But steam still sucks. I have spent countless hours fixing CS because steam gets broken almost everytime it updates itself. Additionally, there really isn't any advantages for the end-user. Ut seams that that the effort valve is putting into steam would be better spent of other things, like building their own distribution channels.
25/mth is quite good in the UK actually, but 25 pounds = 45 USD. You could probably get 1.5mbs with a good provider in the US for $35, and in Canada for less than $25 ($20 USD). In Japan and HK, you get 10+mbs for around $20 USD.
Telewest has just increase it's bandwidth by 50% though (no change in the plan price though). 512->768k, 1.0->1.5m etc. It's great and probably a good deal if you want 1mbs and don't have bulldog in your area.
Most likely your email appeared or was submitted to some Japanese or Chinese sites. Some crawlers like to crawl pages in their own languages, mind you.:)
Definitely, considering how expensive ADSL and broadband in general is in the UK, and the stranglehold BT has on providing wholesale ASDL in the market.
The only reason they are doing this most likely to tap into the mobile and other new markets, and it looks like a risky investment. No-one knows what the market would be like 2 years down the road, let alone 5 years.
Good for you. However, if you have been upgrading hardware or installing software, Windows does break, and more often than not, the breakage is hidden somewhere deep down inside the system.
The main problem with windows, as I see it, is the over dependance of the system registry. Corruption of the registry is fatal to the system. Even if the registry is not currpted, there are tons of keys hidden deep down within the heirarchy , many of which is not obvious what they control, and a lot of them auto-generated values with some arbitarty ID as keys! You can't get any user unfriendly than this.
Evan though the system configuration files of Unix and Linux system are diverse in format and not unified or centralized, almost all configuration is in a text based format that is easy to read and for the most part, well documented. If you run into a setting which you need lookup, you can mostly do it with a "man config.conf".
There are plenty of windows viruses which exploit buffer overflows on default network services. This is nothing new, the user doesn't even have to log in to her machine.
Essentially the same as what the linux-vserver project http://www.linux-vserver.org/ or BSD jail feature provided. It sets up different contexts for different processes so that they are isolated from each other with a different root directory. The effect is that they acts each context acts like a separate sever, but in fact they are all running on the same kernel.
Linux-vserver is a great project. We have been running different services under differnt "virtual" servers for a while and its performance is stellar.
The problem is not one of cost and comparative advantage. First we started off with the manufacturing jobs, that ok, 'cause we have tons of opportunity in the service and other sectors. Now we are sheding the service sector jobs? What next? Will the only jobs left be the doctors, the lawyers the accountants? Will we become a nation of managers until we outsource them as well? What happens then?
Who is left to enjoy the added efficiency. Who is left to consume?
>If they spend their money overseas, then it creates jobs in Italy or Taiwan, and the money is spent on video games made by Nintendo or Electronic Arts.
Produced by Indian game developers. The only people that is going to make a real profit is the top execs.
The concern is not over new and different things, but rather with safety and control. How can we prove that GM foods do not have effects on humans or on the environment? Once we plant them, GM plants are prone to a variety of interaction with the environment, some of these interaction may trigger a exchange of genetic material. We cannot control it, so we try to be cautious.
Opposition to embryonic research on the other had is generally tied to moral and religious arguments. It's like comparing apples to oranges.
I'm not brazilian and I don't agree with your characterization. Tit for Tat is a viable long term strategy to enforce cooperation. There is nothing childish about it. You can't keep cooperating when your oppenent defects. Appeasement is a bad straegy (well, actually depends on the payoff matrix).
Sorry 'bout the random blurb, readying too much Axelrod lately.
Chinese (Simplified or Traditional) can be written in Top to Bottom, Left to Right, or Right to Left.
The prefered format for writing books in however is top to bottom, with the exception of several types of books (ie. Dictionaries, Technical Reference, Textbooks, Newswpapers etc.). Traditionally, books are written from top to bottom in ancient China.
Traditionally, signs and other horizontal text is done from right to left. However, this isn't a big deal as nowadays, most signs are standard from left to right.
It all boils down to maintenance. If you do not maintain the infrastructure (economically or millitarily) in relation to other nations, you fall behind.
You are mistaken. The presence of wealth provides the foundation for innovation and invention. Capital creates capital. Trade creates trade.
The hungry and poor of this world is hungry and poor not because they do not innovate, but rather because they do not control wealth.
The problem is, as a steady pace, western wealth is being drained in a directional manner. Developed countries are using developing countries not as trading partners, but rather as a source of cheap labour. Damage is done to both countries. The developing nations are being tricked into what seems like a good deal, while the developed nation suffers trade deficits. The only developing countries that are coming out on top is the ones with a strong domestic production (ala China and India).
Think about it. What good is foriegn money to a country such as Bangladesh? Is this foreign money used for importing necessities (which a large portion of the population needs)? Not likely. Most of the money would likely be used to buy foreign products.
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But steam still sucks. I have spent countless hours fixing CS because steam gets broken almost everytime it updates itself. Additionally, there really isn't any advantages for the end-user. Ut seams that that the effort valve is putting into steam would be better spent of other things, like building their own distribution channels.
Check adslguide.org.uk for any user reviews.
But who are the cable companies going to sue? :)
25/mth is quite good in the UK actually, but 25 pounds = 45 USD. You could probably get 1.5mbs with a good provider in the US for $35, and in Canada for less than $25 ($20 USD). In Japan and HK, you get 10+mbs for around $20 USD.
Telewest has just increase it's bandwidth by 50% though (no change in the plan price though). 512->768k, 1.0->1.5m etc. It's great and probably a good deal if you want 1mbs and don't have bulldog in your area.
Then how about surfer shorts? Quicksilver made a bunch with those.. I heard they grow on trees down under.. :)
Most likely your email appeared or was submitted to some Japanese or Chinese sites. Some crawlers like to crawl pages in their own languages, mind you. :)
Definitely, considering how expensive ADSL and broadband in general is in the UK, and the stranglehold BT has on providing wholesale ASDL in the market.
The only reason they are doing this most likely to tap into the mobile and other new markets, and it looks like a risky investment. No-one knows what the market would be like 2 years down the road, let alone 5 years.
Good for you. However, if you have been upgrading hardware or installing software, Windows does break, and more often than not, the breakage is hidden somewhere deep down inside the system.
The main problem with windows, as I see it, is the over dependance of the system registry. Corruption of the registry is fatal to the system. Even if the registry is not currpted, there are tons of keys hidden deep down within the heirarchy , many of which is not obvious what they control, and a lot of them auto-generated values with some arbitarty ID as keys! You can't get any user unfriendly than this.
Evan though the system configuration files of Unix and Linux system are diverse in format and not unified or centralized, almost all configuration is in a text based format that is easy to read and for the most part, well documented. If you run into a setting which you need lookup, you can mostly do it with a "man config.conf".
There are plenty of windows viruses which exploit buffer overflows on default network services. This is nothing new, the user doesn't even have to log in to her machine.
Can NetBSD run on it yet? :)
On some models of phones, you can treat it as a GSM modem and send SMS through the computer. Otherwise, you cen get a GSM modem which does the trick.
http://www.isis.de/~s.frings/smstools_index.html
Check on ebay, there's plently floating around. I just got mine last month. Upgraded from a 9500 to 8500. :)
Maybe A7Nx as in A7N*. Just a guess at what the poster was thinking.
Rackshack/ev1 is the Wal-mart of the web hsoting business. What more can I say?
Btw, there is nothing "Civil disobedience" about refusing to give in to what amounts to extortion.
If SCO has credible proof of improper code in Linux, then yeah sure, they should consider licensing as a legitimate option.
and also Linux-vserver. Great performance. Just like BSD jail.
Essentially the same as what the linux-vserver project http://www.linux-vserver.org/ or BSD jail feature provided. It sets up different contexts for different processes so that they are isolated from each other with a different root directory. The effect is that they acts each context acts like a separate sever, but in fact they are all running on the same kernel.
Linux-vserver is a great project. We have been running different services under differnt "virtual" servers for a while and its performance is stellar.
The problem is not one of cost and comparative advantage. First we started off with the manufacturing jobs, that ok, 'cause we have tons of opportunity in the service and other sectors. Now we are sheding the service sector jobs? What next? Will the only jobs left be the doctors, the lawyers the accountants? Will we become a nation of managers until we outsource them as well? What happens then?
Who is left to enjoy the added efficiency. Who is left to consume?
>If they spend their money overseas, then it creates jobs in Italy or Taiwan, and the money is spent on video games made by Nintendo or Electronic Arts.
Produced by Indian game developers. The only people that is going to make a real profit is the top execs.
Too bad the mods aren't noticing your post.
The concern is not over new and different things, but rather with safety and control. How can we prove that GM foods do not have effects on humans or on the environment? Once we plant them, GM plants are prone to a variety of interaction with the environment, some of these interaction may trigger a exchange of genetic material. We cannot control it, so we try to be cautious.
Opposition to embryonic research on the other had is generally tied to moral and religious arguments. It's like comparing apples to oranges.
Th IBM microdrive has a maximum physical transfer rate of 59.9 MBits/s. That translates to around 7.48 MBytes/s of performance.
Sorry.
I'm not brazilian and I don't agree with your characterization. Tit for Tat is a viable long term strategy to enforce cooperation. There is nothing childish about it. You can't keep cooperating when your oppenent defects. Appeasement is a bad straegy (well, actually depends on the payoff matrix).
Sorry 'bout the random blurb, readying too much Axelrod lately.
Chinese (Simplified or Traditional) can be written in Top to Bottom, Left to Right, or Right to Left.
The prefered format for writing books in however is top to bottom, with the exception of several types of books (ie. Dictionaries, Technical Reference, Textbooks, Newswpapers etc.). Traditionally, books are written from top to bottom in ancient China.
Traditionally, signs and other horizontal text is done from right to left. However, this isn't a big deal as nowadays, most signs are standard from left to right.
It all boils down to maintenance. If you do not maintain the infrastructure (economically or millitarily) in relation to other nations, you fall behind.
You are mistaken. The presence of wealth provides the foundation for innovation and invention. Capital creates capital. Trade creates trade.
The hungry and poor of this world is hungry and poor not because they do not innovate, but rather because they do not control wealth.
The problem is, as a steady pace, western wealth is being drained in a directional manner. Developed countries are using developing countries not as trading partners, but rather as a source of cheap labour. Damage is done to both countries. The developing nations are being tricked into what seems like a good deal, while the developed nation suffers trade deficits. The only developing countries that are coming out on top is the ones with a strong domestic production (ala China and India).
Think about it. What good is foriegn money to a country such as Bangladesh? Is this foreign money used for importing necessities (which a large portion of the population needs)? Not likely. Most of the money would likely be used to buy foreign products.