Then have the system say "you have a collect call from "(name spoken by collect caller)" If you would like to accept charges say (random word or number) now. (pause) To accept charges say (same random word) now. To repeat this message press the # key" The pause allows them to say 'umm what' and then figure it out. It's no harder than leaving a message on a voice mail system.
I originally thought of allowing the users to press a number on the telephone pad -- however that would allow them to input a sequence of all the numbers on the keypad into the voicemail message. Using random words is better. # key resets the random word, so that if the person can't pronounce the word so the system can understand it then gives them another chance to try. Instead of a question, you tell them how to accept charges. you tell them how twice. Most people will be able to figure it out by the second time it's played to them. Those who can't shouldn't be accepting a collect call (or reproducing for that matter).
Just a comment on the 'obscure' bank in minnesota thing. Several rebate fufilment centers are actually located in minnesota. Why would they use a bank in another city, to write the check than the one that happens to be in the same place as the fufilment center? You might be wondering "why are the fufilment centers located in minneosta?" they could find cheap, reasonably reliable labor up here, when they decided to build a rebate fufilment center. Or maybe they got a tax break from the state to locate here, or some other reason. It's not just because they could find a small bank up here. You can find small banks in any part of the country.
So you're saying taco bell qualifies as a 'best' paying job eh? If you're not trustworthy (lots of cash goes through the tills) they won't want to hire you (they might not have a choice, though) and they will fire you if you steal. The manager doesn't have the time to tell you what to do, either, they're working too you know. every minute they have to spend explaing to you what to do, is two minutes of productivity lost. Some places will use boards or checklists, but the most productive employees just Do work. and they get just as crappy pay raises for it.
I can't think of a job that _really_ requires you to be untrustworthy(1), and being able to do stuff without being told is pretty basic. Although I guess there must be some jobs where you have to be told what to do... and indepentant thought is not benificial to the job.
1. I can think of a few that are known for it though.
If I had mod points I'd mod you up. That was exactly what I meant. It may be true that every 'model' of lock could have different points set for height. but they could only set about ten of those points. I think the other poster was confused by what I meant. I was refering to rotational freedom of movment, not vertical. IE: 'feeling' each tumbler for a height at which it will rotationally turn. This requires each tumbler to be on an independant pivot, many early locks suffered this weakness allowing them to be picked with items such as bobby pins. I'm not entirely sure any modern locks suffer from this 'vulnerability.' the computer equvalent was the netbios flaw in windows where a wrong password with the first digit correctly identified would 'validate' the correct digit up to and until a wrong digit was provided. This is where all those lame hacking movies get the 'one digit' at a time method of 'finding' a password. No secure system will tell you if the first few digits were correct! As far as 'master keys' goes, the other poster may be right about what needs to be done in hardware to have two different keys open a lock, but I know many locks do in fact have a 'master' including many brands you might buy at a home improvement store.
not to mention over dissemination of information on building master keys to physical locks... tumbler locks only have 10 height levels at most. Less secure tumbler locks will allow each individual tumbler to move independantly of the rest. oh and most locks also have a master key that will work on every lock of that type, not just the specific tumbler combination given to your door specifically. Quite ironic, isn't it? so where is the online equivalent to a (brinks) home monitoring system?
The plastic argument is a good one to note, but clay isn't. Paper already burns hotter (as i noted) than wood. adding clay will lower the buring temperature -- in fact adding compost to the logs was suggested on one of the forms where I researched the paper-log making teqniques to get slower, cooler burns. So clay in the amounts that are added to paper is negligable in effect. a slightly cooler flame, still not as cool as wood. And BTW plastic will burn rather nicely, if you're not too concerned about the toxic fumes it will add to the smoke. but Shh, don't tell the spam king that! he might actually just put the junk mail plastic and all in his fireplace;) with a %750,000 house (in alabama) I'm sure he doesn't have too many nearby neighbors to worry about..
It's called 'higher stock values.' Acquiring replay TV and the rio product lines doesn't exactly fit with the companies main line of work. But since they also got the names, they can simply keep on calling the replay tv the replay tv, and the rio the rio. They can sell low end (consumer grade/chomp usa/best [not to] buy) junk for revenues during the economic recession in japan, and the questionable economy here in the US. The only question is will rebuilding iraq/building new bombs to replace the ones used be enough of an economic stimulus to get the economy going here, and in other contries competing for the rebuilding work. BTW all the people who say the war in iraq was about the oil are fools, It's about rebuilding a bombed out nation that has the oil revenues (if a stable government is put in place) to pay for the foriegn contracts...
Since I was bored I decided to look around a little harder. It is true that 1080i model HDTVs are more prevalent than 1080p, But the starting range for 1080p is ~$2,000 on up. Although the $2,000 units seem to be the low-end of such 1080p HDTVs.
Apparently you're unaware of The Paper log maker here Remember, paper is basically wood pulp. shred, soak, compress, dry == instant wood. Burning garbage is indeed illegal, however, buring paper in ones fireplace/indoor stove/sauna is not. Paper is often used to _start_ a wood fire man so much for your 'doesn't burn hot enough' theory, in fact the problem is paper burns too hot, and too fast, which is why you need to shred, soak, compress, and dry it into instant wood.
Just so you know the illegality in burning garbage stems with the number of fires that can be caused by open pit burning, and the fact that flaming bits of loose paper can blow around etc. But by making the instant log the paper cannot just fly about.
You both forgot to include the ability to have a direct nural uplink to your brain, be able to read other people's minds, especially that cute chick you just thought of asking out but didn't know how, so it can give you all the.nfo you need. oh, and it should have a full nanotech assembly plant, this would ally it to more easily instantly upgrade to the latest in semiconductor technologies, as well as be able to send out a swarm when needed to completely clean you and iron your clothing, without needing to shower or even take off your clothes. It also needs to be able to perform realtime digial visual stealth technology, so you can creep to within feet of someone and they won't be able to see you, just what's behind you. Finally, it needs to earn a 6 digit income running a succesful buisness for you, so you can live in a nice house, drive a nice car, and impress the chicks, all without having to take your mind away from what's most important. Reading and posting to slashdot. Which obviously it's capable of diong for you.
Things have gotten much much better. We now have HDTV sets coming in under $1,000. The problem is the interlaced modes, and yes, that includes 1080i you're only getting half the immage per frame. PCs are not generating slowly moving pan & scan passively viewed video. Because they need every bit of data to be shown each frame, interlaced video looks like crap. Fortunately 720p and 1080p supporting HDTVs make hooking a computer to a tv something that No Longer Sucks Ass!. BTW I've only seen projection and other $9,000+ HDTVs supporting 1080p thanks to the crappy spec for HDTV. but at least every (recent) set I've seen supports 720p. which is a good enough resolution to play most games in, and web browse etc. DVI inputs allow for the least signal loss possible, too, even if they also allows the TV to reject displaying the video for copy protection reasons.
You call the free delivery of an unlimited quantity of home heating supplies a DOS attack??? why, if he lived up north, he could heat his home all winter, just burning junk-mail! Think of the favor we could be doing him, if for instance he owned a wood fired sauna, he could be burning it as hot as he wants all day long, and even let the neighbors use it;) All without having to ever chop wood, just shovel today's batch of junkmail in! If ne needs a "private" mail address for important things to com in, he should have to pay for an anonymous post office box, and only provide that address to important friends and relatives. just the way us 'internet' users are required to find private e-mail services and never give it out to websites (including e-card sites -- which relatives/friends need to know about) so that you only recieve important vital e-mail at this private address that noone except you and a handful of people can even find the address to.
You're forgetting one thing, a GC port is possible, because the CPU is very similar to the Mac. True, it has a custom ArtX (now owned by ATI) gpu, but, assuming that Doom 3 supports macs, porting it to GC is plausible. And the other question is how long is the deal that Id has to sign with microsoft. they could have an exclusive xbox port for a year or two, and maybe then port to GC, which will still be around, as nintendo won't drop support until after they have a next gen console established to replace it.
According to this website "A number of lossless audio-data packing schemes have been developed, but only a few have made it to the market. Merging Technologies' Lossless Realtime Coding (LRC) has been fully readied for license to provide compression and decompression programs for Mac, PC, and common digital signal processing (DSP) chips."
Not only are you wrong, about realtime lossless encoding, you can even get a DSP built in to do it instead of relying on the CPU to provide the horsepower. Nice try, but losseless just means that Every Single Bit comes back the same. just like a zip or rar or tgz. Some methods may indeed anylize the whole file to obtain maximum compression, but lossless is doable realtime.
You forget that the DVDs are still coming out for TNG, and TNN is also paying royalties for the show. I believe he's right now between acting roles. Basically, if he doesn't have an audition, he has the time. Oh and he's married, I'm sure his wife has a job too. He probablly has slashdot mainly summarized with only the most interesting post showing up or something like that. There are a lot of ways to be semi-active on several message board type sites and have a blog. Oh and maybe he only sleeps 6 hours a night or less. if you're sleeping 12 hours a night because you're crying about being alone and working at a fast food, of course a pt job won't give you time to do crap. I used to IRC on 30 channels on 4 irc networks and i could _still_ read/. occasionally and had a webserver that I was maintaining. and I had like 300 IM contacts. all while working more or less part time at crappy jobs. It's possible. and I was sleeping from around 3-4 am until work (usually 11 am) sometimes staying up til 6 am.
Okay win2k is definitely a 5.0 build. I'm thinking that early XP builds were also nt 5.0 releases. I'm currently using the XP Pro 2002 version, and it IDs as a 5.1.2600 with SP1 Build 2600. Otherwise a whole lot of my friends use windows 2000. Because I remember seeing a lot of NT 5.0 identifiers in my apache server logs. I've been trying to rack my brain on how to check without getting off my lazy ass and trying to look over the logs to see if any of My entries in the logs ever identified as NT 5.0, Because I know for a fact I've never used windows 2k.
Wasn't windows NT 5.0 the initial release of windows XP? I know I'm up to XP (partial) SP2 and it still only says Windows NT 5.1... I also know that early XPs identified as NT 5.0 through apache logs. I'm pretty sure 2000 was still in the 4.xx range of windows NT, although service packs way well upgrade it to 5.0 or 5.1 NT status.
To stay on topic, and here I was still feeling like 2048 MB (2GB) of ram was still a lot. I guess not, time to upgrade(1) although I can only install 4 GB total, and thus can't actually test larger quantities.
*rimshot noise* Who writes your bad jokes for you? I don't think you're paying them enough, because they're not that funny. Maybe you'd do better with Power line internet? Does that mean when my sockets break, I need to call an electrician? Or So, when I get DDOSed I can _really_ have a firewall to protect me? See, now, you can do better...
I should say, if you're like me, and the copymax is Closer than the nearest kinkos... you can use them too:) Isn't the 2 minute and 60 second cool down annoying when you're trying to add something you forgot to a post? Of course people can't revise something they already posted, either. but that kinda makes sense, because it could confuse people when the reply is to a post that has been corrected after the fact, but still. cooldowns suck. Even if they keep slashdot's servers from blowing up or melting down.
From a CD? Have you checked out Their website lately? You don't even need to run out to kinkos until you're ready to pick up your prints, or even let kinkos fedex them to a recipient for you. Screw printers, You're way better off using the local kinkos. Oh and hey, if you're like me and there isn't a local kinkos, you can Still use copymax
I've had it as my slashdot url for about that long *points up* ever since they changed to the archives.gov address and I had too google for where the constitution was online. Of course we can now say that the NARA is offline, because they've been slashdotted. Must be a slow news day, or something.
So the formula for this is: 1. buy law. 2. pay laywers to sue piss poor college student for 97 billion. 3.... 4. Profit!
actually, maybe they just have to wait for melinda and bill to have kids, send them to college, and catch the kid sharing a few trillion worth in mp3s, and they can actually collect on the damages instead of just forcing a college student to well die penniless, because you can't get lawsuit damages dismissed by a bankruptcy... (last i checked you couldn't anyways)
The webpage for that particular provider was using gigabits when I first viewed them. They were not using gigabytes, but now I see they are. "100 Mbps Connection Speed - up to 5 Gb Monthly Traffic* 5 eMail boxes * Additional Bandwidth sold @ $3.00 / Gb"
I still have the page bufffer open and could take a screen shot for any doubters as to the lowercase b's. So the factor of 8 pricing difficulty was due to a misleading webpage. Obviously they got feedback about that and fixed it.
I also searched through my post trying to figure out where I made a mistake, and could only find two minor ones. the service is 100 megabit (12.5 MB/second) 60 seconds in a minute = 750 Megabytes per minute. So 50 seconds is 625 MB, not 650, only off by 25 MB. secondly I wasn't using 1024 as a base for converting Giga to mega.... so 5 gigabit is 640 MB. I also realize that I didn't include anything except the cost of transport. That was intentional, because theen you have to get into the messy details like the monthly costs associated with the internet access, or the blank dvd costs, and possibly into the costs of a second internet connection, if you are sending to a remote location that you also have to pay the internet bills for. not to mention the costs of the computers, and the electricity they use, and the limitations that hardware can place on how well you can utilize the bandwith etc. Also, keep in mind the post office is a public corperation, they are supposed to make a profit, while ensuring a reliable and stable mail delivery service.
Bandwidth prices are getting better, yes. But you are forgetting something important that I already covered in this post
As far as the price you quoted refers to that If you really meant 300 Gigabytes (2400 gigabit) a DVD rom still costs $1.60 If you forgot to lowercase the b then that jumps to $12.80. The post office at 1 penny per gigabit (in 4.7 GB packets with 2-3 day latency) still has you beat on price (well if you ignore the cost of the media anyways).
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Then have the system say
"you have a collect call from "(name spoken by collect caller)" If you would like to accept charges say (random word or number) now. (pause) To accept charges say (same random word) now. To repeat this message press the # key"
The pause allows them to say 'umm what' and then figure it out. It's no harder than leaving a message on a voice mail system.
I originally thought of allowing the users to press a number on the telephone pad -- however that would allow them to input a sequence of all the numbers on the keypad into the voicemail message. Using random words is better. # key resets the random word, so that if the person can't pronounce the word so the system can understand it then gives them another chance to try.
Instead of a question, you tell them how to accept charges. you tell them how twice. Most people will be able to figure it out by the second time it's played to them. Those who can't shouldn't be accepting a collect call (or reproducing for that matter).
Just a comment on the 'obscure' bank in minnesota thing. Several rebate fufilment centers are actually located in minnesota. Why would they use a bank in another city, to write the check than the one that happens to be in the same place as the fufilment center?
You might be wondering "why are the fufilment centers located in minneosta?" they could find cheap, reasonably reliable labor up here, when they decided to build a rebate fufilment center. Or maybe they got a tax break from the state to locate here, or some other reason.
It's not just because they could find a small bank up here. You can find small banks in any part of the country.
So you're saying taco bell qualifies as a 'best' paying job eh?
If you're not trustworthy (lots of cash goes through the tills) they won't want to hire you (they might not have a choice, though) and they will fire you if you steal. The manager doesn't have the time to tell you what to do, either, they're working too you know. every minute they have to spend explaing to you what to do, is two minutes of productivity lost.
Some places will use boards or checklists, but the most productive employees just Do work. and they get just as crappy pay raises for it.
I can't think of a job that _really_ requires you to be untrustworthy(1), and being able to do stuff without being told is pretty basic. Although I guess there must be some jobs where you have to be told what to do... and indepentant thought is not benificial to the job.
1. I can think of a few that are known for it though.
If I had mod points I'd mod you up.
That was exactly what I meant. It may be true that every 'model' of lock could have different points set for height. but they could only set about ten of those points.
I think the other poster was confused by what I meant. I was refering to rotational freedom of movment, not vertical.
IE: 'feeling' each tumbler for a height at which it will rotationally turn. This requires each tumbler to be on an independant pivot, many early locks suffered this weakness allowing them to be picked with items such as bobby pins. I'm not entirely sure any modern locks suffer from this 'vulnerability.' the computer equvalent was the netbios flaw in windows where a wrong password with the first digit correctly identified would 'validate' the correct digit up to and until a wrong digit was provided. This is where all those lame hacking movies get the 'one digit' at a time method of 'finding' a password. No secure system will tell you if the first few digits were correct!
As far as 'master keys' goes, the other poster may be right about what needs to be done in hardware to have two different keys open a lock, but I know many locks do in fact have a 'master' including many brands you might buy at a home improvement store.
not to mention over dissemination of information on building master keys to physical locks...
tumbler locks only have 10 height levels at most. Less secure tumbler locks will allow each individual tumbler to move independantly of the rest.
oh and most locks also have a master key that will work on every lock of that type, not just the specific tumbler combination given to your door specifically.
Quite ironic, isn't it? so where is the online equivalent to a (brinks) home monitoring system?
The plastic argument is a good one to note, but clay isn't. Paper already burns hotter (as i noted) than wood. adding clay will lower the buring temperature -- in fact adding compost to the logs was suggested on one of the forms where I researched the paper-log making teqniques to get slower, cooler burns. So clay in the amounts that are added to paper is negligable in effect. a slightly cooler flame, still not as cool as wood. ;) with a %750,000 house (in alabama) I'm sure he doesn't have too many nearby neighbors to worry about..
And BTW plastic will burn rather nicely, if you're not too concerned about the toxic fumes it will add to the smoke. but Shh, don't tell the spam king that! he might actually just put the junk mail plastic and all in his fireplace
It's called 'higher stock values.'
Acquiring replay TV and the rio product lines doesn't exactly fit with the companies main line of work. But since they also got the names, they can simply keep on calling the replay tv the replay tv, and the rio the rio. They can sell low end (consumer grade/chomp usa/best [not to] buy) junk for revenues during the economic recession in japan, and the questionable economy here in the US.
The only question is will rebuilding iraq/building new bombs to replace the ones used be enough of an economic stimulus to get the economy going here, and in other contries competing for the rebuilding work.
BTW all the people who say the war in iraq was about the oil are fools, It's about rebuilding a bombed out nation that has the oil revenues (if a stable government is put in place) to pay for the foriegn contracts...
Since I was bored I decided to look around a little harder. It is true that 1080i model HDTVs are more prevalent than 1080p, But the starting range for 1080p is ~$2,000 on up. Although the $2,000 units seem to be the low-end of such 1080p HDTVs.
Apparently you're unaware of The Paper log maker here
Remember, paper is basically wood pulp. shred, soak, compress, dry == instant wood.
Burning garbage is indeed illegal, however, buring paper in ones fireplace/indoor stove/sauna is not.
Paper is often used to _start_ a wood fire man so much for your 'doesn't burn hot enough' theory, in fact the problem is paper burns too hot, and too fast, which is why you need to shred, soak, compress, and dry it into instant wood.
Just so you know the illegality in burning garbage stems with the number of fires that can be caused by open pit burning, and the fact that flaming bits of loose paper can blow around etc. But by making the instant log the paper cannot just fly about.
You both forgot to include the ability to have a direct nural uplink to your brain, be able to read other people's minds, especially that cute chick you just thought of asking out but didn't know how, so it can give you all the .nfo you need. oh, and it should have a full nanotech assembly plant, this would ally it to more easily instantly upgrade to the latest in semiconductor technologies, as well as be able to send out a swarm when needed to completely clean you and iron your clothing, without needing to shower or even take off your clothes.
It also needs to be able to perform realtime digial visual stealth technology, so you can creep to within feet of someone and they won't be able to see you, just what's behind you.
Finally, it needs to earn a 6 digit income running a succesful buisness for you, so you can live in a nice house, drive a nice car, and impress the chicks, all without having to take your mind away from what's most important.
Reading and posting to slashdot. Which obviously it's capable of diong for you.
Damn Ms. February is a hot geek loving chick.
So where do I get the uncensored version of that pic? (without the monkey)?
Things have gotten much much better. We now have HDTV sets coming in under $1,000. The problem is the interlaced modes, and yes, that includes 1080i you're only getting half the immage per frame. PCs are not generating slowly moving pan & scan passively viewed video. Because they need every bit of data to be shown each frame, interlaced video looks like crap.
Fortunately 720p and 1080p supporting HDTVs make hooking a computer to a tv something that No Longer Sucks Ass!. BTW I've only seen projection and other $9,000+ HDTVs supporting 1080p thanks to the crappy spec for HDTV. but at least every (recent) set I've seen supports 720p. which is a good enough resolution to play most games in, and web browse etc.
DVI inputs allow for the least signal loss possible, too, even if they also allows the TV to reject displaying the video for copy protection reasons.
You call the free delivery of an unlimited quantity of home heating supplies a DOS attack??? why, if he lived up north, he could heat his home all winter, just burning junk-mail! Think of the favor we could be doing him, if for instance he owned a wood fired sauna, he could be burning it as hot as he wants all day long, and even let the neighbors use it ;) All without having to ever chop wood, just shovel today's batch of junkmail in!
If ne needs a "private" mail address for important things to com in, he should have to pay for an anonymous post office box, and only provide that address to important friends and relatives. just the way us 'internet' users are required to find private e-mail services and never give it out to websites (including e-card sites -- which relatives/friends need to know about) so that you only recieve important vital e-mail at this private address that noone except you and a handful of people can even find the address to.
You're forgetting one thing, a GC port is possible, because the CPU is very similar to the Mac. True, it has a custom ArtX (now owned by ATI) gpu, but, assuming that Doom 3 supports macs, porting it to GC is plausible. And the other question is how long is the deal that Id has to sign with microsoft. they could have an exclusive xbox port for a year or two, and maybe then port to GC, which will still be around, as nintendo won't drop support until after they have a next gen console established to replace it.
According to this website
"A number of lossless audio-data packing schemes have been developed, but only a few have made it to the market. Merging Technologies' Lossless Realtime Coding (LRC) has been fully readied for license to provide compression and decompression programs for Mac, PC, and common digital signal processing (DSP) chips."
Not only are you wrong, about realtime lossless encoding, you can even get a DSP built in to do it instead of relying on the CPU to provide the horsepower. Nice try, but losseless just means that Every Single Bit comes back the same. just like a zip or rar or tgz. Some methods may indeed anylize the whole file to obtain maximum compression, but lossless is doable realtime.
You forget that the DVDs are still coming out for TNG, and TNN is also paying royalties for the show. /. occasionally and had a webserver that I was maintaining. and I had like 300 IM contacts. all while working more or less part time at crappy jobs.
I believe he's right now between acting roles. Basically, if he doesn't have an audition, he has the time. Oh and he's married, I'm sure his wife has a job too.
He probablly has slashdot mainly summarized with only the most interesting post showing up or something like that. There are a lot of ways to be semi-active on several message board type sites and have a blog.
Oh and maybe he only sleeps 6 hours a night or less. if you're sleeping 12 hours a night because you're crying about being alone and working at a fast food, of course a pt job won't give you time to do crap.
I used to IRC on 30 channels on 4 irc networks and i could _still_ read
It's possible. and I was sleeping from around 3-4 am until work (usually 11 am) sometimes staying up til 6 am.
Okay win2k is definitely a 5.0 build.
I'm thinking that early XP builds were also nt 5.0 releases. I'm currently using the XP Pro 2002 version, and it IDs as a 5.1.2600 with SP1 Build 2600.
Otherwise a whole lot of my friends use windows 2000. Because I remember seeing a lot of NT 5.0 identifiers in my apache server logs.
I've been trying to rack my brain on how to check without getting off my lazy ass and trying to look over the logs to see if any of My entries in the logs ever identified as NT 5.0, Because I know for a fact I've never used windows 2k.
Wasn't windows NT 5.0 the initial release of windows XP? I know I'm up to XP (partial) SP2 and it still only says Windows NT 5.1... I also know that early XPs identified as NT 5.0 through apache logs.
I'm pretty sure 2000 was still in the 4.xx range of windows NT, although service packs way well upgrade it to 5.0 or 5.1 NT status.
To stay on topic, and here I was still feeling like 2048 MB (2GB) of ram was still a lot. I guess not, time to upgrade(1) although I can only install 4 GB total, and thus can't actually test larger quantities.
1. If Only I could...
*rimshot noise*
Who writes your bad jokes for you?
I don't think you're paying them enough, because they're not that funny.
Maybe you'd do better with
Power line internet? Does that mean when my sockets break, I need to call an electrician?
Or
So, when I get DDOSed I can _really_ have a firewall to protect me?
See, now, you can do better...
I should say, if you're like me, and the copymax is Closer than the nearest kinkos... you can use them too :)
Isn't the 2 minute and 60 second cool down annoying when you're trying to add something you forgot to a post? Of course people can't revise something they already posted, either. but that kinda makes sense, because it could confuse people when the reply is to a post that has been corrected after the fact, but still. cooldowns suck. Even if they keep slashdot's servers from blowing up or melting down.
From a CD? Have you checked out Their website lately? You don't even need to run out to kinkos until you're ready to pick up your prints, or even let kinkos fedex them to a recipient for you. Screw printers, You're way better off using the local kinkos.
Oh and hey, if you're like me and there isn't a local kinkos, you can Still use copymax
I've had it as my slashdot url for about that long *points up* ever since they changed to the archives.gov address and I had too google for where the constitution was online.
Of course we can now say that the NARA is offline, because they've been slashdotted. Must be a slow news day, or something.
So the formula for this is: ...
1. buy law.
2. pay laywers to sue piss poor college student for 97 billion.
3.
4. Profit!
actually, maybe they just have to wait for melinda and bill to have kids, send them to college, and catch the kid sharing a few trillion worth in mp3s, and they can actually collect on the damages instead of just forcing a college student to well die penniless, because you can't get lawsuit damages dismissed by a bankruptcy... (last i checked you couldn't anyways)
The webpage for that particular provider was using gigabits when I first viewed them. They were not using gigabytes, but now I see they are.
"100 Mbps Connection Speed - up to 5 Gb Monthly Traffic*
5 eMail boxes
* Additional Bandwidth sold @ $3.00 / Gb"
I still have the page bufffer open and could take a screen shot for any doubters as to the lowercase b's. So the factor of 8 pricing difficulty was due to a misleading webpage. Obviously they got feedback about that and fixed it.
I also searched through my post trying to figure out where I made a mistake, and could only find two minor ones. the service is 100 megabit (12.5 MB/second) 60 seconds in a minute = 750 Megabytes per minute. So 50 seconds is 625 MB, not 650, only off by 25 MB. secondly I wasn't using 1024 as a base for converting Giga to mega.... so 5 gigabit is 640 MB.
I also realize that I didn't include anything except the cost of transport. That was intentional, because theen you have to get into the messy details like the monthly costs associated with the internet access, or the blank dvd costs, and possibly into the costs of a second internet connection, if you are sending to a remote location that you also have to pay the internet bills for. not to mention the costs of the computers, and the electricity they use, and the limitations that hardware can place on how well you can utilize the bandwith etc.
Also, keep in mind the post office is a public corperation, they are supposed to make a profit, while ensuring a reliable and stable mail delivery service.
Bandwidth prices are getting better, yes. But you are forgetting something important that I already covered in this post
As far as the price you quoted refers to that If you really meant 300 Gigabytes (2400 gigabit) a DVD rom still costs $1.60 If you forgot to lowercase the b then that jumps to $12.80. The post office at 1 penny per gigabit (in 4.7 GB packets with 2-3 day latency) still has you beat on price (well if you ignore the cost of the media anyways).