The U. S., for all its faults (poor legislative knowledge base on things technical being one of them), has its population base stretched over much area, thus making broadband more expensive for the provider. So, you're saying if I want to get 400Mbit fiber optic lines directly to my door for under $50 a month I need to go to a populous American city... New York maybe? Oh wait, that doesn't work, does it?
Places with very large populations and a very large land mass. I think it'd be a little more fair than comparing it to countries with a high population density (the majority of Canadia's population is settled within 100 miles or so of the US border.
Ok, how about comare New York and, say Osaka... What do you see?
My rube goldberg machine involves the evolution of Gerbles until the point that they are capable of building thier own flashlights and turning them on. I hope there isn't a time limit.
unlimted economic prosperity = everyone is weathly = no one is poor = bye bye capitalism = not gonna happen.
I don't see how this won't happen IF we can reduce scarcity by opening up the solar system. Economics is the science of scarcity. We don't, for example, have much of a market for breathable atmosphere. Go ahead, try and sell it.
That seems to me to be such a greater proposition than "to work" or "to live". Imagine tne entire world entering an economic prosperity that doesn't end for fifty thousand years... That's think kind of thing you get by utilizing the resources of our solar systel, let alone outer space.
If you happen to read a newspaper by chance, the war in Iraq is the SECOND one, and George Bush is actually the SON of the guy you're thinking about. Yeah, I know.
I think a lot more internet viewers nowdays just glaze over ads.
The next big step in advertizing will be when people start paying for EMPTY spots. Pay to take a billboard DOWN, so that the single remaining buildboard makes more impact. That's the only way that ads are ever going to work with the next generation of completely numbed viewers.
Russia has top notch schools cranking out top notch programmers, and no jobs for them. At all. A frightening level of Russia's wealth is concentrated in the Mafia, and in order for stealing them more, they pay more per month than most Russian citizens earn legitimately per year (Which still isn't much). What police there are who actually desire to establish law and order are either killed, threatened, or bribed into complacency. Politicians on the National scale are busy stealing power while politicians on the local scale are busy stealing cash wherever and whenever they can, forming a bona fide kleptocracy.
It's not just 'a lack of law and order'. It's a lack of law and order and legitimate jobs and money in a place with well educated and well trained populace with a very strong criminal organization.
Ah, so basically you're saying everything's A-ok, at least as far as russia goes. There is a reason they invented vodka, you know.
What amazes me most is this guy's willingness to pay a bill that he was expressly told does not exist. I don't know about you, but I'm damn sure that, if Best Buy makes a deal to purchase 100 widgets for $1 each from Acme Corp, and after the widgets arrive Acme Corp sends a bill (with a threat to call the police for non-payment) for $2 per widget, they wouldn't just pay up.
Why is this guy willing to pay for something that he was told was free? Are people really like that? Can I get rich charging random people for stuff that I give them for free?
So, if you could tag all the cancer cells with something that emits a beacon, then does that mean you could home in on them with a gamma knife and elimite them in any delicate part of the body with perfect accuracy?
And collecting emails and downloading american TV with bittorrent works just fine during the day, as does updating with apt.
Apt, yes...
Collecting emails.. not so much. SOME mail servers will try again to send to an email address that seems to be down, but not all... So you will not get all your email. Also, the ones that do will usually use an exponential backoff, which means by the time you startup your email server, the resend delay may be two days so it'll be two days before you have a chance of getting it again.
As for bittorrent. While you are downloading you are also uploading too. Cutting off your connection when you haven't uploaded as much as you have downloaded is not being a polite bittorrent user.
Also, I forgot to mention my web-server. I'm in Tokyo. How will my parents in Texas be able to look at pictures of my cats if my webserver is down when they are awake?
Most of all, electricity IS dirt cheap, usually... If it isn't where you live, that is a problem... but you can get low-power-spec machines these days that still work very well as always-on servers.
It's really amazing how we(Americans) take broadband for granted now. I don't see how I could go back to using dialup; it would seem like cruel and unusual punishment.
You think you've got it bad... I live in Japan... in fear. In TERROR. One day, I will have to return to America, and I fear that day... the day when I will no longer have a 100Mbit fiber-optic line directly from the CO into my machine.
Why do your computers run 24/7? It's not like you use it when you sleep.
Wow, it's been many many years since I met someone like you... I DO, in fact, use it when I sleep. Email server collects my spam for me, bittorrent downloads my American TV, apt updates my machine every night, etc... What kind of strange world do YOU live in?
The conversation took TWO more laps around these three parties before I gave up.
You think that was fun? How about this...
Sombody charged my card AND changes the address for getting statements. Since I had not used the card in like two years, statements had stopped coming (a FEATURE!). So, I never learned about the fraud (or the supsequent, desperate pleas for payment, or the harassing phone calls from the collections agency...)
Eventually the credit had been sold around to two or three credit agencies and one of them decided to actually look up my address instead of just using the last one used by the credit card company. At this time, I learned about the fraud and started taking steps to get it resolved.
The credit agency, on learning about the fraud, promptly sold the debt as quick as they could (so they don't have to eat the cost), and by the time I got my act together, it had already changed hands.
Now I had a new set of people calling me, bitching about money. So I explained the situation to them, and ONCE AGAIN, they sold the credit as quick as they could.
This kept happening, I belive about 15 times, before I just stopped getting calls from people. Even now I'm not sure what the situation is...
So cell phones in Japan can take pictures of these little encoded diagrams. They are just blocks of black and white (new ones in color coming out this month) and when you take a picture of it, the phone processes the picture into a hyperlink and goes to the corresponding website. It shouldn't be too complex to get ACTUAL graphiti on the walls that you can take a picture of that will translate into websites (based on thier colors, some other image processing, etc.
You cannot decompress that stream since if you compress 0011 you get 01
That was the entire POINT of the last post, dude.
You can compress a single value ONLY. So you can have 1, 10, 01, or 0., compression of.5 bits of information on average. But the instant you want a SECOND value then you're screwed.
step 1) Go to sourceforge and make a new project. step 2) In that project you dump the code for every personal project you ever worked on. step 3) Put the name of that project in your list of "shit that I own" step 4) never work on another project, just keep adding to your sourforce project and keep adding that project name to eveything that you sign your rights away to
*Except some special particles called neutrinos - but let's not go there.
Because nutrinos go through just about everything... even if you could build a detector smaller than, say, the earth, it'd be like trying to x-ray a paper bomb inside of a paper suitcase, wrapped in paper... on the other hand it'd be GREAT at finding people smuggling suitcases full of neutronium. Then again the 450,000,000 forklifts the guy uses to move his suitcase would also be an indicator.
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The U. S., for all its faults (poor legislative knowledge base on things technical being one of them), has its population base stretched over much area, thus making broadband more expensive for the provider. So, you're saying if I want to get 400Mbit fiber optic lines directly to my door for under $50 a month I need to go to a populous American city... New York maybe? Oh wait, that doesn't work, does it?
Places with very large populations and a very large land mass. I think it'd be a little more fair than comparing it to countries with a high population density (the majority of Canadia's population is settled within 100 miles or so of the US border.
Ok, how about comare New York and, say Osaka... What do you see?
If you are bandwidth challenged (as I was until recently) then you have a number of options.
* Go with a distro that lets you do a netinstall and only download what you need.
Bandwidth-challenged and net-install are not two words I tend to use favorably together.
I can state absolutely that I was not a racist in 1925.
It's AT 19:25, and what's with the military time?
My rube goldberg machine involves the evolution of Gerbles until the point that they are capable of building thier own flashlights and turning them on. I hope there isn't a time limit.
unlimted economic prosperity = everyone is weathly = no one is poor = bye bye capitalism = not gonna happen.
I don't see how this won't happen IF we can reduce scarcity by opening up the solar system. Economics is the science of scarcity. We don't, for example, have much of a market for breathable atmosphere. Go ahead, try and sell it.
1. Unlimited energy
2. Unlimited raw materials
That seems to me to be such a greater proposition than "to work" or "to live". Imagine tne entire world entering an economic prosperity that doesn't end for fifty thousand years... That's think kind of thing you get by utilizing the resources of our solar systel, let alone outer space.
Lucas needs to hand over the reins to someone with a clue.
What, for the next episode?
This time the rating's meaning is a bit different than usual. No one over the age of 13 should attend.
I did, in 1989, and haven't looked back since.
If you happen to read a newspaper by chance, the war in Iraq is the SECOND one, and George Bush is actually the SON of the guy you're thinking about. Yeah, I know.
I think a lot more internet viewers nowdays just glaze over ads.
The next big step in advertizing will be when people start paying for EMPTY spots. Pay to take a billboard DOWN, so that the single remaining buildboard makes more impact. That's the only way that ads are ever going to work with the next generation of completely numbed viewers.
Russia has top notch schools cranking out top notch programmers, and no jobs for them. At all. A frightening level of Russia's wealth is concentrated in the Mafia, and in order for stealing them more, they pay more per month than most Russian citizens earn legitimately per year (Which still isn't much). What police there are who actually desire to establish law and order are either killed, threatened, or bribed into complacency. Politicians on the National scale are busy stealing power while politicians on the local scale are busy stealing cash wherever and whenever they can, forming a bona fide kleptocracy.
It's not just 'a lack of law and order'. It's a lack of law and order and legitimate jobs and money in a place with well educated and well trained populace with a very strong criminal organization.
Ah, so basically you're saying everything's A-ok, at least as far as russia goes. There is a reason they invented vodka, you know.
If that isn't an open invitation for script kiddies to swarm over russian websites, I don't know what is.
What amazes me most is this guy's willingness to pay a bill that he was expressly told does not exist. I don't know about you, but I'm damn sure that, if Best Buy makes a deal to purchase 100 widgets for $1 each from Acme Corp, and after the widgets arrive Acme Corp sends a bill (with a threat to call the police for non-payment) for $2 per widget, they wouldn't just pay up.
Why is this guy willing to pay for something that he was told was free? Are people really like that? Can I get rich charging random people for stuff that I give them for free?
...this might actually be true.
So, if you could tag all the cancer cells with something that emits a beacon, then does that mean you could home in on them with a gamma knife and elimite them in any delicate part of the body with perfect accuracy?
And collecting emails and downloading american TV with bittorrent works just fine during the day, as does updating with apt.
Apt, yes...
Collecting emails.. not so much. SOME mail servers will try again to send to an email address that seems to be down, but not all... So you will not get all your email. Also, the ones that do will usually use an exponential backoff, which means by the time you startup your email server, the resend delay may be two days so it'll be two days before you have a chance of getting it again.
As for bittorrent. While you are downloading you are also uploading too. Cutting off your connection when you haven't uploaded as much as you have downloaded is not being a polite bittorrent user.
Also, I forgot to mention my web-server. I'm in Tokyo. How will my parents in Texas be able to look at pictures of my cats if my webserver is down when they are awake?
Most of all, electricity IS dirt cheap, usually... If it isn't where you live, that is a problem... but you can get low-power-spec machines these days that still work very well as always-on servers.
It's really amazing how we(Americans) take broadband for granted now. I don't see how I could go back to using dialup; it would seem like cruel and unusual punishment.
You think you've got it bad... I live in Japan... in fear. In TERROR. One day, I will have to return to America, and I fear that day... the day when I will no longer have a 100Mbit fiber-optic line directly from the CO into my machine.
Why do your computers run 24/7?
It's not like you use it when you sleep.
Wow, it's been many many years since I met someone like you... I DO, in fact, use it when I sleep. Email server collects my spam for me, bittorrent downloads my American TV, apt updates my machine every night, etc... What kind of strange world do YOU live in?
The conversation took TWO more laps around these three parties before I gave up.
You think that was fun? How about this...
Sombody charged my card AND changes the address for getting statements. Since I had not used the card in like two years, statements had stopped coming (a FEATURE!). So, I never learned about the fraud (or the supsequent, desperate pleas for payment, or the harassing phone calls from the collections agency...)
Eventually the credit had been sold around to two or three credit agencies and one of them decided to actually look up my address instead of just using the last one used by the credit card company. At this time, I learned about the fraud and started taking steps to get it resolved.
The credit agency, on learning about the fraud, promptly sold the debt as quick as they could (so they don't have to eat the cost), and by the time I got my act together, it had already changed hands.
Now I had a new set of people calling me, bitching about money. So I explained the situation to them, and ONCE AGAIN, they sold the credit as quick as they could.
This kept happening, I belive about 15 times, before I just stopped getting calls from people. Even now I'm not sure what the situation is...
So cell phones in Japan can take pictures of these little encoded diagrams. They are just blocks of black and white (new ones in color coming out this month) and when you take a picture of it, the phone processes the picture into a hyperlink and goes to the corresponding website. It shouldn't be too complex to get ACTUAL graphiti on the walls that you can take a picture of that will translate into websites (based on thier colors, some other image processing, etc.
You're wrong.
.5 bits of information on average. But the instant you want a SECOND value then you're screwed.
You cannot decompress that stream since if you compress
0011 you get 01
That was the entire POINT of the last post, dude.
You can compress a single value ONLY. So you can have 1, 10, 01, or 0., compression of
step 1) Go to sourceforge and make a new project.
step 2) In that project you dump the code for every personal project you ever worked on.
step 3) Put the name of that project in your list of "shit that I own"
step 4) never work on another project, just keep adding to your sourforce project and keep adding that project name to eveything that you sign your rights away to
*Except some special particles called neutrinos - but let's not go there.
Because nutrinos go through just about everything... even if you could build a detector smaller than, say, the earth, it'd be like trying to x-ray a paper bomb inside of a paper suitcase, wrapped in paper... on the other hand it'd be GREAT at finding people smuggling suitcases full of neutronium. Then again the 450,000,000 forklifts the guy uses to move his suitcase would also be an indicator.
MS never managed to create an API that felt natural to use
l AA?
Bah, what about DirectX? What's more natural than __lplpHwnLppScreenBufferLeftBlitDirect_043_channe