I just moved again. I went from a wifi supplied dsl for the whole apartment building to my own Roadrunner. After setup I went to dslreports.com for a speedtest. 1.8Mb/s which is what I used to get from Roadrunner a year or two ago, and almost accepted that. I then remembered Roadrunner was advertising 5Mb/s. Also the fact that setting had been changed to optimize my connection for the wifi and dsl. I ran TCP Optimizer and ended up with 4.5Mb/s. It's not always the ISP's fault since your computer's settings can greatly affect your throughput.
No one is looking at it from an average consumer's point of view. They bought it from a store. They had a problem and knew they didn't know enough about it so sought professional help. They returned to the store they bought it from for repairs. They knew enough to be concerned about their data. The "professional" explained how their data would be physically destroyed and safe. They seemed to have done everything right. How many of you wipe your car's computer (which is storing more and more info) before bringing it in for service or ask for any replaced parts? While I done tons of work on cars due to old cars and a dad with tools, I no longer have the space, time, or interest to fix it myself. I will gladly pay a professional for the work. Maybe he's selling the old parts at flea markets too.
Skipping all the conversions. NASA states an adult requires 840g of oxygen. One dish and a 100g of soil in a few hours got 20g of oxygen. The sunlight was going through atmosphere so I'd think it would be more efficient on the moon, but we'll stick with the 20g. 4.2kg of soil and 42 dishes would supply enough oxygen for one adult in a few hours, Maybe? 4-6 adults a day. The Biosphere 2 lost oxygen at a rate of.3-.5% a month(can't find it in grams). So could a Biosphere 3 with added oxygen from this process be enough to support a moon base?
If someone wants Gmail and doesn't have it, they're not trying that hard. I have invites just laying around and I'm sure any other Gmail user does too.
Console are not setup to run independent homebrew games without modification. Indie mod groups have made some fantastic PC games or added new life to old games. Sure, mod groups use existing engines, but so do a lot of industry groups. The big reason for investing time in making an engine is to license it to others. If I want to make a great game in a short period, I'm going to use someone else's engine. I think indie groups' biggest problem isn't attracting talented individuals, but attracting committed talented individuals in one group.
That works for "us", but I really wonder about families. I see a lot less parents spending the money on a PS3. Sure all the games are expensive, but I see more families renting games nowadays and only buying games for birthdays, etc.
Manufacturers would love to put that sticker on some games. Come on, wouldn't you buy a game that said "Warning: This game is so addictive that you may die from it" and meant it?
Just put some weights by the computer and lift when you're waiting for respawn. You'll either get buff or you'll get better at CS.
Agreed. Don't think of it from your side. Your wife is going to be sleeping alone several nights every week plus taking care of the house (and family?) during that time. Spending a lot of time away can ruin a marriage. Taveling one week a month for work would be a lot less stressful on your marriage.
There's at least 4 different types of situations I can think of.
1. Lost sale - piratee would have bought the software 2. Lost lower sale - pirate would have bought a cheaper version of the software ie Photoshop Elements 3. Lost competition's lower sale - pirate would have bought Ulead PhotoImpact 4. Lost nothing - pirate would have used GIMP or Picasa or nothing
You would have to do a large survey to figure out the "real" cost of pirated software.
Here's what I don't understand - I've seen pre-orders for Sony and Samsung Blu-Ray players at $1000 (not sure on release date). Around a half a year later, the PS3 will play Blu-Ray so all of the Blu-Ray manufacturers are going to have to cut their prices at least in half. I guess it's a marketing ploy showing how great a deal the Blu-Ray players are in 2007 compared to the $1000 in 2006.
Comcast would cut them off. Comcast has already disconnected "bandwidth abusers" when their service was advertised as "unlimited". This happened around the beginning of 2004.
While I don't look forward to a tiered system, I have no problem paying for my use of the internet as long as I get what was advertised.
From the OP, I thought token sacrifice too, not that American companies wouldn't do the same thing. Then I read this quote from the article, "Now, the government and Jiaotong say, none of the chips had the capabilities Chen claimed, even though the government had earlier said that the chips had been tested by government appraisal teams"
So do the chips work or not? Are they ditching the chips because they don't work or because they got caught with stolen technology?
Almost didn't RTFA. Glad I did since it seems the Fission extension listed lower on the page is hopefully something I'd like. I always want as much screen space as possible. F11 always got rid of the status bar though which I use to see where a link goes. The progress is nice if the page is slow or not working. Generally, I only use 1 or 2 icons, the drop down favorites menu, address bar, and status bar. Does anyone have comments on the Fission or similar extension?
I was scrolling down and was surprised that I was almost to the bottom before someone mentioned Dr. West. Dr. West last appeared in Beyond Re-Animator in 2003.
Outsourcing got a bad name when it became equivalent to "The plant is moving". Simplified terms, outsourcing used to mean a lot of times that a new or extra job was given to a different company. Nowadays, it means that a person is being fired and replaced with supposedly cheaper labor. I say supposedly because it depends on how well the management does its job. In terms of a global economy, outsourcing makes sense. From a personal or nationalistic viewpoint, it's the same as the plant in town is leaving. If one billion people in India have jobs in IT and one billion people in China have jobs in manufacturing, does it matter what happens to the quarter of a billion people in the US?
Continuing O/T - It seems like the US Dollar needs to slowly go down in value. I've seen a couple of things pointing to artificial inflation of the US Dollar due to foreign investors not wanting to lose money. Of course, I'm not an economist.
Has there been successful testing of releasing sterilized male mosquitoes to control their population? I know there were studies proposed, but I don't know if widespread testing was done.
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I just moved again. I went from a wifi supplied dsl for the whole apartment building to my own Roadrunner. After setup I went to dslreports.com for a speedtest. 1.8Mb/s which is what I used to get from Roadrunner a year or two ago, and almost accepted that. I then remembered Roadrunner was advertising 5Mb/s. Also the fact that setting had been changed to optimize my connection for the wifi and dsl. I ran TCP Optimizer and ended up with 4.5Mb/s.
It's not always the ISP's fault since your computer's settings can greatly affect your throughput.
No one is looking at it from an average consumer's point of view.
They bought it from a store.
They had a problem and knew they didn't know enough about it so sought professional help.
They returned to the store they bought it from for repairs.
They knew enough to be concerned about their data.
The "professional" explained how their data would be physically destroyed and safe.
They seemed to have done everything right.
How many of you wipe your car's computer (which is storing more and more info) before bringing it in for service or ask for any replaced parts? While I done tons of work on cars due to old cars and a dad with tools, I no longer have the space, time, or interest to fix it myself. I will gladly pay a professional for the work. Maybe he's selling the old parts at flea markets too.
Skipping all the conversions. .3-.5% a month(can't find it in grams). So could a Biosphere 3 with added oxygen from this process be enough to support a moon base?
NASA states an adult requires 840g of oxygen. One dish and a 100g of soil in a few hours got 20g of oxygen. The sunlight was going through atmosphere so I'd think it would be more efficient on the moon, but we'll stick with the 20g. 4.2kg of soil and 42 dishes would supply enough oxygen for one adult in a few hours, Maybe? 4-6 adults a day.
The Biosphere 2 lost oxygen at a rate of
If someone wants Gmail and doesn't have it, they're not trying that hard. I have invites just laying around and I'm sure any other Gmail user does too.
Console are not setup to run independent homebrew games without modification. Indie mod groups have made some fantastic PC games or added new life to old games. Sure, mod groups use existing engines, but so do a lot of industry groups. The big reason for investing time in making an engine is to license it to others. If I want to make a great game in a short period, I'm going to use someone else's engine.
I think indie groups' biggest problem isn't attracting talented individuals, but attracting committed talented individuals in one group.
That works for "us", but I really wonder about families. I see a lot less parents spending the money on a PS3. Sure all the games are expensive, but I see more families renting games nowadays and only buying games for birthdays, etc.
Manufacturers would love to put that sticker on some games. Come on, wouldn't you buy a game that said "Warning: This game is so addictive that you may die from it" and meant it?
Just put some weights by the computer and lift when you're waiting for respawn. You'll either get buff or you'll get better at CS.
Agreed. Don't think of it from your side. Your wife is going to be sleeping alone several nights every week plus taking care of the house (and family?) during that time. Spending a lot of time away can ruin a marriage. Taveling one week a month for work would be a lot less stressful on your marriage.
There's at least 4 different types of situations I can think of.
1. Lost sale - piratee would have bought the software
2. Lost lower sale - pirate would have bought a cheaper version of the software ie Photoshop Elements
3. Lost competition's lower sale - pirate would have bought Ulead PhotoImpact
4. Lost nothing - pirate would have used GIMP or Picasa or nothing
You would have to do a large survey to figure out the "real" cost of pirated software.
Now imagine it raining....micrometeorites.
Only the Phantom knows.
MTV = Microsoft TV?
House would have had this cleared up during one of his clinic duties. It wouldn't even warrant a full show.
Wii's cheap enough that I can buy a lot of beer too.
Here's what I don't understand - I've seen pre-orders for Sony and Samsung Blu-Ray players at $1000 (not sure on release date). Around a half a year later, the PS3 will play Blu-Ray so all of the Blu-Ray manufacturers are going to have to cut their prices at least in half. I guess it's a marketing ploy showing how great a deal the Blu-Ray players are in 2007 compared to the $1000 in 2006.
Shouldn't DaVinci and Mona Lisa sound the same?
Comcast would cut them off. Comcast has already disconnected "bandwidth abusers" when their service was advertised as "unlimited". This happened around the beginning of 2004.
While I don't look forward to a tiered system, I have no problem paying for my use of the internet as long as I get what was advertised.
You must be new here. A lot of people don't read the summaries either.
From the OP, I thought token sacrifice too, not that American companies wouldn't do the same thing. Then I read this quote from the article, "Now, the government and Jiaotong say, none of the chips had the capabilities Chen claimed, even though the government had earlier said that the chips had been tested by government appraisal teams"
So do the chips work or not? Are they ditching the chips because they don't work or because they got caught with stolen technology?
Almost didn't RTFA. Glad I did since it seems the Fission extension listed lower on the page is hopefully something I'd like. I always want as much screen space as possible. F11 always got rid of the status bar though which I use to see where a link goes. The progress is nice if the page is slow or not working. Generally, I only use 1 or 2 icons, the drop down favorites menu, address bar, and status bar.
Does anyone have comments on the Fission or similar extension?
I was scrolling down and was surprised that I was almost to the bottom before someone mentioned Dr. West.
Dr. West last appeared in Beyond Re-Animator in 2003.
Outsourcing got a bad name when it became equivalent to "The plant is moving". Simplified terms, outsourcing used to mean a lot of times that a new or extra job was given to a different company. Nowadays, it means that a person is being fired and replaced with supposedly cheaper labor. I say supposedly because it depends on how well the management does its job. In terms of a global economy, outsourcing makes sense. From a personal or nationalistic viewpoint, it's the same as the plant in town is leaving. If one billion people in India have jobs in IT and one billion people in China have jobs in manufacturing, does it matter what happens to the quarter of a billion people in the US?
Continuing O/T - It seems like the US Dollar needs to slowly go down in value. I've seen a couple of things pointing to artificial inflation of the US Dollar due to foreign investors not wanting to lose money. Of course, I'm not an economist.
Has there been successful testing of releasing sterilized male mosquitoes to control their population? I know there were studies proposed, but I don't know if widespread testing was done.
Manager: Do you expect them to treat you with respect?
IT Guy: No, I expect them to DIE!
Even Grammar Nazis have been outsourced. j/k