Internet connections are not just for websurfing and emails anymore.
Of course it depens on the user, the average traffic from my xbox 360 alone (in gaming, demo downloads, movies etc) in one day, is more than my parents have in a month with their just light surfing and email use. And I don't use my xbox that much.
It is an issue they have to face now. Legal traffic alone these days for high tech households internet use, can pass your ISPs secret acceptable use limits.
So I guess that the Azores was lucky that a cable came their way(perhaps just São Miguel) and took a small detour. I would have thought that more wires would go that way but I guess that distance is not an issue. Maybe it is a harder route.
From the map, it seems that some places a sea path has been chosen instead of a land based route, I guess it must be because it is easier.
If this is how the cables to on shore, it is bound to give problems.:D Anyway, interesting stuff.
I'd say that every ISP should do that, that is, if you could get it unblocked if you requested it or via some online account management. 99% of all people wouldn't need it anyway(except the bots on their machines) and the ones who do, would know how to open it. Of course it is a not the ideal way to solve the problem, but it's all we got for now.
I agree, maybe because I have to deal with that scenario.:) I had to place it in the center of my apartment, if I get furter than 6 meters away from it, the signal gets worthless. And I have to measure the channels from time to time, to find the optimal one. It is just not very stable in this enviroment.
And the only problem that the next generation(802.11n) seems to solve is bandwidth, while it enhances the other problem because it is a frequency hog.
It is obvious why WLANs are popular in homes since you don't have to install cables to get all your devices connected.
I can feel little bit on my mbp sometimes when I run a finger over it.
I live in a 100 year old apartment building. I am unsure of how old the wireing is. There is no grounding which make the cable tv connector quite hot god at frying all my electronics.
>Why in the world would anyone get a crippled stand-alone DVD recorder? Because it was all you could get for a very long time.
The first usable solution I could get my hands on, was a Microsoft Media Center machine since they were the first to provide a solution with tv guides. (2005 with rollup package 2, iirc). Of course there were MythTV and others what worked badly at the time because you had to tinker for days with scripts to get some sort of automated tv guide by pulling it from a local tv stations website.
The last year or two different cable providers has really begun do get into the tivo like services
I agree, it was a bit high though. I had it on a small desk in my room, so I built an shelf under the table for the lower part of the computer and placed it there. Then I extended the keyboard cable so that I only had the top half of the 64 on the table which made i a bit better. My first hardware hack in 7th grade.:)
Indeed. "Alienware has showcased a curved display prototype"
prototype (pr't-tp') pronunciation
n.
1. An original type, form, or instance serving as a basis or standard for later stages.
2. An original, full-scale, and usually working model of a new product or new version of an existing product.
3. An early, typical example.
4. Biology. A form or species that serves as an original type or example.
[French, from Greek prtotupon, from neuter of prtotupos, original : prto-, proto- + tupos, model.] prototypal pro'totyp'al (-t'pl) or pro'totyp'ic (-tp'k) or pro'totyp'ical (--kl) adj.
One has to remember that the XBL definition of a "server" is mostly someone hosting a game on their xbox through whatever internet connection they may have. It is great for friends playing together, but sucks for the casual player who rather wants a good stable server that does not lag or goes away when the one hosting it desides to quit.
It's an accountants solution (CHEAP!) not a technical one. I agree. And I always stay far away from those projects, because I know the amount of overtime that will come when the users starts to complain about the stability that they were used to, are gone.
Usually what you see is people going from mainframe to windows servers(and expecting the same stability(ha)), so with that in mind, I am happy with the choice of Linux.
We had an agreement that they would not build anything in that crater, and yet it was lighted up like a christmas tree. It should have been a clean pass for the cameras dammit.
The same trick are done on washing machines etc, in Scandinavia. They all have slightly different product numbers. I discovered it because I was looking for a new one and was googleling for some info on a AEG machine, which turned up very little.
Indeed, I thought that was how it worked when I got the xbox. The user hosted game sessions really suck in most games. Specially for a casual player like me. Half of my time are wasted on finding good sessions and when I only can squeeze an hour in here and there to play, it is mostly useless.
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must suck to be you.. Do you feel better about yourself now. One should think that people with such a low UID would have more brains than that.
anyway, Activesync is not the only program companies use to synchronize phones to Exchange, specially people who have Nokia phones.
They need to get the companies that makes synchronisation software for Exchange to make a iPhone version.
It does, but it is a one time deal.
Internet connections are not just for websurfing and emails anymore.
Of course it depens on the user, the average traffic from my xbox 360 alone (in gaming, demo downloads, movies etc) in one day, is more than my parents have in a month with their just light surfing and email use. And I don't use my xbox that much.
It is an issue they have to face now. Legal traffic alone these days for high tech households internet use, can pass your ISPs secret acceptable use limits.
That has not worked for the last 20 years.
So I guess that the Azores was lucky that a cable came their way(perhaps just São Miguel) and took a small detour. I would have thought that more wires would go that way but I guess that distance is not an issue. Maybe it is a harder route.
:D Anyway, interesting stuff.
From the map, it seems that some places a sea path has been chosen instead of a land based route, I guess it must be because it is easier.
If this is how the cables to on shore, it is bound to give problems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Submarine_Telephone_Cables_PICT8182_1.JPG
I'd say that every ISP should do that, that is, if you could get it unblocked if you requested it or via some online account management.
99% of all people wouldn't need it anyway(except the bots on their machines) and the ones who do, would know how to open it. Of course it is a not the ideal way to solve the problem, but it's all we got for now.
I agree, maybe because I have to deal with that scenario. :) I had to place it in the center of my apartment, if I get furter than 6 meters away from it, the signal gets worthless. And I have to measure the channels from time to time, to find the optimal one. It is just not very stable in this enviroment.
And the only problem that the next generation(802.11n) seems to solve is bandwidth, while it enhances the other problem because it is a frequency hog.
It is obvious why WLANs are popular in homes since you don't have to install cables to get all your devices connected.
And "everyone on the same WAN"? No thanks.
Fewest folks flocks for fewest flaws OS?
Well, that won't make the ISPs happy with everyone using their "unlimited" usage internet connection to view HD content online.
But we sure do have used a lot of *ist words today.
I can feel little bit on my mbp sometimes when I run a finger over it.
I live in a 100 year old apartment building. I am unsure of how old the wireing is.
There is no grounding which make the cable tv connector quite hot god at frying all my electronics.
>Why in the world would anyone get a crippled stand-alone DVD recorder?
Because it was all you could get for a very long time.
The first usable solution I could get my hands on, was a Microsoft Media Center machine since they were the first to provide a solution with tv guides. (2005 with rollup package 2, iirc).
Of course there were MythTV and others what worked badly at the time because you had to tinker for days with scripts to get some sort of automated tv guide by pulling it from a local tv stations website.
The last year or two different cable providers has really begun do get into the tivo like services
I agree, it was a bit high though. I had it on a small desk in my room, so I built an shelf under the table for the lower part of the computer and placed it there. :)
Then I extended the keyboard cable so that I only had the top half of the 64 on the table which made i a bit better.
My first hardware hack in 7th grade.
Indeed.
"Alienware has showcased a curved display prototype"
prototype
(pr't-tp') pronunciation
n.
1. An original type, form, or instance serving as a basis or standard for later stages.
2. An original, full-scale, and usually working model of a new product or new version of an existing product.
3. An early, typical example.
4. Biology. A form or species that serves as an original type or example.
[French, from Greek prtotupon, from neuter of prtotupos, original : prto-, proto- + tupos, model.]
prototypal pro'totyp'al (-t'pl) or pro'totyp'ic (-tp'k) or pro'totyp'ical (--kl) adj.
One has to remember that the XBL definition of a "server" is mostly someone hosting a game on their xbox through whatever internet connection they may have.
It is great for friends playing together, but sucks for the casual player who rather wants a good stable server that does not lag or goes away when the one hosting it desides to quit.
And I always stay far away from those projects, because I know the amount of overtime that will come when the users starts to complain about the stability that they were used to, are gone.
Usually what you see is people going from mainframe to windows servers(and expecting the same stability(ha)), so with that in mind, I am happy with the choice of Linux.
on to one, migrate we would.
Stolen, the suits would think it was.
We had an agreement that they would not build anything in that crater, and yet it was lighted up like a christmas tree. It should have been a clean pass for the cameras dammit.
And yet Flowers By Irene were registered much later.
and this is flamebait how?
The same trick are done on washing machines etc, in Scandinavia. They all have slightly different product numbers.
I discovered it because I was looking for a new one and was googleling for some info on a AEG machine, which turned up very little.
Indeed, I thought that was how it worked when I got the xbox. The user hosted game sessions really suck in most games. Specially for a casual player like me.
Half of my time are wasted on finding good sessions and when I only can squeeze an hour in here and there to play, it is mostly useless.
I don't think the guitar controllers for the game have any whammy-bars?