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And I'd almost rather have the power drop than have someone significantly raise the temperature in my home if I had a computer running there. (UPS and a graceful shutdown versus cooking something.)/quote
gimme a break, they are no going to turn the heat on in your house..... we are talking a few degrees here.
granted, I do not like the idea of someone else futzing with my thermostat, but to use computer overheating as a reason against it really irks me.
It was bad enough that boingboing devotes half the damned blog to steampunk shit, but now I have read about it here?
steampunk, as an aesthetic is the most unappealing and annoying thing I have ever seen
I am on Comcast and about a month ago noticed I was totally shut off from visiting costco.com.
I had to use a proxy to check some prices there. costco was blocked for about a week for me.
google is going to be our isp, tv station and search, and (I am repeating) search, imagine if google went down for a day, imagine what that would do to the economy......
google is great and I use it all the time but I feel like it's holding too many eggs(in its basket)
Slashdot Mirror
it is if dateline NBC is there.... not that there is anything right with it....
quote: And I'd almost rather have the power drop than have someone significantly raise the temperature in my home if I had a computer running there. (UPS and a graceful shutdown versus cooking something.) /quote
gimme a break, they are no going to turn the heat on in your house..... we are talking a few degrees here.
granted, I do not like the idea of someone else futzing with my thermostat, but to use computer overheating as a reason against it really irks me.
It was bad enough that boingboing devotes half the damned blog to steampunk shit, but now I have read about it here? steampunk, as an aesthetic is the most unappealing and annoying thing I have ever seen
I am on Comcast and about a month ago noticed I was totally shut off from visiting costco.com. I had to use a proxy to check some prices there. costco was blocked for about a week for me.
google is going to be our isp, tv station and search, and (I am repeating) search, imagine if google went down for a day, imagine what that would do to the economy...... google is great and I use it all the time but I feel like it's holding too many eggs(in its basket)
They are the next monopoly....
google had no choice, they had to buy youtube just because it is so much better.