I don't like the idea of someone going around testing all of these devices any better than I like the idea of some guy going around my neighborhood checking to see if all the doors and windows are locked. There are a lot of places where that will get you shot.
Just because the Son is going to a great school doesn't mean the Parent did. His inability to use capitalization may be the driving force behind putting his kid in a good school.
I agree with what he's saying though... you need to encourage your kid to do things that stimulate the brain. Reading is the time-honored classic but is from from the only mentally stimulating activity that kids might enjoy.
Not everything is so black and white as "for it or against it". You can be for it in some cases (IE: hate speech) and against it in others (IE: fact-based criticism). Or you can just not care either way, in which case you'd be neither for nor against.
That's not strictly true... I've come across a few places that won't let you use any from a list of free providers that are often used for spam (Gmail, Yahoo, etc), but it's by no means an exhaustive list compared to the number of free email providers out there.
My ISP notifies me of things via my ISP email. However, I don't know what my ISP email address is... nevermind where to log in or what the password might be. I know of only a small handful of people that do use their ISP email, usually older people.
But they is more English literature than you are, I hope.
Are IP addresses or hard drives relevant here? Sometimes, you don't need to understand every facet of a subject, even the the most common terms, to understand a specific case like this. All they need to understand is how a webserver works, which can be explained satisfactorily in a few minutes. Of course, it seems they neglected to take those few minutes.
Your post is confusing. Wouldn't alcohol be the cause of accidents, or are there automobile deaths with alcohol involved that are not accidents? Also, you're mixing deaths (which would presumably be a subset of accidents) with accidents in total. Without the total numbers, the figures "1 in 3" and "1 in 4" are completely useless seeing as it's "1 in 3 apples" vs "1 in 4 fruits".
Presumably it's that springing forward makes people late more than falling back, which increases stress, thus the heart attacks. Falling back, likewise, makes people early and reduces stress. However, the effect is only for immediately after a clock change... so it makes no sense to "wait until we fall back". The only way that logic would make sense would be to fall back every year and never spring forward... of course that won't work for obvious reasons.
Personally, I'm in favor of abolishing time zones altogether. For most people, remembering "I'm in Britain, and it's noon so it must be 7am in New York" is no more or less difficult than remembering "I'm in Britain and it's lunchtime, so it's breakfast time in New York". I'd just have to get up at 11:30 and be to work by 13:00 instead of getting up at 6:30am EST and being to work by 8am EST.
Or you could get a bill monthly from your ISP or something. They would just be monitoring emails sent from your IP. Of course, that wouldn't work for webmail in which just a browser session, and not the email itself, is sent to you.
Their missiles can maybe, possibly reach San Francisco with a bit of luck and almost certainly Honolulu. Of course, that means praying the US doesn't have any sort of missile defense or the missile gets through by freak chance... not a good bet when you only have a few nukes.
How long ago was that? Netflix and the likes probably accounts for a big portion of that 24-28GB, so I wouldn't be surprised if that number is four or five times higher than it was just a few years ago. I'm a pretty heavy Internet user, but five years ago the only way I would exceed 2GB/mo would be if I were downloading ISOs or movies... which isn't too common among the general Internet population.
Holy shit, I didn't realize we had The Guy Who Is Representative Of Everyone's Bandwidth Usage on Slashdot.
(If you didn't get the sarcasm, what I mean to say is "Maybe this product is targeted at certain demographic/market of which you are not a member")
My maternal grandmother uses a few dozen MB a month, she does almost nothing beyond email a couple times a week, look up the odd recipe and a little online banking. My paternal grandfather does even less with his Net connection. Both are on fixed income.
I loved SimCity 3ku and 4 as much as I loved Diablo II
However, with all the issues Diablo III had with a similar system, it put a bad taste in my mouth for any game that requires you to be online for offline play.
I played through Diablo III once on normal because it's a good story, but now I'm back playing Diablo 2 and I'm probably going to install one of the older SimCities this weekend... I'm certainly not going to buy SimCity 5 if it looks like it's going to be another D3.
If I can run truly massive SimCity 4 custom maps on a 1.86GHz Core 2 Duo with 2GB RAM with no problem, then I would hope SimCity 5's normal maps would run fine on the average i3 or i5 CPU out there. Even though the graphics may be much improved between 4 and 5, I can't imagine the back-end simulation would be so much more complex that my i5 can't handle it.
And for anyone that says you can't assume everyone will have at least an i3, they've been out for more than 3 years now so I think it's safe to assume that a majority of people will have an i3 or better now or will in the near future.
I wrote a number of small utilities for my last company. There were times when I would delay deploying non-critical programs so that I could finish the documentation and this was always met with a "if you insist..." reaction. It was fairly common for me to find issues with the UI being unintuitive while documenting it, after which I would go back in and simplify things (and re-document).
I had a Cyrix P166 until fairly recently that I used for old games on Win98, especially Quake. It was a pretty snappy computer, and it beat out the Pentium I still have that's from the same era.
Depends on what you mean by "available". If you mean "geographically available", then I can think of a few dozen people I know who are limited to slow dial-up or spotty satellite that doesn't work half the time due to weather. If you mean "financially available" then I can think of a few dozen people that might be able to scrape it together each month, but it would be a really poor financial choice.
They might have all of the sources, but they probably don't have enough developers. They might be able to afford enough developers to pick up the slack, but they might not be able to. Either way, development of Debian would be dead in the water for some period of time until someone (if anyone) stepped in to pick up the slack. It's also possible Ubuntu would shift to be based on some other distro or they find they can't adapt and die out.
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If they scanned the entire (or enitre) IPv4 space, I wonder if they found an unsecured router at 192.168.1.1. That's where I usually find one.
I don't like the idea of someone going around testing all of these devices any better than I like the idea of some guy going around my neighborhood checking to see if all the doors and windows are locked. There are a lot of places where that will get you shot.
Just because the Son is going to a great school doesn't mean the Parent did. His inability to use capitalization may be the driving force behind putting his kid in a good school.
I agree with what he's saying though... you need to encourage your kid to do things that stimulate the brain. Reading is the time-honored classic but is from from the only mentally stimulating activity that kids might enjoy.
Not everything is so black and white as "for it or against it". You can be for it in some cases (IE: hate speech) and against it in others (IE: fact-based criticism). Or you can just not care either way, in which case you'd be neither for nor against.
Whose side are you on, people who only claim there's only two sides or everyone else?
That's not strictly true... I've come across a few places that won't let you use any from a list of free providers that are often used for spam (Gmail, Yahoo, etc), but it's by no means an exhaustive list compared to the number of free email providers out there.
My ISP notifies me of things via my ISP email. However, I don't know what my ISP email address is... nevermind where to log in or what the password might be. I know of only a small handful of people that do use their ISP email, usually older people.
But they is more English literature than you are, I hope.
Are IP addresses or hard drives relevant here? Sometimes, you don't need to understand every facet of a subject, even the the most common terms, to understand a specific case like this. All they need to understand is how a webserver works, which can be explained satisfactorily in a few minutes. Of course, it seems they neglected to take those few minutes.
I wish I understood that when I was a minor, I would have had so much more fun...
If you've *done* all the porn on the Internet, you'll be too sore to get anything else done.
Of course old people would raise hell. They don't want to get their car the hell off my lawn.
Your post is confusing. Wouldn't alcohol be the cause of accidents, or are there automobile deaths with alcohol involved that are not accidents? Also, you're mixing deaths (which would presumably be a subset of accidents) with accidents in total. Without the total numbers, the figures "1 in 3" and "1 in 4" are completely useless seeing as it's "1 in 3 apples" vs "1 in 4 fruits".
Presumably it's that springing forward makes people late more than falling back, which increases stress, thus the heart attacks. Falling back, likewise, makes people early and reduces stress. However, the effect is only for immediately after a clock change... so it makes no sense to "wait until we fall back". The only way that logic would make sense would be to fall back every year and never spring forward... of course that won't work for obvious reasons.
Personally, I'm in favor of abolishing time zones altogether. For most people, remembering "I'm in Britain, and it's noon so it must be 7am in New York" is no more or less difficult than remembering "I'm in Britain and it's lunchtime, so it's breakfast time in New York". I'd just have to get up at 11:30 and be to work by 13:00 instead of getting up at 6:30am EST and being to work by 8am EST.
Or you could get a bill monthly from your ISP or something. They would just be monitoring emails sent from your IP. Of course, that wouldn't work for webmail in which just a browser session, and not the email itself, is sent to you.
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Their missiles can maybe, possibly reach San Francisco with a bit of luck and almost certainly Honolulu. Of course, that means praying the US doesn't have any sort of missile defense or the missile gets through by freak chance... not a good bet when you only have a few nukes.
How long ago was that? Netflix and the likes probably accounts for a big portion of that 24-28GB, so I wouldn't be surprised if that number is four or five times higher than it was just a few years ago. I'm a pretty heavy Internet user, but five years ago the only way I would exceed 2GB/mo would be if I were downloading ISOs or movies... which isn't too common among the general Internet population.
All of my grandparents combined use 100MB/mo between their respective ISPs. Email, maybe a few recipes, not much else.
Let's do some basic math.
Right now, they pay around $45/mo for cable each
Under this plan, they pays $0/mo.
Seems like a good plan to me. It's not marketed to every Internet user ever, just certain low-use demographics like the elderly.
Holy shit, I didn't realize we had The Guy Who Is Representative Of Everyone's Bandwidth Usage on Slashdot.
(If you didn't get the sarcasm, what I mean to say is "Maybe this product is targeted at certain demographic/market of which you are not a member")
My maternal grandmother uses a few dozen MB a month, she does almost nothing beyond email a couple times a week, look up the odd recipe and a little online banking. My paternal grandfather does even less with his Net connection. Both are on fixed income.
I loved SimCity 3ku and 4 as much as I loved Diablo II
However, with all the issues Diablo III had with a similar system, it put a bad taste in my mouth for any game that requires you to be online for offline play.
I played through Diablo III once on normal because it's a good story, but now I'm back playing Diablo 2 and I'm probably going to install one of the older SimCities this weekend... I'm certainly not going to buy SimCity 5 if it looks like it's going to be another D3.
If I can run truly massive SimCity 4 custom maps on a 1.86GHz Core 2 Duo with 2GB RAM with no problem, then I would hope SimCity 5's normal maps would run fine on the average i3 or i5 CPU out there. Even though the graphics may be much improved between 4 and 5, I can't imagine the back-end simulation would be so much more complex that my i5 can't handle it.
And for anyone that says you can't assume everyone will have at least an i3, they've been out for more than 3 years now so I think it's safe to assume that a majority of people will have an i3 or better now or will in the near future.
I wrote a number of small utilities for my last company. There were times when I would delay deploying non-critical programs so that I could finish the documentation and this was always met with a "if you insist..." reaction. It was fairly common for me to find issues with the UI being unintuitive while documenting it, after which I would go back in and simplify things (and re-document).
I had a Cyrix P166 until fairly recently that I used for old games on Win98, especially Quake. It was a pretty snappy computer, and it beat out the Pentium I still have that's from the same era.
Depends on what you mean by "available". If you mean "geographically available", then I can think of a few dozen people I know who are limited to slow dial-up or spotty satellite that doesn't work half the time due to weather. If you mean "financially available" then I can think of a few dozen people that might be able to scrape it together each month, but it would be a really poor financial choice.
They might have all of the sources, but they probably don't have enough developers. They might be able to afford enough developers to pick up the slack, but they might not be able to. Either way, development of Debian would be dead in the water for some period of time until someone (if anyone) stepped in to pick up the slack. It's also possible Ubuntu would shift to be based on some other distro or they find they can't adapt and die out.