I'd love to see someone implement a bittorrent client with an option to limit peers to other Comcast customers, and then see how they start redefining "internal traffic"...
You need to implement bittorrent 'choking' based on network closeness. See this thread I started on the bittorrent list in 2005 for some discussion.
IMHO.. it won't be worth being part of a class action.
The new trick is that *you* have to pay postage to opt-out of the class. I always opted out when they sent a SASE, but now I mostly shred them. I'm sure they expected this.
It's everywhere and you don't need it. Drink only water and don't buy any food that has sugar
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(fructose excluded) in it.
Ahhhghhh - train off the rails! If you mean fructose that's bound up with fruit fibers - sure, fine. The fiber slows down the absorption. And honey for some reason absorbs slowly (we don't know why).
What's really important is the rate of fructose absorption. If it's too fast, the liver just turns it into fat - similar in process to heavy drinking - and possibly worsens arachidonic acid cycle products, bad triglycerides, oxidative stress, etc..
This is why HFCS is such a problem. Instead of sucrose, which is partly broken down in stomach acid and then more thoroughly broken down by sucrase in the small intestine (both moderating absorption rates) the fructose in HFCS is immediately available as soon as it goes down your throat (to the extent that it can get to the right bits that it can be absorbed, but there's nothing slowing it down beyond that).
Of course high glucose amounts have their own problems from insulin spikes to metabolic syndrome to full-on diabetes, so I'm not recommending sucrose here either, just making the point that fructose isn't a safe sucrose substitute. Try stevia (Stevia in the Raw, Truvia are good) or xylitol (I buy 5lb bags from) for baking. Also eat whole grains so that glucose doesn't spike (again, rates are as important as amounts).
You DON'T need it. You like it because your are an addicted junky.
That is all true, but the units for power are "watts", not "volts".
The thing is, the EE post-docs who are designing chips find the terminology useful. So, being pedantic here just makes things worse, not better.
If it helps, we often talk about a 3GHz chip as being faster than a 2GHz chip. Everybody knows that's not always true, but we all know the assumptions, so it's still a useful conversation.
Even in an application with automatic saving, the "save" button still has a purpose, namely to mark a revision as worth keeping.
Perhaps just a 'Check' button to save a checkpoint. Or will somebody say that nobody knows what a checkmark is anymore?
BTW, my daughter is in third grade and they're almost all paper-based. She knows all about folders, checkmarks, magnifying glasses, binoculars, clipboards, etc. I guess I shoud read the article, but it sounds like the author is really out of touch from the summary. OK, yeah, floppy disk, that's a used-up Microsoft convention from the late 80's.
I'm paying $30/mo with PagePlus for their 1200-minute plan. I bought a reconditioned LG nv2 off eBay for $60. It gets about 3 days on a charge, and when the battery starts to wear out, the replacement is $13 from Amazon Marketplace.
That said, MMS messages to FBOOK stopped working on or after April 27th of this year. The smartphone I'd like is $700, and a data plan is about $25/mo more. It's not worth it to me to spend nearly $1000 this year to post pictures to Facebook (their e-mail gateway might still work, but my phone gloms on a huge disclaimer about QuickTime which is obnoxious - haven't tried to edit the ROM yet). Oh, speaking of which, you need to change one '00' to '20' and a couple text strings on the phone to get Network Manager to use the phone for 3G tethering. Verizon's provisioning is broken.
Anyway, my wife hit us for a $285 phone bill with Verizon one month on a credit plan. Even she can't use 1200 minutes, though!
However, there are a limited number of time slots per frequency, and a limited number of frequency slots
The number that sticks in my mind is 13,000 slots per second for SMS data. Perhaps somebody with actual working knowledge could properly characterize the scope here.
And, yeah, if there were unlimited, we'd tunnel data through them...
I agree with most of what you say but equally how sad is it that the world judges someone's suitability to run a multinational based on their qualifications rather than the many years of experience they have had since then and / or how good they are at their job.
He's not getting fired for not having a CS degree. He's getting fired because he was called out for it, has allegedly committed fraud against the company, and keeping him on would set the company up for numerous employment lawsuits.
If he hadn't been called out publically, he'd probably still be there. I'd guess, even if the board knew about it, though they might have had to file some SEC amendments.
Why can't submitters get it through their head that when you quote someone, you need to put the quote in quotation marks and give credit to the source?
That's quite a leap of faith that the submitter got it wrong...
place your order into the car, which then drives home
Like the sibling said, a planned delivery route would be more efficient, but I still think this has merit for one-off items. His comment has the connotation that anybody who runs out to the store for milk has a moral failing.
I live about an hour from "every-store" shopping, so I'd be tempted to send my car, but even there, I bet there are several people in my area who will have similar needs, so somebody will establish a regular circuit of traffic from here to there with perhaps 5 vehicles and then automated shipping systems will put in a request for delivery which will divert the appropriate delivery car to the proper pick-up and drop-off location. They'll run more cars at peak times, fewer cars on off-hours, same as everything else.
For commuters, I think the big win is going to be shower cars. If you have a 1-hour commute, there's little reason a car only as tall as a van couldn't have a small bathroom and kitchenette in it - probably a video screen too for reading news over coffee. Too luxurious? They could be mass-produced as a $3K option and everybody who buys one gets an extra hour of sleep every day. That's about $2/hr for sleep if you can count on a 7-year lifespan.
Note to designers: figure in a water fill and clean-out port as part of the recharging dock. Robotically connected, please.
I image paying a couple hundred bucks a month to have car come and pick me up whenever I need one.
You're single, right? Parents with kids, especially young ones, have about 50 things in their cars that are needed to manage the little buggers. At times, all that stuff takes up the whole trunk. It doesn't get unpacked very often.
I guess it would be possible to containerize and automate all that with a garage robot, but it seems like a really big change.
If you've got a fast net connection, you won't care. If you don't have a fast net connection, loading 16MB of images at once isn't a lot of fun.
Speaking of which, can anybody recommend a software package that cleanly implements that "load images upon scrolling near the active viewport" that I see on some sites? It seems like a nice way to do things.
In rural areas there is often as much "fringe" coverage where SMS works but a voice call can't complete as there is "service area". The best you can do now is to text a bunch of your friends with, "crashed in ditch on river rd, ovrtrned, brkn neck, pls call 911," and hope somebody notices.
This kind of 911 service could effectively double mobile 911 coverage in those places. That's quite sufficient a reason to put up with the whiny problems posted above.
There is a genie in a bottle sort of aspect to it.
If we lived in a universe where these got deployed, there would be unnaturally 'hot' CG Saleswomen who would be motion and voice controlled by real people remotely and the marks, I mean the sales prospects would be free to walk around the tube to look at whatever they wanted as long as the sale was closing.
Creep-o-tube might be a good marketing name. Oh, wait, no we're supposed to say the opposite of what it really is.
Even rpmbuild will refuse to write a package with extraneous files, but it seems likely in this kind of situation that the log file wouldn't be present until runtime.
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I'd love to see someone implement a bittorrent client with an option to limit peers to other Comcast customers, and then see how they start redefining "internal traffic"...
You need to implement bittorrent 'choking' based on network closeness. See this thread I started on the bittorrent list in 2005 for some discussion.
IMHO.. it won't be worth being part of a class action.
The new trick is that *you* have to pay postage to opt-out of the class. I always opted out when they sent a SASE, but now I mostly shred them. I'm sure they expected this.
If they try to charge ETFs on people who are grandfathered in and decide to cancel, that would be a breach of contract, wouldn't it?
The contract you signed sucks, BTW. (for you, of course, not that you had much in they way of choice if you want a mobile phone).
There's not much that can drag my ass out of bed at 5AM on a Saturday, but the first launch of Space Age 2.0 rises to that level.
The main problem is sugar.
YES
It's everywhere and you don't need it. Drink only water and don't buy any food that has sugar
YES
(fructose excluded) in it.
Ahhhghhh - train off the rails! If you mean fructose that's bound up with fruit fibers - sure, fine. The fiber slows down the absorption. And honey for some reason absorbs slowly (we don't know why).
What's really important is the rate of fructose absorption. If it's too fast, the liver just turns it into fat - similar in process to heavy drinking - and possibly worsens arachidonic acid cycle products, bad triglycerides, oxidative stress, etc..
This is why HFCS is such a problem. Instead of sucrose, which is partly broken down in stomach acid and then more thoroughly broken down by sucrase in the small intestine (both moderating absorption rates) the fructose in HFCS is immediately available as soon as it goes down your throat (to the extent that it can get to the right bits that it can be absorbed, but there's nothing slowing it down beyond that).
Of course high glucose amounts have their own problems from insulin spikes to metabolic syndrome to full-on diabetes, so I'm not recommending sucrose here either, just making the point that fructose isn't a safe sucrose substitute. Try stevia (Stevia in the Raw, Truvia are good) or xylitol (I buy 5lb bags from) for baking. Also eat whole grains so that glucose doesn't spike (again, rates are as important as amounts).
You DON'T need it. You like it because your are an addicted junky.
YES
Reliability is the reason I havent gone SSD yet.
My experience is that SSD's fail more often than hard drives, more catastrophically, and without warning, especially on the low end.
But I still use them because they're super fast. Put them in a mirror. Use SLC where it's really important to not have a mirror half fail.
That is all true, but the units for power are "watts", not "volts".
The thing is, the EE post-docs who are designing chips find the terminology useful. So, being pedantic here just makes things worse, not better.
If it helps, we often talk about a 3GHz chip as being faster than a 2GHz chip. Everybody knows that's not always true, but we all know the assumptions, so it's still a useful conversation.
Just because you don't understand how something works, doesn't mean it is easy to do.
There's a Dilbert for that!
(good post)
I see that option in the preferences.
That said, this beta is super slow, actually getting a click on a link to register takes 10 tires, and sync setup fails.
So, back to the release version for me.
Uh, is this a penis enlargement joke? Because I don't think radiation does that.
Tell that to Bruce Banner. Or the ever-smiling Betty Ross.
Even in an application with automatic saving, the "save" button still has a purpose, namely to mark a revision as worth keeping.
Perhaps just a 'Check' button to save a checkpoint. Or will somebody say that nobody knows what a checkmark is anymore?
BTW, my daughter is in third grade and they're almost all paper-based. She knows all about folders, checkmarks, magnifying glasses, binoculars, clipboards, etc. I guess I shoud read the article, but it sounds like the author is really out of touch from the summary. OK, yeah, floppy disk, that's a used-up Microsoft convention from the late 80's.
I'm paying $30/mo with PagePlus for their 1200-minute plan. I bought a reconditioned LG nv2 off eBay for $60. It gets about 3 days on a charge, and when the battery starts to wear out, the replacement is $13 from Amazon Marketplace.
That said, MMS messages to FBOOK stopped working on or after April 27th of this year. The smartphone I'd like is $700, and a data plan is about $25/mo more. It's not worth it to me to spend nearly $1000 this year to post pictures to Facebook (their e-mail gateway might still work, but my phone gloms on a huge disclaimer about QuickTime which is obnoxious - haven't tried to edit the ROM yet). Oh, speaking of which, you need to change one '00' to '20' and a couple text strings on the phone to get Network Manager to use the phone for 3G tethering. Verizon's provisioning is broken.
Anyway, my wife hit us for a $285 phone bill with Verizon one month on a credit plan. Even she can't use 1200 minutes, though!
However, there are a limited number of time slots per frequency, and a limited number of frequency slots
The number that sticks in my mind is 13,000 slots per second for SMS data. Perhaps somebody with actual working knowledge could properly characterize the scope here.
And, yeah, if there were unlimited, we'd tunnel data through them...
Now I somehow understand the "couch surfing" use for a tablet but really carrying a laptop and a tablet seems to be overkill
If this guy lives on the road, why would you assume that he has no need for "couch surfing"?
Full disclosure: my tablet is now running ICS and still I can't think of it as anything other than a read-only device, except for emergencies.
I agree with most of what you say but equally how sad is it that the world judges someone's suitability to run a multinational based on their qualifications rather than the many years of experience they have had since then and / or how good they are at their job.
He's not getting fired for not having a CS degree. He's getting fired because he was called out for it, has allegedly committed fraud against the company, and keeping him on would set the company up for numerous employment lawsuits.
If he hadn't been called out publically, he'd probably still be there. I'd guess, even if the board knew about it, though they might have had to file some SEC amendments.
Why can't submitters get it through their head that when you quote someone, you need to put the quote in quotation marks and give credit to the source?
That's quite a leap of faith that the submitter got it wrong...
all they know how to do is run DoS attacks
They've done a few e-mail archive thefts too. Some informative ones at that.
Just using the collective pronoun hurts, though.
Silly, Sarten-X - the Slashdot collective is the most powerful organization in the world. Um ... just look at how much influence alpha geeks have!
Somebody push this comment to the front page, m'kay?
place your order into the car, which then drives home
Like the sibling said, a planned delivery route would be more efficient, but I still think this has merit for one-off items. His comment has the connotation that anybody who runs out to the store for milk has a moral failing.
I live about an hour from "every-store" shopping, so I'd be tempted to send my car, but even there, I bet there are several people in my area who will have similar needs, so somebody will establish a regular circuit of traffic from here to there with perhaps 5 vehicles and then automated shipping systems will put in a request for delivery which will divert the appropriate delivery car to the proper pick-up and drop-off location. They'll run more cars at peak times, fewer cars on off-hours, same as everything else.
For commuters, I think the big win is going to be shower cars. If you have a 1-hour commute, there's little reason a car only as tall as a van couldn't have a small bathroom and kitchenette in it - probably a video screen too for reading news over coffee. Too luxurious? They could be mass-produced as a $3K option and everybody who buys one gets an extra hour of sleep every day. That's about $2/hr for sleep if you can count on a 7-year lifespan.
Note to designers: figure in a water fill and clean-out port as part of the recharging dock. Robotically connected, please.
I image paying a couple hundred bucks a month to have car come and pick me up whenever I need one.
You're single, right? Parents with kids, especially young ones, have about 50 things in their cars that are needed to manage the little buggers. At times, all that stuff takes up the whole trunk. It doesn't get unpacked very often.
I guess it would be possible to containerize and automate all that with a garage robot, but it seems like a really big change.
If you've got a fast net connection, you won't care. If you don't have a fast net connection, loading 16MB of images at once isn't a lot of fun.
Speaking of which, can anybody recommend a software package that cleanly implements that "load images upon scrolling near the active viewport" that I see on some sites? It seems like a nice way to do things.
I live in fear of pervasive free floating fear.
In rural areas there is often as much "fringe" coverage where SMS works but a voice call can't complete as there is "service area". The best you can do now is to text a bunch of your friends with, "crashed in ditch on river rd, ovrtrned, brkn neck, pls call 911," and hope somebody notices.
This kind of 911 service could effectively double mobile 911 coverage in those places. That's quite sufficient a reason to put up with the whiny problems posted above.
What is thy bidding, my master?
There is a genie in a bottle sort of aspect to it.
If we lived in a universe where these got deployed, there would be unnaturally 'hot' CG Saleswomen who would be motion and voice controlled by real people remotely and the marks, I mean the sales prospects would be free to walk around the tube to look at whatever they wanted as long as the sale was closing.
Creep-o-tube might be a good marketing name. Oh, wait, no we're supposed to say the opposite of what it really is.
things such as debug logs during testing
Even rpmbuild will refuse to write a package with extraneous files, but it seems likely in this kind of situation that the log file wouldn't be present until runtime.
Probably SELinux can prevent this situation.