Cutting this customer off is like cutting off an infected limb to save the entire organism. It's quick and simple, but more complicated solutions involving medication, research and development, and (Oh no!) Work could leave the patient with the use of that limb.
The better solution would be to implement a reverse speed booster. So many companies are promoting this new feature to their customers. It's simple. If you're downloading a file, the first minute or so works very quickly, then slows down to the speed at which your ISP quoted you when you bought their service. In this way your smaller files can come to you much faster, while users such as Ryan Howard are kept in check.
Go one step further then. Users who use reams of bandwidth consistently for their bit torrents or netflix or whatever-the-hell-hulu-is, can remain customers with their speeds capped.
Probably the best way to do this would be on a per-connection basis. If your 30 connections to some bit-torrent swarm are using most of your bandwidth, they can be throttled but the short-lived http connections to slashdot.org (who reads that anyway?) can run at full burst speed, expiring before the throttle timer kicks in. Meanwhile, your long-lived connections to a game site might use lower amounts of bandwidth and require no throttling. The results could be no inturrupted service for anyone, especially those light users who are tired of your kids slowing the neighborhood cable node to a crawl at 3:02pm with youtube.
The only problem is, the ISP would have to spend money to develop such a system, and probably purchase new and more hardware to implement it. Far easier to pay someone for 20 minutes to lecture you on bandwidth usage and then terminate your service.
No. I think in this case 10 microinches won't make a difference if you are the giver or the taker. No one's going to notice a damn thing. As long as you keep her drunk she won't spread rumors the next day. Or if you're drunk you can say you fell asleep before.. uh. Well you get the idea.
Sony has stolen Microsoft's difficult development strategy and it's patented.
So strange to see this story after half a decade of seeing the windows environment be so blunt and difficult to work with compared to its competitors. DLL this and install-wizard that.
Apparently Sony felt Xbox should follow suit but it's nice to see for a change that the software giant is trying to make it easy for developers for a change.
Not that I'm cheering for M$... just that it's good for the industry.
Simply Beautiful.
I love revolutionary thinking. It gets me giddy. What freedom we have was built upon it and it will be built upon it again. Any government with dissonant thoughts which must be repressed is (in my mind) by definition not legitimate.
I support any method of expression of opinion, congregation and political discussion, even for extremist groups, for the very reason the quoter of Churchill has stated. Granted, as many posters on this topic have suggested, perhaps Egypt has a situation which is not ready for this kind of willy-nilly freedom being thrown about like barrels of aqueous sodium-hydroxide marked "Wasser". Indeed, the people may not have sufficient piss-and-vinegar to defuse the caustic situation that could erupt from the severely contrasted political views which are present.
Nonetheless, you would think that after 28 years of needing a license for congregation, they would have come up with some sort of solution. After all, if I wanted to have four friends plus my same-gender OR opposite-gender sexual partner over to smoke a few blunts and possibly have premarital sex in privacy or a group setting, that should be my choice and I certainly wouldn't want to describe that sort of thing on the reason for my seeking a license to do so. Ah yes. Freedom is a beautiful thing.
Let us pray to Allah or Jesus or whoever you might choose or choose not to believe in, that the next revolution that graces us causes the invention of a device as lovely as the guillotine.
No one asked you to flame my post. It was simply a satirical comment likening the selection of clothing to the greater influences on the minds of youth. Sorry you missed that.
I don't know about all of you folks, but to me viewing a stream defeats the purpose of having it on ones computer. I will personally be looking for downloadable recordings in divx or somesuch which I can burn to optical disk and save for later. Inauguration, the speech from today, and all of his other speeches too. Any tips on where to look would be appreciated.
We need... we must... we we we.
As if we are in control. Government policies have long been dictated by who has money. Lobbyists do not wear sweats and a tshirt with sneakers. They wear very expensive suits with dress shoes, and carry briefcases whose value could feed most of us for a month.
There are far more pressing matters with different avenues of achievement than fixing tax havens which "WE" must do.
(or pretending to work in non-productive jobs like marketing or politics or the military)
Best not forget mandatory (and wasteful) recycling, lawyers, accountants who do no more than seek out tax loopholes, and the awe inspiring lawsuit/settlement spongers.
Taxes of a modern age are things which only middle class and poor people pay. The reason for this is simple: rich people, affluent corporations, and anyone with a significant amount of money (which is who taxes were argued to take money from) do something very simply; they pay an accountant to find every tax loophole, make charitable donations, and balance revenue with expenses in such a way as to reduce the taxes they pay to as close to zero as possible.
The actual physical damage of electricution is usually very minor
His burns were not minor. Doubtless, neither was the electricity he was burned by. Tens of thousands of volts and tens of thousands of amps. Household current is really nothing to get excited about, and all it does is make all the nerves in your hand go crazy. Muscles twitch, and you feel like you're in deep water, hot, cold, pain, and ticklish all at the same time. Lots of fun. Don't try it on your tongue to see if you can taste every-flavor-beans.
Fatalities are only caused by, as stated before, vital organ damage. A circuit through the heart, brain, or spinal cord can disrupt the heart or other aspects of the autonomous system which keeps us breathing when unconscious. Coincidentally it also keeps our underpants clean, which makes for fun times for emergency workers when it fails.
Censorship is just splitting information into that which is deemed acceptable for grown civilised adults to view/read without losing their minds, vs. that which only the extra-grown, extra-civilised censors can view/read without losing their minds.
That's a charitable assumption. This censorship could also be political, malicious, or for that matter completely random. Note that the IWF refuse to discuss details of what specifically led them to blacklist Wayback, other than the usual non-answer of "think of the children".
If (correction, when) the nuLabour regime feel like making any particular group unPersons, they could pick up the phone to the IWF, remind them that regulation is better than legislation, and have anything they like censored, opaquely and without oversight or appeal. Anyone who questions the IWF axiomatically likes kiddie porn, remember.
It's about control. Should we have the right to decide for ourselves what kinds of information we choose to view, or will it be done for us? Should they decide what we can and cannot learn, enjoy, and post, or can we have permission to learn to do that for ourselves?
A rating system can help parents provide censorship for their kids and thus teach them this valuable skill. This is not censorship. Its a rating system. Information regarding the content of a particular piece of media. If it could be standardized with parental controls across TV, Movies, Internet, and Music, then it might actually become a useful tool for parents who honestly don't want to watch the things their kids want to watch before they watch them in order to determine if they are "okay". Parental censorship, rating limits, and tools like the V-chip are not dangerous in a political sense. They suck if your parents block the porn on your TV and you wanna watch a movie with boobies, but face it, you're a kid.
For us adults who will watch whatever we choose, even if it's a horse and a lady, then censorship can become dangerous. First it starts with child porn, which is wrong in my mind for only one reason: the safety of the children who were exploited in order to produce such media. The same goes for gore and execution videos. Yes people watch this trash, and so it should be their right if they are adults consenting to be subjected to it. But the production of such media is harmful to... well the people who get killed. Nuff said.
The danger arises when someone cannot go view the communist party website, or neonazi publications, or some such information. This information does not hurt anyone to produce. The "harm" comes from reading the information and deciding that the current government is unsuitable and must be ousted. Radical thinking is a requirement for freedom to exist, and it must exist right alongside the conformists. Varying political views are just another facet of freedom, and the dissemination of information, discussion, and platforms of such views is vital to a free society, just as much as the freedom of religion, and the freedom from religion. I would rather be whipped and forced to build a pyramid for 30 years than to be told how to think
While my comment seemed acidic and pessimistic, I must say "good for you". Raising your own kids holds the key to many solutions plaguing our society. You are clearly proven wrong about who is a minority by reams of evidence all around North America. Simply look at the trends of clothing selection of the youth versus the working adults. For some reason it seems that adults are not adorning themselves by the thousand in clothing lineups endorsed by rappers and rock stars.
Perhaps you are in one of those tight and mythical circles of people with brains and cares, but I think it is instead a blind over-exaggeration of your own influence upon the actual behavior of your kids.
You're right about the tarring all with one brush concept. But it seems you have a seriously wrong idea about the proportions of those who remain ignorant of what is actually raising their kids versus those who are taking very careful interest in the ideas in the developing minds. Come and visit some communities I have seen and lived in and we'll set you right.
Sounds less useful than the BAT 7 key keyboard. Chording and modifiers make it possible to type very quickly and with one hand. I wanted one so that I could type while gaming. Then I got a mic and ventrilo.
fast clip in the wrong direction (last stop 1984?).
I think it's readily apparent that this fast clip was well on its way by the end of the second world war and the hand on the tiller determining that direction (right or wrong is purely opinion in any particular vector's direction) is firmly in place and has eyes fixed upon the horizon above the bow, and it so happens the hand firmly on the pull-cord ordering more steam.
Mayhap if the blind shovelers of coal were educated in the nature of navigation and informed of that direction, somehow the outcome could be altered.
All discussion aside, opinions, reasoning, solutions, workarounds, and moot points, let us all who are interested in this issue pay careful attention to this list which the BKA is maintaining. Much will be learned by simply examining the particulars of who they wish to censor.
So that's when you use the drop down and save as "Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP (.doc)"
The point of the post you are replying to is to illustrate that the students are in fact ignorant of this necessity, mostly because the profs are ignorant to the fact that they must inform them of the difference.
In short, it's a way to sell the new "improved" version.
Long live the mac! I personally have been able to cope with most problems outlined by agrounds since I have only a mac and no windows machine available. I'd love to help find a working solution for you, but it seems the one you have now is good enough. If you want to mail me at gmail.com I will do my best.
We all know the stance of Micro$oft in this matter. Working as intended. Incompatibility is their greatest marketing technique and it works great since they hold a huge market share, but it's causing them to lose ground. However, I noticed none of the other software companies or the makers of products mention in this thread have 19 billion "Cash On Hand" on their financial statements.
Oops. My mistake. Apple has 24/cheer
Still, Microsoft has 28% profit margin versus Apple's 14. Microsoft has marketing genius to be doing what they're doing and not go bankrupt.
The specs you are referring to are obviously dependent on a predetermined voltage. If you double the voltage, (or add 70% in the case of two leg three phase circuits), you will likely exceed the allowable rating for the device you are using. If a power strip is certified to run at only 120V, then you may not use a higher voltage. Since I've never had such a device in my hands to inspect, I don't know if they have several ratings for given voltages. Some devices state their maximum wattage allowed for 120V, 208V as well as 240V, and some for even more.
What it comes down to is amps, hands down. A wire of yay big can hold so many amps before it melts its insulation and shorts or starts a fire. I have seen the results of this and it's scary. (Circuit breaker failed to trip on an overloaded circuit. Panel caught fire, insulation melted and shorted. 3000A fault current is fun.)
Also, the entire device must be constructed with insulation and interior devices such as plugs, which is rated for the voltage(s) which it will be carrying. If you use 600V insulation on the wires and 250V rated interior fixtures, you can probably seek to have the device as a whole rated for dual voltages. If you use 1000V insulation on the wires, and plugs or switches and circuit breakers rated for only 120V, then there you have it. No 240V rating for you.
To emphasize the fact that there will NOT be a reduction in power strips, I'd like to theorize that no one is going to install racks en masse or even singularly with two data strips of say 10kW having 20 plugs each when their rack is going to require 20kW for 20 servers. (Ignoring the dual UPS, dual redundant PSUs per server). Putting 40 plugins in an enclosure that has only 20 plugs to connect is a serious waste of money when you could easily get a strip with 20 plugs rated for 20kW, or two strips with 10 plugs each rated for 10kW each. This leads me to ask how do you cut down on the number of power strips when the voltage is doubled and the wattage capacity of each strip is therefore doubled (assuming they are rated for it).
One final point I must bring up that throws a serious wrench into the entire 240VAC argument. In North America there are standardized plugs for varying voltages, amperages, as well as number of phases. For the installation to remain legal in the eyes of the electrical regulators, you may not connect 240V to a 120V receptacle, be it hardwired or power strip. So, if you want to convert an existing installation to 240V at all, that's a NEW power strip, and NEW power cord. Who really cares if you save 300-1000 bucks per month on electricity and cooling when it costs a quarter million dollars to convert existing equipment to a new system.
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Cutting this customer off is like cutting off an infected limb to save the entire organism. It's quick and simple, but more complicated solutions involving medication, research and development, and (Oh no!) Work could leave the patient with the use of that limb.
The better solution would be to implement a reverse speed booster. So many companies are promoting this new feature to their customers. It's simple. If you're downloading a file, the first minute or so works very quickly, then slows down to the speed at which your ISP quoted you when you bought their service. In this way your smaller files can come to you much faster, while users such as Ryan Howard are kept in check.
Go one step further then. Users who use reams of bandwidth consistently for their bit torrents or netflix or whatever-the-hell-hulu-is, can remain customers with their speeds capped.
Probably the best way to do this would be on a per-connection basis. If your 30 connections to some bit-torrent swarm are using most of your bandwidth, they can be throttled but the short-lived http connections to slashdot.org (who reads that anyway?) can run at full burst speed, expiring before the throttle timer kicks in. Meanwhile, your long-lived connections to a game site might use lower amounts of bandwidth and require no throttling. The results could be no inturrupted service for anyone, especially those light users who are tired of your kids slowing the neighborhood cable node to a crawl at 3:02pm with youtube.
The only problem is, the ISP would have to spend money to develop such a system, and probably purchase new and more hardware to implement it. Far easier to pay someone for 20 minutes to lecture you on bandwidth usage and then terminate your service.
No. I think in this case 10 microinches won't make a difference if you are the giver or the taker. No one's going to notice a damn thing. As long as you keep her drunk she won't spread rumors the next day. Or if you're drunk you can say you fell asleep before.. uh. Well you get the idea.
Sony has stolen Microsoft's difficult development strategy and it's patented. So strange to see this story after half a decade of seeing the windows environment be so blunt and difficult to work with compared to its competitors. DLL this and install-wizard that. Apparently Sony felt Xbox should follow suit but it's nice to see for a change that the software giant is trying to make it easy for developers for a change. Not that I'm cheering for M$... just that it's good for the industry.
Simply Beautiful. I love revolutionary thinking. It gets me giddy. What freedom we have was built upon it and it will be built upon it again. Any government with dissonant thoughts which must be repressed is (in my mind) by definition not legitimate. I support any method of expression of opinion, congregation and political discussion, even for extremist groups, for the very reason the quoter of Churchill has stated. Granted, as many posters on this topic have suggested, perhaps Egypt has a situation which is not ready for this kind of willy-nilly freedom being thrown about like barrels of aqueous sodium-hydroxide marked "Wasser". Indeed, the people may not have sufficient piss-and-vinegar to defuse the caustic situation that could erupt from the severely contrasted political views which are present. Nonetheless, you would think that after 28 years of needing a license for congregation, they would have come up with some sort of solution. After all, if I wanted to have four friends plus my same-gender OR opposite-gender sexual partner over to smoke a few blunts and possibly have premarital sex in privacy or a group setting, that should be my choice and I certainly wouldn't want to describe that sort of thing on the reason for my seeking a license to do so. Ah yes. Freedom is a beautiful thing. Let us pray to Allah or Jesus or whoever you might choose or choose not to believe in, that the next revolution that graces us causes the invention of a device as lovely as the guillotine.
No one asked you to flame my post. It was simply a satirical comment likening the selection of clothing to the greater influences on the minds of youth. Sorry you missed that.
I don't know about all of you folks, but to me viewing a stream defeats the purpose of having it on ones computer. I will personally be looking for downloadable recordings in divx or somesuch which I can burn to optical disk and save for later. Inauguration, the speech from today, and all of his other speeches too. Any tips on where to look would be appreciated.
So let's not kid ourselves and pretend that MS has a monopoly on the Internet.
kthnx.
YOU MEAN THEY DON'T?! OMG!!!
We need... we must... we we we. As if we are in control. Government policies have long been dictated by who has money. Lobbyists do not wear sweats and a tshirt with sneakers. They wear very expensive suits with dress shoes, and carry briefcases whose value could feed most of us for a month. There are far more pressing matters with different avenues of achievement than fixing tax havens which "WE" must do.
(or pretending to work in non-productive jobs like marketing or politics or the military)
Best not forget mandatory (and wasteful) recycling, lawyers, accountants who do no more than seek out tax loopholes, and the awe inspiring lawsuit/settlement spongers.
Taxes of a modern age are things which only middle class and poor people pay. The reason for this is simple: rich people, affluent corporations, and anyone with a significant amount of money (which is who taxes were argued to take money from) do something very simply; they pay an accountant to find every tax loophole, make charitable donations, and balance revenue with expenses in such a way as to reduce the taxes they pay to as close to zero as possible.
The actual physical damage of electricution is usually very minor
His burns were not minor. Doubtless, neither was the electricity he was burned by. Tens of thousands of volts and tens of thousands of amps. Household current is really nothing to get excited about, and all it does is make all the nerves in your hand go crazy. Muscles twitch, and you feel like you're in deep water, hot, cold, pain, and ticklish all at the same time. Lots of fun. Don't try it on your tongue to see if you can taste every-flavor-beans. Fatalities are only caused by, as stated before, vital organ damage. A circuit through the heart, brain, or spinal cord can disrupt the heart or other aspects of the autonomous system which keeps us breathing when unconscious. Coincidentally it also keeps our underpants clean, which makes for fun times for emergency workers when it fails.
That's a charitable assumption. This censorship could also be political, malicious, or for that matter completely random. Note that the IWF refuse to discuss details of what specifically led them to blacklist Wayback, other than the usual non-answer of "think of the children".
If (correction, when) the nuLabour regime feel like making any particular group unPersons, they could pick up the phone to the IWF, remind them that regulation is better than legislation, and have anything they like censored, opaquely and without oversight or appeal. Anyone who questions the IWF axiomatically likes kiddie porn, remember.
It's about control. Should we have the right to decide for ourselves what kinds of information we choose to view, or will it be done for us? Should they decide what we can and cannot learn, enjoy, and post, or can we have permission to learn to do that for ourselves?
A rating system can help parents provide censorship for their kids and thus teach them this valuable skill. This is not censorship. Its a rating system. Information regarding the content of a particular piece of media. If it could be standardized with parental controls across TV, Movies, Internet, and Music, then it might actually become a useful tool for parents who honestly don't want to watch the things their kids want to watch before they watch them in order to determine if they are "okay". Parental censorship, rating limits, and tools like the V-chip are not dangerous in a political sense. They suck if your parents block the porn on your TV and you wanna watch a movie with boobies, but face it, you're a kid.
For us adults who will watch whatever we choose, even if it's a horse and a lady, then censorship can become dangerous. First it starts with child porn, which is wrong in my mind for only one reason: the safety of the children who were exploited in order to produce such media. The same goes for gore and execution videos. Yes people watch this trash, and so it should be their right if they are adults consenting to be subjected to it. But the production of such media is harmful to... well the people who get killed. Nuff said.
The danger arises when someone cannot go view the communist party website, or neonazi publications, or some such information. This information does not hurt anyone to produce. The "harm" comes from reading the information and deciding that the current government is unsuitable and must be ousted. Radical thinking is a requirement for freedom to exist, and it must exist right alongside the conformists. Varying political views are just another facet of freedom, and the dissemination of information, discussion, and platforms of such views is vital to a free society, just as much as the freedom of religion, and the freedom from religion. I would rather be whipped and forced to build a pyramid for 30 years than to be told how to think
While my comment seemed acidic and pessimistic, I must say "good for you". Raising your own kids holds the key to many solutions plaguing our society. You are clearly proven wrong about who is a minority by reams of evidence all around North America. Simply look at the trends of clothing selection of the youth versus the working adults. For some reason it seems that adults are not adorning themselves by the thousand in clothing lineups endorsed by rappers and rock stars.
Perhaps you are in one of those tight and mythical circles of people with brains and cares, but I think it is instead a blind over-exaggeration of your own influence upon the actual behavior of your kids.
You're right about the tarring all with one brush concept. But it seems you have a seriously wrong idea about the proportions of those who remain ignorant of what is actually raising their kids versus those who are taking very careful interest in the ideas in the developing minds. Come and visit some communities I have seen and lived in and we'll set you right.
Sounds less useful than the BAT 7 key keyboard. Chording and modifiers make it possible to type very quickly and with one hand. I wanted one so that I could type while gaming. Then I got a mic and ventrilo.
If the governments want to do anything, they should make the parents responsible for their kids and them selves
This is quite clearly the opposite of what the government wants to do.
Kids aren't raised by parents today, and the average teacher doesn't do much of that either. Kids are raised by TV, computer, and video games.
fast clip in the wrong direction (last stop 1984?).
I think it's readily apparent that this fast clip was well on its way by the end of the second world war and the hand on the tiller determining that direction (right or wrong is purely opinion in any particular vector's direction) is firmly in place and has eyes fixed upon the horizon above the bow, and it so happens the hand firmly on the pull-cord ordering more steam. Mayhap if the blind shovelers of coal were educated in the nature of navigation and informed of that direction, somehow the outcome could be altered.
All discussion aside, opinions, reasoning, solutions, workarounds, and moot points, let us all who are interested in this issue pay careful attention to this list which the BKA is maintaining. Much will be learned by simply examining the particulars of who they wish to censor.
Would love a URL to any such site. If not, wanna get together and make such a site?
Let's remember to distinguish between flavors of Windows, shall we?
Why? They all taste like catshit and molasses.
I don't wanna have her. You can keep her. I just wanna F*($ her.
Lawsuits keep lawyers informed! That's good for the economy!
So that's when you use the drop down and save as "Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP (.doc)"
The point of the post you are replying to is to illustrate that the students are in fact ignorant of this necessity, mostly because the profs are ignorant to the fact that they must inform them of the difference. In short, it's a way to sell the new "improved" version.
Long live the mac! I personally have been able to cope with most problems outlined by agrounds since I have only a mac and no windows machine available. I'd love to help find a working solution for you, but it seems the one you have now is good enough. If you want to mail me at gmail.com I will do my best.
We all know the stance of Micro$oft in this matter. Working as intended. Incompatibility is their greatest marketing technique and it works great since they hold a huge market share, but it's causing them to lose ground. However, I noticed none of the other software companies or the makers of products mention in this thread have 19 billion "Cash On Hand" on their financial statements. Oops. My mistake. Apple has 24 /cheer
Still, Microsoft has 28% profit margin versus Apple's 14. Microsoft has marketing genius to be doing what they're doing and not go bankrupt.
The specs you are referring to are obviously dependent on a predetermined voltage. If you double the voltage, (or add 70% in the case of two leg three phase circuits), you will likely exceed the allowable rating for the device you are using. If a power strip is certified to run at only 120V, then you may not use a higher voltage. Since I've never had such a device in my hands to inspect, I don't know if they have several ratings for given voltages. Some devices state their maximum wattage allowed for 120V, 208V as well as 240V, and some for even more.
What it comes down to is amps, hands down. A wire of yay big can hold so many amps before it melts its insulation and shorts or starts a fire. I have seen the results of this and it's scary. (Circuit breaker failed to trip on an overloaded circuit. Panel caught fire, insulation melted and shorted. 3000A fault current is fun.)
Also, the entire device must be constructed with insulation and interior devices such as plugs, which is rated for the voltage(s) which it will be carrying. If you use 600V insulation on the wires and 250V rated interior fixtures, you can probably seek to have the device as a whole rated for dual voltages. If you use 1000V insulation on the wires, and plugs or switches and circuit breakers rated for only 120V, then there you have it. No 240V rating for you.
To emphasize the fact that there will NOT be a reduction in power strips, I'd like to theorize that no one is going to install racks en masse or even singularly with two data strips of say 10kW having 20 plugs each when their rack is going to require 20kW for 20 servers. (Ignoring the dual UPS, dual redundant PSUs per server). Putting 40 plugins in an enclosure that has only 20 plugs to connect is a serious waste of money when you could easily get a strip with 20 plugs rated for 20kW, or two strips with 10 plugs each rated for 10kW each. This leads me to ask how do you cut down on the number of power strips when the voltage is doubled and the wattage capacity of each strip is therefore doubled (assuming they are rated for it).
One final point I must bring up that throws a serious wrench into the entire 240VAC argument. In North America there are standardized plugs for varying voltages, amperages, as well as number of phases. For the installation to remain legal in the eyes of the electrical regulators, you may not connect 240V to a 120V receptacle, be it hardwired or power strip. So, if you want to convert an existing installation to 240V at all, that's a NEW power strip, and NEW power cord. Who really cares if you save 300-1000 bucks per month on electricity and cooling when it costs a quarter million dollars to convert existing equipment to a new system.