popup ads. That was kinda the point of the excersise.
Undocumented spaghetti code is a feature you implement to ensure that your company doesn't dare fire or outsource you! ;)
I work for a college. You would be shocked at the sheer number of textbooks that have CD's that have to run as Administrator to work. Things like using incrediably old versions of Macromedia authorware, which tries to copy files into windows\system32 before the program loads.. (i've tried manually coping them there, it doesn't check first!). Call the publishers, and they test it on windows 98, and WinXP home edition. Thank good for deepfreeze, so I can allow all users to run as a local administrator, but were not talking about old software, some textbooks we just got the newest version of during the winter break have this same problem.. The software works fine on students home computers, since they usually run as administrator, but not all students have PC's at home, so they come try to use the software in the labs..
The single largest folder inside my "%windows% folder on my work machines is the one that holds all the patches and rollbacks. If they had a VM, they wouldn't need all those updates to it. They could just update the firewall rules that the VM has to use to communicate.
My uncle bought one. His shop he uses for his business has 6 RV sized garage doors across the front, plus office and storage space. I'd guess about 150' long total. Front and back have gutters. He mentioned that the $100 tool saved him money on the first day. There are oak trees all around his shop. (it only took 2 hours the first time.. now its down to 30 minutes or so) because of the height of the gutters (about 20 feet off the ground) its a royal pain to move that big of a ladder.. Now he puts the ladder at one end, sets the robot in the gutter, and moves the ladder to the end to collect it..
Solar is not the answer, wind is not the answer, nuclear is not the answer. A combination of multiple different types of power generation IS the answer. What are the chances that the sky's will be too cloudy, with no wind, and after a super heavy drought has drained all our lakes... By spreading out multiple sources of power generation, you lessen the "risk" of things like cloudy days. Solar just seems ideal in that it produces the most power at peak usage times.
Right, but if you read deeper, it sets a cookie on your browser to not display targeted ads. It still tracks your behavior, just doesn't show the ads. Charters privacy policy also states that they will turn over any and all information to law enforcement or a subpoena. Also, if you ever clear your cookies (as many, many people do, and tools like spy-bot do) you will have to remember to fill out that form again.
To reply to my own post, since a picture is worth a thousand words, these are examples of the Kneeling chairs
I know everyone is different, but I have used an excercise ball at home, and really like it. It forces good posture, (one of the biggest problems with back pain) and even works the abs and back muscles to stay sitting up straight. At a former company I worked at, I had a pretty cool chair with no back (until we hired somebody with an acutal medical back problem, and they gave it to him), it had 2 "pads" one was lower, for your knees, and the upper pad was for sitting on. It worked similar to the excercise ball.
TAKE down your damn post. I'm reporting you to the FBI for cracking my password!
WinFS is almost ready... Its going to be here any day now. I heard its the base storage layer for Duke Nukem Forever!
You don't see a problem with paying money to see that your information that a company has compiled on you is accurate?
Ahh, your using the old method of science, with facts backing up assumptions. If you use the new scientific method, (intelligent design) you get to make huge logical leaps without facts to back them up. (ie, something must have created all this complexity, it must be [insert diety])
I'm 6'5". I continually find it amazing that I can never seem to fit into an American car. My Fiance has a Chevy S10. Flat out can't fit. Every time I let the clutch out, I bump the blinker with my knee. My Dodge Dakota pickup, I can fit in, but only because I recline the seats. I don't even fit in full-size ford pickups. (the rounded shape of the sides on the top gets in the way of my big head). However, for years, I drove a 92 Honda Civic. May have looked funny getting in and out, and nobody could sit in the seat behind me, but I fit!. I like smaller cars, and the better efficiency they offer, i just cannot literally fit in them. Most people say they can't fit and need an SUV. Their fat bellies rub the steering wheel. Mine is a different type of size problem entirely.