1) When surfing the web on Edge, webpages turn up very slowly, if at all, regardless of signal strength. 2) When surfing on 3G, webpages come up in seconds, if at all.
The article seems to imply that bandwidth isn't the bottleneck. In some cases it isn't, in most of the cases you're using the data portion of your phone plan, it is. If we were charged by time downloading instead of just a flat rate, no one would buy an iPhone.
Yah...I was on vacation at my father's house at the time (girlfriend was on the opposite coast). That was the longest sitting at that game. I managed to get Ghoulbane though.;-) After two years of EQ, I dabbled in others but once you're over the addiction, it's hard to go back.
As far as the aches and pains of computer use my experience is such:
1) 11 hours straight of Everquest - no pain from mouse or keyboard 2) 6 hours of Quake (back in the day) - no pain from mouse or keyboard 3) 20 minutes of mouse use at odd angle (but not so odd as to say other people wouldn't use a mouse like this) - back of hand starting hurting 4) Couple days of keyboard and mouse use on bad desk setup (keyboard high, forearms rest on edge of desk, etc) - shoulder and elbow pain.
I know what my body does and doesn't like. Relaxed shoulders, no reaching for the mouse, etc.
What companies like Google don't realize is that it's the uncertainty that kills customers.
This.
Not that Google doesn't realize this, but they dropped the ball in this case. We have a few major systems being rolled out at the University, and the faculty web tools have sporadic uptimes. Fastest way to have faculty NOT use your tools? Have the system be down just ONCE when they want to use it. "It never works!" is what you'll get and they'll do it themselves from there on out.
I think he means it in a "I'm not familiar with the TF series in any engine, but if I'm going to compare the basic genre, it's like Counterstrike in that there are teams and you have guns."
From what I've heard TF2 keeps the craziness of the original TFs which, to me, is why they were so much fun. Rocket launcher for teh win!
These will serve multiple purposes, the most common one likely being a bunch of kids sitting around a table working on homework late at night and they get to a problem or analysis and one asks, "What did the prof say about this?", they bop online, fast-forward through the lecture, and listen again to the professor's wise words.
If you miss a class, you can view the lecture online.
Attending a centralized campus doesn't work for everyone, and online lectures are a good thing for full-timers. But I wouldn't TRADE one for the other -- attending college is like being hand-held into the real world in terms of responsibility (doing your own laundry), being social (interacting with peers), and building relationships (both friendly and business).
What I would like is a 2nd SciFi Channel that doesn't need to censor parts out of most everything good they show.
I totally agree! Like on the action/adventure film Grizzly Planet about a group of marines in the woods up against intelligent stock footage of grizzly bears. They showed the two furry gloves clutching either side (in close-up!) of the marine's screaming head, but then the next scene was the head rolling under some bushes. For the gods' sake (what's a sake?) where were the neck tendons and spine being torn apart? Bah...cable...
This defines why illegal wiretapping and other invasive procedures should be done away with. A perfectly innocent person who is taken in by police on mistaken charges, then gets some petty mail fraud charge thrown at him. All after his wife's death. Unless we can agree upon what is right and wrong and not have people just make things up as they go, stay out of my business, because I'm guessing sneezing is going to be a felony soon enough.
Off topic: When you over use the f-word in an argument or berate people's intelligence to make your point, it lessens your appeal. Your comments were obviously informed and well thought out. Though it's the Internet, not everyone has to respond like a know-it-all 10 year old (not meant as in insult, just stating that your reply was on that level). Good luck on further intelligent yet measured posts.;-)
Has some truth in it, sure. Social networking always helps and Harvard (any Ivy League) has a lot of high-powered people connected with it. No one is going to hire someone with straight D's, but getting to know people is useful in any regard. I can tell you that all those people I've done tech support for certainly have helped me along the road to wealth and fame. I make WELL over $15/hour and people wave at me in my neighborhood!;-)
Why would a real terrorist make no effort to conceal his weapon?
It worked...if she were a terrorist hiding a the explosive underneath her sweatshirt connected to her displayed circuit-board, she could have wiped out the lobby. From the sounds of it, she wasn't arrested immediately by any means.
Well said. The incident should not be downplayed. The police, in my opinion, did the right thing. She walked into a crowded facility not carrying but wearing a circuit board. I mentioned this story to a friend and he simply said, "So she's dead?" assuming the police had shot her. He figured she was trying to commit suicide.
The fact that Apple can still sell millions of these at at such a large return indicates not that Apple is greedy
Apple may be greedy, but the fact iPods sell for so much is a quality of the market, not Apple. Apple has a great product and people are willing to pay more for it and its related items (iPods, iTunes, iPod-related devices made by 3rd parties, etc, all of which a user buys into). An iPod is a luxury item and it is being sold for what the market will bear.
Gasoline, however, has become a necessity, and the gouging oil companies need to ease off. This will allow more people to suck up the last of the gasoline and the world will then be powered by people dancing to their latest iTunes hits. QED.
It's unfortunate the student didn't allow Kerry to answer his questions properly. Resisting arrest and making a stand to get your point across is an American privilege, but you need to let people know you have a point, and aren't just a nutcase. He didn't accomplish much here.
Sort of...if you have audits for a particular box that are logged elsewhere, then just because that box is owned, doesn't mean the person has access to the audit logs stored in another machine.
True...the fourth book in his Song of Ice and Fire series was, as his others, very well written, full of gritty descriptions and truly realized characters. But it didn't do much to further the plot of the overall story -- it added some things, but not much actually happened.
I read the first Wheel of Time book back in the 90s. I don't remember much other than I thought it was bland until the end which, while exciting, wasn't all that coherent. That guy Lan, the ranger or whatever, he was pretty cool....Let me just say that I enjoy Martin's style of writing much more than Jordan's, but that's just my opinion.
I wonder if, perhaps, anonymous voting is going to have to go away. People register with their Social Security Numbers or RealIDs, vote, then can review their vote on a website along with everyone else's.
Of course, as with paper or e-voting, what the final tally shows may not reflect the paper/button press you submitted. Electronic or paper, you still need to trust the vote counters OR be able to verify your vote later.
Congress should have power. Congresspeople should not.
I get the feeling Halo is a great FPS for consoles. The console FPS's are generally substandard to PC FPS's. PCs have Half-Life, FEAR, FarCry, Counterstrike, Unreal. Consoles have Halo, Goldeneye, Black, Medal of Honor (also for the PC). The graphics aren't going to look as good (it's a TV...maybe Hi-Def games will look closer to a PC monitor), and controlling a crosshair with a console controller has always been tough for me.
Multiplayer, until Halo I think, was difficult with consoles because it was either split screen, or you had to have two boxes and two TVs, etc. So true play-at-your-own-home FPS gaming was a novelty for console users, but it's something PC users have been doing for 10 years (at least!)
Madden, Baseball, Virtual Fighter...those are console games.
As I've gotten older, I'm not sure I'm more conservative really, but I think I've taken time to try to understand their viewpoints better. We are all, in general, vying for the same goals: family values, security, better education, etc. Liberals and Conservatives just approach things differently.
Example: Gun laws. In my yoot, I wanted to see guns either abolished or registered in the U.S. for the safety of everyone. A conservative I spoke with saw gun control as a hindrance to safety...you need a gun to protect your family from intruders, bears, the government, etc. But we both wanted safety for our loved ones.
One thing that divides conservatives and liberals for me, and it's more the religious divide within the conservative group, is the hate and lack of inclusion of alternative lifestyles. I think that pretty much bugs me the most and I'm not sure any amount of years piled onto my life will make me hold automatic disdain for people because of how they were born.
Reading some of these posts, I get the feeling some people forget why others think porn is bad. Some feel that it's degrading to women, that it just objectifies them (as in, makes them an inanimate object without feelings or thoughts) and then boys who become men move into the real world and carry on that tradition. Some women are fine with catcalls and whistles, many are not. And if people think that, "Hey, it's good for their ego!" then they haven't really moved past the objectifying stage.
And then there's the people posing: you're driving a business that chooses women who feel they have nowhere else to go but showing off their bodies and dealing sex. Not that some porn stars aren't brain surgeons (off hand I can't name anyone, but I'll give the benefit of the doubt, given the number of porn stars), but they're making money using the lowest common denomination of work (corporate systems administrators notwithstanding).
Anyway, those are some of the "real" concerns. Not that your kids going to show up at the doctors with an orange penis.
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Here's my experience:
1) When surfing the web on Edge, webpages turn up very slowly, if at all, regardless of signal strength.
2) When surfing on 3G, webpages come up in seconds, if at all.
The article seems to imply that bandwidth isn't the bottleneck. In some cases it isn't, in most of the cases you're using the data portion of your phone plan, it is. If we were charged by time downloading instead of just a flat rate, no one would buy an iPhone.
Yah...I was on vacation at my father's house at the time (girlfriend was on the opposite coast). That was the longest sitting at that game. I managed to get Ghoulbane though. ;-) After two years of EQ, I dabbled in others but once you're over the addiction, it's hard to go back.
As far as the aches and pains of computer use my experience is such:
1) 11 hours straight of Everquest - no pain from mouse or keyboard
2) 6 hours of Quake (back in the day) - no pain from mouse or keyboard
3) 20 minutes of mouse use at odd angle (but not so odd as to say other people wouldn't use a mouse like this) - back of hand starting hurting
4) Couple days of keyboard and mouse use on bad desk setup (keyboard high, forearms rest on edge of desk, etc) - shoulder and elbow pain.
I know what my body does and doesn't like. Relaxed shoulders, no reaching for the mouse, etc.
What companies like Google don't realize is that it's the uncertainty that kills customers.
This.
Not that Google doesn't realize this, but they dropped the ball in this case. We have a few major systems being rolled out at the University, and the faculty web tools have sporadic uptimes. Fastest way to have faculty NOT use your tools? Have the system be down just ONCE when they want to use it. "It never works!" is what you'll get and they'll do it themselves from there on out.
I think he means it in a "I'm not familiar with the TF series in any engine, but if I'm going to compare the basic genre, it's like Counterstrike in that there are teams and you have guns."
From what I've heard TF2 keeps the craziness of the original TFs which, to me, is why they were so much fun. Rocket launcher for teh win!
These will serve multiple purposes, the most common one likely being a bunch of kids sitting around a table working on homework late at night and they get to a problem or analysis and one asks, "What did the prof say about this?", they bop online, fast-forward through the lecture, and listen again to the professor's wise words.
If you miss a class, you can view the lecture online.
Attending a centralized campus doesn't work for everyone, and online lectures are a good thing for full-timers. But I wouldn't TRADE one for the other -- attending college is like being hand-held into the real world in terms of responsibility (doing your own laundry), being social (interacting with peers), and building relationships (both friendly and business).
What I would like is a 2nd SciFi Channel that doesn't need to censor parts out of most everything good they show.
I totally agree! Like on the action/adventure film Grizzly Planet about a group of marines in the woods up against intelligent stock footage of grizzly bears. They showed the two furry gloves clutching either side (in close-up!) of the marine's screaming head, but then the next scene was the head rolling under some bushes. For the gods' sake (what's a sake?) where were the neck tendons and spine being torn apart? Bah...cable...
This defines why illegal wiretapping and other invasive procedures should be done away with. A perfectly innocent person who is taken in by police on mistaken charges, then gets some petty mail fraud charge thrown at him. All after his wife's death. Unless we can agree upon what is right and wrong and not have people just make things up as they go, stay out of my business, because I'm guessing sneezing is going to be a felony soon enough.
Off topic: When you over use the f-word in an argument or berate people's intelligence to make your point, it lessens your appeal. Your comments were obviously informed and well thought out. Though it's the Internet, not everyone has to respond like a know-it-all 10 year old (not meant as in insult, just stating that your reply was on that level). Good luck on further intelligent yet measured posts. ;-)
Yah...was kind of joking there. ;-)
Has some truth in it, sure. Social networking always helps and Harvard (any Ivy League) has a lot of high-powered people connected with it. No one is going to hire someone with straight D's, but getting to know people is useful in any regard. I can tell you that all those people I've done tech support for certainly have helped me along the road to wealth and fame. I make WELL over $15/hour and people wave at me in my neighborhood! ;-)
Why would a real terrorist make no effort to conceal his weapon?
It worked...if she were a terrorist hiding a the explosive underneath her sweatshirt connected to her displayed circuit-board, she could have wiped out the lobby. From the sounds of it, she wasn't arrested immediately by any means.
Well said. The incident should not be downplayed. The police, in my opinion, did the right thing. She walked into a crowded facility not carrying but wearing a circuit board. I mentioned this story to a friend and he simply said, "So she's dead?" assuming the police had shot her. He figured she was trying to commit suicide.
The fact that Apple can still sell millions of these at at such a large return indicates not that Apple is greedy
Apple may be greedy, but the fact iPods sell for so much is a quality of the market, not Apple. Apple has a great product and people are willing to pay more for it and its related items (iPods, iTunes, iPod-related devices made by 3rd parties, etc, all of which a user buys into). An iPod is a luxury item and it is being sold for what the market will bear.
Gasoline, however, has become a necessity, and the gouging oil companies need to ease off. This will allow more people to suck up the last of the gasoline and the world will then be powered by people dancing to their latest iTunes hits. QED.
It's unfortunate the student didn't allow Kerry to answer his questions properly. Resisting arrest and making a stand to get your point across is an American privilege, but you need to let people know you have a point, and aren't just a nutcase. He didn't accomplish much here.
Sort of...if you have audits for a particular box that are logged elsewhere, then just because that box is owned, doesn't mean the person has access to the audit logs stored in another machine.
Let this be a lesson for George R. R. Martin...
True...the fourth book in his Song of Ice and Fire series was, as his others, very well written, full of gritty descriptions and truly realized characters. But it didn't do much to further the plot of the overall story -- it added some things, but not much actually happened.
I read the first Wheel of Time book back in the 90s. I don't remember much other than I thought it was bland until the end which, while exciting, wasn't all that coherent. That guy Lan, the ranger or whatever, he was pretty cool....Let me just say that I enjoy Martin's style of writing much more than Jordan's, but that's just my opinion.
I wonder if, perhaps, anonymous voting is going to have to go away. People register with their Social Security Numbers or RealIDs, vote, then can review their vote on a website along with everyone else's.
Of course, as with paper or e-voting, what the final tally shows may not reflect the paper/button press you submitted. Electronic or paper, you still need to trust the vote counters OR be able to verify your vote later.
Congress should have power. Congresspeople should not.
I get the feeling Halo is a great FPS for consoles. The console FPS's are generally substandard to PC FPS's. PCs have Half-Life, FEAR, FarCry, Counterstrike, Unreal. Consoles have Halo, Goldeneye, Black, Medal of Honor (also for the PC). The graphics aren't going to look as good (it's a TV...maybe Hi-Def games will look closer to a PC monitor), and controlling a crosshair with a console controller has always been tough for me.
Multiplayer, until Halo I think, was difficult with consoles because it was either split screen, or you had to have two boxes and two TVs, etc. So true play-at-your-own-home FPS gaming was a novelty for console users, but it's something PC users have been doing for 10 years (at least!)
Madden, Baseball, Virtual Fighter...those are console games.
As I've gotten older, I'm not sure I'm more conservative really, but I think I've taken time to try to understand their viewpoints better. We are all, in general, vying for the same goals: family values, security, better education, etc. Liberals and Conservatives just approach things differently.
Example: Gun laws. In my yoot, I wanted to see guns either abolished or registered in the U.S. for the safety of everyone. A conservative I spoke with saw gun control as a hindrance to safety...you need a gun to protect your family from intruders, bears, the government, etc. But we both wanted safety for our loved ones.
One thing that divides conservatives and liberals for me, and it's more the religious divide within the conservative group, is the hate and lack of inclusion of alternative lifestyles. I think that pretty much bugs me the most and I'm not sure any amount of years piled onto my life will make me hold automatic disdain for people because of how they were born.
"I just wanted a Pepsi. (And they wouldn't give it to me...)"
I know that song. About a kid in his room and his parents think he's on drugs....good stuff.
"But they're letting anyone in!" -- Slashdotters wanting the Tubes for themselves
My boss is happy with my work so far. Why is he happy? He tells me straight up: "Because I don't hear anything bad."
If the sys admin wasn't doing the job well, neither would anyone else.
Reading some of these posts, I get the feeling some people forget why others think porn is bad. Some feel that it's degrading to women, that it just objectifies them (as in, makes them an inanimate object without feelings or thoughts) and then boys who become men move into the real world and carry on that tradition. Some women are fine with catcalls and whistles, many are not. And if people think that, "Hey, it's good for their ego!" then they haven't really moved past the objectifying stage.
And then there's the people posing: you're driving a business that chooses women who feel they have nowhere else to go but showing off their bodies and dealing sex. Not that some porn stars aren't brain surgeons (off hand I can't name anyone, but I'll give the benefit of the doubt, given the number of porn stars), but they're making money using the lowest common denomination of work (corporate systems administrators notwithstanding).
Anyway, those are some of the "real" concerns. Not that your kids going to show up at the doctors with an orange penis.
If you look closely, you'll see the first twelve colonies gathered together in a ragtag fleet fleeing the Cylon Empire.