>>>Lots of people are dead. Where are the Slashdot stories for them?
Here ya go: (AP) (MSNBC) Almost 150,000 people died today.
Most from old age, some from stupidity (driving too fast, climbing without ropes, etc), some from disease, a few were stillborn, and several experienced random accidents. Film at 11.
HD Netflix is 3800 kbit/s at its highest. So if you watch 6 hours of television daily, plus 12 on weekends, that would be 1641.6 + 2626.56 gigabits or ~330 gigabytes. You will break through both Comcast's (250GB) and ATT's (150GB) caps. Of course, who really watches that much TV online?
(Score:-1) Why??? Karma bombed by moderators (I suspect).
(1) All of these explosions are being seen 'round the world, and the anti-nuclear types (aka environmentalists) will be opposed to building any new plants, thereby derailing Obama and Biden's plans. It might also have negative affects in the EU, blocking their efforts to convert to nuclear.
(2) Japan's one of the world's richest countries (with the second-fastest internet service). I suspect they'll pull out of this just fine. ----- Just like a Bill Gates or Donald Trump are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves, and don't need social security or food stamps.
>>>I now see why you've been moderation bombed [because we HATE c64liove and want to see someone put a bullet in his head.]
+1 insightful. The way to deal with people's whose opinions you don't like is to Silence them with censorship, just like Hillary wants to pull FOX News off the air (or maybe that was Pelosi - one of them democrats). Damn free speech. Silence the people whose opinions are "wrongthought", and if they refuse to be silent, lead them off to the Killing Fields.
Start with a faulty assumption and you get invalid results.
The article you quote doesn't take into account the 10,000 mile journey of those CFLs from China to the USA, which means CFLs use *more* energy... or assuming best case: Break even. Nor does it take into account the Chinese factories' lack of pollution controls, which generate ~100,000 times more soot and ozone-destroying chemicals than a US or EU factory building the old, standard bulbs.
Daylight Savings Time is as pointless as forcing people to switch to Fluorescent Bulbs. Whatever energy is saved is so small (one-tenth of a percent) as to be trivial in the total economy, and the side effects (high expense, mercury, damage to sick persons) are worse than the original problem.
Better to just use the existing schedule/ technology.
No it's like Woodrow Wilson and FDR all over again. McCarthy was an ass but he didn't jail anybody. In contrast FDR and Wilson imprisoned people for merely speaking their minds (example: Alice Paul of the suffragette movement). That is what those demo-repulifucks Obama & Bush tried to do (and have done).
Boy that lady who called from the Republican Office was pissed when I said, "No sorry I'm voting libertarian." I told her that republicans demonstrated from 2002-8 that they are no better than democrats, and I'm siding with the TRUE small government party.
>>>I very much doubt that the government forbids any other company but Comcast to run high-speed lines
"Doubt" is not required when research reveals the true. THAT is how it works. The local City or County Government signs a contract with Comcast*, granting comcast exclusive use of a defined area, and forbidding other competitors from laying high speed lines or catv. In my area Comcast has held that contract for 30+ years.
Improper moderation. More like +2 Informative or insightful.
It likely IS a problem but Apple..... like Paypal..... chooses to ignore the abusive, illegal payments. Paypal eventually ended-up before the US DOJ and forced to refund money back to various persons (I got $75). Perhaps the same will happen with Apple in a few years. (shrug)
This is impossible, since an OPINION varies from person-to-person. There is not right answer when it comes to whether you think Horsewhips, or VHS tapes, or Libraries are obsolete. There is merely the viewpoint of the person.
Yeah, but I suspect the grandparent poster's "throttled" Clear line is NOT 56k. Probably 128k or possibly even 256k..... still slow but not as slow as dialup.
>>>Netscape Accelerator Software probably still won't work.
Why not? WINE should be able to run virtually any windows software, right?
>>>You might want to upgrade to a real internet connection
And if Dialup is the only connection the various Motel 6s or Super 8s provide? What is your suggestion then for my stays? Obviously I can't upgrade their property.
Dialup is also the only connection provided at work (since the intranet is filtered to block radio stations, facebook, etc).
>>>People who bitch about video and sound in Linux should stop blaming the community and direct their anger at those who are directly responsible for the poor state of affairs: hardware manufacturers and content providers. >>>
A distinction irrelevant to the user. All they know is that Video and Sound works in Windows and Mac OS but not Linux or Amiga or other OSes. Therefore they avoid the ones that don't work.
WINE must have improved a lot since 2009, because when I tried it, Netscape Accelerator Software refused to operate. Microsoft Explorer 8 also was unstable.
I guess I need to give the new 2011 version a try. What I'd really like is a Windows Clone OS to boycott MS completely.
>>>broadband is already defined at 256kps. This definition bought by big companies. The FCC needs to change this
They did. Two years ago. It's now 4000kbit/s. Funny. I had a broadband connection (faster than 56k dialup and faster than the OECD 256k definition) and now I don't, just because they redefined the meaning of the word.
>>>not once this year has Steve Jobs kicked in our front door
Nope. Instead he releases a new version of Safari or iTunes or BootCamp that won't work on Leopard --- thereby forcing you to upgrade, or else not being able to access the store, web, etc.
That was my problem with my old Mac: Couldn't find a browser to work on it, and was instead stuck with Safari 2 which rendered everything poorly.
>>>Throttling me down to dial-up speeds past 5 gigabytes per month
I'm not sure what you mean by "dialup" but I will assume 128kbit/s (ISDN speed). That still allows you to download ~13KB/s or ~35+5 == approximately 40 gigabytes each month.
On the other hand, it can sometimes work out. The man who was sued because he had created an information website about a New mall coming to his area refused to back down. It eventually rose to the level of the Supreme Court who declared info and criticism websites (like ebaysucks.com) were protected by free speech.
His out-of-pocket costs were ~$5000 and ordered to be paid by the Mall lawyers.
And yet time and again we have Apple Users come on here and say, "The Mac is spybot proof so you can surf the net safely!!!" or "The Mac has no viruses and never will" or some such variant. Which was my original point:
I don't have a problem with Apple. I have a problem with Apple's customers making these ridiculous claims ("unhackable mac";"unsinkable titanic"), and then telling me to go-out and spend $1000 to upgrade from my $150 Win7 PC.
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>>>Lots of people are dead. Where are the Slashdot stories for them?
Here ya go:
(AP) (MSNBC) Almost 150,000 people died today.
Most from old age, some from stupidity (driving too fast, climbing without ropes, etc), some from disease, a few were stillborn, and several experienced random accidents. Film at 11.
I've thought a couple times about quitting engineering and going into Computer security, but not really sure how profitable that move would be.
To answer the original guy's question:
HD Netflix is 3800 kbit/s at its highest. So if you watch 6 hours of television daily, plus 12 on weekends, that would be 1641.6 + 2626.56 gigabits or ~330 gigabytes. You will break through both Comcast's (250GB) and ATT's (150GB) caps. Of course, who really watches that much TV online?
Oh right. :-|
I do.
Bush, Obama & crew arrested a military private for the Diplomacy leaks.
Wonder who they'll go after for the BofA leak?
(Score:-1)
Why??? Karma bombed by moderators (I suspect).
(1) All of these explosions are being seen 'round the world, and the anti-nuclear types (aka environmentalists) will be opposed to building any new plants, thereby derailing Obama and Biden's plans. It might also have negative affects in the EU, blocking their efforts to convert to nuclear.
(2) Japan's one of the world's richest countries (with the second-fastest internet service). I suspect they'll pull out of this just fine. ----- Just like a Bill Gates or Donald Trump are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves, and don't need social security or food stamps.
>>>(it takes 1.7kw/hour to produce a CFL vs .11kw/hour).
Careful. People will give you a -1 Troll moderation for daring to post facts contrary to accepted "rightthought" (as happened to me).
>>>I now see why you've been moderation bombed [because we HATE c64liove and want to see someone put a bullet in his head.]
+1 insightful. The way to deal with people's whose opinions you don't like is to Silence them with censorship, just like Hillary wants to pull FOX News off the air (or maybe that was Pelosi - one of them democrats). Damn free speech. Silence the people whose opinions are "wrongthought", and if they refuse to be silent, lead them off to the Killing Fields.
Start with a faulty assumption and you get invalid results.
The article you quote doesn't take into account the 10,000 mile journey of those CFLs from China to the USA, which means CFLs use *more* energy... or assuming best case: Break even. Nor does it take into account the Chinese factories' lack of pollution controls, which generate ~100,000 times more soot and ozone-destroying chemicals than a US or EU factory building the old, standard bulbs.
Daylight Savings Time is as pointless as forcing people to switch to Fluorescent Bulbs. Whatever energy is saved is so small (one-tenth of a percent) as to be trivial in the total economy, and the side effects (high expense, mercury, damage to sick persons) are worse than the original problem.
Better to just use the existing schedule/ technology.
>>>Its like McCarthyism all over again.
No it's like Woodrow Wilson and FDR all over again. McCarthy was an ass but he didn't jail anybody. In contrast FDR and Wilson imprisoned people for merely speaking their minds (example: Alice Paul of the suffragette movement). That is what those demo-repulifucks Obama & Bush tried to do (and have done).
Boy that lady who called from the Republican Office was pissed when I said, "No sorry I'm voting libertarian." I told her that republicans demonstrated from 2002-8 that they are no better than democrats, and I'm siding with the TRUE small government party.
>>>I very much doubt that the government forbids any other company but Comcast to run high-speed lines
"Doubt" is not required when research reveals the true. THAT is how it works. The local City or County Government signs a contract with Comcast*, granting comcast exclusive use of a defined area, and forbidding other competitors from laying high speed lines or catv. In my area Comcast has held that contract for 30+ years.
*
* Or Cox, or Time-Warner, or Cablevison, etc.
>>>commodore64_love didn't get modded into oblivion (eventually they stopped giving me mod points)
Take a second look.
C64love's karma is listed as "Terrible" due to attack by
moderators, and he can only post once per day.
-1 Troll
Improper moderation. More like +2 Informative or insightful.
It likely IS a problem but Apple..... like Paypal..... chooses to ignore the abusive, illegal payments. Paypal eventually ended-up before the US DOJ and forced to refund money back to various persons (I got $75). Perhaps the same will happen with Apple in a few years. (shrug)
>>>Fact of the matter is your opinion is wrong.
This is impossible, since an OPINION varies from person-to-person. There is not right answer when it comes to whether you think Horsewhips, or VHS tapes, or Libraries are obsolete. There is merely the viewpoint of the person.
Yeah, but I suspect the grandparent poster's "throttled" Clear line is NOT 56k. Probably 128k or possibly even 256k..... still slow but not as slow as dialup.
>>>Netscape Accelerator Software probably still won't work.
Why not? WINE should be able to run virtually any windows software, right?
>>>You might want to upgrade to a real internet connection
And if Dialup is the only connection the various Motel 6s or Super 8s provide? What is your suggestion then for my stays? Obviously I can't upgrade their property.
Dialup is also the only connection provided at work (since the intranet is filtered to block radio stations, facebook, etc).
>>>People who bitch about video and sound in Linux should stop blaming the community and direct their anger at those who are directly responsible for the poor state of affairs: hardware manufacturers and content providers.
>>>
A distinction irrelevant to the user. All they know is that Video and Sound works in Windows and Mac OS but not Linux or Amiga or other OSes. Therefore they avoid the ones that don't work.
>>>MS Office runs well under Wine.
WINE must have improved a lot since 2009, because when I tried it, Netscape Accelerator Software refused to operate. Microsoft Explorer 8 also was unstable.
I guess I need to give the new 2011 version a try.
What I'd really like is a Windows Clone OS to boycott MS completely.
>>>The barrier of entry is astronomical -
The barrier to entry is the GOVERNMENT forbidding any other company but Comcast to run high-speed lines. That was the Grandparent Poster's point.
>>>broadband is already defined at 256kps. This definition bought by big companies. The FCC needs to change this
They did.
Two years ago. It's now 4000kbit/s.
Funny. I had a broadband connection (faster than 56k dialup and faster than the OECD 256k definition) and now I don't, just because they redefined the meaning of the word.
>>>not once this year has Steve Jobs kicked in our front door
Nope. Instead he releases a new version of Safari or iTunes or BootCamp that won't work on Leopard --- thereby forcing you to upgrade, or else not being able to access the store, web, etc.
That was my problem with my old Mac: Couldn't find a browser to work on it, and was instead stuck with Safari 2 which rendered everything poorly.
>>>Throttling me down to dial-up speeds past 5 gigabytes per month
I'm not sure what you mean by "dialup" but I will assume 128kbit/s (ISDN speed). That still allows you to download ~13KB/s or ~35+5 == approximately 40 gigabytes each month.
On the other hand, it can sometimes work out. The man who was sued because he had created an information website about a New mall coming to his area refused to back down. It eventually rose to the level of the Supreme Court who declared info and criticism websites (like ebaysucks.com) were protected by free speech.
His out-of-pocket costs were ~$5000 and ordered to be paid by the Mall lawyers.
RC is scheduled for later this month.
(But of course there won't be a / vertisement for it.) SeaMonkey 2.1 final will be based on Gecko 2.0.1
>>>There is no such thing as unhackable.
And yet time and again we have Apple Users come on here and say, "The Mac is spybot proof so you can surf the net safely!!!" or "The Mac has no viruses and never will" or some such variant. Which was my original point:
I don't have a problem with Apple. I have a problem with Apple's customers making these ridiculous claims ("unhackable mac";"unsinkable titanic"), and then telling me to go-out and spend $1000 to upgrade from my $150 Win7 PC.