I talked to a ATT guy last week to transfer my cable internet from my Roseville apt to my new address in Lilydale and he mentioned they are planning on rolling out 3Mbps downstream service soon. The bad part is it will run $90 monthly instead of the $45-50 it is now. He didn't think there would be an associated upstream bump either.
Actually we're talking.07 cents per song, so that hour would run you a penny.
Some math yields: average song = 4 minutes @ $0.0007 per song 60 minutes per hour / 4 minutes = 15 songs per hour 15 songs per hour * $0.0007 per song = $.0105 per hour (1.05 cents) 24 hours per day * $0.0105 per hour= $0.252 per day (25.2 cents) 30 days per month * $0.252 per day = $7.56 per month if you stream constantly
Note $0.0007 is the max charge per song. Non-commercial sites are only charged $0.0002 per song which drops the figure significantly to $2.16/month. This is if a single listener streams 24/7 for a month.
Agreed, I've bought a ton of stuff from them. Usually their prices are within a few bucks of the lowest on pricewatch plus they ship Fedex, often for free (UPS service stinks, IMO). As they say on ebay: "GREAT SELLER!!!!! A+++++++++++++++"
Yes, Montana is gorgeous, but beware of state parks. Well, I'll qualify that and say beware of state parks on the weekend.
My wife and I have an annual tradition of venturing west for 2-3 weeks each August to do the hiking and camping thing. Usually we try to use most of our time for the national parks since they tend to have the coolest stuff, but occasionally the drive between parks is a bit long for us to confortably fit into a day so we stop at a state park in between.
This was the case for us in Montana where we needed to get from Theodore Roosevelt Nat'l Park to Glacier, which is something like 600-800 miles. The first state park we hit was great (I think it was called Ackley Lake). It was a "primitive" park with one outhouse for the about 20 sites, no water, no electricity, but it was free! Nobody's there since it's Tuesday night. Wonderful. Watching the stars come out with almost no city lights to see was worth the stop.
After we hit Glacier, we backtracked a little and headed toward Yellowstone (drive-thru only... too crowded), but we really wanted to drive through Bear Tooth pass on the north edge of the park to see the sun rise. We ended up staying in a park about 30 minutes northwest of Red Lodge. The name escapes me now, but it was sizable. All of rural Montana is here with their RVs, boats, jet skis, children. Very loud, very busy.
We try to find the furthest, most isolated site (did I mention we go on vacation to get away from people?) to set up camp. We drink some beer and settle in to get some sleep. As I'm cleaning up before bed, this truck full of high-schoolers drives up to the site 2 down. They seem pretty civil, not much noise, just a fire, some laughing. I head to bed.
Next thing I know it's 3AM, their fire's still going and so are they. They've obviously been using the last 4 hours to pickle themselves. Conversations are veering in and out of college plans, sex, etc. It becomes apparent the group consists of about 2-3 couples. Sounds like one of the couples has a long-distance relationship decision to make. The girl's heading off to MN for school and the boy's staying in MT to farm or ranch or whatever they do there. I hear them start fighting. After some struggle, the girl exclaims, "Don't point that thing at me! What are you going to shoot me?!" Ok, great, he has a gun pointed at his female companion. At this point I'm wishing I could suddenly have all of our gear in the car and take off. Can't say it would make our vacation great to have to take part in a murder investigation.
He ends up storming off in the truck only to return 10 minutes later and attempt to apologize to his girlfriend for threatening her. While this is going on, we are packing up and getting the fuck out.
Nothing happened to us other than not getting any sleep, but, for the love of god, if you're in MT on the weekend, stay at Holiday Inn!
The searches text inputs are very unobtrusive. It doesn't pop up that big ugly sidebar that insists on popping up even when you're doing normal searches in the main window.
Seriously, turning off that damn sidebar is the first thing I did when I installed Mozilla.
2 places: a) View->Show/Hide->Sidebar (or F9) b) Edit->Preferences->Navigator->Internet Search. Uncheck "Open the Search Tab..." This will fix the behavior you're complaining about.
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Sure, they're pretty much the same thing. Bob records a show and offers copies to others.
Practically, it's much different to record a show, drop it onto your machine, and let people make an unlimited number of identical, almost zero-cost copies of it (discounting any forthcoming bandwidth tarrifs) at will. Video tapes and postage aren't free, real-time tape copying takes a long time and is lossy.
All things considered, it's much easier and cheaper to trade via P2P than trade tapes via mail.
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Yes. I stumbled across this after unhooking my cable and going through withdrawl. Now I can get anything from Simpsons to Farscape to MST3K all commercial free. A lot of them are posted in VCD format for convenient burning (for those of you without large storage arrays).
Preach it, brutha. Every cent taken away from their Louder Exhaust System or 23" Subwoofer Array Fund is good regardless of where it goes. You think its bad at stoplights? Try dealing with it while you attempt to sleep...
I'm not sure if "HA-ha" is the correct representation as that would imply an accent on the first "ha", and generally there is none. A more correct form would be "HA HA". Then again, maybe you were trying to represent the slightly lower intonation of the second "ha". In that case I guess you'd be correct.
Believe it or not, I would use most of these words to describe Lotus Notes, or more precisely the feelings it evokes in me both as a user and a developer.
Same here, but with Textpad. They give you a fully functional app, but every random number of saves it pops up to say "hey, give us some cash". I use it every day at work so I had no problem sending them a check. Beats the hell outta spending $2000+ for an IDE with features I'll never use.
Come on, let's not make the poor pigs suffer for m$'s poor licensing terms. I'd have no objection if you meant Steve Ballmer. You might want to reword it in that case.
I'm no expert in this area, but my understanding was the smart cards did both authentication and decryption. The emulators intercept the authentication signals, but leave the actual video decryption to the smart card. Don't most emulators require the card to be present to work?
but would you rather pin your business on a 50 node cluster of failure-prone DELL boxes (that may catch fire at any minute) or a slick, bulletproof mainframe? It's just good business sense to buy reliability.
Holy crap, you could be right about this, but your point reads like textbook FUD. Especially so given the IBM context of the discussion.
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Or is that "Big Jim" in Tokyo?
I talked to a ATT guy last week to transfer my cable internet from my Roseville apt to my new address in Lilydale and he mentioned they are planning on rolling out 3Mbps downstream service soon. The bad part is it will run $90 monthly instead of the $45-50 it is now. He didn't think there would be an associated upstream bump either.
Hrm, anyone see Bernie Shifman on there?
Here's the actual Reuters article.
Actually we're talking .07 cents per song, so that hour would run you a penny.
Some math yields:
average song = 4 minutes @ $0.0007 per song
60 minutes per hour / 4 minutes = 15 songs per hour
15 songs per hour * $0.0007 per song = $.0105 per hour (1.05 cents)
24 hours per day * $0.0105 per hour= $0.252 per day (25.2 cents)
30 days per month * $0.252 per day = $7.56 per month if you stream constantly
Note $0.0007 is the max charge per song. Non-commercial sites are only charged $0.0002 per song which drops the figure significantly to $2.16/month. This is if a single listener streams 24/7 for a month.
Agreed, I've bought a ton of stuff from them. Usually their prices are within a few bucks of the lowest on pricewatch plus they ship Fedex, often for free (UPS service stinks, IMO). As they say on ebay: "GREAT SELLER!!!!! A+++++++++++++++"
Ironically, "Java 2" actually refers to Java >= 1.2
Sorry, Alanis, that's not ironic, just marketing.
Yes, Montana is gorgeous, but beware of state parks. Well, I'll qualify that and say beware of state parks on the weekend.
My wife and I have an annual tradition of venturing west for 2-3 weeks each August to do the hiking and camping thing. Usually we try to use most of our time for the national parks since they tend to have the coolest stuff, but occasionally the drive between parks is a bit long for us to confortably fit into a day so we stop at a state park in between.
This was the case for us in Montana where we needed to get from Theodore Roosevelt Nat'l Park to Glacier, which is something like 600-800 miles. The first state park we hit was great (I think it was called Ackley Lake). It was a "primitive" park with one outhouse for the about 20 sites, no water, no electricity, but it was free! Nobody's there since it's Tuesday night. Wonderful. Watching the stars come out with almost no city lights to see was worth the stop.
After we hit Glacier, we backtracked a little and headed toward Yellowstone (drive-thru only... too crowded), but we really wanted to drive through Bear Tooth pass on the north edge of the park to see the sun rise. We ended up staying in a park about 30 minutes northwest of Red Lodge. The name escapes me now, but it was sizable. All of rural Montana is here with their RVs, boats, jet skis, children. Very loud, very busy.
We try to find the furthest, most isolated site (did I mention we go on vacation to get away from people?) to set up camp. We drink some beer and settle in to get some sleep. As I'm cleaning up before bed, this truck full of high-schoolers drives up to the site 2 down. They seem pretty civil, not much noise, just a fire, some laughing. I head to bed.
Next thing I know it's 3AM, their fire's still going and so are they. They've obviously been using the last 4 hours to pickle themselves. Conversations are veering in and out of college plans, sex, etc. It becomes apparent the group consists of about 2-3 couples. Sounds like one of the couples has a long-distance relationship decision to make. The girl's heading off to MN for school and the boy's staying in MT to farm or ranch or whatever they do there. I hear them start fighting. After some struggle, the girl exclaims, "Don't point that thing at me! What are you going to shoot me?!" Ok, great, he has a gun pointed at his female companion. At this point I'm wishing I could suddenly have all of our gear in the car and take off. Can't say it would make our vacation great to have to take part in a murder investigation.
He ends up storming off in the truck only to return 10 minutes later and attempt to apologize to his girlfriend for threatening her. While this is going on, we are packing up and getting the fuck out.
Nothing happened to us other than not getting any sleep, but, for the love of god, if you're in MT on the weekend, stay at Holiday Inn!
The searches text inputs are very unobtrusive. It doesn't pop up that big ugly sidebar that insists on popping up even when you're doing normal searches in the main window.
Seriously, turning off that damn sidebar is the first thing I did when I installed Mozilla.
2 places:
a) View->Show/Hide->Sidebar (or F9)
b) Edit->Preferences->Navigator->Internet Search. Uncheck "Open the Search Tab..." This will fix the behavior you're complaining about.
Sure, they're pretty much the same thing. Bob records a show and offers copies to others.
Practically, it's much different to record a show, drop it onto your machine, and let people make an unlimited number of identical, almost zero-cost copies of it (discounting any forthcoming bandwidth tarrifs) at will. Video tapes and postage aren't free, real-time tape copying takes a long time and is lossy.
All things considered, it's much easier and cheaper to trade via P2P than trade tapes via mail.
Yes. I stumbled across this after unhooking my cable and going through withdrawl. Now I can get anything from Simpsons to Farscape to MST3K all commercial free. A lot of them are posted in VCD format for convenient burning (for those of you without large storage arrays).
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OK, you have tons of stuff for PalmOS but no Palm from which to take a ROM image?
heh... my company's firewall blocks that second ACLU link as "porn". Maybe I should start bringing my keyboard from home every morning...
Preach it, brutha. Every cent taken away from their Louder Exhaust System or 23" Subwoofer Array Fund is good regardless of where it goes. You think its bad at stoplights? Try dealing with it while you attempt to sleep...
I'm not sure if "HA-ha" is the correct representation as that would imply an accent on the first "ha", and generally there is none. A more correct form would be "HA HA". Then again, maybe you were trying to represent the slightly lower intonation of the second "ha". In that case I guess you'd be correct.
Believe it or not, I would use most of these words to describe Lotus Notes, or more precisely the feelings it evokes in me both as a user and a developer.
I do believe "Billy Buttcheese" will be my quake name tonight.
Same here, but with Textpad. They give you a fully functional app, but every random number of saves it pops up to say "hey, give us some cash". I use it every day at work so I had no problem sending them a check. Beats the hell outta spending $2000+ for an IDE with features I'll never use.
fear this being modded as a troll. It's a 100% correct assessment.
Come on, let's not make the poor pigs suffer for m$'s poor licensing terms. I'd have no objection if you meant Steve Ballmer. You might want to reword it in that case.
On their pricing page, a memory upgrade to 4GB is $20,000. wow. A gigbit ethernet card is $1800.
I'm sorta speechless here. What exactly about this machine makes it worth this kind of money?
I'm no expert in this area, but my understanding was the smart cards did both authentication and decryption. The emulators intercept the authentication signals, but leave the actual video decryption to the smart card. Don't most emulators require the card to be present to work?
Holy crap, you could be right about this, but your point reads like textbook FUD. Especially so given the IBM context of the discussion.