For those of you who wish to keep track of how much bandwidth you're using, FreeMeter's an open source meter for XP that lets you both monitor your speed, chart that shit out and you can set it to alert you when you hit whatever limit you set it to. A must if you're in Texas, are a TW customer anywhere else or like to tether. Sourceforge, yo, it's legit.
I've been a little tuned out, last time I checked in only hearing about Time Warner testing this capping out in other markets (I'm in NYC), thinking it would never happen to me. So I take it this means a cap is already imposed for me, presumably with prohibitive surcharges after I break it?
The one thing I like about Time Warner is that they tend to look the other way (you know what I'm talking about) unlike OptimumOnline for example with their silly letters. I also like having a somewhat static IP without ports blocked and a general laisez faire attitude about running any kind of daemon, at least off-paper.
Question to Verizon FiOS users in NYC: Is it really badass in general? Same kind of throughput regardless of the nature of your packets? Duplex? Any scary letters show up in the mail? Any downside for me, other than the schlep, to switch from TW to Verizon FiOS for both Internet and television? Because I'm this close to making the two phone calls. Sad because I live close to the Time Warner building and I like the building. It's a nice building. But I spend more time on the Internet than I do walking by their building so I'm not going to let that sway me entirely. But Verizon is such an ugly name. I mean.. Verizon. ugh:(. They paid someone to come up with that?
I could have just googled this, Time Warner NYC's TOS and pricing, but I want my post to serve as an example of what happens to a Time Warner customer once he reads this New York Times article. God bless free market competition.
For those of you in search of voice recognition ware that has already "been developed" you should check out Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I got it for my boss who's paralyzed from the neck down and it works beautifully, making his life easier. Training only took 15 minutes and the accuracy is impressive. It comes with a headset mic but I recommend splurging on the Plantronics CS50-USB wireless headset.
When I was attending Skidmore College up in Saratoga Springs, and I shit you not, they had a "hook-up" server where students could log in with their regular college ID and type in the IDs of everyone they'd be willing to get freaky with. Whenever two people entered each other, the server would match them up and nature would take its course. It would tell you how many girls were willing to hook up with you (I had a few...), but it wouldn't tell you who. Very frustrating. Now normally in that case I would enter every girl in the whole college, but the catch was you could only enter 20 names. Anyway, it was eventually shut down by The Man.
Google could snatch the market from paypal if they offered this service in the same manner they offer all their other services and goodies: for free. They'd benefit from this in the same way, good branding and promotion of their search engine which would ultimately trickle down into advertising profits. Also, Wall Street regards eBay and friends as a threat to Google, so hurting companies like paypal could increase shareholder wealth, possibly enough to offset the cost of handing this service out for free.
"The reason nintendo are [sic] great is because the concentrate on games..."
And if Apple bought them, what would keep their Nintendo operation from continuing to do the same? Apple wouldn't be reinventing the wheel here, just buying the people who invented it first.
Debian users: Unless you've changed your kernel, rebooting is not going to get your sound working, so stop unnecessarily skewing the results of these tests for everyone else. As the #debian mantra goes, "If you're interested in sound, you should not be running Debian."
For cleaning out malware, unless I was packing software with me, I'd do a scan with housecall.trendmicro.com. It does Linux too. NOD32>/a> is the most impressive Windows scanner I've found. For cleaning out and managing the registry, you want JV16 Power Tools, but running msconfig's the quickest way to clean the crap out of the registry as you don't need anything to download. Now I am not sure if Vista has a similar registry setup (hopefully not), but my first move would be to fire up msconfig, go to the start up tab, and fire away at anything that doesn't look too critical while crossing my fingers. Make sure to cross your fingers!
I don't know about terrorists, but calling patterns can effectively be used to identify drug dealers, according to HBO's The Wire. I imagine polygamists, as illustrated in HBO's Big Love, would exhibit abnormal calling patterns with their supersized family calling plans.
And don't tell me That's just television because no, sir, It's not TV, it's HBO.
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Wow check out the low UID on that guy!
Bump on that bro. Thanks, didn't even occur to me to disable js. Nice uid btw. You must remember the old days with low five digits.
Did my own piece on this this morning, got some links of interest in it. http://mobilitydigest.com/preventing-protester-communication-not-so-easy/
Thank you for that.
grub with the rimshot. nice.
For those of you who wish to keep track of how much bandwidth you're using, FreeMeter's an open source meter for XP that lets you both monitor your speed, chart that shit out and you can set it to alert you when you hit whatever limit you set it to. A must if you're in Texas, are a TW customer anywhere else or like to tether. Sourceforge, yo, it's legit.
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I've been a little tuned out, last time I checked in only hearing about Time Warner testing this capping out in other markets (I'm in NYC), thinking it would never happen to me. So I take it this means a cap is already imposed for me, presumably with prohibitive surcharges after I break it?
:(. They paid someone to come up with that?
The one thing I like about Time Warner is that they tend to look the other way (you know what I'm talking about) unlike OptimumOnline for example with their silly letters. I also like having a somewhat static IP without ports blocked and a general laisez faire attitude about running any kind of daemon, at least off-paper.
Question to Verizon FiOS users in NYC: Is it really badass in general? Same kind of throughput regardless of the nature of your packets? Duplex? Any scary letters show up in the mail? Any downside for me, other than the schlep, to switch from TW to Verizon FiOS for both Internet and television? Because I'm this close to making the two phone calls. Sad because I live close to the Time Warner building and I like the building. It's a nice building. But I spend more time on the Internet than I do walking by their building so I'm not going to let that sway me entirely. But Verizon is such an ugly name. I mean.. Verizon. ugh
I could have just googled this, Time Warner NYC's TOS and pricing, but I want my post to serve as an example of what happens to a Time Warner customer once he reads this New York Times article. God bless free market competition.
step "away" from the excessive quotation "mark" usage buddy.
Go to the site in my .sig and you'll see that this spam post is the best thing that's happened to you all day. NSFW.
... like IBM's ViaVoice?
For those of you in search of voice recognition ware that has already "been developed" you should check out Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I got it for my boss who's paralyzed from the neck down and it works beautifully, making his life easier. Training only took 15 minutes and the accuracy is impressive. It comes with a headset mic but I recommend splurging on the Plantronics CS50-USB wireless headset.
When I was attending Skidmore College up in Saratoga Springs, and I shit you not, they had a "hook-up" server where students could log in with their regular college ID and type in the IDs of everyone they'd be willing to get freaky with. Whenever two people entered each other, the server would match them up and nature would take its course. It would tell you how many girls were willing to hook up with you (I had a few...), but it wouldn't tell you who. Very frustrating. Now normally in that case I would enter every girl in the whole college, but the catch was you could only enter 20 names. Anyway, it was eventually shut down by The Man.
Google could snatch the market from paypal if they offered this service in the same manner they offer all their other services and goodies: for free. They'd benefit from this in the same way, good branding and promotion of their search engine which would ultimately trickle down into advertising profits. Also, Wall Street regards eBay and friends as a threat to Google, so hurting companies like paypal could increase shareholder wealth, possibly enough to offset the cost of handing this service out for free.
you nailed his ass ... very nice
What would you do?
Seriously...
Anybody nervous that Google may be letting their eye off the ball (their original business model) by going off on these tangential projects?
"The reason nintendo are [sic] great is because the concentrate on games..."
And if Apple bought them, what would keep their Nintendo operation from continuing to do the same? Apple wouldn't be reinventing the wheel here, just buying the people who invented it first.
Debian users: Unless you've changed your kernel, rebooting is not going to get your sound working, so stop unnecessarily skewing the results of these tests for everyone else. As the #debian mantra goes, "If you're interested in sound, you should not be running Debian."
For cleaning out malware, unless I was packing software with me, I'd do a scan with housecall.trendmicro.com. It does Linux too. NOD32>/a> is the most impressive Windows scanner I've found. For cleaning out and managing the registry, you want JV16 Power Tools, but running msconfig's the quickest way to clean the crap out of the registry as you don't need anything to download. Now I am not sure if Vista has a similar registry setup (hopefully not), but my first move would be to fire up msconfig, go to the start up tab, and fire away at anything that doesn't look too critical while crossing my fingers. Make sure to cross your fingers!
So what's to stop malware from affirming the prompt? It isn't even a hurdle.
The correct term is dissociative identity disorder, thankyouverymuch.
Terrororists? Is that a third HBO reference to Da Ali G Show? You need to get out more. :P
And don't tell me That's just television because no, sir, It's not TV, it's HBO.
Look Mr. Four-digit-UID, I made a decent point originally, stop breaking my balls :P.
Precedents are only precedents. New cases come along and sometimes decisions conflict with, or essentially overturn, past rulings.