...I really only care about me having a decent desktop...
This is how most Linux users thinks. Which is exactly why it is still not a drop in replacement of Windows. The worst is, I am not sure there is anything anyone can do about it.
Unless they're using DOCSIS3, which I doubt, then the maximum a cable modem can do is 45MBit downstream.
The 1Mbit up is what kills you. Don't ever pay $80/mo for that garbage.
You are right, it is in fact DOCSIS3. It looks like they will offer 100Mbps in the future.
Canadian cable provider Videotron announced last February that the company would be offering 100Mbps cable broadband service using Cisco's pre-DOCSIS 3.0
Here in Canada (Quebec) using videotron. I have 7 Mbps down and 820 Kbps up for 40$/month. I could get 50 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up for 80$/month. Not bad eh !;-)
Wow! I thought this was a joke until I read this part
When Seattle Pi recently asked Gates about the email, he replied, "There's not a day that I don't send a piece of e-mail... like that piece of e-mail. That's my job."
We can build a machine that will simulate intelligence, but never actually make it intelligent. From the full article
You claim that an âoeIâ is nothing but a myth, a hallucination perceived by a hallucination. His book is all about saying that our consciousness is just an hallucination.
1. Software engineers who build reliable, robust, maintainable, extensible (and possibly secure) software systems...they certainly don't frequent Slashdot... And why would you say such a thing? I consider myself one of those people and I still find slashdot interesting nowadays.
11. free health care! As if!!! I pay nearly 50% income taxes in Québec and half of it is to pay for our marvolous "free" health care system which, by the way, is totally broken nowadays. Can't even get a family doctor in a 100 km radius from where I live and it is a big city too.
Are there anything bad with Canada? Insane income taxes! In Québec, nearly 50% of my income is gone that way (and don't get me started on our "free" health care system!). We are simply not enough to pay for all of our infrastructure. Our country is just too big for the meager 30 millions people that needs to support all this land.
I am convinced that we will not escape sandboxing every process in the not too distant future. Enough is enough, I don't think we will ever feel secure about any software any time soon.
An important new feature of GCC 4.2 is its support of OpenMP. In this age of multi-core CPU, this is a must. It's even supported in MS Visual Studio 2005. OpenMP is the way to go IMHO, if you don't know yet what it is, you've got to check it out...
Linux is now mainstream, and Microsoft wants to own it. That is what is going on here. If you can't beat them... But they can't join or own OSS, so they must destroy it. Goog luck to them...
...Neither should these ****ing tree-hugging, Prius-driving free software zealots... Wow. I wonder what OSS has done to you, for you to hate it so much? I hope you are not loosing sleep over this...
Making a legal, paid-for version of the file less useful than a copied or pirated one doesn't make sense. It is a pity we can't mod that +5 insightful for the other guys in that industry...
Linux distros wanting to be 100% "libre" and clean, like Ubuntu, were just too anal about it. Now I think it will soon be the only safe way of using a computer. Safe for you that is, and not just safe for your computer...
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I agree, we need something much easier for parallel programming...
That sounds like MinWin, which is a very good thing. I would love to have the option of booting in a very minimal Win32 OS !
I'm considering picking this up. Anyone play? What are your impressions?
Great game IMHO. Having lots of fun. RvR is really well done.
People will get more intelligent just by using functional languages. Even .Net has it now, it's called F# FSharp
...I really only care about me having a decent desktop...
This is how most Linux users thinks. Which is exactly why it is still not a drop in replacement of Windows. The worst is, I am not sure there is anything anyone can do about it.
Unless they're using DOCSIS3, which I doubt, then the maximum a cable modem can do is 45MBit downstream.
The 1Mbit up is what kills you. Don't ever pay $80/mo for that garbage.
You are right, it is in fact DOCSIS3. It looks like they will offer 100Mbps in the future.
Canadian cable provider Videotron announced last February that the company would be offering 100Mbps cable broadband service using Cisco's pre-DOCSIS 3.0
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I would indeed not pay 80$ for the current deal :)
Here in Canada (Quebec) using videotron. I have 7 Mbps down and 820 Kbps up for 40$/month. I could get 50 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up for 80$/month. Not bad eh ! ;-)
The policies cover 'any device capable of storing information in digital or analog form
My brain is a device that can record patterns in an analog form. If they want it, they'll have to get it over my dead body ;-)
There's going to be some fireworks over this one when they sue the wrong person.
You mean like the unlucky person that has been infected and is now, without his knowledge, serving media files.
This is going to get ugly !
Or better yet, SQLite, if you only store data locally.
www.sqlite.org
Wow! I thought this was a joke until I read this part
When Seattle Pi recently asked Gates about the email, he replied, "There's not a day that I don't send a piece of e-mailI live in Quebec, so I speak french. Let me tell you that, when I read English texts, I always think more commas would make it more readable. ;-)
I was able to login with my account without any problem using Firefox 3 RC1...
you guys never let me play. Yeah, it's no fun
I am convinced that we will not escape sandboxing every process in the not too distant future. Enough is enough, I don't think we will ever feel secure about any software any time soon.
...Beowulf cluster of these...
An important new feature of GCC 4.2 is its support of OpenMP. In this age of multi-core CPU, this is a must. It's even supported in MS Visual Studio 2005. OpenMP is the way to go IMHO, if you don't know yet what it is, you've got to check it out...
...Neither should these ****ing tree-hugging, Prius-driving free software zealots... Wow. I wonder what OSS has done to you, for you to hate it so much? I hope you are not loosing sleep over this...Linux distros wanting to be 100% "libre" and clean, like Ubuntu, were just too anal about it. Now I think it will soon be the only safe way of using a computer. Safe for you that is, and not just safe for your computer...