When you start with something like 1.5 Mbit/s download, a 40% drop in speed should not make service infeasible. It is a good thing that the upload speed is not affect as it begins lower(?) Yes, but 40% is still 40%, regardless of the speed. You're paying for 100% speed, and get only 60%. That's not good. When somebody uses his/her ADSL mostly for downstream traffic (as you would if you're not running a server), the 40% really matters.
The real problem lies in the poor cabling: it's designed for low quality analog voice connections, not for (relatively) high speed digital connections.
Re:Etymology of "nerd"and "geek"
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"geek" comes from the Dutch word "gek", which means "crazy" or "crazy person".
Same reason as for the wheelmouse: the touch/no-touch events should map to X-events, probably specific to XFree. The applications (eg. the toolkits) should understand these events and implement them. Since there are many toolkits and even more applications, support will be very limited. Too bad, I kinda like the idea.
Usually, the cord is strong enaugh to push the mouse around, even when you're not touching it. Implementing fading toolbars on move/no-move would give a very jumpy screen.
Why didn't they implement a regex->action coupling? You can implement opening URL's from xterms using this by creating a regex for an URL, and binding netscape to that URL. You could also use this to open a texteditor whenever something like blah.txt is encountered.
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When you start with something like 1.5 Mbit/s download, a 40% drop in speed should not make service infeasible. It is a good thing that the upload speed is not affect as it begins lower(?)
Yes, but 40% is still 40%, regardless of the speed. You're paying for 100% speed, and get only 60%. That's not good. When somebody uses his/her ADSL mostly for downstream traffic (as you would if you're not running a server), the 40% really matters.
The real problem lies in the poor cabling: it's designed for low quality analog voice connections, not for (relatively) high speed digital connections.
"geek" comes from the Dutch word "gek", which means "crazy" or "crazy person".
/. isn't liable because of common carrier status. But they were take down this post, then they would be liable for all simular future posts.
How about a new moderation category "copyright violation"?
Same reason as for the wheelmouse: the touch/no-touch events should map to X-events, probably specific to XFree. The applications (eg. the toolkits) should understand these events and implement them. Since there are many toolkits and even more applications, support will be very limited.
Too bad, I kinda like the idea.
Usually, the cord is strong enaugh to push the mouse around, even when you're not touching it. Implementing fading toolbars on move/no-move would give a very jumpy screen.
Why didn't they implement a regex->action coupling? You can implement opening URL's from xterms using this by creating a regex for an URL, and binding netscape to that URL.
You could also use this to open a texteditor whenever something like blah.txt is encountered.
Unlike in the USA, there is no censorship in Europe. Words like f*ck and g*dd*mn don't get beeped away ;-)
Subjects says it all... When I'm trying to access my NTFS partition, the Sym56cXXX driver keeps resetting. Mounting is slow, but works.