Still think wireless internet is the future? Rather than wired internet?
I get $90 for phone number one, and $120 if you have two phones. So it isn't any cheaper. (And for us single folks, it's actually MORE expensive.) Hard to believe Verizon used to offer me a phone for just $10/month. Creeps.
VirginMobile offers me unlimited data for $35 a month. True it slows down to 2xISDN speeds after 3GB, but I still prefer to stick with them.
AND it's a very small minority. It's estimated the number of people without either private or government insurance is only 10 million. That means the other ~310 million persons have their hearing aids (or other health products) paid by the insurance company/government, and the manufacturers can demand high rates.
BTW $3000 really isn't that expensive overall. Apple Macs are mass-produced in China and cost almost as much. Hearing aids are Not mass-produced (each one is tailored to your ear's shape) and built with expensive U.S. labor, so naturally they will be a little more pricey than a Mac.
Pron companies: AF Holdings Pacific Century Sunlust Pictures First Time Videos
Comcast replied: "Third, plaintiffs should not be allowed to profit from unfair litigation tactics whereby they use the offices of the Court as an inexpensive means to gain John Doe defendantsâ(TM) personal information and coerce "settlements" from them." - If I ever got one of these 'Pay us $5000 or else' letters I'd just throw it in the trash.
P.S. I just noticed all four companies that Comcast is saying "no" to are pornography companies. I wonder what the downloaders acquired which made them targets for extortionate letters?
The motive is probably based on $$$$$. Comcast probably wastes a lot of money handling these supeona requests, and they finally decided it was cheaper to say "no" then to comply.
At one time it was the scientific consensus that light was a wave, and that it traveled through a medium called "ether" that filled the gap between the sun and the earth. 99% of scientists believed this. They were wrong. Consensus doesn't really mean much..... read "Scientific Revolutions" by Thomas Kuhn. Learn about paradigm shift; how an entire generation of scientists can believe with absolute certainty a false fact.
>>>It's a scientific fact that global warming is real. There is no debate, and no controversy
How come it's getting colder over the last decade with record levels of snowfall and cooler-than-normal summers? (I had heard by 2010 we wouldn't even know what snow is in Great Britain.)
Just finished the article. These scientists can't even reach a conclusion of how much groundwater was pulled from reservoirs *even when directly measuring it*. Some say 0% loss. Others 40% loss.
And yet these same people claim they can predict the temperature 100 years from now.:-| Riiiight. If they can't get *current* numbers right, even when pulling out their rules and measuring, how can we trust anything they say about the future water level, temperatures, et cetera? The Greeks called this "hubris".
Are you saying Pakistan is a "bad friend" and proof of China's shittiness? Well WE are friends with Pakistan. What's that say about us?
Americans have killed more people in the last decade than any other country. 300,000 dead and about 2 million casualties with permanent disabilities (blown off arms, jaws, legs). What does THAT say about us? Speaking strictly as an observer I'd say China, the EU, even Russia look better.
The China of the 50s and 60s was hardline communist (and killed ~60 million of their own people). Since that time China has experienced the Tienamen Square uprising & moved towards European-style socialism (free market capitalism + government safety nets). No longer following the same policies as the 50s/60s-era government.
Besides: It is not to their advantage to start killing their customers.
I've heard that before but it doesn't add up. The British also had plenty of slave labor (and tons of unemployed white labor), but that cheap labor didn't stop them from developing the engine & creating the industrial revolution. If Romans ignored the steam engine there must have been some other reason.
No. The Video Toaster was a genlock with built-in special effects (wipe, fade, etc). We used to have one in our college TV station. That's all it did. BUT the Amiga's 68000 CPU did the number-crunching to generate the CGI, and the Amiga coprocessors displayed the 704x480 image that was captured to videotape (one frame at a time) for Babylon 5, seaQuest, Above & Beyond.
If for some reason you STILL don't think Amiga can do CGI, just go watch the Star Wars Walker Demo. Or any other video/demo from that era. Or you could rewatch B5's axis transport/elevator and notice how pixelated everything looks..... a side effect of the Amiga's low resolution.
>>>The Amiga hardware wasn't fast enough to do video production (most 486's of the era couldn't either.)
It doesn't have to be "fast". They are only generating ONE frame every hour or so. According to one of the animators Mojo, it could take an entire week just to generate a few seconds of CGI.
Sounds like a case of TOO MUCH democracy overruling the rationality of the bureaucrats. QUOTE: "The Korea Consumer Protection Board (KCPB), a South Korean government-funded public agency, said
"If bodies are exposed to electric fans or air conditioners for too long, it causes the bodies to lose water and hypothermia. If directly in contact with air current from a fan, this could lead to death from an increase of carbon dioxide saturation and decrease of oxygen concentration. The risks are higher for the elderly and patients with respiratory problems. From 2003 to 2005, a total of 20 cases were reported through the CISS involving asphyxiations caused by leaving electric fans and air conditioners on while sleeping. To prevent asphyxiation, timers should be set, wind direction should be rotated and doors should be left open."
The Constitution authorizes the creation of a military to defend against non-U.S. enemies. This is just the Republicans and Democrats dreaming about making Star Wars a reality..... unmanned robots in space.
If you look at hulu or youtube's stream rate, 240p video is only 248 kbit/s. Sometimes a little higher at 320k with a quality just slightly below DVD.
Point is that 1-1.5 Mbit/s via the $20 economy broadband is more than enough to watch the teacher's videolecture from the kid's bedroom, so you don't need a huge gigabit line.
You wrote, "The topic was about watching videos at home? Silly me, and here I thought the topic was about schools." My response: It helps if you follow the thread you are replying to, so you don't get lost:
ARTICLE: "Can I watch my teacher's algebra video when I get HOME?" (emphasis added)
CPU6502: "I watch hulu and youtube video with only 0.3 Mbit/s..... The student at home doesn't need a monster amount. Comcast's or Verizon's Economy Service (1 to 1.5 Mbit/s) will provide more than the minimum."
BENGIE: "If you take a 320p video stream, stretch it to a projector/etc....."
ME: "The topic was watching teacher videos AT HOME on a student's laptop or PC." Not on a projector.
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Still think wireless internet is the future? Rather than wired internet?
I get $90 for phone number one, and $120 if you have two phones. So it isn't any cheaper. (And for us single folks, it's actually MORE expensive.) Hard to believe Verizon used to offer me a phone for just $10/month. Creeps.
VirginMobile offers me unlimited data for $35 a month. True it slows down to 2xISDN speeds after 3GB, but I still prefer to stick with them.
AND it's a very small minority. It's estimated the number of people without either private or government insurance is only 10 million. That means the other ~310 million persons have their hearing aids (or other health products) paid by the insurance company/government, and the manufacturers can demand high rates.
BTW $3000 really isn't that expensive overall. Apple Macs are mass-produced in China and cost almost as much. Hearing aids are Not mass-produced (each one is tailored to your ear's shape) and built with expensive U.S. labor, so naturally they will be a little more pricey than a Mac.
Pron companies:
AF Holdings
Pacific Century
Sunlust Pictures
First Time Videos
Comcast replied: "Third, plaintiffs should not be allowed to profit from unfair litigation tactics whereby they use the offices of the Court as an inexpensive means to gain John Doe defendantsâ(TM) personal information and coerce "settlements" from them." - If I ever got one of these 'Pay us $5000 or else' letters I'd just throw it in the trash.
"lose safe harbor protection"
Lose what?
P.S. I just noticed all four companies that Comcast is saying "no" to are pornography companies. I wonder what the downloaders acquired which made them targets for extortionate letters?
The motive is probably based on $$$$$. Comcast probably wastes a lot of money handling these supeona requests, and they finally decided it was cheaper to say "no" then to comply.
>>>Did all of the ground water magically vanish that we were pumping out
If you read the article, it clearly says groundwater levels have DROPPED over the last few decades. The grandparent poster was correct. You are wrong.
>>>"These same people"? Do you mean all "scientists" look the same to you?
Yes.
They all share the same profession and general beliefs. Ditto engineers, programmers, doctors, nurses with their respective careers.
At one time it was the scientific consensus that light was a wave, and that it traveled through a medium called "ether" that filled the gap between the sun and the earth. 99% of scientists believed this.
They were wrong.
Consensus doesn't really mean much..... read "Scientific Revolutions" by Thomas Kuhn. Learn about paradigm shift; how an entire generation of scientists can believe with absolute certainty a false fact.
>>>It's a scientific fact that global warming is real. There is no debate, and no controversy
How come it's getting colder over the last decade with record levels of snowfall and cooler-than-normal summers? (I had heard by 2010 we wouldn't even know what snow is in Great Britain.)
Just finished the article. These scientists can't even reach a conclusion of how much groundwater was pulled from reservoirs *even when directly measuring it*. Some say 0% loss. Others 40% loss.
And yet these same people claim they can predict the temperature 100 years from now. :-| Riiiight. If they can't get *current* numbers right, even when pulling out their rules and measuring, how can we trust anything they say about the future water level, temperatures, et cetera? The Greeks called this "hubris".
Are you saying Pakistan is a "bad friend" and proof of China's shittiness? Well WE are friends with Pakistan. What's that say about us?
Americans have killed more people in the last decade than any other country. 300,000 dead and about 2 million casualties with permanent disabilities (blown off arms, jaws, legs). What does THAT say about us? Speaking strictly as an observer I'd say China, the EU, even Russia look better.
Not really the same government.
The China of the 50s and 60s was hardline communist (and killed ~60 million of their own people). Since that time China has experienced the Tienamen Square uprising & moved towards European-style socialism (free market capitalism + government safety nets). No longer following the same policies as the 50s/60s-era government.
Besides: It is not to their advantage to start killing their customers.
How many Americans have been killed by Chinese?
How many Iranians have been killed by Americans?
Which is more peaceful?
I've heard that before but it doesn't add up. The British also had plenty of slave labor (and tons of unemployed white labor), but that cheap labor didn't stop them from developing the engine & creating the industrial revolution. If Romans ignored the steam engine there must have been some other reason.
No. The Video Toaster was a genlock with built-in special effects (wipe, fade, etc). We used to have one in our college TV station. That's all it did. BUT the Amiga's 68000 CPU did the number-crunching to generate the CGI, and the Amiga coprocessors displayed the 704x480 image that was captured to videotape (one frame at a time) for Babylon 5, seaQuest, Above & Beyond.
If for some reason you STILL don't think Amiga can do CGI, just go watch the Star Wars Walker Demo. Or any other video/demo from that era. Or you could rewatch B5's axis transport/elevator and notice how pixelated everything looks..... a side effect of the Amiga's low resolution.
>>>The Amiga hardware wasn't fast enough to do video production (most 486's of the era couldn't either.)
It doesn't have to be "fast". They are only generating ONE frame every hour or so. According to one of the animators Mojo, it could take an entire week just to generate a few seconds of CGI.
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Wasting primetime college years not getting laid.
Darn work and filtering. ;-) Oh well..... I'll bookmark and watch it when I get home 11 hours from now.
Yes "unmanned robots". Drone airplanes and spaceplanes.
Sounds like a case of TOO MUCH democracy overruling the rationality of the bureaucrats. QUOTE: "The Korea Consumer Protection Board (KCPB), a South Korean government-funded public agency, said
"If bodies are exposed to electric fans or air conditioners for too long, it causes the bodies to lose water and hypothermia. If directly in contact with air current from a fan, this could lead to death from an increase of carbon dioxide saturation and decrease of oxygen concentration. The risks are higher for the elderly and patients with respiratory problems. From 2003 to 2005, a total of 20 cases were reported through the CISS involving asphyxiations caused by leaving electric fans and air conditioners on while sleeping. To prevent asphyxiation, timers should be set, wind direction should be rotated and doors should be left open."
The Constitution authorizes the creation of a military to defend against non-U.S. enemies. This is just the Republicans and Democrats dreaming about making Star Wars a reality..... unmanned robots in space.
If you look at hulu or youtube's stream rate, 240p video is only 248 kbit/s. Sometimes a little higher at 320k with a quality just slightly below DVD.
Point is that 1-1.5 Mbit/s via the $20 economy broadband is more than enough to watch the teacher's videolecture from the kid's bedroom, so you don't need a huge gigabit line.
You wrote, "The topic was about watching videos at home? Silly me, and here I thought the topic was about schools." My response: It helps if you follow the thread you are replying to, so you don't get lost:
ARTICLE: "Can I watch my teacher's algebra video when I get HOME?" (emphasis added)
CPU6502: "I watch hulu and youtube video with only 0.3 Mbit/s..... The student at home doesn't need a monster amount. Comcast's or Verizon's Economy Service (1 to 1.5 Mbit/s) will provide more than the minimum."
BENGIE: "If you take a 320p video stream, stretch it to a projector/etc....."
ME: "The topic was watching teacher videos AT HOME on a student's laptop or PC." Not on a projector.
Amigas can run PowerPC distributions. But frankly I'd rather just run AmigaOS4.
If I want to try KDE I just download the kubuntu distribution?
Random question - How come Ubuntu 12.04 has a 5 year support system instead of the usual 3 year cycle?