why is it that network and modem speeds are measured in bits per second but hard disk space and ISP download limits are in BYTES?
I want to know at 10Gbps, how many Meg per hour is that? How long would it take to blow my ISP download limit (4GB) or fill up the hard disk (120GB)?
If I tune into an online radio at 20bps - how many MB is that per hour? Even worse are the audio or video files available for download that say they are "five minutes long" but don't bother mentioning how many Bytes or bits at all.
It's not quite as bad as trying to convert from Metric to American Imperial measurements which are not the same as English Imperial measurements but not far off.
Most of the people I know who have had laser surgery are happy. But I wouldn't get into a car with any of them driving at night.
I read somewhere that the night blindness occurs in about 1 in 4 people who have the surgery, sometimes it goes away and sometimes it doesn't. Those that have night blindness as the only side effect tend to be still happy but I wish they wouldn't drive at night. There seems to be an increasing number of people on the road at night driving as if they were blind (not holding a lane, near misses of parked cars & pedestrians, not seeing/obeying traffic signs like STOP).
I have also heard that the technology is not the best for people with astigmatism (warped/rippled lens not just short or long sighted).
I'd like to have perfect eyesight but I think I can afford to wait until the technology is more reliable. There are several different techniques available. The newer ones might be better, but I don't want to be the guinea pig. I can see well enough without glasses but I might feel differently if I couldn't.
The USA government is considering a law to ban any machine/software that can copy stuff that is copyright. At the same time they expect ISPs to keep logs of what their customers are up to so the FBI and RIAA can catch people up to no good (eg planning destruction or breaching copyright).
So if an ISP uses one of those evil copying tools to back up their evil copying servers and customers websites which might contain "illegal" MP3s are they not also in breach. If the ISP stops doing backups and logs, are they then in breach of the FBI spy requirements?
You pay for location (context, which page or time of day for tv or radio) and you pay for the time that you're in, one day costs x, a week of newspaper ads costs x * ???.
You don't pay extra by how many newspapers are sold that day. You might pay extra for a more popular newspaper or their most popular day of the week. But if there is a bumper issue and reprint, they don't go back to their advertisers and ask them to shell out more, do they? But you don't get any guarrantee that a single reader will actually see or even read your ad. And you sure as hell don't get charged each time a reader rings your ad with a highlighter.
I think Google could easily switch to this model and then all the "fraud" clicks would mean nothing.
nothing like looking for something when you're knackered/exhausted/fatigued/stuffed.
I was so tired, I was expecting a letter as if from the ship:
I've been in service 50 years and they haven't rust guarded me for 15. Bits of me keep falling off and they've started replacing the fuel lines cheap underspec ones - it's only a matter of time before I blow up or kill my entire crew with the asbestos lagging...
My rivets are popping, my gaskets are leaking. The air smells of diesel, and someone keeps pissing in the air intakes. The bilge gas could kill a man at twenty paces, they haven't emptied it for years, and now it's classed as a WMD.
My spyware blocker software goes nuts with alexa stuff. So, now I know I pick it up when I look at Amazon without blocking the scripts. Is there no respect anywhere?
At the moment, I'd like to start a chain of bio-diesel and vege oil filler stations for diesel transport.
I'm still waiting for a decent teleport. And I'd like, in my town, someone who will do takeaway food after 9pm, the kind of food that won't clog your arteries.
You actually have to go places no end user likes to go, into the advanced options and turn on stuff like prompt to run scripts, and then when you visit some cute joke site, you have to manually block all the scripts from running.
There is no licence or click ok to install option.
What about the right to silence (fifth amendment?), and the right not to "incriminate" yourself. After all if this spyware is speaking, what is it speaking but stuff you would normally be silent about?
At least you lot in the USA have a bill of rights. We don't in Australia.
At least we had whole TV programs broadcast of how the security guards in your average casino were not watching the cards but the customers' cleavage.
There are a stupid number of cameras around the shopping malls and CBDs in Australia. Doesn't stop some government official being shot by a looney (?) or a whole lot of other more minor crime. Sometimes helps cops find the perpetrators way after the fact.
yeah but to me it seems they got the centre of the circle slightly to the right of where I'd have put it, given the arrangement of white dots, which would extend to make nice concentric circles but don't match the ones they drew on.
Imagine finding 500 non AT&T customers and asking them about drop out problems and lo they are all places where AT&T customers have no problems (unlikely?). Has AT&T installed stuff to block competitors' signals?
I think the sample of around 500 people is too small to be significant anyway. I could survey that many people that I know with mobile phones and only three of them would have been near a hotel, conference centre or airport in the last 6 to 12 months.
Here, we still have bugger all coverage the minute we get out of line of sight with a capital city. I liked the Vodaphone signs in country NSW that promised more coverage while my Vodaphone said no signal - next to their poster.
And in this non-existent alternate universe, they can't spell either (or did you make a copying error?)
Or is the "Alternet" a parallel universe Internet?
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I'd have loved to have a GPS that told me which train station was which. Travelling around Sydney by train as a tourist, half the time I'd never see the name of the train station. It would be nice to be able to program it to say, you are 200m from the station. You are in the station, get the *(^* off the train NOW. Beep.
And the counter to that would be one that tells me to stop reading my book when the bus shows up at the bus stop. I hate how you can't just zone out on public transport. You have to pay attention to all the busses to see if this one is yours, and then you have to pay attention to which stop you're at so you get off at the right place.
Other than that, you'd want a pretty good map to go with the GPS. The GPS will tell you where you are but they are less than helpful in telling you which road is the right one. Try it on the approach to the Northern end of Sydney Harbour Bridge. Nup, no idea what lane I should be in, most of the time. The whole deal looks like tangled spagetti if all the spagetti was merged in the middle.
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Some enterprising people have already set up sites to modify imported machines, and supply the data.
tivo site for making australian Tivo
Tivo Weeknees
why is it that network and modem speeds are measured in bits per second but hard disk space and ISP download limits are in BYTES?
I want to know at 10Gbps, how many Meg per hour is that? How long would it take to blow my ISP download limit (4GB) or fill up the hard disk (120GB)?
If I tune into an online radio at 20bps - how many MB is that per hour? Even worse are the audio or video files available for download that say they are "five minutes long" but don't bother mentioning how many Bytes or bits at all.
It's not quite as bad as trying to convert from Metric to American Imperial measurements which are not the same as English Imperial measurements but not far off.
Most of the people I know who have had laser surgery are happy. But I wouldn't get into a car with any of them driving at night.
I read somewhere that the night blindness occurs in about 1 in 4 people who have the surgery, sometimes it goes away and sometimes it doesn't. Those that have night blindness as the only side effect tend to be still happy but I wish they wouldn't drive at night. There seems to be an increasing number of people on the road at night driving as if they were blind (not holding a lane, near misses of parked cars & pedestrians, not seeing/obeying traffic signs like STOP).
I have also heard that the technology is not the best for people with astigmatism (warped/rippled lens not just short or long sighted).
I'd like to have perfect eyesight but I think I can afford to wait until the technology is more reliable. There are several different techniques available. The newer ones might be better, but I don't want to be the guinea pig. I can see well enough without glasses but I might feel differently if I couldn't.
Self contradictory laws in action. Yikes.
Lemme see if I have this straight.
The USA government is considering a law to ban any machine/software that can copy stuff that is copyright. At the same time they expect ISPs to keep logs of what their customers are up to so the FBI and RIAA can catch people up to no good (eg planning destruction or breaching copyright).
So if an ISP uses one of those evil copying tools to back up their evil copying servers and customers websites which might contain "illegal" MP3s are they not also in breach. If the ISP stops doing backups and logs, are they then in breach of the FBI spy requirements?
ISPs refuse RIAA access to logs
FBI Carnivore
UK Survelliance
Pay per click doesn't work either, isn't that the point of this entire slashdot article?
Newspaper/TV/Radio/Magazines advertising works just fine.
Or perhaps the only advertising medium should be spam? If that didn't work, nobody would do it, right?
You pay for location (context, which page or time of day for tv or radio) and you pay for the time that you're in, one day costs x, a week of newspaper ads costs x * ???.
You don't pay extra by how many newspapers are sold that day. You might pay extra for a more popular newspaper or their most popular day of the week. But if there is a bumper issue and reprint, they don't go back to their advertisers and ask them to shell out more, do they? But you don't get any guarrantee that a single reader will actually see or even read your ad. And you sure as hell don't get charged each time a reader rings your ad with a highlighter.
I think Google could easily switch to this model and then all the "fraud" clicks would mean nothing.
nothing like looking for something when you're knackered/exhausted/fatigued/stuffed.
I was so tired, I was expecting a letter as if from the ship:
I've been in service 50 years and they haven't rust guarded me for 15. Bits of me keep falling off and they've started replacing the fuel lines cheap underspec ones - it's only a matter of time before I blow up or kill my entire crew with the asbestos lagging...
My rivets are popping, my gaskets are leaking. The air smells of diesel, and someone keeps pissing in the air intakes. The bilge gas could kill a man at twenty paces, they haven't emptied it for years, and now it's classed as a WMD.
and people write dear diary letters or dear Aggy letters or even just write stuff and burn it.
You write, you feel better, whether it goes in the bit bucket or someone's book.
A pity we don't get to read the tired navy ship email.
http://www.google.com/search?q=spyware+alexa&ie=UT F-8&hl=en&meta=
My spyware blocker software goes nuts with alexa stuff. So, now I know I pick it up when I look at Amazon without blocking the scripts. Is there no respect anywhere?
Maralinga Experiments
Bizarrely or thankfully, Australia has no nukes (officially) but the Pommies do. I guess that's offsite storage at its best.
How can such a inaccurate piece of tripe be so overrated?
It's a troll not insightful.
I don't bloody mod things I know nothing about.
I always loved the website
http://www.halfbakery.com/
been there, done that...
At the moment, I'd like to start a chain of bio-diesel and vege oil filler stations for diesel transport.
I'm still waiting for a decent teleport. And I'd like, in my town, someone who will do takeaway food after 9pm, the kind of food that won't clog your arteries.
Seems standard practice in the Geek related industries.
Have you tried the use wet sandpaper at 1200 or higher - ie cut and polish?
The 6a is probably scratched or etched in by something that changed the surface.
If you RTFA
1. The council requires a permit and presumably a fee for Advertising on their stuff eg a bridge or tunnel
2. Once this was pointed out to Smirnoff, they did clean it all off (voluntarily?).
At least thats how often I have to rejoin the bloody thing. Backup is useless when they keep deleting your account.
I used to trust Eudoramail but it has totally crapped out now.
You actually have to go places no end user likes to go, into the advanced options and turn on stuff like prompt to run scripts, and then when you visit some cute joke site, you have to manually block all the scripts from running.
There is no licence or click ok to install option.
What about the right to silence (fifth amendment?), and the right not to "incriminate" yourself. After all if this spyware is speaking, what is it speaking but stuff you would normally be silent about?
At least you lot in the USA have a bill of rights. We don't in Australia.
> quick prostate massage
I guess the majority of humans won't be able to use that OS cos they don't have a prostate.
Since when has Micro$oft anything worked perfectly anyway? What a dumb grandparent this post has.
I never eat their food, but I think their toilets are usually clean - so long as you don't arrive immediately after a tour bus.
Golden arches - a long line of beacons showing the way to clean toilets on the interstate highways.
I don't know how they do it, but the Golden Arches has managed to train high school kids to be polite, friendly and competent.
At least we had whole TV programs broadcast of how the security guards in your average casino were not watching the cards but the customers' cleavage.
There are a stupid number of cameras around the shopping malls and CBDs in Australia. Doesn't stop some government official being shot by a looney (?) or a whole lot of other more minor crime. Sometimes helps cops find the perpetrators way after the fact.
yeah but to me it seems they got the centre of the circle slightly to the right of where I'd have put it, given the arrangement of white dots, which would extend to make nice concentric circles but don't match the ones they drew on.
maybe this is how crop circles get started.
Imagine finding 500 non AT&T customers and asking them about drop out problems and lo they are all places where AT&T customers have no problems (unlikely?). Has AT&T installed stuff to block competitors' signals?
I think the sample of around 500 people is too small to be significant anyway. I could survey that many people that I know with mobile phones and only three of them would have been near a hotel, conference centre or airport in the last 6 to 12 months.
Here, we still have bugger all coverage the minute we get out of line of sight with a capital city. I liked the Vodaphone signs in country NSW that promised more coverage while my Vodaphone said no signal - next to their poster.
And in this non-existent alternate universe, they can't spell either (or did you make a copying error?)
Or is the "Alternet" a parallel universe Internet?
I'd have loved to have a GPS that told me which train station was which. Travelling around Sydney by train as a tourist, half the time I'd never see the name of the train station. It would be nice to be able to program it to say, you are 200m from the station. You are in the station, get the *(^* off the train NOW. Beep. And the counter to that would be one that tells me to stop reading my book when the bus shows up at the bus stop. I hate how you can't just zone out on public transport. You have to pay attention to all the busses to see if this one is yours, and then you have to pay attention to which stop you're at so you get off at the right place. Other than that, you'd want a pretty good map to go with the GPS. The GPS will tell you where you are but they are less than helpful in telling you which road is the right one. Try it on the approach to the Northern end of Sydney Harbour Bridge. Nup, no idea what lane I should be in, most of the time. The whole deal looks like tangled spagetti if all the spagetti was merged in the middle.