My thought is that this will cause the temperature around the pipes to be at a different temperature than the outside of the house. Especially with it being copper, which conducts heat and cold really well. Sounds like you are risking thousands of dollars in foundation problems in a very short amount of time compared to a couple of hundred dollars for liquid or refrigerated case cooling.
This to me is more of a concern than foundation shifting causing the pipes to break - if foundation shifting did that, it would break plumbing pipes. Now maybe if the poster insisted on using plastic pipes instead of copper, this idea might work, but it seems to me like this project is doomed to huge and costly repair bills later.
Main picture? There is a Silverlight banner ad. The Polish site does indeed have a picture of a single white guy in one of the ads, and is Photoshopped (although this is probabably just for the art - I do not see any evidence in "head changes"). The US site does not show picture of anyone in the banner ad on the main page - its all ads for server 2008, Virtualization and DirectX.
I think you had it correct in the summery - go with analog mediums. The difference between analog and digitial is that while both deteriorate over time, if digital deteriorates, you are lucky if you get garbage bits (I have CDs which we recorded stuff off of our DV tapes just 8 years ago that I had to use a CD data recovery on, and parts of the data are just completely gone - I then had to take it into an AVI repair program to make something somewhat watchable). However, I got tapes that, while over 20 years old and the signal has obviously degraded greatly on, is still watchable.
That being said, your best bet is to probably use film. You will deffinately want to make sure its well sealed, and possibly even put a projector in the capsule.
Can data survive on CD-Rs and DVDs over that period of time? Yes, but you need to take precautions. Do some research and buy the best media you can. Make sure your burner is good (my burner just started going bad, and I thought it was bad media. Went through about 15 discs before it finally occured to me the burner was going out). Burn at the lowest possible speed. Also, if you are burning video, make sure to include codecs and viewers. You may also want to include a copy of an OS that they may have to run in a virtual machine, but probably not. I mean, 16 years ago, we had low quality AVI files usinc Cinepak and early versions of Quicktime, but you can still play those files in the newer OSes - WITH the right codecs. I got videos from the mid 90s I made that I can still play but I did have to do some serious hunting for the codec. Indeo 4 and Indeo 5 were great codecs back in the day.
Good luck, and let us know what route you decide to go.
How do they figure that 65GBP = $72USD? Unless there has been dramatic inflation since the time the story was written and now, 1 GBP= 1.64USD. Therefore, 65GBP = $108.6. As they are stating that the US version will cost $129, this is no where near half the price. Pretty much, the UK is getting around a 10-15GBP, or about 10%, not 50%.
First, there is a problem with them not counting PS3s in with sales. One of the main driving forces of the PS3 is the Blu-Ray drive. I know half a dozen people, including myself, off the top of my head, who have PS3s, and we use them as Blu-Ray players. Not a single person I know has a PS3 JUST to play games, and making that comment is insane. On top of that, there are numorous people who got Blu-Ray and such in the past year. How old is this study? Seriously!
I know two people, myself and my friend, who have HD-DVD players, and I got one cheap after Toshiba announced their death just so I can pick up $5 movies. Its a horrid format. The ethernet did not work on the first two generations of the firmware updates, and it was not until several months after its death that Toshiba released a firmware upgrade fixing that problem, and by that time, most of the content servers seemed to have been shut off on the discs I did have. They scratch if you look at them wierd - in fact, most movies I got from Netflix on HD-DVD had to send back two or three times before I got a disc that was even playable. The 30 gig maximum limit ment that we lost out on HD bonus features and High-Def audio for lack of space. The ONLY thing HD-DVD had going for it was that it could do 1080p at 30 FPS (bluray only does 24), and most of the players out there did not even do 1080p. And then there is the horindious load times! I could power on my PS3, put my movie in, and even with BD-Java, and skiping through previews, I can still have my movie loaded up in less time than it takes my Toshiba A2 to even power on (I have actually done side by side tests on this), then waiting another half minute after you put the disc in for it to even recognize the format.
Sorry, I went chasing rabbits. Point is, the only other person I know who even has an HD-DVD player has one because he was an A/V buff, and bought it the day it came out for an insane price. However, I know at least four people with stand-alone Blu-Ray players, three who have Blu-Ray drives in their computer and hook those up to the TV for watching, and another 7 (just thought of another one) who has a PS3 and use it for Blu-Ray viewing. That is 14 people who have Blu-Ray devices compared to the two who have HD-DVD. And talking to others, that seems to be the norm, not the standard. Blu-Ray sales in two years are surpassing what DVD did in its first couple of years by a longshot. (Too lazy to look up the figures right now, but have seen it posted all over the place over the past year).
Look, HD-DVD is DEAD. Stop beating a dead horse and throwing out all of this FUD. And if you STILL don't believe that Blu-Ray is successful, look at movie sales.
BS. One of the main driving forces of the PS3 is its Blu-Ray drive. While it does have better processing power than the XBox 360, there are not enough exclusive titles to say that someone is paying twice the price of an XBox to just play games. In fact - EVERYONE I know who has a PS3 (I can think of half a dozen people who have them off of the top of my head - most likely many more) bought them mainly for the Blu-Ray aspect. In fact, I did. And even those who did buy them primaraly for the games still play Blu-Rays.
This does not surprise me, especially on a government / contractor issued laptop. My experience working in various it departments is that people are so paranoid about security, that they install just the apps needed, then lock the computer down so much that the user cannot even change the wallpaper, much less install stuff like flash, update adobe reader, or install video apps. NASA would probably either have to remote in, or do a package push, which I bet is difficult over a satelite uplink
I would guesstimate upper 90s for sure. Practically every windows machine has it. Many people probably installed it years ago when they went to a website, and Internet explorer popped up and said it needed to install. Most new computers come with it pre-installed. Most it groups no longer block it, and in fact, every place I have worked at over the past ten years has had flash in the image.
Macs I think have flash installed by default. I at least never remember installing flash on a mac, yet I know I use it.
Linux is a different matter, but everyone I know running Linux has installed it.
Short answer - I doubt it's 99% but I bet it's deffinately up there
So myspace hardly ever goes down. They still to this day have issues of not having enough resources for the amount of traffic they get (may be part of the reason that most people I know have all but ditched myspace and went to facebook). Look, if there Are so many people on your site every single night that some people get DOS, and those who do get in cannot do anything, while they have the brilliance to take down resources during peak hours to install untested site updates, then what difference does it make if the site is up? It's still unusable.
Truthfully, I am also surprised to hear xanga is still around. I mean what is the point of a social networking site if none of your friends are on it?
Okay, so we have these multi-million dollar probes up here on Mars, with these solar panels that tend to get coated with the dust from duststorms.
How hard would it be to add a $3 windshield wiper to the solar panels? It may not be perfect, and if you are rubbing something as abrassive as sand against the solar pannels, you run the risk of damaging them, but seriously, you are going to loose the probes eventually anyways. Why not see if you could get a bit more time out of them? Or better yet, enclose the solar pannels in plexiglass or something, then put some whipers on them?
I am shocked that noone at NASA or JPL has thought of this, and I wonder if there is some reason as to why its not done.
I had a Virtumondo virus that did the same thing. I wrote up procedures for removing this. Maybe this will help:
So I attemped a manual removal of the virus yesterday, and succeded. However, the process was so messy and time consuming, it probably would have taken less time to reimage. First thing is to go in and manually delete the trash files. Look in the program files directory. The one I noticed yesterday was called GameVance, which advertises itself as a free online gaming site. You can simplify this matter by searching by Date Modified. On the machine I was working on yesterday, GameVance was installed on Auguest 10th, so this gave me something to look for. I first logged into the users computer and uninstalled GameVance. This took care of the rogue program, now I had to take care of the virus.
Reboot. BACKDOOR into the machine. The reason for this is at the virus is attached to exlorer, it will keep you from removing the files if you are on that machine. So, we are backdoored, so firs thing is to double check the Program files Directory and remove any remains that linger. Then go into both the users profile directory and the all users, and look under Application Data and Local Settings for anything weird. I found somthing floating in c:\documents and settings\bdennix\Application Data - there was a directory in there of a ton of strange characters. I deleted this.
Go into the Windows directory, and sort by date. I had to edit the winnt.ini file, as it was calling the virus in this file. I would definately check your INI files - anything recently modified. You will then go into the System32 directory, and sort by date. You should see several files with random characters, all generated on or around the same date. Anything newer than that means that something has tried to clean up the files and the files have been recreated. Delete everything you can. Make notes of file names you cannot remove.
Launch regedit. HKey_Local_machine\software\microsoft (if i remember right), and look in the windows and the windowsnt keys. You are looking for Browser Helper Objects, Explorer, and Winlogon. I saw nothing unusual in Explorer, but there was a lot of stuff in browser helper objects and Winlogon. Unfortunately, legitimate files also have very undescriptive key names, and are usually randomly generated characters, so its impossible to distinguish between what is good and what is bad. Go ahead and delete all the keys. This WILL screw up windows, but we will fix that in a bit. Note that after you reboot, Windows will NOT come back up as the Winlogon is now hosed.
Boot off of a Windows XP disc, and go into repair console. Delete all the remaining rougue files in the system32 directory.
You will now need to do a repair install of Windows. This takes quite a while to do.
When done, Windows should boot back up and let you log back in. Login (preferably as an administrator), run MSConfig, and make sure that nothing got rewritten to the startup files. If it is, its okay because the files are gone, it will just throw up error messages saying that files are missing.
Restore the users wallpaper. Update Internet Explorer to 7. Update Java. If they use Firefox, update to newest version of Firefox. Turn on automatic updates. Run CCleaner to clean up remaining registry keys that may remain. Install Service Pack 3.
This sucessfully got rid of the virus for me, however, this was so tedious and took so long, it would have been much easier to just reimage her.
Maybe this will bring back the local ISPs. Get a couple of 100 Mbps lines from Cognet at $800 a month each, sell off a 3Mbps DSL connections for $15 a month with a cap, or $25 a month with no cap, and a 6 Mbps connection with no cap for around $40 a month. 20 of the $40 connections would make up your costs, and you would only have your pipe at 120% saturation, considering every one of those 40 people were online and downloading at the exact same time. But they aren't.
Users accept the fact that during peak hours, their speeds may vary.
And the local ISP is back. Makes perfect sense to me.
I am not Aussie, but looked at your link because I was curious. I am confused about this shaping speed. It says in the fine print that 70% of customers achieve 10Mbps or faster. So is that off-peak? Does that mean during peak hours, you go down to 64k a second?
This sounds a bit crazy to me, the whole idea of download caps. They should cap on speed. I mean, someone who has a 768k DSL connection is not going to be able to download as much as a 6 Mbps DSL customer, and even those are not going to be able to download as much as a 10Mbps UVerse or a 20Mbps Fios customer. Granted, most aren't.
AT&T should also implemement Rollover bandwidth, just like they do with minutes on their cellphone plans. Granted, 250gig a month sounds rather fair - I think most I have pulled down in a month was around 300 gig - and that was with downloading all the time out of a pay Usenet server. Usually from month to month, I do not go over 10 or 20 gig a month. But I do have the ocassional high-bandwidth hiccup. I am probably high this month, as I have downloaded a couple of HD-on-demand movies, and a few extreamely large Beta's on my PS3 (I had to format the HD, so I had to redownload everything), so this month, I know I have easily used at LEAST 50 gig of bandwidth.
And not once this month have I launched BitTorrent or my Binary newsgroup grabber. This was all from just my game consoles.
So, give me rollover gigs, and constantly be adding a little to that cap, as was mentioned in another post, and I will be happy
You still have to buy the city's internet from someone. And, granted I haven't checked for a while, OC-48 lines still charged per megabyte or per gigabyte or whatever
Most people I have talked to after we gave them Vista like the visuals. Out of about 50 of our users currently on Vista, 2 of them we put back on the old UI.
The UI is not the issue. Never was. The issue was setting their minimal specs too low, so that people had a crappy first time experience with vista, that freakin User Access Control (I sure hope they got rid of that thing), and the fact that they changed how you had to sign your drivers just two months before the release of the OS. As such, you had more drivers working in RC1 then when the actual OS shipped! I hope Microsoft learned from their mistake there, and will set how drivers are going to work early, and not Eff with it after that.
Yes. Avast is 64-bit, and then install Spybot with the Tea Timer. Seems to be every bit as effective, and its all free, and I am successfully using it with 64-bit Vista
I totally agree with Avast. It seems to use very low system resources, and the majority of the updates it does on its own. As such, you practically will not even notice it is running unless it wants you to do a major update, or unless it actually catches a virus. I discovered Avast as they were the first antivirus company that offered a free Antivirus that worked with 64-bit Windows.
And I have never had Avast mess with a driver or any other operations of the system.
I lived in Arizona for a while. Arizona happens to be one of those states that is in a good place on the globe where not having DST does not affect it much. My only problem with living in Arizona was that twice a year, I would have to readjust for when my shows came on Cable.
I live in Texas now, and cannot freakin wait to fall back in a week. The concept of the sun not coming up until about 7:15 now is completely insane, and it just absolutely drains me. And here we are at the end of november, and it not getting dark until about 7. That is just insane - having to commute to work in the morning in the pitch black, and then have the sun glaring in my face for the drive home.
If we didn't spring forward in summer here in Texas, you start having issues with the sun coming up at about 4:30. Then I feel like I am wasting my day away.
No, DST makes a lot of sense, just stop jacking with when its going to start every year. Every single spring and fall, we still manage to find people who yell and scream at us that their calendar is broke, and we have to go install patches on their system. I thought it fell on the same weekend the past two years, but apparently every six months, there is another Outlook patch out there for this.
I also just watched the video on Youtube. The resolution is only 3600x3600. This is not even 4k technology, which is used in most theaters, and yet we are projecting this onto this humongous dome. Last I heard, IMAX was 18k. I mean, at that resolution on a dome that big, wouldn't the picture be, well, pixilated? Those dots are going to be huge.
Okay, this may have been posted already, sorry if its a repeat, but the article describes it as similar to an IMAX dome, and that was my take when I saw it. So, my question is, why use 6 ultra-res DLP projectors? Why not just use one Digital IMAX projector? Is it because you just cannot generate material at that resolution in real-time?
So, Kelvin and Celsius are roughly the same scale, so to get the Celsius you would simply add 2.7 to -273.15C, which is -270.45C. That sounds like an absolute number to me
So, 100 times colder than intergalactic space, we are looking at a temperature of about -27,045C. Once again, this sounds like a deffinate number to me.
:-) So if Winnipeg is so enviornmentally friendly, I am assuming that you have no use for oil to heat your homes.:-) So, if there is no demand for it, there will be excess oil out on the market, futher driving down the price of a barrel. Thanks for being so enviornmentaly conscience.:-)
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My thought is that this will cause the temperature around the pipes to be at a different temperature than the outside of the house. Especially with it being copper, which conducts heat and cold really well. Sounds like you are risking thousands of dollars in foundation problems in a very short amount of time compared to a couple of hundred dollars for liquid or refrigerated case cooling.
This to me is more of a concern than foundation shifting causing the pipes to break - if foundation shifting did that, it would break plumbing pipes. Now maybe if the poster insisted on using plastic pipes instead of copper, this idea might work, but it seems to me like this project is doomed to huge and costly repair bills later.
Main picture? There is a Silverlight banner ad. The Polish site does indeed have a picture of a single white guy in one of the ads, and is Photoshopped (although this is probabably just for the art - I do not see any evidence in "head changes"). The US site does not show picture of anyone in the banner ad on the main page - its all ads for server 2008, Virtualization and DirectX.
I think you had it correct in the summery - go with analog mediums. The difference between analog and digitial is that while both deteriorate over time, if digital deteriorates, you are lucky if you get garbage bits (I have CDs which we recorded stuff off of our DV tapes just 8 years ago that I had to use a CD data recovery on, and parts of the data are just completely gone - I then had to take it into an AVI repair program to make something somewhat watchable). However, I got tapes that, while over 20 years old and the signal has obviously degraded greatly on, is still watchable.
That being said, your best bet is to probably use film. You will deffinately want to make sure its well sealed, and possibly even put a projector in the capsule.
Can data survive on CD-Rs and DVDs over that period of time? Yes, but you need to take precautions. Do some research and buy the best media you can. Make sure your burner is good (my burner just started going bad, and I thought it was bad media. Went through about 15 discs before it finally occured to me the burner was going out). Burn at the lowest possible speed. Also, if you are burning video, make sure to include codecs and viewers. You may also want to include a copy of an OS that they may have to run in a virtual machine, but probably not. I mean, 16 years ago, we had low quality AVI files usinc Cinepak and early versions of Quicktime, but you can still play those files in the newer OSes - WITH the right codecs. I got videos from the mid 90s I made that I can still play but I did have to do some serious hunting for the codec. Indeo 4 and Indeo 5 were great codecs back in the day.
Good luck, and let us know what route you decide to go.
I appologize, I speed read the article. They were saying the UPGRADE is $129, which averages to 72GBP. Haven't had my coffee yet
How do they figure that 65GBP = $72USD? Unless there has been dramatic inflation since the time the story was written and now, 1 GBP= 1.64USD. Therefore, 65GBP = $108.6. As they are stating that the US version will cost $129, this is no where near half the price. Pretty much, the UK is getting around a 10-15GBP, or about 10%, not 50%.
First, there is a problem with them not counting PS3s in with sales. One of the main driving forces of the PS3 is the Blu-Ray drive. I know half a dozen people, including myself, off the top of my head, who have PS3s, and we use them as Blu-Ray players. Not a single person I know has a PS3 JUST to play games, and making that comment is insane. On top of that, there are numorous people who got Blu-Ray and such in the past year. How old is this study? Seriously!
I know two people, myself and my friend, who have HD-DVD players, and I got one cheap after Toshiba announced their death just so I can pick up $5 movies. Its a horrid format. The ethernet did not work on the first two generations of the firmware updates, and it was not until several months after its death that Toshiba released a firmware upgrade fixing that problem, and by that time, most of the content servers seemed to have been shut off on the discs I did have. They scratch if you look at them wierd - in fact, most movies I got from Netflix on HD-DVD had to send back two or three times before I got a disc that was even playable. The 30 gig maximum limit ment that we lost out on HD bonus features and High-Def audio for lack of space. The ONLY thing HD-DVD had going for it was that it could do 1080p at 30 FPS (bluray only does 24), and most of the players out there did not even do 1080p. And then there is the horindious load times! I could power on my PS3, put my movie in, and even with BD-Java, and skiping through previews, I can still have my movie loaded up in less time than it takes my Toshiba A2 to even power on (I have actually done side by side tests on this), then waiting another half minute after you put the disc in for it to even recognize the format.
Sorry, I went chasing rabbits. Point is, the only other person I know who even has an HD-DVD player has one because he was an A/V buff, and bought it the day it came out for an insane price. However, I know at least four people with stand-alone Blu-Ray players, three who have Blu-Ray drives in their computer and hook those up to the TV for watching, and another 7 (just thought of another one) who has a PS3 and use it for Blu-Ray viewing. That is 14 people who have Blu-Ray devices compared to the two who have HD-DVD. And talking to others, that seems to be the norm, not the standard. Blu-Ray sales in two years are surpassing what DVD did in its first couple of years by a longshot. (Too lazy to look up the figures right now, but have seen it posted all over the place over the past year).
Look, HD-DVD is DEAD. Stop beating a dead horse and throwing out all of this FUD. And if you STILL don't believe that Blu-Ray is successful, look at movie sales.
BS. One of the main driving forces of the PS3 is its Blu-Ray drive. While it does have better processing power than the XBox 360, there are not enough exclusive titles to say that someone is paying twice the price of an XBox to just play games. In fact - EVERYONE I know who has a PS3 (I can think of half a dozen people who have them off of the top of my head - most likely many more) bought them mainly for the Blu-Ray aspect. In fact, I did. And even those who did buy them primaraly for the games still play Blu-Rays.
This does not surprise me, especially on a government / contractor issued laptop. My experience working in various it departments is that people are so paranoid about security, that they install just the apps needed, then lock the computer down so much that the user cannot even change the wallpaper, much less install stuff like flash, update adobe reader, or install video apps. NASA would probably either have to remote in, or do a package push, which I bet is difficult over a satelite uplink
Yay! Finally we are in the release candidate stage! Another 5 years we may see ver 0.1 build 3!
Btw, iPhone support on slashdot sucks! My 5th time trying to post this comment
I would guesstimate upper 90s for sure. Practically every windows machine has it. Many people probably installed it years ago when they went to a website, and Internet explorer popped up and said it needed to install. Most new computers come with it pre-installed. Most it groups no longer block it, and in fact, every place I have worked at over the past ten years has had flash in the image.
Macs I think have flash installed by default. I at least never remember installing flash on a mac, yet I know I use it.
Linux is a different matter, but everyone I know running Linux has installed it.
Short answer - I doubt it's 99% but I bet it's deffinately up there
So myspace hardly ever goes down. They still to this day have issues of not having enough resources for the amount of traffic they get (may be part of the reason that most people I know have all but ditched myspace and went to facebook). Look, if there Are so many people on your site every single night that some people get DOS, and those who do get in cannot do anything, while they have the brilliance to take down resources during peak hours to install untested site updates, then what difference does it make if the site is up? It's still unusable.
Truthfully, I am also surprised to hear xanga is still around. I mean what is the point of a social networking site if none of your friends are on it?
Yeah, cause no one will care if you try to log into godtube and instead get horse-on-girl porn
Or, because the suffix is unimportant, I get whitehouse.com instead of whitehouse.gov
Cause you all know I must have a processor 7 times faster than what is in an iPhone or blackberry to watch video streaming over 3g on a 2 inch screen
The lower power consumption might be a plus, though
Sorry if someone has already posted this.
Okay, so we have these multi-million dollar probes up here on Mars, with these solar panels that tend to get coated with the dust from duststorms.
How hard would it be to add a $3 windshield wiper to the solar panels? It may not be perfect, and if you are rubbing something as abrassive as sand against the solar pannels, you run the risk of damaging them, but seriously, you are going to loose the probes eventually anyways. Why not see if you could get a bit more time out of them? Or better yet, enclose the solar pannels in plexiglass or something, then put some whipers on them?
I am shocked that noone at NASA or JPL has thought of this, and I wonder if there is some reason as to why its not done.
I had a Virtumondo virus that did the same thing. I wrote up procedures for removing this. Maybe this will help:
So I attemped a manual removal of the virus yesterday, and succeded. However, the process was so messy and time consuming, it probably would have taken less time to reimage. First thing is to go in and manually delete the trash files. Look in the program files directory. The one I noticed yesterday was called GameVance, which advertises itself as a free online gaming site. You can simplify this matter by searching by Date Modified. On the machine I was working on yesterday, GameVance was installed on Auguest 10th, so this gave me something to look for. I first logged into the users computer and uninstalled GameVance. This took care of the rogue program, now I had to take care of the virus.
Reboot. BACKDOOR into the machine. The reason for this is at the virus is attached to exlorer, it will keep you from removing the files if you are on that machine. So, we are backdoored, so firs thing is to double check the Program files Directory and remove any remains that linger. Then go into both the users profile directory and the all users, and look under Application Data and Local Settings for anything weird. I found somthing floating in c:\documents and settings\bdennix\Application Data - there was a directory in there of a ton of strange characters. I deleted this.
Go into the Windows directory, and sort by date. I had to edit the winnt.ini file, as it was calling the virus in this file. I would definately check your INI files - anything recently modified. You will then go into the System32 directory, and sort by date. You should see several files with random characters, all generated on or around the same date. Anything newer than that means that something has tried to clean up the files and the files have been recreated. Delete everything you can. Make notes of file names you cannot remove.
Launch regedit. HKey_Local_machine\software\microsoft (if i remember right), and look in the windows and the windowsnt keys. You are looking for Browser Helper Objects, Explorer, and Winlogon. I saw nothing unusual in Explorer, but there was a lot of stuff in browser helper objects and Winlogon. Unfortunately, legitimate files also have very undescriptive key names, and are usually randomly generated characters, so its impossible to distinguish between what is good and what is bad. Go ahead and delete all the keys. This WILL screw up windows, but we will fix that in a bit. Note that after you reboot, Windows will NOT come back up as the Winlogon is now hosed.
Boot off of a Windows XP disc, and go into repair console. Delete all the remaining rougue files in the system32 directory.
You will now need to do a repair install of Windows. This takes quite a while to do.
When done, Windows should boot back up and let you log back in. Login (preferably as an administrator), run MSConfig, and make sure that nothing got rewritten to the startup files. If it is, its okay because the files are gone, it will just throw up error messages saying that files are missing.
Restore the users wallpaper. Update Internet Explorer to 7. Update Java. If they use Firefox, update to newest version of Firefox. Turn on automatic updates. Run CCleaner to clean up remaining registry keys that may remain. Install Service Pack 3.
This sucessfully got rid of the virus for me, however, this was so tedious and took so long, it would have been much easier to just reimage her.
Maybe this will bring back the local ISPs. Get a couple of 100 Mbps lines from Cognet at $800 a month each, sell off a 3Mbps DSL connections for $15 a month with a cap, or $25 a month with no cap, and a 6 Mbps connection with no cap for around $40 a month. 20 of the $40 connections would make up your costs, and you would only have your pipe at 120% saturation, considering every one of those 40 people were online and downloading at the exact same time. But they aren't.
Users accept the fact that during peak hours, their speeds may vary.
And the local ISP is back. Makes perfect sense to me.
I am not Aussie, but looked at your link because I was curious. I am confused about this shaping speed. It says in the fine print that 70% of customers achieve 10Mbps or faster. So is that off-peak? Does that mean during peak hours, you go down to 64k a second?
This sounds a bit crazy to me, the whole idea of download caps. They should cap on speed. I mean, someone who has a 768k DSL connection is not going to be able to download as much as a 6 Mbps DSL customer, and even those are not going to be able to download as much as a 10Mbps UVerse or a 20Mbps Fios customer. Granted, most aren't.
AT&T should also implemement Rollover bandwidth, just like they do with minutes on their cellphone plans. Granted, 250gig a month sounds rather fair - I think most I have pulled down in a month was around 300 gig - and that was with downloading all the time out of a pay Usenet server. Usually from month to month, I do not go over 10 or 20 gig a month. But I do have the ocassional high-bandwidth hiccup. I am probably high this month, as I have downloaded a couple of HD-on-demand movies, and a few extreamely large Beta's on my PS3 (I had to format the HD, so I had to redownload everything), so this month, I know I have easily used at LEAST 50 gig of bandwidth.
And not once this month have I launched BitTorrent or my Binary newsgroup grabber. This was all from just my game consoles.
So, give me rollover gigs, and constantly be adding a little to that cap, as was mentioned in another post, and I will be happy
You still have to buy the city's internet from someone. And, granted I haven't checked for a while, OC-48 lines still charged per megabyte or per gigabyte or whatever
Most people I have talked to after we gave them Vista like the visuals. Out of about 50 of our users currently on Vista, 2 of them we put back on the old UI.
The UI is not the issue. Never was. The issue was setting their minimal specs too low, so that people had a crappy first time experience with vista, that freakin User Access Control (I sure hope they got rid of that thing), and the fact that they changed how you had to sign your drivers just two months before the release of the OS. As such, you had more drivers working in RC1 then when the actual OS shipped! I hope Microsoft learned from their mistake there, and will set how drivers are going to work early, and not Eff with it after that.
Yes. Avast is 64-bit, and then install Spybot with the Tea Timer. Seems to be every bit as effective, and its all free, and I am successfully using it with 64-bit Vista
I totally agree with Avast. It seems to use very low system resources, and the majority of the updates it does on its own. As such, you practically will not even notice it is running unless it wants you to do a major update, or unless it actually catches a virus. I discovered Avast as they were the first antivirus company that offered a free Antivirus that worked with 64-bit Windows.
And I have never had Avast mess with a driver or any other operations of the system.
I lived in Arizona for a while. Arizona happens to be one of those states that is in a good place on the globe where not having DST does not affect it much. My only problem with living in Arizona was that twice a year, I would have to readjust for when my shows came on Cable.
I live in Texas now, and cannot freakin wait to fall back in a week. The concept of the sun not coming up until about 7:15 now is completely insane, and it just absolutely drains me. And here we are at the end of november, and it not getting dark until about 7. That is just insane - having to commute to work in the morning in the pitch black, and then have the sun glaring in my face for the drive home.
If we didn't spring forward in summer here in Texas, you start having issues with the sun coming up at about 4:30. Then I feel like I am wasting my day away.
No, DST makes a lot of sense, just stop jacking with when its going to start every year. Every single spring and fall, we still manage to find people who yell and scream at us that their calendar is broke, and we have to go install patches on their system. I thought it fell on the same weekend the past two years, but apparently every six months, there is another Outlook patch out there for this.
I also just watched the video on Youtube. The resolution is only 3600x3600. This is not even 4k technology, which is used in most theaters, and yet we are projecting this onto this humongous dome. Last I heard, IMAX was 18k. I mean, at that resolution on a dome that big, wouldn't the picture be, well, pixilated? Those dots are going to be huge.
Okay, this may have been posted already, sorry if its a repeat, but the article describes it as similar to an IMAX dome, and that was my take when I saw it. So, my question is, why use 6 ultra-res DLP projectors? Why not just use one Digital IMAX projector? Is it because you just cannot generate material at that resolution in real-time?
Just wondering.
Wait, okay, so Kelvin is -273.15C or -459.67F
That looks like an absolute number to me.
So, Kelvin and Celsius are roughly the same scale, so to get the Celsius you would simply add 2.7 to -273.15C, which is -270.45C. That sounds like an absolute number to me
So, 100 times colder than intergalactic space, we are looking at a temperature of about -27,045C. Once again, this sounds like a deffinate number to me.
:-) So if Winnipeg is so enviornmentally friendly, I am assuming that you have no use for oil to heat your homes. :-) So, if there is no demand for it, there will be excess oil out on the market, futher driving down the price of a barrel. Thanks for being so enviornmentaly conscience. :-)