I don't know which is more galling: The fact that they charge a lot more for their service but still nag you about usage, or the fact that they (and their supporters) say there's no usage cap when actually there is, and the cap is really set at 1/20 of the advertised bandwidth if you have a 6m/768k line. Think about how oversubscribed they'd have to be if you have to start nagging at 1/20 of the line speed. Even if you have a business acct that does not save you. Used to be you have a designated service advisor to solve your problems. These days you get a designated nagger. I'm already in the process of installing two new DSL lines for the price of what I'm paying SE. After that's done, I'm cancelling my SE service.
Speakeasy used to be that way, but I've been getting calls from them to keep my download usage to under 100GB per month at their SF POP. That works out to only about 300kbps continuously. Speakeasy's going downhill. They don't have the money to upgrade capacity, so they're writing log analyzers to catch people going over 120GB/mo and calling them up to warn about TOS. The TOS has a section on "Moderation of Use". Read it.
I must admit I miss the old mechanical switches. I was trained to type on IBM Selectrics and the Apple IIe. The Selectric and Apple II lets me type at ~80wps sustained. I basically didn't have to look at the screen while typing, due to the tactile feedback. I KNEW when a key registered. At home I had a succession of Northgate and Keytronic keyboards until the mid 90's when mechanical switches went out of style due to manufacturing costs. I've been using membrane keyboards for 10 years now but still couldn't reach the typing speed I had before with mechanical keyboards. Recently however I found that desktop keyboards are being manufactured with notebook-type scissor switches and marketed as premium offerings. They give a good tactile feedback, although not as much travel as I liked. Nevertheless it has much better feel than membrane. It's good enough for me. Now if the Optimus costs that much, they had better at least use the scissor keys or else it's a non-starter for me.
I wonder if Kim Jong Il has ever watched that movie.
The Dear Leader watches everything. He is all-knowing. The Dear Leader was born on Mt. Paektu the Sacred Mountain. His birth was attended simultaneously by a double rainbow and a radiant star in the heavens. Surely that's a sign of Godhood. He is the light of our lives. We are blessed to have his benevolent gaze shining over our great nation.
I am an intelligent man and I demand an intelligent medium by which to be educated.
You get your education from Powerpoint slides? Where did you go to school, DeVry's? Plus that sentence above reminds me of a pouting 1st grader who insists that he's a "Big Boy" now.
China won't get away unscathed. U.S. consumers pretty much financed China's economic growth over the past decade. When the gravy train derails, expect China to be smacked against the bulkhead too. You want to talk about real-estate bubbles? Chinese costal cities are as bubblicious as they come, with housing prices rivaling that of California. Pretty soon, there will be a series of giant popping sounds circling the globe.
Becoming a parent does not automatically make you smarter or more authoritative in matters of education. Nor do you automatically become an expert in what "critical" professional skills" are. Most of these parents would consider themselves computer experts if they're able to use the words "powerpoint" and "compile" in the same sentence.
Silly rabbit. Didn't your mother teach you not to post in slashdot 5 days after the article is posted? Nobody's going to read this.
BTW Taiwan enjoys de facto, but not de jure independence. That's why I said "in all but name". Taiwan is recognized by about 20 countries, most of them small banana republics.
I'm also going to call BS on you with the "Taiwan has always been part of China". Read Wikipedia or some other encyclopedia for the History. You'll see that it has been part of China for a shorter period than Tibet or Xinjiang.
Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and practised in China - there must be a reason as to why Falun Gong is bad.
Because FLG assembled in large numbers to petitioning the government some years ago, and it freaked out the CCP, thereby beginning the crackdown on the religious sect.
I think the very act of cracking down only strenghtened the FLG. Instead of being some strange cult most people stay away from, its influence grew purely by virtue of its resistance to the CCP.
You're playing right into the hands of the CCP by putting Taiwan in the same bracket as Tibet and Xinjiang, labeling them as separatist. Taiwan is an independent country in all but name. Unlike Tibet and Xinjiang, which are occupied and subjugated by the PLA, the CCP has no jurisdiction of any kind over Taiwan.
Everyone wears paper hospital gowns with no underwear on planes after having changed in front of an official
Married men would no longer be able to hide their wood while sitting next to both their wife and an attractive woman. Oh the fun we would have!
Seriously, this is a great opportunity for the pr0n industry. All they have to do is use a teensy weensy bit of imagination and work all-naked air travel and full-body cavity searches into their "plots". Here, I wrote the script for you, use it wisely.
TSA stud: "Mam, would you please take off your cloths and bend over? I need to search your vaginal cavity with my penis".
Jenna Jameson: "Oooh, I feel so hot."
(Jenna bends over and funky makeout music starts playing)
They're the same apologists who claim that Islam is a "Religion of Peace (TM)", as opposed to say Buddhism. They desperately cling to that claim even when event around them reveal otherwise.
It will fix the keyboard problem, but once they start using it for high bandwidth HDTV then they'll saturate the spectrum again, meaning you can't put 2 PCs close together both viewing HDTV. Probably only 1 can be wireless, all others in the room have to go wired.
Wireless is great, until you try to use two sets in close proximity to one another. Two sets of wireless Logitech keyboard and mouse would interfere with each other to no end. I ended up just switching one set back to wired. Face it, wireless only works well if you're the only person using it in the vicinity. Add a few more people into the mix and you'll be competing for bandwidth and spectrum. Guess what happens when you and your neighbors have 10 wireless APs between you competing for the same spectrum? It's another reason I don't buy the hype for WiMax. My DSL line may be oversubscribed, but at least the bandwidth on the line from my house to DSLAM is all mine.
That's not likely to happen. The vendor probably have a lot of trade secrets in their robots and control mechanisms. Opening the software means letting competitors conduct industrial espionage.
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Well, your problem is that you go home to your mom.
I don't know which is more galling: The fact that they charge a lot more for their service but still nag you about usage, or the fact that they (and their supporters) say there's no usage cap when actually there is, and the cap is really set at 1/20 of the advertised bandwidth if you have a 6m/768k line. Think about how oversubscribed they'd have to be if you have to start nagging at 1/20 of the line speed. Even if you have a business acct that does not save you. Used to be you have a designated service advisor to solve your problems. These days you get a designated nagger. I'm already in the process of installing two new DSL lines for the price of what I'm paying SE. After that's done, I'm cancelling my SE service.
Speakeasy used to be that way, but I've been getting calls from them to keep my download usage to under 100GB per month at their SF POP. That works out to only about 300kbps continuously. Speakeasy's going downhill. They don't have the money to upgrade capacity, so they're writing log analyzers to catch people going over 120GB/mo and calling them up to warn about TOS. The TOS has a section on "Moderation of Use". Read it.
Don't worry. After the great housing crash of 2007-2010, you'll get your chance.
I must admit I miss the old mechanical switches. I was trained to type on IBM Selectrics and the Apple IIe. The Selectric and Apple II lets me type at ~80wps sustained. I basically didn't have to look at the screen while typing, due to the tactile feedback. I KNEW when a key registered. At home I had a succession of Northgate and Keytronic keyboards until the mid 90's when mechanical switches went out of style due to manufacturing costs. I've been using membrane keyboards for 10 years now but still couldn't reach the typing speed I had before with mechanical keyboards. Recently however I found that desktop keyboards are being manufactured with notebook-type scissor switches and marketed as premium offerings. They give a good tactile feedback, although not as much travel as I liked. Nevertheless it has much better feel than membrane. It's good enough for me. Now if the Optimus costs that much, they had better at least use the scissor keys or else it's a non-starter for me.
Assuming you have enough addresses for your servers, use proxy ARP for them and NAT the rest. There, problem solved.
So how about signing a waver for recess? Those whose parents didn't sign a waver can go into a padded room and play with nerf stuff.
So...the only good artist is a tormented artist?
We know this already, poindexter. That's why it's modded funny,
The Dear Leader watches everything. He is all-knowing. The Dear Leader was born on Mt. Paektu the Sacred Mountain. His birth was attended simultaneously by a double rainbow and a radiant star in the heavens. Surely that's a sign of Godhood. He is the light of our lives. We are blessed to have his benevolent gaze shining over our great nation.
I am an intelligent man and I demand an intelligent medium by which to be educated. You get your education from Powerpoint slides? Where did you go to school, DeVry's? Plus that sentence above reminds me of a pouting 1st grader who insists that he's a "Big Boy" now.
Sure, let's kill more trees while we're at it.
China won't get away unscathed. U.S. consumers pretty much financed China's economic growth over the past decade. When the gravy train derails, expect China to be smacked against the bulkhead too. You want to talk about real-estate bubbles? Chinese costal cities are as bubblicious as they come, with housing prices rivaling that of California. Pretty soon, there will be a series of giant popping sounds circling the globe.
Becoming a parent does not automatically make you smarter or more authoritative in matters of education. Nor do you automatically become an expert in what "critical" professional skills" are. Most of these parents would consider themselves computer experts if they're able to use the words "powerpoint" and "compile" in the same sentence.
It would taste just like the regular bigmac, but with a hint of pretentiousness. It would also look a bit better while double the cost.
Silly rabbit. Didn't your mother teach you not to post in slashdot 5 days after the article is posted? Nobody's going to read this. BTW Taiwan enjoys de facto, but not de jure independence. That's why I said "in all but name". Taiwan is recognized by about 20 countries, most of them small banana republics. I'm also going to call BS on you with the "Taiwan has always been part of China". Read Wikipedia or some other encyclopedia for the History. You'll see that it has been part of China for a shorter period than Tibet or Xinjiang.
Because FLG assembled in large numbers to petitioning the government some years ago, and it freaked out the CCP, thereby beginning the crackdown on the religious sect.
I think the very act of cracking down only strenghtened the FLG. Instead of being some strange cult most people stay away from, its influence grew purely by virtue of its resistance to the CCP.
You're playing right into the hands of the CCP by putting Taiwan in the same bracket as Tibet and Xinjiang, labeling them as separatist. Taiwan is an independent country in all but name. Unlike Tibet and Xinjiang, which are occupied and subjugated by the PLA, the CCP has no jurisdiction of any kind over Taiwan.
Married men would no longer be able to hide their wood while sitting next to both their wife and an attractive woman. Oh the fun we would have!
Seriously, this is a great opportunity for the pr0n industry. All they have to do is use a teensy weensy bit of imagination and work all-naked air travel and full-body cavity searches into their "plots". Here, I wrote the script for you, use it wisely.
TSA stud: "Mam, would you please take off your cloths and bend over? I need to search your vaginal cavity with my penis".
Jenna Jameson: "Oooh, I feel so hot."
(Jenna bends over and funky makeout music starts playing)
They're the same apologists who claim that Islam is a "Religion of Peace (TM)", as opposed to say Buddhism. They desperately cling to that claim even when event around them reveal otherwise.
I stand corrected.
It will fix the keyboard problem, but once they start using it for high bandwidth HDTV then they'll saturate the spectrum again, meaning you can't put 2 PCs close together both viewing HDTV. Probably only 1 can be wireless, all others in the room have to go wired.
Wireless is great, until you try to use two sets in close proximity to one another. Two sets of wireless Logitech keyboard and mouse would interfere with each other to no end. I ended up just switching one set back to wired. Face it, wireless only works well if you're the only person using it in the vicinity. Add a few more people into the mix and you'll be competing for bandwidth and spectrum. Guess what happens when you and your neighbors have 10 wireless APs between you competing for the same spectrum? It's another reason I don't buy the hype for WiMax. My DSL line may be oversubscribed, but at least the bandwidth on the line from my house to DSLAM is all mine.
However, wet environments such as the bathroom is the perfect place for inductive charging.
That's not likely to happen. The vendor probably have a lot of trade secrets in their robots and control mechanisms. Opening the software means letting competitors conduct industrial espionage.