Well those 8 sure are a great counter example. In fact, their popularity must explain why bandwidth usage remained high after the illegal torrent hosts shut down.
What's that? Bandwidth usage plummeted after the illegal torrent hosts shut down?
Gee, it's almost as if legal P2P usage is a tiny, insignificant amount compared to the enormous amount of illegal use.
But I'd never say that, because the/. HiveMind has decided that it's Flamebait (-1)
Presumably all the thousands and thousands of P2P sites that were mainly concerned with P2P's legitimate uses are all still running. Right? Right?... Whaddya mean "there weren't any"?
We generally have to pay for local calls, but they are very cheap.
Here in the UK one can get free local calls in exchange for a greater monthly subscription/line rental. Unsurprisingly, this increased line rental is very similar to what Americans pay for exactly the same service.
Oh, and my mobile get free calls to any land line (and mobiles on Vodaphone), after 7:30 in the evening.
This does a little bit to explain why my friends in the US often say "SMS? Whats SMS?".
None of my British friends know what SMS is, either. And if you asked them, they'd probably send each other hundreds of text messages in order to find out who does know:)
Sure it is. Here's a clue for you -- a site which is about 1000 places above slashdot in Alexa's TrafficRank is unlikely to be brought down by the slashdot effect.
This is a very naive assumption because it entir ely ignores administrative overhead that must always be included with salaries.
No, I wasn't really. I was saying "80 astrophysicists", because it was easier to type than "6 astrophysicists, 12 postdocs, 2 sysadmins, 2 secretaries, 2 security guards..."
Sure. But if you cut that number down to 10, you can keep them warm and dry, and stocked up with computers (which, let's be honest) do not need replacing every year.
$4.2 million dollars to analyse incoming data? You could employ 80 PhD astrophysicists for a year for that much. Surely there's not so much information coming back as to require that much computer time?
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... the breakdown of that million by operating system?
You never know, it might be a nice bit of PR for some Apple/Linux/BSD organisation to casually slip into a Press Release.
What's that? Bandwidth usage plummeted after the illegal torrent hosts shut down?
Gee, it's almost as if legal P2P usage is a tiny, insignificant amount compared to the enormous amount of illegal use.
But I'd never say that, because the /. HiveMind has decided that it's Flamebait (-1)
Presumably all the thousands and thousands of P2P sites that were mainly concerned with P2P's legitimate uses are all still running. Right? Right? ... Whaddya mean "there weren't any"?
Hopefully not 2010. That could only be a bad thing. I hope they attempt no landings there.
BT Talk Together used to have 200 minutes/month free local calls.
Now, as you say, it seems they've gone over to free national calls under an hour. I haven't used either since I got on my present mobile plan.
Oh, and my mobile get free calls to any land line (and mobiles on Vodaphone), after 7:30 in the evening.
Wow.
That news story is nearly as interesting and informative as it was three farking days ago.
Really, I can. No problem at all. And any other page at guardian.co.uk
Looks like the logjam's at your end.
As the man said: "Don't forget Poland..."
That's a seriously cool word. Better than "web surfer" or "'netter". I say we port it to English immediately.
.. it's so expensive?
$4.2 million dollars to analyse incoming data? You could employ 80 PhD astrophysicists for a year for that much. Surely there's not so much information coming back as to require that much computer time?
I'm not trolling, I'd just love to know.