Data caps are based on how much you actually download, not how fast your connection is. If you download 250gb in 3 minutes, it doesn't matter that you could have downloaded that 250gb in 3 weeks on a slower connection. Either way, you have 250gb of content. Just loading up google.com isn't going to cost you 1.5gb because you only download ~100kb just like you would on a slower connection.
Think of it as a multi-lane highway. By adding more lanes you can send more cars down the road simultaneously. If there is only one lane, the cars will pass by one by one. Increasing Internet bandwidth simply means you can receive packets in larger chunks. It takes a single packet the same amount of time to arrive which is your ping. It's easy to understand why there is a misconception about "bandwidth == speed" because it takes less time to download large files if you're receiving several megabits per second rather than kilobits, but the time it takes for the packets to go from point A to point B is the same.
Netflix can be viewed on all major video game consoles, and there are other devices like the Roku. I'm fairly sure these don't run Silverlight, the Wii and PS3 particularly. I don't have any statistics on which device people use to watch Netflix. But I think there is a larger audience of people who want to watch the movies on their TV rather than their computer screen and don't know how to set up an HTPC.
The real base 10 is base two. The base ten used by most people is awful. The US system of measuring liquid is base two. Cup = 100 fl oz. Pint = 1000 fl oz. Quart = 10,000 fl oz. etc
Headaches from viewing 3D videos are caused by flickering on the screen. Just like with computer monitors, upping the refresh rate results in less flicker. I don't know of any cases where headaches are caused by the image that pops out of the screen.
The site has a pie chart that displays this information. It doesn't have numbers unfortunately, but it looks like Linux is at about 25% of sales at the moment which is far more than current Mac sales.
When can we expect the SPDY protocol to be implemented in HTTP servers like Apache or Nginx? Does anything need to be done? The summary only talks about adding support to the client portions.
Right. I'm 20, and I couldn't care less about being involved in my family. Why should I be obligated to care about an arbitrary group of people who I didn't choose to be my family. I'll do what I want to do, not what my grandpa thinks I should do.
KDE doesn't emphasize on putting Ks into the application names anymore. The new file manager is Dolphin, other K-less apps include Marble, Gwenview, and there's the whole Plasma interface. That said, you still have apps like Konsole and Kmail, but there are several that don't have the K.
As for the feel of the apps, that's entirely up to you. You'll have to give KDE 4.6 a run to see for yourself.
HP and Motorola's past history aren't helping them with consumer loyalty. At least for me when I think of HPs I think of a computer my grandmother would own. I'm sure HP reminds many people of computers they had problems with. Motorola probably reminds a lot of people of the junky Razr they had a few years ago.
I'm not an Apple fanboy by any means (I've never owned a Mac/iPod/iWhatever), but I don't associate the word "junk" with Apple products.
I loved my G5. A few weeks ago the scroll wheel stopped working intermittently, so scrolling became a PITA. I got a G500, and it's also really great. I don't do much gaming anymore, but I really like the feel of the mouse. At work, I have a dinky mouse that my hand is way too big for, so I have to hold it with my fingertips. With the G5(00), I can get my hand around it, and the rough texture gives it a nice grip.
I wrote a bit about a recent experience on my blog. http://casey-jones.org/blog/19/ Basically, the CentOS developers believe "CentOS is for the community, not by the community". And they really don't want you know how they put their distro together.
"the real reason why it's sinful to the Church is that it denies the life-giving aspect of sexuality entirely."
Nope. No heterosexuals have ever used any form of birth control. No siree. Even if Catholics are opposed to homosexual acts for this reason, what gives them the right to tell people that they can't? That's what's bigoted. If I want to stick it up another guys rear, then I will regardless of what the Catholic Church thinks. Take your moral outrage somewhere else.
I don't know why you'd want to have 3G in the US and in Europe, but there are zero pay-as-you-go 3G data only plans. Perhaps there are in Europe, but nobody will sell one in the US. If you want 3G you have to pay for voice and text as well; however, T-Mobile will probably sell you that without a contract at least. Secondly, I'm fairly certain that the frequency for 3G is different in Europe than in the US. T-Mobile and AT&T have incompatible 3G frequencies, and both are incompatible with what's used in Europe. Just save yourself the trouble and use Wifi.
I agree. The first language I learned was C, and I still like the syntax. The number one reason why I chose to learn Python/Django over Ruby on Rails is that Python's syntax is much more like C and it was easier for me to learn. You can almost write Python just like C without types.
I'm not up to date on vulnerabilities in Windows. But Vista and 7 offer a better security model with things like UAC. XP has an obviously a very old and flawed security model. If you want the improved security model in newer versions of Windows, you're forced to pay for it. If MS would backport UAC and other security features to XP, then maybe this wouldn't be their problem as much.
The problem with this is that now you have to enter this guys info into your phone. With a card, if you're not interested in contacting the person, just toss it out. If you have to "bump" him, now you have to delete the contact manually.
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I wish the book store at my college paid those rates! They wouldn't even buy back the one book I tried selling to them.
Data caps are based on how much you actually download, not how fast your connection is. If you download 250gb in 3 minutes, it doesn't matter that you could have downloaded that 250gb in 3 weeks on a slower connection. Either way, you have 250gb of content. Just loading up google.com isn't going to cost you 1.5gb because you only download ~100kb just like you would on a slower connection.
Think of it as a multi-lane highway. By adding more lanes you can send more cars down the road simultaneously. If there is only one lane, the cars will pass by one by one. Increasing Internet bandwidth simply means you can receive packets in larger chunks. It takes a single packet the same amount of time to arrive which is your ping. It's easy to understand why there is a misconception about "bandwidth == speed" because it takes less time to download large files if you're receiving several megabits per second rather than kilobits, but the time it takes for the packets to go from point A to point B is the same.
I'll be the first to complain about the summary. 1.5Gbps is not a speed; it's a bandwidth.
Netflix can be viewed on all major video game consoles, and there are other devices like the Roku. I'm fairly sure these don't run Silverlight, the Wii and PS3 particularly. I don't have any statistics on which device people use to watch Netflix. But I think there is a larger audience of people who want to watch the movies on their TV rather than their computer screen and don't know how to set up an HTPC.
The real base 10 is base two. The base ten used by most people is awful.
The US system of measuring liquid is base two.
Cup = 100 fl oz.
Pint = 1000 fl oz.
Quart = 10,000 fl oz.
etc
Headaches from viewing 3D videos are caused by flickering on the screen. Just like with computer monitors, upping the refresh rate results in less flicker. I don't know of any cases where headaches are caused by the image that pops out of the screen.
The site has a pie chart that displays this information. It doesn't have numbers unfortunately, but it looks like Linux is at about 25% of sales at the moment which is far more than current Mac sales.
When can we expect the SPDY protocol to be implemented in HTTP servers like Apache or Nginx? Does anything need to be done? The summary only talks about adding support to the client portions.
I just see the date June 21, but which year?
Jun 21, 2014 perhaps?
I didn't know Satan made cell phones now. Where may I acquire one of these demonic devices?
Right. I'm 20, and I couldn't care less about being involved in my family. Why should I be obligated to care about an arbitrary group of people who I didn't choose to be my family. I'll do what I want to do, not what my grandpa thinks I should do.
KDE doesn't emphasize on putting Ks into the application names anymore. The new file manager is Dolphin, other K-less apps include Marble, Gwenview, and there's the whole Plasma interface. That said, you still have apps like Konsole and Kmail, but there are several that don't have the K.
As for the feel of the apps, that's entirely up to you. You'll have to give KDE 4.6 a run to see for yourself.
I know of GNU Cash, but I've never used it. Like Stenchwarrior said, I don't think GNU Cash has all the legalese in it.
That's higher than the average for /. articles.
HP and Motorola's past history aren't helping them with consumer loyalty. At least for me when I think of HPs I think of a computer my grandmother would own. I'm sure HP reminds many people of computers they had problems with. Motorola probably reminds a lot of people of the junky Razr they had a few years ago.
I'm not an Apple fanboy by any means (I've never owned a Mac/iPod/iWhatever), but I don't associate the word "junk" with Apple products.
I loved my G5. A few weeks ago the scroll wheel stopped working intermittently, so scrolling became a PITA. I got a G500, and it's also really great. I don't do much gaming anymore, but I really like the feel of the mouse. At work, I have a dinky mouse that my hand is way too big for, so I have to hold it with my fingertips. With the G5(00), I can get my hand around it, and the rough texture gives it a nice grip.
So we should block out the sun over large cities? The sun gives off more radiation than a nuclear reactor.
The developers of CentOS are pricks.
I wrote a bit about a recent experience on my blog. http://casey-jones.org/blog/19/
Basically, the CentOS developers believe "CentOS is for the community, not by the community". And they really don't want you know how they put their distro together.
"the real reason why it's sinful to the Church is that it denies the life-giving aspect of sexuality entirely."
Nope. No heterosexuals have ever used any form of birth control. No siree.
Even if Catholics are opposed to homosexual acts for this reason, what gives them the right to tell people that they can't? That's what's bigoted. If I want to stick it up another guys rear, then I will regardless of what the Catholic Church thinks. Take your moral outrage somewhere else.
I don't know why you'd want to have 3G in the US and in Europe, but there are zero pay-as-you-go 3G data only plans. Perhaps there are in Europe, but nobody will sell one in the US. If you want 3G you have to pay for voice and text as well; however, T-Mobile will probably sell you that without a contract at least. Secondly, I'm fairly certain that the frequency for 3G is different in Europe than in the US. T-Mobile and AT&T have incompatible 3G frequencies, and both are incompatible with what's used in Europe. Just save yourself the trouble and use Wifi.
I agree. The first language I learned was C, and I still like the syntax. The number one reason why I chose to learn Python/Django over Ruby on Rails is that Python's syntax is much more like C and it was easier for me to learn. You can almost write Python just like C without types.
I'm not up to date on vulnerabilities in Windows. But Vista and 7 offer a better security model with things like UAC. XP has an obviously a very old and flawed security model. If you want the improved security model in newer versions of Windows, you're forced to pay for it. If MS would backport UAC and other security features to XP, then maybe this wouldn't be their problem as much.
The problem with this is that now you have to enter this guys info into your phone. With a card, if you're not interested in contacting the person, just toss it out. If you have to "bump" him, now you have to delete the contact manually.
Compared to uranium? Perhaps. Compared to thorium? I don't think so.