Acid is not a toy. As a "bathtub" drug there is no consistency of dosage or quality. There are tens of thousands of people in mental hospitals because of the permanent psychological damage it can cause in certain individuals, most notably those who already walk the fine line between creative genius and insanity.
The music industry is littered with high-profile examples of people who ended up with permanently damaged psyches; Syd Barrett (Pink Floyd), Peter Green (Fleetwood Mac), and one of the more horrifying examples (whom I knew personally), Kurt Struebing, guitarist for the Seattle death-metal band NME. Under the influence of repeated dosages, Kurt developed the idea that his mother was a robot and gutted her with a kitchen knife. A number of years later, after being released from prison, he drove his vehicle off the end of an open drawbridge in Seattle under unknown curcumstances and ended his tragic life.
If any brand of crazy or a high degree of creativity runs in your family, you are well advised to avoid recreational usage of lysergic acid, mescaline, psylocybin, MDMA, and all other psychotropic/psychoactive substances.
I don't know for sure if it's correct, but others have pointed out that ISPs pay for their bandwidth by the total amount downloaded, not the speed. Their other costs would be fixed, so it does make some sense from the ISP's side to set a cap.
Completely wrong. No entity higher upstream than "idiot consumer" or "dirt-cheap dedicated server customer" pays for traffic by the byte. Bandwidth at the backbone and interconnect level is sold and traded by bits per second - i.e. the potential max speed of the connection. You either pay for a capped, unmetered rate (like 100mbps, 1gbps, etc) or you get a burstable connection and pay 95th percentile billing. With capped, you can saturate the connection 24/7 at the expense of burstable speed and have a very predictable monthly expenditure. With 95th percentile, you pray like hell that you spend less than 5% of the time peaking, or you pay a much higher rate with little chance of solid predictability.
The problem here is that ISPs have been massively overselling unmetered capped connections for a decade. (not at a reasonable ratio of 2:1 or even 5:1 but more like 200:1) Now that speeds and usage are WAY up and the ratio is unworkable, they want to change the customer's behavior instead of their business model. Instead of just upgrading their infrastructure and BUYING ENOUGH BANDWIDTH to cover their commitments, they are attempting to force a return to the pre-youtube era of usage patterns, which is simply not going to work for long.
Time Warner pays pennies per gigabyte upstream for termination. The prices they are looking to charge are orders of magnitude out of line with their costs. This is about protecting their TV and pay-per-view business, plain and simple.
Time Warner is a Tier-1, and I'd venture to say that the vast majority of their traffic goes over FREE peering connections to the other Tier-1s. Their primary delivery costs likely involve admin/maintenance man-hours and replacing broken/outdated networking gear, so even "pennies per gigabyte" is probably a vast overestimate. I'd say more like "pennies per petabyte"
Hi, glad to meet you. Living in a Seattle suburb as I do, I have the options of:
Unbundled DSL from a dozen providers Verizon DSL Verizon FIOS (which I have - 20/20) Comcast broadband Clearwire WiMax (which I have as a backup - 1.5mbps) A couple other local WiMax providers - one up to 8mbps T-mobile Edge/3g (Which I have twice - G1 phone + an Edge laptop card) ATT wireless broadband Sprint wireless broadband Verizon wireless broadband T-1 at around $250-$350 from a dozen providers
Downtown Seattle has numerous other business options including an infrared inter-building network.
And that's just the one's you have to pay for. In any neighborhood where the houses don't have bars on the windows (and even sometimes if they do) you are never more than 1/4 mile from someone's open Wifi.
I'm sorry, but to those of you who live in the sticks 50 miles outside of Cat Anus, Nebraska and are complaining about not having any broadband choices, MOVE, DUMBASS!
Most people who do more than simple browsing & email don't want "alternatives". They want the applications they've been using to earn a living for a goddamn DECADE, not some 2-bit hack with a steep learning curve and an insanely bad interface. The biggest issue for me is Sony Vegas Pro (requires.NET 3). Vegas 3.x (pre.NET) is NOT acceptable because my hundreds of existing V8.x project files and templates are not backwards-compatible. Plus 3.x was flakey as hell.
I also rely heavily on Photoshop CS3, ACDSEE Pro, Forte Agent, VersaCheck, and Quickbooks. Any replacements would require 100% compatibility, flawless importation of existing files and databases, and a substantially similar workflow.
I already spend 16 hours a day running my business. I could either stop earning a living and spend a month or more trying (unsuccessfully) to rebuild my work environment with "alternatives" or I could just keep on using the apps I am familiar with on 2k and XP until someone can finally talk the major OS vendors into supporting Linux natively.
BTW, I run a few dozen web servers on Centos 5x and wouldn't take a copy of Windows Server as a gift. Success means using the right tool for the job.
Be damned sure that you can independently verify working service in the location you're interested in BEFORE signing up for service with Clearwire. (like borrow someone else's modem and test it out yourself)
I bought a modem in Seattle (Southcenter Mall) and the scumbags at the Kiosk specifically told me that there was service in Las Vegas and Spokane, two locations that I need for business. I have just discovered that they don't actually cover either city and have no plans to do so any time soon, so I'm stuck with a device that I can't travel with.
Fuck Clearwire. They're every bit as useless as the similarly-named Clearchannel and should probably just merge with them to hasten their ponderous march towards irrelevance.
At least I still have a T-mobile Edge card that sorta works.
Agreed. 4 digits and below are old timers, 5 digits are mid-range, 6 and above are newbies.
Not necessarily. I had a 5-digit back in the olden days but wasn't technosavvy enough to ever log in and say anything that would have been of any interest to the vast pool of intelligencia that is SlashDot, so I just lurked. I eventually lost the post-it note with my login info and had to sign up again in the 6-digit era. This time I employed the brilliant and innovative strategy of using the same username/password combo for everything I did online, so even though I didn't log in regularly until numbers were in 7-digits, I was not in danger of forgetting my info.
Bow down before my secret seniority and awesomeness, even though I bear the mark of the noob.
No they are not - "trolling" means "posting controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community",
Trolling means dragging a piece of lifeless bait behind a moving vessel (which gives it the appearance of a desirable live meal) and seeing how many stupid fish you can catch.
Of the two oligarchies, I think we made the right choice. Our current economy cannot survive without the products of "big oil" so we had very little leverage with the Bush administration. No one "needs" RIAA products. NO ONE! That means we have a vast amount of leverage now. Stop buying major label products and their war chest disappears.
I haven't bought a new CD since 1998. Buy used or buy indy. It's not that hard. Coincidentally, that's about the same time I quit my 2-pack-a-day smoking habit. At today's prices for smokes & CDs, I'm saving enough every year to make a few months worth of mortgage payments.
Whatever you do, poison should be the LAST option. Rats die wherever they happen to be when the poison kicks in, and that's usually someplace dark and inaccessable like inside walls, air ducting, or insulation. You generally are not aware of the corpses until they start rotting and filling up with maggots.
The "grudge" has a lot to do with the millions of dollars worth of private assets that were nationalized and confiscated when Castro's communist regime came to power. The Cuban exiles living in Florida who USED to be successful businessmen and landowners in Cuba are especially pissy about it.
Forbes was an idiot then, in a world of 6.5 billion people, there are at leas 6500 one-in-a-million geniuses out there,
And statistically less than 300 of them live in the US. Toss out those who are too young, old, lazy, socially inept, ill, incarcerated, or comatose to hold down a job and you probably have about 7 employable one-in-a-million geniuses in the US, and you can be pretty sure that they already have jobs.
They come in two color temps. "Cool White" is about the same as a white LED. Sterile and way too much blue/green. "Warm" is another name for sickly yellow and makes me think of those yellow incandescent bulbs used to keep moths away. Until they make a CFL that matches a normal incandescent I'm not switching.
They make a lot of different color temps depending on the manufacturer - 3200, 3500, 4400, 5000, 5100, 5500, and I've even seen some big ones at 6000
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Acid is not a toy. As a "bathtub" drug there is no consistency of dosage or quality. There are tens of thousands of people in mental hospitals because of the permanent psychological damage it can cause in certain individuals, most notably those who already walk the fine line between creative genius and insanity.
The music industry is littered with high-profile examples of people who ended up with permanently damaged psyches; Syd Barrett (Pink Floyd), Peter Green (Fleetwood Mac), and one of the more horrifying examples (whom I knew personally), Kurt Struebing, guitarist for the Seattle death-metal band NME. Under the influence of repeated dosages, Kurt developed the idea that his mother was a robot and gutted her with a kitchen knife. A number of years later, after being released from prison, he drove his vehicle off the end of an open drawbridge in Seattle under unknown curcumstances and ended his tragic life.
If any brand of crazy or a high degree of creativity runs in your family, you are well advised to avoid recreational usage of lysergic acid, mescaline, psylocybin, MDMA, and all other psychotropic/psychoactive substances.
Where to I find a service that gives me the IP address for a DNS lookup?
On your computer. Open a command/terminal window and type
nslookup whatever.com
I don't know for sure if it's correct, but others have pointed out that ISPs pay for their bandwidth by the total amount downloaded, not the speed. Their other costs would be fixed, so it does make some sense from the ISP's side to set a cap.
Completely wrong. No entity higher upstream than "idiot consumer" or "dirt-cheap dedicated server customer" pays for traffic by the byte. Bandwidth at the backbone and interconnect level is sold and traded by bits per second - i.e. the potential max speed of the connection. You either pay for a capped, unmetered rate (like 100mbps, 1gbps, etc) or you get a burstable connection and pay 95th percentile billing. With capped, you can saturate the connection 24/7 at the expense of burstable speed and have a very predictable monthly expenditure. With 95th percentile, you pray like hell that you spend less than 5% of the time peaking, or you pay a much higher rate with little chance of solid predictability.
The problem here is that ISPs have been massively overselling unmetered capped connections for a decade. (not at a reasonable ratio of 2:1 or even 5:1 but more like 200:1) Now that speeds and usage are WAY up and the ratio is unworkable, they want to change the customer's behavior instead of their business model. Instead of just upgrading their infrastructure and BUYING ENOUGH BANDWIDTH to cover their commitments, they are attempting to force a return to the pre-youtube era of usage patterns, which is simply not going to work for long.
Time Warner pays pennies per gigabyte upstream for termination. The prices they are looking to charge are orders of magnitude out of line with their costs. This is about protecting their TV and pay-per-view business, plain and simple.
Time Warner is a Tier-1, and I'd venture to say that the vast majority of their traffic goes over FREE peering connections to the other Tier-1s. Their primary delivery costs likely involve admin/maintenance man-hours and replacing broken/outdated networking gear, so even "pennies per gigabyte" is probably a vast overestimate. I'd say more like "pennies per petabyte"
Hi, glad to meet you. Living in a Seattle suburb as I do, I have the options of:
Unbundled DSL from a dozen providers
Verizon DSL
Verizon FIOS (which I have - 20/20)
Comcast broadband
Clearwire WiMax (which I have as a backup - 1.5mbps)
A couple other local WiMax providers - one up to 8mbps
T-mobile Edge/3g (Which I have twice - G1 phone + an Edge laptop card)
ATT wireless broadband
Sprint wireless broadband
Verizon wireless broadband
T-1 at around $250-$350 from a dozen providers
Downtown Seattle has numerous other business options including an infrared inter-building network.
And that's just the one's you have to pay for. In any neighborhood where the houses don't have bars on the windows (and even sometimes if they do) you are never more than 1/4 mile from someone's open Wifi.
I'm sorry, but to those of you who live in the sticks 50 miles outside of Cat Anus, Nebraska and are complaining about not having any broadband choices, MOVE, DUMBASS!
Most people who do more than simple browsing & email don't want "alternatives". They want the applications they've been using to earn a living for a goddamn DECADE, not some 2-bit hack with a steep learning curve and an insanely bad interface. The biggest issue for me is Sony Vegas Pro (requires .NET 3). Vegas 3.x (pre .NET) is NOT acceptable because my hundreds of existing V8.x project files and templates are not backwards-compatible. Plus 3.x was flakey as hell.
I also rely heavily on Photoshop CS3, ACDSEE Pro, Forte Agent, VersaCheck, and Quickbooks. Any replacements would require 100% compatibility, flawless importation of existing files and databases, and a substantially similar workflow.
I already spend 16 hours a day running my business. I could either stop earning a living and spend a month or more trying (unsuccessfully) to rebuild my work environment with "alternatives" or I could just keep on using the apps I am familiar with on 2k and XP until someone can finally talk the major OS vendors into supporting Linux natively.
BTW, I run a few dozen web servers on Centos 5x and wouldn't take a copy of Windows Server as a gift. Success means using the right tool for the job.
Be damned sure that you can independently verify working service in the location you're interested in BEFORE signing up for service with Clearwire. (like borrow someone else's modem and test it out yourself)
I bought a modem in Seattle (Southcenter Mall) and the scumbags at the Kiosk specifically told me that there was service in Las Vegas and Spokane, two locations that I need for business. I have just discovered that they don't actually cover either city and have no plans to do so any time soon, so I'm stuck with a device that I can't travel with.
Fuck Clearwire. They're every bit as useless as the similarly-named Clearchannel and should probably just merge with them to hasten their ponderous march towards irrelevance.
At least I still have a T-mobile Edge card that sorta works.
Agreed. 4 digits and below are old timers, 5 digits are mid-range, 6 and above are newbies.
Not necessarily. I had a 5-digit back in the olden days but wasn't technosavvy enough to ever log in and say anything that would have been of any interest to the vast pool of intelligencia that is SlashDot, so I just lurked. I eventually lost the post-it note with my login info and had to sign up again in the 6-digit era. This time I employed the brilliant and innovative strategy of using the same username/password combo for everything I did online, so even though I didn't log in regularly until numbers were in 7-digits, I was not in danger of forgetting my info.
Bow down before my secret seniority and awesomeness, even though I bear the mark of the noob.
which is not so subtly implying that all of the other 53-ish percent of humans living in the United states are basically drooling morons.
About half of the population is below average. 3%-4% is a reasonable margin of error.
What stops you from bringing in "fake" "prizes"?
A healthy respect for your own kneecaps
No they are not - "trolling" means "posting controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community",
Trolling means dragging a piece of lifeless bait behind a moving vessel (which gives it the appearance of a desirable live meal) and seeing how many stupid fish you can catch.
The alternative to giving a shit what anyone else thinks is to work for yourself.
The remarkable thing about English is that lots of stuff can be assumed.
In this case, mentally tack on an "or not".
You know what they say: "when you ASSUME, you're a fucking asshole"...or something like that.
Of the two oligarchies, I think we made the right choice. Our current economy cannot survive without the products of "big oil" so we had very little leverage with the Bush administration. No one "needs" RIAA products. NO ONE! That means we have a vast amount of leverage now. Stop buying major label products and their war chest disappears.
I haven't bought a new CD since 1998. Buy used or buy indy. It's not that hard. Coincidentally, that's about the same time I quit my 2-pack-a-day smoking habit. At today's prices for smokes & CDs, I'm saving enough every year to make a few months worth of mortgage payments.
Sounds like a great opportunity to charge millions of clueless users $50 to change the setting for them. I see a Vegas vacation on my event horizon.
Have you considered Laser Cats?
Whatever you do, poison should be the LAST option. Rats die wherever they happen to be when the poison kicks in, and that's usually someplace dark and inaccessable like inside walls, air ducting, or insulation. You generally are not aware of the corpses until they start rotting and filling up with maggots.
The "grudge" has a lot to do with the millions of dollars worth of private assets that were nationalized and confiscated when Castro's communist regime came to power. The Cuban exiles living in Florida who USED to be successful businessmen and landowners in Cuba are especially pissy about it.
or they can talk to your dead lover.
This is Slashdot. Shouldn't that be "imaginary dead lover" or "inflatable dead lover"?
Democracy is a governmental system. Capitalism is an economic system. They have nothing to do with each other by nature.
Thus if you're an honest individual who doesn't give a shit what people think of you, you'll always end up unemployed.
...or SELF-employed, which is my personal preference.
Forbes was an idiot then, in a world of 6.5 billion people, there are at leas 6500 one-in-a-million geniuses out there,
And statistically less than 300 of them live in the US. Toss out those who are too young, old, lazy, socially inept, ill, incarcerated, or comatose to hold down a job and you probably have about 7 employable one-in-a-million geniuses in the US, and you can be pretty sure that they already have jobs.
They come in two color temps. "Cool White" is about the same as a white LED. Sterile and way too much blue/green. "Warm" is another name for sickly yellow and makes me think of those yellow incandescent bulbs used to keep moths away. Until they make a CFL that matches a normal incandescent I'm not switching.
They make a lot of different color temps depending on the manufacturer - 3200, 3500, 4400, 5000, 5100, 5500, and I've even seen some big ones at 6000
They have little or no pollution control and are quickly poisoning the Earth
Yeah, but I don't have to LIVE in China, so it's not MY earth, therefore I don't have to care.
Now bring me the remote and something edible wrapped in bacon!
this is for UNDER WATER use.
therefore, its better left to DUCK tape.
(sorry....)
Wrong! They need to use FISH tape!
This is apparently the recipe for TROLLHOUSE COOKIES