I have a NAS with 3.5 TB at home that I can access from anywhere via all my mobile equipments, 100Mbps at home, 1000Mbps at work, and my wifi at home can go to 150Mbps and at work 100Mbps. Most of my friends have high speed at home. I also have a roaming profile in my ISP which gives me a 20-30Mbps access pretty anywhere in the big cities. So yes, I can live very well with wifi only. Last full retail price DVD I bought was maybe Star Wars (30 euros?) The Phantom Menace, and after that, I may have bought 10 of them (all legal) at the supermarket for 1.5 Euro each, all old movies. I dont even remember when I bought a music CD last time. Maybe a bootleg copy back in 2001, and in a store, legal, maybe in 2002 for a present. I do not plan *ever* to buy a Blu-ray DVD. I may went to a cinema three years ago, and because a friend wanted to; I dont see the point of going there and pay a premium to see something I can see at home, it is not like we only dont have TVs at home, and then without that pesky strangers around, in a much cleaner environment, and without 1 hour of forceful adverts. The younger generation with all our prevalent high-speed Internet here is more into youtube than TV or DVDs, also. Even when I had the DVD in the last MacBook Pro, I didnt use it much, maybe once in every 6 months for having a look at some CD/DVD some vendor gave me; and actually I was longing for a time when the damn machine had less 100-150 g without one. So, it is not an *apple* thing me believing DVDs/Blurays are a thing in the past. As you say, their blood line is just being artificially extended by predatory market forces.
The fact is the DVD train is long gone and nobody notices. Apple for instance no longer sells equipment with them. And when I had a computer with a DVD at work, I resented the extra weight it added to the machine. now then again, the absence of DVDs doesnt mean one-time streaming. One alternative is the iTunes store, if just they would price the movies in a sensible price, they could make millions and millions of sales. Another alternative are DivX/matroska and family.
It would work globally like pirate bay, yes sir...In theory that arguments hold water, in practice they are shooting themselves in their own foot. If for instance, Apple could stream musics and movies for cents a pop, they would create a new model of business in itself where people would stop caring about buying bootleg copies or downloading them from the Internet. The thing is, they dont because they are greedy, and prefer to ignore the laws of demand and market, and instead bully their customer base into paying what whatever they think they can get away with charging and compensating them for the market of piracy they themselves create with taxes on DVDs and media. I no longer care for DVDs, none of my equipment at home has them anymore, and I really get mad when physical stores waste so many real estate which is expensive displaying hundreds of shelves of a media which is outdated and should be dead by now.
I had it too, pity I cant find the original ones. This book is from where I learnt my Z80 and went later on to write the first Spectrum 48K emulator for Windows.
This is the point. This measure once again only is against the poor who are not able to buy a 2nd car. Plus, in some European cities, like Lisbon my home town, public transportation is too much centralised (i.e. if you coming out of the main places, you have to change several times), inefficient, under-provisioned, insufficient or inexistent after business hours and expensive - and they have doubled the prices preparing for a nearby privatisation. No matter how much they talk about capacity or ecology, it is not a real alternative.
With the current trend where being "promoted" only means you get more responsibility and the salary does not change much, I prefer to not be "promoted". In the past I used to earn more than the guy above me...
What ads are you talking about? adblock+clicktoflash work wonders. Havent seen ads for *ages* in youtube. Cant stand seeing youtube in the iPad for the same very reason I do not have there adblock. And when I do open some video that shows some ad in some other page, I close the browser right way. This is not a frigging TV with a semi-captive audience, if you want to serve an ad to me, you have got to be more creative, dont rob me a full 1-2 minutes, and be less intrusive.
Often the kids now better your password then you, even when you think they dont know...Last time I was at a friends house, it was their 4 years old that unlocked the iPad for me.
I always carried my wallet in my front pockets, even when studying. My father usually carries only a small wallet with his train ticket for the month in his coat, and the proper wallet hidden out of sight. As a true anecdotal story, once a thief sat besides him pretending to read a newspaper (known mode of work), and left after a short while. My father left without noticing anything. Next day he tried to board the train, there was no photo in the train ticket. The thief took the wallet, got mad it was a decoy, took out the photo as a "lesson", and put it in place without my father noticing anything.
I bought my iphone 5S upfront from a friend that came from the US and paid 480 euros for it. One that does a little math, sees it quickly becomes 1200 euros when bought with an operator plan... And to me in Portugal a package similar to yours with 1GB of data cap would cost me 30 euros/month. I am paying around 5 euros per month for 40 minutes of free voice for the same operator, and like 16 cents/minute for other operators. Anyway, most of the time I use voip or skype at work or at home.
Here mobile calls have already a lot of competition and some obscure operators more oriented to foreign people (go figure) give you extremely good rates like 7 euros/month call anyone you want, or just pay a load every 3 months. I estimate I am spending 5 euros/months for the mobile bill. The bill you can find with the official operators is around 15 euros/month, and if cheaper they rip you off in the cost of the calls. Mobile Internet is an huge rip off, and the magic number is (again) 15 euros for the bare minimum service 1GB per month (ridiculous). They also sell 4G services for around 50 euros month, where they used to advertise unlimited data, and in very small letters * this is subject to a responsible user policy*. It turns out their unlimited data, was just 15GB, which at 4G speeds latest you only to about half of the month. The regulator, whilst being a puppet, could not ignore more that situation, gave them a slap in the wrist, and now in the adverts they just dont display the caps of the service tier. I get by using wifi hotspots and our Internet at home, and dont even try to play that game.
I am not advocating people do what they want. At the end of the day it is not your f network too, and it is up not to you to decide what people do or dont, but up to the board of the directors. What people do or dont, it is not a technical problem. We of the systems and network services, we are not the police; it is not my job to see what my users are doing, or if they are pirating movies. Just maybe in the corporate world, and even them, it is not as simple. We have a wireless network in place, and if other departments install wifi routers, we cant forbid them because it is not a technical problem. If people use a lot of resources, I cannot block their account because at the end of the day, we can provide the means and the data to recommend to block the account, but can only block it after authorisation from above. People that want to fix political problems with technical solutions besides wasting much more time, are putting their asses on the line.
Several questions:
- why do children need to connect their *own* notebooks to the school AD?
- why we still pretend technology solves political problems?
- why give unrestrained access to Internet if the restrictions exist in the first place?
- Do you think that with mobile Internet and iPhones technology will solve for long another POLITICAL problem of staff browsing whatever they please at work?
My comment was not about bandwidth been limited, but of the tech having provisions in place for the roaming visitors not eating into the speed you are being provisioned by your ISP. And I agree, as you can find in my comment "the good and the ugly" bellow, Wifi management is a BIG problem. I gave up using 2.4GHz altogether and went to 5GHz because it was a nightmare. all our equipments at home would be waiting at least 1 minute before they were able to get in the wifi network.
Your reasoning would make some sense if Apple Users/Apple IDs wouldnt have all the details of the accounts, including full name and address. To verify proper ownership, it is enough to check if they are really family.
What I am quite sure, is by the time you jump through all the legal hoops, the consultation and court fees will be enough to buy maybe 6 ipads, which I doubt very much it was the spirit of the will.
Are you sure of that? I actually have noticed the internal netblocks are different but not that. If it is really that way, it is a major argument to disable the service.
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Which I and many others dont buy...for me it is not an Apple thing. Last time I bough a DVD was "The Phantom Menace"
I have a NAS with 3.5 TB at home that I can access from anywhere via all my mobile equipments, 100Mbps at home, 1000Mbps at work, and my wifi at home can go to 150Mbps and at work 100Mbps. Most of my friends have high speed at home. I also have a roaming profile in my ISP which gives me a 20-30Mbps access pretty anywhere in the big cities. So yes, I can live very well with wifi only. Last full retail price DVD I bought was maybe Star Wars (30 euros?) The Phantom Menace, and after that, I may have bought 10 of them (all legal) at the supermarket for 1.5 Euro each, all old movies. I dont even remember when I bought a music CD last time. Maybe a bootleg copy back in 2001, and in a store, legal, maybe in 2002 for a present. I do not plan *ever* to buy a Blu-ray DVD. I may went to a cinema three years ago, and because a friend wanted to; I dont see the point of going there and pay a premium to see something I can see at home, it is not like we only dont have TVs at home, and then without that pesky strangers around, in a much cleaner environment, and without 1 hour of forceful adverts. The younger generation with all our prevalent high-speed Internet here is more into youtube than TV or DVDs, also. Even when I had the DVD in the last MacBook Pro, I didnt use it much, maybe once in every 6 months for having a look at some CD/DVD some vendor gave me; and actually I was longing for a time when the damn machine had less 100-150 g without one. So, it is not an *apple* thing me believing DVDs/Blurays are a thing in the past. As you say, their blood line is just being artificially extended by predatory market forces.
The fact is the DVD train is long gone and nobody notices. Apple for instance no longer sells equipment with them. And when I had a computer with a DVD at work, I resented the extra weight it added to the machine. now then again, the absence of DVDs doesnt mean one-time streaming. One alternative is the iTunes store, if just they would price the movies in a sensible price, they could make millions and millions of sales. Another alternative are DivX/matroska and family.
It would work globally like pirate bay, yes sir...In theory that arguments hold water, in practice they are shooting themselves in their own foot. If for instance, Apple could stream musics and movies for cents a pop, they would create a new model of business in itself where people would stop caring about buying bootleg copies or downloading them from the Internet. The thing is, they dont because they are greedy, and prefer to ignore the laws of demand and market, and instead bully their customer base into paying what whatever they think they can get away with charging and compensating them for the market of piracy they themselves create with taxes on DVDs and media. I no longer care for DVDs, none of my equipment at home has them anymore, and I really get mad when physical stores waste so many real estate which is expensive displaying hundreds of shelves of a media which is outdated and should be dead by now.
I had it too, pity I cant find the original ones. This book is from where I learnt my Z80 and went later on to write the first Spectrum 48K emulator for Windows.
As far as I am aware, DOS v3.x source code is out in the open and can be easily be found with a google search...
This is the point. This measure once again only is against the poor who are not able to buy a 2nd car. Plus, in some European cities, like Lisbon my home town, public transportation is too much centralised (i.e. if you coming out of the main places, you have to change several times), inefficient, under-provisioned, insufficient or inexistent after business hours and expensive - and they have doubled the prices preparing for a nearby privatisation. No matter how much they talk about capacity or ecology, it is not a real alternative.
With the current trend where being "promoted" only means you get more responsibility and the salary does not change much, I prefer to not be "promoted". In the past I used to earn more than the guy above me...
What ads are you talking about? adblock+clicktoflash work wonders. Havent seen ads for *ages* in youtube. Cant stand seeing youtube in the iPad for the same very reason I do not have there adblock. And when I do open some video that shows some ad in some other page, I close the browser right way. This is not a frigging TV with a semi-captive audience, if you want to serve an ad to me, you have got to be more creative, dont rob me a full 1-2 minutes, and be less intrusive.
Often the kids now better your password then you, even when you think they dont know...Last time I was at a friends house, it was their 4 years old that unlocked the iPad for me.
Why did it take you so long?
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I always carried my wallet in my front pockets, even when studying. My father usually carries only a small wallet with his train ticket for the month in his coat, and the proper wallet hidden out of sight. As a true anecdotal story, once a thief sat besides him pretending to read a newspaper (known mode of work), and left after a short while. My father left without noticing anything. Next day he tried to board the train, there was no photo in the train ticket. The thief took the wallet, got mad it was a decoy, took out the photo as a "lesson", and put it in place without my father noticing anything.
Why so much trouble? you just take the memory card out and connect it to a computer...
I bought my iphone 5S upfront from a friend that came from the US and paid 480 euros for it. One that does a little math, sees it quickly becomes 1200 euros when bought with an operator plan... And to me in Portugal a package similar to yours with 1GB of data cap would cost me 30 euros/month. I am paying around 5 euros per month for 40 minutes of free voice for the same operator, and like 16 cents/minute for other operators. Anyway, most of the time I use voip or skype at work or at home.
Here mobile calls have already a lot of competition and some obscure operators more oriented to foreign people (go figure) give you extremely good rates like 7 euros/month call anyone you want, or just pay a load every 3 months. I estimate I am spending 5 euros/months for the mobile bill. The bill you can find with the official operators is around 15 euros/month, and if cheaper they rip you off in the cost of the calls. Mobile Internet is an huge rip off, and the magic number is (again) 15 euros for the bare minimum service 1GB per month (ridiculous). They also sell 4G services for around 50 euros month, where they used to advertise unlimited data, and in very small letters * this is subject to a responsible user policy*. It turns out their unlimited data, was just 15GB, which at 4G speeds latest you only to about half of the month. The regulator, whilst being a puppet, could not ignore more that situation, gave them a slap in the wrist, and now in the adverts they just dont display the caps of the service tier. I get by using wifi hotspots and our Internet at home, and dont even try to play that game.
Are you sure it ended? It has always been the business model of ryanair...
I am not advocating people do what they want. At the end of the day it is not your f network too, and it is up not to you to decide what people do or dont, but up to the board of the directors. What people do or dont, it is not a technical problem. We of the systems and network services, we are not the police; it is not my job to see what my users are doing, or if they are pirating movies. Just maybe in the corporate world, and even them, it is not as simple. We have a wireless network in place, and if other departments install wifi routers, we cant forbid them because it is not a technical problem. If people use a lot of resources, I cannot block their account because at the end of the day, we can provide the means and the data to recommend to block the account, but can only block it after authorisation from above. People that want to fix political problems with technical solutions besides wasting much more time, are putting their asses on the line.
How does that works out for security cameras at public pools?
Several questions: - why do children need to connect their *own* notebooks to the school AD? - why we still pretend technology solves political problems? - why give unrestrained access to Internet if the restrictions exist in the first place? - Do you think that with mobile Internet and iPhones technology will solve for long another POLITICAL problem of staff browsing whatever they please at work?
There arent technical solutions for political problems.
Truth is when I saw it in my iPhone the site was very weak. Now in my MacBook Pro is far more interesting.
My comment was not about bandwidth been limited, but of the tech having provisions in place for the roaming visitors not eating into the speed you are being provisioned by your ISP. And I agree, as you can find in my comment "the good and the ugly" bellow, Wifi management is a BIG problem. I gave up using 2.4GHz altogether and went to 5GHz because it was a nightmare. all our equipments at home would be waiting at least 1 minute before they were able to get in the wifi network.
Your reasoning would make some sense if Apple Users/Apple IDs wouldnt have all the details of the accounts, including full name and address. To verify proper ownership, it is enough to check if they are really family. What I am quite sure, is by the time you jump through all the legal hoops, the consultation and court fees will be enough to buy maybe 6 ipads, which I doubt very much it was the spirit of the will.
Are you sure of that? I actually have noticed the internal netblocks are different but not that. If it is really that way, it is a major argument to disable the service.