I mostly agree. The rearranging stuff is a bit of a pain.
NTBackup in 2008 can no longer backup data located on a remote share which is a PITA (at least I can't do this, does anyone know different?). I need this because I backup several servers onto 1 backup device. So today my backups are still done on a 2003 server.
Every street corner? Nowhere near. Maybe in the City of London (the 1 square mile financial centre) but not the suburbs. The majority of CCTV cameras in London are privately owned.
I recently read that a child protection agency in the UK government makes an average of 1 request for users data every 15 minutes. For a large ISP that could be a fair bit of work.
I agree, the net effect is a slowdown. But what Virgin are doing is instead of capping your maximum speed they are stalling all packets. So if you are playing an online game that uses minimal bandwidth you will notice your latency increase drastically.
Virgin don't throttle the download speed, instead they delay your packets. So your ping times will increase. The increase in latency will make online gaming slower.
You don't have to register an Oyster card to an address (mine isn't, but I do use a credit card to top it up so...). I heard they are available pro-loaded from vending machines at airports.
It has to work like this in order to work on buses. The buses upload their data to the central database at the end of their route. AFAIK the other forms of transport (underground & train) use 'live' data.
This is something I use a lot. What really annoys me about the cmd shell in Vista is that you can't drag explorer icons onto it any more. This 'pastes' the full path in XP. For example, enter 'cd ' drag a folder icon onto the cmd prompt, hit enter and you're there. Very handy.
Landlines are extremely reliable in the UK and most of Europe. Pretty much everyone in Europe has a mobile (cell) phone. My 65+ year old parents both own one. I think a big difference is that you don't pay to receive calls. You can buy a cheap ($30?) phone on a pre-pay tariff and it costs you almost nothing to run as long as you don't make too many calls.
Many of the circumcision / HIV studies are flawed (Google "circumcision HIV"). It could even have the opposite effect as circumcised men may be less willing to use a condom because they have less sensitivity.
While I agree with your Heinlein & Asimov reconsiderations I found "Speaker for the Dead" to be utterly boring. It's one of the few books I gave up halfway through. Enders Game was OK.
I tried Avast a while ago. At random I started getting BSODs maybe once a week. I thought my CPU was overheating but after checking the minidump files the culprit was an Avast driver. Uninstalled it and everything's been fine since. YMMV
They are farming out their Usenet service to a US company. If you do a traceroute to news.virginmedia.com it ends up somewhere in hwng.net which seems to be based in Phoenix.
AFAIK the Virgin companies are not linked, they just paid Richard Branson for the use of the name. Virgin Media is still NTL:Telewest under the hood...
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I mostly agree. The rearranging stuff is a bit of a pain.
NTBackup in 2008 can no longer backup data located on a remote share which is a PITA (at least I can't do this, does anyone know different?). I need this because I backup several servers onto 1 backup device. So today my backups are still done on a 2003 server.
Every street corner? Nowhere near. Maybe in the City of London (the 1 square mile financial centre) but not the suburbs. The majority of CCTV cameras in London are privately owned.
Satellites and nuclear submarines?
There's quite a lot of water on this planet in case you haven't noticed :-) Of course this is probably irrelevant to most Americans!
Only if you like the Croydon Facelift look:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croydon_Facelift
I recently read that a child protection agency in the UK government makes an average of 1 request for users data every 15 minutes. For a large ISP that could be a fair bit of work.
I agree, the net effect is a slowdown. But what Virgin are doing is instead of capping your maximum speed they are stalling all packets. So if you are playing an online game that uses minimal bandwidth you will notice your latency increase drastically.
Virgin don't throttle the download speed, instead they delay your packets. So your ping times will increase. The increase in latency will make online gaming slower.
You don't have to register an Oyster card to an address (mine isn't, but I do use a credit card to top it up so...). I heard they are available pro-loaded from vending machines at airports.
It has to work like this in order to work on buses. The buses upload their data to the central database at the end of their route. AFAIK the other forms of transport (underground & train) use 'live' data.
This is something I use a lot. What really annoys me about the cmd shell in Vista is that you can't drag explorer icons onto it any more. This 'pastes' the full path in XP.
For example, enter 'cd ' drag a folder icon onto the cmd prompt, hit enter and you're there. Very handy.
Apparently the baldness gene is inherited from your mother, so don't blame your dad but rather your grandfather (on your mothers side).
I believe it already plays AGI games. AFAIK it used the Sarien code.
Not sure if it's true but I heard it's to check for worms. BTW, we don't have those type of toilets in the UK.
Landlines are extremely reliable in the UK and most of Europe.
Pretty much everyone in Europe has a mobile (cell) phone. My 65+ year old parents both own one. I think a big difference is that you don't pay to receive calls. You can buy a cheap ($30?) phone on a pre-pay tariff and it costs you almost nothing to run as long as you don't make too many calls.
The oyster card does not need to be registered to your home address. You can even get them from vending machines in places like Heathrow airport.
Many of the circumcision / HIV studies are flawed (Google "circumcision HIV"). It could even have the opposite effect as circumcised men may be less willing to use a condom because they have less sensitivity.
While I agree with your Heinlein & Asimov reconsiderations I found "Speaker for the Dead" to be utterly boring. It's one of the few books I gave up halfway through. Enders Game was OK.
You could go with a binary news provider like Astraweb. Spend $10 to get 25Gb of downloads and it'll last you forever if you're only using text.
I tried Avast a while ago. At random I started getting BSODs maybe once a week. I thought my CPU was overheating but after checking the minidump files the culprit was an Avast driver. Uninstalled it and everything's been fine since. YMMV
They are farming out their Usenet service to a US company. If you do a traceroute to news.virginmedia.com it ends up somewhere in hwng.net which seems to be based in Phoenix.
AFAIK the Virgin companies are not linked, they just paid Richard Branson for the use of the name. Virgin Media is still NTL:Telewest under the hood...
The other alternative is cegcc. It should be fairly easy to create a Mac hosted cegcc.
5p is far too low. The average in the UK is probably double that.
The vast majority of the CCTV cameras in the UK are privatised too.