I'm sorry, but you've completely missed the point. I don't want my computer talking to Microsoft daily. I don't believe Microsoft has any right to know what's going on with my computer. My software is a legal copy and if they want to check that when I download updates, I'll tolerate that, but it shouldn't be sliently calling home.
The oil companies and the tire companies basically bribed/paid the cities with great public transit systems to dismantle them around 1950. LA is a good example of this. It used to have one of the best public transit systems in the country. Now it's so spread out public transit is useless.
I had 6Mbps Speakeasy and dropped to 1.5Mbps and noticed a significant difference. I'm moving back up to 6Mbps now. Mmmm... 6Mbps, but it still sucks compared to Verizon/Fiber.
Why is it that Verizon rocks for broadband and totally sucks ass for Wireless?
It's been obvious that they've been doing this to anyone who rents from Netflix frequently. The first few rentals of a month will come back really quick, after 8 or so, they slow down. I don't think it's a bad thing, I recognize that Netflix's business model is based on some "average" number of rentals a month and that a few really heavy renters are causing problems. I just wish their algorithm looked over a broader period of time. Some months I rent no movies at all, some months (like when I was unemployed) I rent 12-15. I just think that people who are renting movies just to rip them are affecting all of us.
IANA-Accountant but I suspect that stores are also able to count the full price of the item as a sale, so on their balance sheet it looks good that they just sold you the item with a 40% margin. They put the cost of the rebate down as a marketing expense.
I figure it's just a bad idea to join class actions against compaines that I feel really haven't done anything wrong. Most of these "settlements" include some clause where the lawyers get a cut for every person who claims a benifit, so I figure if I claim a benifit I'm just encouraging more stupid lawsuits.
Now... Verizon on the other hand... They're evil and deserve to be sued into oblivion.
I dissagree complely. I have a cable box from Time Warner in Cincinnati, (Ohio, USA) and it works far better than most of my friends Tivo boxen. Maybe this UI isn't deployed elsewhere.
Aspen Colorado had the first city-wide WiFi Network running in 1997. It was a private network built by Sun Microsystems. It was running 802.11 (not a/b/g) at 2Mbps.
Here at the University of Cincinnati they are violently combating grade inflation in the engineering school by force curving almost all engineering classes. They are doing this with the mean at C. Now, this hurts all UC engineering graduates because it means that when we apply to grad schools and our first jobs out of college we will be unfairly competing against students from schools with grade inflation. Now, it doesn't seem right that UC should just "go along" with the rest of the schools and inflate their grades too, but it doesn't seem like there is any other option.
I also think that that curving is quite possibly totally unfair to begin with if you use a normal curve. In the engineering school you start with a skwed populace, it's hard to get into engineering school, and then in the first two years half the students drop out. So is it still fair to make the mean a C when you've lost the bottom half of the population, or maybe should you move that mean up a little bit to compensate for the loss. Maybe it doesn't make sense to use a normal curve at all in the first place. I'm sure the same could be argued for an ivy league school.
Yes, one of the great features of the K7 is supposed to be its SMP performance. It should scale better than the Intel chips because of the setup on the backplane.
We still need to support AMD. Think of a world where AMD did not exist, do you have any idea how much a pentium would cost? Intel only lowers its prices because it has to. Intel has publicly expressed that the only reason it is selling Celerons so cheap is because they need to compete on the low end. As soon as AMD is gone we are gonna get *ucked up the yin-yang by Intel. Besides, I don't want to support a company that sticks an ID on my processor... Call me paranoid.
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Believe it or not, the speed of light is too slow. Latency would be an issue if the data center was in Alaska.
I'm sorry, but you've completely missed the point. I don't want my computer talking to Microsoft daily. I don't believe Microsoft has any right to know what's going on with my computer. My software is a legal copy and if they want to check that when I download updates, I'll tolerate that, but it shouldn't be sliently calling home.
The oil companies and the tire companies basically bribed/paid the cities with great public transit systems to dismantle them around 1950. LA is a good example of this. It used to have one of the best public transit systems in the country. Now it's so spread out public transit is useless.
I had 6Mbps Speakeasy and dropped to 1.5Mbps and noticed a significant difference. I'm moving back up to 6Mbps now. Mmmm... 6Mbps, but it still sucks compared to Verizon/Fiber.
Why is it that Verizon rocks for broadband and totally sucks ass for Wireless?
It's been obvious that they've been doing this to anyone who rents from Netflix frequently. The first few rentals of a month will come back really quick, after 8 or so, they slow down. I don't think it's a bad thing, I recognize that Netflix's business model is based on some "average" number of rentals a month and that a few really heavy renters are causing problems. I just wish their algorithm looked over a broader period of time. Some months I rent no movies at all, some months (like when I was unemployed) I rent 12-15. I just think that people who are renting movies just to rip them are affecting all of us.
IANA-Accountant but I suspect that stores are also able to count the full price of the item as a sale, so on their balance sheet it looks good that they just sold you the item with a 40% margin. They put the cost of the rebate down as a marketing expense.
If someone knows if this is true please reply.
I figure it's just a bad idea to join class actions against compaines that I feel really haven't done anything wrong. Most of these "settlements" include some clause where the lawyers get a cut for every person who claims a benifit, so I figure if I claim a benifit I'm just encouraging more stupid lawsuits.
Now... Verizon on the other hand... They're evil and deserve to be sued into oblivion.
Seriously, can we make a petition out of this thing? I'd like to fax a few hundred thousand copies to EA, et. al.
I dissagree complely. I have a cable box from Time Warner in Cincinnati, (Ohio, USA) and it works far better than most of my friends Tivo boxen. Maybe this UI isn't deployed elsewhere.
I think this guy deserves mad props for pulling this off.
That only works in Blue States, those of us that live in Red States have AGs that bend you over and help the big companies rape you.
PS: Elliot Spitzer (AG, NY) Rocks.
That is all.
Aspen Colorado had the first city-wide WiFi Network running in 1997. It was a private network built by Sun Microsystems. It was running 802.11 (not a/b/g) at 2Mbps.
But as long as they don't decide to use 100W transmiters and start frying people, I guess it won't hurt anyone.
Pppphht! to anyone who doesn't do things just because it sounds like fun. Who are you to judge?
my 2c worth...
Here at the University of Cincinnati they are violently combating grade inflation in the engineering school by force curving almost all engineering classes. They are doing this with the mean at C. Now, this hurts all UC engineering graduates because it means that when we apply to grad schools and our first jobs out of college we will be unfairly competing against students from schools with grade inflation. Now, it doesn't seem right that UC should just "go along" with the rest of the schools and inflate their grades too, but it doesn't seem like there is any other option.
I also think that that curving is quite possibly totally unfair to begin with if you use a normal curve. In the engineering school you start with a skwed populace, it's hard to get into engineering school, and then in the first two years half the students drop out. So is it still fair to make the mean a C when you've lost the bottom half of the population, or maybe should you move that mean up a little bit to compensate for the loss. Maybe it doesn't make sense to use a normal curve at all in the first place. I'm sure the same could be argued for an ivy league school.
Yes, one of the great features of the K7 is supposed to be its SMP performance. It should scale better than the Intel chips because of the setup on the backplane.
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I agree... a Dual K7-600 would rock
We still need to support AMD. Think of a world where AMD did not exist, do you have any idea how much a pentium would cost? Intel only lowers its prices because it has to. Intel has publicly expressed that the only reason it is selling Celerons so cheap is because they need to compete on the low end. As soon as AMD is gone we are gonna get *ucked up the yin-yang by Intel. Besides, I don't want to support a company that sticks an ID on my processor... Call me paranoid.