I just noticed Hughesnet has a download time when you can grab as much as you want..... from 2am to 7am, so that essentially kills your objection. You can download half a TV season (10 episodes) during those five hours.
>>>you shut off your PC at night.
"Shut"? "Off"? What is this of which you speak?;-)
If you're doing lots of OS downloads (like Linux every 6 months), then move somewhere closer to the city that has DSL or Cable internet. Most users don't have that problem. They just surf the net. And even if they did hit the limit, it's not as if they are cutoff..... the speed just slows down until the day ends.
Also even if satellite was still limited to dial UP speed, so what? Again most users don't upload much. The 512k/48k connection would be just fine.
Back to topic -
Opera Mini sounds like a browser worth trying out. If it really does squash webpages then maybe it would not use that much data (less than 100k per page) and keep my Cellular costs low.
hunter2 is "very good" according to my password strength meter. Add a "$" and then it will be strong. (Supposedly)
I get tired of changing passwords because I tend to forget the new one. I'd rather just keep it. For crucial things like banking or stocks, then I'll use a separate unique PASS and then lock it in a safe for future referral.
>>>More likely the RIAA/MPAA/BSA/TLA took a sampling of total users connected to a popular torrent and compared that to the total people downloading pirated material from BitTorrent and then extrapolated that to the entire US population to show that everyone's a pirate. >>>
That's essentially how the US Census arrived at the "42.5 million uninsured" stat. Except their sampling came from ~5000 mail-in surveys multiplied by 60,000 to arrive at that number..... non-scientific at best and wholly inaccurate. That's one of the flaws with our government: It uses numbers that are about as reliable as guessing.
Or else they design the data collection to produce the result they want, such as the FCC Broadband test which is generating slower speeds than what people actually get. They clocked me at 450kbit/s when I really have 750k. The FCC will assume I am "broadband poor" but in reality I'm happy with what I've got.
In any case:
I don't trust these GAO piracy numbers. They are biased, nonscientific, and inflated. But sadly they'll problably be quoted by politicians during the election, in order to justify why the ACTA Treaty needs to be passed.
It makes me think about the Great Debate. Ya know, that question that makes all classic gamers flame and troll one another: Which had the largest cart? N64 or Neo-Geo? I side with the N64 at 64 megabytes (RE2 with videos).
Also: Which console had the longest life (i.e. longest time being manufactured)? I side with the Atari 2600 at 15 years (1977-1992).
Ask Iceland, Greece, and Poland if they agree. (Probably not.) There are benefits for Europe as a whole, but often at the expense of those smaller member states on the fringes.
First 100 GB might be $25, and each additional 100 GB would be $10. I consider that preferable to hitting some arbitrary limit, and then the company yanks access for a month to "punish" the user. Metering is preferable. People who barely use their connection pay $25 while those who watch Webtv 24/7 would pay around $100 due to their high usage. Everyone pays their fair share.
And I wouldn't worry about padding either. The phone, electric, natural gas, and gasoline companies don't pad their charges, so why would I suspect the internet company doing it? Besides it's easy enough to double-check with a software gigabyte meter, plus appropriate government oversight.
No, the last thing Deutsche Telkom would do is sue all the other ISPs with the claim of having an "exclusive license" thereby using government to drive those ISPs out of business, and leaving users with no place to go.
User pays their ISP for their connection Server owner pays their ISP for their connection. Server owner pays [users' ISP].
That's really what is going on. The user's ISP wants to double-dip by billing both the User and Google every time the user views a youtube video (or other google content). Greedy bastards.
My ISP *could* continue providing POP email and usenet newsgroups, but they have voluntarily chosen to drop them. So now I have to turn elsewhere. It's their own damn fault.
- Compete directly with a viable product, as google did with their widely popular youtube and search engine.
- Petition the government to fine, breakup, or otherwise damage your competition so you can introduce your OWN version of youtube/search engine instead of being "just a dumb pipe". In other words get Big Brother to help you beat-up the other guy, rather than compete fairly one-on-one.
- Google pays for internet access (even if Google owns the lines, there's still a cost they have to pay). - The viewers (us) also pay for internet access to Telefónica, Tele'com, Telekom, et cetera.
The end. Why should Google have to pay yet another additional fee? It makes no sense to me.
>>>SSDs are faster in a number of applications, but HDDs are crazy cheap at $0.10/GB or better
Precisely. It's why when you buy Mario Kart Wii, it comes on a cheap disc not a solid state cartridge. The disc can be mass-produced and is very simple, which is why it will always be cheaper than the more-complex chip-based storage.
And the "chiclet" keyboard. I'll bet that was hella fun.;-) I'm surprised IBM didn't learn from Atari which made the same mistake in 1979.
Anyway: I was looking for the PCjr on wikipedia and stumbled across the Coleco Adam. Basically a Colecovision upgraded to a computer. However due to poor sales (it cost about twice an Atari or Commodore) and poor design (the computer erased disks & tapes when booted), the Adam was a major flop.
Eventually Coleco went bankrupt. Commodore went bankrupt. Atari went bankrupt. It seems that building a computer in the early 80s was a curse that killed once great companies. Except Apple and RadioShack - they managed to survive (barely).
AAA of Maryland sued Washington DC for having lights that were too short. The result was a refund for the drivers who had been caught by this Revenue generation scheme, and DC ordered their contractor to make the yellows a long enough time so people could stop on yellow.
Well there should at least be an exception for Friday and Saturday nights. And you say there's nothing to do in S.Korea? Even in the middle of an Iowa cornfield kids can get themselves into trouble - I don't imagine it's any different over there. No games? The kids will go get drunk instead and screw the hot cheerleader.
Plus: The article says kids connections will be throttled after X number of hours. So a kid's having a long session on a Saturday and after hour 6 suddenly he's throttled to Dialup speeds? Ridiculous.
And why pick-on just games? Why not ban books too? Hell when I was a kid I used to read novels nonstop all day Saturday and Sunday. The horror. But I guess goofing-off with books is okay..... games are "scary" to adults and easy to demonize, even though games can be just as educational (problem solving, socializing, reading).
I'm not seeing it. It should be left to the Parents to decide what kids should be doing late at night, and I'd certainly prefer my kid be home during those hours, rather than outside getting into trouble.
Impressive. It's the same speed and size as my current laptop but with an Atom instead of a Pentium M. Can this Acer Aspire be safely upgraded to Windows 7?
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Okay. Then the largest N64 cart has 64 * 8 == 512 Mbit
>>>2. Greece and Poland are bigger than most EU members.
In size Wyoming is one the biggest US members, but it's near last in terms of economic size. Ditto Greece.
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I just noticed Hughesnet has a download time when you can grab as much as you want..... from 2am to 7am, so that essentially kills your objection. You can download half a TV season (10 episodes) during those five hours.
>>>you shut off your PC at night.
"Shut"? "Off"? What is this of which you speak? ;-)
If you're doing lots of OS downloads (like Linux every 6 months), then move somewhere closer to the city that has DSL or Cable internet. Most users don't have that problem. They just surf the net. And even if they did hit the limit, it's not as if they are cutoff..... the speed just slows down until the day ends.
Also even if satellite was still limited to dial UP speed, so what? Again most users don't upload much. The 512k/48k connection would be just fine.
Back to topic -
Opera Mini sounds like a browser worth trying out. If it really does squash webpages then maybe it would not use that much data (less than 100k per page) and keep my Cellular costs low.
hunter2 is "very good" according to my password strength meter. Add a "$" and then it will be strong. (Supposedly)
I get tired of changing passwords because I tend to forget the new one. I'd rather just keep it. For crucial things like banking or stocks, then I'll use a separate unique PASS and then lock it in a safe for future referral.
>>>More likely the RIAA/MPAA/BSA/TLA took a sampling of total users connected to a popular torrent and compared that to the total people downloading pirated material from BitTorrent and then extrapolated that to the entire US population to show that everyone's a pirate.
>>>
That's essentially how the US Census arrived at the "42.5 million uninsured" stat. Except their sampling came from ~5000 mail-in surveys multiplied by 60,000 to arrive at that number..... non-scientific at best and wholly inaccurate. That's one of the flaws with our government: It uses numbers that are about as reliable as guessing.
Or else they design the data collection to produce the result they want, such as the FCC Broadband test which is generating slower speeds than what people actually get. They clocked me at 450kbit/s when I really have 750k. The FCC will assume I am "broadband poor" but in reality I'm happy with what I've got.
In any case:
I don't trust these GAO piracy numbers. They are biased, nonscientific, and inflated. But sadly they'll problably be quoted by politicians during the election, in order to justify why the ACTA Treaty needs to be passed.
>>>it requires you to infer your own meaning
It makes me think about the Great Debate. Ya know, that question that makes all classic gamers flame and troll one another: Which had the largest cart? N64 or Neo-Geo? I side with the N64 at 64 megabytes (RE2 with videos).
Also: Which console had the longest life (i.e. longest time being manufactured)? I side with the Atari 2600 at 15 years (1977-1992).
How's that for inferring my own meaning? :-)
>>>economically its been a great success
Ask Iceland, Greece, and Poland if they agree. (Probably not.) There are benefits for Europe as a whole, but often at the expense of those smaller member states on the fringes.
I'd like to see a "per 100 GB" charge.
First 100 GB might be $25, and each additional 100 GB would be $10. I consider that preferable to hitting some arbitrary limit, and then the company yanks access for a month to "punish" the user. Metering is preferable. People who barely use their connection pay $25 while those who watch Webtv 24/7 would pay around $100 due to their high usage. Everyone pays their fair share.
And I wouldn't worry about padding either. The phone, electric, natural gas, and gasoline companies don't pad their charges, so why would I suspect the internet company doing it? Besides it's easy enough to double-check with a software gigabyte meter, plus appropriate government oversight.
No, the last thing Deutsche Telkom would do is sue all the other ISPs with the claim of having an "exclusive license" thereby using government to drive those ISPs out of business, and leaving users with no place to go.
A monopoly is dangerous.
Minor fix:
User pays their ISP for their connection
Server owner pays their ISP for their connection.
Server owner pays [users' ISP].
That's really what is going on. The user's ISP wants to double-dip by billing both the User and Google every time the user views a youtube video (or other google content). Greedy bastards.
Ironically, this is the ISPs' own fault.
My ISP *could* continue providing POP email and usenet newsgroups, but they have voluntarily chosen to drop them. So now I have to turn elsewhere. It's their own damn fault.
There are two ways to "win" in the free market:
- Compete directly with a viable product, as google did with their widely popular youtube and search engine.
- Petition the government to fine, breakup, or otherwise damage your competition so you can introduce your OWN version of youtube/search engine instead of being "just a dumb pipe". In other words get Big Brother to help you beat-up the other guy, rather than compete fairly one-on-one.
I don't understand this:
- Google pays for internet access (even if Google owns the lines, there's still a cost they have to pay).
- The viewers (us) also pay for internet access to Telefónica, Tele'com, Telekom, et cetera.
The end. Why should Google have to pay yet another additional fee? It makes no sense to me.
I got my terabyte USB drive for $50 at a staples sale. So $4000/50 == almost 100x cheaper.
>>>SSDs are faster in a number of applications, but HDDs are crazy cheap at $0.10/GB or better
Precisely. It's why when you buy Mario Kart Wii, it comes on a cheap disc not a solid state cartridge. The disc can be mass-produced and is very simple, which is why it will always be cheaper than the more-complex chip-based storage.
And the "chiclet" keyboard. I'll bet that was hella fun. ;-) I'm surprised IBM didn't learn from Atari which made the same mistake in 1979.
Anyway: I was looking for the PCjr on wikipedia and stumbled across the Coleco Adam. Basically a Colecovision upgraded to a computer. However due to poor sales (it cost about twice an Atari or Commodore) and poor design (the computer erased disks & tapes when booted), the Adam was a major flop.
Eventually Coleco went bankrupt. Commodore went bankrupt. Atari went bankrupt. It seems that building a computer in the early 80s was a curse that killed once great companies. Except Apple and RadioShack - they managed to survive (barely).
.....just to store downloaded episodes of Star Trek, Stargate, and Galactica (plud other unmentionables). I'll buy the DVDs instead.
Sadly no.
I feel sick.
So when does the Jennifer Lopez "feelie" come out? ;-)
AAA of Maryland sued Washington DC for having lights that were too short. The result was a refund for the drivers who had been caught by this Revenue generation scheme, and DC ordered their contractor to make the yellows a long enough time so people could stop on yellow.
Well there should at least be an exception for Friday and Saturday nights. And you say there's nothing to do in S.Korea? Even in the middle of an Iowa cornfield kids can get themselves into trouble - I don't imagine it's any different over there. No games? The kids will go get drunk instead and screw the hot cheerleader.
Plus: The article says kids connections will be throttled after X number of hours. So a kid's having a long session on a Saturday and after hour 6 suddenly he's throttled to Dialup speeds? Ridiculous.
And why pick-on just games? Why not ban books too? Hell when I was a kid I used to read novels nonstop all day Saturday and Sunday. The horror. But I guess goofing-off with books is okay..... games are "scary" to adults and easy to demonize, even though games can be just as educational (problem solving, socializing, reading).
I'm not seeing it. It should be left to the Parents to decide what kids should be doing late at night, and I'd certainly prefer my kid be home during those hours, rather than outside getting into trouble.
IMHO.
>>>processor level protection is required for preemptive multitasking
Trivia:
The Commodore Amiga didn't have CPU-level protection (it was a 68000), but still did preemptive tasking just fine.
Impressive. It's the same speed and size as my current laptop but with an Atom instead of a Pentium M. Can this Acer Aspire be safely upgraded to Windows 7?