This is silly, a console costs what 200, 300 dollars now? The only upgrade a gaming PC usually needs these days is a graphics card, which wow cost what 200 to 300 for a decent card? Yes DRM can be a be a pain I'll grant that.
While I agree that the FCC/EU would do frak all to apple over a denial of another browser. I fairly sure the app store is a market, and that apple is an abusive monopoly there.
My _portable_ tablet pc would in fact be radically different from yours. Since the only use I have for such a device would be art; as such it would need pressure sensitivity, a pen; have reasonably powerful hardware underneath the hood.
What you want seems closer to an iPod than anything...
Alberta has The Royal Tyrell Museum of Palentolgy (which may still have day trips in to the bad lands to active dig sites where you get to help). http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/
If you are downloading a distro, and at the same time you place a VoIP phone call, what do you do if the audio is all broken up? Do you pause the torrent client to get better phone service?
Yes, you pause the torrent - it's your bandwidth; you paid for it.
Now, put the torrent client in your neighbor's house...
Yeah, they paid for their bandwidth. If the provider can't provide enough bandwidth for all their clients if their clients use all the bandwidth they've been sold. It's the provider at fault.
Get this through your heads: The ISP has sold you X bandwidth for Y price; they then arbitrarily change X to Z and charge you Y price.
It's basically the same as if a company says here give me 5 bucks a month and I'll bring 5 tulip bulbs a day. Then when 20 people sign up, instead of you getting 5 tulip bulbs a day you get 1 tulip bulb a day.
This is fuckwardery (which likely means good business practice or something).
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no the only way to be safe is to nuke the site from orbit ;p
This is silly, a console costs what 200, 300 dollars now? The only upgrade a gaming PC usually needs these days is a graphics card, which wow cost what 200 to 300 for a decent card? Yes DRM can be a be a pain I'll grant that.
While I agree that the FCC/EU would do frak all to apple over a denial of another browser. I fairly sure the app store is a market, and that apple is an abusive monopoly there.
My _portable_ tablet pc would in fact be radically different from yours. Since the only use I have for such a device would be art; as such it would need pressure sensitivity, a pen; have reasonably powerful hardware underneath the hood.
What you want seems closer to an iPod than anything...
Ars Technica has a very nice response to this: http://arst.ch/722
Excuse my ignorance here but: if a bit is 2^1 and a byte is 2^3 then doesn't the whole kilobit kilobytes thing get even more borked up?
Since a kilobit = 2^10 bits while a kilobyte is 2^10 in base 2^3?
Ontatio: The ROM (Royal Ontatrio Museum) -Toronto http://www.rom.on.ca/
The Science Center -Toronto http://www.ontariosciencecentre.ca/
Science North -Sudbury http://www2.sciencenorth.ca/
Alberta has The Royal Tyrell Museum of Palentolgy (which may still have day trips in to the bad lands to active dig sites where you get to help). http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/
You want to make sure they learn a lesson? Make sure they never steal anything again? securely erase your data? Try Chlorine Trifluodide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine_trifluoride
Ack no!
If you are downloading a distro, and at the same time you place a VoIP phone call, what do you do if the audio is all broken up? Do you pause the torrent client to get better phone service?
Yes, you pause the torrent - it's your bandwidth; you paid for it.
Now, put the torrent client in your neighbor's house ...
Yeah, they paid for their bandwidth. If the provider can't provide enough bandwidth for all their clients if their clients use all the bandwidth they've been sold. It's the provider at fault.
Get this through your heads: The ISP has sold you X bandwidth for Y price; they then arbitrarily change X to Z and charge you Y price.
It's basically the same as if a company says here give me 5 bucks a month and I'll bring 5 tulip bulbs a day. Then when 20 people sign up, instead of you getting 5 tulip bulbs a day you get 1 tulip bulb a day.
This is fuckwardery (which likely means good business practice or something).