Well, without getting into the problem where "bandwidth" isn't the same as "data transferred", bandwidth in my mind describes a bit rate, not amount of data transferred, even unlimited has a theoretical limit.
If a mobile customer transfers data at say 1.5 Mbps (assuming that is their speed) continuously for 1 month then that would be a theoretical limit to what "unlimited" would be, my quick calcs show that to be 486 GB.
I've heard that comcast has a threshold of 200 GB a month or so. THAT could be a problem given that a cable connection is typically way faster than 1.5 Mbps.
Assuming a 12 Mbps cable connection that's 3.88 TB/month maxed out 24/7, where 200 GB is about 5% of theoretical max. Which makes sense with how many heavy users get "the letter" saying "stop using your unlimited bandwidth, you're using too much."
Last time I went to a auto show, they had the then-new Ferrari 575.
I waved the sales guy over from beyond the velvet rope (the unwashed crowds not being allowed to mix with the "real" customers) and asked him "how much is a 100,000 kilometer service on one of those things?"
the reply?
"none of our vehicles/ever/ do that many kilometers."
Delivered with just the right amount of "how dare you even THINK about driving your Ferrari that much? For shame, sir. FOR SHAME." sneering.
When it comes to supercars, people buy Ferarris to look at and only drive them now and then. People buy Porsches to drive and only look at them now and then. That said, I know of a guy who had a Ferrari 308 or similar and he drove it all the time.
And parents wonder why they can't let the kids use the work laptop. It's because we're Ogres! Ogres, Damnit!
Gotta use a separate machine. Pick up a discarded old XP machine, clean install, sandbox, chrome, that's all you need for small kids. Older kids might need more power, but they are a different story. Apps like DeepFreeze are useful there, because the 10-15 year old kids are THE single best way to destroy a windows install.
I run Linux, and have to use Chrome watch YouTube videos because Firefox (particularly recent versions) plays videos with short freezes every 10 seconds or so. Just like all the other constant freezes in the Firefox UI (typing, scrolling, clicking), particularly after it's been running for a while. Seems like it's regularly doing all this synchronous garbage collection.
The thing is, FF used to not be this way. FF on droid is unusable. On my android phone I use opera mini for regular stuff and also have opera mobile. I tried "all" the rest, the operas really are good.
I've just in the past couple months had to basically abandon firefox for day-to-day surfing. Memory bloat, instability and slowness are to blame. Yes I was updated, yes I had minimal addons. The constant update cycle which broke many other addons was semi-tolerable. Sad to say, but it is true - Chrome it is. But since all the major plugins I use are available in chrome, I can do just fine.
The one plugin I haven't been able to duplicate yet is something like "unplug" which snags embedded videos with ease.
The final straw was when gmail was locking up the browser for no reason. Java and flash were updated, ff was updated. Come on, man!
Welcome to 2012. The people who are potentially hiring you are too lazy or stupid to do things "the old fashioned way" so they want to see if you are also stupid; stupid enough to post pictures of yourself wasted with sharpie outlines of genitalia on your face.
The problem comes with the phenomenon of "tagging" where if someone ELSE who has abovementioned sharpie pictures of you can post them, tag YOU, and then they end up on YOUR page.
If a ship accelerates at 1 G for less than a year it will reach the speed of light, if that were possible. So if it WAS possible, getting there would take less than 24 years (a year of deceleration is needed). For the people going, that is.
The trick would be to find a fuel/engine that can provide 1G for at least 2 years, 4 if they want to come back. Which, they wouldn't because about 340 years would have gone by at.9C.
Or, maybe they would want to come back, say, if this newly discovered planet is filled with jerks.
So if I wanted to make a movie about, say, a young man who meets up with some robots, say one is shaped like a trash can and one is gold colored, who then goes on to have an adventure running about the galaxy in an old POS space ship and then finds out his biodad is the chief bad guy, and he also finds out how to use some sort of spooky zen telekinesis thing, I'd at least better not name the lead character Luke and I shouldn't have one of the main characters suffer from a body hair problem or I'll have some legal issues down the road?
But otherwise it's just a derivative work and not a copyright issue?
This ruling was undoubtedly difficult but to me it's opening up a huge can of worms precedent-wise.
I mean, at what point can lucas go and sue over the movie SPACEBALLS?
Great post. I look at my dad who worked at the same company for 38 years. It wasn't his first job but it was his last, he was "forced" to retire a few years back. He will tell anyone that he loved what he did and would work there for free if he could, he even went back as a consultant for a few small projects after he retired. (the company is now closed)
I started the engineering career game in 97, and from all the changes in the world, the economy, and unsatisfying jobs or corporate BS I just haven't found that right job or company, or maybe it's just life. I've yet found a company where I could even imagine myself there for 38 years. In a way I wish I could.
well said. One thing that really confuses unbelievers is when a "Christian" tells them that Jesus hated religion too. The Pharisees and Sadducees and scribes, the main-stream religious leaders of the time, were his enemies. He got along great with the sinners. It takes a good religious scholar to screw up what Jesus came and died for.
most authors lack the knowledge and skills to critically evaluate, edit and market their own works.
Is that because sometimes people with really interesting story ideas, creative talent, and the ability to tell a story might have their education and background in the technology fields, such as engineering, and are not English majors?
This thread is very interesting, and everyone must admit that ebooks are the future, yet as you say all books need edited and proofread. How can Joe the Writer do that on his own when just starting out?
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So I run chrome inside of a sandbox so I can be sandboxed while Chrome's sandbox is being hacked.
Well, without getting into the problem where "bandwidth" isn't the same as "data transferred", bandwidth in my mind describes a bit rate, not amount of data transferred, even unlimited has a theoretical limit.
If a mobile customer transfers data at say 1.5 Mbps (assuming that is their speed) continuously for 1 month then that would be a theoretical limit to what "unlimited" would be, my quick calcs show that to be 486 GB.
I've heard that comcast has a threshold of 200 GB a month or so. THAT could be a problem given that a cable connection is typically way faster than 1.5 Mbps.
Assuming a 12 Mbps cable connection that's 3.88 TB/month maxed out 24/7, where 200 GB is about 5% of theoretical max. Which makes sense with how many heavy users get "the letter" saying "stop using your unlimited bandwidth, you're using too much."
Right...
Last time I went to a auto show, they had the then-new Ferrari 575.
I waved the sales guy over from beyond the velvet rope (the unwashed crowds not being allowed to mix with the "real" customers) and asked him "how much is a 100,000 kilometer service on one of those things?"
the reply?
"none of our vehicles /ever/ do that many kilometers."
Delivered with just the right amount of "how dare you even THINK about driving your Ferrari that much? For shame, sir. FOR SHAME." sneering.
When it comes to supercars, people buy Ferarris to look at and only drive them now and then. People buy Porsches to drive and only look at them now and then.
That said, I know of a guy who had a Ferrari 308 or similar and he drove it all the time.
I see your point, x86 architecture, monitor, keyboard, mouse, magnetic storage. Same thing.
But multiple orders of magnitude larger and faster isn't really exactly the same thing.
Sorta like saying a new ferrari is the same as a model T... 4 wheels, seat, steering wheel, engine - yep! Same thing! Hasn't changed a bit.
And parents wonder why they can't let the kids use the work laptop. It's because we're Ogres! Ogres, Damnit!
Gotta use a separate machine. Pick up a discarded old XP machine, clean install, sandbox, chrome, that's all you need for small kids. Older kids might need more power, but they are a different story. Apps like DeepFreeze are useful there, because the 10-15 year old kids are THE single best way to destroy a windows install.
dubstep. Bzrrrrt Bzrrrt Bzrrrt WUB WUB WUB kaboom!
What, too soon?
I've made mistakes and I've had bad cables, but man, I can't imagine dealing with something where the whole world is hearing about it....
I run Linux, and have to use Chrome watch YouTube videos because Firefox (particularly recent versions) plays videos with short freezes every 10 seconds or so. Just like all the other constant freezes in the Firefox UI (typing, scrolling, clicking), particularly after it's been running for a while. Seems like it's regularly doing all this synchronous garbage collection.
The thing is, FF used to not be this way. FF on droid is unusable. On my android phone I use opera mini for regular stuff and also have opera mobile. I tried "all" the rest, the operas really are good.
I've just in the past couple months had to basically abandon firefox for day-to-day surfing. Memory bloat, instability and slowness are to blame. Yes I was updated, yes I had minimal addons. The constant update cycle which broke many other addons was semi-tolerable. Sad to say, but it is true - Chrome it is. But since all the major plugins I use are available in chrome, I can do just fine.
The one plugin I haven't been able to duplicate yet is something like "unplug" which snags embedded videos with ease.
The final straw was when gmail was locking up the browser for no reason. Java and flash were updated, ff was updated. Come on, man!
To be strapped to a 45 tonne rolling nuke reactor at 6am?
troll? how is this a troll? It's less trollish than most comments on here...
Run, they're taking over our minds now!
This would add a whole new wrinkle to "Ice Road Truckers"
The University Security office does not have the authority to allow people to break the law.
No but the campus cops can choose whether to involve the actual cops or not. Crimes committed on campus don't always leave campus.
.... not.
Also certain crimes committed OFF campus by students are given back to the campus cops, particularly the stupid stuff.
TFA seems to be describing something along the lines of a "security audit" or a "pen test" which would be illegal except when they are
It wasn't a mistake, tell them they have to serve the subpoenas in person, they'll all be gone for a few million years.
Welcome to 2012. The people who are potentially hiring you are too lazy or stupid to do things "the old fashioned way" so they want to see if you are also stupid; stupid enough to post pictures of yourself wasted with sharpie outlines of genitalia on your face.
The problem comes with the phenomenon of "tagging" where if someone ELSE who has abovementioned sharpie pictures of you can post them, tag YOU, and then they end up on YOUR page.
Like I said, welcome to 2012.
Some rough numbers:
.9C.
If a ship accelerates at 1 G for less than a year it will reach the speed of light, if that were possible. So if it WAS possible, getting there would take less than 24 years (a year of deceleration is needed). For the people going, that is.
The trick would be to find a fuel/engine that can provide 1G for at least 2 years, 4 if they want to come back. Which, they wouldn't because about 340 years would have gone by at
Or, maybe they would want to come back, say, if this newly discovered planet is filled with jerks.
So if I wanted to make a movie about, say, a young man who meets up with some robots, say one is shaped like a trash can and one is gold colored, who then goes on to have an adventure running about the galaxy in an old POS space ship and then finds out his biodad is the chief bad guy, and he also finds out how to use some sort of spooky zen telekinesis thing, I'd at least better not name the lead character Luke and I shouldn't have one of the main characters suffer from a body hair problem or I'll have some legal issues down the road?
But otherwise it's just a derivative work and not a copyright issue?
This ruling was undoubtedly difficult but to me it's opening up a huge can of worms precedent-wise.
I mean, at what point can lucas go and sue over the movie SPACEBALLS?
MPAA / RIAA Sez -> Allz Teh Komputarz in de werldz - Dey must be made illegalz! It iz de only way!
Great post. I look at my dad who worked at the same company for 38 years. It wasn't his first job but it was his last, he was "forced" to retire a few years back. He will tell anyone that he loved what he did and would work there for free if he could, he even went back as a consultant for a few small projects after he retired. (the company is now closed)
I started the engineering career game in 97, and from all the changes in the world, the economy, and unsatisfying jobs or corporate BS I just haven't found that right job or company, or maybe it's just life. I've yet found a company where I could even imagine myself there for 38 years. In a way I wish I could.
I like your hammer analogy and would like to subscribe to your newsletter
It's actually an aerobraking alien spacebattleship. We're so fucked.
Or it's refueling....
well said. One thing that really confuses unbelievers is when a "Christian" tells them that Jesus hated religion too. The Pharisees and Sadducees and scribes, the main-stream religious leaders of the time, were his enemies. He got along great with the sinners. It takes a good religious scholar to screw up what Jesus came and died for.
Just send Walter White down there he'll take care of the cartel using SCIENCE...
Not sure if natural evolution of speech pattern or just stupid youth....
most authors lack the knowledge and skills to critically evaluate, edit and market their own works.
Is that because sometimes people with really interesting story ideas, creative talent, and the ability to tell a story might have their education and background in the technology fields, such as engineering, and are not English majors?
This thread is very interesting, and everyone must admit that ebooks are the future, yet as you say all books need edited and proofread. How can Joe the Writer do that on his own when just starting out?