This winter, my flatmate found out that he had ordered from BT with an 8GB allotment per month at 1.5Mbps. The 3 of us were using 80-100GB per month and we could have been downloading even more. We tried to scale back but I found it easy to use more than 2GB for myself per day just watching a few iplayer shows.
This said, I think we could have passed a 250GB cap if we had a faster connection and happened to be really bored in a particular month.
my flatmate put a glossy film on his Macbook Pro glossy screen. He did what? The glossy film is less glossy than the MBP and is a balance between matte and glossy.
As a grad student, almost all of my classmates have Macbook Pros. Several of the matte screen users have said they'd now regret the choice.... mostly for vibrant colors. I work next to a sunny window and rarely have a problem. I don't work outside often which is the only time I've had a problem.
After moving to England 4 months ago from the US, i've been surprised at many Imperial units are still used here. besides have friends studying non-scientific graduate degrees who don't know which temperature scale they use, the commonly used lengths are quite a hybrid of the systems. millimeters and centimeters, then yards, and finally miles. Seeing that a (mostly) European nation like England still isn't metric makes me thing it'll be a century at least before the US converts.
if the internet is clogged down, shouldn't the price to every bandwidth user just go up? Charge $4 for a T1 connection at 100% load per month or $8/GB transferred and let the market figure itself out. This isn't a spec, but it shouldn't be hard to figure out a decent solution.
if the some company finds it profitable to stream HD tv, then shouldn't they be paying cash money for 50 gazillion terabytes of bandwidth per month? and probably my ISP would have to pay some for the bandwidth I use downloading the HD shows. I assume my ISP is paying for it now if I download 500GB of crap this week. why not enstate limits like webhosts do that are a hard amount users can receive/send? I know there are many reasons why they don't want to, including that they don't want to limit their customers from the internet if they could instead get more money per customer. bah humbug.
living in western PA but getting work from a friend in Manhattan, I feel I am underpaid at $25/hr or $35/'urgent' for php/mysql. I've heard even outside nyc that ~$50/hr is not too much for someone with mediocre skills. Since taxes take out so much for the self employment tax (I pay the share of SS and Medicare an employer usually does, an extra ~7%), 25 seems too little. I also only work 15 or so hours a week so maybe I'm just a slacker. 40 hour+ work week is way too much work for people to do their own work and have a life besides their job.
I concur. Visually, Windows will no doubt be beautifully polished but these features have been around KDE for a while now. Icon previews (pdf, text docs, mp3s) are surprisingly useful.
With the progress KDE and Gnome have been making, they will likely be head over heals more advanced interface before the sucessor to longhorn comes out.
I started using Adblock a few weeks ago out of necessity. Firefox in Linux was frequently using over 200 megs and would crash at least once each day. This is partially my fault for keeping 10 tabs open that are mostly blogs. They frequently had flash ads. After blocking these ads, I'm now around 80-120mb with crashing rare. now I only block flash ads or animated gifs.
3-4 years ago CMU ranked most wired in a Yahoo article mainly because we were the first univ. to have full wireless coverage and were listed at >11000 networked computers for ~10000 undergrad/grad/faculty/staff.
the NREC at carnegie mellon has been working on automated tractors for a while now.
I worked there in 2000 and the best part was the big red button on the front. it was a little odd having my computer space 20 feet from a tractor with gizmos.
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This winter, my flatmate found out that he had ordered from BT with an 8GB allotment per month at 1.5Mbps. The 3 of us were using 80-100GB per month and we could have been downloading even more. We tried to scale back but I found it easy to use more than 2GB for myself per day just watching a few iplayer shows.
This said, I think we could have passed a 250GB cap if we had a faster connection and happened to be really bored in a particular month.
my flatmate put a glossy film on his Macbook Pro glossy screen. He did what? The glossy film is less glossy than the MBP and is a balance between matte and glossy.
As a grad student, almost all of my classmates have Macbook Pros. Several of the matte screen users have said they'd now regret the choice.... mostly for vibrant colors. I work next to a sunny window and rarely have a problem. I don't work outside often which is the only time I've had a problem.
After moving to England 4 months ago from the US, i've been surprised at many Imperial units are still used here. besides have friends studying non-scientific graduate degrees who don't know which temperature scale they use, the commonly used lengths are quite a hybrid of the systems. millimeters and centimeters, then yards, and finally miles. Seeing that a (mostly) European nation like England still isn't metric makes me thing it'll be a century at least before the US converts.
if the internet is clogged down, shouldn't the price to every bandwidth user just go up? Charge $4 for a T1 connection at 100% load per month or $8/GB transferred and let the market figure itself out. This isn't a spec, but it shouldn't be hard to figure out a decent solution.
if the some company finds it profitable to stream HD tv, then shouldn't they be paying cash money for 50 gazillion terabytes of bandwidth per month? and probably my ISP would have to pay some for the bandwidth I use downloading the HD shows. I assume my ISP is paying for it now if I download 500GB of crap this week. why not enstate limits like webhosts do that are a hard amount users can receive/send? I know there are many reasons why they don't want to, including that they don't want to limit their customers from the internet if they could instead get more money per customer.
bah humbug.
living in western PA but getting work from a friend in Manhattan, I feel I am underpaid at $25/hr or $35/'urgent' for php/mysql. I've heard even outside nyc that ~$50/hr is not too much for someone with mediocre skills. Since taxes take out so much for the self employment tax (I pay the share of SS and Medicare an employer usually does, an extra ~7%), 25 seems too little. I also only work 15 or so hours a week so maybe I'm just a slacker. 40 hour+ work week is way too much work for people to do their own work and have a life besides their job.
I concur. Visually, Windows will no doubt be beautifully polished but these features have been around KDE for a while now. Icon previews (pdf, text docs, mp3s) are surprisingly useful.
With the progress KDE and Gnome have been making, they will likely be head over heals more advanced interface before the sucessor to longhorn comes out.
I started using Adblock a few weeks ago out of necessity. Firefox in Linux was frequently using over 200 megs and would crash at least once each day. This is partially my fault for keeping 10 tabs open that are mostly blogs. They frequently had flash ads. After blocking these ads, I'm now around 80-120mb with crashing rare. now I only block flash ads or animated gifs.
3-4 years ago CMU ranked most wired in a Yahoo article mainly because we were the first univ. to have full wireless coverage and were listed at >11000 networked computers for ~10000 undergrad/grad/faculty/staff.
different survey, different results.
I worked there in 2000 and the best part was the big red button on the front. it was a little odd having my computer space 20 feet from a tractor with gizmos.