My wife and I were both into gaming before we had kids, but since then our priorities have changed. I do some stuff on computers in the morning while absorbing caffeine, then go to work (with a computer all day). Once I come home, and I make a very concerted effort to get home for dinner with the family, it's no more computers for the day for me (except now that the kids are older they're complaining about their computers, so I get called upon to straighten them out).
Perhaps I've used up my allotment of getting excited about computers, but really, spending evenings with my family is much better...
Nevertheless, if you added up the hours, I certainly spend more waking hours with computers than with my wife.
What I *really* want some of these "researchers" to tell me is how I can get a grant so that I can spend a year (or two) getting paid to point out something so f***ing obvious to anyone that made it into high school!
There are limitations throughout the system - HDD, bus, NIC, memory, etc. A general purpose PC isn't going to be able to get anywhere near the capacity of a 1Gb/s connection for a sustained transfer.
It's not just the HD transfer speed, data from the disk has to be copied into RAM, then back out to the NIC. Even with everything in RAM already and using a zero-copy driver, I suspect you'd still have trouble saturating a 1Gb/s link for more than an instant with commodity hardware.
High speed networks aren't generally designed for a single point-to-point connection to use all the bandwith - they exist primarily so that multiple conversations can go on concurrently. Piping all that bandwith through a single node is a pretty heavy burden.
And sometimes it's the only thing we have to save us from idiotic legislators. While I agree that even including a clause about *how* you solicit the minor is dumb, I can't see any way to interpret this statute other than the way these judges have (unanimously).
Actually, let's see them not disclose them - one of the basic tenets of IP law is that if you know of infringement and you don't attempt to mitigate damages by enforcing your rights, then you lose your claim to damages. In other words, if you know of infringement and don't tell the infringer how they're infringing, you can't later come back and claim you were damaged beyond that which occurred before you became aware of it.
If they sit on their hands long enough without pointing out any real infringement, they'll be effectively neutered (an appealing thought when it comes to Stevie) regarding enforcement.
I couldn't trap a live Geek on the ground here if I used a keg of beer and my cousin, an eye-catching young Hooters gal, as bait.
Well, what do you expect, that's entirely the wrong bait (though I have to admit it'd probably work for me). Offer up some dusty old obsolete hardware and ANSI-standard pizza and you'd do much better!
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This really is an important factor in the equation.
;)
Of course, I'm not sure how to analogously segregate time "with" vs "using" my wife, and I ain't going down that rathole here
My wife and I were both into gaming before we had kids, but since then our priorities have changed. I do some stuff on computers in the morning while absorbing caffeine, then go to work (with a computer all day). Once I come home, and I make a very concerted effort to get home for dinner with the family, it's no more computers for the day for me (except now that the kids are older they're complaining about their computers, so I get called upon to straighten them out).
...
Perhaps I've used up my allotment of getting excited about computers, but really, spending evenings with my family is much better
Nevertheless, if you added up the hours, I certainly spend more waking hours with computers than with my wife.
What I *really* want some of these "researchers" to tell me is how I can get a grant so that I can spend a year (or two) getting paid to point out something so f***ing obvious to anyone that made it into high school!
I don't remember my wife's cycle, but you're quite right that it's pretty easy to tell when she's ovulating.
;)
Of course, it's pretty easy to tell when she's at the opposite point in her cycle, too
There are limitations throughout the system - HDD, bus, NIC, memory, etc. A general purpose PC isn't going to be able to get anywhere near the capacity of a 1Gb/s connection for a sustained transfer.
It's not just the HD transfer speed, data from the disk has to be copied into RAM, then back out to the NIC. Even with everything in RAM already and using a zero-copy driver, I suspect you'd still have trouble saturating a 1Gb/s link for more than an instant with commodity hardware.
High speed networks aren't generally designed for a single point-to-point connection to use all the bandwith - they exist primarily so that multiple conversations can go on concurrently. Piping all that bandwith through a single node is a pretty heavy burden.
"sometimes common sense is a good idea"
And sometimes it's the only thing we have to save us from idiotic legislators. While I agree that even including a clause about *how* you solicit the minor is dumb, I can't see any way to interpret this statute other than the way these judges have (unanimously).
Actually, let's see them not disclose them - one of the basic tenets of IP law is that if you know of infringement and you don't attempt to mitigate damages by enforcing your rights, then you lose your claim to damages. In other words, if you know of infringement and don't tell the infringer how they're infringing, you can't later come back and claim you were damaged beyond that which occurred before you became aware of it.
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If they sit on their hands long enough without pointing out any real infringement, they'll be effectively neutered (an appealing thought when it comes to Stevie) regarding enforcement.
IANAL, etc, etc
Well, what do you expect, that's entirely the wrong bait (though I have to admit it'd probably work for me). Offer up some dusty old obsolete hardware and ANSI-standard pizza and you'd do much better!