Mine has a RAID 5 SSD setup and a GPS in case the toaster gremlins decide to play a prank and hide it in the back of my toilet again. I hate it when that happens.
Where I live, my only option besides a personal T1 and satellite is wireless. The company I use (of the two available) has two tiers: 3 Mbps with a 5 GB per month cap at $45 per month or pay $70 per month for a 200 GB cap at the same speed. They're still better than the other company that only has two speeds at 512 Kbps or 1 Mbps.
Except that in your scenario all of the downloading happens during peak times. If you ordered it during the day and had it download it at night, it would be a different story.
As long as they clearly spell out the limitations of their connection then I see no problem. But for them to give you a 5 Mbps connection and then put a 5 GB per month limit on it just seems, well, stupid. It is VERY easy these days to use up 5 GB in one month. And then you have offerings of 10/15/25 Mbps speeds with the same 5 GB usage cap... you just get to the cap a whole lot faster!/sigh
Why is it that some people insist that there is only one definition of "open source" when there are literally hundreds of open source licences in use? Claiming someone uses the wrong definition and capitalizing your idealogical version does not make you in the right.
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The computing world moves at a MUCH faster pace because it needs to evolve... 50 year computer standards would be a TERRIBLE idea.
Enlist or you will be drafted. Probably as fodder.
Schizophrenia.
Maybe they're betting on governments buying video surveillance processing equipment...
I was thinking Emo Phillips meets Zsa Zsa Gabor.
I just think of it as water cooling.
Mine has a RAID 5 SSD setup and a GPS in case the toaster gremlins decide to play a prank and hide it in the back of my toilet again. I hate it when that happens.
Your toaster has a hard drive?
I'm thinking your future is rather old school. The "new" future would have him putting each install into a VM. :p
Suspension of disbelief?
Where I live, my only option besides a personal T1 and satellite is wireless. The company I use (of the two available) has two tiers: 3 Mbps with a 5 GB per month cap at $45 per month or pay $70 per month for a 200 GB cap at the same speed. They're still better than the other company that only has two speeds at 512 Kbps or 1 Mbps.
Except that in your scenario all of the downloading happens during peak times. If you ordered it during the day and had it download it at night, it would be a different story.
As long as they clearly spell out the limitations of their connection then I see no problem. But for them to give you a 5 Mbps connection and then put a 5 GB per month limit on it just seems, well, stupid. It is VERY easy these days to use up 5 GB in one month. And then you have offerings of 10/15/25 Mbps speeds with the same 5 GB usage cap... you just get to the cap a whole lot faster! /sigh
What's next? Galaxy porn?
Why is it that some people insist that there is only one definition of "open source" when there are literally hundreds of open source licences in use? Claiming someone uses the wrong definition and capitalizing your idealogical version does not make you in the right.
Bah. Saving multiple messages from Usenet, concatenating them, and then using uudecode FTW. :p
As opposed to its current production of antipathy?
If we just send the lawyers and politicians, can the oxygen, food, and shelter be optional? :p
Equipped with the FIN processor, amirite???
I thought we were supposed to nuke the site from orbit?
That's Steve Balljobs.
The fix, of course, is unicorn steaks.
They problem is they would want to charge you $0.30 per minute.
Isn't WoW goat porn? Wait, that's Tauren porn, nevermind.
The "children" are the ones doing most of the pirating! :p