30gb per month is pretty generous actually, my first cable isp had a hard limit of 6 gigs down a month (2 gigs up), monitored and enforced automatically, and the first 100 megs you go over that limit, you're automatically billed $10.. and then for each and every 100mb... oh and if you downloaded 6 gigs and 3kb in one month, you would be charged $10...
REALLY nice surprise one day when their software screwed up and reported that i had downloaded over 12 gigs one month, the bill was in the hundreds... i called them up, explained that something was wrong, at the time i only had a 5 gig hard drive, and no cd burner, i asked them how the hell i was supposed to download and store 12 gigs when my harddrive couldnt possibly hold that much... no help there.. they even cut off my service for not paying for their misstake.
eventually i went through their nice "check for yourself" website (through dialup) indeed it said 12.something gigs downloaded.. then after checking from specific date to specific date, i found that on one specific day it jumped go an insane 10 or so gigs.. i had to find this on my own, calculate it myself, and find out that in order to download as much as they said i did, i'd have needed to get a burst and sustained speed of 11 mbps between their 2 hour interval checks. so i called tech support, got the guy's name, quoted his name in my complaint as confirming that with this isp's cable connection, which was capped currently at 3mbps, theres no way in hell that i could have reached 11mbps...
long story short, after writing mega letters and getting the attention of some big wig by explaining how one proven glitch in their systems could give everyone legal grounds to dismiss their automated reports of excessive usage.. and weren't they so nice for all the hell i went through, they kindly removed the charges, reconnected my connection, and so graciously waved all the extra dialup hours i used to gather that info, etc...
ever since that moment, i've been an unwaveringly loyal dsl customer.
"We'll be able to water cool and water power cpu's at the same time."
actually i was looking at my athelon chip's temp and thinking maybe i could mod this with some kind of steam turbine technology and power my computer forever.
of course its not a real review/benchmark.. look at the reasons for the test.. he plainly states: "before my wife would allow me to"...
the whole point of the testing was to convince his wife to let him buy one.. and she most likely was asleep at "integrated IDE controllers".. apon waking up, all he had to say was "From my testing I concluded that SCSI being faster than IDE is not a myth. It is very much a reality." and obviously got the go ahead
remember, in the immortal of homer simpson "facts, schmacts... facts can be used to prove anything that is even remotely true"
oh? and way back when macs were benchmarked as being so much faster than PCs, the benchmarks only compared a mac with scsi hard drives against a pc with ide drives (this is way back), was that one sided?
face it, both systems are too different to benchmark.. any software you compare is going to be equally about benchmarking the software's optimization, maybe even the compiler's optimization, rather than the cpu.. Both platforms cannot run the exact same code, so it brings in too many outside variables into the mix to really say which chip is faster..
its like comparing apples to oranges, pardon the pun
Meanwhile, Sir Mix-A-Lot was repoted to have said that although the intelligence boost was an unfortunate side effect, he would still encourage women to use it. Mix-a-lot, who's real name is Anthony Ray, assured reporters today that he cannot lie.
"No, technically you violated the copyright which is distinct from stealing as far as the law is concerned.
yes because stealing a CD from a store would probably net you a $100 fine or something with community service as punishment... whereas stealing the same 15+ songs through piracy could net you what, 15 grand in fines and 5+ years in prison... quite the difference indeed
thanks for posting that so i didnt have to heh.. i find it so dificult articulating what i want to say when someone enthusiasticly tells me im wrong and then proceeds to say pretty much what i said in so many words...
not to mention it should take a whole 42 seconds for someone to write a file decrypter to make the files playable again... (from the sound of his explanation it would consist of a batch file with the line 'rename *.mpx *.mp3', and *maybe* fix the header)
"I used to have a annoying loud PC in my bedroom and it was very difficult to sleep with it on, so what I did was to place it in the basement and use it as a terminal server."
wow i used to have the exact same thing, but what i did was put it in the basement and what i do is haul my fat lazy ass out of bed and walk to my computer room.. and i sleep pretty good too
and how long do you suppose till some kid with a grudge sets up a completely obscure OS, sets up a honey pot just begging to get nuked by this new technology, captures the packets, decyphers it, and takes down anyone he has a grudge with?
what if he has a politial agenda against your country?
"Firstly, there's no absolute truth outside of abstract though (mathematics, logic, philosophy)"
um see, the problem here is this is what YOU believe... i personally believe that philosophy is in no way an absolute truth, although i agree with the rest of what you said. then theres a huge chunk of the population who have a religion and a god and believe that that is the absolute truth, and if you tell them they're wrong, they will be violently opposed to your P.o.v.
the problem with people is they believe what they believe and do NOT want to know what you believe nor do they want to hear what you have to say with an open mind.
Sure Matrix was an awesome movie (imho) and made me think alot about "what is real" etc, etc, but its definately not a movie for everyone. i mean... if a movie flies in the face of everything a group of people believe in, they get angry... and anger leads to hate... hate leads to violence...
im not sure how the bankrupcy laws work in the UK, but in north america, theres laws preventing people from claiming bankrupcy to get out of student loans.. they stick with you forever...
so here at least this is what you'd be left with:
-£12,000 student loan - still, its like herpes -£0 credit card and bank overdraft -£6,000 borrowed from parents. - parents don't give a crap about bankrupcy £0 - investment account from about 20 years ago £0 - current account from about 8 years ago PI 60mhz you found on the side of the road cause the RIAA took and liquidated your P3
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30gb per month is pretty generous actually, my first cable isp had a hard limit of 6 gigs down a month (2 gigs up), monitored and enforced automatically, and the first 100 megs you go over that limit, you're automatically billed $10.. and then for each and every 100mb... oh and if you downloaded 6 gigs and 3kb in one month, you would be charged $10...
REALLY nice surprise one day when their software screwed up and reported that i had downloaded over 12 gigs one month, the bill was in the hundreds... i called them up, explained that something was wrong, at the time i only had a 5 gig hard drive, and no cd burner, i asked them how the hell i was supposed to download and store 12 gigs when my harddrive couldnt possibly hold that much... no help there.. they even cut off my service for not paying for their misstake.
eventually i went through their nice "check for yourself" website (through dialup) indeed it said 12.something gigs downloaded.. then after checking from specific date to specific date, i found that on one specific day it jumped go an insane 10 or so gigs.. i had to find this on my own, calculate it myself, and find out that in order to download as much as they said i did, i'd have needed to get a burst and sustained speed of 11 mbps between their 2 hour interval checks. so i called tech support, got the guy's name, quoted his name in my complaint as confirming that with this isp's cable connection, which was capped currently at 3mbps, theres no way in hell that i could have reached 11mbps...
long story short, after writing mega letters and getting the attention of some big wig by explaining how one proven glitch in their systems could give everyone legal grounds to dismiss their automated reports of excessive usage.. and weren't they so nice for all the hell i went through, they kindly removed the charges, reconnected my connection, and so graciously waved all the extra dialup hours i used to gather that info, etc...
ever since that moment, i've been an unwaveringly loyal dsl customer.
StarWreck 2: the slashdotting
or.. the wrath of slashdot?
rumor is theyre already lobbying to create an offshoot taskforce called the ATFM
well it would remind me that i need to buy more coke....
it'd be nice if they could add in there "pay the bills... we're out of milk... your wallet is on top of the dryer..." etc
hmm.. im torn between posting something stupid or asinine...
stick a straw into it and you've the flowing liquid issue solved
"We'll be able to water cool and water power cpu's at the same time."
actually i was looking at my athelon chip's temp and thinking maybe i could mod this with some kind of steam turbine technology and power my computer forever.
"where are you going to get the water flow needed to separate the charges? Shaking the phone or something? That just looks dumb :^)"
hehe the funny part is i know people who already do this anyway when their phone is dying... or bang them with their hand... no joke
of course its not a real review/benchmark.. look at the reasons for the test.. he plainly states:
"before my wife would allow me to"...
the whole point of the testing was to convince his wife to let him buy one.. and she most likely was asleep at "integrated IDE controllers".. apon waking up, all he had to say was "From my testing I concluded that SCSI being faster than IDE is not a myth. It is very much a reality." and obviously got the go ahead
remember, in the immortal of homer simpson "facts, schmacts... facts can be used to prove anything that is even remotely true"
Groovy ... now all he needs is a High-End Webserver
oh? and way back when macs were benchmarked as being so much faster than PCs, the benchmarks only compared a mac with scsi hard drives against a pc with ide drives (this is way back), was that one sided?
face it, both systems are too different to benchmark.. any software you compare is going to be equally about benchmarking the software's optimization, maybe even the compiler's optimization, rather than the cpu.. Both platforms cannot run the exact same code, so it brings in too many outside variables into the mix to really say which chip is faster..
its like comparing apples to oranges, pardon the pun
it says you have to agree not to upload anything, it says nothing about downloading... loophole maybe?
Meanwhile, Sir Mix-A-Lot was repoted to have said that although the intelligence boost was an unfortunate side effect, he would still encourage women to use it. Mix-a-lot, who's real name is Anthony Ray, assured reporters today that he cannot lie.
"See, it is not as hard as you'd think to come up with a sane, nonillegal use of filesharing"
Dude, is nonillegal the same as legal? how about non-non illegal? or non-non-non-non-non-non-non-non-non-non-non-non illegal??
"No, technically you violated the copyright which is distinct from stealing as far as the law is concerned.
yes because stealing a CD from a store would probably net you a $100 fine or something with community service as punishment... whereas stealing the same 15+ songs through piracy could net you what, 15 grand in fines and 5+ years in prison... quite the difference indeed
thanks for posting that so i didnt have to heh.. i find it so dificult articulating what i want to say when someone enthusiasticly tells me im wrong and then proceeds to say pretty much what i said in so many words...
actually the red pill was to "wake up" into the real world... the blue one was to go back to the dream world
i'd buy one right away just to know once and for all if thats the spot or not??
point it out to me
hehe, clicked the link, missread the lates headlines:
"Rice Defends President's Claim Transcript: Bush adviser talks to FNC Bush Says He Has Faith in Telnet "
its too early for this
not to mention it should take a whole 42 seconds for someone to write a file decrypter to make the files playable again... (from the sound of his explanation it would consist of a batch file with the line 'rename *.mpx *.mp3', and *maybe* fix the header)
yea but... how many firewalls do i need? been doing that with my 486, old p1's etc, etc
"I used to have a annoying loud PC in my bedroom and it was very difficult to sleep with it on, so what I did was to place it in the basement and use it as a terminal server."
wow i used to have the exact same thing, but what i did was put it in the basement and what i do is haul my fat lazy ass out of bed and walk to my computer room.. and i sleep pretty good too
and how long do you suppose till some kid with a grudge sets up a completely obscure OS, sets up a honey pot just begging to get nuked by this new technology, captures the packets, decyphers it, and takes down anyone he has a grudge with?
what if he has a politial agenda against your country?
these guys are soooo "smrt", i can tell!
"Firstly, there's no absolute truth outside of abstract though (mathematics, logic, philosophy)"
um see, the problem here is this is what YOU believe... i personally believe that philosophy is in no way an absolute truth, although i agree with the rest of what you said. then theres a huge chunk of the population who have a religion and a god and believe that that is the absolute truth, and if you tell them they're wrong, they will be violently opposed to your P.o.v.
the problem with people is they believe what they believe and do NOT want to know what you believe nor do they want to hear what you have to say with an open mind.
Sure Matrix was an awesome movie (imho) and made me think alot about "what is real" etc, etc, but its definately not a movie for everyone. i mean... if a movie flies in the face of everything a group of people believe in, they get angry... and anger leads to hate... hate leads to violence...
im not sure how the bankrupcy laws work in the UK, but in north america, theres laws preventing people from claiming bankrupcy to get out of student loans.. they stick with you forever...
so here at least this is what you'd be left with:
-£12,000 student loan - still, its like herpes
-£0 credit card and bank overdraft
-£6,000 borrowed from parents. - parents don't give a crap about bankrupcy
£0 - investment account from about 20 years ago
£0 - current account from about 8 years ago
PI 60mhz you found on the side of the road cause
the RIAA took and liquidated your P3