Don't private trackers already use different infohash for each user to track the stats of the users? This would mean that looking at the infohash will only work for public trackers (which are slow most of the time anyways) and to get around that you would only need to use Tor for communication to the public tracker which is already supported by a few bittorrent clients.
You might be surprised how little power you need to run multiple applications. RAM is probably the bigger requirement than CPU or GPU power. For example, I run Hamachi, Pidgin, Mozy, Steam, Firefox (5 tabs), OO.org Writer and some other smaller stuff without problems on my Atom based laptop with only 1GB of RAM while using only ~10% of the CPU. Even my mother on her 512MB RAM and AMD Geode CPU PC runs sometimes 4 applications.
Just think about how many applications you were running 5 years ago or even 10 years ago.
No, you pay once for the service to view the content on your TV and another time to view the content on your PC. It's like when you buy a movie on DVD, you will have to buy the movie again to watch in HD using blu-ray, than you pay again to watch the movie on your Ipod. You get different content even if it looks the same.
Btw, you should sent at least an email to Comcast so they can explain to you why should pay twice for content that looks the same. I just sent an email too AT&T since they are also paying for this BS.
Apple doesn't "sell" OS X separately. You have to buy the computer with the software directly from them. You can probably compare an Apple PC to the Xbox 360. They both include a browser and other software but you can't buy the software without the console.
I don't know about your mother but mine started with a $150 Linux computer. I did set up Thunderbird and Firefox for her and she didn't have too many problems with it. After a year a telephone system was connected to her computer that only ran under Windows and I switched her over to Windows XP. She noticed that it looked different but it also worked the same way since she still used Firefox and Thunderbird. She had more Problems with XP because some of the things installed on Linux like a PDF viewer wasn't installed by default but that can easily installed. The next PC for her will probably be again a Linux PC since the telephone system died a year ago and I'm sure that she will be able to use it like she was able to use it a few years ago.
I'm a German living in the USA and I had to renew my passport just a few months ago. The last time I could just do the passport renewing by mail but now with the biometric fingerprints you have to drive to one of 5 locations in the USA of which most are in the southern parts. Luckily I was only 5 hours away from the place but there is a high chance that people will have to travel through a few states to get their passport renewed now. At least I only have to do that again in 7 years.
Plant some fast growing trees and you will see savings within a few years. You might be able to paint the roof with a white ceramic paint made for roofs (depends on the roof type) to save a good amount of money. Those solutions are cheaper than adding more insulation and replacing windows.
Big homes and bad insulation causes so high electric costs. My mother just moved out of an old mobile home into a small stone house (two children moved out and house prices were finally lower). The electric cost of around $250-450 is now at around $100 for her in a stone house instead of a bad insulated mobile home. It will be interesting to see how much she will have to pay in the summer when the a/c has to run more but I bet it won't be more than $200 which would still be lower than the best time of the year in the mobile home.
Sounds pretty normal such a high failure rate. I went to a community college and every semester the classes got smaller and fewer of the higher classes got tough than the intro classes. After that at a University it was the same way. At the beginning multiple full classes but at the end maybe 15 people left and those higher classes were offered only every second semester instead of every semester. I believe that people just find out that they studied something that they didn't really have interest in and changed majors to other programs. I guess Computer Networking sounds cool first but boring when people take the classes and I know a lot of people that think that it is boring.
I believe that the AM2+ socket motherboards will last for a long time. If I remember right will the AM3 CPUs be compatible with the AM2 and AM2+ motherboard as the AM2+ CPUs were compatible with AM2 motherboards while only small features were missing when using an older socket with a newer CPU.
I have a friend that will start his Master degree in Computer Engineering in Germany at a University in 2 months. The University offers classes in English and German. Not only is it cheaper for him to study in Germany instead of staying in Florida but he also said the school offers much better classes than what he found within the US because only half is theory. I guess in 2 years I will find out if his choice was a good one.
Just buy an Acer Aspire One with the 6 cell battery (or buy a 9 cell battery). The 6 cell battery version last 5-6 hours and only uses 13 Watt. If that isn't enough than you can put some solar panels on the back and you can probably double the time.
INAL, but I took 2 law classes for my Master degree (in IT).
When you buy something and it doesn't present you with the license before the purchase than you bought the product but you normally still have to click "I agree" before using the software. Which means you are not bound to the license until that point. You can resell the product even if the license says you can't if you didn't click "I agree". The problem now would be returning the product. In some states it went to court to decide if you can return bought products if you didn't agree with the license. In some of those states you are by law allowed to return the software and in some you aren't. I don't remember in which state it went to court with which outcome and in which states it is still a gray area. In the case of Psystar, I'm assuming they have to agree to the license to install the software or at least the users of Psystar computers after first starting the computer.
I got 3 PCs with different types of CPUs. First I got my "old" AMD 64 3000+ for gaming. Second I got a Athlon 64 X2 4850e which uses 45W max which I use for long downloads and as HTPC. And third I got a Acer Aspire One (with Intel Atom) which I use for normal surfing and to connect to routers/switches at work. The power supply only supports 30 watt which makes me believe that the laptop uses probably around 20 watt.
Even my mother that only checks emails and surfs the web uses a power saving CPU. A AMD Geode CPU that only uses 9 watt.
People should just buy the best CPU for the job they try to accomplish instead of buying the power hungry CPUs if they don't need them.
That might have been true with old CRT monitors but LCD monitors are more efficient. I once measured the power usage of my 19" CRT monitor (that is Energy 2000 certified) to my 37" (almost twice the size) LCD TV. The LCD TV was using 10watts less electricity.
Even with that I still can't convince myself to get a LCD monitor to replace the "old" CRT. It will take years to see any savings from replacing the monitor.
I went for the last 2 years of High School to a special school that was a High School and College at the same time (funding shared between 2 counties and sponsored by Microsoft, Cisco and local companies). At that school every classroom had computers for every student but which helped the most was that the teachers had a computer with a projector on a touch screen background. The teacher were able to better present information to the students using the projectors that most often had powerpoint presentations that the teachers often prepared themselves (and sometimes provided by the book publishers). The computers in front of the students might have helped a little but for 90% of the general education classes they didn't help.
The best way to help public schools with technology in my opinion is teaching the teachers how to use it and give them a projector and a computer in the classrooms.
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Or you buy a gamepad or even steering wheel for the games. I did that before even game consoles got popular...
The same way do game consoles slowly support more keyboards and mice.
Maybe some other people also haven seen the anime "Planetes" that is about space debris collectors because too much stuff was lost in space that it was dangerous with all the stuff flying around. Lets say it starts with a screw flying at high speed at a space ship that went "boom".
I'm not sure when Winamp put some of the features in but having a music library to search music and hot key support is very important to me. (I believe that was Winamp 2 in 1998) I just switched back to Winamp because I remembered how good Winamp was and how much Itunes sucked after reading this article. The newest Winamp version can also sync with my Ipod (and other mp3 players) which is important if you don't want to use Itunes just for syncing music.
Sounds to me like antitrust. Wikipedia also links to "Competition law" which lists three main elements of antitrust. The first one is "prohibiting agreements or practices that restrict free trading and competition between business entities".
Doesn't Apple prohibit free trade by not allowing the competitor to compete?
I still remember when suprnova closed down and they started development on eXeem which sounds to be exactly what they are trying to do here. That project didn't even last for a year.
I believe that those researchers will fail the same way as eXeem failed.
Just to clarify something. BlatantRipoff is right about the 12% usage with the 2007 Zogby poll. Aladrin is also right about the 15% but those come from the Kaiser Family Foundation poll from 2004. Different organizations at different times did the polls.
Wouldn't that mean that the FCC can start to reduce censorship on TV since every parent could do the censorship if they wanted to do it (but only 12% use it)?
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I looked at my Internet bill and there is no tax.
Could it be that the tax you see is for cable TV or home phone?
Don't private trackers already use different infohash for each user to track the stats of the users?
This would mean that looking at the infohash will only work for public trackers (which are slow most of the time anyways) and to get around that you would only need to use Tor for communication to the public tracker which is already supported by a few bittorrent clients.
You might be surprised how little power you need to run multiple applications. RAM is probably the bigger requirement than CPU or GPU power.
For example, I run Hamachi, Pidgin, Mozy, Steam, Firefox (5 tabs), OO.org Writer and some other smaller stuff without problems on my Atom based laptop with only 1GB of RAM while using only ~10% of the CPU.
Even my mother on her 512MB RAM and AMD Geode CPU PC runs sometimes 4 applications.
Just think about how many applications you were running 5 years ago or even 10 years ago.
No, you pay once for the service to view the content on your TV and another time to view the content on your PC.
It's like when you buy a movie on DVD, you will have to buy the movie again to watch in HD using blu-ray, than you pay again to watch the movie on your Ipod. You get different content even if it looks the same.
Btw, you should sent at least an email to Comcast so they can explain to you why should pay twice for content that looks the same. I just sent an email too AT&T since they are also paying for this BS.
Aren't those according to Apple only upgrades?
Apple doesn't "sell" OS X separately. You have to buy the computer with the software directly from them. You can probably compare an Apple PC to the Xbox 360. They both include a browser and other software but you can't buy the software without the console.
I don't know about your mother but mine started with a $150 Linux computer. I did set up Thunderbird and Firefox for her and she didn't have too many problems with it.
After a year a telephone system was connected to her computer that only ran under Windows and I switched her over to Windows XP. She noticed that it looked different but it also worked the same way since she still used Firefox and Thunderbird. She had more Problems with XP because some of the things installed on Linux like a PDF viewer wasn't installed by default but that can easily installed.
The next PC for her will probably be again a Linux PC since the telephone system died a year ago and I'm sure that she will be able to use it like she was able to use it a few years ago.
I'm a German living in the USA and I had to renew my passport just a few months ago. The last time I could just do the passport renewing by mail but now with the biometric fingerprints you have to drive to one of 5 locations in the USA of which most are in the southern parts. Luckily I was only 5 hours away from the place but there is a high chance that people will have to travel through a few states to get their passport renewed now. At least I only have to do that again in 7 years.
Plant some fast growing trees and you will see savings within a few years. You might be able to paint the roof with a white ceramic paint made for roofs (depends on the roof type) to save a good amount of money. Those solutions are cheaper than adding more insulation and replacing windows.
Big homes and bad insulation causes so high electric costs. My mother just moved out of an old mobile home into a small stone house (two children moved out and house prices were finally lower). The electric cost of around $250-450 is now at around $100 for her in a stone house instead of a bad insulated mobile home. It will be interesting to see how much she will have to pay in the summer when the a/c has to run more but I bet it won't be more than $200 which would still be lower than the best time of the year in the mobile home.
Sounds pretty normal such a high failure rate. I went to a community college and every semester the classes got smaller and fewer of the higher classes got tough than the intro classes. After that at a University it was the same way. At the beginning multiple full classes but at the end maybe 15 people left and those higher classes were offered only every second semester instead of every semester.
I believe that people just find out that they studied something that they didn't really have interest in and changed majors to other programs. I guess Computer Networking sounds cool first but boring when people take the classes and I know a lot of people that think that it is boring.
I believe that the AM2+ socket motherboards will last for a long time. If I remember right will the AM3 CPUs be compatible with the AM2 and AM2+ motherboard as the AM2+ CPUs were compatible with AM2 motherboards while only small features were missing when using an older socket with a newer CPU.
I have a friend that will start his Master degree in Computer Engineering in Germany at a University in 2 months. The University offers classes in English and German. Not only is it cheaper for him to study in Germany instead of staying in Florida but he also said the school offers much better classes than what he found within the US because only half is theory. I guess in 2 years I will find out if his choice was a good one.
The website of the school is http://www-englisch.fh-hof.de/
Just buy an Acer Aspire One with the 6 cell battery (or buy a 9 cell battery). The 6 cell battery version last 5-6 hours and only uses 13 Watt. If that isn't enough than you can put some solar panels on the back and you can probably double the time.
INAL, but I took 2 law classes for my Master degree (in IT).
When you buy something and it doesn't present you with the license before the purchase than you bought the product but you normally still have to click "I agree" before using the software. Which means you are not bound to the license until that point. You can resell the product even if the license says you can't if you didn't click "I agree".
The problem now would be returning the product. In some states it went to court to decide if you can return bought products if you didn't agree with the license. In some of those states you are by law allowed to return the software and in some you aren't. I don't remember in which state it went to court with which outcome and in which states it is still a gray area.
In the case of Psystar, I'm assuming they have to agree to the license to install the software or at least the users of Psystar computers after first starting the computer.
I got 3 PCs with different types of CPUs.
First I got my "old" AMD 64 3000+ for gaming.
Second I got a Athlon 64 X2 4850e which uses 45W max which I use for long downloads and as HTPC.
And third I got a Acer Aspire One (with Intel Atom) which I use for normal surfing and to connect to routers/switches at work. The power supply only supports 30 watt which makes me believe that the laptop uses probably around 20 watt.
Even my mother that only checks emails and surfs the web uses a power saving CPU. A AMD Geode CPU that only uses 9 watt.
People should just buy the best CPU for the job they try to accomplish instead of buying the power hungry CPUs if they don't need them.
That might have been true with old CRT monitors but LCD monitors are more efficient. I once measured the power usage of my 19" CRT monitor (that is Energy 2000 certified) to my 37" (almost twice the size) LCD TV. The LCD TV was using 10watts less electricity.
Even with that I still can't convince myself to get a LCD monitor to replace the "old" CRT. It will take years to see any savings from replacing the monitor.
I went for the last 2 years of High School to a special school that was a High School and College at the same time (funding shared between 2 counties and sponsored by Microsoft, Cisco and local companies). At that school every classroom had computers for every student but which helped the most was that the teachers had a computer with a projector on a touch screen background. The teacher were able to better present information to the students using the projectors that most often had powerpoint presentations that the teachers often prepared themselves (and sometimes provided by the book publishers). The computers in front of the students might have helped a little but for 90% of the general education classes they didn't help.
The best way to help public schools with technology in my opinion is teaching the teachers how to use it and give them a projector and a computer in the classrooms.
Or you buy a gamepad or even steering wheel for the games. I did that before even game consoles got popular...
The same way do game consoles slowly support more keyboards and mice.
Maybe some other people also haven seen the anime "Planetes" that is about space debris collectors because too much stuff was lost in space that it was dangerous with all the stuff flying around.
Lets say it starts with a screw flying at high speed at a space ship that went "boom".
It might really become a problem in the future.
I'm not sure when Winamp put some of the features in but having a music library to search music and hot key support is very important to me. (I believe that was Winamp 2 in 1998) I just switched back to Winamp because I remembered how good Winamp was and how much Itunes sucked after reading this article.
The newest Winamp version can also sync with my Ipod (and other mp3 players) which is important if you don't want to use Itunes just for syncing music.
Sounds to me like antitrust.
Wikipedia also links to "Competition law" which lists three main elements of antitrust.
The first one is "prohibiting agreements or practices that restrict free trading and competition between business entities".
Doesn't Apple prohibit free trade by not allowing the competitor to compete?
Source used: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_law
I still remember when suprnova closed down and they started development on eXeem which sounds to be exactly what they are trying to do here. That project didn't even last for a year.
I believe that those researchers will fail the same way as eXeem failed.
Just to clarify something. BlatantRipoff is right about the 12% usage with the 2007 Zogby poll.
Aladrin is also right about the 15% but those come from the Kaiser Family Foundation poll from 2004. Different organizations at different times did the polls.
Wouldn't that mean that the FCC can start to reduce censorship on TV since every parent could do the censorship if they wanted to do it (but only 12% use it)?