It's streaming video that will do it. If you throw Twitch streams on for a few hours in the background while working/whatever, it can easily get there.
Sorry, I should have mentioned I'm in Australia, the home of fraudband (NBN).
To be fair, it should have been obvious from your username.
Is $20 AUD(?)/month to upgrade to 1TB that bad? I guess it would depend on how much you're already paying. Is that the only jump: 50GB -> 1TB? I'd be curious how your service/price compares to mine (Canada). I've certainly heard the "horror" stories of terrible Australian internet...
I'm paying $75 CAD for 30Mbps and 300GB. If I wanted to get more data, the next plan up is $95 for 60Mbps and 450GB. Since the bandwidth increase is kinda BS (you never get that anyway), I'd basically be paying $20 for only 150GB more. I don't know if you can pay less just for a higher data cap or not.
Really? That sounds ridiculous (not saying your wrong). I thought the consensus was that online gaming didn't need a lot of bandwidth and data, just low latency. Maybe it's a console thing? I really don't think my PC is pulling down GBs/day for gaming online; streaming is most definitely what eats into my data cap the most.
Also, I assume that you're not letting him do that through a Mobile connection, lol.
Well I mean Britain, and European countries in general, have different views on free speech than the US does. For example, in 2007 there was the European Union Framework Decision for Combating Racism and Xenophobia, which makes the following punishable in all EU Member States:
Publicly inciting to violence or hatred , even by dissemination or distribution of tracts, pictures or other material, directed against a group of persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to race, colour, religion, descent or national or ethnic origin.
The same law also prohibits denying or trivializing genocides, crimes against humanity, and war crimes; it specifically mentions crimes defined by the Tribunal of Nuremberg (i.e. Holocaust denial).
Now, denying the Holocaust is stupid, it likely stems from racism, and I would choose not to associate myself with anyone who did. But I definitely prefer the US interpretation and implementation of free speech. It's not the Government's job to be the arbiter of truth, and allowing them to control speech in just about any way is one of the most serious threats to liberty that there is.
There are tons of proper-yet-not-common nouns that are only correct when preceded by a "the": the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, the Great Wall of China, etc.
If someone said to you "Here is a picture of the Earth.", would you really push up your glasses and smugly correct them?
I remember being told at one point in school that "Earth" should be capitalized unless you are saying "the earth" (both referring to the planet obviously). But even then I thought it didn't make sense. Also, why do we refer to some proper nouns with "the" and not others? And there are exceptions both ways...
"Earth is the 3rd planet from the Sun." Perfectly fine. "The Earth is the 3rd planet from the Sun." Also fine. "Mars is the 4th planet from the Sun." No problem. "The Mars is the 4th planet from the Sun." Wrong. "The Mars is the 4th planet from Sun." Double wrong.
In order to be an acronym by definition, the shortened version has to be pronounced as a word itself, e.g. NATO === nay-toe. What you are proposing is that we treat GUI as an initialism, where each letter is pronounced separately, e.g. FBI === eff-bee-eye.
Only if you let it get bogged down with useless crap. I've been running the same install of Windows 7 for at least 5-6 years, and it doesn't feel any slower to me at all. Now obviously this is less than empirical, but it's definitely not taking even 1-2 seconds more to open a program or login, compared to when the install was fresh.
I'm sure we've all been there, doing pro bono IT work for friends and family who say "The computer just runs really slowly for some reason." Then we boot the computer and sit there for 5-10 minutes watching the system tray fill with absolute nonsense. Then you ask them what each icon is and whether they need it, and they just stare blankly at you and shrug. Honestly I can't figure out how people do this, I don't feel like I'm constantly fighting to keep random programs from opening on startup. One of life's great mysteries I suppose.
In my system tray right now (excluding system things like volume control and internet connection): Steam, Radeon Settings, VPN client, DisplayFusion, and f.lux. The latter 2 are very recent additions (and highly recommended).
Canada is a third world country that doesn't know it.
What I mean by that is, the economy is very fragile; it relies incredibly heavily on primary resources. There is pathetically little quaternary industry. Honestly, it is difficult to think of many Canadian R&D companies that are world players, in spite of it being the 10th largest economy in the world: RIM (now Blackberry, we all know how that's been going), Bombardier, Ubisoft Montreal (seriously that's the 3rd one I could come up with).
Here in Calgary (where all the big O&G companies are based) we used to have a decent tech sector, but that died 10-15 years ago. Everybody just kinda shrugged and said "Meh, we got oil.". We're a one trick pony, and everyone's bored of our act.
Not only that, but even within the oil-sands, there was such a pig-headed attitude towards innovation. They would rather do things the old and expensive way because they trusted it more. The number one priority was keeping the rig running: barrels per minute * price per barrel, that's all that mattered. So if you came to them with a new product that was 10x faster, 10x cheaper, 10x smaller, etc., they just look at you and say "It looks different from the one I'm using." I wish I was kidding.
If the oil-sands had spent some of the time innovating and reducing the cost of production, while they had the money to do so, they may not be in such a terrible situation as they are now. "Oil will never drop below $100." Now they're scrambling to cut costs just to stay alive. Well guess what, you can't improve production costs overnight, but you can layoff thousands of people.
Imagine how great it would be if we (Western nations) could tell the Saudis what they could do with their oil surplus? Nope, instead we've got to pander to one of the most brutal dictatorships in existence. All of our leaders (Obama, Harper, Hollande, Cameron, and more) go to "pay their respects" at the funeral of a man whose government routinely punishes rape victims worse than the rapists themselves; a government that is one of the (if not THE) major instigator of Islamic terrorism worldwide, both directly and indirectly through the spread of Wahhabism.
This entire problem has been generated by the Saudis, to crush any competition from producers who can't compete at lower oil prices. They don't even have us by the balls. We're squeezing our own balls, and thanking them for the privilege.
You can also pull the filter settings all the way to the right, like I have them by default. The mods don't dictate what is visible to you or not, you do.
If your dog or horse can tell me that themselves, so I know it's not merely a delusion of yours, then no problem! But remember: No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service. Also, no pissing or shitting on the floor. After all, trans-species humans will still have to follow the same rules as everybody else.
I agree with you in principle, but you can't pretend that the environmentalist lobby has won... or is even winning, by any means. I mean you want to talk about a Government Cartel, what is OPEC if not exactly that? What's the environmentalist balance to the most profitable industry in human history? The tide is beginning to turn, but I'm not saying we should push so far as to create imbalance in the other direction.
Do you understand the difference between displacement and velocity? What's the difference between throwing a bullet at your head, and shooting you in the face? I mean, the bullet traveled the same distance before it came into contact with you, but somehow you died the second time. Hmm...
Either way, ebooks are cheaper so don't you already save money even if you don't resell?
As many have pointed out, this is far from always the case. Either way, I think it's a stupid way to look at things (the publishers, not you). Why not make eBooks the same as physical books in almost every conceivable way, and charge the same amount? You've increased your profit margin due to cheaper distribution, and you've actually created a better product in many ways (e.g. I can carry thousands of eBooks with me very easily).
Hasn't this problem been solved? There are floating licenses for software already. Forget about selling something, what about borrowing? I have an eBook, you want to borrow it. I transfer the license to you, and you now can read it and I can't. When you're done, you transfer it back to me.
And I don't know where you get the notion that a slower release would make things better.
I'm not a denier, by any means, but it does make some sense that a slower release would be better. There are processes (photosynthesis being the most obvious) that take CO2 out of the atmosphere. Conceivably, there is some rate of fossil fuel use that is sustainable, but maybe that rate is so low that it's irrelevant on a global industrial scale.
If you find that upsetting, just wait until you find out that the value of real money is made up anyway.
Seriously though, what you're describing is actually pretty basic economic stuff. Money is not a price tag you put on the economy, it's a medium of exchange. And as it turns out, there doesn't have to be as much actual money in existence as there is value in the economy in order for things to function. The bank lends more money than it has in reserve because the expectation is that it will make more money in return. It's based on the reliability of the debtors. If a ton of people start defaulting on their loans, you'll suddenly see banks much less willing to lend.
There is a balance, of course, the bank should be careful not to become over-leveraged. When the 2008 crash hit, I remember hearing that some banks were leveraged at 60:1. That's a huge problem, because only 1/60 people have to default before the bank's reserve is depleted; the bank is insolvent in spite of >98% of the debtors paying on time.
One thing that other people replying to you have touched on, but haven't said explicitly, is that the appeals for death row inmates are automatic. Even if the person sentenced to death wants to die sooner, they can't.
We don't have a justice system, we have a legal system. People don't get what they deserve, they get what they get. Life is unfair. Executing the person who raped and murdered your child won't bring her back, or make any suffering she felt any less so.
The rest of us are supposed to be better than the people who commit murder.
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It's streaming video that will do it. If you throw Twitch streams on for a few hours in the background while working/whatever, it can easily get there.
Sorry, I should have mentioned I'm in Australia, the home of fraudband (NBN).
To be fair, it should have been obvious from your username.
Is $20 AUD(?)/month to upgrade to 1TB that bad? I guess it would depend on how much you're already paying. Is that the only jump: 50GB -> 1TB? I'd be curious how your service/price compares to mine (Canada). I've certainly heard the "horror" stories of terrible Australian internet...
I'm paying $75 CAD for 30Mbps and 300GB. If I wanted to get more data, the next plan up is $95 for 60Mbps and 450GB. Since the bandwidth increase is kinda BS (you never get that anyway), I'd basically be paying $20 for only 150GB more. I don't know if you can pay less just for a higher data cap or not.
Really? That sounds ridiculous (not saying your wrong). I thought the consensus was that online gaming didn't need a lot of bandwidth and data, just low latency. Maybe it's a console thing? I really don't think my PC is pulling down GBs/day for gaming online; streaming is most definitely what eats into my data cap the most.
Also, I assume that you're not letting him do that through a Mobile connection, lol.
Well I mean Britain, and European countries in general, have different views on free speech than the US does. For example, in 2007 there was the European Union Framework Decision for Combating Racism and Xenophobia, which makes the following punishable in all EU Member States:
Publicly inciting to violence or hatred , even by dissemination or distribution of tracts, pictures or other material, directed against a group of persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to race, colour, religion, descent or national or ethnic origin.
The same law also prohibits denying or trivializing genocides, crimes against humanity, and war crimes; it specifically mentions crimes defined by the Tribunal of Nuremberg (i.e. Holocaust denial).
Now, denying the Holocaust is stupid, it likely stems from racism, and I would choose not to associate myself with anyone who did. But I definitely prefer the US interpretation and implementation of free speech. It's not the Government's job to be the arbiter of truth, and allowing them to control speech in just about any way is one of the most serious threats to liberty that there is.
There are tons of proper-yet-not-common nouns that are only correct when preceded by a "the": the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, the Great Wall of China, etc.
If someone said to you "Here is a picture of the Earth.", would you really push up your glasses and smugly correct them?
My point was that referring to the planet both with and without the preceding "the" is considered acceptable.
I remember being told at one point in school that "Earth" should be capitalized unless you are saying "the earth" (both referring to the planet obviously). But even then I thought it didn't make sense. Also, why do we refer to some proper nouns with "the" and not others? And there are exceptions both ways...
"Earth is the 3rd planet from the Sun." Perfectly fine.
"The Earth is the 3rd planet from the Sun." Also fine.
"Mars is the 4th planet from the Sun." No problem.
"The Mars is the 4th planet from the Sun." Wrong.
"The Mars is the 4th planet from Sun." Double wrong.
What. The. Hell.
In order to be an acronym by definition, the shortened version has to be pronounced as a word itself, e.g. NATO === nay-toe. What you are proposing is that we treat GUI as an initialism, where each letter is pronounced separately, e.g. FBI === eff-bee-eye.
Only if you let it get bogged down with useless crap. I've been running the same install of Windows 7 for at least 5-6 years, and it doesn't feel any slower to me at all. Now obviously this is less than empirical, but it's definitely not taking even 1-2 seconds more to open a program or login, compared to when the install was fresh.
I'm sure we've all been there, doing pro bono IT work for friends and family who say "The computer just runs really slowly for some reason." Then we boot the computer and sit there for 5-10 minutes watching the system tray fill with absolute nonsense. Then you ask them what each icon is and whether they need it, and they just stare blankly at you and shrug. Honestly I can't figure out how people do this, I don't feel like I'm constantly fighting to keep random programs from opening on startup. One of life's great mysteries I suppose.
In my system tray right now (excluding system things like volume control and internet connection): Steam, Radeon Settings, VPN client, DisplayFusion, and f.lux. The latter 2 are very recent additions (and highly recommended).
Canada is a third world country that doesn't know it.
What I mean by that is, the economy is very fragile; it relies incredibly heavily on primary resources. There is pathetically little quaternary industry. Honestly, it is difficult to think of many Canadian R&D companies that are world players, in spite of it being the 10th largest economy in the world: RIM (now Blackberry, we all know how that's been going), Bombardier, Ubisoft Montreal (seriously that's the 3rd one I could come up with).
Here in Calgary (where all the big O&G companies are based) we used to have a decent tech sector, but that died 10-15 years ago. Everybody just kinda shrugged and said "Meh, we got oil.". We're a one trick pony, and everyone's bored of our act.
Not only that, but even within the oil-sands, there was such a pig-headed attitude towards innovation. They would rather do things the old and expensive way because they trusted it more. The number one priority was keeping the rig running: barrels per minute * price per barrel, that's all that mattered. So if you came to them with a new product that was 10x faster, 10x cheaper, 10x smaller, etc., they just look at you and say "It looks different from the one I'm using." I wish I was kidding.
If the oil-sands had spent some of the time innovating and reducing the cost of production, while they had the money to do so, they may not be in such a terrible situation as they are now. "Oil will never drop below $100." Now they're scrambling to cut costs just to stay alive. Well guess what, you can't improve production costs overnight, but you can layoff thousands of people.
Imagine how great it would be if we (Western nations) could tell the Saudis what they could do with their oil surplus? Nope, instead we've got to pander to one of the most brutal dictatorships in existence. All of our leaders (Obama, Harper, Hollande, Cameron, and more) go to "pay their respects" at the funeral of a man whose government routinely punishes rape victims worse than the rapists themselves; a government that is one of the (if not THE) major instigator of Islamic terrorism worldwide, both directly and indirectly through the spread of Wahhabism.
This entire problem has been generated by the Saudis, to crush any competition from producers who can't compete at lower oil prices. They don't even have us by the balls. We're squeezing our own balls, and thanking them for the privilege.
You can also pull the filter settings all the way to the right, like I have them by default. The mods don't dictate what is visible to you or not, you do.
If your dog or horse can tell me that themselves, so I know it's not merely a delusion of yours, then no problem! But remember: No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service. Also, no pissing or shitting on the floor. After all, trans-species humans will still have to follow the same rules as everybody else.
And Wikipedia profits from this how? If anything, it costs them more to service more people, not less.
I agree with you in principle, but you can't pretend that the environmentalist lobby has won... or is even winning, by any means. I mean you want to talk about a Government Cartel, what is OPEC if not exactly that? What's the environmentalist balance to the most profitable industry in human history? The tide is beginning to turn, but I'm not saying we should push so far as to create imbalance in the other direction.
Do you understand the difference between displacement and velocity? What's the difference between throwing a bullet at your head, and shooting you in the face? I mean, the bullet traveled the same distance before it came into contact with you, but somehow you died the second time. Hmm...
Silly Earthling!
Yes of course, we're all slaves to the corrupt and powerful environmentalist cartel.
As opposed to the poor, impoverished oil and gas industry, which is clean as a whistle and barely getting by.
Either way, ebooks are cheaper so don't you already save money even if you don't resell?
As many have pointed out, this is far from always the case. Either way, I think it's a stupid way to look at things (the publishers, not you). Why not make eBooks the same as physical books in almost every conceivable way, and charge the same amount? You've increased your profit margin due to cheaper distribution, and you've actually created a better product in many ways (e.g. I can carry thousands of eBooks with me very easily).
Hasn't this problem been solved? There are floating licenses for software already. Forget about selling something, what about borrowing? I have an eBook, you want to borrow it. I transfer the license to you, and you now can read it and I can't. When you're done, you transfer it back to me.
It's exactly like a physical book.
And I don't know where you get the notion that a slower release would make things better.
I'm not a denier, by any means, but it does make some sense that a slower release would be better. There are processes (photosynthesis being the most obvious) that take CO2 out of the atmosphere. Conceivably, there is some rate of fossil fuel use that is sustainable, but maybe that rate is so low that it's irrelevant on a global industrial scale.
The only problem is that the system would favor people who can afford to pay, and those who can't end up not reporting their stolen content.
If you find that upsetting, just wait until you find out that the value of real money is made up anyway.
Seriously though, what you're describing is actually pretty basic economic stuff. Money is not a price tag you put on the economy, it's a medium of exchange. And as it turns out, there doesn't have to be as much actual money in existence as there is value in the economy in order for things to function. The bank lends more money than it has in reserve because the expectation is that it will make more money in return. It's based on the reliability of the debtors. If a ton of people start defaulting on their loans, you'll suddenly see banks much less willing to lend.
There is a balance, of course, the bank should be careful not to become over-leveraged. When the 2008 crash hit, I remember hearing that some banks were leveraged at 60:1. That's a huge problem, because only 1/60 people have to default before the bank's reserve is depleted; the bank is insolvent in spite of >98% of the debtors paying on time.
One thing that other people replying to you have touched on, but haven't said explicitly, is that the appeals for death row inmates are automatic. Even if the person sentenced to death wants to die sooner, they can't.
We don't have a justice system, we have a legal system. People don't get what they deserve, they get what they get. Life is unfair. Executing the person who raped and murdered your child won't bring her back, or make any suffering she felt any less so.
The rest of us are supposed to be better than the people who commit murder.
I think the tidal forces are also the reason the ocean doesn't freeze.
what if there are a planet full of trumps heading our way
We'll build a Dyson Sphere around the Earth, and make THEM pay for it!