You also got to consider the likelihood that as full or majority electric power cars start to become popular, you're going to see governments at the state, local and federal level attempting to make up for lost tax revenues. I'm not sure how they'll manage to differentiate between power for transport and power for home/business use, but if there's one thing that the government is good at it's figuring out new and inventive ways to tax people.
Suffice it to say, driving one of these, especially on a short commute, will really save money, as well as the environment, but don't count on power being (as) cheap for long if we see a lot of these types of cars take to the streets.
...as neat as playing with my friends Wii is (does that sound dirty or what?), at the end of the day, I personally want the option, at least, of video gaming to be something sedentary. The advent of these motion capture controllers being the cool new thing is great for sports games, or maybe fighting games, etc, but come on, who actually wants 20+ hours of RPG in the genre of mass effect or an FPS to be completely controlled by motion? That kind of gaming needs, imo, to stay controller based.
I'll join you in getting heavily modded down by the MS bashers, this whole thing is insane. MS says theyll remove the browser, but thats not good enough, they have to provide the browser, because not doing so would be providing less, and somehow also, via magic, not have it be used unless the user wants to.
Give me a break. The guy who is coming up with this on the EC is probably still types M$ in his inter-office emails.
Can you provide a link for some sort of documentation? Last I heard (as in, last week) they were adding it to a few new markets including Rochester, NY, which is nearby, which drew the attention of our state's Senators.
...but this is why were seeing TimeWarner lead the charge towards total GB/month bandwidth limits. Between Netflix, XBox Live movie downloads, iTunes, Hulu, etc etc, they're seeing their business model being slowly put to the wayside for more and more content delivered over the internet.
Not necessarily saying it's a bad thing, it's great. It's long past time for the government sanctioned monopolies that are your local cable company to come to an end, but they're certainly not going to go w/out a fight. Hard download caps are the first volley in a war that's probably going to get rather unpleasant before its over.
Overtaxed as we are already, this has been occurring in NYS for quite some time now. Some retailers like newegg resisted, but Amazon and others charge it even though they're not legally inside NYS's jurisdiction.
I personally don't shop from amazon any less, but I've never been one to buy things off the internet I can't get locally (to impatient to even wait for overnight shipping).
Being in the drive way is understandable. Maybe they were just turning around. Maybe they were confused. But theres no reason or justification for them including these images.
...and my wireless network is the only in the neighborhood.
That thing is locked down so tight that...well. Its locked down pretty tight. I don't need some weirdo jumping on my network to download kiddie pr0n or something of the sort. That alone should be enough reason for ppl to secure their networks.
That being said, when I set up my parent's network, I left it unsecured. Why? Well, two reasons. I didn't wan them calling about the password they managed to forget 100 times. Secondly they live out in the sticks, barely in range of the local DSL provider. To access the network youd literally have to be most of the way up their ridiculous 1/4 mile driveway.
Maybe they will, maybe they wont. If they do were all screwed.
But thats not the point. The point is the cable companies are still convinced they've got government sanctioned rights to bend the consumer over whatever chair they which, and they don't, not anymore.
The problem isnt that theyre forcing people to pay fairly...thats fine...its just what their definition of fair is. If the first cap is at 5 GB, anyone checking their email, playing some games, downloading updates for windows and their AV software, will eat that up and then some and end up paying overages.
This is a money grab and an attempt to steer people unfairly towards their services.
except for the fact that these cable companies and their government sanctioned monopolies, in many areas, are the only choice for broadband access, and they know it.
I would have switched myself but I'm getting about 1.6 Mbps down from Timewarner atm, but if this happens I'm switching immediately, and will probably switch if it doesnt when FiOS TV becomes available because TW has absolutely no plans to add to our paltry selection of 15 HD channels.
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You also got to consider the likelihood that as full or majority electric power cars start to become popular, you're going to see governments at the state, local and federal level attempting to make up for lost tax revenues. I'm not sure how they'll manage to differentiate between power for transport and power for home/business use, but if there's one thing that the government is good at it's figuring out new and inventive ways to tax people. Suffice it to say, driving one of these, especially on a short commute, will really save money, as well as the environment, but don't count on power being (as) cheap for long if we see a lot of these types of cars take to the streets.
Hardly vaporware. Its in production.
10 PRINT "Destroy all humans!"
20 GOTO 10
...as neat as playing with my friends Wii is (does that sound dirty or what?), at the end of the day, I personally want the option, at least, of video gaming to be something sedentary. The advent of these motion capture controllers being the cool new thing is great for sports games, or maybe fighting games, etc, but come on, who actually wants 20+ hours of RPG in the genre of mass effect or an FPS to be completely controlled by motion? That kind of gaming needs, imo, to stay controller based.
Yah, its pretty important to make sure they all have internet access so they can hit up youtube while they starve to death.
How about we spend the cash on some food, or clean drinking water...or something equally less a luxury.
I'll join you in getting heavily modded down by the MS bashers, this whole thing is insane. MS says theyll remove the browser, but thats not good enough, they have to provide the browser, because not doing so would be providing less, and somehow also, via magic, not have it be used unless the user wants to.
Give me a break. The guy who is coming up with this on the EC is probably still types M$ in his inter-office emails.
No doubt, but the joke doesn't work as well :P
Nothing beats waking up in the morning, looking out your window and seeing a pair of great tits.
Can you provide a link for some sort of documentation? Last I heard (as in, last week) they were adding it to a few new markets including Rochester, NY, which is nearby, which drew the attention of our state's Senators.
...but this is why were seeing TimeWarner lead the charge towards total GB/month bandwidth limits. Between Netflix, XBox Live movie downloads, iTunes, Hulu, etc etc, they're seeing their business model being slowly put to the wayside for more and more content delivered over the internet.
Not necessarily saying it's a bad thing, it's great. It's long past time for the government sanctioned monopolies that are your local cable company to come to an end, but they're certainly not going to go w/out a fight. Hard download caps are the first volley in a war that's probably going to get rather unpleasant before its over.
Overtaxed as we are already, this has been occurring in NYS for quite some time now. Some retailers like newegg resisted, but Amazon and others charge it even though they're not legally inside NYS's jurisdiction.
I personally don't shop from amazon any less, but I've never been one to buy things off the internet I can't get locally (to impatient to even wait for overnight shipping).
Its amazing that over 300k people downloaded firefox from russia, despite the fact that in soviet russia, firefox downloads you. /groan
...welcome or new bacterial overlords.
...where the star spends 15 hours farming for some rare drops.
Should be absolutely riveting.
Yeast require some amount of sugar to reproduce and create the gas required to make bread rise.
That being said, the average loaf of standard "white sandwich" bread is just flat out over sweetend.
PULL!
Being in the drive way is understandable. Maybe they were just turning around. Maybe they were confused. But theres no reason or justification for them including these images.
...and my wireless network is the only in the neighborhood.
That thing is locked down so tight that...well. Its locked down pretty tight. I don't need some weirdo jumping on my network to download kiddie pr0n or something of the sort. That alone should be enough reason for ppl to secure their networks.
That being said, when I set up my parent's network, I left it unsecured. Why? Well, two reasons. I didn't wan them calling about the password they managed to forget 100 times. Secondly they live out in the sticks, barely in range of the local DSL provider. To access the network youd literally have to be most of the way up their ridiculous 1/4 mile driveway.
Why'd I post all this? IM BORED NUB.
...that theres been a towlie-ban [wikipedia.org]?
It might (just might) run windows vista well enough to make it usable.
finally a sport where steroids wont help you!
Maybe they will, maybe they wont. If they do were all screwed.
But thats not the point. The point is the cable companies are still convinced they've got government sanctioned rights to bend the consumer over whatever chair they which, and they don't, not anymore.
The problem isnt that theyre forcing people to pay fairly...thats fine...its just what their definition of fair is. If the first cap is at 5 GB, anyone checking their email, playing some games, downloading updates for windows and their AV software, will eat that up and then some and end up paying overages.
This is a money grab and an attempt to steer people unfairly towards their services.
except for the fact that these cable companies and their government sanctioned monopolies, in many areas, are the only choice for broadband access, and they know it.
I would have switched myself but I'm getting about 1.6 Mbps down from Timewarner atm, but if this happens I'm switching immediately, and will probably switch if it doesnt when FiOS TV becomes available because TW has absolutely no plans to add to our paltry selection of 15 HD channels.