I disagree: it's better to buy a plain cable modem and a separate WiFi router. Not only is it likely to be cheaper, it allows you to upgrade to new WiFi standards without having to replace the modem (and 802.11 does change more often than DOCSIS) and lets you use a router that's more likely to be supported by OpenWRT (etc.) than any router/modem combo would be. Perhaps most importantly, given how untrustworthy Comcast is, it keeps a larger degree of separation between the modem (which Comcast has some degree of control over) and the rest of your network.
Well, it would be okay for you to get additional tasks to do as long as the pay increased in proportion (which of course, would not actually happen). So the GP was not necessarily wrong, just unrealistic.
In my area, DOCSIS 2 was EOS probably about 6 months ago now. It's kind of annoying, since I was satisfied with the speed I was getting with my old modem (one of those old purple Linksys ones made to stack with a WRT54G).
Just buy your own DOCSIS 3.0 modem (e.g. Motorola SB6121 or Zoom 5341). I mean, you realize they're charging you $3-5 per month for their crappy one, right? It pays for itself in a year or so.
That's a terrible idea. Every Comcast customer should use his own router and his own modem!
In fact, the only Comcast-owned equipment a customer should ever accept is a CableCard -- wait, no, scratch that. Customers should accept precisely no Comcast-owned equipment at all, because they should only use Comcast for Internet, not TV (and even then, only if there's no other reasonable choice).
So, I read more of TFA, and in it the guy behind the proposed canal claims the post-expansion Panama Canal would only be able to handle up to 150,000 tons of displacement. I'm not sure which number is right.
I thought there were plans to widen the existing Panama Canal - were those scrapped?
No, that project is currently under construction and should be completed in 2015.
Incidentally, TFA says this proposed canal would accommodate ships up to 400,000 tons of displacement, while the Wikipedia article for the Panama Canal expansion says the new locks will accommodate ships that are 1400' x 180' x 60', which is about 428,000 tons of displacement (if my math is right). Therefore, this proposed canal won't have an advantage over the Panama Canal in that regard.
Shellfish start out free-floating and only attach themselves to the seafloor when they become adults. Many of them certainly drift into the dead zone from elsewhere.
The only way you are going to stop it is to find a different method of raising food for the world. Hint: current organic methods doesn't do it - too labor intensive and yields suffer.
Well, you could also fix it by stopping (or treating) the runoff to eliminate the excess nitrogen before it gets to the ocean.
Keep in mind that all the nitrogen that's growing algae in the Gulf isn't doing what it's supposed to do, which is to grow crops in the midwest. It's a symptom of inefficiency, and there should be a business case for eliminating it.
We punish people for possessing and distributing child pornography because doing so reduces the demand for the creation of child pornography and the sexual abuse that entails.
[Citation needed].
Otherwise, for all you know, it could increase the demand because they have to go make it themselves instead of just downloading stuff that already exists.
To me, the only thing here that makes the slope a lot less slippery is that they're reportedly doing purely automated scans, comparing against a database of illegal images, as opposed to open-ended heuristics attempting to detect anything suspicious.
You think the American government would agree to extradite an American in America to China? LOL. Not a chance. That's something the US Government would only expect other countries to do for its requests, and never do for them in return.
I would not have studied stats by choice, either. I'm damn glad I passed, but I core dumped 99.99% of it after passing. I haven't had a need for it since, so it was a complete waste of time and money.
I'd be willing to bet that I could look through your posting history and find plenty of examples where either (a) your correct use of the statistics you learned bolstered your argument or (b) the fact that you forgot the statistics and used them incorrectly undermined your argument. Of course, I'm talking about Slashdot, so your "complete waste of time" argument could still be valid...
I learned about that stuff in high school... but it was Advanced Placement (and I got college credit for it). I wouldn't be surprised if non-AP high-school economics failed to cover it.
To be honest, all that stuff really ought to be taught in middle school (or maybe even earlier) anyway.
What astonishing arrogance. So anyone who hasn't taken an ethics course doesn't know right from wrong?
No, someone who hasn't taken an ethics course might not know right from wrong, so it's irresponsible to award them an engineering degree (and eventually a PE license).
Also why should have to take art history to work in IT?? art is nice to have but not at that cost.
I have degrees in civil engineering and computer science. One of the most surprisingly useful classes I took was a humanities elective called "History of Urban Form."
Maybe when all the university's art classes are part of the College of Architecture (as opposed to the architecture classes being part of the College of Art) they turn out to be more useful...
(I'll grant that the other art class I took, history of industrial design, was mostly useless except for when I'm shopping for furniture.)
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Comcast has a list of pre-approved customer-owned modems that they won't refuse to provision.
I disagree: it's better to buy a plain cable modem and a separate WiFi router. Not only is it likely to be cheaper, it allows you to upgrade to new WiFi standards without having to replace the modem (and 802.11 does change more often than DOCSIS) and lets you use a router that's more likely to be supported by OpenWRT (etc.) than any router/modem combo would be. Perhaps most importantly, given how untrustworthy Comcast is, it keeps a larger degree of separation between the modem (which Comcast has some degree of control over) and the rest of your network.
If you're not using their POS equipement, chances are you won't have many internet problems.
Well, it would be okay for you to get additional tasks to do as long as the pay increased in proportion (which of course, would not actually happen). So the GP was not necessarily wrong, just unrealistic.
In my area, DOCSIS 2 was EOS probably about 6 months ago now. It's kind of annoying, since I was satisfied with the speed I was getting with my old modem (one of those old purple Linksys ones made to stack with a WRT54G).
I was forced to buy a DOCSIS 3.0 modem to replace my perfectly-good DOCSIS 2.0 one because Comcast shut off my access entirely otherwise.
On the contrary, they've accomplished plenty of shit!
Just buy your own DOCSIS 3.0 modem (e.g. Motorola SB6121 or Zoom 5341). I mean, you realize they're charging you $3-5 per month for their crappy one, right? It pays for itself in a year or so.
That's a terrible idea. Every Comcast customer should use his own router and his own modem!
In fact, the only Comcast-owned equipment a customer should ever accept is a CableCard -- wait, no, scratch that. Customers should accept precisely no Comcast-owned equipment at all, because they should only use Comcast for Internet, not TV (and even then, only if there's no other reasonable choice).
It sounds like he had a $150 Comcast Internet + cable TV package and switched to a $30 DSL package + rabbit ears. A good move, IMO.
So, I read more of TFA, and in it the guy behind the proposed canal claims the post-expansion Panama Canal would only be able to handle up to 150,000 tons of displacement. I'm not sure which number is right.
No, that project is currently under construction and should be completed in 2015.
Incidentally, TFA says this proposed canal would accommodate ships up to 400,000 tons of displacement, while the Wikipedia article for the Panama Canal expansion says the new locks will accommodate ships that are 1400' x 180' x 60', which is about 428,000 tons of displacement (if my math is right). Therefore, this proposed canal won't have an advantage over the Panama Canal in that regard.
Do you have a link? I've never heard of "peak phosphorus' before.
Shellfish start out free-floating and only attach themselves to the seafloor when they become adults. Many of them certainly drift into the dead zone from elsewhere.
Well, you could also fix it by stopping (or treating) the runoff to eliminate the excess nitrogen before it gets to the ocean.
Keep in mind that all the nitrogen that's growing algae in the Gulf isn't doing what it's supposed to do, which is to grow crops in the midwest. It's a symptom of inefficiency, and there should be a business case for eliminating it.
LOL, "Booth was a patriot" (per your .sig), but Snowden isn't?! That's the most hypocritical thing I've read all day.
[Citation needed].
Otherwise, for all you know, it could increase the demand because they have to go make it themselves instead of just downloading stuff that already exists.
That's a distinction without a difference.
Presumably, the ones that encrypt don't get caught and therefore don't make the news.
You think the American government would agree to extradite an American in America to China? LOL. Not a chance. That's something the US Government would only expect other countries to do for its requests, and never do for them in return.
I'd be willing to bet that I could look through your posting history and find plenty of examples where either (a) your correct use of the statistics you learned bolstered your argument or (b) the fact that you forgot the statistics and used them incorrectly undermined your argument. Of course, I'm talking about Slashdot, so your "complete waste of time" argument could still be valid...
Meanwhile, Georgia Tech is going in the opposite direction and turning MOOCs into a degree program (see "Georgia Tech OMSCS").
I learned about that stuff in high school... but it was Advanced Placement (and I got college credit for it). I wouldn't be surprised if non-AP high-school economics failed to cover it.
To be honest, all that stuff really ought to be taught in middle school (or maybe even earlier) anyway.
No, someone who hasn't taken an ethics course might not know right from wrong, so it's irresponsible to award them an engineering degree (and eventually a PE license).
I have degrees in civil engineering and computer science. One of the most surprisingly useful classes I took was a humanities elective called "History of Urban Form."
Maybe when all the university's art classes are part of the College of Architecture (as opposed to the architecture classes being part of the College of Art) they turn out to be more useful...
(I'll grant that the other art class I took, history of industrial design, was mostly useless except for when I'm shopping for furniture.)