Then they shouldn't be using it, or they should be using the internet to learn about how this all works. The public does understand the idea of a password though, and so if you don't need a password (www.foxnews.com) anyone can get to it, but posting as you requires a password.
To head off an argument I can see coming, Microwaves work by exciting water molecules, causing them to vibrate and warm up, causing my food to warm up. No water, no warming in a conventional microwave. Also mayonnaise is an emulsion, it works by suspending the fat/oil inside of the vinegar with the use of an emulsifier(a chemical in the egg yolk). So yes, i think it is important for people to generally understand how/why the things around them work.
"dirt trail" != "Approved walking path" commonly known as a "sidewalk". I can't imagine that the "dirt trail" would have any sort of care in the winter. There is no sign in the photos depicting an official trail, or anything like one.
at least in my state(MN, USA) it's not that "bicyclists ride with traffic", it's "bicyclists are traffic, except where prohibited"(highways and such, they have signs at every entrance)
no reason it couldn't. Read in all of the bits of a pdf, and then reformat it with something like reportlab for python for the new paper size. I for one would just like a device that outputs 12pt font correctly.
to add to this, as long as the software can take in the to be published "e-book" and spit out 1 of 3 formats for different content, why do the publishers care much? someone will write software that can handle the multiple formats all from one spot.
we have a Laissez-Faire market?!! where?!/must catch it! by the way i'm not kidding, find me a market with 0 government regulation(worldwide).
Know anything non explosive that has the energy density of gasoline at Std temp and pressure, is easy to store and transport, is relativity cheep to make(when things don't fail), and doesn't rely on a rare elements(lithium)? I guess in theory given enough energy we could just make Gasoline/oil, but that would take something on the order of cold fusion to do on a large scale.
It will help the cable company reduce cost. That will not, go along to the customer.
Local prejudice, I guess. The phone service here tends to have local co-ops, while the cable company is a national brand.
to flame you, Why cooperate with online advertisers, i really wish that i could block ads, pre-render instead of post in chrome, would make webpages nice and snappy, and save me some bandwidth.
the cost is good, but look at the leadtime, and it's 10mil per, get some general probe onto a robotic assembly line, and i bet the cost per unit is waaaay under that at 30mil units.
lawl, 100MB wow updates, pre expansion updates or new content ones tend to be nearer 300MB...
Say the boy watches 2 movies/documentaries, the brother-in-law(not judging here) watches 4-8 per day(he is living with them for a reason), a girl on hulu, hmm bet it's at least 4 shows per day. i'm including increased viewing from the weekends.
2GB + 2GB-4GB + 1GB + 2GB = 7-9GB/day. 7GB/day*30days = 210GB, even dropping the torrents, you end up at 5-7GB a day like that, and 150GB/210GB a month. Thats not including MS updates, mac updates, itunes updates, flash, IM traffic, skype, ventrillo, normal webrowsing, youtube videos of cats, e-mail, PS3/Xbox/wii updates and traffic, browse deviantart or flickr, or any stock site, and thats a good bit of bandwidth. Also as time goes along, 4kx2k video will become normal, or netflix will add HD3D as an option, doubling the bandwidth. Lots of the youtube videos are showing up in 720P and 1080P, so in the near future i expect amounts of data being moved by my grandma to go up a lot.
The real issue here is that Comcast is pulling a bait and switch, when the service was signed up for there was no cap now there is, sounds like bait and switch to me. Anyways, comcast has a few options that would have made this more tolerable; build out the network eliminating the need for the cap, only put new/renewing customers on the cap(contract is over, and we renegotiate), set it up so that at 250GB you get half speed or something. The current system seems to have little ability to see how much bandwidth you are currently using and how much you have used this month. Also, how does your bandwidth get effect by say a worm running around the internet pounding away on your firewall? does it count and your traffic? should it?
The pirate market exists mostly due to lack of good legal options, look at iTunes (for music). Now do the same thing for video, offer a standard format(mkv with h264+acc/pcm) with no DRM, and offer it for sale, not for lease, rent or any other bullshit. It's my copy of the movie, to watch privately/with personal friends on devices of my choosing with out forced ads, trailers, etc. at a reasonable price, say $3, and i'd say closer to $1-$2. They have marginal costs(bandwidth/disk space), no need to make/print a cover, no shiny disk to buy, no shipping, and virtually unlimited numbers of copies. All of this drives the cost down.
As for the iTunes(apps, music, video) store, I find it annoying that i can't see prices, or reviews or anything without an account. How am I supposed to make an informed decision as to if it is worth it with out that info. Also the store only works with mac/windows, of course like many linux users i do have a windows VM, but still.
thats a lot of windows. Good thing they want to add another window, right around 2.5 so so. to address "good alternatives", the only 2 on your list are "Rent" and "basic cable", and both of those are a bit weak. Rent, and you still have to get up and put the disk in, sit though the unskippable "don't be a pirate/thief" add, then the previews, then wait for the menu to load, and then play the disk. With the "pirate" copy, you press play and it plays. Renting is also a few months to 6 months depending on who you are renting from, netflix for example was bullied(i feel) into taking a deal that makes them wait 3 months after the dvd is for sale. "Basic Cable" is months/years after the dvd release, crappy resolution, on a fixed schedule, commercials(in a service i already paid one time for).
I currently pay for all of movie content, netflix, the release date for movies is whenever it shows up in my mailbox. I would like to pay for streaming new releases, but no one will let me pay them for that. I'm not about to pay $40 a month for cable so that I can then shell out more for the occasions I would like to watch a movie. at those prices i may as well just buy the dvd. If i'm going to buy the dvd, you can be sure i'm going to rip it to the NAS so that it can be played wherever in the house.
you forgot headlights that moved with the steering so you could see around the corner, safety glass(plastic sheet laminate in the front, tempered elsewhere), seatbelts.
To be fair simply providing a real crash cage(steel tube), 5 point harnesses, helmets(with HANS devices), and better driver training and recertification, would do wonders for both the accident rate, and the injuries from them. By better training, I'm think more than can you follow these rules at 20MPH. Some training and testing on slick surfaces for car control, breaking and obstacle avoidance. All of which you would need to re pass every year. Of course this is also dependent on there actually being an alternative to your car here in the states. You are lucky if a bus can get you with in 1 mile of your destination, and thats here in a magjor city center(Minneapolis/St. Paul area)
how about your phone? your TV? your bluray player? thats right, TV's + phones + blueray players > laptops(and some of those have that broadcom crystalHD card thing in them)
well pdf does have some advantages, as you mention it is available offline. It also has doesn't have a load time anywhere near that of a rich web page over 3g. As for having it online, you then have to deal with keeping it inaccessable and taking payment, the app store sucks, but it does handle those rather well.
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Then they shouldn't be using it, or they should be using the internet to learn about how this all works. The public does understand the idea of a password though, and so if you don't need a password (www.foxnews.com) anyone can get to it, but posting as you requires a password.
To head off an argument I can see coming, Microwaves work by exciting water molecules, causing them to vibrate and warm up, causing my food to warm up. No water, no warming in a conventional microwave. Also mayonnaise is an emulsion, it works by suspending the fat/oil inside of the vinegar with the use of an emulsifier(a chemical in the egg yolk). So yes, i think it is important for people to generally understand how/why the things around them work.
but if it is in a public location anyone could be in the spot you are in later and send extremely similar data to google.
"dirt trail" != "Approved walking path" commonly known as a "sidewalk". I can't imagine that the "dirt trail" would have any sort of care in the winter. There is no sign in the photos depicting an official trail, or anything like one.
at least in my state(MN, USA) it's not that "bicyclists ride with traffic", it's "bicyclists are traffic, except where prohibited"(highways and such, they have signs at every entrance)
no reason it couldn't. Read in all of the bits of a pdf, and then reformat it with something like reportlab for python for the new paper size. I for one would just like a device that outputs 12pt font correctly.
to add to this, as long as the software can take in the to be published "e-book" and spit out 1 of 3 formats for different content, why do the publishers care much? someone will write software that can handle the multiple formats all from one spot.
3I+4J?
nope but if it needs a special ingredient, i guess you could trademark it...
ohh by energy density, i mean per unit volume at std temp and pressure, not per Mole, or per 3kg of mass.
we have a Laissez-Faire market?!! where?! /must catch it! by the way i'm not kidding, find me a market with 0 government regulation(worldwide).
Know anything non explosive that has the energy density of gasoline at Std temp and pressure, is easy to store and transport, is relativity cheep to make(when things don't fail), and doesn't rely on a rare elements(lithium)? I guess in theory given enough energy we could just make Gasoline/oil, but that would take something on the order of cold fusion to do on a large scale.
It will help the cable company reduce cost. That will not, go along to the customer. Local prejudice, I guess. The phone service here tends to have local co-ops, while the cable company is a national brand.
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sometimes, if they are a public company they might have to. the shareholders can "revolt"
to flame you, Why cooperate with online advertisers, i really wish that i could block ads, pre-render instead of post in chrome, would make webpages nice and snappy, and save me some bandwidth.
the cost is good, but look at the leadtime, and it's 10mil per, get some general probe onto a robotic assembly line, and i bet the cost per unit is waaaay under that at 30mil units.
now add in a wife and 2 kids... 4x your usage.
single computer only, and doesn't count stuff that gets filtered out but "iptables -j DROP".
lawl, 100MB wow updates, pre expansion updates or new content ones tend to be nearer 300MB...
Say the boy watches 2 movies/documentaries, the brother-in-law(not judging here) watches 4-8 per day(he is living with them for a reason), a girl on hulu, hmm bet it's at least 4 shows per day. i'm including increased viewing from the weekends.
2GB + 2GB-4GB + 1GB + 2GB = 7-9GB/day. 7GB/day*30days = 210GB, even dropping the torrents, you end up at 5-7GB a day like that, and 150GB/210GB a month. Thats not including MS updates, mac updates, itunes updates, flash, IM traffic, skype, ventrillo, normal webrowsing, youtube videos of cats, e-mail, PS3/Xbox/wii updates and traffic, browse deviantart or flickr, or any stock site, and thats a good bit of bandwidth. Also as time goes along, 4kx2k video will become normal, or netflix will add HD3D as an option, doubling the bandwidth. Lots of the youtube videos are showing up in 720P and 1080P, so in the near future i expect amounts of data being moved by my grandma to go up a lot.
The real issue here is that Comcast is pulling a bait and switch, when the service was signed up for there was no cap now there is, sounds like bait and switch to me. Anyways, comcast has a few options that would have made this more tolerable; build out the network eliminating the need for the cap, only put new/renewing customers on the cap(contract is over, and we renegotiate), set it up so that at 250GB you get half speed or something. The current system seems to have little ability to see how much bandwidth you are currently using and how much you have used this month. Also, how does your bandwidth get effect by say a worm running around the internet pounding away on your firewall? does it count and your traffic? should it?
The pirate market exists mostly due to lack of good legal options, look at iTunes (for music). Now do the same thing for video, offer a standard format(mkv with h264+acc/pcm) with no DRM, and offer it for sale, not for lease, rent or any other bullshit. It's my copy of the movie, to watch privately/with personal friends on devices of my choosing with out forced ads, trailers, etc. at a reasonable price, say $3, and i'd say closer to $1-$2. They have marginal costs(bandwidth/disk space), no need to make/print a cover, no shiny disk to buy, no shipping, and virtually unlimited numbers of copies. All of this drives the cost down.
As for the iTunes(apps, music, video) store, I find it annoying that i can't see prices, or reviews or anything without an account. How am I supposed to make an informed decision as to if it is worth it with out that info. Also the store only works with mac/windows, of course like many linux users i do have a windows VM, but still.
thats a lot of windows. Good thing they want to add another window, right around 2.5 so so. to address "good alternatives", the only 2 on your list are "Rent" and "basic cable", and both of those are a bit weak. Rent, and you still have to get up and put the disk in, sit though the unskippable "don't be a pirate/thief" add, then the previews, then wait for the menu to load, and then play the disk. With the "pirate" copy, you press play and it plays. Renting is also a few months to 6 months depending on who you are renting from, netflix for example was bullied(i feel) into taking a deal that makes them wait 3 months after the dvd is for sale. "Basic Cable" is months/years after the dvd release, crappy resolution, on a fixed schedule, commercials(in a service i already paid one time for).
I currently pay for all of movie content, netflix, the release date for movies is whenever it shows up in my mailbox. I would like to pay for streaming new releases, but no one will let me pay them for that. I'm not about to pay $40 a month for cable so that I can then shell out more for the occasions I would like to watch a movie. at those prices i may as well just buy the dvd. If i'm going to buy the dvd, you can be sure i'm going to rip it to the NAS so that it can be played wherever in the house.
probably referring to things like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_C1
aren't the last two Toyota? so you listed the same company 2x :P
you forgot headlights that moved with the steering so you could see around the corner, safety glass(plastic sheet laminate in the front, tempered elsewhere), seatbelts. To be fair simply providing a real crash cage(steel tube), 5 point harnesses, helmets(with HANS devices), and better driver training and recertification, would do wonders for both the accident rate, and the injuries from them. By better training, I'm think more than can you follow these rules at 20MPH. Some training and testing on slick surfaces for car control, breaking and obstacle avoidance. All of which you would need to re pass every year. Of course this is also dependent on there actually being an alternative to your car here in the states. You are lucky if a bus can get you with in 1 mile of your destination, and thats here in a magjor city center(Minneapolis/St. Paul area)
how about your phone? your TV? your bluray player? thats right, TV's + phones + blueray players > laptops(and some of those have that broadcom crystalHD card thing in them)
by competitor you mean paper?
well pdf does have some advantages, as you mention it is available offline. It also has doesn't have a load time anywhere near that of a rich web page over 3g. As for having it online, you then have to deal with keeping it inaccessable and taking payment, the app store sucks, but it does handle those rather well.